//------------------------------// // Sick Day // Story: Lunar Soul // by ShadowedKnight68 //------------------------------// I groaned lying in bed "pleeeeasse kiiiilll meeee" I begged reaching my shaky hoof out. "Oh Blake please" Twilight huffed touching her hoof to my horn which currently was red at the tip "it's just horn allergy" she tucked me in a bit. "Ugh I've never had allergies before I became a pony...such weakness" I groaned, my nose stuffed giving my voice an off sound to it. After winter had wrapped up I'd almost immediately gotten sick, I at first thought it was just a cold but I have never been hit by a cold like this, usually just sniffles and coughs, but this was more like the cartoonish cold where you get bedridden and disoriented like you'd see in a cartoon, made sense cause this was a cartoon world...or cartoon adjacent. Normally I'm used to clogged noses when I get a cold, now I had a clogged nose and horn, I don't even understand how that works! I can snort my nose clear for a second like I usually do, but my horn?? Now that I was lost on, picture it like those nights where you can't breathe through one nostril cause it's clogged and you try to clear by blow or snorting, now make that a big frickin unicorn horn in your forehead with no way to snort or blow it, that's my hell. Of course me, the untrained magic horse, would get probably one of the worst magical flu's, I grumbled and wiped my nose with my arm "so doc, what's the damage? Am I dying?" Twilight huffed "no Blake you're not dying like I said before, from what I can seeing as it's all the same symptoms, you have Alicorn Ailment." " Oh is that it? Well thank goodness, for a second I thought it was something I knew about" I grumbled with a stuffy nose, as I rolled my eyes. She huffed "it's like a allergy, or the cold, but focused on alicorn magic, from my understanding in what little there is written of it, it's caused by lack of use of alicorn magic, I got it not long after I became an alicorn, and seeing as you've struggled with your magic, it only make sense that said magic would build up to the point of the the Alicorn Ailment." " Ugh...awesome...another thing I gotta deal with now, you know magic ain't all it's chalked up to be Twi, I thought Alicorns were like gods or something, but we can still get sick??" I huffed crossing my arms "what else do I gotta worry about?" I asked sarcastically. "Well, there is a time of month where mares have to deal with-" Twilight began before I leapt from the bed pushing my hooves to her snout. "No no no! I am not hearing you say those words! That doesn't exist in this world!! Pony's don't get red visitors!!" I shouted in desperation as my ears were firmly pinned back. Twilight raised a brow and used her magic to lower my hooves "red visitor? I was referring to Estrus." "Esta who's it?" I asked, confused. "The time of month when a mare feels overly affectionate and wishes to find a special somepony to snuggle and hug?" Twilight replied looking at Blake confused "your world seriously didn't have Estrus? Instead a red pony shows up?" "I...Not a pony...Wait wait wait" processing what Twilight said I searched through my mind vault, I recognized the word now, but Twilights explanation sounded off...instead of horny it sounded like pony just get cuddly "you ponies are weird, months were you get more cuddly, thought for a moment I was gonna be going out trying to bang someone." Twilight blushed brightly "i-is that the red visitor??" "Twilight stop thinking about the red visitor, it is not important" I huffed. "Well...If you wish to b-bang...somepony, during that time I'd suggest doing it safely" Twilight said and lit her horn making a box appear, a box with books, pamphlets, and-nope! "Nope Twilight, that's it, we're not talking about that!!! I already know!! I do not need the talk!!" I yelled in desperation. Twilight blinked "you...sure? It's not so bad, plus these books are really informative, I don't mind explaining-" "Twilight either stop now...or I sneeze on you...and your books" I threatened. Twilight's eyes widened "...alright...but I'll leave these here" she pushed the box by the bed with her magic. I huffed "fine" I used my hoof to push it under the bed "but I ain't readin it" "It's your choice, but back to the alicorn ailment, Zecora has an antidote which I can go get now, so just remain in bed and it should all be fine" Twilight smiled and lit her horn before disappearing in a purple flash. "Well I was planning on going on a job through the everfree..." I muttered sarcastically to myself before jumping when Twilight appeared in the room. "Okay so...Zecora is out of the antidote, she's going to go collect the ingredients to make a new batch, but until then we just have to tough it out" Twilight smiled nervously. "Okay... shouldn't be to ba...ah...ah.." I winced and scrunched my nose up as I felt the horrible tickling of a sneeze running up my nose. Twilight's eyes widened and lit her horn up, putting a shield up. "ACHOOO!!! " my voice boomed out in the canterlot voice as my horn fired off magic blasting Twilight backwards breaking through her shield, I groaned softly and shook my head from the sneeze before looking towards Twilight worried "oh god, Twilight I'm sorry! I don't know what happened!" Twilight picked herself up off the ground wobbling "it's okay...part of the ailment is your magic will spontaneously cast spells when you sneeze" she shook her head and blinked a couple times "Pinkie? When did you get here? And where's Blake?" She looked around confused. I looked for the pink mare in question but didn't see her anywhere "I don't see Pinkie...and I'm right here Twilight" I pointed to myself and sniffled my runny nose. Twilight looked at me "Pinkie...you can do a Blake impression?" "...Twilight, I am Blake..." Twilight squinted and rubbed her eyes before looking at me again before groaning "that spell you accidentally casted is making me see you as Pinkie Pie" she said slightly annoyed. " What?? That's a spell??" " Well...I imagine there's one similar to it, but the ailment makes you cast random magic, very close to discord's chaos magic" Twilight explained. "So I'll be making everyone I sneeze on see me as Pinkie?" I asked. "No necessarily, it will make you cast a multitude of random spells, ranging from simple levitation to possibly even transmogrification and-...this is so strange to explain to Pinkie, I'm half expecting you to bounce around excitedly asking me questions but instead your just sitting still not even smiling..." Twilight said, staring at me debating if this was a joke by Pinkie or not most likely. "Hopefully that'll help you separate me from the real Pinkie when she inevitably shows up, probably already working on a sick day party" I replied with a roll of the eyes and a soft smile. "Pinkie usually knows when ro hood back on a pony when they're under the weather" Twilight replied smiling. "Ohhh I have to remember to say something like that when Raindowdash is sick, pegasus pun" I chuckled trying to think of a rewording of the joke to work. Twilight squinted "you're sure you're not Pinkie and you and Blake didn't just make this all an elaborate prank?" I groaned heavily "nooo Twiliiiiiight!" She sighed, closing her eyes and then opening them "okay, I'm going to go check and see if I can help Zecora with the potion, you stay here and rest and hopefully in just a few minutes will be back with the finished potion to cure you." I gave a thumbs up "sounds good to me, Twi." Twilight stared at me confused " is...Something wrong with your hoof?" "What?" I blinked and then looked at my raised hoof, right...no thumbs "oh it was a thumbs up...but I have hooves." "Oh! That's a gesture in your world too?" Twilight asked with interest. "Wait, there are thumbs up in Equestria?" I asked surprised. " Well with Spike and other creatures with hands yes, but in another world I visited it has that same gesture" Twilight smiled. "Woah wait what other world??" I sat up in bed only to then groan and wobble holding a hoof to my head as the entire room spun, I was suddenly hit with dizziness. Twilight looked worried and hurried over pushing me gently back down to a lying position with her hoof "oh Blake, you need to be more careful, this illness while mostly affecting your magic still ravages the body." "Noticed that..." I groaned as I laid back, closing my eyes and taking in a deep breath through my nose, as best I could with it clogged and exhaled it out my mouth stifling a cough. "Alright, I'll get going, stay here, and try to rest Blake" Twilight said lighting her horn before pausing "oh, I almost forgot but I thought about it yesterday and I realized when I gave you those documents for the house I never specified what they were, I don't know if legal documents are different between our worlds, you signed your full name correct? Blake isn't a nickname nor shortened is it?" "No Blake's my first name, but um...I may have forgotten to write my last name...the document only said name, not firer and last name...or middle" I muttered nervously, was I living in a house that didn't actually belong to me?? "Oh that's fine, last names are rarer in Equestria, I'm guessing not so much on...uh Earth?" Twilight said obviously having forgotten the name of my home world at the moment. I nodded with a smirk "yeah earth is correct, and yeah everybody has a last name there, I do too just mines pretty common." "It is? What is it then?" Twilight asked curiously. "Smith" I replied, never liked my last name, it was one of the most common last names, and there were waaaay cooler ones 'oof my Raindowdash is showing...' "Smith? Hm Applejack's grandma is named Granny Smith, and I see you as Pinkie right now... And their families are distantly related... interesting" Twilight rubbed her chin thinking. "Twilight, potion" I reminded. "Oh, yes! I'll go then, be back soon Blake!" She poofed away in a purple flash. I sighed softly closing my eyes, I felt cruddy but at least it would be over before the days over, cartoon logic ruled, no more weeks worth of having the cold...er alicorn illness, now just barely a day, then again the only difference between today and any other day for me was I felt sick. I did pretty much the same everyday...I really needed to find something to do while I loved here in Equestria, a job or hobby...but what would I be good at? Jobs were centered around a ponies talent, and from what Starlight Glimmers spell proved, I don't have one, or at least my mark didn't represent my talents. Ugh if i'd known i'd eventually need to have my life centered around my special talents or have tried to focus on just one thing, I liked drawing, watching anime and movies, but not much else...maybe I could go into animation? Did Equestria have cartoons...wait scratch that I can't draw with my hooves, maybe if I can figure this horn out I could try drawing again. And I needed to tell the girls about the Luna thing..hiding it from them wouldn't be good, they've been worried about me since I basically shut down..but how do I tell them something like that? One of their ruling royalty was haunting my dreams making my nights living hells? Would they even believe me? What if I told them and they thought I was ly- "Ah...Ahh...ACHOOO!!!" My voice rang out in the canterlot tone as I felt my horn flare with a increase in heat, groaning I rubbed my muzzle and blinked my eyes open finding...not my room... Green walls and a country themed decor surrounded me, somehow familiar yet it definitely wasn't my room...and not my bed...oh crud my sneeze teleported me 'ugh okay don't panic, you just appeared in another ponies bed, just explain yourself and hopefully your not made Ponyville pervert.' My ears swiveled to the door on my left as it opened and I froze in place coughing the blanket up to my chest. "Hold on Granny Smith, ah just gotta grab something from mah roo-" Applejack said walking into the room and freezing as we made eye contact. "Um...howdy" I said now realizing who's room this was, probably the worst room to end up in if I'm to be honest. Applejack's face showed a variety of emotions, ranging from confusion, fear, before settling back on anger, as her mount opened I suddenly spoke up. "Now I know what your going to say, and-" my nose twitched making my eyes widened before I choked in air "ah ah ah ahahahACHOOO!!!" I sneezed and my horn heated up firing off magic sending me flying back and smashing through the window outside what I found to be a two story house as I hit the ground below rolling a couple feet into a upright sitting position blinking a couple times, glancing to my right I found a shocked Big Mac in the middle of unlatching himself from a cart. I stared at him "oh hello, I was just in your sister's bed-ROOM!" I quickly added in panic, good lord this cold was messing me up. Big Mac blushed brightly. Speaking of the orange earth pony...I fearfully looked towards the window of the room, I really really hoped I didn't shoot Applejack with that spell, I didn't need to have two ponies mistaking me with another pony, I'd just gotten them to realize I'm not Nightmare Moon. "Sit here Mac" I spread my wings and flew up to the window, my flight however dipping up and down as I wobbled in the air unsteadily, shaking the dizziness from my head I regretted it immediately as it didn't relieve the dizziness and only added a headache, landing in the room my back hooves missed at first slipping before I stepped in "uhhh Applejack..?" Scanning the room I spotted the far side was a mess from someone being thrown that way, the dresser there was totaled with an orange shape lying in the splintered wood "oh no no no!" I rushed over and pulled the wood away "Applejack are you okay?? Oh god please i-i didn't mean to i-" I killed her...I killed Applejack, I was a monster, the apple family, the girls...I ruined all their lives. As tears formed in my eyes I suddenly heard a groan making me gasp as joy replaced the devastation "Applejack!! Your alive!!" "Nghh course immalive...course yer little magic sneeze sure tried..." Applejack groaned, or at least I think it was her...Since that voice was...deep.... "Oh buck..." I whimpered looking at the pony before me. The orange shape sat up, rubbing their head and adjusting their hat, uncovering their face making me gasp, they raised a brow looking at my shock confused "what?" Applejack asked. "Uhhh..." I looked about before picking up a large piece of the broken mirror on the floor and raised it up shakily "weeeeelllllll." Applejack gasped in horror as her eyes went wide, as in the mirror she saw or rather he saw a orange stallion not to different in appearance to her brother, his emerald eyes stared in shock at the masculine reflection "wh-what in tarnation...Happened to me?!?" " Funny story, I have Alicorn illness, and well I guess I made you a stallion..." I chuckled nervously though a bit of venom struck me as I couldn't help but feel jealousy boil in me, of course Applejack gets hit by the male transformation magic, not me! Damn magic land. Rage ignited in Applejack's eyes as he thrusted his hoof forwards striking the mirror causing it to shatter and fall revealing his anger glared at me "Blaaaaake!!" He growled. "I didn't mean too!!" I cried stumbling backwards when I slipped on a piece of the dresser landing on my flanks. Applejack stomped forward after me before he pushed his hoof into my chest pushing me back further "if y'all don't fix this this second I'm gonna-" "Applejack, B-blake, y'all goo-" Big Mac's voice rang from the hall as he appeared in the doorway, eyes going wide, his blush deepening. Applejack and I blinked towards the stallion, then each other as we found ourselves in a position which currently didn't look great with me on my back and Applejack as a stallion atop me on hoof on my chest, and my back legs spread since his were between mine. A deep blush spread across our faces and we quickly looked to the stallion "it's not what it looks like!!" We both shouted. Big Mac looked like his brain fried as he stared in shock frozen. Applejack returned to glaring at me now however with a deep blush on his muzzle "you are so dead." "I didn't mean to make it look like we bang!" I cried before my nose twitched again "oh no-ACHOO!!" I felt myself but the ground strangely even though I was already on it, opening my eyes the angry new stallion and awkward situation was gone, I now set in the middle of what appeared to be a forest "I teleported...maybe I am lucky!" A growl emanated from a source beside me, taking a glance I found a pile of wood in the shape of an angry wolf with glowing green eyes. "Oh hello, I'm Blake and you are?" I smiled nervously as sweat ran down my head. It lunged at me making me cry out as I flapped my wings sending him flying across the dirt, the timberwolf's jaws snapping in the dust cloud I had previously sat at. Flapping my wings to get me up I then took off running, and judging by the sound of wood clanking and ground thudding Woody was on my ass!!! Ohhh man my head was killing me, running was not making me feel better, and my stupid nose wouldn't stop running!! Speaking of running this woof was fast as fuck! Or I'm slow cause I'm sick, either way, he's biting at my cloud tail!! The timberwolf snapped its wooden jaws at my cloud tail confused as to why it wasn't able to grab anything in its wooden teeth, making it growl in annoyance. Looking around I tried to look for an escape when I spotted something that just might help me, making a quick left I leapt through the air skidding across the ground on my belly to a bush which I crashed into, the timber woke behind me skidding to a stop when I popped back out holding in hoof my key to victory "your fucked now buddy!!" I shouted holding out a flower. The timberwolf titled its head much like a confused dog as it stared baffled. "Heh heh" I stuffed my nose in the flower and inhaled before my eyes watered "ah ah..." My tickling nose faded "oh you punk bitch" I growled at my nose before whimpering as the wolfs confusion faded and it returned to growling and stalking towards me "Wait wait! We don't gotta do this! I have a pet dog! I know how ya are, maybe we could play with a stick-I meant a uh uh stick! No fuck I can't think of anything other than stick!" The timber slammed it's wooden paws on my chest as it leaned in closer jaws twitching open as it prepared to strike, it's putrid breath washing across my face making me gag and-. "ACHOO!!" I roared out and sneezed blasting the timberwolf off, blinking a smile spread across my face "ha ha!! Take that bark boy! Now let's see what happened to yo-OH FUCK!!" I shouted scrambling back as I watched the wooden wolf in a blue glow begin to grow, it's wooden limbs thickening ss the broken wood branches turned to thick logs, vines spreading and wrapping around its time with large thorns, and leaf plooms growing around and up its neck along with its tail. The once equal height timberwolf now stood towering over me as a timber titan!! The huge wolf looked at itself confused before it looked back to me and I swear I saw a smile as it growled deeply before it lunged at me, jaws wide open. "Eep!" My horn glowed, and in a poof of a blue flash everything went dark as I passed out. A purple flash of light filled the upstairs bedroom of Blake's house, Twilight smiling as she held up a small bottle of green liquid "Blake I have the cure!" She awaited Blake's happiness, before blinking her eyes open and found the room empty "Blake..?" She stepped out of the room checking each different one as she made her way down till she stood in the empty living room "uh oh..." She quickly left the house looking around for the missing Blake, she really really hoped he didn't just run off while sick like this, the entire town could get affected! She trotted down the road looking around for the big dark mare while holding the potion aloft with her magic, however after a couple minutes she suddenly face palmed, Blake didn't look like Blake to her right now, she-he looked like Pinkie!! And she swore she saw Pinkie walking around a minute ago, that could have been him! She needed help with this, preferably somepony who could see Blake as themself, taking a scan around she soon spotted a familiar orange mare, quickly trotting over she smiled "Applejack, thank Celestia I ran into you, I need your hel-" she suddenly blinked as the pony standing before her was orange, did have blond hair, freckles, green eyes, and a Stetson, but was definitely a stallion. "Oh I'm sorry sir, you really reminded me of a friend of mi-" Twilight blushed embarrassed for mistaking this stallion as her friend. The stallion huffed, rolling his eyes "Twilight I am your friend, it's me Applejack." "Wat.." Twilight's eyes went wide looking that stallion up and down, he looked more like big Mac with Applejack's color- oh no..."don't tell me...was it Bla-" "Yes it was Blake!! That mare, I swear the next time I see her I'm gonna-" Applejack the stallion suddenly paused as ponies around looked at him with suspicion, he cleared his throat glancing about "give her a good talkin too...I didn't know bein a stallion meant what I said could sound more threatenin and less innocent..." "Well I guess you'll have to be careful until this is fixed, but since you wanna find her I need your help, Blake's got Alicorn illness, and I was hit with magic too, so now I see her as Pinkie Pie" Twilight explained. "You what? That there flu makes no sense, it's like poison joke" Applejack huffed. " Yeahhh I know, but let's focus on finding Blake, so if you see a Pinkie tell me it's Pinkie so I don't make a mistake" Twilight said and Applejack gave a nod before they trotted off to find the missing mare. Trotting and keeping an eye out a thought crossed the newly made stallions mind, one which overshadowed the anger towards the black mare "...Twi...have you noticed Blake's not very...well depressed like the princess warned..?" Twilight sighed "I have..." "Is she really over it just like that? It's hardly been a month and she's actin like she normally would" Applejacked asked looking to her friend. "I have a theory..." Twilight replied, looking somber. "Well? We got a bit of walkin on our hooves." Twilight took in a deep breath "I believe she-he may be repressing it, I noticed it before princess Celestia told us about the breakdown, I wasn't completely sure then but I am now, whatever trauma Blake has he pushes it down and tried to just live day by day, but like we saw when he can't repress it he breaks, now he's repeating the process, burying his feelings until he can't anymore and explodes, the worst part is if we confront him about it it might just make it worse!" Applejack frowned "is there anything we can do..?" "maybe try to talk to him about it gently, try to talk about things one at a time" she replied "Things?" He raised a brow. "There's whatever happened that broke him, but there's also about not talking to us about the extent of the dreams, his gender identity issues, his past life, and in general just how he's doing here..." Twilight explained. Applejack nodded "we got a lot on our plates don't we?" "Oh yes we do" she sighed. Slowly I groaned awake rubbing my dizzy head, last I remembered I made a timberwolf huge and then everything went dark after my horn flashed...it was kind of similar to when I sneeze teleported I think...opening my eyes I found i was in a moving wagon, a pony sitting in front of me and to my right were other ponies. Did I...teleport? Without a sneeze? I was thinking in my head how I wanted to get away from the wolf...and my magic responded! Maybe I was learning to get the hang of my magic after all!! Smiling, I looked around at the surrounding forest, now where the heck was I..? I looked to the stallion sitting across from me and went to open my mouth to speak when he spoke first. The stallion had light brown fur with a long dirty brown mane and beard "Hey you, you're finally awake" he said with an accent I didn't recognize, maybe Scandinavian? "You were caught trying to cross the border, right?" "What? No, I teleported away from a timberwolf, where the heck am I?" I asked confused. "Oh...this is our travel wagon, we found you on the side of the road in a ditch so we picked you up, it's dangerous to be in the forest alone" he replied. "Oh...uh thanks...wait, are we near the border of Equestria??" I asked in panic, had I really teleported that far?? "Oh no, we're near the edge of Ponyville actually" he explained "....then why'd you think I was caught near the border...?" He stared at me for a moment nervously "well, this is your stop, Ponyville is that way" he pointed as he made the driver stop. "Riiiight" I spread my wings and flew off the wagon before heading back towards Ponyville wobbly. Looking around I sniffled and tried to spot the town, soon enough catching sight of the big purple castle, smiling as I flapped my wings heading that direction. Dipping here and there I struggled to maintain the same altitude, my wings already felt sore and tired, being sick su-a bird promptly smacked into my face. Flailing my limbs around I smacked the bird off "gah! What the heck?!?" I glared at the bird which recovered and flew off, stupid fricken bir-a feather sucked up my nose "ack! Ah ACHOO!!" blinking my eyes open after another sneeze I found I was back in town, both relief and annoyance filled me, these sneezes needed to make up their minds on if they wanted to be helpful or not! Sniffling I took a look around trying to figure out where ein town I was so I could her back home before I caused any more damage... "Blakey!!" A familiar bubbly voice cheered from behind. "Ohhh nooo" I slowly turned back and saw the pink party mare come hopping up, taking a few steps back I looked around for any birds or pepper shakers "hey pinks, I gotta go, like seriously." "What?? But you just got here!" Pinkie frowned. "Got here..?" Glancing about I realized I was directly in front of sugar cube corner, and inside it looked like a party was happening with ponies filling the building partying. "It's Bright Blooms birthday! I didn't know you and her were friends!" She giggled. "I'm not, don't know her, but I got Alicorn illness and every time I sneeze I cause issues or teleport, and I don't wanna do anything to you" I replied stepping away. "Oh! Is that that flu Twilight had?? That was pretty funny, it was like when discord broke free, or when we all touched Poison joke! My tongue was all big and pokadoty and Applejack was so tiny, oh oh and Fluttershy's voice was so deep!" Pinkie giggled as she rambled. "Heh yeah that was really funny, speaking of funny I gotta go" I went to turn only for pinkie to be in front of me again. "How come you walking around if you're sick?" She suddenly gasped "you need to lie down! Bed rest is the best" she giggled. "Pinkie I'm really trying here, any moment I could...could..." My eye twitched and I quickly shook my head as my nose tickle, pressing my hooves to my nose to cover it I resisted the building sneeze, tears filling my eyes from the horrible tickling in my nose before....it faded, groaning I sniffled behind my hooves "sneezes su-ACHOO!!" Blinking I looked past my hooves and found the spot pinkie had been empty, spare a few blue glitter sparkles, raising my brow I lowered my hooves and looked at the glitter, did pinkie just glitter ninja vanish? "Blakey whatcha looking at?" Pinkie's voice said right in front of me, making me jump back. "Uhhh pinkie?" I looked around. "Yes?" Pinkie's voice asked from the empty space. Squinting I slowly reached a hoof out towards the spot of glitter, my hoof suddenly coming into contact with something in the empty space which resulted in giggles from Pinkie "ohhh crud... pinks, you're invisible." Pinkie gasped "I am??" There was a pause and then another gasp over by the window "I am!!" She giggled invisibly. "Yeah this is what I was talking about, I made Applejack a guy too" I rubbed the back of my neck looking at the empty space trying to figure out where Pinkie was exactly. "Woah!! Was she handsome??" Pinkie asked beside me, making me jump. "Uhh I don't know, yes?...I'm not interested in guys..." I mumbled and wiped my nose "now I'm going home before I make Rainbowdash a chicken or something" I began walking and if the telltale sound of boings following me said anything Pinkie was following "Pinks, I really don't know if I could magic sneeze you again, your lucky your just invisible, I could make it worse...like uhh..." I squinted trying to think of something else. Though that was proving difficult, my head is a little bleh right now, also her boings are a bit distracting. Maybe she'd be a spring? Or maybe- "Yo Blake have you seen Pinkie?" Rainbowdash called flying down. "...technically yes and no" I replied and took note of the silence of boings, pinkie has gone incognito... "The hecks that supposed to mea-" Rainbowdash began before suddenly a loud bang and explosion of concrete behind Rainbowdash sent her helping and crashing into my head. Pinkies giggling filled the air and Rainbowdash like a scared cat scrambled on my head perching herself on top of it "wh-what the heck?? Pinkie?? Why can I hear Pinkie??" "Well...cause of my sneeze she's invisible, and making the best of it" I replied wiggling my nose as Rainbowdash's tail brushed against it " oh crud rainbow ru-ACHOO!!" Sniffling I looked for Rainbowdash quickly, but I didn't see her anywhere...so maybe she esca- "Blaaaake!!!" Rainbowdash called from above in panic. Glancing up my eyes widened as I saw Rainbowdash floating off into the air flailing, spreading my wings, I flew up and grabbed hold of her, immediately noticing she didn't feel like a pony...looking at her in my arms I realized why, she was a balloon!! Taking the inflatable dash down I landed and set her down, only for her to float back up slowly making panicked noises, pushing her back down I held her in place "hey pinks?" A string levitated over and I gratefully took it wrapping one end around Dash's waist before handing the other end to Pinkie "tie this around your mane or something and don't let go" I huffed and began walking. Pinkie bounced after me if the boings and bobbing Rainbowdash said anything. "What's going on?!??" Rainbowdash cried flailing around as she tried flapping her wings to control her movement but failing. "Pinks" I replied sniffling feeling way too sick to explain everything. "Blake's got that alicorn flu Twilight had, she sneezed on me making me a ghooooost" pinkie said and assumably did a ghost pose as they stopped moving before giggling "nah I'm actually invisible, Applejack's a stallion, and your a balloon!" "Ughhh" Rainbowdash groaned, running her hooves down her face stretching it with a rubber creaking before it snapped back "You Alicorns always cause trouble!" "I'm aware" I grumbled and walked. "Pinkie!" Twilight called from the right down another road before she paused and looked to the stallion Applejack walking beside her "is it actually Pinkie or Blake?" "I'm Pinkie!" Pinkie's voice replied with a giggle. "Well...ah thought it was Blake but I hear Pinkie" applejack scratched his head. "I am Blake, Pinkies invisible, Rainbowdash is a balloon" I huffed, glancing at the floating pegasus who crossed her arms. "Haven't ya ever heard of coverin her muzzle??" Applejack glared. "Yeah yeah I know" I rolled my eyes. "Well fortunately Zecora finished the antidote so we can change every back to-" Twilight said, holding the bottle up before suddenly a swarm of birds flew by smacking the bottle out of her magical hold and clinked to the ground. She gasped and went to grab it again only for the ground to rumble as a stampede of forest animals came rushing down the road and swept up ponies as well as the bottle. "What in tarnation is goin on??" Applejack yelled, leaping back dodging the animal swarm. "Woah! Woah!!" Pinkie exclaimed though the only showing of her moving was the flailing Rainbowdash. "Pinkie!!!" Rainbowdash yelled as she flailed and was battered about by birds and rooftops. I dodged and flew up above the animals "the heck is going on??" "Something spooked all the animals out of the forest, I tried to tell them not to run into town but...oh they're all just so scared" Fluttershy replied suddenly flying up gently like a butterfly as she looked to the panicked animals with sympathy. "Wait something in the forest?" I repeated thinking before fear and memory filled me "oh no...I forgot I sneezed on someone else...or something..." Screams filled the air of panicked ponies as suddenly a hulking moving forest came stomping down the street snarling, the huge hulking timberwolf stomped down the street and slashed its claws and jaws through buildings as it followed after the fleeing ponies. "You made a timberwolf huge?!?" Twilight exclaimed. "I like to think of it as a timbertitian" I chuckled nervously rubbing the back of my neck before gasping and flying out of the way of a torn off rooftop "okay that was personal Pinocchio!" I glared at the walking tree which growled back at me "We have to stop that thing!" Applejack yelled, grabbing a pony moving them out of danger. "The antidote will return it to normal size, I just need to find it" Twilight said looking at the stampede. "Twilight, Pinkie, and uh Rainbow too, you guys go for the antidote, Applejack, Fluttershy, you and me will keep me wood chips over there busy" I instructed and they each nodded before I flew off towards the giant, Applejack galloping after on the ground dodging animals left and right while he got his lasso out. Pinkie, Twilight, and Rainbowdash hurried down the road with the stampede in search of the antidote, pinkie ducked down looking past hooves and paws watching dirt and rock get kicked up and knocked about before her eyes spotted the small bottle which rolled and bounced in the dirt. She leapt up in the air "there it is!!" Twilight looked at Pinkie, and found a floating balloon, she watched Rainbowdash sigh and shrug, rolling her eyes and flew up and moved with the crowd trying to find the bottle past the animals. "Darn it, I guess being invisible isn't all it's cracked up to be" Pinkie huffed. "I'm feeling the same about being a balloon, except from the start!" Rainbowdash yelled. The three moved with the stampede, Pinkie pulling Rainbowdash along as she made her way towards where she last saw the bottle, she swooped down past some hooves and snagged the bottle holding it up " ah ha! -eck!" The string around her mane suddenly yanked her backwards as she found a deer tied up in Rainbowdash's string. The bottle flew from Pinkie's hoof through the air, Pinkie and Rainbowdash gasped watching the bottom twirl and fell through the air headed for shattering doom. An alarmed cry filled the air as the fashionista mare was carried atop the stampede before a small bottle landed in her hooves, she blinked, stopping her screaming as she looked at the bottle "what's this?" "Rarity!!" Twilight flew over grabbing her and then flew to Pinkie and Rainbowdash, or rather where she assumed Pinkie was. "Darling what in Equestria is going on?? I was in the middle of getting the mail when suddenly all these animals came running down the street and carried me away!" Rarity said, looking stressed. "Blake's got Alicorn illness, and just a lord happened" Twilight huffed. "Oh no, please do not tell it's what you had, I cannot deal with another rollerblade hoof!" Rarity said worriedly as she looked around for Blake. "oh no, it'll probably be worse" Rainbowdash huffed, bobbing up and down in the air. Rarity jumped as she'd thought Dash had been just a balloon "Rainbowdash is-is that truly you??" "Yeah and Applejack is a stallion!" Pinkie's voice spoke up causing Rarity to jump again and look for her. "Pinkie's invisible as well" Twilight sighed before finally getting the string free from the deer "now let's get to Blake and cure him before the timbertitian destroys the town!" "The what??" Rarity asked. "Hey hey! No teeth!!" I shouted dodging the chomps from the giant wooden wolf. The timbertitian snarled and snapped its jaws at me as it turned in circles following me as I flew around its head dodging around. Fluttershy was helping animals and ponies move out of the area as the giant timberwolf stomped its heavy paws across the street. Applejack rushed between the giant paws hooking her lasso onto a branch of its leg before she began moving back and forth between and around its legs pulling the other end as it wrapped around the giant limbs. The timberwolf snarled and lunged at me, jaws open wide, my eyes going wide before I felt pressure in my horn and suddenly a blue light flashed out from it blowing chunks of wood from its mouth causing it to flinch back. I blinked and looked up at my home which glowed for a second before it faded to normal color albeit it still has the red tip from the illness, my thoughts ranging from did I just do that, to can I do that again?? The timbertitian went to step back when its leg caught on something pulling the others as it did and it fell backwards smashing into the ground with a mighty thud kicking dirt up into the air. "It won't stay down long, we gotta do something!" Applejack said, looking up to me. "Blake!!" Twilight yelled flying through the air, she then launched the bottle through the air with her magic. I moved back and forth in the air trying to figure out where the bottle would go towards me before suddenly everything went dark. The girls and one stallion gasped as Blake vanished into the maw of the timbertitian who had leapt back up onto its feet, swallowing the titan turned with a wicked grin as it darkly chuckled, snapping the rope from its paws it turned towards the small group of ponies growling readying to have another meal. A white fish engulfed Twilight and she looked around confused. Applejack soon flashed white and now the familiar mare stood looking to herself confused before smiling. A flash appeared in empty space and Pinkie appeared who frowed "aww there were so many pranks I could have done..." Rainbowdash flashed and then proceeded to hit the dirt, no longer a balloon. The timber titan looked at them all co fused before its eyes widened and it whimpered before it flashed and proceeded to explode out in splintered wooden pieces. Blake gasped loudly and hacked as she was covered in green slime "I...drank...the antidote..." She panted, shaking slightly "and...I was swallowed..." The girls cheered rushing over hugging the mare even if she was sticky, Blake smiled hugging them back as peace was restored to the town. "Hey wait, Twilight didn't that antidote have a side effect?" Pinkie asked. Twilight eyes widened "oh no." "Wait wha-" Blake said before a bright flash engulfed her and the girls found themselves hugging empty space, the six looking at each other in a circle before looking down at the ground and gasping. Sitting looking at themselves was a small dark furred, star maned filly, looking at her hooves she frowned and dropped them "aw cwap…"