Meanwhile, back in Ponyville town square...
Mayor Mare was giving her ending speech to the crown of ponies. It wasn't a very important one, just a regular speech to sum all of the other speeches up. So, basically, boring. Apparently, it was so boring, that ponies were falling asleep on their hooves, if that was even possible.
As she was finally finishing her last speech, she suddenly felt weird in her flank area, making her stop her talking suddenly. It felt as though there was a muscle spasm where her cutie mark was. She just brushed it off as a case of the tinglys, and didn't bother to look back at her cutie mark to see what it really was.
Without warning, the sensation in her flank spread to her waist, and then her head. When the tingling was done consuming her body, she looked up, realizing that she had been silent for a few moments. Her stomach did a flip flop as she looked into the crowd.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not feeling that well. I... I need to go," She stuttered as she walked off the stage, cross-eyed, and bumping into miscellaneous objects going "Oops!" and "Sorry!" and "My bad!"
'What is wrong with me?' She asked herself.
Meanwhile, back to a plotting Scootaloo...
'Okay, so, lets see if this works...' Scootaloo thought, as she calmly cantered into the clubhouse, where her friends were bickering. The first thing she noticed was that Sweetie Belle's eyes had changed from her usual light green to a Bluish purple color. The second thing that she noticed was that AppleBloom's usual Orange eyes had turned to light blue.
The whole thing with the eyes seemed familiar and maybe even important, but she couldn't think of anything that might be of use to her, so she just went along with her business, totally forgetting that it even happened a few seconds later.
Sweetie Belle was asleep on Rarity's fainting couch, which Scootaloo just passed it off as hereditary nothingness. Apple Bloom, However, was nowhere to be found.
Scootaloo walked over to where Sweetie was sleeping and prodded her. Nothing. She Prodded again, and this time her friend muttered, "Ugh, Scoots. Gotta find Scootaloo."
She wasn't at all surprised, as she had heard her friend going on and on about her before she had entered. Instead of putting whip cream on her muzzle like she probably would have if she knew that Sweetie wouldn't freak out if she did, she this time poked her as hard as she could, getting a startled yelp from the filly.
Her eyes opened, looking around. They finally landed on Scootaloo, who was giving her a satisfied smirk. "Gotcha," she said.
Sweetie smiled. "Scootaloo! Where were you? Apple Bloom and I were so worried!"
"Not worried enough to go and look for me..." Scootaloo muttered.
"I'm sorry, what was that?"
"Nothing. So, where is Apple Bloom, anyway?"
"Oh, I think she went to Sweet Apple Acres to wash up, she was looking absolutely dreadful," Sweetie said.
"Uh, okay. Oh, before I forget, congratulations on your new cutie mark," Scoots said smugly, expecting her friend to start to jump up and down exclaiming; "I got it! I got my cutie mark!"
But no, she didn't. Much to Scootaloo's surprise, she did almost the exact opposite. "Oh, I know. I got that thing years ago! Don't you remember me telling you that story? Her confused friend shook her head. "Remember, It was my school play, and I found a big rock and I-"
"No no no," Scootaloo said in response. "That's Rarity's story! Not yours, hers!"
"You mean my little sister? What do you mean? She doesn't have her cutie mark yet," Sweetie responded.
"Wha... Bwa... Huh?!" Scootaloo started to feel lightheaded. Suddenly, without any warning, Apple Bloom appeared out of nowhere shouting.
"Yay! Group hug!" She exclaimed whilst jumping on her friends. Scootaloo scurried out of the way before her friend could land on her and started to gallop out of the clubhouse and down to Sweet Apple Acres. What did I do?! She asked herself.
Meanwhile, at Ponyville's library...
"Um, Are you guys okay?" Rainbow Dash asked her friends. Erm, well, some of the ponies in the main library room were her friends. One of them was a small colt named Pip who insisted that he had always their friend. His eyes were green, like AJ's, though Rainbow hadn't known the little pony long enough to memorize his eye color.
"Yea, um, I'm fine," Twilight said very quietly. "Well, If you want me to be, that it." Rainbow looked over at her egghead friend, who's eyes had turned pink, just like Fluttershy's.
"Yes, I'm perfectly fine, Rainbow, why do you ask?" Fluttershy responded. Okay, this is officially getting weird, she thought. And, I know that something is missing here... but what?
"No, nothing's okay," Pinkie Pie said with an unusual southern twang in her voice. "A'h still don't have ma cutie mark!" Wait, what? Rainbow Dash looked to her friend's flank and gasped in surprise. There's no cutie mark! Its... It's gone!
And she was correct, Pinkie's cutie mark was gone, and as Rainbow looked around, she noticed that Rarity's was gone as well. And Twilight's was... Moths? Or were they Butterflies? She never could tell. Fluttershy's flank had a six point star with other stars around it, just like Twilight's.
So, what, everypony except for me switched cutie marks? She thought. She thought about the possibilities of what could have happened for this to happen. Then she realized what had probably happened. Her eyes then widened.
Oh no, not again!