//------------------------------// // Some devious plan, Alicorn. // Story: Reformation Stuff // by lolnewsPegasus //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash woke up from a blinding flash of light, and hearing weird machinery. "Where am I, Twilight Sparkle's basement?" she asked. The bookworm unicorn, upon hearing this, flipped. "WHY IS IT THAT EVERYONE THINKS MY BASEMENT IS A MAD SCIENTIST'S LABORATORY?!?!?!?" Her ears fumed with comical puffs of steam. "That's because, it looks like one." Discord interrupted. "But for me, it's more like a picker's collection of stuff, ready for picking. This for thirty bits?" He ended up getting his head smashed on by a pot. "So, y'all gonna help me suss sumthin' out of RD or what?" Applejack asked. Spike, clearly uninterested, said, "Wake me up when there are gems." and he went to his bed. "Oh, right." Rarity said. She prepared her horn to levitate something gruesome even for Rainbow's guts. She even prepared her own evil smile. Almost to the gruesome thing made solely for Dash. Until, she hit a snag. "Uh, what are we going to suss out?" "Who she likes, silly!" Pinkie Pie said as she jumped on and on. "We've got a pretty good idea who!" She bent toward Rarity, and whispered who they suspected. Rarity, upon hearing this, stood up firm. "Then, what am I doing here? We gotta ask Fluttershy about her prince charming! Come on, Twilight!" She dragged Twilight Sparkle along. "Why me?" Rarity facehoofed. "Discord, would you be a dear and port us to Fluttershy?" The two-thirds pony agreed. "Done, and done." The unicorns disappeared. "More like 'Prince ten-seconds-flat.'" Applejack added. "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!?!?" Rainbow seemed to be breaking up a bit. "It means you're feeling butterflies in your gut every time you see a certain critter caretaker!" Pinkie Pie, subtly obscured the main message at the same time making the oblivious Pegasus catch an idea of their aim. To start the show, Applejack wore a long pink wig and held a stuffed bunny, plus for good measure, Discord used his newfound unicorn powers to give Rainbow a delusional sight of things. In Dash's point of view "Okay, miss, uh Dash. Who do you see?" Discord dressed as a doctor asked. He whispered to Applejack, 'Come on here!' "Uh, okay." "Fluttershy? When did you get here?" Rainbow asked. "Angel, is your leg okay?" the critter caretaker asked. "Oh, good day, mister." She waved at a pink pony wearing Groucho Glasses. "Pinkie?" the daredevil asked. But the pony said, "My name is Groucho. Seriously, just because I have a pink coloration does not mean I'm Pinkie..." and he trotted off. "Oh. So it wasn't Pinkie. Hey Doc, what the hay is that?" Rainbow gasped at the needle. "It's to relax your tense muscles." he said. "But my muscles aren't that tense--what is this?" She wondered at the magazine sprawled at the ground. It was one of the magazines printed when Photo Finish took Fluttershy as her model. Rainbow's composure shifted to one similar to a creature looking for a ring. "Ours! Get back, you! Back, I say! Our precious! Not yours!" "Show's over." Doctor Discord said. Not anymore "So, you do like...Fluttershy?" Applejack said teasingly as they went outside the library. "NOO.....yes." The pegasus said as she stretched her whole body. "But don't tell anyone! I swear, if you do, I'll--" KA-BONG "Our work is done." Discord said. "Uh, sumthin' happened to yer wings." Applejack said. Pinkie brought out a mirror. "Hey, they're the same now! And grayish, too, like your coat." "NOW ALL I HAVE LEFT IS MY OWN TWO HANDS!" The now three-fourths pony said to himself. "I was aiming to be a good spirit! Now, I'm--smaller? I'm as tall as, uhh, who could---" "YAY! CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS! BOY SCOUTS!" Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle made a good entrance. "Cutie...mark...Hey! I saw a filly wearing a cape just like you gals are! In Manehatten, she was. Leading a group of blank foals! But she had crazier stuff on her mind. They were gonna earn their cutie marks as lemmings!" "So Babs is doing a swell job, huh?" Apple Bloom asked. The three-fourths pony facepawed. "Sure, why not?" He turned to Applejack and whispered to her the whole shebang. The cowpony just laughed. "Cutie Mark Crusaders do that stuff all the time!" This left the three-fourths pony in shock. "Why, when I ruled Equestria, this never happened." "That's because everything was chaos." Sweetie Belle added. "Miss Cheerilee talked about it during school." "School...school school schoo-- AHA! School's done, right?" Discord asked. "Nope, we got to get back or miss Cherrilee's gonna flip." Discord, once again, hatched another brilliant plan. "Applejack, shouldn't you be at Sweet Apple Acres right about now?" he winked. "And, Pinkie, can you throw a party for....." He whispered the other parts into Pinkie's ear. The pink mare jumped up with glee. "Okie-dokie-lokie, D!" And she trotted off. "Rainbow, the sky needs some blue pegasus to sleep on the clouds." Discord said. Rainbow Dash happily flew to the yellow cumulus cloud and slept on it. "Sleeping on the yellow cloud instead of the other colors...I knew it." Discord chuckled. Let the plan commence! Pinkie Pie and Discord sat down in wait. Twilight led Fluttershy to the spot, and then faked her leave. "Hey, we got some good news and bad news! Shy told Rarity and me that uh, her infatuation is solely focused on the female equus. But she dared not say who the fortunate lady was." Discord, who, like the CMC, would not understand a word Twilight said, asked, "Huh?" Pinkie interrupted. "She meant that Fluttershy's crushing on a mare but she won't tell who it is!" Pinkie suddenly remembered. "That's cause she Pinkie Promised not to tell anyone who she liked until she confessed to that lucky mare!" "Let's just hope it's Rainbow Dash." Discord peered through the telescope. "YEAH, WE HIT JACKPOT! Looky here!" He jinxed the telescope so it could be used by two ponies. "As the crazy RD fangirl would say, 'I bucking ship it!' Hehehe!" Pinkie and Twilight peered through the double telescope. They caught glimpse of a longing Fluttershy arranging flowers of colors into what seems to be Rainbow Dash's cutie mark. Then, after two minutes flat, Rainbow Dash arrived. Both pegasi were shocked. "'Shy?" "Dash?" There was an awkward silence. The bush where the three culprits hid in, was joined by three fillies and an owl. "Hey, school's over, how's it going, Pinkie?" Sweetie Belle said as she squeezed in. "Are you really Discord? Cause you look smaller first hoof." Scootaloo said. "Hey, he's a blank too! Wanna join the Crusaders?" Apple Bloom asked. "If I turn into a full pony." Discord said, completely uninterested. "Look, claws." he added. "Who?" the owl hooted. "Oh, Owlowiscious. Sorry, guys. Gotta--" Twilight and Owly teleported away. Minutes passed until Fluttershy spoke. "Umm, Rainbow? I wanna show you something." She took the lei she made and wore it. "Wow, nice skill." Rainbow seemed so-so at the lei until she saw the middle. "Now, Fluttershy..." "eep!" "What? I was just gonna turn this cruddy music off. It was driving me nuts." Rainbow said as she blew off the candle. "Yeah, me too. I..." Fluttershy looked red like a tomato. "Huh? You okay?" Rainbow Dash stared close at Fluttershy, a bit too close if one asks anypony. "Puwaaah..." Fluttershy held her breath for a few seconds, and fainted. "Aw, snap!" Rainbow carried Fluttershy with her hooves, and flew off after glancing suspiciously at the bush. "We've been found out!" Pinkie Pie gasped. "Awwwwwwwww..." Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle reacted at the super close scene. "Yuck." Scootaloo stuck her tongue out. "Fail." Discord facehoofed. "Wait a second. Hooves? HOOVES? I DON'T KNOW IF I SHOULD BE FEELING ANGRY OR HAPPY OR WHATEVER NOW THAT I'M A FULL PONY NOW! I'M CONFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSED! "Now are you joining the CMC?" the CMC asked. "Sure. Why the buck not." the Alicorn colt said. "Hey, you're like the Princess!" Pinkie Pie said. "WHAT?" Twilight teleported back to the area, bringing Princess Luna along. "Pack up, everyone, we're going to Canterlot." "Great." Discord mumbled. "A place where Alicorns live."