//------------------------------//
// Note 
// Story: A Flood of Harmony 
// by piefan 
//------------------------------//

	The beautiful sun rose and warmed the earth. It was the perfect day to sleep in. Unless, of course you were in Sweet Apple Acres.

"Time to wake up, sleepyheads!" yelled Applejack. Apple Bloom came out from behind her.

"Howdy! Where's Sweetie Belle?" asked Apple Bloom. Rarity, who had regained consciousness in the night, told her to look for Sweetie Belle in the CMC clubhouse. Apple Bloom ran off.

"It's not Applebuck season, so we're going to plan something for the fakes, right? I don't see any other reason to wake up at sunrise!" said Rainbow Dash. Applejack nodded. Quickly, Rainbow zipped to the Apple Family's house and came back with a piece of paper and pencil.

Rainbow used her mouth to draw a map. "Okay, we start an ambush. Me and Fluttershy take this area, Applejack and Pinkie take this area, and Rarity and Twilight take this area!"

"That's actually a pretty good idea, Rainbow! Well, other than the fact that you didn't provide much detail," said Twilight. "Now all we need is weapons!"

"No problem, Twilight!" said Pinkie. "Dashie, take the stuff under my bed in Sugarcube Corner!"

Puzzled, Rainbow flew to Sugarcube Corner, expecting to find party games or something like that. Pinkie's clone was  sleeping. Rainbow came back with Pinkie's party cannon, loaded with cannonballs. She also had a first-aid kit.

"You keep ammo in your room?" Twilight was shocked and freaked out.

"Yeah, how else am I going to have fun?" said Pinkie.

After recovering from shock, Twilight planned their ambush more specifically. "That's too crazy for words, but as long as you don't kill anypony, I'm fine with that. Anyway, Rarity, read page 23 of this book for the spell to send the clones back to the Mirror Pool, We're going to need to make sure they don't pretend to be us, so draw an X on your left front hoof. The rest of you, go out there and round the clones up."

Her friends all drew an X on their hoof, not questioning the fact that Twilight didn't provide much detail in her plan.

"Rarity, you stay here and read that book. We're going to round the clones up!"

Then, she, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy ran out of the barn.

The clones had created even more clones, and they had formed an army. They had managed to get along well enough.

"Well, this is going to be hard. We should just go back to the barn." said Fluttershy.

"Not so fast, Fluttershy. You're stayin' here. Don't you want to go back to your cottage and be with the animals?" Applejack grabbed Fluttershy's tail to prevent her from leaving.

After a few hours, Twilight and her friends were exhausted. They hadn't managed to round any of the clones up.

"Everypony, abort mission! Repeat, abort mission!" screamed Rainbow Dash.

Her friends ran to the barn.

"Where's Fluttershy?" asked Twilight. "Rarity, did Fluttershy come to the barn?"

"Wasn't she with you, darling?" said Rarity.

"Um, no. She was there for a while before she just disappeared."

"Does it really matter? Knowing her, she probably disguised as a tree or something because she was scared. She'll probably be here in the morning." said Rainbow, yawning. Normally, she wouldn't be so cool about it, but she was too sleepy to think normally. She fell asleep just after saying the sentence.

"Are you kidding me, Rainbow Dash?" said Twilight, not noticing that Rainbow was asleep. "We need to find Fluttershy now!" Twilight suddenly noticed that most of her friends were asleep, and Applejack was heading to the house.

"Well, I guess I can't find Fluttershy without help and being well-rested." Twilight closed her eyes, and soon she was snoring.

-----------------------------------------------------------------The next day -----------------------------------------------------------------

The rooster crowed, signalling the start of a new day. Applejack woke up and walked downstairs to make breakfast.

"I'd better not wake up the rest now," Applejack said to herself. "They're probably really sleepy. Not everypony is used to waking up really early."

She went to the barn anyway to feed the cows.

As she fed the cows, which were in the corner of the barn so Rarity wouldn't faint again, Applejack noticed a note next to Pinkie Pie. She picked it up. Scrawled in horrible hoofwriting was:



"We are holding your little friend, Fluttershy, hostage. Surrender, or else!"



Applejack changed her plans for letting her friends sleep. "I thought our clones were supposed to be kind, considering they have the same personalities as the rest." she thought to herself.

Then she ran into the barn. "Fluttershy's bein' held hostage!"

Her friends woke up immediately. "Are you serious?" asked Pinkie. "Or is this just a trick? Are you trying to lure us out so you can play a prank?" Pinkie tried looking outside. When she saw nothing out there, she gasped. And so did everyone else.