Twilight looked around at her friends, seeing them covered with frosting and batter, then looked down at her hoof and hand, seeing the same. Without a word, she looked all around at the walls and floors of Sugarcube Corner, unable to discover a single spot devoid of the stains of desserts she so savagely assaulted the bakery with. Twilight was wholly disheartened by this level of chaos and devastation inflicted by her upon the bakery and her friends, and could not even muster the courage to lift her head up from its dejected hanging and look in the eyes of the very friends she pasted with sweets.
“Twilight…?”
“…I can’t believe I did this again,” she responded, clasping her head with her hooves. “When will this horror end? How long must I endure the torment of this evil affliction?? And why must everyone I care about succumb to the harm brought upon by my actions??”
Twilight’s friends felt reasonably sorrowful for their crestfallen friend, as her feelings of despair were growing more and more extensive, and she even appeared to be losing her mind in the process. Applejack could not let such a thing happen to her dear friend. Intercession was what must be done to bring Twilight out of the depths of misery she had confined herself to.
“Oh, come now, Twilight,” Applejack began to say in a comforting manner. “Yer makin’ it sound like it’s all your fault, and we all know you never meant tuh do any of the evil stuff you’ve been doin’.”
“Indeed not,” Rarity appended. “Such vile acts as these could never stem from a dear friend such as yourself. It is simply inconceivable.”
“Yeah!” Pinkie shouted. “The Twilight we all know and love so very, very much would never do mean things like this! And since you’re the only Twilight we all know, there’s no way it could be you trying to be so un-nice!”
Twilight lifted her head up, looking back at her friends through her tears. “…sniff…you all really believe that..?”
“Totally!”
“Of course, Twilight”
“We wouldn‘t think of it any other way” Spike said reassuringly as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
“And we couldn’t even if we wanted to,” Applejack added.
“Not that we would want to, because that’s not something that friends like us would do!” Pinkie interjected.
Twilight wiped the tears from her eyes, actually showing a smile. “Thank you all so much,” she said as a tear trickled down her face. “This whole circumstance has been rough on me and you, but what keeps me going is knowing my friends will always stick with me, no matter how terrible the situation,” her friends all heartily agreed with Twilight’s statement. “I don’t know what I would do without—erk!!”
Twilight’s completion of her sentence had been deterred by the abrupt jerk of her head into a 90 degree angle, startling all of her friends. “Oh…no…” she endeavored to say, her head, limbs, and body lurching at every word. “…not…again!” her eyes rolled and twitched, and her mouth juddered along with her face. Suddenly, Twilight was forced upon all fours as she leapt up onto her hooves, causing her friends to quickly back off in alarm. Once she became upright, the convulsing on her body slowed down to a slight shuddering. However, this did not calm the anxieties of her friends, as while the majority of Twilight’s body had discontinued its lurching, her tail was undulating side-to-side at a rapid pace, with everyone estimating that her tail would be that which is transformed next. Their presumptions were shown to be correct, as her tail ceased its movement whilst being engulfed by light, and just as with the last two occurrences, the light surged throughout the room, with the others screening themselves from the stunning luminescence.
After the light had diminished, twilight's friends uncovered their eyes to look upon what had befallen Twilight's tail, and gasped with shock at what they had just witnessed.
While Twilight's friends had their eyes fixated on her transformed tail, the frightened unicorn was not so willing to look upon what her tail had become, as shown by having her head down on the floor and the covering of her eyes with her hand and hoof. However, she could still hear all that happened, and felt inclined to ask what had happened.
"I heard you all gasp in shock. What is it?"
"Uhhh..."
“Is it bad?”
"Uhh..."
"Umm..."
"Well..."
"I think..."
"Your hesitant statements are not filling me with much hope that it didn't turn out that bad."
"Well, actually," Rainbow Dash responded. "I think it's kinda cool!" she said with a sense of awe.
"What?" Twilight replied, sounding genuinely befuddled.
This, along with her natural penchant for inquisitiveness, led Twilight to look up at her tail, and, with the same level of shock as the others, beheld that her pony tail had transformed into that of a scorpion tail!
"I...I have a scorpion tail!" she stated in distress.
"That's why I thought it looked cool," said Rainbow Dash.
"This isn't cool at all!! Not only did another part of me change, now I have something that could actually hurt somepony on its own!"
"Ohh, don't be sayin' things like that, Twilight," a displeased Applejack said. "I know you're not the type to be careless with somethin' dangerous."
"That's not the point! The point is that I'm becoming more dangerous with each of these new changes And it will only be a matter of time before I become a permanent danger to everypony!" Twilight slumped down on her rump. "Ohhh, why must this get worse every time I start to feel better?? It's like there's no point to even try to stop this from happening!"
"Now hold on there, Twilight" a disgruntled Applejack said. "You're really gettin' carried away now."
"What are you talking about?"
"Ah'm sayin' that if you keep tellin' yerself that bad things are gonna happen, then ah course they're gonna happen!"
"Applejack's right," Rainbow appended. "If you keep worrying about every bad thing that happens, then how will you ever stop it all from happening anymore??"
"You really have to believe you'll get out of this!"
"Agreed. You must be confident in yourself during this time."
"Just like we all keep saying you need to be, because we believe in you as well, Twilight."
"Yeah, that all sounds like stuff that Twilight would know!" Pinkie exclaimed.
Twilight stared back at her friends, her expression signifying that she was mulling over these thoughts within her mind. After several moments of careful pondering, Twilight sat up straight, closed her eyes, and took a deep, cleansing breath. "Thank you, everybody. I needed to hear that again," everyone looked to be relieved in seeing Twilight back to normal. "I'll admit that I was getting quite hysterical. It feels to me that all of these occurrences are slowly making me lose my mind, so I break down incredibly easily," Twilight then felt her front leg being lifted up, and looked to see it was Pinkie, whom was holding up her leg as she examined it.
"Hmm...you don't look broken to me."
"Well, I'm not right now," she said as she pulled her leg out of Pinkie's grasp. "And even though I didn't mean I was broken down in that sense, I am still not going to let it happen again, or else we'll never get to the princess in time."
"That's the Twilight Sparkle way to think!" Rainbow Dash said fortuitously.
"Well, it was Twilight who said it, so yeah!" Pinkie Pie added.
Twilight felt glad in having gained more of a drive to fix her personal dilemma. And that was not the only thing causing her delight. "Also, on a positive note, I should mention that I believe I have gained a better understanding of this problem."
"You have?"
"Yes. You see, from what knowledge I've obtained from each of these anarchic outbursts, I've learned two facts: The first fact is that whenever I see some kind of way to cause chaos, my normal mind switches to that chaotic state of mind, and the second fact is that I can remember what I do when I'm under the manipulation of that mind status, but I do not have any real control over it," Twilight's friends were absorbed into the details passed on to them by their friend. "Unfortunately, that's all I am currently able to discern at this present time, but hopefully I'll learn more as time passes."
"You actually want to learn more about this horrible curse?"
"Of course I do! It's important to understand the facts surrounding any type of magical disturbance so one can know what to expect in the probability that their affliction will carry on, which it clearly will with me," she explained, looking at her dragon arm during her last statement.
"Oh—well, you're the egghead, so I guess you know what you're talking about."
"Thanks..." Twilight replied sarcastically. "And what else I know is that we can't waste a bit more time! It's time we get moving again!" Twilight then teleported herself right in front of Pinkie's face. "And no more snack stops!" she exclaimed, and after walking away, Pinkie's face drooped in solemn cheerlessness.