The orange-red hues of the evening sky over Equestria were beginning to fade away into the dark blue blanket of night as Princess Celestia lowered the sun from within her throne room, while at the same moment Princess Luna began her rising of the moon from her own tower's balcony, thusly blanketing Equestria with a beautiful, starry night sky for all to enjoy and admire.
While that was going on outside the castle, Twilight's friends were continuing their pursuit of their anxious friend ever further into the inner workings of Canterlot castle.
"Do you think Twilight's reached the princess yet?"
"Considering how much she was panicking, I think the answer is a pretty big 'DUH'!"
"Are you sure, Rainbow Dash? Because it looks like Twilight hasn't gotten there yet to me!" Baffled by Pinkie's statement, the others looked ahead to see Twilight sitting down right outside Celestia's throne room. Even more bewildered by this situation, the ponies and Spike all ran up to Twilight to see what was going on, although she had not noticed the arrival of her friends, as her eyes were firmly locked on her hands as she continuously rubbed them together nervously.
"Twilight, what's wrong? Why are you still out here?"
"Huh? What?" Twilight looked up to see her friends all around her, still containing a hint of panic in her tone.
"Did something happen? Does Celestia know about your curse yet?"
"No, she doesn't. I just can't bring myself to go in there and let her see me like this!" she responded with much dread, clasping her face with both hands as her panic-stricken eyes stared down at the floor.
"Well, how is she supposed to help if she doesn't know what's wrong with you?"
"...that's why you'll all have to go in and tell her," Twilight declared, much to the surprise of her friends.
"Us go in?"
"Are you sure that's the best idea, Twilight?"
"There's no time to question this! We have to move now! Now get in there!"
Twilight was clearly bent on staying put, so the others had no choice but to adhere to her wish, and promptly burst their way into the throne room.
"Princess! Princess!"
"Oh my word!" Celestia responded in astonishment. "What is going on here?"
"We're dreadfully sorry to come here unannounced and disturb you, princess," Rarity then cut in the middle of her explanation and hurriedly bowed before the princess.
"But we've got some bad news!"
"Really bad news!" Pinkie added, hopping up behind Rainbow Dash.
"It's horrible!"
"Really horrible!" Pinkie added again, smacking her face next to Spike's.
"It's about Twilight!"
"Really about Twilight!" she added one more time, putting the top of her head directly on top of Fluttershy's head as she came down from above the pegasus.
"Twilight?" Celestia responded apprehensively as she stood up on her throne. What has happened to Twilight??"
"She's been cursed!"
"Cursed? What is it that you mean by this?"
"We mean she's been cursed!" Rainbow dash exclaimed. "How much more do you need that that??"
Celestia was speechless—unsure of how to react to such abrupt news—especially considering that it involved her greatest student. "Explain to me what it is that has happened!"
"She got cursed yesterday!" Pinkie Pie shouted, and then started explaining the entire story—in her own Pinkie Pie way. "It all started when this big dark cloud showed up and started blasting everything! Zap! Zap! Za-POW! All this crazy, chaotic stuff started happening! Although it wasn't all bad, because there was chocolate milk—but even that was too much! And I never thought you could have too much chocolate milk! But it was everywhere! It flooded all over the field! And no matter how hard I tried I still couldn't drink it all! Sigh...what a waste of perfectly good chocolate milk..." Pinkie sat in silence, feeling sorrow for the loss of her chocolatey beverage which she held so dear to her taste buds.
Her friends exchanged looks with one another during this intermission until Rainbow spoke up, "Uhh, Pinkie? About the curse?"
"The what? OH! Right! Anyways, we all were able to catch the cloud, but it still kept zapping everything it could! so that's when twilight stepped in: ready to take on this mean ol' cloud! but then suddenly—ZAP! It blasted Twilight with its magic! But Twilight showed that cloud! Zhoooop! Ka-BOOM! Twilight exploded that cloud into a million much tinier clouds! Everything seemed to go back to normal after that, but boy were we wrong! Because the next day—which is today, because this all happened yesterday—Twilight started turning into a bunch of different animals!" Celestia was shocked to hear such staggering news. "...well, not animals, but just animal parts! Like her front legs got turned into arms, and her back legs got turned into different animal back legs! Oh! And her tail turned into this big ol' scorpion tail! And I remember that was right after she wrecked Sugarcube Corner! But I don't blame twilight for that, because it was her cursed evil side that made her do that! Yep! I knew that Twilight—"
"Wait, cursed evil side?" Celestia inquired.
"Yeah! She was really mean, and ruined everything in the Cakes' bakery! That's something even I can't forgive! I mean, the Cakes work really hard on everything they make at the bakery! And it really makes me sad to see all those cakes and muffins and—"
"Wait, wait," Celestia interjected Pinkie's unfocused storytelling. "If all this has indeed happened to Twilight, then I must see her right away so I can sort out this quandary before Twilight fall to any more of these chaotic outbursts. Is she here right now?"
"Well, yeahhhh...but she doesn't exactly want to come in here right now."
"Why in Equestria not?"
"Because I'm a hideous monster!" the distressed Twilight proclaimed from the hallway, with only her shadow partly visible upon the wall facing the throne room doorway. "I don't want you to see me like this, princess! I don't want anypony to see me as this sickening creature!"
"But Twilight, the princess isn't gonna be able to help you if you don't come out!"
"I know, I know! But I—I just...I...I..I..I.." Twilight's stuttering increased more rapidly, and her projected shadow displayed the hysteric unicorn flailing around wildly before collapsing to the side. Before anyone could do anything, there was a sudden flash of light from the hallway, which faded as quickly as it appeared.
Everyone was motionless as they watched the throne room doorway—unknowing of what to anticipate after witnessing another one of Twilight's transformations. The sound of groaning was heard emanating from the hallway, and soon after Twilight's shadow appeared upright once more; though this time, she was standing up instead of sitting. After lingering in her spot for a bit, Twilight began stumbling towards the doorway: her friends and the princess waiting in suspense at what they would soon behold.
Step by step, Twilight traipsed through the prodigious doorway, and now her change was evident to all those within the throne room. Unlike every other time, where a part of Twilight's body had transformed, this time she had gained an entirely new addition to her anatomy—or, more precisely: two. Sprouting from the unicorn's back were a pair of brand news wings—but these were not pegasi wings; oh no, these were the wings of insects that had just burgeoned from Twilight's backside, with a pair of long, buzzing, rapid-moving dragonfly wings on the right side of her back, and a single, beauteous, fluttering butterfly wing on the left. These new appendages were naturally greeted with surprise by Twilight's friends, but it wasn't just Twilight's latest inclusions to her form that had Celestia in such a state of shock. After having heard Pinkie Pie's muddled explanation, Celestia mostly knew not of what to presume had happened to Twilight, but now she saw for herself exactly what had happened to her pupil, and it was quite a disturbing sight to see.