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// Chapter 2 - Pronouns are Prohibited 
// Story: The Day the World Turned Lavender 
// by playnwin 
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Chapter 2 - Pronouns are Prohibited


        Facing Twilight Sparkle was Twilight, Twilight, Twilight, Twilight, and Twilight, each looking concerned. Twilight was the first to speak. “Twilight, darling, I believe we need to speak.”
        Blinking a few times to check her sanity, the lavender unicorn nodded, and beckoned the others inside. Sweeping aside the now-forgotten breakfast, Twilight Sparkle slammed her hoof onto the table and said, “Alright now, does anypony have any idea what’s goin’ on here?”
        Twilight Sparkle looked around the table, then spoke. “No, I don’t know what’s going on here, though I may have an idea. Normally, I’d say this is impossible, but clearly it’s happening. So, our only choice of action here is— yah!” Suddenly striking out, the purple mare shot a bolt of light at Twilight. The spell was the same one used to send Mirror Pool clones back to the pool, but it simply bounced off of Twilight’s coat, ricocheting around the room before striking  the front door.
        “It-it didn’t work. Why didn’t it work?” Twilight was tackled to the ground by Twilight. “It should have sent the clone back to the pool. Why didn’t it work?”
        “Hey, listen up, egghead! We aren’t clones!” Twilight shouted down at Twilight. “We were your friends until yesterday, then today we woke up like this!”
        “But-but that’s impossible!” the mare shouted back. “Mirror clones, I can understand, but this, this is simply impossible. It CAN’T happen!”
        Twilight snorted. “Obviously, sugarcube, it can, and it has. The question is, what are we gonna do about it?”
        With that, the lavender mare allowed Twilight to her hooves. “You good? No more magic missiles?”
        “I’ll try.” Standing, Twilight Sparkle looked around the room. Everything seemed normal, except for the quintet of Twilights standing before her. Suddenly remembering somepony important, she shouted up the stairs, “Spike! Can you come down here? Spike!”
        At the top of the stairs, Twilight Sparkle came through the doorway, rubbing her eyes and glaring at the bright light the windows allowed in. “Come on, Twilight, you know it’s far to early for this.” 
After shaking herself awake, Twilight looked down at the library floor, and nearly tripped down the stairs. “Umm, Twilight? Have you been visiting the Mirror Pool again?”
Twilight glared at the purple unicorn. “You know what happened last time. Do you really think I’d go back so easily?”
Twilight glanced nervously at her companions. “Last time?”
The lavender unicorn gestured dismissively. “It’s not important. But what is important is finding out what happened to cause this. What we need to do is—“
The mare was cut off by a trio of knocks on her door. Sighing, she returned to the front door, and impatiently swung it open. “Yes?”
Three Twilights stood at her door. One Twilight opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by Twilight. “Cutie Mark Crusaders?”
Caught off guard, the three Twilights stood there, mouths agape and blinking rapidly for a few seconds. Then Twilight recovered, and stared at the violet mare warily. “Yeah, how’d you know?”
“There are three of you, and this is literally the least opportune moment. Who else could it be?”
Thinking about this, Twilight nodded in agreement. Looking around, the unicorn said, “We should probably go inside. Ponies might start wondering what we’re up to if we stay outside too long.”
Glancing around the empty town square, Twilight stepped back, and gestured over towards the kitchen. “Feel free to make some breakfast, if you’d like. I doubt you’ve eaten already.”
Ignoring the shouts of delight, the mare returned to her friends. “Okay, so what we need to do is—” Three knocks at the door. You’ve got to be kidding me.
She walked back over to the door. Swinging it open, the unicorn angrily demanded, “Yeah?”
Outside the door, two Twilights stood tall. At her frustrated demeanor, one remarked to the other, “Funny, sister, I did not remember your student to be so... incensed.”
“Usually, she isn’t. However, under these circumstances, I believe it to be reasonable.”
Twilight took a step back, as the implications of the exchange hit her. “Uh, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna? Forgive me, today has been extremely—”
“I understand, dear student. But for now, we should retreat inside. Ponyville begins to awake, and they will wake with a rather alarming surprise.”
The unicorn cocked her head. “Do you mean to say all of Ponyville has transformed into... me?”
Twilight nodded regally. “Not only Ponyville, Twilight, but all of Equestria. At the moment, messengers are attempting to establish communications with Saddle Arabia and Griffonia, as well as the Diamond Dog warrens and the Zebra tribes. I fear this malady may have spread beyond even our borders.”
This is really bad. If this is as widespread as it sounds— Twilight shuddered at the implications of that. No identifying traits, no pegasi, no earth ponies. Uncorrected, this could be really bad. Luckily, I have a plan!
Walking back over to the table, Twilight introduced the Princesses to her friends, then went to the head of the table. “This problem may be more widespread than we originally thought. However we can deal with this. What we need to do is—”
Knock.
Knock.
Knock.
Twilight gave the door a death glare that would rival the sun in intensity. Is this a conspiracy against me? She stomped over to the door, flung it open, and dragged the Twilight outside into the library with a blast of telekinesis, and slammed the door shut. “What do you want?”
The violet unicorn chuckled at Twilight’s display. “Oh, Twilight, is that any way to treat a friend?”
Twilight’s eyes narrowed at the distinctive ironic tone and blatant sarcasm. “Discord?”
The mare grinned at Twilight’s revelation. “The one and only!”
Twilight jumped up from the table. “Hey, that’s my line!”
Twilight, ignoring the purple mare, began to interrogate Twilight. “What are you doing here?”
“Well, being Twilight, can I go anywhere other than the library?”
Good point. “True. But did you turn us all, barring myself, of course, into me?”
“Did the god of chaos turn every pony into the most powerful unicorn in Equestria? What kind of question is that? I’m insulted! That you doubt me so... I’m wounded! I truly am.”
After a quick eye-roll, Twilight glared at the purple unicorn. “Why? Why would you do this?”
Now it was Twilight’s turn to roll her eyes. “Did you miss the whole ‘god of chaos’ part? Do I need more explanation than that?”
“For anypony else, I’d say yes. But regardless, I demand you return us to our original forms right now!”
Twilight’s grin faltered for a second, but quickly returned. “Well, you see, my dear Twilight, there’s one little problem with that. As a god of chaos, I easily had the power to turn everypony into you. But as a mere Twilight Sparkle...”
Twilight, listening to the unicorn’s speech, suddenly had a sinking feeling. “As me, you don’t have access to your chaos magic...”
“Yep! And no chaos magic means no magical cure for Lavender Unicorn Syndrome (patent pending).”
Ignoring the doubtful legalities of the previous statement, Twilight pondered their current conundrum. I certainly don’t have enough magic to revert this... With Discord without chaos magic, and the Princesses similarly indisposed, does that mean...
“Does that mean we’ll be stuck like this?”
“It certainly looks like it!” Twilight’s grin was from ear to ear. Then, with a quick blast from her horn, she disappeared.