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// S02E06 The Cutie Pox 
// Story: My Little Pony: Friendship is Overpowered (Season 2) 
// by ocalhoun 
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"I'm sorry, Applejack! I dunno how to make it stop!"

Applejack looked at her little sister and winced. "Well, I know somepony who might!"


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"Three cutie marks. Three talents. I've never seen anything like it!" Twilight tapped a hoof to her chin. "I was just reading something about unusual equine illnesses. What was it?"

"Perplexing Pony Plagues, perhaps? " Spike came hopping down the stairs with the book in his claws.

Twilight smiled. "Yes, Spike, you're amazing!" She wasted no time in cracking the book open. "Hay fever... the trots..." She gasped. "Cutie pox!"

"Cutie pox?" Everyone else shouted.

"Cutie pox. This puzzling pony plague afflicted a population of ponies back in the paleopony period! Random cutie marks appeared all over the ponies' bodies, causing them to perform all the talents that came with them!"

"Just like me!" Apple Bloom said.

"Yes, but what's the cure?" Applejack trotted in place. "What's the cure?"

"It says there's no known cure."

Everyone else shouted again, "No known cure?"

Twilight waved a hoof at them. "Don't worry. Just because the book doesn't know a cure doesn't mean I can't make a cure on the spot." Her horn began to glow. "Now, hold still, Apple Bloom. This might feel strange."

"Sacrebleu!" Apple Bloom looked down at her flank, now adorned with another mark. "Plus de marques de cutie!"

In a moment, though, Twilight's magic washed over her, blasting the marks away. Finally, she was able to stop tap-dancing. She was free.

"Gee, thank ya, Twilight." Applejack hugged her sister. "I wouldn't have known what to do if it wasn't for you."

"Any time." Twilight grinned back. "That's what friends are for."