The Day the World Turned Lavender

by playnwin

Chapter 2 - Pronouns are Prohibited

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.

Author's Note:

I apologize if that hurt.

Comments

[Mad Maudlin]

Did Discord just kill every Pegasus living in any of the cloud cities or a cloud home?

[playnwin]

4314438

Ummm... Surely he isn't that mean... right?

[Mad Maudlin]

4314445

Gravity certainly is.

But on the bright side, Rainbow can be a Wonderbolt when this is fixed! Even if it is just because all the current Wonderbolts are probably dead. It still counts.

[alarajrogers]

I wish I could say it is out of character for Discord to cast a spell that disables himself, except that I have a lengthy story with only a first chapter published in which he switches places with Pinkie without considering the fact that Pinkie, being an earth pony and not a God of Chaos, does not have the power to switch them back... and once she has the powers of Chaos, Pinkie doesn't have the knowledge to switch them back. So Discord ends up an earth pony and Pinkie is a draconequus. So... yeah. Actually this is totally in character for Discord. :-)

[Mad Maudlin]

4314476

... I thought Pinkie already was a Draconequus, wearing a really swanky pony costume.

[alarajrogers]

4314452

Actually, given the odds against there just happening to be a convenient tree and that Rainbow Dash can sleep deeply enough to miss falling through a cloud and landing on a tree, evidence suggests Discord put them someplace safer before turning them all into Twilight.

[Mad Maudlin]

4314496

By Discord's definition of safer or by the dictionary definition of safer?

[alarajrogers]

4314493

OMG now I have this notion that draconequui are cuckoos; that is, young draconequui look just like ponies, so they get taken in and cared for by ponies as if they were pony foals, and then one day they metamorphose into their adult form, at which point they have full access to their chaos powers.

So Pinkie, who appears to be an adult pony, is actually a draconequus child (long-lived, so their larval form lasts for quite a while.) Given that draconequui are related to dragons and Spike is still a baby dragon even though he has to be in his teens, it makes sense...

[alarajrogers]

4314503

Discord's. Because putting somepony who can't fly in a tree is not exactly the dictionary definition of safe. :-)

[Mad Maudlin]

4314508

I call the CMC as being Dracuckoos!

And I guess he could have just dumped all the PegaLights in Neigh Jersey and called it good.

[playnwin]

4314508

And, to all that are watching, this is how a fanfic is born.

[lionaxel]

This was a terrible ending... and I liked it! Lol, just imagine the confusion. Also, If their voices changed too, then out of the mane six you would really only be able to tell AJ and Rarity apart due to their accents... but then there are plenty of other ponies with those accents too... Damn, just... Amazing yet terrible ending if that makes sense.

[playnwin]

4314818

Yeah... I don't like endings. I can't make them. I seem to be physically incapable of making an ending. So I just stick to cliffhangers that leave the rest to the reader's imagination. I personally find those enjoyable anyways, but they serve their purpose.

[lionaxel]

4314833
Reminds me of Goosebumps.

[playnwin]

4314952

I LOVED those as a kid. The endings? Fantastic every time.

Hmmmm. That's actually a good comparison.

[neorenamon]

4314445 Definitely a surprise ending, but I can't help but get the feeling that Twilight (and half of Equestria) would turn up on Zecora's doorstep, or that she may well know some sort of cure... She's just that kind of Zebra, after all. But I still can't tell if the ending was implying that Twilight Sparkle herself was a mirror clone?

[Black Hoof]

I think I know what happened. Original Twilight is faking surprise, when she became, in fact, a virus, and she used her ability to spread everywhere in the Maretrix.

[Pyriel]

4315017 or maybe, the Twilight zone?

[Arcane Howitzer]

Equestrians unfamiliar with unicorn magic: ~66%
Equestrians only familiar with weak unicorn magic: ~90%
Equestrians now possessing arguably the strongest unicorn magic in history: 100%
Equestrians who will likely go mad with said power: ~10%
Equestrians likely to survive the ensuing chaos: ~5%
Likelihood all of this will come back to bite Discord in his Star-Spangled rear: 90%

And that's just for day one! Imagine how awkward it'll be when everypony (left) realizes they have to breed like this!

[Mad Maudlin]

4317103

I expect support groups for ex stallions will form.

And can you imagine what'll happen to the entire world if, should they figure out how to breed(induced parthenogenesis?) and the traits breed true? An entire race of Twilights!

DOOOOOOOOOOM!

Though Rarity's business should start booming once the Twilights begin buying clothing to differentiate themselves.

[Arcane Howitzer]

4317894
Alternatively (and leaning more towards the "Nature" side of the old Nature VS Nurture debate), after a handful (hoof-full?) of generation pass and the cultural influence of the "forced" Twilights fades, they forget about that silly business of individual identity and focus on their true passion:
Understand
EVERYTHING

[3Power]

Why would the god of chaos make everyone the same?

[playnwin]

4322085

It causes massive chaos? Every pony bring the most powerful unicorn in existence? Chaos!

[ThePinkShadow]

Discord really pulled a good one this time. The ponies who want revenge against him will have to find him in a crowd of clone look alikes so thats out of the question and none of the ponies have the power to undo it all so Discord basicaslly caused wide spread chaos and destroyed any way for fixing it... well played Discord, well played

[lavender]

We've seen Twi use Dark Magic after viewing Celestia use it once.
Chaos Magic is simply a matter of time.

[Flare N Jaeger]

They're everywhere!

[Mechagodzilla3]

[Revan]