"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!"
* * *
"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."
I am almost certain that Apple Bloom already got her cutie mark.
Maybe she just got mysteriously sick somehow instead of causing it to happen.
Winners never get caught taking drugs.
KBO.
5325650
Yeah, this episode should have been more along the lines of...
: Heart's Desire? Well, I already got my cutie mark so I don't need that. Bye Zecora, I'ma goin home now.
The End.
But... she wouldn't learn anything!
5325650
I'm almost certain no such thing happened.
5325663
Was there ever any doubt?
5325671
Well, yeah, if continuity was at all important.
Pfft.
5325728
When in this whole series has anypony learned anything?
5325764 Point taken.
5325596
That saddens me a little, cause the premise is fun and the possibilities are endless.
Perhaps at some point you'd consider writing a spin-off in which OP Twilight actually fails and because she never failed before, she doesn't know how to handle things anymore, or something along that train of though?
Sigh -- it should have removed all of the marks BUT ONE -- her actual cutie mark -- in thievery.
As always, Twilight Sparkle is the best, always!!
5326121
You know... I don't remember.
Maybe they haven't done it yet?
5326440
Woah... people are reading way too much into this silly little story.
I don't think I'll do any such thing... but if somebody else wrote a spinoff, I'd be flattered.
And I'd link to it!
5326513
Ha! Exactly! ^.^
5326921
Indeed.
5325596 Pretty much. Keep stayin awesome!
At least there weren't any surprise lion appearances this time.
I love how Twilight is basically a running joke at this point.
6316821 At least Twilight isn't a running gag