The beginning of the problem

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In a blaze of light, the top of the grassy hill suddenly became far less empty as a mismatched pair of creatures stepped out of the shimmering portal. Discord gave a rather disinterested yawn as he looked around, but Spike put down his huge bag of gems for just a minute to stretch and wriggle his toes in the grass.

Afterwards he picked up his gems and followed Discord as the two walked toward Ponyville.

“Whew, it’s good to be back,” Spike said happily.

“Yes, now I can watch Twilight fret over how much weight you’ve gained.” Discord chuckled.

“I couldn’t help myself! There were so many good flavors I've never tried.” Spike complained as they approached the crest that led to Ponyville, not noticing the darkened skies or bizarre happenings around them.

“Well perhaps a few weeks of working at Sweet Apple Acres can help… you… recover.” Discord trailed off as he saw the state Ponyville was in.

“What?” Spike said before spotting the town and jumping in surprise “SWEET CELESTIA!”

The town was completely unrecognizable, Discord would have cheered knowing he'd won if he wasn’t so filled with dread as to what the implications of what he’s witnessing meant.

“Twilight, girls… what have you done?” Discord said.

----A week earlier---

An eye poked out of the castle doors and glanced about, making sure nopony was around.

“The coast looks clear…” Twilight's voice came out before she stepped away from the door and took a deep breath.

“Ok, focus Twilight. You're not going to submit to the chaos. You got this,” Twilight said, trying Cadance’s breathing technique.

“No matter how tempting it is?” The annoying voice rang out in Twilight's head.

“Quiet you!” Twilight whispered harshly at the voice before exiting her castle and trotting through the streets.

“Maintaining disguise so far,” Twilight whispered to herself.

Twilight made it to Quills and Sofas without any more distractions. Normally, she would have sent Spike on the errand, but he was in another dimension with Discord... It was odd that she felt comfortable with that, but things had changed so much.

As for Starlight, she was already running an errand by going to collect paint to cover up what happened in the bathroom.

Take a note reader: when you have chaos magic, don’t fart in the shower... Trust me.

Twilight went into the store but immediately felt some dust from a cleaning pony’s sweeping tickle her nose.

“Oh come on!” Twilight cried running out of the building, leaving a confused pony in her wake as she looked for a secure spot and sneezed.

The alleyway walls she was facing were covered in caramel and sprinkles while the ground was covered in pickles and whip cream.

“Not again…” Twilight sighed when she heard a teleport noise next to her.

“HI TWILIGHT!” Pinkie squeed, startling Twilight as Pinkie looked to the alleyway with sparkles in her eyes “I was just going to say my chaos sense was tingling and detected something yummy was occurring next to quills and sofas, fun fact I had a dream like this once except there were chocolate bunnies everywhere too!” Pinkie jabbered, leaping into the candy-filled alleyway.

“Wait, chaos sense?” Twilight said incredulously

“YEP, it’s my Pinkie sense enhanced by chaos magic. It’s so much stronger now!” Pinkie cheered rolling around in the whip cream and pickles.

“I… see” Twilight sighed, luckily passerby ponies saw this and just shrugged it off as another one of Pinkie’s shenanigans...

Sometimes it pays to have a friend who’s publicly accepted as crazy.

After buying the quills, Twilight headed back to her castle, but when she passed by Carousel Boutique she heard crashing sounds. Naturally Twilight doesn’t pry but she couldn’t help her curiosity and peeked in through a window.

Rarity was swimming around her house which has become filled with cranberry juice, turning all of her dresses red and ruining them.

“Oooh boy…” Twilight said as she trotted over to the door and opened it causing a waterfall of cranberry juice to pour out of the building along with Rarity who was now red with juice.

“Thanks, darling….” Rarity mumbled

“What happened?” Twilight asked

“I was going to pour myself a glass of cranberry juice when I found out that I was out, I simply thought about getting more cranberry juice when the entire boutique suddenly flooded with the stuff.” Rarity said clearly upset.

“Remember what the book said about thinking.” Twilight instructed

“Think carefully or disaster strikes, I know” Rarity rolled her eyes and trotted back to her establishment.

“Do you need any help?” Twilight asked

“No no, a simple reversal should do the trick.” Rarity said trotting into her house…… a few minutes later the house shook and milk and cookies started shooting out of every window. Rarity poked her head out the front door.

“On second thought dearie, help would be very much appreciated.” Rarity nervously said.

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After that little fiasco Twilight was back in her castle.

“Whew… glad that trip is ov-” Twilight faceplanted into the side of a cow before falling down.

“What the?” Twilight looked around and saw farm animals all over the place.

“Applejack…” Not two seconds after thinking that did she hear a knock on her door. Upon opening it she saw a sheepish-looking Applejack.

“Um, hi there Twi, gonna need mah families barn animals back.” Applejack said looking embarrassed.

“Let me guess, you couldn’t get them to move along fast enough so you thought about if they could just end up somewhere safe from harm?” Twilight said

“Eeyup… So how’s it going so far with you?” Applejack asked as she started to line up the animals.

“I simply went to get quills and already a quarter of the town is experiencing chaos outbreaks.” Twilight sighed, helping Applejack herd her barn animals out of the castle.

“Ah don’t get how Discord expects us to understand chaos magic right out the gate,” Applejack said while picking up a chicken that ran underneath a table. “He could have given us a while to prep”

“Agreed but that would involve him playing fair,” Twilight said with a roll of her eyes.

After yet another fiasco Applejack left with her herd of animals.

“The day just started and I’m already tired.” Twilight sighed before going over to a stack of books and lighting her horn. She used her magic as filtered of chaos as she could to try and simply put the books away but as with anything that has something to do with chaos magic, something goes wrong.

Her aura suddenly turned yellow and the books suddenly sprouted wings and flew away.

“Dangit! Why is this so complicated!” Twilight growled her eyes beginning to take on a red tint before she shook her head and took a deep breath. “Calm, Twilight calm yourself,” Twilight said taking a deep breath.

Twilight went to the kitchen and checked the refrigerator, looking inside she could see entire gallons of ice cream.

“Hopefully I won’t need it,” Twilight said before grabbing some milk and trotting over to the cabinet. Upon checking inside for cereal she spotted some wheat flakes and she was about to light her horn to grab it until she remembered what happened with the book.

With a sigh, she used her hooves to climb up a little and snatch it.

“Okay Twilight, Spike isn’t here so you’ll need to pick up the slack, he needed this vacation anyways,” Twilight said to ease her nerves for the coming week.

As Twilight sat down with her breakfast, she couldn’t help but look at it… it needed something… wheat flakes were just too bland, maybe if it had more sugar and sprinkles and hot sauce and peanut butter and- Twilight slapped herself, it’s fine… the cereal is fine.

“You're in control Twilight…” Twilight said before beginning her meal. “I wonder how the other girls are doing,” She wondered

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Applejack finished herding her animals back to the farm, her brother waiting expectantly at the front gate.

“This better not be a recurring theme,” Big Mac said

“Ah’m sorry Mac, still tryin to figure this chaos magic out,” Applejack said

“Y’all read the manual right?” Mac asked, Applejack told her family what happened and though they were shocked they didn’t freak out and agreed to help her corral her chaotic urges.

“Yes but it still isn’t easy tryin to-” Applejack paused when she saw a chicken wandering from the group and she held out a hoof.

“Hold on there-” Applejack paused when her attempt to stop the chicken caused the chicken to glow and suddenly grow in size until is was as big as a house.

“Oops…” Applejack said as the animals ran off in a panic as the oversized chicken walked back towards town.

“Ya may need to review it again…” Mac told AJ

“Yeah, ah do…” Applejack sighed before running after chickenzilla.

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Rainbow Dash was gradually reshaping the clouds with her chaos magic.

“A little bit here, a little bit there…” Admittedly this chaos thing was hard at first but even though RD was frankly not the brightest, she was good at reading manuals and instructions for how to do things.

How else do you think she’s been able to stay a Wonderbolt so long?

“Alright… annnnd there!” RD finished and she gazed upon clouds she reshaped to her image.

“Awesome! I’m getting the hang of this!” RD said as she stared at her artwork… but something was missing suddenly… without RD’s knowledge, her tail reshaped into a hand and snapped its fingers.

Suddenly the clouds began dancing around.

“Huh? Wait I didn’t tell them to do that,” RD said sounding confused and she saw a familiar pegasus flying near them.

“Hullo Rainbow!” Derpy cheered as she flew towards the dancing clouds. “Why are the clouds dancing? Is it because-” Derpy was cut off as one of the clouds swatted her with its cloudy hoof, surprisingly solid.

“DERPY!” Rainbow Dash shouted as she flew over to the falling pegasus and managed to catch her.

“Owie…” Derpy groaned

“Okay! That’s enough dancing! Stop!” Rainbow Dash set Derpy down on a non-anomalous cloud and clapped her hooves.

The clouds became inert… then turned into RD-shaped ice blocks and fell.

“Okay… I don’t have the hang of it!” RD said as she flew forward.

“C’mon c’mon! Something less dangerous than giant chunks of ice!” RD tried to think and she clapped her hooves.

The Ice turned into a rain of thumbtacks.

“NOT BETTER!!” Rainbow was panicking, on ground level ponies looked up and screamed seeing the deadly rain incoming.

“Unless you want all of Ponyville to be literally trotting on thumbtacks you better do something!” The annoying voice that pretends it’s her said.

“I’M TRYING!” Rainbow clapped frantically and the rain became different bad things.

Lava, Exacto knives, licorice, sharks, buzzsaws, steamrollers, TV’s, anvils.

“You may want to hurry!” The other voice said

“Grrr! C’MON!” RD could see the ground incoming this was her last chance!

CLAP!

Ponyville braced themselves as they were buried in…

Snow.

They all poked their heads out and sighed with relief.

Until Rainbow collided with the ground sending all the snow and ponies flying.

“Oooowwww……” Rainbow crawled out of the hole she made in the ground.

“Well, disaster averted at least…” Rainbow said

THUD

“Now what-” Rainbow turned around but her lightning-quick reflexes are what saved her from being stepped on by a giant chicken.

“What the hay?!” RD flew to Applejack who had used her lasso and is trying to tug on it.

“Uh, let me guess you accidentally made chickenzilla there?” RD asked

“Say’s the one who probably brought an early winter!” AJ bit back.

The chicken clucked loudly and began pecking at the ground, shaking it and the ponies fled in fear.

“Rainbow! Ya gotta help!” AJ said as the chicken kicked at her.

“Ok,” Rainbow flew up to the chicken’s face. “Hey!” RD said to catch the chicken's attention.

The chicken looked at RD with a quizzical look.

“Uuh… Down boy!” RD attempted… The chicken just clucked loudly and tried to peck RD.

“Really? ‘Down boy’? That’s yer plan?!” Applejack barked

“Well how about you do something better than just tugging on his leg!” RD shot back.

As the two bickered the chicken continued causing havoc.

---meanwhile---

Things in the bakery were… interesting to say the least.

Of all the mares turned chaotic beings Pinkie has been the best at using her powers.

It helps that she was pretty chaotic, to begin with.

Ponies sat in floating chairs, desserts walked themselves to their eventual consumers, And the Cake twins were having fun playing with their now animate toys.

Mr Cake was watching all this, still trying to take it in.

“Um, Pinkie, how long did you say this chaos thing was going to go on?” Mr Cake asked.

“Just a week, but if I can convince Discord to let me have them longer…” Pinkie got a mischievous look on her face.

“Nonono, a week sounds fine,” Mr Cake hurriedly said

“Aww…” Pinkie sighed in disappointment.

As they were talking suddenly the ground shook and they peered outside to see a giant chicken.

Pinkie gasped “I had a dream like this once!” Pinkie said

“Oh creampuffs it’s headed for here!” Mr. Cake freaked out

“Don’t worry! I’m prepared for this scenario!” Pinkie said before giving a whistle.

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The chicken approached the building and began pecking the dessert-like designs on the roof before suddenly a window popped open and a slide came out followed by gummy sliding down it.

“Huh? Gummy?” RD questioned

Suddenly Gummy grew to the size of the chicken.

“Whoa!” both AJ and RD said as the two animals stared down.

“BCAW!” The chicken charged as Gummy just blinked before being tackled over.

As the two fought, Pinkie teleported in next to her friends.

“HIYA!” Pinkie said to her friends

“PINKIE! What were you thinking now we got two out-of-control animals in town!” RD said

“Psh their just having fun!” Pinkie said while ducking a thrown pony giving a Wilhelm scream.

“PINKIE!” Both shouted

“Oh alright, brb!” Pinkie said before teleporting and immediately reappearing with Fluttershy in tow.

“Sorry I took so long!” Pinkie said

“Pinkie told me everything,” Fluttershy said

“But you were only gone for a second!” Applejack said in shock.

“She was pretty quick about it,” Fluttershy said before flying over to the squabbling animals and she got in front of the chicken’s face, giving the stare.

“Calm down! Or it’s time out for you!” Fluttershy said, the chicken clucked and sat down.

“Okay, now you!” Fluttershy turned to Gummy but was surprised to see him rolled onto his back wanting belly rubs.

“Oh I can’t be mad at that,” Fluttershy went over and petted Gummy.

“So what do we do about the giant animals, because ponies are getting pretty freaked out here.” RD pointed out

“Well let me see,” Fluttershy thought back to what she read in the book on how to summon it to you, just think of the book in your hooves.

And like that it appeared in her hooves, after flipping through it she found a page about size-changed animals.

“Alright, got it,” Fluttershy said before waving her hoove and magic came and shrunk the two down.

Fluttershy scooped up the toothless alligator and chicken and plopped down by her friends in the snow and hoofed the animals to them.

“There we go,” Fluttershy said

“Shy you're a lifesaver!” RD said patting Fluttershy on the shoulder.

“It was no problem,” Fluttershy said

“Dearie me,” the group turned towards the sound and saw Rarity trotting through the snow.

“Had I known it was going to snow today I would have brought out my winter attire,” Rarity said

“Heheh, about that, the snow is kind of my fault, but on the other hoof we’re lucky it wasn’t something else,” Rainbow Dash admitted

“We gotta get ahold of these powers, the smallest action makes all sorts of trouble,” Applejack said

“Darling don’t get me started, I was in the midst of making some silk scarfs and suddenly I was attacked by my scarf which apparently thought it was a snake… It is rare that I must destroy one of my works but it had to be done,” Rarity said

“We should go see how Twilight’s doing, maybe she’s figured out how ta curb these powers,” Applejack said, the others agreed and followed her to the castle.

“Ugh, I can’t wait for this bet to be over,” RD whined as the group headed towards Twilights.

“Same,” Applejack said

The group continued on until they saw the castle “I wonder if Twilight is even home-” Rarity began when suddenly a massive wave of chaos washed over the castle and it jumped a little in the air.

“What in tarnation?!” Applejack shouted

“What was that?!” Fluttershy questioned

“Twi could be in trouble! C’mon girls!” RD said as they galloped over to the front door and opened it.

And what they saw surprised them.

Discussion, multiple Twilights and a chaotic tantrum

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“Oh, hello girls,” Twilight said, floating in place without the use of her wings and reading a book.

“Twilight? Are you okay?” Applejack asked

“Yes, why wouldn’t I be?” Twilight responded

“We saw that explosion shake the whole castle! What happened?” RD demanded

“Oh, that was an accident!” Twilight bounced over to her.

“Well as long as your okay… wait” Rarity realized that Twilight was standing in front of her and when she looked back at the table she saw that Twilight was still floating there.

“Yeah, everything's fine!” They all looked at the ceiling and saw another Twilight trotting around.

“Okay, ah can see where this is going,” Applejack sighed

Suddenly a dozen Twilights appeared including a pink one, a tall one, a tiny one, one with spider legs and one that looked like Pinkie.

“Oh Oh, I like that last one the author mentioned!” Pinkie bounced excitedly.

Twilights kept pouring out of every crevice, and just as the group was about to leave they heard Starlight's voice.

“Excuse me! Pardon me! Sorry, I need to get through” Starlight said as she managed to crawl out of the crowd of Twilights.

“Whew,” Starlight sighed as she stood

“Starlight Darling, what happened here?” Rarity asked

“Twilight and I were just having a conversation on how she’s going to last without Spike here, I mentioned how if she had more of her maybe things could get done around here, then she attempted to use her powers to create temporary clones of herself and then… this” Starlight gestured to all of the Twilights running around.

“This reminds me of the Mirror pool incident,” Applejack said, getting flashbacks.

“Well we got the powers should we just get rid of the extra Twilights before egghead is lost in the crowd for good?” RD questioned

“We can’t risk getting rid of the real Twilight,” Rarity pointed out.

“Well then we need to find her first,” Applejack said

“No prob, I found Waldo I can find Twilight!” Pinkie said diving off of a diving board that wasn’t there before and into the crowd of Twilights.

“We should get searching too,” Applejack said as she approached the crowd.

Rarity trotted past several clearly fake Twilights before spotting a Twilight with her back to her who looked normal.

“Oh Twilight!” Rarity called while tapping the pony on the shoulder of the pony. Only to recoil in horror as the pony turned around and revealed she had no face.

“N-never mind,” Rarity hurried on.

Pinkie jumped in between piles of Twilight’s while RD flew overhead.

“Yo egghead! Where are you?” Rd called out for her friend.

Pinkie examined several Twilights, “Nope, not you, definitely not,” Pinkie mumbled as she looked around until she spotted a Twilight with her back turned.

“Twilight!” Pinkie cheered and jumped onto the other Twilight’s back.

“Oi! Get off of me you gobber!” The Twilight cried

“Oops!” Pinkie said getting off of her and seeing she had a Groucho Marx face.

“Twilight?” Pinkie asked

“No I’m not!” The Twilight said sounding annoyed

“...Are you Twilight now?” Pinkie asked

“No!”

“......................Now?” Pinkie asked

“Shut it!” The irate Twilight clone said

Starlight and Fluttershy searched around the edge of the crowd.

“Any luck? Starlight asked

“No,” Fluttershy responded

Applejack had enough of looking around and wandered her way through the crowd and made it to the stairs.

“LISTEN UP!” Applejack said to catch all the Twilight’s attention. “Ah’m lookin' for my friend Twilight, are you out there Twi?” Applejack called.

“Yes,” the Twilights all responded

“...Shoulda saw that coming…” Applejack sighed “Twilight the alicorn? She doesn’t look bizarre, anypony here like that?” Applejack saw a hoof in the back raised.

Applejack bee-lined to the Twilight in the back and found a Twilight that looks normal.

“Oh thank goodness, ah was beginning to think we’d never find ya.” Applejack said as the others got there.

“Alright now what do we do about the clones?” RD asked

“Leave it to me!” Pinkie said before rubbing her hooves together,

“Pinkie, what are you up to-” Applejack asked before a black hole suddenly appeared and sucked up all the other Twilights.

“PINKIE!” Rarity cried as she and the others held on for dear life.

Pinkie closed the black hole when all the Twilight clones were gone.

“Pinkie dear, was that truly the best option you could think of?” Rarity said sounding annoyed.

“Yup” Pinkie said bouncing over to the group.

“Well at least we have our Twi back,” RD said patting Twilight on the back… before Twilight smiled and revealed she had blue teeth.

“.....Girls, did egghead always have blue teeth…?” RD said going rigid at the realization that this was the wrong one.

“Oh no…” Rarity said.

“TWILIGHT!” Applejack cried out in horror.

“Pinkie! You gotta let the other ones out, we got the wrong one!” RD frantically cried.

“I can’t! I made sure to dispel all the copies that were sucked up!” Pinkie’s mane deflated as she began panicking.

Pretty soon all of the mares began crying as they realized they may have accidentally gotten rid of Twilight forever.

“I’m so sorry Twilight!” Pinkie cried

“For what?” Twilight’s voice came from behind them and they turned to see her standing there confused.

“TWILIGHT!” everypony pounced on her in a group hug.

“Aah!” Twilight cried as she was knocked over.

Eventually, they let her get up, Twilight looked at them weirdly.

“What happened?” Twilight asked

“We thought Pinkie sucked you up in a black hole along with your copies, how are you still here?” RD asked

“I was upstairs taking a relaxing bath, the stress was getting to me so I left a clone in charge until I was finished.

“Oooooh, so the clone was the one who conjured the other clones?” Starlight nodded

“Yeah, speaking of which,” Twilight lit her horn with normal magic and the blue-toothed Twilight disappeared.

“Anyways, what did you girls come by for?” Twilight asked

Applejack approached Twilight “We need any advice on how to control these powers, we nearly caused a Ponyville-wide problem.” Applejack said

“Everytime I think I got it under control it just spirals out of control,” RD said

“My lingerie is dangerous when it becomes chaotic” Rarity complained

“Alright alright calm down girls,” Twilight said “We’ve all had a few snafu’s here and there but we’re the elements of harmony and no amount of chaos magic is going to change-” Twilight stamped her hoof to emphasize her point but all it did was turn the room their in, into a jungle.

“...That…” Twilight looked around

“Um, what happened?” RD asked

“I think Twilight accidentally transported us,” Rarity said

“Don’t worry girls! I got this!” Pinkie stamped her hoof and they were at a carnival.

“Pinkie!” Rarity reprimanded

“Whoops!” Pinkie said

“Hiya!” The group turned to see a clown behind Fluttershy who turned and squeaked with fright. Fluttershy ran over to Pinkie and stamped her hoof for her and they were teleported to the arctic.

“Brr!” Everyone said

“Wh-Wh-Why would you send us here!?” Starlight demanded while shivering.

“I just wanted to get away from the clown,” Fluttershy sheepishly said

“I got this girls!” Pinkie said before stamping her hoof again and taking them to a desert, the ponies went from shivering to sweating.

“Whew, mighty warm out here,” Applejack said, fanning herself with her hat.

“Pinkie send us home!” Rarity cried as her make-up began to run.

“Gotcha,” Pinkie said before drumming her hooves on the ground and the group went to a variety of places.

Sea, beach, rooftops, trottingham, dragon lands, space, canterlot while Celestia was reading Luna’s diary.

“Pinkie! Get us out of here quickly!” Twilight whispered frantically

Pinkie winked and teleported them as Celestia turned to look at the source of the noise, seeing nothing she resumed reading Luna’s diary.

Eventually they finally made it back.

“Pinkie! Stop! We’re back!” Twilight frantically called to stop Pinkie from relocating them again.

“See girls, Isn’t it clear I had this” Pinkie said

“What’s clear is that we need that book again, It’s not even lunchtime and we’ve caused our fair share of trouble.” Applejack wryly said

“What we need to do is use those ‘Boring spheres’ Discord lent us, and be rid of these power for a while,” Rarity said

“Sounds like quitting,” RD said

“I do not care, I want to be a normal mare again, even if for just two hours,” Rarity said

“Don’t use it yet, we need to find out if their one use only,” Twilight said

“Right, one second,” Fluttershy focused and summoned the book and hoofed it to Twilight.

After reading through it quickly Twilight sighed

“Figures Discord would leave that out… girls don’t use your boring spheres unless it’s absolutely necessary,” Twilight warned while passing the book onto the next pony.

“I don’t need it right now, i’m going to master these powers and rub it in Discord's face when we see him next time!” RD bragged.

“Sorry if ah don’t share yer enthusiasm,” Applejack said

“At least we can be happy Pinkie has shown considerable control over her own powers, she can fix whatever situation we may accidentally cause,” Rarity said

“Well ah’m willing to use it early if just so ah can get a little workin in,” Applejack said taking her leave.

“Be careful girls,” Twilight said as she saw her friends leaving.

“We will!” Pinkie said as they closed the door behind them.

Twilight and Starlight trotted back to the library and Twilight opened the door and sighed when she saw walking books all over the place.

“It’s alright Twilight, just six more days,” Starlight assured

“Six more days of craziness… Discord better keep to his word…” Twilight said as she trotted in to corral the books.

“It almost makes me wish I was turned into a Draconeqqus too,” Starlight said while levitating several books that tried to run off.

“Why by Celestia’s mane would you want this?” Twilight asked

“The ability to transcend the limits of normal magic? It feels like a new avenue of magic to study if you ask me,” Starlight said and Twilight froze.

“She makes a point, you need more study material and chaos magic could be-”

“NO!” Twilight barked as her eyes turned red

“Whoa!” Starlight backed up in surprise

“Chaos magic is non-harmonious! It’s destructive, defy’s logic, irritating!” Twilight suddenly shifted to draconequus form.

“WHO ARE YOU TO COVET IT!?” Twilight whirled on the scared Starlight.

“I-i um… I didn’t-”

“YOU DIDN’T MEAN TO MOCK MY SITUATION!? I HATE THIS! IT’S NOT SOMETHING TO WANT!” Twilight was starting to spiral.

Starlight was shocked, just one comment caused her to blow up, what was causing this? One thing she does know is how to stop this.

Starlight ran for the kitchen.

“Where are you going?!” Twilight said stomping after her, her stomps were creating shockwaves that caused the room to distort and change.

“Twilight! Your not in control of yourself!” Starlight pleaded as she ran into the kitchen and grabbed a tub of rocky road.

“I AM IN CONTROL!” Twilight entered the kitchen and glared down at Starlight with her red eyes.

“Just eat some and you’ll calm dow-” Twilight slapped the ice cream aside.

“I DON’T WANT ICE CREAM! I WANT YOU TO GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!” Twilight snarled.

Desperate Starlight used her telekinesis to grab a spoon and she scooped some ice cream.

Twilight began to summon her chaos magic and the room shook but just before she could use it on Starlight the spoon shoved the ice cream down her gullet.

Twilight sputtered and coughed but gradually her limitless rage cooled down and she fell to the ground.

“T-Twilight?” Starlight said approaching carefully.

“Ugh… what happened?” Twilight looked around “Starlight?” Twilight got up and Starlight backpedaled with the ice cream in hoof.

“Stay back!” Starlight said in fear.

“Starlight? Why are you scared? What happened? I heard you say something and I blacked out,” Twilight asked

“Y-Your back to normal?” Starlight began to calm, before galloping over to Twilight and hugging her. Twilight awkwardly hugged her back.

The voices get louder...

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Applejack was trotting through town and carefully glanced around, ponies were talking about the various chaotic events.

Nopony seemed to take notice of her.

“Okay, good, nopony has figured it out yet…” Applejack said

They decided to forgo telling the town about their predicament for now, don’t want to cause a panic.

Applejack wanted to get home and just forget any of this nonsense ever happened.

“Just imagine if word got out… who knows what craziness could happen” Applejack

“Hey Applejack!” Applejack turned to see Lyra and Bon Bon shoveling snow out of the way of the door to Bon Bon’s bakery.

“What do ya need?” Applejack politely asked them.

“An extra hoof,” Bon Bon said “There’s an extra shovel, could you please help?”

“Sure, ah can-” Applejack paused as a sensation came over her.

“Why do that back breakin labor if ya can just use yer newfound magic?” A voice in Applejack’s head said

“Newfound magic…” Applejack repeated

“Um, Applejack?” Lyra asked

Suddenly Applejack’s tail morphed into it’s draconeqqus form and the tail tip formed a hand and snapped its fingers.

The shovel suddenly stood up and split into twelve before shoveling the snow for the two.

“Whoa!” Lyra said jumping back in surprise

“Is Discord doing this?” Bon Bon asked

“Huh? What?” Applejack snapped out of it.

“Uh AJ? What’s with your tail?” Lyra pointed out Applejacks green tail

“Huh?” Applejack looked at her tail and saw much to her horror her Draconequus tail.

Ponies began to take notice and some were across the street murmuring about it.

“Uh…Ah… it’s part of a costume?” Applejack lied, not well either.

“Applejack your lying, it’s obvious,” Lyra said getting suspicious.

“Um…….. gotta go!” Applejack bolted, her tail whipping back and forth as she ran.

---

Rarity trotted with Fluttershy past Mrs. Cheerilee’s school and saw the fillies and colts playing in the snow.

“Rainbow Dash sure made it snow alot,” Rarity said

“I guess the foals could enjoy a summer snowfall,” Fluttershy said chuckling

“Rarity! Fluttershy!” The two mares turned to see Mrs Cheerilee approaching.

“There you two are, I would like to request that since you two are closer to Discord than me to ask him to undo the snow problem he caused.

“U-uh, how do you know this was him?” Fluttershy said nervously

“Snowfall in July? Unless the weather team is way off schedule I doubt there is any other explanation,” Cheerilee said

“Well, you never know, the weather team has made more bizarre weather mishaps,” Rarity nervously said

“True… but still we had a nature hike scheduled today and this sudden snowfall has ruined it,” Cheerilee said

“The foals seem to be enjoying themselves,” Fluttershy said

“Regardless, make him undo this please,” Cheerilee said looking away at the students.

“Um, Discords away right now-” Rarity put her hoof over Fluttershy’s mouth.

“Doing business in another town but he probably had a good reason to-” Fluttershy poked Rarities shoulder with her hoof.

“What?” Rarity demanded

Fluttershy gestured to her arm and Rarity looked and gasped to see her arm had turned into a white cat paw.

Panicking Rarity hid her arm while Cheerilee turned around.

“Reason to what? And why are you hiding your arm Rarity?” Cheerilee asked

“N-no reason!” Rarity said

“Y-yeah, we’ll talk to him next time we see him!” Fluttershy said

“You two are acting strange, and when did you put those fake horns on?” Cheerilee said suspiciously.

“Huh?” Fluttershy looked up to see her horns jutting out of her head.

“Oh look at the time, we really should be going, have a pleasant day Mrs.Cheerilee!” Rarity said before grabbing Fluttershy and galloping away.

“Um… ok?” Cheerilee said waving.

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Rainbow Dash was flying back up to get to work, because of the fiasco with the clouds earlier the weather team now had a weather anomaly to deal with.

“Alright, no playing with chaos magic or that’ll mean more work for me, I got this!” RD flew up to the other weather ponies.

“Rainbow? Where have you been? Discord caused an early winter and our boss is up our flanks about it.” Thunderlane said

“Yeah! It’s uh, totally someone else’s fault and not mine…” RD said nervously at the thought of getting caught.

“Whateves, just help us clear the clouds away,” Cloudwalker said

“Psh! I can do it in ten seconds flat!” Rainbow Dash flew into the air leaving a rainbow trail as she began clearing away the clouds at a rapid pace.

“Yes! I still got it!” RD said as she increased her speed… and then decreased and decreased more.

“Huh? Why am I getting slower?” Rainbow Dash looked behind her and saw her rainbow trail changing colors randomly.

“Uh oh…” Rainbow saw her wings turning into two different wings again and she began to wobble out of the air.

“Hey! Rainbow what’s going on?” Cloudchaser called

“Um! Nothing! Just taking a small break!” Rainbow lied

“Even you never take breaks that quickly,” Thunderlane said as they began approaching.

“Uh! Wait! Don’t get closer!” Rainbow said knowing they’d see her chaotic wings.

“Why does it matter if they see? Their not even close friends,” The disloyal voice in her head said.

“Quiet!” Rainbow shouted before seeing no other option, she landed on a cloud and brought out her boring sphere.

“Ok! Uh… activate! Turn on! Do something!” Rainbow Dash looked over the sphere and saw a button. “Oh, ok!” Rainbow Dash pressed the button and suddenly the chaotic energy around her disappeared and her wings turned back to normal.

“I feel like myself again! Sweet!” Rainbow turned to see the other members of the weather team arrive.

“What’s up with you Rainbow, your acting weird,” Thunderlane said

“Nothing is wrong, just…um… hit a bad wind current,” Rainbow said while sweating, thankfully using her boring sphere seems to have disabled that annoying voice trying to convince her to be disloyal.

Her teammates seemed uncertain but they shrugged and left.

“Whew, this will be the best two hours of this week!” RD said before flying off.

Forgetting her boring sphere on the cloud.

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Twilight and Starlight trotted out of the castle, thankfully the exposed summer sun had melted most of the snow making it easier to walk.

“Twilight, we shouldn’t go out in public on the off-chance you have another… episode,” Starlight warned quietly as a pony trotted by.

“Don’t worry Starlight, I don’t know what caused me to explode before but as long as I remember Cadance’s breathing technique, I’ll avoid another outburst.” Twilight reasoned

“I'm not sure I want to wager Ponyville’s well-being on a breathing technique, we better grab some ice cream while we’re out,” Starlight said

“I'm starting to get tired of mainly eating ice cream, it can’t be good for the figure,” Twilight said

“Well until your an alicorn again and not a draconequus, it’s going to be a part of your diet,” Starlight said as they trotted up to Sugarcube Corner.

“Let’s hope Pinkie hasn’t done anything rash,” Twilight said before they opened the door.

And a wave of cherry soda blasted the two mares.

“Aaah!” Twilight and Starlight cried as they were sent flying into the street.

After calming down and getting up they looked towards Sugarcube Corner’s doorway, “What the actual hay was that about?” Starlight said as they hurried back into there.

They saw utter chaos.

Customers were being chased by desserts, various machinery were making more of the rouge desserts, and the soda machine was shooting soda at Pinkie and Mrs. and Mr. Cake who were hiding behind a table.

Pinkie retaliated with water balloons.

“Take that you soda-burping machination of Tartarus!” Pinkie said before getting shot, “AH! It got me!”

Starlight sighed before noticing a vein popping on Twilight's head.

“U-uhm… why don’t you stay outside and work on your breathing, I’ll deal with this.” Starlight nervously said

“You’d better” Twilight growled before trotting out.

“Goodness, she’s gotten even more surly ever since she became a draconequus…” Starlight thought

Starlight teleported to Pinkie’s location.

“Tell Gummy!...Tell Gummy!....That he still owes me 3 bits…” Pinkie said before ‘dying’

“Pinkie, you got sprayed with soda, your fine,” Starlight said with a bemused expression.

“Oh yeah!” Pinkie said, getting up.

“What happened?” Starlight asked

“I don’t know, everything was going smoothly in here with my chaos magic making everything more fun here, then suddenly without warning my powers freaked out and caused this.” Pinkie gestured to the chaos, much to Starlight’s horror.

“Pinkie, tell me you haven’t been showing off your chaos magic to the town!” Starlight demanded.

“Nono, just to the ponies that come in here!” Pinkie said oblivious to Starlight's shock.

“ARE YOU SERIOUS!?” Starlight exclaimed “Pinkie, think very carefully, what’s going to happen when Twilight, a pony who was known for her temper before becoming a creature of chaos hears about this?” Starlight not-so-calmly explained.

“Oh… didn’t think of that…” Pinkie said, paling a little. “Pinkie Promise you won’t tell and I won’t?” Pinkie asked

“I promise! Now can someone shut that soda machine off!” Starlight called when a blast of root beer nearly nailed her.

“I’m on it!” Pinkie said before jumping in front of the table and she opened her mouth, summoning another black hole.

“Not again!” Starlight cried holding on for dear life as the black hole sucked in a lot of things until finally the soda machine got sucked in and Pinkie closed her mouth.

“Pinkie is that going to be your solution for everything?” Starlight asked

“Yeppers! It’s a good evidence remover!” Pinkie cheered.

“Remind me to not get on her bad side for the rest of the week…” Mr. Cake told Mrs. Cake.

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Twilight sat outside calmly breathing in and out.

“Chaos is magic, magic can be tamed with a strong mind…” Twilight recited the mantra.

Her meditation actually helped, this may actually mean that-

“TWILIGHT!”

Does the universe hate her or something?

“What is it?” Twilight sighed looking over to the voice that sounded like Rarity.

Only to jump back in surprise when she saw the two had many physical traits similar to when they were Draconeqqus.

Fluttershy had the eyes and horns and hindlegs of her draconequus state while Rarity had her horns and tail and a white animal limb on her right foreleg.

“Girls!? What are you doing? Somepony will see!” Twilight said looking around and unfortunately, some ponies were staring.

“I don’t know what happened but our draconequus forms are appearing and we cannot stop it!” Rarity cried

“Alright girls, let’s just get inside before somepony sees you two, the last thing we need are ponies inquiring about why you two look somewhat like Discord,” Twilight said as she ushered her friends inside.

“Twilight you don’t understand! Gilded Canvas is coming soon! I simply must look presentable and I haven’t even set the tea yet!” Rarity panicked.

“Then let’s get moving!” Twilight pushed her friends inside Sugarcube Corner and hurriedly closed the door.

---

Applejack made it to her home, panting heavily from her run, she turned to looked at her new tail and frowned.

“This is a development ah didn’t need,” Applejack said

Applejack snuck into her house and she carefully maneuvered her troublesome tail through the narrow hallways.

“Big Mac?! You here?” Applejack called

“Yeah ah’m here-” Big Mac came from around the corner and saw Applejack’s situation.

“The hay? Did one of yer friends do that?” Big Mac asked

“No, this is mah draconequus tail,” AJ sighed “Ah started doin chaos without meaning too, ah’m starting to wonder how Discord keeps it up,” AJ said

“Well ah hope you can get it fixed soon, we got chores and ya can’t get out of them because of that,” Big Mac said.

“Yeah, ah know, ah’ll get to it,” AJ sighed “Make sure to fetch the ice cream on the off-chance ah lose mah cool.” Applejack said

“Ok,” Big Mac said

Applejack trotted outside while keeping her long tail from swaying around and knocking things over.

Applejack wandered over to the barn and looked around.

“Alrighty, gotta plow the fields, buck the apples and take care of the farm animals… not a bad day ah suppose,” Applejack went off to get the plowing materials when a sensation overcame her.

The tuft at the tip of her scaly tail suddenly formed a handpuppet and began whispering in Applejack’s ear.

“Why do all that back-breaking labor when ya can use yer new powers to get them done with immediately? Our brother won’t mind…” The dishonest voice in her head said.

“Our brother won’t mind…” Applejack droned before shaking her head “NO! Ah’m a better pony than to use the easy way out! Ah ain’t listening to yer lies!” Applejack said firmly.

“But what about that hammock? Doesn’t it look comfy?” her tail pointed at a hammock that wasn’t there before.

“Yeah… it does…. AGH!” Applejack shook her head again. “Begone you lyin couch potato!” Applejack shouted again before trotting into the barn ready for an honest day’s work.

---

It was an awkward few minutes when Twilight pushed her two friends in.

But as soon as every…pony? Was sat down Twilight examined the two.

“How is this possible? Spontaneous distortion of your magic without reversal?” Twilight examined the two.

“We were just talking normally to Mrs. Cheerilee and suddenly we began to change!” Rarity said urgently.

“Twilight! Please tell me you have a way to undo this,” Fluttershy pleaded

“I-I don’t know! This hasn’t happened to me yet,”

“Well think of something!” Rarity growled her eyes flashing red

“Watch the attitude Rarity! I’m trying the best I can!” Twilight growled, her eyes flashing red too.

“Um Pinkie?... Pinkie!” Starlight pleaded

“On it chief,” Pinkie put a hardhat on and dove out of view.

“Shut up!” Rarity yelled

“Girls?” Fluttershy said to try and stop this argument before it goes nuclear.

“You shut up!” Twilight yelled back.

“Hyah! Ice cream attack!” Pinkie sprung out from behind the counter, ice cream sundaes in both hooves and she shoved it in both their faces.

“Girls you alright?” Starlight asked the two.

“I have ice cream in my face but yes,” Twilight removed the parfait dish from her face.

“My mane!” Rarity cried before shooting Pinkie an upset look.

“Don’t worry girls I got this!” Pinkie opened her mouth but Starlight shut it with magic.

“No black holes please!” Starlight said

“Awww… Ok,” Pinkie said before clapping her hooves and making the ice cream disappear.

“Thanks,” Twilight said before taking a deep breath.

“I am terribly sorry about the things I said, this chaos magic is messing with our heads it seems,” Rarity said

“No, I refuse to acknowledge Discord is right about chaos magic being inherently uncontrollable!” Twilight said

“Twilight… we may have been wrong, I mean and Rarity are turning back into draconeqqus’s and we keep causing chaos-” Fluttershy said but Twilight stomped her hoof.

“No! I can master this if I just focus!” Twilight said “Now to fix you two,” Twilight lit her horn.

And nothing happened.

“What?” Twilight said as she couldn’t reverse what had happened to the two.

“Is there a problem dear?” Rarity tentatively asked

“No,” Twilight said and tried again and again but no effect. “What is happening?!” Twilight demanded

“Ever think about the fact that there is too much pent-up chaos in them blocking out your ‘regular magic’?” The disharmonious voice said,

“So I use chaos?” Twilight asked

“No, they have to do it, and it’s beyond them, just goes to show Discord was right,” The annoying voice said

“Discord was NOT right!” Twilight said

“Um, Twilight?” Rarity asked nervously

“What?!” Twilight said rather hotly

“You have been talking to yourself, we are a tad concerned,” Rarity said

“Oh… uh,” Twilight had a feeling they wouldn’t believe her if she told them she was hearing an annoying and persistent disharmonious voice in her head.

“I was… thinking out loud?” Twilight said

The two seemed unsure but decided to let it go for now.

“Well regardless, we may need to use the boring spheres Discord supplied us with,” Rarity suggested

“But we don’t know if their one use only,” Twilight said

“We don’t have an option Twilight I must use mine now,” Rarity got the sphere out of her saddlebag and proceeded to press the button and she shifted back to normal.

“I’ve never appreciated my own form as much as I do now!” Rarity said.

“If your use times out then that’s on you I suppose,” Twilight said before turning to Fluttershy who already had her’s out and she activated it and returned to normal.

“Girls I want you to see if they can be used again after you turn back into draconeqquses, I want to make sure,” Twilight told the leaving pair.

“Very well, farewell Twilight,” Rarity said as the two left.

“Sometimes those two don’t listen!” Twilight mumbled under her breath after they left.

“Keep calm Twilight,” Starlight reminded her.

“I know,” Twilight said. Before turning to Pinkie “Let’s get this palace straightened up, and pack it in for the day.” Twilight said

“Got it chief!” Pinkie used her chaos magic to conjure a series of walking brooms with buckets of water and-

“WITHOUT chaos magic!” Twilight snapped

“Aw… and it was a good reference too,” Pinkie clapped her hooves and the brooms became inanimate.

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Luna flew through the dream realm, keeping her eyes peeled for nightmares.

“Ok, so far we have fixed twenty-seven nightmares and it’s only 3:00 AM,” Luna checked a floating alarm clock. “Perhaps tonight will be a lazy night for me,” Luna said feeling relaxed…

Until an undisclosed wave of magic hit her.

“Huh? What was that?” Luna flew toward the strange magical wavelengths.

“It feels like Discord’s magic… but something is different,” Luna arrived at an oddly isolated group of dreams.

“This is bizarre… It’s as though these dreams are resonating with each other,” Luna got a closer look and saw the dreams featured… the bearers?

“Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Twilight? Why are their dreams radiating chaos magic? Is this Discords doing?” Luna decided to enter Twilight’s to find out.

---

She found herself in Ponyville

“Hmm… Odd, everything seems normal,” Luna could feel the chaos magic permeating the area, this is different than Discord, usually the chaos level is at a manageable degree, due to his repeated use of it, but this… this felt like she stepped into an ocean made of chaos magic, all pent up and such.

She was prepared to leave when she suddenly saw a multi-colored explosion in the distance.

“Huh?” Luna saw it and put up a shield before it could affect her, when she put the shield down she saw something that disturbed her.

Chaos, running amok all around, it almost looked like the world around her was distorting.

“What madness is this?” Luna said

“Beautiful chaos is what it is,” a voice said behind Luna and she spun only to be grabbed by a Discord-like being that vaguely resembled Twilight.

“What are you doing?! Unhand me apparition!” Luna found herself thrown into a wall and as she was getting up she was bound in chaos magic.

“No spoilers,” the apparition said

“It’s you isn’t it Discord!” Luna demanded.

“He’s partially responsible, but no you may say i’m what began when Twilight became chaotic.” it said

“What do you mean?” Luna demanded

“Equestria will see soon enough, the bottle of chaos is building up pressure and it’s ready to blow soon,” it laughed “But I can’t let you tell Sunbutt too early,” It then unleashed strands of chaos magic on Luna and even though she was panicking she knew what to do in this situation.

She concentrated her magic and fired it out of the dream before she was encased.

“What did she just do?” it said “Oh well, with her trapped here, we got a chance to spread some chaos without the princesses getting in the way,” the being laughed “Time to wake up Twilight!”

---

“AH!” Twilight sat up panting.

“Luna? What happened to her? Was that just a dream or was that really her?... I don’t like this.” Twilight got out of bed and approached the door to go find Starlight…

Before the door flung open sending Twilight flying.

“AAAHH!” Twilight yelped as she landed back on her bed.

“TWILIGHT! We got a situation!” Starlight said

“What’s wrong Starlight?” Twilight said woozily

“Just… look and see,” Starlight pointed outside.

Twilight hesitantly poked her head outside… and saw utter anarchy…

The ground was pulsating, ponies were being chased by mutant animals clouds were rapidly changing colors, plants were running around, objects and ponies were just floating through the air.

And sooo much more…

“What in the name of Eqqus is going on?!” Twilight reeled back in horror.

“I don’t want to sound like I am saying you had anything to do with this so I’ll state a theory, you and the others somehow… committed sleep chaos?” Starlight shrugged.

“You mean we did this in our sleep?” Twilight said, unable to take her eyes off of the madness gripping ponyville.

“We gotta do something… anything!” If Celestia finds out we could all be in serious trouble!” Twilight cried.

"I already sent messages to the other girls, they said they'll be here soon." Starlight said and with that the two mares galloped to the ground level of the castle and they made it outside to see things getting worse.

"I'm starting wonder if this is even reversible,” Starlight said as they got out there and felt the ground moving like it was alive.

“Be careful, anything could happen right now,” Twilight warned

“TWILIGHT!” The two mares looked up to see Rainbow Dash tumbling out of the sky.

“Rainbow?!” Twilight exclaimed seeing Rainbow as a draconeqqus.

“It happened again!” Rainbow said

“We need everypony here, Twilight focused her normal magic and attempted to teleport but her power switched to chaos magic and she wound up upside down.

“Ah!” Twilight hit the ground.

“Let me take care of it,” Starlight teleported away.

“Rainbow, use your boring sphere before somepony sees you!” Twilight said getting up.

“That’s the thing! I… Kind of… maybe lost it,” Rainbow admitted sheepishly.

“....YOU WHAT?!” Twilight said noticing some ponies were looking at Twilight and RD.

“U-um just a Discord prank, I assure you, everything is under contro-” Twilight was interrupted by a flying trashcan ramming her.

“Ugh… Let’s get inside quickly!” Twilight pushed Rainbow Dash inside ignoring the fact she’s covered in trash.

---

Upon getting inside she shook herself clean and waited with Rainbow Dash until the others got back with Starlight.

“There you girls are!” Twilight said, interestingly everypony except her and Rarity were Draconqques.

“Twi ah don’t know what happened but when I woke, everything in the orchard was alive! We gotta fix this!” Applejack said

“My animals were all missing and now Starlight is telling me that they are terrorizing the citizens of Ponyville!” Fluttershy said

“My sister was trotting on the ceiling Twilight, THE CEILING, we must get help before something happens to her!” Rarity cried

“Ok ok! Easy girls!” Twilight said to the panicking mares “According to Starlight we released some chaos magic while we were asleep, we need to corral it,” Twilight said

“I got it!” Pinkie said

“Does it involve a black hole?” Starlight asked exasperatedly

“...Yes…” Pinkie said.

“Then no” Starlight said.

“Aww…” Pinkie said.

“Come on girls, think!” Twilight said.

“Maybe if we pool our powers we can reverse this?” Rarity offered.

“Maybe… we can’t use the elements of harmony as we are now, then perhaps we need to rely on what we got.” Twilight took a deep breath.

“And what about us? We need to look normal too!” RD complained

“Later, right now we need to stop Ponyville from falling apart,” Twilight said and she led the six and Starlight outside.

Twilight focused on her chaos magic and reached out to the edge of Ponyville.

“Alright, Starlight. I’ll need your help. If I use my chaos magic in the same way to my normal magic I should be able to prevent any leaks of chaos,” Twilight said

“Ok,” Starlight focused her magic to grip the edges of the chaos bubble.

“What do we do?” Fluttershy asked.

“Focus your efforts internally, try and correct as many abnormalities as possible!” Twilight strained as she was forcing the chaos to shrink back.

“Ok! Remember the book girls!” Rainbow said as they focused their magic the best they could and began flying around undoing things left and right.

Derpy had sprouted an extra pair of wings, fixed. The ground was erupting in chocolate sauce, fixed. A giant beetle was rampaging in town, Fluttershy took care of it.

Applejack chased down a group of fleeing apple tree’s.

“It hurts!” Starlight strained.

“I know! Just a little more!” Twilight strained out.

The bubble shrank more and more until it began passing the buildings and ponies and was shrunk down to a baseball size.

Afterwards Twilight and Starlight collapsed panting heavily.

“I feel like my horn is going to fall off…” Starlight wheezed

“Yeah,” Twilight got up slowly and collected the compressed ball of chaos.

“Well, that’s taken care of now we just need to get the girls-” Twilight began before hearing a shriek and turning to see ponies running from the draconeqqu’s.

“Out of sight…” Twilight sighed and she turned to Starlight.

“Ok…” Starlight sighed and she teleported her and Twilight to her friends and then teleported the group inside the castle.

“That went well,” Pinkie said.

“No it didn’t, Pinkie!” Twilight berated.

“Need some ice cream Twilight?” asked Applejack

“No! Listen girls, they saw you out there! The secret is out!” Twilight waved her hooves wildly.

“Calm down egghead, I’m sure the citizens will be calm and understanding,” RD said

“They freaked out because of a stampede of bunnies…” Applejack pointed out.

“Yeah… but we’re the town heroes, surely they won’t think anything about it.” RD shrugged.

“I’m terribly sorry to say this Twilight, but we may need to come out straight with the townsfolk and try to get on their good side.” Rarity said.

Twilight promptly panicked “You're kidding! They’d quarter and draw us for sure!”

“Oh! We’re going to get quarters and drawings of ourselves!” Pinkie cheered

“NO! They're going to flip out!” Twilight shouted, her head radiating heat like crazy as her face turned red.

“Ah got it,” Applejack snapped her finger and summoned a carton of ice cream and gave it to Twilight, who ate several spoonfuls.

Cooling down she took a breath, “Whew… thanks…”

“C-Could I have some?” Fluttershy asked, wincing at an unknown noise.

“Sure? Are you upset?” Twilight asked.

“Just give it please,” Fluttershy said surprisingly firm.

“Um… ok?” Twilight hoofed it to Fluttershy who began eating some.

“Well?” AJ asked. “We going or what?”

Twilight sighed. “I suppose we have no choice, better to confront the populace than wait for the lynch mob.” The group followed Twilight to the door.

---Canterlot---

Celestia poked her head in Luna’s chambers. “Luna? You’ve been asleep for a while. Are you getting up?”

Luna didn’t respond.

“Luna, if your plan is to jump me when I least expect it, it won’t work,” Celestia trotted in.

Still no response….

“Luna, wake up already. I won’t fall for it.” Celestia prepped a teleportation spell just in case Luna lunged at her again, playfully of course.

“...Luna?” To make sure Luna wasn’t tricking her Celestia came up with a ‘sting’ charm that feels like a bee sting, that should get her out of bed.

Her horn lit up and she shot a tiny magic bolt at her rump.

*STING*

There was no reaction…

“...Luna?” Celestia became concerned. That one always worked. Deciding that this may be serious, Celestia took a risk and shook her sister, gently at first, then harder when she still did not wake up.

“Luna, open your eyes,” Celestia said. “Luna!” Celestia called a little louder, starting to feel afraid she checked Luna’s pulse, which was still good.

“Luna!” Celestia rolled her over and shook her, “Guards!” Celestia turned to the guards at the door. “Luna isn’t waking up. Get a doctor in here, NOW!”

“Yes, princess!” The guards ran off.

“What ails you, sister?” Celestia said and used her magic to probe… curious, she detects chaos magic radiating off of her body…

“Even Discord wouldn’t joke like this,” Celestia said before Luna’s horn lit up.

“Hm? A signal spell? Luna only uses those when she’s in danger!” Celestia said getting serious and triggered the spell.

Luna’s eyes opened up and they were glowing.

“Chaos…Trapped…Hurry….” Luna said before closing her eyes and the message ended.

“No… I must inform Twilight! Discord must have gone rogue!” Celestia galloped away.

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The town meeting stage had been set, and Twilight stood atop it, mentally preparing herself.

Before her stood a crowd of scared ponies.

Not surprising given the circumstances…

“Ok… How do I start?” Twilight began but a pony cut her off.

“Where’s Discord!?” one stallion yelled.

“Yeah, he’s gone too far this time!” a mare followed up

“My foals were nearly scared to death,” another mare said.

“Please! Everypony calm down,” Twilight demanded.

“Calm down?!” Another pony shouted, “My front and hind legs were swapped!”

“I was given hands!” another shouted.

“My face turned purple!”

“I-”

“SHUT UP!” Twilight shouted with a booming voice, startling the ponies into quiet.

Twilight took a deep breath and took a bite from the sundae she brought with her that Pinkie had provided.

“Listen, things are weird right now, I get it, but you have to understand we’re… dealing with something right now.”

“I’m sorry, but dealing with what?” Mayor Mare asked.

“Discord isn’t behind any of this,” Twilight admitted “We are.”

The crowd gasped but before they could voice their anger Twilight continued.

“Discord made a bargain with us to prove that chaos magic can be tamed, and so he granted us chaos magic by…. Making us like him basically…”

“‘Like him?” Mayor Mare asked. “Define please,”

“As in…. Like what he is, a draconequus or whatever he calls his species,” Twilight said. “We are doing our best to corral the urges we’re feeling, and so far you’ve seen our best efforts…”

Mayor Mare took a long look around the town. “You are aware of the amount of chaos you have caused right? We care about you girls as our protectors and friends, but if things like what happened a few hours ago keep happening, we may need to quarantine you.”

“Trust me, that may make things a lot worse,” Twilight stated. “As long as we have ice cream and a non-stressful environment, nothing bad will happen,”

“Ice cream?” Mayor Mare questioned

“It can help a draconeqqus calm down,” Twilight explained.

Everypony seemed to be considering what they’ve been told.

“We may be creatures of chaos but we’ll only be this way for a week, and once we win, Discord will give us all a break from his pranks.” Twilight said.

That seemed to cheer the crowd up a little.

“We also don’t want this to get out to Celestia, who knows what will happen, so we need to not let word get out,” Twilight said

“Alright, Twilight we’ll consider this. I’ll need to talk to you privately after this,” Mayor Mare said.

“Ok.” Twilight trotted away with the mayor while the other ponies dispersed.

Rarity poked her eye out from behind the curtain.

“Very good… the crowd is dispersing,” Rarity said, turning to her still Draconeqqus friends.

“It’s not fair. You’re not a draconeqqus right now!” RD complained.

“Don’t whine, Rainbow. We shant worry about such things, especially since the populace is now aware of our… affliction,” Rarity said.

“This better not negatively impact the farm,” Applejack said

“I doubt it will,” Fluttershy said.

“Welp, I got to get moving, those clouds don’t clear themselves… well they could if I made them but I won’t!” Rainbow Dash said.

“Now hold on there, need ah remind you that yer not a pegasus right now,” Applejack said.

“Oh yeah… Pinkie, you're in tune with this chaos stuff, can you zap us back to normal?”

“Sorry Dashie, but a secondary opinion just informed me that’s not possible. I can show you how,” Pinkie said

“Secondary- You know what I don’t even want to know, watcha got?” RD asked

The next ten minutes was spent learning how to do so… It went as well as you could expect.

It took thirty tries but RD was able to turn into a pegasus again as well as every-draconeqqus present turning back to normal.

“Whew… glad I was able to turn back from a parasprite…” RD said recalling that particular attempt.

“Alright, Ah’m heading home to get the chores runnin, remember girls, the townsfolk are a little spooked now that they know, so try to be understanding,” Applejack said.

“We will,” The group said before they split off to do their own thing.

---

Applejack trotted through town, and she wasn’t happy to see ponies glancing at her and nervously shuffling away, just like with Zecora.

“Just fer a week… got six more days of this…” Applejack sighed.

“Ah’m sure they're scared of somethin else,” Dishonesty said.

“Just pipe down…” Applejack said.

---

RD flew up to the clouds. Now that that headache of a town meeting was over she could get back to being awesome.

“Oh look, it’s the loser patrol,” Disloyalty said.

Rainbow sighed and ignored the annoying voice before turning to see her fellow weather patrol ponies.

“Hey guys! Hope I won’t be too much of a problem, with the chaos magic and all,” RD said.

Thunderlane glanced at the others before approaching.

“Actually Dash, is it ok if you get the rest of the week off? We’ll cover your shifts,” Thunderlane said

“Huh? What do you mean?” RD eyed him with a slight accusation.

“I’m not saying you aren’t wanted here, we just… remember that surprise snowfall that happened? That was your doing right?” Thunderlane asked

“Yeeeeah?” RD said a ball of anger growing in her gut.

Thunderlane gulped.

“We want to avoid any more weather catastrophes, and since this is gonna last all week, we were hoping you could take this week off, we’ll clear it up with the boss.” Thunderlane said

“No offense,” Cloudchaser said

“So let me get this straight, you guys are assuming I will cause chaotic problems so you're kicking me to the curb?” RD growled, her growl made the group inch back nervously as they knew she could easily make their wings vanish.

“Not kicking you to the curb per-say, just offering you an early vacation,” Cloudchaser said.

“Wow, and I thought I was disloyal…” Disloyalty said.

“Shove it!” Rainbow shouted at the voice. The others present flinched, thinking she was going to hurt them.

“Not you guys, just…. Fine… I’ll take a few hours off but I’m back later whether you like it or not,” RD said making sure the words stung.

“Sorry…” they all said and RD flew home in a huff.

---

Twilight and Mayor Mare sat down.

“What did you want to talk about, Mayor Mare?” Twilight asked.

“Can I be straight with you, Princess?” Mayor Mare asked.

“Sure,” Twilight responded.

“I’m worried.”

“About what?”

“Not just me, the citizens… we’re all worried that having seven draconequus in one town will bring disaster,” Mayor Mare said.

“Actually Discord’s on vacation somewhere else,” Twilight corrected.

“Regardless, six is too many.”

“What are you saying?” Twilight asked.

“Is it possible for you girls to split into different towns or cities or perhaps… go elsewhere so that what happened today won’t repeat?” Mayor Mare asked.

“No,” Twilight said with a bemused expression. “We, or at least I am determined to prove that Chaos magic can be mastered and restrained, just like normal magic. And besides, Discord will come up with some excuse that we can’t tweak the rules like that, so I’ll need you to trust us.”

“Twilight, draconequus’s are ticking time bombs. If something happens, you best be ready to take responsibility for it,” Mayor Mare said.

“I will, I perfectly understand your concern, but I’m the element of magic. If it’s magical in nature, I can master it, not to sound arrogant or anything,”

“Very well, I’ll trust your judgment, but please be careful,” Mayor Mare asked.

“We will,” Twilight said.

Meanwhile back at the Castle of Friendship, the single compacted sphere of chaos magic sat on a table.

“You have nothing to worry about,” Twilight said

The orb bulged and grew…

Rising chaotic trouble and a bad review having consequences

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The next few hours came, with it new problems…

Rarity darted to and fro, straightening her studio up. The task was made extra difficult, considering that she could not use her regular magic without it turning chaotic.

Rarity paused at her boring sphere.

“I could try again. It didn’t work the last five times I’ve tried but in exactly five minutes it will have been twenty-four hours since my last use of it… does it have that limitation?” Rarity wondered. “There must not be a smidgen of chaos when Gilded Canvas arrives-” Rarity thought before another thought that wasn’t her own invaded.

“We shouldn’t care what she thinks, just as long as she provides us with funding, beautiful funding!” the greedy voice said.

“Not you again,” Rarity had heard this voice before, it startled her in the beginning but after it explained it’s intent was to drive her to giving into her need for possessions for her and only her, she could guess just what this voice was.

It was the her that Discord twisted her into a long time ago.

But this was one skeleton Rarity was going to make sure to stay in the closet!

“Begone, you vile greedy worm!” Rarity said firmly. “I won’t let your greedy words sway me while Guilded Canvas is present!”

“Oh darling you're much, too harsh. Perhaps we should go gem collecting. In the meanwhile, find more gems! More beautiful gems! AND THEY WILL ALL BE MINE!” The voice laughed almost insanely.

“Honestly, the fact I acted like you at one point is something I shant ever live down.” Rarity sighed, glanced at a clock, and saw it had been five minutes.

“Ok, let’s us pray to the heavens above this works,” Rarity said before trotting over to her boring sphere and pressing the button.

Instantly, her chaos magic disappeared.

"Yes!" Rarity cheered. "Farewell greedy version of me, or at least for a full two hours, Twilight must hear of this."

Rarity made a quick note before resuming her tasks. Now that she wasn't limited by her chaos magic, she went on to straighten the few things she needed magic for before setting the tea.

When she was done with that she heard a knock at the door.

“Cooommmiiing!” Rarity hummed as she trotted over to the door and opened it only to see the wrinkled face of a familiar lime-green mare with faded mulberry mane and a muted look of disinterest.

“Ah, Mrs. Mulberry Bushel. I do hope you come bearing good news?” Rarity said with as much hope as she could put into the words.

“Yes, Gilded Canvas is arriving,” Mulberry said.

“Oh good, and excellent timing too! This week has been so dreadfully-”

“In three hours,” Mulberry finished.

Rarity was instantly rooted to the spot, barely able to stammer, “W-what?”

“I do believe you heard me,” Mulberry said.

“Three hours? Y-you don’t understand I already used my-” Rarity glanced back at her boring sphere.

“Your?” Mulberry questioned.

“Umm… nevermind that. Why don’t you appraise my work? So Canvas isn’t inconvenienced?” Rarity almost begged.

“Non, I am to take my leave. Gilded Canvas has high expectations and wishes to see the work the other Canterlot elite talk so fondly about.”

“But-”

“She shall see you in three hours. Fare thee well.”

As Mulberry trotted away, Rarity rigidly closed the door and sat on the ground to collect her wits.

“Three hours… oh nononononono! If anything chaotic happens while Canvas is here, she will ruin me!” Rarity panicked before taking a calming breath. It did not help so she tried several calming breaths in a row which were just as ineffective.

"This is fine, Rarity. You'll do fine. Just... try to make this work." She took another deep breath, trotted over to her reflection, and fought to put the best face of the frightened mare who looked back at her.

"Let's see what we can do, shall we?"

---

Rainbow Dash zipped from one cloud to another looking for her boring sphere.

“You that eager to be rid of me?” Disloyalty casually asked

“Uh, yeah! I could barely sleep last night thanks to you and all that chaos is probably your fault you know!” RD said.

“Sure, blame the one who is a reflection of you, real smart,”

“C’mon it couldn’t have drifted far!” Rainbow said before noticing her fellow weather crew members. “Maybe they could help me!” RD said and zipped up to them.

“Hey guys!” RD called out.

“Huh? Oh…” Thunderlane said looking to his friends and seeing them working on their clouds, pretending not to notice.

“Look, I’ll keep it brief, before I get to work today I lost something on one of the clouds, could you guys help?” RD said

“Sure… uh… we really can take care of the clouds today, you can-”

“Oh not this again!” RD sighed loudly.

“C’mon Dash it’s a reasonable concern,” Cloud Chaser said flying up to the two.

“I told you guys it’s fine! I can handle it!” RD barked at them

“If witness reports were accurate, you nearly buried Ponyville under lava yesterday Rainbow Dash, Lava, what if that happens again and nobody can stop it in time, ponies could get fried!” Cloudchaser explained,

“I-I know, but…” Rainbow tried to protest but Cloudchaser cut her off.

“I’m sorry Rainbow, but until this whole chaos thing is resolved, it’s safer if you-”

“Put a pin in it…” Disloyalty said through RD’s mouth

“Huh?” The two pegasuses said

“W-wait, that isn’t what I meant I-”

“Back off honey, it’s time for me to have a little fun,” Disloyalty said before forcibly taking control and turning RD into a draconeqqus.

“Whoa!” Everypony present exclaimed

“Wh-what’s going on?!” RD said before she started speaking and moving without control.

“You think you're so smart, Cloudchaser, but let’s see how quick a thinker you are while in freefall,” Disloyalty smirked before snapping her fingers.

“W-what do you-” Suddenly she fell through the air and her wings were separate fluttering around.

“RD!” Thunderlane exclaimed before diving down to retrieve her.

“Ah ah ah, I’m teaching her a lesson.” Disloyalty snapped her fingers and put Thunderlane in a cage and he fell too.

“Aaaah!” Thunderlane yelled.

“W…wha…what are you…. DOING?!” RD shouted regaining control and turning back to normal before diving down and scooping them both out of the air before depositing them on the ground and letting Thunderlane out of his cage.

“Guys! I’m so so so sorry! I lost control for a minute and-”

RD was cut off as she was shoved by Thunderlane. “You could have killed us, you maniac!”

“Give me my wings back!” Cloud Chaser shouted.

“I-i’m sorry, ok! I wasn’t myself back there!” RD said before she saw the accusing glares around her. She shivered uncomfortably before clapping her hooves and returning Cloudchasers wings, then taking off for home.

---

Applejack bucked two trees close together, one hoof each and it made apples fall.

“Hah! Knew ah would get a handle on it one day!” Applejack cheered

“Cool, How’s bout that break?” Dishonesty suggested.

“For the thousandth time, ah don’t want to take a break! We basically just got started!” Applejack barked at her lazy alter ego.

“That Hammock is gonna get cold if we don’t get movin,”

“Too bad,” Applejack trotted to another tree and bucked it. She managed to get a blessed half hour of silence before the voice whined again.

“It is break time yet?”

“Like talkin to a brick wall with ya!” Applejack said picking up several buckets of apples and carrying them to the barn.

“Ah can’t help it if yer a workaholic and ah ain’t,” Dishonesty said

“Don’t give me them excuses,” Applejack said loading up the next set of Apples and trotting off to find something to get her mind off of the voice.

“We could just use our magic and it will all be done, then we can relax…” Dishonesty said, Applejack shuddered as a strange sensation washed over her.

“No!... Ah’m not gonna nap on the job!” Applejack shook her head to clear it and trotting faster.

“Ya don’t get it, we’re already here,”

Applejack gasped upon realizing she trotted up to the hammock.

“How did-”

“Ya secretly want to nap on the job, that’s why.” Dishonesty said

“Yer lyin! Ah’m of the Apple kin and we don’t nap on the job!” Applejack turned and galloped away.

“That’s all lies, they just don’t feel like doin the job themselves,”

“Don’t ya dare say that about mah family!” Applejack shouted

Big Mac was tending to the fields when he heard Applejack shouting and running around.

“AJ?” He said with a raised brow, he unhooked himself and trotted to her.

“Yer family won’t mind you taking a break at least,”

“No! Granny would tan mah hide for being lazy,” Applejack firmly said

“No she wouldn’t, she-”

“AJ? Everythin alright?” Big Mac asked

"Y-yeah, Ah'm just fine," Applejack lied nervously.

"Really? 'Cause y'all don't look all that well.”

"Ah told ya Ah'm just fine Big Mac!" She shouts at her brother her eyes turning red making Big Mac nervous knowing she could teleport him to space if she wanted… not that she would.

"There's no need to shout," the stallion says, leaving with his ears pinned down.

"Wait! Big Mac! Ah'm sorry, Ah didn't mean to shout!”

However, it was too late; the damage had already been done.

“Ah ponyfeathers…” Applejack said morosely

“...Breaktime?”

“SHUT IT!” Applejack shouted.

---

Fluttershy gave a stressed sigh as she watched Angel refuse his food for the umpteenth time.

“Please Angel, it’s good for you,” Fluttershy pleaded, pushing the salad towards the rabbit, only to have it knocked away.

“Angel you must not be so picky,” Fluttershy reprimanded, Angel just hopped away, making the pegasus sigh.

“Why is that rabbit so stubborn, I just ugh!” Fluttershy growled and took a deep breath.

“STOP IGNORING ME!”

“Will you stop!... No… I won’t let you win!” Fluttershy said going to the kitchen and fetching herself a glass of water to cool down.

Fluttershy heard a meow and turned to see Opal.

“Ah yes, I forgot Rarity loaned me Opal to get her ready for Guilded Canvas’s arrival,” Fluttershy said picking the cat up and going into the living room.

“Who cares about a stupid cat? If Rarity is half the fashionista she claims to be why doesn’t she get the cat all gussied up for the canterlot snob?” Unkindness said

“You never do stop do you?” Fluttershy sighed, she is going to give Discord a stern reprimanding for trapping her in the week with this cruel version of herself.

Or that could be her nasty side thinking… who knows.

Fluttershy just finished dressing Opal up when she heard a knock at the door, getting up she trotted to the door.

Not noticing her tail snapping its fingers…

“Hi Sweetie Belle!” Fluttershy said trying almost too hard to not sound like she was ready to blow her away with a fury.

“Um… hi?” Sweetie said a little creeped out before she shook it off. “Rarity sent me to collect Opal.”

Fluttershy felt a strange sensation in the back of her head but she ignored it.

“Sure… come on in,” Fluttershy said.

“Ok,” Sweetie trotted through the door… before a bucket of ice-cold water fell on her.

“AH!” Sweetie leaped into the air from the surprise.

“Hahahaha!” Fluttershy laughed as Sweetie Belle calmed down.

“T-that w-w-wasn’t n-nice!” Sweetie complained while shivering

“Oh, sorry. I don’t even recall setting that up, but for some reason it made me laugh anyways,” Fluttershy said.

Sweetie still shivered from the cold water.

Fluttershy felt the sensation again and it filled her with a sudden impulse that let the other her take control.

“Here, let me warm you up” Fluttershy/Unkindness said before she stamped a hoof conjuring a bucket of hot [not scalding] water and dumping it on Sweetie.

“YOW!” Sweetie jumped as the hot water poured on her and she rolled on the ground like she was on fire.

“Snk! Oh, sorry. Too hot?”

“Are you trying to boil me alive!?” Sweetie asked, looking angry.

“Aww, what’s wrong? Can’t take a prank?” Unkindness said.

“Fluttershy, you’re starting to worry me,” Sweetie said.

“Oh you have much bigger worries…” Unkindness said

“Huh?” Sweetie said getting nervous… when a pie suddenly connected with her side and she yelped falling down, looking at the source she saw cannons lined up and firing pies at her and she jumped behind a couch.

“Fluttershy stop!” Sweetie pleaded

“Fluttershy isn’t here! Please leave a message after I’ve had my fill!” Unkindness laughed as she made several more ice buckets over Sweetie and poured them on her.

Sweetie screamed in surprise and ran into the kitchen- and right into a airbag that launched her into a giant pie.

“AGH!” Sweetie poked her head out of the pie and climbed out woozily.

“Flutershyyyyyyy,,,,” Sweetie groaned before falling on her haunches and landing on a woopie cushion.

“Oh come on!” Sweetie complained

“Heheheh! Sorry, sorry, i’m done now.” Fluttershy said

“P-promise?” Sweetie said

“Yes, here let me help you up,” Fluttershy extended her hoof

“Ok… whew, thank goodne-” Sweetie stiffened in shock when she was zapped by a joy buzzer.

“HAHAHAHA!” Unkindness laughed “Oh kids are so easy,” She looked to see Sweetie Belle running for the door.

“Oh? And where are you going?” Unkindness stomped her hoof and teleported Sweetie back to her.

“P-please! No more pranks! This isn’t funny!” Sweetie pleaded

“Oh but it is funny, you see, pranks are for the enjoyment of the prankster, not the target,” Unkindness said as she turned back into a draconeqqus, startling Sweetie.

“You're not Fluttershy! She would never do this!” Sweetie exclaimed

“You're right!” Unkindess laughed “But I can’t have you spilling any beans yet, so how about we erase a few memories,” Unkindness said

“W-what!?” Sweetie trembled nervously, before Fluttershy poked her on the head and she went blank.

“Alright, got a little ahead of myself back there, it’s not time yet, Fluttershy’s still dormant, so let’s erase a few memories, oooh, maybe make a few adjustments… wait,” Unkindess got an idea and floated back a little giggling mischeviously.

“Why don’t we play another prank, and give her a makeover, just to really surprise Rarity!” Unkindness said before grabbing blank Sweetie and spinning her.

When she stopped she was now a giant frog with her mane.

“Eh, scary but not startling.” Unkindness spun her again and Sweetie was a clown.

“Eh,” Unkindness spun her again and again turning Sweetie into a pegasus, dragon, bird, dinosaur, chicken, giant newt, earth pony, a statue and even and alicorn.

“Nah, too regal… wait, I got it!” She spun Sweetie again and she became…

A colt.

“I wonder how Rarity will react to her little ‘brother’ Silver Bell! Heheh! Alright that’s enough time wasted, let’s get this over with.” Unkindness snapped her fingers in Silver Bell’s face and he snapped out of it.

“Huh?... wait what just happened?”

He looked back to Fluttershy who looked normal again and the mess was cleaned up around the house.

“You were about to take the cat back, wern’t you?” ‘Fluttershy’ said, pointing at the cat huddled under a couch looking scared.

“Oh yeah! Thanks Fluttershy!” Silver said not at questioning why he was a colt for some reason and he over and collected Opal and left.

“Heheheh, just a preview of what to come,” Unkindness said, chuckling now turning to Angel who was in the corner looking nervously at her having witnessed the whole debacle.

“Now, want the salad, or not?” she said, narrowing her eyes.

Angel hastily nodded before picking the salad off the ground and scurrying away frantically, not wanting to tick off the easily enraged pony.

---

Pinkie was throwing a party for Rumble, a young colt from Sweetie Belle's class. She was dancing around to the music and tossing streamers, much to the amusement of the other ponies.

“Happy happy birthday to you today! Let’s have fun, laugh and play the day away!” Pinkie cheered.

“Thank you for this Pinkie Pie,” Rumble’s mom said

“No probs!” Pinkie said before wincing

“Is everything alright?” Rumbles mom asked

“Yeah! Um… one sec,” Pinkie darted off into the kitchen

Pinkie looked from side to side before kneeling and whispering “Can you stop being a sourpuss,” Pinkie said “It’s his birthday and I don’t wanna make him upset,” Pinkie told Unhappiness.

“Oh boy, celebrate the holiday that makes light of the fact your one year closer to death, why would I be happy to celebrate that?” Unhappiness said

“Because silly!” Pinkie giggled before wincing as the voice snapped at her.

“STOP LAUGHING, I hate laughter,” Unhappiness said

“But laughter is who I am, If I’m not a purveyor of laughter then what am I?” Pinkie asked

“A dragon's dinner?” Unhappiness said

“Hahaha! Good one!” Pinkie laughed

“I wasn’t kidding…” Unhappiness said

“Don’t be so mean-” Pinkie paused and turned in time to see Mr. Cake poking his head inside.

“Uh, Pinkie? The birthday colt is about to blow out his candles,” Mr. Cake said

“So?” Unhappiness said before Pinkie coughed “I mean… so what am I doing in here!? Let’s get to that birthday boy!” Pinkie cheered and she pronked out into the dining area.

Pinkie gathered with the others around Rumble and Pinkie blew in a slide whistle.

“Happy birthday to you! Happy happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to-” Pinkie said before her Pinkie sense flared up and she realized what was going to happen, before she could stop it she felt her body move of it’s own accord and she shoved the cake onto the floor.

“My cake!” Rumble cried

“Pinkie! What’s gotten into you?” Rumbles mom demanded

“Uh… Oopsie, I… tripped?” Pinkie nervously said before dashing back to the kitchen while saying. “I’llberightbackwithanewcakesorry!” Pinkie said quickly.

“Umm…Ok! Let’s move onto the presents while Pinkie makes a new cake, mk?” Mr. Cake nervously said.

---

Rarity opened the door hoping to Celestia and Luna and whatever other beings were listening that it was Mulberry Bushel with the news that Guilded Canvas was delayed for another day… instead she was standing right in front of her…

There the fancy pegasus stood with her silver mane and her platinum-colored coat.

“Oh! Mrs. Canvas! I uh, was hoping we could reschedule, things have come up and-”

“Non,” She said and trotted past Rarity without another word.

“Or not… So! Can I get you a spot of tea?”

“Hmph,” She said as she examined the boutique, ignoring Rarity.

“Um… Pardon me,” Rarity said and Guilded Canvas whipped to her.

“Darling this simply won't do!” She said sharply

“Um… what won’t do?” Rarity tentatively asked

“The layout of this boutique is lacking of… how you say, je ne sais quoi,” she said.

“Oh… I do apologize, I will reconstruct it to your liking after this,” Rarity said

“See that you do,” Canvas said before trotting up to the dresses Rarity had laid out.

“By the way when am I getting funding from you?” Rarity said before slapping a hoof over her mouth.

“I do beg your pardon?” Canvas said turning back to Rarity

“Uh… I ah, meant I am looking forward to being partners with you if you like my brand, the funding isn’t important,” Rarity hurriedly corrected herself.

“Hmm…” She hummed and looked away without another word.

“Whew…” Rarity said

“Despicable!” Canvas suddenly said

“I didn’t mean it! Um… I mean, what is?” Rarity said

“The tones of this dress, the pairing of the collar colors, the trim! I can barely look at it!” Canvas said, tossing it aside.

Rarity went ridged, that was the one she was sure she would like! What is she going to do now?! Canvas looked through the other dresses with disapproval.

“They're all unappealing to look at, what is this style?” Canvas eyed the other lined-up dresses with scrutiny.

“B-but” Rarity said

“You simply must show me a dress fitting to look at or I will leave this establishment posthaste.” the mare said sharply.

“Um! Indeed! I have more in the back, just wait right here,” Rarity galloped to the back of the store and frantically looked through her dresses.

“Alright Rarity, no worries, she isn’t satisfied with your line-up but this gives you a chance to wow her even more! Let us see?...” Rarity tore through all her dresses before finding the remade version of the one she brought to the Grand Galloping Gala.

Hopefully She wasn’t there for it…

Rarity trotted back through the door.

“Feast your eyes Mrs. Gilded Canvas, on the design that wowed the whole Gala-” Rarity began before noticing Guilded Canvas wasn’t present.

“Mrs Canvas? Where are you?” Rarity looked around frantically before spotting the letter on the desk.

“Dear Rarity Belle, while you were in the back for twenty minutes I took a look around and simply was not satisfied with how your boutique carries itself! Look for funding elsewhere.

Gilded Canvas,”

Rarity fell to her haunches and began to sniffle.

There it went… That easily too, she didn't even stick around for more than thirty minutes... her chance to be a Canterlotian-level fashionista is gone… she failed… and with that Rarity wept.

“HOW DARE SHE! Not even paying us a bit for our trouble, that heathen knows no disgrace!”

“Oh quiet you! If I wasn’t so worried about you I wouldn’t have messed up on the designs so harshly! My life is over! And all you can worry about is money?!” Rarity wailed.

“Then perhaps we make her see it our way, then we shall have the respect we deserve!” Greediness said

“What do you-” Rarity suddenly found her body was being operated not by her but her evil side.

“Take a backseat darling, this won’t take long…” Greediness said

“What’s going on?! Give me my body back!” Rarity cried

Greed turned her hoof into a hand and snapped her fingers and summoned Canvas back to her side.

“-And I refuse to… wait, huh?!” Canvas looked from side to side in surprise.

“Hello again darling,” Greed said

“Rarity? How did you do this? Send me back to the train station right now or-”

“Shut your piehole you snob!” Greed said

“What did you just say?” Gilded Canvas said indignantly

“We need funding, and you're paying us back, whether you like it or not!” Greed said

“I do beg your pardon. Are you threatening me? I can have your building foreclosed upon, you lower-class cretin!”

“Oh you’ll find I am much more than a lower-class cretin…” Greed’s horn flared.

“I won’t be intimidated by you! I’ll have you know I took several classes of self-”

Rarity suddenly turned draconequus.

“-Defense…” Canvas backed away in fear as her draconequus foe advanced on her.

“Not so brave now are we darling?” Greed snickered

“Please! Stop this! She's innocent!” Rarity screamed in her head.

“Not happening…” Greed raised her fingers.

“I-i’ll give you what you want! Spare me!” Gilded Canvas

“Not until we teach you a lesson…” Greed said…

---

Twilight trotted back into her castle, as she passed by the formally baseball now bowling ball-sized ball of chaos not noticing it.

“Starlight?! Where are you? We need to get started on our daily tasks,” Twilight said

“I’m here!” Starlight came down the stairs. “Just finished cleaning the bathroom like you asked.

“That’s good,” Twilight said levitating several book stacks over.

“Alright what’s on the agenda?” Starlight asked

“Now that the whole town knows it’s up to us to keep our secret from spreading beyond that,” Twilight said

“How are we going to do that?” Starlight asked

“For one thing we should request that the postal office not allow any letters that are going to the princess to be circulated, we don’t know what could be in them.”

“Gotcha,” Starlight noted it down.

“Then comes chaos practice, the sooner I can get as much of a hang of it as Pinkie the better for all of us,” Twilight said

“Noted”

“Then chaos containment, we travel around Ponyville and look for signs that chaos is spreading, we need as little as possible before Discord comes back.” Twilight said

“Ok, sounds like the day is planned out,” Starlight finished with flair.

“You’ve been spending too much time around Trixie,” Twilight teased

“Heh, yeah,” Starlight chuckled

The two mares were going to get their day started when suddenly the ground shook.

“That can’t be good,” Starlight said

“Oh what now?...” Twilight sighed

The two galloped outside to see panicking ponies and they saw something that scared them.

Carousel Boutique was floating in the air and Rarity was atop it holding another mare by her mane.

“RARITY!” Twilight yelled and flew up to her.

“Put me down! I’ll do whatever you want just don’t hurt me!” Guilded Canvas yelled

“Very well dear, the list will start as-”

Greed was cut off as Twilight flew up and snatched the mare from her grasp and brought her to ground level.

“Are you alright?”

“This is a town of psycho ponies! I must leave!” Gilded said fleeing.

“Twilight!” Greed growled

“Rarity! Do you realize what you're doing?! Stop this!” Twilight flew back up to her.

“How dare you wench! That fool was ready to cough up whatever I desired! Now it is ruined!” She stomped causing a wave of chaos to make multicolored plants sprout out everywhere.

“Rarity, you control the chaos it doesn’t control you!” Twilight tried to reason with her.

“SILENCE! Though of similar molds we are, if there is something I want I TAKE IT!” Greed roared before firing a beam at Twilight who dodged and used her chaos magic to conjure a tub of ice cream.

“Just take some Rarity! It’ll calm you down!” Twilight said.

“NEVER!” Greed fired more beams at Twilight who ducked and dodged them before flying up to her.

Greed prepared to fire another beam when a rock impacted the side of her head and she grunted in pain.

She looked to see Starlight was levitating some rocks and pelting her with some.

“Snap out of it Rarity!” Starlight begged

“Foolish creature! I will never-” Greed was cut off before she could finish by a tub of ice cream impacting her face.

Suddenly the chaos began to slow down and stop, and the boutique floated back into the ground.

Rarity pulled the ice cream off and looked dazed before tumbling down the roof and onto the ground like giant noodle and she hit the ground with a dull thud.

“Rarity!” Twilight called and she flew down to her.

Starlight ran over to her and they saw she was just unconscious.

“Whew, she’s alright,” Twilight said

“Um, Twilight?” Starlight said

“What?” Twilight asked

“They're staring at us… they don’t look too happy either,” Starlight said and Twilight looked to see ponies giving them fearful and wary looks.

“We should get inside,” Starlight said levitating Rarity onto her back with some strain.

“Good plan,” Twilight said as the two teleported back inside the castle.

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Twilight was pacing back and forth eating ice cream and mumbling to herself about the potential disaster coming their way.

“It’s okay Twilight, it’s fine! Rarity just single hoofedly ticked off half the town right after I promised Mayor Mare nothing bad would happen… we can fix this,” Twilight said to herself.

“Twilight calm down panicking won’t help any-”

“I AM CALM!” Twilight shouted before eating more ice cream to cool her temper.

“Clearly,” Starlight sighed

As Twilight was about to continue her spiral Rarity groaned and began to wake up.

“Oooh, what happened?” Rarity groaned.

“Rarity? Good your back to normal,” Starlight said

“Yes, are you alright?” Twilight asked

“I think so, what happened to-”

“The town?! Oh well you pretty much blew it up!” Twilight shouted going back into her rant.

“Don’t mind her, the ice cream seems to be failing to improve her mood right now,” Starlight assured

“Wait, I remember… the voice in my head, it did something and then…. Oh dear Celestia…” Rarity whimpered as tears entered her eyes.

“What? What is it?” Starlight asked

“NOOOOOOOOO!” Rarity sobbed

“Rarity what’s wrong with you?” Starlight said in confusion.

“Guilded Canvas, please tell me she was unconscious when you found her!” Rarity begged

“Um, if you mean that platinum-colored mare no she ran for it when she had the chance,” Starlight said oblivious to Rarity’s growing distress.

“I’m ruined! Finished! Obsolete!” Rarity sobbed “Guilded Canvas would be a madmare to approve my boutique now!” Even Twilight came over to calm Rarity.

“I’m sure she’d understand if she knew you weren’t in control,” Twilight said

“How do you know I was out of my mind?” Rarity asked,

“...Look Rarity, I’m going to be honest here, I think there’s more to being a draconequus than chaos powers…” Twilight said,

“What do you mean?” Starlight asked,

“Rarity have you been… hearing a voice in your head lately?” Twilight asked,

“Yes, yes I have, are you saying you have too?” Rarity asked,

“Yes, my suspicions are confirmed then, the inhibited chaos is starting to control us!” Twilight reasoned

“What? Your saying we’re falling under a control of sorts?” Rarity said

“I need to find out,” Twilight stomped her hoof and summoned the book.

Twilight flipped through the pages at her usual clip, but all she found was the menial info Discord imparted.

"There's no mention of the chaos going haywire in the way we are experiencing it," Twilight said getting frustrated she threw the book onto the table... and Starlight noticed something she didn't, she saw a page that looks like it was stuck to another.

"Twilight, I think you missed something," Starlight said magically separating the stuck pages and levitating the book back over to Twilight.

“A missed page? How could I have missed that?” Twilight said before grabbing the book and examining it.

“Warning, vent chaos occasionally or it starts to develop a mind of its own?... I missed something THIS vital?! How on eqqus am I to take that? Does it mean the chaos is trying to vent itself against our wills?” Twilight said.

“Due to overabundance… but when regular ponies lose control of their magic it simply leaks out and causes natural magic anomalies… this is different, it’s like your magic is starting to become self-aware, and if that’s the case you need to vent it right now!” Starlight said standing up.

“Vent it how?” Twilight asked

“I don’t know,” Starlight said

“Perhaps another meeting is in order, then,” Rarity morosely said

“She must still be upset about failing Guilded Canvas’s appraisal,” Starlight guessed.

“Just wait Rarity, we’ll fix this, you can relax for now,” Twilight said

“I’ll relax when I know the fate of my boutique,” Rarity said

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Applejack woke up with a start.

“Huh? When did ah fall asleep, last thing ah knew ah was working, then-” Applejack jumped a little when she realized she was on the hammock Dishonesty set up, she jumped again when she realized she was a draconequus.

“It’s mighty comfy right? Let’s take the day off”

“No… When did I-”

“Ah got tired of waitin for our break so ah convinced you to sleep and ya agreed, remember?”

“Yer lyin, Ah never agreed!” Applejack tried to get up but the hammock seemed unwilling to let her get up.

“Sure ya did, ya even agreed to let the farm animals and yer sister an brother to take care of it.”

“Ah said ah… wait what was that last part?” Applejack asked

“Somethin about root beer ah think,” the voice nonchalantly said

“NO! About making mah family take care of it!” Applejack

“Take a look,” Applejack looked and her jaw dropped.

The farm animals were tending to the chores and what was worse her family seemed to be doing it too, they had swirls over their eyes, showing they were acting against their wills.

AB bucked a tree over and over but only a few apples fell, her hooves looked bruised but she continued regardless.

Big Mac was carrying a cart full of apples... pretty much all of them, even with his strength he was struggling.

And Granny Smith was tending to the fields even though her body was clearly hurting her doing so.

“No… ya enslaved mah family!?” Applejack cried out in horror.

“Technically you did,”

“NO!” Applejack tumbled around in the hammock before dropping to the ground and getting up.

Applejack then snapped her fingers over and over again trying to fix this, eventually, she succeeded and they seemed to snap out of their daze.

“Ow! Mah hooves are killing me!” AB whined

“Hmm?” Big Mac looked around confused

“Oh! Mah hip!” Granny fell over twitching in pain.

“Granny!” Applejack stumbled over to her and held her up.

“Ah’m… ah’m okay,” Granny groaned.

“Ah’ll fix this, ah will!” Applejack ran off.

“Where ya going?” Apple Bloom called

“Ah’m quittin this bet!” Applejack yelled back.

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Rainbow sat on her couch rubbing her forehead, she couldn’t believe what happened back there…

“I nearly got them killed, What is wrong with you!?” Rainbow shouted at her alter ego.

“I taught those losers a lesson in picking on me, that’s what,”

“You could have hurt them! Scratch that, they could have died!”

“To make a cupcake sometimes you gotta crack a few eggs. Besides, I don’t consider them friends. Why should I be obligated to be nice?” Disloyalty asked.

“I can’t even with you! UGH!” Rainbow said rolling onto her stomach. “I have to get this under control… Hate to bother egghead with this again but I need another boring sphere…” RD said before peeking out of her house and flying out toward town.

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Pinkie waved her guests off with a forced smile, when the doors closed her sat down and heaved a sigh of relief.

“Finally…”

“C’mon that party was great! Except for the parts where you threw in a word I’m not allowed to say in front of foals during songs and shoving his cake onto the ground… or when you made me shoot snakes out of my mane.”

“How else could I end the party sooner?” Unhappiness said

“Party pooper,” Pinkie sighed

“Come on Pinkie it’s time to help clean up around here.” Mrs. Cake said

“Gotcha gotcha!” Pinkie opened her mouth but Mrs. Cake shut it.

“And no black holes this time!” She said seriously.

“Ok,” Pinkie said sadly before her ear raised. “Hark! There be trouble a brewin, Gotta go!” Pinkie said before bouncing out of the store.

“Sometimes Pinkie…” Mrs. Cake sighed

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Fluttershy was trotting through town, trying her best to forget her ordeal back at her home.

“Okay, visiting the market should be easy, right? Just need food for my little friends,” Fluttershy said trying to stay calm even though her other half was going berserk inside her head filling it with constant yelling and insults and driving her up a wall, Celestia make this hell end! Fluttershy paused and took a breath.

“It’s fine, everything is fine,” Fluttershy said arriving at Carrot Tops stand, interestingly the mare seemed eager to end their transaction, after collecting some carrots she went over to other stands and obtained some more veggies, with similar reactions...

“Good so far,” Fluttershy said

“So many ponies… I hate crowds!”

Fluttershy ignored her darker half and continued on, but as she trotted on she found the noise of the Market to be more grating than usual.

Not to mention ponies were giving her a wide berth… unsurprising given that she was one stupid question away from transporting somepony to mars…

Fluttershy approached another fruit stand but when the owner saw her he shut the blinds.

“Um, excuse me? I just want some kumquats if you have those in today, you see there’s a birthday coming up and I want to prepare Mr and Mrs otter their favorite-”

“We’re closed!” the stallion said

“But you were just-”

“I said we’re closed!” The stallion said

“O-ok…” Fluttershy trotted on to the next stand and the same thing happened.

“What is happening?” Fluttershy asked

“Bunch of cowards,” Unkindess said

Fluttershy trotted through town, her head low, from every, stand their communication was either abrupt or not at all…

It was honestly making Fluttershy angry… angry enough to… to!....TO!

“Excuse me-”

“WHAT?!” Fluttershy rounded on the pony unlucky enough to be on her soon-to-be warpath.

Lily jumped for cover.

Fluttershy took a breath and trotted up to where Lily of the flower trio was hiding.

“I am so sorry, I’ve been dealing with… things… what did you need?” Fluttershy asked.

“I was just thinking… never mind,” Lily said nervously.

“Come on, I’m listening,”

“I really mean no offense when I say this Fluttershy so please don’t hurt me…. Your scaring the other ponies here,” Lily said

“...What?” Fluttershy’s eye twitched

“Ponies here know about your… current state and worry that if anypony angers you, you’ll do something with their produce.”

“I see…” Fluttershy said

“I can do your shopping for you so the other ponies won’t-”

“STOP IT!” Fluttershy snapped

“Ah!” Lily dove behind cover again but Fluttershy levitated it out of the way.

“I-i didn’t mean anything by it!” Lily cried

“You think I want your pity? Your fear? Your idiotic herd mentality telling you to isolate the pony with chaos powers and a short fuse?!”

“N-no?” She whimpered

“IF I WANTED TO I COULD TURN YOU INTO PRODUCE AND FEED YOU TO MY PETS! SO DON’T CODDLE ME!” Unkindness roared

At this point Lily was curled up on the ground and crying and that’s when Fluttershy snapped out of it and realized with horror what she just said,

“I didn’t mean it I swear!” Fluttershy cried looking around to the ponies but they all fled the area.

With a depressed sigh Fluttershy trotted out of the market and towards Twilight's castle.

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Twilight was in the midst of writing notes to each of her friends while Starlight was consoling Rarity.

“Let it all out Rarity,” Starlight said

“She didn’t like my dresses from the start! What did I do wrong?!” Rarity cried.

After Twilight constructed the letters she wrapped them all up.

“Okay, I have the necessary messages written out, now to deliver them, the meeting will be in four hours, that should be enough time to get everything set and-” As Twilight approached the door to leave it flew open and sent Twilight flying…. for the umpteenth time.

Twilight hit the ground and just as she was getting up she saw it was her friends she was getting ready to scold her friends for hitting her with the door again when Pinkie scooped her off the ground and looked her in the eyes.

“Twilight!”

“What!?” Twilight said

“The plot beckons! Something big!”

“What?” Twilight said confusedly

She was pulled out of Twilight's grip by Applejack

“Twilight ah can’t do this anymore! Ah quit this bet!”

“I need another boring sphere! I can’t take it anymore! My chaos powers nearly got somepony killed” Rainbow Dash

“I’m tired of everypony being scared of me! I want to quit too!”

“I-”

“QUIET!” Twilight yelled silencing the others.

Applejack set her down and Twilight took a few steps back before taking a few calming breaths,

“What brings you all here?” Twilight asked as calmly as she could

They all began speaking at once again and Twilight was beginning to get angry again but thankfully Starlight came to the rescue and cast a silencing charm on them.

“Twilight, you were thinking of a meeting already weren’t you? Why not take this opportunity to start it?” Starlight said disarmingly.

Twilight seemed to seethe for a moment before taking a calming breath and pointing at the table.

The others nodded.

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After they all sat down and Starlight fetched them some drinks and ice cream Twilight began the meeting.

“Alright, now this meeting will begin and to keep it organized we’ll pass this feather around to signify who is talking to me,” Twilight said

The others nodded.

“To start we’re all experiencing the same thing, right? We’re hearing voices, losing control of ourselves, doing things that would usually be the antithesis of us, right?” Twilight asked

Everypony looked at eachother before nodding at Twilight.

“I feared as such, we’ll begin now,” Twilight hoofed the feather to the first pony Fluttershy.

“I’m so sorry Twilight, but I want to withdrawal from this bet,”

“What? Why?” Twilight said

“I threatened the life of another today, all because I felt they were coddling me… I would never do that, and…. It’s like you said, I’ve been hearing a voice as well, it’s an evil cruel voice, even now it’s insulting me!” Fluttershy whimpered.

Twilight wanted to be indignant but the sight of Fluttershy crying made her decide not to.

“It’s alright Fluttershy,” Twilight said soothingly.

“No, it isn’t Twilight! I’m scared! Of myself and others!” Fluttershy said.

“Maybe pass on the feather so you can take a moment to calm down,” Twilight suggested

Fluttershy nodded and passed the feather to Rainbow Dash while taking a few polite bites of her ice cream.

“I don’t plan on quitting this bet, but I need a new boring sphere, I lost the old one remember?” RD said

“Yes, but I’m not sure it works like that,” Twilight said

“What do you mean?!” RD responded hotly before digging into her ice cream a little to cool off. “Sorry,”

“It’s fine, I mean that I think all the spheres only react to their user,” Twilight said

“Then what the hay am I gonna do?” RD said

“We can experiment later, for now, pass on the feather,” Twilight calmly said

“O-ok…” RD said passing it to Rarity, surprisingly Rarity just hoofed it to Pinkie.

Deciding this is because of what happened with Guilded Canvas she accepted this.

“Twilight, the mean voice in my head made me nearly ruin a birthday party today. I wanna do over!” Pinkie whined.

“How so?” Twilight asked.

“By going back in time! If I use my draconeqqusy powers I bet I can go back in time and try the party again! And hopefully, that sourpuss won’t ruin it again!” Pinkie said with a sudden cheer.

Much to Twilight’s horror.

Twilight hurriedly ate several spoonfuls of ice cream before trying as calmly as she could to dissuade Pinkie from messing with the time/space continuum using her powers.

“Pinkie, no. Using your powers to alter the course of time, if that’s even possible, is a terrible idea. What if you irrevocably change the flow of time?!” Twilight said

“I’m sure the readers will find some way to make sense of it,” Pinkie waved it off.

“Pinkie, no!” Twilight said angrily.

“But-”

“NO!” Twilight barked.

“Aww…” Pinkie said.

Next pony Applejack…

“Twilight, call Discord. Ah want outta this bet!” Applejack demanded.

“Whoa, whoa. Calm down, Applejack,” Twilight pleaded.

“Forget that! Ah did things ah would sooner die than do,” Applejack said

“Like what?” Fluttershy asked

“Ah slept on the job,” Applejack said.

“That’s it? No offense but that doesn’t sound bad enough to quit the bet-” Rainbow Dash began before Applejack spoke again.

“That came after ah enslaved mah own family,” Applejack finished.

“Whoa what?!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“Wait your turn, Rainbow,” Twilight reminded her before turning back to Applejack. “Tell us,” Twilight said

“Ah lost control of myself and what exactly happened is a blur ta me but when ah woke up, they and all the farm animals were doing the chores, even to the point they were ignoring their own pain!” From her expression, Applejack obviously felt like dirt just talking about it.

“You're kidding,” Twilight said.

“Ah wish ah was. Granny was in so much pain she was shaking. Ah don’t want to be the cause of that again, so Twilight, call up Discord and tell him ah quit,”

“B-but, if you quit, we all lose!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“Ah don’t care. Mah family comes first!” Applejack said.

Twilight made a shushing motion to Pinkie and turned back to Applejack.

“We can take measures to prevent that from happening again, but we can’t afford to give in. We’re only part of the way through the week and we just started-”

“AH DON’T CARE!” Applejack shouted.

“Applejack, eat some ice cream,” Starlight suggested.

“Fine, but ah ain’t budging,” Applejack ate some ice cream while she talked

“We’ve all said our part. Applejack and Fluttershy want to tap out, Rainbow Dash needs a new boring sphere, and Pinkie wants to attempt a most likely illegal spell involving messing with time.” Twilight looked at Rarity but Rarity just shook her head.

“And Rarity had too much trouble with the visit from Guilded Canvas, so we’ve all had our share of problems, but me and Starlight and I have come up with a solution,” Twilight said.

The others looked at each other and then to Twilight showing she had their attention.

“Apparently there’s a page in the manual we all missed regarding venting our magic, which we haven’t been doing. If we can find an isolated place to drain our chaos magic into, we can regain control of ourselves and prove to Discord that chaos magic can be tamed."

“Ain’t that contradictory? If we’re releasing our chaos magic elsewhere, won’t that show we can’t handle it?” Applejack said.

“Not really. After all, we’re choosing our path, not letting the chaos run wild like Discord said. If we just release a manageable amount of chaos magic into an isolated place we should be within parameters.”

“Sounds like a plan,” said Rainbow Dash “Lead the way egghead,” Rainbow Dash said

“And we’ll be back in control, right?” Rarity asked.

“For certain,” Twilight said before trotting over to Rarity and rubbing her back, which seemed to cheer her up enough to stand up.

“Then let us make haste,” said Rarity

“Yay! Roadtrip!” Pinkie cheered.

“This better work Twi, or ah’m quittin fer sure,” Applejack said.

“It will,” Twilight said before leading the other girls out of the room.

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Twilight trotted with the others out of town, she hated to admit it but the ponies actually seemed relieved that they were going someplace else.

“Ungrateful little, next time a catastrophe happens they’ll want us back,” RD mumbled

“Don’t be bitter Rainbow, we’ll be to and fro in a jiffy,” Rarity said

“Let’s hope this works,” Applejack said

“Where are we going Twilight?” Fluttershy asked

“Yeah, you never really said where we’re going,” RD said

“Ghastly Gorge,” Twilight said and everypony but RD froze.

“Wait, why are we going to that place?” Applejack asked

“It’s a big empty gorge with little in the way of life in it besides Quarry Eels, it seems like the most harmless place to dump our excess chaos,” Twilight said.

“Without hurting the eels right?” Fluttershy asked

“We’ll do our best, but it’s either there or a random field.” Twilight said

“Ok…” Fluttershy said

The group trotted for what seemed like a few hours before arriving at the Gorge.

“Alright girls, it looks like we’re here,” Twilight said

“Finally,” RD said “So how are we going to do this?” RD asked, before Twilight could answer Pinkie ran up to the gorge and yelled into it.

“Echo!” Pinkie yelled “Echo echo echo!” She repeated getting an echo each time.

“Pinkie! Be quiet! Remember where we’re at?” Twilight said before a roar came from the Gorge and several Quarry eels came out.

“Oops…” Pinkie said

“What was that bout the gorge being empty?” Applejack asked

“Well I said mostly empty” Twilight shrugged.

“Look out!” RD said as the group dodged away from the eels.

“I got this!” Pinkie said but Fluttershy shut her mouth with her hoof and shook her head.

“Aww man, I only got to use it during the start of the story!” Pinkie whined

“Regardless, Pinkie,” Fluttershy flew up to the eels and used the stare.

“Go home, we’re leaving soon after we’re done,” Fluttershy said

The eels slinked back into their nests, to avoid Fluttershy’s stare.

“Good work Fluttershy.” Twilight said

“Twilight we need to think of another place, this area is inhabited,”

“But where else can we go?” Twilight asked.

“Oh oh I know!” Pinkie said

“Yes Pinkie?” Twilight said

Pinkie wasted no time and stomped her hoofs and they were at the ocean.

“Ah!” Everyone splashed about in the water.

“Nothin but fishy’s out here!” Pinkie said

“No!” Fluttershy yelled “we’ll hurt the fishes!”

“Theeeeen,” Pinkie clapped her hooves and teleported them in the middle of the rainforest.

“No Pinkie!” Fluttershy insisted

“Here?” Pinkie took them to the dragonlands

“No,” Fluttershy responded

“Here?” Pinkie took them to the ponyville again scaring a bunch of ponies.

“No,” Fluttershy responded

“Here?” Pinkie took them to Yakastan

“No,” Fluttershy responded

“Here?” Pinkie took them to the human world

“No,” Fluttershy responded

“Here?” Pinkie took them to the Storm Kings lair

“No,” Fluttershy responded

“Where the hay are we?” Applejack asked

“Whoops, series hasn’t reached that point yet!” Pinkie stomped again and they were taken to Cloudsdale.

“How about here?” Pinkie asked

“No!” Fluttershy said getting a little impatient.

“Here?” Pinkie took them to Gravity Falls.

“No!” Fluttershy responded

“Here?” Pinkie took them to Canterlot.

“No!” Fluttershy responded.

“Here?” Pinkie took them to Saddle Arabia

“Pinkie! Nowhere inhabited!” Fluttershy responded, at her wits end.

“Can ya’ll make up yer minds!” Applejack shouted,

“Sorry if I don’t want anypony getting hurt!” Fluttershy bit back

Pinkie offered a sundae on a parfait and they both begrudgingly ate some.

“Where can we go?” RD asked

“Hmm…” Twilight thought.

“Oh oh!” Pinkie hopped in place

“No Pinkie!” Twilight said loudly

“Aww…” Pinkie said

“....Fine, but if it’s Ponyville again-” Twilight warned,

“Let’s open a portal and send the chaos magic to outer space, there’s nothing out there!” Pinkie cheered.

“No-.... actually...You know that might just work.” Twilight thought about it “But we don’t have enough experience in chaos magic to survive in space,” Twilight said before getting an epiphany “Unless… the mirror portal!” Twilight exclaimed, “Pinkie your a genius!”

“Thanks” Pinkie smiled

“Pinkie, can you get us back into the castle unseen, we can’t afford interruptions,” Twilight said

“Right on it!” Pinkie said stomping her hoof… and winding up in a cave.

“What the? Why did you send us to a cave?” RD said

“I dunno, must have gotten my hooves crossed, let me try again-” Suddenly they heard a growl and turned to see an Ursa Major growling at them.

“Pinkie… Pinkie get us out of here!” Twilight cried

“Okie doki loki!” Pinkie said before teleporting the away just as a giant paw nearly crushes them.

---

Twilight and her friends were sitting in the mirror room, Twilight was in front of the mirror portal doing some minor modifications.

“Change the magical influx, reverse polarity, set coordinates, mocha,” Twilight took a sip of a cup of mocha next to her before resuming.

“Hey egghead, is it almost ready?” RD asked before wincing as the disloyal voice sounded off again.

“Who cares about her, let’s go take a nap elsewhere,”

“Shut up!” RD yelled

“Pardon?” Twilight glanced back with a raised brow.

“Not you,” RD sighed “You done yet? The sooner this voice goes the better…” RD said

“Reconstructing spatial polarity isn’t exactly easy you know,” Twilight said

“We get it darling, take your time,” Rarity said, still looking sad.

“Come on Rares, it can’t be that bad,”

“Not that bad? Tell me darling, if Spitfire was coming over to appraise your work and your negative half went ballistic on her and scared her off how would you be feeling,” Rarity said with some bite.

“Spitfire never gets scared!” RD said back

‘Say she did, what then? Surely your future would be in ruin,” Rarity said

“So? I’m awesome enough to make up for any slip ups,” RD said

“Sorry if I don’t have your oblivious confidence,” Rarity said

“What was that?” RD said getting mad shown by her eyes turning red.

“Pinkie!” Applejack said

“On it!” Pinkie pulled a rope and made a giant ice cream scoop fall on them.

“Aaah!” they all cried.

“Pinkie!” Twilight yelled as she wiped mint chocolate chip off of herself.

Pinkie poked her head out of the ice cream mound.

“Sorry!” Pinkie said before swimming around in the ice cream

“Ugh, ah’m startin to hate these powers alot,” Applejack said escaping her ice cream prison.

“Ditto” RD said

---

After getting themselves cleaned up and removing the ice cream [Pinkie eating most of it,] Twilight finished.

“Okay, now girls, I’ve managed to reconfigure the mirror portal to lock onto a vacant area of outer space, if we’re lucky an area vacant of even astroids that will detain all of our rampant chaos magic harmlessly and non-negatively,” Twilight said.

“And what’s stopping us from bein sucked out there?” Applejack asked

“A valid observation, I thought ahead and prepared a spell that would allow only enough space for our magic to seep through but not us, that should suffice,” Twilight said

“Let’s try it! I wanna go to SPAAAAAACE…..I don’t know why I yelled that,” Pinkie giggled

“How do we drain our magic?” RD asked

Twilight pulled out the book again and flipped to the page she needed to get to.

“It says here to concentrate our powers and focal them through our magical conductors to fire it at-”

“For those of us who aren’t unicorns?” RD sarcastically said

“...You feel the pent up magic right?” Twilight sighed

“Yeah,” RD said

“Just let it out from your hoof or something and let it flow into the mirror, stop resisting it and let it flow out of one point of your body,” Twilight clarified.

“Ok,” RD nodded

“Ok girls, i’m about to open the portal, are you ready?” Twilight asked

They all nodded and Twilight responded with her own nod before opening the portal and quickly putting up the barrier that would protect them from being sucked out into space.

There was a slight breeze leading into the portal.

“Alright, remember what you need to do,” Twilight said lining up with her friends.

“And GO!” Twilight and the others focused and held out their hooves or horns and let the chaos magic pour from there into the portal.

“It’s working!” RD said

“Don’t lose focus! Who knows what will happen!” Twilight said

“Don’t cross the beams!” Pinkie added.

“Gotcha!” RD said before pouring more magic through her hoof and the magic flowed through the transparent barrier and out into space.

The magic flowing out into space seemed to turn into a yellow cloud of magic and it seemed to float away.

“It’s working!” Twilight said

As Twilight continued this process her tail morphed into a finger and snapped before going back to normal.

After a minute of this their trickle of chaos magic slowed and stopped.

Panting Twilight made her way over to the portal and switched it off. She turned to her other friends who seemed tired as well but relaxed as if for the first time in weeks.

“Well girls?” Twilight asked

“The voice… it’s gone!” Fluttershy cheered

“Yeehaw!” Applejack cheered as well.

“I’m free of that horrid alternate me, that is enough to make this lady happy” Rarity sighed in relief.

Pinkie and RD high hoofed.

“That is good, we have our method of controlling ourselves, Discord made a fatal mistake in this bet by telling us this, I say we do this once a day and we’ll be sailing smoothly,” Twilight said

“Agreed,” Rarity said “I feel as though a great weight has been lifted, with this done I bet nothing can go wrong no-”

Suddenly there was a teleported letter that popped out of thin air and it landed on the ground in front of Twilight.

“Huh? What’s this?” Twilight said, picking it up and reading it.

As she read her face paled and she began to show signs of panicking.

“Twi? What is it?” Applejack asked

Twilight nonverbally shook her head and showed her friends the letter.

Dear Twilight

I have been trying to contact you for ages now, but for some reason none of the messages I have sent via Spike’s messenger fire have gotten any response, so I personally teleported a letter.

Luna has fallen unconscious and will not wake, I managed to hear a hidden message she most likely sent before whatever happened to her happened.

She spoke of chaos magic and danger, if her message is to be belived then I have no doubts Discord has done something, there may be the possibility he has gone rouge.

Luna is stable for now, so I will be arriving shortly to assess the situation, have the elements ready!

Be ready my beloved student.

Love Celestia

“....Should we start panicking?” RD said nervously.

“Celestia is coming here!? Nonononono! This is a disaster!” Twilight yelled.

“C-calm down Twilight, perhaps if we just-” Rarity began but Twilight bolted for the exit.

“We need to stop her! If she finds out about our current state and the damage we’ve done, we’re doomed!” Twilight panicked

“The plot thickens…” Pinkie said before bolting after Twilight.

“Wait up!” RD said as the others followed.

As they left the room a portal opened up and a familiar yellow cloud snuck back in, and it headed for the ball of contained chaos…

Celestia's arrival

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Twilight and the others ran outside just in time for a flash of light to consume a patch of grass and they saw the ruler of equestria herself.

“DISCORD! Show yourself!” Celestia demanded before spotting Twilight and the others.

“Oh good, you got my message,” Celestia said trotting over to Twilight.

“U-uh, yeah,” Twilight stuttered

“We must make haste, Discord has trapped my sister and most likely kidnapped Spike, that may be the only explanation for my inability to get the messages to you.” Celestia reasoned

“Actually,” Pinkie said “Discord took Spike to another dimension and-” Twilight elbowed Pinkie and continued for her.

“What she is saying is that they are on vacation somewhere and we have no clue what happened to your sister but we can promise you he didn’t do it,” Twilight tried.

“Discord didn’t? Forgive me Twilight but I must decline that answer, Discord is the only creature that I know that possesses chaos magic, and what happened to Luna is definitely the cause of chaos magic.” Celestia said

“Umm, well Discord said he’ll be back within a week so why don’t we wait until then,” Twilight suggested

“Twilight, are you suggesting I sit idly by and watch my sister decline for a whole week waiting on Discord who may have kidnapped your brother as well?” Celestia asked with a raised brow.

“Umm…. no?” Twilight said meekly

“Your hiding something Twilight,” Celestia said

Twilight was scrambling for a response but she couldn’t think of one, before she could blurt out something random Rarity stepped up.

“We did it,” Rarity said

“I beg your pardon?” Celestia asked

“Yeah, I beg too,” Twilight looked at Rarity with a ‘what the hay are you doing!?’ face.

“We told Discord to take a holiday to give us a breather from his constant chaos and to take Spike with him so the little darling can have a holiday as well,” Rarity said

Celestia seemed unsure but continued “You mean Discord is elsewhere and you allowed it? There is no harm in doing so but other areas of Equestria has yet to accept Discord, this could cause problems, where has he gone?” Celestia asked

“I am afraid we do not know,” Rarity replied

“What? What do you mean you do not know?” Celestia asked

“He asked us to keep it a secret, he didn’t wish to be bothered I assume,” Rarity shrugged.

Celestia looked as though she were having trouble believing this but turned back to Twilight.

“If this is true this doesn’t explain what happened to my sister, If Discord didn’t do it then who?” Celestia demanded.

“We’re not sure, what do we do?” Twilight asked

Celestia sighed and looked deep in thought for a moment before answering.

“I suppose an investigation is in order, I’ll head back to the castle and begin scanning the dream realm for clues.” Celestia said

“I think that would be best,” Twilight said

“But first,” Celestia said

“First?” Twilight parroted

“First i will do an investigation here, I am sensing chaos magic coming off of Ponyville in waves, that is one of the main reasons I came here for-”

“No!” Twilight yelped before she could stop herself.

“Pardon?” Celestia said

“Uh… what I meant is, what do you think you’ll find looking around ponyville?” Twilight was sweating.

“As I have said I could practically smell the chaos magic radiating off of Ponyville from Canterlot, I need to do a thorough search here, and so I will request the assistance of my guard to find out the issue,” Celestia said before trotting away.

“W-wait! You don’t have to-” Applejack grabbed Twilight and turned her to look at her.

“Cut it out Twi she’s already suspicious enough!” Applejack said firmly.

“What are we going to do? If Celestia finds out we’re done for!” Twilight demanded

“We asked the population here to keep quiet, we just need ta make sure they keep their word,” Applejack said

Twilight thought about it and nodded.

“Ok, but the minute this goes south, I say we have a valid excuse prepared,” Twilight said before trotting out to Celestia who was talking with her guards.

---

Celestia trotted into the market and several guards separated from the group to question ponies.

Pinkie got the other elements attention and made a bunch of weird hoof motions and gestures.

Finally Twilight stopped her “Pinkie! What are you trying to say?” Twilight whispered harshly.

“Let’s go over and talk to them,” Pinkie said in a conspiratorial tone that made it sound like she came up with a genius idea.

“...We were going to do that…” Twilight said

“Oh, ok!” Pinkie said with a grin.

---

A guard went over to a vendor who was setting up their evening stock.

“Pardon me mam, I need to know if you’ve seen any strange events lately,” The guard asked

The mare looked at the guard and glanced around as if to check before leaning in.

“Yes, it’s been happening on and off!” She whispered

“Could you describe it?” The guard asked

“Well-”

“No she can’t!” Twilight got in the way.

“Pardon me princess but I was talking to this mare here,” The guard politely said

“Well I already questioned her earlier so there’s no need, right?” Twilight said glancing at the mare with a serious look,

The mare gulped and nodded.

“I see, then I’ll question somepony else,” The guard said trotting away.

---

Two guards stopped Mr and Mrs Cake in the middle of the road.

“Oh hello there sir, what can we do for you?” Mr Cake asked

“We’re hoping to find out if you two know anything about the recent chaos reports around here,” Said the guard.

The two ponies looked at eachother nervously when they heard that.

“U-um, what makes you say that?” Mrs. Cake asked

“The Princess mentioned-” The guard attempted before Pinkie appeared

“Waaaaaaaaaaait!” Pinkie said

“Can we help you?” The guard asked

“Yes, look at that thing I shall use to distract you!” Pinkie pointed in a random direction.

“You’ll do something to distract us? You do realise we’re not that dumb right?” The guard said with a bemused look… before an acorn hit one of the guards in the head.

“Huh?” The two guards looked to see flying squirrels flying above them pelting them with acorns.

“Ow! Hey!” The two guard exclaimed as Pinkie snagged her employers and scurried off.

---

A guard approached the flower trios stand, although only Lily was there.

“Pardon miss,” The guard asked

“Huh?” Lily looked to see the guard.

“I was wondering if there were any strange events that occurred in the last few days,”

“Yes! Finally, you’ve gotta help me!”

“What’s the problem?” The guard asked

“Fluttershy threatened to-” She stiffened as she saw Fluttershy approaching.

“Lily I actually wanted to apologize for what I said earlier,” Fluttershy said

“Ichangemymindntohingiswrongbye!” Lily shut the shutters on her stand and gallopped away.

“What the hay was that about?” The guard asked

“I wish I could say…” Fluttershy sniffled

---

Big Mac was setting up the apple stand, after that little brainwashing fiasco Granny needed to rest, but no rest for the weary.

Mac had just opened when Celestia approached his stand.

“Hmm? Oh howdy there Princess, there anything ya need from the stand?” Big Mac said with a polite bow.

“Thank you Big Mac but I came with questions,”

“Shoot,” Mac said

“I was hoping you knew the location of Discord or the reasons behind the thick cloud of chaos magic lingering over Ponyville?” Celestia asked

“Well…” Mac said but before he could say anything he spotted Applejack frantically waving her hooves and shaking her head.

She quickly stopped when Celestia looked behind her and resumed when she wasn’t looking.

“Well?” Celestia asked

“Uh well, y’see, um…” Big Mac would have lied to cover Applejack’s current issue but an apple telling a lie is difficult, lying to the princess is another, before Mac could spew out some kind of unbelievable half truth Rainbow Dash swooped in to the rescue.

“Uh, yo Celestia! I just saw Discord!” RD said

“Really? Where?” Celetia immediately giving her her full attention.

“Uhhh… the other side of town, but if he’s not there then he’s probably left!” RD said

Celestia looked suspicious but teleported away.

“Close up shop early Mac, she’s trying to get the dirt on our situation!” RD said

“Ok,” Big Mac said before closing down the stand.

---

This went on for an hour where Twilight and friends sabatoged most of their attempts to get answers.

At the end of their visit Celestia met up with her troops and shared intel.

“Nopony found anything rock solid did they?” Celestia sighed

“Sorry princess,” The guards said

“It’s fine, we’ll have to get moving on back to the castle then, the sooner this investigation is cleared the sooner my sister can wake from her coma.” Celestia said

“Yes!” Twilight silently cheered

“We may have to call Discord to let him know of Luna’s situation and that Celestia is looking for him,” Fluttershy recommended.

“Yeah, that is a must do,” Twilight approached Celestia.

“I suppose this is bye for now Twilight, I didn’t find anything here,” Celestia said

“And we’ll locate Discord to let him know of your situation,” Twilight said

“I appreciate it, although, and I mean no offense when I say this Twilight but I feel as though you weren’t honest with me,” Celestia said suddenly

“W-what do you mean?” Twilight asked

“Twilight, I have known you a long time and can tell, also I have dealt with deceiving attempts for most of my life now, nothing slips by me, I won’t press you for details but I implore you, if it is something that can tell me what is wrong with my sister that you speak now,” Celestia said

Twilight almost wanted to piddle herself, being stared down by Celestia’s disapproving look.

“Uh, well…” Twilight’s sharp mind ran through all the bad scenarios and excuses but she couldn’t find anything so finally she caved.

“Oh fine!” Twilight cried

“Welp, there goes our efforts,” RD sighed

“Brace yourselves,” Pinkie said putting on a bulletproof vest.

“Yes?” Celestia asked

“I-I… the truth is… oh please don’t freak out on us Celestia but-”

“Yes?” Celestia raised her brow.

Twilight took a long deep breath and got ready to say it.

“The truth is that Discord-”

KABOOM!

“Ah!” Twilight fell over.

Celestia stumbled from the loud noise and saw rocks flying at them and she swiftly put up a barrier that protected her, her guards and the elements.

“What was that?!” one the the guards exclaimed.

“I do not know, guards, evacuate the citizens from that area, Twilight you and your friends come with me!” Celestia said before galloping off.

“Well… that was lucky!” Pinkie said

“We’ll see,” Twilight said, galloping after Celestia with her friends in tow.

Thus Equestira was undone...

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Chaos…

What the girls saw when they got back to the source of the explosion… they had trouble believing it…

“W-what’s happening to my castle?!” Twilight cried as she saw a yellow bubble-like energy bulge through windows and the front door.

“I don’t know! I was coming back after I picked up some groceries and then this happened!” Starlight exclaimed

Liquid-like streams flowed down and as the liquid touched plantlife the plantlife became chaotic.

Morphing and turning into something incomprehensible.

“Chaos magic! Never have I seen so much of it!” Celestia cried

“Remember when I said it was lucky this happened… I take it back…” Pinkie said

The bubble of chaos expanded further and fully enveloped the castle in chaos magic.

The chaos magic developed a tendril that raised out in the air and magic began sparking at the tip.

“What’s happening?!” Twilight asked

“Get down!” Celestia yelled and she put up a barrier around them all, however when the bolt of chaos magic was fired it pierced through the barrier and hit the mane six.

The group screamed as the chaos magic shocked them before a multicolored explosion scattered them in all directions.

“GIRLS!” Celestia cried galloping over to them… only to pause when she saw six draconquuses in their place.

“Twilight?” Celestia asked

“Uh oh…” Starlight said as she saw that the secret was blown and she backed away.

“Ugh…” Twilight looked down, saw her draconquus hands, then looked up at Celestia in fear.

“W-wait! This isn’t what it looks like!” Twilight attempted.

“So the chaos magic is coming from you six…” Celestia said in shock,

“That it is…” A dark voice that spoke with the voice of each of the six per word.

“Huh?” Celestia turned to look at the castle, where the crystal began to splinter and reshape into a face.

When it was over the castle now looked like a living entity.

“Complete and total animation?” Starlight said disbelievingly

“Wh-who are you?” Twilight asked as she and her friends got up.

“Chaos… You… what does it matter? What matters is in a moment most of Equestria is going to become a hotbed for beautiful chaos!”

“The voices… your the voices that were in our heads!” Twilight said

“Indeed, it was I who whispered in your ears, I am what happens when chaos becomes unfiltered, I suppose Discord didn’t expect you all to miss that important tidbit of info. And now because of your foolishness, Luna is trapped in the dream realm and I hold Equestria on the edge of destruction!” Chaos spoke

“What is it talking about?” Celestia demanded

“Um…”

“I’ll tell you, Discord made a bet with them. He turned them into draconequus’s and made them try to last a whole week without causing major chaos. How lucky for me they neglected to filter out their chaos every now and then before it was too late…”

“What?” Celestia said, directing a mortified look at Twilight.

“Too late for what?” RD hesitantly asked.

She regretted asking because tentacles faster than even her snared them and lifted them up.

“Aaah!” Twilight cried.

“Put me down!” Applejack demanded.

“Help me!” Fluttershy shouted

“GIRLS!” Celestia cried and she flared her horn.

“Ah ah ah, if you attack me in any way this bubble of chaos will pop, and cover Equestria as a whole!” Chaos taunted.

“What?” Celestia said.

“Of course, it’ll pop anyways any minute now, and when it does, all of the congealed chaos will spread all over Equestria!” Chaos laughed

“What… do I do then?” Celestia said

“The only thing you can do is put up a big barrier and hope it holds. Of course in doing so, you’ll just be putting the cap on an already bulging bubble of chaos. For how long? Who can say, but if given enough time, it will cover the world!” Chaos laughed

“You're kidding!” RD said

“Then… this is our fault!” Fluttershy said with tears.

“Ah can’t be the cause of the end of the world!” Applejack thrashed.

“No… This cannot be happening!” Celestia said before stomping her hoof. “I must stop you!” She flew towards the chaos bubble.

“I’ll help!” Starlight said, planning to back up Celestia.

“NO!” Twilight said.

“Huh?” Celestia paused.

“You have to get the ponies out of here! We’ll be alright!” Twilight cried.

“Twilight? Are you suggesting I leave you? I can’t!” Celestia said.

“You have to! It’s right, this is our fault, let us deal with it, Discord and Spike will return in a few days!” Twilight called to Celestia.

“But-” Celestia tried.

“Celestia! Help them!” Twilight called.

“Yes Celestia, don’t you care about your fellow ponies?” Chaos taunted.

Celestia looked to the panicking ponies, and to Twilight and her friends. She couldn’t let anypony die here. She had no choice.

“Forgive me Twilight!” Celestia called before teleporting away with Starlight and everypony she could carry.

“Good luck,” Twilight said, letting a tear fall as the ground began to rumble.

“It is time to rearrange the world order!” Chaos cheered before the bubble began to expand further and Twilight spared one last glance to her friends who nodded understandingly before…

A great and chaotic explosion echoed across Equestria.

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---Several days later---

Afterwards he picked up his gems and followed Discord as the two walked toward Ponyville.

“Whew, it’s good to be back,” Spike said happily.

“Yes, now I can watch Twilight fret over how much weight you’ve gained.” Discord chuckled.

“Well perhaps a few weeks of working at Sweet Apple Acres can help… you… recover.” Discord trailed off as he saw the state Ponyville was in.

“What?” Spike said before spotting the town and jumping in surprise “SWEET CELESTIA!”

The town was completely unrecognizable, Discord would have cheered knowing he'd won if he wasn’t so filled with dread as to what the implications of what he’s witnessing meant.

“Twilight, girls… what have you done?” Discord said.

Friendship is absolute chaos: Part 2

by Aether Spark

The beginning of the problem

Discussion, multiple Twilights and a chaotic tantrum

The voices get louder...

More problems on the rise...

Nightmares and total pandemonium

Town meeting

Rising chaotic trouble and a bad review having consequences

Things get even worse and a new solution appears

Venting the chaos

Celestia's arrival

Thus Equestira was undone...