Previously on: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: The Midnight Sparkle Saga: Trixie managed to acquire a book about an ancient mystical artifact known as Pandora's Ark, said to contain the magical power of an ancient unicorn wizard. Trixie set off to find it, but not without Twilight Sparkle and her friends discovering her plan. Twilight, with some effort, managed to track down and find the Ark in a cave in the western desert of San Palomino. At the last minute Trixie managed to reach the Ark and open it, only for the magic inside to suddenly enter Twilight instead which caused her eyes to mysteriously start to glow.

In Canterlot, the capital city of Equestria, an indigo coloured alicorn known to her subjects as Princess Luna enters the main throne room and approaches her elder sister, the pensive looking Princess Celestia. "There is nothing to report, all is quiet throughout Equestria." Luna spoke in measured even tones, "There is no sign of impending natural disaster, no sign of an impending attack by one of our enemies."

Celestia just sighed, seeming to take no comfort in the good news.

"Would you like me to order Captain Armour to raise the city shields as a precaution?" suggested Luna.

Celestia just shook her head no and sighed once again. Her gaze ventured to the corner prompting Luna to turn and look at the 18 foot giant standing in the shadows.

"I see he's back." observed Luna.

"He comes and he goes, and when he comes back the only explanation he gives is that there was something more important that required his attention elsewhere."

Luna walked up to the Watcher giving him a stern look, "Did you know that while I was exiled in the moon, he was constantly probing my thoughts?" This remark caused their unwanted observer to stir.

I WAS DOING MY DUTY, DESPITE THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF IT, NOTHING MORE. I TOOK NO PLEASURE OUT OF LISTENING TO THE CONSTANT WHINING FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS ABOUT HOW HORRIBLE YOUR SISTER WAS, AND WHAT YOU PLANNED TO DO TO HER ONCE YOU WERE RELEASED FROM YOUR LUNAR PRISON. IF YOUR EGO HAD POSSESSED ITS OWN GRAVITY WELL, YOUR SELF-ABSORPTION WOULD HAVE CAUSED THE ENTIRE MOON TO COLLAPSE INTO A NEUTRON REMNANT. THERE WERE TIMES I CONSIDERED BREAKING MY VOW AND HURTLING THE MOON INTO THE SUN JUST SO IT CAN FINALLY END.

Luna was taken aback by the unexpected tirade. She hung her head and slowly walked out of the throne room.

Celestia reared on the Watcher angrily, "That was unnecessarily cruel!"

LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU PRINCESS CELESTIA: EVEN A SUPREMELY ADVANCED BEING FROM A RACE OF PACIFISTS CAN HAVE A BREAKING POINT.

Back in Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle sat on an exam table waiting patiently for the doctor to finish writing in his chart. The doctor finally put his pen down and sighed, "Well I've run every test that I can think of. I have absolutely no idea what's causing your eyes to glow like that."

Twilight's eyes narrowed, "You weighed me, took my temperature, measured my blood pressure, tested my reflexes, looked in my ears and made me stick out my tongue and say 'Ahhh'. That's a total of six tests and not very informative ones at that."

"What do you want from me?" retorted the pony physician, "I'm just an old country doctor. I usually just handle things like the flu and the strangles. If you want more tests, I suggest you try going to the hospital."

Twilight crossed her fore legs and her face went into a pout, "I did that already, they said I had to be actually sick before they could admit me and run tests."

The doctor looked at her with a small amount of sympathy, "Well the only other I can do is send you out for blood tests," the doctor took out a medical form and quickly wrote on it, "and I can give you this." The doctor reached into a drawer and took out a lollipop.

Twilight looked at the lollipop with some disdain, "Do I look like a young foal?"

The doctor shrugged and started to put it back before Twilight stopped him, "I didn't say no."

With a lollipop in her mouth while magically folding the medical form and placing it into her book bag, Twilight walked out of the office into the waiting room where all her friends including Spike were sitting patiently.

"What?!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie, "You get a lollipop? He never gives me a lollipop!"

Applejack turned to her and smiled, "That's because yer always pretendin' to be sick, sugar-cube."

Rarity noticed the sour look on Twilight's face, "Darling, what's the matter?"

Twilight sighed, "The doctor doesn't know what's causing my eyes to glow. Not that it's surprising, he barely examined me. The least he could have done was order a CAT scan."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion with Rarity speaking up, "Do you want me to get Opal to look at you?"

"Hmmm? No, not your cat, I'm talking about a CAT scan. It stands for computerized axial tomography. It's where you rotate x-ray imaging by computer control which allows you to create a three dimensional image…and I just realized it hasn't been invented yet." Twilight put a hoof to her face with the realization.

"You know darling, this might not be medical problem but a magical one. You should go see Princess Celestia about this; she might know something about why this is happening to you."

"What? And bother her about something so trivial? For all we know this is just a normal side effect of acquiring Pandora's magic."

"What about Zecora?" suggested Spike, "She was the one that had that gold medallion thing, she probably knows all about Pandora and her magic."

Twilight mulled the idea over, "I can't think of any good reason why not, she probably knows more about magic than anybody. I'll go see her first thing tomorrow morning. In the meantime, we should consider doing something happier. Our little adventure caused us to miss Fluttershy's birthday. I say we organize a belated party."

"Yes!" came Pinkie's rather excited exclamation.

"Oh, no, it's okay, what is done is done; I'll have another one next year. No need to put yourselves out." said Fluttershy rather meekly.

Pinkie moved face to face with the yellow pegasus, "This is me, Pinkie Pie, how do you think missing your birthday party is making me feel? Do you think I can wait a whole to year to organize your next birthday party? I'm having trouble waiting a whole minute to go and organize this birthday party. But I am waiting, because I'm here for you, to console you, and to convince you that you will be putting me out by not letting me organize a party for you. So please, please, please…"

"Oh okay. I can never say no to you."

With Fluttershy's approval, Pinkie let out a squeal and raced out of the doctor's office.

Fluttershy turned to her smiling friends and said, "But all I want is a nice simple, small, quiet affair with….and I should have mentioned that before she left."

Her friends all nodded in agreement.