Now outside the castle, the duo saw that... everything was dark.
Casting a simple light spell, Twilight looked around to assess the damage from what might have been an explosion.
The town of Ponyville seemed slightly blackened, but otherwise normal. Well, besides the strange yellow-green unicorn with rather colorful hair, who was shouting about... something. And the large number of birds nearby. Come to think of it, Twilight and the rather loud stranger were the only ponies around.
Seeing no other obvious course of action, the purple pair approached the green unicorn.
"Uh... who are you?" asked the Princess of Friendship.
"I'm the Princess of Parrots!" replied the Princess of Parrots.
"O... kay then. But what's your name?"
"My name's Mimic. What's your name?"
"I'm Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship." Twilight responded, a bit confused. Wasn't she famous or something? How did this pony not know her name?
"I'm the night." said a Seychelles black parrot.
"I am Batman!" declared a kea.
"Nobirdie asked you!" reprimanded a leaf lorikeet.
Twilight and Spike stared at the birds, then at Mimic. Mimic didn't seem to notice.
"I'm the unnecessarily large room." a regent parrot stated. The other parrots stared at it.
"So... what happened here?" Twilight inquired, getting back on track.
Mimic was silent. The regent parrot and leaf lorikeet were having a staring contest, and she was apparently judging said contest.
"Hello? I asked you a question..."
"Quiet. I'm doing my important princess duty."
The young princess and dragon stared at the apparently delusional unicorn who was staring at birds staring at each-other.
In short, there was a lot of staring.