Danny slowly woke up from his slumber. "Ah, it's a Sunday," he thought, and turned around in his bed, planning to take full advantage of this freedom by drifting off to sleep again. The only problem being that this didn't feel like his bed. Come to think of it, it didn't smell like his bed either. For some reason it smelled like horse. Or zebra rather, now that he remembered where he was. He pulled back the blanket and stepped on the cold wooden floor.

Only then did he realize that he had transformed back to human in his sleep. Now he stood fully dressed in the room. He glanced over to the zebra on the floor in the corner. Luckily, she was still fast asleep. Could you imagine what would've happened if she'd seen him as a human? Danny didn't want to think about it and transformed back into a pony. It took him a bit longer than normally, and it made him more tired too. He'd really have to get back to his own world soon, or else Zecora would still get to see his true form.

Just at that moment, Zecora's eyes fluttered open. She stood up, and looked over to the corner where her bed stood. "Good to see you're already out of bed, my chum. Now we must get you back to where you're from."

"That rhyme was a bit of a stretch," Danny muttered, but didn't say anything to Zecora. S

peaking of her, she had already grabbed a vial and had started filling it with the potion they had mixed last night. Danny trotted over to her. He looked to the vial, to see it was already filled.

"You will not need much per pony from this potion. One drop is enough to bring them back into motion," the zebra explained. She offered him the vial, and Danny accepted it from her with his levitation. "Now you only need to get back to your hometown. Tell me, you were from whereabouts?"

Danny looked uncomfortably around the room. "Well, uh, you wouldn't happen to have seen a giant toxic-green round swirly thing around here, would you?" He held up his hoof above his head. "About this big?"

Then Zecora did something he hadn't expected: she smiled. Saying nothing, she motioned for him to follow her, as she made her way outside.

They, unsurprisingly, ended up on the same big open spot Danny had noticed last night, but in the new light of day it had a much warmer and welcoming air. Now he could see why someone would want to live there.

He had lost sight of Zecora for a split second, when she didn't walk straight across the open space, like he'd expected her to, but instead turned 180 degrees around and went into the forest on the backside of her tree house. He quickly ran after her and bumped into her when she stopped only thirty steps later. He looked over her head, to see a familiar sight.

There, under vaguely familiar trees and plants, floated a giant toxic-green round swirly thing.

"I believe this is what you searched for?" Zecora asked with a smirk.

Danny laughed uneasily. "Heh, yeah, wouldn't you know it!" He trotted further to the portal, feeling the urge to transform back to his normal self grow with each passing second. "Thanks so much for the antidote and all the help!"

"You know where to find me, if you find you need my help some more," she answered him. Then Danny stepped through the portal, leaving Zecora behind.

When he got back in his own world, he immediately switched back to human. Grasping the vial firmly in his hands, he sighed. "Phew, not a moment too soon."

He looked up to see the stone statues of his parents still standing in action position. This way, it looked a bit as if they had been preparing to attack him, and he shivered. That was not a scenario he liked considering.

Before dumping some of the antidote on them, he looked around the lab for a pipette. He had no idea how many people had been hit by the cockatrices deadly gaze, and because Zecora had said that one drop would be enough, he decided to take her advice literally and not spill more than one drip per person.

Danny soon found a pipette laying on one of the iron tables around the lab. He filled it up with the potion, held the pipette above his parents heads, but then hesitated. If he had them running around town right now, it would be harder for him, Tucker and Sam to de-stone the rest of the town's population. His arm fell back to his side. Even though he would've loved to see his parents alive and well again, the safety of the town went first. He went upstairs, outside, and started walking towards the location of Tuckers statue.

Within no time he had de-stoned both Tucker and Sam. Since Danny didn't have any extra pipettes or vials, and they all three still had their Fenton-ear phones on, they decided that Sam and Tucker would search for all the victims of the cockatrice, while Danny would follow to treat them. With this system, they had cured the entire town within two hours.

Life started to show in Amity Park again. The roads were being driven, people were talking on the streets about their weird experience – 'For the life of me, I can't remember what happened!" "Me neither!" – and the trio watched happily as the town went back to normal.

That evening, Danny was watching the news with his parents and Jazz, whom he'd found standing in her room, with the window opened. He guesses that that was how the cockatrice had gotten out of the house, without waking him up: he fled through Jazz's room.

The reporter was standing again on the Amity Park park. "It appears that all the statues have disappeared here. No one has a clue what happened to them. It really is a very interesting story. All the people who went missing since the statues showed up have reappeared though. Who knows, maybe they actually were turned to stone!" he finished jokingly, while the camera switched back to the studio. "And that's the end of that story. Now we move to the weather, with Elsa. So, Elsa, how's it gonna be tomorrow?"….

Zecora kept standing in front of the green swirling vortex long after Danny had went into it. She went over everything in her mind again.

That pony really was mysterious. She had seen a great big flash from somewhere in the forest about a moon ago, and had immediately sped to it to see what it was about, if a forest fire had maybe started. But it was none of those things. Instead, a yellow alicorn in a ridiculous outfit was stammering about, looking rather terrified, while being illuminated by a green glowing floating… disk. Then something even weirder happened: He had turned into a… a…

Zecora realized she had no word to describe the being that had been left in the place of the pony. Whatever he was, he came back into this world every so often to drop of one of the inhabitants of the Everfree. The zebra guessed that they'd escaped into the creature – or rather Danny- 's world.

She smiled. She might not know what or where he came from, but for now she saw no reason to mistrust him. If they'd meet more often, perhaps he'd one day tell her. Content with her observations, having cleared up her head, she trotted back to her home.

And that concludes Mirrors and Stone! Finally! Sorry for the short chapter. Next 'episode' is gonna be a surprise. It'll hopefully be a bit of a mix between an actual episode and elements from the MLP universe. After that comes Vlad. But knowing my update schedule that'll probably be in the year 3000 or something.
Anyway, despite that I hope to update soon! (plz review it keeps me going and gives me life in my darkest hours)