Hi! Hyena King here! This chapter basically shows what happened to the various ponies with the shocking exception of Thunder and Lightning. Well, Without further ado, here's chapter 4!
"You think Twilight's gonna appreciate all the new books we got her?" Thunder asked as he and Lightning walked on towards the library, with boxes of books on their backs. "How should I know?" Lightning replied, "This was your idea, remember?" Lightning was more then a little peeved at having to carry these heavy boxes all the way to the library. This was not how he had wanted to spend the day. But no, Thunder just had to think of this little scam and have them drag themselves here then go on patrol to more pressing matters, like fighting monsters or something.
"Come on Lightning" Thunder said with a sigh, "As soon as we're done here, I'll buy us some cinnamon rolls." "You better for the trouble we're going through." Lightning responded. "Hey, Twilight!" Thunder said as he opened the library's door. "We got some-" the rest of what Thunder was going to say was cut off as he and Lightning found themselves staring at the mane six.
The ponies that stared back at them weren't exactly "normal" to say the least. Twilight's horn was dangling and limp, not to mention covered in polka dots. Pinkie's tongue was swollen and orange, also with polka dots. Rarity look like she took a bath in Rogaine, long strands of her fur hanging to the floor. Applejack was the size of a mouse and was, in fact, riding atop her "little" sister Apple Bloom. While there was nothing obviously wrong with Rainbow, she shouldn't have been laying on a pile of books and stuck in a ladder like that. And Fluttershy, poor Fluttershy? Well, actually she looked pretty normal.
The brothers just stared for a heartbeat. Then Lightning burst out laughing and collapsed on the floor, dropping his box of books as he did. Thunder held his hoof to his mouth to stop himself, but to no avail. Thunder burst out laughing and joined Lightning on the floor. Their laughter stopped when a book struck Lightning, making him yelp in pain.
"This isn't funny!" An infuriated Applejack cried. "OK, what happened?" Thunder asked recovering from his fit. Lightning simply got up, rubbing his head and growling under his breath.
"We were cursed!" Rainbow cried winning free of the ladder. Her condition became apparent as she flew around erratically, nearly crashing into everything. Lightning reached up and grabbed her, steadying her in mid-air. "And" Rainbow continued, "We'll find the cure to this at Zecora's place." "It's not a curse!" Twilight said, peeved at the mares conclusions.
"I agree with Rainbow." Applejack said simply, "we'll go there and make her lift this hex!" "It's not a hex either!" Twilight said, no even angrier. "Well, if it's not a curse, then what is it?" Lightning asked. As he did, he tied Rainbow's tail to a chair, keeping her in place.
"I,m not sure but..." Something suddenly dawned on Twilight. "Hey aren't you and Thunder having problems?" The pegasi stared for a minute. Then they examined themselves, looking for anything out of the ordinary. When none were found, They looked back at Twilight. "No" they both said.
"Strange." Twilight said. Before she could ask further, Rainbow suddenly spoke up. "I don't care what you say Twilight! It's time to pony up and confront Zecora! Who's with me!"
"I am!" Pinkie said, though her tongue made the statement almost incomprehensible. "And I as well." Rarity said simply
"I don't know." Fluttershy said, "It sounds really dangerous." Her problem became apparent as it was revealed that her normal, sweet voice was now deep and practically manlike. It was all the boys could do to keep from falling into another laughing fit. "What about you guys?" Rainbow asked turning to the brothers.
"Of course we are!" Lightning cried. "I don't think we should jump to conclusions." Thunder said. He was going to say more, but Rainbow had accepted Lightning's answer and had turned away, not even bothering to hear Thunder. "How bout you Applejack? Applejack?" The reason that she was no longer responding became apparent rather quickly. "She's gone!" Pinkie said, spittle flying as she said it. "Or somepony stepped on her!" Rarity cried. Soon, everypony was checking their hooves to see if that might have occured. Twilight's eyes went wide as she considered a more horrid possibilitiy.
"Or sat on her!" With that, everypony checked their flanks for any sign of flattened pony. Lightning caught a glimsp of Rainbow and looked at her flank, a big grin on his face. Thunder saw Lightning's expression and smacked him upside the head. Lightning rubbed his head and growled, but otherwise said nothing. After checking Rarity's now overgrown hair, much to the unicorn's discomfort, Twilight noticed something else.
"Apple Bloom is gone too.!" "I bet they went after Zecora!" Rainbow said. "Then we better look for them. Come on guys!" As they left, Thunder helped by lefting Pinkie up when her hoof caught one of Rarity's overlong locks. Lightning, on the other hand, grabbed hold of Rainbow and guided her out of the Library.
There you go. I realized that I had completely forgotten about Spike, but I'm posting this anyway as I saw it as inconsequential. Lightning's little "indescrition" is based of a scene in "Madagascar 3, Europe's most wanted." You know which one I mean. R&R please!