A gentle breeze rolled through the grasslands, its touch felt by the grass, who danced with joy, and by the magical storm cloud up ahead, changing everything in its path into something weird. Pursuing it were six ponies of varying shapes and colors, each trying to catch it.

"Come on, guys!" the leader, Twilight Sparkle, yelled. "If we don't catch it soon, it'll destroy all of Equestria!"

"Ah got this varmint! Yee-haw!" Applejack swung a rope that lassoed around the storm cloud. She grinned as she pulled it down, but a magical thunderbolt hit the rope and turned it into a hissing cobra that attacked her. She tried her best to wrangle him off, but she was powerless as it wrapped around her neck.

"No!" Fluttershy yelled as she stomped towards the snake. "Applejack is a friend! You let her go right now!" The snake did as she commanded. "Good boy." She petted the slithery creature as Applejack caught her breath.

"Come on!" The six ponies continued their journey to stop the rampaging storm cloud when, all of a sudden, a thunderbolt the size of a full-sized SUV hit the Mane 6 with all its power, leaving them unconscious and not knowing what would come next. In fact, you could almost see the storm cloud grin as it dissipated, all of its magic being used on them.

When Twilight Sparkle woke up some hours later, she sat up and suddenly felt…weird. She looked down, and she saw not hooves, but these long, claw-like appendages.

She let out a scream that woke the rest of the ponies up. Except, they weren't ponies anymore. In fact, they didn't know what they were. The creatures spent the next few minutes looking in shock at themselves and at their friends, trying to figure out what exactly was going on.

"Wait!" Twilight halted. "Maybe we should go to my house. There's probably an answer for this in one of my books."

"Sounds like a plan, Twi," agreed Applejack.

The creatures tried walking on all fours, but it was very weird and uncomfortable, plus their claw-like appendages got pebbles and dirt all in them, extremely bothering Rarity.

"You think maybe we're supposed to walk on two legs?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Hmm…" Twilight thought. "It does look like we're built for that."

The creatures stood on two legs. It felt more natural, for some reason, and all of them had the feeling of being much taller. Fluttershy was overall the tallest, towering above all of her friends.

"Let me see you for a second, Fluttershy." Twilight took some measuring tape she always carries around for some reason and measured her friend from head to foot.

"Oh, my gosh! Fluttershy…you're six feet tall!" The shy creature turned red at that.

"We're all a little taller," said Rarity.

"Hey, guys, have you tried this walking thing?!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie. "It's really easy! You just put one hoof in front of the other! Left hoof, right hoof, left hoof, right hoof!" Pinkie had mastered the whole walking thing in just a few seconds, and she was even moonwalking while reciting her mantra.

The others tried it too, all saying Pinkie's motto, walking away with her down the dirt road.