My Little Pony: The Medicine of Friendship

Chapter 8

How To Cure a Fictional Virus

Twilight and her friends were all infected with a deadly alien virus that they caught from their friend Neo who caught the virus from a cursed book titled Mission to Zebulon, the ponies had lost their cutie marks and some of them were beginning to lose hope of getting cured, especially Pinkie Pie. Neo was trying to tell her to be optimistic about this, but Pinkie Pie was very sad, she was so sad that she had become Pinkamena, Neo rubbed Pinkie's head and tried to comfort her and get her to be cheerful again, but the longer Pinkie was sick, the more sad and depressed she got.

Twilight told Neo a story about Pinkie Pie's history, Twilight told Neo that Pinkie Pie grew up on a rock farm with her family and 3 sisters, she also mentioned that Pinkie Pie's real name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, which Neo found fascinating. She told Neo that back when Pinkie Pie lived on the rock farm, she was always depressed and wished she had a better life. But then one day when she saw a sonic rainboom, she smiled as she looked at it, it made her so happy that she dedicated her life to spreading joy to other ponies. Soon after that she threw a party and invited her family to it, they didn't like it at first, but they eventually smiled and had fun at the party and that was when Pinkie Pie earned her cutie mark. Neo was fascinated by Twilight's story about Pinkie Pie's history, he was so happy to know a pony like Pinkie Pie.

Then there came a knock at the door, Twilight opened the door, once again there was nopony there, but she saw a book in front of the door, it was the book of various spells by the legendary Star Swirl the Bearded that she had asked for. Twilight grabbed the book and closed the door, she frantically began searching through the book to see if there were any spells that could cure Neo's virus. Twilight looked through the book and saw various magic spells, then she came across a spell that Star Swirl the Bearded called the alien plague cure spell. Twilight was shocked when she saw this, she looked at the spell and Star Swirl had described the same exact symptoms that Neo had and even mentioned that the virus infects the victim through a book called Mission To Zebulon, this really surprised Twilight, she said that Star Swirl the Bearded had read this book and got infected with the virus just like Neo, and he was trying to find a way to cure it. Twilight looked at the spell he had, but sadly, the spell was unfinished.

Neo, Spike and the ponies couldn't believe, even the legendary pony wizard Star Swirl the Bearded couldn't find a way to cure the virus from this cursed book. The 8 friends couldn't believe it, now they were wondering what to do now, they were wondering if there was any hope for them now. Twilight mentioned that there was no cure in the book and everypony infected with the virus in the book died from the virus, Spike said, "So we're just going to die, because some lousy writer couldn't come up with a happy ending?" Twilight said, "I'm starting to think that whoever wrote this book didn't want there to be way to cure the virus, I think the writer put a curse on the book that whoever reads the book would be infected with the virus the writer created in the book, I think the only way to cure this virus is we have to use our imagination and our friendship to create a cure." Spike said, "I've lost you Twilight." Twilight said, "An imaginary virus calls for an imaginary cure." Spike said, "We're dying Twilight, we need a real cure." Twilight said, "The only way for us to cure this virus is we have to rewrite the ending to this book and give it a happy ending." Spike said, "How are we going to do that?" Twilight said, "This is where Star Swirl the Bearded failed, he couldn't finish the cure because he was trying to find a real cure for the virus, but he couldn't figure it out, he didn't realize that the only way to cure the virus was to use his imagination and rewrite the ending to the book and the virus would have been cured, but sadly, he mentioned in his spell book that after you're infected with the virus for 10 days, nothing can save you, not even alicorn magic, by then it was too late, the virus purged all Star Swirl's blood and killed him." Spike said, "That was why this book was in the Star Swirl section in the Canterlot Library, he had been trying to fight the virus in this book." Twilight said, "That's right Spike, and now it's all up to us now, only we and we alone can cure this virus, but we have to work together to cure it." Neo said, "I've been infected with this virus for a week now, we only have 3 days left to cure it, if I die, all of you will die and I can't let that happen." Twilight looked at Neo and said, "I know Neo, don't worry, we will beat this, you just have to hold onto your faith." Neo said, "I believe in you Twilight, I know you can beat this, you can cure me." Twilight said, "Yes, but we have to work together to beat this, let's start coming up with a cure."

The 8 friends put their hooves, claw and hand in the air and cheered for themselves, knowing that they will cure the virus. Twilight worked on coming up with a cure for the virus right away, Neo played a song with his mind and sang it to his friends while Twilight worked on creating a cure for the virus ("Hallelujah" by John Cale). Meanwhile in Ponyville, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were sitting in their clubhouse, they were very worried about Neo and the ponies, deep down in their little hearts, they were holding onto their faith, hoping that Neo and the ponies will get better.

Back at Canterlot Castle, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were also holding onto their faith, also hoping that Neo and the ponies would get better, they touched their horns and held their horns together, believing that Twilight will come up with a cure for Neo's virus, but they knew that Twilight had to work fast, they knew she was now infected and they also knew that if Neo dies from the virus, then the ponies and Spike will die as well. But they were still hoping and holding onto their faith, they believed deep down in their hearts that Twilight will cure Neo's virus, and they knew that Twilight will have to create a cure quickly before it's too late.

End of chapter 8, chapter 9 coming soon.