Twilight ushered her friends inside and left the crowd to fester in the sun.

"What's happening?" she asked.

"Ponies have been turning into alicorns all over town!" Pinkie Pie said, looking genuinely concerned. "They're all running about and ponies keep doing stuff for them!"

"You know that storm earlier?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"What storm? It was raining?" Twilight was confused.

"Alright," the pegasus said, sighing at her obliviousness. "Well, it was supposed to rain today, but one of these stupid new alicorns did something and made it go away! And over half the weather team doesn't even care about it! They said it was 'perfectly fine' for some idiot alicorn to get rid of their hard work!"

"Do you know what's causing this?" Twilight asked, not caring which of them responded.

"Well..." Rainbow Dash said, rubbing the back of her head.

"The ponies outside think it was you," Fluttershy muttered, stepping forward.

"What?!" the astonished alicorn asked. "Why do they think it was me?!"

"Well, you do mess up on your spells," Pinkie Pie said, hopping. "There was that time with the parasprites, that time with the Smartypants doll, and there was just a few weeks ago, when you screwed around with our cutie marks and made the whole town-"

"Alright!" Twilight yelled. "I see that I may sometimes mess up. So, the ponies out there think I made all of these... alicorns?"

"Pretty much!" the bouncing pink earth pony replied, a smile on her face.

"Well then I'll tell them otherwise!"

Twilight stormed out of the library and took a breath.

"Ponies-"

The crowd swarmed her, cutting off her sentence and leaving her flailing in a pile of fur and hooves. She sputtered in complete disbelief as her flank hit the ground and she was trampled senseless by the group.

"Stop!" she yelled in frustration, but her cry was ignored by the frenzy.

She began to lose her breath, slowly tumbling into unconsciousness, until she was saved by Rainbow Dash, who blasted the crowd apart and grabbed Twilight's hoof.

They landed on the doorstep of the library, where her friends formed a defensive ring around her, growling.

"Alright, ponies," Twilight said after catching her breath. "I see that you are angry at me, and that you think that these alicorns across town are my fault. I understand that my spells do misfire quite often, more than I realize, but I want to inform you that I am not the cause of this problem!"

There was a collective groan from a small portion of the mass. They slowly put away their pitchforks and torches with great sadness, mumbling under their breath. One of them slung his flamethrower over his shoulder and started to march home, anger in his eyes.

"I intend to get to the bottom of this!" Twilight yelled. "You can all go home!"

The crowd walked off, leaving Twilight and her friends to contemplate what to do.

~

Of course, that's what they would be doing if Pinkie did not pull an Xbox from beyond the fourth wall.

"You're terrible at this, Twilight!" Rainbow Dash said in hysterics as Twilight lost again.

Pinkie Pie laughed and stared at the TV, also pulled from beyond the fourth wall. After doing things that involved more fourth wall destruction, she had plugged it in and gotten everything working.

They had been playing a hacked Mario for the past few hours, and Twilight lost every time, barely even getting through half a level before dying.

"This game is so unfair!" she cried. "There's not even any science!"

"Oh, science!" Pinkie yelled, pulling out Portal 2. "I think I have just the game!"

~ A couple of life-wasting hours later in which the six could have been solving the alicorn dilemma...

"Ha!" Twilight yelled, successfully putting Wheatly onto GLaDOS. "I win!"

Her friends hugged her and laughed happily.

"I'm so proud, Twilight!" Fluttershy said. "You did such a good-"

And then Twilight's character was launched down the pit.

~ A few more life-wasting hours in which so much could have been done but wasn't...

The elevator went up, and the door open.

Turrets!

There was flinching, fear, and gasps. However, these were replaced as the turrets began to play a song (after Wheatly dies and stuff).

Eyes widened in awe as the song progressed, and ending, leaving them in a grassy plain. The door shut, but it reopened, and a cube rolled out. The door slammed shut again, and it went black...

~ After memorizing the credits song and singing it a million times...

"That was so much fun, girls!" Twilight said as Pinkie put up the Xbox and TV. "We should do that again!"

"Well," Rarity said. "It wasn't too much to my tastes, but it was still good. Now, we should get back to solving this alicorn problem. Does anypony have an idea?"

Twilight pondered in her head.

"Nope," she said, shrugging. "I guess we'll have to wait."

They all sat down in the middle of the floor and thought.

For a long time.

Author's Notes:

Here it is! Chapter 2!