“Are ya sure 'bout this Spike?” Applebloom asked as her and the other members of the group gathered around the road leading to Canterlot. “It seems awfully dangerous for us ta go out on our own like this.”

All six of the ponyville pony protectors had gathered at the edge of town, their suits already on and each carrying a saddlebag filled with provisions. Applebloom had on her suit, much like Spike's and the others' it covered her full body, but hers was colored a darker red and cream than her mane and coat. She wore a cape and her bow on her head instead of a hat, also darker in color than her original bow. Scootaloo had a suit fit with a hat and bat wings that went over hers, making them resemble... well, bat wings, while her colors also matched her normal coat, except a darker shade. Sweetie Belle was the same, except her unicorn horn had a more spiked tip from an overlay of the costume. Also, her cape swirled at the end, similar to how her mane swirled. Snips and Snails had matching outfits for each other, with Snips having a chrome and dirty green color suit while Snails had a chrome and tan colored suit.

“But that's what adventure is all about!” Spike reasoned. “I just saw Twilight go this way not long ago, so if we hurry, we might be able to catch up to her and try to help her.”

“I still can't believed she escaped the princesses!” Scootaloo said. “That makes her totally awesome in my book, but still not as awesome as Rainbow Dash, of course.”

“Hey Spike, why didn't you just talk to her when she came back to the library all last night?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“Well, it's actually cuz I didn't know she got there, remember?” Spike explained. “We all grouped up late that night, then we decided to go to bed first, and Snails had to go to dinner...” Snails nodded. “So, I went to bed, and when I woke up I saw that she had been here. When I looked out the window, she was off in the distance on this road, so that's when I ran around town gathering all of you guys up, make sense?”

“Ooooh,” The group said collectively.

“So what are we waiting for?” Snips bounced in excitement. “Lets be the pony protectors we swore to be!

“Yeah!” Snails added. “Let's go and stop the princesses!”

“For our friends!” Sweetie Belle cheered.

“Fer our families!” Applebloom hollered.

“For awesomeness!” Scootaloo yelled.

“For Equestria!” Spike added in last, followed by the group cheering out enthusiastically.

The group gathered up at that, and quickly began to gallop down the road (or run, in Spike's case), knowing that a great adventure awaited them.

Applejack rapped her hoof on the large wooden door before her, hoping it would be a loud enough knock to be heard throughout such a large building. The rest of the group stood behind her, all eagerly waiting for a response from the owner, save for Rarity who secretly hoped the pony of interest would not show up. They stood there for a minute before Applejack gave another knocking, making sure that last one was louder. Still, no response.

“Well, it seems that he's not home,” Rarity spoke up with a weird smile. “Let's all just go try somepony else who might know about the princesses! Trixie, dear, who would be the next pony to ask?”

“Trixie does not know the identity of anypony else, unfortunately...” Trixie sighed. “This Blueblood is the only name Trixie could get from that stubborn guard captain.”

“Well we can't just give up now,” Rainbow Dash offered. “C'mon, just let me fly into one of those windows and I'll get him out here myself.”

“I don't believe that will be necessary,” came the voice of an elderly pony from the other side of the door.

All six of them looked as the large doors opened up slightly, revealing an elderly butler with a light brown coat and a very light gray mane and mustache, one so well managed it would make Spike jealous. He had on a full butler outfit, complete with a fancy cloth draped over one of his shoulders and a monocle over one eye.

“How may I be of service to you all?” The butler pony asked.

“Allow Trixie...” Trixie said softly as she stepped forward from the group, approaching the old stallion. “Ahem, I am the Great and Powerful Trixie. I seek an audience with Prince Blueblood over a very important matter.”

“The prince is busy at the moment,” he replied, keeping his voice monotone. “Would you like to schedule some sort of meeting for later?”

“No, Trixie must speak with him now. The fate of Equestria may very well hang in the balance, as it involves both of the princesses!”

“Both this time?” He raised an eyebrow. “I will see what he has to say, wait one moment please.”

The butler closed the door and was heard trotting away. The group waited more, a few light conversations taking place during that time. They were getting impatient though, especially after they realized that they had been standing there for twenty minutes with no response. Trixie was about to knock on the door herself when another magical force grabbed hold of the handle and began to pull open the door.

“May I ask who it is that approaches my wonderful home?” Came the voice of a soft, sincere stallion as he came into view. The group immediately realized it was Prince Blueblood, as Trixie cleared her throat to speak.

“I am the Great and Powerful Trixie,” she introduced herself with a bit of a magical spurt and a bit of a cape flutter. “Me and my compatriots here seek your aid in helping cure the plague that has come upon the-”

“EEEUCK!” Blueblood suddenly gasped as he looked upon the group, immediately loosing his gentlemanly profile that he had originally made upon first sight. “Commoners! Get away, all of you, shoo!” He said, his magic quickly focusing on the door to close it.

“Wait!” Trixie called out as her magic held the door open. “We must speak to you, it is urgent!”

“Go away you filthy creatures!” his voice actually started to sound scared. “I thought my butler was actually showing me to some real ponies, not piles of utter waste!”

The group gasped in disgust at Blueblood's hurtful words.

“What!?” Trixie raised her voice, almost screaming. “Pile of utter... The Great and Powerful Trixie shall not be talked to in such a way!” she focused her magic more, forcing the door open and revealing the prince inside. “Trixie has tried to be professional with you, but it seems she must resort to other means to get what information she wants!” The group of friends behind Trixie glared angrily at the misfit prince, save for one pony who had just about had enough.

“Halt your defiled hooves where you stand, peasant!” Blueblood spat, suddenly turning aggressive. “This is my mansion, and I can easily have you thrown out whenever I so please! Now, I don't think I care for what you have to say anymore, so you beasts can just see yourselves to the-EEUWAAH!”

Before Blueblood knew what hit him, an assortment of ribbons and cloth sprung out of nowhere, effectively bounding his limbs together and floating him upside down over the ground. He looked around frantically, and saw a purple-maned and white-coated unicorn approach him with the most infurated expression he had ever seen.

“Y-y-you...!” Blueblood managed to get out. “You're... you're that fiend!”

“My NAME is miss Rarity the Unicorn, and you, you... you absolutely pompous and overly proud waste of royal ass!” The rest of the ponies stared on at Rarity's use of profanity, yet did nothing to stop her as her magic tightened the hold of the fabric around Blueblood. “I would rather be stripped of all my fur and dumped to the deepest depths of froggy bottom bog with a sludge monster infected with some unknown disease than have to deal with your incompetent and unmannerly suck you call a muzzle! The only royal thing you deserve is to be royally shipped out of Equestria and into the deepest, darkest hole in the Dragon domain waiting for some beast to relieve themselves all over you, and perhaps then you would at least smell better than your foul suck-hole is making you seem right now!”

Damn.

Rarity's outburst left in its wake utter silence. Even Trixie was taken aback, her jaw practically on the floor, as was the jaw of everypony else's in the room. Rarity continued to fume, and it almost seemed as if steam was literally streaming out of her ears still. After half a minute she seemed to recompose herself a bit, even taking the time to close her eyes and clear her throat some.

“Now then...” she started in a low growl, still glaring at Blublood as he stared back in fear for his life. “My friends and I need help... and you're going to tell us what we need, right here, right now... do I make myself clear?”

“Uh, I... I...” Blueblood struggled some, trying to work out of his restraints. “Can you undo me first...? P-please?”

A small grin slithered onto Rarity's face, knowing that Blueblood had probably just said the magic word for the first time in his life. Slightly satisfied with that, she let up on the fabrics she held around him until they were all let loose, allowing the prince to fall ungracefully onto his swayed red carpet. He winced in pain before groaning pitifully for a few moments as he got to his feet. He looked back at Rarity, then again at the group behind him, a drop of sweat sliding down from his forehead.

“Uhm...” Blueblood started. “What... what is it you peas-uh, I mean, ponies want again?”

“Some knowledge,” Trixie spoke up. “And perhaps some help, if you somehow hold such a thing within the confines of your person...”

“What do you want to know about exactly?” Blueblood watched Trixie approach her a couple of steps after saying this.

“Trixie knows all about how your family has special 'secrets' with the princesses...” Trixie began. “However, we only need to know about one in particular. Tell us, what do you know about Princess Celestia and her Molestia side?”

Blueblood froze at this, and then put on an utterly disgusted look.

“Euck, that secret...”

“What we need is a way to stop whatever has influenced Princess Celestia, a spell or magical artifact of some sort that would without a doubt work. Do you know of such a thing by chance?”

“Hmmm...” Blueblood turned serious, squinting his eyes as he rubbed a hoof on his chin in thought. For a few moments he stood there, thinking deeply, before perking up with an idea. “Indeed, I have a way to help.”

“Really!?” The group asked in unison.

“Of course! But we require a unicorn with intense magical abilities...”

“The Great and Powerful Trixie fits that profile perfectly...” Trixie boasted, a few of the friends behind her sighing in reaction.

“Then listen close, because the method I am about to tell you requires skill in the fields of mental magics and sealing spells...!”

The group's enthusiasm dropped suddenly, as they realized what he was talking about.

“Hold up a dern second,” Applejack spoke up. “Are you about to tell us about some spell that will just seal the Molestia side of the princess back inta her mind?”

“Why of course!” Blueblood was caught off guard by the commoner's knowledge. “How would you know of such a thing?”

“Because we already tried that...” Rainbow Dash huffed.

“You have!?”

“Yeah!” Pinkie said as she began to play out what happened with body motions and effects. “Princess Celestia turned Molestia by a mishap spell cast by Luna! She then went to ponyville and started finding all of us one by one and doing really meany things when she got us alone and Applejack really had it hard especially when she made her and her brother get molested with her both at the same time and even against each other and I'm not sure but someponies have said that she might need to have a pregnancy test taken yet she always bucks at anypony that says anything about that so we don't like to talk about it and then Luna came with a bunch of guards and Trixie here to try to stop her and they failed and that's when we all used the elements of harmony to use our big rainbow to change Molestia back to Celestia! But then a few days Luna started to come at us too and-” The writer would like to make it clear that making such a large run-on sentence hurts him inwardly, and he would very much like to stop. Thank you.

Pinkie Pie continued to, all in what seemed to be one continuous breath, explain everything that happened from when Celestia had the spell cast on her all they way up to where they were now, in surprisingly accurate detail. Other than a few details, Prince Blueblood pretty much got the entire summary of everything that has happened up to the point to where they were now, along with half a cupcakes recipe, a story about a blue bouncing ball Pinkie Pie once owned, and something about her creating Equestria that nopony could really mentally grasp onto.

“-and then you asked how we've already tried that and then I started to tell you that Princess Celestia turned Molestia by a mishap spell cast by-” An orange hoof shoved into her mouth, finally silencing the overly-energetic pony.

“Ah think he gets it now Pinkie...” Applejack deadpanned. “So, the spell won't work, bottom line. That an Luna's somehow got it too... and ah certainly hope it ain't nuthin contagious.” Applejack shivered lightly at the thought.

“And with our dear friend Twilight in the princess' hooves, we need to come up with our own way to stop them, save her, and turn things back to normal. So, please, is there any other method you can think of to help us?”

“Hmmm... there might just be one...” Blueblood said softly, turning his head to the side to look at nothing in particular. “It's a longshot, but I may have an idea.”

“Would you please tell us?” Fluttershy asked, her voice barely audible. “We really want to go save our friend and go home... please.”

“Well...” Blueblood stammered slightly. “I really shouldn't be saying it, and it certainly shouldn't be attempted, but there is one being out there that can stop the princesses...” Blueblood suddenly became nervous, a few more beads of sweat sliding down his face.

“Well?” Rarity asked, getting impatient. “Go on, tell us who it is! We need to seek out this pony at once!”

“Well, that's just the thing,” Blueblood began. “He's not a pony at all.”

“He's not?” The group asked in unison.

“No, he's, umm...” he stopped, placing a hoof on his chin to think for a few moments. “Um, Actually, I forgot his name, so I'm going to go look it up again.”

“W-wait a second!” Trixie tried to call after Blueblood, but he quickly retreated behind one of the many large wooden doors in the mansion, calling out and saying that he will be right back when he gets the name.

Trixie huffed, not at all impressed with this so called “prince.” If anything, the group began to figure that he was using this time to either escape, go get some guards to see them out, or a combination of the two. This theory was more-so cemented into their thoughts after they ended up standing around for over twenty minutes (as told by Rainbow Dash's custom crayon watch, which Pinkie Pie could somehow read). During this episode of standing in the still-open main entrance of the mansion, the group had begun discussing to themselves who the mystery being might be.

“I think it's a dragon!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “I mean, only a really old, magical, ancient dragon of ultimate wisdom thing could have the power to stop the princesses, right?”

“I think it's an alien!” Pinkie Pie bounced with joy for some reason along with her statement. “Can you imagine how much fun that would be to have a new alien friend around?”

“An alien? Pinkie Pie, I don't mean ta get your mane ruffled, but yer not exactly thinking along the lines of like, real possibilities here.”

“I agree darling, though I for one am with Rainbow Dash on this. A sort of ancient dragon does seem plausible, or perhaps a griffon.”

“Or a minotaur, don't forget about them,” Fluttershy added.

“What about a Zebra?” Twilight asked from beside Fluttershy. “I hear they have some of the strongest potions ever!”

“It could be a zebra,” Rarity thought to herself. “I certainly don't think we should assume it otherwise Twilight, however we don't... know... just....”

Everything went dead quiet as everypony realized exactly who had joined them. They all looked wide-eyed at Twilight Sparkle, standing right beside Fluttershy with a cheerful smile on her face.

“TWILIGHT!” They all gasped out in unison as the group – save for Trixie – proceeded to pounce on their egg-head friend, more glad than ever that she was okay.

Twilight and her friends smiled, laughed, and enjoyed a simply euphoric few minutes together, once again united safe and sound. It was only after the initial surprise that some began to as questions, starting with Trixie.

“Wait a second,” Trixie spoke up, garnering the attention of all six friends. “Twilight Sparkle, is that you again?”

“Well hey Trixie!” Twilight smiled, happy for some reason to see Trixie or just not caring that she's supposedly her rival. “How have you been?”

“W-wait, Trixie must know, how in Equestria did you manage to escape the princesses?”

“Hey yeah,” Applejack said as her and her friends lightly backed up from around Twilight, giving her some space to explain herself. “How did ya get away from the princess' an all?”

“Well...” Twilight chuckled nervously. “It's sort of a long story...”

“Are you ponies crazy?” Pinkie Pie exclaimed. “Twilight's back, and she's okay! This calls for a celebration party!” Pinkie Pie wrapped her front legs around Twilight's neck, embracing her in a hug.

“Yay,” Fluttershy cheered softly as she also gave Twilight a hug.

Twilight smiled at their display of affection, and decided then to give her own. She returned both their hugs, but in its apex, Twilight leaned her head over and gently licked her tongue against Fluttershy's cheeks. Fluttershy's eyes opened wide... something was wrong.

“U-um, Twilight?” Fluttershy blushed, followed by a light squeak when she felt a hoof rubbing against her flank.

“Yes Fluttershy?”

“Uh, w-w-why did you, l-lick me...?”

“Why wouldn't I?” Twilight replied before turning to Pinkie and licking her on the cheek. “Mmm... tastes like cupcake frosting!”

Pinkie frowned at Twilight's recent actions. It was affection alright... too much affection.

“Twilight, dear, are... are you okay?” Rarity asked hesitantly, getting the feeling that something very wrong with Twilight.

“I'm great Rarity!” Twilight replied cheerfully... too cheerfully. “You should join us,” Twilight gave the fashionata a sultry wink as her horn lit up, grabbing onto Rarity's body and pulling her into the hug.

Rarity had no time to react, her face was pulled in and her lips immediately connected to Twilight's as both of Twilight's hooves were being used to stroke against Pinkie and Fluttershy's flanks. Rarity immediately tried to pull back, not at all comfortable with such a greeting from one of her best friends. The other ponies quickly came to the conclusion that something was indeed wrong, and before anypony did anything, Rarity's body, along with Pinkie and Fluttershy's, were pulled away from Twilight's by a blue aura. Twilight looked around disappointed at first, but then surprised to see Trixie's horn glowing with magic, and an angry glare on her face.

“Everypony get back!” Trixie ordered as she got into an attack-ready pose. “Trixie knows there to be something wrong with Twilight!”

“But there's nothing wrong with me,” Twilight simply shrugged before looking over to the farmer pony, giving her a few shakes of her eye brows and a low, seductive growl.

“Dern right there is!” Applejack proclaimed as she reared back from Twilight's looks. “Twi', what in the hay has gotten into you!?”

“Oh girls,” Twilight giggled. “You know, Princess Celestia told me about the last pony that asked her 'what had gotten into her'.” Twilight's audience suddenly had a very good idea of what was going on, their eyes growing even larger as Twilight continued. “And do you know what Celestia said?”

Nopony had a time to reply. Magic rapidly poured out of Twilight's horn, grabbing a hold of everypony there and pulling them around her, all their bodies within reach. Twilight snickered deviously, a wide grin spreading to her face.

“It is not what has gotten into me, but instead, what is going into you!”

End part 1