The forest was dark and scary as it always was. Yet there they where, both Snips and Snails.

"Are you sure this will work?" Asked Snips nervously looking around.

"Yes, it'll work. All we have to do is ask Zecora for help and everything will work." Answered Snails looking confident as he remembers the plan they had thought out.

"But what if Zecora doesn't want to help us? I mean nopony else did." Snips complained looking back where they came from. "Maybe we should go back?"

"What?! Snips, we already came all this way and you wanna go back now?" Snails said looking at Snips.

"...Fine, but she still might say no." Snips said after a while.

Snails started to wonder, why wouldn't anyone help them with their plan? Was it really so bad? Nah, they where all just scared of what everypony else would think if the plan went like it should. It was meant to work as something to get attention. And everyone would be happy afterwards, it was just a harmless joke on Rainbow Dash. That prankster needed some pranking back, and seeing how nopony else was gonna do anything about that Snips and Snails had chosen to do it themselves.

"Ah, there it is!" Snips exclaimed as he saw Zecora's house coming into view.

Walking up to the door the two unicorns looked at each other and nodded before knocking on the door in unison.

Glimmer was wondering, what would be the best course of action. There was somepony outside, on the other side of the door. But they didn't knock. It was as if they where waiting for her to open the door and just let them in. Glimmer was scared. It might be someone who knew Zecora, but also it could be somepony else. Glimmer decided to wait, to pretend that none was home. But it didn't seem to matter, they didn't leave. Glimmer started to panic, this really didn't feel right. "Maybe i should just ..." SMASH! Glimmer never finished her thought, something had started to bash against the door, as if it knew there was someone there. The door would not hold for long, it would probably swing open any second, the wood around the lock started to crack. "Who would try to bash in the door?" Glimmer thought right before the door swung open.

As soon as Snips and Snails touched the door it swung inwards, the lock mechanism was broken and the door had no resistance opening inwards. Inside was a mess, the cauldron in the middle of the room was lying on it's side and it's content lying all over the floor together with all of the previous content of the shelves in the walls.The walls and floor damaged by what looked like claw-marks. It looked like a crime scene.

Snips and Snails looked at each other, and ran for their lives, back to Ponyville. They where terrified, but they ran to tell everypony of what they thought had happened to Zecora.

"I'm sorry Zecora, I can't help you with this. I would love to but i can't." Twilight said looking as sad as if she had just failed a test.

Of all the things to happen today this was something Zecora was not prepared for, the last ingredient was unobtainable. The flower in question had nearly died out and was now under Canterlot protection for fear over the flower dying out. This means picking the flower without special permission was considered a crime. To get permission could take months and by then the potion would not be effective.

"This is trouble indeed, we're only trying to get one stupid little weed!" Zecora said in frustration. She never had this trouble before.

"But Zecora, is there no other way to make somepony remember  whatever they have forgotten?" Twilight asked, surprised how frustrated Zecora was.

"Unfortunately other methods are out of the question, as they cause great depression." Zecora said, but soon gained another idea. "Maybe, actually one, if we ask the Princess of the sun." Zecora said looking on Twilight with a slight smile.

Twilight, realizing she could still help and maybe learn something new got exited and nodded. If anyone would know of a spell or a safe way to bring someponys memory back it would be her or Luna. Calling spike and sending a letter to the princess didn't take long and soon she was standing alone with Zecora again. When about to suggest going and seeing this pony (mostly out of curiosity) Twilight noticed a commotion outside. Taking a look at Zecora she saw that the zebra had also noticed and they left the library to see what was going on.

As they neared the commotion Twilight recognized Snips and Snails telling other ponies something that sounded like an exaggerated story, however they looked utterly terrified. As Twilight made it to them with Zecora in tow asking them what had happened, they both looked at Zecora and realized their mistake. Soon they explain what they saw and how they ran back to Ponyville (leaving out the parts of what they thought had happened to Zecora).

Zecora and Twilight looked at each other in horror, this was bad. What Snips and Snails had described could only have a few meanings, thankfully some of the worst ones being unlikely as they said they hadn't seen any blood. But still, this was bad. Next Chapter: Chapter 4 Abducted Estimated time remaining: 7 Minutes