With her potion making skills improving, Apple Bloom gained Twilight's permission to borrow a book about potion making. Not so long later, when the Cutie Mark Crusaders decided to make and use a potion to make things fly like magical pixie dust in a famous story. However, due to a mistake, the Crusaders ended up brewing a potion that obviously did not fulfil what they originally wanted it to do, but also accidentally spilled it onto themselves, turning them into birds.

As birds, the Cutie Mark Crusaders discover how different their world became, as they adventure around in their new forms before finding a way to change back to normal.

This story is mainly inspired by the Tangled The Series episode Freebird

This is my fourteenth overall story, and the first to focus on the Cutie Mark Crusaders, as well as the first to have its events taking place during MLP:FIM instead of after. It is also linked to most of my other stories, being a Friendship is Magic story that does not have the alternate universe tag.