Applejack was hyperventilating in panic as Twilight tried to calm her down.

Twilight was waving her hooves, “AJ you have to keep it together.  The last thing you want to do is panic!”

Applejack shook her friend, “AHM MADE OF RUBBER, YER GOLD, AND PINKIE’S FLOATING IN A HOLE!! THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME TO PANIC!!!!!”

Pinkie Pie was casually eating popcorn when a flash of white accompanied by the smell of marshmallow’s entered the area.

All looked to reveal a slightly cleaner Rarity who had achieved her usual look, “Oh thank goodness!”

Twilight hugged her friend immediately, “Rarity I was so worried!  What happened to you after the spa?”

Rarity’s smile vanished, “Wait a moment, you mean this,” she took in her surroundings and clicked her tongue, “Well it seems I’ve arrived a tad earlier than I expected, but granted this happened already…”

Rarity trailed off when she noticed her friends lost expressions, “Let me explain, Twilight, this all happened because of-“

Rarity popped out of existence.

Applejack was desperately grabbing at the air, “No come back!!”

Pinkie Pie gazed in awe, “Wowie!  I didn’t know Rarity could time travel!”

Twilight blinked, “Yeah…I forgot to mention that.”

Applejack was on the brink of having a panic attack, “What’s happening!  What is all this!? WHY IS THIS HAPPENI-“

Twilight silenced her with a hoof, “I said panicking won’t solve anything.  Applejack, I’m going to remove my hoof and when I do I want you to calmly breathe alright?”

Applejack nodded as Twilight removed her hoof.  Applejack then began to breathe.

Twilight stood tall and looked around, “Alright here’s what we’re going to do.  We’re going to grab Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, hopefully Rarity will catch up.  Then we’re heading to Canterlot to figure this out.”

*

Rainbow Dash was having a ball!  When she woke up she felt more invigorated than usual and sought out the days challenge’s but found that the usual business was moot due to the fact she had the day off.  SO taking the opportunity to relax she lounged on a nearby cloud and watched the clouds just linger in the sky.  After a while she began to see shapes and began to point them out for fun.

Rainbow laughed, “Okay that one looks like a bowl of hay fries.”

The minute that was uttered a surge of purple lightning shot out from her forehead and smacked into the cloud which then changed into a bowl of hay fries and landed on Dash’s stomach.

Dash immediately flew up and away from the bowl like it was filled with acid, “WHAT THE?!”

She then glimpsed at another cloud and rubbed a hoof in her chin, “Hm, become…A CLOWN!”

The same result took place as the cloud transformed into a clown Pegasus who plopped onto the cloud she had been resting on in confusion.

Dash rubbed her hooves together, “Oh this is going to be fun.”

*

Twilight knocked for the fourth time on Fluttershy’s door and received no answer, “Where is she?”

Applejack stood beside her, “Maybe she’s out?”

Pinkie shook her head as she floated beside the pair, “I’m telling you she’s here.  I asked her yesterday if she wanted to hang out today but she said she was going to be here all day doing some cleaning.”

All of a sudden the mares heard a series of slow movements and the door creaked open to reveal Fluttershy with a bandanna tied around her mouth.

Twilight raised a brow at this, “Fluttershy why are you wearing that?”

The Pegasus produced a small note pad and scribbled on it, “It’s so I don’t talk.”

Applejack raised an eyebrow as well, “What the hay is the matter?  Why can’t you talk?”

Fluttershy then scribbled, “When I woke up this morning something really bad happened.”

The sound of crashing wood reached the mares ears as Fluttershy’s ears folded back, “I blew up a portion of my roof.”

Twilight looked at her friend in concern, “How did you do that?”

Fluttershy motioned them to stand aside as she walked out and made a covering gesture toward her ears.  Her friends reluctantly covered their ears as she removed the bandanna and inhaled.

Fluttershy then did a simple, “Yay.”

Usually nopony would think much of it.  But in this case her usual volume sky rocketed as a nearby tree was blown to bits.  Fluttershy quickly put her bandanna back on as Twilight stared wide eyed.

Twilight then heard a crashing sound in the distance, “We have to find Rainbow.”

*

Rainbow Dash was staring at the train she had just made, “Wow, ok this is awesome!”

Rainbow climbed aboard, “All aboard the Dash Train!”

The sound of a throat being cleared removed her from her fantasy as she took notice of her friends, “Oh hey girls, what’s up?”

Twilight stepped forward, “Rainbow Dash, what did you do?”

Dash looked to the sky, “Oh nothing major.  I CAN TURN CLOUDS INTO STUFF!!”

Twilight was surprised to say the least, “Seriously?”

Dash nodded as she looked at a nearby cloud, “Become a cider barrel!”

A cider barrel then crashed down in front of her, “I’m awesome!”

Twilight walked over to Dash, “Rainbow, though this ability is quite intriguing and I have to admit is pretty awesome.  We have to fix this.”

Dash deadpanned, “We’re going to the princesses aren’t we?”

*

Dash’s answer came in the form of a teleport to the Canterlot throne room.

Twilight approached, “Princesses we have a major problem!”

Celestia’s voice was heard from behind her throne, “I’ll say.”

When she walked out the ponies gasped as Celestia…meowed.

The kitten before them had the same color scheme as the beloved princess and adornments except for the absence of her horn and wings.

Celestia looked at herself and at the assembled ponies, “I’m afraid the current situation is less than purrfect.”