A Jolly Joke [April Fool's SPECIAL! One-Shot!] [Concluded]

[waxworks]

(( So with April Fool's Day stomping up quickly, I had a fun idea for a one-shot RP for everyone to join in on. The idea is you only need to post once, with your character taking part in a little mischief surging through Ponyville. It seems SOMEPONY saturated Ponyville's water supply with extract of poison joke as a prank. Now luckily it should all be cleared up in a day, but in the meantime... what's happened to your character? Feel free to break it up character by character if you want! ))

Waxworks, Dusty, and Powderkeg

A sharp, ringing, jingling sound echoed through Ponyville, as a fairly grumpy looking, waxy white pony trotted through the streets. She appeared to be trying to move cautiously, like she was walking through a room full of mousetraps and long-tailed cats, but every single little movement she made resulted in another symphony of jingling bells. Waxworks winced and sighed miserably. Ever since they'd had breakfast it had been nothing but ring-a-ding-ding, and when your profession involves you sneaking up behind people, the last thing you need is sounding like a box of windchimes going down the stairs.

She was so distracted that she didn't even notice as she smacked headfirst into a solid wall of blue fur.

"Eh?"

"AH! Dusty! I-" Waxworks frowned. Dusty was one of her favorite ponies to scare and now she couldn't even think straight. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I meant to scare you but I can't keep my thoughts straight with this ringing sound!"

"Skoo?"

"This!" She demonstrated, wiggling her ears and generating the sound of a service bell being dinged twice.

"Skabba da bee bah dwee bop bop."

The large blue pegasus grinned sheepishly while the little earthpony stared curiously at him.

"Are you okay?"

"Skee zwa, zwee dop pa dee bow."

Dusty shook his head and shrugged his broad shoulders. For some reason the only thing that would come out of his mouth was a mellow mixture of free form scat-singing. Of course he did rather like jazz-scat, but he also liked being able to talk to his friends and this wasn't helping in the least. He'd tried to explain to the other dust ponies but amidst the chaos of the morning he'd decided to just roll with it for now.

"Wow," jingled Waxworks, "I wonder if this kinda thing is happening to everypo-"

She was cut off as a tremendous explosion on the other side of town rapidly delivered a charcoal-colored package to their side of town. There was a twanged yell as a bat pony rocketed through the sky at high speed, and neatly collided with the big blue crash mat that was Dusty Pan. After a moment to lose her velocity, Powderkeg fell to the ground with a soft plop.

"Peeky!" Chimed Waxworks, "are you okay?!"

"SHOOT NO I AIN'T OKAY!"

The bat pony scowled as she got to her hooves and shook a cloud of smoke away from her face. "Gearshift musta turned up that heatin' machine or somethin'! I'm pickin' up static somethin' awful!"

Waxy leaned forward, jingling curiously, until a small bolt of blue lightning shot off of Powderkeg's pelt and to the end of the earthpony's nose.

"Wah! Sorry 'bout that, Waxy."

"No no, it was surprising," said Waxy gratefully, rubbing her snout.

"Skabba dwee zop zop skoo zibow bidah?"

"Eh?"

"Dusty can't talk right, and I'm making jingly sounds when I move. You should see Cobblestone, he's glowing like a firefly! I took him to Rivet to see if there was anything wrong with him, and she said it'd be a while."

"So wait, yer sayin' we all caught somethin' strange, and I got me a bad case'a lightning?! SHOOT! I work with blastin' powder! I can't afford ta have sparks sneakin' off'a my pelt!"

"Bow bow bow swee BADOW," said Dusty, trying to be helpful.

"Er, Dusty, y'all tried just writin' it down?"

The large blue pony slapped his forehead and nodded to Powderkeg gratefully, scribbling his hoof onto the dirt. He smiled and gestured towards it.

"Lessee here... he says... ...zop zoppa yow?"

Dusty groaned. Waxy jingled.

"Matchsticks, we gotta see if somepony knows what the hay's goin' on!"


Riddle Bits and Mezcal

"IY! Riddle, where chu go ponita?! I need to talk at chu, I'm not choking here, c'mon!"

The fiery red cow in a glittering mask was searching through the Bazaar frantically, and walking in a decidedly awkward manner. There was no sign of her unicorn friend anywhere, just the neatly displayed products, including what appeared to be some new sort of wig stand from the looks of it. It also was giving off a slightly muffled sound.

"Eh? Riddle?"

More muffled noises from the massive pile of mane in the middle of the Bazaar.

"Iy! Don't worry! I'm coming!"

The cow tried to rush towards the shaggy mass her friend was buried under, only to trip over her own hooves and bob gently through the air like a balloon. Mezcal flailed her limbs awkwardly until she bumped into the massive mane covering Riddle, and clung to her desperately. She dug a hoof in until she was able to free a light green muzzle from the tangled mess.

"Que pasa ponita? What's happening? I wake this morning, wash up, try out some high flying moves, and suddenly I'm floating to the mat like a bucketful of feathers!"

"I do not know," said Riddle, slightly muffled from the hole in her tremendous mane, "everything was fine until I got some breakfast, and then suddenly... I had a mane! And... lots and lots of it."

"Iy yi... chu don't mind me, I'm going to tie myself to chu so I don' lose track of chu, and chu don't lose track of me."

Mandolin, Cobblestone, Rivet, and Galvanic

Mandolin Gray skulked into the Ponyville Hospital emergency room, wrapped in a bathrobe. He was in a particularly foul mood, having awoken to his sister's silently laughing face, and the accompanying chorus of laughter from a half dozen puppets. It took him several seconds to realize why they were all giggling, when he looked down at himself to find his pelt, for lack of a better word, missing. He was shiny and pink, and tremendously cold and he didn't know why. He was absolutely certain his signature wood-pattern pelt was on him when he'd gone to sleep that night. He woke up, got a glass of water, went back to bed, it was still there. But now? Cold. Cold and wrapped in a bathrobe. His sister had sent him off to the Hospital just in case, and now here he was, sitting in a rather crowded waiting room amongst a number of other odd looking ponies.

A few fillies and colts were sitting on the floor playing with the sort of toy that was always in a hospital waiting room, and he rather fancied he recognized one of them. But he couldn't quite put his hoof on it.

"...Cobblestone?"

A glowing ray of sunshine turned towards him, "oh, hello Mr. Gray!"

"Oy! Laddybuck you're..."

"Glowing," beamed Cobble, examining one of his arms, "it was just after breakfast and I started glowing. It doesn't hurt or anything, but sis insisted I come here."

"Likewise," said Gray, settling in the robe, and pulling the hood up over his ears. Luckily he still had his mane, or he would've had a proper pony midlife crisis. "Well, I guess it's the same thing affecting everypony."

"IT SUUUUURE IS!" A voice that could best be described as a goat trying to alert a town to a fire while going into hysterics screamed that out to the assembled room. "SORRY ABOUT THAT! I DON'T MMMMEAN TO STARTLE ANYONE!"

"...Doc?"

Rivet turned to Gray, a rather garish smile plastered onto her face, making her look like half of the comedy and tragedy masks. Gray pulled his hooves into the robe in fright.

"HELLOOOOOO MMMMMANDOLIN!"

Mandolin recalled hearing a similar introduction just prior to a rock concert once.

"Er, hey doc. So is this... is this hitting everypony? ER! OY! Feel free to just nod yes and no."

The unicorn nodded her head, the strained grin still on her face.

"S'not... dangerous is it?"

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Several nearby ponies winced at the voice, "IT'S JUUUUST AN OUTBREAAAAAAAAAK WOOO YEAH!!! OF POISON JOOOOOOOOOOOKE, WE'LL HAVE EEEEEVERYPONY TAKEN CAAAA-HAAA-HAAAARE OF SOOOOON!"

Gray pursed his lips trying not to giggle. However, seeing the normally devoid Rivet Stitch suddenly wailing like the frontpony of an epic metal band was rather quite a treat, and he felt his mood improving significantly.

"Please, don't laugh at my friend's condition," came a simmering voice. Gray turned in surprise and slight embarrassment to suddenly see Galvanic Reaction peering at him from under her mane, her head leaning to one side against her shoulder and her posture noticeably different. Gray raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Gally you're..." He searched for a word that wouldn't get him swatted later, "particularly coy today."

"I can't help it," Galvanic purred, very much like a tremendous kitten. Mandolin was feeling exceedingly uncomfortable in his bathrobe.

Mannequin Grace

Grace sighed as Stump walked around her in circles curiously, poking at her legs. No sooner had she sent Gray off and had some breakfast when she'd suddenly felt a tremendous weight in her hooves, like she was wearing thousand-pound horse-shoes. She was able to move her legs with enough effort, but then her hooves would come crashing back down like an anvil. At the moment, she was wondering if she should try to sneak off of the stage to look for some help, but in the back of the head she was wondering if she'd crash through the creaking wood of the stage if she tried it.

Stump chuckled and patted her on the head.

[Lightning Clash]

((Yay! This looks fun!))

The morning sun was rising above the mountain tops in the distance. The sunlight slowly crept over the town of Ponyville. The sunlight beamed through Lightning Clash's window and very slowly, the sunlight directed itself into his eyes. Lightning shielded his face with a hoof and yawned as he was awaken from his sleep. He sat up on the bed and rubbed his eyes. Another day in Ponyville had arrived. Lightning guessed it would be a slow ordinary day in Ponyville. Then again, when was there a ordinary day? The word 'normal' did not exist, but this day was one that was off the scale. It started off fairly normal.

Lightning walked down the stairs of his house and had breakfast, drank some water and he checked if any mail had been delivered, stuff like that. He walked outside and took a huge breathe of air. The cool air like always was very refreshing. He looked around his street and noticed very few ponies were out. The ones who were out looked confused, upset, angry, too many looks to list. Was something going on today? He decided that he would fly over Ponyville and see if anything was up. He took a step back, as he usually likes to get a running start before flying, and started to run fast along the cobblestone walkway. He leaped off the ground and raised above the ground... Until he quickly descended and hit face first into the cobblestone.

He sat up quickly and rubbed his face to relieve some pain. He heard somepony in the distance laughing and his faced turned a shade of red. 'What happened?' he asked himself. He turned his head to look at his wings. Lightning nearly screamed after seeing his worst nightmare come true! His wings were missing! He looked around like a fool thinking they had fallen off. He continued to look like a fool by searching his house. He took a moment to think while he looked at his blank sides. "I need to find somepony who knows what's going on" Lightning said with a worried tone. He then dashed out the door in search of the answers.

[~Silly CC~]

Orange Crème de la Crème and Jasmine Lantern

Orange Crème de la Crème frowned. Something didn't taste right about the chai tea latte she had ordered at the Ponyville market. She was visiting for the day, and decided to not make her own tea that day. Perhaps it was because Ponyville's water was cleaner than the city water of Manehatten? She decided to go with that, though soon enough she'd discover that wasn't truly the case. She went on through the market, and bumped into a purple mare with large, fluffy hooves. 'Scuze me, miss, ah didn't mean in th' slightest t— Her mouth closed suddenly, her eyes as big as grapefruits. She cleared her throat and spoke again, Ah didn't mean t' speak like that, but ah— She stopped again, coughing up a fit.

The purple pony only started at her, before raising an eyebrow. Miss, is everything alright? She shuffled her large, fluffy hooves, and watched the orange unicorn hack up a lung, obviously in surprise of her voice. She wondered if something had happened to this mare as well; she didn't seem the type to have such a southern drawl. She again looked at her hilariously large hooves, and smirked a little. She was greatly surprised at how she kept the small teacup in her hooves at the café as she watched in horror at her growing hooves, and wondered what this mare had done to deserve this accent.

Orange Crème de la Crème was almost hyperventilating, listening to herself in horror. Jeh purle...ah, buck it! She said, surprised that she'd use such language. Ah think somethin' was wrong wit' mah tea... She said, appalled at her own mispronunciation of French words.

Jazzy nodded, she too had been drinking something when her hooves exploded into fur, That is probably true, for my hooves only grew after a drink of tea. She rubbed a furry hoof to her chin, wondering how this was possible.

Curtain Call and Chocomint Swirl

CC was not happy. For Celestia's sake, she had a performance in just a few weeks! She couldn't sing soprano with her voice like this. What had even caused this to happen? She cleared her throat again, still hearing the deep, bass voice coming through. She grunted and flew out the door, leaving a note that said she was visiting a friend. Glancing at the sheet of paper she'd attained from the minty pegasus, Chocomint Swirl, she found the mare at Sugarcube Corner. The lavender pegasus wondered how this mare could do without a job or home, but she assumed all was well.

Over here! The familiar voice of Chocomint Swirl called, and CC looked around the area, trying to find the spiky mane of her newfound friend. After one search failed, she rose an eyebrow, hoping the pegasus would notice her when her eyes failed. Once again, from behind her now, the pegasus called to her. Over here! CC turned around, surprised at what she saw. Yes, it was a minty pegasus, but the mane was...off...instead of the short, spiky, floppy mohawk, it was long, shiny, and wavy. Chocomint rolled her eyes. I know, I know, just sit down and we can figure this out. The surprised purple pegasus sat down adjacent to the minty one, and whispered in her ear. Whoah, She said, eyes widening. CC nodded, and Chocomint raised an eyebrow in surprise. Happened to you too, huh?

Yeah, CC said, her deep voice very odd with her light figure.

((I've decided to just use these ones, not all of them))

[shiningemerald]

(ooc: This is awsome i am rule 63 ARing this all the way and hey look Big Zam.)

Shining Emerald was a bit tired. He had been up almost all night tring to figure out how to make the flex elixir. supposedly it could cure most poisons but, it would be hard to make considering over half the ingredients he had only seen in canterlot and cost a good amount a bits. At least he had stored up a couple of them but, he needed a special order for the antidote herb+ which would cost even more money and it already was alot. "at least it would be useful in a pinch" The purple unicorn said and poured himself some water drinking it before he could tell something was wrong with it. Suddenly Emerald fell to the ground a huge pain in his chest. Was the water poisoned! He slowly got up and turned his faucet back on letting water out and into the sink. He knew what was in it easily "poison joke!" he said and fell again the pain intensifying making his stomach lurch.

Shining Emerald was on the ground for quite some time before the pain subsided and once it did he realy regreted drinking the water. He was now a small filly. Correction She was a small filly now. He...er She felt horrified she would be stuck like this then she remembered The elixir if the small green mained foal quicky ran to her already set up ingredients in her room checking and rechecking every thing to make sure she did it right. Once this was done Emerald felt more worried realizing that she still needed to order the antidote herb + to change herself to a nice big strong stallion! Emerald caught herself saying "keep it together even if a am a foal on the out side I am still a colt ont the inside!" She then made her mind. She had to go outside and order the herb somehow without attracting to much attention.

Emerald had ran all the way to the market but, the person who usely supplied him with his materials thought he was to young to be handleing his orde "why did I try to save money with my order by buying both the herb and the ice crystals?" She said depressed that she may be stuck like this. Just then she bumped into a mare running an apple kart "sorry I am in a bit of a rush see and." Emerald said looking up at the mare who then said "no problem sugarcube!" Shining Emerald smiled this farm pony seemed nice. That is when The unicorn noticed the blue herb near the bottom of the apple pile it was an antidote herb+ "Uh miss can I have that pretty blue flower there?" Emerald asked making sure to throw in the old sad eye trick. The pony then smiled and said "Why of course you can after all it's just a weed that must've gotten mixed in with some of the apples after all." Shining Emerald quickly took the herb "thanks!" then Emerald ran back to her house to finish the elixir.