[Sora comes onscreen, back to his human self. Luckily, his Cambot isn't busted or anything, but he still looks pretty embarrassed and upset with himself.]

Uhh, h-hey, everyone. It looks like we're back to our normal selves now! And that dragon-horse guy is gone! I guess I wasn't the only one he was messing with, but...that was like living in a really weird nightmare.

Listen...I just wanted to apologize to anyone I hurt. I was a total jerk. And I'm really sorry that I said that stuff...I don't mean it at all.

[Lea is fuddling with try to open a soda bottle with his hooves. The cap winds up smacking him in the face.]

UGH! Is anyone else having a problem being a freakin pony around here?!

OOC: This is before Discord.

[Since her encounter with Discord, Aqua has been keeping largely to herself. It's not for love of solitude, however, like one might easily expect. No, it's simply that she doesn't much care to speak to any else (she has no responsibility for their antics and no real interest to involve herself, either) and has been lucky enough to avoid the roving Cambots.

By the time one catches up with her again, she's leaving the media deck, with a pair of books balanced on her back. It's not the easiest thing to manage, and she knows the books aren't the best. But she expects nothing less than utter perfection from herself and if she can't pull some small fragment of useful information out of even these books then something is dreadfully wrong.

Still, for all she notes the Cambot's presence as it follows her along she makes no indication of it, nor does she shoo it away. She sees no reason to bother, after all.]

[There's a cloth over Cambot's lens. An equine shadow can be seen with the occasional twinkle shining through the cloth. It looks like the pony's wearing something, based on the shadow shape? Maybe a cloak? Or maybe just a sheet. Or maybe it's trying to be a ghost! It's make sense, since it appears to be floating. Hard to tell. And for some reason in the background a certain song can be heard. It repeats itself. Cambot isn't the one playing it.]

[A voice comes over from the figure. It's deep and smooth, though the tones and mannerisms are all somehow still distinctly casual and natural.]

I need a hand. Can someone help me tie these hand weights to my feet? I'm tired of floating off everywhere, but I'm not having a lot of luck doing this with my mouth and a hoof.

[Here's Minakopony, with a not-kicked-in-by-back-hooves Cambot, looking...well. Serious. Which is a sign that srs bsns is about to happen. So she clears her throat.]

Ok, roll call time!


Who here on this ship has their colors intact, doesn't hate everyone and doesn't want to kill people? Show of hands and hooves! I need to know sooner rather than later because...well, it's probably pretty obvious why and if it isn't I'm willing to explain!

[Up in the cockpit, there’s a sudden flash of lightning and a burst of pink smoke...and out of the smoke emerges a strange, haphazard creature. It looks to be part pony, part lion, part dragon and part deer...and all smug smiles.]

Hell-O, everypony! Although, I suppose here, not everypony is even a pony, hmm? Now isn’t that fascinating...

I suppose I should introduce myself...I’m Discord, lord of chaos! I just happened to be passing by this part of the cosmos, when I couldn’t help noticing all this splendid chaos you have going on up here! I just had to come along and contribute what little I could.

Who’s causing all this bee-you-tiful disharmony, you may ask? Well, it’s not me, and it’s not Joe! I wonder who...or what...it could possibly be!


[As soon as Discord shows up, even more chaos spreads around the SOL...it starts raining chocolate milk on the nature deck, the food synthesizer only puts out unpopped popcorn and anchovies, and the media deck is now entirely upside-down. This chaos will continue to escalate, even affecting characters’ personalities for the worse, unless your characters find a way to stop Discord!]

Rin apparently needs a little more assistance than usual, although she's making do with a high trolley to rest her front lack-of-hooves on and roll around with.

Wait, lack of hooves?

Yeah, apparently she's a pony too. It's pretty convenient, actually: she just tilts her head down and noms on a carrot as she goes about her business. Apparently Cambot thinks this is worthy of a broadcast panning shot and some theme music.

She turns to the camera, finishes crunching up her carrot, and smiles. "I had a craving," she said. "So, what do your marks mean? Mine is apparently a drop of cloudy blue paint."

Cambot pans and zooms: she brings her flank into position to make the blue paint blotch with clouds more visible.

[What the heck is... that? It would be easier to see how it looked like the other sudden ponies all over the ship, if not for the fact that it were a mass of tangled legs. However, the constant ramble of it talking to itself makes it clear enough who this thing used to be.]

Okay, not panicking, definitely not, perfectly calm here, doing fine, a couple... upgrades, overnight, is what happened, that's all it is, mate, keep being calm, all good, need to just... figure out... the new apparatus...

[The legs twitch and squirm a bit, but he gets no closer to standing. He does, however, manage to catch sight of Cambot]

Cam! It's me, uh, having some weird technical difficulties, is all, some sort of... thing happened, not sure the details, I got a model... well I don't want to call it an update, honestly, that implies things improved, so far, not seeing that being the case.

Hey, everypony! Oh my gosh, I can TOTALLY say that now! Everypony! [She giggles behind a hoof.] Okie-dokie-lokie! I heard that a lot of you are having a liiiiiittle trouble with being a pony! So I thought I'd do something to help you all out!

[Cammy starts playing some music as the lesson starts. What, you didn't think it'd be normal, did you? He zooms in on Pinkie's hooves as she demonstrates the very FIRST thing you've got to know when you're a pony.]

Just put one hoof in front of the other~
And soon you’ll be walking 'cross the floooooor!
Put one hoof in front of the other~
And soon you’ll be trottin' out the door!

You just gotta get the right rhythm!
Just listen to Pinkie's little song!
Just flick that little tail and keep with 'em!
Your hooves will carry you all day long!

Put one hoof in front of the other~
And soon you’ll be walking 'cross the floooooor!
Put one hoof in front of the other~
And soon you’ll be trottin' out the door!

[Technically, what she's doing by now is more along the lines of moonwalking. Or maybe shuffling. But it's the principle of the matter. She jumps on a trampoline and starts bouncing for the next verse.]

Now if you've got wings you can beat
I've just got one thing to say
Well, don't be afraid - flying's real neat!
Princess Luna can show you the way!

[She hops off the trampoline to demonstrate basic walking/dancing/shuffling again.]

Put one hoof in front of the other~
And soon you’ll be walking 'cross the floooooor!
Put one hoof in front of the other~
And soon you’ll be trottin' out the door!

And if on your flank you've got a picture
Like a diamond or a star or a BALLOON! [She shoves her own flank into the screen, showing off her cutie mark.]
You know your special talent, that much is sure!
If not, it's okay, you'll get one soon!

Put one hoof in front of the other~
And soon you’ll be walking 'cross the floooooor!
Put one hoof in front of the other~
And soon you’ll be trottin' out the door!

[Ironically, the last verse is delivered while she's standing on her hind hooves, in true grand finale form. She drops back to all fours as the music fades.] And if you have any questions about anything else, just ask!

[Well, ladies and gentlemen. A mysterious letter writer has struck. Only this time, someone has left something on Ven's and Roxas' doors. Hmm!

Oh, wait, no, Iron Liz and Linkara also have similar notes on their doors. However, Linkara's is addressed from Iron Liz and vice versa, and also says to meet at a different time and date than that of the ones for Ven and Roxas. Hmmm...

Odd, isn't it?]

((OOC: Open log is coming up~))

[Cambot cautiously approaches the bathroom on deck 2. It sounds vaguely like the shower is running, but it doesn't sound quite right. Cambot stops when the door opens and Roxas leans out, looking up and down the hall and also looking miffed. He spots Cambot and runs out to grab the poor thing, giving Cambot a glimpse of his half dressed and damp state. Apparently, whatever he was doing, he got as far as getting wet and only went as far as putting his pants back on before seeking... something. He carries Cambot into the bathroom and points it at the bathtub... which is not behaving like a bathtub, but like a jacuzzi.]

What is going on here? I washed up and I was going to have a soak afterward to relax, but this? If I wanted water jets, I'd be in the jacuzzi on the rec deck. Seriously.

[He lets Cambot go and turns to face it, looking a bit unhappy for a moment before sighing.]

Maybe I'm overreacting a little bit, but really? After everything else, it just feels like I can't win here.

[Cambot is just wandering around the halls on the Recreation Deck when it happens to catch Sora heading by. He happens to wave to the camera, when there's a flash of black and gray from above. Sora's spectre jumps down from one of the walls (how did it get up there?) and lands on Sora.]

HEY! You--

[Sora tries to flip the spectre off of him, but having his strength, it just flips him back over on the ground again. There, it proceeds to grab his throat with one hand, effectively pinning him down.]

[The spectre is talking to him again...and whatever it says, it puts a rather horrified expression on Sora's face.]

...No!--

[Sora struggles to get the double off of him, but it just presses down harder on his throat...then brings a leg up, preparing to smash its shoe into Sora's face.]

[Then, all of a sudden, there's a bright pink flash, and POOF! The spectre screeches, and then disappears.]

[Sora slowly gets up, and looks around. The spectre is nowhere to be found, but he still looks shaken.]

...Is it gone? What happened?

Over here. Seriously, we practiced this.

[Cambot pans over to Doof, who has a large sheet-covered object behind him. Oh, this again...]

There. That's better. Now! When I heard everyone here had gotten an evil clone, I was actually pretty excited. I mean, a whole satellite of evil! Pretty good stuff, right?

And then I met my evil clone, and it turns out he's not actually evil. He's just a jerk. Most of them are, actually, and the few that actually are evil are really evil. And then I got to thinking, do I really want anyone on the ship who's more evil than me?

...not really, no. So I came up with this! [He yanks the sheet off with a flourish, revealing what looks like a satellite dish attached attached to a power generator and several stacked trays of cupcakes.] Behold, Satellite of Love! The EvilCloneAwayinator! All I have to do is push this button [indicating a rather large red one, as all of his Inator buttons tend to be] and it gets rid of an evil clone. Like this one!

[He points to the window, and Cambot shifts accordingly, showing Doof's shade on the other side of the window, barely clinging to the satellite and yelling.] He was annoying me earlier, so I threw him out the airlock. Turns out he's got a really good grip. Anyway! All I have to do is push this button, and poof! [He pushes the button, and one of the cupcakes disappears into pink energy, which zaps through the window and - poof! - no more shade.] Works like a charm.

Why cupcakes, you ask? Well, the clones are all jerks, so I figured the least jerk-y thing around should be the thing to power my Inator, and then I thought of the pink singy pony, so cupcakes it was!

So now all I have to do is crank the dial up to eleven [Turns out there's a dial on the side, and it does indeed go to eleven! Doof turns it up as high as it will go] and push the button again, and... [He pushes it, and suddenly PINK LIGHTS AND ENERGY EVERYWHERE.]

[It takes a few moments for the light to fade, and when it does, there are zero cupcakes in the trays and Doof is grinning.] HA! Now I am the most evil person on this satellite! Take that, evil clones!

[OOC: This is the end of the shade event! The EvilCloneAwayinator has gotten rid of all the shades on the satellite. Feel free to continue to backdate and backtag, however!]

[Cambot picks up his feed on the costume deck, if the surprisingly neat piles of clothes are any indication. Prominent in the foreground are the trademark black Organization coat, with matching pants and other articles of clothing along with. A figure - Lexaeus, given the height and size of him - is bending into a cabinet that seems to be a jumble of clothes.]

[Cambot brushes a pile of clothes and it topples over; Lexaeus straightens too quickly and bumps his head, bringing a shower of Bellarian accoutrements, wigs, props, and other things down on his head. He turns to see who made the noise.]

[And, well.]

( [So THAT'S where the Fabio wigs were.] )

[Kotetsu stares down his double on Deck 2.]

Hey, if I gotta do this thing, you're coming with me.

[It speaks.]

Why? 'cos you're me, right? So you're stuck doing it to.

[Well, it could be a chance to cause some trouble. The double shrugs and speaks again.]

What are we reading? Um... Something called Twilight, I th-... oi!

[The double's eyes go wide, then it turns and runs as fast as it can... misjudging where it is and tumbles face-first down the passage to Deck 3. A puff of black smoke comes back up. Kotetsu winces.]

...oops.

[And after all the craziness the spectres have caused this week, between fights, messing up the oxygen, gravity, and the nature deck troubles...it’s not until now that Dr. Forrester actually wanders back in view of the camera.]

Well Frank, I finally got that DNA recombined, so in a few months it should--

[And then he takes a look and notices everything that’s been going on.]

Wha--great galloping gravy, what in the world are you kids doing up there?! Are you...cloning? Are you EVIL cloning? There's regular doubles of people, but then there’s all those shadowy ones plus quite a few things on fire.

[He looks offscreen.]

FRAAANK! I told you to watch the experiments! I’m not gone for five minutes and everyone’s making evil clones where I can’t watch? Now how is that fair?!