..A blobby sphere of green goo came sailing from the ruins, smashing into a nearby wall and detonating in a strange warbling 'thwoomph!'. "I didn't mean it like that! It wasn't a suggestion!" Twilight squealed as she quickly turned to see a trio of ponies clambering across the broken rubble. They looked little better than the cracked rock they crawled across, their manes were tangled, their motions were jerky and unsteady, and most notably: the neat glowing patterns across their bodies were heavily distorted by large, swollen green bulges that covered their bodies like pestilential growths.