History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendsForeverIssue21

* ObviouslyNotFine: Spike tells Zecora that she is infected with the [[spoiler:apparent]] disease that's been going around, and she replies that she's "[[HoldYourHippogriffs healthy as a wolf]]", even though she has gotten [[PolkaDotDisease spots]] and [[WingdingEyes hypno-eyes]].

They stop at Fluttershy's cottage, but she has been so sick that she's been unable to feed her animals properly, and just has laid out stashes of food for them. Avery is distracted by a pile of birdseed that when Fluttershy coughs on Zecora, he is not there to block it. Fearing Zecora is now infected, they race off to isolate Zecora, but surprisingly, she does not come down with anything, and now they suspect that zebras are also immune. With this, the two set to work to try to find anything pony-related that might have caught it, but still cannot find a solution.

They stop at Fluttershy's cottage, but she has been so sick that she's been unable to feed her animals properly, and just has laid out stashes of food for them. Avery is distracted by a pile of birdseed that when Fluttershy coughs on Zecora, he is not there to block it. Fearing Zecora is now infected, they race off to isolate Zecora, but surprisingly, she does not come down with anything, and now they suspect that zebras are also immune. With this, the two set to work to try to find anything pony-related that might caught it, but still cannot find a solution.

* FurryReminder : The ponies and Zecora get sick from eating infected hay.

* LastOfHisKind : While Zecora and Spike aren't the only zebra and dragon in Equestria, they sometimes resent being the only ones of their species living among ponies.

In town, Zecora goes to work to try to understand the illness. She sees that it has traveled as far as Sweet Apple Acres, and tries to understand how it could travel so far so far. After they see the Apples, Spike recognizes he is a different species from the ponies, which likely has made him immune to whatever it is; but this also leads to both realizing how far they are from others of their kind and feel a bit of homesickness.

[[caption-width-right:255:Day of the Living Sickness Spots!]]

[[caption-width-right:255:Day of Living Sickness Spots!]]

** Spike reads from a book called "[[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} Spores, Molds, and Fungus]]"

A strange aliment strikes every pony in Ponyville, and Spike, immune to whatever it is, rushes out to Zecora in the Everfree Forest to get her help. Zecora collects a number of potions and tools to help out, as well as a bird named Avery, trained by Fluttershy, that can help to intercept any coughs directed her way.

* ArtisticLicensePharmacology: Apparently in Equestria, diseases always show symptoms within sixty seconds, because this is how Spike deduces that the disease isn't transmitted through sneezes.

* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Spike and Zecora don a set when they begin researching the infection in ernest.

* ChekhovsGun:
** Early in the story Spike and Zecora are out doing house calls while at the cakes home the twins are shown to not be infected. later it turned out that the infection was due to an fungus growing on the town hay supply witch the twins and spike would not be eating due to Spike eating gems and the cake twins not eating solid food yet.
* RhymesOnADime: Spike makes a couple attempts to copy Zecora's rhyming. Also subverted, as getting sick makes her start speaking in blank verse instead.

Zecora and Spike are immune to an ailment that is affecting the rest of the ponies in Ponyville.