Wow okay so it's been like a year since I updated this story. I really have no excuse for the... delay, but please do accept my sincerest apologies to all you wonderful people who have waited ever so patiently for the next installment of this cracked up story.

Here it is, thanks for waiting and I hope you like it!

Did I mention how wonderful you all are and how very sorry I am?

When morning dawned on the cave, it found the living area in turmoil. Hoof shaped holes litter the walls, papers were strewn over every visible surface, and a single brown seapony was dead asleep in the middle of the room with a book entitled: On Erom Sekatsim - 30 Foolproof Ways To Make All Your Magical Oopsies... Disappear!, covering his head.

"Um Kaldur?" The pony shaped Artemis prodded him with her foot. "You alive?"

Aqualad groaned, and pulled the book tighter against his head. "Never again do I want to hear the word magic." He sat up and yawned.

"No luck huh?"

Aqualad glared. "No Artemis, I was completely successful. I just decided I preferred being a pony."

Artemis narrowed her eyes back at him. "Well sorry!"

Realizing what he had just said, Aqualad sighed. "No it is I who apologizes. It will do us no good to fight amongst ourselves... as we learned last night."

She gave an awkward chuckle. "Yeah.. that wasn't a great strategy." There was a tense moment of silence as they both surveyed the damage from the argument the night before.

"What's all that?" Artemis broke the silence with a nod towards the mountains of papers.

"They are my estimated calculations for how long we can expect to remain as animals." Aqualad explained.

The blonde pony nodded. "So... how long will it be?" She asked unsure if she really wanted to know.
Aqualad let out a sigh. "As we now know the power of the spell increases with each attempt to end it. So after I factored in the original spell as well as our counter curses, including the /six or seven/ re-attempts you all performed last night-"

"Not gonna let that go are you?" Artemis grumbled with a roll of her eyes.

"Yeah well ya'd think after what happened yesterday, you ever loving fools would actually start /listening/ to me for once!" Artemis took a nervous step backwards. "As I was saying if my calculations are correct we should prepare ourselves for possibility of remaining in this... form for at least one year and seven months."

"A year?!"

"And seven months."

"I don't want to be a pony for a full year and a half!"

"At least."

"I had plans for being human! Oh this is a disaster." She moaned.

"Artemis, there are worse fates. We should at least be thankful that Zatanna's spell did not kill us."
The young archer sighed. "Yeah, alright. I - I guess, perspective and all that."

The two ponies lapsed back into silence, staring around despondently at their living room. They remained that way until the sound of doors swooshing open snapped them out of it.

M'gann and Conner entered first. The Martians legs dragged along the floor with every sad flutter her wings gave. Conner was silent and glaring, so no one was really sure if he was still upset about being a pony.

Behind them was Zatanna, who looked as if she hadn't slept a wink. Bringing up the rear were Wally and Robin, both sporting black eyes and glaring mutinously at Superboy.

"So what do we do now?" Superboy muttered.

"There isn't anything we can do, except wait for more orders from the League." Aqualad replied.

On cue, the monitor chimed into life. Robin sprang up. "Holy good timing, Batman!"
A face appeared as they gathered around the computer, but it wasn't the face of a fur covered superhero.

It was a tall, bald, human.

"Luthor! Wait... why aren't you some kind of creepy hairless pony?"

"That, dear Robin, is simply because I am in possession of the potion that cures this little curse of yours. In fact I have ensured that /none/ of the LexCorp employees have remained in pony form." Everyone frowned as a purple pony walked through the background. Luthor shrugged. "Well, except for Frank, but he seems happy, so who am I to judge?"

"So what is it? What's the cure? How do we fix this?"

Luthor chuckled at the eager ponies. "Ah ah ah. You don't really expect me to tell you just like that, now do you?"

Superboy scowled. "Forget it. We don't need his help, not that he'll actually give it."

Luthor clucked."So young, yet so cynical. Didn't your parents ever teach to keep an open mind?" It took all six of the rooms other occupants to restrain Superboy from putting a hole in the monitor. Luthor continued. "In fact I have two ways to stop this horsing around, and one you can do right in your oh so secret cave of sidekicks. All you need to do is," He paused for a dramatic break. "Cut off the witch's head." Zatanna gasped.

"But I can tell from your long faces that won't be an option, so I'll give you another one."

Aqualad frowned. "Why tell us either of these?"
"Boredom maybe, perhaps I'm an animal lover and just can't bear the idea of causing harm to you in this form. My reasons are my own, and this is a onetime offer. Take it or leave it."

"What do you want for this information." Was Aqualad's next question.

If it were possible, Luthor's smile became even more sinister. "I want you to publicly denounce yourselves. Take the blame, as you rightly should, for this unfortunate trot through the wildlife. Then I want you and your elder counterparts to go far far away, and never again interfere with any of my plans."

One shared look between them later, and they had their answer. "For. Get. It, Luthor." Robin growled.

"Fine. Remain a pony. I do hope you all enjoy oats." The monitor went black.

Wally groaned. "Now what are we going to do? That was probably our only chance of getting back to normal!"

"Isn't it obvious?" Robin asked. He had that glint in his mask that always succeeded in making his friends nervous. "We're going to break into LexCorp, and steal the formula."

DUN DUN DUN! So for whatever reason, I could not get Slade teen titans voice out of my head while I was writing Luthor's part, and I think he ended up being some kind of hybrid mix between Slade and Smallville's Lex. Ah well I tried. I've already started part 5 so the wait is already three paragraphs shorter. Hope you liked it!