Chapter Nineteen
Suited for Springfield
The group split into various groups. Rarity took her friends slash clients that were going to travel to Springfield away to a tailor shop that was within the castle, while Twilight Sparkle gave a tour of the castle to Lisa as best she could, the remaining group, were left to their own devices. Princess Luna tired from guarding the night left to her quarters to rest up, Princess Celestia cancelled a majority of her plans for the day as wanted to oversee the transformations this time which she couldn't do with Scootaloo.
Changing one pony was bad enough but now she had to do four. It was agreed upon that they would work on one outfit at a time, thinking about Lisa's advice, whoever was having their outfit created would need to remain hidden while the outfit itself was being made, for as it turned out, even the Castle was abnormally cold in the winter months.
Before starting, Rarity designed the outfits on paper, so that when Lisa came by she could approve them or reject them depending on how they would fit in Springfield.
Sweetie Belle's outfit was designed first, it comprised of a pink and white striped T-Shirt, with a dark pink jacket, a dark yellow skirt, with pink and yellow knee-high shoes, and a pink headband for her hair.
For Apple Bloom, given her farmer family, her outfit was a simple yellow shirt with blue denim overalls and brown boots.
Rainbow Dash's was a dark blue short sleeve jacket with a White T-Shirt featuring her cutie mark, black sport shorts, a light pink skirt over that with white stripes on the sides, rainbow coloured socks, and blue shoes. She also had rainbow coloured wristbands.
Skylight's was more professional, it consisted of an orange shirt with frilly sleeves and collar, with a darker orange skirt with a purple belt, purple shoes and dark purple socks went with the ensemble.
Hours later, after Lisa had completed the tour with Twilight, they came by the studio to check up on the designs, which Lisa had a look over, to Twilight's surprise, Rarity didn't think about including any gems in the outfits. Maybe she was wrong about Rarity not being able to grasp the differences between Springfield fashion and Equestrian fashion when she wanted to make designs for Scootaloo. But that said, Lisa wasn't around to give a seal of approval.
"They seem fine to me Rarity, except for Apple Bloom's" says Lisa
"Whatever do you mean?" Rarity says "You said they're all fine."
"Don't get me wrong, Apple Bloom's outfit is fine on it's own, but there's more to it than that. We created a story around why Scootaloo is with us in Springfield. And from what I can gather is that Scootaloo based her story on her friends, Apple Bloom in particular. We went with the story that Scootaloo is our cousin from Manhattan, who moved with her mother to a farm elsewhere. So if anyone spots Apple Bloom wearing workers outfits like that at her age it can turn a few heads." Lisa replies. "It's how we explained her 'everypony' quip that you all have"
"I see... so you need something that doesn't seem so 'worker class'?" asks Rarity.
"That's right." says Lisa "You're welcome to create the design anyway if you want, but it would have to be for Scootaloo, not Apple Bloom."
"Hmmm... OOOOHHH!" Rarity gasps. "IDDEEEEAAAA!" she exclaims.
Quickly levitating a pencil with her magic she grabs a new sheet of paper where she draws a girl of Lisa's stature, the design Rarity drew in the space of a few minutes featured a Green T-Shirt, Blue Denim Jeans with a belt and buckle, orange shoes with a red soles, and Apple Bloom's traditional pink hair bow.
"Wow Rarity, you came up with that just now?" asks Lisa.
"Certainly darling, I was in the zone as it were. How does it look?" she asks nervously.
Lisa studies the design.
"Yeah, that'll work. I like it." Says Lisa.
Rarity squees at her approval.
"Great! Now I can get to work on making them!" Rarity says.
"Great. I'll stay out of your mane while you work. Though, I think you should probably work on Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle's outfits first, I'll bet that they'll want to go to Springfield first."
"Oh certainly darling." Rarity says, already grabbing the fabrics she'll need.
"How long do you think it'll take?" asks Lisa
"A few days per outfit I think. It's not an easy task after all." Rarity replies.
"Sure, I understand." Lisa says walking away allowing Rarity to work her magic.
She approaches Princess Celestia and Twilight Sparkle.
"So, Lisa, what are you going to do while we wait for Rarity to make the outfits?" asks Twilight.
"I don't know. I've not really thought out it. It wouldn't make much sense for me to go home without anyone, and I'm sure we all have questions we want to ask about each others society." Lisa replies.
Princess Celestia was half-surprised. Lisa was smart, she knew exactly what the solar princess was eventually going to want to know.
"Y-Yes, I suppose we all do." Says Princess Celestia. "You're welcome to stay here in the castle if you wish"
"Uhm... I appreciate that offer, but I'm not too into the being waited on hand-and-foot thing. I prefer to do things myself, perhaps go into town, do a little exploring that kind of thing."
"I understand Lisa. But I'm afraid I can't let you go into town for the same reasons you couldn't let Scootaloo" Princess Celestia replies.
"Perfectly understandable. But..." Lisa answers, but quickly loses all composure "You could make me a pony! I mean, if you can make Scootaloo and everyone else human, then surely you could do the same in reverse for a few days!" Lisa shouts.
Practically everypony in the room was caught off guard by Lisa's outburst.
"A-Are you sure?" asks Princess Celestia. "Being a pony is a lot different from being human."
"I know. But hey, Scootaloo did it, so I don't see this as being any different. I've always loved ponies, so nothing can top actually becoming one (not that I ever thought about it actually). I'm not interested in being a pony permanently and actually staying in Equestria or anything, I'm happy in Springfield with my family. So this is just for my visit."
Princess Celestia closes her eyes and thinks for a moment.
"Very well Lisa. I shall transform you into a pony, which race you'll end up becoming I can not say. That'll be based on your personality, talents and desires." she says finally.
"Okay." Lisa says. "Please be a unicorn" she says to herself.
Princess Celestia looks around the room to find there's very little space.
"Come. We can do this in the library." Says the Solar Monarch. "Twilight why don't you come with us?"
"Oh! Certainly Princess."
Twenty or so minutes later, in the library which was just as Twilight left it with the bedsheet sprawled across the floor, which gets a giggle from the Solar Princess and embarrassing looks from her student.
"Don't worry, my faithful student." says Princess Celestia, who then turns to the human eight-year old. "Lisa, stand over there please." says says pointing a hoof.
Lisa complies, the Solar Princess fires up her horn in a yellow magical aura, which later surrounds Lisa. A bright light surrounds Lisa, and then starts to spin around her and then flies into her chest, as a puff of smoke appears out of nowhere, shielding Lisa from any observers. Once the smoked cleared, where an eight year old human girl stood now stands an eight year old filly unicorn pony, she looked half-identical to Lisa with a bright orange coat, and a bright yellow spiky mane and tail, around her neck was Lisa's traditional white pearl necklace, next to her was her trademark orange dress and shoes. On the filly's flank was a saxophone cutie mark. It was safe to assume that the filly, was Lisa Marie Simpson herself.
Automatically, Twilight materialises up a mirror for Lisa to look into, when she sees her new pony form, and she squees, quickly notices the horn in the reflections forehead, she takes control of one of her front hooves to see if it's real, when confirmed, she faints.