//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 - FlutterJack // Story: Switched // by Julyah //------------------------------// Fluttershy opened her eyes, Staring at the ceiling of her cottage. She sighed. She rolled over onto her side, cathing a few more minutes of rest. Then she opened her eyes again, getting out of bed. She trotted to her bathroom and tooked up at the mirror. She screamed and ducked down low. There was somepony in her house! She decided to say something. “P-please dont hurt me... Or any of my animals... You can take my bits...” She squealed. She waited for a minute. Then five. Then after twenty minutes, she shakily got up off of the floor. When she looked in the mirror again, she did not shriek or scream. She just narrowed her eyes at the pony infront of her, who did the same at the same time. This is what I look like. Fluttershy realized. She looked at herself closely. Apple green eyes, straw yellow mane, and orange body, and NO WINGS? What? No wings? What would she do without them? Was she now just an earth pony? She screamed. She was able to simmer down quite quickly despite the loss of her wings. At least she had the same cutie mark. She decided that she looked just like her friend applejack. Well, the same colour. She still had her mane and tail style. They were the same. She resorted to seeing that her animals were not afraid of her. “Its okay, friends.” She said in her own calm voice. “Im fluttershy, and im a friend.” About a half an hour later, she exhaled and sat down. She had to only feed the birds, last on her list, and then she would go see applejack. She trotted outside, singing. “La la la la la... la la la la laaa.” The birds that were ussually in the tree were nowhere to be seen. But fluttershy knew better than to go looking for them. The birds would never abandon their babies. “Its okay, birdies. Its just me... you can come out!” She layed four dozen worms on the ground infront of the tree. Then she waved and headed at breakneck speed -galloping, of course, not flying- to sweet apple acres. Applejack was jut tired. She got out of bed, lazily walking down stairs. It was very early morning, and so none of her family members were there to see her. She grabbed her hat off of a hook near the door and placed it on her pink -of course she didint know that though- mane. She sat down in a chair and started munching on an apple thoughfully. Then she finnaly looked down at her hooves. “What in the hay...?” She moved her yellow hoof around, curious to see what had happened. She had so far been to tired to notice her change. She looked down, seeing that she had butter yellow hind legs too. And as if that wasnt enough, A strand of her pink mane fell into her eyes. “Gaah!” Applejack exclaimed. She looked back at her tail. It was a faint pink, just like her friend fluttershy's. “What is this?” She said. Then she noticed the wings. Small, feathered, and butter yellow, they rested, folded on her back. “GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.” She yelled, then clamping a hoof over her mouth as not to wake her family. “Alright. Calm down, Aj. So you look a lot like fluttershy. No big deal. Your fine.” She looked at her wings again and squealed. Wings? Like, a pegasus? She decided to go outside and try them out. She stood infront of the barn and unfolded her wings. She gave them a flap, expecting to be lifted into the air. She gave about five more, her hooves just barely being lifted. And she was already cavered in sweat. “Wow. This is harder than it looks. Come on, Aj. Be a hummerbird. I mean, hummingbird.” She started to flap her wings very fast. About two beats per second. Her hooves came up, and she was off the ground. She stopped beating her wings, and fell to the ground with a start. She landed with a hard 'oof.' About that time fluttershy arrived, seeing Applejack folding her wings. AJ looked up. “Fluttershy!” “Applejack?” “You look like me!” “You stole my wings!” “Your an earth pony!” “Oh, im sorry.” They both stopped talking, looking at each other. Flutterhsy came closer and looked at AJ's wings. “That flyin' thin' is sure harder tha it looks.” Aj exclaimed. “No, It's actually pretty easy, I was just born with very weak wings. Thye dont work the way other pegesi ones do. So it taked more energy to get me off the ground.. But umm... years of practice.” Aj nodded. “Oh, look. Your cutie mark is the same, just like mine is.” fluttershy pointed. It was true. Three bright shiny red apples were on her yellow flank, sealing her identity. “So.. um. Would you like to know more about how to fly?” She asked, looking at the ground. “Boy, would I?” And so their training began.