(Story idea requested by superfun. Takes place before "The Ending of the End".)

In her spare time while preparing to take over the School of Friendship, Starlight Glimmer begins to get into spell experimentation again. And one day she calls Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy over to volunteer with a swapping spell.

When Starlight casts it, Pinkie and Fluttershy inadvertently end up having their personalities completely swapped! Starlight then frantically searches for a way to reverse the effects and return her friends to normal.

Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy decide that with their swapped personalities it'll be easier if they switch jobs and do each others' work: Pinkie at Sweet Feather Sanctuary and Fluttershy at Sugarcube Corner. Both will soon learn just how difficult the other's work really is, and may just develop a new appreciation for what the work involves.

There are costs to being nice, to being the pony who's always kind, to being the pony who tries so hard to make everyone smile. Terrible, terrible costs.

This is (not) a love story.

(Rated teen for alcohol consumption, non-explicit sexual content, and mature emotional themes.)

When everypony else has left one of Pinkie Pie's parties, Fluttershy makes a personal confession to the pink mare but flees before seeing her reaction. Pinkie then leaves for a week to spend time with her family on their farm outside of Ponyville. As the return of Pinkie Pie draws closer, Fluttershy becomes anxious and starts to doubt whether she made the right choice in letting out her secret.

Fluttershy has a crush on Pinkie Pie. She goes to some of her friends for advice. It turns out wooing an energetic pink party pony isn't quite as straightforward as she hoped.