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// TF Story Prompt: Thunderlane into a bee. 
// Story: Scrap Bonds 
// by ValenceBond 
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Thunderlane shuffled on his hooves as Twilight attached more and more sticky pads to his barrel. "So,uh, Princess, why did you need me here?"

Twilight opened a box of electrodes and started counting them. "Well Thunderlane, thank you for coming in on such short notice."

Thunderlane blushed. "No problem, anything for a friend of Dash."

"Yes, about Dash... We've got a bet going on about bumblebees."

"Bumblebees?"

"Yes, bumblebees. You ever hear about how according to some mathematical equation they can't fly?"

Thunderlane nodded. "But obviously they do."

Twilight opened up one of her charts and started attaching the electrodes. "Exactly! I keep trying to tell Dash that the equation is wrong, but she's convinced that due to their lack of magic bumblebees can fly despite the equation saying they can't!"

Thunderlane lifted his wings and turned to give her easier access. "Okay, I knew Dash could be a bit stand-offish when she gets an idea into her head, but why do you need me?"

"Oh, that's simple," Twilight lit her horn up, "I need to turn you into a bumblebee to prove her wrong."

Thunderlane's limbs refused to move as he was enveloped in her magic. "What? How does that work?" His flanks, wings, and belly suddenly felt tingly.

Twilight pulled over a chalkboard covered in arcane formulae. Thunderlane might know quite a bit about math and aerodynamics from being a Wonderbolt, but this was way beyond his comprehension. "Well it's simple, you have magic. I turn you into bee and if you can fly Dash has to admit she's wrong!"

A series of creaks and crack rumbled through Thunderlane as a third pair of legs grew out of his midsection. He let out a gasp as the tender hooves reached the cold tile of the lab. "I... don't think that's what a bumblebee looks like," he muttered.

Twilight looked up from the readout of some large device. "Oh, no matter, proof of concept and all that."

Thunderlane grit his teeth as his tail turned into a cute little stinger, complete with yellow and black stripes. Siilarly, his wings flattened out and became transparent, his wings reminding him of a changeling. "You have a way to turn me back, right?"

After a few moments, his wings started to buzz away without him intending too, lifting him a few inches off the ground. Twilight completely ignored his question and bounced off giggling. "I did it! Now to find Dash and get a free soda pop!"

Thunderlane hovered in mid-air, trying to think of something to do until she got back. He looked up and saw a clear skylight. Some force compelled him to fly towards the light until he hit some sort of force field. He couldn't see the normal glow of a shielding spell, so he tried again. And again. And a few more times until he heard Twilight return with company. "Princess, there seems to be a powerful shielding spell on your skylight here. Also, hello Dash."

Dash looked between Thunderlane and an eager Twilight and back again. "That isn't a bumblebee, you don't win." Dash flew off despite Twilight's accusation of moving the goalposts, while Thunderlane went back to trying to defeat the dastardly shielding spell.