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// Chapter One: Twilight Minor 
// Story: The Big and Cuddly Ursa Minor Returns! 
// by Foal Star 
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Trixie was slowly waking up one morning staring up at the wooden panels that made up her ceiling above her. Her massive body was still covered in a thick coat of starry blue fur. She was still an Ursa Minor which has been her reality for the past six months. The blue-coated bear slowly turned around and got on all fours breathing heavily. When she tried to walk across the house, she started to feel rather clumsy as the padded fabric underneath wasn't the most stable of surfaces. Trixie squeaked as she tripped and fell onto the padded fabric. She groaned, having to deal with this every morning. However, she had to admit the padded floor still felt rather snug. She was relatively content, just another lazy day being an Ursa Minor cub. However, there was a minor inconvenience to Trixie’s plans as she started to sneeze up a storm. The starry-coated bear groaned, rubbing a paw over her head with a pounding headache. She caught a strange cold since Discord wreaked havoc on Ponyville. The former mare's eyes were watery, her nose runny, her headache ringing in her head.  She growled and grumbled under her breath, getting up and stretching her giant limbs as she stumbled out of her "house." As Trixie walked towards the cottage nearby, Fluttershy was already outside, heading over to her. The yellow coated pegasus turned to her charge and gave Trixie a beaming smile. "Hello, Trixie, I can't believe you woke up before me!"

"Morning…" Trixie grumbled under her breath; she was slightly irritated but was used to the routine. She opened her mouth and let the pegasus plop a giant foal bottle full of formula into her mouth. She suckled the milk down her throat like a foal, despite her feedings being super embarrassing, she was so used to this treatment it didn’t really bother her anymore by now and despite that the formula was rather creamy and delicious. After that, she was taken to the giant tub where she had her daily bath. Fluttershy scrubbed her down with a huge scrub brush lathered in soap and shampoo and after a few rinses making sure she was smelling like a fresh bouquet of flowers. After that, the yellow coated pegasus wiped Trixie's mouth and then she led the Ursa Minor around Ponyville for her daily walk. As Trixie stomped through the town, most ponies that noticed her waved a hoof or gave her a cheery hello. The residents of Ponyville  have mostly gotten used to her daily "walks." She would’ve waved back or attempted to grunt a “good morning” but she was too busy dealing with her cold to really care about them. Trixie just felt so miserable, making it hard to concentrate on where she was even going. After a hour of walking about the Ursa Minor looked up to see that she saw the giant tree known as Golden Oaks Library. She wondered why they were going by Twilight's place. She stumbled over and saw the velvet coated unicorn; Twilight and Fluttershy then struck up a conversation as she plopped down on her rump, still feeling somewhat groggy, hoping they could just head home after the talked their fill. The mare didn't really pay any attention to what the two were saying until Twilight mentioned her, "wow, she's really sick...is Trixie ok?"

"Oh, she's fine; the poor baby just has the sniffles," Fluttershy cooed; this made Trixie growl under her breath. She really hated being patronized and especially in front of her rival. The comment however had Twilight laughing hysterically; the blue-coated bear then sneezed right all over the violet unicorn. Now her former rival was covered in green and yellow goo dripping around her. The Ursa Minor sat back and looked over at Twilight feeling proud that she sneezed on her. The violet unicorn just groaned as she wiped the snot from her face. "Alrighty then; well I'm going to go take a shower."

"Right, sorry," Fluttershy squeaked as the violet-coated unicorn left begrudgingly muttering to herself.  The pegasus then turned her charge and wiped Trixie's nose and scolded her, "that wasn't really nice, but I guess you couldn't help yourself; come on, let's get you home." Trixie  muttered under her breath as she followed Fluttershy back to her cottage, hoping that she can take a long nap. 





After being sneezed on by Trixie, Twilight quickly ran inside Golden Oaks library and took a long shower. Afterwards, she slowly walked downstairs, still being somewhat irritated with Trixie sneezing all over her. As the violet unicorn sat down at her desk she turned her head to see Spike looking up with a smirk. "So what was all that weird goo on you earlier?"

"It's nothing, Spike," Twilight grumbled under her breath as she really didn't want to tell Spike Trixie just sneezed all over her; she would never hear the end of it if she did so. As the violet unicorn sat down at her desk, she started writing one of her friendship lessons to send to Princess Celestia. The lesson was rather hilarious; it was about the Cutie Mark Crusaders the other day as they tried their hoof in caring for Trixie. It, of course, ended in a huge fiasco with the Ursa Minor ending up rampaging through Sweet Apple Acres. Once finished the mare tossed the scroll to Spike. "Hey, can you send this to Celestia real fast before I forget?"

"Yeah, sure…" The purple scaled drake mumbled; he wanted to know more about the weird goo that Twilight was covered all over in earlier. The violet-coated unicorn slowly got up with a smirk like she was ever going to tell him. Still, then she noticed something odd: her hooves seem to have more hair on them with a thick coat of velvet hair covering them. She was somewhat confused by where the hair came from. Then mare groaned as she felt her entire body starting to quiver and grow; her muscles became more prominent as they felt like her whole form bloat and grow. She growled and grrred under her breath, and Spike was starting to freak out as he got up and cried out, "Twilight, what's happening to you!?"

Twilight tried to respond, but only low growls escaped her mouth then her body started to enlarge even more. Her mane and tail began to fall out from her body as a stubby little tail appeared on her rump. She groaned in pain as she felt her skull transform as it enlarged and morphed around her. The fur on her body now had her cutie mark plastered all over her in a starry pattern similar to Trixie’s new coat. Spike just watched, quivering, then burst into laughter. Twilight was a bit confused. The mare turned to see her reflection seeing some of the final changes to her body, with her hooves now being giant paws, her squarish face, and Twilight could only surmise she was now, in fact, an Ursa Minor!

Twilight was beyond furious looking at her reflection thinking on how she could have transformed into an Ursa Minor! Then one name came to mind, Trixie; she did this! The Ursa Minor roared, "Trixie!"

She barged through her own front door and charged towards Fluttershy's cottage. Twilight trampled down the road roaring and as she came to the small cottage. Fluttershy was freaking out seeing the charging Ursa Minor coming right at her! But Twilight wasn't after Fluttershy, her eyes were set on Trixie, and the two bears smashed into each other, crawling and attacking each other. The two Ursa Minors were in quite a wrestling match, until Fluttershy stepped forward and used her stare. The two instantly stopped as their eyes became swirly as the yellow coated mare slammed a hoof down and snapped, "you two need to stop this behavior right now!"

The two broke up their fight and plopped down on their rumps, and grumbled under their breath. Twilight has seen Fluttershy use her infamous stare before. But it was quite unnerving being under its influence, she couldn't help but feel compelled to follow her every order. She plopped down and looked directly at the yellow coated pegasus as she continued to scold her, "I don't know how you were transformed into an Ursa Minor Twilight, but that was no way to behave, now you apologize to Trixie this instant."

Twilight lowered her head, and like a child being forced to apologize, she turned to face her rival and grumbled, "sorry…I don't know why I got so angry."

"It's fine…" Trixie muttered she was still a bit angry, but she also had a look of surprise on her face. 

Twilight realized that Trixie may not have been aware her sneeze transformed her into an Ursa Minor. Fluttershy saw that things had calmed down, and she continued to ask her friend about what was going on. "Now, Twilight, please explain what happened to you?"

The violet unicorn gave a deep sigh; luckily, Fluttershy can talk to animals and she can explain her situation. "I have no idea! All I know is that Trixie sneezed on me, and the next thing I knew, I was transformed into an Ursa Minor!"

"Trixie didn't do it on purpose!" Trixie quickly snapped back.

"Hey, stop that!" Fluttershy shouted once more, making both bears turn their attention back to the pegasus as she turned her attention to her friend once more. "Twilight, now I'm sure Trixie didn't sneeze on you on purpose. Is that right, Trixie?"

Fluttershy turned her attention to Trixie, who just scoffed, "no, of course not! Trixie is sick, and she happened to sneeze on you."

Twilight grumbled under her breath; she knew that her rival was a notorious liar before being transformed into an Ursa Minor but even she felt that the former show mare was telling the truth. Just then she heard the sound of scaled feet hitting the grass behind them. Twilight turned to see Spike running at them, breathing heavily as he looked up and asked, "Hey, did you…oh…" It did not take her assistant long to see the towering purple coated Ursa Minor and saw Twilight was here already. 

Fluttershy turned her head to Spike, and with a smile, she explained, "Well, I got the gist of the situation, but I fear that we may need the assistance of the princesses. Get with Celestia and have her send Luna here; she told me she may have found something that could help in this situation."

"Already one step ahead of you!" Spike proclaimed, giving them a salute before running off to write a letter to Celestia. All Twilight could do was sit back and watch, groaning to herself as she wasn't looking forward to her mentor finding out that she was transformed into an Ursa Minor. 

Fluttershy then turned her attention back to Twilight as she replied, "alright, Twilight, until Spike returns, I'll take good care of you."

The violet unicorn groaned; she saw how her friend treated Trixie and was not looking forward to being babied. Fluttershy waved a hoof and cooed, "alright, you two, why don't you both take a nap."

"Hold on! You said Luna may have found a cure; why didn't you tell Trixie earlier!" Trixie snapped back. Twilight was also somewhat confused; she thought if Luna or Celestia found a cure for Trixie, they would've told her as well. Fluttershy started to quiver a little, seeming to be somewhat nervous as she whispered, "I'm sorry, the potential cure Luna discovered has some risks involved from what she told me, and we were still in the middle of discussing if it was a option, I didn't want to get your hopes up about it.”

Twilight gave a slight nod; it made sense this kind of magic was quite unique. She could only hope what Luna found will be useful. Trixie however just rolled her eyes and grumbled, "fine, whatever."

"Alright, now come on, you two, there's plenty of room in Trixie's house." Fluttershy chirped as she escorted the two inside the "Ursa Minor house." Twilight was somewhat surprised as she maneuvered through the padded floor; her gait was rather clumsy, (due to her new body and the padded floor) and she had to stumble her way towards the back of the room. Trixie plopped down on the floor and grumbled, "just stay over there and leave me alone."

"Oh, I'm sorry! Maybe if you didn't decide to sneeze on me, I wouldn't be here right now!" Twilight snapped back as she plopped down on the padded floor as well.

She lowered her head and turned away from Trixie; she wouldn't be able to look at her without thoughts of attacking the former showmare come to mind. But hopefully, Spike will get a letter to Luna, and in a few hours, she'll be a pony again.