//------------------------------// // A Spell Unbreakable // Story: Switchy Pie // by AleximusPrime //------------------------------// CHAPTER 5 - A Spell Unbreakable Pinkie made every effort to stay up all night studying the reverse spell, but she ended up falling asleep with her face in the book. Suddenly a nearby rooster in Ponyville crowed and she woke up. Her face was molded like the middle of the book and then popped back into its place. She sat bolt upright and realized what had happened. “Oh pony feathers, I fell asleep! Now it’s gonna take me longer to learn this darn spell!!” Twilight then walked downstairs with Spike, both of them yawning and still looking tired. “Hey Pinkie, how’s it going?” Twilight asked her. “Not too good you guys. I fell asleep! I’m gonna have to go a few more hours without anything but studying to the best of my ability!” Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Rainbow Dash’s voice could be heard. “Pinkie, Twilight, you guys in there? It’s Rainbow Dash, I have some pretty important news you might wanna hear…” she said through the lock. Pinkie, Twilight, and Spike all went over to the door and opened it. Rainbow Dash was there along with Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack. “Rainbow Dash!” said Pinkie, “What are you guys all doing here?” “Pinkie, we heard about what happened last night…” said Applejack dismally. “I know guys, I’m sorry, we didn’t……wait……SOMEONE TOLD YOU?!?” “Yeah, it’s all over Ponyville. Party at the Library: Hosted by Twilight Sparkle.” explained Rainbow Dash. “OH MY GOODNESS!! I was afraid of this! Now everypony in Ponyville knows! Oh what are we going to do?!?” “Well, now, let’s not panic, everypony.” said Rarity. “Have you found a way to undo the spell yet Pinkie?” “I’m working on that right now actually…” “How’s it coming along?” asked Rainbow Dash. “Not good. I’ve been studying almost all night but I fell asleep. It’s so hard to grasp, even though I’m more intelligent and studious now…” “Um…Pinkie?” asked Fluttershy. “Wouldn’t it be better if you just asked Princess Celestia to undo the spell?” “Yeah, Pinkie, Princess Celestia would know what to do! She’s the most powerful pony in Equestria!” exclaimed Twilight. “We can’t let the Princess know, Twilight! I don’t wanna make her mad, and I wouldn’t want her to know you misused a powerful spell right after you showed her how capable you are with magic!” Pinkie told her. “Well, you’d better let the Cakes know ya won’t be workin’ at the Corner.” said Applejack. “They’ll be worried ‘bout you…” “Ok, here’s the plan: Rainbow Dash, you go over to Sugarcube Corner and just tell Mr. and Mrs. Cake that I’m…….uh, sick. I’m very sick and I chose to spend the night over at Twilight’s cuz……uh……I didn’t want to spread anything over at the corner…” “Uh, ok Pinkie, but I dunno if the Cakes will buy it…” Rainbow Dash said flying over toward Sugarcube Corner. “The rest of you ponies, just stay outside here and keep anypony from coming in here, okay?” Pinkie told the rest of her friends. “But Pinkie, what if somepony asks what’s going on in here?” Rarity asked. “Just tell them whatever excuse comes to your minds, you ponies are smart!” Pinkie said getting a little frantic. “Now, I gotta go study that spell more, I should be able to get it down by tonight some time…” “You can count on us, Sugarcube, we’ll protect the library!” said Applejack as Pinkie closed the door. “It’s a darn good thing we all have the day off!” “Sick?!” Mr. and Mrs. Cake said surprised. “Yeah, she was pretty sick. Some kind of bug going on around here I think. She didn’t sound too good, that’s why she wanted to be out of her apartment above, she thought she’d spread it to the corner I guess…” “Well, that’s rather odd that Pinkie was doing so well here yesterday and now she’s sick…” said Mr. Cake. “Does she know when she’ll be alright again, Rainbow Dash?” Mrs. Cake asked. “I dunno, but it could be a few days or maybe just one day. But anyways, I gotta go now, I’m……uh……late for cloud cleaning on this…uh……bright…shiny day…um, I gotta go, bye!” Rainbow Dash said nervously walking out of the door with the Cakes looking rather confused. “Man, poor Pinkie and Twilight.” she thought to herself. “This really didn’t go well. But she’s not gonna be able to reverse the spell. Only Twilight would be able to do that and Twilight’s not the one with the magic horn, Pinkie is, but it would take her forever to learn how to use that thing!” Rainbow Dash sighed and then looked to the city of Canterlot up in the mountains where the Princess resides. “I’d say the Princess is the only one who can help with this. I should just go fly to Canterlot and warn her or something… In fact, that’s just what I’m gonna do!” Rainbow Dash then opened her wings and flew to the sky through the clouds and toward the great city of Canterlot. She had to hurry fast and warn the Princess quickly before all of Ponyville would be in a ruckus about this situation. For the next ten hours, Pinkie studied and studied as hard as ever from the book. Meanwhile, Twilight was upstairs with Spike playing games to pass the time. Spike didn’t really seem to be enjoying it. He missed the old Twilight and was starting to get annoyed with the new one. He finally just asked her politely if he could go downstairs and do some bookkeeping chores and she let him. He came down to do it and ask Pinkie how it was coming along with the spell. “Hey Pinkie, you almost finished learning that spell? I’m really starting to miss the old Twilight a lot…” he said miserably. “Not yet, Spike…” she said without looking at him. “Okay, well while you’re at it, I’m gonna clean up some of these books and the garbage we missed last night…” he said walking around and picking up the streamers and balloons from the party Twilight threw. Pinkie studied and studied for a while longer, and then finally put the book down and was ready to reverse the spell. “Finally! I think I have it down now! Spike, go get Twilight!” she told Spike as he rushed upstairs. Within a few minutes, Twilight was downstairs. “Hey Pinkie, Spike says you’re ready to change us back!” she said. “I sure am Twilight! Once and for all!” “Yeah, but I’m gonna miss being like this! I almost don’t wanna go back…” “Too bad, we’re gonna reverse it!” “Awwww…” Pinkie then closed her eyes and her horn glowed with light and sparkles started surrounding the two of them. They floated a bit in midair and then the light got brighter and suddenly there was a puff of pixie dust around them and they both landed back on the ground. Neither of them felt different, Pinkie still had her horn, and instead of switching their personalities, she switched their hair styles! “Wow, I look awesome!” Twilight said. “AAACK!!! Not what I meant to do!” Pinkie yelped. Pinkie then tried again, and there was another puff of dust, but no change in personalities, this time they switched their cutie marks. “Ah great, wrong thing again!” Pinkie said rolling her eyes. She tried it again, but their colors were switched. “Oh come on, why is this so hard to do?!?” she said starting to get rather angry. She tried again even harder and they both turned into pegasi, but luckily Pinkie still had her horn. “Oh good, I’m an Alicorn, hopefully that’ll make me more powerful this time!” But it didn’t work, she had turned them into two baby dragons that looked like Spike but Pinkie still had her horn luckily. “COOL! Look Spike, we look just like you!” said Twilight excitedly. “Wow…” Spike replied with his eyes widened. “Uh……Pinkie, think you could change Rarity into a dragon for just a day or two?” he said blushing romantically. “GRRRRR, WHY CAN’T I GET THIS RIGHT?!?” Pinkie screamed ignoring Spike’s request. “Okay, okay, calm down Pinkie, you got this! Just concentrate! It was only the first few times, it’s no big deal!” Pinkie’s horn glowed and she tried again, but the results were the same with Pinkie still having her horn: next was a pair of chickens with their corresponding colors. She tried again with faster intervals between each transformation: next was two fish flailing on the ground gasping for breath. Next was two owls. Next was two bunny rabbits. Two deer…two donkeys…two songbirds…two mice…two cats…an apple and an orange…salt and pepper…milk and cookies…burger and fries…clock and candle…and finally a rather odd mix-up of all their body parts combined in two separate bodies. Finally a huge puff of pixie dust exploded and they both fell down to the ground dizzy. “Wow……that was pretty fun……let’s do it again…” said Twilight with her eyes spinning in her head. Pinkie had just about had it and finally burst into tears. “AHAHAHA!!! WHY CAN’T I DO THIS, WHAHAHY?!? I’M A FAILURE, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FAILURE!!! OH TWILIGHT, I’M SO SORRY I LET THIS ALL HAPPEN, I’M SUCH A BAD PONY!!!” she cried while embracing Twilight. “There there now Pinkie, it’s ok, everything will be fine!” said Twilight trying to be positive. “IT IS NOT OK TWILIGHT AND EVERYTHING WILL NOT BE FINE!!!” said Pinkie grabbing Twilight’s face and shaking her head back and forth. “LOOK AT US, WE’RE NEVER GONNA GET BACK TO NORMAL AT THIS RATE!!!” “Pinkie, calm down!” Spike said to her trying to get her to stop being so hysterical. “You just need more time, that’s all!” “Time is something we don’t have, Spike! The Mayor will hear about this and we’ll both be in big trouble!” Just then the door opened a bit and Fluttershy peeped her head in to tell them something. “Um, Pinkie, just so you know, there is a multitude of ponies out here wondering what’s going on.” she told Pinkie. “We’re doing the best we can do get them to think everything is ok, but they won’t leave…” Pinkie had a horrified and worried look on her face. “I spoke too soon…” she said. “Come on guys, please, I have to see the Princess!!” shouted Rainbow Dash to the two guard ponies at the opened doors of Princess Celestia’s throne room. They had their wings crossed together keeping Rainbow Dash from entering. “Young lady, we’re sorry, but you must make an appointment with the Princess prior to your arrival.” said one of the guards firmly. “But this is very urgent, I swear!” “Miss, we cannot let you in here!” Rainbow Dash gave a pouty expression and then walked up to the guard on the right and tried making funny faces at him like last time. She kept making them until she finally gave up for the guards were too austere to even laugh at her. “GRRRRR! Look, if you don’t let me in, you’re gonna be sorry, you hear!” she said getting a bit too feisty putting her hooves up in front of her as if she was ready to fight. “YOU’D BETTER LET ME IN RIGHT NOW OR I’LL……I’LL…” “Rainbow Dash?” said a familiar voice from behind the guards. “PRINCESS!!! Oh I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to…” “What are you doing here?” the princess asked. “My Lady, we apologize.” said one of the guards, “She said she wanted to see you, but you specifically said that everypony must make an appointment…” “It’s alright, Sir, I think I can take it from here. Leave us please.” “Yes, Your Highness.” said both of the guards obeying her. “Rainbow Dash, is there a problem?” Celestia asked the young pony. “A HUGE problem Princess. As in like, super-duper-could-get-worse-if-we-don’t-do-something-about-it-righ-now problem! You see, Pinkie Pie was kinda all disappointed with herself and she was all like ‘Oh, woe is me, I should be more serious about things’ and whatnot, so then she asked Twilight to use this uber powerful spell on her to change her personality for just one day but somehow Twilight ended up switching their personalities around but Pinkie thought ‘Oh well, it only lasts a day’ and didn’t think much of it so yesterday she went to work, but then it turned out the spell was permanent and…” she gasped quickly for air and then continued, “…and she got all worried and is trying to learn how to use the spell right now, but like she’ll be able to turn them both back before all of Ponyville is in an uproar cuz last night Twilight took it a bit too far and threw a party there and now everypony’s gonna get worried and this just isn’t gonna turn out good, you gotta do something about this!!” Princess Celestia seemed a bit confused and probably didn’t follow along with what Rainbow Dash was saying, but she did realize the main problem. “Wait, did you say that Twilight Sparkle used a powerful spell to change personalities?” she asked Rainbow Dash. “Yeah, yeah she did but they ended up switched, so now Twilight is the party pony and Pinkie is the know-it-all but they gotta change soon cuz it’s creating problems!” “Oh dear…I was afraid this would happen someday.” “You were?” “Yes, I probably should have warned Twilight about that spell, it’s not a very safe spell to be using. Not even the most powerful unicorns have been able to grasp that spell quite so easily; in fact, it’s been outlawed in most provinces of Equestria. I probably shouldn’t have even given her that book; it doesn’t do too good with explaining the warnings of that spell…” “Well, I dunno about the book, but that spell sure isn’t what we expected!” “Alright, Rainbow Dash, I will come with you to Ponyville and turn them back if I must.” “So, you really can turn them back to normal lickity-split?” “I have the most powerful magic skills in Equestria, my child, so yes, I will most definitely be able to turn them both back.” “Oh good, cuz man this whole thing is starting to make me go bonkers! I mean seriously, Pinkie Pie all serious and Twilight crazy? This is, like, INSANE!!!” TO BE CONTINUED...