Switching Bodies
Chapter 1: The day the pony became human and the human became pony
It was an ordinary day for Alicia Wellspring. Blue eyes twitching, and blonde hair in knots, she sat facing her bright monitor in the early morning light, eyes intent on the screen as she sipped her coffee. She surfed through the internet, website through website. Well, until her computer decided to randomly switch off.
"Hey, stupid thing, don't go off on me now!" She pouted, kicking the tower, in which the green light had been switched off. However, the machinery refused to do anything. Groaning, the woman bent down, and pressing the button herself. It didn't turn on. "Odd." She commented, and immediately began to poke the thing as many times as she could. It did not turn on, however.
"Great. Just great. No computer for me, I guess." Sighing, she made to get up from her chair. But her chair starting to move to it's own accord. "Whaaaat?" Her eyes raised in shock. Then, she noticed, all the items in the room were vibrating, making noises, or spinning, doing whatever inanimate objects did for fun. Her whole house soon started to shake.
'Earthquake!' She thought, making to get down below the desk, as she had been taught to many years before. But the chair pushed, yes, pushed her off, and kicked her across the room. Screaming, she landed on the bed, catching her breath. 'Did that chair just kick me!?' Panicking, she thought out her options. She could run outside, stay where she was or-
Or fall asleep on the floor, she thought as she felt her mind closing, and heavy eyelids covered hazel eyes. The last thing she saw was a purple glow encasing her.
Alicia groaned, slowly opening her eyes. She could hear the sound of panicked voices. 'Good.' She thought. 'Someone saw all the stuff happening. I'm in the hospital, probably'. However, she was proved wrong as her eyes shot open to a view of a libarary. 'A... Library? Why the hell did someone think it was a good idea to bring me to a library!?' She looked around her to see that she was on a bed with dark blue covers, in a small room. Groaning, she looked down the bed. She was on top of the covers, her green body in perfect shape, hooves stretching out.
Wait, what?
She did a double take. Yup, those were definitely hooves, and yup, she definitely had a green body. Hyperventilating, she looked all around her body. She had some sort of tattoo on her side, as well as a light green and white tail. She reacted perfectly normal by screaming with all the might of her lungs.
As soon as she let out the first high-pitched noise, the door bolted open, and in the doorway stood a purple unicorn, with a blue and pink mane. She gave a startled look, and rushed to Alicia's side.
"Ohmygosh Lyra! Are you alright? I thought you would be fine, just a minor fainting! Where are you hurt?" She spoke quickly to the frightened girl.
'Did she just call me Lyra? And did that unicorn just... Talk? I'm in crazyland now.' She gave the equine a weird look. "Did you just speak to me?" She asked, covering her mouth immediately. "My voice!" She squeaked through her hooves. 'It's so different! What's going on?'
"Yes, you. Lyra Heartstrings. We're friends, remember?" The unicorn seemed scared, almost fearful of the situation just as much as Alicia. However, she had her different reasons to be.
"I'm not Lyra Heartstrings, I'm Alicia Wellspring! I'm not a unicorn, I'm a human! I have no idea who you are, how I got here, or why unicorns can suddenly talk and look like they were painted on with cotton candy!" She shouted, waving her hooves around in the air. The other unicorn simply blinked in shock, and gasped.
"Oh no, oh no! This isn't good, you have memory loss! I need to fix this!" Her horn suddenly lighted up with a purple colour, which looked oddly familiar...
Then she remembered. It had hit her, literally.
"That... That glow! What is that?" She questioned the violet equine. She remembered, the exact pattern, colour, and everything! Except the talking purple unicorn.
"Oh, that's just my magic. I can preform spells with it. Now hold still, I need a perfect aim." She replied casually, ignoring the jaw-drop from Alicia.
"Magic? Say what? I never kne- DON'T USE THAT THING ON ME!" Her voice, once again, changed to screaming as the horn of her companion nearly touched her forehead. She automatically backed away, falling off the bed. "Ouch." She said, rubbing her head. She noticed that when she rubbed her head, she pushed the tip of a light green and white mane into her point of view, the same colour as her tail.
Then she hit a bump.
Literally.
She froze as she touched it, just thinking it could be a result of those vibrating objects falling on her. But as she rubbed it up more, she knew it was too big for a bump like that. "No way..." Alicia muttered as her hoof reached the tip. She got up, however, fell right away, so resulting to crawling on the floor to the near mirror in the room. She looked horrified at the result.
What faced her was not Alicia Wellspring, ordinary human living on her own, but was a light green unicorn, with a green and white mane and tail. She had yellow-orange eyes, and to top it off, a unicorn horn.
She was a unicorn.
A talking unicorn.
"Well, this is unexpected." She muttered, laughing slightly to herself. Of all people, her! She's here! In a library with a unicorn! And she's like her!
'Heh. How funny.'
...
'No, not really fun. Dammit Alicia, get your act together. You're with a freaking unicorn. She talks. What are you gonna do?'
"E-Excuse me? Ly- I mean Alicia Wellspring? If you're not explaining any memory loss, then could you explain the situation?"
'Almost forgot about her.' Alicia thought, whipping around to face the horse- no, it didn't seem that big. Then again, how should she know? She was about the same height. In fact, she probably was the same height as her. But judging by the objects around them, she seemed to be smaller than a horse. More like a pony.
"Alicia Wellspring?" The pony repeated. Alicia snapped out of her imagination, looking into the pony's eyes.
"Yes?" Alicia asked nervously.
"*Ahem*, My name is Twilight Sparkle, but you can call me Twilight. It seems that you aren't who I think you are. Could you please enlighten me on who you are, where you come from?" Twilight Sparkle smirked, almost amused like watching a 1 year old play with toys. But she waited patiently for the green unicorn to begin her story. Taking a deep breath, Alicia started.
"My name is Alicia Wellspring. I'm a hu- Well, I was a human, that is until an odd earthquake occurred at my home. My chair literally kicked me, like it came to life! I was thrown to the ground, and I saw a purple light, just like the light of your... magic. Then I blacked out and woke up here, and here we are!" She finished her story with a smile, but only to build confidence in herself. Well, sharing information with a stranger! You're doing great, Alicia!
"Hmm... I think that this might explain many things. Everything, actually." Twilight thought, putting a hoof to her chin. "Your story is quite believable."
'Wait, what?' "Did you say believable? Wow, I thought you'd think I'm crazy." She let out a little laugh in relief, the noise sounding alien to her.
"Yes, actually. It all comes down to magic, really. You see, you appear to be in the body of my friend, Lyra Heartstrings. She's a musician from the royal city of Canterlot, here in Equestria. She moved to Ponyville for a simpler life." Alicia nodded, taking in this information, although she understood little of it. "She's always been obsessed with bipedal creatures, and has done many studies on them. Earlier today she came into my library, begging me to try a spell on her to change her into what she calls a 'hue-man'. I don't know much of them besides that she describes them as being 'perfect, pure beings.' Alicia snorted at this statement. From what she saw, humans were far from perfect, or even pure. However, Twilight ignored this and continued.
"Well, she blacked out, and I put her on this bed to rest. Then you woke up in her body." She wrapped up her thoughts, leaving a more understanding Alicia. Canterlot? Equestria? Ponyville? What were these names? She decided to ask later and get straight to the point.
"Alright, you know about me, now It's time I learned about you. Only fair. *Ahem*, What's Ponyville, Canterlot, and Equestria? How do you preform spells, are there others like yo- I mean, us, I guess? Why are you purple, and why am I green? Are we ponies or horses, I can't tell by the body figure. How tall are we, and how does any of those things explain the moving furniture?" Alicia caught her breath after all the questions. She looked at the thoughtful Twilight, who took a while to think about the questions.
"The town we are in, the royal capital of Equestria, the country we are currently in, the magic channelling through my horn, yes, because of genetics, ponies, 4 feet, and my guess is because of the magical disruption in your world. By the looks of it, that much of magical disruption means that there is little, if none, magic in your world." Twilight smirked at her stupendous memory. "Any more questions?"
"I'm good for now, thank you Twilight." Alicia thought for a while. "Wow, this is... Weird. Amazing. Words cannot describe this." She suddenly looked up into Twilight's eyes. "What about the other ponies in this country? Will they know who I am?"
"It's best we keep it a secret. I should send in a report to the Princess, as her personal student and whatnot, it's my job to keep her updating on events here in Ponyville." Princess? Personal Students? Wow, she had a lot of catching up to do. "I'm sorry for any confusing Alicia Wellspring, but I must go write a letter. Feel free to come downstairs any time you wish."
"Oh, please. Call me Alicia." She blushed, if it was possible for her to. But through the mirror she swore she saw some red.
"Right, Alicia." Twilight corrected herself, trotting downstairs, leaving the sea-green unicorn alone. Then she realised something.
"How do I walk?"