September 5th 1006 Post Nightmare Moon
September 5th 1006 Post Nightmare Moon
Sweetie jumped over the low swing from the Shadow that had ambushed the group and twirled in midair, slicing it's head in half before spring boarding off it's head and cleaving straight through another that thought it would be a good idea to dive bomb the group.
The unicorn landed in the middle of her friends, summoning Nightmare as she landed, and charged forward with them, screaming a battle cry as explosions of thunder, fire, wind and ice erupted from all around them.
"Uh oh..."
"What's wrong Diamond?"
"The world is starting to... pulse. It's like a wall of something is approaching and is about to...."
The rest of the earthponies words where drowned out as a sudden white light enveloped the group and the rest of the Shadow world...
"Ughh... my head... is everypony okay?" Sweetie asked as she looked shook her head. "Girls?" She looked up after there was no answer.
A big empty street surrounded her, which became a canyon as sky scrapers towered hundreds of hands above her. Growling softly at the annoyance she reached up to activate her earpiece, stopping short when her hoof met the fur on her ear.
Her eyes widened as she felt her other ear in the hopes that she had somehow put it in the wrong ear, feeling the soft fuzz of her fur instead of the plastic of the earpiece she had 'borrowed' from her sisters stash of fashion show equipment.
"Oh no.. Rarity is going to kill me if she finds out..."
A horrible screeching sound drew the fillies attention as she found herself set upon by a multitude of shadows.
With a panicked squeal she threw up her shield and hoped it would hold...
a few minutes earlier...
The series of soft knocks drew the attention of a white unicorn who lay on the couch in the living section of Carousel Boutique. Gently laying her book down on the end table and flicking her mane out of the way she stood up and trotted to the door, peering through the peephole to see who was there.
After getting a good look at the visitor the mare opened the door with a smile.
"Dizzy.... or Dash?" She muddled her brow in thought. "Who are you right now?"
"Oh... it's uh me in here... Rainbow is back in herself too.. So are Pinkie and the Princess. So who are you?" The lime green stallion replied, his brown mane bobbed around his horn. "Am I speaking to Twilight or Rarity?"
The mare gave a deadpan stare. "If you can't tell by looking then maybe you should be the one wearing glasses."
"Oh..." Dizzy rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "No make up and your mane isn't styled.. sorry. So that means the pulse didn't reach this far?"
"Pulse? You mean the light show at Sugarcube Corner?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah.. so you saw it?"
The white mare nodded. "It was hard not to."
"Drat.. that means we need to find a way to swap Applejack and Gears back too." Dizzy mumbled. "So is Rarity in?"
"Yeah. She's upstairs. Do you want me to go get her?" Twilight asked.
"That'd be great." the stallion nodded.
Twilight turned and trotted upstairs, leaving Dizzy alone in the living room, his curiosity got the better of him and he peeked at the book on the table and blinked.
"Dizzy! So good to see you." a voice said as a lavender unicorn mare trotted into view. "Twilight tells me you managed to reverse the effects of this horrid spell."
"You say that as if it's a bad thing we got stuck in each others body for a few days." Twilight mock pouted as she trotted down and waited on the bottom step.
"Oh you know I'm only teasing you sweetie." Rarity giggled daintily. "But I do have orders I need to fill and your magic hasn't the finesse I require."
Twilight smiled and pecked her marefriends cheek.
"Well then... uhh... Rarity." Dizzy said, drawing attention back to himself. "Since you're in Twilight's body...you're the one who's going to have to cast the spell that will get you two back to normal. I uhh... take it you know about dual casting?"
"Oh... umm... no.. I'm afraid I don't." Rarity smiled sheepishly.
"Oh.. well uhh...it's a simple process really... all Twilight has to do is start the spell... and at the correct point in time you just have to charge the spell with your magic as well..." He stopped. "Maybe correct point wasn't a good term, because we want this to fail again."
Twilight absentmindedly patted a spot of her mane down as she looked over the spell book Dizzy had placed down in front of them, her trained eyes picking up on the intricacies of the spell in seconds.
"Well that explains why when the spell failed it did the way it did."
"Huh? What do you mean sweetie?" Rarity asked as she looked up.
"This is a mind reading spell. So when the spell mucked up here." She pointed to a paragraph a quarter of the way down the page. "It turned into a mind exchange spell."
Rarity squinted and sighed softly. "I'll have to take your word for it darling. All I need to know are my geomancy spells and my telekinesis."
Twilight giggled and nuzzled Rarity lovingly. "And you've done more with that than I ever have with my whole arsenal."
"Well... since you two seem to know what you are doing... I'll just step out to make sure nothing bad happens by me being in the way." Dizzy nodded to himself before bolting outside in a gallop, leaving the two mares with comically large beads of sweat rolling down the back of their heads.
"Well then...shall we?"
"Let's."
Sweetie fought for her life as more and more Shadows came at her and Diamond Tiara.
"Can you sense the others yet?" Sweetie asked as she clashed her tonfa against the blades of a quartet of humanoid dancers, kicking out at her Persona card to summon Nightmare.
"Ngh..." Diamond grunted as she blocked flurry of blows from a large automaton Shadow with her great sword. "Not yet. I need to get free of this to summon my Persona!"
Sweetie let out a roar as cluster of lightning bolts erupted from Nightmare's armor and struck all the Shadow's,knocking them to the ground. "Run! Now!" She screamed as her Persona absorbed back into her body before she bolted down the street away from the stunned Shadows with Diamond Tiara hot on her hooves.
"I hope the others are okay." Diamond panted as they galloped down the street.
"No offense to them... but let's worry about us first!" Sweetie gasped as she skidded into an alleyway and dove behind a dumpster with Diamond following swiftly after her.
"Uh oh...." Diamond said as she peeked around the dumpster. "It's happening again..."
Sweetie opened her mouth to groan but the sound was swallowed by the white light.
When the light show died down the two mares were stumbling in place before the lavender one fell to her side, the white one catching her and sweeping her until she was parallel to the ground.
"Oh Sweetie!" Rarity practically squee'd. "I'm me again. Beautiful me. And you're you. Sweet,gorgeous you!"
Twilight simply smiled and pulled Rarity into a passionate kiss, which the couple held for a few minutes.
Dizzy popped his head in the door and blinked. "Did it work?"
Rarity finally managed to pull herself away from Twilight to nod enthusiastically. "Yes yes yes! It worked wonderfully!" Rarity swooned. "I'm me again, and Twilight's herself again. All is right with the world!"
"Not just yet it's not." Twilight muttered, just loudly enough to be heard.
Rarity turned toward Twilight. "Whatever do y-" her sentence was cut short by a gasp as her eyes settled on Twilight's form as she crouched the front half of her body low to the ground, a small felt box gripped in her magic.
"I was hoping to save it for a better moment. But I guess the moment doesn't get much better than this." Twilight smiled as her magic opened the box.
Rarity gasped even louder as Dizzy let out a low whistle.
The ring band was pure platinum and just large enough to fit halfway down a unicorn's horn. Atop it sat a generously sized, yet still practical, opaque white diamond which shimmered in the sun, casting pale light all over the boutique.
"Rarity Jeanne Belle..." Twilight began. "will you marry me?"