//------------------------------// // Mane 6 // Story: A Life Changing Wish // by The Crusaders //------------------------------// Rainbow cautiously looked around her surroundings, tears forming in her eyes as she saw where she was. She was on the ground, directly under her precious cloud layer. gasping, she jumped into a bush to hide. She had to conceal herself, she had to find a way to make sure she couldn't be seen like this. She poked at her horn. "Hey you! Start making some magic, ok? I need to get back up there!" she demanded, focusing all her energy into her horn. She gasped as she was lifted off the ground and started going higher and higher until she was in the clouds, specifically in her cloud house. Then, there was a blast of magenta magic, and she landed on the puffy clouds, without falling through. She dashed over to her closet and grabbed a nice, casual hat and placing it over her horn. Biting her lip, she looked for something to cover up her lack on wings. Then, it hit her. She raced to her cabinet and pulled out her emergency bandaging kit, adding some padding to the sides before wrapping her torso in it, to give the look of broken wings. Wings. It made her eyes tear up just to think of the word. She would never fly again, and she certainly would NEVER become a Wonderbolt. Rarity rubbed her groggy eyes and yawned, using her magic to toss the blanket off of her. But she still felt the weight of something over her body, what was it? Her eyes fluttered open at the questionable scene. The blanket still sat nicely flattened over her body, having not moved an inch. "What's wrong, horn?" she asked aloud, grimacing as she manually moved the blanket, hopping out of the bed and casually approaching the mirror. When she stepped in front of it, she released a deadly scream that shook Ponyville. Sweetie Belle came racing into the room her eye mask pushed up to her forehead. When she saw Rarity, she fainted. Pinkie Pie flew out of bed like she did every morning, bouncing off the wall and firing into her shower, flicking on the hot water and spinning around, flying out of the showing again after flicking off the water, and quickly brushing her teeth while vibrating like a motor. She then flung herself into her cabinet where she pumped up her puffy hair, then backflipped down the stairs and into her seat at the breakfast table. She sighed happily as she leaned back and relaxed. "Speedy, deedy, and ready to eaty!" she yipped. The Cakes all stared at her in shock, Mr. cake dropped the soapy plate in his mouth, letting it break on the floor. Pumpkin Cake gasped and smiled at Pinkie, staring at her forehead. "Pinkie Pie! You're...you're...you're..." Mr. Cake stammered. Pound Cake huffed and turned away from Pinkie. "You're a UNICORN!" Mrs. Cake gasped. Pinkie looked up at her head and gasped excitedly. "Omigosh! I can do super duper fun tricks now! I can make things! And fix things! And all sorts of other fun stuff! I can't wait to tell Twilight! This is amazing!" she screeched. Then, her gaze drifted to her flank. It was surely blank. Pinkie shrugged and grabbed some icing off the shelf, using it to paint a beautiful balloon cutie mark on her flank before firing out the door, going so fast that the icing instantly flew off again, messing the floor. Mrs. Cake signed, and left to get a mop. Fluttershy woke up to being repeatedly slapped in the face by little paws. "Angel Bunny what's wrong?" she asked her fluffy friend. Angel rolled her eyes and pointed to her back, obviously telling her that she had no wings. Fluttershy almost broke out in tears before realizing that she barely ever used her wings anyway, and they were pretty much just taking up body space. Then, Angel slapped her flank. Hard. Fluttershy gasped and covered it with her tail. "Angel Bunny! That really isn't appropria-" Then, she realized what Angel was saying. Her cutie mark was gone. She gasped, and fell back onto her pillow, passed out. Rainbow flicked her tail over her flank, walking down the streets of Ponyville, extremely paranoid. She was looking all around her, making sure nobody was eyeing her. In her trance, she didn't notice Twilight in front of her, and they collided, knocking each other over, and causing Twilight's baseball cap to fly off, but before Rainbow could see Twilight's lack of horn, Spike had caught the hat and jammed it back onto Twilight's head, helping her up. Rainbow Dash screamed and burst up into the air, her horn shooting a bolt of magic, burning up her hat. Twilight gasped as Rainbow Dash's horn was revealed. Rainbow sighed, and removed her fake bandages with her magic, and moving her tail. Twilight sighed too, removing her hat and earning a wince from Spike, who didn't know quite how to react. "Do you have any idea what happened?" Twilight asked. Rainbow gulped and began to sweat. How was she going to lie to Twilight? What could she say? "No." she choked out. Twilight and Spike both gave her a quizzical look, detecting something was wrong, but before they could speak, a giant pink ball of energy crashed into Twilight, pinning her to the ground. "TWILIGHTSPARKLEOHMYGOSHLOOKATMEIMAUNICORNFINALLYBUTIDON'THAVEACUTIEMARKTHAT'SNOGOODBUTIHAVEAHORNANDICANMAKEMAGICBUTYOUCAN'TWHEREDIDYOURHORNGOANDWHATHAPPENEDTORAINBOWDASH'SWINGSWHEREDIDTHEYGOANDNOWSHEHASAHORNWHAT'SGOINGON!?!?!" Pinkie yapped. Twilight took a deep breath. "Well, we don't know what happened, but Rainbow is a unicorn, you're a unicorn and I'm an EARTH PONY!" Twilight fumed. Spike racked his head for some kind of explanation before shrugging, and picking Twilight's hat up off the ground. "So why don't we just research it back at the library, Twilight?" he asked. "Race you there!" Pinkie squealed, vanishing. "Oh, you're on!" Rainbow bragged, vanishing along with her. Twilight groaned and began to gallop home. When she returned, the two new unicorns were ripping books from the shelves, making Spike frown. "Spike, see if you can find a book on random breed changing." she instructed. Spike nodded and ran off to the back of the library, returning several minutes later with the perfect book. He flopped it down on the table and flung it open, letting Twilight read aloud. "Some ponies may experience mythical changes such as gaining or losing wings or horns. These changes commonly occur when a pony wishes on a Rainbow Star, (see A Guide to Rainbow Stars) specifically for something to change. Pinkie, did you wish for anything on a Rainbow Star?" Pinkie shook her head and shrugged. Twilight wished desperately that she could perform a lie detector spell, but she couldn't. "Rainbow?" "No way! What's a Rainbow Star?" she lied. Pinkie frowned and powered up her horn, performing the spell that Twilight had been desperate to use. "She's lying!" Pinkie gasped, and Twilight grimaced. "RAINBOW DASH! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" she screamed.