Collabception
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( by Hyzaku)
Today was special. It was the fifth anniversary of the marriage between Princess Celestia and Princess Twilight Sparkle. What was particularly special, beyond the obvious, was that the happy couple had been given the day off to celebrate. Despite all this, the day began like any other. There was one duty which Celestia was not willing to give up however. Even on her holiday, she still needed to raise the sun.
As usual, Celestia had risen minutes before the scheduled dawn, slipping carefully from her favorite spot in a futile attempt to not wake the lavender lump that always tried to drag her back into a land of warmth and blankets. It was simultaneously admirable and adorable how Twilight always managed to find a way to cling to Celestia each morning. With her forelegs wrapped firmly around Celestia’s neck, the younger alicorn made her familiar request.
Her voice was half muffled as she buried her muzzle into Celestia’s coat, “Just five more minutes,” she pleaded.
Even as Celestia crawled out of bed, the lavender lump refused to release her grip. With her lover in tow, Celestia made her way to her balcony. Somehow, during the short trip there, Twilight had managed to scramble up onto Celestia’s back. As solar magic began to flow, reaching out to her sun in order to drag it up from its slumber, Celestia was caught off guard by a soft, teasing pressure on her ear. Twilight rapidly nibbled her way down from the tip all the way to the base. Magic continued to flow, but Celestia was no longer paying attention. The delicate sensation of Twilight’s tongue caressing her ear, slowly gliding around the edge, had robbed the solar princess of any form of concentration. As Twilight’s teeth slowly clamped down on the tip of her ear once more, Celestia’s last vestige of control over her spell vanished. Her link with the sun was broken, and all the uncontrolled magic began to coalesce around her horn.
Suddenly, there was bright flash of blinding light.
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(by Pearple Prose)
The lavender alicorn groaned and sat up from her position on the floor, rubbing her head with a hoof. Her eyes were squeezed shut as she winced. "Well, that didn't work. Honestly, love, couldn't you have gone at least five minutes before causing some form of magical mishap? I swear, it's like some kind of comedy of errors with you sometimes..." She trailed off. "I feel... odd."
Blinking away the odd sensation, she lifted herself shakily to her hooves and glanced around the bed chambers. "My love? Are you alright?" She heard a moan, and turned around to look.
And looked.
And looked.
A tall white alicorn lay spread-eagled on the massive bed, groaning as she prodded her sore horn. "I feel heavy. And I have an odd urge to eat cake, for some reason." She sat up and saw the other pony staring at her with a wide-open jaw.
"...Twilight?" The lavender mare asked.
The white alicorn blinked and looked down at her hooves. She noticed for the first time that they were very, very not purple.
"Oh no." said Twilight.
"Oh no, indeed," echoed Celestia. "And did you just call me fat?"
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(by SHL)
The two princesses stared at one another for several seconds, perhaps even a few minutes, as they tried to understand what was happening to them.
"How can this...?" said Twilight, looking again to her white hooves. "How is this possible?"
"I don't know." Celestia answered, with a little touch of irritation in her voice. "Maybe, if somepony didn't distracted me..."
"Ey! Don't try to blame me, Tia!" Protested the young alicorn, as she stomped her hooves in the bed.
Celestia sighed, "Ok, arguing isn't getting us anywhere if we want to solve this mess."
With that, Twilight calmed down and asked Celestia. "Do you know if something like this has ever happened before?"
The Princess of the Sun shook her head. "I don't know... and I don't think so. We can do some research in the Royal Library, it’s your specialty."
Twi interrupted her. "There is a problem, dear..."
Celestia looked her marefriend with an eyebrow raised. "What problem?"
"Luna is waiting on us for breakfast."
Again, silence took place in the room for a moment, until Celestia broke it.
"Ponyfeathers..."
-
(by Knight of Cerebus)
Twilight and Celestia strode the room in elegant steps, both of them using their 'gameplan' tone.
"The most important thing about being me is that I'm not as sure of anything as you are. I'm a scientist, I doubt things. The strength of my magic, the veracity of Spike's stories about mysterious gem-eating rat monsters in the basement, that this mane is your natural hair colour--"
"Always smile. Even if they drop a plate of lima bean soup on your head, still maintain that supportive smile. Do not beam, do not grin. Remember, you are old enough to be the mother of every pony on this planet several times over. Act like it. Relish it. From this point on your face should be frozen in a supportive smile--"
The two ponies, used to lecturing others on their plans and ideas, looked more like a pair of white and purple goldfish babbling to themselves while they came up with a solution rather than a pair of pacing leaders giving a rallying speech to their disheartened troops. Twilight stopped mid step.
"We could always tell her the truth, you know. I mean, we're probably going to embarrass ourselves way more if we try to keep up a façade that we're in our normal bodies than if we just tell them we messed up a spell."
Celestia also slowed from her aimless wandering.
"Yes...I suppose we could. But it's our anniversary. Let's have a little fun with this, shall we?" There was a devious gleam in the other pony's eye that Twilight found remarkably creepy when worn on her own face.
"You're not ever allowed to make that face again."
Celestia stuck her tongue out at Twilight, which once more made Twilight wince. "Let's just focus on getting back into our nice, safe, normal brains, okay?"
Celestia merely smirked. "I'm going to go tell the guards I have a secret stash of Draconequus hentai." She sing-songed.
Twilight ran a hoof down her face. "Alright, alright, I'll play along. So what's the plan, then?"
Celestia walked over to Twilight, placing a hoof on the larger pony's shoulders. "Am I really this big?"
Twilight gave a deadpan look. "No, I merely wear a thousand years of cake and doughnuts like a normal pony would." Celestia only gave a snicker in response.
"Alright, here's the plan. First, I need you to go find Blueblood and a pair of white shorts, and then..."
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(by Fuzzyfurvert)
Luna glowered across the table at her sister and sister-in-law. Her nephew’s pitiful struggles in her magical grip had ceased shortly after they started, his body held in place against the ceiling of the castle breakfast nook.
Luna raised a weary eyebrow as she studied her co-rulers. Celestia had her trademark smile plastered over her face. Twilight seemed to just be on the edge of hyperventilating over their breakfast being spoiled by Blueblood. Something seemed off though. There was a puzzle before her and Luna loved nothing more than a mystery.
“Tell Us, Sister, what your plans for the rest of your day off, now that Our nephew had made a mess of breakfast and an ass of himself again?”
Luna let Blueblood fall from the ceiling before catching him again just before he hit the floor. As she pulled him close, Luna stripped him of his garish sunglasses and held him by his forehooves, letting his back legs swing free an inch off the ground.
“Well, yes… I believe Twilight had an itinerary planned out, right?” Celestia blinked, her smile nailed in place as she looked at Twilight.
Twilight started to take deeper breaths and nodded quickly. “Er… yes! I have many activities… uh, planned for later.”
Luna toned them out. Something was still wrong. Everything was wrong. It was hiding in front of her eyes, she just knew it. Good mysteries gave you all the clues in the beginning and tried to distract you while you were supposed to put together those same clues. She was betting Celestia and Twilight were clues. Blueblood too, but not willingly. His self-centered fueled stupidity would make him ill suited for accomplice status. She turned over his sunglasses in her aura, examining them for further clues. They appeared to be nothing but an unremarkable prop beyond their obviously high quality manufacture. She set them aside and looked back at her nephew’s flushed face. His mane hung limply as he kicked, his ridiculous crisp white shorts making swishing noises.
Crisp white shorts. Luna blinked as the thought hit her. Blueblood was many things - fashionable colt one of them - but fresh, crisp, military pressed dress shorts were decidedly not his chosen form of attire. Luna dragged Blueblood through the air, closer to herself and lifted him to take a closer look at the suspect article of clothing. The shorts were in fact, the brand used by the guard. Luna leaned in closer and tightened her grip as Blueblood’s struggles returned. She could smell just a hint of her sister’s perfume coming off the shorts.
Curious.
She gripped the edge of the shorts’ waistband and bent it over, revealing an inner tag. As she suspected, they were guards’ dress uniform underwear, and were embroidered with the owner’s name: Shining Armor.
Curiouser.
Luna looked over at her fellow princesses. She was getting closer. She could feel it.
“- after the goat shearing, we’ll separate the hair before coloring it. While it dyes, we’ll take lunch.”
Luna held up and hoof and silenced Twilight. She looked back and forth between the two alicorns as the dots connected. With each connection, her smile grew until it spanned from ear to ear.
“Um… sister? Are you alright?”
Suddenly, she had it. Everything fit into place. Everything was right.
“You’ve switched bodies!”
Twilight’s eye twitched. “What?”
Celestia said nothing, her smile still intact. Luna jabbed a hoof at her. “See? That is what tipped Us off! While you have perfected Our sister’s smile, it doesn’t reach your eyes. You have the look of nervousness about you!”
“But that doesn’t mean-” Twilight began before Luna’s hoof pointed at her.
“And you! Twilight is far more manic than that! She would have been much more flabbergasted at BlueBlood’s interruption and far more apologetic!” Luna grinned and put her chin in her hooves as she leaned on the breakfast table. “It is a clever ruse. Many ponies would fall for it methinks. It is so romantic to do this on your anniversary!”
Twilight, in Celestia’s body, looked at her wife. “This is romantic?”
-
(by Pearple Prose)
"So... allow Us to get this straight. You—" Luna jabbed a hoof at Celestia. "—went to raise the sun—"
Twilight interjected with a slight cough. "Uh, I'm Celestia."
Luna pointed her hoof at the other mare. "Ah yes, right. And then you—" She pointed at Twilight. "—wanted to go back to bed, so you—"
"No, I'm Twilight," said Celestia. "She's Celestia."
"Oh, my apologies. And then Celestia grabbed on to Twilight when she cast her spell—"
"No, Twilight grabbed me."
"And who are you?"
"...Twilight?" said Twilight.
"No, you're Celestia." said Twilight.
"Really? I thought I was Luna."
"No, I'm Luna."
"Then who's she?"
"Twilight."
"But Twilight is purple!"
"Lavender, actually."
"I always thought it was more of a mulberry."
"Me? No, I'm white."
"I was talking to Twilight."
"I am Twilight. You know, that magical spellymajigger..."
"...More of an incantation thingy..."
"...Wibbly wobbly..."
"Be quiet, Celestilight."
"No, you be quiet, Twilestia!"
"Shut up and kiss me!"
"Okay then, I will!"
Luna watched her sister and her student mash their faces together and then disappear under the table. She blinked. The table began to shake. Her eyebrow twitched as a blood vessel throbbed in her forehead.
"Now I get to be the big spoon!"
*Pop!*
"ENOUGH!"
The room exploded with blinding light.
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(by Hyzaku)
The blinding light subsided, leaving Luna very curious as to what exactly had just happened.
“Um, Auntie Luna, would it be too much to ask for you—”
“Silence, Nephew.” Before Blueblood even had time to start sulking again, Twilight and Celestia emerged from under the table.
The two lovers exchanged disappointed glances. Turning to face Luna, Twilight spoke. “Well, that was anticlimactic.”
“In more ways than one,” Celestia added.
Luna’s eye twitched as her mind was assaulted by unwanted imagery. “Yes, be that as it may, am I correct in assuming that the two of you have returned to your proper bodies?”
Twilight sighed heavily. “Yes, sadly. I can’t believe we wasted such a precious chance. I didn’t even get to perform any of my experiments!”
Luna nodded. “Yes, I am sure the study of such a phenomenon would have proved most valuable.”
“Yeah. Honestly, I think I’m more disappointed that I won’t even have a chance to use that list now.”
A puzzled expression overtook Luna’s face. “You had a list of things to test in the event that you switched bodies with Celestia?”
Twilight nodded enthusiastically. “Of course! I had all the positions planned out, including reference diagrams, a couple of charts, and a few blank pages to take notes on.”
Luna blinked. “I suppose your preparedness for the scientific study of such an improbable event is quite commendable.”
This time, it was Twilight’s turn to look confused. “Who said anything about science?”
Luna stared blankly at Twilight as the implications of her statements sunk in. “Right…”
Celestia broke her silence. “You know, Twilight, Luna brings up a good point. After all, the key to any experiment is to be able to reproduce the results.” A sultry grin slowly crept onto her lips.
“And I do believe we still have the rest of the day to ourselves.”
Twilight’s mouth curled into a smile as a devious sparkle shimmered in her eyes. “You get the toys, I’ll get my list.”
-
(by Davesknd)
"NO!" Luna bellowed in the fullest of the royal Canterlot voice.
All the other ponies in the room gave her their undivided and slightly shivering attention.
"YOU TWO ARE NOT JUST GOING TO FETCH YOUR DARN DOLLS-"
"ACTION FIGURES!"
"WHATEVER! You are not going to fetch your toys, ignore what just happened and leave me alone with Blueblood!" Luna demanded
"You could always let me go, Auntie?" the alabaster stallion suggested.
"I could also crush you like a bug and nothing of value would be lost!" Luna growled
"A very good point!" Blueblood nodded.
"So what, we changed bodies." Twilight shrugged "Have you read a single of my friendship reports? I had weirder stuff happen to me before breakfast."
"And compared to what Discord did to us from time to time, this was rather second class, dear sister." Celestia added friendly "Let's not fret or linger on the matter and-"
"You only want to try out how it is when Twilight is the big one." Luna interrupted coldly.
"A mare can dream..." Celestia answered innocently.
"Can I go now?" Blueblood asked again. "Imagining my aunt's... private life can't be good for my emotional growth!"
The three mares gave him wry looks.
"I AM NOT INBRED!"
"Blueblood's idiocy aside: I am not satisfied with this outcome!" Luna decreed "You two are not going to-"
Sadly she was not able to finish this sentence.
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(by Knight of Cerebus)
Twilight rolled over in the bed, catching her breath. For the umpteenth time in the day, she mused on how little she regretted teleporting herself and Tia halfway through Luna's sentence. Books, lab reports, a chess set, a painting kit containing one picture of herself "painted like a Prench filly" and the remnants of a lunch ordered in lay strewn about the floor. The last of their activities for the day was evidenced by twisted sheets, smelling very much like herself and her lover. She gave a happy sigh, knowing that despite the shower she would doubtlessly need to take it had very much been a worthwhile anniversary. Stretching out Celestia's legs, she stared at her hooves for a minute, a very unprincessly frown on her face.
"Twilight?" Inquired her better half, her wing touching the larger alicorn's body to break her out of her stupor.
"I was just thinking."
Celestia gave a mischievous hum. "I thought I smelled smoke." The playful swat that buffeted her nose was well deserved.
"I was thinking that...this isn't really so bad. I dunno. My friends are the best that a pony could ask for, my family is happier than a pony like me has any right to, but you..." Celestia's left brow raised, her purple muzzle scrunching up.
Twilight giggled. "You're right. That absolutely does look adorable." Celestia rolled her eyes.
"What I mean is that I feel like...I don't know, you're part of me. Like, Twilight would be a completely different pony without Celestia."
"A better pony, I hope." Celestia curled closer, nibbling on her better half's ear in a hope to distract her.
"I wasn't finished." Twilight responded to the nibbling with a cuddle, despite her faint exasperation. "But you are absolutely right. You've been the light of my life since I was a little filly. You--."
"Twilight." She was silenced by the other pony's look. "You don't need a big speech. I know how you feel. I've always known how much I meant to you. And you know that I feel the same. Maybe not at first, but you've always been a quick learn."
Where a younger Twilight Sparkle would have blushed and mumbled about how untrue that was, Twilight Everfree only closed her eyes and smiled. "You called me Twilestia when we were bickering over Lulu. I think that describes how we feel about each other quite nicely."
"Everything I am is part of you, and everything you own is mine as well." Twilight kissed the elder pony.
"Why can't that extend to our bodies?" Celestia smiled up at her lover.
"Or anything." Twilight confirmed. "My teacher, my dearest, my best friend, my wife. We're anything and everything to each other together." Gone was the stammering insecurity, replaced by a cozy smile.
Celestia Everfree would have given a reassuring smile and downplayed the gravity of the mood at this point, but Celestia Sparkle blushed, her eyes gaining a glassy sheen. The two curled together, listening to the sound of their asynchronous heartbeats. It didn't matter that they were beating at different times, what mattered was that they beat together.
As a pair of happy sighs left the room, Celestia's eyes lit with wicked glee.
"Next year we fuse our bodies?"
"I can't wait to see Cadance and Luna's faces."