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// The Devastating Effects 
// Story: Mind Swap in Ponyville 
// by PonyDragonSword 
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While wandering the halls, Twilight begins to notice a bunch of scientists running down the hall as if something was wrong. Curiosity getting the better of her, Twilight chases after the scientists wondering what could be wrong. After reaching the end of the hall from the bunking quarters at the north wing, Twilight hit the research dome and discovered that all the scientists were crowded around this one peculiar device with what seemed like a glass/plastic container with cords extending into it. Getting closer, she began to notice that the cords were connected to some being or creature that seemed to be lying down. Now pushing forward and fighting off the other scientists, she got close enough to see that the being or creature was a PONY! Not just some pony, but Rainbowdash!
Thinking quickly, she turned to the nearest scientist who was just a little taller than she was with caramel colored coat. Twilight urgently asked remembering to breath to control her nervousness, “What happened here, why is Rainbowdash lying there?”
The pony responded, “I don’t know, one moment we were testing certain reactions of the spell to any specific environment we put in, but before we could put anything in, she began to have strong spasms. As we urgently tried to get her out, we were all knocked back to the walls. It was like something triggered and caused her to send out a powerful force field. As we all began to come to, we quickly remembered what was going on and cautiously hurried to her. We tried releasing the container, but her force field was still active and kept it stuck.”
Upon hearing this, Twilight realized what spell was going on, but depending on the spell that forced all of their minds to swap bodies, it could be extremely weak or extremely strong. Twilight quickly asked, “Can you please retrieve three unicorn guards and quickly, I think I know how to fix this.”
Still somewhat dazed by this event, the mare scientist quickly rushed over and grabbed exactly what Twilight asked for, three unicorn guards. Twilight quickly explained the spell she had in mind to the guards and asked one to cast it. The spell was a simple force spell that is supposed to counter the shield spell and raise the container so they could get her friend out. The first guard cast the spell and the machine arms began to whine against the pressure, still the container didn’t budge. After 30 seconds, Twilight asked the second guard to join in with the first one, and the arms groaned even more. This time, the container began to move, only very slowly, and stopped at about a foot off the platform, still not enough. Finally, waiting long enough seeing that the first guard was beginning to sweat, she asked the third guard to finally join in. The arms groan began to grow to a whine and alarms from the machine began to blare. The sound was becoming deafening, but all the more reason to do this quickly, and that is what Twilight got. The container finally rose another foot, two feet, three feet. Finally, the container stopped, and a couple scientists quickly got Rainbow, and not a moment too soon, as soon as Rainbow cleared the container’s edges, the first guard finally gave up on the spell and that instantly added weight the other two who quickly collapsed from exhaustion and the extra weight.
With scientists on both the guards and Rainbow, Twilight quickly got to Rainbow and asked how she was doing. The scientists checked her pulse, if she was breathing, everything the make sure if somepony was okay. Rainbow passed everyone of the tests except for one that was obvious, if she was conscience, of course being a no. Rainbow still had minor spasms, but at least she was fine.
Getting something to carry Rainbow with, four guards quickly carried Rainbow to the bunking quarters, which made Twilight begin to wonder why they were doing that. Upon following, they had reached the bunking quarters heading all the way to the back, finding a hidden elevator that they all boarded and headed down for about 15 seconds. Upon the doors opening, Twilight gasped at the new found room before her. Apparently, “Effect” has two floors, one for the main research, and one for medical purposes. This was a way for the sick and injured stay clear of the healthy ponies, but also make it easy for the healthy ponies come and visit every now and then.
Twilight appreciated this and continued to follow the guards all the way to an empty bed, which was really close. That is also something that shocked Twilight, hardly any of the beds were filled, only a few injured ponies. Compared to the size of the medical room, that was a fraction of the beds. The floor size was huge, probably reaching all the way from one end of the building to the other. the ceiling was 15 feet up, so it made it feel more roomy and not so cramped up and like a prison.
“What other floors are there to this place?” Twilight asked the guard nearest to her.
“There are two other floors to this place, the one after this floor is a gym for any therapy somepony might need to go through, and for us guards to exercise and stay fit for any emergency. Then the floor below that is a…” the guard said before he was interrupted by a doctor.
“What happened here?” the doctor, a fairly young colt with a black coat and light brown mane and tail, asked.
The guard that Twilight was talking to responded, seemingly the leader of the group, “She had strong spasms throughout her entire body right before they could test her in the environment simulator.”
“Not again, the other 4 had that happen to them as well, now they are all unconscious and showing signs of only decreasing either into a coma or a semi-coma.”
Twilight’s eyes instantly grew in size and her pupils shrunk. The sudden news caught her so off guard, she had to spread out her legs from falling to the floor. She quickly looked again at the other beds that were filled and counted 4 in total. Walking up to the beds individually and looking at who was in the beds was the other 4 ponies from her spell, Rarity in Applejacks body, Applejack in Rarity’s body, Pinkie Pie in Fluttershy’s body, and finally Fluttershy in Pinkie’s body. Not believing what was happening, Twilight nearly fainted on the spot, if it wasn’t for the one guard she was talking to who came up and simply put his hoof on her shoulder and led her away to the elevator.
Once the elevators doors opened up Twilight stumbled out in a daze and heard the guard talking to another pony, but not understanding anything he said, and was led to her bed in the dormitory wing of the complex and given some liquid. As soon as she swallowed the liquid, she was out like a light.