Twilight sat in her library quietly thinking to herself about the latest study she had undertaken, which happened to be about her feathery pet Owlicious. At the moment she was sitting on a overly stuffed throw pillow which she used as a chair by her desk, next to the lavender mare was her aforementioned pet sleeping on his stand dreaming of mice bunnies and other such things that owls like to snack on. Twilight herself was on the verge of sleep with exhaustion trying to figure out her latest conundrum
“Does he actually understand us and hoot on cue to be funny, or is he just hooting whenever we talk in his general direction?” mused Twilight out loud.
“I wish I could figure out which it is, it would be great to be able to talk to Owlicious, ah well maybe later right now I'm far too tired.” she said with a long yawn, and with that she trotted off to bed.
Unknown to Twilight her musings were heard by someone, two someones to be exact both of whom were hiding in the shrubbery that surrounded part of her home.
“Oh oh oh! I have an idea” said Pinkie in a excited but hushed voice.
“How about we help Twilight and our friends with their problems while pranking them?”
“What? I don't see how that will be very fun.” Replied Discord.
“If we help Twilight solve her current study by sayyyy swapping her and Owlicious’ bodies it will be good for Twi because she will get her research done and be a hoot to watch at the same time! She will also probably be less angry at you later if you helped her with this problem of hers.” Said Pinkie practically beaming.
“Say turning a princess into an owl does sound like a great fun, oh and Pinkie.”
“Yeah?”
“A hoot, really?”
“Hey I thought it was pretty funny.” Replied the bubbly pink mare with a slight laugh.
“Well lets sit back and watch the fireworks.” Discord said with a snap of his fingers.
Twilight awoke groggily as one might who was interrupted from a much needed nap. She went to rub the sleep from her eyes but what she found instead of a hoof was a feathery appendage.
“What! Where did this come from, where are my hooves!” She thought frantically.
“It seems like I’m not me at all, I have to find a mirror.”
She went to take a step and instead found herself falling a couple of feet to the ground.
“Oof! How did I get here, this is Owlicious’ stand not my bed!” Then it dawned on her, she comically pushed herself up with her wings and on to her now taloned feet. She would have probably screamed if she could have, instead all that came out was a long high pitched hoot.
“I’m in Owlicious’ body! But wait if I’m here that means…” She didn't have time to finish her thought for at that moment she saw her body fall headlong down the stairs and land clumsy on the floor.
“Oh no, this is bad.” However it only got worse, she watched dumbly as her body stumbled across the floor and out the open window, and kept on half flying half tripping moving farther and farther away.
“Great, just great now i have to keep myself, or Owlicious i guess, from not only embarrassing me but also from ruining my body!” She thought to herself, and with that she flew about as gracefully as Rainbow Dash after her fifth mug of cider, out the window and after her body.
Behind her in the bushes Discord and Pinkie sat ready to burst with laughter, once Twilight had flown after her body they both laughed so hard they thought that they would’ve popped a lung. Once the duo calmed down a bit Discord said to Pinkie;
“You were right Pinkie my dear friend, that was a hoot indeed!”
“I told you it would be good.” replied Pinkie with a little laugh still in her voice.
“Now on to Rarity’s I have a great idea of how to make her let her mane down and get a little dirty.” Discord simply smirked and raised an eyebrow.
“No not like that silly!” yelped Pinkie a bit defensively realizing how what she said had sounded.
“Well maybe a little like that, just a tad.” Discord only smiled a bit wider and asked;
“Well how are we to pull off this completely innocent prank then?”
“We only need one thing, or guy i guess would be the correct term.” At this Discord leaned in and listened to the bubble pink mare’s plan, his smile widening all the time.
Over in Carousel Boutique Rarity sat reading her latest romance novel (a particularly good one about how an innocent prank reveals unknown feelings between two friends) next to her younger sister who was trying to figure out some lyrics to a song she was writing at the moment. Rarity was interrupted from her engrossing read when there was a heavy knock at her door.
“I’m sorry but we’re closed today, you are more then welcome to come back tomorrow though.” She said trotting to and opening the door, however what she saw made her stop dead in her tracks. There, right outside her door was an all too familiar rock, a dark grey nightmare, that which haunted many of Rarity's dreams, Tom.
“Heya baby long time no see.” Said Tom in a gravelly voice. Rarity on the other hand just shrieked and slammed the door.
“How is this possible!” she cried to Sweetie Belle, who was completely oblivious to the whole situation.
“How is what possible Rarity?” Asked Sweetie Belle slightly afraid of whatever had unnerved her sister so, but more curious than anything else.
“Hey honey are you just gonna shut me out again? And here I thought I was the one with a heart of stone.” Called Tom though the door, much to the grievance of Rarity who was now thinking of ways to get rid of Tom without having to talk to, or look at that accursed rock again. Just then the door cracked just slightly enough to let a little bit of Tom peek through and say;
“HERE’S TOMMY!” Rarity nearly fainted right then and there, but she managed not to, instead she quickly told Sweetie Belle in a loud whisper;
“Go and borrow one of Mr. Drill Bit’s jackhammers, right now.” Sweetie Belle herself was quite confused by the order and the rock talking to her sister, but hearing the earnestness in Rarity's voice she ran off through the back door right away.
Over in the bushes Discord and Pinkie looked at each other a bit disappointedly.
“Well that was less fun than I thought it would be.” Said Pinkie looking at a rock pushed up against the door of Carousel Boutique.
“I agree.” said Discord rather unamused with what he thought was a perfect plan.
“lets go see if we can’t get some fun over at Fluttershy’s.” Said Pinkie, trying to think of a way to help and yet still prank Fluttershy.
“Ooh! I got it!” Exclaimed discord.
“You know how Fluttershy always wanted to be a tree right Pinkie?”
“Brilliant!” Exclaimed Pinkie, ready to pop with joy at the prospect of Fluttershy becoming a tree.
“Why it’s elementary my dear Pinkie.” Said Discord suddenly wearing a tweed Deerstalker hat, and smoking a bubble pipe.
Over at Fluttershy’s cottage Pinkie and Discord waited in the foliage for the timid mare to exit her house that they might have a full view of her reaction. The door to the cottage swung open suddenly and out from it bolter a small white bunny being pursued by none other than Fluttershy. Discord took aim with his fingers and firing a fake shot at the yellow Pegasus she was instantly rooted to the ground in a flash of light. Once the light was gone instead of Fluttershy there now stood a medium sized tree with what appeared to be a face on the middle of the trunk. Discord and Pinkie had to cover their mouths to avoid laughing at the spectacle before them, Fluttershy however was having the time of her life watching some birds fly over and nestle in her branches. What she failed to notice however was Harry the bear striding over to her. She noticed just in time to let out a small shriek before Harry put his back onto the tree and began to scratch himself by rubbing his back roughly against a very distraught tree. Pinkie and Discord sat there dumbstruck, trying to decide whether or not to help. They were quite surprised however to see Twilight run out of the forest and straight at Angel Bunny. At first they were both a bit confused, but after a owl fluttered after her they remembered that Twilight was not quite feeling herself at herself moment. And seeing her snatch up the aforementioned bunny in her mouth Pinkie leaned over to Discord and said:
“I think we might need to cut these two pranks a bit short.”
“Why? This is hilarious!” Said Discord hoping that Twilight’s body would finish her snack before he had to intervene.
“Because Fluttershy is being smothered by a bears posterior and Twilight is about to eat her favorite pet on top of that, you wouldn’t want to hurt Fluttershy that much would you?” Asked Pinkie knowing full well that Discord liked Fluttershy a bit more than the rest of her friends.
“Okay, fine.” And with that Discord snapped his fingers again and set things back in order. Twilight spat Angel out of her mouth and immediately shouted quite angrily:
“DISCORD!”
“I think she figured out how she and ol’ hooty swapped bodies.” Stated Pinkie.
“Tactical retreat?” Asked Discord.
“Roger that, lets check back with Rarity. She probably won’t teleport us to the moon, or worse yet, lecture us to death.”
“Yes lets do that.” Agreed Discord. With that said they both ran off to check on Rarity, and save their hides from Twilight’s wrath.
After Twilight had cooled down a bit she noticed Fluttershy standing next to her and said:
“Oh hi Fluttershy where did you come from?” Instead of answering Twilight's question she simply stated:
“I would not like to be a tree, ever.” And walked back into her house.
What Discord and Pinkie found when they arrived at Carousel Boutique both surprised and amused them, there, in Rarity’s front yard was none other than Sweetie Belle, Rarity and Tom, well most of Tom anyways. Sweetie Belle was sitting a few feet away from the other two looking quite confused, Rarity however was in the process of reducing Tom into a fine gravel, and guessing by the way her mouth was moving it was probably a good thing that the jackhammer that she was employing drowned out her voice. Pinkie leaned over to Discord and stated with a smirk:
“I told you this prank would rock.”
“Oh please spare me your bad jokes Pinkie, I can barely take this level of punishment.” Replied Discord smiling.
“Ow Discord that one just hurt. Well now we got three down, and two to go. And I know just how to pull it off.” Just the level of mischief in Pinkie’s voice was enough to let Discord know that this last prank would put all the others to shame.