Well, What Now?

by Spirit Shift


How It Began

How It Began

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“No, Rainbow, I won’t turn you into a dragon,or a griffon, and that's final!”

“Commoooonnn, why not?” Dash begs as she hovered just above Twilight's head. Currently the six mares are traveling back to Ponyville after escorting the breezies back home.

“Because, it serves no purpose other than your own amusement. That's not what this spell is for.”

“Pfft, you use your magic for entertainment all the time.”

“Yes, darling, remember the time you made your book characters come to life to act out the chapter they were in?”

Twilight’s face blushed a deeper shade of purple as she almost tripped over her own hooves. “That…... was for... uh….. educational purposes. Visual Learning, yes!”

“Then when I’m a griffon, I’ll tell you what it’s like.”

“I very much doubt that you would actually take notes about being a griffon. Why do you want to change anyway, I thought you loved being a pegasus?”

“If I'm a dragon or a griffon, then I’ll get bigger wings, right? Then I'll be able to fly fast enough to do a doub-NO, a triple rainboom!” she exclaimed as she did a small loop in the air.

“Rainbow Dash, it doesn't work like that! It's your inner magic, and innate-"

“NEEERRRRRDDDD!!!!”

"I wanna be a pegasus pony!” a bright pink mare piped up, hopping in along side them.

Twilight could only sigh at the pink mare's antics. "I just wanted to try that spell out once!" she muttered angrily. “Why?”

“If I had wings, then I could glide around the kitchen, cooking reeeeaaaalllyyy fast! Oh, I could have a white coat, and a blond mane, and purple eyes and-”

“No, Pinkie, the spell doesn't work like that!" Twilight interjected. “Plus, I’m not going to do that anyway, so stop asking!” With that, she teleported away, leaving the others to glare and lecture both Pinkie and Rainbow.

"Rainbow Dash," Rarity began, "we do not peer pressure our friends!"

"But Rarity, wouldn't you like to try out being a pegasus?"

"What did I just say, Pinkie? Nevertheless, I am quite fond of my race, and have no wishes to change it anytime soon."

"Applejack, how about you?"

Applejack actually seemed to give the idea some thought before quickly brushing it off. "Nahh, being an earth pony's probably best for bucking apples anyhow."

The girls quickly descended into a heated discussion on what race would be better for what, Rainbow, however ignored their words, and stared it where Twilight had been. “This isn't over,” she muttered, quiet enough so that the others wouldn't hear.


~Back in Ponyville~


Spike sighed as he stuffed the final book back in his spot. Making sure that everything on that row is fit and organized, he begrudgingly climbed down to floor level, and looked out of the nearby window. I guess Twilight and the rest went somewhere again, he thought somberly, I wonder where they went this time. Somewhere fun probably. Oh well, Twilight needs me to fix things while she's gone anyway. he finished proudly.

Even though he believed this to be true, he couldn't help the strange feeling that would creep up whenever he was left behind while the girls went somewhere fun. It didn't feel like loneliness, at least, he didn't think so. Whenever the feeling would arise, he would just do some mundane task to ignore it. It didn't help that each time the feeling would come back stronger.

Breaking his train of thought was the telltale popping sound of his friend teleporting in. She looked slightly frustrated though.

"Welcome Back, Twilight, where'd you go this time," he asked excitedly.

This knocked Twilight out of her funk as she looked over at him with eyes sparkling in excitement. "It was amazing Spike, we went to the Land of Breezies. You just wouldn't believe the amount of nature there. Although, I am a little upset that the portal closed before I could get a chance to study it further."

Spike mood faltered for a second before quickly recovering. "But, didn't you take, like, 30 pages of notes on them during the week?"

"Yes, but those were observational notes. Fluttershy wouldn't let me borrow one for further experimentation."

"That's because your experiments would have them strapped to a chair with needles poking them in the eyeballs. Honestly, I can’t tell what’s worse, that, or the hundreds of questions you would probably ask."

Twilight blushed slightly. "I-I don't have that many, and the needles go in the arm!" This response only served to raise Spike eyebrows in disbelief.

"How many do you have then?"

Twilight refused to make eye contact, suddenly finding that her hooves were more interesting than Spike. "203"

"What was that?"

"Ugh,” she groaned, turning around and heading for upstairs. “Go.... organize the fantasy section or something. I need to go analyze and organize the notes that I took."

Spike looked over at the clock hanging on the nearby wall. "It's almost 9 pm."

Twilight ignored him as she left for the upstairs sanctuary known as her room. "See ya in the morning then," she said eagerly, "I'm just too excited to wait!"

Spike, seeing that she was already gone moved over to the appointed bookshelf, and retreated back into his thoughts. I wonder what it was like. Beautiful probably. I wish that I coulda seen it. he sighed mentally. How did she get into breezie land anyway. His thoughts on the matter were interrupted once more by the sounds of hooves rapping on wood. Shrugging he went to go answer it, only to meet the view of the prismatic pegasus herself.

“Rainbow Dash?”

"Yo, Spike, I need your help."


~The next morning~


"Rainbow Dash?"

“Sup.”

“Why are you at my breakfast table so early in the morning?”

“Geez, Twilight, can't a friend wake up early to have breakfast with another friend?” she asked in mock offence.

Twilight used deadpan glare, but against mock offence, it wasn't very effective. “Not when that friend; a) rarely ever gets up before noon, b) breaks into my house, and c) eats my breakfast before I even get to it. Seriously, who does that!”

Dash waved her hoof dismissively. “Feathers, fetlocks, details don’t matter.”

“Don’t you mean potatoes, potahtos?

Dash stared on in confusion. “Da’ hay is a potahto?"

Twilight groaned, and being too tired to use her hooves, planted her face on the table. It was far too early for this, especially since she had been up all night organizing all the notes that she had taken on breezies. Luckily they were here long enough for Twilight to conduct some essential research. Breezies, being from another dimension, are generally harder to study. “Spike, could you please make me some coffee?”

“Already done, oh beloved sister of mine,” Spike said as he placed the coffee on the table, and tightly hugged his caretaker.

Twilight wasn't convinced. Spike was almost never this affectionate, especially not when others are around. Something was up, and she had a bad feeling. “What did you break, scratch, burn, and/or lose?” Twilight asked, eyes narrowed in suspicion.

Spike gasped in mock surprise. “Why, I would never! I just wanted to let you know that I love you....andIwanttotrybeingaunicorn,” Spike beamed with his biggest fang filled smile.

Twilight wasn't amused, she heard him clear as day. This, in turn, turned her annoyed gaze into an irritated glare. First Rainbow, now Spike. “Why?”

“Ummm..." he hesitated, "I want to…... learn magic?”

“You want to try and hit on Rarity as a pony don’t you?” she deadpanned.

Spikes eyes widened as he leaned back in mock shock once again. “NONONONonnonononononooooooyes” he admitted, Dash quickly brought a hoof to her muzzle in an attempt to quell her laughter.

Twilight only sighed as she calmly took a big gulp of her seething hot coffee that had been heated by her friend's dragonfire. Thank the makers for her alicorn biology. Normal ponies would have scalded their face, but for her, it was merely lukewarm. She closed her eyes to savor the taste of the life giving brew. Opening them she had the privilege of seeing Equestria’s only domestic dragon, and the trotting ego, on their knees in front of her.

“Pleeeeeaaaasssseeeee!!!” the two begged.

“No.” Twilight answered before teleporting away, leaving the two alone in the kitchen.

In a flash of magenta light, Twilight appeared in her room upstairs. Sighing in relief, she calmly trotted over to her closet. “Since I have time, she began, “I should probably update some records.”

Opening the door, she used her magic to activate a secret compartment, flipping the wall to reveal a large number of shelves. On the shelves lie large stacks of papers, parchments, tape, quills, pencils, staples, a photocopier, and various other scholastic items. Twilight noticed something missing however. “Hmm I need to buy more paper clips.” Quickly she grabbed the large binder from a distinct shelf in the corner with her magic and closed the closet.

“I don’t know about you Spike, but I expected to see at least ONE issue of playcolt or something.”

Twilight froze in her tracks, and dropped the objects that she held aloft.

“Nahh, that’s in another compartment.”

Like a clock, Twilight slowly turned towards the pony/dragon duo, who were casually sitting on her bed, grinning like innocent children.

“Pleeeeeaaaasssseeeee!!!” went the two.

“No!” Twilight yelled before blinking off again.

She blinked up to her true sanctuary, a hidden room in the uppermost branches of her tree. It was a sort of safe house for emergencies. She had all of her most important books, food, supplies, a rarely used radio, and even some spare magazines for entertainment. She felt safe in the fact that her friends didn't know about it. That was, until she felt the hot breaths of said friends hit her cheeks.

Looking to her left and right, she saw her stalkers grinning at her from both sides.

“Pleeeeeaaaasssseeeee!!!”

“NO!” She screamed once more. Foregoing teleportation, she decided on impulse to just jump out of the tree and take flight. Looking back, she noticed that Spike and Dash were hot on her hooves, Spike riding atop her back waving a branch of the tree like a lance. He was probably having his fantasies again.

The chase lasted quite a while, Rainbow Dash was fast, agile, energetic, and worst of all, very observant. Each and every maneuver that Twilight had tried using to shake her, Rainbow saw coming from a mile away. Even the twitch of a feather signaled a movement that she would predict. 'This isn't good, even with Spike weighing her down, she's still faster than me! Hold on, that's it!

Thinking quickly, she swerved into an angled nosedive, straight towards Sugarcube Corner.

“If I can time this just right…..” she muttered. Looking over her shoulder, she could make out the whites in the hungry eyes of her so-called friends. “I hope I time this right…”

As the pastry shop drew ever closer, Twilight shifted her wings ever so slightly in preparation, knowing full well that Rainbow Dash probably noticed it. By this point she could see the inside of the store through the glass.

Now!

Pulling sharply to the right, Twilight managed to make a near perfect right angled turn away from the doorway at the last second, which was more than she could say for the ones who crashed into it instead. Twilight held no doubt that Rainbow would have normally made that turn perfectly in even worse conditions, but she must have failed to take into account Spikes extra weight, and her own overconfidence.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Twilight leisurely flew back to her trusty tree, determined to erect a force field immediately.

Landing right outside the doorway, she suddenly had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach, pushing it off as the aftereffects from her chase, she quickly opened the double doors.

“SURPRISE!!” Three voices rang out.

Twilight's face fell. “Huhwahhh”

“Happy Librarian Day Twilight!” Pinkie declared. Twilight took a moment to recompose herself. One would think that with her kind of experience, she wouldn't be surprised by Pinkie anymore, but it was just something about that mare that no one could be prepared for.

“There is no such holiday, Pinkie. Never mind, how did you three get here, you two crashed!”

“We just told Pinkie that today was a fake holiday, so she brought us here to throw you a fake party.” Spike’s own face fell in what looked like terror. “Don’t ask how……”

Pinkie’s eyes began to generate huge tears. “Fake……. party? Wh-why would you do such a thing?”

“Don’t worry, Pinks, let me tell ya something.” Dash grabbed her head, pulled her in close, and stage whispered into her ear. “Today is Lyra’s birthday, but she won’t tell anypony. She’s out there by herself right now, sitting on the bench, eating a hayburger.”

Pinkie’s face grew three sizes as she beamed brightly and raced out the door. A few seconds later, Twilight could hear a distant voice rang out in despair.

“Oh sweet Luna’s flank! Who told her!!!”

“Now that that’s taken care of, back to business!” Dash exclaimed as she and Spike put on their familiar faces.

“Pleeeeeaaaa-”

“No!” Twilight deadpanned before changing tactics. She chose to teleport the both of them outside, and immediately erected the force field to keep them out.

Spike and Rainbow Dash found themselves finishing their please just outside the tree, unable to return due to the purple barrier. The two looked at one another and nodded.

“Plan B?”

“Oh yeah!”

“Finally,” Twilight sighed as finally relaxed from casting the spell her brother made her learn. “Maybe now I can…... what is this?”

Leaning down, she examined a still sealed scroll. “I wonder if Spike coughed it up,” she muttered before lifting the scroll and reading it aloud.

‘You brought this on yourself’

“What the hay does that mean?” She took a few second to reread the note, desperately trying to figure out what it meant. Eventually, she noticed that her house had started to fill with magical smoke. Panicking she began to teleport, but got interrupted as a scroll bopped her on the horn. Rubbing her head, she saw that it was a similar scroll to the last one, except this one wasn't sealed. That was when she put the pieces together. The smoke, the scroll, the magic.........

"SPIKE!"


~Meanwhile, outside the tree~
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“Go!Go!Go!Go!Go!Go!Go!Go!Go!Go!” Dash cheered as she watched Spike incinerate large stacks of parchment and paper. The resulting smoke rose into the air and flew through the barrier, right into Twilight’s home.


~Back in the tree~


In a matter of seconds, the smoke began to pop into individual scrolls of paper and parchment, all saying the same thing. ‘Please’. Something in Twilight snapped. In a rage, she proceeded to teleport all of the paper to a random place in Ponyville, that she didn't care about-


~Somewhere Twilight doesn't care about.~


Meanwhile, Pinkie had caught Lyra, dragged her back to her home, and forcefully threw her a party. It was actually going pretty well….. until an avalanche of paper crashed down, crushing the two under its papery weight.

“Dammit, Dash……” Lyra muttered.


~~~


-bucked open the door, and magically dragged the two offenders through the shield, and back into the tree.

“Ok, listen,” Twilight said through barely veiled anger. “Here’s what’s going to happen now. I'll turn you into a dragon," she said, pointing a frustrated hoof at Rainbow, "and you into a pony, Spike, but don’t you even think about coming back to me complaining about it. Got that!”

The two nodded enthusiastically.

“This spell will probably last for a week or so, but you're both have to pinkie promise that you won't come bothering me!” she commanded as her horn grew bright.

“But, where will I sleep?”

Unfortunately Spike's question wound go unanswered as Twilight activated the spell. Dash could feel herself changing, weird appendages began to jut out from equally weird places. She could feel her entire body change as it convulsed and shrank. Having done this before, she knew that she would feel no pain from this transformation. Spike, having not done this before, expected some pain, and cringed instinctively as he felt his bones and anatomy physically alter themselves to it's new shape. Unlike Rainbow, he could feel his appendages leaving him. He could feel his claws retract into his palm, creating normally shaped hooves. He shuddered at the strange feeling of hair growing from his scalp, forming into a flowing mane. He felt a slight tingling sensation as well as something else left his form.

When all was said and done, Twilight wasted no time in blinking them out of the house, proceeding to quickly double the strength of the shield. Not even caring to see if the spell had succeeded.

They both took a few seconds to get used to their new anatomy. Spike noticed that he had a cutie mark of a burning scroll resting on his flank. His colors were roughly the same as his normal body, but more than that, he had wings. I thought that I told her that I wanted to be a unicorn. Oh well, wings are cooler than a horn anyway.

Dash however, had bolted over to the fountain to get a look at herself as soon as she noticed the height difference. It was just as she feared. Not only was she around Spikes age, but even worse was her lack of wings. Without them, she was effectively grounded.

“Sure, Twilight, real funny!” Turning her head, she noticed pony-spike staring at her with a shocked expression.

“What?”

“Y...your voice….”

Dash’s eyes shrank at her sudden revelation. Listening closely and making a few grunts, realized that her normally scratchy voice had become a low, coltish voice. She pointed towards purple pony. “Your voice is weird too!!”

Spike sang the first few scales, but stopped as a realization hit both of them simultaneously, and simultaneously, they angled their head to look between their legs, before jolting their heads back and screaming in horror. Once again, simultaneously.


IM A MARE/COLT!!!!

"TWILIIIIIGGGHHHTTT!!!”