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"So why did Twilight gather us all here for anyway?" Asked the alabaster unicorn.
"Beats me." Said Rainbow Dash shrugging her shoulders.
"She'll be down in a minute!" Shouted Spike from the second floor looking down at the five mares that encompassed the library floor.
Twilight rushed back and forth gathering supplies with her telekinetic grip. She was in a frantic hurry not to keep her friends waiting on her. This was something they had to see and the longer they had to wait the more they would miss out on. It was something no pony had ever thought of before to make a spell for. It was her own creation and she just had to test it out. She spent weeks developing it and now it was time for a trial run to see if this spell really would work.
The alicorn stood over the balcony and with a pop of magic she reappeared on the bottom floor in the middle of her friends. She placed the supplies in a neat stack next to her as she looked around her. Everypony was in attendance. Spike was tending to the everyday chores and now it was time. Time for her friends to see the latest and greatest development in transmutation.
"Good to see you all here," she said calmly, "I'm sure you're wondering why I sent Spike all around Ponyville to gather you girls. Well, I'll tell you why." she cleared her throat, "I have just developed a spell that can transmute any substance into Candy."
Pinkie's mouth dropped, "That's! So! Awesome!" She cheered leaping up in the air landing on top of Twilight giving her the tightest hug she had ever received.
"Are you serious?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"That's incredible Twilight!" Yipped Rarity.
Fluttershy merely smiled at Twilight preferring to keep her silence.
"How in the hay did'ya do that, Twi?" Asked Applejack.
"Well, after much trial and error I believe the spell I created has the ability to change the molecular structure of any object and transform it into a sugar-based food. It took a while to figure out how, but it was just a matter of finding out the base structures of various deserts and candies and then projecting them through my alicorn magic to manipulate the object into whatever I would be thinking about. Granted, I haven't tried it yet. I brought you all here to witness it." Twilight said.
She placed a small rock in the floor and motioned her friends to step back. She braced the ground closing her eyes and focusing on the rock and a variety of sugary delights that flowed through her mind. Her whole body began to radiate with magical energy sending purple auras that bent and waved around the alicorn's figure. A white beam of light shot out of her horn striking the rock. It began to shake violently as her friends looked with awe and surprise as it began to morph.
Before she could finish her spell and transform the rock into candy the small stone fragmented with a single crack that shot through the middle before creating a spiderweb like design and shattering into billions of shards that ripped through the room striking her books and shelves alike but not her or her friends oddly. The beams of light now split apart in six directions striking each pony and knocking them out cold
Twilight awoke to a sound of a scream. She opened her eyes and jumped onto her hooves. She saw her draconian assistant standing in front of her looking shocked and scared. He was looking right at her which made it even more unusual. It wasn't like him to act this way even when she wore that botanical face mask Rarity suggested to her that made her look like an abominable swamp pony.
"Spike, what's wrong with you? Why are you so scared?" She asked taking a step forward towards Spike.
The dragon pulled out a mirror showing the alicorn her face. Her pupils grew to the size of cantaloupes. She fell back on her haunches looking in disbelief. This can't be happening. She thought to herself. It was like a sick dream she wanted to wake up from but she could not deny the reality around her. She lifted of her forehooves staring at the purple crystallize structure of each one. No fucking way. She thought to herself. She touched each forehoof with the other feeling the bumping, rocky texture that was now her fur and skin. She touched her sides and her flanks even her horn which oddly remained unaffected to the spell that backfired.
She turned her attention to her friends remembering they were still here and might have been struck by her spell too. And sure enough, to her own dismay, they were. Rarity had the texture of marshmallows, Pinkie Pie was made of cotton candy, Applejack was a living apple fritter, Fluttershy was now made of chocolate, and Rainbow Dash now bore the striking resembles of Gummy Ponies a popular fruit pectin based candy.
"This is bad." She said aloud, "really bad." She turned to her stack of supplies which harbored her research notes. She flipped through the messes of pages stained with coffee, tea, and even a little blood which still remained a perplexing question to Twilight as to how it got there. Her breathing was heavy as the sweat dripped down from her forehead forming into solid rock candy pattering each page as she flipped it to the next trying to look for something she missed. Something that could have went wrong.
"No, no, no, no!" She screamed throwing her research notes into a wall beside her. Spike still stood there astonished at just how Twilight could do this.
"This can't be happening. I just turned my friends into sugary deserts. How the hell do I fix it!" She screamed looking over at Spike as if he would have the answer. He could see it now. The toll of this spell was taking it's burden hard on Twilight. The tears began to well in her eyes. Small sugary crystal shards trickled down her cheeks hitting the floor with a stone-like sound.
"Twilight," he said approaching her, "you can fix this I know you can. It looks bad right now, but there has to be a way you can reverse this. I mean, you fixed Starswirl's Destiny Swap spell. And he was the greatest wizard revered through Equestria so I just know you'll be able to change this. You have to. You're a princess now."
She looked up at Spike with the most pathetic and pitiful look in her eyes, "I turned my friends into candy! How the hell am I suppose to fix that? It took a memory spell to fix the Destiny Swap, I have no idea what it's going to take to fix this. If it can be fixed."
Spike's eyes narrowed, "come on Twilight, that's not the alicorn I know. You don't give up. I know this seems bad, but it could be worse. It could be a lot worse."
"How could it be any worse?" She asked.
"It could be like when you hatched me from my egg. You told me you turned the spectators and your parents into inanimate objects. At least your friends still look like ponies." Spike said. A sound of moaning came from behind them. Twilight turned her head to see her friends rising from the ground.
Then the screaming. It could have broken all the windows in Ponyville if they got any louder. The ponies all looked at each other is utter disbelief. Except for Pinkie Pie who seemed to like her new candy-coated friends. She was the only pony laughing and also cannibalizing herself by eating her own tail which regenerated after every bite she took.
"Girls!" Twilight roared in the Royal Canterlot voice Luna demonstrated to her.
They all stopped looking at Twilight.
"I'm made of cotton candy Twilight what are you made of?" Pinkie blurted out.
Astonished by Pinkie's lack of shock or surprise she tried to compose herself to speak to her friends, "I'm made of rock candy." She said, "and you all are made of candy too. It seems my spell backfired or it was a little too powerful. Don't worry girls I know I can fix this."
"Oh good, I was hoping you'd say that darling. I don't want to be a fluffy marshmallow forever. So go ahead and hit us with the reverse spell." Rarity said waving a foreleg as if to speed up Twilight's process of bringing her friends back to their original state.
"Well... I didn't say I can fix this. I just said I know I can fix this." She started swirling her forehoof on the ground, "you see, I don't know what happened, and I don't know how to fix it, yet."
"How in Celestia do you not know how to fix us! You made this spell shouldn't you know how to counter it?" The gummy Rainbow Dash asked.
"Dash, this isn't a combat spell. This is a transmutation spell. It's a lot more complicated than just setting up the right defense. This alters the physical world around us so it's going to take a bit more time." She said.
"How much time?" The walking apple fritter asked.
"Oh, a day, a week, a month, who knows?" Twilight asked rhetorically.
"Oh dear, Twilight I really need to be back to myself before night. I mean, if that's alright with you?" Fluttershy said sinking down to the floor.
"I don't know about you girls, but this is pretty fun!" Chirped Pinkie Pie as she took a bite out of Applejack's candied tail.
"Hey! Quit that Pinkie before 'ah buck ya' one." Snarled the apple fritter.
"So, what's the plan Twi?" Asked Applejack looking towards the now crystallized Twilight.
Twilight thought about it for a moment before speaking up once again, "we need to see Zecora. She might know what to do."
"Alright!" They all said in unison expect for Pinkie Pie who was distracted by her own delicious tail.
The six ponies walked out the library with Rarity taking up the rear with Spike staring at her flanks. Man I wish I could taste her marshmallow ass.
Walking through Ponyville was an experience all alone. Some ponies gasped, others hid and some who were brave enough approached the mares to question them on their state. At first they were skeptical questioning whether or not something like this could happen but as soon as Princess Twilight admitted to causing this tragedy they believed them. Some of them laughed others were genuinely concerned about them, but they could not let the sadistic laughter and selfless pity of others hinder their task. They had to get their original bodies back.
Fluttershy was taking all the attention very harshly which forced Twilight to push her through town as she hid her face from the world around her crying streams of liquid chocolate poured down her face littering the ground with a silky milk chocolate sheen. Twilight groaned to herself inside her mind on how impossible it was to go with Fluttershy when she became self-conscious. She became as stubborn as a mule unwilling to do anything than cry or run away and cry.
They approached the edge of the forest seeing some foals play near the schoolhouse. And that's when they all saw them. Six ponies made of candy and a bunch of sugar craving foals was not the ideal way to start their journey into the Everfree forest, but to elude the ponies and not fall prey to their confectionery cravings they had no choice. They ran. The six mares could hear the foals charging for them at full speed hoping they would not be brave or stupid enough to follow them into the Everfree forest.
"Did we lose 'em?" Applejack asked her friends panting heavily.
"Looks like it." Replied Twilight.
"For a moment there I thought I was going to become a smore!" Exclaimed Rarity.
"Don't worry girls. We'll be at Zecora's before you know it." Twilight said leading on the expedition into the dangerous jungle.
The eerie sounds the forest made sent chills down the ponies spines. The rustling of bushes sent Fluttershy cowering on the ground as a small mouse ran by. Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes as she coaxed Fluttershy back into the group continuing their journey deep within the forest.
"This sure would be a lot easier if I could fly." Rainbow Dash said flapping her elastic gummy wings, "these things are useless!" She complained aloud.
"Yes, well, I don't enjoy being as soft as rock either Rainbow." Twilight replied.
"I love being made of cotton candy! This is awesome!" Cheered Pinkie as she tore off a piece of her mane and chewed it with Twilight watching as it regrew back atop her head.
"How am'ah 'spose ta' explain to Applebloom, Big Mac, and Granny Smith that ah'm a walkin' talkin' apple fritter?" Applejack ashed Rhetorically.
"Well, I just hope the animals don't get sick if they try to taste me. Some of them get really bad tummy aches and it's just so sad to see it." Fluttershy said.
"Girls, don't worry, I will fix this. I know I can." Twilight said with resolve coating her words like the sugar that bound her friends together.
They approached the worn and old willow tree that housed the foreign zebra who was all but too welcoming as she ushered in her guests unsurprised or maybe unwilling to show surprise as the ponies she once knew were now all sugary treats.
"Zecora," Twilight said, "we need your help. I turned my friends and myself into a candy by mistake and I need a cure. Do you have one?"
"A cure you say?" Zecora started, "I cannot say. There are many things within my lair but none of which can dispel your despair."
"Are you telling me we made this trip for nothing!" Roared Rainbow Dash.
"Calm down Dash, let's not be rash. Twilight's on the right track but you need a little push to the right path." Zecora said, "find Discord. The one who weaves all the world's whores of discourse."
"Thank you Zecora you've been a great help." Twilight said, "I'm sorry I can't stay and chat, but we've got to get our bodies back."
Zecora smiled as the ponies exited her home and began their journey once again. This time though, they were going back home. Back to a place where they could hopefully find the answers they were looking for.
"We're going to Fluttershy's house." Twilight said as they walked through the damp and dark forest. "If Discord knows how to reverse this spell I will make him tell me."
"Oh Twilight, please don't hurt Discord he's been doing a really good job not hurting anypony or causing anything chaotic." Fluttershy said naively.
Twilight knew better though. Discord, no matter how much he says he's been rehabilitated still likes to have his bits of fun here and there. Mostly with Fluttershy's animals they were a little more amusing to him than ponies. The creatures that relied purely on instinct had the most fascinating way of dealing with the chaos Discord created that amused him much more than even playing with Celestia or her pupil.
The six ponies arrived at Fluttershy's house with a quick hoof-to-face from Twilight as she saw the cottage floating in air as sections of it twisted and turned like a rubic cube. She turned to Fluttershy giving her a look of contempt. Fluttershy sunk down hiding her face from Twilight.
"Discord!" Shouted Twilight as loud as she could. Discord popped his horned head out from under the house and quickly teleported it back to its original foundation. With a snap of his lion's paw the chaotic changes of the house returned to normal except for his entrance of course. The door opened as roll of red film flowed forward sprouting flowers that turned into bees and bees that bursted into fireworks with Discord strolling down with a pair of black shades covering his eyes. He danced his way down with each step he made sending off heart shaped candies that chirped and flew off like birds.
He stood in front of the ponies taking off his black sunglasses and tossing them into the wind as they morphed into a rocket taking off into the sky and exploding with an array of colors that spelled out Discord in large letters that illuminated the midday sky.
"That's me." He said smiling at the ponies, "and just what happened to you girls!" He started laughing hysterically, "wow! Whoever did this has just outdone me! I always enjoyed messing with ponies but this!" He said pointing towards Rainbow Dash, "this is just glorious!" Five more identical heads to Discord's own spread from his neck laughing in the faces of the ponies who had been turned into sugary sweets.
"I know right!" Piped Pinkie Pie.
Twilight shot her a glare and Pinkie shrugged it off, "Discord," she said gulping down, "I need your help."
Discord's eyes widened. He fell onto his back rolling back in forth in mid air laughing aloud. The flower beds around Fluttershy's house all came to life joining in unison as they laughed together at what Twilight just said.
"Discord!" Twilight roared slamming her hoof down.
Discord stopped his shenanigans and crossed his arms sitting back in the cotton candy cloud throne that now presided as his seat, "and just why should I help you?" He asked with vexation and vapidity in his tone.
"Because, if you don't help me I'll just turn you back into stone." Twilight said flatly.
"Ugh! You always have to be like that don't you Twilight? Can't you be more like Fluttershy here? She's so compassionate unlike you." He scorned as he stood behind Fluttershy.
"I don't have to be compassionate when it comes to you!" She roared.
"Well if you want to be like that then I won't help you at all." He said crossing his arms and turning his head from the alicorn.
"Yes you-" Twilight was interrupted by Fluttershy who gained the courage to speak.
"Please Discord, we'd really appreciate it if you would help us." She said looking up with those enormous puppy-dog eyes that melted Discord's heart now matter how hard he tried to resist her charm.
Discord opened up one eye seeing Fluttershy look up to him so cutely. He couldn't say no. He threw down his arms in defeat and looked over to Twilight, "fine I'll help you, but only because Fluttershy asked me to."
Fluttershy hugged the Dracoequus nearly sending him into a sentimental state of compassion and love for Fluttershy. He patted her head lightly and drew a long breath, "so, who did this? And how was it done?" He asked
"I did it." Twilight said, "it was done with my own spell. A complex transmutation spell that alters one's molecular structure to that of candy or other sugary treats."
"Mhmm..." Discord said stroking his goatee, "I'll need to see your research material" He said popping it into existence in front of him. He dawned a small pair of glasses held by a small beaded chain that connected in the back and a sherlock style pipe that blew bubbles made of balloons that drifted off into the air. He turned page after page before flipping through the rest of the books rapidly as if he weren't even reading them.
"Impressive." He said putting down the last book causing his glasses and pipe to disappear, "Twilight you've really outdone yourself. I wish I thought of this back when it was just the Princesses and myself. Oh I would have had so much fun turning Celestia into a giant Tiramisu cake! I bet her sister would become a blob of black licorice which isn't too bad. I like it myself."
"Get to the point Discord." Twilight said with irritation in her throat.
"I don't know." He said flatly.
"You're lying!" Roared Rainbow Dash
"No I'm not!" He said with a confused look of shock on his face, "I swear I'm not lying. I really don't know what to do."
"Discord, are you really being truthful? Do you really not know how to help us get our bodies back?" Twilight said looking glum.
"I'm sorry Twilight. You're an amazing scholar of magic, but not even the embodiment of chaos itself can tell you how to fix your own chaos. Though, I do have a suggestion," He said looking up stroking his goatee, "just think about it Twilight. It'll come to you."
"I see." Twilight said looking down, "thank you for your time Discord." She said turning around, "come on girls, let's go back to the library. I'll look over my notes again and see if I missed anything."
It was starting to see hopeless to her now as she opened the door to the library. There possibly wasn't anyway to fix this and she was the cause of it which made it all the worse. She began to think to herself. About her friends. Would they still want to be her friend if they were stuck as sugary treats knowing that she caused this to begin with. She wondered how everyday life would play out with her friends being candy. And than she began to cry realizing just how horrible this was.
Her friends did their best to console her but without any luck. They could not cheer up their dear Twilight form her woeful state as she climbed to the top of the stairs and into her room She lied down on her bed trying to forget about this horrible day and wish that when she woke up she would be cured as if it were all a terrible dream.
Just think about it. Those words still rung through her head. Just what was Discord trying to tell her? What was she suppose to think about? It didn't make sense to her. He was rather cryptic in the past, but she was able to decipher his meanings rather quickly which frustrated her that she couldn't do it this time.
And then, just like a light shining in the darkness around her it came to her smacking her in the face like a freight train. Think about it! She thought to herself. I just have to think about them in the spell and it'll change them back! I know it! She was positive this would work but she had to try it out first to see if this really was the case.
"Girls!" She said proudly standing from the balcony and teleporting to the floor below, "I might have found a way to reverse this."
"Really!" They all shouted together minus Pinkie who was still enjoying her cotton candy state of being.
"Yes, but first I need to test it out. On myself." She said closing her eyes and focusing in on herself. From her bone structure, to muscles, to every last fiber of hair on her body she imagined recreating herself using the same spell she developed this time, in reverse. Her body cracked and shattered with a white light blinding her friends around her form the epicenter of the spell. What remained after the blinding light was truly Twilight with a pile of purple rock candy around her.
She touched herself all over then looked up to her friends, "it worked!" She shouted.
"Now your turn!" She said focusing in on her friends giving them no time to react or brace themselves and Twilight performed the same spell concentrating deeply on each pony's physical structure down to the color of their irises.
The six mares looked at each other before cheering in unison as they gathered together for a large group hug, "I still miss being cotton candy" Pinkie said interrupting their moment. They all looked at Pinkie Pie and laughed together enjoying being back in their own bodies. Except for Spike who now had a mess to clean up on the floor which was now covered in sugary treats.
Spike came down the stairs seeing all the mares back to their original form and seeing the mess on the floor which irritated the dragon a little, but not enough that he wouldn't be glad to give Twilight another hug without her being hard as a rock.
"Spike we're back to normal!" Twilight shouted.
"I noticed! Glad to see you girls back to being squishy and filled with blood and not sugar." He said laughing to himself.
He turned around looking for a dustpan and broom for the mess, "'Cept I'm going to miss Rarity's marshmallow ass."
Twilight didn't hear him that well over the commotion of her friends being elated to be back to their former selves, "what did you say Spike? I didn't hear you." She said.
"Nothing." Spike said smirking to himself, "nothing at all."
Twilight turned back to her friends, "girls, I know this is a day we won't soon forget. A day will will surely remember."