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// Chapter 12 
// Story: Into the Blender 
// by AnnonyMouse 
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Author:  Annonymouse
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Into the Blender
12

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Celestia wanted to panic.  (Oh no... I'm trapped in the amulet now?  Luna.  Can you see me?  I can't move.  This is not good.  Why is Luna bouncing around like that?  I bet Scootaloo is in her body.  Well, we have the amulet now... We'll just have to wait till Terra can restore us all.)  Her mind calmed easily, thanks to her great wisdom and patience.
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Scootaloo could not believe it.
“I...I'm out?”  She saw her magnificent wings and stretched them out.  “Wow, Look at these... wings?”  She then spotted the cutie mark.  “Oh ponyfeathers...”  she turned to look into Princess Celestia's eyes.  They did not look too impressed.
“Princess Celestia?”
“I'm Princess Luna...  Tia is trapped in the gem now.”
“Oh...  Sorry.  I caused trouble again, didn't I?”
Luna sighed, her features softening.  “No, it is not your fault.”  Her ears twitched slightly.  “Oh dear... Time to set the sun and raise the moon.  But, Tia returned all my moon magic to my... self...”  She promptly facehoofed.  “Scootaloo... I hate to do this to you, but I'm putting you to work...”
“Work?  Me?  Doing what?”
“Doing my job.”  She levitated the pendant so it hung from around her new neck.
“Your job?  Wait, being a Princess?”
“Raising the Moon.”
“Oh, ok...”  She smiled, then paused and thought a moment.  “Um... How do I do that?”
Luna hung her head.  “Now I know how Celestia's headaches feel...”
(You have no idea Sister...)  Celestia replied, glad she couldn't feel anything at the moment.  She knew she would be having one massive headache about now.
“I'll guide you... I just hope I don't crash the sun into a mountain.”
“You can do that?”
“No, I was kidding.  Trying to relieve tension.”
(Just like your first time lowering the moon where you created the Moon Lake?  I don't think we need a Sun Lake added to Equestria's landscape.)
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“How long do we have to wait for Celestia to contact us back?”  Dash asked as she was fiddling with her wing kite, trying to figure out how to get it to do everything she wanted it to do.
Sure, she could fly and didn't have to flap her wings as fast as she did when trying to move the scooter, but turning, gaining altitude and landing were a little rough.
Terra and Rarity were watching her.
Applejack answered Dash's question.  “Whenever she does.  Ah don't think she's takin this situation lightly.”
At that moment, there was an odd tremor in the ground.  Fluttershy and Twilight both stared at each other while the rest present looked around in confusion.
Well, Terra seemed to know what was going on as she bolted outside.  “Not again...”
Twilight stepped up beside and and looked toward the most amazing sunset she had ever seen.  “What do you mean not again?”
“Do you remember the legend of how Moon Lake was formed?”
“Long ago, when Princess Luna lowered the moon for the very first time, she let it slip and dropped it onto Equestria.  It's a lot more detailed than that, but that's the basics.”
“I think she just dropped the sun...”
“Celestia dropped the sun?”
“No.  Luna.  I can feel that the amulet performed another soul transfer...  I think Luna and Celestia may have traded bodies...”
“Or Scootaloo is in Celestia's body.”  Twilight shuddered to think just what kind of chaos the young Scootaloo could get into while in the body of a Princess.
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“Ohh, hot.  Hot...”  Luna blew on her horn.  “The Moon isn't hot like that.  It's nice and cool.”
(I'd be performing the facehoof of all facehooves if I had a face and a hoof...)
“Don't worry, I got it this time...”  She moved the sun and lowered it from the sky.  “I can't believe this...  I dropped the sun...  I DROPPED the SUN...”
“How do I raise the Moon?”
Luna sighed.  “Ok, Scootaloo, the raising of the Moon is relatively easy.  Let's just link our minds and I'll guide you.”
“How do we do that?”
“We touch our horns.”
“Oh, ok?”  She lowered her head.
There was a momentary disorientation and Scootaloo staggered back.  She opened her eyes and looked at an equally stunned looking Luna.  “P.. Princess Luna?”
“I'm me again?”  She almost pranced.  “Ok, let's raise the Moon.”  She did so flawlessly, then turned to face Scootaloo.  “Ok, we can trade bodies...  This is most odd.  I wonder why that is.”
Scootaloo shrugged.  “I'm just a filly... Oh, can I try out these wings?  I'll try not to crash.”
“How about you remain on the ground for now.”  Luna looked down at the amulet and levitated it from her sister's neck onto he table.  ”Hmm...  Try touching the amulet with your horn.  Focus on the feeling you felt when our horns touched, ok?”
“Will that put me back in there?”
“It may, but now that we know how this amulet works, we should easily transfer everypony back into their bodies.”
“How do you figure you know how it works?”
“Well I... Um... Ok, I don't know.”  Luna fumed.  “You're pretty smart for one so young.”
“Really?  Hmm, maybe because it's my mind using Princess Celestia's brain.  Wow, I actually feel really smart right now.”
Luna cringed slightly.  A mind that young with the intellect of Princess Celestia?  A frightening prospect.
“Anyway, please just try?  I have a theory.”
“Well... only if you don't leave me locked back in there.”
“We will figure something out.”
Scootaloo nodded and tapped her horn to the amulet.
Luna watched the ruby flicker as Celestia's eyes went wide.
“Ah, dear sister.  I am back in my own body...”  She then stepped forward.  “How could you drop my sun?  We're going to have to fill in that crater and make a new lake, never mind having to redraw all the maps of Equestria.”
“It was so hot.  I've never had to move the sun before.”
Celestia sighed.  “First, you create a magical 'oven mitt' and then you use that to lower or raise the sun.”
“Oh... Of course...”  Luna rolled her eyes.  “It's so obvious...”  She looked back to the amulet.  “What are we going to do about Scootaloo?”  she then blinked as she saw the tiny face peaking back up.  “Odd.  When you were in there, I could not see you.  In fact, the gem seemed a little darker.  It looks brighter now.”
Celestia raised an eye, seeing the tiny Scootaloo herself.  “I do not know.  All I could see was out of the gem, like it was my own eye.  Scootaloo seems to be able to move around inside the gem.”  
“Can I get out of here, please?  I'm not kidding.”  Scootaloo mouthed, hoping Celestia could read her lips.
Celestia nodded.  “Luna, would you be so kind as to lend Scootaloo your body for a short time?”
“You're kidding.  You're kiddin, right?”
“Not at all.  We know souls can be transferred by the gem now.”  Celestia smiled.
“Then please explain how she and I traded bodies without using the gem?”
Celestia paused.  “Hmm, that is a valid point.”  She looked down at the tiny gem, and at the even tinier Scootaloo.  “It is possible... she may have somehow inadvertently altered the enchantment of the gem concerning herself.  Or it is possible that those who have been effected by the gem may be able to trade their minds between themselves.”
Luna grinned.  “Want to test that theory?”
Celestia actually smiled.  “Why not?”
They touched horns and used the magic, but nothing happened.
“Hmm...  Odd.”  Celestia thought.  “Then it must be Scootaloo who can jump from one body to the next.  I wonder how she was able to gain that ability.”
Scootaloo shrugged, then looked around, here eyes going wide.  “No way.  Maybe I can read this magic spell and it gave me the magic to trade minds and bodies with anypony I want.”  She then turned back to the 'window'.
Celestia was still watching her, and continued as Scootaloo described her theory.
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Terra sat with Dash, looking over the small Pegasus's wing kite design.  They chatted as they drew various, increasingly complex ideas on paper.
Twilight was getting used to her magic again.  She was not wearing the circlet anymore, that was back on Terra, but the clear pink diamond horn remained in place, looking perfectly natural, and very pretty.
Pinkie Pie watched as Twilight winked around the library in rapid succession.  Finally she stopped.  “I can't wink off the ground.”
“That's because you're using Earth magic.”  Terra said, not even looking up as she used a quill to draw out a new design for a wing kite.
Twilight nodded her understanding.  “I think you're right.  I've noticed that I can't levitate anything more than a few lengths off the ground.  It's easier for me to move rocks than anything else though.”
“Because Pinkie Pie's magic is linked to stone.  I'm guessing Applejack would be able to wink only when near plants.”
Pinkie Pie held up a hoof.  “What if you were to place a horn on Fluttershy's or Rainbow Dash's bodies?”
“Honestly, I have no idea.”  She tilted her head, a grin crossing her lips.  She then shook her head and frowned.  “I really do not know.  For starters, they'd easily be mistaken for an Alicorn.  My sisters might not approve of that.”
Pinkie Pie glanced at Twilight.  “But, you made me into an Earth Unicorn Pony with that gemstone horn... well, made Twilight into one, but that's my body.”  She smiled.  “I can't wait to try it out and learn magic.”
Twilight nodded.  “Pinkie is right.  You did effectively change her into a Unicorn, even though she is still an Earth Pony.”
Terra shrugged.  “Well, I was planning on giving horns to my Earth Ponies in the first place, but Luna beat me too it when she created the Unicorns.  Celestia gave her Pegasai wings.”
Twilight looked over too Terra.  “Why didn't you give your earth ponies gem horns or gem hooves or something like that?”
“My first Earth Ponies did have gem hooves.  Only, those really attracted dragons...  Not a pretty sight watching a whole race get eaten, leaving nothing but diamond hooves to be added to their treasure hoards.”
Applejack looked up from the book she had been reading.  “Diamond Hooves ya say?”
Terra nodded.
“Golly.  Ah think Rarity's body here got diamond hooves.  I dun split some rocks with em and they don't chip or scratch.”
Terra was across the library, flipping Applejack over and examining her hooves.  “I'll be.  Applejack.  These Hooves... they ARE diamond, even though they look like normal hooves.  But how?”
“I would very much like to know that myself.  I'd often chip a hoof on an errant pebble from time to time."  Rarity replied, quite curious.
“Hmm...”  Terra quickly flipped Pinkie Pie over and examined her hooves.  “Fluttershy's hooves are diamond hard as well.  I see.  Earth Pony souls when infused with greater amounts of magic... It manifests like this.”  She smirked at Rarity.  “Dear Rarity, even when you get back into your own body, your Hooves will remain diamond hard.”
“Is that a good thing?”  She asked.  “I mean, do they still grow like normal hooves?”
“Well of course they will.”  Terra shrugged.  “But when my Earth Ponies had gem hooves, the magic in would compensate as the hooves grew.  Any of the hoof that grew beyond a certain point, of the perfect size for that particular pony, the extra gem hoof would just turn to dust and be absorbed back into the ground.”  She tapped her own horn.  “Just like Unicorns.  Their Horn grows to meet the size of the physical body.  If they represented the amount of magic a Unicorn possessed, then Twilight's horn would be as long as Celestia's horn, if not longer.  I'd hate to think how long Celestia horn would be in that case.”
“Um... Do I really have that much magic?”  Twilight asked.
Terra nodded.  “Of course.  You have at least ten times the magic that most other Unicorns would have.”
Then came a knock at the door.  Spike's voice came through the closed door.  “The Princess finally sent a response...  May I PLEASE go back to Rarity's so I can get some sleep?”
“Of course Spike.”  Twilight opened the door and accepted the letter.  “And thank you for being so patient and understanding.”
“Call it what you will, I just want to go to bed.  Good night Twi.”  He yawned and trudged off.
Twilight stepped back inside and opened the letter.  “Good news Everypony.  They have the Amulet.”
“So we can get everything back to how it used to be?”  Pinkie Pie asked.
“Well, she wants all of us to come to Canterlot tomorrow, so most likely.”  Twilight looked at Terra, who was looking sad.  “You don't want to go back in the amulet, do you?”
“I was in there for over 3,000 years, and here I am, getting a taste of freedom, of being around other ponies again.”  She smiled at Twilight, an honest smile.  There were tears in her eyes right now.  “I... I'm beginning to feel like I belong here, back in this world.  But, I did commit an unforgivable act by betraying my sisters and siding with Discord so long ago.  Tia, she said I was a traitor, but has since forgiven me.  Still...”
“Still what?”  Twilight looked her own body in the eyes.  Into Terra's eyes.  “You created this whole world.  So what if you made a mistake.  Your punishment was far more severe than it deserved to be.”  Twilight hugged Terra.  “You are a wonderful, if a little odd, pony.  You may not see yourself as a Princess like Celestia and Luna, but you should.  You are the middle sister after all.”
Terra pushed Twilight back.  “You're right.  I... I guess I should find some way to break free of the gem.  In the meantime, I guess I can just keep using your body.”  She grinned.
“Wait, what?”  Twilight stammered.  “That's not what I meant.  I mean... um...”
“I was kidding Twilight.  I won't steal your body again... though I still have no idea how I winked that one time.  Besides levitating metal, stone, gems, and plants, I can't levitate anything else.
Pinkie raised an eye.  “I've seen you eat before, but like an Earth Pony.  You can't levitate food?”
“I can... well some food.  Salad, hay, alfalfa.  Basic plant foods.  Anything that's cooked, I can't lift.”  Terra chuckled.
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Scootaloo sat in the gem and continues studying the many facets and the spells written on them.  She still had no idea how she could understand them.
She glanced out the 'window' and saw only Luna.  Celestia had retired for the night.
“I really hope we can get this all fixed tomorrow.”  She said, sighing afterwards.
“I agree fully.”  Luna replied.  “Wait... Scootaloo?”  She started looking around the room.  “Scootaloo?  Did you somehow get out?”
“What?  No, I'm still in here.”  She then turned and looked back at the interior of the walls.  “Luna, there's a whole lot of writing in here.  I've been reading it.  I think... I think I might be able to get out of here.”
“Scootaloo, don't.  If you exit there without a body, who knows what will happen to you.”  Luna looked into the gem, seeing the tiny Scootaloo.  “Do you understand me?”
“I understand.  I'll just keep reading.  There's nothing else to do in here.  Oh yea, do you want to trade places for a little while and I can write everything out for you, then I can go back inside.”
“Celestia said not to risk it.  We don't know if you'll be able to stay in just one body, or if you might jump from body to body when you are traveling around.  That could cause a LOT of problems for other ponies.”
Scootaloo nodded.  “Gotcha.  I understand.”
“Tell you what.  Let's go to the office and you can tell me what you see in there.”
“Yes Princess.”
“Call me Luna.”
“Yes Luna.  Thank you.”
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Everypony had gone home, except Dash.  She remained at the Library, working away with Terra.
“These wings are going to be so awesome.”  Dash grinned.
“Your understanding of how the Pegasus wing works is actually impressive.”
“Well of course.  How do you think I got to be the fastest flier in all of Equestria.”
“Don't ever challenge Tia to a race.  You would regret it.”
“How fast is she?”
“Ever seen a triple Sonic Rainboom?”
Dash's jaw hit the floor.
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Applejack looked at her hooves.  She couldn't understand it.  How could her being an Earth Pony have caused a Unicorn's hooves to become diamond hard while still looking like normal hooves?
She was in the spare room on the second floor of Rarity's.
“Ah can't sleep...  All this just don't make no sense.  Our minds got mixed up an all, but why are our bodies changin?”  She tapped her horn and thought about how Pinkie Pie's body now had one.
Did she really want a horn?  She did rely on magic a lot in this body, mainly because she did lack the strength.
Applejack stepped in front of the mirror, looking over Rarity's slender body.  She could see a light muscle tone that had not been there before.  So far, Rarity had actually complimented her on how well she was caring for her body.
Fluttershy did very little in the way of any heavy work, tending to the animals and gardens, but leaving the orchard work to Big Mac and Applejack (with her magic), to buck apples.
“Tomorrow all this is gonna be set right...  Still don't know if'n Ah want a horn...  Would come in useful though.”  She sighed and crawled back into bed.
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Pinkie Pie lay curled in Fluttershy's bed.  Still, she was awake.  She looked out the window at the beautiful night sky and sighed.  “Tomorrow.  I'm going to throw a huge party tomorrow.”  She smiled and tried to get some sleep.
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Rarity slept comfortably.
While the body was indeed highly athletic, and built to fly fast, it also slept VERY well, especially on Rainbow Dash's own bed, up in her house.
She knew she was going to have to learn the spell that would allow her to walk on clouds, and see if Dashie would be a sweetheart and get her a cloud bed.
But for tonight, the rainbow maned Rarity slept peacefully.
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Twilight looked out the window to Pinkie Pie's bedroom, up at the beautiful full moon.
She rubbed the horn on her head and thought.  “What will Pinkie Pie do with magic?  She's random enough as it is right now.”  She giggled at the very idea of a Pinkie Pie that could wink around at will.
“Oh the pranks Dash and Pinkie will pull.”  She giggled and turned to the bed.  She crawled under the fluffy and warm blanket and snuggled in.  “As strange as these few days have been, it's also let me become closer to all my friends.”
With that happy thought in her head, she closed her eyes and went to sleep.
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To Be Continued...