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// Phase Two 
// Story: If I Could Catch Fuzz In a Bottle 
// by shortskirtsandexplosions 
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	"Woohoo!" Pinkie bounced over to Rainbow's side in a blink.  "About time!  Heeheehee!"

"Uhhh..." Rainbow craned her neck to squint past Pinkie.  "Just how many of these stupid 'Phases' are there going to be, Twi?"

"Well, how many ponies are there in the room?"

"Er... alright..."

"So, then, it's Pinkie Pie's turn?" Applejack asked.

Twilight nodded.  "Affirmative."

"Humor us, Twilight," Rarity spoke up.  "Just how did you go about picking this order?"

"I based it on samples taken of your coat and mane hairs," Twilight said, waving her hoof in the air.  "Fluffle consistency... silken texture... that sort of a thing."

"Wait..."  Fluttershy's teeth chattered.  "How exactly did you get samples of—?"

"How are we reading, Spike?!" Twilight hollered across the room.

Spike glanced at the monitor, then smirked back.  "We're okay to go!"

"Alright, Phase Two!"  Twilight scribbled on a sheet and smiled at Pinkie.  "Cuddle away!"

"Cuddling!"  Pinkie twirled about.

"Say, Twi, could we talk about thi—MRMMMFF!"  Rainbow went cross-eyed as she endured a face-full of cotton candy mane.

"Heeeee-eeeee!" Pinkie cooed, lovingly rubbing and stroking her forehead against Rainbow's chin, face, and neck.  "Coochy Coochy Cooooo!"

"Mrmmfmfmmff!"  Rainbow rolled her red eyes above the undulating mass of Pinkie fluffle.  "Ohffh frr Bfegfe'f fafge..."

"Aaaaaaaaaand..."  Pinkie Pie snuck tight circles around Rainbow Dash.  Between her head and tail, she tightly encased the wheezing pegasus in fuchsia fuzz at all times.  "This one's called 'The Whirlpink!'"

"Bff phfrrrfbffkk?"

"Look out!"  Pinkie did a backward hoof-stand, arching her back directly over Rainbow's head and shaking her rump before her muzzle.  "It's the drive thru at Mauvedonald's!  'Over a Billion Fluffled!'  Heeheeheeeeeee!"

Rainbow struggled to breathe through the tail wagging like a windshield wiper across her blue face.

"Bffkeff Bfffi!  Pffft!  Gfft iggf ouffg!"

"Oh dear..."  Fluttershy held a pair of hooves up to her worried muzzle.  "Rainbow's going to suffocate on salmon!"

"Perhaps—" Rarity pointed at the vial with a jubilant grin.  "But look at the results, dear!"

The fluctuating pink inside the glass jar was deepening, turning red and gradually more opaque.  The crystal cap on the top had transformed from a bright blue to a pulsating lavender.

"Wow, Spike!"  Twilight Sparkle hugged the clipboard to her labcoat'd chest.  "It's working!  Such progress!"

"Ya hear that, Rainbow?" Spike chirped.

A pair of ruby eyes glared out from behind the smokescreen of bubblegum pink horse hair.  "Ffgg uuff, yfff gragoffd bfff uff uh fifggf!"

"Heeeeeee!"  Pinkie Pie rolled up with her back to Rainbow's chest.  She curled her legs to her grinning face while she swished her fuzzhead back and forth right in the pegasus' muzzle.  "And this one I call 'Ticket For Two on Spoon Mountain!'  Hehe—hope you bought your Fast Past, Dashiiiiie!"

"Ermmm..."  Applejack squinted at the glowing bottle.  "You reckon it might burst at this point?"

"She... uhm... has a point," Fluttershy sweated, brushing her silk-soft mane aside.  "And is it just me or has it gotten terribly warm in here?"

"I was about to say the same thing!" Rarity exclaimed, her eyes heavy-lidded.  She waved a hoof over her perspiring brow.  "Normally, I don't approve of exercising my fragile pores, but something about... h-how soothing that light is..."

"Grrr-fgrrmmfrrfff?!" Rainbow Dash orated.

"Erm... r-right."  Twilight took a deep breath and waved the clipboard in Pinkie's general direction.  "Time to switch the fuzz off.  Thank you."

"Phweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"  Pinkie chortled into Rainbow's chin.

"Ahem... fuzz off, thank you," Twilight growled.

"Buh?"  Pinkie looked over.  Her mouth sank into an upside down curve.  "Awwwwww."  With a sigh and subtle little butt-wriggles, she slid out from beneath Rainbow Dash like a reverse snake.  "...but I didn't get to take her 'round the 'Snugglianopolis 500.'"

"Guaaaaah!"  Rainbow Dash wheezed, collapsing onto her chest as she spat out the first of several million stray pink hairs.  "Mrmmmff... Luna on a bike!  I'm gonna be coughing up fluff for weeks!"

"Dun sweat it, sugarcube," Applejack murmured.  She repositioned her hat for the umpteenth time.  Between each blink, it became more and more apparent that her freckles were swimming in a rose-colored sea.  "Them's just the chores we do for science..."

"Is it just me?" Fluttershy teetered slightly, staring at Rarity with glazed eyes.  "Or did Applejack overlook the fact that Rainbow nearly drowned to death in cuddle fuzz?"

"Did she?  I-I didn't notice..."  Rarity smiled, her normally alabaster coat marred by a warm flush that spread slowly from her neck down to her hooves.  "By the way, have you ever..."  Rarity gulped dryly.  "...ever n-notice how Twilight's mane simply shines in the pale glow of an electrical piece of laboratory equipment?"

"I reckon it certainly is..."  Applejack slipped her hat off and wiped her brow.  "...hoof-lickin' scrumptious..."

"Koff!  Kaff!"  Rainbow spat some more hairs out and rubbed the edge of her nose with a fetlock.  She squinted curiously out one eye.  "Say what?"

"...?"  Spike blinked.  He turned to look up at the glossy black monitor.  Aside from Rainbow's recovering heartbeat, he spotted orange, white, pink, and yellow lines—all fluctuating erratically.  "Uhhhhh..."  He gulped, then turned towards the lead scientist.  "Twilight?"

"Not now, Spike.  Science," Twilight muttered, scribbling on a datasheet.  She tapped the clipboard with her pen and tilted her head up.  "Fluttershy?"