Sorry that this one was a few days late coming out everypony, real life sadly isn't all technicolor ponies and cupcakes sometimes, though wouldn't it be awesome if it was? Anyways I sincerely hope you all have as much fun reading this as i did writing it. enjoy!
“Things have become more complex with you and Twilight’s little friend in the mix dear sister, but you know me, I never shy away from a challenge.” Celestia whispered as she examined the picture of her sister.
“Hmmmm, perhaps this problem can solve itself. I have two attempting to foil my plans, they would be far less able to do so were they to be preoccupied with each other.” Celestia thought as she lifted up Pinkie Pie’s picture.
“An odd couple to be sure, but if I can make a Griffin fall in love with a Zebra I can surely complete this task.” Celestia thought, then started giggling to herself.
The ground below them lurched forward, stirring Princess Luna from her artificial slumber, the normally perky pink party pony of Ponyville stared intently at her, a little too close for comfort in the darkness.
“What, where- Back Foul Discord! Your disguise does not fool the eyes of Princess Luna, especially not a second time! Thou shall not dye my radiant blue coat pink again with your treacherous magic!” Princess Luna cried out and unleashed a bolt of lightning from her horn.
The bolt of destructive magic ricocheted off the walls of the container flying from one end to the other past the two figures before striking hard against the poor startled princess’s flank. The one hundred thousand volt bolt of lightning coursed through her body, doing only the most superficial of damage to the living goddess. Her beautiful blue coat was darkened to a near black shade, and her incredible astral mane blew out as if it were a globe shaped map of the night sky sitting upon her head. The Princess coughed, a small cloud of smoke erupting from her mouth, and took a closer look at the other figure.
“Wow that was super amazingly spectacular trick! Wanna see what I can do? See I can touch my ear with my tongue!” Pinkie excitedly proclaimed, then proceeded to demonstrate this rather odd talent of hers.
“Thy tongue possesses an incredible amount of dexterity, pray tell who art thou, mysterious Pink Jargogle?” Princess Luna asked, her vision and mind rather blurry from the shocking experience.
“Duh, I’m Pinkie Pie!” Pinkie said with a giggle as she threw a hoof-full of confetti into the air.
“Ah right I remember thou from our celebration, I did not recognize thou without thy barnyard fowl costume. Hast thou come to rescue us from this rather malagrugrous situation?” Princess Luna asked as she lit up the area with her horn.
“Mala-wha? But I heard the word rescue in there, so no, sorry, I’m trapped the same as you! Though I was supposed to bring these. So it’s not ALL bad!” She cried out as she held up an order of cupcakes in a rectangular box.
Princess Luna looked over the cupcakes and then shook her head and decided to see if she could determine where she and Pinkie were. After lighting a lantern she found next to her hoof, it took her only a moment to figure out that the two of them had been shut up inside of some sort of shipping container that was full of various items from the royal palace in Canterlot. All around her was furniture, chests, nick nacks, and random other objects that the castle had sent away to be stored off site. This was no Prison that could hold an Alicorn princess.
“Fear not Pinkie, I shall have us out of this container in no time!” The princess decreed in the Royal Canterlot voice.
“Wait a second didn’t your magic bounce off the side of the-” Pinkie attempted to protest, but the Princess’s horn had already started to glow.
Both of their bodies began to glow, and in a flash of magic the two disappeared, only to reappear a second later, but they were not as they were when they left. Both ponies squealed in surprise as they looked down at themselves, and saw that the spell had not transported them, but instead, altered their bodies. They both shook their heads a bit, still feeling the strange effects of the reflected teleportation spell. They knew something wasn’t right in themselves, a soft tingle all through their bodies signaled something odd had happened. Slowly, the warm and admittedly rather pleasant tingle focused on certain areas, the upper back and the forehead. Exactly where Luna’s wings and horn were...then she realized. Were. They had gone. Panic struck her as she looked around in darkness. She then spotted a faint glow, and Pinkie giggled softly.
“Wheeee!” She giggled “I feel all warm and light! Like I could just lift off or something!” She exclaimed loudly, and Luna heard wings flapping.
“Pinkie...do thou have wings? A...and...and my horn?! Please tell me what I believe happened has not happened!” Luna cried in shock.
“Ooooooohhh I got a horn, and wings! This so super coolie aweso- oh hmmmmm I see the problem.” Pinkie said as she examined her new body in the full length mirror that was in the container with them.
“Thou hast my horn! Thou hast my wings! Thou hast even been given my height and powerful astral mane! I am but an earth Pony now!” Luna cried again and again as she began to hyperventilate.
“Don’t worry princess, as soon as we get out of here we’ll go find Twilight, I’m sure she’ll know exactly what to do!” Pinkie exclaimed, and her wings flared out wide.
A fine layer of dust flew into the air and Pinkie gasped as she felt a powerful sneeze coming on. Luna’s eyes went wide as she realized that she was now in an enclosed magic-proof container with a Pony that had every iota of her powers, and no concept of how to control or contain them. Being only a simple earth pony now, this case was the equivalent of being trapped in a steel box with a bright pink time bomb. She watched, in what seemed like slow motion, as Pinkie Pie sneezed, then shut her eyes tight, fearing what may come of it. She felt herself enveloped in a strange magic she did not recognize, then felt a sensation as if she were inside of a balloon that had suddenly popped. Luna felt over her body from head to tail and discovered no missing body parts, but did notice that now for some reason she was wearing a rather odd outfit. She looked up, and saw Pinkie’s eyes tear up before the Alicorn mare fell to her side giggling like a schoolfilly.
“What art thou chortling about?” Luna asked, fearing that the magical burst had altered her further.
“You look like a clown!” Pinkie squealed as she rolled around on the floor of the container.
Luna turned to look in the full length mirror Pinkie had been standing in front of and saw that she was wearing a comically oversized pair of trousers, a polka dotted white shirt, and saw that her mane had been transformed into a rainbow colored afro. Luna was far less amused at this than Pinkie was, but was pleasantly relieved when she discovered the rainbow afro was only a wig.
“Perhaps we should take stock of our situation, attempt to determine who could have ensnared us in this place, and why.” Luna suggested as she hopped up onto the couch next to Pinkie Pie, nearly losing herself in the pink glowing swirling wonder that was now Pinkie’s mane.
“Well we got an order at sugarcube corner for those cupcakes from somepony in the palace, I thought it might have been your sister apologising for what she tried to do to Twilight and I, but I guess not.” Pinkie explained.
“What could my sister have possibly done to you and her faithful student that would require that she apologize to you?” Luna inquired, already having a fairly good idea of what, but wanting to be sure.
“She tried to use a potion to make me and Twilight fall in love. I’m not really sure why she did it, but that was definitely rude. I thought maybe that letter I sent her telling her to stop, and to fix what she had already done might’ve made her wanna apologize.” Pinkie answered, and Luna’s eyes grew wide again.
“Thou discovered my sister’s plot and foiled it? That is no small feat Pinkie.” Luna asked, genuine surprise and a tone of admiration in her voice.
“You’re not kidding, her plot was so huge it was sticking out of a cloud!” Pinkie quipped with a giggle as she mimed how big Celestia’s plot looked and the two shared a hearty chortle.
Despite her giggling at her sister’s rather voluptuous plot, Princess Luna felt a sharp coldness within her as if a spear of ice had pierced her coat. Her sister had imprisoned her once more, and for only being in the way of her foalish game. This development nearly troubled her to tears, but for some reason she could not discern this bubbly pink pony made her feel despite it all that things were not as bad as they seemed, that she could make it through, and that she shouldn’t give in to despair despite even losing her wings and horn.
“So whatcha think we should do Princess? Try and get both of us all re-combobulated and unmixed up?” Pinkie asked just before burying her face in her new soft downy wings and giggling.
“We will require the aid of a very talented unicorn, you suggested Twilight Sparkle if I remember correctly, we should not attempt to remedy this situation ourselves, lest we alter ourselves further.” Luna logically replied as she watched Pinkie preen her new wings.
“These things are soft but kinda tickly, Princess. Want me to show you?” She didn’t wait for her to respond before tickling the Royal now-earth pony Princess on the nose with the tip of her wing feathers.
“Pinkie I do not require a demonstration of the tickling properties of my wings, although you seem to have grown rather adept at their use.” Luna noted, impressed that the former earth pony was handling her new form so well.
“Thanks Princess, and I know right? It’s like I was supposed to have wings or something!” She exclamed as she flapped them for emphasis.
“What is this? It appears that my tail doth protest to the way this container is shifting so erratically.” Luna said as she watched her tail twitch too and fro just before a lampshade fell from one of the higher boxes, impaling itself on Pinkie’s new horn.
“Oooooh I know what that is, you must have gotten my Pinkie sense when we got all jumbled up!” Pinkie said as she tried to get the punctured lampshade off of her horn.
“Pinkie sense? Pray tell, what might that be?” Luna inquired.
“It’s a bunch of random sensations, tinglies, and spasms that happen sometimes, and can predict what’s going to happen next. Like twitchy tail means something is going to fall on somepony, usually Twilight.” Pinkie explained as Luna listened in awe.
“Thou hast the most peculiar form of clairvoyance I have ever encountered, you are a most interesting pony Pinkie.” Luna said as she studied the pink alicorn laying before her.
The two continued to talk, until their boredom and curiosity hit its peak and they decided to rummage through the other contents of the container in which they were trapped. They discovered that it was actually far bigger than they had initially thought, and that it was the size of a small boxcar for a train. Given its size, and how it leaned and shuddered during the ride, they reasoned that they were being transported to their unknown destination via the Equestrian Railway service. The container was filled not just with furniture, but upon closer inspection of the crates and chests they discovered that it was also full of costumes from the royal theater, and several of the princess’ personal effects. It was about this time that their stomachs began to growl, and the two shared the order of cupcakes who’s delivery had lured Pinkie into this shipping container.
“I thank thee Pinkie, thy generosity rivals that of your friend Rarity.” Luna said with a smile as she finished her third cupcake.
“I’m glad I could make you smile.” Pinkie simply replied, then tried to pick one of the cupcakes up in her newly acquired magic, only to smash it into her face by accident.
“It seems the use of my horn has not come as naturally to you.” Luna noted, then watched as Pinkie licked her own face clean.
“It’s really weird not holding it in my hooves, it’s just... different.” Pinkie said as she attempted to fold the cupcake paper, only to set it on fire.
“Wouldst thou like it if I were to attempt to teach you how to use my powers correctly, so that thou does not accidentally make me resemble a court jester again?” Luna asked, a twinge of fear in her heart as she watched the cupcake paper smolder.
“That would probably be a good idea.” Pinkie replied, as she nodded as fast as she could.
“Then let us begin.” Luna said and pulled a basic spell-book from one of the cabinets that was inside the container with them.
As always everypony I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Favorites and comments are a always greatly appreciated they really help inspire me to keep writing and doing the best I can. ^.^
Special thanks to my prereaders and my special somepony for keepin me going and helping me out with this one.