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// Return to Sender (Part 2 of The one where Pinkie and Luna Get Shipped) 
// Story: The Shipping Games 
// by Skystriker 
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	As the train chugged its way through the countryside, not a single one of the conductors knew the true cargo that the container car carried. Within the enchanted walls of the container Pinkie was slowly but steadily learning the basic spells that most unicorns learned before even attending their first day of school. After a few long hours of practice, and several broken chairs and nik naks, she had all but mastered basic telekinesis. 

“Wooooww...that’s going to make baking so much easier!” Pinkie cheerfully announced, as she, with great effort and concentration levitated a wooden chair. 
“Pinkie...you’re not keeping the royal wings nor my horn.” Luna grumbled, her tone slightly annoyed at the whole situation.
“But I will have them until Twilight figures out how to change us back, and I can only imagine how many cupcakes I could make at once now that I have Princess power!” Pinkie excitedly squeaked and licked her lips at the thought

Princess Luna allowed her mind to wander for a moment and she contemplated how lucky she was that this was the pony that her powers had been transferred to. Were they transplanted into a less altruistic pony the consequences could have been dire not just for her but for all of Equestria. Pinkie Pie was literally just handed the powers of a living goddess, and her first thought was of how much she could now bake to feed her fellow ponies, and her second was of how she could return them as quickly as possible. She was truly a good pony in every sense of the word. 

“Ooooooh I bet I could make it rain chocolate milk again!!” Pinkie cried.

Or she could just be quite mad, though a kind of madness that at the very least, was not malevolent. 

“So what other kinds of magic can you teach me?” Pinkie eagerly asked, with a smile that was completely irresistible. 
“Well I suppose I could instruct you in the practice of low level conjuration, that could prove useful to us if we are trapped in this container much longer.” Luna said after careful consideration of their situation.
“Conjuration? Like...when your special somepony visits you if you’re in prison and they let you go into this little room to-” Pinkie began to ask, only to be cut off mid question,
“I do believe that term is conjugal, conjuration is the school of magic relating to summoning or magically creating objects at will.” Luna explained.
“Hold on a second, so you’re telling me I don’t even have to bake the cupcakes? I could just poof them up?!” Pinkie gleefully asked, so excited that her hooves were shaking back and forth like a young filly standing in front of a pile of her birthday presents, ready to dive into them. 
“Well I suppose conjuring edibles would be most advantageous given our current circumstances.” Luna answered, amused at Pinkie’s confectionery obsession.
“I wanna try to conjurify cupcakes! Please please please oh pretty pretty please, with whipped cream and a giant cherry on top, teeeach me! ” Pinkie pleaded.
“Alright, thou hast convinced me. We shall start small, one cupcake, that should allow us to gauge if thou art ready for this kind of magic.” Luna said and flipped to the page for conjuration spells, then set it down in front of Pinkie.

As Pinkie read over the instructions for the spell Princess Luna searched for the sturdiest looking trunk she could find, and quickly dumped out the contents. She then hopped inside of it and closed the top most of the way, taking cover as best as she could, just in case something went wrong. Pinkies long spiraled horn began to glow as she focused her thoughts and magic as best as she could, and after a few tenuous second a chocolate cupcake with pink frosting materialized between the two mares.

“Huzzah! Thou hast performed the spell admirably, and with the pleasant side effect of not leaving us in pieces scattered about the container!” Luna cheered as she clapped her hooves together. 
“I bet I could do more than one.” Pinkie confidently boasted and her horn began to glow again.
“Neigh! Do not attempt to conjure more than thou are capable!” Luna tried to warn her, but it was too late. 

Luna closed the trunk and curled up in a ball with her head over her hooves, only to be swiftly ejected from it, and tossed across the car onto a sofa by an explosion of well over a hundred cupcakes that materialized within the trunk. This left the poor earth pony princess dazed and wall eyed, as she laid upside-down on the sofa.

“Oh my gosh this is like the greatest treasure chest ever! Its filled with cake!” Pinkie screamed as more and more cupcakes, cakes, cookies, and pies started pouring out of the trunk, spreading out over the floor of the container until a small mound of them had formed in front of the overflowed trunk. 
“Thy vivid imagination appears to have given thou a natural talent for conjuration.” Luna mused. 
“Princess I’ve been meaning to ask, why do you talk funny like that sometimes?” Pinkie asked between bites of pie.
“I have been attempting to update my speech patterns, but it appears in moments of duress or intense emotion I revert to speaking in the old ways.” Luna replied, then picked up a brownie and took a bite.
“I think it’s kinda neat that you talk different sometimes. It makes you special, well in a more special than a princess sorta way.” Pinkie said with a smile and Luna blushed a little.

Luna was taken aback by the complement, most times when somepony complimented her it seemed that they only wanted to gain her favor for political or social expediency, but this bubbly pink pony seemed truly genuine. As she watched Pinkie rather adorably burying her face in the pile of confections a soft spot in her heart began to slowly grow for her. 

“Would you like me to teach you another such spell Pinkie?” Luna asked.
“Absotively Posolutely I would!” She squealed in excitement.
“Very well, Pinkie” She said, then looked through the book of spells and found a similar conjuration spell. 

She placed the book before Pinkie and hopped into her, now empty of confectioneries, makeshift bunker. While Pinkie was busy reading the spell carefully.

“Oh...this one sounds useful too, I can poof up clothes! That’d be great for costume parties!” Pinkie exclaimed happily. 
“Now Pinkie” Luna said calmly “Simply attempt to will a piece of clothing into being in front of you, and if you are successful they should appear.” Pinkie then focused her recently acquired power through her horn, and  the interior of the container filled with a dazzling white light, then something popped into existence, and the light faded, revealing Pinkie in a set of the strangest clothing Luna had ever seen. 
“Thou art dressed in an incredibly amusing manner, Pinkie Pie. I have never seen such ridiculous clothes!” Luna said, suppressing her laughter. 
“Hey! Somepony get me a mirror, I need to see what’s so funny! It might come in handy next time I foalsit for the Cakes.” Pinkie rushed to a mirror, and immediately started laughing. 

She stood before the mirror in a set of lederhosen, colored in pink, light blue and yellow. Pinkie began laughing harder and harder until she rolling around on the floor holding her sides.  

“Wow that was funny! Oooooh when did you get changed, Princess?” Pinkie asked with a snorting laugh, intrigued by the new set of strange clothing Luna is wearing. 

The outfit was a tight, shiny and black, that seemed to cover everything except the areas that usually would be the last places you would want exposed in a dress. Her flank and plot were clearly exposed, and there were shiny metal fittings all along the border of them as if they were framing them in order to draw the eye to them.

“What?! Allow me to see, Pinkie Pie!” She then pushed Pinkie gently out of the way before looking at herself in the mirror. “Pinkie, what is this? Why didst thou put me in this...this...I don’t know what it is but I don’t like wearing it. Although... It does reveal my flank in a rather appealing manner, perhaps I shall wear it, it does seem to show off the royal assets, as it were.”
“I’ll say it does! I mean.. uh..um Princess, that’s...that’s not really appropriate for all the time, just for the bedroom.” Pinkie stammered, unable to stare away from her. 
“You ponies surely wear some strange things to bed in this age. In my time, if anything, one wore a simple long gown in order to help keep warm” Luna said as she admired herself in the mirror.
“No Princess...no...you see...” Pinkie began to explain, then noticed Luna enjoying her new outfit immensely. 

She then sighed and facehoofed, giving up on trying to explain to her the use of her new outfit. She knew if she did that it would ruin her enjoyment of it, and if there was one thing Pinkamina Diane Pie was not, it was a buzzkill.  

“Hark, I do believe the train is slowing.” Luna said as she put her ear to the side of the container.
“Ooooh do you think they’re letting us out for a potty break, cause I reaaaaaally gotta go!” Pinkie joked as she crossed her back legs and danced around on her back legs awkwardly.

The train was indeed pulling to a stop, and both Pinkie and Luna knew this was their shot at escaping their shipping prison. Luna ran to the door of the container, and in one swift fluid motion turned,reared her hooves up, and firmly planted both against the door as hard as she could. Pinkie closed her eyes and flinched as she watched Luna fly across the car, landing back in the trunk she had been using as her bunker, slamming the lid shut on top of her.

“It appears that the shielding also protects it from physical assault.” Luna weakly said as her eyes swirled around and around in her head.
“Hmmm I think I have a plan but it’s pretty risky.” Pinkie said as she stared down the door.
“Do not attempt to use my magic upon it, that is how we came to be in our current forms, remember!” Princess Luna protested.
“Oh I’m not gonna use magic, and I’m not gonna buck it either, I’m going to use the most unstoppable force in all of the universe.” Pinkie said as she narrowed her eyes.
“My sister when she wishes to dine upon cake?” Asked Luna as her vision finally normalized. 
“No.... a Party!” Pinkie enthusiastically replied.
“I do not see how a party would remedy our current situation.” Luna said, a single eyebrow raised in confusion.
“Just let Auntie Pinkie Pie work and we’ll be out of here in no time.” Pinkie boasted.
“I am over two thousand years older than thou!” Luna again protested, this time pouting a bit as well. 

Luna then watched in shock and amazement as Pinkie produced a cannon, seemingly out of nowhere. She then watched as Pinkie channeled her new Alicorn powers into the little cannon, which began to glow and morphed itself into a much more powerful looking piece of artillery. Once more Luna shut the lid of her trunk and tried to make herself as small as possible as Pinkie pressed the muzzle of the cannon right against the latch of the door.

“Party in the hole!” Pinkie screamed, then pulled the lanyard, setting off the cannon with a thunderous report. 

Outside of the container the conductor ponies had just finished their inspection, and were about to head into the station for coffee and donuts when they heard the thunderous report of Pinkie’s upgraded cannon. The doors to the container flew open, and a few seconds later they watched in awe and confusion as a Pink Alicorn wearing Lederhosen flew out of the crate with a midnight Blue earth Pony, in a very revealing black latex outfit, riding upon her back. The eldest of the three conductor ponies pulled a flask from his coveralls, and tossed it in the trash before heading inside while the other two continued to stare up in wonder.

“Was that a..?” The one started, but couldn’t bring himself to finish his sentence.
“I think so.” The second replied, unable to believe his own eyes.
“Coffee and Donuts?” The first asked, as he turned around.
“Yes, and let us never speak of this again.” The second replied with a nod and they headed into the station.

Meanwhile less than half a mile away Pinkie and Princess Luna hung upside-down in a weeping willow tree, completely tangled up in the vines. Princess Luna stared at Pinkie with an unamused gaze while Pinkie responded with her best ‘I’m sorry’ smile.

“Okay, so the loop de loop wasn’t my greatest idea.” Pinkie admitted.
“Perhaps we should walk for a while.” Luna grumbled.
“Great Idea! I know a whole bunch of walking songs!” Pinkie replied with her trademark giant infectious grin, and no matter how much she didn’t want to, Luna returned the smile.


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.