//------------------------------// // Heart of Gold by Europa // Story: Tainted Love: A Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab // by Foals Errand //------------------------------// by Europa It had all started with an innocent question. Chrysalis had been touring the Crystal Palace with Twilight. She was happy to have her workerfriend over, seeing just what the Tree of Harmony had prepared for them. Then the changeling queen had found something, and asked the most innocent, yet most terrifying, of all questions known to common sense. "What's this button do?" The changeling pushed the red button. Twilight's eyes bugged out of her head and she leaped towards it. "WHATAREYOUDOINGWEDON'TKNOWWHATTHAT - !" A surge of something like chaos magic washed over them. Twilight thought fast and erected a shield around the palace, and then... Blam! Poof! Squeak! Swoosh! Something was wrong. They weren't as they should have been. Twilight felt... large. Blind. It was as if she'd turned into... fabric? She could still move her mouth but her mouth was near the center of her body, far too wide, and her upper lip felt like it split in two. She began tracing the contours of her body, and the conclusion was inescapable. "Chryssy?" she asked. Her voice, at least, was unchanged. "Yes, dear?" "I think I'm a sofa." "Believe it or not? I know how you feel." There was a pause, then both of them screamed. "Aaaaah!" There were two pops, and Twilight found herself once again a pony, but her coat was covered in thread and... blah! Some of it had gotten in her mouth! "Damn it Chryssy, what did you do?" Her eyes widened. "Oh no, what did you do?" She galloped over to the nearest window and her jaw dropped. Instead of the familiar town of Ponyville beyond the castle, there was simply... water. Water, as far as the eye could see. A pond. A lake. An ocean. Chrysalis joined her and looked outside, both of them taking in the scene. "Well, buck me," she whimpered. The pony turned her head up to glare at her. "After this? Not for a month."