“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!”
The sudden noise woke Rainbow Dash. “Wha? What’s going on?” She recognized the sound as a scream. Immediately, her protective instincts kicked in. “Someponies in trouble. DON’T WORRY, I’M COMING!” she shouted and moved to launch herself toward the sound. However, instead of taking off like she expected, she stumbled out of the bed entangled in the sheets. “Hey, what gives?” she asked as she untangled herself. When she finally got free, she looked to her back to see what was wrong with her wings. She didn’t expect the answer.
“W-Where are my wings?!” On her back, instead of the wings she was so proud of, was nothing! She wasn’t a pegasus anymore! But that wasn’t the only thing missing from her body. “Where is my fur?!” she asked out loud. She began to use her hoof to feel her back, hoping to find some trace of her blue coat. Then she noticed something else was off. “Where is my hoof?!” As she continued to look herself over, she discovered her entire body had changed. “WHAT’S HAPPENED TO MEEEEE?!” she wailed loudly.
“AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!”
Rainbow heard the scream that woke her up again. This time, she recognized the source of it. “Twilight.” she said. Then she realized something, “If my body’s changed, then Twilight’s might of too.” She brought the thing that had replaced her hoof to her mouth and shouted, “DON’T WORRY, TWI. I MAY NOT BE AS AWESOME AS USUAL, BUT I’M STILL COMING!” With that, she ran towards the sound. As she ran, she thought to herself, “Once Twilight’s calmed down, she’ll know exactly what to do.”
As the sun rose, Applejack rose with it. Her day was about to start the same way it always did: first she’d get breakfast, then go do her chores on the farm. After those were done, she’d go into town and hang out with her friends. She climbed out of the bed ready to start the day.
Then her face hit the floor.
“Uhg,” She groaned, “what happened? The floors not usually that far away.” She looked at her front hoof to see if something was wrong with it. Her eyes grew wide as she realized there was. “What the?!” she exclaimed as she looked at the strange thing that had replaced her front hoof. Both of her front hoofs, in fact. She looked down to her back hoofs to see if the same thing had happened to them. She saw that, while they didn’t look like the things that had replaced front hoofs, they definitely had changed into something.
Applejack was starting to panic. “Okay,” she thought, “I’m not a pony anymore. This isn’t good.” She started to think about how this could affect her. Her ability to help on the farm, how her friends would look at her. Wait, her friends! “Twilight!” she exclaimed, and she rushed out of her room to the kitchen.
Big Mac was there eating breakfast. When he saw the strange creature running out of Applejack’s room, his eyes grew wide. Before he could take a fighting stance and confront the creature, it ran up to him and started talking.
“Big Mac, it’s me, Applejack.” the creature said. “Listen, I don’t know what happened to me, or what I’ve turned into, but it’s still me.” Big Mac thought it sounded like Applejack, and there was just something about it that just felt like his sister. He decided to trust his instincts and dropped his defensive stance.
Applejack breathed a sigh of relief that her brother believed her, and continued. “Ok, I’m going to head over to Twilight’s. If there’s anypony who knows what to do about this, it’s her. Can you cover for me until I get back?”
After hearing that Big Mac knew it was his sister. No other pony had that much faith in her friends or that much concern for the farm work. He nodded his head and said, “Eeyup.” In his usual way.
“Thanks, bro. I owe ya.” Applejack said as she raced out of the house towards Twilight’s castle. With that commotion out of the way, Big Mac returned to his breakfast and continued eating.
Rarity woke up feeling groggy. She had a new project and decided to work on it last night before bed. Unfortunately, she stayed up working on it longer than she planned, thus causing her to not get as much beauty sleep as normal. Reluctantly, she got out of bed and moved toward the kitchen. She felt like something was off when she got to the floor, but she’d worry about it after she got the miracle liquid known as coffee into her system. She glanced at the mirror in her room, where she saw a strange creature looking back at her. She shrugged then walked past it. She almost made it to the door when she realized what she saw. She rushed back to the mirror just to make sure. When she saw the creature staring back at her, she realized this creature was her.
“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!” she screamed. She just stood there at the mirror screaming until Sweetie Belle burst in.
“Rarity! Are you all riiiighhhh?” Sweetie Belle said, before laying eyes on the creature once known as Rarity. Her pupils shrunk as she deduced what she was looking at. “MMMMMMONSTER!!” she yelled as she started to run out of the room. Before she could, Rarity rushed over to her and grabbed her. Sweetie Belle began to shiver in fear.
“Sweetie Belle, it’s me, Rarity.” she said, hoping to calm her down a bit.
Sweetie Belle looked at the creature and saw a look of sisterly concern in its eyes. She stopped shivering as she realized who this creature was. “Rarity?” she asked, “but you’re so, so…”
“HIDEOUS!” exclaimed Rarity, “I know! My wonderful coat is gone, my beautiful tail has disappeared, and my polished hoofs have been replaced by…THESE THINGS!” She thrust what used to be her front hoofs into Sweetie’s face. Then she put one leg to her forehead and continued to wail. “Oh, there is nothing left of the beautiful mare that was once known as Rarity.”
“Oh, that’s not true.” said Sweetie Belle, trying to calm her sister down. “You still have your glorious mane.”
“Hmm?” Rarity moved back to the mirror. Sure enough, her mane was still had the same fabulousness to it that it always did. “Yes, well, I suppose that’s something” she calmly agreed. “But STILL!” she exclaimed, back in her state of overdramatic panic, “That is but an island of beauty in a sea of ugliness. Oh, how could this have happened to me?” she asked, beginning to sob.
“Well,” Sweetie Belle began to point out, “Twilight might know what happened.”
This caused Rarity’s eyes to pop open and a look of determination to appear on her face. “Yes! That’s it!” she exclaimed in her dramatic monologue voice, “If anypony knows what to do, it’s Twilight! I shall head over to her castle and together we will return my body back to its beautiful, original form!” With that, she left the room and made her way down the hall. Before she could head down the stairs to the boutique, Sweetie spoke up.
“Uh, are you going to go outside looking like that?” she asked.
Rarity stopped in her tracks and realized what she was about to do. She turned to her sister and smiled sheepishly. “Uh, of course not. Thank you, dear. Could you, uh, please go downstairs and get my cloak for me?”
Pinkie Pie woke up in her usual way: with a smile. She sat up, stretched her front legs, and then looked at her pet alligator. “Good morning, Gummy.” she said. Gummy, as usual, just blinked at her. This caused her to giggle and bring her hoof to her mouth. “Oh, Gummy, you’re so talkative in the morning.” After that, she noticed that her hoof was gone and replaced with something else.
Pinkie stared at this new…thing attached to her front leg. She wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, but it was interesting. She moved her leg about, causing the thing to wiggle about. She giggled at the strange movement it made, then noticed other parts of her body had changed. She was curious, so she shook this new body to see what it would do. She noticed these two things that looked like balloons attached to her chest that jiggled when she moved. Whatever happened to her, she was beginning to like it. Before she could explore this body further, Mrs. Cake walked in.
“Oh, Pinkie. It’s time to get up and to woooooowhaaat?”
Pinkie beamed at her. “Hi, Mrs. Cake! Look at Me! I’m all wiggly and jiggly now!” she said as she continued to shake.
“Erm, I see that dear.” Mrs. Cake said with worry in her voice. “Umm, Pinkie, do you know how you got all, umm, ‘wiggly and jiggly,’ as you say?”
Pinkie thought for a moment, then shrugged. “I don’t know.”
“Well, maybe you should go talk to Twilight about it.”
Pinkie looked at for a second then smiled, “Okay.” She got out of bed and bounced to the stairs. As she hopped down the first step, she tripped and stumbled down. “Hmm” she pondered, “that doesn’t usually happen. This might be more serious than I thought.” She could have thought harder about it, but decided she needn’t bother. “Oh well, I sure Twilight will know what to do.”
Fluttershy was sleeping peacefully, dreaming of her animals, when she felt something jumping on her. With a groan, she opened her eyes and saw Angel Bunny bouncing on her, obviously trying to wake her up. This was confusing; while Angel was sometimes a bit impatient with what he wanted, he usually respected her sleeping time. He only woke her when there was a dire emergency.
“What’s wrong, Angel?” she asked, sitting up. Angel continued to look at her with wide eyes, as if he was concerned for her. Then he jumped off the bed and left the room, which cause her to raise an eyebrow in confusion. A few seconds later he returned with a hoof-held mirror. He jumped back on the bed and turned it toward Fluttershy. In the mirror’s reflection, instead of Fluttershy’s face, was a strange looking animal she had never seen before.
“Eep!” she squeaked, and hid under the covers by instinct. Nervously, she peaked out and took a closer look at the mirror and the creature in it. “Is that….me?” she asked. As she continued to inspect the strange face, she thought it looked odd, but beautiful. Whatever this new animal she turned into was, she was eager to learn more about it.
“Oh, I can’t wait to show my friends.” she squealed. Then she thought about her friends and how they would react. Would they freak out and call her names? Would they abandon her? Fluttershy shook her head. “No, my friends would never do that to me.” she said confidently. Then something dawned on her: “But other ponies might.” She got nervous again. While she thought this would be a wonderful experience for her, she decided to find a way to go back to normal.
She was so lost in her thoughts that she just noticed Angel Bunny staring at her with a look that said he wanted answers. “I’m sorry, Angel.” Fluttershy said, “I don’t know what happened, but I think I need to fix it.” She got out of bed and headed downstairs. “Hopefully, I’ll be back soon. I need to head over to Twilight’s. She’ll probably know what to do about this.” Angel didn’t look completely satisfied with that answer, but he nodded his head in agreement. Seeing that, Fluttershy headed out the door and headed to Twilight’s castle, taking care to avoid main roads so other ponies wouldn’t see her.