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// A Fork in the Road 
// Story: A FILLY Big Problem 
// by TheMajorTechie 
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	Luna huffed impatiently as she watched her big-little sister playing outside. Celestia held a fork in her grasp, repeatedly stabbing the road with it.

"Tia, why do you take humor in damaging our neatly paved roads?"

Celestia shrugged, and continued stabbing the road. The faint glow around her body had intensified to the point in which one could barely see it if they tried.

And it just happened that Luna was glaring at the filly princess, noticing the faint glow as a result.

"Tia, why does your coat glow in Techicolor?"

Once again, Celestia shrugged, and continued her pointless game of 'Fork in the Road'.

In a dramatic twist of fate, Twilight Sparkle appeared before her mentor once more, her mildly frazzled mane causing Celestia to yelp, and hide behind her sister.

"Lulu? That scary mare's here again..." Celestia whimpered.

Twilight quickly fixed her hair, her crazed smile gone.

This time, she held a clipboard.

"Celestia," she said sternly, "the spell's wearing out."

Luna suddenly cheered with glee.

"YES! TIA'S GONNA BE NORMAL AGAIN!"

Twilight glared at Luna.

"Er, my sister will be returned to a semi-ordinary state?"

Twilight shook her head.

"No, it's not that."

Luna cocked her head.

"What do you mean, Twilight?"

Twilight sighed, and pointed at her clipboard.

"You see, the spell I had accidentally hit Celestia with was an experimental spell meant to modify the dimension of Time, therefore splitting us into a branching universe based on the outcome of a variable decision-making spell that goes along with the one that hit Celestia."

"Aaaand?"

"It's time for your sister to pick her path. We've come to the fork in the road."

Celestia's ears perked at the mentioning of forks and roads in the same sentence, and immediately zoomed over towards Twilight.

"Celestia, right now, you've got the mindset of a filly, and the body of one, too. Since the spell will never permanently wear off, that means you've got a decision to make."

Celestia raised a brow.

"What decision?"

"You can either pick to have your mind returned to a normal state, or your body returned to a no--"

"No," Celestia said, cutting off Twilight, "What's a decision?"

Twilight facehoofed.

"A decision is when you have to pick one choice out of several, and--"

"How many choices can there be?"

"Ugh," Twilight grunted, "the amount of choices depends on what you've done to come to the decision."

"So what's my choices for this?"

Twilight glared fiercely at the filly princess, before continuing, "You can have the mind of a mare but the body of a filly, or the body of a mare and the mind of a filly."

"Why not both?"



By now, Luna had already taken out a tablet and played three matches against two teams of seven opponents, single-hoofedly PWN-ing them all. She payed little attention to the current scene that was being created.



"BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY TWO CHOICES, YOU LITTLE--"

Pinkie suddenly warped through space, landing perfectly between Celestia and Twilight.

"Hiya, Princesses!" She said happily, shaking the hooves of said princesses.

"Pinkie, what are you doi--"

Pinkie cut Twilight off with a hoof as she pulled out a bottle of steaming clear liquid, and promptly broke the bottle across Celestia's face.

"WHAT THE BUCK, PINKIE, WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!"

Pinkie pointed at Celestia, who was now back in her adult form, both mentally and physically. Though she was currently dripping wet with the potion oozing off her coat.

"It's just a little something I mixed with Zecora to get Celly here back to normal!"

Twilight curiously inspected the droplets of the potion that clung to Celestia's coat. Celestia herself didn't mind, for she was still dazed from having being smacked across the face.

"What's it made of?" Twilight asked inquisitively.

"It's a diluted mixture of mind bleach and chaos magic!"

Discord appeared beside Pinkie, clearly angered.

"Pinkie!"

"What?" Pinkie replied, twirling around to face Discord.

"Why didn't you tell me when you plucked a hair from my glorious beard?!"

Pinkie shrugged. "It's just a beard," she replied, "what's up with it?"

"MY BEARD'S PERFECT NOW! I NEED A MESSY BEARD!"

Pinkie rolled her eyes, and pulled a slightly shorter strand of Discord's beard-hair from her mane.

"I only needed a tiny bit, y'know."

Discord took the strand and stuffed it back into his tuft of beard.

"Thank you, and now, I bid adieu."

Discord vanished in a puff of cotton candy, which Pinkie Pie promptly swallowed immediately after.

Twilight stood speechless, her mouth moving, but no sound coming out.

Pinkie whistled a light tune to herself as she flew away on her tail.

Celestia slept soundly on the ground, her energy completely depleted from her days as a filly.

"YEAH! NEW HIGH SCORE!" Luna shouted, bursting in laughter.

"YOU WILL NEVER DEFEAT LUL4-SH4D0W!"

Suddenly, Luna became aware of her surroundings, as well as her now-"normal" sister.

"Oh, hey Tia."