Pinkie walked into her old house, like nothing had ever happened to her or her family. Her sisters, Blinkie Pie and Inkie Pie, were sitting at the kitchen table, playing poker and smoking cigarettes. Only the mare with a slight more color in her fur looked up.
"Pinkie, you actually came back to the farm," Blinkie said to her younger sister.
"My name is not Pinkie," the party creepy pony replied. "Please, if you must call me by my name, please do so properly. I'm Pinkamena, remember?"
Inkie looked at her sister, Blinkie, who looked back. They high hoofed, then one, Blinkie shouted, "We got our sister back!" as the three sisters huddled around the table.
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"Okay, girls" the dark purple changeling with purple eyes and wings said. "I do not know how this could have happened or who has done this, but we'll find a way to reverse this."
"You better, because I can't fly! And I need to fly!" Said a small blue macaroni penguin with rainbow hairs.
An orange wolf with a blonde stripe running down her back also spoke up. "Ah can't work like this! Everypony will see Ah'm a wolf!"
The white pig with purple spots also said something. "How am I supposed to run a beauty service looking like... like... THIS?"
The six-foot pale yellow dragon didn't say a word. All she did was stroke her pink spines softly, listening to the others' yelling. Suddenly, she spoke up in a quiet, innocent voice. "Twilight, can you please just try to get us, uh, out of this? That is, if you don't mind. I'm rather terrified of dragons."
Once she started talking, everypony else went quiet. Twilight thought for a moment, then, with her lavender eyes lighting up, she came up with a plan. Or, maybe, it was just a thought.
"Wait, Fluttershy, you're afraid of dragons?" Fluttershy nodded as Twilight continued to process her thought. "I'm terrified of the Princess not liking me anymore," she trailed off, "Applejack, what is your fear?"
The orange wolf gulped and answered the question. "Ah'm afraid of hurtin' mah friends and mah family."
Thinking deeper, Twilight asked Rarity what her fear was. The hog replied, "Well, of course I'm afraid to get dirty and being swine just makes me sick."
Finally, they all looked at the rainbow penguin. "Rainbow," Twilight started.
"I'm not afraid of anything!" shouted the little creature.
"Are ya sure, Sugarcube? 'Cause I reckon you may be scared of something," Applejack said shortly after.
"Me? Afraid? I don't think so."
"Then fly," said Rarity.
Rainbow hesitated and shook. "Alright!" she shouted. "I'm afraid that I'll ever loose my flying!"
Twilight thought for a moment, and came to a conclusion. "It seems like somepony's trying to make us be scared of our worst fears. And so far, they've succeeded. But what they don't know is that we can play on our fears to make this said pony afraid of us."
"Equestrian, please?" asked Dash.
Twilight sighed, then smiled an evil smile. "In retrospect, we're going to hunt down the pony who did this to us and scare them enough to make them want to change us back." Still smiling she went over to one of her books and started flipping pages. Once again, the quiet dragon in the back spoke up.
"Um, Twilight, do you mind if I interrupt?" Twilight looked at Fluttershy the dragon, rather disappointedly, and nodded. "I'm sorry, but, where's Pinkie Pie?"
Ok in terms of fear factor it will probably go
1.Pinkamena because I foresee a possible cupcakes reference.
2.Twilight Sparkling if she can figure out how to shape shift into Trixie or Gilda she can make some very scary threats with the abilities to make them a reality.
3.Dragonshy especially if she uses Iron Will's teachings.
4.Applewolf eat you alive threat.
5.Pigity and Rainguin Dash unless Gilda and Trixie have some sort of phobia their role will most likely be bait.
PS:I wonder if a changeling wishes to shape shift into something it first must come within a close proximity of the target so they can scan it or something in order to get the form.
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Twilight Sparkle is best changeling!
And about changeling shape-shifting.
There is a theory that they can keep images of their targets and use them when needed. Theory depends on how sentient changelings are described. If each changeling has own mind and is controlled, then they can have many disguises. If each changeling is more like a drone of ants or like Zerg, they use disguises they receive from queen.
At least I understood as much.
Important in mirroring of someone, is to take every detail of said person. You need not only looks (outside), but also find fears, aspirations and mannerisms. Each and everyone has different voice and different speech patterns. That also must be accounted.
Now depending on morphing theory, there is from "only illusion" to "complete structural change". Only illusion theory means that changeling must prevent others from touching, spotting inconsistencies in illusion and overall keep illusion running at all times.
Structural change theory tells that they change their structure and even can have internal skeleton (all times or changing exoskeleton to skeleton).
Sorry. I hope someone else will explain it better than me. Morning dumbness ftw
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I am sorry for your computer. But one day, you shall read the next page.
Well then Rainbow, you better tighten up your skills!
I also think you meant "lose my ability to fly."
I don't think you are correctly using "in retrospect" correctly or how you meant to here.
Usually someone does something they regret, in the absence of the knowledge that would have stopped them from doing that very thing.
For example, you throw a letter away thinking it was junk mail. You later find out the letter had the winning lottery numbers on it. In retrospect, you should have held onto that letter.
You could substitute the phrase with, "in layman's terms," which means to put something more basically or without jargon. This would make a lot of sense in Twilight's case, because she often gets carried away with complex words and "jargon."
This is pretty good story so far, just trying to give some pointers.