14) A tail of two sisters.
Harry is staring at my forehead, which undoubtedly has changed just like my eyes and hair have. I'm not really sure I want to know just how much they changed though. I swallow nervously, “How bad are we talking here? Scale from 1 to 10.”
Harry raises his eyebrows and takes a deep breath, “Well... you have the ears of a pony.”
I close one eye as I wince, “Dude, I asked for a warning 'on a scale from one to ten', I didn't want to actually know the full truth! Not cool man.”
Harry holds his palms out, “Rachel! I think you have bigger things to worry about than my wording. Maybe I wasn't clear: YOUR HAVE HORSE ANATOMY ON YOUR FACE.”
The gravity of the truth still hasn't worked its way into my brain, so I facepalm as I try to comprehend it. Bad idea, facepalming results in my fingers brushing up against the fur at the base of my ears.
Fur. I have fur on my forehead.
On reflex, almost as if I just touched a bug, I yank my hand away from my face. Panic slowly seeps into my thoughts and I’m not really sure what to do. Should I go look in a mirror? Should I just ignore this? Should I just close my eyes and cry?
I start to go for the latter and then I feel a hand on my shoulder, “Rachel, are you okay?”
I wipe the tears away with the back of my hand, “I’m fine. I just want Tess here, I just want answers. Now.”
Harry takes a deep breath, “Rachel, I know you don’t want to hear it, but I think we both know who you’re starting to look like. I mean—”
I cut him off and speak slowly and deliberately, “Harry, I swear to god, if you say 'the answer is ponies' one more time, I'm going to stab you with my horn.”
He slowly raises one eyebrow, “Uh..?”
I snap back at him, “WHAT?”
He points at me, “Repeat what you just said.”
I roll my eyes, ”I'm in no mood for games Harry, and yes, I will stab you.”
He wags a finger at me, 'You said ‘with my horn’, you were talking like you had a horn.”
I purse my lips, “Well, I did say that. That's a bit bizarre now isn't it?”
Harry holds his arms wide in exasperation, “Rachel. WHAT HORN? Seriously, what the hell is this, I've heard of slips of the tongue before, but not like this. I mean sure some of your anatomy has changed, but you don't have a horn. Why would you accidentally say something you don’t even have?”
A door slam cuts off his monologue. I hear Tess hang up her keys and walk down the hallway towards us.
I turn to await her approach “Oh hey, thank god you're back Tess. We could really use... Oh. Wow, what happened to you?”
Tess appears in the living room, her hair is 100% full Twilight Sparkle at this point, right down to the nerdy flat bangs. Her eyes and her cheeks wet, clearly from her tears. As disturbing and worrisome as that is, I am more focused on the purple pony ears coming off her head. They are real pony ears, looking like something straight off the cartoon. The worst part is knowing that my ears probably look just as bad as hers. Now it was my turn to whimper.
Tess says nothing as she walks past us, handing me a manila folder as she passes by. I open it up and see some lab printouts of some data I couldn't really understand. I turn back to Tess to ask what this meant, but she is busy at the liquor cabinet pouring a glass full of gin.
Harry takes a step closer to her, “Umm, Tess, are you okay? I know the ears look bad, but at least you're not alone, your brother is going through the same thing you are.”
She mumbles something and pours a full glass of gin. Harry leans forward, “So, you're not supposed to pour more than a shot or so of gin, you do realize that's 50% alcoh--”
Harry cuts off his sentence as Tess slams back the glass of gin. It takes her about four gulps to swallow it all, but she downs the entire thing and then stands there for about a minute. Harry and I exchange looks, neither of us really wanting to ask how the lab went. Finally I clear my throat to try and get her attention.
Tess shakes her head slightly and starts to speaks, but doesn't turn to look at us, “I ran the DNA tests, it explains why we grew new ears and these manes.”
I stammer, “Manes? Come on Tess, these aren't manes, that's just silly isn't-”
She turns around, her eyes watery with tears, “Rachel, the tests... We are... You and I...” She can’t finish her sentences and tears start to flow down her face again.
Harry looks around, “Just you and Rachel? Am I included in this? Because if not, that would be great...”
Tess grabs the manila folder back from my hand. “I took our DNA, did a polymerase chain reaction to amplify the quantity, then ran a gel and isolated the quantums to do a rapid Sanger sequence of the DNA, allowing me to run a BLAST search against the global biotechnology GenBank genomic database to find homologous sequence matches across all known specimens.”
Harry grits his teeth. “Speak English woman!”
She facepalms and mutters something under her breath, “I amplified our DNA samples and then compared our DNA to the international database of all known DNA sequences.”
Harry throws his hands in the air. “Why didn't you just say that at the beginning!”
Tess mutters to herself again, then wipes the tears from her eye and speaks up, “So anyway, I figured out why we have manes, pony ears, and why we grew that other thing.”
I let out a deep sigh of relief, “Oh, so you figured it out? Thank god, please explain... Actually, wait a second, what other thing?”
Tess's face remains neutral, “Hmm?” She doesn’t say anything for a few moments but was clearly deep in thought.
I narrow my eyes, “Tess, what do you mean 'grew that other thing'?”
She raises an eyebrow, “Oh? You haven't gotten yours yet? It's quite the experience when you first see it coming off of you. Sort of like a smack to the face really. You don’t even have to hear the lab data, that appendage pretty much tells you all you need to know about what we're becoming.”
Harry's eyes dart back and forth between Tess and myself. “Tess, seriously, what the hell are you referring to? The ears? Rachel just got hers.”
Tess looks over at me, I feel panic grow inside me and she looks me up and down and smiles. ”Don’t worry Rachel, you’ll get it any minute now, mine came just a few minutes after my ears.”
My throat goes dry, Harry speaks up,“Tess, stop dancing around the subject. What are we talking about here?”
Tess glances at both of us, “Fine, I'll show you. You might wanna sit down though, don't want anyone fainting in here.”
I snap at my sister, “Damnit Tess, just TELL US.”
Tess smirks ever so slightly as she unceremoniously turns to the side. She places her hand down her back and under her pants, then pulls out a large bundle of something which unfurls behind her. “Come on sis, connect the dots. You can't really be a pony without one of these now can you?”
I feel the skin of my face go cold as the blood drains away. My vision starts to cloud over as I feel lightheaded. I'm still processing the sight before me: My sister has a tail. A purple pony's tail with a pink stripe.
I hear Harry give a slow whistle as he looks at Tess's tail. My vision gets cloudy and I begin to feel dizzy. I start to faint. My sister... has a tail... like a horse... and I'm apparently going to grow my own in a few minutes...
-----WHUMP----
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A little while ago, on the road just outside their house...
I pull over and stop the car when I start to feel something growing under my leg. It’s a tail, a thick, lavender pony’s tail. Tears fill my purple eyes as I try to make sense of what the hell is happening to me. I am supposed to be the smart one, I know my sister and Harry are waiting for me to bring all the answers back from the lab. Nothing here makes sense though. I don’t have real answers, just more confusion.
All my years of schooling and all hard work, all of it is useless here. My four majors, my research, my masters degree, none of it helps me in the slightest when it comes to explaining any of this. It is beyond frustrating. “Just find us some answers” Rachel told earlier today, and I could see fear in her eyes as she did it. Well, I pretty much failed them, I bring back nothing but confusion, and a tail growing out of my ass. Great, just great. I shake my head and start the car back up, it was only another mile or so until the house.
~~~~~~
I stumble into the apartment. and enter the living room and see Harry and Rachel. Oh look, she has white pony ears, I should have guessed as much. Harry's ears are still normal though, he must be lagging behind us by a few hours for some reason. The hair tells a similar story, Rachel’s is really quite exquisite and doesn’t bare a shard of resemblance to how her hair normally looked. Harry’s hair still has a touch of brown here and there but is was getting pretty crazy, such a bright and wild pink held in gravity defying curls.
Rachel turns to see me “Oh hey, thank god you're back Tess. We could really use... Oh. Wow, what the hell happened to you?”
I say nothing as I walk past the two of them. I see a pair of hands and I give them the manila folder with the damned DNA test results. I didn’t really want anything to do with that data right now. I move straight to the liquor cabinet and open it up. Let's see here: Rum, 35% alcohol by volume. Vodka, 42%. Tequila, 38%. Whisky. 40%. Gin, 52%. There we go, looks like we found our winner! I grab the bottle and then glance at the glasses, grabbing one of the larger ones as I start to uncork the gin.
I hear someone take a step closer to me and my sister's voice rings out, “Umm, Tess, are you okay? I know the ears look bad, but at least you're not alone, your brother is going through the same thing you are...”
I mumble quietly to myself, “If you knew half of what I just found out, you wouldn't be questioning my actions here...”
I finish pouring the glass only to hear Harry speak up, “So, you're not supposed to pour more than a shot or so of gin, you do realize that's 50% alcoh--”
I slam back the glass of gin, ooo fuck me does that burn. Probably should have prepared a chaser. Wait, can equines metabolize alcohol? Probably should have looked that up before hand, though I guess my liver is still mostly human. Dang, I should have run a CBC and a liver enzyme blood test back at the lab, would be interesting to know...
Rachel clears her throat behind me, bringing my out of my thoughts. Ah, yeah, they probably are waiting to hear what I found out. Well, might as let them know, “I ran the DNA tests, it explains why we grew new ears and these manes.”
Rachel stammers behind me , “Manes? Come on Tess, these aren't manes, that's just silly isn't-”
I sigh and look into the empty glass. I force myself to turn around and repeat the conclusion I discovered this morning, “Rachel, the tests... We are... You and I...” I feel tears fall down my cheek, trying to tell my sister the gravity of the situation, I just couldn’t do it.
Harry looks around, “Just you and Rachel? Am I included in this? Because if not, that would be great...”
I reach out and grabs the manila folder back from my sister's hand. “I amplified our DNA samples and then compared our DNA to the international database of all known DNA sequences.”
Harry grits his teeth. “Speak English woman!”
I facepalm and mutter to myself “That was English...” then I look back up at them and try to dumb it down, “I look at thing that make us. Then I look at the things that make other stuff.”
Harry throws his hands in the air. “Why didn't you just say that at the beginning!”
“I'm surrounded by morons.” I mutter to myself. The stupidity of the situation makes me smile slightly and I wipe a tear from my eyes, “So anyway, I figured out why we have manes, pony ears, and why we grew that other thing.” I can’t bring myself to actually say the name of that last thing.
Rachel lets out a deep sigh of relief, “Oh, so you figured it out? Thank god, please explain... Actually, wait a second, what other thing?”
I keep my face innocent, “Hmm?” Oh, well, looks like I was right, Rachel must not have her tail yet. Interesting, so Harry lags behind us by a few hours and Rachel lags behind me by a few minutes.
My sister narrows her eyes, “What do you mean 'grew that other thing'?”
I raises an eyebrow, enjoying the feeling of knowing something they didn’t. “Oh? You haven't gotten yours yet? It's quite the experience when you first see it coming off of you. Sort of like a smack to the face really. You don’t even have to hear the lab data, that appendage pretty much tells you all you need to know about what we're becoming.”
Harry's eyes dart back and forth between Tess and myself. “Tess, seriously, what are you referring to? The ears? Rachel just got hers.”
I looks over at her, ”Don’t worry Rachel, you’ll get it any minute now, mine came just a few minutes after my ears.”
Harry speaks up,“Tess, stop dancing around the subject. What are we talking about here?”
I glance at both of them, “Fine, I'll show you. You might wanna sit down though, don't want anyone fainting in here.”
Rachel snaps at me, “Damnit Tess, just TELL US.”
I laugh inside, the alcohol making this entire scene much funnier in my mind. I turn and reach a hand down my back and under my pants, grabbing hold of the bundle of fluffy horse hair I found myself with a few minutes ago. I pull the tail out of my pants, enjoying the look of sheer confusion on the faces of the other two in the room. “Come on sis, connect the dots. You can't really be a pony without one of these now can you?”
Harry gives a slow whistle as he looks at my tail and I see Rachel's face turn white as she stares at my appendage. She’s going to to faint, ha, I so called it. I glance around and make sure there was nothing dangerous or sharp nearby. Nah, just a rug, she should be fine.
Harry laughs softly, “I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.”
WHUMP Rachel’s body falls to the floor.
I sigh and step over her body. Harry takes his eyes off my tail and looks at Rachel's collapsed body, “Is she going to be alright?”
I scratch my forehead, “No, her DNA is doing god knows what right now and her body is becoming quite alien. I don't know how she's going to cope with it all.” Harry stares blankly at me, I laugh softly, alcohol always made me want to mess with people. “Oh, you’re just talking about her fainting and if she’s going to be alright from this fall? Hah, yeah, she's fine, she just fainted from her brain over exciting itself as it tried to make sense of an unknown stimulus, which was my tail. Can’t say I didn’t warn her. Well, anyway, she'll be awake in a minute or so once her brain circuitry calms down.”
Upon hearing me speak of the tail Harry’s attention is drawn back to it. He takes a step closer to me, and holds a hand out, “Can I touch it, that tail? Your tail?”
I chuckle, “That really does sound strange doesn't it? But yeah, knock yourself out I guess.”
I don’t say anything for a few seconds as he runs his hands through it, “It's so soft... I can't believe I'm actually holding Twilight's tail...”
I flick my tail away from him, “You have to stop referencing the pony show. I can’t focus and take this seriously if you keep saying this is all from a cartoon. Look, just because the color sort of matches that character--”
“Sort of matches? Come on Tess, you're pony parts are a 100% match to Twilight's. The tail, the mane, the cutie mark, hell even the eyes. You're identical.”
I narrow my eyes, “I know there’s that purple pony, but I wouldn’t say it’s a 100% match.”
Harry rolls his eyes, then walks across the room to bring me the Blu Ray box set of the show. On the cover was the purple unicorn, and I had to admit the hair, tail, and cutie mark are pretty much a one to one match with my own. Hmm, that does seem to be more than a coincidence.
Harry looks over at me, I notice his ears are ever so slightly higher than they should be on a human. “So Tess, you wanna watch an episode? For science?”
I smile at his offer, “Maybe some other time, I wanna look through the lab data again to see if I can figure anything else out.” I know how obsessed Rachel and him are with that show, but I never really watched more than one episode myself. It was like 9 years ago in Season One, all I remember is how the plot was 100% predictable, I just didn’t see the appeal in watching any more of it. Besides, generation 1-3 was what I grew up with, those were the real classics! I had tons of the the toys when I was growing up, I gave them all names and personalities. I used to spend hours with those toys acting out adventures they would go on. I had entire stories and characters and everything. My parents would play with me too, and sometimes even their friends from work would come and watch the plays and stuff I put on with my ponies. They all thought I was adorable.
It is funny how Rachel is into the G4 ponies and all that brony stuff now. When she was younger and I was always asking her to play ponies with me, she always declined and said she would rather play with her GI Joes (much to the annoyance of my mom). Haha, yeah those were the days. The days before exams and thesis papers, just me and my toys playing pretend.
Harry waves a hand in front of my face, “Earth to Tess. You really zoned out there.”
I smile, “Just thinking of happier times Harry.”
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“I’m starving” Harry says from the kitchen. He starts taking out stuff to make a sandwich and I glance at the clock. It’s 3pm, I should probably eat lunch too.
I step away from my notes and join Harry in the kitchen. He gestures back at my papers, “So, what’s all that studying for, what did you find out at the lab? You never really explained it to us.”
“Oh, um, I want to wait for Rachel to get back down here. No sense explaining all this stuff twice.” I can’t help but smile looking at Harry. His hair is 100% pink and curly and his fuzzy pink pony ears are poking out on either side. As scary and bizarre as this situation is, it’s impossible to frown while looking at his crazy appearance.
He nods, “Well, she should be down soon. She woke up a few minutes ago and told me she wanted to take a quick shower.”
I take out some plates, “Sounds good”
Harry and I make our sandwiches and I make one for Rachel too. I figured she needs one after waking up like that. It’s not everyday you wake up on the floor and find out you grew a blue tail and it’s running down your leg. I sigh as I make her sandwich and bring out the toaster oven. I may not know what’s causing our bodies to change like this, but I do know toaster ovens make the tastiest sandwiches. Hmm, usually Rachel is the one to use this thing, not sure which settings to use...
“Sis, what are you doing. You’re not allowed the use that thing, you’re going to burn the house down.” There is laughter behind me and I look to see Rachel standing there. She is in casual clothes with her hair wrapped up in a towel. That much is normal for a girl of her age, but Rachel also has a second towel wrapped around her tail in a similar fashion. The entire thing looks quite comical.
Harry looks at her, “Nice... towels Rachel.” He alters his voice slightly, “Not sure if tail is hard to dry, or just trying to hide it.”
Rachel rolls her eyes, “Yeah, yeah, very funny. Don’t you worry Harry, you’ll have your own pretty little pink pony’s tail soon enough. Oh, and nice ears by the way.”
Harry bites his tongue, “Ouch, my pride.”
I laugh, “You know we love you Harry, don’t listen to my sister she’s just teasing you to deflect the attention away from herself and her own insecurity about her tail.”
Rachel gives me a glance, “You’re using your psychology words again.”
I stick out my tongue, “I told you it was a useful major.”
She glances at the toaster oven, “Look, Tess, I’m awake now, can I just take over? You’re terrible at this.”
I sigh, “Fine, take over.”
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“Ah, thanks Tess!” I walk over and take charge of the toaster oven. Tess is my sister, but she is not to be trusted around cooking appliances. Harry is great with them, I am okay with them, Tess usually starts fires.
Harry opens the fridge door, “Rachel, want anything to drink?”
I shake my head “Just water, thanks.” I peer inside of the toaster oven and look at the sandwiches loaded inside. “Jesus, Tess you really loaded up on the meat here. You craving protein or something?”
Tess shrugs, “I just don’t know how much longer we’ll be able to eat meat. Figure I would eat as much as I can since this might be my last chance.”
I wag my finger at her, “Tess, you know something we don’t. What exactly did you learn at the lab?”
Tess frowns, “Yeah, I suppose it’s time to explain that huh?”
Harry nods, “Mmhmm, please do”
Tess takes a deep breath, “Alright, so as I said before, I ran the DNA tests. Okay, now normally all humans share like 99% of the genome with other humans. Even monkeys and apes share about 90% of their genome with us. But us... well we’re not really on the chart. Let’s start with the hair and the cutie marks. I ran the DNA from there and compared the sequence of those cells to see where they fit.”
“And?” I lean forward with interest.
Tess chews her lip for a second, ”They don’t.”
Harry throws his hands in air, accidentally brushing against his mane and making it bounce in the air. “They don’t? What the hell is that supposed to mean?”
Tess shrugs, “I don’t know. But that’s what happened, the DNA from our hair literally doesn’t match that of any species ever seen on Earth. The genomic sequence found in those cells is encoding for amino acids I have never even seen before. It’s all very confusing, you see genetics has something called the “universal genetic code” where every creature on Earth uses the same genetic language. Think of it as every cell on Earth writes it’s DNA in ‘English’ so that to every cell the sequence AAA means “make amino acid X”. But, well, apparently the cells around our Cutie Mark have never heard of that. They’re doing their own thing in their own language. The genetic code is complete gibberish to my eyes and would be to any cell on earth. The DNA of our cutie mark, and from our hair is, for lack of a better word, alien.”
Harry says nothing and I just stare at the floor for a moment before remembering something, “What about the ‘control’ sample you took from our arms? The normal human cells, what did those show?”
Tess bites her finger nail for a moment, “That’s what concerned me the most actually. I ran it at the start and it showed this.” She walks off for a second and returns with a paper from her desk. There was a Pac Man type graph on there. Tess points at it, “The DNA from our arm was 75% human and 25% that unknown ‘alien’ type found on our cutie mark and in our hair.”
Harry looks up, “What do you mean, ‘was’?”
Tess frowns, ”I thought the sample got contaminated, so I ran it again. I took it from the exact same spot on my arm. I took a fresh sample of cells and I did the whole DNA thing again. This time it was 72% human, 28% unknown”. Frustrated I did it again. The same spot on the arm, the same test.“
I interject, “Let me guess, only 70% human now?”
She nods, “70.5%, yeah. Literally every minute that passes we are becoming less and less human.”
“Well... fuck” I exclaim.
“Yep.” Tess nods.
Harry shifts uncomfortably in his chair. “Umm, excuse me.”
I watch him get up and leave, but pay him no attention once I hear the toaster oven ding. The sandwiches are ready!
Tess and I set the table and get the food out of the oven, we don’t really say much, neither of us really sure how to follow up on the bombshell Tess just finished explaining.
Harry reappears, giant fluffy pink pony’s tail bobbing behind him. He must have cut a hole in his pants or something.
Tess just stretches and then points at the table, “Harry, food’s done.”
I turn and start eating. Harry stands there for a moment, “Really? Nothing? No comments? I just grew a giant pink horse tail... and nothing?! Come on!”
Tess shrugs, I laugh softly, “Old news Harry. Sorry.”
He shakes his head, “This is such bullshit, you guys get to experience all the surprises and I’m just here to experience the reruns.”
~~~~~~
As we finish eating Harry pulls out his cellphone. “Oh, so earlier today before you guys woke up, I made a post on Twitter talking how I got a cutie mark...”
Tess glares at him, “You what? Are you insane? Harry we don’t exactly want to be broadcasting what’s happening here. Any biologist in the country would kill to get a hold of us. We’re a walking Nobel Prize really.”
Harry rubs the back of his neck, “Hey, I just wanted to see if this was a common thing or something. We didn’t really know anything back then!”
I smirk, “We still don’t really know anything.” I turn to Tess, “No offense sis, but we still don’t know what caused this or how to stop it. ”
She waves me off and focuses back on Harry, “Delete that Tweet. The last thing we need right now is attention! I mean, who knows who read that Tweet.”
Harry bites his lip, “Well, at least one person did, they sent me a message.”
Tess and I learn forward, ”What? Who?”
He taps his phone a few times, “It’s from ‘LoveSoftKitty’ and their profile says they are from Iowa, the Tweet reads: Hey, what kind of cutie mark did you get? Where did you get it done? Is it... ‘real’ looking??”
I exchange glances with Tess, “What do you think? Sounds to me like they are fishing for information.”
Tess nods slowly, “Yeah, strange. I sort of want to hear their story, but I think that’s too risky right now. Harry, reply back to them and tell them that your earlier tweet was a joke. I think we have enough problems with just three of us dealing with this right now.”
Harry starts writing the reply on his phone, but something about my sister’s last sentence make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Something feels... off. I pull out my own phone and go to Twitter. God knows I rarely use this site, but I did have an account and followed a few people I knew. Something was telling me one of my other friends is in some sort of stress and--
Bingo. My eyes fall on a Tweet posted 24 hours ago, ‘Haha, very funny guys. Three of diamonds? That makes no sense. Whatever, thankfully no one sees that part of my legs! I look up and stare at the wall for a moment. Three of diamonds? Something about it being hidden on a leg? Sounds like a cutie mark to me. My eyes dart over to the left to see who posted the message, it was Tom. I feel myself selfishly take joy in this for a moment, it gives me an excuse to invite him over to our apartment. I quickly scold myself though, we had FAR bigger issues here other than me trying to get the cute boy over. Still though, might as well invite him over if he’s in the same boat.
Without saying anything to Tess or Harry, I walk out of the room and start dialing Tom’s cell. On the third ring he picks it up, “Oh, hey Rachel. Look I can’t really talk right now, I got some... stuff going on.”
I raise my eyebrows, “Yeah, I know. Look, you should really head over to my place, trust me.”
Confusion surfaces in his voice, “Uh, no, sorry, Rachel, I’m really quite busy here. Trying to deal with something, it’s kind of serious.”
I rub my forehead, “Look, Tom, I know, I’m also dealing with it. That’s why you should come over, we can figure this out together.”
Tom laughs, “Thanks Rachel, but no, really, I need to deal with this. Pretty sure you’re not dealing with... this.”
I bite my tongue for a second. Fine, he wanted to play this the hard way, let’s play this the hard way. I smile to myself, “Tom, what color is your tail?”
There was silence on the other end of the line for a few seconds, then Tom replied in a quiet voice, “Purple...”
Well, that confirms that for me. “Tom, mine is blue. Get over here.”
“Really? Uh, wow, okay. I’ll be there in twenty.” Tom ends the call and I walk back to the living room where Tess was explaining something to Harry. They both look up at me as I walk back in.
I toss the phone onto the coffee table. “Tom is on his way over.”
Tess and Harry exchange glances, the latter speaks up “Wait, ‘the American’? Is this really the proper time to invite your crush over for--”
I cut him off, “He’s Rarity. Well, technically I suppose the better wording is that he’s turning into her.”
Tess raises an eyebrow, “Interesting pronoun choice there sis.”
Harry just looks down, “Rarity? Sucks to be him. That is one girly pony.”
I get defensive, “Girly? Like you can talk Mrs. Pinkie Pink Hair, which, by the way, is really starting to look adorable with your face. The whole package of your face and those ears, and your fluffy pink hair and tail, hehe, it’s cute.”
Tess stares at me and narrows her eyes sharply but says nothing. Harry just sort of blushes and looks at the ground, “Pfft, I’m not... cute”.
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Lol already found a grammatical error The sickening part is knowing that my ears probably look just as bad as ears.
Is there not an uncensored link for this chapter?
OMG YEAAAAAAA!!!
FINALLY THiS is great! rarity is tom I KNEW IT!
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the one here and the one on the <uncensored site> are the same, so nothing to worry about :3
Alright, so are the new characters gonna be put up as "Main Six" as characters?
and the Gem of Ponyville appears, wonder if she'll have transformation fears.
2687665 OOOO rhyming!
New chapter!!!! Squeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! Havnt read a word and already freakin out!!!!!!
Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh. Thank you for that stroke of genious. Question, is shining still married to cadence?
2687667 i write in rhymes whenever i can, or least that is the plan.
They'll have a hell of time when Rachel wakes up with Shining Armor's privates.
Great chapter as usual. I like how you have the entire transformation in just enough detail to show their unique personality responses. Yet brush over it lightly enough that we aren't just reading the same thing as the first 5 chapters. Very well done! 5 mustaches for you!
2687691 Gah, I know... now i can return to refreshing pages every few seconds to check for updates on sites...but at least I made some friends in the process!
2687696 Oh god yes. NEXT CHAPTER NOW!
2687694 Not to make you feel bad. But that rhyme you just did was really sad. To do it right you must not force, otherwise your shot is way off course.
Awesome Chapter If I was harry Id prob. be making the same jokes and such I won't freak out just be curious.
2687716 Time to follow some Bros!
I demand MOAR!! in the most polite way of yelling!
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Ah rhyming, such a fun thing to do. Is Zecora your best pony too?
2687696 I'm thinking that will be next chapter, along with the foot-hoof things.
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The syllables you use must be near the same or the rhyme you say will appear very lame.
Solid chapter for it being shorter than usual.
MOAR~!
Don't hate on Rarity she's my kinda lady/mare whatever.
Hehe, Rarity is Tom. I love Discord's sense of humor.
2687730 Hush now, quiet now, its time to go to bed...
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Am i your friend now?
2687748 Guess So! I make friends easy.
2687748 MAGIC
HA! I KNEW IT!!!
2687752 Yeah, now im sleepy, lol....good...night...*snore*
It is not hard to write a rhyme of great power, first you ignore all of those who will glower. Then you must listen to only your heart, then write it down starting it part by part.
WOMEN DONT SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!
Oh and your life just got more fucked... have a nice day
This is the soonest I have ever read a chapter on Fimfiction. I'm glad it was this story. :-D
I've been waiting all day for this! I had a gut feeling Tom would be Rarity anyways. I love how Rachel phrased the question, "What color is your tail?" I'm going to be so excited for next Thursday!
(P.S. I forget if Harry got his money from the bet or not.)
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Completely my fault, I saw that error and told Twisted that I laughed heartily at it, but forgot to mark it for correction and we both forgot it was there, my mistake.
it...is..:. ON
2687657 From one Flareon to another... Hai! Have a random hai.
Also, I was wondering last chapter if Dashie was going to be conflicted about if she liked Mac or Armour more, but it's sounding like it might be a RarexArmour. XD (But wait! What about Cadance?! ~Oh the scandal!~
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Oh my gawd this is going to be AWESOME!
I am literally in love with this story, freaked out when I saw a new chapter.
The next seven days are going to go by so slow.
Congratulations. The last 25 years of your life was a lie, and you're turning into an alien horse.
One has to wonder about the poor sods who used to be changelings, especially if you err on the side of non-sapiant drones for this universe.
2687746 Wow! I can't believe you caught that! That flew completely over my head.
So Rarity's name is Tom...encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQMYLInu3UIuj6u-v_gen6ls1Mitfl-P9i-jP895U6N9Y-fQEIz
So... I guess "Look out, here comes Tom!" is appropriate?
2687894 they all became politicians. THE END
Ok, I feel stupid for not noticing this before but... where is Applebloom? Yeah, I just connected the dots right now. I mean, Big Mac and AJ are brother and sister, Shining Armor and Twilight are brother and sister, Rarity have a sister too... and then my mind made a sudden halt and I realised Applebloom missing.
"Harry ears are still normal though" Should be "Harry's".
2687693 Exactly.
2687746 Who said Discord named them? Maybe it was a coincidence by his parents, and Discord never directly observed Rarity calling the rock "Tom".
2687836 No matter how you spell the word in your country, the name of the character is spelled "Shining Armor".
2687894 If there were/are any affected changelings in this story, I bet they would try to use their powers to remain (appearing as) human.
Next week? WHY NOT TOMORROW
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15,000 words for the next chapter or gtfo, yup, I might sound demanding but this story is too gud
2688027 I'm guessing that Sweetie Belle might be missing as well, along with Scootaloo.
Perhaps the CMC were never targeted, or just were transported separately?
Guess we will have to find out...
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I'm assuming that they are still in Equestria and either have been there for the past 25 years, or little to no time has passed there.
2687746 This is exactly what I was hoping for. Their are no words for how pleased I am.