An experiment involving Rainbow Dash gives her unexpected powers, which she immediately abuses. A silly, lewd B-movie of a story, with mind-control!
Rainbow Dash agrees to take part in one of Twilight's science experiments, and finds that she is now a brain in a jar with great powers. Powers that she decides to use for pranking, and maaaybe just a little saucy fun.
Oh, and she's going to try and take over the entire town. That too.
A silly romp , because I wanted to do more mind-control stuff! In terms of specific kinks expect to see: Anthro, Mind-controlled lewdness, Casual public nudity and hyper bits. Technically non-con but light in tone, no grimdark stuff.
All characters are over 18.
Edited and generally supervised by my pal Airship-King!
Rainbow Dash opened her eyes. Or tried to. Try as she might, she couldn’t get her eyelids open, and the world remained dark. Not only that, but it was completely silent, which was a rather disconcerting thing to suddenly realize. She tried to blink but nothing happened. She tried to speak, but no sound left her lips. In fact she couldn’t even feel any lips to move, nor a throat for her words to get caught in. A little seed of panic planted itself in her mind, but before it could grow any larger, her hearing returned, and voices echoed through her.
“Hello? Is this thing working?”
“Can you hear us? Can you speak?”
The first was male, the second was female. Rainbow knew these voices. She tried her desperate best to communicate.
“Spike? Twilight?” she strained. To her relief, she got a reply.
“Ah, she replied! Clear as crystal!” said Twilight’s voice, followed by a clapping sound. “How do you feel, Rainbow?”
“My head’s all… fuzzy.” Rainbow replied, trying to remember what she had been doing last night. Had there been a crash? A horrible accident? A totally wicked bender that she couldn’t remember just now? No, none of that. She remembered that she had been talking to Twilight... There was a giggle from wherever Twilight what standing.
“Hehe, well, more like your jar’s all fuzzy, right?” she said. “You don’t have a head anymore! It’s probably just the sedatives still working your brain, it should clear up-“
“Wait, what?” said Rainbow. “What does that mean? And why can’t I see?”
“Huh? Spike, is her camera switched on?”
“Oh, I thought it was, my bad! Lemme just…”
There was a crackling sound, and then all at once, Rainbow’s vision returned. The first thing she noticed was Spike the dragon’s purple face filling up nearly her entire field of vision, his forked tongue sticking out of his mouth as he fiddled with some unseen mechanism.
“Aaah!”
“Oh, heh, sorry,” grinned Spike, as he backed away from Rainbow. His wings fluttered a little as he did so, wings that had grown to match his own slim, but tall frame. He was wearing a black hoodie over his scales, with three blue diamonds stitched over where his heart should be. To his right was another familiar face. Twilight Sparkle was wearing a lab coat over a white shirt and purple tie, as well as a pair of yellow rubber gloves. Even with Spike’s growth spurt, she was still the taller of the two, and very obviously thicker as well. Her dark purple skirt rippled underneath her; it could have just been her knees, but Dash knew what was underneath that skirt; it was the reason Twilight very rarely wore pants. They both seemed to tower over Rainbow right now; was she really that small compared to the both of them? There was also something behind them, but in her current state of hazy awakening, it was hard to focus.
“Hey Rainbow!” said Twilight as she waved a rubber clad hand. “Remember now?”
“Remember what?”
“The science experiment!”
“The science what?” replied Rainbow, trying very hard to furrow her brow and feeling absolutely nothing to indicate that she was being successful in this.
“You know, the experiment!”
“The what experiment?”
“The-urgh, Spike, go get a mirror.” sighed Twilight, smacking herself in the face with a loud thwap. Spike temporarily disappeared out of view, before reappearing with a small handheld mirror. He held it up in front of Rainbow Dash.
There was a pause as she took this in. Then she gasped as it all came flooding back to her.
“The science experiment!”
“Yes, yes, I think we’ve established that by now. Do you remember the specifics now?”
“Yeah, yeah! Jeez, that stuff you gave me must have been pretty strong.” said Rainbow, marveling at her new form in the mirror. It was so alien, so unlike how she had ever viewed herself- but it was unmistakably her. When Rainbow Dash looked in the mirror, what she saw looking back at her was a blue-tinted brain in a jar. The brain- her brain- was suspended in some sort of translucent fluid, bobbing up and down inside.
The sight of it had, fittingly, kick-started her mind back into working order. She remembered being asked to take part in an experiment, one that would leave her like this for a month or so. Normally she might have refused, but having just read a “totally rad” Power Ponies comic about a psychic brain in a jar that tried to take over the world, Rainbow had been quite receptive to the idea. Even if Twilight had taken the time to explain that no, this wouldn’t actually give her superpowers.
“So where’s my body?” asked Rainbow. The two figures in front of her stepped to the side, and Rainbow got a better view of the thing she had been dimply aware of in the background. It had at first looked like a dark-red circle, but now she could make out other things, like the bare toes sticking up, and the blue-furred flesh parts, and the ears, and the mop of rainbow hair lying to one side. It was her own brainless body, lying neatly on a table with her skullcap beside it. “Oh, there it is. Cool.”
“We’ll be keeping it inside my special cryogenic storage unit,” said Twilight .Spike walked over towards the body, curiously sticking his hand inside the completely empty skull cavity and giving the floor of the brain-pan a little knock.
“She means her fridge,” He said. Twilight glared at him, both for the comment and the way he was messing around with Rainbow’s empty head.
“ANYWAY” she continued, “Once we’ve moved your body safely into what is NOT a fridge,”- she paused to glare some more at Spike, who laughed nervously and waved with Rainbow’s lifeless hand- “We can start the testing! And oh look, it seems like Spike’s very kindly volunteered to do that! Alone.”
“Awww…”
After the moving, which the two mares of the room took great delight in watching, Twilight explained her project. A lot of the technical details were lost on Rainbow. Well, in truth, all of them were. She found herself drifting off a little, only perking up whenever she heard Twilight say something very peculiar.
“What was that?” she asked.
“I said I’m calling it the Neurothaumopathic Disseminator. I think that describes what your jar does quite nicely.”
“Oh. Uh, sure, Twilight.” Said Rainbow. “I thought you said the Semen-ator and I got excited. Joking!” she added quickly, as Twilight turned red. “So uh… how about you just… give me a summary of that very enlightening lecture”
“You didn’t catch a word of what I said, did you?”
“Nope.”
“Hmph. Right. To summarise then: You think words, me hear. OK?”
“OK, OK, I got it.” Said Rainbow, laughing a little at Twilight’s Brain-Science-For-Dummies voice. “So, this thing has speakers on it that transmit my thoughts?” she offered.
“Sort of. More like a custom-built internal neurological scanner that reinterprets data and then converts them to-“ she paused. As a brain, Rainbow didn’t have a face anymore, but it was pretty easy to imagine a blank look on those lobes. “You’re beaming your thoughts into my mind. And anyone else’s in the room.”
“Awesome!” The brain bubbled happily in her jar, before she too stopped to think. “Wait a minute. Have you been hearing every thought I’ve had?”
“No, no, apparently you have to make a conscious decision to speak, for lack of a better word, before anyone picks it up. I’m still doing the research for it.” explained Twilight. “Which brings us here.”
“To the science-room.”
“Laboratory, Rainbow. We call it the laboratory.”
Spike reappeared at this moment, having gone to fetch some well-earned drinks and snacks for himself and Twilight, laying a tray on the table just next to where Dash’s fancy scientific jar was. Twilight stopped her science lecturing momentarily to chow down on some delicious looking pastries. Although she now no longer had a stomach with which to feel hungry by, Rainbow’s old habits died hard.
“Yo Spike, throw some of those bad boys my way, yeah?” she asked. Shrugging, Spike tossed a pastry at Rainbow’s jar. It landed against the glass with a thunk before sliding down onto the table. “I meant feed it to me!”
“Spike, don’t throw pastries in the lab.” Said Twilight, as Spike went over to finish the job. “And don’t feed her either! She can’t even eat!”
“Says you!”
“Yes! That is what I am saying! You literally don’t have a mouth or stomach!”
Spike didn’t seem to heed Twilight’s word, taking the lid off of the Neurothaumopathic Disseminator and dunking the sweet treat inside of it. It floated above Rainbow’s brain, getting soggy.
“Uh, do you even taste that?” asked Spike, poking the pastry with a claw.
“I’ll let you know big guy, trust me.” replied Rainbow, who truthfully noticed no difference or any sweet flavour in her metaphorical mouth, but wasn’t about to admit that to Twilight. The alicorn sighed.
“O-kay then, now that we’re done feeding the test subject… let’s do some science!”
It was maybe a couple of days of testing later when Rainbow started to notice something strange. Having no physical body probably sped this process up, as the pegasus brain now had a lot less distracting her, once she got over the vague compulsion to eat, or to flex wings that weren’t there anymore, and so on. This left her with a lot of time to think, freed from her many bodily needs and desires, and now relying on what her new, artificial senses perceived. Some ponies underestimated just how perceptive Rainbow could be when she was really focusing; as a brain she could do nothing but focus.
The testing Twilight had been carrying out had been mostly minor stuff; in truth it rarely needed more than a few hours of her time. One of the earliest tests had been as simple as Twilight walking out of the room to see if Rainbow could still communicate with her (she couldn’t). They had also quickly verified that Rainbow could talk to individuals if she focused on one particular pony (Or dragon, as it were). When they weren’t in research mode, Twilight would make sure to pop in and check on her friend, making sure to share any news or funny anecdotes she had heard. Spike, too, would often come down. One night he even brought a new comic he had bought, and taken the time to try and describe what he was reading aloud. He had fun doing all the voices.
But it wasn’t long before those strange moments became apparent. The main thing that Rainbow had noticed was that that whenever she asked for something, they would immediately comply. This wasn’t so obvious at first, because Rainbow was only asking for small things. Things like being turned around so that she could get a better look at something, or for Twilight to explain something again, or for somepony to fish out the now disintegrated remains of the iced pastry from before. What caught Rainbow’s attention was how swift and immediate her requests were answered. Rainbow thought back to that comic she had read the other day…
“Hey Twilight?” she asked, as Twilight was busy erecting a screen shield as part of her next test.
“Hmm? Two seconds, Rainbow, kinda busy.” Replied the princess. “Spike, have you written down the results of that audio test?”
“Done and done!” replied Spike, sitting on a stool and adding to the day’s notes, his long tail waving about idly. Dash looked at him. He would probably be an easier test subject…
“Hey, Spike. Stand up.” She said. Without replying, the dragon immediately stood up, still writing on his notepad with his quill. Rainbow throbbed a little in her jar as she began to get excited. “Cool. Now spin around.” She said, hoping to all heck that he wouldn’t just turn around and wonder what had gotten into her. But he didn’t; Spike span around in a circle, slowly turning with absolutely no grace, like the world’s most awkward ballerina. Behind him, Twilight finished setting up the screen and stood with her hands on her not-inconsiderable hips, admiring her work.
“Phew! Great, now we can start!” she said, turning around. “I want to test if you can still communicate through…” she stopped. “…Spike?”
“Yeah, Twilight?”
“What are you doing?”
“Uh, duh, I’m spinning in a circle.” said Spike, continuing to twirl around like he was trying to catch his own tail. In her jar, Rainbow bubbled mirthfully.
“And why are you doing that?!” asked Twilight, throwing her hands up in the air. Rainbow listened carefully, eager to hear what sort of excuse Spike came up with.
“Rainbow told me too!”
Well, shoot. Rainbow’s brain throbbed nervously , thinking she had been busted. Instead, Twilight turned around and stared at her, looking more confused than anything else. Thinking fast, Rainbow acted.
“It’s not like you suspect me of anything weird, right Twilight?” she asked. There was a sudden change in the alicorn’s expression, as that confusion melted away.
“Well… obviously, yes. I wouldn’t suspect you of being behind that. That would be patently ridiculous,” she said, before turning round and addressing Spike again. “Spike, stop spinning just because somebody told you to!”
“But… it’s fun, honest… urp…” Said Spike, who was looking rather more green than purple right now.
“Spike, you can stop spinning now,” said Rainbow quickly, before adding “And Twilight, doodle a moustache and glasses on your face with a pen or something.” Spike stopped spinning, swayed on his feet like he’d had a bit too much cider, and then fell flat on his back. Twilight, on the other hand, had produced a marker pen out of her lab coat pocket.
“Well then, shall we get back to science then?” she asked cheerfully, as she raised the pen to her face with her magic, quickly giving herself a curly black moustache. Rainbow silently laughed from her jar as Twilight happily went about fussing over the now-erected screen, the pen glowing purple as she added some big round glasses around her eyes. She gave no indication that this was in any way strange.
“Hey Twilight,” asked Rainbow, not able to resist pointing this out. “Nice glasses! It really goes with your moustache! Hahaha!”
“Very funny, Rainbow Dash,” Replied Twilight, rolling her now framed eyes. “You’re lucky I felt like humouring you. You deserved a treat for being a good test subject,” All of this sounded so natural that Rainbow herself started to wonder if Twilight really had just been humouring her… but no, that couldn’t be it, right? She saw Spike just about pick himself up off the floor as well. No, there’s no way Spike would spin to the point of almost throwing up unless something was going on with this weird machine Twilight had made. The only way Dash would find out for sure? To test things even further…
“H-hey Twilight? Spike?” she asked. Her two friends looked at her jar, waiting for more. “So…” Rainbow almost chickened out at this point, doubting the conclusions she had seemed so sure of earlier, but she couldn’t back down. So she pressed on, potential awkwardness be damned. “You’re both like… cool with whatever I ask you to do, right? No matter what?” Twilight blinked.
“I… guess? I don’t see why not,” replied the alicorn.
“Yeah, you’re our friend, right?”
“Right, right. Even if…” Dash struggled to articulate what she meant, but that was never her strong suit. Best just to see for herself. “Twilight, can you show me your boobs?”
Twilight’s eyes went wide, and she gasped. “Oh, no! Now I really am busted!” Rainbow thought to herself. Then, a huge grin appeared on Twilight’s face.
“Fascinating! Pony brains still possess a healthy libido even when disembodied! Spike, take notes while I show Rainbow my breasts!” A baffled Rainbow watched on from her jar as Twilight popped the button of her shirt and pulled her boobs out, clad in a black bra. They bounced up and down, two healthy looking mounds befitting a princess of Equestria, while Spike produced quill and paper to take notes on this exciting new discovery. “Have you noticed any changes in your libido since becoming disembodied?”
“No? H-hey, never mind that!” said Rainbow. “Twilight, are you...” She stopped, deciding to rephrase that. “You’re completely comfortable showing me your boobs when I ask. That’s right, right?”
“Well, if I wasn’t comfortable doing that, then why would I be showing you them?” replied Twilight, smoothly. As if to illustrate her point, Twilight whipped off her bra using her magic and leaned forward, taking hold of her now fully-exposed tits with both hands. “I mean, it’s just my body…” Rainbow had never known her friend to be so casual on this matter. It had been something of a running joke among their friend group to comment on Twilight’s attempts at modesty while possessing such generous proportions. She had never seemed fully comfortable being to… easy to notice. This wasn’t just Dash learning about a side of Twilight she hadn’t known about. This was change. She had changed Twilight’s personality, or her mind… the words flashed across Rainbow’s thoughts: She had controlled her mind.
“And you, Spike?” asked Rainbow, excitedly. “Show me your butt! Uh, please”
“Uh, am I still taking notes, orrrrr…”
“You don’t have to take notes, Spike,” commanded Rainbow. Twilight opened her mouth as if to say something to this, then stopped and stared listlessly as Spike turned around, bent over, and dropped his pants. Rainbow had to stop herself from laughing maniacally at the sight of his scaly cheeks. She’d done it! She had complete control over her friends minds! She had no idea how, but frankly, she didn’t really care.
“Ok, that’s enough Spike,” She said. “Same with you, Twi.” Once the two of them were decent again, Rainbow bubbled like a mint in soda, her brain practically bouncing off the glass walls of her jar in excitement. She could only assume that this would work on anypony. The possibilities that now lay before her were endless. All she needed was a little help, and some dedicated assistants… “So! Sooooo. You two.” she said, pointing her stem at the alicorn and the dragon. “Now obey my every order, forever and ever, and are totally cool with it. You’re my minions now.”
“Minions?”
“Yeah! I’m about to go on the greatest , coolest, most awesome spree of pranks Ponyville’s ever seen! And you’re both going to help me.”
“Pranks, huh? Well, I was kinda hoping to do more science…” said Twilight, stroking her chin before flashing a cheeky smile. “But sure, we can have some fun. Hehe.”
“That’s the best part. You’re going to help me prank ponies using science!” replied Rainbow.
“Really? How?”
“I want more range on this bad boy,” Rainbow nudged up against the lid of her jar. “Can’t you build… like, an antenna or something? To let me read more –er, talk to more ponies than just you guys or whoever’s close to me?”
“Like a radio transmitter?” suggested Spike. “Rainbow FM!”
“Haha, yeah! Well, Twi?”
“Hmmm… I think I could certainly try. No promises if it’ll work though! I’m still working on this machine’s final design after all.” said Twilight, nodding as she stared to pace around the lab, thinking out loud now. “It might take me a few days to get the right materials, build a few prototypes, do the proper testing and then possibly have to modify them further... Oh, and that’s not even getting into modding your own jar.”
“Uh, yeah, sounds tough.” said Rainbow, most of the technical talk flying over her jar. “Look, I trust you to figure something out, OK? You can do this!”
“Awww, thanks Rainbow.” The big purple pony blushed and shyly looked away, in a way Rainbow found unbearably cute.
“Come and hug me, Twilight, ya big brainy goof. You too, Spike.”
The two of them eagerly came towards her, but Rainbow mentally yelped when Twi magicked the lid off of her jar and scooped the brain inside up with her hands, so that she and her dragon assistant could give Rainbow a huge warm hug. “Ah, I should have said to hug my jar. Need to be more clear with my orders… although this does feel nice...”
In the days while Twilight worked on the new transmitter for Rainbow’s jar, the pegasus brain amused herself by making her two happy new minions perform all sorts of things. One of Rainbow’s favourite things to do was to make them prank themselves. Not only was it hilarious, but it was a useful and fun way to test out what she could do, now that Rainbow could be a little bolder in her experiments. For example, one morning, while Twilight was away, she told Spike to fill a bucket up with water and balance it over the door to the lab, which he duly did.
“Hah, I get it” He had said, standing on his tippy-toes as he placed the bucket just right. “You want to get Twilight when she gets back, right?”
“Well, actually… Spike, I wanna try something different,” said Rainbow, thinking about how she was going this. “I mean, that would be funny, obviously. But that’d just be a regular prank. I want to go for the next level!”
“Yeah?
“Yeah! So, Spike, listen carefully: I need you to forget you even put that bucket up there. Right now, OK?” Spike stared blankly for a second, looking a little woozy.
“Uh… what were we talking about?”
“Oh, nothing. Hey, can you step outside the room for a second?” Spike didn’t even ask why, immediately turning around and heading for the exit. The second he tried to open the door, of course, the bucket of water tipped over, dousing the poor dragon in freezing cold water, followed by the bucket lading over his head. The sound of Rainbow’s laughter reverberated through his head for the rest of the day. But there had been another lesson learned: she could modify not just minds, but memory as well.
Rainbow wasted little time in putting this information to use when Twilight returned later that day.
“OK, everyone! Ready for some more exciting research?” asked Twilight, after fitting her figure into her lab-coat. Rainbow bubbled thoughtfully in her jar before replying.
“Well, about that, I actually find it kinda strange…”
“Find what strange?”
“The fact that neither you or Spike remember how this experiment started,” answered Rainbow. Again, she saw a brief glazing over of the eyes from both of her friends, as they both turned to look at each other, then back at the brain in the jar.
“That’s a good point, actually. Why…. Why are we doing this all anyway?” said Twilight, scratching the back of her head and frowning.
“Hey don’t look at me, I’ve been wondering that myself actually,”said the dragon. “Do you remember, Rainbow?”
“Hah, of course I remember! This was all my idea after all! The whole project.” Gasping, Twilight moved closer, eager to hear more.
“Wow, how…. Er, uncharacteristically scientific of you, Rainbow! That’s great!” beamed the princess, clapping her hands together. “So, you had us take out your brain so we could study you? For how long?”
“Oh, we didn’t have a time limit set, just for as long as we need,” said Rainbow, smoothly. It was a lot easier to lie when the ponies you were talking too were guaranteed to believe you. “Just to study, you know… stuff. Spike’s got notes.”
“Oh. And your body? Where’s that again?”
“Uh… that’s also in the notes. I forget. It’s not really important right now anyway. The important thing is, this is a long-term study, so it’s OK to have days where we just, you know, chill out and don’t do research stuff with me. I’ll tell you when it’s a good time for research, being the project leader and all.” Spike and Twilight slowly nodded along to this, and Rainbow smiled in her mind’s eye. Now she didn’t have to worry about Twilight bringing an experiment to an end before she’d really begun to have fun, and cemented her role as the one in charge. Of course, she had effectively been in charge from the moment her new powers had developed, but it was nice to make it official anyway.
Development of the transmitters could possibly have been sped up by a few more days had Rainbow really demanded it, but even with her overwhelming power over her friend, Rainbow didn’t want to work the poor girl too hard. Twi would spend a few hours a day on the project, and usually would have to go and perform various royal duties, as well as her equally important social duties. Rainbow would make sure to get all of the latest news on her other friends whenever possible, either from Twilight or from Spike. She looked forward to being able to talk to them again. Not just for the mind-control; she genuinely was missing them after all this time locked in the laboratory. It would just make the eventually reunion all the sweeter though. Oh the fun everypony was going to have!
In the meantime, whenever Twilight and Spike weren’t busy, she would amuse herself by having them prank each other and themselves, as well as performing other silly acts. Twilight had spent several hours one day fully convinced that she was a small terrier who responded to the name of Sparky. This was something of a bother to Spike, who Rainbow had managed to convince was actually Rarity.
“Oh, now this just won’t do! I’m much more of a cat pony, darling,” Spike had said, in that dramatic accent of Rarity’s, as Twilight crawled around on her hands and knees and did her best to lick his face. Something she was managing quite easily, given that she was somewhat larger than the dragon. “Rainbow, dear, can’t you get this mutt under control? Wherever did you even find her?”
“Heh, oh don’t be so heartless, Rarity. She’s cute!”
“Hmph. Well maybe you should have brought her to Fluttershy instead!” replied Spike, leaning his head back in a futile attempt to avoid Twilight’s tongue leaving a trail of saliva across his face. “Bleh!” He paused, staring hard at a box of tissues on a faraway desk. “Oh, drat, my horn must be playing up again. I must get that checked…” He walked over to retrieve the tissues, only to freeze up suddenly. “Eeeep!”
Rainbow had almost kept them like that for a whole day, before deciding to play it safe. She didn’t want any of these changes to have lingering side effects… well, not right now, anyway.
She had, after some thought, allowed herself one more little indulgence. The day before the transmitter was ready, she announced a new rule: The laboratory was to be a no-clothes zone.
“So what, we just have to leave them by the door now?” asked Spike, already stripping off his hoodie and dumping it on the floor.
“Well, you can leave them in your room if you really want,” Said Rainbow, as Twilight neatly folded her labcoat up and began taking off her shirt. “You don’t see me wearing any clothes. It’s only fair! Besides, you two are so comfortable being naked, anyway...”
“She does have a point” conceded Twilight. “Besides, it’s actually kinda warm down here anyway. I think it’s all the equipment generating heat. And fold your clothes, Spike,” she added, huffing at the messy pile of clothes slowly forming at Spike’s feet.
“Yeah, yeah,”
“Woah woah woah!” said Rainbow suddenly, as Spike removed his underwear. “How come you get two dongs?!”
“Huh? Oh, these?” Spike looked down and idly grabbed both of his bright red, barbed dragon dicks. “Uh, I dunno. Ask my mom?”
“Rainbow, did you not know? Huh, I’ve got a lot to teach you about dragon biology!” giggled Twilight, who was now also naked. Her own set dangled free; such was their size that Rainbow had essentially seen most of it before in accidental flashes, but this was her first time seeing the whole thing at once. She wondered if it was possible for a brain to blush, because she sure felt red…
And so, Rainbow Dash allowed herself to see her friends in the buff as they worked. Which was all she would do, of course. It’s not like she was a total pervert. Nothing wrong with just appreciating your buddies bodies, right? That surely wouldn’t lead to anything kinky? Right? Right.
Eventually, Twilight was ready. She came bounding over to the table that Dash was seated on and sat down on a stool next to it.
“Great news! I-“
There was a loud, drawn out, rumbling sound that made the Princess flush red. Then she looked down on her seat.
“What the… oh, very funny Spike!” she said, throwing the whoopee cushion she had sat down on into the dragon’s face.
“Hey, that wasn’t me, honest!”
“Oh, yeah, so it was the brain in the jar that set it there?!” asked Twilight, as Rainbow chuckled and bubbled away. “Or do you think I set it down there and forgot?”
“Man, wouldn’t that be funny…” muttered Rainbow. Taking a deep breath, Twilight returned to the matter at hand, holding up an antenna that had some sort of mechanical attachment the base. “This is it. I’m nearly 100% certain that, once I attach this, you’ll be able to communicate with ponies all throughout the town! Your signal, for lack of a better term, will be able to hijack pre-existing radio waves, and then if you follow the laws of-“
“OK, we can go over the technical details later. For now, let’s just give this bad boy a try!” replied Rainbow. Her time as the ultimate prankster goddess of Ponyville… had come.
Rainbow Dash, the newly made psychic pony brain prankster of Ponyville, got to work enslaving more of the town to her will. For entirely non-sinister reasons of comedy. She wasn’t Sombra, after all.
It turned out to be not as simple as just pushing the ‘on’ button for Total Domination, of course. Sure Rainbow could send mind control signals out, now that she had Twilight’s new tech, but without some way to see what she was doing, she had to rely on second hand accounts to know what the effect of a given order had been, which took a lot of the fun out of it. She'd had to tell Twilight to develop some kind of feedback system so that she could see for herself. Twi had taken about a week to modify Dash's transmitter, and the result had been everything the disembodied pegasus could have asked for. Rainbow Dash didn't pretend to understand the exact mechanics, but the upshot was that, when her signal hit a viable brain, it now echoed back to her carrying whatever information she wanted, from the view from their eyes to thoughts to memories.
Rainbow had tested this locally on her two loyal test subjects. She’d concentrated hard on Twilight, who had been standing there looking at her in anticipation. Twilight was wearing a laboratory coat; no other clothes had been deemed necessary for her job as head researcher and assistant for Rainbow. The brain, trapped in her jar, kept on trying to focus, her inner eye shut as she tried to sense the mind in front of her and slip into it. Then, suddenly, she felt… warm. And could see again! Rainbow had almost forgotten what that was like. She stared forwards, and saw herself. Then she heard a voice. Twilight’s voice.
“Everything OK, Rainbow?” she asked, and Rainbow’s field of vision suddenly lurched forward as Twilight moved slightly.
“Woah, woah, I’m in you!” said Rainbow. “Erm, I mean in your head! I can see out of your eyes!”
“Wow, awesome! So, the feedback effect works, excellent.”
“It’s way more intense than was expecting. I thought it would be like watching a movie or something, but this is like I’m actually you, Twilight!” enthused the brain- and now Rainbow could see herself jiggle in excitement, her jar filling up with bubbles. “Celestia, I look so cool... even if the view I had of you was pretty nice- woah!“ Twilight suddenly turned around, as she floated a pen over and started taking notes.
“Fascinating, I wasn’t even aware of Rainbow occupying my mind until she explicitly told me… this matches my previous hypothesis on the phenomena being entirely non-physical, a pure manipulation of mental signals…”
“Yeah yeah, great, just warn me next time you suddenly run off, ok!” complained Rainbow, a little dizzy. Not being in control of the body she was ‘in’ was taking some getting used to for Rainbow.
Even weirder was when she probed a little deeper, and found that she could access Twilight’s memories and thoughts. “Huh, there I am, the first time we met! Seems forever ago… hah, I was pretty awesome when I cleared all those clouds.”
“Yup! My jaw was pretty wide open after that,” agreed Twilight.
“I know- I can, like, feel how impressed you were! Oh woooooow…” Needless to say, getting able to experience how awesome she was from the point of view of other ponies would have already made Dash the happiest brain in Equestria. But as much as she planned on spending many, many hours reliving her glory days with her body from her friend’s perspective, Dash had grander plans.
The next day, Rainbow tried her first long-range mind control, as Twilight and Spike watched on just in case anything went wrong, such as Rainbow’s brain suddenly catching fire from the sheer power of her.. well, powers. (Twilight had assured her many times that this was essentially impossible, but Rainbow had read too many comic books to rule out the possibility.) The brain settled down into the bottom of the jar as she cast her thoughts out, the relay machine turned on and broadcasting her mental signal all across town, or at least around the castle area.
It was like closing your eyes and suddenly hearing muffled voices in every direction. Rainbow was almost overwhelmed from it. With Twilight and Spike, they were right here beside her, just two isolated minds who she knew about beforehand. But this was a whole different experience, as she felt herself bouncing around different minds blindly. OK Rainbow, just settle into one, take it easy now… she thought to herself, as she found one nearby mind and gently felt her way towards it…
Rainbow’s vision was suddenly burning bright, and she instinctively attempted to shield her eyes with her hand, only to remember that she couldn’t control whatever body she was in. She tried looking around, but again, the eyeballs she was borrowing were responding to the host body’s brain, not hers. I’m going to have to work on being able to change that… OK, who am I? I better not think anything out loud. Let’s just see what’s what, first. Although Rainbow could just delve into the available memories, she wanted to see if she could guess correctly first.
The mystery pony who Dash was hitching a mental ride in seemed unaffected by their new passenger, unaware of anything odd. There was a strange gait to their step, as though they were bouncing ever so often. Rainbow then heard them hum to themselves, a bright and upbeat tune. And just as Rainbow was starting to get a pretty good idea about whose body she was in, her peripheral vision spotted tufts of thick, curly and very pink hair.
“Pinkie Pie?”
Pinkie immediately stopped, her head swivelling as she looked around. Rainbow mentally slapped herself. She didn’t mean to think that out loud. This needed to still be at least a little sneaky until she could establish wider control over the town- controlling Pinkie was just a test run, after all. A fun test run, but still just a test run. Rainbow waited with metaphorical baited breath for Pinkie to come out of alert mode.
“I swear I just heard Rainbow Dash…” the pink mare said to herself, scanning all around her. When she saw and sensed no sign of Dash, she shrugged and continued on her way. “I wonder where Dash has been recently? I should go visit her!” she said.
Only Pinkie didn’t say that. She thought it, and Rainbow hear, clear as crystal. Which reminded her that now was a good time to plant some thoughts of her own in this fertile mind. Where to start…
As she walked through town, under the magnificent crystal castle that seemed like it had been there forever now, Cheerilee spotted Pinkie Pie making her way along the road, and waved to her.
“Good afternoon, Pinkie!”
“Good afternoon to you, Cheerilee!” The pink mare waved back to her enthusiastically. Pinkie was one of those ponies who just loved to say hi whenever she saw somepony she knew. Which was just about everypony in town. It was a miracle she wasn’t late to more things really. Cheerilee watched with an affectionate smile as the most personable pony in town walked on and, in one smooth motion, cartwheeled herself into a handstand and kept on walking on her hands. Not for a few steps, either. Pinkie just kept going, her poofy hair dragging along the ground as she went.
“Um, Pinkie?”
“Yeah?”
“Why are you waking upside down?” asked Cheerilee, still smiling and anticipating some sort of punchline.
“What do you mean?” replied Pinkie. “From where I’m standing, you’re the one who’s upside down.”
“Haha, but I’m standing the right way up!”
“Well I think I’ve been standing the wrong way up this whole time.” Pinkie’s upside down face had an air of defiance to it that threw Cheerilee of a little. If this was one of Pinkie’s bits, then she was really committing to it.
“Uh… ok then Pinkie, I guess I can’t tell you you’re wrong,” concede the teacher. Pinkie instantly brightened up.
“Hehe, there we go! See you later, Cheerilee!” Pinkie waved a foot, and then sauntered away. As she did so, her skirt- which had been fighting a heroic battle against physics and specifically gravity ever since getting turned upside down- finally admitted defeat and fell down around her chest, revealing a pair of baby-blue panties that were hiding a very obvious bulge. Pinkie did not acknowledge this in any way, simple continuing down the road humming to herself as passers-by stared.
Cheerilee watched her go, as her friend Daisy approached her.
“That is classic Pinkie Pie, am I right?” she asked, nudging her fellow earth pony in the side. Cheerilee just nodded, still staring as the Element of Laughter carried on her way, as merry as ever.
Watching all of this through Pinkie’s bright blue eyes as she handwalked her way back to her home, Rainbow Dash was practically rolling around her jar in fits of laughter. That had been hilarious- and so easy! Just a few little suggestions about how she should walk on her hands, then act as though she should always be upside down, and boom. Instant epic prank- on her greatest prank rival and collaborator, no less. Sure, Pinkie hadn’t really been aware of how pranked she was now, but that had advantages of its own. Now Rainbow wouldn’t have to worry about hurting anyone’s feelings, because Rainbow controlled those feelings. This wasn’t some ethical conundrum to the psychic brain- it was a simple solution to basically every problem. Now everypony wins!
“This is going to be so awesome!” thought Dash.
“What is?” asked Pinkie.
“Me pranking you and this town into the stone age- wait, oh shoot, you weren’t supposed to know it was me.” Rainbow felt a twinge of panic at having been found out. The upside-down pony shrugged- that is, she flexed her hips briefly.
“Why not? You know I love a good prank, Rainbow Dash? Ooooh, oooh, are you using incredible psychic powers to project your will and make me do weird stuff?” she asked, as she used her feet to open the door to Sugar Cube Corner. The Cakes were elsewhere at the moment, which was just as well.
“Uh… no? Ahhh gee, you got me Pinkie. That’s exactly what I’m doing.” She sighed. “I’m still sort of learning the ropes.”
“Hey, you’ll be great at this once you get used to it!” Pinkie said. “I mean-ow” she paused as she went to walk up the stairs and hit her head on the first step. “If I were you I would have pranked me right away before saying anything…”
“Hehe, yeah, how stupid of me not to prank you at all,” Dash chuckled. “OK Pinkie, nice talking to you again, I’m gonna go mess with more ponies now. Before I go though: Forget literally everything since you heard my voice. OK later!”
“Bye Rainbow!” said Pinkie. Then she blinked, and wondered how she had seemingly teleported into Sugur Cube Corner. “Huh. Weird! OK, time to go change clothes!” Off she went, a loud thunk after ever step as she bonked her head along them. “I really need to find a better way to get into my room…”
Rainbow pulled out of Pinkie’s mind and quickly found a new host. Suddenly she felt a familiar feeling, one that she hadn’t felt for far too long. The sound of rushing wind, of her face pushing through the air itself (well, not her face, but it felt that way), and of course the gorgeous view that all pegasi grew up with: clouds everywhere, blue sky endlessly rolling on under the sun above. Yes, it felt good to be flying again. Question is, who was she?
This time Dash didn’t wait to try and guess who she was, and instead tried to feel her way through this new mind. She could feel emotions first- a general contentment, a sense of all being well with the world. Then memories of a normal pegasus life and… a little brother, with a grey coat. Oh, Rainbow recognized the stallion there; that was Rumble. Which meant this must be Thunderlane.
Oh, I’m in a stallion body! Huh. Rainbow tried to feel said body, and could sense the muscles alright- Thunderlane was a big boy, and… yes, he definitely felt that way where it counted, too. Good to know. Now, what could she make him do?
Rainbow Dash’s projected mind mused on this as Thunderlane flew around the castle and then went back the way he came. He must have just been doing laps, maybe keeping himself fit. Oh wait- Dash knew he was doing that, because if she just concentrated for a second all his thoughts were laid out bare, like words on a page: “Ah, that wing joint ache’s really gone now. I’ll just do a few more laps and test it out before I grab lunch or something. Maybe I’ll see some folks I know. Or Rainbow Dash, where did she go? She does kind of disappear sometimes, but I dunno, someone told me there had been an accident…”
Hmmm, thought Rainbow, quietly, I really need to get a handle on these rumours since I’ve been gone. Now they’re saying I had an accident, soon it will be that I flew headfirst into a tree, these things always grow wings and legs. Well, let’s just nip that in the bud… “Heya Thunderlane!”
“Gah!” The pegasus nearly fell out of the sky such was his shock, and Dash quickly worked her magic on him to keep him from panicking.
“Hey, hey, relax! Really, I mean it. Relax. You’re very calm and happy to hear from me,” she said. The frantic flapping and falling levelled out immediately into his regular controlled glide, as Thunderlane recovered.
“Oh hey Rainbow. Uh, where are you?”
“In your head, controlling your thoughts.”
“Oh. Neat,” was all he had to say to that. Rainbow took satisfaction in how easily she had taken Thunderlane under her control, and pushed on.
“OK, so first, quick couple of things we need to get out of the way: you’re my slave forever and ever now and you’re perfectly happy with that, OK?”
“Yeah, sure. That sounds fun.”
“Excellent. Second thing: I need you to go tell everypony that I’m fine. Say I’m…uh… hey what would be a good lie to tell?”
“You’re doing super-secret Wonderbolt training up in the mountains?” suggested Thunderlane, looking over at said mountains in the distance.
“Yeah, that’s great, thanks Thunderlane! OK, awesome, go with that, and I’ll be back real soon.”
“Where are you actually? Like outside of being a voice in my head.” At this, Rainbow paused as she thought about just telling him bluntly that she was just a brain in a jar at the moment. But then she had a better idea, concentrating hard on the pegasus mind she was riding with.
“Oh, don’t you see me? Look, I’m right there to your left!” she said. Thunderlane turned around.
“I don’t see you.”
“You can see me, Rainbow Dash, just fine! Look at me wave and laugh!” insisted the scratchy voice. Thunderlane squinted… and then he saw her, the Element of Loyalty herself, flying alongside him and keeping the pace easily. She waved at him, and he waved back! “Hey, sport!”
“There you are! Dunno how I missed you earlier…”
“Me neither! OK, I’m away for now, so just you go and tell everypony that Dash will be back real soon. Oh, and uh, just keep all the permanent slave stuff between us, haha.”
With a nod, Thunderlane sped off, and Dash exited his mind, entering that strange space in-between minds once more…
It was a little easier to focus on a target. With a sharp bright light Rainbow once again found herself looking through another ponies eyes. Unlike the last one, it didn’t take her long to figure out who’s body she was currently co-riding in. For a start, there was only one mare in town who would sit on a bench curled up like an animal.
“Lyra? Are you paying attention?” asked Bon-Bon, sitting beside her on the bench. If she had any objections to how Lyra sat these days, she had long ago given up on voicing them. Rainbow felt her mouth move and the minty-green unicorn’s voice speak.
“Of course, of course, I’m just thinking.”
“Thinking about what?” asked Bon-Bon.
“Aliens.”
“A.. Aliens.”
“I want to go alien hunting!” declared Lyra, and Rainbow felt her throw her arms up in the air. “You and me! We’ll travel the world, follow the clues, and in the end? We’ll find… the truth.” Bon-Bon stared back.
“I’m going to get some ice-cream. Be right back,” she said , hopping off the bench and heading to a nearby ice-cream carriage. Ah, yes, they were in the park. It was a pretty nice day after all. Rainbow tried her best to look around without just directly moving Lyra’s head for her, remaining unnoticed in the back of the unicorn’s mind for now. She had a shift through said mind, which was currently full of thoughts about little green ponies with antennae, Lyra rescuing Bon-Bon from a ufo, a kiss during an explosion, and similar images. “Man,” thought Rainbow to herself, “who knew Lyra was so cool?!” Clearly this was a pony who’s mind was worth owning.
“Pssst, Lyra. Keep still and don’t say anything,” she thought out loud, so that Lyra could hear her. “It’s me, Rainbow Dash.”
“Rainbow Dash?! What are you doing in my head?” Thought Lyra, who was now, as Rainbow had instructed, sitting as still as a statue in her curled-up pose on the park bench. “Oooh, is this because of the-“
“No it’s not aliens. Long story.” Dash said quickly, watching through Lyra’s eyes as Bon-Bon started to take her order of two big, double scoop cones. “Short version, I can make ponies do what I say! Like you. I own your mind forever now, cool?”
“Very!”
“Heh, don’t you just know it. Literally, I’m telling you to know it.” Lyra smiled as she internalized this deep knowledge of her mind’s new ownership.
“Neat. So what now?”
“I dunno. I’m new to this.” Rainbow pondered for a second. “Oh, actually, I wanna try doing unicorn magic!”
“Sure, just tell me what spell and I’ll get right to it!”
“No no no, I wanna try unicorn magic. Just act naturally, talk with Bon-Bon and don’t tell her anything about me or your mind while I try and figure it out, OK?”
“Sure thing! Ooh, her she comes now. Mmmm, double mint, how did she know my favourite? OK I can’t really talk to you and her at once, so, later!” Rainbow watched as Bon Bon carefully walked back towards her marefriend with the two double-scoop cones, one in each hand. Her own cone was one scoop vanilla and one berry flavoured. It wobbled uncertainly as she stood in front of Lyra.
“OK, double mint, as always… here you go!” she said, holding it out. Rainbow suddenly got an idea.
“Hey, I’m gonna try and grab that ice cream with magic,” she thought to Lyra. “Don’t grab it with your hand.” Lyra nodded, then proceeded to simply look at Bon-Bon, who was still standing in front of her. The vanilla-coated earth pony’s friendly smile quickly faded into a more annoyed look.
“Uh… Lyra? Wanna take your treat?” she asked.
“Sure, sure!” replied Lyra, who continued to do absolutely nothing.
“Cause it’s kinda melting over my hand there. Getting my fur all stained, you know.”
“I can see that!”
“Then take it already.” While Bon-Bon tried to resist throwing the cone at Lyra, Rainbow focused hard. She had been looking around in Lyra’s brain for any possible way to just know how to do magic, but whenever she had came across a memory of a spell, or a reflexive thought on how to so magic, it had been like staring at a chalkboard full of neverending math equations. Maybe those were the complex ones. Surely a simple spell like picking stuff up wouldn’t be too hard? Rainbow decided to do what she always did, and totally wing it. She could feel out the connecting nerves between the brain and the horn, just like she could with any other limb. It was of course different. Rainbow couldn’t move the horn, but she could feel some sort of strange connection. Not like the wings she knew and loved, something deeper. The melting cone was right here, all she had to do was concentrate…
“OK, Lyra seriously, please take the stupid ice cream before I shove it and my fist down your throat.”
“Bon Bon please, don’t tease me in public~”
“You know that’s not what I –“ Before Bon-Bon could say any more, Lyra’s horn glowed wildly and her eyes went unfocused for a moment from the sheer magical overload, as Dash put everything she had into the spell attempt. Then they both felt something soft cover Lyra’s head. The unicorn quickly pulled it off, shaking her head to clear up her thoughts, and looked over at where Bon-Bon had been. She was standing with a look of blank confusion, completely naked. All of her clothes had been telepathically pulled towards Lyra, or perhaps even teleported- it had all been so fast, no one was really sure. The earth mare stood there, her big floppy horse dong swinging between her legs as it was suddenly freed from its constrictions. Both of the cones she had been holding were still intact.
Rainbow registered all of this, taking in the site of the naked Bon-Bon as she started to slowly, painfully, look down at herself. “Oh, woops,” she thought to Lyra. “Guess I put a bit too much into that spell. Well, lessons learned, ok bye!”
“Wait-“
Then Rainbow was gone, leaving her new mind slave to deal with the wrath of her marefriend.
Dash jumped from brain to brain for a couple more tests, growing more confident each time, and adding a couple more thralls to her growing collection. She understood this now. It was easy once she wrapped her mental head around it really. The sensation of winding up in a new body wasn’t totally unlike having to reorient after a rough mid-air spin, just like back in Wonderbolt training. And as for picking her targets… Well, Rainbow wasn’t an articulate pony, and in her mind she had a hard time wording it. But, to a degree, she was beginning to sense who was nearby and ready to hijack. Sense was the best word she had: it was somewhere between a smell, feel and sight, without being any of the above.
Take her newest target, her last for today. Rainbow had been in that strange in-between space and then she had just, known that the mind just down south from the castle wasn’t some random pony- it was someone she knew very well. So when Rainbow had went and jumped in, and noticed straight away the feeling of a helmet strap around her host’s chin, and the peculiar movement that only came form someone trying to ride a scooter… well, she felt pretty smart.
“Hey Scoots!”
“Aaaaah!”
A few heads turned to look at the teenage mare suddenly screeching to a stop and looking around, as though she had just seen a ghost. One of the ponies who witnessed this actually walked towards the wide-eyed mare, who had taken off her helmet and was now vigorously shaking her had and rubbing her ears. “Hey Scootaloo, you ok?” asked Diamond Tiara, approaching cautiously. While the former bully couldn’t quite call Scootaloo a friend, she had still known Scootaloo long enough to have an interest when the flightless Pegasus started acting funny. “You’re looking kind of… I don’t want to say crazy, but…”
There was no immediate answer as Scootaloo continued to ignore Diamond, turning around in alarmed circles. Diamond snorted. She hated being ignored. “Helloooo? I’m doing you the courtesy of saying hello, you could at least say hello back! Hmph!” The earth mare walked right up to Scootaloo now, more annoyed at this rudeness than concerned at her behaviour. Then, suddenly, Scootaloo looked right at Diamond.
And then…
“Hey Diamond!” said a raspy voice in her head.
“Ahhhh!” Now it was Diamond’s turn to be startled, and to look around as though searching for some phantom only she could perceive. Inside her head, Dash grumbled as she found her point of view violently moving left and right just as she had experienced with Scootaloo. “Hey hey hey, calm down!” she said, and at once Diamond calmed down.
“Who are-“
“I’m Rainbow Dash and I’m your master forever now and you like that,” said Rainbow very quickly. She really was getting better at this, or at least quicker. Diamond accepted this with minimal fuss, allowing Rainbow to continue. “Scootaloo’s also mine now. I mean honestly she practically has been for a while, I guess I just made it official.”
“You were in her head?”
“Woah, smart! Yeah, gave her a little fright, hah,” explained Rainbow. Scootaloo was looking at Diamond with a sort of curious smile, balancing herself on the balls of her heels and spreading her wings up and down. Rainbow read Diamond’s mind as they both watched. “Yeah, I told her I wanted to see if I could jump into someone’s mind if I was looking at them in somepony else’s head. Turns out? I totally can. Cool, right? Tell her I said hi.”
“Um, Rainbow Dash says hi,” said Diamond, looking around and making sure to keep her voice down around passers-by. Scootaloo grinned.
“Hehe, she’s got you too then?”
“Yeah. Feels…”
“Nice?” offered Scootaloo. Diamond slowly nodded.
“I shouldn’t like it, but she told me to, and now it’s… yeah. Nice.” The pink mare said, working out the mental math slowly. “It’s good that she owns us.”
“It’s like being in a super-secret friendship club!”
“OK now you’ve made it sound dorky,” groaned Diamond Tiara, sticking her tongue out.
“Hey now,” said the voice of Rainbow, echoing inside her skull like some omnipresent force, “play nice. In fact… play very nice. I own both of you, but from now on, Scootaloo owns you too. Tell her.” There was only a split second of hesitation before Diamond found herself accepting this new reality.
“Scootaloo, Rainbow says you own me now too,” she said, not quite brimming with enthusiasm but saying it anyway. “Whatever that means.”
“Really? Awesome! You’re gonna be my maid from now on!” Scootaloo ran over and hugged Diamond, and in a way that meant that she was hugging Rainbow too, who smiled mentally. “Thanks, Rainbow Dash!” Dash hadn’t quite figured out how to do something as complicated as directly speaking through someone’s mouth yet, but she gave it a try right now. Scootaloo looked up from her hug to see Diamond Tiara’s face shift from a flat, awkward expression to suddenly screwed up and concentrating. The eyes and lips twitched, and her jaw opened wide.
“Ownt. Hen. Shan. It.” She said, in a voice that was Diamond’s but also very obviously not hers- rougher, looser, and sounding as though the act of speech was some great triumph. Then her face unscrewed itself and Diamond shook her head. “Urgh…. Oh, Rainbow told me to say she meant ‘Don’t mention it’, and that she’s still practising this whole mind and body control thing.”
“Haha. Noted. Speaking of practice, wanna go practice being my lifelong slave?”
“I thought you said I was a maid? That sounds a lot better than slave.”
“Maid, slave, you still gotta do what I say,” said Scootaloo, giggling as she took Diamond’s hand and started pulling her along the road back to her house. “And I say you gotta come back and tidy my room for me.”
“Yes, Scootaloo…” sighed Diamond. Rainbow thought about getting her to enjoy this but… well, Diamond had always been kind of a jerk, a week or so of hard work seemed good enough payback for that.
“Well, I’m off to continue practicing. Don’t forget, this is a big secret so don’t tell anypony! Except for Pinkie, Thunderlane, Lyra, Twilight, Spike…. And some others who I forget to be honest, today’s been a long day. OK LATER”
With that, the presence left the two mares, who were left to get used to their new relationship. Ponies who watched on were taken aback by this new dynamic, none the wiser as to why a pony like Diamond would suddenly allow herself to be literally dragged through town like this by Scootaloo… but hey, Friendship was Magic right? So no one complained too much.
It was early in the evening, when Twilight was sitting alone in the lab with a princess sized mug of coffee reading over her research notes, when the speakers on Rainbow’s jar crackled back to life.
“Hey, I’m back for the day,” came Rainbow’s voice, as she spotted Twilight sitting across from her, still only wearing her lab coat. The alicorn immediately teleported herself into the seat directly next to Rainbow, pen and paper in hand and a huge grin on her face.
“How did it go?! You were away for so long, I was starting to get worried!”
“Oh, great, great! I can do all sorts of stuff now…” Dash began recounting her day of testing to her number one mind slave, who took in every bit of new information like it was a taste of fine wine.
“That ‘In-Between’ as you call it, oh that raises so many metaphysical questions!”
“Uh, yeah, sure,” said Dash, who had a lot on her mind on the moment not involving metaphysics. “I mean the important thing is, I can totally mind control like half the town now.”
“Hmm? Oh yeah, that is important.” Twilight immediately recalibrated. “Yes. And that raises even more fun possibilities.”
“I’ve definitely got a range limit though,” said Dash. “I can only go so far with the transmitter you bought me.”
“I can try and install more transmission receivers around town to increase your range…” Twilight tapped her chin with her pencil. At that moment Spike walked back into the laboratory, eating a packet of chips as he walked down the stairs and saw what was going on. “Oh hey, did it go well Rainbow?”
“Super well! We’re moving into phase two of the plan,” explained the brain in the jar.
“Oooo. I like that. You sound like a real comic book supervillain.”
“Yeah, I’m gonna- heeeey, I’m not a villain, ok?” protested Rainbow. “Just because I’m mind washing everypony in town without exactly, you know, asking… It’s not like I’m doing anything wrong, yeah? I’m just having a little fun.”
“Exactly,” said Twilight, patting the jar her friend’s brain was in. “Rainbow here would never abuse her incredible powers.”
“Duh! OK, get to work making me more receivers, so we can go ahead with Phase Two.” As Twilight nodded and headed off to find her materials, Spike siddled up to her.
“What’s Phase Two then?” he asked. Inside the clear deaths of the jar, the liquid containing Rainbow started to bubble ominously.
“Controlling every pony in town… and then, when I don’t have to worry about not being able to control anypony? When every mind in Ponyville is mine to play with? That’s when the real fun begins…haha!”
“OK now you really do sound like a supervillain.” Said Spike.