> Switchy Pie
>  by AleximusPrime
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> Prologue
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PROLOGUE



It was a bright sunny day in the heart of Equestria.  The ponies of Ponyville were out and about at their every day duties and activities.  Inside Sugarcube Corner, the workers were busy creating the finest baked goods in the village.	The pony named Cup Cake was walking through the shop checking on all her employees.

“These treats are looking good everypony.  Keep up the good work!” she encouraged them.  But nearby, some ponies were having issues.

One pony was busy making a delectable little cupcake on her worktable when she ran out of icing in her tube.  She turned around to reach for a new one and then turned back only to find her cupcake gone.

“What the…?  Hey, Pinkie Pie!!” she said turning to the adorable pink pony with icing and cake mix smeared all over her face.

“Oops…..were you working on that?” she asked.

“Um, yeah I was!  Now I gotta start all over again, thanks!” said Pinkie’s co-worker with a disgruntled look. switch

“Hehe, no problem!” she said laughing and skipping off to her worktable.  Her little sister, Peachy Pie was waiting there for her.  Peachy Pie was still in pony-school and had recently received a cutie mark with three peaches on it.  She had hopes of becoming a culinary artist or to work at the Sugarcube Corner like her sister so Pinkie had decided to bring her over to work to show her how she does her job.

“Did you get the cherries we need, Sis?” Peachy asked Pinkie.

“Sure did!” Pinkie said pulling out a bag of delicious red cherries.

“What took you so long?”

“I had to stop for a bite.” She said licking the icing off her lips.

“You didn’t eat one of the workers’ snacks again, did you?”

“Me?  No way silly, I would never do that!  But I would eat one of the cupcakes they were making, hehe!”

Peachy Pie had an unconvinced look on her face.  Even for a young little filly, she was pretty good at being able to tell when her sister was lying or playing jokes.

“Anyways…” said Pinkie, “Here come the cherries.” She then ripped open the bag with her mouth and dumped the cherries one by one on a small bunt cake she was making.  Once the final touch was completed, the cake was ready to be put behind the glass for a lucky pony to buy.

“Wow, Sissy Pie, you did great!” Peachy complemented.

“I sure did!” Pinkie said staring at the cake drooling a little.

“Well, now that it’s done, I’m sure your bosses would love to…”

Suddenly Pinkie reached down and took a big chomp out of the cake and swallowing it down in one gulp licking her lips.

“…see it.  Pinkie, I thought that was supposed to be for the shop.” said Peachy confused.

“Oh it is, but I just wanted to taste it a little to make sure it would taste good.”

“Yeah, you sure tasted it alright!”

Just then Mrs. Cake came by noticing what had happened.

“Pinkie Pie, what is this?!  Have you eaten another one of the cakes you’ve been working on?!”  she said appalled.

“Oh, yes, Mrs. Cake, I sure have and it tastes wonderful!  I’m sure it’ll go great with all the other treats!”

“But Darling, we can’t put that with the other treats!  Look, you’ve practically eaten the whole thing!”

Pinkie just looked down at the cake realizing she had taken too big of a bite.  “Oops, I guess so…”

“And what is this little filly doing in the shop might I ask?” Mrs. Cake said pointing to Peachy.

“Oh her?  She’s my little sister, Peachy Pie.  I brought her cuz it’s Bring-your-relative-to-work-day’!”

“Um…..I don’t recall seeing that on our calendar…”

“That’s cuz it isn’t there, I just made it up!” she said with a big grin on her face.

“You did?” asked Peachy.

“Well, just make sure she sticks with you and doesn’t cause any trouble, ok?” sighed Mrs. Cake.

“Don’t you worry Mrs. Cake, I’ve got my sister under control.” said Peachy patting her sister on the back as Mrs. Cake walked away.  “Do you usually make your boss that angry?” she whispered to Pinkie.

“Nah, they just pretty much let me do whatever.  They love me so much, they never really even mind me, hehehe!”

“Right…”

Mrs. Cake walked over to her husband, Carrot Cake, to give him the unfortunate news.

“Oh hey there, Honey Bun, is that cherry cake ready?” he asked her.

“Sweetie, there won’t be a cherry cake I’m afraid.  Pinkie ate it already…” she told him.

“Again?  Oh, Cup, what are we going to do about her?!  This is the fifth time this week!”

“I know, I know, but you know her, she’s always…well, she’s just being Pinkie Pie.”

“Well Honey, we go a bit too easy on her you know.  We should probably tell her to stop doing that, I mean did you see her back when Princess Celestia was visiting the Corner?”

“I guess you’re right.” She sighed. “But I don’t want to make her feel we don’t enjoy her company, she’s our best worker and she always brings smiles to everyone’s faces.”

“Well, smiles or not, she needs to learn respect.  I wouldn’t want to see her get worse.”

Just then one of the workers brought in an even larger cake.  It was a huge white tower cake with strawberries dotting all four layers and had all the workers mesmerized.

“Ooooooh, where have you been all my life!” said Pinkie with heart-shaped eyes.

“Um, Sis, don’t even think about it…” said Peachy trying to get her sister’s mind off the cake so she wouldn’t get in trouble.

“All right everyone…” said the pony that brought the cake in.  “The wedding cake is just about finished, now all we need is the…” but just then Pinkie’s head popped out of the side of the cake.  She had tunneled her way through it cake like a worm through the dirt.

“Yum, this is delicious!” she said.

“PINKIE, WHAT THE HAY?!  It took us hours to make that thing!!” the co-worker screamed angrily.

“PINKIE PIE!!!” said Mr. Cake furiously walking in on the scene.  “What is the meaning of this?!?”

“Oh Pinkie, it’s one thing to just eat a little cupcake someone else was making, but this is just inexcusable!  That was a wedding cake!” said Mrs. Cake.

“A wedding cake?” Pinkie replied.  “Then where’s the cute little pony couple that goes on the top?”

“That’s what I was just about to PUT on it!” the co-worker yelled.

“Oh don’t worry everypony!” said Peachy coming in to protect her sister. “My big sister is great at making treats, I’m sure she could remake this one!  Right Pinkie?”  

Pinkie then let out a really loud burp.  “Excuse me…” she said covering her mouth while everyone in the shop was staring at her angrily.



TO BE CONTINUED

> Time to get Serious!
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CHAPTER 1 - Time to get Serious!



Later that afternoon, the Corner was closing as all the workers were heading out for home.  Several of the workers were already talking about what Pinkie had done earlier.

“Gosh, that Pinkie Pie is just so unbearable!” said one of the workers to her friends.

“I know, just when is she gonna get it through her head that she needs to stop eating all the sweets in there!” said another.

“She’d better cut it out before she gets fired or something!”

“Do you think Mr. and Mrs. Cake will do that?”

“Well, what would you do to her?”

Inside the shop, Pinkie and Peachy were still cleaning up their worktable.  Pinkie had just finished remaking the wedding cake she ruined a few hours ago.  She had a muzzle on her face.

“Ok, Sis, you ready to take that muzzle off?” Peachy asked her sister.

“Mfffff hmmmmm!” she said with a muffled voice as her sister started undoing the muzzle.  “I knew that muzzle would keep me from eating the next cake!  Hehehe!”

“Pinkie Pie…” said Mrs. Cake walking in with her husband by her side “Mr. Cake and I would like to have a talk with you before you leave to take your sister home.”

“Okey dokey loki!” she said.

“I’ll wait for ya outside, Sis.” said Peachy walking out the door.

“So, what do you guys wanna talk about?” Pinkie asked her bosses.

“Pinkie, this is a serious talk.” said Mr. Cake solemnly.

“Oooooh, a serious talk!” she said making a serious face.

“Look Pinkie, you know both Mr. Cake and I very much enjoy having you work here in Sugarcube Corner, and we have no intentions of making you leave…”

“Uh huh…” Pinkie said listening.

“But you have to understand, even though this is a very fun place to be, it’s not just all fun and games.”

“WHAT?!?” Pinkie gasped “How can you say such a thing?!  This is Sugarcube Corner!”

“Pinkie, this is a business!” said Mr. Cake. “You don’t fool around in business, you must work, you must focus!”

“But don’t I already do that?”

“Of course, but you’re always so distracted and impolite.  You eat the food which doesn’t belong to you to begin with and that’s gotta stop!”

“But it’s so tasty!”

“It also doesn’t belong to you.  Now my wife and I do not wish to fire you.  You’ve been like a daughter to us all these years so we won’t, but I’m telling you now, you really have to shape up!  This is your job, and jobs aren’t always supposed to be fun you know.  If you don’t shape up soon…….well, you’ll find things won’t get much easier for you.  A pony must be responsible, that’s something you lack.”

Pinkie listened to what Mr. Cake was saying and the look on her face made it clear she believed what he was saying but found it hard to accept.  Pinkie hadn’t ever really thought this through; she always considered her job to be something she must enjoy.  She always wanted to be happy and have fun and try to put smiles on others’ faces, but never quite thought about how it might make others angry or make her irresponsible.  She started realizing, however, that Mr. Cake was right.

“You can’t just be all happy and bubbly all the time, you gotta be responsible.” Mr. Cake continued.

Just then Mrs. Cake made a fake coughing noise to get him to ease down on his lecture for she could tell Pinkie was starting to look a little hurt.

“Honey, are you ok?” Mr. Cake asked his wife.

“Um……what Mr. Cake here means to say is that you just need to take things more seriously from now on, ok?  Think you can do that?” Mrs. Cake asked Pinkie nicely.

“Well…..I guess so Mr. and Mrs. Cake.” Pinkie said gloomily.

“Good.” Mr. Cake replied gladly. “I’d just like to see some improvement, and that will make everyone at Sugarcube Corner’s lives much easier.”

“But I mean we still like you just the way you are Pinkie, you just need to wise up a bit.” Mrs. Cake added.

“Ok…” Pinkie said walking out the door.

“And we’ll see you on Thursday; have a nice day off tomorrow!”

Pinkie walked out the door quietly not saying a word in response, just slowly letting the door close behind her.

“You don’t think I was too hard on her at all, do you, Honey Bun?” Mr. Cake asked his wife.

“I sure hope not…”



Later, Pinkie Pie was walking her sister back to their parent’s house before she returned to her apartment up in Sugarcube Corner.

“Wow, the Corner sure is awesome, Sissy Pie!” Peachy said excitedly. “The stuff they make there really is great and Mr. and Mrs. Cake are good bosses!”

“Yeah, they sure are.” said Pinkie, her mind still on what the Cakes told her earlier.

“Say, are you ok, Pinkie?  You don’t look like yourself.”

“Huh?  Who, me?  Oh I’m fine, really!”

“You don’t seem to be.  Was it something Mr. and Mrs. Cake said back there before we left?”

“Yeah.” Pinkie sighed. “They were kinda mad at me for eating some of the food today and they want me to start taking things seriously.  But I don’t get it, I’ve always been like this and nothing seemed to go wrong!”

“Well, you kinda made a big mistake with that wedding cake you know.  You probably shouldn’t eat the food and stuff.”

“It’s not just that……I dunno why, but after hearing what they said, I can’t help but feel they’re right, I do need to start taking things seriously!  Oh I wish right now I were a much better pony than I am.”

“Aw, you’re fine, Sis, you can’t change who you are.”

“But I could at least try to be more serious about things, but I can’t help it, I’m just too happy!  But Mr. Cake is right, it’s a job and I should be a lot more responsible.  I wish I could be very organized and dedicated like…like Twilight Sparkle.”

“But you don’t even have a magic unicorn horn like her.”

“Yeah, but I could at least take life seriously like she does.”

Just then a shadow moved over them on the ground.  They both looked up to see two white horses pulling a chariot of gold with Princess Celestia inside it.

“Cool, it’s Princess Celestia!” shouted Peachy Pie.

“I wonder what the Princess is doing in Ponyville today.” said Pinkie stroking her chin.

The chariot was heading for the library that Twilight Sparkle resided in.  It stopped in front and Princess Celestia dismounted and walked to the door.  Pinkie and Peachy watched closely behind.  The door then opened and Spike the dragon came out to greet her.

“Princess Celestia, it’s an honor to have you here, My Lady!” Spike said with a bow.

“Thank you, Spike.  Now is Twilight Sparkle inside?” the royal mare asked.

“I am Princess.  Thank you for coming today.” said Twilight Sparkle stepping outside and bowing.

“Are you ready to show me the magic spells you’ve learned since you were last in Canterlot, my student?” the Princess asked her.

“I sure am, Your Majesty.  I’ve learned much while you were gone and I’m ready to show you.  This way please.” Twilight said leaving the door open for Celestia to go inside.  After Celestia and Spike went in, Pinkie went over to Twilight to ask her a question.

“Hey Twilight, is the library still open?” Pinkie asked.

“Oh hey, Pinkie Pie.  Yes, it’s open, but I’m gonna be a little busy.  The Princess has decided to visit every now and then to see my progress with magic spells.” She explained.

“Oh don’t worry, we won’t be in your way, I’m just looking for a book in there.”

“But sis…” said Peachy, “you never said we were going to the libra-“

“SHHH!”  Pinkie whispered.  “I’ll tell you when we get inside”



Later, Twilight Sparkle was showing Princess Celestia some various magic spells she had mastered.

“And then this is the transforming spell here.” She said as she transformed a book that was on Spike’s head into a hat.

“Very good, Twilight!” Celestia said.  “Now have you learned the heat spell yet?”

Meanwhile Pinkie was watching Twilight and the Princess and listening to them talking.  Peachy was looking around in the library for the supposed book they had come for.

“So uh, Sis, what book is it we’re looking for?” Peachy asked her sister.

“Huh, what?” Pinkie said surprised.

“You said you wanted to find a book in here, which book is it?”

“Uh……it’s……it’s this one right here.” said Pinkie picking up a random book off of one of the shelves.

“Pinkie, that says Advanced Marketing: a Pony’s Guide to a Better Understanding of the World of Business, now why the hay would you choose to read something like that?”

“Uh……well……it kinda looked………interesting?” said Pinkie a little embarrassed.

“You’re not looking for any books, are you…” said Peachy knowing that Pinkie was up to something else.

“Oh alright, I give up.  I’m watching and listening to Twilight and the princess.  I wanna see how well Twilight does and how she’s treated by Celestia.

“Why?”

“Cuz I wanna see if maybe I can learn from her.”

Peachy groaned.  “Pinkie for the last time, you’re fine the way you are, you can’t be just like Twilight Sparkle!”

“I just wanna learn a little, Peachy, I’m curious to know how it’s done…”

“Well Twilight Sparkle, you’ve been doing very well with your studies on magic.” Celestia told her student. “You’ve grown to become a rather powerful unicorn, but there is still much for you to learn.  As a result, I’m lending you this book.”  She then used her magic to lift a book out of a bag she had brought in with her. It was a book that contained instructions for learning more advanced magic spells.

“Oh thank you so much Princess!” Twilight exclaimed.  “I promise I’ll take good care of it and learn all I can from it.”

“You’re welcome, Twilight. Well, I guess I’d better be on my way.  Thank you for letting me visit and I wish you luck with your studies.”

“And thank you for the visit, Princess.”

Spike then opened the door for Celestia and she left for her chariot.  Twilight had almost forgotten that Pinkie and Peachy were still in the library.

“Oh, Pinkie, I forgot you and your sister were here.  So, what book is it you would like?”

“Oh Pinkie doesn’t want any bo-“

“It’s this book right here!” said Pinkie interrupting her sister and pushing forward another random book that said Carpentry for Dummies.

“Um……Pinkie, since when have you shown any interest in being a carpenter?” asked Spike coming in.

“A carpenter?” Pinkie said not knowing what the book said yet. “Oh.  Um……hehe, I dunno, it just……kinda, looks like something I’d be good at?” the giant grin on her face reaching from ear to ear and the sweat drops proved she was joking.

“I guess then we can call you Woody Pie!” said Spike giggling while he was cleaning up some piles of books.

“She doesn’t want any books, guys.” said Peachy.

“Then what is it you DO want?” Twilight asked confused.

“She thinks she isn’t serious enough and that you are so she wants to learn how to be more serious and all that stuff so she was watching you and Celestia and now I think she’s jealous.” said the orange little filly running her mouth.

“Jealous?!?  I am most certainly am NOT jealous, I’m……envious…”

“Pink with envy, I knew it, hehe!” said Spike reiterating a past remark.

“Envious?  Pinkie, what’s wrong?” Twilight asked Pinkie concerned.

“Oh I dunno, Mr. and Mrs. Cake were kinda mad at me at work today cuz I ate too much of the important treats and they said I need to take life more seriously and I think they’re right Twilight.” Pinkie explained.

“Well…I mean……they ARE right if you think about it.” Twilight replied.

“Exactly, even you admit it!  I haven’t ever felt this feeling before, but I really feel I gotta change!”

“I think the cake mix got to her head, Twilight, she’ll be fine later on.” said Peachy sarcastically.

“No, Sissy Pie, I’m serious…...er, I mean I’m not serious but I wanna be……er, I mean I’m not serious personality-wise, but I’m serious about me not being serious personality-wise and this is serious business, SERIOUSLY!!!”

“Ok, ok, Pinkie, calm down!” said Twilight. “Now, what do you want me to do to help you with this?”

“Well, I mean, you’re a very smart and organized pony, maybe you could teach me some things.”

“Well, Pinkie, you can’t just change your personality and neither can I.  You are who you are.”

“Yeah, but I just wanna make a good impression on my peers.  I don’t wanna get fired or something!”

“Pinkie I doubt the Cakes will fire you.  You throw the best parties in town and you’re their hardest worker!  They know that if they do that their business wouldn’t do too good without you; that would be a huge opportunity cost.  Some ponies might boycott them or something.”

“Where did you learn all that?” Peachy asked Twilight.

“Oh, I overlooked some things in this book a while ago.” Twilight replied lifting the same random marketing book that Pinkie picked earlier.

“GRRRRRR!  I should know that kinda stuff too, maybe I really should get that book after all!” said Pinkie frustrated.

“Pinkie, I think you’re taking this a bit too seriously……er, I mean, not that you take things seriously, but what I am trying to say is that you’re overreacting about this whole situation.  Just be thankful for who you are!” Twilight advised as she went back to her table that she left her new spell book on.

“But I just can’t Twilight, I dunno why!” said Pinkie walking around with her head lowered.  “I just wish I could know what it would at least be like.  You know, spend a little time being all ‘serious bu-derious’ and smart and well-rounded like you.  If only there was like some magic spell or something that could……HEY, THAT’S IT!!  Twilight, you could use a spell on me and change my personality!!”

“WHAT?!” Twilight gasped. “Whoa, whoa, hold on a second Pinkie.  Do you have any idea how unethical and difficult that is?!?”

“Not to mention crazy!  I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a spell like that before!” said Spike.

“Oh come on Twilight, I’m sure your new book must have something like that in it!” Pinkie said eagerly.

Twilight started flipping pages through her new spell book. “Pinkie, I guarantee you, there is no such spell as……wait…” she then came to a page that seemed helpful “The mind-changing spell?” it appeared Twilight and Spike were wrong after all.

“YUUUUUS!  Use it on me Twilight, use it on me! Pleeeeeeease?!?” Pinkie said jumping for joy.

“Now hold on a minute, Pinkie.  It reads “This spell is a very advanced spell that requires much focus and a higher understanding of the element of magic.  It is rarely used and only used for things like acting, mind-control, or any other specific reasons but is not recommended for practical magic users.  If not performed correctly, side effects may include headaches, nausea, dry skin, drowsiness, irritability, constipation, and an extremely stuffy nose.  If you do not want to become a mucus-cannon, we advise that you not take this spell.”

“Sounds fun, let’s do it!”

“There’s one more thing:  the effect can only last up to one day.”

“Perfect!”

“But Pinkie, do you really think this is necessary?”

“Yeah, Sis, I don’t want you to change!” Peachy exclaimed.

“Oh come on you guys, it’s only one day!  I’m sure that after it’s worn off, I’ll have learned how to take things seriously after just one day.  It’ll be good practice!”

“Well, that’s true…” Peachy said.

“But Pinkie, I don’t even know how to use this spell, I haven’t even practiced yet.” Twilight said trying her best to get Pinkie to reconsider.

“Then you just let me know when you’re ready.  I have tomorrow off, so if you start now, we could try it out tomorrow at this time!”

“Well…….if I could study this spell for just about one day, maybe I could learn it even if it is a pretty high level I’m not typically used to working with.”

“So you’ll do it?”

After a long pause, she gave her answer, “Alright fine.  But just to get you off my back and let you know that if your personality changes, it won’t be good for your self-image.”

“Okey dokey loki!” said Pinkie excitedly.  “Come on Sis, time to go home!  Lalala!” she then skipped over to the door with her sister who had a somewhat worried look on her face.

“Oh Spike, what have I gotten myself into?” Twilight asked her little dragon companion.

“Eh, you’ll be fine, Twilight.  You’ve used pretty powerful spells in the past, I’m sure this’ll just be a walk in the park.” Spike encouraged her. “Here, I’ll help you with it and I’ll let you use it on me for a period of a few minutes or something.”

“Well, alright, so long as this thing can’t change anyone permanently.  I’d hate to change Pinkie Pie’s personality forever.  I like Pinkie just the way she is, even if she is a bit annoying and air-headed, that’s just Pinkie Pie for ya.”

“Well, I agree, but like you said, hopefully this’ll show her who she REALLY needs to be inside.  Hopefully she’ll learn her lesson.”

“I guess you’re right Spike.  Now, first things first: can you go look for any other books in here that might tell more about this spell?  I want to make sure I know a lot about it before I use it…”



Later the Pie sisters stopped for some ice cream before Pinkie dropped Peachy off at her parents’ house.

“Sis, do you really think this is a good idea?” Peachy asked her sister.

“Of course, Peachy!  Since when is ice cream a bad idea?” Pinkie replied.

“No, I mean the whole personality switch thing you’re having Twilight do to you!”

“Oh, that.  Sure it is!  I’ll be easier to handle before you know it tomorrow!”

“But you already are easy to handle!  I don’t see why you gotta change yourself; I already like you the way you are!”

“This is only for one day, no longer, Peachy.  Everything will be fine, and I’m sure it’ll make my job easier.”

“What if it doesn’t last a day though?  What if Twilight makes some mistake and it lasts longer, maybe even forever?!

“Oh Peachy, this is Twilight we’re talking about, she’s amazing with her magic.  We have nothing to worry about at all!”

“Well if it doesn’t even last longer than a day, what’s the point of it really?”

“To get me used to being all serious bu-derious, Peachy.  Then I’ll never get scolded by Mr. and Mrs. Cake again!”

“Well, if you say so, but I really don’t see what good a magic spell will do…”

“It’ll all be over before ya know it, Little Sis.” Pinkie said patting her sister on the head. “And the Cakes will be proud!  Twilight’s spell will teach me well!”

“I sure hope so…” said Peachy dismally.  “I wouldn’t want you to be like how you said our family was before I was born on that rock farm back then.  I’m sure glad I was born after that time, a rock farm sounds boring!”

“Oh don’t worry, it won’t be that bad!  Besides, everypony in our family is happy and joyful now because of me, they’d let me know when I get too serious.”

“Well, that’s true.  Just letting you know ahead of time, I’ve got my eyes on you, Sis, I won’t let you go too far with it ok?”

“Okey dokey loki!” Pinkie said happily. “Oh, and another thing, promise you won’t tell Mom and Dad about this, ok?”

“Okay.”

“Now, let’s delve into this mountain of unending sugary sweetness!” she then plopped her face into the huge decked-out banana split she had ordered splashing some ice cream on her sister’s face by accident.

“Maybe it won’t be too bad having her not like this for a day…” Peachy sighed sarcastically.




TO BE CONTINUED...

> A Bit of a Mix-up
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CHAPTER 2 - A Bit of a Mix-up




The next day, Twilight spent hours working on the spell Pinkie asked her to use.  It sure was one tough spell and required much studying.  Twilight used it several times on Spike for a few quick seconds but it wasn’t quite as good as she was expecting, but she was slowly starting to understand the basics and how it worked.  She was finally ready to make the spell last about a day, but she decided to use that one when Pinkie would arrive later that night since she wouldn’t want to change Spike for too long.

“Okay, Spike, I’m gonna make it last about two minutes now.” Twilight explained to her dragon companion. “Now what would you like me to make you like this time?”

“I dunno, we’ve tried several different emotions already: excited, bored, angry, quiet……I can’t think of much more...  OOOOH!  I know what!  Make me romantic!” he said excitedly.

“Romantic?  Spike, does this have anything to do with Rarity?”

“Well, Pinkie says she wants you to turn her serious for a day so she can get practice with it.  Maybe if you make me romantic for a few minutes, I’ll learn how I can get Rarity’s attention!  Besides, Rarity isn’t gonna come in here, and Pinkie already knows about my secret crush on her anyhow.”

“Whatever you say, Romeo.” Twilight giggled as her horn started glowing with magical light.  She closed her eyes and groaned a little as the magic increased and Spike started levitating a little in the air.  His eyes started glowing and he started getting all fidgety from the transformation, but in just a few seconds, the glowing stopped and Spike had landed back on the ground.

“Wow, that time was a little harder……my head even kinda hurts now.” she said rubbing her hoof against the side of her head. “So, how do you feel, Spike?”

At first Spike just stared into space trying to recollect himself after the change. Then he perked up and started to speak.

“Feel……feel?  Oh words cannot express how I feel, Twilight my friend!” he said romantically. “Why, I feel as though thine own heart is aflutter in deep passionate love!”

“Oh dear…” Twilight said sarcastically.

“Oh Rarity, if only you were here!  Why, I would show you the path to my heart, and you would open thine to me, and they would be as one, and we would be such kindred spirits!”

“Ok, I think I get it, Spike.  Don’t get to comfortable; we’ve gotten through about a minute of the spell.”

“Spell, oh spell, if only thy power would last forever!”

Just then there was a knock on the door and Pinkie’s voice could be heard. “Hey Twilight, can I come in?” she asked.

“Oh, hey Pinkie.  Come in, but be warned, Spike has a little bit of a temporary change that might be a bit too silly for you to handle…” she called.

The door opened and Pinkie and Peachy walked in.  Suddenly, Rainbow Dash appeared right behind them, and then Applejack, and then Fluttershy and Rarity!  Pinkie had invited the whole entourage without telling Twilight first!

“Whoa, hold on a minute!  What is everypony doing here?!” Twilight asked Pinkie worriedly.

“Pinkie says you’re gonna do a pretty advanced spell on her, so we all decided to come and watch and cheer you on!” replied Rainbow Dash.

“But, Rarity……you’re here…”

“Why yes, Darling…” said the lovely purple-haired mare to Twilight. “Is there a problem with that?”

“Oh, of course not, it’s just……Spike……Spike is…” but it was too late.  Spike came up right by Rarity and took her hoof in his hand.

“Oh Lady Rarity!  My lovely, sweet rose!  How I long for thee!” he said amorously gazing into her eyes.

“Um……hehe, this isn’t what it looks like guys…” Twilight said while the others giggled at the sight.

“Um……Spike?  Are you alright, Darling?” Rarity asked him puzzled.

“Oh I haven’t felt this good in years, my love!  Oh how lovely you are!  My heart, it beats for you!  Feel it!” he said putting her hoof to his chest.

“Uh, yes Spike, I feel it, it feels fine, but why are you…”

“Oh Rarity, you have captured my heart!  It beats on and on and……and I…..I…..” the spell started to wear off on him. 

“I……huh……wha……AGH, RARITY!!!” he said jumping backwards with his face blushing beat red.

“Uh, Spike?  Are you feeling better now?” Rarity asked him.

“OH MAN!  RARITY, I UH……I……I WAS JUST……I WAS…...I GOTTA GO, BYE!!” he said zooming off to another room in the library.

Everyone else laughed out loud as Spike closed the door behind him.  Twilight stepped forward to explain what had happened.

“Um…well that was rather odd.” said Rarity.  “Is he alright, Twilight?”

“Oh he’s fine girls.  I was testing the personality spell on him and I made him a bit too romantic I guess.”  Twilight explained.

“Oh, so he was just acting it out?”

“Of course, we all know Spike isn’t that much of a Casanova!  Hehehe…” Twilight said trying to cover up the tension in her voice.

“So Twilight, are you ready to make me different too?” Pinkie added in eagerly.

“Oh yeah… I’m ready Pinkie, but why did you invite everyone over here without my permission?  Why did you even tell them about this?”

“Because Silly, they should know I’m gonna change, they’re my friends, I wouldn’t want them to get worried.  I think they’ll all like seeing you do this spell anyhow, it’ll be cool!”

“But Pinkie, I’m kinda under pressure here, I just spent hours studying it and I think I have it down, but I dunno about doing it in front of an audience…”

“You’ll be alright, Twi.” Applejack reassured her. “We’re your friends, we ain’t gonna laugh at ya or somethin!”

“I know you won’t, I just hope I can do this with you all here.  I didn’t know you were all gonna be here.”

“You’ll be ok, Twilight.” Fluttershy told her. “We know you’re the most powerful unicorn in all of Ponyville, you can’t mess up.”

Twilight gulped.  “Uh, hehe…… yeah, I guess…”

“Well everybody, you ready to see the magic work?” Pinkie said jumping in front of Twilight to get ready for the spell.

“We are, Sis, but you be careful, ok?” Peachy said.

“Don’t you worry your pretty little heads about me; Twilight has this whole thing under control!  Dontcha Twilight?”

“Of course, of course…” Twilight said nervously.  She wasn’t quite sure if the spell was going to end too well for her.  The last time she used it on Spike, her head hurt for a few moments, what would it do to her this time?  Knock her out?

“You can do it, Twilight!  We’re countin on ya!” Rainbow Dash cheered.

“Alright everypony.  But let’s remember, this isn’t something I wanna be known for, this is only a test; an experiment to let Pinkie see which personality fits her best, and she won’t change forever, got it?”

“We got it, Twilight.” Peachy said.

“Are you ready Pinkie?”

“Ready when you are!” Pinkie said excitedly bouncing up and down on her hooves.

“Alright, now hold still, this might get pretty crazy.”

Twilight closed her eyes and lowered her horn.  The horn started to glow with light and was getting brighter and brighter.  Pinkie started to glow and started floating off of the ground.  She wiggled her legs in excitement and closed her eyes with a big grin waiting for the effect of the spell to take place.  All the other ponies stared in wonder at the light.  Twilight’s horn started shooting little sparks of energy.  She was using a great amount of power, even more than the time she had to defeat the Ursa Minor.  Suddenly, Twilight started floating off the ground and was glowing with light too.  Spike came out of the room he ran into earlier.  He was so embarrassed that he had forgotten to come out and watch.

“Sorry about earlier girls, Twilight sure is good with that spell!” he apologized trying to cover it up.

“Um, Spike?  Is this how it’s s’posed to be goin?” Applejack asked pointing to Twilight and Pinkie.

“Whoa……gee, I don’t remember it being like this.  Twilight shouldn’t be floating like that.  Hey, what’s going on?  It’s like she’s using the spell on both of them or something!” he said alarmed.

Glittery sparks were spinning around both of them and they both started yelling in pain while the glow was getting more intense.  Spike and the others were being blinded by the light.

“TWILIGHT, STOP!  YOU’RE USING TOO MUCH POWER!!!” shouted Spike covering his eyes.

“AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGH!  I CAN’T STOP IT!!!”

Then a huge burst of light shone from both Pinkie and Twilight as they were screaming in pain and a beam of electricity appeared between them shocking them both.

“PINKIIIIIIIIIIE!” shouted Peachy as there was an explosion of brightness encompassing the whole library.  Then all the light was gone and Pinkie and Twilight fell down right on top of each other unconscious.

“TWILIGHT, TWILIGHT ARE YOU OKAY?!?” shouted Spike rushing over to his unicorn friend trying to wake her up.

“OH TWILIGHT, PINKIE, ARE THEY GOING TO BE ALRIGHT?!?” Rarity shouted very worried.

“I dunno, that wasn’t how it was supposed to be!” Spike said. “I dunno why it affected her too, but it somehow did and that’s not a good sign!”

“PINKIE, PINKIE, WAKE UP, SIS!!” shouted Peachy shaking her sister’s head back and forth.  Suddenly, Pinkie started moving and opening her eyes.

“Ugggghhh………uh…huh…..wha……” she groaned getting up slowly.  Her hair was all messed up from the electrical burst.

“How are you?  Do you feel ok?” Rainbow Dash asked her.

“Uh………I……yeah…I…I feel……” her eyes opened wider and she put her hoof on her head.  Her voice was the same, yet she didn’t have the overjoyed happy tone like usual, she seemed to be talking a little more intelligently now.  

“Wow, I feel different… very different!  I think it really worked, I feel so much more intelligent now!  Wow, I feel like I could just take on the whole world!”  She slowly got up on all fours and walked around the library. “Seeing all these books makes me think I could just read all of them and understand them!  I’m just like Twilight!  The spell worked girls, it really worked!” she had such a happy look on her face as if she was about to cry, but she didn’t bounce around on her hoofs and go crazy like usual.

“AWESOME!!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

“Oh Pinkie, we’re so happy for you!” Fluttershy added.

“Wow, guess it really did work!” said Spike forgetting about Twilight.

“Oh I’m so happy!  This feels amazing, I’ve never felt like this before, it’s like I just went through years of intense schooling or studies like Twilight did!” she then walked over to a nearby mirror. “Wow, same old Pinkie on the outside, but now it’s time for a big change!  Oh, my hair is a mess, hehe…” she said pushing it back a little with her hooves as she turned away from the mirror back to her friends.  She moved her bangs to the side a little to reveal a pink unicorn horn on top of her forehead.  Everyone gasped at the sight of the horn.

“PI-PI-PI-PINKIE, YOU……YOU HAVE A…!” Rarity was stuttering in amazement.

“Huh?  What?  What do I have?!”

“A HORN, SIS!  YOU HAVE A HORN JUST LIKE TWILIGHT!” Peachy said wide-eyed.

“A WHAT?!?” Pinkie turned around to look at herself in the mirror again, and to her surprise they were right!  She was unicorn!  “WHAT THE HAY?!?  I wasn’t supposed to be turned into a unicorn!  Why did she do that?!”

“Maybe that’s why everythin was all crazy and bright!  I reckon Twilight used so much magic she made ya into a unicorn too, Pinkie!” said Applejack.

“Um……guys?” said Spike as everyone turned over to him.  “She did more than turn Pinkie into a unicorn…”  He turned a still unconscious Twilight over on her belly and lifted her mane up to reveal a bare forehead!

“WHAT?!?!?  She gave ME her horn?!?” Pinkie screamed.

“Wait, if you got the horn from her because she switched it, then……what happened to Twilight’s personality?” Peachy asked.  Everyone gasped and then gathered around Twilight to wake her up this time.

“Twilight?” said Spike shaking her a little.  She started to open her eyes and put her head up.  Her hair was also messed up from the zap.

“Uh……huh?” she said looking around confused.

“Do you feel alright?” asked Pinkie.

“Uh……I……why is everyone staring at me?” Twilight said looking at her friends awkwardly.

“Eh, she seems to be normal…” Pinkie said under her breath, but she was very wrong.

“OOOH!  Are we playing a staring contest?!  I love staring contests!!!” Twilight shouted excitedly and as everyone’s jaws dropped and their pupils shrunk in their eyes. “Wow, you guys are really good at this!  I’ve never seen anyone open their eyes so big like that before!  HEHEHE!” she giggled.

“What………have I just let happen……” Pinkie said horrified.




TO BE CONTINUED...

	
	
> A Plan to Hide the Truth
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


CHAPTER 3 - A Plan to Hide the Truth




The whole library was in a state of disbelief.  Twilight had accidentally overused her spell and not only did she give Pinkie a serious personality, she accidentally switched them!  Now Pinkie was the studious unicorn while Twilight was the frolicsome Earth pony!  No one knew what to do and even Pinkie was already worried.

“Well I simply do not believe this!” said Rarity in shock.  “How will Twilight ever get by like this?!  She’s always been so calm and organized, having Pinkie practically in her body will just create madness!”

“Oh don’t worry, Rarity, I’m sure Twilight will be fine.  I mean, Pinkie always survived this way, so I’m sure she can too.  And it is only one day…hopefully…” said Fluttershy.

“Yeah, but what if somepony finds out about this?  Should we let the mayor know?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“Oooooh no!  We aren’t telling anypony about this, they’ll think we’re crazy or something!” said Peachy not wanting the whole town to get involved with her sister’s business.

“Well I’m sure the mayor would understand, Peachy.” Applejack said.

“No, girls, nopony must know of this, NOPONY!!”

“Ooooh, books!  Lots and lots of books!” said Twilight darting to and fro in the library floor checking out all the books.  “Wow, there’s so many, I’ll bet I couldn’t even read a few of them!”

“Twilight, you’ve already read most of them…” said Pinkie following Twilight around making sure she wouldn’t break anything.

“Oh yeah.  Say, Pinkie, you should probably read some now that you’re like me!  I don’t remember much about them, but they were pretty good!”

“Twilight, I think right now we should be focusing more on how we can undo this spell and then properly redo it.  Or at least try to deal with it but not let any trouble happen.  Seriously, you can’t take care of this library with the way you’re acting right now!”

“But you could go and do better with your job and impress the Cakes!  Isn’t that what we wanted?”

“Well, yes, and I’m glad I can do that, but what about you?  I feel bad that you had to be a part of this when you weren’t supposed to!”

“Oh I’ll be fine!  It only lasts a day remember?  Tomorrow night, the two of us should be back to our old selves.  And I actually feel pretty good!  I’ve never been so joyful before!”

“Yes, but what about your powers?  You don’t have magic anymore and I don’t even know how to use….” Pinkie then looked at a book and somehow her instincts allowed her to telekinetically lift the page of the book as if she knew how to do it all along. “Wow, I just used magic!  This isn’t as hard as it looks!”

“Cool!  I guess I gave you all my abilities!  UH OH!!” suddenly Twilight’s tail started twitching. “Twitchy tail!  TWITCHA-TWITCHA-TWITCH!!” just then a book fell down from a nearby shelf with a thud.

“Oops, sorry!” said Spike who was on a ladder trying to put away some books in a shelf that was high up.

“We forgive ya!” Twilight said cheerfully to Spike.

“Wow, and I guess I gave you my Pinkie sense!  Can’t say we aren’t even now…” Pinkie said observing that they now had entirely all attributes switched.

Meanwhile the other ponies were watching Twilight and Pinkie conversing.

“I honestly don’t know if I should be thankful or worried about this situation, girls…” said Fluttershy quietly.

“This is kinda amusing if you guys ask me.” Said Rainbow Dash giggling until everyone threw a glance at her.  “Hehe, sorry…”

“Maybe we should just put Twilight in bed until one day passes.  It’s almost sunset you know.” Fluttershy said to Twilight and Pinkie.

“Oh no, I don’t wanna go to bed right now, I wanna stay up all night and party!!  WOOOHOOO!”  Twilight cried.

“Twilight, if you party in here, people will see the lights and music and think you’re going crazy, you can’t do that!” said Pinkie.

“Aw sugar…”

“We also can’t let you run this library tomorrow!  The only one who could would be me, but I gotta work at Sugarcube Corner.”

“Maybe we could just close the library tomorrow instead.” Spike suggested.

“Well, that might be an idea Spike, although if the library is going to be closed, she’ll wanna go out and do something, but somepony will see she has no horn and will be suspicious…”

“Well now listen ya’ll, let’s not lose our heads hear, we can think of somethin…” said Applejack.

“Wait a minute, I’ve got an idea!” said Pinkie. “Applejack, can I borrow your hat for a while?”

“Um…whadaya want mah hat for?”



A few minutes later, Pinkie and Peachy were walking through the streets of Ponyville with Twilight.  Twilight was wearing Applejack’s hat so that no one would notice the absence of her horn, and Pinkie had her mane fluffed up in the front to hide her newly acquired horn.

“So, where are we going again?” Twilight asked.

“I already told you, Twilight, we’re going to get some ice cream.” Pinkie responded.

“OOH, ICE CREAM, I LOVE ICE CRE-“ she was cut off by Peachy who jumped up on her head and closed her mouth.

“SHHHH!!” Peachy said to Twilight.

“Twilight, not so loud, you don’t want anypony to hear you like that!” whispered Pinkie Pie.

“Oops, sorry.”

“Now, listen, we have to keep a low profile.  And unfortunately that means I’ll have to try acting like my old self a little.  I should also buy myself a hat out here somewhere, I can’t have my hair up like this all the time and I promised I’d return Applejack’s hat to her tonight.”

“Hey there Pinkie Pie!” shouted a group of ponies walking by.

“Uh….wha….oh, hey girls!” she replied in her best sweet voice from before. “Phew, that was close!  I thought for sure they wouldn’t recognize me at first!”

“Um…Sis, I’ve been meaning to ask, why did we buy a bottle of purple paint?” Peachy asked looking at one of the bags Pinkie was carrying on her back.

“You’ll see Peachy, you’ll see.”

They then came to the ice cream stand and Pinkie went forward to do the ordering.

“Well hello there girls!  What can I get you?” asked the pony running the stand.

“Hello, I’d like a soft serve swirly in a waffle cone and a peach parfait for my sister and…um, Twilight, what would you like?” Pinkie said turning to Twilight nervously.

“I’d like an extra large banana split with extra chocolate and extra cherries and all the nuts you’ve got and a scoop of ever flavor you’ve got…”

“Whoa, don’t you think that’s a bit too much for you, Twilight?” asked the stand pony.

“Um, she’ll take a cone of pony hooves, Miss.”

“Aw man, I wanted a split, Pinkie!”

“Hehe, too much coffee…” Pinkie whispered to the stand pony. “Oh, and I would like an extra bowl and spoon if you don’t mind.”

A few minutes later they bought their ice cream and sat down at a picnic table to eat.

“Why did you get a bowl, Sis?” Peachy asked her sister.

“Because I’m not gonna eat the cone, Peachy, this is what I’m gonna do instead…” she then used her magic to dump the ice cream off of her cone and into the bowl and then took the bottle of pastel purple paint out of its bag.  She began painting the cone and blew on it to dry it off.  “Ok, Twilight, remove the hat.” Twilight took Applejack’s hat off and Pinkie placed the cone right on her forehead.

“Oooooh, that’s what it was for!  That was pretty clever, Sissy Pie!” Peachy complimented.

“Wow, a purple cone!  Is it grape flavored now?  CAN I EAT IT?!” Twilight said starting to drool.

“No, Twilight!  You need that there so people will think it’s your horn and won’t figure out what happened to you.” Pinkie warned.

“Aw………Okay!”

“Now, Twilight, this is what’s going to happen.” Pinkie said quietly while Twilight was eating her ice cream and listening. “I’m gonna go back to my apartment tonight and rest up, and you’ll go to the library and do the same.  Tomorrow, I’ll go to work, and you stay in the library but close it cuz chances are you won’t be able to run it in this current state.  If you need to go out to get some fresh air or just walk around, make sure you keep a low profile and don’t act like I do, try to not be loud or obnoxious or anything.”

“Can I come to Sugarcube corner with you?”

“Well, no, because if you’ve got my personality, that might make you want to eat some of the food, and then the Cakes and everyone else would figure out what we did wrong.

“Aw sugar.  Oh well, I’ll try doing something fun in the library with Spike or something…”

“Also, Sis, what about your horn?  Shouldn’t you cover that up without having to mess your hair up like that?” asked Peachy.

“Yes, I’m going to go buy myself a hat over at Rarity’s boutique before closing hours and cover it up.  I also gotta stay away from using magic.  It’s pretty convenient, but no one must know…”

While Pinkie was talking, Twilight was just licking away at her ice cream enjoying the flavor.

“Now we did the spell at about five o’ clock, so that means tomorrow night at five we should both be back to normal.  And I sure hope it automatically goes back to normal, because even though I can use simple telekinetic magic with this horn, I doubt I’d be able to use any ultra-powerful ones…… still, we should be alright.  At least I’ll be able to impress Mr. and Mrs. Cake tomorrow at work.  They’ll be so proud of me!”

“Yup, and you’ll never eat one of those treats again when you’re not supposed to!” said Twilight throwing the rest of her cone into her mouth and gulping it down.

Just then the Cutie Mark Crusaders: Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom all walked by and said hi to Twilight and the others.

“Hey there, Twilight!  Have ya seen mah sister anywhere ‘round here?” Apple Bloom asked Twilight.

“Oh yeah, she was just down at the library with us while I used a spell to-“

“T-TO SHOW US A COOL TRICK!” Pinkie said loudly before Twilight would give away their secret. “Yes, Twilight wanted to show everyone a pretty cool spell and Applejack was there, hehe.” She then kicked Applejack’s hat under the picnic table so Apple Bloom wouldn’t see it.

“Uh, ok then.  Where is she now?”

“Oh I’ll bet she’s on her way home back to your farm…”

“What’s up with your hair, Pinkie?” asked Scootaloo.

“Oh, my hair?  Eh, bad hair day I suppose, hehehe.”

“So what are you girls up to?” asked Twilight. “Still trying to get your cutie marks?

“Yeah, not much luck though.” Sweetie Belle said.

“Well, maybe you could always stop by the library and maybe read some books and see if one of them will tell ya something helpful!”

“TWILIGHT!” said Pinkie out of the side of her mouth. “NOT OPEN TOMORROW!”

“Oh yeah.  Sorry, girls, but I just remembered the library isn’t open tomorrow.  But who’s to say tomorrow won’t be a pretty sun-shiny day anyways, right?!” Twilight said with a big grin on her face as the Crusaders all looked at her awkwardly.  They could tell something fishy was going on.

“Um……well, we should all get going now, it’s getting pretty late, don’t you think, Twilight?” Pinkie asked Twilight.

“Oh, yeah, I guess you’re right!  I forgot I already finished my ice cream!  Hehehe!”

“HAHAHAHA…….ha….” Pinkie laughed along with her to try and sound more ridiculous so that the little fillies wouldn’t know that they had each other’s personalities switched.  “Well, let’s go Peachy, we gotta get you home before it’s past your bed time.”



Pinkie then walked her sister back home and then took Twilight back to the library before returning Applejack’s hat.

“Now Twilight, remember, you gotta close this library so no one will come in and see what’s happened to you.” Pinkie told her.

“You can count on me, Pinkie!” Twilight assured her friend.

“So that means don’t let anypony in and remember to keep a low profile if you go out.”

“Gotcha!”

“Alright, I’m gonna go back to my apartment now.  I hope you have fun tomorrow even if no one can come in here.”

“And I hope you have fun tomorrow being Little Miss Serious Bu-derious!  Hehehe!”  Twilight then close the door and Pinkie took her sister back home.

“I sure hope this goes well, Sissy Pie.” said Peachy to her sister.

“Oh I’ll be fine Peachy.  Tomorrow will be excellent at work; I just hope Twilight doesn’t do anything stupid…”

“Well, what would your normal self do if you were stuck in a library with nothing to do all day?”

“That’s just what worries me……my old self could never tolerate silence…I just hope Twilight still can…”




TO BE CONTINUED...

> Twilight throws...........a party?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


CHAPTER 4 - Twilight throws.........a party?



The next morning, Pinkie left her apartment above Sugarcube Corner quickly and went to the Carousel Boutique to buy herself a hat to cover up her horn.

“I think this hat will suit you best, Pinkie.” said Rarity showing her a nice blue hat with yellow and pink balloons on it. “I stitched in those balloons for you to match your cutie mark.”

“Why thank you, Rarity!” Pinkie said delightedly. “and it’s just the right size for me to cover up the horn.” She then lifted it with her magic and placed it on her head covering the horn up. She then paid five bits to Rarity for the horn. “Alright, I’d better be on my way now…”

“I sure hope work goes well for you today, Darling.”

“I do too, as well as Twilight.  She better not let anyone in the library…”



Pinkie then walked back to Sugarcube Corner to open it up.  She was there a bit early and a few of the workers got there before the Cakes did.  Pinkie had already started working on her treats she had scheduled to make.  The rest of the workers were somewhat amused that she wasn’t fooling around this time and was working rather diligently.  She wasn’t even the first one to say hi to them when they walked in; she was so engrossed in her work.  They ended up being the first ones to greet her and she greeted them back but quickly returned to her work.  A few minutes after the opening, Mr. and Mrs. Cake arrived to the Corner.  They saw Pinkie with her new hat and that she had already started ahead of everyone and seemed to be working harder than normal.  She was working so hard that she hadn’t even noticed them in there yet.

“Well Honey Bun, Pinkie seems to be working rather diligently today, wouldn’t you say?” commented Mr. Cake.

“Why yes, Carrot.  That is rather different.” said Mrs. Cake.  “I believe this is the first time we’ve walked in to a rather quiet and studious Pinkie.  Perhaps she took what we said the other day into consideration…”

“Let’s go check and see…”

They both walked over and it appeared Pinkie was working on the cherry bunt cake she ruined the other day.

“Oh, Pinkie, you’re remaking that cake I see!” said Mrs. Cake.

“Huh?  Oh, hi Mr. and Mrs. Cake!”  Pinkie said looking up quickly. “Yeah, I decided I owe you guys since I ruined it the other day.”

“And that’s a rather lovely hat you’re wearing.  What’s the occasion?” asked Mr. Cake.

“Oh, it’s just a hat I picked up from the boutique cuz I liked it.  Um……by the way, I wanted to apologize to you two for the way I acted the other day.  I shouldn’t have been so selfish and should have just left the treats alone.  But I thought about what you told me and I’ve decided it’s time to buck up and be more responsible.  You guys were right to tell me what you did and I promise I’ll be a better worker from now on.”

Mr. and Mrs. Cake just stood there rather dumbfounded.  They hadn’t expected to hear something like this from Pinkie Pie and almost couldn’t believe they were hearing it.  Finally Mrs. Cake spoke up.

“Well……well we’re very glad for that Pinkie!” she said. “It’s good to know you thought about what we said!  So now you know how to behave?”

“Oh you know it!  From now on, I’ll only eat what belongs to me and no confection shall go unharmed!” she said taking out a bag of cherries and dumping them neatly on top of the cake. “There!  And no tasting this time, it’s ready to go!  NEXT!!” she called as a coworker brought in a clean tray for her to start the next cake.

“Wow!  You sure have turned over a new leaf, Pinkie!” said Mr. Cake. “I’m proud you’ve finally decided to take things seriously!”

“Believe me, so am I!  I NEED A NEW ICING TUBE!”

The Cakes walked back to their table and talked amongst each other.

“I didn’t think this day would come, Honey Bun!” said Mr. Cake.

“I know, Carrot, she’s like a whirling dervish over there!  Well, a different kind of whirling dervish that is……a serious one!”



Back at the library, the door had its “Sorry, We’re Closed” sign on it and Twilight and Spike were just sitting in the middle of the first floor.  Both seemed rather unoccupied and miserable waiting for something exciting to happen.  Since the library wasn’t being used, Spike didn’t need to do any chores and Twilight didn’t feel like reading any books since she had a new personality.

“Bored?” Spike asked.

“Yeah.” Twilight responded.

They both sighed and kept sitting staring into space.

“So……wanna play a game or something?” he asked her.

“A game?  OOOOH, I LOVE GAMES!!!” she shouted leaning her head over to him.

“WHOA, WHOA, OKAY, I GET IT!” Spike called stumbling backwards. “Alright, we’ll play a game.  Let’s see what we have here...” He walked over to a shelf that had board games stacked in it. “What do you wanna play?  We have Scrabble, Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Sorry…”

“OOOH, TWISTER, I WANNA PLAY TWISTER!”

“Uh, Twilight, I don’t think that’s such a good idea.  Remember what happened last time we played Twister?”

“Oh yeah………………………………er, wait, no I don’t remember what happened last time we played Twister…”

Spike face-palmed, “You got yourself tangled up and you almost broke your left hind leg and after I got you untangled you said to me ‘Spike, put that confounded board game away, I never want to get myself almost hurt like that again!’………and you vowed to never try it again.”

“Ooooooooh, so that’s what happened………LET’S DO IT AGAIN!!!”

Just then somepony knocked on the door.

“We have a customer Spike!” Twilight said rushing to the door.

“What?!  NO, TWILIGHT, WE CAN’T LET THEM IN!”

But it was too late, Twilight had opened the door to greet two ponies there.

“Why hello, Twilight!” said one of the ponies.

“Hey guys, what’s up?!”

“Uh……you’re not busy are you?”

“Busy?  Nope, I’m fine.  Fine and dandy, hehehe!”

The ponies both looked at each other awkwardly for they never had seen Twilight like this before.

“Uh……can we come in then?  We’re looking for the book titled-”

“No guys, we’re closed!” said Spike pushing his way by Twilight, “Didn’t you read the sign?”

“Oh, we’re sorry, we didn’t see that?  What’s wrong with the library?”

“Well, see Pinkie Pie says that I can’t let anypony in cuz I’m-”

“BECAUSE WE’RE CLEANING!!!  Yes, yes, we’re cleaning the library!  Cuz, um……it needs to be cleaned.  Okay everypony, bye now, nice talking to you, see ya!” said Spike gently pushing the ponies away and then rushing back to Twilight and pushed her back into the library and slammed the door behind him.

“That wasn’t very nice, Spike.” said Twilight disappointedly.

“I’m sorry, Twilight, but remember, we’re not supposed to let anyone in cuz it’s closed cuz you’re different!”

“Oops...”

“Now listen, if you wanna play Twister, I’m gonna have to go look for it up in the attic cuz that’s where you told me to put it away.  So I’ll be right back while I go find it right now…”

“Okie dokie Loki!”

“Sheesh, she really is starting to sound like Pinkie!” he mumbled to himself going up the stairs to find the board game.
Suddenly the door knocked again and Twilight forgot all about the closed library.  She went to open the door to see three other different ponies.

“Hey guys, how are ya?”

“Hey there, Twilight, we saw the library was closed today and we were just wondering when it will reopen.  Me and my friends would really like to look for this one book…”

“Closed?  Oh, uh………it’s not closed.” She said turning the sign around. “The wind just blew the sign the other way.  Come on in!”

“Oh.  Well then, thanks!” 

“So, what do you guys wanna do?”  she asked them as they came in.

“Uh…well, we’re here to find a book if that’s what you mean.”

“Oh really?  Cuz I’m kinda bored and I was thinking of throwing a party in here or something.”

“A party?  Twilight, since when do YOU of all ponies throw parties?” one of the ponies asked rather confused.

“I dunno, I’m just kinda in a party mood.  You guys wanna help me with it?”

“Well we’re only here to get a book.  Do you think you should be throwing a party in the library?”

“Oh sure, what’s the worst that could happen?”

“Well, you’re usually a rather tidy pony.  Wouldn’t you be mad if we kinda……you know, trashed the place?”

“Nah, Pinkie Pie threw a party in here the first time I ever came to Ponyville and the place is perfectly fine!”

“Yeah, but………you’re Twilight Sparkle, you never do that kinda thing.”

“Not anymore!  I’m just feeling good today and it never hurts to have fun!”

“Uh……well, I guess it wouldn’t hurt as long as it’s just a fun little party…”

“Alright!  Now we’re gonna need some food, and cake, and games, and music, and…”



Back at Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie was doing very well.  She had made several large cakes and dozens of muffins and cupcakes.  She was working very swiftly and diligently and all the ponies were impressed with her progress.  Some of them even forgot what they were doing and left their tables just to go see her work.  They all asked her why she was being such a good worker today and she just replied saying “I’ve decided to just be a better worker, guys.” which obviously wasn’t the whole truth, but no one really cared, they were just glad she was making the treats instead of eating them for once.  She was very energetic yet organized with how she made her confections, she even was able to add on to her “Cupcakes” song while making some.

<i>All ya gotta do is take a cup of flower
Add it to the mix!
Now just take a little something sweet not sour
A bit of salt just a pinch!
Baking these treats is such a cinch
Add a teaspoon of vanilla!
Add a little more, then ya count to four
And you never get your filla!
Cupcakes!  So sweet and tasty!
Cupcakes!  Don’t be too hasty!
Cupcakes!  Cupcakes, cupcakes, CUPCAAAAAAAAKES!!

Now it’s time to bake them in the oven
Cook em till ya hear a beep!
Take em out and let em cool for a while
Cuz if ya eat em hot, you’ll weep!
Then ya take some icing and top it good
Add some candy or some cherries!
Put em on a tray, sell em all away
And everypony will be merry!
Cupcakes!  So sweet and tasty!
Cupcakes!  Don’t be too hasty!
Cupcakes!  Cupcakes, cupcakes, CUPCAAAAAAAAKES!!</i>

Pinkie worked and worked all day and even decided to work past her hours.  She had made a dozen cakes and around fifty cupcakes and muffins.  The Cakes were very proud of her.

“My Pinkie, I’ve never seen you this productive before!” exclaimed Mr. Cake looking at all the cupcakes on the trays.

“Yes, you’ve done even more work than me or Mr. Cake could ever do in one day!” said Mrs. Cake.

“Thanks guys!  I just really felt the need to get my flanks in gear today and do some working!” Pinkie replied.

“And it was awfully nice of you to even stay past your hours to make sure it was all done!” Mr. Cake told her pointing to the nearest clock in the corner.

“Yup, I thought I might as well finish…OH MY GOODNESS, IT’S ALMOST FIVE O’ CLOCK!!!” she screamed realizing that she had ten minutes until the time the spell wore off.  “Oh I am so sorry Mr. and Mrs. Cake, but I just realized I am late for something!  I really gotta go!”	

“Oh, well, it’s alright dear, you’ve done quite enough work for today anyhow.” Mrs. Cake assured her.

“But where are you going?  Are you sure you’re alright?” asked Mr. Cake wondering why she was leaving the actual building which had the apartment above that she lived in.

“Oh, it’s something I promised one of my friends I’d do with her this afternoon, and I was supposed to be there after I was done but I lost track of the time!  Oh I really have to get going, but I’ll see you guys tomorrow, okay, good bye now!” she said rushing out the door to hurry back to the library before time ran out.

“Honey Bun, do you think perhaps there might be something wrong with Pinkie?” Mr. Cake asked his wife.

“Well, she did seem a bit different, but for the better at least.” she replied.

“Yes, but…she seemed a bit TOO different.  How could she change so quickly like that?  I get the feeling we were a bit too hard on her and that she’s now trying a bit too hard to please us…”

“Well, she does seem a bit odd.  I do hope she’s ok…”



Pinkie was sprinting toward the library and stopped abruptly at the door.

“Oh phew!  I still have five minutes left!  Well, it sure was a good first day of……wait, what’s that noise?” she said peering in through the windows of the library.  She saw a bunch of ponies in there dancing to loud music and saw Twilight on top of a table dancing with them. “OH NO NO NO!  I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN!!!”  she then threw the door open and the music only got louder so she closed it quickly.  All around the library, there were streamers and popped balloons and a bunch of crumbs from half-eaten treats that Twilight had let the other ponies eat.  She recognized a lot of these ponies from some of the parties she had thrown or that had helped her with parties in the past at Sugarcube Corner.  Some of them were even her coworkers!  Spike came rushing up right next to Pinkie.

“PINKIE, I SWEAR I DID NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!  I TRIED TO STOP HER!” he said frantically.

“WHY DIDN’T YOU COME GET ME, SPIKE?!?” she called to him over the music.

“I’M SORRY, THE THOUGHT DIDN’T CROSS MY MIND, I CAN BARELY EVEN HEAR MYSELF THINK WITH ALL THIS CRAZY MUSIC!!”

Just then Twilight did a stage dive and the ponies carried her above their hooves till she landed off the edge of the crowd right in front of Pinkie and Spike.

“OH HEY THERE PINKIE!  WANNA JOIN US?  THE PARTY’S JUST GETTING STA-“

“TWILIGHT, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?!?  I TOLD YOU NOT TO LET ANYPONY IN AND KEEP A LOW PROFILE!!!!”

“OH YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, SILLY ME, HEHEHE…”

Pinkie then rushed over and pulled the plug on the stereo and the music stopped and all the ponies looked around confused.  She ran up on top of the table in the center that Twilight was standing on.

“Alright, alright everypony, the party is over, now go home all of you!!” she shouted angrily.

All the ponies stood there dumbfounded at hearing Pinkie Pie, the most playful party pony in all of Ponyville, say such a thing.  It only took a moment for her to realize what she had just told them.

“Er……uh……I mean……JUST KIDDING!  AHAHAHA!  LIKE I WOULD EVER SAY THAT AND MEAN IT!!”  All the other ponies laughed with her thinking she was serious at first.

“But seriously guys, I think it’s time we ended this party, okay?”

“But Pinkie…” said one of the ponies, “…don’t you wanna stay and party with us?  You always love parties!”

“Oh of course I love parties!  But I know Twilight has a lot of work to do…” she said while looking angrily back at Twilight and talking out of the side of her mouth, “…and we can always just finish the party some other time, right?”

The ponies all left miserably and Pinkie said bye to them in her best cheerful accent she could to hide her new personality.

“Come again though, thanks!”  She then turned to Twilight after the door had closed.  “TWILIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!”

“I’m sorry Pinkie, I was just so darn bored!  I didn’t know what else to do!” Twilight explained nervously.

“Do you realize what you’ve just done?!  You’ve basically just let half of Ponyville know what’s happened to you!  Now word of this will get out!  But luckily for us, once word does get out, no one will be able to tell!  We’re just about to see the spell end cuz it’s 4:59 right now!” she said pointing to the clock on the wall above them.  They all waited for less than a minute until the clock struck five, but nothing happened.  Pinkie took off her hat only to find she still had the horn.

“That’s strange.  Where’s the breaking of the spell?” she asked.

“Um…maybe the clock’s a bit too fast?” Spike said.

“Or maybe the spell is permanent.” Twilight said.

“Why do I get the feeling she’s right…” Pinkie said worriedly.

They waited another twenty minutes and still nothing happened.  The spell wasn’t wearing off yet.

“Don’t worry Pinkie, sometimes these one-day spells last a little more than a day…” Spike said trying to calm down Pinkie who was walking back and forth anxiously.

“This is not good!  I’m gonna have to look in that book the Princess gave you and see if I can learn that spell and turn us both back!” she said bringing the book over to look at it.

“So does that mean you’ll be spending the night?” Twilight asked her.

“Well, I’m going to have to!”

“YAY, A SLEEPOVER!”

“Except I’m not gonna be sleeping Twilight!  I’m gonna stay up half the night and try to learn this spell!”

“Pinkie, why are you in such a rush to break the spell?” Spike asked.

“Because, Spike, everypony will find out about this little fiasco at the library and then they’ll find out what happened to me and Twilight and the mayor will probably find a replacement for Twilight and fire her from working here!  I cannot let that happen!”

“Maybe we could just switch jobs, Pinkie!” Twilight said excitedly.

“No Twilight!  I’m not going to have us both switch our lives around completely just because we performed a spell that went wrong!  We’re getting back to normal and that’s the bottom line!”



While Twilight and Spike were sleeping, Pinkie stayed up reading the book and how to perform the spell.  She even had Owloysius the owl bring her other books that told the basics to performing powerful magic spells, for she still wasn’t even ready to use the easier ones.

“Oh Owloysius, I sure hope I can get this spell fixed and bring Twilight back to her normal self!  I would hate for her to get kicked out of here!

“Hoo!” said the little owl.

“Twilight.  You know, the purple pony you help at night?”

“Hoo!”

“Never mind…” Pinkie sighed looking back down at the book.




TO BE CONTINUED...

> A Spell Unbreakable
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


CHAPTER 5 - A Spell Unbreakable




Pinkie made every effort to stay up all night studying the reverse spell, but she ended up falling asleep with her face in the book.  Suddenly a nearby rooster in Ponyville crowed and she woke up.  Her face was molded like the middle of the book and then popped back into its place.  She sat bolt upright and realized what had happened.

“Oh pony feathers, I fell asleep!  Now it’s gonna take me longer to learn this darn spell!!”

Twilight then walked downstairs with Spike, both of them yawning and still looking tired.

“Hey Pinkie, how’s it going?” Twilight asked her.

“Not too good you guys.  I fell asleep!  I’m gonna have to go a few more hours without anything but studying to the best of my ability!”

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Rainbow Dash’s voice could be heard.

“Pinkie, Twilight, you guys in there?  It’s Rainbow Dash, I have some pretty important news you might wanna hear…” she said through the lock.

Pinkie, Twilight, and Spike all went over to the door and opened it.  Rainbow Dash was there along with Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack.

“Rainbow Dash!” said Pinkie, “What are you guys all doing here?”

“Pinkie, we heard about what happened last night…” said Applejack dismally.

“I know guys, I’m sorry, we didn’t……wait……SOMEONE TOLD YOU?!?”

“Yeah, it’s all over Ponyville.  Party at the Library: Hosted by Twilight Sparkle.” explained Rainbow Dash.

“OH MY GOODNESS!!  I was afraid of this!  Now everypony in Ponyville knows!  Oh what are we going to do?!?”

“Well, now, let’s not panic, everypony.” said Rarity. “Have you found a way to undo the spell yet Pinkie?”

“I’m working on that right now actually…”

“How’s it coming along?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“Not good.  I’ve been studying almost all night but I fell asleep.  It’s so hard to grasp, even though I’m more intelligent and studious now…”

“Um…Pinkie?” asked Fluttershy. “Wouldn’t it be better if you just asked Princess Celestia to undo the spell?”

“Yeah, Pinkie, Princess Celestia would know what to do!  She’s the most powerful pony in Equestria!” exclaimed Twilight.

“We can’t let the Princess know, Twilight!  I don’t wanna make her mad, and I wouldn’t want her to know you misused a powerful spell right after you showed her how capable you are with magic!” Pinkie told her.

“Well, you’d better let the Cakes know ya won’t be workin’ at the Corner.” said Applejack. “They’ll be worried ‘bout you…”

“Ok, here’s the plan: Rainbow Dash, you go over to Sugarcube Corner and just tell Mr. and Mrs. Cake that I’m…….uh, sick.  I’m very sick and I chose to spend the night over at Twilight’s cuz……uh……I didn’t want to spread anything over at the corner…”

“Uh, ok Pinkie, but I dunno if the Cakes will buy it…” Rainbow Dash said flying over toward Sugarcube Corner.

“The rest of you ponies, just stay outside here and keep anypony from coming in here, okay?” Pinkie told the rest of her friends.

“But Pinkie, what if somepony asks what’s going on in here?” Rarity asked.

“Just tell them whatever excuse comes to your minds, you ponies are smart!” Pinkie said getting a little frantic.  “Now, I gotta go study that spell more, I should be able to get it down by tonight some time…”

“You can count on us, Sugarcube, we’ll protect the library!” said Applejack as Pinkie closed the door. “It’s a darn good thing we all have the day off!”



“Sick?!” Mr. and Mrs. Cake said surprised.

“Yeah, she was pretty sick.  Some kind of bug going on around here I think.  She didn’t sound too good, that’s why she wanted to be out of her apartment above, she thought she’d spread it to the corner I guess…”

“Well, that’s rather odd that Pinkie was doing so well here yesterday and now she’s sick…” said Mr. Cake.

“Does she know when she’ll be alright again, Rainbow Dash?” Mrs. Cake asked.

“I dunno, but it could be a few days or maybe just one day.  But anyways, I gotta go now, I’m……uh……late for cloud cleaning on this…uh……bright…shiny day…um, I gotta go, bye!” Rainbow Dash said nervously walking out of the door with the Cakes looking rather confused.

“Man, poor Pinkie and Twilight.” she thought to herself. “This really didn’t go well.  But she’s not gonna be able to reverse the spell.  Only Twilight would be able to do that and Twilight’s not the one with the magic horn, Pinkie is, but it would take her forever to learn how to use that thing!”  Rainbow Dash sighed and then looked to the city of Canterlot up in the mountains where the Princess resides.  “I’d say the Princess is the only one who can help with this.  I should just go fly to Canterlot and warn her or something…  In fact, that’s just what I’m gonna do!”

Rainbow Dash then opened her wings and flew to the sky through the clouds and toward the great city of Canterlot.  She had to hurry fast and warn the Princess quickly before all of Ponyville would be in a ruckus about this situation.



For the next ten hours, Pinkie studied and studied as hard as ever from the book.  Meanwhile, Twilight was upstairs with Spike playing games to pass the time.  Spike didn’t really seem to be enjoying it.  He missed the old Twilight and was starting to get annoyed with the new one.  He finally just asked her politely if he could go downstairs and do some bookkeeping chores and she let him.  He came down to do it and ask Pinkie how it was coming along with the spell.

“Hey Pinkie, you almost finished learning that spell?  I’m really starting to miss the old Twilight a lot…” he said miserably.

“Not yet, Spike…” she said without looking at him.

“Okay, well while you’re at it, I’m gonna clean up some of these books and the garbage we missed last night…” he said walking around and picking up the streamers and balloons from the party Twilight threw.

Pinkie studied and studied for a while longer, and then finally put the book down and was ready to reverse the spell.

“Finally!  I think I have it down now!  Spike, go get Twilight!” she told Spike as he rushed upstairs.  Within a few minutes, Twilight was downstairs.

“Hey Pinkie, Spike says you’re ready to change us back!” she said.

“I sure am Twilight!  Once and for all!”

“Yeah, but I’m gonna miss being like this!  I almost don’t wanna go back…”

“Too bad, we’re gonna reverse it!”

“Awwww…”

Pinkie then closed her eyes and her horn glowed with light and sparkles started surrounding the two of them.  They floated a bit in midair and then the light got brighter and suddenly there was a puff of pixie dust around them and they both landed back on the ground.  Neither of them felt different, Pinkie still had her horn, and instead of switching their personalities, she switched their hair styles!

“Wow, I look awesome!” Twilight said.

“AAACK!!!  Not what I meant to do!” Pinkie yelped.

Pinkie then tried again, and there was another puff of dust, but no change in personalities, this time they switched their cutie marks.

“Ah great, wrong thing again!” Pinkie said rolling her eyes.

She tried it again, but their colors were switched.

“Oh come on, why is this so hard to do?!?” she said starting to get rather angry.

She tried again even harder and they both turned into pegasi, but luckily Pinkie still had her horn.

“Oh good, I’m an Alicorn, hopefully that’ll make me more powerful this time!”

But it didn’t work, she had turned them into two baby dragons that looked like Spike but Pinkie still had her horn luckily.

“COOL!  Look Spike, we look just like you!” said Twilight excitedly.

“Wow…” Spike replied with his eyes widened. “Uh……Pinkie, think you could change Rarity into a dragon for just a day or two?” he said blushing romantically.

“GRRRRR, WHY CAN’T I GET THIS RIGHT?!?” Pinkie screamed ignoring Spike’s request.  “Okay, okay, calm down Pinkie, you got this!  Just concentrate!  It was only the first few times, it’s no big deal!”

Pinkie’s horn glowed and she tried again, but the results were the same with Pinkie still having her horn:  next was a pair of chickens with their corresponding colors.  She tried again with faster intervals between each transformation: next was two fish flailing on the ground gasping for breath.  Next was two owls.  Next was two bunny rabbits.  Two deer…two donkeys…two songbirds…two mice…two cats…an apple and an orange…salt and pepper…milk and cookies…burger and fries…clock and candle…and finally a rather odd mix-up of all their body parts combined in two separate bodies.  Finally a huge puff of pixie dust exploded and they both fell down to the ground dizzy.

“Wow……that was pretty fun……let’s do it again…” said Twilight with her eyes spinning in her head.

Pinkie had just about had it and finally burst into tears.

“AHAHAHA!!!  WHY CAN’T I DO THIS, WHAHAHY?!?  I’M A FAILURE, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FAILURE!!!  OH TWILIGHT, I’M SO SORRY I LET THIS ALL HAPPEN, I’M SUCH A BAD PONY!!!” she cried while embracing Twilight.

“There there now Pinkie, it’s ok, everything will be fine!” said Twilight trying to be positive.

“IT IS NOT OK TWILIGHT AND EVERYTHING WILL NOT BE FINE!!!” said Pinkie grabbing Twilight’s face and shaking her head back and forth.  “LOOK AT US, WE’RE NEVER GONNA GET BACK TO NORMAL AT THIS RATE!!!”

“Pinkie, calm down!” Spike said to her trying to get her to stop being so hysterical. “You just need more time, that’s all!”

“Time is something we don’t have, Spike!  The Mayor will hear about this and we’ll both be in big trouble!”

Just then the door opened a bit and Fluttershy peeped her head in to tell them something.

“Um, Pinkie, just so you know, there is a multitude of ponies out here wondering what’s going on.” she told Pinkie.  “We’re doing the best we can do get them to think everything is ok, but they won’t leave…”

Pinkie had a horrified and worried look on her face.  “I spoke too soon…” she said.



“Come on guys, please, I have to see the Princess!!” shouted Rainbow Dash to the two guard ponies at the opened doors of Princess Celestia’s throne room.  They had their wings crossed together keeping Rainbow Dash from entering.

“Young lady, we’re sorry, but you must make an appointment with the Princess prior to your arrival.” said one of the guards firmly.

“But this is very urgent, I swear!”

“Miss, we cannot let you in here!”

Rainbow Dash gave a pouty expression and then walked up to the guard on the right and tried making funny faces at him like last time.  She kept making them until she finally gave up for the guards were too austere to even laugh at her.

“GRRRRR!  Look, if you don’t let me in, you’re gonna be sorry, you hear!” she said getting a bit too feisty putting her hooves up in front of her as if she was ready to fight.  “YOU’D BETTER LET ME IN RIGHT NOW OR I’LL……I’LL…”

“Rainbow Dash?” said a familiar voice from behind the guards.

“PRINCESS!!!  Oh I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to…”


“What are you doing here?” the princess asked.

“My Lady, we apologize.”  said one of the guards, “She said she wanted to see you, but you specifically said that everypony must make an appointment…” 

“It’s alright, Sir, I think I can take it from here.  Leave us please.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” said both of the guards obeying her.

“Rainbow Dash, is there a problem?” Celestia asked the young pony.

“A HUGE problem Princess.  As in like, super-duper-could-get-worse-if-we-don’t-do-something-about-it-righ-now problem!  You see, Pinkie Pie was kinda all disappointed with herself and she was all like ‘Oh, woe is me, I should be more serious about things’ and whatnot, so then she asked Twilight to use this uber powerful spell on her to change her personality for just one day but somehow Twilight ended up switching their personalities around but Pinkie thought ‘Oh well, it only lasts a day’ and didn’t think much of it so yesterday she went to work, but then it turned out the spell was permanent and…” she gasped quickly for air and then continued, “…and she got all worried and is trying to learn how to use the spell right now, but like she’ll be able to turn them both back before all of Ponyville is in an uproar cuz last night Twilight took it a bit too far and threw a party there and now everypony’s gonna get worried and this just isn’t gonna turn out good, you gotta do something about this!!”

Princess Celestia seemed a bit confused and probably didn’t follow along with what Rainbow Dash was saying, but she did realize the main problem.

“Wait, did you say that Twilight Sparkle used a powerful spell to change personalities?” she asked Rainbow Dash.

“Yeah, yeah she did but they ended up switched, so now Twilight is the party pony and Pinkie is the know-it-all but they gotta change soon cuz it’s creating problems!”

“Oh dear…I was afraid this would happen someday.”

“You were?”

“Yes, I probably should have warned Twilight about that spell, it’s not a very safe spell to be using.  Not even the most powerful unicorns have been able to grasp that spell quite so easily; in fact, it’s been outlawed in most provinces of Equestria.  I probably shouldn’t have even given her that book; it doesn’t do too good with explaining the warnings of that spell…”

“Well, I dunno about the book, but that spell sure isn’t what we expected!”

“Alright, Rainbow Dash, I will come with you to Ponyville and turn them back if I must.”

“So, you really can turn them back to normal lickity-split?”

“I have the most powerful magic skills in Equestria, my child, so yes, I will most definitely be able to turn them both back.”

“Oh good, cuz man this whole thing is starting to make me go bonkers!  I mean seriously, Pinkie Pie all serious and Twilight crazy?  This is, like, INSANE!!!”




TO BE CONTINUED...

> Leave it to Princess Celestia
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


CHAPTER 6 - Leave it to Princess Celestia




Several ponies stood outside of the Ponyville Library angered by it being closed for two days straight.  Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack were all trying their hardest to come up with a good story…

“Why on Earth would Twilight Sparkle close this library for two days just to throw a party?!” asked one male pony.

“Yeah, I have several books that were due yesterday and now I’ve been charged extra for having to keep them longer!” said a female pony.

“Look everypony, we understand ya’ll ain’t too happy ‘bout this…” Applejack explained, “…but Twilight has a very good reason for closin’ the library, alright?”

“Then tell us this reason!”

“She’s uh……she’s……uh…………”

“She’s sick.” Fluttershy finished.

“Oh my, yes, very sick!” said Rarity, “So sick she couldn’t even come out!  She was afraid her illness would spread!”

“Yeah, we’re guessin she ate too much junk food after that party…” Applejack said.

“Well why was she throwing a party here in the first place?!” asked a pony.

“She was………uh………happy?”

“Well that explains a lot!” said one rather disgruntled pony in a sarcastic manner.

“Yeah, and how come Pinkie Pie, of all ponies, then came in and did the total opposite of what she would usually do and shooed them all away?” said another.

“They were roleplaying, everypony.” said Fluttershy.

“Roleplaying?”

“Yes, roleplayin!  To…you know……try to figure out who they really are?” Applejack added.

“You ponies are lying to us!  We can see it in your eyes!” said the angry pony

“We’re wasting our time arguing with them, everypony!  Maybe we should go get the Mayor, she’ll know how to deal with this!” said another.

“MAYOR?!?  Oh no, please no Mayor, ponies, this ain’t that big of a deal!” Applejack pleaded, but several of the ponies had already left to go find the Mayor.  “We are all of us so doomed right now…”



Peachy Pie was watching from behind a nearby building.  She had just heard of what happened in the library and knew very well what was going on.  Her parents hadn’t heard yet though and she was worried about what might happen once they found out.

“This is so bad…” she said to herself. “I never should have let Pinkie make Twilight use that spell!  Now she’ll never go back to her normal self.  What am I to do?  And worst is that she’s still in that library trying to figure out how to undo it but all of Ponyville is already in an uproar and she’s having her friends lie for her!  She’s gotta tell the truth here soon.  I gotta go get Mom and Dad; they’re the only ones who can talk some sense into her!  Hang in there, Sissy Pie, help is on the way!”  She then galloped away to her house to find her parents and get them to talk to Pinkie.



Meanwhile at the library, Pinkie, Twilight and Spike all snuck out of the back of the library from a door the public didn’t know about.  Pinkie was very stressed and had practically already given up on finding a solution.

“It’s over, Twilight…we’re never going to find a way to fix this…” she said sadly.

“We’ll find a way somehow Pinkie…” said Twilight trying to cheer her up.

“Well if we ever did, it’s gonna take a while and the town is never gonna forget this…  I’d hate to see how the Mayor will react to this.”

“Do you really think the Mayor will have Twilight fired and replaced?” asked Spike.

“I dunno, but it’s possible……I’ve ruined everything.  I’ve ruined my own personality along with Twilight’s, and now I’ve ruined her career…”

“Pinkamena Diane Pie…” said a voice from behind.

Pinkie gasped as she saw both of her parents walking towards her with Peachy by them.  She quickly messed up her bangs to hide her horn and put on her best smile.

“OH, MOM, DAD!!  Hey guys…how…how are you?!”

“Pinkie, we know about what happened.” said her father.

“You…you do?”

“I’m sorry, Sis, I had to tell them, they’re your parents, they gotta know.” said Peachy.

Pinkie finally gave in and showed them her horn. “Are you guys really angry at me?”

“Not at all, Pinkie.” said her father.

“Pinkie, look, we understand if perhaps you might have wanted to change a bit…” said her mother. “…but please know that your father, sisters, and I all love you for the way you still are.  When you brought joy to our family years ago, we all finally knew what it meant to be happy.  You were the source of our joy and the reason we all get along now.”

“Your mother is right, Pinkie.  You shouldn’t change who you are just to please others.”


“But I just wanted to make a better impression on the Cakes.” Pinkie started saying, “I thought they were really disappointed with me.  Well now we all know how well it went.  All I wanted to do was to have Twilight here use a spell, but it turned out the spell wasn’t as trustworthy as we expected.  Now we’re stuck in each other’s bodies practically and I can’t find a way to fix it!  And now everything is a wreck!”

“Pinkie, you’ll find a way, but I think it’s time the ponies of this town got to hear some honesty from you.” said her father.

“That’s right, Sis, you can’t tell anymore lies about this; you need to let them all know the truth.” said her sister.

Pinkie stood and thought for a minute.  If they both got back to normal, it would be fine, but the town would not forgive them too easily unless she explained up front what the meaning was of all this.  The only way to take care of it would be to tell the truth as soon as possible…

“Mom, Dad, you guys are absolutely right.  The truth will set us free, so I have to tell them!” she said.

“That’s my big sister!” said Peachy Pie hugging her.

“You’re gonna wanna hurry in time for the Mayor to hear it, Pinkie!” said Spike pointing to the left at the Mayor walking towards the front of the library with several other ponies.

“OH SHOOT, SHE’S HERE!!  Ok Mom and Dad, thank you guys so much for helping me with this!” she said hugging them both around the necks. “I’ll be back soon, now let’s hope they all listen!”

The Mayor made her way through the crowd in front of the library to talk to the three ponies keeping guard.  “Ponies, what is going on here?  What’s this I hear about Twilight Sparkle throwing a party here and now everypony is complaining about her closing it down and now it seems you are all keeping secrets of her dealings in there?”

“Secrets?  We aren’t keeping any secrets……hehehe…” said Rarity sweating.

“Yes we are.” said Pinkie Pie opening the door and coming out.  The whole crowd gasped as they saw her horn.

“Pinkie Pie, why on Earth do you have a horn?” asked the Mayor.

“Look everypony, this whole mess is my fault.  A couple days ago, I went through a bit of a phase and I was disappointed with myself and thought I could work harder at my job, so I asked Twilight to use this powerful spell on me to make me better.  But something went totally wrong she ended up switching our personalities…....and……switching the horn too.” Pinkie then used her magic to lift Twilight’s fake ice cream cone horn off of her forehead to show everyone.  The ponies gasped even louder at this sight.  “She meant to just change me, but we switched places basically and it was supposed to last only one day, but I guess the spell wasn’t handled properly and now I can’t find a way to switch us back.  I had Twilight close the library cuz I didn’t want her running it in this state and I didn’t want anyone to know about this, but she got excited and threw a party here like I would have done if I were in charge and I’ve been sitting in there trying to find a way to change us back but I failed.  It’s all my fault that this happened.  I never should have made Twilight use that spell which was too powerful for her to handle in the first place, and I never should have kept it all a secret and have my friends lie to you.  I accept whatever punishment I deserve, but I ask that you not do anything to Twilight, she didn’t mean for this to happen, and I was the one who made her use the spell…”

The whole crowd stood pondering what Pinkie had said for a while.  The Mayor seemed to understand.

“Well Pinkie…” she started saying, “…now that I know what really happened, I guess I can’t just punish you or Twilight when all you wanted to do was be different, but I sure hope you learned your lesson.”

“Completely Ma’am.  Thank you for understanding.  I promise I won’t let this happen again.  I didn’t think it would lead to such mayhem, but I really should have just been thankful for the way things were before.  And Twilight…” Pinkie said turning to her friend, “…I know I kinda ruined things for you, but I want you to know I’m never gonna try something like this again.  It’s too risky, and I shouldn’t have coaxed you into using that dangerous spell.  I know we can find a way to unswitch, but for now, we’ll both probably have to live like this for a while.  I hope you can forgive me…”

Twilight took a bit of a pause and then smiled and spoke, “I forgive you Pinkie.  This was kinda sorta my fault too, you know.  I should have been more careful with the library and listened to you.  Until we find the cure, I’ll be more careful.  Thanks.” she leaned over and hugged Pinkie, but then her tail started twitching. “Uh oh, it’s the twitchy tail again!!”

“Ah great.  Cover your heads everypony!” said Pinkie sarcastically.

“Uh girls, look!” said Spike pointing to the sky.  “Is that’s what’s falling, Twilight?”

Princess Celestia glided down gently towards the back of the crowd with Rainbow Dash by her side.

“PRINCESS!!” shouted Twilight joyfully as she ran to greet her teacher.  The Princess was glad to see her, but she seemed horrified at the sight of Twilight missing her horn.	

“Twilight……your horn really is gone!” she said.

“Yeah……hehe…kinda a long story.”

“Princess…” said Pinkie Pie walking towards her through the crowd.  “How did you find out?”

“Rainbow Dash told me.  I was worried once I heard, so I decided I would come and help.”

“Sorry, Pinkie.  I knew this was the only way to do it so I thought getting her would be the best idea.” explained Rainbow Dash.

“So you can undo this spell then Princess?” asked Pinkie.

“I certainly can.  But might I ask why you had Twilight use that spell in the first place?”

Pinkie bowed her head and prepared herself to explain. “I wasn’t doing to great at work the other day, and Mr. and Mrs. Cake scolded me for my behavior.  After hearing them, I just had this unusual feeling come over me that I’ve never felt before.  I just……I wasn’t happy with myself.  I wanted to change and be more of a studious and hardworking pony like Twilight is, so that’s why I asked her to use the spell on me.  I’m so sorry about all this, Princess…”

“I should have been a bit more cautious as well.  That spell isn’t a very good spell to be using, not even for someone of Twilight’s skill.  It’s dangerous and the book doesn’t even explain it too well.  I don’t even believe many ponies have successfully used it before, it’s been forgotten by most unicorns, but I ignored the fact that it must have been in that book and I should have warned Twilight about it.”

“So……I used a bad spell?” Twilight asked.

“Yes, a spell that really should be taken out of the books.  There really is no use for it anymore.  And Pinkie Pie, remember that using a spell like that still isn’t going to help you with your personality entirely.  Look at what it’s let happen.  Anypony could change if they so desire, but it is best not to change unless you have a problem.”

“Well, I did have a problem, but I just wasn’t sure how to deal with it…” Pinkie said.

“If you were that discouraged, Pinkie, you should have talked to us then.” said Mr. Cake from behind.

“OH, MR. CAKE!” Pinkie said surprised. “Guys, you heard?”

“We heard enough…” said Mrs. Cake.  “Pinkie, we didn’t like the way you were eating our treats at the Corner, but we weren’t totally disappointed with you, we just wanted you to shape up a bit.”

“That’s right.” continued Mr. Cake.  “You didn’t have to just go and change yourself completely, we just wanted a bit of an attitude adjustment, not this right here.”

“I should have thought about that more thoroughly then…” said Pinkie looking down.  “Well, Princess, I’m ready to go back to my normal self.  I don’t really like how things have gone since this happened, and I actually want my old self back.  This new Pinkie is just too dramatic and obsessed with order and books and stuff……no offense to you Twilight.”

“It’s ok Pinkie.  I kinda wanna go back to my normal self too.  If you’re not happy, then I’m not happy either.” Twilight responded.

“Well girls, I’m ready to switch you both back.  You’ll have your memories of this event and all, but your instincts will return and you’ll have the same mindset you had before.  Are you both ready?”

“Most definitely, Princess.  And will I have still learned from this?” asked Pinkie.

“Your feelings about this event will not change, and you will learn your lesson, Child.  So let this be a lesson…a lesson to us all…”

Celestia’s horn then started glowing and Twilight and Pinkie quickly floated a few feet off the ground.  Their bodies glowed with light and there was a zap of electricity between them and a bright explosion of light like before.  The Princess barely even showed any signs of effort in doing this; she had been around so long and had learned so much magic that it was nothing to her.  Within a matter of seconds, the spell was broken and Twilight and Pinkie both gently floated back to the ground.  Twilight had her horn back and they both opened their eyes slowly.

“MY……MY HORN!  I HAVE MY HORN AGAIN!!!” shouted Twilight reaching up and touching her horn with her hoof.

“YAAAAAY, I’M ME AGAIN!!” Pinkie squealed in joy while bouncing in circles around Twilight and Celestia as all the ponies watching stomped their hooves on the ground in applause.  Finally Pinkie stopped and looked at Twilight and the Princess.  “I’m really sorry about this you guys.  I won’t ever do it again.  I’m fine the way I am, I just gotta not eat the treats and just use my head from now on.  I think I’ve already learned enough of all this serious bu-derious stuff already and I know what I need to do!”

“So what have you learned today, Pinkie?” the Princess asked her.

“I’ve learned that you should never change just to please others and should be thankful for who you are.  And I also learned that I don’t need to change into a serious bu-derious pony to just simply obey the rules Mr. and Mrs. Cake make, I just gotta listen to em!  And guys…” she said turning to the Cakes, “I promise I will never eat another treat unless it belongs to me!  NEVER!” she said putting her hoof in the air.

“We forgive you, Pinkie.” said Mr. Cake patting her on the back.  “We’re proud of you for learning your lesson and we’re still glad to have you at Sugarcube Corner!”

“Aw thanks you guys!” Pinkie said hugging them both tightly.

“Pinkamena Diane Pie, your father and I are proud of you as well!” said her mother coming over to her.

“And don’t you ever change like that again, Sis!  It’s great to have you back!” said Peachy rushing over to her sister and hugging her.

While Pinkie’s family and the cakes were talking, Princess Celestia turned to her faithful student to hear her friendship report.  “And Twilight, what have you learned today about friendship?”

“Well, I learned that it’s a lot wiser to help your friends without cheating and using a magic spell to get the job done.  It’s never a good idea to use magic to solve problems that can be solved by simply confronting them yourself or getting someone’s advice.  And like Pinkie said, you should always be who you are, and not change to please others.  Especially not when using a super dangerous magic spell that can lead to problems.  Which reminds me Princess…” Twilight then used her magic to lift the book out of her library nearby and it floated over the crowd towards them and she handed it to the Princess.  “…I appreciate that you lent me this book, but after seeing what happened with that one spell, I think I feel I’m not quite ready to read this book just yet.  Perhaps another day…”

“You’re right, Twilight.  This book is a bit too advanced for you right now.  I’ll go return it to my library up in Canterlot and probably remove the pages that contain that spell; it is far too dangerous and uncouth.  But you let me know when you’re ready to start reading it.”

“Okay Princess.  Thanks.”

Mrs. Cake then brought over one of the cherry bunt cakes for Pinkie that she made yesterday.

“Here, Pinkie, since you’ve done the right thing and learned a valuable lesson, we’ve decided to let you have a free cake as a reward.” said Mr. Cake.

“Oh, you mean it?  I have your permission?” Pinkie asked to make sure it was ok.

“Yup, it’s all yours!”

“OH MY GOODNESS!” she screamed, “I JUST REMEMBERED I HAVEN’T EATEN ANY SWEETS EVER SINCE I CHANGED!!!  OH I CAN’T WAIT TO DIG INTO THIS DELICIOUSLY DELITEFUL DESSERT!!!” she then dropped her face down at high speeds into the cake and icing splattered on everypony’s face that was close to her.  She chomped away at the cake until there wasn’t a single crumb left.  “MMMM, THAT WAS TASTY!  Oops, sorry everyone…” she said looking around.

Everyone was silent until Peachy spoke up.

“Like I said, good to have you back, Sissy Pie!” she stated all the ponies laughed hysterically.




THE END