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Twilight blinked her eyes and smiled to herself as she looked up towards the puffy white clouds that hung above her in the blue sky. The only thing that stood out was a strange bird which wasn’t moving its wings as it glided across the sky in a perfectly straight line. She sighed and took in the scene of serenity and peace, until her mind suddenly came rushing back to her about what events had just unfolded and she jarred herself upright.

She was sitting on a dirt road, but instead of being flanked by Apples trees, a long white fence ran parallel to the road, and directly beyond the fence stood a huge field of fully grown corn. Twilight smirked to herself momentarily, for this had confirmed that they had indeed been teleported somewhere, but as she turned around to face her friends she was struck with a sudden shock which felt as if someone had just hit her directly in the stomach.

The first sight she saw as she turned around was that the wagon, which had previously been made of wood, was now solid metal. But, not only was it solid metal, but the wagon seemed to be fully enclosed with 2 doors on either side, and instead of just two wooden wheels towards the back, there was four wheels that looked to be made of some sort of black substance. It also appeared as though the entire group had fallen out of it since the vehicle was skidded to the side of the road with it doors open. This, although being an unexpected result, was not what had shocked Twilight so much, what she couldn’t understand was what had happened to her friends.

All of them had turned into human doppelgangers of their previous selves.

A wide eyed what-used-to-be-Pinkie-Pie was laying down on the road and running her newfound fingers in and out of the dirt. Meanwhile, the rainbow-haired-girl who was unmistakably Rainbow Dash’s new self was spinning around in the dirt and grabbing at her back while yelling out “Where the BUCK are my wings !?!”. At the same time the new Applejack was just staring down at her new form in a state of confusion. And the humanized Fluttershy was laying down on her back with an expression of paralyzed shock on her face. Each of the girls was wearing a t-shirt which was correspondent with color that they used to be, and included  their cutie mark stitched onto the front. In addition, they all had hair which exactly matched what their manes had appeared like. They also all had a simple set of shoes and denim jeans, except for Pinkie who was wearing a short pink skirt and pink stockings.

After staring out at the scene for a couple seconds, Twilight gulped and looked down at her own body to find that it too had changed. ( Although considering what she had just previously witnessed, this wasn’t that much of a surprise. ) She unsteadily lifted up her hand and brushed away her hair to find that her horn, like Flutter and Dash’s wings, was nowhere to be found.

“I … I thought that humans were just an old mares tale …” Twilight muttered under her breath before she suddenly remembered that part of the reason that people thought Star Swirl the Bearded was insane is because he had insisted that humans were real.

“What’d you say we are ?” questioned Applejack as she continued to stare blankly down towards her new body.

“I don’t give a flying feather what the hell we are,” Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she jumped over to Twilight and began to shake her violently back and forth, “just tell me what HAPPENED TO MY WINGS !?!” she suddenly stopped shaking the now even further exasperated Twilight and crouched down into the fetal position while muttering something about how she can’t live without wings.

“I said that we’re humans,” Twilight lamented as she let out a sigh, “Humans are an ancient mythical creature who ponies say visited Equestria long, long ago. Girls, I’m sorry that this happened. I had no idea what would to happen to us and I guess I was so excited to find out about what was going to happen, that I didn’t take enough  necessary precautions …”

“Its okay … I didn’t like my wings that much anyway,” Fluttershy calmly said as she sat upright, bending her knees out in front of her and holding them with her hands.

“But I DID!” yelled out Rainbow Dash, who was now clutching onto the back of Applejack, who rolled her eyes in response.

Pinkie looked up from the small pile of dirt she had pushed together in front of her, and flashed one of her signature smiles before saying, “Well, I think these new hooves are awesome !” at this she wiggled her newfound fingers back and forth, before diving them back into the pile of dirt in front of her.

Twilight gave Pinkie a short smile before her expression of fear and worry returned back to her face. She looked down at her “new hooves” as well, studying them for a moment before suddenly flicking up her head and frantically turning it back and forth.

“Wait, where is Rarity ?” Twilight said, which caused the same realization on the other girl’s faces, except for Rainbow Dash, who continued to whimper on the ground about her lost wings. Only a second after Twilight said this, a loud moan was heard off in the direction of the new-metal-wagon-thingy. Which caused all of the girls to suddenly jump to their feet and dash towards the direction of the sound. As they approached the metal machine, the new Rarity lumbered out of it while rubbing her head, only to fall a second later due to the high heels she was now wearing.

Unlike the other girls, she was wearing a white cocktail dress and a set of pearly white high heels. Each of which had her cutie mark stitched on it in various places. But, like the other girls, she seemed to retain the same style hair, and a similar looking face to that of her old self.

Pinkie Pie, who had arrived at the fallen Rarity first, reached down her arms around her and helped pick up the wobbly lady, who had about as much skill with walking in heels as a newborn deer. While Applejack, Twilight, and Fluttershy went over and attempted to assist Pinkie, Rainbow Dash found herself more entranced with the new appearance of the wagon.

From this closer viewpoint, it was visible that the wagon now had the words “DMC” printed on the front in small metal letters, and as Dash ran her fingers along the cold metal body of it, she could also see that the wheels where in-fact some combination of metal and rubber, with the letters “DMC” in the center as well. The enclosed metal body of it had several windows allowing someone to see out, and inside there was two gray leather chairs, one of which had a weird circular thing sitting directly over where someone’s legs would go. As Dash bent her head under the door, which when open looked a lot like wings, she noticed that at the front of the interior there was a huge mess of buttons, switches, and dials. Most of which had words that she couldn’t recognize, like “Air Conditioning” and “Speedometer”.

Rainbow Dash lifted her head out of the new wagon, and turned back to face towards her friends, who now were attempting to calm down Rarity, who appeared as if she had just finished crying. Rainbow Dash started to roll her eyes at this outward display of emotion, but then she recalled her own distraught about losing her wings only moments before, and decided instead to just to walk over to the group.

“No, just look at me, I’m hideous !” Rainbow Dash could hear Rarity cry out as she walked within earshot, “Rarity, I think you still look beautiful,” Fluttershy said in her quiet tone, which prompted all of the others to nod in agreement.

“Thank you dear,” Rarity said as she lifted up her hand to wipe a leftover tear from her eye, “I suppose we are all in the same boat anyway.”

“Well, Twi’ now that we’ve all seemed to get over the shock of what we are, couldya’ maybe explain where we are ?” Applejack questioned aloud.

Twilight glanced around before sighing and saying back, “I don’t have any idea where we are, and more importantly I can’t think how we are going to get home, since we no longer have magic to do the return spell.”

Rarity let out a small gasp before being interrupted by Pinkie. “Well Twilight, I don’t know where we are right now, BUT, it looks like we must be near somepony named Washington. Maybe he can help us !” Pinkie said as she lifted up her hand to point at a green metal sign on the side of the road which said, “Washington D.C - 45 miles”.