Try putting yourself in my hooves

by Thomani

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Comedy, Rarity, Adventure, Pinkie Pie
Length: 7314

Rarity and Pinkie Pie both seem to need something from the Everfree forest, and so they decide to find what they both need together. However, they both accidentally unlock some dark magic and major changes happen. They switch bodies.

Rarity desperately needs "a little something" for her super secret project. Pinkie Pie really needs to stock up on Gummies bizarre food. They both need these things from the Everfree forest, so they decide to go together. However something goes horribly wrong... They both realise that they have switched bodies, and so a hilarious adventure ensues as they try to live each others lives whilst trying to find a way to reverse what happened in the forest...

Published 2014-08-04 17:20:02 UTC
Last updated 2014-08-06 10:16:59 UTC

Everfree stock-up.

"Hmm... I think this may NEED something... yes.. just a bit more of this, no... hmm...." Rarity mumbled to herself as she worked on her newest dress in Carousel Boutique. Well, not actually IN Carousel Boutique, more like 10 miles underground Carousel Boutique in a maximum security concrete bunker. Why you ask, was she in a maximum security bunker deep underground Carousel Boutique? Well, THIS dress wasn't your average sparkly over-the-top dress of supreme fabulousness that Rarity usually makes... THIS was her dress for the HUGE party Pinkie Pie was having in the town hall, and everypony in Ponyville was coming, so Rarity needed a dress. And since she decided nopony should see it, she spent a little money on some "extra protection" (By this, we're talking about the whole maximum security bunker thing).

"I think I might need... hmm... AHA!" Rarity exclaimed as a light bulb literally floated over her head (Yeah, this happens a lot in Equestria, you know, magic). She then locked the dress in a chest, locked that chest in another, slightly bigger chest, then locked that in a steel cupboard, then moved a boulder over the steel cupboard (don't look at me, I have no idea how she can lift boulders). After safely locking the dress away, she then walked out of the bunker, triple locked it, then went up the lift (which could only be accessed by a retinal scan) and arrived in Carousel Boutique.

She ran into Sweetie Belle halfway towards the door. "Hey Rarity, have you bee-" Rarity put a hoof to her mouth. "Not now Sweetie Belle, Rarity has some business to attend to". She then galloped off outside Carousel Boutique, in the general direction of the Everfree forest...

On the other side of town, Pinkie Pie was well... being Pinkie Pie. "WHEEE!" "WHOOO!" "WOOHOO!" "Um... WAAAA?" Pinkie abruptly stopped bouncing on her trampoline and sat down. "Hmm... words to scream when having fun... Hmmm.... I've got WEEEE! and "WHOOO" and "WOOHOO" goes pretty well, but... I wonder if "WAAAAA" is going to catch on..." Her train of totally unrelated thought ended abruptly when Gummy did his signature move of biting Pinkie's hair. "Hey Gummy? What's the buzz? Or Bizz... Or maybe Bozz...." Pinkie was about to go into another random train of thought when Gummy bit her hair again, but harder.

"Well somepony's being a grumpy toothless alligator! What do you want so bad Gummy?" Pinkie asked, and Gummy simply pulled big cute eyes and looked towards his now empty bowl. "Ohhh.. You want more Gum-Gums..." she started bouncing towards the kitchen and looked around for the "Gum-Gums". "Hmmm.. I swore you has a full batch last week..." She rummaged through the cupboards but no "Gum-Gums" were to be seen... "Well, looks like I'm gonna need some more Gum-Gums... that means.... A TRIP TO THE EVERFREE FOREST!" She bounced about 5 feet into the air, but was rudely stopped by the ceiling. After a surprisingly quick recovery, she started doing her usual bounce towards the Everfree forest...

The switch...

After about half an hour of trekking through the forest, Rarity stops.
"What's wrong? Are you tired? Hungry? Itchy? Achy? Twitchy? Stiffly? Ill? Or... are you BORED?!"
"What? No, Its just I think I've found what I was looking for..." She replied as she stared at the ground.
"Where? I can't see it... Is it invisible?" Pinkie Pie tried started searching for Rarities item.
Rarity sighed. "No Pinkie, its right here" And with a glow of her horn, she revealed a small glistening ruby, about the size of a thimble.
"Ooh! That's pretty! Is it fo-" Rarity placed her hoof to Pinkie's mouth. "Yes... It IS for my top secret dress... But remember your promise... DON'T TELL ANYPONY."
"Hmm hmm hmmph mm hmmm hmm hmmp, hmm hmmm hmmhmm mm hmmph hmm!"
"What darling? I can't- oh, sorry." Rarity moved her hoof from the Pink mare's mouth.
"I said; cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye! Of course I won't tell ANYPONY".

After a good 10 minutes of digging, they retrieved the ruby. "Isn't it just FABULOUS? Honestly, I'm not sure if people are going to look at the dress or this magnificent ruby! I simply must attach it to the dress!" Rarity was about to leave, but then Pinkie Pie stopped her in her tracks. "But, your going to LEAVE me? It's only a few minutes walk to what I want to get... I thought we were pals..." Pinkie Pie looked at Rarity with the biggest, bluest Bambi eyes you could imagine.
"Oh alright, it would be rude of me not to accompa-" Pinkie Pie jumped onto Rarity and knocked her clean over.
"OH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I WOULD HAVE BEEN SO ALONE AND SAD AND LONELY AND STUFF WITHOUT YOU!"
Rarity stood up and brushed her mane off. "Well you know, what are friends for? Besides, nothing can go wrong if we go together, RIGHT?"

A few minutes later, they arrived at what appeared to be an apple tree.
"Pinkie Pie! I can't believe you dragged me all this way for an APPLE TREE! If Gummy just eats apples, why didn't you just go to sweet apple acres?"
Pinkie Pie giggled. "No silly! These are Gum-Gum apples! I call 'em Gum-Gum's, but hey, a names a name!"
She bucked the tree and caught a few "Gum-Gum's".
"Here!" Pinkie said, giving it to Rarity.
Gingerly, Rarity tried to take a bite. But she couldn't. She bit harder. Still, the apple remained as hard as a rock.
"How can gummy EAT these?" Rarity said, throwing the apple to the ground.
"Well duh, he doesn't eat them! He sucks them! It takes him a really long time to eat it, but he really likes them, and won't eat ANYTHING else! Not even a cupcake! Can you believe that! Applejack found this tree years ago, and told me about it, and I realised they were SUPER DUPER PERFECT for widdle gummykins!"
"Well we might as well collect them, this forest is REALLY creepy."
After a good minute of picking Gum-Gum apples, they started to head back to the Everfree forest, chatting all the way.

"And then the donkey says to the mule that the dress is simply awful, and then the mul-"
Pinkie Pie stopped.
"What's wrong?" Rarity asked.
"Look at that super creepy old chest over there!"
She pointed towards a old, battered wooden chest that was stuck in some old brambles. It was painted black all over and had some old language written on it in gold paint. It looked about a million years old.
"We should probably leave it, after all, its probably none of our business."
"Yep. None of our business." Pinkie agreed.
But they didn't keep walking. The chest seemed so, inviting, in a way.
"Oh come on! I can't hold it in any longer! Lets get it out of the bush!"
After a lot of pulling, rest breaks, and Rarity moaning about the state of her hooves, they finally got the old chest out of the bush...
"Hmm... It doesn't seem to have a key hole..."

Pinkie Pie picked it up, and shook it. Nothing happened.
Rarity knocked on it. Nothing happened.
Pinkie Pie twisted the lid. Nothing happened
Rarity shouted at it for being such a rude chest. Nothing happened.
After a lot of odd methods, the two mares lay on the ground, exhausted.
"There simply MUST be a way to open that thing... There must..."
" Maybe we should use this switch on the bottom of it..."
"WHAT? Why didn't you tell me that was there?"
"Meh. It looked boring. The other ways were much more fun!"
Rarity looked at the chest and sighed.
"Lets try it"
She stood up, and slowly, pulled the switch.

The chest opened, and a staggeringly bright pink-purple light filled their eyes, and slowly, they both began to float about a metre into the air.
" Weeee!"
"What in the name of sweet Celest-"
A cloud of green smoke began to enclose their bodies, and a loud explosion was the last thing they heard before they completely blacked out.

"Ugh... where am I...?"
"Who am I....Nah just kidding, I know who I am! I'm Pinkamena Diane Pie!"
She sat up, only to see a reflection of herself standing in front of her.
"Oh no, I've been CLONED!"
"No darling, I've been cloned."
Rarity lifted her hoof in front of her face. It was Pink.
Pinkie Pie did the same. Hers was a glossy white.
"Hee hee I look like you!"
" Oh no... tell me we didn't just..."
Pinkie Pie's face dropped.
"Sweet Celestia! We've... SWITCHED BODIES!"

She couldn't have been more correct.

How hard can this be?

After about an hour, they both reach the outskirts of Ponyville.
Raripie took a deep breath in. "OK Pinkie, explain to me again how to act like you."
"Oh its simple; you just have to jump and skip everywhere, pull off a load of parties, say hi to everyone, randomly burst into song, eat loads of cupcakes and candy, talk really fast about a load of rubbish, smile a lot, you know, be me!"
Raripie looked completely confused.
"Oh fine, just remember how I usually act, and act like that! Anyway, how do I act like you again? I forgot."
"Talk with proper words like fabulous and marvellous, make lots of dresses, act rather posh, hate the mud, refuse to get your mane ruined, ignore the fact spike has a crush on you, be generous. Yes, I think that's how I would go about it."
Pinkity nodded.

"How's this; Oh yes darling, that dress is all fabulous and stuff, I really like it's poshness. Don't get it dirty, I don't like dirt and stuff."
Raripie sighed.
"It's a start. Listen to mine; Woo. Wee. I really like hyper things and cupcakes. Come to my party! I like partying! I shall skip and jump there and have a rather large amount of fun! Woo."
Pinkity giggled. "Perfect! By the way, while we are in each others bodies, you're gonna have to prepare for the huge Ponyville party!"
Raripie screamed and nearly fell over. "Sweet Celestia! How could I have forgotten! My top secret dress! You're going to have to work on it for me!"
"Oh, that'll be fine. Don't worry Rarity! That dress will be completely fine!"

Raripie still looked concerned. "Well, you are the only one who can work on it now, so I hope the dress will be fine."
"Let's begin our new lives!"
Pinkity began bouncing towards Ponyville.
"Um darling, I don't walk like that!"
"Fine."
Pinkity slowed down into more of a trot, and didn't look too happy as she walked towards Ponyville. Raripie was completely out of breath by the time they reached Ponyville.
"Darling, do you ALWAYS bounce along like this everywhere?"
"Yep! Everywhere and anywhere!"

They reached Carousel Boutique, and Pinkity looked towards Raripie.
"We'll meet up at the town hall later and discuss how we can switch back. In the meantime, have fun being ME!"
"Same to you too darling!"

Pinkity walked into Carousel Boutique and Raripie continued towards Sugarcube corner.
On her way, Twilight stopped her in her tracks.
"Hey Pinkie Pie? Where've you been? I thought you said we were gonna talk about the planning for the party? What took you so long?"
Raripie stopped and her heart began racing. How the buck would she manage to talk to her? Talking like Pinkie is really hard, after all.

"Um, yes, I had to do some fu- I mean, super duper fun thing in the Everfree forest! Yes, that was it! I had to collect Gomm- I mean Gummies food, and yes, I had lots of fun and things, and Rarity came with me and she looked fabulous! I mean, don't you ever wonder how she does that stylish mane?"

Twilight looked puzzled. "Pinkie, I've never heard you talk like that before! You kind of sound like Rarity!"
"Ha ha, what? No, I'm totally not Rarity, I'm Pinkie Pie! See? Cupcakes and parties and stuff!"
"Well Pinkie, we might as well go to my place and start the planning meeting for the party! After all, this is a huge celebration, and we have a whole lot to do!"
Raripie took a deep breath. A planning meeting would be fine, nothing can go wrong, right?

Things start to go downhill.

Pinkity began exploring Carousel Boutique, to try and find where Rarity had kept her secret dress.
"Is it here? No." Here? No." "In here! OMIGOSH! Candy! But no dress."
Pinkity nibbled that candy whilst thinking of where the heck Rarity had put that dress.
"I wonder if Sweetie Belle knows..." Pinkity saw this as her best solution and began trotting (it took a lot of effort for her to not bounce) towards Sweetie Belle's room...

"Hey guys! Look what 'ah found in Big Mac's bedroom!"
"Oh wow! Where abouts did you find that AppleBloom?"
Apple Bloom shrugged.
"Whatever. Big deal." Scootaloo couldn't stop looking at it.
"Ah' think that Big Mac mighta been keepin' this for some sorta' reason, ah' cant think what though..."
At that moment, Rarity (Pinkity to you and I) walked in.
"Hi girls!"
"Uh, hi?"
Pinkity was puzzled as to why they looked confused... Wait! She had to talk like Rarity!
"Um, do you girls know where I go to look at my brillia- FABULOUS secret dress? I think I slipped over and lost a bit of my memory whilst... um... avoiding some... mud! Yes, mud! So I might have forgotten about it... Do you know where I usually keep it?"
Sweetie Belle giggled.
"So you lost your memory, and want my help... Well, I do see you sneaking off into changing room No.4 sometimes... so... check there?"
"Grea- I mean, FABULOUS! I will now trot over there and look at it, thinking about fancy stuff! See ya!"
Pinkity walked out, still trying to restrain herself from bouncing.
"I don't know about you guys, but I think Rarity might have been acting a little strangely?"
"Nah Scoots, she's always like that in the mornings."
The Crusaders agreed and continued to play with Smarty Pants.

"Changing room No.1, No.2, No.3, AHA! Changing room No.4! I found it! I found it! I found it!"
Pinkity began dancing around the Boutique.
"Wait, no." She stopped dancing, "I mean, Oh hurrah, I have found my fabulous dress room, I simply must go in it!"
Pinkie giggled. "I'm getting better by the second!"

Meanwhile at the Golden Oak library...
"And so Pinkie, this is where we should get the guests to enter through, and we should probably use a checklist to see if everyone is present, and we may need to make sure everyone knows where to go in the unlikely event of a fire, and- Pinkie are you even listening to me?"
Raripie snored in response.
"PINKIE!"
"W-what? Sorry, Um, I've had a simpl- I mean, super duper fun and exciting day filled with cupcakes, so I am absolu- really tired. Sorry, Twilight."
Twilight looked at Pinkie with concern.
"Ok, but here's some planning sheets that you have to fill in to get the party up and running! And don't forget, tomorrow you have to decorate the town hall in preparation!"
Raripie jumped about a metre into the air,
"DECORATE. THE. TOWN. HALL? I would be simply honoured! Oh the glamour and beauty I could put into it! This is fabulous!"
Twilight's jaw dropped.
"Pinkie, never in all my day's have I ever heard you talk like that! Are you trying to be Rarity or something?
Rarities mind raced. How would she possibly make her way out of this one?
"Um.. I'm in a... play? Yes, a play! I have to be Rarity in it! It's one about... um... fashion! A fashion play! And since I'm definitely Pinkie Pie and NOT Rarity, then they um.. asked me to be in it?"
Twilight shrugged. "OK. Anyway, you have work to do! You said you were going to help the Cakes with their newest cupcake batch!"
Raripie looked at the clock. "What time was I meant to be at that again?"
" Half past one, why?"
It was one 'o' clock.
"Oh no..." Raripie began racing out of the library.
"WAIT!"
Raripie raced back to Twilight.
"What?"
"Here, your planning sheets!"
Raripie grabbed them and ran out.

Rarity Baking? Pinkie Pie dress making? How bad can that be?
We'll see...

Cupcakes and dresses.

"Well this has got to be the most not fun changing room I have EVER been in."
Pinkity had spent the last half hour looking through changing room No. 4 but no secret dress to be found.
"Hmm... I wonder what the heck this thing is..." She was looking at a tiny little red light in the corner of the changing room which she hadn't seen before.
She prodded it.
An electronic voice boomed from all around her.
"THIS IS FABULOUSBOT-6000. STATE YOUR IDENTITY OR I WILL USE FORCE TO REMOVE YOU FROM THIS CHANGING ROOM!"
"I'm Pink-I Mean, I am RARITY. Dresses and stuff?"
A few seconds of pure tension passed.

"YOU MAY ENTER, MISS RARITY."
The wall of the changing room swung round to reveal a gleaming white elevator.
She tried to walk into it, but there was no automatic system. In other words, she hit her head on the door.
"OW! Hey, why the heck isn't this thing opening?" She looked to her right and saw what looked to be some sort of eye-scanner.
"Wow Rarity, what's with all the security?" Pinkity wondered aloud as she put her eye to the scanner.
The voice of FABULOUSBOT-6000 returned again
"SCANNING RETINA... SCANNING RETINA... VERIFYING... RETINAL SCAN COMPLETE. ENTER LIFT WHEN READY."
"Ooh boy I love lifts!" Pinkity hopped in and after a click and a whirr, the lift began descending the long 10 mile journey downwards...

At Sugarcube corner, things were not going as smoothly.
"Pinkie Pie! Where in Equestria have you been? You're half an hour late for Celestia's sake!"
Raripie struggled to catch her breath. "I... was.... in... planning... meeting... for... big... party... that...I'm... meant... to... do... sorry.... I'm.... late!"
Carrot Cake shrugged. "Better late then never! Listen Pinkie, I wouldn't normally ask you to do this but, well, me and Mrs Cake have to attend a cake baker's annual meeting in Canterlot, and, well I'll cut to the chase. Can you bake the entire cupcake batch for us?"
Raripie's jaw dropped.
"But I've never eve- I mean, um yes! I'll do it! I love to help out with fun hyper things because I'm a fun hyper pony and, um, stuff?"
"Well in that case, we'd best get going. We'll leave you to it!" The Cake's walked out of the door and hopped into a taxi for Canterlot.

"Oh well, I might as well try, after all, I am the element of Generosity! Me being Pinkie doesn't change that!" She began collecting the necessary equipment.
Rarity had never baked a single cupcake in all of her life.

"12 buckets of oats on the wall, take one down, pass it around, 11 buckets of oats on the wal- Hey! We're here!" Pinkity jumped out of the lift and it promptly slid shut behind her.
"That was probably the longest lift journey of my entire life!" Pinkity studied her surroundings. She was in a small, glossy white room with the lift behind her, and a big heavy steel door in front of her. The steel door had single, smallish circular keyhole, but Pinkity had no idea where the key was.
She checked her saddle-bag. Nothing
She checked under her hoof. Nothing.
She checked in her mane. Nothing.
She checked her forehead. Nothing.
Nothing except a boring old unicorn horn.
"Wait a minute!" She stuck her horn into the key hole, and twisted.
The door clicked and opened.
"Bingo! Horns for the win!" She walked inside.

Slap bang in front of her was another door. With another smallish circular key hole.
"Oh wow! This is easy peasy cider squeezy!"
She moved her horn into the keyhole, and twisted.
Nothing happened.
She twisted in a different direction. Nothing happened.
"What in the hay? Hmm... I wonder..."
She moved it into the key hole, but then whilst twisting it, used some magic.
The door clicked open.

"Oh come ON! Not another door! Crikey, Rarity surely doesn't want ANYONE seeing this dress!"
The next door was a simple wooden door.
"How do I open THIS one... hmm... this is gonna take some BRAINS."
She sat down on the floor and pondered for a minute.
"Wait a second..." She opened it like a regular door.
And like a regular door, it slid open.
"I knew that."

She looked into the room. It looked a lot like Rarities bedroom, but no bed or personal belongings, just work stuff.
"Looks like I'm In the right place."

"OK, lets see... flour, sugar, eggs, milk, cream, cocoa powder, chocolate chips! I have everything I need! Lets go!"
Raripie had neatly gathered the ingredients in the centre of the work place.
"So, from what this is telling me, I need to smash up the eggs in the bowl? How hard can that be?"
She took both eggs and smashed them both into the bowl in a rather ladylike fashion.
"Hmm... Nah, I'll leave the eggshells in, it'll add some crunch!"
Raripie looked at the next step.
" Mix the butter and the sugar together so that they are light and fluffy... Well, I reckon I can pull that off."
Raripie took the butter and sugar, plopped them in and mixed.
And mixed.
And mixed
And mixed.
"Hmm, I reckon THAT has got to be fluffy!" Raripie beamed at her sloppy, lumpy mixture of sugar and butter.
After mixing the milk and smashed up eggs into the mix, she decided to add the chocolate chips. Or not.
"The chocolate chip's will RUIN IT! It'll make it all brown and icky! Can't have those in my fabulous cupcakes!"
She shoved the bowl into the oven, completely ignoring the step that said to put them in cases.

"I can just carve them out of the cooked mixture! Yes, that'll be a much more stylish idea! Rather then glooping them into cases, ick."
After leaving her abomination of a cake In the oven, she turned to look at the rest of the kitchen.
"This place looks rather, drab... I reckon I can work my magic on this..."

After moving the boulder form the steel cupboard, unlocking that, unlocking the chest, unlocking the slightly smaller chest, she finally got to Rarities dress. Not much is known about what the dress originally looked like, but according to Pinkie, it was the best darn dress she ever made.

"This is the best darn dress she's ever made!" Pinkity squealed after staring at it for a while. She noticed that the centre of the front part of the dress was missing something...
"Oh right, that's where this ruby comes in..." Pinkie pie attached it to the dress.
"You know, this looks pretty much done. Guess I came down here for nothing." Pinkie Pie moved the dress off of the model. The entire thing ripped in half with a cliché ripping noise.
"Oh buck."

Total disaster... Or is it?

The cake that Raripie was baking was only supposed to bake for 30 minutes. Two hours later, she was still glamming up the kitchen at Sugarcube corner, and the cake was nothing more the a few eggshells in a pile of ashes.
"Hmm, does green go with the chandelier? Or maybe red? Yes, red! Maybe the oven needs some mor- OH SWEET CELESTIA THE OVEN!"
Raripie opened the oven and retrieved the bowl of ashes.
"Oh gosh, I think I might have left these for too long." Things could only get worse, because Mr and Mrs Cake were expected to return from Canterlot in less than an hour.
Raripie sighed. "In times like this, I really do need Pinkie Pie."

Pinkity wasn't having too much fun either. After accidentally ripping Rarities dress in half, she was desperately trying to stitch it together. So far she had pricked her hooves 46 times, run out of thread 6 times, and the dress looked, bad, to say the very least.
"Oh this is hopeless! The entire dress looks TERRIBLE! The parties in 2 days, and she's gonna look terrible in this!"
She slumped down to the floor. "In times like this, I really do need Rarity."

Back at Sugarcube corner, Raripie was desperately trying to make more cupcakes, but this time, she was going to stick to the recipe. The entire kitchen looked like a bombsite, but that was by far the least of Raripie's worries. After about twenty minutes of hard work, she placed the cupcakes (in cases this time) into the oven.
"Well, this batch might actually be OK. all I need to do.. is..." Raripie nearly fainted. "I STILL HAVE TO DO THE PLANNING SHEETS!"
She finished off the cupcakes in about 2 minutes, then ran upstairs to do what can only be described as the most boring task EVER.

Pinkity had given up all hope of trying to restore the monstrosity that she had created, so after relocking Rarities bunker, she ran back into Carousel Boutique and looked around for some of Rarities other dresses.
"This one's nice, this one's OK, ooh! This one! I really like this one!" Pinkity pulled the dress off of its model (carefully this time) and put it on. It looked brilliant.
"I've never seen Rarity wear this one, so I think it'll be ok..."
Pinkity then put the dress back and sat down, exhausted.
"You know, being Rarity is harder than I thought..."
Pinkity looked at the clock.
"Oh Celestia! I was meant to meet Raripie at the Town Hall!"
She ran out of Carousel Boutique. Sweetie Belle giggled as she watched.
"I have never seen my sister go so long without washing her mane... I wonder what's with her today..."

"Check, check, check, check, sign, check, sign, check. UGH! Does Pinkie Pie have to do this with EVERY party she throws? Honestly, it's surprising how she still has all that energy..."
Rarity was bored senseless with the amount of planning sheets she had to do. She looked at the clock.
"I was supposed to meet Pinkie Pie round about now wasn't I?" Rarity gasped in delight.
"MAYBE SHE'S SOLVED HOW TO SWITCH US BACK!" She ran out of Sugarcube corner.
About a minute later, the Cake's walked in.
"WHAT IN SWEET CELESTIA'S DEAR NAME HAPPENED TO OUR KITCHEN!?"
They both walked into a sight that can't be described fully without damaging a clean freaks eyes.
"Wait a minute..." Cup Cake walked over to the other side of the kitchen, and saw a box of some delicious ( yet rushed) cupcakes.
"Well, at least we have a batch of cupcakes now..."

At the town hall, Raripie and Pinkity met together again after about 6 hours of being apart.
"DID YOU FIND OUT HOW TO SWITCH US BACK?" They both said at exactly the same time.
They said "No" at pretty much the same time too.
"UGH, I've had a horrid day, first I had to go to your boring planning meeting for the party, THEN I had to bake an entire batch of cupcakes which I completely ruined, so THEN I had to make another batch of cupcakes, and THEN I had to complete the most boring planning sheets I have ever seen! Honestly, I cant believe I thought you had it going easy."
Pinkity laughed.
"Oh boy, you don't even know the half of it!"
Pinkity then wore a serious expression (as serious as you can get with Pinkie, anyways)
"I have something to tell you. Its about your dress."
Raripie looked concerned.
"What happened to my dress?"
"Well..."
"Yes?"
"I sort of..."
"SORT OF WHAT?"
Pinkity gave a look that Fluttershy would have approved of.
"I might have... um... accidentally.. ripped you dress in half."

Two miles away from Ponyville, a stallion was walking through some fields, minding his own business. Then, coming from Ponyville, he heard an ear-splitting noise coming from Ponyville. It sounded a little bit like:
"PINKIE PIE! HOW COULD YOU DESTROY MY DRESS!"
After this ear-splitting noise, the stallion stood back up, and wondered what the heck was happening in Ponyville.

"I, I can explain!" Pinkity backed away from Raripie, who wore a look of pure hatred.
"DO. YOU. HAVE. ANY. IDEA. HOW. LONG. IT. TOOK. ME. TO. MAKE. THAT. DRESS? DO YOU?"
Pinkity gulped.
"Actually, Yeah, I kind of do."
"HOW?"
Pinkity took a bigger gulp.
"Well, since I had to go into your bunker in order to finish off your dress, I found all your notes lying around. They were really good notes, actually. I learnt a lot about you from those notes, and I realised how hard it is for you to make dresses, so, I'm sorry."
Raripie smiled.
"I forgive you Pinkie. After all, one silly little best dress I ever darn made can change our friendship, right? I'm sorry for shouting at you."
The two mares hugged.
"EW! I just hugged myself!" Pinkity backed away from Raripie
.
Then she had a literal light bulb moment.

Return to the Everfree forest

Raripie looked above Pinkities head, where a light bulb was literally hovering above it.
"We have to go back to the Everfree forest! I'll explain on the way! I think I know how to change us back! It might not work though, but it's worth a shot!"
Pinkity bounced off.
Rarity rolled her eyes.
"That mare had better be right..."

Halfway through their journey, Pinkity explains her idea.
"You know how we both came to realise how hard each other's lives are? What if our realisation of this reopens the chest, and lets us switch back? Wouldn't that be so cool? It might not work, bit hey, going to the Everfree forest is still fun, right?"
"Yes, because the Everfree forest is NEVER filled with horrifying creatures and dark magic all the time, is it Pinkie?"
Pinkity ignored her sarcastic remark.
"Rarity, I have to ask you something..."
"Fire away darling." Raripie rolled her eyes.
"Well, I've always wondered about this, and since I am actually you at the moment, this makes me really curious as to-"
"As to WHAT?"
Pinkity smiled.
"Rarity, how do you get your hair this way, I mean come on, this CAN'T be natural!
Just as Raripie was going to rant at Pinkie Pie about how natural her hair was, they heard an explosive roar behind them.

Stood about 2 feet taller than them, with glowing eyes and a drooling mouth was, surprise surprise, a fully grown, fully hungry, Timber-Wolf.

Raripie jumped into Pinkities arms in a very Scooby-Doo like fashion, and screamed.
And screamed.
And screamed.
And screamed some more.
The Timber-Wolf, hungry as it was, had never in all his days heard such a loud, terrifying, and all out girly scream in all if his wood filled life, and ran away (with his tail between his legs, ironically).

After Raripie had finished screaming, she looked around with a very puzzled expression.
"I wonder why it was so scared? After all, when I usually scream, that kind of thing never happens..."
Pinkity looked puzzled as well.
"Wait a minute... since your in my body, and your combining my vocal cords with your screaming ability... by Celestia's sun! I think you may have produced one of the loudest, most terrifying, most girly scream ever witnessed!
Pinkity shook her hand vigorously.
Raripie giggled.
"Well, I do try!"

After about another half hour of walking, Pinkity and Raripie came up to the place where the switch happened.
The chest wasn't there.

"Where the buck is the chest?" Raripie looked around, but no weird creepy magic chest was to be seen...
Pinkity looked around...
"Oh its fine, I can see it up that really tall mountain over there! It's fine."
Lo and behold, high up the mountain was indeed, the creepy magic chest.
"I wonder how the heck it got up there..."
Raripie was already racing towards the mountain.
"Who cares? Lets get it down already!"
After about 3 hours of climbing up the mountain, Luna had already lowered the moon, so they were working at night. Once the two mares got up there, they picked up the chest and looked at it.
The formerly unreadable language they saw written around it in golden lettering was now replaced with readable words;

Too change to your ways, to get back to your lives, you must confess how the other survives. Only then can you truly reform to your original forms.

"What in the hay does that mean?"
Raripie looked at Pinkity.
"Honestly, haven't you figured it out yet? It say that you must confess how the other survives, I think this means that we both have to tell each other how we live our lives?"
Pinkity rolled her eyes.
"Oh that's easy, I live at Sugarcube corner, I like to eat candy, I random-"
Raripie put her hoof to Pinkities mouth.
"No, you have to talk about my life, and I have to talk about yours. What we've learnt about each other might just switch us back!"
Pinkity thought for a minute.
"Hmm- OK lets see, I've learnt that despite the fact you are a mud-hating designer, this doesn't mean you don't work hard, or that you are lazy. I've learnt that it is REALLY SUPER DUPER hard to be you, Rarity, but I know that you only work hard so that others can be happy, because your the element of generosity, duh!"
Raripie blushed.
"Now now Pinkie, If you think my life is hard, just listen to yours for a second!"
Pinkity put on her best listening face.
"Even though you are bouncing with energy, and your funny and joyful, but sometimes, you out a lot of hard work and your own free time into making other ponies happy, and this makes you the element of laughter more than anything else."
Pinkity smiled.
"I would hug you, but I think hugging myself is a little vain."
Raripie chuckled.

The chest opened, and the same bright pink-purple light filled their eyes, and once again, they both began to float about a metre into the air.

" OMIGOSH ITS WORKING!"

"I GET TO BE ME AGAIN!"

The cloud of green smoke began to enclose their bodies, and a loud explosion filled the forest air as the two mare's dropped to the floor.

"Pinkie... did it work?"
"I have no idea..."
Pinkie Pie looked at her hood. It was the same bright pink she always had.
Rarity felt her mane, and it was the same curly purple it had mostly always been.
She then began crying uncontrollably.
"What's wrong Rarity? Aren't you happy? I thought you wanted to be you?"
Rarity then laughed.
"Th-these are t-tears of j-joy.." She then cuddled her mane. "OH CELESTIA, I'M NEVER LETTING MY BABY LEAVE ME AGAIN!"
Pinkie Pies smile slowly grew as she realised something.
"I CAN FINALLY BOUNCE AGAIN!"
She the bounced so fast around Rarity that she nearly did her neck in.

Author's Note

Surely this has to be the last chapter, right?

Not quite, there's still one last chapter...

Trust me, it'll be good.

The Aftermath

After the two mare's switched back to their original bodies, a lot more happened than expected.

The first thing that Rarity did when she returned to Carousel Boutique was wash her mane, muttering something about Pinkie Pies uncleanliness.

The first thing that Pinkie Pie did was FINALLY feed Gummy his Gum-Gums, and to this day Gummy is still finishing off his first one.

Rarity found her dress, and even though she sobbed for hours about what to wear to the party,she eventually decided to stick to the one Pinkie had looked at earlier.

Pinkie Pie had to pay 100 bits to the Cake's for ruining the kitchen (Pinkie Pie had a very long chat to Rarity about that...).

The Party went on as planned, and everypony in Ponyville came. It was the best darn party that Pinkie Pie had ever pulled off. Rarity wore her dress that Pinkie chose, and everypony thought it was brilliant (much to Pinkie AND Rarities relief.)

The second cupcake batch that Raripie baked was superb, so despite ruining their kitchen, Pinkie Pie was given a pay rise for it (50% of this goes to Rarity, alas.)

Twilight always wondered when the fashion play Pinkie Pie was in was going to start, and every time she asked, all Pinkie could say was:

"Um... ask Rarity?"

The Cutie Mark crusaders got into a lot of trouble for stealing smarty pants off of Big Macintosh, and he was later seen combing the dolls mane tenderly at Sweet Apple Acres.

Oh, and one more thing.

A week before the incident, Twilight Sparkle was visiting Zecora. Whilst getting her weekly ingredients and drinking herbal tea with her like every other week, Twilight Sparkle noticed that Zecora seemed to be working very hard on something, something magical.
"Zecora? What is that your working on?"
"Oh what? This silly object?" Zecora put it down. "This is just my newest project."
Twilight stared at it for a while.
"It doesn't seem very stable Zecora, do you want me to help with it?"
"Oh Twilight, I must show resistance, for I do not want any assistance!"
Twilight shrugged.
"Well, if you say so. Anyway, I have to get going, I have some planning sheets to make."
She bid Zecora farewell and left the hut.
Zecora pondered over what the Alicorn had said to her.

"Perhaps she is right, I am not able, after all, this really isn't stable."
The next day, she walked deep into the forest with her project, and threw it into a bramble bush.
"If I leave it here, I expect, that nopony shall find my unstable project..."

After checking that it DEFINITELY didn't work, she left her chest in the brambles...

Author's Note

Wow, I can't believe that I have finished this so quickly. Writing lines for Zecora though, very hard. I'm also slightly surprised at the popularity of this story (yes, it is my first story) so thanks for giving it a read.

Nothing will go wrong if we go together... RIGHT?

"Yes... I'm sure what I need is in the Everfree forest... Although it is a little far into the icky parts of it but... for this dress, I am prepared to get my hooves dirty!" Rarity thought to herself as she walked towards the Everfree forest... "Ew! A puddle!" She exclaimed and moved herself away from it. "Maybe not THAT dirty though." Whilst walking through Ponyville, she noticed a Pink blur further ahead of her moving in the exact same direction as her. "She won't notice me if I just stay quiet, after all, I can't have her knowing about the secret touches to my dress..." Rarity slowed down and took her black cloak out of her bag, and put it on, so she wouldn't be noticed.

"Hee hee, this is fun. I wonder why she's hiding from me..." Pinkie Pie said to herself as she skipped towards the Everfree forest. Of course, Pinkie Pie had noticed her at the very beginning with her Pinkie Sense (Her back aching and her tail twitching meant that she was being followed). And Pinkie being Pinkie, thought it was a game and decided not to tell her she knew that she was there.

After a short while of the whole Rarity following Pinkie scenario, Pinkie Pie reached the Everfree forest, and Rarity hung back and waited for her to leave so she could enter the forest herself. Pinkie was ready to explode, so she decided to let Rarity know.
"Hey Rarity! I knew you were following me all this time! Wasn't that so FUN?" Rarity nearly fell over with shock. "But... HOW? I was using my best stealth skills! How could you have...?" Pinkie Pie just laughed. "Pinkie Sense, silly!" Rarity sighed.

"I presume your going to the Everfree forest as well?"
"Of course! I need some more of Gummies FAVOURITEST FOOD of all time! We're running a bit low, and the only place in all of Equestria you can get it is in the Everfree forest!"
Pinkie Pie said this so quickly, all Rarity could really hear was "Gummy! Favourite Food! Running low! Everfree forest!"
"Oh, ok. I won't tell you what I'm going to get, and if you do see me getting it, you simply MUST promise me you won't tell ANYPONY!"
Pinkie Pie sighed. "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!" She ended this by sticking her hoof into her eye, of course.

Rarity had another literal light bulb moment. "We might as well go in together, then separate at the point's where we need things. After all, nothing will go wrong if we go together, RIGHT?"
Pinkie Pie squealed. "YES! It'll be like a big super duper fun adventure! AND we get what we want in the process!" Pinkie Pie then skipped into the forest, and Rarity followed her, into the Everfree forest.

Ok... What the buck do we do now?

"Wow Rarity, I had no idea how soft your mane was! Ooh and these shiny hooves! Hey, what the buck are these things doing in your eye lashes?"
Pinkie Pie was exploring her newly switched body, whilst Rarity sat on the floor weeping.
"B-b-but I d-don't WANT t-to be Pinkie! I want to be RARITY! I w-want MY body back!" A small river of her tears was beginning to form on the ground.
"Oh, don't be sad! My bodies not THAT bad! Anyway, I'm sure we can just switch back!"
Rarity stopped her waterfall of woe.
"Really?"
"Yeah sure, we just pick up this chest, and pull the switch, and-"
As Pinkie pulled the switch, the chest popped up but nothing was inside.
"What? But? That can't be- Oh no..."
"What?"
"I don't think I know how we can switch back."
Rarity screamed.
"Buthowcanthisbehowisthispossiblethisisterriblemylifeisoverohgodwhyisthishappening.."
Rarity began babbling like this for about an hour, whilst Pinkie Pie tried desperately to switch them back.
Pinkie pie then sighed. "We're going to have to find a way to switch ourselves back, but I think we're gonna have to..."
Rarity looked at her with concern. "Have to what?"
"I think that while we figure out how to fix this, we're gonna have to live each others lives. Once we switch back, we can be ourselves again and no one would know! It would be fun! We can be different people for a while!" Pinkie Pie beamed, but Rarity looked unhappy.
"FUN. FUN? FUN!" Rarity screamed. "HOW IN CELESTIA'S NAME CAN THIS BE FUN?"
"Well, maybe not fun, but we can't tell ponies that we're switched, they would never believe us!"
"OK... I understand."
"We'll need code-names for ourselves, because the readers won't know who we are otherwise!"
"Pinkie Pie, what readers?"
"Oh you know, the people that are reading this."
"Reading what?"
"I can be Pinkity, because I'm Pinkie Pie being Rarity, and you can be Raripie, because your Rarity being Pinkie Pie! This is going to be so much fun! We're just gonna have to learn how to be each other! But that'll be easy!"
"I guess..."
And so, after realising what the buck they had to do, Pinkity and Raripie walked off towards Ponyville. What could possibly go wrong?