Berry Punch and Ruby spent the rest of the morning planning their first official date as fillyfriends, and after much discussion decided on something that would give them both privacy and a hint of romance besides a nice candlelit dinner at home. And that was a nice relaxing picnic at night, by the lake, since it was the closest thing to a picnic at the beach a pony could get in Ponyville.

So each pony went there respective ways for the rest of the day as each of them went to get things to make their rendezvous as perfect as possible. Berry watched as Ruby bounced off and while a part of her still felt as if it was a happy dream that was going to come crashing down around her, she still couldn’t shake the building warmth building in her heart.

Her first order of the day was setting up the drinks, while the food would have to be from elsewhere to make it more special, drinks of all kinds were her specialty. If it had fruit in it, or it could be juiced she could make a drink out of anything. After all she had plenty of practice.

Ruby Pinch was on cloud nine ever since she left the house. There was a bounce in her step, and a song in her heart. Sadly she was self conscious about her voice and never sang unless she could be drowned out by a crowd, but that didn’t dim her spirits in the least.

As she skipped down the road in filly glee she thought to herself, So lets see here what’d be the most romantic thing I can do for my special somepony? I could buy her chocolate, since I know I like it when ponies give me candy on Hearts and Hooves Day. But that might be too cheesy, and she might not like that. I could get her flowers, I know she likes tulips and baby’s breath. That might make it special … But I only have sixty bits to buy stuff with and Tulips are pricey … maybe I could by one Tulip and several baby breath’s around it? That sounds good! So that’s my first stop.

As she got to the marketplace she saw Dinky Doo stop by the flower ponies and pull out a massive bag of bits. Feeling her own, much more smaller bag, she felt a tad insecure about her own bits. She waited for Dinky to leave and trotted up to Lilly feeling woefully inadequate, she looked at Lilly with tears starting to pool around her eyes.

Lilly out of reflex leant down and nuzzled the distraught filly before her, “What’s the matter?”

“I … I wanted to buy my mommy her favorite flowers, but I saw Dinky Doo with all those bits, and I can’t compete with that! How can I make my mommy feel special if I don’t have a lot of bits to spend on her?” Ruby cried.

“Oh Ruby, want to know a secret my mom shared with me when I was a little filly?” Lilly asked, to which Ruby nodded sadly.

“Now listen up, because someday you’ll get a special somepony when you’re bigger, and it’ll be the same advice. It doesn’t matter how much you spend, it’s the feeling behind the gift that matters. It doesn’t matter if you make something yourself, or you pay all the bits in the world. As long as you did it out of love, they’ll love it.” Lilly said patting Ruby’s head.

“Really?” Ruby hiccuped sadly.

“Yepperoni. Trust me I’ve been at this job for as long as I can remember, and even a single tiny flower can brighten a ponies day. So don’t worry about the bits, and get from the heart.” Lilly replied kindly.

“Okay, um how much for a tulip and a few baby breath’s for a bouquet?”

“Hmmm … Well I think I can part for those for … lets say twenty bits.”

“Thank you Lilly! You and your friends are the best flower ponies in all of Equestria!” Ruby shouted giving Lilly a tight hug around her foreleg.

“And thank you for the compliment. Your mother really is a good one isn’t she?”

“Ya-huh! She’s the best!” Ruby gushed as she dug out the bits. Lilly gave her a small vase filled with the requested flowers and Ruby placed them carefully in her saddle bag as she made her way to Sugar Cube Corner to raid some sweets.

Berry Punch had just finished her special blend of rare Everfree Forest herbs with an assortment of magical fruits she had locked away in the fridge. Smiling at the foresight of going to extra mile for a hyper-spatial statis unit. A hefty five hundred bits extra, but so worth it for all the things she collected and stored up for her special blends. This one, was a rather special drink she made for her precious gem. Even if it wasn’t alcoholic it was something that’d relax them, make everything brighter, and with a little kick to keep them awake until later that night.

Just as she finished the last touches she felt an uncomfortable itch on her forehead and moaned in annoyance as a horn sprouted out and blasted her punch with magic. When the spell died down the punch looked like it was made by Crystal Empire fruit, and giving in an experimental sip noted that only the appearance changed. She huffed and looked up at the protuberance and growled, "Listen here missy! I'm going to have a magical ... well magically confusing night with my daughter. But you, Flippy and Flappy aren't going to mess this up for me. You hear, not like my other dates."

Her horn sparked, and she said, "No! You don't back talk me you little pot sticker, you mess this up for me I'll drown you in tomato sauce again."

Seeing her horn stop sparking she mumbled, "What did I do to be born a freak like this? I mean most of the time I'm just an earth pony, but then you or the wings just pop out randomly. Sure it wouldn't be so bad if I could control it, but you guys seem to do as you please in the most uncomfortable situations ever. Although me turning all crystally that one time was pretty awesome. I wouldn't mind being a crystal earth pony, that'd be pretty sweet. But yeah, I still don't know what I'm going to do?"

Her horn let loose a sad hum, "I know its scary, that's why I'm worried. I mean should I have just said no? Would that be the right thing?"

Her horn answered by spraying out angry sparks, "Okay! Okay! I know I should give my little Sugar Booger Bear a chance. But ... you and the wings scared away the rest of my fillyfriends, what makes this one different?"

She was answered by a questioning sounding thrum as if the horn was wanting to ask a question, "You're right Miss Horny, I should just ask her. But yeah if it wouldn't be too much of a problem would you, you know, go back in? I don't want to ponies to talk anymore than they already do about you girls popping out randomly."

She felt an answering itch around her horn’s base as it shifted back, giving her the appearance of a regular earth pony. It was her disorder as she called it, just like Alula, Rainy Feather, and a few other fillies popping up around Ponyville, she randomly shifted species. Even once had Ms. Horny, Flippy and Flappy pop out at once. Thankfully nopony was there to judge her. But ponies like her were rare, and unlike now-in-days when she was a filly ages ago she was teased restlessly. Even ponies who thought it'd be neat freaked out when it happened. Just like Ruby's father, now that was mare. Or would've been if she hadn't bolted when her own horn popped out during sex and freaked her out.

Ponies like her were more rare than adult blank flanks, and she was annoyed that it was something she couldn’t control, although her daughter was in the same boat, and that was something she was glad that they shared together. Even if it was something that neither one talked about.

Ruby felt her pride and joy receding into her head again and her wings, Zippy and Dippy pop out. While her Cutie Mark once again shifted into one of the others she had, this one her lucky four leaf clover one. It was weird. One second she was a unicorn still feeling down in the dumps for not being able to get the most awesome thing ever. Then she spotted a necklace that would look so hot on her mother, on a sale for just the right amount of bits. The necklace itself was a nickel chain, with tiny braids of silver and gold, and in the center a decent sized Amethyst attached to an embroidered vine.

That feeling of being lucky, on top of the joy of being her mother’s special somepony caused her wings to pop out, like her mother used to say. It was one of the many things she loved about her, the fact that they both randomly became other ponies. Although it was something they never talked about, her mother always saying she was a boring earth pony, while Ruby identifying herself most days as a unicorn. Or in her mother’s words an Adoricorn.

The only reason Ruby never talked to her mother about it, and tried working to help each other was because she knew how sore a topic it was. But with them being fillyfriends, she could finally work on helping her mother control her changes and hopefully her mother would want to help her with her magics as the other races. Seeing as Berry Punch had more experience than she did, or at least that’s what she liked to believe.

With her wings buzzing with anticipation and feeling unbelievably lucky as she normally did when her horse shoe or four leaf clover Cutie Mark showed up. Over in the distance she saw a poster for a contest to win a free Hearts and Hooves Day basket and with a grin flapped her way to her next target.

Berry Punch was putting the final touches on the picnic basket when she heard a knock on the door. Opening it up, she saw her daughter under a large gift basket from Bargain Bins resting on her back, “Help! This is heavier than I thought it’d be.”

Lifting the basket she noticed her daughter’s lack of horn, and wings having taken their place, “Oh little fluffball, it happened to you too?” Berry asked.

Ruby nodded, “Ya-huh, I was feeling happy that I was lucky enough to find the perfect gift for you, and they popped out.”

Berry nuzzled Ruby, and knowing how uncomfortable wings could be on the back rubbed the new muscle clusters in between the wings. Ruby’s back arched and a guttural purr left her as the tension that had been building between Zippy and Dippy from balancing the basket eased up. Berry giggled at the catlike pur, “You really are adorable. I still think it’s a bit scary, but I love you and I’m going to enjoy being with you.”

Ruby looked at Berry with a hooded, sultry gaze, “Me too, and I’m really happy that we have this special gift in common. It makes me feel closer to you.”

“Well Love Nugget, in a few hours we’ll get started on our date-date, but until then let’s talk about your day so far.”

And so the awaited moment had finally arrived. The sun had set, and the moon had risen basking the world in its majestic glory. Berry looked up at how crystal clear and utterly amazing it was that night and privately thought it was Luna’s way of making Berry and Ruby’s special night all the more special. Berry looked at her daughter whose horn had come back just as they were about to leave for their date with a longing smile.

With an expert shake of her back, and kick of her hind legs. Berry slid the picnic basket off her back and had it sailing in the air towards her face. With a deft flick of her head, she lifted the blanket from the top of the basket and whipped it so that it settled on the ground perfectly as her forehoof reached up and gently guided the basket to the blanket.

Ruby was awestruck at Berry’s deft movements, “How did you learn to do that?”

Berry winked in a jokingly teasing way, “Lots of practice. Now how about we dig in?”

Ruby let out a little fillyish squeal of glee as she helped set up their meal. As the last bit of food was laid out, Berry flicked her tail over and held Ruby’s with it. As Ruby blushed Berry said, “I know I said that this was rule number one, but if there’s nopony to see us. Then it’ll be okay for me to do things to you that fillyfriends do with one another.”

Ruby scooted her plate next to her mothers as she snuggled into Berry’s warmth. Ruby nuzzled her and asked, “Not that I’ll ever complain, but what made you accept being my fillyfriend?”

“Well there’s the fact that only family’s been alright with my randomly shifting body, the fact that you were so adamant about it, that I do think you’re very attractive for a pony your age, that I think all your pony forms look good on you, that despite all of my mess ups you are the most right thing I’ve ever done, then there’s the fact that I really do love you and I’m willing to try seeing if we can make this love grow.”

With each thing Berry listed Ruby’s blush shone through her coat brighter and brighter, until she felt she was going to burn in the fires of her love for the sexy mare she was resting against. Ruby felt her tail twitch happily and accidentally tugged on her mother’s which Ruby felt a happy shuddering next to her. Ruby kept swishing her tail as she looked at Berry Punch, “I can’t either, you never were boring to me and I think all of your forms are really attractive too. I can’t wait to share myself with you.”

Berry blushed and asked, “So you’ve seen all of my collection haven’t you?”

Ruby nodded, “Even the special toys you have under the bed, but I always wanted to ask you why you had the super fun, Tentacle Party Box?”

“Super fun?” Berry asked partially mortified, partially turned on from the way her daughter was tugging on her tail.

“Well … I might have accidentally opened it and pressed the button to see what would happen. And when it popped up I really thought it was fun what it was doing to my fillybits,” Ruby admitted.

Berry unwound her tail so she could keep their first date PG, and wrapped her foreleg around Ruby and held her lovingly, “Well Honey Bunny, it looks like you already know what sex is like. Did you enjoy it?”

Ruby nodded furiously onto Berry’s chest. Berry rubbed Ruby’s back and said, “It’s a lot more fun when you’re with a special somepony but that’s something we can talk about in a few dates.”

Ruby looked up at Berry Punch, her eyes misty and star sparkled, “Can we explore or different body forms too? And help each other learn to control it?”

Berry just nodded and held Ruby close. Before watching the night sky with her special somepony in her forelegs. At that moment nothing could be more magical.

Author's Note

This chapter took longer to make than I anticipated, but it was a rather cute transition chapter. Next chapter's going to be a week from now, and is going to start building up speed. Lots of foreplay, and teasing next chapter but no outright clop. Still hope y'all enjoy.

Also just as the show has ponies who are one race, but randomly show up as different races, and even a few as alicorns. We [GJP and I] decided to break it down into two groups. Hidden Alicorns are basically so far only Fluer and Derps who were shown as one pony type, but are in a few instances shown as Alicorns. Then for the others we have named a genetic disorder called Nascentism. Basically it's when the recessive Alicorn gene's become active in a pony. Allowing them to be Nascent Alicorns, some just have access to different race's magic [Pinkie Pie's ability to do magic as an EP; Trixie's weather manipulation powers; etc] but others have even more awakened to them and involuntary shapeshift between races [depending on a variety of things], and with training, focus, and lots of practice can control the shifts. Eventually biologically reaching an inner harmony that ascends them to Hidden Alicorn status [even though most ponies know about it, but just ignore it and don't care since "They aren't really princesses, just really weird."

Basically if a show has a pony that has multiple body forms, they count as Nascent. And so far only Alula to my knowledge has gone from randomly shifting to at one point having an Alicorn body [funny enough her name means "Bastard Wing"]. Anywho, soon enough the two Nascents in this fic are going to be having fun. While this fic is nowhere near as big a ToFL. It's still imo going to be a cute little clopfic.