Author's Note

Just something that popped into my head while editing Manes' fic Discord's Trash, Twilight's Treasure. Enjoy!

Discord's Trash, Twilight's Transformation

Twilight Sparkle sighed. The golden gleam of the statue-pony beside her overtook her vision and distracted her from her book. "Go. Away." Twilight growled, reaching out to push the smirking construct away. Hoof met side, and friction became a fickle bitch as the pony refused to budge.

The golden pony had appeared one solemn day due to a certain local chaos incarnate. Its face glimmered in the sunlight, the picture-perfect features of Twilight's own image smiling stupidly back at her. Growling again, she reached out for her book and a blanket. Affixing the blanket so that none of her body was accessible from the outside, she began to read under hornlight, searching for a spell that would revert the annoying thing to its scepter form once more.

Shivering with trepidation as she turned the pages, Twilight remembered her past experiences with the book simply titled Transformations: A Guidebook. At least Applejack had profited from the peaches! Page after page, Twilight searched, the minutes dragging on. Suddenly, a weight shifted onto her side, and she jumped back, exposing herself to the room's light once more. Blinking away the stars, she failed to notice the golden hooves snaking around her chest.

"Agh. Damn pony!" Twilight shoved and shoved, before teleporting to the other side of the room in desperation. She whipped her book out from under the blanket and focused her vision on the spell that would cause a pony to become an inanimate object, or revert a come-to-life spell. Its consequences could be drastic if cast incorrectly, or if it backfired. Readying her horn, she began to cast the spell, focusing on the steadily approaching golden pony. A beam shot from her horn tip, encasing the pony before her in a lavender glow, before refracting back into Twilight, knocking her back into the wall.

"Oh no! That wasn't supposed to happen! Now I'm going to become an inani--" Twilight's voice cut out as she began to shrink, her bosy elongating and smoothing out. Her vision stuck forward as her head shrunk and began to turn gold. She could see the golden pony looking back at her with its perpetual smile, but something wasn't right. The pony started to appear...purple!

Twilight struggled to fight the change as her limbs receded into the staff of the scepter, becoming polished metal, her tail shrinking down into a jewel on the bottom of the staff. Her wings shrank back and became a hoofgrip on the handle as her hair solidified into gold, her eyes freezing up and glazing over with gold. Her mind grew fuzzy as she began to drift into the nothingness of becoming metal, her thoughts thinning out as her brain cells converted to steel. Her open mouth closed for the final time, sealing itself into a perpetual smirk as the scepter shrank to size. A loud clatter echoed through the library as the scepter fell to the floor at the hooves of a lavender unicorn, her smile unwavering as she lifted the golden staff. Opening a closet, the mare stuffed the scepter into it and sat down to read a book.

After all, Twilight 2 had a lot of catching up to do.

"Spike! Take a letter!...Dear Discord..."