Glowing Cupcakes

Everyone stood outside the back of Sugar Cube Corner, all looking up at the now giant Fluttershy, who’s head was now sticking out of the roof, and rather large too. She looked back down at them, and everyone was absolutely confused. The party was ruined, Twilight Sparkle couldn’t stop smiling, and Fluttershy was now a giant pegasus pony with her head poking out of a shop’s roof. They all looked at each other, and then all looked at Pinkie Pie with a look as if their where saying “Pinkie Pie, this is all your fault, somehow.” Pinkie Pie looked at them back.

“Why are you all staring at me? I didn’t do anything!” Pinkie cried, trying to defend herself.

Twilight, still smiling with a grin larger than Pinkie Pie would ever do, walked up to Pinkie Pie. “It was those glowing cupcakes!” She laughed, trying to sound serious and failing, “It’s those rotten glowing cupcakes! Where did you even GET them?” Said Twilight, as she squinted with her uncontrollable smile while pointing her right hoof at Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie looked down, as if she was going to collapse and cry. She looked up at them, and then back at the floor. In the back ground, Spike was trying to tip toe away.

“I…I just used some green powdery stuff someone gave me to put into the cupcakes…”

Twilight Sparkle pointed at Pinkie again, now angry that she was constantly smiling like a idiot because of the cupcakes. “Don’t you know not to trust unknown things! You…You…..You should feel horrible for doing this to…to us!”

Suddenly, a small green glow came from inside Pinkie’s belly, and her hair ‘deflated’ into long, straight hair on each side instead of her normal fluffy hair. The other ponies where still looking at her, tilting their heads. Pinkie looked up at them. She looked different somehow. The smile she always had on her face was not there, but instead was replaced with a sad, sad frown. Her eyes watered with tears and her lips wobbled and was about to cry.

“P….Pinkie?” Asked Twilight sparkle, moving back, still unable to shake off her unnatural smile. Pinkie started to cry, and everyone felt sad. Twilight could not show it because her smile had become permanent somehow, but she herself felt miserable. Twilight knew that this was too much for the pony. Something wrong was definitely going on.

Pinkie was still crying and the others couldn’t feel angry at her anymore. Pinkie was just not Pinkie anymore. Her crying face would make even the meanest of ponies turn soft. Some crushing was heard from the shop as giant Fluttershy moved out from the hole in the roof she made, and walked next to them, looking at them, and then lying down. Panic filled the street when they saw the giant pony pegasus, and the street was filled with panicked ponies rushing into their homes. Fluttershy hung her head while looking at her friends, who obviously hadn’t run, They all huddled together, giving Pinkie Pie a large, warm hug. But she was still crying. The others where confused.

“I don’t get it…Pinkie, we’re not mad at you anymore. We’re all going to help each other, please, don’t cry like that Pinkie.” Twilight reassured, but it was all in vain as Pinkie kept crying.

“It’s all my FAULT! Every single bit! I feel horrible!” she cried, and then her words became nothing but hiccups and cries from her wobbling mouth.

Twilight’s eyebrows raised sadly, despite her mouth being stuck in a grinning position.

“Okay, friends, we’re all in this together. We’ve all been effected by the glowing cupcakes. Pinkie was probably effected by them too…okay, we don’t know how, but she’s being excessively sad, which is not how she should be. Okay, okay…Wait! Rarity…Applejack, you…you two look fine!”

Applejack and Rarity indeed looked fine. They where probably the only ones that looked normal, and hadn’t spoke for the whole time since.

Twilight eyed them happily, “Rarity, AppleJack, are you two okay? I saw you eating the glowing cupcakes. Applejack, are you okay?”

Then the unexpected happened. Instead of Applejack responding, Rarity responded in a country accent, and rather alarmed.

“No, sugar cube, ain’t nothing but bad news, Twi!”

Twilight kept staring at Rarity, than looked at Applejack.

“…Rarity…?”

Applejack looked at Twilight and responded, “Twilight, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you this, well, actually, under these circumstances anything would be believable, but…um, how do I explain this, well, it appears that AppleJack and I have…switched…bodies…”

Twilight twitched, which was funny to look at due to her mouth was still smiling due to the glowing cupcake she ate. She looked at everyone, and closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and thought.

After some time, she shook her head sadly. “I don’t know what to do. I guess we’ll have to just live like this for the rest of our lives…”

Pinkie Pie started to wail loudly in tears, flapping her hooves about, and giant Fluttershy petted her with her huge hoof on the back in a attempt to calm her down. It only calmed her down enough to stop the sound, but the look on Pinkie’s face was still heartbreaking.

“Okay,” Twilight announced to them, “let’s TRY to live our lives normally while I search for some cure of some sort from these magic cupcakes, okay? Now, Pinkie…”

Pinkie rubbed her tears, looking up at Twilight, her face still full of sadness and grief, and still being petted by Fluttershy, who was feeling sad for Pinkie to suffer such a horrible experience, even if Pinkie did turn her into a giant that everyone is afraid of due to her size.

“Now, Pinkie, do you have any of that stuff that you put in those cupcakes to make them glow?”

Pinkie Pie sniffed, still trying to dry her eyes, and stood up on all four legs like a pony again. She walked into the store, into the kitchen along with Twilight Sparkle. Twilight looked about the kitchen, remembering that Pinkie’s parents had gone to visit Pinkie’s Grandmother, and left Pinkie to take care of the store. She knew this ever since they left a week before.

“And…*Sniff*, And this is that silly stuff….” Said Pinkie Pie with her now broken speech. She held out a green opened can with some green glowing powder. Twilight’s eyes turned wide open.

“Th…This is mine! How did it get here?!” she exclaimed.

“I….Spike gave it to me telling me it tasted good and that I should….should put it into the…..cupcakes for today’s….party.” Pinkie explained, trying to keep calm.

Twilight inspected the can, and nodded a few times.

“Pinkie, this is bad. I brought this from the everfree forest. I wanted to study this, but it seems SOMEONE had to take it from me and give it to you. I’m really sorry this happened, Pinkie. I should have hid it better from Spike…didn’t know he’d be that silly…”

“Oh but it’s all my fault, Twilight! All mine! I feel so horrible about myself!” Cried Pinkie, falling to the floor, curled up while crying on the kitchen floor. “I cooked them without thought if it was dangerous!” Her straight pink hair slowly became wet with the small puddle of tears on the floor. It was clear that the magic of the glowing dust had got to her too, as she never had a longer crying time, as Twilight was concerned, of four seconds. Here, ten minutes had already passed and Pinkie was still crying.

Twilight took the can and sealed it with the magic of her horn. She wished she could stop smiling but some strange spell locked her face to a large grin. Twilight went outside levitating the can, and addressed the others.

“Okay, some good news and bad news everyone.” Twilight told her friends, who listened.

“The good news is, I found what caused all these strange events. The bad news, I have no idea how to fix it.” This caused a eruption of a sad “Awwww” from all the friends.

“Don’t worry,” Twilight re-assured, “I’ll keep trying to find a cure for all these magical mishaps, and everything will be back to normal…okay?”

Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy all looked at each other.

“Oh, and Fluttershy,” said Twilight, “don’t take this the wrong way, but until I get the cure, um, try not to stay in town…okay? Nothing personal, it’s just that, people here just scream and run when they see a giant pegasus…”

“Okay…” said Fluttershy sadly, and heartbroken and very dismayed, walked away,  sending small vibrations through the ground with every step she took.

Twilight looked down, when…

“Hey!” Shouted Applejack, who was actually Rarity, and said in a posh voice, “what am I going to do about the clothes I need to make?! I can’t make them in this…farmers body with no horn!”

“Hey!” Shouted Rarity, who was actually Applejack, “Are you callin’ my body useless?”

“As a matter of fact I am, Miss Mess-a-lot.” Responded Applejack, who was actually Rarity.

“Well, how am I goin’ to harvest today’s apples in a weak body like yours?!” protested Rarity, who really was Applejack. Interestingly, their voices had not changed, but they indeed had kept the accents in the body-swap.

Twilight had taken enough confusion. “Enough! Your both in each other’s bodies, and your both going to do each others jobs, or you’ll both end up doing nothing!”

Both ponies groaned and looked at each other, frowning on having to agree on something on those lines. They left towards their actual homes, and Twilight slowly walked away towards the treehouse to search in every book she could find to cure these problems before they came out of hand. With the green can levitated beside her and the streets empty, she made it to the treehouse quickly.