Through Another's Eyes

Bon Bon wasn’t feeling all that great. It was bad enough that all the Pegasi in Ponyville need to raise water for Cloudsdale to make clouds this year, but Lyra was making it even worse. Sure, Lyra made everything more complicated, but this was just plain ridiculous. She still wondered why she was friends with the strange mare in the first place.

Why was this whole tornado event such a big problem for Bon Bon? Surely an Earth Pony such as herself wouldn’t even need to mind it at all. She should just make sure to stay away from the water reserve and the water’s path to avoid getting seriously wet. Of course, that was her original plan.

This year, Lyra had managed to turn Bon Bon into a Pegasus.

~Earlier that day~

“So, what’s this big surprise you wanted to show me so badly?” Bon Bon asked as she approached her best friend

Lyra Heartstrings was busy reading a huge book on her favourite bench, monkey-like. By now, Bon Bon avoided that topic altogether. Anypony who saw this event would be incredibly confused about two things.

One: Lyra doesn’t read big books. Ever.
Two: She wasn’t even supposed to be able to be holding the book.

A single memory rushed back into Bon Bon’s head, one of which involved Lyra being a seapony and a terrified Applejack thinking she needs medication. When the Earth pony managed to change Lyra back with the help of Ponyville’s number one egghead, Twilight Sparkle, she made Twilight promise to never let Lyra take the book back.

“Lyra… How did you get that copy of Advanced Transfigurations and Transformations, Volume 1?” the mare asked with a scared and confused expression.

“What, this?” Lyra said, pointing her fore hoof to the book “It’s a long story. Anyway, do you remember what I told you a few episodes ago while we were waiting for Derpy?”

Again with the episodes. Bon Bon needed to have a word with Pinkie Pie after this.

“You said you wanted to have wings…” she said before coming to a realisation “Oh Celestia, NO!”

“Why not~” whined the mint coloured Unicorn

“Remember last time? I am NOT carrying you back to Twilight in a bucket again!”

This made Lyra huff in anger. Sure, the last time was a fluke. However, she wasn’t ready back then. Now she was perfectly ready and well rested for her next experiment, trying to give herself wings!

“Relax, Bon Bon. I just need a test subject!” Lyra said

This made the Earth Pony very scared. Before Lyra could react, Bon Bon had already taken off, running like the wind towards who knows where. There was just one problem with running away from a unicorn that had too much free time to study magic despite it not being her special talent, she could teleport.

A bright green flash surprised Bon Bon mid-run as she came to a stop, crashing into Lyra. She looked even scarier now, with a wicked grin plastered on her face. The Unicorn’s horn glowed with pure energy as she unleashed a blast of green light towards her best friends which fully engulfed the mare. Bon Bon’s screaming did nothing to stop Lyra.

A few moments have passed an the light finally subsided, revealing the cream coloured mare in all her glory. However, there was a distinct difference. The once kind-hearted Earth Pony now had a pair of wings sprouting from either side of her body, just like a Pegasus. Before long, she fainted.

~Real time~

“How did you do this?!” Bon Bon asked, trotting towards the Pegasus training grounds that Rainbow Dash had created just for the tornado event “Even Twilight had trouble giving herself and her friends wings!”

Lyra shrugged as she too followed Bon Bon to the training grounds. She was still a Unicorn, but not for long. She wanted her transformation to be a huge hit, so she was going to do it… in front of all the Pegasi! Bon Bon knew this wasn’t going to end well.

Just as the two reached Spike for signing up, an obvious question came out of the young dragon’s mouth.

“Weren’t you an Earth Pony?”

The two had a hard time explaining the little test that Lyra was trying out. It started to get worse when Twilight came towards them. The appearance of Princess Celestia’s student scared all three of them. After all, Twilight was an egghead. She was sure to ask questions. A LOT of questions.

“Let’s sign you up as somepony else, then” Spike said quickly “How about Bon Voyage?”

“That’s a-” Bon Bon started to say but was cut off by Lyra

“Wonderful name!” the Unicorn piped up “Real great!”

When Twilight arrived, she asked who the new cream coloured Pegasus was. A few lies were passed and the mare just accepted and told Bon Voyage to go to practice. This was when she started to consider Lyra for the first time.

“You’re a Unicorn” Twilight said matter-of-factly

“Not for long! Watch this” Lyra said with a gleeful cheer as her horn started to glow.

A similar flash reoccurred as Lyra started to shine brightly. She started to feel a tingling sensation as she felt her body start to morph. Something was wrong, however. The change was happening too low down her body. She started to feel her fore hooves shrinking… wait, shrinking?

And then it got worse.

Lyra started suffocating, not from lack of oxygen but somehow a lack of water. Somehow, she knew exactly what was happening. Before the transformation was even complete, Lyra teleported away to the only place she knew she could be, the lake behind Sweet Apple Acres.
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“Sweet mother of Celestia, they’re back!” an orange mare could be heard screaming at the top of her lungs
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“Huh, wonder what that was all about” Twilight said with a shrug.

Bon Bon- I mean, Bon Voyage looked at the situation with dread filled fear. She was stuck as a Pegasus until she could find Lyra again, and she knew she could never find her if she was too tired from all these fight exercises. It didn’t even help that Rainbow Dash was pushing her even harder.

“Are you okay?” asked a lilac mare with a light green mane as she saw Bon Bo- Voyage struggling

“Yeah, you look like you’ve never flown in your entire life!” said another lilac pony, this one with a spiky blue and white mane

Flitter and Cloudchaser, Bon Bo- Voyage knew these ponies. They were two best friends who usually hung out in Ponyville together. Flitter was the kind and soft spoken one while Cloudchaser was the one who acted more like the boss of the two. Bon Bo- Voyage hoped she was talking to the right ponies and not somepony who could end up insulting her.

“Yup, pretty swell” Bon Voyage (Hey, I got that right!) said with a terrible grin “Just tired, is all”

“You know, you look a lot like that mare, Bon Bon” Cloudchaser said as she pondered this for a while

Before the conversation could continue, Rainbow Dash had already barked orders at the three mares, forcing them to go back to training. Quietly, Bon Voyage thanked the rowdy Pegasus for breaking up that awkward tension in the conversation.
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“Oh Celestia, where are you?” Bon Voyage said in exasperation

A day has passed and she still hasn’t found Lyra. She’s tried looking all over Ponyville, but only found out what happened when she visited Sweet Apple Acres. Apparently, the seapony from before had returned, according to Applejack. The poor mare had started to go to Twilight’s the therapist for help on her hallucinations. When Bon Voyage looked for Lyra at the lake, she was gone. Lyra must have teleported somewhere else.

“…Okay, everypony! Let's give it all we've got! On the sound of the horn, we take off!” Bon Voyage heard Rainbow Dash shout to every Pegasus there. She knew she needed to get to work.

“Good luck, Bon Voyage!” Flitter told her as she passed by

“Yup, we’re gonna need all the luck we could get” chimed in Cloudchaser

“YEAH!” screamed a white stallion who was obviously on steroids

And so, the next few scenes would look exactly like the one in the episode. To write it all down would be considered copy pasting and so it will be left alone. For those who need to know what happened, just rewatch the episode.
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“I can’t believe we did it!” said a stallion

“I know!” Isn’t it great?” said another

Bon Voyage huffed loudly as she tried to catch her breath. It was extremely difficult indeed, but she did it. She actually helped to bring rain to all of Equestria. The only problem now was looking for Lyra, and she was dumbfounded as to where the strange mare could be hiding.

“Are you okay, Bon Bon?” asked a familiar wall-eyed mare

“Derpy!” screamed Bon Voyage in shock “How did you know it’s me?”

“Do you really want to know?” Ditzy Doo asked with a serious expression which scared Bon Voyage greatly

“Umm… never mind. I need to find Lyra, have you seen her?”

“Lyra? Wasn’t she in that lake we just shot at Cloudsdale?”

With a look of utter surprise, Bon Voyage stared wide-eyed at the grey mailmare. It was impossible, Lyra being in there would have meant that they needed more power to lift the water, but they only got eight hundred wing power. Still, Ditzy was known to be a terrible liar and only told the truth.

Some things are better left unsaid.
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Princess Luna looked at the vat filled with water at the Cloudsdale weather factory that somehow contained a mint coloured seapony. She only visited because her sister was too busy to come and overlook the rain making duties, but it has turned out rather… amusing.

“Heya, Princess” Lyra said with a smirk “Care to give a hand?”

“Hand?” Princess Luna asked