NaNoWriMo2015 Oneshot Colletction

Sun did not open his eyes immediately after the violet flash left his vision. Instead, he mentally began to get a feel for the body he’d ended up in. Plenty of weight up on his head, so he had a long mane. Most of it was pulling towards his right. Not a whole lot of weight in the back half… it appeared that he was no longer male. He wondered if the mental pronoun corrections to ‘she’ would really help all that much.

Sun sighed, finally opening her eyes. Eye, as she quickly found out, noting that she was missing about ten percent of her vision on the right side. She looked beside herself and experienced something extremely surreal as she looked at her normal body without the aid of a mirror. “Oh, hello,” she said with a nod, wondering if she could have gotten so lucky as to have just reversed bodies with Dawn.

“Oh, hey there,” Not-Sun said cheerfully in a flirty tone that was distinctly not Dawn. Unfortunately, it was also most definitely not Moonlight, as the mare, while a fillyfooler, also knew better than to flirt with the terminally shy Pegasus whom normally owned the body Sun was inhabiting.

Sun, of course, was just as bad as Dawn for completely different reasons and went bright red. “These two weren’t a couple,” she said to the pony within his body. “I’m… I’m Sunrider. Um… who are you?” Somehow, Sun found himself completely unsurprised at how much he sounded like his friend. Some things were constant, no matter what else might happen. One of those things seemed to be his ridiculous levels of social anxiety now that he knew practically nopony at the party anymore

Not-Sun laughed, a mischievous light behind his eyes. “I thought this prank was all about getting to know ponies we don’t yet, though,” he replied. He paused a moment, seeming to think on that, before deflating slightly. “Though I guess if that’s the case, you’re going to need my name anyway aren’t you?” he asked, seeming a little put out at that.

Sun couldn’t help but chuckle… giggle as the case turned out to be to his chagrin. “Yeah, that’s pretty much right,” she said mirthfully.

“Fine. My name is Mythic Aurora, and I’m guessing you’re in the same position as me?” he asked curiously.

“Inhabiting the wrong gender? Yeah, that’s about right. Actually, you’re in my body,” Sun informed Mythic, small smile on her face.

He laughed. “Oh, well, I’m thinking a conversation with yourself must be pretty surreal, then,” he noted, eyes twinkling. “I know it would for me… actually, I’m kind of curious who’s in my body right now. As well as where in Celestia’s name Moonlight is… why in the buck did she do this without informing any of us?” he grumbled.

Sun found a small grin coming to her face, though she knew she shouldn’t find it all that funny. “This is Moonlight we’re talking about. You’d be better to ask the question why she wouldn’t do this,” Sun answered, earning a surprised look from Mythic. “I’ve known Moonlight for a while,” Sun answered the unasked question. “She was probably waiting for a chance to do something like this, and it’s relatively tame compared to what she could have done.”

Mythic raised an eyebrow at Sun, then paused, both eyes going up to focus on said eyebrow. “I have always wanted to be able to that,” he said offhoofedly. “Anyway, you, the shy guy in the corner, are friends with the party mare? Really?”

“It’s not that hard to believe, is it?” Sun asked, blushing a bit.

“If it were a pair of mares, no, it wouldn’t, but a stallion and a mare? How did that even happen?”

“I have the same question sometimes,” Sun answered, giggling… and once again wishing he could properly chuckle. “She came barrelling into my life in primary school, and hasn’t left it. Are you one of Night’s friends?”

“Team mates, actually. We got assigned to the same squad,” Mythic answered easily. “We’re going to meet the rest of our squad in a few days. I would have thought you’d have known. Aren’t you a guard?”

Sun shook her head. “Martial arts instructor and youth physical therapist, actually,” she answered. “I debated doing personal training for a while, but it wasn’t as interesting.”

Mythic nodded, smiling. “I can see that. You’ve definitely got the build.” He glanced around the room, as if looking for something. Sun followed suit and found that while a bunch of ponies were looking around for Moonlight, a fair few had also settled in to speak with their new conversation partners in a similar manner to Sun and Mythic. “Where do you think Moonlight is?” he asked after a moment of searching.

“Better question is who do you think Moonlight is,” Sun corrected. “There is no way she’s going to have been left out of this.”

“I just hope there wasn’t any poor sods that went off to get closer in a corner,” Mythic replied, mischievous smile on his face.

Sun paused for a second to think on the implications. Then a crimson blush overcame her face almost immediately after. “So do I,” she managed to squeak softly.

Mythic burst into laughter at Sun’s reaction, shaking his head. “So, you want to see who else is all around? I actually kind of want to know where Night ended up, and who ended up as Night.”

Sun nodded, rather curious herself, and trotted after Mythic as they searched the room, going straight for the pony that might as well be an elephant in the room. The Not-Night was still speaking to the pony that may or may not be Moonlight as Mythic and Sunrider approached.

“So, I told him, ‘come see me if I ever sprout wings.’ I think I’m going to have to eat my words,” Not-Moonlight was saying, teasing grin on her face.

Not-Night snorted as he burst into laughter. “So, who’s who?” Mythic asked as he entered the group, Sun not far behind.

“I’m Starlight,” Not-Moonlight answered, smiling over at them.

“Silent Step,” Not-Night answered.

“Well, I’m Mythic Aurora, and this here is Sunrider,” Mythic introduced, turning his grin up at Silent. “So how’s standing head and shoulders above the rest?”

“Distinctly weird,” he answered. “Weirder than the Spaghetti Incident last month…” Mythic and Silent shuddered in concert.

“Spaghetti?” Sun asked.

Starlight shook her head, an oddly serious look on her face. “When an Incident gets a name like that, don’t ask,” she said. “It’s usually best you don’t know. Trust me.”

Sun raised her eyebrow at Starlight. “That sounds like experience speaking.”

“Magic has a sense of humour, and often schadenfreude. We’ll leave it at that,” Starlight answered seriously.

Sun just nodded, intrigued as to what could make the normally terminally curious mare not want to delve into something. “So, do either of you have any idea where Moonlight went?” Sun asked them after a moment, looking between Starlight and Silent.

“No, but odds are she’d keeping her head down,” Starlight said. “There’s no way she wants her prank to end soon.” Sun rather wished she could disagree, but that fit Moonlight’s methods far too well. That also thankfully left him fairly certain she had something set up to get everypony back to their own bodies.

“How well do you know her?” Silent asked curiously.

“She’s my sister,” Starlight replied. “And believe it or not, this isn’t the first time I’ve ended up in the control of her body. I’m pretty sure this is the same potion, too.”

“So you know the antidote?” Sun asked hopefully.

Starlight sighed. “Know it, yes. Getting my hooves on the ingredients, brewing it, and distributing it in a reasonable amount of time in Moonlight’s body? There lies the problem,” she answered.

“Is it just me, or is this way too well thought out for a prank?” Mythic asked with a sigh.

“No, if it was less thought out, I’d go find my sister and beat her with the punch ladle,” Starlight said perfectly seriously. “Magic isn’t something you mess around with lightly.”

Silent Step nodded. “You don’t mess around with magic unless you’ve thought of every possibility,” he said seriously. “More, actually, considering what happens when you don’t.”

“Moral of the story, don’t mess with magic?” Sun asked the two.

“Unless you’ve got a super smart sister that can bail you out when you get in over your head,” a new voice answered. The four turned to look at the newcoming stallion, and Sun didn’t even need to ask who was behind the eyes. The grin on the black muzzle and sparkle in the ice blue eyes was all Moonlight, even if the body was Shadow’s.

“Hey Moon,” Sun sighed, unable to stop the smile from spreading across her face. Even with the prank, it was still perfectly her. “Are you saying you need Starlight to bail you out of this?”

“No. I thought of that. Antidote is keyed to a flash of another coloured light. That was also in the punch. Who’d trust anything from me for the rest of the night, anyway? Had to have that ready,” he explained easily.

“How much thought did you put into this prank?” Sun asked her with a sigh.

“Far more than you really want to know,” was the answer. “Well, now that I’ve got everypony talking to each other, I think it’s time to switch it up again!” he said, grinning, and before they could say anything, his wing darted out and hit a button on the wall situated right beside the original one.

Another violet flash of light, and Sun sighed as she was made male once again, and felt the familiar feel of his own body. The nice feeling of having plumbing that was his own again. To his left, he caught sight of a pony of green falling towards the ground, and deftly slipped underneath and caught Dawn before she could hit the ground. Sun turned to say something to Moonlight now that he, and presumably she, were back in their own bodies only to find her no longer there. The mare had vanished, and most likely for good reason as the grumblings went up around the room.

Sun glanced between Shadow and Night, and the trio burst into laughter. None of them could deny that, despite personal feelings about who they might have been, the stunt and the results had been absolutely awesome…