Apple Bloom was panting, she felt very, very strange. "Applejack?" Her voice sounded different, more… well, exactly like the alicorn she was dressed up as, but with a strong note of panic. "What-" She turned to her sister and saw that she wasn't the only pony having to deal with craziness.

"Okay, okay, don't panic everypony!" Queen Twilight Sparkle's voice had changed only slightly, her demeanor, her very self, was vastly different. She was a changeling queen, she could taste every emotion of every pony in the room. Her ire quickly fell on Discord.

"I…" Discord trailed the sound off before talking really fast, "think I should go!" A black, furious changeling crashed through the air where the being of chaos had floated.

"Twi?" Gel had huddled against Applejack, the alicorn was huge, or so it seemed. "I can't… I can't feel…" Tears started at the corners of her eyes and even as Gel started to cry she was pulled closer to AJ.

Applejack focused her attention down to her… her wife, "Now now sugarcube, this'll all be okay." The urge to protect and shield the stallion that had done the same for her was stronger than AJ had ever felt before.

"WHERE IS THAT CUR?" Darkness itself poured into the room and everypony turned to stare as Nightmare Moon, radiating malevolence and anger, glared around. "I KNOW DISCORD DID THIS!"

"Luna!" Behind the Dread Queen of the Moon, a second Cadance walked in, leaving some ponies glancing back and forth between the new arrival and Apple Bloom. "Luna calm down, we can fix this." Hope reached a hoof up and rested it on Luna's shoulder, breaking the anger apart in her.

Scared, panicked, and more than a little terrified, Luna was breathing hard. All the bad things had come back, she felt the need to control, to do whatever it took to see her will done. At that she froze, she didn't have the will she did when last she wore this shape. "I… I think I am okay."

Twilight stared back at her family. Gel and Applejack, the former was no longer the strange changeling she had fallen for, but simply an earth pony mare—a delicious earth pony mare—the latter was something very different. "Applejack, are you okay?" She moved, able to taste the crazed mix of emotions of her friends around her. Three shapes bumped her leg and Twilight looked down. Her foals, and one extra. Sickly-green magic reached out and picked up the tiny forms, cuddling them close.

"Twilight!" Fluttershy was standing still, her eyes scrunched shut. She didn't dare open them. "Twilight help…" Her costume... why did she pick it?

Zecora was at her friend's side. "Your shape has changed, this strange day, like my scaly pet, malevolence is not your way." She put one leg over the shoulders of the oversized cockatrice. The words soothed Fluttershy just as much as the hug, she was safe in Zecora's grip.

"Slipper!" Pulling at the limb holding her, Fluttershy opened her eyes to look for her filly, only to realize she was staring directly at Zecora. "Oh darn."

Quick to react, Zecora had her own eyes closed. "Your filly changed too, don't fear she's safe. Your best friend true, will protect the waif." Fluttershy closed her eyes again, suddenly thankful that Zecora had so much experience dealing with a cockatrice.

Hope saw Apple Bloom, the two Cadances blinked at each other and gave little nods across the room. "We need to get the more… dangerous, citizens calmed down and try to keep everypony safe."

Luna blinked at the former scourge of Canterlot. "You speak well. I trust Princess Twilight, Prince Gel, and the knights to take care of the castle. We should go out and check the town." Like a cloak, Luna took darkness and thick magic with her as she walked. As soon as the moon's light kissed her shape again, she felt bloated with power. Dark power.

Sombra stood proud and tall before the two and gestured down with a hoof at the swarm of foals, all changed. "I have them under control, for now. We should be thankful this isn't affecting their minds as much… Sombra really wasn't a nice pony." Lyra shook his big head, everything felt big about him. A naughty thought crept into his head, of his wife.

"Did everypony have to dress up as villains this year?" Luna wore a half grin, showing the fangs that adorned her mouth. "Now, where was I… CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE!" The Royal Canterlot Voice was nothing compared to the compelling and demanding voice of the Queen of Darkness. "CALM YOURSELVES, EXIT YOUR HOMES AND MEET IN THE TOWN SQUARE!"

"Wow…" Hope was in awe, part of her practically trembling at the urge to do what she had just been told. "That sends a shiver down my spine."

"Got that right." Lyra had all the magic of the Mad King at his control, but when the Nightmare made a proclamation to him like that, an old, very base-pony part just had to do what it was told. The night had spoken. "Guess we should try to make sense of them all." His hooves were already moving, following the command.

"Too much?" Luna looked at her companions, then at the foals, all of them already making their ways toward the center of town. "Maybe too much, I forgot how easy it is to… no, I won't do that again."

"Don't tell me to calm down!" Spike snarled the words, his head very well-built for the act now. He looked to his left, at Stormwalker. "Why did we have to do this?"

Storm was dealing with strange feelings. His body wasn't even pony anymore, or his own. He looked past Spike, to Cloud. "Yeah, why did we go with Cerberus?"

Cloud opened his canine mouth to retort against his loved ones' accusations when the booming voice hit all three. They might not be ponies, but the darkness demanded something of them and, putting one huge paw before the other, they made their way to the door.

"It's too small, we are going to," Storm's nose thumped into the wall and, with little effort, through it, "hit the wall… wow, we are big…"

Spike lifted his head up from staring down and back. "We are really big, don't think about sex."

"Now you ruined it." Cloud tilted his head and bopped his skull against Spike's head. "Now I can't stop thinking about it.

"Maybe it is like a vote, if two of us don't think it we will not get horny?" Storm was fighting not to think about their power and size. Spike's head lifted back up from looking between their back legs, again.

"Nope, only takes one vote it seems." Spike wore a silly grin and leaned first one way, kissing Storm's cheek first, then the other and kissing Cloud Chaser. "If I was going to get stuck like this with anypony, it would be you two."

They stopped walking and all three of Cerberus' heads nuzzled together, suddenly all in perfect agreement.

"Apple Bloom?" Tender had to look up a little, Bloom was a bit taller than he was now. "You're… wow…" He could feel something stronger in his heart than he had felt for her before. There was a bond.

"Tender." Apple Bloom didn't hesitate, well, not until her snout was pressed against the side of Tender's, the two sharing an intimate moment amidst the chaos of the room. "I can feel it all… your love…" It made her want to smile, dance, and sing.

"We need to be careful, these bodies… they are fully-grown ponies…" Tender brought up a hoof to rub the pink alicorn's neck, feeling more of that power in his heart.

"We do…" Apple Bloom drew back an inch, then two. She couldn't help leaning back in. Their lips met in a kiss.

"What…" Twilight's eyes went wide, the two glowing ponies, Cadance and her brother, tasted better than all the food she had ever had in her life, put together.

"Twilight." Gel's hoof felt so small as she reached up to poke her wife. "Twilight, you need to shut it out, you can't just take in all the love like that." She knew what Twilight was doing, the look on the changeling queen's face was enough. "TWILIGHT!" Gel spun around, her mind remembering the procedure quite well. So distracted was Twi, that she didn't see the two rear-hooves coming until they thumped into her carapace. Knocked hard, she broke her contact with the love pouring from Apple Bloom and Tender Taps.

Instead, Twilight was looking at her wives. "I needed that." She focused on Gel first, the little mare leaking so much love that she didn't have to be near her to taste it. Applejack stood beside Gel, she had her wings tucked down, but the new alicorn looked ill-at-ease with her changed body. "We need to all calm down. Okay, the best way to handle this, everypony pair off with somepony who has been what they are now. Alicorns, changelings… Rainbow Dash!" Twilight clopped a dark hoof on the floor at the cavorting windigo. "Stop freezing everything and calm down!"

It was too awesome, Rainbow Dash wasn't just floating on wind, she was wind. When she spread her wings, they were two gusts of air, thought and weather mixed as one. "This is so cool!"

"This is so strange." Pinkie Pie's voice, strangely enough, caught everypony's attention. They all turned and looked at her. "What, you are all acting like you never saw a human before!" She giggled, how could she not.

Her sun had been put to rest for the evening, from the direction of Ponyville, Celestia had felt her sister work her own power and raise the moon. The night had seemed like any other Nightmare Night. "Twisty, what do we do when Equestria is full of changelings? When we are all one?"

Twisty snorted. "When that lovely goal is achieved, we relax. We calm down and see what life brings us next." Her hooves worked over Celestia's shoulders, massaging tense muscles.

Celestia let out a soft sigh. "I knew that, but I meant… your eggs." The white alicorn was a ball of putty and quite happily let her lover knead at it. "Not that I don't plan to take a little time out to raise our foal, but Lulu really likes being stuffed with them."

Finding a knot in Celestia's neck, Twisty brought both hooves up to deal with it. "Then I only lay infertile eggs in her. Well, mostly infertile. Drones, like most ponies, don't live forever. There will be grubs around, our foals will be many."

"Would you try to give her a pony foal?" Celestia surprised Twisty by rolling to her side, displacing the changeling, but giving her a view up at that dark and exotic snout. "She wants it, I know she does, and the silly filly has lost her heart to you, Twisty Turn."

Twisty gave up on trying to massage her mate; flopping sideways and laying facing Celestia. "And you haven't?" Twisty reached a hoof up to rub Celestia's snout, but got a kiss to her frog instead.

"I can't lie to you, you can taste it." Celestia kissed the hoof again, this time getting a boop on her nose. "But she is head over hooves for you, can't you see it?" She started nuzzling the hoof, even snaking her tongue out to lick into one of the holes in Twisty's leg.

"If you had any idea how much that tickles I would never be able to stop you doing it." Twisty didn't pull her leg back. "And I know, I can't help being a mirror to it, either. The more she loves me the more I love her back. I don't think changelings used to be like this, back in the hive. We didn't have much love to share."

"A travesty." Celestia had worked up to a second hole, licking along the edge. She saw a look in Twisty's eye that told her that although it might be ticklish, Twisty was enjoying it for a whole different reason. Celestia felt the hoof press to her snout again and she nuzzled at it lovingly.

Twisty was in a very happy state. Full as a changeling queen could get, she had more love washing over her, along with a little 'bent' she had being serviced quite nicely. But then Celestia froze, and not in the fun way. "What's wrong?"

Lifting her head, Celestia turned and gazed, sightlessly, toward the south. "Either somepony just played a very poor joke on me, or Equestria is in grave danger." She felt the presence of darkness in the world, two-fold. The power of Nightmare Moon radiated from the vicinity of Ponyville. It was worse, the second darkness, the one she had been told was ended for good, was with her sister's dark aspect. "Sombra..."

Author's Note

"Just one night? Well, after how much they moaned about it, I should leave it in place forever." Discord created a little puppet show, obvious 'Queen Twilight' and 'Nightmare Moon' dancing. "'Oh, this is horrible, how dare you give us all a scare on Nightmare Night!' Pinkie has the right idea, she chose something more horrible than any pony could dream of. Am I right?" Discord stood up straight again, the puppets and fake show disappearing. "And no, no plants."

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