Spike and Cloud were having a relaxing lunch in the hayburger joint, the pegasus was off shift and Spike, well, just loved being with him.

"And Twilight has promised to teach me magic and everything!" Spike nommed on a burger, finally finding the pony love for the things making much more sense by being a pony.

"You aren't doing this just for me, are you?" Cloud stole a few of the fries from Spike's meal, having opted for a nice salad himself. "I just don't want you to make such a big decision so hastily…"

Spike gulped down his mouthful. "It's not just for you, although I am not sure things could work quite so well with me as a little dragon… I want to grow up, not just be 'that baby dragon' forever."

"Hay, that's my amulet!" The voice startled both ponies and they turned to see an oversized mare clop her way over to their table. Gold and slightly green irises narrow at Spike. "You should give it back, Princess Celestia would be very upset if I let just anypony use it!"

"Wait, Muffins?" Cloud looked shocked, slicking his mane back and gazing up and up the larger mare. "Oh wow what happened?"

The recognition and lack of any sudden actions by the 'thief' set Muffins at her ease and she smiled to one of her friends. It was too late to assert her derpy nature, however, and worse since being an alicorn and standing out THIS much meant her cover was so blown now it was useless. "All sorts of crazy stuff. Look, we need to catch up and…" Muffins did her best surprised expression as she looked around, "we happen to be where I love to eat!"

Spike was forced across and he realized that if he was a thief, she would have just made it impossible for him to get away. "Uh, Muffins I-"

"Amulet first, I want to see who you are." Muffins held out a gray furred hoof to Spike. The unicorn sighed deeply and took the amulet off and dropped it on the mare's hoof. Immediately he felt the odd shift as he shrank and became a dragon again. A tiny dragon. "Spike?"

"Yeah, just little Spike." It was devastating, Gel had told Spike he could have the amulet but it truly was Muffins'. He looked over to Cloud and saw an encouraging smile on the pegasus' face.

"Why do you want to be a unicorn?" Muffins got the attention of somepony and pointed at Spike's burger, gesturing for another one.

"Why? Why don't I want to be stuck in a body that will never age for fear of me destroying everypony I love if I do?" Spike dropped his burger on his tray, suddenly not liking even the smell of it.

Muffins stopped and looked down at Spike. "I guess I never thought of it like that. How is it different to how you are? How do you feel as a pony?" The alicorn looked down at the amulet in her hoof.

"I feel, free. The magic is cool, but being able to walk around town, having ponies look at me as if I were normal." Spike closed his eyes, his mind dredging up the fear everypony had shown him the time he ate too much. It sent a shiver down his spine. Then be blinked and looked up in surprise, the shiver down his spine wasn't just that fear, it was his body changing back to a pony.

"You look happier as a pony." Muffins leaned in and kissed the unicorn on the cheek. "It is up to you if you keep it on, you know the deal?"

Spike nodded mutely, looking up at the alicorn and then diving close to hug her tightly. Tears welled in his eyes and he didn't know why but having another pony make this decision, giving him the chance when it cost them nothing to take it… it just felt so good.

"So, find any cute mares?" Muffins ruffled the mane of Spike-the-unicorn and then froze, getting only laughter from both stallions.

Rainbow Dash looked at the mess, it wasn't actually that bad, mostly just cleaning out a few old empty boxes and sweeping the floor. The pegasus started to have ideas that there was an ulterior motive to all this.

"So Vinny got you cleaning the house? I dread to think that she got the better of you on something." Octavia had let Dash in when the DJ apparently was late to her own blackmail reward. "But tell me, is there anything I could do to get you to clean my half, too?"

Rainbow Dash had wondered about the line and coloring. "Whoa, slow it down, what is up with your place anyway?" She gestured to the clearly delineated halves of the house.

"Whatever do you mean?" Octavia sat a little straighter, looking a little scandalized.

Dash inhaled a deep breath. "I was at your wedding, remember? Now I have your wife blackmailing me to clean and wanting me to come in here and be a home-wrecker…" The pegasus realized she might have gone a little far and tried to cover her snout with both forehooves.

"Home-wrecker is it? And what exactly did our Vinny want you to do?" Octavia stared at the pegasus until Rainbow Dash was defeated, a common victory method for the mare.

"Well she found out about me liking being a maid and then she wanted me to clean her house but I told her it wasn't worth it and then she wanted me to clean her and I just… I just…" Dash was panting, having poured her confusion into one sentence when it should have been six.

"So the dear blackmailed you into coming around to clean up her mess and get a little nookie?" Octavia's stare didn't let up and the pegasus threw her hooves up.

"Okay, I give up, this is too much." Rainbow started to storm back to the door but a tug on her tail made her freeze in place and look back at the earth pony mare. "Huh?"

Octavia had a hoof-full of Dash's tail. "I don't think I said you were done yet. The floor needs sweeping and I do think I need a bath." The tail was released and Rainbow Dash saw the very snooty-sounding mare trot from the room.

"What have I gotten myself into…"

"I heard that! I swear, the help are always such trouble. Get in here you ninny." The assertiveness in the voice was what got Dash, her annoyance slipped away and a dizzy smile covered her snout. Trotting into the back room that was apparently the bathroom of the house, she spotted Octavia settling down into a good-sized bath, reclining against the side. "Well, are you going to do your job?"

Dash bobbed her head and trotted over. The advantage to going mostly without clothes was she was always ready for a bath. Climbing in, Rainbow grabbed up a soft-looking brush in her mouth and dipped her snout down, getting it wet and curling up at Octavia's back-hooves, scrubbing them lightly.

Memories flooded the poor pegasus, of Aloe showing her the previous weekend, just how to clean hooves properly.

"Oh, when you said cleaning I thought you meant more…" Octavia gestured to her mound with a hoof, the sight of it making something clench inside Rainbow Dash. "But I must say, you are good at that. Continue."

Rainbow Dash did, she worked the brush carefully over each of the two rear hooves, getting them just right. There was only a little water in the tub, which was fine by her. She started to work slowly up the chocolate-brown thighs of the mare, keeping her strokes even and with the fur grain.

"Tavi, home!" Viny's voice called from the main room.

"Keep gong." Octavia's voice was firm and her hoof on Dash's head even more so, the pegasus shivered happily and kept her work, finally starting on the earth pony's inner thigh.

"Oh, having a bath?" Vinyl didn't even poke her head in the room. "No stress, hay, did you see Rainbow Dash at all? She was supposed to meet me to… negotiate… some things."

"She dropped around, Vinny-dear, said she had to get some cleaning done but you weren't home. I think she found something to do without you." Octavia's words made Dash squirm in delight. The mare leaned forward just as Dash started on her mound. "Let me string her along a bit… oh my word… a bit more."

Rainbow Dash surrendered the brush in favor of her lips and tongue. She began to carefully lap and trace the mare's soft folds, finding them already lovely and musky.

Vinyl could be heard dropping something and cursing. "Ugh, well, damn that, I guess I can't hold it against her if she actually came here and I wasn't home. Hay Tavi, you got anything planned for dinner?" Rainbow Dash couldn't see, but she could sense the slight change in air pressure as somepony walked in the door. "Uh… hi… Dash…"

The hoof on Rainbow's head told her all she needed to know, she closed her eyes and kept licking, quite warming to the task of pleasuring Octavia as she messed with Dash's tormentor.

"Yes, 'hi Dash' indeed. When were you going to tell me about this." Octavia smiled at her wife, eyes leveled in a similar stare she had used on the rainbow-maned mare. "Vinny, you really should share your toys, particularly when they are so… good."

Rainbow Dash would purr if she could, praise and a slow stroking of her mane had her inadvertently lifting her own tail a little.

"Well, I guess dinner is… served…" Vinyl's words confused Dash for a moment, before she felt the unicorn's snout poke under her tail and lay the first lick along her own folds.

"For you? Yes, I think you will make sure our little cleaning mare is well rewarded and next week, both of you will be on time, right Vinny?" Octavia kept up rubbing Rainbow Dash's mane and ears, she really could just sit here all day and watch the pegasus nuzzling her crotch, ears tucked back.

It was an odd pose, but Dash didn't care. She had her rump up in the air, crouched low for the earth pony's crotch and still let the unicorn work. She lapped and lapped, not speeding up or slowing, pushing or pulling back. She simply cleaned Octavia again and again and even when Vinyl's apparently talented tongue brought her to climax Rainbow Dash maintained her constant pace.

"Good girl, you can go home now." Octavia's pat on Dash's head woke the mare from a daze, she looked up at the smiling pony. "Or would you like to be a naughty maid and share the master's bed?"

Right then, with two very open mares as company, Dash couldn't think of much she wanted to do more.

"Okay, but how does making a second copy-" Starry was looking confused but got cutoff by Gel.

"Gooplicate." Gel supplied.

"Okay, how does making a gooplicate help with getting us a body to test with." Starry looked confused at the two goo-ponies.

"Well, for one, I get to burn up a lot of energy I have been keeping around for no good reason. But for another…" Gel stepped over to the little cage and lifted the cover to reveal a parasprite. "Okay, now this may look a little odd…"

Starry still looked confused as the changeling reached up and, opening the cage, pushed his changeling horn into the cage. The little creature trilled in delight and pounced forwards onto Gel's horn. With his doom secure, Gel pulled his head back out and felt as the thing on him started to work. His body solidified and, with a confusing snap, he was firmly in the other gooplicate and watching as his body resumed being a normal changeling. "Okay, I guess I should explain, that little critter drinks up magic and blanks the mind of the creature they perch on. Adorable and horrible all at once."

Starry stepped up to the oddly solid Gel. She waved a hoof before his eyes but got only the barest of responses. "Are you even in there now?"

"Yes and no. If I took the parasprite off, my magic would reassert itself and I would gain all the memories back. But as it sits, no, I am not in there, it is an empty version of me." Gel booped his not-goo gooplicate on the nose. "Your name is Cutie Flanks and you are actually a mare, silly, you are a changeling though, so you had best change to being a mare right away!"

The look of shock on the Cutie Flank's face was muted by her emptiness, but the dullest of green flames flowed over her, taking nearly a minute to pass. Relaxing and looking up to Gel again, waiting for some more nice ideas from the cute stallion she felt really happy.

"Now, Cutie, this nice mare right here is going to give you a special present, it is going to be the best thing ever and will be your new best friend. It will be great." Gel gestured to the clone's flank and grinned.

Starry felt an odd twitch inside, her other self now doing something deep inside her womb. It felt… it felt wonderful. Half closing her eyes, she let that other part of her, the part that had bonded with her, turn her and back her toward the empty mare's plot. The feel of something moving deep inside her actually turning the poor mare on. With a stifled moan, she felt the tentacled thing pull itself from her depths and be free. It wasn't her friend, it was... it was their offspring!

Cutie felt the thing as it parted her soft netherlips. It was fast, and impossible for the mare to truly enjoy, but as the creature pulled itself deeper and deeper into her body she smiled with happiness, it must be what the nice stallion was talking about.

Then contact was made and it was like an 'on switch' was thrown.

"What… what is this? Who am I? What is this host?" The mare skittered back and hit the wall. "Who is Cutie Flank? Her memories are only minutes old, what are you doing to me?"

Gel smiled. "We are giving you a chance to be yourself."

Author's Note

Well, Gel's plan succeeded in some part, how well it continues will yet to be seen and is up to only one creature, Cutie Flank, or at least what is now Cutie Flank.

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