Genes

I am a pony living in Ponyville, but unlike most ponies I’m a hermaphrodite. We’ll get back to that later though. My mane was short and had a poor grooming job. I’m a unicorn. My horn was sharper than most unicorn’s horn. My coat is a gold color with silver speckle spots going throughout my body. I am rather tall for a pony as I dwarfed my whole family in size, but was one of the youngest and skinniest pony among my family. My iris’ were silver but it was hard to tell because of the white part of my eye. I had two other siblings. Their was my older sister and my older brother. My sister was a pegasus. Her coat was pink with silver stripes similar to a zebra. She was the eldest, but you couldn’t tell because of her height. Then there was my brother. Quite frankly we had a mutual love. If it wasn’t for my constant bullies getting beat up by him I would probably never tell that he loves me. He was an earth pony. His coat was blacker than the darkest shadow. He was just an inch smaller than me and was a lot stronger than I was. He was tough love and tougher than most all the time. This would all change after my incident though, and It all started when I found a book are parents had left.

My parents were dead. If it wasn’t for our older sister. Me and my brother would be put in an orphanage, but since it was so recent the authorities decided that it was best to keep the room where the incident happened until they found the culprit, but I was still a hard headed asshole back then, so I walked in. I found this really complex spell in the magic books that my parents had left lying around. Being the dumb ass unicorn, I decided to try and cast it. It was a gender transformation spell. My body’s magic did not have the ability to cast the spell, but by some miracle I casted it effortlessly. I failed somewhere in the middle because I felt certain organs shifting around, and it scared the living hell out of me. All I knew was when I stopped it, the whole house was echoed with a loud popping noise. I felt pain in my nether regions and where my stomach met my lower intestine. Not knowing what to do I cried out.

“WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED!!” yelled my sister, Angel, from the her room as she was trotting as fast as she could towards the crying in the “off limits room”.

“I have no fucking clue, but It sounds like Genes.” said my brother, George, as he quickly followed angel.

They slammed open the door and saw me crying on the floor in a puddle of blood. Angel quickly flew over to me and put me on her back. Luckily I was really lightweight. “How did this happen?” Angel asked me as I pointed at a book on the floor. She quickly glanced at the spellbook, and she realized what spell I had casted. “Oh fuck, we need to go to the hospital right fucking now.”

“No fucking kidding.” said my brother sarcastically as she glared at him as they exited the room. I was beginning to black out from blood loss. All I remember was that damn spell.

Ponyville Medical Clinic...

Last night was all a black blob. Okay technically speaking I was out for the whole week, but you get the idea. When I awoke, I found my sister’s cutie mark on the side of my bed. It was a picture of a feather. Then I was the one to wake up everybody.

“W-What happened? Oww. Oww. Oww. Did I miss anything important?” I asked startling my sister and my brother.

“Phew, for a second there I thought you were gonna die.” George said with sigh of relief, but was then attacked by a pillow my sister threw.

“What George was trying to say was good to have you back Gene.” she said as I blushed a little bit. “We had to delete the memory of what happened to you because it was just that scarring.”

“Wait. Then why do I still remember the spell?” I asked. They both just shrugged. “Okay well then why can’t I remember what gender I a?” I asked next they were both hesitant to answer, but Angel spoke up.

“The doctor said that it was the one thing needed to delete in order to make sure you don’t come out feeling lost and broken.” said Angel as the door opened.

A nurse walked in. “Oh, you're awake we need to tell the doctor about that, but first I need to speak with you two” as she said pointing at my sister and my brother. As she took them out of the room. As they left the room, I decided to check out my injury. They didn’t bandage it up because they needed away to urinate. The place where my whatever it was was an “X” shaped scar. “Well there goes my legacy,” I thought to myself as I looked at my gender specific part gone with the dust.

I noticed another thing had shown up on me as well. On my butt sat a cutie mark. It was a gender symbol with three parts on the one circle. There was the male symbol on the top right of the circle, the female part on the bottom, and on the top left sat a combination of the two gender symbols. I was gender transformer. ‘Cool my cutie mark. So apparently this accident was supposed to happen, but why a gender transformer.’ I thought to myself then facehoofed myself. As I thought of my full name, Genderswapped. Gene was a nickname because it was two long to address by my full name all the time.

Meanwhile right outside my door...

“What?” my siblings said in unison with a questioning look on their face.

“In order for the procedure to work we needed to integrate both genders into one, so his mind stays confused and certain memories don’t become revealed and kill him from pure shock.” she said and finally took a breath.

“What do you mean both genders?” asked George. As Angel nodded in agreement.

“Gene can is technically a hermaphrodite. Which means he/she can get pregnant as well as get a mare pregnant.” said the nurse.

“I get the pregnant part, but how in the hell is Gene suppose to impregnate another mare with out you know... a penis?” she asked as the nurse shrugged.

“Gene just can. I never said it was easy.” said the nurse.

“So wait, wait, wait, does Gene have an estrus cycle.” George asked. The nurse just shrugged.

“This is technically a first for us. We will know when Gene gets to that stage in Gene’s life. Let’s put it this way, Gene looks like a mare in the front, but can do things certain mares can’t do. Gene acts like a stallion and does certain things a stallion can’t do.” said the nurse. “A couple more things before we talk to Gene, do not ever speak of what happened in that room. Another important thing, I know this is going to be incredibly too early, do not let Gene have intercourse until of appropriate age.”

“Why? Don’t get me wrong we understand, but why?” asked Angel like the responsible sister she was.

“In Gene’s condition, Gene could get pregnant at anytime because of the stallion parts always being ready for you know.” she said as it took the two siblings register what she meant, but quickly got “oh, right face”.

One difficult explanation of the birds and the bees...

“EWWWW!!! WHY?” I asked in disgust.

“To make you, me, and George.” said Angel.

“Now explain to me... WHY IN THE WORLD DOES THIS APPLY TO ME AT THIS CURRENT MOMENT IN MY LIFE!?” I asked again. Angel sat their for a loss for words as the door open.

“That’s easy and all questions will be answered.” said the doctor as he calmed a rather intense situation.

“First can you please try and what you did to me?” I asked.

“Well when you casted that spell it was in a transition between turning your reproductive organs into a different part. In turn you merged them together permanently. The popping sound was was a few of the veins that were used in the reproductive parts breaking. We really needed to remove the deformed penis from your womb.” said the doctor.

“Okay, now my second question. What’s a hermaphro-” I asked.

“A hermaphrodite is a pony or species of animal with both male and female reproductive parts.” said the doctor.

“My final questions. Why am I hermaphrodite. Also when can I eat and go home.” I asked.

“First you can have babies as well as make other ponies have babies. Secondly you are welcome to leave when you're ready we ran our final tests earlier on when you were sleeping.” said the doctor as he left.

“Gene are you going to be okay?” asked Angel.

“Yeah, we want to know?” asked George.

“I don’t know. I really don’t know. For once in my life I am actually confused.” I answered.

George wanted to comfort Gene, but as of right now he was lost. Angel was also speechless, but quickly shook it off. “Let’s put this in a positive light,” Angel said as I looked at her with confusion, “Well technically speaking you can virtually be whatever you want. Since you count as two genders you can’t be turned down because of gender rules.”

“True, but I still be bullied.” I said.

“That’s why you have me nerd.” said George

“That’s true. Maybe you guys have a point,” I said as I hugged them both, “I love you guys.”

The funeral was the other thing that stuck to my memory like glue. It was heart wrenching. I only knew my parents for 12 years, but my siblings knew them for far longer than I did. My brother was 16 and my sister was 18, so you probably know how they felt about losing their parents. The authorities found who the culprit was, but they decided that they let the princesses handle the situation. The murder was a certain draconequus, eventually he was re-stoned. I on the other hoof would have ended his life right then and there. Apparently the elements of harmony don’t kill.

We were all present at the presentation of the will. My sister was given the house and money. My brother was given the family business and money. I was given money and the same spellbook that turned me into my current state. Anyway the family business. Our business is to sell anything that would make a couple bits. We sold anything from candy and toys to condoms and sexual toys. Those were obviously in back because scarring children is bad for business. My brother did not like that idea though he happily obliged it. He was planning to go to college and get a real job. Now he had to watch over the dumb shop. He then realized that after he got home from high school he could make money to pay for college by working at the shop. He was now okay with his parent’s decision. My sister was joyed that her parents gave her the house. Now she could watch over us both and not have to pay for rent in an apartment and buy food for all three of us. She already had a job. She was a biologist. She studies birds. As for me I rather treasured the spellbook. It was filled with thousands of spells. Some were simple and some were rather complex.

So over the years I did stuff that stallions did. As well as I did stuff mares do. By the time I was ready to head out into the world without my sibling, I was able to do virtually anything I wanted to do. If I wanted to play sports with my I could. If I wanted to have a makeover with my sister I could. The world was a book, and It’s my job to fill anyway I wanted to, but today was a big day. It was my 18th birthday and you won’t believe what I got for my birthday.