Beginnings of the Race Swapper

When I left the tryouts, I was feeling pretty tired, so I head off home. When I got there, my parents were out, so I just head to bed so I could sleep. Normally I don’t remember my dreams well, but this one was different.

Once I had shut my eyes, I awoke to being in the middle of a street, that only had six houses, three on the left, and three on the right. Not knowing where I was I decided to call out.

“Hello? Is anypony around here?” There wasn’t an answer, so I head to the nearest house, one that like the others, was two stories, and unlike the rest, had a purple roof and door. I knock, but it swung open, so I walked in, strangely, not feeling like I was breaking in.

The house, strangly enough, looked similar to my parents does, but not the exact same, no family pictures, and the hat I now wear hanging on a hat rack by the door. I put it on straight away. After searching all the room in that house, and finding nopony else, I head back outside to the street and looked to the rest of the houses.

There was one with a blue roof and door, one that was pink, one green, another red, and the last orange. After thinking for a bit, I walked to the one next door to the purple one, which was the blue. I knocked on the door, and I heard somepony moving inside, coming to the door.

Then the pony opened the door, and I got a good look at him. He looked around my age, similar coat colour, as well as mane, but with a difference. His mane had some blue highlights running through it. His eyes matched the blue in his mane, and he had a pair of blue glasses on aswell. His cutie mark was the symbols for plus, minus, multiply and divide, all coloured blue. He was a unicorn I noticed.

“Oh, hello. So, finally made your way here, have you Hexan?” I looked at him, a bit confused and concerned that he knew me, since I didn’t know him.

“Who are you?” He thought for a bit.

“You don’t know? Well then again it makes sense, first time here and all. I’m Hexan Logic, but just call me Logic.” That made me confused.

“Why do we have the same first name?” I asked, as he started to head in, so I followed.

“We have the same first name, because I am a different version of you, I look similar to you as well, but I have differences, as you probably noticed.” This was beginning to get confusing for me.

“What do you mean a different version of me?”

“Well, basically, I’m an alternate personality, with the added bonus of being smarter.” I nod, beginning to follow what he is saying.

“Alright then, can you tell me where we are?” He nods and turns to me.

“We are in your head, specifically the place where we live.”

“How can we be in my head?”

“We aren’t really in there, physically, but we are mentally.”

“Oh.” He lead me through the house, and picked up some books and put them away.

“I assume because of all your questions, you haven’t met the others yet?”

“Others?”

“Come on Hex, your smarter than that, I know you are because I’m here, six houses, six of us, your in mine now, why not visit another?” I look through a window to the other houses.

“Which do you recommend?” He thinks for a moment.

“Well, your house is the purple one, so forget it for now, how about the orange?” I nod.

“Alright, any advice?”

“That one is a bit egotistical, but he is loyal, so you should be fine.” I head off after saying goodbye.

When I get there, I hear some smashing and banging coming from the house. A bit cautiously, I knock on the door, which stops the noises, as a earth pony opens the door. He appears to be a bit bigger than be, probably because of his muscles I can see. His mane more different to mine, being two shades of orange, darker on the outside. His cutie mark was a pair of orange and yellow boxing gloves. He also had a pair of matching gloves on his front hooves. He looked me up and down.

“Huh, finally got here Hex? Well guess it was bound to happen after I helped you beat those idiots.” I look at him confused.

“What do you mean?” He chuckles.

“You mean you don’t remember beating those bullies into the ground? You and I both know you don’t know how to fight, so I was lending you some skills.” I look at him.

“Well, thanks I guess, who are you?”

“The name is Hexan Knockout, but call me Knockout or KO, either works.” He then heads in. I follow him in and we end up in what looks like a cross between a gym and a coliseum.

“Wow…”

“Pretty cool, ain’t it? Each house is suited to its owner, so I get that cool training area.” I look at all the equipment in the area. There are all kinds, so no part of the body is missed.

“Doesn’t it get exhausting to be using these all the time?”

“Sometimes, but its what I do best, so I enjoy it. I’m the best at what I do.”

“Well, it was great meeting you Knockout. Got a suggestion on the next house?” He thinks for a minute.

“Check out the red on, he did say he wants to apologise for his influence a night or two ago.”

“Okay?.... I’ll head on over then, laters” I then head off to the red house.

When I get close, I see some smoke coming out the windows, and I knock on the door. When I opens, I see another earth pony, this one with his mane in a flame like mane style, with red around the edges. His cutie mark was a erupting volcano, with palm trees on the sides of it. He was wearing a red bandanna around his neck. He looked overly calm.

“Oh, hey Hexan, welcome to the street.” I nod to him.

“Interesting place here. Uh, Knockout said something about you wanting to apologise for something?” He looks a bit sad at that and leads me in.

“Oh right, yeah. Sorry about you going off at your mother the other night, I lost control and my anger went to you. Need to learn to control it better.” I just look at him.

“Your the reason I went off at mom?” He nods.

“Yeah, again sorry. I’m usually in control of your anger, but I cannot always control it. I usually just turn it into extra life force, or magic, or other types of energy, but there was to much, and I never got around to my meditation that afternoon.” I sit down in the dojo like room he lead me to, which has burning incense going and a pot of tea on a short table.

“That's okay, a slip up can be expected once in a while. You got a nice place here.” He nods.

"Yea, I do, by the way, I’m known as Hexan Burst, Burst is more preferable though.”

“Alright Burst, thanks for the apology. Can I have some tea?” He nods an pours me a cup.

When I finish, I head off to the next house. Burst pointed me to the pink house next. This house was a bit different to the rest, it had nicely kept flowerbeds, a heart shape on the door, and the glass was also pink. I knocked on the door, not knowing what to expect this time. When the door opened, I was surprised to find a filly standing there. I will say now, she was adorable.She was a unicorn and her mane was longer than mine, with pink tips at the end. Her cutie mark was a pink bow, similar to the one in her mane, and at the base of her tail. She looked at me with a happy smile and hopped over and hugged me.

“Hey Hexan! It’s great to have you here, come on, lets go in.” After letting go, she uses her magic to pull me inside, to a room with a closet and a bed, which she sat me on. “So, what’s up?” She asks after siting beside me. After letting my mind catch up I look to her.

“First off, your cute, second, who are you, and third whats your role in my life?” I ask, to which she giggles.

“Alright the, first, thanks,” She then boops me. “Second, Hexan Prissy, but Prissy is fine. And third, my role is to keep you happy, and control any urges related more to a filly rather than colts. Basically I keep you from acting like a filly.” I just look at her, after staring at my nose from the boop.

“This has something to do with the gender swap spell Gene used, right?” She nods.

“Hit the nail on the head. Normally, that spell would also make you act like the opposite gender too, but I stopped that, and now I do that as well as keep you happy!”

“Well, thanks for that Prissy. You so far are my favourite one.” She hugs me again.

“Thanks Hex, well, I don’t want to keep you too long, you got more to see, don’t you?” I nod.

“Yeah, one more house to go, the green one.”

"Ah alright then, see ya later!” After walking me to the door, she waves and I head off.

This house was pretty well kept, I noticed, I also heard some music. I knocked and waited for the door to open. When it did, I saw a pegasus with a coat a bit lighter than mine, with green highlights in his mane, he was also wearing a green watch. His cutie mark was a pair of green acting masks, one happy, next to a sad one. He was a pegasus. He looked me over.

“Well hello sir, please come in and we can introduce ourselves.” He then lead me in. Looking around his house, it was a bit odd, since he had a home theatre in a room, as well as a dressing room. The room he lead me to, had comfy red seats to sit on, as well as some nice lemonade to drink, which I did.

After we were sitting we started to talk. “Alright then, since I guess you visited the others by now, I’ll tell you my name. I’m Hexan Distrac, please call me Distrac, pleasure to meet you.” I nod to him.

“Nice to meet you Distrac, my name is Hexan Tronic.” He nods, with a bit of a chuckle.

"I already knew, but I figured the others would just say hello with your name added in anyway, so I decided to let you introduce yourself.” I look up and just smile.

“I figured you did, all the others knew, so why would you be different? Also, I guess thanks for the help earlier.” He just smirks.

“You mean the acting tryouts earlier today? Yeah that was fun.” I drink some more lemonade.

“So, you are here to help with my acting?” He thinks for a moment.

“Both yes and no. Yes because that is part of what I do, and no because I do more than that. I also here to help with detecting lies, as well as pretending if need be.” I nod, feeling relaxed.

“Well, it was nice meeting you all, but I want to look through my house a bit more now.”

“May I come with you? We agreed that after you met us all, we would visit your house, since it was locked till now.” I look to him.

“Locked? It opened the second I knocked on the door.” He nods.

“The house stays closed until the owner appears and opens if for the first time.” I nod to that.

“That makes sense, wanna head over then?” He nods and we walk over, and I can already see the others there. We walked to the door, and Prissy hops over.

“Welcome back Hexy, ready to head in?” I nod and we walk in, and look around, and I can already see some differences from earlier. Over the fire place in the living room, there are seven pictures, one of each of us, and a group shot in the middle. There was also a room that looked like it was the sky, it was basically a platform by the door, and just open sky so I could fly around. After coming back, the others were relaxing in the living room.

The first to speak was Logic.

“So Hexan, how was the visit?” I just smile to him.

“Its been great, I’ve had fun, and I can think I can put up with having you all with me.” Prissy is behind me and looking at my tail.

“Hey Hexy, when did you dye your tail?” I look at her confused.

“What do you mean?” She lifts my tail so I can see it.

“Look at it and tell me.” My tail looked the same as before, but the ends of it now had purple highlights. I’m a bit surprised at this.

“When did this happen?” Logic thinks for a moment.

“Probably when you got here, we just didn’t notice. My guess is, that it represents that your one of us, as well as acting as a way for the colour differences in our manes to override yours if we are in control.” I just look at him.

“In normal words?” Knockout then turns to me.

“When we take control your mane with become ours, as well as your body. We should retain your race swap ability aswell.” I nod.

“Oh, that makes sense. I guess my visit is over then?” They nod, as a light comes from the street.

We all head outside and there is a glowing door at the end of the street. “Guess that's my exit. I’ll talk to you all later, I gotta visit Gene and tell her about this.” Logic walk over and places a hoof on me.

“Well if you want to, we won’t stop you Hexan. We will see you later.” He steps back to the others and Knockout comes over.

“When you get back, us two will need to have a training session, so I don’t have to save your hide every time a fight happens.” I smirk back at him.

“If you say so coach.” He heads back and Burst comes forward.

“I hope to be able to relax with you again some time. I’ll also try to keep better control.” I nod and he heads back, prompting Prissy to bounce over and hug me.

“I’ll miss you Hexy.” I hug back.

“I’ll miss you too Prissy.” Before she steps back to the group, I boop her, and she makes a cute noise.

“Nya!” I chuckle and she heads back, blushing a little, as Distrac comes over.

“I hope we can practice your acting some time Hexan.” I bro-hoof him.

“Count on it Distrac.” After looking at each of them one more time, I head through the light.