Silly Species Swapping

Silly Species Swapping
Chapter 2

2 minutes had passed since Twilight had discovered the loss of her horn, and 2 minutes wasn’t even close to the amount of time needed to come to terms with the state Twilight and her friends had found themselves in. Twilight was hurriedly going through her notes, looking for a way to reverse the spell without her horn. Her progress was slowed by the fact that the earlier explosion had scattered many of her scrolls around the room.

Of the six Ponies, Rainbow was taking things the worst, her normal loud personality muted while the others talked amongst each other trying to understand what was going on. Rainbow just stood in silence. She was getting this nagging itch, not the sort that could be dealt with using a hoof; it was the urge to fly, to be airborne. Even when she was indoors she would often hover and staying still drove her crazy.
“Urgh! Twilight! Surely there’s something you can do!” Rainbow’s frustration was reaching new heights.
“I don’t know why you’re worried.” Pinkie Bounced past Rainbow and towards Twilight, “The Spell’s gonna wear off in 3 days anyway.”
Twilight continued reading, “I know that Pinkie, but I want to...Wait!” She dropped her notes, “How did you know that?”
“Oh that’s easy peasy lemon Squeezie!” Pinkie shot across the room and back with a scroll, “It was in the pile I fell in.”
Twilight opened the scroll and studied its contents; they were indeed the failsafe measures in the event of a mistake. However none of them took into account the possibility of her losing her horn, leaving her with only one option.

“I’m sorry everypony,” Twilight set her work down, “I’m afraid we’re gonna be stuck like this for at least 3 days.”
“No Twilight,” Rarity stepped up, “You don’t need to apologise.”
“She’s right Twi, this was an accident.” Applejack flexed her new wings confidently, “And anyway, it might be fun to try out what being a Pegasus is like.”
“Well I suppose, I could do an essay on the effects of this spell instead.” Twilight pondered to herself, slowly coming around the idea.
“So we’ve just gotta wait it out?” Rainbow exclaimed, “What about my weather work?”
“Well shucks Rainbow, I’ll help you out.” Applejack Fluttered above the rather annoyed Rainbow, “You just point me to a cloud and I’ll be bucking it like the last tree in the orchard.”
“But...” Rainbow heaved a defeated sigh, “Fine.”

“So I can have some fun with unicorn magic?” Pinkie said as she began to prod her new horn.
“Um,” Twilight stammered a little, “I guess so but you’ve got to be care...” Twilight didn’t have time to finish her sentence before a book quickly shot past her face. This was quickly joined by another, then another.
More and more books began to join the first few in the air, spinning and circling the room. “Don’t you worry Twilight, I’ll get this cleaned away. “ Pinkie giggled as she concentrated more, allowing a distinctly pink glow to form around her horn. The floor was soon cleared of debris as it danced above the ponies’ heads, each piece acting independently flowing like a river, circling round, circling round, circling round. Twilight was actually rather impressed; Pinkie had managed a good control over the magic she had found herself in control of, although there was one small problem.
“Pinkie you’re doing great!” Twilight reassured her friend, “You just have to get yourself unstuck from this magic loop you’ve got yourself in. You need to visualise the books on the shelves.”
“Don’t you worry your head over it one little bit, I’ll have this party on track again and we’ll have cake and balloons and streamers and play pin the tail on the pony and..” Pinkie’s mind turned once again to parties, and unfortunately it turned away from the spell she was casting.

It started with a slight popping noise followed a few seconds later with a stray balloon falling to the ground. Fluttershy was the first to notice it as it landed on her head on its way to the floor. This was not the first as more and more balloons floated down; all the while there were less and less books circling around. The books were turning into balloons, each one popping into their new state of being in the blink of an eye.

“Pinkie! You’re losing control!” Twilight called out, “Try to focus on something simple, it’ll stop a magic build up.”
“Don’t be silly Twilight.” Pinkie giggled, “I’ve got this under control.”
She could not be more wrong. Twilight had spent years honing her control over her magic and with good reason. On the day she discovered her talent she experienced a phenomenon only experienced by Unicorns with the greatest level of magical abilities; A Magic Surge. It was rare for a Unicorn to get to see even one in their life.

Twilight was about to witness her second.

This time however she was viewing it from the outside as Pinkie was enveloped in the aura previously isolated to her horn. Pinkie’s body convulsed and twisted with magical energy.
The others looked on in horror, “What the hey is going on?” Applejack turned to Twilight who was quickly trying to remember what happened the last time this happened to her.
The realisation shoot through her like the very thing she was expecting to happen, “Get Down everypony!” Twilight screamed as she leaped towards the others, pushing them beneath the new ocean of Balloons.
This turned out to be a good move as beams of magical energy shot around the room; Stallion busts turned to cakes, Book stands turned to piles of gifts and telescopes turned to record players. A magic surge draws from a pony’s subconscious, when it happened to Twilight her desire to change and grow into a fully-fledged mistress of the magical arts caused her to use morphing and growth spells.

It seemed Pinkie’s subconscious REALLY wanted a party. However, 5 ponies was only a small party, she could bring so many more smiles to the faces of ponies. Ponyville would become the party centre for all Equestria.

A bright flash flooded the library for the briefest of moments, followed by a distinct lack of Pinkie Pie and a scene not unlike the very mess Pinkie had set to clean up (Although with much more of a party atmosphere).
“Twilight?” Rarity inquired as she dusted herself off, “What just happened?”
“Oooh! This is a disaster!” Twilight got up and scanned the room, every book was gone and along with them any information on how to counteract what was happening.
“Twilight? What just happened to Pinkie Pie?” Rarity asked again, “I’ve never seen a horn do that before.”
Twilight signed as her eyes fell to the ground, “It’s called a magic surge. Pinkie is currently stuck in a state of pure magic overload while her subconscious is casting spells at anything in the area.”
“And what does that mean?” Applejack was struggling to keep up with Twilight’s magical terms.
“It means Pinkie hasn’t got any control over what she’s doing, and I should know.” Twilight’s thoughts turned back to the day it happened to her, “It was my magic surge that nearly made my parents need watering for the rest of their lives.”
The 5 friends stood there amongst the balloons for a few moments, trying to soak up yet another revelation.

“Will someone quit yankin’ on my tail!” Rainbow Dash was the one to break the silence, only for her outburst to receive blank faces in return.
“We ain’t yankin’ your tail Sugarcube.” Applejack said in confusion.
Rainbow looked back at her tail. Applejack was right; nopony was pulling on her tail and yet there was defiantly something up with it. It was wobbling around shaking uncontrollably; it was almost as if it was…Twitching!
The realisation Rainbow felt suddenly became vocal “Pinkie Sense!”
“What? How is that possible?” Twilight moved behind Rainbow and examined the twitching tail in question; it was indeed shaking about in the same way Pinkie’s had done many a time before.
“Hmmm!” Twilight mulled this new information over a little, “If this is Pinkie sense, it has to have been swapped with the spell.”
“But doesn’t that mean something will fall?” Fluttershy spoke up; she was all too familiar with Pinkie’s predictions.
“She’s right, and there doesn’t seem to be much left TOO fall.” Rarity said as she looked at the empty bookshelves.
“Why are we doing worrying about stuff fallin’ when Pinkie could be in trouble with this magic thing?” Applejack cried out as she rushed to the door and burst outside in search of her friend.

Rainbow’s newly found “Pinkie Sense” was right; something was falling although it was not inside the library as Applejack discovered. She stopped almost as soon as she had started running out into the open, her mind unable to process the sight she was witnessing.
She was followed by the others as they too looked on in shock at what was falling to the ground.

Streamers! Not just falling but raining. The sky was filled with the sight of raining streamers, tumbling to the ground and piling up in the streets. Raining streamers was not the only new addition to the weather; after all these streamers had to come from somewhere and the clouds that were producing them were about as strange as anypony would expect. They were bright pink and judging by the sight of one slaking Ditzy Doo eating one of them, they were probably made of cotton Candy.
The wind was carrying with it a multitude of balloons of various shapes and sizes, dancing with the breeze and settling outside each home in small bunches. Balloons were not the only thing carried on the wind; the air was filled with the light sounds of music seemingly coming from everywhere.

Twilight and the rest were not the only ones to notice this; many of Ponyville’s residents poured out into the streets to witness this phenomenon, their expressions not one of worry but of fascination. Then again brightly coloured rain and balloon weren’t exactly on the top ten list of things likely to scare a pony.
The fillies were the first to make use of this fun, they began to run around and play with the new additions to the town. Their antics soon calmed even the traces of worry any pony might have about this event and soon the streets were full of ponies young and old enjoying a day that would certainly not be remembered for being anything close to normal.

Ponyville was set to become the party centre for all of Equestria.

(To be continued)