Big Mac smiled at the sight of Sugar Belle there. "There ya are." They closed in and threw a hoof over her, hugging tight. "Why'd ya go runnin' off?"

"Ah had an awkward question or two for them." She angled her head at the unicorns. "And they filled me in. I learned a lot today. May I share some of it with you?"

Big Mac inclined his head. "Huh? Um, no offense or nothin', but ain't we in the middle ah somethin'?"

"It's involved!" She threw up both hooves wardingly. "Promise." She spotted Granny and Applejack looking equally confused. "Um... Don't be mad, and this is entirely your choice... If you don't want it, forget it even came up. There is zero pressure here. I love you this way, that way, or any other way. You'll still be that wonderful pony I fell in love with."

Big Mac rolled a hoof, taking the other off Sugar Belle. "Alright... But ya didn't say what yer talkin' 'bout."

"Working on it." She took a steadying breath. "You want to be a mare, nice soft curves, gentle voice, pretty to look at. Sounding right?"

"Ayup?" He nodded along with the conjured image. "All good thin's."

"But, what if... What if you could have that and still be a stallion in the one place a stallion has to stallion?"

Applejack took a sudden step forward. "Where ya goin' wit' that? Do ya want Big Mac to be a stallion or a mare?"

Sugar shrugged with a nervous chuckle. "Why not... both? If they want."

Granny burst into outright laughter at the whole idea. "That's just a fancy old mare's tale. Ah should know, bein' one ah those. A mare with a big ole stallion bit, just the kind of story to scare a pony with, or excite 'em, dependin' on how ya spin it. Ain't no real thin'."

Starlight coughed into a hoof. "A stallion doesn't become a mare, normally."

Twilight let out a sigh, though she smiled. "We are gathered here today to make something different. Sugar Belle was asking us if it's possible, and it is. If you'd like, we can give you your female body, but leave you male in that specific place... Your atheric network would be female, meaning you would be sterile, as a stallion, barring specific enhancements before you attempted to conceive a child."

Starlight cocked a brow. "Huh, figured you'd trip over that a few times."

"I'm just explaining the options." Twilight patted herself on the chest. "This is important." That she could be clinical about that part also helped.

Applejack rubbed at her hat a moment before her hoof fell to the ground. "Huh... Mighty interestin' proposal... Not what ah'd want... But it ain't mah body, now is it?" She looked to Big Mac pointedly.

Big Mac colored, their thoughts on this new option put before them. "Ah'd still look like how ah looked afore?"

Starlight nodded swiftly. "Should. No changes, minus what's between your legs.We'd leave these." She pointed at Big Mac's current set. "You'll... Let's not get stuck in the weeds." She waved off her thoughts. "Does that sound interesting or shall we continue as we started the plan?"

"Shoot..." Big Mac paced in place. "Now that ain't hardly fair... Jus' figured out ah'd turn one in fer the other, but now both's an option?! Ah'd feel powerful greedy... Ain't a thin' most ponies can consider."

Sugar smooched their cheek. "You are worth it. I came to see if it was something we could do... If it is something you want, we take it. It won't deprive any other pony."

"That was an option?" Barb was peering at them from the stairs leading upwards. "Weird."

Big Mac turned swiftly to Barb. "Was that somethin' ya woulda wanted?"

"Nope." She crossed her arms in an X. "Nope! Female, 100%. That is where I want to be, and where I am. All good." She snickered as she sank onto the stair step. "But is that what you want? You're not me."

"Nope..." Big Mac rubbed at their chin. "Ah ain't... Um... If it's an option, ah ain't 'gainst it none." They colored a darker red. "It'll let me make Sugar happier, but we can still do special kisses. But ah'd be a mare outside that. That'd be... That'd be mighty fine, if we can."

Starlight snickered suddenly. "Every pony is their own thing. Well, what's magic for if not bending a few rules. Twilight?" Twilight focused her attention on Starlight. "Let's put our heads together." The two went off to think strange unicorn thoughts.

Granny shook her head with a sigh. "Figures."

"You upset?" Big Mac turned to her. "Sorry..."

"Hm? No... Not like that." She chuckled softly. "Upset the younger generation's tryin' something so wild. Where was mah chance?" She snorted softly. "Not that ah'm rushin' fer this one. Happy bein' a mare, thank ya kindly. The girls are going to get quite a hoot out of this story..."

Applejack sank to her haunches. "This is all a bit much... But if it makes mah bro--sister happy, then ah'm here for it. Don't entirely get it... But it ain't fer me to get." She reached for Joanamac, who was kind enough to move close enough to reach. "You do what ya gotta. Yer still an Apple."

"Thanks." They touched noses, sharing a quiet moment of sibling bond.

Starlight emerged from the kitchen she had dragged Twilight to. "Alright! We feel ready. All settled out here?"

With nods all around, they all headed down into the basement. "Now, Big Mac. Or is that Joanamac?"

"Either works. Ah'll still be big. Big Joanamac. Joanamac, or Big Mac, either works." They seemed pleased with their choice of name. "You were sayin'?"

Starlight burst into fresh giggles. "You knew, somewhere deep inside, this is what you wanted... Alright!" She pointed to a strange plate on the ground with four horseshoe indents on it. "Step on those for us and stay there until we're done."

They took their spot with a flick of their tail. "Alright." They did their best to calm themselves, to wait for the unicorns to do their thing. "Ah trust ya..."

"First mistake," muttered Starlight too quietly for Big Mac to easily hear. "Let's start." She lit up her horn and Twilight, across from her, did the same. They focused their power on Big Mac, working through the intricate steps of the spell that would rewrite who they were, physically, from the bottom up, and do it with an ink so deep and bright that it would stick around.

Big Mac could feel their body flow and shift under their combined power. They... no, she. She was gaining her lines, the ones she had with the temporary spell. "Oh," she sighed out, and the voice was lifting as she said it. She was becoming that mare. Her eyes were closed, so she couldn't see it happening, but she could feel things happening, fat sliding where it wanted to be stored, muscles adjusting subtly.

She wanted to kick a leg, but she didn't dare remove any of her hooves from the panel beneath her. That was an important part of things, right? But she trembled as the magic gave her things a mare had that a stallion did not. Teats formed on her lower belly, not very large, with no foal in sight, but existing at all was quite a step from not.

A wet splitting sound reached her ears, but no pain. It sounded like somepony had just been stabbed, that squelch, but there was no cry of pain. "Everythin' alright?" she asked with her gentler voice.

"Jus'... fine," came Applejacks unsure tone. "You relax and lett'em work."

Something grabbed her... stallion bits. It was being shoved somewhere that felt odd, but, strangest, she could feel the part it was being shoved through. It was all her. She cracked open her eyes, unable to resist, and coiled to take a peek. From above, everything looked mostly normal? She was becoming more of a mare by the moment, but her male bits were there, sheath holding tight to her belly. What had she just felt?

But she kept her hooves down on that panel. It wasn't time for any closer looks. She did try to have a glance behind her, but there was no angle to allow that. Things had changed back there, but she could only feel something was... off. Or maybe just right? She wanted to see!

A strange tingling overcame her, running from her snout through her body like she was shattering into a million pieces, tingling spiderwebs spreading through her. She couldn't know, but her network was being scattered across her body in the dizzying web that allowed a mare to work as a mare, magically speaking. The temporary spell hadn't bothered. Her network had been the same, a male one. She was becoming a mare, deep inside. "That feels... funny..."

"Almost," assured Twilight, her horn glowing with strange runes as she labored through the intricate spell. "Please try not to move."

Joanamac froze, suddenly scared any motion could interfere with the spell. She didn't need to be that still, but it didn't hurt to be careful.

Starlight sank with a loud sigh. "Welcome Joanamac," she got out, breathing heavily. "Upgraded edition."

Big Mac lifted her ears. "All done?"

"All done," agreed Twilight, looking about as worn as Starlight. "When you feel up for it, inspect the work, make sure nothing obvious is out of place."

Big Mac stepped off the panel, just to nudge it with a hoof. "What was that fer?"

Twilight directed to it and Big Mac. "You are an earth pony. Your largest channels run through your hooves. We wanted to have easy access to them. Even mare earth ponies have a lot of magic around there, so having the panel to help with that felt like a good idea."

Starlight nodded in easy agreement. "Glad we did. May be an Apple thing, but you have a lot going on down there."

Applejack buffed her chest with a smile. "We Apples know how to use our hooves."

"Darn tootin'!" Granny went for Joanamac. "How are you feeling?"

"Funny." She coiled on herself, finally free to do so. "Huh..." She could finally see things. She could see a mare's teardrop portal to her innards. "'spected somethin' else."

Sugar Belle cocked a brow. "Pretty standard as those go. Maybe a big larger, but so's the rest of you." She swatted at her girlfriend. "Nothin' wrong with that!"

"No, 'course not. Ah just felt funny, back there..." She turned towards Granny and Applejack. "Sorry tah ask, but could ya take a look, jus' to be sure?"

Sugar circled to behind Big Mac. "Sure?" She didn't sound very sure, but she wasn't going to deny it either. Her glowing magic reached for Big Mac's new entrance. "This may feel funny." She carefully, gently, pulled them open for a peek, just to fall back on her haunches, flopping backwards. "Oh!"

"Oh?" Big Mac peeked over her shoulder, but couldn't see what was going on. "Somethin' wrong?"

"Those... They did what they could." Sugar stood up slowly. "Your..." She cycled her hooves wildly a moment. "How do I put this... Your guy parts are going through your ladyparts. If you were planning on being a mother, this... may prove challenging..."

Joanamac squinted, trying to imagine what Sugar Belle was describing. "Um... It don't hurt."

"Glad to hear that." She patted Joanamac's rump. "You're not bleeding or anything, just... wired oddly."

Applejack slowly inclined her head. "Yer kiddin'." She pantomimed the situation, running one hoof past the other. "Just right on through the middle?"

"Right through." Sugar shook her head. "It won't... matter much, if it's just the two of us. I figure that's why they went ahead and... this."

"Huh..." Joanamac shook herself out lightly. "Well... What ah get... Ya don't get to have everythin'... But it... It did work."

Author's Note

So... dear reader, I bet you're a bit confused too... Imagine a lady person with something in the way, down there, not blocking all of it, but most of it. That something is the guy parts making their way outside the body. Awkward if someone wants to get girl-specific things done down there.

Joanamac has joined the battle.

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