The Future Will Change

But before Aidon and Luna could make their entrance, his phone started to ring once more. Though this time it was someone else…

“Ms. Sparkle?” Aidon answered as he looked at the video call and saw Twilight standing there as an anthropomorphic raven. “...so it seems it has affected you as well.”

“Unfortunately,” she replied with a sigh, “I can’t even go out looking like this. But that’s besides the point. I’m detecting a high magical force reading from where you’re currently located. You might want to be careful.”

“I knew it,” Luna called out as she wagged her tail, “My sister mentioned a large gathering of famous people happening here today. It’s the prime target for something devious such as a magical scheme to turn people into anthropomorphic beasts.”

“We’re on it, Twilight,” Aidon assured her, “You stay where you are. We don’t know what sort of effects this will have on your body and mental state.”

“...fair enough, professor,” Twilight reluctantly agreed as feathers dropped from her body. “But be advised, we have no idea what could happen at this point.”

“Don’t worry,” Aidon replied, “We’ll be careful.” After hanging up, he glanced at Luna once more. “Alright. We need to be fast and interrupt this event before any mutations occur. Sound good?”

Luna nodded. “Of course. Sounds simple enough to me. But you know how these things tend to go, love.”

“Yup,” he replied with a sigh, “Easier said than done.”

Unfortunately for them, even though they were ahead of schedule as they had originally thought, a certain someone was watching them from a nearby abandoned building.

“...boss. They’re early. Activate it.”

Down in the building…

The modelling event went off without much of a hitch to start with. Sunset managed to walk out and show herself off in Rarity’s swimwear with little difficulty.

From the sidelines, Rarity squealed and clapped as Sunset walked back behind the stage. “Ah! You’re wonderful, darling. They loved you!”

“Stiiiill not quite used to having these things gawked at,” Sunset grabbed the sides of her chest and accidentally caused them to jiggle about. “People over here really like the way breasts look, huh?”

“Darling, you wouldn’t believe it if I explained it,” Rarity replied with a snarky smile, “But I think you might have the perfect assets for my upcoming line…”

“Ah boy, more?” Sunset rolled her eyes with a playful smile. Since she originated as a pony, she wasn’t exactly put off by it. “Eh. As long as it doesn’t interfere with my schedule. I still gotta finish my next issue for the Daily Plan--”

“Yes yes of course,” Rarity interjected, “Now let’s begin the next--”

But as soon as she turned to look at the rest of her models, she noticed that a good chunk of them were missing. And by a ‘good chunk’, that actually meant her entire modelling crew aside from Sunset!

“Ah! Ah! Ah!” Rarity gasped with her hands on her head, eyes darting around the room, “W-where is everyone?! I-I can’t start the next phase of the venue without my models! Where are they?!”

Sunset tried to think through it rationally. “Hm…maybe they’re just all taking a break. Modelling does seem like it’s pretty hard work.”

“Yes, but they know their schedules!” Rarity snapped back and took a breath, “Sorry, sorry. I’m just--stressed out right about now. This is one of my first professional events and things are suddenly starting to go haywire out of nowhere.”

Given her harsh schedule as a writer, Sunset was more than empathetic. “I understand,” she replied with a nod, “I can’t blame you for getting like this. If it makes you feel better, let’s go looking for them. They’re probably just out back in the hallway.”

The young ladies walked to the back of the building, but as soon as they opened the door to the hallway--

ZZZZZ!

“WAGH!”

Both Rarity and Sunset recoiled and hit the floor as they witnessed a horde of anthropomorphic bee women that flew out of the hallway and into the main hall where they began to terrorize the eventgoers! Screams of fear could be heard as they fired off honey to barricade all of the doors in the building!

“What the--how?!” Sunset groaned as she picked herself up off the floor.

“...Is this that wretched curse that I’ve been hearing about?!” Rarity glanced into the hallway and found a bunch of dropped smartphones with ‘Enchanted Torment’ playing upon them. She picked one up and immediately felt a strange sensation in her hand. “...Oh no.”

“...Rarity? What’s up?” Sunset turned to her friend. “You found someth--?”

“RIBBIT--! Sunset…I feel…strange.”

Sunset took a look at Rarity and found that her body was now a mixture of blue and yellow with…amphibious features.

“...okay, so…don’t freak out, but--”

“Is it my hair?! No. My makeup?! I need a mirror!” Rarity squealed as she ran into the dressing room and looked at herself. There, she found…

She had become an anthropomorphic poison dart frog.

“AAAAAAAAAAUGH!”