"Alright…. Let's get this over with," Twilight sighed.

"If it's cool with you guys, I'm not changing clothes in front of you all, got a bathroom nearby?" Rainbow asked Twilight.

"In the bedroom section, there are plenty of bathrooms," Twilight said.

"Then let's get this over with," AJ said as he grabbed some clothes that seemed to barely fit and got ready to head out.

"I don't… I can't do it!" Fluttershy said sounding embarrassed.

"Fluttershy dear, you'll have to face it sooner or later," Rarity said.

"I can't, you know how I tend to… clam up when I'm near a male, I'm too nervous to look at myself in the mirror," Fluttershy said.

"Then don't look at the mirror," RD said.

"Fluttershy, ya got ya think of it like this, either suffer till it happens or rip off the band-aid now," AJ said.

"I-I guess," Fluttershy said quietly.

"I guess this gives me a chance to-" Spike said before Twilight cut her off.

"No Spike, your not going to use this chance to admire a naked female body, get changed and meet back here ASAP," Twilight said trying to prevent his brother-turned-sister from being perverse.

"Dang it," Spike muttered

"Alright get changed in private and then meet back here," Twilight strategized.

"Got it," everyone said as they split off into the castle restrooms.

Fluttershy entered the restroom.

'I wonder… Rarity told me I was quite beautiful as a mare… maybe…' Fluttershy thought as he spared a glance at the mirror but quickly looked away.

"No… I shouldn't, it feels like looking at another stallion bare," Fluttershy said uncomfortably.

She took a few minutes to work up the nerve before she started undressing.

Removing his shirt he was surprised to see some definition, as a female Fluttershy always had a toned frame due to his constant movement and interaction with animals, it seems that his frame benefited from this gender transition.

He pulled down his pants and shut his eyes to avoid seeing himself.

Afterward, he squinted a little bit to locate the clothes and slide them on.

As he was about to put on the pants and underwear he accidentally tripped.

Fluttershy managed to save himself by using his bigger wings as a cushion.

"That was close," Fluttershy said as he got up before accidentally looking in the mirror.

And beholding his body.

"Eeep!" Fluttershy squeaked, covering himself.

A small part of him admitted he was quite handsome. Toned body, shiny coat, handsome face, better wings, and a big…

Fluttershy nearly fainted and only didn't due to sheer will and he looked away.

After putting on his clothes he went back outside.

Applejack removed his shirt and looked carefully at the mirror.

He had to admit, his male physique definitely surpassed his female build, he flexed an arm and saw a defined bulge of muscle pop up from his arm.

“Maybe this won’t be all bad,” Applejack said feeling proud of his physique, he looked almost as strong as his older brother.

He then swiftly switched to pants and boxers, ignoring his new but large endowment.

“Ah hope what Twilight said is true, otherwise there’s gonna be some awkward conversations in mah future,” Applejack said slipping a tight grey shirt on.

Rainbow pulled off his shirt and paused as he looked in the mirror, with a smirk he pulled a few poses.

“Wow, gotta admit, I’m not half bad looking, I’d totally date me,” Rainbow said admiring his bigger hard as rock athletic muscles.

“...Y’know, I don’t know if it's the spell talking but, with a bod like this, I definitely won’t have problems finding mares… especially since…” Rainbow looked conflicted, wondering if he should tell his friends about his personal preferences.

“And now I wonder…” Rainbow said as he pulled off his track shorts… and pulled them back up.

“I’m an adonis…” Rainbow whispered.

Rarity looked at the handsome well-built stallion staring back at her in the mirror.

“...Look at you…what you’ve become…” Rarity said with disgust, he has no negative feelings towards stallions, one stallion wronging you is no reason to hate all stallions, but when he looks in the mirror, in his face.

He sees Blueblood… same coat color, same facial definitions, similar eye tone, the only real difference is the mane.

That wretched noble shattered his visions of marrying into the high life in the upper echelon of Canterlot, his dream since he was a little filly.

Not acknowledging his reflection anymore he put his admittedly horrid but wearable outfit on.

Pinkie Pie bounced off the walls… literally.

“WOO HOO! A few days in the life of a stallion, what mare can say she can experience this, maybe I’ll be able to go on many adventures and have fun and F.A.D, WOOT, first I gotta find a marefriend,” Pinkie said before stopping midair and landing on his hooves and swiftly getting his outfit on.

“Alright, next pony, move it along,” Pinkie waved at the audience.

Twilight was undressing and he picked up the clothes on the ground and he smelt it.

“Eugh… as I expected from Discord, these are stolen aren’t they?...” Twilight sighed before putting on the shirt and shorts, he turned to the mirror and took his first extended look at the mirror.

“Hmm,” Twilight noticed he wasn’t as plain as he thought he’d be if he were male.

Decent but not impressive muscles, this form must visit the gym sometimes, he lifted his shirt to see some abs.

If anything he looked like a decently built scholarly pony.

“I wonder if the magic thought of making us attractive in various ways when changing us… I’m not arguing it,” Twilight said before leaving.

Spike… didn’t listen to Twilight.

He was already bare and admiring herself.

“Oh yeah, I’d date me,” Spike said taking various poses, he had to admit, he was super attractive as a dragoness, luckily he hit his growth spurt when he was a drake, it clearly did him wonders in this form.

As Spike was going to continue wasting time, he heard a knock that startled him.

“Eek!” Spike yelped and quickly threw on the girl clothes before opening the door.

“Oh hey Twilight,” Spike said with a giggle.

“What did I say?” Twilight said with a raised brow.

“I didn’t do anything inappropriate!” Spike defended.

“Uh huh… And why did I hear moaning?” Twilight asked.

“...I stubbed my toe?” Spike attempted.

“Just come on,” Twilight rolled his eyes and walked away.

“Don’t pretend you weren’t tempted to do the same!” Spike said following him.

The group made their way back into the main room and sat down.

“Ok…so did everypony-” Twilight asked before everypony said ‘yes’.

“Ok, so here’s what I propose-” Twilight said before Pinkie cut him off.

“Your proposing?! To who?!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“Nopony,” Twilight said sounding annoyed.

“Aww…” Pinkie said.

“Anyways, I’m suggesting we try to go back to life as normal, at least until I can fix this problem,” Twilight said.

“I suppose there’s no choice but to face the public and hope for the best,” Rarity said.

“Ah hope nothin else has changed,” Applejack said as he got ready to leave.

“I should go back to my home, my animal friends are probably worried sick,” Fluttershy said.

“Also we’ll have to go by our new names until then, so try to strike up a conversation with a pony while you're out and about,” Twilight said.

“Wait, nopony said we were changing names!” Rarity said hurriedly.

“Just for now Rarity, until I can get this fixed,” Twilight said hoping it would make her feel better.

“Fine, but please do fix this as soon as possible, I cannot bear being stuck like this,” Rarity said getting up.

“Alright, let’s try to adapt to this until then, good luck girls… I mean guys!” Twilight called to his friends as they left.

“Welp, I’m going to go take a walk, need to figure out what’s changed with me,” Spike said taking her leave as well.

“Well… ok, but be careful,” Twilight said.

“I will!” Spike waved him off.

“I guess I should write a letter to the princesses while I am at it,” Twilight said.

Fluttershy managed to avoid the crowd on his way back to his house, as he made it home he noticed his house had some different details.

There were still flowers but the flower arrangement was changed, and his front door was a different color, but the most alarming change was the sign he used to indicate his home which usually said ‘Fluttershy’s cottage’, now said ‘Butterscotch’s cottage’...

“Butterscotch?... is that my… new name?” Fluttershy said sounding very unsure.

Fluttershy walked up to his front door and gave the usual four knocks to indicate it was him to his animal friends.

The door opened and Fluttershy saw Angel who looked up at him and smiled.

“H-Hello Angel dear,” Fluttershy said.

Angel nodded and hopped inside and Fluttershy followed, he looked around to see the pictures on the walls have changed to accommodate this new persona of his.

It seems even family photos weren’t spared this change.

In all of them, this new stallion named Butterscotch was there, and he knew because in some of these pictures was his name written where his actual name is supposed to be.

“So reality really did change…” Fluttershy said nervously.

Angel tugged on his pant leg and he turned to see him.

“Oh, sorry,” Fluttershy went to go scoop Angel some food, and saw some of the decorations around the house have changed, but it was still home.

“At least that hasn’t changed,” Fluttershy said as he scooped Angel’s food, and then a thought came to him as to how he could figure out if his new name was known by the one who’s known him the longest.

“Angel?” Fluttershy asked.

“?” Angel looked up at Fluttershy.

“What is my name?” Fluttershy asked, Angel gave him a ‘seriously?’ look “Just humor me,” Fluttershy asked.

Angel made a few gestures and Fluttershy understood.

“So it’s true… in this reality, I’m named Butterscotch,” The newly minted Butterscotch said, thinking on it if he had to go with one, then that’ll do.

“I’ll take it, at least until things return to normal,” Butterscotch said.

Angel just looked thoroughly confused.

Applejack and Rainbow were on their way over to the farm.

Rainbow noticed a group of mares blushing and giggling as they looked at him, deciding to be playful he winked and the mares giggled some more.

“Seems yer enjoyin this more than before,” Applejack said.

“Well now that we’re studs, we can go after mares now without anypony judging, win win if you ask me,” Rainbow Dash said.

Applejack seemed a little troubled “Just know if we get the chance ah’m going back ta normal, ah may like mares as much as stallions, but ah ain’t going to give up on mah true self,” Applejack said.

“Well, till then, let’s strike while the iron is hot,” Rainbow said.

“Uh huh… any reason yer following me home?” Applejack asked.

“After the day I’ve had, I need your stiffest drink,” Rainbow said.

“Guess, ah could use one mahself,” Applejack said before they heard a deep male voice.

“Hey! Applejack! Rainbow Blitz!” The two looked to see Bulk Biceps approaching.

‘Mah name didn’t change?’ Applejack thought.

‘Blitz?...huh, fitting for me,’ the one now known as Rainbow Blitz thought.

“Can we help you?” Applejack asked.

“Yeah! It’s time to go pump some iron! The iron stallion trio always heads to the gym to exercise on Thursdays,” Bulk said.

“Iron stallion trio?...” Rainbow Blitz parroted.

“Yeah, c’mon, let’s hurry while there are still some mares in the dumbbell area,” Bulk said.

“Uh, actually could we skip that today? Lot’s happened,” Rainbow Blitz said.

“What? Why?” Bulk complained.

“We had a rough mornin and want to go relax with some alcohol fer now, Blitz is helping me with things,” Applejack said.

“Uh, yeah, what he said,” RB said.

“Huh, ok, like you always say I guess, bosom buddies before bosoms,” Bulk said, “See ya tomorrow then,” Bulk waved at them as he left.

“Bosom buddies before bosoms?” Applejack asked with a raised brow.

“Hey! I never said that, this reality did,” RB complained.

“Welp, let’s get going, we can talk about our issues over a cold glass of hard cider,” Applejack said with a shrug.

“Right behind ya!” RB said.

Rarity walked on looking bummed out.

“Why oh why did this happen to me? Not only do I change genders but I am forced to live with it for an unknown period of time,” Rarity complained.

“And to top it all off, I am stuck wearing this gross outfit, oh when I get back to the Boutique I will fashion myself a new…” Rarity trailed off when he saw suits in his display window instead of dresses.

“What happened to my dresses?” Rarity said running up to the window “Could it be that reality has changed my wardrobe? No!” Rarity looked at the other displays through the window and mainly saw fancy stallion suits.

“Oh it just got worse,” Rarity bemoaned and he walked through the door just in time to see Sweetie Belle coming down the stairs.

“Ah hi, Elusive! I was just heading out to find my friends,” Sweetie said.

“Elusive? Who… oh,” The pony now known as Elusive thought “I suppose it could resemble the fact that I am a stallion of mystery… yes, that will do,” Elusive thought.

“Uh, brother?” Sweetie Belle asked and Elusive was startled out of his thoughts.

“Oh sorry, got lost in thought back there for a second, here, why don’t you have some bits and go get yourself something at Sugarcube corner?” Elusive floated some bits over to Sweetie.

“Oooh thank you, brother!” Sweetie said hugging him before running out the door.

Elusive gave a sigh and went over to his fainting couch and sat down.

“This will truly take an adjustment period,” Elusive said.

Pinkie bounced into Sugarcube Corner, ever since turning into a stallion he’s noticed that bouncing into the air is less painful on the chest, curious…

“Helloooo ponies!” Pinkie cheered.

“Oh! Hi Bubble Berry! You’re coming into work later than usual,” Mrs Cake said waving at him.

“Darn, I owe Gummy five bits,” Berry muttered before ducking out of view and reappearing at the counter.

“Alright! Bubble Berry reporting for duty!” Bubble Berry said.

“Hi Berry, table five needs their ice cream,” Mr Cake said.

“Alrighty!” Berry said rapidly scooping the ice cream without needing to ask what the order was.

He pressed it up against him but nearly dropped the ice cream and caught it with his hoof.

“Whoops! Forgot I don’t have breasts anymore,” Berry said.

“Breasts?” Mr Cake asked.

“Oh yeah, I was a mare yesterday and a magical accident turned me into a stallion and you all think I’m a stallion,’ Berry said casually.

“Oooook?” Mr Cake said not believing him at all and walking away before he spouts more nonsense.

“Alright! Time to get to work!” Berry said.

Twilight or at least according to Derpy, Dusk, finished writing his message to the princesses, and he just needed Spike to come back and send it.

“Where did that dragon go?” Twilight wondered.

Deciding he needed to familiarize himself with the new world and locate his female dragon friend he decided to head out.

“I'll look for him,” Twilight said as he looked around for his scaly companion.

As he walked on he saw that everypony still looked the same, it seems they were the only ones affected by the reality shift… so why does he have a lingering thought he was wrong…

As he looked for his friend he came across Roseluck.

“Oh! Hello Prince Dusk!” She enthusiastically greeted him.

Twilight went into thought hearing his other name again ‘So it’s true then, our names have shifted with this reality, I guess I need to work with it until a solution can be found,’ Dusk thought before turning to Roseluck.

“Hello, what can I do for you?” Dusk asked.

“Um… here!” She handed him a flower and scurried off.

“...Ok?” Dusk said as he moved on, putting the random encounter out of his mind for now, he suddenly got the feeling he was being watched, and he looked around to see some mares giving him glances.

“Weird,” Dusk said as he moved on, before bumping into another mare.

“Oh! Sorry,” Dusk said, noticing the mare was Octavia.

“Oh don’t worry yourself, I wished to ask if you were free this Saturday?” Octavia asked.

“Huh? What for?” Dusk said obliviously.

“Oh you tease, for a date of course,” Octavia asked.

Dusk stiffened a little “A d-date?” Dusk said before he could respond Vinyl Scratch shoved Octavia aside.

“Hey!” Octavia said.

“Get in line for the stud,” Vinyl said.

“Stud?” Dusk said getting uncomfortable.

“I’ve been courting him longer than you!” Octavia said.

“And look at your success rate,” Vinyl bit back.

“Hey Dusk, did you like my flower?” Roseluck asked reappearing behind him.

‘Am I… a target for mares?! I gotta get out of here!’ Dusk said before teleporting.

The mares looked at the spot Dusk was before arguing again.

“Now looked what you did, you scared him off again!” Octavia said.

“Oh please!” Vinyl said.

“Maybe he doesn’t like hydrangeas?” Roseluck wondered.

Dusk reappeared in the spa, panting heavily from the nervousness.

“I should be safe here, what was that about?” Twilight said.

“Ah! Prince Dusk Shine!” Aloe said approaching him.

“Oh, uh hey Aloe,” Dusk said.

“Are you here for an appointment?” She asked.

“Uh, actually I fled here from some mares who were trying to…” Dusk said before Aloe finished for him.

“Court you? I must say, being a prince has its perks,” Aloe chuckled.

“What do you mean?” Dusk asked.

“Well, you being a prince, mares everywhere want a chance to become royalty,” Aloe responded.

For some reason, this made Dusk upset.

“So they… just want me for status…” Dusk said, admittedly this happened when he was a mare too, stallions asking her out and she turned them down because she could tell they were only interested in her status as a princess. Now that he’s a prince the opposite gender is trying now… it was a hollow feeling.

Aloe could see how upset Dusk was and she decided to do something about it.

“Tell you what, how about a massage?” Aloe offered.

“Thanks, that sounds good, maybe another time though, I’m looking for Spike,” Dusk said.

“Who?” Aloe said

“Oh yeah. I meant… my dragon companion,” Dusk said feeling sheepish, especially when Aloe looked a little judging.

“Whose name is?” Aloe said not liking that he doesn’t seem to remember his assistant's name.

“Um, look, it’s not that I don’t remember, it's that something happened last night and things… kind of changed up,” Dusk said.

“Barbra, or just Barb,” Aloe said plainly.

“Oh, that’s who Derpy meant…” Dusk said berating himself for making himself look like a jerk. “I swear I don't mean anything negative by not remembering her name,” Dusk said.

“I’ll keep that in mind,” Aloe said before walking off, “Also your ‘dragon companion’ is in the massage room for females.

“Oh, uh, thanks,” Dusk was about to head that way when he remembered he wasn’t female any more.

“Darn it…” Dusk said before sitting at the entrance and waiting.

An hour later and Dusk saw Barb exiting the female section looking giddy.

“Thanks again everypony,” Barb waved.

“No problem!” Aloe and Lotus waved her off.

“Hmm? Oh hey, Dusk!” Barb said walking over to him.

“Hey Spike- er I mean Barb, how did you know my other name?” Dusk asked.

“You kidding?” Barb said as the two walked out of the spa “Your practically the talk of all the mares in there, the first alicorn prince in ages, they said you were handsome and high in prestige, sounds like a mares dream come true, becoming a princess to the first genuine prince, Me personally I was just there to observe,” Barb said.

“Of course you were…” Dusk said with some bitterness.

“What’s up? You seemed bummed,” Barb asked.

“It’s just… I figured at one point if I were a stallion things would be different, now I know that’s horseapples, I mean is it too much to ask for a pony who wants me for me? And not what I can offer?” Dusk asked.

“Yeah, when it comes to being a royal that kind of is, ponies can be selfish,” Barb said.

“I guess… anyways I need you to send this,” Dusk said offering Spike the scroll.

“Gotcha,” Barb said breathing fire on the message and sending it, “What was the message about?” Barb asked.

“It was just a request for an update on things, I need to see how much has changed so I can survey the damage, and find out how to correct it,” Dusk said.

“You sure, I mean maybe things can afford to go on like this,” Barb said.

“What are you saying?” Dusk asked.

“What if we take a group vote on whether or not we stay like this?” Barb offered.

“Absolutely not, I at least am not going to stay like this,” Dusk said entering the castle with Barbara behind him.

"I just… think, maybe this happened for a reason, what if the spell was meant to do this," Barb said.

"That's crazy talk, The spell was meant to show you your destined mate not rewrite reality so that the caster has been gender-swapped," Dusk argued back.

“Just saying, maybe you could find a marefriend here,” Barb said.

“...Well,” Dusk honestly wanted a good comeback for that comment but she had a good point, regardless, he cannot abandon his mission to get everything back to normal.

“Sorry Spike but I’ve got to try and fix this, some things don’t work out,” Dusk said going back into the basement.

“No need to be bullheaded about it…” Barb said.

Applejack and Rainbow Blitz made their way into the farm area and bee-lined for the cider storage.

“Forget one, I need seven, I mean to think just yesterday I was getting ready for my period, and now, I never have to worry about it again,” Rainbow Blitz said with a smirk.

“Ah will admit, that’s a plus, but this ain’t going to be permanent,” Applejack said.

“You know what? I’m sold, If we can’t go back to how we were before, I might be okay with that,” Rainbow Blitz said.

“Don’t ya dare jinx us, Rainbow Dash,” Applejack warned.

“Blitz. I’m Rainbow Blitz now,” Rainbow said.

“Ah still stick to mah point Rainbow, ah’d rather not be stuck in this body,” Applejack said as the two entered the cider storage and Applejack retrieved a couple of cups of hard cider.

“Ah, don’t worry about it, down the hatch!” Rainbow Blitz cheered clanking cups with Applejack just as they took a swig of cider suddenly a gruff female voice spoke out to them.

“There ya are Applejack,” Blitz and Applejack nearly did a spit take at the suddenness of the voice and they turned to look at the source.

And saw a tall muscular red mare looking at them with a bemused expression.

“...Who is that?...” Rainbow Blitz said.

Author's Note

What's this? A mysterious red mare appears, and the six discover their studs!?

Tune in next chapter for more.