Elusive screamed at what he heard, he fell off his chair and began having a panic attack.

“NO! I cannot be stuck like this! I can’t!” Elusive cried.

Butterscotch too seemed to be hyperventilating.

“No…Nononononononononoo!” Butterscotch said looking distressed.

Applejack stood up “That can’t be true! Mah whole life is irrefutably changed?!” Applejack said.

Berry’s mane deflated at what he heard and he became scared at the idea that this all happened because he insisted they stay to see what happens.

Even Barbra and Blitz looked a little shocked.

Dusk just looked like he was struggling to accept what he heard and his hair began twanging as a panic attack was setting in.

“Guy? Guys!” Discord said trying to calm them but the stallions continued panicking, so Discord did the only thing that he would perceive as reasonable.

He pulled out a foghorn and blared it loud enough to startle the stallions into silence.

“I get that you're having existential crisis’s right now but we must not lose ourselves to it,” Discord said.

“What do you know?! You're, not the one who’s had their life upended! Your life is not plunged into drama and affairs, and now thanks to you not stopping Dusk before he came up with this awful plan, I am trapped in a web of deceit and problems as opposed to my original problem-free lifestyle!” Elusive finished his tirade.

“It isn’t Discord's fault,” Butterscotch said trying to defend his friend.

“Thank you, Butters,” Discord said.

“...Your right… I shouldn’t be casting blame on him… I should on the one who is responsible for this situation to begin with,” Elusive stood and faced Berry with a baleful glare which the pink stallion flinched from.

“You! Had you at least waited until Twilight tested it instead of dragging us all here to experience it firsthand, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this situation,” Elusive accused.

“I-i’m-” Berry attempted to apologize.

“Ah should have just left the castle when ah had the chance, stead ah let ya talk me into it,” Applejack said morosely.

“Guys, I get your upset but don’t attack Pinkie for something she didn’t know,” Dusk said.

“Why shouldn’t I? This never would have happened had she not coerced us all into it,” Elusive said before turning to take his leave.

“Where are you going?” Dusk asked.

“Thanks to Pinkie or as she is now known, Berry, I have many problems I need to focus on now,” Elusive said before exiting and slamming the door.

“Ah, gotta go too… there’s a whole lot ah gotta start getting used to now that ah’m a stallion,” Applejack said before taking his leave too.

Butterscotch just seemed to look depressed but chose to stay to help Berry with the fallout. Butters stroked his shoulders.

“I’m sorry… I am so sorry guys…” Berry said sadly.

“It's not your fault Pin… Berry, you couldn’t have known,” Butterscotch said.

“It is… I messed up, I gave Twilight the spellbook in the first place, I should have known something would have gone wrong,” Berry said.

“No… this is my fault, if I hadn’t tripped and fallen into the pedestal maybe this wouldn’t have happened,” Barb said comfortingly.

“If I hadn’t gotten the formula wrong I wouldn’t have made the situation irreparable…” Dusk said, sitting down beside him.

“It’s still my fault… This would have never happened if it weren't for me,” Berry said.

“Those two just need time to forgive and forget, the best you can do is help them out with adjustment,” Discord said.

“Yeah, in the end, this may have been unavoidable,” Blitz said.

“O-ok,” Berry said “I suppose we should be getting home then,” Berry said before getting up and leaving, still looking upset.

“I’ll go with you,” Butterscotch said as he followed him out.

“Me too, I got some stuff I need to think about now that this is permanent,” Blitz got up and followed them out as well, clearly coming along to help Berry out.

“And then there were three…” Barb said wryly.

“I need to go contact Luna and let her know what happened, You should probably go with Butterscotch too,” Dusk said.

“Probably,” Discord said before poofing himself away.

“Well, I guess it’s time to come to terms,” Dusk sighed and he went over to his desk.

“I suppose it’s time to tell you something I have been wanting to say,” Barb said.

“Not now Spike…er Barb, I gotta focus on this first,” Dusk said.

“Ok, tomorrow then,” Barb said with a sigh and she walked away.

Butterscotch and Blitz accompanied Berry up until he made it to Sugarcube Corner, afterwards they parted ways.

“Rainbow Dash, could we talk?” Butterscotch asked.

“Hmm? Ok, but since things have changed you should get used to calling me Rainbow Blitz,” Rainbow said sitting down beside him on a bench.

“I suppose…” Butterscotch said with a sniffle.

“What’s wrong?” Blitz asked.

“I don’t want to stay like this, but now that I have to I don’t know what to do,” Butterscotch said before going into full-on crying mode.

“Hey heey,” Blitz wrapped an arm around Butters to calm him.

“I hate this! I can’t even look in the mirror anymore without feeling awkward, this isn’t my body, this isn’t my Ponyville, Blitz what do I do?” Butterscotch asked.

“Try to adapt, and don’t let anypony take advantage of you, that’s what I’d do,” Blitz said.

“I don’t mean to trouble you with this but I… I think I’m scared of mares now, and the way they look at me now,” Butterscotch said.

“I feel what you mean, I got almost every mares eye on me, but I go with the flow like always, this is how things are now, we’ll have to get used to it,” Blitz said.

“....Ok,” Butters said looking sad still but also acknowledging Blitz’s words.

“Well, I guess you have a bunny to break the news to,” Blitz said.

“Alright, thanks for letting me vent,” Butters said.

“No prob,” Blitz said before walking off.

Butterscotch got up and began walking toward his cottage, along the way he cut through the town square and sat down by the fountain.

“How am I going to get used to this?...” Butterscotch said.

“Butterscotch?” A voice asked making the stallion ‘eep’ and nearly fall into the fountain were it not for a muscular hand grabbing him and pulling him back up.

“Whoa there, ya’ll alright?” The mare's voice asked.

“I-i…” Butterscotch stuttered upon realizing it was a mare and he slowly looked up…. And saw a pretty red mare.

“Who-...” Butterscotch was about to ask who she was but when he saw her green eyes and familiar red coat he quickly remembered that Applejack said that his brother Big Mac is now his sister Red Gala and she got mad when she thought he was pretending to not know her, realizing this he quickly shifted gears.

“Uh… I mean, hello R-Red Gala,” Butters said.

“Anything ah can help with? Ya seem more jumpy than a rabbit in a timberwolf den” Red asked.

“Uh’m, I was just out to gather my thoughts… I… recently had some bad news and now things have changed forever…” Butters said, lowering his head. One thing he appreciated is that she wasn’t giving him bedroom eyes like the other mares he’s encountered.

“Want ta talk about it?” Red asked.

“No, no offense but this is something best left unsaid,” Butterscotch said.

“Ah’ll respect that,” Red said turning to leave.

“Wait, what were you doing here?” Butterscotch asked.

“Just taking a walk, it’s mah day off,” Gala said.

“Ok… Uhm, have fun I guess…” Butters said.

“....Ya wanna… come with me? Just to talk?” Red said, sensing his anxiety.

“...Yes,” Butterscotch said before getting up and walking with her.

Blitz flew back up to his cloud home and entered.

“Hey Tank, got some semi-bad news, I-” Blitz said before slipping on something and falling onto his face, thank Celestia for cloud homes having soft floors…

When Blitz got up and turned he saw a stack of letters on the ground.

“Odd,” Blitz picked them up and saw they were from various mares he knew and didn’t know.

“Who the hay is Thunderstrike?” Blitz asked before opening them and reading them, it seems they were notes from his various ‘mare buddies’ asking where he was.

“Wow… the mares in Ponyville are thirstier than I thought, makes sense with the lower number of stallions I guess…” Blitz said before getting to the one that had Soarin’s name on it.

“Huh?” Blitz opened it and saw Soarin demanding to know why he keeps blowing her off and not calling her.

“...I think I am in hot water here…” Blitz sighed.

Elusive practically slammed the door open and walked in with a frustrated look.

“Curse it all… Am I meant to always be on the receiving end of social misfortune?” Elusive said before pausing in front of a mirror… and seeing his face.

In anger, he punched the mirror breaking it.

“I am not Blueblood! Nor am I a stallion!” Elusive said angrily before sitting down on his fainting couch and taking a few deep breaths.

“I have to focus, now that this troublesome situation is permanent I have to make the most of it… most of the town is giving me the cold shoulder, and I no longer develop dresses, I remind myself physically of Blueblood and I no longer have great standing with my apparent fiance or the royals at Canterlot… What do I do?...” Elusive said.

“Elusive?” Sweetie Belle asked from the stairs.

“Sweetie?...” Elusive said realizing his lashing out may have alerted his sister.

“Is everything alright? I heard a sound down here and thought somepony broke in,” Sweetie said approaching.

“It is nothing… I… slipped, and broke that mirror over there, I am not feeling very talkative right now Sweetie, please grant me some space,” Elusive said with a sigh.

“Is it about Scarlet again?” Sweetie asked.

“No…” Elusive said feeling a bubble of frustration coming to the surface.

“Did you and Barbra have a fight?” Sweetie said.

“No, Sweetie please just-”

“It’s about the Gala isn’t it?” Sweetie said obliviously.

“SWEETIE! I AM FINE, LEAVE ME ALONE!” Elusive said harshly and Sweetie looked startled.

“I-I…” Sweetie said.

“Forgive me, Sweetie Belle… I am under great stress right now,” Elusive said comfortingly.

“I… understand…” Sweetie carefully sat beside him and put a hand on his shoulder.

Applejack entered his room and sat down on his bed.

“Well, let’s go over… mah sis is Red Gala, ah am stuck a stallion and ah’m no closer to finding love… seems life is looking pretty down ain’t it?...” Applejack said before lying down and looking up at the ceiling.

“The comin weeks ah gotta do some quick adaptin to mah environments, or else ah will blow everypony's cover…” Applejack said. “At least my name is still Applejack, ah wouldn’t give mah name fer any other name out there,” Applejack said.

The door to his room opened and he looked.

“Ever heard of knockin sis?” Applejack said to Apple Bloom.

“I was jest wonderin when yer gonna come read with me?” Apple Bloom asked.

“Read with ya?” Applejack asked.

“Yeah, ah asked you earlier and you said later, well, it’s later now, I wanna read Goldymane and the three Ursa’s,” She said.

“Oh,” Applejack remembered he was too lost in thought to hear what he agreed to, good thing it was just reading.

“Ok,” Applejack said following her down to the living room.

Berry flopped onto his bed with Gummy falling off a rafter to land on the other pillow.

“Oh Gummy… it’s all my fault…” Berry said.

Gummy just blinked.

“I changed everyponies lives, for better or worse, and now Elusive hates me…” Berry said tearfully.

Gummy tilted his head and scratched himself with his hind leg.

“I know… but I don’t know how to find a way to make him forgive me, Applejack at least is forgiving enough, so are Butters and Dusk but I know Elusive, he holds grudges, for example, Blueblood,” Berry said.

Gummy burped

“Hmm… good point… that could work! I wasn’t there to hear her name but I do know how to find out where she lives! Gummy your a genius!” Berry said.

Gummy just blinked.

“Alright, let’s get researching!” Berry said before glancing at the viewers.

“This requires me accessing super duper secret files, so I gotta end the chapter here, bye for now!” Berry waved before reaching up and typing the following words in the author's notes.

Author's Note

Hi viewers this is Berry! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and sorry about Lucy's negative reaction, I don't personally blame him.

Anyways, get ready because the next chapter has a bit of a one-week time skip and the encounters of the steamy kind you've been waiting for, keep in mind the author is a noob at this stuff.

Enjoy!

[Gee. thanks for the noob part Berry...]