Author's Note

ATTENTION! This chapter is replacing the one I posted on monday! The Havndir chapters will be slightly re-written to accomodate for the changes happening in this chapter, which were origionally supposed to happen after that arc.

Many thanks to _Shade_, who helped me realize that we needed a light comedy chapter right now. Here's to you buddy, I kept my promise(even though I now have only 3 hours of sleep left before I need to get up for work).

Enjoy!

If it ain't fixed, don't break it

Chapter 18: If it ain't fixed, don't break it.

"Remember the talisman I used to transform you into a pony?"

Sandova looked up from his book with a puzzled look. Twilight was coming out of the basement with an amulet held in her telekinetic grasp.

"You mean the one with the diamond in the middle?"

She nodded, and levitated said amulet towards him.

"Apparently it got damaged when Abyss' spell broke the chain. I am trying to repair it but so far it hasn't responded to any of my repair spells. Maybe you have an idea?"

Sandova shrugged and put his book away. Since what he called the 'Manehatten adventure' life had quieted down a bit, so he spent most of his time helping Twilight and Spike in the library and reading about magic. He took the amulet in his hand and looked it over. The amulet itself seemed fine at first glance, but a closer look revealed that a small fracture ran through the diamond in the center.

"That's strange, diamonds are practically unbreakable. You said that the diamond held the enchantments laid in the amulet?"

Twilight nodded and trotted over.

"What's wrong, then? Did the diamond get damaged?"

Sandova handed the amulet back to Twilight, who inspected it in the same way Sandova had done.

"You're right, how could I have missed that? Oh, I hope the enchantments still hold."

Sandova muttered some words and stretched out his hand towards the amulet. He held that pose for a few seconds before lowering his hand again.

"Well, the magic is still there. It could be that the enchantments got messed up, which is preventing other magic from messing with it, but I can't confirm that. Detect Magic only shows me if there is magic, and if so the school it belongs to. The amulet radiates some incredibly powerful enchantment magic, which nearly drowns out the transmutation spell you put on it."

Twilight had grabbed a notebook halfway through his explanation and was writing furiously. She stopped when she realized that Sandova was watching with a bemused expression on his face. She grinned sheepishly.

"I guess I got a little distracted away there. But, didn't you say that you mostly knew necromancy spells? Detect Magic doesn't sound like a necromancy spell to me."

Sandova nodded.

"You're right, it's a divination spell. But I picked up some useful utility spells on my travels, and noticed that I could actually adept the usual verbal and somatic components to my own branch of magic. Not all of the useful spells I came across could be adapted this way, mind you."

Sandova waited patiently for Twilight to finish writing before continuing.
"Anyway, what do you think we should do? It is your amulet after all."

Twilight sat down and seemed lost in thought for the moment, so Sandova got up and went to look for a book on enchanted gems. He stopped when he had an idea. He turned to see Twilight still lost in thought. He shook his head, smiling. The little unicorn did not know how adorably dorky she could be. He cleared his throat, which seemed to snap her out of her musings.

"We could ask Rarity to take a look at it, she's an expert with gems after all."

Twilight nodded.

"Yes, that makes perfect sense. Let's go get her."

Twilight instructed Spike to look after the library, to which the young dragon reluctantly agreed. They quickly made their way to the Carousel Boutique. It seemed that business was slow at the moment, because Rarity was staring into space when they came in.

"Oh hello darlings, how can I help you today? Perhaps some new robes for Sandova, hmm?"

The blonde human shook his head.

"Not today, I'm afraid. You remember the enchanted amulet Twilight used to turn me into a pony?"

Rarity pondered a little before replying.

"You mean the one with the diamond set in the middle?"

"Yeah, that one. It seems it got damaged and is not responding to any magic anymore. The diamond holds the enchantments, and you are the local expert on using gemstones, so we thought you could help us."

Rarity's reply was interrupted by a loud crash outside. Everyone looked at each other for a moment before going to look for the cause of it. Once outside they could see that Rainbow Dash had managed to crash into Applejack's apple cart, scattering apples and broken wood everywhere. Both mares were currently locked into a shouting match while Fluttershy seemed to want to calm them down, without much success.

"-can't help it that your cart can't handle my awesomeness! Why was it standing there, anyway? The market's a block away!"

"Ah was tryin' to get there, but some featherbrained stunt-mare crashed into mah cart!"

"Uhm, could you stop shouting, please? If you don't mind, that is."

Sandova chuckled.

"Now all we need is Pinkie and we have the recipe for one of those 'friendship lesson' adventures you tend to have Twilight."

"Did somepony call my name? I thought my Pinkie Sense told me somepony was talking about me, but my eyelids didn't flutter like they usually do when that happens, so I thought that it must be someone talking about me and so I looked for Sandova and so here I am!"

"Gah!"

Both Sandova and Twilight jumped when Pinkie appeared. Sandova still wasn't completely used to the pink pony's antics, and his reaction in turn startled Twilight. Everypony stopped and looked at the tall human, who was looking at Pinkie with an exasperated expression.

"Pinkie, you're my friend and all, but do you have to pop up like this every time? You nearly gave me an heart attack, again."

Pinkie giggled, as did some of the other mares.

"Silly Sandova, I don't pop up like this every time. Sometimes I come from a nearby cupboard or other enclosed space."

Sandova opened his mouth to answer, realized who he was talking to, and snapped his mouth shut again. Rarity and Twilight remembered why they went outside and turned to Applejack and Rainbow Dash.

"Rainbow Dash, shouldn't you be managing the weather instead of crashing into Applejack's cart?"

The speedster shrugged.

"Nah, we have partial cloud cover scheduled today. Besides, I can do both at the same time, I'm awesome like that."

The others rolled their eyes, except for Pinkie who was still rambling off tangent to an increasingly exasperated looking Sandova. Applejack sighed and began gathering apples, and the rest decided to help her out. With everyone helping, they were done in no time.

"Thanks guys, that was mighty fine of y'all. Why were you all in the Boutique, if ah might ask?"

Twilight sighed and explained the situation with the amulet again.

"-and that's when we heard Rainbow Dash crash into your cart, and decided to look what happened."

Pinkie started excitedly hopping up and down.

"Ooh, ooh. Can we look when you fix it? I want to see if we can transform Sandova into something else. Maybe a donkey, or a griffin. Okay, maybe not a donkey, but I would like to see a griffin that was not a meanie pants like Gilda."

"Pinkie, we are not going to transform Sandova into anything else right now. Why would he want to become a griffin anyway?"

Sandova nodded along vigorously.

"Yeah, I like my body as it is, thank you very much. I guess you can come watch, though. I guess Twilight won't mind?"

He looked at her, and she nodded.

"Of course I don't mind. You're all my friends, after all."

The other mares agreed to come look as well, if only to make sure Pinkie didn't accidentally caused Sandova to turn into something else. They entered the library, and Twilight immediately started clearing a table and grabbed writing equipment. She answered Rainbow Dash's questioning look with a sheepish smile.

"We are going to repair a powerful magical artifact, did you really expect me not to take notes?"

The speedster shrugged and hovered a little higher while the rest sat down around the table. Rarity picked the amulet up with her telekinesis and inspected it thoroughly.

"Hmm, the diamond is somehow cracked. How did such a dreadful flaw manage to find its way into this poor gem? This just won't do, allow me to repair this crime against beauty."

Both Sandova and Twilight shouted at the same time, but they were too late. When Rarity's spell hit the amulet the diamond shattered and a brilliant flash enveloped the library. As the light dimmed Spike chose that moment to enter the room.

"Hey Twilight, I found that book on enchanted gems you-"

He stopped when he saw the figures lying around the library and promptly passed out.
~
Sandova awoke with a splitting headache. He groaned and reached for his head. He stopped when he felt something hard meet his rather hard hand now. Wait a minute. Sandova opened his eyes to check his hand, only to see a hoof where his hand should be.

"Oh great, the spell backfired and I'm stuck as a pony. What an utterly predictable turn of events. Twilight's going to have a field day trying to turn me back"

He looked around for the lavender mare. His eyes spotted her purple mane easily enough, end his eyes widened in shock as he recognized a form he expected never to see again.

Instead of a lavender unicorn, he was eyeing a purple-haired female with pale skin, slender limbs and pointed ears. Next to her was a rather stout woman with her blonde hair tied in a loose ponytail. Sandova's friends had turned into humanoids from his world. He also noticed that they were naked. The fact that he did not get flustered over six very attractive naked females worried him, a lot. Before he could ponder that particular issue, his friends stirred.

"Ow, what happened?"

Rainbow Dash froze when she felt her fingers brush her head. She was not supposed to have fingers! Her friends were having similar reactions, and Sandova knew he had to act quickly before they panicked.

"I have separate toes now, this is soooooo funny! Look at them wriggle!"

That stopped every possibility of them freaking out, as everyone was too busy giving pinkie an even stare. She looked up and smiled brightly at them, breaking what was left of the tension. Everyone sighed and took a good look at their bodies. Sandova noticed that they had turned into the humanoid equivalents of their pony forms. Rarity and Twilight were slender elves, Pinkie and Applejack were stout dwarves and Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy still had wings, marking them as the birdlike raptoran.

Sandova himself looked again like the grey unicorn that he was during the Manehatten Adventure, which didn't surprise him that much. After all, Twilight's spell was supposed to turn him into his exact pony equivalent. It seemed that that spell had now backfired on all of them, and it didn't need to be sustained by an amulet anymore. That realization hit him like a war hammer.

"Oh crap."

"You can say that again. What exactly happened?"

Sandova sighed.

"Well, it seems that the amulet overloaded and blew the last spell it held across the room. That spell being the one that turned me in my 'exact pony equivalent', and it seems that the reverse worked for you. Congratulations, you can now experience the joy of adapting to a new body."

Twilight seemed to have a minor panic attack, en the rest of the girls were again not so far off as well. Luckily, Pinkie diffused the tension again by raising her hand like she was sitting in class.

"Do you have as many different humans as there are different ponies? And what are out tribes called?"

Twilight looked at Pinkie like she'd grown a second head.

"That's an, unexpectedly reasonable question, Pinkie."

Pinkie just smiled while Twilight's inner scientist drove her to try to levitate a quill and paper over, and failing miserably at moving anything.

"Yeah, sorry Twilight. No automatic magic for you anymore. And to answer your question, there are a lot of different humans, but they are not as different from each other like the pony tribes are. You have each become a race that matches your tribe the closest, though. Rarity and Twilight are elves, a race that lives very long and has a natural affinity for magic. Applejack and Pinkie Pie are dwarves, a very tough race that has a connection with earth and stone. They make for excellent fighters and craftsmen. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are now raptoran. I don't know much about them other than that they can fly and are better at using air magic than most other races."

Twilight had developed a rather dismayed expression as she realized that she could not write this new information down, and looked very close to freaking out again. Luckily, Sandova's explanation had calmed the others enough for them to notice Twilight's situation. Applejack tried to get up and fell over. Rainbow Dash laughed at her, tried to stand up as well, and failed miserably. After a few minutes of getting to know their new bodies the six women were now standing in the middle of the library, observing each other.

"Ooh, what are these soft things. They are so squishy."

"Those are your breasts, Pinkie, and it's err, highly inappropriate to fondle your breasts while in company."

"Oh, I get it."

She then grabbed Applejack's breasts and squeezed them, making Applejack yelp.

"It's even more inappropriate to fondle someone else's breasts. Ever heard of 'inappropriate touching'?"

Pinkie's eyes widened, and she quickly let go of a very embarrassed Applejack.

"Oops, sorry Applejack."

Sandova just arched his eyebrow, now very glad that his new body wasn't attracted to humanoids anymore. That would've made things even more awkward. He then noticed Spike lying on the ground.

"Err, girls. I think someone needs to go check on Spike, he's out cold."

Twilight practically scrambled for the unconscious dragon, and she gently lifted his head and listened for breath. After a few seconds she let out a relieved sigh.

"He's breathing normally, I think he just passed out when he saw us lying around here."

Rainbow snickered.

"Heh, he must've thought there were six more humans to deal with. Considering the trouble that follows the first one he met I can't blame his reaction."

She tentatively flapped her wings and she lifted a little in the air. She looked overjoyed that she could still fly. Fluttershy had her arms around her and seemed incredibly uncomfortable. It seems that her usual shyness had skyrocketed now that she found herself in an unfamiliar body, and Sandova couldn't blame her. She was naked, after all.

Sandova blinked, then facehoofed.

"Girls, are you feeling any kind of discomfort at the moment?"

"Now that you mention it, I do feel awfully vulnerable. Naked, even."

Sandova nodded like he'd been expecting that answer, which he had.

"Well, you are naked. Humanoids usually wear clothes, both because they don't have fur to keep them warm and because being naked is considered indecent. I didn't think you'd have problems with the second one, though, considering that ponies are usually naked most of the time."

Rarity blinked, slowly, then smiled the brightest smile he'd ever seen on an elvish face. Sandova could practically see the stars in her eyes.

"This is wonderful! Oh, think of the designs I could make, the next challenge of fashion! I must begin immediately!"

"Whoa there Rarity, no need to get all over exited for nuthin'. Twilight can just stop this spell, and then everypony is back to normal, right?"

She looked at Twilight with a pleading expression, a little desperation creeping into her face.

"Right?"

Twilight bit her lip.

"I-I don't know. I can't even use the magic I usually do right now, let alone reverse a spell as powerful as this one. Even if I was still an unicorn I might take a while, considering the fact that this seems to be a true transformation."

"True transformation?"

Sandova nodded at Applejack.

"Yes, instead of morphing our bodies into something else for a limited time, the spell has apparently transformed us in such a way that these forms can be considered our 'true' body. I can tell because my body fails to react in any way to six very attractive naked women."

Confusion, embarrassment and finally horror showed on their faces as Sandova's words sunk in. Rainbow Dash was the first to find her voice.

"You're saying that we're stuck like this forever?"

Sandova shrugged.

"I have no idea, but there's a possibility of that, yes. We could always ask the princesses for help. Well, as soon as Spike wakes up, in any case."

That put them at ease, at least a little bit. Everyone was silently going over their predicament when Fluttershy's barely audible voice broke them out of their musings.

"I, uh, need to feed my animal friends soon. Oh dear, I hope that they will still recognize me!"

There was a knock on the library door, and everyone flinched.

"We're closed, come back tomorrow!"

The door didn't open, but Sweetie Belle's muffled voice answered.

"Okay, I'm looking for Rarity anyway. There's somepony at the Boutique."

Rarity bit her lip, then called out to her sister.

"I'm kind of busy right now, dear. Could you ask them to come back later?"

There were a few seconds of silence before Sweetie answered.

"Okay sis, but what do I tell him? And why did Twilight say the library is closed? It's only eleven!"

Rarity moved towards the door, but was stopped by the others. She looked back with an annoyed expression.

"What? It's rude to talk to somepony through a closed door."

Sandova arched an eyebrow and pointed a hoof at her still naked body. She looked down and sighed.

"Fine, but can you talk to her in my stead? You are a pony now, after all."

Sandova moved towards the door while the girls quickly hid in another room. He opened the door and smiled at the filly.

"Sorry Sweetie Belle, your sister and her friends are busy helping me with solving a magical problem."

The filly blinked.

"Is that why you're a pony now?"

Sandova nodded.

"Why didn't Rarity open the door, then?"

"Because she's otherwise occupied."

Sweetie belle grinned.

"She's transformed as well, isn't she?"

Sandova arched an eyebrow.

"Aren't you a clever one."

She shrugged, not losing the grin.

"I guess. Can I see her? I bet it's hilarious."

Sandova now smirked as well.

"Maybe it is, but you can't see her. She's naked, and kind of stressed. I think it's better if you go home."

Sweetie belle pouted, and Sandova leaned over in a conspiratorial way.

"But it's going to take a while. If you bring us some cloth from the Boutique and tell absolutely nobody, err, nopony about this, you'll probably get to see her when she comes home."

The filly perked up and prepared to dash off, but Sandova picked her up with telekinesis and looked her straight in the eye with a very serious expression.

"I mean it, tell nopony. I don't want to cause a panic. Am I clear?"

Sweetie gulped an nodded. Sandova smiled again and released her before re-entering the library and closing the door. The girls came back into the main room, looking relieved.

"It seems that it worked. What did you tell her, anyway?"

Sandova laughed nervously.

"I told her that you were helping me with a magical accident. She asked if that was the reason I looked like this. When I answered honestly, she guessed correctly that you were transformed as well."

He held up a hoof before the indignant shouting could begin.

"I made sure that she wouldn't tell anypony, and she's getting some cloth from the Boutique so that you can fix some clothes for you and the others."

Everyone sighed in relief. Then Rainbow Dash looked around.

"Wait, where's Pinkie Pie?"
~
"Wheeeeeeee!"

Pinkie Pie was bouncing through Ponyville in her usually bubbly way, drawing more than one very confused look from the ponies on the streets. She just laughed and waved at them, and most just filed this away as a slightly stranger case of 'Pinkie being Pinkie'. She arrived at the Sugarcube Corner and burst inside with her usual fanfare, greeting everypony enthusiastically. Mr. and Ms. Cake were, of course, very surprised at their bubbly employee's appearance.

"Pinkie Pie, what happened to you? You look a bit like that Sandova fellow!"

Pinkie bounced over to the counter and answered in her usually hyperactive manner.

"Well, I was surprising Sandova when Dashie crashed in Applejack's cart when he told us that he needed Rarity to look at this amulat and-"

Mr. and Ms. Cace looked sideways at each other and came to an understanding. They would smile, nod, and file this under 'Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie in a different body'.

"-and then I Sandova told me about inappropriate touching and-"

She stopped talking when she found Mr. Cake's hoof in her mouth. He had to strain his body a bit to reach her mouth, but his expression said it was a small price to pay for his sanity. Ms. Cake smiled a strained smile at Pinkie.

"That sounds, nice, dear. Why don't you take the day off until this 'transformation' business is over, okay?"

Pinkie nodded, and Mr. Cake released her mouth.

"Okay, can I have a cupcake before I leave?"

They nodded, and Pinkie bounced away from the Sugercube Corner munching on a heavily frosted cupcake.

"Ooh, I should make a 'It's funny that we became humanoids' party! But what kind of games should we play?"

Happily busy with party planning, she didn't notice the group of robed figures following a grey unicorn into the Sugarcube Corner.
~
"She couldn't have gotten that far, she's probably not used to her body yet."

"Sandova, this is Pinkie Pie we're talking about. She could be in Cloudsdale by now.

Sandova gulped and nodded at Twilight's robed shape. Sandova had the sense of grabbing them each one of his robes to wear, although he needed to make holes for Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's wings. Rarity had only sputtered for five minutes, indicating that even she considered a loose transformed Pinkie Pie was a bigger issue than ripped clothing. They had tried Sugarcube Corner already, but the Cakes told them they gave Pinkie a day off, and now they had no idea where to go.

"This dashing around town is getting us nowhere! We should split up to increase our chances."

They all stopped and stared at Rainbow Dash, who shrugged.

"What? It's the truth and you know it!"

Applejack sighed and fumbled with the knot in her robes. Sandova was a tall man, and knotting up her robes seemed like the quickest solution.

"RD is right, this ain't getting us nowhere. We have no idea where Pinkie could be right now, an' I have some stuff to explain to mah family. We should split up and bring Pinkie to the library when we find her. 'Sides, Twi' needs ta write a letter to the princess, ah reckon that she'll be able to help us."

Sandova nodded.

"Good plan, I like it. Now, I think everyone should try to cover as large an area as possible, and look at the most random places you can think of. Good luck!"

They all nodded and dashed off, or in Rainbow Dash' case, flew off. Nobody noticed the naked dwarf girl skipping towards the library.
~
At the end of the day, nobody had found anything. Rarity had been laughed at by her sister, as had Applejack. Rainbow Dash had met some of her colleagues, who were very confused to say in the least, but nopony had seen the pink party pony. Not even Fluttershy's critter friends had seen anything. Sandova and Twilight had both met with unforeseen difficulties and hadn't been able to search a lot. Twilight was constantly distracted by trying to use magic to help find Pinkie, and failing, while Sandova had to introduce himself over and over by ponies that thought he was new in town.

"Well, I might as well write that letter to princess Celestia now. I'm sure that Pinkie is all right, wherever she is. It's Pinkie Pie, after all."

The rest agreed and followed Twilight into the library, which was unusually dark. When she turned on the lights there was a loud bang and everyone got covered in confetti.

"SURPRISE!"

Everyone stared blankly at the, still naked, form of Pinkie Pie in the middle of the library. Some of the townsfolk were present as well, as was usually the case at Pinkie's parties. A large banner with 'It seems we are humanoids now' was hanging from the ceiling, and there was a game of 'Pin the tail on the human?!' at the back. Spike was snickering next to Pinkie, and a bright flash snapped them out of their confusion.

"You were right Pinkie, it was a good idea to wait for them after all."

As they blinked their eyes clear their jaws dropped back to the floor. Next to Pinkie was princess Celestia, holding what seemed to be a camera in a golden aura. After their brains were done rebooting, they started kneeling and promptly fell over, except for Sandova, who had gotten used to this body weeks ago in Manehattan. Celestia smiled gently at them.

"Rise, my little pon-, err, humanoids? Anyway, rise. Pinkie Pie has told me everything. I was very surprised when Spike sent me a party invitation instead of one of your letters, so I came here immediately. Pinkie was already here, setting up this party. We decided that looking for you would take too long, and waited for you here."

Pinkie nodded vigorously.

"Yeah, the princess had some very good ideas, like taking a picture of your surprised faces."

Twilight finally found her voice again.

"That was your idea, Princess? But I- responsible- I thought......Argh!"

Sandova patted Twilight gently on the back while shaking his head. Twilight calmed down soon after, and the princess was now faced with five very irritated humanoids and one very irritated unicorn.

"Do you have any idea how worried we were? And she was here the entire time while you just decided to wait for us? This was a terrible moment to exercise your sense of humor, princess."

Celestia's smile became a little wider, and Sandova sputtered indignantly.

"Don't worry Sandova, I have not just waited for you here. While Pinkie set up the party, I was looking into the broken amulet, and I think I can reverse the spell."

The five humanoids let out a sigh of relief. Celestia walked to Twilight first.

"My faithful student, I know that you would like to reverse engineer the spell yourself, but I think it is better if I do this. We wouldn't want anything to go wrong, after all."

Twilight nodded, and after a bright flash she was a purple unicorn again. The princess transformed each of the humanoids back into ponies until she arrived at Sandova.

"Are you ready?"

"No, I'm not."

That stopped everypony dead in their tracks, even the princess looked surprised.

"What do you mean?"

Sandova smiled his roguish smile.

"I mean that it might be a better idea if I remain a pony. I am trying to start a new life here after all, and no longer being the only human on the entire plane might help a lot with that. The fact that casting spells is much easier as an unicorn is nice as well. I mean, I still have telekinesis, so I won't miss my hands that much."

Twilight turned to him with a very confused expression.

"But this morning you told us that you preferred you human form!"

"Yeah, but that was before I considered all of the problems I have here as the only human. I look scary, I stand out like a sore thumb, err, hoof and I have to explain my story every time I go anywhere other than Ponyville. It just makes sense, really."

Celestia smiled that motherly smile of hers and nodded.

"Very well, my little pony. Then I shall leave you all to your party."

With a flash, she disappeared. The room was silent for a while.

"Guys! Do you know what this means!?"

They all looked at Pinkie, who was looking more excited than usual.

"There is now a new pony in Ponyville! And that calls for a PARTYYYY"

Sandova smiled, glad that things hadn't changed that much after all.