I fell asleep with two fuzzy bodies in that shack, but woke up to the increasingly familiar garden.

Luna smiled on seeing me. "You have caused great panic in the others, but you appear well."

It made sense, in retrospect. "So you've met all the other 'S-Classes'?"

She raised a brow. "We are not familiar with that term, but those touched most potently by alicorn magic, yes." She circled around me, and her hoof batted at my tail. "We see your body resists it yet, but you develop regardless. Where are you, that I may direct the others to find you?"

I shrugged a little. Cindy suddenly started spouting numbers, then smiled. "Tell them those."

Luna nodded as a paper appeared, the numbers being transcribed. "We will do this. There is a pitched battle in progress, I'm afraid, so they will not be able to come immediately."

"What?!" I stepped towards Luna. "Can you show me?"

"I will try..." She waved a wing and a scene appeared.

A great gathering of ponies and humans. The humans were all dressed in toxin-resistant looking suits and heavily armed, while the ponies attacked with a variety of natural weapons. The numbers on either side was quite impressive, to say nothing of the larger members of either side. Great behemoth-like ponies threw aside tanks, only to collapse under concentrated fire. The cost in life and theoretical money was astounding to me as I watched it unfold. "Why are they fighting? They should get the hell out of there."

Luna shook her head. "I have already offered my advice. That is all I can do. It pains me to see such loss of life done so casually."

A bat pony landed behind a line of soldiers and let out a deafening shriek, sending them to their knees in pain as other ponies swarmed over them, peeling them from their suits and grabbing for their firearms. One of the soldiers grabbed a grenade at his belt and primed it. "Fuck you." He exploded, taking half a dozen ponies standing too close to him on the way.

There were no winners in that fight.

I turned to Luna. "Can I control them from here?"

"You are welcome to try."

I reached out, towards the vision, and could feel the ponies there, but it was as if I was looking through a microscope that had gauze on the lense, a bright muddled mess. I would just confuse them, and get more of them killed, so I abandoned the plan and sighed. Luna came up behind me and nuzzled a hand. "It pleases me to know that you agree this is not the way it should be. Your world suffers greatly. Can you stop this?"

I clenched the nuzzled fist, knuckles brushing her soft fur. "I'll try."

I woke up to the coils of Jack all around me. Lone was wrapped as well, and was hugging back sleepily. "Uh, hi?"

Jack woke at my words and got a little tighter a moment. "Sorry 'bout that."

He sounded calm. "Are you feeling better then? You were pretty upset before."

Jack curled down so his face was in front of mine. "I talked with Lone Wing a bit. Stupid horse loves me to pieces, and we just barely met. I... I don't know. I feel like it's all going to work out somehow, even if I don't have any limbs right now, which still freaks me out, let me remind you."

I nodded in sympathy. As bizarre as all my changes were, I didn't envy Jack. "We should stay here. Help's on the way eventually."

Jack leaned in and bumped his nose against the side of my horn. "Why don't I ever see you use this thing? Yer other head seems fine with hers. God that was a lot of words I didn't think I'd ever say."

It was a fair question, I thought. "Well I know how to do this." I raised a hand towards a scrap of wood across the room and it flew into my hand easily.

"That's cool, but how about that thing she did? She made me into this snake thing right? Maybe you could, I dunno, do something else?"

I glanced aside at Cindy, who was looking back at me. "Go ahead and try," she encouraged. "You should practice your magic, or I should say our magic."

I wasn't sure where to start. There was that tickle when I moved things with it, so I started there and tried mentally prodding around. I suddenly felt Cindy in my thoughts, guiding my mental fingers just a bit to feel something new. She quickly backed away once I found it, leaving me to experiment with it. I could feel the, uh, gift. It was dizzyingly active in me, still buzzing in Jack, and mostly dormant in Lone Wing. That made sense enough. It meant Lone Wing was stable. He'd probably always be a little cute pegasus stallion. "So, uh, you want arms and legs back, right?"

"That'd be a great start," agreed Jack with a hopeful smile.

I spread my magic over him and saw that pink-golden light wash over his body. I tried to focus it where I thought his arms should be, willing for arms.

Cindy suddenly asked, "Pony arms?"

My thoughts went off-kilter. I was going to say human arms, but what if it can't do human arms? Should it be pony arms? What kind of arms?! While I was distracted, Jack suddenly sprouted a lion like arm with a paw that looked surprisingly dextrous.

"Not... awful, but I'd rather be like Lone Wing."

Pegasus arm, pegasus arm! A bird like arm popped free with a talon at the end, also looking dextrous. "Uh..."

Jack wriggled his new set of fingers. "They don't match, but they're a mile better than being a tube. Heck, I still have fingers." He put a lion paw to work softly petting Lone Wing, who purred in his sleep happily.

"So... you're OK with this?"

"Better than I was. If you can hook a man up with some legs we'll be cooking with gas."

I did my best, but it seemed that once a pattern was started, it had to be followed to the end. No matter how strongly I pictured pony legs, none of his limbs matched the others. Even his wings were mismatched, and small, but they somehow got him off the ground and he looked pleased despite it all. "This isn't so bad. I'm sort of a pony, and a lot less crippled." He had a deer leg and an reptilian leg. Most of him was still sinuous pony, along with his pony head and face. I had succeeded on one of the wings, a pegasus wing, but the other looked like it would fit on that bat pony I saw yesterday. I could feel the gift's level in him settling to a dull buzz.

Not quite as sleepy as Lone's, however.

Author's Notes:

William gains a level! Luna is checked in on, and the plot advances!

This is what happens when you get typos into transmutation spells, by the way.