~Razor Wing~

I groaned in relief as we finally got to Shining Armor. Red just wouldn’t stop spitting out an innuendo the whole time we were walking, particularly hinting at what he planned on doing in my body tonight. It disgusted me. Thankfully he stopped when we got within earshot of the Captain.

“Oh, back from training the cat, you two? How’d it go, Red?” he asked, turning to me. However, Red was the one that replied, putting on his usual intelligent mask.

“Well, she’s actually pretty good. Both of us had difficulty keeping her under pressure, but we had to cut short due to an accidental spell that caused us to switch bodies.” he replied. The captain just stared as Red said that last bit.

“...An accidental… body swap?” he asked, like he wasn’t sure he heard that right.

“That’s right… I’m Razor Wing. The cat doesn’t know how she did it, so she can’t fix it. We’re hoping she can at least figure it out by tomorrow.” I told him. He stared for a few seconds longer, before he suddenly smirked.

“This seems like an amazing opportunity for training.” He declared. Of course, now both Red and I were groaning. Shining always had the craziest ideas for training.

“I knew it’d come to this…” Red muttered.

“And just for that, neither of you are switching back for a week.” Shining declared, glaring down at us for our complaints. “You two are going to use this next week to teach each other how your bodies work, and how to utilize each other’s magic. And as soon as the cat can learn how to replicate what she did to you two, I’m going to have at least half the guard undergoing the same training. This way, we can all be prepared in case something crazy like this happens when we face a threat to Equestria.”

“Yes sir.” I said with a salute. I didn’t want this to go on for any longer than it had to, so I refused to give him any reason to further extend that punishment. Besides, it was weird enough feeling Red’s stallionhood swinging about under me, even if it wasn’t erect. I did not want to feel it for more than a week.

“So I get to be a mare for a week…” I heard Red mutter. That was immediately followed by the familiar sound of my wings shooting up. “...What the?”

“Wingboner…” I told him with a facehoof. “Dear Celestia, I really hope you never experience Heat… You’d be unstoppable.” Wait a second, I haven’t dealt with it yet this month… and it should be around that time… “Oh shit.”

Evidently, Captain Shining Armor had just come to the same conclusion, but was having the opposite thoughts in regard to it. “Hey, even better. You two can get even closer. Help each other resist mental effects like that.” Captain, you can be one cold, hard dick. You know that, right? Not even getting used to the idea before you drop training on it.

“I’m considering quitting the guard.” I told him in reply with a deadpan. That actually put a frown on the captain.

“... Well, I would say you wouldn’t get to switch back in that case… but that’d be too evil. I wouldn’t do that to mere recruits.” He said. “But you know… if you quit, then you won’t get the promotions I planned for when you completed this.”

Wait, he what?! I immediately looked at Red to see if he’d heard that too. Seeing him looking back with the same incredulous face, I knew I hadn’t been hearing things. So I set Red with a glare.

“You get my body pregnant, and I’m castrating yours and forcing you to switch when I go into labor.” I threatened. Out of the corner of my eye, I could even see the captain cringe, but Red was cowering at the idea. He definitely knew I desperately did not want to get pregnant.

“Well then. I hope it doesn’t come down to that.” the captain said, nervously clearing his throat. “I’m going to go tell the Princess what I’ve decided. In the meantime, you two go ahead and get started.” he then practically bolted out of there, leaving us alone. Red still seemed a bit scared, but at least made an attempt to compose himself.

“Right then, let’s try to figure out our magic. I’ll start.” He said, before stretching out my wings. I had to duck right then as he somehow managed to shoot himself completely over my head without flapping once. “OW, SON OF A BITCH!”

“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?!” I shouted at him as I turned to look at the results. The good news was, he didn’t break anything. The bad news however, was that he ended up making a huge mess we would no doubt have to clean up together. And it was the worst kind of mess too.

“...Would you happen to know anyone that can use some kind of time travel spell? I want to go back and find the guy that invented coffee, and rip his throat out.” Red groaned.

“Ugh… I’ll get the mop.” I groaned too.

Fucking Coffee Stains. At least the captain didn’t have carpet installed in his office. That would have been a true nightmare.

“Okay! Now that we took care of the coffee problem, let’s move on and try not to spill anymore.” I said. Now that we’d moved to the training yard, we probably weren’t going to spill anything else, but best to get that in the air just in case.

“Right… so what did I do wrong?” Red asked, getting to the point. I sighed as I got started.

“Well what did you do in the first place?” I asked.

“I just channeled magic into the wings.” he replied with a shrug. Okay well that’s not much to work with…

“Okay, well… I… hmm… Let me try my method with your horn, maybe we can piece together what we’re doing wrong from that.” I said, not knowing what was wrong. So I did just that, cycling my magic into the horn, where I kept it nice and controlled… but then I saw a rave light shine out of my head. “...What the fu-” I was cut off by a laser popping out of the horn, shortly followed by another, and another. “HOLY FUCK, THAT’S SOME MASSIVE RECOIL!” I shouted as I tried to turn it off. Unable to, I just stuffed it in the dirt. Thankfully the training armor kept me from hurting myself, but I still felt the heat that rapid casting generated.

“That was scary… I honestly thought for a second you were going to keep going until my horn melted off.” Red muttered as I pulled said horn out of the dirt.

“Well, I wouldn’t exactly learn anything if I let that happen, would I?” I retorted with a readily sarcastic smile.

“Okay it looked to me like you were pulsing your magic like a heartbeat. Or maybe a wingbeat… Still, as a unicorn, it’s not a good idea to hold any of it inside the horn unless you’re charging for a difficult spell. You have to let it flow outside.” Red advised, completely ignoring the face I was giving him. Hearing that, I got an idea of what Red did wrong with my wings.

“Oooh… Yeah, I see what you mean, you did the opposite with my wings. Pushing the magic out generates lift, so it’s good to keep it in until you flap.” I said. He blinked, and nodded in the same manner I did earlier; realizing what was wrong.

“Aha… Well that was easier to resolve than I thought, really.” Red muttered. “Let’s put it into practice then.” I nodded, and got to channeling my magic. Taking his advice and letting the magic cycle outside the horn, I got it to show a light, pleasant glow… but what was strange was that it wasn’t Red’s color, Blue. It was amber, like my eyes.

“Huh… that’s weird. It must be linked to your soul or something.” Red observed. Shrugging, he extended my wings and gave a careful, experimental flap. It did lift him a bit, but it wasn’t anything like that jet blast in the office earlier.

“Alright, that’s good. Couple it with a good jump, and you’ve got liftoff. Uh, don’t try it unless we go over good landings, though. I’d prefer it if my body doesn’t get caught in a bad crash.” I warned. He nodded in reply.

“Alright, well there’s that laser spell you accidentally used earlier. You think you could control it if you focused? Just pulse it like earlier once.” he said.

“Um… gee, I dunno. Could it really be any harder?” I asked sarcastically. “It’d be a better use of my time learning telekinesis.”

“Alright… Well it’s pretty simple. Just reach out with your magic. Thanks to that horn, the aura’s pretty far-reaching.”

“Thank you. Now, I’m just gonna skip the light things, and go straight to the dummies.” I said, turning to the test dummies. Hastily, I reached out for one with my magic, feeling it slither out like a strange third appendage to engulf the practice dummies. I only got two of them at a time, but I’m willing to bet it was mostly muscle memory. Red’s lifted way more that this before, and no doubt his horn’s muscles know how to do it. I just… need to catch up.

“Wow, pretty good… nopony is this good their first try.” Red declared, impressed.

“I’d like to thank your muscle memory.” I shot his praise down.

“Do you really have to be so negative?” Red groaned as he took off his training armor. “Whatever… it’s getting late, and we should get to bed before curfew. I’ll try flying tomorrow. Maybe that expert’ll be by around then too.” he said before heading towards his dorm… which was also every stallion’s dorm.

“Other dorm, jackass. You’re a mare.” I said stopping him as I headed his way instead, having taken my own armor off. At that reminder, he suddenly grinned and turned around with a skip in his step. I couldn’t help but groan. Captain Armor, with all due respect, you were an idiot to allow him to stay in my body for any longer than necessary.

However, when I got to the stallion’s dorms, one of the other guards there pointed out something that made my breath freeze in my throat. “Hey Red, why do you have Razor’s cutie mark?”

“...Well, this is going to be awkward to explain…”