My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Of Ponies and Humans

Chapter 9

The Reversal Spell is where?

38 Days after Zero Hour

It has been a full month since Trixie cast the spell that turned Everypony in Equestria into humans. At first, Everypony was having difficulty adapting to it as they had a whole new set of rules of nature to work with but they quickly fell in line with their new forms, some even using it for the better.

The reconstruction of Orion started going faster then before, with Satoshi and any and all volunteers finishing the frame far ahead of schedule and are halfway done with the decks and hulls.

It was on the 10th day of October that they all got a letter from a old friend, one that help’s with finding the Reversal Spell.

Req lazily sat on a tree, lazily swinging her sword back and forth in her left hand. She yawned as her eyes started to droop.

“INCOMING!!!” Someone yelled, snapping Requiem awake.

Someone crashed into her from above, breaking the branch and making them both fall to the ground. Req’s sword flipped for a bit in midair before falling. It temporarily glowed and changed it’s course, stabbing in to the ground instead of hitting both Req and whoever hit her.

“ow. Who hit me?” Req groaned. She sat up and recognized the person who hit her as the mail-mare. “Derpy?”

Derpy groaned as her eyes rolled. “hey, Req.” she dizzily said. “guess my flying hasn’t improved much since I became a human.”

“and neither has Rainbow’s or ‘Shy.” Req said. She rolled Derpy off of her before getting up. “you okay?”

“yeah. I fall more then you know.” Derpy nervously said. “oh. I have a letter for Twilight but I don’t go by her house for another hour or so. think you can give it to her?” Derpy asked, showing Req the letter.

Req took it but didn’t open it. She flipped it on the other side and saw a royal seal on the back. “a seal? Thought Celestia and Luna sent their letters via Spike. Who would write Twilight with a seal?”

“I don’t know. Could be anyone with information on how to change us back to normal. She did ask Celestia and Luna to send her any info letters they get.”

“then why send it like this?” Req muttered. She shrugged and jumped up from the ground. “well, no use wondering. I’ll go take this to Twi. You go and do your thing.”

“okay.” Derpy took off straight up. Req took a few steps when she heard Derps hit a tree branch. Hard. “I’m okay.” she said. Req couldn’t help but chuckle.

“no no no. it’s not right.” Dash muttered, looking at a costume Rarity was making her for Nightmare Night 30 days from now. Dash asked her to make her a human shadowbolt costume in case the reversal spell wasn’t found by then.

“let me guess… needs to be 20% cooler” Rarity sarcastically asked.

“nice idea, but no.” Dash walked around the costume, looking it over and wondering how to make it better. “hmm… try adding some more lightning bolts onto the sleeves and the leggings.”

“more lightning. Got it.” Rarity wrote that down on a notepad.

Dash jumped up onto a empty table and laid back. “hey, Rare. Quick question.” Rarity looked in her direction. “where were you at last years Nightmare Night? You disappeared the day earlier.”

“oh, that. Guess I should’ve told you before I left.” Rarity chuckled. “I went to Baltimare to be with family. My cousin was giving birth to her first foal.”

“oh, congrats… Auntie.”

“oh, pish-posh. It was the least I could do for my favorite cousin. Although…” Rarity put down her notepad. “…it got me thinking…” Dash curiously looked her way. “… got me thinking if I’ll ever have children of my own.”

“oh, Pbbt. Of course you will, Rare. You just need to find the right guy.”

“And you saw how well that’s going. Prince Blueblood turns out to be some snob S.O.B., Fancy Pants, while not as snobbish, was still unpleasant…”

“That’s not what I saw at Cadence’s and Armor’s wedding.” Dash snickered.

“Well, I was just being nice to him. He had no date to the reception, after all.”

Dash wasn’t convinced. “rrrright. You keep telling yourself.”

Rarity blushed as her eyes darted back and forth. She stopped when she remembered something. “Wait a tick. What about you?” Rarity asked.

“What about me?”

“you find love of your own?”

Dash scoffed. “What’s it to ya?”

“does it matter? You know, I caught Storm Shadow shooting some glances your way.”

Dash, a little bit caught off guard by that, sat up. “Shadow?” Rarity nodded. “the crazy, eccentric, loco Espanol of a unicorn? Why would I love him?”

“well, for starters, you’re speaking his language.”

Dash’s face puffed up as she turned and looked away. Rarity laughed softly at Dash’s little fit.

The door opened and Requiem walked in. “hey girls.”

“hey, Req.” both Rare and Dash replied.

“you see Twilight anywhere?”

“un… think she was over at Bonbon’s Candy Store, getting some sweets. After all, Nightmare Night is in a couple of weeks.” Rarity explained, picking up her notes.

“that so?” Req muttered, looking at the letter.

“What’s that?” Dash asked.

“letter for Twi. Don’t know who it’s from. Only thing I do know is that there’s a seal on the back.” Req flipped it and showed it to them both. They leaned on, getting close looks at the seal.

“that does have a royal feel to it.” Rarity muttered. “but I don’t recognize the crest.”

“And it didn’t come from Celestia or Luna. Otherwise, they would’ve used the living Fax Machine.” Req joked.

“Well, now I’m curious. A unknown letter from a unknown sender.” Rainbow Dash muttered. “sounds like Twi may have a secret admirer that ain’t Halo or Trixie.”

“maybe.” Req muttered. “better go get her.”

Req left the boutique and headed for Bonbon’s place. “Wait up.” Rare said as she and Dash ran after her, both curious by what the letter may contain.

They went to Bonbon’s, only to have her say that Twi left for Orion, where the rest of the Mane6, plus the OC’s and the CMC, and the original humans were, watching a little… demonstration arranged by Satoshi.

“you got the electronics to work?” a un-believing Aura said, arms folded across his chest.

“Sure did. I got them to work not long after the frame was rebuilt.”

“well, let’s see it.” a smug Shadow asked.

“okay.” a happy Satoshi said. He jumped up and grabbed a control panel. “Come to life, o’ glorious fans.” he silently pleaded is he pushed a button. The engine rumbled for a second before nothing happened, not that that didn’t surprise anyone. “Come on, girl. Work for me.” Satoshi asked as he pushed it again.

Something sparked in the engines. They slowly but surely came to life with a loud roar. The fans began spinning the way they did every time before, kicking up dust and sediment, forcing everyone to cover their eyes.

Satoshi turned off the engine. The fans slowed to a halt. Everyone uncovered their eyes. The original humans, obviously, were excited.

“YES! We can go home!” Jax cheered.

“not yet, Jax.” Satoshi interrupted. “there’s still countless repairs to be done and that monster, the one cloaked in shadow, still has the device that allowed us to travel between worlds in the first place. Even if we fix Orion completely, it’ll be for naught unless we get it.”

That ruined Jax’s day. She fell onto her butt and crossed her arms in a huff. “Way to ruin the moment.” she angrily muttered.

“here you all are.” Req said from behind as she, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash walked up. “We’ve been looking all over Ponyville for you guys.”

“Why?” Applejack asked.

“well, I got a letter for Twilight, but the sender is unknown. Only thing we know for certain is the seal on the back of the envelope.” Req explained.

“A seal?” Twi asked. She quickly walked on and snatched the letter. She flipped it and looked at the seal. She immediately recognized it. “This is the seal of the Crystal Ponies. This is from Cadence.” she said with a hint of excitement.

“Who’s Cadence?” Sora asked.

“oh. Un… Cadence was Twilight’s Foal-Sitter when she was young.” Fluttershy explained. “before she met us, Cadence was her only friend.”

“she also married Twilight’s brother, Shining Armor, technically making them sisters and technically making Twilight royalty as Cadence is related to Celestia and Luna.” Applejack added. “as well as the 3rd Alicorn in existence.”

“Alicorn?” Req muttered. “That sounds familiar.”

Twi opened the envelope, took the letter out, and quickly read it. “What’s it say, Sugarcube?” A.J. asked.

“you’re all gonna wanna hear this.” Twi said. She cleared her throat and began to read out loud:

“Dear ‘Little’ Sister,

How’s life back in the small town treating ya? Missing the hustle and bustle on the big city yet? Haha, I joke I joke. I know you love Ponyville and I don’t blame ya. It’s a nice place. I’ve gotten off track, didn’t I? my bad. Seems I inherited Auntie Luna’s ability to ramble on. Ah.

Word has reached us about your predicament in Equestria. Me and Armor are unaffected due to us having been in the Gryphon Kingdom at the time. We’ve been here at the king’s request to try and help abolish a horrible slave trade, Seems Ponies, Griffins, and even Changelings have been taken by this trade and forced to do…… Things I can’t really discuss in a open letter, and it’s been doing murder on their tourism and they aren’t making enough revenue for the kingdom to break even.

Anyway, as I was saying, we heard that everyone in Equestria have been turned into humans from a couple of friends of yours who were living examples themselves, Think their names were Octavia and Vinyl. Anyway, we told the Gryphon King of the situation and he agreed to help. He says he may even have knowledge of where to find a Reversal spell. Unfortunately, his real b*!&h of a daughter requests that you come as well. Says you have a score to settle with her. Not sure what she meant by that. You do something to make her angry.

Well, if that’s the case, guess we’ll be seeing you pretty soon. Me and Armor have something to tell you but we’re gonna keep it a surprise till you get here. It’s a biggie, I’ll tell you that.

See you soon, ‘sis’ ♥.

Love,
Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.”

“oh, a surprise. I love surprises!” Pinkie happily exclaimed.

“in the Gryphon Kingdom?” Twilight exclaimed. “But that’s hundreds of miles away. It’ll take forever to get there.” she looked up at the corpse of the ship. “if only this thing could fly.”

“you and me both, sister.” Satoshi muttered.

“the Gryphon King’s daughter. Why does she have a score with us? We do anything to her?” Dash asked.

“I don’t know.” Twi said as she folded the letter. “but I gotta make preparations. It’s a long way to the Gryphon Kingdoms.”