Twilight's eye twitched. She had thought of every possibility that any normal experiment could ever hope to produce. She even planned for the chance for the crystal hardware to explode and fuse her friends together. Sure Pinkie Pie came up with that completely ridiculous and non scientific idea, but her wildest hopes and dreams couldn't have expected to have swapped minds.

That was probably one of Celestia's complete banish ponies to Tartarus rules. Sure that hadn't ever come up in the fifteen years of constant training and mentorship, but Celestia had millennia to come up with stupid rules for bad students.

And what about her friends? She thought it was only a normal experiment and now they are sitting there in different bodies and it was all her fault. She paced back and forth thinking of her last will and testament and if she could give Spike her castle.

Pinkie sighed. Looking at the mess that Twilight was currently making herself into just because some experiment went wrong was super silly. If she could count the times she accidentally destroyed the Cakes' kitchen just because of some silly culinary experiment, she'd be counting all day. But here was Twilight being a fuddy duddy goof worrying about the future when she just had to focus on the now. That was Pinkie's way of getting through life, worry about things later and come up with plans to fight those things now. She learned that from the school of hard knocks. Though she only had a focused Ph.D in Twilight Studies with a minor in Partyology, she knew how to calm down at least all of her friends.

Slowly inching up to Twilight while she had her back turned, she waited for her marefriend to turn around to plant a kiss right on her lips. Then she waited until Twilight noticed and started pressing back. The two briefly broke apart and locked eyes as Twilight said Pinkie's now favorite sentence.

"Pinkie, thank you."

Pinkie smiled for she knew exactly what that sentence meant and with their playtime getting interrupted by science. . .

"Don't worry, I know."

Twilight blushed and quickly took hold of the situation. There had to be a reason why the memory transfer machine test failed. They were friends already so was that the variable? Or maybe there was some weird variable like similar memories or closeness or attraction. If only there was a book that outlined emotional variables and if it was written by Starswirl the Bearded, it would be the best thing ever. But there was none. That was why she had cobbled together the machine on a whim- nopony tried touching memories.

And Twilight had got a tad bit curious.

Which was why her two good friends now had their lives ruined.

She turned around ready to apologize profusely to her friends.

And she was met by a little note. Picking it up with her magic, she opened it slowly and read quietly to herself, her eyes quickly scanning the page while a low level migraine began to form right above her eye. Its steady pulse almost soothing her.

"Twilight, yeah. Got bored. Oh and Fluttershy says you two make an ador- adora- cute couple. I can't believe how easily my mouth could say that word. It wasn't awesome. But yeah, Fluttershy has a thing. she'scalling it a spa date, I don't know what that is it sounds too girly, with Rarity she remembered about and since I'm in her body, I guess she might come along. Twilight I'm begging you to fix this. Dash"

Twilight let the note drift to the floor. She quietly locked the castle and slumped down and stared calmly at the purple walls of her castle. Pinkie bounced on over and sat down, laying her pink poof of a head on Twilight's shoulder for a moment while she let her tail slowly tease Twilight.

"So looks like our play time can start again."

Twilight blinked at the party pony, thought about it, and chuckled. "Pinkie, what would I do without you?"

Pinkie hugged her marefriend. "Probably destroy the town, or Equestria, or turn evil and sexy. Or all three." Pinkie ran a hoof through Twilight's hair. "Do you want me to write a letter to the Princesses yet?"

Twilight shook her head no. "Probably need to do that first because after what just happened I really don't feel like doing anything else. Well maybe except you, but you know that's kind of always on."

Pinkie grinned. There were some benefits to being an alicorn, the poniest type of pony that ever ponied. Though Twilight said it sucked that she could no longer fit in her old dresses cause a sknny nerd wasn't princess material and that she was always in some form of heat- Pinkie just thought how cool that was. It wasn't like Twilight could run out of ideas for play time. Pinkie chalked that up to her marefriend being the biggest bookworm ever. She liked teasing her about that, because then Twilight got all flushed and started talking about how she wasn't a repressed nerd.

But that was cute. There were many types of ponies, Pinkie knew, and Twilight was her favorite one. Where else could you find an accident prone, super powerful, alicorn princess? Pinkie wondered if Celestia or Luna were crazy weirdos. Then maybe Twilight wouldn't feel so self conscious about her body and then she might see what Pinkie saw in her.

"Hey Twilight, why did you come up with all your weird inventive ways for your magic to affect body parts? I mean after the first embiggening spell I thought you would be done. And then there is that fun gender swap spell. and the weird tentacle spell, and-"

Twilight blushed a deep red. "I-I mean I get kind of bored just being in this huge castle. It's not like ponies come to see me every day. The map takes care of that."

Pinkie Pie hugged Twilight. "Well I'm here you silly alicorn. Ooh, Twily, I had a perfect idea. Y'know how you only used one spell at a time on me? What if you used all the spells on me at once? What would that do?"

Twilight's wings shot straight out at the sheer possibility. "Pinkie, that'd be unknowably dangerous. Like you could explode or be horribly disfigured or be too big to leave the castle or something."

Pinkie grabbed Twilight and started running towards the largest room in the castle- just in case. "I mean you already did one dangerous thing today, I bet you have ran out of accidents. And if not- well at least we'll remember this one."

Twilight almost said no. But then she thought about all the strange possibilities that mixing spells could do and then she could write Cadance and show off a bit. "Pinkie, you are such an idiot."

"Yeah well, I'm your idiot. Forever."

Twilight groaned. "Well if we are doing this, can we like record this? I mean this could easily be used for research purposes and add a whole other way for ponies to enhance themselves and-"

Pinkie lay a hoof on Twilight's muzzle. "I think that'd be fun."

Rainbow Dash trudged into town. Everything was so slow. And everything felt super tiny and it was weird getting used to the new center of gravity. Everything touched while she walked. Walked because when Rainbow tried flying her normal way, she fell straight on her face.

It would almost be funny if Fluttershy wasn't having the biggest time of her life.

"Dash, look I can fly." Dash looked as her own body flopped around like a puppet as Fluttershy tried flying higher than six inches off the ground. Rainbow sighed. Her form was all off, her whole body had to be straight- or close to it, and then her wings were supposed to flap at the correct speed to generate enough lift while not overtaxing her wings or having her body shoot off into space.

Rainbow frowned. Her reaction looked wrong with Fluttershy's face, and she quickly let it pass. "Yeah well, if you are stuck in my body, I'm going to need to teach you how to fly."

Fluttershy squeed and forgetting for a moment how to fly, she flapped her wings too fast and shot off into the sky. A muffled scream echoed down to Dash.

"Yep. She needs flying lessons so bad." Dash plopped down on a nearby bench and waited for Fluttershy to come back. She gently tapped a hoof in anger. Tap, tap, tap, tap. To an outside observer in Ponyville, it just looked like Fluttershy was having a bad day and thinking hard, not because Dash wasn't furious and angry.

Just that Fluttershy's body wasn't used to any bad emotion beyond sadness or light anger.

Dash tapped on the bench. Slowly little cracks began to form as her quick assault brought out a deep flaw in the bench. Most ponies wouldn't focus all their power at one little point, or at least they would realize their own strength. But Dash was in a new body and a much taller one. And while ponies judged Fluttershy to be a dainty specimen of marish beauty and unable to hurt a fly, she was more akin to the strongest pony in terms of natural strength in her friend group.

Wrestling bears and caring for large, dangerous animals in the corner of the most dangerous forest in Equestria tends to do that to the least of ponies.

A large crack broke Dash out of her thoughts as the bench shattered into bits of tiny splinters. Dash feel straight on her borrowed face. Pressing a yellow hoof to her face, she groaned as she dusted herself off.

"Ponyfeathers."

She glanced around and saw nopony. Thank goodness. That would have ruined her cool factor by a lot. She shuffled over to see if Fluttershy had hurt her athletic body in any way. Though she did that slowly now, mainly because she didn't wwant to break anything else and that she disliked the feeling of feeling every stride rub against the most delicate areas of anatomy.

Dash tried to get in character just in case anypony ran into them. "Dash, are you okay? It looked like you might be in need of some assistance. Like learning how to land or fly."

A soft, muffled moan came from a nearby ditch. "Maybe. Can we get to the spa any faster? I think I almost threw up and landing this way makes me feel pains I didn't know existed. Rarity is probably expecting us."

Dash facehoofed. Oh of course Rarity was expecting them. How could she have forgot? "Fine. Just like climb on my back. I feel like its a better idea than teaching you how to fly in five seconds. But you need to tell me at least some pointers on how to be you. I just shattered a bench and I can't walk without feeling some feelings I don't like."

Fluttershy wheezed out a broken laugh, limped over and stared at Dash. "Deal." Fluttershy climbed upon her own back, that was not going to be a thing either pony was going to get used to anytime soon, and felt a smile creep on her borrowed face. So this was what she felt like to Dash.

Kind of nice.

Rarity fidgeted in place. She loved spending time with Fluttershy, since she was her oldest friend, but for some reason she was running so uncharacteristically late. It would be a real tragedy if Fluttershy had somehow become hurt by some horrible beastie in her walk over here. But a lady never presumes the worst.

But she really needed to get clean and relax.

Applejack had teased her about her reliance on cleanliness and sure her general cleanliness had gone from a perfectly normal case of OCD into a more manageable case of perfectionism after their little sessions had kicked in. And if Applejack hadn't teased her collection of erotica and large toys, she wouldn't have needed thirty minutes to fix her mane and coat. She was a businessmare and while she was fine with her kinks, there was a time and place to let them out. Being with Applejack felt normal and after her last few dates with the stallions, she saw them as more business than pleasure. Rarity bemoaned the fact that the whole Blueblood affair did so much damage to her mental image of stallions that of course she had to try the fairer sex.

Though Applejack was more on the built like a brick wall kind of side. Rarity shook her head, getting worked up now would only ruin her coat more.

But it was so not like Fluttershy to be late- out of the last decade of spa dates, the yellow mare had been early every time except in dire emergencies. Tapping a hoof, she would wait as long as possible. It wasn't like she was truly needed at the shop- she had told Coco without a shadow of a doubt to keep her spa days relatively clear. Reason one was that she needed a break every once in a while. A savvy businessmare does not hope to build her fashion empire on constant work, that was ludicrous. And after Sassy and Coco told her to take a few dozen "chill pills" whatever that imperfect lingo was, she agreed.

And maybe having more time with Applejack, was another perk of that.

She heard the most uncharacteristic noises coming from a very familiar pony and her ears perked up at the other voice that normally would stay as far away from one of these establishments.

"Dear Celestia, I think I'm going to die." Fluttershy panted as she slowly climbed up the hill that the spa was unfortunately on.

"Well if you hadn't taken the long way around and walked a bit faster, we wouldn't have kept Rarity waiting. Though we could chalk that up to Twilight. We did take longer than expected there." Dash hopped off of Fluttershy and waved- positively waved- a hello to Rarity.

Rarity blinked. That was preposterous, the pony that would not set foot in her store and also hated being around and talking about the core ideals of fashion sense giving a pony like her the time of day? Rarity chalked it up to either a trick of the eyes or low grade dehydration.

"Well if you hadn't sat on my back the whole way here we might have got to the spa sooner." Fluttershy shook herself off and walked slowly over to Rarity.

Dash walked behind her. "Yeah, well see you needed practice and I thought 'strength training' see because I need to practice my whole trainer routine to help out my Wonderbolt friends. Oh and I totally hurt my wing, see?" Dash grinned at that and waved her wings slowly in Fluttershy's face.

Rarity swore she heard Fluttershy mutter something to herself. Taking the initiative, the white unicorn cleared her throat and hugged Fluttershy close. "Darling, it's felt so long since I last saw you!"

Dash piped up. "It's only been a week, its a perfectly regular thing. You do schedule it."

Rarity raised an eyebrow at Dash. "Yes well, its a figure of speech. Thank you, dear. Now to get down to business, I bet Aloe and Lotus are worried sick about where we are."

Fluttershy, Dash in this case, stiffened at the thought of doing whatever torture session happened at the spa. "O-of course, but, uh, since Rainbow just got here and it would be impolite to leave her here, can't she come along?"

Rarity's mind boggled. Rainbow Dash at the spa? What was Fluttershy thinking? Of course the dear would say-

"Sure, why not?" Dash shrugged. "I mean I totally have nothing better to do and I have this one spot that feels like it should be aligned properly.

Rarity was living in either the best or worst possible world imaginable. She quickly pinched herself to check if Luna was playing a prank on her.

"Relax, yah. Fluttershy you are so tense. Do we have to do the more intense massage?"

Dash blushed as she felt Lotus's hooves arc across her back. Well Fluttershy's back, but her mind was riding along in it so it felt weird. She heard Fluttershy stifle a giggle. Fluttershy was enjoying this body mess too dang much for Dash's taste.

"What was that again?"

Lotus had a laugh that reminded Dash of a wave of clouds. Light and airy, with a deep echo that had a strange foreign quality.

"You know, da special package, the pillar special. To help those ponies with their big libidos, I mean you do it every time, yes?"

Dash glanced at Fluttershy who was beet red. Seeing her face with that expression was actually pretty impressive.

"Oh yeah, I really want to do that today." If Dash was going to be stuck in a body, at least she could enjoy turning it back on Fluttershy.

A wooshing sound hinted that Fluttershy got the message. "Rainbow Da-ash, this is a no fly zone, ya, don't make me have to call the muscle."

"Sure, yeah won't happen again."

Rarity felt there was something off. Sure the sexual tension of her friends were so palpable, it could be cut by a spoon on any normal day, but this was a level that made her wonder what exactly happened between the two. She quickly thought to herself to ask later what happened. It was her spa day, she wasn't going to ruin her one day off a week.

Dash was starting to enjoy the massage, her muscles- tensed by worry- started to relax. Short motions around and around with longer focus jabs at tough areas made her get lulled into a nice rhythm. Fluttershy, for her part, was staying silent though Dash wondered why. If Dash was so sensitive now thanks to being stuck in Fluttershy's body, Dash wondered how Shy felt.

She knew her body had to be in knots. Or at least far less pliable and plushy than Fluttershy's stacked like a pillow fort ass.

Dash rubbed her legs together slowly thinking about that. She kept herself to the most aerodynamic and athletic as possible, a low body fat content and being a glorified midget made one lack in the areas that stood out in the dating scene. She had been on dates sure, but like she stopped after stallion upon stallion in her swinging circles thought she was a gay stallion. Which she didn't entirely mind, being a out there super noticeable pony had its perks, but Celestia dammit, she swung both ways and was a mare. Sure she really hadn't tried much with the mares but she wasn't just gay. Not a-

She stopped midthought as her world was split wide apart by the largest dildo she had ever experienced.

"Sorry for the wait, you wanted the special package, ya? Not often do we get to use the breaker model. Takes special pony, yes."

Dash could only nod in rhythm to the incessant pounding that was changing her mind on the butter yellow pegasus. And she cursed herself for actually going through with teasing Fluttershy. She sure was paying for it now.

Fluttershy felt a constant blush as she could watch her own body be used and imagine Dash there experiencing it. Sure she wasn't focusing on it in its entirety, though she was trying.

If only she was the one doing the massage.

She snapped back into reality as Aloe cracked her spine back into position. She felt every piece slowly shift in place and Aloe moved slowly down her sides, getting out each and every ingrained knot created by constant practice and general avoidance of every feminine stretch and massage known to ponies.

Which coming from Fluttershy's decade of experience felt like her body went from a dull ache and bruised wing to shards of glass dancing underneath her skin etching their pain onto her very being.

"Dash, you have been a very bad mare. These knots, yes, are some of the most bad I've ever seen." Aloe grunted as she drove another spike of pain deep into Fluttershy's unfortunate mind.

"S-sorry, I-I'll plan on doing this more. Can you slow down, t-this is my first time." Fluttershy stuttered out a response to keep herself conscious.

"Oh you should have said that first, of course I will bring the slow here. You only had to say word."

Fluttershy went from feeling like she was being stabbed to a level reminiscent to getting punched over and over.

Which felt like complete bliss to her now.

"Fluttershy are you okay?" Rarity smiled at the continued sexual tension. Whatever happened between the two pegasi, the massage had only made the two more on edge. Rarity thought it was sweet of them, though Applejack had bet her that the pair would never get their feelings out in the open.

Sure Rarity had twenty bits on the line saying otherwise but unlike her more forceful half, she was at least of a mind to just let the natural course of the romance to take root and go down the stream of love. Though there had been a lot of darting glances and muffled whispers between the two after Aloe and Lotus left and let the three be in the fantastic baths.

"Sure Rarity, I am perfectly fine." Fluttershy smiled weakly glancing over to her blue pegasus friend. And Rarity glanced over and saw Rainbow Dash being horribly obscene with her wing display. Sure wingboners were usually involutary but it was crazy how many times Dash did it in this nice, relaxing atmosphere. It was indecent.

Frowning at Dash, Rarity started talking to her best friend about the weekly gossip. It wasn't like she could share the juiciest bits with just anypony, there was an art to gossip. Sure each story was highly unverified and circumspect, but at least it was something to spread around and talk about. And with Fluttershy's dreadful schedule, the butter yellow pegasus never got out enough for Rarity's liking. She had tried to push the mare into modeling to remedy her friend's tendency to be a shut in- but that worked out horribly. So gossip it was.

"So I know you don't get out much. But I just started reading this new wonderful book."

Dash waited for Fluttershy to talk and then realized that she was now Fluttershy. She quietly cursed that massage for scrambling her brain and tried to answer in the most Fluttershy sentence possible.

"Oh, um, well, what's it about Rarity?" She sunk lower in the water to keep a good distance from her body that was glaring daggers into her soul. Oh boy, whatever got Fluttershy into a tizzy was probably her fault.

"Oh my dear, its all about this young mare who gets a job from this handsome stallion. You see he had a terrible past and is trying to overcome it and yet the scars from his previous relationships made him into the stallion he is today. And the main character's love and affection made him change for her. It's called Six Shades of Hay. I thought of you while I was reading it."

Dash shrugged. "Uhm, sure I think that sounds like a wonderful book. Wouldn't you like to read it too, Dash?" Dash turned to see what fantastic antics the mare was getting up to in her body and she just saw little, fast moving bubbles where she should be. Plip, plip, plip, plip, plip.

Dash waited to see what was going on and was met by silence. She waited a few seconds more. And kept waiting. Finally after realizing Fluttershy wasn't coming back up for air, she realized what was happening. That idiot was somehow trying to hide away from something in the worst way how. And Rainbow wasn't having any of that sillyness, that was her body, dammit. If she wanted to drown herself in shame, do it in her own body.

Dash frowned, which meant Rarity saw a frown form on Fluttershy's own face. Rarity would never forget that nightmare inducing face. A frown on a pony that tended to be as nice as possible was a death sentence for the surrounding area.

Dash drove down and grabbed her now tiny feeling actual body and brought it up for air.

"Are you okay, Dash?"

Fluttershy sputtered out a lame, "Just peachy," and laid her head back on the tub.

"Are you sure cause if you need to get medical attention, then we can call off the spa day." Rarity looked worried at the blue pegasus.

"Nope. I'm fine, just forgot how to swim for a moment." Dash raised an eyebrow at that thought. She knew Fluttershy had to be lying because she could easily remember swimming all the time in the summer. She almost said something about it until she saw Fluttershy mouth an answer- 'can we talk later. Play it cool.'

Dash itched her face- well Fluttershy's of course, but Rarity didn't know that.

"Well, um, what about that book?"

Rarity nervously chuckled. "Yes, well if Dash insists she's okay, yes where was I? Oh yes, well its a touching tale and I just love the author's great use of the inner voice of her conscience where she names it her inner princess and her inner monologues explaining each sex scene in detail make it easy for me to follow it and enjoy it."

"Well, that sounds positively nice. Though I haven't heard all that much about it."

Rairty beamed. "Well its all the rage in Canterlot and Manhattan and its as new series of books. Though I wonder who writes it, I would love to meet her. I'm a big fan of that kind of book, but there's no author photo and description."

"Well I'll be sure to check them out."

"Fabulous, well on the gossip front, Applejack said that Big Mac found someone, though she says it was a male friend. Don't you find that positively terrible? That specimen of stallionhood just off the market?" Rarity sighed.

Dash rolled her borrowed eyes. "Sure, Rarity." If she had to torture herself with the parody of mares talking about sex gossip, at least she could be creative. "Oh I just remembered that Twilight showed off her new spell, there could be a way you have your cake and eat it too. I mean you are a unicorn." She could see Fluttershy cross her blue arms and attempting a Stare on her.

"Ooh, darling, tell me more."

"Did you have to tell Rarity about Twilight's personal life? Isn't that too much?" Dash saw her own body flapping right in front of her face.

"Shy, if it can get Rarity to get less weirdly hung up about Big Mac fine. You listened to her, she brought him up like a billion times." Dash walked slowly to keep herself at least somewhat focused.

"It was only like three times. It wasn't that bad." Fluttershy ran a hoof through her new hair do.

Dash looked at her and rolled her blue eyes. "Of course she did bring him up three times but then she didn't stop talking about it. Oh Big Mac, how I wonder how large you are because your muscles are so huge. Oh Big Mac might be gay, how horrible. And on and on. I thought maybe we could nab two birds with one stone since Twilight's a big, lonely nerd in a huge castle with no ponies coming to her with their problems and hey I could get a laugh if I saw Applejack of all ponies with a dick." Dash smiled a facsimile of Fluttershy's demure smile.

Dash heard her body flop onto the ground. "Ow, what the hay, not again."

Rainbow glanced back and smiled at Fluttershy's display. "Do you have to get on my back again?" Dash could hear Fluttershy sputter out a stammering response trying to get a coherent thought out. Rainbow chuckled. "Well okay, the offer stands. Any time you know. Totally a safer bet than shooting off into space." She was going to keep walking until she felt a slight tug on her tail, and a muffled sentence in Dash's voice came out.

"I mean that sounds nice."

Rainbow rolled her eyes. "Well okay, but you have to tell me why you were so worried about that stupid book Rarity was talking about. I thought it was kind of dumb."

Rainbow felt Fluttershy twitch while sliding up on her back. She knew her own body language, so feeling it be unnaturally like her own yet alien still felt weird. "Well- I might know who the author is."

"Yeah, well who is it? Is it Twilight? Though that would not make you try to drown out of embarrassment. . ."

"I wrote it." Rainbow stopped and turned to stare at Fluttershy. A small attempt at a smile soon faltered as the now blue pegasus lay back and waited for Dash to get mad at her.

Rainbow could just facehoof. Which hurt her far more than it hurt Shy. Cursing her friends ridiculous strength, she shook her head briefly to get rid of the quick forming headache. "I should have guessed. So why didn't you ever try to say 'hey look at me guys, I'm a published author or something like that?"

Rainbow could feel Fluttershy crawl up her back and lay her head on hers. "It made me feel embarrassed. I mean I didn't plan on writing erotic stuff, it just happened naturally. I mean writing feels nice to me and then it kind of just happened. It wasn't like I planned it- I just wanted to be normal and after Rarity pushed me into modeling, I really didn't want to be in the limelight."

Rainbow shrugged. "Come on Shy, I do great in the public eye. I mean ponies do love a Wonderbolt or two."

She heard Fluttershy laugh. "Yes, but what about the whole Mare-Do-Well mess or when you get too competitive, or when Cider Season rolls around?"

Rainbow thought back on that time. "You are really bringing that up? Yeah that was mostly your girls' faults. Sure, I did get too into showboating my skills, but you five ran around in a mask just to teach me a lesson. Don't know how Twilight explained herself in that friendship report without coming off like the bad guy. But if you want to bring up times where we messed up, what about the time you took that assertiveness course and made Rarity and Pinkie break down in tears?"

Fluttershy looked up at the clouds slowly floating by and didn't speak for a while. Rainbow felt a pit form in her stomach as she worried she had gone a bit too far in dredging up a bad memory. Finally after what felt like an eternity, Shy spoke, Rainbow's borrowed voice wavering through Shy's explanation.

"Dash, I mean, I still feel bad about that. I wanted to be more like, well somepony else, and then I got into the mode of feeling good about myself for a short time and I forgot. I forgot that maybe such a drastic switch in assertiveness wasn't like a good thing, you know? Like it came off as mean and cruel instead of empowering. But I just wanted to fit in somewhere and I thought starting to stand up for myself could make it easier, I-" Rainbow could feel tiny rivers of wet spots form on her borrowed body as Fluttershy began to sputter into incoherent quasi-silence. Rainbow saw a nearby bench and praying to Celestia she wouldn't break every bench she sat on now, she sped up a bit faster and as quick as she could, which was a snail's pace still, she slid Fluttershy off of her makeshift ride. She felt awkward and tried inching a hoof towards her friend, noticing how truly small her body was in this moment, Fluttershy had curled up into a fetal position and muffled noises came from her as she worked through her feelings. Dash wondered if Shy had ever said that she was sorry to her friends and actually explained how she felt.

Judging by her emotional state, Rainbow guessed not, letting the thoughts just sit there out of actual mental reach until somepony brought up the events and tore open the wound- fresh and raw. Rainbow did the best thing she could do in this case. Bringing a hoof that would be comically large and imposing on any normal pony, she hugged Fluttershy. It almost looked comical, Dash thought, because it was to the normal pony just Fluttershy comforting the most awesome and least cry prone pony in Ponyville with a hug.

Which was mostly far from the truth. Flip the ponies and actually it was Dash comforting the at least respectable and- well. Dash just stopped the thought as she felt Fluttershy return the hug. It was an upside down world Rainbow mused.

The pair just sat and watched the scenery, strangely their minds adding in sound once they had stopped talking. Bird calls and song surrounded them as the world began to echo with the sounds of a summer day. Out on the horizon, clouds slowly formed hinting to a possible storm that was forming over the Everfree- the one place in Equestria too pure and wild for anypony to do any real weather control. And the sounds of the town enveloped them as ponies went around their day, the Flower ponies shouting in mock horror as their customers gossiped about the next impending threat to Equestria- artificial plants. And they could smell Sugarcube Corner from where they sat, the wind blowing out the aromas of pastries and chocolate throughout the town, lazily drawing customers like a hazy dream. It was almost a perfect day, if only Rainbow hadn't almost ruined it perfectly by teasing Fluttershy too much. She seemed to be handling the switch so well, but maybe she was handling it as badly as Dash was.

Her moment was broken when Fluttershy's mind caught up with Rainbow's mouth and a stream of consciousness style word salad of thoughts poured out of her mouth like rain.

"Dash, are we going to be okay like this? I mean I can't be doing your job. Everything seems to be moving so slow and yet whenever I try to keep up with my mind in here, I fly off and get hurt or my body locks up in fear. And I can't fly well and I don't want to be so bad you lose your job and I can't take care of my animals like this and you are horrible at caring for them, no offense, and then what if my publisher wants to talk about my books and you don't know anything about those and then-"

Rainbow tried to shush the worried pegasus. She opened her mouth and shut it quickly, there was no actual way to put this nicely. She was as equally worried as Fluttershy here. She couldn't hide that.

"Well I am too. I'm worried about all that- and I have no clue if this will wear off or not in time. I guess will just let stuff work out, okay? Though I wonder how I'll get up to check on Tank and everything else in my house? Like I can't get my mail with these wings. I mean they work for you okay, but I can't get enough lift here to go up further than a foot or two. Which I don't like completely mind all the time if its you dealing with that problem, uh, but I want to make sure stuff's fine up there."

Fluttershy started to wipe her tears with a blue hoof and she quietly laughed. "Well can't we go fix that?" Fluttershy pointed at a nearby building and started uncurling herself back to normal.

Glancing around Rainbow noticed that they were right next to the post office. How did that get there? It seemed like she should have seen that walking over here. They both shared a short laugh and Dash began slowly walking towards the doors.

"Hey Shy?"

"Yeah?"

"We'll figure this out okay?"

Fluttershy nuzzled close to Dash. "Okay."

The Ponyville Post Office was one of those places that looked like it was ever in a state of chaos. Dash wondered if Discord had ever entered the post office and saw how wonderful organized chaos was. Because as they entered there was a glut of ponies working on sorting the piles of mail into generally easy to carry mail totes, with the large packages being assigned to mail teams and prescribed a perfectly reasonable mail route.

But for the normal pony, the post office was a mess. Thankfully, there wasn't anypony else in line because of the late hour. Well in terms of the post office- a sign said that they closed around four on Saturdays thanks to government regulations and accountant ponies that graphed the peak times post offices were used.

Rainbow only knew of that highly relevant fact because Twilight had once accidentally added in the entire government code of Equestrian Politics for Dummies before she had to study for the Wonderbolt exam. Though Dash had wondered if it was a test secretly done by Twilight to see if Dash's strange automatic learning through flight had an upper limit or extended infinitely into knowing everything there is to know territory.

Shaking her head to stop the boredom she heard a quiet ding that told the pair that they would be next. Trudging up to the desk, she heard the bubbliest mare possible. Her voice lilting in a sing song pattern up and down the register, each word a different note in a strange, almost right meter and melody.

"Hiya, Rainbow Dash, what do I have to do for you today?"

Fluttershy looked at Dash expectantly, her magenta eyes confused since she didn't know what to do in this strange situation. Rainbow Dash mentally facehoofed and turned on her best impression of Fluttershy.

"Um, Ditzy, you see Dash here just remembered she needs a change of address form- not permanent of course- but for like a while. Do you have one of those?"

Ditzy tapped a hoof, her one lazy eye looking at Dash and the other normal one looking at Fluttershy. "Um, well we have something like that, not all the time thing yeah, uh, let's see here-" Ditzy slowly rifled through a large stack of papers slowly, each moment slowly humming some tune she had to have heard on the radio. Her eyes scanned the papers back and sideways, forwards and down, looking for the relevant form. "Here it is, its one we don't really use all that often. See cause we aren't like in those big, scary cities and ponies don't move around all that much here."

Rainbow tried to smile. "Oh yeah, see Rainbow, I told you it would be really easy."

She heard Fluttershy sigh, "Yeah. Let's get this over with, This place isn't all that awesome."

"Um, Dash, can I have your autograph? Cause my little muffin loves watching your Wonderbolts show- I mean I only got to take her once, but she still talks about it and I know this is a weird time but I tried to ask the management here if I could ask for your autograph on my mail route, but they said that'd be 'against protocol' whatever that means and so having you walk in here is great." Ditzy pulled out a lightly worn photograph of her, a stallion, and her daughter- a light gray unicorn filly. "Can you make it out to Dinky?" Ditzy slowly smiled, her eyes focusing intently on Fluttershy.

Fluttershy tried to act cool, nopony had actually asked for her signature before- sure the modeling period happened but that ended too soon before her name and look became synonymous with Equestrian beauty, thank Celestia. And after that heartfelt story by Ditzy, she felt tears beginning to form again in the corner of her eyes. Dash often joked that she could cry at the drop of a hat, but she was just sentimental and emotional. Taking a deep breath, she handed the paper Dash needed to her and flexed a wing tip. Remembering that Dash tended to write her name in a mix of normal letters and cursive, Fluttershy scrawled out a 'To Dinky, my biggest fan- Rainbow Dash' and grinned.

"There you go."

Dash slid back the address change form and let Fluttershy follow her out.

"Well that was surprising, you okay, Shy? I was going to tell you to not write out an autograph."

Fluttershy felt her head swerve as she looked at herself- Dash just shrugged. "It's just easier, Shy. Think about it. You're going to be a celebrity. You can't always write every autograph you get asked for. I learned that after you guys did Mare-Do-Well, a few days later I had to disband my fan club and limit to just Scootaloo. They kept asking me for photographs and to fight my 'supervillain antihero' whatever they meant by that." Dash laughed ran out hollow. "Yeah, maybe with this switch I can relax for once."

"Um well, if you can handle a ton of fans, I guess you won't hate dealing with my animals."

Fluttershy noticed her body slightly slump at that thought, was that a slight shake in her hind legs?

"Dash, you okay?"

"Just peachy. You want a hayburger or something? After that ordeal, I'm strangely starving to death."

Fluttershy could eat.

"Welcome to the Hayburger, home of the Hayburger Deluxe, I'm your server- oh Celestia dammit- not you."

Fluttershy stared at the purple unicorn. "Sorry? Did I do something to you?"

"Oh great, you don't remember acting like an idiot in front of me?"

"Stand back, I got this! Don't worry ma'am, I'll open this hard to open jar! And then I'll have you fill out the Rainbow Dash is Awesome survey!"

Fluttershy blushed as a quick memory hit, glancing over to Dash, she noticed that the pegasus remembered her. Seeing her own body twiddle her hooves in worry made her wonder, just for a second, if that's how Dash thought of her. Cause Fluttershy thought back over the day and quickly noticed that she was playing up her own worries. Fluttershy sighed. She wasn't always like that, she had moments where she was assertive and helped her friends and totally wasn't a complete pushover. Though then she realized, she may have been playing up Dash's sense of machismo, bravado and showmanship.

"Ahem, while I absolutely love that you seem to be checking me out, not. I really want to move on with my life and just, I don't know, take your order. Also if you see your princess friend, tell her she's banned from the restaurant. Stupid alicorn biology made her eat through an entire bale of hay, managers are totally pissed. Also I hate her, cause of course Celestia's private student had to take. My. Own. Position. Not like I liked being important and helping Winter Wrap Up."

Fluttershy cringed. Quickly looking at the menu and her server's nametag- mainly because while this pony remembered Dash and Dash remembered her, it wasn't enough to provide her with the most relevant information. That being the actual name of the current winner of the angriest pony in Ponyville award.

"Uh, thanks, Sparkler? I'll tell her that radical thought and we'll both the deluxe-" Fluttershy saw a quick nod to the negative and a hold up of two hooves by Dash, uh, three for her and a, I dunno, a shake."

She saw a quick look of disgust on Sparkler's face and a quick shift into false sincerity as the unicorn smiled. "I have to warn your little mare friend to be careful, we make the deluxes rather large around here. Would you want the shake with one straw or two?"

Fluttershy quickly looked at Dash, a blush forming quickly on her face making it seem like her cheeks were slightly turning purple thanks to the dim light and blue coat. "Uh, two?" Dash hadn't said no.

Sparkler turned and left, her body sashaying with unbridled rage. "Dash, we need to give that pony a good tip when we leave cause I think she wants to murder us. But why are you ordering three of those anyway?"

Dash crossed her now yellow arms and stared at Fluttershy. "I have no idea Shy, its not like we haven't had lunch and it looks like you forgot breakfast. And no offense, but your built like a brick house. I don't know if that should be a compliment or not. After today? I have no clue, feels like absolute torture. And maybe I'm just not used to feeling like my stomach is eating itself. Don't you eat?"

Fluttershy blushed at the thought of Rainbow Dash possibly complimenting her. "Oh I do. But sometimes I forget and then I also use a fair portion of the money I get from my advances from my books to help all my animals. . . so maybe I skip a few meals. But its not like I starve myself, Dash. Pinkie gives me a ton of sweets every time I see her and Rarity helps me shop sometimes."

Dash just stared blankly at Shy. "So you are telling me that you go around just eating free junk food? And you don't eat like anything else? And your still this- um no, this large?" Rainbow Dash slumped in her booth. "Fine. Whatever, but your going to have to eat more often after this. Or at least I can use this time to actually try and get you on a decent diet. And workout regimen- cause why not. It's not like I have anything else to do besides be sure to not mess up your life and take care of animals."

Fluttershy sputtered at the thought. "S-sure, sounds good."

She thought she could see Dash smiling back at her. She must have imagined that.

"Shy, ugh, why didn't you tell me to not eat all those burgers?" Dash slowly walked back to Fluttershy's cabin. Shy slowly flew behind her, pushing her friend forward. Fluttershy wondered if she was actually doing anything besides putting her hooves on her own butt, but she let that thought move as far away as possible.

"Dash, I was surprised that you'd even think my body could eat that much. Sparkler had to have doubled the order cause that looked like an amount Pinkie could eat."

"I don't know. You are plushy and all that. I think some ponies would call you stacked- like Rarity, she'd totally call you that. Yes. But next time I'm seeing that Sparkler pony, I'm going to punch her, or at least give her a good talking to."

Fluttershy felt her whole body become flush with heat as she heard that sentence. "You okay, Dash?"

Dash groaned. "I'm good. Though I totally can't fly. Eh, Tank might be fine."

Shy lightly tapped her hooves upon Dash. "Are you sure? I can easily fly up to your house and get your things."

Fluttershy heard her voice tinkle out like a clear bell. "Haha, sure, I just have a few things. Like don't grab my furniture. Twilight can get that stuff, then she can help out somehow. She's got a stupid balloon or something. Oh wait, she can just use her alicorn magic and pick up my entire life of things and drop them off at your house. But, no worries, I just need my pillows, and my bed sheets, and like my turtle, and my toiletries. That's actually about it."

"Cool, I'll get those, Dash, don't worry. Just keep walking. We're almost to my house."

Fluttershy felt Dash stumble over the path as she was walking, the path turning from cobblestones to a dirt path as it entered the outskirts of the town. Trees edged along the path, the darkness now turning a nice path into a dark hole lined by trees. The stars brought the light they could, but they could never give enough light. Living in the country, or at least the edge of town, made light scarce making Fluttershy happy she had walked this path more times than she could count, its curves and hills branded in her memory.

Finally her house appeared, Fluttershy flew up since being in Dash' body, even with her horrible flight skills, at least made her faster than Dash at this time. Turning on her lights, she waited as Dash limped slowly up the hill.

"Shy, I'm so tired. Is there a couch or a bed somewhere?"

Fluttershy blushed maroon as she realized that her date accidentally ended like she had hoped. Well besides the body switching, of course, but Fluttershy had hoped that she could have gotten Dash into her room in some way and it was happening.

"O-o-h yes, well there's a couch but its not really made for ponies to sleep on. I mean I sometimes do, but the best thing is there's a bed upstairs in my room. "

She watched as Dash slowly walked up the stairs, glancing around, Fluttershy quickly picked up and began to pull out all of the food for the animals. It was easier if she did it herself the first night. Then she'd fly up and get Dash's stuff and make Dash happy.

She heard the bedroom door creak shut and she zoomed around her house. Being Dash was really good for her schedule- clean up took only a minute.

"See Dash, this won't be all bad.

Dash felt entirely comfy in Fluttershy's bed. Maybe that was the five pillows that surrounded her, or the lavender plants that stayed near the bed, it felt nice. She couldn't remember how long she was in bed, just one moment she was alone and then another moment, she felt the covers slowly creep up and she opened her eye for a moment. She couldn't see anything because of there being no nightlights, and the only light that could be seen was from the moon, which by the direction of Fluttershy's house let it fall in and only cover a corner of her room.

Dash shivered as her fur slowly rose as the cold hit her skin, the warmth that she had gained from being wrapped up in blankets dissipated into the air as she felt a body snuggle up to her. She could smell a fain tinge of sweat as the covers rose over her again.

A mumbled happy noise came from in between the sheets and Dash thought she felt a tiny kiss on her head as she fell back asleep. She flopped her leg over her and held her new bed buddy close. She felt Fluttershy draw into the hug and put her head into Dash's now much larger chest. She felt heat radiating off Fluttershy and she drifted slowly off to sleep.

Dash wouldn't say this out loud, but for a slight moment, she felt mostly good about today.