Yay, a new fic! I'm not sure if this has been done before, but it wouldn't surprise me. I have yet to read any like it, though, so I promise I'm not copying. Anyways, continue on!

Disclaimer: I don't own MLP… obviously.

Twilight scanned the pages of an ancient magic book for the millionth time. The purple unicorn paused for a moment to glance upwards at her growingly impatient friends.

She had gathered the five of them – Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie - in the library in hopes of trying out a spell she hadn't been able to accomplish before. The problem was that it was extraordinarily complicated, and she wasn't entirely sure what it was suppost to do.

"C'mon, Twilight." Spike groaned. The baby dragon was apparently also tired of waiting. "You've read that thing a hundred times already. You might as well give it a shot."

Twilight sighed. "I know, Spike, but I need to make sure I get this exactly right!"

"Ah'm sure you'll do fine, sugercube." Applejack said, and the others nodded in agreement.

"Yeah!" Pinkie Pie bounced in excitement. "You're the best at magic, there's nothing you can't do!"

Rainbow Dash glanced at Pinkie. "What exactly are you trying to do anyways?" The cyan pegasus asked. "And why did you need us again?" The other ponies seemed equally perplexed.

Twilight looked at her friends apologetically. "I'm sorry if I took you away from anything, but this spell says it should be used on 'a group of close pony friends'. It's suppost to help our friendship grow in some way, though it's a bit unclear… I want to try it out for my research." She smiled.

"Oh, this sounds very intriguing, Twilight!" Rarity exclaimed, grinning.

"Yes," Fluttershy agreed, quiet as always. "And don't worry; you're not distracting us from anything."

Twilight nodded, her heart hammering in anticipation. "Alright, here goes nothing…" She closed her eyes and focused hard. Her horn started glowing with a dull purple light, but as she poured more effort into the spell, the light grew. Twilight grunted as the light grew and grew until it expanded around her and her five friends. Spike backed up, watching in awe.

Suddenly, there was a blinding white light that engulfed the entire room. Six startled voices gave cries of pain, and Twilight tried to release the spell. Although she was no longer putting effort into maintaining the spell, the bright light continued to glow. Confused, Twilight instead tried to cast a magic-nullifying spell, but couldn't gather any energy in her horn…

A strangled cry came from Fluttershy, and the light suddenly vanished. Everypony blinked rapidly to clear their vision.

As they finally managed to get looks at each other, their jaws dropped.

Rarity was the first to manage to stutter her first sentence. "A-A-Applejack…" She said, staring wide-eyed at her friend. "I-i-is that… my HORN?" Applejack indeed had a white horn sticking out of her forehead, and Rarity had mysteriously lost her own.

"Heavens to Betsy…" Applejack mused, her eyes crossed in an effort to stare at her forehead. She looked at Rarity, wide-eyed. "B-but… you… Rarity, you have Fluttershy's wings!" She said, pointing in alarm at her friend.

Rarity whirled her head around, and screamed at the pale yellow wings sticking out of her back. "Oh goodness… oh…!" The group turned automatically to Fluttershy, who had collapsed on the floor of the library with a purple horn now attached to her forehead.

"FLUTTERSHY!" Everypony called, and rushed to their friend's side. Fluttershy's eyes flickered, and she raised her head dizzily. "What… what happened…?"

Twilight felt her forehead, and confirmed that her horn was no longer there. "I-I'm not sure…" Twilight said honestly. She rushed to the ancient book that was still open on the table, and scanned it desperately for information.

Rainbow Dash helped Fluttershy to her feet, and the shy former-pegasus gaped at her rainbow-maned friend. "Rainbow Dash, where are your wings?" Fluttershy asked, alarmed.

Rainbow spun around, her jaw falling as she noticed her lack of wings. "AHHH!" She yelped, spinning in circles in an attempt to see her back clearer. "My wings! What happened to my wings?"

"Right here, silly!" Pinkie Pie giggled, flapping her new feathered cyan wings playfully.

Rainbow Dash looked, if possible, even more shocked. "Pinkie…?" Was all she could manage to say.

Spike stared at his six friends in shock. "You guys are all switched up!" He said, and the others shot him glares for stating the obvious. "I didn't even know that was possible!" He said in defense.

Twilight finished reading the book. "I don't know what to do!" The purple pony exclaimed, panicked. "Like I said, it never detailed the effects. There's a counter-spell, but even if I had a horn, it's extraordinarily complicated, even more difficult than the spell I just did…" She groaned and hung her head. "I'm so sorry, this is all my fault."

"Twilight, don't feel bad." Fluttershy said, sweetly. "After all, there must be somepony that can perform the counterspell, right?"

Twilight shook her head. "I hate to sound narcissistic, but the only pony I know with magic strong enough would have been, well, me."

"You mean Fluttershy!" Pinkie Pie giggled, pointing at said pony.

Fluttershy blinked, confused. "Me?"

Twilight perked up. "Pinkie Pie, you're a genius! Of course! If Fluttershy has my horn, she'd have at least my raw abilities… the fact that she maintained that spell after I lost my horn is proof!"

Fluttershy stared at Twilight. "Your horn?" She finally looked upwards, and gasped. She whirled around to look at her back, noting that her wings were gone. "Oh… oh my goodness…" She whimpered.

Twilight's smile faded as she put more thought into her idea. "Of course, it would take a while to teach Fluttershy… I mean, it's not like she was ever trained in magic." She stated thoughtfully, mostly to herself.

"A while?" Rarity exclaimed. "Oh, what will become of my fashion career? Without my horn, how will I sew? How will I find gems? How will I stay in business?" She cried in horror.

"An' how will Ah grow apples?" Applejack asked, frowning. "Only earth ponies can grow food… it wouldn't be such a big deal if Ah didn't have tah plant two new fields this week!" She explained, clearly worried.

"HOW WILL I DO ANYTHING?" Rainbow Dash yelled, her eyes wide with terror. "I can't do any weather duties, I can't practice flying, I can't even get to MY OWN HOUSE for Celestia's sake!"

Pinkie Pie giggled, bouncing into the air and flapping her new wings experimentally. "I don't know what all of you guys are complaining about, I think this'll be fun!" She landed back on the ground, clearly not grasping how to fly quite yet.

"Rainbow Dash, you can stay here, if you'd like." Twilight offered. "I have an extra cot I could set up."

"Thanks Twilight." Rainbow Dash said gloomily. "But what will I do all week?"

Twilight thought for a second. "I guess you could offer moral support to Fluttershy and I? After all, it'll take a lot of training to get her to the level to perform the type of magic required to turn us all back.

Fluttershy's eyes widened. "W-wait, Twilight - "

"Now hold on just a sec'." Applejack interjected. "Rainbow, Ah need you to help with the farm. I reckon you and Twi'll be just 'bout the only two earth ponies not workin' on growin' things this week, and since Twi's busy with Fluttershy…"

"Um," Fluttershy said meekly, "Excuse me, but - "

"Hey!" Rainbow Dash shouted angrily. "What makes you think I'd want to work on the ground all day? Besides, if I'm doing that, then Pinkie needs to take over my weather duties!" She said, gesturing to her pink friend.

Pinkie stopped bouncing. "Me?" She exclaimed. "Wings or no wings, I still have to do my job at the bakery!"

"And don't even think about asking me, Rainbow." Rarity said before Rainbow Dash could open her mouth. "I'm sorry, but this is a very busy week for me as well!"

"Rainbow, mah family's entire business depends on gettin' those apple seeds planted this week!" Applejack exclaimed, looking distressed. "It's too much for Big Mac and Applebloom to do by themselves! Y'all can't just abandon me!"

"And I still need to attend to the animals!" Fluttershy finally managed to say, looking alarmed. "This is the week that a lot of baby bird species are going to hatch! I don't know if I have time to study…"

The five of them broke out into heated arguing over who was going to do what. Twilight sighed, glancing in exasperation at Spike.

Her assistant glanced back. "So much for the spell causing friendship to grow." He said as the others bickered.

Twilight hung her head. "You can say that again…"

Hahahaha, that didn't end well. Will they be able to sort things out and get things accomplished? You'll have to stay tuned! I'm in the middle of final exams/ projects right now, but this seems to make me procrastinate by writing a lot, so we'll see. I'll be updating my other MLP fic soon, and might even start a series of one-shots if I procrastinate hard enough.

Read and review, please? I'd love input!