"Ahhg, it's still there..." Twilight said in annoyance. While she looked at the reflection in her bathroom mirror.
It has now been day four of her new look, and since the last time, they opened the DOOM Slayers book.
Twilights lavender coat still had that sleek shine to it while her hair and tail waved and flicker like fire.
Her friends had all excepted her new look in varies degrees. Starlight seems fascinated on how similar to Princess Celesta and Luna's manes and tail's. Spike, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie approve of my new look. They were all in agreement on how 'awesome' I look now and that I should keep it. Rarity was all over me and went in full designer mode on new outfits for me to wear with my new look. Applejack was a little hesitant but expected it and promised to back me up if anything happens. Fluttershy took it the worst. Whenever we meet up or pass by each other in town, she acts as skittish like the time when we first met.
Then there were the Town's ponies. They keep staring at me whenever I go out into town. The worst was the first day, three times a weather pony looked at me and tried to dowse the 'fire' out by placing a cloud over me and putting a heavy rainfall on top of me. After that, I decided to just teleport everywhere or have ether Starlight or Spike get what I need rather than taking my chances on getting soaked again.
Walking over to her bath she turned the shower nob and began her morning ritual. Stripping off her PJ's, she walked in and thought about what her daily checklist.
With the Slayer's book still connected to the map. She and her friends were still blind to any friendship problems that were out there.
They were still waiting for the princesses to return. Luna had been taking control of Canterlot and her brother Shining Armor with the Crystal Empire. While Celesta and Cadence are a world summit with the other nations and wouldn't be back for a few more days. The Princesses were already aware of what's happened to the map and how they weren't able to go on friendship related business. But wasn't made aware of current events. Like what Discord said about the Wrath, or the tomb in her castle's basement, and her new look.
With herself being a princess, Twilight believed that since all this was happening in her castle, she should be the one to deal with it. Not them.
Turning on the shower, she let the water soak her coat and enjoy the hot water run down her body.
Popping open her shampoo bottle, she started the clean up her body of all ailments.
After doing all of her morning of getting clean she got out of the bathroom, put on a knee length blue skirt and yellow sun top t-shirt. Twilight made her way down to the kitchen.
Upon entering her kitchen, she spots Starlight at the table reading today's paper with a cup of morning coffee. "Moring Starlight." The princess greeted. "Anything interesting in today's news?"
Starlight shrugged her shoulders. "Nothing out of the ordinary, fashion threads that shouldn't be in style, nobles fusing on small things looking like big deals. The usual."
"Another good reason to live in Ponyvillle. Lessens the chances of the nobility coming here with their stuck-up problems and trying to make me deal with it," she said as she made her way over to the coffee machine.
"How Princess Celestia deals with them I can only speculate." Starlight replied with a shake of her head.
"I think it's the hidden stills Celestia has that keeps her sane." That got quite the reaction of Starlight as she whipped her head to face her teacher.
"Celestia has her own privet alcohol still?" Starlight said in shook. To which Twilight nodded in confirmation.
"Yep, she has it in a hidden behind her walk-in closet that doubles as a panic room and for secret projects. Only her, Luna, Cadence myself and anyone in the Royal guard above captain authorization could open the door to it. Surprised me too when she showed it to me when I turned eighteen and gave me my first taste of alcohol." Twilight scratched her throat of that memory. "That stuff was so pure it felt like my throat was on fire. I still need to grab a sample to give to Applejack to see if she could figure out how pure that stuff is compared to her cider."
Starlight was shaking her head again at the images of the Princesses drinking alcohol, "I don't think I ever seen you drink Twilight."
"Not very often I don't. Mainly at important gatherings and such, but nothing outside of social outings. Like birthday parties and the grand galloping Gala." Twilight said before pointing her finger at her student, "Especially the Gala, I so needed a drink after the first Gala I went to."
"I've heard the Gala wasn't that great from Rainbow, but I thought she was just exaggerating," Starlight said as she watched her teacher poor herself a cup of morning joe.
"Well, just don't ask Rarity about it or you would never hear the end of it."
"What happened that made it so bad?" She asked as Twilight sat down at the table with her breakfast for the morning.
"You ever meet the noble, Prince Blueblood?" Twilight asked.
"Don't think so."
"Well, he was Rarity's interest for a while before the Gala, but during the event when she tried getting his attention only for him to act like a stuck up foul. At the end of the night, he ended up using her as a shield against a flying cake, ruined her dress, hair and night in that one move."
"Wow."
"Yea, so with Celestia's Drinking habits and Gala shenanigans aside. Is there anything going on today that our friends are doing that we should know about?" Twilight asked her student.
"Nothing at the moment other than your hair situation. How's that going by the way?" Starlight asked. Twilight only sighed in defeat at how little progress she's made.
"I've hit a wall. I can't find any relevant data on how to control it, only that it has a connection with my inert magic that only seems give me this look with using only less than one percent of magic. Comparing this to the avenge unicorn who is doing rage shifts, his or her power out lite should drain them after a whole thirty seconds of usage before they burn out. For me to be in a constant shift like this and not feel even a hint of my magic fading means either it's not affecting me or might be a side effect of me being an alicorn and I'm entering a unknow stage of what it means to be one. Otherwise, I'm coming up short here." Twilight explained as she sipped her coffee.
Before Starlight could speak, the sound of the castles front door opening, followed by the clops of running hooves. Moments later Applebloom, younger sister of Applejack, looks around in a panic till her eyes landed on Twilight. "Twilight! Come quick something has happened to Applejack!" She yelled in a panic.
Spring to action. The princess and the student were on their feet," Applebloom, tell us what happened? Is Applejack hurt? Is she ok?" Twilight fired off and the preteen filly.
"I heard sis screaming in the bathroom and when I tried to go in, but she blocks the door not letting anyone in. She then called me to come to get you. Said you know what's happening to her." Applebloom explained the situation. "Is the same thing happing to her as it did to you? Is she going to have firing hair too?"
The filly's questions where putting filling Twilight with mixed emotions and was hoping that wasn't the case.
"I hope not Applebloom," she said to the young apple before tuning to her student. "Starlight go upstairs and wake Spike then gather all of our friends and bring them Sweet Apple Acers. I'll head straight there with Applebloom to assess the situation." She ordered.
"On it," Starlight replied before running out of the kitchen.
Twilight then turned to the Apple filly grabbing ahold of her," Hold on I'll fly us there!" She said before spreading her wings for taking off. Flying out of her kitchen with the squealing filly she made her way up to one of her many open windows and out of her castle. Twilight had them done for whenever Rainbow Dash flies in her home. It didn't take Twilight long to reach across town to the spot the acres of apple trees that made up the Apple clan home. Angling down to the Apple's front door. Twilight sat the dizzy filly down and entered the farmhouse. She saw Granny Smith on her rocking chair asleep in the living room, shaking her head at the site she reached the stairway to the second floor and found Big Mac standing by the bathroom door with a worried face. Upon seeing Twilight, he gave her nod and thumbs over to the bathroom.
Going up to the door, Twilight gave it a few knocks to let Applejack know she was there. "Applejack, its Twilight! Applebloom said you needed me?" She said through the door. A few moments later the group outside the door herd the sound of the door unlocking before it cracked open. Seeing a green eye looking through the door that looked around and landed on the lavender princess.
Twilight let out a sharp "yelp" when an orange hand grabbed her by her shirt and pulled her into the bathroom before the door slammed shut. Shaking her head, Twilight looked at her friend about to question her about her odd behavior but paused when she got a real good look at the problem.
Applejack was tall.
Real tall...
Twilight had to think about this for a sec. Back when she was regular unicorn Applejack's eye level was up to her horn height, it was the same with Fluttershy as well. When she ascended to an Alicorn, her earth pony magic boosted her up to the same height as her apple friend. When the ordeal with her rage shit happened, she gained an extra inch making her slightly taller than her friend.
Now it was like back when Twilight first met the farmer. Tall, strong and looks like she can buck a tree over.
Another thing did catch her eye or instead felt. It was the slight heat in the room, and it was coming from Applejack.
"Applejack, are you... Ok...?" Twilight asked hesitantly.
"I am sugar cube. I'm still me like you're still you." Applejack responded.
"Oh, wow... Are, hmmm, well." Twilight stammered.
"Yes, I am Twilight, an somehow I've triggered my 'Blood Rage.'" Applejack confirmed.
"Ok just wanted to know. When did this happen Applejack? I remember Fluttershy telling me the other day about how she helped you out with some of your chores and didn't mention anything of this." Twilight said in a panic. Applejack looked a little embarrassed and looked away before she answered.
"I noticed just this morning; I woke up and felt my PJ's felt suddenly tighter than they should have been. I didn't even notice my how tall I'd gotten before my head bumped the top of the door. It wasn't intel I rushed to the bathroom and saw myself to realize that I'd gone into my blood rage form. And I didn't even know I had this or could do one till now." She explained. "That's when I hollered at Applebloom to go fetch yea, do you know what going on?"
Twilight looked over Applejack in wonder and concern. "It may be possible that whatever happened to me is doing the same for you, Applejack. But I won't know for sure right now until I get you in my lab. Let us get you to the castle and find out." Twilight said.
Before Applejack can force a reply, the bathroom door bust opens and in comes a blue and rainbow blur. Said blur then collided with Applejack into a dead stop. "Ow," said the blur. "What the hey did I hit?" Rainbow Dash asked as she rubbed her head.
"Me."
Rainbow looked at the one she hit only to get a face full of large, covered orange breast. His face heats up slightly from the contact as her head tilts up to look at the giant pony. "Apple...jack?"
"Morning sugar cube."
Rainbow looked down all over Applejack with a critical eye. After several seconds of Rainbow began eyeballing her, Applejack was starting to feel a little embarrassed by the way Dash was eyeing her. Rainbow Dash then did a 180 and comely walks out of the bathroom door. Twilight and Applejack looked at each other in both worry and confusion at the unusual behavior of their rainbow hair friend.
"It's so unfair!" They herd Rainbow Dash scream.
That relieved the presser two felt about their Rainbow friend. Rainbow Dash may be one of the most loyal ponies around and the fastest Pegasus in the world. But she hates being the smallest of the group in terms of "assets."
The two soon heard the sound of more hooves climbing the stares, and the sight of the rest of the elements and Starlight reached the open bathroom door. "Twilight. Why is Rainbow Dash outside crying out in shAMMM!" Starlight began to say before she had to look up at Applejack. The other elements were in similar states of shock.
"Goodness!"
"Oh my..."
"Wow wee, Applejack! You're as big as Grandma Ruby Pie! That's amazing!"
Aside from Pinkie excitement, the rest could only stare at Applejack with wide eyes till the apple farmer had enough. "Well, are Y'all got anything else to say or are you girls just fine with just standing there," Applejack bluntly said.
This caused the girls to take in what they were doing and felt a bit bad about staring. Rarity was the next one to speak. "Darling how did this happened? Why I saw you yesterday at your stall in the market just the other day, and you were fine."
"Well, I went to bed last night and woke up like this?" Applejack explained.
"Fluttershy, can you go get Rainbow Dash? I'm going to teleport us to the castle to figure out whats going on." Twilight asked. Fluttershy nodded before going off to retrieve her foul hood friend. She soon returned with the rainbow haired Wonderbolt right where Twilight was ready to teleport everyone. A flash of magic later and the group found themselves in the throne room with the dormant map.
"Ok first things first. Rarity, I still have that extra fabric from when you were doing out Gala dresses from a few months back. Can you make a set of clothes for AJ, so she's not walking around in skintight clothes?" Twilight asked Rarity.
"Of course, dearie. I will not have any friend of mine go about in any clothing that won't fit them," Rarity said before turning to the oversize farmer. "Come along now Applejack. Let us see us see what I can do for you to improve your new physic."
"Thank you, you two," said Applejack before following after the fashion designer. The rest of the elements and Starlight stood around the cutie map table.
"So do you know what's happening to Applejack, Twilight?" Starlight asked her teacher.
"She's going into a blood rage. I'm betting on what's happening to her is the same thing that's happening to me." Twilight explained. "From what I can already gather from examining from my own rage shift. I'm expecting the same results."
"Um, what are the results then?"
"Increase in her magic core, strength more than doubled. With Applejack being an earth pony her body temperature will probably have increased in places where her earth pony magic is used like her legs and arms. What's more is what we've already seen so far. Increase in height, slight changes to her bones to accept her new weight."
"What what's going to Applejack?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"I don't know Dash. Will have to find out when Rarity gets done helping Applejack." Replied Twilight.
The six friends then waited for the two to return. To pass the time, Pinkie volunteer to make breakfast for everyone since no one had eaten anything. After a trip to Twilights kitchen, Pinkie returned with not only a trolley of pancakes but with Spike as well. They then filled the drake over what has happened with Applejack new condition and was surprised by the news. "Wow. So, is she's with Rarity getting a new set of clothes to wear?" Spike asked his friends.
"Yea, knowing Rarity she should be done soon," Twilight answered before taking another bit of her stack of pancakes. Not too long after that, the throne room doors opened up, and the missing two elements walked in. Applejack, instead of wearing her pj's that that looked like they were about to rip under tight stress. Now wore a white loose long sleeve t-shirt and a long length work skirt. But even with her new clothes, she still looked like she could pick up a barn. Spike looked at the new Applejack in awe as they made their way to their separate chairs.
"Wow, Applejack. If wasn't told beforehand, then I wouldn't have believed it. You look like you could knock one of your trees' down with just one punch." Spike expressed. Feeling a little underwhelmed by AJ's new looks.
"Well thank you kindly for that Spike. But I hope this goes away pretty quick. Don't want to cause any problems with this," Applejack as she reached for her glass of Apple juice. Only for the glass cup to shatter when she grips it letting glass and juice stain to pool over the table and surprising most of the occupants at the table.
"Here Applejack." Twilight used her magic to clean up the mess by picking up all the broken pieces of glass and levitating the juice off the map. "This happened to me when I first rage shifted. So from now on till you get used to your new found strength, I recommend you use this for drinking." Twilight then summand a metal cup.
"Thanks, Twilight."
After breakfast, the group dropped their dishes off in the kitchen before walking over to Twilight's laboratory, or the mad scientist lab as Spike, Pinkie, and Rainbow call it. "Ok, Applejack can you sit over here please?" Twilight instructed as she points to the metal chair. Applejack, doing as she was told was then introduced to a series of noninvasive procedures, not unlike you'd see at a doctors office followed by a machine with a strange dish on it. After about ten minutes of testing, Twilight sat down a clipboard with her results before sighing and walking up to her friends.
Twilight was surprised by Pinkie when she grabbed by her collar of her shirt and had tear-filled eyes. "Tell us Doctor Sparkle, will she live!" She over execrated.
"She'll live Pinkie," Twilight deadpanned.
"Yay!" Pinkie yelled happily.
Everyone else just smiled at pinkies antics before Twilight looking to her friends. "Applejack," Twilight said getting the farmers attention. "If I had any doubts before this they are now gone. Based on what happened to me its also happened to you. You are indeed in a Blood Rage form like I'm in a Rage Shift form. The only difference being is that I'm an Alicorn and your an earth pony, but that's where the differences end. Your inert earth pony magic is flowing an increased rate making your blood flow more smoothly from what I can tell which is also keeping your body temperature at a healthy rate and won't cause you any physical damage. From my scans, you have been increased your body mass by thirty-four point eight present. Be sure to eat a little bit more for the next few days to avoid any problems or complications that may follow. Your muscles in your body have also increased, so I watch and control what you are doing so you don't cause any accident's that might lead to hurting someone." She explained.
Applejack felt a little afraid of that last notion. She didn't want to hurt any of her friends or her family from this. Crushing some pony like her sister Applebloom or the other crusaders in her arms when she was just giving them a hug isn't something she wants to think about.
"Now Applejack," Twilight said gaining her friend's attention. "What were the last few things you did yesterday? If this going to keep happening to the rest of us, we need to be ready for it and may be able to prevent it if we can."
Applejack looked down and stared at her hands, thinking about what she did last night before looking back up. "Well after I finished my chores for the day, I showered before helping Granny make dinner. After dinner I cleaned the dishes I went to bed then woke up in the morning to find out I'm like this." She told them.
Twilight thought about what Applejack said, and something clicked, "Applejack do you know what you dreamed about last night?" She asked.
Applejack was about to answer when she blinked in confusion. What was her dream she had last night? Applejack could recall a lot of her dreams very well since they mostly involve the farm, her family and sometimes her friends. Once in awhile, she'd get that hot dream of a being in bed sexy male but what mare doesn't have needs during the heat? This time though she didn't feel anything.
Then she felt it, just one emotion but that all there was. Rage.
Nothing but rage. No words came out of her mouth as she balled up her fist and flexed her muscles, making them bulge under her shirt. Her lips were pulled back into a snarl, showing off her white teeth grinding against each other. The others that gathered around took a step back when a green glow seems to radiate with hatred and rage. They all tried calling out to her, but nothing was seemly getting through to her. By this point, Applejacks body was shaking in furry.
Twilight tried to snap her friend out of it. Reaching out she put a hand her friend's cheek.
Twilights whole body then locked up with a sudden emotion of hatred, making her suck in the air around her as her vision blackens to nothing.