On the Manehattan wing of Geniequestria’s expansion, Trixie went ahead as ordered to gather some ponies in Our Town to assist her in genifying the large city just miles away from the tiny village. Most of the village’s populace stood behind, but Trixie managed to get Sugar Belle, Slalom Slopes, Night Glider, and Piñata Prize to come along. Five genies were certainly more than enough to begin the genification of Manehattan.
She then discussed a good place to begin the mass genifying of one of the largest cities in Equestria by pointing out one of its most popular theaters. Where all kinds of performances from some of the most famous ponies in Equestria can be seen live. It didn’t entirely matter to Trixie whoever was performing, as regardless of who it was. The seats was going to be nearly sold out, providing many ponies to the Geniequalist cause that would quickly overwhelm the entire city.
The Our Town genies went on ahead and blended in the crowd. They also had magically fabricated, but accurate enough tickets to fool any ticket checker. Each of them gets tickets for the balconies of all corners of the auditorium. Trixie on the other hoof, was to arrive backstage. Upstage the performer for a little bit before giving the signal to the others to begin transforming the entire crowd. However, it seems the magician genie won’t get in quite as easy as the other genies will…
The only entrance to the backstage for the targeted auditorium is blocked by a police mare named Copper Top. Her eyes were mostly hidden away from Trixie’s sight by her sunglasses, a neutral expression on her face as she’s determined to make sure no trespassers sneak into the theater looking for a free seat to the show.
Trixie grimaces a bit, though knows she probably should have expected a bit of security. With her new powers, she could simply just teleport past her, or just walk past in an invisible form and she wouldn’t suspect a thing. But it is just one cop, the reason she went invisible with Starlight back in the Crystal Empire is they needed to get to the leaders of the Crystal Empire without catching too much attention from either the many occupied Crystal Guards or the Crystal Pony populace.
So Trixie starts thinking of some sort of lie to get in without sneaking by. If she lets her through, she can thank the officer before she and the others can genify her on the way out. But if she doesn’t believe her… well, even a few seconds in a bottle ought to change her mind… as Starlight would say, all paths lead to genifications. Trixie thinks of what she’ll say and approaches the officer.
“Excuse me, officer. But I need to get in, the show’s starting soon!” Trixie confidently walks towards the backdoor but an outstretched hoof immediately stops her from her front chest.
“Stop raught there, I’m going tah have tah know what fah. Can’t let trespassahs by, and I know everything that Miss Colorah-turah asked fah on stage. And I don’t rah-membah a scantily clad unicorn lahke you being one of them…” Even with the Sunglasses, Trixie could tell the officer was sternly staring her down and the copper's thick Bronclyn accent enhanced her warnings. Trixie also reacts in some interest that the performance they’ll be hijacking will be none other than the famous pop singer Miss Coloratura. Trixie’s well aware of Coloratura, she’s no superfan of the singer. But she does have a few singles from the singer’s discography among her records she has collected in her wagon that she’d listen to again from time-to-time.
Thinking of something plausible Coloratura would want in her show, she speaks up again to the officier “Officer, I am one of Coloratura’s back-up dancers for the show. Now if you will plea-
“LIAH! Colorah-turah said she’d hahve no backup dahncers, I know obviously yah must be some obsessed fan of the singah. But I’m sorreh, if yah wanted to see the show, yah should have bahght a ticket befah the auditorium sold out. Maybe next tahme, but fah now… yah bettah scram or I will call fah backup to farhce you out…” The officer lowers her head, her sunglasses dropping down low enough for Trixie to see the top half of the officer’s eyes. Where a very stern look and a raised eyebrow to indicate the seriousness of her demand.
Trixie grumbles “ Uggggh… A.C.A.B…”
That acronym makes Copper Top twitch an eye a bit “Now hang on, yah aren’t one of those yahng rahbellious folk that think we officers are all bahd, are yah?”
Trixie shakes her head, and shows a devious smirk “Nah, that’s not what that acronym means in my case~”
“Huh? Then what are ya- AAAAHMMMMPpppphhhh!” Copper Top barely sees it coming as Trixie quickly opened up a bottle. Shuffling it right to her nose,immediately sucking in the police mare face-first. Copper’s sunglasses fell off as she was being absorbed, though her officer hat and clothes were sucked in with her. The rest of the mare’s body flails in the air for a short while before coming to a rest as it gets to the mare’s hips.
Copper’s eyes could be seen at the bottom with hearts in them and a pink blush from within the bottle is visible as well. Then Copper’s hindlegs make one last kick that straightens up her hooves before the rest of her and the mare’s pony tail wiggles on its way in.
Trixie closes up the bottle, and smirks. “A.C.A.B. for me means… all. cops. are. bottled~” She laughs to herself, and continues even though she knows Copper can’t actually hear her right now. “Don’t worry officer, I’ll release you soon enough… Perhaps I’ll let you join in once the real fun begins~” She takes the bottle containing the police mare inside, and would leave the bottle just offstage. Before Trixie takes a peek at the large crowd.
The dozens upon dozens of ponies in the audience eagerly awaited the performance that many of whom had paid good money for. Coloratura was one of the most popular pop singers in all of Equestria, and whether a pony was a diehard fan or going to their first concert starring her. They could not wait to see Rara's talents live for all to see.
Trixie herself was eagerly awaiting the appearance of the famous singer, though obviously for a very different reason from the crowd’s. While Trixie holds no ill will towards Coloratura herself, for they had never met. She made the perfect target for her revenge on the Manehattan entertainment industry for rejecting her shows. She seethed whenever she thought about the ponies who told her that her magic act was so amateurish that it wasn't even fit for street performances in the large city. Now that she was a genie, she most certainly had the magic to wow crowds like never thought possible.
Hijacking a Coloratura performance also serves well with helping Trixie's marefriend's goal of spreading the territory of Geniequestria. For once the pop singer is herself a genie, many of her fans might very well follow. Her concerts shall henceforth become part propaganda, part planned out operations for further expansion of Geniequestria. Audience members of her concerts perhaps going out of their way to genify their own friends and family, eventually transforming others they know into genies.
Soon the lights in the auditorium dim and the stage lights turn brighter, the crowd cheered knowing that this meant the show was going to begin any moment now. Trixie rubbed her forehooves in anticipation for the arrival of the singer
The stage lighting grew ambient and atmospheric, setting the fabulous scene for Coloratura's performance. The audience's cheer only loudened as Rara herself walked out onto the stage, her outfit glimmering gorgeously beneath the lighting's glow. A vast sea of spectators, patrons of the arts and casual attendees alike. From those who were connoisseurs of music in all its fine forms, to those who saw this event as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. From smiles that tastefully expected great things as per usual, to smiles that beamed from utter excitement.
"Thank you, everypony!" said the showy mare, as the finest Manehatten magic began conjuring effects to compliment her singing. And her voice resonated smoothly, beautifully, across the audience. With slow motions of her hooves and smooth swaying of her flank, her movements caught the hearts of her many patrons as surely as her music... Little did she know just how captive her audience was soon destined to be.
As the performance began in earnest, Trixie found herself from behind the backstage curtains astounded by the performance. Briefly forgetting what she came here to do. Though once she realizes she's being distracted, she shakes her head. She definitely understood now why Manehattan holds Coloratura in such high regard, and as much as it hurts her pride, why her shows before could not hope to ever compete with such performances.
Still, no time like the present to begin Trixie's dramatic entrance. She decides to not pop in right away, instead she starts filling the stage with a pink fog of smoke that slowly flows across the stage as Coloratura finishes her first song.
"Thank you, thank you!" said Coloratura, bowing with elegance and grace, though the proud smile on her face was hardly subdued. With the cheer that flew up from the crowd, no wonder she allowed herself the pride of a song well sung. But as she lifted her gaze to look out again at them all, and to ready her next song, the crowd went from cheering to gasping with excited curiosity. Not only was she not quite ready for the next song just yet, but this wasn't the effects she had planned for this song. She blinked before going deep into thought in wondering who or what was causing this. It was not long before she had her answer, as the glistening pink smoke drifted dreamily all across the stage and around her.
She gasped. "W-What's this? I don't remember there being effects like this during the setlist..." she muttered quietly. "They're laying it on pretty thick, too. Oh no, I hope somebody new isn't manning the smoke machines and messing them around...!" But as she looked around for any sign of a stagehand, she caught sight of a silhouetted figure... the approaching figure of a blue unicorn.
Trixie confidently walks up on stage with a showboating grin, the crowds gasp, as there was no mention of any special guests for this concert, not to mention they've never seen this pony before. So they're not sure just what it's in store for this next song.
The showboat genie expresses an infectious and smug grin as she prepares to introduce herself "Grrrrreeeeetings, fillies and gentlecolts! I am none other than the GREAT and POWERFUL Trrrrrriiiixie! You may somehow not know who I am, but what you are about to see... will change your entire life! But first... a word with you please, Miss Coloratura? And quietly, if possible"
The pop singer once again blinks for a short while before responding. "Uh... sure..." Coloratura turns off the microphone so that Trixie's and her whispers wouldn't be heard.
Trixie levitates over a lyric sheet to the singer, it seems to be a copy of a fellow famous singer's song. It was Cloudina Peguilera's Genie in a Vessel. Rara herself wasn't against doing covers, but she wondered what in Celestia is this blue unicorn in fancy garb doing.
Coloratura couldn't do much other than gaze wide-eyed at the intrusion. A frenzied fan trying to leap on-stage would be one thing, but last she knew, such fans typically didn't conjure smoke or know such practiced entrances. "Uhm... pardon me, but…," she began, really not so sure what to say or do! "Did I miss a memo? This, uh - this isn't on my setlist tonight! Did... did my manager send you? No, wait… that can’t be right, I fired my manager..."
There was really only so much one could say in the face of something like this. The crowd, meanwhile, were still quite enamored with the smokey display and appearance of the newcomer. All part of the act, as far as they knew. Coloratura glanced again at the song Trixie provided her, and blinked. "A song about Genies... Why Genies?..."
Trixie thought up of a quick lie. "Pardon the interruption Ms. Coloratura, but Trixie is a representative of the theater you're performing in. I am here on behalf of a personal request of the CEO who had forgotten to submit this particular song request into your setlist before it was too late.
You could say... it's a particular favorite of her's. And she really wanted you to sing a cover for it. At the same time, Trixie offered to provide one-of-a-kind special effects for this very performance! I know it's quite sudden and unorthodox to change up the schedule mid-show, but one little cover song can't hurt. Can it?~" Trixie winked.
Coloratura blinked again, quite baffled with this situation. If it weren't for this Trixie's confidence and sense of certainty, she would have doubted for longer than she did. Alas, she read a little further along the written lyrics... "I see, I see. Well, yes, it's certainly a first! But... Well, I do know the song... I'm sure I could fit it in."
She called over a few stagehands, who were as baffled as the singer herself with the sudden change of schedule, but she explained the situation and the song in question to them. Knowing their craft, they hurried off stage once more in order to prepare the lighting and backing instrumentals accordingly. And with some quick and skilled improvising, the stage was set yet again for Rara's singing...
((To the tune of of Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera))
♫ I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century of lonely nights…
Waiting for somepony… to release me… ♪
♫ You're lickin' your lips and blowing kisses my way
But that don't mean I'm gonna give it away...
Baby, baby, baby… baby, baby, baby… ♪ ♫
The crowd rekindled their excitement, and cheered as they, too, recognised that hit by Cloudina. What an inspired choice for a cover!
♫ Oooo, oooo, ooooo~... ♪ ♫
No more nights spent feeling blue…
♫ Oooo, oooo, ooooo~… ♪ ♫
I wish I was a genie, true!
As the last lyrics of the first verse left Rara's lips, it dawned on her that the lyrics that were on the sheet were different from what she recalled of the original...
Trixie meanwhile, smirked quite smugly the moment the wish had been made. She lifts up a hoof bringing an offstage portable microphone to fly towards her… stopping short of her hooves, she then imbues it with magic, before lifting off the speaker part of the microphone. and then pointing the now open handle towards the pop singer's direction.
Coloratura’s confusion gets the stage workers to insert a brief unplanned instrumental bridge of the song, she turns to Trixie as she walks away for a brief time from her microphone. "Did... you change the lyrics? Huh? Hey, what's--?" And before she could continue, she gasped! A plume of enchanted smoke, thicker and richer than what Trixie conjured across the stage, spilled forth from the microphone and snaked towards her. "Aaaah!? Stay back! Noooo!" She said in shock, fortunately for Trixie far enough from her mic that the crowd did not hear, plus the music was drowning out her pleas. The slithering smoke whirled and twisted like a storm around the musical mare's body...
The smoke enveloped the pop singer on stage and lifted her up into the air, all the crowd could see was a vague silhouette of the singer floating. The smoke also served another purpose in muffling the singer's screams so that the audience would not be aware that this wasn't just part of the show. From inside the smoke clearing, Coloratura was panicking and she only freaked out further as her pony tail stretched its way into the handle of the microphone, and her hindlegs, along with the lower parts of the transparent part of her dress were on their way there too.
Coloratura tried to thrash and squirm, desperate to escape the magical bind she found herself in. "Please! What are you doing to me!? Who are you!? Stop!!" Try as she might, her struggling could not prevent her lower half from drawing further and further towards the handle, followed by the wavering length of her dress. She could feel it all, the supernatural stretching of her body, flowing and funneling into the microphone. "There has t-to be some kind of m-mistake.... UUHH!?! Mmmhh!!" A blush spread across her face as a pulse of pleasure rippled through her, strongest in the parts of her that were funneling into the mic. This felt... strange. As sparkles and shimmers whirled and whisked around her body, her mind raced desperately.
As Coloratura was now feeling the more pleasurable parts of the transformation, Trixie took the opportunity to bring the stage mic close enough to pick up the pop singer's voice. Knowing full well that the audience would hear nothing but the sheer pleasure that Coloratura was feeling. No longer was the pop singer panicking from within. The crowd see what seemed to be her... shadow (?) flailing and stretching in ways that didn't seem possible. Though the audience thought the flailing was simply a form of dance, and the silhouette seemingly getting stretched towards the microphone was actually just some kind of clever shadow stage trickery.
The audience clapped and cheered for what they thought were simply very impressive special effects. As Trixie had already announced that what she brought was "one of a kind", and this was a case where she could back up such a boast. Coloratura's movement slowed as she was feeling the full force of the magic welling up inside her.
One of Coloratura's biggest hits was called The Magic Inside, a song that made its debut when Applejack had helped her the last time she was in Ponyville. And while everypony certainly has some form of magic inside of them both literally and figuratively... this felt like the magic was truly overwhelming not just her entire body, but also down to her very soul. It's like her entire being was singing to her, and somehow gave her all the chills that many choruses of her songs bring to an entire audience of ponies all at once.
The crowd watched with astounded eyes, glinting with awe as the spectacle on stage unwound before them. From within the smoke, Coloratura's hooves wrapped around her body like a tornado that gave her an involuntary, but pleasant self-massage on every inch of her elongated transforming body
From outside of the whirling and shimmering smoke, the crowd could only see Coloratura's shadow as it swayed and swished, its lower-half seeming to stretch and siphon downward into... something. And as Trixie so deviously rose her mic to the pop pony's mouth, the sound that filled the whole area could not be ignored... "OooooOOooOOOhhhh~!!" Sheer, lustrous pleasure. Her shadow sank deeper, its chest, forelegs, and head shrinking downward as if sucked in by something. And indeed, a haze of delight and desire flushed across the famed Rara's face, joining her deep blush.
"What is... Oooohhh, what.. is.. this~?" she said, in intense, moan-strewn breaths. And as moments passed, she lidded her eyes as her head followed her forelegs and chest into the handle of the mic! Coloratura's wish, whether intended or not, was about to come true...
Coloratura's moaning echoed throughout the entire auditorium, both stallions and mares alike blushing from the obvious sheer pleasure the pop star was feeling. They didn't know if this show was suddenly becoming a little more risque then they were expecting.
Meanwhile, Trixie closes up the microphone clearly satisfied with herself as the final bits of smoke are funneled into the vessel along with Rara herself. The crowd is stunned seeing that Coloratura seems to have disappeared. The crowd curious if this was just some spectacular magic trick.
Trixie lifts up her head and confidently faces her audience from center stage "Trixie bets all of you are wondering where our dear Coloratura is now, fear not, for this is no mere disappearing act... you are not just going to see where Ms. Coloratura went to... but you shall see what. she. has. BECOME!" Trixie triumphantly rears on her hindlegs and lifts both of her forehooves up in the air as she once again takes off the microphone's speaker as she telekinetically lifts the microphone above her to release the now genified pop star.
For a moment, the crowd was silent... They watched in amazement and anticipation both, utterly unsure what to expect. Although perhaps their idol's lyrics ought to have been a clue. As Trixie held the mic aloft, it slowly stirred...
The speaker was removed. And as ponies in their hundreds observed, a new rush of shimmering aquamarine smoke poured out with dark indigo and opal sparks popping everywhere around the stage. It rose and drifted fabulously up from the microphone the unicorn held, and from it the upper-half of Coloratuna's body solidly took shape! However, her outfit enjoyed some changes... Glorious golden cuffs were fastened tight around her forehooves, and a gorgeous exotic veil as transparent as her dress had been hung over her face. Her eyes were lidded shut, and her expression was a thing of raw, arousing pleasure. Her hips swayed smoothly, surely drawing every eye to their true beauty...
However... There came no hindlegs nor pony tail from the mic. Instead, a flowing and magnificent tail of a seamless, pristine light aquamarine color. legless, kneeless, hoofless! "Mmmmmmhh... A-hehehe~" came her melodic voice "Ohhhh... Who has summoned...."
She danced in the air, truly getting into the groove of things! She spread her forelegs wide, threw back her head, and gave her transformed hips and flank such a sensational sway! "...the GENIE OF THE STAGE~?”
The crowd was astounded, if they thought the smoke special effects were something special. They were absolutely flabbergasted by how oddly... realistic it was? Many in the crowd questioned themselves on the idea of anything about being a genie could be realistic, the smoke and sparks could very well have been done by stagehands. But it was the tail that got everypony watching puzzled, the shading of her tail, the flowy movements, and there was no strange oddity where on one side it looked off. The tail looked just as 3-dimensional as Coloratura herself. Some pay attention to the singer's hips looking for any sign that her hindlegs are just really cleverly hidden but it seems even from her hips down there's no way they could have hidden her lower half like that.
As if she was flourishing this further, Coloratura flies around the stage, making her tail ever longer and making loops that impress even the pegasi watching the show. The only thing the audience was thinking, that whoever this Trixie pony was. She was the greatest special effects master they had ever seen, everything looked seamless. Many wondered how they had never heard of such a talented stage performer. The sheer thought of how much this must be bringing Trixie more fans then she could have dreamed of fills her with pride. Though she knows these ponies still came to see Coloratura, as much as she loved the attention. She felt generous enough to give the singer back her center stage. Trixie throws the stage mic up to where the pop singer is floating. As the singer continues her cover of Cloudina's song, now as a fully fledged genie.
Coloratura swiftly grabbed the mic as Trixie tossed it upwards, and with such a confident smirk, she continued her magical, dreamlike soaring over the audience. Their eyes lay fixed on her, as she continued to sing the lyrics of the famous song.
♫ If you wanna be with me... Baby, there's a price to pay ♪
I'm a genie in a vessel. You gotta rub me the right way~ ♪ ♫
♫ If you wanna be with me, I can make your wish come true... ♪
You gotta make a big impression. Gotta like what you do!~ ♪ ♫
The crowd cheers as it reaches a brief instrumental break in the song.
♫ I'm a genie in a vessel, baby
Gotta rub me the right way, honey ♪ ♫
♫I'm a genie in a vessel, baby
Come come, come on in and let me out~ ♪ ♫
Her smile was even more inviting than before, if that were possible, and her winks got so many hearts fluttering among the crowd as she transitions to the 2nd verse.
♫ The music's fading and the lights down low.
Just one more dance and then we're good to go ♪
Waiting for somepony... who needs me... ♪
♫ Hormones racing at the speed of light
But that don't mean it's gotta be tonight
Baby, baby, baby… baby, baby, baby… ♪ ♫
♫ Oooo, oooo, ooooo~… ♪ ♫
Gotta rub me the right way, honey
♫ Oooo, oooo, ooooo~… ♪ ♫
Come come, come on and let me out
As she got to the chorus she thought of a way to embellish one particular line, as if whatever changed her inspired a little wordsmithing~
♫ If you wanna be with me... Baby, there's a price to pay ♪
I'm a genie in a vessel. You gotta rub me the right way ♪ ♫
If you wanna be with me, I can make your wish come true... ♪
Just 1 wish, come say it loud... You can ALL be GENIES TOO~! ♪ ♫
Her hips moved in a sensational, sexy swish back to back as she finished the end of the chorus. Trixie meanwhile fires off a sort of magical firework from her horn, it was the signal the other genies were waiting for. The four Our Town genies jump down gracefully from the balconies from all four corners of the auditorium. The crowd gasped at the unexpected guests, though they were somewhat calmed seeing them have similar attire to Trixie and Coloratura. Making them believe it was just another part of the show.
Each of the 4 pop in dozens upon dozens of vessels and aim them towards nearby audience members. They also strategically place themselves in front of any potential exits for any audience members that may try to escape. Meanwhile, Trixie got on working on genifying all the stage workers whereas Coloratura poofed up a vessel for each and everyone of the ponies in the front row. Coloratura knew that those in the frontmost rows paid the most for this concert, she figured they shall have the reward of being genified by the Genie of the Stage herself.
Coloratura faced her audience, who were now split between immersion and puzzlement. Some, it seemed, noticed this was quite unlike what the show advertised, and expressed magic unlike the songstress's typical sort. As the Genie of the Stage folded her arms, bound beautifully to her vessel, her knowing smile was clear before them all... "Now, ladies and gentlecolts! I hope you're all ready for the most wonderful evening you'll ever experience! A night to remember, for all your lives! Or, rather, for all time~!" She raised her forehoof, and the countless vessels undid their spouts. Light glowed promisingly from within them, and among the front row, the assembled ponies gasped and went wide-eyed as light and magic rushed around their bodies! Slowly, smoothly, they started to draw into the vessels, inspiring greater gasps from all the crowd!
Initially, screams of fear and uncertainty fill the entire concert. Every mare and stallion bewildered as they're unable to escape the magical grip of the vessels, and the absolutely freaky sight of their bodies being stretched and spaghettified to fit inside their soon-to-be vessels. Some went in headfirst, any sounds they could have made drowned out by those who were targeted by their pony tails and/or hindlegs first. In mere moments though, as if all in sync. Everyone of the audience members have their hindhooves touch their vessel's spouts at the same time, the screams of terror fading away nearly instantaneously Just as Rara felt on-stage as she was transformed. They too felt the rush of pleasure overtaking them altogether…
While the crowd was being transformed, the last of the stage workers were frantically looking for an exit. “I really wish we had security in here right now!”
Trixie then poofs up straight next to them having heard that wish. “Security, you say? Well I know who might just be able to provide that for ya~'' Trixie levitates the bottle she left just off-stage towards her and lifts up the top, a swirling mass of grayish-pink smoke and orange sparks flows from the bottle, and out rises the genified form of Copper Top who fades in with a satisfied determined smile.
Initially, the appearance of the officer actually gives the stage workers hope. “Officer Copper Top! If you’re a genie too… maybe you can stop them! Quick! Arrest them!” They approach the floating officer with pleas. The police genie looks over to Trixie for a short while, winking to the magician. Before popping hoof cuffs out of thin air… and then snapping them shut over the remaining stage workers forehooves.
“AHHH, OFFICER?! WE’RE NOT THE GENIES!” They reacted in a panic.
“Yah think I dahn't know that? Baht vahry soon yah will be~” The workers barely have any time to react before their bound hooves start being absorbed into the cuffs followed by their heads as each and every one of them are drawn into them. The entrance to these vessels being on some sort of inner-ring on the cuffs Just like the audience members, their muffled screams would fade into coos and moans.
Trixie raises an eyebrow, and a satisfied grin as she looks up towards Copper Top: “Well done, Officer~” The officer just smiles and salutes Trixie after a job well done, doing her part for the genie cause.
Back on the stage… Coloratura watched the transforming audience, her glee only growing as she beheld it all. Though the full nature of geniekind was not yet known to her, something deep inside told her how marvelous, how right, this was. Excitement and satisfaction welled within her as she watched her audience smoothly transform, and her geniefied hips gave a slow, seductive sway as if by instinct.
"Yes... Ohhh, yes, my darling crowd. Soar into this novel new world with me~" she spoke with passion. Screams and cries silenced, as if a hushing wind swept over them all. Cooing, gasping, moans of pleasure then filled the air, as ponies of all sorts underwent the wonderful change into genies! Pulled, sucked, drawn deep into their vessels, dreamy smiles and blushing faces following their stretched and siphoned bodies. Every. Last. One of them.
"Quite... a spectacle, isn't it?~" Trixie slightly teased as she returned from backstage to watch the show, knowing that's the name of a song of Coloratura's. The magician genie had already seen a mass genification that was even bigger than this over in the Crystal Empire. But it was no less of an exciting moment to witness ponies learning for the first time the joys of becoming and being genies. The four Our Town Genies giving satisfied nods, Night Glider and Pinata Prize even sneaking in a good kiss as the pleasurable moans of dozens upon dozens of ponies blare in the background. The pleasurable moans of the audience then start fading into silence as all of them are sealed tight within their vessels.
Rara's eyes glimmered with allure, holding back a squeal of delight as all those ponies were drawn into their vessels. The lustrous moaning too began to silence, as more and more were sucked entirely into their new eternal dwellings. Drawn and driven by pleasure, the likes of which they had never known. The Genie of the Stage gave a quiet huff, face blushing bright, and her own trembling excitement only grew as she saw Night Glider and Pinata Prize share a seductive, erotic kiss...
Trixie again spoke to the famous singer "Nothing should provide more razzle dazzle then letting them all out at once!~"
"Oh... Oh, yes. Such razzle dazzle indeed! What more could one wish for?~" she said, with a wink to Trixie. "Now... Let's let them emerge...!" she said, driven purely to the genie cause!
Trixie, Coloratura, and all the Our Town Genies collectively focus their magic on every stopper in the concert hall. It only takes seconds before the whole auditorium is alight with the sparkles and smoke that bore the colors of each and every pony who attended the performance. Satisfied signs and chatter between the newly genified ponies could be heard. The 4 Our Town genies teleport onto the stage. They all give a bow altogether with the pop singer, a roar of applause and cheering from the now entirely genified audience erupts. "
Coloratura looked out over her audience. For a moment, she could not find the words for what she saw. It was simply astounding... "This is what we are..." she whispered, grinning at the sight of all those new genies, exploring their transformed selves, applauding loudly, smiling with glee at the new pleasure that greeted them.
Trixie tosses up another microphone to the Genie of the Stage. "You ready for the encore finale, Miss Coloratura?~
Nodding, she took the microphone and spoke, "Well everyone! I hope you're as happy as I am with tonight's fare! You might have guessed by now, but what we've experienced... Well, that wasn't an act! Nor was it planned! But I'm sure you'll agree what a WONDERFUL twist it was~!" Her audience cheered once more, clad in their exotic garb and bound beautifully to their many vessels! And with that, Coloratura began her closing song, a take on Genie in a Vessel, sung with all the passion and heart she could muster!
As Coloratura hit the first chorus, the entire audience added some extra flavor by singing along with her.
♫ If you wanna be with me, I can make your wish come true ♪
Just come and set me free, baby. And I'll be with you ♪ ♫
♫ I'm a genie in a vessel, baby
Come come, come on and let me out~♪ ♫
Trixie, Copper Top, and the Our Town genies provide the roles of backup dancers for this encore performance. Every genie in the concert hall would dance the night away... before making plans of spreading this pleasure to others they knew in the city...
As soon as the train had reached the outskirts of Our Town, Twilight and her friends hightailed it towards the small village. Hoping to have either gotten there before Starlight, or at least able to confront and defeat Starlight and Trixie the moment they arrive.
But once they've seen what's become of the villagers once they’ve reached the very front of the village. They can do nothing but gasp all at once.
“No! We’re too late!” Twilight exclaimed as she looked around and saw that every single villager living here had been given similar attire to what Starlight had. Not to mention right next to them, were vessels color-coded on the pony nearest to them. Some of them even tailed to their vessels. Unfortunately, for the Elements of Harmony... Starlight had beaten them to Our Town, and seems to have already left to wherever she went to next.
“Curses! Should have known our trains are still too slow! Has Equestria considered looking into building much faster locomotives, Twilight?” Rainbow Dash grumped about the limits of current Equestria travel. Unfortunately for the speedy pegasus, technology has not advanced enough to get trains anywhere near the speed of the fastest flying pegasi.
Twilight sighed “Rainbow, even if our trains could go at supersonic speeds… Starlight and Trixie are fully capable of just quickly teleporting somewhere else. This is an unprecedented situation that speed alone isn’t going to fix. Starlight’s just unfortunately as cunning as she is powerful… it’s going to be hard to find an opportunity to get her with the elements… I bet she was fully aware we were going to go after her… But for now, maybe we can at least undo the damage done to the villagers in Our Town”
All six of them go further into the town until a pink poof pops in front of them which makes some of them yelp. It’s the newly genified Sugar Belle.
“Greetings, Princess Twilight and friends!” Sugar Belle, waves, tilts her head, and smiles even knowing that the six came here to try to stop Starlight and Geniequestria from coming into fruition.
“A huh… Hi… Sugar Belle…” Twilight awkwardly smiles knowing full well she might very well be dealing with some pony now fully on Starlight’s side. “How… are you and the town doing…?”
“Oh, Princess. Me and the other villagers feel just fantastic, better than ever, actually! Starlight and her marefriend Trixie…” Twilight spit takes “Did you just say marefriend?!”.
“Oh! Did you not know about that? Because those two certainly love each other very much already, I could tell!” The Mane 6 just move eyes to each other with confused expressions. Rarity just puts a hoof under her chin and thinks to herself “Wonder if we missed quite a few… spicy moments between the two during their duel, that might have explained this…”
“Ahem… anyway… feel free to continue, Sugar Belle. Sorry for the interruption” Twilight calmly gets the conversation back on track.
“Yes, yes! As I was saying, Starlight and Trixie transformed us all into genies! And it’s the most wonderful feeling in the world!” Twilight just frowns. “…I figure this may be the case, but does the entire rest of the village feel the same way you do?”
“Of course they do! Feel free to ask any pony else in the village, they’ll say much of the same things that I would!” Twilight and others hardly even have to ask, they can tell that every pony else in the village are enjoying it too, just by all their expressions.
Night Glider swoops in to assist Sugar Belle with greeting the Mane 6. “If only we were authorized to bottle you al-“
Pinkie suddenly reacts “AHHHHH THIS WAS A TRAP! THEY’RE GONNA GENIFY U-“
Night Glider quickly flies down and covers Pinkie’s mouth “Whoa whoa whoa, as much as we would have loved to… Starlight herself gave us a strict order not to genify any of you six...”
Twilight blinks multiple times “Wait… really?”
“Yeah… she said something about… having plans for all of you… I don’t know what she’s got in mind. But either way, she didn’t want us to be the ones to put you all in a bottle”
That comes to a relief to most of the 6. “Heh, it would be typical of a villain to let their guard down with us! This just means like every other threat we’ve faced, they’ll end up being too over-confident in themselves at the very end, before we defeat them once and for all, with our rainbow of harmony!” the egotistical pegasus boasts.
“Yeah, ain’t that ah relief. Ah’m not fond o’ the idea o’ living in ah bottle. It may be hard t’ track down Starlight. But if she’s not planning on turning us into genies so quickly. Then eventually we’ll get her, it’s only ah matter o’ time! We don’t have t’ worry about being turned into brainwashed genies that do nothing but Starlight’s bidding! Wouldn’t that be awful! Right, Rarity?” Rarity’s been just looking around at all the seemingly happy villagers nearly the entire time, she didn’t quite pay attention to everything Applejack said. After she doesn’t respond for an awkward amount of time, Applejack nudges Rarity in the shoulder “Rarity, did ya hear me?’
“Oh! Uh… a heh heh heh heh… yeaaaaah… right you are, Applejack!” She awkwardly smiles, only vaguely recalling what Applejack just said. Rarity herself actually has some conflicted feelings that she just can’t shake. A part of her felt… disappointed?
“I too, would have loved the chance to share with all six of you how it feels to be a genie. But for now, Starlight only told us that we’re allowed to perhaps… grant some small wishes for you girls if you’d like!” Sugar Belle suggests to the group. Rainbow puts a hoof to her chin “Wishes, huh?” Though Twilight quickly turns toward the blue pegasus. “Be careful, girls. The way the wishes work from Starlight and the others here, is that the GENIE interprets it however they see fit. It’s not based on how we’d interpret it. At the very least they’ve promised they’re not going to genify us, but who knows what kind of tricks they may pull on us depending on what the wish is…”
Sugar Belle gets a sad look on her face and has her eyes shine like a puppy. “Awwww… you say that as if I’m some kind of evil genie! I’d never interpret a wish that would harm anypony!”
This confuses Rainbow Dash “Huh? But… you ARE on Starlight’s side now… correct?”
Sugar Belle nods “Yep!”
“Then by all intents and purposes… doesn’t that make you an evil genie since she herself is one?” Rainbow giving the baker a suspicious look
“Well… yeah… I know Starlight is still kind of evil…” Sugar looks off to the side bashfully.
“WAIT! You even CONCEDE that Starlight is evil… Yet you’re still on her side?! I thought you were one of the ponies that wasn’t actually fond of Starlight’s rule back when we liberated this town!” The blue pegasus looking absolutely incredulous as she flies straight up to the baker’s face. Sugar Belle just frowns and sweats nervously. Admittedly, not knowing what to say. Then Night Glider swoops in front of Rainbow to get her out of Sugar’s personal space.
“So what if Starlight’s still her evil self, we fully believe she is right that genifying others is in their best interest! It’s true that me, Sugar Belle, and Party Favor were among those that secretly weren’t fond of Starlight’s original rule. But this is an entirely different situation! Instead of our talents being taken away, with every single aspect of our life forced to be totally dull. Getting genified still allows us to keep our talents, interests, and A LOT more then that! There’s a huge difference when Starlight’s charismatic leadership is no longer manipulating us into letting her take our talents, now she’s EMPOWERING us equally in a plan with so much more upside for the average pony! I don’t expect any of you girls to understand, until you’ve truly felt it for yourself!” Night Glider explains to defend her, Sugar Belle, and likely the rest of the village's feelings on the matter.
It’s Applejack who raises an eyebrow and responds back “But it doesn’t sound like Starlight gave ya’ll any choice in the matter. Ya’ll don’t even feel ah tiny bit miffed that she came back just t’ make ya’ll her underlings again? If ya’ll put aside whatever this “feeling” is like. Which fo’ all we know, could just be that ya’ll got brainwashed by Starlight’s magic…”
Sugar Belle and Night Glider can’t really say one thing or the other about whether if they’ve been brainwashed. Though Sugar Belle tries to answer Applejack “If I may say… I… don’t feel like I’ve been brainwashed. I feel like I’m still me, Sugar Belle. Our Town’s friendly neighborhood baker mare”
“We don’t know the extent of the influence genification had on you and the other villagers though. Even if you still feel like you, there’s a chance that the magical influence on the brain from genification is just that specific that it doesn’t override what you were prior to genification. But it does on whatever part of the brain that might of made you object to being genies and/or refuse Starlight’s orders. The fact that you and Night Glider weren’t into Starlight’s rule originally, but are now at the point that you’re rooting for Starlight to take over all of Equestria might hint that there’s at least a little bit of influence on your minds''. Twilight explained to the genie mares, who can only really just rub the back of their heads sheepishly not knowing either way if that’s the case.
Rarity however, suddenly speaks something of a response to Twilight “Um… Twilight, darling… if I may… I believe that Night Glider has a point that Starlight’s new equality goal is a far better plan then her old one. It wouldn’t even take trying to convince others that their marks are useless. Even those perfectly happy with their cutie marks may be… tempted… by being able to do far more then what their talent allows them to do. Which becoming a genie certainly provides an avenue for that''.
The surprising defense from one of the Elements cheers up both Sugar Belle and Night Glider. “Yeah! What Rarity said! Even if Starlight did tell us exactly what she was doing, it’s not like we would have believed her if she tried to explain and ask us first!” Sugar Belle concurring with the fashionista’s statement.
This makes Twilight think a bit. “I… guess you might be right, Rarity. Though why are you defending the genies here?” Rarity’s eyes shift side to side, makes a big sheepish grin. “Eheheheheh… Don’t mind me! I was just… playing devil’s advocate for a moment a heh heh heh…”
Most of the other elements give Rarity a weird look, though Pinkie seems to have noted something too about the villagers. “Yeah uh… Twilight… I actually have something to say too…”. “What is it, Pinkie?”. “Do you remember… when we first came here originally… and how I could tell the smiles on every pony were fake?”.
“I do remember that… do you feel the same kind of feeling with them now?” Twilight asked the mare who knows her smiles, down to having a famous song about them. “That’s just it… I DON’T! This time… it actually DOES feel genuine! I don’t know how! But it does!” The other elements gasp.
If they were truly brainwashed, then why is Pinkie unable to pick up some form of fake smile? “You don’t think… that Starlight’s magic could have been able to manage to make the brainwashing so effective, not even YOU can detect any form of fake happiness… could it?” Rainbow asks of Pinkie Pie.
“I DON’T KNOW! I’ve never come across a situation like this before! On one hoof, even those that were secretly not into Starlight’s rule the first time are somehow on her side now. But on the other hoof… I see no evidence whatsoever that they’re actually NOT genuinely happy at all!”
Night Glider gives the elements a smug face, “Oh, we’re not just genuinely happy. We are GENIE-uinely happy~”. That pun was so groan-worthy both the elements and even the other genies in the village just sigh or facehoof. Night Glider just blinks “Oof, tough crowd”.
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Applejack takes the awkward silence after the joke to get the discussion back on track. “Well… regardless if any brainwashing is involved or not… Ah’m afraid we’re still kind o’ at odds with what ya’ll want. At the very least, ya’ll are not attacking us even knowing that. But ya’ll do know the next thing we’re doing is goin’ after Starlight, right?”
“We know, but we’re not attacking because we know Starlight’s smart enough to avoid a direct confrontation with you girls”. Night Glider smugly responds. Sugar Belle says an addendum “And if we were to attack you, what good would it really do us? We only hope to see you girls as genies too one day, we’re just not allowed to transform you ourselves. We have no intention in fighting or otherwise hurting any of you. While you are at odds with our cause, we don't consider you an enemy. Maybe Starlight feels differently, but even I have to imagine she wants you as allies, eventually.”
Rainbow Dash crosses her hooves in bored disappointment “A villain with minions that don’t even want to fight? Laaaaaaammmmeeeee…” Twilight nudges Rainbow in the shoulder and keeps her teeth clenched as she warns the cocky pegasus “That might be for the best, Rainbow. Even the Alicorn amulet was no match for genie Starlight. You really want to try fighting essentially more than a dozen Starlights at once?!”. Rainbow realizes Twilight has a point, though she’s still rather disgruntled of not being able to do any action to help save the day.
Twilight proceeds to take this opportunity to change the subject and turns toward Sugar Belle and Night Glider “Well um… if I may ask you both… But didn’t you have two stallion friends here before? Any idea where they could have gone?”
“Ah! You’re looking for Piñata Prize and Slalom Slopes! They’re right over there! I can call them over! Pinny and Slala! Poof on over here!” Sugar Belle calls out to a light blue and white mare that the Mane 6 don’t quite immediately recognize.
In two poofs of smokes, two mares appear next to Sugar Belle and Night Glider. “Hello!” Piñata happily greets Twilight and her friends. “Need anything from us?” Slalom asked of the six.
“Uh… Sugar, I think you must have misheard me.. I was specifically thinking of Double Diamond and Party Favor… Plus, these two aren’t even stallions!” Twilight not getting why they called two mares over.
“Yes!” Sugar Belle just bluntly says and smiles with a grin. Twilight just reacts with a confused face.
“I had no idea Party Favor and Double Diamond had fraternal twin sisters! They look just like them! …If they were mares of course, anyway” Fluttershy innocently assumes.
“Oh, we’re not their sisters. Piñata was Party Favor and I was Double Diamond! We’re just mares now with whole new names. thanks to an extra twist added to our genifications!” the white genie mare explained.
All six of the elements just have huge gasps with mouths agape
“STARLIGHT TRANSFORMED YOU BOTH INTO MARES?!” Rainbow loudly exclaimed
Piñata nods quite excitedly “Yep! And not just us! Any stallion in the village are now mares too!” They all look around at the village once more and do notice now more then before that there wasn’t one stallion in town. Some of the mares that they vaguely recall had a similar color scheme as stallions they’ve seen here. But obviously they know now, that those particular mares might have indeed formerly been the stallions they remember. Mares normally outnumbered stallions anyway, but it was still weird to not even see a single one of them.
Twilight wonders something. “Did… all the stallions here wish to be mares before they were suddenly genified?”
“No, we emerged as mares after we were sucked into our vessels as stallions” Slalom responded
“…And you’re ok with that?” Twilight asked further
“I certainly have no issues with it! If Starlight feels like it keeps us more equal, then I’m a-ok with it!” Piñata happily replies, with Slalom just nodding in agreement. All 6 just sort of grimacing that they’re now actually on board with being equalized by Starlight again despite what had happened before.
“That’s not all!” a less familiar voice to the Elements rings out. It’s from what seems to be a grey pegasus with a purple mane and tail, veil and leggings in a similar color the lighter purple color of the tail.
Rainbow is curious who this grey pegasus genie is “Huh, who are you?” The grey mare is actually somewhat heartbroken that Rainbow didn’t recognize her. “Rainbow Dash! How could you not remember me?! I’m your biggest fan!”.
Rainbow rubs the back of her head sheepishly “Uh… aheh heh heh… well… you know... I kind of hear that a lot... There’s so many ponies who claim to be my biggest fan. I might need you to narrow it down by telling me your name. Maybe it’ll ring a bell then!”
“Rainbow Dash! It’s me, Tornado Bolt!” Rainbow starts thinking where she’s heard the name Tornado before… the only pony who comes to mind… is a little grey pegasus filly she’s seen a few times when a crowd was watching her.
“Whoa whoa whoa! You can’t be her… you’re a full grown mare! The Tornado Bolt I know is only a little filly!” The grey mare just shakes her head “That’s because before I was genified, I wished I would be all-grown up from Starlight and Trixie!”
“WHAT?!” Rainbow dash exclaimed
“Additionally, while I tried to escape with the other villagers. I got caught with a bottle by Miss Slalom who was skiing down the hills levitating multiple bottles in tow. When I was released… I also got my CUTIE MARK! I guess it was actually my destiny to be a genie!”
Twilight frowns and whispers to the others “...Or genifications force a destiny on ponies…" Applejack responds “Ah’m happier than ever that Apple Bloom, Sweetie, and Scootaloo already got their cutie marks recently… they might have not resisted being able to wish for a cutie mark”. Twilight has a bit of bad news on that front “Not that it matters, if you’re genified and you already have a mark. It actually CHANGES your mark to be genie-themed… It was only for a little bit, but when she was genifying Trixie in front of us... I noticed that Starlight’s flank had her purple star changed to a lamp.” Applejack frowns “So if ah’m genified, the apples on mah flank may become bottled cider or something like that! Not that ah don’t like cider, but these changed marks just feels wrong t’ me!”
The little filly continues “Oh oh oh, and that’s not all! I didn’t just wish for myself! I wished every filly and colt in Equestria were grown-up too!”
“WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!” This time all 6 exclaim simultaneously
“Are you absolutely sure they granted a wholesale wish that large?!” Twilight immediately ran up to asked the filly-turned-mare
“I guess from what I could see, only myself and the other young ponies in this town became adults for certain.” This prompts Twilight and the others to look around again, noticing that there were no fillies or colts. There were certainly some genie mares they didn’t recognize, but vaguely recall some young ponies in Our Town that had similar colors, just like with the mares who had colors similar to former stallions.
Tornado Bolt continues “But this huge magical shockwave spread out of the town. Plus, Starlight and Trixie fell over as if they were a bit tired once they were done granting the wish. It must have been a really powerful wish for both of them to need a moment to get back up! So it must have worked!”
“Twilight… if that’s true… then Apple Bloom, her friends, and every other little pony in Ponyville have become adult ponies too!” Applejack exclaimed
Rarity and Rainbow Dash gasped “Sweetie Belle!” “Scootaloo!” the two name the CMC member they know most respectively. “Poor Sweetie Belle must be absolutely confused! Twilight, maybe we should go ba-“ Twilight interrupts Rarity’s worries to mention the bigger picture here.
“Focus Rarity, before we go back. We need to stop Starlight first. As long as we can do that, we can find a way to return Sweetie Belle and the other young ponies to normal” Rarity is still worried about Sweetie Belle, but she puts on a determined face for Twilight and knows she’s right. Meanwhile, Applejack starts thinking “Just how are we going t’ find Starlight, though? It’s not like the genies here are gonna help us with that”
Night Glider smugly smiles “Who knows? Maybe the right wish may make us help you~”. Twilight’s skeptical “I’m not su-“ “OH YEAH! We can wish from you to bring Starlight here! I wish Starlight Glimmer was here!” Rainbow Dash brashly making the first wish.
“Rainbow, no!” Twilight exclaims, though it is too late. Though funnily enough Night Glider just chuckles as she charges up her magic and as the elements prepare to get into position to blast Starlight as soon as she gets here. Instead, Night Glider just morphs her body, shrinking her wings until they were completely gone, a horn popping up from her head, her mane and tail turning dark purple, with her coat fading into a much lighter purple. The only thing that didn’t change to look like Starlight, was the color of Night Glider’s veil, leggings, and her genie mark remained the same. “Hi! I’m Starlight!” Then Slalom Slopes does the same thing “No, I’M Starlight!” Sugar Belle and Piñata Prize shift into Starlight’s shape next “We’re Starlights too!” Soon, the entire rest of the village all turned themselves into Starlight Glimmer.
The only way you could tell who’s who, is by the color of the veils & leggings, and the genie marks remaining the same, or if the pony obviously couldn’t hide their personality well enough to act like Starlight. Rainbow’s wish didn’t bring Starlight here, it only allowed the village to have some fun and have a good laugh at the elements. Rainbow Dash just rolls her eyes “Haha, very funny…” The village then shifts back to being themselves again once they were felt like they had their fun messing with the Elements. Night Glider just still chuckling herself a bit “Want to try something else?~”
“See? The genies won’t grant it on how we interpret a wish, you have to be careful! And even if you do word a wish with no other room for interpretation, these genies are not bound to that very word. Otherwise, this would be as easy as just wishing all the genies free or wishing Starlight was petrified in stone. if they couldn’t refuse a wish. We’d have to do something like… trick them somehow where even their interpretation of the wish may help us in a way they don’t realize” This makes all the others look deep in thought for something that might go in their favor. Eventually, it’s Fluttershy who’s thought of something. She approaches close to Twilight to whisper what she’s going to do. And Twilight nods, whispering back to her that it may just work.
Fluttershy looks on over to the baker in town “Sugar Belle, I have a wish that’s only for you!” Sugar Belle claps her hooves excitedly “If it’s for one of my delicious muffins, you don’t necessarily have to wish for it!” She poofs up some baking gloves and a tray of muffins. “I thank you for the offer, but no, it’s not for a muffin.” Sugar Belle looks a little disappointed “Awww… well, I’ll just leave these on this table in case any of you change your minds”. She lays them down and poofs the gloves away before getting ready to hear what Fluttershy wants to wish for. “Now what is your wish?”
“Sugar Belle, I wish… you’d stand still… just for a minute or two at least” Sugar Belle raises an eyebrow wondering if she should try that. Eventually though, she just shrugs and says “Well, I don’t see why not? It is a little bit strange but I guess this is a small wish that’s no big deal” Sugar Belle charges up her horn and makes herself quite still. “This what you wanted?”. Fluttershy nods “Thank you, Sugar Belle!” And in that next moment, the elements charge the elements to life. The six mares floating in the air. Eyes glow white until the synchronized connection between the elements reach full power and unleash a giant and fast rainbow that goes up in the air and crashes down on the very still baker mare. When the dust has settled, the genies in the village just looked in awe at the sight of the use of the elements. On the place where Sugar Belle stood, was Sugar Belle… back to her regular self.
Twilight and all her friends smile seeing that the elements have worked and gotten Sugar Belle out of genie hood. “HAHAAAAAA, YES!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
Having just been blasted by the elements, Sugar Belle was a bit woozy as she wobbled a bit, she looks at her hooves noticing her attire has disappeared without a trace “W-w-w-what d-d-did y-you do?”
Rainbow Dash flies on over lying on her back in the air “Just saving you from an eternally brainwashed life of course. No need to thank us! Just doing our jo-”
“Thank you? Thank you?! THANK YOU?! NO! THIS. IS. AWFUL!” The baker mare with shrunken irises and a large frown exclaimed and yelled right into Rainbow Dash's face.
Twilight and the others just gasp that Sugar Belle actually WAS NOT happy at getting freed. “I DIDN’T WANT TO BE FREED! IT FELT SO GOOD! I.. I.. I… I… NIGHT GLIDER! I WISH I WAS A GENIE AGAIN!”
At that, the bearers of the elements just have their mouths as agape as they can be. Night Glider is still in a bit of a shock herself after the element blast but after she shakes her head, and realizes what Sugar Belle just said. She poofs up Sugar Belle’s vessel into her hooves ”You got it, Sugar! It’ll be ok, your vessel’s unchanged! On the bright side of this, you get to go through the genification process all over again~”
The genie villagers were admittedly freaked out at first of Sugar Belle’s un-genification. But as soon as Sugar Belle wished she was a genie again. The sound of many relieved ponies could be heard, knowing that even if the elements do blast them. They can get one of the others to genify them again. There’s actually not much point in the elements trying to get them all. The genies would have to purposefully stick in one spot for that rainbow to get them all. And if they’re aware the elements are trying to get them. They have the power to individually evade the blast just as Starlight had earlier.
Night Glider opens the top to Sugar’s vessel and soon Sugar’s tail and hindlegs smoothly warp into the vessel. As Night Glider mentioned, she gets to feel what it’s like to become a genie all over again, she’s dragged along the ground by her vessel as her face deeply flushes pink.
“Haaaaaaaa... yeesssssss… that’s the ticket… OooooOOOOooooOOoo~” Sugar Belle shivering in intense pleasure, with her eyes drifting upward. Deep and loud moans are all Sugar Belle manages to do as her neck, head, and then her face warped into the vessel. Night Glider closing the top on Sugar Belle.
She then opens the top not too long after, and out comes Sugar Belle. Once more, a genie. The first time ever that the use of the elements did not immediately solve the issue for Twilight and her friends. Rarity had closely watched Suger Belle get re-genified too, she tries to hide most of her face with her hooves but she was deeply blushing at the sight that no doubt some of it was still visible outside her hooves. Though the others were too flabbergasted that Sugar Belle just went up and wished herself back into a genie.
“Twilight… What… just happened?” Rainbow in complete disbelief.
“…Genification must have an even worse effect on the mind than we thought. Not only does it bring them to Starlight’s side… it brings some form of ADDICTION… that not even the Elements can weed out! This is terrible! Even if eventually we manage to get every pony here un-genified, they’ll all need a long time in THERAPY just to fix it!”
“Oh Celestia… Twilight… What… do ya suppose we do? Still try t' ungenify ponies here?” Applejack asked. At that suggestion, Night Glider rushes into Applejack’s face “Now hold on, no more trying to ungenify us… if you try to ungenify any more of us, including Sugar Belle again… the rest of us will us will go to Ponyville… and genify all your friends and family there…”
All six of the non-genie mares gasp.
“Starlight said we can’t genify any of you six, but every pony else is fair game for us if we want to! So go ahead, I’m sure we’d be eager to get the ball rolling for Starlight in Ponyville early if we need to~ Otherwise… leave us ALONE!”
Every one of the elements but Twilight grimace at the ultimatum laid down at their hooves. Twilight’s just looking down and thinking, the others look at the purple alicorn wondering what she’s thinking about. “…Night Glider, we won’t ungenify any of the villagers here anymore… First, there’s no point as we just saw… plus… even if we did somehow turn you all back at once… we’d be leaving you all in really bad mental states. As much as we’d like to have you on our side, I just can’t morally go through with that…”
“…Twilight, are ya sure? Ah agree that leaving them all like what Sugar Belle was like before she was re-genified, doesn’t sound like the right thing t’ do… but what if this is the only way t’ do it?” Applejack sadly inquired. “…Even If that is the only way. I don’t feel like we’d be the heroes anymore. Even if this is some heavy brainwashing, is it right to try to fix them if it’ll only leave them broken and unhappy?” Twilight drops her head low.
There’s a silence that lasts a long time as this is a dilemma Twilight and her friends were not prepared to have to deal with. Suddenly, it’s Rainbow Dash who has an idea “Say… Twilight… maybe… it’s something like… Starlight herself... or at least her lamp... are the source of all these brain wishy washy feelings, and un-genifying her could free the other genies of their addiction towards being a genie!” The idea of this perks Twilight up, that sounds plausible enough to her. Especially since blasting the vessel might undo Starlight’s own corruption and more. “Oh my gosh! Rainbow Dash! You’re a genius! That might be exactly what we need to do!” Twilight grabs Rainbow Dash into a big, tight hug “Aghhhh! Appreciate the praise, Twilight… but I think the earth pony strength part of your Alicorn traits is crushing me!” Twilight lets go before grinning sheepishly “Heh, heh… Sorry”
“But if that’s how we solve all this, then that just brings us back t’ how are we going to manage to find Starlight or at least her vessel?” Applejack getting the group to start thinking again. “Well, again wishing isn’t going to work for us. The genies will probably just do something like putting us in a snow globe version of whatever location we choose temporarily.” Night Glider grumbles to herself “Agh, why does the Princess have to be so smart… I was looking forward to doing that…”
I do have a guess that Starlight’s going to go to a place with a large population. The Crystal Empire is the closest, though there’s also the possibility that’s where Starlight wants us to think she went to. She could of easily gone to the east towards Manehattan instead. Or given they can teleport long distances, they could even have chosen the whole other side of the country just to throw us all off! I might be overthinking this… but it’s something Starlight might do… maybe…” Even Twilight’s kind of second guessing herself with the situation they’re in.
“WAIT! AAAAAAAAAAH WHAT IF STARLIGHT’S ACTUALLY IN PONYVILLE RIGHT NOW?!” Pinkie freaks out and makes the others gasp at the possibility. Pinkie also absent-mindedly forgets what’s around them as the situation turns dire “I WISH WE WERE BACK IN PONYVILLE SO WE COULD CHECK REAL QUICK!” She then covers her mouth realizing the first two words she just said. “Pinkie, no!” Twilight exclaimed. Meanwhile the entire village just gives the elements a smug smile. They know Starlight isn’t going to Ponyville yet, so this is just the perfect opportunity to make sure the elements can’t get to Starlight before she’s likely gotten the Crystal Empire taken care of.
The entire village of our town simultaneously point a hoof towards Twilight and the others and says “Your wish… is our command~”
“PINKIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” Rainbow Dash exclaims before all the elements are all blasted with genie magic.
Within moments, they all drop with a thud back in the middle of Ponyville, not far from the front door of Twilight’s castle. Dazed for a little bit, they slowly get up. “Well, Pinkie Pie… Ah hope somehow ya’ll were right that Starlight is here…” Pinkie looks around town. But Ponyville seems relatively normal, if something was happening. There’d likely be some screaming and certainly some running ponies. There were ponies being cautious, but that was more of a an effect of keeping a watch for the Storm King’s invasion. Not the current genie mess that’s been escalating. “…Doesn’t look like it, Applejack'' Pinkie Pie lowers her head sadly.
"I'm sorry girls, after seeing just how forced upon genification is on ponies... to the point that ungenifying them leaves them so unhappy... I was too scared that maybe Starlight would pick Ponyville first just to be that vindictive towards us as to get our hometown first immediately after Our Town!" Hearing that they understand Pinkie's desperation given they have all been thinking of just how awful this situation is.
“We understand why you did that Pinkie… but still... now we have to ride the slow train back…” Rainbow Dash crossed her hooves. Twilight shakes her head sadly “There’d be no point to that, Rainbow. By the time we get back to Our Town… the Storm King will have Cloudsdale overrun… and whichever place Starlight went to is likely to already be fully genified. I’m afraid… that we’re likely going to have to just remain here… and wait to see which one… comes to us first…”
Twilight’s friends gulp. Things have not gotten any better, in fact the more they’ve delved deeper in evaluating the situation they’re in, the worse it’s gotten. Besides the impending invasion from the Storm King, there is Starlight Glimmer currently transforming ponies into genies. And the elements are just about useless on any of those she’s already transformed, as they’ll just wish from another genie to get turned back. They’ve come up with a hypothesis that perhaps blasting both Starlight and her vessel with the elements might work. But that in itself is looking to be a tall task. They have no choice but to take a defensive position, as Pinkie’s wish had sent them too far away to be able to get to either Cloudsdale or wherever Starlight might have gone in time.
Suddenly, off in the distance they hear three screams as well, it gave them some hope that maybe they had spoken too soon that Starlight wasn’t here and Pinkie actually did the right thing. They look towards where the screams are coming from, with them now calling out for them with two ponies yelling “SIIIIIIIIIIIS” and one yelling “RAINBOW DAAAAAAAAAAASH. “…Sweetie Belle?!” “Apple Bloom?! “Scootaloo?!” Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow all assume and are in fact correct that it was the three cutie mark crusaders. But they certainly looked different, as they were now just as tall and looked as grown-up as all the Elements were.
All six of them gasp at the sight of the now aged-up cutie mark crusaders...
