A Short Cut

By Andrew J. Talon

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Luna blinked and yawned. She blinked the sleep from her eyes and slowly her head rose as the sun began to slip behind the mountains. She shook her head and emerged from under her covers. She trotted across her chambers to the well apportioned bathroom to begin her nightly ritual.

She entered it, picked up her toothbrush, and looked into the mirror. Her toothbrush fell as did her jaw.

"GYAH!" She cried.

"Mm? Something wrong, dear Sister?" Princess Celestia asked, poking her head inside. Her eyebrows rose, and she raised a hoof to cover her mouth. "Mmph..."

"Sister! Laugh, and I will end you!" Luna snarled from underneath what looked like a scale, fuzzy model of the universe. It took a moment for Celestia to realize it was her mane, glowing brightly.

"Mmmph... Hehehehe...!" She giggled. "Sorry Luna, but you really do look a fright! How did it happen?"

"I don't know!" Luna said, frustrated. "All I remember is examining the Elements of Harmony last night for my studies, and when I woke up I was... Was... POOFY!"

"Hmmm," Celestia said. "It's possible you just got exposed to a bit of residual magical energy from them. And given your hair is magical in nature..."

"Oh lovely, I've become a magiron absorber," Luna grumbled as she fished out her abacus and began doing calculations. "I can't go out like THIS! I'd need a thaumaturgy purge equal to five hundred ganondorfs!"

"Well, perhaps you could offset the radiation somewhat?" Celestia suggested. "That might make it dissipate faster."

"Yes, but it would require others who are linked to the Elements of Harmony, and the only ones who are... Are..." Luna stared at Celestia. "Sister, why are you grinning?"

"Ahhhh! My hair!" Twilight cried, her mane now arranged in so many different directions it could qualify as a bird's nest. "No, what's causing this, get down!"

"AH! Behave, behave!" Rainbow Dash cried, flying around as her mane and tail stood on end and crackled with lightning. "Rarity, I need your girly hair products NOW!"

"YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN, DARLING!" Rarity screamed, literally fighting off her coiffure with a pair of scissors and a curling iron. "Back, back! I am your mistress, OBEY!"

Applejack looked at herself in a mirror in dread. "Ah... Ah'm... Curlier than the hair on a sheep!" She groaned.

"THAT'S where they went!" Pinkie Pie cried, her hair perfectly flat and smooth. She pounced on the Apple farmer. "Give them back NOW!"

"AH! PINKIE, WHAT IN TARNATION-?!"

Fluttershy, for her part, was now a big, pink, puffy cottonball of a pony unable to move.

"Help," Fluttershy whimpered. "If you please...?"

Luna stared down at Ponyville, using her sight beyond sight to observe the chaos, and then turned to look over at the hysterically laughing Celestia.

"You're absolutely horrible, do you know that?" Luna growled.

"It fixed your hair didn't it?"

"Yes, but you ruined theirs!" Luna protested

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Well, you know what they say, heeheehee... Hair today, shorn tomorrow, ahahahahahaha!" Celestia cackled, rolling onto her back. Luna sighed.

"Honestly sister, that joke is older than we are..."

I know, I'm awful.