My Little Crystal: Love is Magic

My legs felt stiff in the morning. I had jumped with joy when I figured out they had a gym. I hadn't worked out for the past week, and if I put a death grip on the edge of the treadmill, I would only stumble a few times. Swearing I saw Clashing Swords, I knew it was way too many times to be true. The princess had a silly school-filly crush on somebody, more than she would have liked. Clashing Swords was nowhere to be seen as I exited the girl's quarters of the housing area. Of course. He was supposed to immediately head to the Royal Guard facility. This was some idiotic medical researcher area. Quickly changing out of my pajamas -- it was more comfy with them in bed-- I snapped on my metal shoes, ready for a night, well day in the murderous town.

Quietly entering the elevator, I pressed the one button. Nobody was in here? What time was it? Exiting the elevator, I looked around and saw a shitty tiny analog clock at the end of the hallway. I didn't have time for that. Walking over to the front desk, I looked for Paradise, quickly finding the white furred pony. "Hey Paradise." I said, quietly, and the pony turned and clapped her hooves together happily.

"Do you mind if I bring my friend, Masquerade? She's pretty funny."

"Oh, I don't mind."

"Where's your boyfriend?" The cocky look on Paradise's face made me want to slap the shit out of her so bad.

"The way you always call him my boyfriend makes me think that you like him."

"Haha, no. I have a crush on somebody else. Anyways, you'll need a pass." Putting an id card in my hand that had an electric blue lanyard that melted in with my mane, I smiled at it.

"My picture looks so bad." I said, the smile still on my face.

"I know, Twinkling. I know." Paradise laughed, showing that her words were a joke, before stopping abruptly and picking up the phone. Turning around, I noticed I was making a line of incredibly impatient people. Shit. Stepping to the side, I cleared my throat to Paradise to get off the damn phone. Putting it down, she turned around and yelled a name through a door that I didn't quite pick up. A grumbling older pony waddled out, a rotund and plump man. Paradise glided out from behind the counter, before squeaking.

"MASSY!" She called, waving her hoof frantically. The place was packed. I'm surprised Masquerade heard her.

"Hey, Pari, hey..." Massy bit her lip. "Who are you?"

"I'm Twinkling Glass." I smiled, looking at the pegasus.

"Masquerade." The pony rolled her eyes and looked at Paradise. I was used to this treatment.

"Masque, she's coming with us to lunch." Paradise beamed at me, then at Masquerade.

"Why is she even in Mirrorville, anyways? She looks too fragile." Masquerade scoffed.

"I'm the ambassador, personally appointed by Princess Twilight Sparkle, Cadance, and Celestia themselves." This pony was getting on my nerves; my inter-bragging self was coming out. Masquerade raised an eyebrow.

"Massy, she's a princess." Paradise beamed like it was an accomplishment to even befriend me. Honestly, I needed more friends, and Paradise seemed nice enough. That made Masquerade surprised.

"None of the princesses are cr-"

"I'm adopted." That made Masquerade let out a soft oh.

"Anyways, lets go eat!" Paradise chirped, bouncing away, making Masquerade and I chase after her.

"When does the paperwork come in?" Masquerade asked, having a hard time with the fork, but managing not to get food everywhere.

Meanwhile, I used my magic to shove a fork into the salad then gently bring it up to my mouth.

"Paperwork?" I asked directly after swallowing.

"Yeah, paperwork. You're the ambassador, right?"

"Well, Cadance like sent me here on a short term notice. This place is going to be where the Crystal Heart celebration will be. There's going to be one in the Crystal Empire, too, of course." I shrugged. I probably sounded like a fake ambassador. "What do you do for a living?"

"I'm a chemist." Well, that surprised me. "I work at the government building. It was a scientist lab, bu-"

The terrifying sound, something you never heard in the Crystal Palace, interrupted our conversation. Gunshots.

"Get down." Paradise and Masquerade both whispered to me. Quickly muttering an enchantment (a forbidden one I wasn't supposed to know), I looked at my hooves, which disappeared, along with the rest of my body, right as three criminals burst in, giant rifles levitating in front of them-- they were unicorns.

I was terrified. The three had already imprinted an image on my mind. They were dusty gray ponies-- they had no cutie marks. (Surprise, surprise.) They had the dull coats of foreign ponies. They each wore a ski mask to hide their identity, but honestly, it would be pretty easy to find them later. One had a giant sack draped across his back. Holy shit, that thing must have weighed a ton. Then reality hit me. Something was moving inside. They had a hostage. Quickly teleporting, I sent out a flash of light, which appeared on the complete other side of the room. They looked confused. Taking the chance, I delivered a beam of light to the rifle, which reflected off of it. Damn, they were charmed. It was time to go in and wrestle the fuck out. Quickly levitating the hostage, I heard a muffled, bloodcurdling scream as they realized they were being lifted into the air, and I quickly dropped them to the side of me, before charging.

The invisibility was wearing off. Charms only lasted for a few minutes. As they stared at me incredulously, they saw I was flickering. Distracted, one dropped the gun, and I quickly snatched it with my magic. This one wasn't charmed. Grinning, I quickly entered another weak invisibility charm, which gave me ten seconds. Quickly taking out the bullets, I flickered back, the bullets hidden in the only pocket I had at the moment-- my mouth. They tasted extremely nasty. Shooting the two guys, nothing came out, but they quickly scattered, fleeing out of the store, leaving the hostage behind, as amazed cheers came from everybody, and I felt the blood rushing to my face.

A pony quickly rushed out from behind, checking to see if I was okay. Quickly assuming he was the manager, I raised a hoof for him to stop, and rushed over to the hostage, and I quickly undid the tie. The hostage was a female, who winced at the bright light filtering through the windows of the store. A bandanna was choking her, and a stallion beside me quickly cut it out.

Glancing up at the cluster of ponies that surrounded her, she smiled, weakly. "Thanks for saving me. I'm Majesty." She said to nopony in particular.