Explanations

Jason groaned as he slowly regained consciousness.

“Twilight, what the hell happened?” Jason queried his companion.

“Somehow, and I have no idea how it happened, but you have sprouted my wings. Rather explosively might I add.” Twilight replied her disgust from the after effects of the incident evident in her tone.

“That would explain why my back is on fire.” Jason replied with a pained chuckle. “Hey I just realized. I can totally go as Icarus for Halloween this year.”

He could almost see her eyes rolling in response.

“So you’re up I take it.” Jesamine said from somewhere to his left.

Groaning again Jason turned his head towards her voice.

“Yeah, back’s on fire and I am drained as all hell, but I am awake and alive.” He replied as he looked over at his, most likely former, girlfriend.

“So what would cause you to suddenly sprout wings Jason? Please don’t tell me this is some wacked out army experiment or that you are some sort of alien that has been hiding out on Earth for all these years.” She said with a voice heavy with emotion.

Jason pushed himself up of his chest from the bed that he lay in and moved the strange new muscles to close his wings before moving into a sitting position.

“A definite no to column A and just a smidge of column B. I was in the process of coming up with a way to explain the whole situation to you without you thinking that I was completely and totally bonkers, but for whatever reason, these decided to pop in.” He explained, shrugging his wings slightly as he began to get a feel for the new appendages.

“So you are part alien?” Jesamine asked.

“Kind of. More so now than I was when I got home. Must have something to do with sharing my body with a second consciousness. Lord knows how long we will be able to go before we have to merge or one of us gets overwritten.” He replied muttering the last bit to himself.

“What do you mean?” She inquired.

“Jason, maybe I could try talking to her. Since you have my wings, I might be able to channel some magic to change your vocal range temporarily to match my voice.” Twilight suggested.

“I think that might help a bit.” He replied to the alicorn riding in his head. “Jes, we are going to try something to let you talk to the little voice in my head, are you willing to give it a go?” He asked, his eyes pleading for her to say yes and not abandon him.

Jesamine considered this for a moment. “Alright, go ahead.”

Nodding, Jason closed his eyes and began to assist in channeling a spell that would allow Twilight to assume control of his body temporarily.

Once she had control, Twilight opened their now glowing eyes and greeted the young woman across the room from her.

“Hello Jesamine. It is a pleasure to finally speak with you. I am Twilight Sparkle and yes I am an alien from another dimension that was displaced and forced into Jason’s body when he was still in the womb. I was able to pull back my consciousness to a remote corner of his mind and seal myself off so that I would not interfere with his development or life. However, this big lug nearly getting killed caused the barriers that I set up to collapse causing us to meet up for the first time when he was in his coma. Since then we have been helping each other deal with things.” Twilight explained before looking of to the side, her right hand grasping the prosthetic forearm on her left. “Though there are times that I haven’t been able to help Jason, those times when he was having a nightmare about his time in Iraq and Afghanistan, I just couldn’t help him. Thank you for everything that you have done. I don’t know what would have happened to us if you hadn’t come along.” She finished offering a small, sad smile to the woman across from her.

Jesamine was stunned from the revelations that the woman that was now in control of her boyfriend’s body had made. Most of which were that she had been able to help him more than the woman that lived in his head. Then something came to mind.

“If Jason has had you chatting with him for the past year and some change, how much of our rather incredible sex life is really him?” She asked with a raised eyebrow.

Both of Twilight’s eyebrows shot up in response to the question and a light blush dusted her cheeks before she was able to respond. “Well, pretty well all of it is him. I just help narrow things down by watching your reactions and catching things he might miss. So I would say that all I have been doing is helping him improve.” She replied with a small smirk.

Jesamine laughed a bit, easing the tension in the room that had built up. “I can accept that answer, he did seem to improve too quickly sometimes. So, are you really Twilight Sparkle from…” She began before being interrupted.

“Yes I am though I am actually an anthro. I’m just about Jason’s height though. The horn adds about another foot or so. By the way, excellent job of cleaning us up and preening our wings. I am impressed, how did you know what to do?” Twilight asked as she inspected her wings.

“Well I do work for a vet and sometimes we get folks with exotic birds that we watch for them while they are on vacation or the occasional injured bird of prey that needs help tending to its wings. That and some of them just seem to enjoy the attention.” Jesamine explained.

Twilight nodded. “Well I’m not to sure if it is the same thing for birds, but I do know both from personal experience and reading plenty on the subject after my ascension that the wings of pegasi and alicorns are pretty much one giant set of erogenous zones, usually ones with very high sensitivity. That is why preening is usually done either by the individual, or someone that they implicitly trust, such as a significant other.” Twilight explained, causing a blush to spread across Jesamine’s dark cheeks. “I can safely say that Jason and I are in agreement that you can handle our wings when we need assistance, which we probably will.” Twilight finished with a wink, causing Jesamine to sputter a reply, to which Twilight began to laugh, shortly followed by the other woman.

The pair then began to learn more about each other for the next few hours while Jason spent the time in what the pair had begun to call the Archive in their shared mindscape learning everything he could about the nature of Equestria and magic in general as opportunities such as this rarely presented themselves.

Author's Note

Yes I am still alive! I have not had much of an opportunity to do much writing lately, but I was able to bang this out. I so far have a rough idea of where this story is going to go once Twilight and Jason return to Equestria. I am hoping that I can keep it exciting all the way to the end.