Twilight kills herself a lot

It was weird Celestia was just hanging out with us. I mean I know Luna has been handling stuff since Celestia was really messed up, so she didn't have anything else to do right now, but it was still odd. It was funny but I only later realized it took way longer for Fluttershy to recover from her faint than Rarity dying. We were all just lounging around the library on some really nice cushions Celestia magiced up. Rarity was currently trying to teach Fluttershy some spell. Personally if figured out floating stuff around and that was good enough for me. Celestia currently looked sick to her stomach, and Twilight was frowning.

"I know it's questionable at best in terms of morals and common sense but you did ask what I learned."

"Well yes, and in fact some of it is quite useful I'm sure, but…" She slowly swallowed, closing her eyes. "There is also a reason why Luna was the one that really experimented with her immortality and I did not."

"Oh, sorry." Twi looked down

"I in fact meant friendship. I wished to know what you learned about friendship"

"A lot actually. First no matter how important you think something is, even if it's for their benefit, losing yourself in your work to the detriment of your friendships is never a good idea. The consequences can be dire."

I laughed. "Oh man, Twi, I don't think it's usually that bad."

Celestia shook her head. "While this resulted in a strangely high amount of dismemberment and the like, this is actually not even remotely the worst thing that has resulted from such a poor decision."

"Though really it probably wouldn’t matter if you were talking to us more at the time since it was some evil spirit and junk."

"True, though that brings us to the second issue. Ignoring your health doesn't just hurt you, but your friends too. I may have been able to resist it, at least enough to let you know I was being manipulated, if I just got enough sleep."

"Both good lessons." Said Celestia

"Finally I learned that a good friendship can weather anything, no matter how horrible, even if things certainly don't always go smoothly, they can get better."

Twilight turned to look at Pinkie trying to help AJ fly without crashing into things. We figured out I was too good to help with that, Fluttershy too gentle to have a problem with overdoing it, and Rarity and Twi were too new to offer anything useful. Pinkie wasn't doing much better actually, but somehow it was helping despite that. In fact as I watched AJ didn't ram into anything, not even the ground. AJ hadn't exactly talked to Twi a whole lot, but she wasn't avoiding her anymore. She's clearly having fun with the wings, even that time when she broke her nose she just laughed about it.

"Oh and I totally learned something too. That there is nothing too crazy to do for friendship in the right circumstances." I smiled "Not even murder."

"I'm not sure that's really a good lesson to learn about friendship, even if I can't think why it's wrong right now." Twi then blinked and turned to Celestia eyes going wide. "Oh no, I should know why, shouldn’t I?"

"It is technically accurate, just framed in a way to sound as bad as possible." Celestia smiled. "But I can't help but notice, with considerable care given to the wording to make sure the idea is really true."

"Once again, hanging around Twi a lot. Speaking of why is Spike so tired?"

I looked up toward Twi's room. I couldn't see it from here but Spike was asleep in his basket in there somewhere right now. He had fallen asleep on one of the cussions, but Twilight and Celestia moved him and tucked him in.

"He buried himself in work to forget. Well work and food." Celestia looked down. "It's annoyingly familiar actually. Apparently he learned from me a little too well in his formative years."

"So uh Twi, are we like all princesses now, cause I mean I look good in the right dress and all, but I'm not sure about that title."

Twi looked to Celestia. "I'm not sure either, Celestia?"

"Luna and I are still discussing it. I think considering the circumstances for now we will leave things as they are. That being said if you don't plan to reverse this Luna and I might need a second proclamation to keep Ponyville quiet about another matter of vital interest to the crown of Equestria." She sighed

"Oh, so that's why there seems to be nothing that mentions me even when it should."

"Yes. It will be made part of the public record eventually, but to avoid a panic hiding the truth from the rest of Equestria seemed prudent."

"Uh, maybe you should just undo everything then? I mean floating stuff is awesome…" I waved a hoof at my drink just floating in the air. "But I totally don't need it."

"Yea, about that." Twilight looked away. "Two things. First is now that you've had a horn, even for a short time your soul, though…"

"Twilight, now isn't the time for your thoughts on the accuracy of the term soul."

Twilight gave out a short little laugh "Sorry Princess."

"Celestia Twilight. In fact all of you should do the same. At the very least that is reasonable enough. This includes official functions as well."

"Oh my." Said Rarity quite loudly.

"You're across the room, why are you…"

"As are you, but it is not that large a room. No need to yell Rainbow."

"Continue please Twilight."

"Of course Princess." Twi gasped "I mean Celestia. The point is since it determines how your body should be, by some criteria not entirely understood, you might regrow a horn now regardless."

"But it's not really my horn or nothing."

"Well magically speaking I think we're sharing everything, so to some degree it is. There are three copies of Rarity's horn at this moment, but that's a minor issue."

"And the wings work the same way. So even if we're just cheap knock off alicorns we don't really get a choice anymore."

"Yes, though just like dying even using a little magic altered your aura. Or flying did. Rarity and Fluttershy's have also shifted to be more earth pony like somehow though I can't guess what they did to cause that since the magic itself sets earth ponies apart."

"So even if I got totally blown up I'd still have a white horn?"

"That I'm not sure of. Also the changes could have no permanent effect on your appearance. One of you would have to die to make sure."

"I'll do it."

Then Pinkie was gone with a flash. It got really quiet for a while. I'm not sure if it's just because Twi and the princess had an even better idea how impossible it was for Pinkie to learn to teleport in only a few hours, or just having no clue where she went even if we knew why. Then Celstia tilted her head to the side.

"Huh, she teleported directly into the sun."

"Whoa, you can just tell? Cool."

Celestia nodded. "One moment, she's currently suffering the various ailments of deep space as she did reconstruct out of the danger in question, but not all danger."

Pinkie then reappeared with a bright yellow flash. She took a deep breath. She was just her normal earth pony self again, no extras. I didn't really want to rush to kill myself even if I don't feel it, but there is this really risky stunt I could have tried. It will be super awesome if I pull it off, and if not, I don't even have to worry about cleaning up the body. I guess I could skip it just as easy.

"So the rest of us can only be alicorns with…"

"The help of our friends." Twilight smiled, then frowned "In the most horrible sense possible. I guess it is a letdown isn't it?"

"Way ah remember it the lot of you tried to murder me to help me. Ah'm okay enough wit it now, but ah'm pretty sure that's the worst way to help a friend."

Twilight looked down. "Right, even if for the right reasons you can't get much worse than that."

"Hey, but as long as we don't die we're good right?" I asked

"Yes, and possibly the effect I was talking about would work eventually, it just needs more time."

"Oo, can I have a new horn and wings?"

Twilight soon had transplanted her wings again, and this time brought back her own with that spell of hers, the wings coming back with a quick wet "shlorp" sound. It was still a little gross. Then I realized something.

"You can all fly."

"Huh?" said a few ponies. I wasn't sure exactly who

"It's this dream of mine, sometimes literally. That all my friends can fly and I can show you what the sky means to me."

"Dash what do you…"Began Twi

"She means…" Fluttershy then squeaked "Oh, I'm sorry."

"Just tell them, geesh."

"It was a tad rude darling, but clearly you already know the answer."

"Dash means just flying with her. Even if you don't fly very fast you'll understand. Even if you can't put into words why you know you know. Dash loves the sky isn't enough."

"That sounds like fun." Said Pinkie

"Ah reckon less stuff to bump into might help me."

"I haven't had a good flight in a while." Added Celestia

"It sounds lovely." Added Rarity

"Are you sure Dash, Pinkie is pretty good, but AJ and Rarity are still worse than me."

"Not really Flutters, but I get what you mean. Obviously I'll have to try and get the whole lot of you in proper flying shape at some point, but for right now it's totally good enough just to share the sky with you. Come on."

I then flew out and soon enough everyone was behind me. Rarity still was thinking too much, Applejack had serious control issues because she was flapping way to hard some of the time, and Pinkie seemed to be way better at flying than just looking at her technique would suggest. Celestia was awesome, and Fluttershy was still holding herself back, but I expected that. Twi though just looked so happy. Yea, maybe things are all sorts of messed up in some ways, but it's good enough. We're all okay and we're happy, so the rest of that stuff doesn't matter.