Diamond Tiara liked to play.
Playing was by far her favorite thing in the world do to. She said to the grownups that they were her favorite thing, but that was just a little white lie.
Her father had taught her the meaning of a white lie, it was just a lie that wasn’t very big, and was used not to hurt anyone. At the time Diamond had asked if lying wasn’t wrong. Her father had laughed. He had had told her precious daughter that to get ahead in life she would have to please many people, and give out many white lies.
That bothered Diamond Tiara, but now she also said white lies.
Diamond Tiara liked to play pretend. She would pretend that she was the princess of everything, that used her Diamond....well, tiara, to rule them all.
Not in a bad way! She would never hurt another pony! She would be kind, and young, and beautiful, and she’d help anyone in need.
She liked to pretend that each of her own schoolyard colleagues were other things, besides fillies and colts who liked to run and laugh.
Twist was the nerd of the group....very, very smart....but not very good at actually talking with anyone, and with a lisp. She had a curly mane, and, despite being a tad bigger than her, she was still a nerd....and so she was very weak, and everyone made fun of her.
The fact that this didn’t happen didn’t matter one bit, with her looks, Twist was the nerd.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders were an interesting case....Diamond didn’t know how to characterize them. Were they the little kids running around, trying to find what they were good at? Were they the typical group of friends, with a poor one, a fashionable one, and a country folk one?
Either way, she didn’t like them. Not one bit! They were always together, because she had brought them together! Couldn’t they see that it had all been a plan from their princess, to help them make friends?
Actually it had been an accident, but doesn’t the end justify the means? Diamond knew they didn’t like her, all that much, but in her make believe world, she could do whatever she wanted to them. Sometimes she would put them in jail! Sometimes she would put them in trouble! And sometimes they would have tea parties together. But only when she needed something from them.
Feather was the paparazzo, but also the official court photographer. Sometimes she allowed him to take photos of her, sometimes she didn’t. It depended on her mood.
There were many other ponies on her pretend world, both fillies and colts, as well as grown adults! But in her fantasies one thing was always certain. SHE WAS THE BEST! Because she had the power, and everybody loved her.
Twist did not have many friends, and she was pretty sure the few she had weren’t very interested in her, more on the candy and treats she baked daily.
Twist also liked to pretend. When she pretended she wasn’t just a baker who did candy. She was also very much loved. And her candy was filled with special ingredients, that gave superpowers to those who ate them!
No longer were earth ponies limited to strength, or unicorns limited to the ground. Pegasis could shoot big magic bolts! Unicorns could hover and fly, earth ponies could do several things!
When ponies ate her sweets, they would turn into superheroes! And she was the fearless leader of her own group . The Twisters!
She had even made her own theme song, in her head, it went something like this “do do do do, do do do do do!”, it was a very upbeat song, that was just the same note repeated over and over and over.
She was a baker, not a musician!
They would gather around in a circle and eat the candy, and then they’d get superpowers for some time.
There was she, The Twister, who gained super smarts, and the power to make tornadoes. There was Featherweight, who could stop time (using his catchprase, “CHEESE”), there was Pipsqueak, who could summon the powers of the night! And together they’d fight villains such as the super evil Diamond Tiara, and her snarky sidekick “Silver Spoon”. Sometimes they would get the help of another team of super heroes, THE CRUSADERS, too! It was really fun.
As she waited for several minutes for the baking process to end, she imagined she had finally perfected the formula. And then when she ate them, she would be able to fight off a full dragon invasion!
She made several “Vwooosh” and “Kabaaaaaam” sounds with her mouth, this fight was just so, so, so exciting! The dragon had swung his mighty paw at her, and her friends weren’t around to save her, using her last strength, she started conjuring a tornado that would send the several tons, hundreds of feet, dragon flying back to his lair!
But she never got the chance, for Diamond Tiara the princess, put herself in front of the nerd and ordered the dragon to stop! The dragon looked through his beady eyes that were in his stupid big puffy head, and then turned!
Princess Diamond Tiara had saved the day again! It was time for a commemoratory parade in her honor!
Twister, looked around her as her powers stopped working, and she was put in glasses bigger than her own already were.
She turned to the princess and angrily growled.
“What? “
The epic hills where the battle had been fought, charred by the fire of the dragon, and which had his footsteps had been replaced with a room.
A room almost as big as Twist’s house, that was full of toys, and where everything was pink. It was pinker than the inside of a pink....balloon.
Diamond too saw her fantasy of princess hood disappearing.
“What what?”
Twist looked confused.
“What? What? WHAT?”
Diamond Tiara felt the urge to face hoof.
“We were playing pretend princesses!”
Twist closed her mouth and then opened it.
“No! We were playing thuper Heroesth.”
Diamond chuckled.
“See you always use old conjugations, you are perfect for a real princess play session!”
“But I want to play thuper heroesth!”
“Twist! With your lisp, if at anytime you talked while out in the field, everyone would know who you were”
Twist pouted, it was a very cute sight, but Diamond, used to pouting too, didn’t flinch.
“Tho? Thasth not fair!”
Diamond Tiara groaned internally, if her father hadn’t told her to invite someone other than Silver Spoon.....to make more friends, as he had said.
“Well, it’s my house! And we’re playing princesses!”
Twist stopped to look harshly at Diamond Tiara. If her mother hadn’t told her to get out more instead of spending the days in the kitchen or reading....
“Thuper Princesthes?”
Diamond knew she was between the sword and a hard spot. If her father saw her kick out the other filly, he would be very angry with her, and then she would have to go to therapy again.
Twist hoped Diamond would accept her idea, if she was kicked out, then her mother would bother and bother her until she found another pony to spend time with, and she was running out of ponies...
“Fine”
So as it turns out Twist(er) was turned into a princess, that co-ruled with Diamond Tiara (who had the most power), it turned out she wasn’t an evil villain, she was only grumpy because she hadn’t had her breakfast, so Twist(er) had baked her some cakes, accidentally giving her powers of good. Which instantly made her more kind, it was like a reforming spell in cake form!
In the end they didn’t become queens, because queens are evil, but they sure did rule fairly. And then it was already sunset, and Twist had to leave.
But she promised to return.
And Diamond Tiara told herself, that that had went very well. She didn’t even have to use a white lie!
And they both slept, happy faces in the night.
