Ch5. Lunch Revelations. Part Two

Two recently groomed mares walked towards Sweet Apple Acres, both talking and laughing quite loudly, as they approached to the gateway of the farm, the white mare whispered to her companion, “Be careful with Rainbow, he is totally flirting with you,” Rarity said to the confused mare, who huffed in annoyance.

“For the eleventh time Rarity, he is not flirting with me, he is just being friendly,” Twilight Sparkle answered, walking towards the farmhouse with a quick trot, not wanting Rarity to continue with her topic.

“I’m Just saying, you don’t know what to expect from that colt,” the white mare retorted looking over the Apple house where a Pink mare was waving her hoof excitedly, “Oh, Pinkie is here too, I told you she was going to be the one preparing your welcome party,” She said greeting Pinkie with a soft wave of her hoof.

Twilight still a little concerned about her friends finding out who she was, dropped back a little so Rarity was now leading, “Umm yeah, about that…” The purple unicorn trailed off

“You are still worried, aren’t you?” Rarity asked, turning to face the distressed mare who just nodded her head in approval, the ivory unicorn sighed softly, “Really Darling, I don’t know why you just don’t tell them, we are your friends after all, we won’t judge you,”

“Yeah silly, we won’t judge you,” The Pink mare that had just appeared in front of Rarity yelled frantically startling the white unicorn, and for extension Twilight too.

“Heavens Pinkie Pie, you startled me!!” Rarity yelled picking herself from the ground while cleaning the dust from her immaculate coat.

“Sorry, Rares, I just heard you talking and you walked sooo slow, so I decided to come and say hi!!” Pinkie said, helping Twilight to raise from her spot in the ground.

“It’s okay Pinkie, just don’t do that again,” Twilight said with a smile now standing in front of the bouncing pink mare, Pinkie had always have this effect in her, she was just too cute to be mad with her, and she only wanted to make ponies smile, and there’s nothing wrong with it, is it?

Pinkie widened her eyes in a comical way as she listened to Twilight, “You already knew me!?” she said before thinking a little, “Of course you know me, Dusk must have talked about me, didn’t he?, Anyways, nice to meet you Twilight, I’m sure we’ll be the bestest best of friends,”

Twilight smiled dreamily at the mare, she couldn’t ever be mad at Pinkie, she was just too sweet, ‘too damn sexy as well,', No! bad lust, she couldn’t think that way about Pinkie, she was her friend!!, ‘for the way you’re looking at her, one might think you want to be something more,’ this wasn’t going to work, she and Pinkie were just friends nothing more, she wouldn’t date an egghead like me either, I’m not her type.

You don’t know that for sure... you just have to ask silly, Lust replied inside Twilight’s brain, who unknowingly was having a conversation with her own mind and hadn’t answered the statement made by Pinkie.

“Ummm, Twilight you okay there?” Rarity asked worried about the frown present in Twilight’s zoned out face.

The aforementioned mare seemed to step out her daydreaming blinking a couple of times “I-I’m alright Rarity, I was just… thinking a little,” Twilight answered blushing a little, she coughed a few times before changing the subject rapidly “So,” she stated drawing the pink mare’s attention “This is Sweet Apple Acres then, it’s really nice,” Twilight said, walking alongside Pinkie and Rarity, the first bouncing excitedly meanwhile the latter looked rather uneasily.

“And you haven’t even met the Apple family yet, they’re even nicer!!” Pinkie said walking towards a table positioned in front of the barn where a yellow pegasus with a pink mane was organizing some dishes without noticing the bouncing pink mare approaching from behind, “FLUTTERSHY!!” she yelled scaring the mare who jumped from her spot on the ground.

Fluttershy recovering quickly from the sudden assault greeted her friend “H-Hello Pinkie, you scared me a little, Rainbow said you were going to organize the table, but I decided to do it myself, you’re not mad are you?” Fluttershy asked quietly flying to the table’s other end.

Pinkie waved her hoof dismissively, “Don’t worry Flutters, thank you for helping me with that, I was busy greeting the new arrival” She said, motioning Twilight to come closer, “This here is Twilight Sparkle, twin sister of Dusky, she is staying in town for a few days ‘til Dusk arrives from his visit to Canterlot” Pinkie explained hugging Twilight by her side.

Fluttershy’s demeanor changed from calm to angry in a matter of seconds as she looked at Twilight, “It’s a pleasure to meet you Miss Twilight, I’m sure we’ll get along nicely” She spat her face turning red as she examined the mare in front of her.

“Umm, Nice to meet you too Fluttershy” Twilight said, wondering why Fluttershy’s usual wasn’t present, she must be mad at something.

“I really want to get to know Twilight, may you leave us alone for a moment?” Fluttershy asked, interrupting Twilight’s train of thoughts as the two other mares looked at each other uneasily.

“Umm, sure darling, we’ll go and fetch the boys” Rarity answered, shooting Twilight a bewildered look while she walked alongside Pinkie inside the barn.

‘What will Fluttershy wants to talk me about? Probably nothing important… I hope’ Twilight thought, staring at everywhere but Fluttershy’s eyes, it was a surprise when suddenly the usually demure mare jumped from her spot, grabbed Twilight from her sides and shot off to the sky.

Twilight completely stunned by the shock, flailed her hooves uselessly in the sky, while Fluttershy stared at her with a look that could melt steel, Twilight could clearly see Tartarus inside the timid mare’s eyes, and it wasn’t pretty.

While the lavender mare trashed and squirmed in the pegasus embrace, Fluttershy cleared her throat, drawing the scared mare attention.

“Flu-Fluttershy, why-”

“Don’t play innocent with me you stallion-robber whore, I know what you’re trying to do with Rainbow Blitz, but that will never work, He. IS. MINE!!” Fluttershy yelled, her muzzle just inches away Twilight, who was now having a mental breakdown, she didn’t know what made less sense, that one of her best friends was accusing her of being a slut, or Fluttershy confessing her feelings for Blitz.

So Twilight’s clouded mind didn’t have more choice than to appeal to her instincts and to get away from the root of her confusion as soon as possible.

She started to flap her hidden wings taking Fluttershy by surprise as the supposed unicorn started to ascend with her, the yellow mare more in fear than confusion let Twilight go while the illusion spell positioned in Twilight’s wings started to fade due to the sudden disturbance.

“Uhh Dusk, Yo-You, How?” Fluttershy stammered, her eyes becoming heavier, the reality of the situation dawning on her unfortunately the mare’s mind couldn’t take it anymore so it took the most appropriate course of action fall unconscious in the middle of the air.

Unlucky for Fluttershy, her companion, was too in the middle of a completely mental breakdown, partly because of the stress of her arrival and also because of the sudden assault from the yellow pegasus, so now both unconscious mares were waiting for the impending doom falling rapidly to the ground.

Fortunately for them, a certain blue pegasus had heard all the commotion, and without wasting any second, shot off to the sky grabbing both mares in his arms, flying with them towards the ground safely.

“Applejack!!” Rainbow called to his friend, setting the mares in the floor unharmed, “Come here, I think they need help”

Applejack who was now beside his partner with a slack-jawed expression looked at the purple mare in disbelief “Is this really Dusk?” He asked fear present in his voice.

“I think so, unless you happen to know another purple Alicorn by chance!!” The cyan pegasus replied, sarcasm dripping from his voice.

“Bu-But he ain’t a ma-” Applejack was cut short by Rainbow’s slightly angry glance, while he picked up the Alicorn in his back.

“It doesn’t matter AJ, they’re hurt, we need to take them to a hospital” Rainbow replied, walking past his friend who begrudgingly picked up Fluttershy and hurried to Ponyville’s general hospital, leaving to scared mares behind them.

Pinkie looked at Rarity with a little scared expression “Rares, are they going to be okay?” She asked drawing the ivory unicorn’s attention, who smiled weakly at her friend’s question, she was sure her friends were alright, she was more worried about Rainbow and Applejack’s reaction towards Dusk.

“Off course they will Pinkie, they just need a little help” Rarity replied easing her friend’s concerns, as she walked towards the entrance of the Acres, Pinkie following behind.

“You already knew right?” Pinkie asked suddenly, startling her friend.

“Knew what?”

“That Dusk was a mare,” Pinkie replied, her knowing tone embarrassing Rarity a little “Don’t worry Rares, I’m not mad at you I just want to know why he didn’t tell us,” Pinkie said gazing over the slightly uneasy expression in Rarity’s face.

“Thanks Pinkie, I’m glad that you’re not angry,” She then sighed proceeding to explain Pinkie all that happened with Dusk’s transformation.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Ponyville General Hospital///////////////////////////////////////////////

Rainbow paced back to forth the in the waiting room, pondering in his own thoughts, ‘I can’t believe that Dusk had turned himself into a mare, and he didn’t tell us anything!!’ He knew that it wasn’t the real reason he was mad, but he didn’t wanted to touch the subject, he had almost flirted with his best friend, and he didn’t want anypony else to know that.

“Rainbow Blitz, calm yourself!!” Applejack said, standing in front the thoughtful stallion, “The Doctor said they’ll be just fine”

“I know what the Doctor said AJ, that’s not what worries me anyway,” He retorted walking past Applejack, resuming his endless pacing.

The orange stallion groaned in annoyance sitting in one of the room’s chair, “I know what you’re worried about, and fairly it ain’t much of a big deal for me” Applejack said resting his head in the back of the chair, his eyes closing slightly until the crazed stallion shook him from his shoulders.

“Not  a big deal!! What is the matter with you!? I was hitting on Dusk, HITTING ON DUSK!! What is he going to think of me after this!?” Rainbow yelled staring directly into Applejacks eyes.

The other stallion chuckled awkwardly, pushing Rainbow away from him, “It ain’t so bad, I mean you were just mistaken that’s all,” Applejack stated, putting a comforting hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder, “After all I don’ think he’ll even know you were flirting, You know how that colt can be for some things” He reassured

“I guess you might be right…” Rainbow said uneasily until a nearby nurse called both stallions to the reception desk.

“You’re here to see Prince-”The mare checked her clipboard again “-Princess Dusk and Miss Fluttershy, Right?” She asked as both stallions nodded, “Sign here and I’ll take you to their room,” She said holding the clipboard and a pen in her magic.

After a quick signature by Applejack, both ponies were taken through a set of doors, and lead to a sterile white room with a big number 5 stamped in the door, “Here we are, please do not make noise, some of our patients are resting” The nurse ordered, opening the door for the stallions.

Inside the room two mares were laying in their respective beds, staring in an awkward silence at the ceiling above them.

“So,” Fluttershy said weakly trying for the first time ever to break the silence, “Twilight Sparkle… You’re a mare, That’s… new” she said turning to face the unresponsive mare, who just nodded in recognition.

“I-I’m sorry I shouldn’t have yelled at you like that,” The pegasus apologized, remembering the harsh way she had treated her friend, this did have an effect in the alicorn’s form.

“Don’t be Fluttershy, I should have told you what happened,” She said exhaling deeply, “Now I’m real troubles” Twilight grabbed the sheets of her bed covering her face.

Fluttershy gasped at the mention of troubles, she hoped it wasn’t nothing serious, “Troubles? Why?” she asked watching the other bed stir a little “That is if you don’t mind me asking,”

“Solaris is going to banish me for this,” The lump of the bed stated darkly, its voice muffled by the sheets, “I just became a Princess, and I’ve already screwed up something, I’m not fit to be a leader to Equestria”

“Don’t ever say that again Dusk!” Fluttershy yelled, startling Twilight whose sheet felt to the ground, “You’re more worthy than anyone, you’re the most honest, loyal, generous and kind sta-mare I’ve ever seen, and a little setback isn’t meant to bother you in the slightness,” She said raising from her bed and walking towards her friend, sitting on her bed.

“You really think so Flutters?” The purple mare asked, a few tears leaking from her eyes while the other mare hugged her easing her concerns.

“Off course I do,” Fluttershy’s simple answer was the only thing Twilight needed right now, they cherished the moment between them until the door creaked open, and two familiar stallions walked inside the room.

“We’re not interrupting anythin’, are we?” Applejack asked smiling warmly as the scene unfurled and both mares greeted at the newcomers.

“Oh, Applejack is nice to see you,” Fluttershy said still sitting beside Twilight, who shivered a little at the stallion’s presence.

“Yeah, Um Hi Applejack,”The Alicorn said uneasily, looking at the floor, avoiding the stallion’s gaze.

“Well, Hello to you too princess” Applejack said teasingly, walking towards the bed, while Rainbow stayed cautiously behind.

Twilight groaned at the tease, “Is not funny Applejack, I’m not in the mood for that kind of jokes” She responded glaring daggers at the chuckling stallion.

“Why, That time of the month again?” The stallion joked, earning a glare from both mares in the room, and a muffled laugh from the cyan pegasus.

“Applejack, That isn’t really nice,” Fluttershy scolded as both stallions took a sit in the bed in front of them.

“Okay, okay, jokes aside, I think you owe us an explanation Miss Twilight” He said, pointing the aforementioned mare for emphasis.

“I know guys, I really do, but can we wait until the rest of the gang and the Prince arrives, I’m not on the mood to tell the story twice” Twilight said fixing her mane as a reflect act.

Rainbow looked confused for a moment, “The Prince, What for?” He asked as Twilight looked at him for the first time since he entered the room.

“Umm, yes, they are meant to come sooner or later,” The mare said matter-of-factly, seeing that nobody understood her she explained, “I mean, the newest Princess of Equestria just messed up a spell and is in the hospital, Solaris would want to know how his former student is faring.” Twilight slumped a little at her own statement.

“Don’t think like that sugarcube, I’m sure he’s gonna help you” Applejack said reassuringly, but silently noticed how Dusk referred to himself,’He said Princess, not Prince but princess, maybe a side-effect?’ He thought, the issue worrying him a little.

“Yeah, Don’t worry Twi-Dusk, everything is going to be fine” Rainbow said hoping that nobody had noticed his slip, sadly for him Twilight looked at him with a slightly sad expression.

“Blitz, are you okay” The purple mare asked, raising an eyebrow, Blitz had acted pretty weird when he entered, she silently hoped that Rarity had been lying about him trying to hook up with her, things would get pretty awkward if that was the case.

“O-Of course I’m okay, Why do you ask?”

“Nothing, you seemed rather off” Twilight said, blushing a little.

After a couple of minutes the group of ponies were interrupted by a white unicorn and a pink earth pony walking inside the room, both looking a little unnerved.

“Oh Rarity, Pinkie, I’m glad that you came” Fluttershy said, smiling at the new arrivals.

Both mares looked at each other before Rarity cleared her throat, “Well, Umm, You see, there’s someone wanting to see Dusk here” She said, walking towards the mentioned mare.

“Someone? It’s not who I’m thinking, is it?” Twilight asked, looking as the door opened and a big  white alicorn entered the small room, his orange and red mane shimmering in an unseen breeze, his magenta eyes scanning thoroughly the crowd of ponies in the room stopping in Twilight.

“Hello, My Faithful student,” The Alicorn said, his deep voice sending shivers through Twilight’s spine.

The mare gulped, “I told you so,” She said looking up to meet her mentor’s gaze.

She was screwed.