It was a typical day in Ponyville. The weather service had scheduled rain for later in the day, but it's nice and sunny now. Celestia's great ball of fire in the sky continues to warm the land. Maybe a little too much though as some ponies under her rule are turning an unhealthy shade of crispy.
Twilight Sparkle doesn't worry, though. She likes to spend her time in the library, reading its various tomes. Currently, she lays on the floor with a book prying an amusing smile across her face. A teacup and saucer sit next to her, which she has been controlling with her horn's magic.
It started slow, but a rumbling started to shake the floor and the shelves. Her teacup rattles in fear as it thinks that it will not survive this next encounter. The rumbling persists. Ripples are flung out across the tea's surface. Whatever is causing this is close....
"TTTTTTTTTWWWWWWIIIIIIII--" Pinkie shouts as she bursts in and nearly takes the front door off its hinges. "Hold on. Pony gotta pee," she remarks before secluding herself inside the one bathroom of the library.
Twilight sighs and separates from her anything that might damage her precious book. Like spraying tea out of her snout. With Pinkie on Premises, anything is not only possible, but also very likely.
"Wait...." Twilight wonders as her head cranes up and over. "I don't have... PPPPPIIIIIINNNNNNNKKKKKKKIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!" But, the sounds of what can only be Hoover dam bursting at the seams drowns out her own shouting. She jumps to her hooves and bolts for the door shouting "THAT'S A BROOM CLOSET!!! PINKAMENA DIANE PIE!!!!" And, yet the sounds of a flushing echo throughout.
And the door bursts open with a "--LLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHHHHTTTTT!!!!!!!" The Pink Terror jumps atop her purple friend and rolls with her a few times before they stop with Pinkie standing in a compromising position over Twilight. "What?! I washed my hooves!!"
"To what do I owe this insanity?" Twilight groans.
"I have questions. Do you have answers?"
"Probably. Mind getting off me first?"
Pinkie sidesteps a little and allows Twilight to get to a proper position. "I've been thinking."
Oh, Celestia no....
"Has FlashLight done it yet?"
"Who's Flashlight?" Twilight asks with a little worry.
"That's you Flash Sentry and you!! Duh!! The whole internet's been buzzing about it ever since the movie!"
"Interwhat? Movie? What's a movie?!"
"This one!!" Pinkie answers as she holds up the DVD case for 'Equestria Girls' which clearly shows Twilight's human and pony forms staring at each other. But, as quickly as she produced it, she whips it back over her shoulder. "Twilight!!! The fans want to know!!"
"FANS?! Where?!"
"Out there!!" Pinkie giggles as she taps the inside of a glass screen. A quiet 'tink tink' can be heard as she acknowleges something beyond comprehension. "On the other side of the screen!!"
Twilight walks up and waves a hoof in the direction of where Pinkie was 'tapping' and finds nothing but empty air. Her attempts only get her to fall over on her face. "Pinkie...."
Pinkie helps up her newly winged friend and looks at her in the face again. "Well?!"
"Okay, why are we being called 'Flashlight?'"
"It's a shipping thing!" Pinkie explains. "FlashLight. Bennifer. Brangelina. Zutara--Oh, I would watch your back on those ones. Kataraang. Tokka. I don't know about any 'Twilight' shipping. I don't really care about 'Twilight.'"
A sharp pain suddenly cuts through Twilight's chest at the sudden and casual 'I don't care.' "You...." Twilight sobs a bit, "don't care....?"
"NO NO NO!! The OTHER 'Twilight'. The one that's not supposed to sparkle!! I LOVE you, Twilight!!!"
"Okay..." Twilight sighs with a remaining sob. "What did Flash Sentry and I supposedly do?"
"It!"
"It?"
Pinkie looks at the lavender pony for a long second before rolling her eyes around. It's easy to see the 'Oh Luna, are you serious?' following along. To explain her question further, she raises a foreleg and folds it over. Her other foreleg forces its way through the crack made by the first and slides in and out a few times.
"SWEET CELESTIA NOOO!!!" Twilight shouts while turning a bright shade of red. "PPIINNNKKKIIEEE!!! Why on Equestria would you ask me THAT?!"
"Well if you did--"
"WE HAVE NOT!!!! Pinkie, have you been snorting Pixie Stix again?!"
"....Maybe," she replies with a nonchallant eye roll.
Twilight slowly comes down off her rage/embarrassment and starts to think rationally again. After all, somepony in the room has to. The breathing technique that Cadance taught her has come out and Twilight starts waving a hoof away from her. "Alright, Pinkie... No, I have not done anything with Flash Sentry."
"But, if you did...?"
"I don't think I wanna know..." Twilight says with a worried tone. "But something tells me you're not going to rest until you have an answer... And then, neither will I. So... Fire away." A big part of Twilight wants to assume a 'duck and cover' position as she knows she's not going to like this.
"If you got preggers with Flash Sentry, and then went back to the other world, you'd become one of them humans, right?"
"More than likely. Why?"
"Well.... Say you got stuck there and couldn't return for awhile. If you popped one out in that world, would it be one of them or one of us?"
Twilight absorbs the question and tries to make sense of it. Even before she can give an answer, she tries to at least get on Pinkie's train of thought. (GOOD LUCK!!) She blinks a few times, but that may be morse code for 'HELP ME'. "Well... I really don't know."
Spike has since wandered in at the sounds of the apocalypse.
"Okay, so say you and the OTHER Flash Sentry bucked--"
At that time, Spike turns on his heel and walks spryly away from the entire conversation, not wishing to even know....
"And WHY do you think I would do that?!"
"Theories!!" Pinkie grins. "Stuff to think about!! You like to think about theories, don't you?!"
"Seriously?" Twilight groans. "Is this what goes through your head all day?!"
"Yeah!! That and a lot of sprinkles!!"
"Alright..." Twilight sighs. "I THINK... That if I were to give birth, regardless of what side of the mirror I was on, it would conform to whatever world I was in at the time."
"And if you were to go back?"
"My offspring would change along with me as we go through the portal. The mirror changes its travellers to fit the world they are going to. But, I am NOT doing 'it' with anypony! Not even Flash Sentry!"
"Ya know..." Pinkie wonders, "if you had a kid in the other world, and then came back, it would feel really lost."
"Why do you say that?"
"If it was born a pony, and had to become a human, it would be wanting to be a pony again. If it was born a human and had to become a pony...."
"I'd have a pony wanting to be a human."
"Does that explain Lyra Heartstrings? Oh, wait. That's a fanfic for another time."
"Fanfic?" Twilight wonders.
"Yeah. Fanfic!! Amateur writing about a established media?"
"I know what a fanfic is, Pinkie..." But, finally, Twilight shakes her head. "Anything else you wanna confuse me with?"
"Nope!!" Pinkie beams. "That's about it!!" The Pink Menace trots out of the library and through the door.
And Twilight lays on the floor with her book and sighs a long gasp of relief.
"Twilight?" Pinkie asks.
"WHAT?!"
"If you're not bucking Flash Sentry... Can I?" Her head ducks away quickly as a straight-edged scroll opener is tossed and embedded in the bookshelf next to her.
