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Prologue: In which the Dazzlings do something really stupid in the short time span of 1349 words.
After the defeat at the hands of the Rainbooms, the Dazzlings had no choice but to retreat to their mansion, which they got via their magic, which they sadly didn't have anymore. Well, there was this teensy-tiny bit, but...oh well, it was too tiny to be of any use. Luckily for the three girls, the official records stated they had inherited the place they were staying in, while in all actuality they stole it somewhere around 1800 and still lived there.
These past weeks had not been easy for any of the sirens. Sonata tried to go on in life, started all kinds of hobbies, but none of them really worked out for her. Heck, she even tried to find a doctor who could fix her voice, so she could at least sing again and go to the karaoke bar again. So far, no luck, which left her in a pretty sour mood.
Aria took it the worst. She was even more grumpy than before and more often than not got into a fight with the other sirens. Most of the time, she was at the mansion, grumbling how she should have taken the lead, sometimes wondering if it would have been better if she just went her own way after their banishment.
Finally there was Adagio, who was just mad the first few weeks and desperately tried to fix their pendants with no results whatsoever. However there was something that brightened up her mood a little. Some residue magic was left in the tiny shards of the pendants, not much, certainly not enough to restock their magic before it disappeared. Not that she had any gems to store the magic, but it got Adagio thinking.
"So, your plan is to turn that Sparkle girl evil, HOPE she will give us our magic back and steal her magic at the next best opportunity?" Aria asked. "That's gotta be the dumbest plan you ever came up with Adagio."
If Adagio was honest with herself, it was a dumb plan. "Like we have any other choice, if we ever want to have our magic back." Adagio insisted. "That Sparkle person was their leader! She has to have the greatest amount of magic inside herself, out of the 7."
"Okay. Well let's say she does "hire" us." Aria made the air quotes with her fingers. "What stops her from making us her slaves with no free will? What stops her from actually corrupting her friends and again, enslave us?!" Aria exclaimed. "This is bound to go south, Adagio."
"So you'd rather spent the rest of eternity in this place, laying on the couch and watch sitcoms for the rest of your life?"
Sonata didn't need any "convincing", really. The girl always tagged along, no matter what the other two were doing and she was also more optimistic than Aria (and Adagio for that matter) that the plan would succeed and they'd get their powers back. The only remaining problem was to isolate the Sparkle girl, knock her out and get her to the mansion, where the sirens then would put their magic into the girl.
As a result, for the next two weeks, hidden by their hoodies, the Dazzlings scouted Canterlot High and studied the behavior of the Rainbooms, specifically where they met before, during recess and after school, where each of them lived, what they tend to do afterwards, hangout places and such and what friends they had outside of school.
One interesting thing they found out about Sparkle was, that she sometimes went stargazing a little outside the city, when the sky was clear. On the third week, on Wednesday, the Dazzlings finally set their plan into motion.
They had their car parked a little away on the side of the road, while they waited in the bushes for Twilight to make an appearance.
"Urrgh, how long is this going to take?" Aria complained, after they had been waiting for nearly half-an hour. "There are leaves stuck in my hair and I'm pretty sure something just walked up my leg."
However, looking down, she saw it was only Sonata's hand, mimicking a spider or something insect like, crawling up her leg. She gave the youngest siren a good kick against her own leg.
"OW! Hey, what's up with that?!"
"You know exactly, what-"
"Will you two cut it out?!" Adagio hissed. "You're going to give us away!"
Unknown to the three, Twilight Sparkle was already walking up the hill and passing their hiding place.
"Huh?"
Thinking she heard something, she turned her head towards the bushes. The small sound she gave beforehand was enough warning for sirens to take cover, barely.
"Hmm."
Shrugging, Twilight walked her marry way, whistling a little tune to herself. When she was gone, the sirens looked up, now all three having branches and leaves stuck in their hair.
"Come on!" Adagio urged them. "We don't have all night!"
Together the sirens ran towards the spot Sparkle normally set up her equipment. Today wasn't any different from the other days. The Dazzlings slowed down, when Twilight came into view and sneaked up on the girl, while she was busy adjusting her telescope. Adagio took out a baseball bat, which she had hidden inside her jacket and now slowly approached Sparkle.
*thwack*
An hour later, Twilight was still unconscious, thanks to the efforts of a very excited Sonata. Her two sisters had to restrain her from overdoing it with the bat, just so Sparkles would not bleed out to death.
The three carried the unconscious girl into a large empty room, in their mansion, where the shards of their pendants were waiting for them.
"This is bound to fail." Aria muttered.
"Shut up and focus." Adagio scolded the younger girl. "It will definitely fail, if we don't concentrate. We need to put every last drop of our magic into her body."
"And there's that! Shouldn't we look for some big fight and try to replenish our magic instead of doing something like, I don't know, strengthening our enemy?"
"You know, Aria has a point." Sonata pointed out.
"I said, shut up!" the lead siren yelled, effectively silencing the other two. They knew better than to anger her beyond that point.
Muttering something incomprehensible, Aria took her shards and took position. The other sirens did the same, forming a triangle around the unconscious girl. With a nod of their leader, the sirens started channeling their magic. The air around them became heavy and stiff, and everything became tainted in a red light, as the shards began illuminating.
Aria gritted her teeth, as concentrating through her broken artifact was harder, than when it was whole. Sonata was sweating bullets already. Only Adagio's face remained focus and impassive at the same time.
As if by an unspoken command, the sirens simultaneously released their magic, which was shown as by three lime-green energy beams shooting out of the gem shards and hitting the unconscious girl. For a moment there was a bright light, before everything became normal again. The sirens needed to rub their eyes for a moment, before they could see the result of their magic. Sonata let out whistle, when she saw the gorges looking Sparkle girl hovering in mid-air. Her hair was standing up, as if she had put a massive amount of hair gel into it. She spread black, angelic wings and some kind of energy horn came out of her head. The glasses she had been wearing, seemingly transformed into energy themselves and the outfit she was wearing.
"Dang, she's hot!" Sonata exclaimed. Just as the words left her mouth, Midnight Sparkle opened her eyes.
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Chapter 1: Where the plot deepens without creating any plot-holes and hopefully without any more horrible puns
Author's Note
I hope this chapter is better than the last one. I apologize for the terrible choice of name for this chapter. I...I have no explanation, as to why I did this. Sometimes you just do it.
Chapter 1: Where the plot deepens without creating any plot-holes and hopefully without any more horrible puns
Twilight looked down at her own hands, closing and opening them from time to time. She looked back at her wings, flapping them a little, before looking straight ahead again. That's when she noticed the three girls standing in the room, all looking up at her with various faces. The blue girl had a smile on her face and looked generally excited. She was also shaking in anticipation. The purple girl looked cautious and had taken a few steps back. Finally there was the orange girl, who was smiling smugly, a smile Twilight had seen often on people who used to bully her.
"Who are you?" she asked with power in her voice.
The three sirens looked at each other confused, before their leader spoke up. "Don't you recognize us, Twilight?"
"Recognize?" Twilight echoed. "I have never met any of you." she flew down towards the sirens and stopped in a few feet away.
"What do you mean, never met?!" Sonata exclaimed annoyed. "We-MMM!" Aria clapped a hand in front of Sonata's mouth, before the girl could say anything stupid.
"Maybe our little improvement, did something to your memories." Adagio mused.
"So, you ARE responsible for this." Twilight voiced what she had been thinking this entire time.
"Indeed." Adagio said and knelt down. "My name is Adagio Dazzle." she quickly gestured the sirens to do the same as her. "We're known as the sirens. I humbly apologize for the temporary amnesia we seem to have inflicted upon you, my lady."
"Your lady?" Twilight echoed once again.
"Indeed, you may not remember, but you defeated us once, when we tried to take over the world. Our defeat left us almost without any magic. We had not enough for us alone to enslave this pathetic world, but we were able to do some improvements on you, my lady."
"This is the second time you mentioned those "improvements". I want answers. What exactly did you three do to me and what are you expecting from me?"
This is it. Maybe it's good that she doesn't remember us. She won't hold any grudge against us.
"We provided you with the rest of our magic." Adagio explained. "As for the reason, we want you to be our leader."
"Your leader?" Twilight asked confused. "And you gave me this power?" she couldn't help but smile, when the energy crackled in her hands. It felt wonderful.
"Indeed, we did."
"And judging by your behavior" Twilight looked at the sirens with a devious smile "you want your share of power, once I conquered this world. And Equestria afterwards."
The hopeful look in the sirens' eyes was answer enough for Twilight. It made her laugh.
The sirens once again looked at each other, specifically at Adagio, silently asking: "What's up with her?"
Twilight in the meantime caught herself, and flew up a little, grinning down at the sirens. "I think I understand what happened. You thought I am the Twilight from Equestria, don't you? Well, too bad I am not."
"WHAT?!" All three sirens exclaimed. Aria was the loudest of the bunch.
"Ahahaha!! You didn't know? Equestria is a parallel universe. Every one over there is a human in this universe! You simply mistook me for my counterpart, who visits frequently this world."
From behind, Aria glared at Adagio. She had messed up once again.
"You want to conquer this world? Fine by me. Go ahead and try. I'm sure with your magic such a minor task, shouldn't be a problem. Oh, that's right. I am in possession of your magic now." Twilight grinned and began charging magic into her hand.
The sirens reacted just in time, before the magical, energy bolt could hit them. Instead it hit a lonely chair, which was then turned into a potted plant. Twilight faked a pout, as the sirens ran screaming out of the room. She was just about to chase them, but then thought of how it would only be a waste of time. She didn't know much about those girls, except that she could deduce that they were from Equestria and turned her into Midnight Sparkle again. And without their magic, they didn't really pose any kind of threat to her or her goal, really.
Without further ado, Twilight or rather Midnight, shot a hole in the ceiling and took off into the night.
In the meantime, in a closet in the mansion.
"Sonata?"
"Yes?"
"I take it back. Adagio is the worst."
Midnight easily found her way back to the hill, while flying over her hometown. On foot she would have probably arrived at home at sunrise. Like this it took her only an hour to return to her favorite stargazing spot, gather her equipment and then return back home.
When she landed in front of her house, she was about to step in, when she remembered her current attire. Frowning she used her returned powers to turn her appearance to that of her normal self, complete with glasses and crystal prep outfit. She frowned, looking down at her old school uniform. She had been wearing it out of habit and because she didn't own that many clothes. She looked like the weakling she used to be. And she didn't like it.
Grumbling, Midnight walked into the house and quickly sneaked upstairs, into her room. She smiled, when she found her dog and companion spike, blissfully snoring on her pillow. She made sure not to wake him, as she put away her equipment and turned on her desk lamp. Sitting down, she levitated her block and a pen towards her and started her newest project: The Magic of Friendship
"Friendship is Magic!"
Sunset's voice continued to echo through Midnight's head, as she furiously scribbled down notes. When Twilight first transformed into Midnight, she had been overwhelmed by the power she possessed and was ready to destroy her world as some sort of revenge on her former classmates, before she would go to Equestria, where she would learn everything about magic.
Her mind was so clouded, that she didn't realize that there were a lot of things that needed to be studied in her world. How did it came here in the first place? How was it affecting the environment? What could she possibly learn from Sunset Shimmer, who obviously knew something about magic? There was so much she could learn here, before setting off to Equestria. And then there was the one thing she did not understand at all. Magic of Friendship.
She could quite easily accept that Magic in itself was some sort of energy, a force or something along those lines that existed on its own in a parallel universe and could be manipulated like electricity. But from what her friend Sunset and her counterpart Princess Twilight told her, Friendship was an actual branch of the science of magic.
"...I can't belief I just wrote this down." Midnight mumbled to herself.. "Friendship...science of magic? But how else do I explain the magic coming out of six different people? Hmm...this warrants some experiments!" Midnight's eyes lit up for a second, when she said this.
Rarity had the feeling something was going to happen today. Of course it might have just been the new tea she tried out on behalf of the newest addition of her pool of friends. Twilight Sparkle was quite the timid girl, not as timid as Fluttershy, but definitely introverted. And sometimes a total dork. At her first sleepover at Rarity's place, the girl had wanted to follow the instruction of a book, word for word, including when the stories are supposed to happen, when and exactly how long a pillow fight was supposed to last. It took the girls quite a lot of persuasion, in order to get them to put the book away.
There was also the personal issue Rarity had with the girl. She had such beautiful hair and a beautiful body, but still bound her hair into that horrible old fashioned bun and still wore the crystal prep outfit along with it. Rarity wanted so desperately get the girl some decent clothing, yet the others convinced her not to pressure the girl into anything. She was still recovering from the events a couple of weeks ago. It took Sunset a long time too to recover from the Fall Formal incident, so Rarity could understand. That still didn't help her frustration.
"Sweetie Belle! It's time to get up!" Rarity called her younger sister from downstairs and heard the all too familiar groaning from upstairs. Rarity smiled, knowing that once she had been like her sister, but she had found ways to cope with standing up so early. A healthy sleep schedule, the monthly spa visit and a calming tea before bed.
Rarity placed herself on the kitchen table and read the newspapers, while at the same time carefully taking a bite out of her jelly bread. While mostly interested in the fashion industry, Rarity did keep an eye on the happenings around the world. And the potential danger of the girls being discovered, be it an honest to goodness journalist or a mad person.
Luckily there was nothing about them written in the newspaper, in fact there seemed to be nothing going on at the moment in the world, so she disregarded the entire thing completely and focused on her breakfast. Sweetie Belle arrived just in time, still in her pajamas.
"Good morning, Sweetie."
"Morning." Yawned a still tired Sweetie Belle, who slumped down on her chair and started making herself some cold cocoa of all things. Rarity never found out why her sister drank cocoa with milk out of the refrigerator, but that might just be a little quirk of her sister.
"Did you have fun yesterday?"
"Depends." Sweetie Belle shrugged. "It was fun, but Scootaloo wouldn't stop complaining 'bout our English assignment. Kept saying how it didn't make any sense that we learn about a language we already speak, you know?"
"Oh, almost everyone things that way at the beginning. Later you''ll appreciate the work you put into it now."
"That's what the teachers say." Sweetie Belle pointed out.
The sudden sound of the doorbell ringing, got both of their attention.
"A visitor? This early?" Rarity stood up and walked towards the entrance, which was located at her shop. Her parents watched after the shop, when Rarity was in school. Carousel Boutique was originally founded by her grandma, who sadly passed away last year. Now it was only Rarity providing the clothes. Business went down a little, but her father owned a Gun Company of all things, so money wasn't the problem until Rarity was old enough to open her own business.
Said girl opened the door and revealed: "Twilight! Spike! What a pleasant surprise! Please, do come in." Rarity fully opened the door.
Smiling, both Twilight and Spike entered the boutique.
"Hi Rarity." Twilight or rather Midnight replied, but her friend could not know as of now. "Sorry to barge in like that."
"Oh, it's no problem at all." Rarity bend down and gave Spike a scratch behind his ears, who affectionately rubbed his head against her palm. He already found out that she didn't like being licked, be it hand or any other body part.
"Who is it?" Sweetie Belle's voice came from the kitchen.
"It's Twilight, Sweetie." Rarity replied, before turning towards her friends. "Now then, what brings you here?"
"Oh, nothing major. It's just something that's been bothering me for quite a while." If you can call 6 hours, a while.
"What is it, darling? You haven't suddenly started popping up pony ears too, have you?" Rarity asked with a hint of amusement in her voice.
"No, nothing like that."
"Not yet." Spike added his two cents, earning him a look from Twilight.
"What? I have seen enough movies to know how this ends. You're the very definition of a mad scientist."
Twilight rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to Rarity, who couldn't stifle a giggle.
"I'm sorry, darling. I couldn't help but imagine Spike being the result of a Frankenstein experiment."
"Urgh." Twilight facepalmed.
Spike even got up on two legs and did his best to walk like Igor, Frankenstein's assistant.
After Rarity had a good laugh, Twilight spoke up immediately.
"Anyway, I know you don't normally open your shop so early, but I hoped you might help me pick out a new everyday outfit."
Rarity's mind came to a screeching halt, before her eyes literally began to sparkle. She grabbed her friend's arm and pulled her deeper into the boutique.
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Chapter 3: Where there is no clop, because it just didn't fit and would just be completely stupid if I did anyway. Also the title is long enough to waste another 20 seconds of your life.
Sunset didn't immediately notice, but Twilight wasn't wearing her glasses. Upon quick questioning, the former crystal prep student was wearing contacts, which was weird, because last week, when Rainbow Dash suggested the newbie to try on contacts, it had resulted Twilight falling into an one hour explanation as to why contacts are a bad idea.
But that was only one thing that stood out to Sunset. Twilight for example wasn't actively working in class, she wasn't taking any notes, although the girl definitely didn't need and finally, she looked almost restless. As if the girl couldn't wait for class to end.
When it did end, the only thing keeping her back was Sunset taking her time. The former Shadowbolt was tapping her foot impatiently, as she waited for her friend to pack her stuff.
"You're really on edge today, aren't you?" Sunset asked her.
Twilight shrugged. "I just want to get out of here. The scent of chemicals is really making me dizzy today."
"Oh, alright."
Strapping her bag on, Sunset followed Twilight outside into the hallways. As before, there were whispers going around about Twilight's new attire. The normally very shy girl didn't seem to mind the attention at all. She was giving the audience some "suggestive" looks.
The fiery haired girl frowned, but waited, until they turned around a corner, before speaking up.
"I already told you, you can talk with us, if anything is bothering you."
Twilight laughed a little. "What's up with you today? I'm fine. Actually, I'm feeling better than I did in a long time." she explained.
"Yeah...but still. I mean..." Sunset let out a sigh. "You're behaving completely different, than the past few weeks." the fiery haired girl pointed out.
"Wasn't it you who was saying, I shouldn't be afraid to be a little bit more outgoing?" the purple skinned girl asked with a grin.
"You know exactly what I mean." Sunset retorted, a little annoyed by the fact that Twilight was very obviously avoiding the subject at hand.
They walked around the corner, only to witness their friend Fluttershy bumping into another student. Both the girl and the boy landed on their butts and Fluttershy also lost everything she had been carrying, books and papers and such. It all was laying scattered on the ground.
“HEY! Watch it, girlie!” The blonde guy shouted, getting up and hovering above the shy girl.
“Eeep! I’m sorry!” she said in her meek voice.
“Speak up, when I’m talking to you!”
“Hey, leave her alone!” Sunset shouted, her conversation with Twilight temporarily forgotten.
Both girls quickly walked towards their friend, with Sunset helping Fluttershy up. Twilight in the meantime blinked at the person in front of them.
“Blueblood?” she asked, her face slowly showing a sly smile.
“Sparkle?! What are you doing here?!” Blublood shouted surprised.
“That’s what I wanted to ask you, but then I remembered.” her smile grew. “Your parents must be really proud of you.”
“Shut up!” Blueblood shouted, his face completely red.
“You know this guy, Twilight?” Sunset asked, both she and Fluttershy looking curiously at their new friend. It was at this very moment that Fluttershy noticed what Twilight was wearing, causing her eyes to widen.
“He was once at Crystal Prep, like me.” she explained. “He got expelled about a month ago. Not even his parents could save him this time. And they’re senators.” Twilight explained with a satisfying smile.
“What are you doing here Sparkle? Finally blew up your precious lab?” he asked with a sneer.
“None of your petty business.” Twilight replied with a wave of her hand.
“What did you just say?” the boy came dangerously close to Twilight, however the girl didn’t react in any way.
“Hey! Get away from her!” Sunset wanted to step in, but was stopped by Twilight raising an arm.
“Leave him be. After what he pulled off at Crystal Prep, he can’t allow himself to get into trouble again. Isn’t that right, bluey?” the girl asked in a sweet innocent voice, making Blueblood’s blood boil.
Who does this girl think she is? Acting so high and mighty, just because she got some new clothes, which made her look more like a slut anyway. A really sexy slut-
Blueblood mentally shook his head. Not wanting to deal with this anymore, he shoved Twilight away and went down the hall, only for him to stumble over something and fall flat on his nose. He looked behind, but couldn’t find the thing he just fell over. Angry and slightly embarrassed he quickened his pace and was soon gone.
As soon as he was out of sight, Twilight walked up to Fluttershy.
“Are you alright?” she asked genuinely worried, knowing how sensitive her friend was. In return Fluttershy nodded meekly, still taken aback by her friend’s new appeal.
“Don’t let him bother you, okay? He’s just a jerk, who’s full of himself, because his parents hold important positions in our government. Oh right. Let me help you with these.”
Twilight proceeded to pick up the things that were laying on the floor. Sunset proceeded to help, but kept a close eye on the lavender skinned girl. Said girl of course noticed the constant looks both of her friends were giving her.
Guess I need to tell them after school. And somehow convince them not to take everything away from me.
“Here you go.”
“Thank you.” Fluttershy whispered, taking her stuff from her friends. She quickly sorted everything out, glancing every now and then to Twilight, who was smiling kindly in her direction.
Sunset was more confused than ever, but at the same time was sure of one thing. Something was up with Twilight and she would not let herself being shrugged off anymore.
Sunset waited to confront Twilight until lunch period, when the Rainbooms would all be gathered together on the table. At least that was the plan, but to the unicorn’s surprise it was Twilight who took the advantage. The two were just standing in line, when the newest Wondercolt spoke up.
“I know you have questions.” Twilight whispered, causing Sunset to turn around. The fiery haired girl didn’t expect to see the former crystal prep student frowning.
Sunset took in a deep breath and then smiled. “Okay. Thanks for trusting us. Though, I don’t know if the others can come today.”
Speaking of the others, Rainbow Dash almost spit out her cider, yet managed to swallow it.
“Holy shit, Twi! What the hell are you wearing?”
“You like it?” Twilight smiled. “I found them at Rarity’s place.”
“Really now?” Applejack asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Don’t worry. She didn’t force me to wear it or anything. And yes, I know. It’s completely different from what I usually wear.” she said with a mock roll of her eyes.
“Ah say. No offense Twi’, but ya look straight up laike...how do ah put this?” the farm girl felt very uncomfortable saying what she had on her mind.
“Anyway” Rarity stopped AJ before her friend potentially said something she would regret saying. “personally, I think it quite fits her. Even if I would have chosen something a bit more elegant.”
“What are you talking about? I think she looks super, duper!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed in her usual cheerful manner.
“Still sugar. Why the sudden change of outfits?” Applejack asked.
“If I’m 100% honest, I just want to burn this stupid uniform.” Twilight informed the rest.
“Why’s that?” the farmer asked the question, everyone was silently asking inside their heads.
“Yeah, it didn’t even look bad.” Pinkie Pie nodded.
“It’s not really about the looks, more like...screw it, I just want to forget my entire time at Crystal Prep.” the new girl admitted, frowning at her food.
Her friends gave each other a look. Sunset had the feeling they might just have gotten a hint on Twilight’s change of behavior.
“I know it wasn’t the best time you ever had, but I’m pretty sure the Shadowbolts felt sorry for everything, after...well you know, seeing you letting it “all out”. No offense.”
“None taken.” Twilight waved off. “And I wasn’t really letting it all out.” she explained, causing everyone to snap their heads into her direction. So far the friendship games had been a very delicate subject, at least when Twilight was around. But from the looks of things, she was actually going to speak openly about her experience.
“I wasn’t...really in control you know. It was like my deepest desires, namely learning everything about magic and possibly gaining even more power, had surfaced and taken over my mind. If I would have been in control…” Twilight made a long pause. “I’m sure I would have freaked for maybe a split second, like when I called for help. But simply feeling the magic going through me.” She took in a deep breath. “I’m sure I would have used it in some way to finally get my payback on everyone, before going off to Equestria.”
Again her friends looked uncomfortable at each other, not sure what to say or if they should say anything at all at the moment.
“At the same time, I wouldn’t have tried to destroy this world. There are a few people I really care about, you know? Spike, my brother, Dean Cadance, my parents...and you guys.” she added with a smile, to which everyone else smiled back.
“Sorry, but can we talk about something else? This is really depressing and I really just want to forget everything about Crystal Prep.”
“Reminds me, didn’t you want to invite us over to your place, today?” Sunset asked.
“Oh, are we going to have a sleepover?” Pinkie asked, leaning over the table.
Twilight in return laughed. “Sorry, but I don’t think my parents would allow it on such a short notice. No, there’s something I want to show you girls. If you have the time, today.”
“Sure thing. Don’t have anything better to do, today.” Rainbow shrugged.
“Yeah, me too. It’s Big Mac’s turn ta take care of th’ animals.” Applejack agreed.
“Totally fine with me!” Pinkie Pie held up her fork, before digging in, causing little splashes of food to splatter everywhere.
“Pinkie Pie!” Rarity shouted. “Please be more careful. In any event, my schedule is free for today. What about you, Fluttershy?”
“Oh....um...I think so. Yes.” the animal lover whispered, avoiding her to look directly at Twilight.
“I already gave you my okay.” Sunset nodded.
I wonder what caused this sudden change of behavior. It’s almost like she is possessed, but that can’t be it, right? She’s still all friendly towards us. Is this maybe a part of her personality she suppressed because of the bullying? And now she’s letting it finally out? But why now and not earlier? No, that theory just doesn’t add up. It must be something else.
For the rest of the day, Twilight had classes with each of the girls on different periods. Rainbow Dash tried to tease the girl during PE, about how she was trying to grab herself a guy, but Twilight just shrugged it off.
“You’re just jealous, your outfit is not as awesome as mine.”
Rainbow replied by throwing a dodgeball at the girl.
After school was finally over, everyone gathered outside, waiting for the bus to come. Spike used the time to stretch himself, as he didn’t get to walk around a lot that day.
“Twilight, you need a bigger bag. Every single bone in my body hurts.”
“Sorry Spike.” Twilight patted him on the head. “I don’t have my own lab here at this school. Guess you’ll have to stay at home from now on.”
“Aww.” Spike dropped his head on Twilight’s lap, to which the girl gave her best friend a nice, slow massage on his back.
“Um...I have a spare bag.” Fluttershy spoke carefully. “It’s big enough and you can separate him from your books.”
“Really? You would lend me it? Aw, thank you, Fluttershy.”
“Y-you’re welcome.” Fluttershy meeped, as the lavender skinned girl threw her arms around the butter colored one. She was freed from her friend, when the bus arrived and everyone stepped inside.
Around 20 minutes later…
“My parents won’t be home, until this evening.” Twilight explained, as she opened the door. “Please take off your shoes. My mom gets a fit, when the floor gets dirty. The living room is just up ahead. Do any of you want something to drink maybe?”
By the declination from all of her friends, Twilight shrugged and told the girls to make themselves comfortable, as she wanted to get Spike something to eat before anything else.
The living room was really spacious. It had multiple couches, a flat screen TV, a huge potted plant in the corner, purple and blue curtains in front of very long windows, a garden was outside and finally there was a cabinet filled with pictures of various family members.
“Man, Twilight’s living really good.” Rainbow commented.
“Hmm, I don’t know. I think this room just begs to be decorated.” Rarity looked around, already getting some ideas.
“Wonder if every room is as big as this one.” Sunset commented looking at a picture, which showed the entire Sparkle family and Dean Cadance sitting outside an ice café. There was a book lying on the table in front of Twilight. Spike was still puppy, by the time the picture was taken.
Twilight walked into the living room, holding a glass of water in her hand. She placed it on the small cabinet the TV was standing on, before speaking up.
“Okay. I’m sure you all find my behavior today...rather odd.”
Yeah, odd. Sunset thought to herself.
“Now, I want to reassure you, I’m feeling perfectly fine both mentally and physically.”
“You’re starting to worry me darling.” Rarity said, frowning.
“Yeah, stop beating around the bush and tell us what’s up.” Rainbow proclaimed.
“Alright, alright. First off, do you girls by any chance know a trio of girls, who claim to be sirens?”
The atmosphere darkened immediately. In a matter of moments, Twilight found herself surrounded by her friends, who each looked at her with a mixture of worry and anger.
“What did they do to you?” Rainbow asked in a dangerously low tone.
“Please stand back.”
The girls looked at each other, before taking a few steps back. They initially assumed, they made the girl in the middle somehow uncomfortable. However, these thoughts quickly left their minds, as Twilight was suddenly flown into the air. Soon enough she was surrounded by a dark purple glow. Sparks of purple energy flew towards her, until a shockwave was released from where the girl was flying. Suddenly hovering above them was no longer their friend Twilight Sparkle, but Midnight Sparkle complete with wings, horn and the “glasses”.
Midnight gracefully landed on the ground, folding her wings behind her back. She looked to each of her friends, noting their reactions. Fluttershy was hiding her face behind her hair, and looked like she wanted to hide behind the couch. Applejack and Rainbow Dash looked at her in utter disbelief. Their bodies were bend over, possibly ready to attack and subdue her. Rarity was looking aghast, but held her ground. Pinkie Pie looked worried at Midnight, not smiling anymore, but looking determined. And as for Sunset, at first glance she appeared calm, but you could see her eyes frantically moving, her brain analyzing the situation, deciding whether to run and regroup or face Midnight now.
“They knocked me out, when I went stargazing last night and brought me to their home. They performed some kind of ritual and transferred the last remaining magic they had into me.” Midnight chuckled.
“It turned out, they thought I was Princess Twilight. The plan was to corrupt her and accept her as their new master, until they would find an opportunity to get their powers back. I cleared up everything and made them run for their dear lives, before heading home.”
“These bitches don’t know when to call quits.” Rainbow growled, her eyes never leaving Midnight.
“Oh darling, I’m so sorry.” Rarity told her friend.
“Don’t be. It wasn’t your fault and I’m actually feeling really good.” Midnight explained, smiling. “Of course, you’re already thinking of a way to “purge” me of the dark magic, aren’t you Sunset?” Midnight asked, approaching the girl she had spoken to, until their faces were only inches away.
Sunset for her part managed to hold the gaze, but didn’t say anything.
“What else do you expect us to do? Just to sit here and let you do whatever you have planned?” Rainbow Dash asked, motioning for AJ to take position behind Midnight.
“Oh, but the only thing I have “planned” is to ask Sunset to be my teacher.” Midnight said, causing everyone to halt in their motions.
“What? You’re joking, right?” Sunset asked.
“Of course not.” Midnight said as a matter of factly. She took a few steps back, resulting in Rainbow’s plan to tackle the girl from behind to get busted, since Midnight now had the athlete girl in her view.
“You see, I have all these powers, but the only thing I can do is act on instinct and mostly let the magic happen. Quite literally. I don’t understand any of it and it’s really bothering me.” she let out a frustrated sigh.
“What did you expect? Me trying to take over the world?”
“Kinda.” Pinkie Pie said confused.
The winged girl in the middle looked towards the party girl and shook her head. “No, that would be just unnecessary distraction.”
“Unnecessary distraction?” AJ repeated in a deadpan. “Ya mean it, don’t ya?”
Midnight nodded. “I know you have very little reason to trust me at the moment, since last time I lost control over myself, when I was overwhelmed with magic. But consider this, if my plan really was to take over this world or Equestria, wouldn’t it be easier for me to put you all under my control, make you my personal slaves and use you to drain you regularly of your magic?”
The other girls couldn’t help, but consider this. There wasn’t really any reason for Midnight to reveal herself to all of them and then not do anything to prevent them from stopping her again?
“Let’s say, I agree.” Sunset said carefully. “What do you plan on using this knowledge for?”
“Satisfying my curiosity of course. This is really the only reason. No taking over the world, no secret cult, slavery and no making you my personal magic supplies. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye. GAH!”
Suddenly Midnight found herself hugged from behind by Pinkie Pie, who was almost literally pressing the air out of the dark being.
“Oh goodie, goodie! I was worried there for a moment you turned evil, again, and we would have to zap you with our rainbow light, again, but before that we might have had to fight our way through an army of teenage zombies, again, and then-mmhmhmhmm mhmm mhm mhm, MHM, mhmhmhmm mhm mhm mhmmmhmm, MHM-”
Pinkie Pie’s mouth had already been sealed shut by Midnight’s magic, but somehow the party girl didn’t seem to realize that and went on and on and on, until she was finally finished. Everyone was looking at the scene, expecting to wake up from a weird dream. Carefully the winged girl released Pinkie’s mouth from the magic, ready to seal it shut again.
“Uh...thanks for believing me?”
“Well, DUH! You pinkie promised, silly.” The pink haired girl brought her face so close to Midnight’s, their noses were pressing against each other. “And nobody breaks a Pinkie Promise.” she added in all seriousness.
“Oooh! Can I touch your feathers? Can I, can I?”
Before Midnight could say something or one of the others take Pinkie Pie away, the girl touched one of the feathers, causing the dark magic infused girl to shriek.
“AHH!”
“Ohohohoho, is someone ticklish?” Pinkie Pie asked with a devilish grin.
“Wait, no, no! AHHH! Ahahahahahahah, stop it! Hahahaha!”
Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash walked up to Sunset, their eyes never leaving the scene of Pinkie Pie and Midnight Sparkle lying on the ground, while the latter was being tortured by tickle attacks from the party planner.
“Am ah dreaming this?” Applejack asked carefully.
“I don’t think so. Unless we have the same dream.” Rarity put in her two cents.
“What do we do now?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“She doesn’t look...you know...evil.” Fluttershy whispered.
“Honestly?” Sunset tried to ignore the upcoming headache. “I am not even sure what to do at this point. Did one of you spike one of my drinks?”
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Clop chapter between Midnight and someone you probably didn't expect. I hope the content is..."satisfactional" (that's not a word) and it's good to be back. Though writing this was harder than it should have been. This is somethin
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Chapter 2: Where Twilight gets some new clothes and NO! They're not slutty, just because I rated this story M! Get your minds out of the gutter! Seriously...
If Midnight would have known what she had gotten herself into, she would have just gone to the mall and endure another day in her Crystal Prep uniform. Both Rarity and Midnight normally get up very early, so they still had time until school started. Unfortunately for Midnight it meant that Rarity used the opportunity to put her into all kinds of clothes. The outfits reached from clothes that only a fashion obsessed person would wear, to simpler things, like the outfit Princess Twilight wore while visiting.
"No offense Rarity, but I'd rather not be some copy cat, you know? I want to be my own person." she said, as she took of the clothes.
"Hmm, I guess you're right." Rarity tapped with her finger against her chin. She was wearing her red glasses and her measuring tape was thrown over her right shoulder.
"And are you sure, you don't want to try the dress out one more time? You will be an eye catcher, you know. Maybe catch yourself a boyfriend." Rarity winked.
Midnight rolled her eyes. Sure she wanted to be an "eye catcher" as Rarity put it, but a dress? Maybe for school prom or something similar, but not for everyday life.
"I'll think about it. Do you maybe have something else I can try on?"
"Why of course, dear. Who do you think you're talking to?"
Seemingly out of nowhere, Rarity produced a couple of racks, various clothes hanging on them and for some inexplicable reason, they're exactly Midnight's size.
"Why don't you take a look yourself? I need to look after my sister, as well as quickly clean up the kitchen. I'll be right back, darling."
Rarity quickly left Midnight alone near one of the changing room the boutique had to offer. Like Rarity suggested, Midnight looked around the tons of outfits Rarity made first hand. The girl wondered, when her friend found the time to produce all of those clothes. After all, she still had to keep up with her school work.
There were a couple of things that caught Midnight's eyes, but in the end she decided it all looked too..."good". She wished there was at least something similar to what she was wearing, when she transformed into her true form. Speaking of which, why did the magic produce new clothes? The mirror did the same thing with every pony that came over from Equestria, according to what Twilight and Sunset told her. Shouldn't they be naked? She put this thought as another research project into the back of her mind.
Midnight was ready to give up, when something caught her attention and it wasn't something from what Rarity had produced. It actually was just a lonely t-shirt, lying on a shelve. It was a light lavender colored t-shirt, same as her skin color. Or better said old skin color. This was just an illusion after all. Looking around a little more, she found something hanging in front of the display. Surely Rarity wouldn't mind if she tried it on.
Next up, that dress looked quite nice. And over there in the shoe section, she found some nice boots. She was actually the only one among her friends who didn't wear any boots. She also found a belt, by pure chance. Finally Rarity had made a few of her personal "marks". The thing with the marks started a couple of centuries ago in the country they're in. The tradition stuck to this date.
Having everything gathered, Midnight quickly went into the changing room.
Midnight stepped out of the changing room with a satisfied smile. Her new outfit suited her so much more. It would tell everyone not to mess with her. Sure it would confuse her new friends at first, but they would get used to her new self pretty quickly. At least that's what she thought.
"Alright darling." Rarity announced her return. "I think we have time for one or two more- oh my, darling, Twilight! What are you wearing?" the fashion girl exclaimed, quickly walking up to her friend.
"Twilight" barely had time to turn around, when Rarity grabbed her arms and inspected every inch of Midnight's body, even going as far as leaning down and looking at the belt, as if there was some kind of message that needed to be encrypted.
"Why darling, this looks...magnificent. Kind of like you're a bad girl, though...if I'm completely honest" Rarity let go of Midnight at this point. "I didn't take you for the kind of person to wear something like this." she gestured at Midnight's new outfit, who shrugged in return.
"I've been thinking about these past couple of days and decided to try something new out. Spike encouraged me too to be a little more open. And, if I'm 100% honest, Sunset's leather jacket and purple shirt outfit kinda "inspired" me in the first place."
"I...see." Rarity bit her lip.
She wasn't really sure what to think of this development. Granted she didn't know Twilight that well, but what she knew was that when someone decided to change their outfit to the completely opposite of what they've been wearing, it was either because they felt like they needed to change outfits in order to "fit in" or someone pressured them into doing so. Rarity suspected the former, but didn't voice her concerns as of yet. She didn't want to say something, before she was sure of her suspicions. Besides, the outfit did look splendid on Twilight and might help the girl to be a bit more open and get in contact with more than just their small group of friends.
"So, how much do I owe you?"
"Oh please, darling! You're my friend! There's no need for you to pay me."
"If you say so...huh?"
Midnight stared with wide eyes, as Rarity's pony ears and pony tail started to grow seemingly out of nowhere.
"Oh dear." Rarity chuckled awkwardly, flipping her tail around.
"If only my hair would stay that way. It simply looks divine!"
"This is simply amazing." Midnight breathed out. "I wish I knew how it works."
"Twilight, I don't want to bring up any bad memories-"
"I don't mean it that way!" Midnight snapped, causing Rarity to flinch.
"Sorry."
"No darling, I'm the one who's sorry." Rarity put a and on Midnight's shoulder. "You're just your natural, curious self. I shouldn't be worried about that. That's just silly. Forgive me?"
"Of course. And thanks, for the clothes. I think we better go, before we're too late. Spike? Spike!"
"Coming, coming! Jeez Twilight, you know that- whoa there Twi! What the heck are you wearing?"
Sunset grumbled some incomprehensible words, as she just could not find her chemistry book. It wasn't at home and it seemingly wasn't in her locker too. So where the hell did she leave it? She couldn't just buy a new one, she was on a tight budget and school box where expensive.
"Guess I have to ask Twilight to share, until I find. Or get a new one." she growled the last part, a little angry at herself. Sighing, she closed her locker and began walking to class. She hadn't seen Twilight all day, which was curious, because the girl tended to be very punctual. She hoped the girl wasn't sick or experiencing some form of PTSD because of the Friendship Games. Sunset had her own issues with PTSD even months after the Fall Formal.
"Have you seen what she's wearing?"
"I know. I didn't take her for that kind of girl."
"Maybe she's just trying to get a boyfriend."
"Remember what she wore then? I still have pictures and honestly? I think I might..."
"Dude, that's suicidal."
Ah, yes. Good old rumors. Sunset didn't get how the students her continuously believed them, when they's been proven either false or exaggerated so many times. And after so many incidents, you'd think the student body would be more weary of them. Arriving near the labs, Sunset could see a group of students gathered just outside the door. Confused and curious, she walked over to them, to see what could be so interesting to almost block the entire hallway. What she saw, made her jaw drop.
"T-Twilight?!" Sunset exclaimed.
"Hey Sunset." Midnight greeted back, going to her friend.
While she walked, Sunset couldn't help but notice that Twilight was walking a lot like Sunset did back before the Fall Formal. She looked confident, walked upright, instead of a little bend over. Her hips were swinging just a little bit, but the Equestrian knew enough about boys to know that their hormones would work overtime. And finally there was this confident, outright evil smirk.
"I...uh....nice clothes?"
"Thanks." For some reason Twilight still sounded her usual, good girl self. That was just...wrong.
"Rarity helped me-"
Further talk was interrupted by the bell signaling the first class was about to start. The gathered students went away and as for Twilight and Sunset, they walked into the lab-room.
"Twi', Rarity didn't force you to wear it, did she?" Sunset asked in a hushed tone.
Twilight giggled. "No, but I found everything at her place. Thought I'd try something new, you know?"
"It's a little drastic change, don't you think?" Sunset asked, being a little worried about her friend's sudden change of behavior.
"You sound a lot like Spike. He was going so far, as to calling me being mind controlled."
"We already had that. Twice." Sunset winced at the memories. "Sorry, if I'm a little bit overly cautious, when my friends have a seemingly sudden shift in their behavior."
To this Twilight smiled warmly. "I see. Oh, teach is here. Let's talk later."
"By the way, you got your book with you? I lost mine."
