Ten Years ago
"Hey Carrot stick! You Enjoyed the prom last night?" Iron Will said as he grabbed his fellow senior by the neck in a half nelson and began ruffling his mop of scruffy orange hair. Carrot Cake only sighed and tried his best to take what ever it was that was dished out to him, the way he had over the last...four years was it? 'Saints alive it feels like this has been going on forever!' He thought to himself as he remembered every day from the freshmen fling to the fall formal, at first it felt like everything was going smoothly after the formal but then it just felt like day by day that life at Canterlot high was going on like this forever...little did Carrot know that's kinda what was going on. His life, life here in the other end of the mirror verse, was controled partly by the magical Allicorn Princess Celestia.
''Iron leave him alone!'' Iron Will's ex-girlfriend Cupcake said as she stood in her senior dress from last night. It was exit day for the seniors, and unknown to them all, it'd be the last one Celestia would allow their world to have for a long time. Iron Will let Carrot go and turned to his ex.
''Babe, I just don't get why you of all girls in this dump ditched a hero and picked a total zero.'' Iron Will said as he adjusted his letterman Jacket for Varsity championship. As cupcake helped Carrot off the ground and dusted him off.
''I think a real man wouldn't pick on someone else the way you do Will.'' She said looking Carrot in the eyes. ''You alright Carrot?'' She said as she seemingly didn't notice her hand taking his. Carrot however DID notice and he began to blush.
''Ugh...yeah I'm okay Cupcake.'' He said his voice slightly squeaky and pubescent, Carrot Cake was a LATE bloomer.
''He really shouldn't treat you like that you know, you'd think we'd outgrow acting like that by now, know what I mean Carrot?'' She asked holding his hand lovingly. Cupcake had been crushing on Carrot for a while, and had made it her vow to tell him how she really felt before their graduation day. The both of them stopped outside the main door as Twilight Velvet and her boyfriend Nightlight walked passed them, arm and arm whispering sweet nothings in each other's ears.
"What do you plan on doing after all is said and done here? Carrot asked as they went through the doors of Canterlot High for (presumably( the last time in their lives.
"Well I have my job at that Italian bakery across town, really baking's always been my passion but I'm not sure if I can see myself going pro or really into the business myself one day."
"You're a baker Cupcake?...well I know It's a little obvious with your name but..." Carrot blushed and chuckled awkwardly but Cupcake found that cute about him. She always liked the way he was a little on the dorky side, she had often felt empathy for Carrot cake, her own shortcomings like her slightly pudgy build a testament to that.
"You know...I always liked the way you do that." She said giving her swirly top of her cotton candy like hair a fluff.
"Do what?" Carrot asked blushing as she leamed to his ear and whispered.
"Kiss me Carrot." As Cupcake placed her hands on hos gangly frame and locked eyes with Carrot. Who could hardly believe what he was hearing. Cupcake placed her other hand behind his head and brought her lips to his. They kissed tenderly and full on each other's mouths. Tongue tips teasingly slipping into their respective owner's mouths.
A universe away, two earth ponies also named Cupcake and Carrot cake, were also kissing each other. Only they did so on an altar at a wedding in Ponyville proceeded by Marble pie, his young and unusual blank flank filly Pinkie serving as a flower girl on the day Ponyville would subconsciously call out to her to return to it. Subsequently, an eighth grader also named Pinkie looked up at Canterlot High with aspirations for her first day there come fall.
Upon seeing all this take place, Princess Celestia opened up her little China cabinet holding the little figures for Human Carrot, Cupcake and several others. Which she allowed a few grains of sand to fall into the lower portion of the corresponding hourglass and time to move forward for them at last.*
Now.
Carrot cake's flew open as he found himself waking up with a start. 'Strange,' he thought to himself. 'Why aren't the twins crying for their breakfast right now?' The next thing he did was feel the spot beside him for his wife Cupcake, but instead of her plump but huggable frame, his hand landed on hard wood? "Cupcake? Fear are you?" Then he noticed something was wrong with his voice, something that couldn't, no shouldn't be possible. He hadn't heard that voice since...
Carrot shot up in bed fully concerned now only to look around and think he was in someone else's room. For one thing; it was a one person bedroom, for another, it looked like a teenage boy's room! Posters for video games, old action and sci-fi movies, and tacky bands like The all American rejects and Green Day....well taky to a formerly grown adult like him.
"What...the...fu..." his last word was cut off by a clock radio going off making him turn his head to it and when he looked into a mirror in the closet he nearly screamed. The face that looked back at him, was one of that awkward geeky Carrot who hadn't been to Canterlot High in years. Across town a similar situation was happening to his wife Cupcake, who after the inital shock thought she looked a lot slimmer. His old enemy Iron Will who swore of the buff up powder, believing the whole thng was a side effect to it, and several other formerly grown adults.
"Are you sure the doppelganger versions of our subjects won't be...shocked by what you're doing to them?" Princess Luna asked her sister as she made sand fly back up in the hourglasses of the respective figures.
"Oh Luna you silly sister of mine." Celestia said cheerfully and blissfully unaware of what she had done. "I consider it...a favor for those strange and silly creatures we have on the other side of that dusty old mirror." She said as the last two figures were reversed...them.
Author's Note
See this story's prequel, Is time broken? For details.
