Are... Are These Magic, too?

"Equestria."

"What?"

"That's where you said you're from, right?"

If you're going by the widely accepted length of time, there is twenty-four hours in a day. To that same effect, there are three-hundred sixty-five days in a year; or three-hundred sixty-six some years. The average school year lasts from one-hundred seventy days to one-hundred eighty days. And a normal school day lasts for roughly six to seven hours.

Putting that together, the average student that spends a normal amount of time at school spends roughly eighteen hours out of the school. Now if you take into consideration that the average school student needs to have nine hours of sleep, they're left with about nine hours of free time at home or wherever they wish.

But none of this really matters.

What does matter is that out of all the time in a student's year, they spend about one-thousand, two-hundred sixty hours in a school. That sounds like a lot, but a lot of that flies by in classes and passing periods. But, for Sunset Shimmer, she spends each of those agonizing one-thousand, two-hundred sixty hours hiding or running for her life. From one class to the next, from one "safe" to whichever one she could duck into for cover. Each hour of school was an agonizing chore... More than it used to be, at least.

It hadn't always been that way for her. She never liked school, but what student did? Yet, she put up with it just like anyone else. That is until the Friendship Games ended.

"Oh! Yeah. Not really used to people asking that. Sorry."

"No, I'm sorry for asking so suddenly."

"Anyway, yeah. I'm from Equestria. It's -uh- a magic kingdom populated by ponies that talk... And as strange as that sounds to you, the idea of a world where creatures without fur walk around on two legs wearing stitched together fabrics all the time was strange to me at first."

Many changes came with the end of this year's Friendship Games. Actually, it was just one change: A new student. A new student isn't exactly a "change" as much as a "thing that happened", but there was still a new student walking the halls. A student that shared the face, name, hair, voice, speech patterns, pet dog, skin tone, fashion sense, and pretty much every other aspect that makes a person unique with someone they all knew fondly: Twilight Sparkle.

The entire student body and faculty had to get used to seeing this Twilight Sparkle as a different Twilight Sparkle as than the Twilight Sparkle that saved their school twice. After some time, everyone started to pick up on the subtle differences that made "Sci-Twi" (a name they lovingly gave her due to the glasses she always wore) different than Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight was adorably awkward.

Sci-Twi was awkwardly adorable.

It's a very subtle difference; almost invisible to the naked eye some would say. But, more over, there was a greater key difference between the princess and the pauper.

Sci-Twi was very curious.

"So... Magic is... Just a THING where you come from. Everyone can just do it whenever?"

"Not exactly. See, there are Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns. I mean, there are a LOT more species and races I could get into, but lets focus on those three. Out of them, unicorns are the only ones that can actually use magic the way you'd think."

"Were you an unicorn?"

Like princess Twilight promised her once before, Sunset Shimmer made a vow to help "Sci-Twi" learn about friendship. However, she wasn't as interested in learning about friendship as Sunset Shimmer was. At every turn and avenue down the road to learning friendship, Twilight focused more on her teacher than the lesson. Not to say she didn't learn anything about friendship, that is. If any lesson stuck with her, it was that wearing a Crystal Prep uniform to Canterlot High every day wasn't the smartest way to make good impressions. But, some would say that only made the confusion between "Sci-Twi" and Princess Twilight Sparkle grow when she started wearing the same clothes her alternate self would wear.

Still... It was some kind of improvement.

"I was actually. And -I mean- it's not really me to brag, but... I was pretty good at it."

"It's unbelievable..."

"It was hard for me to believe too. Going from a pony with a horn and magic, to a normal everyday girl in a matter of seconds."

"...Did it hurt?"

But Twilight still never had much interest in friendship; not compared to her deep fascination with magic. With Equestria. With Sunset Shimmer. At first, Sunset humored her intrigue. She could relate to wanting to understand magic in this world. But unlike Sunset herself, Twilight was a complete outsider looking in. It was cute.

Cute at first. Then the questions started escalating more and more.

"It did, yeah. I was a prized student in magic. They said I could have been one of the greatest with some more training. So, it did cut pretty deep when I didn't have--"

"No-no-no! I mean... Did it hurt when you turned into a human?"

"OH! Wow... I really went on a different--whatever. Yeah, I guess it did. It all happened so suddenly if I'm going to be completely honest. One second I walk through the portal, the next I'm face down on the ground with hands, feet, and clothes for some reason. I hear Twilight -PRINCESS Twilight- woke up sitting in this world when she first came through the portal. That's probably why she said she felt sore."

"You didn't?"

"Actually, no. I didn't understand why she felt sore when she came through and I didn't at first. Then I put it together... She landed on her butt, while I landed on my chest... Which -turns out- is a bit more fluffy and comfortable compared to how they were back in Equestria."

"Really? How?"

"Um... Maybe I can tell you about that some other time. A bit personal, you know?"

Sunset Shimmer never did get back to Twilight on an answer to that. Ever since, she subtly avoided her during school and cloistered herself among her friends after school to deter Twilight from popping the question again.

Which brings us round again. A student that spends each hour running and hiding during the entire school day from another student. No one ever questions why Sunset Shimmer ever does it; but she must have her reasons. Those reasons being the reason why she was on the lam today. Still trying to avoid Twilight "The Sci" Sparkle and her now strange fascination with Sunset's breasts.

Truth be told, Sunset herself was slightly impressed with her own bust. Back on Equestria, the way breasts worked and were placed on the body did not leave much time to admire them or find them attractive. And yet, here in a world filled with humans, she found that breasts were almost idolized. Make-up used to draw the eyes to them, clothes that made them more pronounced, even underwear to make them 'bigger'. On Equestria, that would all seem wildly stupid.

But here?

Here she came to find out that she had what some people would call "a nice rack". She didn't understand what that meant at first and still doesn't, but she can see her chest is a bit larger than most of her friends'. She could even remember a time when she heard Lyra Heartstrings groaning to herself about how she would "kill to have tits like that". The fixation of humans to their breasts was somewhat confusing...

But Sunset never complained about any of the attention. It was a different feeling to being in Equestria entirely. What were breasts for there? Feeding. That and that alone.

What were they used for here? Drawing attention and a lot of other things Sunset found out about after a night with Pinkie Pie and the internet. Oh, and feeding... But that wasn't nearly as important.

To be honest, Sunset did not want to talk to Twilight about her breasts for that very reason. It just felt very strange to her. To be in a world where the size of your breasts is among the first things people gauge about you? She still could never understand that and had no intention of talking about that with a friend she only just started to get to know. When the final bell of school rang, she would be out of the building and off to one of her other friends' places to stay out of Twilight's clutches... And to sleep somewhere for the night.

The final bell of the day sounded through the halls and every student clambered out of the classrooms to finally head home. Finally, she would be safe for another day. Now she only had to wait for the halls to clear out a bit more before she made her move. If there was a crowd, there was a chance Twilight was hiding among them like an assassin ready to strike. An empty hall made for a clearer range of sight to avoid her would-be attacker.

A moment passed with her squatting behind a locker for cover before the halls of Canterlot High were all but vacated. Sunset listened to hear if anyone else was still lurking in the halls but heard not a footstep. Relieved, she got out from her cover and started her quest out of the school. A part of Sunset missed the company of the other students on her way out, but that feeling was easily trumped by her want to stay out of Twilight's range of questioning.

As the thought came to her, she felt a sudden chill. A chill that melted in the matter of an instant as a tingling warmth wafted over her. Sunset took a single stumbling step forward as she felt a light push press against her back. But that wasn't all she felt. Around her sides and against her chest was the feeling of two hands grasping down onto her breasts. Sunset wordlessly glanced down at the pair of hands holding onto her breasts now and noted them to be a familiar purple. She had no idea how she did it, but she managed it.

"Twilight...?" She didn't even need to ask.

Dainty purple fingers fixated on her chest? Who else? As if answering, the hands gripped around Sunset's breasts buckled down a bit. Sunset flinched, a single breath escaped her lips as her entire frame went stiff. "Sorry," Twilight managed an actual word, "The curiosity is just too much."

Sunset released a shuddering gasp as Twilight's hands tugged and shifted at the shirt Sunset wore over her chest; making for the fabric to rub against the bare breast beneath. "Why didn't I just grab a dirty bra from the laundry room instead of this?" Sunset cursed herself for deciding that just this once she would skip on her bra. No one would notice if she just doubled up on her shirts as well, right? That choice was now folding in on her hard as the fabric rubbed up against her sensitive chest.

Twilight's eyes narrowed a bit, intrigued. She suddenly gave Sunset a light squeeze to either side of her breasts, invoking another dull groan from her as she winced. "H-Hey. You know what? Maybe I'll just tell you after all, yeah? This seems a bit excessi--" Sunset's words were sharply cut to an unfiltered yelp of pleasure as one of Twilight's fingers slid over the top of Sunset's breast.

"...What was that?" Twilight's interest was suddenly very piqued.

Shoot.

"Oh, you know," Sunset stammered, looking around the halls for someone to pop up, "Boobs, right? Touch'em and they... Yeah." Maybe she bought it.

"No..." She did not buy it. "No, I'm absolutely sure that I've touched my chest at least once and I didn't squeak like that."

"Well, it sounds like you have a new experiment to run tonight! So how about you let me go and he--" Sunset's attempt to dissuade Twilight devolved into yet another sharp, lingering yelp as Twilight thumbed across the top of Sunset's exposed breast.

Twilight's thumbs pressed squarely down against the soft yellow skin of her friendship-teacher, which she noted brought forth escalating labored breaths from Sunset Shimmer. As she noticed the pitch raising and setting the more or less she pressed into Sunset's chest, Twilight's eyes widened as a new theory came to mind. "Sunset... Are..."

Gradually Sunset could feel Twilight's hands curve around her chest and start to graze their palms against her bare skin, forcing Sunset to tighten her legs together and bite squarely on her bottom lip. Warmth washed over her in sparks and tingles from every corner of her body. It had been so long since the Friendship Games, so long since "Sci-Twi" was stripped of her overwhelming magic. And yet, the tingling pleasure filling Sunset from Twilight's touch told her one thing: magic was still in Twilight.

"...Are these magic, too?" Twilight's hands involuntarily started to fondle up against Sunset's breasts, sliding her fingers under the cover of Sunset's shirt to fully explore this new venue.

The feeling was overwhelming to her. The magic dormant under her own human form reacted against the very magic hidden in Twilight herself. Two pieces running up against one another, trying to connect with Sunset as a conduit. The sensation filled her from the tips of her toes to her nose; a deep burning that only increased the more Twilight explored these reactive breasts. All Sunset could do was endure, try to focus on something out and not pay attention to the huffing sounds she whimpered out; or the now undeluded moans escaping her lips. It would take all of her will to endure.

All that will did, however, shatter when she felt it. She felt it, and that was it. Twilight's fingers, fondling Sunset's heavy breasts in exploration pressed the two buttons at the peaks of each mound. The pressed into them, rubbing against the little perked nubs; and Sunset lost it. Her eyes went wide and she clenched her teeth squarely, her entire body filled with a sudden burst of electricity. Sunset couldn't muster a word for quite a moment as her breathe caught. Her legs quivered and grew slick with a sudden release between them; one born entirely from another woman touching her breasts. As the waves of pleasure crashed through her one right after the other, Sunset made a faint sound between her moans.

"Twilight..." she groaned out the single name before her form went limp into Twilight's hands still tucked into Sunset's shirt.

Twilight carefully propped Sunset Shimmer against a row of lockers, letting her catch her breath. She examined her own hands for a second, tilting her head one way and raising a brow at how curious the reaction she got was. Then, it clicked in her. With a proud, ignorant smile, "Sci-Twi" looked at the labored Sunset Shimmer. "They are magic! This requires further study!"