Beyond the Looking Glass

Shock and awe had a new meaning that day when two human beings from a parallel world walked out of Celestia’s portal.

Princess Cadance’s eyes widened in shock. Immediately she could feel the bond between these two. It was heartwarming, deep, and passionate; It was as two lovers that had no qualms of expressing their love with one another, that held back for nopony. All of that filled her heart with a warmth that only the Princess of Love could know. And yet, that wasn’t the shocking part. That part came from the fact that this warmth, this love she felt was the exact same as what she felt from Twilight and Rainbow. Just… bigger, multiplied a thousand times over again. It was as if these two were her Twilight and Rainbow Dash, just further along than she ever hoped, ever dared imagined them being.

Princess Luna stood with her wings spread out behind her, her hooves bent, and her horn lowered. She glared at the newcomers and readied her magical energy. She was more than battle ready, ready to attack, to defend the land against whatever threat these two represented. Or that’s what an onlooker would believe. The truth is she just loved a good battle, and against unknown foes, there was none better.

Celestia’s posture was different from her sister’s—it was more regal. Over the years she was used to planning out everything, but with that experience came the ability to adapt, to both be ready for an attack, and for diplomacy. The sun princess’s wings were kept folded to her side while she stood at full height, presenting her most diplomatic, but intimidating, glare to the two newcomers.

Unlike those that stood around him, Spike stared up at the two humans, quite unsure how to feel. On one claw, these beings were foreign to Equestria, and a potential threat. On the other claw, they looked just like his friends, especially like the ones in Canterlot High School when he went through the portal, and Discord had said that Twilight had made friends in the other world. So even if he had never met them before, he was still open minded about them, even if he had a nagging feeling that the two girls being here wasn’t a good thing.

Twilight’s jaw dropped at the sight of their other selves, her shock self evident that Twi and Rainbow would do something so foolhardy. She might have expected such action from Rainbow, but Twi? It should’ve been unheard of for her other self to come through; she would have known that the consequences would’ve been too extreme. And for Rainbow, of course the girl wouldn’t have come without Twi.

On the other hoof, Dash was smiling from ear to ear at the prospect of being able to spend more time with them. But with them both in the same room, she realized in those first few moments that her initial estimate was wrong. With Celestia standing at her full height, Dash saw that her horn came to the top of Twi’s head; Rainbow was even a little taller than that. They were still tall, but just not as big as she initially thought.

Rainbow and Twi were shocked by what they saw. Their jaws fell open, and for the first time she could remember, Twi couldn’t think of a single thing as her mind processed everything her senses were telling her. There were sights, colors, and ponies, ponies everywhere. The entire scene before them was surreal, and this was in spite of having spent the last eleven days with pony versions of themselves.

They took in the fact that—instead of just being with Twilight and Dash—they were surrounded by almost a half-dozen pastel-colored ponies, one small dragon, and one…

“Psst, Twi?” Rainbow tapped Twi on her shoulder, whispering, “What’s that thing?”

Following Rainbow’s line of sight, Twi laid eyes upon a strange, tall, bipedal, dragon-like creature slithering around behind the group of ponies with a bored expression. The creature had a lion’s paw, an eagle’s claw, a bat’s wing, and all sorts of other body parts. It was easily the thing that disturbed Rainbow the most in the entire chamber, which was saying something, in her opinion.

“Really, Rainbow? That’s your question in all of this?” Twi asked in disbelief.

“Uhhh, girls? What are you doing here?” Twilight spoke up, the lavender alicorn tenderly poked Rainbow with a hoof to confirm that she was actually there.

“Twilight!” Rainbow lunged at the alicorn, grasping her in a tight hug.

“Aagh! Rainbow! Too tight!” Twilight tried to push away from the athlete as she gasped for breath.

“Hehe, sorry, Twilight,” Rainbow said as she let her go. The smirk on her face showed that she didn’t actually mean her apology.

“Eh hmmmm.”

Rainbow and Twi both looked up at the brilliant alabaster alicorn with an ethereal mane flowing in a non-existent wind. If size mattered at all—and Rainbow knew it always did—then this pony was important.

“Pardon me for the interruption, but who are you two? Twilight, care to explain?” Celestia asked as she looked between the two humans and then to the lavender alicorn.

“Indeed! We are most curious.” Luna stepped forward to stand next to her sister, attempting to simultaneously present a regal posture and also remain ready for combat. Her legs were slightly bent and her horn dipped toward the visitors as if she was still half-expecting a fight to occur.

“Maybe we should start with introductions?” Twilight asked with a sheepish chuckle.

“Pft, introductions? We’re you two,” Rainbow said as she blew her favorite alicorn a raspberry.

Twi elbowed her in the gut. “Behave, for me, please?”

Discord floated above the group of ponies, half bored, and half pleased with himself. The ponies and dragon ignored him, but the humans couldn’t help but stare, especially Rainbow.

Twi’s attention was given over to the white alicorn. Her voice reminded the studious girl of her former principal and friend, Principal Celestia. The alabaster alicorn, the dark-blue alicorn, and even the pink alicorn were all far too familiar to the girl for it to be a coincidence. She had a funny feeling she already knew their names too.

After she managed to quit gasping at the draconequus, Rainbow’s eyes were glued to the same spot Twi’s were, or the same ponies anyway. She couldn’t help but admire a slightly different spot on the three larger ponies: their horns. After her fun with Twilight, Rainbow couldn’t help but wonder…

“Princesses, Spike, Discord, these are my friends from the other world. Well, really, these are us from the other world,” Twilight said as she stood in front of the two humans and looked around at all of her fellow princesses. “They’re the ones that took us in, that made sure we had a warm place to stay—” Rainbow’s snickering at that comment almost caused Twilight to stop, almost “—while we were there. And they helped us get back home.”

“They’re massive…” Rainbow muttered, still gaping at Luna and Celestia, and to a lesser extent, Cadance.

“Please behave,” Twi whispered back.

“Is it… is it bad I want to ride one?”

Twi elbowed her in the gut again, a little harder than last time. Twi had no idea if Rainbow meant the large alicorns, or their horns, but either one was inappropriate. Still, Twi took some comfort in the fact that even in a strange new world, Rainbow was still Rainbow.

“Was it like last time?” Luna inquired. “All different versions of you and your friends?”

“I’m assuming there are,” Twilight said. “Really the only other person we met was their version of Fluttershy. But mostly it was just Twi and Rainbow that we saw and interacted with.”

“And Spitfire!” Dash chimed in.

“Twi and Rainbow?” Cadance asked. The confusion evident on her muzzle was reflected in the other princesses and dragon as well.

Dash took this one, her excitement radiating from her smile at this sudden change of situation. “Well, because there were two of us, we figured it was best to establish nicknames. The other version of me we called Rainbow, I went by Dash. Our Twilight we called Twilight, and the other, Twi.”

“Oh, it’s so nice to meet you, Rainbow, Twi.” Cadance was doing her best to hold back the urge to fawn all over them. To her, their love was like a shining beacon that burned brightly in her eyes. It was as if she were seeing her sister-in-law and favorite mare in the world deeply in love with the spunky Wonderbolt. “Are you two hungry? Would you like something to eat?”

“I like steak, myself,” Rainbow said with a smile, one that faded when she saw the looks of horror on everypony’s face. “Umm… did I say something wrong?”

“I don’t think they eat meat, Rainbow,” Twi whispered into her ear.

“Oh fuc—”

“Rainbow!” Twi yelled, her eyes shifting to the three royal presences in the room.

“What? I honestly forgot, sheesh. Give a girl a break, I just walked into a world with colorful, talking ponies and you expect me to—”

“Rainbow, I don’t think she was getting onto you about that. I think she meant watch your language,” Twilight said.

Rainbow looked sheepishly at her girlfriend. “Oh…”

“Aaaannnnyyywwaayyy,” Dash broke the silence that followed afterwards, “I am kind of hungry, how about we go find something we can all eat and then we can deal with—”

A chorus of “no” echoed around the room before the pegasus could finish.

“Before we go anywhere, I think it’d be best if we got to learn a little more about you and your... customs. Being that Twilight, Spike, and now Dash, are the only ones to have learned anything about your species, I think for now it would be best for us all to remain here and discuss some things.” Celestia spoke elegantly; her eyes showed no emotion. Twilight might have vouched for them, but she wanted to make sure, just in case.

The ponies around the room nodded before finding comfortable positions to sit down.

“So… what do you want to know first?” Twi asked gingerly, before lowering herself to a sitting position so that she didn’t have to continue to look down at most of them.

Rainbow slowly followed suit, pressing her hip against her girlfriend’s, her arm wrapped around the small of her Twi’s back. They may have been in a completely foreign situation, but as long as Twi was by her side, she didn’t really mind. After all, when your home is in your arms, what’s there to fear?

Everypony, save Twilight and Dash, locked eyes on how close the two humans sat. Their gazes then shifted between each other. It was obvious that they caught onto something there. But nopony said a word as they glanced again to Twilight and Dash before looking back to the humans.

Twilight looked around at everyone in the room. Celestia and Luna both had their ‘regal’ faces on, Cadance looked like a school filly that just got her cutie mark, Dash and Rainbow looked somewhat bored by this, and Spike just looked content that Twilight was back. Twi’s eyes met Twilight’s as the girl—on reflex—patted the spot right next to her.

Twilight just smiled and walked up to her other self, enjoying the feel of the girl’s hand running down her back, stroking her fur.

“Twilight?” Celestia asked, somewhat shocked by her friend’s actions.

The lavender alicorn shrunk down a little. “Sorry, it feels really good though.”

Dash laughed at that. “That’s nothing, you should try an ear scratch.” She walked up and jumped into her other self’s lap. Rainbow didn’t need a second invitation and started in on the pegasus’s ear. “Ohhhhh… yeah… that’s the spot.”

“We think they’ve become awfully chummy in the other world,” Luna said.

“This is nothing,” Rainbow said, more on instinct than anything else.

“Oh? What do you mean?” Cadance asked, already knowing the answer as her grin seemed to increase.

Rainbow pulled her hand back, the twin glares of Twilight and Twi staring at her as if she just said something dumb. “Just that… umm… it’s really cold in our dorms, so we had to share beds. Yeah, that’s it!”

“Rainbow, that’s not better!” Twi and Twilight yelled at the same time.

“Twilight? Want to fill us in?” Cadance asked, her shit-eating grin prominent on her face.

“No!” both replied, just before looking sheepishly. “Umm. Better not.”

Cadance whispered to her sister-in-law, “Twilight, you forget that I am the Princess of Love. I can feel it between all four of you.”

“Oh, this is getting jucy,” Luna said with a grin of her own as she overheard.

Twi watched as Celestia’s face grew into one of disappointment. “Twilight, you know you can discuss anything with me.”

“Oh geeze, it’s not that big of a deal,” Dash said, rubbing her temples. “Me and Twilight kinda hooked up over there.”

“You... and Twilight?” Celestia’s voice had a shocked tone to it.

“You’re… you’re not happy?” Twilight asked, her ears dropping.

Celestia stopped. “I…”

“What is the matter, sister? Is not her happiness something you desire?” Luna asked, generally confused.

“Of course it is, Luna.”

“Then art thou happy for them or not?”

“It’s more complicated than that.”

“Because she is a princess? Please, we’ve both had more than our fair share of royal concubines in the past.”

Twilight’s jaw hit the floor as an overwhelming blush overtook her. Dash looked like she was about to pull a Pinkie and literally blow up in excitement from that news.

It was Rainbow that broke the silence though. “Oh this is awesome!”

Celestia huffed. “Luna! Such practices haven’t existed for hundreds of years!”

“Only in your case,” Luna muttered near-inaudibly.

“And no, it’s not that Twilight’s a princess now.”

“Then what is it?”

Celestia hung her head. She took a deep breath then exhaled before saying, “Twilight, I have no problem with you being with Rainbow Dash. If she makes you happy, that’s more than enough for me. But…”

“But?” Twilight asked as Dash hopped over and stood by her side. The pegasus had a feeling that this news wasn’t going to be good and there was no other place she’d rather be.

“But not everypony will feel the same. Dash is a mare—”

“Duh,” Dash said with a roll of her eyes.

“And not all ponies will be accepting of that. I don’t know if you’re ready for that or not,” Celestia said.

Twilight was taken aback by that. She hadn’t really known that mares could be with other mares before she went over there, but when she did, she’d never considered that ponies would be against it. Dash’s wing wrapping around her broke her out of her thoughts though.

“How was it with you two?” Dash asked Twi.

“Coming out? It… was difficult,” Twi admitted. “But, if you really want this, you can make it work. Just think about each other and believe in your own love and it will work.”

Twilight hung on every word her other self said. When Twi finished speaking, Twilight looked at Dash, who looked just as concerned as she felt. I never really thought about it before. And it’s not like this only affects me, it also affects Dash. Ponies might not understand, or accept us. I’m a princess, but Dash… No, I can’t think about that. This… this just feels right. “I understand, but as long as I have Dash, and my friends, I—”

“And if your friends don’t accept it?” Celestia asked.

“Celestia,” Cadance said, jumping forward. “What makes you think that—”

“Nothing makes me think it, my dear niece. But the possibility exists that this may stress her friendships. I do not believe that’s something she should be blindsided by, do you?”

Twilight folded her ears back. “So what if our friends don’t accept it… What I have with Dash is worth it.”

Dash nuzzled Twilight’s muzzle, which was a show of support and consolidation at the same time. Twilight returned the embrace, enjoying the feeling and the warmth of the pegasus.

At the mention of their friends not accepting it. Rainbow pressed her head into Twi’s side. The girl was reliving some vivid, painful memories on that very topic. In reply Twi wrapped her arm around Rainbow, hugging her tightly.

“We don’t understand, why wouldn’t they accept it?” Luna asked.

“Luna, same-sex relationships haven’t been common practice in Equestria for hundreds of years,” Celestia replied.

“Then it is time we remind them of it!” Luna scowled and stomped her hoof down.

“Luna?” Twilight asked.

Celestia sighed. “It’s not easy for her. I… I always chose stallions over the millennia, while Luna was… well…”

“While we’ve always preferred the company of mares in our chambers,” Luna continued bluntly with a roll of her eyes at her sister’s antics. “This goes a long way to explaining the strange glares we get when we do so…”

“Heh heh, I like her a lot,” Rainbow said with a chuckle.

“You would,” Twi replied, holding her hand tightly.

“I side with Luna on this one,” Cadance said, walking forward. “If Twilight and Dash want to be together, we should support them wholeheartedly.

“I don’t understand this! Could someone please explain it?” Spike yelled in frustration.

“Well, Spike, it’s easy,” Cadance started with a smile, just to be interrupted by another echoed “no” throughout the room.

“I think he’s a bit too young for this,” Twilight said with a awkward smile.

“But I want to know what’s going on, especially between Dash and you!” Spike demanded.

Celestia nodded. “In time, Spike.”

“May I explain it to him?” Twi asked from near the portal.

Twilight looked at her questioningly.

“I have some experience explaining it to children. You can trust me.”

“Umm, okay…” Twilight said.This whole thing was new to her—if her other self wanted to take over, she wouldn’t stand in her own way.

“Um, Twi, that’s a dragon, not a kid,” Rainbow whispered, unsure what Twi was planning and eyeing the baby dragon suspiciously.

“Hush, Rainbow. Seriously, I remember your explanation to Scootaloo… I thought they were going to call the cops on you.”

“She wanted to know the mechanics,” Rainbow said defensively. “What was I supposed to do, not teach her something?”

“You could’ve tried it without showing her!” Twi scowled.

“How can you explain something without showing?”

“You undressed in front of her and explained everything!”

“Could you two calm down? Please?” Twilight asked, all the ponies nodding with their ears folded back.

Rainbow muttered something about that being how she learned; but Twi chose to ignore it. There was no point in bringing back that old argument anyway—some things were best to just leave well enough alone. She scooted forward to sit next to Twilight and Dash, facing Spike. “Spike, do you know who I am?”

“You’re Twilight, from the other world?”

“Yes, but just call me Twi to keep it simple, okay?”

The little dragon nodded his head.

“Okay, you know how ponies get together and create families?”

“You mean fall in love? I’m not that young, Twi,” Spike said, already tired of the condescension.

Twi chuckled and flicked her hair back. “Yes, like that. Well, it’s normally a stallion and mare, right?”

Spike nodded.

“It’s because they love each other, they feel a special bond.”

“Like I do for Shining,” Cadance added helpfully.

Twi smiled. “Yes, just like Cadance and Shining Armor. Well, two mares or two stallions can feel that way for each other too.”

“You’re saying Twilight and Dash feel that way to each other? Since when? All I really see them do is fight or read together.”

“We do other things!” Twilight protested.

“Now,” Dash added with a smirk.

Twi ignored them both. “It happened in our world. Rainbow and I are together, and after spending so much time with us, they realized they feel the same way for each other, too.”

Spike looked confused, but thoughtful. “Does… umm… does this mean that Dash will spend more time at the castle?”

It took the pegasus a moment to realize that she was being asked a question; she shook her head clear of a few cobwebs and then turned to look at Twilight. The alicorn just smiled at her—in truth, neither of them had discussed their new living conditions. “Umm, probably, yeah, most likely,” Dash stammered with a blush.

“Twilight, does this mean that… I have to… move out?” Spike asked timidly as he walked to the lavender alicorn with his head down and his eyes almost full of tears.

Twilight couldn’t believe what she was hearing. The small dragon had stopped maybe two hooves away from where the alicorn sat. His tiny claws were clasped close to his chest, and his entire body was trembling. Without hesitation she scooped him into her hooves, holding him tightly to her chest and wrapped her wings around him, bringing him as close to her as possible.

“Of course not, Spike. What in the wide, wide world of Equestria made you even think of something like that?” She nuzzled his head softly, placing a small kiss on his forehead before placing a hoof on his chin to make him look up into her eyes. “I would never ever, not in a thousand years, ask you to move out. You’re my family, Spike.”

Spike’s mouth wavered, his tears still sliding down his cheeks. “But I thought—”

Twilight’s own eyes filled with tears, the watery droplets sliding off her muzzle and onto the baby dragon as her heart ached for his pain.

“Shh.” Twilight cooed down at him. “You’ll always be a part of my family, Spike. No matter what happens, you’ll always have a special place in my heart.”

“Yeah, short-stuff,” Dash added with a smile. “We’d never ask you to move out, even if we might want a little alone time every now and again.”

“Oh, it’s like looking at a happy family. Anyone else feel the need to vomit?” Discord asked as he started passing around magically created buckets. “Anyone at all?”

“What are you even doing here, Discord?” Twilight asked, glaring at the draconequus. Notably her grip on Spike became that much tighter.

“Moi? I’m your friend, Twilight. How could I not be here for your homecoming?”

Part of Twilight had been impressed that he had stayed silent for as long as he did. Still, she just wanted him to go. Discord might be her friend, and she might be the Princess of Friendship, but Discord’s friendship always creeped her out a little.

Celestia beat her to the punch. “Well she’s back, so you can either go, or stay silent in the corner.”

Discord looked at her in disbelief. “After everything I’ve done?”

“And what exactly have you done?” Cadance asked him with a raised eyebrow.

“Uhm… actually, you see, I did everything,” Discord replied, laughing.

“You said you weren’t responsible for them being trapped in the other world!”

“Okay, not that. Yeah, that was all Twilight here,” Discord said as he levitated over to the lavender alicorn and poked her horn with a claw.

“Why do I want to hit him?” Dash and Rainbow called out at the same time, then pointing at each other. “Jinx! You owe me a Coke!”

Twi and Twilight both glanced at each other with bemused expressions on their faces.

Everypony else in the room was staring blankly at Rainbow and Dash. Finally it was Luna that asked, “What is coke?”

“It’s a drink from our world,” Twi answered.

“Is it like punch? Is it flavored? Something for parties?” Luna continued.

“It’s about ten bucks a hit,” Rainbow muttered with a chuckle. “And it’s great at parties.”

Twi rolled her eyes; but before she could speak, Celestia beat her to it. “What, exactly, did you do, Discord?”

“Oh, you should have seen them. They were so sad to see each other go. The girls were crying and holding each other, and our little ponies were hugging and kissing each other—I couldn’t simply let them leave like that.”

“Discord, the balance between worlds is not your plaything!” Celestia yelled.

“Celly, everything is my plaything, you out of everypony should’ve learned that lesson.”

“Balance?” Rainbow asked Twi.

“W-what do you mean?” Twi asked Celestia.

“Each world exists in a delicate balance,” Luna answered. “Two of the same individual in the same world can destabilize the barriers between those worlds. ‘Tis not something that should be played around with.”

“We-we shouldn’t have come,” Twi said, suddenly very self-conscious.

“What? Why?” Rainbow asked. “C’mon, this is a once in a lifetime event! How could we miss it?”

Ugh, that pride again. Seriously Rainbow? Can’t you see past your own nose? Twi thought. “Rainbow, we shouldn’t have come because we might do serious damage to their world and ours. Do you really want that?”

“You didn’t think that before we came through,” Rainbow replied.

“I… um…” Twi stammed, unsure why she didn’t. It was stupid for them to be there. Why… why did we come?

“Why did you two come?” Almost as if she had read her mind, Twilight asked the question floating around Twi’s head. Twilight was in disbelief that she’d do something like this. “I mean, I might expect something like this from Rainbow, but you?”

Twi and Rainbow looked at each other, confusion on their faces. “Well… umm… at the time it was like there wasn’t a real reason not to,” Twi admitted.

“Huh?” Twilight asked.

Rainbow answered. “We were just in the room, and then it was like, ‘why not go?’ You know? Like it was just the thing to do. But I mean, what’s the problem? This is kinda cool, even that, whatchamacallit.” The tall girl pointed at the floating draconequus.

Discord disappeared and reappeared right next to her, grasping her hand and shaking it. “Pleasure to meet you, I’m Discord, Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony.”

“Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, huh? You must be great at pranks,” Rainbow said back with a laugh.

“No!” Everypony and human yelled at Rainbow at the same time. Even Twi knew that was a bad idea. Discord just blew them all a raspberry and walked away towards the mirror.

“Discord!” Twilight shouted. “What are you doing over there? If I find out you had something to do with this, I’ll…” she trailed off at the end, choosing to leave her threat somewhat vague until she could come up with an appropriate punishment.

Every pony and humans’ eyes locked onto the draconequus, their heated argument silenced for the moment.

“Why, Twilight, would I do something as crazy and outlandish as allow two ponies from Equestria to cross over to another dimension, only for them to return with two other inter-dimensional beings?” Discord stared at each of the princesses with puppy-dog eyes. Twilight’s muzzle opened in reply, quickly being clamped shut by a lion’s paw. “Well of course I would, but this time, I didn’t!”

Twilight glared at him.

“I’m appalled that you would accuse me of such tasteless behavior.” A halo appeared over his horns before he looked up at it and knocked it off with a flick of his lion’s paw. “Besides,” he said, circling back around to stand next to the portal, “what sort of reason could I possibly have for wanting two of you in this world?” He asked with a friendly smile.

“Tell me something,” Dash said as she got up and walked to the two girls; the pegasus suspected she knew what had happened. “Before you decided to go, was there a bright flash of white light?”

“How did you—” Twi and Rainbow both started, just to be interrupted.

“Discord!” All except the humans yelled.

Discord jumped a little at the sudden yelling of his name, his lion’s paw made contact with the mirror. The second that occurred, the mirror fell to the ground, and landed, glass first, on the floor. The sound of the shattering glass echoed throughout the room, causing those nearby to jump up to avoid getting cut. The sound rang in everyone’s shocked ears as they watched in horror as the only way the humans had back to their world was just destroyed right in front of them.

“Oh, Chaos…” Discord muttered, before gesturing to the broken mirror. “Now look at what you all did. You scared me to Tartarus and caused me to break the mirror! Shame on you. Don’t you know that’s seven years bad luck?”

“What. Did. You. Do?” Celestia asked, her voice dangerously low.

“Moi? I did nothing!” Discord whined, raising his claw and paw in defense. “It was you that—”

“Thou destroyed the portal!” Luna shouted.

Cadance just facehoofed. “For one time, just for one time I hoped you’d behave.”

Spike snorted as he crossed his arms over his chest. “I don’t know why you guys thought he’d be good. I mean, he is a spirit of chaos.”

“That’s Sir Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony to you, and anyways it wasn’t my fault, you only have yourselves to blame for that one.” At those words, Discord turned his muzzle up in the air.

Rainbow and Dash snorted at that. “Suuuure.”

Twi bent down, picking up some of the shards of glass her hand. Her mind trying to wrap itself around this new development. Rainbow bent down next to her. “Umm… what does this mean?” She asked.

“Rainbow, that’s the only way we have to get you two home,” Celestia replied, her voice pained.

When her shock wore off, Twilight was about ready to cry. Not only did this remove any chance of sending their human selves back home, but this also prevented her from ever seeing her Canterlot High friends again.

“Thanks, jerk!” Dash yelled as she picked up a shard and chucked it at Discord with all her might.

The draconequus ducked the shard before standing up and saying, “Well! That was certainly uncalled for.”

“Remind me why we never turned him back to stone?” Twilight asked through a facehoof.

“Because we’re friends, Twily!” Discord said, only to duck another shard of glass tossed at him from the angry pegasus. “Well, how rude!”