Chapters The day had waned into the twilight hours, when on a hill on the outskirts of Ponyville, with Canterlot Mountain in distance. A somber group of ponies gathered around a solitary statue of a mare they all once knew, Twilight Sparkle. At the front of the gathering stood the two sisters, Celestia and Luna stood upon a stage and began the memorial ceremony,
“A year ago today Twilight Sparkle sacrificed her life, taking a spell meant for my sister Princess Luna, The assailant had been part of a cult that worships me and saw Luna as the source of all evils. Today we gather to remember and mourn the loss of Equestria’s brightest star. A heroine and a friend to us all. We-” Celestia however didn’t get to finish her speech as it was cut off by a loud roar that shook the ground which was then followed by tremors made by footsteps, everypony froze in fear as the head of a gigantic bear with a starburst on it’s forehead it’s purple fur showing the stars that make up it’s body, blowing in the breeze as it spotted the gathering, roaring once more it began to charge the ponies. Celestia and Luna as well as Shining Armor and the guards accompanying the two princesses and the Element Bearers prepared to face it. Cadance remained back with the other ponies and observed the confrontation and waited to act should the need should arise. Shining Armor’s horn glowed forming a shield around them just as a clawed paw of the Ursa Major hit it, rebounding off it. The ursa glared at the offending obstruction and kept pounding, Shining Armor winced each time a strike landed. Soon fractures and cracks in the shield formed.
Celestia turned to her sister “Luna! Get ready to strike it when Captain Armor’s shield fails. Push it back!” Celestia said as she readied her own spell.
To the right of the stage, a large portal of many different hues of lavender opened. Out of the portal, a bipedal figure walked out, they were wearing heavy armour on that hugged a voluptuous figure. The mounds on it’s chest signify, at least to me, that this creature is female, Celestia thought for a second. On her back hung a great sword, further helping the intruder to cut an imposing figure. It’s armor was polished white metal of unknown properties, it moved and bent like chitin, but still looked like it could take a hit, the silver runes etched into it glowed a phosphorent-like lavender color. The figure’s helm was curved up and ending in a sharp slope where the eyes and nose would be. But instead of eyes, mirror-like metal reflected what it looked at. Above the forehead, a horn-like structure jutted out flat on top curved underneath looking like the bow of a ship. On the top of the helm, instead of a plume of crimson dyed hair, stood a collection of aerials, like a headdress of feathers, but in a mohawk-like arrangement.
The mare stood silently next to Luna as the portal behind her closed. The mare looked around as if searching, nodded at nothing in particular and then a roar filled the area causing the mare to look up, the mare unsheathed her sword in one hand, noticing that Luna’s shock had interrupted her spell, Luna tried to charge her horn again. But the mare seeing that Luna wouldn’t cast it in time slammed into Luna’s barrel to knock her out of the way.
“What is thy problem!?” Luna demanded, just before the paw of the Ursa Major impacted where she had been, dust and clod of mud threw up obscuring the mare.
“Are you alright Luna!” Celestia called out as she ran over to her.
“We art fine but that creature, she couldn’t have survived that. Why does another sacrifice themselves for me at the anniversary of a mare who had also died protecting me!?”
Luna fell to the ground weeping, Celestia frowned and then turned to the Ursa, who had a confused look on it’s face. The wind blew away the kicked up dust under the ursa’s paw stood the figure holding it up with one hand it had free. Everypony balked at the display of strength the creature displayed, the ursa seemed to decide that it was a fluke and brought down it’s paw as hard as it could, the figure in armor dodged this time and then ran up it’s foreleg holding their greatsword in their hands, the ursa tried to shake her off and had reared up and was trying to sweep her off, the mare just jumped the paw as it was close to hitting her and as she reached it’s neck she slashed its neck from left to right cleanly beheading the rampaging beast. The figure’s momentum took her past the ursa’s still standing corpse. landing, she slash her sword down to remove the excess blood from it and brought out a cloth wiping the rest of the blood off completely before she sheathed her sword on her back.
Celestia and Luna looked at each other before Celestia rapidly covered everypony in a shield as the blood pressure finally expelled the ursa’s blood all over the area like a macabre fountain.
Celestia released her shield after incinerating the beasts blood which had impacted on it,
The mare was now facing her audience no blood had touched her. Ponies shied away from the figure as a flash of light signalled the use of a spell, it enveloped the mare revealing a full bodice and pants made of black leather with knee high boots that had a two inch square heel. Luna had noted the aesthetic was rather appealing despite its macabre nature.Luna further noted that the mare had a dark navy mane and tail with a familiar highlight, the mare’s lavender coat and horn corroborating the evidence despite her alien yet familiar appearance, what was confusing however was the fact that she had wings that were now being wrapped around herself in tandem with the mare’s arms. Before she could reciprocate though the mar- Twilight was now checking every inch of Luna’s body feeling for broken bones or other damage.
Meanwhile Twilight ignored all the stares and the gasps as she marehandled Luna, whom had decided that it would be best to flap her hooves in a swatting motion, in her attempt to extricate herself. Luna tripped, and landed on Twilight, accidentally locking lips with the mare who had saved her life not twice but thrice before. Twilight leaned into the kiss wrapping her arms around the princess of the night, fully enjoying the lunar princess’ soft silky lips.
“Luna and Twilight sitting in a stable k-i-s-s-i-n-g” Celestia sang before devolving into fits of laughter and collapsing onto the floor in hysterics
“What!?” Twilight’s friends and family cried out in surprise.
Sputtering Luna teleported out of Twilight's grip and looked at Twilight in shock, her heart pounding hard like a jackhammer, her face flushed and her ears pinned back and something that she would have to take care of in private. Everypony looked at Twilight with incredulity and shock, while Celestia was still laughing in the background. Twilight’s face held a large grin on it with a blush covering it and her ears were pinned back.
“I am glad that my mentor recognised me. But everypony else forgot what I looked like? I’m deeply hurt you guys!” Twilight faux whined and put on an exaggerated pouted, prompting Rarity to raise up a scorecard with a ten on it. My pupil has learned well the ways of drama! Rarity smugly thought to herself.
“Anyway I am back everypony, though granted, not in the form I was originally,” Twilight said as she looked herself over.
“T-t-twilight why would you kiss us!?” Luna screeched out.
“Why?” Twilight asked as she took on a thoughtful look. “Because you’re sexy, and you’re cute when you blush. I certainly didn’t hear any complaints until Celestia decided to tease you.” Twilight replied as Luna ducked her head her face completely taken over by the blush she was now sporting.
Luna was still blushing at Twilight’s compliments and so Twilight brought out her smartphone from her pocket dimension she had invented to enable weightless infinite storage, which her men had nicknamed the “Infinite foot locker.” She aimed it at Luna and took a photo of the furiously blushing Luna. The flash drew Luna’s attention.
Curious as to what flashed over in Twilight’s direction, Twilight smirked mischievously upon seeing Luna’s inquinsitive look and said “This is a keeper!” Twilight exclaimed excitedly, grinning as she turned the phone to show Luna the picture, Luna’s blush was now threatening to set her face on fire as she began to chase the now giggling Twilight, who was running away from Luna.
Meanwhile Luna was shouting at Twilight, “Give us that contraption!”
Shining Armor walked up to Celestia, who was wiping laughter induced tears from her eyes.
“Celestia was that really Twilight?” Shining Armor asked as he frowned watching what was supposed to be Twilight being chased by an embarrassed Princess Luna.
“She has obviously changed Shining Armor but it is her, I’d recognise her magical signature anywhere as one of the ponies closest to being like my own daughter I doubt any mother would forget what their daughter looks like, let alone their magical signature. Unbeknownst to Celestia Twilight Velvet flinched as if slapped, before looking down in shame as she walked off with everypony else who were gathering around Twilight.
Twilight stowed the phone in her pocket dimension and smiled. Turning on her heel she captures Luna in her embrace again. Now that Celestia had stopped laughing, she noticed that Twilight was almost a head taller than herself and Luna came up to what looked like that species’ teats. A still blushing Luna struggled and pouted in Twilight’s embrace.
“Unhoof us, Twilight! You shalt not marehandle us! If thou sayeth soothly, then thou shouldst court us properly like a knight ought!”
Twilight froze.
Hah! We got thee Twilight, we knewest that thou wouldst back off thy teasing. if I said she shouldst properly court us! Luna thought to herself smugly smiling at her unassailable logic. However that smile didn’t last as she noticed that Twilight was still smiling,
“I am not a knight Luna, I am a goddess of war, knowledge, magic and lust. I am undisciplined in the ways of chivalry and proper courtship. I seduce and tempt. I whisper honeyed words, to lure those whom I desire to my side and to my bed. I promise pleasure, desirability, being wanted for who they are, even in spite of their flaws, their ugliness. But if you wish to be wooed in the proper traditional manner, then you'll have to teach me the customs and activities proper for a suitor. You're worth it, my glorious and majestic moon.” Flabbergasted, Luna’s mouth opened and closed in shock.
Twilight started laughing “Don’t worry, I am just kidding Luna! You don’t need to freak out.”
Luna visible slumped “Oh really? Hahaha. Good one!” Luna said putting on a false bravado. Why does that revelation hurt so much?
Twilight leaned in and whispered “Or am I?” in Luna’s ear before Twilight kissed Luna on the lips again. After Twilight pulled back smirking she winked at Luna who was opening and closing her mouth unable to say something.
Celestia smirked and levitated the two mares apart. “Okay you two, save it for the date and the bedroom. Also, Twilight? I think you just broke Luna.”
Twilight remembered who was watching and sheepishly grinned, while she blushed in embarrassment though seemed to largely be unapologetic though her face wore a frown when she saw Luna’s reaction.
“Now apologise, Twilight, you shouldn’t tease Luna like that,” Celestia said admonishing the young mare. Who raised an eyebrow at her mentor.
“So it’s do as I say and not as I do, eh?” Twilight responded before sighing.
“Twilight, it is a big sister’s solemn duty to tease her sister!” Celestia exclaimed as if it was obvious.
Hah, Twilight is being embarrassed now! However Luna noted this had the opposite effect on herself in that she found that she didn’t actually like seeing Twilight shamed as Twilight hung her head while still floating in Celestia’s magic. It hurt her to see Twilight looking like that.
I don’t understand why I hurt when I see her sad or upset. Even though Twilight had been essentially harassing me. Seeing Twilight being reprimanded isn’t bringing me the satisfaction that I thought it would, either. What is happening to me!? I should be mad, I should be happy she is getting told off, but all I can think of is how she said I was attractive and how that made me feel, to borrow the cliche, like a princess. Even if she was joking, it made me feel wanted, it made me feel happy that somepony found us attractive. Did I really want to court Twilight? Don’t be silly, Luna! I doubt Twilight was telling the truth. Even if she didn’t mean it, she ought to take responsibility for lighting these feeling in my heart.
Luna’s thought were interrupted by Twilight’s voice. “I am sorry, Luna, for upsetting you. I let my hormones reign over me instead of being master of my own desires. I am sorry. Even if I was just teasing you, my lack of self-control is partly to blame. I haven’t been with anypony in at least a few years. I made you uncomfortable around me and I’ll understand if you do not wish to see me again,” Twilight said, hanging her head low in shame for making her princess uncomfortable.
A lance of pain filled Luna’s chest again at those words, What was that? she thought, looking at Twilight, Luna couldn’t hate her, “Sister, put Twilight down!” Luna demanded while turning to look at Celestia and she quickly added “Gently. She is not some rambunctious, unruly filly!”
Celestia’s face wore a huge grin on it, though Twilight’s body prevented others from seeing it, before she set Twilight down gently. Before Twilight could turn around, she schooled her features. Twilight didn’t get to study Celestia’s face much longer, as Luna picked up Twilight and hugged Twilight’s face to her chest as she put on an exaggerated pout.
“Did the mean ol’ Celestia hurt you, Twilight?” Luna asked, with a playful lilt to her voice as she hammed up her performance to annoy her older sister. She patted Twilight on the head with her right hoof. “I too have felt the punitive measures of mine sister! She sent me to the moon for a thousand years! A bit overkill, don’t you think?” Twilight looked at Luna for a few moments before kissing Luna again and then pulling back to whisper in her ear .
“Thank you, for understanding.”
Luna’s blush returned in full force as did the hope that bloomed in her heart at the prospect of a relationship with the mare who has saved her twice. Celestia’s grin widened as she nodded her eyes glimmering with mirth and mischief. Luna gulped What could that sister of mine be up to?
“Do you want to come to the castle Twilight to stay the night and join us for dinner, if that is alright with you, dearest sister?”
“Of course Luna! Twilight’s friends and family could stay as well, Come along everypony! My cake awaits!” Celestia declared as Twilight's friends warily walked alongside Twilight
The following dinner had largely been uneventful, save for Twilight asking that they wait for her to explain where she had been until tomorrow. All throughout dinner, Luna would glance at Twilight when she thought Twilight wouldn’t see. Twilight, however was aware of Luna’s intense scrutiny and so was sensually eating her dinner while exaggerating every bite, and issuing soft erotic moans and singing praises of the sun and moon, as her glossy and soft, pillowy-looking lips wrapped around each bite of food she devoured. Poor Luna didn’t even notice the massive wing boner she was sporting, which was mirrored by the pegasi guards in the room. Much to Celestia’s poorly hidden amusement.
“Twilight why do you look like that?” Rarity asked, Twilight shrugged but answered
“I don’t know Rarity as soon as I am able I would like to research this and figure out a cure if there even is one. However I do know that it resembles a mix of what I looked like as a pony and as a human.”
“I had lived as a human for two years prior to my return. Which is the dominant species of the world I visited. Normal humans lack a horn or wings and as I had a horn and later wings I eventually was treated like a goddess. How did you two do it, Celestia, Luna? How did you handle ponies worshiping the very ground you walked on?”
“We tried discouraging it, but ponies wouldn’t listen so after a while we just gave up, since outside of banning it, we had very little options.” Celestia groaned. “Though I hope this experience taught you something Twilight?”
“With great power comes great annoyance ... I mean responsibility?” Twilight asked.
Celestia and Luna both laughed at Twilight’s question.
The dinner and conversation had eventual wound down and once dinner had finished, Twilight, her friends and family bid the princesses a good night and left the room.
Celestia giggled, thusly grabbing Luna’s attention.
“Is something the matter sister?” Luna asked.
Celestia pointed at Luna’s erect wings. Turning to look, her blush came back in full force and tried to smooth down her wings much to Celestia’s apparent amusement
“I could ask you the same, Luna. Does something trouble you?” Celestia asked amusement seeping into her voice.
Luna’s mouth opened to speak then she hurriedly she shouted out, “What are you talking about sister, there is nothing the matter, aha ha ha ha!” Luna laughed nervously and quickly hurried out of the dining room. “If you’ll excuse me sister, I need to attend night court!” as Luna beat a hasty retreat Celestia snickered at her sister’s flustered antics.
Those two are so adorable.
*******
Next morning Twilight got up early to perform her morning training routine foregoing her armor for a pair of tight fitting lycra shorts and an eggshell blue tank sports bra and white tank top and wearing trainers. Luna happened upon her and watched as Twilight performed her moves with grace and strength. As she had moved on to practicing her martial forms she brought her great sword in hand she held one arm curled behind her back reversed her grip and started spinning the blade in a figure of eight spinning around slashing up using the momentum of the blade to corkscrew in the air anticlockwise landing on her feet before performing multiple rapid thrusts as her horn glowed, ice materialised as spikes and shot forward imbedding into the wall. Twilight finished of the combo by enchanting her blade with wind and slashing at the wall dicing it to pieces. After the wall had finished crumbling and the dust had settled, the occupant of the room appeared to be a royal guard stallion on the toilet. Who, upon realizing that his privacy had been violated, proceeded to let out one of the girliest screams Luna had ever heard. Twilight’s demonstration of her martial prowess caused Luna’s tail to rise slightly and her cheeks flushed. Luna traced Twilight’s muscles and the curves of her figure eventually fixing on to her flanks. So entranced was she that she hadn’t seen or heard Celestia walk up behind her and whispered in her ear
“Mmmmm, dat flank, you could just watch it all day, eh Luna?”
Luna jumped, her blush threatening to overwhelm her face and ears, which were currently pinned back in embarrassment.
“‘Tia!” Luna exclaimed, but then covered her mouth and her eyes shrunk to pinpricks as she realized that she had loudly whined and therefore had likely announced her presence to the pony she had previously been lustfully watching.
“Good morning Princess Celestia,” Twilight said to Celestia, who looked slightly down at her with a smile.
“Morning Twilight.” Celestia said smiling up at her student. Then Twilight turned further down to address Luna.
“Luna! Goodnight! Did you like what you saw?” Twilight asked.
“I don’t know what you mean!” Luna sputtered and blushed.
“Well my form obviously,” Twilight replied and Celestia started snickering “I know I still need to work on my martial arts.” Twilight continued interrupting Luna’s reply before she continue. Luna’s head sunk low,
“Oh? That’s what you meant.” Luna said as Twilight gained a confused look on her face and frowned
“What did you think I meant?” Twilight asked Luna.
Luna’s head shot up and her coat paled.
“I- er nothing! I thought you meant that! Yes! Um, I think I hear my bed calling me! Goodnight!” Luna hurriedly said before giggling nervously and ran away.
To Twilight’s confusion and Celestia falling on her back and laughing like a mad mare.
“Did I miss something.” Twilight asked, tilting her head sideways and rubbed the back of her head, as she stared in the direction in which Luna had hastily retreated.
Celestia got up and placed a wing around the perplexed mare. “No, you’re fine, Twilight. Luna’s just stressed.”
*******
Cadance was having tea with Celestia out on Celestia’s balcony. “Oh! You should have seen it, Cadance! Luna’s been acting like a love struck school filly with a crush. It’s just too adorable to watch her stumble over herself around Twilight!”
“Aunty don’t you think that’s a bad idea? You saw what Twilight did to that Ursa Major ...”
“Oh Cadance, you silly filly ever since my sister came back she’s been all mopey and listening to emo rock. Then after nightmare night Luna came back with the biggest smiles I have ever seen on her face and she told me who to thank for it. Twilight Sparkle had befriended her and helped her to befriend the foals and to not seem as threatening to the adult ponies. I received a letter from Twilight, which gave me some insight into how she felt about my sister. I doubt she even realized it, when she had penned it, the silly adorkable filly that she is. That letter read like she had just been on the best date ever, given how much she was gushing over Luna. Then I got the best idea! I began making my secret preparations and arranged many things so I was ready. Then nothing happened and I was so frustrated with her that when spike sent me that letter about the ‘want it, need it’ spell. However, now she’s back on track and soon my plan shall come to fruition.” Celestia declared.
“And that is?” Cadance asked skeptically.
“Oh, you know, maybe something like marrying Luna. I was going to make her an alicorn and a princess eventually so she could stay with Luna for a long time. But Twilight beat me to it and ascended naturally.” Celestia grinned
“So let me get this straight you have known how Twilight feels for a good long time and never told me about it!” Cadance demanded angrily, “I could have helped you!”
Celestia frowned. “I am sorry Cadance, but you know how you’re like. You couldn’t keep a love secret to save your life! You’d tell Luna and everypony within ear shot. Your exuberance regarding matters of love and the heart is not a negative thing, since you’re just celebrating love, but your typical behavior kind of flies in the face of this needing to be secret. You didn’t even keep your feelings secret when you were actively trying to. I am sorry Cadance, but you wear your heart on your fetlock.” Celestia stated while Cadance blushed and had the decency to look sheepish.
“Plus if you let it slip that Twilight liked somepony, then Luna would grill you till you spilled your metaphorical guts. And I can hold up to the most heinous of torture such as somepony eating cake in front of me while I'm tied to my throne and made to eat alfalfa sprouts. Celestia shuddered at the thought. The sight of her aunt shivering at the most assuredly horrible tortures she must have been imagining caused Cadance to recoil.
“How about I make it up to you, by letting you plan mine and Chrysalis's wedding” Celestia quickly covered her mouth upon realizing she had blurted out her personal plans. “Oops, nopony was supposed to know about that yet,” Celestia mumbled
“You’re dating that bitch!?” Cadance exclaimed angrily.
“Now calm down Cadance. There is more going on than meets your eye. I’ll explain the circumstances between Chryssie and myself,” Celestia pleaded.
“We had been dating for months before your wedding with Shining Armor. I had no clue she was going to attack Canterlot or foalnap you. After I found her again, I gave her stern telling off and demanded she explain why she was trying to marry Shining Armor, instead of me, as we had planned,” Celestia growled out, her mane transforming to look very much like the space-soaring fires of the sun’s surface, which made Cadance back away from her aunt.
“Wait, is that why you lost to her?” Cadance demanded
“Well, yeah,” Celestia said as she sheepishly scratched the back of her neck with her left hoof, before Cadance’s dander could raise she added “Could you kill Shining Armor to save somepony? Especially if he’s acting out of desperation to protect other ponies?”
Cadance wore a confused look on her face, “What? No!” Celestia raised her hoof to cut Cadance off.
“Chrysalis, that stupid mare, My stupid mare had explained her reasons for why she had done what she did during your wedding fiasco, when I finally found her again. Turns out that her changelings were starving and needed to make a resource grab. I was so mad, but more than that I felt hurt and betrayed that she felt that she couldn’t come to me, or trust that I would do what I could to help, that I slapped her and demanded to know why she didn’t ask for help. I would have done everything in my power to help a species seeking refuge, struggling against the extinction of their species. Whether it was finding food, setting up mandatory cultural exchange classes so that ponies could understand the changeling species, or for changelings to understand how sad or scared ponies feel being viewed only as a food resource. She begged me for forgiveness and explained how the rest of her hive had either turned to cannibalism or starved to death, she is the only one left Cadance.” Celestia finished tears forming in her eyes. Cadance wrapped her aunt in a hug.
“Is she living here?” Cadance asked cautiously.
“Of course she is! I am not letting her out of my sight again! I locked her in a gilded tungsten steel alloy cage for her protection and as a punishment for her attempted invasion.”
”Auntie I may not like her, but that’s wrong. You can’t lock up your … marefriend, even if it’s for her own safety.” Cadance said
”Don’t you think I don’t know that !? I just can’t lose her! I don’t know what I’d do if that ever happened! What will happen if ponies find out that she’s alive and living in Canterlot!” Celestia cried out fresh tears falling down her face maring her mascara.
Cadance held Celestia as she sobbed.
*******
In Twilight’s temporary room a rather simple room well simple by royal extravagance standards anyway. Twilight was trying to get some sleep, fidgeting on the overly comfy over glorified pillow of a bed. When a knock came from her door.
“Coming!” Twilight called out, tossing off her sheets and blankets, which revealed that she was wearing a long t-shirt and panties. She walked to the door and opened it ajar. A night guard was standing at the door, fidgeting as he looked to his left.
“Yes? Can I help you?” Twilight asked, ignoring the guards obvious staring,
When he found his voice again he said “My apologies, ma’am, but the Princess of the Night, Princess Luna has been sleepwalking and this is her apparent destination. Would you mind letting her in?” The guard Twilight poked her head out of her door and spotted Luna slowly walking along the hall. Shrugging, Twilight opened the door wide to let her walk in.
“Many thanks Ma’am.” The guard said before running off. Sighing, Twilight turned to find Luna slipping under the covers of her bed. Giggling and shaking her head, Twilight walking back over to her bed and joined Luna, who promptly slid over wrapped her legs around Twilight and laid her head on Twilight’s ample breasts. She laid her head back on her pillow and promptly ceased her sleepwalking for the rest of the Night.
*******
The door to Twilight’s room opened, with Twilight’s mentor being framed in a majestic golden glow, the light streaming in causing Twilight to wake up.
She groaned, “What time is it?”
Celestia had an amused smile as she saw her sister’s head using Twilight’s mammaries as a pillow. “Time to explain this delicious and scandalous scene before me.” Celestia said sweetly.
Twilight tried to bolt up, but found her body anchored down by Luna’s head and her legs.
“This isn’t what it looks like!” Twilight quickly blurted out.
“Luna sleepwalking and finding a snuggle buddy for the night?” Celestia said, trying and failing immensely to keep the amusement from her voice and failing.
“Wait, how did you know?” Twilight asked, feeling confused
“Oh this is normal for Luna. Normally, she doesn’t have a target who’s asleep at the time of day that she is asleep, so most of the staff leave her alone to shuffle the halls. Speaking of which, I need to reiterate that you are to treat Luna right, Twilight. That means no pussy hoofing around with her, okay? Just be patient and she’ll come out of her shell.”
Twilight nodded, and considered the mare using her chest as a pillow.
*******
Luna had never been so comfortable, the pillow she was sleeping on felt absolutely divine If only I could sleep on it every time. She shifted, as her ear swiveled at hearing something that none of her previous pillows had ever done. It had a unique feature in that it had a slow rhythmic drum beat playing constantly, making it difficult to stay awake. It was also big enough to wrap her legs around it.
Suddenly Luna heard voices and the drum rhythm in her pillow increased, making it difficult to ignore. Luna opened her eyes to see what was wrong with her pillow, yawing as she looked up and met two violet eyes and a smiling set of lips and a lavender coat.
“Morning, sleepyhead.” Twilight said softly, the vibrations she felt through her pillow from Twilight caused confusion, whereupon looking down, she came face to face with her pillow, which turned out to be Twilight’s breasts and suddenly the drum beat made sense, it was Twilight’s heart. She could see her own legs wrapped around Twilight.
Blood rushed to Luna’s face coloring her face a bright red instead of her normal blue coat. Luna pushed Twilight away, sending Twilight sprawling off the bed. “What art thou doing in our bed!?”
Groaning as she pulled herself back up, Twilight replied “Luna this is my room, you sleepwalked into my bed.”
Luna was about to respond when she heard another voice one she was very familiar with break down in loud laughter. Luna’s eyes shrunk to pinpricks turning slowly to see her sister on her back flailing about as she laughed up a storm.
“I am so sorry, Twilight! Please accept my apologies for my unseemly behaviour!” Luna asked Twilight trying to ignore her sister who wore a knowing grin.
“No problem, Luna. If you’re have trouble sleeping, you’re always welcome in my bed.”
“T-t-thank you, Twilight, that is m-most kind of you,” Luna stammered out
Twilight looked at her mentor's face and amended “Not like that! We aren't even dating to be doing that sort of stuff! Playing and teasing is one thing, but becoming one is an entirely different matter altogether! Only one pony is going to get that chance and only when she is ready”
Luna’s ears drooped, “I would very much like to sleep with you, Twilight.” Luna said without thinking and her eyes widened at how that sounded, “I mean I’ll take you up on your offer to chastely share your bed,” Luna sputtered out as Celestia’s grin turned predatory and Luna squeaked when she saw it.
Twilight rolled her eyes and pulled Luna back down on the bed and laid Luna’s head on her chest and started gently singing , stroking Luna’s mane and stroked it until the intimate and completely informal grooming and the beat of Twilight’s heart and the gentle soft singing sent the Luna back to dreamland smiling. Once Twilight was sure that Luna was asleep, she glared at Celestia, who had the decency to at least look sheepish. Celestia lit her horn and teleported Luna to her own bed.
“That was a beautiful song, Twilight, where did you hear it?” Celestia asked.
“Back in the world I was sent to,” Twilight replied shrugging. “Did you really need to take my sunshine away?” Twilight’s glare came back in full force.
“Come along, Twilight. We have much to discuss, Princess. And perhaps you might deign to tell us your story instead of slinking off to Faust knows where.” Celestia said and smirked at the shocked face Twilight was making.
*******
Luna awoke alone in her room, realizing that she held no Twilight in her legs, nor enjoyed the cushioning of her lovely, soft pillows. Luna’s eyes filled with tears and she started crying, Had it all been a dream? It would have been a perfectly lovely dream, if so. If only my sister wasn’t involved. I just wish it was real. Twilight holding me in her hooves, singing to me, loving me. Seeing me as the pony that I am, instead of a Princess or the nightmare that I once was. But I know it’s just a fantasy of my lonely mind. Luna pulled her bed covers over her head and cried herself back to sleep. “I love thee Twilight.” Luna wailed to nopony in particular, unaware of the scrying spell watching her.
Meanwhile as Twilight walked behind the giant rump of the solar princess she thought Soon my lovely, lonely moon, you won’t be alone for long. So focused was she on her scrying spell and the visions it showed her, that she remained unaware that Princess Celestia
“My, Twilight aren’t you the stud? Not satisfied with one princess?” Celestia teased, causing Twilight to grumble something under her breath.
“What’s that?” Celestia asked leaning closer to her student turned princess. “You have to speak up.”
“How’s Queen Chrysalis?” Twilight said louder, before a smug smirk made it’s way to Twilight’s face. “The old Twilight and the current Luna might balk under such teasing but I am neither,” Twilight said as she took in the delicious sight of shock and fear on Celestia face, her eyes shrunk to pinpricks. “Silly ‘Tia, I can just sense the lust for her on you,” Twilight said giggling as she skipped around the Princess. “So tell me what’s it like taking an ovipositor like a dick?” Twilight asked Celestia.
“Twilight please you can’t tell anypony about her! The only other pony who knows is Cadance!”
“As does Shining Armor, if I know Cadance.” Twilight snarked.
“What do you want?” Celestia asked quickly in desperation.
“‘Tia, my dear old friend! I don’t want anything, except for you to lay off the teasing of Luna.”That’s my job. Twilight thought to herself. “She isn’t going to come out and confess her feelings, if she feels she has to hide from you. And seriously, what is getting fucked by Chrysalis like?” Celestia hadn’t noticed that she had closed her eyes until she squinted out having been expecting something horrible to happen.
“Wait, why aren’t you mad?” Celestia asked perplexed.
“Should I be? I mean the two of you are good for each other the way I see it. Aside from the odd prank, you are a good influence for her. You can also provide food for her. Heck you might even manage to completely reform her. And though she may have invaded Canterlot with a lack lustre plan, but desperation makes idiots of all of us, especially those of us in military ops.” Twilight stated and shrugged.
Shaking herself to clear her mind, Celestia hugged Twilight. “Thank you Twilight!”
“Yeah, Yeah no problem.” Twilight responded as she returned the hug.
“As to your other question I don’t know. I don’t want to be pregnant at the moment, so I haven't let me near her like that and so far have only had her as a mare has a mare.” Celestia stated sheepishly.
“Well when you do decide to become pregnant by her I expect details,” Twilight playfully demanded while having an arm wrapped around Celestia’s withers and poking her chest.
As Twilight returned to the dining hall, everypony's eyes locked on the three of them. Celestia was now on her hooves again, while Twilight had opted to give Luna a piggyback ride, whose forelegs draped over Twilight’s shoulders and whose hind legs wrapped around Twilight’s waist to keep herself from falling. Luna’s face was covered in a blush of embarrassment as they made it to the table. Celestia sat down and Twilight knelt down to allow Luna to dismount off of her back. Once Luna was seated and her chair properly pushed up to the table, she then seated herself.
“Twi, what was that weird thing that you were doing with Luna on your back like that?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Well RD, you know how ponies carry their foals on their backs right? And how couples sometimes do it?” at Rainbow’s nod affirming that she did, “ Well, that was the human equivalent, which is called a piggy back ride.”
“Oh, well, that explains why Princess Luna was blushing so much,” Rainbow Dash replied.
“Let’s get back to my story,” Twilight said while clearing her throat.
*******
Jo had, over the past hour and a half, led me to her home town. Although it was getting darker, I was surprised to find that the odd streetlamps we passed, that had been what Jo had called them, were still casting light through the night time’s gloom, despite their age and the lack of any noticeable power source. I looked up and saw the stars glittering in the night. I didn’t recognise most of the constellations, save for a few like Pegasus and Lyra. We had cleared the forest a while ago, so I had a clear view of the night sky. The light from the moon fell on us and I sighed.
“Luna.”I said quietly. Evidently, it wasn’t quiet enough as Jo looked back at me and asked
“What about Vice Principal Luna? And how do you know her?”
“What!? Now I must be hearing things. You know Luna?” I inquired, Jo just shrugged her shoulders.
“She’s the vice principal of the magic and martial arts school Crepusculum. She was my vice Principal. Luna tends to focus on the martial curriculum, while Principal Celestia focuses on the magical.” Jo explained, we both lapsed into silence as I began to process all that I had heard.
Okay, Sunset Shimmer, Principal Celestia, and apparently Luna all exist here. Extrapolating from the information that Jo has provided this is the same world I visited when I was just a young filly, back when I still lived with Princess Celestia in Canterlot. I had been accidently sent to this world, to an escalator high school called Canterlot High, where I met Sunset Shimmer and Principal Celestia. I had not seen Luna at the time, but I guess she does exist.
According to my understanding from what Jo has told me, some thermothaumical offensive spells destroyed everything, though humanity survived.
More amazingly, Celestia, Luna and Sunset Shimmer had somehow survived for over one thousand years. My primary objective: meeting up with Sunset Shimmer and find out what else I had missed. Optional objective: find out the time dilation in relation to Equestria.
We reached the settlement not too long after that. Its tall walls were solid white and smooth, the only opening was a portcullis and reinforced oak doors. At either side a guard stood stoically. As we approached, one of the guards called for the gate and doors to open. The wrought iron portcullis opened, slowly raising to the top of the gate house. The guard waved us through with little trouble or suspicion.
“Welcome home Jo. New arrival, eh? Best take her to see the Principal,” the guard said, to which Jo nodded in response. The guard smiled before returning to his gaze to the wilderness.
“Why would I have to meet the Principal?” I asked curiously.
“Oh, I forgot to mention that the town belongs to the school, and Principal Celestia is its leader,” Jo explained.
“Guess you’ll have to wait till later to meet my neighbor,” Jo said with a large smile on her face.
Walking through the streets I saw many people going about their daily lives, the cobbled roads, steam issuing out of brass, copper, or lead pipes. In the center of town stood a tall clock tower with gears half exposed to the elements, steam expelled from on top of the tower indicating that the clock was steam powered. Jo led me through the streets until we came to a massive and long staircase, which led up a grass bank. After climbing the steps, the school came into view. It was massive, having easily eclipsed the old Canterlot High, though its construction looked roughly the same. Its red bricks the only familiar aspect of the building in this new world. I heard Jo chuckle behind me, as I looked up in awe of the feat of engineering before me.
“Yeah, everyone reacts that way when they first see the school,” Jo added, amusement evident in her voice. Jo’s comment shook me out of my reverie and I looked at her. “Come on, we got to see the Principal!” Jo shouted gleefully as she ran ahead.
“Hey! Wait up!” I called and ran after her.
After running for ten minutes and following the woman in front of me, I placed my hands on my knees and panted while bent over.
While I was composing myself, Jo had knocked on the Principal's door, so I didn’t see the Principal charge at me.
I heard someone shout “Twilight!”, and before I could respond, my world was then narrowed as I was smothered in the breasts of the Principal, who now had me in a tight hug.
“Celestia, I can’t breathe!” I gasped, trying to speak around her massive fun bags, though my voice was significantly muffled by her breasts. My world came back in view as a sheepish looking Principal Celestia was now standing before me with Luna, who had an amused smile on her lips.
“Jo, thank you for bringing Twilight here. You may leave now,” Principal Celestia said. Jo just looked confused at Celestia’s command, but, not wishing to question Celestia’s unparalleled leadership, she left without making any objection.
Principal Celestia wore a plain loose white dress, which extended down to her knees white thigh high socks embroidered with gold filigree patterns, her shoes were brass sabatons while her shoulders were covered by leather pauldrons.
Luna stood off to the side, and was wearing a half plate that had a boob window cut into it, revealing her cleavage, a short leather skirt covered her lower half, though I could swear I was able to see through it. She was also wearing black leather pants, and a long sword hung off her left hip.
“I-”
Celestia interrupted me, “I missed you, Twilight. It has been a millennium and a half since I last saw you. We had lost all hope after the thermothaumical spells hit Crystal Prep. I thought you had died, so I named this school in honor of your memory.”
“I hate to break this to you, Celestia, Luna, but I am not your Twilight. Are you two aware of the many-worlds interpretation?” I asked, receiving a nod of understanding from Principal Celestia and a blank look from Luna, I sighed and continued. “The many-worlds interpretation states that there is a large, or even an infinite number of worlds out there, where every person’s actions and the actions of everyone else all happen and creates a new world for it to happen in. You spot a book you really like the look of, and you decide to flip a coin to see whether or not to buy it. If the coin lands heads up, you will decide you buy it. If it land tails up, however, you decide you won’t purchase that book. In one-fourth of all of the realities, the coin will come up heads. In another one-fourth version of all possible realities, that coin flip came up tails and in another you never even flipped that coin at all. And in the final one-fourth of all realities, the coin is flipped, but lands on its side, landing neither on its head or its tail. I was sent from a reality that is vastly different, I have been here before as a young girl, but that was roughly one and a half thousand years ago. Back when you were Principal of Canterlot High.
Which begs the question, what happened here? Why are you still alive?”
Celestia and Luna’s faces sunk, and both of them began to cry. “Twilight, back in two thousand and sixteen, a few years after you left to go back home, something happened. Sunset Shimmer and your other friends discovered that the portal to your world was leaking Equestrian magic, magic that was seeping into our world.” I widened my eyes in shock.
“They were tasked with making sure that the issues regarding the thaumical leakage was solved, or at least mitigated, and so was tasked further with monitoring the flow of magic through the Equestrian portal.” Celestia got up and moved to a nearby window initially hidden by a bookshelf. Luna stayed where she was, but watched her sister with concern.
“Unfortunately, however, during the Friendship Games, your alternate self ripped open multiple raw and unstable portals to Equestria, whereby further exacerbating the magic flow into our world. Luckily, however, Sunset and your friends managed to stop your alternate self and got her to understand that not only was her relentless pursuit after knowledge hurting her fellow students, what she truly needed was the deep interpersonal bonds she could form with her fellow human beings.” Celestia sighed and slumped before returning to her seat.
“That knowledge was fine, but a life solely devoted to academic pursuits is far less rich and rewarding than if she set aside a portion of her life devoted to the building and development of the deep interpersonal relationships she could enjoy with her friends and fellow humans.”
“However, the damage was done, with more magic than ever flowing into our world, many places throughout Canterlot became fonts of magic. Therefore, now with a self sustaining magical field, the magic spread further over the United States of Equestria, enabling more magical fonts to spring forth. Soon after, our world was saturated in magic, and people who couldn’t do magic suddenly found themselves levitating items to themselves. The discovery of this new energy source and power, by your alternate self, created a new kind of technology and accelerated our development.” Celestia paused to open her desk draw, and drew out three tumblers and a bottle of Applejack Daniels whisky. She poured out two fingers in each tumbler, then offered one to me and Luna before taking her own and downing it. Celestia hissed through her teeth after she finished. Picking mine up, I breathed in the whiskey’s scent and then downed it as well. This action caused Celestia to raise her eyebrow questioningly.
“I used to drink whiskey, back home. As soon as I was old enough my version of you took me to a bar and introduced me to it.” I explained
“Ah.” Celestia replied, seemingly happy with the explanation.
Celestia continued, “At first magic was used for benign and helpful things like improving communication, teleportation for both self-targeted spells and enchanted fixed-location static gateways, giving people an unprecedented access to each continent. Medical-centered thaumic technologies for curing cancer and other ailments, increased human lifespan into the triple digits, cybernetic enhancements and, extremely rarely some, people even gained wings and horns.” Celestia looked to her sister, who had yet to touch her whiskey. asked her “Are you not going to drink yours, Luna?”
“Oh, no Celestia, I wouldn’t want to give myself too much of a handicap for our students.” Luna responded smirking.
Celestia shrugged and poured herself and myself another glass of whiskey each, “While many humans could do magic without horns, those with horns had a level of control most will never attain. Unfortunately, the good that we thought would come from our advancements regarding magic and thaumic technologies didn’t last as many other countries grew jealous of the amount of our magical fonts and, by extension, how much magic we could use, and formed an alliance called TCCS or The Communist Coalition of States; such as Stalliongrad, Chineigh, and many smaller countries like Griffonstone.
They, in their bid for more magic, spurred themselves on to declare war against the USE and its allies Pintland and Caneighda. After years of fighting, further boosting medical, magical energy and weapon tech and when there was no sign of the war stopping, the thermothaumical spells hit. No one knew who attacked first, but the result was the same; Mutually Assured Destruction.”
I fidgeted in my seat as I downed the my new glass. To think spells of mass destruction, could exist or that people would use them. I shudder to think what would happen if they were brought to my Equestria.
“Luckily, Ark Tech, a mega-corporation which led the world in thaumical research, development, and products, created the Arks, underground bunkers designed to hold a thousand people each safe and secure from the thermothaumical devastation and radiation. Each held water, food and other essentials for people to wait out the fallout. Three hundred years later, the Arks opened, afterwards life was rough and the planet was still a wasteland. People would scavenge, kill each other, and fight over what remained of our planet’s very limited resources, Luckily magic still existed, so lots of Post-Sundering technology still remained in working order.”
Celestia played with her glass in her hands.
“It had later been discovered that Ark Tech had performed experiments in several Arks, the most notable was those with horns and everyone who had wings had Arks specifically built and designated for them, each group separated into a single Ark, one for the Mages, one for the Valkyries, to see if these traits were hereditary. Another Ark held a group that were to be genetically engineered and artificially modified to be naturally strong, have a greater amount of stamina, and a natural connection to the earth. As a consequence, this led to the creation of genetically modified humans with those desirable traits, called the Earthmen. The Mages, and the Valkyries, which also started rising to the attention of the human race, howbeit, developed naturally as humans adapted to the magic-saturated world in which they gradually found themselves living in.
While I was listening my attention drifted over to Luna and began undressing her with my eyes.
Celestia sipped on her glass, and glared at Luna “Luna, are you just going to stand there? Don’t you have anything else to do?”
“I might, but I don’t think it can be done here. There’s too many prying eyes here, if you catch my meaning.” Luna purred out wiggling her eyebrows suggestively at me.
Celestia facepalmed, and tried to ignore her sister.
“The Valkyrie’s Ark was much larger and more spacious than the others and contained an aerodrome for Valkyries to fly and exercise their wings. The Mage’s Ark, however, contained all the scientific, magical books and technology and were encouraged to follow magical engineering pursuits and research.”
Luna dropped her sword and Celestia let out an irritated growl as her sister purposefully bent over to pick up her sword, exposing her cleavage.
“Luna, we will discuss this later, but for now stop teasing Twilight.” Celestia said, gritting her teeth.
I quickly spun around to face Celestia, my cheeks burning as I saw that same questioning eyebrow quirk at my behavior.
“Everyone had bookshelves in their rooms, and the Ark itself had a huge library. In the Earthmen Ark, strength and stamina was lauded, books and knowledge regarding botany, geomancy and farming were contained within it and all food was grown inside the Ark, Once they returned to the surface, the Valkyries learned they could walk on clouds and manipulate weather, whereupon they formed the cloud city of New Cloudsdale.
When the Mages walked on the surface, and discovered that they felt and saw the magical energies around them, they found a quiet secluded corner of the wasteland and created a great capital city and named it New Canterlot, a massive magical city, hewn out the earth and moulded by advanced magics around several magical fonts. Largely isolationist, Mages kept to themselves and only rarely left their city, and rarely letting people in for fear of people making the same mistakes that caused the thermothaumical fallout.
The Earthmen, when leaving their Ark and seeing the state of the world, wept upon the devastation and the detrimental impact which human selfishness and greed had upon their world’s environment. They then made it their mission to heal the land and use all their knowledge regarding botany and agriculture to created a fertile forest filled with every tree of every size and moulded their still living trees, the ones which had been stored and grown in the Ark so that they survived the effects of the thermothaumic fallout, into homes.
Eventually Earthmen would go on pilgrimages over the wasteland all over the world, to restore and improve the botanic environment of the world in which they lived. Soon afterward, the founding of these tribes and their cities with which they had the highest concentration of humans like themselves, encouraged other survivors, mutations and other Arks to also built settlements.
Amongst these settlements and cities; raiders, bandits, and other morally reprehensible people surfaced, as there was no longer a government larger than that necessary for the operation of the newly-rising city-states and settlements, which often lacked the resources and people to have anything resembling an efficient law enforcement agency, much less a standing army.
No longer curtailed by fear of punishment, this gave way to years of fighting and tension. Eventually, thanks to the Earthmen’s tireless work to increase and improve the global botanical environment, the world had regained the lushness and botanical fertility again, soil was fertile again and food was abundant.
A millennium had passed during these events, and the Mages had decided that the world was ready to learn about magic again. They sent out teachers, those who would establish thaumic-centered learning institutions like this one. The Valkyrie’s, being a boisterous, competitive, and militaristic people set forth to create martial schools that taught warfare, combat, and self discipline.
Soon towns, like our own Harmony, spread out from these schools. Well, not exactly like Harmony, sadly Harmony is a one of a kind in that it welcomes Mages, Earthmen and Valkyries. Most others lean heavily to majority of one of the races. We, that is Luna and I, are two of the very few humans that have all three traits of Mage, Valkyrie and Earthmen.”
This time Celestia forewent her glass and chugged from the bottle, letting out an unladylike burp once she had finished.
“The Harmony Project was another of Ark Tech’s projects, which they started shortly after the success of the other arks. People wanted to know if the traits of Earthmen, Mage, and Valkyrie could be given to people, to give them a major advantage over other humans, or adapted humans which only exhibited only one of the traits. Sadly only Luna, Sunset, Dean Cadance, and I; just four out of our Ark, which had once been filled with a thousand people, survived the process. Don’t ask me how, as even now, I don’t fully understand why we alone succeeded where others had failed, but this process has made us immortal.”
“Wait, but I don’t see any of your wings?” I asked in confusion.
I watched as Celestia and Luna somehow communicated with each other through their eyes, before mutely nodding their mutual understanding and agreement of the course of action they had decided upon. The Celestia and Luna, lit their horns and in a flash of light; their stature, musculature, proportions, and their breast size had increased. They now also had wings as well as horns. I just sat their and gaped in awed astonishment at their significantly altered appearance.
“We are the results of Project Harmony, and we have decided to hide our true selves behind illusions, Twilight,” Celestia finished explaining much of the important events which had occurred during my absence. I looked over to Luna who was now wearing a very provocative armor set, while Celestia wore a more conservative dress. I felt something trickle down from my nose and I felt my body crumple to the floor as my vision narrowed before utter darkness claimed me once again.
The last thing I heard was Luna saying, “Do you think we over did it?”
“Did you really have to wear that armor?” Celestia asked indignantly.
The bell rung, “Looks like that’s the bell for my next class.”
“Luna, don’t forget to change that armor, and reapply your glamour, We don’t need our students becoming anemic, and don’t forget tonight is your turn to cook! ” Celestia reminded Luna.
“Meemee meme me me mee~” Luna responded and blew a raspberry at Celestia, after she reapplied her glamour, while still wearing her provocative armor.
“Luna, come back here!” Celestia stood up indignantly as she went after her sister.
“Oh it’ll be fine, it’ll be a lesson in fighting with a distraction!” Luna shouted as she exited the room snickering. Celestia returned to her desk and let out a long suffering sigh.
I suddenly woke up in pain, and groaned while sitting up as my body protested, obviously finally feeling the effects of yesterday's fight with the wolves. I took in my surroundings and found that I was no longer in principal Celestia’s office. I laid on a surprisingly unstained and untainted by paint of any kind, ornate oak bed, the foot and headboard bordered with carved fleur de lis curves with bed knobs like tear drops twisted creating stylish swirls, while the room was a creamy beige color. It was sparsely decorated save for a desk with several framed photos that showed Luna and Celestia, one showing Sunset Shimmer opening presents at what looked like Hearth’s Warming Eve. Another saw Luna atop a creature I couldn't identify, only that it had been felled with a couple of spears protruding from its back. The door to my right opened, revealing Principal Celestia in a white loose summer dress. She was carrying a tray with cereal, toast and a plate of something I had trouble identifying. She laid the tray over my legs as I sat up.
“Good morning Twilight, I believe you are hungry?” Principal Celestia asked, a small smile on her face.
I was about to protest, but my stomach let out a loud growl, and I felt my cheeks heat up in embarrassment. I picked up the cutlery and looked down at the mystery food. With the fork in my right hand, I speared the mystery food. I looked up at Celestia, a little unsure of whether I should eat it or not.
“Go on, Twilight, it won't bite, I am sure you’ll love it,” Celestia said, her warm, matronly smile still on her lips. I shrugged and put the food into my mouth, and a sudden explosion of salty flavor filled my mouth. I chewed as it practically melted in my mouth, and I let out a moan of satisfaction as a smug smile replaced the warm one on Celestia’s face. With reckless abandon, I speared the long cylindrical food and bit down on it, the crunchy shell giving way.
“What is this? These are delicious!” I asked as I shovelled down the rest.
“Oh, that’s fried bacon and sausage,” Celestia responded.
“Huh. What’s it made of?” I asked after having swallowed the last of it.
“Well, bacon is made from the back and belly meat of pigs, and sausages are made from ground pork, which is also pig meat, beef, which is cow meat, and mixed with salt, breadcrumbs, onions, garlic, and other spices which is then stuffed into an intestine. Usually pig.”
“What!? You can’t give me that!?” I screeched.
Confused, Celestia asked, “Why not?”
“Because, meat’s so expensive and rare! I mean, I can understand if this was a special occasion but-” I was silenced by an index finger covering my lips.
“Hush, Twilight, it isn’t all that rare or expensive here. You can have it everyday if you want.” Celestia replied with a smirk on her face over my wide eyed expression.
“Celestia? Is this place Elysium? Have I died and been taken to Paradise!?” I queried in an astonished daze.
Celestia let out a chuckle. “No dear Twilight, you aren’t dead, and despite how much the world has recovered, it’s still susceptible to war, poverty and the normal mortal trappings,” Celestia informed. “So, Twilight, what are you going to do now that you’re here? I doubt that this is a social visit,” Celestia asked, her demeanor turning serious.
I lowered my head down. “I don’t know, what do you suggest?” I asked, not sure of what I could do.
“How about you join the school as a freshman? We have many various classes you can take, in a variety of subjects such as magic and combat. We can get you registered a bit later on. Oh! Before I forget, avoid Dean Cadance, if you can. Ever since she was ‘alicornised,’ she has been devoting her time to ‘shipping’ students.”
“‘Shipping?’” I asked, unfamiliar with the term.
“It’s short for relationship-ping, basically matchmaking.” Celestia answered as blood pooled into my cheeks and heated them up.
Celestia smiled slyly at my reaction, “Oh ho! It looks like someone has a crush! Come now, tell me who is it?”
“Uh, it’s no one you would know, Celestia!” I exclaimed hurriedly, but Celestia’s smile turned into a predatory grin as she saw through my weak lie. “And I don’t think it’s any of your business!” I huffed, turning away from her and puffing up my cheeks and pouting. Celestia’s grin didn’t disappear, she just started poking my left cheek.
“Aw! Come on, Twilight! Don’t be so stingy,” Celestia whined. However, seeing that her wheedling was getting her nowhere, she paused and pouted when Twilight continued to refuse to disclose any juicy information regarding who she had a crush on. “Fine, I’ll find out eventually, and when I do I’ll sic Cadance on you.” Celestia stood up and took the empty food tray away with her, when she went. I quickly got out of bed and froze as I found myself naked. I had the oddest urge to cover my nakedness. I pulled the covers over my head.
“Celestia, where are my clothes?” I asked, blushing madly.
Celestia stopped and looked back, a smile plastered on her face “I am washing them Twilight. I brought you a spare set of clothes. They are on the bed,” Celestia said as she left the room. After the door closed, I slipped out from beneath the covers and looked at the clothes which Celestia had laid out for me. There was a simple white shirt with a frilled plunge v neck with flared cuffs, which I started off with. Slipping the shirt on, I noticed a hourglass black corset similar to the one I wore before. However, this one was trimmed with black lace and red panels of satiny fabric, and unlike mine it had breast cups. I unhooked the front and wrapped it around my waist and then put on the black pants, which was made of a strange material. It wasn’t leather, nor was it rubber, but it was very form-fitting and very shiny. It didn’t look like anything I had ever seen before, although that was to be expected as my world’s Celestia outlawed pants several centuries ago, something about none of them fitting the royal rump.”
******
“Pants are evil Twilight, I shall never let anyone else fall for their siren’s call!” Celestia exclaimed raising her forelegs up in exasperation.
Twilight looked flatly at Celestia, ”Do you mind? I'm trying to tell a story here! And the only real reason you don't like pants is … mpphh!?” Twilight glared at Celestia with an intensity that could melt steel as Celestia shoved her right golden shod hoof into Twilight’s mouth to silence her. With disdain, Twilight wrapped her right hand over Celestia's leg and removed it.
“Ahem! As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted!” Twilight stated angrily.
“Is it just me or did the temperature just drop in here?” Rainbow Dash asked, looking confused as to why it was suddenly colder in the room, though further conversations were cut off by Twilight giving them the evil eye.
*******
Shrugging, I resolved to find more about the mystery fabric at a later time, as I’d really rather not be caught with my pants down. I put them on, based on how form-fitting and tight they looked, but I was pleasantly surprised to feel no unpleasant tightness, or discomfort! They even breathed! A brief diagnostic spell brought up a number of enchantments, most of which dealt in some manner of comfort, while others dealt in its overall durability.
Smiling, I put on a pair of blue and white striped thigh-high socks, blushing as ponies often regarded this kind of garment as lingerie. my blush only deepening as I remember the silken pair I had at home with the nighttime motif. Shaking my head, I turned to see a pair of knee-high boots with a square heel. I put each on, making sure they were on the correct foot.
Once I was done, I bounced on my heels, and walked over to a wall mirror and conjured a mane brush to brush my hair. It took a while before I was done. When I was satisfied, I left the room and traveled down the hallway which had two doors adjacent to the room I just left. One of the two rooms was likely Luna’s room, and the other would remain a mystery as I was almost tempted to find out which and sneak into Luna's room, but then I thought better of it, so I don’t know what’s in either of the rooms. I hurried to the staircase and descended down them. As I entered into the antechamber, I noted how massive the room looked, with doors leading into other rooms and hallways. A head poked out of the first door on the left. It was Luna, and her eyes lit up briefly, but quickly turned into a frown. She beckoned me in what turned out to be the dining room, which sat adjacent to a living room and the kitchen.
In front of me, as soon as I entered the room, was a wooden table with four unvarnished and untreated wooden chairs. They were the simple blocky affairs that any furniture apprentice could craft after learning the basic skill and knowledge. The left end of the table was pressed up against a counter that divided the dining room and kitchen. Celestia stood cooking at the stove opposite the counter that divided the kitchen and dining room, next to the stove sat the fridge. She wore a frilly rose-pink apron.
“Where did you get those, Twilight? I was looking for those clothes.” Luna asked, pulling my attention back to her as she was looking agitated.
“Well, Celestia laid them out for me,” I replied, worried I had upset her.
Luna shook her head and called out, “‘Tia, just because your clothes are too big for Twilight because of your big fat ass, doesn’t mean you can go and give her mine!”
I blushed deeply at the revelation that I was wearing Luna’s clothes. Then a thought occurred “Hang on! Celestia isn’t fat!” I retorted, looking confused as to why Luna would make such an obviously false statement, Luna only smirking as Celestia called out in exasperation.
“I am not fat Luna!”
Luna ignored Celestia’s outburst from the kitchen. I turned to Celestia as she had turned around and I noticed a message was written in cursive on her apron “Real men like their pork pulled?” I read out, a confused tone seeping into my voice.
“It was the only one they had!” Celestia sputtered unconvincingly as a Luna snickered behind me. As I returned my focus on Luna, she continued talking, though the odd snicker slipped through.
“Well, with all those illusions she enchants into her clothes, I am not surprised you never noticed. Plus, it’s not overt in our true forms, in fact, our natural height is quite intimidating. Celestia is nine foot three inches, though I myself am only eight foot nine inches,” Luna explained.
“How come you didn’t grow bigger when you showed me your wings?” I asked.
“Oh, looking at my wings eh, Twilight? My, how forward!” Luna teased, causing me to blush deeply, which in turn made Luna and Celestia giggle. “But to answer your question, several reasons. One: getting clothing that size is hard, two: Celestia would hit the ceiling, three: it’s intimidating, and finally: it’s taxing to change our size as it isn’t an illusion and it’s hard to recompress all our mass into these small bodies,” Luna continued.
“Oh! Before I forget, you don’t have to come to the school today. However, I have a present for you. So close your eyes and don’t worry when you start to feel a pricking on your skin.” Luna ordered.
Shrugging, I closed my eyes. I felt Luna holding my left arm, before I felt a soft material I couldn’t identify wrap around my left wrist, and then I felt three needles pierce my skin. I resisted the urge to pull my arm away and grimaced as the nerves in my arm felt as if they were on fire.
“Okay, you can open your eyes now,” Luna instructed, and I pulled my left arm up as I did so. A screen projected slightly above my wrist. The device looked like a cross between a bracer and a wrist mounted computer.
Luna spoke up while I was still looking at the thing. “The ArkTech all-purpose Multi-tool and personal assistant or AMP for short has one terabyte of memory, a quantum state cpu from ArkTech, a miniature graphics processor that can provide full GHD, Giga High Definition resolution, that’s ten thousand three hundred and twenty eight by seven thousand seven hundred and sixty at five hundred gigabytes of video memory. It has a high powered torch that can illuminate up to fifty meters in a 25 meter cone, a projector for presenting information or maps no matter where your arm is positioned, DAIA or Digital Artificial Intelligence Assistant, a terabit per second Maginet connection, GPS, a to-do list, several popular video games, movies and TV for when you're bored and a mp3 and radio player. It also has a camera and it monitors your health (which you can see now alongside a compass), abilities and inventory-including pocket dimensions. It’s powered by the magic in the area, and stores it just incase you find yourself outside of the magic field. It has video calling and instant messaging as well.” Luna enthused as she explained the advanced technology.
“Now don’t tell ‘Tia, but this one also has hacking software and a lockpick. Not to mention an option to display the screen over your vision with a semi transparent GUI Graphics User Interface, which you can control by thinking about it. Neat huh?” Luna whispered and then her mouth parted into a lecherous grin and leant forward after checking no one else would hear, and began to stage whisper “And you can look at porn and no one will be the wiser.”
“Um, okay?” I said, giving Luna a sidelong look. “Thank you for the AMP.” I added with awe evident in my voice, at the piece of technology strapped to my wrist.
“Oh, and I forgot to mention that it can hold and store digital books which you can then read using using the AMP. And if you don’t want to wait for the Digital Conversion Corps to digitize a book for you, you can just scan it yourself and make the digital copy without waiting on them!”
As Luna finished saying that, I let out the girliest squeal I could as I went about looking through the menus for the books. Sure enough, I saw a tab called Books, though there were only three hundred titles in its library. While I was impressed with the technology of this world, I wasn’t overly impressed with the number of titles available. It might make for a year’s worth of reading. My world had massive libraries with thousands of titles and scrolls, so you can understand that, as a bibliophile, I had seen much larger book repositories. Nevertheless, I was very appreciative to Luna for this gift, and I gave her a most exuberant hug while profusely thanking her. Celestia shook her head in barely contained amusement before returning to the cooking
“Well anyway.” Luna said, shrugging, “I must go, as much fun as it has been spending time with you, I do have a school to run.” Luna exited the dining room to finish preparations for the workday. I made my way over to the living room through the arched entryway. Against the wall to my left was a white cotton upholstered couch, on the opposite side of the room sat a wood burning fireplace. A flat-screened TV screen was mounted to the wall above it, The strangest thing was that it looked like someone had jammed several crystals into its frame. I sat down on the couch and began to shift through my newly acquired books until one title piqued my interest, ‘101 ways to please your girlfriend’
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Twilight paused as she felt somepony playing with her AMP, it turned out to be the mare in her arms, Luna, she had righted herself and now was looking through my AMP. Twilight leant forward and whispered in a husky voice “Luna, what are you doing?” Luna shivered in response to Twilight's question before going rigid. A dark blush coloured her cheeks in response.
“I was” Luna turned away before Twilight’s right hand on her chin guided her face back, “reading 101 ways to please your girlfriend.” Luna grumbled her cheeks burning heavily.
“Do not fret Lulu, we shall give you a copy, I actually have a present for you all.” Twilight declared, and as she spread her arms and in a flash of light there was a collection of yelps and gasps as their left forelegs were now wrapped in AMPs. “There we go, perhaps you can reverse engineer one and make them here, although the Maginet must be made first though. ” Another AMP dropped into Celestia's hooves. With a few taps on her AMP, Twilight sent Maginet and AMP research and blueprints to Celestia. “There, now you have no excuses. Anyway, back to my story.” Twilight said as Celestia grinned like a mare in a candystore.
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I opened it and as soon as I saw the knowledge it contained I immediately closed it as I felt my cheeks heat up, I surreptitiously favorited it for later reading.
I looked up to see the amused smile of Celestia, and her eyes seemed to glint with mischief and promises of untold embarrassment that I was going to face in the not too distant future, and she was standing in the only entrance of the room.
“I have some money for you, Twilight. Magicite is a crystal that forms around high concentrations of magic, which is often around magic fonts. Each coin is a slice of Magicite and comes in two denominations; Magicite, which are the larger value coins, and kryst smaller slices, each slice is then engraved with what it is, the currency symbol. Each Magicite piece contains a magical charge, raw and larger cuts are used to power everything often in conjunction with or without steam. However, due to its rarity, steam is preferred whenever possible. As I reached out to take the bag of coins they disappeared in a beam of blue light that emerged from my AMP.
“Where did they go?” I asked in confusion looking at my AMP.
“AMPs automatically store currency,” came Celestia's reply.
“Before you leave, don't forget to equip your sword, use your AMP and click on the inventory, then on weapons then click on the icon it should automatically attach your sword scabbard and belt.” Celestia explained and waited as I followed her instructions, until light wrapped around my waist as a belt materialised.
“That is going to be useful.” I said in awe, now equipped with my sword and with a confident look on my face I bid Celestia farewell and left the house. When I did I saw a girl leaning against the gate, the girl was wearing a short black cotton skirt, and blouse. She had long brown hair tied up in a plat. She had silver eyes, her eyebrows were thin and neatly trimmed, her skin was tanned lightly. She was also wearing black stocking held up by a garter belt and a pair of calf boots with a sensible heel.
“About time you got your butt out here,” she said in a voice I recognised, waving with a smirk.
“Jo? Is that you?” I asked, as the girl in front of me walked up to me.
“I’m certainly not Santa Claus.” Jo responded sarcastically. She stopped leaning against the gate and put her right hand on her hip.
“Come on, let's go, I am your guide for your tour of the town. Afterwards, we can go see Sunset Shimmer.” Jo explained and began to walk off, so I hurriedly followed after her.
The streets were lined with houses, each had a picket fence. Jo spoke up, “This is a residential area, one of two. This one is on the east side, while the other is on the west. Each block contains eight houses, and there are ten blocks in each residential area, making for a hundred and sixty houses total. Down the center is a large in road which branches off”
As we made it to the center road Jo turned left with me close behind.
“Not from the stalls, can we go to the mall?” I asked
“Sorry Twilight, we don't have enough time. The mall is in the underground city section and it's still under construction.” Jo explained
“Underground city?” I asked.
“Yeah, it was recently added to enable us to expand the city without ruining farming land. Now come on, onto the east side residential, Sunset awaits” Jo explained, I followed her through the east residential district until coming to house number forty two.
Jo knocked and a muffled voice called, the door swung open to reveal Sunset Shimmer. She wore a white lab coat an eggshell blue T-shirt, her signature black skirt and flat shoes. When she spotted Twilight behind Jo, this immediately caused Sunset to dart forward, she cupped my face with her hands and before I could react she thrust her lips forward into mine, locking my lips with hers.
Her soft cherry flavoured lips caressed mine as my eyes widened in shock before I melted into it, closing my eyes. Her tongue was teasing my lips as she tried to gain entry into my mouth, so I opened my mouth slightly, allowing her tongue in. It slipped in and licked and caressed my tongue as I tried to return the favor, turnabout is fair play after all.
During our impromptu tongue wrestling match, an awkward Jo excused herself by going to another room. I was vaguely aware that Sunset’s hands slid down my body and slid down into the front of my pants, and when I felt her fingers caress my lower lips I pulled away. Panting, “ Sunset what are you doing!?” I demanded, my face heating up as I spoke. Looking confused and a bit hurt, she replied,
“Kissing my girlfriend?” She asked uncertainly.
“I don't remember dating you, Sunset, when I came here last time!” I exclaimed
“Hang on, where are your glasses?” Sunset asked as the hurt and confusion in her voice increased.
“Glasses? I have never worn glasses!” I nearly shouted and then a dawning recognition flittered across her face.
“Twilight from Equestria?” She near whispered, still blushing.
“Yes.” I huffed as I tried to calm myself down.
“ Oh no, you weren't supposed to know about us and- oh no, that means my Twilight is still missing!” Sunset wailed and fell to her knees, tears cascading down her cheeks. Despite the discomfort of the revelation that Sunset was dating my human counterpart, I quickly pulled her into a hug and let her cry on my shoulder as I gently stroked her head, rocking and comforting the distraught mare turned human.
“I’m sorry I kissed you, it’s just that I miss her so much!” Sunset choked out between sobs.
“It's okay. Just so you know, I already have a mare I have my eyes on.”
“Oh, really?” Sunset asked twisting her head to look at me a rueful smile on her face.
“Don't tell anyone, but it's Princess Luna.” I whispered
“Wow, aiming high, aren't we Twilight?” Sunset said as I shrunk back in embarrassment. Sunset let out a choked laugh.
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Intermission 1: The First Trip or How Twilight Met Sunset
I was trotting down the halls of the palace in Canterlot. It had only been a few months since Princess Celestia had chosen me as her personal student, and I had been working hard to make sure the Princess didn’t regret choosing me as her student. Today was a free day so I decided to explore the palace. The palace was beautifully carved out of marble with golden accents to break up the white marble. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a crimson and orange tail disappearing behind a corner. Curious, I followed it.
As I turned around the corner, I saw the tail disappear through a set of double doors, I rushed to the doors and opened them. I saw an empty room, confused I looked around the dusty unused room filled with cobwebs and broken furniture. I spotted a tall full body mirror. It rippled oddly and it seemed like the surface was entirely liquid. I stepped up to it and looked closer the purple elegant frame curled at the apex with a trapezoidal block that had a gem inset into it. I brought my right fore hoof up to the mirror and touched the surface. It parted unnaturally and enveloped my hoof and I felt it pulling me in. I tried to pull my hoof out, but I slipped and fell into the place the mirror portal led to. My vision was filled with a myriad of colors as I fell and felt my body twist and turn. Everything went dark upon losing consciousness. When I woke up, I stood up, or tried to, my rear legs felt weird, which caused me to look down and see that they had changed into long, gangly things and my forehooves had changed into claw-like wriggly things.
I looked around and saw that everything was stark white! I couldn’t see a horizon in front of me, however, within this white expanse stood a large, looming obsidian gate! It didn’t look like it had any way to open it. Etched into the panels was a creature known as human, she had only seen in legends. Thinking on it, my new form looked human, yet it was a little different from the one depicted on the gate as it had the wings of a pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. However, it had its eyes closed. The gate was framed with chiseled grey stone, which was then etched with several creatures that looked like they belonged in my world.
I turned around to look where I had came from and saw another similar gate, where on the front sat a picture of an alicorn engraved on the gate. Around the stone frame I found creatures from pony legends.
“Welcome, child born of one world, but destined to be the savior of both.” A voice echoed through the expanse, though I couldn’t tell if it was a mare or stallion’s. Its voice seemed like multiple voices speaking at the same time, making it sounded unnatural, alien.
I spun around, searching for the owner of the voice to find that front of me stood a cloaked figure. I instinctively backed away, toward the gate I came from.
“I wouldn’t be so hasty, Twilight,” The figure chided
I froze and looked at it, “How do you know my name?”
“I know everything, the past, future, present and every outcome. Knowing your name isn’t that difficult a feat.” The creature answered smugly.
“Who are you? Where am I?” I asked frantically.
“You are here because you were meant to be here, as was I. This place? I call it the void, the world between worlds, limbo, the crossroads of dimensions, the nowhere and the nothingness, oblivion. This is a very key moment for you, Twilight. A choice will be made and is being made, look around you.”
I did as I was instructed and looked around innumerable pairs of doors with versions of the figure and myself standing opposite each other, with minor variances. My jaw fell as I looked upon infinity.
“As for who I am? That is not important. What is important is your next choice, do you move forward or do you turn back? Do you dive into and embrace the darkness, or stand and bask in the light? I know it’s not much to go on and doesn’t seem so important in the context of things, but trust me when I say that the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance... but it is not much of a choice if you don’t know the consequences, is it?
If you continue forward, you will enter a new world, and in doing so will help prevent a disaster. If you leave, you doom that world and your own, you will forget this place even exists and will never tread here again. You’ll live your life how it would have played out. Furthermore, regardless of which you choose you must sacrifice something. What that something is or when it is taken, you will not know. Fret not though, little filly, for despite all the consequences and sacrifices you must make, you will be rewarded if you move forward, beyond your wildest dreams in fact, for your future efforts. Now quickly, my little pony! What is your answer?” The being finished monologuing.
I stood frozen, this figure was putting me on the spot! No matter what I do, I’ll lose something, the answer should be obvious. If I lose something despite my choice, wouldn’t it be better to do it and get rewarded. If only the Princess was here she could help me make the right choice! I thought and then decided, nodding to myself and looking up at the figure who seemed to regard me in a cold curious way.
“Your answer?” it asked.
“I’ll continue on, I’ll go forward and pray to Celestia that it isn’t the wrong one.”
The figure seemed to smile despite its face being obscured.
“Goood,” it practically hissed out. It stepped aside as a loud rumbling emanated from the gate, screeching as if it had not been opened in a long time.
I stood up shakily and properly tried to balance and walk forward. The creature watched me as I went through the gate.
“You shall henceforth be able to travel throughout the multiverse without hinderance. For it is very important for your role in things.”
The guard I had shadow Twilight had informed me she had entered a mirror in an old storage room, I rushed as fast as I could to stop my student falling prey to that creature. Through halls and doors I burst through, before I finally came upon the mirror and dived into it. When I came to, I arrived in the void.
“Ah Celestia! I was expecting you!” it exclaimed cheerfully, I will always hate its smug, know-it-all attitude, even if it did in fact know everything. It doesn’t mean it has to be rude about it!
It smirked at me, obviously he knew what I was thinking.
“Where is my student, fiend!?” I demanded. Its smirk widened.
“She has made her choice!” it announced gleefully, “As you and your sister once did, though it was different!” it exclaimed prancing and twirled around me, it was already giving me an aneurysm.
“Also, I am not a fiend, silly filly!” it reprimanded, I lowered my head, pointing my horn at it and pawed at the ground. My horn started glowing, until I felt the magic leave, along with my horn.
“Ah! Ah! Ah! I gave you that horn, ‘Tia, I can take it away. For now it’s been confiscated.”
“You caused my sister to fall to the nightmare!” I shouted at the creature,
“‘Tia, ‘Tia, ‘Tia! You both would have had the same sacrifice, even if you hadn’t come here. Just be thankful I took pity on you and gave you something to make up for it.”
“You think I care about anything more than my sister!?” I demanded.
“But of course filly, it’s why you have received your reward. It’s not my fault you chose to be out of her life as her father, practically the moment she was born. So she could have a normal life, pffft, rather noble of you, giving up the one pony who is both your sister’s saviour and her reward.”
“But that would mean! Eugh! You’re sick!” I screwed up my face in disgust.
“Oh please, Celestia, it’s not like you’re one to talk after that one night in that tent you shared.” the figure snickered as I felt the heat in my cheeks as I glared at it.
“Wait! She wasn’t Luna’s was she?”
“Oh come on! Even I have standards. Do not worry, the filly Twilight is yours and Velvet’s just like you remember. Also, I seem to remember you being the intelligent one.”
“Twilight is the next element of magic. Assuming things go according to plan. And assuming if she follows in your hoofsteps, then she is going to be rewarded more than you two were,” it continued
“And what of her sacrifice!?” I demanded, gripping the creature's shoulders.
“I shall tell you on one condition, you do not try and interfere …”
I awoke again, this time in front of a red brick building, I was fully clothed in a skirt that matched my coat color and had my cutie mark on it.
I looked around and spotted strange-looking bipedal creatures that looked similar to my new body. I stood up and was about to walk off to explore before I was grabbed from behind and I felt a bag cover my head, sending me into darkness.
After what seemed like hours, I was tied to something and the bag was violently removed from my head. A tall girl with lightly tanned skin and a crimson and orange mane, stood before me wearing a strange jacket over an orange dress. She got in close to my face and demanded, “Who sent you!? Was it the royal guard!?” She paced in front of me waiting for me to answer, I felt tears welling up and I began to cry.
“I want to go home!” I said through my fear provoked sobs
The girl looked at me incredulously, “What are you? Six!?”
“Y-yeah …” I answered, my voice sounding strangled.
Her eyes widened in panic and untied me and wrapped her arms around me, I stopped crying in shock.
“OMG! I am so sorry! I didn’t know! I thought Celestia had sent a royal guard after me!”
“Wha- how do you know of the Princess?” I asked, still crying.
“I was her student ten years ago. My name’s Sunset Shimmer. What’s your name?” Sunset asked.
“I am Twilight Sparkle, I am a student of the Princess too!”
Sunset’s eyes widened, “No! Not again!”
“Wha-? What’s wrong, Sunset?” I asked, confused as to why she acting like this.
“Did you end up in a white world with two gates?” Sunset asked, biting her nails.
“Yes, why?” I asked while wiping a tear away.
“There was a reason I couldn’t return to Princess Celestia, Twilight. I too have met that figure in the void, my sacrifice was not returning home to Equestria, as my choice killed this world’s Sunset. I came thinking only of what it would cost me and what I would get and ignoring the possibility it would affect others. We met outside a store, and we both freaked out so much so that she ran headlong into speeding traffic and died when a truck hit her.
I couldn’t let my selfish choice affect anyone else, so I took her place, bribed the EMT’s with the solid gold bitI had on my person, though the equestrian currency itself was worthless the gold proved valuable enough. I bought this house after selling the gold and covered up the truth by burying all information regarding my human self’s death, I went to the local school after finding out about the other me from this world, where she went to school and finding out that the Celestia of this world had adopted the human me,” Sunset explained and looked haunted, before looking up.
“Twilight, there will be another version of you here. If you can, avoid all contact with her,” Sunset explained as she got up and started rummaging through a strange looking bag. After a while she came back over with a human-style saddle bag and a book with a stylised sun on the cover. “Twilight, memorise this book, there is a clone of it in Equestria, held in Princess Celestia’s library, I used it to communicate with her while I was still her student. Find its mate over in your dimension and we can stay in touch. Whatever that creature in the hood is, it knows more than anything else in the multiverse, and it chose us for a reason. I don’t know what it wants us to do, for all we know we could be doing it right now. Also, I hate to be a burden, but can you deliver these letters for me?” Sunset asked holding out a pile of letters, which I took and put in the saddlebag.
“Of course I will! Sunset? Do you want to be friends?” I asked, seeing that Sunset looked like she could use a friend.
“Yes, Twilight, I would love to be your friend,” Sunset responded warmly.
I had returned from that beast’s lair, the void, and was currently slumped on my bed. Haunted by what Twilight will have to sacrifice, My poor foal! I sobbed for her and her fate, That I had once again lost another family member to the creature’s cruel machinations. All in the name of the blasted greater good. Fuck the greater good! For once I want to do something for myself and my family!
A knock on my door interrupted my descent into depression, “Who is it?” I croaked out.
A concerned voice called through the door. “Princess, are you okay?” came a meek filly’s voice. I bolted to the door, opening it and wrapping Twilight in my forelegs and hugging her, which caused her to squeak in surprise.
“Oh Twilight! I was so worried that I’d lost you!” I cried out as Twilight tried admirably to return the hug.
“I am okay Princess, I have a something for you!” Twilight exclaimed, in her magic she levitated a sheaf of letters,
“Oh my! What a talented post mare you are, Twilight,” I said smiling warmly, causing the little filly’s worried frown to turn into a beaming smile at the praise.
“Who are they from?” I asked, looking them over without opening them to see if I could figure out who it was from the horn writing.
“Sunset Shimmer!” Twilight beamed, however, the utterance of that name almost made me drop her and the letters in shock.
“She’s alive?” I asked cautiously. Twilight nodded, though her smile faded and her ears folded back.
“She can’t return home, she said she would explain the reason why in the letters,”Twilight explained sadly. I carried the letters and Twilight to my bed, laying the filly down on top of the duvet, in which she promptly sunk into due to its size and puffiness.
I climbed on and began reading, tears falling as I continued, so immersed I hadn’t noticed Twilight valiantly battling the puffiness to get to me or when she actually made it to hug me with her tiny legs.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Love, Sunset Shimmer
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Chapter 5: Class Selection Or How Not To Be Full of Yourself.(not edited)
“So Sunset was dating the human version of you?” Rarity asked a predatory smile on her lips as she caught the whiff of a scandal and gossip. Twilight sighed, rolled her eyes and nodded, “yes Rarity you heard me correctly.” Rarity’s smile widened and was about to say something until Twilight raised her hand.
“No Rarity nothing else happened between me and Sunset,” she deadpanned at the fashionista.
“Aww,” Rarity pouted disappointed, while the others snickered at her reaction.
Twilight shook her head at the fashionista’s antics, before continuing.
Having bought everything I would need for living and learning here and bidding Sunset farewell, Jo and I made my way to the school proper. As I passed the threshold of the school doors, I felt a hand grab my right wrist. The hand grabbing mine belonged to a grinning Luna who started pulling me along, “welcome Twilight it is now time to give you a few tests to see where we should place you. Will you be a Night witch, a Valkyrie, not to be confused with the winged verity or perhaps you will become a paladin or dark knight, a gunslinger or even sentinal. Although it’s likely you’d be a pure mage.” she explained along the way until they had pushed through a set of double doors. Luna let go of my wrist which was now aching thanks to her roughness in pulling me along.
I groaned as I walked up to Luna rubbing my wrist.
Luna still beaming turned to a line of men and women, with various armaments, she announced, “alright class, we are here to demonstrate each of the various classes to our newest student, Twilight Sparkle. When I call you, you will perform a technique or two.” the students smirked and became restless as they warmed up.
“Paladin, stalwart defender and healer” Luna introduced as a heavily armored male Earthman stepped forward, his white armor gleamed, he held a single handed mace in his right hand and shield on his off arm. He shouted an intimidating roar as he slammed his mace against his shield golden light surrounded his body before charging at a training dummy his shield in front that was promptly smashed to bits.
“Valkyrie, fierce and swift, cutting foes down.” Came Luna's call as a young Valkyrie woman wearing medium armor and dual wielding a long sword in each hand she charged using her wings to twist in the air to bring her twin sword down on the target dummy before rapidly slashing alternating between each sword savagely.
“Gunslinger, projectile death from afar” Luna continued unphased, a short man stepped forward twin handguns at the ready. Wearing a duster over form fitted clothes. He start by simple shooting his right then left gun in quick succession, before launching himself up twisting as he left the ground and rapidly shot off several shots in a horizontal whirlwind of death before landing in a crouch he then shot his guns as he rose them one after the other like a fan and then kicked the dummy up reloaded and then rapidly aimed upwards at it and shot up at the helpless target keeping it in the air before letting it fall.
“Dark knight, mirror of the paladin, darkness and destruction.” another Earthman wearing black plate carrying a two handed sword, stepped forward before slamming his right foot down as he slashed and twisted and slashed again creating a cross shaped black crescent that sliced through the dummy in front of him.
“Night Witch, stealth and shadow embodied.” a tall woman stepped forward before crunching and disappeared in a cloud of shadow reappearing behind her dummy slicing through rapidly, this display made me shiver in fear. a teleporting stealth user is a harrowing prospect. I noted to myself internally.
“sentinel, the impregnable fortress,” a tall woman in full plate grinned, she held a two handed sword in each hand and a kite shield attached to her left arm. This one hand a partner in the same gear turning to each other they charged laughing, swords parried each other the odd attack to awkward to block with sword was blocked by shield and responded to in kind with their other swords, they both lashed out with kicks that connected pushing them back.
“mage, human artillery and support!” came Luna's last call a robed female mage stepped forward raising her hands a fireball launched at her dummy, obliterating it.
“So Twilight choose,” Luna said crossing her arms turning to me.
I thought long and hard.
As I was busy thinking Luna interjected, “be aware you're going to face the one your going to choose.”
I smirked I couldn't choose so I decided to make my own, I doned medium armor, a kite shield on my left armor, sheathed two broadswords on my back two short swords at her waist. And daggers sheathed behind her back.
Luna frowned when I turned around magic arcing over my arms, “are you sure, making a new class won't be easy?” Luna asked I just nodded firmly she shrugged “night witch, sentinel, mage, valkyrie step forward.” They did as they were told grumbling, “this is not a death match, victory is achieved by knockout or surrender.” Luna added. I drew the daggers, short swords and two broadsword in my magic floating in my magic.
The first to act was the Night Witch anticipating this I teleported back a few feet as she reappeared I was behind her, I used the flat of a broadsword to knock her out. Turning to the others the mage rained fireball after fireball at me, which I blocked with a shield, grunting under the strain, I gather electricity and fired twin orbs of lightning at him. He blocked it with his own shield but the force of the impact shattered his shield and knocked her back.
The valkyrie and Sentinel decided to tag team me as I used shield spells kite shield and sword to parry block and using a wave of kinetic energy I pushed them back before, sending a crescent of darkness at the unsuspecting sentinel his shield barely holding, I then increased their local gravity crushing them into the floor. The mage had returned in time to dispel the gravity and began helping her comrades up. I rushed forward hands still sparking from electricity I grabbed the sentinel and the valkyrie shocking them unconscious. I suddenly felt a pain in the back of my head as I felt my consciousness fading.
Luna stared, “well that happened, okay let's get to healing.”
“Ah you’re finally awake,” I heard as I groaned, the painful throbbing telling me I had been knocked out.
“While you were out I took the liberty of looking over the idea you had, intriguing. I probably would take a few things out namely the night witch and valkyrie and stick with mage and sentinel. What are you going to call it?” Luna asked with a smirk
“siegebreaker, fortress’ retaliation.” I replied weakly, “focuses more on mass damage dealing, specifically anti-Army. “
Luna paused for a moment to consider the implications, her hand cradling her chin, “That certainly could work, might require tweaking to optimise it, but you can do that while you train. I’ll also help as I admit, I am quite intrigued.”
I nodded and smiled, “in the meantime what should I do?”
“I hear that Celestia also wanted to see you about your classes,” Luna muttered absently, “I suggest you don’t keep her waiting.” Luna advised me with a warm smile, and a bear hug.
I ran out the door and made my way towards the principal's office. I hope I am not tardy!?
Become A Part Of The Klok(unedited)
Twilight panted as she ran down the halls of the school, she was going so fast that at times she had to wall run to turn corners, much to the bemusement of passing students. As Twilight reached the final corridor she noted that Celestia’s office door was open, along the corridor floor was two parallel strips of lights planes used to land. Twilight turned sidewards to slow down lowering her left knee and straightening her right leg, the friction left a trail of rubber and flames in her wake as she stopped just before Celestia, who was wearing a smug smirk on her face as a group of students came out with fire extinguishers to put out the fire.
Twilight smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of her neck when Celestia pulled out a scorecard that said eight out of ten. Twilight’s hung her head hiding her embarrassment.
“So Twilight, what classes do you want to take from me? Take a look at this brochure,”
I recomposed myself, performing a breathing exercise, I proceeded to look through the courses available, four specifically stood out to me, “Spatial and chronomancy 101, advanced magic 101, magical engineering 101. Large scale area effect spells 101.” I said as I read the course titles.
“Splendid!” Celestia clapped her hands together with a smile on her face, Celestia then began writing down something on the sheet in front of her.
“It will take time to register you properly, in the meantime you may leave. I, however, suggest you get your course materials and your stationery.” Celestia instructed before handing me the list.
“Twilight, not that this isn’t riveting but did you not fight anything there?” Luna asked clearly getting bored
“Well, a couple of months after that I did fight a giant lizard-like creature the locals called a Dethklaw, please don’t ask why it’s called that,” I responded, nuzzling into Luna’s neck.
“We were sent out to get some field experience, forage, scavenge and loot… .”
I was in the middle of the ruins of Canterlot, moving through the damaged streets and the glassless shop windows. Which I in no way did I look for new outfits to wear, nope no sir. Definitely not, after not scouring the clothes shops I made my way to the local gun shop to see if there was any ammo or guns not already scavenged.
After cleaning out a few good weapons left behind in amazing condition, I heard a song playing in the street. I quickly picked up my loot and made my way out of the shop to see an eight-foot-tall lizard creature, it had two curved scrolled horns piercing a tattered black hood, razor-sharp teeth poked out of its overbite mouth. It stood like a human, its torso thick and muscular with an mp3 player lodged into its skin poking through a damaged black Dethklok t-shirt, it had huge clawed hands and digitigrade paws with reverse knee joint legs it was wearing a pair of torn black pants. It’s long tail swished about, without much fanfare the tune it was playing changed mid-song as soon as it had spotted me.
I hurriedly prepared my swords, I slashed at the creature as it charged at me, damaging its shirt but barely nicking its skin as I draw my blade along its chest it got caught on its mp3 player.
I rolled away as the beast screeched at me, slashing where I was previously.
Before I could rest more screeching echoed in the streets as a horde of mummified humans that shouldn’t be alive considering their state ran at me. Readying my swords after pulling them from the carcass of the beast I had just slain, You have to be fucking kidding me! I thought in exasperation as I waited for the first to enter my reach swords flew relieving limbs from the unholy creatures with soulless eyes. The pieces flying everywhere like I was some morbid blender.
Dammit how many are there, I was never one for endurance. I complained mentally as I panted the rancid smell of corpses piling up as I continued swinging. It lasted twenty minutes and I was kneeling gasping for breath as I lopped off the last one’s head.
“This is going to suck, “ I muttered with a sigh, I began the long and arduous task of looting all the corpse, few bullets, lots of money, I few things I did not want to think about. Some of them even had AMPs so I used mine to liberate their inventories. More cash entered my AMP, a few outfits, a couple of guns and a scarlet sheer negligee,
I decided to haul the carcass off the giant beast with me in my magic, preserving it in stasis. I had not seen such a beast so perhaps someone at harmony can tell me.
Once I had made it to Harmony, after a few skirmishes with carrian beasts trying to take my kill, I was greeted by the gate by a pacing Celestia and Luna, Jo standing beside them, “See I said she would be fine!” Luna said thumping her sister on the shoulder in exasperation.
“Fuck me sideways! Twilight what the hell, how in gods name did you manage to fell a Dethklaw,” Jo said incredulously, eying the corpse and me.
“Stabbing it a lot, seemed to do the trick,” I responded sardonically, “you should have seen the hordes of mummies or zombies or whatever the fuck those unholy desiccated creatures were.”
Jo’s right eye began to twitch dangerously as she turned around and started ranting, Luna came over to me and stage whispered, “pst Twilight, is the mp3 in one piece? Or at least tell me you downloaded its songs?” Luna eyes practically begging me.
“Sorry Luna it was destroyed in the fight,” I responded eying her reaction.
“Aww, great now I have to wait for god knows how long,” Luna complained while pouting, “Listen Twilight Dethklaw’s and a load of other creatures with mp3’s stuck in their bodies contain ancient music, the Dethklaw being a subspecies of the metalhead. Please try and keep the mp3 intact or download its library with your AMP,” with a deep exaggerated sigh Luna continued, “ah to hear Metallica again!”
“Seriously?” I asked incredulously
“Actually Twilight, can you perhaps do the same for me if you hear one with classical music playing?” Celestia added sheepishly from behind Luna.
“Anyway, we shall take this one to be processed maybe we can salvage the hard or flash drive,” Luna said picking up my kill.
That’s it I am done, this world is crazy!? What next a Faceless man in a suit that steals children away!?
Author's Note
Sorry about the wait guys, life has been a tornado. So haven't been able to write for shit or even think of my stories. so this is a little short as I try and get back into the swing of things. and yes that is a Dethklok reference. I put this out unedited as I didn't want you guys to have to wait any longer than you have.
I want to thank you all for your patience, while I delt with my fucked up life and the falling apart of my body.
Twilight and Celestia walked into the dining room together, their friends and family watched them as they entered. Twilight sat opposite to her friends and family as Celestia took the seat to the right of Twilight. Everyone turned their attention to the doors on the other side of the room blew open.
“Oh no,” Celestia whispered under her breath. A haggard and frustrated Luna huffily walked up to Twilight's side and sat down.
“Luna what in Tartarus happened to you!?” Twilight near screeched.
Luna leveled her glare at Twilight “Thou happened to us, Twilight! Thou and thine ways and thine—ggrrhh! Stupid, sexy Twilight! Thou don’t even love us yet thou teaseth us with possibilities We know to be impossible! Th-thou invade our dreams and we canst stop it!” Luna said punctuating her sentences by prodding Twilight in the chest. Twilight frowned and gave a resigned sigh.
“It seems I haven’t been clear enough I see.” Twilight said her voice thrumming with power, Celestia realising perhaps before anypony else what Twilight was about to do shouted “Twilight don’t do it, it’s not worth it!” Celestia was interrupted as Luna opened her mouth to say something.
“Cease thine inane prattling! It appears that We ought to be clearer in what We say, how We say it and the manner in which We display it. So be it!” Twilight said in the Royal Canterlot Voice, her sonic blast caused the castle to shake around them.
“What art thou going to do about it then!? Kisseth us again? We cast doubt upon their sincerity when thou art so free with them!” Luna petulantly responded.
”Silence! We art not a liar! Hath thou seen us bestow our amorous kiss upon anypony else? Luna, hath thou seen us with anypony else in our bed!? We spaketh naught but truth unto thee. Luna, our flirtatious affections was only intended to open thy mind and heart to the possibility, but thine sister hath not helped convey the sincerity of our affections! She made thou thinketh this morning to be a mere dream of a former student of thine sister, one changed by time and circumstance! Her negligence hast cost us thine faith in our sincerity, so we must endeavor to show thou our earnest and most heartfelt sincerity!
“Wait, that wasn't a dream!?” Luna exclaimed, her face going extremely red with her ears pinned back upon her head.
We are not finished! We are Twilight Sparkle, daughter of Dame Twilight Velvet and Lord Nightlight, I am the Celestial voice unto ponykind! I am the mistress of Friendship, The mediator twix true night and full day! I am the goddess of war! Those slain by mine hands outnumber the stars in the celestial sphere above! I am the goddess of knowledge! No peer among mortals have I. Many have tried, only to be driven mad by the vastness and weight of everything contained within knowledge. I am the goddess of lust! My passions burn hotter than Celestia’s sun and bestows tender caresses as those kissed by Luna’s moon. Hedonistic pleasures and platonic affections, I am mistress of. The sensual delights of both day and night are mine and in this, have I no peer! We are the Avatar of magic. Few walk Equestrian soil who can claim to be mine equal, a pony who has surpassed even Starswirl the Bearded! Falsehood doth not taint our lips, therefore, hear our solemn vow; Ego Crepusculum, dea, de magia, scientia, libidinem, et bellum. Jurare in mea magia, quod amo Principem Luna.
Twilight was launched from her chair by an unseen force and slammed against a nearby wall; grunting, writhing, and screaming as her coat writhed and twisted like there was a massive snake crawling through her until it reached her horn. Panting and sweating she got up only to be knocked down by a sobbing Princess Luna. Twilight just wrapped her up in a gentle hug.
“That somepony wouldst—”
Twilight interrupted Luna. “Shush Luna, thou dost not need to speak any further. We are already aware. Now doth thou believe the sincerity of mine feelings for thee?” Twilight replied.
Luna responded to Twilight by burying her face in Twilight's chest and nodding her assent in response to Twilight’s query.
“Erm, excuse me your majesties, but can one of you translate for those of us who don’t know what the hay just happened?” Applejack asked scratching her head, while the others nodded.
Celestia looked to Twilight who just smiled and nodded her consent to the solar alicorn.
“I hope you know what you’re doing Twilight.” Celestia redirected her focus to the others gathered around the table. “How many ponies here are familiar with the Pinkie promise?” Celestia asked, watching her audience as a wave of shuddering crept over everypony present, once everypony present nodded, Celestia continued. “What Twilight said in the old tongue must never leave this room and must never be used frivolously, it is a deadly serious oath that you cannot take back and by saying hers in the old tongue, despite not needing to, she did that to protect you and to give you a buffer if you want to back out of knowing, do you understand? Leave now if you don’t want to hear it. This is above a Pinkie promise ” Celestia was interrupted by an angry gasp from Pinkie Pie
“Above a Pinkie promise!? Are you loco in coco. What could be worse than losing your friend forever!?” Pinkie Pie demanded.
Celestia sighed heavily “Pinkie promises are important, but can be used all the time for anything. The consequence for not following this vow is you lose a portion of your magic permanently as magic will find the Oath-Breaker so offensive that if you break such a vow it will leave you. Depending on how large and serious the vow, the amount lost increases. You can regain that same level of power again through training, but it won't be the same, and if you keep breaking the vows then you will eventually run out of magic and as a magical creature you will die,” Celestia finished explaining, taking in the myriad of facial expressions, ranging from shock to fear and in Pinkie's case sadness.
“But beggin’ yer pardon, your majesty, but what did Twilight vow?” Applejack asked.
“I Twilight, goddess of magic, knowledge, lust and war. I do solemnly swear on my magic that I love Princess Luna. Rather romantic, if foolish to make such a vow.” Celestia finished and turned to see Twilight carrying Luna bridal style while Luna was peppering her with affection. “If you two are quite finished may we hear Twilight’s story now?” Celestia asked.
“Okay, you all know what happened that day so I guess I’ll start with what happened after I was struck.”
******
I awoke with a start, panting I took in my surroundings. It was getting dark, but there was enough ambient light to see. I was no longer in the throne room and could see that there was ruins of large structures that looked like they belonged in Manehattan, the structures were colored in shades of grey, white and covered in trees, moss and ivy. The trees made a canopy, the whole place was a surreal forest, a mix of ruins, flora and fauna. The ground seemed to be made of a strange gravel, that looked mostly solid despite all the cracks that had grasses and bushes growing out of them. Strange metal poles ran parallel along the cracked street. either flickering or solidly casting light into the darkness.
I looked down at my body shocked to find I was human again. In panic I felt around and found that I still had my horn, despite losing it the first time I became a human, thus reassured I found myself breathing a sigh of relief as I stood up. I noticed that my mammaries, which humans called breasts were larger and that I wasn't ridiculously under weight either. I was wearing a white shirt that wrapped around my shoulders and I found that I was also wearing a black leather corset and pants. On my right thigh was a sheath that held a iron short sword.
I ran off to the bushes and puked my guts out, at the macabre attire. After my stomach had ejected all of its unabsorbed contents, I stood up. Soon after I heard rustling in the bushes around me. I drew the short sword hoping that my training in self defence using my horn transmitted to my hands, I was too panicked to remember I still had my horn at the time. I stood my ground looking around and waited for what was stalking me to attack. A grey wolf pounced on top of me from above almost knocking me down, it snarling form eclipsing my view, my heart pounded as I raised my sword upwards to stop its attack. Before I felt its weight on my arms. Huffing and heaving I threw it off me as it stilled, just as five other grey wolves jumped out of the surrounding foliage and began circling me.
I readied my sword again waiting for an opportunity to counter the wolves attacks. One of the wolves, in front of me split off from the ring and lunged at me dodging to it’s left I dragged my sword along its barrel, it let out a pained cry as it fell behind me. I heard another wolf make a movement behind me, I spun around in time to see its attack just in time to avoid a fatal blow, but still its claws ripped my right sleeve and gouged out gashes into my arm. The pain of my lacerations caused me to hiss through my teeth. I glared at the beast and kicked it over before beheading it, swiftly ending its life.
This left me open to attack and the last three wolves to it, one jumped onto my back and sank its razor sharp teeth into my shoulder. I let out a pained cry as the other two went for right and left legs gritting my teeth, I used gravity and my kneecap to bust the skull of the woll biting my left leg and I gingerly pried off it’s corpse.
Blood seeped out of my left leg as I growled and stabbed the other wolf on my right leg with my iron sword. After removing it I huffed and panted as the last wolf on my back dug deeper into my shoulder, wobbling I stabbed at it to little effect. I let myself fall backwards making the wolf behind me take my full weight, that still didn’t dislodge it. I then remembered my magic I internally reprimanded myself for my stupidity. Lighting my horn the wolf’s jaw and head was encased in my magic wrenching its jaws open lifting it off me as it struggled in the invisible force of my magic, with a swift flick of my magic I broke its neck.
Panting heavily I looked around at the carnage around me I quickly set about finding some leaves and vines to help staunch my bleeding. After collecting what I required I set about applying them to my wounds, when I heard the sound of whimpering. Warily I made my way over to the bushes wobbling slightly. I saw the body of a white wolf covered in claw and bite wounds, next to it was a white wolf cub. I placed my hand on the elder wolf’s barrel. No heartbeat. I thought a wave of sympathy washed over me, I picked up the wolf cub which was trying desperately to wake its mother.
I scooped it up and cast a stasis spell so it wouldn’t burden me when I can’t feed or care for it. I sent it into my pocket dimension Heh Shiny was so jealous when I first made that pocket dimension. I thought to myself as tears started to fall down my cheeks, I’m never going to see them again am I? They probably think I am dead or something. And what if Luna starts blaming herself? I thought to myself. I became determined. No I must find my way home! Somehow. Standing up I dusted off grimacing at the pain of my wounds and then I heard a gruff female voice call out.
“Halt! Turn around slowly with your hands up!”
I complied and turned around to see a female human wearing what appeared to be heavy plate armor, but looked nothing like the armor I was used to seeing. Upon seeing my horn, she added “A Mage!" she exclaimed alarmed, backing away slowly.
“I am kind of bleeding out here!” I said irritated at the guard who was giving me a skeptical look while glancing at my horn.
“Do humans all have horns where you come from?” the guard asked back at me.
“No! Look I don’t want to talk about it! I was bullied as a child because of it, I don’t need some guard with an attitude to bring it up!” I snarled, I could have won a Toneigh award for that performance. I thought to myself.
“Whoa, okay! Look I am sorry I insulted you. Let’s start off again. The name’s Johanna, but everyone just calls me Jo. What’s your name?” She held out her hand which I took.
“My name is Twilight Sparkle.” I said but I was left confused when she dissolved into laughter, making me glare again “What!?”
“I am sorry, but your parents are either really cruel or really big Twilight fans!” Jo said in between her giggles.
“What!? Why?” I asked confused.
“Oh you don’t know? Your name was a joke back in the day. The vampires in Twilight the movie sparkled, so the name Twilight Sparkle is a pun on that movie.”
I groaned internally.
“Oh, hey! My neighbor would probably like to meet you! She’s always researching weird unexplained phenomenon.”
“Oh really what’s her name?” I asked curiously.
“Sunset Shimmer.” Jo said as she was physically pulling me along.
“Perhaps she can help heal you too.” Jo added.
“Great, um quick question what’s the date as in year?”
“Oh three thousand two hundred AF: After Fallout.” The guard responded.
“And when did that happen?” I asked
“Oh around two thousand and sixteen.” Jo replied again.
Nah it can’t be her, she’d be at least one thousand one hundred and eighty four! It must be a coincidence they might just share the name. Right? myself assurances rang hollow but I didn’t have much choice in the matter.
******
“Hey Twilight why did you stop?” Rainbow Dash asked, confusion evident on her face.
“I would like to take a break and I am sure you’re eager to ask me questions.” Twilight said before giving Luna a kiss on the lips, causing the mare in question to squeak adorably in surprise.
Fluttershy meekly rose her hoof. “Yes, Fluttershy?”
“Did you um need to kill those wolves I know you saved that wolf cub, but um.” Fluttershy cut herself off with a squeak and withdrawing into her mane.
Of all the questions I was expecting, this was the one I didn’t want them to ask. Twilight groaned internally.
“Yes I needed to kill them Fluttershy. Fluttershy, you heard me describe my fight. If I hadn't I wouldn't be here.”
“Um you could have scared them off maybe.” Fluttershy replied, while Twilight gave her an incredulous look.
“Fluttershy that wouldn't have worked. I found out later after the fact, that people had died trying that tactic against all of them,” Twilight continued with a sigh.
“Oh okay.” Fluttershy responded meekly.
“I am just grateful that the training I gave you helped.” Shining Armor added solemnly.
Rarity put up her hoof “Darling, whatever happened to that wolf cub?”
Twilight's expression darkened. “I’d rather not say until I have to Rarity,” Twilight responded.
“Apologies, darling I didn't mean anything by it.” Rarity reassured
Oddly enough the next hoof to reach up sat to her right, “Yes, Celestia?”
“Is Sunset Shimmer still alive?” Celestia asked worry evident on her face brought a warm empathetic smile to Twilight’s lips.
“My most ardent supplicant and priestess, your daughter still lives.” Twilight said, giggling at the blushing mare. But Celestia still smiled.
Rarity pipes up “Hold on, isn't Celestia a goddess?” she asked confusion on her face.
“Long answer is yes and no she is a goddess not the same type as I am despite us both being alicorns. Short answer it’s complicated,” Twilight explained.
Applejack chimed in next. “Well if’n she is a goddess, why did you call her your ardent supplicant ‘n’ priestess?
Twilight beamed “That's easy I'm largely just teasing her, you know my domains right?” When everyone nodded Twilight continued “Well after some research before my unscheduled displacement. I found out that dearest 'Tia was the element of magic before me, though she also wielded kindness and generosity.” Twilight smirked at the last element. “So that means she’s under my domain, now that I’m the Avatar of Magic, but what I also found out 'Tia is very generous with herself, in the sense of sex, legendary was her promiscuity that the populous at the time dubbed her Princess Molestia, I had found a book detailed with information which had survived a purge that Celestia lead so her promiscuity would be forgotten at least she hoped.” Celestia's blush deepened.
“I thought I got rid of all those!” Celestia lamented while Luna snickered from Twilight's lap.
“Dearest 'Tia thou has always had an—” Luna snorted her blatant amusement before continuing to speak. “—open door policy!” Luna exclaimed between sisterly snickers “It seems thy vice hath become worse, since mine banishment and return!”
”Twilight, I still don’t reckon I know why—”
Twilight interrupted Applejack. “AJ one of my domains is lust, which means she would be my most ardent worshiper, what with having bedded more stallions and mares than anypony here combined. As for being my supplicant, did she not just ask me, a goddess for knowledge, of her daughter’s existence and welfare? And finally ‘Tia is my priestess because any lustful activity she performed counts as a sacrifice to me, unofficially.” Twilight finished explaining as all the ponies in the room had blushes adorning their cheeks.
“Ah sugar cube, how do you know how much we’ve—” Applejack coughed politely, embarrassed by the topic being discussed. “—er rolled around 'n the hay?” AJ asked sweating nervously and waving her hat using it like a fan.
“Wouldn't you like to know?” Twilight said coyly, her eyes half lidded and lust filled voice carried through the room.
“Yes’m, I’d like to know.” Applejack replied earnestly, missing the flirtatious tease. Which made everyone in the dining room groan and facehoof.
Slightly annoyed and a little bit frustrated that the honest mare missed the innuendo, Twilight decided to tell her anyway to save face.
“I know how many times you’ve had sex granted it only works with a direct line of sight as it displays over your heads although it seems to be buggy as it’s saying dad is a virgin which can't be right. Maybe somehow my subconscious doesn't want to know so it blocks it.” Twilight said missing the way her parents relaxed and sighed with relief.
Luna sees Celestia's face which was frozen in horror as Twilight reveals that tidbit of trivia. Celestia self-consciously reinforces her tuck spell while Luna’s face pales, Are there no alicorns alive that aren’t related to me in some way. Damn my sister and her rabbit-like mating! Twilight then looked at Celestia then at her mother and then Celestia.
“Nooo, oh, nooo.” Twilight said under her breath, then looked down at Luna who had turned pale, their eyes locked and Twilight shrugged “Ahh screw it.” she kissed Luna and then whispered into her ear, “it doesn’t matter who my sire is, maybe. I love you Luna, just don’t ask me to treat you like an aunt because that airship has sailed.”
“Excuse us everypony I have very important family matters to discuss with the princesses’, we shan’t be too long,” Twilight said as she carried Luna who was stunned still, and Celestia who was now being dragged by her tail out of the room, as Celestia’s face looked like a pony who was soon to be taken to the gallows, all four of her legs trailing back towards the dinner table to the confused onlookers, disbelief.
Twilight and the two sisters, found their way to Twilight’s room.
Twilight pushed her way through and tossed Celestia on the bed.
“Okay Father, or do you prefer Mother? Either way spill it! Why did you hide the truth from me?”
Sighing Celestia held Twilight, who stiffened at the sudden embrace, “Twilight I never hid the truth, I never disclosed the truth either. I loved your mother very much, but it wasn’t meant to be, she didn’t like the royal treatment. It made her uncomfortable and so we parted ways, your brother was still only a foal at the time so I doubt he remembers me, she took him with her.
It wasn’t until a few months later that I received a scroll, the day Velvet discovered her pregnancy. She invited me to your birth, which I attended. I must say your step father was livid when he found out I was the father of you and Shining, that you were my children, he decided that he could never be with Velvet sexually because she was impure, claimed by another. I honestly think it was cause he felt he couldn't compete against me in satisfying Velvet and so he left the theatre and in doing so left Velvet alone, with me.” Celestia said rolling her eyes “ I stayed by her side and helped her through the labour. You were so tiny in my hooves my dear child. But from that day, poor Velvet was and is the owner of the world's longest dry spell. Luckily he didn’t hold a grudge against you two and raised you as if you were his own. For your own good I kept away, it pained me to have to watch you from afar treating another as your father.” Celestia explained as tears kept falling.
Celestia’s grip tightened around Twilight “I never stopped loving you my daughter or your brother, part of me is glad you know, another part is worried this will cause issues for you. Whether you still want to get to know me as a parent or not is your choice.”
“If you knew then why didn’t you stop me and Luna.”
“Come on, Twilight, you’re an intelligent mare. You figure it out,” Celestia said encouragingly.
After a few tense minutes thinking Twilight’s eyes widen. “Is it because we are immortal!?” Twilight asked.
“Partly, Twilight it is because true love doesn’t care about anything, age, sex, race, kin or even other species and as embodiments of love we are significantly more susceptible to loves whims.“
“Wait does that mean Shiny will ascend?” Twilight asked hopefully. Celestia chuckled slightly.
“Yes he will, colts take longer to mature so it won't be for a long while.”
“So what now?” Twilight asked.
“What do you mean?” Celestia replied
“Well me and Luna?” Twilight asked cautiously.
“Do not worry, Twilight, just enjoy your love.” Celestia said while shrugging.
“That goes for you too, Luna, enjoy yourself, love each other, get married and all that jazz!”
“But I. We are—” Luna started but was interrupted by Twilight’s lips, leaning back Twilight looked into Luna’s eyes half lidded.
“I already told you, I love you Luna. I don’t care if we’re related, Look let’s settle this right here. You are not my aunt, you are my marefriend and eventually, Faust willing, my wife.” Twilight kissed Luna again to reaffirm her words. “Now come on, let’s get back before ponies get worried and before you ask Father/Mother no I haven't forgiven you yet, though I do understand your reasons.“ Twilight stated firmly.
“Just call me Mother, Twilight, it’s less confusing for everypony that way as very few ponies, who are alive today know I'm a futanari.” Celestia interjected.
“Okay Mother.” Twilight nuzzled Celestia “I have always thought of you like you were my second mother, I still love you Celestia as such, even though you’re technically my father. No amount of anger or disappointment will change that.” Twilight replied.
“I hope I can make it up to you, Twilight and to you too Luna.”
Twilight snorted “Just don't forget to tell shining.”
The three of them made their way out of the room and towards the dining room.