Tryouts

Downstairs, Sunset Shimmer made breakfast.

♫ "Bacon pancakes."
♫ "Makin' bacon pancakes."
♫ "Take some bacon and I put it in a pancake."
♫ "Bacon pancakes,"
♫ "That's what it's gonna make."
♫ "Bacon Pancaaakes!"

"The fuck is bacon?" Moondancer asked.

Sunset turned and saw Twilight and Moondancer walking into the kitchen. Moondancer took a seat at the table. Behind her, Twilight exchanged a nervous glance with Sunset Shimmer as they both recalled their memories from the other world as humans, consuming the delicious flesh of slaughtered pigs.

"Uh, nothing," Sunset said. "These are regular pancakes, anyways." Twilight sat at the head of the table with her mug of popcicle stick names. The last two mares made their way to the kitchen. Starlight helped Trixie to get downstairs with hoof wrapped around her with her cape like a security blanket.

"... and it was just Cocktopus tentacles everywhere..." Trixie rambled incoherently.

"What the hell is a Cocktopus?" Sunset asked from the stove.

"It's the aquatic relative of the Cockzilla, a subset of Cockasaur," Moondancer explained in a clinical tone.

"Is that like a cockatoo?" Sunset asked.

"Not even remotely," Moon replied.

"I've never heard of it," Sun said.

"Oh, don't worry. You will," Moondancer said with a smirk.

"Not a chance! You've used this for evil for the last time!" Twilight scolded, incinerating the enchanted Pony Sutra with her magic as she followed behind Trixie and Starlight.

"I shall have to be punished," Moondancer purred.

"It's okay. It's okay," Starlight assured Trixie. "It was just a bad dream. Twilight, a little help? Trixie had a nightmare and it's really messed her up."

"Help how?" Twilight asked.

"Like, a Memory Erasure spell?" Starlight suggested.

"You know I don't like messing around with mind magic," Twilight said. Trixie sat at the table and just stared at her plate.

"But she's so nice and quiet now. I'd say that it's an improvement," Moondancer said, taking a sip of her iced tea. "But that's none of my business."

"M-memory... erase?" Trixie mumbled, slowly looking up at Twilight.

"If... if that's what you need," Twilight offered cautiously. "I could erase your memories of last nigh-" Trixie lunged across the table at Twilight, scattering plates and silverware. She grabbed Twilight's head and pointed her horn into her mouth.

"Whah ah yoo waiting foh!?" Trixie asked desperately, with Twilight's horn in her mouth. "OO IT!! OO IT OW!!!" Twilight tried her best to focus, setting the amount of time to erase with the spell. Her horn glowed inside Trixie's mouth.

-POW-

O-zone scented smoke drifted out of Trixie's nostrils. She blinked a few times as her mind re-orientated itself. She was kneeling on the kitchen table in front of everypony. She looked down at Twilight, her horn still in her mouth.

"Oh Twilight," Trixie purred. "Trixie sees that you couldn't wait to get one of her Great and Powerful hornjobs!" Trixie proceeded to bob her head on Twilight's sensitive horn, loudly sucking and licking as she went. "Trixie doesn't mind showing off her superior skill in front of everypony for you! Because Trixie already knows that you love her the most!"

"Oh yes," Moondancer deadpanned. "This Trixie is much better."

"Ahem, breakfast is ready!" Sunset said from in front of the stove. Trixie pulled her mouth from Twilight's horn.

"Oh, Trixie already knows what Twilight wants to eat!" she said. She sat on Twilight's plate, laid back on the table, and spread her legs, presenting herself to her. Trixie rubbed her pussy right in front of Twilight and spread her lips with her hooves, making it dribble her arousal onto Twilight's plate. "Dig in!"

"Can I get a new plate, please?" Twilight asked.

"Trixie shall be your Great and Powerful dinnerware!" she said.

"If you insist," Sunset said, flipping a potato patty out of the hot oil onto Trixie's belly.

"EEEEIIIIIIAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

"Why do I get the feeling that my Heal spell is going to be getting a lot of use this week?" Twilight groaned as she finished up with helping Trixie's burn. "There. Good as new."

"Kiss the boo boo?" Trixie asked playfully, laying on her back on the floor.

"There is no more boo boo!" Twilight said.

"Kiss the boo boo." Trixie repeated, no longer a request. Twilight rolled her eyes.

"Fine." Twilight leaned down and kissed Trixie's tummy. Trixie pushed Twilight's head lower into her crotch.

"Now lick the boo boo!"

"Mmf! NGH!" Twilight squirmed away from Trixie's hoof. Her nose was wet with Trixie's juices. "Dammit! My breakfast is getting cold!"

"Oh, it's still hot for you," Trixie pointed at her crotch.

"Ugh!" Twilight left her in the living room and went back to the table. Twilight leaned over her plate to smell her breakfast.

"What do you think?" Sunset asked. Twilight took another whiff and wiped her nose.

"All I can smell is Trixie's pussy now."

"And you love it!" Trixie said from the other room.

"...Gimmie another hot potato patty," Twilight said.

"Trixie will behave!" Trixie yelped, scurrying away.

Twilight and Sunset ate quietly. Starlight and Moondancer had already finished eating while Twilight saw to Trixie's burn. They bused their dishes and began to clean up. Twilight ate quickly and efficiently, anxious to wash her face properly. In any other context, she might have even enjoyed Trixie's scent. But it was not a good aromatic pairing with breakfast food. As soon as she was clean, Twilight walked into the living room and retrieved the mug with all the name sticks.

"Okay, new assignments," Twilight called out, beckoning the others to come join her. She checked to make sure that the sticks hadn't been tampered with, and then randomly drew two. "Moondancer and... Starlight Glimmer." She pulled out two more. "Sunset Shimmer and... me. Trixie, you're by yourself this time."

"But Twilight, Trixie is a virgin and wants her first time to be with-" Twilight cut Trixie off.

"No. None of that," Twilight said. "This is a different assignment. Today you will all go out shopping. Each pair, and Trixie, are going to go shopping for gifts for the other ponies. So each pair will buy three for the others. Trixie, you don't have to get four. You don't have to get anything for me."

"But what if Trixie wants to get something for you?" Trixie asked.

"Hey, it's your Bits. I won't stop you," Twilight said. "No flowers. No chocolates. Nothing generic. Make it special somehow." She looked at the other pair. "Starlight, Moondancer, I want you both back alive. No disintegrations!"

"As you wish," Starlight said. She and Moondancer left the castle to complete their assignment.

"Trixie is the best at getting gifts!" Trixie declared, leaving after them.

"What about us?" Sunset asked.

"Oh, us?" Twilight said with a smirk. "We're going to the bed,"

"Oh, really?"

"the bath,"

"Mmm, nice!"

"And beyond!"

"Wait, what!?"

~~~~~

Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer stood outside of the Ponyville Bed Bath & Beyond home goods store.

"Not what I was expecting," Sunset grumbled.

"So what if Twilight doesn't choose either of us?" Moondancer asked Starlight as they walked through the marketplace.

"I think it's more likely that she'll choose one of us," Starlight said, looking at some of the displays. "Most likely me."

"But Trixie is sexy in an obvious way," Moondancer said. Starlight sucked in a breath.

"Ssss, yeah," she admitted.

"And none of us know anything about Sunset, really," Moondancer said.

"Heh, I know a few things," Starlight said, reminiscing on the previous night. She could feel herself getting warm and giddy.

"Your tail," Moon said, motioning to Starlight. Star blushed and quickly lowered her tail. "But what I mean is we don't really know what her personal history is with Twilight, especially while they were in the other world together."

"I guess that's true."

"So what if Twilight doesn't choose either of us?" Moon asked again.

"Well I guess I'd still be her student..." Starlight said.

"Would you be able to even stand that? Living in the same place while Twilight consorts with another mare? With me possibly?" Moon asked. The question gave Starlight pause.

"... I don't know. I never really thought about that. I just always figured that..."

"That you'd win?"

"Yeah... I guess I couldn't stay there. I'd probably go to Canterlot. See if Celestia's school is hiring. Or maybe travel with Trixie."

"If she doesn't choose Trixie."

"Right. What about you?"

"I'd just go back to my home in Canterlot, too. But what if she doesn't choose either of us?" Moon asked. Starlight could see it at the corner of Moondancer's eyes. A glint of doubt. "I mean, if she chooses Trixie and you don't have anypony. And I don't have anypony..."

"What? Do you want us to be each other's backup marefriend?" Starlight asked.

"Hm? Oh! Oh, that's a way better idea than a suicide pact!"

"What!?"

"Nothing. Hey, do you think Twilight would like this?" Moon said, holding up a dress from a market rack.

"Eh," Moondancer shrugged. "What about Sunset?"

"I have no idea what to get her. What about Trixie?"

"We could get her a timeshare," Moondancer suggested.

"I've enslaved a town of ponies and almost unmade existence. But that is the most evil thing I have ever heard."

"Thank you."

"Wait, who says we even have to buy something? We could make something!" Starlight said. "We're both brilliant ponies. We could invent way better stuff than these vendor trinkets!"

"Okay! But let me get just one thing before we head back," Moondancer said, poking into the book shop.

"These are perfect!" Twilight remarked on the two items she and Sunset had picked out at the home goods store. "But what to get for Moondancer?" she asked.

"Probably a book," Sunset said.

"Hmm, maybe." They walked down the way toward the book shop in the market place.

"Twilight, listen," Sunset said. "You know I would never disagree with you in front of the others. But I have to ask you, is this really the best idea? Pitting everypony against each other like this?"

"That's not what I'm doing," Twilight defended. "We're all getting gifts for eachother because we love each other."

"It's a competition."

"That is not my intention."

"It doesn't matter what your intention was. That's what it is going to be perceived as by everypony." She put her hoof on Twilight's shoulder. "Take it from somepony who's manipulated others in the past. From somepony who's been manipulated. Remember the Battle of the Bands?"

"I appreciate your concern. But don't worry," Twilight assured her as they walked into the bookstore. "I have a plan."

"So did the Sirens," Sunset said under her breath.

"What book would she even want? That she hasn't already read?" Twilight wondered as she started browsing the aisles.

"Ah, here it is!" Twilight heard Moondancer's voice from the other side of the aisle. Twilight peeked through the gap and saw Moondancer show Starlight a copy of the Pony Sutra.

"Why that little-" Twilight muttered. "Sunset, we're leaving." She hurried them out of the shop before the other two could spot them. "I know what to get Moondancer."

"Where are we going?" Sunset asked.

"We need to visit a friend of mine," Twilight said.

Trixie hastily boarded her chartered pegasus chariot bound for Canterlot. She didn't have much time to get there and do what she needed to do in time to make it back. And she only had one chance to get this right.

Starlight led Moondancer downstairs in the castle to the laboratory in the basement.

"Now we're talking," Moondancer said. "So, what should we make first? The potion, or the device we discussed?"

"The potion is easy. Let's get that out of the way. Then we can focus on getting the device built and tested." Starlight said, checking the clock.

"So this is Sunset Shimmer," Rainbow Dash said, eyeing up the orange unicorn standing outside of her cloud house. Twilight had given her Walk-on-Clouds spell and teleported them up there. "Last time I saw you, you were stealing Twilight's crown." Sunset frowned and looked away in shame.

"That was a long time ago, Rainbow," Twilight said. "A lot has changed since then." She put her hoof around Sunset and held her closer to her. "She's changed."

"It's true," Sunset said.

"Well, if Twi vouches for you, then I guess you're cool in my book. So what brings you here?" Rainbow asked.

"Well speaking of books, I was wondering if I could have your Daring Do book," Twilight asked.

"Which one? I have them all," Rainbow said with pride.

"I mean your Daring Do book. The one-of-a-kind?" Twilight said. Rainbow Dash added a crimson blush to her color palate. She darted inside and appeared a few moment's later with a plain brown paper bag.

"If anypony asks, you didn't get this from me," she whispered.

Twilight and Sunset Shimmer teleported back down to the ground walked back across Ponyville to the castle. They walked into the living room to wait for the other to return. But when they got there, Starlight and Moondancer were both hard at work tinkering with the magic portal mirror.

"What are you doing to the mirror!?" Sunset screamed.

"It's fine! It's fine!" Starlight said, affixing the augmentation to it. "We didn't break it or anything it still works just fine."

"Better, even!" Moondancer added.

"What did you do?" Twilight asked.

"Oh, you'll see," Starlight said, beaming with pride. "Just as soon as everypony gets back,"

"Well the only pony left is-"

"THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE has returned!" Trixie announced from the doorway. "Bearing gifts!"

"Fine. Let's get this over with," Twilight said. "Starlight, we got you a plastic mattress protector from Bed Bath & Beyond."

"I know how messy you can get," Sunset said with a smirk.

"Um, thanks." Starlight blushed.

"Trixie, we got you some Poo Pourri," Twi said. "So now your shit will literally not stink."

"As if Trixie needs such a thing!" Trixie said, hastily grabbing the bottle.

"Moondancer, we got you a Daring Do book."

"Ugh, fiction!" she sneered.

"Trixie got Moondancer some Moonshine from Sweet Apple Acres," Trixie said.

"Okay," Moondancer said, looking at the mason jar of distilled alcohol.

"And Sunset some Tequila from Appleloosa," Trixie continued. "To make Tequila Sunsets!"

"Are we all getting name-themed liquor?" Sunset asked.

"No. Trixie got Starlight a pet!" Trixie said.

"A pet!?" Starlight said.

"Yes! Trixie found this delightful little shop some years ago where she bought the Alicorn Amulet. But this time, she got a Mogwai!" Trixie presented the tiny furry critter to Starlight. "We could bring him to go see a midnight movie and feed him popcorn before we give him a bath."

"You will be doing none of those things." Twilight said, taking the Mogwai away from her. "This is going back to that shop. What about you two?"

"We modified the mirror portal for Sunset," Starlight said.

"We made it so that you can retain your form, instead of changing when you go through," Moondancer explained. "Optional, of course. Just a simple flip of a switch."

"It was actually pretty easy. You had already done most of the work with what you'd already built, Twilight." Starlight said.

"That... actually has some interesting uses..." Twilight said.

"Because people didn't freak out enough from a talking dog..." Sunset said.

"We got you a book, Twilight" Moondancer said as Starlight gave Twilight the Pony Sutra.

"I'm not falling for this again," Twilight said.

"Enchantment-free!" Starlight added, opening the book.

"Well, okay then-"

"TRIXIE ALSO GOT TWILIGHT A BOOK!" Trixie shouted, diving in front of Starlight, shoving the book at Twilight. Twilight looked at it. It appeared to be a rather plain-looking, but sturdy, notebook. It was worn and weathered along the binding. Twilight opened it.

"Dear Diary," Twilight read aloud, "My sister, Luna, was particularly troublesome today-" Twilight's eyes went wide. "YOU STOLE PRINCESS CELESTIA'S PERSONAL DIARY!?"

"Tada!" Trixie said with a flourish of her cape. Twilight's mind was aswim with questions. Mostly she wanted to know 'how'. How, in broad daylight, did Trixie manage to infiltrate the Canterlot Castle, and pilfer what ought to be one of the most closely guarded books in the world? But Twilight was surprised that in that moment, it wasn't anger that gripped her.

"You know what?" Twilight said. "I'm not even mad. I'm actually impressed."

"Thank you!" Trixie squealed and her eyes sparkled.

"Speaking of books, Moondancer, you should read yours," Twilight said. Moondancer turned the Daring Do book over in her hooves.

"Daring Do and the Hoof of Argon," Moondancer read the title and looked at the synopsis on the back.

"Who new Daring Do wanted two do you to? Daring Do new! Daring Do new as you to flu threw the sky blew. The blew see was a site two see as you flu free, and she said, 'Daring Do me'!"

Moondancer looked at Twilight.

"This makes my brain hurt."

"Just check out the first page, at least," Twilight said. Moondancer opened the book and vanished inside in a flash.

Rainbow Dash had forced Twilight to read her Daring Do fan-fiction before. And while the Pegasus's imagination was as colorful as her mane, her writing was the visual equivalent of chewing on aluminium foil. And now Moondancer would have to slog through it to the end to get out. Twilight smirked. Payback was a bitch.

"Oh, Trixie, we made something for you, too," Starlight said. "It's a sexifying potion that makes you utterly irresistible to the pony that you desire."

"Trixie needs no such potion!" Trixie scoffed before grabbing the bottle. "Twilight, you should read the most recent entry in the diary. Trixie thinks that you will find it quite enlightening. Especially once you see that Trixie is the SEXIEST, MOST ATTRACTIVE EQUINE THAT HAS EVER LIVED!" she yelled before quickly chugged the potion and promptly passed out on the floor.

"Just kidding," Starlight said. "It's a standard sleeping potion."

"Huh." Twilight looked at Trixie, out cold on the floor, and shrugged. Her curiosity had her flip through the pages of the diary to the most recent entry, hastily scrawled in pink crayon,
Royal decree: Twi should totes marry Trixie