Young Again

Manehatten Sound

Twilight reeled as she, Discord and Tia landed in the midst of a crowd of dancing ponies. The flash of light was missed by the ponies around them due to the strobe lights and lasers flashing around the room. A very energetic dance remix was playing, there was magical smoke in the room and the moment they touched down on the floor, Tia started dancing.

“Awesome spot Discord!” she shouted over the music as she and Discord brohoofed. Twilight Sparkle simple sat down in the middle of the dance floor dumbfounded. Upon noticing this, Tia rushed over and pulled Twilight to her hooves and spun them both in a circle. “Come on Twilight, let’s boogey down!” Twilight laughed at her words as Tia forced her into dancing. While Tia moved vigorously, once again shaking her rump, Twilight couldn’t help but look to Discord.

“Did…you…do…this?!” she asked desperately as Tia grabbed Twilight by the hooves and the two began spinning again.

“Oh no, it wasn’t me.” He said as he moonwalked above their heads. “But I must remember to find the pony that did and thank them. Tia is so much more fun than drab old Celestia, and Luna was being such a sourpuss.”

“Lulu was being kind of a downer!” Tia shouted happily, letting go of Twilight and grabbing hold of a mare nearby. Once Twilight’s head stopped spinning she flew up to Discord.

“Can’t you change her back?” Discord chuckled heartily and shook his head.

“Now what would the fun in that be? Besides, I don’t know what made her younger, if I made her older and the other spell wears off it might kill her or something.” Twilight thought about that for a moment before silently agreeing. Whatever magic had made Celestia like this, it must have been powerful. She looked down at where the white alicorn was dancing and noticed her lack of a cutie mark, and a new, dark thought crossed her mind.

“Discord! What about the sun?!” once again, Discord just laughed.

“Princess Luna is taking care of it. Why do you think she was being so cranky? You know, besides Tia here.” Tia took to the air with a couple Pegasus ponies and began dancing in unison with them. “You have to admit though, she has some moves!” Discord flew other to the trio and joined in their dancing. Twilight watched the quartet as ponies all over the club cheered them on. She noticed Vinyl Scratch bobbing her head in approval as the four of them strut their stuff above the dance floor.

“I hope Luna’s okay…” she wondered aloud.

-Meanwhile in Canterlot-

Luna rolled on the floor of the suite trying to pry the magically enhanced tape out of her hair. Spike sat on the floor nearby, trying his best to stifle his laughter. She tried using her magic but it wouldn’t work, likely a trick of Discord’s, so she used her forelegs to slowly pull the headphones off her ears.

“Ow…ow…ow…ow!OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!” with one final yank Luna ripped the headphones off her head; the tape taking far more than a few of her hairs along with it.

“TIA WHEN I GET MY HOOVES ON YOU!!!!”

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“Another cider!” Tia and Discord slapped their respective hoof and lion paw on the bar of the nightclub, and in a few seconds two more mugs of apple cider in front of them. The pony behind the counter offered one to Twilight but she refused. She was never much of a drinker and she needed to figure out a way to return Celestia to normal.

“Come on Twilight! Loosen up a little.” She said, bumping her rump against Twilight’s. “Seriously cousin, you’re kind of being a downer.” She floated the bubbling mug of cider in front of Twilight and gave it a shake.

“You know you want to…” Twilight knew she shouldn’t, she had to focus, but there was something about Celestia’s voice and demeanor that just shouted ‘trust me, it’ll be awesome!’ that and the fact that Twilight didn’t have access to any of her books… That’s it! She took the drink (if only to get Tia to stop hitting her in the head with it) and turned to Discord.

“Discord, can you take us to Ponyville?” the spirit of chaos looked at her suspiciously.

“So you can turn her back into boring old Celestia? I don’t think so.” Twilight scowled at Discord but she knew that she couldn’t just change the draconequus’ mind. Instead, she changed tact.

She swallowed the cider in one gulp and threw a foreleg around Tia’s neck.

“Hey Tia, I know a super cool Pegasus named Rainbow Dash who knows all the best party spots in Equestria. Why don’t we go see her?” Tia’s eyes brightened as she gulped down her fifth cider.

“Really!?” she turned to Discord. “Take us to Rainbow Dash!” Discord scowled at Twilight darkly, but the look of total excitement on Tia’s face allowed for no argument.

“Fine.” And with that single word for a response, Discord snapped his fingers.