What the Right Hand is Doing (Tribute Story)
The Monster is in Love with Me
“I'm just happy we're finally leaving.” Twilight said as she melted into the bus seat. It had been a long week over at camp Everfree, from constantly worrying about Midnight Sparkle and having to deal with the others new magic.
“I'm just glad we got through another magical event, Gloriossa went a bit mad with power back there.” Sunset said. She had nearly glued to Twilight's side the entire time. It was almost overwhelming, and it would have been if Twilight didn't know she was just trying to help.
“I can't wait to get back to the spa, the nature was pretty and all but it really doesn't help when it comes to keeping my skin smooth.” Rarity said.
“Wait!” Pinkie yelled out, jumping over the bus seats. “Twilight said she was glad to leave!” Everyone looked at Pinkie oddly as they all shared the same feelings about leaving. Pinkie face palmed. “Well she wont get to see Timber now. Isn't anyone wondering about why she isn't let down about that?”
“Literally nobody cared about that, I barely even remember the guy.” Applejack said, doing her best to even remember the times she saw the guy.
“You guys didn't notice how Twilight practically fell in love at camp?!” Pinkie said starting to pull her hair out because no one remembered.
“I did not fall in love with him.” Twilight said. “I just didn't have the heart to tell him no. I let him think we were dating for the week.”
“But you had googly eyes aimed at him the whole time!” Pinkie continued.
“They weren't googly eyes, he was just really awkward and dumb. He thought wanting to go to a mall was a big secret.” Twilight explained.
At this Pinkie got increasingly more frustrated to the point she decided to pass out and take a nap. She fell next to an already sleeping rainbow dash.
“Aw, well isn't that nice, they look so peaceful when they're asleep.” Rarity said. At this Applejack muttered something under her breath and decided to just look out the window.
“Sleeping does sound like a good idea right about now.” Sunset commented. “Mind if I use your shoulder as a pillow?” She asked Twilight.
“That's fine, I'm gonna stay up with Rarity.” Twilight said.
“Good, cause I was gonna use your shoulder anyway.” Sunset said.
Sunset closed her eyes and leaned into Twilight, slightly afraid that she'd accidentally read Twilight's mind. To her surprise she didn't, so she leaned deeper into her shoulder to get more comfortable. She was on the verge of being asleep when it happened. The sensation of being sucked into someones mind washed over her again. She was afraid that she would be invading Twilight’s privacy by opening her eyes, so she kept her eyes as shut as she could.
“I didn't think you'd be able to see me.” A voice rang out around Sunset, the voice echoing off nonexistent walls. “Or I guess, me see you.” The voice said again. It was Twilight's voice, clear as day. And that would make sense being in Twilight's mind she guessed. “I thought your power was to read minds, not go into-”
“Sunset!” She was shoved away from Twilight's shoulder almost fiercely. The sudden change from being sucked out of Twilight's mind into the real world was even more distorting than if she were actually asleep. “Me and Rarity are going to switch seats, Applejack is about to start a fight if they don't get separated.”
“Well it's not my fault I didn't understand something that she never outright said.” Rarity defended.
“I've been hinting at it as obvious as I could for months now, how are you that dense?!” Applejack yelled back.
“Yeah, that.” Twilight said.
Sunset sat there still disoriented as she watched Twilight switch seats with Rarity. She decided it would be best if she didn't bring up what she just saw. Twilight's already been worried bad enough all week, she didn't need to make it worse.
Hours later the bus' made it back to school and everyone went back home, each excited to go back to sleep in an actual bed, and have running water, and use an actual bathroom.
Twilight walked home and when she got inside her house she nearly collapsed. She decided it would have been a really good decision to go to sleep on the bus. Especially after she exhausted herself trying to use her apparent telekinesis. It worked, but it was only easy when she started. She kept using it and tired herself out. Only reason she didn't go to sleep on the bus was because she wanted to fall asleep in her bed and have a good nights rest.
Twilight started through her empty house. Her parents busy on a business trip, and her brother slowly moving in with Cadence. That or with Chrysalis. What her step sister didn't know doesn't hurt her. She made it to her room almost entirely with her eyes closed. Spike was asleep in her bag which was good, she didn't think that she would be able to even talk to him if he were awake. She was so tired she barely noticed some light in the corner of her eyes. She decided she was too tired to deal with it and when she made it to her room she fell face first onto her bed falling asleep nearly instantly.
It felt like the nightmares before, but this time without the fear of her power this time. The same open ended space with odd colours surrounding her. It felt, nice. To finally be able to have a good rest instead of a restless one. Even after they defeated Gloriossa she hadn't really had a nice rest. Even with her friends support her fears of Midnight didn't go away.
“They shouldn't.” A voice echoed behind her. It couldn't be, she wasn't real. She was just the person she became. Why was she still here. Twilight spun around to see the form of Midnight Sparkle lazily floating in the void. The larger form of herself looking more calming than her previous appearances.
“Midnight! Why are you still here? I'm better, at least I thought I was better, I don't need to fear you anymore, so why?” Twilight started rambling, cut off by the other.
“Could you be a bit quieter? You'll give us a headache like this.” Midnight said rubbing her temples. At this Twilight did become quiet. “Thank you.”
“But, why are you still here?” Twilight asked, as if she'd get a simple answer, like, she wasn't over it, she was still afraid of her power, or even that her magic did infect the others.
“Well because I'm an actual person probably.” Midnight said as if that would wrap up everything. She looked over and saw the expression of the still confused Twilight. She resumed rubbing her temples. “Ugh, I'm gonna have to spell it out aren't I?” Midnight said as they started drifting closer in the void. “I really hate over explained lore. I thought since we share the same mind that you'd already know.”
“I have no idea what is happening right now, aren't you just a representation of my fears?” Twilight asked.
“No, shut up, I'm going to explain.” Midnight said, shutting up Twilight as she tensed and listened. “Okay, Midnight Sparkle, me, was who you think you became during the friendship games correct?” Twilight nodded. “You did not become Midnight, you simply created, let's say a clone, a much hotter clone, that was made from the magic. Get it?”
Twilight was having a hard time understanding what was happening. “Not really.”
Midnight let out a sigh at this. “Well too bad, REM sleep can only last for so long, I'd say it's been about five seconds. I'm still totally trying to take over your body by the way.” Midnight said grabbing Twilight's cheeks. “In more ways than one.”
Twilight again, for almost the twentieth time in a row, woke up exhausted, fully rested, but exhausted. And just like the other nights when she had a dream with Midnight, she was controlling and fearsome. Even if she wasn't trying to be tonight.
The sun was poured over the walls through the slightly open blinds. She could notice that there was a blue hue of light somewhere in her room right out of her line of sight. She paid it no mind. It was probably a glowing rock lamp that shining had gotten for her. He'd gotten one for Cadence a few months back and she commented on how the light hit the inside of the fake rock. He probably took that as her saying that she liked it.
Rubbing her eyes she lifted herself out of bed and towards her bathroom. On the way to the bathroom she noticed that she was changed out of the clothes that she came home in. instead of her dirty rough shorts and worn out tee she was wearing her tank top and some sweatpants. She found this extremely odd as she didn't remember changing clothes last night. All she remembered was getting home and crashing in her bed.
“Odd.” She said, noticing an odd echo in her voice. She thought it once again odd and left it at that as she made her way into her bathroom and in front of the bathroom mirror. She yawned covering her eyes again and giving them a rub.
“Twilight?” Spike said worried. He was on the corner of the bed resting and got up to follow Twilight.
“What is it Spike?” Twilight said still covering her eyes. Now this time she could hear herself more clearly. Her voice still reflected how tired she was, but instead of simply sounding groggy she could hear an actual echo, with a voice slightly deeper than hers.
She darted her head up quickly to look in the mirror.
“That.” Spike commented.
“What?!” Twilight said reacting to what she saw in the mirror. What she saw was her, but with a horn. Not a physical horn, but one made of a blueish aura surrounding the area where a horn should be. “No, no, no, no, no, this can't be happening.” Twilight began to panic. No sooner did she begin to panic when the horn disappeared and a thumping sound could be heard back in her room.
'I was just testing a theory, Don't freak out.'A voice echoed around her.
“Who said that?!” Twilight yelled out, questioning the air around her. She knew whose voice it was, she just didn't want to accept it.
“Who said what?” Spike asked, not having heard a thing except for the thump in the other room.
Twilight looked at Spike confused. “Please tell me you heard it, you heard it right?” Twilight asked her talking dog.
“Yeah, some stuff in the other room was being levitated, it wasn't that big a deal.” Spike, the talking dog, said.
'I'm pretty sure he can't hear me. I am the only one in your head.' The voice who was clearly Midnight said. 'And if you want to avoid being seen as a maniac you probably shouldn't respond to me out loud. And just to make sure you aren't misinterpreting me by being dense, we share thoughts, so just think the words.' Midnight said with a clear hint of cynicism
Twilight then closed the door on spikes face in hopes he would get the hint and leave her alone. Luckily he did when she could hear little footsteps hitting the ground leaving the floor. She was frantic, panicked, freaked out, confused, and more words she couldn't think of to describe herself right now. No shorter than thirty seconds ago she saw her reflection with a horn and heard her nightmare being talk to her in her head. But it was all in her head right? Right?
'Technically yes.' The voice echoed in her head.
Okay twilight, she thought to herself, don't panic.
'Hello there, is this real? Dear goddess I hope this isn't real.' She thought to herself hoping that a response, or lack of was given soon.
To her enjoyment she heard nothing. She let out a sigh after many seconds of waiting. No voice, no problem. It was all just some early morning jitters. Stuff like this wasn't uncommon. People heard plenty of things when they were extremely tired. But now she was more awake and aware. And this, hopefully, wouldn't be a problem for the rest of the day.
She made her way out of the bathroom and towards the kitchen. She had the entire house to herself today so maybe she'll go out with friends. Pinkie and Sunset are always free. Leaving the bathroom she noticed that on her bed were some neatly placed clothes that were hung up the night before. Totally normal day ahead of her. Twilight is not going to deal with any weird crap today. Nope.
When Twilight got in the kitchen she stood there for a good fifteen minutes. She honestly had no idea why she went into the kitchen. She wasn't hungry, and if she wanted something out of the kitchen she had forgotten all about it. She then stood there for another ten minutes trying to figure out if she forgot something.
“What's the time?” Twilight said to herself entirely forgetting about what happened earlier. She turned to her microwave to see the time that read eleven forty one. “Crap, if I want to do anything today I better call them now. That or I could study. Or I could read. Or I could watch TV. Oh jeez, too many options. Friends it is!” Twilight said all to herself. No sooner than she finished did she notice what she was doing. “Did I just start doing that? I need to stop talking to myself.”
She was about to call up Pinkie and ask if she wanted to eat lunch together and it turned out she had already arranged something at her job. Bad news, it was in thirty minutes. Good news, She could see Sunsets car pulling up outside. Bad news, she could see Sunsets car pull up outside and she was still in pajamas.
Quickly she rushed to her bedroom and started changing into the clothes that somehow got to her bed. Purple flannel skirt regular purple shirt, some, purple stockings? Was really everything in her closet some variation of purple?!
She could hear Sunsets knocking from the front door. “Twilight, you awake in there?!” She called.
“Yeah, give me a second!” Twilight said as she finished putting everything on and looking herself over. Honestly, somehow the combination of clothes left her feeling exposed and overdressed. She thought it was the stockings, yep, something to do with purple stockings did not make her feel okay. She got them as a gift from Pinkie Pie but she never thought she'd wear them. Oh well, she was in a rush. “I'm coming!” Twilight responded to a few new knocks rapping at the door. By this point Sunset was just having fun.
Twilight ran through the kitchen and into the living room not seeing the book bag that she'd left out the night before. She screamed as her feet hit the unexpected object and fell forward. She braced for the inevitable impact of the floor hitting her face that never came. Opening her eyes she saw the floor a mere inch away from her face. She couldn't see the magical form of wings holding her up.
She heard the door start to creep open and instantly pushed herself up.
“Twilight? I heard a scream, is everything okay?” Sunset asked as she stepped in to see Twilight getting up off the ground.
“Yeah, I'm fine though, caught myself.” Twilight lied frantically. She hadn't known how she'd done that but she sure was happy she did. Maybe it was another power from camp. Whose to say they wouldn't constantly continue obtaining new powers.
“Okay, how did you know I was here though? I was sure you'd be asleep for a whole day at least. You feeling okay?” Sunset asked oddly. That was another thing about the kids from Canterlot high, they all spoke really weirdly, almost scripted like.
“No, I mean yes, I'm fine.” Twilight said looking around making sure she didn't need anything. “I only saw you pull up and I had to change really fast. Do I look okay? I mean I should look okay but I was changing really fast and I'm not too sure that-”
“Twilight.” Sunset interrupted. “You look fine. Although I do think that you should change, I'm not sure what you're wearing is exactly appropriate.”
“What do you mean?” Twilight asked as Sunset started pushing her back to her room.
“Let's just say the clothes make you look like an early Brittany Spears and leave it at that.” Fair enough, she knew something felt off about wearing dark purple stockings.
“Now let's see what we have here, most of these are just school clothes from Crystal Prep. You just wanna wear one of those?” Sunset asked.
“Sure.” Twilight responded, anything to make sure she didn't look like rarity at night was a good thing.
“You can get out now.”A voice akin to Twilight's sang.
“Well, yeah, privacy and all that, I understand.” Sunset said as she begrudgingly left the room. “But you don't have to say it so rudely.” She said as she closed the door.
“But,” Twilight began, “I didn't say anything.”
'You didn't have to. I can take care of everything perfectly fine.' The voice echoed to Twilight.
'You're real?!' Twilight thought, not wanting to make sunset worried.
When she didn't receive an answer she went back to doing what she was in there for.
'It's fine Twilight, she isn't real. Just a figment of your imagination might actually be real and talking to you. Everything is fine. If she talks again. Ignore her. You can do that. No matter what she says.'
After that both Twilight and Sunset were quiet as they got into Sunset's car and began to drive away. Only a few minutes passed before anyone said anything.
“Are you sure you're okay to go and hang out today?” Sunset asked.
“Um, yeah, why?”
“It's just, you seemed pretty aggravated back there.”
“Oh that?” Twilight mock asked. “I was just a bit cranky. Like you said, I should have been asleep all day, still working off that last trace of being tired.”
“Was that it? You were just cranky at me and nothing else?”
“I was not cranky at you, I was just cranky in general.” Twilight said quickly. Truth be told she was seriously freaked out about the voice in her head and didn't want to say or do anything that might start that conversation.
The rest of the ride was continued in awkward silence.
“So I didn't tell anyone about it, so you would imagine the faces of everyone in the room when the box of sprinkles I tossed to Mrs. Cake. Everyone had started panicking like a bomb went off!” Pinkie said. To the group of friends sat at the table. Nearly everyone was there, plus a Vinyl Scratch.
“Darling, I don't mean to be rude, but what exactly is Vinyl doing here?” Rarity asked.
“Oh well that's easy silly.” Pinkie began. “Since Fluttershy can't be here Vinyl is sitting in for her.”
“And why can't Fluttershy show up?” Rainbow asked.
“Something about being too good for this train wreck of a tribute story. You guys seriously didn't notice she was gone until now?”
Not having any idea what she was talking about, they all assumed it was Pinkie being Pinkie. All of them thought it was stupid to not look into the weird things she does but they were all to lazy to learn quantum physics, so why bother?
“Well it's too bad that the kitchen is a mess, but you would not believe what happened with Sweetie Belle. She would not stop screaming for minutes when she saw the crystals.” Rarity said. “Apparently the only reason I didn't wake up to her screaming was because they made a cocoon around me. I might want to look into that, maybe set up a camera?”
“Well if it's like a cocoon then maybe you could get Chrysalis to watch you while you sleep, lord knows that art freak is obsessed with bugs and stuff. Seeing something like that would probably make her year!” Applejack presented.
“I'm not too comfortable with someone I hardly even know watching over me while I sleep darling.”
“Well if there's a cocoon it's not like they can touch you.” Midnight voiced from Twilight causing her to freeze up. Nobody seemed to notice the change in inflection though.
“Well I guess you're right. I doubt I would be in any trouble, especially since it would be made of diamonds. I'd be safe as long as I'm asleep. That does make me question how I woke up to my alarm though.” Rarity stated.
“I can't believe you guys even slept last night!” Rainbow yelled.
“Oh yes Rainbow, with your new power we're sure you were up all night getting hot and sweaty.” Midnight said once again. This time causing Twilight to cover her mouth in shock. She definitely was not the one saying those things. She would never say something like that.
“You'd better believe it! I nearly ran around the entire state twenty times last night! I'm pretty sure I broke like five records! Although since it's magic I don't know how credible my achievements are now.”
“You think that's bad? Ah don't know how but I still can't beat Big Mac at arm wrestling.” Applejack started. “I'm clearly stronger than him, I can lift like fifty times more than him now, yet I still can't beat that guy at most things. I know I where I'm getting my strength from, I just don't know where he gets his.”
Twilight began to speak but was immediately shut down.
“Twilight if you're gonna say something make sure it doesn't sound so raunchy this time.” Rarity asked. “I get it darling, I even find it kind of funny when Dash makes those jokes but they just don't suit you dear.”
“Um,” Twilight thought for a moment. So those things were said out loud and they all thought they came from her. The least she could do to not draw too much attention to herself now. “Sorry, I guess I'm just a bit too tired, not really thinking about what I'm saying.”
“I'll say, I kinda like this new Twilight. I'll remember this the next time I throw a party.” Pinkie Started. “I'll have to write it down in my people journal. Twilight Sparkle becomes a nympho for a good time when she's sleep deprived.”
“I'd rather you didn't write that down in your, people journal?” Twilight half asked half protested.
“Yeah, my people journal. It's the journal where I keep a tab of pretty much everyone I know. I've assigned everyone to a number, and eventually their number comes up. I call that cupcake day, prefixed by their name of course.”
“Could you not talk about that Pinkie. Last time I was let in on it didn't exactly turn out so well.” Rainbow told.
“That's only because you were being so loud and uncooperative, if you had played along everything would have gone great.” Pinkie said sounding disappointed with whatever Dash's cupcake day was.
“Okay then, Pinkie Pie actually having everything on everyone was something I already knew she did, but discussing it feels really wrong.” Rarity said.
“I'll say.” Sunset finally joining the conversation.
“You'll say? You haven't said a word since you got here.” Applejack shot. “Why, I would have forgotten all about you even being here if you didn't say something. Heck, I've noticed Vinyl more times than I've noticed you.” She then pointed a thumb at the eggshell girl who was just smiling and beating her head to the sound of whatever she was listening to. “And she never says a word.”
“Well sorry for feeling a bit awkward about speaking up when Twilight here is making those type of jokes. I didn't want to become a target.”
“You don't have to worry about that, you would never be my target.” Midnight's voice sang thought Twilight.
“Ugh, rude, see what I mean guys?” Sunset shot to the rest of them as she started to get up. “One of you guys can take her home, but I cannot deal with her when she desperately needs to get poked.” She said as she left.
Everyone stared at the back of Sunset as she left the bakery.
'Hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave, am I right?' Midnight's voice rang inside Twilight's head.
'Why the hell did you say all those things? Why are you even here?!' Twilight thought back, hoping she could talk to the voice in her head.
'Cause you were just going to sit there and be awkward, I could at least help a little. I mean, you're all eighteen in high school, the conversation wasn't going to remain innocent for too long. When it did change you would've been so awkward. I was helping.'
'Well you just drove away one of my friends.' Twilight shot back.
“I see what you were trying to do darling but you came off like an asshole. And I don't use words like that often. Even saying it made me feel like a ruffian.” Rarity started. “Why did you have to say it like that?”
“I'm sorry, what?” Twilight asked, trying to get back into the real conversation after her mental one.
“Well I think it was fine, she tore the issue off like a bandage. It was bound to happen sooner or later and I'm pretty sure she would look like a jerk anyway.” Rainbow started. “And besides, it must have taken a boat load of confidence to even do it right now.”
“I'm still confused.” Twilight said.
“Me too, I was sure Sunset would be the first one to say something.” Pinkie said. “I guess I owe Fluttershy ten bucks. She was always better at reading these types of things anyway.”
“Hold up, I just thought it was a rude comment I accidentally let slip, what are you guys talking about?”
There was a second of silence between everyone before there was a resonating sound of “Oh” They then looked at each other like what just happened was supposed to be obvious.
“Ah'm pretty sure all of us thought you were just letting Sunset down.” Applejack said first.
“Yeah, and not very easy either, darling.” Rarity said.
“I'm still confused about what all of you are talking about, would any of you care to explain?” Twilight asked more frantic this time.
“Ahem,” Rainbow cleared, directing all attention towards her. “We all knew how close Sunset was with you, even going on not so secret Twilight stalkings in the woods. We all figured that you weren't interested and just hadn't told her yet.”
“So you guys think, that what just happened, was me cutting off Sunset?”
“Pretty much.” Pinkie said, “Look on the bright side, you didn't do it for a truth or dare. That would be an emotional nightmare.” Pinkie said as if she had lived through plenty of similar experiences.
“Um, I have to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back.” Twilight said as she stood up and walked towards the restrooms.
She stepped into the single person bathroom and locked the door behind her. She turned around hoping that she didn't lock herself into the guys restroom. No urinal, well that didn't actually tell her anything did it? She had never been in this places guys restroom.
'Came in here to talk to me or to just freak out for three minutes? Maybe sing a song that somehow doesn't get picked up by anyone outside this room?' Midnight spoke.
'I just want to know why you're still here! I thought you were just a panic attack I had whenever I thought about power and junk! And most of the time I thought you were just a nightmare!' Twilight mentally screamed back.
'I'm here cause of what I said earlier, I really don't want to repeat myself. Did you really not pick up on the Sunset thing though?' Midnight asked.
'Um, no? Was it really that obvious?'
'Yes, yes it was.'
'Well why did you drive her off then?! I would have been fine with being with her!' Twilight yelled at what she mentally pictured as the Midnight form from the friendship games.
'Because,' Midnight began as she slightly controlled Twilight's neck to look in the direction of the mirror.
“You- You can move my body?” Twilight barely said out loud, it was more of a quiver, her mind already going frantic with the implications of not having control of her own body.
'look at you,' Midnight continued as she now had Twilight looking at her reflection in the dirty mirror. 'you would have been fine with being with her, that's the problem.' She guided Twilight towards the mirror until she was gripping the sink. 'You are too good for her. She's smart, she's pretty, she's nice, she's the person with experience, she's basically been you're role model since the friendship games.' Magic tendrils encompassed the mirror cleaning it till it was spotless. 'But you're better, and you deserve better, she's pretty,' The form in the mirror changed from Twilight into the form speaking in her head. Creating only slight differences, being that she looked slightly taller and older. 'But you're beautiful'
“Please stop.” Twilight let out as a whimper. “Change me back, please.” She could feel the edges of her eyes tearing up with fear. She couldn't deal with this. She had already thought she'd defeated Midnight during the friendship games when she accepted Sunsets help. Then again at camp Everfree, and she had only thought that she'd only show up in nightmares. She couldn't keep fighting this monster.
'I haven't done anything.' Midnight's voice echoed. 'And I won't, you'll come to accept me.'
With that Midnight's voice stopped. Staying quiet. Twilight had stood for an entire minute staring at her reflection. She could hardly make herself out behind the grim on the mirror. But she knew she looked like herself. The thought that there was an actual monster in her was paralyzing. All the other times she only thought that maybe some of Midnight was still in her. Now she knew for sure. Her legs soon gave out under her letting her fall into the corner. She slid into the corner gripping her knees as she bawled into them.
She wasn't sure how long she sat there crying before someone came to check on her.
“Twilight? Darling?” Rarity's voice came with a rapping at the door. “Are you in there?”
She wiped her face of in hoped to get rid of the tears without leaving tear marks. She tried to answer but noticed that she had ruined her voice through the silent sobbing making her have to painfully clear her throat.
“Ye- Yes. I'm here.” Twilight responded quietly.
“The door is locked, can I come in?”
“Yeah, let me get there.” Twilight said as she gripped the sink to help her off the ground.
She finally opened the door and let Rarity in, Rarity immediately locked the door behind her anyway.
“You've been crying.” Rarity stated, Twilight was about to explain when Rarity continued. “Is this about Sunset?”
“Oh, um,” Should she tell Rarity. No, she couldn't, if she did then Midnight might do something terrible to her. She could control her, there's no telling what she might be forced to do. “Yeah.”
“Oh my goodness, I am so sorry. We all assumed you meant to get Sunset off your back. That really was an accident was it?” Twilight nodded. “Did you even know Sunset liked you?” This time she shook her head hesitantly.
“Darling, I really hate to be the bearer of bad news but she's had a crush on you ever since the sirens.” Twilight merely gave a confused look. “Oh right, you aren't the same Twilight from the Battle of the Bands. Well, she's had a crush on you pretty much since she saw you. Did, do you feel the same Darling?” Twilight waited before shaking her head.
“Well whether it be that you feel bad about not knowing or simply being rude, you did the right thing then. Everything is going to work out between you two darling. You'll probably have an awkward conversation later where you apologize for being weird but that will be like pulling off a bandage, nothing will change.”
“You're right.” Twilight said, lying to herself, wiping whatever tears were still on her face away. “Nothing's going to change.”
“That's the right attitude. It's kind of a good idea for us to get out of here soon, Pinkie wants to plan a new powers party.” Rarity explained.
“Yeah, I suppose so.” Time to go out there and hope everything goes well and she doesn't accidentally break down.
The following hours for Twilight were a nightmare. She could barely pay attention to Pinkie and her ramblings, be that as normal as usual, she had a hard time focusing on anything really. Every time she wanted to speak she was reminded of what happened in the bathroom and just became nauseous. Midnight didn't say anything throughout the entire time, making her question if she just imagined the entire ordeal. Eventually, it was Pinkie Pie that rode her home.
She could notice Pinkie didn't exactly have the best time with everyone too. She didn't want to address it in case things got too awkward so they drove to her house in quiet. The main difference in Pinkie was that she wasn't as energetic as usual. She talked a lot less on the drive home. And it might have been her imagination, but she could have sworn that sometimes when she turned to Pinkie that her hair was straight. This only made her unsure as she could only see it for barely a second.
She didn't sleep well that night.
“Twilight.” Spike groaned.
“Hmm?” Twilight grumbled sleepily.
“You keep kicking me.”
“Maybe if you didn't sleep at the edge of the bed you wouldn't get kicked.”
“The mattress is soft down here.”
“Just sleep in your dog bed, I got it for a reason.” Twilight grumbled back at spike.
“Fine.” Spike said, jumping off the bed. “You keep making me float too.”
“Wait,” Twilight's eyes shot open. “What?!” Twilight yelled as she sat up looking around her room. Spike left to the kitchen. Indeed there were multiple items just floating in her room encircled in a teal aura as they made their way around the room.
'Is this because of you?' Twilight thought to herself. She was truly scared of the answer either way.
'Yeah, I'm only testing our powers. Seeing how long I can make something float, how heavy the stuff is. I suspect we can do even more. I'm just not feeling very imaginative right now.' Midnight explained. 'I was actually wondering if I'd be able to leave.'
“What?!” Twilight yelled aloud. “No, No, No, NO! You can't leave! I'm not even sure you could.”
'Well I was thinking about how that would work too. I think I might leave your body physically, possibly like your body turns into liquid portals or something where I leave. I'm not sure if that would work though. And maybe I could make a magic portal to manifest a body or something. I don't fully understand this magic and I'm very curious as to how it works right now.'
“No, I mean you CAN'T leave. You're dangerous, too dangerous.” Twilight yelled. 'The liquid idea wouldn't work unless I wasn't wearing clothes.' She thought.
'You might be right. Portal idea it is.' Midnight responded.
Twilight's eyes shot open even wider as she could see a brightly coloured portal formed at her waist. She watched as the head of her other self rose out of the small portal. She watched her form rise out stopping at the waist. Her form looked down at her with such confidence and a shit eating grin on her face that made it clear she was in charge. She was even wearing what she assumed she was wearing back when she transformed at the friendship games.
Slowly the others hand reached out and grabbed Twilight's neck. She didn't grip or choke her like she assumed she would. Instead she rubbed her neck before falling into Twilight and wrapping her hands around her form. Midnight breathed against Twilight causing her to stiffen up.
“You aren't getting rid of me.” Midnight told her. Leaving space between her breaths for silence. Twilight felt like breaking down again. There was no more doubting that Midnight was here anymore. No more of it just being a nightmare or her imagination. She was here, and she was real. “Cause we're joined at the hip, jeez. You really need to stop worrying about me. I wont do anything.”
“R-Really?” Twilight asked. She knew she couldn't trust the being in front of her. That still didn't stop the glimmer of hope she had that she might be telling the truth.
“Of course, I would never do anything, to you.” Midnight said leaning back locking eyes with Twilight. “Why would I ever do anything to this face?” She said leaning back down into a hug. They stayed like this for a long while, not moving, just letting everything sink in.
“This is nice.” It was the last thing she heard before she fell asleep, unable to keep herself up any longer.
What did she feel like? Despondent? Worn out? Emotionless? Groggy? That's the word, groggy. That is exactly how she felt when she woke up before eight on a freaking Sunday after being awake for most of the night. But who was she to blame for waking up early? Sandman? Maybe, nothing seemed impossible anymore. Maybe sandman was some monster from Equestria that she was told about by Sunset. Sunset, oh crap that's right. She had to make up with her after what happened yesterday. She had to clear up what happened. Somehow. That's also right, she had a monster living inside her that made her do that.
Welp, her internal monologue couldn't go on forever with her not doing anything. She got out of bed and decided to get her day over with. Once they went back to school tomorrow everything needed to be sorted out. She couldn't do that sitting in her bed thinking about it.
Got out of bed, check. Ate breakfast, check. Made sure Spike's doggy door worked because she couldn't stop doing that every morning, check. Fed Spike, check. Go over checklist, check. Make sure checklist was full, check. Add take Rarity's advice and have morning coffee, maybe tomorrow. Get in car, check. Drive over to Sunset's?
'We have no idea where she lives do we?' Midnight asked, just as perplexed as Twilight.
Doing her best to react as normally as possible she responded, 'No, no we do not.'
'Pinkie knows everyone, call her and ask.' Midnight suggested causing Twilight to nearly facepalm herself with how obvious that should have been. 'Heh, I'm kind of like a tulpa aren't I?'
Twilight ignored her and pulled out her phone and called Pinkie. Her phone barely made it's way past it's first ring before Pinkie picked up.
“Twilight! This is the first time you actually called me! This is great! Unless it's not great. What if you called about something bad?! What if you called about a party though?! Of course you would come to me, the super duper party person that person is me Cheesy likes to say! Don't tell him I told you this but I think he might be better at parties than me. And we're so alike! I swear if he wasn't my cousin-”
“Pinkie!” Midnight yelled at the phone causing Pinkie to shut up. Twilight nearly thanked her, she would have just sat there and listened to everything Pinkie said until she decided to shut up on her own.
“Ye-ouch, Sorry,” Pinkie said, “I got excited, what do you want?”
“Sorry for raising my voice.” Twilight started.
'I'm not.'
“I just wanted to know where Sunset lives, I wanted to patch things up with her.”
There was silence for a few moments. Then there was the sound of ruffling papers. Then the sound of things being thrown. Somewhere there was a cat. Then it sounded like an actual tornado was on the other line before silence fell again almost instantly.
“Um, I don't know.” Pinkie said, sounding just as flabbergasted as Twilight. “Believe me, I'm just as shocked as you are. I could have sworn I had it written down. This used to happen other years too with her address. I always lose it somehow. And every time I get it it's different. It's hard to figure out where that girl lives. She even figures out where I put the trackers and gets rid of them. Which is pretty irritating when I can't put her number in cause I don't know. If you figure out where she lives, tell me.” Pinkie explained.
“Um, sure.” Twilight said totally lying. “If I figure anything out I'll tell you.”
“Okay, have fun, talk to you later.”
“Wait!” Midnight yelled at the phone in her hand. “Do we have trackers on us?”
“Of course there's one on you silly. I have one on nearly everyone.” There was silence again for a few seconds. “Did you just say us? Are you with someone or is that an identity thing I haven't picked up on?”
“No!” Twilight screamed. This was supposed to be an easy conversation to have. She should have known better to expect that from Pinkie. “It was just a, slip of the tongue. Bye!”
And with that she hung up her phone and put it back in her pocket.
'I am going to block this phone call from my memory.' Twilight told herself.
'I would appreciate that.' Midnight responded. For some reason she had become far more open about making herself apparent and being more active. Before now she would only say something every other hour. It almost brought a sense of normalcy to hear her more often.
Twilight shivered at the thought of this being a normal thing. She could easily remember what happened just yesterday in the bathroom. Both at home and at the sweet shop.
She could always just call Sunset and ask if she could come over. That seemed too forward. She would see Sunset tomorrow at school and she could talk to her then. She was about to cross Sunset off her list entirely until she remembered something. She took out her phone and immediately dialed her friends number.
Unlike when she called Pinkie, this time the phone ran nearly till it's end. She was about ready to just cancel the call when the other line was picked up.
“Um, Who is this?” Rainbows voice said over the line.
“No No No!” Rainbow yelled at the confused Twilight holding an acoustic guitar. “Your thumb isn't supposed to touch more than one cord.”
“Sorry, it's just kinda hard to keep my finger like that for so long.” Twilight apologized. As if it wasn't bad enough trying to figure this out, her friend was getting pretty agitated with her, and the garage they were in was not the most welcoming.
'If we wanted to wear out our fingers I could have thought of a more fun way to do it.'
'Shut up!'
“And how many times do I got to tell you, your not supposed to hold the cords down at the top of the triangle, you're supposed to hold them down behind it!” Rainbow yelled again.
“Sorry, sorry, could you not yell?” Twilight asked, feeling ashamed that she couldn't get the hang of this.
“Yeah sorry. Let's just go back to the G cord.” Rainbow said, demonstrating where her fingers were on the guitar. Twilight tried to imitate what she was doing with lots of difficulty.
“Is this right?” Twilight asked, showing her fingers off to Rainbow.
“Ugh.” Rainbow dunked her head into her hands for the fifth time that evening. Twilight's thumb was on the wrong string and her pinkie was holding two strings that were both wrong.
'You think it's your ring finger?'
'I'm pretty sure it's everything. This is just too hard for me.'
“Twi, if you just wanted an excuse to meet Sunset you could have just said so.” Rainbow said sitting back up. “It's clear the guitar really isn't your instrument.”
“Yeah, I am not getting the hang of this. How did you know I just wanted to talk to Sunset?”
“From what happened yesterday and Pinkie desperately calling me about Sunsets address I could put the pieces together pretty easily. Plus you said you didn't really like any instruments before.”
“Yeah, I guess it was obvious.” Twilight said taking off strap around her shoulder. “And this thing is really hurting my fingers. How do you live with this?”
“My fingers are so blistered and worn that I'm pretty sure they're bulletproof.” Rainbow said with a laugh. Just as she finished saying that did the sound of the knocking on the garage door come. “Speak of the devil and she will appear. COMING!” Rainbow yelled at the garage door.
This was it. Oh crap she had no idea what to say. She had planned on talking to Sunset all day and she didn't have a clue what to say to clear everything up. And here was Rainbow raising the garage door and Sunset's already ducking in.
“Oh, hey Twilight.” Sunset said awkwardly. Seems she was just as awkward about this as she was.
“Twilight just came here to take a beginners practice.” Rainbow said. “In fact, I think she might have the G and H cords down. Twilight?” Rainbow said, placing her on the spot.
'What?! No I don't!' Twilight internally screamed.
'Let me try.' Midnight said, taking control of Twilight's body once again and fixing her fingers on the right cords. She strummed and out came, the wrong sound. 'I really thought I had it.'
Sunset and Rainbow exchanged a look and turned back to Twilight.
“You got where to put your fingers right.” Sunset complimented.
“You aren't supposed to strum all the cords.” Rainbow reprimanded.
The rest of the next two hours were filled with her watching Sunset and Rainbow and them intermittently helping her. She almost got the hang of four different cords before she thought she was bleeding at the fingers.
“Well Twi, you almost got a hold of a few. I'm surprised.” Rainbow Dash said. “Guess I'm a better teacher than I thought. If you ever want a second lesson-”
“NO!” Midnight yelled rather loudly, shocking both Rainbow and Sunset.
“I mean,” Twilight cleared her throat. “No thank you, thank you, but no, definitely not. I appreciate the offer but the only way I'll want another lesson is if I'm in the mood for torture.”
“BDSM is always a thing. Torture would be explicit.”
“NO BDSM!” Twilight yelled out loud, shocking Rainbow and Sunset even more.
“Um, no one said anything about, that.” Sunset told her.
“That's um, very out of left field. Are you feeling okay?” Rainbow asked.
“Um,” Twilight was panicking now. This was a terrible screw up. The rest of the day she did well with talking to Midnight in her head. Why is it that she just screwed up?
'Please handle this.'
“Sorry girls, my mind's just running around all over the place. I'm just tired from the last hours. Didn't get a lot of sleep last night either.” Midnight told her proxy friends. “Do you think you can take me back home Sunset? I don't feel up to driving right now.”
“Um sure totally. That's what friends are for, right?” Sunset replied nervously. Midnight walked over to Sunset and placed a hand on her shoulder.
“Thanks Sunny, you're a life saver.” She told her and made her way over to where her car was just down the street.
Sunset stayed behind for a few minutes talking to Rainbow about something before following her back to Twilight's car. She got in wordlessly and buckled up. Sunset was about to put the keys into the car when she sighed.
“You, um, want to talk about anything?” Sunset asked anxiously. This was the part of the day she was hoping she could get done earlier. But now the sky's turned dark and she'll probably fall asleep with this on her mind.
“Um,” Twilight started. “yeah, actually. It's about yesterday.”
“Oh.” She totally knew what she was talking about. Of course she did, it was the only thing they did yesterday before Sunset left yesterday.
“Well, I had no idea what I said would be that bad. Bad enough to make you leave anyway.” She internally scolded Midnight for saying something that apparently terrible. “I wanted to talk about, um, why you decided to leave then.”
“Well,” Sunset sat up, keys still her hands, which were now laying in her lap. “Well I just wasn't expecting anything like those comments to come from you. It was just really off putting. I overreacted, sorry.”
“That's it?” Twilight asked. That couldn't be it. Sunset used to be a borderline mean girl from what she heard around school. She would be perfectly used to hearing those kind of things.
“Um, yeah.” Sunset said scratching the back of her neck.
“Okay.” They both sat back, allowing silence to fill the air. The tension only grew from there as it was obvious that Sunset was lying.
“Actually-” Sunset began.
“They told me.” Twilight blurted out. Shocking Sunset even more. The amount of times Twilight was shocking her these past few days it would be impressive if Sunset didn't come out with PTSD.
“What? They told you, what?”
“After you left, everyone started complimenting me about letting you down. They all told me they thought you were coming onto me and that was me rejecting you. I didn't mean for any of that stuff to actually mean anything. I didn't know that you might have felt that way. I just thought you were a clingy friend.” Twilight rambled.
“Oh, that's what they told you.” Sunset said shocked that her friends would actually tell Twilight that. More shocked that they had to tell her that. “So did you mean it?”
“What?” Twilight asked turning to Sunset. Her emotions unreadable.
“The comment you made. The one about me never being your target. I kind of did take that as a kind of rejection. I just felt like I should know whether or not it's true.”
“Um.” Was all Twilight could get out. She hadn't actually thought about that. There was a time when she first got to the school where she did think she felt something for Sunset. But that went away very fast for some reason. And here she was, sitting in her car with Sunset who was asking her if she liked her.
“Geez, I just heard myself.” Sunset said with a chuckle. “I should really be getting you home.” She said as she reached down and turned the keys.
“Wait.” Twilight half yelled. She stopped sunset in her tracks. Her hand was already on the stick, ready to go into drive and get her home fast. “Um, it wasn't serious. The comment I made. I'm sorry if it made you freak out and get upset over it.”
Sunset visibly relaxed and slouched into her seat. “Thanks, that's good to hear.” Sunset said as she turned the car back off and let her wrist rest on her head. “I'm sorry too, for putting you on the spot like that. I mean, especially yesterday. I'm sure hearing about me wasn't easy for you either.”
“No kidding. I locked myself in the bathroom for half an hour. Eventually Rarity had to come get me.”
“Really, you were in there that long over hearing about me?” Sunset asked surprised.
“Um,” She was thinking that was becoming her new favourite word. She thought back to what happened in that bathroom just the day before. “That, among other things.”
“Geez, I'm really sorry about just leaving like that. You aren't even the same Twilight I had a crush on originally.”
“They told me that too.”
“Yeah, I had a crush on the princess version of you for a few months and then you show up. We can talk on the way to your house.” Sunset said as she turned the keys again allowing the car to come to life yet again. She grabbed the stick, shifted it, and began to drive away towards Twilight's.
“Rarity totally took that advice by the way.” Sunset started.
“The one about Chrysalis? Really?”
“Yeah, she had an entire story to go with it. Apparently she-”
They both continued gossiping for the remainder of the drive. There was an odd sense of quiet along with their constant chatting. They both felt content in that moment. Until they finally go to Twilight's house.
“Well here we are, I can walk home from here.” Sunset said as she stepped out of the velvet car. A clear difference was very apparent to Twilight from the beginning of the drive to right now. Sunset looked incredibly happy. Like unusually happy.
'She totally thinks you're dating her now. It's written all over her face.' Midnight explained to Twilight.
'Well are we?'
'I wouldn't say so. You're mine.'
'WHAT?!' She hadn't even realized that's what Midnight was getting at this whole time. She felt super dense. 'No, never mind the fact that you're just me, but Sunset seems to actually care!'
'Fine, I'll help you tell her that.' Midnight said as she started forcing Twilight to walk in front of Sunset.
'What are you doing?!' Twilight freaked out, this wasn't happening. She couldn't handle this kind of confrontation.
“Sunset, before you go back to where ever it is you live I have something to tell you before I just leave it hanging. And this is really hard for me, but I have to tell you before you leave.” Midnight told Sunset.
“Yeah? You can tell me anything. Not like I have anything to be worried about now.” Sunset said putting her hands in her pockets. She was totally lying, she was really nervous about what Midnight had to say and it showed.
“It's just, about what we were talking about earlier. About you liking me and what I said about going after you. It's just, this is really hard for me to say, but,” Midnight stopped.
'Go on, this is your chance. Tell her how you feel. You got two choices right now, either you tell her you like her and you two start dating. Or you can reject her.' Midnight told, laying out the options in front of Twilight.
'This, this isn't fair! Why would you do this?!' Twilight internally cried.
'Because you have to make this choice sooner or later. I'm just forcing you to choose now, saving you from the emotional turmoil later. Trust me, if you make this choice right now, it will save you so much trouble. I'm only looking out for you.'
“Um,” Twilight started, her voice dry. “I'm sorry. When I first got over here and transferred to Canterlot High I thought I might have had feelings for you, but I didn't. I was just new to having friends and being so alien to it I thought that I had feelings for you. But after I made more friends and became more social I learned that wasn't actually how I felt. And I'm really glad I didn't try to have a relationship with you because, while I know it would have been nice, I prefer you being my friend so much more. I just don't want you to leave today thinking that we might have something that means we're more than friends. I'm sorry.”
She nearly broke down as she finished her explanation. All the while she felt bad about it, like she was betraying Sunset somehow. She felt that she for some reason owed Sunset something after all the time Sunset was just there wanting more than to be her friend.
“I, ah, I'm, Twilight look at me.” Sunset told her grabbing her by her shoulders. She looked up to see Sunsets eyes doing their best to not cry. But Sunset forced through that for Twilight, they were both trying to put on their best brave faces for each other. “Twilight. I know that must have been hard for you to say. And it's a really good thing you told me. I was about to walk off thinking we had started dating. I, I just want you to know I'm very proud you told me right now. If you didn't this could have gotten messy. And I completely understand.”
“You do?” Twilight said, standing up straight to look at Sunset easier. “You do, you do, thank goodness. I was so worried. That makes me so relieved.” Twilight nearly felt her legs give out, she hadn't even realized she was so stiff.
“Yeah, of course I understand. I was kind of waiting for a rejection anyway. I kind of already knew you didn't think of me like that, until the car ride. I was very unsure during the car ride. But hey, tomorrow, everything will go back to normal, we just need a good nights sleep, right?” Sunset asked with open arms inviting a hug.
“Yeah, you're right. This conversation was actually easier to have than I thought I would be. Friends?” Twilight asked opening her arms accepting the hug.
“Friends.” Sunset agreed and they shared a short hug. Sunset was stiff the entire time for some reason. As they pulled apart they both looked into each others eyes Twilight came to a realization.
“Hey, you're shorter than me.” Twilight said with a laugh causing Sunset to blush and get defensive.
“No, no I'm not, we're the same height!” Sunset through back.
“Maybe with those boots and your hair, but I'm taller than you by like three inches, maybe two.” Twilight said laughing. Sunset was indignant at first but soon joined in the fun and laughed along with Twilight.
“Yeah, I guess you're right. See you tomorrow?” Sunset asked pointing at Twilight as she started to walk away.
“Yeah, we sit next to each other in first period.”
“Set your alarm tonight! I don't want to have to drive back here to pick you up!” She said leaving.
'That, that was nice.' Twilight thought to herself as she headed inside her house.
“Twilight! You're home! I've been starving, can you please make me dinner now?!” Spike yelled the moment she opened the door. She saw the small purple dog run up to her from the kitchen. “I've been staring at it and barking at it but that doesn't put any food in the bowl. I mean, not today, I'll try that again tomorrow though just to see if it works.”
“Yeah, I can make you a bowl. Give me a sec.” Twilight said as she went to the pantry.
While she was preparing the bowl a portal appeared on her back and out rose Midnight Sparkle once again stopping at her hips.
“Spike!” Midnight yelled happily, shocking both Twilight and Spike. “Spike! I haven't seen you all day, we're sorry about not feeding you before we left.” Midnight told the small dog, picking Spike up and cuddling him.
“M-Midnight?!” Spike screamed shocked by what was happening. “Please don't throw me through another portal, please!”
“Oh don't be such a baby. I didn't throw you into a portal, you jumped into one. And you can talk now because of that. I don't understand why though. Maybe it's because dogs can talk in the other world, but even then, how would that change your anatomy to make human sounds?” Midnight thought to herself.
“What?”
“Midnight! Put Spike down. You're scaring him!” Twilight screamed, trying to reach around to her back. She managed to grab a hold of Midnight's arm and pull it away, causing her to drop Spike. Who then ran away into another room.
“He's my dog too.” Midnight complained.
“Doesn't matter. Spike, dinner!” Twilight screamed causing a pitter patter of tiny feet from the other room to come dashing into the kitchen where his food bowl was. “Talking or not he's still a dog.”
Midnight rotated the portal around Twilight until the portal was right in front of her. Midnight's frame fixing itself to stand straight and aligned with Twilight's. Same person or not Midnight was most definitely taller by a small margin and was more well endowed in certain aspects. Imposing was the word that came to Twilight, causing her to shrink somewhat under the taller frame.
Midnight noticed the fear in Twilight's posture and took advantage of it. Slowly grabbing Twilight's hands and lifting them above her head. They walked into a wall that provided support for the both of them. Midnight let her head fall into the nook of Twilight's neck. Her warm breath causing Twilight to freeze. She knew what Midnight was doing, and she honestly had a hard time resisting it. As terrifying as this is, as Midnight's simple existence is, she couldn't help but give into her instead of fight her. Maybe if she was that pony version of herself she might have put up a fight. But that wasn't her. And right now, Midnight's breath on her neck felt really good.
“You exhausted yourself out there. Telling Sunset the truth.” Midnight spoke, her lips close enough to scrape Twilight as she spoke. Causing Twilight to get goosebumps and make her shoulders quiver at the touch. “I knew you would though. You knew I was right when I said you were too good for her.”
“But, you're always going to say that. You wont let me get close to anyone else, will you?” Twilight asked fearfully. She was doing her best to keep herself standing. But truth be told she was on the verge of collapsing. She was also worried about what Midnight might do to her. Most of all she was worried about whether or not Midnight would completely leave from the portal that hung above her stomach.
She had a hunch but never thought about it more than a second. That is, until she did it. Midnight brought her lips upon Twilight's with a sort of passion mixed with fear. Midnight was stiff as she kept her lips on Twilight's waiting for a reaction. When there was none, she deepened the kiss. Twilight was merely flabbergasted as the figure in front of her pushed her head into the wall with the kiss. She could have sworn that Midnight had released a moan as she kept her lips pushing into hers. She stayed unresponsive to what was happening as she felt Midnight's right hand release her wrists and lower itself to the hem of Twilight's shirt.
“I'm done, can I have more?” Spike spoke up, sitting patiently besides the two intertwined bodies, interrupting whatever was about to happen next.
“Ugh,” Midnight grunted, upset that she was interrupted. “Spike, you can't have any more, you'd get fat and die early. You're supposed to last me about five more years.” Midnight said bluntly.
“He,” Twilight started. Still organizing thoughts in her head about what just happened. Midnight kissing her had been something she had expected from how she acted. She just didn't expect her to actually go through with it. She just thought it was a joke with the facade of being, sultry, to get what she wanted. “He can have a treat.” She told to Midnight who looked back at her with an almost disappointed expression before sighing and falling back through the portal above her waist.
“Awesome, treat time!” Spike repeated until Twilight had fully pulled out a treat from the treat box.
“Okay Spike, what is, five times five?” She asked the small pup.
“Twenty five.” The small dog answered.
“Good, and fifteen times fifteen?”
“Two hundred twenty five.” Spike answered proudly.
“Great, here's your treat.” Twilight said bending down and letting Spike take the treat from her hand. Spike ate it in one bite and rolled over. “Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?” Twilight said as she rubbed Spikes belly.
Her and Spike played for only a little bit before she decided to go to bed. Which hadn't been an easy decision. She knew the moment she went to bed that she would once again be met with Midnight. And although she didn't express it in their last meeting as well as the other ones, Midnight was still someone Twilight wished she never met. But, school was tomorrow, and thus, sleep was inevitable.
“Um, Spike, do you want a bed for in the kitchen?” Twilight asked as she finished getting dressed for bed.
“Nah, I got the bed. Good luck with tonight, try not to collapse the house with weird magic in your sleep.” Spike said as he walked into the other room.
Twilight watched as he walked away and closed the door somehow. Now she was alone. Almost. Now she was alone, in a dark room, where she'll sleep, with another magic being that has made it apparent that she's attracted to her, and who she hasn't told to back off. And probably never will.
She apprehensively made her way under the covers. And when she was finally under was when it happened. That portal, only the size of her hips, formed above her. And the magical being that had been tormenting her rose from it.
“Um,” Twilight tried to find something to say to Midnight but ultimately drew a blank. What could she even say to her? She practically knew everything she did. And could hear her thoughts. “So, is it possible for you to get yourself completely out of the portal?”
“Second night in bed and only now do you want to see my lower half? Aren't we taking things a bit too fast?” Midnight joked. “But in all seriousness, I haven't even tried. If I sit on it it feels like a hula-hoop, so maybe.”
“Well you're the one that's all about understanding the magic, so why don't you try?” Twilight asked, not realizing she invited the all powerful magical being to completely escape the flimsy prison of Twilight's body.
“Because if I do that I'll become too used to not being in you.” Midnight said with an overly sultry voice to emphasis her joke. “Although what you said does make me wonder. How far away from you can I travel, or am I bound to you? I think it might be best to not test that in fear I might be destroyed if I'm not close to you. You know, survival first and all that.” Midnight finished collapsing lazily on top of Twilight.
“Do you have to crush me? There is the rest of the bed you know.” Twilight grunted out from being crushed by her larger counterpart. “You take up more of this bed anyway.”
“I'm only like an inch or so taller than you. And besides, you haven't even given me time to get comfortable.” Midnight said as she started shifting around Twilight until she was comfortably cuddling Twilight.
Twilight decided to not say anything else for the rest of the night. It was a bold decision, it was daring, it was brave, it was dangerous, but sadly, she would have to not say anything else until she fell asleep. She eventually didn't even notice the large figure in her bed by the time she counted ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine sheep. Ironically that was the same moment she fell asleep.
“Okay,” Twilight started sitting on the bus. She was asleep only fifteen minutes ago, she was almost shocked she got ready so fast. It was the first day back after getting back from her week long school trip. It was super disorienting. It was almost as bad as whiplash. She just had to make it through the day normally without any kind of mess ups. Harder said than done. Sure Midnight might respect her at school and leave her alone but telling herself that everything was going to be fine seemed more difficult after everything that happened. “First day back. Act normal. Ugh, why didn't I just drive? Then I might be talking to myself, but alone.”
'Well not totally alone.' Midnight's voice echoed.
“Please don't start right now.” Twilight said.
“Um, Twilight?” An accented voice spoke up from her side. Across the seats Twilight saw a grey girl sitting across from her seat carrying a large musical instrument. “Are you okay?” She asked lowering the musical sheets from her face.
“Oh yes, I'm fine. Octavia? Was it?” Twilight asked. Trying to appear as normal as possible.
“Yeah, just checking.” Octavia said raising the sheets back to her face.
'Well that was anticlimactic.'
“Wait,”
'Oh wait, there's more.'
“did Vinyl meet with you and your friends at Sugarcube Corner?” Octavia asked.
“Um, yes, why?”
“She came home late Saturday and she said she was with you.. I didn't believe her. I owe her a huge apology now. Maybe some chocolate with some vodka.”
“Uh, we're all in high school. Why would she want that stuff?” Twilight asked. Although she felt a bit guilty. It wasn't like she never had a drink or two. They were just very rare.
“We're rich, we can.” Was all Octavia said before bringing her papers back to her face.
'It's not just me is it?'
'What isn't just you?'
'That conversation was completely pointless. It was barely a conversation. It was so short and pointless. Usually we all have full conversations. That has to be the shortest conversation we had next to when Flash tried to talk to us.'
'Pointless conversations happen.' Twilight thought as she sank back into her seat waiting for the bus to finally get to school.
'You mean like this one?' Twilight decided to not respond for the rest of the ride. 'Real mature.'
'First hour, college calculus, I can do this.'
'You could skip class and do me.'
'Ignoring you.'
The day went on like this.
'Finally fifth hour, lunch.'
'I haven't gotten hungry, I guess it has to do with being made of magic or something.'
“Hey Twilight!” Pinkie shouted from their table. “Twilight! Twilight we're over here! Your friends!” And she was being Pinkie again.
Twilight walked over, food in hand, and sat down with her friends. Well, most of her friends. Fluttershy wasn't there.
“So as I was saying!” Pinkie continued.
“For the last time darling, we are not going to help you stalk Sunset home.” Rarity said.
“And I don't feel comfortable telling you where I live anyway.” Twilight gave a confused look to the entire table. “Pinkie has been trying to figure out where I live all day and I'm not telling.”
“Ah don't see the big deal anyway, so you don't have her address, what's the big deal?” Applejack spoke up.
“It is a very big deal!” Pinkie shouted. “For all we know she could live in a cabin next to the lake being a nudist! Or live in a mansion where she has a servant version of herself from this world! Or maybe she just doesn't sleep and is a vampire!”
“It's none of those, and a vampire? Really?” Sunset asked.
“Yeah, Sunset isn't even cool enough to be a vampire. She'd have to wear a lot more black than just her jacket and boots.” Rainbow said.
“I think your talking about goths darling.”
“Goths, vampires, what's the difference?” Rainbow retorted.
“There are huge differences. It's super offensive to even think that, let's just hope the goths didn't hear that.” Twilight said. She could almost feel the hatred and spite from a few tables away burning in her general direction. “Either way, it's not that important where she lives, you already see her on a nigh daily basis.”
For some reason this comment was enough to make Pinkie do a Grinch like smile before sitting down quietly.
“So Rarity, how'd that thing with Chrysalis go?” Applejack asked.
“Oh it went wonderfully. She was hesitant at first, but when I told her why, she was more than glad to help.”
“Giggity.” This managed to elicit a chuckle out of both Applejack and Dash.
'I thought we agreed you'd be quiet.'
'I agreed to nothing of the sort.'
“Turns out she was perfectly fine with watching me sleep.”
'Shining could have told her that.'
'Hey! No, he deserves that.'
“She even took a video.” Rarity continued.
'I could say giggity so many times today, you have no idea.'
'I have an idea.'
“Needless to say. She had a great time. She described it like a moving diamond. I felt very flattered. I think she's showing her girlfriend the video right now.” Rarity said pointing to the super-senior showing her phone to another pink student. “Don't they look so cute together?”
“Yeah, they look perfect with each other.” Applejack said.
'I'm gonna tell them.'
'Don't you dare tell them anything about that. That's in the past now.'
'Fine.'
“Crap!” Rainbow yelled, shocking the whole table.
“What is it darling?”
“This is just the worst!” Rainbow yelled throwing her phone down at the table. Surprisingly, it didn't break.
“What is it sugarcube? It can't be that bad.”
“Can't be that bad? Can't be that bad?! I was just told I was kicked out of all the schools sports teams!” Dash screamed. “They said they could look past the wings but super speed gives an impossible advantage in pretty much any sport the school supports!”
“Well darling, I don't see anything too bad about that. Sports just make me sweaty.”
“Don't see anything bad about that?! If I'm not allowed on any of the teams then I can't go to college! I was banking on the fact I could get a college sport scholarship in any field I chose!”
“Well that certainly does complicate things. Who's in charge of the sports teams here anyway?”
'Seems like Rainbow Is pretty shaken up about this.'
'Yeah, it's odd. Ever since I got here she's always had her ego set to eleven. Now here she is super upset. Never thought I'd see the day.'
'But she has all B's, what is she talking about not getting into college?'
'I think it's more the doing sports in college thing.'
'Pinkie is saying something! Act normal.'
“What was that Pinkie?” Twilight asked, bringing her attention back to her friends pretending she wasn't just having a conversation in her head.
“Well I was saying that since you're great at speeches, probably, and are in a few law classes, that you could argue to let Dash back in the teams.” Pinkie explained.
“Well, I'm not so sure-” Twilight started.
“WAIT!” Dash yelled. “Better idea, Sunset has mind powers, so she just has to mind control the sports director to let me into the teams.”
'Interesting idea.'
“Dash, I can read people's minds, not control them. Even in Equestria that kind of magic was only done by a bug.” Sunset explained.
'Seriously? Maybe I could do it.'
“I might be able to use mind control.” Midnight said taking control of Twilight.
“Really?” Sunset asked skeptically.
“Maybe, Pinkie,” Midnight said holding her hand out. “hold my hand for a second.”
'I really don't like this. It feels scary when you do this.'
“Sure buddy!” Pinkie said grasping Twilight's hand. Pinkie almost went limp, their hands almost immediately covered in an aqua aura. “Is this working? I didn't expect it to but this is awesome, a few more experiments testing our powers and we could rule everything, right Twi-” Midnight was cut short with Twilight taking control of what Pinkie said. “Oops, guess I got carried away there.” Pinkie said with Twilight controlling her. “This is pretty new to me, and kinda freaking me out.”
Twilight then snatched her hand away from Pinkie, fearful that Midnight might again take control at any second. Everyone else sat in awe and had expressions that read amazed from here to kingdom come. All except Sunset, who had instead opted to narrow her eyes in thought at the whole thing.
“That is awesome Twi!” Dash yelled. “You can totally mind control the director to let me back in the team.”
“Wait a second.” Sunset said softly.
“I agree darling, that was a darling display of your new magic.” Rarity said.
“Hold up.” Sunset butted in again.
“Why earlier this week you were terrified of your magic, and now you're here making more progress than any of us, I'm very proud darling.”
“Can no one hear me?”
“Maybe you can do the same trick to Filthy Rich to give the farm more money for what were making, he's been paying less and less.”
“Excuse me.”
“Yeah, and maybe you can do it again to Cheese, maybe make him think me and him aren't related. It would mean a lot to me if you made him think we weren't related. I'm serious Twilight, help me.” Pinkie said desperately.
“HEY!” Sunset yelled finally getting the attention of the table. Finally having she let out a sigh and continued. “Did no one else notice that she was totally talking to herself? Even asking herself by name?” Sunset asked.
“Don't be silly, I just got caught up in the moment.” Midnight said putting her hand on sunset shoulders to calm her.
“That too, does no one else notice how her voice gets slightly different every now and then?” Sunset asked, receiving Twilight's grip becoming stronger and pinching down on her shoulder.
“Don't be silly.” Midnight said, raising her voice higher to exactly match Twilight's. “I'm telling you. I just got caught up in the moment. You're looking too much into it.”
'We were supposed to avoid this kind of thing, you got too proud and now Sunset suspects something.'
'She suspects nothing as long as we make her drop it.'
'You should really let go of her shoulder.'
“Oops,” Midnight said letting go of Sunset. “I got a bit exited there, sorry.”
“It''s,” Sunset started rubbing her shoulder. “fine, it's fine.”
The rest of the lunch period was spent in awkward silence aside from weird sounds from Pinkie's hair. The rest of the day continued the same way. Not to mention the mind control for the sport director went flawlessly. But it was super boring. Like really. She had to go in his head and learn about the papers involved and then made him do them and then make him think it was all his idea. Needless to say, super boring. Midnight called it a date.
'Bus or walk?'
'We don't live that far. We can walk.'
'We live near Crystal Prep, not Canterlot, remember?'
'Right, we can still walk. It's a good exercise after a week of constant walking and two days of not. Moderation and all that.'
'Solid enough logic. Should only be an hour and a half walk, and we don't have homework.'
After nearly forty minutes of almost mindless walking a discussion finally emerged.
'I think I can fly us home.' Midnight suggested. She probably could, During the Friendship games she sort of levitated above the ground but moved around as easily as she was walking.
'Okay, but how would that look? A high school girl flying above everyone else on the way home? Not only that, it also gives people a free show.'
'Good point, I should be the only one able to see that.'
'Do you really have to start right now?' Twilight retorted at Midnight's vulgar comment. Truth be told, having a few days of constant interaction with a magical all powerful girl in her head lost it's novelty. It was now more like a constant friend that flirted with her never able to leave minus the creepy factor of being obsessive. Or should that add more to being creepy? For some reason it didn't feel that way, instead it made her feel safer. In case anything does happen she's got a all powerful goddess defending her.
'You called me a goddess! I am so flattered.'
'Oh you just had to comment on that didn't you?'
'Yeah, still want to continue walking? I might be able to teleport us back home.'
'I'd rather walk.'
'Fine.' In addition to her being always around, there were also those awkward silences where they're trying to figure out something to talk about. Which to any outsider would look just like a girl walking home normally. 'I am so bored with only you walking.'
'Wait, only you? You worded that weird, what are you doing?' Twilight was off put enough from the comment and was only more disturbed by the silence that followed.
'Remember when we had that talk about whether or not I could leave your body?'
'Um, yes.'
'Experiment time, I want to see you.'
Not before long a portal once again appeared signaling the appearance of Midnight. Except this time it was moving with her on the ground. And unlike the other times when the portal was curved around her it was instead a few inches away from her feet flat along the ground causing Twilight to freak out and gawk as Midnight came up from the magical gate.
“Stretch!” Midnight yelled as she raised her arms above her head imitating a yawn. Midnight now stood in her full glory standing next to Twilight a few inches taller. Which also meant that her whole frame was bigger, she had the same proportions as Twilight but looked like someone enlarged an image in a word document. Midnight didn't have the magical aura that constantly surrounded her back during friendship games. Simply put she reminded Twilight of herself just amazonian and wearing an odd slightly torn looking dress. “It's good to finally let myself fully out of the void that is our mind.”
“Uh,” Terrified. Now Twilight had the perfect word to describe how she felt. She felt terrified. Midnight could leave. She just did it. Midnight had magic, that was a very clear fact, she had tons of magic, possibly enough to destroy the world. And she was free.
Midnight promptly slapped both of her hands on Twilight's cheeks, getting her attention, holding her head up Midnight yelled. “Stop freaking out!” Twilight almost immediately stopped freaking out. She could have been standing there for hours thinking of horrible things that could have happened simply because Midnight could leave. Midnight smirked as she saw that Twilight had been stopped from hyperventilating. “I'm not going to do anything. Well not until I know exactly what my limits are. And that could take years of research.”
“I'm, uh, wait.” Twilight began sputtering her words out.
“Let's just keep walking home.” Midnight said slowly removing her hands from Twilight.
“Um, yeah, home, right.” Twilight, almost unconsciously turned and kept walking.
They both walked along slightly freaking out people that knew who Twilight was and those that didn't. She recognized some of the kids from her old school but she was sure none of them went to the friendship games if they knew her. Simply by virtue they didn't scream upon sight.
“You think we could call Sunset over?” Midnight asked.
“Uh, why would we do that? There's no reason to. We don't need anyone over. Ever again. In fact, let's be home schooled. Actually, we don't need to be home schooled. We could just go into college immediately. Let's drop out and go to college.”
“I have a reason Twilight.” Midnight said dryly. Being the same person didn't mean they had the same attitude, and that was becoming very clear at the way Midnight got annoyed by Twilight's short frantic mumbling.
“Oh? Never mind then.”
“We should call her over and ask her if we can use that book she uses to communicate to the Princess Twilight. Then we can figure out a way to go over there slowly, and if we can do that we can study the books they have over there. I'm sure there are books on the subject. And if we're a unicorn, alicorn, then it stands to reason that the you of that world wrote some books.”
“Um, true.” Twilight gulped. She knew where she was, she was only about thirty minutes away from being home now. And that means that there would be more people on the street that might have been to the friendship games. “Why uh, why couldn't you have just told me that in my head?” She felt dumb asking. She knew. It was so obvious.
“Because I want to talk to you, seriously, you already knew the answer.” Yes, yes she did, and she felt dumb for asking. “And why wouldn't I want to be flaunting my girlfriend on the streets when she's the most beautiful thing they'll see, but never have.”
Girlfriend? Twilight's mind raced with implications. Midnight had never even said it before now but it was totally obvious she felt what they had was like this now. And right after Sunset too. Too much emotional drama was happening she couldn't handle it happening all at once. She kept walking home though. It didn't really stop her from doing anything right now.
“That does raise the question though,”
'Oh boy here it comes.'
“If we have sex is it gay or masturbation? I know the question is cliché and it's meant as a joke. But seriously, what is it?”
Great, now her head was going to be filled with speculation on what it was for the next day until she forgot.
'And if we did what position would be the most comfortable?'
“Oh come on,” Twilight said irritated. “I can still hear your thoughts even when your outside me. Was that thought necessary?”
'I can always be inside you if you want.' The obvious snark in her thought was very obvious.
“Ugh! Fine if you want to speculate on stuff what about, if Spike is a dragon in the other world but a dog in this one, does that mean any dog in this world going over there or would they stay dogs? There are dogs in that world so would they turn into dragons in this one?”
“Hmm, good question.” Twilight felt like she was about to pull her hair out.
“No! No it isn't! I was just thinking of something dumb! How can you possibly think that it's a good question?”
“Well we could always do an experiment to find out, if it can be tested it can't be that dumb.”
“That thing, that you just said, sounds like terrible advice, like some of the worst advice.” There has to be an actual plus side to this situation. “Here's an idea.”
“Shoot, babe.”
'Babe, right, we're technically dating aren't we? Did I consent to this?' “Well, we could read books twice as fast now. Well not twice as fast, just that we could read separate books at the same time. What do you think?”
“That is,”
'She's just going to praise it just because I said it.'
“No, I'm going to praise the idea because it's good, and because you said it.”
“Fine, we can read some books later. I, we, I bought some more finance and law books, a few fantasy books that Rainbow recommended, and this one kids book Pinkie gave, us.” Easier, it's getting easier to talk to Midnight like she was real. And she nearly fully stopped freaking out and being anxious. Wow, it's almost like she was acting like a socially adjusted human being having a conversation. At least, it seems like that's what's happening, at least to Twilight.
“Sounds like fun, first date status right there.”
“I, FIRST DATE?!” Twilight screamed shocked by what Midnight said. Not that she didn't know dates happened when people started dating but she didn't expect for their first date to happen so fast. Wait, since when was she expecting to actually date Midnight?
“Yeah, you're right. I had actually planned on taking you to a bookstore or a library. Isn't that what our parents said their first date was? I'm pretty sure if anyone lead with that you'd marry them in an instant. I don't know why but I'm picturing a black pony that looks like cheese taking us on a date. Weird.”
“That, actually sounds like a much better first date. Would you mind waiting?” Twilight asked. She was not ready for a date with Midnight, besides, she said she was going to invite Sunset over anyway.
“Another question.”
“What is it?” Twilight asked, but received no answer. She didn't look to her side but she did feel the pinpricks in her neck. “Ugh, fine. What is it, Sweetie?” She could have sworn Midnight squeeled at that.
“Besides the question of whether or not it's gay or mastrubating.”
“What is it now?”
“Well, since we have the same genes, does that also make it incest?”
“SILENCE! Silence for the rest of the walk home. It's only like fifteen minutes away.”
So they walked in silence for the rest of the walk. Even though she was determined to not turn around and look at midnight, she could still feel the lust filled stare she knew Midnight was giving her, it made Twilight feel oddly uncomfortable after about five minutes. It was like she could feel the gaze. They eventually made their way home.
Make it inside, let Midnight close the door behind her. Let Spike freak out, calm him down by feeding him. Take homework out of backpack. Midnight calls Sunset to come over. Get started on homework. Eat an apple while working on homework. Ignore the fact Midnight is pressing against Twilight as she works. The doorbell rings. The doorbell rings?
“Um, you didn't call Sunset did you?” Twilight asked apprehensively. The doorbell rang again.
“Mmhmm, makes it a dangerous situation for me. HEATS things up, don't you think?” Midnight's words fell on Twilight's neck.
“Twilight?! I brought the book you wanted! You still Home?!” Sunset's voice yelled from the other side of the front door.
“Why did you call Sunset?!”
“The book really. Remember how she told us the Twilight from the other world used a magic book to make a portal to this world?”
“Please tell me you didn't actually decide to do this.”
“I totally am, I'm thinking we could do the same thing on this side. Well, at least to the point I can figure out how to do it myself at will.”
“I'm coming in.” Sunset opened the door and walked in.
“Crap! She's gonna see you!”
“Oh well.”
“Midnight?!” Sunset screamed pointing at the large purple figure in the middle of the room.
“Sunset! I can explain!”
“I didn't know you were into gay incest mastrubation!”
Author's Note
Let this be known that this was heavily inspired by another writer on . The original writer goes by the name, SSPeanutButter. And so far it seems that that is their only story at the time of writing, so encouraging them to make more stories would be appreciated. Simply for me. Because I liked that story, obviously. And I didn't say I was good at writing. Which is how you got this piece of crap.
I think it's very obvious this is very rushed. I'll come back and rewrite it to be better eventually. This I promise. It wont replace this chapter but it'll be as a different story name, cause it'll be a better story than this one. It's also much shorter than I want it to be. ~~I just feel like I should get back to work on my miraculous ladybug story. Also storm hawks. I'm working on a Master Cyclonis x Piper fic. Expect that if you actually like it when I make oneshots.~~
And i am completely aware that many things in this don't go anywhere. that's why i want to rewrite this later eventually. i mean i really rushed this. i can see how bad it is. also if anyone is going to do any correcting me, don't correct me if it's in quotations or it's speech. it was probably intentional.
