Author's Note

This story contains fictional depiction of erotic parent/child and/or sibling incest. This is intended as a fantasy. Fiction is a safe space. In real life, the author does not consider consent possible in these relationships and does not support or condone them.

Safety Geese

Spike came through the front door of the Golden Oak Library, clutching a scroll in one claw and a holding a stack of books under his other arm. He tossed the scroll onto Twilight’s desk without slowing down.

“Hello, dragongram!”

Twilight looked over the top of her reading glasses at the scroll. “What’s this?”

“I don’t know,” said Spike, heading for the stairs. “I don’t read your mail.”

Twilight levitated her quill into the inkwell and picked up the scroll with her magic. As Twilight read the address, her voice rose from happily surprised to wild with panic. ”From Princess Cadence, Room 838 Kirinmark Hotel, Okami, Neighpon. To Twilight Sparkle, Golden Oak Library, Ponyville, Equestria. Eyes only, extremely urgent! Spike! Why didn’t you bring this to me sooner?”

“Sooner than what?” said Spike, stopping halfway up the stairs and turning to look at her. “I burped it up on the way home from the game store.”

“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, Cadence and Shining Armor are in some kind of trouble!” said Twilight, fumbling open the scroll with hooves and magic.

Spike closed his eyes and leaned his forehead on the stair rail. “Aren’t they still on their honeymoon?”

“They’ve been attacked! Changelings! Dire wolves! Titans! Or worse! What if they fought! What if they’re having marriage troubles?”

“Already?”

Twilight blinked. “I don’t know. How long does it take? I‘ve never been married. I don’t know how it works. Mom and dad never seemed to fight but I always assumed they did it in private.”

Spike banged his head against the stair rail. “Twilight, just read the letter.”

Twilight’s eyes darted back and forth across the paper.

Hi, sis! Can I call you sis? Is there anyway way you can get over here super soonish? There’s something Shiny and I were talking about and it’s really not the kind of thing you can spell out in written communication if you know what I mean. But if it would be better if we could take care of it while we’re still out of the country.

Whatever you do, don’t tell anypony I wrote you about this. It has to be a secret! Anyway, let me know! Love you either way!

XOXO Cadence

Twilight slammed the scroll down on her desk. “By all the forces of Harmony! It’s so bad she doesn’t say what it is! I’m got to get to Neighpon right away!”

“Do I have to come?” said Spike, beginning to slouch. “I wanted to work on my campaign notes.”

Twilight leaped down from her desk. “No. It would be better if I go alone. This could be highly classified.”

“Oh, great!” said Spike.

“But I need you to help me pack.”

Spike groaned.

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Twilight stared at the wall of the basement storage room and hopped from hoof to hoof like a runner before the start of a race.

“Are you all right, Twilight?” said Spike, buckling her saddlebags shut and climbing a step ladder to lay them across her back.

“I’ve never attempted an intercontinental teleport before.” Technically nopony had ever attempted an intercontinental teleport before, but if she told Spike that, he’d just worry. She was sure she could do it. Things that were hard for other ponies were easy for her. Usually.

“Couldn’t you just take an airship?” said Spike.

“Too slow. And not very secret,” said Twilight. “Okay, stand back. I’m going to get a running start.”

Spike saluted. “Good luck!”

Twilight visualized the spell. A sphere of glowing light enveloped her. She felt the strangely satisfying sense of vertigo that accompanied successful teleportation. The light vanished, and she found herself flying through the air towards the wall of the storage room.

“Ouch!” cried Twilight. A pile of empty cardboard boxes, unbalanced by her impact, fell over on top of her. “Double ouch!” She pushed her head up out of the pile to see Spike staring at her, open-mouthed.

“Was that supposed to happen?” he said.

Twilight pressed her hoof against her forehead. “Stupid! Stupid! I forgot to take into account the curvature of Equus. The planet got in the way!”

Spike blinked. “Okay? Is that a thing that happens?”

Twilight grabbed a piece of cardboard and held it flat in front of her. “This is the space-time continuum, okay?” She drew her hoof across the top of the cardboard. “When I teleport, I make a temporary wormhole that goes from point A to point B. Very basic.”

“If you say so.”

“But that only works on a very small scale.” Twilight bent the cardboard so there was a bump in the middle. “On a planetary scale, gravity warps space so much that I miss my target.“ She waved her hoof over the bump. “The wormhole would land me underground somewhere, so the safety geas coded into the spell spat me back out where I came in.”

Spike tilted his head to one side. “Saftey geese?”

“Not geese, geas. A magical imperative or prohibition. In this case an imperative to not die.” Twilight jumped out of the pile of his boxes and shook bits of dust and cardboard off of her coat. “I’m going to try again!”

Spike gasped. “No! What if the safety geese don’t work!”

“I’m going to do something different.”

“Oh good.”

“If I teleport into outer space, first, I can avoid the worst of the gravity well and get a better angle on the return teleport.”

“What? Twilight, no!”

Twilight cast the best shielding spell Shining Armor had taught her. It should hold enough air to breathe and protect her from radiation until she could cast the return teleport. The world flashed purple again.

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Twilight Sparkle felt very strange – light in her tummy like she didn’t know which way was down. When the after-image of the teleport flash cleared, that feeling turned to nauseous vertigo. Equus floated below her, a massive Pinkie Pie party ball. Clouds scudded between her and the ground. The recognized the Canter river, a tiny gleaming thread like something out of a super fancy atlas.

Her back was starting to feel extremely warm. The sun was right behind her, wasn’t it? Twilight Sparkle realized three things in quick succession. One: unshielded by Equus’ atmosphere, that sun was going to be very, very bright. Two: her body was rotating slowly to the right so that in a few seconds her vulnerable little pony eyes were going to be looking at that unshielded sun. With nothing for her to push against, the was no way to arrest that rotation. Three: She still wasn’t high enough up to have a straight line to Neighpon.

“Oh poop.”

She definitely didn’t have enough mojo for four consecutive attempted long-range teleports. But if she used Equus’ gravity well to her advantage…

Sunlight flooded the corner of her right eye. She squinted her eyes shut (which did almost nothing) and gave her best guess at an arching teleport vector targeted on the city of Okami in Neighpon.

She could barely see the purple flash as she teleported.