A long road back

It has been twelve years since graduation. Eight years since Sunset and Wallflower married. The girls having moved on with their lives, stayed in close contact.

Fluttershy, having received her doctorate was currently working on her residency to become a veterinarian.

Rainbow Dash had received a full scholarship for a university in Barcelona where she discovered her passion for aircraft mechanics and engineering. After receiving her Master's Degree, she moved back to the States and became famous for designing a jet that travels using magical currents in the air. Earth's new scientific magical theorists, bolstered by Equestria's Thautomatic experts have surmised that as the planet's magic fields grow stronger, the jets will become more efficient, one day no longer needing to burn fuel.

Sci-Twi was the first human to travel to Equestria and receive a Doctorate in Advanced Applied Magic. Her designs combining Equestrian magic with human technology led to the construction of a massive portal complex that allows a constant flow of trade, tourism and immigration between the two worlds. Currently only eight such complexes are current in a completed state around the world, with another four slated to complete construction and activation within the next few years. Currently she is living in Equestria, having met a stallion there and married him. She has two foals with a third on the way.

Pinkie Pie teamed up with her pony counterpart to create a confectionery empire called Double the Pinkie Double the Pie. They have over five hundred stores and restaurants across both worlds. Both wound up marrying a guy named Cheese Sandwich and having a son named Lil Cheese. They both gave birth on the same day.

Applejack stayed on the farm for a while and helped her brother keep it running. Her reason for staying was "don't need no fancy-schmancy book learnin' to know how to farm". After Apple Bloom went off to college and Granny Smith died at the age of one hundred and two, she decided to travel for a while. Currently she is the reigning Heavyweight Champion of the Earth-Equestrian Wrestling Federation(EEWF). Her finishing move, The Atomic Apple Masher dazzles audiences across both worlds. Her only threat to her current run as EEWF Heavyweight Champion is an enigmatic that comes out to the ring wearing a long black trenchcoat and organ music playing a funeral dirge, named the Nightmare Knight.

Rarity partnered up with her pony counterpart and would have made a fashion empire that would have taken both worlds by storm, if it weren't for the outright brawl they got in to over which color sequins goes on the new gown they were designing.

Wallflower received her Master's degree in botany. Her groundbreaking study into cross pollinating Equestrian crops with Earth crops led to new strains that were resistant to fungi and parasites in both worlds, and helped further the studies that ended world hunger. For her efforts she was rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize and the Pony Friendship Medal. Her marriage to Sunset Shimmer on Earth was a small, private affair. Not so on Equestria, where it was a massively celebrated state affair, where High Princess Twilight Sparkle officiated their wedding, followed by weeks of touring the nation. Currently her partnership with a pair of business folk, a human man and a pony mare, has started a modest pair of nurseries in both worlds. The quarterly dividends she receives allows her the quiet, simple life she's always wanted. Her days are spent tending to the plants in her personal hothouse and raising Snowdrop, her and Sunset's adopted daughter.

As for Celestia and Luna. After the massive criminal investigation and reported death of their disgraced nephew, they, being the only beneficiaries of his estate, were awarded all of his above-the-board bank accounts, stocks, bonds and properties. Instead of flaunting their wealth and making themselves wealthier, they invested the wealth into communities. They even had his mansion bulldozed and built a community center in its place. In interviews when asked why they were "squandering" the wealth they inherited, they would answer, "You only get one pass at this life. It's not the ones who has the biggest and most toys who wins, but those who use the means provided to them to enrich the lives of others'.".

Retired Princesses Celestia and Luna worked for a time as good will ambassadors to Earth. They helped broker lasting peace between warring nations, set up extensive and mutually beneficial trade networks between nations and worlds, and their crowning achievement, brokering a deal between the various human nations' space agencies and the young Equestrian Space Agency. The fruits of their labor has led to the development of a prototype engine for a space exploration vessel that would allow said vessel to "jump" lightyears instantly at a time.

Retired Princess Celestia then went on to found Celestia's School for Extraordinary Humans where she began teaching children who showed extraordinary magical aptitude. Conspiracy theorists and nutjobs claimed to she was training an elite team of magically trained teenagers.

Retired Princess Luna went on to join the EEWF.

Sunset woke up in her bed. She felt the familiar warmth of Wallflower pressing against her back. She rolled over and pressed her forehead against her wife's.

Wallflower's big brown eyes opened to stare at the blurry cyclops staring at her. "Good morning, you beautiful blurry cyclops."

Sunset planted several pecks on her wife's lips. "Dork!"

"You know you love it."

"I gotta pee." Sunset rolled over to get up.

"Not before me you don't!"

The two squabbled, wrestled and tried to sprint past each other to get to the bathroom first.

Sunset, being the more physically fit and athletic of the two, beat out her wife...just barely. Dropping her panties to her ankles, she sat on the porcelain throne. "Ah!"

Wallflower burst through the bathroom door. "I can't hold it anymore!" She ran to the bathtub, dropped her panties and sat on the edge. "Ah!"

"You know babe, this is the part they always leave out of the romance movies.", Sunset said, grabbing toiet paper from the roll.

"Hmm?"

"The whole peeing and pooping in front of each other, and the racing to see who's the first in the bathroom in the morning."

"That's why I prefer documentaries about plants."

Sunset gave a faux snore.

"Yeah, yeah! I know you like movies with guns and explosions and ax murderers."

"Don't forget hot babes in string bikinis. It has to have at least one scene with hot babes in string bikinis Speaking of a hot babe in a string bikini."

Wallflower waved her hands in front of her."Oh no! No-no-no-no-no! You'll not get me on the beach wearing one of those! I'm barely comfortable enough wearing one around the house when Snowdrop's not home."

"But babe!", Sunset whined. "Haw's the world supposed to know that my baby's got the hottest goods there is if I don't show'em off once in a while."

"It's just three tiny triangles of barely there cloth."

"That's what I love about it."

"The answer is no. I won't wear it to the beach and that's final."

"What about when we go to Equestria? We'll be walking around naked all the time."

Wallflower's cheeks flushed red.

Sunset giggled. Even after all these years, she could still get her wife flustered. "Speaking of Equestria, we need to get ready. The limo will be here in about an hour."

"You know we'll wind up making love in the shower."

"Shower sex is the best sex. You get clean as you get dirty." Sunset waggled her eyebrows.

Wallflower blushed again.

***

Sunset, Wallflower and the daughter, Snowdrop stepped out of the limo and began walking up to the statue plinth in front of the old high school. A small crowd of all their friends and their families had gathered to see them off.

"Mommy, is it gonna hurt?", Snowdrop asked. The blind girl trembling with a mixture of fear and apprehension.

Sunset knelt down and hugged her daughter to calm her nerves. Planting a kiss on the girl's cheek, she said, "No baby, it won't hurt. It'll feel a little weird. Remember last year when you were scared to go down the water slide for the first time and how weird it felt when you went down it?" The blind girl nodded. "We'll think of this like a water slide. Only when you reach the end, you won't make a big splash in a pool, you'll come out a pony that can talk."

"A pony?!"

"You remember when you asked me and mamma Wally for a pony?"

"Mmhmm."

"Well you'll be the pony! And who knows? Maybe you have wings, or a horn, or both, or neither. Just be brave for me and mamma Wally. We'll be right beside you the whole time."

Sunset and Wallflower paused to wave to their friends, the former paused to pose and grandstand for the small crowd until her wife nudged her.

Sunset took Snowdrop's hand."Alright baby, on three we all take a big step. One...two...TTTHHHHRRRRREEEEEE!"

It never got any less weird stepping through the portal, literally seeing and feeling yourself twist and warp as you passed through the spinning, swirling rainbow kaleidoscope.

The world felt topsy-turvy every time she stepped out of the portal. Though the physical effects passed quickly, it always took her a couple of days to mentally recover from the effects of changing species. Standing there waiting for them was Princess Twilight Sparkle.

Sunset helped Wallflower and Snowdrop to her feet. She marveled at her daughter's wings. "Snowy, why don't you give your wings a flap?"

"Let me see...how do I..." Snowdrop gave her wings a flap. The blind filly gasped. She gave her wings a few more flaps. "I can feel the air moving! It's like I can see with the air! I CAN SEE WITH THE AIR!" She skipped around flapping her wings, using the air currents to "see". She stopped in front of Princess Twilight, turned her face to look up at her and gave her wings another flap. "Wooooow! You're a really big pony!"

Princess Twilight giggled. "Why yes, I am a really big pony. You must be Snowdrop. I've heard so much about you from your mothers. I am Princess Twilight Sparkle. Welcome to Equestria!"