This isn't going to end well.
When Ponies Get Sick But You Have An Alternate Dimension
By iAmSiNnEr
Raven stared at Spike.
Spike stared right back.
“So, you’re telling me,” she said finally. “Twilight is sick. Celestia and Luna are sick too. In fact, every alicorn is sick and is unable to raise the sun or moon. Along with the fact that the medallion is also broken.”
“That seems to be the situation, yes,” Spike said as he twiddled his thumbs. “They’ve isolated themselves somewhere just in case it's contagious to non-alicorns. Even Flurry’s there.”
“Well, what are we supposed to do?” Raven asked exasperatedly. “The sun’s supposed to rise in three hours!”
“Fear not, ponies, for I have an idea!” Starlight announced as she teleported in, startling both Spike and Raven. “Follow me!”
Without saying another word, she teleported away, leaving two very confused creatures behind.
Starlight teleported in.
The three stared at each other.
Then Starlight lit her horn and teleported all of them without another word.
“The portal,” Raven deadpanned. “What was your idea, again?”
“Essentially, we grab the Celestia of their universe, right?” Starlight was beaming. “She should have the power necessary to raise the sun for us!”
“But when their Twilight visited, she didn’t have wings,” Spike pointed out. “What if Principal Celestia doesn’t have wings?”
“...you have a point.” Starlight muttered.
“But we’re doing it anyways, right?” Raven adjusted her glasses.
“Yep.”
“Definitely.”
“HELP I’M BEING KIDNAPPED—SISTER, HELP—”
wooshing noises
“Let me get this straight,” Principal Celestia said as she lifted up her wings, glancing under them. “You want me, a human with no idea how you ponies work, to raise your sun. Which, technically, according to the laws of my world, is completely impossible.”
“That is correct, Principal Celestia,” Starlight nodded. “We need you to raise the sun.”
“...what about the moon? Do I just leave it there?”
Starlight stared at Raven and Spike.
“I think you know what we have to do,” Raven cleared her throat as she pulled the lever to reactive the portal.
“Yep.”
“Yes.”
“WHY AM I BEING KIDNAPPED TOO—”
more wooshing noises
“You want me to lower the moon?” Vice-principal Luna raised an eyebrow. “Me, a human with no knowledge of your magic and customs, and has also lived in a world where the planet revolves around the sun for my entire life?”
“That is correct,” Starlight nodded. “It’s simple! Light up your horn, pull on the moon.”
“You’re forgetting that I don’t know how to use the horn, young Starlight.” Luna deadpanned.
“Oh.” Starlight glanced at Spike. “Should I—”
“Never that spell again, Starlight. The last time you used it, you turned our friends into what were essentially slaves—” Spike blinked, before slowly turning to face Luna and Celestia. “Actually…”
“Wait a minute, slaves?”
There was a flash of light as Starlight’s horn lit up.
“Okay, so, after the speed spell, I think I just wasted, like, ten years of my life,” Celestia rubbed at her temples. “I think I got it now, though.”
“Good,” Raven said. “There are eight minutes till sunrise. Luna?”
“You know, this feels weird, calling her Luna,” Spike said as he flipped through a book. “And I don’t want to say vice-principal every time. What should we call you?”
“Lulu will do,” Lulu said. “And Tia for my sister.”
“That works,” Tia agreed. “We call each other that all the time.”
“You know, just wondering,” Lulu pursed her lips as she flipped through the book she had been given. “We just spent ten years learning how to do this. Granted, through speed time, but ten years all the same. What’re we gonna do with that once the actual alicorn princesses come back? Also, did that age us?”
“I don’t think it aged you, no,” Starlight shook her head. “You should be fine. As for the knowledge, you can come through the portal anytime and raise the moon or sun anytime you like.”
“It’d be funny,” Spike agreed. “Twilight might not appreciate the panic you’d give the ponies, but once a year, maybe on April Fool’s, might just do the trick to give us some actual entertainment.”
“Sounds wrong, though,” Lulu mused as her horn lit up. “How long more?”
“Two minutes,” Raven reported. “We start at one.”
A nod from Tia. “Well, I guess this has been fun. Do you think we can pretend to be the princesses for a bit?”
“It’d be funny,” Lulu chimed in. “And we’d get treated like royalty!”
“Worth a try,” Raven shrugged. “One minute. Start.”
Both Lulu’s and Tia’s horns lit, and the sun began to rise into the horizon.
However, the moon didn’t set. Instead, it looked like it was getting…bigger?
“DOWN, LULU!” Starlight screamed. “NOT TOWARDS US!”
“I’M TRYING, YOUNG STARLIGHT! I’M TELLING IT TO GO DOWN BUT IT’S COMING TOWARDS US—”
“Fold,” Twilight said as she stared at her cards. “Not risking this.”
“All in,” Luna smirked at Twilight. “C’mon, where’s your sense of bravery?”
“Fold,” Twilight said stubbornly. “Celestia?”
“All in,” Celestia said as she examined her cards. “I think I have this.”
“All in,” Flurry chimed in. “I have an excellent hoof!”
“Flurry you’re not even playing,” Cadence said, exasperated. “You’re underaged!”
“I’m loving this,” Luna grinned. “I’m glad we all faked the illness to get some time off.”
“Same, but I hate lying to my friends,” Twilight’s ears were pinned back. “Only this once— does anypony hear water?”
“Twilight, we’re on a beach,” Celestia scoffed. “Of course there’s water.”
Luna laughed. “I mean, Twilight isn’t wron—”
And then she was cut off as a tsunami slammed into their small beach hut.
“Okay, I think I have this,” Lulu gasped as the moon finally set below the horizon. “Probably some extra large waves somewhere, but I think I got it. I think the moon took ‘down’ as in ‘down to the planet’. I think I should have been more specific.”
“You think?” Starlight asked sarcastically. “We almost died! Now I have to explain to Twilight how the moon is now about sixty centimeters closer to us…”
“I tried to put it back, okay?” Lulu grumbled. “It’s just not that easy.”
“Well, I think that’s our job done,” Tia stretched. “Can we go home now?”
“Sure,” Raven nodded, standing up to head over to the lever. “But we might have to kidnap you again if the princesses aren’t back by sunset.”
“Can we get a notice this time?” Tia complained. “I hate being kidnapped.”
“No promises,” Spike said dryly. “It’s funnier kidnapping you—”
“SPIIIIIIIIIKE!” a familiar voice screamed throughout the hallways of the Friendship Castle.
“Oh, buck,” Starlight’s face paled. “She’s back?”
Spike looked nervous. “Oh, dear.”
And then the whole cadre of alicorns teleported in. Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Twilight, and Flurry. All five of them were soaking wet. And furious.
“Who. Set. The. Moon.” Twilight said through gritted teeth.
“...” Lulu tried to sneak to the portal, being as quiet as possible with Tia.
“I think the two interlopers who look like us were the ones,” Luna said dryly, noticing them. “Twilight?”
Twilight glanced at the portal, and then looked at Tia and Lulu.
“...Starlight, what did you do?” Her horn was lit.
“Um…nothing?”
“OFF TO THE MOON YOU GO—”
Author's Note
I'm back, people!
also
with sinner tweaks, of course
