🌇Chapter 7🌇

That time that Trixie ruined someone’s date by falling down the stairs

CURRENT STATUS

Twilight Sparkle inhabits Trixie

Sunset Shimmer inhabits Twilight Sparkle

Rainbow Dash inhabits Rarity

Rarity inhabits Rainbow Dash

AppleJack inhabits Fluttershy

Fluttershy inhabits AppleJack

PinkiePie inhabits Freako Funtime IceCream Surprise

Freako Funtime IceCream Surprise inhabits PinkiePie

Shit.

Shit shit shit shit shit.

Sunset Shimmer sat in her bedroom, staring at the clock. It was four minutes to 7.

She would be here in four minutes.

Twilight Sparkle was never late.

Her grip (with her hands that she had because she was not a horse) tightened on her jeans as she glanced over at the mirror.

She was wearing her leather jacket with a red t-shirt and wearing her jeans with fire patterns embroidered onto the sides. They didn’t fit properly anymore but one time, Twilight had said she thought they were pretty. So of course she was wearing them. She needed to look good for her date.

Even the thought of a date with Twilight sent a shiver down her spine. How the hell had she managed to pull this one off?

It had all started with a joke. Sunset had jokingly said “Haha, yeah, imagine us on a date, that would be crazy” whilst reacting to AppleJack and Fluttershy FINALLY getting together, with Twilight having responded sadly: “Oh… I don’t think that It would be that crazy”. One thing lead to another, and Sunset was now sitting in her room, waiting for Twilight to arrive in-

She looked at the clock.

2 MINUTES!?

SHIT!

Okay, Sunset. You’re okay. You can survive this. It’s just a date! Sure, you haven’t exactly BEEN on a date before, but you’re awesome and have cool hair so it's fine!

But what if it isn't fine? What if you mess up? What if you trip her up accidentally and she falls down some stairs and then you’ll have to go to the hospital?

Okay time for distraction.

She moved over to her bed and picked up the book with Celestia’s cutie mark on it, opening it to the latest page. She had been getting a few updates of the going ons in Equestria, and it sounded like chaos. She can’t pretend she didn’t chuckle upon finding out that Twilight had swapped bodies with Trixie of all ponies, but was quite worried about what it could mean for the future of Equestria. She had offered her help, but Twilight had warned that as it was something to do with the mirror dimension, it probably wouldn’t be safe to travel between dimensions and to keep an eye on the mirror portal.

Upon opening the book, she saw that Twilight had written a message yesterday evening. She had completely missed it. Whoops.

“Hey Sunset!

Trixie asked me to kiss her today. I told her no… although I guess it would be interesting to kiss oneself. But then she made some sort of comment about divorce so I decided against it. We are almost at Tartarus, I will keep you updated! Have fun with your date! I can’t wait to meet them!

See you soon,

Twilight.”

Sunset had to laugh at this. She hadn’t actually told Twilight who she was going on a date with. She was going to work out how to word that properly as it wasn’t exactly an easy thing to explain. But that could wait for a time when she wasn’t in the body of a failed magician.

She picked up her pen and started to write.

“Hey Twilight.

Oh my goodness do NOT kiss Trixie. I tried that once. Wasn’t pretty. I mean, she is KIND of pretty, but like, no, no no stay away from that.

Anyway! Yeah I amm kinddd offf petrified right now, to be honest!”

She looked up at herself in the mirror, not seeing that as she had been writing the book had started to glow a strange pinkish and cyan colour. She smiled at herself. You know what Sunset? You DO look cool. Twilight will be here any minute and you’re going to have the best night

Sunset Blinked.

Sunset had the sudden and violent sensation of being thrown off a waterfall inside a barrel made of light, her entire soul getting rattled around like a coin inside of a glass jar. As soon as it started, however, it stopped, and sunset found herself in a dark room on… all fours.

“HUHAUGH!”

She hadn’t been ready to be on fall fours, causing her to fall over. It was so loud… was somepony screaming?

Wait.

Did she just…

Somepony? Instead of somebody?

Why did she feel the familiar feeling of magic coursing through her?

Why did she see…

Ponies?

She looked down at her hands, and in confused horror realised that she didn’t have any. They were hooves. More than that, they were hooves she was all too familiar with.

She was Twilight Sparkle.

She blinked a few times in shock. She had swapped places with Twilight Sparkle! She was in Equestria! How did she get here?

It took her far too long to orient herself back into a quadrapedal mode, and as she stood up, she felt her wings unfurl unnaturally. Oh. Right… she’s an Alicorn-

She froze.

I’m an Alicorn?

She looked back at her wings. Being an alicorn had been her original dream. And just like that… she was here. Sort of.

The sound of the ear piercing screeching from somepony in the room made her senses sharp again, and she turned to survey the scene.

Why was PinkiePie standing over Trixie with a knife?

“This is for my sisters”

In around 2 seconds, every single gear in Sunset’s brain clicked together at just the same moment.

Twilight WAS Trixie.

Everypony was swapping bodies.

That PinkiePie had a knife.

Without even thinking, she shot a magical blast towards the Pinkie with the knife. It missed. She was out of practice, of course.

“WHAT!? HOW DO YOU KNOW-” The PinkiePie snarled, but Sunset was already running towards her.

“STAY AWAY FROM HER!” she cried out in Twilight’s voice. She didn’t have time to feel how weird it was to be talking with the voice of someone she was about to go on a date with.

She blasted again, this time hitting her in the torso. She was scattered backwards, and before the PinkiePie had a chance to do anything else, Sunset let off a knockout spell that hit her in the forehead. The Pink pony slumped to the ground.

Sighing in relief, she looked down to Trixie… no, Twilight. This was Twilight. She wracked her brains. How the hell did one do healing magic? Luckily, muscle memory kicked in, and she placed her horn down, muttering the verbal components and watching the wound slowly close itself up. It would have still done some nasty damage on the inside, but at least she wouldn’t die.

She let out a little chuckle. “I must say… I didn’t expect to be seeing you again so soon.”

“Who… are you?” Twilight whispered up to her. In Trixie’s voice. Celestia, this was confusing.

She let out a little laugh. This was ridiculous. Fucking… ridiculous. 2 minutes ago she was stressing about a date. And now she was (kind of) in her date's body, standing over (kind of) her date who was in an entirely DIFFERENT body as another one of her (kind of) friends lay unconscious on the floor after stabbing her (kind of) date. She shivered, looking down again.

“... Sunset Shimmer.” She said, smiling awkwardly.

Twilight stared up at her… blinked twice, rolled her eyes back up into her head, and passed out.

The only pony with any answers was now also unconscious..

Sunset laughed again, falling back down into a sitting position, head in hooves as she started laughing and laughing and laughing.

She had quit her dreams of becoming an Alicorn years ago. She was happy with her life at canterlot high. And now, with no effort, she was suddenly an Alicorn. But not just any Alicorn. The alicorn that had saved her life, who’s soul was now in the body of a frail magician who needed medical attention. All the while she was unable to ignore how darn GOOD it felt to have this power. All the tension built up more and more before she slammed her hoof down onto the floor, accidentally letting off a blast of magical energy out of her horn. It slammed into the roof, causing rubble and debris to fall down. Various creatures roared and screeched.

“WHY THE FUCK DID THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN TO ME!” she screamed at the universe. “WHY TODAY! I WAS DONE! I DON’T WANT THIS!”

“... Uhm… S… Sunset?”

She snarled a little. PinkiePie. She slowly moved up to the body on the floor.

“You’ve got some nerve trying to even speak to-”

“U-Uh… Wrong one… heh…”

Sunset’s head flipped around to see… another PinkiePie in a cage!?

Sunset looked between the caged Pinkie and the uncaged Pinkie a few times.

“How are there two of you?” she asked slowly.

“Well… Did Twilight ever tell you about the time I-I accidentally fell into the mirror pool?”

“No, but she did tell me about the time you went in there on purpose.”

“... What if I told you they were the same time as each other.”

“Then…”

Sunset smiled with relief a tiny bit but was still pretty shook.

“Then I’d ask you what Twilight’s favourite cupcakes are.”

“Green mint with chocolate chips.” she said immediately.

Sunset sighed with a big relief. Sunset knew that Twilight had only told her friends about that recently. Something about having one at Spellementary school mysteriously handed to her by an unknown filly.

“Okay. I trust you. It's you.”

PinkiePie’s eyes watered up immediately as she started sobbing with relief. “I-It hurts… s-so much… C-Can you let me out? P-Please?”

Sunset nodded, and did a big catlight stretch. It had been a while since she had used much magic, but it seemed like she still had it. Shaking all of her hooves, she concentrated hard, and focused the magical energy around Pinkiepie. She strained a little but after a few moments of precise horn movements, Pinkiepie was teleported out of the cage. She collapsed down onto the floor, coughing a bit, tugging at her neck with the non hooked hoof. She took a few very big gulps of breath before squeezing Sunset incredibly tight. This restricted her airways but Sunset decided it wasn’t really the time to be critical of this as Pinkie cried into her.

“Hey! Hey… It's… ok… you’re fine. You're safe… What happened to your hoof?” Sunset asked softly, noticing her hooked hoof for the first time.

“I don’t know… sniffle I-I was like this wh-when I got s-switched with… her…” she pointed with her split tail at the PinkiePie on the floor. Gently unattaching herself from the alicorn, PinkiePie hobbled over to the sight of her own body.

Pinkie wasn’t the type of pony to get existential.. But seeing her own body on the floor as WELL as sort of being in the correct body at the same time was… a lot.

“I… I hadn’t ever thought about what It would be like to be… one of the mirror pool clones…” she said, sitting down and looking at her hoof and hook. “It must have been horrible… I can’t even imagine what I’d have to go through to want to hurt Twilight…” she said, trailing off at the end, her ears flat against her head.

Sunset felt something start to bubble up inside of her. Anger.

When she had first heard of this whole swapping debacle, she had thought it would just be another fun adventure for her pony friends to go on with a fun friendship lesson at the end. She had just assumed it would be another fun thing to hear about as she hung out with her human friends…

But looking down at the wounded Twilight and mentally shattered PinkiePie… she was only now realising how truly destructive this had been.

“Somepony had to have caused this…” she growled. “Things like this don’t just happen.”

From her correspondence with Twilight, she understood that the mirror pool seemed to be the key… and they needed to get some infernal steel to get into the pool.

“Once I find out who did this… I’m going to tear them limb from limb.” she said coldly, picking up the mask that PinkiePie had been donning with magic. She sniffed it, its sulfuric smell confirming that it was indeed infernal.

“What are we going to do with her…” said PinkiePie quietly pointing at Freako Funtime.

Sunset shook her head in thought. “We… wait-“

She looked at PinkiePie.

“W-Why am I in charge!?”

PinkiePie raised an eyebrow!

“You’re an Alicorn, and I’ve been stuck in a prison for 3 days.”

Right…

She WAS an Alicorn…

“We should probably take her with us for when we figure out how to get everybody… sorry, everypony into their original… bodies… wait.”

She froze..

There was something she hadn’t even considered.

If Twilight was in Trixie…

And she was in Twilight…

Which meant-

Oh god no.

Sunset suddenly grabbed PinkiePie by the shoulders who let out a little squeak.

“Who the fuck is in my body!?”

“FUCK! T-TWILIGHT!” Trixie had screamed as she was once again flung across the world, once again landing on the floor of whatever room she was in, one again shouting out in an unfamiliar voice. She started coughing as the tears began to fall out of her eyes rapidly.

She had just seen herself get stabbed. Twilight was probably dead. And it was all her fault! Who the hell was that PinkiePie!? She lay on the floor for a few moments, breathing heaving breaths in between her huge sobs as she broke down. However, something quickly pulled her back into sentience.

Something was off. Like, really off. After her first swap she had been disoriented, sure, but now? Every single cell in her body felt wrong.

She put a hoof to her head to try and calm her swimming head, but it wasn’t a hoof. It had… things on it. Like the claws of a bird but… fleshy?? She stared at the weird things. It was clearly some sort of grasper with claws that were… painted black and red?

She looked around the room. Nothing was familiar save the existence of a bed and a wardrobe. Except for…

A mirror.

She knew mirrors were dangerous nowadays, but she figured even if she did swap, she might be free of whatever the hell she was right now.

Carefully, she stood up very shakily. She was used to having four legs, not two, and so needed to steady herself as she just about managed to get up and stay balanced. Then… she looked in the mirror…

…and saw the form of a sobbing woman with yellow and red hair and a leather jacket staring back at her. Her mouth dropped open in shock. So did the girl in front of her.

Trixie was… Who the fuck even is that?

“WHAT THE FUCK IS THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT????????”

Trixie was screaming again, pointing directly at the thing. There was some weird partially hairless creature staring back at her in the mirror. She felt her face, her lack of muzzle, her… fingers!? GROSS!

She wretched a little, her eyes moving towards the waste bin in the corner, where she quickly collapsed towards and puked.

Her vomiting was interrupted by a high pitched noise.

Ding Dong!

Trixie’s head shot up, and she looked at the open door behind her. A doorbell? They had these wherever she was?

She coughed a little as she stood up, and looked at herself in the mirror. She placed her hooves… no, hands, on the chair in front of it and started giving herself a pep talk.

“Okay Trixie… you’re a disgusting flesh monster who is in reality a unicorn…” she declared, glaring at the creature in the mirror. Her mascara was streaming down her cheeks, leaving a trail, and her strange hair had become a complete mess. “Your real body could be fucking dead. TWILIGHT SPARKLE, the creature of eternal affection, could be a fucking corpse. Your corpse. But that’s ok okay. You are the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie! You’re going to show this disgusting world who’s boss! You are gonna find a way home, and you’re going to save the world! The WHOLE ENTIRE WIDE WORLD! NOTHING CAN STOP YOU!”

Trixie stood up, marched out the room, and immediately fell down the stairs.

“FUCK!”

As she lay in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, holding her arm in pain, she heard a knock at the front door, which was a few feet away.

“S-Sunset? Are you okay?”

Trixie heard a voice from behind the door. One that made her stomach do a back flip.

Twilights Voice!?

“Huh? T-Twilight! Is that y-you?” She called out. Was that actually her? Or was it whoever she had swapped bodies with? This ‘Sunset’ she had just mentioned?

“Yes, it’s me! Are you ok? I heard a big crash and a thump… oh no! Am I early? I’m so so sorry I can come back later!!”

It WAS Twilight! The real Twilight!

“Y-YOU’RE ALIVE!” She cried out with joy, and managed to stagger herself to the door.

“Uhm… yes?” She replied in confusion.

Trixie took a moment to work out how to use the doorknob, but after a few moments of struggling she opened it with glee, looking down at the horse in front of her!

Wait. That wasn’t a horse. Those were knees.

Trixie’s gaze slowly moved up to see…

“Sunset! Oh goodness, are you ok?”

In front of her stood…

To be honest, Trixie wasn’t sure.

It LOOKED like Twilight, but… not really.

It was another flesh creature, with two long legs and strange appendages at the end of its arms. She was wearing a simple blue dress with a few purple stars woven into the hem. She looked incredible, save for the weird fleshy parts.

What the fuck was happening!? Where even WAS she??

“Sunset?”

Trixie blinked as she got out of her confused state, the Twilight-like creature looking at her with great concern.

“UHM! Yes. I am. Fine.” She said, having to lean against the door frame to not fall over. “I may have! Haha fallen down the stairs! Sorry! Haha-“

“Oh! Oh no! Are you ok? Did you hurt your head? Oh no no this is all my fault! I’m so sorry this was SUCH a stupid idea! I’m sorry I’m sorry this date was such a horrible idea…” The Twilight creature said, beginning to chastise herself as she started scratching her head with her weird painted nails rapidly back and forth.

A DATE!?

Okay.

Trixie was stupid, but she wasn’t stupid. She needed information.

“Okay. Twilight? If that really is who you are. Can you come in? Please!? NOTHING in this world makes ANY SENSE and I need to tell you some things. I also need you to explain some things to me, okay?” She said with frustration, and stepped aside to let her in.

The Twilight infront of her looked scared and confused. Tears started welling up in her eyes, fogging up her glasses. She looked like she was about to break down. “Okay…” she whimpered and came inside, heading into the living room of the house. Trixie shut the door, and staggered over into the living room with her.

Twilight sat down crying into her hands. Trixie felt bad for making the creature cry, but there were more important things to do. She stood in the middle of the room instead of the weird black box on the wall and looked down awkwardly at the creature.

Shit uhhhh how did one apologise.

“I’m sorry for shouting.”

There! Nailed it Trixie!

Twilight cried louder.

Shit.

“I D-don’t understand… y-you s-seemed s-so e-e-excited for this and… R-Rarity told me how l-long you had liked me and I t-thought th-this would b-be s-s-such a lovely evening… w-what did I d-do wrong?” She whimpered, looking up at her through her glasses with huge wet eyes.

Trixie felt her stomach drop, and looked down at her lack of hooves.

Usually, she didn’t care what ponies thought of her, especially Twilight. Ever since she had gone off on her little rant about how ‘Nopony wants you here”, she had been ramping up her teasing of her. She had constructed the weird paradox in her mind that if she kept on being mean to her then it would be ok; Twilight would have a reason to not like her. It was her being purposely mean to her instead of Twilight just not liking who she was.

This wasn’t that Twilight, however.

This weird creature had seemingly been so very excited to go on a date with the creature she was inhabiting, and Trixie’s sudden appearance had wrecked everything.

Once again, a Twilight had a reason to hate her. And it wasn’t one she had chosen herself.

Fuck.

“T-Twilight…” she said softly, holding her arm awkwardly. “I… there’s something I need to tell you… a-about me…”

Twilight hiccuped a bit as she continued to cry. “W-What…”

“Well…” Trixie looked up at the roof. How to word this…

“Y-You see, I’m not actually a… whatever it is we are with these… weird things.” She said. Twilight’s crying has turned to sniffling as she tried to work out what it was her ‘date’ was saying. “And I am not… whoever you think I am.” Trixie continued.

“H-Huh?”

“T-This may be hard to believe but…” she took a deep breath.

“I am a horse.”

Trixie watched the Twilight’s face in anticipation, expecting her to be surprised.

Instead, she looked… just about the same

“I know?”

HUH?

“What?”

“I know you’re from Equestria, Sunset. We’ve been over this.”

“YOU KNOW ABOUT EQUESTRIA?” Trixie suddenly shouted in glee.

“Yes?”

“And you’re saying that I’M from Equestria!? I’m a pony?”

“Yes!? S-Sunset, what’s gotten into you! Have you had memory loss from your f-fall?”

“HA! YEA! TRIXIE CAN STILL SAVE THE WORLD! YYEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!”

Trixie was celebrating bombastically, but due to her unfamiliarity of her body she stumbled backwards into the TV. It knocked it off its stand and it fell to the floor with a big CRRAAASSSSHHH. Trixie swore and stumbled back onto the sofa, now sitting next to Twilight.

“Whoops.”

Twilight was staring at her. She took her glasses off to wipe the tears from her eyes.

“I’m… sorry… but what does Trixie have to do with any of this?”

Trixie looked at Twilight. “You… know… Trixie?”

“Y-Yeah, that annoying magician girl who you made out with that one time? What does she got to do with saving the world!?”

Trixie short circuited.

There was ANOTHER Trixie in this world!?

And this body has KISSED her?

SHE WAS IN THE BODY OF SOMEPONY WHO HAD KISSED TRIXIE!

She managed to hide her huge beaming smile. It was time to actually explain what was going on.

“So… uhm… I am…”

She immediately didn’t know how to phrase it properly.

“So you know how… there is also a Twilight in Equestria?” She started.

“Yes… w-we’ve met, remember?”

“Uhm, no. Well, in Equestria… there is also a Trixie.”

“Okay…” said Twilight slowly.

“Anddddd has… uhm, Sunset, was her name? Well, had Sunset mentioned how everypony in Equestria has been swapping bodies?”

“She did say… that… I… oh…”

Twilight’s eyes slowly got wider as she made direct eye contact with Trixie.

“You’re…”

“Yep! Congratulations, weird fleshy Twilight! You’re in the presence of the great and powerful Trixie! But the one who is a Unicorn!”

Twilight was less enamoured by this than that Trixie had hoped.

“T-Then where’s Sunset? In your body?”

“Oh, no, my body is currently lying dying on the floor with Equestrian Twilight Sparkle inside. I was in Twilight's body! Sooo… I’d assume that’s where Sunset is now!” She said, her voice wobbling a little. She had managed to forget about the fate of her own body for a little while.

Twilight sat for a good minute, head in hands.

The silence in the room was having the dangerous thing of letting Trixie think without distraction about how truly fucked up the situation she had left was. Was she going to return to Equestria with a dead body and no Princess Twilight Sparkle? Eventually, Twilight took a deep breath. Her makeup was ruined but she didn’t seem to be worried about it right now.

“Well then… w-we need to go to Equestria.”

Trixie was startled a bit being so lost I thought.

“You… know a way there?”

“Yes, S-Sunset showed me. But first, I need you to tell me everything.”

“Everything?” Asked Trixie.

“Yes, everything.” Reaffirmed Twilight. “I n-need to save my best friend. My… my date. My…” she rubbed the back of her neck, avoiding eye contact. “The person I love. I need to s-save Sunset Shimmer.”

Trixie couldn’t help but smile a little at seeing Twilight’s determination to save someone she cared about.

“Okay! Well… It all started when I was born, at a VERY young age-“

“What? No! About the whole body swapping thing!”

“OH! Uhh… oh, right-“

She was going to have to tell her about how it was kindddd of her fault, wasn’t she?

Fuck.

“TRIXIE!?”

Sunset Shimmer had just been informed of who was most likely residing in her body. She couldn’t think of anypony worse.

Maybe spike.

Where even was Spike.

Oh well, Twilight was unconscious. No way to find out.

“Yeah….” Said PinkiePie. “Sorry about… that.”

“For fucks sake.” She growled at herself. “I was about to go on a date, Pinkie. She’s going to fuck everything up.”

The news of a date seemed to alight some sort of joy in PinkiePie, who’s ears perked up. She even managed a real, non forced smile. Even though she had only met Sunset Shimmer a few times, Pinkie still considered Sunset one of her side besties (as she did with most ponies). PinkiePie LOVED to hear about romantic things between her friends.

“A DaaAAAaaatEEE?” She said, smirking as she shimmy’d up to her. ‘Whooo withhh????”

Sunset let out a little chuckle, avoiding eye contact.

‘Heh… the human Twilight Sparkle.“

“Ohhhhh! Wait… ohhhh!!! OHHHHH!!!!!!! Oh? Oh… oh oh oh….” PinkiePie responded, seemingly going through all five stages of grief. “Which makes… this preettyyyyy awkward, right?”

“Yeah. Very awkward.” She said, glancing back at herself again.

“But hey…” PinkiePie adopted a very Trixie-like expression with one eyebrow raised high. “You are technically inside of Twilight right now-“

“Oooookkkayyy that’s enough out of you” Sunset cut her off, laughing. “Come on, we better get out of here before Tirek wakes up or something.”

She carefully lifted up Twilight onto her back as well as Freako Funtime. Just Twilight was fine; Trixie’s body was as heavy as a loaf of bread. Freako Funtime was considerably heavier, which put some strain on her back. Twilight may be an Alicorn but she was still a nerd.

“You sure you don’t need a hoof? Or hook?” Asked PinkiePie, but her quickly falling over due to her lack of experience with using her hook hoof answered the question for her.

The conscious pair of horses quickly moved out of the gates, but stopped as they saw the horrible sight of a badly injured Cerberus laying on the floor. There were slash marks over its paws and legs, and a few very nasty ones around the eyes. Neither pony said anything for a few moments, but both knew the only pony that could have done this was currently resting on Sunset Shimmer’s back.

Sunset did some quick healing magic on the great guard dog but other than that, there was nothing they could do but move on. They just had to hope nothing got out.

They had to search about for a bit, but they eventually found the Caravan belonging to Trixie. PinkiePie offered to stay outside and keep watch, adding that she had “a lot on her mind. And also inside if.” Sunset’s nose wrinkled a bit at the smell as she entered, but carefully placed down the still unconscious Twilight onto the bed. She placed Freako down onto the floor, and tilted her head. It seemed impossible to believe that a PinkiePie could do so much damage, but the remnants of the blood of both Twilight and Cerberus was flecked all over her body.

Sunset concentrated hard and managed to cast a simple rope conjuring spell and tied her hooves together and placed her in the closet. She figured that if she were to wake up and had to be pacified, the noise of the closet door opening would at least give them some warning.

Right… now for Twilight.

She looked down at her, frowning. The wound on her neck had stopped bleeding, but it would certainly leave a nasty scar. Twilight’s breathing was pained but steady. Sunset was no doctor, but she knew that this needed more powerful treatment if she wanted to recover.

Carefully, she placed her horn on her forehead, and cast the revival spell. Twilight jolted a little, her eyes aching open. She used a hoof to block out the light in the room, leaving only Sunset in view.

“Tr… Trixie… is that… you…?” she asked weakly.

“No, it’s Sunset. Remember?”

Twilight looked at her for a few moments before nodding. “S-Sorry… I’m not… quite sure what’s real right now.”

“Okay. Well, you are safe and secure inside Trixie’s caravan. The Pinkie clone that attacked you is tied up in the cupboard and won’t be able to harm you. I am Sunset Shimmer and…” she gave a big sigh. “And Trixie is now in my body, back in the other dimension.”

Twilight groaned and shut her eyes.

“I’m so sorry to hear that… I know how it feels…” she said, managing to smile. “I-I’m glad it’s you inhabiting me now instead of her. A-At least we’ve got somepony competent at magic as an Alicorn.”

Sunset rubbed her hooves together awkwardly.

“Yeah… anyway, have you got any idea of how this even happened?” She asked, moving her purple bangs out of her eyes.

Twilight shook her head. “No… I had assumed it would-“ she suddenly hissed in pain and put a hoof to the wound. Sunset put a hoof around her for comfort.

“…Would have been contained to E-equestria. What were you doing when you swapped?”

“I was writing in our book… OH” she said, and both her and Twilight realised at the same time what it meant.

“Since the portal between our worlds also uses the mirror dimension, it’s possible that you h-holding the book caused some of the magic to spill over?” She suggested. “I-It’s just a hypothesis.”

“It will do for now.” She said, and showed her the infernal metal mask. “I managed to swipe this though.”

“O-Oh! Great!” She said. She went to stand up on to to cry out in pain, falling back into a lying position. Sunset winced.

“We need to get you proper medical attention, and soon. Where exactly are we?” Asked Sunset, looking out the window at the sparsely populated forest.

“N-Near the gates of Tartarus… Canterlot is… about a day away…”

“Okay. Is the sun and moon still cycling?

“As far as I know, yes.”

“Good. That means the princesses are still in their bodies. Or, at least, somepony competent is in them. Pinkie and I will do our best to get us there. You need to rest as much as you can…” she said, frowning at the body infront of her. Trixie’s mane did look to be in a right state, and her legs were pretty frail looking. Twilight seemed to notice this and shut her eyes again.

“Is Trixie in a safe place?” She asked with worry.

“Yeah, I was just in my room… about to head out on… my…” Sunset started before realising that she was going to have to spill the oats about who the date was with.

“Oh! Oh no, your date! Does she… does she know about you being equestrian?”

“Yeah… she does. She… uhhh…” she took a deep breath. “She’s you.”

It took a moment to Twilight to register what she meant but when she did her eyes went wide. A tiny blush filled her face.

“O-Oh! Uhm… I… cool! That’s cool…” she said, breaking eye contact and looking anywhere that wasn’t at Sunset.

Sunset felt a horrible pit in her stomach open up. She had guessed as much… she had noticed Twilight erasing messages a lot in their correspondence to each other as well as catching her staring whenever she came to visit Canterlot high.

This sucked.

“Uhm… yeah… sorry to have it come out like this…” she said, rubbing the back of her neck awkwardly. “Can we… uhm… is it okay if we… deal with this later? When this is all fixed and sorted?”

“Y-Yeah. Sounds good.” Twilight said, still avoiding eye contact.

The long, awkward silence was broken by the sound of banging coming from the closet. She had awoken. Twilight sat up with fear in her eyes, but sunset had already moved in between them, glaring down at the wardrobe. “Want me to stun her again?”

“N-No I… I want to talk to her.” Twilight answered, staying on the bed. Sunset nodded and moved to the side, ready to jump in on a moment's notice. Carefully, she opened the closet door.

Freako Funtime fell out, snarling as she thrashed around wildly, trying to get out her bindings.

“RELEASE ME!” She hissed, her thrashing only stopping as Sunset gently levitated her off the ground, her now being stuck facing twilight.

“… Hello.” Twilight started softly.

“Why aren’t you dead?” Freako Funtime replied, spitting towards her. She missed.

“I was saved by Sunset here.” Twilight replied calmly, pointing to her own body. Sunset’s eyebrows furrowed.

“Who the fuck is Sunset?” She asked angrily.

“Someone who has enough power to crumple you like a ball of paper.” Sunset responded coldly. “So I’d watch what you say.“

Freako Funtime growled at her, her gaze falling back onto Twilight.

“I bet you’re happy. You can finish what you started. Go on. Zap me. End me. Send me back to the mirror pool. I’m fucking READY. Don’t feel bad! Remember! We’re not really alive! So it’s fine if you kill me!” She said, spitting as she started struggling in her binds again. Twilight’s ears had gone all the way back onto her head.

“I… am so, so sorry.” She said, quietly. Tears were already gently rolling down her face. “I-I failed you. I failed all of you. I didn’t even consider-“

“Don’t give me that.”

Freako Funtime had cut her off.

Twilight took a sharp inhale of shock.

“Oh yes, I know your shtick. I AM a PinkiePie. I know how you work! So here we go. My FAVOURITE part of the episode! The bit where the divine and wonderful Twilight Sparkle apologises and makes everything right by saying the right words, just so you can send off a letter to Celestia to show what a good little student you are!”

“I… I don’t know what you…” Twilight spluttered out, but she was cut off again as Freako started screeching at her.

“I know what you see me as. Just another FUCKING friendship problem to be fixed with a simple solution. YOU CAN’T FIX THIS, TWILIGHT SPARKLE. FRIENDSHIP CAN’T BRING BACK MY SISTERS. YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGIVEN AND I WILL NEVER FORGET HOW YOU DESTROYED THEM! AND YOU BEST BELIEVE THE NEXT TIME I GET A CHANCE, I’M GOING TO SKIN ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS ALIVE AND MAKE YOU WATCH! YOU CAN SEE HOW IT FEELS TO BE LEFT WITH NOTHING! HOW IT FEELS TO BE! NOTHING! AT! AAAAALLLL!”

Twilight couldn’t move. The feral screeching from the PinkiePie in front of her had shut her down completely. It felt like her brain had been disconnected from her body, and every single signal that she sent to move backwards was quashed by the fear instilled into her by the near rabid image of one of her best friends. It was the hatred in her eyes which was hurting her the most.

Sunset understood when enough was enough, and cast another knockout spell. Freako Funtime went limp.

Sunset placed her back in the closet but not before adding another rope around her whole body. She shut the doors tight, adding more rope, before turning to Twilight, who had curled up onto the bed in a quivering ball of anxiety and fear. Sunset hopped up onto the bed, and embraced her with both her forelegs and wings.

“Shhhh….” She said softly. “You’re going to be ok.”

“I f-failed…” she whimpered.

“You didn’t fail. She’s wrong, Twilight. You didn’t know.”

“I still did it though.”

“Twilight. R-Remember who you’re talking to. You need to forgive yourself.”

“I-It isn’t just her. I failed all of her sisters, too. And I failed Trixie… s-she’s a mess. This caravan… I-it looked horrible… she had been living like this for months… all because I didn’t reach out. I just accepted her apology and watched her leave… I assumed that was the problem solved. A-And now she’s going on a date in y-your body with m-me from another u-universe…”

Sunset tightened her embrace.

“None of these things are your fault, Twilight. Trixie will be ok…” she said, frowning a little.

“As long as she doesn’t do anything stupid.”

Sparkles45: Hi girls so uh. Not to alarm you but Sunset has swapped bodies with Trixie from Equestria so we are heading to the portal. I need to get in to save her. Right now she is in the body of the me from Equestria. We shouldn’t be gone too long x

No1_Wolderbolt_Stan: Okay what the fuck

No1_Wonderbolt_Stan: What the fuck do you mean she’s swapped bodies with Sunset who’s now in other Twilight?????????????

AppelinaJackson04: Twi, please tell us if this is a joke now so we can get us laughing of the way.

Sparkles45: No joke. It’s really bad. But apparently, the Twilight in Equestria knows what to do. Who’s now in the body of Equestria’s Trixie.

Rarity.Belle.Fashion: Good Grief

CanterlotAnimalShelterOfficial: Okay Twilight💖💖💖💖 please stay safe! ❤️❤️ Let us know when you are back! 🦄🦄 I bet you will make a beautiful unicorn

Rarity.Belle.Fashion: yes, stay safe Darling! So much for your date…

BubblesAndBaloons: SAY HI TO OTHER PINKIEPIE FOR ME! WE NEED TO HOOK UP AT SOME POINT!

AppelinaJackson04: Pinkie when you say hook up what do you mean

BubblesAndBaloons: Wouldn’t YOU like to know, weathergirl!

AppelinaJackson04: Yes.

Sparkles45: Don’t worry girls! Trixie says she drives a motorcycle, we should be there soon! I will let you know when we are heading in!

Sparkles45 is now offline

AppelinaJackson04: TWI WAIT DON’T BELIEVE TRIXIE SHE DEFINITELY DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO RIDE ONE

AppelinaJackson04: shit

No1_Wonderbolt_Stan: I’ll arrange the funeral

“AAAAAHHHHHHH! YOU SAID YOU KNEW HOW TO DRIVE THIS THIIINNNGGGG!” The human Twilight screamed, holding on tight to the waist of the Trixie who currently inhabited the body of the punk princess herself, who herself was speeding down the road on a motorcycle.

“I CAN! LOOK! I’M DOING IT- FUCK!” She screamed back, swerving out of the way of the car coming their way just in time. “IT'S JUST LIKE FLYING WITH WINGS! BUT INSTEAD OF WINGS ITS WHEELS! HAHA! I GET WHY SUNSET ENJOYS THIS SO MUCH!”

“LEFT! LEFT AND FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING I HOLD DEAR DON’T CRASH!” Twilight shouted back. Trixie just cackled as she zipped round the corner.

After many more near misses, the pair arrived at the school. It was about 8pm by now, and the streets surrounding the buildings were pretty much deserted.

Both got off the motorcycle. Trixie happily strolled towards the horse statue where Twilight fell onto her hands and knees, almost throwing up on the floor.

“Never… a-again…” she managed to get out, breathing in and out heavily.

“I should come back here again! This place is GREAT!” Trixie said, marvelling at the school infront of her.

Twilight rubbed her head as she followed up. “Trixie… I think you forgot something…” she said, looking back at the motorcycle that was parked in the middle of the road.

“Pfft, nah. What's the worst that could happen?” she said smugly. Seconds afterwards, a large bin lorry sideswiped the motorcycle, sending it flying down the street. Twilight and Trixie both wordlessly watched it bounce down the street, with the former quickly glaring at the latter.

“... I’ll pay for a new one.” Trixie said hastily.

“Does currency even convert between dimensions?” asked Twilight with a groan. “Come on. Sooner I can get you out of my girlfriend’s body the better.”

“I thought this was your first date? How is she already your girlfriend?” she asked.

Twilight flushed furiously as she practically dragged her to the statue, ignoring the question. It had been a freudian slip.

“Okay. I-I’ve never actually been in myself, but I think we just…” she said slowly, and put a hand through. The stone warped and rippled as if it were water. “Ah! Ok…” she said, taking a deep breath. “Let's do this! Let's go save Sunset!”

“... And everypony else.” Trixie added.

“Yes, and everyone else.”

“It's everypony.”

“Huh?”

“You know. Because we’re horses in there.”

“But isn’t everyone still an indefinite pronoun that catches anyone that it covers?”

“Anypony.”

Twilight opened her mouth to speak again before realising it was pointless.

“Ugh. Let's just go.” she said, and grabbed her hand. She stepped in, pulling Trixie with her.

The pair were immediately met with a huge kaleidoscope of colours and shapes as they were rapidly pushed through the mirror space between worlds. Twilight was screaming the whole time, whereas Trixie was cackling with glee. The tube-like chromatic vortex seemed to have some sort of barrier in its path and when they passed it, the two people became ponies in a flash.

Trixie did a big stretch. “Now THIS is more like it!” she said, smiling wide as she could still feel a high amount of power in her horn. Not quite as high as Twilight, unfortunately, but still a sizable amount.

“WYWOAWOHAOH! H-HOOVES! I HAVE HOOVES!” Cried out Twilight as she looked over her new horse body. She was still just a unicorn instead of an alicorn, but the main distinguishing feature she had was that, for whatever reason, she kept her glasses in the crossing of dimensions.

There was a light at the end of the tunnel, and Trixie thought she could just about make out the main room of Twilight’s castle!

“WE’RE ALMOST THERE!” she cried out in glee.

This was not meant to be, however, as a huge echoing voice rang out through the vortex.

“You are not supposed to be here, Twilight Sparkle”

The pair of horses barely got a look at each other before they felt their route get forcefully diverted away from the natural conclusion of the tunnel between worlds. Before they could understand what was happening, they suddenly stopped dead. They were left floating in the strange abstract dimension of colours and reflections, as a huge shape appeared in front of them.

It was a swirling pool of a gaslike substance, with a lilac body and purple extrusions that flew out behind it like hair. Two swirls of purple and white formed around its ‘head’, looking like eyes with its own set of smoke flying out of it. Neither of the recently turned ponies had seen anything like it.

“What… is that…” Asked Twilight, quivering in place as she floated.

“YOU!” snarled Trixie. “IT’S YOU ISN’T IT! THE FUCKER WHO CAUSED THIS WHOLE MESS!”

“Me…” Replied the entity. “You surprised me, Trixie Lulamoon. There are very few creatures that could manage to pull that off… You somehow got to another world in a way that I DID not expect… even bringing back the body of Celestia’s old student… In a way, I should thank you. This is going to be a lot easier now.”

“What?” Trixie said, her anger suddenly replaced by fear. “What do you mean?”

“But what is NOT so convenient is you…” The creature's gaze moved towards the petrified Twilight Sparkle. “I cannot have another element running around like that… so I’m afraid you’ll be coming with me…”

As she finished, she put one of her colossal ‘hooves’ forwards and seemed to pluck Twilight from her spot, physically warping her appearance as she was dragged away.

“AAAUAGH! T-TRIXIE! HELP ME!”

Trixie snarled again, and tried to shoot a magic blast at the entity. The cyan beam shot right through as if it were nothing.

“T-TWILIGHT! NO!” she cried out, trying to ‘swim’ towards her, but nothing was happening.

“TRIXIE! YOU NEED TO- YOU NEED TO GET TO S-SUNSET! SHE’LL F-FIX EVERYTHING! SHE ALWAYS DOES! AND TELL HER THAT I L-LOVE HER!” was the last thing that Twilight was able to get out as the entity used its other ‘hoof’ to push Trixie away. Trixie was suddenly travelling at what felt like a million miles an hour, a huge scream coming out of her mouth as she suddenly felt something hard on her back.

And just like that, she was back in Equestria.

Trixie burst through the wooden boards covering the mirror, smashing onto the ground with a crunch. Splinters ravaged her sides, tearing it to shreds, as a particularly large shard lodged itself into her thigh. She skidded into a wall with a thud, completely winding her.

Coughing and wheezing, Trixie looked up in horror at where she had just come from. It was a regular mirror that somepony had obviously tried to cover up, as to prevent anypony from looking in it and getting swapped. She leapt back up and leaped at the mirror, only to bash her nose off of it and collapse to the ground again.

“Fuck fuck FUCK FUCK! SHIT! FUCK! UGHGHH! WHY CAN’T I DO ANYTHING RIGHT!” she roared in anger. “ALL I HAD TO DO WAS JUST GO THROUGH A FUCKING PORTAL AND NOW I’VE GONE AND LOST TWILIGHT SPARKLE TO THAT… THAT THING!” She said, staggering to her feet. “ALL I’VE DONE FOR THE PAST THREE DAYS IS FUCK EVERYTHING UP BEYOND REPAIR! SEEMS TO BE WHAT! I! DO! BEST!” She was done. So very done. She didn’t even take in her surroundings as she started blasting magic wildly, causing the foundations of the building to shake. Flames started dancing around her mane as she took huge, heaving breaths.

What used to be a bedroom was now covered in debris as she began to calm down. Glancing around, she saw that she seemed to be somewhere in canterlot, judging by the interior of the room. Probably quite an expensive house, too, judging by the furniture. Wait-

Trixie took a moment to properly look around.

Fuck.

This was the royal castle.

And that meant-

She was only now hearing the footsteps of many a royal guard.

She growled. She would take them all on if she had to. She readied herself for a fight, but was taken aback when two ponies she didn’t expect to see entered the room first.

First came Zecora, with Princess Celestia looming over her from behind.

Trixie stared at them. Zecora stared back. Princess Celestia simply raised an eyebrow.

“It would seem, though it is with concern, that your long lost pupil, has returned.” said Celestia in a strange rhythmic and rhyming way.

Zecora only took a single step forward.

“Sunset? Is that really you?”

“... No.” Said Trixie, taken aback by the two powerful ponies who had suddenly arrived. She had met Zecora before, of course, but Celestia was a new one. She had never actually been in the presence of royalty. Well, anypony who she considered royalty. She just saw Twilight as a hot rival . “M-My name is… T-Trixie Lulamoon.” She said with an unnatural formality.

“Trixie Lulamoon, you say? This certainly has made this an interesting day.”

Author's Note

And that’s another chapter done!

I am not doing it on purpose I swear but every chapter seems to be longer than the last LMAO

I can’t believe Trixie fell down the stairs, beta horse behaviour

I wonder how Sunset will react to hearing that Scitwi has been SCOOPED by the strange mirror entity!

Although, I do find myself wondering… how are the others faring?