Twilight's Eclipse

by ThistleZoey

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Equestria Girls, Trixie, Comedy, Profanity, Slice of Life, Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle
Length: 11227

Twilight finds her attention torn between the smug boastfulness of the recently (accidentally) ascended Trixie and the passionate anger of Sunset Shimmer. Who will she choose? Or, does she necessarily even have to choose?

It's been a few weeks since Trixie's accidental ascension to Alicornhood and the passion between the new princess and her long suffering girlfriend, Twilight, has reached a new high. However, when they are interrupted by an unexpected (and very good looking) guest, an accident leaves Twilight and new arrival Sunset Shimmer stuck with each other; far closer than the easily flustered Twilight was ever expected to get.

Published 2024-07-21 02:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2025-01-24 19:02:46 UTC

Chapter 1: Celestia's Other Pupil

🌇Celestia's Other Pupil🌇

“Ok Trixie, you have gone TOO far this time!” growled Twilight, clopping her hoof down hard. The unicorn stared at Trixie, the accidental Alicorn, with an anger that was making her mane almost stand up on end. Trixie stood there, dumbfounded.

“What? What did I do?” Trixie asked, tilting her head like a dog that had just been told off for peeing on the carpet 6 hours ago.

“YOU CALLED MY STEP SISTER HOT INFRONT OF MY ADOPTIVE MOTHER???” she said, exasperated.

“Oh! Thaaat! Sorry, Sparky, I didn’t realise that would upset you! She is kinda hot though, you gotta admit! Don’t know how that mangy stallion managed to pull THAT one off.” She said, smirking. Twilight growled loudly.

“TRIXIE! THAT'S MY SISTER IN LAW! AND ALSO! MY BROTHER!”

“You’re brother is your sister in law?”

“UUUGH!”

The pair were visiting the crystal empire shortly after Princess Trixie’s coronation, along with all of Twilight’s friends. The celestial sisters were having a bit of trouble figuring out what Trixie was a princess of. Luna had floated the idea of ‘confidence’, but Celestia had pointed out that Trixie was more, in her words, ‘too dim to light a candle’. Celestia had then suggested ‘cunning’, where Luna had let her know that gaslighting was not a thing that should be supported by the monarchy.

The crowd had been… confused to say the least. A few questions were thrown around about how appropriate it was for a pony who had just a month ago attacked a town and brought it under an authoritarian rule, but nopony could deny that Trixie knew how to put on a show. Enhanced by her Alicorn abilities, Trixie had shown canterlot a light display like they had never seen before.

Just as the parade had begun, and after a LOT of pleading from the blue pony, the moon had quickly replaced the sun in the sky. With a starry backdrop, Trixie shot up a cascade of blue and purple fireworks into the sky. The lights intertwined with each other and burst out into sparks as the harmless streams of light showered down over the crowd. The final act was a brief recreation in lights of her and Twilight’s battle over ponyville, which ended in the shapes of Twilight and Trixie ascending into the air, kissing as red love hearts burst around her. Twilight looked up in awe, and then over at Trixie. Trixie looked down at her, and winked.

Even the Celestial siblings were impressed.

All of Twilight’s friends had slowly come around to the idea, apart from Rarity; she didn’t seem too keen on it at all at first. However, after seeing Trixie’s rabid defence of Twilight during an incident with a timber wolf and how Twilight looked at her once she was standing over her convinced her. It reminded her how she felt about AppleJack.
Everything had been going swell for Twilight and Trixie. They had still argued and bickered a lot, of course, but that was part of the fun for them. Trixie enjoyed being irritating beyond belief, and Twilight could finally admit to herself how much she loved being teased and bullied. They of course both had their limits, and if Twilight ever said something along the lines of ‘Trixie, end it.’, she would stop. Similarly, if Trixie just wanted calm affection, she would simply say ‘Hug, Twiggle’.

Was it messy?

Yeah.

Was it healthy?

Most certainly not.

Were they both into it?

More than anypony could possibly believe.

And here they were, having yet another argument, and yet again Twilight could feel the burning on her cheeks.

Trixie’s strange comment towards Cadence had caused Twilight to ask to be excused, and she dragged Trixie by the tail into the first door that she could find. It looked like a small library room, with a weird shaped mirror in the corner.

As always, Trixie’s arrogant gaze (enhanced by her new height advantage) still cut through her like a blazing sword.

“Trixie, when are you going to learn?” Twilight stammered, already feeling herself get flustered. Trixie sat down in front of her, and brushed Twilight’s sides with her wings. “The exact same moment that you learn there's nothing you can do to stop me,Twilight.”

Twilight’s brain was filled with the usual Trixie induced fog, and she looked up at her with wide eyes. She waited for permission. Trixie nodded, winking. “You know you like it~”

Twilight leaned in, and they kissed.

Sparks flew from their horns. Trixie’s wings unfurled behind her, and she picked Twilight up in a tight embrace. Both of their magic fields intertwined and the pair began to rise, Trixie’s wings wrapping around her unicorn girlfriend. After a few minutes, Twilight pulled away, staring deeply into Trixie’s eyes. Trixie returned the look.

“What the fuck did I do right to deserve you…” Trixie whispered, unable to take the smile off her face.

“What the fuck did I do wrong to deserve you…” Twilight replied, smile also on her face as she blushed back.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE!?”

The moment was somewhat broken by the pair of horse lovers realising they weren’t alone. Both of their heads snapped round as they dropped back to the ground.

An orange unicorn with red and yellow hair stood just in front of the mirror in the corner of the room. She was wearing a leather jacket, and had one of her ears pierced near the peak of the ear’s point. She had some black eyeshadow on and her hooves were a vibrant cyan. Twilight couldn’t believe it. She looked so cool!

“OH! Goodness!” Twilight was so embarrassed, her eyes wide as she stared at the unicorn in front of her. “I-I’m so sorry! I didn’t realise you were here! I D-don’t think I’ve met you before! W-What’s your name?”

“T-Twilight Sparkle!?” the Unicorn said in disbelief. Twilight’s blood ran cold. She knew who she was!?

“Oh! That's weird!” Said Trixie, smoothing out her hair in an attempt to look normal (she failed.) “That's my girlfriend’s name too!”

Twilight gave Trixie a kick in the back leg to shut up.

“Trixie! Please. U-Uhm, I’m sorry… Do I know you?” Asked Twilight.

“I… my NAME! Is sunset Shimmer.” She stated firmly. “And you… you’re my replacement? You? And you- wait, did- TRIXIE!?” Sunset said, jaw dropping as she realised who had just called Twilight her girlfriend. She shot a withering glare at the purple unicorn. “You’re dating this world’s fucking TRIXIE!?”

“W-Wait… this world’s..?” Twilight managed to get in before Trixie steamrolled through.

“Of course she is! Who would say no to a smokin’ hot alicorn like myself!” Trixie said, flourishing her wings proudly behind her.

Sunset froze. Her eye twitched.

“You…” she said slowly. “You’re… You’re an Alicorn.”

Twilight’s head tilted a little. She could have sworn she saw embers starting to glow in her mane.

“Yep!” Trixie replied happily stated. “Isn’t it awesome?”

“H… How…”

“Oh, easy! I just kissed a girl who was possessed by an evil amulet! Easy peasy!” She said smugly. “What's wrong, have you never kissed a mare before?”

Sunset’s eye twitched once more, and she started shaking.

“Uhm… Miss… Shimmer?” Twilight said, carefully approaching. “Are you okay?”

“She fucking LIED TO ME!” Roared Sunset, and before Twilight could even comprehend what was going on, the orange unicorn had erupted into a blazing fireball. Trixie let out a squeak of shock as she felt a blast of inferno suddenly going her way. She managed to block it with a magic barrier, but she could still very much feel the heat. Twilight had leapt out of the way and was now left staring at the enraged Unicorn. Trixie glanced over at Twilight in panic. “UHHH! SPARKS! MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME FOR THAT FRIENDSHIP STUFF!”

“S-Sunset Shimmer! W-Who lied? T-Tell me! Use words! N-Not violence!” she said, slowly approaching Sunset. The fiery unicorn was slashing spell after spell towards Trixie, who was having trouble holding her off. She may be an Alicorn, but she was still Trixie Lulamoon. Sunset turned to her and lashed out, a blazing whip striking her across the face. Crying out in pain she fell to the ground, smelling the burnt fur around her muzzle. She lay on the ground, beginning to hyperventilate as the enraged Sunset Shimmer came to loom over her.

“You weren’t her first pupil, Twilight Sparkle.” She hissed, standing over her with fury in her gaze.

Twilight stared up at her. Her terrifying expression made her want to shrink down into a little ball. She tried to speak, but Sunsets hoof striking down right beside her ear shut her up again. Sunset leant her head down, her muzzle nearly touching Twilight’s, looking like she was about to bite her head off.

“She told me I would have to be patient to become an Alicorn. And SHE just got it handed to her?” She growled, hoof pointing towards the steadily rising Trixie. She lent down even further. “Explain to me how that’s Fair, Twilight Sparkle.”

Twilight stayed silent as she felt a strange sensation fly throughout her body. The way Sunset was standing over her, ready to snap her like a dry twig at a moment's notice… the way the fire lit shadows bounced off of her muzzle… the raw fury she felt emanating from her…

It took a moment for her to realise what it was she was feeling.

Uh Oh.

“Celestia LIED. She lied to me. And she’s lying to- are you blushing!?” Sunset suddenly backed her head away, her anger almost immediately turning to confusion.

Twilight was indeed blushing. Her cheeks were shining a rosy red as she stumbled around in her mind trying her best to find a response that wouldn’t make her seem like a total freak. The closest she could get was:

“I-It’s warm in here!”

Nailed it, Twilight.

Sunset’s rage had seemingly been temporarily dampened by this sudden development. Her eyes darted around Twilight’s face for a few moments before darting down to look at the rest of her body. She had an expression that Twilight could only read as… consideration?

Her heart started racing.

Their staring and breathing at each other contest was broken as Sunset was suddenly hit in the side by a blast from Trixie.

“STAY AWAY FROM MY GIRLFRIEND YOU HARLOT!” Screeched Trixie. Sunset snarled back and shot off another fireball, but Trixie seemed to be in the zone. She leapt into the air, dodging the attack, and activated her horn with a hiss. Twilight was knocked out to her flustered stupor at the noise. She knew it well.

Trixie was casting a spell that she had created herself. She usually used it for whenever her and Twilight wanted to sneak out of social gatherings.

“FLASHBANG, BITCH!”

A loud crack accompanied the sudden blast of bright light. Sunset cried out, stumbling backwards towards the mirror.

Twilight felt a wing around her side and with Trixie’s help she stumbled up onto her hooves. The feeling was reassuring, and she looked up at the furious Trixie. Even when angry, she still had a grin plastered on her face. Twilight felt her blush return momentarily.

The pair looked towards Sunset, who’s back was against the mirror as she wiped her eye furiously with her hoof. Twilight’s head tilted a little as she saw Sunsets tail start to gently ripple into the mirror. The mirror was a portal!?

“Fuck you, Twilight. Fuck both of you.” She growled, and turned to head on into the portal. The way her mane swayed when she moved… and that cutie mark was so pretty…

Twilight’s body started moving before she had time to process what she was doing.

“P-Please! Sunset! Don’t go through! W-We can talk! I want to understand!” pleaded Twilight, leaping forward and grabbing onto her leg.

“??? Let go of me!?” She said, pulling back out of the mirror for a moment and looking down at Twilight with bewilderment.

“I need to know what C-Celestia did! I want to know how we can try and make this right!” She said in desperation.

Sunset tensed, and she lowered her head towards her again.

“There is nothing you can do to fix this.”

“TWILIGHT! STAND BACK!”

A lot happened in the next one second.

Trixie blasted a beam at the mirror. Sunset responded by leaping into the mirror portal. Twilight was still attached to Sunset’s back leg.

Twilight realised what was happening at the last moment, and tried to leap away, but her tail got caught on Sunset’s.

And as Sunset entered the mirror, Trixie’s energy blast smashed into the portal, cracking the mirror.

Twilight suddenly had the sensation of being aggressively pulled into the air whilst being loosely aware of the screaming of Sunset Shimmer around her.

Just as quickly as the chaos had started, it was over. Twilight’s eyes opened to see that she was in a forested area. She blinked a few times, rolling onto her front. This was the everfree forest?

“What the FUCK did she do!?”

Twilight let out a scream. Sunset Shimmer was lying Right beside her, glaring back at her with tears in her eyes. Twilight did all she could to keep the blush from reforming.

She didn’t do enough.

“I-I don’t know! W-Where was that portal meant to take you?” She asked.

“Back home. Somewhere I had POWER. And now I’m back here… stuck with another loser pupil who failed her teacher.” Sunset said bitterly, standing up. Twilight rose up too, checking her surroundings, trying her very best not to look at Sunset. Her mind was whirring.

In all her time being Celestia's star pupil, the Alicorn had never mentioned Sunset Shimmer. She hadn’t even mentioned having a pupil before. And yet here one was. One that was incredibly jaded.

Twilight had always hoped in the back of her mind that she may one day ascend to Alicornhood, especially with how magically gifted she was. She had a feeling that might be what Celestia was building her up for. Trixie accidentally becoming an Alicorn had rather thrown a spanner in the works. Even the celestial sisters didn’t know exactly how the process of becoming an Alicorn worked. But Sunset had apparently been told she would become an Alicorn? Then why did she leave? And why was Twilight blushing so much??

Shaking her head to clear those thoughts

She was pretty sure she knew which part of the woods they were in and looking up at the sunlight gently piercing through the trees she could at least tell which way was north.

“Okay…” she said, and pointed with a hoof. “We need to go that way. That’s the way back to Ponyville.”

“I’m not going to Ponyville.” Said Sunset shortly. “I never want to see another Pony in my life. I want to go out into the woods and die. Just like I deserve.”

“What!? Why would you…” Twilight asked, but was once again shut up by a glare from Sunset.

She weighed it up in her mind… she wouldn’t be able to help Sunset on her own.

She needed Celestia.

She had a lot of questions for her.

Plus, Trixie was probably having a magically fuelled breakdown right now.

“Okay… uhm… well I am…” she said quietly. “But I-I’ll be coming back. So uhm…”

“Bye.” Said Sunset shortly, and turned to leave. Twilight sighed, and did the same.

Both felt the pain at the same time.

“OWCH!” They cried in unison as the felt something pull on their tails!

“I TOLD YOU I’m not coming-“ Sunset roared, turning round once more, seeming ready to annihilate her, but she froze. Twilight was staring at her tail.

Well,

To be more precise…

She was staring at their shared tail.

Their tails were fused together at the joint.

Twilight felt the blood rushing to her face as the blush formed once more.

They were stuck together.

Sunset voiced what they were both thinking perfectly well.

“WHAT THE FUCK!?”

Author's Note

Hi everypony!!

V excited to write this silly story!! For those who are currently reading Intertwined reflections, don't worry! New chapter is on its way! I am just taking a bit of a break from it as life irl has gotten a bit more soup than usual. I find silly stuff like this much more relaxing and enjoyable to write (whereas more serious stuff is more overall fufilling.)

Expect semi regular updates!

Lots of love,

Zoey!

PS. this story may contain ponyamory

Chapter 2: The Twin Tailed Eclipse

“WHAT THE FUCK!?”

Twilight didn’t have a response. Sunset tried to yank herself away from twilight but it just caused them both more pain. Twilight looked to Sunset, and saw that there was a strand of hair in her mane which was her regular purple. She could also see that a small strand of red was dropping down in front of her own vision. Whatever had happened seemed to have done more than just joined their tails.

Sunset snarled, and lit her horn. It formed into a hot knife like projection and it looked like she was going to cut it off!

“W-WAIT! S-STOP!” Twilight cried, leaping at her. This knocked her over, but Sunset’s quick roll meant that she was now standing over Twilight.

“I don't want to be attached to somepony beneath me.” She snarled.

Twilight stared up at her. Her usual Trixie fog that clouded her brain was getting burnt away by a new sensation…

Sunset Blaze.

She couldn't remove the blush from her face as she tried to string a sentence together.

“I-if you cut your, my, OUR tail, w-we don't know what will happen! I-it might have been internal organs and stuff that g-got merged too!” she pleaded. “A-And, uhm- I… Don’t… want to accidentally… kill you or anything because that would… be bad…” she trailed off a bit.

Sunset’s eyes narrowed in understanding, using her hoof to move Twilight’s new red strand of hair out of the way of her eyes (Twilight shuddered).

“... fuck.” the fiery unicorn said shortly, and manoeuvred herself to the side to allow Twilight to stand up. The linking rope that was their tail could extend to about a metre, allowing them to stand side by side relatively comfortably. Twilight stood next to her but faced away, pretending to look around their surroundings for an indication of where they were but was in truth just trying not to look at Sunset.

Wow this had been a hectic 3 minutes hadn’t it-

After a minute or two of calm, Sunset let out a sigh.

“This really, really fucks up everything, you know?.” she said, anger dancing around the corners of her every inflection. Twilight eventually looked over at her.

“It’s… not ideal…” she said, laughing nervously. “What was… your plan?”
“Why should I tell you?” she asked. Twilight opened her mouth to speak, but she didn’t really have a good answer.

“Exactly. Now let's just get this over with. How do we get out of these woods so I can go and have to face Celestia, get un-merged and get sent to prison. Sound good to you?” she said, huffing a bit, and simply started walking.

“Why would CelestiWOAH-”

Twilight didn’t have much choice when it came to where the pair would be going; Sunset was much stronger than her. She winced a little as her tail was pulled and she quickly started walking along beside her. Her eyes looked back at their strange, merged tails. The colours and strands all seemed to fuse together… It was quite beautiful in a way.

A horrifying sort of way.

Her eye moved over and landed on her cutie mark. It was so similar to Celestias… and yet even cooler. She looked at it for longer than she meant to and was only cut off by Sunset coughing loudly.

“Will you stop staring at my ass?”

“I-I’M NOT! I-I WAS LOOKING AT YOUR C-CUTIE MARK, I PROMISE!” she squealed in embarrassment, her cheeks going ruby red once more.

“Sure.” she said, rolling her eyes. Twilight’s blush wouldn’t go away, and she once again found herself speechless.

What was this!? Why did she have such power over her! It was similar to the way that Trixie made her feel but more…

She frowned. She couldn’t quite place the feeling. But she knew she was scared of it.

“Uhm… Sunset?” she managed to pipe up eventually, speeding up to become level with her.

“What.” She said shortly.

“This… isn’t the right way.” Twilight managed to eep out.

Sunset stopped suddenly. Twilight kept on walking and was accidentally moved into her by the torsion of their tails. She scrambled as far away as their predicament would allow.

“Why didn’t you say that earlier!?” she growled.

“I… U-Uhm…”

“And WHY Do you keep blushing!?” she said, her anger rising.

“A-Allergies!” Twilight blurted out the first thing that came to mind.

“To what?” asked Sunset shortly.

Twilight blinked.

Come on Twilight. Something that could be making you blush…

“... Grass.”

“Grass?”

“Y-Yeah, Grass makes me blush and itch.” she replied, before awkwardly pretending to itch her side.

Sunset turned her head to stare at her.

“But… you’re a pony. You eat grass.”

“Yes! WELL, I don’t, but others do, yes!” she said, before tilting her head. “Aren’t you… also a pony?”

“Yes.”

“... do you eat grass?”

“Not recently. Plus, if I did now, our flipped around insides might make ME allergic too. So I can’t risk it.” she said. “Now which was the way out?”

Twilight was floored. It worked!? Somehow!?

Maybe this Sunset wasn’t as smart as she had thought… Either that, or she was too arrogant to realise that somepony she viewed as beneath her would try and deceive her.

“T-This way!” she said, and started to slowly move. Sunset nodded and moved alongside her.

The pair walked in a very awkward silence for about 15 minutes. Twilight kept on trying to do small talk, but Sunset would shut her down immediately.

It had been about 20 minutes in total before Twilight realised something about Sunset.

Right now, she had a very similar expression to the one Fluttershy usually wore. That is, desperately trying to hold back tears…

Hmm…

“S-Sunset…” she asked slowly. “May I ask… why exactly are you so scared of seeing Celestia again?”

Sunset growled a little at the question.

“I…” Twilight looked away. “I understand you’re mad at her… A-And as her current student, I’d… Like to know. I have a right to know.”

“... She lied to me, that's all.” Sunset said with finality.

“A-About what?” Twilight kept on pressing.

“Do I really need to say?” she snapped. Twilight was silenced once more, only able to let out a sigh.

“... She told me I would never become an Alicorn.”

Twilight let out a little gasp, looking back at Sunset with wide eyes.

Celestia would never say something like that!

“S-She did?”

“Yeah.”

Twilight was shocked to her core.

She had always seen Celestia as this big overarching maternal figure… one who could do no wrong… Always supportive, never denying her possibilities…

For her to outright tell a former student that she wasn’t good enough?

“... I don’t believe you.” Said Twilight.

Sunset stopped again. Twilight managed to stop in time.

“I don’t care if you believe me, Twilight Sparkle.” she said, twisting her head around at an awkward angle which made her glare right into Twilight’s eyes. Their horns were almost touching, and Twilight’s face began to flush up again.

“Sooner or later, she is going to let you down when you need her most.” she said in a low voice, her mane flaring up with the ember like glow that it had done before. The pair maintained eye contact for a few moments. Twilight looked ready to pass out. Sunset just looked angry.

After what felt like an eternity, Sunset started to walk again. Twilight was soon to follow, unable to make the blush go away. As she stayed as far behind her as it was possible to go.

She thought back to their first encounter back in the mirror room with Trixie. If Celestia had told Sunset that she’d never become an Alicorn, then seeing Trixie with wings and a horn may have been a little too much for her to handle. Twilight could sympathise with that at least. Trixie becoming an Alicorn certainly had been a big shock.

But one little thing wouldn't leave her brain. Sunset had said in ‘this’ world. Was she from some sort of alternative reality? Or, at least, had returned from one? It was how she apparently knew Trixie already…

Her thought was cut off but a sudden snarling from Sunset. “Fuck…”

“W-What is it?” Asked Twilight, but it didn't take long for her to find out. Two timber wolves had appeared out of the underbrush. Twilight shuddered a little, and got herself ready. She was no Alicorn, but she was still exceptional when it came to defensive magic.

“How are we going to do this?” Asked Sunset as the two timber wolves began to circle this.

Twilight took a moment to respond.

“O-Oh! Uhm- wait, me!?”

“Spoiler Alert! Nopony else is here, “Idiot.”

Twilight heard herself shudder at the berration. On Celestia fr it was a bad time to be a bottom.

“Uhm… you… timberwolves are controlled by their head…” she said carefully.

“So take out the head, the body goes down. Got it. Cover my back.” She said, eyes narrowing as Twilight’s pupils dilated.

“Anything for you…” she said slightly dreamily.

“What!?”

Twilight had temporarily entered her “Trixie is telling me to do something” mode.

“N-nothing!!” She said’ and turned around. They were almost back to back, Sunsets mane beginning to light up.

As it did, Twilight had a strange sensation on her forehead. The single strange red and yellow hair was flaring up, similar to Sunset’s mane. She held it in her mane for a few moments, and decided to experiment. She cast a magical barrier in front of her.

“The fuck?” mumbled Sunset. The new small purple and pink strand of her mane had started to shimmer as a small bubble of protection surrounded her for a few seconds.

“O-Our magic is connected!” said Twilight excitedly. “I-It must be a byproduct of us merging together! I can only imagine what other things we now share! I could write a whole BOOK on this!”

Her ears flattened in embarrassment as she let out a little nervous giggle. “S-Sorry…”

Sunset stared at Twilight.

For a brief instant, Twilight could have sworn a smile had crossed Sunset’s face.

And a moment later, as they were both distracted, the timber wolves pounced.

Twilight felt the hard knock of timberwolf paw on the side of her head.

And felt her own body hit the floor.

Through her concussed vision, she saw tiny snippets of what happened.

The flames striking out at the wolves.

Angry yells from Sunset.

Her own hair flaring up.

Getting dragged about a bit.

A new voice.

One she recognized but couldn't place.

She tried to speak, but the sound of ringing filled her ears as she felt herself get picked up and placed on Sunset's back. It was warm and firm, like laying on top of a bed with a cosy fireplace in the corner. She smelt like a campfire on a winter night. She felt a small purr escape her lips as she drifted out of consciousness…

Twilight stood in darkness.

“H-Hello?” she called out.

“Twilight Sparkle…” an ethereal voice rang out through the dark void: a voice that made her freeze.

The visage of Sunset Shimmer appeared in front of her, smiling.

“Don't worry~” she said calmly, placing a hoof on Twilight’s shoulder. “Nothing here can hurt you, my little pony.”

Twilight blinked twice, cheeks furiously red.

“If anything comes to hurt you… I'll be ready to protect you…” she said and placed her muzzle against hers affectionately.

“W-Wait! St-Stop! I have a-”

“A girlfriend? That pitiful excuse for an Alicorn? You don't need her. The Sunset is stronger than the Lulamoon, after all!”

“T-thats not a phrase-” the purple unicorn started to say before feeling the familiar feeling of a hoof on her lips. Sunset was smiling. Twilight became wide eyed and quiet.

“Shhh… it's not your turn to speak…” she said, as she moved in to kiss.

“N-No!” Twilight spluttered out. Sunset stopped, but the smile didn't go away.

“You can admit to yourself that this is what you want, Twilight…”

“I… I…”

“Time to wake up, sleepy head…” the Visage of Sunset faded away as it walked back. Twilight could slowly feel her senses sharpening.

“W-Wait! I don’t! I don’t THINK I…” she said slowly, as she transitioned from one state of consciousness to another…

“Hark! The unicorn wakes! It seems that she cannot catch any breaks…”

“H-Huh? S… Sunset?”

Twilight’s eyes slowly opened, but it was not Sunset looking down at her. Instead, the familiar and comforting presence of Zecora enveloped her view.

“Not quite, Twilight. Those Timber Wolves certainly met their match, when they came into contact with the mare to which you are attached…”

Twilight managed to get onto her front and looked behind her. She was on the floor of Zecora’s hut. And sure enough, Sunset was there. She was facing the other direction, head on the floor as she seemed to be sleeping.

“Is she…” Twilight said, tilting her head. Zecora nodded.

“She is unharmed, though I must say, the surrounding area is not the same way. Quick and fast I had to act, or the entire forest would no longer be intact. Her magical fire would make any quick to flee… so I must ask you…” Zecora’s tone became much graver. “Who is she?”

“I…” Twilight started, looking at the resting body of Sunset. Her ear had twitched a few times as the pair had been talking. With the knowledge she may be listening, Twilight looked back to Zecora.

“She was Celestia’s first student. She had gone through some sort of mirror portal being kept in the Crystal Empire, and she came back to do… something. Nothing g-good, I'm sure. She had a… somewhat bad reaction to seeing Trixie as an Alicorn. And… I can’t… quite describe it… but she has somewhat of an… effect on…me…” she said, trailing off at the end.

“An effect, you say? In what way?” Zecora asked curiously.

Twilight looked at Sunset, her eyes focusing on the way her mane lay on her motionless neck. It was so delicate and majestic… and those forelegs looked like they could carry her to safety through a blaze…

Twilight gulped, and looked to Zecora, her cheeks red once more.

“Ah… I see…” Zecora said, looking to Sunset. “Do not worry… your secret is safe with me…”

Twilight saw Sunset’s ear flick in the exact same way Twilight knew her own ear to twitch when she heard news that she didn’t know how to process.

Oh no.

She knew.

Trixie watched in despair as the dust settled in the mirror room, her girlfriend and mystery interloper having suddenly vanished. She managed to flood the room with an extinguishing spell as quickly as she could, putting out all traces of fire, before shakily moving towards the remains of the mirror. Magical smoke poured out of the frame, the enchanted glass left shattered on the floor.

There was no trace of Twilight, nor Sunset.

They were gone.

Trixie began to quiver.

Sunset had just taken her Twilight away from her.

That stupid horse with her stupid face and amazing hair and stunning physique had just gone and stolen her girlfriend to who knows where. And the portal to get her there was destroyed.
She thought of Twilight, sad and alone, at the whims of an evil unicorn who was probably doing unspeakable things to her at this very moment. Sure, the idea of a weak Twilight being a damsel in distress was tantalysing to Trixie.

But she was more scared of what would happen if she lost the emotional, calm and loving Twilight that she had come to cherish even more than the one of raw passion.

Now, ladies, gentlemen, and everything in between. Trixie Lulamoon was many things. An Alicorn. A lesbian. A showpony.

But one thing she was not was level headed in a handling crisis.

Her body quivering, she took a deep breath.

And simply screeched.

Her horn activated and everything in the room started moving. Books flew off the shelves, furniture was thrown into the air (shattering upon hitting the ground) and the high up windows shattered as if they had just been hit by a heavy stone.

It was a good minute of enraged screeching.

Once she was done she collapsed onto the floor in a shivering wreck.

Fortunately for Trixie, there was somepony close by to help her deal with her distress.

Unfortunately for Fluttershy, she was the pony close by to have to help Trixie deal with her distress.

Most of the other ponies were in the throne room having a meeting. Despite it being a huge and open room, Fluttershy was having trouble with how many ponies were there. This, combined with the lack of Rainbow Dash (She was busy at Wonderbolts Camp), had given her the nervous courage to ask Celestia if she could be excused. She had of course accepted.

Fluttershy had planned to just head to her bedroom and read the book that Twilight had leant her about old equestrian folklore. She looked at the cover as she moved, smiling softly. She had always been interested in learning about how Equestria was in its early years. This soft and nice plan had been interrupted by the guttural noises of discontent coming from the small library room in the castle.

Oh! Someone is upset! I need to go and help!

Fluttershy quickly fluttered up into the air and moved as fast as she could towards the source of the noise.

The sounds inside were destructive to say the least, and once they had mostly subsided, she tentatively opened the door.

“Uhm… are you… oh… oh no…”

She saw Trixie sitting in a pool of her own destruction.

She backed out of the room.

She looked both ways in the corridor behind her.

Nopony else was around.

Ok Fluttershy. You can do this! Sure! You aren’t the biggest fan of Trixie… but Twilight loves her, so she must be worth helping! Since if you didn’t help her that would make Twilight sad! And you definitely do NOT want that!

She took a deep breath, and went into the room.

“T-Trixie! Hi! Uhm… is… everything ok? Wheres-”

“SHHHEEEESSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” wailed Trixie, smashing her hooves into the floor, her wings spread out all the way on the floor. “THAT HARLOT STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND, FLUTTERSHY!”

“Uhm-” Fluttershy stood there awkwardly. She was of course concerned at the news that Twilight had been gone, but had compartmentalized that for now as she tried to figure out how to deal with Trixie in this state.

“Which harlot are you talking about?”

“SUNSET FUCKING SHIMMER! SHE TOOK HER AWAY TO HER STUPID DIMENSION OR SOMETHING! WHERE IS SHE, FLUTTERSHY!?” Trixie dramatically shot her head up, her long mane flicking up behind her. Her eyes were huge and wet.

“Uhm… I’m not sure where she is, uhm-” she shuffled her hoof along the floor. “Can you… uhm… maybe tell me what happened?”

“I w-was here making out with my awesome girlfriend…” she sobbed. Fluttershy blushed. “It was HOT and STEAMY and then suddenly! Out of that mirror-” she pointed with a wing “-Sunset Shimmer arrived! Some hot girl started shouting and attacked us! We had managed to beat her away when Twilight tried to get her to stop! Then BAM! They were both gone… just like that…” she said, going very quiet. Fluttershy shuddered. That was NOT good…

“AND NOW SHE’S GONE FOREVER AND SHE WILL NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH SHE MEANS TO ME AND HOW MUCH I GENUINELY CARE FOR HER AND AAOOUUHGHHH WHAT DO I DO FLUTTTERRSHHYYYY!!!!!!! HOLD ME!”

“Oh- uhm, what?”

“I need a HUG!”

“Oh… uhm… ok… I guess…” she said, and awkwardly shuffled up to the sobbing alicorn. She took a deep breath and carefully placed a foreleg around her back. She let out a squeak as Trixie rapidly embraced her, causing the book she was holding to fall onto the floor. Her ears flattened down as she glanced at it.

It was open on a page about something called “The prophecy of the Twin Tailed Eclipse”. Sounded fascinating, but Fluttershy had bigger horses to comfort.

“S-Sorry…” whimpered Trixie. “I… don’t know what t-to do…”

Fluttershy awkwardly patted her on the back. “I’m… n-not sure what to do either, Trixie…” she replied. “I think… Maybe going to Celestia would be a good start?”

Trixie nodded though the sniffles.

“Would you like me to take you there?” she asked slowly, secretly wanting an out so she could go panic about Twilight being missing on her own.

“... yes please.” she said, and waited to be picked up.

“... Oh, uhm, I meant, uhm, go with, go with me, not, uhm, I’m not… strong enough to…” she mumbled.

Trixie blinked.

“O-Of course…” she said, and let out a short loud forced laugh. She staggered to her hooves and wobbled out of the room. Fluttershy gave a sad little sigh as she took a few deep breaths.

Twilight was gone, apparently stolen by a unicorn called ‘Sunset Fucking Shimmer.’ She wondered why a parent pony would put a curse word in a child’s name. Strange.

She carefully stood up herself to follow, her eyes momentarily moved down to the open page of the book.

‘When the twin tailed eclipse makes its mark on Equestria, only the power of the sun, moon and stars will be able to temper the rage felt within’.

Author's Note

Hi all! Sorry for the delay!

My new plan with writing is! Write the stories in blocks :)

I'll continue writing this until I get stuck, at which point I'll swap back to 'Misty's guide to shimmer and shine'! If you want more sunset action, go check out that story! hehe

Leave a comment down below! I love reading what you all thought <3

SEE U LATER HORSES

Chapter 3: Trading Traits and Feeling Great

“So is there any chance of us getting un… scrambled?”

Twilight sat on the floor of Zecora’s hut, watching the zebra rhythmically move around her home. She would pause every now and again to study certain ingredients, or to flick through one of her books in zebrican. As Twilight asked her question, she hummed in thought. She finished scanning one final page in her book, and shut it with finality.

“I do not wish you to despair, but a cure cannot be achieved within my care.” she said finally. “There are no records of your specific condition, nor anything close to what has come to fruition. It is something that magic may have to fix… I’m sorry, Twilight, but I am out of tricks.”

Twilight let out a big sigh, her ear flicking. This wasn’t the first time she’d been in a situation like this, but it was certainly the strangest. “Thanks for all your help… Ze… cora…” she said as she started to shake. A confused expression crossed her face as she did. Zecora tilted her head slightly. “Twilight, my dear, are you in need of relief? For you appear to be shaking like a leaf.”

Twilight shook when she was upset or stressed. This of course was stressful news to hear, but she had been expecting it, and thus hadn't hit her too hard. But this emotion that was building up inside of her was… anger?

“I… I’m… Fine…” she said forcefully, trying to get to her hooves. “I’m just… feeling… frustrated…?’ she managed to get out as she felt the sudden rage build up inside of her. Her breathing became laboured and she got the sudden desire to break something. A little bit of fear twinged the side of her mind, too. Why was she so mad!?

“If you need to take a moment to process, the trees outside may help you destress.” Zecora said, quickly moving to the door and opening it for her.

“Thank you. Sunset. Get up.” said Twilight, and started to walk towards the door. Sunset opened her eyes at the feeling of tugging on her tail. It was far too instant for her to have actually just woken up.

“Can’t we stay here for a bit longer?” asked Sunset. “This zebra seems to know-”

“NOW!” snapped Twilight, whipping her head round and snarling at Sunset. Sunset’s ears flicked back…

Sunset was suddenly blushing.

…

There was a holy moment between the pair where both were unaware of what they were doing.

And then like a crashing wagon, both were hit with realisation.

Twilight’s expression moved to one of confused shock. She did NOT mean to act like that… she didn’t act like that… all that had happened was a little bad news

Sunset looked the other way as quickly as she could, taking a few deep breaths. She turned back around, face back to normal, and looked agitated.

“Fine. Let's go outside.” she said, standing up and walking right past Twilight. Twilight was still busy being stunned to move along in sync, and so ended up being partially dragged outside. She locked eyes with Zecora temporarily, who only shrugged in similar bewilderment.

Once they were outside, Twilight’s anger took over once more.

She took a few laboured breaths, before she let out an angry shout. She levitated a nearby large rock and threw it into a tree. There was a satisfying crack as it slammed into the trunk, a few splinters flying. She stared at it on the floor, and lifted it up again. Shutting her eyes and clenching her jaw, she picked up the rock once more and began to compress it with her magic. Fissures started to form on its surface. She growled which turned into an outright scream of anger as the rock shattered. She was left standing, breathing heavily in and out. The rage had been quelled for now but she still felt herself on a short fuse.

“Are you done?” Asked Sunset, who had moved to her side.

“Leave me… alone…” was all Twilight was able to get.

“Noowww you get it, don't you? What it's like to be asked loads of questions when you’re-”

“NO! I DON’T get it! Why am I so mad!’ she growled. “I don't get mad like this! Only Trixie or maybe Discord gets me this riled up! A-All that happened was I got a bit of bad news! Why am I suddenly-”

She stopped speaking as the lock of red and yellow hair flipped down in front of her face. She stared at it in her perifial.

Ohhhhh no.

“It looks like more than just our tails have been fused.” said Sunset bitterly.

Twilight nodded slowly, and took a few deep breaths. Eventually, she sat down. “I… need a minute.”

“Just keep on breathing. You'll calm down eventually.” Sunset added, sitting down too.

“Do… you get this angry?” Asked Twilight breathlessly.

“Bitch!? You've SEEN me that angry.” Sunset replied with tenacity. The sharpness of it made Twilight shudder a bit. Looks like she still had that effect on her-

Wait a moment.

“Sunset, did you blush when I shouted at you?”

Sunset let out a low growl. “I was really hoping you hadn't noticed that.”

Twilight was dumbfounded. Sunset did NOT seem like the type to be affected the same way that Twilight was when-

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh…

Twilight looked away bashfully.

“I'm not stupid, Twilight. I'm aware of your weird freakish attraction to me. And it seems that your apparent love of being berated…” she let out a shuddering sigh. …”Has of COURSE somehow passed on to me.”

“I… see……” said Twilight slowly. So many thoughts were zooming around in her head right now. Sunset knew how she felt. And Sunset had at least physically reacted to her. So did that mean Sunset was…

“But, Twilight Sparkle. I want to make one thing so abundantly clear that it gets into your brainwashed little mind effortlessly.” Said Sunset, who grabbed Twilight’s head and spun it so they were looking at each other's eyes.

Twilight blushed.

“Anything I feel towards you right now is ONLY because of us merging. No other reason. Once this whole ordeal is done, I'm going to go back to my side of the portal. Back to where I matter. I do NOT like you, and I do NOT want to be with you, no matter what. Not friends, not anything more. Nothing. Got it?” she said firmly and with purpose.

Twilight's heart dropped. And then dropped further upon realising it had dropped in the first place.

The first thing that had come to her mind was sadness that Sunset didn’t want anything to do with her, especially not romantically.

This was immediately followed with the realization that Sunset’s attention was something she wanted… something she craved.

And if she craved Sunset? Where did that leave Trixie?

She could never leave Trixie, not after all they had been through. And yet, she could feel an almost identical gravitational force towards her moon and this new star.

Despite all of this inner turmoil, Twilight could not help herself from squeaking a little at the firmness of Sunset’s statement. All she could do is a little nod.

Sunset nodded back.

“Ok. Good. Glad we’re on the same page.” she said, and turned around away from her. Twilight could see Sunset tensing.

Twilight’s ears went down as she looked at her own hooves.

She didn’t think they were on the same page at all.

“AND THEN! S-SHE… *SOB* SHE TOOK MY GIRLFRIEND THROUGH THAT FUCKING MIIRRRORRRRRRRRRRR! I-I’M GOING TO HAVE TO WRITE A EUULLOOOGGGYYYYYY!!”

Trixie was sitting at the table with Celestia, Luna and Cadence, surrounded by tissue boxes and ice cream cartons being hastily replaced by Rarity. She wouldn’t tell anypony where they were coming from. Fluttershy was beside Trixie, awkwardly patting her on the back.

“Uhm… there… there…” she said, continuously giving VERY heavy signals that she’d like to be rescued right now. Unfortunately, AppleJack had already left for Ponyville to coordinate a Equestria wide search, Rarity was on breakdown duty and PinkiePie was busy planning a ‘welcome back’ party for Twilight when she was returned back to them.

So the grave duty of the breakdown manager was laid on the pony who had the most breakdowns.

Excellent.

It had been Luna asking most of the questions. Celestia had been very quiet since learning who had returned.

“Trixie Lulamoon.” Luna said calmly. “I would like to remind you that the chances of Twilight being dead are slim. We understand that mirror is a gateway between worlds. The worst case scenario is that she is trapped on the other side with no way back.”

This didn’t seem to comfort the newly ascended alicorn as she only wailed louder. Fluttershy’s pats on the back intensified.

“Best case scenario is that she is somewhere in Equestria. I should be able to visit her dreams tonight if this is the case. So please, try and remain calm.”

“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND, LUNA! YOU HAVE NO WOMEN!!! I HAVE WOMAN!!!! AND I NEED HER TO BE OK! IF SHE ISN’T OK… I…” her loud sobbing stopped momentarily as she just sank her head further into the table.

“I don’t know what I'd have to keep on going.”

Luna seemed a bit taken aback by the outburst. Fluttershy looked like she wanted to escape more than ever, hiding her head in her wings.

“We will find her, Trixie.” said Celestia. “And we will also find the pony who took her.”

Fluttershy looked over at Celestia, her ears flattening a little. Celestia looked very grave. More than usual in a time of crisis…

“I’m going to kill her… that stupid hot and pretty unicorn…” Trixie mumbled, face still on the table. “I’m going to make her pay for taking my twiggle away from me…”

Celestia looked away from Trixie as she said this, bottom lip twitching.

“If you’ll excuse me.” she said, rising from the table and gliding away in her usual way of movement.

Cadence frowned as she looked to Trixie. She got closer to her, and placed a hoof on her back. “You really do miss her…” she muttered.

Fluttershy sighed in relief. Finally! She could go and hide in her room and cry!

“... Fluttershy, could you please go and check on Celestia for me?” Cadence asked the pegasus softly.

SHOOT.

“Why!?” she responded with dismay. “I-I mean.. Uhm… I mean, why me?” She quickly followed up. Cadence gave a little laugh.

“You have the incredible ability to comfort other ponies in ways that even I don’t understand. Plus, I think that I or Luna speaking to her now may bring up… certain memories she doesn’t want to consider.”

Luna closed her eyes solemnly.

Fluttershy felt like she had just walked into season 2 of a sitcom and didn’t know the backstory of any of the characters.

“O-Okay…” she said, and nervously clip-clopped to the side door that Celestia had gone out of.

The alicorns left in the room remained silent for a few moments, before Trixie looked up at Cadence.

“H… Have you ever had a woman, Cadence?” Trixie sniffled.

“I-” Cadence blinked. “Yes, I’m the princess of love.”

“Do you…” she sniffled. “Have one now?”

“N… No, I’m married to Twilight’s brother.”

“HA!” Trixie laughed suddenly and loudly. “And thus! I am the greatest Alicorn…” she said, laying her entire weight into Cadence as she started to cry again. Cadence held her supportively (something she had practised over a long time).

“Trixie Lulamoon, I do not see-” Luna had started speaking but was silenced by Cadence shaking her head.

“She needs this.” Cadence stated simply, and looked down at Trixie.

“Yes Trixie. You are the greatest Alicorn.”

Having thankfully escaped that conversation, Fluttershy had gingerly gone through the door after Celestia. The princess sat against the window, gazing out at the setting sun. Luna would have to go on her duties again soon. Silently, tears rolled down her royal cheeks.

Fluttershy considered just turning back around.. But she just couldn't.

‘P-Princess Celestia?” she said quietly. “Is it ok if I come in?”

“Of course, Fluttershy.” Celestia replied, not moving her gaze from the window.

Fluttershy gently shuffled in, sitting down next to Celestia, and she gently spread her wing as far as it could go to cover her back.. It was a lot easier to comfort somepony when they weren’t screaming about how a harlot stole their girlfriend.

“I… assume that… you know this, Sunset Shimmer?”

“I do, Fluttershy. She was… my first student. Before Twilight. She is my greatest shame.”

“Oh…” said Fluttershy quietly. “Did… she do something bad?”

Celestia laughed a little, shaking her head. Her wise old eyes turned to fluttershy and she smiled sadly. Fluttershy shuddered; despite having, of course, met Celestia countless times, this was their first one on one moment, and having royalty gaze upon you would never not be intimidating.

“No… she did nothing wrong at all. It was me who wronged her. Sunset Shimmer never failed me. I’m the one that failed her. I could never truly reach her… when she left I felt… relief that I wouldn’t have to face my failure. But it seems that with her… explosive return, I’m going to have to face her once more. She’s probably here to kill me.”

Fluttershy’s heart rate quickened. “W-Why would she want to kill you?” she squeaked.

“Because I told her that she would never be an Alicorn.”

Trixie tilted her head a little. “Isn’t that… true?” she asked timidly.

“I was not always an Alicorn, my dear. Nopony was born an Alicorn… and I believed that Sunset truly had the potential. But she had no patience. She wanted it as soon as she could and would do anything to get it. I can only imagine she was here to either kill me, or steal something to help her gain power. And…” Celestia chuckled. “I don’t suppose seeing our dear friend Trixie becoming an Alicorn would have made her too pleased, would it?”

“No, I don’t suppose it would…” Fluttershy replied sadly.

The two sat in silence for a few minutes, watching the busy streets of the crystal empire twinkle in the light from the setting sun.

“... do you want to see her again?” asked Fluttershy, finally.

A short choked sniffle came from Celestia.

“More than anything.”

“Good luck, my unicorns, with your journey. Let us hope the next is a little less… burney.” Zecora said as she bowed respectfully to Twilight and Sunset. The pair of unicorns had barely spoken a word to each other since their last conversation.

“Do you plan out your rhymes before you start speaking?” Sunset asked. Twilight growled a little. Sunset’s ear flattened back.

“I cannot say that I do, I admit, but the words always appear to fit.” said Zecora with a smirk.

“But how-”

“Juuuuust leave it, Sunset.” Twilight said. “She will run rings around you.”

Zecora smiled in thanks.

“Okay. Well…” Sunset looked at the floor. “Thank you for your hospitality. I appreciate it. Really.”

“Any time, my sunkissed friend. Now, I believe you have a reunion you must attend.” she said, and before Sunset could respond, she had shut the door.

The pair stood in an awkward silence for a few moments, before Twilight piped up: “Do you mind if I take the lead? I know my way back to ponyville pretty well from here.”

“Fine.” said Sunset shortly, avoiding any eye contact. Twilight let out a little sigh and started moving. Sunset followed suit, but seemed to be trying to look anywhere that wasn’t Twilight.

Twilight was deep in thought for the entire journey back through the woods, a hundred trains of thoughts running through her mind like the main station at canterlot.

Sunset had said that she didn’t want anything to do with her, and that all of this was just a result of their merging. She could understand why she would think that. But she couldn’t wipe their first ever interaction from her mind. Sunset’s response to seeing Twilight blush was a look of consideration. No matter how minor of a moment it had been, it was there. So surely she couldn’t be telling the truth.

But at the same time, did she want it to be true? She had Trixie. Trixie was more than enough. But now whatever happened, she would always have the ‘what if’ of Sunset Shimmer in the back of her mind. She bit her lip. She was in a very tough spot with no clear way out. She was also in the incredibly unlucky situation of being unable to really ask anypony for help; Sunset shimmer would only ever be a tail away from overhearing Twilight asking for help, and Twilight was sure that she’d find a way to butt on in and shut her down once more. So who could she turn to?

She gave a sigh as the pair finally left the woods to the outskirts of Ponyville. The sun was just setting on the horizon.

“Thank goodness…” Twilight said. “We can head to the post office and send a letter to Celestia from there. Usually I’d just get Spike, but he’s busy dealing with a messy div-”

“No.” Sunset said sharply. “We are not doing that.”

Twilight looked at her. She was looking angry at the mere suggestion.

“But-”

“Twilight.” she said, putting a hoof down and stopping their shared movement. “The moment I see her again, she’s going to imprison me. And if she imprisons me, she’ll have to imprison you, too. Can’t I just have one more night of relative freedom? It’s not like I can exactly run off now that we’re joined at the tail.” She tried to flick her tail but all that it did was make Twilight's tail be pulled. Twilight squeaked a little and shuffled in flusteredness.

“That…” she considered it. “Is a good point…” she looked over at the town. Her old home, the golden oaks library, had of course been destroyed when the alicorn amulet had taken over her body and she had her, as Trixie put it, ‘little episode’. The pair had taken up residence in a small house near the outskirts, not too far from Sweet Apple Acres, with plans to rebuild a new library for them to live in. But the little house did them for now. It was far enough so nobody could overhear them arguing (and then making out).

Twilight looked back to Sunset who was looking at her expectantly. It was a similar way that Twilight would look at Trixie when she was waiting for an answer.

A twisted, cruel idea danced from her subconscious of her mind and into the forefront, which made Twilight involuntarily smirk. She shouldn’t… but oh how she wanted to…

As Sunset said, it was her last day of relative freedom. It was also Twilight’s last day of being sure she’d be able to stick around her.

“Sure, Sunset. We can do that…” Twilight said, the smirk creeping onto her face. “If you say please”.

Sunset let out a sigh of confusion.

“What!?”

“You heard me.” Twilight said, her smirk growing (as did her blush). “Say please, Sunset.”

“O-Or what?” Sunset said carefully, before realising what was happening. She growled, looking away angrily as her orange cheeks started to turn red. “Oh, FUCK you.”

“Or we’re going straight to the post office, where Muffins will send a lovely letter to princess Celestia! Wouldn’t that be a shame~” she did, doing her best to emulate Trixie’s temp of speaking.

Sunset looked like she was about to bite twilight, her eye twitching. She snarled in defeat, looking at the floor. Slowly, her gaze went up and made eye contact.

“... Please.”

Twilight shuddered in victory. “Of course, Sunsun-”

“FUCK OFF.” Roared Sunset, and without warning tackled Twilight to the floor, landing on top of Twilight. Her hair was suddenly ablaze, and any semblance of submission had been singed away like ethanol to an open flame. Something about that nickname had really set her off. “You do NOT call me that, got it!?” she snarled down at Twilight, who’s hooves had fallen to her front. Twilight was bewildered, and felt herself shrink back into the floor. As terrifying as it was, she could feel herself get incredibly flustered. Sunset’s chest was heaving as she glared down at the purple pony, her eyes darting around Twilight’s face.

Twilight saw it again.

Consideration.

Slowly, Sunset’s growl turned into a shout.

“You are a fucking NIGHTMARE to be around, you know!?”

Ouch.

That hurt. Alot. Twilight felt herself shudder… but it wasn’t out of sadness.

She wanted to shrink back down into the dirt and pray for this to end, but she felt the strange twinge in the back of her head that she only got when she was angry. Before she knew what she was doing, she pushed Sunset off and rolled them so she was the one standing over her.

“I’M a nightmare?” she asked angrily. “YOU’RE the one who appears out of nowhere and tries to kill my girlfriend and almost sets fire to an entire forest!” she argued. “My life was PERFECTLY… well not perfectly- BUT IT WAS FINE! Everything was going to be ok! I had a BEAUTIFUL girlfriend who drives me up the WALL BUT I LOVE HER! And now YOU and your stupid face and hair just had to waltz on in with some half baked revenge mission against my teacher because you got a bad grade!”

“Oh, OH OH you did NOT just say that…” Growled Sunset, and pushed her up. The pair were left both sitting opposite each other, as close to face to face as they could possibly be given their predicament.

“My plan was PERFECT! I was going to become an Alicorn and PROVE her WRONG!” Yelled Sunset right into Twilight’s face.

“Well maybe she was RIGHT that you’d never become an Alicorn! Trixie is FOUR TIMES the alicorn you could ever be!”

“TRIXIE CAN’T EVEN SPELL HER OWN FUCKING NAME!”

“YEAH, WELL…” Twilight screamed, but found herself lost for words as she glared into Sunset's eyes.

Sunset glared back into hers, the angry flush on her face clear for the whole world to see.

Both were at the boiling point.

The tension was too high.

Something had to break the tension.

Something had to happen.

Sunset growled.

“... Fuck you.” she said, and leaned in.

Twilight had a split second to make a decision.

A split second wasn’t long enough. Their muzzled made contact.

However… the pair would be interruped. Just as their lips touched, they were both jolted by a voice.

“Twilight? How in EQUESTRIA did you- WHAT IN TARNATION!?”

Both mares immediately moved back from each other in a panic, both of their heads shooting around in a panic. Who was there?

Twilight’s hot blood was suddenly a subzero blizzard as she saw who it was.

AppleJack.

“UHM” was all Twilight was able to get out. “I-IT’S… UHM… NOT WHAT… IT LOOKS LIKE…” she stammered out. Sunset’s fight or flight had kicked in, but had (unfortunately for her) chosen the secret third option: freeze.

“Really?” said Applejack, who was approaching with agitated purpose. “Last thing we know of you is that you got into a tussle with some fire unicorn and ended up blinkin’ outta existence, I offer to start a search of the whole of Equestria, and I just so happen find you about to mack it on with the same fire unicorn? If this ain't what it looks like, then I must be blind.”

Twilight was trying to say words but all that was coming out was gutteral panic noises.

“I… c-can, I… I can… explain-”

“Go on then.” Said AppleJack, raising an expectant eyebrow.

“Uhm.. well.. You see we… We’re… kind of…”

Twilight stood up, and pointed at their combined tail. AppleJack’s expression didn’t change. Sunset’s head was bouncing between AppleJack and Twilight, seemingly panicking for a way out of this.

“So you’re stuck together. That's nice. Why were you about to cheat on your girlfriend?” asked AppleJack firmly.

Twilight’s bottom lip began to wobble. She had fucked everything up so badly. AppleJack couldn’t lie. Trixie was going to find out about ALL of this… she was going to leave. And it was all her… no… NO! It was SUNSET’S FAULT! She felt the rage build inside of her once-

“It wasn’t her fault.,” said Sunset quickly.

Twilight had been about to bite Sunset but had the wind knocked out of her by Sunset’s sudden statement.

AppleJack’s gaze moved to Sunset.

“It was all me.” Sunset said, standing up. “I… misread signs. Twilight never told me that her and Trixie were together and I…” she gulped. “I mistook her anger as playful flirting. It’s different where I come from.”

AppleJack’s other eyebrow raised, as she glanced over at Twilight. Twilight wasn’t breathing, but she nodded in agreement.

After a tense couple of seconds, AppleJack let out a deep sigh.

“Okay. Fine. I believe you.”

Both Twilight and Sunset let out a sigh of relief.

“But DON’T expect me not to be tellin’ Trixie about this” she said to Twilight. Twilight nodded solemnly. Now come on back to the farm; we got a double bed you can rest atop.” she said to sunset. As Twilight stood up, AppleJack approached her.

“And Twilight?” she said, towering over her.

“Yes?” Twilight asked nervously.

AppleJack’s serious demeanour shifted into one of tired joy, and she gave Twilight a tight hug.

“I’m so, so glad that you’re okay.” she said, voice full of relief. Twilight couldn’t help but smile. “I-It's good to see you too… It’s been…”

Over AppleJack’s shoulder, Twilight glanced at Sunset. Sunset was blushing, and looked away at the eye contact.
Sunset had done that to save her.
“I-It’s been one of the most bizarre days of my life…”

Soon.

Sunburst looked up at sky nervously from the roof of his house, his eyes studying every inch. His eyes squinted a tiny bit as he looked towards the nearly set sun. He of course had an enchantment on his spectacles that allowed safe viewing.

Because of course he would. Why wouldn't he?

His eyes flicked down the the pages in front of him. If his calculations were correct, it would be any day now. That is, of course, if the ancient legends were true.

Sunburst did a little shimmy with his tail. Only a few years ago, he wouldn't have believed that any of the old legends were true. But with the return of Discord, the changeling attack and now the ascension of a new Alicorn? Anything was possible.

“Just as the sun dips below the horizon…” he mumbled to himself, rapidly glancing between the book and the horizon.

He saw what he was looking for.

Just as the sun dipped below the horizon, there was a small burst of light shooting from the star, flying off into the night sky above them like a comet. Sunburst let out a little squeal of excitement.

“YES! HAHA! I WAS RIGHT! TAKE THAT, SISTER!” he bellowed in triumph.

“Sunburst! My kids are trying to sleep!” A crystal pony shouted up at him.

“HAHAHAHAH yes sorry Quartz i’ll be quiet now sorry.” The wizard said quietly, and started to hobble down from the roof.

Once back in his study, he continued his excited little dance.

“They were RIGHT! A thousand years after the fall of the moon the twin tailed eclipse will appear! JUST like they predicted! And of course, with a few adjustments with time dilation…!” He said, looking back down at the book. “It was tonight! HA!”

Looking at the book some more, he tilted his head. In all his excitement that the event may happen today, he never actually turned the page to see what it meant.

Smiling to himself, he turned the page.

His face slowly dropped the more he read.

“Oh… oh no… OH SWEET BEELZEBUB!?”

He sat down in horrored shock. “WHY COULD YOU HAVE NOT JUST TURNED THE PAGE YOU IMBECILE! UGH!! I NEED TO WARN EVERYPONY!” he said anxiously, but blinked a few times. “But- who do I tell!? Nopony would listen to me…”

He paced rapidly around until an idea sprung into his head. It wasn't a great one…

But he had to assume his familial connection would at least give him some leverage! He was sure he could get a meeting with Celestia that way!

Only thing was…

His sister probably wasn't the best topic to bring up to the princess of the sun.

Chapter 4: Sunset's new Moon

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Chapter 5: Trixie 'Distraction' Lulamoon

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Chapter 6: How I Met Your [adopted] Mother

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