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// Chapter 4: Starstruck 
// Story: My Little Twin Brother: Return of Nightmare Moon 
// by Jninja15 
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	Twilight, Dusk and Spike walk through the front doors of town hall. 
Spike scribbled an item of his list as he said, “Decorations.” he looked up from the parchment. “Beautiful.” he continued.
“Yes Spike, the decorations are quite stunning.” said Twilight. “We should be able to get to the library in no time.”
“Not the decorations! Her.” Spike said as he pointed to a white unicorn mare with a purple mane. “She’s beautiful. How do I look?”
The other two rolled their eyes and walked up to the mare. Spike stopped Dusk almost immediately before he could do anything.
“You have to be my wingpony!” Spike said to Dusk, discreetly.
“What do I get out of it?” Dusk replied.
“I’ll...” Spike hesitated, desperately looking for something to bribe him with. “I’ll do your chores for a year!”
“You’ll do those anyways (if I neglect them long enough).”
Spike pondered a little bit more then smiled deviously, “Do it or I’ll tell everypony that you still sleep with a silly doll.”
Dusk’s eyes flared and moved so fast that he would have impaled Spike’s head with his horn as he butted heads with him. “YOU LEAVE MISS SMARTYPANTS OUT OF THIS!!!” he nearly screamed.
“Come on. Please?” Spike’s eyes turned big and puppy-dog-like as he asked this.
Dusk sighed and back off from Spike’s face, “Fine. I’ll see what I can do.”
Twilight just rolled her eyes when she heard this and then turned her attention back to the white unicorn mare.
“Perfect.” the snow white unicorn said as she levitated a ribbon around a column and tied it into a neat bow. “Sparkles always does the trick. Why Rarity you ARE a talent.”
“Good afternoon.” Twilight said. “My name is Twilight Sparkle.”
“A pleasure to meet you Twilight- AAAH HAHA!” the mare said as she turned around to face Twilight, obviously startled.
“Oh great, not again.” Dusk thought to himself.
“Dear mother of Celestia! What is that THING?!” she continued.
“My mane?” Twilight said. “It’s a long story, but I’m just here to check on the decorations and then we’ll be out of your hair.”
“Oh good heavens! I can’t let you walk around with THAT on your head any longer. And this looks like a two pony job. Elusive!” Rarity called out.
Another pony appeared out of nowhere and stood next to Rarity, if you were to squint you would probably confuse them for each other, even though the other was a stallion.
“You called, dear sister.” the new stallion said. Then he looked at Twilight with a horrified expression. “Whatever you called me here for is going to have to wait. I need to fix this poor mare’s mane and this is going to be a two pony job.”
“That’s what I called you over here for.” Rarity said. “Now quickly, we need to fix this before anypony else can see her.” and she and Elusive started pushing Twilight away.
“Wait. Where are we going? Help!” Twilight said as she was being ponynapped while Spike and Dusk just stood aside and look on.
“You think we should help her?” Dusk asked as he leaned over towards Spike and then realised that Spike was already following them, Rarity specifically, floating in the air with his tail twirling behind him like a propeller.
Dusk gave an exasperated sigh as he slowly followed the four of them.

Later, at the Carousel Boutique, Dusk was sitting at one end of the room, with a bored expression, while Rarity and Elusive were working on fixing Twilight’s mane. And Spike giving Rarity his assistance. 
“Excuse me, Miss Rarity, Mister Elusive,” Twilight said, her head covered in a blanket of soap suds. “I really don’t want to be a bother here-”
“Oh nonsense, darling.” Rarity responded, inspecting bottles of conditioner on a tray being held up by a lovestruck Spike. Dusk rolled his eyes at Spike and his eyes and head started drooping.
“Anything to help out a poor mare in need.” Rarity said as she levitated a bottle of conditioner one final time to pass it off to Elusive, who then applied it to Twilight’s mane.
“So tell me, Miss Sparkle; Mister Shine,” Elusive started as he massaged the newly applied conditioner. “Where are you two from?” 
Dusk didn’t respond except with a barely audible snore.
“Oh,” Twilight said, “We’ve been sent from Canterlot to check in on the-” she couldn’t complete her sentence before she was spun around in her chair and met with two starstruck faces, inches from her own.
“Canterlot!?” the two ponies said in ecstatic shrieks, which startled Dusk enough to give out a shriek of his own and fell over onto the floor.
Twilight was startled by this but continued to speak, “Yes, my brother and I were sent here by Princess Celestia, my teacher, to check in on the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration.” 
Rarity and Elusive gasped as the latter said, “You are the personal protege of Princess Celestia?”
“Y-yeah, I guess.” Twilight responded.
“It’s an honor to meet you.” he said kneeling before her. “You’re almost like a princess yourself.” 
Rarity quickly whipped around as Dusk picked himself up and rubbed his eyes and when he saw that Rarity was barely an inch from his face he let out another yelp, “HA-JE-JE-BAH!” and jumped backwards.
“And you’re her brother, right?” she said with stars in her eyes, “Which, by extension, almost makes you a prince.” Her forehooves clasped in front of her.
Dusk said nothing as he stood frozen in mid-flinch, staring wide-eyed in fear at the snow-colored pony in front of him.
Spike broke the silence between the two when he jumped up, put an arm around Dusk’s shoulders, used his other hand to point towards himself with his thumb and said, “Dusk and I are basically brothers, so that also makes me kind of a prince too!”
Rarity blinked, the stars disappearing from her eyes, her forehooves back on the ground. “I’m sorry,” she said, “but, who are you?”
Spike fell to the floor on his side and with tears streaming from his eyes said, “I’m Spike, I’ve been helping you for, like, the past two hours.”

Apparently unphased by the supposed guilt she should have felt from this Rarity and Elusive started treating Twilight and Dusk to a new suit and dress. Dusk was wearing a normal black and white suit with a blue bow tie, and Twilight was wearing a small white dress with red and blue sequins on it and an emerald on her chest.
“Canterlot.” Rarity said, as if reminiscing on her memories. “The glamor, the sophistication. We’ve always dreamed of living there.”
“I can’t wait to hear all about it.” said Elusive, smiling at Rarity.
“We’re going to be best friends you and I.” Rarity said to Twilight and Elusive said to Dusk, both nearly leaning up against who they were talking to.
“Emeralds!?” Rarity said jumping back, looking at the emerald on Twilight’s dress.
“A blue bow tie?!” Elusive mimicked, but with Dusk’s bow tie.
“What was I thinking?” they both said at the same time.
“Let me go get you some rubies!”
“I think a red bow tie would suit you better.”
And both of the white unicorns dash off to another room. At that instant, Twilight and Dusk quickly looked at each other, and seeing the exact same fear they had in the other’s eyes they both knew exactly what the other would say. “Run!” And so they did, quickly picking up Spike from drowning in the pool made of his tears.