//------------------------------// // Chapter 9: Run Away! // Story: A Troll Through the Park // by Spanner //------------------------------// Chapter 9: Run Away! (Twilight) *** The guards were closing in from every alleyway, street, and plaza, while pegasi guards pursued from the sky. Their target, a cream colored earth pony, was giving them a run for their money. Long pursuits were not unheard of when it came to powerful unicorns and pegasi. Unicorns could teleport, create oil slicks, turn invisible, or attempt a stand against the guards. Pegasi could simply outmaneuver ground forces. However, it was rare to see such a slippery earth bound pony such as this. The guard who first spotted ‘the impostor’ hopped over some barrels the perpetrator had knocked over. Was this some professional spy? Who sent this pony and where the hay is Shining Armor? “Stupid stupid stupid! Why did I run! The worst they would’ve done is fine me. Not that I can afford it right now. Who knew years of running from irate customers would pay off?” Bon Bon muttered under her breath. As she bounded through a crowded plaza. There were five or six intersecting streets that met together in a large open area. In the center of this space was a large fountain which cascaded crystalline waters into layers of pools that ran down to lower parts of the city. The sweets salespony received some odd looks when she reared up on her hind legs atop the fountain’s edge as she tried to see over the crowd. Who knew they would get so mad from somepony threatening her way into selling some sweets. There sure seem to be a lot of them. Guards were coming from every direction. The only way out seemed to be following the Terraced pools of the fountain down to the lower portion of the city. She regretted destroying her goods by jumping in the cool water, but she was forced into the water as a pegasus guard nearly tackled her from above. Wet saddlebags quickly became the least of her worries. The water grew more swift with each pool she was carried into. Whatever channel this was, it seemed to be collecting drainage from other channels as well. She was stuck in some sort of waterway that appeared to end abruptly at the horizon line. Does this...does this drain off to...why is this place built on a bucking cliff! *** Where a proud captain once stood, a pink unicorn with a sapphire blue and cerulean mane stood dumbstruck. The stallion’s once rugged and robust structure was replaced with the more feminine curves and slenderness of the mare variety. The Cutie Mark on their flank was left the same, as no mere magic could change that. The face of Twilight’s BBBFF, was still locked in a mix of shock, nervousness, and a tinge of anger.   “What! What did you do to me? What is wrong with my voice? It sounds higher than...oh Celestia you didn't.” Just let Cadence kill me now. Shining flopped on the floor, letting out a long forceful breath. The white alicorn returned from Luna’s walk-in closet with a light blue dress. It must have been ancient, because a cloud of dust billowed off of it when she gave it a magical flick. “Well this was the only one that might fit...why are you on the floor?” “Why me?” The voice begged for pity. “If I didn’t know better, I would say you’ve been spending too much time with Rarity. Now get up and put this on.” A gold aura enveloped Shining Armor and placed her on their hooves. “There is no way I am wearing...that. Why couldn’t you have just made me invisible, or something besides this?” “Sorry, I tried to tell you this was the only spell I could think of right now and that I may not know how to...but that’s not important now.” That was close, she thought. “The important thing is that spell I cast should cover your magical signature with mine or Celestia's I guess, and even if she could track it now, she wouldn't recognize you.” Celestia’s face was locked in a sheepish grin. Shining was unamused. “This is the only way we can cover your flank. That is unless you want to deal with that?” Twilight said, as she pointed a bare hoof to the doors. She still hadn’t put the gold shoe back on after tossing it into some books.  Another resounding blow to the chamber doors sent a few splinters across the room. Little sis, what are you hiding? I guess it’s not the most important thing right now. “Face further possible humiliation for the rest of my professional career, or face the mare on the other side of those doors?” Shining hypothesized. “There is a better chance nopony will find out if you wear the dress,” Twilight said in a sing song voice. “Twilight, give me the dress.” There was almost no hesitation. A stallion has to have his priorities. *** Things had gone well for Claymore and Morning Star for about two seconds. Claymore was able to redirect Cadence’s first bull rush away from the doors with the side of his blade, but only with the help of Morning Star bracing him from behind. Even then, the force of the blow resulted in an instant headache from the magical feedback. Claymore could barely levitate his sword anymore.   “Why won’t you just move out of the way?” Cadence yelled in annoyance. Star took the brunt of the next blow as she tried to tackle Cadence from the side, but to no avail. The pegasus was sent flying and the alicorn pounded the door with a magically enhanced head butt. Portions of the door were starting to splinter and the wood panels groaned in retort. The pair of guards shook their heads and regrouped in front of the door as Cadence backed up for another go. The two were barely standing and panting hard. "We may...need to think...of a better tactic," Claymore rasped. “You don’t say,” Morning Star replied sarcastically. “I didn’t want to do this, but you two leave me no choice!” Cadence yelled again, her face turning from pink to reddish with rage. She began charging a spell much more powerful than a simple battering ram. “TAKE THIS!” A blue bolt of energy was heading straight for Claymore’s chest. He shut his eyes tight, not having nearly enough speed or energy to dodge it. The sound of an armored body hitting marble echoed throughout the hallway, only it wasn't his armor that caused it. The stallion blinked when the end didn’t come. His eyes grew wide at the limp pegasus before him. Blue traces of magic flickered around her body like little electrical currents, before dissipating. “No!” After removing the armor from her midsection, Claymore swept Morning Star into his embrace. He nuzzled her chest lightly, completely forgetting the pink alicorn who continued to pound the door. She may have been annoying, unprofessional, snappy, and annoying, but she didn’t deserve this. *** Twilight thought about bracing the door with Celestia’s magic, but it would only make Cadence more sure that she was hiding the captain in her room. The door looked as though it were on it’s last legs as the whole thing buckled with each new blow. She looked over at her brother as they waited for the inevitable. They both looked rightfully nervous. “Oh! I almost forgot something really important.” A gold glow surrounded the stacks of books in Celestia’s main chambers. “There, now when she breaks down the door the books will be nice and safe.” “Twily?” The feminine voice sounded annoyed. “Right, sorry,” Twilight said as she extended her protection spell over her brother as well, smiling sheepishly. “There.” Shining barely had time to facehoof before the door exploded into a shower of wood and metal bracings. Metal bolts, splinters and rivets shot across the room and clinked to the floor or bounced off of Twilight’s barrier over the books. Before the marble dust could settle from the doors being ripped from the walls, slow hoofsteps could be heard as Cadence emerged from the cloud. This left the two alicorns and the pink unicorn to face each other in front of the gaping hole. Twilight knew the door was going to fail, but the implications of the event hadn’t really hit her until now. The true horror of the situation struck her, and a little spark of anger came alive. Celestia's form walked straight up to the pink princess. “Do you know how old that door was? Not to mention all these books could have been destroyed!” Shining almost laughed out loud, but instead wisely stayed out of a potential fight amongst goddesses. Cadence, you’ve already made the first mistake. Never endanger books or historical artifacts in front of ‘The’ Twilight Sparkle. Cadence backed up a little from the muzzle of the sun princess, which was nearly against her’s. The question was so left field that her anger for her ex-fiance was temporarily forgotten.“Well I guess it’s been about two hundred and fifty five years since you blew up the last one. That is a new record I believe. I suppose I just destroyed an antique. As for the books, they seem fine to me.” She shook her head and rekindled her wrath to her colt friend. “Now, where are you hiding that ungrateful, dishonest, disloyal little...” “They seem fine? THEY SEEM FINE?!,” Twilight said as she cradled a small stack of texts like it were a foal and nuzzled it. She had addressed the books as a mother would to a foal. Shining had just finished cringing at every insult her ex-marefriend said, then rolled her eyes at her sister’s use of the canterlot voice to defend literature. Leave it to Twily to care about books like they were ponies. Cadence didn’t know what to say. She had a very confused and almost worried expression on her face. So who invited Weirdlestia? “When did you become so...protective over literature? Seriously, anypony?” She spotted a pink unicorn in a blue dress and assumed it was a staff pony. She repeated the question again. The unicorn just shrugged. Cadence turned back to Celestia. “This staff mare looks filthy. You should order her to get cleaned up.” “Maybe that’s because some pink monstrosity just rained marble dust everywhere on their oh so civilized visit,” Twilight said with vicious sarcasm. “How could you do this to her?” All heads turned to the distraught unicorn guard at the door. He was holding a limp pegasus in his forelegs. Celestia’s face became a mixture of sadness and concern. “Did you k...kill that pegasus guard?” Shining tried to make her way to her fallen guards, but tripped on the dress falling flat on her face. “What? No! Don’t be ridiculous,” Cadence said. As if to answer Twilight’s own question, a quiet voice from within Claymore's grasp grabbed the attention of everypony. Thank Celestia she’s alive. He leaned in to hear her better. “You have gorgeous blue eyes like vast oceans, you know,” Morning Star said as she pulled Claymore into a choking hug and series of pecks to his muzzle. At least he would have been choking, if he didn't have heavy armor on. “See, it was merely a strong stun spell crossed with a spark of love. It’s funny, I aimed for the stallion because I thought he had feelings for her, but it turns out she had feelings for him. Otherwise my little spark of love would have failed.” Her voice sounded as though she was enjoying the sight of her hoofwork. Cadence observed the relieved look on Celestia’s face. Shining Armor had stopped heading to her guards once she notice an evil grin growing upon Cadence’s muzzle.  “Wait, wait! I see what’s going on here,” The Love Princess pointed an accusatory hoof at Twilight. The full rage from moments ago had returned. This time, the white alicorn backed up a little into the bedchamber. “You...you do?” I never thought I would be so scared of my foalsitter and now she knows that I’m not Celestia. Now Luna is sure to find out. Twilight was about to break down into tears. “This is all your fault! You thought you could distract me with your guards and your new reading addiction. Here I thought Shiny had betrayed me, but it was you! You used your sunny charms to take him from me!” What? “What did you just say?” Jeez, she acts like she has never been rejected before. Maybe she hasn't. Who could reject the goddess of love? “You heard me Celestia! I’ll save him from your promise of sunshine and rainbows,” Cadence said as she frantically began searching the rooms of the royal sisters for her coltfriend. Shining did his best to steer clear of both the alicorns in the room while staying close enough to keep an eye on them. Twilight caught up to the pink blur of the raging alicorn. “I’m not interested in Shining Armor! He’s just scared of you. You’re acting crazy!” She immediately regretted saying the ‘C’ word, clasping a hoof to her mouth. An eye began to twitch and Cadence had a bout of hysteric laughter. “Crazy? You think I’m crazy?” Her wide smile and unkempt mane was not helping her case. “Well I’m not the one hiding stallions in my room and stealing them away from their marefriends now am I?” “No, but neither am I. You should calm down. I’m sure he’ll turn up.” A defeated look grew on Cadence’s face and Twilight couldn’t help but to lay a foreleg over the smaller alicorn's withers.   “You’re probably right. I have been acting out, just a little bit,” her face turned dark , “but you failed to hide the trail of fallen books, and this.” She levitated one of Celestia’s gold horseshoes from amongst some of the publications, smiling widely once more. “You know what they say, if the shoe fits. Now where is he?” The love princess surprised Twilight with a swift tackle. This launched the pair into a very unprepared Shining Armor and the three landed in a heap of paper and feathers close to the tower balcony. Twilight was the first to free herself from the tangle of hooves. Cadence started to rise as well, noticing something odd about the serving mare that was groaning in pain under her weight. “Celestia, why is this servant practically covered in your magical signature?” She got a closer look at the pink unicorn. “Why is she wearing one of Luna’s old dresses?” That mane looks so familiar, and so does that sheepish grin. “Oh...that. Well..this,” Twilight mumbled. “Who is this? I haven't seen her before,” Cadence asked with growing suspicion as she stood over the quivering pony. “Oh, you mean Shine...Bright. Yep...I accidentally spilt tea on her serving uniform and I thought some of Luna’s dresses might look nice on her. That’s why my magic aura is on her, you know swapping all the dresses,” Twilight said with a bright smile, obviously a little nervous. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. “I can look past the perversion of Luna’s privacy, but how do you explain the royal hoof covering?” Cadence said while levitating the royal accouchement before Twilight's eyes. Twilight had run out of plausible explanations. “I was getting annoyed at absentmindedly touching my face with the cold metal and threw it over there in frustration.” Ironically it was the truth, but the most unconvincing truth she had ever told. “Riiight,” Cadence said. She picked up Shining and noticed the dress had ridden up her flank. She was about to pull the cloth back down and apologize, but not before she fell onto her back in a fit of laughter at the sight of Shining's cutie mark. “You...you hahah. You changed him...her...Shiny. All to hide...bwahahah!” Cadence's legs kicked in the air as her wings involuntarily twitched. At first, Twilight was worried, but she couldn’t help following suit and collapsing in laughter as well. Even if it was at her own expense, Shining couldn’t help from at least letting loose a bit of nervous chuckles with the two royal figures. “Oh Auntie, I must go get my camera to commemorate this hilarious moment.” By the end of this announcement, Cadence had stopped laughing and started to head across the messy chambers for the doors (or the archway where they once were). “I think we should go now,” Shining whispered just loud enough for her to hear. “Why, so she doesn’t have embarrassing photos to give to the guards?” She teased. “That, and she never never calls Celestia ‘Auntie’ unless she’s really mad. I doubt she is just getting a camera.” The white alicorn’s legs shuddered. “You...you mean when she blew up the bucking door she wasn’t ‘really mad’?” Twilight was losing whatever cool she had, as Rainbow Dash might put it. Twilight’s brother gave her a look for her colorful language. “Do you really want to find...ooof! Wait! where are you taking...oh by Celestia’s ethereal mane!” *** A guard posted on top of one of the castle walls was tempted to turn towards a series of odd noises. The disturbance could be best described as a pathetic girlish scream, followed moments later by a bellow of unfiltered rage. However his orders were to watch threats approaching from the city without falter. The sounds were probably just the animals in the Canterlot Gardens that froliced behind his post. Besides, what threat could possibly be in the castle unless somepony got past the guards? If he had betrayed the direct orders from his captain, he would have seen a white and pink streak free falling from Celestia's balcony, moments later followed by a larger pink streak accompanied by the glint of a claymore held before it. *** “ARE YOU CRAZY? I DIDN’T KNOW YOU KNEW HOW TO FLY YET!” Shining yelled over the wind rushing past their ears. “I...I ‘KNOW HOW TO FLY. I JUST READ FOUR BOOKS ON FLYING THIS MORNING. REMEMBER, I READ ALL THE WAY TO ‘S.’ Twilight had a hurt look. Shining could swear there would be a hoof shaped bare spot from face-hoofing before the day was out. “WELL COULD YOU HURRY IT UP?! For better or worse, her yelling hid her initial fear from her brother. In her head she recited the steps from, “Flying, the Basics of Pegasus Flight and Weather Control.” Step one: Spread your wings...check. Now instead of screaming to their doom, the pair were gracefully speeding to it instead. Step two: Check to be sure your wings are free of debris or foreign material...check. Step three: Make sure your pinion feathers are straight... “HURRY WE'RE KINDA RUNNING OUT OF ALTITUDE!” Twilight looked down at the unicorn in her hooves. “I’M ALMOST DONE WITH THE SAFETY CHECKS. FLYING ISN'T TILL STEP 12. GIVE ME A MOMENT.” Pinion feathers...check. Step Five: Ask your doctor if flight is approp... “WE DON’T HAVE A MOMENT, SKIP TO THE FLAPPING PART!” “FLAPPING ISN’T UNTIL STEP 15, BUT OKAY.” As the siblings raced towards the unforgiving ground and statue garden, Shining’s last thoughts came in. He closed his eyes and waited for the crunch. At least Twilight would probably live. I mean Twilight already fell around 400 barrels  when she teleported from Ponyville. Wow, we have been falling for quite a while and oh crap, I’ll be a mare at my funeral. “I’m doing it, I’m doing it Shiny!” It was far from pretty, but sure enough the distance to the ground was growing. The guard on the the wall almost fell off due to the low pass the two made over his head. Before the guard could be sure of what he saw, Twilight banked back towards the castle.   She was quickly getting the basics down and learning how wing positioning affected her flight path. “Well Twily, if we weren't under chase by my ex and terrified of falling, this would be pretty amazing. I have never flown outside a royal carriage before. Whoah,” Shining said as he was hoisted onto Twilight’s back, the alicorn circling up and around various castle towers. “Is that better? I can really see why Rainbow loves this so much.” She looked up to smile at her passenger, but jerked back when she almost hit one of the marble spires. Twilight’s ears drooped back. “You don’t really think Cadence will stay mad forever? It would be all my fault.” “I don’t know what will happen, but whatever does it won't be your fault. Mares are crazy like that.” “Yeah they...hey!” She smiled a little at his tease. ”Seriously though. If I hadn’t freaked out about the letter and touched Celestia and frustrated you at Donut Joe's...then you wouldn’t have gotten hurt...and...” She was starting to get teary eyed, which was making her flight a bit choppy. Shining chuckled and nuzzled Twilight’s large white cheek. “You always try to take all the blame, even when it’s not yours to take.” Celestia’s head settled into the touch. “You ‘always’ know how to make me feel better.”  “Look out!” The two narrowly dodged a walkway connecting two towers. “Don’t worry about the past. Right now we just need to lay low until Cadence calms down. That, and it would be nice to discuss problems when I’m not in danger of falling to Tartarus.” Just as he finished, something caught his eye. What is that little pink and silver dot? It’s getting bigger. Is that Claymore’s sword? “Twilight?” “Yes BBBFF?” “Run!” “What do you mean run? We’re kinda flying right now.” “FLY FASTER!” *** A tall, dark blue mare made her way down the hall as her shoes clacked against the polished floors. She was levitating many different scrolls and manuals in front of her as she went. “So Tia, we had some questions about the taxes on the night establishments of our fair city Canterlot. We were curious as to what function a ‘night club’ had.” Luna finally looked up from the paperwork. She calmly observed her surroundings as she walked past the two struggling guards, past the obliterated door, around the stacks of books in her sister's chambers straightening a few stacks as she went and finally to her room. I wonder how many doors my sister has extinguished in my absence. Luna silently made her way back to the entrance and used a counter spell on the pair of guards on the floor. Morning star suddenly let go of Claymore with a nervous chuckle and joined him in a deep bow to the Night Princess. “Who has been in our royal wardrobe?” Her neutral expression did not betray any emotion. “We...we don’t know your Highness,” Claymore could barely keep himself from shaking in fear. “Well dost thee at least know what has transpired to leave this door in such a poor state?” “It was Cadence, your Highness,” He winced, but she still seemed as calm as ever. “We see that she has taken your weapon. Judging by the evidence before us, thou hast fought valiantly to guard our sister, but alas, thy efforts hath failed us,” the dark alcorn said as she charged her horn for a spell. I thought I was home free once I survived fighting one goddess today, but no, they all want a piece of me. At least getting killed by the Princess of the Night is more dignified than being killed by the Princess of Love. The air crackled with dark electricity, and a long dark object came into existence. Claymore couldn’t help looking up at what appeared to be a long, broad blade, black as obsidian. “Claymore, was it? I believe this to be close to thy weapon of choice.” Luna lowered herself just a fraction. “Perhaps a superior weapon will prevent further failures. “This is so badfla...I mean thank you my liege. Yes this will be more than sufficient,” The stallion said suppressing a grin. “Now, thou must get this place back in order. We expect repairs to begin immediately.” With that, Luna started down the hall. “Excuse me your highness, if you were looking for Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence, they disappeared off of the balcony over there and thank you, for breaking that spell. I thought I would die of suffocation.” “That struck us as odd. It would appear that thy niece’s spell had already worn off, but there is a chance we were mistaken. We thank thee for thine intelligence,” Luna said before preparing to fly off the balcony. Claymore glared daggers at Morning Star. She shrugged. “I couldn’t help it. Besides she said she could be wrong.” She winked. “I just wish I got a cool weapon too. It’s not fair.” Claymore motioned for her to quiet down. Luna’s keen hearing picked up the complaint across Celestia’s chambers and she turned to the beaten pegasus. “We know not what a ‘cool’ weapon refers to, but perhaps later we could bestow an ice enchantment upon thy morning star. That would certainly make it ‘cool.’ With that, she spread her majestic wings and with one forceful flap took off from the balcony. “Okay, I take it back Claymore. You have the most awesome job ever!” she gushed. “Well don’t get used to being mixed up in battles amongst goddesses every day. Although, I got this new sword in the ordeal.” “Hey, let me see that thing.” “No, Luna gave it to me.” The unicorn held the dark blade away with his magic as the pegasus danced around to snag it. “What the hay happened here?” A mare’s voice broke the guards less than professional display. Claymore cleared his throat. “Sorry,” Both guards spoke in unison as they got back into position in front of the doorframe. The purple unicorn with a pink streak in her dark mane cocked her head sideways. “You do realize that you're guarding nothing right? Ooh, that sword looks like the ones used by the guardians of the gates of Tartarus. Can I see it?” “Sure, here ya go.” How could I say no to Celestia’s student? “Sure, don’t let the trained guard see it, but let a little mare have her way with it,” Star threw her hooves in the air in defeat.” “Hey! I’m not that little. I am Twilight Sparkle...well sort of.” *** “Shiny, it seems like no matter where we run she finds us eventually. I hid our signatures and everything. ” She was breathing heavily. They had tried hiding in almost every establishment and nook and cranny, but Cadence somehow found them. Though they may have gotten a break for the moment. This day everypony saw a whole new side of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. “I’m impressed that you were still able to attend that council meeting. It was just like, ‘I’m Princess Celestia. Here and accounted for. You need to hire more mason workers, taxes in the south city should be raised by 1.5 bits and the answer to that zoning problem for the new wagon factory is 42.’ The council was totally confused. I just feel bad about that poor stallion's cabbage cart you destroyed on our way to Joe’s.” “I just haven't quite gotten the landings down quite yet,” Twilight said, blushing slightly and swatting Shining in the face lightly with one of her wings. “My favorite part was that stallion that actually told Cadence to quiet down at the movie theatre. Shining rocked in laughter at the memory. “Although that is hard to compete to when those stallion’s at the milk bar tried to flirt with you.” Shining just glared. Never again. “I guess I can't complain too much about your flying, seeing as I’m not dead yet.” Shining moved in to hug his little sister before she could swat him again. “If anypony told me I would need to watch out for my sisters wings a few days ago, I would have sent them to the loony bin.” “Heh, heh. Well if anypony told me I would be running this nation in an alicorn body a few days ago I would have told them there is a better chance of Pinkie Pie saving the world with a party.” The two shared another laugh, sitting on a broken wagon in an unmarked alleyway. Twilight shed the giant rabbit costume she had picked up. She had torn holes for her wings at one point to escape ‘the pink death.’ “We were just lucky Cadence broke off to save that poor pony that apparently fell from Canterlot Falls. I wonder what all those guards were doing in the main square?” “I was wondering the same thing. I hope they can handle it.” Twilight lay a bare hoof on her brother’s shoulder. “Sorry I’m keeping you from your job Shiny. I guess you can’t really talk to the guards the way you look right now. However, I can tell you my hypothesis.” “Hypothesis for what?” “Well, ever since you explained what Rule 63 of War Engagement meant. I have been trying to figure out what General Double Edge and that Griffin Swift Claw are up to, and I think I may have figured it out while we were hiding at Octavia’s concert.” Her face indicated she was breaking into the all too familiar lecture mode. “You said the rule allows the General to declare war on any entity that attacks Equestria and that is what they said their ‘plan B’ is based off of. We know they want the jewels in the Diamond Dog caverns, but I don’t think that is all they’re after. They want Equestria at war for some bigger reason.” She paused, but Shining knew not to interrupt her when she got like this. “Did you notice how many troops they wanted us to send? It is way more than they would need to take out the Diamond Dogs. More would be sent, if, say, Ponyville were attacked. If that town Gryffindor were simultaneously attacked by the Diamond dogs, then Griffin soldiers would have permission to be sent to that town, which happens to be the closest town to Canterlot.” Twilight’s proud smile dwindled a little. “The question is why would the Diamond Dogs pull a suicidal maneuver like that? The General wants the capitol vulnerable for something, but I can’t put a hoof on it yet.” She looked up to see that her brother was a bit distracted. She was a bit crestfallen that he had missed her whole lecture. “Look, I’m sorry again that this whole mess is keeping you from work.” Wow Twily, I never figured that the basics I taught you lately would go so far. “Huh? Oh no. Don’t worry, its my primary goal to protect the Princess Celestia anyway. Besides, I’m sure once this blows over I can get right on it. About my looks though...” “If it was between Celestia and me, who would you chose to protect?” The question rushed from Twilight’s lips like an uncaged timberwolf. That came out more serious than I had hoped. “Hey, I wasn’t finished with my quest...” Shining’s objection was overruled by Twilight once again. “I want to know!” and I don’t want you to be mad about that other question you were going to ask. Twily, that question isn’t fair. “I...I don’t have to choose. You are the same pony now so to say. Now, how about you change me back already. I think I’m starting to get fru-fruey urges or something,” Shining said as the once stallion shifted uncomfortably. “You always were good at finding loopholes in my questions, BBBFF.” She looked down in shame. “I...I don’t know how to change you back.” Her softness rivaled Fluttershy. Shining leaned in close to the sun goddess’  body. “What was that sis? I didn’t quite catch that.” The fur warmed him from the chilly autumn air. A white wing moved in from his other side to comfort him as much as possible. “I don’t know how.” The Captain of the Royal Guard gave himself a once over. His mane turned into a blue inferno beside Twilight. “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!” *** To be continued...