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"Whew! That's the last of em." said Applejack as she bucked the last tree. "Should be enough for the week."As she was about to head back she saw a hooded figure talking to Granny Smith and Big Mac. Strange, we weren't expectin' any pony to visit unless it's.... "Twilight!?"
Setting down her pick of the apples she ran to the house to meet Twilight. "Twilight!" she said to her friend, while in her heart she was relived, her face looked angry. "Where in the hay have ya been!? Y'all had me worried sick!" she said.
"I'm kind surprised you didn't notice my new height." said the Princess of Friendship.
"Ah'll get to that later, where were you!? You've been gone for two months! Ah thought somethin' happened to ya!" said the farm pony.
"I know and I'm sorry.... I just didn't want you to see me like this." She told Applejack of what had happened to her and how she dealt with it. "I'm sorry if I kept this a secret, but I was scared.... You'd be too if you were in my shoes." said Twilight
"Ah guess I would.... but Ah'm still mad at ya for keepin' this a secret!"Applejack said as she stamped her hoof down.
"I know you are and I don't expect you to forgive me right now. I just wanted to see you." said Twilight
Applejack weighed the options in her mind, on one hoof she could forgive Twilight and on the other she could be mad at her for weeks. "Ah'll forgive ya but Ah'm still mad at ya! You had Spike lie to us, Twilight!" turning her back
"I know Applejack and it was a mistake." said the princess. It wasn't an easy thing lying to her friends, more importantly Applejack, the most dependable of ponies. "You have every right to be mad at me and I won't think less of you." she said putting her hood on her head. "I hope you vent your anger out soon."
Applejack just stood there like statue for what seemed like hours but then she smirked. "Ah will, you go visit Fluttershy, Ah got an orchard to buck." she said. She pulled the wheel barrel with her teeth and tried to tie the straps to her side, Twilight walked over and helped tie the straps. "Ah guess having those doohickeys is pretty fun." she said.
"To be honest, I'll take my hooves and horn over hands any day" said the Princess. "Hands and extra height are great and all but I miss using magic."
"So how will ya get back to normal?" asked Applejack. "Ah mean ya don't have yer horn."
"I'm hoping Princess Celestia can help me." said Twilight looking down at her hands. "I hope she knows a spell that can turn me back." Soon Twilight put her hood up and said good bye to Applejack. I hope that Fluttershy is okay. she thought to herself.
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(Spike POV)
At the castle Spike was taking inventory on Twilight's Books........again........for the twelfth time in the week, nevertheless Spike simply did his work. "Jump up make a sound, stomp your hooves, turn around." he sang to himself, ever since his last visit to Canterlot High during the Battle of the Bands, he couldn't help but remember the song the girls came up with to help Twilight beat Sunset. "When Twilight fixes that portal, I should visit CHS one of these days." It was all going good until he heard hoofsteps walk in, instinctively he hid behind a stack of books broom handle in claw and waited.
"Spike?" said a voice. "Twilight?" He looked up and saw a lavender coated mare with a purple and green mane and tail and a cutie mark with a purple star and green mist following it. It was Starlight Glimmer.
"Oh hey Starlight." he said sighing in relief. After Starlight's reformation she visited most of the time, she was like a second student to Twilight, her first was Sunset. "Twilight just left the castle."
"Where'd she go? I was hoping I could see her." asked Starlight. "I've been trying my hoof at some spells and I wanted to see her."
"Sorry, but in her current um......position she can't preform magic right now." he said putting the broom down only to look at Starlight with a look of concern.
"What do you mean?" she said, with a hint of worry in her voice. "Is she hurt? What happened?" she asked in panic.
"Calm down she's fine, she's just um...." he looked as if he was trying to hide something, but just gave up. "It's better to show you." he said as he walked towards a door and opened it. "Just promise not to freak." he said to the ex villainess.
She simply raised her eyebrows and followed him into the room, he took a ladder and climbed up to a crystal candelabra . With a breath he lit the candles with red flame illuminating the room, she looked everywhere to see what looked like wires and gars and machinery running along the glittering walls. "What was she working in he-" her thoughts where interrupted as she saw the core of it all, a mirror connected to bits of machinery. "What is that?" she said walking up to it.
"Careful." the baby dragon warned. "After what happened to Twilight I don't know hat will happen to you." he said.
"What is this?" she asked as she walked over to the machine.
"A portal to another world. One like ours, but very different." explained the dragon. "Last time twilight used it it changed her."
Starlight listened but was too absorbed by it's beauty, another world....who'd of thought? She walked up t the mirror just staring at the glass like doorway. "Why wasn't I told?"
"There was a student of Princess Celestia who wanted to use the mirror, she went to the other world and ruled over a school and turned into a demonic creature, but she was reformed. We were worried you might do the same." he said with a hint of sadness in his voice.
Starlight slowly raised her hoof and slowly put it in the portal, as she did her muscles tensed for a bit as she felt a twinge of cold and.....fabric? she looked to where her hoof was but soon her eyes widened like the moon and she saw what looked like a sleeve and a fleshy appendage with five twig looking objects. "AAAAGH!!!" she screamed as he pulled her hoof out and was terrified beyond anything she could comprehend.
"I warned you." he said. he could see that Starlight was shaking like she saw the Pony of Shadows and simply smiled. "I reacted like that too. so did Twilight." he said as the young unicorn looked at her hoof.
"M-my. h-h-hoof! What hap-happened to it?" she said trying to gather her thoughts. "What was that?" she asked pointing at the mirror in fear.
"It's called a hand." Spike said trying not to laugh.