Denial.
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Published 10/17/12
Chapter One: Denial.
'It's okay Twilight. Just stay calm.'
Twilight sat in front of her bedroom mirror, gazing at her reflection.
'There's absolutely nothing to worry about.'
Her room was in shambles. Curtains were drawn. Linens were tossed all over the floor and several books lay wide open, also strewn on the floor.
'Don't panic. Panicking is the last thing you want to do right now.'
The books' titles read: LEGO Genetics: How to Splice Your Genes in Ten Easy Steps; Anomalous Abnormalities of Anatomy; Deja Vu, Dreams, and Delusions: Understanding Hallucinations and Other Mental Strangites; Equestrian Government: A Reference Guide; and A Troper's Guide To: Clichés.
'There's a rational reason for why this happened. There has to be.'
Spike and his basket had been shoved carelessly out of the room. Thankfully, he was too busy dreaming of ice cream houses to notice.
'You just have to think things through and you'll be able to sort everything out.'
Twilight got up from her seat and began pacing around the room.
'All you have to do is write to the Princess and she'll—'
Twilight's gaze landed on Equestrian Government: A Reference Guide, which lay open on the floor. Twilight's mind flashed back to the things she had read.
'...extremely rare...de facto royalty...succession crisis...governmental collapse...'
Twilight's eyelid twitched as she stopped remembering.
'The Princess doesn't need to be bothered by my trivial problems.'
She started pacing again.
'In fact, no pony needs to know.'
Her pacing quickened.
'I mean, it's not like this is something that'll fundamentally alter things.'
She gave a nervous laugh that was meant to be reassuring.
'That'll change my life forever.'
A few strands of mane sprung up.
'That'll force everypony to rethink things.'
Twilight's mane and tail were now a mess.
'That'll cause anarchy and civil wa—' Twilight gave a chuckle, 'No, no, no, Twilight. Stay calm. Don't panic.'
She used her telekinesis to straighten out her mane and tail.
'If you let things spiral, everypony will find out for sure. Just. Stay. Calm.'
She took a deep breath, before taking a seat in front of the mirror again.
'It's not so bad.'
Her eyes looked at her backside.
'You won't have to worry about visiting Dash ever again.'
She gave a small smile.
'You'll be able to better participate in Winter Wrap Up.'
Her smile grew.
'You'll be forced to become royalty and join the bureaucratic nightmare that is Equestria's government. Or worse, become some foreign envoy to the frozen Crystal Empire or the far away Griffo-Minotaurian Empire where your every movement will be observed by the country's government.'
Twilight frowned and returned her gaze to the mirror. Where did that come from?
'Don't think about those things! They have to catch you first and even then, there's no telling what they'll do.'
Twilight quickly regretted her choice of wording.
'That's right. There's no telling what they'll do. They might try to eliminate you or tarnish your reputation or—” Twilight gulped, “send you back to Magic Kindergarten to be 'retrained' so you can best use your new abilities.'
Her mane once again sprung up.
'No Twilight! Remember what you said—er—thought! Stay calm. Don't panic. If you start going down that line of thinking Spike'll rat you out to the Princess again and this time, you will be going back to Canterlot.'
She again straightened it.
'You just have to figure out what's happened.'
She telekinetically grabbed Anomalous Abnormalities of Anatomy and glanced at its index.
'Become a changeling, close but no...Cloned oneself, useful but no...Horn Rot, no...Two heads, no...Flutter Sores, no...Spontaneous Fur Loss, no...no, no, NO!'
Twilight chucked the book against a nearby bookcase in frustration, giving an exasperated huff in the process.
'Last time I buy a book for its alliteration.'
She next grabbed A Troper's Guide To: Clichés with her telekinesis.
'Maybe these eggheads can help me out.'
She scanned the book's index.
'Equestrian Royal Guards, no...The Scrying Is Coming From Inside The House, no...Griffons Take Over The World, not with what happened to Archduke Fur Danin...All Just A Dream.'
“Aha!” Twilight yelled out loud, then flipped the pages to the designated chapter.
'Around five sixths of the way into the book, really weird stuff starts happening, like little ponies juggling while riding a tricycle around a bewildered protagonist. Then the protagonist realizes, just as you do, that this has all been a dream, a really bad hallucination, or some other escape from reality.'
Twilight let out a sigh of relief before whipping out a huge grin.
'It's just a nightmare I'm having. All I have to do is figure out how to wake up and I can laugh this whole thing off.'
She tossed the book away lazily before she yanked Deja Vu, Dreams, and Delusions: Understanding Hallucinations and Other Mental Strangites off the floor and levitated it in front of her.
'This has been one doozy of a dream.'
She began to randomly flip through the book. After a few moments, she found something.
'It is thought that, when one is dreaming, pain and other physical sensations are not felt. Therefore, one could determine if one is dreaming by attempting to stimulate the body—pinching oneself is a common idea.'
Twilight slapped herself.
“OOWW!”
She reeled for a moment before stabilizing herself.
'I—I guess I'm not dreaming.'
Devastated, she began to close the book and throw it like she had Anomalous Abnormalities of Anatomy, but she noticed the passage immediately below the one she had read.
'That theory has been disproved, however, by those who have attempted it while lucid dreaming.'
Twilight quickly flipped over to the section on lucid dreaming.
'The Lucid Dream is any dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming. The concept originated with the psychiatrist Dream Catcher. In a lucid dream, one is able to manipulate and distort the events and surroundings of the dream to ones desires. A common way to fully tell if one is in a lucid dream is to attempt something that one wouldn't normally be able to do without the aid of magic—flight in non-pegasi as an example.'
'Here goes nothing.'
Twilight soon began to visualize flying. The feeling of wind whipping around her, the ability to move in three dimensions, the speed and adrenaline of it all. Soon she was hovering several feet off the ground.
'Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! It's just a lucid dream! I'm not actually a—'
Realization dawning, Twilight glanced at her back.
'Oh. That. Right.'
After a shaky landing, Twilight sat back down in front of her mirror.
'Oh, who am I kidding? I'm not dreaming. This nightmare is real!'
Twilight slumped down, knocking Deja Vu, Dreams, and Delusions off the vanity in the process, as the full weight of her predicament returned from it's brief hiatus.
'How am I going to hide this from my friends! From my family.' Twilight gasped, 'From Spike!'
“What am I going to do!” Twilight moaned out as she lay her head on the vanity.
Her lavender wings clinging to her body as she did.
End of Chapter One.
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Author's Notes: AKA "The Cliche Story". Curse you FIMfiction for not having a [General/Normal] tag and making anyone who reads this story expect it to be nothing but comedy[Slice of Life] will have to do. It figures, of all the ideas I have, I choose the most cliched one.
At least it has the least likely chance of being jossed by season three (I swear to God if there's an episode where she becomes an alicorn...)Bucking hell!I originally wanted to name the story Ascension but elected not to, to avoid confusion with another story of the same name.
Don't expect updates very often, especially with the Tigers
in the ALCSin the World Series. Nothing saps my writing drive like Valverde loading the bases.Hmm... Interesting. A 'stache for you! Good story. I'm keeping tabs on this one. Keep it up!
Hhmm, a new Twilight alicorn story, looks to have potential, nice work.
Interesting, will track.
I tend to really like Twilacorn fics, and you seem to be a good author, so I'll give this a like and a favorite.
MOAR! Please Develop this Idea! It works!
Haha, it's funny how many stories are 'cliche'. Weird how people's minds work all the same way (I've even thought about this storyline myself
)
This is on my read later list, coz I'm busy atm, but I'll be back. With a better comment.
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I believe the tag you're looking for is "Slice of Life".
1448662
I always envisioned [Slice of Life] as being the slice of a person's daily life (i.e. a normal day for Twilight). Since "becoming an alicorn" isn't a common occurrence for Twilight (well in the fanfics it is, but not in reality), I wouldn't consider it to be [Slice of Life].
Lets see where this one goes.... Oh, and I think 1448662 is correct.
Have an up vote and watch from me, good sir!
“Last time I buy a book for it's alliteration.”
QFT
This is gonna be a good one
> A Troper's Guide to: Cliches
Instant. Thumbs up. This has the makings of a great comedy.
This has potential to be funny AND interesting. A good combo if ever there was one. I loved how you handled Twilight attempting to stay sane while slipping back and forth between her different neurosis. I'll be keeping an eye on it for updates. Take a thumb and I'll hold my favorite till I get a better idea of it's direction.
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Well it is seeing how a character is dealing with a situation that affects their life. In fact, a good portion of the actual show is slice of life and ponies dealing with various problems. Is Twilight being an alicorn so different from the group dealing with poison joke?
Also
What?
Is it a WWI reference... but I don't see cliche... in... can't comperh-
Boom
Hmm... You are right, the idea is really cliched...
However your humorous summary has gotten my attention. I will have to read this later when I have the time.
Actually....
....this isn't that bad. Has promise.
DO NOT SCREW THIS UP.
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Fur Danin is indeed a reference to WWI and everyone's favorite Archduke. The cliche is "Griffons Take Over The World", which is the pony version of Japan Takes Over The World. It's also a subtle reference to the number of fanfics that have the griffons as the invaders (which, like "Twilight Becomes an Alicorn" stories, are a bit cliche).
Another alicorn Twilight fic, she might be overreacting a little bit, but the writing is excellent and it shows promise. The lack of further chapters to underline this promise is worrying, but then again look at what I do to my stories.
Following.
Is it me or had I seen this before? Anyway, good job
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Enjoy your feature you freak
I will track this! Cliche can be fun. Especially when it is self aware.
Good start, I am enjoying it so far.
Saw a picture of an Alicorn twilight.. Insta Favorite and like... enjoy.... its so funny seeing twilight freak. HURRY WITH MORE!!!
Clichés can be good if done right. After all, there's a reason it became a cliché in the first place; because it struck a chord in readers/viewers and others wanted to imitate it.
This story looks decent so far, so I'll keep my eye on it. Besides, most "Twilight -> Alicorn" stories haven't (and probably won't) finish(ed), so I still look for more to feed the idiotic fanboyism that lives in my skull.
Another alicornization story?
Welp, better get to reading, right?
Heh, maybe it's wrong of me, but I just can't help but imagine the "Alicorn Civil War Everypony Panic!" book was written by overreacting, neurotic, brilliant-but-sort-of-stupid scholars like Twilight herself. I mean, think about it... Twilight would be perfect to have a new princess freakout, while Celestia is all "Eh, how u doin'?"
Even if that's not the case though, she just needs to put up an illusion to make her wings look like butterfly ones. Ponies didn't react too strongly to Rarity (apart from gushing over how pretty she was), and that might've been because it was clear her wings were fake. So, she makes her wings look fake like that, and at the very least, it'll buy her some time.
Quick, everypony pile their unreasonably high expectations onto the unsuspecting author!
(I like it. Good start.)
This made me laugh. Most of these are really serious so I will diffidently follow this to see where it goes.
This sounds interested, hope to see more of it.
"[S| TS: Ascend."
"Troper's Guide To: Cliches."
You had me after this title. 
From my experience, the most original thing one can do with a "Twilight becomes an Alicorn" story is to see it through to completion... It seems a very high percentage of them just fade away after few chapters. Here's hoping this one bucks the trend!
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the world needs more Twilacorn fics. i do not consider them cliche'd (at least if they don't descend into some kinda of Celestia x Twilight shipfest).
please, continue.
i actually had an idea for a Twilacorn i wanted to write.... argh, but i how do i find the time to write things when i'm reading things?! damn you Fimfiction!!!
lol looks interesting *fav*
A new alicorn!Twi fic, huh... I'll play.
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Griffon invaders... tv tropes I don'e know... yep, I've missed some stuff
oh and good job on featured
I WILL FOLLOW THIS INSANITY
I kinda like the Twi-alicorn idea and I know I have a couple on back-log to read: the biggest issues? Time to read and quality of story. This looks decent so far and sounds like it's off to a good start.
OK.
I really like how this has started out, not to mention how Twilight tries to come up with an explanation for her sudden transformation.
And the Troper's Guide to: Cliché's =
Also, I just wanted to say: DUDE!
1443617!
Your story is, at the time of this posting (which is about 11:25 Pacific Coast time), second in the featured box!
Hey... I'm not a psychiatrist!
I wanted to join the guard! 
Well, I guess that if I already have a psych degree, I won't have to waste money on college!
Tracking, thumbs pending.
I see what you did there.
Hmmm. Well written, with no grievous, or even visible grammar flaws. One misspelling of doozy, though it's a somewhat uncommon word.
+fave
+watch
I shall sit here and watch this story unfold now.
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I even googled it to make sure. I should have known something was up when Urban Dictionary was the first result.
hmm twilight an alicorn? Usually fun fics.
I'm in, bring it!
I knew this was going to be good when I saw the description and the feature.
I can visualize Twi in her mind's eye hearing Celestia and Luna saying" "Et tu Twilight ?"
1443617
At first I was like: What? A purely-comedic Twilight-becomes-an-alicorn fic? Insta-track.
And then I was like: That's exactly what he doesn't want me to think. Damnit. Un-insta-tracked, added to the pile of shit that is my RiL list. Not saying your fic is shit. My list has just grown so large that, if you looked at it from far enough away... ...pile of shit.
Am I the only one who may have noticed how Twilight seprated Spike from friends and family? A...Spilight....maybe? Hopefully? ........please......please....please.....PLEASE!!!!!!! On a different subject she said Flutter sores, poor Flutter's
And you have any idea how hard a hoof is? If she slapped herself in the face that must have hurt like a motherbucker...I shall be watching, I love the idea of this and your doing, very, very well so far.
Also, don't you think you should add Spike to the tag since he is in the photo as well? HA! Ice cream houses, Spike your the dragon my friend
this is relevant to my interests
keeping my eye on this
Nice, but 1.5 k is not enough for a chapter to be enjoyable. Consider 3-4 k size for further chapters even if you will have to put 2 in one and delay the updates.
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You think yours is bad? I have oneshots that are six months old I still haven't read.
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Sorry to sink your ship, but there won't be any shipping in this story. Spike was separated because of the fact that he's the "closest" (as in daily interaction and the ability to accurately predict her personality) to her and so, the most likely to discover. If there was any shipping (which there won't be), it would have to be Twiluna (OTP!).