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// Equestria Epilogue: Twilight's Turn Bottom 
// Story: The Sparkle in his Eye 
// by Tatsurou 
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	It didn't take long for Twilight to complete the Time Loop and then reabsorb the memories of her Future/Past self.  This then led into a very emotional reunion between herself, Starlight and Sunburst, as well as excessive exuberance over little Sunstar.  Starlight then promptly disbanded her 'cult', returned all the Cutie Marks, and told all the 'cultists' that the entire thing had been a huge farce deliberately designed to complete the Time Loop.  Anger regarding this was immediately dispelled when Twilight offered to explain the technical details involved so they could all understand why such actions were necessary for temporal stability, as all listeners were more than happy to take her word for it instead.

Introducing the new extension to the family had gone over quite well.  Ratchet had been surprised to be both a grandfather and great-grandfather, but had taken it in stride as "far from the strangest thing to happen in raising Twilight."  The interactions quickly devolved into competition between Twilight, Ratchet, Clank, Sasha, Angela, Talwyn, and Vendra over who got to spoil little Sunstar first, while Qwark and Neftin literally butted heads over who got to be the one to "teach the tyke how to be a man".

Twilight's Equestrian family had dealt with it in their own way.  Shining Armor had shaken his head, shrugged his shoulders, and decided to just watch and see who won the 'spoil Sunstar' fight.  Cadence had cooed endlessly over Sunstar for a time before dragging Shining off to the room Twilight had given them to share during their stay in the 'Castle At The Edge of Reality', as they'd come to call it.  Night Light had some trouble dealing with this latest revelation at first, but after slipping some herbs Zecora had given him before Twilight's return from 'The Town' in his pipe and lighting up, he was soon convinced that everything would be just fine and he could take it all in stride.

Twilight Velvet had been the only vocal one.  "Great Grandmother!" she had screamed out in shock.  "But how?  It's too soon!  I'm too young to be a great-grandmare!"  She had then pointed at her Cutie Mark.  "This is not the flank of a great-grandmare!"(1)  Night Light had then given her a pull of his pipe, and she became much mellower.

The awkward part had been introducing Starlight to Nefarious...





"And this is Dr. Nefarious," Twilight said as she brought the little family to her robotic boyfriend.  "Or 'Daddy' to you."

"So nice to finally meet you, Daddy!" Starlight proclaimed happily, lunging forward to hug Nefarious...who was currently in his equine configuration.

"So...if I understand your story correctly, you were actually a villain originally who was so talented at messing with the fabric of space-time that Twilight adopted you before you became a villain because she couldn't wait to see what you'd develop as if given access to everything she could teach you?" Nefarious clarified.

"Well...as we understand it," Sunburst allowed.

"Sweet!" Nefarious confirmed, hugging Starlight back exuberantly...only to pull back.  "Okay, this just got awkward.  You're my daughter apparently.  Stop giving me an awkward boner before Twilight removes it!"

"Neffy..." Twilight growled dangerously.

"Oh, Mommy told me all about how she designed your male parts when she gave me the sex talk!" Starlight responded eagerly.  "Can I get a closer look?  I'm hoping to get some ideas for when I start experimenting with gene splicing magic to give Sunburst an upgrade in that department, cause despite being happily married and with a kid he has some serious confidence issues there-"

"Starlight!" Twilight gasped out, face flaming.  "Not only is that a highly inappropriate thing to ask your Dad, but that's also incredibly dangerous magic to experiment with!"

"But Mom!" Starlight whined.  "You promised you'd help me with that once we were reunited and we had access to off-world resources to contain the experiments!"

Twilight opened her mouth to object, only for memories to resurface.  "By the Sleepless Gods I really said that, didn't I...?"





It was quite understandable that after all of this - and Celestia not even bothering to hide her amusement at Twilight's situation - that Twilight felt she needed a break from Equestria, making it an excellent time to visit Sunset in her world to check up on her progress.  Supply requests had been almost entirely automated at this point, but personal messages had dwindled recently, and Twilight felt it was time to find out why.

Stepping through the portal, however, she found herself not in bright sunshine but in what looked like an underground bunker...one that looked more at home in Polaris than the world Twilight had seen last time she passed through the portal.  The room she stepped out in was plainly a bedroom...and on the bed was a yellow skinned girl with far too much fluffy orange hair sitting on her hands and knees wearing a tight choker with a blue gem, a leash...and nothing else.  She turned ruby eyes toward Twilight...and grinned with malicious amusement, but said nothing.

"Sunset, is that you?" a startlingly familiar voice called from outside the door.  It slid open and Twilight got a brief view of what looked like giant color coordinated pony shaped mecha before a young purple skinned woman stepped through.  She could have passed for Twilight's twin...except she kept her hair up in a bun, wore glasses, and was only wearing what Twilight recognized from Nefarious internet searches in this world as the 'Leia Slave outfit' (which she had in three colors for when she took human form for their fun).  "I'm glad you're here, though," the stranger continued, not lifting her eyes from the dataslate she was carrying.  "I think I may have finally figured out how to properly channel the magical energy to power-WUAGHH!"  The scream was as she caught sight of Twilight.  Dropping the slate from her hands, she desperately tried to cover herself with her arms.  The slate halted itself in a purple aura before it could hit the ground.

Before the frozen tableau could become even more awkward, a telepad in the corner flared to life and a Sentai suited female stepped off.  The suit was colored in orange and red, and wings of similarly colored flame were spreading from the figure's back.  She pulled her helmet off as she walked, revealing Sunset...with pony ears.  "Twilight, we really need to work on these wrist units," she began as she shook her hair out.  "They're really useful for suiting up in a hurry, but the removal feature for my suit errors every time I pony up while wearing it ever since these came in-"  The wings flapped.  "And that's unfortunately every time now, because my true self seems to come out strongest in battle-YIPE!"  Sunset leapt back as she caught sight of Twilight.  "Twilight!  I...I can explain!"

Twilight blinked at Sunset.  "Did Celestia team up with you to pull the ultimate prank on me?  Please say yes, I could use a good laugh right now..."

Sunset blinked for a time.  "...you know, the last few months of my life would make a lot more sense if that were the case," she admitted hopefully.

Sighing, Twilight popped a squat on the bed, sending a glare at the fluffy haired young woman when she tried to cuddle up that sent her scurrying to the opposite side of the bed.  "Alright...I'm listening.  Explain."

Sunset sat down next to Twilight.  "It's...a long story-"  She suddenly winced.  "One easier told without a massive wedgie.  Let me just get out of this first?"








(1)Thanks for this, proto20