Not Everything Is What It Looks Like

by Twilight Star


The invitation

It was a beautiful day in Ponyville, and Twilight, and her ‘friends’ were having a picnic. Spike was running to the picnic spot. Rainbow Dash was eating a sandwich, Applejack drinking water with a straw, and Twilight grabbed an apple from the basket, but seeing Spike running over her made her worried. Spike got to Twilight, “hey! I have a message for you, Twilight. Just leave me… ”

 Spike felt like he was going to puke, “oh wait… here it comes…” Spike belched and a rolled parchment appeared.

 Twilight Sparkle took the scroll with a scroll, “thank you, Spike”, Twilight opened the scroll and saw that it was from Celestia.

 “Ah. It’s from Princess Celestia”, said Twilight Sparkle, a little upset inside. She thought it was from her mother.

 “Dear Twilight, I’m sure you’re as excited as I am about the wedding in Canterlot,” read Twilight before being surprised, “wedding?”

 “I’ll be arranging the ceremony, but I wish you and your friends would help with this wonderful occasion”, read Twilight Sparkle.

 “You’re in charge of checking out the wedding preparations, Pinkie will be in charge of preparing the games, Applejack Cake and Food, Rainbow will do Sonic-Rainboom after the wedding, Rarity will do the bride and husband dress and Fluttershy of the song”, read Twilight Sparkle.

 “Wow, what an honor”, said Fluttershy with a smile.

 “But I don’t understand. Who’s getting married?” asked Twilight Sparkle, now confused. She needed to know.

 Spike remembered something. He took out another scroll, “wait! I should have delivered this letter first. Here”, said Spike.

 Twilight took the letter and opened it to read, “Princess Celestia invites you to wedding of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza’s and…” Twilight Sparkle was surprised. “My brother Shining Armor?!”

 “Is your brother getting married?” asked Applejack before smiling. “I would like to congratulate you”

 “I didn’t know you had a brother, Twilight”, said Rarity.

 “Are you happy for your brother?” asked Fluttershy.

 Was Twilight Sparkle surprised her foster brother getting married without him telling her? How could she demonstrate this without revealing her identity?

 “Do you know what I think? Why would he marry without telling me?” asked Twilight Sparkle, with a possible tone of anger.

 Twilight Sparkle grabbed a sandwich and started stirring the bread like a mouth, “I, Shining Armor, will marry Princess Mi Amore Candeza without telling my sister”

 Twilight threw the sandwich away, “Do you have any idea how angry I am?!” Smokes started to come out of her nose. Twilight glanced at her “friends”. Her friends found that strange.

 “I’m sorry. He was my brother a long time ago. And seeing that he’s marrying someone I don’t know that my anger would take the best of me”, said Twilight Sparkle, now sorry on the outside, but inside she was amazed to say that.

 Twilight wondered if she should tell her 'friends' and her to go to Canterlot or if she should do drama and even sing a song about her foster brother about how she “loves” him and she considered him his “B.B.B.F.F”. And she chose the second option. She even had how she was going to sing, only she had to wait for the right moment.

 “Twilight, I don’t understand something. Why do you feel so connected to your brother?” asked Applejack confused.

 Twilight intended to scream and say ‘because I was born in his family!’ But she had a better idea, “because he’s my B.B.B.F.F”, replied Twilight Sparkle, now pretending to be sad.

 The Twilight friends were confused, “B.B what?” asked Applejack, now confused.

 Twilight glanced at Applejack, “B.B.B.F.F. Big Brother Best Friend Forever. Before coming here and learning the importance of friendship, Shining Armor was the only pony I accepted as a friend”

 Twilight realized that now was a good time to sing. That was what she was going to do. A pink bird landed on the hull. Twilight petted the bird before letting it fly. That done she began to sing.

 “When i was just a filly, i found it rather silly to see how many other ponies i could meet”, started singing Twilight Sparkle.

 “I had my books to read, didn’t know that I would ever need other ponies to make my life complete”

 “But there was one colt that i cared for. I knew he would be there for me”

 “MY BIG BROTHER BEST FRIEND FOREVER. Like two pieces in a pod, we did everything together”

 “He taught me How to fly a kite. Best friend forever”

 “We did everything together. We never had a single fight ”

 “We did everything together. We shared our hopes, we shared our dreams ”

 “I miss him more than i realized. It seems… ”

 Now the one who sang was her 'friends', “YOUR BIG BROTHER. BEST FRIEND FOREVER”

 “Like two pieces in a pod, you did everything together”

 Now who sang was Twilight, “and though he’s, oh, so far away i hoped he would stay”

 Twilight “friends” and Spike were sad, “my big brother best friend forever… Forever…”

 Now that Twilight has finished singing, tears have started to come out of her eyes. She was a good actress. Applejack went to Twilight, “Twilight, I’m so sorry you’re like this”

 Twilight looked at Applejack, “You’re not to blame, Applejack. But I think we’d better go to Canterlot. We need to help with wedding preparations”


 On the train, Twilight 'friends' were arguing about the wedding, Twilight was staring at the landscape. She wondered if her mother would appear in disguise. Yes. Her mother had to disguise herself so that they could take the form of a pony stealing another pony’s love. The train approached a pink shield around Canterlot. Having royal guards, they let the train pass. When the train stopped, Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash were surprised to see so many royal guards, “I wonder why there are so many guards”, said Rainbow Dash.

 Twilight rushed off the train. Applejack was confused, “sugarcube, where are you going?”

 Twilight stopped running and looked at Applejack, “I’m going to talk to my brother. He needs to hear a conversation from sister to brother”, said Twilight Sparkle, before running again.