Royal Guard Twilight Sparkle, you are assigned to Ponyville for your trial round. If you were to succeed in this assignment your reassignment will be accepted and you will now be known as my Student, Sunset Shimmer's Guard
You must keep a low profile and...
Twilight couldn't help but scrunch up her muzzle in confusion, it was such a simple assignment. Stay in Ponyville for a month before the Summer Sun Celebration, watch over the town and be on guard (hah! she's hilarious) until Princess Celestia relieves Twilight of her station and Twilight will finally have her dream.
but why did it feel so empty? Twilight would finally live her dream, Protecting her Sunset and they could finally be together again. While Twilight knew that Sunset would never reciprocate her feelings, just being able to protect her like Sunset did when they were younger was alright with her.
Twilight when arriving at her barracks, removed her helmet and tapped the star in her armour, she let out a sigh of relief as the appearance spell disappeared. Twilight Sparkle stood at the height taller and much bulkier than the Average unicorn, Twilight couldn't help but thank Faust once again for letting her Recessive Shire trait appear on her just like it did for her B.B.B.F.F
Being at the age ripe age of Twenty Two and spending Seven years in the Guard did wonders to her Physique and Twilight couldn't help but think on what Sunset would've thought on her looks when Twilight finally gets the station of being her guard.
Did Sunset even want a guard? Twilight knew that Sunset had pride for being powerful and she is more than capable to take care of herself, what if Sunset thinks Twilight is looking down on her or maybe she would detest her and think Twilight is trying to get her station or-
And there she goes, Twilight is still the same no matter which universe you're at.
Thock- Thock
The sound of somepony knocking knocked Twilight out of her rambling, quickly donning her helmet and activating the enchantment once more Twilight opened the door to an Older White coated Unicorn stallion with A blue mane with light blue streaks.
"Lieutenant Armor, What can I do for you?" Twilight asked with a straight face, being familiar when in duty is a minor offence and despite being related to a ranking officer, it will still be on record for not keeping up appearances.
"Royal Guard Sparkle, I am here for my little sister who I would love to accompany me to the Guard's Dining room" Lieutenant Armor answered back, with the same tone. Both siblings stared at each other unblinking before Lieutenant Armor snorted.
"Still professional even around family Twilight?" He asked as he motioned for Twilight to walk with him as he slowly trotted to the Dining Room
Twilight nodded and fell right into formation beside him but as Twilight slinked into place she felt something was off, quickly blocking a hoof to the face. Twilight grabbed him by the muzzle and slammed her armoured head against his.
Smack!
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Lieutenant Armor couldn't help but laugh through the pain, even with the magic shield around him, Twilight managed to dislocate his muzzle. Armor couldn't help but feel pride for Twilight managing to keep up with him, such a contrast to the lithe, little filly that Shining Armor knew as a colt but behind that pride Armor knew that he was just trying to cover the truth with something else.
A quick healing spell later, the two siblings trotted their way to the dining room.
Twilight let out a boisterous laugh, a cup filled with the Second best Alchohol Equestria could offer on her hoof as she explained her story. Her helmet and the appearance enchantment off just like the rest of the guards in the room, she was on her hind legs as she slammed her cup onto the table.
"And that! Is why I'm going to marry Sunset Shimmer!" Laughter and jeers came from around her, as they teased the Purple unicorn of her feelings. Statements like 'GOOD LUCK SPARKLE' or 'LAY WITH HER FOR US' was tossed around the room as they gave their reactions to an inebriated Twilight Sparkle.
Shining Armor chuckled, proudly watching as Twilight vaguely yet specifically gave her plans to marry a certain Student with words and connotations that would even confuse the smartest of scholars.
Shining knew that even if they were to get Twilight drunk enough that she couldn't walk properly, Twilight would never spill anything of importance and Shining couldn't be any prouder seeing his little sister being the Model Royal Guard even when she was incacipated. It made him feel a bit jealous but he tried to be like any good big brother and be proud. He failed at it before and he won't fail at it now.
The big question is why Twilight would even have a failsafe for this kind off thing. Whenever Twilight was asked this, she would simply give some kind of vague yet dangerous sounding situation. Shining Armor knew it was because she was simply paranoid and not at any hidden enemy or something along those lines.
No, it was because Twilight was paranoid that if Sunset and he would go out drinking, (however unlikely that may be, because while Sunset would look like she could handle her liquor, she is secretly such a lightweight that a single shot would've inebriated her) Twilight knew she would spill everything, including her feelings, so Twilight trained herself to not spill anything of importance.
However what Twilight forgot is that, While she can stop herself from spilling her feelings to Sunset herself, doesn't mean it'll stop her from spilling it to the whole Royal Guard branch on a drunken Night.
All a slightly buzzed Shining Armor could do is give a simple smile at his little sister's stupidity and join in on said stupidity.
You know what they say, 'You can't beat them? Join 'em!'
Twilight stumbled her way to her bed, her other roommates already in their beds snoozing away. As Twilight removed her armor, a pair of turquoise slitted eyes appeared and as a second passed, it was gone. Blinking her eyes in confusion, Twilight looked around trying to see if what she saw was an actually thing or was the alcohol messing with her mind again. With a grumble of 'im going Crazy' Twilight dropped her armor in her small pocket dimension before slipping into her bed, a few seconds later the purple unicorn was fast asleep.
Not noticing the dark shadow looming over her, watching, plotting and waiting.
We will finally be together, after all this time. Just wait my Spark