The day started out normal for Twilight, she woke up from a nightmare that she wouldn’t wish upon her worst enemy, this particular nightmare Twilight was able to vaguely control, meaning she couldn’t control what happened in the dream but could make sure Princess Luna wouldn’t be able to notice her nightmare
First thing in the morning Twilight took of her anti-magic horn ring, it was only designed with unicorns in mind so it couldn’t completely block her magic but blocked it enough to where she wouldn’t be accidentally raising or lowering ether the sun or moon, next she changed Moonlight’s dirty diaper and then at Breakfast Twilight had fed Moonlight some apple sauce that Applejack had been kind enough to provide, the young alicorn protested, until one bite later and then apple sauce was her favorite
Today Spike had agreed to take care of Moonlight so that Twilight could hang out with her friends, she tried to talk him out of it but he wouldn’t listen
In ponyvill square
Twilight walked around aimlessly, she wanted to hang out with her friends but Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy where all busy and Twilight also remembered that Rainbow and Pinkie were gonna go on their pranking spree, Twilight remembered this because the chase itself ended up in a history book only 100 years later and Twilight knew the chase happened today, and that also meant the pranking would happen today.
Twilight syed in sadness knowing that she wouldn’t be able to hang out with any of her friends today, but then she saw someone she didn’t expect to see, it was her Canterlot friend Lyra Heartstrings sitting on a bench like a human, the site alone was humorous to Twilight, she remembered how Lyra used to be obsessed with a species of creatures that don’t exist in equestria, it was so ironic now because if she ever saw this before she would’ve just shook her head and went somewhere else, but now Twilight approached her old friend and then feigning confusion asked “Lyra? What are you doing in ponyvill?”
Lyra looked at Twilight in shook but then smiled and greeted “Hay Twilight, wanna meet my new friend?”
Twilight joked “Is your new friend a human?”
Lyra angrily stated “Don’t joke around! I know their real!”
Twilight apologized “Okay, sorry I shouldn’t have joked about that, so who is your new friend?”
Lyra stated “Her name is Bon Bon, I only met her during the Summer Sun Celebration and we’ve been best friends ever since.”
Twilight knew this but was happy for her friend and then stated “That’s cool, I’d like to meet this Bon Bon.”
Lyra explained to Twilight what Bon Bon looked like, she was an Earth Pony mare with a beige coat, pigment blue mane with a rose pink streak, cerulean eyes, and a Cutie Mark of 3 wrapped candles, her special talent involved making candy, and she also could impersonate any ponies voice, apparently to her friends Bon Bon was known as the mare with 1000 voices, explaining why her voice sounded different every time Twilight could remember her speaking
Twilight stated “Well, I’d lover to meet her, again I’m really sorry about making that joke at your expense, especially considering that you are right.”
Lyra confused asked “Pardon me?”
Twilight looked around making sure no one was around and then she gathered her magic in her horn and focused it on a point on the bench between her and Lyra. Her magic formed a sphere about the size of a small marble and expanded as she steadily poured more power into the spell. It grew until it surrounded them both, slowly faded into a quavering heat-haze, and then disappeared as she finalized the spell.
Lyra asked “Privacy spell?”
Twilight nodded then stated “Theirs a magical mirror in Cantorlot, one that opens a gateway to another dimension once every 30 moons, and if you go through that portal you get turned into a human and you can even find human counterparts of ponies you know, and maybe you’ll even see your human counterpart.”
Lyra looked at Twilight wide eyed but then adapted to an angry look as she stated “Twilight, it’s bad enough that ponies think I’m crazy, but for someone to mock it, that hurts.”
Twilight stated “I’m serious, I’ve even been though it a couple of times.”
Lyra looked at Twilight with a serious look and asked “When?”
Twilight lied “I don’t remember the exact time.” Yes she did, less than a year from now.
Lyra looked at Twilight skeptically, trying to see if she was actually being serious, and she could just tell, Twilight was telling the truth, wale Lyra synced their was something that Twilight wasn’t telling her, she honestly didn’t care right now as she finally had a friend to share her interest in the subject of humans with, her other friends would let her talk all she wanted about it, but Lyra wanted some pony who would also talk about it so for the next hour the two talked about humans, Twilight talking about stuff she learned from her visits there, making sure to leave out the parts about what actually occurred wale she was over their, and Lyra was able to use her limited knowledge, she had more information than the average pony but their wasn’t a lot of information about them in equestria.
As they were having this conversation Lyra asked “So Twilight, I gotta ask, what happened to you? Back in Canterlot you used to be the biggest introvert we know, not that anything is wrong with that of course, but then suddenly out of nowhere, first you showed up for Moondancers birthday.”
Twilight stated “Of course I showed up, getting invited to a party and not going is one of the worst things a Pony can do.” She learned that quote from Pinkie Pie, mostly, it was an important lesson.
Lyra continued “Then you go to ponyvill in what was originally an assignment to go over the preparations Summer Sun Celebration and make 5 new friends.”
Twilight stated “Well part of Princess Celesta’s letter said to make some friends, I wasn’t going to disobey her.” Twilight resisted the urge to throw up in her mouth when she admitted that.
Lyra then stated “Not only that but you adopted a foal, the story behind how that happened is still kinda unclear.”
Twilight asked “Well what would’ve you done if you found a foal in the Everfree Forest?”
Lyra stated “Okay you have a point their, but finally after all of that you get us to Ponyvill to meet your new friends, I still don’t know exactly how we ended up their.”
Twilight lied “I don’t know either. I asked Pinkie Pie to get you girls here and she did. I would research it but I wouldn’t even know where to start. I mean how do you research something that seams impossible?”
Lyra stated “Yeah you got me their. But their is definitely something different about you, your not acting like you used to back in Canterlot, it’s not necessarily a bad thing, you’re so much happier now, but I gotta ask, did something happen to cause this sudden change?”
Twilight was actually impressed by how accurate she was. Yes something had happened, she suddenly had another chance to see all the friends she thought she’d never see again, she had known love, loss, her friend, and was lonely, finally she had gotten the greatest gift ever from a dear friend that she couldn’t wait to see once more, so you could say that Twilight was reasonably acting differently.
Twilight stated “Well I guess the best way to explain it was that I reflected on my life up until one point, most of it had been spent only studying with little social interaction, going to Moondancer’s birthday was one of the best choices that I’ve ever made, it made me realize how much I loved having friends, having friends feels great, and the more friends I have the better I feel, maybe one day I’ll be famous for having lots of friends.” That was one of the best explanations she could give without outright saying she was from the future
Lyra looked at twilight baffled, then seconds later burst out laughing
Twilight slightly hurt asked “What? It could happen.” It did happen!
Lyra slightly calmed down and still chuckling she explained “I’m not laughing for the reason you think, maybe you will be famous one day, but it probably won’t be for making friends.” She laughed harder
Twilight just decided to leave at that point and go find something else to do, she walked to the town square, oh how this place brought back fond memories. Their wasn’t a lot of epic equestria saving adventures in Ponyvill, here she could just be with her friends. Twilight was so lost in thought that when Pinkie asked her where Rainbow was Twilight just pointed at a random cloud and apparently that was where Rainbow was attempting to take a nap on so Rainbow few away as fast as her wings could carry her and thus began the most confusing chase in pony history, the one that would lead to the prankster duo of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, seeing that their was still some time left in the day Twilight decided to try and find Bon Bon, she eventually did find the mare.
Twilight went up to her and asked “Oh hay Bon Bon? Right.”
Bon Bon nodded and answered “Hay, your Twilight Sparkle right?”
Twilight stated “Yes.”
Bon Bon asked “Can we talk somewhere more private?”
Twilight nodded her head as the two headed somewhere more private to discuss an important matter
Once the two were alone Twilight saluted Bon Bon and stated “Special Agent Sweetie Drops, how is your undercover mission to make sure nothing escapes Tardrus?”
Bon Bon saluted back and answered “My mission is currently running smoothly, every year I head to the gaits to make sure nothing escapes, every pony believes I’m just going to a family reunion at that time.”
These were special conversations just between the two of them when they were sure that not even Pinkie Pie could here them, what no pony knew was that Twilight knew all about the secret monster hunter organization, as much as she hated to admit it, she was Celesta’s personal student.
The two discussed the debriefing for a while, Twilight even told Sweetie to be extra careful this year, Sweetie wouldn’t head her warning but just telling her to be carful made Twilight feel better if only slightly.
When the two separated Twilight noticed Pinkie Pie hiccuping at town hall, she now knew, it was time so Twilight decided to head home so they couldn’t prank Spike
She got home to see Spike had a good handle on things, nothing was damaged and Moonlight was well taken care of, Spike did have some bags under his eyes indicating that he was tired but he hadn’t napped wale taking care of Moonlight
Twilight told Spike that he could be done for the day and started caring for moonlight herself, the rest of the day went smoothly, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie did attempt to prank her but because she wasn’t doing anything at the time that required ink it would be a wile before she ‘fell’ for the prank.
The next day Twilight was in her library, she was still watching Moonlight so Spike could take a well deserved break, with the Canterlot royal voice crying, crazy powerful magical outbursts, super strength, and constantly teleporting all over the place, taking care of a baby Alicorn wasn’t easy, even though Spike made it look easy the reality was that he was just really good cleaning up messes, but it was oh so worth it when you got to see the adorable little one sleeping.
Twilight was currently cradling Moonlight a sleeping Moonlight in her wings, she had dropped the illusion because she desperately needed to stretch her wings from not being used for a week, she had made sure to take every precaution, the windows were covered by curtains so not only no pony could see through them, and if Rainbow Dash crashed through one of them she would be caught in the fabric which would give Twilight the time needed to place her disguise back on, the door had a sine on it that said “Please Knock” and she had a spell on the door just in case someone didn’t read the sine and tried to break down the door, the spell made the door and it’s hinges unbreakable even against Applejack, and finally she had trillions of spells in place that held no function except for specifically keeping Pinkie Pie from coming in anyway except the front door.
Their was a sudden knock at the door and Twilight quietly used her telekinesis to place Moonlight in the crib her parents had sent, her parents had sent many items to help Twilight take care of Moonlight, they and Shining Armor were some of the only ones who knew about Moonlight’s true origin, the rest of Ponyvill not counting the main 6 all believed Twilight’s false story of randomly finding Moonlight in the woods and deciding to care for her.
Twilight then made herself look like a Unicorn and opened the door to reveal Pinkie, already knowing she would be loud Twilight placed a hoof on her mouth and whispered “I just got Moonlight to sleep, please don’t wake her.”
Pinkie nodded and quietly explained how she had went to Rainbow’s house and met Rainbow Dash’s other friend, Gilda but discovered Gilda was a bully
Twilight whispered “Well, a bully never bullies just for the sake of being mean, maybe you should get to know Gilda better, I would recommend throwing a party for her, and you can bond over what you two have in common, you already know that you both are friends with Rainbow so that’s a start.”
Pinkie thought for a moment before finally deciding that was a great idea, and it was an excuse for her to throw a party that was a good thing in Pinkie’s humble opinion.
The party itself went off without too much going wrong, the only prank Gilda suffered was from the joy buzzer Pinkie wore but other than that nothing, this was probably because the party happened earlier so Rainbow didn’t have time to set up those pranks.
During the party Gilda stated “You know Pinkie Pie, I originally thought you were annoying and trying to cut into the limited time me and Dash would have together, and you are kinda annoying but you’re also really nice. I mean you barley even know me yet you through this party just for me. You’re certainly nicer than any Griffin I’ve ever meet. Admittedly that’s not saying much but you get the idea right?”
Pinkie Pie nodded her head vigorously and answered “Of course I understand silly, you were afraid of losing the one real friend you had, right?”
Gilda scoffed and looked away almost looking embarrassed
Pinkie replied “Well if you want I can be your friend!”
Gilda looked back at Pinkie Pie in shock and stuttered “B-but I was a jerk to you! How could you possibly want to be my friend?!”
Pinkie Pie simply answered “Because we have something in common, wanting to feel like we belong, back home I didn’t fit in, my family loved me for who I was no matter what but all the other ponies? Not so much I used to be made fun of all the time as a filly, especially after I got my cutie mark that’s the reason why my parents allowed me to find somewhere else to stay, Mr. Cake is an old friend of my dad’s so it wasn’t much trouble to move me here.”
Gilda looked surprised to hear this and then decided it would be best to change the subject before it became awkward and stated “Well in any case, thanks Pinkie, this party was fun, and about that friend thing, I’ll think about it.”
Pinkie smiled and started “Oh actually the party wasn’t originally my my idea, it was actually my friend Twilight who thought of it.”
Gilda was surprised by this fact and asked “Huh, can you point me to this Twilight?”
Pinkie stated “She’s right behind you.”
Gilda turned around and Twilight indeed was behind her taking care of Moonlight who was asleep inside a stroller, she quietly approached, she may have been a bully for a while but one thing she knew not to do was to appear threatening to a mother’s young one, as that was the fastest way to get on anycreatures’s bad side and she didn’t want to be on the bad side of the pony who made this whole thing possible, she had a new friend in Pinkie Pie, the other ponies she wasn’t so sure about but Pinkie was okay in her books
When Gilda finally reached Twilight she whispered “Hay Twilight right?”
Twilight nodded and stated “You don’t have to whisper, theirs a spell on the stroller that prevents noise from reaching her. Pinkie told you the party was my idea right?”
Gilda nodded to confirm this and stated “Pinkie probably told you about how we met, right?”
Twilight nodded and stated “You wanted to know why I suggested the party for you wale all I knew about you was that you were being mean to one of my closest friends?”
When Gilda nodded to confirm her statement Twilight explained the same thing to Gilda that she earlier explained to Pinkie, that Bullies never be mean just for the sake of being mean, she told Gilda that she didn’t have to explain why she was acting that way, that was her own business
After the party Gilda had a much better attitude, she still wanted to spend as much time with Rainbow Dash as possible, but when she wasn’t available she would hang out with ether Twilight of Pinkie, she wasn’t comfortable enough to branch out and make more friends, she had even told the two the reason why she was mean, it was because back a Jr Speedsters flight school she was bullied, it certainly didn’t help that she was a Griffin and their culture revolved around greed and being mean to each other.
Later at the library Twilight stated “Dear Princess Celesta, I made a new friend today. She’s a Griffin named Gilda, that’s a interesting story in of itself, my friend Pinkie thought she was a bully but I’ve always believed that bullies don’t be mean just for the sake of being mean but because it’s a way of coping with unfortunate circumstances, so I took a chance to test this a suggested throwing a party, and I was right, Gilda was only being mean because she was bullied in the past and being with other Griffins didn’t help her so she lashed out but we were able to come to befriend one another, your faithful student Twilight Sparkle.”
It took all Twilight had not to spit that part but then she mentally smirked and added “P.S. Moonlight is doing great, I feel like I am making excellent progress with her.”
Spike had finished writing down the letter and sent it off to Princess Celesta.
Twilight looked out the window happily, she knew that she possibly did change the timeline a lot, but befriending Gilda sooner she could spreed the message of friendship to the other Griffin’s much sooner and she honestly couldn’t see any potential way that could possibly backfire, and she’s never seen Gilda after that point until after Rainbow and Pinkie went on their friendship quest so their was nothing Twilight would have to worry about for a while and even if their were future consequences she would definitely have revealed herself to be an alicorn by then and be able to fix it.