//------------------------------// // Amity // Story: Discord's Patchwork Adventure // by Comicizzum //------------------------------// After being beaten by Tirek for her previous failure in capturing her “friends”, the moment Midnight saw them peering out of a portal she knew it was her opportunity for redemption. She’d taken off without really thinking things through. If she hadn’t been driven by fear she would have realized it was all a trap. Now she was standing angrily in a cage in what could only be a room belonging to Discord (there were nonsensical things scattered throughout the whole interior) in front of her former pals.  “Release me at once!” she demanded, blasting a spell against the bars of her prison to no effect. “Oh, we will.” Midnight looked over, surprised to see Sunset Shimmer and her human friends -in their human forms?  “Just hold on, Twilight,” Sunset continued. “We’ll break you out.” “As I’ve already told these ponies, Twilight is dead!” Midnight snapped. “No she’s not!” Mirror Twilight countered, stepping forward. “You tried to claim me and yet I overcame you. And she will too. With the power of-” “If you say friendship I’m going to kill myself,” Midnight scowled. “Fine, we won’t say it,” said Sunset. “We’ll show it. Ready girls?” The humans all stepped up together and the ponies backed away to give them room. Midnight couldn’t help the momentary fear stirring in her chest. But she couldn’t let them see. She could fight them. She was an alicorn! She was all powerful! The Darkness could not be defeated! The lies were almost believable. The pendants around the humans’ necks began to glow. Small pony ears appeared on their heads. Their hair grew several feet, extending almost down to their boots. Beautiful outfits, each one uniquely tailored to the wearer, clothed their bodies. Joining hands, they lifted into the air, surrounded by a rainbow of color. Sunset Shimmer and Mirror Twilight, both in the middle of the group, opened their mouths and began to speak as one, their voices both heard and unified. “Midnight Sparkle, we have come to purge you from Twilight Sparkle, the Champion of Magic for Amity, Lady of Order and Harmony.” “You can’t get rid of me!” Midnight bellowed, angrily gnashing her teeth. “Your power is nothing compared to my own!” “We shall see.” Discord’s house filled with the Rainbow of Light as the seven humans put their hands together and sent a shockwave of magical power towards the dark alicorn. Midnight reared back on her hindlegs, her wings fully spread, her own magical blast pitifully attempting to combat the might of Harmony. The cage was completely obliterated in seconds as the full Power of Friendship slammed into its enemy. Midnight began to scream and writhe. The Light wrapped around her like a warm hug and refused to let go, the pure energy casting out the Darkness like the brilliance of Celestia’s sun breaking through the clouds. It expanded throughout Midnight’s body, abolishing every ounce of the cancerous shadow Tirek had used to create her. Her body began to shrink, her hair ceased to flow, and her wing span decreased. The Rainbow completed its task and retreated, leaving a smaller, lighter alicorn behind.  Twilight Sparkle, wrapped in the warmth of Amity’s Light, was gently placed upon the ground. Within her mind, she looked around and found she was in the same ethereal plane as the one she’d been in right before becoming an alicorn. The stars around her began to condense into a specific location, solidifying into the form of an alicorn she’d never seen before. Her coat was a glistening white and she was tall, taller even than Celestia. Just like the Royal Sisters, her white mane defied gravity, sparkling like diamonds as it waved beautifully in a nonexistent wind. There was not a blemish or flaw on her and her cutie mark was a single perfect rainbow ring. Her purple eyes held a kindness that immediately reminded Twilight of Fluttershy. She started walking towards her, her form radiating with immaculate grace.  “Twilight Sparkle,” she smiled, her voice soothing and soft, “It is good to see you whole again.” The purple alicorn knew, without really knowing how, who this alicorn was. “Amity,” she said reverently, hanging her head in respect as well as shame. For how could she not be? She was tainted. She was impure. She wasn’t worthy. “My little pony, do not think for a second that you are unworthy to be in my presence,” Amity gently admonished.  Twilight looked up, startled. “How-?”       “I know you,” she said. “I know exactly what you are thinking and feeling. It is very similar to what your friends Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, and the other Twilight Sparkle went through. And I will tell you the same thing I whispered to them through you: You are still worthy. You have always been worthy.” Twilight’s eyes filled with tears and before she knew it, she was sobbing. “H-How can you s-say that?” she asked, the words barely managing to break past her heartbreak. “I-I failed t-them. I hurt them! I-” “You did none of those things,” Amity honestly assured, wrapping one of her perfect wings over Twilight’s back.  “But Midnight… She's me.” “Is she?”  Twilight paused and glanced up at Amity, her confusion comparable to the tender bewilderment of a foal seeking guidance from a parent.  Amity stared at her unblinkingly. “Think about it for a moment,” she invited, stepping back. And Twilight did. Was she truly capable of committing Midnight's atrocities? The answer to that was a very swift no. She could never actively seek and take pleasure in hurting her friends. She could never betray them. But Midnight Sparkle had not hesitated. She had maliciously and happily participated in things Twilight would never do. Her poor friends had suffered terribly under her hooves, especially the ones still suffering. At the thought of them, Twilight’s wings flared and she started to panic. “Oh no! Spike! Fluttershy! The princesses!” Amity placed a hoof on her shoulder, steadying her. “Relax, Twilight,” she soothed, “They are not yet lost.” “But they’re all under Tirek’s control!” she cried. “Because of me!” “No.” Amity countered. “You are not solely responsible for what has happened. The Darkness, the opposite to my Light, is the main antagonist in all that has occurred. One of its abilities is to seek out and latch onto a creature’s insecurities, magnifying them until the host is eventually blinded to all else. It can then use the weaknesses within to transform them into the worst of themselves to accomplish its sinister purposes. But just because you have weaknesses, Twilight, does not make you unworthy of being one of my Champions.  “It is alright -needed even- for us to be imperfect. Imperfection allows us to rely on others, to let the magic of friendship grow within our hearts, changing us into new creatures. Long ago you chose friendship and that choice set you down a path that has come to define you. You are not the Darkness that is Midnight Sparkle. You are Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship, because you choose to be.” “I choose…” Twilight muttered, her eyes widening with understanding. Amity smiled. “Yes, my little pony, you choose.” New tears started swelling within Twilight’s eyes and she began to cry, not from sorrow, but from relief. Amity drew her in for another hug under her wing. “You are good,” she said, nuzzling the young alicorn’s cheek with maternal love.  “Because I choose to be,” Twilight whispered, “despite my flaws.” “Exactly,” Amity praised. “Your friends, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, human Twilight, each of them came to this same conclusion.” She chuckled. “Even Discord, though he refuses to acknowledge it. Each of you found the good hidden beneath the flaws and latched onto it. Some of you had to internally dig deeper than others but the fact remains that you now understand that Darkness and Light exist within all of us. It is the individual who decides which master they serve.” “But, if it’s all about choice, why do you allow us to use your power to stop our enemies?” asked Twilight, thinking back on everyone they defeated. “Aren't we taking away their choice by removing the Darkness within them?” “Now you’re moving to an entirely different topic,” Amity smiled, “One that I’m afraid I don’t have time to discuss. It has to deal with balance. If you want to know more, ask Discord.” Twilight stared. “Discord? But, he’s…” She paused, remembering the awful plan Tirek had for him. “He’s probably not himself right now.” Amity’s lip twitched. If Twilight didn’t know any better, she thought the alicorn might be trying not to laugh.  “You may be surprised," she said mysteriously. "You are waking now. Let your friends take care of you. And remember, Twilight,” she leaned in, kissing her forehead just below her horn, “You are worthy.” The shimmering atmosphere slowly began to fade away, Amity’s body dissolving into a million tiny stars. Everything grew black and then Twilight opened her eyes.   She looked around. The room surrounding her was one of the most orderly she'd ever seen. It struck her as odd for some reason but she didn't have time to dwell on it because of the plethora of pony and human arms suddenly wrapping around her in a death grip.  "You're okay!" several voices shouted. "Girls," she gasped, "can't-breathe!" She was released and looked around at all of her beaming friends. Tears brimmed in her lavender eyes as she beheld their unconditional love and forgiveness.  "I'm so sorry," she cried, lowering her head sorrowfully. "I didn't mean to… I can't believe I…" A hand rested on her shoulder and she looked up. Mirror Twilight was smiling at her with an understanding only she could truly know. "It's okay, Twilight," she said. "We've all done things we're not proud of. We don't hold any of it against you." "But if you could do us all a favor and never turn evil again, that would be super appreciated!" said Pinkie Pie, she and her double holding out a purple cake.  Welcome Back! Was written across the surface in pink icing.  Twilight weakly chuckled. "I'll try my best, Pinkie. But if I do fall again, I know all of you will be here to pick me back up." She turned to the humans. "Thank you so much. I know that without me and Fluttershy, the girls could never have managed to change me back." "We were more than happy to help," said Sunset with a smile. "You have Starlight to thank for coming to get us." "It was her idea to begin with!" Rainbow Dash revealed, taking a slice of cake from Mirror Pinkie Pie. Starlight blushed and rubbed the back of her mane. "Well, I remembered the story of their Twilight needing help being turned back to normal so I figured if they could do it there…" Twilight embraced her, filled with pride and gratitude. "Thank you," she muttered. "Your quick thinking saved Equestria." She paused, looking around the orderly room. "That and Discord’s dimension. This is his dimension… right?" "Our rainbow blast sort of affected the house," Sunset revealed sheepishly. Twilight blinked. "It didn't affect his whole dimension, did it?" "Oh, no," Mirror Fluttershy assured. "There's still plenty of chaos raging outside." "Speaking of Discord…" Applejack hesitantly began. "You wouldn't happen to remember what Tirek had planned for him, would ya? We saw ya trap him." "And we saw that poor Fluttershy has once again turned into Flutterbat!" added Rarity. Twilight looked down at her hooves ashamedly. Mirror Twilight placed a comforting hand near her withers. She glanced at her gratefully before sharing Tirek's evil intentions. When she finished, everypony and human looked pale, especially Mirror Fluttershy. "Discord isn't going to do that though, is he?" she asked quietly. "He wouldn't attack her, even if he was a beast. Right?" Mirror Rainbow Dash put a supportive arm around the pale girl.  "If there's one thing we now all know," said Applejack, "it's how those two feel about each other. That's got to stand for something, right, Twilight?" Twilight didn't answer because she really didn't know. Part of her was still completely startled that the two were even romantically involved; how could she miss that development? She knew it was possible for relationships to change. She just never considered that any pony would fall for… well, Discord. And she had played a major part in possibly ruining that relationship! There was a chance that he, at this very moment, was hurting Fluttershy unknowingly.  "I don't know, AJ," she muttered, unable to look at anypony. "Look at what the Darkness did to me. If I could be so different from myself, who knows what it will do to Discord. He might actually be capable of… Fluttershy might be…" She couldn't finish. The thought of Discord murdering Fluttershy was not something any of them wanted to voice. "He won't hurt her." Everypony and human looked up. Mirror Fluttershy was standing there, her hands balled into fists, her eyes set with a steel conviction. "Sugarcube…" Mirror Applejack began but Mirror Fluttershy cut her off. "Discord’s love for Fluttershy is one of the strongest I've ever seen. He won't hurt her. I know it!" Twilight wanted to believe her but her deep and abiding love for her friends hadn't been enough to spare them from Midnight Sparkle’s actions. Who was to say Discord would be any different from her? She wasn't willing to voice this contradiction, however; the alternative was too dark to think about.  "What we need to do is focus on rescuing them," said Starlight, slightly changing the subject. "In order to combat the amount of disharmony Tirek has spread, Discord said we need Double Rainbow Power. We can't do that without Fluttershy." Twilight shook her head. "There's no way we're going to be able to fight our way through all of the defenses Tirek has set up. There are dragons and wyverns, gargoyles, hellhounds, every monster in Tartarus, plus the evil alicorn princesses. I can maybe make it through with my alicorn magic and the Rainbooms could probably get through with their geodes-" "I'm sorry, the Rainbooms?" Rainbow Dash interrupted.  "That would be us," her double said. "It's the name of our band." "You guys are a band?" she said excitedly.  "Yeah! And it's totally awesome!" Twilight cleared her throat, giving the Rainbow Dashes a pointed look. "Sorry," they both said. "The point is, there are a lot of evil things between us and Tirek." "But how do you know Fluttershy will even be with him?" asked Mirror Rarity. "He could easily have her in a cell." "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," Twilight answered. "Tirek has already been defeated by us once. He's not going to trust anypony else with guarding Fluttershy. That's why he kept her chained to his throne." "The brute!" Applejack muttered. "I can't wait to knock his jaw in with my back hooves!" "Yeah, well, get in line," Rainbow Dash growled, pounding her hooves together. "We'll have to get to him first," Starlight reminded. "Oh! Oh! We could do what we did with the Storm King and hide like the pirates did in a giant cake!" Pinkie Pie suggested. "As creative as that would be, darling, I don't think Tirek would be fooled by a large confection," Rarity gently reproved. "We could always ask our Discord to come and save the day," Mirror Pinkie Pie blurted out. Everyone stared except Mirror Fluttershy who gave a rather surprised squeak. "How do you know about Cordy?" she asked, astonished. Mirror Pinkie Pie gave her a sly grin and a wink. "I've known about you two for ages! And by ages I mean a couple weeks. I saw him sneaking into your window Halloween night. I wanted to check on you, since I know how much you hate scary stuff, but I guess I needn't have bothered because he was already there to do just that! Besides, he was this Discord’s back up in case anything went wrong, right? That's what was on the card he burned!" There was a monumental pause as everypony and human processed what had just been revealed. And then the questions started.  "Our world has a Discord?" "You have a boyfriend?" "How long has this been going on?" "He has the same powers as our Discord?!" “He was in your room?!” "Can he really help us?" "You have a boyfriend?!" "Everypony STOP!" Twilight shouted. Poor Mirror Fluttershy was hunched over, hiding her very red face in her hands, her shoulders shaking from all the anxiety the parade of questions had brought. While Twilight was indeed floored by the revelation that the Mirror World had a Discord -she shuddered just thinking about that- if he had the same powers as theirs, he might just be the rescuer they sorely needed. Sunset placed a comforting hand on Mirror Fluttershy's shoulders. "Can you tell us about him?" she asked. Mirror Fluttershy took a deep breath and lowered her hands, her eyes determined to stay focused on her lap as she nodded. "I'll tell you all I know," she said, "but you have to Pinkie Promise that you won't interrupt me." They all did, Mirror Rainbow Dash rather reluctantly. Satisfied, Mirror Fluttershy began her tale. "We met at a Skull Cruncher concert last year. Yes, I'm a metalhead," she revealed. Every human mouth dropped except Mirror Twilight’s; she seemed to have already known about their timid friend's taste in music. "We were both very taken with each other and ended up going out for ice cream after the concert was over. We exchanged numbers that night and ended up going on ten more dates before making things official. He's pretty old fashioned, which I don't mind in the slightest. I found out he's also attending the college where I take a few night classes. We started getting together on campus in the evenings. With his magic, it's been really easy to move around. I can stay with him ‘til curfew and he can snap me home in an instant." She paused, pulling on a lock of her hair. "Um, here's the part you all might not like. Cordy is about a thousand years old." The girls gasped, several of them stuffing their hooves and fists into their mouths to stop commenting; warning glances from the Pinkie Pies kept them at bay. "You see," Mirror Fluttershy explained, "a thousand years ago he was a very powerful Count in the old world. He was traveling on a boat to complete a business transaction when his ship was wrecked and he washed ashore on an island, the only survivor of his crew. The island he marooned on had a cave and he said something called out to him inside it. He went in and found a talisman. There was a symbol on its surface of a circle with eight arrows pointing in every direction. He picked it up and a beast suddenly appeared." She looked up and nodded in confirmation to the ponies. "It was Discord. He said that Cordy had been chosen and then gave him all the information a Chaos Lord needs to know. The talisman then sunk into Cordy's body and he became the Count of Chaos, as he likes to call himself. He's been alive ever since, never aging, never dying. When we found each other, it was like something within us lit up. I can't explain it but it's like we were meant to be together. "I know you might all find that weird. But I really love him- so much so that we've even talked about making things permanent. It wouldn't be until after I've had a couple years of college behind me, of course. Cordy's more than willing to wait. He's been waiting a thousand years. 'What's a few more?' as he says. "Anyway, Discord somehow knew about us; I wouldn't be surprised if Cordy told him. The card he gave me before he left said to contact Cordy if we needed a Chaos Lord's help.” She paused, working her lip between her teeth. “I think that's all the important stuff." There was a long pause as everypony tried to process this information before Twilight coughed and said, "Well I, for one, think we could really use a Chaos Lord right about now.” She looked at Sunset and the others. "I know this news is astronomical for you and I understand each of you needs to have time to process it but right now our Discord and Fluttershy need help and if your Discord can save us from potentially getting wounded during a rescue I say we ask for his assistance." Mirror Fluttershy was still looking down at her hands, unwilling to face the hurt that could clearly be felt coming from her friends. Each one had a look on their face Twilight had seen many times before.  “I’m sorry,” Mirror Fluttershy whispered. “I just wish you could have told us,” Mirror Rainbow Dash muttered, standing up and walking away to the other side of the room, her back to everyone.  “How long have you been seeing each other?” asked Mirror Applejack, hurt and angry. “Since the beginning of the summer,” Mirror Fluttershy answered, wiping a stray tear from her eye.  Sunset sighed and took her hand. She finally looked up. “I think we’re all hurt that you kept this from us,” said Sunset, “but Twilight is right. We need his help. We can work out our feelings later. Can you contact him?” Mirror Fluttershy nodded before pulling out her phone and dialing a number.  “Um, Fluttershy,” Mirror Twilight began, “Our phones don’t-” Mirror Fluttershy held up her finger, her phone now at her ear. After a brief pause- “Hello, Cordy? …I need you…Yes, right now…” There was a sudden pop and the equivalent of a human Discord appeared, standing in the air.  He was tall with broad shoulders, his mismatched body very well-toned. His black hair had small white patches here and there and his beard and eyebrows were exactly like Discord’s. His face was gray, his eyes yellow and red; he even had a single fang sticking slightly out of his mouth. A goat horn and a deer antler parted his hair, both long and fairly close to his skull. He wore a rather tasteful brown collared shirt but the right sleeve had been ripped off, revealing a golden yellow arm. The other sleeve was rolled up to the elbow, exposing a bright yellow forearm and hand. A fitted pinstripe vest, one half blue the other half black, covered most of his torso. His brown pants were the same as his shirt and his dress shoes, one green and the other a lighter brown, were heavily shined. A red tail, exactly like Discord's, extended behind him and two small wings, the same as Discord’s, poked out from behind his back.  “And I thought Discord was the weirdest lookin’ critter I’ve ever seen,” Twilight heard Applejack quietly mutter. Ignoring everything and everyone, the Count of Chaos quickly dropped to one knee at Mirror Fluttershy’s feet and produced a polka-dotted handkerchief with a snap. “Flutterbunny, why so sad?” he asked, wiping away her tears. “Do I need to snap someone into the Bermuda Triangle?” Mirror Fluttershy shook her head. “T-That won’t be necessary, thanks. My friends… they just found out. About us.” Cordy blinked before registering the other girls for the first time. “Ah. Well, do they… know about me?” Mirror Fluttershy nodded. “Even if they didn’t, you’re showing, so it’s kind of a dead giveaway.” Cordy blinked again before his tail wiggled a bit behind him. “Oh-ho, would you look at that! That’s not going to be a problem, is it?” he asked, giving the girls a bit of a stink-eye. Before any of them could answer, he continued, “Because I think it seems highly unfair to judge someone else for their -ahem- extra attire when all of you can, what was the phrase you used my dear? Pony up?” He then stood up and took a look around, a very heavy frown on his face. “Just where exactly are you, Flutterbunny? This has got to be the most” -he shuddered- “orderly place I’ve ever had the not pleasure of visiting.” “We’re in Discord’s dimension. This is his house.” Cordy went over to the window and peered out at the purple void. “Clearly," he said, "But I hardly believe his home would be like this.” “We had to use our Rainbow Magic to turn a friend back to the Light.” “Ahhh, that would explain it,” Cordy muttered, frowning at the very white walls. “You don’t think he’d mind if I…?” He held up a hand. Mirror Fluttershy shook her head. Cordy sent her a grin that looked exactly like the Chaos Lord’s before snapping his fingers.  The whole room transformed into a wonderland of chaos. A huge lava lamp stood in the center, the insides swirling and changing colors. A fuzzy green rug occupied most of the ceiling, an actual tree with fairy lights growing down from the middle of it like some bizarre chandelier. The floor was checkerboard yellow and orange, the walls plaid, polka dot, and abstract. The furniture looked like giant marshmallows, donuts, and pastries and the stairs leading to nowhere descended from one half of the ceiling before stopping in the middle of the wall, an upside down plant hanging from the suspended landing.  The Pinkie Pies let out loud squeals before diving for the giant donuts and biting into them, unafraid. “Ahhh, much better!” Cordy sighed, hopping into a marshmallow next to Mirror Fluttershy and wrapping an arm around her. “Now, what, pray tell, are we doing in another Chaos Lord’s dimension? Don’t tell me you’re trying out a new flavor of chaos, my dear, or I might grow jealous.” Mirror Fluttershy rolled her eyes, a happy smile on her face. “It’s actually a long story.” “I’ve got time,” Cordy said, lightly rubbing his nose against her cheek. “Do you mind?” Mirror Rarity cried, aghast, finally managing to get a word in. Cordy observed her (and the others) discomfort before shrugging. “I don’t, actually, but if I’m making you uncomfortable, Fluttershy, I’ll behave… for now.” “Behave, please,” she said, her face on fire.  “Oh, you’re no fun,” he sighed but gave in, noticing Twilight and her friends for the first time. He popped out of existence only to reappear right over their heads, observing them curiously. “My, my, you ponies really are as colorful as Discord described. Where is that old goat anyway?” “Like Fluttershy said,” Twilight began, feeling heavily annoyed, “It’s a long story.” Cordy whipped up a cup of tea and sat in midair, his tail slightly wagging behind him. “Oh, I do love a good intrigue! Go on then, magical bird horse. Regale me with your epic tale!" “Magical-”  Twilight’s eye twitched before she closed her lids and counted to ten. She had to remind herself just who she was talking to. Only the most annoying human being in the history of the Mirror World! She could get through this. She had to. And so, rather irritated, she quickly and effectively explained everything that had happened from the moment Silvermane showed up in her castle to her reinstatement as Twilight. She left out the part about Amity since she felt it was a rather private moment between her and the Spirit of Harmony. By the time she finished, the look on Cordy’s face was rather intense. He drifted back to the floor and went to the window, his eyes fixed on the purple void. Mirror Fluttershy joined him but wisely kept her gaze averted. She took his hand and gave it a squeeze. “Can you help them?” she asked. Cordy looked at her tenderly as he brushed some hair away from her face. “My dear bunny, there’s a Fluttershy in trouble. How could I not?” “What about Discord?” “Well, I thought it was obvious I’d rescue him too. The moment Princess Violet Starling over there told me they were in danger I cast a spell searching for their magical signature.” “My name is Twilight!” Twilight interjected, grinding her teeth. “Yes, yes,” he said with a wave of his hand. “I think you might be interested to know I’ve located them both. Terrible state they’re in, poor things, but it's nothing your little Rainbow can’t fix.” “You found them?" Applejack cried. “Where?” demanded Rainbow Dash. “They’re not in Canterlot, if that’s what you’re wondering,” Cordy answered, pulling a pair of gloves from thin air, one brown and fingerless, the other fingered and yellow with small black lines running horizontally from the wrist to the fingertips.  “Then where are they?” asked Starlight, confused. “In a cave somewhere near Ponyville,” he answered, putting on the gloves.  "What in Equestria are they doing there?" asked Rarity. “No idea. I’ll pop over and fetch them and you lovely ladies” -he gestured to the human girls- “have those gems ready. No trying to talk to them. Just blast them as soon as you can. Oh, and ponies? You might not like what you see. Just try to stay out of the way of the Death Rainbow, alright?” "Wait!" Twilight called because he was about to snap. He raised a bushy eyebrow at her. "It could be a trap. Tirek and the others know how desperate we are to get them back. They might be trying to draw us out." Cordy frowned in thought, tapping his chin. "I didn't sense any magical energies besides theirs but if it'll make you feel better, I'll stay on guard." "Please," Mirror Fluttershy said immediately, grabbing his hand. "We can't lose you too." His small surprise quickly transformed into a happy grin and he kissed her forehead. "I'll be careful." “Bring them back,” Twilight said, her worry and desperation clearly heard in her voice, “Please.” Cordy smiled. “I will.” He then unashamedly kissed his Fluttershy on the lips. “Do not let anyone leave this room, alright?”  “Okay,” she promised, her rosy cheeks matching the color of her hair. “Be safe.” He nodded before snapping his fingers and disappearing with a faint pop and a stream of heart shaped bubbles. One of them drifted over and popped on Mirror Fluttershy’s cheek. She giggled happily. “Fluttershy?” said Sunset. The pale yellow girl nervously turned to look at her. “Y-Yes?” Sunset smiled. “I like him.” Mirror Fluttershy happily blushed. "Me too."