Since Before the Stars Swirled

by The Real Darkness


Another Interference

Upon arriving, Sunset was assisting Luna with walking normally, her hair incredibly long and she was wearing some kind of business suit, a stark contrast to the Luna of this world, but Pulsar knew their personalities would mesh well.

Pulsar was immediately distracted however. A grey circle was left above the soccer field of the school, white sparkles inside of it.

"Is...is this a remnant of my magic? Did I mar the sky?"

"What is it, Pulsar...sweet Celestia, what did..."

"You were there, Sunset!" Pulsar jogged around the school to the soccer field to notice a tent sitting in the middle of it, a rather large one.

"Equestria sake, you're capable of this much magic even here?!" Luna expressed, Sunset letting her hold onto her arm as she walked, "was this where you became an alicorn?"

"Yeah...still something I wish to study," Pulsar muttered.

"They're back!" Twilight ran out from the tent, the other girls accompanying them, "is something wrong vice principal Luna?"

"Vice...principal? I'm-!" Sunset cut Luna off.

"Wait wait wait, Princess Luna. Here, there is a Luna just like you, looks incredibly uncanny, but she's the vice principal of this school."

"So...this is Princess Luna?" Applejack emphasized.

"Yes, that is who I am," Luna let go of Sunset, standing on her own.

"Another Princess?!" Pinkie bounced to the front, "hi, I'm-."

"Pinkie Pie. Twilight was right, all of you are just like them," the six smiled at her.

Pulsar Splash was staring up at the sky.

"So, is somepony gonna tell him?" Rarity spoke up a little bit aways from the man dressed in his lab coat.

"Oh...he does still have wings, doesn't he?" Rainbow Dash observed, "wait what?!"

"And a horn," Fluttershy followed.

"Puls! Come here!"

He walked back, "is something wrong, Sunset?"

"Feel your forehead," Pulsar's hand reached up and touched the horn, following the large catalyst up. He then send the command to flap his wings and they did flap.

"Why...why do I still have my alicorn features? That's not what Twilight ahd written in her personal research journals."

"You read Princess Twilight's personal research journals?" Sunset looked a little peeved.

"I put the knowledge to good use! That pony is incredibly organized, there wasn't anything personal in it, just pure speculations, observations, and recordings of data from what she lived through and did her whole life!" Pulsar defended himself.

"Never change, Pulsar Splash," Sunset responded with a smile.

"So, I have more research to do when I find the time," he reached a wing around himself, feeling it before casting a spell to add the apendages and his horn.

"Amazing, from all knowledge, magic does not exist in this world," Princess Luna was looking giddy, "master, how are you able to cast spells?"

"Master?!"

"Well, Luna. This one is kind of easy," Pulsar grabbed both her hands, "relax your mind."

And Pulsar was quickly in Luna's conscious before he dug to the same palce he did in Sunset, pulling her magic energy to the front, "and now you can use magic as well. It seems there is something that seals magic away when it comes here. I'll find the force or reason for it."

"So...our magic just goes dormant in other words?"

"Yes," Luna nodded her understanding.

"I would refrain from casting advanced spells," Sunset commented, "you have to redevelop a magic affinity here."

"Soooo, why is Princess Luna here?" Rainbow questioned, "not that we don't like having a guest, but."

"Pulsar Splash thought it would be a great idea, even this late at night," Sunset glared at him.

"Ooooh, come on. I can't keep you from your friends," Pulsar's hands lit in place of his horn, he sent a telepathic message to the person here intended.

"So, you intended to introduce Princess Luna to Vice Principal Luna?" Rarity voiced.

"I did."

"And you already cast s-."

"I did."

Pulsar sat on the grass of the field, staring a tthe hole in the sky he put there, "to think all that happened when Sombra met me."

It wasn't long at all until the intended person arrived, a car could be ehard in the parking lot and Vice Principal Luna made her way to the field.

"I see you all are still camping and keeping an eye on Pulsar's...monument. Good evening Sunset Shimmer and Pulsar Splash," she addressed them.

"I analyzed it thoroughly, it's safe, but it might be quite distracting for some students. Maybe it'll help you win some of your soccer games," the alicorn smiled, still sitting on the grass next to Sunset.

"Who is this?" She addressed the other Luna giving her time to introduce herself.

Luna stood shakily, "I am Princess Luna, ruler of the night and walker of dreams. You're the one they refer to as Vice Principal Luna."

The non-Equestrian glared at Pulsar who smiled, "I am. I don't know why Pulsar brought you here."

"Well, I knew you both wanted to meet each other. It was kind of obvious despite how well you covered it up, Vice Principal Luna," he kept his wide smile.

"I see you're no stranger to authority or the extreme subtleties of conversation."

"Of course not, he was my magic instructor," Princess Luna noted.

"Oh? He only said you traversed dreams. Modesty is a weapon in conversation, Pulsar."

"I'm aware. Honestly, that was a lifetime ago."

Pulsar Splash stood himself, looking at the girls who were disassembling the tent.

He looked at the girls, this world's Twilight speaking with Princess Luna and the Vice Principal Luna.

Outlast it all

He was it's conduit indeed and it made itself known to him that it would be speaking to him throughout his life.

Rather existence.

"You alright, Pulsar Splash?" Sunset directed to him.

"Huh, yeah."

"Don't 'huh' me, something was clearly on your mind. What is it?"

"So, I don't know if you'll ever understand but there's a thought like a voice that interrupts my head every now and then and I know it's from the place where alicorns ascend."

"Not entirely, but we'll say that I do," she smiled at him.

"And it's just not making sense, but just accepting what it is saying...can be challenging."

"Well, what did it say? We're all friends here, darling," Rarity overheard and came by.

"Not something I want to share," he looked to Sunset and she nodded.

I'll ask you later, Pulse.

Telepathy? Direct? Here? That's impressive.

"I got to be getting back to the hay, so I'm splittin'. Did you want that ride, Fluttershy?" She nodded at Applejack and the two left, the tent practically disassembled, "y'all take care."

"Bye, girls. Bye, Pulsar. Oh, I mean Prince Pulsar," she bowed to him.

"Don't be that formal, all of you are friends," an idea struck the alicorn and he began casting a spells and transmuting some of the grass fibers around them, sneakily.

"Master Pulsar, you are completely right. Vice Principal Luna is a very refreshing conversant."

"I'm curious, what is my sister like in Equestria?" The non-princess asked.

"Too busy to even speak with most days. Even in retirement, I wish Tia would relax."

"Oh? I don't even call my sister that nickname...something new to tease her with," the vice principal looked to her watch, "I apologize, Princess Luna, but I must be getting back," she nodded, "take care, Pulsar. Treat our Sunset Shimmer well wherever you take her," the couple chuckled as the authority went to the parking lot and the headlights signaled her driving off.

Pulsar Splash had finished his spell, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie had finished taking down the tent and packed it away into Rarity's SUV sitting in the front student parking lot.

"So, Twilight, I have a favor to ask of you," Pulsar levitated six journals in front of the girl, handing her three, "each are individualized, but they're communication journals."

"Oh, like the one the Princess gave me?" Sunset asked.

"Mmmm, a little more advanced. You'll be mentally notified when I write back and I'll be notified when you write to me. Please give Applejack and Fluttershy the ones meant for them."

"Ummmm, not that I'm complaining because having a Prince of Magic answer any questions I have would be awesome, but why?" The studious girl immediately wanted answers for his actions.

Pulsar cleared his throat, giving the books to Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie as they returned, "well, I figure if I am a Prince of Magic, then it is my duty to instruct and advise anypony and anyone who comes to me seeking information. I want to extend that to here."

"Magic is still quite new to our world and though I can handle a lot of questions, having you at the ready can't hurt," Sunset leaned onto him, "but where's mine?"

Pulsar levitated two teal stones out of his hair, "I grabbed these from my secure storage, not my forbidden archive, while we were at my home."

"Malachite?!" Sunset got excited.

"You can swear on Celestia's soul."

"Communicator stones?!"

"You bet."

"I thought they were all destroyed or lost to prevent unicorns from developing a spy network and undermining the unifying of Equestria," she sought more clarification.

"Mmmm, Celestia and Luna have one. Hmmm, I also gave a set to those nomad minotaurs so the hunting parties could communicate back with the camp. That's just what we tell everypony so they won't go snooping for them. There's a vault that Starswirl and I locked away in Tartarus."

"What?!"

"Oh yeah, that was a fun one, teleporting them all out of the royal family's bedrooms and away from guards and knights before the day of destruction came. Bullion was reeeeeeally pissed that nopony had one anymore and he knew who did it and probably why, but he never came after us," he shrugged, "he was a good king, really understood even those who hated court."

"That sounds like the best prank in the world and we're not even gonna talk about it more?"

"Hush, Rainbow, he's explaining something," Rarity scolded the athlete.

"Sunset, just hold it to your lips while you're speaking and you'll come through mine just fine. I've tuned them to even work across the mirror."

"How come none of this affects the structural integrity between our worlds and the barrier doesn't start collapsing?" And there was Twilight.

"I swear on the Mother of Celestia's grave, you're the exact kind of person I'd start a whole school for," he smiled, "that's a complex question which requires a lot of foundational and advanced knowledge of spellcraft and enchantments. But think of the statue as a uh...cellphone tower that can reach anywhere and its signal is never blocked or down. Your books would send to that tower, the statue, and then to mine."

"The communicator stones are different, they were found under the crystal empire and are limited in existing number," Sunset spoke up, "they came in clusters, but geologists found that what happened to one cluster happened to another, even though they weren't touching and mages eventually warped the connection a bit to turn it into a speaker and microphone and layered more enchantments with that."

"I think somepony must have gotten to the old unicorn kingdom library."

"Nah, just read your book in the restricted section on the subject."

"I'll be getting some shut eye, I expect you to keep in touch with us," Rarity chimed, "take care darlings. Come on Pinkie and Rainbow."

"Sleep well, Rarity," Pulsar called.

"Well, that leaves the four of us."

"Pulsar, you are aware we use our own magic here, right?" Twilight sat across from the couple.

"I am, I have some notes copied back at my home, but that's on the back burner now. My fore front is tending to Equestria in the new role I have."

"What she means to ask is whether you're aware that you aren't introducing anything new here," Princess Luna spoke.

"I absolutely am, the only internal magic I've seen if those of Equestrians here. I have seen some flitters from your classmates, but nothing concrete, nothing I can open for them."

The student held up her geode that hung on her neck, "I meant this."

Pulsar looked close at it, "maybe something similar to the elements of harmony?" He theorized.

"Hold off on testing them, Pulse. We still use them for important work," Sunset mentioned.

The four of them chatted away the night, sharing differences and similarities before Twilight left to go home herself, the night growing longer.

"It's 2am," Sunset mentioned.

"I should be getting back, although retired, my duties in the dreamscape have not ended," Luna stood shakily. The couple led her back to the portal, "we'll come soon, Princess. I need to talk with him about something."

"Sunset, if you're courting our old teacher, please don't use the formalities when we're not in the public eye. I'll see you two soon," she crossed through.