Carrot Top
“You’re pretty good at this for someone who is barely my height,” I admitted as I stood next to Spike as I helped him stir something in a pot. “Do you normally cook for the Princess?”
“Mhm! It’s a hobby I enjoy. Of course, Twilight does help when she isn’t busy with princess duties or reading or solving life threatening emergencies like we always deal with,” Spike answered as I examined his white apron with a red heart in the middle. “Don’t question the apron.”
“I wasn’t,” I reassured him as I slid him another spoon. “But now that you mention it, why do you have a heart apron?”
“Rarity made it for me for Hearths Warming one year,” Spike admitted with a blush. “Shame it’ll never happen like I hoped.”
“Aren’t you a kid?” I asked curiously and tilted my head to the left.
“I’m eighteen I’ll have you know Golden Harvest,” Spike rolled his eyes as he glanced up at me. “Or Carrot Top I suppose. I’m pretty close to your pony counterpart. She’s super nice actually.”
“I’d hope so,” I patted him on the head. “How old is Rarity and well, me?”
“Rarity is twenty nine and Carrot is twenty four,” Spike answered as I rubbed my chin with a hoof.
“I’m twenty two so just date my counter part,” I shrugged as he gave me a look. “Isn’t she coming over as Princess Twilight said?”
“I’m actually right here.”
I looked back at a perfect copy of me, right down to my green eyes as she set down her saddlebags.
“This is awkward,” my counterpart mused as she examined me. “Now I know how Raindrops, Blossomforth and Cloudkicker felt. I love Trixie but thank the stars she’s out in Foalida for the holidays. Having two Trixie’s would be impossible to deal with. Shame I got her a nice gift too.”
“You’re telling me,” I muttered as she smirked slightly. “Never in a trillion years would I ever expect this.”
Spike watched silently as my counterpart knelt down to pick him on her back.
“I ship it,” I announced as the two blushed. “Hard as heck. Harder than the time I shipped Raindrops with my cousin, Wind Tunnel.”
“I can’t with you,” Spike rolled his eyes as we both laughed. “Either of you. You’re lucky you’re pretty.”
We both looked at each other and snickering as he froze.
“You’re never living this down. How about to tell us apart, I’m Golden and you’re Carrot?” Golden suggested as I nodded in approval. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that before. “Excellent. I’ll claim Spike as a partner later with you, now enough talking. Let’s get to work and be the most amazing ponies this side of Equestria.”
I gave a laugh as he turned red.
I feel like I should be way more embarrassed about her saying that then I currently am.
“I’m not entirely sure how I should feel about the fact my counterpart has a kid,” I mused and pointed a hoof at Noi. “She’s not even older than me. And has a six year old. It’s a bit weird. And don’t even get me started on her trying to convince me to get with her and Spike.”
“She’s what?” Twilight demanded as she turned to look at me and I gulped nervously, pulling the sweater Sunset had given me tighter around myself. “Huh, I can see it. I always figured he’d be stuck up on Rarity but apparently not.”
I didn’t entirely know what to say to that as I idly watched Spike and my counterpart hug before glancing at me and I turned red before giving a sheepish smile.
“Sunset is apparently having some super private conversation with her mom that we can’t be apart of,” Trixie huffed and crossed her forelegs as she intently watched Diamond talking to Noi.
“Trixie, we literally see her everyday and spent half the time here with her,” Cloudkicker said flatly as she stared at her. “Let her spend time with her mom, we can be away for an hour from her.”
“Even I wasn’t allowed so it’s obviously serious,” Twilight added with a faint frown. “Only Luna was so it’s hopefully just family business.”
“Or maybe they’re warning her about a super evil version of Twilight hellbent on taking over the world and Equestria to learn about magic, resulting in Sunset becoming a literal angel and saving the day?” Pinkie suggested as she took a deep breath and we all gave her confused looks.
“Yeah, I don’t think that’s the case,” Rainbow said finally as she yawned. “Twilight is the last pony I’d ever see going evil. I’d bank on Fluttershy going evil first before Twilight.”
“Why me?” Fluttershy complained and I snickered as she set down a mouse.
“It’s always the quiet ones.”
I ignored the two talking and stretched my forelegs with a yawn.
“Pinkie was oddly specific,” Raindrops mused and scratched her mane with a hoof.
“She’s like that darling. We’ve all gotten used to it and accepted her quirks,” Rarity reassured us. “She is very unique. She once sat on Rainbow’s face after Rainbow tried dragging her to a party we had planned.”
“Did Rainbow at least like it?” Cloudkicker asked with a grin as Rarity gave her a confused look. “Or Pinkie at least?”
“I don’t understand darling,” Rarity said as Lavender snorted.
“She’s making a dirty comment as usual, the sex crazed freak she is,” Lavender explained and gave Cloudkicker a slight shove as Rarity turned red.
“O-oh I see,” Rarity stammered as she took a drink of water and set it down hastily. “I uh don’t know? It never came up thankfully in conversation.”
“There was no tongue whatsoever,” Pinkie grumbled as she plopped next to me. “Even though I was depressed then, I still wouldn’t have minded getting off. At least I have hooves.”
“Ah have honestly no words,” Applejack shook her head with a stunned expression as Rarity went even redder and I joined Cloudkicker in laughing. “Ah can’t even with you two. And ah thought Rainbow was the immature one.”
“I’m literally right here.”
Raindrops and Applejack both smirked slightly at the blue pegasus hovering above us with a scowl.
“Ah know.”
I kinda wonder what the others back home are getting up to. I may not entirely be their friends anymore after this but still.
“Curiosity killed the cat,” Pinkie said flatly as she poked my side. “Don’t get too curious about them.”
“What?”
“Oh nothing,” Pinkie shrugged and rolled away to the kitchen and I gave her a stunned look. I didn’t entirely think ponies could move that way.
I just decided to chalk that up to Pinkie being Pinkie and move on with my night.
Probably the best way to keep my sanity and I quite like having it.