Raindrops lazily lifted her eyelids. Her head felt dazed, and she felt a constant annoying pain in her side. Her vision became clear, and what she saw was Twilight kicking her in the side.
"Get up!" Twilight said, "we’re here."
"W-what?" Raindrops moaned. She checked her surroundings. They were still in the Everfree forest.
Twilight rolled her eyes and turned away from Raindrops. "Here!" She pointed her hoof to a big boulder in the middle of a mossy path. It looked like the rock was sunk into the ground.
Raindrops slowly got up and eyed the bolder. "...What is it?"
Twilight shook her head, irritated. "Do you remember the time when there were forty Pinkie Pies roaming around causing mayhem?"
Raindrops thought back on that particular day. "Yeah, that was a good day." She said with big grin on her face.
Twilight stared at her for a couple seconds before saying, "Well, this is where they came from."
Raindrops observed the large rock from top to bottom. "They came from a rock? That actually makes sense."
"What—n-no! Ugh! Look! The bolder is covering the entrance to an underground cavern, in there is the mirror pool that Pinkie used to make clones of herself."
"Okay, so wh—" suddenly Raindrops started gagging. Something was coming up her throat, it tickled. She belched, and out her mouth came a blue and green butterfly. It fluttered in the air for a while before flying off. Both ponies stared at it for a little bit before looking at each other.
"Excuse me." Raindrops said, "Anyways, why are we here?"
Twilight took a deep breath, then paced back and forth while speaking, "Twilicorn Alisparkle has turned all my friends and the ponies of Ponyville against me. She's stolen my identity, my element, and worse of all!" Twilight's face scrunched in anger. "She stole my dress!"
Raindrops awkwardly rubbed the back of her head. "Okay, but what does that have to do with the mirror pool?"
Twilight faced the bolder, her horn glowed with magic. "Because she's taken Ponyville as her kingdom, the ponies inside are her subjects." Twilight's magic surrounded the entire rock. With a grunt she focused her attention on lifting the bolder. She flung her head straight up in the air, and the bolder flew into the sky; it vanished within seconds.
"You and me, Raindrops, are the only ones who can stop her. If we have any chance of defeating her and her army, then we need to muster our own force." Twilight took the first steps down into the cavern. Raindrops reluctantly followed her.
They descended down the path. Both had their eyes locked on the glowing pool in the middle of the cave floor. Raindrops looked with awe while Twilight had a hungry expression on her face. They touched the base of the cave floor, and came to the edge of the mirror pool.
Twilight stared hard at her reflection in the pool. "If it's a war she wants, it's a war she'll get."
Raindrops looked at her own reflection, her heart was racing. She was expecting something to happen. "So, how does it work?"
"We just have to say the words of the mirror pool and that will activate it." She said, still looking at her reflection.
"Oh, well, what do we say?"
At that moment Twilight's face motioned from firm to stunned. "I... Uh... well, it goes something like..." Twilight pinched her eyes shut, and gritted her teeth. Her eyes flung back open with rage. "OH, just make me a clone, NOW!" She shouted at her reflection.
The pool responded by faintly glowing brighter. A greedy smile grew on Twilight's face. She reached out with a hoof to her reflection, her hoof dipped into the water to try and grab her reflection's. She jolted a little when she felt a soiled hoof in her grip, but she eagerly pulled the copy of herself out of the liquid. Her reflection accepted the helping hoof, and climbed out. Twilight moved back a little to give herself some room.
Raindrops gaped at the identical unicorns who stared at each other. The real Twilight still had a devilish grin on her face, while the clone stared blankly back at her.
"Yes, it worked! Ah ha!" Twilight cheered.
"That's great!" Twilight's clone smiled. "Uh, what exactly worked?"
"I'll show you." Twilight looked into the pool once again. Her clone followed suit. The pool glowed even without Twilight saying a word. Consistency? What's that?
Twilight and her clone's reflection reached out, and the two grabbed them and pulled them out. Now there was four twilights.
"This is just getting freaky," Raindrops said.
Nevertheless, she stared into the pool, deciding whether or not to try it. "Uhh, one regular clone, please."
And again the pool glowed. Raindrops's reflection reached out a hoof to her, and instead of helping her up, Raindrops jumped back in surprise.
Her clone lifted herself up out of the pool, then gave Raindrops a cold look. "Jerk," she said.
Raindrops went over to her clone who still looked grumpy. “So, you’re my clone?”
“What’s it to you?” The clone said.
“Uh… So, tell me something that only I would know.”
“Your flank is huge.”
Raindrops blushed hard, and stuttered her words, “I-It’s average size. Say something I would know.”
“You’re down right ugly.”
“You’re my clone, idiot.”
“How do you know? Maybe you’re my clone.”
Raindrops stammered, “Uh, T-twilight. I-I think somethings wrong with my clone. Twilight?”
Raindrops turned to see around forty Twilights mumbling to each other. Raindrops's jaw slacked.
“Raindrops!” The real Twilight came out from the crowed of her clones.
"Hey, you only made one clone?" Twilight exclaimed, "don't you know we need as many clones as we can get if we stand a chance against the false princess?"
"I'll kill any pony in my way." Raindrops's clone stated coldly.
"Oooo. I like your aggression. Good enough. Alright, clones! CHAAAAAAARRRRGE!" Twilight shouted while galloping up the path out of the cavern. All the other clones followed in pursuit.
"Time to knock some heads!" Raindrops's clone shouted, flying after the rest of the army.
Raindrops stood in the cavern in silence. "...How is she my clone!" she exclaimed.
~~~
Twilicorn sat on her throne, watching as her subjects do their biddings. In the middle of town square were a couple of ponies chiseling a stone statue of Twilicorn with a menacing expression; a robe, and a scepter with a creepy smiling face of herself as the head.
No pony questioned her authority, because that's how the canon went; the canon was the law.
"Where da white mare at!" Twilicorn yelled.
Da white mare, Rarity, came to her majestie’s side. "You called, darling."
"I need you to draw out greenprints for my new castle, then hand them over to the talking cotton candy so she can bake my cake palace around my throne."
Rarity bowed until her chin touched the floor. “Yes, darling. Right away, darling.” She said, before running off.
“Background pony!” Twilicorn shouted.
“It’s Applejack, your highness.” Background pony said, while approaching Twilicorn.
“Bring me the royal pacifier.”
“You mean this ordinary baby sucker thingy that you got at the convenience store?”
“Yes.”
“Here you go.” Background pony throw the royal pacifier to Twilicorn. Her highness caught it in her mouth, and began to suck on it vigorously.
But then, she stopped. Her ears pick up a sound similar to thunder, only as it got closer did she realize it was the sound of around 40 ponies galloping in her direction. She noticed her slaves—I mean—her subjects heard the nose, too.
From the corner of the street came a herd of lavender unicorns, and two yellow pegasie charging down to the middle of town.
All those unicorns looked just like Twilicorn, except they didn’t have wings, and weren’t princesses.
Twilicorn spat the pacifier out, and got up from her throne, then came down the stairs. The ponies bowed as she gracefully stepped past them. Twilicorn held a firm expression as she came to meet the opposition that gathered around.
Within the herd, ponies were being pushed and shoved aside by one of the lavender unicorns. She came to stand right in front of Twilicorn with a look of vengeance. They stared in silence, their faces were the only words they needed to sa— “Hello, Twilicorn.” Twilight said.
“Hello, former me.” Twilicorn replied.
“Where did you get that dress, from the... toilet store?” Twilight gave a crooked smile. Twilicorn only looked confused.
The Twilight clones are groaned and looked aways. “Ugh! And we’re clones of her?” One of Twilight’s clones said to another.
“You got a lot of nerve showing your face in my kingdom, again. I thought I scared you off?”
“I merely went into exile for… twenty minutes. But during my time I made an alliance with Raindrops, who would not live another second under your tyrannical rule...”
“Uhh, I only ran because I thought they were after me, too.” Raindrops confessed.
“We searched through the Everfree forest and found the mirror pool, and it is with that power that I return with my army to take back what belongs to me!”
Twilicorn studied Twilight, then the army of clones she had behind her. “Mirror pool? The pool that clones your reflection?”
Twilight nodded with a smug smile.
“I see. So if I were to cast this spell onto your clones.” Twilicorn fired up her magic, and began blasting beams at the herd like a gatling gun. Twilight jumped out of the way, but her clones weren’t so lucky. One by one, each clone’s body inflated into a huge ball. They hovered in the air for a short time before eventually turning into a stream of magic and heading back the way to the Everfree forest.
Both Raindropses gasped. The real Raindrops turned to her clone and shouted, “Run, clone, RUN!”
Without a second to think, the clone flew off as fast as she could, out of sight within a minute. Raindrops smiled to herself. “That takes care of her.”
“No…” Raindrops turned to see Twilight fall to her knees in defeat. “This can’t be happening. This just can’t BE!” A single tear fell from her face.
Twilicorn charged her horn, again. “Don’t worry, Twilight Sparkle. You’ll soon join your clones in a moment.” She aimed her horn at the slumped form of Twilight.
“STOP!” Raindrops got in between the two. Twilicorn was taken aback, and gasped at the pegasus that stood in front of her. “N-n-now you listen to me! After being around Twilight for the past twenty minutes, I can understand why you’d want to get rid of Twilight.”
“Gee, thanks!” Twilight grumbled.
“But she’s not a bad pony as long as you don’t get in her way. Look, couldn’t you just place her in a cell instead of trapping her in the mirror pool?” Wow. That is the worse plead I’ve ever heard.
Twilicorn just stared at Raindrops in utter shock. Her words barely came out. “Mm-mmm-mo-m-m-mommy.”
Raindrops blinked. “What?”
A smile grew from the tips of Twilicorns face. “Mommy!” She then began to nuzzle Raindrops neck. “Oh, mommy. I didn’t notice you at first, I’m sorry.”
Raindrops was extremely confused at this point. “Whaaaaat’s going on?”
Twilicorn detached herself from Raindrops neck. “Oh, mother. Surely you remember delivering me? You said I was really heavy.”
“Uhhhhh. I remember delivering a heavy box, but—”
“So you do remember!” Twilicorn snuggled against Raindrops, again.
Wait a minute Twilight thought. If she came from the box that Raindrops dropped off at her house, then that meant that Twilicorn was the dress. Which meant that the dress stole itself! But there was something else pounding in Twilight’s head. That card that fell out of the dress. Congratulations. On what, though? Wait, that’s it! The answer lied in her script! Twilight hastily summoned her script, and flipped through to current scene. Her eyes scanned from top to until she found the answer. And when she did, she slowly looked up from it, and stared at Twilicorn.
Twilight dismissed her script, and rose on her hooves. She separated the two ponies apart, and held a hard look on Twilicorn. She lifted her hoof and pointed it right at Twilicorn, and shouted, “GO TO YOUR ROOM!”
Not only were Twilicorn and Raindrops speechless, but all the townsponies gasped at the mare who told their princess what to do.
“You can’t tell me what to do! You are not my mother!” Twilicorn rebuttaled.
Twilight merely shook her head. “No. I am your second mother!” You gotta be kidding me!
Twilicorn’s face was unreadable, but she slowly shook her head. “No… That’s not true. That’s IMPOSSIBLE!”
“Raindrops. Tell her. You know it to be true.”
“Why are you talking like that?” Raindrops asked. Twilight continued to stare at her. Raindrops sighed. “Yes. I delivered you to Twilight’s house, that’s where I was supposed to bring you.”
Twilicorn shifted her gaze to Twilight, then Raindrops, and back to Twilight. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” She crumbled to the ground. “No!”
Twilight stood over Twilicorn, tears streamed out of Twilicorn’s eyes as she brought them up to face Twilight’s. “Now, you march yourself straight to your room, and think about what you did!” Twilight said with authoritah.
Twilicorn sniffed. “But mmmoooooooom.”
“I don’t want to hear any excuses. Now march!”
“Yes, mom.” Twilicorn moand. She got up and flapped the tips of her wings, and fluttered to the library.
Raindrops came up to Twilight, and said, “Um, what just happend?”
“That box you delivered to my house had the dress Twilicorn was wearing. But it turns out that Twilicorn was the dress this whole time.”
“So you’re saying it’s a magical dress?”
“No, I’m saying it’s an ordinary dress. Of course it’s magical!”
“But… how did you know?”
“I just read the script.”
“Ah, I see.”
Just then, Twilight’s friends all came up to her. “Hey, Twi,” Applejack said, “We just wanted to come tell you that it’s not your fault.”
“Yeah.” Rainbow Dash said, “just because you let your daughter take over Ponyville, and have us all work as slave doesn’t mean it’s your fault.”
“What are you guys talking about? You all betrayed me because you were following the canon. You’re only saying this so I don’t blast you all into ashes.”
“We forgive you, too, darling.”
“Group hug!” Pinkie exclaimed.
They all got around Twilight and wrapped their hooves around her.
“No! I hate you alllllllllllllllllll!”
“We love you, too, Twilight.” The five mare said in unison. After that, they let go of Twilight and walked away, leaving Twilight with Raindrops.
“Soooo… what do we do now?” Raindrops asked.
Twilight glanced at Raindrops. “There’s only one thing left to do.”
~~~
Twilight walked up the aisle in her long white wedding gown. Everypony in town watched her from either side of their seats, smiling as she walked past them. Upon the platform on the right were her five friends wearing their bridal dresses. Twilight stepped lightly up the couple steps, then turned to face her lover.
Across from Twilight stood her husband to be, Bed. *sigh* They don’t pay me enough to narrate this stuff. He wore fresh new white sheet, and a navy blue bed cover. His two pillows never looked so fluffed before.
Twilight smiled from ear to ear. She looked down at all the ponies who came for her special day. Down in front of the seats were her family members: her mother, father, brother, Cadence; her daughter, Twilicorn, still in her dress, and even Raindrops sat in her seat, face hoofing herself.
“This is so stupid. How can ponies be taking this wedding seriously?”
Twilicorn gently patted her mother on her back. “Don’t be upset, mother. Someday you’ll find love, too.”
“That’s not even a pony!” She said, pointing at Bed.
“But Bed is nice. He gives me candy.”
Raindrops sighed. “That’s good to know, Twilicorn. That’s good to know.”
“Dearly beloved,” the Minister said,” we’re gathered here today to witness the union of Twilight Sparkle, and… Bed, in matrimony. Twilight, do you take this sofa to be your lawful wedded husband?”
“I do!” Twilight squeed.
“And do you, Bed, take this mare as your lawful wedded wife?”
“I do.” Bed said.
“Then by the power given to me by the princess of Equestria I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride.”
Bed, however, stayed where he stood. Twilight was the one who made the first move. She pounced on top of Bed, and began kissing his pillow. The crowd stood, cheered, and clopped their hooves as Twilight continued to hug and make-out with her bed.
Upon a hill looking down at the wedding that was taken place was the ruler of Equestria, princess Celestia. At her side was the little dragon, Spike. The princess frowned in irritation, yet the opposite could be said for Spike. He held a sly grin, and his claws rested on his hips.
“See? I told you turning Discord into a bed would work!” Spike said, mockingly.
The princess sighed deeply. “Of all the ideas and tactics I’ve tried, this is what worked?” She looked down at the little dragon. “Just tell me, why did we need to send her that enchanted dress? In fact, how was the dress correlated with Discord turning into a bed?”
“Eh, I don’t know. I just thought it would be fun. Besides, a deals a deal, princess.”
Celestia groaned. “Fine. You’ll get free scale waxing for life.”
“Aaaaaaaaand?”
“And...I will personally wax each and every scale to your liking….”
“Now we’re talking.” Spike looked over the town, and took a breath of air. The sweet smell of victory filled his nostrils. “Ahhh. well, princess, I think I’m in the mood for a good scale waxing right now.”
The End.
Thank god! It’s over! I am out of here! This is probably the worst job I’ve ever had! Narrating this story was like licking battery acid! I hope I never have to read another story like this again! *walks out door*