//------------------------------// // Ugh. // Story: Ugh, What Happened Last Night? // by JamesBurton //------------------------------// It was a beautiful Saturday morning in the small town of Ponyville. Princess Celestia's sun was beginning to rise over the horizon and the citizens were beginning to awaken to start the day, unlike our residential librarian Twilight Sparkle. The ever punctual, ever faithful student of Princess Celestia was still sleeping in bed. She was currently sprawled out in blissful sleep and snoring with drool running down the side of her mouth. This was the ultimate state of peacefulness, until the sun's rays started to seep through the blinds causing the purple pony to stir awake. "Mphmm," Twilight groaned as she tossed and turned in bed, trying to block the light entering her room. She slowly opened her eyes and sat up, grabbing her head. "Augh my head is aching. What happened last night?" Glancing over to her nightstand she noticed a medium sized bag. "Oh what's this now? I don't remember this being here," she wondered, grabbed the bag and opened it. "What the?! Its full of bits?!" It didn't take long before she started panicking. Did she steal them? Or maybe robbed some poor pony at magic point last night? She would have thought of even more scenarios but her pounding headache prevented her from thinking clearly. As she still held her head in pain. "Come on Twilight," she said to herself as she got off the bed and headed towards her bathroom. "Let’s take a nice relaxing bath, pop some pain relievers and we'll be feeling like a whole new pony." She turned the faucet. Steaming hot water filled the tub and she went over to her medicine cabinet, but the reflection in its mirror gave her halt. She paused to take a look at herself. Her mane was a mess and her eyes bloodshot, a perfect match for how she felt. "Heh, you've seen better days, haven't you Twilight?" She asked herself and grabbed some pills and a cup of water. She swallowed the pills and drank the water, sighing in satisfaction, "Ahh, much better." She turned off the water and got into the tub, allowing the hot water to soothe her muscles and her mind. "Mmm, this is so relaxing," she said and leaned back. Her eyes started to droop slowly, and soon she fell asleep again. Yesterday night, 8:30 pm "Hmm I don't know girls," Twilight said, "I mean, a girls night out sounds fun and all but I was going to stay home and read some books and maybe do a little reorganizing." "Twilight darling, everypony needs to have a little fun every once in awhile, and you're long overdue for that," replied Rarity, "so come with us, it’ll be fun." "Yeah, don't be a buzzkill Twilight," Rainbow Dash mocked her. Pinkie Pie started bouncing around excitedly, "Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! I could sure use a night off after the three parties I threw last week and two full days of foalsitting the Cake twins." "So you relax from throwing parties by partying even more?" Rainbow Dash questioned. "Basically," Pinkie replied mid-bounce. "So ya comin’ with us, sugarcube? We’ll understand if ya don't wanna come," Applejack said. Twilight sat down on a chair, mulling it over while her friends looked on happy but expectantly. It had been some time since she did anything with her friends and she hadn’t planned to do anything else today. "Sure why not. I'll go with you guys," Twilight made up her mind. "Oh boy, tonight is going to be so wonderful," Fluttershy said in between the others’ cheers. Twilight woke up from her sleep. She had no idea what had happened afterwards but she assumed that she just had a night out with her friends. Now that her hangover was nearly gone she turned her attention back to the bag of bits that sat on her nightstand. Just where exactly did she get that? "Hmm, I wonder if Spike knows something about it. And speaking of Spike," Twilight sniffed the air. Something was smelling delicious. "I smell breakfast. And it smells like… pancakes!" After letting the water drain from the tub and stopping by her room to get the bag of bits, the purple unicorn headed downstairs where her breakfast awaited. "Morning Spike," Twilight greeted him. "Morning Twilight," Spike replied in between stuffing his face with pancakes. "Morning honey," Trixie greeted her, flipping a pancake on the skillet. Twilight sat down next to Spike, waiting for her pancakes. "Morning Trixie." It didn't take her long to figure out something wasn’t right. "Uh, Trixie?" Twilight looked confused, “What are you doing in my house?" “Making pancakes," she replied, hovered a spatula and flipped over a pancake with it. "I can see that Trixie, but why here? And did you just call me honey?" Trixie turned around and used her magic to float a stack of pancakes over to Twilight's empty plate. She was wearing a white apron that said A Kissie for your Cook Trixie. "Well I live here now. So I thought I should make breakfast, now that we're married." "Wait, wait wait wait," Twilight replied shaking her head. "We got married? That's not possible! Spike, tell her that we're not married!" "Twilight, you married Trixie and she lives with us now," Spike said and grabbed some more pancakes. Twilight faced Trixie again with an assured look, "See, Trixie! I didn't marry you—Wait, what?!" "You married Trixie and she lives here now," Spike repeated, "See, here's the wedding certificate." He held up a piece of paper and pointed at Twilights name. "There's your name right here." Twilight felt her headache coming back. "Then I guess that this bag of bits is yours then?" "No, it’s yours," Trixie said and placed more pancakes on a plate, "you even paid for the ceremony and everything, although Trixie is still surprised that you had so much money from last night. You even woke up Princess Celestia during the middle of the night so that she could perform the ceremony. You still never told Trixie where you got the money though." Twilight had a thousand yard stare. "I did WHAT?!," she asked breathlessly. In all the years that Twilight knew Princess Celestia, she was always a kind, loving ruler and like a second mother to her—but she knew one thing, wake her up during the middle of the night and you will face the fury of the sun goddess. Even her sister dares not to wake her from her slumber lest all hope will be lost. But Twilight was still there. She must have done something that made the princess decide to spare her… or did she? "Well, Trixie shall head to the market and buy some groceries. She will be making something special tonight," she said, taking the bag of money off the table and heading to the front door. "THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE SHALL RETURN SHORTLY!" She threw a smoke bomb on the floor and disappeared only to come running back a moment later to shut the door, "Sorry about that, honey." "So, does this make you Twilight Lulamoon or her Trixie Sparkle?" Spike joked. Twilight only groaned in response. What had happened last night? She needed to find her friends, maybe they could help her if they weren't too wasted themselves. "Spike, I'm going out, I'll be back later!" Twilight left the house for a few seconds only to come back and sit back down at the table. She grabbed a couple of the pancakes that her wife or husband or whatever made for breakfast and puts them on her plate. "First I'm going to devour these pancakes, then I’ll find out what happened last night!"