She doesn't suspect a thing! The impostor has fooled our sister quite expertly. It seems she has learned nothing from our niece's wedding.
Which...actually kind of bothers us. What if another infiltrator were to breach our castle's defenses? Well, we do have those spells Twilight developed so we should be good.
Princess Twilight Sparkle. Despite thy unwillingness to cooperate, thou has the thanks of Princess Luna, Diarch of Equestria,...wait a minute.
That's our ONLY title!! This is an outrage!! Why does our sister have, like, fifty titles while we have only one?! This is bullshi-
"Luna!"
I turn around in the hallway and see Twilight Sparkle standing behind me. "Twilight! how did you get-"
A flash of light momentarily blinds us. When we regain our sight we discover we are in our bedchambers.
"Luna, you almost blew my cover!" The Twilight impostor had very angry look on her face.
Realizing our blunder, I apologize "Forgive me, Fakelight, but we were reminiscing on our situation and we thought you were the real deal, having escaped from our clever trap after cruelly rejecting our heartfelt plea."
Fakelight put thine hoof to her face. "First of all, of course she would say no when you say, 'Princess Twilight, would you mind letting our friend here disguise herself as you so she can steal Celestia for herself with her superior lovemaking skills.' "
I frowned. "Wasn't that your intention all along?"
"No, it wasn't! That was never my intention!"
I shrug, "Oh well, at least my brilliant backup plan worked."
Now I believe that look upon Fakelight's face is referred to as 'deadpan' "You mean the genius plan where you yelled 'Smoke Bomb!' really loud..."
I smiled. "A clever trick to startle her."
"...clocked her with a lead pipe..."
"She's an alicorn now. Blows like that are nothing to us."
"...and stuffed her unconscious body in a burlap sack..."
"How else were we going to get her to the rendezvous spot without anypony noticing?"
"...in front of Spike?"
"Well...he's a dragon so he doesn't count. Besides we grabbed him too for safe measure. Honestly, Fakelight, this isn't our first rodeo and they are still at the crystal castle."
I notice that Fakelight's right eye is twitching. "And what's with you calling me 'Fakelight'? "
I smile while explaining my stroke of genius. "It is the ingenious code name we have decided to knight thee with for the duration of the plan. As you are the impostor Twilight, I shall call thee 'Fakelight' "
I must inquire later about this 'facehooffing' that seems to be so popular these days. "Let's just go back down to the dining hall before Celestia notices that we're missing." She starts to charge her teleportation spell but I hold up my hoof.
"Stay thy horn, Fakelight. We desire more clarity upon thine future actions."
Fakelight looked very puzzled for some reason. "What?"
I heave a sigh in frustration. Sometimes this modern vernacular can be a pain in our arse. "Hold on, Fakelight. What's your plan?"
Fakelight put a vexed look her face. "My plan?"
Annoyed at having to state the obvious, we respond, 'Yes, thine plan to steal our sister's heart from Twilight."
Fakelight averted her gaze. "I am not trying to steal Celestia away from Twilight, I just wanted to spend some time with her as Twilight. I wanted to see want it was like to have Celestia as a marefriend." Fakelight raised her head to meet our gaze. "Do you know the term, 'It's better to have loved then lost than never have loved at all'?"
"That term dates back to my time period, so yes."
Fakelight nodded, "I have been in love with Celestia for the longest time. She was the ideal mare that I pushed myself to be worthy of. I know our last encounter didn't end on a high note. But my feelings have never changed. They may have gotten...warped over the years, but I have always loved her. I know that she is beyond my grasp because she is with Twilight now. But I have to know what being loved by her is really like. This feeling been inside me for so long that if I don't let it out it may fester inside me again. If I am able to let my feelings out, I would be willing to apologize to and face the consequences of my actions."
I see tears have started to form in Fakelight's eyes. "Wipe thy tears from thine eyes, Fakelight. We know all too well the importance of not burying such strong feelings, lest they fester and rot into something horrible." Our head drops low as we remember the cost of that particular lesson. But we quickly shake it off and raise our head high. We need to support her. "That is why we shall aid you in this endeavor to experience love with our sister. After that, we shall release Twilight from wherever the others have her and confess our sins to Tia."
Fakelight gives us small smile and embraces us. "Thank you Luna, you have no idea how much this means to me."
We return her warm embrace. "Tis nothing, Fakelight. Now let us be off to the dining hall where your love awaits."
We break apart and head out the door...right into the smiling face of our sister.
It's moments like these that we are thankful for the alicorn's legendary sphincter control.
Our sister continued smiling. "There you two are! Come on, breakfast is waiting."
Fakelight seemed vexed. "Did you just get here, Celestia?"
Our sister nodded. "Oh yes, I waited for you in the dining room, but when you two didn't arrive, I decided to search for you two and finally found you here. Now come along now" She began to walk down the hall.
We exchanged looks with Fakelight, who seemed relived that we weren't discovered and followed our sister.
Huzzah! the plan is still on! Our sister didn't hear a thing.
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Of course, I heard everything. I know I shouldn't pierce the soundproof spell she has on her room to eavesdrop on her, but like I said this situation is too hilarous to pass up.
That was before I heard everything.
It can be lonely at the top. Ponies putting you on a pedestal, worshiping your existence, and taking every thing you say as gospel.
That's why I am so thankful for Twilight. It took some doing put she finally has let me step down from that pedestal and stand by her side. I can show her my faults and weaknesses without worrying about shattering whatever holy image she has of me in her mind. Because it's not there anymore. Well...it props up from time to time but for the most part she has gotten better about it.
I see Fakelight...snicker...coming up next to me and I wrap my wing around her. She looks at me with surprise and I just smile and watch her melt. I'll play along for now and see where this goes.
Also hearing all that confirmed my suspicions on who is the brains behind this scheme.
I hope she didn't plan on staying anonymous about this forever. Because if she did, she really should have covered her tracks better.
I mean the romance dripping off of this situation would flood the castle.