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// 05 Realization 
// Story: The Wrong Twilight 
// by Pinklestia 
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The girl woke up with a headache; it was the first time ever she had a headache after drinking and she hated it.

Oh my god, how I hate hangovers! Why the hell did I have to drink? I am not even of legal age! Maybe it was because I was tired of being called "Little Miss Bookworm" and of being teased for always studying and having no fun. No, that's not it, to be honest, I just needed a break.

After all, the girl had to study for two weeks for the exams she had last week, and then the current week she didn't have any exam, yet she was still studying.

Her name was Twilight Sparkle, she was a teenager, and she felt like crap. She remembered a time when studying was not a chore, when she loved books, reading and learning new things; that was until she found out that getting a scholarship was the only way she could afford to go to a University.

To make things worse, her parents told her that they were moving to a city named Canterlot, and the only friend she had made gave her a surprise goodbye party, then guilt-tripped here into drinking.

'Dammit Gilda! This is all your fault!'

So there she was, on a Sunday morning, waking up with her head hurting, everything looked like a blur and...

'Damn, what a mess! I must have bounced all around the room before going into bed. I don't look forward to fix this up, thankfully I still have two days until we move out. Heck, I did not even start packing, what's wrong with me?'

Twilight Sparkle groggily got out of bed. She had to crawl instead of walking, and of course felt awful. She looked around once more and decided to head to her big decorated mirror that was awesome when she was eight but now looked too girly for her current tastes.

'Wait... a decorated mirror? Didn't I get rid of that ages ago?'

Twilight looked at the mirror, and despite her vision being blurry, she saw a purple unicorn in the mirror instead of her reflection.

'Am I dreaming? No, it hurts too much to be a dream, but I might be hallucinating, after all seeing pink elephants is not that different from seeing purple unicorns, right?'

'Why is this familiar?'

The girl gives the pony a strange look of confusion and the pony did the same. Twilight Sparkle stood up with great difficulty, having to concentrate to not throw up, and the pony stood up on her two hind legs,

'I know real ponies can't do that, but why do I even care? I am just hallucinating.'

Twilight Sparkle, the teenage human girl, raised her hand in front of the mirror, and the unicorn mimicked the action raising her hoof.

While is it’s not common, maybe Twilight was one of those people whose head becomes really messed up when they drink a lot.

"Wait... why does all this seem so familiar?"

'God! My voice, it sounds like scratching nails, I am never, ever drinking again this much!'

She turned around the room, expecting to see someone else, or for someone to enter the room, but she was alone. Twilight Sparkle then look back at the mirror, and she saw herself, not the unicorn. Then she lost her balance and landed on her hands. Only that when she looked, they are not hands, but purple hooves.

She woke up screaming.





'Stupid nightmare, I have been here for three weeks, brain, stop torturing me already!' Tara grumbled. She took a quick shower after waking up from her nightmare, then ordered the guard at the door to have breakfast brought in. Lately, they had allowed her to wander the castle, but not before Celestia or Luna cast an illusion spell on her. The guards, after giving an oath to not tell about Tara, were the only ones allowed to see her without the illusion.

Once breakfast was over, she felt slightly better. Then Luna went to see her, as rare as it was for the moon princess to be awake so early, and had a strange idea.





"You want us to go to trot outside?" Tara asked surprised, so far she had been restricted to be inside the castle, so this came as a surprise.

"Yes. I can cast illusions to hide our real looks from everypony else, it's a more complicated variant of what we use for you inside the castle. You might not be an Earth pony, but exercise is still a must if you want to stay healthy."

"That sounds good." Tara did not try any sarcastic comments, not did she ask what would happen if she tried to run away; she was quite aware they would be watched, and even if they were not, princess Luna outclassed her at everything, being a bigger and more powerful pony with the abilities of all the three pony races.

Still, while a bit awkward, Luna had really tried to become her friend these last few days.





Trotting was not exactly running, nor walking, it was somewhere in the middle. Tara had not truly realized how much she missed fresh air and the feeling of the sun over her face. For a while, she forgot her worries and just enjoyed being outside since it was such a beautiful day. And when Luna said "outside", she actually meant a forest a few miles outside Canterlot, it made Tara wonder why they even needed the illusion at all, as they were the only ponies there. Not that it would tempt Tara to escape, as an adult mare with no cutie mark and looking like Princess Twilight Sparkle once the illusion faded away, where would she go?

"This is a beautiful place." Tara said and sat down; she was tired, even if she had only be trotting for about ten minutes, she had not realized her pony body was that out of shape. But then, it's not as if she was a sports star back home.

"Yes, yes it is. It looks even more beautiful at night, but I understand most ponies prefer sunlight," the blue pony said in a sad tone and sat next to the unicorn. Unlike Tara, she did not seem winded at all.

"Oh, I do love the night sky, it's just... that its beauty is different from the day," Tara said and nuzzled Luna.

"What the hay are you doing? She is the enemy."

'No she is not. She is not the pony responsible for me being here. She is not Princess Twilight Sparkle, she is just a sad and lonely mare that made a few mistakes and is trying her best to fix that. Friendship is a two road street.'

"Why are you trying to be kind? She mind controlled you!"

'And what would I win if I was rude? Would that improve my situation? Would lashing out at one of the two rulers of the country get me back home?'

As usual, the dark voice responded with silence when she had no clue what to say.

"Thank you, Tara of Earth. I know things have changed and ponies nowadays appreciate the night too but... it still hurts."

"Okay, you know what? My name is not Tara, it's Twilight Sparkle. I only went by Tara since you guys have a Princess Twilight Sparkle. But is been almost a month and I am sick of being called Tara, please call me Twilight, make it Twilight Twinkle or something so it's less confusing, but I miss hearing my own name."

The huge princess surprised Twilight Sparkle by giving her a hug.

"Oh, you are letting me give you a nickname? That's wonderful, Twilight, according to a book I read that means we are getting closer."

"Yes, I guess we are." Twilight does not mention that she once read a book about making friends too, but it did not work well. Well, she used to have a lot of friends when she was little, then they discovered she was smart and everything went downhill from there.

"Well, we'd better eat the food, before the ants get it or something." The human-turned-unicorn said as she felt bad thinking about how much Princess Twilight Sparkle had what she wanted.

"Oh, yes, of course."

For starters, she was an immortal alicorn princess, with magic! Second, she had at least five friends compared to a single friend that she had. Why the hay did she have to ask Luna about their Twilight Sparkle? She would be happier being ignorant, hating the stupid princess for stealing her life, and not thinking about how much it must suck for the other Twilight.

"How much it must suck for her? She stole your life! You did not make her leave her friends and world looking for a stupid magic crown!"

'You know what? I still have more than two years left here, so buck you! Sure I miss my family and my dog, but things could be way worse!'

"Twilight, are you well? You look angry for some reason," Luna asked and offered the unicorn a sandwich, Twilight Sparkle took it with her own magic and ate it, then realized what she had just done.

"Eh... let's say that I remembered that... uh... Princess Twilight must not be happy being stuck in my world." She had just used telekinesis or levitation, the most basic of unicorn magic, without having to concentrate hard or messing it up. For some reason, Twilight Sparkle was not as happy about it as she should be about that, considering how she still had trouble with magic.

"That's quite noble of you. Tell me, Twilight, since your world has no magic, what were your studies about?"

"Science, math, biology, a lot of things actually, I was going to what we call High school so I had several subjects to study. Once I graduated from that, I would go to a University to specialize in... something. I was thinking robots, robots are like golems, only we use science, not magic."

"Oh, that sounds delightful, do they use robots a lot back in your world?"

"Yes, most of them are industrial robots, machines that do work like assembling... fridges and stuff like that inside a factory, barely needing any human supervision." Thankfully there were fridges in Equestria, she was not looking forward to explain things like cars and planes to a princess of a medieval-like magical kingdom that despite that still had things like electricity-powered home appliances and hydroelectric dams.

"But does that not leave a lot of po... humans without a job?" Luna asked, curious

"Yes, but don't you guys do the same when you use magic-powered machines to replace hoof work?" She had read a friendship report about that, then read the official report with a more detailed explanation somepony had added to it.

"Yes, I guess we do. Equestria has changed a lot since before my banishment, and there are many things I am still getting used to." Luna then had a wicked smile. "Say, would you like to fly with me?"

"Uh, you know that unlike the other Twilight Sparkle, I am just a unicorn, right?"

"Oh, but I can use magic to give you wings. Even better, the spell includes basic knowledge on how to use them!" Princess Luna said, and stood up. "So what do you say, Twilight Twinkle, want to soar through the sky?"

'I get to fly? I GET TO FLY! THIS IS AWESOME!'

But outwardly she said "Yes, I would like that."