//------------------------------// // Revelations // Story: Six Trans Mares // by pertelote345 //------------------------------// Twilight "Ugh!!!" I threw my notebook at the wall. The graduate students around me flinched. "Um... Prince Dusk?" Celestia do I ever hate that name. I held up a hoof. I just needed to catch my breath. I really, really thought the readings would be different with more sensitive equipment. I'd dragged up the late professor's old graduate students to try to make use of the university's resources. The equipment was truly impressive. It displayed a holographic readout of the radiation in the room, projecting the magical signatures over it and displaying the different magic concentrations in splashes of color. But it hadn't helped. The magical background radiation was wrong here too. I knew it was wrong. "Why is the background radiation all wrong!" I shouted. My horn crackled in frustration. Nervously, one of the graduate students walked up to me. "Your majesty I assure you, we've calibrated this machine several times... The MBR fits perfectly with previous university records and those have been painstakingly recorded for hundreds of years." "Then the records are wrong!" I shouted. "It's not supposed to look like this! It's supposed to look like... Like..." I reached out with my horn and fudged with the residue. It was wrong, blast it! Wrong! I would make it right! One of the students, a magic loving earth pony gasped. "P-prince Dusk!" I snarled at him. "For pity's sake! I'm not going to hurt your precious equipment!" He shook his head. "That's not it! Look at the readout!" I looked up. I had done nothing but change the energy signature, but now, projected all over the room was very familiar scene... Before the projection was of the room it self, just color coded to display all the ambient magic levels. Now an image of my library back home was shown in faint green light. But that's not all that was there. Sitting in the room, projected in the same green light, was me. The real me... With my mane cut short. The mare in my home stared at me. "Who... Who are you?" It asked, in a faint rippling rumble. "T-Twilight Sparkle." I answered on instinct. She froze, filled with terror. Several pieces of the puzzle all clicked into place at once. "I'm Dusk Shine." He said. # Rarity I clutched at Driver's hoof. "And that's that, we're dating." We were in the castle of friendship surrounded by... Well, all of our friends. Several of whom were staring at us. "So..." Pinkie began, "I haven't had a chance to throw a party in a long, long time..." I made an uncomfortable noise. "Under other circumstances I would appreciate it darling, but Driver and I still have to stay in the closet for a little bit until our next sales. Besides..." I saw Pinkie's mane start to deflate. I felt my heart breaking. I backpedaled. "On the other hoof, I suppose we could have a small, private party." Pinkie grinned. "Darn tootin'!" Said a surprisingly chipper Applejack. She turned to her big brother... Who was holding her leash. "Uh... Do the conditions of my grounding allow me to go to parties?" Mac tilted his head. "I'll ask Granny." "Okay, I have to ask." Driver interjected. "What the heck is going on with you two? Because this is some seriously weird incestuous shi... Uh... Stuff..." I gave him a nod. Driver may have been a bit uncouth, but he was very easy to train. Applejack blushed. "Uh... It's kinda a compromise. I have a lot of work and duties savin' the world and stuff, but I'm kinda being punished by the family right now." "Eeeyup." Said Big Mac. "Ain't gonna let her run off and start cuttin' herself again." She looked up at her older brother with pleading eyes. "Mac, I promise I won't do that anymore. The only reason I was so sad was because I though y'all... Would... Hate me..." Mac raised an eyebrow. She flinched. "I... I ain't exactly doin' much for my case here am I?" He shook his head. "Nope." "I'm just glad the truth came out in time for us to help you!" Fluttershy said. She put her hooves on her hips. "I know you're not fond of sharing your emotions Applejack, but this was really beyond the pale." Applejack looked down. "Ah know... I lied to y'all and it was right dumb... Can ya ever forgive me?" Fluttershy flew over to her and wrapped her wings around her. "Oh AJ, I could never stay mad at you... But that doesn't mean I don't think you deserve your punishment." "Eyup, speakin' of which did y'all take your Black Cohosh?" She nodded. "Three pills, just like Granny said." Lilac cleared her throat. "Um... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Black Cohosh really doesn't have enough estrogen to help her... Plus phytoestrogens aren't very good at eliciting responses in ponies anyway." Applejack winced. Dash rolled her eyes. "Seriously Lilac, what are you, the hormone police?" The griffon groaned. "I'd probably be stupidly good at that job... I wonder if it pays more than the post office?" Driver leaned over. "Speaking of policing hormones, does Dash's recent drug smuggling exploit mean you now have evidence you can bring against your nefarious ex? I think a hormone bust on his lanky butt might be in order." Lilac considered this. "I... I'm not sure. He's an asshole, that's for sure, but he might still be better than the alternative. Besides I'm not 100% certain he is selling cut stuff illegally. He could have bribed his way into being a licensed as a pharmacist and then import laws become a factor as well as customs..." Driver shot her a cold look. "You cannot possibly tell me that he's the lesser of two evils. The dude's a straight up rapist." Lilac looked down. "I'm not so sure about that... Is he?" The room grew silent. I cleared my throat. "I don't mean to pry dear, but is there some sort of story here we're not aware of?" Lilac nodded. "It's ancient history though... Honestly I'd rather not talk about it." Fluttershy flew over and gave Lilac a hug. "It's okay Lilac! Now that you're here surrounded by friends I'm sure everything will be alright!" I raised an eyebrow. "Fluttershy dear, I must say, you've been rather... Huggy today." The pegasus giggled. "I guess I'm just excited. Hormones are awesome! I feel like myself again..." She smiled... And in that smile I saw something in my best friend that I had not seen in a long, long time. Hope. Of course that was the moment it all came crashing down. Twilight appeared in a burst of magic. She yanked Fluttershy over to her and shook her. "How long? For Celestia's sake, how long have you been on hormones?" Fluttershy flinched back. "Um... Three days?" Twilight let out a sigh of relief, but her mane remained tustled and her expression harried. "Oh thank heavens... Not long enough to do permanent damage, good." I got up and put myself between the frightened girl and the princess. "Twilight, what on Earth is the meaning of this?" She grabbed my shoulders. "Rarity you don't understand! These aren't our bodies!" Rainbow Dash gave her the stinkeye. "Well obviously that don't mean you get to bully Flutters." The princess waved her wings in frustration. "That's not what I mean! This isn't our world! It's..." A terrible, evil chuckle burst into the room... Standing by the door was a yellow mare with a red mane. "So. You figured it out." The mare twisted and re-formed... Her coat turned light pink while her mane became a deeper purple with a blue stripe down the middle. She gave us a horrifying grin. "You're all just so very special aren't you?"