When most friends got together, it was normally for fun, merriment, or to study for a trigonometry test that could very well ruin the rest of their lives than no friend alone could even comprehend.
When a certain 7 friends got together, it was often the former and rarely the latter, as said friend group included two very intelligent young woman who found trigonometry very easy to grasp.
Instead, they occasionally had to deal with magic, trans-dimensional hijinks, and the occasionally really lost mailpony.
When a trio of those 7 friends little sisters got together, it was rarely ever that high stakes.
Though given the ancient leatherbound book the trio found themselves standing over, the inside of which was scribbled with several recent additions to its seemingly endless pages, it may just be high stakes today.
“So, it really can…” Sweetie Belle began as Apple Bloom nodded.
“It can. I wrote in it that Trixie would take Snips on a date, and she did. I wrote that Diamond Tiara would be pushed into a closet by Snails with Silver Spoon and find out something about their relationship, and they did. This book, it can dictate fate itself!”
“So, what, are we going to use it to better the human race, maybe stop wars……get into college?” Scootaloo suggested as Apple Bloom shook her head.
“Nah, I have good grades, Sweetie has a lot of extra curricular, and you have sports. I was thinking we can use this to do something nice with it”.
“We got Snips a date, I think we helped enough. We should use it to become famous analysts and bet on the Super Bowl, future trends, and stuff like that” Sweetie suggested.
“Like Michael Pachter? Sorry, but if I ever start acting like him Rainbow will kill me in my sleep” Scootaloo noted of her sister by adoption.
“No, what I mean is, we should use it to get Sunset Shimmer a boy or girl friend. After Anon-A-Miss, it’s the least we can do for her”
The mention of that incident caused the trio to look really, really guilty all of a sudden, though the lure of reality altering power quickly changed the mood.
“I, somehow don’t think hooking Sunset up with Flash, Twilight, or the new Twilight, or anyone else is enough to make up for that” Scootaloo stated bluntly.
“You’re right” Apple Bloom said with a frown.
“She needs at least three to make up for what we did. No, six!”
As Apple Bloom’s logic did a good jump ahead, Scootaloo and Sweetie suddenly had a mental image of Sunset lying back on a throne, while having attention ravished upon her by her scantly dressed fellow members of the ‘magical horse transformation/flaming she demon’ club, all the while having a wicked grin on her face that would not have looked that out of place prior to the Fall Formal.
They quickly shook their heads to rid themselves of that image. They did not need that image
“I think that’s somewhat impractical” Scootaloo again offered some reasoning “I mean, if Rainbow Dash is going to get together with any of her friends, it’s going to be Fluttershy or Applejack. Putting her with Sunset just seems like bad chemistry to me”.
“I mean, I could see Rarity with Sunset if I squint a bit, but I can see her far more with Applejack or Fluttershy. Trying to imagine her dating Pinkie just gives me a headache”.
“Come to think of it, imagining any of them dating Pinkie Pie gives me a headache” Scootaloo admitted.
“I don’t know about the old Twilight, but the one we have now, I’m not sure about her and Rarity. They’re both pretty smart, but something about them just doesn’t, y’know, click”.
“Well I can’t see her with Rainbow either. She’d be left in the dust, probably literally, just walking through town…”
“Oh, I’ve got it!” Apple Bloom shouted as the other two stopped trying to determine who’d be a worse fit for their sisters.
“Apple Bloom, your sister and Sunset has some problems…..”
“We can use this book to pair up Sunset’s friends, and then make it so they have a….what’ca call it? Swatting? Switting?”
“Swinging?”
“Yeah, that. Three pairs of lovers who swing with one another, but are closet and live with only their closest and most beloved of all. How could that not make it up to Sunset?!”
“Um Apple Bloom, there are seven of them”.
“Do you want to try and pair Pinkie Pie up with someone? Can you see that work, at all? I mean, for one she’s my cousin, so she can’t date Applejack. We get enough bad jokes as it is without that. Now, can any of you imagine her with any of the others?”
‘Oh Twilight, this looks like a fun beaker! Can I dump it into this other one with the skull and crossbones!?’
‘Hey Fluttershy! It was too quiet, so I came over with my really loud things to liven your place up!’
‘Oh, so you’re making yourself a athletic meal for the game tomorrow Rainbow? Here, have some victory chocolate! Sugar is good for winning!’
Such thoughts promptly raced through Sweetie and Scootaloo’s heads, causing them to rapidly shake their heads over how badly such relationships would end.
“Good, you understand why we’re just going to have to wing it with her. So, who does Sunset get together with? I’m thinking Fluttershy myself”.
“No, I think she and Rainbow are a better fit. She should go with the new Twilight” Scootaloo countered, and so the great division of friendship into distinct pairs with mutual bleed between the two began.
Three Months Later, Pinkie Pie’s basement
With a disproving shake of her head, the book was handed over to the original Twilight of Canterlot High, also known as Princess Twilight.
As the trio of sisters hung their heads in shame, she turned to the serious looking Pinkie Pie with a serious look on her face.
“I’m glad you contacted me when you did Pinkie. Reality warping is not a toy, and using it to cause people to fall in love crosses so many lines it isn’t funny. I don’t know why Star Swirl banished so many dangerous things into your world, but I’m just glad that it wasn’t found by anyone who would use it to take over the world”.
To the little girl’s credit, they hadn’t actually about doing that. They had been too busy apparently, writing a great trio of romances with their most skilled of hands.
Or to be more accurate, they wrote what they wanted to see happen and reality would just bend to set it up, often in ways that were unexpected.
“So…..do we tell them?” Pinkie questioned as Twilight pursed her lips in deep thought.
“I don’t know. It’s bad enough that they had part of their free will taken away, but this isn’t like what these three did in my world. They actually created real emotions instead of potion induced lovey-dovey talk, and I don’t want to think about what would happen if we told them that what they feel isn’t real. That would be cruel” Twilight shook her head in frustration “Hopefully Candance has some advice on how to possibly deal with this situation. Meanwhile, I have to go throw this book away, into a volcano.”
Looking depressed she actually said the phrase’ throw a book away’ in any manner, Twilight left the underground lair of Pinkie Pie, wanting to get home without being spotted and raising too many questions.
That left the three with a rather angry Pinkie Pie.
“You know, Sunset and the Twilight from Crystal Prep are really happy with each other. So are Rainbow and Fluttershy, and Applejack and Rarity. Is it really that bad, what we did?” Sweetie tried to defend themselves, as Pinkie Pie gave them a uncharacteristic wicked grin.
“Do you like cupcakes?”
“What?” Applebloom asked nervously as Pinkie presented the trio with several baking tools, among them whisks, spoons, and rolling pins.
“Because if you don’t make me 100 cupcakes by the end of the day, I’ll ask Twilight to get her Celestia in on this, and have both of them give you a talking to”.
Remembering what one Celestia who was furious with them was like, the trio immediately grabbed Pinkie’s baking tools as if their lives depended on them.