//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Meeting New Friends // Story: An Alicorn Baby Sitting Adventure // by Pinkie Pie Sweets //------------------------------// Back at Canterlot High: Pinkie has escorted Starlight, Sunburst and baby Flurry Heart there to see her friends and to get some lunch. Pinkie grabs three trays of food and the food are vegetarian like. Starlight and Sunburst are surprised that Pinkie is so much as their Pinkie Pie in many different ways. "You know Pinkie you don't need to buy lunch," Starlight says with uncertainty. "I do if your my friends," Pinkie says cheerfully. "But Flurry can't eat hard foods yet," Sunburst says remaining Pinkie of Flurry needs. Pinkie then reaches into her hair and takes out three fruit flavored baby food. One of them is apple, one of them is bannana, and the last one is peaches. Pinkie says, "Don't worry, I always keep baby food here for babysitting emergencies." Sunburst and Starlight looks at Pinkie with a confused look on their faces because they are wondering how Pinkie manages to keep things in her hair. Then they both start to laugh about it and Flurry starts to giggle as well. "Thank you," Starlight replies happily. "No problem!" Pinkie screams happily. Pinkie then escort Sunburst and Starlight to where her friends are and know that they can help the group of new travelers back to Equestria. As they are walking, some of the students are looking then with curious look, some are whispering to each other. Pinkie can guess that Sunburst and Starlight are new and have a baby with them as well. Pinkie find her friends eating at the table and she is happy to introduce them to the new travellers from Equestria. Starlight is surprised to see that the friends Pinkie is talking about look exactly like her friends from Equestria, but she notice a girl with fiery hair and believe that she is in the group with them. When Pinkie, Sunburst, and Starlight along with baby Flurry heart to the table, Pinkie happily says, "Hi girls." "Good day darling," Rarity says with a smile. "Hi Pinkie," Sunset says while waving her hand. "Hey Pinkie, who are your new friends?" Rainbow replies noticing the group of three behind Pinkie. Pinkie then set the three traies on the table in order to introduce Sunburst and the others to her friends. After setting the food down, Pinkie happily says, "Girls, this is Starlight Glimmer, Sunburst, and baby Flurry Heart." "And these are my friends, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, and Sunset Shimmer," Pinkie adds as she points to the girls saying their names. After hearing Sunset's name, Sunset looks very surprised. He remembered a classmate of his that goes by the same name and he remembered that she disappeared for unknown reason. Sunburst then looks over to see that Sunset look a lot like his classmate from school and believe that is here and maybe realized where she disappeared to. Then Pinkie says, "Sunset Shimmer used to live in Equestria but lived here now and we are besties." After hearing Pinkie statement, Sunburst eyes widen with surprise and shock and realized it really is here. Sunburst surprisingly asks, "Sunset Shimmer! Is that you?" "Yes how did you…" Sunset is about to ask, until she see the boy is familiar to her. After getting a close look at her she realized that this is Sunburst a classmate of her back at the Unicorn School Sunset get off of her seat and surprisingly says, "Sunburst!" Starlight and the other girls are just as surprised as Sunset and Sunburst are and they never imagined that Sunset will ran into someone she used to know back from her home world. They realized that situation has gotten interesting and weird and think it will be a good idea to continue the conversation before things get too weird. Starlight questionably asks, "You two know each other?" "Of course. We used to go to the same magic school," Sunburst answers feeling a bit sheepish. "Wow, what are the chances you ran into your old classmate," Pinkie happily says. "Yeah. This feels a bit awkward right now," Sunset says feeling a bit embarrassed. "I know," Sunburst says agreeing with Sunset about this upcoming discovery. Sunset and Sunburst feel embarrassed that they will be seeing each other in an awkward position. Rarity decides to end the awkwardness and says, "Well, why don't you sit down and have some lunch." "Lunch does sound very good right now," Starlight says with a awkward smile and try to be calm about it. After this awkward encounter Pinkie, Sunburst, Flurry who is still in Sunburst arms, and Starlight take their seats and getting ready to eat. Pinkie ask somehow brings a baby chair for Flurry Heart to sit at. Sunburst and Starlight doesn't question Pikines speed and put Flurry on the baby chair. After sitting down and starts to each their lunch, Starlight is look around the room as she eat and can see that a lot of people have a version of a creature in this world. She also see Twilight sitting with them, but Starlight can tell that she is wearing glasses and has her hair in a bun. She can see that Pinkie is feeding herself and feeding the bay with different hands. "So… you're the human version of Twilight, right?" Starlight asks feeling a bit nervous. "Yeah. I'm surprised there is another version of my myself," Twilight says remember how she felt of meeting herself from another world. "That's interesting," Starlight says not feeling to shy anymore. "So is that baby yours?" Applejack asks. "No. She is Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor's baby and Princess Twilight's niece," Sunburst corrects Applejack question. Everyone looks very surprised after Sunburst mentioning the information. They are more surprised to find out that this baby is related to Twilight from Equestria. "You mean… You mean she's a princess?!" Rarity asks with sparkles in her eyes. "An alicorn princess to be exact," Starlight says correcting Rarity. "No way! You're joking, right?" Sunset replies with a shock. "Nope," Starlight replies and truthfully. "What's a big deal?" Applejack asks with confusion. Sunset takes a deep breath so she can calm herself down and explain to the girls about the details of an alicorn. After calming herself down, Sunset explains, "A birth of an alicorn… that is something I never knew or read about back in Equestria." "What do you mean?" Fluttershy asks. "Usually alicorn wings has to be earned or granted by accomplishing a big princess worthy deed like Princess Twilight did," Sunset says adding the details to her knowledge of her home world. "And you never heard of one being born with them before," Rainbow asks. "Nope," Sunset answers. "So it's something you never seen before," Fluttershy asks curiously. "Exactly," Sunset answers. "It's also beyond the princesses understanding," Sunburst adds. "Well either way, she is so adorable," Rarity says admiring the baby princess. "I know, she is so cute," Pinkie says as she is ticking the baby a bit. Twilight then turns to Sunburst and asks, "Can I hold her?" "Sure," Sunburst answers with a smile "She is so adorable," "And so sweet," Rarity says happily, "She's like a little apple dumpling," Applejack says to the baby. "Yeah and the resemblance is uncanny," Human Twilight adds. Sunburst and Starlight look at Twilight with confused look on their faces when she said that and wonder what she's talking about. "What do you mean?" Sunburst asks. "She means that a few months ago her brother Shining Armor and her sister-in-law Cadence has a baby girl and her name is Flurry Heart too," Sunset explains. "Really!" Sunburst says surprisingly. "Yes and Twilight has a picture of her holding the baby," Rainbow Dash says with excitement. Then Rainbow turns to Twilight and says, "Show her Twilight." Twilight then brings out her phone from her bag while still having the baby in her arms and pass it to Rainbow. Rainbow grabs it and looks through her phone to show them the picture. When she did, Sunburst and Starlight are amazed to see the Twilight form this world is holding a baby that looks just like baby Flurry Heart and can see that look exactly the same. "Wow! She looks just like her," Starlight says with amazement. Just then Sunburst notice the two people behind Twilight and Flurry in the photo. Sunburst turns to Twilight and asks, "Is that Shining Armor and Princess Cadence behind you?" "Yep," Twilight answers. Sunburst and Starlight look around the room and can see that this world is like an alternate version of Equestria and believe that everyone here has a counterpart, including them. Starlight then says, "Make me wonder if we have a human counterpart living around here?" "Could be," Sunset replies. "So what brings you here?" Rainbow Dash asks. Sunburst and Starlight start to blush a bit because they aren't sure if they should explain what happened earlier today, but they know they have to tell them. Starlight decides to explain to the girls and says, "Well to be honest, we kind of need some help." "Really, what kind of help?" Fluttershy asks. Sunburst then decides to explain to them about the situation. With cheeks turning red Sunburst says, "Well for starters, they're stuck here and need to get back to Equestria." The girls look a bit confused and wonder how they got here in the first place. Sunset asks, "How you guys got stuck here?" Starlight starts to feel very embarrassed and answers, "Would you believe that the baby flew the mirror and me and Sunburst accidentally hitched a ride." The girls look very surprised after hearing this and look at the baby who is laughing and playing around with Twilight's tie. Twilight is worried that she might try to get the tie in her mouth so she make sure that the baby princess doesn't grab things she not supposed to. "Seriously!" Applejack asks looking a bit confused. "It's true, and Pinkie told us you have some way to contact Princess Twilight," Starlight says sounding a bit upset. Applejack and the others can tell that Starlight is telling the truth and since they been told she is a baby alicorn they figure they will be flying around like crazy. Rarity turns to Sunset and says, "I think she means the journal, right," "Yeah. All we need to do is let Princess Twilight know what happened and she'll open the portal again," Sunset says as she is getting her backpack from the floor in order to get her journal. Sunburst happily says, "That's good." "I was afraid we'll be stuck here forever or something," Starlight replies feeling relived. Pinkie starts to get sad and says, "Aw, but you just got here." "We love to stay, but we need to get back and there is a dinner party for us," Sunburst explains. "And Flurry misses her parents and I'm sure her parents are worried about her," Starlight adds. After that explanation, Starlight looks at Sunset who is getting the book from her backpack. After grabbing the book from her backpack and placing it on the table, she looks in the bag to find a pen. Starlight is very curios about the boom Sunset has and wonder how is it going to help out in the situation. Starlight sits down next to Sunset and asks, "So Sunset, how is that book going to help us." "Well, backed when I used to be princess Celestia's student, she gave me this book and she as a copy of it, but engrave it with our cutie marks so we can tell them apart." Sunset explains as she is grabbing her pen from her backpack. Sunset then opens the book to an empty page in it and she is getting ready to write a message to Princess Twilight. Than Sunset explains, "You see when I write something in this book it will appear in the pages in the other book that Princess Twilight is keeping at her castle." "Wow! That some book you got," Sunburst surprisingly says. Starlight can't look away from the book Sunset has and think this book is amazing and think it will come in handy. Starlight then happily says, "Maybe I can ask Princess Celestia if me and Sunburst can have books just like it," Sunburst looks at Starlight confused by her statement and asks, "Why?" "So you and I can stay in touch more, silly," Starlight says with a smile on her face. Sunburst starts to blush after hearing what Starlight said and then the girls start laughing. After Sunset stop laughing she being to write a message to Princess Twilight and hopes she'll get the message from the other journal soon. Her thoughts comes up as she writes, "Dear Princess Twilight…" and begins to write about the details to the situation and let her know that everything is okay.