1: The Perils of Sulking Near Portals
Celestia frowned as she read through the letter for the fourth time that evening.
Principal Celestia,
Given the number of stressful events that have occurred recently at CHS, it is the board's recommendation (and by recommendation we mean mandate) that you take an extended vacation. It will of course be fully paid, and is by no means intended as any kind of punitive measure. You have always done an exemplary job as Principal, and we simply wish for you to be at your best to allow that trend to continue. Your sister has agreed to take over your duties in the interim, so you need not worry about the state of the school during your vacation. We hope you have a wonderful time, and look forward to your return
Sincerely,
Superintendent Faust
She sighed as she finished and let the letter fall back onto her desk. She leaned back in her chair and sighed again, though with a bit more emphasis, casting her eyes to the ceiling of her office. "I can't believe I'm being forced to take time off, that's just idiotic..." she mumbled to herself. She sat back forward and looked around for something to do, the small clock on her desk catching her eye. It was almost 9PM, which meant she wasn't even supposed to be in the building anymore.
A deep frown creased Celestia's face as she drummed her fingers on the desk, the voice in her head trying to rationalize staying a bit longer and delaying the official start of her exile, but eventually she gave up, standing and gathering a few personal effects. As much as she wanted to, she was not about to break the rules, rules she had made herself.
A few minutes later and she was exiting the main doors of the school, the cool darkness of a parking lot in late spring rushing to greet her. She began making her way towards her car, but halfway there, the large statue out on the lawn caught her eye. "Well, technically I'm not in the building anymore," she told herself, turning slightly and making a line for the statue. There was something inviting about the large marble monument, and it was a common loitering spot for many of the students. Celestia herself had sat there a few times while reading over policy documents or whatever else, and it seemed the perfect spot to mourn her impending absence just a bit longer.
She sat down on the stone walkway just in front of the statue's base and looked over the front of the school, a small smile threatening her sour mood. She personally thought it was a very beautiful building, looking a bit more like a small College than a typical High School. You couldn't even tell a hole had been blown in the front of it earlier that year. At that thought, her smile disappeared again.
She hated herself for it a little but, if she was honest, she still held a bit of a grudge against Sunset Shimmer for breaking her school, brainwashing her students, and now contributing to her forced hiatus. Originally Celestia had wanted to get the Police involved, or at least expel her, but Luna had made a compelling case for showing some lenience, and it seemed to be paying off, as Ms. Shimmer seemed to be doing quite a good job at turning her life around. That being said, Celestia still felt a bit miffed over the whole thing.
She could feel another big sigh of annoyance and self-pity welling up inside her, so she made to lean back against the statue and make her presentation as dramatically huffy as she was feeling. Unfortunately, the sigh never got the opportunity as it caught in her throat and was replaced by a panicked "eep!" as she leaned backwards and felt no statue to support her. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she thought it was a lot like the panic you feel when you are walking up a flight of stairs and try to step up one too many times as you reach the top.
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Sunset Shimmer was whistling a light tune to herself as she walked towards the school. She had just left her friends for the evening as they had finished seeing a movie, and needed to stop by the school to get a book that had been forgotten in the bottom of her locker. Technically, nobody but the janitorial staff were supposed to be in the building so late at night, but she still knew a few ways to sneak in, experience gleaned during her time as Queen Bitch of the school. Normally she wouldn't bother, preferring to stick to the rules these days, but she needed the book, and after tonight the school would be locked up tight until Monday.
As Sunset neared the building, she noticed someone was sitting in front of the school statue, and it didn't take long to recognize the rainbow haired Principal. She frowned slightly, a few second thoughts on sneaking into the school popping into her mind. Principal Celestia had certainly been more friendly towards her than most of the student body since the she-demon incident, but there was still a noticeable coldness there whenever they interacted.
Sunset turned to make her way back home, deciding to give up on the book, but was forced to look back in surprise when she heard a sudden yelp. She turned just in time to watch the last few inches of the Principal's legs disappear into the base of the statue. "Ugh...well that's probably not gonna go well..." Sunset said aloud, her expression scrunching as she tried to think of what she should do next.
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Celestia landed on her back with a soft thud. It hadn't hurt, which was surprising since she felt like she had fallen a lot further than a few feet. She also couldn't figure out why she felt like she was laying on a very soft carpet, why it was suddenly a lot darker and less windy outside, and why everything smelled like old paper. "I better not have given myself a concussion or something," she grumbled as she attempted to sit up, but lost her balance halfway and landed back on the floor with a second muted thump.
Something about her body felt off, as if all her limbs were shorter and clumsier than they used to be. "Great job Celestia, start your vacation with brain damage, way to go." At least she was still capable of sarcasm, so that was something. She reached to grab her cell phone from her coat pocket, figuring an ambulance might be a good idea, despite how humiliating the circumstances were. As her hand reached her side however, she let out a high pitched scream of shock. What should have felt like fingers touching cotton instead felt like a wooden fist touching soft fur.
Before she could dwell on the thought for too long, she heard nearby footsteps, footsteps that sounded like wooden shoes on stone. As they drew nearer, a number of lights came on, illuminating the room, and Celestia realized she was lying on the floor of an enormous library. The footsteps were very close at this point, and she looked in their direction, hoping to see a familiar face, or at least someone friendly and helpful looking despite their strange choices in footwear.
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Twilight Sparkle came up to the half open door to the library, noticing the castle had seen her coming and kindly turned the lights on by itself in anticipation. "This place is so weird sometimes..." she whispered to herself, pressing a forehoof to the door and opening it the rest of the way. "Spike is that...oh! Princess, what are you doing in the library...laying on the ground...in the dark...at night?" She asked her mentor quizzically, one brow firmly arched in question. "That sorta seems like something I'd do..."
Celestia was utterly speechless. A tiny purple horse, with wings and a horn, had just walked in, started talking, and called her Princess. "Yep...I definitely have brain damage...um...Ms. Purple Horse, could you please call an ambulance for me? I fell a minute ago and I think I've hit my head pretty badly and, as I just mentioned, am hallucinating that you are a purple horse." It probably wasn't the best way to ask for immediate medical assistance, but it was the best her utterly baffled mind could come up with in the moment.
Twilight's eyes widened at the mention Celestia might be hurt and she was about to start full on panic mode and teleport the Princess to the nearest hospital when her mind finally processed what had just been said and brought her train of thought to a grinding halt. "Horse? Princess, we're ponies, you know that, not to mention I've always been purple." Part of her knew she should be focusing more on her teacher's strange confusion than pedantry, but she couldn't help herself.
Celestia ignored the strange statement, chalking it up to more hallucination, and attempted to get up again, this time managing to roll over onto her front at least. She was about to take a second stab at asking for help when she was interrupted by a sharp gasp from "Ms. Purple Horse".
"Celestia, what happened to your wings!?" Twilight gasped, so shocked she forgot to use the alicorn's, well former-alicorn's, title.
Reflexively, Celestia turned to look behind herself, letting out a gasp of her own. Of course, in her case, the surprise wasn't in her apparent lack of wings, as having any would have been disconcerting all on it's own, but instead it was in the reflection that stared back at her from the surface of a strangely ornate mirror.
In the mirror was the image of a bright white pony with a multicolored pastel mane and tail, a horn jutting from it's forehead, and large magenta eyes widened in shock, and no small amount of terror.
"WHY AM I A TALKING HORSE!?" she screamed, scrambling awkwardly up onto four long legs so she could properly survey herself.
"What in Equestria are you talking about Princess?" Twilight asked meekly, beginning to worry even more at the display of bizarre behavior. "...and why are you...smaller?" Now that she was standing, it was obvious Celestia lacked her normally imposing stature, and now stood an inch or so shorter than Twilight. Twilight couldn't help but marvel at the thought for a moment, never before in her life had she been able to look down on Celestia. Well physically at least. Twilight knew she'd never look down on her beloved mentor in the other meaning of the phrase.
This line of thinking, as well as Celestia's panicked self inspection, were both interrupted as the mirror began to ripple and a deep yellow mare burst through the portal. "Twilight! The other Celestia has..." Sunset stopped mid sentence as she noticed the white unicorn standing right next to her. "Oh...I guess you already know..."
"Sunset? What are you doing here, not that I'm not happy to see you," Twilight gave her newest friend a warm but confused look. "and what do you mean other Celestia..." Twilight now too had stopped mid sentence as she connected the dots. "Oh...you mean...oh...um....that's not good is it?" she asked with a deep frown, all sorts of questions forming in her mind and shoving at each other to demand her mental attention.
Celestia meanwhile looked the newest pony in the room up and down. The yellow color, the fiery hair, and the purple one had called her Sunset, it had to be. "Sunset Shimmer? You've turned into a h-pony too?" she asked, her daze of confusion worsening. She wasn't even sure why she had acquiesced to referring to them as ponies over horses, though it did seem to be a more fitting term.
Sunset looked over to Celestia, taking a moment before answering. "Um, yes, well sort of...technically I've always been a pony...um...and this is...well, you remember Twilight Sparkle?" she gestured to the young princess as she asked, a plastic smile on her face.
Celestia looked back and forth between the two. Now that she thought about it, just as she had noticed with Sunset, the other pony had some very obvious similarities with the awkward purple skinned girl who had saved her school from certain doom twice now.
"I see..." she started slowly "I do remember you Ms. Sparkle, and while it is very nice to see, uh, you again, could one of you two please explain to me WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!"
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Interesting...
This story deserves a follow.
This is actually a well written and enjoyable read...
I am both shocked and surprised, and pleasantly so.
This is definitely going on the follow list. I can't wait to see how thing turns out.
This story has captured my attention. IT SHALL BE FOLLOWED!
Wonderful premise. I look forwards to seeing where this goes.
And that is why the Earth Terminus for the Mirror was moved in my headcanon... Oh dear this is going to be hilarious
This is surprisingly good, especially when compared to most of the stories that get posted here, even by experienced writers. The formatting is good, the editing is solid, and the writing itself is very well done. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what you can do with this.
A proper teacher oughtn't be using expletives in front of her students at all, much less repeatedly. I disapprove.
After reading Mr Disc, I suppose this was bound to happen, Can't wait to see where it goes. =D
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A proper teacher doesn't normally turn into an adorable little talking pony with a multi-colored mane.
I like this, there is allot of untreaded ground as far as the relationship between the Equestrian and human world counterparts. I look forward to seeing the ideas you put forth.
5856625 seconded.
Love this keep going hope to see more soon
Is this going to be a Sunlight (Twilight X Sunset Shimmer) or Twilestia
5857036 neither
Lovely stuff XD
Interesting...
I would have personally preferred if Principal Celestia had ended up an exact body-double of Princess Celestia just for the sake of seeing her wrestle with the temptation of that type of power... but still, really interesting concept.
I haven't read it yet, but the premise is hilarious.
i am undecided mostly about the Romance tag ,because in most cases it means forced shipping.
But despite that it is good, writing is solid etc etc lets see where it gets and maybe after that i decide if thumps up or down.
5857378 I'm a bit of a shipfic addict, so when I write my own stuff, I usually can't help myself.
oooh gonna track this
Good Premise, especially if we establish Principle Celestia as a bit grouchier than Princess Celestia.
One thing that should be checked over though, is what you're writing in prose to cue shifts in the perspective of the narrative. The moment where Twilight comes in to check on the noise left me with the impression that Celestia knew who she was before she actually saw Twilight. Only after fully completing the paragraph did it click that we'd shifted perspectives to Twilight.
Give your work an extra reading pass and check for indications of 'jump cuts' like that. Ensure that with every perspective or 'camera' switch, we know who we've moved to.
I would have thought Principal Celestia would be built like Flure Delis and that Flure is about as tall as Alicorn Twilight
5857398
Well, for me it's the "read when completed" bookshelf. This really sounds like something to be read whole in one sitting.
I'm kind of confused how Twilight could mistake a unicorn that's smaller than she is for an alicorn that's twice her height, and aren't they right by the mirror that's now sitting somewhere in Twilight's castle?
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Well, third-person omniscient is a thing that exists, but yes, I agree that it was confusing.
You had me at "Superintendent Faust". ^^ This is very promising, can't wait to see more!
I hope this story addresses the huge discrepancy there is between Pony Princesses & Human Principals when it comes to Powers & Responsibilities.
5856839 Funny you ought to mention that, I thought the same coming in. But reading this, not only does it kinda play with a similar idea that I have for Discord, but this author is giving a unique take on Celestia.
I must say, if the author is reading this, I'm giving you praise for the approach you're taking, and even I'm interested in where you're taking this. Even for a guy who wrote the Mr. Disc series, I say please, go on, I'm interested to see where this is going.
5857758 Thanks, I appreciate the support! I was actually unaware of your series before I wrote this, though now I'm going to have to take a look, it sounds great.
5857066 About time someone doesn't throw a romance subplot in with the comedy, let's be honest they tend to take away from the experience if not done well let us all take a moment to toss a stone at Flash Sentry's Human Counterpart shall we? He is a perfect example of my point.
Take my like and follow and one mustache.
5857870 I hope it doesn't disappoint, but there is definitely shipping incoming, but I'm hoping it'll be a bit of a slow burn, and in the mean time we can have plenty of unrelated goofiness
5857924 Funny, but you meant to say "principal"
Well this looks promising.
5857787 careful that you don't let how someone else did it influence you too much!
This looks promising so far, but Twilight doesn't call Celestia "Princess" anymore
You have a follow.
Yes.
5857210 I imagine human celestia playing with sun.
Oh HELL the frick yes!
On a side note: who is the president at that point?
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The Sunbutt has been DOUBLED!
Hmmm...
Think I'll keep an eye on this.
--Spade
Interesting, this is a very original concept, and there are many directions you can take. I would prefer the scientific/logical bent, since the person in question is an educator who's spent probably half her life instructing people on the ideas of life.
I want to see Tia giggling at her 'mini-me' and I shall be satisfied.
While this looked like an interesting story, you lost be by the fact you made Principle Celestia. a FREAKING UNICORN!
Celestia unlike Twilight was BORN an alicorn, thus her human counterpart would be an alicorn as well.
5857545 yes, this is the key flaw in this story. the premise is sound and interesting but both Celestia should look the same. though the Human one would be minus the regalia.
If Human Twilight came through, yes she be a unicorn because pony Twilight was born a unicorn. H Twilight hasn't learn the lesson her pony self has thus would have changed. Celestia was born an alicorn thus her human self would be the same. Both seemed to have the same ideals just different scales since one rules a country the other a school. But by all logic H Celestia should be an alicorn. This is why I'm down voting this. Fix this one issue and you'd have me back.
5858820 Also faust. Because everyone is faust
Its the conspiracy of the century
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Actually, I don't remember anything in the show or the comics stating that Celestia was born an alicorn. I didn't read any of the books, but even the comics are often ignored by writers here, and the comics also contradicted the show more than once.
So, if there's nothing in the official episodes stating that Celestia was born an alicorn, you can't go around claiming that it's true.
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I'm pretty sure there's no canon telling whether Celestia and Luna were born as alicorns or not, but a popular fan theory is that Celestia was born a unicorn and Luna was born a pegasus, which sort of manifests in canon in their general behaviors.
That said, there is official media (one of the books, I believe) that says Cadance was born a pegasus.