Come Out and Neigh
When the Rainbooms gathered at their usual table at lunch, Pinkie had a rattled, haunted look in her eyes.
"Are you okay, Pinkie Pie?" Fluttershy asked.
Pinkie shivered. "T-Twilight," she whispered.
The others sat up intently. "What about Twilight?" Rainbow asked.
"C-Crystal Prep..."
Confused blinks answered her. "Beg pardon?" Rarity prompted.
"That woman who went into Luna's office," Pinkie said in a stronger, less detached voice. "She...she works at Crystal Prep. She...she said Twilight Sparkle...goes there."
The other girls looked around at one another, frowns of worry and confusion on their faces.
"Are...are you sure, darling?"
"YES! Yes, I'm sure! I heard it! I heard both of them say it TWICE!" Pinkie ranted, her pitch and volume escalating. "Twilight Sparkle is a student at Crystal BUTTHOLE Prep!" She punctuated her exclamation by pounding on the table...
...which cracked down the middle, dumping their trays on the floor. The entire cafeteria fell silent, turning to stare at them.
Rainbow gave Pinkie a half-lidded glare. "Way to go, Pinkie Pie."
Miss Cheerilee, who was on cafeteria duty, scuttled over, a look of alarm on her face. "Girls, what's with all the yelling? And...WHAT DID YOU DO TO THIS TABLE?!"
"I'llpayforit!" Pinkie gasped out, standing up and rubbing the back of her head. "Sorry, I...I don't know my own strength lately..."
Cheerilee tilted her head, frowning. "Does...does this have anything to do with the pony ears and wings thing you girls are doing now?"
"Yes ma'am," Applejack said as she picked up the broken table halves, grimacing at the mess on the floor. "Me an' Pinkie Pie got some kinda freaky super-strength goin' on now. Guess there ain't no point hidin' it after this mess."
"You could've tried to hide it a bit more carefully," Rarity hissed, even as the spilled trays wreathed themselves in her magic aura and piled into a neat stack.
Cheerilee just stared.
"I'll, umm...just go get a mop," Fluttershy said, sneaking away. All around the girls' table, students had their phones out and were recording video and taking pictures.
Rainbow facepalmed. "We're screwed," she muttered.
* * * * *
Rarity tilted her head curiously as she studied Princess Twilight Sparkle's human form. "Sweet Celestia," she said softly. "Is that really what's on the other side of that mirror?"
"Yes," Twilight said. "Everybody looks like this over there. Well, I mean...they look like themselves, just...as one of these."
"How strange," Rarity commented. "And, ahem...a bit immodest." She shook her head. "I'll be honest, darling...this might be a bit of a challenge for me."
"You don't think you can make clothes for this body?" Twilight asked, drooping.
"Oh, don't be absurd!" Rarity said with a light chuckle and a wave of her hoof. "I simply mean it's going to be a challenge." Her eyes sparkled. "One I quite look forward to undertaking!"
"More to the point, do you think you can come up with something quickly?" Princess Celestia asked. "Ideally, the sooner we help Sunset Shimmer, the better."
Rarity caught the anxiety in her voice and nodded. "Oh, I'm certain it won't take terribly long, not with the resources of my boutique here in Canterlot at my disposal." Her tape measure began floating around Twilight, taking various measurements. "Although I do wish I had more time to experiment with different designs..."
"All I really need is this," Twilight said, picking up a scroll and passing it over. An image of her current form wearing a purple skirt, blue blouse, and purple and black boots had been magically burned into the parchment.
Rarity made a face. "Gaaah," she said. "No, no, that won't do at all, darling." She shook her head. "I can do much better than that." She studied the image again, then nodded. "I do appreciate the reference, though. That will make my job far easier..."
Moondancer groaned. "Can't we just throw a robe over the naked monkey instead of wasting time with all this?"
Rarity glared at her. "Absolutely not," she snapped.
Celestia covered her muzzle with a hoof to stifle a giggle. "Best to let this one go, Moondancer," she said. "Never get between Rarity and fashion."
"Speaking of which, you are in desperate need of a makeover," Rarity said to Moondancer as she wrote down Twilight's measurements. "Perhaps once the current crisis is over—"
"No."
"But darling, I—"
"No."
"At the very least an eyebrow plucking?"
"No."
"But darling, they're positively GHASTLY—"
"NO!"
"We'll put a pin in that for now."
Moondancer growled in annoyance. Twilight giggled.
* * * * *
Halfway to Canterlot High, Tirek—who had been silent thus far during the ride—spoke up. "Dean Cadance?"
"Yes?"
Tirek's forehead furrowed in bemusement. "I can't help but wonder...why does the license plate on your car say 'LUV BUTT'?"
Cadance nearly ran off the road. A strained giggle emanated from the driver's seat. She coughed once. "Ah...ahem...that's a really embarrassing story..."
Twilight giggled. "That's the last thing I'd expect you to ask about," she said.
Tirek grunted. "Ordinarily, no, but it just seems so...out of place."
Cadance smiled. "Believe it or not, when I was your age, I used to be a little bit of a ditzy party girl."
"That, I have no trouble believing in the slightest," Tirek said. "Which makes your closeness with Twilight Sparkle all the more curious."
"Like I said, she's been a family friend for a long time—"
"Yes, yes, I remember, and your brother had a crush on her," Tirek interrupted dismissively.
"You didn't tell him your whole life story already, did you?" Cadance asked, raising an eyebrow.
"No!" Twilight said, blushing profusely. "He just asked a question, I answered it...that's all, really!"
Cadance smirked. "Uh-huh." She sighed. "Well, in any case, we need to be careful snooping around CHS. I already made up a cover story for what we're doing there and I think Vice-Principal Luna bought it, but let's do our best not to draw attention to ourselves, okay?"
"As you wish," Tirek said.
Twilight eyed him nervously. "Y-yeah," she said. "We'll...we'll just...blend right in. Yes."
* * * * *
The cafeteria incident had been dismissed as an accident, and the Rainbooms had been let off with a warning and an admonishment from Vice-Principal Luna to be careful with their newfound pony magic.
Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash all had the same free period after lunch. They met up in the grand foyer, then headed out to the school's front steps.
"You sure you heard right?" Rainbow asked Pinkie.
"Uhh, YES!" Pinkie exclaimed, flailing her hands emphatically. "I was right over Luna's office!"
"But that doesn't make any sense," Rarity said, frowning. "Twilight came here from Equestria. The portal is here at CHS. What would she be doing at Crystal Prep?"
"And how could she be a student there?" Rainbow wondered. "I mean, if she's here in our world, even if she came through at Crystal Prep, wouldn't she have the same problem Sunset has?"
"All I know is what I heard," Pinkie said, nervously drumming her fingers on the handrail.
A pearl pink car pulled up to the curb in front of the school. Three of its doors opened, and three people stepped out. One was the woman who had visited Vice-Principal Luna earlier in the day. Another was a tall, muscular red-skinned boy with white hair, a small goatee, and a decidedly thuggish sense of fashion.
The third was Twilight Sparkle.
The three Rainbooms stared, jaws dropping, as Twilight and the boy stepped around the car, conversing quietly. Twilight was wearing glasses with thick black frames and a severe purple-and-white uniform, and her hair was tied up in a messy bun. She held a strange device in one hand, which she was consulting as she talked to her companion, who held a crystal cupped in one hand and was frowning at it.
"It's true," Rainbow Dash said hollowly. "Twilight's gone over to the dark side."
"She's certainly keeping very...strange company these days," Rarity said. "Funny, I never pictured Twilight as going for the bad-boy type."
"No kidding," Pinkie said. "He's like...super bad bad-boy."
Rainbow hurtled over the safety railing and crouched at the side of the stairs, out of Twilight's line of sight. "Get down here!" she hissed to the others.
"Whatever for, darling?" Rarity asked. "There's no reason we need to hide from Twilight—"
"I wanna know what she's up to and why she's suddenly all buddy-buddy with Crystal Prep!"
"Ooh, are we spying on Twilight and her bad-boy boyfriend?" Pinkie asked. "That sounds like fun!" With a leap, she joined Rainbow. Rarity rolled her eyes and followed suit. The three girls peered around the edge of the stairs.
Twilight waved the device she was carrying across the face of the statue that contained the portal to Equestria. She adjusted her glasses, frowned, and turned some dials on her device. She glanced over at the boy, whose crystal was floating in the air in front of the portal, blinking white. He walked forward and laid his hand on the bare marble, then ran it over the smooth surface. After a minute, he shook his head and turned away.
"What're they doing?" Rainbow wondered.
"Studying the portal, it looks like," Rarity said.
The woman walked up and conversed with them for a moment, then made her way toward the steps. As they drew closer, the Rainbooms heard snippets of conversation.
"—definitely something magical about that statue," the boy rumbled. "We'll need to examine it more closely later."
"Your crystal was a different color just now than it was in the bathroom," Twilight said. "My readings were different, too. What do you suppose it means?"
"I don't know," the boy said. "It's also interesting that the crystal was blinking. It's never done that before."
"You don't think it's another, umm...like the mirror?" the pink woman asked.
"Hard to say," Twilight said. "We still don't really know what that was."
"It's some sort of doorway to another world," the boy grunted. "That much is obv—" He broke off. "There's more magic, and it's close. Very close."
"Your crystal's changed colors again," Twilight said. Her scanner started beeping. "Whoa! You're right, something's really close and really active!"
"Oh crap!" Rainbow whispered, eyes wide.
Twilight and the others stepped around the edge of the stairs, stopping three feet in front of them. Rainbow, Pinkie, and Rarity stood up, grimacing. Rarity gave a small, sheepish wave. "Ahem. Hello."
The boy raised an eyebrow. "Well. This is interesting."
The woman gasped. "You...you have a horn."
Twilight pointed at Rainbow. "You have...you have wings."
"Yeah I do!" Rainbow said. "But...but you knew that already, right?"
Twilight blinked. "Umm...well, I can certainly see that...that you have wings!" She furiously adjusted knobs on her scanner and waved it over the group. "Tirek, these girls are dripping with magic!" She pointed her scanner straight at Rarity. "Especially her!"
Tirek nodded thoughtfully, pointing his crystal at Rarity. It lit up a bright blue-white and began strobing and chiming softly. "Yes," he said. "Powerful magic..."
The woman with them facepalmed. "For the record," she said, "this is the exact opposite of not drawing attention to ourselves."
* * * * *
The journal vibrated. Sunset picked it up.
Sunset,
Rarity's making me something to wear. I'm coming to see you tomorrow. I'm going to teach you a spell that might let you turn human for short periods of time. I don't know if you'll have enough power to cast it, but if you can, it'll at least help you get out of your apartment. See you soon!
Twilight.
Smiling, she reached for her own phone and called Rarity.
* * * * *
Rarity's phone rang. She pulled it out of her skirt pocket, glanced at the screen, and answered. "Ahem. H-hello, Sunset," she said. "Oh, you don't say? Well, she's...she's certainly quick about it, then. She's right here in front of..." She paused, blinking. "What...what do you mean? Just...just now?" She looked at her friends, then at the three visitors. She coughed. "I—I see. Ahem. W-well. That certainly...clears up a few matters. Umm...we'll talk later. We have a bit of a problem on our end." She hung up, then numbly put her phone away. She coughed into her fist. "Girls?" she said to her friends. "I think we've made...a bit of a boo-boo."
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Well, the cat's out of the bag! And with all those videos being taken, people can only dismiss it as special effects for so long.
Welp, Tirek and Sci-Twi now know too much...
So the only question is...are they actually bad guys?
6997021 He most certainly is! I don't know about her.
One issue I had with the film was that the girls never considered the possibility that their world might have a Twilight Sparkle. And that Sunset never considered the idea that there might be a human Twilight.
Granted, that raises question about a human Sunset, and I'm fine with it being played for humor, but still.
Anyway, cat's out of the bag. Time to do the panicking.
That's putting it mildly.
Oppppps...
At this point, you should probably add Tirek and maybe Cadence to the story's character tags.
6997021
Tirek certainly has all the groundwork laid out for becoming a supervillain, but hasn't gone much further than being an obnoxious hooligan. It's not entirely clear what he'd do with access to power similar to his Equestrian self. Twilight's a mad scientist; that's always a coin flip as far as hero/villain is concerned, and at the moment she'd probably just stick with Tirek unless he does something particularly evil or the girls befriend her.
Comparing Tirek to his Equestrian self raises a big question though; if human Tirek (and Celestia/Luna for that matter) are mortal with normal lifespans, how in the world are they alternate selves for their immortal Equestrian counterparts. I mean, I guess you could argue that ages between the two worlds don't line up exactly anyway and the immortal Equestrians just have counterparts being born and dying every century or so, but that still seems kind of pushing it.
Well that escalated quicker than I expected it to.
I have to say, I reather like your version of human Tirek. Would you mind if, sometime in the distant future, I modeled my own version of him after yours?
Yeah, that mistake is going to come back to bite them very hard very quickly. The scene with Monndancer and Rarity was hilariously well done.
Well. That escalated quickly.
I have to say, the more I see of this Human Tirek, the more I come to like him. Level headed, oddly curious at times, but still focused.
You know... I think Princess Twilight's going to have a heart attack if she sees him.
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This story just isn't that high a priority for me compared to some of my other stuff, especially Persona EG. I pretty much only deal with this story when I need to stretch out my brain a little. It's a lightweight story I can just relax and dribble-drabble bits and pieces onto when I need to "breathe". Even so, it does update fairly often, all things considered. I mean, this is the third time it's updated this year, and it's only March. There are stories that don't update that often in two years. Or three.
6997064 Go for it dude.
I had great fun imagining the noises that came out of pony Rarity's mouth when she saw Twilight's default outfit.
"In fact, I think one of the natives threw a spear at me."
As for that bit at the end... I swear, there are times when I want to print out pamphlets and hand them out to these kids. Parallel Universes for Dumm—
Oh, right, already wrote that story.
Anyway, I'd hope that there will be less magic draining than either Tirek or human Twilight have demonstrated in the past, but given that track record, I'm not exactly optimistic. This could be very bad.
Well now, Tirek has undeniable proof of a ready source of magic. This promises to get interesting.
On another note...
Could be worse. If this was a mirror universe of Kzin, the license plate would probably be the one from 'Kill Bill'.
6997039 eh, it's only a 99%chance that he's a bad guy. human versions are not a 100% match to their equestrian counterpats and all that.
6997148 Good point.
6997104
There isn't exactly a shortage of options.
Excellent chapter. The fate of two worlds has been imperiled by the conclusion jumping of teenage schoolgirls. This is my unsurprised face.
Seeing as he would have no idea how to use his Equestrian body's magic stealing power, it would be rather amusing to see Teenrek step through the portal and immediately get his ass handed to him by Sunbutt and Moonflanks. But I think the story is way more interesting and hilarious if he's not actually a villain and just some emokid.
6997060 This is like THE big plot hole in Equestria Girl.
I suppose we should just accept thing as they are and leave it at that.
Pony Rarity not taking no for an answer made me laugh. You might as well just get it over with Moondancer.
Nice chapter.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Reading this chapter, I remember Tirek's and SciTwi's conversation about their motives, and thought of a little extended scene.
SciTwi: " I want to know everything. I want to understand everything."
Tirek: (gives a little chuckle) " And some would call me ambitious."
SciTwi: "What do you mean?"
Tirek: " I seek the power to be the greatest king this world has ever known. But, to know everything, to understand everything? That is the domain of a God.
Just something that popped into my head. Also, I hope Princess Twilight gets to Tirek before he can really cause trouble, so that SciTwi can be the true final Boss.
6997293 Teachers don't always act the same when they're off the clock as they do when they're on the clock. From experience, I can tell you that there are teachers I could laugh and joke around with and have fun with outside of the classroom that once we were in the classroom, I hated their guts. (Curiously, I feel the same way about Barack Obama. As a man, as a public speaker, I like him. He's funny. I think he should go into comedy when his term is up. But as President, I despise him.)
6997347 It's from the IDW official comics, from the two-parter that explored how Cadance and Shining Armor got together.
6997332
Comedy?
Although I have heard people that despised Bush Jr. as president who genuinely enjoyed having a barbecue with him (us Texans understand Proper Barbecue™), so I can understand where you're coming from. I just don't see Obama as a comedian.
Well... Crap!
6997021 Doesn't look like this story has a big bad behind it all, unless Starswirl is up to some dirty pranking tricks from beyond the grave. Tirek has potential to become a problem, but then so do the sirens and the rainbooms themselves. We don't have any proof that just using magic at all isn't making the issue worse.
6997332 True, true. I think I have a too small sample size, and most of those chose the middle road.
6997322 I feel like I have seen that scene played out before. Where I cannot say, but it rings a host of familiar yet unnameable bells.
6997374 Thanks, I figured it was from the IDW comics, but I also know of several fandom artists with styles remarkably similar.
Adding this to 'the watch'. It's a fun jaunt. 'Till next time!
6997459 BBQ huh? So, vinegar base or mustard base?
Fan speed at level three! Waste matter platter preparing for launch!
It's not surprising that the two portals have different signatures, but Tirek's Crystal is definitely higher-than-normal quality to have such diverse ability...
Keep going! ;)
6997519
Heathen!
Real barbecue sauce uses a tomato base. The only place vinegar or mustard have in this realm is a vinaigrette marinade. (Or a vinaigrette salad dressing if you have rabbits attending your meat party.)
6997459 Then you haven't seen Obama be funny.
6997543 The reason the crystal is having a different reaction to the currently closed CHS portal is because the sucker's broken and malfunctioning. It's like when that one light starts blinking on your printer and you can't figure out what the HELL is wrong with it.
6997628 haha yeah, sucks if you only have a single blinking light to go off of.
Rarity representing the Element of, Understatement!
6997660 Your understatement is an understatement.
So we have now Pinkie shipping Tirelight. It's a tiring ship...
We'll girls could quickly get out by flight, being Pinkie and teleportation. Vut still it'll be interesting to see what happens.
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Clearly they should be kept KO'd and in a basement until the story's conclusion is reached. Otherwise they'll try to take what isn't theirs to take. Which is always how it goes. "Oh hey, we were studying magic. Found out you have some! Hand it over~"
Things got hilariously complicated.
And I love how Rarity eloquently summarized their predicament.
Good job
Too bad Pinkie couldn't figure out it was native human Twilight instantly, but it made for some laughs until they finally figured it out. And now we just need to have the Rarities somehow meet and start arguing about fashion.
Interesting take on Tirek, especially as the... comically serious? Hm, not sure if that is the right term. Anyway, the fact that he even bothers to ask about something inane like a license plate makes him seem like more of a character than just typical evil overlord equestrian Tirek. I'm still wary of him, but at least so far human Tirek is surprisingly polite.
So now the question is how they handle all these questions. Just telling Tirek or Sci-Twi everything probably isn't the best of ideas. Unless Pinkie blabs the whole thing in one long sentence. Well, hopefully Sunset will finally step out of her apartment soon too.
Girls?" she said to her friends. "I think we've made...a bit of a boo-boo."
not really more of a case of pinkie jumping to conclusions.
a really good chapter and the hole story is moving along super well.
6997332 man, this is so depressing. The writers I like best keep having political views I hate
overall with this story maybe SciTwi still goes Midnight and that scares Tirek straight
Oh really?
6997926 You don't say? Now would be a good time to run.
Haha, this is brilliant! It's been a long wait but definitely worth it, I'm really looking forwards to seeing how this all goes down...
I can't believe it didn't occur to them faster.
How ever you have this story go, as of so far I LIKE this version of Tirek. The reason that he wishes power and is looking for real magic to obtain said power is something I can also get behind, it's after he gets the power and how accomplishes his goal is when I'll have to step back and look and think harder.
Looking forward to more of the girls' screw-ups.
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I'm definitely a culinary apostate.
I didn't think Twilight would go for the bad boy type, but they are sharing an interest.
6997048 I really hope at some point they do have Human!Sunset.
And not just because of the fics that ship Pony!Sunset and Human!Sunset6998481 It at least needs to be addressed.