One Trick Pony
Sunday morning found Sunset lazily watching cartoons on TV. The good cartoons, the ones for older kids, not the cheesy ones on the cartoon channel.
With a big bowl of cereal in front of her and a tall glass of orange juice on the table, she almost forgot about her bizarre predicament.
Almost.
The fact that she was using her magic to eat was a subtle reminder of the situation.
After breakfast, she washed her dishes, then started cleaning the apartment. It was a bit of a mess after the events of the last couple of days. The simple act of cleaning house focused Sunset's mind and had a calming effect upon her; she even started whistling to herself as she vacuumed up crumbs and polished the living room table.
With her housekeeping chores done, Sunset pondered what to do with the rest of her day. Ordinarily, on a Sunday, she'd either go out with her friends or do some shopping, maybe take in a movie. None of which she could do in her present situation, and her friends were all spending today with their families at her own behest.
"I guess I could get in some guitar practice," she thought out loud. "Or catch up on some reading...maybe there's a good movie on TV..."
Her musings were interrupted by the doorbell. She frowned; other than her friends and possibly Celestia, nobody should be dropping by on a Sunday. Even if her rent was due or there was a problem with the apartment or something, the landlord wouldn't show up on a Sunday, and her neighbors didn't generally interact with her...
She trotted over to the door. "Who is it?" she called.
"It's Flash," the muffled voice of Flash Sentry said from the other side.
Sunset's eyes widened and her ears pinned back. "Oh horseapples," she muttered.
"I found a book you left over at my place and wanted to return it," Flash said.
"Oh! That's...that's nice," Sunset said. "Listen, can you just leave it outside?"
"Uhh...actually, I also kinda wanted to talk. We...haven't talked in a while, really, and—"
"You mean ever since you broke up with me?" Sunset snapped.
"Yeah, and...I wanted to, y'know, talk about that and...about us still being friends. And, well..." He paused. "I don't feel comfortable talking about this through a door. Can...can I come in?"
"No!" Sunset cried. "I mean...sorry, it's just...I've been sick, and I'm naked, and—"
"I can wait for you to put some clothes on, and...and if you've been sick, I can like, help you out with stuff. I did wonder why you weren't at school Friday." Flash paused. "Look, I just...I just really wanna talk. Please?"
The pleading tone in his voice made Sunset close her eyes and sigh. *Dammit...he's not going away unless I yell at him some, and I don't want to hurt his feelings by being a bitch to him just because I'm embarrassed to be seen like this...*
Taking a deep breath, Sunset unlocked the door and opened it.
Flash blinked. "Sunset?"
"Down here."
Flash looked down, blinking stupidly, his mouth forming a small 'o'.
"Well?" Sunset said, stepping aside. "Get in here and close that door before anyone sees this."
"Uhh...what the...huh?"
Groaning, Sunset seized Flash in her magic, dragged him inside, and slammed the door, locking it. Once she set Flash down, he shook himself vigorously, then rubbed his eyes. "Whoa, what just—" He stared at Sunset, eyes widening. "...Sunset? Is...is..."
"Yes, it's me," Sunset said. "This is my real form. I've turned back into a pony for some reason. Twilight's trying to figure it out back in Equestria."
Flash's jaw dropped and his shoulders slumped. "Your...your real fo—you're a horse?"
"Pony," Sunset corrected. Then, with a vicious and slightly petty smirk, she added, "Twilight's a pony too, y'know." Savoring Flash's deer-in-the-headlights stare, she couldn't resist twisting the knife a little more. "That's right, guitar-boy. That cute nerd girl you've been bumping into things spacing out over is a prancing pony princess."
Flash staggered over to the sofa and collapsed. "Whoa," he said. As Sunset sat across from him, he took another look at her.
Then his eyes rolled back in his head. Sunset caught him with her magic before he could faceplant onto the floor and laid him out on the couch. She chuckled to herself. "I think that went well..."
* * * * *
Sonata Dusk wandered sleepily downstairs, dressed in short, tight shorts and a loose tank top, her hair a complete mess. Her ears twitched at the sounds of Adagio and Aria sniping at each other. Scratching herself, she padded into the kitchen, pulled out a skillet, and started making breakfast tacos. She didn't need to check first to know the other Sirens hadn't had anything but coffee yet this morning.
"Those girls have REAL magic," Aria said. "They were dripping with it."
"No, really? I didn't notice," Adagio said.
"What's goin' on here, Adagio?" Aria asked. "The last time we faced those Raingrooms, they just barely put on the whole pony ears and rainbow laser light show when they sang that lame friendship song. Now they're what, permanently part pony?" She frowned. "Kinda like us?"
"That...seems to be the case," Adagio said. She sighed. "Only they got the better part of the bargain." She frowned. "Something very strange is happening..."
Aria rolled her eyes. "Duh," she spat. She glanced at Sonata. "You know, not every meal has to be tacos."
Sonata shrugged. "Yeah, I know. That's why we're having gyros for dinner tonight."
"Gyros?" Adagio asked, tilting her head. "Do you even know how to make those?"
"Sure," Sonata said with a shrug. "I mean, I'll have to use the crock pot because we don't have a rotisserie, but other than that, it's not much harder than making a taco."
Adagio shrugged. "Whatever you say. You're the one who knows how to cook."
Aria shook her head. "How is it Sonata's a ditz at everything except making food?"
"Well you two don't know how to cook," Sonata pointed out. "Someone's gotta keep us all alive here." She frowned. "Besides, the last time Adagio tried to cook, there was a pound of hair in it."
Aria snickered.
Adagio glowered at Sonata. "Anyway," she snapped tersely, "we need more info on this whole magic thing." She frowned. "Which means somehow, we need to sneak back into Canterlot High."
"Ugh, that place," Aria groaned. "Fine."
A plate with two expertly made breakfast tacos landed in front of each Siren. Sonata sat at the table with her own plate and a sunny smile. "Eat up!"
* * * * *
Flash shot bolt upright on the sofa. "THE BOOBS WERE A LIE!" he cried.
Sunset rolled her eyes. "Welcome back, Flash."
Flash looked over at Sunset, his face taking on a green tinge. "You're a—"
"Pony."
"I...I made out with a..."
"Girl who used to be a pony," Sunset supplied.
"And...and Twilight..."
"Also a pony."
Flash shot off the couch and bolted for the bathroom. Sunset raised an eyebrow as she heard him empty his stomach.
A few minutes later, Flash staggered back out, pale and clammy. "Oh God," he groaned.
"Wow, you really know how to make a girl feel special," Sunset said.
"But...but I kissed...and wanted to do stuff with..." Flash gulped. "Animals."
Sunset blew on her mane. "Look, asshole," she said, "I've kind of had a really crazy weekend, my life has just been completely upended by unexpectedly turning back into my true form, this world may actually be in deep trouble, Twilight's busy trying to figure out what's going on, and the last thing I need is for you to have some shallow chickenshit freakout on me." She pointed a hoof at the door. "Now, you can sit down and we can talk like civilized beings, or you can get out right now and prove you're a jerk. And believe me, Twilight would not be impressed by you acting like a jerk."
Flash blinked dumbly. "I just..." He put his head in his hands. "Sorry. This is a lot to take in."
Sunset sighed. "Fair enough," she said. "I'll make lunch while you take a minute to think."
Flash remained lost in thought until a plate with a microwave pizza for one landed on the table in front of him, along with a bottled cola; a similar meal landed on the other side. Next, two bowls of fresh green salad landed on the table; the one beside his plate had a copious amount of Thousand Island dressing, while the other salad was drizzled in Balsamic vinaigrette. He looked up as Sunset sat down across the table; a faint pale green aura surrounded the horn protruding from her brow. A similar aura surrounded a pizza cutter which was floating over the table, cutting the two pizzas into precise quarters. The pizza cutter floated over to the kitchen sink; Flash watched as the sink turned itself on, rinsed the pizza cutter, then turned itself off. His eyes tracked back to Sunset as a fork floated off the table, seized a large bite of salad, and stuffed it in her mouth. She eyed him as she chewed. Blinking dazedly, Flash grabbed a slice of pizza and nibbled on it. "How...how did you..." He tilted his head at the pizza, then at the sink.
"Magic," Sunset said. "I'm a unicorn."
"Right," Flash said. "Is...is Twilight—?"
"Twilight has magic too," Sunset said. "She's an alicorn...that's a little harder to explain." Sunset sipped her cola, then levitated her pizza and took a delicate bite. "It's..." She frowned, then shook her head. "It'd be easier to show you. If I can remember how this spell works..."
Sunset closed her eyes and concentrated. Her horn flared brightly. A square expanded in midair between them, surrounded in a rippling green aura. Slowly, it filled with an image of an angry purple pony with Twilight Sparkle's hairstyle, a long, tapered horn, and large, feathery wings. An array of ponies who looked eerily familiar fanned out behind her, all with dangerous expressions on their faces.
After a moment, the image disappeared, and Sunset opened her eyes.
Flash shook his head in disbelief. "Okay...umm...wow." He paused for a bite of salad. "She looked...kinda pissed," he said after a moment.
"Well, yeah," Sunset said. "That was the night I stole her crown." She grimaced. "That's...the only time I've ever actually seen Twilight as a pony," she said. "I guess maybe I saw her wandering around Canterlot when she was a little filly, but I don't really remember."
"The others...were they...?"
"Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity," Sunset said. "Equestria and this world are parallels. Every single person you know has a counterpart somewhere in Equestria." She paused. "I think anyway."
Flash gulped. "Even...even me?"
"Probably."
"And...and you?"
Sunset grimaced. "I'd rather not talk about this world's Sunset Shimmer, if it's all the same."
"And...Twilight?"
Sunset sighed. "Yeah...there's probably another Twilight here somewhere. I...kinda hope we never run into her. It'd be...awkward."
"Hmm." Flash ate in silence for a few minutes. "So, uhh...you turned into a human when you came here so you'd fit in, but now you can't change anymore?"
"I didn't have anything to do with turning myself human," Sunset said. "The portal did that. I don't entirely understand how it works. I'm not even sure Twilight does. The only pony who really understood all this dimensional magic was Starswirl the Bearded, and he's been dead for centuries." She paused for some salad, then said, "All I know is when I came out of the portal in this world, I was human. When I went back to Equestria, I turned back into a pony." She shrugged. "Only now, something's gone wrong. The portal's magic is out of whack, I'm a pony, the other girls all have their pony ears and ponytails and wings and Rarity even has a horn now, the Dazzlings have some of their magic back but didn't change all the way back into their true forms..." She shook her head. "All I know for sure is that Twilight said the thaumetric pressure readings—" She looked up at Flash, who had a slice of pizza halfway to his mouth and was just staring at her in much the same way he used to stare when she was tutoring him in math. She groaned. "Nevermind. Let's just say weird stuff's happening and it looks like Equestrian magic is leaking into this world."
Flash snapped out of it, blinking several times. "Oh," he said. "Is...is that a bad thing?"
"Well, it's certainly inconvenient," Sunset said. "I mean, I can't exactly go out like this. People would freak."
"Yeah..."
"Best case scenario, Twilight finds a way to fix it and I get to be human again and get on with my life. Worst case scenario, I have to go back to Equestria and abandon my life here because I can't be human again." Sunset sighed. "That's assuming the effects are limited to anyone who's actually been exposed to Equestrian magic. Something Twilight said bothers me. If too much magic leaks into this world, things could get...weird."
* * * * *
"Brother, please...you need to stop with all this witchcraft stuff. If Father found out, or Mother..."
"Father is a fool. Besides, if I choose to explore the secrets of the ancients, that's my right. It's my life, and I'll do with it whatever I wish. I have no interest in following in Father's footsteps."
"But Father's work as Ambassador is important!"
"Father kowtows to fat, bloated foreign politicians! He does nothing of substance! I refuse to be subservient to others, holding a pretense of power! I desire true power!"
"But—"
"Go ahead, then. Run to Mother. Run to her in tears and tell her everything."
"...you know I won't do that, Brother. I couldn't...but please..."
"Either help me or get out of my sight."
"Brother..."
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Your ending cliffhanger/teaser doesn't hang/tease that well. I think it might work better if we had even the slightest hint of who those two are. Heck, we don't even know the gender of one of them.
I wonder who these new jerks are.
ALL HAIL SOMBRA! May be THIS time he'll actually be a baddy that's capable as Skelator, Hordak is still WAY far above his possible reach
I'm about 80% sure that that was Tirek and Scorpan at the end there.
6281089 my guess is Tirek and his brother Scorpan
6281089 That's kind of the point.
(Besides, it really shouldn't be that hard to figure out who they are.)
(Heck, two of you already figured it out...)
I probably laughed at that more than I have any right to.
Or maybe Flim and Flam?
Tirek is in prison and Scorpan after he told Tirek's plan to princesses wouldn't have problem to do that again.
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Given Mythril's love of the IDW comics, I think I know who
There only needs to be one more Equestrian counterpart get his magic, and we'll be in for a big old storm of chaos!
That they're all songs with titles that revolve around horses? I thought that was fairly obvious with Space Unicorn...
6281089 My guess is that they are Tirek and Scorpan. Those are the only pair of brothers I can think of in the series. Well that or Flam-Flam.
why are gyros and tacos so good? they're so different in tastes but so similar in composition! I like how Aria and Adagio seem to doubt her gyro making abilities after giving her crap about so many tacos
but I have hope because you understand the importance of consistency 
does she know what happened to human Sunset?! Flash... is handling it better than one should expect, but he really should've seen some of it coming. that boy is thick.
I hope that coming chapters will show the 2 characters at the end with a similar ratio of addressing each other, I just mean if they start calling each other by name every other time, or suddenly "Brother" disappears entirely... I'll have to be a little disappointed
So... so what DID happen to the human Shimmer?! DID SUNSET MURDERIZE HER?! She WAS evil at the time...
Also, Flash needs to watch him some Star Trek. Good ol' Captain James Tiberius Kirk wouldn't have a problem makin' out with a pony. Hell, he'd be all up on himself a princess like white on rice! They're people, not animals.
He took that well, I think. I mean, he should have at least been partially aware of this, anyway. Sure, it probably didn't really sink in till now, but that could just as easily be the whole "knowing intellectually" thing.
Stuff is going to get REALLY out of hand before it gets solved, huh?
6281198 This story and that story have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
6281209 Yes. Yes it is.
Then she shoud wear her hoodie while cooking. Somehow it manages to contain all that hair.
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6281221 I just thought it be funny to talk about that story in this one sience they were talking about the last time they talk to each other.
Wow, someone should warn this guy that volunteering to be the Villain-of-the-Episode is a BAD idea.
Well, okay, it's a bad idea on those occasions it inevitably leads to friendship laser to the face, as opposed to learning valuable lessons about friendship. Though I don't think there's much hope of the second here.
Definitively, Flash isn't exactly the smartest tool in the shed. I wonder what two smart cookies like Sunset or Twilight could have seen in him.
the brothers have to be Tirek and Scorpan that line Tirek told Scorpan about going back to mother is the same line her said in the comics
Oh boy.you had better solve this quickly Twilight, Celestia and Moondancer
Human Tirek and Scorpan without a doubt.
6281231 Or a hairnet.
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Ah! Yeah! I didn't realize it, but that's gotta be right.
6281109 sounds more like Tirek to me
Oh balls, EQG!Tirek...
Awesome chapter. Though, has anyone else ever been slightly bothered by the fact that the immortals of Equestria somehow have living human counterparts in Equestria Girls? The actual movies that is, and admittedly to the best of my memory it's only Celestia and Luna, but it seems like they should be long dead if they are the true parallels of the princesses- that or they're secretly immortal humans, but that is obviously not meant to be the case. Okay, I got it out of my system, I'm done.
6281307 YES!!!!
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It is very simple. The mirror leads to a point in space-time that is only most similar to the general world composition of Equestria. Narnia time is involved, except Equestria takes Narnia's place in the hyper-time compression-accordioning.
As long as the Alicorn Sisters rule, the portal will lead to the Canterlot High block of space-time.
6281262 Yes, let's talk about a mature rated exploitation story in a teen-rated comedy/adventure story that isn't connected to it in any way, shape, or form why not! Right cracking idea, that is!
6281278 Well, Sunset was just using him to get popular, remember? And he does seem the type that would be popular. As for Twilight, my theory is brother issues. I mean, look at his hair...look at Shining Armor...just sayin'.
6281339 Probably some weird generation xerox thing going on. If we saw Celestia's family reunion, we'd probably see a dozen really old Celestias and a dozen really young Celestias (and Lunas)...you know, like Jennies and Joys.
...oh goddammit, now I need to write that.
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Yet more evidence that time is just all kinds of fucked up across that portal. Main characters are aged down to highschool, CMC are aged up to highschool freshmen, and Celestia and Luna, who are at least millennia old, are around as 30-40 something. Then there's the fact that Sunset Shimmer and Twilight seem to be the same age despite Sunset being Celestia's student and running off before Twilight got her cutie mark, meaning she's got to be at least something like 10 years older.
Maybe the highschool and surrounding town compose the entirety of the universe on that side of the portal and all of time is just restricted to about 4 years, which visitors from other time streams have to compress down to. Thus, time began in the EQG universe with the first day of highschool and ends with graduation. Either the universe ends and possibly restarts, or more likely, it's like approaching the speed of light and the differential time flow between reference frames keeps slowing. Time seems normal sitting on the EQG side, but an observer looking in sees time flowing more and more slowly. A minute to an hour, then a minute to a day, a year, then thousand years, etc., to the point where it takes an eternity to reach the end. So you will never actually reach graduation because highschool is the entirety of existence and there is nothing outside of it.
Excuse me while go write a lovecraftian horror fic.
6281455 Write iiit~
Well, this going to get worse before it gets better. Next thing you know, a social justice warrior is going to be stripping designs off of people's outfits...
In any case, real classy there, Flash. If your partner is also sapient, then it's xenophilia, not bestiality.
Also, I quite like the idea of Sonata being the cook among the sirens. She was probably the only one who wanted to have anything to do with physical food back when they didn't need it, assuming they didn't.
Human Tirek? Uh oh
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THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!
I still want the girls to fully become ponies.
Cereal is usualy eaten with milk, if you drink milk and orange juice in the same breakfast the results are not pretty.
You made Sunset's magic aura green, really?
Also considering that Sunset is supposed to be smart, she was Celestia's student after all, how come she has not tried to consider that at least she got magic again?
A unicorns magic is like flying for a pegasi, basically as a human she was like sick or crippled and now she is complete again.
Oh and avoiding talking to Celestia's kinda goes again the magic of friendship. Since she is just avoiding her problems instead of facing them.
6281278 His body.
Fandom songs?
One trick pony could be me or it could be you
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The 'cool' guy. Basically, they have nothing in common with him and he has no otherwise attractive qualities to them other than the fact society basically tempers them to know that any popular male is automatically attractive. Same way guys are about popular chicks. Same way we are about /everything/, like lemmings. "If that many people like one thing it has to be good."
Cartoon Network is awesome! That said, I agree, a lot of the shows on that channel are getting pretty surreal, like Uncle Grandpa, or The Amazing World of Gumball. There just doesn't seem to bw any rhym of reason to them. And I absolutely hate Teen Titans Go. It's an insult tothe awesome show that it's based off of.
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Like the Alpha Bitch who basically exists to antagonize the Female Protagonist or/and romantically mislead the Male Protagonist, and to be adored by eveyone in the school despite being a cunt with 95% of her fellow students?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
On the other hand, now that I think about it it's probably going to be Tirek instead of someone accidentally summoning the old ones.
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Exactly. I wish I could say it was an overused writing trope, but it mirrors real life too closely. Anyone at the top can get away with murder and be loved for it. That's the sort of fanatical tether we have to social peer-indoctrination. I wish I could say that was a metaphor.
Flash isn't being a jerk, Sunset, he's just freaking out.
Also, I thought Flash was already kneq that Twilight and Sunset were ponies. Or are you trying something different from your other fic?
6281663 you have to at least like Regular Show?
Actually, this is a really good question. What happened to the Sunset Shimmer that was born in the human world?
My theory is that, because both Sunsets met each other, something happened and resulted in there only existing one Sunset Shimmer. This would explain why Celestia urged Twilight to go alone, since all six ponies going to the other world would cause some irreversible damage. Whether Celestia knew that these worlds were parallel dimensions or not, that is up for debate. In fact, I believe we've seen "Human!Sunset" in the first movie. When Principal Celestia is expositioning us on Sunset Shimmer winning the crown for Fall Formal Princess three years in a rown, we see three pictures, one where Sunset looks actually surprised she won, one where she's self-assertive of her victory, and a third one where she's laughing maniacally. What if, the Sunset in the first picture is not the same as the one in the other two? That between the fourth-to-last and third-to-last Fall Formals, the Human!Sunset was somehow replaced with Pony!Sunset. This would also give us a solid date of when did Pony!Sunset escaped through the magic mirror.
But hey, it's Just a Theory... A Pony Theory, thanks for reading
OMG that thing you did to Flash sentry freaking out, epic