Teleportation Lesson
Tears streamed from her eyes as the transformation took place, her normal orange-yellow skin morphing into a grapefruit color. Bat-like wings grew from her back, while a mangled tail grew out with the same flame-like colors as her hair. Even her clothes tore and morphed as they formed a torn yellow dress.
Yes, Sunset Shimmer had all the power she craved and more. She finally had everything: the Element of Magic, a teenaged army at her beck and call, and the means to go and conquer the world she had banished herself from. No pony - alicorn or otherwise - could stand in her way.
Then she woke up, tears still in her eyes and breathing heavily. If nothing else, that dream was the thing that kept her in line. She would have it often after she looked into the mirror; it showed her as a princess, but shortly after it showed her transforming into the terrifying monster she would see most nights to come.
Sunset dragged herself out of bed. Being true to her name, she was not a morning pony. She washed herself and brushed her teeth before going down to get breakfast.
Breakfast was a tradition ever since Celestia accepted Sunset as her student. The teacher and her student would eat a filling meal and afterwards Celestia would give Sunset her daily lesson plan.
Sunset entered the dining hall where her mentor was reading a newspaper.
“Good morning, Sunset!” Celestia greeted cheerily. Sunset groaned; she was sure that Celestia was so cheery like this on purpose. Sunset joined her mentor at the table, her cup of cold brewed coffee waiting for her.
“Morning, Princess,” Sunset managed after drinking her special elixir.
“How did you sleep?” Celestia asked taking a sip of her own tea.
“Fine,” Sunset lied as she usually did. Celestia didn’t know about her recurring nightmare and if Sunset could help it, she would keep it that way. Celestia saw the quivering wreck that the vision had reduced her student to, and Sunset would not be seen in that state again.
Celestia produced a scroll, and sent it over to Sunset. “Today, Twilight Sparkle is coming for some special lessons,” she announced.
Ah yes, Twilight Sparkle. Sunset was unsure how to feel about Celestia’s new student. There was a part of her that resented Twilight, but then the rational part of Sunset’s brain would slap that part upside the head for being mad at a filly that really didn’t do anything.
Though there was something suspect about the way Celestia was teaching this one: it seemed that Sunset was heading up most of Twilight’s lessons. Maybe it was because Sunset was the sole student being personally taught, so there was no pony there to coach her, but it seemed that Twilight was more Sunset’s student than she was Celestia’s.
“Would you mind heading up her lesson for today?” Celestia asked.
Despite her conflicting feelings about Twilight Sparkle, Sunset found that she could not say ‘no’ to the filly. “Of course!” she stated, to which Celestia gave a warm nod.
Breakfast went as normal, and Sunset went back to her room to prepare the lesson. This week was a basic teleport spell. Teleportation required a large mana pool to pull off as it basically required one to convert their body into magic and project it to their destination. It would be challenging for the foal, but Twilight had proven herself to have sufficient mana.
Perhaps that was what softened Sunset to Twilight: the large magical potential and willingness to learn. The filly was so much like Sunset, but so different at the same time. Sunset was proud - admittedly more stuck up, and generally a nag to anypony who wasn’t ‘important’. Twilight didn’t make those distinctions, all she cared about was learning magic.
The clock chimed for eleven, and Sunset had everything set up. Twilight would be there any second.
“Big sis?”
Oh yeah, that was something else that endeared Sunset to Twilight: the fact that through all of the weeks Sunset has been teaching her, Twilight had grown to have a bit of Big Sister Worship. Sunset liked that kind of blind admiration.
“Hey, Squirt. Come on in.” The diminutive nickname came from trying to have some form of approachability.
“Princess Celestia isn’t here?” Twilight asked with mild disappointment.
“The Princess is very busy, Twilight,” Sunset stated. “But, if you would rather learn from her, instead of me-”
“No, no, no! I like learning from you, big sis!”
Sunset smiled. Despite her ambivalence to Celestia getting another student, ultimately she could not hate Twilight Sparkle.
“Okay, Squirt. Before we start off today, a bit of review.” Sunset announced in her ‘teaching voice’, signalling Twilight to assume an adorable attention stance.
“Yes, Ma’am!”
“See that circle over there?” Sunset said while indicating an eight-foot circle she had drawn on her floor.
“Yeah?” Twilight said.
“I want you to create a cake that fits that circle. Don’t worry about the height.”
Twilight nodded and aimed her horn at the circle, her horn lighting up with magical energy as she focused on it alone. The edges of the circle lit and magical energies rose up. The magic started to swirl slowly. The movement of the magic began to accelerate until it looked like a tornado of light spinning in the center of Sunset’s room. The magic closed up to form a dome, which then expanded and exploded; leaving a freshly baked boston creme pie, eight feet in diameter.
Sunset walked over to the giant cake, and grabbed a piece with her horn and tasted it.
“Good job, Squirt. It’s even fully baked,” Sunset commended, while poor Twilight Sparkle sat there, exhausted.
“Big sis, I’m so tired...” Twilight droned.
“Come on, let’s go for a walk. that should clear your head.”
The two walked out of the castle and into the garden. Sunset stopped and looked back at the castle, mentally calculating the distance from their current position to her room.
“Feeling better, Squirt?” she asked.
“A little,” the filly answered.
“You feel like you can do some more magic?” Twilight nodded slowly. “Okay, Squirt; today you’re learning how to teleport,” Sunset said, once again assuming her ‘teacher voice’. “It’s a simple spell to use but difficult to master, seeing as it takes a lot of magic.”
Twilight nodded. Sunset positioned herself behind the filly. “First, you need to focus on your destination,” Sunset instructed. “You know where my room is, right?”
“Of course, Big Sis.”
“I want you to picture it in your head; every last detail. Remember the giant cake you made there? Picture that.” Twilight closed her eyes and concentrated. “Okay. Now, envelop yourself in magic and imagine yourself there. Let the magic enter you and lead you.”
Twilight lit her horn, and the grass beneath her started to rustle.
“Good. Don’t be afraid to add more power, and remember: you will always make a safe landing.”
Purple tendrils wrapped around Twilight and started to swirl at a rapid pace.
“Keep concentrating; you almost have it. Don’t lose your picture, but keep your magic flowing and controlled.”
The energy solidified itself around Twilight and exploded, taking her with it. Sunset did her own teleport, tuning her magic to Twilight’s to follow the filly’s path.
Princess Celestia enjoyed her little breaks from paperwork; running her own kingdom was not easy. If all worked out well, her workload would be lightened in ten years. Her favorite thing about her breaks was the cake; most ponies would marvel at how much cake the alicorn could eat, but it was metabolized into a magical stamina reserve.
Celestia was about to dig into her Boston creme pie when a purple filly popped into existence in front of her and dropped to the floor. Celestia looked over her desk to see her newest student shaking off some ash from her teleport.
“Well hello there, Twilight Sparkle. I trust the lesson is going well?” Celestia greeted warmly.
Twilight squeaked as she looked up at her mentor.
“Oh, h-hello Princess. Sorry about this, I guess my spell misfired,” Twilight explained.
An orange light flashed behind Twilight, materializing Sunset.
“Okay, Squirt, where did you end-” Sunset trailed off, noticing where she was.
“Oh, Sunset Shimmer. Was this part of the Lesson?”
“Yeah, I thought I’d teach Twilight long distance teleportation before we cover short distances. We were supposed to teleport to my room, but I guess Twilight focused on one detail more closely than others.”
Sunset spied Celestia’s Boston creme pie, and gave a small sigh.
“Did I do badly?” Twilight asked, her eyes growing ever so wide and sad.
Sunset smiled as she shook her head, “You did better than expected, Squirt. Most ponies don’t even wink out on their first try.”
Celestia smiled at how well Sunset was doing in her role as a teacher. It did concern her how much Twilight seemed to look up to Sunset, but it didn’t seem to do any harm at the moment. Sunset was growing up more to be fair. Something about Twilight brought out something in her something that made her more humble. Although the incident with the mirror seemed to scare Sunset straight, Twilight brought out something genuine in her student. It was something that made Celestia look forward to what the two would become together.
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Awww, this is cute! I haven't seen this take on Sunset and Twilight before. Nice start!
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Sunset was definitely older than Twilight by a significant amount, She went into the mirror at around the age Twilight was when Celestia first took Twilight up as her student. But She stayed in High School for, at most, about three and a half years before coming back out. Twilight however, aged at least ten years between becoming Celestia's apprentice and freeing Luna from Nightmare Moon. This implies that there is a difference in the passage of time between the EG universe and the MLP universe. So Sunset would definitely be older than Twilight if she never went through the mirror.
6646799
Twilight never met Sunset during her studies with Celestia in the canon, which means that unless Celestia was specifically keeping them from meeting (I find that unlikely), Sunset is quite a few years older than Twilight.
I would like to point out that Twilight's cutie mark is missing in the cover art.
6646863 Heh, That was an oversight on my part, I was looking for Filly Twilight pictures to use.
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Pony ages are nebulous at the best of times, but I always saw Sunset Shimmer as being several years older than Twilight, even if she doesn't look it. The fact that Sunset Shimmer knows advanced magic like teleportation implies that she studied under Celestia for some time, and then there must have been a further period of time between Sunset leaving and Celestia choosing Twilight as her new student. Not to mention that Sunset's "disagreement" with Celestia is something you'd expect more from a teenager than a filly. I can't see Celestia just allowing a filly Sunset to run off to another world. :)
I like it so far hope to read more soon
I like it, keep up the good work
MORE! THERE MUST BE MORE!
Hm.
Tracking this for now simply because of how unique the idea is. You definitely need a prereader and an editor, though.
6646799 EG tie-in comic shows a Twilight who is MUCH younger than Sunset.
Yeah, Sunset's background from the first EQ movie was always a bit odd. A simple timeline would have Sunset as Celestia's student before Twilight ever showed up (the comic went with that too), but that would mean she'd be her senior by a decade or something. Yet Sunset looked the same age as Twilight in both worlds. Not to mention the mirror portal only opening every 30 moons. Time passing differently between worlds is probably the closest to a complete explanation for that.
Interesting take on Sunset and Twilight's friendship, don't see this version that often. Though it helps that Sunset seems to have been scared into behaving better thanks to a vision of her raging she-demon self. Well, being looked up to by a young filly would appeal to early Sunset's personality too. Hopefully both are a good influence on each other.
D'aww. More please!
Awwwww so cute
This looks promising, let's see where it goes.
That is such a sweet story. I can't wait to read more.
6647686 No.
6646799 In the comic, 'The Fall of Sunset Shimmer', you see Sunset (looking as she does now) in the park studying while filly Twilight is having a picnic with Cadence & Shining behind her.
Interesting start. This story has potential.
This is something I've been wanting to see for a looonngggg time. I'm so happy to see someone actually writing a fic like this. Bonus points for proper grammar and spelling too. I shall be eagerly awaiting updates
but not a Sunset. Inner fanboy is most displeased)
(P.S. There really needs to be a Sunset emoticon on here. I mean really, there's a freaking Photo Finish one
Ha. I actually thought it was more likely that they'd be right on target. Celestia's cake-radar would have been tipped off by the whale of a Boston creme pie, and the two teleporters would land on top of the cake right as she was about to dig in. Literally.
I like this idea and I'm not surprised more people haven't written it.
The only thing that irks me is Sunset saying 'squirt'. It fits for Rainbow Dash but I just can't wrap my head around Sunset saying it.
But that's a minor thing I'll deal with. I look forward to more. Especially if we get some backstory.
Okay. I wasn't sure what I'd be getting into with this story, but it's certainly cute and has quite a lot of potential. I'm going to follow it and look forward to more.
I have to agree that "squirt" sounds rather out-of-character for Sunset to use – too Rainbow Dash; "kid" or some other diminutive seems more her style.
6651434 agreed.
100th like. Good job with this story.
6646799 Remember...
She was fully grown when she entered the mirror.
Twilight was a filly when she hatched Spike.
Therefore, Sunset is older than Twilight.
BY a lot.
ALSO I WANT MOMLESTIA FOR SUNSET!
6647709 Won't be able to chat with you in fimfiction chat anymore. i was banned apparently.
6646852
Your argument holds merit, except for one tiny detail. In the movie, Celestia states that Sunset started her studies with her shortly before Twilight did. 'Though, since this thing is tagged AU, any argument against what the author has already established in the story is erelevent.
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Shortly for a presumably immortal being is still a long time. To us, an elephant is huge. To a sperm whale an elephant, however, is tiny. Same thing is happening here - short might as well mean 10 years for her.
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I always forget the 'relative perspective' factor.
I'll just follow this for now. The concept is intriguing enough to get me back for a few chapters at least. The writing's not bad though you repeated yourself a few times. Sunset not being able to hate Twilight being the most obvious example.
Can't wait to see Sunset completely humiliate Trixie.
It's going to be glorious.
Please continue, you caught my interest.
Excuse me, but this story created a rather large interest in my room.
I'm going to have to inspect this and future disturbances while collecting the necessary data. Please provide more to continue my research.
Ok, how was that?
Wow this is really cute and sweet. I already like this.
Very nice intro, good work.
6656294 Who disliked this comment and why?
If I'm understanding this correctly...the entirety of the first EqG movie and everything leading up to it from Sunset's perspective was a vision shown to Sunset by the mirror portal? Leading to her staying in Equestria and heeding Celestia's warning about not pursuing magical knowledge too fast or to the exclusion of all else?
And will it be explained how she got that vision?
Just want a bit of clarification here.
One thing, Sunset's magic is aquamarine, not orange.
Not sure how I feel about this. I mean Sunset in the comic was incredibly arrogant, and wanted nothing to do with friendship. I seriously have doubts she would warm up to Twilight so easily.
Short story even shorter: Sunset quickly warming up to Twilight feels forced.
I can't be the only one that thinks of the idea of Sunset Shimmer being like a big sister to Twilight the most adorable thing ever especially if you were kept on the straight and narrow