stay in school, kids
The bedroom was dimly lit, the shades were drawn, and they were both huddled over Twilight’s elaborate, old-fashioned oak desk. Homework was scattered everywhere, glitter gel pens were being chewed on, and two half-empty coffee cups were sitting between them.
It was a study session.
A cram session, actually, but Twilight hated that term.
She also couldn’t bear the idea of failing…
“How did you fail history three times?” The words were said in a hushed, shocked— maybe even hurt gasp. Twilight’s glasses slipped a little, and she pushed them back up. “Sunset Shimmer, that’s a freshman level course. You only need one credit to graduate— how?!”
Sunset’s cheeks were nearly as red as the streaks in her hair. She shrugged, clicking her pen absentmindedly. “It’s just not my strong suit,” she said. “No one’s good at everything, Miss ‘I Limped Through French’.”
Twilight raised a finger to protest, but then dropped it. “Alright, you got me there,” she admitted.
She wouldn’t bother mentioning it had been an advanced college-level French course.
“But anyway,” Sunset sighed. “I know I’m not good at history. It’s the only thing holding me back from becoming salutatorian, though. If I pass this year, I’m set.”
“Is valedictorian too high of a goal for you?” Twilight genuinely asked, eyebrows raised.
“Pfft, no,” Sunset retorted. “But I can’t steal your spot,”
Twilight gawked, then stammered, before looking back at her math worksheet. Her purple glitter gel pen whizzed across the paper, dividing and evaluating, but Sunset seemed to notice where the other girl wavered and hesitated.
“Carry the one, and divide that by the numerator,” she spoke up. “You should get x plus 3 over 29.”
“Do your own homework,” Twilight sighed, shoving the history textbook further towards her girlfriend.
Sunset nodded, then folded the corner of a page back and forth as her eyes skimmed the text.
But the words just swam around her brain, confusing her. Some part of her, the hard-wired part that knew things, that was aware of stories and fables since she was little — that part protested and argued against what she was reading. That was why she was such a failure in an easy subject. She must have read the same paragraph four times before she was clearly getting frustrated, and didn’t realize Twilight was holding her hand until their fingers intertwined.
“Hey,” Twilight said softly. “What’s up?”
“I don’t get it,” Sunset declared. “I should get it — these are just dumb stories,”
Twilight was so startled, more strands of hair slipped loose from her ponytail as she almost jerked away. “They’re facts —”
“Not to me,” Sunset argued. “I don’t know what these things are. Presidents? Politics? Why do you people go to war so much? Seriously, there’s at least five wars—” She yanked her hand away from Twilight’s, to flip through the book rapidly. “And why are there so many Gods? Seriously, just pick one. None of this adds up to me! I’m not used to it!”
She breathed heavily, almost panting, and let out a groan, laying her head next to the book.
“These dumb stories, that class, just makes me feel … weird,” she mumbled.
“Weird,” Twilight repeated.
Sunset glanced up at her girlfriend. “Homesick weird,” she added.
A soft “oh” escaped Twilight, and she wrung her hands one over the other. She paused, and nudged her work away. “How so?” she asked.
“Because,” Sunset protested, sitting up a little— supporting her head with one hand. “It’s not what I know. This isn’t history to me. History is,” She trailed off, rolling her eyes. “You’re gonna think I’m crazy, but it’s, like … well, it is magical.”
Twilight arched a single eyebrow, as if to state a point. As if she already knew.
“Okay,” Sunset continued. “The only thing your history has in common with mine is that both of our societies are thousands of years old, but that’s where it ends.”
Arms folded over her chest, expression softening, Twilight pursed her lips. “Go on,” she piped up.
Sunset pouted a little. “Don’t you have Algebra II homework to do?”
“It’s extra credit, anyway,” Twilight admitted. “Now, history lesson?”
“It began with Mother Nature and Father Time,” Sunset said. She arched an eyebrow, pausing for a second. “I heard that laugh, Sparkle. But listen up, because you wanted to know. Anyway, they created the Alicorn species — ponies with components of earth, air and magic. They later created ponies of each separate element, but the Alicorns reigned. There was Solaris, king of the day, son of Nature, and Galexia, queen of the night, daughter of Time. They were betrothed, legend says they actually had a pretty good marriage, and had their first-born, Celestia. Ten years down the road, Luna was born—”
“So that’s how principals ended up being princesses,” Twilight mumbled absentmindedly.
“I guess so,” Sunset muttered. “Anyway, the Alicorns eventually died off. Plagues and the only revolution Equestria ever had led to their extinction, only Celestia and Luna lived through it. They’ve been the rulers ever since,”
There was silence for only a moment, before Twilight scoffed. “That’s it?” she said. “Where are your great developments? Your wars? You couldn’t possibly have had the same rulers for so long— hasn’t anybody gotten sick of them?”
Sunset shrugged. “There’s a few folks who don’t approve of everything Celestia does, but otherwise, she’s pretty fair, so … no,” she said. “Equestria is a land of harmony. We don’t really fight. And you can forget about technology. Phones were extremely rare when I left.”
“And neither of the Princesses have produced heirs?” Twilight spluttered out.
“Luna was on the Moon for a thousand years, so she wasn’t getting any action,” Sunset clarified. “As for Celestia,” She trailed off, waving a hand. “There are plenty of theories she had kids, but there’s not much proof.”
Twilight furrowed her brow. “I just can’t wrap my head around it,” she muttered. “I mean, is it like England’s royal family? You just keep going on and on?”
“Yes….?” Sunset muttered. “I don’t know. This whole world has different systems, it’s weird.”
“You do know how this country’s politics work, though, right?” Twilight piped up.
Sunset bit her lip, shrugging halfheartedly. “I know people say who they want to rule and if they’re lucky, that person gets in,” she said. “That’s kinda all I know. And that person who gets in rules for only four years — eight years, sometimes. But either way, that’s a pretty lame sentence.”
Twilight gasped. “Wait, aren’t you old enough to vote?!”
“Technically—”
“I personally identify as something close to a socialist, but to each their own. I can’t legally vote yet, though,” Oh no. She was doing it again. That cute thing where she got all smart, Sunset could feel herself softening up and smiling like a huge dork — “I’m assuming you don’t affiliate with any political parties yet, seeing how you don’t understand the knowledge of them yet.”
“Yeah,” Sunset said bashfully.
She suddenly yelped when the back of her swivel chair was grabbed, and Twilight wheeled her over to her massive cabinet, where all of her most valuable and treasured books were. The fancy brass handles shimmered in the dim lighting of Twilight’s bedroom, and she swung open the cabinet, reaching up to the highest shelf.
“Did Equestria have any great philosophers?” she asked, already grabbing a few books so thick they could be used as footrests.
“Um,” Sunset tried to keep her gaze up— and not the fact that Twilight’s ‘study clothes’ (they were over glorified pajamas, really) were cute and her shorts were— “Starswirl The Bearded and Clover The Clever are the most notable. He created, like, a million spells and she was an advisor to somepony of the ancient unicorn hierarchy. Rumor says their descendants still live today.”
Twilight hummed to herself. “The only people I think who might be allusions to them are Leonardo da Vinci and maybe Galileo,” she mused.
“But they’re scientific figures—”
“Science and history basically correspond in this world,” Twilight said, simply and bluntly.
Sunset blanked. Then, she let out a soft “huh” — “You think I would’ve figured that one out by now.”
An involuntary light squeak escaped her when Twilight settled into her lap, an entire stack of books set aside on the floor and a fairly thick textbook in her hands.
“Sunset Shimmer, I am going to give you the best history lesson of your life,” she declared.
“Uh,” Sunset blushed a little, wrapping an arm around her girlfriend’s waist. “I don’t need in-depth, Twilight. Crash course works — I just need to pass with a C at best,” She squeaked a bit when the swivel chair shifted, leaning back a bit.
Twilight, like always, seemed so cute and so oblivious, lost in her realm.
“Don’t be silly!” she beamed. “We’ll go through everything you need to know about history in this dimension! And I’ll bet we can make you remember by finding allusions to Equestria’s background!” She gasped, suddenly excited about learning, because she was Twilight . “I could make you some flash cards and give you a quiz or two! You’ll be passing history instantly!”
A sigh escaped Sunset, and she shook her head. “If you think that’ll work,” she mused.
Twilight bashfully kissed her girlfriend’s hairline, and flipped to the first unit of the book, beginning to read out loud. “Approximately one hundred and seventy-five million years ago, the world started out as one whole continent of Pangaea. However, the human race, homo sapiens didn't show until—”
“Twilight,” Sunset urged, trying to sit up and protest, to no avail.
“Shh, questions are for when we reach the end of the unit,”
“Twilight, I know how to read. How did you even get a copy of a school textbook anyway?”
“My brother. Now, shh,” Twilight stressed, settling further into her girlfriend’s lap, to keep her still. “I’m not going to have anyone else take your spot.”
Sunset sighed in defeat, burying her face into the other girl’s neck, closing her eyes to try and listen … they fell asleep before Twilight could reach the middle of Unit Two. Late night study sessions were the best, indeed.
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Er, Homo Sapiens showed up about 500,000 years ago, and Pangaea broke up about 175 million years ago. There were primitive mammals on Pangaea, but primates hadn't even branched off.
Wow. I can't believe this was your first posted fic. You are seriously a pro already. Haha. For real though, this was a really good story. I hope to see more from you in the future, especially if it's sunlight.
10/10
7623714 ...I failed History too.
Ah-haha, that was cute,
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7624246 / 7623724 Thanks to both of you for your comments!
(And @moonlit sparkle, haha, this isn't actually my first fic ever, I have dabbled in other fandoms, I just finally decided to take the pony plunge! Seems like fun so far.)
Yaaaaay, more Sci-Twi x Sunset
This story was well done, even for a first. Like it on a scale of a thousand to ten.
Cute.
I'm not a shipper by any stretch, but when I read shipfics, I definitely gravitate towards Sci-Twi x Sunset more than Princess Twilight x Sunset. Good one here!
So...we're just going to ignore significant periods of violence and conflict in Equestria's history, such as the conflict of the three tribes settling Equestria, Discord turning Equestria into his playground for a while, Tirek's almost certainly violent one centaur war on Equestria to steal pony kind's magic, Nightmare Moon's rise and subsequent fall, Sombra's violent takeover of the Crystal Empire and subsequent defeat by Celestia and Luna, the Sirens' attempts to spread disharmony that were only stymied by Star Swirl the Bearded after exhausting all other avenues, Chrysalis and her Changelings invasion of Canterlot (granted, this is recent and might never have come up-Sunset might not even know what a Changeling is).
While ponies do seem to be less violent and prone to harmony than humans, I'd hardly say their history is purely peaceful like Sunset is implying. Granted, most of this violence is instigated by outside sources (Sombra and Nightmare Moon being exceptions
Then again, Sunset might legitimately not know about any of those events, considering Celestia let her own sister fade into legend and and pony historians apparently aren't big on documenting these things, considering Twilight-prodigy and personal student to Celestia who reads more books in a week than most do in a year, knew absolutely nothing about any of them before they showed up. And I guess it's possible that these others were stopp-(remembers Discord's "reign)-never mind. There's not really a good justification outside of ponies not really caring about history.
Seriously, you'd think Twilight would have at least have come across references to Sombra in some history book-a single unicorn assassinated the previous queen and enslaving the entire populace of a close neighbor of Equestria has to be significant enough to record.
Other than all of that, I'd say this was cute, but not really all that exceptional.
A socialist? c'mon man, you don't put that out there and not expect to take a few attacks for it. And I thought Twi was smart...
That was sweet, I like it.
This is really good for a first story. Short, but it has everything it needs, and no spelling or grammar mistakes I noticed either. You might want to expand it a bit more though.
7627883 Well yes, Twilight is smart, hence she is a socialist. You know, like Einstein?
You've got a point in so far as it's not a good idea to bring real life politics into pony fanfiction unless you specifically want to focus on that for whatever reason, because it will *always* lead to heated debates in the comments that have barely anything to do with the story itself.
I do have the feeling that this was only shoehorned in to reflect the author's political views though. I don't really see Sci Twi being that politically active imo. Also the world of Equestria Girls isn't Earth, it's a weird parallel world to both Earth and Equestria which combines aspects of both but doesn't exactly mirror either, except for the weird tendency of Equestrians to have a double in that world and some other oddities. As such I'd rather authors worldbuild their own stuff if they have to include politics, instead of just copy pasting Earth (de facto US) political structure and terms 1:1. Look at Equestria for example, their definition of what a princess is is vastly different from Earth, I think the EQG world should have something similar. Instead of socialists and communists you could have egalitarians, and give Starlight a cameo while you're at it. Unfortunately very few Equestria Girls authors really go through all of that thought, most just treat this world as if it was Earth with a different assortment of skin colors, but I highly admire the few who do go through all that trouble to do some worldbuilding and lore exploration.
7630372 Too many capitalist pigs running around on this site, comrade. *Cough Einstein was run out of Europe by a socialist cough cough*
Okay sorry, that was an obvious jab. I'm a patriotic libertarian, I'm just mad at the world right now. Ima, ima gonna shut up now.
*AAAALLLWAYSSS*
But yeah it was a cute story.
7630372 im pretty sure EG takes place on earth nothing suggests other wise
this is a good story so far hope you update soon i asume its not finished even thoe you marked it as complete as well this feels like just the first chapter of a story we did not even get any real sunlight in this yet
7630717
> calls Nazis socialist
Yeah you are obviously not to be taken serious.
Also how could you possibly be a patriotic libertarian? You oppose the state, but you like the ideological construct it has made up for itself? That's like calling yourself a Catholic and denying the authority of the Pope.
7631279 I want to live in the part of Earth you are from, it sounds amazing.
7631478 The Nazi's called themselves socialists. If you wanna debate stuff, message me. You seem smart, and I love a good debate and it gives me practice acting like I'm smart. We can stop mucking up this story's comments.
And the USA was created on liberal, limited government principles, therefore being against the powers that be micromanaging your life is standing for classic American values. Patriotism. Libertarianism is just liberal before the liberals found the conservative facist's playbook.
And it's the internet, what do you want to take seriously?
7631478 no one doubts super hero stories take place on earth why doubt this takes place on earth
7632504 Because every other name is a horse pun? Because humans have a technicolor array of skin colors there? Because it is a parallel universe of Equestria with similarities so eery that they can't possibly be coincidence, and have to be caused by magic?
7633486 uh whats named after a horse in the equestria girls world
and not every one has a counter part where are human starlight the pony shadow bolts and pony cinch and ect
canterlot city is a fictional city just like gothem
7633675 Canterlot... Wondercolts...
The sheer fact that even one doppelganger exists, let alone dozens, makes this world closer to Equestria than Earth.
7632262 I sent you a rather lengthy message, but since this site curiously has neither a preview nor a Sent folder for messages I'm not sure if you got it, or if it's the full thing. Frankly I'm surprised there's no max character limit I exceeded.
7633825 you dont watch things with alt universe's much do you
7633860 No, but I did read this fantastic Equestria Girls fanfiction series that did some fantastic worldbuilding based on the premise that the EG world is its own fantasy world instead of just Earth, including their own take on how cutie marks and changelings work in it. Maybe that's why I'm disappointed when everyone else just takes the easy route.
7633904 i fidn it far lazier to just slap horse puns in a world that it dont work in
This is really good. I actually wish it had been longer. Well done.
As of Friendship Games, so do I. Sci-Twi's just so cute.
Haha, that was good.
7633904 I've always liked the idea that the EqG world is sorta a middle-ground between Earth and Equestria. Elements of both but blended into its own separate thing. Whiiiich also happens to be helpful reading fics since most fall somewhere on that spectrum!
... Equestria isn't the world. And this is completely ignoring the history presented in Hearths Warming Eve, which had one third of the Pony race being war-hungry Klingon types.
Sunset Shimmer would not be this naive.
7632262
But Patriotism requires loyalty to a state, which you are against inherently.
Short or long, I always love a good Sunset x Sci Twi love story, and yours is no exception.
Aww so pure and cute!
... I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to become Salutatorian without a 4.0 GPA.
She doesn't know normal us humans know as she's not human.
I don't blame her.
How cute.