Never the Final Word (Vol. 2)

by FanOfMostEverything

Krack-Fic Kai's Deepening Darkness (FoME's "One of Our Twilights is Missing")

Author's Note:

[Comedy]

This is a follow-up to the first chapter of my own One of Our Twilights is Missing (2,232 words at time of publishing, [Comedy][Drama][Mystery])
(Note to the author: Sorry, Kai, I'm grandfathering in your old handle given your previous entries.)

ALL OF OUR SPOILERS ARE HIDDEN: Twilight left Castle Canterlot early one morning, and now it's everyone's problem. Including human Twilight, who's been asked to sit on the throne to prevent widespread panic; Sunset Shimmer, who's been tasked with scouring the human world for the princess; and Vice Principal Luna, who is fully aware of both the latter's crush on the former and that there's nothing stopping Principal Cadence from playing matchmaker with human Twilight if CHS loses the upcoming Math Olympiad.

Sunset leaned forwards. "Say no more, Ma'am. I will ferret out their weaknesses and pit them against each other, until their spirits are so crushed that they won't even be able to enter the mathematical Olympiad."

Luna looked at her student.

Sunset noted the silence. She'd heard similar silences before and they meant she'd missed something. "But I can't do that and look for Twilight at the same time?" She tried.

The silence continued, with an amused tint. Sunset frowned. "So if I don't sabotage the math team, then I can find Twilight before the contest?" She said doubtfully.

"Ah," Luna said. "That sounds most prudent."

"Don't you think it's a little high-risk?" Sunset asked. "How good is the math team apart from Twilight?"

There was a new kind of silence, one made by someone contemplating something they probably shouldn't. "... Committing an act of sabotage would probably be wrong," Luna said. "Ergo, hiding it from my sister would take up too much time for it to be an effective strategy."