The Tickets She Doesn’t Want
To say it was an eventful week after Twilight had befriended Trixie would’ve been an understatement, first Applejack just couldn’t accept help of any kind during Applebuck Season and became overwhelmed to the point of collapsing, that stubbornness of hers couldn’t be changed no matter what she tired, next was Twilight and her friends supporting Rainbow Dash at the young flyers competition, figuring out how to encourage Rainbow without in dangering the life so doing the only logical thing she pretended to be in danger herself by “falling” out of the stands, the Wonderbolt’s tried to save her but Twilight was too “freaked out” and “accidentally” knocked them unconscious during the fall, which lead to Rainbow Dash to save all of them and being able to finally pull off her second ever Sonic Rainboom, seeing it again brought back some of her favorite memories. After that their was a massive storm and Applejack and Rarity took shelter in Twilight’s library, and the three had a nice sleepover and some differences were settled, and finally their was a dragon who needed to be relocated, it took a bit of time, but eventually Fluttershy gathered up her courage and got the job done
Today Twilight was helping Applejack harvest some of the leftover apples
Applejack stated “I sure appreciate your help Twi.”
Twilight smirked and joked “If only you could’ve realized that at the beginning of the season.”
Applejack looked down, slightly ashamed but Twilight nudged her friend and showed a smile to show it was a joke
Applejack smiled back at the jester and proceed to ask “By the way Twi’ I’ve been meaning to ask, I thought Spike and Trixe were gonna help us?”
Twilight stated “They both offered to watch Moonlight for me, I tried telling them that only one of them needed to stay behind but they wouldn’t listen.”
Applejack nodded accepting this answer then she proceeded to ask “Have you seen Rainbow Dash anywhere?”
Twilight asked “Did you check in the trees? I suspect she still needs her rest, after all carrying 4 ponies is no easy task.” Applejack groaned in annoyance as that was the most likely answer
Suddenly they heard something running towards them, it was Spike? What was he doing all the way out here? And he was carrying a letter and what looked like two golden tickets? But then as soon as she had that thought, it clicked, Celesta’s invitation to the Grand Galloping Gala. Oh no, please no, she could handle the letters, she could handle seeing her on occasion, she could even handle treating her like she didn’t despise her, she could not however do it for a full night, she would give herself one hour tops before she snapped, and even then she was being generous with herself, with the gala being a grand total of 3 hours long, Twilight didn’t stand a chance at not losing it, when Spike finally arrived and gave her the tickets Twilight did begrudgingly accept them, she honestly would’ve rather fought that dragon than except them, granted she would’ve easily won but that was besides the point, she wasn’t even listening to what Spike was saying when he read the letter out loud as Twilight was trying to figure out how to get rid of these tickets, passing them off to someone else was a big no no, she wouldn’t force these tickets upon her worst enemy let alone a friend, even if they all didn’t really know her very well she considered all of Ponyvill her friends.
Applejack asked for the extra ticket but Twilight wasn’t listening as she was trying to figure out how to get rid of them, the tickets were completely indestructible, they were impossible to tear and immune to Fire and Water so that option was out, she noticed Rainbow Dash come in but Twilight didn’t listen to a word she said as she was thinking about hiding the tickets, but she knew that couldn’t work either, the tickets were too noticeable so they would be found no matter where she hid them, she walked away from Applejack and Rainbow Dash wale was the two fought like an old married couple, kinda ironic given what Twilight knew about the future
She traveled through town trying to think but was having a hard time thinking with her empty stomach.
By the time she was in town her friends all inevitably found out she had a ticket for the gala and all of them wanted to go but Twilight couldn’t really think clearly so she lied and told them that she’d work something out with the extra ticket. But when she really thought about it was that really a lie? Technically it would be taken care of if she could get rid of the tickets
She was able to go get something to eat, or would’ve if her friends would stop trying to butter her up to convince her to give them the ticket but all that they did was give her further drive to find a way to get rid of the tickets, she considered the possibility of burying them but that had a few problems
She finally made it back to her library and after politely asking Fluttershy, who cleaned the library as a favor, to leave Twilight promptly fell to the ground
Trixie asked “Why are all your friends so dead set on a ticket? The grand galloping gala isn’t anything special, me should know, I went once and the royal guard banned her from ever attending another one but I was the most interesting thing at that party, Princess Celesta even personally invited me to attend another one but she decided not wanting to return to that snooze fest.”
Twilight actually surprised asked “You’ve been to the gala?”
Trixie replied “Yes and Trixie didn’t enjoy it, word of advice don’t get your hopes up too high if your planning on going.”
Twilight stated “I know right? Of all the holidays and celebrations, the gala is personally my least favorite!”
Trixie stated “You and me both, if it were Trixie with those tickets she would just decide not to go, seriously, just because you have tickets doesn’t mean you have to go.”
Twilight syed and stated “Being invited to a party and not going is just disrespectful, also your talking in third pony again.”
Trixie apologized “Sorry, I’m working on that.”
Twilight stated “Don’t be, if you enjoy talking like that keep doing it, I was just mentioning it because I kinda find it funny how you switch between the two.”
Trixie glared at Twilight but Twilight could tell their was no heat behind the glare, but back to the problem at hove wale it was tempting to simply say no to going to the gala, even for that reason alone, that simply wasn’t an option
The day went on with Twilight trying to figure out what to do with the tickets that she didn’t want, sending them back wouldn’t work, Princess Celesta would just send more
Eventually all of Ponyvill found out that she had tickets to the gala and she was able to escape from that whole fiasco
At her library the 5 that wanted the extra tickets cornered her inside of her library, each relentless in asking for the extra ticket and Twilight finally had enough as she used that one group freeze spell she knew to finally get them so stop fighting
Twilight took a deep breath and stated “Now that I have your full undivided attention, I have something I want to say. *In the Cantorlot Royal voice* I DON’T EVEN WANT TO GO THE GALA!!!” The yell was so loud that it woke up the nocturnal Princess Luna all the way in Cantorlot.
back inside the library the force of her yell was so powerful that all her friends mains where pushed back by the force of the yell, before anypony could comment their was a loud cry heard and Twilight facehoofed herself. she hadn’t meant to slip into her Royal voice so she teleported not wanting to waist time straight to Moonlight as she was soon able to calm her down
When Moonlight was back asleep
Twilight went back downstairs and explained “I don’t want to go to the Grand Galloping Gala, especially if I can’t spend it with all my friends, and this fighting is completely pointless anyway, Applejack, they provide free food at the gala and even if they didn’t, the ponies who are attending will mostly be Canlerlot elite and they have no taste. Rainbow Dash, the Wonderbolts will definitely not appreciate anypony crashing their show, I mean how would you feel if somepony showed you up?” Rainbow looked away in response as Twilight continued “Fluttershy, the animals will run away from anypony who isn’t their usual caretaker, Rarity, the closest thing to a Royal stallion in Canterlot is Prince Blueblood, and even then he’s not even really a prince, Prince is his actual name. Pinkie Pie, I could name all the ponies in Canterlot that so much as know the meaning of the word “Fun” off of the top of my head and it’s a really short list, even I used to be unable to understand what the word meant, so in conclusion, these tickets aren’t worth fighting over, I don’t want these tickets if their causing my friends to fight over impossible expectations.” She didn’t want the tickets period but this statement was also true, these tickets caused nothing but trouble in Twilight’s humble opinion
No pony said anything until Trixie asked the obvious question “What are you gonna do with those tickets?”
Twilight stated “No idea. I don’t want to go alone but I think I don’t have much of a choice because it’s not like I can just get more tickets so I think that the best corse of action would be for me just to invite one of my other friends, I don’t know who I’ll invite but if you so much as ask than it won’t be you, do I make myself clear?” Her friends all nodded accepting that answer
Twilight stated “Good, now if you’ll Excuse me.”
Twilight left the room to go to her bedroom upstairs and she sat in bed trying to find a solution, the obvious solution would be to send the tickets back but Twilight knew Celesta too well, she would just send more, so that option wasn’t viable, their was the other option, find someone willing to go through this toucher with her so that at the very least she wouldn’t be alone. Her thoughts immediately turned to Sunset Shimmer but she disregarded that plan because a: that portal wouldn’t be open for a long while and b: Sunset was still evil so that plan was a bust. Her next thought was Starlight Glimmer but that idea was also shot down by her own subconscious for similar reasons, she almost considered the idea of just giving the extra ticket to Moonlight if for no other reason that it would be hilarious, just the thought of a baby at the Grand Galloping Gala nearly made her chuckle , but that was a bad idea for several reasons. Finally she thought about the possibility of inviting Moondancer but she probably wouldn’t have any fun, probably would have similar explanations to Twilight’s past self and end up being miserable.
When Spike entered to see if Twilight had a solution she had asked if Spike was sure he didn’t want to go and Spike told her no, Twilight knew it was a lie, even way back then, but right now she had some thinking to do, her friendship lesion letter to Princess Celesta would tell her about the struggle she was having on choosing between her friends and ultimately decided she would just ask somepony else that wasn’t in her immediate friend group
In the end Twilight still had an extra Ticket but Ponyvill returned to a more normal state as Everypony realized they were putting too much pressure into her to make a decision be it intentional or not
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Give the tickets to the riches they are the only ponies in town snooty enough for the party. Celestia was probably playing with all them by only giving two tickets and hoping that they would mess up the party because she can't just tell anyone that the party is boring.
11088972
This one right here gets it, I hope Twilight finds two really boring ponies to send to the gala, for then all Celestia's plan to ruin the event will fail, who knows she might even crack open Discord if it gets to boring
11089011
Personally I can't wait until discord gets loose that will be interesting.
11089045
he is going to jump on the train that Twilight got going and use it to joke about as much as he can its going to be a Trip
11089047
Who knows not much has changed in twilight life despite the new alicorn. And unless discord has contact with his alternate time-lines selves he might not change anything but twilight might try.
11089054
oh i am on about him playing games with her secret for Twilight does not want to show her wings yet, you know like making near misses on others finding out
11089091
I think if past discord figures it out he'll drop hints in riddle form just to give everyone a hard time. Of course if anyone besides twilight finds out before the right time then she going to have so much trouble.
11089103
i Don't think she will be in trouble more her life will become a pain do to if Celestia finds out Twilight is a alicorn she will start throwing Princess work at her taking away time form her Friends, And if any of them findes out what Twilight is i think he will fix it himself for this i think he will find to fun to play with
11089157
That would be more trouble because you think they all won't want to know everything that happened to them over the years Plus this was a one of discord weird gifts so twilight could be happy and the princesses will probably try to retire as soon as possible which would be sooner if they find out. Plus how much pain they might give to discord messing with time.
11089163
True Discord might lose it if his gift was ruin, tho i think if the main 5 learn of what Twilight have been through and that Celestia just Drops the whole kingdom on Twilight they might just be pissed at Celestia, Like i do not ever want to know how much stress that is, I really just feel sorry for Twilight poor girl needs a big break
11089179
Plus what she did to their cutie marks by giving twilight that spell with no warning and knowing that it was likely that she would try to cast it never suspecting that her mentor would do anything deliberately hurtful because up to that point the worst was saving the day stuff although some of it shouldn't have been handled by twilight and friends. Aren't there any other ponies that she can call for help that doesn't need the elements.
11089198
worst part is that Celestia just takes Luna and leaves Twilight on her own sure Cadance and Flurry is around as well but they are both in the crystal empire and are needed there the time they get to talk is small, like i am a believer that being ageless is not a bad thing if you can spend your time as you wish but Twilight had none of that do to hear ruling the biggest kingdom in there world that does not leave alot of time to keep yourself happy, like if they had gone away for like 10 years to have some fun that would have been understandable but they just left a 100% retire
11089260
Yeah but twilight doesn't get Plus there is the question would she even have finished the spell if she had known what was coming. Spike would have had the dragons as well as the alicorns. I think the only reason why alicorns are in charge is because of the windgos and the three tribes which didn't work very well because despite being reminded each year don't hate on each other they went and did exactly that.
One thing to remember is that the tickets (and invite) is pretty much a form letter. Twilight, as Cel's student, has an option to write back for more (and did in the original timeline) as it's outside the Gala's usual machinery. Of course, she does have to think to use that option ,,,
What would have happened if she didn’t catch her?
Why not just avoid her?
Won’t that be suspicious?