Friday Dec 23 c
The morning actually went by pretty quickly, despite Sunset’s fears of a day playing as a life sized Barbie. Susan did push her to try on a lot of things, including several formal dresses, but Sunset actually ended up enjoying the entire experience. It was a lot more fun than she thought it was going to be, but she was pretty sure that was because she got to do it with her mother. It was one of those hidden dreams she never told anyone as Sunset had always tried her best to maintain a strong, independent front that seemed to not need anyone. She had pretty much given up any hope of having any experiences like this, of making memories with a mother that she so desperately wanted.
The car ride was a little more cramped though as they had to bring a smaller vehicle while the minor damages on Susan’s main vehicle were being repaired. Being smaller, the vehicle didn’t hold the bags quite as well as Susan had planned, leaving Sunset holding the packages her friends had left her for Christmas. A part of her was disappointed that they couldn’t be there as all of them had family obligations, but she was also relieved as she was still a little unsure of how to act around them after the last few weeks.
“So, did you enjoy today?” Susan asked as she pulled into the parking garage of their penthouse.
“I actually loved it.” Sunset replied with a large, yet tired smile. “It was exhausting though. While I loved doing it with you, I wouldn’t want to go to that many stores on my own.”
“Shopping can be a chore.” Susan chuckled, “I have to admit, it was cute how embarrassed you got when you were being measured.”
“Even at her worst, Rarity could do a better job than her!” Sunset groaned, remembering the woman taking measurements for several custom made gowns for upcoming business events her mother planned to take her to. Susan had asked if she wanted to go to Rarity to have something made, but Sunset rejected the idea. She knew with how guilty the fashionista was feeling, the girl would probably make Sunset a whole new wardrobe and insist it be free of charge.
“Well, we’re home and it looks like Vel is already here.” Susan said, parking next to Twilight Velvet’s car.
“Mom, I know I said it before, but thanks for everything you’ve done for me.” Sunset said, Susan leaning over to hug her through the girl’s arm full of packages.
“Anytime sweetie. Now let’s get this unloaded and upstairs.” Susan said, getting out with Sunset clumsily following with her arms full. Susan hurried over to grab a cart and brought it back to help Sunset unload and start transferring the multitude of bags from the back seat onto the trolley.
“This is going to take two loads, heck this is going to take me forever to put away!” Sunset groaned, but she was happy. While she protested spending so much money on clothes, it was nice actually being able to get some clothes that she liked without looking for large discounts, clearance, used, or rely on Rarity’s generosity.
“Relax honey, there’s another cart so one trip will do it.” Susan said, pointing to the other trolley which Sunset hurried over to retrieve. It took almost twenty minutes just to safely get everything loaded, Sunset taking extra care with two bags in particular that she snuck off to get earlier while Susan was taking a break.
“Sure you don’t want help with Twilight’s present?” Susan asked as the two pushed the carts to the elevator.
“I’m sure, thanks though.” Sunset replied with a nervous smile. She didn’t lie, she did have a present for Twilight, but most of the two bags’ contents were for her mother. Sunset knew Susan suspected that with the light teasing, but both women kept the façade going. The two managed to make it to their apartment without any trouble and found Twilight Velvet watching the news while sipping on a cup of coffee.
“Bout time you got back, Susie. Twily has been going crazy waiting for Sunny to get back. Something about some kind of project the kids are working on.” Velvet said, eyeing the two carts loaded with bags and packages. “Wow, you girls leave anything for other shoppers?”
“Hardy har har.” Susan deadpanned, earning a playful smirk from Velvet.
“Sunset!” Twilight cried excitedly, launching herself at Sunset and hugging the girl before pulling her towards the bedrooms. “Come on, Martin is here too and we have the base of our project in the lab!”
“Go on sweetie, I’ll help you put this away later.” Susan said as Twilight dragged Sunset away.
“Okay Sparky, what’s got you so excited?” Sunset laughed as she was pulled into the lab to come face to face with a boy sitting at one of the tables, looking through a mounted magnifying glass at some contraption that was basically shaped like a bracelet.
“First, I want you to meet my boyfriend, Martin!” Twilight said with pride and excitement. “Second, we have the base finished for the mana diffuser!”
“Mana diffuser? Sunset asked, looking at the thing Martin was working on.
“Hey, ignore Twily, she gets like this when she gets too excited.” Martin chuckled which earned him a playful slap on his shoulder from his girlfriend. “Anyways, I have most of the skeleton finished already since I can smelt materials in my garage. For the base we used a mix of metals from Earth and Meridian, mostly being steel and some brass added in to help with what you want the bracelet to be used for. I did have to change a few small things in the design though, sorry.”
“What small things?” Sunset asked as the boy handed her the bracelet to inspect. While it didn’t look the prettiest, if it did what she wanted then it wouldn’t really matter. She did wish they could have made it look a little nicer at least though. She did have to admire the settings with what looked like some kind of circuitry that was small, yet unmistakably there. There was more than her original three that she wanted which could make things a little more difficult to finish since she didn’t ask for this many.
“Well, I added a mix of crushed quartz Twilight got from Elyon and some copper for the circuits to the different sections. When we finish the bracelet we’ll put a silver cover over this making it look like a simple bracelet with the larger gem you wanted in the center and the smaller ones on either side. There will be some more hidden, as I’m sure you noticed, as from what we theorize skin contact with them will help fulfill their function. So basically, we need gems to regulate the energy collection, a gem to store the energy, one for the protection charm, one to release the overabundance of energy into a beam for offense, and one to direct a small flow of collected energy to the wearer to increase their vitality and promote quicker healing. We also need one to shield, or in this case, diffuse direct attacks that aren’t that powerful. I really don’t know about higher level attack spells and how much this can take.”
“I was the best student at Celestia’s school, but even that was a bit more than I anticipated.” Sunset said, her head swimming a little at the explanation. Of course she could follow that, but she didn’t plan on anything so complicated as she doubted they could finish anything more than the simple design Twilight and herself came up with rather quickly last night.
“I’m not sure I can get all of those gems.” Sunset sighed as she sat down. She was very impressed that the boy had done it so quickly, and with the changes they implemented. She was a little sad as she didn’t think they could finish her mothers present in time.
“Don’t worry if you can’t, that is the beauty of this. The cover is easily removable and as long as it has the main three gems you are getting it will protect against mind control.” Martin said, Twilight leaning down to hug him from behind making the boy grow a goofy smile.
“Isn’t he the best?” Twilight asked, giving the boy a kiss on the cheek.
“I’m beginning to think he really is.” Sunset said, giving the bracelet another look. It was much more complex than she first thought and looking at some of the gem settings, she realized they were set deeper into the material and if there was some kind of cover it would likely hide them. The design actually looked like something from an old fantasy movie, but now the test was seeing if it worked. Sunset almost frowned at the fact that she didn’t have much to do with it other than explaining to Twilight about the basics of how the magic would work, which the girl must have repeated to the boy.
“Of course this is just a prototype. If it actually works, we can streamline it even more and even make extras.” Twilight said.
“I can’t believe you both got this much done this quick.” Sunset said in awe, “You don’t even know me, really.”
“Hey, we’re friends and friends help each other, so don’t worry about it.” Martin said with a grin, “Besides, we nerds have to stick together.”
“That we do.” Twilight nodded in agreement.
“I can’t wait until the next science fair. I know we can’t use magic for it, but can you imagine what the three of us can do together! I know you were always at the top of Canterlot for your science fairs and Twilight was the same for Crystal Prep. I don’t want to brag, but I always win Sheffield’s. Or I did until Twilight moved here, now we’re a team and with all three of us we will be unstoppable!”
“I’m looking forward to it.” Sunset said with a soft smile, though she was a little worried about transferring schools. She had until after New Year’s to make up her mind, so she decided to just worry about that later.
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Can't wait for everyone to lay their emotional cards on the table and work things out. Celestia seems to have realized that she wasn't very nice to sunset and the rainbooms need to really talk about what happened and why they didn't trust. I get the feeling that aside from feeling bad they haven't really thought about why it was so hard for them to trust sunset. Part of me wants twilight and cadence to scold Celestia when the truth of how she treated sunset comes out.
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Her judgement is a little clouded because of what happened to her because of Kandrakar which some will be shown in tomorrow night's extra long chapter. It might bring up a few more questions though they will be answered later on.
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As for Twilight, she will find out too and I'm sure at least be a little disillusioned over Celestia at the least and very possibly scold her.
Celestia will be sooner than the Rainbooms as it will actually be very soon and Cadence will know too. There will be some disappointment and even anger towards Celestia over it, but they will help her through it and help both Sunset and Celestia. Of course Susan may get a few words in too.
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I am more of the opinion that Celestia has too much heart and gives even to those undeserving, leaving nothing for friends and family.
(That kinda solidifies theory with emotional corruption from forcing elements of harmony, and her need to "harmonize surroundings" and "balance everyone")
It has a connection to her politicking but I think that this is more of a "symptom" instead of a "sickness".
It may be just an "Immortal's apathy" or a long-term plan overuse leading to the inability to short-term plan ... or many other things mixed with public hype and leaving more and more decisions to her over a thousand years.
From what a fully realized archmage can do to someone, especially with Twilight's vast repertoire, being turned into a potted plant is kind of getting a "mercy" card in the great scheme of things.
Well, I don't know if the "My sentient phone blocked all of my contacts" excuse is applicable when the Principal calls.
I wonder if Principal Celestia is overblowing this out of proportion that something could happen to Sunset ... or just another day in the office.
Meh multiverse is vast and so are butterflies, so treating seriously what preferences a character should have ... kinda misses the point. You do you.
And where is psychiatric help for that poor fella that was forced to give Pinkie Pie therapy?
Besides, since when being bipolar is a problem?
A calm shopping trip without explosions and monster attacks. Canterlot's track record of dealing with the supernatural is indeed reason to brag about in comparison to Sheffield.
And Martin enters the fray officially.
Uuu a modular bracelet with options to upgrade over time, nice.
(Also known as Mithril, a durable magical metal and amplifier in one. I mean it's possible to find in nature or produce using moon-related rituals but it is time-consuming and a pure energy sink if there ever was one(Divine materials production not included in that)).
And silver cover, shame that they can't ask Princess Luna to upgrade that to Moon Silver
I wonder what kind of gem will be used for attack mode ... or rather what element will it have, Rubies do give a nice fire laser ... but it is kinda overused.
And so mad science can officially begin.
Well omakes come.
UnStable Humor
Cornelia was having good humor, mostly since it was that day in the month when she was going to the ranch to ride horses, and neither her sister (may she have bad makeup for all eternity) nor her mother had anything to say about it. It was one thing of not-so-many that her ... "whipped" dad decided, that she was grateful for.
She was so deeply in the fantasies of her favorite day that she absolutely ignored:
a) A blue-skinned girl with two-tone hair that was riding the horse sitting in the saddle backward and shouting "This is better than in Equestria!";
b) A one hundred dollar bill lying on the earth;
c) A strange light that was coming from the forest and was there since last decade and was causing headaches for everyone looking at it;
d) The fact that all the horses that she came across on her way to the main stable were keeping their distance;
e) That the lawn gnomes next to the doors of management were glaring with hatred at everyone that was coming close;
For Cornelia, the "d" part will come as most important that day...
Cornelia greeted a ranch owner, a nice old man if somewhat obsessed with lawn ornaments, and he was always wearing that amulet that was positively causing migraines from looking at it, took a saddle from the rack and bee-lined for her favorite horse, practically the only one she was riding since she was six year old: Dusty The Mare.
But when she was around two meters away, Dusty started taking a step back. Cornelia stopped and looked behind her to see what scared Dusty ... nothing there. Cornelia looked back and took a step, Dusty took a step back. Cornelia took two steps, Dusty also made two steps. Cornelia checked if she was smelly or something... nope the same perfumes she was always using.
Cornelia made a short sprint to the Dusty, and Dusty quite proficiently trotted backward.
Now Cornelia was getting angry, she came here to ride on the horse, and nothing will stop her...
Dusty was nibbling on the hay bale left next to the stable, then suddenly she moved to the side. Where she was standing there was now Cornelia lying on the earth after jumping from the second floor.
There was a carrot lying on the grass ... right under a big wooden box trap connected with a fishline to something behind the boulder. Dusty came closer, took the carrot, and went away ignoring that someone was tugging at a fishing lane.
After Dusty was away Cornelia came from behind the boulder and kicked the box ... which promptly fell on her.
Cornelia was wearing a "borrowed" stetson while reading books taken from the ranch with titles such as: "How not to kill yourself while throwing a lasso?", "Lasso for dummies." , "Throwing a lasso is as easy as you think" while ignoring two books that were marked on the bookshelf as recommended:
"Throwing a lasso is not as easy as you think" by Applejack
"Applejack was right, it's not as easy as you think" by Trixie Lulamoon
Finally, Cornelia stopped reading and took a pre-prepared lasso and started spinning, she had a nice time and was even able to jump through a loop like on a skipping rope multiple times, but when she tried to throw it ... let's just say that describing the final effect as "Shibari knot made by totally stoned Picasso" was an understatement.
Cornelia took a guardian form and tried catching her chosen ride...but turns out that Dusty was very proficient in dodging attacks from any direction including air attacks and underground. Needless to say, that guardian battery was empty and the horse was still free.
Dusty was standing next to the tree while Cornelia was slowly creeping closer ... or at least the high-definition cardboard cutout was getting closer. Dusty took one step from the closing cutout ... and then took a full sprint to the left dodging the falling net from the tree. Cornelia, who was hiding dressed as a boulder choose that moment to jump shouting "TWO-PRONGED ATTACK!" ... and instead of jumping on a trapped horse, she faceplanted into the tree at full speed. At least now she was sure that Dusty nicker was her laughing.
Dusty was looking at Cornelia with a raised eyebrow while nibbling on the grass, Cornelia on the other hand was dressed in brown robes and sitting in a meditative pose ... while levitating a meter in the air while mumbling a mantra:
"Absolutely livid rage, yet Calmness
Ignorance, yet Will to Understand
Passion, yet Meditation
Murderous intent, yet Patience
The Horse shall calm me fully"
On the hill a good distance away, a ranch assistant had a discussion with the owner while observing a levitating teen.
"Should we call an exorcist Mr.Henderson?" Asked assistant.
"Bah stop calling me a Mister Henderson Alex, that was me pappy. And besides, that is nothing to compare with what me pappy, and moma gone through since coming to this dimension.Hell, I remember their story they told about a fishy man from Innsmouth and those three fishy singing girls that were pissing off locals, and how pappy thought that they stole his wee man, before momma Heather told him it was some Dago fella..."
Assistant Alex turned off further storytelling, why he was constantly forgetting that even if his boss was nice, he was kinda insane...
An hour-long meditation didn't help Cornelia understand horses ... or calm her. On the plus side, she discovered three new techniques of manipulating the earth and one new method to give her sister a scare ... and possibly a heart attack. Not that she cared at the moment.
After six hours of trying Cornelia gave up and now was trying to drown her sadness with a decaf (Would be much easier with alcohol, but that would be too illegal), while asking the owner if maybe Dusty is sick and/or pregnant since that is the last hope for her to someday once again ride on her favorite horse.
"Nah Dusty is healthy as a horse maybe even healthier since that nice dudette was talking to them, it was like she was one of them horsy whisperers..."
"What did she look like?" Cornelia latched onto that information like a shark onto the raw steak.
"Like one of them colorful fellas, kind of like that nice orange girl that sells me hay and apples, and her red brother, too talkative that one if you ask me, but the whispering one was more mellow yellow and had hair in two colors like a bacon...strange I turned off me kettle..." The owner was turned back and so he didn't see that Cornelia was red in the face and had steam escaping through her ears...
"VVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDOOOOOMMMM..."
Her earth-splitting scream was a promise of painful revenge...
A Stable Retribution
It was a dawn in Meridian, either good or bad depended on one's perspective. Inside a castle, a tear opened and out of it stepped Cornelia holding in her hand a particular fang.
Cornelia was hell-bent on revenge for messing up her day on the horse ranch, she knew who to blame, but not where to find the culprit or how to hold her to receive a righteous beating. Then she got an idea, she found blunk and traded one unimportant thing in exchange for borrowing portal fang for 24 hours. It's not like her sister needed that...
Lilian was tearing through her room worried. If she lost her new phone, mother will kill her. She was more and more distraught and she needed to find this pho...
Suddenly an object of her search fell next to her. Lilian blinked and looked up, nothing except a ceiling lamp there. Huh, it seems that her sister hid her phone there, but how it has fallen? It was like some kind of make-believe... Lilian shrugged, after all it would be magic and there is no such thing, and then promptly started to disassemble a phone for a needed component. Mother would kill her for losing a phone, but for making it into a science project, she will buy her a better one using money reserved for Cornelia's school funds ... so all was well in Lilian's world...
Cornelia walked through the former Phobos fortress, all soldiers on her way choose to run away after seeing an Earth Guardian on an obvious warpath, it was not in their pay grade...
She ended at the door to Phobos private quarters, it was closed six ways to Sunday and had very unpleasant wards that not even Elyon could disable, and the last volunteer who tried to open them ... well let's just say that his mutilated corpse was still screaming inside the grave ...
She took one look at the door, and used her temporary rage-fueled common sense ... and made a hole in the wall of the room. Who in their right mind wards the door and nothing else?
Inside Equestrian Flutershy's house Discord suddenly swelled with pride for an unknown reason, it was troublesome since his new "balloon form" wouldn't let him reach sandwiches...
At the same time, Celestia felt like someone just insulted her ... which was nothing new since it was a normal situation with nobility waiting in the line with their issues. She not for the first time regretted her vow to not make further bloodshed that was stopping her from flash-frying those useless freeloaders ...
Inside the Phobos chamber ... which was looking distinctly "not-evil" strangely enough if one would ignore all self-portraits of Phobos ... Cornelia looked around and then went for the bookshelf. Said bookshelf was full of books with such distinct titles as:
-"Gardening for Emperors: How to tie souls of your enemies to plants after using their bodies as fertilizer"
-"Hair care for evil lords, Tips&Tricks"
-"Deceiving Princesses for dummies"
-"Ten easy steps to make yourself look good while being evil"
Cornelia finally found one book that was different: "How I showed my father that I am not a waste of space and conquered a world: Prince Phobos The Allmighty autobiography." and pulled it. The entire bookshelf moved to the said revealing a deposit box with a password lock connected to the ledger lying on top of it. Cornelia then rolled her eyes and wrote in the ledger:
"I am perfect"
Ledger shone green, the writing disappeared and the box opened. Cornelia was feeling pretty smug about herself, Teranee was always telling her that she has no chance as a detective since she's not even reading criminal books.
What does she know, those Shadow Spade's books are terrible, predictable, and described clothes are even worse ,too old fashioned for her tastes ... not that she ever read one but she had enough of her sister fangirling over them to know that only third-rate detectives would touch them...
In two different worlds, two different Rarity's had a sudden murderous urge to strangle the blond heretic.
Applejack who was inside Rarity's boutique in Ponyville was feeling uncomfortable with Rarity trying to kill her mane with her glaring...
After digging through the box content Cornelia found her target: The Threbe Star. She took it, opened the tear to her house, and then glared at it.
"Listen your tacky piece of rock, I know where my home is and I don't need protection, instead you will help me find certain someone and make it so that she can't hide herself. If you don't help me, I will make you into a necklace and earrings and then I will send you to the worst drag queen club that I can find in all the dimensions as a scenic prop."
The Star shuddered and started pointing direction like a compass.
Sunset woke up, got up ... and immediately groaned before using her horn to replace in her calendar "Days since last unicorn transformation" eight with zero.
The first time when she was transformed she was terrified that her life on earth was ruined and that government will make her into a unicorn rug ... then she went to school, and had a nice time observing the reactions of the Canterlot High populous, which ranged from squeeing to diabetus attacks, and special reactions from the male population which included flustering, not-believing, and in some rare cases (which included Flash Sentry) blushing while looking at their pants with betrayal written on their faces. (There were of course some idiots that were using the "Sunset ate my homework" excuse, well those had the concept of cranial injuries thoroughly introduced via hoof to the head. And there was one moron who asked her if she "likes horses" , that one was hospitalized.) After the school , government agents supported by animal control were trying to catch her ... and failing miserably at that. Not only was she a teleporting spell-casting unicorn with enough spellpower to demolish some tanks on a bad day, but her numerous tries to enter restricted archives in Canterlot which were stopped by guardians with magical tranquilizers made her immune to non-magical darts and any non-elder-dragon graded sleeping drug.
Besides those government stooges were idiots who could not connect her human form with her unicorn form.
In recent days those transformations were not bothersome but irritating, she had nothing against living as a human, as a unicorn, as a hybrid, or shifting between as long as it was her choice, not some magical interference.
Sunset entered the kitchen and jumped onto a stool.
"Morning sweetheart, one of those days?" Asked Susan while making eggs with bacon.
"Eyup, at least it's Friday this time." Sunset responded while levitating the bowl with cereals and a milk bottle.
When Susan first saw her daughter's "true form" she landed in the hospital with a case of "Hnngghhh", now she was practically immunized against cute (Since some CEOs use their young children's photos to weaken their competitors, that was a very good side effect of her hospitalization (That those same competitors tend to keel over ... and their attorneys self-immolate at the sight of her daughter photos was not important)). Besides seeing half of the hospital staff checking themselves for drugs, alcohol, and every single mind sickness when Sunset visited her in the hospital the same day she landed there was hilarious ... not that Susan will admit it out loud.
After breakfast, Sunset took her saddlebags, casted on herself an illusion of her clothes in pony size (she wasn't that concerned about being naked in pony form, but she wanted to avoid a second incident of some karen suing her for "flashing" children (It went nowhere except that women being taken to the loony bin for accusing a pony of flashing people, thank stars for bureaucrats that not check what kind of pony she accused of "flashing"), said goodbyes to her mom and gone to school counting for at least couple funny reactions.
Sunset arrived at school late ... and disappointed. It seems that people in Sheffield are so blind and lacking attention that it is a miracle that half of the city doesn't suffer car-related accidents per hour, for Twilight's sake (Twilight was more pissed than mortified when she discovered that Sunset propagated her name as an expletive in Canterlot High) how can no one see a pastel unicorn on a street full of people, even when said unicorn ask you for a time?!
She wasn't disappointed for long since before she had occasion to get to her locker, her way was blocked.
"Vandom, your ass is ... oh my god you are adorable ..." Cornelia shouted in guardian form, her left hand was covered in thorny vines while her right was used to levitate a spinning trash can cover, on her neck was shining Threbe Star.
Sunset knew what it was about and she knew that she should choose a diplomatic solution and defuse the situation like Celestia was teaching her ... and that thought directed her in the opposite direction.
" No thanks Corny, I don't have those feelings about you."
Cornelia's eye twitched. "You are gonna pay for what you have done, and for that I will shove my foot up your..."
Sunset interrupted with a smirk. "Kinky, but as I said before you are not my ty..." And she needed to quickly levitate herself to the side since Cornelia sent her metal freezbe with breakneck speed in her direction with an angry scream. Metal disk ricocheted from the wall and hit Uriah on the head, leaving him unconscious and in need of medical attention. No one important was harmed.
Sunset continued her levitation with an even wider smirk. "Consider this nerve touched."She said out loud, it seems today's entertainment was a refresher course in unicorn-mage battle.
It was five minutes after the bell, Principal Knickerbocker and Professor Collins were exiting the teacher lounge after testing a new coffee vending machine, both with warm cups of fresh cappuccino.
"Come on you blonde bimbo, try to hit me!" Shouted a yellow unicorn with dual colored mane, while levitating through the school corridor at surreal speed surrounded by a red aura and shooting energy blasts of the same color.
"I'm gonna turn you into glue Vandom!" Shouted a big fairy that looked and sounded kinda like Cornelia Hale, while sending metal shrapnels from lockers onto the unicorn.
When those two disappeared behind the corner, both the Principal and Professor looked at each other, nodded, dropped their cups into the trash bin, and returned to the teacher's lounge while rolling up their sleeves.
Blunk had bad humor while diving into the dumpster in search of a "magical phony mirror" that he knew he was keeping safe. His humor got even worse when there was a crack of the window somewhere up, and the last thing he registered before blackness was a shadow of a coffee vending machine that landed on him with a loud thump.
Girls were sitting in the classroom wondering where are Sunset and Cornelia... that is before they noticed through the window that the old gym building started exploding from copious amounts of elemental attacks. Since most of those were based on fire, earth, and lightning it was not hard to guess that Cornelia probably finally snapped. It was odd that no one besides them noticed that the gym building is quickly and loudly disappearing.
It was a couple of hours later at the former gym building and at this point in time a big crater. There were some bonfires, patches of ice, miniature trees, levitating boulders and there was even a small gravitational singularity somewhere in this mess.
In the middle of all of that, there were lying Sunset and Cornelia, both heavily breathing and tending to their injuries... at least Sunset was.
Cornelia received the most damage in this battle from some burns to cracks in her bones and maaany bruises, it has gotten worse when she used her last transformation fumes to create two plant/stone golems ... which Sunset has stolen using Quintessence. It didn't stop Cornelia, since after de-transforming she created a stone glove/sling for her hurt hand, and with a combination of it and the last trash bin cover modified into a saw blade she not only dispatched two constructs but also used her stony glove to break Sunset nose as her last act before giving up.
Sunset was stabilizing her nose bone and fighting off exhaustion, it was a long time since she let loose and she admitted to herself that toying with Cornelia and not using Kandrakar Heart was a bad idea.
"So can you tell me why one prank caused you to hunt me down?" Asked Sunset while spitting some of her blood.
"Hey, that prank was cruel, besides I did nothing to deserve that."Cornelia rebutted while gathering her strength to sit down.
"You called me a crayon, and that one-time prank wasn't cruel, by the stars you could just give those horses some salt lollipops and they would jump you."
Cornelia blinked. "That is fair, and since when you are an expert on what horses like?" Cornelia asked while sitting.
Sunset gave her a deadpan stare while pointing her hoof at herself.
"... right, it seems I need to add a concussion to the list of injuries..." Cornelia muttered. "So school is almost out, my mother will kill me and those cracked bones will take weeks to heal..."
"They are calcium, it's a mineral. Just use that earth manipulation and pull them back together." Sunset said.
"... thanks for the tip, you hungry? I probably have something vegetarian in my locker ..." Answered Cornelia.
"No need. I have enough takeouts for both of us." Before Cornelia could ask, Sunset continued. " Losing a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose a friend..."
"FOREVER!!" Shouted Pinkie Pie from behind some rubble that could not hide a hamster much less a teen. Cornelia had a momentary stroke.
"Hey Pinkie, you still have ..." Sunset was asking.
"Two warn cocoas, twelve cupcakes, two warm sandwiches with chicken and salad, and there is in addition for Corny here..."
"How do you know..." Tried interrupting Cornelia.
"...a latte and sushi all paid two months in advance. See ya around, oh and say hello to pony me in next omake." Pinkie said putting boxes with food on a wooden table that was not there a minute ago, and then she jumped back behind the pebbles disappearing.
"Bye Pinkie." Said Sunset while starting to eat her sandwich.
Cornelia was looking gobsmacked in direction of Pinkie's former spot. " You should eat before it gets cold." Sunset said between bites.
"How the fu..." Cornelia started.
"It's Pinkie Pie, don't question it. There is a psychiatric ward dedicated to those who tried ..." Sunset said with all due seriousness ... which is not much considering that it was said by a unicorn with a salad leaf stuck between her teeth.
Sunset was back to her human form the next day, and still with no control over transformations.
Teamwork in the S.I.T.C.H team was more stable since Sunset and Cornelia started regularly beating each other, who knew that it could bring such catharsis.
It took two weeks for someone to discover that a very visible old school gym building was less than a gravel stack, but since it let the school not only get an insurance claim from the city but also save expenses for demolishing it, needless to say that no one was asking questions.
What happened to Threbe Star? During the battle, it fell to the ground and Pinkie took it as a gift for her sister Maud who was very happy with giving boulder a playmate even if it was such common magic rock. The Star was as happy with this arrangement as a semi-sentient indestructible artifact can be.
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Does possible Susan's words for Celestia include :
"Make some friends..."
"Read a parenting book..."
"Why are those nobles alive?"
"You need psychiatric help , and not from sycopantic doctor..."
Or Onomatopoeias for punches, kicks, frying pan hits, magical blasts, or something similar?
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That scolding would have the potential to be as therapeutic as funny if it would somehow end either in the rumor mill or witnessed by some Canterlot nobles. I mean if Blueblood saw Celestia being scolded by Twilight , he would probably close himself in the bunker thinking that Discord is free and the end is near ... oh wait...
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Well finding a doctor who can handle the truth about magic and other worlds will be the hardest part for getting help for sunset. Maybe if peace can be made in Equestria sunset can get help there.
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You are right, finding a good therapist in the known will be hard for Sunset, and for Celestia even harder (Since her list can't include Pony experts, they are not impartial by default in this case). They could just forcibly introduce magic to the earth therapists , but I don't think breaking minds and that pesky sanity is helpfull in finding someone good...
Well there is always Thorax (if/when they find him).
I mean he's not qualified as a therapist per se, but those changeling traits are kinda useful for psychiatric work, plus he's nice and neutral so it's like half of the job requirements.
(Also I edited my last comment since after reading it myself , it was kinda misleading
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Someone in that world would be best. Considering earth would either freak or think she was nuts.
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That actually sounds a lot like her and does explain why she makes such bad decisions at times. Of course, the immortal's apathy does sound very plausible as well and I agree that either way this is more of a symptom of something much larger going on.
That is...scarily very true. Maybe being a potted plant isn't so bad in the grand scheme of things.
Most likely not, but then again Celestia by this point of time has seen much worse so she might actually buy that excuse. Not so sure about the teachers though. I can see the principal actually just going, "Meh, it must be Wednesday."
Thanks.
That is a very important question, but I imagine that even they would need help themselves after helping the one who helped Pinkie. And bipolar isn't a problem at all, I actually suspect having it but I know I have depression though can't really do anything about it at the moment sadly.
Yep, while Sheffield has pretty much kept most of theirs off the radar and out of the public's eye, Canterlot has been pretty much in your face with plenty of witnesses including videos posted to Youtube of it. Too bad most of the world just thinks it's cheap special effects.
Yep, hopefuly I can write him good. You have a very good idea about using mithril instead of silver so I might have to replace that in the future with mithril instead of silver. Maybe even make a few different covers for it to make it look like different bracelets even such as a gold one and maybe a brass or copper one as well.
I was actually thinking a fire ruby though not sure. I need to look at your message about the gems to pick them out when I write the explanation of them. And mad science is definitely beginning.
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I really loved this, I've been waiting to see what happens when Corny tries to go riding at the ranch. You didn't disappoint at all, it was even better than I expected. I almost feel sorry for Cornelia trying so hard to ride her favorite horse. I also loved the ranch owner, he made me crack up with the interaction with Alex. I'm guessing they were talking about the Sirens who I possibly should add to the story at some point.
Poor Cornelia not being able to drown her sadness in alcohol, not that I condone that anyways. I loved when Cornelia found out about the why and who behind her current woes. I'd really like to get a good look at Phobos's bookshelf as it seems pretty interesting.
I do feel sorry for the Star, as well as Corny when both Rarity's get their hands on her.
Sunset randomly transforming into a unicorn is awesome, sounds like she had some interesting cases of it happening. The whole fight between Corny and Sunny was pure perfection though a couple scenes in the omake was so close to parts of the story that I have coming up though not exactly in those ways. A part of it will be shown in tonights and tomorrow's parts though it is similar it is also a lot different to Flash's problem. Are you sure you aren't a mind reader?
Thanks for the awesome omake, I loved it!
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Some of those might happen when Susan gets ahold of a certain solar princess.
11502822 11502827 I think Equestria will be needed for that and I thought about making Cadence do it, but that probably would not end well in the least. Then I considered Twilight's dad, or maybe Fluttershy's mom in Equestria as she could have a different occupation than the human one. Anyone have any other suggestions?