What happened to my door?!
Twilight woke up slowly, confused. She felt weirdly uncomfortable, despite sleeping in her own comfy bed. Her wings felt sore… wait, wings? Wings! She had wings!
And then she remembered. Star Swirl’s unfinished spell, saving her friends, and the crazy – and amazing – time spent preparing for coronation. Rarity almost fainted when Twilight appointed her as an official Royal Organizer for the wedding, with all of her friends helping.
And Twilight was now an alicorn. A Princess of Equestria! It was so amazing! And scary! She still took a moment each morning to calm herself after a short panic. It felt like she would never get used to this feeling.
Twilight rose up… and lost balance, tripped, and fell on the floor. Her wing caught a glass of water and threw it to the floor as well, sound of breaking glass echoing in the library alongside Twilight’s groan. Behold, the Princess of Falling on Her Face, she thought with annoyance while trying to get up. At least nopony was here to see that…
“Are you alright, Twilight?” Spike asked sleepily. “Did you fall again?”
“No! Yes! …Maybe?” The alicorn answered sheepishly, getting up and using her magic to clean the spilled water and glass. At least her unicorn powers, while magnified by her ascension, were still under her control.
“Maybe we should just move your bed so you have more space?” Spike proposed once again.
“No, there’s no need! I just need a little practice, that’s all!” Twilight answered, throwing the glass into the trash can with just a little bit too much force. Fortunately the sturdy container only shook a little, and didn’t seem damaged.
Spike looked at the trash can and then at Twilight, who avoided any eye contact. Her unicorn powers were still mostly under control; she had slight problems with magic when she was startled or distracted, but fortunately no bad incidents happened.
In fact, it felt like a second adolescence, and she really disliked it. She already went through that phase of having to be really careful with her powers, and now she had to do it again! Fortunately, her control over magic was better with every passing day. “What’s the schedule for today, Spike?” She asked. Schedules and plans were something that never failed to calm her. After all, with everything planned and prepared, there was no place for nasty surprises!
“Breakfast, pegasi training with Rainbow Dash, dinner, earth pony training with Applejack…”
“Wait, what?” Twilight took the schedule and looked over it. “There must be a mistake! Spike, when did you write this?”
“Two days ago? You are supposed to focus on training your pegasi and earth pony magic, remember?” The dragon asked, confused. “You still can’t fly, and…”
“I know I can’t fly, Spike.” Twilight answered, with the piece of paper still floating in front of her. “But how is Applejack supposed to help? She’s an earth pony!”
“Aren’t you also an earth pony now?” Her assistant pointed out.
“Yes, but that's not the point! Earth ponies have no magic! What can I learn from Applejack?”
“Twilight, are you alright? You’re really mean right now.” Spike was now visibly worried.
The alicorn sighed. “I'm sorry, Spike, it's just... I already have to focus on controlling my magic and learning to fly or use the pegasi weather magic. I don't have time to spend farming or whatever it is Applejack wants to teach me. I have actual magic to learn!”
“… remember Pinkie Sense?”
“That’s different. I’ve never seen an earth pony use magic like that, aside from Pinkie.” Twilight protested, trotting downstairs and toward the door. “I don’t mind spending time with Applejack, but I have more important things to do right now.”
“Twilight, you’re much stronger then you were before.”
“Of course, but that doesn't mean I need training to control it! I just need to be careful, that’s all.”
Spike pointed out to a small dent in the wall next to her bed. “You had a nightmare and almost broke the wall when you kicked it.”
“It was an accident!”
“You ran into the wall…”
“I wasn’t looking where I was going!”
“Twilight, you broke the door handle in the guest room in Canterlot!”
“They fixed it, and it doesn't count. It was the first day!” Twilight protested, now slightly agitated. “Seriously, Spike, stop worrying. Everything will be fi…!”
She opened the doors widely mid-sentence, and in her agitated state she forgot to control her newfound strength. The doors almost broke in half; unfortunately, they were made of solid and sturdy wood, and the hinges gave out first. The door-shaped projectile flew out, and Twilight heard a scream moments before the door crashed into something.
“Oh no!” The alicorn run out of her library, frantically looking for the source of the scream. To her immense relief, there wasn't a crushed body anywhere. The doors hit the ground, barely missing a very startled Lyra Heartstrings. The projectile made an impressive gash in the ground, falling apart at the end. “Are you alright?”
“I, yes, I think so?” The unicorn answered, pale and shaking. She was looking at the door that barely missed her, then at Twilight, then back at the door, and back at Twilight. “I’m… gonna go see Bon Bon. Bye!” The unicorn bolted away as fast as she could, leaving Twilight alone next to the pieces of wood that still somewhat resembled a door.
At least there wasn't a stampede of ponies running away, although everypony gave her a wide berth. They knew from experience that once Bearers get up to their antics, things tended to get weird.
“You know, Spike, maybe I should actually ask Applejack for help.” Twilight said, her eyes not leaving the crushed door. An idle part of her mind helpfully calculated the force of these doors hitting a pony, and came to a conclusion that doors at high speeds could be very lethal, indeed.
Twilight skittishly followed Applejack through the outskirts of Ponyville. The earth pony leading her was surprisingly quiet, and the silence was starting to get on her nerves. Was she in that much trouble? “Look, Applejack, I’m sorry.” She tried to apologize. “I promise, I’ll be more careful, I was just distracted!”
Her friend sighed and shook her head. “Ahm not angry with ya, sugarcube. Ahm disappointed with mahself,” the answer was heavily accented and felt just a little bit different than what Twilight was used to. “I’m just tryin’ to remember if I’m doin’ this tha right way.”
“Doing what?” Twilight asked, feeling a little better now that she knew her friend wasn't actually angry.
“You’ll see. We’re close by now.” The earth pony answered, looking ahead. They were approaching a big boulder, higher then both of them combined. “Perfect.”
“Perfect?” Twilight asked, but her friend ignored her for now, trotting ahead. Applejack stood facing the stone, with just enough space between her and a stone for another pony to face her.
“Come here, sugarcube.” Confused, Twilight did so, facing her friend with stone just behind her. “Now, buck that rock.”
Why? Twilight wanted to ask, but in the end she just mentally shrugged and bucked. The rock, of course, didn’t move at all. “Like that?”
“Nah, not like that. Imagine you’re in ya home, reading a nice book, and suddenly somethin’ surprises ya. A shelf is falling on ya.”
“Applejack, that’s absurd! Shelves do not…” Twilight tried to protest.
“BUCK IT NOW!” Applejack suddenly shouted in her face, startling the alicorn. Twilight, startled, bucked the rock with all her strength. A crushing sound could be heard behind her, and she felt stone fragments pelting her. “Tha’s what I thought. Look behind ya, sugarcube.”
Twilight wanted to demand an explanation for this sudden scare, but the moment she looked behind her, she forgot it in shock and focused more on the massive rock. It was split in the middle, with multiple stone fragments lying around. The place she bucked was slightly crushed, and it was the source of the sudden split; she somehow bucked the rock in half.
“How’re your legs, Twilight?” Applejack asked, and only then did the pain broke through the shock and the alicorn promptly fell down. “Thought so. We usually have this talk with foals, ya know.”
“What… what?” Twilight asked, her back legs hurting profoundly. “What just happened?”
“Ya were startled by Rainbow Dash who flew into the library, and ya bucked her hard.” When Twilight suddenly tensed and looked at the rock in fear, Applejack added: “This time it’s just a rock. Next time? It can be her.”
“What are you saying, Applejack? You’re scaring me.” Twilight whimpered, pain, shock and fear mixed in her voice.
The earth pony shook her head and sat down close to her friend. “Ahm sorry Twilight, but ya needed to see what ya can do now. Now ya know why ya need to learn how to use your strength.”
“Is… this is scary.” Twilight admitted, looking at the shattered stone with disbelief. “Can any earth pony do that? I had no idea!”
“Can every unicorn do magic like ya can, sugarcube?” Applejack answered. “Everypony is different, ya know.”
“How do we not have more accidents involving earth ponies? If you can do that…” Twilight pointed at the rock.
Applejack chuckled, and seeing the lack of understanding on Twilight’s face she almost laughed. “Ahm sorry, sugarcube, but, ya just mixed our cutie marks, remember?” The alicorn grew a little red on her face. “And ya are scared by somepony being able to buck a rock? If anything, Ah should be scared of ya unicorns!”
“That’s not the same!” Twilight argued. “Filly unicorns are taught to strictly control their powers and… never use them to hurt…” She slowly closed her mouth as the realization dawned on her.
“And what do ya think the earth ponies do? Ah taught Apple Bloom mahself.” Applejack said, still smiling. “Don’t worry, ya can learn to control this.”
“Are there any books about it?” Twilight asked hopefully.
Applejack’s chuckle was her only answer, and the newest Princess of Equestria had a bad feeling that learning the earth pony way was sadly not something she could get just from reading books.
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This premise is solid gold! Please consider expanding this. The learning curve should be a riot.
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I already have multiple long-running series, adding another one on top... tempting, but also a little too much I think. But I may consider it, if people show interest, although I think there are already some solid stories here about Twilight learning her new alicorn powers.
A very eye-opening story involving earth pony strength, loved it!
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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
I've considered this idea myself, of Twilight having to learn how to control her new earth pony strength. I'm going to have to check this out later.
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Hope you'll like it when you have time to check it out. And yeah, we see Twilight dealing with her new wings a little in the show, there are numerous stories where her being alicorn is much more complicated etc, but I noticed lack of Twilight learning that she now has earth pony powers, as well. And so this short story was born.
This was a fun read!! It's always nice to see a reminder that Twilight is more than just a flying wizard horse!!
Didn't Twilight already know about the earth ponies' magical strength AND their ability to grow plants? There were plenty of examples from AJ before her ascension.
I wish they explored magic more. In both FIM and EQG.
I'm surprised I haven't seen a story with Twilight connecting with the newfound Earth Pony side to her, well done!
I know this is a one-shot, but the last line read like a lead in to a next chapter. I read the end and was like "wait a minute, isn't this marked 'complete'?" Had to hit back to make sure that 'yep, one-shot'.
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Absolutely. Alicorns have a lot of different powers, and Twilight learning about them is definitely fascinating. I just had to write this story after I noticed that her earth pony part is slightly neglected in fanfiction, and I found it interesting.
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Well, show is limited to it's runtime, sadly. We have many fanfiction authors expanding on magic, fortunately.
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I was also surprised! That's one of the reasons why I wrote this story, it bugged me quite a bit that her earth pony powers are just ignored most of the time.
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Yes, I must say I just planned it as a short one-shot, but it seems that at least some people expected/wanted more. For now though, this story is finished.
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True, but with how many there are it sometimes makes things confusing.
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Sometimes, yes. On the other hand, the beauty of fanfiction is that you can just choose the authors who's vision on magic you like and stick with them, and on that front you definitely have a lot of choices.
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That’s True
I call this a pleasant surprise of a find. While I would like to see it explored a bit further, it's also pretty good as is.
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So many people say that I should explore this idea a little further... but I already have multiple running stories... but you people are tempting me very much to continue this one day, I won't lie. I'm glad you enjoyed it :).
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This is what you get when you end the story the way this one does. This demands more of course, and you will never convince us otherwise.
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Apparently not. Or she never made the connection.
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Well, maybe I will write something more on that topic then, one day. Seems people do want to see it.
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Maybe you can do one about how magic works in the human world.
I enjoyed that, it was a nice sideways take on what was fairly obvious now I think about it, but never looked at in the show :)
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Thanks!
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The show never looked at a lot of things.
Saw the title and instantly thought of this story by Maran:
- MLP: FiM
- Slice of Life
Twilight Sparkle is an expert in unicorn magic, but earth pony magic remains a mystery to her. She's determined to uncover the earth tribe's secrets. What she learns will change her life . . . And it just might change Applejack's life as well.Different take, but more appreciation for the not-so-basic pony tribe (species? subspecies?) is always welcome.
A fun little vignette! The earth pony side of alicorns doesn't get explored enough (of course it'd probably see more exploration if the show had ever settled on any specific angle for what earth pony magic is, but eh).
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Thanks for recommendation! A nice story, shame the sequel is unfinished and probably abandoned forever. Definitely a different take on earth ponies then mine, and very original.
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Yeah, the show never really got into the earth pony magics, which left the fans to fill in the details. As a result, every author who writes about earth ponies has a different vision of what they can do; like the story comment below you recommended, or Triptych.
Looks like Twilight has some training to do.
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Put that that, it is kinda suprising. I guess it's because it's rarely relevant to most stories' plot or the writer just doesn't think of it. I remember touching on how alicorn Twilight is physically very strong thanks to her earth pony traits at least a couple of times in my stories (such as one time when Rainbow tried to hold her down but Twilight got free thanks to being outright physically stronger, and she had to be held down physically by the whole mane 6) but other than those rare time it's actually relevant to the story, Twi's earth pony side tend to be on the sidelines,
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The show has had quite a few examples of Earth ponies with super strength. Maud Pie for example can reduce a boulder to dust, we saw a filly unturn playground equipment, and Big Mac moved a entire cottage. This doesn't seem to be the average strength level but Twilight's an Alicorn, meaning she's over peak power for every race in one package. It's no wonder the ponies don't really question them, as herd animals they follow the biggest and/or strongest member of the herd, and in everyway each tribe measures strength the Princesses are top tier.
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if further evidence is required, in Twilight's Kingdom, Tirek is explicitly said to be magically stealing earth pony strength
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No surprise G5 decided to give Earth Ponies actual Green Thumb powers.
Just wanted to let you know that you accidentally spelled “looked” instead of “look”
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Thank you! I somehow missed it, fixed.
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You’re welcome
Cute but definitely felt unfinished.
Nice to see Earth ponies getting some love!
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I started writing a sequel, wrote few thousand words and then decided I am still quite unhappy with the end result. I will definitely need to work on it more and post it one day, once I'm satisfied with it. I'm glad you enjoyed this story for now :).
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Entirely fair! Here's hoping your muse strikes again someday n_n
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Aaaand your comment proved to be the last straw that pushed me to finish it, so.. there's a sequel now :).
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I've had weirder achievements...I think. Either way, excited to read it when I have more data! (Vacations are lovely but hard on the internet ^^;)
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That was a good story.
It upsets me that the show doesn't pay attention to the magic of earth ponies, compared to pegasus and even more so unicorns. As an exception, we saw only the plant from "Hearth's Warming Eve" and random feats of strength. So it's not even surprising that in many stories or drawings, earth ponies are presented as "ordinary", "magicless" or even "boring".
Amazing! I really think that ponies like Twilight, Rainbow Dash and, for example, Maud Pie are unique and it's wrong to spread their abilities to other ponies. For the average unicorn, the levitation of a pot of soup is the limit, just as the average earth pony will not be absurdly strong, the same works for pegasi.
That was an interesting story. Thank you!
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Thank you! Glad you like it.
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We are in agreement here. I always thought of Twilight's magic feats as being really special. Which is why Applejack made this comment about Earth Ponies.
Also a tiny bit of ignorance and prejudice on Twilight's part, jumping from 'Earth ponies have no special powers, really' to 'Earth ponies are dangerous if they can all do it!'. We see a bit more of that in the sequel, as well.