“Princess Celestia… who would be in Ponyville.”

She'd be wondering what in Tartarus just happened; why she's suddenly in Ponyville for no explicable reason.

It didn’t even click that perhaps she should have asked the princess first.

Or performed a scan for other, closer, alicorns first. You never know, Cadence could be on her way to surprise you or Flurry Heart managed to teleport somewhere nearby or Luna might be ever so slightly closer.

“Maybe I could handle the danger better!”

“Than Celestia? ”

Probably? Celestia's answer to a problem is usually to deploy the tactical Twinuke.

Twilight rolled her eyes and shook her head with frustration. It wasn’t the first time that her annoying lab assistant had to ruin her excitement at a brilliant new piece of spell-crafting with his down-to-earth, rain-on-your-parade ‘logic’.

And it wouldn't be the first time he is proven right in the end.

“Twilight! No!”

TWILIGHT YES!

Not a fan of the Spike insulting, but whatever.

I love this so far. Uh-oh Twilight got that look again here we go again.

The concept makes a lot of sense. I headcanon that unicorns and alicorns use different magical code to run their respective magical operating systems so this is right up my alley.

Twilight rolled her eyes and shook her head with frustration. It wasn’t the first time that her annoying lab assistant had to ruin her excitement at a brilliant new piece of spell-crafting with his down-to-earth, rain-on-your-parade ‘logic’.

Some sycophant downvoted the guy who disliked the Spike abuse but I'm going to mirror it. This is a clear break with Twilight's character, however diminished it was by alicornication in season 4. I'm also upvoting that guy for having the courage to go negative.

“I said, maybe.” Twilight groaned. There had to be some use for this spell… it was just too good to be relegated to her big book of arcane arcana! Too many of her brilliant spell-matrices ended up there, useless works of magical art... like ships in bottles: fun to look at, but not much else.

“Heh, maybe you could swap yourself with Celestia so I could ask her if she can think of good use for your new spell.” The diminutive dragon chuckled, grinning impiously at her.

‘That was it!’

“Spike, you’re a genius!” Twilight brightened, charging up her horn.

I'm actually amused by how little respect you have for Twilight's character! Like I go out my freakin' way to make her as capable, resourceful, brilliant and sardonic as I can, if occasionally one-track-minded, as she ever was in the first three aseasons and you're like... naaah!

Twilight really is a product of nepotism and connections who blundered into becoming a demigoddess because Celestia was ready to die/not really die and hoof over her kingdom to its best-connected family. There's even this mockery of reform, even though the power structure is controlled entirely by the unicorns from Canterlot. Her idiocy will run your version of Equestria into the ground as she spends all her time having sex with brother while riots break out across the country.

Honestly, that's not a bad interpretation of the late-season canon. Nicely done, Cloppy.

I suppose I should see how this sex scene goes at the very least.

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I have different versions of characters. My comedic Twilight is more in the vein you've described here, as well as being more Spike-busey.