Sunset blinked rapidly as the cloudy darkness that had previously been swirling around her began to dissipate and she felt the now familiar warmth of Princess Luna's magic fade from the air. Where she had previously been standing in Luna's chambers, she now found herself in the entry hall to Twilight's castle, and while the journey had been hardly noticeable, the sudden change in light level and location did not agree with her hangover at all. Pressing a hoof to her head with a groan, Sunset began slowly hobbling in the direction of the main hall, hoping to find her way to a bed as soon as possible, or maybe at least someone to help her into a bed.
...hopefully Twilight...
...maybe she'd join her...
Sunset's progressively dirtier thoughts evaporated almost immediately as she pressed through the door into the main hall and surveyed the scene that awaited her. In one corner was Twilight, curled up and fast asleep, using several half read books as a cushion and her own wings as a blanket. In another section of the room was Spike and several changelings, clustered around a pile of gemstones, seemingly playing cards. Finally, in the center of the room, was a quietly sobbing changeling queen desperately clutching on to a bright white unicorn who was calmly patting her back with a hoof.
"Shhhh, it's going to be alright dear." Celestia cooed softly, gently stroking Chrysalis' mane. "I am all too aware of how difficult mother's can be, but I'm sure she only said those things because she thought she was helping you."
"Y-y-you really think so?" Chrysalis murmured with a sniffle, trying to blink tears from her eyes.
"I know so," Celestia answered, forcing as much confidence into her expression as she could muster and giving the changeling an extra squeeze. "I'm sure if she were here now, she would be very proud of you, even if you haven't enslaved all of pony kind."
While Sunset was very inclined to ask what in the world was going on, she couldn't help but feel like the two shouldn't be interrupted, which gave her a very convenient excuse to go and wake up the adorable ball of purple in the corner. Trying to be as stealthy as possible, Sunset followed along the wall until she reached Twilight's improvised sleeping space and gave the alicorn a gentle poke in the shoulder. While Twilight stirred a bit, it was obvious she was still solidly asleep so Sunset gave her a somewhat firmer shake.
"Hrrmsunsetstoooooopitrrrm," Twilight mumbled sleepily, giggling girlishly, much to Sunset's surprise.
"How did you know it was me?" She asked, somewhat amazed. As far as she could tell, Twilight still looked fast asleep.
"Hmm?" One of Twilight's eyes fluttered open lazily, immediately focusing on the golden yellow pony shape standing over her. After a moment both eyes snapped open wide and she stumbled up into a seated position, a slight blush on her face. "Oh! Hi Sunset! I didn't realize you were back..." she said with a nervous chuckle.
"Yep, Princess Luna just dropped me off a few minutes ago." Sunset said with a smile before pointing back towards the pony and changeling behind her. "So between a crushing hangover making it really hard to see and think properly, and whatever is going on over there, I'm starting to think I missed something?"
"Ugh are they still going?" Twilight grumbled, slapping a hoof to her face. "It's been almost 5 hours since the crying started...wait did you say you were hungover?"
"Um...yes?" Sunset admitted nervously, suddenly remembering how much Twilight cared for responsibility and practicality and wondering how she felt about things like excessive drinking.
"I'm sorry, here I was whining while you're probably standing there miserable!" Twilight practically yelled as she scooped a rather startled Sunset up in her magic.
"Twilight it's fine, rea..."
"No it isn't! You're headed straight for the fluffiest couch I can find in this damned place while I make us tea and find you a headache remedy." Twilight declared with a resolute nod of her head.
"I guess I don't have much choice..." Sunset groaned while making sure Twilight was facing away as a very giddy expression spread across her face.
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"And then Pinkie just ran up, grabbed his head, and kissed him!" Sunset exclaimed, trying to hold back a chortle. "I'm not sure who was more surprised, him or Rarity!"
Twilight had fallen onto her back laughing at this point and had to roll over and take a few gasps before she could recover enough to speak. "Oh poor Rarity!" she said, still holding back chuckles. "She would have never seen it coming, of course I doubt anyone would. It's hard to imagine either Pinkie having any romantic feelings for anything that isn't at least 80% sugar."
Sunset nodded in agreement before the two of them again burst out laughing. The two probably would've continued on doing so for a decent amount of time but they were interrupted by a soft knocking at the door to the small sitting room they had snuck off to.
"Come in!" Twilight called happily, using her magic to pull the door open, revealing Celestia standing in the doorway. "Oh there you are, we wondering when your little therapy session would end, it's been 6 hours."
As the door gently drifted open, Celestia walked in and headed towards them, though with a noticeably stiff looking walk. As she drew closer, both Sunset and Twilight noticed a very large but plastic looking smile spread across her face, and a rather prominent twitch in one of her eyes.
"Did...did it not go well?" Twilight asked nervously. "You seemed to have everything pretty well in control when we left...I thought you might have even had a chance of breaking Chysalis out of her villainous behavior."
"Oh, no, everything went well, great even!" Celestia said, sounding almost manic. "In almost any other situation I'd say things went absolutely wonderfully!"
"So...uh...why do you look like you're about to murder us both?" Sunset quipped. While laying down and spending time with Twilight had dulled her hangover considerably, Sunset still felt a bit too frazzled to consider anything like subtlety at the moment.
Celestia didn't answer at first, electing to instead to finish crossing the room before slumping into an unoccupied cushion with a heavy sigh. "Well, we sort of got to the root of her whole evil queen thing shortly after you left, and that seemed to have helped her a lot. After that we just sort of...talked"
"Okay...that sounds good...buuuuut...?" Twilight encouraged hopefully.
"She...well...she sort of...asked me out..." Celestia admitted with a cringe.
"WHAT!?" Both Sunset and Twilight yelled in unison as they shot up into full sitting positions.
"Oooooh I can just bet she doesn't take rejection well."
"Not good, not good! Something like this could send her right back into a vengeful rage, this is my brother's wedding all over again!" Twilight whimpered, her eyes on the edge of popping from her skull as every hair on her head seemed to stand at once.
Despite the situation, Celestia couldn't help but roll her eyes at their reactions. "Girls, girls, calm down, Chrysalis is fine!"
"...she is?" Twilight whispered, practically pleading.
"Huh, how'd you manage that?" Sunset asked. She may have only just met the changeling queen, but she considered herself a pretty good judge of character and Chrysalis seemed like the type to hold a grudge.
"Well...I...I said yes." Celestia admitted quietly, before slumping even lower into her cushion.
"WHAT!?" Both Sunset and Twilight yelled in unison, again.
"I couldn't help it...she's cute..." Celestia murmured, glaring off into space guiltily as a light blush covered her face.
"Wait, hold on!" Sunset said, holding a hoof to her temple in confusion. "If you said yes, because you're into her, then why did you look like you were losing your mind when you came in here?"
"Because I am losing my mind!" Celestia shouted before digging her head into the cushion below her. "This has me questioning my whole sexual identity!" She mumbled through the plush cotton.
"What, because she's a girl?" Twilight asked sympathetically as she laid a hoof comfortingly on Celestia's shoulder.
Celestia pulled her head back up and gave Twilight a quizzical look. "What? No, I figured out I was bisexual all the way back in college."
Sunset opened her mouth but was immediately cut off.
"Don't ask." Celestia growled, before again shoving her head back into the pillow with an exasperated squish noise.
"Okkkkkkkkkkkk...so then what's the problem?" Sunset asked after a moment's pause.
"What do you mean what's the problem! I'm a human! One that thought she was attracted to other humans! She's a pony! A weird, bug pony! A weird...super cute...bug...pony...thing..." Celestia grumbled with another sigh. "This is raising a lot of really weird questions in the back of my mind that I...really really don't wanna answer."
Sunset and Twilight both let out a relieved sigh before looking at each other and giggling conspiratorially.
"What could possibly be funny about this?" Celestia asked, raising her head back up to give them both an annoyed and somewhat betrayed stare.
"It's the mirror." Twilight answered matter of factly as Sunset nodded along in agreement. "I'm not sure how, or why come to think of it, but it messes with your head when you change. When I came over, I suddenly found myself all googly eyed over a few humans, but it went away when I came back...mostly." Twilight explained with an embarrassed blush. "I can't imagine how it's affected Sunset after she's spent long periods of time on both sides."
"Totally don't wanna talk about it." Sunset said with an overly carefree smile. "But yeah, you're fine, though it does raise some questions about the Chrysalis back home," she added with a wink.
"I am not a cradle robber! Why does everyone think that!" Celestia exclaimed angrily.
Sunset just chuckled. "I'm kidding, but for now just enjoy it, have yourself a little fling."
"Fine, I will." Celestia sniffed, before giving the two of them the biggest doe eyes she could. "But you two have to come with me, it'd be too weird by myself and you two are the only ones I really know here."
Sunset's face immediately went red as her jaw dropped. "I don't thin..."
"Of course we'll come...for morale support!" Twilight said immediately, not seeming to notice Sunset's nervous objection. "Right Sunset?"
"Yeah, of course we will." Sunset said, forcing herself not to stutter. "You girls start figuring out a plan, I need to run to the bathroom real quick." She said with a smile, before charging out of the room as nonchalantly as she could.
A few minutes later Sunset sprinted inside a spare room on the far other side of the castle and slammed the door. As soon as it was shut and bolted she threw her head back and raised both hooves in the air victoriously.
"I HAVE A DATE WITH TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!!"
When I first saw this story, I thought "This will be awesome, Principal Celestia meeting her counterpart would surely be full of mischief and misunderstandings." Gets a ton of shipping instead. Alright then. I think I'm getting off the boat here.
Don't apologize, it was comedically required.
Bring on the SUNLIGHT!
6856450 I'm sorry to see you go, but it was always intended to be a comedy shipfic
I LOVED this update, it was SO funny!
6856475 YES INDEED
Your right this the happiest Chapter yet.
I always knew she basically a nice insect is pony'
I can hardly expect the next
this was great. although, i bet Principal celly may advance on the EQG Chryssy, that is if Fluffle doesn't get her first.
Chrysalis: "Sure Celestia, I'll have a go at transforming into hyu-man big mac-and-tosh."
Never apologize for shipping! I look at this story as how you have stated it as a comedy. Have some fun, as long as it doesn't end like that show turned out to be it was all a dream of the main actor's most famous role. It was a Bob Newheart series but I cannot remember which one.
Love this story and love how it's going! it was worth the wait and love Sunset Reaction at the end, lol!
Was great!
Hehehe, well worth the wait. ^_^;
R.I.P.
Died luaghing with a smile on his face.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Hahaha one point to sunset all the otheres
It's been so long since an update that I was fairly lost for the first 1/3 of the chapter but that somehow made it better?
Brilliant as always
This better be referring to Spike, just for the comedic effect.
Heh, maybe they could take Chryssy back?
Keep going! ;)
... I dunno.
Maybe you shouldn't yell around someone with a massive headache?
Huh?
... Then...
Fair enough.
Hehe though to be fair, over there you're a teenager, hormones and stuff, you probably know the subject matter better than me at this point.
And thus, the Sunlight Shines!
Dude, I can't even begin to imagine the amount of lesbian shipfics there are on this site, comes with having a predominantly female cast. No need to apologize.
May thou shalt rain upon all of thee thy Shippings!
6857034 What. That comes out, roughly because my 'Yee Butcherede Olde Englishe' is a little rusty, to 'I hope you will rain on all of you your Shippings!' ... Or 'The month of may you will rain on all of you your Shippings!', depending on whether you meant the month or the other meaning.
I'm reasonably certain that's not what you meant, and wish to inquire as to the intended message. Just to clear up the confusion.
I can deal with the shipping.
6857261 It means 'may you rain among us all of the shipping.' or anything similar you want it to be. Just to clear the confusion.
6857358 Nah; that's what you meant it to mean.
"May thou shalt rain upon all of thee thy Shippings!"
May-may. Thou-You (speaking down to, as to a peasant or close friend). Shalt-Shall. Thee-You (speaking up to, as to a noble). Thy- Your.
Technically, Thee and Thou usage was interchangeable, but Thou was a more informal, overly familiar, or downright insulting way to address someone depending on how close you were, while Thee was considered more formal or respectful.
For the sentence you wanted, it should have simply been 'May thee rain upon us all thy Shipping.'
Though that sentence is mostly modern 'olde' englishe, otherwise known as Early Modern English, used sometime between the 1500s to the late 1700s; it's more closely related to modern english than Middle English or even true Old English. The more you know.
And apparently it's 6 am, which explains why I've rambled into a short english lesson without meaning too. Sorry.
Mother's what?
6857396 I'd digress but eh I'm to tired to try more old English. I would do it properly but I got a detention.
Yes, new chapter! And yay, full speed ahead on the shipping! Glad to see Sunset return to the castle, and up until now I never even thought about the possibility of Principal Celestia and Queen Chrysalis going on a double date with Princess Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer. Yay for the Sunlight! Not sure what to call the other couple (especially considering the transdimensional nature of the relationship).
Even though Twilight probably won't think of it as a double date yet, though at least Luna was right about Sunset popping up in Twilight's dreams. Seeing pony Sunset probably helps too. I hope for the next chapter soon, but just glad to see an update, love the comedy and the shipping.
Yeah it's back.
And holy cow did it take an unexpected turn. I like it.
Glad to see you updating again, and a very nice return chapter.
Good work.
Okay, this does raise alot of issues when thinking about both Sunset and Celestia going back and forth. Though this might raise a few morals issues, but with a lot of the similarities it might give Principal Celestia some help dealing with Chrysalis in her world. What the mirror does though with sexual attraction actually does make great sense.
O.K. probably time to prep the life boat. It's still a good chapter just I need to prep.
Never apologize for shipping! If they don't like it they probably shouldn't be into fanfics in the first place, where the principle story-type is the ship!
And so, the second Sunbutt gets bugbutt.
I think I'm gonna have to go back and read it from the beginning. I have no clue what's going on.
As for the shipping, I'll admit I've never been a fan of Gay or Lesbian ships, but I can tolerate them. I did survive Fallout Equestria and Project Horizons after all.
:sunset:: "Okay... back to the bar!"
: "There is a reason..."
Good chapter! Keep going! (Whenever you want!)
T-Tia stole my waifu...
Anyway, love it.
6858256
You survived PH? You must have a stronger stomach for plot BS than I.
6856478 But you didn't have to bring the SunLight shipping for that. After all, the main draw of this story was Principal Celestia on Equestria and the whole romantic Sunset subplot distracts wordcount from it, especially since the updates are so far from each other. (And the idea with Principal Celestia with changeling Queen Chrysalis? Random enough to work.)
So you can take your apologies out of the story, hopefully taking the SunLight ship with it. (Didn't you say at some point you intended to make a separate story for that?)
6858944 I definitely appreciate the input, but for the record the Sunlight shipping, and really everything else, isn't in the story because I think it needs it, it's in there because I enjoy writing it.
I think I mentioned it in a comment way way back but originally the story was supposed to be a Sunlestia ship, but it never really came together and I hated the chapters I was writing. This version is just sort of the natural progression and what keeps my ideas flowing and keeps me creating content I'm happy with. I know not everyone has the same tastes, and I'm terrible at staying on the original intent, but it's apparently just how my inner story teller works
As to the infrequence of updates, it's something I'm working on. Chapter 9 is about 300 words in though, which is way more progress than I usually make after an update lol
6858960 My point has always been that your "Principal Celestia in Equestria" premise is really interesting and the main draw here but shipping distracts from it.
I'll throw some questions for you to ponder and hopefully have more ideas to write:
- Where will Celestia be living from now on? She's in Equestria for the time being (years).
- What will she do for the time being? (I can imagine she must have some remadial magic classes, though I can't remember)
- What kind of job will Celestia do? She has a lot of time until the portal connects with Earth again and she may get bored if she doesn't have anything to do. Celestia may choose something less stressful than being a High School Principal but it should help her to do something (Celestia a clerk in Donut Joe's just for the lulz?)
- Once her current reality had settles in, how will she react? Her inner child may jump of joy by being in a literal magical land of pretty prancing pony princesses. She might get homesick because she won't know about her Luna until there's contact with EqG!Earth again.
- Which cultural faux pas will have Celestia next? Some conversation about changelings feeding from love causing Celestia to inadvertedly call Chrysalis fat?
- Canterlot tabloids about the Princess' fling with Chrysalis? (because of course there's only one Princess Celestia, right?)
- Well, there's the inevitable visit of Celestia (& co, they won't leave her go alone) to visit Chrysalis' home, whatever that is.
- And if everything else fail, you can write an interlude about what happened in CHS when the Rainboms and
Vice-Principal Luna realize Sunset and Celestia are missing.Take what you want and sorry if some have already been answered in-story, I don't remember much from earlier.
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Pinkie Pie,
The REAL REASON WHY PEOPLE WENT TO SEE RAINBOW ROCKS AND THE FRIENDSHIP GAMES.
We only watched the first one because we wanted to see how twi would react to humans...
We continued because to watch the others for this ship...
...Wat?
6859109 Spoilers ahead! You are thinking waaaaaaaaaaaaay further ahead than I ever intend for this story to go. Celestia is gonna be stuck for like 3 months tops! However, some of these ideas are goddamn genius, I love it! I very well may use some of these as seeds or jumping points for future chapters. Thank you! Have you ever considered writing your own fics(unless you already do under another account name) because you definitely have the mind for it. I'd read that shit
6859198 Amen. EQG 2 & 3 ships Sunlight harder than any fic on this site
Of course Tia thinks she's cute. Love-bug is best pone.
Stop being so adorable, Twi.
She didn't; she was dreaming of Sunset.
Hm... I wonder how Chrysalis feels about the pony Celestia.
Ten bits says that Chrysalis's pendulum swings all the other way and she goes into a manic 'high'. She ends up swearing (in a terrifyingly manic tone of voice) to make Tia 'my queen consort over these pitiful ponies' or something similar.
Tia shouldn't worry about sexual identity. All she's learned is that she's into emos and/or goths. Her Chryssie is young enough that she wouldn't trigger the same experience but she might find herself interested in a more adult version of her. Come to think of it, I wonder what Chrysalis's mother's human counterpart is like?