It was early morning the next day. Twilight checked her calendar. Today was the day Celestia and Luna would go to Saddle Arabia for a meeting with the Duke and Duchess. Cadence was busy at her palace in the Crystal Empire, and Twilight was to be in charge of everything at Canterlot.

She trusted her friends to run her castle and take care of the daily complaints about friendship just fine, so nothing crazy should happen. Twilight stepped over Spike's sleeping self and went down the stairs to the main castle doors. Nodding to the guards that opened the doors, she jumped in the air and took off.

As always, it was a shaky take off. Being given wings and learning to fly was not at all easy. Twilight made sure her saddle bag was secure to her waist. She didn't want what was in it to fall out.

In the next twenty minutes or so she arrived at the castle and was greeted kindly by the guards and servants. She checked the time. It was 4:23 in the morning. She was three minutes off schedule. This put her in a slight mood as she set to her royal duties. 8am was her ultimate deadline. She had to get done by then or her whole plan would fall to bits. Princess Celestia and princess Luna would be back by early evening and she couldn't risk missing the 8am mark...

Twilight sat her saddle bag down and hurried along. She had about three hours and forty minutes...Hastily, she got to her stack of papers. All of them needed to be read, signed, and mailed. A quill floated in the air as she scanned the long and boring documents. After a while her train of thought drifted to the events of the night before.

It was dark out and Twilight wanted to make a plan to get to Sunset Shimmer without Celestia knowing. Twilight knew that for the last six months she'd been deceiving the princess with smoke and mirrors as she dug through her files and found out secrets. Every time Celestia wasn't looking, Twilight was in her office.

Finally, after two months, Twilight was able to get a hold of Celestia's schedule and she used it to her advantage. The next day was her appointment with the Duke and Duchess of Saddle Arabia. The bonus was that Luna was going along as well.

Unlike Celestia, Luna wasn't very trusting of everypony. And on one occasion she almost caught Twilight looking at confidential documents on Sunset's adoption and records on her life. Luckily for Twilight, Luna had not been looking closely at the papers she had.

It was not easy lying to somepony you looked up to as a role model. Celestia told her she should not go to the other world and see Sunset, but she just need to see if the cruel fate she cast upon her was the right thing to do. Twilight knew all the details of what went down in the artifact chamber. Maybe Sunset Shimmer really was trying to apologize to her. Maybe she wasn't trying to steal the vial of dark magic.

But Twilight couldn't tell for sure. There were moments when Sunset, even though reformed, had sparks of evil flare out of no where...

The pony trotted out of Celestia's office that night and rushed to the library. Dumbly, the mirror had not been moved. If Celestia really wanted Twilight to be safe, she would've had the mirror moved into a high security area. Not keep it in the library where Twilight almost always spends her time in. But that was Celestia's choice. For Twilight, it was a perk to being trustworthy.

The mare stared at the mirror and took out a piece of paper with calculations. Ever since Rainbow Rocks happened the portal began to open and close sporadically due to the magical imbalance of that world. That was how Sunset Shimmer was able to come through.

With the mirror acting up it was moved from the artifact chamber to the library. Twilight had to make calculations on when the portal opens and how long. That's what the paper was for. But even with the calculations, she could be wrong.

"The portal's been closed for two weeks and nine hours..." Twilight touched the glass to check if it opened. It was closed. " Tomorrow there should be a 73% chance it'll open and from around 8:00am to 1:00pm, a five hour window of time."

Twilight went to a book shelf and removed a green book from it. She opened it and inside were folded copies of Sunset's studies, observations, and theorems that she wrote oh so long ago. Twilight grinned. With these she can prove to her that she believed Sunset was important. Then, phase two was to get her talking and get to know her better. After phase two, she'll make a judgment as to whether or not Sunset deserved her punishment. If not, she'd talk to Celestia.

The plan should go smoothly. Twilight just hoped her calculations were right.

7:59! Ohmigosh!

Twilight rushed to get her stuff together. The portal was to open in a matter of seconds! She had to hurry and get there. Every second was precious. Celestia and Luna might decide to come home early...

The purple pony zoomed to the library. It was still 7:59. She had only a little sliver of time to get to the mirror and climb through to the other side. By the time she got to the mirror it was just turning eight.

"I got here just in time," she huffed. Checking her calculations she sighed.

Seventy three percent chance of the portal being open. If the portal didn't open, the whole plan would be for nothing.

Twilight swallowed hard and raised a hoof to the mirror. Her mind ran through all the things that could've gone wrong. She could've been caught snooping in Celestia's office, or reading confidential documents, or lying to Celestia (which is actually a crime in Equestria). Twilight broke so many laws doing all this that her place as princess would immediately crumble if anyone found out. She'd be dethroned and probably banned from entering Canterlot.

Sweat rolled down her face as her hoof was only three inches...two...one inch away...

When her hoof touched the mirror, however, it did not let her pass.

Twilight sighed sadly. All that work she did to get her plan down-packed took six months. Six months! Everything was a waste. She thought that it would work, this plan, and it--

Suddenly, Twilight felt herself falling through and she landed on the other side.

"Ow..."

She sat up slowly and rubbed her head. Looking down, she saw the familiar claw-like things the people of this world called hands.

Her eyes widened and she sprung to her feet. "Yes! It worked My plan worked!"

She excitedly turned around to see students filing into CHS. It was early morning and school had yet to start. Clutching her saddle bag, she happily followed the students into Canterlot Highschool.

Oh how she would regret it. But, of course, she wouldn't know until she stepped inside behind the doors of the school...

Author's Notes:

Me: How are you all?

You: Mad.

Me: Mad? Why??

You: There's no romance!

Me: Calm your booty down. You got to wait!