-Narrative-

Twilight and Sunset woke up around 10am. With the new wings Sunset decided to take flying a try. The result were… Not good…

Twilight’s POV

Falling… That is all I see coming from Sunset Shimmer. Sunset is attempting to take her first flight and she couldn’t be anymore worse. I mean I was horrible but this. This is something beyond help. She managed to fly straight then crash into the dirt road a few seconds after. I can see that she’s very determined but some things you just have to give up on. “Sunset maybe you should stop flying… You’ve been at this for about 2 hours already and you’re hurting yourself more and more for every attempt.” She gets up and walks over to me she taken some major damage to not just her wings but to her body as well. It was like she was trying to prove to me that flying is easy.

“Twilight I’m fine I don’t need to stop I just need to practice more.” She was about to fly off to try again but I stop her.

“Sunset it’s not the practicing I’m worried about believe I love to watch you practice your flying but you need to be careful. You’re hurting yourself and I think you need to take a rest.” Sunset didn’t seem to listen at this point so I decided to take some action. Before she had a chance to attempt another try I teleport in front of her and shoot a magic beam at created a bubble that imprisoned her. She tried to teleport out but it sent her back in rather violently.

“Twilight dear, can you release me from this bubble so I can get back to practicing?” She was using the puppy eyes stare but I didn’t care.

“No Sunset, you need to rest when you’re fully healed then we’ll try this again but until then the answer to return to practicing is a no.” I can her become sadden by my decision. “I’m sorry Sunset but do trust me.” I release her from the magic bubble. I help her up and walk her back to the castle where I can get her some icepacks and maybe some Band-Aids if we have some.

I open the castle front doors and settle her down on one of the many beanbags just laying around the castle. ‘Reminder: I need to remove those beanbags…’ I give her an icepack which she takes without a fuss. I see Sunset looked at a mirror examining herself.

“Twilight you were right. I was hurting myself while practicing. Maybe I should stop entirely.” I can see her gain some uneasy comfort from staring at her own reflection.

“Sunset don’t ever stop trying but just be careful.” That is all I could say at this point. I hear somepony walk into the castle. It was Rainbow Dash.

“Yeah Twilight I was wondering when…” She looked to sunset who was laying down on one of the beanbags. “What happened to her? She looked like she’s been through a lot.”

“I don’t want to talk about it!” Sunset literally screamed at Rainbow who dismissed it then faced me again.

“Sorry Rainbow Dash she’s a little tired because she’s been practicing her flying.” I see Rainbow’s expression brighten.

“Well gee Twilight maybe I can train her to fly it’s not hard and I am the fastest flyer in all of Equestria.” I thought about this and began to run it through my head. Rainbow is the best flyer declared by Celestia herself but Rainbow is also very arrogant and self-conscious. I look to Sunset who was sleeping now with the icepack on her chest. I walk up to her and remove the icepack. I look to Rainbow who was waiting for answer. “Rainbow I can trust you to reach her everything you know?”

“Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” Rainbow reciting the Pinkie Promise made me more comfortable letting her train Sunset in flying. “Tell her to meet me at the park in 30 minutes.” I nod off to her as she walks out of the castle.

Sunset woke up a few minutes later. I was sitting on a beanbag next to her watching her sleep. I know it sounds creepy but hear me out. I was applying ice on her wounds so it’s less creepy now. As she began to stir I stroke her mane to both relax her and to keep her mind off the numbness of the ice. “Had a nice rest?” I give her a small kiss on the cheek.

“Not really all I did was blackout from the soreness.” Sunset looked a lot better than before when she stopped practicing.

“Oh well I’m sorry about that Sunset you should’ve said something then I could’ve helped you faster.” I grabbed another icepack and set the rest in a fridge to freeze. I handed it to her instead of levitating it. She took the icepack and attempted to heal her wings. She yelped in pain from the soreness.

“I don’t suppose to can help me Twilight?” I chuckle.

“I’d love to.” I apply the icepack to her wings giving very gentle leverage to them as she laid down flat so then can extend out. Each wing was dealt the same amount of damage I can see the dirt and scrape marks on each wing in different places but equal in all. I can hear a small moan escape from her lips as I applied the ice pack again to the other wing. ‘Somehow this feels good to her.’ Then it hit me. The wings are very sensitive so I guess I’m touching her ‘pleasure sensors’ I dismiss the thoughts running through my head to try out this theory because I needed to get her ready to meet with Rainbow Dash.

After about 10 minutes of this I get her up and walk with her to the park. I can see Rainbow Dash sitting on a bench. She was checking her watch as if she wasn’t paying attention. I call out her name. “Rainbow Dash!” She perks up and flies to us.

“Took you two long enough to come. So Sunset Shimmer you ready to take flight?” Sunset nods. “Okay first lesson: Knowing your limits. Every flyer has their limits when it comes to flying some and fly for hours and some can fly for only a few minutes. This all depends on how well you work out your wings.” Rainbow Dash did a small lap around the park without breaking a sweat. “Now Sunset, I want you to flap your wings but don’t try to fly. Just flag them until you get tired.” Sunset follows Rainbow’s instructions she flags them for a good 30 minutes then stops. “Okay 30 minutes is good you can stay up for quite a while. Now in order to fly you must pace your wing-power your wing-power is determined by your wing’s strength and your wing’s force. Now I want you to try to lift yourself off the ground don’t run and jump just flap up.” Rainbow Dash flaps her wings a few times then flies up slowly. “Like so now you try.” Sunset concentrated hard and flapped a few times. She managed to get off a few inches from the ground then fell flat. Rainbow looked down at Sunset then started to chuckle. “Maybe I should’ve told you about wing strength and wing force.”

“That would have been helpful you know.” Sunset was getting annoyed by all of this I can see it in her eyes so I decided to explain what they two were.

“Sunset. Wing Force is the amount of power or energy you send out for each flap of your wings the harder the flag the faster you go, vice versa. But you can also pick up speed from flapping them faster but this will make you tired quicker. Wing strength is the amount of weight your wings can hold while in mid-air. In order to reach the heights in the sky some ponies need to strengthen their wings. You have the force Sunset you just don’t have the strength.”

“Then tell me how to strengthen my wings!” She was getting angry.

“You need to do wing-ups or try to lift weights with your wings.” Sunset looked at Rainbow as if she gone retarded.

“I’m going back to the castle I want to be left alone.” Sunset walked away in a huff. At this point I don’t know if I should come with her to try to cam her down. I again think of the outcomes of the situation. I walk back to the castle following Sunset. I look back at Rainbow who just stood there in disappointment. “Don’t worry Rainbow I’ll make her come around you’ll see.” She didn’t seem to care.

“Alright Twilight but do enforce the whole “You need to strengthen your wings” thing see ya later.” She flew off to who knows where as I run after Sunset Shimmer.

“Sunset! Sunset are you here?” I can hear her voice in the kitchen. I look and I see her cooking something. “Sunset what are you doing?” She looked back at me with a smile.

“When I was in the Human World I used to cook every time I was angry or stressed out. I find it to relax me.” Sunset laid out many ingredients that looked like they didn’t go together.

“So what are you cooking now?” I was observing the pots on the stove.

“A spicy stew that I learned how to make in the Human World.” She sliced and diced some peppers and other assorted things. Best time to ask this I guess.

“So… Just asking here… But why did you blow off Rainbow Dash when she was teaching you how to fly?” I can see her stop cooking for a moment then resumed.

“Because the way Rainbow explained it was too difficult to understand. I mean how am I supposed to lift weights with my wings?” I can see her flapping her wings once. “See they’re just made for flapping around and flying but not lifting and all that jazz.”

I grab one of her wings which she stopped levitating the various cooking items and just stood there. She looks to me with eyes that spoke ‘Let go of my wing please.’ I levitate a small weight over to her wing and place it on her wing and let go. She looked and saw the weight was resting on her extended wing without it breaking or falling off. “H-h-how is this possible?”

I giggle. “Wings in Equestria have magic in them just like Unicorns and alicorns do. Even earth ponies have magic in them. Pegassi use their wings as like a second hoof. They can do lots of cool things with wings. Lifting objects is one of them. But not how we normally lift objects with hoofs our wings essentially can carry about 25%-50% of the normal weight that we can normally carry with one hoof.” I can see Sunset starting to understand it more as she stopped cooking entirely.

“Do I really need to lift weights with my wings?” I shake my head.

“No, you don’t have to, You can also do wing ups or just flap them a few times per day so they get their daily exercise then when you think you’re ready you can try again at flying.” She nodded and went off to go walk around Ponyville.

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Sunset spent the rest of the day exercising the doing some things to help fly better. She wanted to fly and she made it her goal to fly.