Twilight stood, partially frozen by the fact that all of her human friends now stood right at the doorstep. She realized all at once the fact that she did indeed have sex hair, that she was currently wearing one of Sunset’s wrinkled shirts, and a pair of red panties that she assumed belonged to Adagio. She smiled awkwardly and attempted to look for anything she could say to explain exactly what had happened.

“H-hey girls, um we had a sleepover?” she tried, giving her best smile to the girls.

“I don’t seem to remember sleeping so much as passing out after Adagio and Sunset double teamed you with the strap ons,” Aria deadpanned from behind her, as she walked topless up to the room with a mug of coffee.

Giggles were had and eyes were rolled as Twilight’s face exploded into a whole new shade of crimson. “I… Who wants to come in out of the cold?” Twilight tried, now near to glowing.

“Well I suppose it is probably a lot hotter in there,” Fluttershy observed, causing a burst of laughter as all the ladies filed in around a frozen Twilight. Sunset descended from the sleeping quarters to a still open door.

“Shut the door Princess, the only free heat here is between your thighs,” Sunset whispered, having snuck up behind her poor victim, putting her lips right to Twilight's ear, and nipping at the lobe just to punctuate her statement.

Twilight jumped, slamming the door and turning to face a smirking Sunset. “Not funny!” Twilight whined following Sunset into the kitchen where an impressive spread had already been rolled out for all present.

“It was actually rather funny dear,” Adagio stated matter of factly, moving into the kitchen beside her to fill her second mug of coffee. All present nodded in agreement as plates were passed around, and another pot of coffee was set to boil.

Sunset smiled at the picture of perfect happiness around her and began, “Well despite Twi’s indignance at getting caught with her hand in the four cookie jars-”

“HEY!”

Sunset cleared her throat to continue “- Shouldn’t we all be getting ready for class?” Sunset finished, taking a stack of pancakes and sausage offered by Pinkie.

“Class is postponed sugarcube, didja miss the snow?” AJ asked, her voice flat with cynicism.

“Mmm it was far too hot up there for us to consider snow,” Adagio whispered longingly, her voice far away with the memory of the night before.

“What Dagi said,” Sunset added, chuckling at the deep flush that seemed to take hold of everyone. Truly the best part of waking up was making good friends blush.

“Regardless of your bedroom adventures it’s so lovely to see you Twilight, it’s such a nice surprise!” Rarity gushed, handing her pony friend a large stack of pancakes, and extra sweet coffee.

“Thank you Rarity, sorry I kept it secret from you guys, I was hoping it’d be a nice surprise,” Twilight explained taking a sip of the creamy sweet drink that she’d missed back in Equestria. Tea simply didn’t compare, and the strains of coffee she’d tried to cultivate had never really done well.

“I was pleasantly surprised, didn’t know a royal had such colorful vocabulary,” Aria said flatly, chuckling as Twilight choked on her coffee.

Twilight gave Aria a smoldering glare, then closing her eyes and tipping her mud to her lips whispered, “You were the one that couldn’t speak from between my knees.”

Aria paused for a moment before chuckling. “Finally she swings back,” she whispered, toking deeply on her most recent tube, and producing a good sized plume of custard and blueberry vapor. Then nodding to herself she walked over to the pony royalty and handed her the device. “Push the button and suck, you deserve it kid,” Aria said more cheerily than usual as she moved to the couch in the adjacent T.V. room.

Twilight eyed the strange device suspiciously, and with a shrug of her shoulders tried to make the strange cloud magic happen. “Ack!” Twilight hacked on the abrasive miasma that invaded her lungs, coughing mightily as her lungs rebelled against that decision.

“We definitely should have warned her that that might happen,” Rainbow stated through a mouthful of pancakes. Twilight simply eyed the device as conversation began all around her. Taking another experimental drag on the device Twilight found that the scratchy feeling in her throat was slightly less, and with a quick exhale Twilight found she only coughed once.

“Don’t get addicted Twi, they don’t have those back in Equestria,” Sunset said with a chuckle, settling beside her favorite Equestrian royal.

Twilight paused on her third drag, and nodded. “Humans have too much time to come up with addictive things,” Twilight observed, taking a long sip of her coffee, and savoring the mild buzz that the caffeine nicotine cocktail imparted.

“Humans just like to have fun,” Pinkie said, nuzzling herself between Twilight and Sunset. The three women laughed together as Pinkie gave freely her amazing snuggles. There in the warmth of the house, with the snow falling slowly outside all was well.

“I would trade eternity for a mortal’s life so that every day could be like this,” Adagio whispered from just beyond the kitchen, shaking the thoughts of the future from her mind.

“Why don’t we agree that we’ll always have this, especially once it really starts,” Sonata whispered to Adagio, wrapping her arms around her burdened lover. Adagio smiled softly leaning into Sonata’s embrace.

“Moments like these are going to be very important soon, your wisdom is beyond valuable now my love,” Adagio said, nodding as she spoke.

“Our team of tough bitches isn’t gonna fail Dagi, now quit brooding and come join the lovefest,” Aria whispered, wrapping both women in a big hug.
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“Wow Adagio this is a really well written play,” Twilight marvelled as she sat reviewing a worn notebook. “I know I’d taken a few samples of this world’s literature back to try and find comparisons back home, but I’ve never read something in play form quite this unique, who wrote it?” Twilight asked, gazing up at the eldest Dazzling.

Adagio smiled at her wisely, looking up from some drawings Rarity had given her over breakfast, “That would be yours truly, sadly the budget for such a show would be a touch cumbersome, and the arts don’t draw near the crowd they used to,” Adagio’s voice was even, but sad. Twilight smiled weakly in response, amazed that the former sea-witch had the capacity to write an epic of this nature. A heroine rising above a terrible autocratic government by becoming a pirate, her adventures bridging the gap between species until she topples the autocratic government.

“Nonsense darling! We will yet see this production bears fruit!” Rarity yelled, half feverish with her intensity. Her eyes had taken on, what the students of Canterlot had affectionately termed, the crazy hue. Her hair stuck out at random angles, and the pen in her hand shook slightly, Twilight reacted by taking another hit off the steam device, the other ladies merely backed away.

“Erm- well yes of course Rarity, so long as you are willing to do this to future benefactors,” Adagio suggested with a smile. A rich man with a penchant for the arts could be convinced by high quality, but the fury of an insane fashionista could make for an even more relevant decision. She did posses an entire arsenal of needles after all.

“Rares, darlin’ I love ya, but sometimes ya scare me,” AJ said, tossing an arm around her twitching lover. Rarity calmed down slightly at her lover's touch, and snuggled into the hug of the strong woman.

“Well despite the fear of a scorned Rarity, I know it’s going to happen. I don’t care if I have to finance the production myself someday by buying up Flim and Flam’s shops. We’ll get it done,” Sunset said with an air of finality. She looked to Adagio and gave a firm nod as if to solidify her conviction on the matter.

“Sunny I do so love you, but I fear I’d never ask you to do business with those monsters…” Adagio had visibly stiffened at the mention of the two businessmen. “Once burned and twice homicidal as I sometimes say,” Adagio stood and moved to the kitchen, leaving everyone to ponder another piece of Adagio’s past.

“In other news it looks like we’re having afternoon class today,” Rainbow said, looking up from her phone with a sigh. All students present groaned with the exception of Fluttershy, who simply smiled. “Flutters sometimes you suck, and not in a good way,” Dash groaned hugging her girlfriend.

“Just because some of us are morning people doesn’t mean I suck,” Fluttershy said, feigning hurt as she began to tickle her lover. “Besides if I took all afternoon classes like you did who would send you afternoon presents,” her voice was just above a whisper, and the implications made most present blush, with one exception.

“What does she mean by ‘afternoon presents’? Does she bake muffins and send them or something?” Twilight whispered to Sunset, who immediately began to snort at the naive pony princess’ poor choice of words.

“Hehe, well yeah Twi, Fluttershy does always make the best hot fluffy muffins,” Sonata chimed trying to maintain serious composure as she spoke. At this point even Rarity was gently chortling into her hand, and AJ had put her face into her stetson to avoid laughing loudly at her otherworldly friend.

“That’s actually quite interesting Sonata, see Fluttershy in our world is only a fair cook, and her baking is very sub par. Rainbow always says her saving grace in the kitchen is her, um, big flanks,” Twilight blushed slightly from her own analysis, but pondered on as to the possible differences in her human friends and their pony counterparts. She wondered if perhaps this world’s AJ was a fan of musical theatre, something that her AJ despised.

“Hey, Princess?” Aria asked, dropping down beside her and taking her mod back. Twilight frowned as she’d grown to enjoy occasionally sucking on the flavorful device. She watched with interest as the girl popped the top piece of it off, revealing two strange coils of metal with cotton between them, and in one deft move saturated the cottone with more juice.

“So that’s how-” Twilight began excitedly before being immediately silenced by Aria handing her the brass tube again.

“They’re talking about the pictures of her tits, Princess. Fluttershy likes to get naked, diddle herself into oblivion, and send the resulting photos from her phone to Dash, so that when Dash gets home she eats a huge helping of… Well her muffins and pie.” Crass but well detailed Aria nodded in satisfaction at the amazing shade of red she’d inspired in poor Twilight. Then rising to her feet she took a small bow and left to stunned clapping.

Twilight just sat there, sucking down vapor like it was her job, and trying not to become aroused at the idea of the Fluttershy in her world finding a way to do the same kind of thing. “That certainly explains her interest in getting a two way mirror,” Twilight thought aloud, causing howls of laughter to erupt around the room.
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“Sure thing lover,” Sunset replied, kissing Adagio firmly on the lips, and enjoying the presence of a hand on her rear. With a spank and a cheeky wink Adagio departed, leaving Sunset to face the terror that was Buisness Management 300. “I really should have been a roofer,” Sunset sighed, turning to enter the building and running head on into a very firm wall like piece of cloth.

“Oh dear me Miss Shimmer, shouldn’t we watch where we are going?” came the annoyingly cheerful voice of the one and only dean of students, Discord. He stood, far too tall and skinny, and Sunset realised with a quickness that the mad dean was augmenting his height. “Do you like it? I daresay stilts in the snow is one of my most fun innovations to the staff dress code in years!” Discord said, wearing his typical toothy grin.

“Yes sir they’re very nice, but I have a class to get to, so if you don’t mind,” Sunset started, trying to edge around the insane academic. Naturally this was stopped quickly by a large thin leg appearing directly in front of her.

“Oh Miss Shimmer you really must lighten up, what class could possibly be important enough to miss a conversation with yours truly hmmm?” Discord challenged leaning far down to stare his victim directly in the eyes. Sunset noticed a few small bruises on the cheek of the eccentric man and sighed.

“Well Dean Punching Bag, I have Business Management 300, my practicum course, and perhaps the single most important part of the business program, the program you put together if I’m not mistaken,” Sunset explained, counting off the reasons being late to such a class would be disastrous to her career. Discord smiled broader at this, and Sunset quickly realized that something was amiss. “Oh dammit really?” Sunset asked, praying that her guess at the reasons for such a smile was nowhere near the truth.

“Oh indeed Miss Shimmer, who but I could teach a group of young venture capitalists the proper technique to innovate the market hmm?” Discord spoke, confirming Sunset’s worst fears, an entire class under the tutelage of her favorite instructor’s rumored paramore… And confirmed punching bag..

“Then why aren’t you in there; Moulding or perverting young minds?” Sunset asked, crossing her arms in defiance of the man who had now become her professor. Discord frowned dramatically, and bent at an extremely odd angle, taking a deep dip at his back while the stilts remained straight, giving him the appearance of having horribly bent knees.

“Oh what a woeful world we live in, where the student so freely questions the master’s methods,” his voice was filled with such faux hurt that Sunset considered enlisting him for some dramatic part in one of Adagio’s plays; an idea she quickly eschewed as the idea of the human form of a god of chaos and a centuries old reformed sea witch was likely a more dangerous combination than 200 proof alcohol and spicy food. “Regardless Sunset, you really must know by now that I am not one for the standard conventions of the academic system. First rule of my classes, I arrive when it behooves me, and leave at that same time!” The mad scholar was positively delighted at his own words, something that made Sunset’s eyes roll harder than should have been possible.

“Great, so since you’re here now, and we’re already 3 minutes from class am I to take it you’ll be on time, or are we just going to stand out here chatting and leave people waiting to see that their unknown professor is a man that gets his jollies by switching restroom signs?” Sunset asked, her voice becoming ever more annoyed as the thought of the entire winter with Discord plagued her mind.

“Oh you and Luna, always so serious, but if it pleases you then yes, let us get to class.” With that Discord unbuckled his pants, and with speed so blinding that Sunset was unable to shield her eyes in fear of seeing whatever Discord kept in his purple and grey suede trousers, he jumped out of his shorts, and stilts. Landing beside the five or six foot prostheses Discord smiled, a second pair of trousers, equally hideous mauve and yellow slacks, thankfully covering his bits. “After you Miss Shimmer,” Discord offered, opening the door to the main complex of the university’s business school.

A short walk later and Sunset found herself in an empty lecture hall. Now Sunset had skipped classes in the past, hell during her second year she made sport of it, but never before had she seen an empty classroom on the first day of a class. “What the hell’s going on here?” Sunset asked, as Discord entered and walked to the instructor’s podium.

“Now now, settle down students, welcome to BMT 351, Practical Management of Business. My name is Discord, but you may call me Dr. Discord, Knight of Her Majesty’s Flowing Flappers Esquire, and I shall be your guide on this path of knowledge. Together we shall learn the practical art of managing a business, the methods and tactics therein, and after the holiday break… Well that part is my surprise,” Discord paused for a moment, placing a pair of spectacles with mismatched frames neatly on his nose. “Now we shall call the roll, ahem, Sunset Shimmer,” He paused looking all around the class, utterly ignoring the fiery glare that Sunset was giving him.

“Ugh, here,” Sunset groaned, slamming her head on the desk after being ignored for a full minute by her instructor.

“Vunderbra!” Discord stated, tossing his glasses from his nose into the trash. “Seeing that all students for section D of this class we shall begin for the day,” Discord smiled cheekily at Sunset, whom had just paled considerably.

“What the hell do you mean! I saw ten people on the class list as of Autumn early signup, where did they go?!” Sunset yelled, her mind reeling at the idea of having to try to pass a tremendously important class with a Salvador Dali painting at the helm.

“Why of course Sunset, there were ten students enrolled, and normally we reserve 15 instructors for a one to two person load, that’s why you only just recieved your room assignment. This is done so that the program may more closely scrutinize and correct your techniques for managing a business,” Discord explained almost robotically.

Sunset simply groaned, putting her head to the desk again, now doomed to the close scrutiny of the craziest person in all of Canterlot. Visions swam in her head of her first school of martial arts, and using an abacus to calculate the number of students while wearing a mismatched gi and walking on her hands the whole time. She prayed that the insanity of Discord wasn’t something that spread easily.

“Now it is a rare thing indeed for me to teach one of these independent study courses, especially since I prefer mass hysteria to concentrated psychological torture, but at the behest of your instructor Luna, I have decided to take to under my wing,” Discord explained, pausing as though he expected thanks for such a laborious favor he was offering.

Sunset sat perfectly still, somewhere in her mind she tried to summon the form she’d taken during the Fall Formal all those years ago. The idea of her instructor doing something of this nature irked her to no end, and she thought eviscerating her might be just the trick for such treachery, but fortunately that side of Sunset was relatively small, and her conscious won over. “Why the hell would Luna do that to me?!” Sunset asked after a few minutes, causing Discord’s face to morph into a miffed expression.

“Now see here young lady, I may not seem like your average well put together academic, and I am most assuredly not,” Discord explained, pausing to stand to his full height, “However I am a very successful businessman. I have contributed to this University more times than I care to count financially and almost every business in this city has dealt with me at some point. I can teach you the practical side of this degree, as opposed to the theories which govern it, and I’m willing to help you do much the same,” he stopped, looking at his would be student.

Sunset simply sat there, in all her time at the University she had only seen the dean of students get serious once, and that was during a meeting with some of the school’s wealthiest benefactors at a public art benefit. As she recalled, the school had expanded after that night. “I… Ok ok, I get it, sorry Professor I’ll stop being dramatic,” Sunset closed her eyes, waiting for the stinging jab of Discord’s jokes to hit her like a punch from Luna, she did deserve it.

Instead all she got was a firm hand on her shoulder, looking up she saw her instructor smiling widely at her… With a clown nose on. Sunset was so caught off guard by the weird sight that she actually snorted with laughter. “See there, you take things so seriously Sunset. First lesson is to laugh, and you have passed that well. Now for tonight I want you to do some practical research, find for me five vacant buildings suitable for opening a business with no investment in the facility itself. Print off the page where you found it and from there we shall reconvene on Friday as per the schedule,” Discord popped the ridiculous nose off and headed to the podium to collect his sparse notes.

“Wow you weren’t kidding with the whole irregular schedule thing,” Sunset said, shaking her head and rising from her seat.

“Well I wouldn’t want you to keep your otherworldly friend waiting, give the Princess my regards,” Discord said, sweeping quickly out of the class. Sunset’s eyes had grown to the size of bowling balls at the mention of Twilight’s secret, hell at the mention of Twilight being in town at all.

“Discord!” Sunset shouted running out the door, finding only an empty hallway. She pondered exactly how she was going to address another’s knowledge of the land beyond the portal.

As Sunset exited the building Discord sighed with relief, his suction cup shoes keeping him firmly planted on the ceiling. “I really must thank my double, these props work so much better than mine,” Discord said, falling out of his shoes on that very cue. “Umph- or perhaps I should just be content to walk home without shoes,” the madman suggested to no one with a shrug, standing to full height and exiting the building. Leaving the sixth pair of oxfords on the ceiling that week.
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Twilight sighed, enjoying the facilities of the library in a dark corner. She’d just finished her sixth book on human history, and was now moving on to local history and anthropology of the city of Canterlot. The large stuffed bags were comfy, and since the computers were on an opposite wing she had the place to herself.

“Hey Twi, knew I’d find you in the dusty section,” Sunset said, strolling over to her friend, and perching herself on the adjacent stuffed bag.

Twilight smiled brightly “Oh good! I’m glad you made it first Sunset, I have something I want to give just you, and something for everyone,” Twilight said, taking a bag from beside her leg and opening it. Sunset watched with measured excitement as her friend pulled out a mirror. “This is that two way mirror I talked about last night, I had to run experiments today to make sure it worked properly, but everything looks fine so I should be able to leave it with you, and give a direct line of communication between us when I return to Equestria,” Twilight explained, giving the mirror to her friend.

Sunset looked shocked at the gift. The idea of being able to communicate so easily between the two world, possibly even with her old teacher filled her with joy. Sunset’s eyes moistened as she cradled the precious piece of glass in her hands. “Thank you so much Twi… I dunno what to say,” Sunset said, choking back her tears best she could.

“Don’t thank me just yet Sunset, I still have something else I have to give you guys,” Twilight avoided the teary gaze of her human friend.

“I suspect that now would be a perfect time for that,” came Adagio’s voice, as she strolled languidly into the library, Sonata and Aria flanking her. All three wore a look of grim determination, immediately setting Sunset on edge.

“Before you ask I’ve ensured that we won’t be disturbed, or recorded,” Sonata said stepping forward and nodding to Aria.

“I scoped the perimeter around the building out, we’re clear of anything suspicious,” Aria explained, as Adagio then moved ahead of all three of them.

“No magic on the school grounds either, aside from the usual,” Adagio said, pulling one of the familiar pearlescent stones from her pocket.and winking at Sunset.

“Excellent, thank you three,” Twilight said standing and producing a large piece of parchment from her bag. Sunset eyed the letter, knowing full well that anything that necessitated these kinds of precautions was not going to be happy news. “According to scans we started performing on the portal years ago the magic in this world is climbing,” Twilight began looking grim as she spoke. “Princess Celestia is worried about this, her dreams continually include a dark figure in the shadows, and occasionally those eyes float around in the mirror,” Twilight explained, causing Sunset’s heart to speed up.

Her mind immediately went to the dark being in her dream all those nights ago, she’d very nearly forgotten about it. “I can attest to these same dreams, but unlike Celestia I know what this being is,” Adagio explained looking at Sunset, “and so do you my love, Sonata showed him to you when she gave you her past. That being is the one we called The Deep Dark One, the same being that gave all three of us our powers,” Adagio monotoned, her eyes clearly back in Equestria, reliving their past.

“And now that same thing is here, but along with it is this growing power that we don’t yet understand,” Twilight interjected, causing Sunset’s worry to increase. From there Twilight pulled out three small onyx figures a snake, spider and scorpion. “When Luna searched Celestia’s dreams these were the shadows she managed to see in the distance, but that’s all we know,” Twilight finished, giving an angry sigh.

“This is why I contacted you, I had suspected something like this was happening, but had no way to confirm it, Sonata what are your thoughts on this?” Adagio pondered, looking at the three figures Twilight had set out.

“They’re us, whatever the darkness wants he’s using the negative portion of us that was removed, and these are the avatars of that,” Sonata said, her voice full of spite for the dark magic that was now threatening them.

“Wait, so you’re saying the elements didn’t completely destroy that part of you?” Sunset asked curiously.

“Can’t destroy magic that old Sunny,” Aria said, shaking her head and stomping her boot to the ground.

“Indeed, some magic is too pervasive, and that horrid creature likely knows a way to draw on such magic,” Adagio said, nodding as she spoke.

“Is that all we really know thus far?” Twilight asked, praying for the sake of both worlds that there was more to the story. All three former sirens nodded sadly.

“I’ve been searching every old tome of this world I could find, but only scarcely is he mentioned even by mad authors,” Adagio sighed, flopping onto Sunset’s lap.

“All we can do now is wait, in his game he’s always the first to make a move, and sadly right now that’s what we’re playing,” Sonata growled darkly. Her face had taken on that same look of intensity Sunset had seen when she bared her soul at the cabin.

“Well I’m going to be here for a while longer, so while you’re all trying to get to college I’ll be collecting data,” Twilight said returning the sinister figures to her bag and standing. “In the meantime we need to keep positive, the magic of friendship has always been able to defeat these threats, it won’t fail us now.” Twilight said trying to brighten the mood.

“It is our best shot, so let’s try for positivity. Starting with Sunset’s first night of extra sparring practice!” Adagio brightly said, smiling wickedly at her lover.

“Oh yes! I’ve been looking forward to seeing Sunset fight!” Twilight said, a blush spreading slightly across her cheeks.

“Heh, Princess has a lady boner for violence? Never would have guessed, remind me to buy you a drink tonight,” Aria said with a chuckle, as Sunset sank into her bag. It was fixing up to be a very long, sore night, especially if fighting had the same effect it did on the other ladies.

“Don’t worry Sunny bunny, I invited Pinkie over tonight, so you won’t be too sore by the time we sleep,” Sonata whispered huskily into her lover’s ear. Sunset took no comfort in this.

“Great now I’m going to be wet before practice,” Sunset groaned, earning a laugh from the women who would soon take advantage of her.

Author's Notes:

Before I start this end card, everyone should know I have the best editor in the whole world, and she's writtena very kinky little story for you SunDagio lovers, Sexiness here, please enjoy as she is a great writer!

There you have it ladies and gents, a storm is coming to Canterlot. What is it, and what diabolical machinations does it hope to further concerning our lovely protagonists? What is Discord's role in all of this? Are you not forgetting the actions of other characters as you read this not, making you hungry to read the story again, see if you can hazard a guess at my insane plans? All these questions and more shall be answered on the next exciting episode of Dragon B... Wait wrong outro! Dammit!

P.S. happy Halloween to you all, and to those who will be celebrating Samhain as I will, blessed new year.