"TWILIGHT, SUNESET'S HERE FOR YOU," Mrs. Sparkle called upstairs.

It was Tuesday night, about 7:30. Sunset had texted Twilight earlier, apologized again and asked what time would be best to come over. She also said she had important news to tell her. Twilight was grateful that she was coming and said she had important information to tell Sunset as well.

"Come on in Sunset. You know you don't have to wait outside." Mrs. Sparkle liked Sunset. She had brought so much out of Twilight since they met. She hated to admit, but she was even afraid for a second that Twilight might have a crush on Sunset. Then Flash came along and that was that. She hated feeling that way. She had lesbian friends, but she had always hoped her daughter would follow the traditional path. Progressivism usually stops at ones own children.

"Thank you Mrs. Sparkle," Sunset said as she walked in. She liked the Sparkles. She had always found them easy to get along with and talk to. But then she was closer to their age than Sparkle's. She then realized she had never thought about how Twilight was fitting in. Twilight was only three years younger than Sunset. For an adult woman to suddenly have to play dutiful daughter must be hard.

Then Sunset remembered what Twilight had said yesterday morning about actually liking being a girl again. The idea was strange. Sunset actually hated playing the role of a teenager. Then again, she was pretty much living as an adult. What would she have done if she would have swapped places with human Sunset and lived with her parents? Would she have still plotted to take over Equestria? Or would she, like Twilight, reverted back to an adolescent state and mellowed out? It was interesting to think about.

Twilight came running down the stairs. "Sunset!" she yelled excitedly and went over to her and gave her a hug.

"Hey Mom, is it ok if Sunset comes up to my room?" Twilight asked.

"It always was in the past honey," Mrs. Sparkle said a little confused.

Twilight blushed. "Sorry. I just like to be thorough."

"I know and it's fine."

Twilight and Sunset then ran up stairs to Twilight's bedroom.

"Ok," Twilight said excitedly as she closed her bedroom door, "you want me to go first or you?"

"Since I bailed on you yesterday, you go first," Sunset said equally as excited.

"Ok," Twilight said again then grew quiet for a second. "I've really missed Sunset. I wanted to come and visit more; I did. Everytime I thought about it, I changed my mind. I kept thinking what would happen while I was away. So much has happened; that even when I was bored out of my mind, I was still too afraid to leave in case something happened while I was gone."

"It's ok Twilight. It is. We still wrote. You filled me in on what was happening over there. In fact, your letters helped me feel connected to home. And to be honest, if you had been here, I don't think I could have or would have stepped up as I did. You gave me strength and you gave me space to use that strength. I've become a princess now because of you. There's no need to apologize."

Twilight shook her head. "You always were a princess. You just needed to see it in yourself. Not the power, but the nobility." The two hugged again and twilight continued.

"I know how we access our magic here. It's love. Friendship love, romantic love, famial love, it doesn't matter what type; it's just love is the key." Twilight then went on to explain her theory and how she came by it while riding home with Flash. She also went into how everything looked as though it was being set up by some higher power. She talked about all the coincidences and little details that all added up their being something more.

"So, what do you think?" Twilight said, breathless with excitement.

Sunset nodded, not quite looking at Twilight which made Twilight worried. Had she found a flaw in her logic, her reasoning that she had missed?

"That all makes sense," Sunset said deep in her own thoughts. "In fact, it makes even more sense now. You said how neither of our human counterparts were here when we showed up yet everyone else was. Then, out of the blue, your counterpart shows up. And now,
now, Adagio told me that my human counterpart has shown up."

Twilight looked stunned. "What?"

"Yep. Apparently she just transferred to Crystal Prep, human Twilight's old school. Not only that, she's been looking to meet me. That's how she met Adagio." It was Sunset's turn to go into great detail about how Adagio met Shimmer and all. "This isn't a coincidence Twilight. I completely agree. The question is now what? I feel like we have all the puzzle pieces but no clue what picture they're supposed to make."

Twilight thought for a second and then got a small, mischievous smile on her face. "We should try to access our magic."

"What? Now? Here? How?"

"By focusing on love. Love for our friends. Love for our home world. Our love for this world. Our love for each other. If love is in fact the key, focusing on it should allow us to access it."

"Alright," Sunset said more than a bit unsure exactly what that meant or how to do it.

"Ok, close your eyes and think of all the people you love or one person in particular. Let them fill your mind. Focus on how you feel about them," Twilight said in a calming voice.

Each woman thought about her loved ones. Their friends. They though about all the good times they'd had together and all the bad things they'd overcome. Soon little ripples of energy started to flow down their spine, following the countless nerve systems to each part og their body. Their toes and fingers tingled with electricity.

And then nothing.

They women opened their eyes and looked at each other in confusion.

"You felt that right? I mean I wasn't the only one?" Twilight asked in a state of nervous confusion.

"I did. I felt it. It felt like something was about to happen and then - POOF; nothing."

Twilight thought for a second. There had to be an explanation. Obviously they had been somewhat on the right track because of what they had felt. Yet something was missing. Some piece she wasn't sure of. Then she got it an idea.

"Maybe instead of closing ourselves off in our own thoughts, we she look at each other and actually concentrate on our love."

Sunset nodded in agreement. The two then stood just a little over arms length apart from one another and looked each other in the eyes.

"I'll go first. Sunset, I love you. Since getting to know, know your back story, you have become more than a friend, you're my sister. Every time I got a new letter from you, my heart would jump for joy because I knew your letters would always be deep, thoughtful, honest, and force me to think about things on a level much deeper and more complex than I ever would on my own. You have also shown a compassion, humility, and grace few to none could ever match."

"And Twilight Sparkle, I love you. I was lost, angry, and bitter when you found me. You could have done so much to me. Taken me prisoner, locked me in jail, but you didn't. You gave me friendship. You supported me and more importantly, showed me I could not only support myself but others. You saved me. I am a better person for having you in my life. My friend, my companion, my sister."

It was then all conscious thought left them. Staring into each others eyes, their left arms extended in front of them making what looked like an 11 looking down from the above. Then their right arms rose up, sticking out at their sides. Their hands formed fist then the first two fingers extended. Their arms then bent at the elbow so that their fingers were pointing straight up. A small ball of ice blue energy appeared in between their left arms and they started making clockwise circles in the air with their right hands.

They then began to float off the ground as their hair was gently blown back by an unfelt wind. The room started to spin around them and then dissolve as paint running down a canvas that had water poured on it. Instead of a white back drop, though, it was a plethora of stars and galaxies; nebula and gas clouds. The very universe appeared to revolve around them. Countless voices could be heard dimly in the background. Songs, chants, and screams.

They then brought their right arms down and had them pointing straight out in front of them. the two slowly drifted toward each; meeting in an embrace. Then each one dissolved herself. Sunset into a pillar of light and Twilight into a pillar of darkness. The two pillars started to spin in a circle forming a giant ying-yang sign before disappearing completely. A blinding flash of light exploded and both women were back in Twilight's bedroom, hugging each other tight, lips locked in a loving kiss.

Slowly each woman came back into her own mind. It was like waking from the deepest sleep after having the most vivid dream imaginable. Their eyes had been closed and they slowly opened them. Slowly they pulled their lips and looked each other up and down.

"That was . . ." Twilight started to say softly and out of breath

"Yeah, it was," Sunset finished in a similar manner.

"I was gone. I mean, I wasn't there. Me, my personality, my reasoning, they were all gone. Yet, I just did all that, all those moves and I remember it all."

"I know. Same here." Sunset was thrilled by the experience but then got concerned. "What does it all mean though?"

"I don't know. Maybe we should try casting a spell or something?"

Without thinking, each woman raised her one arm so that she was the mirror of the other. Then they spun around while moving their arm so that it was sticking out at the side. Instantly the room was gone an they were in a jungle. Then they stuck the first two fingers of each hand up, brought their arms up straight in front of them and bent their elbows so their fingers pointed up and they were now in a dessert. They then dropped to one knee and placed one open hand on the ground and they were at a beach. They stood up, turned around, and locked hands and the Twilight's room was back again.

"Sunset, we didn't teleport," Twilight said in amazement and fear.

"No. We changed the very fabric of reality," Sunset answered back equally amazed and scared.

"I've done that, transmuted things on a small scale, but, we just transformed the entire physical world around us! No one, not even an Alicorn, not even Princesses Celestia and Luna can do that."

"But we did," Sunset said with both a smile and laugh. "Twilight, with that much power, how can anything stand against us? We got this in the bag. All we got to do is find it and boom, all done."

As if on cue, a loud clap of thunder sounded. Out of no where, winds and rain much higher and more powerful than any natural hurricane could generate blasted open Twilight's window. It knocked both Twilight and Sunset to the ground. A pale light shone in from the outside and formed a face. It was male and old and looked to be asleep. Then it looked like it's eyelids began to open.

"TWILIGHT, WE HAVE TO STOP IT!" Sunset screamed.

They both put their hands out in front of them, one hand behind the other. Bolts of energy came from their palms and hit the face as it kept coming closer and closer. The women kept blasting away but the face kept advancing. Twilight and Sunset started to feel drained. Their energy was dropping fast.

"I CAN'T KEEP THIS UP MUCH LONGER!" Sunset screamed.

"TAKE MY HAND!" Twilight screamed back as she reached out with one hand.

Sunset looked concerned but did so anyway. "TOGETHER!" she screamed

"TOGETHER!" Then Twilight added, "I LOVE YOU MY SISTER!"

"I LOVE YOU TOO!" Sunset answered back.

All of a sudden, each woman released a massive blast and the face was pushed completely out. All was quiet again. In fact, everything was exactly the way it was before. Whatever had attacked them had altered reality around them and it had taken all their strength to beat it back.

Twilight and Sunset sat for they didn't know how long, trying to regain their strength. Eventually both were able to speak. Sunset spoke first.

"That, whatever it was, was not Equestrian. That was something, I don't know what, but it almost had us."

"I know. We got cocky. Hubris. This isn't about one monster. This is what Luna and Celestia warned us about. The great Evil."

Sunset nodded. "They weren't kidding. This is going to take everything we have Twilight."

"And not all of us will survive, I remember Luna saying that. This is it. This is the big one. What are we going to do? I don't want those kids' deaths on my shoulders." Twilight was pleading. She was talking at Sunset but to the universe.

"We don't have a choice Twilight. They have been chosen just as much as we have been. And, frankly, we're going to need them if any of us are going to survive."

Author's Notes:

This was going to be a much longer chapter with Twilight and Sunset engaging in a conversation about the future after the action. But I felt it was getting a little too long so I decided to split it up in to two chapters instead.