"Okay, I think I'm ready to go now." I stood in front of the swirling mirror again.

"You're certain, Yang?" Twilight was still concerned about me.

"Hey, you just gave me advice on walking with four hooves. And I'm still really curious about your source." Before anything else could be said, I went into the mirror. Once again, the weird sensations caused me to black out.

I woke up again with my pony head on someone's lap. With a few groans, and some assistance, I was soon on my hooves, which was still a weird sensation, but I wasn't falling over, which was a good thing. "Okay, how did it go again?" I muttered under my breath. "Front then rear, or rear then front to start?"

"Rear, then front of the same side, repeat on the other side," a literally yellow skinned woman with red and yellow hair said. I looked up at her and felt short. "Let's go to the grass so you can practice there, Yang."

I followed her tips as we slowly made our way to a very nearby patch of grass, her hand on my withers the whole time. The soft ground felt better than the sidewalk did. "So, who are you?"

"Sunset Shimmer. Twilight's told me a lot about you, Yang." I misstepped and nearly fell, if not for Sunset catching me. "She's talking with Celestia and Luna right now."

"They came here too?"

"No no no, these are a different Celestia and Luna. Similar, but different. They're the principal and vice principal of this school."

I took a moment to process that. "Okay. I guess that makes sense. What's Twilight talking about with them?"

"She's just explaining your situation. We filled them in on the portal after, well, I kind of stole the element of magic and became a demon."

I blinked a few times at her statement. "Alright, so crazy stuff over here. Should I expect anything like that?"

"No, it should be pretty boring. Aside from you learning about Twilight's source of pictures."

I put two and two together and hoped it was the right equation. "It's you, isn't it?"

"Got it in one." Sunset scratched me between the ears and I relaxed a bit. "Soft spot, eh?"

"Hush, you." I couldn't put any kind of actual force behind the words, it felt so good.

Twilight found us a moment later. "They've been informed. All we need to do is put a ribbon on Yang's tail."

I looked back at Twilight and almost lost my balance again with just how flexible my neck was. "What?"

"Legal reasons, Yang. The worst. Sunset, do you think a pink or green ribbon would be better for Yang?" Twilight held up two lengths of ribbon in her hands, the green one standing out more against her purple skin.

"Does it make any difference?"

"The different colors mean different things," Sunset explained as she got the pink ribbon. "Green indicates that the horse, or pony, is young and inexperienced."

"I'm inexperienced at being a pony."

"Only five people in the world know that." I felt my back legs fidget as Sunset started tying the ribbon on my tail, which felt very odd. "Three of them are right here." A moment later, she was done. "Do you think you can walk on your own?"

"One way to find out." After Sunset stepped to the side, I started walking on my own. It didn't take long for me to get the rhythm down, and, thankfully, I didn't fall. After getting used to turning, I went back to Sunset and Twilight. "I think I'm good."

"Then let's get down to business," Sunset stated.

We went into the school, taking ramps instead of stairs to a set of offices. My hooves echoed through the empty building as we walked at my pace. "Is it a weekend? Nobody's here." It was Sunday back home, but that didn't necessarily mean the dates aligned on both sides.

"Yep. I figured it would be a lot easier without students and other faculty members here."

"Oh." When we got to the carpeted offices, another question came to mind. "So why are you here?"

"I'm the head counselor. I apparently had a knack for doing that after the various incidents here, so all I had to learn was the paperwork." Sunset's gaze became slightly distant as we entered what was clearly her office. "So much paperwork."

"Paperwork can be relaxing, Sunset," Twilight offered.

"No, it isn't. Anyways-" Sunset led us behind her desk and started up her computer. "-do I need to explain what a computer is, Yang?"

"Did you have a speech planned to explain the internet?" I was starting to see where it was headed, and understood quite a bit in that moment.

"Thank goodness you know," she said with a sigh of relief before pulling up a web browser. "I didn't have one planned."

"I'm still wrapping my mind around the sheer scale of the internet," Twilight admitted. "And how it's done without magic."

"It is a lot. So, do you want to look anything up, Yang?" Sunset held out a stylus for me. "It's a touchscreen, just so you know."

I looked down at my hooves. "Stupid hooves," I muttered before gently biting the stylus, looking at the blank search bar, and after a bit, typed in the first thing that came to mind: RWBY.

As soon as I hit Enter, there were a number of familiar looking results. Switching over to the image results with a tap of the stylus on the screen, I saw lots of RWBY screenshots and art. One image that stood out to me was Yang's various outfits from volumes one through six.

After a brief meta moment breakdown, I turned to Twilight. "Did you know about this?"

"Well. . . Yes, I did," Twilight sheepishly admitted. "I did some research on that Yang after you showed up. I also figured that it would be best if I kept those pictures away from Ponyville, since you were still in a bit of a delicate situation at the time and had enough on your plate at the time."

"Hm." I understood Twilight's reasoning, but another question came to mind immediately. "And you didn't get around to telling me because. . ?"

"Things got busy and I forgot. I did remember a few times, but you were usually in the kitchen at the Carne Den, and it wasn't important enough for me to interrupt you." I conceded the point to Twilight. "It wasn't until Appleloosa that I finally started arranging this opportunity for you."

I looked back at the screen as I thought things over. Rarity's knowledge on making clothes for a species she'd never seen before suddenly made a lot of sense.

"I think you can also see why I don't want to bring Rarity over here now."

"She'd go nuts over having all this stuff at her fingertips." I cast a small frustrated look and growl at my hooves. "Well, now that the secret internet source has been revealed, I think it's about time I head back home."

"Before you go, I have something to give you." Sunset went over to a bookshelf and pulled out an album with red, white, black, and yellow stripes along the spine. "I figured this would happen at some point, so I prepared this album for you to give to Rarity."

Twilight accepted the album and started looking through it. "I'm sure she'll love it."

"Oh, one more thing! Yang, if you could just stand still a moment?" Sunset pulled out her phone, and while I was looking at her, I heard a burst of camera shutter sounds from it. "You look great as a mare, you know."

"Really?" I asked.

"Really." Sunset connected her phone to the computer and began looking through it. "How many copies should I make?"

"One for Rarity," Twilight said.

"I guess I'll take one too," I added. If nothing else, it would go well in an album.

A few clicks later, we had our pictures. "Thanks, Sunset. You should come visit sometime."

"How about now?" Sunset asked. "I don't have anything else planned, and I want to try the Carne Den."

Twilight looked to me for an answer. I gave her a question. "You're buying, right?" Sunset broke down into sputtering laughter for a minute while Twilight regained her composure and a smile came across my face.

"I guess I will," Twilight conceded.

"I'll go let Celestia and Luna know I'll be gone for a bit." Sunset left the office to do that while Twilight and I left in an unspoken agreement to meet at the mirror.

Twilight was about to start talking about something when I got tackled from the side, knocking me off balance and wrapping me in a tight hug. "Oh she's cuter than I imagined!"

"Who?" I looked at my assailant and saw a woman that looked and sounded a lot like Luna, wearing a plain black and blue suit. "Luna?"

"And she talks! You are just precious!" She started scratching my chin, and it felt good. "So, so precious."

"Vice Principal Luna?" Twilight asked, even as a smile tugged at her lips.

"Hush, you. It's my pony time."

"Is that even a thing?" I asked her.

"Since ten seconds ago."

"Luna!" A stern voice that sounded like Celestia's sounded from behind me.

"Salvation, thy name is Celestia," I gratefully thought as she approached, heels click-clacking as she approached.

"Oh, Tia, uhm, I can explain. . ." Luna said, sounding as if she was caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"Pony time? Without me?" She was soon scratching between my ears while Luna was still scratching my chin. "You should be ashamed of yourself for that."

Sunset soon joined Twilight and caught sight of me getting scratched. "Have you ever seen such cruelty, Twilight?"

"That's not cruelty, Sunset," Twilight said. "That's just Yang getting affection."

"heeeellllp. . ." I groaned out.

Sunset sighed. "Alright, I'll help." A moment later, I was being assailed with belly rubs and relaxing more and more. "I am helping, right?"

"Of course, Sunset," Celestis said.

"We are not at all using this chance as an excuse to take a break from the paperwork," Luna added.

"You arrre. . ." I groaned out.

"Curses! Tia, she's seen through our nefarious scheme. Abort, I say! Abort!"

"No, Luna! We have to finish the mission! Stay strong!" The ear and chin scratching intensified.

"Twilight?" I asked.

Twilight snapped some pictures with Sunset's phone before stepping in. "Alright you three. I know you're having fun making Yang melt, but it's time to let her go."

"Do we have to?" Celestia and Luna asked at the same time like kids.

"Yes, you do. You too, Sunset."

After a few more scratches and rubs, I was finally freed. Sunset helped me back to my hooves, and after I got my legs to work again, she, Twilight, and I were on our way back to the portal with no conversation between us.

We stopped by the portal to take the ribbon off of my tail, and as soon as it was, I made a beeline to go through it. I barely managed to make a decent landing on the other side, back to normal. "I am not going back there again," I swore to myself before Twilight and Sunset, both as ponies, showed up, Sunset's landing a bit wobblier than Twilight's.

"Back to hooves and magic," Sunset said as she tested her range of motion. "So, the Carne Den?"

"Follow me."

"It's a lot less. . ." Sunset started.

"Lively?" I suggested. "We are closed on sundays."

"No, I was expecting more of a. . . Meat shop aesthetic. And brighter colors."

"I wanted a darker, more comfortable feel in here. You know, like a den. A place to relax and feel good." I picked up a menu and set some seats down at a table for my guests.

"Well, it certainly works," Sunset said as she and Twilight sat down and started looking over the menu.

"Thank you. Oh, just so you know, there's no smoked meat right now." I left the mares to get a ticket pad from the bar and quickly returned, sitting down with them and letting them take their time.

After some conversation between Twilight and Sunset, they ordered two identical grilled chicken sandwiches. While I started cooking, I heard them talking. "So, do you think Celestia and Luna would like this place? It's very different from the places they usually go to."

"I can call them," Twilight said before her horn briefly lit up. A moment later, Celestia and Luna teleported in. Luna looked like she was still waking up, but otherwise looked just as happy to be there as Celestia was.

"Sunset, it's been a while," Celestia said. "How have you been?"

"Pretty good," Sunset said. "Do you want a menu? I've heard good things about this place."

"No thank you, Sunset. We'll just have what you're having."

"Two more chicken sandwiches coming up!" I announced. I decided that I may as well join them and put another one on for myself.

"Can I have bacon on mine?" Luna asked, followed everyone else agreeing with the idea.

"Can do!"

As the bacon was sizzling, Sunset started the conversation again. "It sounds like you've been here before, your highnesses."

"It's a very good place," Celestia said. "Good food, good staff, casual atmosphere, started an economic upturn in the griffon empire, all very good. King Gaston himself even visited once before he bit the dust."

"Woah woah woah, Celestia! Did that actually- what?"

As Celestia told Sunset of King Gaston's visit, the food finished cooking. After putting all the sandwiches on plates, turning the grill off, and getting some glasses of water, I went back out with the food. "Okay, who has the grilled chicken sandwich with bacon?" I asked when I showed up.

"I do!" Luna enthusiastically called out.

"Grilled chicken and bacon sandwich?"

"Mine!" Celestia said.

"Sandwich of grilled chicken with bacon?"

"I guess that's mine," Sunset said.

"Bacon sandwich with grilled chicken?"

"I guess I ordered that?" Twilight said.

"And one bacon and grilled chicken sandwich for me." I set the tray down on the middle of the table and pulled a chair over to join the ponies. "I hope I didn't get any of them mixed up."

The conversation was lively, or at least it was after Sunset got caught up on current events. I even went upstairs and changed into my work clothes for her, at her request. Overall, she was a pleasant guest, and didn’t seem fazed by the presence of the princesses.

Finally, the meeting seemed to come to an end. “So, how was the food?” I asked my guests, though I looked at Sunset more than the alicorns.

“It was good,” Sunset said. “I never thought meat would taste good as a pony.”

“I think I’ve turned Ponyville into part time omnivores.”

“And why do you think that?”

“Bacon! Speaking of which, mine tasted a bit underdone. Who runs this joint? I ought to have a few words with them.” My brief moment of feigned outrage got some laughter out of the mares. “Anyways, I guess we’re done here?”

“I suppose we are,” Celestia said. “Hopefully, the next time we meet, it will be under good circumstances as well.”

“Hey, you know you’re welcome to visit anytime, Celestia.”

“But you’re closed on Sundays, and that’s my day off.”

I blinked at her a few times as I got what she was saying. “You do know you can just visit as a friend, right?”

A few seconds later, Celestia performed what I would call a sonic facehoof.

Author's Notes:

There's no friend like a friend with internet access.

Also, I do apologize for how long it took to post this chapter.