I awaken from my room with a loud yawn. Even though it was only around eight when I went to sleep last night, Twi and I were exhausted when we got home. Of course Spike and my Pokemon wanted to know what happened to us, so I ended up playing story teller about what was going on. At first Spike was beyond shocked, but he jokingly gave me his blessing to date his sister.

That memory made me remember that Twi and I needed to talk today. I wanted to know exactly how much she knows about this world future becuase of my damn speaking my thoughts habit. I knew she knew about her ascension to an Alicorn princess, but beyond that, what does she know? I sigh to myself and head out of my room to wash up before our important talk. Funny, I sound like I am about to scold her.

’So, how much do you think she knows?’ Sora questions as I begin my shower.

‘Who knows Sora. Aside from her eventual ascension, she might know about the empire, and she likely knows about Sombra because of Sonbā.’ I say, washing over my horns.

’Yeah well, depending on how much she knows, we can figure out how much we can tell her. Obviously we shouldn’t tell her everything.’ she says as I finish washing myself. I nod and get my clothes on before heading to the kitchen. I didn’t see anyone else so I begin to make a bowl of cereal and a banana for myself. I was just gathering my thoughts about how we are going to talk about this.

Before long, I hear a pair of hooves coming down the stairs with another pair of claws. I look to the entrance to the kitchen as Twilight and Spike walk in tiredly. Spike comes into the kitchen to make some toast and gems while Twilight heads to the washroom. After I hear the shower start, I place two fingers on my head and focus my telepathy magic.

‘Hey Twilight, can you hear me?’ I can hear Twi yelping from here, Spike looking towards the washroom. “Nat?! What are you doing!?” She says aloud, her voice barely covered by the shower itself.

‘Relax Twilight. I am just using my new telepathy magic. Also, you don’t need to talk aloud, you can just focus your thoughts.’ I tell her, taking a bite of my banana. ‘Oh, well, don’t scare me like that! I thought you walked in while I was taking a shower.’ She says, and I end up blushing at the thought.

‘Sorry, no real way for me to warn you beforehand. Anyways, we need to talk after breakfast. Can you think of a way to get rid of Spike for the day?’ I question, drinking my milk from my cereal. ‘Yeah, he said he was going to keep an eye on the CMC today while AJ, Big Mac and Rarity are working today. We can talk after he leaves.’ She says, and I hear the shower stop so I figure she’s done her shower. ‘Alright, that’ll work.’

I clean both mine and Spike’s dishes when Twilight walks out of her shower and my pokemon come down as well. I begin to make some fruit salad for my pokemon while Twilight makes herself some toast and coffee. Spike seems to see the slightly tense air around me and Twilight, but to our luck he doesn’t dig. I head over to the couch and begin to read through the third Daring Doo book as Twi and my pokemon ate their food.

“Kay Twilight, I am heading out. I’ll be back around two or so.” Spike says, grabbing a jacket. “Okay Spike, just be careful. I don’t want to find out you ended up in the hospital because of those three.” Twilight says, coming out of the kitchen. Spike nods and heads out of the door, heading to the CMC treehouse. I look to Twilight who sighs and comes over to me, sitting across from me in a chair. I sit up and try to gather my thoughts, Sora appearing next to me.

“So....how much do you know?” I ask blankly. “Not that much. Most of the time when I hear you talking to yourself, I try to tone you out, but a few things stuck. My ascension, the Crystal Empire and something about a mare named Starlight. Aside from that most of what I know are incomplete, like Discord’s return and something about a tree?” She says, and I figure she was talking about the Tree of Harmony.

Me and Sora sigh loudly, both of us trying to gather our thoughts. ”Listen Twilight. We want to start by saying, we’re sorry for keeping this a secret. We didn’t know how to bring up we know about some future events.”

“Yeah, I guess that would be difficult.” Twilight says. “Yeah, and even though it is clear things are a little different here than the Equestria we know of, I was worried about altering the timeline. I was worried that some things would not happen, or things I didn’t know about would happen, and I wouldn’t be able to do anything.” I tell her with a worried tone. I look up to Twilight, and see she is not really angry or anything, but more intrigued.

“That...is a really terrifying thought. I guess it makes sense you would keep quiet about it.” Twilight says, looking at her hands. “Can-can you tell me something?” She questions.

“Um, maybe? I am not sure if I should tell you about certain events, especially ones relating to you.” I tell her warily. Twi nods and thinks. “Well, maybe this would work. Did the original Twilight find love?” She asks.

“Not really. At most, the original just got a school filly crush on a guard named Flash Sentry. The original never looked for a relationship with anypony.” Sora says. Twilight blinks a second before giggling out.

“Really? A school filly crush on a guard?! That is ridiculous!” She laughs out loud, me and Sora giggling in as well. I look to her after getting our breath back and see her smile with a blush. “Especially now.” I blush a little as she says that and Sora just smirks at us.

”Well, it is safe to say we have screwed with the timeline already, what with our fight with Discord and your new relationship. The question is just how much is going to change.” Sora says, floating around.

“Yeah, I guess we should just keep an eye out. So far things have progressed just like the show, with the odd detail being different here and there.” I say. “You mention that a lot. The ‘show’. I assume you mean our world?” Twilight asks. I nod after a second and take a breath.

“Good thing you are already sitting, cause this is going to take a while.” I tell her. I spend the next hour and a half explaining the show back home in proper detail, leaving out the future for the most part. Needless to say, Twilight is shocked that her world is an entertainment program. She didn’t try to take notes, she just tried to rely on her memory, not wanting anyone to find out. After I finish explaining, Twilight looks like she needs a minute, so I head over to the kitchen and grab some apple juice for us. Coming back, Twilight just sighs as I hand her a glass of juice.

“That...that is a lot to take in. To learn that your life and adventure are for entertainment of little girls on an entirely different planet.” She mumbles to herself. I nod and sit next to her. “You see why I didn’t want to tell anyone? I really didn’t want you guys to go through some sort of existential crisis or something. Even though the show was just a show back on earth, the fact is you are just as real as me or Sora.” I tell her. Twi nods slowly and take a sip of her juice.

“This is just a lot to take in. So, you said there was eight seasons of this show, and each episode or two is an adventure me and the girls go on? You weren’t kidding when you said I go through impossible feat after impossible feat.” She says with a chuckle. I just laugh a little with her.

“Yeah, it is really ridiculous the amount of things you and the girls go through.” I then go quiet as certain events I didn’t like pop into my head, like the Mare-Do-Well incident or how the girls treated Twi during Shining’s wedding. “Just from that look on your face, I guess things aren’t all sunshine and rainbows?” She questions. ”Yeah, that would be a bit understatement. Obviously we are still going to keep quiet about certain future events, but, let’s just say you go through way to much crap.”

“Damn. I guess I should just keep a look out then.” She says, and I am suprised she cursed like that. Maybe Sora and I are being a bad influence on her. “Anyways, I need to get my mind off this whole revaluation, so how about we head out for a bit?” She asks, getting up from her seat. I nod and motion for my pokemon to follow as we head out.

Twi, my pokemon and I just walk through town for a while, not really having location in mind, but not minding it. We passed by our friends while they worked, and some of those we don’t know all that well, like Thunderlane and Cloudkicker. Though, while we were out I remembered to ask the flower trio if they could grow the berries I received from Lex. They were more than happy to try and grow them, and said they would tell me first if and when they bear fruit.

”Oh, I am so excited! I can’t wait until the Wepear and Shuca Berries are grown.” Chance says with an excited smile. ”You said it Chance. I do like the food they have here, but sometimes you just want a taste of home, ya know?” Selene comments from my shoulder.

“Maybe we could ask AJ if she has any free space on the farm we could use for the berries. The trees should grow to be around six feet tall, so having them in a store wouldn’t work well. I know that Pinkie is going to want to get a bunch of them for experimental cupcakes or something.” I comment. Our group all just shrug and head through the town again.

”So, I know you two gained some new powers, but have either of you practiced them?” Topaz asks suddenly. Me and Twilight realize, aside from my Storm Mail and being in my head, we haven’t practiced our Fiore magic yet. “No actually. Aside from when we were in Nat’s head, we haven’t actually tried our new magic styles yet. But where would we practice?” Twilight asks.

”What about the castle ruins?” Sora suggests. I look to Twi who just shrugs. “Sure, why not? It’s out of the way, so there is no danger of anyone getting hurt by accident.” I nod and wrap her and my pokemon in my Vectors before flying up and towards the castle ruins. I glance at Twilight who looks a little worried, so I tighten my Vector around her a bit, making sure she knows she’s safe. She looks to me and smiles, holding onto the Vector. I nod back to her before looking forward and towards the ruins.

After a couple minutes of flying, we land in the ruins. I carefully put my pokemon and Twi on the floor and look around, seeing plenty of places to practice our magic in. I look to Twi who takes out the list of words Lex gave her. I look around again and grab a couple pieces of rubble, setting them up to work as targets for me and Twi to use our spells against. I look back and see my pokemon all just sitting to the side with anticipation at our practice.

“Ok, which spell are you going to try first Nat?” Twilight asks. I think for a second before allowing a pink aura to cover me. “I think I am going to try my Maguilty Sense first, since I already know how my Wind magic works.” I tell her, Twilight nodding and taking out her notepad. Not too surprising there. I look towards one of the targets and focus on making a dozen swords, each appearing in a circle above me. “Maguilty Sodom!” I point forwards and the swords are sent flying rather fast, imbedding themselves in the stone. I nod at the simple but effect use of the swords.

“Your turn.” I say, stepping back for Twilight. The mare nods and goes through the words again before choosing one and getting into her stance. “Solid Script Drill!” The word appears before spinning rapidly and drilling into the target. After she dismisses the word, Twi smiles wide at her use of the spell. ”Nice job Twilight, but it will take more than just using the magic to master it.” Sora states.

“Trust me I know. You wouldn’t believe how long it took me to master my teleportation spell.” She says, stepping back so I can go again. I look towards my target and try to think of what spell I wanted to do next. After thinking for a bit, I decide to us my wind again. I focus the gales around my hands and look forwards. “Magic Wind Palm!” I blast condensed wind from my palm that strike and shatter the target in front of me.

”Sweet Arceus! I don’t think even a rock type could stand that attack!” Chance shouts in shock at my power. “Obviously! That was insane Nat! The amount of power and the speed and density of that wind attack had to be off the charts.” Twi says, looking over the remains of my target as I look for another one.

“Yeah well, some of the spells we both know are really powerful. So we are going to have to practice whenever we can.” I say, bringing another slab of stone over. Twi nods and gets back into her stance. “Solid Script Bullet!” The word appears and sends a multitude of rapid fire magic bolts towards her target.

’Looks like we are going to be here for a while.’

I was flying around, just finishing up with my weather duties for the day and I saw Spike and the CMC walking around. I heard how those three were trying to get their marks again, and Spike was keeping an eye on them for AJ and Rarity. “Hey guys!” I call to them, flying down.

“Rainbow!” Scoots jumps up to me as I land. Man, I really love this little filly. Maybe I should talk to the others about my plan for her birthday later. “Hey guys, what’s going on?” I ask.

“Not much. We tried tree climbing and painting, but no luck yet.” Sweetie says.

“I have mostly been keeping an eye on these three so they don’t make any trouble.” Spike comments. I nod and see a couple paint stains on his shirt and a few leafs in Applebloom hair. I laugh a little and pick them out of her hair.

“You defiantly did better than before, considering all your guys clothes are in one piece.” I say with a snicker. The trio blush a little and Spike rubs the back of his head with a sheepish expression. They go to talk again, when a huge wave of wind blasts past us. “What the heck?!” I look towards the forest and my jaw hit the floor. There is a huge black tornado in the Everfree! I am more shocked when two more seem to appear out of nowhere.

“Rainbow Dash! What’s happening?!” I look back to the CMC and Spike, who have expressions torn between awed and scared.

“No idea! But whatever it is, it can’t be good!” I say, trying not to sound panicked. I look to the others and decide we need to investigate. “You four, see if you can find AJ, Rarity, Pinkie and Fluttershy! I am going to the library to get Nat and Twi.” The three fillies and drake nod and go seperate ways to get the others. I take another look at the stationary cyclones, before rushing into the air and towards the library.

As expected it didn’t take me long to arrive at the library. By flying through the window....and into a bookshelf. ”Sorry Twilight! But this is an emergency!” I call from beneath a pile of books. Oddly, it is quiet as I dig myself out, no aura around the books, helping me up. “Twilight? Natali?” I call, looking around and seeing a clean and empty library. I guess it is closed today, but where are those two?

I hear a knocking at the door, so I go over and reveal the CMC and the others. “Rainbow! Wanna explain why the hay there are a bunch of tornado’s in the Everfree?!” AJ asks in worry.

“Hell if I know!” I say in worry, the others coming into the library. The group look around, and notice the lack of a certain duo.

“Hey, where’s Natty and Twi?” Pinkie asks, popping around looking for them.

“No idea. They weren’t here when I got here.” I tell them.

“Maybe they went to investigate ahead of us? Those two are a curious duo.” Rarity says.

“Maybe, they do have Nat’s Pokemon with them.” Fluttershy points out, seeing their empty bowls on the drying rack in the kitchen.

“Well, whatever. We need to see what those cyclones are! Maybe-“ I get cut off by Scoots. “Um girls? The tornados are gone.” We all look to her as she is looking out the window. Rushing out the front door, we see that the cyclones are indeed gone, the only remnants being an unscheduled light breeze. “What the Luna?”

“Hmm, maybe we should still go check it out. For all we know, it could be some kind of evil wind spirit or something.” Rarity says. Suddenly the CMC gasp and get together.

“Cutie Mark Crusaders Storm Chasers!” They yell together.

“Absolutely not!” AJ and Rarity shout at the trio. I go to scold them as well, when I remember how determined these three can be and sigh, the others looking to me. “I mean, is us saying no even going to stop them? They’re probably going to follow us anyways, it’ll be safer if they are actually with us as opposed to trying to sneak behind us.”

The others try to respond, before sighing in defeat. “Wow Rainbow, and here I was thinking you could never find reason and logic.” AJ snarks, earning a glare from me.

Before long our group is walking along the trail in the Everfree towards Zecora’s. We figured maybe the resident zebra of the Everfree might have an idea on what those cyclones were. At least Zecora was able to make the trail clear of things like the Poison Joke flowers. It only takes about five minutes before we arrive at the home of the shaman zebra.

“Zecora? Are you home?” I call, knocking on the door. After a second we hear the door unlock and a familiar green eyed zebra opens the door. Though, she seems....hungover?

“Oh, hello my friends. What brings you to my end?” She ask, rubbing her head. “Uh, you ok Zecora. You seem a little off today.” I ask with some worry.

“Yes, I am fine miss supersonic, yesterday I was testing some new Tonics.” She says, going over to her table and grabbing some tea.

“Oh, okay. Zecora dear, do you have any idea what those cyclones earlier were?” Rarity asks, all of us coming into her house.

“I am afraid not, though they did give me a sore spot. I was having such a wonderful slumber, when the wind whipped around my home like a mad hunter.” She says, drinking the last of the tea in her cup.

“Yeah, ah guess the wind rustlin the leaves and branches around would be plenty loud. I can’t imagine how annoying that would be.” AJ comments. “So if you don’t know what was causing the wind, do you at least know where it was coming from?” Scootaloo asks.

“Indeed, the winds origins were found. The ruins of old are where they were bound.” She says, taking out a map and pointing to the old castle. “The old castle? ‘Gasp’ You don’t think it is the second coming of Nightmare Moon do you?!” Pinkie asks hysterically. At first I was going to say that would be impossible, but then I remember that the tornados were black, almost like the dark Alicorns coat. I look to the others who seemed to come to the same realization.

“Thank you Zecora, hopefully we can figure out what’s going on and stop it.” AJ says. The zebra nods before yawning and heading to her room again. All of us head back out into the forest, this time with Zecora’s map and head towards the castle. Within about half an hour, we arrived at the gorge seperating the castle from the rest of the forest. I look at the outsides of the castle and so notice some pieces of rubble having been thrown around, likely by the wind.

“Ok, let’s-“ Spike doesn’t finish before he drops to the ground, narrowly avoiding what looks like a magic sword that imbedded itself into a tree behind us. It looked familiar, but I couldn’t place my finger where I have seen it before it disappears. “Spike! Are you ok?” Sweetie asks in concern, helping the drake back up to his feet. “Y-yeah. But what the heck was that thing?”

“Looked like a magic sword.” Pinkie says, bouncing around the tree. I look to the castle again and then to the girls, all of them nodding. Me and Fluttershy quickly fly over the gorge while the others rush across the bridge. We all carefully approach some of the missing sections of the walls to get a good look at what we are dealing with.

“Solid Script Guard!” We all freeze when we hear Twilight’s voice. Quickly entering, yet remaining hidden, we see as a bronze word Guard appears in mid air in front of her. “Whirl Shock!” I go wide-eyed and see Nat sending a blast of wind directly at Twilight, my friends word keeping her safe.

“What is going on?! Why are Natali and Twilight fighting?!” Fluttershy says quietly and in shock. I look to Twi and see her smiling before holding out her hand, her finger glowing.

“Solid Script Heat Spell!” A blue word Heat appears in mid air before the wave of heat is sent towards Natali. Nat smile and points a hand down below her feet.

“Storm Bringer!” We all go wide eyed as a huge cyclone appears around Nat, rising into the sky, the heat spell rising with it. I look back to Twi who is covering her muzzle as dirt and dust is being kicked up around her. I see her wave her hand before lowering her arm from her muzzle, the word Mask around her muzzle now. The tornado is dissipated, showing Nat who was panting a little, Twilight looking tired as well. Looks like these two have been going at it for a while now.

“Well? How many more spells do you think you need to try?” Twilight asks. Nat chuckle a little before straightening up and stretching.

“Not sure. How’s your magic reserves?” Nat calls out, Twilight laughing a little and the Mask dissapearing. I look back to the girls, all of them looking worried at the duo, but the CMC and Spike look awed by all this magic. At this point I think I was looking like a fish out of water because I was so lost on what the hay is going on. We all look back at the duo as they look set to fight again, so I decide to stop them before they get hurt.

“WHAT THE HAY ARE YOU TWO DOING?!” I yell, coming out of our hiding spot. Nat ends up going ‘Nyu!’ and sent a couple of swords my way. I yelp and dodge the sword, barely, each of them being embedded in the wall behind me.

“Rainbow Dash?! What are you doing here?! Don’t scare me like that!” Nat says, trying to catch her breath from the scare. Twi goes over to her and gently pats her back.

“Seriously Rainbow. We could have killed you. Don’t you know not to scare someone when they are training with dangerous magic.” Twilight scolds. She then looks behind me as the rest of the gang come out from where we were hiding. I look to the side and see Sora and the pokemon coming out of a hole in the ground, I think they were using it as a trench against the wind.

“Well, allow me to be the first to ask darling. What in Celestia’s name is going on here?!” Rarity asks. The duo look to one another with a raised brow for a second before looking back to us.

“Magic practice.” They say in unison. We all look to them in confusion, especially to Twilight since she was Celestia’s magic student, so when does she need to practice her magic?

“Rainbow, don’t you remember when I pinned you with wind when Simon came to our world?” Nat asks and I nod to her. “Well, during Hearths Warming, Lex gave me, Twi and Shining Armor some new magic. We haven’t had a chance to practice them yet, so we figure we could try them on our day off.” We all look to one another, all of us coming to a type of understanding.

“So, those huge black cyclone that appeared a half hour ago...was you using a wind spell?” Fluttershy asks.

“Yup. It was one of my stronger spells called Dread Spiral. Honestly though, I thought it would be stronger. Guess I’ll need more practice. We have mostly just been testing how the spells work, and we were planning on practicing with each spell individually whenever we have free time.” Nat explains. “Oh and Pinkie? I gave some seeds for the berries from the Pokémon’s world to the flower trio, so when they have a large stock, feel free to get some and experiment.”

I turn and see Pinkie smiling wide before she took out her own notepad and began to write in it. Probably writing down potential recipes for the berries. I look back to the duo and notice their clothes look ok, aside from the odd tear or burn from their ‘spar’.

“Well, if nothing is wrong, can we head back home now. I don’t want to stay here any longer than needed.” Fluttershy says, glancing back to the forest. Nat and Twi nod before Nat returns her pokemon to their pokeballs. “Hey Twi, wanna try your Direct Line magic?”

“Sure, give me a sec.” Twilight then layed a hand on Spike and Sweetie’s shoulders before closing her eyes for a second. “Direct Line!” In an instant, their bodies seem to flicker before dissapearing. All of us look in shock at the spot they were at, before turning to Nat and Sora, silently asking for an explanation.

”That was a specialized form of Teleportation magic called Direct Line. It’s more advanced, but faster and more reliable than regular unicorn Teleportation.” Sora explains. A second later I hear a yelp from behind us. Turning, I see Twilight face down in the dirt.

“Hey Twi? Are you ok?” Pinkie asks, helping the mare up. “Yeah, still not a hundred percent used to using Direct Line for long distances yet. Good news is we landed on my bed.” She says with a chuckle. She then walks up to AB and Scoots and teleports again. Looks like this will only take a minute or two for her to teleport us all back to town. Guess it is faster than me flying back.

It only took about two minutes for Twilight to teleport back and forth from the castle ruins to the library with two of us at a time, but she was near exhausted when we got back. She ended up falling asleep on the couch while I went over some of the spells me and Twi were practicing with the others. Of course all of them were completely lost when I started to go into the complexity of the spells.

Also I learned that I know basic to advanced magic composition from the info and spells Lex gave me. After I finished confusing the hell out of the girls, they all left to finish their business and jobs for the day while I made lunch for me, my pokemon, Spike and Twilight when she wakes up. I was also able to act completely normal and not give any suspicious about me and Twi, even when I placed a blanket over her.

”So, what’s the plan now?” Sora asks as I take my seat on the couch next to Twilight with bowl of fresh tomato soup.

“For now, we parctice our magic and see if Twi and I can’t learn a thing or two about being a secret couple.” I say the last part with a small blush, my mind unfortunately going to the more ‘sinful’ things we may end up doing in the future. I see Sora blushing as well, but smirking at me, which makes me blush even more.

I immediately try and distract myself from those thoughts by picking my book back up with my Vectors, Sora shrugging and returning into my head. But I don’t notice the blush on the face of the mare next to me.