F3: *Place surrounded in ice and Pinkies tongue stuck on a pole* Was this really necessary Akari?
Akari: Oh quite, now you have a Pinkie tongue Popsicle *Smiles* Well gotta run see yah. *Exits*
F3: Ugh… Siblings. Okay Pinkie she's gone.
Pinkie: Oh good my tongue almost got frostbite. Fireuser3 doesn't own MLP, etc. you know the deal.
F3: I'm Fireuser3, Blazing Out!
D9: WHERE IS SHE! I'M GOING TO THROW HER INTO A PIT OF SHARPEDO WHEN I FIND HER!
F3: Not him too.
Episode 4: A Mile in Her Hooves
It started as a normal Sunday for a filly by the name of Pendragon Shimmer who was still trying to get her magic to manifest itself and was practicing a levitation spell she was reading from one of Sunset's books "Okay here we go." She said in a determined tone.
She focused magic into her horn which glowed a red-orange and very little and had began sparking a bit as she attempted to lift the flower pot.
"C'mon just a bit more." Pen said still determined to lift the object off the ground but what she didn't know was that she was concentrating too much magic which was building in her horn, and without warning…a loud boom had occurred.
When she woke up from the boom, the place was in shambles, everything was out of place and in a state that would make Trixie faint.
"Oh ponyfeather." Pen whispered as she tries to clean up the place and make it try and look like nothing had happened.
"This is not going to end well. I just know it." Pen thought as she hurried to fix up the damage she unintentionally caused.
Elsewhere before the loud boom Sunset Shimmer was at Sugarcube corner getting herself and her sister a breakfast snack; that is if she can stay awake to get it. She was nodding off every now and then but still barely awake.
"Are you alright dear?" asked a pony. The pony was Mrs. Cake an earth pony mare with a light cerulean coat with a light crimson and pale, light grayish crimson with rose colored eyes and three cupcakes as her cutie mark.
Sunset perked up to meet the mare eyes "Yeah… just a rough week that's all." She said weakly but still able to be heard.
"You wouldn't believe all the tutoring I had to do. I was able to help Snips and Snails get control of their magic and it took about three days to get Dinky's magic to develop when she's not running around all day long, plus theirs my sister to deal…" Before Sunset could finish she was interrupted by a loud boom.
"What was that?!" Sunset now fully alert the sound having woke her up completely.
"I think that came from your house dear?" Mrs. Cake said as Sunset quickly paid for her breakfast, placed the snacks in her saddlebag and ran with speed that would impress Rainbow Dash.
When she got home she burst through the door only to reveal her home was a wreck. When looked around most of her spell books for the fillies and colts were all scattered and over half of them were burnt. Her furniture was all flipped over on its sides.
And too top it all a filly was standing there with suet over her mane and coat with a nervous smile "Um… hey sis… um welcome back." She said sweating bullets. Sunset just looked at the scene her eye twitching
"So… may I ask… what caused this?" Sunset said trying not to lose her temper. Pen took in a deep breath before reluctantly answering.
"I was practicing a levitation spell from one of your books and it kind of went out of control and I might have accidently caused this mess from a magic overload." She said it all in one breath, taking in a breath after she finished.
Sunset was about to lose it but restrained herself "Easy Sunset, she's your sister and I'm sure she was trying her best at it." She thought before letting out a deep sigh.
"Well at least you're not hurt. Now how about you help me clean up this mess?" She said with a smile getting straight to cleaning.
After about a half hour of cleaning, reorganizing, and polishing of everything Sunset had decided walked upstairs to lay down for awhile still feeling the effects of her weekly tutoring.
"Pen before I go lay down your breakfast from Sugarcube Corner is in my saddlebag, it's your favorite blue cupcake with sapphire sprinkles." She called down.
"Okay thank you sis!" Pen says happily with a smile.
"And please for Celestia's sake do not cause any trouble while I'm asleep." Sunset pleaded with a bit emphasis on do not.
"Alright, now go rest up." Pen said in annoyance as she rolled her eyes too, and with that said Sunset had gone up the stairs and the sound of a door opening then closing was heard.
Pen had begun munching on the cupcake her sister got her "She worries too much. How much trouble can a filly like me cause?" She thought as she finished and then looked towards the book she had been looking at earlier before the explosion.
She gave a silent nod to herself "Alright time to get back to practicing, but what should I practice on?" She asks looking around and saw the flower pot, but shook her head knowing how that had turned out.
Then something caught her eye, it was an amber medallion with three suns circling a medium size emerald colored topaz hanging on a small hanger above a few photos so she couldn't reach it unless she used levitation.
"That'll work" she thought and began to concentrate on the medallion with her magic. The medallion began to glow in Pen's red-orange aura beginning to levitate from where it was hanging.
"That's it just a bit more." She whispered as it rose to just above her.
"Wow." She said in aspiration, and it was at that moment that Sunset decided to come back down the stairs.
"I almost forgot my breakfast." She said. Her voice surprised Pen causing her to lose her concentration and the medallion that was incased in the aura fell.
All was heard next was a loud crash as the medallions gem was shattered. A silence filled the room, both sisters staring at each other, and then Pen broke the silence.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" she pleaded but Sunset walked past her toward the broken medallion which the gem was nowhere to be seen on it only small fragments laid around it.
"Pen I'm only going to say this once. What did you do?" she asked coldly not looking at her.
"Um… I was practicing my magic." She answered with a nervous giggle.
"And what in Tartarus possessed you to do so?" Sunset continued her voice cold as ice.
"Well I…" Pen began before she was interrupted by her sister.
"Did you even think about why it was on the hanger up there!?" She raised her voice.
"Well I wanted to get a better look at it, what's so important about it anyway?" she asked cocking her head a bit.
That did it. Sunset had lost it "This belonged to my elder brother before you were even born!" She yelled turning to Pen who was shaking a bit.
"And another thing if you want to learn levitation why didn't you come to me about it!" Sunset yelled
"Well I would've…" Pen began looking at Sunset sternly
"IF MY SISTER DIDN'T CAME HOME ALL WORN OUT!" Pen yelled.
"Watch your tone little missy, that's no way to talk to you older sister!" Sunset says her tone and voice raising as she had started to lose her temper.
"Well excuse me but when you were available it was already; nine times out of ten LATE IN THE EVENING!" She raised her voice to Sunset.
"WELL IF YOU COULD SEE HOW I GO THROUGHOUT MY DAY YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND!" Sunset yelled
"ALL OF WHAT I DO BRINGS BITS INTO THIS HOME!" Sunset continued angered.
"WELL IF YOU TEACH OTHER FILLIES AND COLTS THERE MAGIC WHY NOT ME? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE NOT BEING ABLE TO CONTROL OR EVEN USE YOUR MAGIC?!" Pen shouts back
It became a screaming match between the two siblings until Sunset trotted out the door leaving her sister in the house.
"She doesn't understand one bit what I do to keep this place I've got here." Sunset said still holding the medallion in her hoof.
"Does she brother?" She said looking down at the broken medallion holding it closer to herself.
After their little shout fest she was stopped by Trixie who was watching as Lightning was eating a bag of popcorn on a bench nearby.
"Did you really need to scream?" Trixie said taking corks out of her ears. Sunset blushed in embarrassment.
"You two heard all that?" she asked sheepishly, they both nodded in response
"Sorry about that but sometimes my sister can be a little unbearable when she can be." Sunset continued with a frustrating look on her face.
"Well it's not like all of Ponyville heard you two if know what I mean." Lightning said while tossing popcorn in the air before catching it with her tongue to pull it into her mouth then swallowed.
"But I've never seen you yell at your sister before." Lightning finished.
"Maybe I'll give her some time to cool off before I even think about stepping back in there." Pointing her hoof to the door of her home.
"That would probably be for the best." Trixie stated then came up with something.
"Hey to get our minds off things how we have a picnic with the others to calm things down a bit." Trixie suggested which they both agreed.
"I'll start packing." Trixie said as she teleported away.
After gathering the rest of the girls they found a spot near a small pond for them to swim which Dash and Lightning enjoy which started up a water breathing competition to see who can hold their breaths the longest.
"So Trixie told us you had a squabble with you sister today, I hope nothing happened?" Coco asked. Sunset shook her head franticly.
"Nope! Nothing happened!" She said nervously shooting a small glare towards Trixie.
"You're are a very bad liar Sunset." Cheerliee stated
"So what is that you are trying to hide?" Cheerliee questioned pointing her hoof toward the object Sunset was trying to hide under her hoof.
She gave a defeated sigh "I guess I can't hide anything from you." She said in a dead pan tone.
"Nope." Was Cheerliee's response as she gave a sly smile to the other mare.
Sunset brought out the broken medallion from below her hoof to show them "Wow, what a beautiful medallion, is that actual gold?" Coco asked with a look of awestruck in her eyes.
Sunset shook her head lightly "No sorry its only Pyrite. Fool's gold if you want to know." Sunset said with a small chuckle.
"Aww shoot, I would've looked nice on a new piece of dresses I've been working on." Coco pouted only to receive stares from the other three.
"Ehehe sorry." Coco said apologetically.
Sunset gave a small smile toward her friend "It alright there girl, but this is very important to me." She said with much sorrow.
"It belong to my brother once." Sunset finally said which caused the other to go wide eyed.
"Your brother! I didn't know you had a brother at all!" Trixie said not with just surprise in her voice.
"What happened to him?" Cheerliee asked with concern.
"He died when he was in the guard, but I've learned to accept the loss and this medallion was a reminder of him." Sunset said with only a tear escaping.
Sunset quickly wipe it away "He was the one who had taught me magic, and one of the reason's I have the place I do. He also knew mom was sick and had asked me to take care of our baby sister if anything should happen." Sunset stated then remember what happened today at home and her mood quickly changed from one of reminiscence to an annoyed glare at the ground.
"And if it weren't for Pen I wouldn't have to shovel out some bits to get this thing repaired!" she nearly screamed hitting the ground hard with a front hoof.
Her yelled caused both Rainbow and Lightning to pop there head out of the water.
"Hey what's the yelling for?!" Dash exclaimed giving Sunset a annoyed glare for interrupting the competition.
"Yeah, I was about to win!" Lightning complained as Dash looks at her.
"In your dreams." She replies with a smirk.
"Rainbow Aurora Dash, what did I tell about that bragging habit of yours?" Cheerliee said staring at her only to receive a groan from her before she answered.
"To keep it down to as little as possible." She chanted in annoyance.
Cheerliee smiled "Very good. Now how about you two come over here and sit down." Cheerliee waved them over and they sat down on their haunches.
"If only Pen understood what I have to go through everyday then I bet she would understand." Sunset said as she yawned and began to take nap.
"You girls don't mind if I take a small nap do you?" She asks her eyes starting to close already.
"Go right ahead it looks like you haven't slept in a good while." Coco gave a reassuring smile.
And before they knew it Sunset Shimmer was sleeping soundly with her ears folded in so she couldn't hear anything.
"Well what should we do?" Lightning whispered.
"Well I could take her home before she wakes up." Trixie whispered as she began to lift Sunset gently with her magic.
"And maybe I can get her side of the story about this problem." She adds in a whisper as she began walking back toward Sunsets place.
It took Trixie about ten minutes to get back to Sunset's home and when she opened the door it was to her surprise there was no Pendragon in sight.
"I wonder where she went to?" Trixie thought but continued upstairs to try and find Sunset's room. After about the third door she finally was able to find her room which was indicated with her cutie mark on the door.
Sunset's room consist of teal green colored walls with a queen size bed up against the wall with three book shelves filled with magic books for the young and a study desk that would make Trixie even impressed, but her room isn't well organized as there was books on the scattered open on the ground and piled up on the desk.
Trixie gently put the sleeping Sunset on her bed and covered her with the blanket trying not to wake her. "Now maybe I can get Pen's side of the story." She thought as she walked out of the room and teleported outside the house.
When she got outside she spot the ash grey filly walking out of Carousel Boutique, and luckily she had nothing with her.
"Well no time like the present I guess." Trixie said as she began approaching Pen, and she got closer she notice a few things about her.
One her eyes were narrower as if she was mad at something or somepony, second her pace was quicker which is normally a sign that she was going somewhere in a hurry, and third she kept muttering something to herself which is another sigh of frustration.
Trixie began to speak before Pen beat her to it "What do you want Trixie?" Pen states annoyed staring at Trixie.
Trixie was surprise at her attitude at first "Well I was just about to ask you about what happened between you and Sunset?" She asked quickly.
Pen gave a quick huff at the question "All because I broke something of hers she blows up in my face, and that she always seems to be tried after tutoring other ponies fillies or colts that can wield magic means she can't teach me some!" Pen shouted out.
"And that's not all, do you know how hard it is for a filly like me unable to use or control magic, it infuriating to say the least, and it just burns me up inside, and she doesn't even understand how I even feel! I don't even know simple levitation!" she ranted.
After the small outburst and Trixie listening to what she said Pen ran off in a fit of rage toward her home. "So that's what this is all about, not able to understand one another." Trixie pondered about it.
"So Sunset wants Pen to understand her work helps keep their home in order, and Pen wants Sunset to understand how useless not knowing any magic makes her feel." Trixie thought for a minute about what she should do as she closed her eyes to think, then no later than a second she popped her eyes opens.
"To quote Rarity: IDEA!" Trixie screamed in her thought and clapped her hooves together.
"I just know what to do, they may hate me for it but it'll be for the best… I hope." Trixie said as she teleported back to the library in order to prepare for her plan.
Hours past and Luna's night has covered the sky with her beautiful night with all the stars above. But in the mist of this gorgeous night a figure roams the streets of Ponyville quietly entering a neighboring house.
Attempting to steal something, no; kidnap a pony from the house, no; to possibly cast a spell on said sleeping ponies, well if it were the case of Trixie, yes. As Trixie followed the staircase to the rooms above while wearing a black burglar suit that kept her mane in it and that covered most of the body except her head, horn, and tail.
She approached what seemed like Pen's room. She slowly entered without waking the sleeping filly. Her room was more organized than Sunset's, but it was hard to tell any colors due to it being nighttime.
Trixie began to approach the filly "Well surely hope I know what I'm doing." She said internally as she cast the spell on the filly which flashed a bright magenta.
After her mission was done she walked out of the house without startling anypony inside.
"Oh pray Celestia that my plan goes right." Trixie thought as she walked back to the safety of her library.
The next morning started out like any other day considering today was a school day for the filly, but today something was off; when she awoke she wasn't in her own bedroom as like normal.
"Um… why am I in my sister's room?" Pen thought as she began to scan the room, and she spotted a mirror that was on the door.
She got out of bed and walked over to it, and what stared back was a pony with brilliant yellow and vivid crimson mane and cyan eyes with a horn with a brilliant amber coat.
Her eyes nearly popped out of her head when she looked at what she saw. "What in Celestias name is going on here and why am I in my sisters body?!" She screamed internally and externally which her scream was loud enough that it could heard all the way to Rainbow Dashe's cloud house.
She bolted out of bed when she heard in and landed at the side of her bed "That tears it! I'm investing in a pair of ear plugs!" Rainbow shouted out then looked to her left and right and face hooved.
"Why am I talking to myself? *Sigh* Great now I'm turning into a Pinkie Pie." She climbed back on her bed and planted her head in the pillow and went back to sleep while Pen was still yelling.
"Pen would you calm down!" her sister yelled as she approached the room but to her surprise it was her body she was staring at. She blinked a few times then got a chance to look at herself.
"Give me a mirror." She asked her voice was not as stern as her own. She quickly looked at the mirror in the room on the door and she didn't like it. What looked back was an ash grey filly, with crimson red and electric blue mane with orange eyes with only a small horn. Her pupils dilated to the size of a needle.
"I'm… I'm a…I'M A FILLY!" She finally screamed
"MORE LIKE PEN!" Sunset yelled.
"Excuse me but I don't think I appreciate being you either you know." Pen said her voice sounding like Sunset's. The little filly paced back and forth for a while before she spoke.
"What could have caused this anyway?" Sunset said in a panic.
"Well maybe it could have been a POV spell." Pen answered after a quick moment of thought.
"A POV spell?" Sunset asked in confusion
"Really, you don't know what the spell is? And I thought you were the tutor of spells? Anyway a POV spell is well basically you get to look at ponies POV and swap bodies with any other ponies in the area." Pen explained.
"But who could have cast it? I most certainly didn't." Sunset said as Pen gave her a quizzical look.
"And we know Rarity wouldn't be able to either because she doesn't have any experience with it." Pen continued.
"So that only leaves one pony…" They both pondered it for a minute before they both answered.
"Trixie!" they said in unison Sunset sound a bit more annoyed.
"I'll go talk to her." Pen said as she began walking off as Sunset gets in her way.
"Whoa hold on why you, I can talk to her just as well." Sunset protested a bit annoyed.
"As you can see I'm you and you're me and today is a Monday so that mean it's a school day so you'll have to go to school little missy." Pen said apparently enjoying every minute of being her sister.
"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Sunset said bluntly.
Sunset walked down the street to the school house where the other fillies and colts were going to with her saddlebag in tow.
"I can't believe this, why would drive Trixie to do this all of a sudden, oh when I get my hoofs on her…" her train of thought was interrupted when she pumped into a somepony ahead of her.
"Watch where you're going idiot!" said the filly.
She looked at who she bumped into, this filly was an earth pony and her coat was a pale magenta, with a light grayish violet with white streaks and her eyes were a brilliant cornflower blue, her cutie mark was that of a tiara which she was also wearing one on her head.
"Who is this again? Oh right Diamond Tiara I think." She realized after a moment of thought.
"Sorry for that just wasn't paying attention." Sunset/Pen apologized sheepishly.
"Oh it's just you, another blank flank." Diamond says in an annoyed tone.
"Blank flank." She thought in confusion as she then looked at the back of her flank.
"Oh that's what she meant… Wait a minute!" She thought realizing what Diamond Tiara said to her
"So what if I am a blank flank that means I get to enjoy myself to find out what my destiny is." She retorted.
"C'mon Di we better get going before we're late again." Called out another voice, the one was another earth pony filly with a cornflower bluish gray coat with a cerualeanish gray with cornflower bluish gray streaks braided into a pigtail and with grayish violet eyes with a cutie mark of a spoon adorned with a heart in it and wore big cyan glasses along with a cyan beaded necklace. This filly is known as Silver Spoon who is friends with Diamond Tiara.
"When it isn't one it's the other." Sunset thought frown at the thought of seeing the both of them.
"Well I guess I'll see you I class then." Sunset/Pen said and proceed inside before the other two.
"This is going to be a long day." She muttered under her breath.
While Sunset was dealing being in Pens body; Pen was still getting used to being in her sisters' body, and unfortunately she wouldn't be able to talk to Trixie about the POV spell she casted on them. She looked at a calendar next to the refrigerator,
"What does Sunset do all day anyway?" She questioned with no pony to answer her as she looked at the calendar with the date September 16th circled in red marker which said 'Appointment with Dinky Doo at 12 o'clock' on it which was today.
"At 12 o'clock with Dinky Doo that shouldn't be a…" She looked at the clock which read 11:55 a.m.
"Problem." She finished then realized what the time read and her eyes became pin prick size.
"GAH I'M GOING TO BE LATE!" Pen yelled running about in a circle.
"I better get moving then!" She said as she zoomed out of the house to meet her client.
"This is going to be a long day." She muttered running down the street passing many others in her hurry.
While back at the school Sunset was already bored as a gourd but she could manage as study period began. She sat near the back of the class which she knew a few of the ponies there; like Emerald who was sitting on the right of her, and Applejacks sister Applebloom sitting just in front of her, Diamond Tiara sitting on Applebloom's left and Silver Spoon on her right.
During middle of class Diamond Tiara began to pass a note to Applebloom but after taking a look at it she notice the paper was blank. Applebloom was hesitant at first but began to grab the note with her mouth "Applebloom, are passing a note?" the assist teacher which was Cheerliee at the time caught her as Applebloom dropped the note which was blank on the inside
"And why is it blank?" She asked with a bit of surprise.
"Maybe its blank just her flank is." Diamond said mocking AB and began laughing at her along with Silver Spoon and most of the class except Sunset/Pen and Emerald who was afraid to counter them.
"Well I guess you have to stay before going to recess." Cheerliee said in a disappointed mother like tone, and that was then Sunset decided to jump in.
"I don't that would be necessary Ms. Cheerliee." Sunset/Pen answered.
"Why would that be?" Cheerliee asked blinking at he filly.
"Well if we take a look at the blank note notice that there is still some saliva on it and AB just touch it with her mouth but that is hardly enough time to put a saliva on it plus Diamond Tiara had every intention to embarrass AB just because she doesn't have a cutie mark, we all started out like that once before doesn't mean she has shove it in her face." Sunset/Pen said in a knowing tone that was familiar of herself.
"Well did you see Diamond Tiara pass the note?" Cheerliee asked.
"Yes I did." She answered and Cheerliee looked over to Diamond Tiara which was nervously fidgeting with her hooves but was saved by the recess bell and quickly ran out along with Silver Spoon right behind her.
"Well this turning out just fine. Now I know what Pen would feel like." Sunset/Pen muttered then realized what she just said.
"How she would feel." She muttered and stopped a moment and sighed recalling earlier.
"Maybe I need to be a little bit nicer to her next time." She muttered as she walked to join the other younger ones on the playground. Before she was able to leave a hoof blocked here way.
"Excuse me Pen but can I talk to you for a minute?" Cheerliee asked with a look of confusion
"Um… sure." Sunset/Pen said
"I wonder what she wants to talk about?" She thought as they stepped outside the classroom.
"That was a very nice deduction Pen, but I've never seen you act like this, normally you're quite. What's with the sudden outburst?" Cheerliee asked.
"Um… well you see… I just wanted to help AB you know." Sunset/Pen said sweating bullets.
"Oh man, Sunset you should've known that Cheerliee would probably put two and two together." She thought as Cheerliee began to ponder something before she answered
"Pen do you remember when Sunset made that crater outside Sugarcube Corner?" Cheerliee asked the made Sunset/Pen eyes went wide eyed
"That was an accident and it was Pinkie party cannon doing that and…!" She paused realizing what she said
"Oh ponyfeathers." She muttered.
"Is that you Sunset?" Cheerliee questioned and she nodded in response.
"What happened?" Cheerliee asked holding back a chuckle.
"Well I think somepony cast a POV spell on me and Pen, but right now I can't go into full detail." Sunset/Pen said and trotted out to join the others.
"But I'll explain later, right now can you keep this secret?" She asked in a pleading tone and Cheerliee nodded in response promising to keep it secret.
Meanwhile where Pen/Sunset arrived where she meet Dinky and her mother Ditzy Doo. Dinky in a unicorn filly with light gray coat and light blonde mane her eyes were amber gold, she also has yet to gain a cutie mark. As for Ditzy Doo she is a pegasus mare with a darker gray coat with blonde mane with yellow eyes that seem to be crooked, her cutie mark consist of seven bubbles.
"Thank you for teaching my little muffin Sunset." Ditzy said chewing on a muffin.
"Don't worry she's in good hoofs." She said
"That is if I can get a grip on my own sisters' magic then I'm in trouble." She thought as she was already sweating bullets.
"I have to go on a delivery run for an hour or two but it shouldn't take too long for me." Ditzy said preparing to take off.
"Well I'm off; make sure you behave for Ms. Shimmer okay." She said to Dinky.
"Yes momma!" she said with a assuring smile as her mother took to the air only seconds later to crash into a tree nearby.
"I'm okay!" she yelled back and took off again. The both giggled at her antics before Pen/Sunset spoke up
"Alright Dinky can you tell me where we left off?" she asked
"I think it was learning levitation magic." Dinky said happily.
"Levitation it is then." She confirmed.
"Like that shouldn't be hard to pull off!" She screamed internally as she began to scan the area of something easy for Sunset's student to levitate then spotted a small rock that could easily be moved.
"Let's start out small okay." She pointed to the small rock nearby and walked over to it.
"See that rock over there, we'll start with that." She says bringing it over to Dinky.
"But I want to lift something bigger than just a rock." Dinky whined giving Pen/Sunset the puppy eyes.
"Right now it is best that you start small you may think that your good with magic until you know your limits, so starting out like this is the best way for you to fully grasp your magic." She said wisely.
"Great now I'm sounding like Sunset." Pen/Sunset thought after that moment.
"Okay." She whined as she chuckles. In this situation Dinky reminded her of herself.
"Okay first: concentrate on your target." She said and Dinky obeyed with wide eyes staring at the rock.
"Then, once you have a picture of it, close your eyes and imagine that same thing." She said as Dinky closed her eyes tightly.
"Now picture yourself lifting that same object with your magic and let it flow through you to your horn." She said again as Dinky began concentrating hard.
At first nothing happened then Dinky's horn started to emit a small yellow aura at the tip of her horn and began sparking. The rock started to ascend up but quickly brought down barely five centimeters off the ground. Dinky opened her eyes and noticed it didn't move at all which made her sad.
"Hey you almost had it. It takes time a practice to get a hang of it I'm sure just a few more tries you'll have it down in now time." Pen/Sunset encouraged.
"You think I can do it." Dinky said her smile showing she was cheering up.
"Positive, now let's try that one more time." She said giving Dinky a hoof pump.
"OKAY!" Dinky cheered and returned the hoof pump and began concentrating again on the rock.
After about the fifth time, Dinky was slowly improving the amount of distance she was able to lift the rock this time it was about four and a half inches off the ground.
"How am I doing?" Dinky asked her eyes still closed.
"Open your eyes and find out." Pen/Sunset said looking at her as Dinky slowly opened her eyes. When she did she was both shocked and happy to see the rock was surrounded in a yellow aura up on eye level with her.
She smiled the widest of smiles and began hopping up and down at her accomplishment.
Meanwhile back at the school house playground, Sunset/Pen was laying down, under a tree, reading a book; she thought it would get her mind off things after the whole fiasco with Diamond Tiara and being found out by Cheerliee. All the others fillies and colts were playing all around, some by the jungle gym, some by the sandpit, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon picking on AB.
"Ugh, not again! Those two didn't learn their lesson the first time then I'm just going to have to make it clear to them." She thought as she placed the book on a nearby bench and slowly trotted over to where they were. AB was already in the dirt as both bullies were laughing at her before Sunset/Pen interrupted.
"Leave her be you two right now!" she shouted out to the two bullies.
The both looked back at who shouted at them "And what do you want Pendragon?" Diamond asked with a stern stare looking at her.
"I would like it if you stop picking on Applebloom." She said with a cold tone in her voice.
"And who's going to stop us, you?" Silver Spoon said with a mocking tone. She shook her head with a bit of a smile seeing a certain pony out of the corner of her eyes.
"Not me…her." She pointed her hoof toward the assistant teacher that was coming their way and stopped in front of the four fillies.
"What is going on here?" Cheerliee asked looking at the scene then at Sunset/Pen.
"Pendragon do you know what happened here?" she asked with a calm tone.
"No but I think some of the others here saw what happened." She pointed out to some of the others in the area.
Emerald stepped up "All I saw was Applebloom being tripped into the mud by Di and Silver that was all." Emerald said with a stern smile then Cheerliee looked at the two fillies.
"Is this true you two?" Cheerliee said raising an eyebrow at them. They both stuttered to say anything
"Or perhaps I should write a letter to your father about your behavior." Cheerliee threatened causing DT to flinch a little.
"I take it you two were involved?" She asked and they both nodded their head.
"Then I'll have a talk to you two about your bullying after school." Cheerliee said sternly toward them as she left them, and Emerald was helping AB up from her fall.
The rest of the school day went pretty smoothly avoiding all the taunts from DT and SS. After school let out for the day Sunset/Pen walked AB home and made her way back to her home
"Talk about a day, I didn't know Pen would have to go through this every time she goes there." She pondered that for a few minutes before arriving back home.
"I need to make it up to her big time for being such an idiot to her." Sunset/Pen muttered as she saw the broken medallion on the countertop
"And for snapping at her." She muttered and remembered what Pen said to her yesterday
"WELL IF YOU TEACH OTHER FILLIES AND COLTS THERE MAGIC WHY NOT ME? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE NOT BEING ABLE TO CONTROL OR EVEN USE YOUR MAGIC?!" That rang in her mind.
She began to think about what to do for her sister then it hit her like a freight train and smiled a huge grin as she zoomed off to her room.
Meanwhile where Pen/Sunset was after teaching Dinky levitation and gave her the basics about her new acquired skill, she was paid for the hour with Dinky and went to find other clients to help. It was about five o'clock and she was tuckered out from her other clients she had that day.
"Now I know how Sunset feels after all these clients, plus she didn't say she would accept walk up clients in the first place, my horn feels like a two ton anvil on my head." She thought as she rubbed her horn and was even sore to the touch.
She winced as she touched it. She looked at the amount of bits she made today "Hm fifty bits today that isn't so bad I guess." She said then pondered something that happened yesterday at what her sister said.
"WELL IF YOU COULD SEE HOW I GO THROUGHOUT MY DAY YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND!", "ALL OF WHAT I DO BRINGS BITS INTO THIS HOME!" Those words rang throughout her mind
"So that's what she meant by at what she does. I guess I've been pretty bad as a sister." She whispers to herself.
She managed to get back home and noticed that most of the lights were out but before she entered she heard a shaking in the bushes nearby that made her stop in her tracks.
"Who there?!" she shouted ready to fight off whatever was in the bushes, but nothing came out all but a squirrel. She let out a relieving sigh and entered the house.
Most of the houses lights were off "Maybe she's in her room." She trotted upstairs to find a slightly open door and inside the room was Sunset in her body apparently she was practicing magic.
"What are you doing?" Pen asked. Then sudden voice made Sunset lose her concentration.
"Oh hey Pen I didn't know you were home already." She said with a hint of embarrassment.
They both didn't say anything for a while then they both spoke up "I want to apologize for what happened." They both said in unison which surprised them both.
"You first sis." Pen said motioning her to talk.
"No you first, I insist." Sunset returned.
"Well… where do I even start just that I'm sorry about what happened and well living as you for a day I can see why you're always so tired all the time due to your tutoring thing you have with everypony here that wants to learn their magic, and I understand if you don't have time for me when you get home." She hung her head low after she finished and put her saddle bag down along with the fifty bits she made, and began to exit the room.
"I'm sorry too." Sunset said stopping Pen in her tracks.
"I was so stressed out from yesterdays work that I couldn't think straight and considering that I was going non-stop at this wasn't helping the situation either, but after living through you Pen and going to school I can tell what you mean by I didn't have time for you, but now I completely understand, and I apologize for the way I've acted toward you." Sunset said with the most sincerity.
Before Pen could answer another voice spoke up "Well looks like you both finally found an understanding?" a voice spoke out appearing right behind Pen.
"Huh!" the both look at who it was that spoke.
"TRIXIE!" the yelled in unison with a slight undertone on anger in there voice.
"Who did you think it was the Easter bunny?" Trixie joked.
"It was you who casted that POV spell on us huh." Pen said her eyes slightly narrowed.
"Guilty as charged but it looked like my idea worked did it not?" Trixie asks with a sly smile.
"Huh?" the both said with confusion as the tilted there heads
"My whole idea was to get you two to understand each other, so what better way than switching each other mind for the day." Trixie added
"And I'll be glad to switch you back." She added with a cheery smile
"PLEASE!" They said in unison.
Trixie recast the spell to turn the POV back to normal on both of them. "Well I must be off now Spike will be over to take your letter. Bye now." She teleported away, as they both blinked a few times.
"You know something, I think I'm starting to dislike Trixie now." Pen said bluntly
"I agree." Sunset added as they both look at each other then let out a laugh.
Later that same day Spike came over with paper and quill ready "I think were ready Spike." Pen said
"Ready." Spike said readying his quill as Pen and Sunset clear their throats ready to say what they think needs to be said.
"Dear Princess Celestia, At time siblings can be a little bit overbearing to handle, but it is also a great responsibility to take care and teach them." Sunset started
"But thinking that your sister or sibling has nothing to worry about can make things get out of hand and lead to disagreements between them." Pen added
"By taking a step back and understanding what the other has been through, you can understand what is happening with the other." Sunset continued
"Even if the other has to live through what the other is doing. From your loyal subjects, Pendragon." Pen added
"And Sunset Shimmer." Sunset finished. Spike sent the finished letter.
"Well Pen what to you want to do now?" Sunset asked "Well I still want to pay Trixie back for the POV spell…" Pen stated and then got an idea.
"Oh I got a killer of an idea!" Pen said and whispered it to Sunset.
"Uh Huh."
"…"
"Uh huh."
"…"
"Oh hehe, its payback time." Sunset said after Pen finished whispering her idea as they both ran off to the library.
The next morning Rainbow Dash was snoring loudly having a nice dream involving a certain group of pegasi.
"Yes I accept the title of wonderbolt…" She said lazily until her dream was interrupted by two loud and shrill screams making her jump out of her bed and hit the ceiling and landed on the floor.
"CAN'T I GET SOME SLEEP AROUND HERE ANYMORE!" she bolted up and took the earplug out of her ears and stomped on them a few times, got back in bed and went back to sleep.
What she didn't know was that one scream was of Trixie and the other a certain fashion expert. When Pen and Sunset heard this they began laughing.
F3: *Looking at Pinkie in a Sharpedo tank* Did you forget this is Pinkie were talking about right?
D9: I don't care. Now I'm satisfied. Good day *exit stage right*
F3: He's gone now Pinkie you can get out now.
Pinkie: *Jumps out of tank* Oh good for a moment there I thought I was going to get eaten.
F3: You're lucky he went easy on you this time.
Pinkie: That was easy? Next time: Mare AdvICE. Huh what's with the ICE cap?
F3: You'll find out next time. I'm Fireuser3 Blazing Out.