Chapter 7 - Trapped
Mirror Room June 3rd 1003
Rainbow Dash and the others were waiting. Waiting for something to happen, waiting for the door to unlock, or for Twilight to get back. If Twilight came back, she would know a spell to unlock the door. Then again, the door would open by itself in a matter of time.
"Argh, I can't take it anymore," said Rainbow. "We can't go anywhere and Twilight hasn't come back yet. I'm starting to think that Discord planned for this all along."
"She's probably right," said Rarity. "We are trapped and we can't tell Twilight about the other passages. I tell you, that when those doors open, I'm going to give Discord a piece of my mind!"
"You're going to have to wait in order to do that," said Rainbow Dash. "We need to hope that Twilight will make it back in order for us to defeat Discord."
As those last words were spoken, the mirror shimmered. "Hey!" Pinkie Pie shouted. "Twilight is coming back!"
All the others in the room stopped talking and waited for the mirror to stop shimmering.
The one who came out, however, wasn't Twilight Sparkle at all.
It was Spike.
Canterlot High's portal to Equestria June 3rd 2013
"What's wrong Twilight?" asked Sunset Shimmer. "Why aren't you heading home?"
"The portal closed 5 minutes before it was supposed to!" she replied.
"What?!? That's not possible. No one should be able to alter the portal in any way possible!"
"I know! I would be fine at home right about now. Instead, I have to be stuck here while Discord runs amok in my world causing chaos left and right. And without me, no one can stop him."
The 8 girls sat in silence after Twilight finally stopped bickering about what she would do to get back.
"Well," Fluttershy started saying. "It isn't all that bad. Now you can spend some more quality time with us, like you wanted."
"But I wanted to not have it be like this," Twilight replied. "I wanted to spend time with you when the world's fate was in peril. There's also the fact that there will now be two Twilights in the some dimension at the same time. I wouldn't fit in. There would be a huge catastrophe."
"She's right you know," said a voice from behind them.
Everyone jumped at hearing this new voice. They all turned to see a boy with a spiky blue haircut and a shirt with a lightning shield on it.
"Hey, I recognize you," said the other Twilight. I accidentally bumped into you the other day."
"That's correct," he said. "You also bumped into me a year ago when you were leaving the cafeteria. And I should tell you, we really need to stop bumping into each other like this."
Twilight remembered that voice. The voice of the boy she fell in love with the last time she was here.
"Flash?" she said. "Flash Sentry?"
"Yes, Twilight," he replied. "I'm glad you remember my name."
The Mirror Room June 3rd 1003
"Spike!" Rainbow shouted. "You have doomed us all!"
"Why," he asked. Why have I doomed us?"
"Discord adjusted the mirror so that it would automatically close when a living creature came through," Rarity explained. "Twilight can't return to this world now."
"What?!?"
"Its true Spike," Rainbow said. "What's worse, is that Discord can no longer be defeated without Twilight here."
"I- I'm sorry everypony, I didn't know..."
His voice trailed off as he heard a click come from the door on the other side of the room.
"Why did the door click?" he asked.
"Discord locked it," Rainbow replied. "The door has unlocked."
Canterlot High's Portal to Equestria
The two stared at each other in silence. Both were glad to see each other again, but at the same time, totally speechless.
Twilight broke the silence. "How did you find me?" she asked.
"I could find you anywhere," he said. "That, and I followed you through the school." He blushed as he said that. "When I saw that you couldn't get home, I thought I should tell you."
"Tell me what?"
"Well," he started. "When I went on vacation in the summer, my family rented a log cabin. We were away from the world, and having a great time as a family. One day, I went exploring in the attic, and I found a picture with ponies I didn't think much about it until I touched it with my hand on the image. When I did, My hand went through it and seemed to turn into a hoof."
Twilight looked at him in surprise, he had found another portal to Equestria! "Did you head through the portal?" she asked. "If you did, where did it lead you?"
"I did go through, in fact," he replied. "When I did, I found myself in a large city, and I had turned into a pony. I found two peop - I mean ponies, and asked them where I was. They thought I was crazy, but still told me I was in the city of Manehattan."
"Wow," said Rainbow. "What did you do next?"
"I didn't want to get stuck there, so I came back through and turned back to my normal self."
Twilight was bewildered. Flash Sentry had found another portal to Equestria! A single question entered her thoughts.
"Where is this log cabin you were staying in?"
"It was a remote place in the middle of a forest, about 1000 miles away from here," he told her. With a car, It took my family a week to get there, including stops at hotels and restraunts."
Twilight was sort of disappointed to hear that the journey could take an entire week to complete, but was rejoicing inside that she had found another way home.
"When can we head out?" she asked him.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," said Rainbow Dash. "We're coming with you Twilight. We refuse to stand idly by and watch an entire world fall into chaos. Where you go, we will go to."
"I don't know," said Flash. "If we take extra people, it might take longer to finish the trip."
"Oh, I don't mind," Twilight replied. "As long as we get there, I will be fine."
"All right, if you say so, Twilight. Okay, here's hoe this is going to work, everyone gets all the stuff they need and meet back here tomorrow. We leave at 8:00 sharp. If you aren't here, we will leave without you."
Twilight's mind raced with very happy thoughts. She found another way home, she gets to spend more time with her friends here, and most importantly, everyone would be glad to be with her.
Nothing could possibly go wrong now!
The Story will continue in: Journey of 1000 Miles