//------------------------------// // Chapter 48, Games Twins Play, Part 1 // Story: The Chronicles of Summer Rain // by shysage //------------------------------// The time spent each day preparing the Equestria Girls for life back in their world was like a constant reminder of the approach of the inevitable. However, the Twins had five days to enjoy each other, and to enjoy Equestria, and they tried. The Rarity Twins made everypony a new 'book bag'. They were modeled after the one Rarity made for Summer, but the colors varied for each set of Twins, and the Cutie Mark matched the Twins as well. They all looked stunning. Equestria Girls Rarity reminded the Equestria Girls that Summer's bookbag had simply been changed into a 'Backpack' by the Portal, and this should still work fine. They played 'Town Square' a few days that week, usually in the mornings. Twins had to stay together, and no magic was allowed. It was simply amazing fun. No set of Twin's emerged the consistent winner. Even the Fluttershy Twins won once. The Summer Twins had Rarity die a section of both their hair Purple, just like that one day three months ago now. They then looked for Quizical. He was first amazed that their were two Summers, but was soon laughing that they both had Purple hair. Next, Summer said he was right, she did go to a different ''planet', but he just looked at her funny. Both Summer's gave Quizical a big hug. Quizical's Mom started crying when they were done talking with Quizical however. It seems that Quizical's Mom was a friend of Sunny Rays, and also had a sister in Ponyville that had a colt two weeks before Sunset Shimmer took over. After the Sonic Rainboom, Sunny found Quizical's Mom, who quickly rescued her sister. The colt survived, but the following week was scary for them. The colt pulled through. Quizical's mom just cried... It could have been a lot worse... Summer and her Twin flew to the Crystal Empire for the morning of the fourth day. There were still a number of ponies in every city that were Green eyed zombies. The Equestria Guard fenced off special areas in each city for them. They were fed and cared for, but unless a friend turned up, nopony knew how long they would stay zombies. The other reason that they were all gathered together was so that ponies who thought they might be able to rescue one of them knew where to look. They were all in one place. Equestria Girls Summer Rain was convinced she could at least rescue a few from the Crystal Empire. As 'Corn' she was treated poorly there, but she just hoped for the best. Summer and her Twin actually gave up most of one of their remaining days together to do this. That was fine, they were true friends, and this needed to be done. Well, long story short, Equestria Girls Summer rescued half of the zombies in the Crystal Empire holding area. The ones she rescued were amazed, at a lot of things, but listened intently as Equestria Girls Summer Rain explained true friendship to them, and described some of the things it had done in her life. She encouraged them to seriously consider chosing the road she herself had chosen. Maybe it did help that Princess Cadance and Shining Armor were watching the whole thing. It was their city after all, and they were elated that fully half their remaining zombies had been rescued. And they didn't have to fly back; Shining Armor had an Air Coach take them back to Ponyville. Everypony spent the night at Rarity's boutique once, then back at the Library the remaining two nights. Everypony loved everypony, but each new day brought the inevitable closer. It was just hard... The last of the five days, the Twins all just wandered off around Ponyville somewhere, and spent time with just their Twin. The exception was the Summer and Fluttershy Twins, who spent the day at Fluttershy's cottage just being together. The five days were done, all too quickly... The evening of the fifth day, Air Coach rides got everypony to the Crystal Palace, and they were led back to the room across from the Portal room. Nopony was smiling. They spent that night there. After joining Princess Cadance for breakfast, everypony was soon in the Portal Room. One at a time, Princess Twilight and seven sets of Twins began heading through the Portal.