Chapter
2
Pinkie Pie
We huddled around Twilight. She looked beaten and generally not happy at all. “What happened!?” I asked, surprised.
“We trusted her with too much at once. We didn’t have enough power to stop her.”
“Her who?” Sunset asked a sense of desperation in her voice.
“Starlight Glimmer. I shouldn’t’ve trusted her as soon as I did but…” she said trailing off into ramblings.
“Wait you said more power right? You needed more power to take down this villain; we could just go back with you and take her down. Sounds like a piece of cake.” Rainbow said.
“Woah, woah, woah, woah! Back up, did I hear cake? The heavenly being of Cake! This has to be a good plan! I mean, if it involves cake we can’t lose! Nothing can go wrong!” I said enthusiastically my smile returned and soon I was beaming.
“If Pinkie’s in then...umm… I guess I’m in too.” Fluttershy said sheepishly.
“This may work but where is the other me? She is what connects you in this world. I can no longer bridge the gap between our dimensions.” Twilight said nervously.
I’m pretty sure she was just worried about what was happening in… I think Sunset called it Equestria. I don’t know anyways, our worlds Twilight (for the purpose of the story I guess we could call her Twilight 2 no no that wouldn’t work, maybe Glasses Twilight nope I’ve got it she’s into science and not magic so we can call her Sci-Twi. Okay take two, ACTION!). Sci-Twi stood over by the punch talking to a blue haired guy with a guitar strapped to his back.
“Ummmm Twilight you may want to look over there.” I said pointing towards Sci-Twi and the guitarist.
“WHAT!!! He… Ugh… I am going to have a talk with him!” She said as she stormed over to (oh that’s who it was) Flash. (I can’t believe I didn’t recognize him). She marched over and pulled Sci-Twi to us. “Ok now we have all eight of us and we can head through the portal.” She started shoving us through the portal before we could do anything.
I couldn’t really comprehend what happened next. It was an incomprehensible tunnel of light. Once on the other side I fell flat on what were now my forelegs. The others had less well thought through reactions. “Ok so we can do what we need to without one since Rarity fainted.” Twilight said as she walked over to our equestrian counterparts. “Rainbow what happened to Starlight?”
“She ran out.” Rainbows counterpart said pointing towards the door.
“AND YOU DIDN’T FOLLOW HER!” Twilight screamed I just kept smiling, something was pushing me to and I loved it. On second thought it kind of felt like another set of hooves. I glanced down it was another set of hooves.
“Oh look it’s the other me.” I shouted. Turning around and removing the hooves from my face retaining a smile a mile wide. (Ooh I need to save that one for later).
“No we didn’t. She seemed power hungry and uh you should really have come back sooner.” Rainbow said giving her other self what I can only assume is the pony equivalent to maybe a high five or fist bump.
“Well now it’s our job to go after her.” She said her voice filled something I could only assume was worry. (Wow sorry I got a little a deep there, oh well.)
My alternate self held up a hoof and I planted my hoof against it firmly. She whispered a plan in my ear and I nodded in agreement. Twilight opened the door and directed us outward in the search for Starlight. Pinkie and I reared up on our back hooves kicking our forelegs in the air as we shouted “For Equestriaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!” We ran out the door into the night in search of Starlight.
I halted in the middle of the street causing the other me to yield several feet down the road. “What does she even look like?” I asked
“Oh ya know just like anypony else except a little more sinister and she has The Aurora Borealis and The North Star on her flank.” She said.
“A bit of pony anatomy real quick me?”
“Flank the area connecting your back legs to your body.” She replied pointing at her flank.
“Oh so anything that looks umm… less awkward. Like what color is her hair?” I asked poking at the dirt with my hoof.
“It’s called a mane.” She said poking at her mane. ”Hers is purple with a light streak and an aqua streak.”
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After a few minutes of walking around we spotted her. Her pink coat separating her from no one I guess. There weren’t any other ponies on the street so I guess it separated her from the buildings maybe. I don’t know bad analogy. Skip over it.
“I have a plan but we need a distraction.” Pinkie said.
“I’m right here and ready.” I walked over to the offending pony and gave a small salute to the other Pinkie. She was on the roof now getting everyone else’s attention. I looked up at Pinkie and mouthed the words I have no ideas for a distraction you try. She looked around her eyes widened and she took a deep breath.
“HUMAN!!” She shouted waving a hoof in my direction. A mint green mare shot out of her window.
“Where? Bonnie get up get up they’re real!” She shouted. The villainous mare in front of me shot her a glance and the rest of us tackled her while she was distracted. We pinned her down and both Twilights enveloped her in a magic bubble. In the background I heard an argument between the mint green mare and her roommate.
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We dragged Starlight back to the castle and put her in a room chaining the bubble to the wall. It all seemed a little cruel. I spoke up first “Twilight's isn’t this a little excessive.”
“I’m sure she’ll be fine until Celestia gets here. The thing that would be excessive would be ya’ know turning her into a statue. Which is always an option.” Rainbow said glancing at Starlight in her prison.
“No Celestia will decide her punishment. We will assign guards to the room and they will monitor activity coming from this room.” Twilight said pulling a few guards over.
“Twilight we should really get back to our world. Despite the fun we’ve had.” Sunset glared at the door that led into the containment room of Starlight.
Our world’s Rarity moved a little closer to Sunset. She whispered something to her we couldn’t and Sunset blushed. She pushed Rarity away a small bit though they were both smiling incessantly. ( I know smiles and were the smiles of people or ponies who had plans for later.) “Actually we’ll stay an extra day. I need to catch up anyways. We’ll set off for Canterlot in the morning.” Sunset announced.
“Umm sunset the princesses will be here in the morning.” Twilight said matter of factly.
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I woke up in the middle night. I felt kinda hungry so I ate the donut that was just in my hooves for some reason. (How does a hoof grip work anyways? Oh well.) I walked out into the hallway, the first thing that caught my attention was a how would I put it? Um… a squeaking sound. Like when you have those rickety beds that squeak whenever you move on it. Well this sound was repeating over and over again in like a really fast like sound order thingy. Like a machine gun of squeak I guess you could say. So over this squeaky soundy stuff I heard—Rarity?—maybe it was her muttering in her sleep, probably.She was shouting something it had to do with the sun I think, yeah. Probably shouldn’t wake her. I decided to ignore it. Upon further wandering I found Twilight pacing in front of the castle door. “Is everything okay Twilight?” I asked groggily.
She looked like she had had another Lesson Zero (Is that what the other Pinkie had called it) Incident. I had seen pictures but this seemed crazy. Her pupils were dilated and her mane was frayed.
“Why hasn’t Princess Celestia arrived?” Twilight twitched.
“I don’t know why she hasn’t arrived, what I am really concerned about is how we are to contain—uh—dammit—Starlight, freaking, what do we do with her? We need to contain and we need a policy-” Twilight’s head spazzed.
“We need to neutralize her! We need to end her life! We need to-”
“No you prove that we are related to primates! We cannot harm her for fear of retaliatio-” Her eye’s closed for a few seconds and she shook
“Who cares of retaliation and we are of pony heritage not primate! We need to destroy her! Eliminate her for fear of her breaking out! If Celestia doesn’t show we are so—fuckin’ hell what was the word—ugh! Goddammit! Freaking-” A massive tremor went through her body,
“We are going to be killed ourselves! We cannot risk that! We have to kill-”
I walked into room and saw Twilight having a mental breakdown. With a frown Sci-Twi (who coincidentally walked in with me) walked over to Twilight and placed a hoof on her shoulder. Still freaking out, Twilight looked at her counterpart. Without a word Sci-Twi slapped her viciously. Twilight went flying back a few feet landing semi-conscious on the floor.
“That should hopefully calm her down,” Sci-Twi frowned looking at the wreck that was the other Twilight.
“Yeah! Totally, yo!” I said.
As Twilight was just standing up in front of the door Luna shoved the door open throwing Twilight halfway across the room. Sci-Twi went over to help Twilight up and I took the liberty of waking everyone up “THE PRINCESSES ARE HERE!!!!” I shouted.
The first to walk out into the main hall were a very disgruntled Rarity and Sunset. Rarity had a sheet wrapped around her as she nuzzled Sunset on the cheek. She noticed Sci-Twi and I standing and jumped immediately pulling herself away from Sunset and blushing. Sunset had a smug look on her face but it was quickly removed when she saw the princesses. Luna paid us no attention as she walked in holding a handheld game device with her magic just a few inches from her face. “Twilight I thought you didn’t have those here?” I asked pointing a hoof in Luna’s general direction.
“Actually last time I was in your world I brought one back for her. Celestia needed something to keep her occupied. So I uhhhh… borrowed one without permission.” She stuttered on that last part.
Celestia walked in behind Luna with all the grace of her Principal counterpart I had met a thousand times before. She towered over me, somehow still casting a shadow in this dark room. “Luna you are to stay in here while Twilight and I check on the fugitive.” She said.
“Sister we shan’t be here long, correct. I have a requirement for an energy device. My portable gaming device needs power to continue operation.” Luna said she had obviously learned some new words due to her newfound gaming craze. “Dost thou have an electrical outlet?” She asked desperately.
“What’s an electri-” I cut Twilight off.
“Oh there should be one against the walls.” I searched along the crystalline walls for an outlet. “You guys must not have electric ports in the walls like where we’re from.” I tried to facepalm but hit myself in the muzzle with a hoof and it hurt way more than expected.
“Shouldn’t I go with you two?” Sci-Twi said attempting to adjust her glasses with one hoof.
“I suppose if you wish. The rest of you should stay and keep her busy.” She said shaking her head in Luna’s direction.
Not long after they left I heard a scream. Both Twilights and Celestia ran into the room holding three guards with their magic. The guards were knocked out and as soon as they were released I dumped a bucket of ice cold water on them. They didn’t wake up. Celestia picked them up and put her ear to their chest. “I’m afraid they’re not…” She took looked down. “They’re not alive.”
Everyone looked around and both Fluttershys did an anime style gasp. Both Raritys fainted although one was caught by sunset and was moved onto a pillow on the floor. I however just tried to keep my smile though I couldn’t help but dip into a frown. Although grief was stopped abruptly by the sound of hooves against crystal stairs. A cyan pony wearing a star covered cape appeared on the other side of the hall. “Twi, babe is everything ok? Trixie heard you scream and got worried that you may not be well.” The unicorn said groggily, walking over to Twilight and putting a hoof around her nuzzling her and then pulling away.
“So are we gonna get any explanations? Twi” Rainbow said in a teasing tone.
“Maybe in the morning. Princesses you are welcome to stay the night to figure for how to find Starlight.” Twilight said blushing a little.