//------------------------------// // Suprise? // Story: A Sparkle and Her Flame // by Flame Dash //------------------------------// I followed the Princess, stumbling over my hooves a few times and earning a giggle from Twilight. I puffed my cheeks out in annoyance "Hey. I didn't see you ease into your body when you first came to my world." I smirked as she blushed. "Well, You've lived here before, I hadn't lived in yours." She turned to me, quirking an eyebrow. I sighed "Touché" I laughed as I felt a itch on my flank, ignoring it as I walked into a room with Twilight. The first two pony's I saw were Rainbow Dash and my Counter part. "Flame Dash!" They said in unison, both flying at me and tackling me in a hug. "Long time no see huh?" I laughed, standing up and using a hoof to dust myself off. Twilight looked between me and my counterpart "Okay I knew that this would happen but I'll probably never get used to it." She said as she walked to what seemed like a table. "Uh...Scorch?" Rainbow called me my nickname she had given me when I first lived here to tell my doppleganger and I apart. "Yeah?" I turned around to see her pointing at my flank, my cutiemark was glowing "What the-?" I was cut off when I heard Twilight speak "That's why I called you," A seemily holographic map showed on it with my Cutie Mark floating around a castle. It wasn't Twilight's but it seemed to be located in the Everfree forest. "Since I've recieved this castle my friends and I have had this map to summon us when a friendship problem was underway. But this time the location it has summoned you seems to be different then a friendship problem-" It was my turn to cut the purple-furred princess off. "But why did it summon ME? I mean,I don't even live in this universe." I looked down at the pendent on my neck, which I was glad had made it through the portal. Twilight tilted her head as if she was in thought before continuing "Well, As I've known you have lived her before yes? It's possible that since both you and your counterpart are part of the Magical occurences of both of your worlds and you've been here before, The map had picked up on your Mana through some kind of magical inference between our worlds and decided to summon you." I ran her sentence through my head a few times before nodding slightly "Makes sense.. I guess." I looked back at the map. "So um, where does the map want me to go?" I asked, Rainbow appeared above me, flapping her wings as she looked at the map. "Hey Twi, Isn't that the Castle of the Two Sisters?" "That it is Dash." Twilight looked at me "I assume you've heard the tale before?" "Yeah. I have." I was about to ask what exactly I was doing until we heard a crash from deep in the castle. My counterpart and I looked at each other, Rainbow and Twilight copying our attention before flying of towards the sound. I struggled to stay afoot for a few seconds but eased my way back into my flying and was soon besides Rainbow. We all landed as we arrived at the room we heard the sound come from. Well the others landed, I fell straight on my face but hurriedly bounded up. "Gotta fix that landing" I thought Twilight was the first to enter the room and we all followed. I saw a purple flank sticking out of a pile of books tht must've fallen ontop of whoever it was. "Ugh..." Came the voice from under the books, My ears perked up as instantly reconized it. I looked towards the portal and sure enough, it was just shutting down as if someone came through. "Twilight...?" I asked, hearing both whoever was under the books and pony Twilight answer. Equestria's Twilight did a double-take as I sighed, trotting over to my worlds Twilight and grabbing her tail between my teeth. I pulled her out and she landed on her flank. A bit dazed. "Twi, Did you seriously follow me?" ------------ "Twi, Did you seriously follow me?" I heard, I could only assume it was Flame. Shaking my head and adjusting the glasses on my muzzle? "Okay Twilight, Calm down. Your just a pony in a magical universe full of them! Nothing out of the ordinary." I took a deep breath before smiling sheepishly "Suprise?" --------- I slightly laughed as I saw Flame Dash shake her head at her worlds Twilight. "Well hey, you can't blame her for wanting to research 'pony' magic." I laughed "You would think so wouldn't you Twilight?" She rolled her eyes, looking at me "This could be a learning experience for her Flame-" She cut me off to add a few words "Call me Scorch while I'm here, It'll help keep the two Flame Dash's apart" She waved for me to continue "Okay. Scorch. It can be a great opportunity for her to learn about the ways of Equestria. Figuring you all have magic own don't you think it would be great for her to know where it comes from?" The other world's Twilight's face lit up at this. Scorch adverted her gaze away from me to her Twilight and back to me. She sighed once again "Alright..But do you think you could teach her few basic spells?" She asked, I nodded "No problem" The other Twilight shrieked and jumped onto her hooves stumbling for a moment much like Scorch had when she first got here. "One question though" I turned towards my purple-furred counterpart, noticing a few differences. One she had glasses, two her coat and hair was a smidge darker and she lacked the wings. "What should I call you? So we won't get confused if anyone calls us by our name?" "How about Sci-Twi?" Scorch asked before busting out in laughter as her Twilight shot her a death glare "How about just Sparkle for me?" I nodded and smiled.