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// 17: Spike accidentally a good 
// Story: Dawn of The Ice King 
// by KingdomBrony16 
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-The next night-

Twilight came out of the portal brushing herself off, a split second later Spike followed, mumbling how he'll never get used to that.

"That was crazy, who'd have thought that we would end up running into that version of you?" Spike asked utterly dumbfounded.

"I was just as surprised as you were Spike, but I'm glad we worked things out before they got out of control. It still amazes me that that world has their own version of Discord who's not only more powerful but also female."

"Yeah that was… weird…" Spike shuddered at the thought.

"Well let's just be glad our Discord is reformed."

"Hey Twilight, I was thinking, is that the world Chris came from?"

"Mmmm no I don't think so, he said his world had no magic whatsoever and even that world has some magic." She looked back at the portal and the contraption connected to it when a thought raced through her mind, "Hey Spike, go to our room and make sure you go to sleep I'm going to discuss something with Princess Celestia and I might be gone for a while."

"Aww alright…" He made his way out and down the hall, Twilight went down a different hall to Celestia's Room to which she knocked on the door, "Princess are you still awake?"

Celestia called through the door, "Yes Twilight, come in." Celestia was sitting at her desk wearing reading glasses looking over mail, a lot of it was of political matters, and quite a few were from foals that had to write a letter to their 'favorite' princess. And some were, as usual, letters that confessed unyielding love. She always loved reading these as while a tad creepy sometimes they still made her laugh with how hard some of her ponies tried.

"I'm sorry to disturb you Princess but I have a… theory on how to get Chris home."

Celestia would expect many a thing from Twilight about her theories and such but this one, no, she put the letter she was currently reading down and took off her glasses, "Really, well get comfortable and tell me your theory." She turned in her chair as Twilight took a seat on her bed.

"Well you see… as you know I just came back from the other world and Spike asked me if that was Chris' world, which is highly unlikely, but it did get me thinking, if I can forcibly open a portal to that world by using something that is connected to it…" She trailed off.

"Then what's to stop you from using something from Chris' world to open a portal there? Twilight you are a genius." Celestia praise making Twilight glow with pride.

"I'm sure you could've come up with it Princess, but the only problem is that I don't have anything specific from his world that we could just reuse."

"That means our best chance to test that out is tomorrow when he comes down here for his announcement. But good job Twilight, I'm sure Chris will be happy about this." Celestia stood up and patted her shoulder, "But I am tired, so I will have to ask you to excuse me, if you wish to further work on this subject, you can go talk to Luna, she is very well practiced in portal magic, more so than even I."

Twilight quickly stood up, "Of course Princess, have a good sleep, I'll see you tomorrow." She then quickly headed out of her room.

Celestia sighed and a frown replaced the smile that she had, "Oh dear, I really am happy for Chris, but if he decides to stay in his own world… It will pain me so to lose such a dear friend, it will pain all of us to lose such a dear friend. But I only wish for you make the choice that makes you the most happy, and who knows maybe much like this world and the other world you'll be able to go back and forth… that’d for the best of both worlds, but who knows who knows…" Celestia yawned and changed into her sleepwear before climbing into bed and going to sleep.

Twilight on the other hand with the help of Luna was up all night working out the math if her theory would really work, writing down all the possibilities. And eliminating the ones that seemed the most outlandish, Twilight secretly wished she had something from a different world outside of the other world to test it on but she was just going to have to put her faith in the written world. Before she knew it it was morning and it was the day that the world knew of Chris' Prince Hood and the trials would commence.