//------------------------------// // Q & A // Story: Rainbows times two // by ScarletRhine //------------------------------// “I’m starting to get confused, if she’s Rarity, and the one KO'd in my arms is Rarity as well, then who’s who?” RR asks, still carrying said friend’s body. “I’ve been thinking that as well. But more to it about there being two Sunsets.” Fluttershy asks. “Ya mean t’ tell me there are at least two o’ us runnin’ ‘round?” Applejack asks the group as she looks over at the alien creature from her hiding location. “Someone’s gonna have t’ distract that thing while the other gets it talkin’ fer us to get a clear recordin’. Then we need t’ find someone t’ translate this gibberish into somethin’ we understand.” “Well Sunset, Rarity, and AppleBloom before she...died?” RR says. “You do have a point, some of us have swapped places and others are dealing with some level of fallout.” Sunset says. “Can we at least come up with a plan, this isn’t going to clean itself up on it’s own!” Fluttershy says, loud to the point you can hear her but not truly shouting. RR carefully placed the Rarity in her arms down and arranged her so she would comfortable then said, “I'll take the recorder to the UFO table. But, I want answers to what's going on.” “Depends on what you mean, the current attack from unknown ETs or the whole two Rarity”s thing?” Rarity asks. “I mean the twin Raritys.” “Well, from what Ah can tell, the one we are interactin’ with is a new Friend of Rarity’s named Data, who will become her at some point. The one KOed is Rarity who will soon fade out, or start changing and return to the EM2 Earth.” Applejack explained, trying to still make sense of the matter herself. As they speak Data collapses then Rarity begins to dissolve into glittering sparkles which flow into Data as she becomes Rarity. In the distance the UFO transforms into a cloud of pixels and blows away. Rarity groaned and got to a sitting position and looks around. “And we have only one.” Double R says before looking towards where the “table” was. “Goodbye to the table.” “Seems Data’s time is up..or did we just start to combine?” Rarity says. “You didn't start to combine.” A female voice said as a woman wearing an olive green shirt, dark tan shorts with brown work boots and a fedora walked into view. “You have combined completely.” Before the woman could take another step, two rainbow haired teens block her path. “Hold on lady you're not going anywhere.” They said in unison. “Who are you?” RD demanded. “Who do you work for?” RR demanded. “What do you do?” Twilight asked. “What was that thing?” RR demanded again. “Are you a spy?” Pinkie Pie said from behind AJ causing the farmer to jump. The woman chuckled then said, “In Order. My name is Indiana Do. I mostly work for Canterlot University as a professor of Archaeology, though I do some jobs for Prometheus, an international organization dedicated to exploring other realities, as a troubleshooter. Hmph, answered two questions there. That thing was a probe used by Prometheus to find target realities to visit. No.” Rainbow Dash and Rainbow Rose stepped back a little as Professor Do fielded the questions with no hesitation. The pair looked to Applejack who shook her head then said, “She's not lyin’.”