Everypony just stared at the twin in shock, myself included… “H-how… do you know my name? How do you know about my father??” I asked actually getting a little scared now.
The twin unicorn didn’t answer… she was still enraged at the fact that I was able to use magic. White Rose however, she just kept a look of concern while looking at her sister. “That stupid, backstabbing, SON OF A--”
“H-hey!!” White Rose exclaimed cutting off her angry sister. “For God’s sake, not in front of Rebecca!”
Twilight just looked down to herself deep in though. “Why does this pony seem so familiar…?” she asked herself.
“Oh shut up!” the twin exclaimed. “I know you’re angry too, we feel the same exact emotions when we’re next to each other!”
“That doesn’t mean she has to hear you curse!”
“God, you really are PATHETIC!” she shouted. “I thought you were just a weakling before, but my god! Show how you feel for once! I know why you’re angry and you know why I’m PISSED OFF!!”
“Yeah, I do know why!!” White responded in anger. “But what exactly can we even do about that!? He’s already dead anyways!”
“Oh don’t even get me started with that. I swear I wish I could bring him back to life just so I could kill him again!” She exclaimed before walking up to me. “How did he die? I want to know every detail of his death!!”
“Okay, stop!” Mom exclaimed. “What the hay is wrong with you!? She’s just a child! What makes you think she wants to relive that moment!?”
“What are you talking about…?” White asked. “I at least want to know that too… how did he die?”
Mom just looked back at me with a look of concern on her face… I just looked up at White and finally responded. “After he told me that my mom was gone… I…”
“Hm…?” White Rose asked tilting her head. “What’s… wrong…?”
“I-I…”
“You what!? Spit it out!” The twin exclaimed.
“I killed him!!” I exclaimed. The entire room just went dead silent…
White Rose looked at me with a look of shock and despair… while the twin just laughed. “I change my mind… I couldn’t ask for a greater punishment for going back on his word!”
“What word!? What are you talking about!?” I exclaimed. “For Celestia’s sake, just give me answers!”
White Rose just sighed. Looking at her I could actually see tears starting to run down her face. “He promised that if I took your place, he wouldn’t do the same to you…”
“Hold up.” Mom started. “What!? He did the same experiment on you!?”
White looked to the side before answering. “I never wanted Rebecca to go through it… when he told me about his idea, I kept begging him not to go through with it…. but he was so hell bent on the idea that I figured he wouldn’t listen to me... So I offered to take your place…”
“B-but…” I stammered. “H-how would you… W-why would you… ”
The twin just groaned. “Because despite being a pathetic weakling, she’s always determined to go out of her way for you.”
Mom looked back at White Rose. Suddenly her eyes widened in realization.
~~~~~~~
“Honestly… we should be thanking you.” Melissa said. “I know Rachel would be happy that you were taking care of Rebecca all this time.”
“What was Rachel like actually…?” Twilight asked levitating the cup to take a sip.
“A very open minded person… someone who always tried to see the good in anyone.”
“Heh… I guess I can see where Rebecca gets her personality from.”
“She always went out of her way to do whatever she could to help someone… especially when it came to her daughter.”
~~~~~~~
“N-no way… No, that’s impossible...” Mom let out.
“Will you stop calling me a weakling all the time!?” White Rose exclaimed. “You know perfectly well that we’re both the same when it comes to strength!”
The twin just laughed in response. “Please don’t tell me you’re going to do this now… I already proved to you multiple times that I was stronger than you!” Without warning, White shot a her own twin this time, pushing her back. “Is that the best you got?” She asked before shooting at white as well… only with her shot, White was sent flying, hitting the wall.
Out of anger, White teleported in front of her sister before levitating her in the air, throwing her against the column… both of them were groaning in pain. “I am not a weakling!”
The sister smirked before her eyes went completely blank. “Very well… prove me wrong.”
In response, White’s eyes did exactly the same. Both of them just started surging with magic. The two ran at each other, clashing their horns together which sent a shockwave that shook the castle. “W-whoa!” Rainbow exclaimed.
“Everyone get close to me!!” Mom exclaimed before pulling me toward her. When everyone went to her, she used a spell to protect us with a magic forcefield.
Eventually the two fighting just pushed each other back. White Rose then shot an enormous beam at her sister. The twin simply made a magical wall that deflected the beam right back at White.
White then teleported out of the way, causing the attack to hit Mom’s forcefield, cracking it a bit. “H-how is their magic this strong!?” Mom stammered starting to sweat a bit, trying her best to keep the forcefield in tact.
Just then, White teleported in front of her sister, using a spell to push her back, sending her flying to hit the wall. Gritting her teeth, the twin sent another beam at White, knocking her down. White just groaned getting up. “Don’t think I’m going to just give up now!” White exclaimed. Suddenly her body started glowing brightly. When the light faded, I could see that her body changed… she wasn’t a pony anymore; she was human...
“...Wait a second…” I let out. “Why does she look so familiar…?” I asked. I couldn’t see her face… Before I could even try to get a better look at her, she teleported again; this time on top of her sister. As soon as she did, she grabbed onto the horn, blocking the flow of magic and also causing her a lot of pain… But for some reason, White was screaming in pain as well. Eventually the pain was too much for her and she just let go of the horn.
As soon as she did, her sister changed form as well; changing into a human. She grabbed White Rose by the throat, pinning her to the wall. “What’s the matter?? Are you faltering already??” White just choked in response.”Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing… you’re trying to prove yourself to her aren’t you?”
In response, White grabbed onto the sister’s hand, teleporting them both high up in the air before pushing down, slamming her into the ground. As soon as she did though, I could see both of them coughing blood. “STOP!!” I shouted from inside the cracked forcefield. “Mom, let me out please!” Mom just looked down at me, staring for a moment. “Mom…!”
“Okay…” Mom responded before lowering the forcefield. I just quickly ran toward the two.
“Okay!?” Rainbow exclaimed. “She’s going to get herself killed!!”
“No she won’t…” Mom responded calmly. “Just trust her.”
“Stop fighting!!” I exclaimed getting close to them. As I got closer, I could see that they both completely stopped. White slowly got up, off of her sister. I stopped running and just slowly approached them. “Why are you--...”
But when White looked at me…
…
My eyes were shot wide open… my jaw was dropped completely… tears were dripping down my face… slowly starting to stream.
She looked back at me with a look of sadness and regret… as well as her own tears dripping down her face. “Rebecca…” was the only thing she could let out.
“M… M… Mommy…?” Was the only thing I could say.
“Mommy!?” everypony exclaimed except for Twilight.
“I… I knew it… I don’t know how she’s here… but I knew it was her…” Twilight said.
My mind was going blank. I was in utter shock and confusion. “B-but… I… I thought you… you were…”
Before I had the time to even form a finished sentence, she quickly lowered herself to me, hugging me in a tight embrace with one of her hands placed on the back of my head… trembling as she cried over me. “I’m so sorry Rebecca… I wanted to come back… I wanted to tell you everything… I really did, but I never wanted you to go through all this…”
I… I just lost it… I completely fell too my knees wrapping my arms around her. The next thing I knew, I was just crying out loudly.
“Can somepony explain what in the hay is goin’ on!?” Applejack exclaimed.
Not answering Applejack, Twilight could only look at the two of us… feeling happy but at the same time a little sad too.
While hugging my mother I could hear the other person taking a deep sigh. I looked over at them… and she looked exactly like Mom. “W-wait… huh…? You really had a twin sister…?” I asked looking at her aggravated expression. “Are you my aunt…?”
“If only it were that convenient.” she groaned rolling her eyes. My mom that I was hugging onto just glared back at her in response.
“But I don’t understand. All this time I thought you were dead!” I exclaimed to Mom still with tears in my eyes. “I went to our world and even saw your grave!!! What happened!?!?”
Mom just let go of me and sighed. “It’s a long story…”
Everypony just walked over to us, most of them still looking really confused. “We’d all like to know what happened, Rachel...” Twilight said with everypony looking at her as soon as she said the name.
“Well I don’t want to hear the story, nor do we have time to tell it.” The twin said interrupting us. “We all agreed on a time to meet, and if we don’t leave now, we’re going to be late.”
“What?? We only just got Rebecca back and you already want to leave her!?” Mom exclaimed.
“Is that too confusing for you!? If you want to take her with us, then fine. But we have to leave now! Let’s go!”
“No!” Mom shouted. “I already told you that plan was a bad idea. And now it’s even worse knowing that our daughter is here too!”
“Our!?” Everypony including myself exclaimed.
“If you won’t come with me, I swear to God…” The twin said clenching her fists.
“You’ll do what!?” Rachel exclaimed. “You already know that you can’t kill me! Nothing you say will change my mind!” Without warning, the twin teleported to Rachel, pushing me aside before placing a hand on Rachel’s head, seeming to use a spell on her… When she finished, Rachel just fell over, passing out.
“Mom!!!” I shouted running back to her.
“Since you refuse to continue with what we all agreed on, you won’t be needing any memory of that plan anymore… have fun with Rebecca.” She just looked back at me and sighed. “Stay safe…” With that, the twin teleported away.
I just looked down at Mom… and then back up at my pony mother. “Come on, let’s help her.” Twilight said, levitating my mother… I walked over to Twilight hugging her tight. She just looked down at me and placed a hoof on my head. “Let’s go sweetie…”
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??? ???...
“Ugh… we should be getting close by now…” Flim said leading the way. “I just hope they aren’t angry at us for being late…”
“Maybe they forgot to meet us here?” his brother responded. “After all I don’t see them anywhere…”
“Or maybe you two idiots need to open your eyes.” The twin said. She walked up to the two in her human form. “You better have good news for me… Or I can promise you it won’t end well for either of you.”
“I… I’m sorry but we did try our best… we would’ve sold more of the drug but--” Flim said sweating bullets before being smacked across the face.
“I was wrong, I was the idiot for entrusting you morons with this job!” The twin exclaimed. “I never told you to sell the drug!! They were supposed to be given away!!” She exclaimed before her hands started glowing.
“W-wait! Please just listen! It was--”
Without another word, the twin grabbed onto both their horns and removed any recent memories they had before tossing their passed out bodies to the street. “What a couple of disappointments…” Tirek groaned approaching the twin. He just looked at the human in confusion. “Tell me… where is your sister…?”
“Let’s just say she won’t be aiding in our plan any longer.”
“Hmph…” Tirek shrugged. “It’s not like she was any useful anyways… But what will happen with our plan now?”
“Nothing.” the twin said flatly. “I made sure to take care of her before leaving… There is one change however.”
“...And what change would that be?”
“There is another human here in Equestria… She’s my daughter. I don’t want any harm to come to her.”
“You have my word…” Tirek said offering a bow.
In response, the twin got in Tirek’s face with her eyes blank. “I mean it… if any harm comes to her, you’re dead… do I make myself clear?”
“Crystal…” Tirek responded. “I doubt that one or two humans will be a problem anyways.”
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Back at the Castle of the Two Sisters…
Everyone was looking down at Rachel who was on the ground, still unconscious. “Mom… please wake up…” I said shaking her slightly.
“Is… anyone else completely lost?” Fluttershy asked.
Everyone besides me and Twilight just nodded in agreement. “Twilight… how did you know who she was?” Applejack asked.
“Well… Crystal’s friend’s mother told me a little bit about her… It was more of a hunch...” Twilight answered. “And Crystal’s reaction when she saw her face confirmed it...”
“You let her go based off of a hunch!?” Rainbow exclaimed. “And what if you were wrong?!”
Before Twilight was able to answer, all of us noticed a stir coming from Rachel. “Mom…?” I said looking at her as her eyes started to open up.
Rachel just groaned sitting up to hold her head. “Where am I…?”
“You kind of passed out after your sister did something to you… something about your--” I just get cut off by Rachel hugging me tightly crying.
“Oh thank god… I was so afraid that seeing you again was all just a dream…” Rachel said not letting go.
I just softly pushed Rachel off. “Mom, your sister did something to you… she said something about your memories of a plan…?”
“...Oh god.” Rachel said thinking back. “No!!”
“W-what? what is it??” I asked helping her up.
“She probably erased part of my memory… dang it!!”
“Mom… what happened?” I asked. “Who is she?”
Rachel looked at me before sighing. “I guess I should start explaining… Hell, where do I even start?”
~~~~~~
“What do you think you’ll accomplish by doing this to her!?” Rachel exclaimed. “Our daughter isn’t some lab rat you can experiment on for your stupid fantasy!”
“It’s not a fantasy! In fact it’s so close to becoming a reality! I’ve actually tested my research on multiple subjects: All of them with promising results!”
“Other subjects…? Just how far have you taken this!?”
“Does it really matter!?”
“The answer is no! As long as I’m her mother, you will never be allowed to do this to her!”
He just looked at Rachel and crossed his arms in response. “This isn’t the end of our conversation.”
“Jonathan, for God’s sake! Think of what it will do to her! Think of how much it will change her life if something goes wrong!”
“Rachel I have gone too far to just give up on this. And on top of that, nobody else will offer their assistance… I will continue no matter what you say.” Jonathan said sternly.
Rachel just glared at Jonathan before looking down to think for a second. “Let me take her place. Do the experiment on me and leave her out of it!”
“You want me to do it with you…”
“Of course I don’t want to do it! But if it’ll keep you from doing it to our daughter, then I’ll do anything. Promise me you won’t do it to her!” At this, he agreed.
~~~~~~~
“Wait. Stop.” I said interrupting Rachel. “If he was doing all of this, why didn’t you just call the police?? Why didn’t you tell anyone??”
“Rebecca, believe me, that was the first thing on my mind… but then I realized that if I went to the police, they probably wouldn’t believe me or just think I was insane before dismissing the report… That goes the same for even telling my closest friend.” Rachel answered. “Plus… at the time I did still love him so it was also the last thing I wanted to do…”
“But Lexi and her parents saw me using magic…”
At this, Rachel looked at me with a shocked expression on her face. “You showed your friend…? And her parents too??”
“Well I did tell them about Equestria at first but as soon as I did, they started looking at me like I was insane…”
“Does… anyone else know…?”
I just smiled nervously. “U-um… possibly the entire school that I used to go to…?”
Rachel just held her head. “Sweetie… I know honesty is everything but seriously!”
“Sorry…” I said before looking down.
Rachel just knelt down to me placing her hand on my head. “No, I’m sorry… I overreacted… You were just doing what you felt was right.”
I just looked down still thinking. “Alright… now how does your twin sister come in? How come this is the first time I’ve met her?”
“Rebecca, I don’t have a real sister.” Rachel answered.
“Huh??” everypony including myself said at the same time.
“Totally lost!!” Pinkie exclaimed.
Rachel looked at everypony. “Well let me just continue then…”
~~~~~~~
Rachel and Jonathan both entered a lab. It had been the same lab that he was using for his experiments for some time now. Looking around, Rachel could see a couple of needles that were just lying on the table. “And what are those…?” Rachel asked.
“It’s what we’ll be experimenting with.” he answered.
Rachel just sat down in a chair by the table. “So what exactly is supposed to happen if I take this?”
“Well, I had a theory… We as humans now, obviously can’t perform any acts of miracles such as levitating objects or anything similar to that... Our brain prevents us from from using a certain part of it; at least not at the same time as the rest of it. With this drug, it should--”
“Let me get this straight; what you have there is something that would affect a person’s brain? And you wanted to test that on our daughter!?”
“I wouldn’t test it if I knew it was dangerous! I told you, I had other subjects with promising results!”
“And where are they now!?”
“...They refused to continue any further… They were afraid of any side effects that they might have gotten already; but please hear me out! They walked out of this laboratory completely unharmed! Some of them were even able to levitate certain objects… but it didn’t last very long.”
“Well maybe you should’ve taken that as a hint that this is wrong!!... What happened to the man I married years ago… the man I married would never be this obsessed!!”
“I’m doing this for the sake of our future, Rachel!”
“Is it ‘our’ future? Or is it the future for the people?” Rachel asked. “Plus, how do you even know that the people are even ready for this sort of thing?”
Jonathan just took Rachel’s hand and gripped it tightly. “Please Rachel… for once, just trust me with this.”
Rachel looked at her husband's eyes for a few seconds before taking a deep breath, putting the elastic on her arm to ready herself for the injection. Jonathan just took the needle and readied it. Rachel took another deep breath… this time holding her breath as the needle went into her arm. When he was done, Rachel took the elastic off. “Alright, now what do I do?”
Before he said anything, Jon took out some blocks that he had. “Try to levitate these.”
Rachel skeptically looked over at the blocks before slowly motioning her hand toward the blocks, waiting for something to happen.
…
But nothing did. Rachel just put her hand back down. “I don’t think it worked.”
“Hmm…” Jon said to himself. “The last person who tested this one did say the same… he said it only gave him headaches. I wanted to see if I at least improved this one, but oh well.”
“If I start getting migraines, I’m going to beat you upside the head with a Tylenol bottle.” Rachel said putting on the elastic again. “Alright, what’s next?”
Jon went and picked up the other needle getting it ready. “This next one is without a doubt the most promising…” he said before injecting it into Rachel’s arm. “The last person who used this was able to move the blocks to the other side of the table.”
“That’s it?”
“It’s still an improvement.” he shrugged.
Rachel just took another deep breath before pointing her hand at the blocks again… and to her surprise she was able to levitate them this time. “Holy…”
“Yes yes yes!” Jon exclaimed writing down his notes. “See how long you can hold it!”
When he asked to, Rachel lifted up the rest of the blocks, moving them around the room; practically with ease. “This is incredible!” Rachel exclaimed.
“With the way I was levitating the blocks, it felt so natural to me… it was like…”
~~~~~~~
“It was like… what, Mom?” I asked… while Pinkie Pie was eating popcorn as Rachel was telling the story. Rachel just looked at me and smiled chuckling a bit. “What…?”
“You know… it’s funny. I was going to tell you this when you were a little bit older… It was going to be a little mother daughter secret that was just between us…”
“What kind of secret?”
Rachel smirked at me. “I think I’m going to need a little help continuing this story… help from a friend in Canterlot.”
“...Huh?” Twilight and I asked at the same time.
“It’ll be a little surprise.” she winked.
I just gave her the most mused look I could possibly give her. “Don’t you think I’ve had enough surprises today? Was seeing you still alive not enough??”
“Trust me… you’ll want to know this.” Rachel said before changing her form back into a unicorn.
“How… do you do that??” Twilight asked.
“Just a spell I learned… I’ll tell you more about it after we get to Canterlot.” Rachel said levitating me onto her back. I just wrapped my arms tightly around her.
Twilight kind of just kind of cleared her throat before approaching us. “Should we be going then?”
“When does the next train to Canterlot leave?” Rachel asked.
“Not for another hour or so I’m afraid…” Rarity answered.
“Well that’s no problem.” Rachel responded. “With two unicorns, an alicorn, and a human able to use magic, we should all be able to just teleport to where we need to go.”
“Er…” Rarity stammered a bit. “I’m terribly sorry darling, but I’m afraid my magic isn’t that strong…”
“And I only just learned how to teleport on my own recently.” I added.
“Hmmm…” Rachel thought to herself. “Alright, Princess Twilight, touch your horn to mine.”
“What? Uhhh… okay.” Twilight said before awkwardly walking up to Rachel, doing as she asked. “Wait.” She said before levitating one of the books that were on the table over to her. “Okay, continue.”
“Now Rebecca, place your hand on both our horns.” Rachel said looking back at me. I just did as she said as well. “Now hold onto us everypony!” Everypony just looked each other before all placing a hoof on both my moms. Before we knew what was going on, Rachel’s horn started reacting with Twilight’s. Then it started reacting to my hand as well. Without saying another word, everypony that was in the room was teleported to Canterlot… in front of Celestia’s castle. “And here we are!”
“Wait… huh?” I ask getting off of Rachel. “What are we doing at Celestia’s castle…?”
“Something I should’ve done when I first got here…” Rachel sighed actually sweating a little bit before entering the castle. I quickly ran ahead to show the guards that she was with us. “What are you doing sweetie?”
“What do you mean?? You just walked in! These guards take their jobs seriously you know!” I exclaimed.
“Really? I don’t see any issue.” Rachel chuckled a bit.
“Huh…?” I asked looking at the guard ponies… and it was just like she said… No one was really bothered by her other than a few surprised looks that some of them gave. “Okay then…” I said scratching the back of my head. “Mom…???”
“Patience Rebecca.” Rachel responded.
We just kept walking through the hall, until eventually we saw Princess Luna heading the same direction. “Hi Princess Luna!” I exclaimed waving at her.
“Hm?” Luna asked turning to our direction. “What are you all doing here?”
“Well the reason we’re here is because… um… White Rose said she wanted to visit someone here…” I answered.
“White… Rose…?” Luna asked tilting her head. “I don’t think I’ve heard that name before… Who is she here to see?”
“Uh… That’s a--” I started.
“Princess Celestia.” Rachel answered cutting me off.
“My sister?...” Luna asked. “For what reason?”
“Again… What is going on!?” I asked again.
“I have to speak to her about something important…” Rachel answered.
“Well… I was just about to see her if you just follow me…” Luna answered.
Rachel not answering my question, we just followed Luna to the throne room… when we got there, we could see Celestia looking through some scrolls. “Hmmm…” Celestia said to herself, taking a quill writing something in the scroll.
“Er… sister, we have visitors…” Luna said.
“Hm…?” Celestia asked looking away from her paperwork… before letting out an audible gasp as her eyes widened… she quickly got up from her throne, running toward Rachel. She just stopped and stared for a moment. “Is it… really you??” Celestia asked with tears in her eyes.
Rachel just smiled also with tears in her eyes. “It’s good to see you again my friend…”
“Rose…!” Celestia exclaimed placing a hoof on Rachel while she did the same to Celestia. “B-But how? How are you here?? In that world I heard you were killed…!”
“A lot has happened, princess…” Rachel responded.
Rachel slowly looked back at me… at my dumbfounded confused expression… as well as Twilight’s. “Can you please tell me what’s going on now!!??” I screamed. “How are you friends with Princess Celestia!? You haven’t been in Equestria that long, right!?”
“Well…” Celestia started. “I suppose we should explain…”
“There’s something else I didn’t know…?” I asked looking at Celestia.
“I was planning to tell you when you were older… but I didn’t know that you were actually still alive…” she said directly at Rachel.
“Sister… who is this??” Luna asked.
“Even Luna doesn’t know??” I ask seriously starting to lose my cool… Oh, who am I kidding? My cool is long gone!!
“It would make sense for my sister to not know who she is… she was on the moon when your mother was a professor here in Canterlot.”
“...Huh?” Twilight and I said at the same time.
Rachel just sighed. "There is... something that I never told you or your father..." Rachel said looking at me.
"What is it...?" I asked.
"W-well..." Rachel stammered. "I didn't exactly have an American citizenship..."
"...Huh?"
"I had an... Equestrian citizenship…”
"What... what do you mean?" I ask starting to get the idea… but that’s… no, thats…!
Rachel just looked at me straight in the eyes "Rebecca... I was born in Equestria... making you half pony."
. . . . . .
“W-wha…”
“WHAT!?!?” Everypony, excluding Celestia and Rachel exclaimed.
I… I feel light headed…
Suddenly Pinkie’s tail started twitching. “Somepony catch her, she’s gonna--!!” Pinkie exclaimed. But it was too late. I had already fainted.