"So ya telling mah, that in your world, you are an apple farmer?" Applejack asked her counterpart as the other AJ nodded.
"Yeah, one the best farmers in all of Equestria!" Pony Applejack said with her arms crossed as she leaned on one of the lockers, "Impressive, ah?" To her surprise, Applejack didn't see that so impressive. Applejack shrugged as her counterpart raised an eyebrow, "So what do ya' think is more impressive than farming Apples.
"Ah like farming apples just like the next girl," Applejack admitted, "But it's not as fun as playing the bass. When we finish defeating the demon, ah must teach you." Applejack put her hand in front of her double, ready to shake as a symbol for a deal.
"Only if ah'll show ya' how farm apples." Pony Applejack said as she and her double held each other arm.
"It's a deal!" The twins said in unison as they shook hands. As Pony Applejack looked at her double, she noticed someone walking behind her, it was a female, she had blue hair, her skin was blue and she wore a pink shirt with a white collar with a moon in the middle. She looked familiar but Pony Applejack could not put her finger on it.
"Hey, Applejack?" Pony Applejack pointed over the woman and Applejack turned around, to see vice principal Luna.
"Now that's weird," Applejack scratched her chin, "Vice principal Luna usually doesn't arrive at school until 13:00 am."
"Wait a minute!" Pony Applejack pulled her doppelganger aside, "Did ya' just said Luna?"
"Yeah, Luna is our vice principal. Why?"
"Because, in Equestria, she was a villain until we reformed her. Please tell mah you reformed her!"
"No, she wasn't a villain." Applejack understood now what her counterpart was talking about, "So maybe, thanks to the darkness demon, she is now a villain!"
Horrified, the two girls walked closer to Luna's office and they heard Luna talking with someone. "You were right," Luna admitted with a sad sigh, "Tia didn't listen to me, again. Maybe I need to take a more aggressive approach, just like last time." The girls looked at each other at terror.
"Are you sure it's a good idea?" Sunset asked as she knocked the office's door, "You said he was the pony of shadows in Equestria." Before Starlight could answer, the door was opened and in front of the girls stood a small man, half their size. The man was in the mid-'50s to his life, his hair was green and his skin was grey, the man wore a yellow tied shirt and a red tie. "Professor Stygian?" Sunset asked, surprised by the appearance of the man.
"How can I help you?" The man asked calmly. Professor Stygian let the girls in and returned to his chair. The office was a small room, really dark and there were a lot of old pictures. Starlight and Sunset sat in front of Professor Stygian. Starlight was calm, but Sunset was quite nervous, after all, he could be the shadow who attacked her friend.
"Principal Celestia sends us here with this file," Starlight said as she brought the file to Professor Stygian, "She believes you can help us with a problem." Stygian took the file and read it with great interest. His pupils went from left to right and his hands flipped the papers. It took the professor only 15 minutes to read the entire file.
"Very well," Stygian took a small piece of paper out of his desk. Stygian wrote something on the paper and gave it to Starlight, " This is the address to James Life, he is the great-grandson of Jeremiah Life, the founder of Canterlot city. He will help you in your research about the dark story of the city." The girls thanked Stygian as they shook hands. As the girls walked in the halls, Sunset got a text message.
"It's Twilight," Sunset told Starlight as she read the text, "She wants us to meet at her house."
At Twilight's house, the group met with some news. Rarity and Pony Rarity gave the group a new set of clothes. The clothes were identical to the clothes every pair wore, but each one had a symbol in a different color, red and blue. To Rainbow Dashes it was a lightning bolt. To Fluttershys it was a butterfly, to Pinkies it was a balloon, to Raritys it was a diamond and to Twilights, it was a sparkle.
"Blue is for us, red is for our Equestian friends." Rarity said as the girls who came through the portal switched their clothes to those Rarity gave them.
"Good," Twilight said to Raritys as Applejack and Pony Applejack finally arrived.
"Luna is the shadow who attacked Wallflower!" The two said at the same time.
"Are you sure?" Princess Twilight asked, "have you seen her turned into a some kind of a shadow monster?"
"Ah telling ya', that's her!" Applejack told her friend. There was fear in her words, "We heard her talking about taking an aggressive approach against Celestia."
"Well," Twilight said as Rarity and Pony Rarity gave the Applejacks their clothes, "If what you say it's true, we still have no idea how to defeat her."
"It can't be her," Sunset protest against the idea, "There is also Stygian." The girls were confused. "The guidance counselor Celestia sent us is Stygian. And if the darkness took Stygian of Equestria, it could do the same here."
"It could be him or Luna," Starlight agreed, "But before we will act, we must go to visit the one who almost killed the darkness," Starlight took the paper Stygian gave her, "We must visit Life."