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// Chapter 1: Rainbow Comet 
// Story: Your Name Across The Multiverse 
// by DATONETWIxDASHFAN 
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“Remember that a person's name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language." Dale Carnegie


Chapter 1: Rainbow Comet

The sun started to set as Rainbow Dash was hovering in the sky and stared back to the open field as her best friend and the princess of friendship, Twilight Sparkle, was using her alicorn magic to lower the sun and raise the moon like she had been doing since taking over. Dash returned to the field and patted Twi on the back.

"Hey, not bad! You didn't toss the moon into next week!" Jokey smiled Dash as Twilight sighed and turned to the cyan pegasus.

"Rainbow Dash, we've talked about this. You know I have more experience now," stated Twilight as Dash rolled her eyes and turned away.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got a few months of experience," teased Dash as she looked back at her close friend.

"One year and a half," corrected Twilight, as the alicorn was using her magic to carefully put the moon in the right spot. After putting the moon in the right spot, Twilight turned her magic to her camping equipment, but she could see Dash was having problems setting her tent up as it kept falling over. "Dash, why didn't you use the manual?"

"Because I wanted to test how good my hooves are at setting up a tent," replied Rainbow Dash as the tent fell again. "Okay, maybe it's because I'm not good at this."

Twilight sighed and helped set up Dash's tent and then her own. With that done, Dash started the campfire while Twilight took out her notebook and parts of her telescope from her camping bag.

Dash looked on as Twilight started to put the telescope together, but she noticed she was kind of upset about something. "Hey, Twilight. Is everything alright? You seem... a bit upset," asked Dash as she walked over to Twilight and sat next to her.

"I just miss hanging out with you and the rest of the girls. You guys have been busy since we went our separate ways in following our dreams," answered Twilight as Dash could feel that same loneliness.

"Yeah, me too," replied Dash as they both watched the glowing moon above them. "Kind of sucks that no one else could join us tonight. Pinkie is helping Cheese Sandwich at a big party for the Queen of the Hippogriffs; Rarity is doing a fashion tour, and AJ is helping her with it; and Fluttershy is on a trip with Discord, something about a sick-dimensional cloud monster...or something like that. Good thing I was on leave when you sent that letter. I needed a break from being the new captain of the Wonderbolts after Spitfire stepped down after getting married."

Twilight turned to the night sky and could see the reason they were here, as she could see it in the distance and getting bigger. "Well, at least you're here. I can't think of anyone else I would rather watch the comet with than my best friend."

"Thanks, Twi," replied Dash as she hugged Twilight. As Twilight did the same, Dash could see the comet passing closer to them and getting bigger. "So, Twi, what's this comet called again?"

"Rainbow Dash! You must have learned about the Rainbow Comet in school?" scolded Twilight as she glared at her best friend.

"Oh, THAT one?" asked Dash as she was nervous as she didn't know and rubbed the back of her neck.

"Dash!" sighed Twilight as she took out a book and read out loud about the comet. "The Rainbow Comet, named by Starry Sea, who first saw the comet, is a comet that flies near Equestria every 750 years! It was called Rainbow Comet because of the rainbow tail it leaves behind! Like all comets, as Rainbow Comet nears the sun, its volatile compounds, those with low boiling points, such as water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and-"

Dash toned out the egghead talk, and helped set up the telescope and cut Twilight off from talking anymore. "I get it, Twilight. It's a rare event to see."

Twilight glared at Dash again but could tell she was happy to be there as she handed her the telescope.

"Sorry, it's just nice to talk with someone, and I know a lot about this."

"Nah, you're good," said Dash as Twilight took the telescope and adjusted it.

"Okay, we should be able to see the comet better now," explained Twilight as she was looking through the telescope and was in awe of what she saw. "Rainbow Comet looks amazing; its tail is beautiful!"

Twilight let Dash look through the telescope, and she quickly stopped looking. "Please, my rainbow trail is much cooler and bigger!"

Twilight ugh loudly while Dash was laughing her butt off. "That wasn't funny, Dash."

"Yeah, it was," grinned Dash as she flew into the sky and made a loop. "My rainbow trail is much cooler."

"Yeah, yeah." smiled Twilight as she rolled her eyes and looked up at the sky, seeing the comet was flying closer, and a few hours later, the comet was bigger and leaving behind its trademark rainbow trail in the night sky, so that even Dash was amazed by it.

"Okay, I take back what I said before!" admitted Dash as she was floating next to Twilight. "This is way cooler!"

"I know," agreed Twilight as the two looked on at the beautiful comet that was passing close by.

A few minutes later, Twilight could hear a cracking noise, almost like a window breaking, but she couldn't pinpoint the noise as it suddenly stopped. "Dash, did you hear that?"

"Heard what?" asked Dash as she turned to Twilight, but before Twilight could say anything, she could see a small flash of light coming from the sky.

"What was that?" asked Twilight as she used her magic and levitated her telescope.

"Was it a shooting star or something?" asked Dash as she flew into the sky. She could see what the flash was and noticed something heading towards the ground.

"No, that's part of the comet!" shouted Twilight as she used her wings and flew next to Rainbow Dash and pointed to the falling chunk. "Rainbow, we got to find that piece of the comet! This is the first time in history that we can study the rocky and icy surface of Rainbow Comet!"

"Right, but where is the piece landing?" asked Dash as the fallen piece was flying fast, making it difficult to see as it landed somewhere in the forest in front of them.

"It looks like it ended not too far away from us! Let's go!" ordered Twilight as she took her book bag and soared into the air, heading to the impact crater.

"Hey, wait up, princess egghead!" yelled Dash as she followed Twilight, but unknown to both of them, the area around them started to flicker, a prism effect appeared around the area, and more cracking noise could be heard as the area was cracking.

"Why couldn't you teleport us there?" shouted Dash as she was behind Twilight.

"Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and we need to document it!" stated Twilight as she was getting closer to the impact zone and writing down notes in her notebook.

"Whatever..." whispered Dash as she increased her speed, passing Twilight and landing in the impact sight first. She could see the small crater and a colored shard at the bottom. "This must be it!" Dash walked down the crater and looked at the reflecting shard as it gave out a colorful aura.

Twilight finally arrived and asked Dash if the piece was intact.

"Yeah, it looks like it. What do we do now?" asked Dash as Twilight was writing down notes and looked up from her notebook.

"Well, first we document the event, then we study the shard's composition, and then we..."

"BORING!" shouted Dash. "I'm going to touch it!"

"Wait, no, don't! We don't know what touching it would do! There are no studies on it! Rainbow, we need to study the-"

Dash wasn't listening and touched the shard.

"Too!" shouted Dash in an echo.

"...late?" confusedly shouted Dash as she could see a tall creature with long blue hair and wearing blue clothes, as it was leaning in front of her, and was also touching the same shard. "What?" said Dash and the creature at the same time with the same voice as they stared at each other.

"Dash!?" yelled Twilight as she could see the area in front of Dash cracking like a broken window, but at the same time, she could hear her voice from the other side and was saying the very same thing as she was saying.

"Dashie!? You need to step away from the shard! We don't know what-" yelled a short black-haired creature as she was wearing a red jacket, blue jeans, and red sneakers as the crack window got bigger to reveal her and Twilight to each other.

"Dashie?" repeated Rainbow as she and the human girl, known as Dashie, stepped away from the shard and could see the cracking effect around them, and the two could see prism-like effects around the area.

Suddenly, a glitch and static-like effect flashed out across the area...





The sun started to set and became night as Dashiell was looking at the starry sky and stared back to the open field as her best friend and the smartest girl in her town (and maybe the whole world), 

Twilah Finkelstein, as she was on her phone as her family was calling ever since the biggest college in America, accepted her. Dashie returned to the field and patted Twi on the back after she finally ended the hour-long call. "Hey, not bad! You didn't toss the phone into next week!" jokey smiled Dashie as Twilah sighed and turned to the blue-haired friend.

"Dashiell Reinbold, we've talked about this. You know I have more experience talking to my family now, thanks to you and the other girls," stated Twilah as Dashie rolled her eyes and turned away.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got a few years of experience talking to us," teased Dashie as she looked back at her close friend.

"Nine years," corrected Twilah as she carefully put the phone in the right spot in her backpack. After putting the phone in the right spot, Twilah turned her eyes to her camping equipment but could see Dashie was having problems setting her tent up, as it kept falling over. "Dashie, why didn't you use the manual?"

"Because I wanted to test how good my hands are at setting up a tent," replied Dashie as the tent fell again. "Okay, maybe it's because I'm not good at this."

Twilah sighed and helped set up Dashie's tent and then her own. With that done, Dashie started the campfire while Twilah took out her notebook and parts of her telescope from her camping bag.

Dashie looked on as Twilah started to put the telescope together, but she noticed she was kind of upset about something.

"Hey, Twi. Is everything alright? You seem... a bit upset," asked Dashie as she walked over to Twilah and sat next to her.

"I just can't stop thinking about how you turned down that track and field scholarship. The rest of the girls have their dreams for something. Yet, you haven't, and we’re going our separate ways soon. I don't like it!" answered Twilah, as Dashie could see how upset she was.

"Sorry, Twilah, I know you wanted me to take it, but I just couldn't. I don't want to run all my life... I want something else. I'm just not sure right now what that is." replied Dashie as they both watched the glowing moon above them. Dashie quickly changed the subject to "Kind of sucks no one else could join us tonight. Penny is helping Alfred on a big party gig for the mayor's family in another town; Rachel is going on that fashion tour, and AJ went with her; and Faith is on a small trip with her boyfriend, something about helping his brother on something. Good thing I didn't have plans tonight when you sent that text. I needed a break from my parents anyway."

Twilah turned to the night sky and could see the reason they were here, as she could see it in the distance and getting bigger. "Well, at least you're here. I can't think of anyone else I would rather watch the comet with than my stupid best friend."

"Thanks, Twi," replied a blushing Dashie as she hugged Twilah and could see the comet passing closer to them and getting bigger. "So, Twi, what's this comet called again?"

"Dashiell! You must have learned about the Rainbow Comet in class," scolded Twilah as she glared at her best friend.

"Oh, THAT one?" asked Dashie as she was nervous as she didn't had a answer and rubbed the back of her neck.

"Dashiell!" sighed Twilah as she took out a book and read out loud about the comet. "The Rainbow Comet, named by Sarah Moore, who first discovered the comet, is a comet that flies near Earth every 75 years! It was called Rainbow Comet because of the weird rainbow tail it leaves behind! Like all comets, as Rainbow Comet nears the sun, its volatile compounds, those with low boiling points, such as water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and-"

Dashie toned out the egghead talk, helped set up the telescope and cut Twilah off from talking. "I get it, Twilah. It's a rare event to see."

Twilah glared at Dashie again but could tell she was happy to be there as she handed her the telescope. "Sorry, it's just nice to talk with you, and I know a lot about this."

"Nah, your good girl." blushed Dashie as Twilah took the telescope and adjusted it.

"Okay, we should be able to see the comet better now," explained Twilah as she was looking through the telescope and was in awe of what she saw. "Rainbow Comet looks amazing; its tail is beautiful!"

Twilah let Dashie look through the telescope, who quickly stopped looking. "Please, my rainbow ponytail was much cooler and longer too!"

Twilah ugh loudly while Dashie was laughing her butt off. "That wasn't funny, Dashie; it was still weird that you dyed your hair like that but I did like it tho."

"Yeah, it was." nervously coughed Dashie as she untied her ponytail, letting her long blue hair free. "Blue is much cooler."

"Yeah, yeah." smiled Twilah as she rolled her eyes and looked up at the sky, seeing the comet was flying closer, and a few hours later, the comet was bigger and leaving behind its trademark rainbow trail in the night sky, that even Dashie was amazed by it.

"Okay, I take back what I said before!" admitted Dashie as she was standing next to Twilah. "This comet does it way cooler than my ponytail!"

"I know," agreed Twilah as the two looked on at the beautiful comet that was passing close by.

A few minutes later, Twilah could hear a cracking noise, almost like a window breaking, but she couldn't pinpoint the noise as it suddenly stopped. "Dashie, did you hear that?"

"Heard what?" asked Dashie as she turned to Twilah, but before she could say anything, she could see a small flash of light coming from the sky.

"What was that?" asked Twilah as she picked up her telescope.

"Was it a shooting star or something?" asked Dashie as she tried to look harder in the sky, she couldn't see what made the flash, but something was heading towards the ground.

"No, that's part of the comet!" shouted Twilah as she rushed over and pulled on Dashie's jacket to be eye level with her and pointed to the falling chunk. "Dashiell, we got to find that piece of the comet! This is the first time in history that we can study the rocky and icy surface of Rainbow Comet!"

"Right, but where is the piece landing?" asked Dashie as she was blushing hard as the fallen piece was flying by fast, making it difficult to see as it landed somewhere in the woods in front of them.

"It looks like it ended not too far away from us! Let's go!" ordered Twilah as she took her book bag and ran off, heading to the impact crater.

"Hey, wait up, egghead!" yelled Dashie as she followed Twilah, but unknown to both of them, the area around them started to flicker, a prism effect appeared around the area, and more cracking noise could be heard as the area was cracking.

"Why couldn't we use our bikes?" shouted Dashie as she was behind her friend.

"Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, we need to document it!" stated Twilah as she was getting closer to the impact zone and writing down notes in her notebook.

"Whatever..." whispered Dashie as she increased her speed, passing Twilah and stopping in the impact sight. She could see the small crater and a colored shard at the bottom. "This must be it!" Dashie walked down the crater and looked at the reflecting shard as it gave out a colorful aura.

Twilah finally arrived and asked Dashie if the piece was intact.

"Yeah, it looks like it. What do we do now?" asked Dashie as Twilah was writing down notes and looked up from her notebook.

"Well, first we document the event, then we study the shard's composition, and then we..."

"BORING!" shouted Dashie. "I'm going to touch it!"

"Wait, no, don't! We don't know if it's safe to touch! There are no studies on it! Reinbold, we need to study the "
Dashie wasn't listening and touched the shard.

"Too!" shouted Dashie in an echo.

"...late?" confusedly shouted Dashie as she could see a small rainbow-maned pony with wings as it was standing in front of her, who was also touching the same shard. "What?" said Dashie and the pony at the same time as they stared at each other.

"Dashie!" yelled Twilah as she could see the area in front of Dashie being like a broken window, but at the same time, she could hear her voice from the other side and was saying the same thing as she was speaking.

"Dash!? You need to step away from the shard! We don't know what-" yelled a purple-maned unicorn, but with wings, as the cracked window got bigger to reveal her and Twilah as well.

"Dash?" repeated Dashie as she and the blue pony, known as Dash, stepped away from the shard and could see the broken window effect around them, and the two could see prism-like effects around the area.

Suddenly, glitch and static-like effects flashed out across the area, and all four found themselves being blasted by a bright, colorful light from the shard as it started to float in the air and slowly split into two. The girls all screamed as they were blasted away, and as they were flying back, they were creating solid colors of afterimages as they flew back, but their main selves were sucked back into each of the shards, and the shards shattered across time and space as the window crack vanished.



"WHAT THE HELL!" shouted an older-sounding Dash as she stood up and dusted herself off.


"Where am I? I was heading off to save..." She stopped talking as a laser sight beamed on her head and looking where it came from, she saw a female figure walking out of the forest wearing a futuristic sneaking suit and pointing a sniper rifle as the eye visors lit up purple.

"You're a long way from home, commander," stated the futuristic woman as she lowered her weapon. "Thought you were on a mission with the captain? Why are you here on the mission and alone on the planet?"

"Commander?" confusedly stated the blue-skin woman as she was scratching her head and looking around and noticed the forest was different with changing colors and the futuristic gear the woman had on as she walked up to her. "I'm a commander?"

"You're messing with me, right?" asked the woman as she was walking up to the blue woman, but quickly stopped as she read the woman's mind, "Wait, you, not the commander, but you look just like her?"

"The name is Rain, Rain Dash," replied Rain as she pointed her rifle that was around her back and aimed at the woman's head. "Take off the face mask; are you part of the Sunburst group?"

"I don't know who this sunburst is, and my name is..." The woman removed her mask, revealing herself as an anthro Twilight with long hair.

"My name is Terra Spark, ghost squad leader of the “Element Raiders”.

"Tara?" whispered Rain as she couldn't believe who was standing in front of her.

"Tara?" repeated Terra in confusion, but both women quickly noticed the glitching and cracking of reality around them, and both could see their bodies turning a solid red color before their bodies returned to normal.

"We're not meant to be here," stated Terra as she was using her psychic powers to sense everything around her.

"What does that mean?" asked Rain.

"Going by the cracking of reality and how we look like people we know, I'm guessing we're in another universe? But..." replied Terra, as she could feel the universe around them trying to reject them as her body turned red again. "I think the universe is rejecting our existence here, which is why reality is cracking and our bodies are turning colors, but why is the Rainbow Comet here?"

"The Rainbow Comet!" shouted Rain as she looked up at the night sky. "But didn't it appear fifteen years ago after she died-, Wait, how do you know about the comet if we're from different universes?"

"Because, in my universe, there's a rainbow comet as well. So, it must be a naturally occurring phenomenon in every universe, and it passes close to every world." explained Terra as she put her hand on her chin.

"How did you and I get here then, miss future egghead?" asked Rain.

"I don't know...but guessing by this crater, something happened here..." answered Terra as she could see the burn marks. "Something bad…"


End of Chapter 1