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// Chapter 2 
// Story: Equestria Girls 2: Electric Boogaloo 
// by arglefumph 
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Earlier, I said that we'd check in on Human Twilight and Human Sunset. The two of them did not attend Canterlot High School. They both tested out of high school and got into college a year early. As luck would have it, they were roommates.

Needless to say, they wanted to kill each other after the first week. This particular day, Sunset Shimmer was furious because Twilight accidentally left a box of feminine hygiene products on her roommate's bed.

"ARGH!" Sunset shouted. "You're always leaving your stuff in my part of the room!"

"So?" Twilight asked.

"It's GROSS!" Sunset said, throwing the hygiene products at Twilight. "I told you to stop messing with things on my side of the room!"

"Get over it!" Twilight said. "God, you're such a whiny brat! No wonder you don't have any friends!"

"You don't have friends either, you worthless snot-faced introvert!" Sunset said.

"I'm not introverted!" Twilight said. "I just don't care what other people think about me. It's better than you, Miss I Google Myself On a Daily Basis!"

"It's better than the search results that pop up when I look for your name, Twilight Sparkle!"

"I like the Twilight series!" Twilight shouted.

"You have no idea what true romance is like!" Sunset Shimmer shouted. "That's why you ruined things between me and Shining Armor!"

"You're a pervert for hitting on my brother!" Twilight said.

"What? You hit on my mother!" Sunset said.

"How many times do I have to tell you? I thought she was a guy!"

The two of them argued in this vein for some time, until Sunset dumped the box of feminine hygiene products upside-down on Twilight's head. Twilight ran away crying, and Sunset smiled triumphantly.

Sunset jumped on her bed and turned on her laptop. On a whim, Sunset decided to Google herself, like Twilight suggested. The first search result was more than a little surprising.

Sunset Shimmer Destroys Fall Formal at Canterlot High

"What the—?" Sunset asked.



In the pony universe, inside the Crystal Palace Dungeons, Human Pinkie Pie sang a sad melody.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen,
Nobody knows my sorrow
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen,
Nobody knows but Jesus.

"What's a 'Jesus'?" one of the pony guards asked.

"I have no idea," his partner said.

Not long afterwards, the main door to the dungeons opened and in walked Flash Sentry, the local captain of the guards. He waved the other guards aside as he approached Pinkie's cell.

"All right, Changling!" Flash shouted. "I'm here to get information out of you, so you'd better cooperate!"

"My name isn't Changling! It's Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie said. "And I'm tired of being a pony! I wanna go back home, where I have my normal body!"

Flash shook his head. This particular changling was doing a horrible job of pretending to be another species.

"Are you planning on invading the Crystal Empire?" Flash asked. "Where's Queen Chrysalis?"

"I don't know!" Pinkie said. "I'm telling the truth, Flash! You have to believe me!"

Flash paused. "How do you know my name?" he asked.

"Well, duh, you're obviously Flash Sentry," Pinkie asked. "The blue-haired guy with the crush on Twilight."

Flash blushed almost immediately. "I...I don't have a crush on Twilight Sparkle!"

Pinkie smiled at his shyness. "There's no use pretending, Brad! I saw you dancing with her at the Fall Formal!"

"Brad?" Flash asked.

"That's your nickname in the human world," Pinkie said. "Where we live, the word 'flash' means...um, never mind what it means. The important thing is that Twilight Sparkle is one of my best friends."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Flash asked.

"Let me out of here, and I'll totally help you date her," Pinkie said. "What do you say, Brad?"

Flash narrowed his eyes dramatically, as he considered the offer.  On one hoof, he could be dooming his entire species to a slow, painful death.  On the other hoof, Princess Twilight Sparkle was really cute.

Flash held out his hoof. "Deal," he said.



Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle looked at the front entrance to Canterlot High School. It seemed that the news reports were true. Even after a month of repairs, the building's entrance was completely trashed.

"Wow," Sunset said. "This place looks awful."

"Yeah," Twilight said. "Your evil twin really did a number on this place."

"Yeah, well, your evil twin apparently saved this place by turning into a flying pony," Sunset Shimmer said. "Come on, let's go inside and investigate."

"Sure," Twilight said. "Come on, Spike."

Twilight tugged on the leash connected to her pet dog, Spike. Spike was busy relieving himself on a nearby pink fire hydrant, but he obediently walked next to Twilight once he felt the tug.

The two roommates did not get very far, because the school hallways were crowded. Some of the passing students stopped to look at them.

"Isn't that Twilight Sparkle?"

"Behold! The pony princess has returned!"

"No, that was a hallucination! It wasn't real! It wasn't real!"

"They recognize us," Sunset muttered to Twilight. "Is this good or bad?"

"Hopefully, it's good," Twilight said. "They can tell us what happened here last month."

The word about Twilight's return to school spread quickly throughout the hallways. In fact, #TwilightSparkleIsBack momentarily trended on Twitter. Twitter immediately returned to its normal trending phrases, #CorporateSponsoredItem and #SexualTopic.

No one was happier to hear about Twilight's return than her romantic interest, Flash Sentry. He ran down the hallways until he found her and once again held her in his arms.

"Twilight! You're back from the Pony World!" Flash said.

"Um...who are you?" Twilight asked.

"God, I missed you so much!" Flash said. "I thought I'd never see you again, and—"

The boy unexpectedly grabbed Twilight's face and kissed her passionately. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets, but she didn't break off the kiss.

"Ugh," Sunset Shimmer said. "Never thought I'd see my roommate get kissed by anyone besides Spike."

Spike the Dog barked happily and wagged his tail.

"Duuude," one of the nearby students said to Sunset. "It's makeout day today? Cool! Wanna go?"

"Excuse me?" Sunset Shimmer asked.

"DUde, you're hot," the student said. "That leather jacket is nice! Bet you'd look nicer without it, though..."

Sunset Shimmer punched him in the face so hard that two of his teeth were knocked out. "You scum-sucking pervert!" she said. "Run away before I castrate your stupid—"

Sunset's violence caught the attention of a brave, peace-loving student. "Hey! You can't talk to him like that!"

"I'll talk to him however I want!" Sunset said, turning around. The frown on her face was replaced with a gasp, when she found herself staring into the face of her pony twin.



A proud purple pony princess stepped onto the crystal floor of the throne room, with an angry look on her face.

"Twilight!" Shining Armor said. "I didn't think you'd get here so fast!"

"Hello, Big Brother," Twilight said. "I came as soon as I heard about the changeling. Where is it?"

"It's in the dungeons," Shining said. "Flash Sentry is interrogating it, now. If the changelings are planning to invade Equestria, we'll know it soon."

"Flash Sentry?" Twilight asked.

"You know, your boyfriend!" Princess Cadance teased.

"WHA-WHA-WHA-HUMMINA-HUMMINA-CHOO-CHOO-TRAIN-WHAAA AAT?" Shining Armor shouted.

Cadance giggled.

"As Prince of the Crystal Empire, I declare that it is illegal for any pony to have a romantic interest in my little sister," Shining Armor said. "I can do that, right?"

Twilight wisely decided to leave the throne room. She made her way downstairs, just in time to see Flash Sentry lead Pinkie Pie out of the dungeons.

"What are you doing?" Twilight asked.

The two ponies froze immediately, as they were caught. "Princess Twilight!" Flash said. "I, um...I was taking the prisoner out for a walk!"

"I thought you were letting me escape!"Pinkie Pie said.

"I—no, I—but—"

"I need to talk to the changling, alone!" Twilight snapped.

"Um, yes, Your Highness!" Flash said, saluting. He opened the door to the dungeons and let Pinkie Pie go inside with Twilight.

As soon as the door was shut, Twilight slapped Pinkie Pie. "What are you thinking, you idiot?!" she shouted. "You almost ruined our invasion plan!"

"Our invasion plan?" Pinkie Pie asked.

Twilight closed her eyes and transformed back into her real body, that of Queen Chrysalis. "You know I can only change into alicorns! Using Twilight Sparkle's form is the only way I can conquer the Crystal Empire! With the love magic that emanates from the Crystal Heart, we can feast here forever!"

"Duh.......what?" Pinkie asked. This day kept getting weirder and weirder for her.