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// Chapter 4 
// Story: Equestria Girls 2: Electric Boogaloo 
// by arglefumph 
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"Now, I need you to be very specific," Queen Chrysalis said. "Where is the portal to the human world?"

"It's a mirror inside the Plot Device Room!" Human Pinkie Pie said. "I saw the sign on the door when I left it!"

"Convenient!" Chrysalis said.

"Yeah, it was in the Hall of Convenience!" Pinkie said. "It's to the left of the Crystal Ballroom, but to the right of the Crystal Bathroom. Just make sure to avoid going in the other room with the word 'plot' on the door! That room was nasty!"

Chrysalis turned herself back into Twilight Sparkle and smiled. "Thank you for your help, foolish human! If all your kind is like you, conquering this world should be a breeze!"

"What?" Pinkie asked.

Chrysalis magically opened the door to the dungeons and started to leave as guards entered. Pinkie's eyes went wide with shock. "Hey, you said you were going to take me with you!"

Chrysalis chuckled evilly. "Guards, I fear that the prisoner is delusional!" she said. "You'd better lock it up securely, where nopony can hear her."

"Yes, Princess Twilight Sparkle!" the guards said, saluting.

"WORST! DAY! EVER!" Pinkie Pie shouted, grabbing her hair in a distressed fashion.



In the human world, school was over for the day. Rainbow Dash stopped by Fluttershy's locker.

"Did you hear the rumors, Fluttershy?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Twilight Sparkle is back from Ponyland!"

"Oh, my! I didn't hear that!" Fluttershy said. "Where is she?"

"I dunno," Rainbow Dash said. "People saw her for a bit, then she disappeared. The other girls and I are gonna go look for her."

"I'll help you!" Fluttershy volunteered. "I just need to stop by the animal shelter first. I heard that someone's dog got left there today."

"You and your animals," Rainbow Dash said, smiling. "Just text me when you're done, okay? Oh, and text me if you hear from Pinkie. No one's seen her in a while."

Fluttershy hummed a catchy tune as she went to the Canterlot High Animal Shelter, which doubled as the Canterlot High Lost and Found Box. A small purple dog was there, and it was trying to kill a stuffed animal shaped like a pony.

"SPIKE?" Fluttershy asked.

The dog turned to Fluttershy and barked.

"Oh my gosh, it is you!" Fluttershy said, picking him up. "What's happening? Where's Twilight?"

Spike licked her face.

"Um...I'm glad to see you, too," Fluttershy said. "But I know you can talk, so you don't have to pretend you don't."

Spike barked again.

"Um...Spike?" Fluttershy asked.

Spike started drooling.

"Oh my gosh! He's a real dog now!"



Human Twilight Sparkle and Human Sunset Shimmer were examining their new pony bodies.

"This is so weird," Twilight Sparkle said.

"Maybe that freakishly pale woman with the ugly pantsuit was right," Sunset Shimmer said. "We got drunk on vodka."

"What are these horns for? Sword fighting?"

"Who knows?" Sunset asked. "Why do you have wings, when I don't?"

"The reason she has wings is because she's a princess," a voice said.

The two roommates turned to the doorway to the room, which they hadn't noticed because they were too preoccupied. A duplicate version of Twilight Sparkle was standing there, and after a few seconds, she morphed into a large black pony with holes in her legs.

"Allow me to introduce myself, humans," the pony said. "I am Queen Chrysalis, ruler of the Changelings. I have come here to conquer the Crystal Empire."

"The what now?"

"Crystal something."

"Crystal meth? Is that why everyone hallucinates and thinks that they're ponies?"

"The Crystal Empire!" Queen Chrysalis said. "But now that I see the rumors about the human world are true, I have a new plan! I will conquer the human world, build up an army of human teenagers, then bring them here to conquer Equestria! I will be the ruler of both worlds! HA HA HA HA HA!"

Twilight sat down on her rump. The entire situation was too much for her to handle. Being turned into a pony was bad enough, but meeting a universe-conquering maniac in under a minute was bordering on ridiculous.

Fortunately, Human Sunset Shimmer was slightly evil herself, and she was not off-put by the villain. She considered Chrysalis' plan for a moment, then spoke.

"That's the stupidest things I've ever heard of," Sunset Shimmer said.

"WHAT?" Chrysalis yelled.

"That evil plan has more holes than your legs," Sunset said. "You can't conquer the human world! You don't know the first thing about it! They'll squash you like a bug!"

"Do you think you can stop me?" Chrysalis asked.

"No, I can help you," Sunset Shimmer said. She smiled evilly. "We'll help you conquer this Crystal Empire, but in return, you have to give the Human World to us."

Chrysalis thought about it for a moment, and she decided the humans could be useful before she betrayed them. "I accept your offer, Human," she said. "With our combined forces, victory is inevitable!"

"What are you doing?" Twilight whispered. "You can't trust supervillains!"

"Don't worry," Sunset whispered back. "If it works, we'll have everything we ever dreamed of. And if it doesn't work, we can throw Queen Crappiness under the bus."

Queen Chrysalis noticed their whispering, but she didn't care. She was too busy thinking up new lyrics, to a song about her new evil plan. What rhymes well with "human"?



Five minutes later, Sunset Shimmer and Queen Chrysalis left the Crystal Palace. Chrysalis was back in her disguise as Twilight Sparkle.

"So what's the story behind the crystal ponies?" Sunset asked. "They're made out of crystal? How does that work?"

"Crystals have pointy edges," Chrysalis said. "That's what makes the Crystal Empire such a fearsome adversary!"

"Couldn't you, like, smash them with a hammer or something?"

"I...I never thought of that," Chrysalis said. "I was more focused on the Crystal Kingdom Anthem, which I learned in a day."

A flugelhorn sounded, and a troop of Crystal Soldiers passed by. They were carrying their flag of many hues—purple and white—while singing the Crystal Kingdom Anthem.

We are the Crystal Empire
We are easily defeated
Just steal our Crystal Heart
And our armies fall apart

Chrysalis and Sunset walked to the magical crystal heart. Despite being the only weakness of the city, it was completely unguarded. Sunset reached up and grabbed it.

"Hey, what are you doing with the Crystal Heart?" a passer-by asked.

"Um...we need to take it in to get polished," Sunset said.

"Oh, okay," the crystal pony said.

Sunset put the Crystal Heart on the ground and hesitated. "How do I walk while holding this thing?" she asked.

"I'll do it," Chrysalis said. She cast a magic glow around the Crystal Heart, holding it in the air. "Unicorns have the power to levitate things."

"Sweet," Sunset said. "I gotta figure out how to do that."

The two of them walked away. As soon as the Crystal Heart was away from the base of the tower, the Crystal Empire's shield instantly shattered. All the crystal ponies became sad and depressed. The depression quickly turned to fear as a huge swarm of Changelings flew in and attacked the crystal ponies. The attack was very threatening, even if they didn't actually hurt any ponies.



While Sunset Shimmer and Queen Chrysalis performed their nefarious task, Human Twilight Sparkle was given the mission of distracting the royals. She walked into the Royal Throne Room, where a white and pink pony were seated.

"Twiley!" the white pony said. "Good to see you back here! How did it go?"

"Oh...hey...you..." Twilight said. "Crystal King Guy?"

The white pony chuckled. "Still jealous that I was the first family member to become royalty, huh?" he said.

"Uh...yeah," Twilight said awkwardly. "Your...parents must be proud."

"Is something wrong?" Princess Cadance asked. "You don't usually talk to your brother like that."

"My...brother?" Twilight asked. Suddenly, everything clicked into place for her. "Shining Armor! You can't be a prince! You always break the rules!"

"Ha ha, no I don't!" Shining said.

"What about the time we were growing up, and you broke Mom's favorite vase?"

"That was totally your fault!" Shining said.

"And what about the time you played with matches and set the neighbor's cat on fire?"

"Well, the cat shouldn't have been in our house!" Shining said.

"And then there's the time you were visiting dirty websites on the Internet, and you accidentally downloaded five hundred viruses onto Dad's computer at work!" Twilight said. "It crashed Apple's offices for five days!"

"What's an Internet?" Shining asked, confused.

"The Internet is a series of tubes," a nerdy voice lectured. "It is designed to pass information across long distances nearly instantaneously, but it is mainly used as a platform to make fun of other people. I learned about it in the Human World."

Human Twilight Sparkle slowly turned around and found herself face to face with the real Pony Princess Twilight Sparkle. Twilight frowned at her.

"I came here to help with the changeling invasion," Twilight said. "Looks like I came just in time."

"Two Twilights?!" Cadance asked. "It's another changeling!"

"But which one is the real Twilight Sparkle?" Shining Armor asked.

"I am!" Pony Twilight said, charging up a magic spell.

"No, I am!" Human Twilight said. "I mean, she's the one who knows all about that Internet thing."

"She's right!" Shining Armor said. "Guards, arrest her!"

Human Twilight hid behind Shining Armor, while the guards tackled Twilight Sparkle. The only guard who didn't attack her was Flash Sentry, who was too busy drooling. Two Twilight Sparkles in the same place was one of his fondest dreams.

The fight between the guards and Twilight was intense, but they eventually managed to overcome her and drag her to the dungeons. This proved to be the downfall of the Crystal Kingdom, because while the guards were busy with Twilight, the changeling army attacked the castle.