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// Chapter 6 
// Story: The Power of Portals 
// by Flames173 
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	I walked up to Jodi and gave her a hug.
"I'm sorry I snapped at you. I just, got really happy we could return."
"No Joe, I'm sorry for staying back, if I had just gone through then you and I would both be human again and we'd both be happy." Jodi apologized.
"Well, we can probably go find Twilight and she can recreate the portal."
"Last I checked she was watching you guys go through the portal from her bed up there." Jodi pointed to a nook just above where the portal was. I flew up and checked it.
"She isn't there.
"She must have gone through the portal too then."
"Oh well, we can go ask Rarity for some help, she's a unicorn too after all."
"Wait, what's this?" Jodi bent down and picked something up from the floor.
"Hair?"
"Pink hair."
"Fluttershy must have gone too. Shoot, I was going to ask her if Rarity was still in town. She did tell me she had to go somewhere today when I returned Sweetie Belle home."
"So, we're stuck in Equestria, with our only two sources of magic and possibly only ways to return home gone?"
"No, there are two other ponies I know where they live."
"Great, and I suppose they're on vacation to some stupid town named after some other bad pony joke like Hoofington or something." Jodi laughed.
"Actually, yes."
"Really?"
"According to this letter that was on the ground which was directed to Twilight, they are at Hoofington."
"Dude, don't read other people's mail! That's pervy!"
"Oh relax, she won't be able to read her mail for a while, and I know where Hoofington is. Being 'pervy' actually helps us get back."
"Fine, whatever. Let's just get going."


***


"Are we there yet?" Jodi asked.
"We haven't even left the library yet." I replied.
"Oh, well I thought it was some sort of magical teleporting tree or something."
"Don't be ridiculous Jodi, those don't exist."
"Well, I'm sorry, but everything else that's happened kind of made me feel like anything is possible, no matter how crazy. So, when are we going to leave then?"
"Well, it's about a one day journey by wing, so we need to get some stuff ready for travel before we go, so we should probably...." Jodi cut me off.
"Or we could just ride the train there?" She pointed out a window with her hoof at the train station. I could just hear the announcer say the ride to Hoofington was leaving in 10 minutes.
"Or we could do that." I threw everything I was holding behind me and dropped everything off my back, and we went to the train station.


***


Fred and Luke got up and stretched.
"Man, all that walking like a quadruped really makes walking like a bipedal organism quite difficult." Luke the now super-genius said. 
"Yeah, sure, I don't know what you said, but uh, I'm happy to be back and sheesh, walking on four legs for so long makes walking on two legs hard." Fred said.
"That's what I, nevermind."
"If Jodi and Joe never return, I call dibs on Joe's xbox."
"Fine, I call dibs on Jodi's clothes."
"Ok dude thats just weird. I know you're going through your, ahem, 'girl crazy' phase, but that's just too far."
"Where am I?" A new voice asked.
"Did you hear that too?" Luke asked.
"Ahuh." Fred stared forward, scared of what was behind him.
"Was that you?"
"Uhuh."
"Do you think the portal may have altered Jodi's voice and she passed through last second?"
"Doubt it."
Luke and Fred turned around.
"Uhh, hi." Twilight said.
Luke shielded his eyes and Fred stared.
"Dude, have some respect!" Luke slapped Fred's shoulder.
"Oh umm, sorry, T-Twilight."
"What?" She asked.
"Well, on Earth, it's customary to wear clothes, and going through the portal kind of, left you naked."
Twilight looked down as though it just occurred to her.
"Oh. Well, do you have any clothes I could borrow? Or keep until I go back?" Twilight asked, using her arms to protect herself from Fred's still-staring-eyes.
"Well, no, but, here." Luke turned around, grabbed a towel, and gave it to Twilight.
"Thanks." Twilight wrapped it around herself. She looked at Fred then slapped him.
"Hey, you finally got touched by a girl." Luke laughed at Fred. Twilight giggled at his quip.
"Uhh, what happened?" Another girl stood up, she was laying on the ground behind Twilight.
"Ok, that's not even fair." Twilight said, looking at Fluttershy's long and flowing dress.
"What? What's not fair?" Fluttershy asked. She looked at the rag around Twilight's body then at herself. "Oh. I-if you want, I can let you borrow my dress." Fluttershy began to undress. Fred stared at her and blushed.
"No Fluttershy, that's all right."
"You girls stay here, I'm going to sneak you some clothes and get Joe's parents out of the house so you can get out. Come on Fred." Luke grabbed Fred's hand and pulled him to the stair case. It took some effort, but he eventually got him upstairs.