Multiple Friends, Multiple Entries
Twilight to Twilight
"Okay, I'm not sure how well this is going to work, but we should be able to get a response back. I'm going to go first, and if it doesn't work then no one needs to worry," Twilight said.
Rainbow, Rarity, Pinkie, Flutters, and Applejack all nodded. Twilight took a scroll and focused her spell on it. A moment later a sort of void appeared and then the scroll stretched, shot into the void and then it disappeared completely. They waited, and for nearly ten minutes noting happened. Then suddenly there was a flash of light and a different scroll fell out of the void to the ground. Twilight lifted it with her magic and looked at everyone else.
"Okay, since we're all doing this as a test I don't see any reason not to share our first letters, agreed?" she asked.
Everyone nodded. She unrolled the parchment and cleared her throat.
"Dear Twilight,
So, if I am to understand this correctly then you're a version of me in a different universe. That's interesting, and something I've been expecting. In truth I've known about the multiverse for some time. Thanks to my late husband's appearance inside of the Everfree forest I've long since known that other universes exist, and these are not just our own. There are universes where human are real, universes where ponies don't talk or speak, and even some where evil rules supreme. It's frightening, and I know it.
So the question demands to be asked what it is that you are doing contacting other worlds? Are you that naive? What if I would have been an evil version of you? If you don't have foals like I do then I'm thankful. They would obviously have a mother who doesn't stop to think about her actions. I will be glad to keep a correspondence with you, but I must demand that you practice some self-control. You're, hopefully, not a filly anymore. While there is a certain amount of thrill in seeing an experiment work there is something to be said about safety. I fear that if you just decide to go all out on this that eventually it’s going to end up quite terrible for you. I’m afraid that I’m going to have to cut this short. My foals are wanting attention, and I don’t want Spike to think that I’m leaving him to do everything… Hopefully you’ve learned not to demand that Spike does everything…
Sincerely,
Princess Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight read the letter.
“Hopefully I’m not a filly anymore?! Who does she think that she is?!” Twilight demanded.
“Ah think she sounds like a concerned mother,” Applejack replied.
Twilight looked at her and then back at the scroll. Most likely Applejack was right. This other Twilight did say that she had foals, and if she did then it would make sense that she wanted to protect them. Even if that was the case though she didn’t have a right to address her like she was a little filly anymore. She was a grown mare. She held back something she felt like saying and instead shook her head.
“So, this is what we’re doing? I mean it’s kind of cool to know there’s another me out there, but if the other me is nearly as awesome as I am then she’s not going to have a whole lot of time to be sending letters back and forth,” Rainbow Dash said.
“It’s more than just sending letters. We’re establishing communication links to an untold amount of universes out there,” Twilight said.
“What about the warning your other self said? I mean it does sound kind of dangerous to be sending information about our world to a place we know nothing about,” Fluttershy said in a small voice.
“We’re talking about alternate versions of ourselves. I don’t think that I’m dangerous,” Twilight said.
“And I wouldn’t every hurt another pony on purpose, and I just know that all of my alternate selves are the same, I Pinkie Promise!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“Oh, okay then,” Fluttershy replied.
“Sugarcube, which one of us do ya want to go next?” Applejack asked.
“Applejack why don’t you go ahead and go next,” Twilight suggested.
Applejack nodded and took a quil and a piece of parchment. She quickly wrote out a short letter and handed it to Twilight. The Lavender unicorn tossed the parchment into the small swirling void that had took the first test letter and watched as it became enlongated and then disappeared completely. They waited for a few minutes until an envelope came through and flittered to the ground. Once it settled Applejack walked over to it and looked at it. She looked at the others and then at Spike who was watching the entire thing.
“Spike, Ah don’t reckon that ya’d be willin’ ta open ma letter for me would ya?” she asked.
He nodded, walked over, flipped a claw under the top flap of the envelope and tore it open. He then held the letter out to Applejack. Something fell free from it and they saw a picture of Applejack standing next to an off yellow stallion that was wearing a green vest, had an unkempt brown mane, and had half of one of his front legs that had been replaced. Next to them was two small fillies who was smiling brightly. She looked at the picture in wonder and then opened the letter.
“I guess this is howdy. Twi’ dun told me about all of this multiverse hoopla, and Ah guess that Ah otta believe in it since Jack came from a different universe. Although it’s kinda strange to be hearin’ from maself. From your letter it sounds like yer ain’t married or got a special somepony. Ah, gonna guess that the stallions in town are a might imtimated right? Either by you or Big Mac, and it don’t help that those rumors about what our family is like. Course, you haven’t had to deal with bein’ called a tail-lifter.
Trust me, that’s something yer best off not going through. It was a might hard to get through it, and it only brought all of us closer. About being friends with Rainbow Dash, we’re friends, and best friends, but we’re not a couple. Ah’m a happily married mare, and while Rainbow and I have helped each other get through our heat before we’ve never really been interested in each other like that. ‘Sides, she’s got a little ‘un with Soarin, and I don’t think that he’d take too kindly to anypony trying to take her away from him.
Ah going to have to cut this short. Gala, ma youngest, is gittin’ hungry, and Jack can’t cook at all. He tried to boil water once and set it on fire. Ah still don’t know how he did that, but he did. I might see if Twi can explain it ta me. Speaking of which Twi has been saying that Ah’m saying too much. Ah suppose Ah could be, but Ah know that we Apples look out fer each other.
Write me again, and I’ll give ya some updates on how ma fillies are doin’,
Applejack,” Applejack said as she finished the letter.
“Dashie has a foal?!” Pinkie exclaimed.
Dash looked dumbfounded for a moment.