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// The Doppelgangers 
// Story: Knight of the Heart 
// by Neroson40 
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The Doppelgangers
Twilight gave me a book with strange chapters. It was written like a journal, but they were addressed to Princess Celestia until a certain point, from somepony named Sunset Shimmer. After that point, the entries were to Twilight. I didn’t get it, why would she show me this? Then the book started to glow and vibrate in my hooves. A new page appeared at the back of the book, along with a new message from this Sunset Shimmer.
“Dear Princess Twilight
I know I haven’t written to you in a while. Not since your daughter went on that little trip of hers, but Canterlot High needs your help. Not like last time, where new kids were the problem, but this time you could see the problem from space. I hope you can get here quickly, because the Rainbooms can’t figure this one out on our own. 
Your friend here,
Sunset Shimmer.”
I couldn’t even process what happened before Twilight pulled the book out of my hooves and read the message for herself. Her face showed seriousness that I would never think of for something so… odd. Then she looked at me, then the book again.
“What did you read?” she asked
“I didn’t get a good look before you pulled it away.” I didn’t think I’d get anywhere with this, until Twilight proved me wrong.
“You wanna come with me?”

Twilight had set the book in a strange machine. Judging by the way it looked, it took whatever magic was in the book and transferred it to a mirror connected to the same machine. The bells and whistles on the machine started to go off, the lights started to go on and off and we rushed through the mirror, which I thought would break when we made contact with the glass.
When I woke up from the shock, we were in a square of some sort. I couldn’t make out the details because my vision was very hazy, but the first thing I saw was Scorch.
“Are you… a dog?” I asked him.
“Yeah, but… What the hey are you!?” I looked at my front hooves and saw twelve more appendages coming off the end of them. I got a better look at myself and I saw what he meant, my entire Skeletal Structure had changed.
“That’s a good question,” I asked quietly “What am I?”
“It’s called a human,” a voice said from the statue to my left. I looked and saw another… human I think he called it, sitting on the statue. The strange thing is… I recognized him! He was always training at the Crystal Empire whenever I went there with Princess Celestia for a field trip. He hopped down from the statue, landing on his hind legs for some reason, and offered me his… uh… yeah.
“You’re from Equestria right? Take my hand and I’ll help you up.” I put one of my “hands” in his and he hoisted me onto my hind legs too… and it just felt natural in this form! “Name’s Flash Sentry, by the way,” the human said. “I teach music here at Canterlot high.”
“I’m Champion,” I said.
“Friends call you Champ, I know,” this was confusing. “There’s another you at this school, although he doesn’t dress so… Dark.”
I looked down at my clothes and saw what he meant. I was, indeed, wearing dark clothes, very dark clothes. A black jacket, a burgundy t-shirt under it, and a pair of green cargo pants, at least that’s what Mr. Sentry told me they were.
“Wait… Where’s Twilight, and Spike!?” I heard two screams coming from the impressive building behind me… both of them belonging to Twilight.
“I think she just met my coworker, c’mon!” Mr. Sentry and I rushed to where the screams came from, there we found Twilight and Twilight just staring at each other with disbelief on their faces.
“What the hay is going on!?” I yelled.
“Champion, don’t yell,” One of the Twilights scolded me. This one was wearing a white lab coat over a purple skirt with an image of her cutiemark on it, glasses, and a sky blue blouse. Then she got another look at me. “You do realize the school has a no weapons policy, am I right Mr. Sentry?”
“Weapon?” he said. The other Twilight looked at me. She was wearing everything that the first twilight was wearing with the exception of the glasses and lab coat. And apparently she saw what the other Twilight was talking about.
“Champ, Where did you get that!?” she said with urgency.
“Get what?” I asked. She walked over, and tried to grab something behind me. Whatever it was, I couldn’t see or feel it, and her hand just phased right through it.
“What is this?” she asked. It wasn’t like Twilight to make something up, so if she said she saw it, odds are she saw it. “You have my… Wayvern’s sword Hummingbird on your waist.” She explained.
“Wayvern…” The other Twilight whispered. “You’re the Pon-…Princess me!?”
“Yes, I am,” Twilight said. “And you must be me from this world.”
“Dr. Twilight Sparkle, I’m a scientist, and normally wouldn’t believe in magic, but…”
“I get it.”
“Can we get back to how I got this on me!?” I pointed to my waist.
“Sorry, Champ,” Twilight said. “But we don’t have any idea how you got Hummingbird on you.”
“Does he really have Hummingbird?” Flash asked. “I don’t see a knife on this guy.” Before the Twilights could answer, another human came running down the hall. She looked kinda like me with the orange skin, but her red hair had yellow streaks in it. “Sunset Shimmer?” Flash said.
“Hey, Flash,” she said. “I’m here for Twilight.”
“Which one?” I asked.
“The one from Equestria, which else would I be asking for in a time of Crisis!?”
“The Scientist…?” Sunset Shimmer looked into the room and saw what I meant.
“Well… Crud.”