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// Round 3 
// Story: My Little Pony Equestria Girls 3: Twilight Vs Twilight 
// by Hopeful Soul 
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Chapter 12


The void soon faded around them as the black sphere around them turned green, sent bolts of purple lightning crashing down into the ground before dissipating and their clash ended when both Twilight’s jabbed each other in the gut and the shockwave caused them both to be sent flying. While Good Twilight managed to land back on her feet, the Evil Twilight rolled across the ground until she landed on her face. Princess Twilight then stood up.
“How was that…? Feel a little better now, me?” Princess Twilight asked. Evil Twilight growled and raised her head as she sat up.
“You think you’ve beaten me?” Demon Twilight panted as she slowly stood up. “Think again, fake!”
“You’ve lost Twilight, there’s nothing more you can now.” Princess Twilight told her. “Now let us help you.”
“No! You can’t do this to me! I have the power! No one’s ever gonna hurt me again!” Demon Twilight snapped as she slowly flew back up. “I’m better, and stronger alone! And I’m gonna prove it!”
Evil Twilight then turned to the Equestria counterpart of her beloved dog and smiled wickedly, Spike gulped while the good Twilight’s widen as soon as she realized what she plans to do.
“Spike run!” Twilight yelled. Spike then began to do just that but Demon Twilight got back up, flew over and scooped him up before anyone could do anything.
“Twilight! Twilight put him down!” Princess Twilight yelled as she flew after her evil self.
“Twilight!” Everyone else yelled as they began to run after the two.
“Everyone stay here, I’ll deal with her!” Equestria Twilight said before she flew off.
The two Twilight’s flew and circled the whole school, but no matter how hard she tried her evil self was still ahead of the young Princess of Friendship. Eventually they flew up to the roof where Princess Twilight stood on while the other Twilight flew above with her hands still around Spike’s little neck.
“Twilight! Please! Don’t hurt him! Release him!” Princess Twilight begged her alternate self.
Her evil human self smiled a twisted smile as she looked down. “Ok…” she said before suddenly releasing her grip on Spike’s neck and letting him fall, laughing as he screamed. Everyone gasped.
“NO!” Twilight screamed as she flew upward after him. She soon caught him in mid-air, held him tight and the two of them rolled down through the window of the school and landed on the top floor of the school library with Twilight doing her best to shield him from harm. They soon crash land on the ground, with Twilight breaking his fall and feeling the most pain.
Twilight groaned and looked at Spike. “You ok?” she asked. Spike nodded shaken. “Ok, good…”
Spike then spotted something above them. “Look out!” he cried.
Twilight looked up and saw another ball of dark magic heading their way, she quickly rolled out of the way but the explosion created when it hit, nearly caused Spike to fall off the edge of the second floor. But Twilight quickly grabbed his paw.
“I got you Spike, I’m gonna put you down right here.” Twilight said as she levitated Spike onto the top of a statue of a Pony head. Spike looked up and watched the fight between the two Twilight’s resume, now indoors. The indoor fight negated the height advantage of the two fliers, while Spike’s safety kept distracting Twilight. While she still had a clear advantage in magical combat skills, Evil Twilight kept unleashing new and surprising attacks on her. It was constant re-leveling of the playing field, as both sides exploited the other’s disadvantage while they both kept attacking each other while flying around back and forth in the library. 
Princess Twilight then grabbed her corrupted human self from behind and wrapped her legs around her. The demon Twilight then flew back, slamming her into a wall before the Princess of Friendship kicked her back then flew around and snap kicked her into a bookshelf that fell over, causing some books to get knocked off and fall towards Spike.
“Whoa!” Spike cried as he jumped off the statue and out of the way of the falling books. “Boy… who says books never hurt anybody?”
Twilight then landed near him. “Spike, you ok?” she asked.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Now look out!” The dog cried. Twilight turned around and noticed that her evil, alternate self had just recovered and landed near them.
“You know something? You’re not just a fake… your also a good for nothing clone of me. And I really, really, hate clones!” Evil Twilight exclaimed, yelling as she charged toward Twilight before she started to fly and in the process tackle Twilight out the doors of the library.
“Twilight!” Spike yelled, alarmed.
Twilight and her alternate self then began flying, and spinning, down the hallways together, with the Evil Twilight holding onto her other self tightly and smiling and evil smile.



The two Twilight’s then came flying right through the front doors of the school, to where everybody else could see them. Once they landed near the statue, the evil Twilight tried to pin her alternate self by placing all four of her limbs on her own legs and arms. Princess Twilight tried to push her away with her right hand but Demon Twilight grabbed it and pushed it back. The good Twilight then head-butted her which then caused her to release her grip on her right wrist. She just roared and put her hands around her throat, squeezing hard, while Princess Twilight took a the pink bow around her neck and used both her free hands to wrap it around her alternate self’s neck and pulled hard as she attempted to suffocate her human half, who began to choke. Everyone gasped and watched helplessly as the two Twilight’s tried to strangle the other. Good Twilight gasped and gagged as her evil self’s grip on her throat tightened, choking her even further while the Evil Twilight’s face slowly began to turn red from asphyxiation.
“Somebody do something!” Pinkie Pie cried.
Spike then rushed forward and right past them. “Twilight!” he yelled.
“Spike, no!” The girls yelled, trying and failing to stop him as he dashed over to the two Twilight’s. Demon Twilight saw him, removed her hand from Princess Twilight’s throat and used it to smack him away, he skidded and rolled across the ground, unconscious.
“Spike!” Twilight screamed, alarmed before finally kicking her evil human self back into the edge of the statue, seemingly knocking her out. She then got up and rushed over to him. “Spike! Spike, are you alright? Please… speak to me!”
Demon Twilight’s eyes suddenly snapped right open and slowly stood back up like a possessed doll, which creeped everybody out.
“That’s… IT! I’M THROUGH PLAYING AROUND!” she screamed, her voice more demonic than ever. 
“Twilight…” Sunset began.
“NO SUNSET SHIMMER! THE TIME FOR TALKING IS OVER!” The other Twilight yelled as she slowly rose up, while her hair stood up on end and almost looked like it was on fire as her eyes glowed brightly “NOW IT’S TIME FOR FUN!”
Just then a certain black car with a special symbol on the front quickly pulled up near the school and blue-haired, guitar playing young man stepped out of it.
“TWILIGHT!” Flash yelled, as he ran over. Everyone turned to him and gasped in shock.
“Flash!?” Sunset Shimmer exclaimed, shocked.
“What are you doing here?” Applejack asked, confused.
“I said I was going to help and I am.” Flash stated, firmly. “I don’t care if I don’t have magic, I couldn’t just sit by and watch… not this time.”
“Yeah? How can you help?” Adagio questioned him.
“Just let me talk to Twilight, maybe I can reach her or something.” Flash said.
“We’ve tried! I think she’s gone Flash!” Rainbow told him.
“Then we try again!” Flash declared.
“Well, you’re welcome to it.” Adagio offered.
“Not that it’ll do you any good…” Aria scoffed.
“Good luck!” Sonata and Pinkie both waved as Flash stepped forward.
“Twilight, stop this right now! This isn’t you Twilight! This is… this not you!” Flash yelled out. “Look at what you’re doing! You’re hurting Spike! Your better than this, Twilight! And… and that’s what I like about you…”
Demon Twilight looked stunned by this then became angry. “Why you! Don’t act like you know me! You don’t! Now it’s time to finish you all!”
The corrupted Twilight then held up her palm and created a small dark purple sphere of pure dark magic surrounded by a series of white rings that orbit the main sphere. These rings then aligned into one disc-like shape around the orb, causing the rings to resemble planetary rings.  Everyone’s eyes widened as she pulled back and prepared to launch it at them. There was a long and intense moment of silence as all of them stared up at the other Twilight in horror while they awaited their ultimate destruction. But before she could attack them, the light reflected off of Flash’s pendant distracted her and caused her to look at the unconscious Spike. And when she did, something snapped inside of her.
“S-Spike…?” Evil Twilight stuttered, staring at the creature that resembled her beloved dog, now unconscious thanks to her. She then ceased her attack and held her chest tightly. “No! Can’t make me… can’t… you hurt him! Get… get out… get out! GET OUT!”
The other Twilight then looked up towards the heavens as she reverted to normal and the dark magical energy poured out of her hands, eyes, nose and mouth and went straight up the sky, much to everyone’s amazement.
“Ooh! Sparkly!” Pinkie commented. 
“Yeah… so magical…” Sonata breathed.
Once it was all out, Human Twilight dropped to the ground and rushed over to the Equestrian Spike, along with her other self, who had just got up.
“Spike! Spike are you ok?” Native Twilight asked, worried.
“Say something!” Her Equestrian Counterpart added.
Equestria Spike groaned a bit and slowly opened his eyes to see the two Twilight’s standing over him, he looked wide eyed.
“Oh man… I must have hit my head really hard… because I’m seeing double…” he said, bewildered. Everyone else just laughed at this.
“You sure you’re ok?” Princess Twilight asked.
“Yeah… just a little dizzy…” Spike said, getting up.
They all smiled, happy that he was alright, then surprised when they heard something barking. Everyone turned and were stunned to see Spike’s alternate self barking and running over.
“Spike!” Human Twilight cried, teary eyed as her little pup barked and ran into her arms where she embraced him and nuzzled him affectionately. “Oh, I’m so sorry this happened… I’m glad it’s over…”
“Oh… not yet it isn’t.”
Everyone turned around in shock and saw all the dark magic that was expelled from Twilight get sucked into the Dazzlings, which made their eyes glow bright red. They smiled.
“Now it begins!” Adagio declared.
Much to everyone’s shock the Dazzlings bodies glowed as they flew up into the air before coming together and becoming a ball of bright red light that shined over all of them before slowly taking on a solid form. When the light finally faded the Dazzlings were back in their Siren forms only now they were fused together and resembled a three-headed hydra like creature, with the right half being purple due to having Aria’s head, the left half being blue due to having Sonata’s head and the middle part was golden due to being Adagio’s head. They all roared and let out a sonic wave while everyone watched them stunned and horrified.
“You fools! This was our plan right from the beginning and you fell for it!” Adagio’s head said. “The deal is off! Nothing can stop us now!”
Everyone’s faces became serious but not at all surprised, they then turned to Twilight.
“I'm on it.” Twilight nodded, as she took out a book and snapped her fingers which somehow caused all the dark magic the Dazzlings absorbed to be sucked inside it, transforming them back to normal. They all dropped to the ground but soon got back up, looking very confused.
“Ugh… what just happened?” Adagio asked, genuinely shocked. "Where's our power? What did you do!?"
“Nothing, we just sealed away all your dark magic into the book I use to communicate with Twilight in Equestria.” Sunset Shimmer explained. 
“Just a little something I added in case you decided to misuse the magic I gave you.” Twilight told them.
“That's right! And now...” Rainbow Dash smiled as he socked them so hard that they each fell to the ground like dominos, completely unconscious. “Boy that sure felt good!”
“Way to go Twilight! You stopped ‘em!” Applejack congratulated.
“Thanks Applejack, but it was really Sunset Shimmer who figured out their plan and told me what to do, which I relayed to all of you.” Twilight admitted.
“Really?” Rarity asked, surprised as they all turned to her.
Sunset blushed a bit and rubbed the back of her head. “Oh… it was nothing…”
“How’d you manage to figure out their plan so easily?” Fluttershy asked Sunset.
“To be honest… it’s what I would have done if I were still evil.” Sunset confessed. Everyone then gave her odd looks. “Probably wouldn’t have worked though.”
“Yeah. Not if we had anything to say about it.” Rainbow smirked. The others gave her a stern glare. “What?”
They all then turned their attention to Twilight’s counterpart who was still on her knees and currently crying her eyes out. Twilight slowly approached her.
“Twilight…” The Princess mused.
“Destroy me… do it… I don’t deserve…” Human Twilight began, sadly as tears fell down her face.
“No. That’s never the answer. You think it’s been hard for you. Sunset Shimmer here had to go through so much to get people to trust her again and like you she didn’t know anything about friendship… but thankfully she’s learning.”  Equestria Twilight said, smiling at Sunset Shimmer who smiled bac. “You can make up for your mistakes Twilight and learn from them. I know you can. After all… I’m you. “
Twilight looked stunned by this and remembered everything Sunset told her in a flash.
“You really do think friendship gives people hope… don’t you?” The other Twilight asked Sunset.
“I know that it does, and it’s all thanks to Princess Twilight here…” Sunset said, smiling at the Princess, who smiled back. The other Twilight, lowered her head shamefully as tears began to fall.
“I’m sorry… I’m so sorry… for all the bad things that I did…” Human Twilight cried. “I just… I just wanted to be noticed! To have friends just like everyone else! Just like you!”
“You still can you just have to give friendship a chance.” Twilight said. “It’s not something you can just figure out, it’s much more special than that.”
“Yeah… that’s starting to become clear now…” Human Twilight admitted, sadly. 
“Listen, neither of us is a fake. We’re both me… our lives just took different turns. And I’m sorry you’ve had such a rough time.” Princess Twilight told her. “But everything’s gonna be ok.”
Human Twilight finally stood back up. “But… if I can’t explain what happened at Canterlot High School… no one will respect me… what am I supposed to do from now on!?” she asked, teary eyed.
“That’s easy.” Princess Twilight Sparkle said, before suddenly hugging her. “You just got to be me. Since you are me, after all.”
Human Twilight looked very surprised by this gesture of affection and friendship, it seemed that this was her first real hug. Her arms shook a bit behind Twilight’s back before they finally wrapped around her and then squeezed her tight.
“Thank you…” Human Twilight whispered. They eventually released each other from their embrace.
“And don’t worry, I know things may be bad now but I just know you’ll get passed them, and make things right again.” Princess Twilight told her.
“Why would ever believe in me?” Human Twilight asked her alternate self.
Princess Twilight smiled. “Because I know you, and like Sunset Shimmer here I know you’re capable of great change. You don’t have to be defined by your past, you can choose a different future. Trust me.”
Human Twilight nodded with a smile before the girls suddenly hugged her, surprising her before she accepted and joined in the group hug along with Spike and Flash as well. To the young heroes, it seemed that the crisis was finally over and done. However…