July 11th, 2012
Midnight
Rain
Twilight from Equestria and Twilight from Canterlot High were both getting things prepared for the midnight Channel. “Are you sure the midnight channel will appear here?” Twilight asked.
“I’m almost positive.” Narukami answered.
“This seriously defies all scientific logic…” This world’s Twilight sighed. “But so is magical talking ponies from another world.”
“Quiet… it’s about to come on.” Narukami said sternly. The three of them waited with the T.V. off as midnight finally struck. Eventually the screen started to flash and a shadowy figure could be seen from the screen. It was difficult to make out however. The figure was female, that much they could tell. Another thing that looked familiar though was her hair.
“Wait a second… that looked like…” Twilight started slowly going wide-eyed. She tried to put her hand in the T.V. screen to see if she could reach the figure. But the image soon disappeared and she pulled her hand back out. “Rarity… RARITY!!” she exclaimed running toward the nearest phone she could find.
“Twilight, wait a second!” Narukami exclaimed.
“No! I have to!” She quickly grabbed the cordless phone and dialed Rarity’s cell phone number that she had memorized by heart since the last time she arrived at Canterlot high. The phone rang multiple times waiting for someone to answer. “Please… please…”
Eventually, to her surprise, she heard someone answer the phone. “Hello…?” a groggy yet familiar voice answered.
“Oh thank goodness… you’re still there…” Twilight sighed in relief.
“Uh… is this Twilight from class?... I’m sorry but, how did you get this number and… for that matter, what in the world are you doing calling me at midnight?”
“Rarity it’s me! Princess Twilight!”
“W-what!?” Rarity could be heard from everyone in the room. “Oh my goodness, is it really you!?”
“Yeah, it’s me…”
“Oh goodness! I have to tell all the girls about this! Sunset Shimmer--” Rarity paused. “Wait, have you seen Sunset Shimmer!? All she left was a note telling us that she was going back to Equestria and we got worried!”
Twilight smiled. “Don’t worry, she’s fine… She’s in Equestria right now.”
“Oh thank god…” Rarity let out a sigh of relief. “Uh darling, forgive me for asking but where are you calling me from?”
“Oh uh… well funny story. You see I actually met the Twilight of this world…”
There was a pause.
“You’re in her house right now?” she asked.
“Well, actually her lab.”
“Why…??”
“Listen to me Rarity. Bad things have been happening between this world and Equestria. You know about the murder of Carrot Top right?”
“Yes, but she went missing first… Wait, you heard about that??”
“I didn’t just hear about it. A Carrot Top in Equestria was murdered as well. We think that these two cases are linked somehow.”
“Am I the first you’re telling about this?”
“Yes because… we feel like you might be in danger Rarity.”
“I’m sorry?”
“Whatever you do, you have to be careful no matter what. Don’t trust anyone!”
Rarity sighed not knowing how to really respond. “I’ll try to warn the others about this… meet us in front of the school, in the afternoon Twilight.”
“Understood.” Twilight hung up the phone.
“Twilight remember...” Narukami started. “When the image on the midnight channel is fuzzy like that, it means that that person isn’t in that world yet. If the image was clear, that would be a different story.”
“R-right...” Twilight sighed. “I’m sorry for jumping the gun like that, I just got really worried!”
“I understand Twilight. I know how you feel.” They both looked at the other Twilight who was just taking down many notes from her laptop. “What are you doing?”
“What does it look like I’m doing?” the other Twilight asked with a tone of annoyance.
Narukami sighed. “Tomorrow, let’s get some more practice in Twilight.”
Twilight nodded.
“Practice? With what exactly...?” The other Twilight asked.
“You’ll see.”
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July 12th, 2012 (Saturday)
Morning
Cloudy
Both Twilights and Narukami were all getting ready to go into the T.V. for Twilight to get some more practice. “Um, is all of this really necessary?” The other Twilight asked.
“If you want to stay alive, then yes.” Narukami answered and turned to Twilight. “Here.” he said handing one of his swords to her. “You won’t have your magic, so you’ll need this for physical attacks.”
“R-right…” Twilight said hesitantly.
Narukami held out another one of his blades out to the other Twilight. “Wait, you expect ME to fight??”
“You’re our back up, alright? Besides, you need to at least have something to protect yourself with.” Narukami said sternly.
The other Twilight sighed and grabbed the blade. “What the hell did I get myself into…?”
“Oh, and you’ll need these.” Twilight said handing the other Twilight a pair of glasses.
“How did you get those?” Narukami asked.
“Oh, Teddie made an extra for me. I guess he thought something might happen to my pair.” She said putting on her glasses.
“Forgive me but, What good do glasses do? Plus I already have a working pair.” The other Twilight said still lost in confusion.
“They’ll help you see better in the other world.” Narukami answered grabbing the other Twilight’s hand. “Now let’s go.”
“W-wait a--” she was cut off as both her and Narukami went through.
Twilight just sighed putting her hand to her face following them.
They all entered falling to the ground; all of them slowly getting back up. “What. Is. This. Place!?!” the other Twilight exclaimed looking around.
“Calm down.” Narukami said. “Let’s go Twilight.”
Twilight nodded and followed Narukami. “Hey wait! Don’t leave me standing here…!” The other Twilight exclaimed quickly following them, but was quickly stopped by Narukami’s hand.
“Stay back.” he turned back to Twilight. “One on One like last time?”
Twilight nodded as a card appeared floating above her hand. “Persona!”
She exclaimed crushing the card in her hand, releasing her persona in front of her. It looked exactly the same as when they were in Equestria.
“Izanagi!”
Narukami exclaimed doing the same thing summoning his own persona. The other Twilight just looked at both persona’s in awe. “Let’s do a little test. How do you counteract a status increase?” He said as his persona used Tarukaja on himself, raising his attack.
“Persona!” Twilight exclaimed as her persona used Dekaja, nullifying the stat change.
Narukami smiled at her. “Good. Now, lower my defense.”
Twilight nodded and had her persona use Tarunda on Narukami. “Persona!” she exclaimed extending her arm, unleashing Agidyne on Narukami as well, causing him to fall back a bit. “How was that?”
“Very good…” he groaned getting to his feet. “You remembered to act quickly when it comes to using stat decreases on your enemy. Stat increases on yourself at the same time might be a little more work, but it’s enough to drive your enemy down. Don’t forget that.” Twilight nodded with a smile. Narukami used Dekunda, nullifying the stat decrease. “How about we test you with a real battle.”
“Huh? A real battle…?”
“Based on what you learned so far, you’re going to fight me for real.”
“Are you sure that’s a good idea…?”
“Don’t worry, I have some medicine with me in case we really need it.”
“Alright… then I’m ready.” Twilight said getting into fighting position.
“Then let’s begin.” Yu said doing the same. “Persona!” He exclaimed using Tarukaja on himself.
“Persona!” Twilight exclaimed following with Rakukaja, increasing her own defense. “I won’t hold back just because you’re my friend Yu!” she exclaimed as her persona used Bufudyne, pushing both Izanagi and Narukami back a bit.
“Then I won’t either.” Yu smirked using Tarunda, lowering Twilight’s defense, following it up with a Ziodyne, causing great damage to Twilight knocking her back as well.
Twilight groaned getting back up. “Persona!” She exclaimed using Garudyne against Izanagi, making them both fall back hard. Without hesitation, she then used Dekaja, nullifying Narukami’s attack like when they practiced.
“Change!” Narukami exclaimed as Izanagi disappeared from sight, and a different persona took its place: Black Frost.
“I remember this one.” Twilight said with a determined look on her face. “Persona!” She exclaimed having her persona use Ziodyne on Black frost, knowing full well what would happen if she used an ice or fire attack. They continued fighting, going all out in their battle. Until finally… Twilight fell to the ground panting heavily. “N-no more…” She looked up to see Yu extending his hand to help her up. Still panting heavily, she grabbed his hand, getting back to her feet. “Thanks…”
“You did great. You really are improving quickly.”
“Yeah but you still beat me…”
“Don’t feel so bad, Twilight. I’ve used personas longer than you. I just have more experience that’s all.” he said handing Twilight a medicine.
“Thanks…” she sighed and took it. “I need to get better… I can’t let everyone down if I’m not strong enough to beat this threat…”
“Then let’s start practicing with shadows. And don’t worry, I’ll have your back.”
Twilight nodded. “Alright, I trust you.”
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Back in Equestria…
Sunset Shimmer sighed as she stood before the two big doors in front of her.
“Are you alright darling…?” Rarity asked standing next to her.
“No… I’m not alright…!” Sunset let out. “What if she doesn’t forgive me!?”
“I doubt she would be like that dear… after all you’ve changed for the better now.”
“But I never came back. I stole her students crown and element of harmony…!” Sunset felt a hoof on top of her.
“You were her student as well you know…”
“Yeah, and a horrible one…” Sunset started letting tears of guilt and anguish fall.
“I’m here with you, alright…?”
Sunset smiled at Rarity slightly. “Thanks Rarity…” she sighed and looked back at the door. “I came here to make things right again… and that’s just what I’m going to do. But Rarity?”
“Yes dear?”
“Do you think maybe you could go in first? I’m still feeling nervous…”
Rarity nodded and slowly opened the door to Princess Celestia’s room with her magic. Sunset stayed behind her to stay hidden at first, out of fear. Princess Celestia looked a bit surprised to see Rarity. “Rarity? Is something the matter?”
“Well… um…” Rarity stammered. “There’s somepony who would like to see you.”
“Is it the pony standing behind you…?”
“Y-yes…” Rarity answered starting to feel worried herself.
“Who--”
“P-Princess Celestia…” a voice hesitantly said. A voice that rung in Celestia’s head, bringing back many memories. Sunset Shimmer walked up from behind Rarity, keeping her head down.
Celestia’s eyes widened as the sound of a dropped scroll and quill could be heard in the room. “S...Sunset Shimmer…”
“I know that you must have mixed feelings about seeing me here…”
“You could say that…”
“And I know that sorry isn’t even close to enough for you to forgive me for what I’ve done…” Sunset said as the floodgates holding her tears finally burst letting down streams on her face. “But I swear, I want to change for you…” Sunset choked. “I’ve been the absolute worst student you have ever taught, and Twilight really was the better choice… I’m so sorry for hurting so many other ponies… and more importantly, I’m sorry for hurting you…” she closed her eyes hanging her head down again. But quickly opened her eyes feeling the embrace of somepony… she looked to see that it was Celestia holding on to her tight, also in tears.
“Sunset Shimmer… Of course I forgive you…” Celestia sniffled. “I’ve just been waiting so long for you to say those words, I started to lose hope… And it was my fault as well, you can’t take all the blame.”
That was the time to respond. Sunset Shimmer immediately returned the embrace crying more heavily. “No Princess, I was being selfish… All I did was think about gaining more power and I never even focused on friendship at the time…” she sobbed. "All I did in that other world, before Twilight came, was tear everyone else's friendships apart..."
“Yet here you are… asking for a friend to help you.”
Sunset Shimmer looked back to see her friend. “Wait a second… where’d she go?”
“What?” Celestia asked looking around. She let go of Sunset. “Rarity??” They both ran out together to look for the white unicorn. “Where could she have gone?”
“HALT!!” The voice of a guard exclaimed.
“This way!” Sunset Exclaimed running toward the source of the voice, as Celestia followed. Eventually, they spotted one of Celestia’s guards on the ground. “What happened??”
“T-there was a cloaked pony… he was carrying one of Princess Twilight’s friends on his back. I think she was unconscious…”
“Where did he run off to!?” Celestia exclaimed. The guard slowly pointed toward the direction with little strength. “Let’s go!” Sunset nodded and followed. As they ran, they then saw the cloaked pony running as well. “HALT!!”
Of course, he kept on going but at a faster pace. “Get back here you son of a bitch!!” Sunset exclaimed. “Where the hell is he even going??”
“It looks like he’s headed towards the private… No!!”
“What!? What is it!?”
“He’s headed towards the private theater room! How could he possibly know about it though!?”
“Damn it, he’s going to escape through the screen!!”
“Escape through the screen…?” Celestia asked. “You know about what happened??” They ran into the room panting, and he was already gone.
“It’s more complicated than that…” Sunset said still panting, slowly sticking her hoof into the theater screen.
Celestia looked at Sunset wide-eyed. “H-how…?”
“Look, it’s hard to explain, but right now I need to call Twilight and Narukami for help.” Sunset Shimmer started. “Do you think you can teleport both of us to Twilight’s castle?”
“Of course.” Celestia nodded as her horn quickly glowed brightly and in an instant, they were both gone.