Against The Crowd: Twilight Sparkle

by RowanSkie


4 - The Derailment

"OPAL!"

Opal woke up from his nap, Twilight looking at him with a picture from the Hub, or as he called it, Earth Prima.

"Is this dress blue and black or white and gold?"

Opal looked at the photo and facepalmed. He knew this would end up in his hoof-hands. He looked at the photo, and looked at it carefully.

"For actually just getting it now," Opal answered, "both. Depends on the lighting."

"Huh, or so I thought." Twilight took the photo and threw it outside, "thanks."

"Now, let me rest, oh sweet Celestia I haven't gotten a nap!"

Opal went into her bed and slept. Twilight, chuckled as she made Opal answer a question that was already answered, while trying to think as a human. After coming to the InFamous universe, she can't believe that she and Opal are still humans, not ponies. At least a few days as human would suffice, but after being a human for what, roughly 3 weeks? Twilight felt like descending into madness Lyra has fallen into.

Great, now that she thought about it, she can't stop thinking about how her friends react when she tried to tell them about how great the humans are. She'd be brought straight into Ponyville hospital. If she wasn't a Princess, yes.

Her thought paused as vortex opened outside Opal's house, and Twilight looked at it. Twilight's eyes widened. The place was... a twisted version of Equestria. She pointed a finger on it and she suddenly turned back into an alicorn, and quickly dived back to the house.

"Can I experiment with the vortexes, and then with enough knowledge, can I come back home? Of course I'll need the layout of the multiverse..." Twilight began to make a mysterious pet of Opal shiver. Once she noticed it, she stopped talking. "Oh, didn't see you there."

By God, stop thinking out loud, please? it said through Twilight's head.

"Oh... kay...? How?" Twilight's reactions seemed profitable, "How'd you pull that off?"

Simple. I wasn't born here. the pet said, I was born in a garden where a 21-year old woman caretaker takes care of the place, and every animal there is a reincarnation of someone she loved. I'm basically...

"A human turned alligator? Opal now kinda reminds me of Pinkie." Twilight replied.

I really don't know, the alligator said. To quote off, 'I just don't know what went wrong.'

"Huh." Twilight's head trailed off.


Losing a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose a friend forever!

Pinkie, stop messing around, please. Anyway, Opal woke up with Twilight missing. Apparently, she was in another universe, namely the LEGO Universe. Wait. Legos. Bricks. Oh, dear. The only thing he could do now is... wait. He could only wait.


"Apparently everything's so catchy here," Twilight commented, "and made up of bricks. I'm a brick unicorn."

"LEGO Bricks," Emmet Brickowski corrected, "and welcome to the LEGO Universe. What's your name?"

"Twilight Sparkle."

"Oh, I haven't heard that name before," Emmet noticed.

"Because I wasn't really from here." Twilight said.

"Yeah, I know, I was just joking." Emmet made a fake laugh which annoyed Twilight. "Anyhow, anything else?"

"I don't know how I got here," Twilight said, "any help?"

Emmet began building a vortex out of lego bricks (How'd you pull that out?!) and pushed Twilight to it.


Twilight found herself in Gotham, before a vortex opened up under her.

"Oh, come on," Twilight muttered, "I want to meet Batman..."


Twilight found herself in a very familar place. Canterlot High. She isn't a human, but rather a pony still. At least the vortex opened near the crystal mirror, so she made a quick dash and went back.

"Phew." said Twilight, "That was close. I saw myself back there..."

"You did?" Sunset asked. Twilight nodded. "Wow, I didn't know I caused too much trouble, right?"

"Yeaah... Wait, Sunset Shimmer, you aren't affected by anything strange?" Twilight asked.

"I can still remember our firdt encounter, that horrible she-demon, and Opal passing by," Sunset replied.

Twilight smiled. At least she wasn't alone,but she wondered who was with her. "I got a very little feeling that one of our friends here are aware."

"That'd be Vice Principal Luna. She told me what would happen," Sunset replied, shocking Twilight, "and I told the events back."

"Huh." Twilight thought about jumping back, but Sunset dragged her to the Vice Principal's room. "Uh, Sunset, why did you drag me here?"

"The First Convergence happens where you both came from," The vice principal warned, "do you understand that, Twilight?"

"Um, yes, I-" Sunset handgagged Twilight.

Vice Principal Luna, Twilight Sparkle, and Sunset Shimmer looked at a vortex and a few drops of blood dripped out of it.

Twilight also felt neon beyond the vortex, and she Neon Dashed her way to the vortex. Sunset and Luna were surprised, and Luna gave Sunset a 1-week detention.


Twilight looked at Delsin who were hiding at an alley, while Fetch evacuates some humans. Something is seriously wrong here.

"It's Eugene," Delsin explained, "he suddenly went berserk. I don't know why."

Twilight moaned. This is something what would Opal have fixed with his "universe control." But since she was in here anyway, she might as well help solve the problem. She started by learning what happened beforehand.

By beforehand, as if before Delsin even met him. He explained how he got his Video powers, and demonstrated by absorbing Video from the nearby TV. He also said something about Eugene acting odd ever since she came. His explanation was disrupted when a civilian fell into the alley and Twilight healed him.

"Oh." Twilight ran outside, and pulled out a knife which made Delsin freeze.

"How did you get that knife?!" Delsin asked, "no way you bought that!"

"It was given to me by an old friend before she vanished." Twilight pointed the knife and closed her eyes.

'If I can channel my unicorn magic and shoot him with a freeze spell then let Delsin the rest, then help fix the remaining problems...' Twilight focused on her magic and directed it to the knife. The knife vibrated and glowed pink. 'To fire a spell...'

Twilight Sparkle opened her eyes and blasted a shot to Eugene. It missed. She shot again. Another miss. She shot the last. The shot blasted into Eugene and knocked him out. She then felt weak and fainted. Delsin ran to them and with Fetch, ran off.


"I'd rather not visit the Five Score universe," Twilight said to her newly discovered side-personality.

"Why? Couldn't handle the things it has?" her side-personality, a manifestation of her magic named Victoria Violet asked.

"Yeah, but in that near-Hub universe, Everything happened in 1992-2020!" Twilight groaned. "Anything to say?"

"Wouldn't be surprised if you learn that all of the Mane 6 has something like me," She said, "right?"

"Something like you..." Twilight looked away for a while before looking back at her. "You are kidding."

"Nope! Victoria White, Blue, Orange, Cyan, and Yellow! Add Pinkamena, and me..." Twilight added all the facts. "What do you get?"

"No, way," Twilight said.

"Yes, way," Violet corrected, "your universe is NOT the Prime universe."

"Why?" Twilight asked.

"Because," Violet looked up. "Yeltor is entering its first convergence, you're training your non-Equestrian powers, which is cool by the way, and the books make you look like a know-it-all universe jumper."

"A what?"

"Three... two... one... You're gonna wake up."


Twilight jolted awake, panting. She looked around and found herself in a small room, locked. Locked?!

"FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-"

Yup. Completely out of text.