The three racers crossed the finish line neck to neck, with Sugarcoat following only a few seconds behind. None of the girls had any clue to who had won, they just had to wait. Sunset sat there, dazed from what just happened, while Rainbow wasn't having it.
Jumping off her bike, she got up in Indigo's face. "I can't believe you had the nerve to do that! Nobody messes with me or my friends and gets away with it," she threatened, raising her fists like she was preparing to fight her.
Indigo Zap rolled her eyes, as if it were no big deal. "You win some, you lose some. Unfortunately for you Miss Skittles, you lost this one."
Hearing the nickname she was given did nothing but make Dash even angrier, staying silent to try to think of a clever comeback. Luckily, Sunset butted in before she could say anything.
"Excuse me, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works." she said with a hint of anger in her voice. "Did you not think for, I dunno, a second maybe that you could have killed one of us?"
Indigo looked quite frustrated with her. She crossed her arms and sighed, defeated by stupid safety. She might be reckless sometimes, but some people sure don't have a funny bone! It's not even like she could of killed them. Only toppling off of their motorcycle, getting hit by somebody else - okay. This for children.
"Ok fine, we're sorry." she paused, waiting for Sugar to apologize too. Two seconds, five seconds, ten. Nothing. "Hello? Earth to Sugarcoat?"
Sugar looked up from the motorcycle decal again. "Yeah, uh sorry about that or something." She took out her phone, and took a picture of the motorcycle.
Indigo facepalmed for what she guessed was the fourth time that day. "Will you - ugh I hate this word, but - please stop doing that? This time before you make the whole student body explode?"
Her friend was a professional fad starter. She was always obsessed with some weird thing, and combine that with being popular, was a recipe for disaster. One day she made the whole school infatuated with pizza. As if they were actually zombies mistaken for normal teenagers. But that's another story.
Sugarcoat showed her phone. "Too late, the damage is done."
"I think we were getting some real damage from the Wondercolts here, eh?" A loud high pitched voice said, carrying a foam finger. Pinkie Pie. "You girls did fantastic!" She wrapped her two friends in a tight bear hug.
Rainbow was trapped by the force of the hug, and after ten excruciating seconds, managed to get out. "But... who won?" She looked at Sunset.
Pinkie backed off and gave a confused look. "Actually, I'm not sure anyone knows yet. But still, you did sooooo great!" She looked as if she was going to explode, and that was a legitimate concern.
"Hello." A familiar purple girl walked in, waving shyly. It took Sunset Shimmer a few moments to process that it wasn't their Twilight, and that it was normal for her to be here.
"Hi Twilight." The rest of the girls said in unison, before turning to each other in confusion. "You three know her?" Indigo asked.
Rainbow Dash was about to say something when Indigo interrupted rudely. "Oh yeah, she knows you all because we're supposedly doing that thing where-" Sugar clapped her hand over her friend's mouth, and nervously chuckled.
"Yeah, she seems to be a little confused here!" She said in her brightest tone, while glaring at Indigo. "What she meant to say is that Twilight is such a good friend, there's no wonder you guys would already be hanging out with her!" Her phone buzzed, and she used it as a distraction, stepping out a bit.
Twilight smiled before pulling out a few pictures. "I have the unofficial results for who won. I took these pictures of you," she said, skimming over them with her hand. "Don't ask me why I was taking pictures of you guys specifically!" Twilight picked two out, focused on them, nodding slowly. "It seems like you won." She looked in their general direction.
"And which one of us is named "you?""
She pointed at Sunset Shimmer. "You got first by 0.35 seconds, just ahead of, um," she thought for a second "Rainbow Dash is it?"
Indigo Zap suddenly looked up, and as if a light switch turned on, her face suddenly turned beet red. "Excuse me? Are you seriously saying that they won?!" She grunted, grabbed Sugar's arm, and stormed right out of there, almost bumping into a few girls.
"I knew that you guys could do it!" Pinkie jumped up in the air, floating back down very slowly. "Oh no, I forgot to plan something for this! Are you okay with an emergency slumber party?" She looked hopelessly at them.
"Actually I still have a soccer practice, and a basketball practice, and then there's that test next week that I have to not study for," Rainbow laughed. "But maybe we can all meet at someone's house on Tuesday? None of us have any events tomorrow anyways, and I need to live up to my promise," she said, looking at Sunset expectantly.
She put her hand up and smiled. "It was really close, so it's fine. You've really all done plenty for me before, it's about time I pay you back this one." Sunset started picking up the rest of her stuff. "So, it sounds like a plan." She looked over at Twilight, who was still standing there awkwardly. "Do you want to come with us?"
Twilight Sparkle looked up and adjusted her glasses. "Oh yes, I would love that!" She realized her tone seemed too excited, and she toned it down a bit. "I mean, yeah sure. That would be cool."
Attention, attention! Final placings for girls motocross are now listed! Good job and good luck to all that participated, and remember to clear out of the queuing station to make way for the next events, thank you!
"Well come on, let's go to see who really won! And if it was you who won, I have my excuses for not being at my absolute awesome today," Rainbow laughed, picking up her stuff as well and walking with Sunset and Pinkie. "Um, are you coming?" She looked back at Twilight who was still standing there.
"Yes, just one second," she said, putting her pictures back in her pocket and catching up to them. She noticed that the rest of them were looking at her strangely. "What is it?"
"Oh my god, were we staring at you?" Sunset said, looking away for a bit at her bag. "It's just well.... we've known the other Twilight for a long time, and then it's her right here, but not actually her."
Twilight Sparkle was very intrigued by this other her. Was it even possible to have two of the same people? It must be, since these girls were always talking about "their Twilight", but they could always be lying to her. She needed actual proof for multiple reasons. "Can you show me her?"
Sunset looked a little shocked about this. "Well, I'm not really sure.."
Pinkie put her hand excitingly on her friend's shoulder. "Oh come on! Just show her your diary thingy!" She took out her friends sun emblazed book, and opened it to a new fresh page.
"It's not a journal!" Sunset grabbed the book from her friend. "Excuse me for that," she blushed, and got out a pen. "I'll write to her just this once, I'm sure she'll be fascinated by this. But don't expect her to write back anytime soon, she's busy preparing to come over soon."
Dear
PrincessTwilight,
It's me again! You probably won't be able to read this until next morning when you're crossing over here, but I'll write it for you now anyways.We've met a new friend recently at the games, and I think you'd like to meet her. Her name is Twilight Sparkle, and she's the human version of you! Isn't that pretty awesome? (Excuse me for my overly perky attitude, but she's looking over my shoulder right now as I write). I was thinking that when you come over, you could meet her if that isn't too weird for you. If you could also explain what's going on to her a bit, that would help too.
We all are so excited to see you again tomorrow. Especially me, since I feel a little cheated on by life for only being able to communicate with you by writing.
Happy to see you soon,
Sunset Shimmer