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// Trevor Sparkle 
// Story: The Many Clones Of Twilight Sparkle 
// by naturalbornderpy 
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“THIS PLEASES SPARKLE SPARKLE! PLEASE CONTINUE, PRETTY MARE!”
                
Fluttershy’s hooves shook as she simultaneously held a book up to read while rubbing at Sparkle Sparkle’s tiny round belly.
                
At Fluttershy’s touch, the filly kicked at the air with all her legs, grazing a nearby chair that flew into a wall and smashed into splinters. Fluttershy made sure to keep her body away from Sparkle Sparkle’s flying legs.
                
Fluttershy read from the picture book, “And when Goldi-mane ate from the first bowl of porridge, she found it too hot, so she—”
                
“WHY WOULD SHE NOT JUST COOL IT WITH HER ARCTIC BREATH POWERS!?”
                
Fluttershy trembled again. “Umm. Most ponies don’t have arctic breath powers. Or at least Goldi-mane doesn’t.”
                
“THIS BOOK DISPLEASES ME! NO MORE BOOK!”
                
In an instant, the book was levitated into the air and blasted with a shot of energy from Sparkle Sparkle’s horn. Not even the ashes of the book remained.
                
“MORE BELLY RUBS, PRETTY MARE!”
                
With two hooves, Fluttershy rubbed along the filly’s belly, who squealed in delight. A moment later, Fluttershy blew a raspberry in the center of her stomach.
                
Sparkle Sparkle giggled uncontrollably, sounding oddly close to a regular filly for once.
                
“Hehehehe! Hahahaha!”
                
Fluttershy looked up in surprise.

Sparkle Sparkle did the same.
                
“I mean… HEHEHEHE HAHAHAHAHA!”
                
Fluttershy slumped. “Oh. You almost sounded adorable for a moment.”
                
Sparkle Sparkle narrowed her eyes at her.
                
“SPARKLE SPARKLE IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF ADORABLE! LEST YOU FORGET!”
                
When Fluttershy’s mane touched her shoulders again after being blown out of her face by the power of Sparkle Sparkle’s voice, she nodded a single time and tried her best not to die.
 

***


 

As was being made abundantly clear, Twilight’s castle was a lot larger and more labyrinthine than its outside would suggest. Once Fluttershy had given Sparkle Sparkle a two-liter filled with scolding hot milk, the filly had finally conked out and gone to sleep inside her solid steel crib.
                
Fluttershy left her room and soon got lost trying to find her way back to the entrance. Now she stood in front of a door she wasn’t completely sure she should go through.
                
“The F.S. Room,” she said, reading off the door’s plaque.
                
“I wouldn’t go in there if I were you,” a voice said from behind her.
                
Fluttershy turned and found Twilight Sparkle standing in the hall with her, wearing a thick blue sweater and a pair of large glasses resting on her horn. Already she knew this wasn’t the real Twilight Sparkle.
                
“Not unless you bring a book,” the Twilight finished, her voice much less enthused than normal Twilight’s.
                
“Which Sparkle clone are you?” Fluttershy asked.
                
“Opposite Sparkle.”
                
Fluttershy gasped. “Oh, no! Like an evil Sparkle! Like one that wants to take over the world and do everything the exact opposite of regular Twilight? Oh, no. I should run away from you. But I don’t know which way to go. If it’s not too much trouble, could you give me directions to the nearest exit and fastest route away from you? Please, don’t take offense. It’s not like I don’t like you or anything… even if you are the embodiment of pure evil and me and my friends will probably do battle with you in the coming days—”
                
Opposite Sparkle held up a hoof. “I’m not the literal opposite of Twilight; I just not as into her normal hobbies as her. I don’t even read much. Instead, I watch movies or listen to audio books. I also like coffee a lot more than tea. Also, Twilight’s the helpful type. I’m not all that helpful, or opinionated, either. I thought about changing my name to ‘Meh Sparkle’ or ‘Whatever Sparkle,’ but never got around to it. Too much work.”
                
Fluttershy frowned. “So you don’t know the way out of here?”
                
Opposite Sparkle shrugged. “Not really. But I’m sure if you stay in one direction, you’ll end up staying in that direction. Or something. Whatever. I dunno.”
                
“You’re really not that helpful.”
                
Opposite Sparkle waved a hoof. “Whatever. I’m sleepy. I just ate a whole personal pizza and need to go lay down. That corner over there looks dry enough. Good luck escaping from clone castle.”
                
“Clone castle?” Fluttershy whimpered out.
 

***


 

It took her some time, but Fluttershy found enough courage to open up the door labeled “F.S. ROOM”. As much as she’d hoped the initials might’ve meant “Front Staircase” or something similar, it turned out to be something completely different.
                
Fluttershy was starting to suspect the rules of normalcy had left Twilight’s castle a very long time ago.
                
“Book?”
                
“Books?”
                
“Does she have a book? I bet she has a book!”
                
“Maybe she knows where books are!”
                
Beyond the door that Fluttershy had just opened were at least two dozen filly-sized Twilight Sparkles. When she took a step in, every pair of eyes came to rest on her with wide-eyed excitement. Soon every filly Twilight encircled her, all their little voices echoing off the small room’s stone walls.
                
Fluttershy sighed. “Filly Twilight room. Even if I couldn’t have known that, I really should’ve known that, anyways.”
                
One of the filly Twilights poked at her leg. “Do you have any books with you? I would really like one if you have one.”
                
Fluttershy shook her head. “No. I’m sorry, but the only book I had burst into flames only a few minutes ago. I didn’t see any others.”
                
One filly Twilight near the back of the Twilight herd tried to jump on top of another filly. “Did she say she burned a book!? Why would she do that!?”
                
“She harmed a book?”
                
“There’re books somewhere?”
                
“Someone’s destroying books?”
                
“I heard the word ‘books’ and now I want to scream too!”
                
As the filly Twilights’ voices rose to be heard above each other, they slowly pressed towards Fluttershy until she was forced to retreat from the room. Once out in the hall, Fluttershy chose a direction and galloped as fast as she could.
                
In hot pursuit were the two dozen tiny Twilights, a steady chorus of “books” announcing how close they were to her. It might’ve been adorable if it wasn’t so damn terrifying.
                
“I don’t have any books!” Fluttershy screamed at them.
                
One Twilight jumped up from the sea of other Twilights. “We know! Because you burnt them all!”
                
“That’s not what I meant and you know it!” Fluttershy yelled back.
                
Just as she rounded another corner, a leg shot out of a closet doorway and pulled her in, keeping a leg over her mouth. Unable to locate her, the herd of filly Twilights soon passed the unlit room and continued down the hall.
                
Fluttershy broke away from the stranger. “Opposite Sparkle? Is that you?”
                
“Afraid not.”
                
From out of the closet came a Twilight Sparkle that Fluttershy could tell at once wasn’t the real Twilight. Their mane and tail had been clipped short and their muzzle had more solid edges than mares’. Perhaps most telling of all was their voice—low and soft.
                
He held out a hoof. “Pleased to meet you. I’m Trevor Sparkle.”
                
Reluctantly, Fluttershy shook his hoof, noticing how firm his shake was.
                
“What does ‘Trevor’ mean?”
                
He shook his head. “I have no idea. But I do need to say meeting another mare that doesn’t look like a weird version of myself is rather refreshing. Especially a mare that happens to look as cute as you.”
                
Fluttershy blushed, swinging her lock of mane to block out most of her face.
                
“What’s your name?”
                
“… Fluttershy.”
                
“And how in Equestria did you find yourself down here?”
                
“Sparkle Sparkle brought me down here to read to her. Then she destroyed the book and took a nap.”
                
Trevor Sparkle nodded. “Sounds about right. I think Sparkle Sparkle means good, but has trouble showing it. You know that game where you pretend the ground is lava and you need to hop from piece of furniture to piece of furniture to get to the other side of the room? Well, I played that with her once, only using real lava.”
                
Fluttershy giggled, then stopped. “Oh. That wasn’t a joke, was it?”
                
He shook his head.
                
“I’m so sorry. I’m just so confused right now and there’re just so many different Twilights around here that I’m having trouble keeping track of them—”
                
“Trevor Sparkle! Are you hiding down here again!?”
                
Trevor Sparkle choked on air. “I need to hide. Fast! If I hide in the closet I pulled you into before, will you say I’m somewhere else?”
                
“Why? Who’s looking for you?”
                
Before he shut the closet door behind him, he whispered, “Sexy Sparkle! And I can’t let her find me!”
                
Less than five seconds later, another Twilight Sparkle clone trotted down the hall, looking Fluttershy up and down with avid interest. Unlike normal Twilight, this one’s mane and tail had the look of being wet even when it wasn’t. Her eyes also remained half-lidded, as if constantly thinking about something bad. When she stopped to stand in front of her, she even held out her plot to one side as if showcasing it.
                
Sexy Sparkle grinned at her. “You’re new. And adorable too. Let me pinch those cheeks of yours!”
                
“I’d rather you didn’t—”
                
Before Fluttershy could finish her sentence, Sexy Sparkle went to her and ran a hoof from her neck up to her mane. Fluttershy took a step back until her butt squished against the wall.
                
Sexy Sparkle gasped. “And she’s shy! My oh my, aren’t you just the sexiest little thing. Let’s see what happens if I just…” She moved a lock of Fluttershy’s mane to cover half her face. “Wow! A mysterious pony! ‘What’s she thinking?’ ‘Oh, I know! How to be adorably sexy at all times.’ Jeeze, girl. Where have you been all my life? All… eight days of it, so far.”
                
“You must be Sexy Sparkle,” Fluttershy squeaked out.
                
Sexy Sparkle lifted both hooves into the air. “So you’ve heard of me! That’s fantastic! My name’s already spreading.” She held a hoof to the side of her mouth. “I hope that’s not the only thing of mine that gets a good spreading, if you catch my drift. Huh? Huh?”
                
She nudged her in the ribs until Fluttershy nodded in return.
                
Sexy Sparkle sighed. “What was I doing down here again? Oh, yes. You didn’t happen to see a stallion down here, did you? Looks kinda like me and kinda like everyone else around here except for one very large difference that’s pretty hard to miss if you know just where to look. His name’s Trevor Sparkle and I’m starting to suspect he’s avoiding me.”
                
Fluttershy tried to become one with the stone wall behind her; slow her breathing and her thoughts so she could pass through the stone and into whatever lay behind it. If she got stuck halfway across the physical planes of flesh and stone and was trapped inside the castle walls for all eternity, she’d eagerly accept it over further conversation with Sexy Sparkle.
                
“What do you want with him?” Fluttershy asked, still thinking about the quietness of stone.
                
Sexy Sparkle chuckled deeply. “Oh, just a friendly chat. Maybe a few drinks. Maybe an invite upstairs to Twilight’s room to have a very intimate chat between the three of us. Since Trevor’s the only stallion in this bizarre castle of clones, I’ve been meaning to catch him—I mean, speak with him—as soon as I could. You didn’t happen to see him, did you?”
                
Fluttershy hid behind a lock of mane again. “Can’t say that I have.”
                
Sexy Sparkle frowned. “Pity. I think he’s afraid of me because he thinks I’ll break his pelvis during our little chat. I mean, I will, once I get my hooves on him. I’ll absolutely ruin that smexy stud.”
                
“Smexy?”
                
Sexy Sparkle flipped a bit of wavy mane away from her face. “Oh, that? For someone like me that considers most things either gorgeous or sexy, I’ve found the need for an entirely new classification of what turns me on. One step above sexy is smexy. So far, Twilight Sparkle and Trevor Sparkle are the only ones worthy of such a term.”
                
Achoo!
                
Trevor Sparkle sneezed from beyond the closet door.
                
Sexy Sparkle turned to it. “Was that a sneeze?”
                
Fluttershy hurriedly ran a hoof across her nose. “Yes! Excuse me! There must be a lot of dust in the basement.”
                
Sexy Sparkle stared at her. “That sneeze sounded awfully masculine, I must say.”
                
Fluttershy shrugged. “Genetic trait?”
                
Sexy Sparkle narrowed her eyes, giving Fluttershy a smoldering look. “Damn. Just when I thought you couldn’t possibly get any sexier: adorable, shy, sneezes like a stallion. Watch out, my cute little mare. If you’re not careful, you might just find your name at the very top of my smexy list.”
                
Fluttershy grimaced. “I’d rather not be on that list, if that’s all right with you.”
                
“Then you gotta stop being so damn sexy all the time.”
                
“But I don’t know how!”
                
Sexy Sparkle rolled her eyes. “And here she goes again! You know how sexy naivety is these days?”
                
“Not really.”
                
“Very.”
                
“Really?”
                
“Oh, yes.” Sexy Sparkle backed away from her, giving Fluttershy some room to breathe. “You’re lucky I’m on a mission right now, cutie pie. Otherwise I’d have you on the floor faster than you could say, ‘Hey, I’m on the floor. How did that happen?’”
                
Fluttershy kept silent, hopeful the mare would depart soon.
                
Sexy Sparkle hoofed over a business card. Where it came from on her body was anyone’s guess, as Sexy Sparkle—naturally—had no clothes to speak of.
                
“Here’s my card, if you ever want to… I don’t know, spend some quality time together.”
                
Fluttershy glanced at the card. “All it says is ‘Move your tail upwards and four inches to the left.’”
                
“That’s all you need to do, honey, and then I’ll come running. I have a sixth sense about things like that.”
                
“I believe you.”
                
Sexy Sparkle gasped noisily. “Believability, too! What did I just tell you about being so damn sexy in front of me? Now you’re just trying to take advantage of me and my special talents.”
                
Fluttershy retreated into the wall again. “Please just tell me what’s sexy and what’s not sexy so that I may try and not be so sexy in front of you!”
                
“I would, but I gotta run. It’s been fun, though. Have a quickie on the house.”
                
Sexy Sparkle leaned in to give Fluttershy a kiss on the lips. As brief as the contact was, Fluttershy nearly collapsed to the floor as all of her nerve endings were struck with blinding amounts of pleasure. When Sexy Sparkle backed away, Fluttershy found her lips and tongue completely numb.
                
Fluttershy even forgot her own name for a while.
                
“Tootles!”
                
Sexy Sparkle gave Fluttershy a playful slap on the butt before hurrying up the hall.
                
Alone, Fluttershy sat on the cold stone floor and tried best to summarize all that had happened to her and her friends since first entering Twilight’s castle.
                
“What the buck is going on here?”