Chapter 1
Twilight stood amongst her friends anxiously awaiting Princess Celestia's approval of her latest idea. She was going to perform a spell of her own design that would pull her human friends into their world to meet her pony friends. And as anxious as she was she knew that the other Princesses were very busy at the present time. The minotaur's ambassadors were expected shortly in order to see if their once notably powerful allies were in fact still powerful. The Griffons were also skeptical of how well the "world defending" country was fairing. After all, many evil ponies, demons, and ancient powerful beings, had all come close to defeating them. The princesses had their plates full right now reassuring them that they were still able to hold their own amongst the world powers, if not wipe them from the face of world entirely.
'Politics, Twilight thought derisively, more like a contest for who has the biggest stick.' Twilight wasn't a mare to waste time however, so while she waited she poured over her notes, checked and double checked her calculations, made sure she was going to be reaching across the right dimensional barriers to get there as easily and quickly as possible. And everything looked perfect. The dimension she was trying to reach was right next door, so to speak, so there reall wasn't anything left to do. The spell was committed to memory, after all she created it. Well, the original source material for the concepts and such had come from Star Swirls notes as well as Clover the Clever. But that was more so she could research any negative effects it might have. As long as the visit was kept short, she pulled the right humans over, and they went home the same way the came... all would be well.
"TWIIIIIILIIIIIGHT!!" When are we gonna meet them?! You said they were just like us and they wanted to meet us, butwehavebeen waitingandwaitingandwaitingandIamgettingREALLYbored!" Pinkie said as she sprinted around Twilights room ignoring the laws of physics. The usual, though running circles on the ceiling was somewhat new.
"Pinkie, I told you. This kind of magic is more dangerous than most. Celestia has only done this magic twice in her life. And one of those times was to me an alicorn. Reaching through a self created dimensional rift is EXTREMELY difficult. That's why I need all of you here, you will serve as anchors and as a way for me to easily lock onto your human counterparts. But that will be impossible if you keep freaking out like this!"
"Twilight, it's just that we're all excited to these he-u-mans you told us about. And that they look and act like us is even COOLER! I mean one Dash is near perfect! But two.... imagine the possibilities..." Rainbow trailed off with an indescribable look on her face.
Twilight looked at Rainbow concernedly, and shuddered at the implications of what she said... Moreso in the case of Pinkie doing the exact same thing... the possibilities. She began to consider telling them all that prolonged contact with their doubles might bring about the end of the world, before a scroll and a book popped into existence in front of her causing the room to go silent, and Pinkie to drop unceremoniously to the floor.
Twilight picked up the scroll, and unrolled it. She looked at it for several minutes causing her friends a small amount of worry considering ho her face fell... and that she could read a lot faster than that. She than looked at the book and to her friends, before grinning sheepishly.
"She say's the spell exists, and that while I was right to look at all the possible things that can go wrong... the spell she made is better suited to eliminate them. And yes, we do have permission to bring them here, right now in fact, but..."
"No butts missy! We have ben waiting for this for a long time now! Months!" Pinkie shouted at the now somewhat exacerbated unicorn in front of her while waving her arms about frantically. Just do it for Pete's sake! By the way who's Pete?"
"Twilight dear, Pinkie is correct. We have been waiting a rather LONG time for this to happen, and if everything about the princesses spell is better suited, why not just go with the plan right now using it?" Rarity asked with a confused and anxious look on her face.
"Now simmer down ya'll, I'm sure Twilight will do it. She probably a bit embarrassed that she put so much work into a something she ain't gonna use right Twi?" Applejack said as she smiled somewhat wryly at Twilight's blushing, exacerbated face.
"Hehe, yeah I am sure that's probably it. Well here we go girls, a promise is a promise." Twilight said as she opened the book and began to let her magic flow through her. As she did however she failed to notice the even more than usual excited Pinkie, pull out a party cannon from nowhere. The magic began to flow naturally as she searched through space and time to find her friends and pull them through it. The spell given to her was extremely complex and didn't offer any solutions as to how she would know where to look or how to tell if she was grabbing the right group...but she figured that since the had come into contact with the Elements of Harmony the might have a lingering magical trace that she could grab hold of. And then she found them and began to pull, just as Pinkie's cannon went of, startling Rainbow from her reverie of all too imaginable things her and her counterpart might do as she suddenly found herself air born. Also crashing her into Twilight at the speed of confetti.
Twilight gave a yelp, and hurriedly tried to find her friends once more and lock onto the first magic signature she could find before pulling the rest of the way as quickly as possible.
"There all is fine, all is good. They should be here any-" Twilight tried to say as she was cut off by a loud boom and the ground beneath their feet trembling violently.
"Oops..." Pinkie said as they all glared at her from the now awkward positions on the floor they had assumed when the ground shook. "My bad?"