//------------------------------// // “Guess Everypony’s Seeing Double” // Story: The Mane 6 Finally Find Their Stallions // by RainbowBlitzkrieg //------------------------------// Blitz helped up his friends after he dusted himself off, a little salty from not being able to catch the Master, but he was gratefully to see he had Princess Twilight to help him teach the others. “So these are what ‘hoomans’ look like?” Apple Jack asked, examining her hands and boots. “Gosh, you all look so familiar,” Twilight surveyed the friends. “Indeed they do, Twi.” Blitz looked this way and that to see ponies emerge from their hiding places. “Uh...girls?” Fluttershy squeaked and shied away as a pony started smelling her. “Uh...how do we explain this, Blitzkrieg?” Twilight tossed a glance Blitz’s way. “Well, uh…” Blitz thought, then decided to just go with what he heard the Master say. “Mayor Mare?” he called as the pony in call came from behind her podium. “Rainbow Blitz?” Mayor Mare almost collapsed from surprise, but Luna showed up, in the nick of time, to keep her up right. “Yes, it’s me, Mayor…” Blitz quickly bowed, along with the rest of the friends (taking their motions from Blitz and Twilight) and ponies. “My liege, I didn’t expect--” “You never expect me, Blitz.” She interrupted with an air of anger and sadness. “I have seen your recent dreams of this Master and came quickly to avert a catastrophe, but it may seem I’m too late.” She looked at the new humans standing in front of her, snorting as she laid eyes on the bowing Blitz, thinking he was trying his hardest to distance himself from her. “No, we can still stop him,” Twilight spoke from Dusk Shine’s side, a little quiet as to not be too rude to interject. “Yes, we may--” Blitz tried to get up, but soon fell flat on his flank as the ground shook. The shaking toppling Dash onto AJ, then Applejack, then all the friends collapsed in a heap, Luna flailed her wing as she fell on top of Blitz. Blitz, the wind knocked out of him by Luna, managed to at least give her a small smile as he embraced her midsection to keep her from falling anymore; She blushed at the gesture and kept still as best she could. “Oh look, all the fillies and colts are falling over like dominoes.” Discord chuckled as he spun around to see a very similar dragon, to himself, but figured to be a female. “Oh goodie! That means Legion will be pleased with us, Honey.” The female dragon looked through a telescope she made appear, which stuck out of the bubble her and the rest of the Master’s posse were lounging in, in space, in wait of their rocket to work. “I believe so, Eris, Darling.” He gave her a grin that was shadowed with remorse the both of them shared. “I don’t understand how we’re here anyway--another, Sombra,” Queen Osura, the female doppelganger of Sombra, was lounging on a couch waiting for Sombra to feed her another grape; with both pleasure and annoyance about him, Sombra did so as the Master spoke. “Well, my Queen...I’ve been able to travel between your dimension and Sombra’s for quite a while. We decided to bring you here with us so that you don’t feel the after-effects of what is to come.” The Master pointed straight outwards towards the rocket, which had expanded a second time to produce a satellite dish that was now bombarding the planet below with dark purple, magnetic, waves. “Yes, the combination of his and my magic will be able to bring our two worlds together, but we have concern about the effects to the population.” Trixter gave Trixie a soft nuzzle, seeing as they were relaxed on another couch. “But, I do know that nothing will be destroyed, that’s for sure. Everything and every-‘one’ will be accounted for when done, and soon, Missy’s half of our machine--in your world, Oscura--will unite with mine in the one below and the ponies will be at their weakest.” Chrysalis, recline on another chair (made for her by Eris herself), was being fanned by a rather large changeling as she spoke, “And soon, Equestria will be ours and we can finally get some peace. Isn’t that right, Amorphous?” From a speech to the group, to a small kiss to the changeling fanning her, Chrysalis’ demeanor changed in an instant as she looked into the eyes of King Amorphous. The Master stifled a laugh, “Goodness, all you are quite entranced by your opposites. Seems I wasn’t the only one to find a connection in that world.” Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, the more the ground shook the more there seemed to be that the buildings were cloning themselves. Blitz held onto Luna and just thought the shaking was making him see double, then he noticed his TARDIS, suspended still, behind SugarCube Corner. “What...t-t-t-t-t-the?” Then it all stopped, when Blitz popped his eyes open again he soon found everything to be back to normal and his TARDIS gone from sight. “Uh...Princess Luna?” He charismatically rubbed her back to get her to her senses. “Huh...what?” She got up, still blushing and frantically moving her hooves in embarrassment. “My apologies, Prince Blitzkrieg.” She gave him a smile. “Uh…I’m no Prince, Luna, but if you’re dubbing me such I like the ring of it.” Blitz grinned back as he got up. Luna screwed up her face in confusion, surprise, and annoyance and snorted again. “Pompous…” She looked about as Blitz became confused himself, “It seems everything is fine here, we shall take our leave.” She gave Blitz a growl and walked off, noticing nothing new as she disappeared. “Uh...Mind expainin’ that, SugarCube?” Apple Jack asked as she helped Dash up, confused as well as the rest of the friends as to Luna’s actions. “Beats me.” He turned about and looked at the friends, then cocked his head to one side in confusion. “Uh, Madam Mayor. Did you leave a candle on in your house?” “No, I never do…” She looked up at her window and saw one on, soon rushing to her home in hopes nothing got burnt, but when she flung open the door she saw herself standing in the kitchen; however, something about this pony made him seem more stallion like. She screwed up her face and looked at the pony, coughing to get their attention, “Excuse me, sir. What are you doing in my kitchen?” He turned, “Uh...I believe this is my--” His jaw dropped as well as hers. “Think she got it?” Pinkie asked Dash. “Well, I’ve never seen her run that fast before, but that light’s still on.” Dash answered. “Hey, Dusk Shine, a letter for you,” A pony hovered behind Dusk. The familiar voice brought Dusk about and to his surprise it was Dopey! The mailcolt of his world, he hugged the pony about the neck. “How the hay did you get here? And how’d you know it was me?” “Well, I was the Professor’s companion long enough to not be bothered by dimensional movement and I could tell it was you even if you’d changed form.” Dopey squeed, his eyes going derp once more as he finished his intuitive speech. A human hand came up and snatched the note from Dopey. “This is from Solaris? Why didn’t he just send it the usual way?” Spines asked Dusk Shine. Dusk looked down from Dopey to realise that Spines and Spike had been with them, and now her scales and tail were gone. She was about his chest height and fully human too, with the brightest emerald eyes imaginable. “Spines?” “Yes?” She looked up at him and realised what he was. “You’re a human, like Spike described. Oh! Where’s Spike?” She looked about frantically to see a human Spike yank himself free from a nearby bush. “Spike!” She ran to him, helping him get thorns out of his arms. “Well, that was weird.” Dusk turned to Dopey who was still hovering there, looking at him. “Uh...Dopey, you might want to land. We don’t know if there’s more ‘becoming human.’” Dopey did, but soon spied Derpy walking out of her home, a smaller filly in tow. Either something clicked in his head or his heart skipped a beat, but his eyes became normal once more and he trotted his way to introduce himself to the mare coming from “his” home. “Well, guess everypony’s seeing double.” Dusk turned around to see his friends and the few gathered ponies bowing, a shadow crawling over him. “Prince Solaris?!” Prince Dusk’s wings would have been on end, if he still had them, as he hugged his mentor about the neck. The full grown horse to human ration was good enough for Dusk to not need to look up so much. Then he saw Princess Celestia by his side and Prince Artemis on his other side, with Princess Luna on his “arm.” “I believe you need to explain what’s been happening, Dusk.” Solaris smiled to his pupil and then signaled for Blitz to come up. “And Artemis’ pupil, Blitz, you also need to explain, for I don’t believe this could have been done by any mere pony.”