I'm sorry, friendship is what now? How... quaint. Well, we don't believe in magic here. We believe in science. Delicious, magical science!

Twilight Sparkle is (by sheer coincidence to her name) a Spark: someone who is able to use questionable science to create miraculous devices that defy the laws of reality. She's still learning, though, and can't quite get out of a slump that endangers her career. Soon, however, a quintet of mysterious beings will cross her path, throwing her into a battle against an otherworldly foe. Her only hope is to push her talents to their limits, discover what lies beyond the enigmatic Intertwined Gate, and show them... show them ALL!

(This fic is based on the excellent webcomic Girl Genius, taking place several decades after the current time of the story.)

New chapter every Sunday!

Due to it coming out after I started writing this, Rainbow Rocks both did and didn't happen. Only Equestria Girls 1 is canon to this story. Meaning that there may be references to Rainbow Rockz but it will never be acknowledged as having actually happened.

Twilight sparkle is your average girl. Except she's a genius. So to start off her senior year in high school she's transferred to the most prestigious [non-private] school in town: Cantalot High.
It's not really a big deal. She wasn't really that close with any of her friends from her old school and never really hung out that much anyway. She'll make one or two new friends here but really she'll just blend in and be another new student at the start of the year. Nothing more, nothing less... right?
Nope.
Turns out last year there was another girl who looked exactly like her and had the same name came to this school for only three days, got the entire school to vote for her as prom-queen, turned into an angel, fought a demon and then danced with the hottest guy in the school, all before returning to her home planet.
So that 'nothing more, nothing less' plan's kinda gone out the window.

The first chapter or two are a little bit dark but that’s pushed aside pretty quickly. Mostly at least, I mean the story needs some conflict after all. By chapter 3 and the whole fitting in ascept over takes it.
Originally planned to be four chapters long it was perfectly on track with that for the first three chapters. Then by that point I had gotten to many future ideas to stop.
So prepare yourself for seemingly random [though ALL of it is thoroughly planned out] encounters and my own stupid head-canon as Twilight meets the mane 6 of whom which Summer Sunset is one, her other self's former love interest Flash 'Brad' Sentry, Great and Powerful background humans including Applejack, teacher's each with their own crazy zainy quirts, Spike the 200 pound muscle-bound pitbull of absolute adorableness and whatever the CMC are called in this universe... let's call them the KND.
And of course tons of shipping jokes but there's no actual shipping in it. That last part may or may not be true.
Also that's just the way I spell Cantalot and I know it's technically wrong.

I started writing this in late October, before S4 so blame any canon errors on that and/or not caring under the guise of 'alternate universe!'.

Proof read by warewolves, lonelyCur, The Vault Tech and McStuffins.

To say Lyra is jealous of Twilight going to the human world is an understatement. She is so jealous that she decides to find her own way there. Using an ancient spell book, which she “borrowed”, she soon creates a portal to the human world.

Too bad it's not the same one Twilight was in with colorful people who look exactly like her friends. In fact, it looks more like ours.

Now after having her fun here. She decides that its time to go back home. But a group of snooty popular girls, an oppressive dean, and a corrupt student disciplinary committee prevent her from even getting near the return portal. In order to do this, she obtains the help of 3 genius slackers. With their help, she faces the dreaded challenge of surviving high school all over again, learning all kinds of human advantages, and hopefully finding her way back to Equestria.

If they don't find out who she is first.

Tori Sprackle is an unhealthy young woman who is told by her mentor and teacher, Dean Celeste, to go live with her younger sister, principal of a high school in the rural town of Ponyville and make some friends. So Tori and Spike set off on a new adventure... One Tori's hoping will end as soon as possible.

A girl genius devoted her life to developing a teleportation machine.

But what’s the point of it working if in order to use it, one first has to measure the quantum coordinates at the destination?

The breakthrough came in a dream. Through the intertwined dream realm, Twilight Sparkle sent her coordinates to Equestria. There were no breaks anymore for this mad, but sexy, scientist.

[This story is an entry for Science Fiction Contest II.]