interlude chapter: The Mirror
*Canterlot Castle halls*
Twilight and Jake were walking alone through the halls of Canterlot Castle. The reason why is because Twilight had offered to give Jake a tour of the castle, which he had accepted. Twilight told Jake all about the history of Canterlot Castle and the various rooms she showed to him. A lot of the information was boring, and Jake could care less for, but he was interested in some of the legends like Nightmare Moon, Starswirl the Bearded, and Tirek. Things went on like this until Twilight mentioned something that caught Jake's ear. "This room used to hold the Crystal Mirror, that's the mirror that leads to the human world. It was relocated to the Crystal Empire for Princess Cadance to watch over. But after my first adventure through the portal and once I got my own castle it was relocated there so I could study it on my own."
"Did you just say portal to the human world?" Jake asked remembering Fluttershy mentioning the mirror before.
"Yes, why?" Twilight asks staring, then realizes. "Oh."
"Can you take me to see it?"
"Sure, but I don't think-"
"Well then, let's go see if it'll take me home."
"But, don't you want to say goodbye to everyone before you leave?"
"I can come back through the portal right?"
"Well yes."
"Then let's at least see if it works." Twilight pondered this for a moment before she nodded yes and charged her horn, preparing it to teleport them to her castle. Twilight and Jake became surrounded in a light violet sphere, and suddenly they teleported to Twilight's castle. Twilight felt a little dizzy after that, and Jake asked her "Are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm just fine. Teleporting over such a long distance is a bit of a strain."
"Okay, so where's the mirror?"
"Right this way." Twilight led him through the map room and past her Dining Hall straight to the portal room. "Well here it is."
Jake studied the mirror. It was somewhat in the shape of a horseshoe with mirror glass in the center. It looked kinda fancy but more towards equine standards. There were a lot of wavy designs on the outside and two small steps leading up to it. There was also what looked almost like a smaller mirror perched on top of the larger one, this one had the shape of a pony in it. Could this thing really take him home?
"Are you ready to give it a try?" Twilight asked.
"Let's go."
"Wait a moment I need to set everything up." Twilight said this as she began moving several objects around. Wires, a pumping mechanism, and finally a book with Celestia's symbol on it which she placed on a weird looking shelf platform above the mirror. After that the book started to glow and magical energy coils wrapped around the electrical antennas, wires, and do-hickeys. Magic began flowing through the entire mechanism and the pumping machine began spewing out magical glowing paper. Finally the mirror itself glowed with a bright pink light from which Twilight and Jake shielded their eyes. When they looked back the mirror had a glowing pink vortex where the mirror glass used to be.
Twilight smiled and said "There we go."
"Let's go." Jake said.
"Wait." Twilight stopped Jake before he just walked through the portal. "I should warn you it's a pretty crazy ride. You'll feel very... uncomfortable once you go through."
"Nothing I can't handle." Jake said with a grin.
"Alright then let's go." Twilight smiled and they both walked into the portal. Suddenly everything was spinning and colors flashed before Jake's eyes. Then everything went black.
Jake's eyes slowly began to open, and once they did he realized he was on his knees laying on a school sidewalk. He looked around and saw he was in front of a white statue monument with a horse on top of it. Looking around some more he noticed some cars driving by, and heard the voices of school children 'This must be Earth right?' Jake looked around for Twilight and found something pretty surprising. Instead of Twilight there was a girl kneeling on the sidewalk next to him, she was wearing a dark purple skirt, a light blue shirt, and some large purple/pink boots. Except it wasn't a normal looking girl, for one thing her skin was purple! OK maybe it was violet but still! Wait a minute the skin color was the same as Twilight's fur, and her hair/mane was the same too, and on the skirt was the same mark that Twilight had on her flank. Could this be Twilight? No way... Maybe? Better find out.
"Hey are you okay?" Jake asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Could you help me up?" The girl spoke in voice that sounded just like Twilight. It's got to be her... Just to be sure.
"Twilight is that you?"
"Yeah who did you think?"
Jake gestured at her and she stared for just a second before realizing he was confused by her changed appearance. "Oh right. Whenever a pony travels through the mirror portal they change into their respective human counterpart."
"Human counterpart?"
"Yes everypony in Equestria has a human counterpart here in this world somewhere. Basically someone here will have the same name and personality as somepony in Equestria, and vice versa."
"Really?... Okay but why is your skin purple?"
Twilight stared at him for a moment like he was dumb "Because it's the color of my fur back in Equestria obviously."
"But normal human skin isn't purple... or blue or pretty much any color of the rainbow... unless it's dyed."
"Really? Then explain them?" Twilight pointed at some school kids walking by, and they all had different skin colors. One had a light blue skin color, one had a magenta skin color, and the last was orange.
"What the?" Jake looked around observing everyone around him. Everybody seemed to have a different skin color. Jake noticed people walking across the streets, people driving in their cars, people walking their dogs. Not a single one of them had a 'normal' looking skin color. This wasn't Earth. "This, this isn't my home."
"What?"
"On my world humans skin doesn't come in blue, red, or green. It pretty much ranges from a light tan like mine to a dark brown, and everything in-between."
"Really... I knew it!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Knew what?"
"I knew there was something different about you, I had a feeling you weren't from this world."
"Well why didn't you say something?"
"Well I wasn't quite sure, and if I was wrong then I would be preventing you from finding your home."
Jake thought over what she told him and understood why she didn't say anything. "OK Let's go back then." The two friends turned around and Twilight led Jake back through the mirror on the human side, which turned out to be the horse monument they were standing in front of.
Jake saw all the bright colors again and felt like his head was spinning. But when he opened his eyes he was once again in the portal room of Twilight's castle. Looking over he saw Twilight back to her normal form and shaking her head to clear her thoughts. She looked over at Jake with a grin and asked "So your kind only has a skin coloring ranging from light tan to dark brown huh? You've got to tell me more, tell me everything you know about your species!" She said getting more and more eager as she went on, and slowly getting closer to Jake's face. Before she got too close Jake replied "Alright later. Right now let's go back to Canterlot, I'm sure some-...pony is wondering where we are."
Twilight looked disappointed but agreed "Okay." She charged up her horn and teleported the two back to Jake's bedroom suite in Canterlot.
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amazing
6213555 Thanks. But was it really that good?
6214134 I've noticed that too, I think it's actually just someone going out of his way to be a troll, but I think he missed a few.
6214449 Fair enough.
Noice
Short and effective
6214943 Thanks.
6214635 That review took me a fair bit of time to complete......I'm actually really proud of it!
Note: I don't hate the story, I just don't like what you've done (it seems really stupid to me) but I will accept it. I might come back and read what you've done at a later date.
6216110 I know a lot of people don't like it. Most seem okay with it though. Honestly I didn't really think people would end up hating Tempest as much as they did so when I finally got to that part I was a little afraid of how people would react. I wanted Jake to be one of those rare humans who's actually willing to forgive someone like that (of course Tempest would have to be sorry first) I guess maybe I should have handled it better. Keep in mind Jake didn't want Tempest getting off scott free he wanted justice, but only what was necessary nothing too extreme, but nothing too simple either. However this is a bit of a problem for me because I know Tempest's punishment is too light, I wanted to add more to it but I couldn't come up with anything. I decided it wasn't worth holding the whole chapter up because I couldn't think of like five words to add to Tempest's punishment. If you have a suggestion that's not too extreme please let me know, spoiler I do need to bring Tempest back later though so keep that in mind I hope you will enjoy the ending though I plan on making that scene feel worth it for the climax.
6214075 yea it was i wouldint have said that if it wasnt
6216189 okay.
6216160 Remove his horn.
6216227 He'll need his magic later in the story but I guess I could make him temporarily lose his horn. Thanks.
6216160 In HiEs, forgiving and forgetting is too common. Probably because it's easy to write and people want their characters to be morally superior.
He should've became a pony when he went back to Equestria through that mirror... is that what the "alternate" next chapter is?
Thanks for replying this and answering from previous questions related with this.