Sparks was pissed. Sunset was confused. I was with Sunset on this one.
I kept a very close eye on Dupli!Twilight as I checked on Amber, having pulled a bookshelf off her.
Her chitin seemed mostly okay, it was cracked on one rear leg, but she was alive if completely out of it.
Holding her close by my wing to let her draw on my energy, I explained to Sparks and Sunset what happened with Discord.
Fucking Discord.
Sparks looked between me and Dupli!Twilight, “And you thought it was a good idea to wreck my library!?”
“She attacked Amber!” I protested, “It’s weird mirror dimension Twilight!”
Lack of beard or not!
“I saw a changeling!” Dupli!Twilight protested, “They’re evil!”
“They are not evil!” I protested, “She was protecting me! From you!”
Sparks shook her head, “Okay everypony, calm down,” she said and spread her wings with a sigh before turning to Dupli!Twilight, “Why are you here?”
Dupli!Twilight picked a hiding Dupli!Spike up and put him on her back, “I’m… well, he, whomever he is, isn’t wrong. I’m from another dimension, well, timeline really. I’m trying to stop a mare called Starlight Glimmer from ending the world. She’s trying to stop me from meeting my friends, the other bearers of the elements of harmony. Then she sends me into those worlds and I have to return to stop her.”
“Elements of harmony,” I said and held Amber tighter as I felt her stir slightly, “Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle.”
Dupli!Twilight blinked at me in surprise, “Yes! I met them here!?”
Twilight nodded, “I did, they are my best friends.”
Dupli!Twilight looked confused, “But… then what…”
“Discord,” I said, “You weren’t mean to end up in this timeline. He accused me of being a source of chaos ponies liked and that I changed things. He said he was going to show me. I think he redirected you here from where you were really going.”
Dupli!Twilight nodded, “That makes sense. I mean, in any other world I gone to, things had been…”
“Bad?” Sparks asked her.
Dupli!Twilight nodded, “Bad. Nightmare Moon ruling Equestria, Equestria at war against King Sombra…” she said before glancing at Amber, “Changelings overrunning the land, feeding on ponies.”
“They are not like that,” I said and shook my head, “not anymore.”
“It’s true,” Sparks confirmed, “The changelings are our allies. At least the hive of Queen Chrysalis and Princess Skitter are.”
Dupli!Twilight looked a bit confused, “Who’s Princes…” she said before she shook her head, “Never mind, I need to get back and stop Starlight Glimmer.”
Sparks frowned, “…Did you say Starlight Glimmer?”
“Why?”
“Because here, she is my student.”
Dupli!Twilight looked surprised, “…Did she take over a village and steal their cutiemarks?”
“Yes, but she was misguided, not evil,” Sparks protested, “I mean, she’s trying to do better, and I don’t see her doing something like this!”
I did. But I had also seen her dreams. Even now, Starlight Glimmer was trouble and without help, I could easily have seen her snap after losing if we didn’t manage to catch her.
Dupli!Twilight frowned and then shook her head, “Maybe. But I must stop her,” she said and moved around the table, “I need to find the scroll to… oh no.”
Sunset looked at her, “What?”
Dupli!Twilight lifted up burned and tattered fragments of what looked like paper from the ground. There wasn’t a lot there.
Sparks quickly moved up to her, “What was it?”
Dupli!Twilight sat down, staring at it, “It… it was the scroll. The scroll containing the spell, the key to the entire matrix. Without the scroll…” she said and glanced back at the Dupli!Spike on her back as he stared back at her before he spoke up,
“…We’re stuck...” he said, sinking down to lay on her back, “…We’re not getting home.”
Dupli!Twilight swallowed, “We’ll find a way.”
Sparks nodded and put her hoof on her shoulder, “We will. I haven’t found a spell yet I can’t figure out with time.”
“And now there are two of you,” Sunset said with a smile, “We’ll fix it.”
Dupli!Twilight managed a small smile, “Thanks, I…” she started before she frowned at Sunny, “…you’re Sunset Shimmer. What are you doing in Equestria, aren’t you supposed to be in the human world?”
Sunset blinked at her, “I am?”
Dupli!Twilight then turned to look at me, “…And I still have no idea who you are. A male alicorn… I didn’t even think that was possible!”
“King Sombra, nice to meet you,” I told her with a smile.
Dupli!Twilight took a quick step back.
Sunset sighed and facehooved, “Page, so not the time or place. The pony who think he is funny is Blank Page.”
Amber groaned a bit and started to slowly blink awake.
“If you excuse me, can we perhaps focus on the injured ‘ling?” I then asked, shooting a look at Sunset, “Help me move her to the couch?”
Think of all the story inspiration, Page! This is a creative gold mine!
That King Sombra gag is awesome.
Heh
That made me laugh more than it should have.
LOVE TRIANGLE SOLVED tune in next week to see Hiver square the circle of life!
Easy. Either 1) the restoration process they used on the Crystal Heart, or 2) Starlight Glimmer in Dupli-world found the scroll there once, she can find this world's scroll now. That would mean that this world wouldn't have one, but I think we can safely say we're better off without.
Twilight: 78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m19j0zf4GO1qc371io1_500.gif
Hah! That Sombra crack almost makes up for how short this was.
Okay it was about the same length but I am hanging on the letters here! I need Moar!!
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That was a joke.
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King David, IIRC. But excellent points made with your post.
Who? What beard?
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Ah a Star Trek reference. I thought I had missed something in a chapter. Thank you
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It's been a long time since the selfcest group got any new material!
I like this story but it feels heavily hampered by its microchapter nature. I feel like things are starting to develop and then end. Further you skip events that interest me (most of the Griffon Kingdom) and instead force a tell rather than show on me. I’m not saying this story is bad but the starting and stopping is hurting my enjoyment. Good laugh at the Sombra gag but *shrug*
Congratulation Discord, you just managed to distort Canon Equestria because of being envious. Right know CanonTwi is going to learn a lot of shit, she wasn't supposed to know. Most important peace with changelings. As CanonTwi need to wait for scroll, she may and as Princess of Friendship should explore how it was done, so she may emulate it in her world.
I even know how to made super-argument for CanonChrysalis, so she will be willing for speaking. Simply CanonTwi need to speak with PageChrysalis (she will help with it for sake of other herself and other her hive) about something that only Chrysalis know, so she will have a proof of this all, also location of Badlands hive, memo about Crystal Throne and others important things. Even better if they may make something that contain sound (if possible vision too), so PageChrysalis would record herself with messege for CanonChrysalis.
Nice, isn't it? But it all means, that Canon reformation of changelings will almost surely never happened, as this option will not be pushed.
So Discord, you fucked up royally, because of your wounded feelings, you still not understand what you do wrong. For somebody so clever, you are dumb as hell.
Heh i was almost certain, he would end up next to Amber, after that sentence.
hoves off Twilight 2 he is spoken for.
I can't wait for Canon!Twi to explain the Cutie Map table...
And now because of Dupli!Twilight, Skitter will put 2 or 3 changelings to guard Page.
"Dupli!Twilight" is repeated a bit too much in this chapter. Tbh, I think that Universe!Character is not a very good way to write that kind of thing in general. Both doesn't read and look well. Would work a lot better with some more variation.
"Sparks" should bring in her own version of Starlight to help fix this.
Hah! Serves her right for hitting the poor guardbug so hard.
Imma take a break on this. I give you a lot of slack for being slow on the addition of tropes like alicorn OC or royalty because you actually make the character work for it but I’m just kind of...I’m torn on the harem thing. I do t know if it fits the setting, which is pretty slice-of-life-y. I’ll return later, when I don’t have to agonize over this for several days waiting for new chapters. More than there are now, anyway. I know how short your chapters are.
I think you would be better off referring to the Alternate time line twilight as just plain twilight And refer To the actual twilight as sparks that will read so much better I believe
If the local Starlight has the same time-travel knowledge, she could jump back to when the (presumably) core-timeline Twilight and Spike appeared, and either duplicate the scroll or switch it with a fake.
Heck, even if she doesn't, presumably the local Canterlot library has Star Swirl's original jump-back-a-week spell. Have core!Twi travel to Canterlot and cast it, take the slow path for a week, and then rig up an auto-scroll-switch spell a few hours before she's due to appear again. She gets the original scroll, waits around until her previous self goes off to Canterlot, then walks back in to the library.
TROLL!
Okay, that makes sense.
Page humor is golden Nice one
Discord screwed over one Equestria
"Agent Hitler, FBI"
Blank Page, master of dark humor.
Sombra master of shadows.
I can see them become drinking buddy's.