Too Many Twilights

by Sunny_and_Auri_23

This is the most I've talked to myself

Twilight Sparkle was having a normal day. Wake up, take a shower, have breakfast, send Spike off to Rarity, send Starlight off to fly kites with her friends, and read. It was completely normal. Too normal. It was also Tuesday. No Tuesday ever gave her enough time to sit down and read. Yet she was in her library doing exactly that. Twilight paused for a moment, and stared blankly at the wall in front of her, silently praying that the normalness of today wasn’t just too good to be true.

But alas, the universe apparently still held a grudge against her because of the Want-It-Need-It spell.

Come on, universe! That was years ago! Twilight mentally grunted when she noticed the first unusual thing of the day.
It was a patch of white floating in mid-air, like what she imagined a tear in the fabric of reality to look like. Upon further inspection, it was a tear in the fabric of reality. And it was...growing.
Twilight had no time to react as a blinding flash engulfed her library, leaving her to hold a hoof up in protection of her face and close her eyes.

When she reopened them, the tear had disappeared, and in its place were several familiar lavender ponies staring back at her with confusion evident in their eyes. Twilight couldn’t help but reciprocate their expression as she recognised those ponies.
Other Twilights. Twenty-three of them.

Silence.

Then all the Twilights broke out, panicking and hyperventilating. It was total chaos, which original Twilight found ironic since she was the master of organisation. Well, at least native Twilight was. Hmm I’ll dub myself ‘Normal Twilight’, she decided, to avoid confusion for the readers.

Oh well, it was time to find out what the hay just happened.
“Fellow Twilights!” She shouted, catching the rest of the Twilights’ attention, “How the hay did you get here!? Are you from the mirror pool!?”

The rest of the Twilights almost seemed offended by that.
One of them spoke, she was seemingly exactly the same as Normal Twilight, albeit without wings, “We might be dreaming…” She suggested, then she proceeded to take out a gyroscope and let it spin. The rest of the Twilights watched the gyroscope spin, seemingly hypnotised by the motion, until the gyroscope wobbled and slowly came to a stop. “Phew, no. Not dreaming.”

Then that Twilight spontaneously let out a pained gasp, and she took a few breaths to calm herself down by looking at Normal Twilight, or more specifically, her wings.
Normal Twilight looked around to see that the rest of the Twilights were still obediently silent and that the Twilight with the gyroscope was now breathing at a normal rate.

“Okay, what was that?” Normal Twilight questioned the other one with a raised eyebrow.

The Twilight in question glanced at her gyroscope sheepishly, “Hehe sorry, I was using a Dreamscape spell, but I died in the dream and got sent to limbo, where I accidentally put an inception on myself. So now my subconscious mind thinks I have wings.” She shrugged.

Normal Twilight hummed, “Phantom Limb Syndrome...limbo...Dreamscape...fascinating...Okay! I’ll dub you Gyro Twilight!”
Now it was Gyro Twilight’s turn to raise an eyebrow.

Normal Twilight glanced at the ceiling, ignoring her Gyro counterpart. “Alternate universes?” She asked nopony in particular. However, the rest of the Twilights, including Gyro Twilight, agreed with a nod. Normal Twilight smiled, then turned to a random other Twilight.

“So, what about you?” Normal Twilight beamed, “Got any stories to share?”

The other Twilight smiled, “I got engaged to Flash Sentry recently.” She pointed to the ring on her horn.
That was unexpected.

Normal Twilight gaped like a fish for a moment, “Wha…” was her intellectual and eloquent response.
The other Twilights had mixed feelings. Some were confused, some were disgusted, some were jealous.

“What the hay!” shouted another Twilight, “Your Flash actually made a move!? Flash and I can’t even talk without Sunny, Auri, Saphie and Tinted shoving a book in our faces!”

Normal Twilight pouted, “B-But, you like books!”

“Not the point! I mean seriously though, I can’t get through a day without being Flashing Stupid!”

Normal Twilight sighed, “...I’ll dub you Flashing Twilight.” then she turned to the Twilight that was engaged to Flash, “And you! You are Engaged Twilight.”

“BUT I’M ENGAGED TOO!” several voices protested.

“Excuse me what?” Normal Twilight deadpanned.

One of the protesting Twilights spoke up, “I’m engaged to my egotistical joke of a stallion, Nova Shine.” She showed off her earring. “All thanks to that first casual event where two best friends hang out in a completely platonic manner.” She sighed dreamily.

Another Twilight with a glowing diamond ring on her horn, seemingly magical, gave out a disgruntled sigh, “I’m engaged to a 2000 year old king of a land I’ve never even heard of. But hey, it was either that, or have Equestria invaded.”
Normal Twilight looked disconcerted by that revelation.

Another Twilight started, “Oh I’m engaged to-”

“Wait, who here is in a relationship?” Normal Twilight interrupted, to the dismay of the final engaged Twilight, “Or like has a crush or someone crushing on them? Raise your hoof up.”

Fourteen hooves went up.

Normal Twilight groaned, “Okay then. Hm. I’m not jealous at all. Anyway, Engaged Twilight? You will stay Engaged Twilight”, some other Twilights’ faces fell in disappointment, “You, over there. You’re Nova Twilight. And you! You can be um...King Twilight.”

King Twilight rolled her eyes, “Gee thanks.”

The Twilight interrupted from earlier, in turn, interrupted this conversation, “What about me? I’m engaged to Vinyl Scratch.”
Normal Twilight put a hoof to her chin and pretended to consider deeply what she would dub her counterpart, then she announced the name in a deadpan, “Interrupted Twilight.”

“Heh. Should’ve seen that coming.”

Normal Twilight then spotted another unicorn version of her in the crowd, “You had your hoof raised, what’s your excuse?”
The Twilight in question stuttered, “W-What? I-I mean I’m great! Uh wait, no that’s not no” then she proceeded in a whisper, “I have a crush on Emerald Skies…”

Normal Twilight smirked, “Okay then, you are now-”

“Sparky”

“Wait what?”

“Emerald calls me Sparky.”

“...Okay then, Sparky it is.”

Sparky gave a satisfied nod.
Normal Twilight turned to the tallest Twilight of the group, about as tall as Princess Celestia, “And you?”

“I'm married to Facade and have a daughter called Avia. I’m Queen of the Equestrian Changeling Hive” She answered cooly, receiving a lot of wide-eyed looks, “Yeah I know I’m married, I’m really old now and I’ve had some bad days, which may or may not include almost getting murdered twice, and losing one of my three mothers.” Everypony chose not to comment on that, “Changelings are nice in my world. Well most of them…” She trailed off, itching the scar on her chest.

That got another Twilight’s attention, “Hey that’s mine!”
Everyone stared at her awkwardly. She cleared her throat, “Hehe...um I mean, hey Changeling Twilight! You’re a queen now? When we met, you were a princess. I dunno if you remember me, uh the amnesiac alicorn?”

Changeling Twilight’s face lit up with recognition, “Ah. How are you and Rainbow? Have you gotten your memories back?”

The other Twilight glanced away with guilt, “Uh yeah…”

Normal Twilight was flabbergasted, “But-what!? You two know each other!?” She looked frantically back and forth between them.

Changeling Twilight spoke again, “Many years ago, due to a- ahem- problem in Amnesiac Twilight’s world, a rift opened between our universes. Her Rainbow Dash was transported into our world. We were good friends.”

“Uh what problem?”

Amnesiac Twilight sighed, “My future self and a unicorn called Starlight went back in time and changed something which caused time itself to change. Because of that my Rainbow has PTSD, and I literally died. I’m basically an alicorn zombie, but at first I lost all my memories. Not to mention I turned into Midnight Sparkle and hurt the love of my life, but I saved Rainbow and got my memories back. But now I have schizophrenia.”

Normal Twilight grimaced, “Yeesh, not the best few years?”

“You have no idea.”

If you listened closely at this moment, you might have heard a voice resembling that of a pink earth pony shout: “Haha, please.”

Normal Twilight chose to ignore that and moved on to the next Twilight, “And who are you?”

“Oh I’m married to Flash Sentry, I have a three year old daughter named Twinkle.”
She was surprised at how tame that was.

Suddenly, another Twilight started hysterically crying.
“You are Twinkle Twilight”, Normal Twilight said before turning to the Twilight who was now a heap on the floor, receiving sympathetic looks and comforting pats from the other Twilights.

“Hey, are you okay?”

“I was engaged to Flash Sentry-hic-but then”-some more sobbing- “Swift Hoof-” and she cried into Normal Twilight’s shoulder.

“Hey, hey” Normal Twilight said as gently as possible, “It’s okay.”

“We wished on the same star! We were made for each other!”

“If it makes you feel any better, I’ll dub you Starcrossed Twilight.”

The crying calmed down for a bit, and Starcrossed Twilight sniffed, “...I’d like that.”
She hugged Normal Twilight and got up with a small smile, one which she returned.

Normal Twilight then went over to four Twilights, who she remembered raised their hoof. Two of them were unicorns and two were alicorns. She addressed one of the unicorns.
“Who are you? And...why do you have a different cutie mark?”

“Trying to pretend to be Dawn Cracker was a really bad idea.”

Normal Twilight’s eyes widened, “...And you are Dawn Twilight!”

She then turned to the other unicorn. The unicorn answered without hesitation, “Have a best friend called Lyon but then found out that he was a changeling!”

“Wow that’s exactly what happened to me!” Changeling Twilight called out.

“We didn’t believe him for daysssss, but I used a truth spell and it turns out he was telling the truth all along.” She shrugged.

Normal Twilight nodded, “Okay, you’re Lyon Twilight.”

Lyon Twilight rolled her eyes, “Real creative names, Normal Twilight.”

“Oh shut up.”

Normal Twilight looked around the room, several Twilights had begun to chat about their unique experiences. After some counting, she noticed she’d gone through over half of the Twilights, and was interested in what other um...interesting stories she’d hear about herself.
She turned to the two alicorns. They didn’t even wait for the question.
“Got my body swapped with Trixie, got thrown in the dungeons, got free and was forced into having Trixie come along with us, I messed up, Astelle nearly killed Trixie, I forgave her, we defeated Astelle with the elements and Trixie’s seventh element of Forgiveness.” One of them listed off without missing a beat.

“You are now Trixie Sparkle.”

“What!? But-”

“Trixie. Sparkle.”
Trixie Sparkle groaned.

The other alicorn spoke up next, “Um hi. You can call me Tally Reed. I was raised by the projections of the Pillars of Harmony, and they named me that.”

Normal Twilight blinked. “Say what now?”

Tally sighed, “It’s...a long story.”

“I’ll take your word for it.” Normal Twilight backed away sheepishly.
She then proceeded to walk over to the shortest in the clan of Twilights, just a mere filly. Normal Twilight smiled softly, “And what about you, little one?”

The filly in question beamed with childish excitement, “I’m going to go to Canterlot with Applejack for my entrance exam for Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns!”

“Hold on. With Applejack?”

She nodded enthusiastically, “Yeah! She’s really strong, you know? She can buck apple trees really fast! She’s teaching me!”

Twilight put on a more forced smile, “Yeah...hehe, I hope you have fun...Apple Twilight…”
Next to Apple Twilight was another alicorn, “And pray tell, who are you?”
The alicorn unceremoniously started sobbing on the floor.
“Oh don’t tell me your fiance died too!” Normal Twilight facehoofed.

“NO!” The alicorn dramatically stated, “I’m headmare of Woodford County University for Mares and the students...have started to call me” She inhaled sharply, “Twinkle Sprinkle!” She then started sobbing again.

Normal Twilight blinked, “...Okay. Twinkle Sprinkle it is.”

Normal Twilight came across two alicorn versions of herself, both were taller than her, and both seemed depressed for some reason.
“...I’m Heartbroken..” One of them sniffed. Heartbroken Twilight, Normal Twilight thought.

The other alicorn also spoke, “I-I can’t live without them…” A tear fell out of her eye, “I’m so...u-useless without them...my friends…I’ll always remember you…”

“Me too…” Heartbroken Twilight said quietly. Normal Twilight felt decided not to interrupt Heartbroken Twilight and Remembrance Twilight’s heartfelt conversation and moved on.

Four Twilights left.
Normal Twilight found the last remaining unicorn Twilight in the library. She seemed really out of it, though.
“‘Sup.” She said casually, “Just call me Chunks. My life is weird: trying to perform at a cafe in peace but nooooooo I have to get stage fright and be nicknamed Chunks. Offer to help to make her not hate me but noooooooo I have to totally mess it up and still have her hate me.” She muttered under her breath, “Why me.”

Normal Twilight deadpanned, “Celestia help your life.”

“I hate Celestia…”
Chunks then rolled her eyes and walked away to other Twilights to offer to do odd jobs she’s not able to do.
Because she does that. A lot.

Normal Twilight stared after her in confusion when another Twilight came up to her. This Twilight was either a unicorn or an alicorn, it was hard to tell since she had an ominous black cloak draped across her back. She had red eyes, noticeable sharp fangs and a bite mark on her neck. A shaft of light conveniently fell on her through one of the windows, and she started...sparkling.
“UGH not again.” She groaned, running a hoof over her face. “Just...look. I’m a vampire okay? Okay. Bye.” She then walked over to a dark corner to sulk the day away.

“I’ll call you Twilight Saga!” Normal Twilight shouted after her. She wandered around through the organised chaos that was the Twilight clan and found the last two Twilights she hadn’t named yet in an idle conversation.

“Uh hello!”

“Uh-huh. Hi, thank you for gracing us with your presence” One of them snarked. She held a jacket in one hoof, having taken it off due to the summer heat.

“Just because of that, your new name is Snarky.”

Snarky shrugged, “Sorry, I guess Astral’s rubbing off on me or something. But wait ‘til I tell him I took off the jacket! Without using my magic! Haha!”

The Twilight beside her laughed, “I can connect with you on a spiritual level.”

Normal Twilight blinked, “Huh?”

Snarky rolled her eyes, “Yeah so my planet was destroyed and my friends and I were put in cryo chambers and sent off in starships.” She sighed, “But we lost track of them and the cryo chambers are scattered across the Galaxy. My one was opened 5000 years after we departed Equestria. My um...coltfriend now, I guess, Astral Plane is piloting our ship to find them. Buuuuuut it’s not going too well…”

“Oh...uh I hope you find your friends then.”

Snarky smiled, “Thanks. Anyway, this is Rarilight.” She pointed over to the alicorn next to her. She was wearing a glowing pink necklace.
Rarilight grinned, “Hi, Normal Twilight! This is so fascinating! I can’t wait to tell Rarity about all this!”

Snarky looked back at Normal Twilight, “Yeah so, Rarilight here made Discord mad and was cursed to live as a ghost in a library before Knight and Shining Rarity saved the day!”

Rarilight groaned, “I told you! I was displaced in time!” She covered her face with her hooves.
Normal Twilight raised an eyebrow, but didn’t question the antics of her other selves.

She cantered off to the centre of the library, observing what the Twilights were doing. Starcrossed Twilight had joined Heartbroken Twilight and Remembrance Twilight in their crying session, Sparky, Snarky, Rarilight, Dawn Twilight and a few other Twilights were sharing stories and laughing. Changeling Twilight and Amnesiac Twilight were catching up, while Engaged Twilight was having a conversation with King Twilight about peaches and Banana Mama. Or was it Bahama Llama?
Over to the side, Chunks was trying (and failing) to fix a broken gyroscope, while Gyro Twilight was unceremoniously banging her head on one of the books in frustration. Oh, and Twilight Saga was lying on the floor, glaring at the ceiling like her life depended on it while Apple Twilight bombarded her with questions.

Somehow, the Twilights, they all just clicked. Normal Twilight couldn’t help but smile, seeing how different they all turned out compared to herself. Each one was different and unique and had something in their lives which makes them happy. She was happy for them, and discovering so many aspects of their lives made her appreciate her own life more.

“Group hug!” Normal Twilight randomly declared.
That got everypony’s attention and they all rushed together for a giant group hug of twenty four Twilights, all shouting and laughing, and heck, some were shedding heartfelt tears.

But in that moment, they all disappeared in a white flash, leaving behind a perplexed and seriously wobbly Normal Twilight. She blinked a few times and glanced around, everypony was gone.
She shrugged, “Oh well! It was an experience! I’m sure we’ll meet each other again!” she beamed to no one in particular.
“...Hehe I’m talking to myself.” She paused, “Wait, wasn’t I talking to myself that whole time?”
Twilight brushed it off and levitated the book she was reading earlier to herself, just content to relish the fact that she will never have a peaceful Tuesday.

Author's Note:

I'm a huge fangirl when it comes to MLP fanfics. So I just had to make a crossover for them. It doesn't make a lot of sense, my pacing is really bad, and I don't even know whether I remember all the Twilights I included.
All in all, messy, but really fun to write.

Disclaimer: I'm not making fun of any of the fics. I love all of them and just thought it would be fun to combine them.

-Sunny

Comments

[Nitro Indigo]

Twilight Saga was the funniest part. Unfortunately, we don’t get to know much about any of the Twilights besides a sentence each. Maybe you could expand upon this by having Normal Twilight meet the others one at a time?

[RedHussar]

Hey it's really good. A nice, easy comedy. I've read this during breakfast!

[Sunny_and_Auri_23]

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Thanks! Yeah I agree that there wasn't much time with most of the Twilights, but in all honesty, it was exhausting to keep track of them all. I might come back and add some more in the future though

[Sunny_and_Auri_23]

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Thank you!

[Nightsclaw]

hmm, interesting idea. Can I ask what all the fictions they were all from?

[Sunny_and_Auri_23]

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They are written in the long description of the story.

[ThePinkedWonder]

And Twilight thought meeting her human self was the weirdest thing that's ever happened to her.

[Sunny_and_Auri_23]

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[Batpony46]

You know when you put all three change stories in the list I thought a three change twilights would appear of course that's the only Twilight I know in this fun little story

[Sunny_and_Auri_23]

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Yeah I guess that could be interesting

[TallFreak]

This is something I didn't expect, but happy that I read it. Most of the Twilights in this story I haven't actually read the story that goes with them, but now I might have to know.
Great story.

[Sunny_and_Auri_23]

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Thanks ^^ That means a lot to me

[SakuraTheKirin]

Very unexpected but very fun, haha! Nice job, just what I needed today ^^

[Sunny_and_Auri_23]

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And making your day was just what I needed today! XD
Thanks for commenting, Sakura