When Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie find the mirror that connects their world to the human world broken, they all end up get sent to different variations of of their own.
When Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie find the mirror that connects their world to the human world broken, they all end up get sent to different variations of of their own. Now, they have to survive in these worlds to find their way back to their friends, and their way home.
(This is more of a test to see if I can write chapter into different story paths)
"Come on, Twilight!" Rainbow Dash said, excitement filling her voice.
"Alright, I'm coming. It's rather curious that Princess Celestia called us back to the Crystal Empire." The question bounced around in Twilight's head. What could the princess want? Last time she was here, she went to that alternate world. And it was even weirder when she specifically said to bring Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. What could she want?
"Hey. Where did Pinkie go?" Twilight said.
"I thought you had your eye on her."
"Maybe she's already in the castle?" Twilight said, unsure if she was right.
"Maybe..." We started walking toward the Crystal Castle.
"Where is everypony? You'd think this place would be more active."
Twilight walked up to the gates cautiously. After looking around a second time, she lifted her hoof up to knock on the gate. Before she could knock a third time, something moved out of the corner of her eye.
"What was that?" Twilight turned to see Rainbow Dash looking in the same direction. "What is it, Rainbow?" Twilight asked.
"Wasn't that...?" She cut her sentence short before she could say anything. "Never mind. It's nothing."
"Are you sure?" Twilight asked. Rainbow just nodded in response. "OK then. If you’re sure."
Twilight turned to knock on the door once more, only to find it opened. She pushed the door open wider, revealing the main hall. "Hello...? Is anypony here?" Twilight looked around the dimly lit room.
It was way too quiet for there to be Anypony in there. "Come on." Twilight was the first to enter the quiet hall. She approached the staircase with caution. As Rainbow Dash entered, the door shut behind her with a loud thump.
"Hey!" Rainbow Dash gasped. She quickly flew for the door. She tried to open the door, but to no avail. "Come on!" She said in desperation.
She tried again, but it was no use. The door wouldn't budge.
"I guess the only way is forward." Twilight said, looking back at the staircase. She started up the stairs, putting one hoof in front of the other.
Once she reached the top, Rainbow had given up on the door. Suddenly, a purple light illuminated the dark hallways.
"Who's there...?!" Twilight yelled as she turned down the dark hall.
"Hello!?" After a few seconds, the light started to get dimmer. "Hey, wait!" Twilight immediately gave chase to the strange light.
"Twilight...?" Rainbow dash said, turning to see her galloping toward the dimming light. "Hey, Wait!" Rainbow said, trying desperately to catch up with her friend.
"Hey, wait up!" Twilight said. There was no sign that they were slowing down. Twilight finally got Impatient. She started to ready a teleportation spell, when suddenly something bumped into her, breaking her concentration.
At the same moment, Rainbow Dash caught up with her and was teleported along with Twilight and the thing that bumped into her.
“Ow… That hurt.” the mysterious figure said.
“Wait… Is that you Pinkie Pie?” With the blur fading, Twilight looked around to see if it was Pinkie who was talking.
“Well duh.” Pinkie said, standing up.
“Why did you run into me?” Twilight said, rubbing her head.
Pinkie stood up straight.
“I didn’t do it on purpose. You just happened to be there.”
“What were you doing?” Rainbow finally said.
“Oh, I was chasing a strange light.” This immediately surprised Twilight.
“Was this light purple?” Twilight asked.
“Ya, it was. How did you know?”
“Well. I was chasing the exact same thing”. This didn’t make any sense. How could pinkie have been chasing the same light? If she saw it, there must be more than one.
“So, where are we?” Pinkie asked.
“Well. It looks like we’re in a storeroom of some kind.” Twilight replied.
“Twilight… I think I know where we are exactly.” Rainbow Dash suddenly said.
“Really… Where?” Twilight approached Dash. Twilight went around her to see what she was looking at.
“The mirror… We’re in the mirror room.” Twilight then noticed what Rainbow Dash was shocked about. The mirror had three large cracks in it. They each split the mirror into three separate pieces.
“What do you think it means?” Rainbow said, looking to her friend.
“I have no clue.”
“Do you think this is why there is no one around?”
Twilight pondered this, and decides that it was possible, given there was no reason to think otherwise.
“Maybe…” Twilight said. “The only thing I can’t explain at this point is how a crack got on the mirror.”
“Maybe somepony threw something at it?” Rainbow said.
“It does seem that way. By the look of the impact, something was indeed thrown at it. But what, and who would do this?” Twilight tried to think of what to do next.
“Still looks sparkly.“ Pinkie said, walking up to the mirror.
“Wait, Pinkie. We don’t know what will happen.”
Regardless of Twilights warning, Pinkie walked up to the mirror and lifted a hoof to touch it. “Wait, Pinkie!” Twilight yelled.
Twilight and Rainbow Dash ran up to Pinkie before she could touch it, but instead of getting Pinkie away, they ended up pushing her and themselves toward the mirror. When they opened there eyes, each of them had one hoof on each of the broken pieces of the mirror.
“Oh no…” They all exclaimed, simultaneously. Suddenly, the room began to spin. Before they knew it, the room had turned into a spirally twist of dark blue and brown. The next thing they knew, they were being pulled apart from one another.
“Hold on!” Twilight yelled over the loud wind circling them.
“Obviously!” Came a reply from Pinkie.
The wind was too strong and Twilight knew it. They had no choice but to let go. “I’m sorry, girls!” Twilight shouted.
“What…?!” Dash yelled in reply.
Twilight simply lowered her head. “We have to let go.” Twilight yelled, her head held low.
“Are you crazy?” Pinkie replied. The wind was getting stronger, making it increasingly difficult for the three ponies to hold on.
“It will hurt less if we just accept it. Now… Let go…” Twilight shouted, and began counting down from 3.
“I’ll find you if we survive… I promise.” Dash screamed over the deafening sound of the wind tugging at their every extremity.
“2.” Twilight continued. The wind began to pull harder. “1.” And at the sound of the number they all let go.
The wind carried them off like a leaf in the wind. Then suddenly everything went dark... and silence ensued.
My hooves hit the ground with a loud, echoing clunk as I trotted forward, doing what I could to keep up with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie as they chit-chat ahead of me.
"Come one, you guys!" I shouted out, catching their attention. "Will you please slow down?" They turned to me, laughed slightly. Rainbow Dash turned around and flew over to me, with Pinkie hopping directly behind her, somehow keeping up.
"Sorry, Twilight," Rainbow said, chuckling as she landed on the ground in front of me. "I keep forgetting that you can't fly very well." I looked at Rainbow for a moment, a dull expression plastered across my face, and then suddenly Pinkie jumped into view, obstructing my view.
"Oh, C'mon, Twilight," Pinkie began to say, continuing her little hop. "Don't be such a grumpy pants." I took a few steps back and regained my sight on the world around me. I swear, whenever she's in your view, you can't see anything else. It's like she's a ball of pink fuzz that surrounds you the closer you get. I coughed and looked at both of them. "We shouldn't be messing around like this. The letter from Princess Celestia was very serious and I think it's very important that we get to her and talk before we do anything else."
Rainbow looked at me with a smirk and shook her head slightly.
"Look, Twilight. Not every Letter you get from Celestia is life-threatening or urgent." Rainbow looked over to Pinkie Pie, then back to me. "For all we know, she might have invited us to a party or something and she just writes letters like that. She is a princess, after all. That might just be how they are supposed to write." I stopped for a moment and thought about it. "What you NEED to do, is calm down and just take it as it comes along. Don't worry about everything, okay?" I looked up at her and stared for a moment.
"Fine..." I said, letting out a big sigh. Rainbow gave a satisfying grin and nodded. "Now, let’s get going. I don't want to keep her waiting." Pinkie and Rainbow turned and started trotting towards the Castle. I began to trot after them, as we entered the main area of the Crystal Empire. As I passed a few building, I stopped to look around.
Something was off. Something about my surrounding felt wrong. As I looked around, I noticed something bizarre. "Hey, Guy!" I yelled out and continued to look around what appeared to be an abandoned city. I heard Rainbow Dash zoom over to me, and land on the ground behind me.
"Have you seen anypony other than me and Pinkie?"
"Um, now that you mention it," She paused, looking around the abandoned street we were standing on. "I don't think I have." I turned to look at Rainbow.
"Then, where is everypony?" I stared for a moment, then turned to the sky and yelled as loud as I could. "Hello!" All I heard in response was a nonstop echo that seems to go through the entire city. We were alone. I turned back to Rainbow, who looked back, a concerned look on her face.
"Maybe you were right about that letter being urgent." I stopped for a moment, the silence filling the air around us.
"We need to get to the castle," I said, turning back to the towing castle which seemed to pierce the sky. "And fast."
"Well," I heard Rainbow say behind me. Suddenly, I could feel two hoofs go under my forehooves, then lift me as the weight of my bottom have felt like it was pulling me into two. "Hold on tight!" I heard her yell, and then suddenly, we dashed forward, making my body tilt back, and brought more weight to the rest of me. I could feel the world breeze past me, as we seemed to accelerate, and every sharp turn pulled me in the wrong directing and slowly push me back. The speed and movement were too much for my stomach to handle, as I felt myself become nauseous.
Though, as the ride seemed to begin, it was already over in only a few seconds. Rainbow quickly stopped and set me down before landing herself. I could see her panting from all the energy that was wasted just getting us here. "Was that quick enough?" she said in a cocky voice, gasping slightly as she regained her energy. I just spat on the ground and looked back at her.
"Never ever, ever do that again." After regaining my senses, I stepped towards the main door leading into the castle and brought my hoof up to knock. I hit the wooden door three times before moving it back to the ground. For a few moments, it was completely slight, before I brought my hoof up again. Before I could knock again, I heard a gasp from behind me. I turned to see Rainbow Dash staring off into the distance towards a small, rundown house.
"What is it?" I asked, turning towards the seemingly abandoned house.
"Wa..." She stuttered before turning back to me and started before shaking her head. "Nothing... It was probably just my imagination..." I just looked at her quietly.
"Are you sure?" All she did was nod softly. "Okay." I sighed and turned back around, and raised my hoof to knock again, only before I could make contact with it, I noticed it was cracked open, showing some of the floors with the small amount of light beaming in. Gently, I pushed it open, hearing the sound of creaking as it dragged along the crystal floor. Trotting in, I noticed there were no lights on anywhere. It was completely dark. Closing my eyes, I began to focus an illumination spell before finally casting.
A bright purple light burst out from my horn and covered my surrounding in the same lavender color. Opening my eyes, I could see Rainbow Dash was already looking around the large, dimly lit room. I began to trot further into the dark building, doing what I could do to examine the details about the room. It was a fairly large room with some interesting designs engraved on the wall. On the other end was a set of stairs that lead up to the upper floor, and deeper into the castle.
I trotted up to them and gazed up. There wasn't anything out of place on the steps and nothing seemed to be at the top. I turned my head to look at Rainbow, who was still examining the rest of the room. Suddenly, I realize something. Letting out a gasp, I trotted over to Rainbow Dash.
"Have you seen Pinkie?" I asked, looking around in circles. Rainbow Dash stops in place and turned to me. I looked back, making my concern know. "Where was the last place you saw her?" Slowly, we bother turned to the door leading back outside.
"I last saw her outside." We both turned back to each other, pausing a moment before simultaneously dashed over to the door. Before we could even get close though, the door suddenly slammed closed with a loud 'BANG', sending a gust of powerful wind at us. I heard Rainbow hit the hard, crystal floor with a loud thud. "What the hay?" Rainbow said through her teeth. Slowly, I got up, and looked over at my rainbow maned friend, before she dashed over to the door, and tried twisting the knob.
"Hey, what gives?" Dash pulled at the door, it gives a small click. "It's locked!" She continued tugging at the door, before beginning to bang her hoof against it, but it wouldn't budge. "What the hay is going on here?" Turning around, I looked at the stairs again.
"I'm not sure, Dash." I paused, trotting over to the base of the stairs again. "But I don't think we can go back now." Placing my hoof on the first step, I began up the stairs. "Come on. The only way is forward."
