“It's not going to hurt if i just try, right?” Windy Breeze talked to her reflection in the mirror pool.
She was told by a terrified Stormlight about Ponyville swarmed by a dozen of Pinkie Pies. She would laugh at the news if Pinkie was just a normal earth pony. She was very curious about how she could do that.
After asking Spitfire permission to go back to Ponyville, she went out of the Wonderbolts Academy and went back to Ponyville. She went to the nearest house and knocked, revealing Holly Dash, who asked her why she was outside and asking that the 'Pinkie Storm' has died out. Windy gave a face of 'I dunno' mixed with an ignorant shrug. She asked where Pinkie is and Holly told her Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity took 'them' to the Town Hall. She politely thanked her by bowing her head.
It turns out there are a lot of Pinkie's inside the Town Hall, watching their worst nightmare: Paint Drying. She had to admit she also hate watching pain drying, it was kinda boring, nothing to do except STARE at the paint.
She had to hide herself behind the wall every time Rainbow would glance at her direction. If she was caught, she knew there will be a problem, so she decided to hide.
She sighed in relief when the one Pinkie Pie in the building is the real one. Inside her thought, she knew this could be more worse than having a clone of you running around in town.
Or maybe not.
She followed the Main six into the Ever free, luckily avoiding every pack of Timberwolves she come across, she found herself snooping on the bearers of the elements of harmony inside a beautiful cave. In the middle of the cave is a pool of water. The Mirror Pool.
The main six had left few seconds ago. She let her curiousity take over her, reaching out a hoof. She let out a sigh and decided to fight her anxiety. She quickly sank her hoof into the pool of water, expecting to reach out for something.
She gasped when she felt something suddenly grab a hold of her hoof like a fish caught by a fishing hoof. She decided to pull out what's clutching her hoof.
“Hey, ow, not too tight, please?”
Standing infront of her was her. Windy's eyes widened in disbelief. There was her standing infront her.
Windy Breeze, or she we call her Breeze let go of Windy's hoof, hissing in pain as she look at her hoof “Ouch, this is more painful than when I lost to Spitfire at hoof-wrestli-” Breeze stopped when she finally got Windy into her vision. The two stared in confusion, then Breeze decided to speak first “Am i looking at a invisible mirror?”
She looked like her, she sounds like, and most importantly she knew Spitfire! Windy opened her mouth to speak, hesitant but managed to utter a few words as she felt her heart beat rapidly and faster than normal.
“Are you real?” Breeze gasped in disbelief, her heart beginning to beat faster than normal.
“Wh-What?” she took a step back, her eyes shrinking until it turned into a dot.
Due to the amount of disbelief she got into her heart and mind, Windy's eyes rolled back into her skull and fainted.
When she went back to the world of consciousness and friendship, the first she heard is her moan, then the second sound she heard is her moan, yet it didn't came from her mouth.
.....
The 'Pinkie Storm' and the Mirror Pool went back into her mind. She quickly opened her eyes, making an eye contact with two pairs of cyan eyes. She quickly realized both of them fainted.
“So this IS real?” She and Breeze muttered in unison. Before Breeze could say more to express her disbelief, Windy stood up.
“I can't believe it worked!” she yelled enthusiastically, looking down at Breeze with a excitement “You might be a clone but you had life inside that magical body!” she grabbed a hold of Breeze and made her stood up, the latter very confused of her current situation “What should i call you? ” Windy pondered for a few seconds before giving her a name “Oh, how about Flitting Breeze!?”
“Hmm, that sounds... perfect” Breeze, now named Flitting Breeze agreed “But can you tell me where am i and why you look like me?”
“Forget about it, let's go back to Ponyville, Flit!” Before Flitting could protest, Windy grab a hold of her hoof and dashed into the Everfree Forest.
“Hey, ow! I might not be Rarity but this is still considered ru-Ow!” Flitting was interrupted by a tree branch slapping her face. She was about to open her mouth when another branch hit her. She decided to be silent.
She should atleast made plans for her newly born twin. Windy had just realized everyone in Ponyville had just recovered from the 'Pinkie Swarming' and will most likely react badly seeing two Windy Breeze's emerge from the Everfree Forest and the Main Six will come in and... No, she won't allow that to happen!
Before she could say anything, Fleeting voiced her worries which disturbingly the same as hers “I don't think the town will greet us with open hooves if they saw two pegasi with the same color, mane, tail, eye, wing, and cutie mark coming out of the Everfree Forest”
“I agree. Let's think of something that can help us not stood out of the 'crowd'” Flitting nodded. The two stood thinking until Flitting got an idea.
“How about changing my manestyle and tell the ponies that I'm a long lost twin of yours?”
“Good idea you got there, Flitting” Windy beamed, pointing at a nearby bush “just go behind the bush and I shall start 'changing' your mane”
It was a terrible day for Ire Heaven. She would rather live under Nightmare Moon's reign than witnessing Ponyville being attacked by a horde of Pinkie's who had no idea what privacy is. She decided to go into the Everfree and punch something with her hooves. As she walk towards the said forest, she heard a pair of voices.
Very.Similar.Voices.
“It's done!”
Ire heard a gasped from the same speaker “I loved it!”
Ire rolled her eyes, muttering “First Pinkie being too many Pinkie, now Windy now has imaginary friend, what's more?” she approached where the source came from, from behind a bush. She hold the bush aside to glare.at.a.two.Windy's.bonding as if they didn't even seem to care they look the same.
Ire's eyes twitched, turn tail and screamed in frustration.
“Did we just broke Ire?” Flitting said, staring at the cowering Ire Heaven, muttering something about being despised by Equestria and saying a few swears (Bad Ire, this supposed to be rated E story!). This is the first time Windy and Flitting saw Ire cowering when she's upset by something.
“Maybe we should leave her while she's in that state?” Flitting gave her a look.
“Are you serious? I don't want to leave her like this!” She approach the broken yellow pegasus “Hey, Ire, are you o-”
“I swear to Celestia that I'm going to punch you if I found out you had a clone of yourself, Windy” Ire said coldly. Windy and Fleeting backs away from her.
“Maybe I agree, maybe we should leave her alone”
Windy nodded in agreement. They leave the broken Ire alone, most likely avoiding the fact the latter had a big possibility she would tell this to the Main Six.
Windy and Fleeting walk pass the ponies of Ponyville, or in Fleeting's case, hiding inside a cart hauled by Windy, they had to apologize to Carrot Top later, going to the house and hiding Fleeting from the local is the is their current objectives.
“Hey, Windy, what are you doing here? I thought you're at the Wonderbolts Academy” speak of the tartarus, she heard the raspy voice of Rainbow Dash and flapping of wings behind her.
Oh dear Luna Windy turn her at the cyan Pegasus and smiled “Oh, I heard the news about Pinkie Pie incident thing so I came to find out if the news is true or not” Windy explained.
“Yeah, it did happen” her gaze went to the cart “So, care to explain why a Wonderbolt is doing an earth pony job?”
Oh no Windy and Flitting thought in unison.
“Oh, uh, I was just making amends for Carrot Top” Rainbow lifted an eyebrow.
“Huh? Did you did something wrong to her? I haven't seen you guys interact for a few days”
“I... Destroyed her previous cart, I had to repay her for what I've done” Windy was slightly agitated. Like Ire and Applejack, it's hard to convince Rainbow Dash, the latter lowering her eye in suspicion. Windy let out sweats of anxiety as Rainbow approach the cart. Looking for a possible escape, she saw Lily Valley, who holds the 'trophy' of the number one pony for the 'screaming competition' she moved her eyes down and saw a small peddle laying by her left hoof. She got a plan but this one owes an apology for Lily.
“Oh my Celestia, is that Pinkie around the corner!?” she point at a random direction, diverting Rainbows attention. Windy muttered a sorry for Roseluck as she toss the peddle, jump and buck the stone. The small peddle flew towards Lily but instead hitting the mare on the face, the peddle narrowly missed her snout, only to crash to a window, shattering the glass.
Lily screamed, getting the attention of the ponies around her including Rainbow Dash (the attention is mostly because of the glass). Windy took the chance to quickly run away from the bearer of the element of loyalty, the latter saying “What the hay is going on!?”
That was a close one! Windy thought.
As Windy went back to her house to hide Flitting, Rainbow Dash picked up the peddle the owner of the house found.
“This is done by somepony” Rainbow told the owner, Berry Punch, who gasped along with everyone “Don't worry, everypony, I'm going to find whoever did this”
As soon as they reached her house, Windy detach herself from the cart and quickly pulls Flitting out of the cart.
“Come in, hurry, hurry, hurry!” As soon as Flitting entered the house, she closed the door immediately.
“Why are we hiding from the Main Six?” Flitting asked.
Windy decided not to tell her she's a clone “Listen, the last time a pony came here with another one that looks like them caused a havoc here in Ponyville, they zapped that pony with magic and they locked them up in a dungeon!”
“Whaaaaaat?” Flitting exclaimed, “B-B-But they wouldn't do such a thing!”
“Trust me, they'll do” she then explained all what she heard from Stormlight, however, she decided to add lies to the story, instead of a swarm of Pinkies terrorizing Ponyville with fun, she told her clone that a random pony, Glitter Dust went out of the Everfree with a pony which bear resembles to the said unicorn pony. Glitter's lookalike, Sparkling Purple was planning on deafeting the Main Six but they soon found out and manage to stop her.
Flitting found it too evil to believe but she thought about it. It's highly possible that this could be real, she had seen Nightmare Moon and Twilight was the only pony at that time who knew the ancient enemy, a Ursa Minor visiting the town? Yep, she remember them all, even the return of another enemy, Discord. This Sparkling Purple is no different than them.
She didn't even consider asking Windy why would everyone suddenly thought having a pony lookalike is an enemy due to the fact she also holds Windy's naive.
Flitting sat on her haunches, ears flattened with realization and sadness “So I'm stuck here, inside your house?” she glance around her “Atleast it reminds me of my house”
Windy frowned, she walked to her clone and put a wing behind her “You won't be isolated inside my house. Don't worry, I'll find a way to get you into the public without causing trouble”
Windy found herself standing infront of the door of the Carousel Boutique. She brought her saddlebag with her.
Okay Windy, act like nothing ever happened she put a brave face before knocking on the door.
“Coming!” she heard Rarity sang before the door opened, revealing a happy white unicorn “Oh, what brings you here, Ms. Windy?”
“Oh, just a little 'help' from you, Ms. Rarity” she show Rarity her saddlebag. The unicorn's horn glowed and open the saddlebag with her magic, levitating out a Wonderbolt uniform. Rarity lifted an eyebrow at Windy.
“Um, not to offend you, dear, but there's nothing wrong with your Wonderbolt uniform” she said as she examined the the flight suit “Nope, not even a single dirt”
“I didn't come here to repair my Wonderbolt uniform, Rarity” Windy said “I just want you to make a copy of it just in case I crash”
“So you're here to ask me to copy your uniform just in case you ruin the other one?” Windy nodded, earning a smile from the fashionista “That's a very marvelous idea, dear!” she turn around and walk inside her workplace with the Wonderbolt uniform following behind her “This will took a few minutes, dear. Patience is important”
“I'm not to type to whine, Rarity, trust me” Windy said.
Boredom.
That's what could Flitting Breeze describe what she feel as she sat on a brown couch inside Windy's house.
“Ugh, so boring, nothing to do in this house” she muttured herself. She flew to the mirror to look at her reflection, she basically looks like Cloudchaser however she knew she is still Windy Breeze not Flitting Breeze but if her twin says she's Flitting Breeze, then so be it.
She put her hoof to stroke her mane, smiling. She went to the kitchen and opened the white fridge, inside are cherries, some hay sandwich and a yellow box as well some carrots, apples, water spinach, eggplant, and some strawberry funnel cakes.
“Maybe I should eat some cake” she brought the box out of the fridge and puts it on a brown table, she went to get a salad plate and a knife. Once she put the two kitchen utensils on the table she opens the box, revealing a chocolate blueberry strawberry cake “Ooh, I love blueberry” she drooled and was about to cut the cake when she heard someone knocking.
“Windy, are you there?” Windy glanced at the cake Cake later, open the door first she quickly went to open the door, revealing Moonlight Spell, a unicorn nerd and an egghead friend of egghead Twilight Sparkle.
“Hi, Moonlight, what brings you here?”
“Hey, Windy” Moonlight said “I heard that you returned home very early, did Spitfire suddenly decided to show her love by giving you a day off?”
Flitting blushed “Huh? No, no, no, Spitfire only let me take a day off since I heard Ponyville is in trouble but when I got here, everything seems fine” she explained.
“Yeah, because Twilight and her friend somehow took care of it while most of us hide in fallout stable shelters” Moonlight told her “Not only that, I'm here for the cake”
Flitting blinked “For the cake?”
“Yes the cake you made for me” Moonlight raised an eyebrow “Did you forget what you promised that you would make a cake for me?”
So it wasn't for me? despite her thought had already been clouded with disappointment, she managed to keep her smile and the tone of her voice “Oh, yes the cake! Why would I forget that?” she turn tail and went inside the house “Just a second, Moonlight!”
“Sure!”
Once she enter the kitchen, she let her true emotion reveal itself, her once cheery smile melt into a sad frown as she approach the cake. “I guess Moonlight really want this cake” she sighed closing the yellow box and wrapping it up with red ribbon. She went back to Moonlight and hid her emotion “Here's the cake, Moonlight Spell”
“Thanks for the cake, Windy” Moonlight replied, her horn and the box glowed magenta pink. The box floated out of Flitting's back “Have a nice day, Windy”
“Yeah, have a nice day, hehe” Flitting waved at Moonlight as she leaves. Flitting sighed.
I guess I'll get a cake next time
“What do you think, darling?” Rarity asked, showing a brand new Wonderbolt Uniform she made.
“It's awesome, Rarity!” Windy approved. Rarity blushed for the applause.
“It's nothing, dear. Helping a friend is what i like to do” Rarity said this in a dramatic way.
“Okay, have a nice day, Rarity!”
“I'm home!” Windy closed the door behind her. Suddenly, she was tackled by her clone who was looking at her with puppy eyes.
“Windy, help me make a cake!”
