S p l i t s

*Previously:

"Who makes these worlds? These 'different places'?" Twilight questions.

Pinkie Pie says "Well I have an idea who, she's the only pony besides me to ever find these holes to the different places."

Rainbow Dash, "Pinkie, we don't have time for jokes. If you're not going to give us any good information then I'll go into that transporter thing myself!", she says bravely.

"Ok, go ahead it's really fun, sometimes I do a canon ball or a belly flop, don't worry it doesn't hurt, there's no water in there just pretty glittery, space stuff..."

"Well, I'm going in head first!" Rainbow Dash declares as she zooms straight into the hole and disappears.

**Continues:

Twilight hurries over to Pinkie Pie, "Is Rainbow Dash going to be alright? What happened to her? Tell me!"

"Relax, Twilight." said Pinkie Pie coolly. "She's sleeping on a cloud right now, I think by your library house too. That's convenient." She giggles and snorts.

Applejack and Twilight look at each other. They couldn't tell if she was telling the truth or just being, well, Pinkie Pie. They studied Pinkie's face for any signs of it being a joke. Finally Twilight asks, "How could you possibly know that? We just saw her disappear before our very eyes into that tree! Poof! Gone!"

Pinkie Pie closed her eyes and smiled cheerfully. Pinkie bounced away in the direction of Twilight's house. Applejack was confused as ever and just followed Pinkie. Twilight followed soon after, contemplating about how this was even possible. It was unnerving to her. She kept walking and kept pondering hard about all of this.

They finally arrive at Twilight's house, Pinkie Pie looks up at the sky and sees Rainbow Dash resting on a cloud overhead, like she predicted. Pinkie Pie screams in excitement, "There she is! I found Rainbow Dash! Hey, Rainbow wake up!" Her constant squealing woke Rainbow up. Rainbow Dash's head was throbbing in pain and only she could only seem to remember what she had dreamed of. She flies down to talk with the rest of them.

"Oh...my head is killing me, I had the weirdest dream too." Rainbow rubs her head and feels her mane. "In my dream, everypony was blue, and I was a princess. No way I'll ever be a froo froo tutu princess."

Twilight steps over to Rainbow, "That's some dream Rainbow, but don't you remember falling into the tree? Or rather, the tree's portal? How did you even manage to get out? What was it like inside?"

Rainbow was overwhelmed with all these questions, she couldn't seem to think properly. "Listen all I remember is being a princess in some blue-pony-land." She grabs her head again,  "Ow, my head."

Pinkie Pie interjects and says, "Princess Fidelity, oh yeah I've been in that world before."

Rainbow Dash and Twilight say "What!?" simultaneously.

Pinkie Pie says, "Rainbow Dash, in another time and in another place you were or are a princess. You're name in that place is Princess Fidelity and you serve the Kobaltians in Azurequestria. You're actually really nice there, you even let me host a party in your castle once." She squeals.

Twilight asks, "Pinkie, you've been to that "place"? More importantly, if Rainbow Dash was there, how did she get back?"

Pinkie thinks for a moment, "Hmmm, maybe it was because Rainbow Dash went in so fast that she went through the portal and out the other, in a flash."

Applejack comes in and asks, "And in "a flash" that's how long exactly being inside a portal? It ain't sound like Rainbow was in there for "just a flash" according to her "dream".

Pinkie Pie chuckles, "Of course not, going though a portal and being inside different worlds have different time lapses. Who knows, she may have been gone for an eternity and we wouldn't even know!" she continues chuckling.

Twilight getting frustrated, "And how do you know all this Pinkie? Do the Princesses know any of this? Equestria could be in danger!"

Pinkie scoffing playfully, "Well, yeah. Princess Celestia appointed me to be the guardian of the....multi something something."

Twilight, "Multi-? You mean like, 'Multiverse'?"

Pinkie, "Yeah that word! 'Multiverse', I don't know what it means, but all I do really is keep an eye on all the portals in Ponyville just in case of an emergency and makes sure nopony goes in them. You see, if a pony leaves this world or any world in the multiverse then that pony or object must be replaced with the same pony or object from a different place, or universe. In order to maintain the Megaverse, of course. It's a never ending rotation of ponies going in and out of portals so that everything is balanced. Everypony is unharmed and they may not even notice, most of the time ponies will get 'swapped' by another pony in their sleep. Like, if I went into a portal and left this world, another 'me' who was unconscious in another world fills in my existence for me. That's why some dreams are more weird than others, it's because you're in a different universe!"

Everypony was trying really hard to follow with Pinkie Pie's explanation about the universe and the recycling of pony existences.

Twilight heard nothing of what Pinkie explained grows profusely upset, "Why would Princess Celestia appoint you the Guardian of the Multiverse? Why would she even make you a guardian of anything! I'm her student after all. Doesn't she know that I've studied more into that, than you could have in a decade? You don't even own a book!"

Pinkie unfazed and smiling, "For your information, Twilight, I own a thousand cook books! And, if you know so much about the Multi-whatever then why do you ask so many questions about it? And don't worry Twilight, I've been to another dimension where you're a princess too, so don't feel like you're left out. In fact, everypony is a Princess in another dimension somewhere!" She giggles and snorts.

Twilight unnerved, "I still want to talk to Princess Celestia about this, this is, well, uncanny! I'm going to Canterlot tomorrow morning and resolving this whole "Guardian" position."

A familiar voices pipes up, "Canterlot!? You're going without taking me first, how rude of you!"

The ponies turn around and notice Rarity trotting up to them wearing a flashy pink hat with a gaudy ruby brooch.

Rarity says excitedly, "Twilight, you said something about Canterlot, no? When are you leaving? Take me with you!"

"Fine, why don't we all go and I'll talk to the Princess." Twilight says defeated. "But Pinkie how did you know Rainbow Dash would land on that cloud?"

Pinkie Pie, "Because, Twilight, when she went into the portal there was another portal behind it that looked like a cloud next to a giant tree house. It was for a quick second, but I was pretty sure it was your house."

Twilight, "Here we go again with this portal stuff. Oh yeah, the whole, "interchanging ponies to keep the universe balanced" nonsense."

Pinkie Pie, "Well you asked, Twilight and it's not nonsense. It's science!" she says feeling smart.

At that moment a grayish pony falls from the sky and lands on top of Rarity. The pony pegasus gets up, wobbles a bit and flies off crookedly like nothing had happened.

Pinkie Pie shouts cheerfully at the pegasus flying away, "See ya later Derpy!"

Rarity struggles to get up, "What on earth was that?! Why I never!" She gasps in horror. "Now my hat is all crumpled and dirty!" she wines.

The ponies disregard Rarity's cries and hear frantic galloping in the distance. Twilight thought, "Oh great another recycled universe pony..." But in fact it was one of her friends. Twilight recognized her and greeted her, "Hello Fluttershy, what's the hurry?"

"Oh Twilight, it's terrible. I can't find Angel Bunny anywhere! He's been missing since this morning, I think he ran away last night because I refused to make him an apple pie." Fluttershy notices the blue apple that Applejack is holding, "Applejack, what is that?"

Rarity, out of curiosity, looks over Applejack's shoulder at the strange apple that she is holding. Rarity sneers, "Ugh, Applejack, why do you have such a disgusting thing, it looks rotten. Throw it away!" she demands.

Applejack angered, "It ain't rotten, rotten apples are brown and dark green, this one is blue and purple!

Rarity digresses, "It's still looks atrocious."

Applejack slyly, "Yer right, purple is an 'atrocious' color, especially purple manes."

Rarity shocked, "I never said purple was an ugly color! It's just not a natural color for apples, right Twilight? Purple is fabulous."

Applejack rolling her eyes, "Uh huh, sure."

Twilight steps in, "That's enough you two, we have to focus about going to Canterlot and talking to Celestia."

All the ponies finally agree to that, especially Rarity. Spike comes out of the tree house when he hears all their giggling and their talks about Canterlot. He asks, "Why are you all going?" Pinkie Pie snatches the apple and shows Spike. Spike studies it and then realizes that he was supposed to find a book about it, but then fell asleep looking for one. "Oh yeah! The malfunctioned Zap Apple thing!" Spike remembered.

Applejack facehoofs and explains the whole thing to Spike, Rarity, and Fluttershy that it's not a Zap Apple.

Spike was dizzy from all the information and went back inside and fell asleep on a pile of open books.

Fluttershy stomps her hoof and says in a soft aggressive voice, "Have you all forgotten about Angel? Shouldn't we at least find him before leaving town? Oh, I just want to make sure he's safe."

Twilight hatched an idea on the spot, "Hey AJ? Would Winona be able to track down Angel, if she had a scent?"

Applejack agrees with this idea and says, "Sure she can, if she could round up cattle she could easily find Fluttershy's little bunny friend!"

The mane six head over to Fluttershy's cottage with Winona. "Ok girl, I want you to find Angel Bunny, here sniff this." Applejack hands Winona, Angel's bed. Winona sniffs it, barks and zooms off fast, strong on the scent.

Winona tracks down the scent to Sweet Apple Acres and soon leads them to the tree where they found the blue apple. Suddenly Winona freezes and has a confused look on her face, as if she missed something. She perks her head, turns around and heads back to Fluttershy's cottage. "Winona, would ya make up yer mind? Where is Angel?," Applejack said.

The ponies arrive back at the cottage. Fluttershy screams with excited as she scoops up Angel Bunny in her arms and nuzzles him. "Oh Angel, I was so worried and scared, are you alright? Where did you go?" she was relieved. "Oh Angel, I'll go ahead and make you that Apple Pie, you deserve it!" Blinded by pure happiness and joy she didn't notice that Angel was a bit different. Angel hugged Fluttershy back and smiled. Angel hopped off and tied a pink ribbon around his ears.

Rainbow Dash looked at Angel, she was bewildered, but then broke out into laughter. Rarity got angry with Rainbow Dash and said, "There's nothing wrong in wanting to look fabulous." Rarity leans in toward Twilight Sparkle and whispers to her, "Did you know Angel Bunny was a girl, I didn't really notice myself."

Twilight looks back at Angel. "Now that you mention it, Angel does seem more…feminine."

Fluttershy wonders aloud, "Why are you whispering to each other? Angel why are you wearing a...oh." Fluttershy takes a good look at Angel. "Angel, you're a....girl!?", she shrieks. "This is not the same Angel!" Angel hops up on Fluttershy's shoulder and whispers in her ear. "Apparently the new Angel's name is Angelina Bunny." Fluttershy takes one more look at Angelina and faints.

To be continued..