S p l i t s

*Previously:

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 says out loud and takes one more look at Angelina and faints.

*Continuing:

Pinkie Pie realizing what had happened, "It looks like our Angel Bunny is an another 'place' like a different dimension. We got the female version of him."

The ponies all looked at each other and Fluttershy regained consciousness and replies weakly, "Then why does the new Angel, I mean Angelina, remembers who I am and all of you."

Pinkie Pie shrugged, 'It's because it IS Angel, but she's just from a different universe."

Applejack interjected, "Wait, hold on now, Pinkie, you've been in and out of these here universes many times before, I'm guessin'. And yet, you still seem like the same Pinkie Pie and we all remember each other. Explain yerself."

Pinkie Pie turned to Applejack, "I don't, I've been through so many worlds that most of them look the same to me and the multiverse makes everyone adapt to the new world that they're in and even gives them memories of them living there their whole life, until they find another world, that's what happened to me, but ever since Princess Celestia summoned me and appointed me as Guardian of the Multiverse in secrecy, I keep finding more and more holes and I somehow just remember that I'm the Guardian of the Multiverse.", she smiled.

Twilight feeling smart asked, "So if there's so many worlds with different variants, isn't it possible that in another world you're not the guardian?

Pinkie Pie stares for a moment and drops her jaw, "You know I haven't thought of that before…"

Twilight "This is useless, we need to talk more with the Princess, only she has the answers we need."

Rainbow Dash, "I still don't see what's so important about this whole egghead multiverse stuff?"

Twilight thinking for a bit and finally replies, "Don't you see Rainbow, if we could go inside the multiverse, and found a way to travel freely, we could be able to travel to the perfect world with our perfect paradises and live the perfect life we never had."

Rainbow Dash "I know where you're trying to get at. Me. Always wanting to be a Wonderbolt and all, but I don't need some hocus-pocus Dr. Whooves time traveling magic to do that for me, I'll become one by just by being me, by being the most awesome pony ever brought into existence." Rainbow Dash then shows off by flexing her arms smugly.

Twilight sighs, "Well I'm going to ask Celestia some questions, if you want to come then follow me."

Fluttershy holds Angelina Bunny in her arms in a motherly fashion, the absence of her once beloved bunny is gone and feels like he's been replaced with some other bunny she doesn't even know. The feeling that Angel might be alone "out there, somewhere" wherever "out there" is is nerve racking. All this uncertainty and fearing the unknown overtakes Fluttershy and she stands up and says tearfully, "I'm going with you Twilight. I need to find OUR Angel, who knows what has happened to him. I don't think I can wait until the next morning, I may not even be able sleep through this." A single tear falls from her face.

Rainbow Dash angered by Fluttershy's assertiveness, "Fine, let's just ALL go, I guess." she rolls her eyes.

Rarity butts in saying,"If we hurry we could make the 12 'o'clock train." Rarity remembers the train schedule when she traveled to different clients.

Fluttershy holds Angelina Bunny close, and Angelina slowly falls asleep in Fluttershy's soft mane.

And so all the ponies galloped to the train station, not even packing anything or sending a letter to the princess for a meeting in advance. The ponies all saw this strange phenomena as an emergency. Especially Twilight, who was nearly torn to pieces when she had found out that Pinkie was protecting the multiverse, and she undeniably doesn't want to believe it. The jealousy in Twilight was growing more and more sinister inside her, she fears that the Princess saw Twilight to be inferior to Pinkie. An unknown hate was manifesting within Twilight's heart. A hate that she had never known.

The ponies reach the station and start talking among themselves in front of the ticket booth. Twilight secludes herself to an empty booth and begins having troubling thoughts. She thinks deeply to herself, "How can Pinkie have access to such an amazing thing? Why couldn't the Princess trust me enough? Pinkie Pie isn't even a student of hers. Or is she? The Princess doesn't trust me and now is hiding secrets from me?" she groans, and hits her head on the side of the ticket booth in frustration.

The train came right on time and blew it's whistle. All the ponies boarded up on the train, except for Twilight who was still marinating in her troubling thoughts and hadn't noticed the train. Fluttershy, who was the first to board the train notices Twilight missing and looks outside the window. She lowers the window and calls for Twilight. "Twilight, the train!" Twilight regain focus and rushed to the train and joined everypony.

Fluttershy pulls Twilight to the side, "Are you alright, what happened just now?"

"Oh, don't worry Fluttershy I'm fine. I've just been thinking about.." she couldn't finish her sentence.

Fluttershy says encouragingly, "Listen Twilight, a lot is going on right now. Angel is missing and the apple thing, all this talk about multiverses, its just...it's too much."

"I know Fluttershy, you miss Angel, but you know there's more important matters than just your pet bunny."

"What are you saying Twilight? You don't care about Angel?"

"Fluttershy, have you not noticed that there's a topic far bigger than Angel? Than all of us, really!" Twilight was slowly losing her control.

Applejack overhears the disturbance, "Ya'll better cool it. We're all confused and emotional right now, the sooner we get to Canterlot the better, and I don't wanna hear anymore fightin' on this trip, ya hear me?" Applejack seemed the most level-headed than the others. She wonders if that's normal that she's not too affected in any way like the rest. She disregards any negative thoughts and walks to her seat and blankly stares out the window trying to calm herself down. She presses her forehead onto the cold glass, which felt good to her. She thinks to herself, "And I've got to cool it too, everypony seems on edge, even Rainbow Dash is tense." She continues to stare and press her forehead against the refreshing window.

She was right, Rainbow Dash seemed very tense. Rainbow Dash sat back in her seat, also staring out the window. She just didn't understand it all. Her frustration was cycling through her. Everypony seemed to understand, except for her. Most of the time she didn't know what to say about things or what the ponies were saying. Especially about Twilight. Rainbow thinks, "Just when I thought she couldn't get any more egg-headier. I have no idea what's going on, and I seriously think everypony has no idea too, they're just pretending to know, like Pinkie Pie. They're going into something they don't understand head-first-and-think-about-consequences-later." she sighs, "Kinda sounds a lot like me actually. I don't even care about all this pointless nonsense. It's just stupid." she becomes restless and closes her eyes to feel relaxed.

Rarity was eyeing Applejack and Rainbow Dash who sit right across from each other. Rarity mutters to herself, "Hmph, I can't believe those two are getting so fired up about all this, they should be lucky we're even going to Canterlot and meeting royalty and maybe even going to the luxurious spas and going shopping and..." she shakes her head. The sunlight through the window was getting warm fast, she was afraid of sunburn. "I better close the curtains. Rarity looks around and unties the curtains, and closes them so that the sunlight would not survive. Then she remembered something. Before she met up with her friends they were talking about something. She thought hard trying to remember exactly. That's when she remembered the word "princess" and "canterlot" were used. "Uh huh...something about..." she remembered abruptly. "Rainbow Dash you're a Princess!?" she said out loud enough for everypony to hear. She even startled herself and covered her mouth with her hooves.

All her friends looked at her. Rainbow Dash said coolly from across the seat. "Yeah I had a dream I was, but that's it."

Rarity's interest was sparked, she wanted to know more about this dream. "Oh really? Please tell me more, were you beautiful and had loyal servants who catered to your every whim?" she bats her eyes hoping to hear of some more enchanted fairy tale she could lose herself in.

Rainbow Dash uninterested said, "Everypony was blue and yeah I guess I would be considered froo froo for your standards." Rainbow Dash turned on her side facing the window to signal Rarity that she didn't want to talk anymore.

Pinkie Pie who was sitting behind Rarity said, "I met her before, Princess Fidelity, I mean."

Rarity turned around to face Pinkie Pie, "Princess Fidelity? Pinkie you met Rainbow Dash as a princess?"

Pinkie smiled brightly, "Well sure, technically there's a universe where we're all princesses, I've only met Princess Fidelity and Princess Twilight Sparkle from those different universes."

Twilight's ear twitched at the sound of 'Princess Twilight Sparkle'. She looked over at Pinkie who was sitting straight across from her. Twilight felt a little more calm and somewhat drowsy from the train ride. "Hey Pinkie, could you tell me more about me being a Princess?" she gives a weak smile.

"Sure Twilight. In the universe where you're a princess, Princess Celestia gave you wings and made you into an alicorn. After that there was a big ceremony in celebration for you becoming one!"

Twilight closed her eyes and smiled, "That would be something, huh? Being a princess and having wings, I wonder why Princess Celestia hasn't made me a princess in this universe?" Then she had a terrible thought. "Maybe she hasn't made me a princess because...she's saving it for somepony else, like," She gulped, "Pinkie Pie." She began to feel uneasy and felt somewhat betrayed by her mentor.

Pinkie Pie continued, "Mhm, and after you became princess, Princess Celestia showed us one of her portals that she owns that would take you to another universe."

Twilight looks up, "What really? She owns one and actually shows me?"

Pinkie Pie, "Yeah, you even go through it."

Twilight a bit unnerved, "I do? What happens to me?"

Pinkie Pie, "After you went inside, I knew it was time for me to leave so Princess Celestia sent me back here."

"So Princess Celestia can send ponies back to their own universe? Just like that?"

"Yup." Pinkie Pie smiles big and innocent. "She's more powerful than we think."

The train conductor announces through a microphone, "Next stop is Canterlot! Good sight seeing areas would be the Wonderbolt Show, Canterlot Shopping Square, and Princess Celestia's castle. Thank you for riding with us!"

The train stops in front of the Canterlot train station. All of the ponies scurry out of the train car and huddle up for a plan. Twilight steps forward and says, "We need to speak with Celestia first. That is our main priority, then maybe after we can see a Wonderbolt show or go shopping if you all would like." The ponies agree and trot towards Celestia's castle.

To be continued...