S p l i t s

*Previously:

Just before Celestia leaves the room she says coldly, "Your Coronation is tomorrow, sooner the better. We can finally get this over with." She walks through the doors and leaves Pinkie Pie to cry alone in the pitch-black and cold room.

Pinkie Pie drops her head and feels the rush of freezing cold going down her spine, "What have I done?" Tears start rolling faster down her face. At that moment she knew that Twilight would no longer be her friend. She would be alone.

*Continuing:

Later that same night, Rarity was up with a little project of her own. She had in her possession an eerie metal plated book with a harshly carved title at the top of the cover, "Yraid". She lightly dims her horn just enough where she can read it and no light can be seen under the door. She looks at it over thoroughly. She tries to open it, but with no luck. She tried using her magic, nothing. She tries prying it open with a hoof filer, still nothing. "Stupid thing, why won't you open!?", she hisses quietly at the mysterious book.

"This is probably the ugliest book I have ever laid my hoofs on, it's so ghastly. I keep telling myself that there had better be a treasure map in here that will, hopefully, lead me to millions of gems. I mean look at this...thing, it's almost completely useless." She tosses the book to the side and turns over to snuggle in her luscious blanket. The book lands on top of one of her suitcases where it lifelessly waits to be opened again.

Rarity closes her eyes, already forgetting about the book and peacefully glides into a dreamy sleep. She tosses and turns, trying to find the softest of comfortable spots in her cloud-like Canterlot bed. She soon gets comfortable and is now lost in a heavy dream.

Twilight couldn't sleep at all. She stared at the ceiling for what felt like hours and heard nothing but crickets chirping and Rainbow Dash snoring in the other room. Her eyes were getting heavy but her mind was too full to sleep. She just kept thinking and thinking. "What if Princess Celestia doesn't want me as her student anymore? She pretty much trusts Pinkie Pie than any other pony, even over her sister." A tear falls from Twilight's heavy eyes. She never felt so cold. The air around her, her blankets, her pillows, were all cold. The only thing that felt warm to her were her fresh tears that trickled down her puffy cheeks. She sniffles and hides under her covers fearing that she would wake somepony up with her crying.

Before Twilight knew it, she was fast asleep. She was in a shallow sleep and would wake up occasionally to what sounded like someponies 'rough-housing'. She tried to sleep but was awoken by a familiar voice that sounded like a frantic whisper.

"Twilight Sparkle, please wake up. Twilight!"

Twilight awoke with a sudden jump and began to focus her eyes on the pony before her. She rubbed the sleepiness from her eyes and saw Princess Luna standing by her bed.

"Princess Luna, what is it? Did something happen?" Twilight says half-asleep.

She sighs, "I'm not sure, I heard strange noises behind a wall in the castle. Nopony else seemed to notice it since I'm the only one up, and I also can not find my sister."

"Wha..? What wall?'

Princess Luna helps Twilight up to her hooves. Luna opens the door quietly and leads Twilight to the wall where she had heard the noises. They walk pass the other's rooms and go down a flight of stairs. There Luna turns to her right and faces a wall next to a lonely dresser.

Twilight looks at Luna in a light panic, "Luna, I don't know what to say. We're not allowed in there we-"

Princess Luna confused and interrupts, "In where? There's nothing but a blank wall and my sister's old dresser."

"You mean you don't see two large towering white doors?"

Princess Luna shakes her head, "What are you talking about?"

Twilight ponders this for a few moments and then opens the doors to the Transporter Hall. She looks at Luna to see any reaction. Princess Luna still sees nothing. Twilight figured out what may have happened.

"I think you were blinded by Celestia. Here, let me help you." Twilight's horn glows and creates two large pillowy orbs that engulfs Luna's eyes. The princess of the moon closes her eyes as the orbs create a stinging sensation that she could not believe. The magic orbs slowly disintegrate into Luna and she slowly opens her eyes and regains sight. There before her lie the towering doors that Twilight had spoken of earlier. Luna could not believe what she was seeing, for she had never seen such sights. Luna's eyes begin to water and looks at Twilight.

"Did my sister hide this place from me?" Her eyes filled with more tears, but not letting one tear fall and said with an angry, devastated tone, "Did my sister hide this from me?!" She looks down releasing multiple droplets of tears and painfully whimpers to herself, "All this time..." She stood there, mesmerized for a long moment.

Twilight's face has grown saddened and remained quiet with her, they stood there in silence, honoring the death of her sister's trust. After a long while Twilight suggests to Luna, "I will show you the things that were hidden from you and from all of us."

Luna remains strong, but bitter, "Alright." They walk into the cold, dead hall. Luna uses her horn for a light source. They see the six doors that hold the eight universes. Luna looks around and sees scattered books and notes. Luna's voice cracks, "Twilight, what is this place?"

Twilight reads an engraving above them, "It's called the 'Transporter Hall'. Within these six doors holds eights different universes."

"I want to go into one." Luna turns to Twilight who had an equally agreeable expression on her face. "Let's go into this first door."

The both of them open the door that has a crown carved into the center of the door. Twilight uses her magic to open it and sees only darkness. Luna follows, staying close to Twilight. The door closes behind them, making them jump. They turned to each other, or at least they think they do. It's so dark they can not even see their own hoof in front of their faces. Luna's horn glows dimly enough to fill the small shanty room with light. The first thing that catches their attention is a giant candle in the middle of the room.

Twilight lights the large candle that is as big as her. The flame on the wick turns from the fiery orange to a calm yellow. A young, innocent voice echoes within the room. "Hello? Anything I can do to help?"

Twilight and Luna look at each other surprised. Twilight speaks up, "Uh..hello. Where are you?"

The voice answers in a happy manner, "I'm invisible. But don't worry I can see you."

Luna scared says, "Show yourself, w-who are you?"

"I can't show myself. I am currently in another world than yours. I can see you through my magic orb. If you had a magic orb too, then you'd be able to see me, silly. That's how it works."

Twilight asks, "Where do you get these magic orbs?"

"I make them."

"Can we have one then?"

"Umm, no."

"And why not?"

"I told you already, I'm in a different world."

Twilight facehoofs herself and starts to get irritated with this silly, naive voice.

Luna sees that Twilight is frustrated and starts to ask questions herself, "Voice, what shall we call you?"

"Hmmm, you can call me anything."

Luna asks, "What do ponies normally call you?"

"Ponies call me Derpy."

Luna thinks for a moment, "Derpy? Is it really you?"

"Yeah that's what most ponies know me as. Wait, do I know you?"

Twilight, "Derpy. I think I used to see you around Ponyville before."

"Yeah maybe. I like to go everywhere though. I like to travel and see everypony, but for a while now I've been stuck in a different universe."

Twilight wonders out loud, "The last time I saw Derpy was when she landed on Rarity by my house."

Derpy overhears Twilight, "Oh yeah, sorry about that. I was too busy having fun with portals."

The room glows a dimly colored yellow and then slowly inverts to blue and then black. The ceiling, floor, walls, and even the door are gone. Twilight and Princess Luna are now floating around in some black space.

Derpy remembers, "Whoops I almost forgot something. Boop."

Stars appear all around them. Bright twinkling beads of pure energy orbit around them in the empty void of space.

Derpy says reassuringly, "Don't worry, this is not real space, it's more like a waiting room." Eight large bubbles appear before Luna and Twilight. Each of the eight bubbles hold a universe within them.

"I color coordinate them so that I know which one is which, I learned that the hard way." Derpy sighs, but in good spirits.

There were eight different colored bubbles floating around them in a circular motion. Their colors are Cyan, Pink, Purple, Yellow, White, Orange, Dark Blue, and Grey. The ponies look carefully at each one. Each had a universe with different galaxies and planets filled with sprinkles of tiny stars.

Derpy chimed in, "Twilight you can use your magic to see inside that bubble. You can pick a bubble and try to see what that universe is all about. I see that you're in the 'Princess Room' so that means, in these universes you can see who is the next princess, Celestia appoints. There are different instances and events that lead up to different outcomes. Some universes, however are more closely related to ours than others, we're currently in the pink one."

Twilight carefully holds the pink bubble in her hooves. Luna peers over to see what's inside this universe. The universe in this bubble shows a physical summary of what it holds, almost like looking into a crystal ball. The bubble shows Princess Celestia at a Princess Coronation. All the ponies in Equestria have gathered to witness an extraordinary day that may never happen again in pony history. Pinkie Pie walks down the aisle wearing a beautiful pink gown, a crown, and a couple of new things. A horn and a pair of wings.

Twilight is taken back. Disturbed, "Pinkie Pie, a princess? How is this even possible?"

Derpy speaks up, "Celestia has the power to turn any pony into an alicorn and inherit her royal blood."

Luna sighs, "It's true, she had shown me this power before, but in a different instance, it wasn't a good instance, either."

Twilight looks at Luna curiously, "Not a good instance? What do you mean?"

Luna sadly sighs, "You see Twilight, Discord was not always what he appeared to be, he even changed his name to matched his appearance that we know today, I guess to help cope with his deformity. It was so long ago, I do not remember what he breed of pony he was or his name before his transformation. But I do remember that Celestia was very fond of him, he was a pupil of hers. They were the same age and Celestia had just taught herself the "Alicorn Transformation" spell. She planned on marrying him, but royalty can only marry royalty, you see. She thought she would change Discord into an Alicorn and everything would go accordingly. She was right, however, and she turned him into an Alicorn. They did get married, for a short while. But with Discord being king, he naturally had significantly more reigning power than Celestia who can only raise the sun then. Celestia became jealous of Discord's power and turned him into the polar opposite of an Alicorn. A Draconequus. Discord was tragically devastated, but more heart broken than anything and betrayed. After his transformation he never hurt Celestia, but instead only caused harmless chaos to her citizens. He knew that choas and disorganization is Celestia's pet peeve. He wanted wanted her attention, he loved her, but also wanted revenge. He was emotionally torn and conflicted. Celestia turned him into stone to only regain her power and hoped that all would forget. I just stood there and watched.

Twilight looked blankly into space, "I have a feeling that Celestia sent you to the moon for a similar reason."

Luna sadly nodded.

Twilight remembers holding the pink bubble and sighs, "So this is the universe we live in, huh? Pinkie Pie as Princess, does that mean in this universe, Pinkie Pie will also become Princess Celestia's favorite?" Twilight chokes up, "Derpy, I want to leave this place. Take us back to the castle."

Derpy sadly replies, "Ok, Twilight." The ceiling, floor, walls and door reappear and the stars fade away. The dusty old color returns and the bubbles pop and disappear.

Luna wraps her arm around Twilight who was sobbing at this point, "Twilight," Luna says, "Everything is going to be alright. If Pinkie Pie is made princess than you could be her student instead, and maybe you can be made into a princess too by Pinkie."

Twilight, weakly pushes Luna away, "It's not that I want to be Princess. I trusted Princess Celestia, I thought she chose me because of my talent. I thought...she thought I was special."

Luna sighed, "I know how you feel Twilight."

At that moment Twilight had remembered about how Luna felt. Luna was also betrayed and kept in the dark like her.

"I'm sorry Luna, I forgot that you feel the same as I do about all this."

"It's alright Twilight. I'll talk with my sister tomorrow."

"No, Luna you can't! You were never supposed to know about all of this."

"Twilight, there are things that I know that most ponies don't know about my sister. It's time to do something about it. She's been hiding secrets, controlling ponies for her own power greed, and destroys the ponies that get too close to her."

Twilight, "How do you plan on stopping her?"

Luna vengefully, "I'm going to end her once and for all."

To be continued...