"She's not the Twilight that we know! It's a different Twilight, I think."
It was the month of November, where all was quiet outside of Canterlot High, home of the Wondercolts. Still, even before classes had begun, students were buzzing about the events that took place during the Fall Formal two weeks ago. It was strange, really. Who would have known that the new girl, who really never attended the school, was a pony? It wasn't normal, especially due to the fact that 5 other girls along with her turned into anthro-ponies. Who knew?
However, those five girls were just as curious as everyone else. These questions lay in their minds: How did Sunset Shimmer know Twilight was a princess? Why go through all that trouble stealing the crown and back to the human world, when she could have just put it on her head in Equestria? Why in the world would Sunset Shimmer drive 5 girls' friendships apart? Of course, they remained unanswered to this day.
Then something so peculiar happened.
Correction: It wasn't something, more like someone.
A new girl stood outside the school, wearing a blue blouse with a violet necktie and a purple skirt with a pink star on it. She wore knee-high purple boots and what appeared to be either pink knee-high socks or legwarmers. Her hair was two dark shades of violet, with a pink streak that complimented her hair. She also had purple eyes. Standing next to her was her father, holding her schedule in one hand, and her dog's leash (with the dog, Spike, of course) in the other. Spike whimpered sadly before the girl rubbed the back of his ear.
"Don't worry, Spike. It's only 6 hours I'll be here. I promise I'll be back home soon. I swear." she said reassuringly.
"Here you go, honey. Your schedule has your classes on here. Make sure you follow it correctly." her dad, Nightlight, said.
"Thanks, daddy. Don't worry about me though. I'll be fine. Maybe this is the school that didn't make that video of me for some 'Fall Formal Princess' thing." she sighed.
Nightlight kissed her forehead and hugged her, "I hope so, too. Goodbye, sweetheart."
"Bye, daddy. Bye Spike."
*Woof!*
The girl took a deep breath and walked up the stairs, very slowly. She gave her dad and the dog one last look and wave, before she entered the school. Sure enough, everyone was walking in the halls, greeting each other and walking to homeroom.
That is, until they saw who walked through the door.
The students froze in shock as the new girl walked through the building, oblivious to her surroundings and everyone staring at her. She thought it was a normal thing when someone new walks through the door, so she kept on walking. She stopped at the front door of Principal Celestia's office, knocking on the door as she did so. It opened a bit, then halfway, then fully. Principal Celestia looked at the girl, then her jaw dropped. She quickly closed it and cleared her throat.
"May I help you?" she said, serious.
"Oh, um...just wanted to let you know that I'm new to the school. I believe you spoke with my father about me attending here." the girl replied.
"I see. Well...Twilight Sparkle, welcome to Canterlot High. I hope you enjoy." Principal Celestia smiled.
Someone else walked in from the other office, when she saw Twilight and dropped the two coffees she had in her hands on the floor. Her mouth stayed agape. Twilight looked at her nametag closely, even from a distance.
Vice Principal Luna
Looking at the shocked principal and the paralyzed vice principal, she nodded her head and left the doorway.
What a strange school. It's like they recognized me from somewhere, Twilight thought. She looked at her schedule and checked her homeroom number.
Room 106
Names Letter P-Z
Grade Level: Senior
Twilight looked at the number on the door in front of her: 106. That was quick, she thought.
Opening the door, she found a madhouse inside. Paper airplanes, paper balls, paper mache, everything paper was being thrown across the room. And the best part: no teacher.
Once again, the students stared Twilight who just closed the door. Some gasped, while others fumbled on whether they should say something or not. A girl, on the other hand, didn't fumble, and instead said:
"OMG! IT'S TWILIGHT! SHE CAME BACK FOR US!"
This girl had pink curly hair, blue eyes, and a wide smile. She wore a nametag that said, "HI! I'm Pinkie Pie!" and she ran up to hug the flustered Twilight. Losing her balance, Twilight fell on the ground while the so-called "Pinkie Pie" kept hugging her tightly. Her face was turning a light shade of purple.
"Too...tight...can't...breathe." Twilight gasped.
"Oops, silly me! I'm just sooooooo happy you came back for us!" Pinkie squealed.
"Um, what are you talking about? I don't even-" she was interrupted by another hug from Pinkie.
"Pinkie Pie, darling, that's enough!" someone from the back scolded.
Twilight pushed Pinkie off and picked herself off the ground, brushing off the dirt and dust. Man, the janitor certainly hasn't been doing his job correctly. She scanned the room and spotted the girl who shouted that. She had blue eyes with blue eye-shadow and long, curly eyelashes. She had beautiful purple hair that was curled at the end. She didn't look to happy with Pinkie Pie.
"Awww, Rarity! It's just Twilight! She came back! She really did!"
"Pinkie, I'm not even sure that she's the Twilight we know. Don't you remember? The Twilight from Equ-Equest...from wherever, had versions of us in her world..."
What are those two going on about? Twilight thought.
"...so, this is her version from our world, got it?" Rarity finished.
*sigh* "I guess you're right, Rares. What do you think, Dashie?"
The girl sitting next to Rarity was quite the opposite of her. She had spectrum colors for hair (looks like she hadn't combed it for weeks) and had magenta eyes. She raised an eyebrow and looked at Pinkie.
"It's not that Twilight, Pinkie." she said.
"Um...not to be rude or anything, but what are you three talking about?" Twilight finally about.
"Correction: four, actually." emerged another voice from the back.
This girl had blue eyes and red and yellow hair that was curled in some type of style. Twilight recognized her voice from somewhere, but couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"We'd tell you, but homeroom is going to start. If you'd like, we'll tell you at lunch." she said.
As if on cue, the homeroom teacher walked through the door. She took one good look at Twilight and facepalmed.
"Ugh, you again! I'd advise you to take a seat, Miss 'I-don't-know-how-to-use-a-computer'."
"What are you...?" Twilight said.
"I'm Miss. Cheerilee, your homeroom teacher. Please find a seat so that I may take attendance...what is this mess? Clean it up, one of you!"
Pinkie whispered to Rarity, "Miss. Cheerile seems awfully cranky-doodley today. What's her problem?"
"Pinkie, is there something you'd like to share with the class?" Miss. Cheerilee asked.
"No thanks, I'm good!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"You're kidding, right? What did you tell Rarity?"
"I just wanted to know why you're so saddy-waddy today. It's not like you!"
"Just...*sigh*, nevermind."
There is definitely something wrong about this school, Twilight thought, I don't know how long I'm going to last here. It's going to be a very long school year.
Author's Note
Yeah, unfortunately, I'm not going to describe the 5/6 from the Mane 6. It takes too long to explain and most of you already saw the movie, so you should know how they look like. No, this is not an AppleDash fic (thank Celestia), so just enjoy it.
"She's not the Twilight that we know! It's a different Twilight, I think."
Twilight was trying to avoid the mysterious and weird girls all morning. She didn't know what they were talking about. This "other Twilight" they were talking about. Why would there be another Twilight? Did she even look like her? If only her best friend, Octavia, were there with her. That was her only friend, besides Spike, and that would be her only friend, no more. Now that it's lunchtime, she could eat something to get her mind off things.
"Boy, am I famished. I could eat an entire car right now." she said, grabbing her food.
"That's what mah sis would say." a voice replied.
Twilight jumped until she saw what replied her "spoken thought". A pinkish-red hair and a large pink bow with orange eyes. She was short, so Twilight assumed she was a freshman.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare ya," the little girl stuck out her hand, "Ah'm Apple Bloom."
Twilight smiled and shook her small, yet firm hand, "I'm Twilight Sparkle."
"Hey! Are you the Twilight that attended the school -not really- and left?"
"Uh...no?"
"Figures. Ya look prettier than her. Well, Ah gotta go. Mah friends are ova there. Bye, Twilight!" Apple Bloom said, walking to her table.
As cute and nice as the little girl was, Twilight thinks that she, along with everyone else, has gone crazy. Sighing, she walked to an empty table and sat there, eating her mashed potatoes. Literally.
Suddenly, four...no, six girls sat at her table.
"I-I don't believe it!" a girl with rose hair and bluish-green eyes said. Well, more like whispered.
"Believe it, 'Shy," Rainbow said, "It's Twilight."
"Well, Ah'll be a chicken cock-a-doodle-doin'! It really is her!" a freckled blonde with green eyes exclaimed. She wore a brown Stetson and spoke with a southern drawl.
"See, Rarity? I told you it was our Twilight!" Pinkie squealed!
Rarity rolled her eyes and shook her head, "Girls, how many times do I have to tell you? This is Twilight, OUR world's Twilight! Not pony Twilight!"
That's it.
"Who the heck is pony Twilight? And why do you guys keep talking about her...or me...or whatever?!" Twilight snapped, louder than she wanted to. The entire cafeteria stopped and looked at her.
Then, it hit her.
"Wait...is this the school that hosted the Fall Formal?" she demanded.
The girls were too shocked to even answer that question.
"It is, isn't it? Are you insane?! You're the reason why I was bullied in my last school! They thought I went to two schools at once and that I signed up for your dance! Plus, after that video made me look bad, people called me the..." Twilight trialed off on the verge of tears.
"Twilight..." Pinkie started.
"Just...leave me alone." And she ran out the room.
Author's note: This may seem sudden, but this is what starts their adventures. Kind of. Anyway, do NOT say I brought this up a little too early. Trust me: I brought it up at the right time.
Twilight was in the hallway without the light, crying her eyes out. This was the school that made her look like a fool in front of her original school. She wanted to track down who was responsible for it, and unfortunately, she found out one her first day. She didn't want to cry on her first day, but remembering the taunting students from her other school laughing at her brought the tears back.
"Why? Why does the bad things happen to me?" she sobbed to herself.
Dash Back
Twilight sobbed into her friend's shoulder, after watching the horrid 'Fall Formal Princess' video. This is what everyone at school was making fun of her about. Why would anyone do anything so cruel? Why would anyone even do something like that? It didn't matter anymore. She was a laughing stock.
"Tavi! It's just s-sooo horrible! Everyone is making of me b-bec-cause..." she bursted into tears.
"It's alright, Twilight. I'm so sorry this happened to you. Don't cry. It's alright."
"Octavia, how can I not cry? Everyone's bullying me, all for some stupid video! It couldn't get any worse than this!"
"Twilight, look at me," Octavia said, lifting Twilight's chin up with her finger, "Remember what happened to me? Remember when they thought I was going out with Vinyl Scratch? How I got called a lesbian?"
"But...you're dating her right now." Twilight said.
"Yeah, but back then, I totally denied it. And...I lost her as my girlfriend. That was probably the worst thing that has happened in anyone's life, including mine."
"I guess, it couldn't get any worse than that." Twilight agreed, wiping tears from her eyes.
"Twilight, you have to understand that everyone gets humiliated in their life. But the worst thing is losing a friendship. Or a girl who's obsessed with wubs."
They giggled at the thought and hugged each other.
"We'll always be friends, right Tavi?" Twilight asked.
"As long as I'm in your heart, I'm never going to leave you."
Twilight wiped her tears away and sighed, getting off the floor. She really missed Octavia. A true friend she was. If only she understood her situation now-
"Boy, howdy, ya sure do know where ta hide, dont'cha Twi?"
She looked up to see the freckled blonde against the wall, her arms crossed and one foot against the wall. Twilight gasped and fell back down, scurrying against her side of the wall. The blonde chuckled then whistled, her arms gesturing, "come over here." 4 other girls came over, sighing of relief when they saw Twilight. The one missing from the group was Sunset Shimmer.
"Twilight! We are super-duper-extra sorry we made you saddy-waddy!" Pinkie said, for once not cheery.
"Truly sorry, my dear. The video wasn't intentionally about you, really it wasn't." Rarity explained.
"Um...I know we just met, but...I-I'm sorry you had to go through all this." the meek girl said, rubbing her arm.
"Yeah. That video was totally not awesome. At all." Rainbow deadpanned.
"Thing is, sugarcube..."
Did she just call me...?
Pinkie interrupted her thoughts and Applejack, "There was this girl named Twilight and she came from the pony world because she had to retrieve her crown from Sunset Shimmer, the other girl. Twilight's a pony princess there. Anyway, Sunset Shimmer was also from the pony world, but came here a couple years ago. Anyway, in order to get her crown back, she had to participate in the Fall Formal. But first, she needed a campaign manager!"
"Pinkie, sweetie, she didn't-" Rarity started.
"That's where me and the girls come in," Pinkie interrupted, grabbing her friends in a tight hug, "She helped our friendships mend together again! Then we performed a song, defeated a monster, and saved the world from extreme discord and raining chocolate milk! Oh and in case you didn't know, the rosy pink-haired girl is Fluttershy, and the blonde is Applejack!"
Twilight blinked, then laughed out loud. As a matter of fact, her cheeks were turning red and her stomach was killing her. That was quite a story Pinkie had told. No one would be able to believe any of that crap she just put out there. Pinkie, dumbfounded, tilted her head.
"What's so funny? Did I say something funny?"
"Oh, Pinkie, everything you said was funny! That doesn't even explain the video!" Twilight said, calming down.
"Oh yeah! In order to NOT retrieve her crown, Sunset Shimmer had posted a video online for everyone to see, saying that Twilight shouldn't be Fall Formal Princess!" Pinkie explained.
"Like I would believe this 'Twilight Sparkle' was a pony princess. There's no such thing as traveling to other dimensions. It's not scientifically possible." Twilight said, folding her arms.
"But Phineas and Ferb traveled to another dimension, so it is scientifically possible." Pinkie said, folding her own arms and sticking her tongue at Twilight.
The other girls looked at each other, then sighed. If she wouldn't believe them, they would just have to show her.
"This is a joke...right?" Twilight asked shocked.
Here she stood in the principal's office, looking at pictures of Fall Formal and Spring Fling princesses. Besides the numerous amounts of Sunset Shimmer, there was one girl, in a pinkish dress, with huge wings and a crown on her head. The bottom of the photo read: Twilight Sparkle, 2013 Fall Formal Princess.
"It ain't no joke, Twi. This here's the real deal." Applejack said.
"But...this can't be! Is there really such a thing as to travel from dimension to dimension? And why out of all places did she come here for her crown?" Twilight asked.
"The portal she went through led her to our school." Rarity explained.
"Yeah! Her way back was the base of the statue upfront," Pinkie chimed in, "I wanted to follow her, but it suddenly closed and I got a big boo-boo. We haven't seen her since."
"So, that's why everyone was staring at me this morning. They thought I was...her." Twilight realized.
The girls nodded their heads, finally happy that Twilight was starting to believe them. But just to make sure...
"Now do you believe us?" Rainbow asked.
"How could I not? The proof is right in front of me!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Um...what are you girls doing in my office?" Principal Celestia asked.
The girls jumped in shock. They forgot that her door was open and they just went inside without permission.
"Oh, um...eep!" Fluttershy squeaked.
"We were just showing Twilight the Fall Formal princess picture so that she can finally realize there was another Twilight before her, ma'am." Rarity said.
"Finally realize...?" Celestia was interrupted.
"Would you look at the time? Wouldn't want to be late for class! See ya! Gotta go! Bye!" Rainbow said, dashing out the room with the girls not to far behind.
The bell rang and the hallways were instantly flooded by a sea of students. A group of men came by the school and waited until every student went to their class. When all was quiet, they walked up and knocked on Principal Celestia's door. Instead of Celestia, Luna answered instead.
"Good day, madame," one of them said, "We are the school's health inspectors team. I believe something had happened here two weeks ago, at least that's what some sources say."
"Sources? What sources?" VP Luna asked.
The man ignored her question, "I believe this incident left a large crater in the front of the school. I understand it is still there, despite your efforts covering it up with material looking like sidewalk." -Luna remained silent- "Are you the principal of this school?"
"No, I am the vice-principal, Luna. The principal is doing some paper work right now, she cannot come to the door."
"Well, here's my card. Tell her to call when she gets the chance. Good day to you." And with that, he tipped his hat and left with the other men close behind him.
Luna had a perplexed look on her face, and she closed the door behind her.
"Lulu, is something wrong?" Celestia asked, not looking up from her work.
Luna faced her sister, looking worried, "Tia, I think we have a problem."
Author's Note
Here it is, second chapter to the story. In case you want to know what's going on, I'll break it down for you:
SAFETY HAZARDS AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS!!!
That's all.
