Author's Note

Elusive= Rarity's gender bend
Rainbow Blitz= Rainbow Dash's gender bend
Dusk Shine= Twilight's gender bend
Berry Bubble= Pinkie Pie's gender bend
Applejack= Well, they've got the same name in both worlds
Spines= Spike's gender bend
Butterscotch= If you haven't figured it out then I'm not quite sure how you understand any of this story(Fluttershy)
NOTE: These gender bends DO exist outside of this fan fiction. Not on the show, but on the internet. There are plenty of photos and whatnot of them. The fan fiction " On a Cross and Arrow" features them, too. "On a Cross and Arrow" is not my fan fiction btw.

Chapter 5

"Have any of you seen Butterscotch?"

These were the words that Elusive asked his friends as they went out to eat at an expensive restaurant.

Applejack frowned. " I haven't, no."

Berry Bubble shook his head. " He told me yesterday he'd come with us to eat. He never bails on us." This was a point taken by Dusk Shine.

" This is very true."

Rainbow Blitz frowned. "Well wherever he is, he needs to hurry up. We're splitting the cost of this meal and I'm hungry. I don't want to pay more than I agreed to."

"Cheap skate..." Applejack murmured.

Rainbow Blitz scoffed. "What? It's not like you want to pay more either."

The five of them were already halfway to the restaurant. "Why don't we just wait a little when we get there?" Elusive suggested.

Berry nodded. " Sounds good to me! He shouldn't be more than a few minutes late when we get there if anything slowed him down."

Dusk, on the other hand, frowned.

" I don't know. Something tells me something isn't right. We should go check on him."

" Don't you worry your head, haystack. I'm sure Butterscotch will make it here," Applejack reassured.

Dusk glanced at him. " You sure? I just have a feeling."

"Don't sweat it! You worry too much," Rainbow Blitz groaned. " He just better get here before I starve to death." Seeing his friends were sure all was alright. Dusk Shine sighed.

" Alright. Lets keep on our way to the restaurant."

***

The band began to play and Butterscotch smiled. He loved the upbeat music. He listened to them play one song and he clapped.

" That was very good! I never heard a girl band before. I usually only ever hear my friends sing."
The girls were surprised.

" Your friends are in a band?" Rarity asked. Butterscotch shook his head.

" No. Actually, where I'm from, everypony just bursts into song out of no where."(cough, cough, just like the show)

" Burst out in song? Well I'll be!" Applejack laughed.

" There you are with that 'pony' word. How come you keep on saying that?" Rarity quizzed.

Butterscotch gulped. Should he tell them? They are his friends...as girls. But then again, this is another world from what he knows. They might think he's crazy. But one of them mentioned fighting the Sirens. If they fought the Sirens, then they went up against Sunrise, er, Sunset Shimmer before them. Which means they had powers.

But where is Dusk Shine's female self? But wait. Dusk Shine, in his world travelled here...

So that means they DO know about ponies! Their missing friend has got to be Dusk Shine's other self. But if she's a pony, then that also means there's ANOTHER world full of PONIES THAT ARE THEM BUT THE OPPOSITE GENDER!!!!!!!

Butterscotch was too deep in his thoughts to notice Rainbow Dash right in front of him calling his name. " Hey, Butterscotch!"

He jumped when he heard her yell in his ear.

" Rainbow Blitz!" he squeaked from being startled. The girl in front of him squinted her eyes.

" Rainbow Blitz..?"

Butterscotch immediately stuttered upon realizing his mistake. " I-I mean, Rainbow Dash. Sorry..."

The girl glanced back at her friends, who were just as baffled as she was. " You know, you've been acting pretty odd. Is this how you are around people? Not to mention you and the 'pony' stuff..."

Rainbow Dash leaned closer. " Say...do you know a girl named Twilight Sparkle?"

Butterscotch blinked. " No, I don't."

" Oh. Just wondering..."

The boy tilted his head. Funny she should ask if he knew another girl when she was interrogating him about something entirely different.

Unless...

" Is this Twilight Sparkle a purple girl with very dark blue hair..?" he asked.

Applejack's eyes widened as she glanced around at the others, who did the same. Butterscotch sighed with relief. So this girl she mentioned must be Dusk Shine's other self. No wonder she asked. Dusk Shine came from a pony world and it would make absolute sense that she asked him about this Twilight Sparkle if she WAS his other self. I mean, who goes from interrogating someone about ponies to asking about a girl? Then that means that these girls were already making connections that Butterscotch himself was a pony.

" Yeah. And she's real smart," Applejack said.

" Yes," he replied. If Dusk Shine is smart, his gender bend should be, too.

" And she has a dog named Spike," Fluttershy added.

A dog named Spike? Dusk Shine's dragon assistant is named Spines. Well, it is a gender bent world he's in.

" Yes."

The girls paused for a moment. Fluttershy raised her tambourine to hid her flushed face.

" This may be a very odd question but..." She took a deep breath.

" Is she a pony princess who came from another world?"

Bingo! Twilight Sparkle is indeed Dusk Shine's other self!

Butterscotch smiled at her. " Why yes."

The girls' eyes widened with excitement. " So you're from her world!"

" So you're a pony!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

" I'm a Pegasus in my world," he told her.

Sunset Shimmer grinned. " Do you know her personally? Did she send you here?"

Butterscotch scratched his head sheepishly. "Actually..."

The girls waited for him to say whatever it was he had to say.

" Actually, I'm not from her world," he said. " I'm from a different world and came here on accident. I was going to wake up my chickens this morning when I saw this strange swirly thing behind the coop. This here chick fell in and I went after it. That's how I got here."

Pinkie Pie tilted her head. " How do you know Twilight then? Did she visit your world?"

This was the part Butterscotch knew was going to be odd.

" Um, no. I only guessed who she was. The truth is, I don't know her at all. This will sound strange but..."

It was his turn to take a deep breath. " The world I'm from everypony is the same but the exact opposite gender from the world that Twilight lives in...I think..."

They blinked.

Exact opposite gender??

" W-What do you mean?" Applejack asked.

" I mean that all of you, as ponies, exist in my world. Only you all are guys," Butterscotch told her.

All of them stared at him. " We're guys?!" Pinkie squeaked.

He nodded. " Rainbow Dash, when I called you Rainbow Blitz, I accidently called you by your guy version's name. And Sunset Shimmer, Sunset Glare is your male version. And Dusk Shine...is Twilight Sparkle."

They all were speechless. No way...

Rarity asked Butterscotch a question. " S-So...Who am I in your world?"

" You're Elusive."

" Elusive..." she whispered with wonder. " Tell me. Am I attractive? Am I the best clothes designer?"

Butterscotch blushed. " You are a very wonderful clothes designer. I would say you're... attractive." He was not used to calling other guys attractive.

Applejack spoke up. " And me? Who am I?"

Butterscotch had to smile. " You're Applejack. Your name's the same in both worlds. You're the strongest, most hard working pony I know."

She smiled.

Rainbow Dash smirked and said. " So is this Rainbow Blitz the coolest guy ever?"

He nodded. " You're the fastest flyer in all of Equestria."
Rainbow grinned.

"Oh! Oh! What about me?!" Pinkie Pie asked.

" You're Berry Bubble. He loves to throw parties all the time and is very hyper," Butterscotch explained.

" Yay!" she squealed. She shoved Fluttershy up close to him.

" Now tell us who she is!"

Butterscotch looked at the girl who was only a few inches away since Pinkie shoved her. He blushed.

" Oh, well, um...Fluttershy's...her version...uh..." He gulped and looked down.

" I'm her."