After Sunset grabbed the book linking her native world with this one, she rushed to meet Twilight out in front of Canterlot High. Weaving past her fellow students rushing to get home, she waved a hand to her friend in front of the mangled statue that used to hold CHS' stone mascot, the Canterlot Wondercolt. All that was left was a small piece of one of the hind hooves and the podium that was now horseless. Laying around the indigo haired girl was what looked like a bunch of scientific equipment. On one side was Twilight's laptop, hooked up to what appeared to be a seismograph of some sorts, and on the other stood a small whiteboard with scientific formulas strewn about it. In a similar fashion, there was also a notebook propped up by some textbooks. After the crowd of exhausted students grew smaller, Sunset Shimmer was able to make her way over to her friend in front of the entrance to the portal that brought her to this world.

"Hey, Twilight!" She sat down, pulling something out of her backpack. "I got the book, just like you asked. Hey-!"

Twilight snatched it from her hands, ignoring the outburst her friend gave. "Good! You told me it worked like a phone does, right?" She said, jotting down something in it.

"Yeah, but-" Sunset tried to protest, but to no avail.

"Good! Then the other Twilight- Princess Twilight, should be able to get the notes I'm sending her. I also told her my plan!" She beamed.

"Which is...?" Sunset asked.

Her beaming smile turned to a sheepish one. "Oh. Right. I forgot to mention it to you, heh heh!" She scratched the back of her neck- a nervous habit she picked up when she was younger. Clearing her throat, she filled her friend in on the plan. "Well, ever since my...outburst, I've been seeing these visions and having these headaches, and I never understood why...until now." Turning towards the whiteboard, she erased part of it, and began to explain. "I believe that I may have ruptured the inter-dimensional gateway linking the two parallel dimensions together. As a result, another gateway started to link, and since the rapture occurred during a potentially catastrophic space/time phenomenon, the two linked planes now have become 3."

"So in other words, you somehow linked a third world to the portal to Equestria?" Twilight nodded. "Well, how can that be? Unless..." Sunset Shimmer began to realize what exactly occurred during the Friendship Games.

"Yes, now you're beginning to realize." Twilight straightened her glasses. "Consider the Wonder Colt statue as a focusing point for the magical energy of the portal. Much like an antenna on a radio." She stated.

Once again, she erased the whiteboard and drew another diagram to explain better.

"The portal's entrance is at the base of the statue. However, I believe that the statue along with the podium anchored and separated other worlds trying to establish a link. If the statue was completely obliterated, I believe any and all worlds would be cut off, including Equestria."

"But it wasn't. Only a hind leg was left!" Sunset exclaimed.

"Precisely!" Twilight smiled. "That means that the bond that Equestria's portal made with ours is still intact, but now there's a third portal being established." Whilst talking, the book linking to the Twilight in Equestria started to vibrate. "Uh, what does the glowing and vibrating mean?" She asked.

"Oh, it means that Princess Twilight got your message and sent you a reply."

Sure enough, when Twilight opened the book, different words were written, seemingly in reply to the plan she explained to the other Twilight. "You know, this reminds me of Tom Riddle's diary..."

"Who's Tom Riddle?" Sunset asked.

"Never mind!" Looking at the book, Sunset read Princess Twilight's reply alongside her friend:

Hello Twilight! Wow, this seems weird, heh!

*ahem* I never fully realized how powerful this inter-dimensional gateway between our worlds was! Starswirl the Bearded was a very powerful unicorn, but I never thought that even he could create such a powerful link between worlds.

From the formulas you gave me, I understand that somehow you were able to link a third world to your side of the portal. If this is true, then the passageway previously established may be unstable, which means your plan to bring me to the other side might not work in our favor. The Quantum Tunneling effect could destabilize my transformation when I enter the portal, and I could end up as two halves at different points of space and time. However, it could be possible for you to create a probe and send it through the portal to collect data.

"She might be onto something," Sunset mentioned. "If you dismantle your magic capturing device that stole me and my friend's magic along with the portal's and transformed you, instead it could be made into a simple Quantum Recording device with a bit of magic thrown in from Equestria's side to stabilize it, then maybe we could actually get some data out of it." She pointed to the necklace around Twilight, holding the inert device. Ever since the incident, she's been wearing it as a reminder to never again mess with things she does not understand completely. It was disabled, but she never had the heart to dismantle it.

Twilight's jaw dropped. "What? You can't be the only genius on the block you know!"

Shaking her head, Twilight hesitated in agreeing with this. "In theory, it sounds good, but you're forgetting one thing: The portal is now unstable. How do you expect us to get it to Princess Twilight without it falling apart on the way there?"

Sunset tapped her chin with her finger in thought. Then it struck her. "That's it!" Grabbing the book, she ripped a blank page out of it.

"Sunset! What are you doing?!" Twilight exclaimed. Then Sunset yanked Twilight's necklace off her neck.

"The book is still stable between the two worlds, right?" the purple haired girl nodded. "So, if we add that stability to the device," she undid the clasp and opened the inert device hung around the necklace, jamming the paper inside. ", then we'll be able to keep it stable through the portal!"

"T-that's brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Well, you never had to bring magic into the equation before." Sunset opened the book again and told Princess Twilight the plan, who agreed wholeheartedly with it.

It was sunset, and there was still no reply from Princess Twilight. Once they all agreed with the plan, Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer waited patiently for the device to come back through. For the first five minutes, they both thought nothing was wrong. Then minutes turned to hours and they still sat in front of the portal to Equestria. Suddenly, the book linking the realms began to vibrate. Both pacing, they rushed to the book and opened it. What it said indicated something unexpected happened:

Twilight and Sunset,

Your device did come through, though I'm afraid this next part may be a little... unexpected, considering other Twilight's reaction to this other world.

I tried to activate it and took every precaution to keep it from draining Equestria of its magic. However, when I opened it...

...Just take a look for yourself. I'm sending the device back through, this time with an enchantment so it won't take so long.

True to her word, the device came through the portal like a bullet. Red-hot, the necklace buried half of itself into the stone steps of the school.
Waiting for it to cool off first, Sunset tried to pull it from the stonework, and with some effort, pried it away from the hole it now created. The book vibrated again, and Twilight read the new passage. "She said nothing happened."

"Nothing happened? Like, the magic was minuscule, or literally nothing happened?" Sunset was curious. How could something from an entirely different dimension not have any reaction... to anything?! Both were flabbergasted.

"Maybe the device needs adjustment, Sunset. After all, it was designed to contain anomalies, not magic." Though the consequences of trying to contain the "anomalies" Twilight thought came from CHS was actually magic, the device wasn't built for such things. Swiping the amulet from Sunset, Twilight opened it and began to take it apart using a screwdriver she brought with just in case the device needed to be dismantled for safety purposes. Fiddling with the buttons and wires attached, Twilight spoke. "There's absolutely nothing wrong with the sensors, and none of the fuses have been broken." she explained.

"Which means it's even more confusing than before." Sunset sighed. She turned towards the reflective mirror that hid the portal. Gazing back was her reflection. Maybe...maybe directly going there might work...

She began to walk towards the mirror.

"Sunset, what are you doing?" Dropping her screwdriver and setting down the device now dismantled, Twilight stood up, watching the flame haired girl walk towards the portal. You were my brother, Anakin!

That vision rang clear in the back of her mind, all too clear now as to what it was trying to tell her. Nearing ever closer, Sunset was within inches of the portal, ready to take the plunge, until her friend spoke.

"Stop!" Twilight exclaimed. She walked closer to her friend raring to risk it all just to figure out why this new world is affecting her so. Grasping her hand, she pulled Sunset back a few feet, making her stand face to face with her friend. "I'm not gonna let you go."

"You don't understand!" Sunset reared back, not paying attention to how close she was nearing the portal. "I'm not gonna watch you suffer over this stupid portal!" She threw her hands in the air, stepping back even further.

"Sunset!"

"Don't you get it?! I don't want to see you like this!"

"Sunset, wait!"

"NO! No waiting. This stupid portal is the only thing-" Her sentence was cut short by a crack of lightning shooting from the portal, whizzing past her ear and striking the device still disassembled on the ground near Twilight's feet. Magically, the device reassembled and rose from the ground and began to hover in the air, sparks flying out of it. Sparks soon turned into a black hole and began to suck the two closer to it.

"Run!" Twilight exclaimed. Doing as suggested, they both began to run, Sunset considerably faster than Twilight due to her more athletically toned body. Twilight ran as fast as she could, gaining distance from the growing black hole, heading towards her friend. Inching closer and closer, she was about side by side with Sunset, until she tripped.

The black hole began to increase its gravitational pull, pinning Twilight on the ground, and inching her nearer to the growing nothingness.

"Twilight!" Skidding to a stop, Sunset turned around and raced towards her friend, the gravity getting heavier and heavier as she approached. The gravity was too much, and threw her down on all fours. Crawling towards Twilight, she gained some footing, but by then it was already too late. They both were now too close to the device-turned-black hole to be able to escape its threshold. Close enough to grab each others' hands, they nodded and waited for the inevitable. It came as quick as a flash, but they were still alive, and now in some sort of pale white gateway with bits of other streamlining colors whizzing past. "What's-" Twilight spoke too soon, as both were peeled away and seemingly thrown in opposite directions.

Author's Note

Woo! Chapter 3 is finally out! Updates might be slow depending on my work schedule, so don't worry if it takes a bit! I'm just busy and will update with a new chapter when I get the chance!

Let me know what you guys think in the comments below. Please give me constructive criticism, so I know exactly what I can improve.