The Twilight Game

Before they would start the game, they want to do a few things first to make things seem fair. First, they got the Twilights to wear matching pajamas. They then grab markers and draw symbols on the Twilights forearms. For the princess, she got an alicorn's wings and horn. For the human counterpart, she got an atomic atom with a person in the middle. It was really necessary to put them on their, they argue it would be for dramatic flair for when they show who was who.

"There! All done!" Rarity cheerily declares when she finish drawing the symbols. "If they start to fade, we just have to re-apply them."

Both Twilight then looks that the symbols on their forearms. When Princess Twilight looks at hers, she sort of imagines it as a cutie mark. It was a symbol on her skin and she does seem to do more princess work then studying different magic these days. Human Twilight on the other hand was a bit more mixed about hers though. While she does appreciate it for showing her love for science; I does imply that she's nothing more but a nerdy girl.

Once everything was set and they roll down the sleeves to hid the marks, all eyes were on Rainbow Dash since it was her idea. "Ok. This is how we gunna play it" she proclaims. She points to the Twilights and tells them "You two will go upstairs and wait until you both ready to come down. When you do, we then have to figure out which Twilight is the princess and which one is our Twilight."

But then Sunset raises the question "Wait! Will it be "one at a time" or "all at once"?"

Rainbow paused and had a think. Either one sounds good enough but I could decide the pace of the game. Thinking it might be more satisfying, she asks everybody "Does "one at a time" sounds good to all of you?" Everyone voiced their liking to that setup, or at least not too bothered by it. But once everyone agrees to it, Rainbow then quickly adds "And to make it extra challenging, we can only ask three questions to either of them."

"Wow Rainbow. You seem to be going all the way about this one" Sunset remarks.

"Oh course! I'm always serious on this sort of thing."

"Serious about making up party games?" Applejack remarks.

As Rainbow Dash was glaring at AJ, Pinkie then tells her "Yeah! Party games are my thing you know."

After the teasing was over, human Twilight ask her "So while me and "Princess-me" is upstairs, what do we do 'till then?"

Not really paying too much concern to the topic, Rainbow just replies "Just do whatever you want until we call you. Just make sure that you don't do anything that will make us tell you two apart very quickly." After a silent glance to one another, both Twilights just shrug their shoulders.

"Ok! Is everything in order?" Rainbow asks them. After everyone said yes, she then says "Alright! Twilight-ss... You two go up and mix you selves up. When you both ready and come down, we'll go to the guessing round."

"Ok Rainbow" said one Twilight as both began their march upstairs.

Everyone wait silently until both Twilights were out of sight upstairs. Once they do, Rainbow sat down on one of the sofas. "Ok. So who want to go first?"

"I thought you would go first. Consider this is your game after all" Rarity replied.

Rainbow rebuts by saying "I could... but I want somebody to have a chance first."

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Can I go first!?" Pinkie yelled.

Before Rainbow could say anything, Sunset tells her "Well this is Fluttershy's house. I think she should decide who's going first."

Everyone's eyes were then pointing towards Fluttershy. Been suddenly forced into the selective role, Fluttershy timidly says "Um... I'm ok for Pinkie going first."

"YES!" Pinkie shouted. Everyone ruled their eyes but still smile to see her happy.

Everyone then began to wait anxiously for the Twilights to come down. They were patient and giving them time. While some of them where wondering if the Twilights are mingling up, others were wondering if how the game is going to go. Will it go ok? Will it go poorly? Only time will tell and they wait to find out.

After a minute or so of patiently waiting, a voice finally came out from upstairs. "Are You All Ready!?" yelled Twilight(?). Understandably, they didn't know which Twilight yelled that. However, they know it was part of the game and were prepared.

"Yeah! We're Ready!" Sunset yelled.

After taking a deep breath to build confidence, the Twilights began returning down stairs at once. Even though they built their confidence, nervousness and shyness was noticeable on their faces and their hearts were beating fast. Once they were in front of their friends, the Twilight on the right (the group's right) ask them "So... who is it?"

"That would be me" Pinkie proudly proclaims.

The only ones who were standing up were the Twilights and Pinkie while everybody else were scattered about sitting on the sofas or the comfy ground. With the scene was set, Rainbow acts like an announcer and says "Ok Pinkie; you got three questions to figure out which Twilight is which. You may start... NOW!"

"Alright!" Pinkie said as she clapped her hands and got into a low-bearing stance. It looked like she was ready for a throw down then a sophisticated deduction. The Twilights even imagine her tackling them down to the ground but they know that she won't do that (right?).

The first thing that she does wasn't asking them any question but instead was seizing them up. She was scanning every part of their bodies in every conceivable angle. At points it got really awkward as was really getting up close and personal. At first, Pinkie was filled with confidence and was sure with herself. But as she looks and seeing more and more similarities appearance wise, that confidence slowly dissipate.

"Hm... This might be a bit harder than I thought?" Pinkie thought out loud.

Catching that, Applejack asks her "Hang On! Don't tell me you thought you could tell them apart just by looking that them?"

"Well I'm usually good at that sort of thing" Pinkie said back at her.

Pinkie soon realized that she might have jumped the gun a little bit. With the pressure steadily growing on her, she examines them one more time. She got so close that she was actively touching them and moving their joints. The Twilight would have felt more embarrassed if it wasn't for the fact that it also felt quite ticklish. In an act of desperation, Pinkie examine one Twilight's arm that has the mark and try to peak up the sleeve. When Twilight notices this, she pulled her arm away.

"Ah-ah-ah! No peaking" she told her.

"Don't try to cheat Pinkie" said Rarity to Pinkie Pie. Pinkie would like to try to deny it, but even she can see that there's no point to it. All she could do was smile embarrassingly and step away from both Twilights.

With her "Plan A" now ruined, Pinkie went with Plan B: use the questions that she got to identify the Twilights. She put her fingers to temples and thinks really hard on what she is gunna ask. So hard in fact that it looked like that Pinkie was trying to read their minds (much to her friend’s amusement). Once she finally thought of one, Pinkie got excited again and let loose her body.

"Ok. First Question..." she said.

Both Twilights brace themselves.

"What's the name of my pet alligator?"

The room then went into an eerie silence. They didn't know what they were expecting, but both Twilights went speechless for a moment. Eventually the Twilight on the right tells her "Um Pinkie... You don't have a pet alligator."

"Yeah, you just have that alligator plushy that's call Gummy" the other Twilight explains.

Pinkie then responds by saying "Well if only my family let me have a REAL pet alligator, then I can show them that I can take care of it!"

After a few chuckles from a few people, Rainbow explains to Pinkie "Hey Pinkie, anybody who've been to your house would know that you wouldn't have a pet alligator. You have to ask them something that only one Twilight would know about."

After getting the helpful advice, Pinkie happily replies "Ok. Thank you Dashie." Pinkie then got another moment to think up a good question to ask. She was really going at it as she really wanted to figure out which one is which. The Twilights was sort of happy to see Pinkie dedicated to this, but also hoping that she didn't pull a brain muscle.

"Ok-ok-ok! I think I got a good one" Pinkie proclaims. She point to the Twilight on her left and ask her "Out of all of us that is here, which one of us did you meet first?"

"Ok" some of them thought as they consider that a decent question to ask. They know that both Twilights had met them in different orders and had different experiences. The Twilight that was asked glance at towards the other one and she was wondering what she should say. After a moment to think very carefully about her answer, the Twilight who was asked replies.

"I think it was... Fluttershy?"

But then, before she could even think about it, Pinkie went and says "PZZT! Wrong! It was me!"

However, what she said struck a chord with Fluttershy. Before anybody could say anything, she was fast to respond and tells Pinkie "Um Pinkie, she was right. I was the one who first met Twilight."

Surprised, Pinkie yells "What!"

"Yeah. I remember telling Twilight where to find you when she wanted to be in the Fall Formal" Fluttershy explained.

When she said that, Pinkie and a few others suddenly remembered the events around the Fall Formal. They remember it as a simpler time where there was a lot less magic that they had to deal with. "Oh many things have changed since back then" a few of them ask themselves.

But anyway, after they remember the simple times, Pinkie then tries to back-peddle and says "Oh yeah. But um... I was more thinking about our Twilight, the one where we met at the Friendship Games."

With that info, then Pinkie's reaction was a bit more excusable. However, Rarity still rebuts "Well if that was the case darling, then she technically met all of us at once when I show off my designs in the music room.

However Pinkie refutes that by saying "Yeah, but technically: I was the first person that Twilight met on our own after that."

They could see that Pinkie is trying really hard to be right about something and she is right in some way. "Alright Pinkie. We'll give you that one" Rainbow said to her.

As Pinkie was feeling really happy with herself, Sunset suddenly thought of something. "You know, if we were to get really technical her, then I was the one who Princess Twilight first meet. I mean, if it wasn't for me getting spotted when I stole Twilight's crown, then she wouldn't had follow me to CHS." Everyone found that factoid as really interesting to think about.

But with that discussion over, Pinkie is left with one more question to ask and she is putting off all the stops. She was so deep in thought, she would like to describe that she was grasping cosmological concepts or anything that sounds fancy. She knows that she is facing against Twilight who read a lot of books in her time. She wants to construct a question that was in the same vain as someone would construct a logic puzzle.

But then something finally hit. She thought of a question that might tumble the brilliant and smart. Pinkie wants to hid overflowing excitement, but it was still noticeable in her friends eyes. "Final.... Question!" Pinkie said in a melodramatic and eerie voice. She went to the left Twilight, the one that she had just asked, and look in her the eye.

"Twilight..."

The Twilight that she was talking to braced herself.

"Is that Twilight over there (pointing to the one on the right) is the pony princess version of yourself?"

Everyone was speechless. She had asked questions already to make them to be lost for words, but this seems to take the cake. It was so straight forward and simple, it caused Applejack to ask

"Pinkie, do you think she would reply a simple question like that?"

However Pinkie quickly teleport right beside and replies "No, it's actually quite brilliant." Before Applejack could react for Pinkie suddenly appearing up close to her, she was then teleport in the center of the room and explains her logic.

"You see, if she would say yes to the question, then that Twilight is indeed the princess Twilight and she would be our Twilight. But if she would say no, then she would be princess Twilight and the other must be our Twilight!"

After hearing it out loud, it actually does sound quite clever and brilliant. It's kind of like a solution to a riddle where the answer might not be that hard to think about. However, Fluttershy still felt like she had to ask "But what if she was lying?"

"She wouldn't lie" Pinkie replied. But after realizing something, she asks "Wait! Can she lie?"

Everyone then look around, realizing that they haven't thought of that. After some time, Applejack says to everyone "I'd say they have to be honest as they can be in this scenario."

"Yeah or else it wouldn't be much fun otherwise" Rarity then added.

Finally filled back with confidence, Pinkie got up close to Twilight and says "So what is it gunna be... Twilight!?"

The Twilight that Pinkie was talking to was extremely nervous. Like Pinkie said, it was a really clever question that can exposes her quite easily. However, when she look at her other counterpart, she saw a face of reassurance. A face that tells her that she has faith in her. Seeing that trusting expression, Twilight became confident in herself. As the pressure slowly starts to build, she thought deeply for a good answer. Pinkie question does sound like something that she read about in books before, it still wasn't quite the same. And since it wasn't the same, she can be a little loose with her answer.

And then, at the height of suspense, she finally came up with a good response. After taking a deep breath, Twilight replies to Pinkie

"... Maybe?"

After a delayed reaction, Pinkie response was "What!?"

"Yes, Maybe" Twilight reiterate as she leans against her other self. "Maybe she's Princess Twilight? Maybe I'm Princess Twilight? Maybe is my answer and I'm sticking to it."

After a moment to be surprised, everyone burst out laughing much to Pinkie's dismay. Just how dumbfounded Pinkie's expression was after she thought so hard to make a good tricky question and it being ruined by Twilight's clever comeback makes it all hilarious to them.

"Now Wait A Minute!" Pinkie yelled out "Can She Say That!?"

"I'd Allow It!" Sunset replied while she was still laughing her head off.

As she saw her friends laughing to her misery, lets just say that Pinkie really doesn't like being laughed at. Eventually, as they were calming down, they notice a not so cheery Pinkie standing before them looking upset. Realizing how she must be feeling, they instantly cut out their laughter.

"Sorry for laughing Pinkie" Fluttershy apologized. "Just your reaction was so funny."

"No, that's ok" Pinkie replied, trying to be mature. "Ha! It was kind of funny I will admit." She said that with all honestly.

With that out of way, Pinkie is left to chose. With them standing in front of her, Pinkie still hasn't got a clue which Twilight is which. However, she is gunna put all her faith in one thing: her magical friendship instinct.

"Ok, according to my friendship instincts, they say that..."

The Twilights gulp in suspense.

"......You (to the Twilight on her left) are "Princess Twilight" while you (to the Twilight on her right) is "Our Twilight"!"

After she said that, the room went back into silence as they wonder if she was right. Pinkie was crossing her fingers and was hoping she was right. Both Twilights had one more glance to each other before they got ready to roll up their sleeves. When the tension was at it thickest, the Twilights reveal the answer.

The Twilight on the left has the human-atom symbol and the Twilight on the right has the alicorn symbol. Pinkie was wrong.

When they saw the results, everyone immediately feel bad for Pinkie who was understandably disheartened. As they where wondering how she is doing, her legs became like jelly and fell onto her knees. Saddened to see Pinkie like this, human Twilight (after putting on her glasses) tries to comfort her and says "Don't be too sad Pinkie. You tried your best."

"Yeah I know" Pinkie replied. "It's just that I'm supposed to be a really good friend, but how can I be that if I can't tell my look-alike friends apart?"

"Oh Pinkie" Sunset says before she gave Pinkie a hug. Soon, everyone got up and give Pinkie, hoping it might her feel better. Even though she thought it wasn't needed, Pinkie did appreciate the group hug.

But then, in a moment that would cause severe whiplash, Pinkie jump up in the air with excitement and and yells "But Oh Man That Was A Lot Of Fun!" Her friends jumped back, surprised that Pinkie was much better then they thought.

"Really?" Twilight ask.

"Mmhem!" Pinkie replied. "It was challenging, suspenseful and got us to think some interesting stuff."

"Well I'm glad that you had fun Pinkie" says Sunset who was still surprised to see Pinkie this happy.

At first, the Twilights thought they would stop after one round when they thought Pinkie was distraught. However, after seeing Pinkie energising smile and cheerfulness, it make them want to continue. "So I'm guessing you want us to go continue?" Princess Twilight asked.

"You Betcha!" Pinkie replies.

"Oh! Can it be my turn this time?" Rarity asked, seizing the opportunity.

"Sure, I don't mind" Rainbow nonchalantly remark. After everyone says they ok with it, Rainbow then says to Twilight "Ok you two; go back upstairs and give us a holla when your ready."

"Ok" human Twilight reply. As she and the other Twilight walk back upstairs, they look down over the railing and saw their friends looking happy. They are more glad that they are playing this game. But then, when the Twilight were out of sight or sound from the others, both Twilights breath a massive sigh of relief. "Oh Man" human Twilight said. "Things got pretty tense back there."

"I know" Princess Twilight responded. "By the way: way-to-go in answering Pinkie's last question back there."

"Thanks. It was a really good. And um... thanks a lot in telling the 2nd question's answer was Fluttershy."

"Well I didn't so much as "tell" as you just notice me pointing my eyes at her when you look" Twilight replied, feeling slight embarrassed.

"You know, they will be asking more personal questions now. Do you think we should seize this opportunity to share what we know?"

Both Twilights felt slightly uncomfortable with this as it almost seem like it's underhanded. However, they remember Rainbow saying that they can do whatever they want up there as long as they don't make it obvious on who they are. That along with the excuse of making the game more fun, Twilight reply by saying

"Sure."