Fragment Hunter all teleported into the band room and waited for Twilight to show up. But when they arrived, they saw that the girls were all dressed up in different costumes. "Okay. What's going on here," Silver asked as he saw most of the Rainbooms in sports uniforms or other costumes.

"Rarity decided to make all these different costumes for the Friendship Games because we don't know what the events are gonna be," Applejack explained as Rarity fixed the shirt she wore. "They're great and all, but why would you put so much time and effort into clothes we might not even wear? You're gonna exhaust yourself before the games even start," Applejack said to Rarity.

Rarity scoffed at Applejack as she put a dress back onto a costume rack nearby. "Don't be silly, darling! Putting effort into clothes is what I live for, and spending time on my friends fills me with energy," Rarity exclaimed and started to float in the air after she said the last word. Everyone was amazed at how Rarity was transforming with her magic despite not playing her keytar.

"And magic, too, I guess," Sunset Shimmer commented.

Unknown to any of the teenagers in the room, Twilight's amulet began to track Rarity's magic and she turned to where her device pointed. Suddenly to Twilight's surprise, the amulet popped itself open and a trail of magic coming off Rarity was absorbed by the device. Rarity began to lower to the ground and looked exhausted. "Actually, Applejack, now that you mention it, I suppose I could use a tiny break," Rarity said out of breath before collapsing.

"I told you," Applejack said as she caught Rarity.

"Vixen, go find my mom," Azalea said. "She can use her Semblance to help heal Rarity." Vixen nodded and decided to jump out the window to find Ivy. "Did she really need to jump out the window," Azalea asked before the door opened.

Twilight entered the band room to see the students she met at the bus to CHS alongside several other teenagers. Six of them looked excited to see her and called out her name. "Well, I'll be. You should've told us you were coming," Applejack said to Sci-Twi as the former put an arm around the latter's shoulder.

"Darling, those glasses. What are you wearing," Rarity noted as she managed to stand up straight.

"My uniform," Twilight answered cautiously.

"Your uniform for what," Fluttershy asked.

"For... Crystal Prep," Sci-Twi answered in confusion. "But why does everyone at this school know who I am?"

"Remember when I said that me and my friends knew another Twilight," Azalea reminded Sci-Twi. "Well... you kind of look like her. Except she didn't wear glasses and her hair was let down. Kinda like a princess," Azalea explained and chuckled after the comparison. "You resemble each other enough that everyone thought you were the same one."

"That... explains a bit," Sci-Twi noted.

"Guys, meet the Twilight Sparkle of your world," Sunset Blaze told the Rainbooms with her telepathy.

"You go to Crystal Prep," Rainbow Dash asked in surprise.

"Yes," Twilight answered before Spike popped out of her backpack and barked to everyone in the room. Rarity and Fluttershy immediately recognized the dog and said his name. "You know my dog, too," Twilight asked in surprise.

"Oh, yeah. The other Twilight has a dog too. Same breed, same colors, and same name as yours," Silver mentioned as Fluttershy tried to pet Spike.

"You two seem to have a lot in common. Almost like the two of you are mirror versions of the other," Cereza joked and got a chuckle out of Fragment Hunter.

Hearing Principal Celestia approach the group while talking to Principal Cinch, Silver was quick to shove Spike back down into Sci-Twi's backpack before he jumped out the window like Vixen did earlier. "Why did he do that," Twilight questioned before hearing another person call her name as they confused her for the other Twilight that Azalea mentioned. "Okay, this is getting ridiculous! Is there anyone in this school that doesn't know me?"

"Well, there are these three girls that were here for a charity event, but you saw that video Lemon Zest showed us on the bus and how they acted," Azalea mentioned. "Speaking of which," she said before turning to Pinkie. "How did you record that video and why did you post it online," Azalea said with her arms crossed. The peppy pink girl only smiled sheepishly as she tried to hide her face with the cowboy hat she wore with her costume.

"I must apologize for the curiosity of my prized student," Principal Cinch said as she walked next to Twilight.

"Your student," Principal Celestia questioned before Sunset Blaze telepathically explained.

"This world's Twilight. Goes to Crystal Prep. Bit of an outcast there. You're hearing me because of my powers."

"The smart ones are always curious," Cinch said and despite not liking her, Lapis had to agree because of her grades at Beacon and her own curious nature. "I'll return her to check in with the rest of her classmates," Cinch told Celestia before leading Twilight away.

As Celestia watched Cinch and Twilight walk away, she turned to Fragment Hunter. "Do you think that Twilight was the one that was near the statue the other day," she asked as Silver jumped back inside through the window.

"Oh yeah," Rebecca answered. "She was."

"This is a rather unsettling development," Rarity said as she tried to walk forward, but began to stumble until Celadon and Rainbow Dash caught her. "Seems like I'm still feeling woozy," Rarity said before Vixen returned with Ivy.

"Just relax and let me take care of this," Ivy said before her hands began to glow a brilliant emerald green. As she gently held Rarity's head, the fashionista felt her energy return and felt better. "There, all healed. With what we have planned, I feel like I'm going to be busy," Ivy said.

"Well, I'm going to go check on Sci-Twi," Azalea declared as headed toward the door. "Any of you want to come with me," she asked Fragment Hunter.

"I'm game," Vinyl said as she turned her music on and walked out the door while dancing to a hip-hop beat.

"Let's make sure that those Crystal Punks stay in line," Rua volunteered.

"Aren't you and Azalea the punks," Sunset Blaze remarked as she joined the trio.

"She dresses that way to not let anyone pick on her anymore," Rua retorted with a smile.

"Didn't hear you deny being called a 'punk'," Vinyl said before the four girls headed toward the courtyard.

"And since nobody else is doing it right now," Pinkie said as she turned around. She ran towards the open window and jumped out of it with an excited squeal. "Wheeeeee!"

As Twilight and Cinch walked out into the courtyard, Twilight tried to apologize for wandering off. "I'm sorry, Principal Cinch. I was just following these strange readings. Actually, they led me to those girls and—"

"Twilight, what you do in your free time is of little interest to me, but while you're here, I... all of Crystal Prep, in fact, require your complete focus," Cinch interrupted.

"It's just that everyone in this school seemed to know me," Twilight mentioned as Azalea, Blaze, Rua, and Vinyl saw her.

"Perhaps they're trying to confuse you. Perhaps they're trying to lure you away," Cinch replied.

Twilight was skeptical and remembered talking with Azalea. "It didn't feel like anyone was trying to lure me," she said. "Some of them actually wanted to just talk."

"I don't know what they're planning, but I guarantee, it isn't to help us win," Cinch said before continuing to guide Twilight to the other Crystal prep students.

"Geez, is winning the only thing on her mind," Rua asked rhetorically.

"I don't know. Let's just stick around here until they get moving," Blaze suggested as she climbed onto the Wondercolt Statue with Vinyl and Rua joining her. After a few minutes, Rua and Blaze saw Sunset Shimmer walk out with her magic journal in hand. Heading over to talk with her, the two Huntresses jumped off the statue and landed on their feet. "Hey, Shimmer. What's up," Blaze asked.

Shimmer sighed before explaining what was going on. "With Rainbow Dash and Rarity ponying up like they did, Vice Principal Luna wants me to keep an eye on our magic so that we aren't accused of cheating in the Games. I've been writing to Princess Twilight, but she hasn't replied yet," Shimmer explained.

"That's a lot. You sure that you're okay," Rua asked.

"Yeah. I'm thinking of going through the portal to Equestria to try and talk with Princess Twilight there," Shimmer said as she approached the statue's base.

Meanwhile, Vinyl and Azalea saw Sci-Twi looking at her amulet as she walked toward the statue. They walked next to her and asked what was happening. "Hey, Sci-Twi. What's going on," Azalea asked.

"I've been finding these strange readings around this school and I wanted to investigate them further while Crystal Prep was here for the Games," Twilight briefly explained. "But, why is it focused on this statue," Twilight asked before her amulet popped open.

As Sunset Shimmer placed a hand on the portal to try and enter, her hand got stuck and she couldn't move it as she felt something being pulled away from her. "Hey, let go," she shouted. Seeing her in trouble, Rua and Sunset Blaze tried to pull her free. However, they had the same feeling that something was being drained from them as well.

With Sci-Twi, her amulet began to absorb energy from the Wondercolt Statue and the three girls touching it, unknown to her. Azalea and Vinyl were just as surprised as Twilight was before the latter snapped the amulet closed and fell back. Because Twilight was dizzy from her sudden fall and Azalea was helping her up with Vinyl, none of them saw the amulet give off an electrical discharge. "Sci-Twi, what was that," Vinyl asked as Rua and both Sunsets looked to see who was behind the statue when they fell down as well.

"What did you do," Sunset Shimmer asked Crystal Prep's Twilight. Before Twilight, Vinyl, or Azalea could answer, Dean Cadance arrived and said that the former had to check in with the other Crystal Prep students. As Sci-Twi left with her teacher, Sunset Shimmer tried to go through the portal again. But to her surprise and horror, her hand didn't go through the base. "Where's the portal? Where's the portal," she exclaimed in fear as she kept touching the statue's base.

"It was that amulet she wore," Vinyl explained as Blaze and Azalea helped Shimmer calm down. "It popped open and started to drain something from the statue."

"She took the magic from the portal?! Could things get any worse," Sunset Shimmer asked as she and the others headed back inside to find Azalea's mother to help with Shimmer's scratches from her fall. After they left the courtyard, a small rift formed just near the Wondercolt Statue. It was colored black and white with plenty of red swirls on the inside and had hints of yellow. Just as it appeared, something black emerged and the rift closed immediately as soon as it was out.

The thing that emerged from the rift began to look around at its new surroundings. It was a black ghost-like creature with white bony spikes on its back, shoulders, and upper body. It had black skeletal forearms and sharp white fingernails, but lacked a lower body. Instead, it floated in the air and left a trail of black smoke if it did move around. The creature's face consisted of a mask-like bone plate with red markings that revealed a single red and yellow eye. The monster looked at Canterlot High and felt drawn to the building before it phased through the walls.

As the creature entered the building, it eventually found the metal shop and saw some scrap lying about the empty room. Flying toward a large piece of metal that resembled a helmet, it seemed to possess the hunk of scrap and its mask-like face appeared beneath it. As soon as it did, a sinister red eye-like 'glyph' appeared and its skeletal arms began to grab at more pieces of metal to form an armored body.

Author's Note

We know have the Creatures of Grimm appearing because Sci-Twi's amulet accidentally drained some of the magic lingering in Rua and Blaze. With it and the portal's magic drained, Creatures of Grimm are now going to appear from those rifts that show up whenever Twilight's amulet acts up. You'll see how Fragment Hunter deals with it in the next chapter before the Friendship Games themselves start for everyone.

If any of you don't know enough about RWBY, the Grimm that appeared is a Geist. It has the power to possess any inorganic material to use as armor such as rocks, dead trees, or metal. Fun Fact: one was supposed to be used in Volume 1 of RWBY in its rock form, a "Petra Gigas".