I Am NOT Twilight Sparkle!

Twilight and her circle of friends continued to make their way to Twilight’s castle, determined looks on their faces, well except Pinkie as she had a more happier look of determination on her face. It would seem like the pink pony was not going to give up on being best friends with Twilight’s twin, after all if she wasn’t going to give up on Cranky Doodle Donkey in being friends, then she wasn’t going to give up on Zack. And that was a promise! The group of mares plus Spike, eventually made it to Twilight’s castle and began looking for the alicorn, which wasn’t too hard as they all headed to the castle library. When they all made it to the library they indeed found Zack, lying next to the large central table, a book held in a lavender colored claw, or hand, while a few other books were scattered about the table.

“She even reads like our Twilight.” Rainbow whispered to Applejack who just nodded.

“Zack can we talk?” Twilight asked as she took a step towards the mare, who didn’t look away from the book she was reading.

“Only if you’re ready to help me find a way home.” Zack simply said as she flipped a page of the book.

“Why are you so eager to go home?” Starlight asked, causing the mare’s right ear to flick. “If you’re an exact copy of Twilight, you should be able to just teleport back home.” Pinkie then made her way over to Zack, causing the alicorn to flinch slightly as the pink mare, once again, invades her personal space.

“Besides, we haven’t become best friends yet, and as you said: ‘You don’t become best friends just after knowing them for a minute’. But guess what~.” Pinkie said while trying to sound like Zack, which is just her impression of Twilight, while her mane somehow shifted to look like Zack’s shaggy mane style.

“It’s been more than a minute, so we are now officially best friends plus, you still haven’t had any of the treats I made yet. You can’t leave without trying one of my famous cupcakes!”

Pinkie then pulled a cupcake from her mane, and unceremoniously shoved it into Zack’s mouth. Which was immediately spat out by the mare, who then shoved Pinkie away from her, which caused the pink mare and her friends to look surprise. All the while the violet alicorn just glared down at Pinkie, as her wings flared and the feathers bristle. And the outline of her eyes began to glow with a purple aura.

“What the fuck is wrong with you?!” Zack practically screamed at the pink pony, who shrunk away from the pissed off mare. “Who the fuck just shoves food into someone's face, especially after pulling it from their hair, just—WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!”

“Whoa! Whoa! Whoa now sugarcube!” Applejack said as she made her way over to Zack. “There’s no need to—” Zack just spun on her hooves to look squarely at Applejack, and given her slightly taller frame, Applejack recoiled under the gaze.

“Don’t you try to defend her for what she just did! Not only did she intrude on my personal space, AGAIN! But she just pulled food from her hair, which is unhygienic in every sense of the word, and just force fed that fucking cupcake to me! And I don’t like cupcakes or any kind of sweets!”

“Girl seriously just chill! We’re just trying to be friends—” Rainbow tried to interject but the violet mare just snapped back at her.

“I told you I don’t need friends!” Zack said as she stopped screaming, and began using the glowing hand to rub at her throat. “All I want to do is go back to my own world, where I’m not this…this…purple unicorn with wings, and being in this other world.”

“Wait?” Spike said as Fluttershy, and Rarity comfort a slightly sobbing Pinkie in the background.

“You mean to say, you’re from another world?” everypony looked at Zack with either a confused, bewildered, or a shocked look. Zack however, just looked at them all like they just said the most stupidest thing.

“Didn’t princess Celestia explain that, in her letter?”

Twilight pulled the letter out from under one of her wings, which was snatched by one of Zack’s magical hands. Un-rolling the letter, the mare began to read the letter, and in nowhere that she could see or read between the lines, did the piece of paper say anything about who and what Zack really is, or the state of her current situation. Teeth now grinding against each other, which the ponies could now see that the mare has incisors and canines, before the mare’s body shook with both anger and irritations. Anger because of what just transpired in the room, and a little bit of anger and a whole lot of irritation that the ponies with-held information, which could’ve spared her this situation she was in. Twilight was about to say something, but shrieked when the mare snapped to look at her, eyes slightly glowing with magical power.

“How can I contact Celestia.” Zack asked, her voice while on the surface was leveled, everypony in the room could just, feel, the intensity of her anger.

“Well, you write her a letter, and Spike here—” Twilight said as she gestured to her assistant, who was cowering behind one of her forelegs. “Will send the letter.”

“Then get me a piece of paper, a pen—or whatever the hell you ponies write with, and send the damn thing once I finish writing it.

Twilight then produced a single piece of paper, an inkwell, and a quill, and levitated them over to Zack, who took the items in one of her magical constructed hands, and began writing which wasn’t that long before she stopped, and levitated it to Spike. The little dragon held the letter and looked up to Twilight, more out of assurance if he should send the letter. But the little dragon felt a strange presence closing in on him, like something bad was encroaching towards him, the small dragon looked up and saw Zack standing before him and Twilight. A very annoyed frown on her face, which just made the little dragon shrink in size a little.

“Send. It. Now!”

Spike then quickly blew fire on the letter, turning it to ash and smoke, before everypony watched it fly out of the room. Zack then sat down on the floor, heavily so as her flanks made a very audible thud. As for Twilight and her friends, they all gathered around the other side of the library, Pinkie still slightly blubbering at what Zack just, vocalized at her, while her friends try to calm her down. Although, Twilight seemed a bit interested in her look alike, who she was looking at as she was sitting across from the other violet alicorn.

“So, you’re from another world?” Twilight meekly asked, her mind already beginning to bubble with questions.

“Yes.” Zack said flatly as she waited for Celestia’s response to her letter.

“What is your world like.” Twilight asked as she used her magic to conjure up a large piece of paper, while grabbing the inkwell and the quill.

“That is none of your business.” Zack said simply, causing the mare to look at her with a raised brow.

“What do you mean by that?” Twilight questioned.

“I mean it’s none of your damn business, because you don’t need to know anything about my world, the people that live there or anything else about it. That’s why.” Zack said with a great deal of annoyance in her voice.

Just then everypony in the library saw a golden flash of light on the other end of the room, where princess Celestia appeared. Zack immediately got up from her seat, and made her way over to the larger alicorn, who after looking around and spotting the still enraged mare, seemed to recoil slightly. When the mare was standing in front of the princess, she generated a single magical hand that held the letter Celestia sent to her pupil, while giving the solar princess a very unamused look.

“Care to explain why you left out some crucial info to your pupil about me, and my current predicament, princess?” Zack asked as her right front hoof began rhythmically tapping against the floor.

“I don’t think I left out any crucial information Zack—”

“Oh no!” Zack snapped at the princess, shocking the ponies and Spike, thinking that she just get in big trouble with Celestia, despite being an alicorn from another world.

“Well then why don’t we read what you have written then, shall we!” Zack then held the letter in front of her before reading it.

To my dear student Twilight Sparkle.

Yesterday, after our ordeal in the Crystal Empire, I’ve come across a rather unusual and interesting pony…who is a one for one spitting image of you. during her visit and over an early dinner, the mare told us that she’s not from Equestria originally, and that she wishes to return home.

Currently she is asleep, but once she awakes and if she has nothing to do today, I’ll try to convince her to visit you in Ponyville. I’m certain that you and she might have an interesting time, so if she does come to Ponyville, make sure to make her feel welcome. Though I probably don’t need to explain that, as I’m certain Pinkie Pie will already have a party in plan once you tell her this.

Hope to hear from you soon, you’re mentor and friend:
Princess Celestia.

Once Zack had finish reading the letter, the hand that was holding the letter then flew to the table, and just dumped it on the table before it disappeared.

“So let’s review what was in the letter.” The mare said, her tone leveled, yet still containing some measure of irritation. “You said that you didn’t let out any crucial information…and yet!” the mare’s expression turned into a glare, a glare that was so intense, that even Celestia recoiled from it.

“You failed to inform your student that I’m from another world, or how I want to go home as soon as possible because I don’t belong in your world, or in this body! So yes, princess, you failed to inform your student of some important things!” Celestia seemed a little disappointed, while everypony else looked shocked to hear that Celestia, did in fact withheld information about Zack to them.

“So after you lied to your student of who I am, and why I want to go home, and even to me about not ‘leaving out any vital information’ in your letter, I’m not sure if I can trust you’re word that you will actually look for a way home for me.”

“No Zack, please, don’t think that.” Celestia said quickly. “I admit, not informing Twilight or her friends of your situation was a mistake on my part. But I assure you, we will find a way to send you home. It’s just…”

“Just what!” Zack said, her voice not so filled with mild irritation, but now a steadily growing level of anger.

“I thought that while you wait for my sister and I to discover a way home for you, that you might enjoy having some friends to pass the time.” Zack seem to understand Celestia’s reasoning, but she still didn’t look happy. “Can you forgive me for my poor error in judgment?”

Zack’s rubbed her eyes with the wrist of one of her wings, while she gives off an annoyed and tired sigh. The alicorn gave Celestia a half-forgiven compliance, but it was still clear that she was still upset with the princess. After Celestia had apologized to the violet pony, the two came to an understanding of sorts, in that Celestia won’t try to pull this kind of stunt again, and Zack promises to take things easier on Twilight and her friends. She even apologized for losing her temper earlier, which all of them forgave the mare rather quickly, which seemed to have threw the mare off, Even Pinkie was happy to hear that Zack was sorry and was about to give her a hug. But the mare was stopped by two hands that caught the mare in midair, before plopping her down on the ground.

Celestia then bid everypony farewell, and hopefully that everypony would get along. But once the princess teleported back to Canterlot, Zack left the library, saying that she needed sometime to really calm herself down. The ponies looked at each other and decided to give the alicorn her space.

~~~~~

Walking through the halls of the castle Zack made her way to the roof, walking over to the ledge and just plopping down on the floor, chin resting on the railing. As Zack sat there on the roof she was running the events of the day that just happened not just a few minutes ago, which basically was a plan that Celestia concocted up to try and make her and Twilight to be friends so that Zack would be distracted from her worries. Now admittedly, if the princess didn’t try to play match-maker in a sense, by having the ponies especially Pinkie Pie tried to become friends with her at the drop of a hat, and basically make light of her situation then Zack wouldn’t have been as upset. In fact the only pony that Zack has a problem with, aside from Celestia, was just Pinkie Pie. That mare was so aggressively intrusive, and seemed to be so absent minded about basic social interaction, like constantly feeling the need to shove herself up against her, plus the whole shoving a piece of food into her mouth, which came from her mane just didn’t compute with Zack.

“Seriously, who just does that.” Zack grumbled as she continues to look out towards the town, wings limp at her sides. She then used a magical hand to prop her mouth, feeling around for any strands of hair, luckily their didn’t feel like any.

“Still disgusting that she keeps food in her hair like that, and willingly feeds it to others.” Putting the thought of the weird mare to the side of her thoughts, Zack started to think about what to do now.

So far the few books that she has managed to read through, before the events that just occurred, it was just more obscure or just more magical theory books, as well as books that just had various subjects, from biology, archology, and some other stuff that a college student would read for classes.

“Zack?” the voice of Twilight called out.

“What.” She simply replied, not moving, or even turning her head.

“Mind if we talk?”

Zack sighed and just used a wing to gesture the mare to come over. She then heard Twilight making her way over, and it sounded like she was alone, as the alicorn couldn’t hear other hooves trotting over. She then saw Twilight sit down beside her out of the corner of her right eye.

“Are you feeling better?”

“It’s only been like a few minutes Twilight. You can’t expect someone to just feel better, after learning that a ruler of a nation tried to withheld information from someone that could delay their chances of going home, while also try to play you as a pawn in a social interaction game.”

“The princess didn’t mean to do that.” Twilight countered.

“But the fact that she even THOUGHT about it, and actually EXACUTED her little idea, says otherwise to me.” Zack heavily emphasized as she turned her head to look at Twilight, who seemed to try and come up with a counter-argument.

“And the fact that you’re trying to say something to deny, or even defend, what I just said against your ruler, tells me that you are either very ignorant and just don’t see what’s clearly in front of your face, or you approve of her methods and just go along with everything she says or plans.”

“It’s not like that.” Twilight mumbled under her breath, not sure how to actually respond to Zack’s statement.

“Whatever your stance on this matter is, it’s done and over with.” Zack said before turning back to look at the town just a little ways off. The two alicorns sat there in silence for a minute, just staring blankly out into the world, which is until Twilight decided to speak up.

“Can I ask you another question Zack?”

“What?” she simply said.

“How come you didn’t want to tell me about your world, or the ponies that live there.” Twilight asked as she looked at her double, who just had a blank expression. The other alicorn didn’t say anything initially, but after a brief moment, Zack responded.

“Because I see no point in telling you about the world I come from, or its PEOPLE! Not ponies.” Zack stated as she sat up straight, before turning to fully look at Twilight.

“The reason why I’m not telling you anything about where I come from, or what my people are like, is because what use would that information be? It’s not like others of my race would come here, and I doubt any of your people would want to go to my world. And as for me, I was brought here by…something, against my will so I’m not jumping for joy that I’m on another world.”

“But if you tell me of your people, maybe we ponies could learn something from them.”

“The answer is no!” Zack said with a stomp of her left hoof, causing the floor to crack, and making Twilight flinch back. “You DON’T need that information, and beside, anything I would tell you would never work for you ponies, as our ways of life is drastically different from one another.” Zack then turned back to look at the town, chin resting on railing.

“Now could you please leave me alone until I’m ready to socialize.”

Twilight just sat there for a second, before giving a slow nod as she gets to her hooves, and leaves Zack alone. Giving out an exasperated sigh, the alicorn flopped to her side before rolling onto her back, and just looking out into the wide blue yonder sky above. As the mare continues to lay on her back, pondering about a few things, like what shall she do, should she head back to the castle to live until Celestia and Luna find a way home, or stick around somewhere in Ponyville. The last bit probably wasn’t an important issue, but until the matter of going home is resolved, she would need a place to stay. Rolling back over, Zack quickly got to her hooves and proceeded to make her way back into the castle, and as she opens the door the mare felt something land on her butt. Turning to look at her hindquarters, the mare saw something that looked like a slight brown stain, and after bending her body enough that she could look at the stain more closely. She then gave the strange stain a curious sniff, and when she did the stain smelled like…

“Is that root beer?” Zack questioned as she looked up at the sky.

“First a piece of popcorn and now a drop of soda.” The mare scanned the sky for a while, looking for anything, or anyone that could’ve let a droplet of pop onto her butt. After seeing nothing but empty blue sky, Zack stepped through the doors of the roof and began walking down the steps, while mumbling something to herself.

“This world is just getting stranger and stranger by the minute.”