“I just had a horrible nightmare.” Said girl with a purple hair getting up from the ground.

“I dreamed about seeing something so horrible, so unforgivable and ugly, I simply couldn’t handle it!”

She said to her friends, in a tone, suitable for a drama actor. Then she noticed Alex.

“It wasn’t a dream!” She shouted, and attempted to lose conclusions once more.

This time, however, she was caught by her friends and shaken back to reality.

“You know, that was incredibly rude of you.”

Said Alex, unamused.

“What do you mean, rude?” Girl seemed shocked at her reaction. “Just look at you!”

"..."

“Listen here, I...”

“How can you even dare to showed up on people wearing this horrible mess?!”

“Waaah?” Alex’s brain lagged for a second here.

“Just, look at those colors! This terrible, edgy design, that mess of splats and dusty patches!” Continued girl.

“And worst of all, it full of burnt holes! This thing was horrible as it is, but now it’s unsalvageable damaged! How could you do this to you clothes?!”

Only now Alex noticed, that her jeans and shirt were full of small holes and scorch marks. Thankfully, her body seemed to be fine behind them.

“What are you even talking about?!” Exploded Alex.

“This is normal everyday clothes! So what if they are a bit dirty! It’s a dirty old castle, you know! And those holes, it’s your guys fault all along! You set me on fire with your friendship laser!”

“It doesn’t hurt bad people!” Interrupted blue one again.

“Are you saying my clothes are evil? And how would you even know that? Didn’t your friend say that you just met yesterday, and just learned about all this stuff?” Deflected Alex.

“Her clothes seem fine!” She pointed at Luna in Celestia’s hands.

“Actually, that is very interesting question. Why did princess Luna got cleaned from dark magic and ended up completely fine, but you were turned, as you insist, to look evil and even had your clothes burnt?” Said Twilight.

“What, simple “laser burns things” is not enough to answer that? Although I don’t know why exactly my hair turned into fire, but it’s magic, after all.” Grumbled Alex in return.

“It’s not just your hair that we talking about. Your eyes look draconic like Nightmare Moon’s were. " Said orange girl.

“My eyes? Then why don’t I see any difference?”

“Although my eyes looked draconic as well, they did not work much different, aside from giving me a night vision.” Finally said Luna, seemingly, getting over her grudge about the way she was defeated.

“And I can, I fact, vouch for her looking normal before she knocked me out.” She glared at Alex again. “I really thought that I saw my sister in front of me, except she was a bit younger somehow and looked kinda dumb.”

“Hey!” Alex indignantly shouted.

“Honestly, I wouldn’t even be so shocked if I hadn’t locked her up myself just a few hours ago. Uhhh... I mean Nightmare Moon, not me. I just saw it all from first perspective, so I remembered as such.” She hastily added.

“And why would she look like me then?” Questioned Celestia with a steely expression.

“What? Seriously? Can’t it be a coincidence or something? I mean, I always looked like that, I swear."

"Everyone has doppelgangers, after all. It’s that so hard to believe that I look like you?” Said Alex helplessly.

“Of course, not.” Agreed Twilight. “But...”

She looked skeptically at Alex and lifted her eyebrow.

“Do you really think that is possible to have another Original to look like her?”

‘Original?’ Alex was befuddled. ‘What the heck is that?’

“...Yes?” She answered unsurely.

“Theoretically, maybe. But considering that there are only two... Now three originals known in the history, I don’t believe in it one bit.” Concluded Twilight.

‘...Now three? Is she... Implying...’

“Wait a second. By original, you mean, this?” She pointed at her wings and horn.

Everyone looked at her like at an idiot.

“Hey! ...We don’t call them like that where I’m from. We say... Arbiter!” Tried to lie her way through Alex.

“Arbiter?... Huh. That... Kinda makes sense.” Said Celestia. “But are you implying that there is another country of humans that we don’t know about, with more... Arbiters in it?”

“... Yes?” ‘Please don’t ask, please don’t ask, please don’t ask...’ silently hoped Alex in her head.

“And where is it then? How did you get here? Is it over the great sea? Or behind the badlands?” Kept questioning princess.

" How would I know? I got here by accident” Alex decided to play idiot.

Celestia’s eyes narrowed, but she did not comment.

“What do you mean?” Asked Twilight instead. “How can you not know?”

“Uhh... Well, I think I was teleported or something...”

Surprisingly, this sentence wasn’t a lie. Not because of being true or false, but simply because by saying “I think” she was not telling what actually happened, but what she thought about it... Granted, she also was pretty much sure it was all a dream, but “or something” was also a good way to hide other explanations. After all, theoretically, it could be either one. Theoretically.

“Hey, I have a theory!” Suddenly barged into uncomfortable interrogation pink girl.

“What are you talking about, Pinkie?” Asked her irritably Twilight, who thought she had entire new civilization dangling just out of her reach.

“I mean, why Daybreaker turned demonic while Luna got better!” Excitedly said Pinkie.

“Huh? Let’s listen.” Urged her Alex, and others agreed.

“Well, where did you think all the evil magic went when we used the elements on Nightmare Moon?” Continued Pinkie.

“You don’t mean...”

“What if it went to the only other person in close proximity - DayBee, and now she looks like Nightmare Moon, except with a different color scheme!”

“First of all, DayBee? Why did you shorten up my name?

And second, I don’t have any of your evil magic. Look.” Alex lifted the book she was carrying with a golden aura.

“See? What so evil about it? Looks normal to me.” Although she didn’t know If it might help, she hoped that they had some means to check her aura or something.

Her hopes were dashed.

" I don’t see how levitating an object might help us see anything.” Deadpanned Twilight. " But nevermind that, it’s pretty good theory, Pinkie. I’m surprised.”

“That said, it might mean that you are innocent, but we will need to clear this magic out of you too then.”

“And how are you going to do that?” Questioned Alex, afraid of the answer she predicted.

“Let’s shoot her again!” Shouted blue haired girl, whom Alex was starting to hate a bit.

“No friggin way! This thing hurts!”

“That just confirms her theory even more.” Answered Luna. “That must be a dark magic in you reacting. Don’t worry, I went through that as well.” She chucked darkly.

“Easy for you to say! You were unconscious the entire time!” Outraged Alex.

“Either you are allowing us to cleanse you, or we will force you. Interrupted Celestia darkly.

“If you want to shoot me, then shoot them first!” Exclaimed Alex, pointing at Celestia and blue girl.

“If you right, nothing should happen. I’m not risking my life because a bunch of strangers told me so!”

“I’m Rainbow Dash, she is Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Twilight you already know.” Quickly said blue girl, pointing on girl behind her, orange, purple and pink girls respectively.

"Now stand still while we charge the elements!”

“That’s it!” Shouted Alex in return. " I’m leaving this idiocy! I helped you, and this is how you repay me?”

She stood up to exit the room, but was blocked by golden-colored force field that appeared in her way.

“Alright then. We are going to fight.” Declared Alex

Author's Note

Sorry, it took a while.
I still don't like the way this chapter turned out.
Too much talking deviate things a lot.
I rewritten it a few times, but still don't like the result.

I wanted her to be pissed at natives, but not have directly bad relationship straight away.
Not sure how it's going to go.