On the other side of the pool

by Sweetie Bow

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Mystery, Comedy, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Discord, Slice of Life
Length: 3240

Story about what happened to all the Pinkies clones after Twilight sent them to the pool, and more

Story that took place three months after coronation of Twilight Sparkle
Pinkie Pie asks interesting question, about nature of mirror pool.
She is going with Twilight and Discord to find the answer.

Published 2023-01-24 20:20:00 UTC
Last updated 2023-02-01 12:27:00 UTC

Pinkie's question

It all started three months after Twilight reign's began. It was at second council of friendship meeting. This organisation was created just month after coronation so everypony and Spike was getting used to it.

In throne room Princess and dragon was waiting for rest. Suddenly blue portal apeard out of nowhere. Discord came out of it secured by Fluttershy.

"Hello Twily! How are you doing? It's been a while," - Discord said.

"Welcome Lord of Chaos. It's been a month since we last met,".

"Twilight, why you have to be so official? I've learned my leasson after 'Grogar Incident'. There is no use in letting me get out of my home only one time in entire month,".

"I am really sorry Discord. I have to keep eye on you, and I can't do it all the time. I hope you understand?"- Fluttershy explained.

"Of course Fluttershy. Everything for you,".

Then doors open and two mares arrive from there.

"Hey Twilight! Hey Spike! It's nice to meet ya!"

"Welcome Applejack!" - both Princess Twilight and Spike shouted.

"Greetings darling. I'm very pleased to be there"- Rarity greeted.

"I'm also pleased,"- first said dragon Spike and then Twilight.

After that Rainbow Dash came to the room.

"Hello everypony!"- she screamed entusiastycally.

Last pony wich arrived was Pinkie. She wasn't as cherfull as always. She looked like somepony in deep thinking process. She was looking down with little frown on her face, yet her mane wasn't down.

"Um, Hey,".

"What's the matter Pinkie Pie?"- Fluttershy asked.

"It's nothing important. I'm just thinking about something, but we have, like, problems of entire kingdom to resolve here,".

"Your emotions are also important to us,"-Twilight said gently

"We've got plenty of time,"- said Rarity

"This council is all about friendship anyway"- Rainbow add.

"Okay. Have you ever start to think about some random thing from your past do hard, trying to analyze it and understand, that you can't rest and feel more and more, and more, and more concerned, until you explode from emotions?!"

"I know well what are you talking about"- said Twilight Sparkle with a little blush.

"Just get to the point!"- rushed Rainbow Dash

"Well I'm just thinking about... what's on the other side of mirror pool? You said you sent my clones back, but where? To some other reality? Or parallel realities? Are they created by pool, or came from somwhere? Are Infinite number of everycreature are sleeping in some sort of pocket dimension, waiting for someone to let them out? Or do they have entire life before pulling them out of pool?"- and then Pinkie asked another important question- ,,if the pool created them, are we destroyed them?"

Mane six was cofused after all those hard questions. It was just too much.

"I don't know"- Princess sighed

"I might know something, but wouldn't be much more fun for you, when you find out it yourself"- Discord said.

"Just say it and be honest with us"- Applejack tell him.

"Ok I'll tell. I think Mirror pool is Nexus".

Nexus

"What the hay is Nexus?"- Applejack asked

''It's a fancy word for naturaly created portal," - Discord answered

"How portal can be naturaly created?" - Rarity asked - ,,I'm unicorn, but I'm not the best at magic".

"Let me explain it. I studied it a bit after after group of ponified humans came here."

Twilight created yellow slowly growing light with her horn. It turned into disc.
Twilight Sparkle starts talking:

"When a lot of magic cumulate in one point, it creates magical hole..."

Then disc split into two and connect with each other.

"...Then it expand to another world and and create link with other hole," - Twilight ended.

"So you think it's gateway to some sort of reality or realities and not just magical something, making clones, and we haven't destroyed them, after we make them poof?!"- Pinkie asked

"Yes," - Discord give a simple answer

"That expleined why they don't know any of my friends! They dosen't have my brain!"

"What exaclly is on the other side?"-Princess asked.

"I don't know. Being Lord of Chaos don't mean I know everything".

"So how we are going to find out?"- Spike asked?

"We are going on adventure! Yay!"- Pinike said without her previous tune of sadness and shoot confetti from her's party canon.

"There is just one problem" - Twilight interrupted - "I can't be there with you, I have royal duties. And adventures rarely took one day".

"And I have meeting with volounteers tomorow for"- fulttershy add.

"meeting is for one day only, so tomorrow we all have work".- Applejack summaraized

"Sorry Pinkie, but as a Princess I won't let you and Discord go on adventure together".

"Why not?"- Discord and Pinkie asked at one time .

"Because you two are... a bit too chaotic, somepony have to watch after you".

"But if you are going with us Twily, who is going to lead Equestria and stuff" - Pinkie Pie asked

"It wil be Spike"

"Why me?! I mean last when I was taking your place It dosen't go well"

"It was long time ago. Now you are royal advisor and you know many things about leading. I belive in you Spike. Adventure most likely would take only few days. We will be back soon"

***

Trio of Twilight, Discord and Pinkie were on adventure. First real adventure since three months. Journey with friends instead of just running a country and talking about friendship.

They all packed important things and get teleported by Discord to dephts of Everfree forest, where is Mirror pool.

"So what are we doing now?"-Pink pony asked

"We will use spell of reverse teleportation"- Twilight explained.

"You mean that instead of sucking clones out of pool, pool will turn into sink and suck us?"- Pinkie said

"Something like that. It's a bit like when I send other Pinkies to the pool"-Twilight asked.

"So lets begin"

Twilight lit her horn. It was getting brighter and brighter. Lavender aura appears on surface of water and soon cover it whole. After that there were blast of light. Then, after moment it disappeared. Twilight touched it with hoof and then take it out. Tunnel was stable. Twilight put it again and suddenly... Portal sucked her without warning.

"Twilight!"- Pinkie and Discord screamed.

Twilight was not desintegrated. It was more like coming through portal to human world, then classical teleportation. She was Just a bit streched inside rainbow vortex, before hitting white light on the end of tunnel. She was in another world.

Author's Note

Those ,,ponified humans" are Canterlot High School students

Too many Pinkies

Pinkie was a bit shocked by what happened to Twilight. Pinkie shouted:

"I'm coming for ya Twiliy! Hang on!"

"Pinkie it's not how this spell..." - Before Discord was able to say anything, Pinkie Pie bounced and jumped to portal. Discord dosen't have time to do anything. She was too fast and Discord was too distracted. Just like always.

He just want to explain how exaclly pool, might, proabably work and according to his theory, she won't end up with Twilight.

That doesn't make sense. And Discord love when something dosen't have too much sense. He can't resist that.

He also jump into portal.

***

Pinkie was flying inside wormhole with colorful wall. It was so much fun.

"Yaaaaaaaaay!"

She screamed entusiastically.

Then she was thrown out of pool. It was Just like giant slide. She would use that portal again, but she has a friend to rescue. She can't fail her.

She started to wonder, whose clones she will find there. She saw other Pinkie walking in the opposite direction. She has a conversation with her:

"Oh, hey Pinkie!"

"Hey Pinkie!"

"What are you doing?"

"Pool summoned me, so I'm going on super adventure on the other side of pool!"

"And who telled you that pool summoned you?"

"If this is quiz it's too easy. Of course Mayor Pinkamina Diane Pie, mayor of Pinkieville!"

Then she understood. Clones doesn't have memories of her friends, because, they were only ponies in this reality. Spell reversed the effect of pool. So there is no Twilight, but Celestia know how many Pinkies.

"Nooooooooo!"

"What's the matter? I can help you turn that frown, upsite down!"

"I just want fun adventure in world full of my clones, with my friends, but instead i land there, without them. I'm literally only one pony in this world, where everypony is like me!"

"Oh i see pinkegsitencial crisis here. But I am here to remind you, that there are others!"

Pinkie saw sparkle of hope:

"So there are non-pinkie ponies?"

"No. But there are non-pinkie non-ponies!"

"That makes me a little bit happier. Thanks!"

"You're wellcome!"- Then Pinkie noticed other she, was glowing brighter and brighter- ,,Sorry but i gotta go. Pool summoned me and stuff."

"WAIT!"

"What?"

"I am the one who send message from pool!"

"So you're telling me that you are from other side?"

"Yes!"

"That is just... AWSOME! Also, Mayor Pinkamena must meet with you."

"Okie dokie! So I go to Pinkieville and you go to pool."

"Bye, bye!"

Pinkie gets back on her track. Oh her thoughts are rhyming! It was journey throught long and
dark forest, yet she was bouncing with smile on her face. Trees were creepy shaped and dry or too big for her to see the sun, yet she was happy.

Then she hits something very hard in brown and green colours. But it wasn't tree. It was timberwolf!!! Pinkie was scared and slowly moving back.

"Um... hello mr. Timberwolf, wanna cupcake?"

Timberwolf groaned, and she started throwing cupcakes in every direction, very fast, destroying timberwolf and also his friends.

"Hope you enjoy the meal!"- she shouted and run away as fast as Rainbow dash on cider season.

Soon she find herself in Pinkieville. It was city with biggest baloons quantity she ever saw. Confetti was floating in the air. There were no homes, only tents in pink, yellow and blue. Proabably because tents are easier to rebuild if some Pinkie crash at them. Speaking of Pinkies, there were thousands of them. Trotting, jumping, talking, making weird faces, laughing, eating, playing at instruments, and that kind of stuff. For normal pony it would be too chaotic, but not for Pinkie Pie!

"It's charming place, but we've to find Twilight" - Voice said behind her back

"Discord, why so late?!"

"Well, you are hard to find."

Discord around Pinkieville

Pinkie asked Discord - ,,How did you do that?"

"Well, I have to read minds of everypony here, to find memories of your friends. I hope you don't mind".

"Of course I don't mind! I like myself, but it's pretty boring without others".

"Yeah, I know something about it" - Discord added with face that looks like he was sad and happy at once - "Anyway, we have to get to the mirror pool before somecreatures gets through the Nexus to realities full of their copies. Or else you and Twilight wouldn't be only ones stucked on the other side".

"So I have to left, moment after I got there?"

"It's for Twilight, solider!"- Discord said snapping and creating army uniform on himself.

"Yes sir, we don't leave ours!"- Pinkie Pie saluted.

Then they understood. They were all surrounded. They brought Attention of countless Pinkies. It's a bit creepy when so many identical pink ponies are staring at you.

Then Discord snapped and they were teleported before pool.

"Why don't you just teleport us to reality with Twily, without teleportating us there, before that?"- Pinkie asked.

"Because, for some reson, I can use interdimensional teleportation only in this pool. Proabably this world are separating from others".

"Why is that? Is he angry for his friends?"

"Not really. This world is glitch in reality so It's natural it's isolated by rest of magic. Imagine endless Pinkie Pies meeting with endless Twilights Sparkles. That wouldn't be good".

"Yeah. I know it's best when clones are living in their own realities".

Then one of Pinkie clones interrupted- ,,Oh, you said Twilight! I know Twilight! He send me back there!"

Then Discord realised something... But then all the Pinkies started asking too much questions:

"Do you want to have a party?!"

"What are you?"

"Can you fly?"

"Oh, oh, can I fly on you?!"

"How old are you?"

"Are you a goat, with body of snake and parts of other animals, or snake with head of goat and features of other creatures?"

Discord obviously likes chaos, but want to have private chat with Pinkie Pie. And also he don't want to be distracted from helping Twilight. The longer Twilight stays inside Mirror Multiverse, the more concerned Fluttershy gets. He don't want to make her sad. He made decision. Spirit of Chaos snapped his fingers.

***

After teleportation of Discord and his Pink friend, she asked very important question- "Um, Discord why did you use chaos magic?"

"Because I need to talk with you and then I used it to localise you".

"I mean, Twilight said you can only use it inside your own dimension".

"So you are real Pinkie!"

"Why wouldn't I be real Pinkie?"

"Because I only checked if in your brains are images of your five other friends, and many clones saw them".

"You're asking bad question, every Pinkie Pie is real. That's why my friends can't find me. Better question is, which Pinkie is from our dimension?' Pinkies never say lies."

"You're right. That's why I can delete version, where you are clone who heard all about me from Pinkie. Even If that happened, you wouldn't say you aren't from there".

"Yeah, pretty complicated situation".

"So, we are going to Twilight"

"I have just one question".

"all Pinkies are my copies, yes?"

"Yes"

"So they all appered here when I was little Pinkie Winkie?"

"Yes"

"So how they are able to create, you know, civilization with advanced things like baloons, cakes and tents and they aren't in paleopony stage?"

"Well, maybe time here runs slower?"- Discord understood something, again - "if time here is moving slower, then nobody would have time to miss us! We could stay there longer!"

"And wath about Twiliy?"

"She can wait. Twilight will be fine in world full of her clones. She proabably want to explore that reality or something".

"So we can stay there a little longer?"

"YES" - Discord said slowly with smile on his face.

***

After they get teleported, they saw giant building in shape of two storey yellow cake, with pink creme and blue sprinkles.

"Is it... this world's... sugarcube corner?"

"YES".

On her face appeard big grin

"YAY!"- she screamed.

It was biggest candy store they ever saw.

Sugarcube Corner and meeting with the mayor

Sugarcube corner and meeting with mayor

Pinkie and Discord went there throught pair of light blue doors, tall for pony, but short for Discord who have to doge. Doors were connected to ropes, that was connected to pomp, wich was throwing air to canon and canon... was throwing confetti!

Inside there was a blue countertop, contrasting with yellow walls and pink ponies.
On the other side of it was waitress: Pinkie with fake mustache collecting orders. One of orders gets Pinkie's attention:

"Give me cupcake with Red saphires, pleas!" - it was said with fakely-hard male voice"

"Spike?" - Pinkie asked with couriosity

"No, I am Lavender Cupcake, helper of Mayor Pinkamina". - He said with proud in his voice.

"Where are you from?"

"From egg. Isn't that obvious?"

Pinkie understood stupidity of her question.

"So, what are you doing?"

"Eating cupcake".

"And what are you usually doing?"

"Walking behind Mayor, helping her in whatever she is doing and sometimes going on a party".

"You do just what I think you do".

"That's me".

Then Pinkie with fake mustache, asked question - ,,What would you want?"

"I would want a glass of water" - discord answered.

"I would want a cupcake".

"Okie dokie lokie!"- Pinkie with fake mustache responded.

Then Pinkie asked herself a question. In what they have to pay. What is currency of this world? Or do it have currency?

"Two cup of sugar, please" - mustache Pinkie wanted payment, for products.

"Okay, I always keep a cup of sugar in case" - Pinkie gave her cup full of sacharosa.

Discord snapped his fingers. Suddenly Buck sized cup of sugar appeard.

"I only want a cup."

"It's a cup".

"But one cup is a standard of weight!"

"I am learning from Rarity".

Pinkie ate cupcake. It was pretty tasty. But she wasn't excited (too much), because it tasted just like what she cookcs. Discord drunken his water. Then Pinkie said:

"I think now we should find Twiliy and go back to our home".

Lavender dragon was shocked.

"You are that Pinkie from other side who got there! Mayor must see you!"

"From where you know who I am?" - pink mare was also shocked.

"From what you say".

"But, from where you know that I'm here?"

"From that one pink pony wich was sent to the other side".

That expleined a lot, but not everything. Element of laugher got just one more question:

"How I haven't seen her coming back to the town?"

"There are two forest roads to Pinkieville".

"Lead us to your leader!" - Discord said in a Canterlot royal voice.

***

Dragon, Earthpony and Spirit of Chaos were standing before town hall. Lavender Cupcake knocked the door. Soon they were half opened. Mayor put her head out of frame.

"Oh, I see we have guests! I can make tea for you all. What's your name, mix of many animals?"

"My name is Discord, I am draconequus, Spirit of Chaos".

"Oh, I see. I like chaos, but not as much as other pinkies. That's why I am leading this town."

Spike coughed and said in official tone:

"Ma'am, that Pinkie I brought with me is claiming to be from the other side".

"Can she pinkie promise me she isn't lying?"

"Cross my heart, hope to fly, throw a cupcake in my eye!" - Pinkie from mane six promised.

"Okay, I can trust you".

"Do you have any questions?" - Discord asked Pinkamina in polite tone.

"First from the list: how did you get here?"

"Oh, oh, that one is easy! Twilight reversed magical properties of pool. She is so Smart!".

"But how Discord got here?"

"Well, he was teleported to reality of his clones too, but leave it by his weird magic"

"That's so interesting story, I have to share it with Princess Pinkie, but what happened to Twilight?"

"Oh, she got sucked to her own pool world... Thank's mayor Pinkamina! You reminded that we need to get Twilight out, goodbye!"

Before mayor could say anything, Pinkie Pie and Discord where far away. It was unclear if Discord teleported them or just Pinkie catch him and run away so fast.

***

Our duet of protagonists were standing before pool. Discord snaped his fingers and used spell on water.

''I found Twilight, now we just have to go inside, take her, reverse working of mirror pool and get back home'.

"Sounds easy to me''.

"So take my paw and let's go"

Discord put his claw into nexus. It sucked him and then Pinkie. Vortex elongated them and made Discord straight, like he swallowed stick. They were both screaming in excitement, until they hit white light.