The group was sitting around a table eating the snacks provided by Cheese Sandwich.

“Okay, action!” Cheese said.

“What does he mean? He was talking about a chapter of some kind and then-” Starlight said trying to rationalize the unrationable.

“Don’t question the senses, you’ll get a headache,” Spike said with a sigh.

“Gotcha…” Starlight said.

“So Mr Cheese, what are ya here for?” Zap asked.

“Twinkle of course,” Cheese said.

“Elaborate please,” Starlight asked.

“I came here because of Pinkies… accident, ever since me and Pinkie met and I developed my Cheesie sense we’ve kinda… shared a wavelength, but then one day I felt a disturbance, a disturbing kind of disturbance, and I realized Pinkie may be in trouble, so I made my way here. When I got here I heard from the townsponies what happened and I decided to look for you, but I never found you so I waited for what felt like ever!” Cheese said.

“But we’ve only been gone for like five hours,” Trixie said.

“But it felt like forever, but now that Pinkie A.K.A Twinkle is back I am ready to help her get attuned to her Pinkie senses again,” Cheese said.

“But they're doing fine,” Twinkle said.

“But I can’t feel your presence anymore, it means we gotta get ya back on track,” Cheese said.

“You mean that?” Twinkle said.

“Yep that,” Cheese said.

“Uh… what’s that?” Zap asked, no it couldn’t mean…

“A date!” Cheese cheered.

“Oh… ok,” Zap said catching her breath.

“Hmm…” Twinkle seemed in deep thought.

“What’s wrong Twinkle?” Cheese asked.

“We dated when I was Pinkie, what if I don’t get that spark back Cheesie? What if-”

“You know what Pinkie said about what-if’s?” Cheese reminded her.

Twinkle was surprised before she giggled “Stop worrying about them! Live in the moment!” Twinkle said high-fiving Cheese.

“Then let’s go!” Cheese said and the two darted off.

“...What were we even here for if that was what he wanted?” Trixie said.

“Ah dunno,” Zap said.

“Well while we’re here-” Starlight was about to suggest a talk but Zap got up.

“Eenope, ah’ve been away from work too long, and we’re expected to be gettin a storm today, so ah gotta help with that,” Zap said.

“Don’t you think you're going to overwork yourself? I know you are strong and fast but surely even you have limits,” Starlight cautioned.

“Starlight, ah don’t do limits, ah’m too cool fer them,” Zap brushed off that concern and she trotted towards the door.

“Just be careful,” Starlight said.

“I must leave too, my animal friends are probably wondering where I am,” Charity said before taking her leave as well.

“...Can I go or are you going to drag me into another-”

“Study session!” Starlight said levitating several books out of their spots.

“Ugh…” Trixie groaned.

The two party ponies skipped through town, looking for a means to reconnect.

“Let’s start somewhere familiar, like Sugarcube Corner!” Cheese said as the two trotted in there.

Twinkle could feel alot of stares on her as she entered but didn’t let it bother her.

She trotted up to the counter and rang the bell to the tune of ‘shave and a haircut’

“Pinkie?... I mean Mrs. Twinkle, what a surprise,” Mr Cake said

“Hi Mr Cake! Me and Cheesie are on a date to see if we can get our wavelengths working again,” Twinkle said.

“....Ooook? Anyways, I’ve been meaning to ask you, ever since the… accident, do you still want to work here? I mean, I can only approve of so much vacation time,” Mr Cake said.

“Oh… now that I think of it, I have studies to be the next big princess… that’s a tough one…” Twinkle went into thought.

“Why not do both?” Cheese suggested.

“I don’t know… both require alot of my time,” Twinkle said.

“Then how about I help?” Cheese said.

“What?” Mr. Cake and Twinkle asked.

“I happen to have alot of free time, so how about I take over here on the days you can’t, I’ve always wanted to work in a bakery!” Cheese said.

“Hmm… not a bad idea! It’ll help me facilitate my studies and still work in the place I love!” Twinkle said.

“Uhm… small problem, I can’t just trade out you two every now and then, who do I pay?” Mr. Cake asked.

Cheese was about to dismiss it but Twinkle spoke first.

“Pay Cheese, I make enough on a princess budget,” Twinkle said.

“You sure?” Cheese asked.

“Yeah,” Twinkle replied.

“Well, I’ll hash it out with my wife, we need to also think of who will babysit the babies,” Mr Cake said.

“We can take turns, anyways me and Twinkle here are here to reconnect and to do so, we need sugar.” Cheese said.

“Sugar?” Mr Cake said incredulously.

“Yes, you see, sugar will facilitate the reaction in our Cheese and Twinkle senses and thus help us begin the return to prior synchronicity.” Twinkle casually explained.

Mr Cake and Cheese and anyone else who heard looked at her with expressions that asked ‘english please?’

“Oh, I mean sugar will help us become more in synch, it’s weird but how we work!” Twinkle said.

“....Ooooook… I’ll just go with it, what do you want?” Mr. Cake asked.

“One of everything please!” Cheese declared.

“Ooh boy, alright we’ll get you that-” Mr Cake said before Twinkle suddenly teleported back into her position, which previously was vacant when they weren’t looking and she was holding a stack of boxes.

“Nvm chief! I made it all,” Twinkle said using her horn to float the bits onto the table.

“...The fact your half Pinkie Pie is the only reason I’m not shocked…” Mr Cake said rubbing his head, feeling a headache coming on.

Charity walked up to the cottage she used to live full-time in and took a deep breath.

“This’ll be fine, they all still care about you, and Harry’s a good leader,” Charity said.

Angel tugged on her hair to get her attention and nodded encouragingly.

“Your right Angel, let’s see how they're doing,” Charity said opening the door.

And saw chaos.

Animals were running around and while they didn’t damage much they were ignoring Harry who was trying to get them to calm down.

Discord was sitting on a reclining chair eating chips.

“Ah! Hello dear Charity! Wish to sit back and enjoy the chaos with me?” Discord waved.

“Discord?! What’s happening?” Charity demanded.

“Oh just put some sugar in their feed to make it sweeter, by the by, how much is too much? I gave up measuring and poured the whole darn thing into their feed,” Discord shrugged.

Charity facepalmed.

“Discord, your only supposed to give them one teaspoon, otherwise they get hyper,” Charity said.

“Eh, being a full-time pet sitter can be hard,” Discord told Charity. “Also I followed your instructions to let the lemmings roam around the fenced-in areas, direct the bears to the honey hives nearby and to let Richard near the rabbit dens,” Discord said and Charity paled.

“You let Richard by the rabbits?!” She exclaimed

“Why? What’s wrong?” Discord asked.

“Richard is an anaconda!” Charity ran out the door.

“Ohh…” Discord said feeling stupid.

After forcing Richard to cough up several rabbits Charity reentered her cottage and sat down with a breath of stress while the animals still hyperactivly ran around.

“So I had a few snafu’s don’t worry, me and Larry can handle this” Discord assured.

“His name is Harry,” Charity sighed.

“Ah yes, by the way somepony came by earlier looking for you,” Discord said.

“Who?” Charity asked.

“Big Mac,” Discord said.

“He was?” Charity blushed.

“Yes, surprised you didn’t bump into him on your way here,” Discord said.

“Oh dear, what happened?” Charity asked.

“He was asking around for you, said he wanted to talk to you,” Discord said.

“Oh dear, I hope it’s not anything bad…” Charity said nervously.

“He seemed anxious, so I’ll inform you to keep an eye peeled for him,” Discord said.

“Thank you Discord, I’ll leave you a written list of needs for the animals, and I do plead with you to follow it to the letter,” Charity said levitating a quill and a paper to herself.

“You got it Chares,” Discord said.

After writing down everything she handed it to Discord.

“Be sure to give them time to run off the extra energy, and perhaps more water to help them digest the sugar.” Charity suggested.

“Got it,” Discord said.

“Make sure he does Harry,” Fluttershy said hugging Harry, the bear nodded and hugged back.

“Alright, I suppose me and Angel will be on our way,” Charity said as they left.

“See ya Charity!” Discord waved.

As Charity exited she laid against the door and sighed.

“Adjustment is going to harder than I thought…” Charity said before moving on.

The CMC were walking around town, dressed as detectives.

“Alright girls, we need to ask Twinkle what she knows,” Sweetie Belle said.

“Why?” Scootaloo asked.

“She’s the smartest pony around now that Twilight is gone, maybe the fusion made her smarter,” Sweetie shrugged.

“Sounds like a plan,” AB said.

The group walked on until they saw Flitter.

“Pardon!” Apple Bloom said.

“Huh?” Flitter turned to the CMC.

“We’re looking for Twinkle Pie Sparkle,” AB said.

“Uh… who?” Flitter asked.

“That new pony in town who happens to be Twilight and Pinkie,” Scootaloo clarified.

“Ah, last I saw she was with some stallion at Sugarcube Corner,” Flitter said.

“Thanks!” The group walked off.

“No prob!” Flitter called back.

The group arrived at the bakery and saw the two eating piles of pastries, much to the disgust of nearby ponies, the group decided to hide in some bushes.

“Twinkle and a stallion? Sounds juicy!” Sweetie said.

“Who’s that again?” Apple Bloom asked.

“I think his name was Cheese Sandwich,” Scootaloo said as the three poked their heads out to spy on the two.

“Hey! Are ya feelin it yet Cheese?” Twinkle asked.

“The oncoming sugar rush that’ll help us out?” Cheese said.

“Yep!” Twinkle replied.

“Not yet, better keep eating,” Cheese said.

“Wow… how are they not fat?” Sweetie asked.

“Strong metabolisms?” Apple Bloom said sounding unsure.

“Or maybe it’s because we’re actually in a story and the author needs us to stay healthy despite the junkfood we eat,” A voice sounding like Scootaloo said.

“What?” The other two fillies asked turning to their brash friend.

“I didn’t say that…” Scootaloo said.

“Nope!” They spun to see Twinkle crouching behind them.

“GYAAAAAAH!” The three fillies yelled, after calming their heartrates Apple Bloom spoke up.

“How the hay did you get behind us? We never took our eyes off of ya!” Apple Bloom demanded.

“Magical clone, and I had Cheesie pretend it was me,” Twinkle gave a thumbs up at Cheese and they turned to see Cheese watching looking amused.

“Plus my Twinkle sense warned me we were being watched,” Twinkle said as she and the group walked back to the table.

“Wow… you're even harder to catch off guard than Pinkie.” Scoots admitted.

“So what’s up kiddos?” Cheese asked.

“We’re… doing a study on what happened with you girls, what caused this, about the mirror.” Apple Bloom said.

“Hmm? Well, it’s simple, what happened was some polymorphic fusion that occurred from a magical artifact, reacting to our magic it fused us from six beings into three new beings, and now we are victims of another story writer's work-” Twinkle monologued before Cheese tapped her shoulder and gestured to their clueless looks.

“Darn I keep forgetting,” Twinkle said before trying again “The mirror reacted to our magic and fused us into three beings, all there is to it,” Twinkle said.

“And how would we go about tracking it… if we were looking for it! Which we aren’t” Scootaloo said.

“Oh, just have a magical trace on it,” Twinkle said.

“How?” Sweetie asked.

“My library section has a book on it,” Twinkle said.

“Alright, that makes sense, I bet Mrs. Cheerilee would love to know that,” Sweetie said.

“Now if you’ll excuse us! We gotta jet!” Scootaloo said before they took off.

“You don’t think their planning something right?” Cheese asked.

“Eh, kids will be kids, I’ll bet they already forgot about it,” Twinkle obliviously said.

“Memorize that Sweetie, we’ll need to find that spell and get moving tomorrow,” Scootaloo said.

“Gotcha,” Sweetie said.

“AB you think we can get a sample of your sister’s DNA? Maybe that’s how we’ll do it!” Scootaloo asked.

“Sure!” AB said.

“We also should keep a close eye on them, maybe we can tag along,” Sweetie suggested.

“Good plan,” Scoots said.

After their meal and unexplainable digestion of it all, the two party ponies then walked all the way to the spa area.

“If you recall, I came here a few times with you to experience the spa, our next stop is here,” Cheese said.

“Got it!” Twinkle said.

The two entered and found Bulk managing the front.

“Bulk? What are you doing managing the front?” Twinkle asked.

“Oh! Hey Twinkle, Aloe, and Lotus are out on a business trip today, so I’m holding down the fort for now,” Bulk said.

“Oh cool!” Cheese said. “In any case, we need a good massage today,”

“Are you really tense?” Bulk asked.

“Nope! Just need to get back in synch,” Twinkle said.

“Gotcha,” Bulk said, deciding to not question it and he wrote down some things and took their bits. “Do you need any other things? A bath? An oil rub?” Bulk asked.

“Nope! Just a normal massage,” Cheese said.

“Got it, head on over to the tables and I’ll be over soon,” Bulk said.

Afterwards Twinkle and Cheese made their way to a couple of tables and got prepared.

After a few minutes they were settled on their massage tables and ready for the ride.

Bulk entered and saw they were holding hands.

“Any reason your holding hands?” Bulk asked.

“It’s to help us stay in tune, now let’s get a move on Bulky!” Twinkle giggled.

“Alright then!” Bulk said before approaching and he began kneading Twinkles back.

“Hey… uh Twinkle?” Bulk asked.

“Not now, we need silence,” Twinkle said.

“Oook?” Bulk said before he began performing light chops on their backs to loosen them up.

“Alright, now feel the sense,” Cheese said.

“Got it,” Twinkle said.

Her mane twitched about in synchronicity with Cheese’s, then Twinkle's horn lit up and her mane flowed upwards and so did Cheese’s.

“Whoa,” Bulk said in awe of the strange events.

“Keep going,” Twinkle said.

“Uh, got it!” Bulk said as he switched left and right between them and kneaded them.

Then suddenly Twinkle's horn lit up and it created a magical light.

“Cool,” Bulk said.

“She really is,” Cheese said as the massage ended.

Both sat up and stretched, feeling how limber they were.

“Whew! I feel looser than I expected, thanks Bulk!” Twinkle said as she and Cheese prepared to head to their next destination.

But before they got to the door Bulk stopped them.

“Hey, uh… before you go… can I ask you something?” Bulk asked.

“Sure,” Twinkle said.

“Your friend… Zap Apple… do you think she’d…. Oh come on Bulk your tougher than this,” Bulk took a deep breath and spoke, “Do you think she’d like me? I mean I bet we’d make a great fitness power couple and all,” Bulk asked.

“I bet you would, but that’s not what you really want is it?” Cheese said.

Bulk blushed “She is… my type…” Bulk said.

“We’ll talk to her at some point,” Twinkle assured.

“Th-thank you,” Bulk said before getting out of the way.

“Np!” Cheese said as the two skipped outside.

“Now onto our last destination!” Cheese said.

“Where to mac-n-cheese?” Twinkle teased.

Cheese snickered “A party!” Cheese said before waving her along.

“Woot!” Twinkle skipped after him.

The two party ponies arrived in Pinkies room through the window and bounced into the center of the decorated room.

“Wow!” Twinkle said looking at all the decorations. “Your work Cheesie?” Twinkle asked.

“That’s right! Slipped off to do this while you took that restroom break the author didn’t mention.” Cheese said.

“Aww, you know me so well, and look!” Twinkle jumped around gesturing to all the mathematical decor.

“Fractions, PEMDAS, logical division, balloons shaped like numbers? How’d you know?” Twinkle asked.

“Because your a fusion of Pinkie and Twilight, soooo I imagined a party centered around math, Twilight’s favorite subject!” Cheese said.

“Cheesie your a genius!” Twinkle said.

“And look! Your present is… HOMEWORK!” Cheese said producing several stacks of test work.

“Aww Cheesie you shouldn’t have!” Twinkle hugged him.

“Yep! Had Cheerilee’s help, and she expects it next week,” Cheese said.

“A deadline?..... AWESOME! Motivation to do something that is considered mind-meltingly boring by foals! You know me very very well Cheese,” Twinkle cheered.

“Yep, time for the coup de grace, may I have this dance?” Cheese said.

“Why sure!” Twinkle said and the two immediately linked hands and began slow dancing under a spotlight that Gummy activated.

Cheese twirled Twinkle and she was about to hit the wall but she used her magic to repel herself into the air and she landed in Cheese’s arms.

“Whee!” She cheered as Cheese caught her, he then spun around with her and tossed her in the air before catching her and holding her aloft.

As they spun Twinkle's horn glowed and it formed an outline of the two dancing and then the magical copies flew upwards and burst into sparkles.

After that Cheese set her down and they kissed.

“How’s that?” Cheese asked.

“I can feel the connection stronger than ever Cheesie, thank you,” Twinkle hugged him.

It was strange, she was surrounded by learning, a party and a colt she felt love for… but something was still missing… or somebody…

“You're thinking about Flash aren’t you?” Cheese asked.

“I-i didn’t mean too! It’s just… part of me… still loves him,” Twinkle murmured hoping Cheese wouldn’t be offended.

Thankfully Cheese chuckled

“Then let’s invite him! I’ll bet he can party hard too, ooh maybe we can form a trio and have tons of fun!” Cheese said.

“Your not offended? Or indignant… or any synonym related?” Twinkle asked.

“You and I are now connected at the sense, you tell me?” Cheese said.

“Oh Cheesie, your the best coltfriend a gal can ask for!” Twinkle said hugging him.

Flash laid down on his bed and sighed discontentedly.

He felt guilty for not sticking around after he heard the news, he protected Twinkle's mood at least… but still felt empty…

At Camp Everfree Sunset had helped him get over his desire to be with Princess Twilight… after all their from two different worlds, she was a princess and he was a regular musician looking to go pro… neither would have time and being together would be long distance, at least by a dimensional span.

But the fact that she came back and is now merged with the Pinkie Pie of her world, left him… conflicted.

He tried to remember Sunset’s words about moving on… but… that’s hard if she’ll keep coming back… not to mention she’s not… herself anymore, what should he do?

“On one hand I could go to her world and hash it out with her… or just wait for her to come back here… or maybe just drop it… what do I do?...” Flash wondered before drifting off to an afternoon nap.

An empty warehouse

A dozen ponies were setting the place up into a base.

These ponies looked odd, as if they bore mixed traits of other ponies. They are in fact victims of the hooded ponies' use of the power of the merge mirror.

The now unhooded pony approached a table with a layout.

“Alright, now we can begin here in this city, now that I have a workforce,” The hooded pony said.

“What is your bidding sir?” A green pegasus with a brown mane asked.

“I need you to start gathering more ponies and bringing them here, the bigger my workforce the easier my work will be done,” The hooded pony said.

“What is the plan?” A burly earth pony asked.

“Merge everypony in this city with compatible matches, their loss will be mourned, but I know this will all benefit Equestria in the long run,” The hooded pony said.

“How?” The earth pony asked.

“You don’t serve to ask, you serve to do! Now collect more minions, we have some promising ones but you can never have to many,” The hooded pony said.

“Yes master,” The brainwashed merged ponies said before leaving.

“And be discrete! The last thing we need is interference or to be discovered!” He called after them before resuming his work.

“Boss?” a voice asked and he turned to see a green and pink colt.

“Yes?” He asked.

“What do you need me to do?” He asked.

“Hmmph… go be lookout,” He waved the colt off.

“Ok boss!” The colt ran off.

“Next time, don’t merge two younger ponies, it’s basically like having a child,” He muttered.

As he looked over his plans one could see it was a map of Equestria, and it had several marked out towns and several circled.

“I hope your ready to see how mad I am Celestia… but I hope you can appreciate this, after all, it’s all to make a better Equestria!” He chuckled to himself as he continued to mark various towns on his map.

Author's Note

A bit of a for fun chapter detailing Twinkle's relationship with Cheese Sandwich and addressing Flash's uncertainty.

Also, things are beginning to show with The hooded ponies' intentions.

Who is he? What's his drive? And specifically... why is Celestia and Luna so scared of him using the Box of Celtus?

What dark secrets does it possess?

Either way, thank you all for your patience and support of this solo project.