Double Vision

Twilight had wished for so long to wake up beside somepony. To gently rouse, wrapped tenderly in the loving hooves of another. To slowly awaken to the feeling of a warm breath on the back of her neck. Unfortunately her first such experience deviated slightly from her fantasy...
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"AAAHHH!!!" Twilight screamed, leaping from her bed in a sudden, adrenalin-fueled, feat of acrobatics!

Her double also jumped backwards out of bed in the opposite direction. Similarly in shock at her double and also from the screaming, which she joined in.

Twilight backed against the wall, taking a defensive stance, "I know what you are face-stealer!" She yelled, leaping at the other Twilight, knocking her to the ground. "Changeling!" she yelled down at her pinned body about to trounce her with a flurry of stomps from her forelegs. The other Twilight quickly raised a defensive shield, blocking the blows.

"I'm not a changeling! I swear! Ask me something only you would know!"

Twilight eyed her suspiciously. "Fine. I've prepared for this. If you're me, then what number am I thinking of right now?"

"Forty two."

Twilight continued to eye her suspiciously as she climbed off of her and backed away to a safe distance. "Who are you. I mean you're me, but I'm me too. How can there be two mes? That's not scientifically possible. You are not scientifically possible."

"I am you! We're exactly the same! We have the same magic, the same memories! Didn't Luna tell you all this?"

Twilight tried to remember the dream, "No... I, I touched the mirror and... everything broke, and I woke up."

"Hmm, Luna told me I would wake up with my double. And that she... you, would be exactly like me. Memories, powers. You don't remember any of that?"

"No... there was just the mirror. I saw myself... er, you, and I touched it and I was here." Twilight said.

"Okay then, let's just relax and figure this out then."

"If you are to be fully capable of loving another..." Twilight began reciting,

"you must learn to love yourself." her double finished.

They both sat there a moment, each trying to figure out what do do next. Suddenly there was a banging at the bedroom door. "Twilight! I heard yelling! Are you okay?" They each looked at each other, unsure what to do, Twilight put her hoof to her lips for the other to 'shh'.

"Everything's fine Spike. I just had a bad dream. I'll be out in a bit." Twilight said through the door.

"Oh, okay." Spike said before heading back downstairs.

Twilight looked at... herself. "Just... wait here. I'll go send Spike away so we can figure this out." she said as she headed downstairs. Spike was already starting the day, putting a kettle on for her tea. "Spike, I think I can take that from here. Why don't you take the day off? Go see if Rarity need a hoof, er, a hand with something."

"Wow really? Alright!" Spike said, as her tossed his apron over the chair and headed out. Twilight's double peeked out from the bedroom and headed down once she was sure Spike was gone.

"So what now?" she asked.

Twilight looked up at her as she came down the stairs. "Well, Luna obviously did this for a reason... If you are to be fully capable of loving another... you must learn to love yourself." She looked at her double, wondering.

"She wants us to love ourselves... But I love myself just fine." her double said.

"Yeah, me too... obviously. I like everything about me just fine." Twilight said, sounding like an echo. Her double looked at her, doubting her. She doubted herself, both metaphorically and literally now.

"Well we both know that's not true."

"I wish I was more athletic." Twilight admitted.

"I wish I was more social."

"I wish Luna would love me. Make love to me."

"I just wish somepony would love to me."

"Yeah."

"Yeah."

Twilight and her double just looked at each other. Twilight spoke first. "Well obviously I love you."

"Yeah?"

"Sure, how could I not? You're me! So you and I obviously like all the same things, have all the same interests."

"We could get twice as much stuff done!"

"Oh my gosh, I didn't even think of that! You're right! We could, we could..."

"Read two books at the same time!"
"Read two books at the same time!"

They both squealed like little fillies, and danced awkwardly around each other. Spike opened the door, "Hey Twi I forgot my-" Spikes sentence was cut short when he saw the sight before him. He shouldn't have eaten that cheap quartz that morning. He was seeing things. Two Twilights! He tried to ask Twilight what was going on but it came out as a sort of incoherent garbled mess, "Twi- I- what? Two? GAH!"

"Spike calm down!" Twilight tried to reassure him, "I just- It's just a spell. Everything's fine!" she said as she moved closer to him. "Just, relax okay?" Spike just looked at her like a deer in headlights.

"But- two Twilights?" Spike looked back and forth between them.

"Yes, two. We're both exactly the same Twilight. She's not a changeling, I didn't walk out of the mirror pool."

"I'm not from the future, and everything is okay." her double finished.

Spike waited a minute... "So... which one of you is the real Twilight?"

"I am."
"I am."

Spike looked back and forth between them. They looked at each other. "I guess we both are, Twilight said."

"Then how in the hay am I supposed to tell you apart?" Spike asked, a bit flustered. They each looked at each other, shrugging, thinking about a solution.

"I guess one of us could use a nickname, and... I dunno, wear a hat?"

"But I hate hats! You know that! Look, how about I just part my hair on the other side, like this." Twilight said as she moved the highlight in her mane to the other side of her horn.

"What about a nickname? What's the opposite of Twilight? Dawn?"

"Eww, no. I don't want a whole new name. What if you just go by Twi for short? That's easy enough."

"That's okay I guess. How about that Spike? Twi and Twilight?"

"Er, okay I guess. I'm still a little weirded out by all this." Spike said, a little uneasy.

"Listen Spike, I'm still... we're still trying to figure things out ourselves, so why don't you go on and try to not worry about all this. Go see Rarity and- and make sure to not tell anypony about this just yet okay?"

"Pfft, like anypony would even believe me." Spike scoffed, grabbing his day bag that he forgot. "Does this mean I'm going to have twice as much work to do around here?" he asked before leaving.

The Twilights looked at each other. "Maybe it'll be half."

"That'd be nice." Spike said before leaving for the day.

Twi and Twilight waited a moment, looking at each other, "So what should we do first?"
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Twi and Twilight each sat opposite one another, each quietly reading a book. The only sound was the regular turning of pages. Twi finished her book first and went to the shelf to change it out for another. She scanned the shelves for the next title. She pulled it down with her magic and assumed her seat once again. Twilight looked up from her book.

"Finished already?"

"Yeah, it was just a short one about Equestrian fauna. It was kind of dry though. What have you been reading about?"

"I'm reading The Art of the Checklist again."

"One of my- er, our favorites." They each giggled.

"So what are you reading now?" Twilight asked.

"Oh, um, just something light. I figured since you were reading something practical, I could read something more trivial."

"Oh, there's no such thing as 'trivial' reading. What is it?" Twilight asked again, craning her neck to see the cover. Twi pulled the book away, trying to hide it.

"It's nothing really!" Twi said with an embarrassed grin.

"Oh come on, just tell me!" Twilight said, wrestling it away from her, getting a look at it. "The PonySutra?! Twi, you naughty little filly!" she teased, giving the book back to her.

Twi blushed deeper, taking the book back and turning away from Twilight with a feigned huff of indignation. Several minutes passed. Twilight tried to read her favorite book about checklists, but found the constant suppressed giggles coming from her twin reading across from her too distracting to ignore. Twilight sneaked up behind Twi, who was too engrossed in her very illustrated book to notice her approach. Twilight leaned over her shoulder to get a look at what she was reading.

"Find anything interesting?" Twilight asked. Surprised by Twilight's sudden closeness, Twi reflexively turned to look at Twilight. In the sudden movement, their horns contacted each other. In a sudden flash of magical energy they each felt a rush of the day's experiences flash before them, but each from the other's point of view! They both fell away from one another in shock and surprise.

Twilight shook her head, unsure of what had just happened. She knew that she deep down that she hadn't read Equestrian Fauna that morning, but... she could somehow now remember reading it. "I... I saw- your thoughts! I- I have your memories!" Twilight said out loud to her companion. She could now recall Twi's memories of reading the PonySutra. She could feel her reaction. Twi had gotten herself quite worked up reading it. Twilight could now feel Twi's arousal as her own! The sudden onset was strange, though no less effective.

"It seems we can synchronize our minds as one." Twi offered. "This demands research!" she said excitedly. "Let's go into separate rooms and do different things and then we'll meet back here and try to sync up again." Twilight was only barely listening, her sudden wetness proved to be most distracting. All she got from the conversation was 'separate rooms' which sounded like a great idea at the moment. She needed to... take care of things.

Twi went downstairs to the lab to do... something. Twilight hurriedly went up to her bedroom. Once she was sure Twi couldn't hear her, she dashed under the covers and place her soft hoof between her hindquarters. She rubbed tenderly at her moist, swollen lips, kneading and spreading them, occasionally flicking her little love nub.

She rolled over onto her belly, trapping her hoof under her. She continued playing with herself, moaning softly into her pillow. Her mind flipped through the borrowed memories of the PonySutra. The explicit images, the foreign feelings of Twi's arousal, in union with her own. It was strange and familiar all at once. It was like nothing she had ever experienced before. And through it all, the thought of Twi dominated her mind. She couldn't fully understand why her sexual thoughts kept returning to her duplicate, but she knew one thing for certain: It was turning her on! Big time!

Twilight's hoof was sticky with her pussy juices, she was getting close now. She quickened her pace. Her hoof became a blur, assaulting her sex with wild abandon. She felt her tummy tighten, that brief contraction before she went over the cliff. She mashed her hoof into her clit a final time, holding it there with a steady pressure, clenching her legs around it. She chewed her lower lip as her climax washed over her, making her whole body tingle. She made little humps reflexively against her trapped hoof, making her shiver. She rolled back over and tried to catch her breath.

After taking some time to regain her composure, Twilight made her way downstairs. She settled on the couch as Twi opened the door from the basement. Twilight watched... herself... make her way toward her across the room. She had never really though of herself as being particularly attractive, but she was noticing things about her now that she hadn't before. The way her hips swayed as she walked, those soft flanks, her nice badonkadonk. The way her tail swished back and forth. She had seen... herself down there before. She used a mirror when she was younger. It was out of a clinical curiosity. But now... now she wanted to get a good look at what was under that tail of hers. To play with it, to lick it, to...

Twilight was lost in her thoughts as Twi talked aloud, walking over to her. "... and that's what I figured, so here we go!"

Twilight didn't have time to react as Twi placed her horn against hers again. Twilight's mind flashed with the images of Twi working in the basement designing an experiment for shared consciousness. She had arranged several envelopes with secret messages inside to see if Twilight would be able to know what they said without opening them from Twi's memories.

But all that became immediately unimportant as Twilight watched the expression change on Twi's face. Twi received Twilight's memories of her clopping to the thought of her. Both of them immediately blushed and looked away. There was a long, awkward silence.

Twi spoke first, "I- I'm sorry. I should have checked with you before I did that." she said, looking at Twilight's horn, "I, um, I didn't know you were going to do that." Twilight blushed harder, mortified.

Twilight tried to defend herself, "Well- well look who's talking! You were the one who was reading the PonySutra and got all worked up!" It was Twi's turn to blush, "And when we synced I felt how worked up you had gotten! I couldn't have expected that! It was so sudden and intense I... I just couldn't help myself."

Twi looked down at her hooves in embarrassment. "Well, that's not really fair then. I got all worked up and I didn't get to... take care of myself." Twi looked up at her. "Do you still want to..." she motioned with her eyes back up to the bedroom.

"Really?" Twilight asked, somewhat surprised.

"Well sure, I have your memories of you gaining your attraction to... me. And I can feel it just the same now for you." Twi admitted.

Twilight grinned, "We could try all those thing we always wanted to but were too nervous to ask anypony else!"

Twi grinned back, "You read my mind... literally."

The two mares hurried back up to the bedroom, giggling excitedly the whole way.