Princess Celestia's response was a quick one but what was unexpected was that she wanted to the for herself what she had read. She also asked that each mare let one colt stay with them until she arrived next Monday. "So, if you're my colt version you must be like me right?" Twilight asked Dusk as she showed him the guest room. "I guess, but what are you interested in? Just in case." Dusk Shine asked the lavender mare. "Well, I'm very studious, so I like to read, I am also willing to help my friends, I love learning new spells, I can get skeptical when I don't understand something and I also like to spent time with my assistants. What about you?" Twilight asked the stallion, twisting around to look at him, but he looked at her lost for words. "Pretty much the same, thank you for letting me stay here Twilight." He smiled at his mare counterpart and she left him to get settled in. Everybody else was also enjoying their new company as well.

"So Barbara, you're Dusk Shine's assistant right? I'm Twilight's. I'm gonna have to go out for a while to get an extra bed for you while you stay here." Spike said walking over to the door. A short while later, Spike came back with a basket with a silky purple cushion in it, complete with a green blanket."Thankyou Spike, it's lovely." Barbara said as he set the basket down next to his own bed. Twilight and Dusk Shine trotted down the staircase, "Hey Spike, Dusk Shine and I are heading over to Sugar Cube Corner. Wanna come?" Twilight asked the baby dragon as she headed for the door, using magic to open it. With a glance at Barbara, who subtly nodded, jumped up and clambered onto Twi's back, and noticed Barb doing the same thing but with Dusk. The two ponies trotted over to S.C Corner, only to be greeted by five pairs of 'identical' ponies-Pinkie and Bubble Berry were the most hyperactive of the bunch.

"Pinkie, what's going?" Twilight asked the hyperactive pink pony. "BubbleBerryandImadesomesupersugarysugarcookiesandgotamassivesugarrush!!!" Pinkie said way too fast for anyone to understand "Soweinvitedeveryponyoverfornoparticularreasonexcepttoseehowlongasugarrushlasts!" The pink mare giggled. "Okay, not really sure what you just said, but thanks." Twilight said raising an eyebrow. Rarity's colt version, Elusive, came forward and explained it "I think she's saying that Bubble Berry and her made some sugar cookies and added too much sugar, now they're having a sugar rush." The white stallion, winked at his friend and trotted back over to Rarity.

"Er...what...what was that about?" Twilight asked raising both eyebrows, but Dusk let out a sigh-apparently of frustration. "Um..did I offend you, or your friend? I'm sorry if I did." Dusk shifted his gaze over to the lilac mare and smiled, shaking his head. "No, you haven't offended anyone. Whenever Elusive winks like that something weird is going to happen, how he knows I have know idea-it's usually Bubble Berry who knows these things." He said pointedly, and that reminded Twilight of Pinkie's 'Pinkie Sense', and it reminded her just how similar these colts were to them.

Later that night, Twilight awoke to the sound of pacing hooves, so, she got out of bed and headed downstairs to see who was making that racket, only to find Dusk Shine pacing nervously, he had mad a 'dint' in the wooden library floor about 1 metre deep. Blinking sleep out of her eyes Twilight continued to watch him for a while before showing herself, "I see you're a late-night pacer too." She said with a small smile. Ignoring her, Dusk jumped out of the large circle in the floor and began to search the library for something. "Is there anything I can help you with? I am a librarian y'know" She asked the lilac colt, who just turned around and levitated a book off a shelf, "No thanks, i'm good." He replied, and trotted outside, the only light-the moon, stars and Dusk's magic aura which glowed bright magenta. Twilight, going into what she called 'stalker mode', followed him, without any artificial light, only relying on the moon for light.

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