At Rainbow's house, the sun slowly began to rise up in the sky. Sonic and Rainbow slowly woke up from their relaxing sleep together.

"Morning, Dashie," Sonic said.

"Morning, Sonic," Rainbow said, "How'd you sleep last night?"

"Wonderfully," Sonic said, "How about you?"

"The same," Rainbow said.

Sonic and Rainbow got out of their bed and went downstairs to get breakfast. When they came down, they saw Shadow and Sunset were already at the table.

"Hey," Sunset said.

"Morning," Sonic said.

"I've heard that we've got a big day today," Shadow said, "The Friendship Games."

"Right," Sonic and Rainbow said.

Everyone had their breakfast, had showers, got dressed, brushed their teeth, and headed to Canterlot High. When the Mobians and the girls arrived, they saw that Strike, Breeze, and Specter were outside the front door.

Specter was asleep from waiting for them on the side of the stairway. Strike and Breeze seemed to be doing something on a tablet. Strike noticed the Mobians and girls arrive.

"Ah, there you are," Strike said.

"Hope we're not too late," Knuckles said.

"You're just in time," Breeze said.

Specter was having a weird dream, "Mm… no more mustard for me, thanks," he snored.

Sonic and Rainbow looked at each other, and then they smirked. They slowly snuck towards the sleepy Specter, held their hands up, and then they shoved him off of the stairs, "BOO!"

Specter landed on the ground waking up startled in surprise and fear, "AAH! The monkeys stole my pants!"

Everyone else began to laugh, and surprisingly, Strike snickered a little. Specter looked at them all with a blank expression and held up a sign that said, "Specter is not amused."

"Come on, man," Rainbow said, "You have to admit it was funny."

"Pranks are only funny when I pull them off," Specter said.

Pinkie popped up out of nowhere right beside Specter, "HELLO!"

Specter yelped, "AHH! Stop doing that!"

Pinkie laughed, "I never will."

"Why?" Specter asked.

"Because I'm PINKIE PIE!" Pinkie answered with a really big, bright smile and a happy squeal sound.

Specter looked at Pinkie with a terrified face, "C-can we please just go inside now?"

The others nodded. They entered the school. Specter noticed that Strike was still snickering a little. Specter thought with a little smile, "Hmm, I should do this more often."

Later, in the music room, the Mobians and girls in their band, the Sonic-Rainbooms, they were playing a song together and they were able to pony up. Strike, Specter, and Breeze watched, and they were pretty impressed.

The Sonic-Rainbooms just finished playing their song with their pony abilities. The Rainbooms' magic vanished at the same time, but strangely, for the Sonic Heroes, Sonic's magic lasted the longest.

"I hope the Friendship Games have a music competition," Rainbow said, "Because we could totally rock it!" she played a rocking chord.

"Uh, we're supposed to keep magic out of the Friendship Games, remember?" Sunset reminded Rainbow, which made her sigh and roll her eyes.

"Easier said than done, darling," Rarity said as she powdered her right cheek, "I'm sure in Equestria, magic does whatever you want, but…"

"This isn't Equestria," Sunset said.

"I really need to learn about these other worlds," Breeze said.

"It really took us some time to understand as well, bro," Strike said.

"It's easy when you have a manual," Specter held up a book.

Strike and Breeze gave a blank look at Specter. "What, guys?" Specter asked, "I spent, like, three hours making this thing."

Applejack placed her hand on Sunset's shoulder, "Well, when it comes to magic, I'm sure you'll figure it out."

"And luckily, my friends and I can hold onto the Chaos Emeralds just in case," Sonic said.

"And while Sunset works on keeping magic OUT of the games while Sonic keeps our Chaos powers out as well, I have been working on what to put in."

"Rarity, what did you go and do?" Applejack asked.

Rarity pushed a few pairs of racks of many different outfits for the games. "Well, I've put a little time on my hands, and since we don't what the Friendship Games' events are… I've made a few options for uniforms!"

Rarity pulled a uniform onto Rainbow, and now she was wearing a white T-shirt with Aegean blue and daffodil yellow sleeves, Aegean blue running shorts with a lighter shade on the sides of the legs, Aegean blue socks, and Aegean blue and daffodil yellow running shoes.

"You really didn't have to do that," Rainbow said.

"I know," Rarity said.

"No," Applejack said as she and the other girls were looking at the other uniforms, "You REALLY didn't have to."

"I know!" Rarity giggled.

Another rack accidently hit Specter, "OW!"

Specter stood back up wearing a pink tutu. Most of the others laughed at him, even Strike. Specter didn't understand what was going on, until he looked down at himself and saw what he was wearing, "There will be CONCIQUENCES!"

Outside the front of the school, a bus for the school Crystal Prep arrived. Celestia was talking to the principle of that school, Principle Cinch.

Cinch was a woman with arctic blue skin, a few streaks from magenta purple to violet purple dark colored hair, and lavender purple eyes. She had magenta purple glasses, white earrings on her ears, she wore an indigo jacket over a cerulean blue shirt, a berry blue skirt with tight-fitting magenta-boysenberry purple pants, and berry blue heel shoes with sky blue highlights.

"Vice-Principle Luna can help your students get settled while I show you around, Principle Cinch," Celestia said, "There have been quite a few changes since your last visit."

"Oh, yes, Principle Celestia," Cinch said, "I'm sure that would be fascinating."

Luna was having a hug with a friend of hers from Crystal Prep, Dean Cadance. Cadance was a woman with ballad slipper pink skin, fuscia pink, violet purple, and daffodil yellow streaked hair, and violet purple eyes. She was wearing an Aegean blue jacket over an arctic blue shirt, a gold necklace around her neck, an ocean blue skirt, and gold slipper shoes.

"Oh, it's always such a pleasure to see you, Dean Cadance," Luna said, "Even if it means another defeat."

"Thank you, Vice Principle Luna," Cadance said, "But I hear it's not going to be so easy this time."

Twilight peeked out of the door, and was about to step out when another girl, Indigo Zap, pushed her coming out, "Coming through!"

Twilight got off balance and accidently landed on another girl, Sunny Flare, "Seriously?"

"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to," Twilight said.

Sunny walked into the line for Lune to get the Crystal Prep students settled in. Twilight got up and accidently stood in another girl's way, Sour Sweet.

"Oh, sorry, why don't you go ahead?" Twilight said.

"You are such a sweetie," Sour said sweetly, before she got in Twilight's face, "I am watching you."

Sour went passed Twilight. Then, a different girl, Lemon Zest came out of the bus listening to rock music on her headphones. Then another girl, Sugarcoat, came out as she said to Twilight, "You are kind of being a doormat right now."

That made Twilight sad. But then a tech-pendant that was around her neck was activated. Twilight looked at it, and it showed where it was detecting something. It was aiming at the school, which meant what it was detecting was inside the school.

Twilight went towards the school. She happened to walk past Sweetie Drops and Lyra Heartstrings. "Hi, Twilight," Sweetie Drops said.

Twilight didn't answer her. She just kept following her device. As she went into the school, the students were saying hi to her and saying her name.

"Hey, Twilight," Cherry Crash said.

Twilight's attention was caught this time, but she kept going. But when she heard the other students saying her name, things were getting confusing.

"Hi, Twilight," Sweet Leaf and Mystery Mint said.

"Hey, you looking good," Scribble Dee said as Micro Chips gave Twilight the thumbs-up.

"Um, hi," Twilight said.

"Hey, what's happening?" Sophisticata asked.

"Really nice to see you," Blueberry Cake said.

"Twilight, how you doing?" Velvet Sky asked while Bright Idea waved hi to Twilight.

"Twilight, yo," another girl said.

"Hi, hello, uh, good," Twilight said walking backwards really confused.

Twilight was so confused, she forgot to watch where she was going, and she accidently bumped right into Flash. Flash helped her up, "Twilight? I almost didn't recognize you."

Twilight was having trouble seeing because her glasses fell off. Flash noticed them on the floor, "When did you start wearing glasses?"

"Um, like, since forever," Twilight said.

"Oh, so, how long are you here for?" Flash asked as he picked Twilight's glasses up.

"Just for the Friendship Games," Twilight answered.

"Right, of course," Flash said as he put Twilight's glasses back on for her, "We'll totally win with you here."

Flash gave Twilight a smile, but Twilight's pendant beeped again, "Uh, I gotta go."

Twilight ran off and Flash just stood there, "Uh, okay. Bye?"

Flash sighed and placed his hands on his face while Derpy just patted him on his shoulder.

Rarity made the other girls try out many different outfits. While she was doing that, the Mobians, Strike, and Breeze were coming up with a plan, and Specter was working on something in a book of papers.

Rarity measured a hockey suit that Fluttershy was wearing, she added a hat onto Rainbow's head for a police uniform, and came to Applejack who was wearing a Jai alia suit. She pulled down AJ's shirt because a bit of her stomach was visible.

"Uh, Rarity," Applejack said, "These outfits are great, but why would you put so much time into effort into clothes we might not even wear? You're gonna exhaust yourself before the games even start."

"No offense, Rare," Silver said, "But she does make a point."

"Oh, ppfft, don't be silly, darlings," Rarity scoffed, "Putting effort into clothes is what I live for. And spending time on my friends fills me with energy!"

Rarity suddenly ponied up. She grew her ponytail and gained her pony ears. Everyone was amazed when they saw this. When Specter looked up, his jaw dropped, "Whoa."

"And magic too, I guess," Sunset said.

While Twilight was heading towards the music room where the Mobians, the heroes, and the girls were, her pendant somehow opened on its own. In the music room, no one knew or even noticed Rarity's magic was being pulled right out of her and going out of the music room and into the pendant.

Rarity suddenly became completely exhausted and hovered back onto the floor, "Actually, darlings… now that you… mentioned it… I suppose I could use a tiny break."

Rarity's pony powers disappeared, and she collapsed onto the floor feeling dizzy, but Silver caught her in his arms, "I told you."

Then, the door opened, and Twilight came in. Everyone suddenly had a smile on their faces, "Twilight?"

"Uh, yes?" Twilight asked.

"Well, I'll be," Applejack said with her arm around Twilight's shoulder, "You should've told us you were coming."

Sunset had a smile on her face, feeling she could really have Twilight's help with the magic, but she and everyone else didn't know that it wasn't the Twilight they knew, except Strike and Specter, but they were being quiet.

"Darling, those glasses," Rarity said, "What are you wearing? It's so severe."

"My uniform," Twilight answered.

"Your uniform for what?" Fluttershy asked.

"For Crystal Prep," Twilight said, "But why does everyone at this school know who I am?"

"Did you just say 'Crystal Prep'?" Rainbow asked.

Spike suddenly popped his head out from Twilight's backpack woofing. "Spike!" Fluttershy, Tails, Silver, and Rarity said.

Twilight gasped, "You know my dog's name too?"

The Mobians and the girls were getting confused. "Something's not right," Sonic thought, "She really sounds like she doesn't know us. Could she be…"

Celestia and Cinch were coming to the music room down the hall. "And our music program has especially taken off-" Celestia said until she noticed Twilight in the music room, "Twilight?"

"This is getting ridiculous!" Twilight said.

"I must apologize for the curiosity of my prized student," Cinch said.

"Your student?" Celestia asked.

"The smart ones are always curious," Cinch said as she and Twilight began to walk away, "I'll return her to check in with the rest of her classmates."

Cinch and Twilight walked away. When they were gone, Celestia said to the Mobians and girls, "I didn't know Twilight had a twin sister."

Pinkie then spoke in one breath, "She doesn't. That Twilight is obviously the Twilight of this world

Celestia just stood where she was for a moment and then said, "Never mind."

Back outside the front of the school, Twilight and Cinch were heading back for Twilight to check in with the other Crystal Prep students.

"I'm sorry, Principle Cinch," Twilight said, I was just following these strange readings. Actually, it led me to those guys and girls and-"

"Twilight," Cinch cut her off, "What you do in your free time is of little interest to me, but while you're here, I, all of Crystal Prep, require your complete focus."

"But why does everyone at this school seem to know me?" Twilight asked.

"Perhaps, they're trying to confuse you," Cinch said, "Perhaps, they're trying to lure you away."

"It didn't feel like anyone was trying to lure me," Twilight said.

"I don't know what they're playing at," Cinch said, "But I guarantee it isn't to help us win."

Back to the Mobians, girls, and heroes, they were talking about Twilight.

"I can't believe our world's Twilight goes to Crystal Prep," Rarity said.

"You're saying that Twilight's gonna play against us?" Rainbow asked, "She'd never do that."

"Our Twilight wouldn't," Fluttershy said.

Sunset suddenly spoke in a frustrated way, "Our Twilight is a Princess from Equestria. And an expert in Friendship Magic. And if she was here, we would've already figured out why magic is randomly popping out during pep rallies and costume changes."

The rest just looked at Sunset. "Uh, Sunset, is something bothering you?" Shadow asked.

"Sorry," Sunset said, "I'm just frustrated that I haven't heard back from her."

"Sunset, we get it," Sonic said, "The Twilight we know is a Princess in Equestria."

"Yeah," Applejack said, "She probably got problems of her own to deal with."

"We certainly can't expect her to drop everything and pop through the portal whenever," Rarity said, "Especially if it's to do as something minor as a few random pony ups."

"But they aren't minor," Sunset said, "Magic came into this world when I stole Twilight's crown. It's taken a lot for me to earn everyone's trust. If we have to forfeit the games because I can't think of a way to keep it under control."

"Oh, Sunset," Fluttershy said.

"Hey," Tails said, "I'm sure you'll be able to figure things out."

"Of course," Knuckles said, "You're the one who helped us understand what was going on with the Sirens, remember?"

"I guess," Sunset said as a bit of her hair was near her eye, "But Twilight was the one who really figured out what we needed to defeat them."

Shadow got the hair out of Sunset's eye, "But don't you remember, honey? What we needed to defeat them was you."

Sunset smiled, "All right."

The other girls cheered. Strike spoke, "All right, you guys and girls get yourselves ready for the games. Specter, Breeze and I gotta leave right now."

"I think I have a way to get into the weak point of the ship," Specter said looking up at his book, before he realized, "Oh, sorry, did I miss something?"

The others sighed. "What?" Specter asked.

Breeze then turned to his brother, "Strike, how about you stay with the others? You've been here longer than I have. And I've been studying some things with Specter before."

Strike nodded, "Good idea."

Suddenly, Specter's mask was making three loud quick beeps. "What's going on?" Tails asked.

Specter looked into what he got, then he answered, "Nothing, nothing of importance."

"Okay, let's go," Breeze said.

Specter and Breeze left to work on their plan for the ship. But Specter had a worried look, "How could he be here? I thought he died."

After they left, Rainbow spoke, "Come on. Let's go see if we can find any info on the events and come up with a strategy."

The Mobians, girls, and Strike went walking, but Sunset stayed where she was. "Sunset, you coming?" Shadow asked.

"I'll… catch up with you guys in a bit," Sunset said.

Shadow nodded as he went to follow the others. Sunset thought about something, and then she went out of the front doors and looked in her book. The pages she hadn't written in had no message from Princess Twilight.

"Still no reply," Sunset said.

But when Sunset lowered her book, she looked at the Wondercolt statue. Then she had an idea. She moved towards the statue.

Twilight's pendant began to beep again. Twilight sneakily followed the track and she moved towards the statue. When she got very close to it, the pendant opened by itself.

"Maybe there's another way I could reach her," Sunset said to herself.

Sunset was going to go to Equestria. But right as she tried to put her hand through, it somehow grabbed onto her and it wouldn't let her go.

"Hey! Let go!" Sunset said trying to pull herself free.

But Sunset didn't noticed that her magic was being transferred straight through the statue and into Twilight's pendant. The energy was bright red and yellow. Twilight quickly shut it tightly. She and Sunset fell over.

Twilight didn't know that her pendant had some strange electric power crackling around it for a moment. Sunset came to Twilight, "What did you do?"

Twilight wasn't sure what to say, but then Cadance spoke, "Twilight, you have to check in with the others."

Twilight went to be checked in before Sunset got the chance to talk to her. She sighed. But then, when she tried to go through the portal, her hand wasn't going through. The wall of the statue was literally solid.

"Where's the portal?" Sunset said panicking, "Where's the portal!?"