Author's Notes:

Hey guys, I didn't have time to proof-read this chapter, there are probably going to be grammar mistakes, so if you see something hurting your eyes point it out for me, I'll fix it later

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Riter12pl4

Twilight and Albert already left Thomas’s house and ventured towards the Mercury’s city library, they were trotting through park it was a shortcut Albert decided to use, he had reasons for that.

Although going through park was going to make the time they would spend together shorter, it will definitely make it more precious. Most people saw Mercury’s city park just as an ordinary green place to relax, but Albert saw it in a different way.

Going through the park was always working on his imagination, walking on the road covered by shadows from huge trees while listening to small birds in the distance, usually few couples were sitting on benches kissing, people were laying on the grass relaxing with their families, also there was always an old man feeding the ducks which were freely swimming in the lake, sight that always made Albert smile for some reason.

He loved it here, this peaceful atmosphere always calmed him down in the times of need, he inhaled this amazing air and looked at Twilight, he smiled seeing that she is also enjoying their walk, maybe not as much as he did, but still.

Seeing her smile would always make him even happier.

“So do you think we will find anything?”

Albert didn’t answer at first being completely absorbed by her smile and magic of this place, he shook his head coming back into the reality and asked her to repeat the question blushing a little.

“I asked if you think we will find anything.”

Albert thought for few moments, their city library was almost like his second house, although it was quite a big one and had new books almost every month so he assumed he read about half of the books there.

“Yeah I guess, there are many books I never read there, I don’t know if we will find anything about magic, but I guess we could start by looking for books which describes theories of parallel universes.”

Twilight smiled and nodded to which Albert responded also with a smile, he was happy he actually has someone to talk about science, Brandy was his best friend, but he really wasn’t someone to talk about things like physics.

After 10 minutes of slow relaxing walk through the park, they got the park entrance, or in their case, exit. Albert never liked this, exiting this place was like waking up from a beautiful dream for him, but he knew now wasn’t the time for them to stay here, at first he thought about this whole search for information only as an excuse to make Twilight watch a sunset with him and confess his feelings for her, but the more he thought about it, the more he realized that they might actually find something important.

And even though finding something that might help them leave faster wasn’t something he wanted to do, he knew he had to, for both their and Equestria’s sake.

They started walking through crowded streets again, city noise and pollution hit them both, Albert knew he will never get used to this sensation.

After walking for another 15 or 20 minutes they finally arrived at the library’s doors, Twilight smiled for the first time they left park.

“It’s amazing, my library isn’t even half as big.”

“Yeah I know, let’s go, we have many books to read before sunset.” Albert made a motion with his hand inviting Twilight inside while holding the doors opened.

“What a gentlecolt.” Twilight said with a smile entering the library, Albert followed her and they entered his temple of science, the place he visited more often than anything else.

Twilight walked inside beaming when she saw hundreds of books on the shelves, she instantly remembered Crystal Empire library, but this one was even bigger, it could rival the Royal Library in Canterlot Castle.

“Hello, what can I help you with today.. Oh it’s you Albert nice to see you.” Old lady walked up to them smiling, she looked like the stereotypical librarian with grey comber hair and glasses on her nose, she was wearing checkered skirt and plain shirt.

“Hello Mrs. Smith, how are you doing?”

“Oh very well thank you, and what’s this, you came with a girlfriend this time?”

“What? Oh no no no, Tara isn’t my girlfriend, she’s just a friend.” Albert said while blushing hard, Mrs. Smith smiled seeing that not only Albert blushed at her comment.

“Oh, all right if you say so, you just look so good as a couple I thought that you must be together.”

Albert hang his head low trying to hide his blush while avoiding both Mrs. Smith and Twilight’s gaze, said unicorn was doing same thing.

Old lady chuckled a little and then asked.

“So how can I help you today? Oh actually I don’t know if there’s anything I can help you with, you know this place better than me I presume.” Mrs. Smith ended her sentence with few chuckles, she turned around and went towards her desk.

“If you’ll need me I’ll be here, good luck Albert.” She said while sitting down still smiling warmly at them.

Twilight followed Albert into Physics section of the library, while still avoiding each other gaze they started going through different books, very quickly they forgot about previous embarrassment and flew off into their own separate worlds.

After two hours, which felt like ten minutes for them Albert finally found something interesting.

“Hey Tara, I found something, it’s about…” He stopped talking as he turned towards her, she wasn’t listening to him at all, her eyes glued to the book she was reading, her expression was showing both happiness and focus.

Albert smiled at that sight, seeing her like that made his heart melt a little, then he realized he was staring at her for quite some time now, he turned away from her while starting to blush.

It was then that many feelings started to mix inside him, he was scared that she might not feel the same way he does, scared of rejection he became pale for a moment, but those feelings were cleansed by other happy ones. If she would feel the same way, it would mean a world to him, being able to see her smile without becoming embarrassed, going to his beloved park and library with her.

Albert started to blush stronger as more and more intimate thoughts started to occur in his head, he couldn’t help it he was a man after all.

After calming himself down, walked towards Twilight stopping right behind her, he nudged her slightly on the shoulder which finally got a reaction from her.

“What is it Albert did you find anything?”

“Yeah I found a “Multiverse Theory” in this book.”

Twilight’s ears perked up and she focused all her attention on him.

“So this theory explains the concept of multiverse, a hypothetical set of infinite or finite possible universes that together comprise everything that exists and can exist: the entirety of space, time, matter, and energy as well as the physical laws and constants that describe them. The various universes within the multiverse are sometimes called parallel universes.”

“Does this book say anything about possible traveling between those universes?” Twilight asked with curiosity.

“I don’t think so, it says that we our current technology doesn’t let us make such travels, however concluding from the fact of you and other girls being in our world we know that your universe magic is able to accomplish such things.”

“Yeah but I don’t know how to do it, I was trying to remember how I sent us here in the first place but I simply can’t, from what I recalled it was just multi-pony teleportation spell.”

They sat there in a silence for few moments, then Thomas said.

“What does the teleportation spell require?”

“Huge amount of concentration, you have to perfectly imagine the place you want to teleport to, that’s also why I don’t understand how we got here, I never been here, I didn’t even know of the existence of this universe, how could I even subconsciously imagine it?”

“I don’t know Tara, *sigh* it hurts me to say that but I guess we will have to wait for Princess Celestia to find a way to bring you girls back to Equestria.”

Twilight stoic face turned into a frown at his comment, she nodded and sadly hang her head low.

Albert felt a pain in his chest from this sight, he couldn’t stand seeing her so sad, but he didn’t know what to do, there’s only one thing he thought about that might help situation a little.

“Hey Twily.”

“Yeah?”

“It’s getting pretty late, sun will soon be setting, and this library has a beautiful garden, I thought that maybe uhm we could you know, watch it together.”

Twilight lifted her head quickly her ears perked up and her eyes wide, after few moments she smiled and nodded.

“Sure.”

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“I thought we agreed that there’s no hiding upstairs.” Anna said with her arms crossed on her chest, an angry expression on her face, she was averting Spike gaze her head turned away from him.

“I’m sorry, I just wanted to at least once win you know.” Spike sighed a little and turned around.

“I guess you won’t want to play with a cheater.”

Spike started to walk away slowly with his head hang low, he stopped when he felt something, it was Anna hugging him from behind.

“Spike, don’t get angry, we can play something you are good at.”

Spike blushed at first but he quickly realized he’s rather liking her hug, he gently put a claw on her hand and answered

“Or you know what, let’s play some more of this “Mortal Kombat”, maybe I will beat you at least once.”

They looked at each other and smiled, Anna broke the hug and they both dashed away towards guest room.

“They are sooo adorable.” Rarity commented while resting her head on Terry’s chest.

“Ah have to agree, those squirts are makin mah heart melt like a bunch of ice creams in hot day.” Applejack commented while jumping on the couch next to Michael.

Meanwhile Brandy and Pinkie were discussing very seriously about party accessories, Pinkie constantly trying to convince Brandy about superiority of balloons over streamers.

“I wonder how they are doing.” Terry said.

“Who darling?”

“You know, Rainbow and Thomas, also Twilight and Albert, I wonder how are things going on.”

“Ah’m sure everything’s gonna be mighty fine sugarcube.” Applejack said while nuzzling Michaels neck a little.

“Yeah I guess.”

“Don’t worry darling I assure that everything’s just…” Rarity was stopped by a doorbell.

“…fine?”

Terry gently pushed Rarity from him and stood up to open the doors. He opened them and was greeted by a pony and a human, both were beaming with joy.

“Wassup Terry, how was it going?” Thomas asked while walking inside Rainbow trotting just behind him.

“F-Fine, I guess.” Thomas turned around and saw Terry giving him a small sign that he wanted to talk, Thomas motioned Rainbow to walk inside, she nodded and left two guys for themselves.

“Soo, how was it?”

Thomas smiled wildly, she was literally radiating with joy.

Terry smiled and said

“I guess it went well right?”

“Ohh it couldn’t go better my friend, you’re looking at the happiest man alive.”

Terry lifted his hand high, and so the high fived, after which they joined rest of their friends in the living room.

“So Rainbow darling I want to know how did the date go, with all details.”

Rainbow looked at Thomas and he looked back, they knew Rarity will want to gossip about their date, so they prepared for it.

“Sure girls, all of you come here, cause it’s a rather long story.”

Both Thomas and Rainbow smiled mischievously which luckily went unnoticed by the rest, and so they started their story.

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“I’m sorry I couldn’t find anything else Twily.” Albert said with guilt in his voice, they were sitting on the small bench in the library garden, Mrs. Smith let them in after Albert asked for it, sun was slowly hiding itself behind the horizon, creating more and more beautiful sight with each moment, it’s soft light was reflecting on colorful flowers of the garden creating amazing mosaic of lights.

“It’s not your fault Albert, besides.” Twilight took a moment to take in all the beauty of the scene which was unfolding before her.

“I’m glad you showed me this place, that’s most astonishing sunset I ever saw, I don’t think even summer sun celebration can rival this.”

Albert smiled and also enjoyed the show, they were sitting there in a silence enjoying each other silent company while watching astonishing sunset. After some time Twilight rested her head on his shoulder without even realizing, Albert also didn’t realize that, they were both too taken in by this amazing scene.

“It’s really beautiful.” Twilight said

“Not as beautiful as you.”

It took both of them few seconds to realize what Albert just said, they both started blushing and Twilight jumped away.

“W-What do you mean?”

“No, no, it’s just that was ermm..” He was thinking of an excuse but he didn’t find any.

‘Fuck it.’ Albert though and leaned in closer to her.

“Twilight, you see, ever since I saw you at the Aqua Park, I knew there was something special about you, I didn’t know what it was back then, suddenly it turned out that Tara I met is actually a pony, it startled me at first, but then I realized it doesn’t matter if you are a pony a human or anything else.”

He leaned even closer, Twilight wasn’t able to do anything, she was simply frozen in place, listening to his voice while looking into his eyes.

“Only one thing was important for me, Twilight I don’t want to scare you but there’s no way I can hold it in anymore.”

He looked her deeply in the eyes and with a stoic face he finally announced

“I love you.”