Flash and Twilight followed Sunset to Pinkie's house in silence at first. Flash wanted to give Twilight space to process her thoughts and emotions. He was curious, though, of what she and Sunset had said back at Sunset's house; their color. To Flash Sunset was your typical Scott/Irish girl with piercing green eyes and flaming red hair. Twilight had classical Japanese features. To hear that they were actually purple and dandelion, and they saw him as yellow (once again, seriously?); it made him want to find out more.

"Uh, Twi," he eventually spoke up.

Twilight, who had been looking out the window, turned around to look at him. "Huh? Yes?"

"Are you really purple?" That was dumb. Of course she was. Why would she lie? He realized he had just bungled finding out more.

Twilight didn't say anything at first. She just thought to herself if he was having trouble with her being purple, there was no way he'd handle her being a pony. She sighed, figuring this would be the break-up conversation and said, "Yes."

Flash nodded. "Are we talking purple-purple here or what?"

Twilight just shook her head. "No. I'm not deep or royal purple. I'm more of a pastel purple. Remember that cami I bought yesterday?"

"How could I forget? You looked great in it" Flash blushed a little.

Twilight blushed too. "Well I'm kinda like that color. In fact I was actually worried about wearing it. I thought it might blend in so well with my own skin color; it'd look like I wasn't wearing anything." The car suddenly jerked and Flash had to correct his driving. "Flash, are you all right? You're face is all red and you're sweating."

"No, I'm good," Flash croaked out. He didn't say anything for a while, then asked, "So purple skin with black hair?"

"No. Dark purple hair." Oh, he's going to dump me now , Twilight thought to herself. At least it would make everything easier. She would be broken hearted; but, she wouldn't be conflicted or confused as to what she should do.

"Oh. So what color hair do you see me having?"

"Blue."

"Oh so you do see that?" he asked.

Twilight was a bit surprised. "Oh, so your hair really is blue?"

"Well, no. I dye it blue. I had a punk phase that I'm mostly over now. I'm just gonna let it wash out now. My hair is actually black."

"Do you dye your eyebrows as well?"

"No," he said surprised and a touch offended.

"Oh, so I'll still see your hair as blue then because that's how I see your eyebrows as well."

"So, when I cross over to your realm, will I still see you as I do now?"

The question caught her off guard. She had never thought about that. What if he would come to her realm? He might not even see her as a purple allicorn, which was bad enough, but as an actual pony from his realm. Oh he would leave her for sure. "I don't know." She waited for a couple seconds before asking the dreaded question, "So how does that make you feel about me?"

Flash smiled. "Purple is now my new favorite color." He looked at Twilight who had a shocked look on her face. "Twi, I love you. What else is there to say? Japanese, purplenese, it doesn't matter. It's what's on the inside that counts. As long as it's still you inside, your body doesn't matter. Unless you're a dude, that's a deal breaker. But you already said you weren't; so no danger there." He looked at her again and laughed.

Twilight was both relieved and frightened. She was relieved he didn't care about her being purple, but if her being male was a "deal breaker", what would being a pony be? Seems she was back to square one. "Flash, once we get the portal working, I want you to come over with me; to see my world and to see how you see me. "

"Yes," he said quietly, almost reverently. "I would love that. Oh, looks like we're here. Sunset's stopping."

"Yeah. I've been here before." Twilight reached over and patted Flash's knee. "Let's do this."

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Maud was sitting in a chair by the window reading one of her text books while Pinkie and Sonata played "Trouble" on the floor. Maud had seen how her sister and Sonata had grown close over the past two weeks. It was hard at first. Maud was closer to Pinkie than anyone. Her other two younger sisters were separated by too much of an age gap. But her and Pinkie were close enough in age to have a bond. The only person she ever would be able to bond with she thought.

But then she also saw how similar those two were. It was almost like clones, forget twins. And in that; Maud also began to feel some feelings to Sonata. Not enough to actually want to talk to her, but enough to secretly smile sometimes when she saw how the two interacted with one and another.

The doorbell rang. Maud looked up from her book. "It's for you," she said in her typical dead pan.

Pinkie looked up and asked, "Wow Maud; how you know that?"

Maud looked up from her book and raised an eyebrow; as if to say, you really need to ask me that?

"Oh, yeah; right." Pinkie giggled and got up and went to the door with Sonata in tow.

Pinkie opened the door. "Sunset, Flash, TWILIGHT! Oh my god! What are you doing here?"

Sonata backed up against the wall. She knew immediately who Twilight was. She was the one who defeated them, well helped to defeat them. If she was here, Sonata was in danger. Was she coming to banish her?- drag her back to Equestria for trial? She had to get away and fast.

"We need to talk to talk to Sonata," Twilight said.

"Oh," Pinkie said in her usual cheerful manner. "She's right . . .," she turned around and Sonata was gone. "She was right here. Sonata? Sonata? Where are you? Come out, come out, where ever you are." Pinkie shrugged. "Maybe she's in her room or the bathroom."

"Can we go there?" asked Sunset.

"The bathroom?" Pinkie asked horrified.

"No, her bedroom," Sunset replied with more than a hint of anger.

"Oh sure. Come on."

The four of them walked up the steps and to Sonata's room. The door was shut. Pinkie walked up and tried to open it but it was locked. "Sonata? Sonata, it's me and our friends. Are you in there?" No one answered but Pinkie could hear a lot of commotion going on behind the door.

Pinkie went to call again when Sunset pulled her out of the way and kicked the door in. "Sorry. I'll pay for it," she said.

Sonata shrieked in surprise and fear. She had a suitcase out on her bed and had, from appearance, been busily packing it.

"Sonata!" Pinkie exclaimed. "What are you doing?"

"I'm afraid. I'm afraid of her." Sonata pointed at Twilight.

"Sonata, I'm no threat." Twilight tried to calm her to keep her from running.

"Then why are you here?" Sonata asked, still terrified.

"Your leader, she crossed over, back to Equestria this morning. Her, the other Siren, and Trixie." Twilight spoke calmly and deliberately; trying to gain the Siren's trust.

"You mean she did it?" Sonata asked, her eyes bulging out of her head.

"What do you mean 'she did it'?" asked Sunset sternly.

Sonata looked at Pinkie. What's she gonna think of me? Oh please don't hate me Pinkie. Your my best friend. Please don't hate me. She thought to herself. A tear began to run down her cheek. Pinkie walked over to her and hugged her. Pinkie pulled back and nodded, silently saying it was ok. Then she held Sonata's hand and stood beside her.

Sonata breathed deep and began, "The night you defeated us; we ran back to our apartment and were going to leave. But then I wanted to come back here, try to make friends. We were alone, no money, no way to support ourselves, we had no where to go. I figured if you had taken Sunset in; you'd take us in. So I said I was leaving.

"Adagio tried to convince me to stay. She said we could use Trixie. We'd stay with her until we could find the portal back home. Once back; we could look for more magic gem stones, and then destroy both Equestria and this world. I said I wasn't interested and left."

"Hold on," Sunset said furiously. "You knew of, Adagio's (?), plan all along and said nothing? Knew she was using Trixie, who SAT WITH US AT LUNCH, and didn't tell us?"

Sonata looked back and Pinkie who just looked blankly back. Sonata then turned back to the others. "We were together for fourteen-hundred years. We were together before the Europeans came here, before the fall of England to the Normans, before all that. We saw empires rise and fall together. They were the only ones to ever play with me! I felt I owed them my silence. I never thought they would succeed. Honest. Adagio was on a losing streak. I didn't think," she turned to Pinkie, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Pinkie, please believe me."

"You . . ." Sunset started to say when Twilight put her hand on her shoulder.

"Sonata," Twilight said softly, "is such a thing possible? Are there more of those gem stones?"

"At the time, yes. But that was so long ago. We had hid them so no one else could gain our strength. But who knows what happened to them in all those centuries."

"Ok then. Thank you." Twilight turned to Sunset. "Let's go."

"WHAT! That's it? That's all? You're just going to let her off the hook like that?" Sunset was beyond angry now.

"We saw them run off. We didn't do anything to stop them. We let them go. I didn't believe you this morning. I fought with you, costing us time, time Adagio used to find the portal and call the others. We all made mistakes here. Mistake of pride, mistake of loyalty, mistake of selfishness on my part. I won't condemn her for doing the same sins as me. Maybe you can, you've been the only clear thinker here."

Sunset shook her head. Calmed by her own guilt, she said, "No. Like you said, we didn't pursue them that night. I just left Adagio alone on campus; after I knew she was looking for the way back. I . . ."

Now Sonata asked, "Adagio told you she wanted to go back?"

"Last night. More than that; she tried to recruit me; in more ways than one. She said she wanted to ditch the other one,"

"Aria."

"Aria. And I guess in hindsight, she meant Trixie as well. She said we could rule both realms together as equals."

Sonata's mouth dropped open. "Adagio was going to dump Aria?! And she called you an equal?"

"Sonata, she touched the back of my neck."

Sonata and Twilight gasped. Pinkie and Flash just looked at each other in confusion. "What does that mean?" Flash asked.

Twilight turned to Flash. "The back of our necks is our chief pleasure zone. Only the most intimate of couples ever touch each other there."

Flash and Pinkie both looked at each other again. This time in a stunned silence.

"I didn't think 'dagi swung that way," Sonata said. "She never gave any hints to us about it. Honestly, none of us ever talked about that stuff. Other than laughing at the men who we could manipulate."

"Well it doesn't matter," Sunset said. "We're going to use my book to send a message to Twilight's and mine dimension for them to reopen the portal and then we're going to go back and search for them." Sunset paused for a second, then added, "You can come with us Sonata. It's your home too."

Sonata gasped. Finally, after all these centuries, she was finally almost returning home? She felt Pinkie squeeze her hand and she looked at her. No where, no when, had she ever met someone like Pinkie. This was a person with whom she had formed a very deep bond with. If she went home, she would be leaving her behind. Suddenly that price seemed a little too high.

Sonata shook her head. "A couple weeks ago, yes. Not now. I want to stay here. I have Luna and I have Pinkie. I can't give them up." She turned to see what Pinkie's expression would be. She was grinning ear to ear.

"Ok. I respect that. Twilight, Flash, you ready to back to my place?"

"I can't. My dad was a little p.o.ed that I kept the car so late last night. I gotta get it back to him. I'll call later to see how everything is going. Remember; no leaving without me."

Sunset cocked her head, not knowing what Flash meant. "Ok? Twilight, you ready?"

"Let's go."

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It was night time. Twilight had wrote her message back home several hours ago. She and Sunset had filled the time by watching tv, surfing the web, and any other thing they could to make the waiting more bearable. Finally Sunset went to make dinner which gave Twilight time to think. There was no telling when or even if Spike would ever get her message. Could be hours, could days, months, or she could be stuck here until the portal naturally re-opened. She hoped for a quick resolution, but she had to prepare for the worst.

"Twilight, dinner's ready," Sunset called.

Twilight got up and walked over to the table and sat down. She looked at Sunset and said, "Tomorrow I want to enroll in Cantorlot."

Author's Notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2meWkWqc-I I came across this video on you tube and when I saw the lead singer, I immediately thought that is what Twilight would look like if she were human. So that's why I decided to make Japanese in the story. In the next part I will shift focus a little bit to the other characters. This story is going to be a big one. Also, since I have no idea how "Friendship Games" will turn out, I'm not even going to consider it in the writing of the story. So hopefully you hang with me.