Rainbow and Twilight stared at each other, confusion and disbelief written on their muzzles. They both heard what the other said, but they both knew the other had not said it. Especially not with the way it was said, not as friends implying love, but as lovers stating their love. Still, there was a lingering doubt.

“Dash, c’mon, let’s get going!”

“Not without a kiss first.”

Twilight now knew for certain that it wasn’t Rainbow that said it. She had been staring right at her when those words were spoken. “It must be…” Twilight said aloud before running over to the edge of the roof.

Rainbow followed her, her mouth still agape at what she heard. The two mares looked down at the strangest sight they had seen that day.

What they saw shocked them both. There were two humans right in front of the door to the building. They both had beige skin tones, although little of their actual skin could be seen. The taller of the two girls had a slightly darker complexion from spending most of her time outside; the hair on the top of her head was in the same color pattern as Rainbow’s, worn loosely down her back. She had on a blue sweater that covered her arms down to her hands and a pair of blue track pants that matched her sweater. On the back of the sweater was the lightning bolt insignia of the Wonderbolts. Directly above the insignia written in bold white letters was Dash 01.

Attached to her lips was a slightly smaller girl, one with lighter skin and a lavender t-shirt on. Unlike the taller girl's top, hers was distended significantly more by two much larger mounds under the shirt. Her hair was purple with a violet and dark-pink stripe running through it that ran all the way down to her butt. She had on a pair of black-grey pants that ran the length of her long legs.

Both mares blushed at the sight before them. Neither could deny what their own eyes were telling them. It was them, just a different version of them. They watched in shock as Twilight and Rainbow kissed each other in full view of all the other humans walking in and out of the building.

“Alright, you’ve got your kiss, now let’s go home!” the smaller girl spoke with a playful smile on her lips after they split apart.

“Race you?” the taller girl asked with a goofy grin.

“You're on!” the purple haired girl yelled before running off with a laugh trailing behind her.

Rainbow watched in shock as the taller girl did not run after her. She simply stuck her hands in the pockets of her sweater and smiled a very familiar smile at her… girlfriend?

“She’s going to lose the race,” Rainbow said under her breath.

“Rainbow, shh,” Twilight replied. She had no idea what was going on, but the more knowledge they had the better.

After what felt like far, far too long for Rainbow’s taste, the taller girl took her hands out of her pockets and started sprinting in the same direction the other girl ran off to.

Both mares looked at each other and nodded. They were going to follow these two to find out just what in the hay was going on. Rainbow didn’t even fight it this time; she grabbed ahold of Twilight’s neck and let her lift her off the roof. Twilight flapped her wings and flew after the two girls.

Rainbow had to give the ‘other’ her some credit. For not being able to fly, she was fast, very fast. There was still a huge gap between the two, but she was closing ground, and quickly. Their destination quickly became apparent as the smaller girl was heading straight for a building at the other side of a park.

“My bits are on me, the other me,” Rainbow whispered as she watched the two girls in their race.

Twilight saw it through a different eye than Rainbow. Her mind did the math and while the human Rainbow was faster, she wouldn’t make up the distance in time. Of course it came as no surprise that Rainbow would bet on herself though.

In the end, Rainbow was right. At the last hundred meters the taller girl increased her speed dramatically and caught up to the shorter one. She wrapped her in her arms and pulled her off her feet. The human Rainbow was rewarded with a loud yelp for her actions followed by some playful giggling coming from both of them.

“I almost had you!” the smaller girl shouted.

“In your dreams,” the taller girl replied.

“I’d rather dream about something else.”

“Why waste a good dream on something you already have?”

“Twilight, are they?” Rainbow asked as she watched the two girls making out again.

Twilight was flabbergasted at what she watched, so much so that she didn’t even notice when Rainbow started slipping out of her hooves.

They were up high enough to avoid being seen, but not quite high enough for Rainbow to correct from an unexpected fall, especially given the mindset she was in.

“Rainbow!” Twilight shouted as soon as the mare slipped out of her hooves.

“Ahh!” was Rainbow’s only reply as she fell to the ground, hard.

Twilight shot down after her. She was kicking herself for losing her focus and dropping her friend like that.

“Rainbow, are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’ll be fine,” Rainbow said as she picked herself up from the ground and shook off the dirt.

“What the hell?” Rainbow’s voice said. It just didn’t come from the pegasus.

The voice made both mares cringe as they slowly turned to look up at the source. The two humans they had been following were staring at them, mouths agape in surprise.

“Ehm… hi,” Twilight said.

“Did that pony just talk?” the smaller girl asked.

“I… I… I…” the taller girl was at a loss for words.

“I’m Twilight Sparkle and my friend here is Rainbow Dash,” Twilight introduced them both. “I know this is weird but we’re… well, we’re you from another world.”

“Talking… pony… that… speaks… English…” the taller girl mumbled.

“What’s English?” the pony Rainbow asked as she stood next to the alicorn.

“I think it’s what they call their language,” Twilight replied.

It was then Rainbow noticed that a few more humans were starting to walk out of the large building. She looked past the two stunned girls and saw that two of those were heading straight for them. “Look, I know it’s strange, trust me, being from another world I feel the same. But we can’t talk here; do you two have a place we can go?” Rainbow asked.

“We live up there,” the larger girl said as she absentmindedly pointed a finger at a window on the third floor.

“Thanks, we’ll speak more up there,” Rainbow said as she looked at Twilight.

The alicorn nodded and her horn flashed to life. In a burst of purple magic the two were gone.

Rainbow looked at her girlfriend with a panicked expression on her face.

“Did… did that just happen?” she asked.

“I… I think so,” Twilight replied.

“Ponies… talking ponies… that speak English… that have wings… and a horn… are in our room… by teleportation...” Rainbow mumbled.

“Should we call someone?” Twilight asked.

Rainbow blinked twice before pulling out a cellphone from her back pocket. She faked dialed a number on it before holding it up to her ear. “Hello police? Yes, I’d like to report two small talking ponies in my dorm room. Yes, they’re lavender and cyan-blue in color, about the height of a medium-sized dog, and they can speak English. They both have wings and the lavender one has a horn. Yes… yes I understand that you’re coming to arrest me for doing drugs. I look forward to your arrival, thanks,” with that she hung up the phone.

“Point taken,” Twilight said with a roll of her eyes. “Still, that leaves us with the question of what the hell do we do? There are two PONIES in our room, Rainbow.”

“Yeah and they keep a no pets rule for these dorms too, after all, that’s why you had to leave Spike with your parents,” Rainbow snickered.

Twilight facepalmed, “Rainbow… I don’t even know what to say to that.”

Rainbow wrapped an arm around Twilight and pulled her close, “Relax, alright. They’re us after all, or at least that’s what they said anyway.”

“Rainbow, they said they’re talking pony versions of us from another world. Do you really think we can believe them?” Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow.

“So, what do you want to do: Move away and never come back? Call Soarin and have him bring over the football team to chase them away?”

Twilight pulled out her phone on this one, “Hello, yes Soarin? Can you bring over the whole football team to Rainbow and my dorm room? For a gangbang? What gives you that idea? No, we have two technicolor ponies in our room that we need you all to chase away.”

She hung up the phone. “Huh? He doesn’t seem to believe me, Rainbow.”

“But they’re still coming over for the gangbang, right?” Rainbow asked with a smile on her face.

“Rainbow!” Twilight shouted as she moved to hit the bigger girl in the gut. Rainbow laughed and dodged her blow by breaking away from the smaller girl.

She then proceeded to egg her on.

“You may have learned much young padawan, but I’m still the master.”

“I hate you,” Twilight growled. She knew from experience that she wouldn’t catch her.

In a deep voice Rainbow said, “Good, let the hate flow through you.”

“That’s it, no more Star Wars movies.”

“Ahh c’mon,” Rainbow pouted.

It took a minute but the pout on Rainbow’s face eventually won her over. Twilight sighed, “Fine, but in all seriousness, what are we going to do about them?”

“Let’s go talk to them,” Rainbow said.

“What if they’re… you know… dangerous?”

“I’ll protect you,” Rainbow replied as she wrapped an arm back around Twilight.

Twilight leaned into the hug; her rational mind was still refusing to accept that they were really doing this. However, the scientific part of her was more than curious. “You know, if what they say really is true, and that’s a big if mind you, then there’s a lot we can learn from them.”

“There’s the egghead I fell in love with.”

“I mean, we have legends of pegasi and unicorns, but I’ve never heard of a pegasus with a horn before.”

“What are you thinking? A pegasus and unicorn got freaky?”

“Rainbow!”

“Ahh c’mon, you can’t tell me you weren’t thinking it.”

“Well… maybe… It’ll be interesting to find out.”

“You know how we can find out right away?” Rainbow whispered her question right into Twilight’s ear.

“How?” Twilight asked.

“We can ask them.”

“Oh… yeah, right.”

Rainbow smiled at the slight blush on Twilight’s face as she held her tighter in her arms. Together they turned to the dorm building and started to walk inside. As they made the staircase and started to walk up it, Rainbow chimed in again.

“You know, this is kinda cool.”

“The ponies?”

“Well, yeah, but also if it is true that they’re us, this is gonna be like talking to ourselves, isn’t it? I mean we get to find out more about us, different versions of us I mean.”

“Oh God, two of you together in the same room. I’m not sure the world can take that much ego in one place at the same time.”

“Hardy har, what about two of you in the same room? I’m not sure we can fit any more books in the dorm room.”

“Says the girl with over a hundred comic books.”

“That’s different.”

“How so?”

“Comics are cool,” Rainbow said with a smirk.

“Books are cool too, or do I need to remind you about a certain adventure series you just love to read.”

“You act like you don’t.”

“I never implied I didn’t.”

There was a small silence before Rainbow thought of something, “... Umm… Twi?”

“What?”

“If they’re, you know, us. Should we be worried what they’re doing in there right now?”

“What you think we’ll walk in and find them making out on my bed?”

“Well, while that would be cool, no. What if they’re going through all of our stuff, reading my comics, breaking out your books, and just making a big mess?”

“So my side of the room will match your side?”

“Shut up, you know what I mean.”

Twilight didn’t say anything but both girls noticeably increased their stride. Something made even more pronounced when they heard a loud crash coming from down the hall in the direction of their room. Breaking into a run, Rainbow reached the door first and fumbled with the lock. When she opened the door what she saw shocked them both.

Their dorm room was a basic one-room design. From the hallway it opened up to a three-foot corridor and then spread out symmetrically on both sides. On either side was a desk, a footlocker, and then a bed. A miniature fridge sat between the beds directly under a closed window.

On the left side of the room was a large mess for lack of a better term. There were clothes strewn about everywhere, which hid the carpet. The bed was unmade, the blankets and pillows were tossed to and fro. Small sports bras and track pants lay draped over the foot locker. UC Wonderbolt posters lined the walls up to the halfway point between the halves of the room.

The right side of the room was a mirror image of the left, plus or minus a few things: Between the desk and the footlocker at the end of the bed, normally sat a large bookshelf. The bed itself was nicely made with a lavender blanket embedded with a six-pointed star; which was all normal, save for a lavender pony lying upon it. All in all the right side of the room was well kept, although not right now. The bookshelf was knocked over with a rainbow tail sticking out of it.

The lavender alicorn that was on the bed laid there with a hoof covering her face. She looked up as soon as she heard the door open. “I’m so sorry about this.”

“What happened?” Twilight asked as she came into the room. She rushed to try and pick up the bookshelf, which proved to be much too heavy for the small girl to lift.

“It’s still something I’m trying to figure out,” said the pony on the bed. “It’s like she’s magnetically drawn to bookshelves and has no choice but to knock them over whenever she’s near one.”

“I’m not!” a muffled yell came under the bookshelf.

“Rainbow, you don’t even know what magnetically means,” the alicorn said with a smile.

The human Rainbow couldn’t help but laugh at the whole situation, that is until her girlfriend glared at her, “You gonna help or no?”

The larger girl sighed, “Yeah, I’m coming.”

“I’ll get it,” the pony on the bed replied as she powered up her horn. Both girls gasped as they saw the bookshelf pick itself back up and place itself against the wall. The pegasus underneath picked herself up from under a mountain of books, she turned and sheepishly looked at the two humans.

“Sorry…” Rainbow Dash said.

“It’s not the first time,” the smaller girl replied, “I had to ban soccer balls from the room after someone kept knocking it over.”

“Let it go, Sparklebutt,” the taller girl said as she rolled her eyes.

“Rainbow! You promised that you’d never mention that!”

“No, I promised I wouldn’t tell others about it.”

“You just did!”

“I told us, that’s not telling others,” she smirked.

“Tell what?” Twilight asked from the smaller girl's bed.

They both looked at each other, a noticeable blush on the smaller girl’s face. “I think we’re getting off topic. Let’s start again. Then we can get to… that,” the smaller girl said.

“Shall we reorganize the bookshelf first?” Twilight asked with a smile. “I noticed that some of the books were improperly organized, if you go by a subject-numeric system it’ll be that much easier to find the one you want!”

“Yes, but there is an inherent flaw in that system, you see-”

“Twilight!” both Rainbows shouted at the same time, causing both Twilights to gasp and look up. There was a noticeable silence after that before human Rainbow turned and closed then locked the door. With a sigh she turned around.

“Well, I’m convinced; you two are definitely versions of us. Only my egghead can give me this much of a headache. Of course that still leads to about a million questions that need to be answered.”

“Yeah like why were you two kissing?!” Rainbow Dash stated as she jumped up on the right bed and sat down next to the alicorn.

Human Twilight blushed before Rainbow walked up and wrapped an arm around her. “‘Cause we’re dating, duh.”

It was the ponies' turn to blush as their eyes found each other. As one they looked away.

“But, you’re both females, right?” Rainbow asked.

“So?” human Rainbow replied.

“Shouldn’t you be dating stallions?” Rainbow questioned.

“I’m pretty sure that’s illegal here,” the taller girl snickered.

Her girlfriend just gave her a death glare before turning to the ponies in the room. “What she means is, while some people do consider it strange for two females to be romantically involved, we see nothing wrong with it.”

“How did you two, umm, get together?” Twilight Sparkle asked.

“Actually, it happened largely because she saved my butt.” Rainbow chipped in as she jumped onto her bed, gesturing with a hand for Twilight to join her.

With a little more care than Rainbow showed, Twilight walked over and sat down next to her. “It happened because we saw how much we had in common,” Twilight corrected. “And because you kissed me.”

“Well, you were never going to do it.”

“I didn’t think you liked me like that.”

The taller girl ran a finger through the shorter girl’s hair, brushing it to the side. “After seeing how awesome you are, how could I not?”

Rainbow Dash found a really interesting piece of the carpet to stare at as the two started to kiss again. Twilight did her best to avert her gaze, but strangely found her eyes drawn to her friend as she did so.

“So yeah, for the story. It happened back in High School. Rainbow was applying for a few universities but she failed the practice test, without at least a passing grade no college would accept her.”

“Accept her?” Rainbow Dash looked up, confused.

“They… they had some dumb rule about a minimum score in order to get in, with my GPA I basically needed to ace the test,” Rainbow said with a roll of her eyes.

“Grade point average, it mean-”

“I know what it means,” the pegasus interrupted the other pony on the bed. The action caused both humans to smirk.

“Well, Twilight here was in the tutor program for extra, extra credit, and as the best tutor in the school they naturally assigned her to their number one athlete!”

“Oh my god, it was like pulling my hair out. She’d come up with every excuse under the sun for why she wasn’t studying. She even tried to blame it on me!” Twilight said as she placed a hand on Rainbow’s knee.

“Well… it was your fault,” Rainbow looked away from her as soon as she said the words. “Kinda anyway.”

“Excuse me?”

“Sorry.”

“That’s what I thought. Anyway, eventually I discovered that Rainbow just learns… different. When I figured that out I was able to adapt her study sessions and she ended up acing her next test.”

“But that doesn’t explain…” Rainbow Dash said. The similarities between their story and hers were far too familiar.

“Well, they thought I cheated the first time,” Rainbow said smugly, “So they made me retake it. After I did the results were mailed to me. Twilight happened to be hanging out at my house when the results came in and we opened it together. The letter said that not only had I been accepted, but that soon scholarships would start heading my way for getting a perfect score, I was so excited that I kissed her.”

The human Twilight blushed as that memory came back; she smiled before saying, “It was my first real kiss. When we broke apart we both realized what just happened. She looked so afraid that I knew she was about to run away. I had to do something before that happened.”

“What did you do?” the alicorn asked with wide eyes.

“I grabbed her and kissed her again,” the human Twilight replied with a smile as she looked at the girl sitting next to her.

“It was awesome,” Rainbow smirked.

“But she’s an egghead…” the pegasus wracked her brain.

“She’s my egghead,” Rainbow corrected.

“I don’t… but… but you have nothing in common!”

“Rainbow,” the human Twilight said as she looked across the room to the pony on the other bed. “We have a lot in common actually. We both love a good tale, we’re both incredibly passionate with what we do, we’re both some of the best at what we do, we both did great things growing up, and we love each other. What more do we need?”

“But you like sports, she likes books?”

The human Rainbow took this one, “Yep, that’s true, but when I went to Twi for help, she did the research and showed me like a million things I could improve on. I’m now the MVP of the soccer team for the university. Thanks to Twi’s help we took state last year.”

“And Rainbow has actually shown me a lot too. Thanks to her I have more friends; I’m a lot more socially active and accepted. She even helped me start to appreciate life in a way I never knew before.”

“It’s amazing what you see when your head’s not buried in a book,” the human Rainbow laughed.

“I can’t believe it,” Rainbow Dash said, her eyes as wide as dinner plates.

“You’re me, Rainbow. Tell me, honestly, that you two have never had a moment like that. You’ve never looked at the pony sitting next to you and seen more than what she is. You’ve never said she was awesome or saw her even in a somewhat different light,” the taller girl said.

“Well, yeah, but it’s because she’s a princess, not because…”

“You’re a princess?!” the smaller girl asked.

The alicorn blushed as she nodded at herself.

“That’s funny, Twilight here was actually voted homecoming queen last year,” the human Rainbow noted.

“Okay stop, this is driving me nuts, let's come up with names or something so we know who we’re referring to.” Rainbow Dash rubbed her hoof across her head as she said that, “It’s starting to make my brain hurt.”

Princess Twilight nodded in agreement, “It would make everything easier.”

“We can always refer to you as princess,” human Rainbow said.

“No!” both Twilights shouted, looked at each other, and then chuckled.

“What if we call you Sparklebutt?” the human Rainbow asked her girlfriend.

“I don’t think so,” Twilight replied before elbowing her girlfriend in the gut.

“Why does she call you Sparklebutt?” Rainbow Dash asked.

The blush on Twilight's face became all consuming. “Let’s just say I had to keep a promise after she won state.”

“How about we call you Twi and refer to me as Twilight. Rainbow we’ll call you Rainbow Dash or Dash and your human version just Rainbow,” Princess Twilight said.

“Works for me,” Rainbow said.

“Just Twi huh? Okay,” Twi said.

“So I’ll just go by my full or last name then? Okay,” Rainbow Dash said.

“Okay, since that’s settled; what about you two?” Twi asked.

“What do you mean?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Well, forgive me but while we do have ponies here, they’re not as small as you, they’re not colored the way you are, and they sure as hell don’t talk, much less have wings or a horn,” Rainbow replied.

“Well, we come from a different world,” Twilight said.

“Yeah, we don’t really have that happen either, like ever,” Twi replied.

“Oh, yeah, you see in our world magic is quite common. Unicorns use magic on a daily basis for pretty much everything. Pegasi can harness it to fly, and earth ponies use it to work the ground. Well, a thousand years ago a very famous unicorn found a mirror, one that linked to another world actually…”

“This one?” Twi asked.

Twilight shook her head, “Similar, but no. It has humans but things are a little different…”

“So if it linked there, how did you end up here?” Rainbow asked.

“Well…” Twilight started.

“Somepony wouldn’t leave well enough alone and started to tamper with it,” Rainbow Dash finished, eyeing Twilight.

Twilight blushed, she hated to admit it but she couldn’t deny it either. “She’s right… I was installing a device and forgot a critical piece,” Twilight said as she looked down at the bedspread.

Twi got up and sat between the two ponies. She wrapped an arm around her pony self and lightly started to run her fingers through the alicorn’s mane. “I doubt you did it on purpose,” Twi cooed.

Both Rainbow and Dash looked at her in shock.

“What? I’m comforting my other me!” Twi defended herself.

Twilight looked up at her, she saw her own face reflected back, slightly different, but it was the eyes, it was in the eyes that she saw the truth. Without even thinking, she lightly pressed her head up against Twi’s body, hoping that she’d continue with whatever it was that she just did with her fingers.

Twi noticed this almost immediately. Her hand went back to the mare’s mane and she lightly scratched her on the back of the ear.

Twilight cooed softly as she leaned into the touch. It was so unlike anything else she had ever experienced before. She had her own experience with fingers but she had never felt them doing this before.

Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight, then at Twi, then at Rainbow. Her counterpart did the exact same thing. When their eyes met an unspoken question passed between them. One they both turned their noses up too.

That was until Twi saw it and brought down her other hand on Dash's ear. Dash felt herself melt into the touch; the human’s fingers found just the right spot on just the right area with just the right pressure.

She let out a very uncool coo from her muzzle before correcting herself and pulling her head away. “Hey, no touching!” Rainbow Dash shouted.

“Trust me, you want her touch,” Rainbow smirked, earning herself another death glare from Twi.

“Do you two know how you’re going to get back?” Twi asked. She sought to change the conversation to a different subject.

The question seemed to sour the mood for everypony and human in the room. Rainbow tried not to let it show, but the thought of them leaving so soon was not a pleasant one. It was kinda cool having the two pony versions of themselves around.

“That’s… that’s the thing. In the other world there was a portal we could go back through.”

“I’m sensing a ‘but’ coming on,” Rainbow replied.

“But there was no portal this time,” Twilight finished.

“You’re… you’re stuck here?” Twi asked, shocked.

“I’m sure our friends are looking for a way back for us, but unless I find something magical here to help them so they can figure out what world we were sent to; yes, I’m afraid so.”

Twi looked at her, “I’m sorry; we don’t have anything magical on this world. Only in our legends do things like that exist.”

“Leave it to the eggheads to screw everything up,” Rainbow Dash said. The venom in her tone surprised even her; she thought she had gotten over that.

Rainbow got to her feet and picked herself up, “Hey, be nice to eggheads!”

“Let me go!” Rainbow Dash struggled.

“Not until you say sorry to our eggheads,” Rainbow replied, holding her tight and lightly tossing her back and forth.

Twilight and Twi looked up and giggled at the sight before them. Rainbow Dash was struggling with all her might, but Twi knew from experience that Rainbow’s grip was unbreakable.

After a few moments even Dash had to admit defeat, or victory depending on how you looked at it. “Fine, I’m sorry.”

Either way, she didn’t count it as a loss. After all, it doesn’t count if you beat yourself.

“You know Rainbow Dash, when push comes to shove, it’s the eggheads that will always have your back,” Rainbow said.

Dash huffed in response when she was released and flew to the end of Twi’s bed.

“Or the front,” Twi muttered. Her eyes went wide in shock as she realized what she just said. She quickly covered her mouth with her hands, blushing.