Human Twilight Sparkle watched as her other self walked off with the girl she considered to be her best friend ever, Sunset Shimmer. After everything that had happened, nothing should seem unusual anymore. Shouldn't. Still, seeing another you pop out of a statue and walk off with someone who you have strange, new feelings for; is a bit off putting.

The feelings she had were strange to her to say the least. Up until recently she had little desire to have any interaction with others above the functional. And, in truth, those around her made this attitude even more ingrained through the way they treated her. She was always the outsider whether she wanted to be or not. So other humans, like the common cold, were just things she had to put up with.

Then she met these girls.

They had shown her more kindness and respect than anyone else she had ever met. She found she was particularly drawn to Sunset. Partly because Sunset appeared to be the leader and therefore engendered a natural respect and attraction. Also Sunset was by far the most powerful and magically gifted of them; so there to, there was a higher degree of interest. But yet it seemed more than that.

She had never felt sexual or romantic attraction to anyone. Heck, she never felt any type of attraction towards anyone period. But she did assume that sexual attraction meant wanting to engage in sexual intercourse with another person and she did not want to do that with Sunset. Romantic attraction was harder to quantify. Sure, she guessed that would entail wanting to be by or with someone a lot. But so would just a strong friendship.

No, these new feelings were hard to pin down and sort out. She liked all the girls and wanted to spend time with all of them. But she wanted to spend more time and separate from the others with Sunset. But she had no desire to have that time include sexual activities. It was one big, challenging equation. Made more so by the fact she was feeling jealous of herself, or other self as it were.

"Apparently there is a double of all of us in her dimension," Rarity said sympathetically as she placed her hand on Sparkles shoulder.

Sparkle just looked at Rarity with a sad, confused look and then looked back to where Sunset and Twilight had been. "Have you ever met them?" she asked in a timid, soft voice.

"No," Rarity hesitantly replied. She was afraid that them not meeting their doubles might not help Sparkle. It's one thing to know you have a double, another thing entirely to meet them.

"I briefly saw mine," Pinkie chimed in happily. "Last time Twilight was here, before she left, I stuck my head through the portal. She waved, I said hi, it was awesome."

"And what about the other Sunset? How do they deal with each other?" Sparkle asked, feeling slightly better. She was finding she was becoming more interested in the mechanics of the situation as opposed to the specifics.

"They don't." Rainbow chimed in. "The other Sunset doesn't go to this school. We don't know where she is."

"Fascinating." Sparkle was now finding she was beginning to like this. The intellectual challenges this situation posed was one she could really delve in to. She could write a whole book on the implications. Whole swaths of theoretical physics could be proved or disproved as well.

"Oh, and she was also a pony." Pinkie added out of no where.

"What?" Sparkle asked, both confused and annoyed.

"My other self; the one I saw through the portal, duh. She was a pony. So's Twilight. In her world. A Princess. A pony princess. Eww that sentence was like pink glitter in a perfume bottle."

Sparkle looked around at the others and by the expressions on their faces, this must be true. "So, all our double are ponies. Sentient ponies I take it?" The others all nodded in agreement. "So crossing the portal causes not only a physical transformation, but I'm guessing, adding clothes as well?"

"Or taking them off." Pinkie added. "Which, once you think about it, is pretty pervy."

"This is amazing!" Sparkle was now completely taken with the new ideas that were popping into her head. "When I opened up the wholes to this other dimension, some of you fell through, but didn't change. At least I don't think you did; I wasn't really paying attention. But the portal, that changes you completely and immediately. That implies will, an intellect. And language? I doubt if they, our others, speak English, but yet, here, they do. So it's the brain that gets changed; or at least part of the brain. " Sparkle grabbed her chin with her right hand and looked down, contemplating a notion that here to fore she never believed was possible, "God?"

"It's possible I suppose," Applejack said. She was Baptist, but she hadn't been to church in almost ten years. She couldn't even remember the last time she picked up the Bible. Still, there was a part of her that liked the idea that there might finally be some proof for somewhat lapse faith.

"Or Goddess," Fluttershy said. Everyone turned to her. This wasn't the usual Fluttershy add, soft, barely spoken; this was bold and right out there. She had spoken to be heard. "Or even Goddesses," she added again with even more certainty.

Rainbow looked Fluttershy over. She thought back to that night at camp where she saw the sign and heard the female voices. She thought it had been unique to her. Now she was wondering if Fluttershy had a similar experience.

Before Fluttershy could answer, they were interrupted by the boys who came walking over: Sandalwood, Micro Chip, and FLASH. Immediately all the girls became tense. Sparkle was here and so was Twilight. What would happen? They had told Flash that Sparkle wasn't Twilight. But what if he decided to try and pursue her because he thought Twilight was never coming back? And what would happen if Twilight came back and saw him here? Should they tell him to leave? But how would that be fair?

Micro walked over to Apple and put his arm around her and Sandal walked over and kissed Fluttershy on the cheek. Flash just hung back on the periphery, somewhat near Sparkle.

"Hey girls," Sandal said. "What's going on?"

They all looked around, not knowing what to say. They hemmed and hawed and they boys looked at each other, not knowing what to make of what was going on.

"It's me, isn't?" Flash finally said. "I don't know what I did or why nobody seems to like me anymore, but I get the signs. I'm sorry for whatever I've done and I'll leave now."

Flash started walking off when Fluttershy called after him. "Flash; wait. I think you should walk over that way." She pointed in the direction Sunset and Twilight went. "There's someone there I think you would like to see. I know she'd like to see you."

Flash didn't need any bigger hint; he dropped his guitar and started running to see Twilight.