The round has ended the big math equation and Twilight just won the round with barely a landslide, and Photo Finish took a picture of Twilight winning and Sunset losing because it's Photo Finish.

"That means the winner of the Friendship Games' first event is Twilight Sparkle and Crystal Prep!" Luna announced.

The Crystal Prep students cheered for the win though their reaction is a little more scattered and the expression on their faces look bored, some of the Crystal Prep students have even thought about what Mahkra about something different may happen in this game which they're hoping he's right.

The Rainbooms and Flash ran up onto the stage giving her a big group hug and the devil boy kissing her cheek.

"Way to go, babe!" Flash smiled.

"That was awesome!" Rainbow Dash cheered.

"Truly amazing!" Rarity complimented.

"You were great going neck-in-neck with Twilight!" Sonata commented cheerfully.

"But we didn't win." Sunset pointed out that she lost the round, a little confused on why her friends and boyfriend are giving her the good pat on the back for losing.

"That was as close to winnin' as Canterlot's ever been." Applejack stated, not remembering the last time Canterlot High were very, very close with Crystal Prep in the last few games and such. Now believing more than ever they may stand a better chance against the Shadowbolts.

"After a careful tally of the points, we'd like to present the students moving on to the Friendship Games' second event." Cadance announced, gesturing over to the six Shadowbolt girls and the six Wondercolt girls.

The Rainbooms cheers for their success of making it to the next round of the Friendship Games while they are being watched by Twilight, feeling a little envy of how those people are being so enthusiasm.

"(Why do I feel like I wanna get in on that.)" Twilight thought sighed.

Twilight saw five of her classmates and teammates leaving the stage and she quickly follow them off, and then she meets up with Mahkra.

"Hey Twilight, that Sunset girl sure was close into beating you." Mahkra commented.

"Yeah, she definitely got all the smart in the brain." Twilight nodded, but then her pendant started to glow again.

"Excuse me, Mahkra, but I need to see this." Twilight walked away, following the strange energy readings from the pendant.

"That's right, Twilight Sparkle… Keep on following your pursuit of science while I follow you for my own plan of destruction." Mahkra smirked with his eye glowing for a moment.

A little later after the equation challenge, Flash and the girls were hanging out together at the Wondercolt statue having some talk about the competition and some other things.

"There is no way you can eat twenty tacos faster than me eating twenty cupcakes!" Pinkie said, not believing what Sonata is saying.

"I can totally do so!" Sonata talked back.

"How about we settle this at the cafeteria to see which of us can eat our favorite food the fastest!" Sonata challenged Pinkie to an eating contest.

"You are so on!" Pinkie accepted the challenge.

"Do we have to be there to watch?" Aria asked, complaining a little.

"I think we both know better than to question their own agendas." Adagio pointed out how serious those two can be when it comes to their favorite things.

"Actually, I'm just gonna hang over there with my little animal friends." Fluttershy informed the others that she has her own plan to hang out before the next round of the games start.

"Wait, when did you say you wanted to do the eating contest?" Pinkie asked Sonata.

"Hmm, can we do it after the next round?" Sonata asked, thinking it would be a better time to have their contest right after the next round with all of their friends together.

"Sure." Pinkie nodded.

"Good, because I wanna hang out with Fluttershy's little cute friends!" Sonata said as she snuggle onto Fluttershy's backpack.

"I'm sure they would love to hang out with you." Fluttershy giggled.

"Okay, have fun, you two." Flash said before the group disbanded, leaving Sonata and Fluttershy to have their own way.

Unnoticed to them, Twilight is hiding behind a pillar watching the group leave and saw that Sonata and Fluttershy are alone together thinking this might be the perfect chance to find out more about these weird energy readings. At least, her pendant is reading that it's those two somehow.

Fluttershy and Sonata sat behind a bush with the former opening up her backpack for a little kitty to come out, Sonata squeals snuggling her cheek onto the kitty for some cuddling time.

"Oh, who's the most adorable kitty in the world?" Sonata asked the kitty, even though she already knew the answer to that question.

But the cuddling moment stops when they heard the bush shaking and turn to see Twilight coming out from the other side.

"Hi!" Sonata greeted.

"Do you wanna give her a treat?" Fluttershy asked.

Twilight was a little surprised at how those two are being so friendly with her just like before in the music room, but she decided to try "talking" with them before she continues her search later and sat her own backpack down.

"Guess I'm not the only one to smuggle her pet into school." Twilight said.

"She actually got more than one." Sonata said as Fluttershy open her backpack more letting out a bird, a hamster, and her pet bunny she named Angel.

"Oh, wow. All I have is Spike." Twilight said as she opened her backpack letting Spike up.

"Wow, this dog really does look like the one we saw with the other Twilight. Bet you wish you could meet your own twin too." Sonata petted Spike's head.

"I have been curious about that since I got here." Twilight said.

"Well, the only real difference about her is that she's a real princess of her own castle and such." Sonata mentioned.

"No way, me? A princess? There's no way I could ever see myself as royalty!" Twilight shocked.

"Well, you do have the nerd look though maybe you cold be the Princess of Science or whatever." Sonata commented.

"Anyway, congratulations on winning, by the way. Though, it didn't seem like anyone on your team was very excited about it." Fluttershy mentioned.

"No one at my school gets excited about anything they didn't do themselves." Twilight explained.

"That sounds awful." Fluttershy shocked.

"Yeah, doesn't your school like winning or are they finally getting bored?" Sonata asked.

"I guess it's a little bit of both, Crystal Prep does take pride in winning the games and other things, but it seems that winning so much doesn't make them feel proud as before. Not that I would understand since I don't involve myself in such things." Twilight explained.

"You're a loner, aren't you?" Sonata asked.

"I guess you could say that I've never interacted with people much except for my family and Spike." Twilight answered as she pets Spike's head.

Fluttershy felt bad for Twilight, not being able to be a little more open with people and try to be friends with them thought maybe she could do something to help.

"Here. Hold this." Fluttershy held her bunny Angel to Twilight.

"Um, why?" Twilight confused while carefully taking the bunny.

"Holding a bunny always makes me feel better." Fluttershy answered, feeling that Angel can make her feel better.

"Well, that's ridiculous. But... Ooh. It actually kind of works." Twilight surprised when she felt her worries wash away from just simply snuggling with the bunny.

"Works every time." Sonata said, speaking from experience.

"Hey, if you want, we can go get some snack with you." Sonata offered.

"But… I'm on the other team and you just lost. Why are you being so nice to me?" Twilight asked, how come those two are being nice to a girl who is from the same school as the Shadowbolts.

"You looked like you needed it." Fluttershy answered and her body suddenly glows, floating up pony-up.

"Yeah, do you think we need to reason to be nice with you even though you're on the opposite team?" Sonata asked giggling and she powers up onto her demon-pony form.

Twilight is in shock to see the strange thing that is happening right in front of her eyes, just was strange as when that little portal back during the party open up, and then the device floated up opening itself to take the magic energy from Fluttershy and Sonata just like what it did with Pinkie and Rarity, then strangely portals started to appear around them.

"What the fuck?!" Twilight gasped.

Suddenly a jackalope appeared out from that portal finding itself in strange new surrounding and got Spike's attention to growl at the creature.

"I'm getting the impression that dogs don't like jackalopes." Sonata commented.

Spike starts chasing the jackalope through the portals hopping from one another to the other trying to catch the weird pointy rabbit, then he got caught in the yellow magic energy that was between the device and the two girls looking like he just got shocked.

"Spike!" Twilight gasped.

Twilight quickly closes the pendant device as Fluttershy got Spike in her arms and handed him back to Twilight as she and Sonata became very exhausted.

"Whoa, that was a dozy!" Sonata commented, dizzy from the eyes.

"Spike, are you okay?" Twilight worried as she hugs him a little tight.

"Um, I think so." Spike said.

Then Twilight and Spike's eyes widen with shock to hear that the dog, Spike actually just talked causing Twilight to freak out so much that she drops Spike and ran for her life into the school.

"Twilight, wait!" Spike called out as he ran after her.

"Bye…" Fluttershy waved weakly goodbye.

"Let us know when you want to hang out!" Sonata smiled weakly before she fell face first onto the grass.

Mahkra came out of his hiding place as he had just witness the whole thing with his eye and chuckles evilly before he mysteriously disappeared into the shadows.

Twilight kept running for her life back into Canterlot High School, panicking that her dog just talks like a human being out of nowhere like that.

"Twilight, come on! Wait for me!" Spike called out.

Twilight tries covering her ears as she is still freaking out until she stops at a dead end of the hallway and places her back against the wall when Spike caught up to her.

"Why did you run away like that?" Spike asked while Twilight is slowly moving along the way.

"Um, oh, I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the glowing girl, or the hole in space. Or my talking dog!" Twilight listed the things that just happened moments ago.

"Yeah. Weird, right?" Spike asked, scratching his ear for a second.

Twilight looks at Spike a bit more seeing that he is still the same loyal and good dog that she's always known since she adopted him from the dog pound.

"Are you okay? How do you feel? What happened? Where did you go?" Twilight asked three questions as she gets a closer look at Spike.

Spike lick Twilight's nose to calm his owner down from all the questioning and freaking out.

"Hey, one question at a time! This is pretty new to me, too." Spike pointed out.

"Sorry." Twilight apologized and listens to Spike.

"All I know is I chased that pointy rabbit through the glowy thing and then I was somewhere else. Next thing I knew, I was back in that nice girl's arms, and I could talk! I don't really understand why I couldn't before. I mean, it's so easy." Spike explained, wondering why he can talk like Twilight can right now.

"Twilight!" Cinch called out to her.

Twilight gasps that Principal Cinch is calling and looking for her, she needs to hide Spike right now.

"Quick! Hide in here!" Twilight quickly placed Spike inside a locker and close it just in time when Cinch comes in.

"Who are you talking to?" Cinch asked, could've sworn she heard someone else was here.

"Um, myself. It's a nervous habit. Were you looking for me?" Twilight asked, hoping to keep Cinch from questioning further.

"Indeed, I was. Quite a coincidence that the CHS students moving on to the next event are the same nice girls who were so interested in you, don't you think?" Cinch mentioned.

"Yeah, I met some of the students of this school and they have mentioned that. Even having a dog that is just like mine, who is back home and not here on schoolground." Twilight nodded nervously.

"It's like I have a long-lost twin sister." Twilight joked a little.

"Perhaps you should get to know them after all." Cinch grinned.

"But I thought you didn't want me to." Twilight surprised of Cinch's suggestion.

"Let's just say I'm covering my bases. Who knows? Perhaps they will reveal to you the secret to Canterlot High's newfound success." Cinch said, cooking up a little scheme in her head.

"I dunno. Spying feels kind of... wrong." Twilight felt unsure about this, she doesn't want to do anything bad to those people who seem so nice to her like the two girls she met earlier.

"Well, it's your decision, Twilight. It's not as if your application hangs in the balance. On second thought, yes, it does." Cinch chuckled before walking away.

Twilight let out a sad sigh and Spike came out of the locker.

"Man, she's awful. What are you gonna do?" Spike asked.

"I don't know, Spike. I don't know…" Twilight sighed again and sits on the floor with her back leaning on another locker, Spike goes up t comfort his owner while hoping that things will turn out better for her.

(With Flash and Girls)

"For real?" Flash asked shock.

"For real!" Sonata nodded.

Fluttershy and Sonata regained her strength from that little weird thing that happened in the front yard of the school and went to tell her friends, explaining everything that happened earlier with Twilight.

"All I did was hand Twilight a bunny. Then I ponied up." Fluttershy explained.

"Me too, it was pretty cool and really freaky soon after." Sonata commented.

"Sure make more sense than the random shit you would always say." Aria said.

"I just don't get it. Rarity's magic came out when she made us outfits. Pinkie's when she fixed the party and now Fluttershy." Sunset puzzled on this weird mystery of the girls' pony-up.

"And then Twilight's pendant thingy just pulled the magic right out of us. We couldn't even stand up." Fluttershy finished telling the story.

"Like me at the party!" Pinkie reminded them of that time.

"Or me right before we met Twilight!" Rarity realized that too.

"So she's stealing magic?" Sunset felt confused on how that is even possible for someone to make a device to steal magic like that.

"I don't know. She doesn't seem like the magic-stealin' type." Applejack said.

"My best guess is that Twilight made her little device to only detect the strange readings like your Equestria magic thar's been going on at this school, but it ended up doing something more than what it was originally made for." Flash deduced a little theory.

"Damn, you got all of that from one guess?" Adagio asked.

"From what I've been able to piece together of everything so far, it would make sense to me though I do have this other theory that there is a third party trying to use this weird situation to his advantage." Flash shrugged.

"Oh, that would be very bad." Pinkie commented.

"Huh, nothing that we can't handle." Rainbow Dash believed.

"For now, let's just focus on beating the Shadowbolts. And as long as this event puts me in a playing field, I don't think we've got anything to worry about." Rainbow Dash said as they walk outside to the field court.

""Oh, it puts you on a playin' field, alright." Applejack said pointed at the field.

Once everyone saw the field, they gasp to see that it's a big motorbike track with tall hills made of dirt and wooden rams with a few flaming hoops, there is also a small obstacle course with a big mud pit and ropes to swing to the targets that are two on each side.

"Am I the only one who thinks this is overkill?" Sunset asked gesturing at the field.

"Overkill to the awesomeness!" Flash excitedly.

Applejack went up to one of the dirt hills giving it a little kick to see how steady it is then look up seeing how high it is up close.

"I don't suppose you made motocross outfits." Applejack asked Rarity.

"Oh, don't be ridiculous. Of course, I did!" Rarity cheered and held up two motorbike outfits in her hands.

KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

Twilight looks like she is going to have to go through the whole Games which is not entirely her choice as you can all, right after suddenly getting her dog talking with all that crazy magic stuff, but Flash isn't wrong about a third party because he is definitely up to something.

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