Mayor Mare was at the verge of panic. Half her staff was gone and the other replaced by ponies that she didn´t knew or were the opposite gender, like the female version of her friend Time Turner who kept rambling about things about timey-wimey and spatial displacements and thinks like that. To be fair, regular Time Turner did that too but she just wasn´t in the right move to deal with that right now. Adding that there was a group of six excitable young ponies who were simply turning the Town Hall into a mess.  Their brothers and sisters were no longer around to keep an eye of them so mayor Mare did the one sensible thing, place them on her office.

"Now children, I just need to fix a few more things and then I think I could let you go to Sugarcube Corner, assuming is still there...uh, just wait me here," Mayor Mare said, closing the door along with a deep sigh. "And don´t touch anything!" she added and slammed the door.

Five minutes after they complety trashed the place, the Cutie Mark Crusaders All Star Team (as they decided to name themselves after going for the Cutie Mark Crusaders League and the Cutie Mark Crusaders Alliance) were lying in the ground and furniture, looking extremly bored.

"I´m boreeeeeeeed!!!" Scootaloo yelled.

"Me too. Sitting in this office doing nothing is the worst," Sweepy Bell added.

"What can we do? They told us to stay here," Scooterloo say, putting back together all the papers into the trash can. Scootaloo gave him a confused look, she didn´t tought her counterpart will be one of those ponies that listened to adults.

"While we´re here, we can take a look at our chart ´ere and see if we make any progress!" Apple Bloom suggest and asked her dimensional twin, Apple Buck, to take the chart out of his hat.

Said chart was nothing that some crude drawings of their family and friends with a lot of arrows connecting them.

"Mmmh, ah don´t see much progress ´ere..."

"Well, we tried to get Fluttershy and Applejack together but they barely spent an hour together," Scootaloo said. "At this rate, they never gonna get together."

"Uh, why do yah want mah sister to end up with Fluttershy?"

"The other Applejack, Apple Bloom."

"Ugh, sometimes this is so confusing. Doncha ever get confused?" she asked Apple Buck and he just shrugged.

"Anyways, point is that our plan to get at least those two together didn´t worked out. I don´t even get what went wrong, they were the most obvious pairing," Scootaloo said, adding a death glare to Sweepy.

"He-hey, why do you look at me like that? I didn´t say anything to her!" Sweepy replied blushing.

"Yeah, I bet you didn´t," Scootaloo said, pretty upset.

Sweepy was totally confused but his pegasus buddy comforted him with a pat on the back.

"Well, at least Sweetie did her part o´ the plan and kept Butterscocht on their cottage so he wouldn´t interfere, right Sweetie?" Apple Bloom said but the unicorn didn´t respond. She was lost in tought, looking through the window and sighing. "What´s up with her?"

"She´s been like that since she came back from the cootage," Scooterloo said.

"Heh, if ah didn´t know any better ah said she ended up falling over Mr. Flutterguy over there," Apple Bloom said and Sweepy looked away, trying to hide his blush.

Scootaloo noticed it and growled, "This whole thing is dumb anyways! They´re never gonna get together the way we wanted to and they´re gonna get sad they didn´t get the pony they wanted!"

"Yeah, ah was thinking mah sis wouldn´t make much of a match with Dust Shine..."

"Dusk Shine."

"That, thanks Scooter; but ah tought she might get along with Rainbow..."

"Blitz."

"Thanks but he spends all day with Pinkie. She hasn´t been a sec with this colt alone. Now that ah think ´bout it, has anypony seen my sis lately?"

"WHo cares? I thought getting Rainbow together with the Twilight-Boy was gonna be easy but then she goes around with Bubble Berry and the girls! Total disaster!" Scootaloo yelled.

"I don´t think Bubble was after any of them. He seems pretty focused on FLuttershy," Sweepy said.

"Yeah, like that´s gonna work. Bubble has better chances hooking up with Guy Rainbow," Scootaloo said.

"Wut? Why did ya say that?" Apple Bloom asked.

Scootaloo shrugged and said, "Don´t know. Figured since is pretty common for mares to hook up, colts do it like that in the other world."

"Uh? Where is it common?"

"Babs told me than in Manehattan is not a big deal. Even here in Ponyville there´s a couple mares who are like that..."

"Really? Ah haven´t noticed any..."

"Come on, you´re gonna tell me Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are just friends?"

"Scoots!" Apple Bloom yelled and they both laughed.

"Jeez, these girls. Is not that common in our side, right Scooter?" Sweepy asked.

"Uh, well...I think..."

"KYAAAAAA!!!" Sweetie´s scream make them all jumped to the roof, the two pegasus shared a little smile when they managed to flap to the ground instead of crashing down like the others. "I can´t take it anymore! Butterscotch is sooooooooooooo cute!"

"Ew, Sweetie, he´s like Fluttershy as a guy and way older than any of us," Scootaloo said."

"I don´t care! I need to see him at least one more time, just to admire those beautiful blue eyes and that gorgeous pink mane!"

"Sure, you´re not talking about Fluttershy?"

"´sides, ah think he and the others went off to Canterlot for a mission," Apple Bloom added.

"Nooooooo! I need to see him!"

Scootaloo sighed while Scooterloo decided offer some assistance," Actually, they could still be around. Before we went here, me and Buck were in the bathroom and we saw him and Elusive packing some...."

"So you know where he could be?!" Sweetie said, jumping down in exciment.

"..."

Before Apple Buck could answer, she grabbed him by the hood and ran away.

"Oh, those two are gonna cause a ruckus! Sweepy, we better go catch ´em," Apple Bloom said and ran off.

"Uh sure, we...can do that," Sweepy said, not really sure why she choosed him.

Scootaloo crossed her arms and growled some more while her counterpart sighed.

"Come on, boy me. We probably go get them before the Mayor decides to punish us all..."

******

"Ahh, Butterscotch is such a cutie! And nice and friendly and he takes care of all the pets. Even teh big scary ones, there was a family of coyotes that walked in during our tea party and he simply..."

Sweetie Belle had been going on like this for about half and hour. Apple Buck said nothing and kept walking behind her when he noticed a few ponies were marching into the Main Hall. They were all marching at the same rhythm, exactly the same rhythm.

"Come on, Apple Buck! Hurry up!"

Apple Buck hurried and catched up with her.

"I can´t wait to see him! Oh what Im gonna said? Is times like this that I wish I was my sister age and that I had her looks so I can finally get boys to look at me. Gotta tell you, Buck, I kinda envy that you live in a world where there´s more colts than mares. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo don´t get me. I think I´ve matured before them so they´re still stuck in the cooties phase but I..."

Apple Buck was hearing nothing of Sweetie´s sudden arrive to adolescence and kept noticing that ponies left their offices to march to the town hall, all the while turning the lights out, turning the Town Hall into a very scary place.

"...so I think even with the age difference we can work something out like being pen pals or something. Do they have mails in the other universe? I guess they do but, how could I get it to him? Is this the room?"

Apple Buck was distracted looking back but Sweetie assumed he meant yes and opened the door.

"Uh is so dark in here. Where´s the light switch?" Sweetie turned on the light, only to discover a room full of changelings, buzzing around. "Uh, I guess is the wrong room. Bye!"

Sweetie closed the door and took a second to register what happened. Then she opened it again and found a couple of townsponies.

"Phew. What a relief, for a second there I tought I saw something really scary. You too, Buck? Uh Buck? Why do you have that look on your face?"

******

Both pegasus were rolling on their scooters down the hallway, failing to notice the dim lights going off behind them.

"Where are those two? They always do this, ran off and leave me behind. Sometimes I think they do it on purpose," Scootaloo said but Scooterloo said nothing. "Boy, you sure make a good conversation partner. Ugh, you know, when I first met you I tought, cool! Somepony who finally gets me and you kinda did but now you´re all moody and boring. This sucks, everypony is acting weird."

Scootaloo stopped and rest her head on the scooter, no longer wanting to look around.

"Hey, can I ask you a question?" Scooterloo asked.

"Sure, go ahead."

"You like Sweepy, right?"

"What? No! I mean, why do you care?"

Scootaloo wasn´t fooling anyone so she gave up.

"Okay, fine, I think he´s kinda...cute and I don´t like that he is fooling around over there with Apple Bloom but that´s it! Altought, I guess that´s kinda like admiting I like him..."

"And it doesn´t bother you that he´s kinda like Sweetie Belle?"

"Yew, don´t make think about that. I don´t wanna think about my friends like that...."

"So you´ll never like kiss a mare or something?"

"Oh my Celestia! Who told you? YES, Babs and me kissed but it wasn´t a I like you so much kiss, it was a stupid dare! Apple Bloom said that we were not brave enough and we kissed like for a minute, is not that big a deal!"

Scooterloo just waited for her to calm down from her rage attack.

"What I meant is, you were saying early that some mares end up together in here, right?"

"Yeah, there are a few but I was just joking about Diamond and Silver. That thing is grown up thing, I...I don´t wanna think about that yet. Why are you asking anyways?"

"It´s just...this morning I was at the gym and some guys were repeating something Blitz and the other guys were talking about. About if it isn´t kind of weird to like the girls because that could mean they like them cause they resemble them..." Scooterloo said, having a hard time trying to explain himself but Scootaloo got what he meant.

"Yeah, Sweetie told me some ponies at the spa heard something similar from the girls. See, this is why I don´t wanna talk about it. I don´t want to see my friends like that."

"Thing is...I think I do."

Scootaloo gave a good look at Scooterloo and then it hit her.

"Wait, you mean...YOU like Sweepy?"

"Not...him."

"Woah, I mean...well, there´s nothing wrong with that. Is just..."

"Is grown up stuff?"

"Yes," Scootaloo said and she fell, defeated on her scooter. "See, I hate this talk. About boys and growing up and seeing things different. Rainbow Dash once tried to give me THE TALK and it was so awkard. I think she doesn´t even fully get it."

"Hahaha!"

"Same thing happened with Blitz?"

"Not really. He actually took me and the boys to a restaurant with very pretty mares and then Applejack, Apple Buck´s brother, came in with the other guys and they were really mad at him," Scooterloo explained and they laughed about it.

"Hey Scooters, sorry for being so rude. I guess growing up is making me kind of a jerk."

"It´s okay. I have been very moody and sad lately, you know, trying to figure out if I just like Apple Buck or is that I just like colts more than mares."

"Hey, listen, whatever you decide to like, you got me covering your back, okay? No need to fell any sad about that," Scootaloo said, giving him a pat on the back.

That´s when they finally realized the lights were out once the darkness fell on them. A darkness that was cut by a dozen glowing green eyes.

*****

"Apple Bloom! I´m tired, can we stop a sec?"

"No! We need tah find those two. Ah´m sure the bathroom were this way, going right after that spots suplly closet that ah don´t recall being there in the Town Hall..."

"You mean the Town Hall that is actually two different buildings that got fused together by magic?"

Apple Bloom stopped to give Sweepy a death glare and then continued, "Yes, that one."

Sweepy sighed and kept going after her, regretting that he didn´t listened to Scooterloo in the first place and stayed put in the Mayor´s office.

"Hey Sweeps..."

"Yeah?" he said, wondering is that was his new nickname.

"Yah saw how Sweetie got after spending time with Butterscotch. Did that...did that happened with you, ya know, ´bout Fluttershy?"

"What? No! I mean..." Sweepy was blushing hard but since Apple Bloom was not facing him he got the courage to actually speak what was on his mind. "Okay, I think she´s very pretty and she was very nice to me but in the way here I started to think and Scooters, I mean your Scooters, I mean Scootaloo...she´s right, she´s older and basically ButterGirl, I don´t think I´m that attracted to her, I think..."

"So ya want try to date her cause she´s like Butterscotch, right?"

"Kinda, is more the fact that she´s waaaay older than me," Sweepy said.

"So if she was like our age, would you date her?"

Sweepy scracthed his head, trying to think of an answer. "Well, I HAVE seen a few fillies in town which I suposse are my classmates back there and well, they were pretty, maybe I could try dating one of th-"

Sweepy got interrupted cause Apple Bloom gave him a deep kiss.

"Ah´m sorry ah´m so sorry but ah just like yah very much and ah couldn´t resist it anymore and ah know is weird but ah so want us to date even if we live in different universes and stuff but ah really really wanna date yah!"

"..."

They got interrupted again, this time by the shriek coming towards them, followed by the other two pairings being chased by the changelings.

"Sweetie, why were you yelling?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Hey, why do you assume it was me?"

"Stop arguing and run!" Scootaloo said, adding a long shriek when a changeling almost grabbed her.

The Crusaders ran at full speed but they end running into a dead end, created by the fused buildings. Surrounded by the voracious creatures, the youn ponies joined in a group hug but Apple Buck stepped forward and faced the monsters.

"Buck?" the two boys asked.

Apple Buck took of his hat and a black horn appeared, glowing green. The changelings slowed down but then rushed forward, angry that one of them was defying them. Apple Buck gathered his magic and caused all the changelings to fall unconscious. When the lights came back, Apple Buck was replaced by a tiny changeling soldiers and all the other changelings were down.

"Apple...Buck?" Apple Bloom asked.

The small changeling shrugged, not knowing what to say, if he was even able to say something since most changeling mooks were mute.

Thanks to the quiet moment they were able to hear a sound coming from a nearby closet. They opened it and found Mayor Mare, shaking and holding a broken broom.

"Are yah okay, mayor?" Apple Bloom asked.

"I...I...I was with the other Mayor and he turned into...into..."

The kids looked behind her and found a changeling with his head inside a bucket.

"Seems like you have everything under control, Mayor," Sweepy said.

The Mayor smiled and the kids helped her get out, she was a bit afraid of the former Apple Buck but the kids reasurred her it was allright. So they say they were a bit uneasy as well. The changeling didn´t said a thing and wait for them to choose if they were still his friends despite the fact that he took the place of the real Apple Buck.

"So, I guess there´s only one question to make?" Scootaloo started and the others waited. "Is it Apple Buck you liked or the changeling posing as him that you liked, Scooters?"

Scooterloo and the changeling just blushed in response.