A large crowd composed of Twilight Sparkle's loved ones gathered around the graveyard where she was buried. Her parents and brother stood beside each other in front while her best friends took up the space behind them, looking intently at the rainbow-maned pegasus and the regal goddess of the sun. There were doctors and nurses accompanying the princess and they waited off to the side, uninformed of their purpose.

“Are you sure you understand the requirements of my assistance?” asked the Rainbow Dash double.

She was currently several sizes larger than the real Rainbow Dash whom along with Rarity, decided to put on a wide brimmed hat. Her combed mane glistened in the sunlight and her eyes filled with curiosity as she desperately wanted to get closer to her larger double to learn more about her. Rarity wore a casual pink hat. Although today was nothing casual or normal and she was caught off guard by the sudden announcement by Celestia herself, of Twilight’s supposed return.

“Yes. In return for Twilight Sparkle, I provide you with a place to stay and I never meddle with the affairs of other worlds again. I will even enact a law against it.” Celestia hung her head low with a sorrowful expression.

“Good. Now move aside while I work.” Rainbow internally winced from ordering Celestia around.

Celestia gave a slight bow and backed away. Rainbow stood over Twilight’s grave and started talking to Isis.

“So you can actually give me the ability to control the grass?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“Yes, how do you think I grew my vines?” Isis chirped happily.

“Can you please go into detail, so I can complete the mental image?” asked Puppet Master lightheartedly.

Rainbow felt a strange sensation come from Isis’s soul, giving her the impression that it felt almost flattered. Rainbow couldn’t piece it together and Puppet Master seemed to back away from her after she reached out with her soul to him. It was actually pretty entertaining to feel him squirm against a larger spirit that was larger than her own. Isis’s happened to be green while Puppet’s remained a dull grey. Again, their differing sizes made the instance comical considering Puppet Master’s was three inches while Rainbow’s was four; Isis trounced us all by having a soul of six inches wide. Of course they only existed on a spiritual plane, so the exact size of one is undetermined until released into the world like the souls of light, night, might, sight and etcetera.

Isis gifted Rainbow her power over plants and Rainbow could feel the grass below her hooves. The sensation of roots came shortly after she gained awareness of the plants. First thing she did was let the grass wrap around her left and right forehooves, and wait for them to create a thick plant like shell around her lower legs. They created a cup like biological contraption that stuck to the bottom of her hooves and wrapped around four inches above the base of her hooves. Then after that was complete they continued to grow upward with a tough vine construct that wrapped around her chest and fused with each other like a suit of armor.

When the process was done, the roots began to grow thicker and move to the bottom of Rainbow’s new hoof gear. Once the roots were complete they darkened to make it look like she was wearing a tree trunk on her chest while vines wound down to her forehooves where more tree trunk-like constructions became her shoes. Rainbow peeked behind her real quick to see slack-jawed expressions of everyone in attendance. Snickering to herself, she got to work and willed the roots to run deeper.

After they went a foot into the ground she pulled with all her might with both her hooves and ripped dirt up from the base of Twilight’s grave. Rainbow swiftly threw it aside and plunged the roots deep within the earth to rip more dirt out of the ground. She repeated the process and began to enjoy the feeling she got as the roots wormed their way into the moist dirt and shook to loosen it and pull it out. It took her three minutes to get a hole four feet deep.

She was on the last stretch of dirt, when somepony walked up to the grave with protests of the group.

“Guys, I have to know.” the mystery mare stated.

“Let her work!” came a single stern whisper from the group that was unidentifiable.

Rainbow Dash looked up at the top of the hole she dug herself into, and found her double staring at her with a quizzical look. Her mane was well combed like Rainbow’s was when she dressed up for formal occasions. It almost made the Rainbow in the hole cringe when she saw that her double wearing a stylish blue wide brim hat.

“Umm, I need to ask you something important.” started the other Rainbow Dash, quietly enough so Rainbow could hear her.

“Yeah?” she whispered back.

“Are you me?” she asked.

“Well kinda. I’m a different you.” Rainbow responded.

“W-well who did you support during the war?” inquired Rainbow’s clean-cut double.

“War?” Rainbow’s eyebrow rose.

“War?” Puppet Master asked at the same time as Rainbow.

Rainbow’s better groomed self-looked nervously behind her at her friends and the princess who was trotting up to them.

“Miss Rainbow Dash, please let the mare do her work.” ordered Celestia politely.

“Yes, Princess.” Rainbow’s other hung her head low and returned to her friends.

Rainbow Dash caught a glimpse of her cutie mark and almost fell over out of shock. The other Rainbow Dash had only a cloud on her flank rather than a cloud and rainbow lightning bolt. Rainbow Dash watched her leave from inside the hole and once her cleaner self was out of view, she wanted to leap out of the hole to keep looking. But she knew of her current mission and reluctantly returned to digging up the grave of Twilight Sparkle.

“Don’t worry about her. You two can have as much time as you want to yourselves when this is over.” Celestia stated with a hint of superiority.

Rainbow stayed in character and rolled her eyes, even though her heart said to listen to Celestia’s every word. Rainbow watched as Celestia left her to her work and plunged her hoof plant roots deep into the soil. She felt a very solid resistance and immediately thought she must have hit a rock before remembering what she was digging for. Rainbow pulled up and threw the chunk of soil out of the hole she still stood in. Bellow her was a large pony-sized black box with a curved surface.

Rainbow dug around the exposed wood until only the top part of the coffin was exposed and she can open it without restriction or friction on the dirt walls. Rainbow then tried to get the trunk suit she was wearing off, but realized it was too tight on her coat to remove without breaking it.

“Rainbow embrace your inner Terrarian.” Puppet Master chimed into her mind.

“What?”

“Open your inventory and take off the gear to stash it inside.”

Rainbow was about to ask what an inventory was, before she realized that she felt a strange amount a space within herself she didn’t pay attention to for a while. She opened up that space and found she was looking… no, feeling infinite spaces inside herself where she can store any number of items. She also noted a special slot for bits that she could carry. She did something new and mentally pulled the plant gear off her body, and placed it in a random slot in the center of whatever the unnamable space was she felt inside her. She closed her inventory and realized that the trunk-like apparatus no longer was constricting her and wasn’t even there anymore.

Rainbow shrugged it off and opened the coffin to find Twilight Sparkle’s body encased in a purple crystalline structure that kept her body in a stasis, so she wouldn’t need to breathe while buried underground. Rainbow Dash looked at the peaceful form of Twilight Sparkle as the sun made the crystalline structure glisten like water. Rainbow was captivated by the beauty of the complimentary purple structure. She spread her wings and flew out of the hole, only to land at the top of the hole looking down into it. Celestia looked confused and about to say something before Rainbow’s wings flared to draw energy and send it to the crystal.

The purple crystal responded with a crack and an explosion of green flame that spouted gracefully and passionately out of the grave of Twilight Sparkle. It bloomed into a mushroom cloud that went fifty feet into the air silently, and crackled quietly as the flames danced up and out of Twilight’s grave in a whirlwind motion.

Rainbow Dash looked at the crowd behind her and noticed the awed expressions of the ponies in attendance. She particularly liked the fact that Celestia even had a wide eyed and open-mouthed expression that was very rare on the serious sun goddess’ face. Rainbow looked back at the grave to just catch the ending of the slow torrent of flame that spouted from the grave. She looked over the edge to see the smoking dirt walls and the shaking body of Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight had a fearful expression on her face and she was shivering from cold. Her body seemed to be slowly responding at the moment and her muscles were stiff. Multiple times Twilight struggled with breathing and her breaths seemed heavy and sporadic. Rainbow waved over Celestia’s company of doctors and nurses. They hesitantly stepped forward and looked into the pit and each took startled expressions.

“She’s alive!” a nurse shouted.

The ponies who gathered all gasped selectively and nearly rushed forward. Most were sitting down but once they heard the news they got up and most of them took a step forward to see the mare in the hole. Rainbow Dash watched as the unicorn doctor lifted Twilight out of the hole and put her on a stretcher.

“Where’d they get that?” Rainbow asked out loud. No response came, as she was being ignored by everypony.

“We need to get her to the hospital and give her oxygen!” exclaimed the doctor apprehensively.

Twilight Sparkle's family and friends smiled with joy, but then contorted to worry when the medical staff ran out of sight with Twilight. Rainbow looked back at Celestia who motioned her head away from the crowd. They walked away from the ponies that now chatted amongst themselves with emotions ranging between sorrow and excitement.

Rainbow Dash looked into Celestia’s eyes after they got a significant distance away from the large group. Celestia had a tear roll down her cheek as sorrow filled her. She looked at Rainbow Dash with glazed eyes and began to speak.

“Are you sure Twilight will be able to survive the stasis after her body has been chilled?”

“You saw her, didn’t you?” retorted Rainbow Dash almost hostile.

Celestia glared at her. “Yes… but will she remember anything? Her time spent with me and our research.”

“I erased all those memories and replaced them with a blank one that gives the illusion of time. For all she knows, the last thing she remembers was mixing a few volatile chemicals together and she slipped up and killed herself. I hope you stick to that story for now. If she asks too many questions, then tell her what happened to keep her from drawing attention from other ponies.”

Celestia nodded her head in understanding. “I’ll do my best to help her through this. And I’ve arranged for the purchase of a small cabin for you to live in while you learn about different aspects of the universe.”

“Thank you.” Rainbow looked to her right and back at the group that remained several meters away. Most had already left for the hospital or went home to give Twilight some rest before their visit. Rainbow’s groomed double was watching the pair and waiting for them to stop talking. “Where’s the place located?” Rainbow asked looking back at Celestia.

“It’s 463 Calf street.” responded Celestia emotionlessly.

Rainbow looked at her double. “Thanks. I’ve got to go talk to myself.”

Celestia snickered. “You know, some ponies think that’s a sign of a mental illness.”

Rainbow gave Celestia a deadpan look. “You’re dead to me.” Celestia giggled and teleported away.

Rainbow faced her double and they stood there watching each other for a few moments. Rainbow’s shorter double chose to walk forward unsurely and slowly, almost as if she was scared. Rainbow saw this, rolled her eyes and began to trot toward her with a neutral expression. They met in the middle and the cleaner Rainbow Dash had to crane her neck upward because of the height of her double. Her jaw hung open when she realized how large her other was.

“Yeah?” asked Rainbow in an unimpressed tone.

“O-oh, umm.” Rainbow shuffled her hooves uncomfortably on the ground. “Who’d you support during the war?”

“Which one?” inquired the weather goddess Rainbow.

“The Civil war?” she responded, seeming unsure of herself.

Rainbow tilted her head to the side. “My universe never had a civil war.”

Her head fell and her face hid behind her wide brim blue hat and muttered, “Lucky you.”

Rainbow Dash looked over her double's head-which was easy considering how tall she is-and looked over to the dispersing crowd that had already moved beyond the graveyard. Rainbow Dash got a mischievous grin on her face.

“Hey.” she started without losing the grin.

Her double looked up and was slightly taken back by the look. “W-what?”

“We’re girls, right?”

“Yeah?”

“Wanna kiss?”

“WHAT THE FUCK?!” shouted Puppet Master into Rainbow’s mind.

“Hey, Pinkie dared me to do it once and I wussed out! I lost seven bits to her that day.” Rainbow grumbled.

“W-what!” Rainbow’s well-kept other exclaimed in shock.

“Yeah! No one is looking, and we’re the same person. Not only that, but Pinkie dared me to do it during a truth or dare game, and I had to kiss Fluttershy. I backed out for both our sakes,' but since then it’s been on my bucket list. And I’d rather not ask one of my friends, because of how weird it would be. You’re basically me, so whatever happens between us stays between us right?” Rainbow reasoned.

Her counterpart looked a little unsure, but she smiled and hid under her hat again. Rainbow used her hoof to take off her hat and put it on herself and gave her a reassuring smile when their gazes met again.

The Rainbow with a well-kept mane smiled and giggled. “Sure, but under the hat.”

“To bad no one is here to watch this. This is quality entertainment.”

“SHUT UP!”

The taller Rainbow lifted her hat over both their heads so they shared its shade and they leaned in for a kiss. The forceful peck came from the original Rainbow who suggested it, but she felt her lips being poked by a tongue and she parted them allowing her other self-entrance. Rainbow was unsure of this development, but went with it as she shared her saliva with her prettier self. The well-kept Rainbow explored the unsure larger Rainbow’s mouth looking for all the landmarks in her mouth that she memorized though years of familiarity. The larger Rainbow Dash decided to follow suit and explored the inside of her double's mouth.

Neither of them wanted to withdraw after a few seconds and they both smiled in unison and started to giggle together which caused them to have to part ways in order to laugh out loud from the normally awkward experience. Their giggling became uncontrollable and eventually they both fell onto the ground in a fit of laughter. They calmed down and stood back up. In the process of falling on the ground the hat ended up upside down on the dirt and Rainbow’s better kept self picked it up and placed it rightly on her head where it belonged.

Rainbow with a hat looked at her double with affection. “Hey, can we do that again later? I-it kinda felt nice.”

“Sure, I don’t mind. Hey want to head back to our place?” replied the athlete.

“Our place?” Rainbow looked uncertain but not uncomfortably uncertain. “Uh, why not take a look at your new place?”

“If you got room then I can ask Celestia if I can just stay with you. Besides I know exactly where 463 Calf street is.” Rainbow Dash answered in a boasting manner. Now her double looked at her strangely, but ignored it as a simple difference.

That is until she noticed her cutie mark. Her mouth fell open once again and her eyes went wide. Rainbow noticed this and looked between her gaze and to her flank and remembered the cutie mark debacle she was dealing with earlier. Rainbow looked at her double affectionately, and turned to her side to show her the cutie mark. The other Rainbow did the same and gauged her double's reaction to find no change. Rainbow’s left wing wrapped around her smaller self and pulled her closer.

“We may be different. But we’re the same awesome pony on the inside.” Rainbow put a hoof on her counterpart’s chest.

The smaller pony looked up at the taller Rainbow and smiled. She then leaned into her lovingly and without a care if her hat fell off her head because of it. They stayed like this for a while just enjoying each other’s company.

“You know it’d be more heartwarming if we weren’t in a graveyard.” started the recently hatless mare.

“Then let's just fly home!” suggested the athlete excitedly.

“Ok.” she responded happily while picking up her hat.

The larger Rainbow quickly took the lead and let her double tail her. Five minutes of casual flying and Rainbow led the way to her cloud mansion. She looked back to see her other a few feet behind her with a confused expression. Rainbow starts to become worried and hightails it to her home. She got there in record time and found that not only was her home no longer there, but instead it was the Ponyville Weather Team's headquarters. Rainbow’s jaw hung loose and dangling now. Her hat-wearing double looked between her and the headquarters with a questioning gaze before she pieced it together.

“This isn’t my house.” she told her larger self. “This is the Weather Team's headquarters here in Ponyville.”

“I-I spent every bit I had on that.” stammered a teary-eyed Rainbow Dash. “I saved up from flight camp doing odd jobs and working my flank off.” Rainbow fell to a cloud bellow her and stood there with a sorrowful expression.

“Hey, hey hey, shhhh...” her double cooed. “It’s going to be there when you get home, right?” she comforted reassuringly.

“Y-yea.”

“Was your house really that big?” her better maintained self asked.

“No… bigger with a small automated rainbow factory that spills off the side. It was really awesome.” Rainbow smiled fondly at the memory of her house.

“How about I lead the way to our place?” the smaller pony asked.

“Yeah.”

Author's Notes:

Next chapter WILL be out tomorrow :D

Also I was wondering if you guys would be interested in shipping...because last story was SO MUCH implied shipping but nothing real.

also suggest who to ship who with.