“Lieutenant Mane?” A young mare with a golden mane and a cream colored coat called.

“Yes Starbeam?” The tan stallion looked up from his mug of coffee and his red mane flipped over to one side.

“I…I was wondering about these files.” She placed a file over filling with papers beside the name plate on the front of the desk that read ‘Horatio Mane’

“Ahh. ‘The Concept Files’. Those are most likely the most…” He paused, waiting for a descriptive word to appear in his vocabulary. “Interesting files we have. They seem almost cryptic, and are unexplainable. Here at the station, we think their unsolvable, but the princess, she refuses to believe it. The letters were written by her most loyal and faithful student in the history of Equestria. Maybe you’ve heard of her. Twilight Sparkle ringing a bell?”

“Isn’t she the unicorn that saved Equestria countless times?”

“Her and her five friends, yes. They unleashed the Elements of Harmony and used them to save us from impending doom. Without her, I doubt we’d even be here. Those files, though. They are…like the diary of a madpony. Their letter’s that Twilight sent to Celestia, telling about some of the strangest things. We honestly think she went loco and wrote down her hallucinations. Who can say? Like I said, Princess Celestia swears that they are true, or that they at least mean SOMETHING! I just can’t see it. Their just too unbelievable! I guess you can say the files are quite an interesting…” he reached down and put on his sunglasses. “concept.” Suddenly, a pony won a hoof wrestling match and screamed ‘YEAHH!!!!’ at the top of his lungs.

“‘The Concept Files’, though? Where in Equestria did you come up with that name?” She tilted her head as she looked back down at the files.

“I’ll tell ya what, trainee. Go home, and read those letters. Examine them. It might be good training. I want you to spend all night looking at those letters, as if your life depended on it! I assure you will see why we call them ‘The Concept Files’. You’ll also see why we don’t believe in them.”

“Yes sir Lieutenant. I’ll begin as soon as I get home.” Starbeam picked up the files, and began to walk back to the file room, where she discovered ‘The Concept Files’. The name still intrigued her, and she continued to wonder about it as she walked off.

“Just go home, I think you’re done for the day. Lock the file room, and go home.” Horatio Mane yelled back as he picked up his coffee mug and took another sip.

“Really?” Starbeam responded. “You’re sure you don’t need me?”

“Just go. I honestly think reading those files is more important than hanging around in a smelly office all day. Besides, what’s gonna happen? They’re not gonna pay you for the day?” He chuckled at the rhetorical question.

“Oh thank you! I can’t wait to go read them! Thank you so much sir!” She smiled at the delight of reading the files, as if they were a filly’s book and she was a mere newborn pony.

June 26

Dear Princess Celestia,

I’m sorry I haven’t sent you any letters lately, but I have been rather preoccupied with something. Namely the investigation of the arrival of a new pony here in Ponyville. Now, you know I’m not the type to spy, but it is the peculiar, and sudden, arrival of this pony that intrigues me.

Another interesting observation was that of her appearance. She appears to be an exact copy of our own Pinkie Pie. The only differences I could see were the color of her coat, white, and her mane, yellow. Also, she appears to have wings. Again, I have not been able to investigate further, and am only able to do so from a distance, therefore I am not entirely sure in some parts. An example is my eyes were deceived into seeing a peculiar cutie mark, a perfect replica of Pinkie’s except for the fact that it was solid purple.

She seemed excited and at home, staying close to her Pinkie-like appearance. I quickly concluded that the likely hood is slim to none, being generous. I am soon to be spotted soon, and assuming she remains close to her Pinkie personality, I am going to be ‘friends’ with her. Let’s just hope there are no more surprise parties.
~Your faithful student,
~~Twilight Sparkle

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June 28

Dear Princess Celestia,

Just as I predicted, I have become a ‘friend’ of the new pony. The peculiar thing of it all is, I still don’t even know her name. She seems to always be hanging around the market, and lately I seem to be as I investigate, or now spend time with, her. She is very mysterious, not revealing where she resides from, where she is staying here in Ponyville, her name, and other important information.

My hunch about her cutie mark was proven correct, and it turned out to be a solid purple version of Pinkie Pie’s. This is getting to be very awkward, as it seems like I’m spending time with Pinkie for the first time, all over again. She is uncannily similar to Pinkie, and it gets awkward at times. The two days have, quite possibly, been the most strange of my life. She seems to enjoy surprises, and I never know when she is near. I am always on my toes, waiting for her to jump out of the shadows and scream “Surprise!”

If you will recall, I wished for no more surprise parties in my previous letters. Unfortunately, my prayers have gone unanswered. Last night I came home to see a surprise party similar to the day I first met Pinkie. She explained that she had seen me since the first day in the market, and had been watching me as closely as I had watched her (proving she is REALLY good at it!). Nothing seems to make sense however, as I had never taken my eyes off of her except to go home, write, and sleep. She never turned in my direction, and never followed me home. I would have clearly seen her. Right?
~Your faithful student
~~Twilight Sparkle

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July 1

Dear Princess Celestia,

The forces have combined. Pinkie and Surprise (I learned her name thanks to Pinkie’s rambling) have met, and naturally they are “bestest friends forever!” As if Surprise herself was not annoying, and still interesting, enough, now I have both of ‘the twins’ as I have grown to call them.

I suppose it is Surprise’s attitude rubbing off on me, but I have become much more relaxed and fun loving. Grated, it is well over due, but I must make sure it does not interfere with my work, or my reports to you. I have already allowed it to halt my letters once, and that is once too many.

One can only imagine what “Surprises” they have in store for me. They visit at least once daily, so I will not have to wait very long. Wish me luck Princess.
~Your faithful student
~~Twilight Sparkle

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July 14

Dear Princess Celestia,

I would like to apologize, once again, for my vacation from sending letters to you. I recall promising that I would not allow Pinkie and Surprise’s fun get in the way of my work and reports, but I have broken said promise. However, it was for a good cause. Surprise apparently is not from Ponyville, or even Equestria. Well, I suppose she is, but it is another Ponyville, in another dimension!

Princess, trust me when I say that I have not gone insane like I did o so long ago, but instead, I have been taken somewhere beyond comprehension! In this world are a bunch of ponies that look almost like exact replicas of me and my friends, just like Pinkie and Surprise. Some even have the same name as us!

Surprise calls them concepts, as if they came before us, and we are the improved versions. It’s really all quite fascinating. I’m sure you are wondering how I came to find this other dimension. It began approximately two weeks ago when Surprise and Pinkie came rushing in, yelling “Surprise” in unison. They began to rant about things that, one can only imagine, they are the only ones that understand. After the rambling, Surprise jumped out into the middle of the library and whipped out a strange, gun-like device. It was a black frame, with white plastic covering just over the rust. It radiated an orange aura at the end of the barrel, and when she shot it, an orange ring appeared on the surface that she fired at. Inside the ring appeared another location. As I stuck my head in upon request, I saw it looked like the Ponyville Market.

Surprise explained that the portal was to another dimension of some sort. Needless to say, it excelled my farthest imagination. I failed to believe her, and simply assumed that she somehow used magic of some sort to make the ring connect to another magic ring, and it was all an optical illusion.

Suddenly, I had Pinkie and Surprise pushing me to jump into the ‘portal’ as they called it. I eventually submitted and walked through the ring to the ‘other dimension’. It all seemed perfectly fine to me, until I met Twilight. Not Twilight Sparkle, but just Twilight. The interesting thing, however, was that she looked like my mother, just with a pink coat instead of white.. She sounded, however, just like me, as well as acted like me.

I reluctantly followed her to meet her “friends” that she continued to talk about. I imagined that they were just like my friends, only different looking. As we traveled to Sweet Apple Acres, I saw Applejack. Though, this Applejack had no differences from the one in Equestria. As I walked closer, I wondered if I really had gone to another dimension. I soon realized that it was all true.

If the Element of Honesty says she has never met you before, that usually means that she has never met you before, right? Right. After that shock, I was convinced of the portal’s powers. I excused myself from their presence, and found the portal back home. Quickly, I grabbed MY friends from MY dimension and we all hopped through the orange ring. Ironically, we didn’t have to look for our doppelgangers as we met the alternate versions of ourselves together in the middle of the market.

Upon a rather lengthy conversation, we learned their names. Below I have written a list for you of their names, and changes from their counterparts in this dimension.

• Rainbow Dash/Firefly: Pink coat, with a dark blue mane and two lightning bolts the color of her mane as a cutie mark.

• Rarity/Sparkler: Powder clue coat, same color mane with a pink highlight running through it, same cutie mark.

• Fluttershy/Posey: Same appearance, but without wings, three tulips as a cutie mark

• Twilight Sparkle/Twilight: Same mane, but white with a purple highlight and a pink coat. Six purple stars as a cutie mark.

• Surprise/Pinkie Pie: White coat, Yellow mane, solid purple cutie mark, all identical to Pinkie’s. Wings

• Applejack/Applejack: No changes at all. (?)

I have been traveling in and out of the two dimensions for two weeks, spending all day and most of the night in the “concept word”. I apologize again for my absence of reports. I am researching this other realm to see if magic is to blame, a way of possible transportation, or anything at all. I will surely report my findings as I advance.
~Your faithful student,
~~Twilight Sparkle