Tang Ri Shan
My Little Pony Equestria Girls- Seeing Double
(Why is it that scenes I plan for one chapter always end up being split into two chapters? Oh well, anyway, here's the next one. Enjoy!)
CH 3
As Owl Eyes yelled "INTRUDER!" lights began appearing all over the castle. Doors opened and ponies began to stir.
"Twilight, what's happening?" Rarity exclaimed as she emerged from her room, jumping out of the way as Twilight ran past.
"Changeling!" Twilight yelled back. Rarity gasped, then her eyes narrowed and she joined the chase.
"Changeling? Where?" Applejack yelled as she caught up.
"Just ahead!" Twilight panted as they skidded around the corner just in time to see a gray unicorn dash down the hall. "There she is!"
"I'm on it!" A rainbow-colored blur zoomed past them and was upon the fleeing thief in an instant. Knocking her down, the two wrestled in a maze of shifting color, until one of them broke away and flew down the hall.
"After her!" Twilight yelled and they turned the corner, but the unicorn had disappeared.
"Where'd she go?" Rarity yelled.
"FOUND HER!" Pinkie Pie popped out of nowhere, startling everyone, including a second Rainbow Dash, who popped out from behind a dresser where she had been hiding. Immediately Twilight and Rarity erected a barrier around her.
"Let me go! You've got the wrong one!" The changeling shrieked in Rainbow Dash's voice.
"Ha! Nice Try, but it won't work! No one can be as awesome as me!" The real Rainbow Dash yelled back, causing Applejack to roll her eyes. The fake growled and shifted back into her changeling form. Blue skin gave way to a black shell, feathers faded into insect-like membranes and Rainbow Dash's features dissolved into a snarling black face with fangs, a crooked horn, and green eyes that glowed dimly. The captured changeling hissed angrily at the crowd outside her barrier. Fluttershy backed away and nearly every other pony flinched, most of these guards hadn't been at the royal wedding, so they weren't used to changelings. Twilight glanced at Rarity and nodded. The ivory unicorn nodded back and closed her eyes, concentrating as Twilight powered down her horn, leaving her friend to keep the barrier in place.
"Now tell me, changeling" Twilight spat the last word. "What does Queen Chrysalis want with the Star Stone?"
The changeling growled, then closed her mouth and stood on her cloven, hole-covered hooves. She gave Twilight a long look, than closed her eyes. Her body was suddenly enveloped in a green halo and she changed forms again, into an exact replica of Twilight. Smiling smugly at the shocked reactions of the assembled guards, she answered, in a perfect replica of Twilight's voice. "First, I do happen to have a name, it's Imitae. Second, I do not know Queen Chrysalis' plans because I do not work for her, and third..." She paused and cocked her head. "What exactly is a Star Stone?"
"Ha! Don't try to confuse us!" Pinkie Pie rushed up to the cage. "You know perfectly well what a Star Stone is!" Then she paused. "What is a Star Stone?" She whispered loudly back towards Twilight. Everypony face-hooved.
"The Star Stone" Twilight explained, still glaring at the Changeling, "is one of the final relics of Starswirl the Bearded, some say it was the source of his power. It was entrusted to my by Princess Celestia herself, so I would appreciate you giving it back!" Twilight gritted her teeth at the last three words, but maybe that was because Imitae was now copying Twilight's moments with her mouth, but making it so they looked really silly.
"Powerful, huh?" The impostor Twilight asked mockingly, using her magic to levitate the gemstone out of the bags. "Funny, I just took it because I like shiny, sparkly rocks. They sell for quite a bit in the right places, you know."
"Why I never! Clearly you know nothing about gems!" Rarity spluttered angrily,Spike growled at her side, the barrier around the impostor twilight seemed to flicker. The changeling saw this and smirked.
"What is there to really know? I mean, that's all that shiny rocks are good for, right Rarity? You know all about that, wouldn't you?" She taunted, focusing on Rarity, who growled like a tiger. The light around her horn flickered and so did the barrier.
Twilight saw what was happening. "Rarity, focus!" She warned, adding her power to the barrier.
"But if this hunk of rock really does have power, than maybe..." Imitae closed her eyes tightly and concentrated hard. The stone suddenly glowed green and the impostor's horn flared. A beam of bright light erupted from the edge and crashed against the barrier, shattering it, and flinging everyone else back. "Thank you for the information!" The impostor Twilight sang out as she took wing and flew down the hall.
"After her!" The real Twilight yelled, rising unsteadily to her feet. Owl Eyes and the other pegasi guards took to the air, with Rainbow Dash in the lead, while the other Mane 6 thundered down the hall along with the other guards. Twilight made to follow when she saw that Rarity had not moved from where she had fallen. "Rarity, are you okay?"
"I'm sorry Twilight" Rarity rolled over and Twilight could see shame in her friend's jewel-like eyes. "For letting her use me. I should have know better than to fall for that."
"It's okay" Twilight assured her friend. "Changelings are shape-shifters. Using people is what they do best. Now come on, let's find her!" Rarity leapt to her hooves, smiling now and they twosome galloped off after the other guards. As they rounded the corner, and galloped towards the throne room, neither pony noticed a passing door swing silently shut, nor the bright flash of light that briefly shone from under the door. Spike did notice the light, but he thought little of it.
And that brings us to where we left off. So, now that we know how Twilight gets into this mess, the question now becomes; how does she get out of it? All this and more may be answered in the next chapter, so stay tuned!
