Twilight, Starlight, and Spike were understandably hesitant and weary about letting the evil Twilight accompany them back to Twilight's castle. Even so, Twilight had made up her mind and was not about to change it so easily. She had to try.

"Letting me stay with you for as long as I want?" The Twilight clone smirked with sinister glee as she was brought to the castle via teleportation. "That's a move you may soon regret. You saw me turn against my creator. What makes you think I won't turn against you?"

Twilight frowned. "You don't get it, do you? You never could've used the Elements of Harmony, because you don't represent any of the virtues that the elements embody. The Tree of Harmony itself wouldn't have been fooled. You may look like me, but you're not like me at all!"

"Exactly!" The evil Twilight boasted. "And if you think you can just magically compel me to be nice, you're mistaken. And so are those 'friends' of yours trying to do the same thing with the rest of those annoying, pathetic fools. If I didn't need them for my plans, I would've happily let them all be destroyed by her majesty when they outlived their usefulness."

Spike just groaned and rolled his eyes. "Yeah yeah, we get it. You're evil and you're never going to change. We've heard it all before. You're far from the first pony who thought that way. Twilight's found a way to get so many like minded ponies to change, and change for the better."

Starlight, however, wasn't so convinced. "I'm not too sure about this one, Spike. She isn't just an evil version of Twilight, she reminds me an awful lot of what I used to be like," She shuddered. "The memories still haunt me. I may have put that past behind me, but some pains never go away."

"So you used to be bad and now you're good?" The Twilight clone questioned with a sinister smile. "I see. How pathetic, you're even more of a loser than I thought!'

"Loser?!" Starlight angrily retorted as her eyes narrowed! "If you're trying to make me angry, you're doing a very good job!"

Twilight immediately moved to shut down a potential argument before it could get started. "Don't let her get to you, Starlight. You're better than that," She then turned to her doppleganger. "You may be evil and misguided now. But as the princess of friendship, I'm going to do everything in my power to teach you the error of your ways. And I'll do it whether you like it or not."

The Twilight doppleganger only rolled her eyes. "Spare me your ridiculous sentiments and prepared speeches. You'll learn soon enough that you can't change me no matter what you try! Friendship is pointless."

"I once thought the same thing," The young alicorn replied with a shake of her head. "Luckily, I learned pretty quickly that such wasn't the case. With any luck, I'll get you to see the same."

"So, what are we going to do first, your highness?" The Twilight clone taunted the alicorn. "What's your first 'lesson'?"

"Well actually, first we need to think about what we're going to call you," Spike spoke up. "We can't have there be two Twilights. I mean, there technically are two, but the other one's in a completely different world from ours. But that's not the point."

The evil Twilight replied in an indifferent tone of voice. "Call me whatever you like, I don't really care. A new name is certainly not going to make me change."

Starlight groaned and put a hoof to her forehead. "Then let's just call you Thgiliwt! Everything about you is the opposite of Twilight, so we might as well reverse her name and give it to you."

"Really? That's it? Just 'Thgiliwt'?" The clone taunted in a sarcastic tone of voice. "You sure you don't have some fancy, pretty name you wanna give me?"

The alicorn princess grinned. "Actually, I think Thgiliwt is a good name for now. We can give you a more fitting name after you change your ways. Maybe that'll serve as the motivation you need to accept my help."

"Thgiliwt" could only roll her eyes in disbelief. "Given the choice, I'd rather just be a colored log. At least then I wouldn't have to listen to such silly statements," She folded her hooves across her chest. "But fine, you can call me that if you want to. I don't really care either way!"

"Good, Thgiliwt it shall be, then," Twilight declared. "And we can start on your lessons tomorrow," She lifted a hoof to her mouth and let out a yawn. "For right now, I just wanna call it a night. Perhaps you'll be in a better mood after a good night's sleep and a chance to think about your actions."

"And where are you going to make me sleep?" Thgiliwt asked. "Are you just gonna make me sleep out here on the castle floor?"

Starlight smirked. "We've got plenty of spare rooms in this castle. You can claim any one of them as your own, Thgiliwt," And she trotted off. "I'm going to bed. Twilight may think there's something good in you, but I'm not so convinced."

Spike then set off too, but not before adding. "You better not try anything with Twilight, for your sake. You should be thankful you're even getting this second chance at all."

Thgiliwt grit her teeth and replied with narrowed eyes. "I guess I should be grateful," Under her breath she added. "But you're gonna regret that gratefulness."

Thgiliwt soon managed to find an abandoned room in one of the castle's many winding hallways and tried to settle in for the night.

But the evil clone of the alicorn princess soon decided that sleep was not going to come to her easily. In fact, it seemed like it was going to elude her. Her mind was swarming with so many thoughts and feelings, all of them conflicted and confused. Why would her good counterpart show her any sort of mercy? Why would Twilight take her doppleganger in when it was clear that said clone had been born of malicious intent?

It made no sense. If the roles were reversed, Thgiliwt was quite certain she would've left any counterpart or clone of hers to rot and be forgotten. Why was it different just because the pony she was a copy of believed in the magic of friendship? What did she know about some silly tree in the middle of a forest?

And that belief that Thgiliwt could change. What basis did it have? It wasn't based in reality as far as the clone could tell. So what was it that compelled the princess to show such hospitality, and all of her friends to do the same?

The more Thgiliwt thought about it, the more conflicted and confused she became. She groaned, angrily stomping her hooves down and pounding the floor! "This is stupid! Nothing about this makes sense at all! Why do I care what the princess thinks?!" She complained to herself. Then and there, an idea came into her mind. She didn't want to spend another minute in this castle.

So that meant there was only one thing to do: Run away. And that's exactly what Thgiliwt decided to do. She would go fend for herself without care for who might see her. That would teach that silly princess to think that she could so easily make a clone change its mind.

Thgiliwt raced a nearby window and boosted herself out of it. Once her hooves hit the ground, she took off running at full speed! She wanted to get as far away from the castle as possible! Heck, she was already convinced she wanted nothing to do with Ponyville. She would rather try her luck in the Everfree Forest, the place where she had been created and brought to life.