???? Spell [4th Wall Action/Video]

[friendyousohard]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

[Leaping gleefully around in the air like an idiot at the sudden regaining of her actual body is... a purple unicorn.]

My real body, and my magic! Everything's back to normal! Oh this is terrific, there's so many new things to do. Where do I even start?

[She claps her hooves together, grinning wildly (and just slightly manically) at the prospect for a moment... then she notices something behind her. A very large, menacing looking shadow.]

Hey, what is... [She turns around, and her eyes practically pop out of her head. And well they might, given what she's seeing...]



What... the... hay?

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[friendyousohard]

[Holy crap what is she even seeing? Twi stares at the spell for a couple moments before remembering that hey, running would be a good idea!]

Alright, but... don't get yourself hurt, um... me!

[So weird. But at this point she's got other worries. Like galloping out of there at the fastest speed she can muster.

Times like this she wishes she was Dash.]

[magicalrealist]

(Being Dash would definitely be useful in a time like this... but for what it's worth, teleporting can instantly get you out of the way. Twilight continues to distract the Giratina with her magic while the other self gets away.)

I just have to buy her some time...

--TIMESKIP--

(It's a good while before there's any trace of what happened in that scuffle. Things got loud, things broke and there were plenty of ear-splitting roars to top it all off. It's quiet for a while, but eventually, Twilight returns from the brush, looking rather ragged and exhausted, but very much alive.)

[friendyousohard]

[Still hiding out in the route nearby, Twilight has been having to tell herself not to run back and try to help her other self out. The other Twilight's the one with the bullet spam spell, she'd just get in the way.

Once she sees her other self clomping out through the brush, she lets out a sigh of relief and canters over.]

Oh thank Celestia! Are you alright? Did it retreat?

[magicalrealist]

(Though still slightly out of breath, Twilight nods towards her other self.)

I'm fine. Whatever that thing was...it fled.

(She takes a moment to fully catch her breath, shaking it off before returning her full attention to the other Twilight.)

What was that thing, anyway?

[friendyousohard]

I don't know! I think it might have been a Pokemon of some type, but I have never seen one like that in my life! Pokemon can get kind of imposing, but that was just extreme.

[magicalrealist]

A pokemon? I think a few people have those where I'm from, but nothing like that...

...but that's not the point! Twilight, there's something huge going on: a conspiracy greater than anything this world or my world has to offer. I don't know how I know these things, but I have...images of these other places, places that take people from home and force them to commit to the rules of their prison. One of them slipped up and nearly fused with another such place and made me realize there might be others like Mayfield or Somarium or...wherever this place is. Being here just confirms it.

(Extreme meta talk, brought to you by this year's 4th wall event.)

[friendyousohard]

[She just... stares for a moment in confounded silence, trying to make sense of that.]

Okay, so if I get what you're telling me... There are other worlds out there that take people away from home and trap them, these places can even take us when we're already in one of the others, and keep us in both places simultaneously, and they're all... connected, somehow? Do I have that right?

[magicalrealist]

Yes, exactly! Though sometimes they can take more than two of a person...

I haven't figured out how they're managing to pull off something this grand, but however they're doing it, they're doing it flawlessly and it's unsettling.

[friendyousohard]

That's... that raises so many questions. I don't even know where to begin. I need to make a checklist just to determine what I need to figure out about this phenomenon!

[magicalrealist]

I'll lend you my catalog.

(Just a bit of magic here and poof! A typical Twilight-proportioned log of questions and thoughts she's had on the matter ever since she came to this conclusion.)

But if I may...what kind of place is this, anyway? I've somehow seen a few of the other places that pull this sort of thing and this place looks the most...natural.

[friendyousohard]

[You know, she really should have expected this. She's already got the log open and is skimming through it, but that doesn't stop her from answering the question.]

This world is called "Johto". It's a place populated by humans and Pokemon. You probably have met humans by now, but I'm betting you haven't encountered Pokemon yet, right?

[magicalrealist]

Not really, but I know of them; some of the people I'm from are pokemon trainers and thought I was one for a while. I haven't had many experiences with them, unless that creature counts as one.

(It might not be too bad an idea to ask her a question or two before she unleashes her onslaught of them. This Twilight seems to know quite a bit.)

[friendyousohard]

Wait, thought you were a Pokemon trainer or a Pokemon?

[Because Rapidash.]

And... hold on, wouldn't that mean you've met people from this world?

[magicalrealist]

A pokemon. Let's just say some Poison Joke got into town and...I forgot the name of the fire unicorn of their world...

(She was stuck in Rapidash mode for a while. It was annoying with everyone freaking out about the flames.)

Technically yes, but I don't think theirs was called Johto. It was...Unova? That sounds about right.

[friendyousohard]

Rapidash. It really does look like us after that... little event with the Hydra.

Unova... I think that might actually be a part of this world. The name's familiar, at least. I guess saying the world was called Johto was inaccurate, since Johto's just part of it, like Equestria's part of a larger whole.

[magicalrealist]

All of that just for...actually, I don't want to think about it.

So that would make it a different region? That's very odd...someone's own home world isn't supposed to be able to just snatch up anyone it pleases. Something's wrong with this...