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// Portals Throw out Cubes 
// Story: Cube of Color 
// by New-found-brony 
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Twilight walked through the corridor from the meeting hall. Another meeting that could've just been a letter. Sure, it takes a while, but it takes a whole lot longer to plan a meeting. You have to schedule the room, which can take longer than a month to get. Then you have to get ponies to actually show up to the meeting, get a whole bunch of answers for possible questions ready, fix your mane and put on formal wear, which is a pain in the flank to get on.
Anyways, while Twilight was still peeved that she wasted some valuable time for that meeting, she failed to notice the portal open up beside her. Then, just a second after, a multi-colored cube flew out and hit her in the head.
"Ow!" She rubbed her head where the cube had just hit her. She looked around and just barely saw the porta close. Uh, what? she thought to herself. She looked down to see the cube at her hooves, the white face looking up. She stood there for a minute, thinking of possible reasons what it is and why it was there. It could be a trap she considered. Yet, whoever gave her this cube knew it would interest her too much no to take. In the end, she used her magic to pick it up carefully. She kept it in front of her about 3 feet in front of her (about 1 meter for you fancy folk) to make sure it couldn't do anything to her. The last thing Equestria needs is another princess who just gets caught over and over.
She, surprisingly, passed very few ponies. Normally, especially at this time, ponies would be crowding the corridors, trying to go fill out paperwork and stuff like that. Something like this is a rare occurrence, yet she couldn't enjoy it. She had to figure out what this mystical cube was before anything can go out of control with it. Hah, like anything bad is going to come out of this... Cube she thought to herself. 
She turned the corner to Princess Celestia's former room. When Twilight first became Ruler of Equestria, she didn't want to do anything to it, but there wasn't anywhere to put a new Princess room. If they wanted to build a whole new section, it would take months just to start the planning, let alone actually building it. So Twilight, reluctantly, redid the room to her satisfaction. Books lined the walls as empty scrolls were put in a basket just under them. Her bed was a sturdy bed, fairly large, since her former teacher used to sleep in it. Of course, they got a new mattress. Who in their right mind would keep a mattress that used to belong to somepony else? 
Huh? Oh, right, the story.
Twilight set the cube down for just a moment so she could take her Princess clothing off. Apperentally, wearing the uncomfortable gold shoes gets less uncomfortable the longer you wear them. At least, that's what Celestia said. She figured it wasn't something she would ever get used to herself. She sat on her bed, feeling tired after that useless meeting. 
Twilight levitated the cube towards her. After the walk to her room, she concluded it wasn't a trap, or a prank sent by Pinkie Pie. Using her hooves, she looked around the cube. Each side, all different colors, seemed to have 9 pieces. One side was blue, another was orange, the one across was red, the one to the left was green, the bottom having yellow while the top was white. She scanned it for any possible thing she could do with it. She pushed them together, tried to pull it apart and even resorted to smacking it. 
Twilight was running out of ideas when she accidentally dropped it, bumping it while trying to quickly catch it, forgetting that she had magic. It fell to her wooden floor, causing one of the layers to rotate just a little to be noticeable. She used her magic to pick it up back, careful not to rotate the layer back into place. She put her hoof to it, slowly turning the side so that 3 different colors were on the side. It replicated that idea to the other 3 sides. She looked at the surrounding the sides: 3 blues on the red side, 3 reds on the green side, 3 greens on the orange and 3 oranges on the blue side. Other than that, nothing changed about the weird cube. 
She turned it back to its original state, setting it on her nightstand. She'd have to deal with it later, tomorrow most likely. She had to raise the Moon and lower the Sun as of right now. She grabbed her amulet and flew off to do her duties.



Twilight was glad that, after the Princesses retired, Luna decided it was best for her to continue to help in the sleep realm. She enjoys being in the sleep realm. It's comfortable for her, and she also had a lot of experience. Twilight did not. At all. She was all in for learning, but that felt too... Complicated for her, given she was only crowned Ruler of Equestria about a year ago.
Anyways, Twilight got her sleep like every other pony. She awoke, ready for her day. Her schedule was out already, near the door. She checked it, making sure to remind herself wha- Wait... I could've sworn... She double checked the paper to make sure nothing was missed. Nope, nothing was planned. Never has she had a free day to do anything since she moved into the castle. Somepony must've altered it.
"Discord!" she exclaimed, but in more of a whisper, since it was only 6:00 in the morning. The draconequus popped into existence outside on the balcony. "You called me, Princess?" he said in his, obviously guilty, innocent voice.
"Why is my schedule blank?" she asked
Discord turned serious, which is unlike of him. "Wait, you called me here because your schedule is blank?" He walked towards the door to examine it.
"Hm," he said. "This isn't something I would do, though it is hilarious." He laughed. "I did do something to that little cube  you've got over there." He pointed towards the night stand. Sitting on the table was the cube, yet the colors were all over the cube, not in their organized state.
"I- what?" Twilight couldn't believe it. She had the day off (apparently), and the weird cube wasn't correct! "Discord," she said angrily. "Fix it now, or I swear to Celestia you won't be seen again."
"And how are you going to do that exactly?" he asked.
"The Elements-" she started, then remembered that they're broken.
"Hm? The Elements of Thinking?"
"Forget it. Just go." Twilight was not in the mood to talk to him.
"Of course, your Majesty."
Twilight turned back to scold him, but he was already gone. She hated being called "Majesty" or  "Highness." It rubbed her the wrong way, because she never felt like a Royal pony. She was just like every other pony. Well, expect for the fact she had both a horn and wings.
With that, she turned to her nightstand, walked over and picked up the cube. Time to start a long day.