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// Twilight Sparkle: Logging In 
// Story: The Great Changeling Shipping Experiment 
// by Dusky Flower 
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Twilight looked over the rules. She sighed. "I can't believe I let Spike talk me into this," she said. "Oh well. I better try it out, I suppose."


She levitated up the MPVRD goggles and tightened them over her eyes. She then levitated the game chip and inserted it into the slot on the left side of the thick goggles. Instantly, a silver bodysuit began to expand out from the goggles and cover her body, leaving only a hole over her nose and mouth to breathe through. The goggles vanished, showing her glowing white eyes.

Twilight Sparkle looked in the mirror.

"Huh. I wonder why my eyes are- whaa!" The white glow began to thread through the bodysuit, expanding and swirling, as if it was weaving a complex tapestry. Then, suddenly, it began to glow much, much brighter than before...


*RSHKLKISKSHILSHIE*

That, apparently, was the sound of a certain purple librarian crashing into the kitchen.

Twilight reached up a hoof, rubbing at a bump on her head.

"Owwww..."

She slowly rose to her hooves, trying to survey the damage. 

It was... normal?

With all that clattering, something should have been broken. Twilight narrowed her eyes. Her keen mind would unravel this puzzle. String... by... string.

A slight smile curved the corners of her mouth upwards. This puzzle was going to be fun!


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Twilight trotted out of the kitchen, determined to check every room of the library. The bathroom where she had put on the goggles sounded like a good first place to start. 

Upon entering the bathroom, she saw what appeared to be a luminescent portal hovering about five inches off the ground.

It was very purple.


WELCOME PLAYER NAME HERE


"Gah!" she shrieked. Her body, reacting to the surprise, flung her upwards, and she hit her head on the ceiling.


PLEASE INSERT YOUR HOOF INTO THE PORTAL


Twilight scrambled backwards, and considered the strange... talking glowing portal in her bathroom.

Her hoof found its way to her face.

This had not been a very good day.

And it wasn't over yet.