"C'mon Bonnie" Lyra immaturely urged "I've got the presentation all set up."
"Calm down Lyra, I'm going as fast as I can." Bon Bon said as she recollected the last time she went down to the lab. "It was only a week, no, less than that, five days since the whole human fiasco ended," Bon Bon thought "I haven't really seen much of her since then." "How much trouble could she have gotten into in a frivolous five days?" The beige mare concluded upon rounding the corner to what should have been her shared basement.
Upon rounding the corner, she was greeted by a wheeled chalkboard with various illustrations she was sure her lime housemate standing next to the board. On the far right there stood some type of construct that had a curtain draping it and obscuring precise visual definition.
"Okay Bon Bon, Here we go!" Lyra exclaimed as she grasped a pointer with her magic and began. "Let's just say," she began "that you had 60 different flavors to make candy and also 60 different colored wrappers for the candies" she said as she pointed to an illustration in the upper left corner of the board resembling one of the wrapped candies that made up Bon Bon cutie mark "if you decided every day to make one candy and wrap it, but try to make a different combination of flavor and wrapping each time, You could only do that for 360 days."
Bon Bon took the chance to interject with "yeah, so what's your point" as she was fairly confident Lyra didn't call her down here to tell her about her own business.
"Well bon Bon," Lyra continued "my point is that the atoms that make up ponies" she says as she points to a sketch of an atom with electron rings "are kind of like those wrappers and candy flavors, they can only be arranged in so many ways before repeating itself. Which means that somewhere in the galaxy there's a world just like ours." She points to a drawing of two circles representing worlds separated by a vertical line and under each world a Lyra silhouette symbolizing the similarity in both worlds' societies (that's right the alliteration is back, but i won't really be trying too hard with it this time).
"And..." Bon Bon said to break her lecturer's pause along with moving her hoof in a circle urging her friend to notice her comprehension.
"AAAnd," Lyra pressed forward drawing attention to a similar drawing to the two worlds, except that instead of another Lyra silhouette on the right side, there was a stallion's shadow. "That also means that there are worlds out there that are nearly exactly like ours. For example a simple thing like the genders of everyone could be reversed."
Bon Bon chuckled in disbelief "So you mean to tell me that there's a world half way across the galaxy that's just like ours, except every mare is a stallion and every stallion is a mare."
Lyra, unfazed by her friend's disbelief, trotted over to the curtain saying "I'm not just telling you," she paused to use her mouth to yank the curtain off a large metal ring shaped gate "I'm showing you."
Bon Bon's mouth hung agape as she witnessed Lyra explain just what this thing was. "You see Bonnie, even with certain magic and constructs, interstellar travel is impossible unless there is a sufficiently magical anchor on the other side." Bon Bon stood confused so Lyra proceeded "But, since I know stallion me is casting the same spell..."
At this Bon Bon was able to interrupt "Lyra, where in the name of Celestia did you find such a spell?"
"Read it in a book. Lyra retorted powering up her horn and the machine ( remember, reading gives you knowledge, and knowledge is power.)
As a blue light flashed and filled in the ring, Lyra optimistically extended her hoof through the void and waved beings from across the galaxy to bring there entire bodies through. Bon Bon stood dumbfounded as a stallion version of herself was being pushed out by a stallion version of Lyra. Lyra broke the silence saying "Bon Bon I'd like you to meet Harpo and Dulce Dulce." The four of them stood with the duplicates face to face.
While Lyra and her stallion were going through introductions, Bon Bon just stared contemplatively at a stallion doing the same to her. "Sure he's a little bulkier the mane's a little short and his snout's more square," Bon Bon thought "but that's definitely me."
Bon Bon didn't know how to feel about this. She wanted to feel awkward or scared, but for some reason being around Dulce Dulce didn't make her feel that way.
Lyra, being much more assured as to her feelings, had a smile so wide she looked like a split watermelon as she said "You know what we should do Noooowww!"
Harpo after placing his hoof to his (much larger than Lyra's) snout pondering to assure he had the same thought proclaimed "SUPER AMAZING ULTRA INTERSTELLAR FOURSOME!"
Instinctively through the partial absence of conscientious objection, Bon Bon and Dulce Dulce joined their respective counterparts in affirming "YEAH!"
It was at this moment Lyra and Harpo shouted in unison "TO THE BEDROOM!"
"So that's what I am feeling," Bon Bon thought as she raced up the stairs on this magical afternoon "something not quite as vulgar as lust but physical love." Bon Bon thought about it and it felt right.
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Meanwhile on a stormy day in Hoofington, an orange mare shrouded in a dark hood approached a dark maroon tent.
A light blue veil of magic surrounded the edge of the tent flap opening just enough for a blue snout to pop out and ask "Do you have the payment?"
"You don't know the half of what it took me to get these now that all the human culture is on recall."the orange mare said as she levitated a package of peanut butter crackers up to the tent where they where then transferred to the light blue magic of their eventual devourer.
The blue unicorn said ushering her supplier out of the rain "You may now see The Great and Powerful Trixie, Sunset Shimmer."