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// Where The Stuff Comes From 
// Story: Pinkie's Portable Pocket Dimension 
// by Ebunix 
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Infinity. Infinity is amazing. No matter from which point of view you look at it, it is and always will be a thing we don't fully understand. Imagine a random number of infinite lengths. A good example would be Pi. No, not you Pinkie, the number! Everypony knows that Pi is roughly equal to 3.14159265358979323846. But Pi does not end there, it is infinite in length. What's so interesting about it is that, no matter what number you can think of, you can find it somewhere in the digits after the decimal point. Infinity basically means that everything that could happen does happen and we just don't know when and where. This however does not only apply to numbers. This phenomenon can be applied to letters or texts as well. But even that is just a minimal representation of what is possible when using infinity. And that is the point where it gets interesting. 

Twilight Sparkle closed her notebook. She sighed, levitated the quill and ink aside and stared at the red cover of the professional looking item on her desk. 

"Ohh, infinity," Pinkie Pie whispered from besides her. "I've also got infinity over at Sugar Cube Corner. An infinitely big, gigantic, super-sized blue-straw-raspberry cake!" She grinned at Twilight, her cheeks stretching until they almost reached up to her ears. Literally. 

"Pinkie, you know that that is impossible," Twilight sighed, shaking her head at the usual randomness of her silly friend. "Even for you."

"What do you mean, even for you?" Pinkie looked confused, as if she really didn't know what Twilight had meant by that. "I've got lots of little infinities with me, see?" She reached behind her back with one hoof, pulled it back again and held… nothing?

"Even if we have got lots of air here in Equestria, I don't think that there is an infinite amount of it though. Trust me; it is impossible to create infinity. It is just there!" 

The pink pony rolled her eyes and let out a long sigh. "No silly, here, look closely." 

Twilight, knowing that she couldn't change Pinkies mind did as she was told, but could see nothing that would look uncommon to anypony. 

"Pinkie, there is nothing special about an empty hoof. Let's just go and see that super-duper cake you wanted to show me so badly a few minutes ago" 

She turned to leave the room, but Pinkie stepped in her way before she could do so.

"Stop right there Twilight!" She exclaimed, "If you don't believe me then I'll make you believe. Look here." 

She then clopped her hooves together as if she wanted to clap. As soon as she pulled them apart again she held a brick in her right hoof, which she had just pulled out of her left one.

Twilight's jaw dropped. "How…" she stammered, eyes wide open at the scene in front of her.

Now Pinkie was giggling. "What do you think how I can store all this useful stuff in my mane? Magic? I'm an earth pony; I have to follow the rules of physics!"

She then continued to pull other things out of her hoof. A baseball, a basketball, a pack of flour, some wires, a chair, a flute and to top it all off a complete piano.

Twilight wasn't more than a stuttering mess at this point, not believing what she had just witnessed. She knew that Pinkie did that from time to time, but she had never done it to this extent before. Pinkie just grinned and proceeded to stomp her hoof on the various items she had just pulled out of it, making them disappear inside of it one after the other. She stopped at the piano and turned to Twilight.

"You don't happen to need this, do you?"

And with that she stomped her hoof on top of it, making it disappear inside it as well.

"How…" Twilight gasped again, making Pinkie sigh in turn.

"Do you really want to know how this works?" 

Twilight didn't manage to say a word at this point; she just nodded wildly, her mouth still wide open.

"Alright then, I'll reveal my secret to you. But don't tell any of the others, it's a seeeeecret…" she whispered. 

She then mimicked drawing a door in the air with the hoof from which she had produced the items. As soon as she had finished the whole frame there was a flash of blinding white light. In the middle of the room there now stood a rectangle of bright, white light, seemingly made from pure energy. Pinkie walked towards it, poked her head in and looked around.

"It seems to be stable, come on in," she said, smiled and disappeared into the light.

Twilight, who had regained a bit of her composure by now, blinked a few times and walked towards it as well. She carefully lifted a hoof and placed it against the white light. There was little resistance, and as soon as she pushed her hoof through it, it began to suck her in. She let out a yelp and disappeared in a flash.

A few moments later there was a knock on the door. Then another. The door opened and a purple head with green scales peeked in. Noticing the white thing in the middle of the room the little dragon shook his head and just left without any further words.

Twilight had just fallen into a pile of… things. It consisted mostly of things she didn't recognize or couldn't place anywhere, but some things looked familiar. The piano, the brick and the basketball as well.

Pinkie was swimming through the air towards Twilight, who had given up trying to understand any of this. She just accepted everything as fact by now. 

"Never heard of something called pocket dimensions?" Pinkie asked. "They are very useful, especially if you have to store lots of things that could be handy at some point. Though I have no clue what this here is…" 

She held up a tiny metal sphere on a stick, turned it around in her hooves and finally threw it away over her shoulder.

Something in Twilight's brain must have stopped working, because she was just staring ahead, not noticing anything around her anymore. This had simply been too much, even for Pinkie Pie standards. 

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"Twilight? Twilight!" She heard Pinkie shout.

With a jerk she sat upright, having just been awoken from her short nap on her desk. Pinkie Pie slammed the door open and rushed over to her in a flash. 

"Twilight! You won't believe me, but I've just made the biggest, most gigantic, super-sized blue-straw-raspberry cake in the whole. Wide. World! You need to have a look at it, now!" She blurted out, without giving Twilight any time to fully awaken. 

"Yeah, sure," she said, "Let me just finish this little entry about infinity…"


Oh no…