Pony-Me™: Outtakes

by TheMajorTechie

Story Scraps - "Rewrite the script," (early draft)

Author's Note:

This original opening for the next chapter of Pony-Me was scrapped and rewritten simply because of the early conversation between Lisa and Samantha turning out as awkward and unable to flow naturally into the rest of the chapter.

Also, it's too fast-paced in comparison with other chapters. Given the speed at which the events are presented entirely through back-and-forth dialogue, the total chapter would've likely hovered far below the typical 1000-1500 word average for chapters in the main story.

"Why... why would it be a problem?" Samantha asked, gesturing to the on-screen Twilight Sparkle as she picked a book from her shelf. "Can't you just plop the other Twilight into the simulation?"

"Well, yes." Lisa nodded. "We can do that, but I'm honestly more worried about the reprecussions that come with it."

"Of which are?"

Lisa groaned, rubbing her neck as she thought. "Well, just what would you be thinking if a clone of yourself just... showed up out of nowhere, screaming at the top of her lungs?"

"Hrm." Samantha frowned, nodding. "You've got a point."

"And," Lisa continued, "I'd rather not delete that version of Twilight, either."

Samantha let out a long, drawn-out sigh. "So what are we supposed to do then? Merge the two?"

"That'd probably make things worse, given how my version of Twilight is corrupted."

The two girls fell silent for a moment, staring at the screen as the mare in the simulation read a book.

"Okay," Lisa blurted, throwing her arms out. "First off, we need a plan. It's not exactly a good idea to rush headfirst into something like this without knowing where we wanna go."

"It's just..." Samantha mumbled, "Where would we even start?"

"We can start by giving names to which Twilight Sparkle we're referring to." Lisa responded. "We'll just keep things simple and call them by exactly what they are. The one that's currently in the simulation we can call Simulation Twilight."

Samantha rolled her eyes. "Sure," she scoffed with a chuckle, "I mean, you're Captain Obvious here, amirite?"

Lisa shook her head slowly, a hidden smile on her face as she pushed off the table and grabbed a chair. "Yeah, okay." She countered. "Anyways, the one that was originally with me we can just refer to as Twilight."

"Sounds simple enough."

Lisa nodded. "And now comes the task of fixing Twilight."

"Wait. Are you saying that we're gonna manually repair her code?"