“My turn! My turn! It's my turn now! I get to ask the thingy a thingy!” The ecstatic pink pony was bouncing like a foal (or a Pinkie Pie) on Hearth's Warming Morning.
“Yes Pinkie. Yes, it's your turn. You can ask it a question if you Just. Stop. Bouncing.” Twilight said in an effort to calm her friend down. She almost regretted doing this because Pinkie did indeed stop bouncing. Unfortunately she stopped while still in mid air, something that always bothered the physicist in Twilight.
Pinkie gently floated to the ground, ignorant to her defiance of gravity and its effect on her friend's mental well-being. The mare rushed over to the 'What If' machine and stuck her head completely inside the phonograph horn and said, “Oh my gosh! What should I ask? There are so many what if's and could be's and would be's and should be's and what not's and why for's and whither to's and ooh I just can't decide!”
Rainbow Dash perked up, “Well, if you need more time to think about it I coul-”
“Oh! I know what to ask!” Pinkie cut the pegasus off, who pouted with a huff. Taking a deep breath the party pony asked, “Oh magical mystery movie machine, what if we all lived in a fan fiction?”
The mechanism whirred to life and the flickering light filled the projection screen. Sitting down to view the show the six friends saw an image of the backs of six mares sitting in front of a screen watching an image of six mares watching a screen of etcetera. In fact the etcetera went on forever.
Twilight slowly tuned her head around, relieved to only see the basement wall behind her. Her on screen counterparts also turned their heads and were equally relieved. Tuning back she lifted her hoof in the air, and sure enough the other Twilights did the same.
“Well, this is weird.” The purple mare said. This statement was proven true by the echo effect coming from the machine's speaker. It was as if a million Twilights were speaking simultaneously, the nightmare of anyone who had ever been at the business end of one of her lectures.
“Oh. My. Gosh!” a wide eyed Pinkie exclaimed, “This is the coolest thing ever! And listen, we sound all funny! Echo! Echoo... eCHoo... eeeEChooo...”
Pinkie collapsed in a fit of giggles, while most of her friends were still too dumbfounded to react. She then got up and raced to the back wall of the basement, staring at it with an excited grin. “This is so cool! Woo, wooo, woo, wooo.” As the mare moved her head in and out, the face of the Pinkie on screen bobbed closer and further with each 'woo'. What was most unnerving for the audience though was the fact that the projected Pinkie seemed to be staring directly at them.
“Oh oh! I know! I know!” Inspiration struck Pinkie. She about-faced and lifted her rump, wiggling it at the wall behind her giggling, “Look at my butt! look at my butt!”
And indeed, said butt was on the screen for the world to see. This image left the five seated ponies struggling with embarrassment, and several other emotions they found deeply confusing.
“Ooo, this'll be the best trick!” Pinkie backed away from the wall, and with a bounding leap ran straight for it. Just as Projected Pinkie went as far as she could go, Solid Pinkie tore through the silk screen, landing on her back hooves with a proud “Tad-ah!”
The seated mares screeched and fell backwards. Twilight had had enough of this, clutching her pounding chest she shouted, “Pinkie! What the buck!”
“What? I've always been able to break the fourth wall, but this time I was actually able to break through the fourth wall.”
Twilight was about to yell at her friend some more, when a cold feeling of dread washed over her. She turned around, hoping against hope that there would be nothing there. There was nothing there. Or rather, there was her basement wall, and in it there was a hole that contained nothing, it was filled to the brim with nothing. Twilight gazed into the outer void, the space between space that mortal eyes are not meant to see. Then the Earth shook.
Space inside the library twisted and convulsed, like the death throes of some animal. The ponies screamed as time and space tore themselves apart. Twilight grabbed Pinkie by the shoulders and shook her as she cried, “Pinkie! You didn't break the fourth wall, you broke the BUCKING UNIVERSE!”
“Oopsie.” Pinkie said with an apologetic smile.
With that Twilight was sucked into the void. She was propelled through a tunnel of color and light, her physical body was stripped away, leaving her mind in a world of pure sensation. She became aware of what was around her and realized she had been here before, or someplace like it. It was when she had traveled back in time, the split second between disappearing and reappearing had been like this. But she was not traveling through time, she was traveling outside of time. Outside of time, outside of space.
“My Goddess, it's full of etcetera.”
Then all sensation stopped. Sight returned, and she gazed upon the universe. The entire universe. She focused in on the Earth and saw it as it is, was, and shall be. Time is not linear when viewed from the outside, it merely is, just as space merely is. All at once the planet before her was a ball of molten rock, a lush fertile paradise, a dead planet, a primordial sea, a frozen wasteland. She saw it orbit a strange sun which disappeared for unknown reasons. She saw Celestia's sun form and begin and end its orbit. She saw herself, fetus, foal, filly, mare, she was all of them. She would have seen even more if it wasn't for the damned monolith.
Darkness.
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“My turn! My turn! It's my turn now! I get to ask the thingy a thingy!” The ecstatic pink pony was bouncing like a foal (or a Pinkie Pie) on Hearth's Warming Morning.
“Yes Pinkie. Yes, it's your turn. You can ask it a question if you Just. Stop. Bouncing.” Twilight said in an effort to calm her friend down. She almost regretted doing this because Pinkie did indeed stop bouncing. Unfortunately she stopped while still in mid air, something that always bothered the physicist in Twilight.
Hahahaha, loved it. Pinkie breaking the universe is probably the most likely thing the 'What If' machine has predicted.
If the monolith's bugging you so much, Twilight, just give it the damned $3.50.
Love how it comes full circle, the way all the best reality breaking things do.
like this:
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"You've read it, you can't unread it! Stay tuned for more:
Tales
of
Interest"
Dafuq.
Why can't I stop laughing?
what if i never went to ponyville?
AND THEN BLUEBLOOD WAS AL GORE!!!!
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My brain exploded. O.O
Why cant I give this story more thumbs up? I miss the star system....
That was hilarious. Good job.
Now if you will excuse me, I am off to go see a sea-foam colored unicorn about getting more thumbs....
861523Sweet honey-bee of infinity!!!
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....Yes.
We must break the cycle if we are to get to the next chapter!
Big fan of futurama. Definitely going to read later.
"... so that's what would have happened if I'd invented the Finglonger..."
Pinkie Pie Destroys the Universe. Funny, i've been working on Pinkie Pie creates the universe.
oh Pinkie you so random
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
It would have been even funnier if the title hadn't given away the whole joke. The hole joke even!
Plus you wasted a superior chance to have Discord say "I'm so proud of you, Pinkie Pie."
The 'here we go again' twist was the one blemish on this fun work.
I was expecting reference to Space Balls... Hm, wait a second...
At first i was like
Then I was like .... oh buck
When you said time isn't linear, I kept reading expecting the words timey-wimey to show up...I was disappointed.
And then in the next chapter we find out that they were just watching a looping video of Pinkie Pie destroying the universe. Rainbow Dash says "Well, that was completely predictable."
It's a good thing that just because you're in a fanfic right now doesn't mean you're also not in at least one non-fanfictional universe.
...seems legit
Pinkie Pie destroyed the uiverse and then the univesal reset failsafe kicked in!.... Good, what will be next, What If Applejack was the queeen of Pop (Applejackson from the Apple 5) and What If Rainbow Dash were a robot unicorn?(Robot Unicorn Attack), What If twiligh where a vampire?(That somewhow sparkles from time to time?)
oh god pinkie created a continuum in the time space fluctuation, they are now stuck in a time loop until somepony fixes it or pinkie decides to ask a different question
So, what are we looking at now?
This is what's happening now.
What, now now?
Yes, now.
But what happened to then?
We missed it.
What!? When!?
Just now!
That's "death throes", rather than throws. Same pronunciation, different word.
"God-Empress Fluttershy"? You sold me RIGHT THERE!!
What if this was some kind of fantasy Twilight had thinking about what the worst was that could happen if Pinkie asked the machine a question?
[[Space inside the library twisted and convulsed, like the death throws of some animal.]] *throes
PINKIE NO, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, STOP IT.
Two relevant videos:
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862283 Science!
Oh, terrific! Give Pinkie the answer to any what-if? question? Are you mad?
Great story; I only found a single error. You wrote "Death throws" when it should be "Death throes." I honestly can not wait for more of this.
...I think you bent my brain...
I'm sure pinkie will eventually get bored of the paradox and stop it. Right.. right?
I...honestly don't know what to say about that last chapter...
Pinkie Pie! (shrugs)
Now THAT was funny.
"This image left the five seated ponies struggling with embarrassment, and several other emotions they found deeply confusing."
Like Pinkie said in the previous chapter: "Oh, I like where this is going!"
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Looks like watching the video isn't going to help. I guess it's time to comb the desert.
Let's see: Spaceballs reference, am I right?
Also: [Time] From a non-linear, non-subjective view point, it's more like a big ball of wibbley-wobbley... timey-wimey... stuff...
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There is a story about 4th wall complete obliteration. Reading your comment as if it was part of second chapter (there is only one).
Oh wait, it is Pinkie Pie. Thanks.
Pinkie: “Oh magical mystery movie machine, what if we all lived in a fan fiction?”
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So. Much. Meta.
So much for simply BREAKING the fourth wall
This story is crazy as Pinkie Pie yo.... so whack.
Ahem...
http://youtu.be/CpFdP5yATw0
861851 ...It took me five seconds to get that... I then proceeded to fall out of my chair laughing... I'll seek medical help for my upper body after the next chapter.
It all makes sense. Equestria is formed after humans end and the [The Magic Comes Back, like in Adventure Time. Maybe the both exist at the same time?
Sorry, this is what happens when you mindbuck me.
and now I'm surprised the universe survived pinkie's little cameo in my childhood...
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When will then be now?
Soon.
Hell yeah, 2001 a space odessy reference.
861502 God damn monolith, I ain't giving you no tree fiddy!