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// FanOfMostEverything's "Unleash The Macking" (Ponyamorous' "Unleash The Magic (Under Controlled Experimental Conditions)") 
// Story: Never The Final Word (Vol. 1) 
// by horizon 
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Several days later...

Twilight burst out of the portal, only stumbling a little. "I'm so sorry I didn't get here sooner! I didn't get your messages until just now because I was caught in this time travel loop and honestly, it was the strangest thing that's ever..." She trailed off. There was a marked lack of other transformed unicorns in the area. The rest of her local friends were there, at least. "Um, hi? Where's Sunset?"

Rainbow Dash glowered and rolled a soccer ball under her foot. "Oh, she's busy with her new girlfriend."

Twilight blinked. "Um... good for her? I take it the problem with magic got resolved?"

Rarity examined her nails and said, "They say they're making progress, but they insist that it's going to take quite a few long nights to be sure." She rolled her eyes. "Long nights alone together, lit only by the magic she sucked out of us."

"What!?" Twilight's jaw dropped. "Are you seriously telling me that Sunset is performing magical vampirism? That she can perform magical vampirism in this world? This... I don't even know where to—"

Applejack held up a hand. "She ain't the one who did the suckin'."

"Yeah!" added Pinkie, "it was you!"

Twilight tried to process this. After a moment, she asked, "So, is her girlfriend actually named 'You'?"

"It's the Twilight of this world," said Rarity.

Dash scowled. "And Sunset left us hangin' to go make out with her during the last event of the Friendship Games!"

"We still won," Fluttershy murmured.

"Of course we did! It's our school, we're gonna know the layout way better. But that's not the point! The point is Sunset got freakin' seduced by the girl who stole our magic!"

Fluttershy shrugged. "Not all of it. We've been recovering since."

Dash crossed her arms. "C'mon, Shy, I'm trying to be angry here."

After a few more moments, Twilight said, "So, Sunset and my analogue are studying Equestrian magic in this world?" This got several nods. "In controlled laboratory conditions?"

"Probably more controlled than they are," Dash grumbled.

"And they're getting results?"

Rarity rolled her eyes again. "So they say."

"They did fix the portal," said Pinkie.

Dash scowled. "Yeah, after Twilight's necklace ate it."

Twilight blushed. "Do you, uh, think they're ready for peer review?"