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// Sky Factory 03 
// Story: The Many Destinies of Sunset Shimmer 
// by ratedoni 
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And here they were, in the middle of nothing with just a floating block of dirt, suspended on an infinite void, while clouds and the blue sky continued marching on, not interested in the struggle of two girls who not long ago had fought against each other. Now, those two same girls were holding each other, knowing that in the loneliness of the world they now inhabited they were their anchor. Quite literally this time since they standing in the same block! One false move and one could fall, probably forever and neither wanted to see what would happen on a situation like that.

“Well, at least the dirt feels like… dirt.”

“Is that your conclusion Miss Sparkle?”

“I would smack you in the back of the head for being cheeky if it weren’t because I’m afraid I would fall backwards. Is just that I have to focus on something or my mind will pull back again on the fact that I am lost in another dimension and currently holding for dear life to the girl I almost killed this very same day!” It was clear that Twilight was very much holding onto Sunset not just for physical safety, but mental and the redhead decided to leave the bespectacled girl keep on holding her if that helped in anyway.

What Sunset did instead, was check once more the strange table in her hand. It didn’t look like any of the transmutation tables back home, with it being of some strange grey material with four slots allocated in it. She knew that the one she was holding on was as basic as it could get, but that it was not only this small, but portable? It meant that whoever put them on this world was very powerful or very good at creating magical devices. Also, thank you for your praise Sunset.

What each teenager had on them were only the clothes they were wearing, Sunset’s wallet and their cellphones, which had no connection considering they were in a pocket dimension isolated from anyone else. Aside from that they had something amazing, consisting of small blocks of wood alongside what appeared to be some kind of… sapling. One of the things had fall form one of the leaves that had disintegrated after destroying the tree. It was fascinating by itself considering it was nothing like neither teenager had seen before, but for now, they had other more important things to worry about, like what will they do with the very little space they had, but the redhead had an idea, it was a crazy one and certainly a desperate one, but they had no other option.

It was clear that the transmutation tablet was given to them for a purpose and it was probably the purpose she had in mind. Taking one hand away from Twilight’s waist -making the purple haired girl hold even tighter onto Sunset- she pulled the stack of wood from their pocket and leaving behind the mind boggling effect of seeing wood blocks become so tiny and being capable of holding so much mass in one hand behind, Sunset put the wood blocks into the transmutation tablet and something wonderful happened. As if by magic, the wood was absorbed by the tablet. In one of the slots there was the wood block and in the opposite white space there were… oak planks?

“Twilight, I think I found out what we have to do,” she simply said before putting her hand on top of the plank symbol and then, the wood planks, or better said, Oak Planks, as the transmutation tablet named, appeared on her hands.

“Is that what I think it is?”

“If it is our current problem solution? Yes, indeed.”

“I was thinking more about alchemy really, I mean, we exchanged one material for another of similar value?”

“I never pegged you for an alchemy student Twilight, but yeah, you could say that is how it works for the most part, is just that, most transmutation tablets need some kind of external energy source to initiate the change, I have no idea how this one works, but I’m not going to complain,” She said putting the tablet once more inside her jacket and carefully looked at the amount of planks she had “so for each wood block it gives us back four planks.”

“Which means we have twenty planks right now, but what are we going to do with them? We have no tools and no way to make a floor beyond breaking the rules of physics even more.”

“But Twilight, that’s the point, we are inside a pocket dimension, most rules don’t apply here,” Sunset said with a huge smile before concentrating in the plank floating gently in her hands. In an instant, a wood plank grew until it became the size of a regular block -at least in comparison with the original wood block- and with a nervous look; she slowly tilted into the right making Twilight quietly squeak in fright. With her hand shaking with uncertainty and some degree of fear, the plank basically stuck to one side of the dirt block they were standing upon. Looking at each other, the two teenagers gently shifted their feet and much to their relief, the block withstood their weight “well, seems we have some work to do,” Sunset said and after both teenagers put the planks around the dirt block and made a rudimentary, but useful wood floor, Twilight all but glomped Sunset in a mixture of relief and adrenaline fueled laughter.