“So are we doing this?”
“Y-yea, I thought we already covered this!” Twilight had been helplessly hanging on the wheel in upside down position.
"Goody! Now we just pull this lever, and..." Pinkie pulled the wooden lever with a silver gem. Nothing happened. "Well, that's awkward," Pinkie Pie pulled the same exact switch multiple times, still with no result.
"Pinkie Pie you forgot the power supply unit."
"The what now?"
Twilight wanted to gesture to the vintage metal box right behind Pinkie, however, she was a bit tied up by Pinkie Pie herself. "Its a metal box right behind you."
"Oh, you mean this old thing?", Pinkie Pie turned around, her attention was at that box, her response raised an eyebrow from Twilight.
"I...I just like vintage technology, it's not because this thing was super cheap and Princess Celestia cut off my funding."
"If you say so," Pinkie Pie flipped a switch on the box "The most important thing is that I get to pull the lever, and I already did it ... but it didn't work out so I did it again ... and then again ... and again ... and again ...."
Pinke ... The lever please."
"Right, sorry, one last pull of the lever coming right up," Once again Pinkie Pie pulled a wooden lever with a silver crystal. This time around it worked, gentle humming noise of other machines spring up in the castle room.
It was silly actually, back in the day when Twilight still has her tree house her lab was in the basement, that's probably what saved all of that fancy expensive equipment when the tree exploded and the basement acted like a bunker. Now Twilight has an entirely separate room in a castle to house all of that equipment, and Twilight made sure that this particular room was an explosion proof, bullet proof, noise proof, and accident proof. As well as she made sure to install a temporal field that rolls back time by 24 hours, so even if they screw up, then at least nopony isn't going to die due to the massive explosion.
Several minutes the machine stopped humming and then started beeping signaling that it's finished recording the brain signals of a single alicorn princess.
“Say Twilight do you remember the changeling invasion?”
“Y-yeah,” Twilight answered as if she was unsure what exactly Pinkie was asking, in fact, she had no actual idea. “What are you suggesting? I mean, what are you trying to say?”
“Well, you see, the funny thing is…” Pinkie Pie trotted all the way to the blackboard and took the white chalk in her mouth. “Bleeh, Twilight do you really had to buy a blackboard, you do know that whiteboard is a thing now?”
“Pinkie what's that has to do with the wedding, or for that matter, I don't see how it’s going to be any better.“ Twilight swallowed, “I mean I just don't know, markers can be very addictive.”
“Well, okay then, I just thought I will give you an idea,” Pinkie Pie nodded, and then quickly sketched an image of herself holding Twilight by the neck with one hoof and spinning her tail, which then caused purple beams shooting out of Twilight’s horn.
“Um...”
“Do you see this, this is how much influential you have been back then, and that's was when you didn't sprout wings.” She then re-sketched Twilight as an alicorn in a standing position. “Now imagine the possibilities of an upgraded you.”
“Pinkie, I am not some kind of weapon system!” Twilight protested, she wanted to articulate her hooves but she couldn’t do that, she was currently tied up.”That was an emergency and you touched me in inappropriate ways.”
“So you aren't going to admit it… wait inappropriate?”
“Yes, you grabbed me by the tail...and...”
“You didn't say no, I just assumed that you were in the zone.”
“I … I ...I just can’t find words for that.”
“So you didn't enjoy it?”
“I didn’t say that Pinkie just makes sure to ask first before you do something like that again,” Twilight blushed.
“Speaking of weapon systems, I don't think I can imagine what you can do in your Alicorn state, in fact, all of us saw what you can do. Did I mentioned how you used your horn to create a super-powerful blast when Tirek went on the rampage.”
“That was...”
“Came on instinctively?”
“Maybe,” Twilight sounded a bit unsure of herself. “I don’t really know for sure. That beside the point, I was pumped full of extra magic from Celestia, Luna, and Credence. On my own I am really weak, I mean really have you seen what Starlight Glimmer can do. I analyzed all of what happened between us, and I still ain't so sure if she was just lucky that I never trained in combat magic.”
“You don't?”
“Not really,” Twilight shook her head. ”What gives you that idea?”
“You constantly fire particle beams from your horn, isn't that a combat magic application?”
Once again Twilight shook her head, this time in disappointment. “You mean that back then when I shot a laser beam at Starlight, but I missed so it cut a cloud in half,” Twilight eyes widened. “Dear Celestia I … I wouldn't have actually killed her, I mean that’s crazy. At one point I tried to stun her by encasing into the crystal."
"Is it, you feel threatened and instinctively you wanted to stop her at any cost," Pinkie Pie paused for an effect. "At any cost," she narrowed her eyes.
“No! Just no! I don't think that you realize is that so-called laser beams aren't a spell at all. Those are just a very basic form of energy manipulation affected by how much brute force you are applying.
“Think about it, what exactly happened when Flurry started sneezing? She released an uncontrolled beam of energy. Do you really think that she applied a spell theory every time she sneezed?”
Pinkie Pie thought for a second, “Well now that you mentioned, I don't really know I mean was she?”
Twilight shook her head, “Of course not, she is just a foal, she doesn't know what she is doing. So are you going to unlock it?” Twilight gestured at the release lever that was on the other side of the room.
"Oh right, I guess I could do that," Pinkie shrugs off and then trotted to the release lever and pulls it, several small clicks signified that it released the locks, and Twilight fell on her flunk. Pinkie Pie heard the sound, "Sorry, I should have warned you."
"That's okay," Twilight shook her head, she felt slightly dizzy from the fall," Say did you received all the necessary information for your magic emitter?"
Pinkie Pie blinked, "What? I ... um ... yes, I am. Say, is this a torture chamber or a science lab?"
Twilight stood up and trotted next to her, "its supposed to be a science lab."
"Aha," Pinkie Pie sounded very unconvinced.
"I am serious it is a lab," Twilight protested.
Pinkie waited until Twilight trotted all the way to the exit, "Oh I believe you Twilight, it's just my hoof doesn't" She pulled a green lever with the purple gem, which then caused to trigger the manual override of a time warp
Twilight blinked she was once again has been connected to the restraining wheel, she was pretty sure she was about to leave that place, however, she felt her head slightly fuzzy.
“Hi Twilight, this is your doctor Pinkie Pie talking, so how are you feeling?”
“I .. um … I am not sure, my head is a bit fuzzy and I am not sure why.”
Doctor Pinkie raised an eyebrow, “You are not sure, huh! What’s the last thing you remember?”
“The last thing? Don’t you remember Pinkie we were just started to discuss the fact that I never actually learned combat magic.”
“ Yes, that I believe we already covered this twenty thousand or so times.”
“Twenty thousand! What are you talking about?”
Doctor Pinkie trotted side to side “What I am talking about it's not really important, what's important is that I am doing a scientific experiment. So to clarify you don’t actually remember what happened after?”
Twilight was slightly confused “what happened after… Pinkie please, you are confusing me.”
Pinkie raised a recording device and started talking, “Trial number 645,534 the subject seems to not remember the temporal anomaly, however, she subconsciously tends to reject reality, by stating that her head seems to feel a bit fuzzy. Right, then I guess that's enough for today.”
Pinkie Pie trotted to the release lever and then pulled again, she once again heard Twilight falling down on her flunk. Once again she apologized and then heard Twilight dismissing her by saying that she doesn't technically mind.
"Once again Twilight I am really sorry for what happened right now, you might not remember it, but I did act out in a bit of creepy right now."
Twilight shrugged off, "No, no, it's fine. You are just you I guess," She then trotted next to the exit.
Doctor Pinkie raised the dictation machine to her face, "The subject seems to want to escape so she naturally gravitates to the exit."
"Um ... Pinkie Pie?"
"Yes, Twilight."
"This may sound a bit silly, but did you swap our brains or something?" Twilight blabbed out her question, she then noticed Pinkie Pie froze herself in fear, "Pinkie!"
"Uh ... I refuse to answer that question," Doctor Pinkie, or how she was known to her friends as Pinkie Pie dashed off from the Twilight's lab
Twilight sighed,"Well okay then, that was a bit weird."She trotted back to the lab, "What the hey am I doing? Maybe Pinkie is kind of right, the time warp wasn't the best idea. Uh ... my head ..."Twilight flinched, "I think I need some fresh air." Twilight slowly trotted outside, and then closed the door. She then turned around and screamed, "Gaaah!"
"Gee Twilight is everything alright?" Spike was right in front of her face and his sudden appearance spooked her.
"Oh I am sorry Spike I just spend so much time with Pinkie, and now I just need some fresh air ... I am not really sure ... I think it felt like several years in that room."
"So, Pinkie Pie," Spike scratched his head. "I think I saw her running away from the castle. When I tried to call her she yelled at me that she id not switched yours and hers brains with each other."
"Twilight nodded nervously, "Yeah that sounds like Pinkie Pie alright. Don't worry about her she will brood and then come back to us. More importantly, remind me to remove the temporal field from the lab at some point."
"Are you sure about that? I mean that sounds a bit dangerous."
"Absolutely positive, the system can be abused and Pinkie just demonstrated it to me in the most polite way she could do."
Spike made sure that Twilight was escorted to her office and then he continued to keep her company "So um I go and get some relaxing tea that Zecora happen to gift us."
"Yeah okay," Twilight nodded to Spike, relaxing sounded good at this point. "Did I ever told you a story about cupcakes?"
"Uh ... Twilight I am not really sure..." Spike started saying, however, Twilight interrupted him.
"Don't worry about it It's not really important, you don't want to hear it anyway ... Um, Spike?" Twilight looked around the room but Twilight couldn't see him, he already run away, "Traitor!" She just sighed and then let it go because she knew that he will eventually come back to her, all of them will.
She stood up, and then trotted next to her table, she took a quill and the parchment and started writing.
Dear, Princess Celestia, today I am writing to inform you that per Pinkie Pie's request both of us spent quite a while in my former basement laboratory, which was now simply called the grand laboratory.
While we managed to figure out how to create an artificial horn, I must say that it nearly took us ...
Twilight concentrated trying to remember the exact number, she happily nodded to herself when she did so.
It took us three hundred forty-three years thirty-two weeks, five days, sixteen hours and thirty-two minutes. I know the whole thing sounded like really ridiculous concept,
since it took us this long to figure out the basics but hear me out.
You see I used a Time Warp spell that resets an environment by Twenty-four hours, the idea sounded like a great idea except that we need to make it so that we would somehow retain all of the knowledge that we are creating.
So Pinkie Pie was chosen to be a vessel. Which means that she would have to perform the manual reset every single day for nearly three hundred and forty years.
Sometimes we talked about the thing, sometimes about the other things. Sometimes I think that we pushed a bit too far out. Because from what I am starting to feel self-aware of. I could tell that Pinkie had been enjoying it less and less. I think that she simply felt sorry for both of us, so she just terminated an experiment.
At some point, she started to call herself Doctor Pinkie, and I really ain't so sure if she was using a medical title or a strictly academic title. I am pretty sure that in both cases she is more qualified for both of them by heart.
I have a feeling that the process of discovery isn't without its flaws. According to the, eh Doctor Pinkie my mental health had been slowly degrading every hundred or so cycles, past two hundred years or so.
I feel like I am starting to run out of the things to say, so I try to be brief, I am not really sure about the details of Pinkie Pie state of an Alicorn alignment, I simply forgot to ask. Another thing is I simply don't remember. This maybe sounds like a really crazy idea but maybe, just maybe Pinkie Pie managed to figure out how to mask her Alicorn state by simply pretending to be a simple earth pony.
It would certainly explain a lot of things about her, Pinkie Pie is, in fact, a Rogue Alicorn, no normal Earth Pony can do what she does on daily basis.
Right now I think I will take a simple Short vacation if you don't mind, just us and the girls. I suppose you and Luna are invited to.
Yours, Princess of Friendship Twilight Sparkle.