[Several Weeks Later]
“Oh boy, finally!” Spike jumped out of Twilight's backpack and rushed up the stairs towards his favorite sleeping spot. “That whole school stuff was even more boring than usual today. I'm gonna nap for days!”
Twilight chuckled. “You're gonna nap for hours because that's the longest you can go before you're begging for a walk again. Have a nice nap, though, I'm in my lab.”
“Have fun, don't turn food into not-food!”
Twilight giggled and shook her head at her dog's priorities, then walked out to her small lab, booting up the computer and moving around to set some things up and grab a medium sized puzzle box from a drawer.
Going back to her computer she opened her music files, starting up one particular song that had always seemed fitting in many ways for this particular project, and humming along with the beat.
‘I'm not the damsel in distress’
She tapped her foot along as she twisted the puzzle box, keeping an eye on the song's timer. At a particular timestamp she paused the video, counted to five and clicked play again, a hidden folder popping up as the song continued.
'Oh, it's magic...’
Opening the folder she pulled up several files onto the screens, then turned her attention back to the box, making the last few twists to open it and reveal eight large round tags with circuitry framing a large round empty slot in the middle.
'Oh it is fantastic, I see something, I blast it
And let me tell you why’
Twilight smirked as she took off her necklace, slotting the geode into the appropriate tag and putting the whole thing around her neck again as she made her way over to the mirror hung on the wall.
'See, I find this business rather fun’
Her brother had always jokingly said that with her intellect she could one day take over the world if she wanted. Not that Twilight actually did want, but there was a reason that the files were saved under Project Omega. Even as a last option she liked to think that she wasn't likely to go through with it, but mostly it was a code phrase and a proof of concept.
Magic was spreading around them and had already put them at risk several times. But anything you prepared to help achieve world domination was bound to hold up in most other situations as well. Project Omega was for all those things you only pulled out when you were running out of options.
'Why? Come on, guess!’
Twilight wrapped her fingers around the tag, activating it with the geode’s magic. Glowing pixels surrounded her for less than a second before fading away again. Twilight the Healer looked back at her from the mirror for another second before disappearing with a glow of her hand in another wash of pixels, leaving Twilight the Swartalfar Artificer in its stead.
Twilight tilted her head slightly, then smirked just enough to show her fangs and purred along with the end of the song.
“Or bold girl.”