//------------------------------// // It’s alive! [Short] // Story: Live, Die, Repeat // by Hidden_Night //------------------------------// “Hammer.” Twilight lit up her horn, setting aside a screw driver. “Hammer.” I slid the hammer to Twilight. She battered down some nails. “Razor Blade.” The hammer was tossed aside, I’m pretty sure I heard glass and a cat meow, but that’s probably in my head. “Razor Blade.” I wonder why she needs one. We have a scalpel to the side. With a flick of my magic I slid a set of razor blades to her. With some cutting and some more slicing. She took a step back. Examining her work. Well, I also helped but we did it together. “Finally. After many moons. We have done it!” Twilight lifted up her goggles, letting her soot colored face to be broken up with her eyes. “Yep. I don’t know how long a moon is but we have done something.” Twilight took cables and attached it to the object. “Ground Spell active?” “Ground Spell refreshed for good measure.” “Good. Activating power in…3…2…1!” Twilight ran across the lab room and pulled down on a red handled wall switch. The object gave a soft hum, the other device attached to the object lit up, the valve on it slowly turns, hitting a value. Twilight rushed over to see the results and squealed in excitement. “Anonymous! We’ve reached 4 megawatts!” She’s stomping her hooves again, definitely stimming. God that is oddly adorable. “Nice!” “Anonymous, you don’t understand. This is about…3.8 times more than the current stove generator! We could win the Mare Bell Prize. I could see it now.” Is she daydreaming? She’s just closing her eyes and smiling. I mean, day dreams are technically dreams. This is an invasion of privacy so I’m just gonna peer in to see what she’s so excited about. Twilight imagined herself on stage, in a fine black dress, next to her was Anonymous in a black tux that matched her’s. Together they were on stage, an adoring audience before them cheering for them. “For the creation of the Crystal Engine, we hereby give Anonymous and Twilight Sparkle the Mare Bell Prize in Engineering!” “Thank you! Thank you!” Twilight felt tears in her eyes as she waved to the crowd, her friends were sitting in front, excited for her. “Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student. I am so proud of you.” Celestia flew down from above landing on the stage next to her. “I am honored Princess.” Anonymous walked over to Twilight and gently guided her face with his hoof. “I’ve been holding it in for a while, but would you like to go out with me?” “YES!” She tackled Anonymous to the ground, everyone still cheering. I stopped viewing as soon as I saw that. You know, I never expected her to actually like me that much. I had suspicions ever since Nightmare Night but this is a much different beast. How do I approach this? I can’t ask her out right now, it would ruin her fantasy. She’s also gotten really physical with me lately, a lot more hugs, some minor nose rubs. I know horses are more physical creatures whilst also being a matriarchal society, so she’s probably putting the moves on me. Considering the 35-65 split on males to females it makes sense to me that the females would be the ones to be the initiators. Also, Twilight reads to me as the male equivalent of a loser, so she most likely fantasizes about the male approaching her. Unless she just asks me out straight away, which is another event I’m not prepared for. I should probably prepare for when she does, as it stands I see myself as unworthy of dating a powerful wizard such as her. Though I’m feeling a strange sort of energy, erratic, intense and coming from upstairs. It feels like someone is blessing another person with talent in an ability. I should check that out, Twilight has resulted into cuddling a pillow right now. I think she forgot I was here. Might as well deal with the guest while I’m going upstairs.