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// everyone stopped reading because they were now super hungry for Italian? 
// Story: What If... 
// by TheMajorTechie 
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"Psst,"

Twilight lifted her head. Spike swung down from the upper balcony, flashlight gripped between his teeth.

"How's progress on the black-out? Any readers return yet?"

Twilight shook her head in the darkness. Without regular roaming readers wandering her castle, there was no way to generate electricity! At least, not without kidnapping enlisting the citizens of Ponyville to run in the giant hamster wheel that the readers normally trapped themselves upon.

"Have you tried maybe not using the labor of hundreds of ponies at a time to power your Heccbochs Too?"

Spike was banished to the moon for treason.