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// The Object 
// Story: The Object 
// by Bjornfot 
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Twilight Sparkle was busy reading in her library as she heard a light knocking sound. She closed her book and began trotting towards the door, now opening it with her magic as she prepared to greet her unexpected guest. 
“H-hello T-Twilight...” the shy, yellow pegasus managed to blurt out, stammering. “We... uhm...”
A blue blur leaving a rainbow trail behind flew in through the door and landed on the opposite side of the room.
“So, I was helping Fluttershy look for one of her chickens that had ran off into the Everfree Forest, when we found this... really strange thingy. It’s most certainly magical, we thought you maybe would like to have a look at it. I’ve never seen anything like it before!” Rainbow Dash said with great enthusiasm.
“Great, we can bring it here to my library so I can study it!” Twilight responded.
“Well, in that case we might need some help, it’s really big and probably heavy too.”
After gathering Applejack and Rarity to help with pulling and magical levitating respectively, they soon sat on the floor of the treehouse.

It was a peculiar thing indeed. Perfectly cube shaped, three feet tall, made out of a hard, shining material. Flashing lights, odd-looking buttons and levers and bright displays with strange symbols decorating it. A faint *beep* could be heard every second or so.
“Hey, what’s that? What does the red button do?” said a bouncing pink pony that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
“Pinkie? Don’t touch any-” Twilight's words were too late, as the giggling filly already had begun to press random buttons. The others watched in horror as the object started to glow and beep intensely.

A loud explosion echoed through all of Equestria as Ponyville was razed to the ground. The End.