BOOM
“Damn it!” Twilight yelled at no pony in particular. “That’s the fifth time that’s failed on me!” Twilight pulled the safety plugs from her ears and grabbed the broom and mop to clean up the mess the potion had caused.
The metal desk that she used to mix potions on was stained black from explosions at this point. She growled to herself, rubbing her temples with her hooves. “This mixture is so exact… I need something more precise than an eye dropper.”
She paced back and forth, for she had nothing of that sort in her possession, and she had no idea what to do. She went to another desk that she kept in her basement that had the instructions for the potion. She had found the mixture tucked away in a random book she was reading over alternate-dimensions. It didn’t say what the potion was used for, and the page it was tucked into gave no real clue as to what its purpose was. All she could find on the page was the word “midichlorians” written on the top of the page and circled.
She had also found in the book a spell so complex that it even confused Twilight to look at. It did come with a little more explanation, claiming that it would teleport the user to an entirely new place. Besides the fact that the spell hurt her brain to look at, she decided the potion would be the easier and safer of the two to experiment with first. Easier or not, though, it was giving her lots of problems.
“Twilight! Are you okay down there? The first four explosions I ignored, but this is getting a little insane!” Spike called down from the top of the stairs. “Also, I made you some tea! Can I come down?”
“Yes, please! I need to take a break anyways.” Spike came down the stairway and into Twilight’s lab. Twilight had converted the previously barren basement of the treehouse library into a research lab that sported all the equipment and materials she would need to make simple – and complex, depending on how complex – experiments.
The lab was fairly large, having been carved deep into the ground with plenty of space. All of the building’s water pipes ran across the ceiling of the lab. Twilight had them enchanted to make sure that they would not leak – the telltale sign being a purple aura surrounding the pipes. The space was approximately a 100x30x150 foot area that had all sorts of gadgets and work benches. There were alchemy tables and machines and all sorts of things that Spike could not comprehend. As Spike descended the stairwell, he saw Twilight bashing her head against a wall.
“I take it things aren’t going so well?” Spike said, walking over to Twilight with a glass of tea in his claws.
“I can’t even tell you. This potion I’ve been working on all day requires the most precise amount of ingredients. The eye dropper just isn’t precise enough, and I can’t be right in front of it to see the amount I’m putting in exactly, because it’s too dangerous.” Twilight took the tea in her magic and took a big gulp. She sighed and wiped her muzzle with a hoof.
“What is the potion, anyways? What’s it supposed to do?”
“I don’t even know. The page in the book I found the mixture in had only one thing that stuck out, and that was the word midichlorian at the top, circled. I have no idea what that word means.”
“It sounds like some sort of chemical to me. Have you tried to look at that spell yet?”
“No, I haven’t. I guess I might as well try.” Twilight another took a big drink of her tea. “This potion making has got me exhausted. Let’s go upstairs to the kitchen, and I can look at the spell up there. And thank you for the tea, Spike!”
“It’s no problem!” The two went back upstairs to Twilight’s kitchen. It was midday, so the sun was shining bright through the window. Twilight’s kitchen was glowing in the midday sun. It was a warm, summer day outside. The kitchen was very neatly organized, but not by Twilight’s design. Spike was the one who stayed in the kitchen and kept it so clean. The two sat down at the kitchen table and Twilight laid the spell down on the table, sitting her glass of tea well off to the side, as not to spill anything on it.
Twilight sometimes felt a bit guilty staying down in her cold lab on a day as nice as this one, but she really needed to figure out what the spell and potion were about.
“It’s so much nicer up here than it is in that basement. Now, let’s take a look at this spell.” Twilight unfurled the piece of paper that had the spell on it and spread it flat out on the dining table. To Spike, all he could see was a bunch of weird symbols written out and a bunch of shapes.
“So what makes this spell so complicated compared to any other?”
“Well, it’s sort of hard to explain. You see, how we unicorns do our magic is by using connections in our brains to form it. That’s how to interpret the shapes and geometric figures you see. The different symbols tell you what you’re connecting. It’s actually possible for any type of pony, be it unicorn or earth pony, to make these connections in their minds, but it’s only possible for unicorns, through their horns, to draw the power from those connections. It’s not necessarily the appendage itself, as much as it is what’s inside. Also, what makes it so hard to the other races is that they can’t feel the connections, even when they are made.”
“Anyways, what makes this spell so complicated is how it’s connecting these different elements.”
“Elements?”
“Yes. That’s what we call the different types of connections the mind can make. It sort of works like a language. Here’s an example right here of why this is so weird. You see these four symbols here, in the perfect points of a square around a circle. They’re very basic elements, but the connection it wants you to make with the points on the circle just makes no sense. These elements are what we call ‘squared’ elements. That means the connection they normally make is straight lines. I can’t really explain to you what that means, but the fact it wants you to make rounded connections between the four makes no sense. The entirety of this spell is like that.” Twilight took another drink of her tea, giving the spell a good long think.
“My… My head is spinning.” Spike said staring blank faced at the piece of paper.
“Yeah, mine too. I wasn’t lying when I said this spell makes my head hurt. Trying to make these connections actually physically causes me headaches. But, I’ll never know if I don’t try, I guess. I really haven’t put much effort into figuring this spell out.”
“Do you think the spell is flawed? Like, maybe it’s not written out right.”
“No, that can’t be true. I know that, because I know what would happen if you were to change the stuff here. If you changed the rounded connections to square connections in that one I showed you here,” She pointed to the spot on the paper, “then you have just a simple teleportation spell. Buuut…” Twilight’s ears perked up, and her eyes went wide. “I think I got it!”
Spike blinked at her.
“You see, these elements represent the deconstruction of matter, keeping the matter in consistent shape and form, the movement of the matter, and then the reconstruction of the matter.” She pointed to the different symbols with her hoof as she mentioned them. “ The reason we use square connections between these elements is because it helps us visualize how the spell works. If you accomplish these steps in a curvature order, you have the potential to mess one of the elements up. It’s a lot easier to move matter, especially yourself, in a straight line than it is a curvy line.”
“I guess that makes sense.”
“Keep in mind, this notation isn’t the spell itself; it’s just a visual aid for us unicorns to help make the connection in our head”
“Okay, but you said that it’s hard to move matter in a curvy line. Doesn’t that mean you could mess up the teleportation, and mess up an important element?”
“Yes, it does. No one said this spell was a safe one. So if we look at this spell like I just said, let’s start from the beginning. These elements here are connecting as they would normally; this is the connection you first draw to steady the matter in an object and prepare it for movement. This may seem like a lot of stuff to think about, but it really becomes as second nature as speaking after a while. This is the first step to the most simple of levitation as well. “
“Then here you have that weird circle connection thing. Also, take notice that it’s a full circle. Normal teleportation would leave out this right side here, meaning that there is no connection to the deconstruction phase after the reconstruction phase in the same spell. But this keeps the side, which is odd.” Spike just gnawed on some gems that he had retrieved while Twilight was talking. He nodded his head like he understood.
“Then this third part of the spell is what makes it different from normal teleportation.”
“It sort of looks like the same thing as the second part.”
“You’re right; the connection is the same, but the elements are different. This is… Oh my gosh, this is actually a time manipulation spell!”
“Time manipulation?”
“Yes! This has never been discovered itself as far as I know! Oh my gosh. It’s so simple, too! Let me show you.” Twilight’s horn glowed, and then she disappeared. Spike’s eyes went wide, and looked around, only to be tapped on his shoulder from behind, scaring him to the floor.
“Ahhhh!”
“Oh my gosh it worked! I was able to stop time around me, essentially making the time for me to move behind you non-existent!” She ran back over to the scroll, looking at the rest.
“Okay, so that means that the teleportation is to be used in conjunction with time manipulation… So it wasn’t kidding, this is truly a complex teleportation spell. So this… this connection here represents space manipulation, which is extremely dangerous.”
“Why is it so dangerous? What makes it so different from moving matter?”
“Well, the thing is, is you’re actually manipulating the space which the matter exists in. It’s banned from use and teaching, and there are probably very few ponies in all of Equestria that even realize its existence. The princesses obviously know, and I know, and maybe a couple other scholars. With this spell, I could take the space around this glass of tea, and compress the space to a point where it causes the glass to actually collapse into a black hole.”
“W-what?! You’re kidding!”
“I’m not. As I said, it’s a very, very dangerous spell. It would take a good bit of effort to do it, though. It’s not impossible in the slightest, but it would leave you extremely tired. But, this clarification here in the connection actually tells you how to manipulate the space around you. What you’re actually doing with the transportation spell is not moving matter persay, but moving the space around you. That’s why the connections are curved! It must be safer to move space in a curvy line, because of how gravity works. Also, moving the space around you, instead of your matter, allows you to actually move in the fourth dimension!”
“…You lost me there.”
“We may see in 3D, but our universe is actually a 4-dimensional universe. It’s… very complicated, and warrants no easy explanation. Anyways, the last part of this spell tells you the spatial/temporal coordinates of where you’re going. I really need to tell the Princess about this! This absolutely amazing! But now that I have that figured out -- and I think I could probably attempt to use it if I wanted -- I want to finish that potion. That spell would require an immense amount of energy on my part, though.”
“Could you actually do it?”
“Yes, but I would have to be at full capacity, and I would need a good deal of rest afterwards: possibly an entire day’s worth.”
“Wow… So I’m guessing this isn’t something that a normal unicorn could pull off.”
“Not particularly, no. I think I’ve also got an idea of how to mix this potion; follow me.”
“I don’t know, I don’t want to be around any explosions when they go off.”
“It’ll be fine this time; I promise!”
“Okay…” Twilight finished off her tea and galloped excitedly down to her lab. Spike hesitantly watched as she mixed the potion for the sixth time. It took about five minutes until she was ready for the final ingredient.
“Okay, so how I plan to do this, is like this. I need ¾ of what this eye-dropper drops with one drop. So, if I were to…” she drops the drop in the air and catches it in her magic “…use a magical splitting spell,” She split the drop into perfect halves, “…split one of the perfect halves in half…” she did so, “..toss the excess, and recombine the fourth with the half…” she did so, “…and tada!; The perfect amount that the spell calls for. I will now suck this into the eye dropper and then add it to the potion. Now, let’s retreat behind the glass, just in case.”
Twilight and Spike retreated behind the glass. Twilight didn’t bother putting in the ear plugs this time. She hovered the eye dropper above the potion, and dropped in the drop. The potion let out a small puff of smoke and a pop, but didn’t explode. The liquid turned from a green color to a purple color.
“Aha! Just the color the mixture said it would turn. Now the question is… What does it do?”
“You’re not going to just drink it, are you?”
“Well… honestly with potions, there’s no other way to test them. If the potion was made by the same pony who made the spell, which it probably was if you were to compare penponyship, then it’s probably a legit potion. That spell was a working spell, so I see no reason why this would be a faulty potion. It’s not very much either. Well…” Twilight walked over to the beaker and grabbed it in her magic. “I guess it’s bottoms up. Hmm… I can sort of feel the potion… that’s weird. Oh well, here goes. “ Spike’s eyes went wide as Twilight drank the potion in one small gulp. She grimaced at the taste, but from Spike’s point of view, nothing seemed to happen. But from Twilight’s it felt like she had just had a cold lifted from her head. All of a sudden, she didn’t just see and hear her surroundings; she felt them.
The sensation started small. She all of a sudden felt more aware of Spike’s presence. That awareness became even stronger, and then she could feel all of the objects in the room, and then even herself. Her eyes went wide as her senses were unleashed.
“T-twilight? You don’t look so well.”
“I… I feel amazing. You don’t feel so amazing.”
“I don’t?”
“No, and I can feel that from you; you're worried about me. It feels like I just had a seventh sense opened up to me. It feels so different from magic.”
“So the potion worked?”
“I think so. It had a near immediate effect on me. I really need to tell the Princess about this! Spike, gather my normal travel things; we’re going to Canterlot!”
“Okay!”
It was about six in the afternoon when the train finally pulled into the Canterlot station. Twilight and Spike stepped off onto the platform. Twilight took in a deep breath of the mountain air.
“Okay, let’s take the quick way. Get ready!”
“Okay, I’m ready.”
Twilight closed her eyes and focused her magic, and then the two of them and all of their luggage appeared in Twilight’s old room in the castle. The first time Twilight realized she could do that was a happy time for her. Teleportation became so much easier after she made a modified version of the teleportation spell, which modified the normal spell to actually move the matter directly to the spot she wanted, and not actually moving it across the plane. It took a lot of research, but it made the difficulty of the teleportation rely not on both distance and ability to move the matter, but entirely on distance. It also increased the range, because as long as she could magically focus on the location she was going, which worked for a good two to three miles for her, depending on the day, she could move the matter without having to move it across the distance, only directly to the final destination.
The Princess kept Twilight’s old room vacant, so that she could stay in Canterlot any time she needed to. She moved her travel stuff to the bed and brought with her the saddle bag. Spike jumped on Twilight’s back, and she galloped quickly down the halls to the throne room.
The guards recognized her immediately and allowed her through, where she ran up to the Princess. Celestia seemed surprised to see her.
“Twilight, my faithful student! What a surprise to see you here on such short notice!”
“I’m so sorry if I’m interrupting something important!”
“Oh, not at all. Even if you were, I’m sure that this matter must be just as important, since you didn’t even send me a letter to announce your visit.”
“Again, I apologize very much! It’s just, I made a huge discovery today on two fronts, and I thought you needed to be the first to hear about them!”
“Of course. Here, let’s go to somewhere a little more private and convenient for study and explanation than the throne room.”
“Yes, of course!” The trio made a short trek to the war room right off of the throne room. The room hadn’t been used for its intended purpose in years. Twilight spread out the scroll with the spell on it, and the mixture for the potion out on the table.
“So I was reading a book last night about the possibility of different dimensions existing other than our own, and on a certain page I came across this spell, and this potion mixture. As you can see, the spell is very different from normal spells, and this potion mixture is very precise in its measurements.”
“I’m guessing you didn’t bring these to me so excitedly just because of their discovery in the first place.”
“No! I was able to recreate the potion, and decipher the spell. The spell is actually a sort of teleportation spell, but it’s used to travel across different dimensions and across great spatial distances!”
“My gosh… you aren’t kidding. I haven’t seen some of these connections for over a thousand years. There’s some very complex, dangerous magic in this spell.”
“Yes there is, but it’s completely doable! I haven’t attempted it yet of course, but I know that with enough preparation, I could probably travel to wherever this spell is apparently leading.”
“I’ll have to think on this before I can allow you to go.”
“Of course, Princess. I didn’t expect you to allow me in the first place. I just wanted to bring the discovery to you. As for the potion, it only came with one thing written about it; the word ‘midichlorian’ written across the top and circled. I was able to mix the potion, and then I ingested it.”
“Twilight! That’s a very reckless thing to do! Surely you had a good reason?”
“I managed to make the potion after I deciphered the spell. I was also able to figure out through penponyship that the author of the spell was also the author of the potion mixture. I figured that the potion was legit if that complex of a spell was.”
“I can see your reasoning here; this spell is so expertly woven that it’s a lot more simple than I think even I could make it myself, were I to write it. So what effects did the potion have?”
“Well, immediately after I took the potion, I had this seventh sense opened up to me. It feels sort of like being able to feel magic, but I feel… something else entirely. It’s like I’m feeling the life-force of everything around me. Besides the immense magical aura that you give off, Princess, I can feel what I’m guessing is your life-force, which is also immense compared to that of mine or Spikes. Although, I have another, different feeling from everyone else that feels very much stronger – even more so than you, Princess.”
“Is that all it did?”
“I’m not entirely sure. We rushed here almost immediately after I took the potion.”
“I see… These discoveries are indeed some of the biggest that have been made for centuries. I’m really curious about that potion, though. It can’t be simply an increased senses potion. I really do wish you would have studied it a little more before taking it.”
Twilight’s ears pinned to the back of her head. Even the slightest disappointment from her teacher caused her deep disappointment in herself. “I’m very, very sorry Princess. But I can recreate the potion very easily now, and study it even further.”
“I would like if you were to do that. But it’s fairly late right now. Bring me another sample tomorrow, studied, at noon.”
“Yes, Princess!”
“I assume you still have the old alchemy lab in your room stocked?”
“Of course! I will work on it tonight and have some more for you tomorrow!”
“Thank you, Twilight. I forgot to mention, but it is a pleasure to see you so unexpectedly! I am very excited to see where these discoveries may lead us to. Do you mind if I take the spell with me to study myself?”
“Of course! It is indeed very simple when you figure it out. Again, thank you Princess! I will see you tomorrow at noon!”
Twilight returned to her room and went to work right at her alchemy lab. It was just as well stocked and well supplied as her one back at home. She was able to very quickly mix up a second mixture of the mysterious potion. This time though, she poured a sample into a clear dish to examine through her microscope. What she saw at low magnifications was very underwhelming. It looked like purple water. But once she magnified the liquid to the extreme, a whole new property exposed itself.
That purple water looked so much like purple water because what the potion had done was create a whole new element that functioned much like water does. Something else Twilight noticed was that she could actually feel the potion this time with her new powers. It felt almost alive to her. There was a very strong power working in the potion, and she was determined to find out what it was.
Until about two in the morning, Twilight worked at analyzing and studying everything about the potion. She really wasn’t able to come up with much; it was so different from really anything else she had ever encountered before. She finally called it quits for the night and casted a stasis spell on the potion, to make sure nothing would happen to it overnight. Twilight then took a quick shower and fell right to sleep.
The next morning, Twilight showed up in the throne room right on time with the potion in magic. It was still in stasis.
“Twilight, were you able to find anything out about the potion?
“I’m afraid not much, Princess. What I did find out is that the potion has actually created an entirely new element.”
“Oh?”
“Mhmm. It functions physically much like water, and I can vouch on it tasting nasty, but other than that is just looks and flows like water. There is one other property that I noticed; I can sense the potion with my new sense that I’ve gained.”
“I see. From this I can gather that this liquid must supply the user of the potion with something other than just senses. What is the point of senses that can only sense other things that can sense the senses?”
“Uh…” Spike scratched his head.
“As confusing as that is, it does make complete sense. Maybe if we could travel to wherever that spell would take us, we could learn more about it.” Twilight said.
“That leads into what I was going to tell you. I did a lot of thinking about this last night Twilight, and I’ve decided that I actually want you to use the spell. I want you to investigate what could possibly lie on the other side of it.”
“I… a-are you sure, Princess? I have complete faith in your decision, but it seems so… dangerous.”
“And that it is, my dear student. But I feel that this is something that would benefit us as a race, knowing what this new sense is for, and benefit you as a scholar, going to a brand new place to study something we know almost nothing about.”
“But I’ll probably have to go alone. And what of a return trip? How will I get back?”
“That’s actually why I took the spell with me yesterday. The spell provided spatial/temporal coordinates to the place it sends the user, so I did some figuring of my own and found the coordinates of our own world. It really wasn’t hard.”
“So do you have them?”
“Yes, here they are.” Celestia took out an edited form of the spell and handed it to Twilight.
“When do you want me to leave?”
“Whenever you feel ready, honestly. The thing about the return trip is, when you return, you’ll be returning to a specific point in time as well because of how the spell works. By simply altering some simple numbers, I’ll have it where the spell will put you back down about five minutes after whenever you leave. So however long you will be gone, it will only be about five minutes in our time.”
“Oh wow. That means I don’t even really have to worry about leaving for very long.”
“Indeed. This will also make it to where you aren’t rushed when you get there; you can take as little or as much time as you need to bring back a complete observation; and I expect a complete one.”
“Oh, of course!”
“Before you do leave, though, I want you commit this spell as much to memory as any other spell you know. I want you to draw the connections in your head as easily as you can the simplest levitation. There are so many things that could possibly go wrong with this spell, that a simple flub in the connections could be catastrophic for you and for the entire world.”
“Of course. I will spend all of today preparing for the trip. I think I will leave tomorrow.”
“As you wish, Twilight. I will trust that you will be completely prepared for tomorrow.”
“I will. The spell uses the space around me, so I can bring any items with me that I need, and it shouldn’t add any complexity to the spell.”
“I need to return to some work now, Twilight. Whenever you are ready tomorrow, come to me and I will see you off. I have some preparations to make myself.”
“Yes, Princess.”
“And one more thing, Twilight. May I see that potion? I would like to study it myself, and then possibly even take it as well.”
“Oh, yes! Here’s the mixture, too. It’s not too difficult to make once you get the hang of it.”
“Indeed. I must return to some royal duties now; I will see you tomorrow then.”
“Yes! Thank you Princess!” Twilight skipped off, leaving Spike to run after her.
“Wait, Twilight! Wait up!”
Twilight had first packed her stuff for the next day when she got back to her room. She wanted to make that she fit everything she would need in her saddle bag. She took only essentials, including some very small research equipment. There was no telling what sort of world or reality she would be going to, and didn’t want too much stuff to weigh her down.
After about an hour of debating over what needed to go, she started memorizing the spell. Now that she understood it, it was very easy to memorize. She practiced making the connections in her head over and over again, making sure there was no way she could possibly make an error. She first started by simply practicing making the connections in complete focus. Then, she would do something else to distract her, like read, and try to draw the connections without breaking her focus on reading. It didn’t take her long, and she was able to bring up the spell just as easily as any simple spell in her mental library. Though, she knew that the actual casting of the spell would be much harder. It would take a lot out of her, and she really hoped that she would not end up someplace hostile. Although the spell included spatial coordinates, they weren’t specific. That meant that Twilight could potentially end up at any point in the new place she was going. The same was true for the return trip, which meant that she could even land in the Gryphon Kingdom by accident, or even her own bed. Although, the princess specifically altered the return spell, which she also memorized everything for, so that her return trip would put her down right in the throne room.
When it was getting late, Twilight figured she would practice using her new sense. She learned that she was able to cast out her mind and sense things just as she could with magic. But this had more life to it than magic did. When she focused as much as she could, she could feel the every presence in the castle, including the Princess. She could feel their heartbeats and their emotions. She almost thought she could hear Spike’s thoughts at one point, but that caused her to lose her focus. With time, she figured she could sense almost anything with these new powers.
Before Twilight went to bed, she felt something she hadn’t ever felt before; it felt as if she were being touched. It was faint, but shocking enough that she knew she felt it. Something had reached out to HER. She reached out again, and suddenly felt a huge presence coming from the Princess; she had taken the potion. Their minds crossed each other’s in an embrace that cannot be fully described by any other senses. They allowed their minds to meld together and their senses to mix. It was amazing how much of each other they could know now, just by letting their new senses mix.
Although magic allowed unicorns to sense magical things, it was nothing on the level of this new sense. Unicorns have never found out a way to read minds or feelings with magic alone. And even with Celestia’s absolutely massive magical power, Twilight could not feel her magically through the castle, or even Luna who was much closer. But this allowed her to feel her teacher as if she were standing right next to her.
Twilight could sense that Celestia was just as blown away by what she was feeling as Twilight first had. She then sensed some longing to leave WITH Twilight on her journey. That was something Celestia let Twilight know. In almost an instant, she and Celestia were able to have an entire conversation with emotions alone.
“Twilight?” Twilight’s senses broke as Spike’s voice interrupted her. “Huh?”
“You’ve been laying in dead silence for a very long time now. I was just making sure you weren’t dead.”
“Oh Spike, this is amazing! Celestia took the potion!”
“How can you tell?”
“I just… can. We can FEEL each other’s emotions. We’ve been having a conversation with simple emotions, all the way across the castle!”
“That’s insane!”
“I know! This is the coolest thing since magic!”
“I want to try that potion now!”
“Tell you what, after I get back tomorrow, I’ll make one for you. We might just distribute this potion throughout the kingdom after I learn what it is! Oh this is so exciting I can’t even explain! I’ll never be able to get to sleep tonight!”
“I will. I missed this bed very much. And while we’re on topic, I’m going to go to bed right now. Goodnight, Twilight.”
“Goodnight, Spike! See you in the morning!” Twilight snuggled under her covers, nearly shaking with excitement for the next day.
She reached out to her teacher, and let her know she was so excited. Celestia responded with excitement as well, and then the two were able to express a goodnight. Twilight lay in bed thinking about the new world she would get to see on her own. She tried to calm herself down by casting her mind out to the world. She found that while being so relaxed, she was able to even feel some of the surrounding town. There were many sleeping ponies, and their sleepiness allowed her to calm and feel sleepy herself. When she finally did sleep, it was with a calmness she hadn’t gotten while sleeping in a very long time.
The next morning, Twilight arrived completely prepared with everything she would need in her journey in her saddleback in the throne room. She was also wearing her favorite jacket, in case it was cold where she was.
Celestia greeted Twilight, and the two immediately mingled minds.
“I was about to say I can’t express to you how much I love this new sense or whatever it is, but the best part is I can!”
“Yes. This is truly something amazing. I think that after you return, you will have to tell me everything you can about this new sense, and maybe then we can distribute this potion to the public. Wouldn’t that be something?”
“Oh, for sure. I can’t imagine how this could affect society as we know it! It’s so exciting.”
“I hope you studied that spell well, Twilight.”
“I know it inside and out; I daresay I know it better than a simply levitation spell, heh.”
“Good. So you know where and when you’re going?”
“Well, I can’t really comprehend it, but I know the numbers exactly.”
“Good. Then, if you’re ready to leave, I wish you the best of luck. And Twilight?”
“Yes, Princess?”
“I trust you with all of my heart, but I ask that you be careful. Please return safely to me. Luckily, I won’t have much time to worry about you. Let’s see… Okay, it’s currently 10:35 A.M. All you have to do to arrive at 10:40, is alter the last four digits to be 3958. Even if you forget those numbers, those four digit places won’t make much difference in your time.”
“I won’t forget, though. 3958. That’s easy. And thank you, Princess. I promise with all my heart I will be as careful as possible. I may be gone for years on my end, who knows? But I promise I won’t return unless there’s danger, or unless I have brought back all the information I can.“
“You have my complete trust, Twilight. If anyone can succeed in this task, I know it’s you who can.”
“Okay, I’m ready. Here we go… Goodbye, Princess! Goodbye Spike!”
“Bye Twilight!”
Celestia didn’t say anything, but the last thing Twilight felt before she cast the spell was the Princess’ emotions rubbing against her own. Then, the world turn black for a moment as the space around her was being shifted and moved at an inconceivable speed across to her destination.