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// Chapter 4: Answers 
// Story: Digitizing Reality 
// by TheDimensionRift 
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          "My first question," Twilight paused for a few seconds as she attempted to locate the right words.
"If you're a human, and not originally from Equestria, than how do you know so much about it?"

"Ah, an excellent first question. You see, when I become interested in something, I learn as much about it as possible by studying it as thoroughly as possible; though I'm sure that doesn’t fully answer your question. Well than, allow me to provide you with some more background information about myself," V said as he pulled off his glasses and cleaned them with a cloth from his jacket pocket.
"My story about my journey to Equestria begins the day that Sunset first entered this world. I was already studying quantum mechanics and multiverse theory at the time so I was able to grasp the concept of a universe separate from this one. When Sunset first crossed into this world, she actually caused several rifts to open across this world separate from the one she exited,"

Twilight glanced at her friend who had a nervous smile on her face.

"After entering one of the pocket hole's," V continued as he put his glasses back on his face.
"I found myself in a strange colorful world, and in a new colorful body. Naturally I was worried about the extraordinary change I had just undergone, but then, I was filled with excitement as the thought of gaining knowledge about Equestria crossed my mind. After getting used to my new body and some exploring, I came across a scientific breakthrough; I found my alternate self,"

"What?" Twilight exclaimed with a confused look.
"What do you mean by your alternate self?" Twilight raised a questionable eye brow as she asked this.

V turned to his computer before he continued.

“As I’m sure your already aware, those in Equeastria have a human counterpart in this world and vice versa,” V explained as he typed on the computer’s keyboard.

The monitors all around the room displayed images of Twilight’s friends and others she knew. The images displayed their pony forms and their human counterparts side by side.

“Fluttershy; Rarity; Applejack; Pinkie Pie; Rainbow Dash; even you Twilight. Everypony has a counter part, and mine was just as ecstatic to see me as I was him,” V swiveled his chair around to face the two girls again with his hands placed under his chin.
“Have you ever heard great minds think alike?”

“How-how do you know about all my friends, both here and in Equeastria?” Twilight stammered.

“Were you not listening to what I said before?” V asked as he adjusted his glasses before proceeding.
“When something interests me, I examine it as thoroughly as possible,”

For the first time since she had seen him, Twilight saw a smile form across the boy’s face, though it was only for a brief moment.

“Needless to say my Equeastrian self was also interested in you and your friends from my world, so we came up with an idea that we worked tirelessly to achieve,”

V put a hand in his jacket pocket and pulled out a small cube looking device, it had to be no bigger than an average ice cube. Twilight’s eyes lit up as she recognized the device that V held in his hand.

“We created an interdimensional transportation portal. It took many tries before succession was achieved, first we tested small objects such as a pencil or eraser. Through trial and error we eventually achieved a fully functional portal which could transfer matter across a set of specific radio frequencies,” V tossed the cube up in the air and caught it with his hand as he spoke on.
“With the portal completed only one problem remained, how to control the frequencies on a specific channel so as not to disturb the natural balance of Equestria. Hidden in all over Equeastria are special radio towers we created for this specific invention. After spending a few years in Equeastria, me and Equeastria V were able to tweak the teleportation device and link it back to my world, though our first attempt failed, we got it right eventually. Since then, me and Equeastria V have traveled back and forth to both worlds but we learned that I could only stay in Equeastria for a certain amount of time,”

V rolled up his right jacket sleeve and revealed a watch around his wrist.

“I monitored how long I was in Equeastria and though I was only there for 2 years, it’s equal to 10 minutes in this world, I guess universal time difference is to blame. Last time I stayed any longer a rip in the fabric of space and time occurred, and that was a pain to fix. Anyways, we eventually realized that we needed another form of communication, so I created the Equeastrian Connection Operating system,”

V placed hand out as the round little bot came out of his computer’s hard drive and floated into the center of his palm.

“You know him as ECO, he’s an artificial intelligence I created to link data across dimension in the forms of computer files. Of course not even the highlight of my creations,” V tossed the bot in the air as he began to float around the room. V placed his hands together under his chin again and stared back at Twilight.
“I’ve answered your question as promised, have you anymore?”

'Yeah, how the hay are you so smart?' Twilight thought to herself. Twilight thought for a moment and then noticed something that seemed odd.

“If you were in Equeastria at the time Sunset crossed over, how did you two ever meet each other?” Twilight asked as she looked at Sunset Shimmer who’s face held a worried expression.

“Oh, ya know, we just met one day and became friends, that’s all,” her friend said with a nervously laugh.

“Oh that’s right, how could I have forgotten. You’re a princess aren’t you Twilight?” V asked. His voice sounded surprised but his face didn’t reflect it.

“What does that have to do with- “

“Well it’s been nice talking with you Vec but we really must be going, come on Twilight,” Sunset Shimmer interrupted as she attempted to pull her friend to the exit.

“Wait,” Twilight said as she pulled back her arm.
“Why won’t you let him talk about this? What are you hiding?”

Sunset Shimmer gave out a sigh of defeat as she hung her head.

“That’s right, I remember now. I helped you that night didn’t I Sunset? That was one of our highlight exploits at the time,” V said as he twirled his hair with his finger.

“Exploit? What night are you talking about?” asked Twilight as she looked more confused than ever.

“Oh, the night I helped Sunset Shimmer steal your crown of course, it was a rather successful operation, but we couldn’t have done it without the combined efforts of both of us,”

Twilight looked over at Sunset who stared down at the floor avoiding eye contact with her friend.

“What?....” Twilight asked as she had a saddened look on her face.