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// Chapter XV 
// Story: Quantum Pink 
// by DigiDuncan 
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	Now that Pinkie Pie was sufficiently unconscious, Twilight had to decide her next move. "Spike," she requested, "could you try to clean up these balloons?"
"Gotcha," Spike replied, and began popping the helium-filled spheres with his claws. Twilight had to figure out how to get rid of the various replicas of herself, and sadly Spike touching his claw to them wouldn't do the trick.
"I have an idea!" said Twilight.
"So do I, what was your idea?" asked Twilight.
"It's probably the same as mine, now that I think about it," remarked Twilight.
Twilight couldn't think with all these Twilights. "Okay, Twilights, one at a time, please," begged Twilight.
"Okay, can I go first?" asked Twilight. The other Twilights agreed silently. "What if we use the clone removal spell we used in Incident 'TMPP?'" suggested Twilight.
"It could work, but we don't know if these clones..." Twilight paused for a moment and changed her wording. "...we are the same type of clones from that incident."
"Can we analyze our DNAs somehow?" Twilight speculated.
"Possible, but a lengthy process," Twilight mumbled. "Wait! We could only do it on one of us, since we are most likely all the same structure type!"
"We'd have to test at least two to validate that hypothesis," interjected Twilight.
"Okay, fair enough. Who would volunteer to be tested?" asked Twilight. Every Twilight raised their hoof.
"I have a feeling we'll have to randomly select, then," said Twilight.
"Got it. Everypony, let's write numbers on our flanks and roll dice!" said Twilight authoritatively.
"Pinkie, Spike, let's go upstairs and let this... sort itself out," said Twilight Prime. Spike and Pinkie Pie mm-hmm'd in agreement, and followed Twilight upstairs.
Once upstairs, Twilight sat at her desk while Pinkie Pie crashed on Twilight's bed.
"Phew! I'm beat," remarked Pinkie.
"You should be," said Twilight. "Using that much magic at once positively drains a pony."
Pinkie sighed. "We don't even know if it is magic!" she complained.
"I have a good feeling it's a least a form of it. I know magic, and this sure looks like it."