Epilogue
On the other side of the Infinite Abyss of Nothingness, the human Twilight Sparkle and her friends had just finished playing out the latest adventure of their Lego World counterparts. As promised, Twilight’s friends were now helping her clean up her Lego collection and put everything back where they belonged. Twilight herself had decided remove all of the superglue she had applied to some of the models, though she still insisted that they be reassembled the way she wanted them. Regardless of their different building preferences, all six girls were just glad they could spend time together with something they could all appreciate.
Fluttershy has decided to place their six Lego counterparts, along with Sunset Shimmer, on a picnic setup in the middle of the park, right in front of the statue that represented the so-called gateway to Equestria. It was a rather nice way to show an end to the adventure and a return to everyday life for the minifigs who lived in the Lego World.
After putting away all of her glue-removal supplies, Twilight took a look at that little picnic scene and smiled. “I’m glad to see everything worked out well for everyone,” she remarked. She then turned to her friends and sadly added, “But I’m still very sorry for not sharing my Lego collection with all of you.”
“It’s okay, Twilight,” assured Fluttershy. “We forgive you.”
“And if you ever wanna see our Lego selves go on another series of wacky adventures,” added Pinkie Pie cheerfully, “we’d be more than happy to join in on the fun!”
“I’ll be sure to keep that in mind,” responded Twilight. “For now, I think these minifigures deserve some time to rest and relax. Especially Sunset Shimmer.” Twilight focused her attention onto the Sunset Shimmer minifigure in the picnic scene and let out a sigh. “I still can’t believe she was somehow able to make contact with us.”
“It is rather remarkable, isn’t it?” stated Rarity. “And to think that isn’t even the original Sunset Shimmer minifigure we had initially started out with. You see, Twilight, I was forced to give her a completely redesigned body after someone left her standing on the windowsill all summer.” She narrowed her gaze at Rainbow Dash.
“Hey, how was I supposed to know that would happen?” Rainbow Dash sharply replied. “I’ve seen posters get faded over time, but I didn’t think that could happen to some Lego pieces.”
“At least you agreed to keep Sunset’s head an’ hair,” said Applejack to Rarity. “It just wouldn’t have been Sunset Shimmer anymore if we had replaced the whole thing.”
“Of course, Applejack,” responded Rarity with a smile. “I agree that imagining Sunset wanting a change in wardrobe was an excellent excuse for me to replace her severely faded original appearance. Though it was quite a shame that I had to leave her hair piece as it was.”
“Yeah, I was wondering about whether or not that faded hair color was intentional or not,” remarked Twilight. As her gaze then drifted over to the Lego Twilight Sparkle, she added, “I guess this is the first time this group of friends got to have Twilight Sparkle join them as a friend, right?”
“Not exactly,” replied Rainbow Dash. “This is the first time the Twilight Sparkle of the Lego World is joining them. The last few times, they were joined by the Twilight Sparkle from Equestria.”
“Equestria?” asked Twilight in slight confusion. “Are you referring to the magical land of our old My Little Pony stories?”
“Exactly!” said Pinkie Pie with enthusiasm. “You see, the base of that statue in the park holds a magical interdimensional portal between the Lego World and Equestria, and any pony coming through from Equestria transforms into a Lego minifig. Sunset Shimmer is actually from Equestria, but she turned bad and went through the portal to become powerful, so Equestria’s Twilight came over to the Lego World, defeated Sunset Shimmer and turned her into a good guy thanks to some help from those other girls, and then returned home to her pony friends in Equestria.”
“Interesting…” mumbled Twilight as she looked down at the statue that — imaginatively, of course — housed this portal between two seemingly imaginary worlds. She looked up at her friends and asked, “Do you have a custom minifigure for this other Twilight?”
“Sure do,” replied Applejack as she walked over to the numerous small drawers against one of the basement walls. She opened one particular drawer, took out a Lego minifigure, shut the drawer, then walked over to Twilight and placed the minifigure in her hand.
Twilight held up the minifigure and took a close look at it from all sides. The skin tone, hair color, and eyes were identical to the other Twilight minifigure, but there were also a few key differences. Not only was this Twilight wearing a different outfit, but she also had her hair hanging loosely down, and she wasn’t wearing any glasses. “Huh, no glasses,” muttered Twilight. “Lucky her.”
“She is the alicorn princess from Equestria, after all,” reminded Rarity. “And if I recall correctly, she certainly never needed to wear glasses of any sort.”
“Just blame it on magic,” said Rainbow Dash dismissively. “Or you could go with Pinkie’s idea and say that Lego Twilight suffered from a ‘laser beam incident’.”
Twilight continued to stare at the Lego minifig of Princess Twilight for a moment. As she then glanced around at her impressive Lego collection and especially at Canterlot City on the table in the middle of the room, she said, “You know, girls… I’ve been thinking of something.”
“Like what?” asked Applejack.
“It has to do with how Sunset Shimmer was able to contact us,” explained Twilight. “By making her travel through some other magical portal, her life force was somehow actually transferred to our world, and when we sent her back, it was gone and her minifigure here simply went back to normal.”
“Yeah, that was pretty freaky, wasn’t it?” remarked Pinkie Pie.
“Absolutely,” agreed Twilight. “We had actually made contact with life from another universe entirely. And yet, only the six of us will ever know for a fact that it really happened. Sure, I saved the data from my scientific study of that phenomenon, but I seriously doubt anyone in the scientific community will ever believe any of us.”
“I suppose it is for the best,” stated Rarity. “I look forward as much as anyone else to the day we discover extraterrestrial life, but I would prefer to not get involved in such a thing. I am perfectly content with our humble lifestyle with the occasional imaginary adventures in Equestria and the Lego World.”
“But they’re not just imaginary,” Twilight pointed out. “Sunset Shimmer’s brief contact with us proved that a universe created entirely from our own imaginations really exists out there. By extension, that could also include Equestria, too. Don’t you see what this means? There really are alternate universes out there, and in some of them, we are somehow able to pull all the strings.”
“I guess that makes sense,” muttered Fluttershy, feeling a little unnerved to realize that she and her friends might have so much power over certain universes that could actually be real.
“So here’s what I’m thinking…” Twilight waved her free hand around Canterlot City as she said, “If we have absolute total control over this universe…” She looked at the Princess Twilight minifig in her hand and grinned. She then turned to her friends and excitedly finished, “Then let’s throw in some other universes!”
All five of Twilight friends froze and stared at her with blank expressions. “Wait, what?” asked Rainbow Dash in confusion.
Without a word, Twilight immediately placed the Princess Twilight minifig in the park, right between the interdimensional portal and the picnic scene.
On a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the region of Centerlot City in the Lego World, a certain group of close friends were enjoying a picnic in the park. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Sunset Shimmer, and their new friend Twilight Sparkle of the Lego World relaxed as they began to help themselves to some snacks and idly chat amongst themselves about various subjects. They had set up their picnic in City Park between the now statueless pedestal that housed the portal to Equestria and the crash site of the big blue and grey spaceship that was still partially embedded in the ground.
As Sunset Shimmer unwrapped a sandwich, she remarked, “I have to say, girls, things sure do have an interesting way of working out.”
Sunset was just about to take a bite when there was suddenly a brief flash and whoosh from the pedestal. All seven girls turned towards it and saw that Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria had just returned to the Lego World.
“I’m so sorry I didn’t get here sooner!” Princess Twilight hastily explained. “I didn’t get your messages until just now because I was caught in this time travel loop and, honestly, it was the strangest thing that’s ever happened to me!” She giggled a little as she finished speaking, but once she took the time to actually notice her surroundings, her jaw dropped and her eyes widened.
Standing directly ahead of Princess Twilight Sparkle was another Twilight Sparkle. All around them, the rest of their friends just sat still, their shocked stares occasionally shifting back and forth between the two Twilights. The only sound any of them made was Pinkie Pie slurping from her juice box.
Twilight Sparkle of the Lego World was completely speechless. She knew from her extensive observations that there really was another Twilight Sparkle from an alternate universe. It was one thing to be aware of that, but it was another matter entirely to literally meet this other Twilight face to face. To say that this moment was very awkward would have been the ultimate understatement. Unable to come up with anything to say, she hesitantly smiled and waved at the other Twilight.
Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria blinked twice, then pointed at the other Twilight and weakly smiled and added, “Make that the second strangest.”