L18.2
Sweetie yawned, eyes blinking open, and looked over to the open cage where her new pet Phoenix rested peacefully. Opening the window, Sweetie shivered as a cold breeze rushed into the room. Standing up, Sweetie carefully checked her bags, and trotted downstairs.
And came face to face with Celestia.
“Uh, Good morning Celestia.” Sweetie bowed lightly, seeing the amused look on Celestia’s face. Bowing in return, Celestia began to speak. Sweetie glanced behind her, seeing Luna holding something in her magic.
“I hope you don’t mind, but I brought my version of Philomena. I need to know how stable our looping selves will be. There is a possibility it could end badly, but Philomena has agreed to take the risk.” Celestia looked toward the second Phoenix, who bowed her head slightly.
“But, what if it does end badly?” Sweetie bit her lip and looked between the two. Surely they weren’t going to take such a big risk, right? Celestia bowed her head and smiled serenely.
“We would never do it without your consent. We just wanted to present it as an option. Guard, take Philomena back to Canterlot.” Celestia turned, and Luna gave the cage to a guard, who saluted, and walked out of the door. Sweetie sighed, smiling.
“Thank you, I really don’t want to see…” Trailing off, Sweetie shuddered. Surprisingly, Opal walked over and gently rubbed against Sweetie’s leg, before skulking away once more. Sweetie watched the cat go, wondering just where that small show of affection came from.
“The reason we needed to speak to you in person is due to a request we have. Before that, can you confirm it stopped draining once a full minute had passed?” Celestia folded her wings as Sweetie nodded.
“That is indeed news. For, while we may not be immortal, we are very long lived. It is possible we may be able to survive the drain. For how many loops, I do not know. It is possible the magic will not detect our link, and drain only my body of magic, rendering my 'immortality' useless. By that I mean my body will die, but my soul and mind will still be alive, now a part of the sun.” Celestia paused, and bowed her head.
“Again, we will not go ahead without your consent.” Luna stepped forward, and the two looked at Sweetie. Gulping, Sweetie debated the problem, before once more shaking her head.
“No, I just-I can’t it-just no. Sorry.” Sweetie’s ears flopped back and she looked toward the ground. Two sets of Alicorn wings enveloped her, and she smiled sadly.
“Do not apologise, we are merely running the ideas by you. There is one more we must mention.” Luna and Celestia stepped back, and Sweetie raised her head.
“If we cut off our magic, or give it to you, we may be able to fool the spell into thinking we aren’t alive. However, it might detect us like it did the tree due to the fact our bodies would still contain minute amounts of magic, which is why we present this third option.” Celestia flared her wings, and Luna continued.
“If we use a spell to cause us to technically die for five minutes, we should be able to completely remove all magic from our systems. However, this poses a risk due to the fact that if you can’t power the spell to restart our hearts, we will die. Even if the spell drains the magic from our dead bodies, the moment we are back alive we will quickly regain our magic.” Luna looked toward Celestia, who nodded.
“No,” replied Sweetie, shaking her head.
"It’s too risky, I have very bad luck, and I’m not very good at magic.” Sweetie bit her lip and looked away. Relying on her skill would not end well. The fact she was terrible at cooking proved that. Still, at least she was making slow improvement with each dish and Rarity’s advice.
“Then we will respect your decision.” Celestia bowed her head, and Luna smiled. Feeling relieved she wasn’t being forced into it, Sweetie smiled.
“Here is a letter to ourselves about these results in case we bring it up again.” Celestia held out a note covered in golden moonlight. Sweetie tilted her head, this was new. It must be a combination of both translation magics.
“Anyway, is there anything else you wanted?” Sweetie followed Celestia and Luna as they walked out the door.
“Essentially yes. I also wished to ask if you have gone through the archives of Starswirl. I assume I have already shown them to you, yes?” Celestia looked down as Sweetie nodded.
“Most of it yes, a few of them are pretty hard to understand, but Twilight translated them from book-smart into plain Equestrian for me. It’s the final pages that really confuse me. So I took a copy of them. I think once I know more about how this loop works, they’ll make more sense.” Sweetie smiled warmly as the two slowly walked over to the carriage where the cage had already been sat down.
Sweetie turned and looked toward her window as her Philomena flew out of it, circled around in the air, and dived for the cage. Landing on it, both Phoenixes looked at each other, and touched beaks. Sweetie flinched and closed her eyes. However, nothing happened.
“Well, at least we know that duplicates can meet and touch now.” Celestia raised a hoof, Sweetie’s Philomena hopping onto it and crooning happily. Thrusting her hoof upward, Philomena took into the air, and flew toward the Everfree. Celestia and Luna sat down in the carriage.
“But-Shouldn’t there have been a paradox?” Sweetie tilted her head, and Luna chuckled.
“Do not worry Sweetie, it’s just physics. Ask Twilight about it.” Luna chuckled as Sweetie winced. Waving goodbye, Sweetie watched the two princesses leave. Sweetie supposed she shouldn’t be surprised they were having some fun with their outing. But did they really have to show up in a banana carriage?
Not only that, why did Celestia grant life to a dozen bananas, and give them wings? Sweetie shook her head, knowing if she knew the answer to that question, she’d be that much closer to getting out of the loop. After all, the meaning of life, the universe, of everything, was 42. And 42 divided by banana equaled Celestia.
Sweetie shook her head, clearing whatever crazy cloud of thought had consumed it instantly. Boredom, she presumed.
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Here is another poem made by: Divine Path
To still wander lost through the gloomy shade,
surely you must find it now?
The end of such lies,
resting peacefully,
ready to escape
such a fantastically miserable nightmare.
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Half Life 3 confirmed
she’s be that much closer to getting out
1. She'd.
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came
This is probably the best explanation to why everything exists that I've heard so far without single mention or reference to Illuminati. I must remember this.
Well now I want to see Luna, Celestia or both sisters go through the loop with Sweetie if only to see what would happen when they meet their unlooped counterpart(s).
What a relaxing chapter.
Sheesh. Please don't show us Celestia and Luna's eyes melt away. *shudders*
Teh pain D:
“Well, in the future we should ensure the window is closed when you do not wish Philomena to get out.”
Did... Did celestia just tell Sweetie to have another Death loop?
Also... what the hell was with that last paragraph?
I hope reality isn't getting wonky.
To still wander lost through the gloomy shade,
surely you must find it now?
The end of such lies,
resting peacefully,
ready to escape
such a fantastically miserable nightmare.
Awaiting further releases.
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Well from what we've seen with Twilight, their magic fueled practical immortality would still get them to die and reset. Although we don't know if like Twilight they'd just reset faster than everypony and see those around them die. Or if they'd be oblivious.
No, silly. 42 isn't the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. It's the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. It's the ultimate game of Jeopardy. My favorite guess is "What is the number of generations from Abraham to Jesus?"
I love how you just spit out these chapters, most writers take a while.
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Yas
It is also Fish.
42 x Banana = Celestia ÷ 0 = Fish
Last night I went up to my dad, who's really good at math, and said "42 divided by banana equals Celestia" and he just stared at me like
"the meaning of life, the universe, of everything, was 42"
Sweetie Belle couldn't possibly know this unless she'd read "hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy" and I highly doubt that drug trip of a book would exist in Equestria.
Alternatively, if you assume twilight had seen the movie the last time she visited Earth, you could say she might have brought it up in conversation at some point. but that's the only way I can think of that Sweetie would be able to make this refferance.
>However, this poses the risk due to the fact if you can’t power the spell to restart our hearts
*a
+that
>But-Shouldn’t there have been a paradox?
I do not see why
It seems Sweetie Belle going insane isn't what we should be worried about.
--Sollace
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42? Are you talking about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
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Celly, you dirty old mare you!
(I know why you really were willing to go to such extremes to travel with Sweetie Belle. If it worked, you'd be off getting in your own pants quicker than Philomena burned up the air in Sweetie's room!)
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Yup. That's one of the typical reactions to something that's not even wrong.
This is alternate universe looping isn't it... *technicly the only way anything could change the slightest bit*
Sweetie Belle read the hitchhiker's guide didn't she? Well, that explains why she's seeing flying bananas.
If the answer is 42, what was the question?
I know why no paradox is created when the philomenas' touch beaks. It is pretty much the same concept as lesson Zero. Past philomena(celestia's phoenix[current loop]) and future philomena(sweetie belle's phoenix[previous loop]) are one and the same. Why?
To make things simpler lets call celestia's phoenix "one" and sweetie belle's phoenix "two"
So, picture the time frame as a single week, repeating and repeating. "two" is from Friday and "one" is from Monday. There is no paradox because at some point, both will become one and the same, both creating and breaking the same paradox.
42 divided by banana is indeed celestia, I put it into my calculator
6022733 She'll need a towel.
It wasn't actually a cloud of thought, sweetie, more like a whale. In fact this whale was rather confused to be where a cloud was, considering it didn't even know what a cloud was.
Though I think it did make a good friend called the ground.
6025207 *My brain getting nuked 27 times in a row*.
Contradictory statements.
Anyway, I'm still seeing the early warning signs of insanity.
Sweetie shook her head, clearing whatever crazy cloud of thought had consumed it instantly. Boredom, she presumed.
Hmmmm . . .
I haven't even finished reading the chapter yet....
This... this is starting to get weird.
..............................I....I uh.... Um.... Sure..?
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