"Princess Twilight!"
"Starlight, how often must I remind you not to call me Princess? We are equals. And what causes you to disturb me now? You don't usually enter here - or anywhere with this level of haste."
"You've got to read this. It appeared at your last teleport origin."
A Report on the Negative Effects of Teleportation on Teleporters
Dear Princess Twilight,
If you teleport ever again, you will die. There is nothing anypony can do to prevent this.
Now that I have your attention:
Abstract
This is the last will and testament of the Twilight Council of Twilight's Intermediary Sphere. It details the consequences of teleportation. Chief among those consequences is that teleportation causes a copy of the teleporter to be created and arrive at the origin; the original of the teleporter is simply left in a spherical space of indeterminate construction embedded within the astral plane.
Every time you've teleported, you've condemned a copy of yourself to death. There is now no more room for copies. If you teleport again, you will not materialise anywhere.
The enclosed 300 pages are the abstract of this report. Use your Tome Expansion spell to access the 12500-page executive summary. Use it again to access the 205000-page full report.
And please ban teleportation. It's not just you. Any teleport by any living being does this.
Twilight Sparkle, Acting Chair of the Twilight Council
et al.
Both ruling princesses were silent for a very long time.
"Starlight, please tell Sharp Quill to clear my schedule."
Now THIS is a wicked twist on the Blink-verse. Well done!
This was fascinatingly dark.
And is starlight an alicorn??!!
The idea of Princess Starlight is far more horrifying than any story in the Blink-verse.
Also it's friggin hysterical that Twilight's final report is 205,000 pages long. Guess she has nothing else to do.
Great story!
7974056 Why thank you
7974107 Implied to be, yes. I could have made up some far-future OC student of Princess Twilight and been forced to spend another five hundred words explaining who they were before anyone got it - or I could just drop a name that everyone would at least recognise, if not necessarily like.
7974178 See above. (I tend not to hate characters at all - but if it's adding extra sprinklings of horror for some readers, I'm not going to interfere )
And of course the report is 205 000 pages - aside from the appendices, which were fairly long, it was written by a constantly rotating committee of Twilights. There's some real horror for you
7974275 I've always liked expanding on mechanics - I'm one of those people who talks over the TV about how implausible today's physics-defying script is. I also intensely dislike simple gory horror in favour of implied horror. Even transmuted food has to be transmuted from something...
And yeah, while I'm not above shameless cliffhangers between chapters, I'm not going to do it on a fic scale.
This is probably my favorite entry in the Blink verse this far. I love how it actually explores the implications and mechanics of such a pocket universe. Great job!
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Hah! Well done. This is a wonderfully creative extension of the original.
The Council of Twilights is exceedingly lucky that Twilight-Prime didn't double-tap (I.E. teleport twice). I mean, she doesn't do so very often, but she does it often enough that it had to be a very serious concern.
Yeah been there, doing that.
7974496 As above, I've always liked expanding on mechanics. It's part of why I like this fandom so much - we're really good at filling in headcanons where canon doesn't tread.
7974571 I'm creative? That's news to me.
7974651 Huh. Never noticed that. Must watch more pony.
Clearly Future Princess Twilight grows out of it.
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THAT certainly would have been a downer ending.
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Okay, I haven't read this yet, I just want to say I am amazed by the number of spinoffs/sequals being made of this thing are.
Alright, this has officially become one of my favorite stories in the Blink-verse series. Awesome job!
Sequel?...
Yeah, I like this more than the others of this universe I have read so far... good job, mate... good job.
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Welcome to Fimfiction. Sometimes there are bandwagons. ocalhoun's Blink appears to have spawned one. Other notable instances include ponies-in-your-bed (see my Collab Contributions), peaches, and "would it matter if I was?".
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The report states the medium in which the bubble is embedded, so clearly they broke it and/or probed beyond it at some point. (I only realised that just then. Score one for writing first, thinking later.)
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7983152 Uhg I hated "would it matter if I was?" It was an OoC mouthpiece work that just came off as more sanctimonious than anything else.
And yes it would matter, one of the base Elements of friendship is Honesty for fucks sake. Lying to your friends and hiding a secret like that from them while being terrified of them finding out is not friendship so yes it would fucking matter.
God that still makes me salty remembering it.
7992301 Ease up on me bro, I haven't even read anything vaguely related to it! It's all still on my monolithic Read Later list.
7974775 Here you go, fellow horrible person.
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Would it matter if I teleported this peach?
8006293 Yes, it would. Think of the spheres full of fruit!
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
I wanna see that 205000-page full report.
8063866 Unfortunately, there is but one of me, and I have at most 175 320 productive hours left, the majority of which I will need to spend on other tasks.
Also, it was a joke.
If Starlight and Twilight are the ruling Princesses, does that mean that Celestia and Luna reached the maximum capacity of their teleportation spheres a while ago? The universe's safety mechanism against too many alicorns. Now Twilight's broken it.
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Beautiful story. Love the sphere mechanics you've come up with.
Twilight's voice is also well done.
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Ooh, now there's a scary thought...
Why thank you I like to think mechanics are my strong suit.
A fascinating entry. Well done.
Now I want to see Celestias reaction to this.