Draft Mission Summary as of 10 May 200-

Several million moons before ponies united into Equestria, Forerunners were the dominant civilized species. Bon-Bon was sent to recover a pony presumed to have been lost from a time anomaly; Lyra accompanied her to see the Forerunners for herself.

Today, Bon-Bon catches up on journaling the tumultuous prior week while also preparing Draft 1 of her mission summary, to be polished and expanded once back in Equestria.

An entry for The Twilight Files, as organized by Bicyclette.

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Field Notes for 10 May 200- · 7th Aug 2022 · 650 words
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Bicyclette #1 · Sep 12th, 2022 · 1 · · Field Notes for 10 May 200- ·

AGENT: 🅱️ (owner of journal, automagically filed)

love that it starts off with a meme somehow

Unsurprised, as she was the pony who cast the spell to let me write directly from my thoughts. If I were back in Equestria, this spell would just work. I’d think directed thoughts and words would appear on the page. Here, I can feel the connection from my words to the concentrated magic pellet at the base of Lyra’s horn and back to the page.

hehe, nice in-world explanation for a stream of consciousness appearing as an in-world document

I think his name is Dave.

that's not a pony name!

They’ve told me that in Equestria, this internal magic is used to manipulate the ambient magic.

this is also my headcanon for how magic works

She needs to keep her ears forward and never check her blind spot, lest she understand the unexpected consequences of her actions and lose her inner beauty.

well that sounds ominous

We must return to Equestria before they blow themselves into uninhabitability, unless that is the event that frees the planet from human control and allows equines to evolve to their rightful place.

well that is a lot to process! so these are Equestrian ponies in the human world, except that it's the actual human world and not the Equestria Girls world so they are blending in with a herd of actual earth horses while secretly being sapient magic ponies, and given how sapience and intelligence aren't listed as part of how the earth horses are different, earth horses are also sapient and live in tension with the humans? and Bon Bon posits that if the humans destroy themselves in a nuclear war, then these earth horses can finally build an Equestria-like civilization on their/our ashes? fascinating!

Bicyclette

Bicyclette #2 · Sep 12th, 2022 · 1 · · Draft Mission Summary as of 10 May 200- ·

If you are a human reading this or you are a pony for whom Equestria means nothing because it is still in the future, this means I have failed to return.

ooh, so Equestria is supposed to be the future of the human-dominated world!

If the very concept of a Time Temple is confusing, summon the greatest mages of the era and build a containment facility so that errant documents such as these may not pollute the minds of unaware ponies. Do not read the rest of this journal until such a facility has been built and you are safely inside it.

love that the document must account for the contingency that it needs to make sure that Time Temples are a thing if they are not already

Her classmate (and valedictorian, she insists I add) Twilight Sparkle was among those “time-traveling unicorns.”

aww Lyra's insistence is cute! and yes very Lyra to be caught up in these shenanigans by merely being along for the ride

About a week after we arrived, the humans had some kind of fireworks holiday. We then learned that the local ungulates do not understand fireworks. Mass panic all around.

hehe yeah i'd imagine

Trixie had been on Earth since March (human time) and has been living as the roommare of the human whose property she was grazing upon since around May. Prior to that, she was captive of a hostile group of humans who quarreled among themselves over her fate before she escaped and was rescued. Only about three or four humans know of her existence outside her old captors and her host.

love the word "roommare". also i imagine Trixie getting to this arrangement was quite an adventure in it of itself! i can imagine the sitcom hijinks now

Major obstacle to recovery: she is with foal.

that is certainly an obstacle. Trixie!

Assuming her honesty, she made it to Earth by purchasing some “Alicorn Amulet,” then visiting the Mirror Pool with a command to “take Trixie somewhere where she shall be great and powerfully respected.”

i guess we never saw the Mirror Pool duplicating anything other than Pinkie, huh? if it's meant to grant more generic wishes to the best of its abilities, then yeah, this makes sense

Had we filed her as “missing / presumed dead” instead of following the tendrils of magic, she would have turned up alive in about three years’ time if we had kept pulse of the rumors swirling around the desert villages outside Equestria.

dangit, time travel is confusing!

If nothing else, the timeline she tells is at least plausible, as she is about twenty years older than the teenage filly her father reported missing last year.

well i guess we really have no idea what Starlight was up to between her fillyhood and her cult leader arc

Most alarmingly, a select few humans seem to have access to some miscut documentary of her first year in Ponyville. If true, this level of causality violation requires Luna’s immediate attention. Ponies may not be the only species with time travel capabilities.

oof this is getting very meta...

Mission: Investigate Forerunners and prehistory

that is a lot of missions!

Bicyclette

Bicyclette #3 · Sep 12th, 2022 · · · Addendum: Interview with Starlight Glimmer (recorded later that evening) ·

🎼 I love you, Bon! I hope you don’t mind if I set up the spell to filter out the and. Oh! Sorry, that’s your logbook, not for my eyes. I couldn’t help but notice that the filter works. Look what I have! I think it’s called a “Pole-Rod”. Some kind of instant camera. Let’s kiss! One and two. Hi Starlight! Is Trixie still talking to Dave in human words? Let’s—oops! That’s a picture of my hoof. 🦄

aww love this silly stream of consciousness

⭐️ I was told only Bon-Bon would interview me. 🔦

yeah i can see this interview going off the rails with Lyra here too lol

“To the living, we owe victory; to the dead, we owe the truth” is one of our many Agency mottos.

good motto!

Ten years gone and assumed dead for eight of them and I was still his pumpkin. He declined to join my village. We agreed that I’d visit Sire’s Hollow at least once a year to “recruit.” Ten years gone was long enough to make me miss him, especially after the third visit when I could convince him to convert my room from my past to austere emptiness if he wanted me to visit more often. We made it to about about about 🔦

ooh yeah, considering how doting Firelight is, that raises a lot of questions about just how much he know what Starlight was up to during her cult leader arc. secretly helping her out because she is his pumpkin who can do no wrong makes more sense than any other possibility!

🍬 It’s in a professional capacity as an interviewer. Besides, I’m in no mood to do more than that. Your horn… 🅱️
⭐️ …is all the evidence you should need to know none of us are left alive in Equestria. 🔦

well that is burying the lede!

⭐ The cave with the original cutie marks inside. I don’t what to think about what may have happened to my ponies if it were incinerated. I cast my shield and then I died. The fire overcame my cracked horn, and I could only yell “STOP” before bleeding out, but it worked and I could grab the pure fire of the alicorn’s mane without melting my hoof—stuffing it into the hole in my head bought me a few more seconds. Then I went somewhere black enshrouded in the glowing white and woke up here with my prosthetic horn. Think about it: I got my head blown open and Trixie jumped in a lake after telling some talisman to turn it into a portal. Why are you so insistent that you and Lyra are alive? 🔦

loved this paragraph, definitely see why Starlight thinks she and everypony else is dead.

🍬 Same. It’s as if the facility containing the Amulet is also the source of the magic leak. Lyra, you can break the spell now. 🅱️

this really feels like an SCP page more than anything else! and like many SCPs, it feels as if the goal is to induce a sense of unease and awe by hinting at many big mind-shattering facts about this world without letting a coherent picture fully stitch itself together. and if that was the goal, i think it did a good job! Starlight's perspective on evens especially were a highlight there.

i do hope you do get the larger project out one day, so that i can get a better picture of the ideas you are putting together here! there are a lot of fascinating ones for sure. thank you for writing!

publiq

publiq #4 · Aug 1st, 2023 · · · Addendum: Interview with Starlight Glimmer (recorded later that evening) ·

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How did I not see that you left decently detailed comments on my story for an entire year?
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i guess we never saw the Mirror Pool duplicating anything other than Pinkie, huh? if it's meant to grant more generic wishes to the best of its abilities, then yeah, this makes sense

The Mirror Pool naturally only invokes cloning magic. Its raw energy can be coerced toward other purposes under strong enough influence (such as the Alicorn Amulet).

Time travel is confusing

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