???? Spell [4th Wall Action/Video]

[friendyousohard]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

[Leaping gleefully around in the air like an idiot at the sudden regaining of her actual body is... a purple unicorn.]

My real body, and my magic! Everything's back to normal! Oh this is terrific, there's so many new things to do. Where do I even start?

[She claps her hooves together, grinning wildly (and just slightly manically) at the prospect for a moment... then she notices something behind her. A very large, menacing looking shadow.]

Hey, what is... [She turns around, and her eyes practically pop out of her head. And well they might, given what she's seeing...]



What... the... hay?

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rules have been figured out: there basically aren't any

[marearcana]

[There's another unicorn here, and she looks JUST LIKE YOU. It looks like she'd been reading, but the moment she realizes that she's staring at the ground her head dips to hit it.]

Ugggh.

[Why, time compression, why.]

[friendyousohard]

[Well if there's one thing that's going to distract her from the towering being of pure terror in front of her, it's... herself.]

Um... What is going on? This... this isn't scientifically possible.

[marearcana]

Oh, don't give me that again. Remember the whole "time travel spell" thing?

...Wait, but if that was true, I would remember this, too, and I've never been here before. What is going on?

[friendyousohard]

I've never done a time travel spell... Though I suppose that Starswirl the Bearded's research could-

[She shakes her head. Not the point!]

That is a very, very good question. I don't even know where to start coming up with an answer, though. Maybe-

[She's interrupted by a growl from Giratina, which she responds to by yelping and jumping back away from the towering beast.]

Okay, I think we might want to wait for a more optimal time to figure this out!

[marearcana]

[Yes, yes. Running now. Talking later.]

Agreed.

[friendyousohard]

[Turning to gallop off then!]

Do you... think we can actually outrun this thing?

[marearcana]

I wouldn't say it's impossible, but it is looking a bit unlikely.

[friendyousohard]

Should we try a teleport? Maybe if we send ourselves far enough we'll be able to prevent it from finding us.

[marearcana]

Good idea. We should probably link the spells together so that we don't end up somewhere completely different.

You probably know this place better than I do, so you'll be setting the destination.

[friendyousohard]

I've got it in mind already. Just link with me and we'll be as far from this thing as I can get us.

[marearcana]

[Twilight reaches out with her magic and connects to the other her's spell.]

[friendyousohard]

Three... two... one!

[And with a quick flash of magic power, the two are warped straight to the other side of the city. Twilight quickly looks around to make sure they're where she wanted to end up, but any worries prove quickly unfounded.]

Good, that should be far enough away. And I have to say, I think that was one of our better teleportations.

[marearcana]

I'm going to have to agree with that. I can't judge the precision, but the distance is certainly farther than I've able to get consistently.

[friendyousohard]

Well, it's exactly where I wanted to go, so we can basically say this was a perfect execution!

[She beams at the thought for a moment.]

Okay, so now that we've got a bit of breathing room, let's see if we can figure out just what's going on here.

[marearcana]

Whatever it is, it strongly resembles time-compression backlash, if it isn't that already.

[friendyousohard]

Time... Compression? That sounds dangerous. Discord-level dangerous. Can you elaborate a bit?

[marearcana]

It's basically what it sounds like - some Sorceress had the [spoken sarcastically] brilliant idea to try to get an entire dimension's history to collapse in on itself.

A group of mercenary types called SeeDs stopped her, but the backlash is randomly bringing things, including people, from other dimensions to and from that world.

[friendyousohard]

...Okay, the fact that she could use that kind of magic in the first place is kind of scary. The ends to which she apparently put it are just plain absurd. No wonder so much crazy backlash is happening.

Hmm... If time's involved, then... what's the last thing that happened for you at home?

[marearcana]

Shiny and Cadence just left on their honeymoon.

[friendyousohard]

Then you're ahead of me. The last thing I remember is the Mare-Do-Well incident. I guess that would make you my future self.

Fortunately, Fluttershy's already filled me in on most of what happened in between there, though it's still odd to think of Shining getting married...

[marearcana]

Well, at least you have more warning about that than I did.

Wait, no, you must lose memories sometime before then. That's inconvenient.

[friendyousohard]

Extremely. It makes this whole thing seem utterly pointless. A real shaggy dog story.

[marearcana]

If only I had an actual reason for being here beyond random chance.

[friendyousohard]

Don't we all wish. But, nothing doing, I suppose.

[marearcana]

I guess so.

...so where is this?