>You feel cold, hard cobblestones beneath you. >This isn't the warm, soft, carpeted floor you fell asleep on. >You open your eyes to find yourself in some sort of dungeon. >Possibly a prison cell. >Probably both. >You get up from the floor and stretch. >That floor is really uncomfortable. >You rattle the bars of your cell until a guardspony comes. >"What do you want, criminal scum?" "How do you get these bars to sound so melodic?" >"I- I'm sorry, what?" "These bars. They sound very nice. How are they made?" >"How would I know? I'm just a guardspony!" >As he turns to walk away, you stop being inside your cell >And start being where he's going to be facing. >"SWEET BUTTERY CELESTIA!" >He falls over and scrambles backwards. "Could you tell me what I'm in for?" >"How did you get out of your cell!?" "I picked the lock with my laser vision." >"What?" "My laser vision. Honestly, don't you listen? Back on topic, why am I in jail?" >He starts to say something, then catches himself. >He silently fumes for a second, then speaks with measured malice. >"As I recall, you were sent here for trespassing." >Ahh. That explains it then. "Well, could you tell Celestia that I'm in here? I'll bet she's worried sick about me." >Ignoring any further protests the guard may or may not have had, you inspect the bars on your cell. >Not seeing anything that would make them sound better than any other bars, you look closer. >Nope, still nothing. These bars refuse to yield their secrets. >You grasp a bar firmly with each hand, then shake them as fast as you can. >Heat simply being vibrations and all that jazz. >They melt into slag, a fitting punishment for their insolence. >Your hands are pulled behind your back, and manacles clamp around them. "A bit tight on the old wrists there." >You shake them until they melt. >You pirouette 180 degrees, and find the guard standing there. >Or perhaps another guard. They look very similar wearing that armor. "You wouldn't happen to have a broom lying about? I'd hate to leave a mess." >He scarpers off, presumably in search of a broom. >You notice that this jail is much too boring for your tastes. >You start pulling bricks out of the wall, and start rearranging them. >After fifteen minutes, the guard and a couple of his mates arrive. >You have, by this point, massively changed the prison. >You've gotten some space from outside, making it bigger, and have built staircases going everywhere. >It looks much better now. >Needs more doors, though. >"You there! The strange thin one!" >You pop behind a staircase, stop being there >And start being behind the guards. "Flattery will get you everywhere, you know. Thanks for the compliment, I try to stay in shape." >Just as they've managed to turn around to meet you, you pop behind a doorway, stop being there >And start being back on a staircase. >This jail is too depressing. It needs more light, and more color. >Gold! Gold looks pretty! Let's put that everywhere! >You hop down to your cell, where you melted your door. >Gold is 80-odd protons, and the same amount of electrons, right? >And iron is howevermany protons, with the same amount of electrons. >You'll just eyeball it. >You scoop up two handfuls of metal, and squeeze them together as hard as you can. >The atoms rearrange themselves, and you're left with a bit under half a handful of dense, shiny, yellow metal. >Perfect! >You grab more and more handfuls of iron, squish them together, and stockpile the gold. >Once all the iron has been converted to gold, you start slathering the walls with it. >This will be the most fabulous jail in all of Equestria! >After a few minutes, every wall in the prison has been coated in a thin layer of gold. >Even with the amount of gold you had, you needed to spread it quite thin. >And these sorry excuses for guards have been chasing you the entire time. >Now, doors. >This place needs more doors. >Doors leading here, doors leading there, doors everywhere! >You carve a few doors out with your fingernails. >Now, how to connect them? >Well, what is a door and what isn't is completely subjective. >So, you should be able to just sort of gesture the fact that there's meant to be a door there, so there will be. >You stand inside one of the doorways you've carved out, and trace the arch with your fingertips. >You peel this side off the door, stop being behind that doorway >And start being in front of another. >You put your half-door-portal-thing in the alcove the doorway made, then leap back to the first doorway. >You put your hands on the edges of the portal, and push it into the doorway. >It worked, as you expected. >Now for more doors! >A door here, a door behind this, a door in this wall, a door up there, a door on the floor, doors everywhere! >It's fine, there's enough space! >The guards are getting tired by now. >Unfortunate. You were hoping for some sort of chase scene through the prison. >Ahh well. >You look around the prison, and notice that quite a few of your staircases don't work with conventional gravity. >You grab a bit of gravity from the ground, and smear it on the staircases. >Good! Now the staircases work as intended! >As a last improvement to the prison, you punch a hole in the ceiling to let some light in, then seal it off. >Now the jail looks like a brightly lit golden MC Escher painting. >You decide to leave the jail, and toss a few bits at the exhausted guards as bail. >The sun outside is shining, the air is clean and the birds are chirping. >You cartwheel towards the castle, to see if Celestia was told you were in jail yet. >Instead of going through the gates, you roll faster and faster towards Celestia's bedroom window, before ricocheting off a pebble on the sidewalk. >As you fly towards the window, you curl up into a ball, and prepare yourself. >You feel yourself smash through the window, and you roll out into a dramatic pose. "Who missed me!?" >Celestia tacklehugs you from a nearby chair. >"Anon! You're back! I was so worried when I couldn't find you this morning and-" "You didn't once check the jail?" >She stops and cocks her head. "I was in jail for going into somepony's house and falling asleep in their hallway." >"How did you get out?" "I paid my bail." >"I guess that makes sense." "It also looks really cool now. You should check it out sometime." >You throw yourself onto Celestia's bed. >It's absurdly comfy. "Turns out cobblestones make for a very uncomfortable bed. I'm going to have a nap." >You don't hear anything else Celestia has to say, because you're already asleep. >The sun goes about it's business. It rises a bit, then falls slightly. >You awaken. >Celestia apparently tucked you in, which was nice of her. >Regardless, you roll off the bed, getting yourself tangled in the blanket. >After wriggling your way out, you stretch and yawn. >You start galumphing your way through the castle at random, before you find the Princess. >Well, a Princess. >This one's name is Luna. >"Have you any idea where my sister is?" "No, but I could find out." >You close your eyes, and hold your fists out to the side. >You carefully focus on every individual atom and molecule that passes over your knuckles, figuring out how fast they're going and in what direction. >Then, you trace each individual atom and molecule forwards and backwards in time, finding all the particles they must have interacted with and so on and so forth. >For a brief, shining, moment you can see all of existence from the beginning to the end. >All that has been and all that will be is revealed to you. >You use this infinite knowledge to figure out that Celestia is in the courtyard, and discard the rest of it. "I know exactly where she is. Take my hand." >You extend your hand, and she hesitantly takes it with her hoof. >You stop being inside the castle >And start being a few hundred feet above Celestia. >As you plummet towards the ground, Luna starts kicking and screaming wildly. >You hug her tight, and as you approach the thicker part of the atmosphere at ground level, you slow down to a stop. >"That was fun!" >Luna's taking it very well. >"I thought you were dour and humorless, but you've proved me wrong!" >There's something off about when she refers to herself as a singular entity, but you can't quite put your finger on it. "Celestia!" >She turns to face you. >"Yes?" "Luna wanted to see you!" >She turns to Luna. >You tune out of the ensuing conversation. >It's probably about which one gets the last blueberry tart or somesuch nonsense. >You look around at the garden you're in. >It's nice. >It's well kept, the particular mix of fragrant flowers that grow in it mix to form a delightful smell, and the birds that inhabit it whistle a particularly mesmerising tune. >You start paying attention again. >Luna has flown off, leaving only Celestia and you. "What do you want to do now?"