Life. Such a weird word; something to describe things that can move, think, breathe, and just generally do things. Now, if one were to add the word "That's" in front of "Life," we'd get a whole other thing on its own. "That's life," is such a simple thing to say, yet it can also be used as a response to things that are either complex, or just unfortunate that happen to people.
Speaking of unfortunate things happening to living beings, something seems about ready to happen to a certain lavender unicorn filly, who's just gotten ready to take her entrance exam in order to get into Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Ponies. (The last head teacher at the school had vehemently pestered Princess Celestia to change the name of the school, seeing as it actually accepted ponies of all types, not just Unicorns.) But anyway, we're getting a bit off track here...
Twilight had just entered the room where her entrance exam, as well as the examiners, were waiting for her. This was it, the final test, the one that would decide whether she got into the school or not. The tension in the room was palpable, but little Twilight let it roll off of her shoulders, and looked at the test. What laid in front of her was but a simple cart, which held what looked like a weird piece of coral. It was as big as one of Twilight's hooves, and yet seemed like it was broken off from a much larger piece.
The purple filly instantly knew what the piece was; it happened to be that same piece of coral that was reported on after it was actually found just lying about, just outside of Time Turner's home. Somepony probably tried to pick it up with levitation, which led to it being studied in Canterlot. What was so unique about it, was that it just absorbed any and all magic that came into contact with it, no matter what spell was thrown at it. The stuffy examiners had a differing opinion on what should happen, apparently, as they just gave Twilight an even look, and simply asked her, "This last test will be simple, yet not. Your test is this: try to move this piece of coral; it does not matter how it is moved, just that it is."
Now, normally when someone hears this, they would just nudge the thing they were asked to move and call it done, but this is Twilight "Tryhard" Sparkle; she just has to do things the hard way. As soon as the examiner finished the statement, Twilight fired up her horn, getting a levitation spell ready. As soon as she was sure she had pumped enough magic into the spell, she let it loose onto the piece of coral. It did nothing. No, wait, it did more than nothing, but it didn't do what Twilight had wanted it to do. It simply absorbed her magic, like it was a sponge.
'Alright Twilight, think,' Twilight said to herself internally, 'All it's doing is absorbing magic indiscriminately. There has to be a limit! It can't just suck up an unlimited amount of magic at any given time.' It was then that Twilight had formed an idea; it was a pretty stupid one, but it was all she had in terms of what she thought she could throw at it. Right now, it was go big or go home in Twilight's eyes; no problem was unsolvable in her eyes. Sure, it might cause her trouble, but she was also somewhat of an expert at getting out from that problem as well as of recently.
After a few seconds of gathering herself together, Twilight dug down into her core, and tried to unleash a teleportation spell on the piece of coral. At first, it didn't react. A few seconds into trying to get it to budge, Twilight hit some sort of wall. It wasn't coming from the coral, but the spacial plane of Equestria. 'That's it! I could try to open up a hole outside and tunnel it back to Equestria with another hole somewhere else! Perfect!' No, not perfect; in fact, that idea was far from perfect. Sure, it started to work as she just casually TORE OPEN A HOLE IN TIME AND SPACE IN ORDER TO FREAKIN TELEPORT A MAGIC-RESISTANT PIECE OF CORAL, but it wasn't a very bright idea really. The examiners were all set to just give her the damn grade almost as soon as she had passed all the other trials with flying colors, but no. Someone had the balls to give TWILIGHT MOTHERBUCKIN' "I HAVE NO NEED FOR THE LAWS OF REALITY" SPARKLE an impossible test. They had just insisted on being a stupid little pony, and the universe had decided to show them exactly why one does NOT hand Twilight an "unsolvable" problem.
As Twilight had charged the spell and fired it off, she had just absolutely shattered her body's magical limits and started channeling magic straight from Elysium. If that wasn't reason enough to give Twilight an all expenses paid scholarship into any and all advanced magical training at the school, may Celestia eat her bedsheets. This was precisely when things had started turning ugly. The hole in reality that Twilight had torn open started reacting with the coral that she had attempted to move. It bathed the room in a sort of golden-yellow glow, similar to Celestia's own aura color, but it was completely different. It matched the raw and untamed energies as the background energy that flowed around the inside of the hole that she had ripped open in reality. It didn't stop there though; it started sucking her into the whole, and she had no way of controlling where she went. Twilight made a pitiful attempt at trying to cut off the spell, but it was like a runaway train without any brakes. Any and all attempts made to stabilize the spell and wind it down were completely futile. It had passed the point of no return, and the instructors had no idea what to do, aside from call Celestia into the room immediately.
When Celestia arrived at the scene, it was just seconds too late, as Twilight was almost completely swallowed up by the runaway spell. Just before Twilight was taken completely, Celestia put out a quick and simple pulse of magic, "I'm verry sorry my little pony, but I cannot contain this runaway spell. If I were to channel the sun in order to stop the spell, there would be far too much collateral damage in the resulting backlash of magic. The spell that I've just cast is a simple tracker spell. If you happen to land in a world where magic exists, then it will be a simple matter of finding you. Please know that we will never give up looking for you, ever. We will not rest until you are safely back in Equestria."
In her mind, Twilight knew that what Celestia said made sense. She wanted to help, but she couldn't for fear of causing too much damage and potentially costing many more lives than just the possibility of one. She, a small filly, knew this, yet it could not stop the tears from forming in her eyes as she was sucked away to worlds unknown. Celestia placed a hoof on Twilight's cheek just before she fully disappeared, "I wholeheartedly promise that you will be found, my little pony. Remember that wherever you go, Equestria will be waiting for you to return."
Seconds after she said this, the spell went through its completeion, and then nothing of Twilight sparkle remained. She had crossed time and space into a totally different reality, possibly one without even magic. This was all brought on because SOMEPONY had forgotten to read the scroll that was sent their way shortly before Twilight was due to arrive. Celestia looked right at Professor Inkwell, and gave him this look, which was blank and yet told him all the horrors that awaited him as soon as he got done with all of his other duties he had that day.
He had only one thing to say, "Buck me."