Chapter 4b: A Quick Pause For Explanation

I would like to sincerely apologize for interrupting the saga of the Cooper siblings and Rainbow Dash, but in order to continue, a few key footnotes are needed. You see, earlier in our tale, Rainbow Dash made the excellent analysis that if one sapient race discovered quantum tunneling, then any universe was up for grabs, whether they were created by another sapient race or not. This means that even though Lauren Faust created the universe of "Friendship is Magic", her creations could have, theoretically, discovered Earth before "ServantofLuna444" made their quantum tunneling device.

When something is taken from a universe, even an atom, the universe must compensate for what was lost, since matter cannot be created or destroyed. A quantum copy is made of the item (or being), to fill in for the item until it is returned to its proper universe. In the case of Rainbow Dash, this means that a nearly identical version of her continues to fill in her place, acting on an autopilot of sorts. However, since the quantum copy is not the exact same as the original, it eventually starts to decay and eventually reduces to nothing but pure dark energy.

So, in Rainbow Dash's case, something bizarre happened. She never got a quantum copy, which is quite rare, less than 1 in a trillion cases have no quantum copy. Because of this, her friends in Equestria became quite concerned about where she went.

"Where did Dashie go?" asked Pinkie Pie, who was quite concerned about her abrupt absence. It took her a few days to begin doing what she does best; look past the fourth wall. "Oh shit! There must have been some sort of meta incident. I have to ask Twilight what is going on!"

With no delay, she ran over to the library where Twilight lives, and began knocking on the door like a madman. "TWILIGHT, OPEN UP! I HAVEN'T SEEN DASHIE IN DAYS, I THINK SOMETHING HAPPENED TO HER!!" She yelled, continuing to bang on the door.

The door opened, and a little purple and green dragon opened the door. "Ugh, what do you want, Pinkie? Twilight is studying an old manuscript about time travel. She doesn't want to be disturbed. Goodbye!" The dragon closed the door.

"Uh, Spike, that is exactly the problem. I need her help with this because I think something otherworldly took her away." Pinkie exclaimed. Spike opened the door and let her in, not willing to fight her again. Besides, Pinkie is known to warp reality to get what she wants. It is a losing battle on his end.

"Go up the stairs to the first room on the left, and knock first. Okay? I don't want to get in trouble again!" Spike said, quite annoyed.

Pinkie did as she was told, and went to the aforementioned room. She knocked on the door. "Uh Twilight, I need your help with something. It is in your wheelhouse. Possibly time travel or something else nerdy. Can I come in?"

The door opened with telekinesis, revealing the unicorn reading an old manuscript (this event was before her ascension to godhood). "Yeah, what is it? Is it urgent?" She asked, quite puzzled. Usually, Pinkie isn't the pony to come for a scholarly question. It is usually Applejack for something agricultural, or a biology factoid for Fluttershy. If Pinkie Pie is here, then it is probably very important.

"WELL, I HAVEN'T SEEN DASHIE IN A WEEK, AND SHE SAID SHE WOULD COME TO GUMMY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY 3 DAYS AGO, AND I CAN'T FIND HER. I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING META HAPPENING!" Pinkie said, quite hyper as usual.

"Meta, what is meta?" Twilight asked, confused.

"Uh, Mr. Narrator? Are you there?"

Ah, dang it. I hate it when Pinkie does this. She did this before in a parallel universe, and it was annoying.

Yes Pinkie, what is it?

"Well, where did Dashie go? I need some 4th wall help!"

"Hold on, Pinkie Pie, who are you talking to?" Twilight asks, confused.

"Uh, Mr. Narrator, duh!. You can't see the 4th wall, it's okay."

As you know, I cannot reveal too much information relevant to the story, but I can tell you that she went to my planet, circa 2011 CE. I can make a portal for you, but that is about it. Here, look to your left. I will not correspond with you anymore in this. Stay in character, please!

And with that, I used the power of meta to make a portal to Earth.

"I have a bunch of parties to plan, so you should go get her. Besides, she is more receptive to you than me. Good luck!" Pinkie said, as she ran out of the room, eager to get back to making party plans.

"What the hay is the fourth wall? Anyways, might as well go get her now." Said Twilight. "Spike, I am going on classified business. Hold the fort!" She yelled as she walked through the portal, quick to remember to grab her element of harmony. It could come in handy. The portal quickly closed behind her, sending her to Earth.