Twilight kills herself a lot

It was a complex death machine. I had built parts of it but it was still pretty impressive. It was in lab 3f of the underground complex. Twilight went a bit nuts with expanding the area under the tree once she realized she could now teleport huge clumps of earth across the whole planet if she wanted to. I still don't get why those desert ponies were so happy to get a big pile of dirt, but apparently it made them happy, so whatever. The stonework was super sturdy looking. Some Canterlot ponies good at building stuff had come and reinforced all of Twilight's work. Which was good because it totally looked like some parts might collapse soon before. The big machine wasn't all that was in the room, there were countless other broken bits scattered about the room. Twilight was standing in front of one.

"So what does this thing actually do?"

"Other than look impressive and dangerous, nothing. Though it is Pinkie so I'm trying to make it distracting as possible. It's not like I've been using any of these things anyway. They're just taking up space really. They already failed and have been analyzed fully."

"It's not like it's hard." I pointed at a box with a bunch of large metal spikes though it.

"Yes, sometimes it's obvious enough, but not all."

"Ooooo, shiny."

We both turned to see Pinkie staring up at the machine. It was obviously unfinished, by design, but it had various moving parts, lights, and most of the metal frame was already together. It was pretty much a big box but with the top corners rounded off, and none of the sides were flat. There were also various canyon like bits running though it, and of course one side was still open, wires and gears fully visible. Twilight was now focusing on some part she had her magic wrapped around. She was probably being careful not to break it, since I know if she yanks on something hard enough it will move, even if it's being held in place by solid steel. The contraption she was in front of was a mess of blades and gears that would kill anypony standing on the red x on the metal platform in front of it when the death machine is activated.

"As you can see we've made a great start last night. Mostly thanks to Rainbow Dash, but from here on the changes won't be as obvious."

"Okie dokie. I mean, that's fine. As I said, waiting is fine." Pinkie smiled

"I notice you're not wearing any makeup today."

"Yea, gummy suggested that, I didn’t' really get why. Or was that Mrs Cake?"

Twilight Spun around to just stare at Pinkie, which I couldn’t blame her for. Even ignoring whether Gummy can really talk how could you confuse those two. Then the device triggered, gears whirling, though not as many as last time. I was in action immediately, and before you could blink I pushed Twilight out of the way.

Several things passed though my mind nearly at once. First a feeling of relief and happiness as I saved Twilight. Second how incredibly stupid it was, and AJ would so yell at me about thinking before I act if things were different. Then I tried to remember more about Twilight blabbing about decapitation, but I couldn't. I also realized I totally forgot to feed Tank this morning and hope Fluttershy remembers to check in on him somewhat soonish. Finally I thought that at least I was getting to see something new. Though I totally would have taken Rarity up on that offer to do my hooves. She probably really would have been able to make it so I'd barely feel it. Though maybe it's just looking at my body at this weird angle on the floor that's making them look so bad.