A Twist in Reality

"So," Twilight said, peering at the four confused faces staring back at her. "Any questions?"

Four hooves instantly raised, one wildly waving around. Twilight ignored Pinkie's hoof and pointed to Applejack.

"Yes, Applejack?"

"Ah was jus' wonderin' what it does."

Twilight had gone all over Ponyville to look for all five of them, and once she found them, she dragged them all off to her new Palace's  lab, where she showed them a metal helmet-like thing sitting on a table. This is where we are in the story, now. Her five best friends staring at a strange machine on a table with five identically confused looks.

Twilight smiled, and gestured towards herself. "It will help me remember. Rarity?" She pointed to the only nicorn left in the group, who had her hoof politely raised.

Rarity frowned. "What is it called?"

Twilight frowned, too, but hers was more of a thinky-thinky-princess frown. "What do you mean, 'What is it called' ?"

Rarity walked forward a couple steps, setting her hoof on the machine, to which Twilight cringed and cautiously removed.

"Well, any great invention needs to have a good name. It's simply uncouth to do without." She chirped. Rainbow nodded from behind her.

"Yeah," she called, "Like 'The Memory Scanner 9000'!!! "

Rarity rolled her eyes. "No, no, no, that will simply not do. It needs to be sophisticated, like 'The Memory Scanner 9000'. "

"That's what I just said!"

"Yes, dear, but I said it more gracefully."

"Enough!" Twilight had to stop them, before a full-blown argument started.

"Look, girls, let's just call it-"

"I KNOW, I KNOW!!!" the frantic pink hoof waved faster.

"Yes, Pinkie?" Twilight deadpanned.

"The Memory Scan-Inator Thingy Ma-bob!"

Twilight sighed, a small smile on her face as she shook her head. "Alright Pinkie, we'll call it the Memory Scan-Inator Thingy Ma-bob."

"YIPPEE!" Pinkie cheered from her spot in between Rarity and Applejack.

"So, Fluttershy?"

The yellow Pegasus squeaked at her name, shrinking back. "Uhm, yes, T-Twilight...?"

"Do you have any questions?"

"No..."

"Great!" The Alicorn grinned, picking up the Memory Scan-Inator Thingy Ma-bob, setting it on her head. "The way it works it this, Rarity, I'll need you to channel your energy to your horn while you're wearing this," Twilight picked up some metal thing shaped like a Unicorn's horn. She stepped towards Rarity, placing it on her horn and fitting it. "The energy will be carried through these tubes," she pointed to some clear tubes that went from Rarity's horn brace thingy to Twilight's helmet. "And the energy with lock with my own," she pointed to a brace thingy with some tubes leading towards Rarity's. "The magic from our energy will infuse and create a burst, which is led through the helmet and into my mind."

A blue hoof was raised.

"Yes, Rainbow Dash?"

"Why not just use a spell? Like, why do you have to use science for everything?"

Twilight turned and began to pace, setting her helmet back on the table.

"Well, you see," she began, "There are of course spells for somepony else to look into another pony's memories, but what that pony doesn't remember, the other won't see. So no spell would work in the way I need it to."

Rainbow Dash still did not see the need to use this stupid helmet thing. Why make everything so complicated when in reality it was so simple? Why couldn't Twilight just invent some spell that would work right? The answers to these questions, she didn't know.

"So, all in all, here we are. Now the question is... are you ready to try it, girls?