Just the Flip of a Switch

       For the twenty-seventh time Twilight lifted a hoof and brought it down onto the bright red button that should start up the automatic potion brewing machine which, in theory, can make any potion given the correct ingredients. All she wanted was for this Celestial forsaken machine to work! It started to jump to life with a loud hum that ment it was working started coming from the machine. "Yes!" she yelled loud enough for Spike to fall off of the ladder he was currently using to re-shelve books. All she needed was to flip the switch and... *BOOM* *SNAP* Twilight sighed as the sound of the machine fizzed out.

        "Not again, this is the third time I have got my hopes up like this," she murmured to nopony in particular.

        She started to walk around the machine to see what went wrong this time and as she said something was OK Spike would check it off of the checklist, checking and double-checking if it was broken.

        "Ughhhh!" Twilight nearly screamed as  she saw they were out of every last picometer of plutonium.

       You see, pure plutonium, with no impurities, is needed to power the machine and not just anypony has spare plutonium just lying around their house. Twilight immediately started packing an entire sack full of bits as a metal as rare as pure plutonium is only found at the rare metals and alloys shop in Canterlot, and it is not exactly cheap either. She ran outside and got a train ride to Canterlot. On the train she tried to remember the way to the metals and alloys shop from the train station. She thought she remembered it being take a left after you pass the "Canterlot Spa" and keep going until you see the first bed and breakfast that you come across, turn right from there, and after about half a mile it is right there. When she looked up she realized it was her stop. On the way to the metals and alloys shop she came across three rather shady ponies on the bad side of town who jumped her and in panic she rapidly teleported away and landed on the roof of some guy's shop. Luckily she didn't break the roof and have to pay for it. When she got to the metal and alloy shop she bought all of the plutonium they had in stock. The shop owner was rather surprised at this request but he obliged getting out almost twenty pounds of plutonium and asking if Twilight would like that gift wrapped or not. When she was walking back she stopped by a restraint for a dinner of a daisy sandwich and hayfries. On the train ride back she watched the sun set and relaxed. After that trip it was dark out and Spike was already asleep.

       "Just one more try before I go to sleep," Twilight said to herself. She carefully loaded the plutonium into a chamber where it would be producing enough energy to power all of Equestria for a year in seconds. She pressed the button. The machine whirred to life. And with just the flip of a switch it came on.