FRACT MLP

Twilight Sparkle stirred and woke. She looked around. All was darkness and indistinguishable shapes in the distance.

"Hello, is anyone there?" She called out. There was no answer. No echo to reply. Simply . . . silence.

She stood up and followed the path with her eyes. It was so dark, she could hardly see. She looked closer to herself and noticed she was giving off light in a three foot radius. She wanted to call out for somepony to help her, to find her. To hear something. Anything to break the silence. But she simply followed the path. As she walked, a platform to her left and below her lit up slightly, adding a near-silent humming to the silent ambiance of the area.

When she neared where the lit path connected to the path she was on, three half-rings of white light lit up. Twilight wanted to say something, but bit her tongue, the lack of silence now making her nervous. She bit her lower lip and shook her head. She turned around and spotted four partially-lit panels arranged in a circle.

"What do those do?" she absentmindedly mused aloud, and winced. Still no echo.

She approached the panels and noticed what looked to be many many padlocks on each panel. Three panels adjacent to each other, with matching padlock layouts, and a fourth panel across from the three, with a different padlock layout than the others. She touched a padlock on a panel, and it did nothing.

She shook her head, confused. 'What do I do now?' She thought. The half-rings over the path to a lower level were still dimly lit.

She walked over to them, and they seemed to glow brighter. As they glowed brighter, the humming returned.

Twilight shivered.

She followed the path down. It looped around to come 270 degrees and one level lower than the path entrance. A platform was lit up with three colors, red, green, and blue, and a display of her horn in a reddish hue, surrounded by magic. She lit her horn. If you asked her what spell, she couldnt tell you. The display of Twilight's horn moved to the side to display an empty white circle split vertically down the middle with the top half of a full circle inside of it.

She touched it with her magic, and the two halves shifted together, the inner circle closing and making a full circle inside a larger circle.

A strange sound played, and the platform quickly raised up and lit up the bottom of the upper platform with white light spreading out almost like a spiderweb. She jumped back in shock and cried out.

Where the platform was, there is now what looks like a doorway, but there was nothing inside but a tiny, round room. Her shock rapidly forgotten, she stepped into the center of the tiny room.

She can't remember what happened next.