FRACT MLP
Chapter 2: The Empty Terrarium
Previous ChapterTwilight Sparkle came to in a large, cave-like room. She looked around and spied three large obelisks not too far away. After a certain long distance, a thick fog overtook all visibility. Three Huge cables jutted out of medium-sized platforms and went Celestia knows how deep into a whitish clear liquid, both near and far.
As she neared the obelisks, an eerie, haunting sound she barely noticed started becoming louder. A Cable was coming out of a platform near the obelisks. She shied away from the obelisks for now and approached the ramp to the platform.
As she stepped onto the platform, Structures quickly formed from plates on the floor of the platform. She nearly had a heart attack.
A small, red circular obelisk had formed when she wasn't paying attention, and she trotted closer to it after recovering for a minute. The horn that showed up before as red, showed up again as green. When she lit her horn, a green vertical slider showed up at the very bottom position.
She hesitantly looked around and slowly lifted the slider to the top. with an electronic-sounding buzz, the roof panels lit up green, and she turned around to see the nearest large obelisk light up green as well. Confident that she was actually doing something, she went after the next platform and cable.
As she walked along, she realized that the white little dots she passed were actually growing out of nothing ahead of her, and fading to nothing behind her.
She stepped onto the second platform, and was prepared for the panels moving around, but these ones moved around slightly differently than the first. She trotted confidently to the mini-obelisk, and the display lit up with a blue horn.
She lit her horn again and the display showed a dial, which she turned all the way clockwise that it could go. The panels above her head lit up blue with the same buzz as before, and she turned around to see the second large obelisk light up blue.
"One to go!" she said, confident and determined. She trotted to the final cable and platform and wasn't even fazed by the panels appearing out of nowhere to rest, floating, above her head. She approached the final mini-obelisk, activated her magic and scrutinized the final piece to this puzzle. The display was a simple, curved red line, but another display had appeared above the first; a horn with four arrows around it in the cardinal directions. She looked around, confused. and suddenly spotted the solution to both her sides.
Circle buttons similar to at the first platform showed up in her vision, the difference being these were red with the smaller half-circle on the bottom instead of the top. She pressed both buttons, and the roof panels lit up red. She turned, the final obelisk turning red ahead of her.
A bright white light shot straight up from the center of the large obelisks, and Twilight trotted to the large obelisks. When she stepped on the platform all the large obelisks were on, the platform began to ascend, a quiet, inspiring techno tune playing. The tops of the obelisks fit perfectly into an inset in the roof of the cave. Light bridges extended down from above to rest in three directions on the platform.
Twilight chose one and went to the one upper platform they all led to. The platform she was currently on turned into an elevator, taking her even higher. An aperture door opened above her, letting the platform pass and come to a stop.
