It was a peaceful day in Princess Twilight's Castle of Friendship, as she and her friends were busy organizing some books, Spike being busy using a broom to sweep out from underneath Rainbow Dash, who was fluttering in the air as she was currently flipping through a book, until a weird shape caught her eye, as she turned to Twilight. "Hey Twilight, whats this?" She said turning the book and holding it in her hands, displaying the picture of a hexagon.
Twilight inspected it for a couple milliseconds before answering happily and firmly. "A hexagon I believe, one of the most strange and boring shapes imaginable."
Suddenly, across the multiverse, through the many timelines, in the one right next to the horizons universe, we zoom in on the island nation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and as zoom in closer, we eye the home of one CGP Grey, master of all types of knowledge, and the founder of Hexology, a religion dedicated to understanding and recognizing the superiority of hexagons, as they are, the bestagon. Well, it was less of a religion, more like a simple way to label the art of understanding a hexagon's supremacy. Anyways, Grey was currently working on his next video, but then, he felt something.... He could swear he heard somebody...
Insult the hexagon.
The very thought of someone insulting the hexagon made his blood boil, the hair on his skin standing up. As multiversal grandmaster of all things hexagon, he sensed when the great shape was insulted. However, surely it was just a one time thing, maybe it was just a joke.
But then, as we return to the Castle of Friendship, he feels he is wrong when another outcry against the hexagon is heard.
"Indeed darling, such a strange shape, it holds no elegance of beauty, just rigid and cold, emotionless." Those words were starting to make Grey's blood run red hot, as he gritted his teeth as he slowly built up rage within himself. He simply just continued sitting down, trying to work at his computer, slowly typing away at the script, before reaching for his coffee, and taking a sip.
"Ah reckon the hexagon does alot less than any other shape. Can barely roll, ain't too sturdy, just generally worthless."
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As Grey spat out his coffee all over his computer monitor, he quickly reached for his emergency coffee spill napkins and cleaned off his screen. Then, he simply just decided to tune it out. After all, he had to look at the negative comments on his hexagon video, he could handle this. A few harsh words to the hexagon wouldn't mean nothing too much to him anyways.
"I heard that bee's use it, but I still don't understand why..."
The soft and timid nature of the speaker's voice, as well as the more calm and subdued opinion quickly helped to settle Grey's anger, as he could very easily understand their confusion on the subject of bee's utilizing hexagon patterns. After all, it would take a better understanding of the nature of bee society, anatomy, and behavior, as well as grid patterns and shape plains in order to fully grasp the concept. Plus, it was likely that these heretics who speak against the hexagon were mere children, and had yet to be enlightened by their parents. However, he still felt a slight urge... An urge to educate them. But Grey continued to repress it, until...
"Twilight, I think the shape looks pretty cool."
"Spike, you must have a very skewed understanding of what is 'cool'."
Well, that does it.
With a quick grunt of pure annoyance and frustration, Grey stood up from his desk, slowly walking over to a bookshelf, before pulling on a book, as a switch activated, the door moved to the right to reveal a hexagon shaped door, opening as Grey stepped inside a hexagon shaped grey and white elevator, as the door closed and he descended into his fortress of hexagonitude. Yeah, it was a dumb name, so he just referred to it as the fortress of the hexagon.
As the elevator reached the bottom floor, the door opened to reveal a large white and grey hexagon shaped room, with a large hexagon shaped table in the center, a massive grey and white hologram of a hexagon hovering in the center of it, the symbol of his channel at its center, slowly rotating as six hexagon chairs could be seen surrounding the table, meant for his fellow hexagon defenders, even if he was the only one. At the other end of the room, was a hexagon shaped computer, with three large screens, with a hexagon shaped chair in front of it, as Grey quickly strode over and sat down in the chair, quickly pulling himself up to the surprisingly regular shaped keyboard, although the keys were all hexagons, as he began typing away at it, those horrid words ringing through his mind.
Grey quickly deciphered the culprits responsible for the slandering of the hexagon, narrowing it down to the My Little Pony universe, specifically Season 6, Timeline 45XB, Dimension 24. While this would be his first time entering the my little pony part of the multiverse, it wouldn't be his first inter-dimensional excursion, as that was when he had to put sonic the hedgehog in his place for dissing the hexagon. Now having located his target dimension, he quickly narrowed down his search, scanning for the one who insulted the shape in the first place. Grey then zoomed in on Twilight Sparkle, quickly marking her location and saved a set of coordinates as he typed them into the computer. Grey knew exactly who Twilight and her friends were, having watched the show, dropping little hints to such in some of his videos.
Grey then stood up and turned around, walking over to the eastern wall of the room and pressing a button. The wall slowly opened up to reveal several pieces of advanced equipment, including a power suit with a hexagon on it, with a built in hexagon holo shield, a hexagon shaped combat drone and a hexagon shaped blaster rifle to its side. However, seeing as it was My Little Pony he was entering, Grey did not concern himself with armament, although he did press the hexagon on the chest of the power armor, shrinking it down into a tiny grey and white hexagon badge with the symbol of his channel on it, as he placed it on his chest, before soon locating the tool he needed as he picked out what appeared to be a hexagon shaped remote, with a hexagon shaped button, as he proceeded to press it, and vanish in a burst of light.
Disruption In The Hexagonal Force
"Okay, so why does the hexagon even exist if it's so worthless?" Rainbow dash asked her friends, as she listened closely to their discussion.
"Well, I'm pretty sure it was a mistake made by the universe but-"
Before Twilight could finish her sentence, a bright flash of white light filled the entire castle, originating from the center of the room as it blinded the ponies and spike momentarily. As they looked back to the source of light, they saw a strange sight. A bi-pedal being, whose limbs seemed to consist of sticks, as they had a perfectly round and circular head on their shoulders, with no hands and no feet of any kind. The figure appeared to have no eyes or mouth, only wearing a pair of glasses on their face. The only brightly colored part of their body was a hexagonal badge with some sort of symbol on it, looking like a scientific flask inside of a cog.
As they marveled at the new visitor, it spoke to them in a very annoyed tone of voice.
"Listen here, buster, you have got alot of explaining to do for dissing on the almighty bestagon, the hexagon." As the figure spoke to Twilight, she quickly realized she had probably angered some kind of inter-dimensional entity, but decided to try and play dumb.
"Ummmmm... What do you mean? I didn't say anythin-"
"Don't play dumb, Twilight Sparkle, I know your lying to me. It doesn't take the element of honesty to know that." Immediately, everyone in the room was stunned by the unknown person knowing both Twilight's name and about the element of honesty. Did he know everyone else's name? Applejack decided to try and get to the bottom of it.
"Now how in the hay do you know Twilight's name?" The unknown figure quickly turned towards Applejack and replied.
"I know all of your names, Applejack. In fact, I know everything there is to know about your universe. I have been watching you ever since you first started your adventures." It was true, CGP Grey was a massive brony, and had watched the entirety of MLP:FiM. Seeing as he dropped continuous hints to it in his videos, he seemed to be proud of it. Regardless, the ponies reacted with fear and confusion, except for Pinkie Pie.
"Oooooooh, whats my name?"
"You are Pinkie pie, breaker of forth walls, master of meta cartoon gags, bearer of the element of laughter, and the most fun and party loving pony in equestria." Cue Pinkie Pie having a dopey grin on her face as she rapidly nodded her head up and down, so fast that everyone assumed her neck would snap. Rainbow dash decided to try and get some answers of her own.
"Just how much do you know about us?"
"Oh, I know a lot about all of you, especially you, Rainbow dash, bearer of the element of loyalty, and a hot headed speedster who is capable of performing a sonic rainboom.
Rarity was slightly taken aback by this unknown being's knowledge of her and her friends, and decided to ask a question of her own.
"Might I ask who you even are, darling?" Grey quickly turned to Rarity, as he facepalmed as he realized he had forgotten to introduce himself, as he quickly decided to respond.
"Oh, where are my manners, names Grey, CGP Grey. Bearer of all types of knowledge, and universal grand master of all things hexagon. And today, i'm here to teach you ponies, and dragon, a lesson." Everyone in the room looked confused by what he meant, with Spike being glad someone finally noticed him. Fluttershy seemed a little concerned, as she inquired about what he meant by that.
"Ummm... What do you mean by lesson, Mr Grey?" Grey happily turned to Fluttershy, and if he could smile, he would have one big grin on his face.
"Well, what I mean is like a lesson on hexagons. And don't worry Fluttershy, I am not angry with you, you simply need to understand why hexagon's are so important, like they are for bee's. Speaking of which, allow me to prepare my equipment." Suddenly, Grey tapped his hexagon badge, as it projected a hologram of what appeared to be a hexagon shaped holographic board, with several hexagon seats in front of it. "Everyone please take your seats."
Everyone looked at the holographic classroom with skeptical looks, except Pinkie, who quickly listened and sat down in her seat, feeling extremely comfortable in the hexagonal cushions. Fluttershy decided to sit as well, taking her seat and smiling as she faced the board. Next was Rarity, as she shrugged and took her seat, being surprised by its comfort.
"My my, these hexagonal chairs are immensely comfortable!" Grey nodded, seeing how Rarity had already seen the benefit of using hexagon cushions, as he watched Spike quickly take a seat right next to her, being all too familiar with his crush on Rarity.
"Yeah, these seats are pretty cool looking, futuristic and scientific!" Grey would be smiling ear to ear right now, if he had either a mouth or ears. It was clear to him that Spike would be one of the easiest to convince, and potentially recruit them into the order of the hexagon. Grey looked over to Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Twilight sparkle, who were still skeptical and suspicious of the seating.
"Ah don't know about this, Twi..."
"Yeah, this has ‘trap’ written all over it." Grey simply sighed, fully understanding their suspicion, but wishing they would at least have some trust, as he tried to ease their fears.
"I assure you, I mean no harm. We of the order of the hexagon took a vow never to use violence when educating others." Grey said as he gestured back to the seats, with Twilight sighing.
"Well, I suppose we might as well hear what this... Mr. CGP Grey has to say." Twilight says as she, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash take their seats. Suddenly, holographic pencil and papers appear on each of the desks, which they presumed were for note taking, as Grey turned to the holo-board, which slowly booted up, revealing his logo in all it glory, as he took out a holographic maker, and wrote 'Mr. Grey' on the board, before turning back to his new students.
"Class is now in session. Now, let's talk about bee's."
A Lesson About The Hexagon
As Twilight sparkle and her friends sat in front of the futuristic hexagonal holographic board at the back of the virtual classroom, sitting in their grey and white hexagonal seats, Grey simply spoke a single phrase to them.
"The first thing you need to know, is hexagon's, are the bestagons."
Simply saying the phrase made Grey feel like he was making progress, feel like he was truly getting somewhere. Though, he had barely even begun, and when the first question was asked, he was ready to pounce.
"But, why? It's so boring and it doesn't even make sense!" Twilight shouted angrily, feeling like she was being insulted for her beliefs.
"Why, you ask? Because, bees." Grey says as he pulls a bee hive out of thin air, as hundreds of bee's swarm around it, as Grey pulls out a piece of honeycomb from the hive. "Bees are the best, and build only the bestagon, the hexagon."
Fluttershy proceeded to raise her hoof into the air, as Grey pointed to her. "Yes, Fluttershy?"
"I heard they did it because they were hexapods that had hexagon eyes, so how could they do otherwise?"
"I am very glad you asked that Fluttershy, as it is a very good and valid point." The holographic board then displays an image of a bee. "The humble bumble has an engineering problem to solve. She makes two things, honey and wax." He says as images of a drop of honey, and a tub of wax appear on the screen. "The former to eat, and the latter to contain the former. To make but a little honey, she must visit a lot of flowers, and to make one unit of wax, she needs eight units of honey. Wax is costly for bees in flower terms, and honey is drippy in food terms. So to make a hive that contains the maximum honey and uses the minimum wax is royally vital." Grey says as the image of two bees holding up a paper, one holding and playing a bugle as the paper reads 'By Royal Decree: Reduce Wastage'.
"Thus, a honeycomb conjecture. Which shape, works best? To answer, we need to talk tiles." Grey says as he pulls out a holographic box and dumps it out, as a bunch of random shapes appear on the floor, as he gestures for his students to come closer, as they all get up from their seats and sit down on the floor with him as he crouches down. "Tiling is covering a surface with a pattern of polygons. There's lots of options, because there's lots of polygons. Even the regulars go on and on-agon. Now for bees, picking patterns..." Several images of complicated and advanced holographic patterns appear on the floor, as the ponies and Spike watch with amazement and curiosity. "The more complicated ones obviously use more lines than necessary, that's what complicated means. And thus a honeycomb of that tile would use more wax per honey. So sticking to the simple regulars, there are just three that tile tightly, triangle, square, and hexagon."
Suddenly, three tile patterns appear on the floor, with green triangles, red squares, and blue hexagons. Other patterns also appear. "Pentagon's are broken hexagon's, leaving gaps, same with septagons. Octagons are alright, but there no hexagon. This leaves the tiling trio that tile differently. A square is a square of squares, which is a square of squares, and so." Grey says as a red square hologram begins to infinitely tile, with Twilight and her friends looking on in confusion and amazement at this strange tiling process. "Squares tile tidily by basically cheating, covering an infinite plane with an infinite number of parallel lines."
"Hey, these squares are being unfair!" Pinkie shouted, protesting against the cheating behavior of the square.
"Indeed, Pinkie. Like, wow, that's what a plane is. Boring!" Grey says throwing away a square hologram he was holding. "Triangles pull the same trick, dividing themselves down into infinite nothing. But not the hexagon! The only regular polygon to tile a plane without resorting to debasing self division, unlike some squares I could mention... At least triangle is trying to be more geometrically interesting than the square, teaming up to... one, two, three, four, five, six... Wait, hexagon!" The ponies all gasped at this sudden realization, Twilight just being purely dumbfounded.
"The other shapes can't help it, they just want to be the bestagon. Even some of the irregulars like rhombus tile by hexagoning. Same with your triakis tiles, and deltoidal tri-trihexagonals, and your, ah, kisrhombiles, and floret-chuckle floret penta-pentanogals... Look, there all just hexagons." Grey lightly chuckled, continuing to struggle with saying the name of these shapes, Pinkie lightly giggiling at such weird shape names, while Twilight was busy taking notes, having never heard any of these shapes before. Meanwhile, Rainbow was busy snoring in her sleep, before Applejack lightly jabbed her in the side and woke her up.
"Hey!"
"Pay attention!"
"But it's so boring!" Grey just scoffed at Rainbow's lack of enthusiasm as he continued.
"Anyways, even cairo tiles, poor pentagons, tile up as best they can to form a lumpy hexagon. The rest, just can't compete, with the best. The hexagon, nobily indivisible, is the bestagon." Everyone slowly nodded, Twilight still being highly skeptical, but Spike and Pinkie nodding more rapidly, highly interested in this subject.
"Now where were we?"
"I believe we were talking about bees, darling." Rarity happily reminded Grey, as he pointed to Rarity.
"Thank you, Rarity, yes, we were talking about... Oh right, honeycomb conjecture. Max honey, min wax, three options." Suddenly, Applejack pulled out a large circle.
"And what about this then?" Grey sighed in annoyance, before understanding she had a valid point.
"Ok yes, there's the circle, a shape defined by the least perimeter for the most area, but that only works when you just need one." Applejack appeared confused, as Grey displayed an image of a circular honeycomb conjecture on the board. "Pack circles and this is the best that they can do, look at all that wasted space! And even if you pack the gaps, you still use more wax. And, again, the way these circles, arrange themselves... It's almost like... onetwothreefourfivesix Hidden hexagon!" Applejack was just dumbfounded by this revelation, simply sitting down and shutting up as she listened, understanding how the circle was not an option.
"Bees use the hexagon because no shape is better to create the maximum area, for the minimum wall. And this min-max stat of hexagon is one of the many reasons they show up everywhere, including in the aforementioned bees eyes." Grey says as a close up image of the eye of a bee is displayed on the board, with Fluttershy appearing slightly frightened, but also intrigued.
"Each hexagon is a long tube that leads to the light catching cells at the bottom. More light equals better vision and hexagon's let the most light in using the least amount of wall." Grey says looking at a the board, which had a video feed of Grey and the ponies through the eyes of a bee, with the girls and Spike being amazed at this information, with Twilight taking notes like a mad mare, but then asking a question of her own, hoping to disprove Grey.
"So why aren't our eyes hexagons?" Cue Grey using some good ol french, or in pony language, prench, against Twilight, as a beret spawned on her head.
"Au contraire mon ami, they are l'hexagon. Not on the outside..." Grey slowly got closer to Twilight's face, staring right into her eyes and speaking in a deep tone, which she found both terrifying and somewhat calming. "But on the inside. Your light catching cells are at the back of your eye in a hexagonal grid for the same reason as bees. Max light, min wall." Grey slowly backed away, before a hologram of a hexagonal window to outside the castle of friendship appeared, as everyone looked to it. "Your window to the world is but through the hexagon. Does that not make it the bestagon?"
To say Twilight and her friends were flabbergasted would be an understatement. In terms of agreement, Spike, Pinkie and Fluttershy were instantly on board with the idea of the bestagon, understanding its important. Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash were still a little skeptical, but Twilight was in full on denial.
"I still do not believe it holds any importance, it is simply a coincidence that it is part of us!" Grey got an angry look, as the holographic tablet he was holding to display the min-max of the hexagon was tossed away.
"Okay, maybe hexagon as min-max-agon doesn't catch your fancy. Then how about a little mystery, oui? Let us travel, to saturn, a planet from my universe within my galaxy, the milky way." The hexagonal window's view slowly started to shift, until a large planet with a massive ring around it was in view, as everyone's jaws hit the floor, Twilight's included. Twilight had never seen such a fascinating planet in all her years of star gazing. "Now yes, the rings are attention grabbing, but leave the equator, travel north, and here lies the un-explained..." The view of the planet slowly shifted, to reveal a giant hexagon shape on the north pole of the planet, with the ponies having their brains fried. "The Great Hexagon of Saturn. Need something for scale? Well, here's the earth, my homeworld." Grey says as an image of his homeworld appears next to the hexagon, with Twilight dumbfounded by the scale, and about to question it, before Grey continued, as five more earth's appeared around the hexagon. "Oh, here's six the Earth's. Saturn's hexagon is, pretty big."
Suddenly, the ponies and Spike all appeared in advanced space suits alongside Grey, who was opening the hatch of a space station. "What is it, you may ask? Well, you might be thinking its a geological formation..." Grey says as they appear on solid ground next to a massive hexagon pillar of stone. "A massive basalt column, like the smaller versions you find on Earth." Grey says as a holographic screen displays the image of a stick person climbing on said pillars. "But no, Saturn is a gas giant." Suddenly, the ground beneath them disappeared, as everyone began floating in zero gravity, the rock included. "There is no surface or geology to speak of." The basalt column promptly vanished when he said geology.
"So, the great hexagon is composed of shapeless clouds, somehow keeping shape, and changing color." Grey says as everyone looks up in awe to see a massive swirling mass of clouds, changing color from light blue to orange, until they suddenly appeared in space, hovering above the planet in space, as Grey donned a special hat. "It's a magnificent solar system mystery. And, while I am no space archaeologist, if I was looking for an alien gifted monolith on the most 'Look at me' type planet, under a hexagon beacon with earth-sized sides, that's where I would start." Grey said clicking his tongue. "After all, what aliens would want to make first contact with the nearby monkeys before they became enlightened to pursue the universal truth. Hexagon, is the bestagon." Grey says as everyone re-appears back in the classroom and in their seats, still amazed by what they saw.
"Wow... Hexagon's are cooler than I thought!" Spike shouted with enthusiasm, as Grey chuckled.
"Indeed, and in some cases, they are literally cool. Say, for example, this tiny snowflake I happen to have, that has six sides as all snowflakes do." Grey says as a snowflake materializes in his palm. "Gee, what could cause that to be? Let's zoom down to the atomic level and see." Suddenly, an intense zoom effect was put on the snowflake, as a close up appeared on the holo board, displaying several water molecules. "When water molecules join together to make a flake, the sturdy shape they prefer is a hexagon." Grey says as millions of molecules can be seen slowly forming together into a massive pattern of hexagons. "As more molecules join, they extend the flake fractally up,the beauty of the snowflake on the monkey scale is but an extension of the hexagonal perfection, on the atomic scale." Suddenly, Rarity raised her hoof into the air.
"But what about snowflakes with twelves sides darling?" Rarity says as one such snowflake appears in her hoof.
"Ok yes, you will sometimes find snowflakes with twelve sides, but this happens when two growing snowflakes get stuck together, so it still counts." Seeing the flawless logic in it, Rarity nodded and tossed away the flake. "And the hexagon isn't just for snow, it's for all ice One-H, which means basically all ice on Earth, and in Equestria." Grey then walks over to a wall with some vials in little hexagonal holes as he pulls out a vial from within the hole marked as Ice One-C. "Yeah, there's a little ice One-C, but we don't talk about it because it's made of cubes and cubes are boring, and there is a bit of Ice-9." Pinkie made a sound of audible fascination as she slowly extended her hoof to touch the Ice-9, before being stopped by Grey. "No, don't touch that." Grey then points to a glass full of water with ice cubes in it. "But if there is ice in your drink, give thanks to the hexagon for keeping it cool. And it's not just water, lots of atoms use hexagons because..." Grey quickly turns to Twilight, who has a pencil and paper gripped with her magic. "Take a note, Twilight, hexagons are the bestagons!"
Twilight was starting to get fed up with this strange being constantly stating this fact over and over again, refusing to note down his phrase but still note down the facts he brings up.
"Oh, using a pencil? Get ready to have your mind blown about the hexagon here too. The lead! Well, it isn't lead lead, it's carbon. And you know what carbon atoms think is the bestagon?" Cue an audible finger snap, as Grey produced two fingers to pull it off. "The hexagon! Pencil graphite is a whole bunch of hexagonal carbons, and when they happen to be in a straight sheet, that's Graphene, which happens to be the strongest atomic material in the universe, some of which, is in that pencil." Grey says pointing to the pencil in Twilight's grip, as she had a look of pure amazement on her face. But she quickly deadpanned before anyone could notice.
"Oh, and where's your proof?" Suddenly, two machines appeared between her and Grey, as they slowly began pulling on two sheets, one of graphene and one of steel, the steel being easily stretched with a number reading zero point four gigapascals, while the graphene hardly moved as the machine rapidly shook, reading at one hundred and thirty gigapascals.
"Well, Twilight, to tear a sheet of graphene apart, you would need a hundred times more force than to do so with steel." Grey said as the steel was ripped apart, while the graphene held firm. "Hexagon, is strong-a-gon. This is because when hexagons come together, they form three-sided joints one hundred and twenty degrees apart. This, for the least material, is the most mechanically stable arrangement. Pull on one joint, and the other two equally pull back. Push in and the other two are most able and stable to resist. Now look anew at a tiling of hexagons and you see it is nothing but these max stable joints, each arranged perfectly to help the others be stronger and stabler. This is another reason hexagon's show up everywhere. The universe blesses stability in her physics, from those basalt columns, to bubbles which, as soon as they can, ditch their spheres to become as close to hexagonal perfection as they can." Grey said as he stared at the bubbles he had on a plate along with Pinkie and Spike. "That's so cool." Everyone continued to watch in amazement, before Grey looked back up to the ponies and got next to Twilight.
"Oh right, yes. So if your pencil lead contains some of the strongest material in the universe, how can you write with it? Okay, okay, this is going to get even more exciting. While hexagons are super strong this way..." Grey says as the board displays a green arrow pushing against a row of hexagons, resisting against the force. "They aren't super strong this way." Grey says as the point of view changes to the side, as a green arrow pushes down into the hexagon pattern, forcing them down. On a small scale, that means your pencil can break off in layers that leave a mark, but on a big scale, hexagon's can be flexible while keeping their strength, letting us construct some totally unreal materials." Grey says holding a cardboard cut out of a hexagonal grid, as he lightly bends it before folding it into a cylinder, and then gets on the ground as he starts cutting away at a new grid on the floor, with Pinkie and Spike helping him.
"Print out a grid of hexagons in whatever, from aluminum to cardboard, sandwich them together, and pow! You've got honeycomb paneling, a ridonkulously tear-resistant material that's also super light and flexible." Grey then sandwiched three grids together between two pieces of cardboard and produced said paneling, with everything watching in amazement, Twilight being flabbergasted with this knowledge, as her whole anti-hexagon world came crumbling down.
"It's used everywhere, but particularly in human aviation technology." Suddenly, a video of a rocket blasting off appeared on the screen, as everyone watched with curiosity. "Rockets need to be strong yet light. Same for aircraft, with wings that really can't tear, but also need to bend. And only the magic of the honeycomb panel can do both as well. Give thanks to the hexagon for blessing our flight- Well, technically not your flight, it's my races flight, but still." Rainbow dash was simply dumbfounded that the hexagon helped these humans achieve flight. Maybe she could race one of these planes...
"And we still haven't yet discussed the most important application of the hexagon. Games!" Grey said as images of different game boards appeared on multiple floating hexagon screens, while the main screen had the image of two cave men fighting. "For centuries there has been great debate over boards, squares of hexagons? Spoiler, hexagon's win. Square boards are the first thing an un-enlightened species would think of. They look sensible and are easy to implement, but they are terrible, ineffective boards that cause spatial suffering. On a square board, move horizontal or vertical one space, and you've moved one space, but move diagonal and the square root of two spaces. Gross." Grey said as his skin became green like he was ready to barf, with Pinkie and even Twilight emulating the feeling. "Diagonals warp the distance pieces move. Square boards look neat and tidy, but it's deceitful. Their diagonals corrupting the meaning of space and time, and of course they must, because a square only has four true neighbors. Hexagons, however, have six, which is more than four, which is better! The distance from each space is the same in every direction. One space. Just as it should be. If you're a game based on squares, I'm so sorry."
Grey says as he and Twilight looked at a square chess board. "But, there is hope. With thought and effort, you can hexagon yourself into a better place." Suddenly, the board transformed into the shape of a hexagon, which Twilight found oddly beautiful in design. "As we all should aspire to do, spreading order and hexagonal enlightenment. For, hexagons..."
And like clockwork, all of the ponies, and Spike spoke up collectively and happily. "Are the bestagons!" Suddenly, the room changed, as an altar surrounded by candles could be seen, with a golden glowing hexagon at its center, as Grey stood in front of it, wearing a hexagon necklace and a white robe.
Twilight slowly stepped forward, a look of sadness on her face. "I... am sorry I ever doubted the worthiness of the hexagon, Grey."
"That is fine, Twilight sparkle. In accepting the superiority of the hexagon, you, are enlightened." Grey said as he placed a necklace with a golden hexagon on it, around her neck, as well as her own white robe, doing the same to each of her friends. "You are all enlightened. Welcome, to the order of the hexagon. Now, go, share the enlightenment of the order with others. And if you ever need my assistance, just tap your necklace, and I shall come. Farewell."
And with a flash of light, Grey vanished, as the holographic classroom dissipated, proud of a job well done. Twilight and her friends were unsure of what to think of the situation, but one thing was certain to all of them.
Hexagons, are the bestagons.
