Binary's Experiments

Twilight was dusting the shelves that lined the walls. The electric light that had recently been installed in her house flickered. This kept annoying her for several minutes until finally she turned it off. The illuminated room was at once darkened. Twilight hated it when her friends convinced her to get technology like this, it never worked the way her friends said they did. She always wondered what the point of getting her all this new technology was, seeing as it didn't affect her friends' lives at all. There was a rapid knocking at her door, there was a hint of urgency in it. Twilight opened the door. Rainbow Dash flew inside, she looked incredibly angry, but also slightly confused. She immediately turned to Twilight.
"Twilight! All the lights in Ponyville keep flickering on and off! It's really annoying!"
Twilight stared at her blankly "You mean the entirety of Ponyville is having the same problem?"
Rainbow Dash responded "Yeah, that's what I just said!"
Twilight continued staring at her blankly "So you're telling me this technology, which I said wouldn't work by the way, isn't working?"
Rainbow Dash immediately understood what Twilight was saying "Look, I know that my amazing speech convinced you to buy these lights, but I swear they usually work!"
"So what's the problem?"
"That's what I came to ask you!"
There was another knock at the door, this knock had a lot more urgency in it's tone than Rainbow Dash's. Twilight opened the door and Binary rushed in.
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes "Lights not working for you either?" She was slightly surprised by the response
"No, no, it's fine. Twilight you wouldn't happen to have a light projector would you?" There was distinct urgency in Binary's voice.
Twilight soon realised what the problem might have been "Binary, what are you experimenting on now?"
"Oh nothing, y'know. Just trying to bend light, so do you have one?"
Twilight raised an eyebrow "Trying to what?"
"Look Twilight, I don't have a lot of time to explain, do you have a light projector?"
"No I don't." Twilight sounded slightly irritated.
Binary sounded more so "Oh great, no-one in Ponyville has one!"
Rainbow Dash chipped in "Have you asked Pinkie?"
Binary face-hoofed, and then held his face in pain for a bit before responding "No I haven't, thanks for telling me!" He quickly rushed out the door, putting one hoof in front of the other, not taking no for an answer.
That left Twilight with genuine puzzlement on her face.
"Did he say he was going to... Bend light?"
Rainbow Dash made a gesture with her hoof to indicate her non-belief "Oh please, Binary isn't stupid enough to think he can bend light, it's a wave and can't be bent." That left Twilight more puzzled, partly because of Binary's persistence on impossibility, partly because of Rainbow Dash's knowledge on the subject.
"It's just one of those days..." Sighed Twilight.

Binary groaned "This isn't working!" He slammed his hoof on the table, knocking over several pencils he had spent a few minutes placing upright. He yet again returned to his experiment, it wasn't an incredibly good experiment. There was a machine that was projecting a visible beam of light onto a wall. Binary was trying to apply the physics of a prism to the air that the light was travelling through. He had tried this several times. Binary thought about what could possibly be going wrong, he knew it was probably a simple answer. Then he got it.
"I'll build a machine!"
He sped off somewhere, leaving a silhouette of dust in his wake. He returned to his lab in some measurement of time. He had created a relatively small device, if you looked at it, you probably wouldn't know what it did. Binary knew what it did. He picked up a prism and placed it into a slot on the contraption, he proceeded to aim it at the beam of light. He pulled the hoof-sized trigger he had made. What happened next what somewhat mind-boggling.

The entirety of existence shook as if it was very cold, it probably was cold seeing as most of it's large existence consists of space. I think we're all smart enough to assume it was Binary's experiment though, if not, you probably think it's some staggering coincidence, but if you were smart you'd know that staggering coincidences are highly unlikely to happen. Binary quickly ran to Twilight's house, hoping some extent of magic would fix the cracks in space and time. He passed himself, he ignored it, knowing that talking to your past or future self only breaks time more, it's also an incredibly awkward conversation, because either way you know what you're going to say.
Binary rapped on the door, Twilight opened it. "I'm going to assume this was your fault?"
Binary tried to be taken aback "Why would you assume such a thing?" He looked at Twilight's irritated facial expression "Yeah, it was me..."
"Should I also assume you don't know how to fix it?"
Binary was actually taken aback by this "You're being awfully stern today Twilight."
Twilight sighed "I can help you, it's not like I have anything else to do, you know, with my library collapsing in on itself."
Binary smiled "Oh thank you thank you thank you!" He hugged Twilight.
"Don't we have a universe to save?"
Binary's eyes widened as he remembered what had had come to Twilight for, he then released his grip, smiled, and stood in the most heroic pose he could. He yelled "Allons-y!"

They both ran towards the town centre, where the rest of Twilight's friends were gathered.
Pinkie was the first to speak "Twi, you're here!!"
Rarity the second "What's happening? My boutique is collapsing!"
Fluttershy the third "Umm...I don't want to interrupt but..umm..My animals are really scared."
Rainbow Dash spoke next "All the clouds a disappearing, we've got rain scheduled for today!"
Lastly, Applejack spoke "What do y'all think is happenin'?"
Twilight answered all the questions and worries "Binary tried to bend light, so now the entire fabric of the universe is collapsing."
The group was silent, until Pinkie spoke "That's what you wanted my light projector for?"
Binary finally spoke "Yes, I did. It was an experiment, I didn't know it would rip apart the universe!"
Suddenly, and out of nowhere, which are two important factors in everyone's bewilderment, a being appeared. It looked like a pony, only there was something a bit off. Maybe the fangs, but it could have also been the way that light bent around it at it's own accord. The universe didn't like the idea of it.
The being spoke "Finally! I have entered a universe! I can now feast upon it's energy!" It jumped to a rip in the space-time continuum and began eating away at whatever was inside it.
Binary stared at the being "Wha...What are you?"
The being seemed polite enough to answer "I am a devourer of worlds!" He bellowed in a triumphant manner, he then added "Not a destroyer of worlds, I just eat what's left over by the destroyers."
Everyone stared at Binary, Twilight said "So that makes...You, a...Destroyer of worlds?"
The devourer was confused "Wait, what, what did he do?"
Twilight answered before Binary could "He tried to bend light, thus disrupting the equilibrium of the universe!"
The devourer looked at Binary "So, bending light destroyed this universe? Not some kind of epic battle between good and evil?"
Binary spoke "When you put it that way...It does sound kind of boring doesn't it."
The devourer looked slightly depressed "So that's why none of the others turned up..."
Binary looked quizzical "What do you mean?"
"Well, the more epic the reason for the disruption of a universe's existence, the better the universe's energy."
"So, this tastes disgusting?"
"Basically, yeah..."
"Oh."
"Yes mortal being, Oh."
Binary stood in front of the being awkwardly "So you're saying that this universe is a really bad one to eat right now?"
"Yes."
"Could we possibly fix it then?"
"Yes."
Twilight perked up "How!?"
"I can seal the rips in space and time with any energy I have left."
Binary wasn't convinced "Which I assume isn't a lot?"
"No, I do have enough energy to seal a few universes in me."
"Well could you? Please?"
The devourer looked in disbelief "Why should I do that?"
Binary started his attempt at persuasion "This universe tastes disgusting, right?"
"Right."
"And there's no point in you eating it, right?"
"Right."
"So, if you sealed it, the universe would have another chance to have an epic battle, and then..." Binary made a gesture with his hoof, prompting the devourer to finish his sentence.
"It would taste better!"
Binary clapped his hooves.
The devourer smiled "I'll get right on it! Also, when this assumed event happens, make sure I'm the first devourer who gets any!"
Binary smiled "If it's within my lifespan, I will"
The devourer smiled "I like you mortal, I will put you on my list of things I will not devourer when we run out of universe energy."
Twilight spoke "What about me? And maybe some of his friends as well?" She pointed to her friends.
The devourer rolled his eyes "Yeah, sure, why not?"

Several Hours Later

The devourer was sealing the last rip. It had occurred to him that it would be difficult to know when this universe was going to break again. Before he left he started this conversation with Binary "Is there any way you could contact me through reality?"
Binary thought "We could try magic?"
"Good idea!" He smiled "I just received a psychic thought from my friends! A universe is collapsing from to from a massive black hole! I call dibs on the Milky Way!" He yelled the last part to himself. He proceeded to jump out of the rip in space and time, he sealed it behind him.
Binary sighed "Well, that was interesting."
Twilight stared at him "Never do that again."
Binary laughed "Come on, what else could I possibly do that would rip apart time and space again?" he turned round, only to be face-to-face with his future self.
Binary looked down "Damn it..."