[BBS/Action, as was the style at the time]

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Hey, any of you folks from other world bring your own GFs with you? Or things that shouldn't be GFs but are? I want to hear how they work for you.

-The Great Jecht

[Jecht sent this message from, of all places, the library. Now, seeing this bronzed athlete in there instead of swimming or just hanging out is as unlikely a sight as Garden has ever seen, but weirder still, he's got a few books stacked up and is clearly attempting to puzzle his way through one. Jecht isn't stupid, mind, but no one can accuse him of being book-smart, and the dissertation on the effects of GFs he's attempting to read is just not his style.]

Comments

[marearcana]

You think something terrible might happen?

[Not for her.]

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

[Jecht looks left, then right, then reaches in to haul the pony over for a conspiratorial secret chat.]

Look, you don't breathe a word of this to Luna, but I'm wonderin' if that Nightmare Moon isn't a GF out there somewhere.

[marearcana]

...You what? That doesn't even make any sense!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

[Jecht immediately scowls.]

Look, I got a reason or two for thinking it, I ain't just making it up. I ain't sayin' it's the case for sure, but if there's even a chance...

[marearcana]

So what is this reasoning of yours, then?

[It may be conjecture, but it could be useful for this little research "project".]

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Okay, stay with me on this... Luna turned into Nightmare Moon, right? But Nightmare Moon isn't Luna. I mean, they look different, talk different, even think different. Right?

[marearcana]

Well, in a way, but at the same time they are the same. If Nightmare Moon were an entity independent from Luna, the Elements of Harmony would most likely have petrified her, or something like that.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Right. That's what worries me. See... I know, uh, someone in kinda the same shape, and THEIR evil other half is a GF.

[marearcana]

[Twilight fails to pick up the hint. If that can even be called a hint...]

I'm guessing whoever it is doesn't want that to be public knowledge. And that they never use that particular GF.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

[Well, it was pretty obvious... if you had a little more in the way of social skills.]

Yeah. If they ever Junctioned it... well, actually, to use that GF, you gotta Junction yourself to IT.

[marearcana]

That sounds extremely dangerous, if not impossible.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Yeah, last person who did something like that was the Sorceress that caused the whole Time Compression trouble to start with. And she just had one from THIS world.

[marearcana]

You don't think that happening could exacerbate the issue, do you?

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Imagine your Nightmare Moon drawin' off someone, doesn't even gotta be a pony, and then having Limit Breaks and paramagic and whatever special stuff the guy who got Junctioned has...

[marearcana]

And Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack aren't here, so we couldn't use the Elements of Harmony...

[Because those can totally work in another universe, and without the tiara and chokers.]

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Yeah. 'Course we could always deliver a good old beat-down, but... Point is, I don't want Luna gettin' hurt. So I want all this THINKING to turn into KNOWING if we can.

[marearcana]

Knowing if we can what again?

[Normally she would have remembered.]

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Knowin' if it's out there, and if she's in danger. Knowin' if we can do anything about it if it is.

[marearcana]

Oh, right, of course. I won't let anything like that happen to her. We both have too much to lose for that.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Neither am I. If this is gonna be trouble for her, I ain't gotta let it ever get to her.

Just... can't do it alone. [Ughh, and he hates saying that.]

[marearcana]

I don't think I'd want to do it alone.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Yeah, well, I ain't sayin' I'm a good substitute for your friends. So don't go tryin' to hang any magic jewelry on me!

[marearcana]

I woudn't think of it. It didn't work too well last time I tried that.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Just so long's we're clear on that. If we end up facin' it down, I'll be mixing it up in close-quarters.

[marearcana]

And I would stay to the back and use magic. If we could keep a nice balance between the two lines and methods of attack, that would be the best-case scenario.