# To Boldly Hoof It Ch 8. Alchemy?

Author: BluebloodFan91
Tags: Adventure, Blueblood, Character Development, Clean, Dream, Equine, Fantasy, Flam, Flim, Friendship is magic, Griffin, Gryphon, Hoops, Horse, Humor, Iron Will, Jet Set, Lightning Dust, MLP, Mare, Minotaur, My Little Pony, Pegasus, Plot Development, Pony, Prince Blueblood, Sci-Fi, Stallion, Story Progression, Story Series, Sunset shimmer, To Boldly Flee, Trixie, Unicorn, Upper Crust, dumbbell, gilda, parody, score, space, surprise

Ch 8. Alchemy?


Prince Blueblood had no clue where he was, or how he
had gotten there. Wherever he was, it was very dark and vast and empty,
except for tiny twinkling lights all around him. It looked like he was
in space, but that was impossible. If he was out in the vacuum of space,
he'd be dead.He tried to look down at himself, but he couldn't see his body. In fact, he just realized with a start that he couldn't feel his own body."Hello?"
he called out. "Is anypony there?" It was only after he had said that
that he realized just how odd it was that he could hear his voice even
though there's supposed to be no sound in space. Not to mention the fact
that he didn't have a body, and therefore, no mouth.Just
then, Blueblood noticed a bright light out of the corner of his eye. He
turned to look in the direction it was, and gasped at what he saw. It
looked like a giant vortex of some sort, floating not to far away from
him in space. Blueblood would have thought his first reaction would be
fear. He was surprised to find that he oddly did not feel afraid at all.
The giant swirling vortex looming so near to him gave him no fear at
all. For some reason, it just didn't seem threatening to him, and he had
no idea why.He had the strangest sense that he had seen this thing somewhere before."Prince Blueblood!"Blueblood
was startled by a sudden deep and booming voice. He looked around for
the source of the voice, but could see nothing but stars and the vortex
around him.The voice boomed again. "Prince Blueblood! Come into the plot hole!"The
plot hole! That was what the thing in front of him was. He knew he had
seen it somewhere before. He could also tell now that the unknown voice
was coming from the plot hole itself.Wait! Come into it? He thought to himself.The voice spoke again from the plot hole. "Come into the plot hole, Prince Blueblood, and discover your destiny!""My destiny?" asked Blueblood, both in curiosity, as well as fear.Suddenly,
Blueblood noticed something glimmer inside the plot hole. He peered
into the giant vortex as something came into view on the other side. His
eyes, if he had any, became as wide as dinner plates when he could
finally make out what it was.It was his
cutiemark. His compass rose cutiemark was floating on the other side of
the plot hole, glowing brightly with what he could only describe as
divine light. There was no mistake.Blueblood
suddenly felt drawn to the plot hole. He had to get in there! He had to
know what his destiny was, and achieve it! He didn't know how, but he
somehow willed himself to start moving towards the massive vortex before
him.The voice continued to talk to him as he glided towards the opening. "Blueblood. Blueblood. Blueblood."Closer and closer he got to the plot hole. Closer and closer he got towards his destiny."Blueblood. Blueblood. Blueblood."Suddenly,
the plot hole started moving away from Blueblood, zooming away from him
through space, or perhaps it was he who was suddenly moving away from
it."NO!" Blueblood cried, reaching a hoof
out towards the plot hole in desperation as it quickly went out of
sight. Why was this happening? Why now when he was so close to his
destiny?"Blueblood. Blueblood." The voice
kept calling out his name despite what was happening. In fact, it oddly
seemed to be getting louder and clearer somehow.Then he suddenly felt jolt, like he was being shaken....................."Blueblood!"Blueblood
opened his eyes, feeling somepony's hoof on his shoulder, gently
shaking him and saying his name. He groggily became aware that he was in
his bed, in his bedroom. He quickly realized that everything that had
just happened had only been a dream.He
turned his head and in the light of the lamp beside the bed saw Trixie
lying beside him in bed, retracting her hoof from his shoulder now that
she could see he was awake. She had an annoyed look on her face."Finally, you're awake," she said. "Trixie has been trying to wake you for at least a whole minute! It's time to get up!"Blueblood
looked at the windows. Even with the curtains closed, he could see that
it was still dark out. He looked back at Trixie in annoyance."Time to get up?" he complained. "Its still dark out!"Trixie rolled her eyes. "Of course its dark out! We're in space, remember?""Huh?"
Then their current situation all came back to him. In his groggy state,
he had forgotten they were in outer space for a moment. He looked over
at the clock, and was surprised to see that it was going on ten AM. It
really WAS time to get up. "Oh, right.""Come now! Lets go see if there's anything left to eat for breakfast, or if everypony else already ate it all."Blueblood
sighed. "Yes, dear," he said. It was true that in preparing the ship to
leave Earth, not one of them had considered making sure they had enough
food to take with them. Now they were stuck with only what was in the
kitchen and pantry, and they weren't sure that would be enough if their
time in space ended up taking longer than a few days. And since the
improbability drive had sent them light years away from home, and since
the hyperdrive they had stolen from Twilight Sparkle was only powerful
enough to travel about one light year a day, they weren't looking so
good food wise. They gave each other a
morning kiss, and then got out of bed and walked over to the bedroom
door, yawning and stretching as they did so.As
they opened the bedroom door and walked out into the hallway, Blueblood
thought how weird it was that, for the first time in a long time, he
had had a different dream. And this dream had felt different than any
other dream he had ever had. It had been so clear, and had felt so real."Trixie,
I had a weird dream last night," he said as they walked down the
hallway, heading to get breakfast and to use the bathroom. "And this one
was different from the ones I've been having.""Really?" said Trixie. "Trixie had a weird dream to.""Well,
in mine I was in front of the plot hole, and there was this voice
telling me to go inside it, that my destiny was in there. And then I saw
my cutiemark inside the plot hole."Trixie raised an eyebrow at him. "What do you think it means?"Blueblood
shrugged. "I don't know. Probably nothing. It was probably just the
stress of everything that's going on getting to me." However,
truthfully, Blueblood wasn't so sure. The dream had felt so real, and so
powerful. It left him feeling rattled by it. What if it was some sort
of sign?Trixie woke him out of his thoughts by speaking. "Well, Trixie's
dream was definitely odd. All it was was an image! It looked like a
circle, like a magic circle used for certain spells, and beside it were a
bunch of words, but the words didn't say anything! It was all just
gibberish! But it was all so clear! I can remember every detail of it!
Every word! I can still see it clearly in her mind when I close my eyes.
It's strange.""Hmm," Blueblood responded.While
they were walking through the hall, they heard the flush of a toilet
from inside the bathroom, and then saw Upper Crust come out. She was
holding her stomach and had a sickened look on her face."Did you get sick again?" Trixie asked her.Upper Crust nodded. "I don't think I'm made for outer space." She groaned as walked past them.Blueblood
walked into the bathroom while Trixie decided to continue down to the
kitchen to get herself some breakfast first. She saw others already up
and walking around as she made her way into the kitchen. Looking through
the fridge and the cabinets, she found some oatmeal mix."Who would have thought a guy like Prince Blueblood would have oatmeal in his house?" Trixie said to herself with a shrug.She
prepared herself a bowl of oatmeal, and then levitated it beside her as
she walked into the dining room too eat. She found Jet Set and Upper
Crust in there sitting at the long dining room table eating their own
breakfast, which was also oatmeal. She sat down as well and began to
eat.Just then, she heard an extremely
rude noise come from the kitchen. "DARN IT! THERE IS NOTHING GOOD TO EAT
AROUND THIS PLACE!"  It was Gilda's voice. No surprise there.As
she ate her oatmeal, the dream she had had once again bubbled up into
her mind. This annoyed her. It was so weird, she could see the image so
clearly in her mind, down to the very last detail, but it was utter
nonsense.As the day went on, the dream
still wouldn't leave her mind. She tried to forget about it, tell
herself that it was only a dream and didn't mean anything, but it kept
bugging her, and she didn't know why. And there wasn't much she could do
on the ship to distract herself from thinking about the dream. All they
were doing was waiting for the ship to arrive at the plot hole, and
that was going to take a couple days.Trixie
eventually felt that she had to get her dream down on paper. That
perhaps that would help get it off her mind, or perhaps help her
understand it better. Besides, it wasn't like she currently had anything
better to do.She walked back into the
dining room, which she was happy to see was empty now, so she would have
a good amount of quiet to work in. She sat down in a seat and lit up
her horn with her magic. She cast a conjuring spell and a piece of paper
and pencil magically appeared in the air in front of her. She set them
down on the table and began to draw her dream. She made sure to include
every detail of the dream in her drawing.Sunset
Shimmer came walking into the room. She noticed Trixie drawing
something and stopped while walking past her and peered over her
shoulder at what she was drawing."What are you doing?" she asked, curious."None of your business!" said Trixie, not wanting to be bothered while she was working.Sunset
apparently took offense to her response. "What's your problem?" she
said, miffed. "I was just curious." She turned and started walking away
out of the dining room.Trixie couldn't
help but feel a little bad for snapping at Sunset like that. Apparently a
year after learning a lesson or two in friendship had changed her a
bit. She had just been reluctant to tell somepony she was drawing her
dreams like a little filly.She sighed and
turned to Sunset, who was almost out of the room. "I'm sorry," she
forced herself to say. When she saw Sunset pause and look back at her,
she continued. "Trixie just had this... really weird dream, and it was
really bugging her, and she just felt like she had to get it down on
paper. That's what Trixie is doing, okay?"Sunset
raised her eyes in surprise. "You did!?" she said, not in a mocking
tone, to Trixie's relief, but actually in an interested one. Sunset
walked back over to Trixie's side. "What was it like? The dream, I
mean."Trixie snorted. "Well, if you must know, it was some sort of circle, and a-""And a bunch of words with it?" Sunset asked.Now it was Trixie's turn to look at Sunset in surprise. How had she known? "...Yes," she answered."I
think I had the exact same dream," Sunset said. She pulled out a piece
of paper from behind her and placed it on the table next to Trixie's
paper. "I drew this when I woke up this morning."Trixie
looked at Sunset's paper, and her jaw dropped at what she saw. It was
just like her own drawing. However, looking at it closer, she could see
that it wasn't exactly the same as her drawing. There were a few
differences. The circle looked a bit different in detail, and the words
beside it were different from her own, but still gibberish none the
less. But still, the resemblance of the two drawings was far too similar
to be a coincidence.Trixie looked at Sunset. "You dreamed this?"She nodded.Trixie continued to stare at Sunset in amazement. "How is that possible?""I don't know, but what do you think this means?""I
don't... wait!" suddenly Trixie got an idea. She put the two pieces of
paper on top of each other and then held them up to the light coming
from the chandelier in the room with her magic. The light shown through
the two papers, and the two unicorns could see the two drawings
overlapping each other. Their jaws dropped when they saw the two sets of
words overlapping actually formed a readable paragraph, and the two
circles over each other now made perfect sense. It was a magic circle!"Trixie and Sunset looked at each other and said what they were both thinking at the same time. "That's impossible.""How could we both have dreams... that are... when you put them together, they actually make something!" said Trixie."Don't ask me," said Sunset, just as confused as Trixie was.They
both skimmed over what the words on the papers said. It didn't take
them long to realize it was instructions for a spell of some kind."It's a spell?" said Trixie. "You think it's a real spell?""I don't know, but there's only one way to find out.""Wait!"
Trixie held a hoof up in front of Sunset. "We shouldn't try to cast a
spell if we don't know what it will do! I mean, only a complete idiot
would do that!""I wasn't going to!" Sunset huffed. "I meant we should study this and see if we can figure out..."The
end of Sunset's sentence was droned out by a sudden ear piercing
zapping noise, and the flash of a bright light in the room. Trixie and
Sunset turned their heads to see another one of those anomaly cracks
suddenly appear in the dining room, right across the table from them.The
two mares each let out a scream of panic as they quickly ducked down to
the floor behind the table. The sudden appearance of another one of
those things had taken Trixie by surprise. She hadn't been expecting to
run into more of those up in space.A few
seconds later, there was another bright flash of light, and the anomaly
disappeared from the room, just like all the others had.Trixie
caught her breath, breathing with relief now that it was gone. She then
did a quick glance around the room to see what effects, if any, the
anomaly had had. She didn't have to look long. Beside her, Sunset
Shimmer now had a light blond mane and tail, as well as a red bandana on
her head. She must have still been in shock from the anomaly because
she had a look of confused shock on her face."Sunset,
that anomaly turned your mane blond and gave you a bandana!" Trixie
said, partially in amusement, and also in relief that it seemed the only
thing that had been changed was Sunset's mane color and attire. "But I
wonder if anything else has been changed."Sunset looked back at her, still with a confused look on her face. "Who's Sunset?"Trixie's eyes widened in shock as she suddenly felt a sinking feeling growing in her gut. Oh no, she thought. "Um... you are."Sunset raised an eyebrow at her. "I don't know what the bloody 'ell you're talken' about. My name is Winry! Winry Rockbell!""Winry?" Trixie also noticed that Sunset was also now talking with a foreign accent.Sunset started frantically glancing around the room. "Where am I?"At
that moment, Blueblood, Gilda, Lightning Dust, Jet Set, Upper Crust,
Dumbbell, Hoops, and Score came hurrying into the dining room, followed
soon after by Flim, Flam, and Surprise. They all had concerned looks on
their faces, except for Surprise, who instead seemed to look annoyed for
some reason."We heard screaming!" said Blueblood as he looked at the two mares. "What happened?"Trixie pointed at Sunset. "There was another anomaly here!"The others all looked just as shocked as Trixie had been."ON THE SHIP!?" asked Upper Crust.Trixie nodded. "Yes! And it... did THAT to her!" she continued to point at Sunset, who was staring at the group like she had never met any of them before."It turned her blond?" asked Hoops."Yes. And she's calling herself Winry now. I think she thinks she's somepony else!""It's just like those two doctors who weren't really doctors!" said Lightning Dust."Ooo,
what's that?" Sunset said, suddenly sounding more chipper. She was
looking at the two papers still lying on the dining room table. "Is that
some sort of transmutation circle?" She looked up at Trixie. "Blimy,
are you a state alchemist?""A what?" Trixie asked."Ooo,
what's that out there?!" Sunset said, ignoring Trixie's question. She
was looking out into the hallway that the others had just came in
through. Before any of them could say any thing, she suddenly galloped
out of the room and down the hall. They all let her go, all of them more
interested in talking about this latest event."Those anomalies can effect us out here in space?" said Jet Set."It
makes sense," said Flim, scratching his chin with his hoof. "If the
plot hole is going to destroy the universe, I guess it can make changes
anywhere, not just on Earth.""In fact, what if the closer we get to the plot hole, the worse the anomalies will get?" Flam added.Upper Crust looked like she could faint at any moment."Oh
man," Dumbbell moaned. "So anything could happen to us at any time that
might ruin everything for us, and there's nothing we can do about it?""Well,
I guess this means we just have to try to stop this plot hole as fast
as we can," said Lightning Dust, flying up into the air and pounding her
two front hooves together."If we can stop it at all," said Jet Set.Trixie looked at Flim and Flam. "Can't this ship go any faster?""No!"
Flim and Flam both answered, shaking their heads. "It's going as fast
as it can. If we tried going any faster, it would damage the
hyperdrive.""So we really have to wait a whole n'other day
to get to the stupid plot hole," Gilda growled, taking a swipe at the
nearest wall to her with her claws, and leaving four scratch marks. "I'm
gonna go crazy!" She stormed off out of the room."Wait up!" Lightning Dust shouted, flying after her best friend.After
a brief awkward silence, Blueblood spoke. "Well, I doubt the plot hole
is gonna destroy the entire universe in just one more day. Its taken...
what... about two years to grow this big? I'm sure we have plenty of time." He hoped he sounded more sure about that then he actually felt.They started walking out of the room, except for Trixie, who walked back over to the papers on the table.Suddenly she felt the ship give a sharp lurch. She lost her balance and fell onto the floor."What the heck!?"Trixie
heard the others also shouting in surprise just outside the room, so
she got up and ran out into the hallway, finding them all getting up off
the floor as well."What just happened?" Trixie demanded."I don't know!" said Flim. "But we better get down to engineering and find out!"They
all took off and hurried down the hall to the open basement doorway and
hurried down the steps. Too their utter horror, they found Sunset
Shimmer(still dressed as Winry) standing next to the large cylinder
shaped machine that was the hyperdrive. A panel on the hyperdrive was
opened up, and several mechanical parts were lying on the floor at
Sunset's hooves.She turned her head to
look back at them when she heard them come down the stares. She gave
them an innocent smile. "Oh, hi guys," she said."WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING!" Flam shouted at her. "WHY DID YOU TAKE THAT APPART? WE NEED THAT!""I'm
sorry. I couldn't resist!" she said, still smiling innocently. She
turned her head back to the hyperdrive and levitated a wrench up beside
her and started messing around inside it again. "I just love machines! I
just needed to find out what was inside it, and how it all worked!
Don't worry, I'll put it all back the way I found it."It
was now obvious to all of them what had happened. That lurch they had
felt upstairs had been the ship dropping out of hyperspace.An angry Gilda took a step towards the unsuspecting mare beside the hyperdrive. "Out'a my way! I'm gonna murder this bitch!"The rest of them all had to hold the enraged griffon back."Its
not her fault," said Trixie glumly, using her magic to hold Gilda back
where she was, even though she personally also felt like tearing Sunset a
new one at the moment. "She was altered by an anomaly. She's not
herself."After several seconds, Gilda let
out an angry snort and gave up. They looked back at Sunset, who hadn't
seemed to notice what had just happened and was still messing around
with the hyperdrive."Now what do we do?" groaned Blueblood.Flim shrugged. "I don't know! We don't know how to put it back together!" he gestured to his brother and himself with a hoof. "It's not our machine. It's Twilight Sparkle's, remember?""Well,
this is just fan tucking fastic!" growled Dumbbell, stomping a hoof
against the floor angrily. "Now, not only are we light years from home,
but we're also stuck out here!""Oh gosh, I'm going to die in outer space!" Upper Crust wined. She looked like she was on the verge of crying.Trixie felt her heart sink. They really were bucked now.Just
then, they all heard a loud mechanical hum, and then they felt the ship
suddenly lurch again, causing them all to lose their balance again and
fall onto the floor."What the heck happened now?" growled Gilda.They
all looked over at Sunset, who was attaching a metal panel back onto
the hyperdrive where she had taken it off. She turned her head to look
back at them and gave them a proud smirk. "I told you I could fix it!"
she said.It was then as they were all
getting up that they noticed that all the hyperdrive pieces that had
been lying on the floor only moments ago were now gone.They all stared at Sunset Shimmer in disbelief. Had she really just put it all back together that quickly?Flim
leaped over to one of the computer screens in the room and began
looking over it. "We're back in hyperspace!" he said with amazement
after a few seconds."Not only that, but I've also improved it," said a still smirking Sunset. "I've more than doubled its top speed!""She's
right!" exclaimed Flim in surprise as he kept looking at the computer
screen. "Were now moving over twice as fast as we were before! At this
rate we should reach Titan... within several hours!"They all looked at each other happily. They could all feel their spirits lifting."Sunset, you're incredible!" said Blueblood.Sunset
gave him an irritated look. "Why do you keep calling me Sunset? I told
you all, my name is Winry!" Then her expression changed like she had
just remembered something. "Oh, by the way, I couldn't figure out where
this piece went." Sunset levitated a small piece of machinery in the air
in front of her for them to see. "But oh well. I suppose there always
is at least one piece left over, isn't there? Now to go take something
else apart!" She let out an excited giggle as she hurried over to
another part of the room.Everyone turned to look at Blueblood."What should we do with her?" asked Lightning Dust.Blueblood
shrugged. "If she's making our ship better, I say we just let her," he
said. Then he added, "...Keep an eye on her though."They
could hear Sunset muttering to herself across the room. "Oh, look at
this place! All these gadgets and gizmos! Oh, this is just divine! I
just have to have a look at it all. Can I please take it all apart and
put it back together again? Please?"

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