Original paste date: Mar 28th, 2016

This fic contains ketchup, unaware and seen by another angle to make it cute but still
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>Once upon a time there was a pony
>A pony named Twilight Sparkle
>Sometimes she would get over-stressed with all her princess-y chores
>So she had an idea, to search for a safe place where she could teleport to and just release
>At first she wanted to blow some trees up, unload all her worries with some adrenaline
>But what she found after teleporting was beyond anything she could've imagined
>A grey surface covered the land for as far her eye could see
>Said surface easily cracked upon her arrival, showing the dirt underneath this slim surface, which were similar to rocks
>On top of it sat various boxes of varying sizes, lighter shades of grey with semi-transparent squares on them
>Curiosity took the best of her and she dared to take a look inside one of them through one of the squares
>She couldn't make much of it because of the size
>Mostly because there were no lights inside and she blocked the sun herself
>With no good angle to look inside she decided to climb on one of them to try and look further into the distance
>Maybe she could find the pony responsible for it all
>No soon that she started putting her weight on the box it collapsed
>With a yelp the mare spread her wings to try and balance herself
>Which in turn sent part of the boxes which her wings hit flying
>The parts that hadn't taken a direct hit received a massive gust of air which toppled them down as well as some other nearby boxes
>The pony just stood there, stunned for breaking such a fine alignment of boxes
>Whoever had done this surely did it with great care and she simply came over and broke them
>Not only broke but now there was a circle that was over 2 ponies in size all around her with grey smoke coming from the ground
>Her OCD kept screaming at her that she should do something to try and fix it somehow
 
>But then, as the smoke started to dissipate she saw red
>Everything here seemed to be in greyscale besides that patch of red
>As the smoke vanished she could see even more red from where the buildings stood and around them
>There were also very small colored blocks on the ground that she hadn't noticed before
>She took a step towards it to inspect further, sending some of the dust back up the air
>The ground creaked again where she now stood right on the side of the little box, making it whine lightly and shine some lights in its front and back
>This box was yellow and hardly a tenth of the size of the side of her hoof
>It also had something even smaller in its front and back, maybe a third of the first box size, one blue and other black
>Both were also whinnying apparently and the sound, even if low, was starting to get on her nerves
>Then she had an idea
>Maybe she was supposed to color the big grey boxes with something the little boxes would give and the red thing from the big ones
>So since crushing the big grey ones gave red paint maybe doing the same on the smaller ones would give their respective color
>Not wasting time she simply walked over these little boxes, putting a bit more weight on said foreleg just to be sure
>Barely after hitting the ground the whiny from them stopped, and internally she was glad that she didn't had to listen to that anymore
>But soon after there was an itch, or rather 3 itches on her hoof
>Lifiting her leg she saw a perfect shape of her hoof on the obviously very slim rock along with cracks on the sides
>There were also 3 crushed boxes on her hoofprints, but no paint
>Whoever created this must have a strange sense of humour, how is she supposed to paint it all with only red colour?
>Red was also in the grey box that she had to color, so she couldn't simply go and destroy everything to paint one
>Deep in thought, she sat down to try and solve this puzzle
>She was on the side of the clearing she had made earlier, so it wasn't as dirty at least 
 
>As she sat down she brushed her plot against one of the boxes which made it go out of balance
>Twilight only had time to look back before it went down into another
>There were a few very, VERY small beings that were in the ground that she hadn't noticed before, which started running after that
>Or what seemed like running, they were quite slow
>One of them ran to her side, seeking refuge from the dust on the side of her cutie mark as if it was a wall
>When the dust finally settled Twilight could finally see the...thing pressed against her
>The thing also looked back at her, or at least that s what seemed like, they were about as big as the smallest boxes
>Which were 3 times smaller than the yellow box from before
>Which were more than 10 times smaller than the side of her hoof front to back
>On top of that they stood straight so they had pretty much no area
>How a thing this small and slim can live?
>Before she could finish her thoughts the thing started to run away
>It wasn't long before it fell down after stumbling on one of the massive cracks her butt had made
>Massive compared to it that is, what s the point of such a thin rock layer anyway?
>Turning her attention back to the creature she extended a hoof to the creature with the intent to grab it
>Before reaching though she remembered the boxes and decided against it
>Instead she caved a hole into the ground and scooped the rock, the dirt and the creature to her eye level
>Even when squinting her eye the being was way too small and thus it was hard to inspect
>She did notice that it was curled into a ball for some reason so she tried soothing it, sensing it was probably out of fear
>Still as friendly as she tried to look, the tiny being just stood there, as if frozen in that ball stance
 
>She stood there, looking at it and waiting it move around the rocks and mud she had carved along
>Seeing that it stayed immobile she decided to head home
>Not barehoofed though, as she teleported everything she had gathered back to her castle
>The rock, the creature and even the dirt
>At first using her magic on him scared her that it could just make it pop with the pressure
>But seeing how it faired well with the teleportation she took the rock and dirt to one side and levitated the creature on her muzzle while heading to the science lab
>Maybe she should've taken one of the boxes as well
>Still having an uncataloged living being was worth that slip
>All she wanted was a break from her duties for once
>But now she got some weird thin rock, a test subject and with it a potential new specimen to research in her free time for days
>Truly this break couldn't have gone any better
The End