"I was shattered... broken... cast apart into dozens of little inert pieces... like the planets and stardust of long ago.
"All things considered, I should have perished right then and there! I mean... whew! Talk about an adventure! However, for the first time in as long as my stagnant mind could contemplate—you guessed it—something unpredictable happen. That alone wasn't enough to lift me out of my prison. No... I have a spark to thank for that.
"Your spark, Rainbow. Something stronger... warmer... and more deliciously daring than anything I had ever encountered in eons. And there it had arrived... strolled in like an alpha predator... and singled me out. The result was an explosion... a sudden and irreversible embrace of all things crazy... and I saw... I saw...
"A universe I had never perceived before. A dark... twisted... positively sadistic one. A universe populated by many ponies... but only one mattered. A very daring pony... a very loyal pony... one powered by a spark that was very familiar to me, and suddenly very delicious to contemplate.
"And in this universe, the one thing that set it apart from every other dimension bordering it—was the fact that the me of that dimension had wrecked the life of the only pony that mattered... that I had taken all that was important to her and... destroyed it... shattered it to ashes like you had so spontaneously shattered me. And this one act—spontaneous and all-encompassing—set the pony on an endless path... a straight line into the scrumptious unknown... to embark upon a quest that she didn't even know about... and would come to both love and loathe in the absence of her closest friends...
"What could drive a pony to go to such crazy lengths? Suicide, at least, would be swift. A wet kiss upon the brink of her inevitable oblivion. But, no, her love—masochistic as it may have been—was so grand... so great... that she was willing to give away a sane death for an insane life. What was the impetus for this? The inspiration? It couldn't have been Harmony. After all, she abandoned her home, her kingdom, her everything for this sojourn... for this blind leap into emptiness.
"Was it inspiration that drove her? Or some unseen intuition? Nay... I'd say it was the same thing that empowered you when you collided with me... some burning spark... a loyalty that transcends all loyalty. It even makes me gag just thinking about it. And yet—I couldn't dwell on anything else, for this spark had come to infect me... to animate me... to undo the prison that had constrained my handsome limbs for so many millennia and miscarriages.
"Indeed, I was freed! Constrained by stone limitations, most certainly, but all of that could easily have been undone. After all, I possessed the power to recollect myself. If I wanted to, I could have gathered up all the shards in a fortnight. Heck, in another dimension, I may very well be running this modern day shindig called 'Equestria.'
"But all of that would have been... too predictable. Too boring. Too easy. At best, if I repeated things here like my other self had in the neighboring dimension, I might have had a chance of repeating the delicious tragedy that ended me and began... her. But you never make the same work of art twice. No, I had to evolve beyond my alternate self... and see if you could evolve beyond yours."