After the collapse of a high-rise during the events of "The Mysterious Mare Do Well," Twilight decides that she needs to bring the Architecture industry into the new millennium.
Upload into Equestria Online and live forever, they say. But forever is a long time. What *won't* happen if you wait long enough? A somewhat trippy story set in the Optimalverse.
Following Twilight Sparkle's explanation of the scientific method, Diamond Tiara says the sonic rainboom is a scientific phenomenon. Scootaloo insists it is magic. The Ponyville schoolhouse is the scene for an unprecedented intellectual dispute.
Bizarre comedy disguised as something else. Humans are being transported to Equestria through no fault of their own. The only polite thing to do is to help them settle in, and that includes trading in their old money for Equestrian bits.