Night's Return

Shade and Autumn were panicking . Shade expected to be out of there before anypony got home. Autumn knew that this would happen, but didn't think of how to react when it did. They heard hoofsteps coming down the stairs and the voice from before spoke very deeply. "I'll ask again... Who is in my house?!" it yelled.

Shade had gestured to Autumn to come over to the corner and she ran over quietly. He told her to keep her head down. He then disappeared into shadows. Autumn did as she was told and stayed in the corner quietly.

"I am going to ask one last time... Who is in my house?!" the voice boomed again, "I promise that if you tell me who and where you are right now I will not hurt you."

Autumn saw this as a way to get out of this trouble easier. But, she didn't think if it was a trap or not. And she didn't care if it was. "We're sorry we barged in! We're in here!" she yelled to the voice. Shade appeared out of the shadows next to her and had a shocked look on his face. He then facehoofed at her stupidity at that moment.

The voice had sighed and calmed down. It replied to what Autumn said, but strangely it became higher as it spoke."Thank you for being honest. I thank Celestia for ponies like you who will accept their punishment  when they do something wrong. But, like I promised I won't punish you. But, favor I want you to do. Would you mind showing me where you are?"

Shade shook his head telling her to stay down. Autumn grabbed him by the ear and stood up revealing their location. "We're right here." she said, "And again we are really sorry for barging into your hou-" She was cut short of her sentence from shock. Shade looked at the being that the voice came from and he was shocked too.

In the doorway the voice that had been loud and very deep, came from a little bear... A very tiny bear with blue fur and a tinfoil hat shaded like a wizard's hat. "There you are!" the bear said to them. "Now do you mind explaining why you're here?" he then asked them.

Shade had started laughing quietly and Autumn explained their business for intruding in this bear's house. "Our friends were kidnapped and we needed to find a way to rescue them." she said, "And coming to this house was all my friends idea..." She kicked Shade in the stomach to stop him from laughing.

Shade realized he needed to explain as well. "Well," he started "This Shadow Sapphire can be sold for high prices and using the bits from the jewel we could have gone to Canterlot and reported it to Celestia who would take action."

Autumn and the bear looked at him questioning his logic. "That was your plan? Report our friends being kidnapped and hope for the best?"

The bear stepped more into the room and interupted.  "Your friends were kidnapped? What are their names?" he asked.

Shade and Autumn replied in unison, "Sun Shine and Mystic ScrollStar"

"Why are you looking for them? They weren't even born in this century! They lived back when Canterlot was a new city to live in." the bear stated

Shade and Autumn yelled at the bear saying that they did live in this century they were our friends/sister.

The bear held up one paw. "Okay so apparently somepony used time travel to take your friend and sister. So we need to reach them. And I could help. I just finished a time machine I was building in the last week."

Autumn excitedly asked, "Really? Where is it?"

The bear stated, "It's outside. But I need to find some precious gems that can power it."

Shade said to the bear, "Listen, bear, when you say you finished something. You have to mean you finished something. Not that you're close." He jabbed his hoof at the tiny blue bear's stomach.

The bear had moved Shade's hoof away from him. "I have a name. It's Stubbles. And I am done but I'm looking for  a few pieces of  amethyst in order to power the machine."

"Stubbles?" Autumn questioned, "That is an adorable name for a tiny little bear like you"

Stubbles pointed at her angrily and said, "Watch it,sister. I may be cute but that doesn't mean I'm not deadly."

Shade had walked out of the room as Autumn was going on that Stubbles was an adorable little bear and Stubbles arguing that he wasn't. Shade had walked across the the hallway and entered the room on the other side. Inside was a large white room with a soft, light pink rug covering the whole floor. The bed was in the room had yellow and gold and orange blankets and sheets and the pillows were shaped like clouds. The bedspread had resembled a sunset at its maximum beauty. He had walked over to the dresser near the bed and opened it. Inside was a jewelry box. Shade opened the box and found that there was no jewelry, but raw minerals of all types of jewels. Rubies, diamonds, emeralds, and most importantly, amethyst. He had closed the box and carried it along with him out of the room. At the doorway he turned and looked into the room once more. He sighed as all the memories he had in this room flashed before his eyes.

He remembered the day that his family had gotten this house and him and his sister were arguing of who had which room. His parent had come between it and decided for their children. That first night when he was so scared of the dark that he went into his sister's room and asked to sleep in there with her. She laughed as he explained that he heard voice talking to him and the bed was shaking. She allowed him to sleep in her room on the floor for that one night. He fast forwarded his memories to when his family had decided it was time to move from this house. A year after they had moved in. Shade had argued with his parents to stay in the house but to no avail. He decided to run away in order to stay and live in Manehatten. His sister caught onto his plan, but instead of telling their parents, she had helped Shade. She had set up a telepathic link between the siblings and they could talk to each other wherever they are. After his family had move away, he continued to live in the house until somepony had purchased it. From there on he lived in the streets of Manehatten. He lived in poverty until he remembered the jewel hunting tactics that his parents taught him. He found many jewels in the caves underneath Manehatten and had managed to live a prosperous life for someone his age.

Shade walked out of the room and closed the door. Stubble and Autumn were walking up the stairs and heading outside. They were still going back and forth.Shade only heard two lines from them.

"Why are you wearing a tinfoil hat?" Autumn asked.

"It's called style! Look it up..." Stubbles responded.

Shade had ran and caught up to them outside. And out side was a  large pod hooked up to a complicated looking machine. Stubbles was on the machine typing and Autumn was standing in the pod inspecting it. Shade walked up to Stubbles and tapped his shoulder. Stubbles turned around and Shade opened the jewel box to show Stubbles what was inside. "Here's all the amethyst you'll need. Now send us to where they took Mist and Sunny."

Stubbles nodded and shoved all the amethyst into a large hole in the machine. Which it then sucked up and grinded into little pieces. Shade walked over and joined Autumn in the pod. "You ready?" Autumn asked.

Shade nodded his head. "Ready as I'll ever be..."

Stubbles had turned and looked at Autumn and Shade. "Oh, I will be joining you two after I send you. I need to go get the return method ready."  He then looked back at the machine and yelled, "So are you ready?"

Before Shade and Autumn could say "Yes". They were covered in a bright light and throw up into the air. They were then hurled forward into the past.