Twilight's Trouble with Time Traveling

"Three days before this happened, I was looking for a way to go to the future for a moment. I just wanted to take a look. I found a book called 'Time Travels: Are they possible?'. It said I needed to use something called 'The Magic Hourglass'. I started searching for it.

"Of course, it wasn't an actual hourglass. It just had this name. I didn't even know how to do it, maybe even I'd have to be a unicorn, but it always was worth trying to find it.

"The book said I needed to use it, otherwise something terrible would happen if I tried to do it without using that thing. It didn't however explain what exactly, because nopony ever tried because of the danger.

I also didn't want to take the risk, of course. I was just practicing, I was making sure something would go wrong in the process, so that I could stop it.

"One time, unfortunately, something went wrong in the process of making something go wrong. Because of that, everything went right, except for one thing: I did not use the hourglass.

"I think if I'll find it and that book, I'd be able to reverse what happened."

"It can't be that hard, maybe I have this book," Twilght said and immidiately started picking up books with her magic and reading their titles.

Turner and the Cutie Mark Crusaders also were searching throughout the whole library. It took them almost an hour before finally Time Turner stated: "I found it."

Suddenly everypony stopped their searches and walked to him. Twilight took the book and started looking. It thankfully contained the exact guide how to come back if anything went wrong.

"Great. Now we only need to find the Magic Hourglass," said Time Turner.

Twilight turned a few pages in the book. "I think that you are really bad at finding things. Although you are the master of screwing them up."

"What do you mean? You also don't know where it is, Princess," he replied, fully accepting the insult.

"Don't call me a princess, I'm not ruling Equestria yet. You're wrong, my dear, I know where it is. The book says it's somewhere in the Everfree Forest," she said.

"The Everfree Forest? How awesome!" said Apple Bloom.

"Awesome? I'm not coming into there. Not after that one time when Fluttershy had to save us," said Scootaloo.

Sweetie Belle laughed at her. "That's right: Even Fluttershy is more brave than you. What are you, a chicken?"

"Maybe she is, Sweetie. If she doesn't want to come, let her. It'll be even more fun without having to care for her and calm her down all the time," said Apple Bloom. "Remember the time when we were camping with Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash?"

"Yes, of course. Nopony was scared, except for her," she replied.

Scootaloo walked towards the door. "Okay then, get lost, everypony."

"Well, I'm not sure if I will let you two come, as well," said Twilight. "I don't know if I'll have time to watch over you."

"Come on, Twilight, Nothing will happen to us!" begged Sweetie. "We can take care of ourselves!"

"No, you can't. Only I and Time Turner are coming," said Twilight.

Sweetie smiled. "Time Turner is coming? –" she quickly went and hugged his front hoof just like she did with Twilight's when they were going to Canterlot "– Then he can watch us!"

Turner looked at how badly she wanted to come. "Oh well, guess I have to."

Twilight sighed and smiled slightly. "Okay, if you really wanna come..."

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle cheered up.

"But we'll go tomorrow. It's too late already to be wandering around the Everfree Forest. Especially with you two," said Twilight. "You can stay in the library for the night, as you have nowhere to sleep."

Time Turner talked a little more with Twilight and went to his house, Twilight slept in her usual bed, while Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle slept in the same bed that Applejack and Rarity did turing Twilight's slumber party. Nothing really unusual happened in the library during the night.

In the morning, Sweetie woke up first, but stayed in bed a little more trying to fall asleep again as Twilight was still sleeping. Suddenly, she saw Twilight wake up from bed. Twilight looked at the little fillies, and for some reason Sweetie started pretending she's asleep. She heard her walking down stairs and heading outside.

"That's why she told us to go to sleep! She wanted to go without us!" said Sweetie to herself.

She quickly but silently woke up Apple Bloom, because she thought Twilight would hear her from outside if she yelled.

"HEY! I'M TRYING TO SLEE––" shouted Apple Bloom, but was interrupted by Sweetie's hoof in her mouth.

"Shh. Twilight went looking for the hourglass without us! I think she can still hear us from outside!" Sweetie whispered.

Apple Bloom got up, wore her favourite red bow and silently went down the stairs with her. They opened the door and saw Twilight walking by the street. They both knew she's headed to Time Turner's house.

"Wait, how does she know where Time Turner lives?" asked Sweetie. "Even we don't and we were the ones who found him in the first place!

"Remember when she was talking with him when we were already in bed?" asked Apple Bloom. "We didn't hear it but maybe they were discussing a place of meeting."

Sweetie nodded. "Good theory."

After following the princess for a few more minutes, they finally saw her stop near a fountain, where Time Turner was already waiting for her. They talked for a bit, but the fillies couldn't hear anything and going more forward would reveal that they're here, which they didn't want yet because Twilight would probably send them back to the library. They were going to show up at the Everfree Forest, because they would not be able to go back by themselves from there.

After half an hour they finally arrived at the Everfree Forest. Unfortunately, Twilight and Turner decided to split up. At first the fillies wanted to do the same, but were too hungry and exahusted and they thought it will be better to stay together in case somepony faints. They both woke up too early for their age, and now they noticed that they didn't eat since the last day morning. They both followed Time Turner and were just waiting for a good time to show up to him. They still didn't want to go back, although they knew it would be the best option now.

After at least an hour Time Turner found a cave somewhere in the forest. The fillies wanted to go in, but they would have to reveal themselves because they thought there is a lot of open space in caves.

"What now, Sweetie? Are we going in?" asked Apple Bloom.

Sweetie Belle hesitated. "Well... okay."

They entered the cave along with Time Turner, saying nothing. After a while he looked behind himself and noticed them.

He sighed. "How long have you been following us?"

"Since Twilight woke up," said Apple Bloom.

"You have to be real tired," he said and continued forward into the cave.

The fillies were real tired. They knew that if it was Twilight going into the cave, they'd have to stay out of it and wait for her to come back. They were currently not sure if this would be better for them. After all, the cave was dangerous and none of them knew if the thing they were looking for is here. They finally found a tunnel that led into something that might even have been a room. It even had an age-old wooden door. In there, they noticed a wierd chest with some kind of mechanism on it. There was some puzzle that had to be solved to unlock the chest, but surprisingly, it wasn't locked at all.

"Why isn't the chest locked? If it has that kind of mechanism on it, the insides are probably really valuable," wondered Apple Bloom.

"Or maybe somepony already took them out," said Time Turner.

To their surprise, the insides were there. The insides themselves weren't as surprising: The Magic Hourglass.

"Or maybe we unlocked it for us. I mean... will unlock," said Sweetie. "When we come back."

They headed outside. Twilight was waiting for them near the entrance.

"Oh, hi, Turner, I knew you were in the cave, so i decid––" Twilight wanted to say something but noticed the fillies. "How did you get here? Have you been following us?"

Apple Bloom wanted to answer that question, but fainted from hunger.