Twilight's Trouble with Time Traveling

by potworjan

Chapter Four

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After these 'unfortunate' events, everypony were preparing to go back to Ponyville. Surprisingly, Twilight was not angry at Sweetie. Well, in fact she was, but didn't show it to not frighten her any more. Luckily for Sweetie, they brought some food with them, just in case the adventure would be longer.

The adventure, however, was pretty short, though. Every one of them expected it to be a little longer than those two or three hours. Sweetie was now really bored. She was also a little disappointed, altough every time whe looked at her friend, she immidiately did regret the thought.

She obviously knew that wandering into the forest after Twilight was a bad idea. She realised that the princess simply didn't want anything to care for her.

After a while, they had to go back to Ponyville. Partially satisfied, they grabbed the item they have just gotten, and started walking. Apple Bloom was carried by Twilight Sparkle's magic.

When they finally arrived, Time Turner grabbed the book they were reading earlier. "Okay, now I've just got to find a way to reverse that."

"Wait... you don't know how to do this?" asked Twilight.

"What? Why would I? It was originally supposed to last a while," he replied, confused.

Twilight sighed. "Maybe it's in the book."

She used magic to take the book from his hooves and turned a few pages, but did not find what she was looking for. So she turned a few more pages. And more. And More. Table of contents. Still nothing.

"Well that's just great," she said.

"Uh, what now?" asked Time Turner.

"I don't know, "Twilight said with a sad look on her face. "What I do know, however, is that I'll make sure you go to jail as soon as we fix all this."

"How can you not know that? You're the princess here!' he replied.

Twilight suddenly gasped. "Wait... I think I might have an idea."

In a while, they were on their way to Canterlot. They all left Apple Bloom in bed in the library. Twilight explained the plan to the rest in the train. It seemed good to them.

Once they arrived in the city, they were heading into the castle. Sweetie came with them, altough she did not know why did she have to.

They were heading to the Canterlot Archives. Star Swirl the Bearded's wing. Twilight's plan was to find the spell Pinkie Pie found the time she was worrying about the disaster that would never come. She was going to use it, go to Time Turner's house before he did this and steal his book, so he's unable to do what he did. There was, of course, one catch.

The spell was said to bring you back to the past once. Twilight was not sure if it meant once a day, once a year, or maybe once in a lifetime. Because of that, she had to bring Sweetie Belle with her, just in case. However, even though spells written on scrolls were so much easier to cast, Sweetie could not use magic at all.

Without much problems, Twilight found the spell they were looking for. She tried to cast it, but her expectations were unfortunately correct. She could not have cast the spell on herself.

"What now?" Sweetie asked.

"You have to do it," she simply replied.

Sweetie Belle was surprised. "What? How? I can't do magic."

Twilight nodded. "I know. But you have to try."

The next few minutes were filled with Sweetie's failed attempts of casting the magic spell. None of them were successful. Now Twilight had another idea. She could cast it... on Sweetie.

After a few seconds the filly disappeared from the room.

"Hey, why couldn't you use it on me?" asked Time Turner.

"Haven't crossed my mind," she simply replied after making a smile. "Maybe I'll try next time."

"Hopefully there is no next time," he said.

There was no next time. After a while Sweetie appeared back happily.

"Oh, hi!" said Twilight. "Did you--"

It was a "normal" day in the library. Twilight was really nervous, as always since she became an alicorn. It's been two weeks already and she did not sleep since four days, trying to learn the basics of being a princess. Spike's situation wasn't much better. He never understood why Twilight can't get all the books herself with her magic. Of course, right now Twilight was so nervous he wouldn't even dare to ask. He had to help her all the time. Fortunately he did get some rest, thanks to his friend Owlowiscious.

Suddenly, they heard a knock on the door. Spike went to answer. It was Applejack.