The Strangers

I sat outside of my brothers school, waiting for his bell to ring at any time. His school got out earlier than mine, much to his dismay.

The bell finally range, and it seemed like a race between everyone, ponies of all colors, scrambling for the door in excitement. It was Friday after all, and I wanted to get home quickly too.

Shockwave finally emerged from the crowd and trotted up to me.

"Hey little pipsqueak." I said, "How was your day?".

"Fine," He replied, "We spent the whole day talking about the foundation of Equestria and it was extremely boring."

Shockwave was like that, a sporty little colt. He never really cared much about history, or, any other kind of learning for that manner. He was fantastic at casting spells, which was strange, he was younger than me and he knew how to use magic better than I did.

"Come on man," I said to him, "History is a good thing, you should learn from it.".

He said nothing, he just rolled his eyes and continued to walk.

We finally made it home, a bit later than I expected too, we all split off into our rooms and went about our business.

I sat in my room a lot. Plugged into whatever technology I could find. Usually my computer, playing games and talking to school friends. I never did get tired of it. Besides, I had no business outside anyway.

I was halfway through a game of Pony-Strike when I remember that I needed to ask my brother about that money he borrowed from me a few days ago.

I got up and walked into his room.

"Shockwave?"

He didn't seem to be there. Strange, I would have seen him leave.

"Dude, where are you?"

I heard a shuffle under his bed. I bent down and sure enough, he was hiding there, a scroll in his hand.

"Get out from under there." I said.

He crawled up nervously and put the scroll behind his back quickly.

"What do you have there?" I asked.

"Nothing." he said with an obvious fake smile.

I tackled him and we wrestled for a bit, all while trying to grab the scroll, I finally was able to grab it and read it.

"Scroll of time travel?" I read aloud, "Where did you find this?"

"I uhh, bought it." he replied.

"From who?"

"I don't know, he told me that he knows how good I am with magic and just handed me the scroll, I insisted on paying him and he took it and ran." Shockwave replied.

"Did you see what he looked like?" I asked.

"No, he stayed in the shadows and was wearing some kind of hooded jacket."

"You can't just take stuff from strangers dude, Didn't mom teach you that?" I said angrily.

I paced around, wondering what to do with this spell, a spell that could doom a timeline as we know it.

"I want to use it." Shockwave said.

"What?"

"I want to use it." he said again, "We could go into the future, not the past, then we cant screw anything up.".

While he made a great point, I was still against the idea, time should not be messed with, but I kind of wanted to see what Equestria would look like in the future. Giant cities, spaceships and speeders, advanced robotics, It sounded like a sight to see.

"Fine, we could go into the future, but we have to come right back." I said hesitantly.

My brother smiled, "How far should we go?" he asked.

"213 years." I replied.

"Why 213?" he asked.

"Don't know," I replied, "It just popped into my head.".

"Alright then," he said, "Lets do it.".

His horn began to glow with a bright light and a white sphere engulfed both of us, blocking out our vision.

To this day I still don't know what went wrong.