A Race Across Time

by mzma

Rating: teen
Tags: Twilight Sparkle, Gore, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Adventure
Length: 1534

After a terrified Celestia appears at Twilight's door, it's a race against time- and across it- to find out what is really going on.

After a terrified Celestia appears at Twilight's door, it's a race against time- and across it- to find out what is really going on.

Published 2013-11-20 01:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-11-20 01:10:02 UTC

Prolouge

As the cramps started to fade, Light Storm started to wonder how he was going to take his revenge. He had been sealed away from his world for so long, he now felt more at home on this sun than anywhere he would have used to call his home. And it would soon all be over. He would be free, would join his Devoted and would take his sweet revenge on her. The one which had caused so much pain to him and his Devoted.

And slowly, he felt a pull. Not too strong at first but after a few seconds he completely let go of his prison and felt himself rise in a physical form again. He gained strength from this… mortal. Let it surge through his veins. He was had a strong will but wills are easy to break if you know how. And the Element of Fear knew this well.
Light Storm looked around to see his Devoted standing in a ring around the very spot where She had banished him to the sun an eon ago. “Ave verum lumen.” He whispered to himself.

“Ave verum lumen…” came the whispery reply of his devoted. Light Storm smiled to himself.
One colt, wearing the mark of a Son of Light came to him and bowed down low. “Master! We have been waiting millennia to find the perfect time to release you from your tomb of impure lihghgack-,” The colt’s body hanging in the air like a ragdoll, neck snapped and blood leaking out of the corner of his mouth didn’t seem to faze his followers.

“Let it be known,” Light Storm spoke coldly, his raspy whisper echoing in the abandoned castle, “That I will you will only speak to me if you yourselves are spoken to-“

“Mommy, did he really kill that pony?”
“Twilight! I’ll never finish this story if you keep interrupting!”
“Sorry”

“Well don’t do it again, silly filly! Anyway…”

“I shall need a cloak.”
A unicorn mare paced over to him and wordlessly draped a deep purple cloak over his shoulders. She bowed then scampered back to her place in the ring. Light Storm looked over to the corpse of the disrespectful colt.

“See? She knows how to conduct herself in the presence of her superiors!” He glanced up to his followers. “Would it be foolish to assume that you have a place ready for me?” Two mares shook their heads. “Good. Then we depart immediately.”

Oh it was good to be back! Only in this world for a few minutes and he could see that they had lost respect for him. But that would be sorted out. After his revenge was complete. After Princess Luna lay slain at his hooves at the gates of Canterlot Castle and all of Equestria bowed down to his might.

“Now Twilight, promise me you’ll go to sleep. Your father and I have a surprise for you in the morning!”
“Whatisitwhatisitwhatisitwhatisitwhatisitw-,“
“SH! You’ll have to wait. G’night Twilight.”
“Goodnight Mommy…” Almost as soon as Twilight’s head touched the pillow she fell into a deep sleep…

Author's Note

My first attempt at anything even resembling a fanfic for anything. Just kinda wanted to try it out. Anyway leave a comment and just say if you want more.

Chapter 1 - Tardy

Twilight paced the floor of her giant library and frowned. It wasn’t like the Princess to be late. The Princess had asked to see her at 7:00PM on the dot. And here… it was 7:03PM and no sign of anything. Not a note to say she was running late or even a note to cancel her appointment. Spike tried to calm her down from the other side of the room.

“Twi… Twilight… TWILIGHT! Calm. Down. Celestia is fine. Just… a little late. Maybe it’s just some bad weather. Or maybe her guards are a little slow today. It’s only 3 minutes… Not world changing…”

Someone knocked on the door and Twilight jumped out of her chair, smoothing down her mane and trying not to look nervous. “Now Twi, don’t stay up all night again with the Princess. I’ll see you in the morning. This dragon’s gonna get some shut-eye!”

As she opened the door, the Princess gave her a wild look and threw a scroll on the table.
“Prin-“ Twilight tried to say, but was immediately hushed by Celestia.
“Did... did anyone follow me here?” Celestia gasped.
“How am I supposed to kno-“ Twilight started.
“Take the scroll.”
“What does it do?”

“You will find out in due time. For now, understand why I asked to come here. Someone is hunting us.”
“Us as in… The Alicor-“
“Yes. The Alicorns. We don’t know who, but Luna was badly wounded from a magical device planted on her chariot. She’s laid up in the royal bunker in Canterlot.”
“So where do I come into play?”
“You have to help me and that’s why I brought this scroll. I… used it once before and now it seems as though it won’t respond to me. At all.”

“So you have no idea of who’s hunting you?”
“It’s not important! Nothing will matter at all if they succeed in their goal! If they’re powerful enough to kill Cadance with a single burst of energy, they’re certainly powerf-“
“Cadance is dead? What about Shining Armor?”
Celestia looked guiltily at the floor while Twilight felt her heart start to race.
“I… I’m sorry Twilight.”

“YOU DIDN’T THINK OF POSSIBLY TELLING ME THAT MY BROTHER WAS DEAD BEFORE GETTING ME INTO YOUR CRAZY SCHEME? NOT EVEN A ‘HEY TWILIGHT, YOUR BROTHER’S DEAD, HELP ME SAVE MY RACE’?” Twilight’s anger ebbed and was soon replaced by emptiness. “Did… they die like… heroes?” Twilight asked as a single tear rolled down her cheek. Seeing her as a filly again, Celestia wrapped Twilight in one of her wings.
“They died saving me.” Her words seemed to echo in the quiet library as Twilights sobs faded away. Twilight pushed herself away from Celestia.

“Get out.” Twilight growled.
“B-b-but…” Celestia stammered, taken aback.

“I SAID GET OUT! YOU ARE NEVER WELCOME TO CALL ME YOUR STUDENT. EVER. AGAIN!”
Celestia’s eyes welled with tears and she ran. She ran as far and a fast as she could, eventually stopping under a towering oak to sit and cry.
Cry, because she’d lost one of the only ponies who had truly liked her. Cry, because it was her fault for not staying behind for Cadance and Shining Armor. Cry, because IT WAS ALL SO UNFAIR! She smashed her hoof as hard as she could into the tree and screamed, barely denting the ancient oak.
“What’s the matter Princess? Feel… rejected?” and before the Princess could widen her eyes in fear, the blade of pure magic had cut her throat.

Twilight wasn't sad. All she could feel was a burning anger. For Celestia. For not saving her brother. But as her anger ebbed, she began to think. What could the Princess have done? Magic powerful enough to kill an Alicorn was rare, and not a force to be reckoned with. As she looked around the room, her eyes fell on the scroll Celestia had left. As she unravelled it with her magic, she saw why the Princess had wanted Twilight to use it.

It was a time spell. A ridiculously difficult one too. And if Celestia really had wanted her to use this time spell, things outside were completely screwed.

"And the last ingredient..." Twilight froze "...is dragon blood." Spike's face fell.
"H-how much?" Spike questioned, terrified.
"Only 30 millilitres. Thank Celestia."

A lot had gone into this potion. The feather of a phoenix, Heart's Desire and a Fire Ruby, to name a few. And of course dragon blood. After the addition of the final ingredient, the mixture turned an eerily translucent blue and became more gel like.

"You really gonna drink that Twi?" Spike asked, a quizzical expression on his face.
"Don't even try to talk me out of this. You know full well that after I drink this, my magic will be powerful enough to use the spell. So yes. I am going to drink it." And with those words, she did.

"How do you feel Twi?"
"Powerful... Wow. REALLY powerful. I think... I think I can do the spell. Just let me... read this here..."
"Didn't you already DO a time spell?"
"Yes Spike. But this one might actually work for longer. Y'see instead of transporting myself into the past, my conciousness gets transported back and implanted into another pony's body... it's just...
"What?"
"I don't know who I'll become. I will try and become somepony I want to be but that won't always work. I may want to become Luna but become Celestia; close family ties, stuff like that.
"How many times will you need to do the spell?"
"Um... I would just advise you to find as many Fire Rubies as possible. Rarity might have some."
"Well. I'll just have to go over to her place right now and... get them... Oh Rarity..."
"SPIKE!"
"Sorry Twi."
"Well here I g-"

-CRACK-

And she was gone.