The Quest Through Time

Chapter 1

It was a beautiful spring day in the town of Ponyville, so perfect that Twilight and her friends decided on a picnic, far enough away from the town for peace and quiet but not too close to the edge of the Everfree Forest.

“I must say,” Rarity stated. “You could not ask for a more perfect day such as this. Simply marvelous.”

“It certainly is nice that there is finally some peace and quiet around here,” Fluttershy said.

“Yep, for an entire month at that,” Twilight said. “That doesn’t happen too often.”

“Meh…” The other ponies looked at Rainbow Dash, who made the comment.

“What’s wrong Rainbow Dash?” Twilight asked.

“Sure peace is nice, especially since it gives me time to practice my moves,” Rainbow explained. “But it can get so boring around here though. Call me crazy, but I like having a little bit of danger and chaos every once in awhile.”

“Rainbow Dash, only you would be willing to have disaster strike Ponyville again,” Applejack said matter-of-factly.

“And we have plenty of opportunities for parties!” Pinkie Pie said happily. “We could even have a party celebrating an entire month of no chaos!”

“Since nothing’s happened, I haven’t had to send any reports to Princess Celestia,” Twilight said.

“Well Twilight, we sent her plenty of reports in the past so I’m sure she wouldn’t mind,” Rarity said, eating her jam sandwich.

“Although we could all send her one big letter to see how she is doing,” Twilight said. “Except Spike isn’t here…”

All of a sudden, Pinkie started shaking. “Whoaoaoaoa!” she said, and soon stopped. “I can’t tell if that was me or the ground.”

“I didn’t feel any-” But then the ground did start shaking uncontrollably. “An earthquake!? Here!?” Twilight almost yelled.

“We gotta get outta here!” Applejack said. But everything happened so quickly, the ponies did not have time to react. The ground around them started to crack, as if the earth was pulling itself apart. But the strangest part was about to begin.

As soon as it broke apart, an ominous glow came out of the ground and swept over all of the ponies, paralyzing them before pulling them downwards into where it came from. All they could do was scream before everything went black.

A huge blizzard was hitting the mountains hard up in the north. The only other sound than the howling wind that could be heard was the stomping sounds of two ponies in their Magitek Armor, giant mechs that had the ability to use magic elemental spells.

“Hey Biggs, you see anything?” the soldier asked, whose name was Wedge.

“Nothing,” Biggs responded. “This blizzard is stronger than we thought. Can’t see anything.”

“Perfect for an ambush,” Wedge muttered.

“The rebel base can’t be too far from here,” Biggs said. “Let’s keep moving.”

With such mechs, mobile soldiers were becoming less and less. But unlike regular soldiers, machines had an easier advantage of scaling more territory, which for the rebels would be a problem.

“Wait a minute,” Wedge said, stopping. “I see something over there, or I should say somepony.”

“Scouts?” Biggs asked.

“No, they appear to be unconscious,” Wedge said, getting closer. “Goodness, there are six of them and they’re not even wearing proper winter clothing.”

“They could be dead already Wedge,” Biggs said. “There’s no way they could survive out here like this.”

“Well they can’t have come up here by themselves,” Wedge argued. “Even if they are dead, we should take them back and figure out who they are.”

“…Fair enough,” Biggs said. “But how are we gonna get ‘em outta here? Air support is out of the question.”

“Hold on, these mechs have enough room for a small platoon,” Wedge said.

Meanwhile, on a cliff just above where the two soldiers were, a unicorn was peering through binoculars in white camouflage. “You see that?” the unicorn asked. “Two fellas just showed up.”

“Yeah, and they’re also Magitek soldiers,” an earth pony to his side stated. “No doubt the Empire sent them snooping around.”

“I guess they caught onto us,” said a third, a pegasus. “We could take them out now while the wind’s still blowing.”

“Wait,” the unicorn said, looking closer. “There are… dear Celestia there are other ponies out there unconscious!”

“And why is that our concern?” the earth pony asked.

“They might as well already be dead,” the pegasus said.

“But if they aren’t, they’ll most likely be interrogated and you know how that goes,” the unicorn said. “Besides, a couple more hooves wouldn’t hurt at all.”

“So what’s the plan?” the earth pony asked.

“We have to be quick,” the unicorn said. “If we catch them off guard, then we may have a chance but that’s armor tough. In that case; Arwen, you know what to do.”

The pegasus grinned and grabbed her lance. “The pleasure is all mine.”

“And Dax, go for the weak points.”

“Not a problem,” Dax the earth pony replied, loading his rifle. “What about you?”

“I’ll sneak in and try to get those ponies out of the way.” He then used a spell and turned invisible. “That’s why they call me Snowblind.”

While that was going on, Biggs and Wedge were trying to get the ponies on board. Soon a shot rang out. “Shit, sniper!” Biggs yelled, abandoning them and getting back into his mech.

“Where is he?” Wedge said. \

“I can’t tell.” The problem was any wrong shot could result in an avalanche. Another shot rang and the visor in Bigg’s cockpit shattered and Wedge’s soon followed. Before he could even curse at himself, a figure popped out of the sky and soon Biggs found himself impaled with a long lance and a smirking pegasus. He was gone in seconds.

Wedge, panicking, fired a missile but Arwen dodged causing the other mech to be blown up. Meanwhile, an invisible figure pulled the other ponies away from the battle scene.

Soon the pegasus was in Wedge’s face and he tried to hit her with of the mech arms but she was too quick. “Oh please no…”

“Sorry bud.” But then another shot rang out and hit Wedge straight in the head.

“Hey!” Arwen yelled. “He was mine!”

“Nice distraction you two,” Snowblind said, reappearing. “You guys better take a look at this though.”

Glancing over at the unconscious figures, both of their mouths nearly dropped.

“It can’t be…” Arwen said.

“They’re not…!” Dax started.

“I believe they are,” Snowblind said calmly. “They’re still alive too, and their body temperatures are still slightly warm, meaning they haven’t been here long.”

“Oh man…” Dax said.

“Boss is gonna have a heart attack when he sees them,” Arwen said.

“Alright, we need to get them back to HQ ASAP.” Snowblind then looked at the still standing mech. “And I think have the perfect idea.”