THE PAST RECOLLECTS
Chapter 1
Hurdling the cyan ponies body upward climbing ever so higher, Rainbow Dash had pushed her body to the limits of complete and total shut down. Her muscles pulsed and ached, her head screamed, and her eyes stung, with pain that she has only felt once before. She loved it! The insidious wind shear tearing at her mane, wings, and coat were growing more and more as every second stretched into minutes and minutes stretched into what seemed hours. Was she actually about to do it. Was Twilights prediction right, that if she could surpass the sonic rainboom and go faster could she really travel back in time, could she tell her past self about the future events that might leave Ponyville in trouble. The fabric of time tempting her to shatter the delicate layer, and be able to bend time? Was this even possible? Can it be done? Did she have enough strength to even try this tempting feat? Twilight believed in her, her friends believed in her….. She believed in herself.
As she gained more and more velocity heading upwards, and the air became stale and harder to breath, the Pegasus couldn’t just give up. It was time. The cyan pony made an arc above the cloud cover and headed straight down. A mach cone formed around the ponies front hoofs and head, step one complete. Step two a sonic rainbow, “I have this.” She had said in her mind over and over again. With that a faint trail of multiple colors started following her, the start of the sonic rainboom. BOOM, the barrier was broken; she made it to a sonic rainboom, and now on to step three. I was time, the ground was closing in on her, if this didn’t work, she would soon be a rainbow pancake. Twilight if you were wrong, then you better make sure you keep one eye open at ni-, but before she could finish a weird sensation filled her body, similar to having a sugar rush x100.
Her hoofs stretched in front of her growing further from her, and then a sucking sensation pulled her head, body, wings, and then her hind legs. She faced a swirling tunnel of lights and loud screeching filled her eyes and ears. The tunnel made twist and turns, and after what seemed like a few minutes, she was approaching a bright light. Was this it was it the end, am I dead? The question flooded her mind; completely ignoring that this bright light was actually might be the exit. As the light grew bigger she was reading for the end, she closed her rose colored eyes for the end that might be approaching. It never came, instead the screeching stopped, the tunnel was gone, and the wind pull was back. This caused her to lose her balance, making her plummet downward to the ground, somersaulting and barrel rolling.
She opened her eyes wide, shock drifted from her mind to her heart to her stomach, this was fright, the needed to ignore it and focus suppressed the urge to scream. The ground was once again closing in. She was coming in at a record rate, at such a high speed she didn’t even know how to explain it. Speed, she liked it, but just like the urge to scream, she had pushed it out of her mind. Speed didn’t matter right now, what mattered was the information she need to give her past self. She couldn't fail this task, it was all the hope that all of Eqestria had, or will have.
She turned belly down, absorbing the wind with her face, instead of her back. This made her cheeks rise above her head and tears filled her squinting eyes. It was now or never, she opened her wings that she had tucked into her sides when she left the swirling fabric of time hole, and made an upward jolt which made her cheeks drop from above head to below her face. She quickly shook her head, causing the cheeks to return to the normal position, and wiped the tears from her eyes.
“Ok, so where am I, and when am I?” she questioned her mind. With a glance around she noticed nothing was going on in the sunny afternoon. Something was wrong, Ponyville is never this quiet, Pinkie would make sure of that. She flew to Ponyville and noticed the streets were empty, the stores were closed, and no pony was out and about. She flew from the library to SweetApple Acres, and covered everywhere in between. As her second trip past the Carousel Boutique a note was tapped to the door.
“Sorry my fabulous boutique is closed, I shall be home soon, but if you really need me that much you may be able to find me at the Ponyville training course.” Rarity’s note had stated.
Rainbow smashed her hoof into her face, how could I forget, today is the day she tried out for her dream team, the Wonderblots. All of Ponyville had stopped what they were doing just to support her, and she had completely forgotten. Wait, she thought, how could I have forgot, something nagged her, something Twilight had said about the time hole.
“Now Rainbow Dash, I want you to know this, if you are able to exceed in this trip, draw backs are memory loss for a few hours, but I have planned ahead for that. Find me at the Library on the 22nd of March. I will help you.” The purple mare had said before the Rainbow manned horse attempted this ridiculous attempt to travel in time.
Without even questioning it, Rainbow Dash took off, no questions asked, now she wished she would have asked at least one what if she doesn’t land in the correct year? Then with a panicked look she tore into the Boutiques front doors. She raced to the kitchen, where she found Rarity’s calendar. Completely ignoring the urge to laugh at the calendars pictures, which read, “Chanterlot’s hottest Colts?” She would bring it up after she makes sure everything is back to normal. She found the date March 22nd. As she ran through the doors once again she took a minute too look around and take in the one thing her friend liked, the one who had sacrificed everything for her, she slowly shut the door, looking through the crack as it closed.
“I’ll fix this Rarity, don’t you worry.” Rainbow said as she closed the door as the last ray of light was cut off from the room.
The end of Chapter 1
By:Carmack21
Any Ideas, send them in much obliged.
I do not own the rights to MLP:FIM they belong to Lauren Frost and Hasbro productions.
By the way I was bored this came into mind, and I said what the heck why not, also I’m sort of new.
Chapter 2
Without any hesitation, she tore off leaving the boutique in the dust. She was just a blue blur on a sunny cloudless day. Her destination was a few minutes away. Her brain was racing 100 miles a minute, but a thought raced in her mind that stood out and made her think. Did twilight know about the future event, and hadn’t warned anyone about what would happened? Just like the time she didn’t tell anyone about Nightmare Moon?
She lost her train of thought, leaving her with a split second to turn and avoid smacking into a wooden sign. After collecting herself, she peered at the sign that she managed to avoid by the skin of her teeth. In bright red letters it read “Ponyville Library.” A picture of an opened book rested underneath of the words, a fancy border outlined the entire sign. Being that she only goes to the library to barrow Daring Do books from Twilight, she never actually thought about the times that the library was open. With a quick glance at the times, she noticed something very odd, where the times were suppose to be, a plaque laid above the etched in times, it read “Times, Never Closed.” Rainbow stuck her hoof on her forehead and released an ample sigh of remorse for the lavender pony.
“Twilight!” the cyan pony called as she crept ever so much closer to the door. Nothing, not even a whisper was heard. “Twilight!!!!!” she yelled twice as louder than the before. Still no answer from the hollowed tree, what was she suppose to do now? As the Pegasus turned and started to dart upward, a faint but solid voice was heard off in the distance.
“Rainbow Dash, Is that you?” the owner to the voice drew; the silhouette was walking, no not walking, running towards her, faster and faster. Could it be? Is it just like she had promised, was it Twilight.
“Twilight?!!” Without even thinking the cyan Pegasus shouted at the silhouette. The shape grew closer faster at an alarming rate, growing bigger and replenished with the friendly lavender coat.
“I was right, I was right, going back in time is possible, not only by unicorns, but by Pegasus’s as well!” Twilight was yelling above her normal voice, but her cheerful smile quickly faded when the sight of the distressed Pegasus looking at her in disbelief.
“Twilight, stop I need to tell you of the future, we rea-“she was cut off by the unicorn who was exploding with questions.
“I can’t believe that you’re from the future. What does Equestria look like? Let me get a quill and parchment, you need to tell me all about it.” The energetic pony shot question after question, till the cyan pony had enough.
“TWILIGHT!!!! Listen we need to stop the contest from continuing. We need to tell everyone to get inside and prepare for the worse.” Rainbow said with a single gasp of breath. The lavender pony starred at her with a quizzical look on her face.
“What do you mean, ‘the worse’?” Twilight asked her friend.
“Well, you see, in the future….. Well, I can’t really explain it, but we need everyone to go home now, or something really bad might happen.” The light blue Pegasus had said to Twilight.
Just then the lavender pony turned in the direction of the slightest noise you could compare to a pin dropping on the ground. It was coming from behind a shrub bush that seemed out of place.
“Pinkipie?” both ponies asked at once.
“Aaawwwee, cupcakes, I was going to prank you two. And isn’t Dashy supposed to be at the competition?” The party pony asked with an awkward grin that seemed to explode with enjoyment.
“Uhm, Pinkie, how about you have a party for all the competitors at Sugarcube Corner, and make sure everyone is accounted for. When you finish that meet back here.” A stern voice cracked from the cyan pony’s throat. With a wider smile the pony tore off. Leaving Twilight and Rainbow alone, coughing in the dust Pinkie had left from zooming off to tell everyone about the party.
Rainbow looked at her watch Twilight had given to her, a basic wrist watch, but engraved in the back was the saying, ‘THE PAST RECOLLECTS,’ in a cursive form.
“Twi, I hope you’re right, I hope we can fix this.” She said as both ponies darted to the competition.
