How and Why? Season 2!
Chapter 13: Finding One's Origins
Previous ChapterNext ChapterI've been waiting at the same fucking window for one fucking hour. One. MotherfffUcking hour. And they're still not back.
*How much time does the show take away from the real thing?* I manage to have entertained myself by dropping shit from the window, and watching shit fall to the ground. But that only lasted a few minutes, when that got boring I decided to play some music I perfectly remembered in my head. You know that thing with music when you're so into the music in your head? And the same song is playing from an external source? Yeah, that happened to me. I had no idea that I had speakers in my body, turns out there are... Weird thing is they pop out when I concentrate, and that one speaker pops out of each shoulder. And one forms on my stomach. Kinda like that guy from the last X-men movie... Anyway, I guess Twi, Pinks and Spike heard the music, cause I can hear them coming down from the other end of the hall. I lost concentration and the speakers disappeared. "About time you guys get back! I've been waiting here for an hour!"
"You where here the entire time!?" I nod. "WHY!?"
"You're looking for the Start Swirl wing right?" She nods. I look at Pinks and smirk, she smiles back. "Then you should look to your right."
"What? Why?" She says as she does just that. At the sight on the gated door labeled "Star Swirl The Bearded Wing" she face hooves.
"And you thought I was idiot for staying behind."
"I didn't say that!"
"But you thought it didn't ya?" She stays silent. "Your silence says everything." Just then we all hear the clip clop of hooves on... Marble floor? I can't tell what makes up the floor. Pinks and Spike duck, somewhere, Twi crouches in the middle of the hall, and I teleport inside the wing. The sounds get louder as a night guard canters co closer, stopping in front of Twi.
"Twilight! It's been a while! Here, let me get that for ya..." His horn glows and the same aura covers the lock on the door. A clicking noise can be heard as the door slightly swings open. When he's done he walks down the hall, Twi gets up and looks at the guard.
"You remember that you lived here and went to the library all the time right?" I say when the guard's out of sight.
"Now I do..." Spike And Pinks snicker as they come out from... wherever the fuck they were hiding.
"Putting stupidity aside, lets get looking for that time spell." Everyone nods in agreement as we spread out to look for a particular book or scroll. I actually had no idea where the scroll is here, I just know it's a fucking scroll. So I just had to look at the scrolls, which there were still a fuck-ton of them. So it's no surprise that the sun started to come out before we could find it. Twi gallops to a window.
"Oh no! It's almost morning!"She then frantically looks up and down the aisles. Me and Pinks watch as the sun rises higher into the sky. The warm light expanding to cover the entire library. "Nonononono! Everypony down!" She crouches low to the ground, followed by Spike and Pinks, and I just stand there. Now the sun's showing in it's full glory, and nothing happens. Nothing happens and we just stay still for a few minutes, when Twi notices that nothing happened she peaks an eye out, she then gets up. "Nothing happened? Has the disaster past?" I have absolutely no fucking clue who she's asking those questions to. "This just means there is more time to find that scroll!"
"I think you were just over worrying yourself about nothing."
"I think you're right Streak.."
"Good morning Twilight, nice outfit. And good morning to you three as well." We all turn to the side as Tia walks through the place.
"Morning Tia." I say as she canters to... wherever the fuck she's heading to.
"Found it!" Pinks shouts when she finds the dam scroll. We all turn to Pinks, who somehow managed to climb atop a random bookshelf, she's holding the scroll as Twi takes it in her magical grasp. She brings it to her face to read. Twi mutters to herself as she studies the spell.
"The spell's temporary, it'll last a few moments, but that's just enough time to tell my past self to not worry so much."
*Why do I have the feeling that it's gonna go down like that..?* I think rhetorically as Twi prepares to cast the time travel spell. "Hey Twi, mind if I join ya?"
"Why?"
"I just want to see if seeing my past self will destroy the space time continuum."
"What?"
"Just take me with you."
"Okay..." She says rather slowly, her horn is covered in a think magenta aura that quickly flashes a bright amethyst color as a similar colored ring quickly spins around it, a bigger version of the ring rapidly spins around my waist. Then there's a bright flash of white light as Twi and me are taken back in time, a week in the past. When the blinding light dissipates, Twi's library fills my vision.
"Who are you? Are you me? How can you be me?" And there's past Twi.
"I'm from the future, but that doesn't matter, I need to tell you something important!"
"You're from the Future!? How are you from the future? That's scientifically impossible. YOU'RE scientifically impossible. Did my future self find a time travel spell?" While that shit's goin' on I look at my past self.
"Twi goin' insane over not being able to make a schedule for next month?" My past self asks me.
"Yeah, pretty much."
"Why did you go with her?" My past self asks, I thought it'd be obvious, I guess I can be slow sometimes.
"Thought it'd be nice to see my past self. And to see if the space time continuum would fall apart. Guess it didn't." I say with a chuckle.
"Bet'cha that would happen if that happened on our world. That reminds me, how's our world coming along? Is is up to modern times?"
"Yeah it is, also-" I’m interrupted by electricity dancing across my body. "Oh, right. See ya later I guess." We shake hands as he fades away.
"Later.” My past self says to me as I pop out of existence on this time plane, and back to my own time plane. More specifically back to the same spot in the library.
“That was… different.” I think aloud.
“So? What happened?”
“I wasn't able to tell myself to not worry so much for nothing!”Twi says with a face hoof. “Now I’m going to be frantic for the past week...” She groans.
“That’s past Twilight’s problem!”
“For once, you make sense. You passionate pink party pony.” Pinks beams with pride at my alliteration.
“Thanks Streaky!” She pounces my legs into a full body hug, on my legs. It’s fucking cute when she does that, these ponies remind a lot of a dog I had...
“I guess you’re right… Yeah. That’s past me’s problem.” A groan can be heard, along with gurgling. We all look at the source and see that Spike’s laying on the floor. Apparently having a belly ache.
“I thought the belly ache was supposed to be future Spike’s problem...” Another bout of intestinal gurgling and he clenches his stomach, I sigh and hold a hand up.
“I’ll take care of it. And you are future Spike.” I point a finger at spike and shoot him with a beam of blue colored magic. *Is that how my healing magic looks like? Huh… very fitting…* I kill the flow of magic and Spike stops groaning.
“Huh? I feel better now...”
“I just used some of my magic to stop your belly ache, you still ate a lot of ice cream, but you just can’t feel the pain at the moment.”
“Oh, thanks I guess.” I nod and Twi picks him up with her magic, setting him on her back.
“Alright, how about we go home?” Twi looks to me expectantly. I sigh and teleport us to Golden Oaks, Ponyville’s library. I look out the window, Tia’s sun is lowering below the horizon. With the moon peeking over on the other side of the same fucking horizon.
“I think it’s about time we hit the hay.” Jesus fucking christ I finally get to use the fucking phrase, with everypony getting the fucking pun.
“Yeah, *yawn* I’ll see you guys tomorrow.” Twi slowly canters up the stairs, with a sleeping Spike on her back.
“What Twilight said! See ya!” Pinks promptly bolts out the front door leaving another Pinkie-shaped cloud.
*I am SO fucking lucky I don’t give a shit about Pinkie physics. Unlike Twi, I’m glad I don’t drive myself crazy trying to figure how she works.* And with that, I teleport to Fluttershy’s cottage to pick up Echo. I neglected to say earlier huh? Fuck… gotta remember to let ya people know about shit like that… Anyway, I teleported to the front door of the cozy looking cottage, and softly knock. A kinda loud ‘eep!’ and the sound of metal hitting wood can be heard inside. Think Flutters might be hurt I burst inside, the door barely being held by the hinges. *Alright, the only thing that can make a sound like that has to a pan or something… Kitchen.* I look around the first floor and spot the doorway leading to said room, right next to the stairwell leading to the second story. I rush to the open doorway. “Flutters! You okay!?” Flutters is in the middle of the kitchen, a pan and some food on the floor, when she hears me she jumps and turns to me, her body locking up.
“Oh, it’s only you Streak. Thank goodness.” Her whole body softens, so does her face. “And yes, I’m okay. Just dropped a pan. You scared me knocking on the door.” She waves a hoof to the pan.
“Good, for a second there I thought something bad happened.” I walk into the kitchen, Flutters was about to start picking up the pan and food from the floor, but I stopped her. “Allow me.” I hold out my hand like Luke when he uses the force to get his light saber back. And the spilled food and pan are covered in a blue magical aura, covering the pan and food. Now that I look at it, it looks like some kind of veggie bowl. It all floats as it goes back to place atop the counter. "There ya go Flutters. Now, where's Echo?" I look around the room, but I didn't have to look long. I hear a loud screech and feel an impact at the side of my head, followed by two bat wings covering a part of my head. "There's my favorite little bat. Ya missed me didn't 'cha?" She doesn't move, but nuzzles the side of my head. "Yeah, ya did."
"Awwww! That's so cute!" Flutters brings her fore hooves to her face and make a squee noise.
*Where the fuck does that fucking noise come from?* "Whelp, I think we should head home. See ya later Flutters!" I say with a wave as I walk out the door with Echo.
"Goodnight Streak! Goodnight Echo!" She waves back as I make my wave to my home. When I get there Echo flies to her branch and prepares to sleep upside down. Before she can do that I gently scratch her behind the ear, making her purr for another time.
*How the fuck does she purr like that!?* "Goodnight Echo. See ya in the morning." I say as I stop scratching her, letting her swing to hang upside down. I get into my bed and power down for the night.
--------->>>>Two fucking days later<<<<---------
So it's been two days since the Archive Break-in. And now apparently the centennial dragon migration is passing by Ponyville today! Joy! I found out after I asked Twi why everypony was hiding indoors. She and Spike were the only two living beings walking around Ponyville. Silent Hill be up in this shit. Anyway, Twi managed to convince the gang to watch the migration pass by. The deal with Flutters was that I was there, so yeah, I had to come along with Echo at that point. But I guess there was some form of entertainment in watching the dragons. Beside noticing Spike watching the dragons with a certain form of interest. I got took at the dragons closely with Twi's telescope, more specifically dragon anatomy... the females... ANYWAY! Moving on.
Next Chapter*I wonder if I'll be able to see more than one migration...* I think to myself as the last dragon flies over us. I look to the gang, and see Flutters still cowering, Rares wearing that stupid looking camo-hat. Dash hoovering in the air. Pinks wearing a more appropriate camo-hat. Twi wearing the same thing, Aj just, standing there. And me with an invisibility spell cast on me. After the last dragon leaves the area we all get out of the trench Pinks dug. How she did it with her hooves will continue to astound me for the rest of my existence. "Well, that was slightly entertaining."
"Ah gotta agree with ya on that Streak."
"I don't know... That was pretty boring..."
"That's because yer... you Dash."
"And what is that supposed to mean?"
"It means that you find somethings that would normally be entertaining fucking boring. Basically you think entertaining stuff's boring to you." The gang snicker at my blunt, nNness. And yes I meant it like that, anyway. Back to fucking reality. "Anyway, you look like ya want to say somethin' Spike, what is it?"
"Uh, Uh... N-nothing." He promptly bolted off. Presumably off to Twi's place.
"You know what that's about, huh?" Twi looks to me dryly. "And you're not going to tell me what it is right?"
"Actually, I think I can tell you this one."
"Really!?" She jumps in front of me. "TELL ME!!" I push her back.
"Alright, first; calm down. Second; Spike's been wondering where he comes from." Twi's about to ask something, I didn't want to play twenty questions so I continued. "Where his egg was found, how it was found. If he still has a mother, stuff like that." Twi makes an 'Oh' face. "So, how do you plan to help him find his origins?" By now the gang already said their farewells and went off to go do their own thing.
"Well, I can always ask Princess Celestia where she found his egg..."
"Something tells me that that option should be held off as a last resort."
"Why do you think that?"
"I don't know, I'm just getting the feeling we should let Spike do what he wants to find out his origins." I honestly had a feeling that Spike should do this himself, with some protection from the other dragons of course. But that's beside the point. Weird feeling that tells me to protect Spike from other dragons is top priority at the moment. "What do you think we should do?"
"Well, if it is like what you said, then all we can do is let him go and do what he wants."
"Well, all he's gonna try to do is make friends with some other dragons. All we have to do at that point is just watch. And if he wants I can be there with him if anything gets outta hand."
"Oh, ok. *gasp* Me, you and the girls can watch him from my hot-air balloon! You go get the rest while I prep the balloon." I salute and fly off to do just that.
