Sneaking Through

"Twilight you say?" Applejack asked, and she nodded. "She lives in Ponyville, just like Ah do, why you askin'?"

"Oh, nothing..." Lily replied, her tone going in a childish way. Jack was rather surprised at her actions, like her dad's lessons about formality and maturity are wearing off.

Ruth came in and noticed Applejack, which caused the pony to quickly hide.

"Wow, Applejack, you're more scaredy cat than my dad," Ruth joked, which caused Applejack glare at Ruth. "Just joking, just joking!"

Jack and Lily looked at Ruth with unease and confusion as she knew the pony like she was a pony herself. Jack couldn't think of anything else more than eavesdropping, but Lily was thinking something else. What if, Ruth knew where Twilight was? She thought. What if, she knew what the ponies are? Oh, that's simply something to discover! She might be the answer to everything I was thinking about! All those questions, and is Twilight really a princess?

Her mental stream of thoughts was cut off as Ruth rolled her left sleeve which showed a tattoo of a mechanical hourglass which Applejack recognized. "Silver Style's cutie mark!"

"That's my dad alright," Ruth replied, unrolling her sleeve, "while this is my cutie mark." She then rolled her right sleeve which showed a spaceship.

"Oh. Those tattoos are called cutie marks," Lily noted, "should we... eat breakfast first? I'm getting hungry, and I don't want to forget my dream about Princess Luna."

"Let's go now," Ruth called, "and Applejack?"

"Yes?" Applejack asked.

"Call me, Ruth. My dad should've said something about me when he time travelled back here," said Ruby.

"And Ah was about to call you Silverwing," Applejack deadpanned before heading to her hiding spot.

"Ruth Silverwing's my full name," Ruth said back, unamused.

"Oh!"

After a silent breakfast, Lily and her friends headed inside to "play," when their true goals were to sneak Applejack out, due to Ruth's undeniable request. So they went to Applejack's hiding spot where she was found playing Ruth's Solitaire which seemed to be designed after ponies, much to Mark's shock. Meanwhile, Jonathan tried to establish a spiritual connection to the world by meditating. (Blake was annoyed by this as it makes her hair go frizzy all the time.)

"So, sneaking me out you say?" Applejack asked, "Ah can do it on my own."

"Hmm... risk being seen by Lily's overprotective dad?" Ruth asked back. "Not a chance!"

"Ah guess yer right," Applejack looked at Lily's friends and chuckled a bit. "Are ya sure this will work?"

"In return, you lead me to where Twilight lived," Lily offered. Applejack looked at her with an unbelieving stare. "Must say I wanted to see her?"

"Okay then," Applejack then stood from her position, "onwards to Ponyville then—"

Their meeting was disrupted when a scream filled the air. Lily and Applejack recognized the voice.

"TWILIGHT!"

They quickly ran outside and followed where the voice was, much to Jonathan's shock. He got a glimpse of the pony with them and took his AC-47 Laser Rifle Mrk. II and headed outside, secretly following them.

Twilight hang from a ravine, and her friends were trying to help her. However, due to the weight and how exhausted the other ponies were, they couldn't. A few only wondered why she had strapped her wings shut. Their effects were nearly wasted until a bunch of weird-looking clothed apes came along with Applejack and helped them save Twilight. They were extremely thankful until one of the ponies tackle-hugged Ruth out of nowhere.

"Oh, my daughter! How I've missed out!" said the stallion with silver mane and light brown fur. "How'd you got here without time travel? Me and Discord didn't detect any disturbance..."

"Uh... probably because a mysterious comet nearly smashed a part of White Tail Woods?" Ruth replied, which caused most of the ponies to get shocked, a few fainting. "Okay, dad, you never said the population of Ponyville was this big."

"Did I even said so?" he replied.

Twilight interrupted the reunion saying, "Okay, cut the reunion first and I think that's Lily's father with a... oh. Big gun."

They all looked at Jonathan who was fuming with anger, which creeped Lily out for a few seconds.

"Lily, get away from them..." Jonathan growled.

"No!" Lily shouted back. "This isn't you dad! You loved learning something like this!"

"I wasn't permissive back then," Jonathan replied, "I won't let it again."

Lily looked at the ponies before using the EMP button her Chronosocket has, causing her dad's rifle to glitch and turn off. Jonathan was then tackled by the ponies as 4 came towards Lily and the others. Ruth then felt something like magic and found herself as a pony, as much to her surprise and disappointment.

"Okay," Lily commented, twitching, "Ruth's a pretty little pony. I'm going to squeal and hug now."

"... I think I broke her.... LILY!" Ruth immediately ran off, laughing.

Blake rolled her eyes. "Then we found out Jack's in love with Lily and I was meditating." She received glances from everyone else. "Who would even believe it if it doesn't come true?"

"Good point, Blake," Jack replied. "Although if Ruth's a halfling from a pony from the future, does that make her a time traveller too?"

"You'd rather not talk about that!" shouted a pony with an hourglass cutie mark.

"You'd rather not!" added Silver Style.

"Celestia?"

"Yes, my sister?"

"I have returned from Ponyville with news."

"What so?" Celestia asked, curious.

"The comet that has arrived from space that landed on White Tail Woods contained humans," Luna replied, "I just met two while at the dream realm."

Celestia looked at Luna, slightly surprised. "And those are?"

"Lily Xavier and Ruth Silverwing," Luna answered. "It seems like Dr. Silver Style did have a child after all of his experiments about time magic. However, Tia, it was still a mystery on how she survived."

"Then you must look at this."

Luna looked closer to what Celestia was looking and saw a blueprint of a stasis pod.

"It seems that humans have the technology to build slumber pods that can let them sleep for more than a thousand years," Celestia commented, "don't you think they used this, Lulu?"

"Maybe they did, sister," Luna replied confidently, "maybe they did."

"And, it also seems that there was a children's show with 84% accuracy with what we did."

Luna looked up amused. "Does it start with Twilight's visit to Ponyville?"

"Yes, but–" Celestia was interrupted by a hoof.

"Let's just say I have a few timey-wimey with our time travellers," said Luna, before lowering her hoof.

Celestia felt the need to laugh at the same time the urge to pelt her sister with something.