"Hey Doc, I'm back." Derpy Hooves entered with a timer on her back and a jar on her head. "Where can I place your jar."
Derpy took a few steps to find Doctor Whooves, but as she walked a giant cube shaped figure was glowing green. She didn't notice the green energy flying out. She stuck her head in room called "Specimen C".
A bolt green energy hit her back and fused into the clock. Derpy had no idea, because an owl, with a green glow and clocks for eyes, was staring at her.
"What a cute little owl. What's your name, little fella?"
On a plaque, words were inscribed giving detail.
Chrono-owl
One of the rare mystic creatures from the Everfree Forest. This creature stares at it's target and focuses energy. It then shouts a loud call and flings them into the past.
Combined with the green energy I found from a timeloop, I have a theory this may lead to time travel. If only I were to prove my theory.
The shiny gold plaque reflected the owl' s vision. Derpy's head sprang up and she looked worried.
"Uh Oh." She said swiftly as Doctor Whooves entered the room.
"A split! Of all the rotten..." He was angry, but he grew panicked when he saw the power in the owl. "Derpy move! Quickly!"
She wasn't fast enough. The owl blurted out a massive yell and sent both ponies out the door, in a loud and dangerous wave.
"Vinyl, will you please turn down your music? I'm trying to get some sleep." Octavia got up from her bed away from Vinyl.
Vinyl opened her mouth; she was sure to say "That's not my kind of song", bit a green energy wave carried both ponies off.
"How can you still be hungry after you've eaten three slices of cake?" Bon Bon asked Lyra.
"High metabolism or something the nurse said. I lose weight quickly." Lyra said. She reached for a bite, but both ponies were carried off by a green blast.
The entire town ran to see the green wave and it's riders collide with the blast and other pieces. They met at the top of the town and sent out a green boom. A white light appeared.
A green light appeared over a few trees and everypony fell out.
"Ow. I landed on my ear." Derpy rubbed he ear.
"Yippe for you. Now, can you please move?" A voice from under said.
Lyra used her magic to lift her off. She took a look around and saw Dr.Whooves on a calculator.
"Hey Doc, you have any idea of what that was?" She yelled for his focus.
He continued murmuring and found the problem.
"Everypony, I've analyzed the situation. We were sent to the past."
"What?" Octavia shouted with concern. She climbed down a tree and was face to face with the doctor. "How?"
"The time owl used the sight of time to envision a scenario of the past and throw us there. Since he had so much energy, he was able to cast the spell across town. Ripping a portal to the past in the sky and setting us back 99 adventures. Our only hope of returning is if we can find a reverse spell. Throughout the delicate universe, the waves of the spell cause for things to shift so we have little to no idea what we changed in the fabric of-!" A hoof stopped his rambling.
"Speak in a simple form!" Bon Bon rubbed her head. "I'm not a dictionary or a thesaurus."
"We've been sent to the night Princess Luna was reformed. But, something is different somewhere in the universe." Doctor Whooves said flatly.
The ponies heard a noise and peeked into a few bushes. They all froze as they saw the mane 6 on their way to the castle, but the land crumbled below them all.
"Fluttershy! Quick!" Season 1 Rainbow Dash shouted.
"Oh my goodness, oh my goodness." Season 1 Fluttershy panicked.
Derpy was suddenly glowing green and picked up her clock. She touched it and thought of the date of the present.
"Wait, Derpy the past may be alter-!" A white flash cancelled Doctor Whooves and his statement.
Derpy woke up in a daze. She looked around and saw it was still night in Ponyville. "Glad to be back." She tired to get up, but Vinyl held her down with weight. Octavia got up and walked to a skinny stallion, who slept on his stomach. Octavia jumped when she looked at his watch.
"Oh no! It's 2:00 pm and its nighttime!" Octavia screamed.
"Impossible! Princess Celestia would've raised the sun." Lyra said with her eyes strained.
"There's only one way to prove this." Doctor Whooves ran to Golden Oaks Library.
"Wait up!" The ponies ran after him.
Vinyl hit a wall and rubbed her head. She snorted and took of her glasses and replaced them with neon glasses to light her way.
The library was standing, but in poor care. The library was dusty and filled with ash. The only artifact that was still standing was a book of history.
Doc opened the book and read a page.
A Run of Ponyville History
By Recap Memory
This day in history was a major change to everyone. Nightmare Moon was never defeated and overpowered her sister. The elements of harmony were set in stone and left to time. Other legendary foes stayed lost in time.
Alas, Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia's student, was injured in a tragic landslide and she was bedridden for weeks. Before she could fight back, Equestria was already low on food from lack of sunlight. Hunger struck and food prices escalated.
Now with the worldwide hunger epidemic, we are set to eternal night and hunger.
Everypony had a jaw open. They were sure to scream if it wasn't for a guard stopping them.
"Who dares to breach the library of sparkling shame!" He bellowed.
Bon Bon walked towards a corner.
"Forgive us. We only meant to research our-HA!" Bon Bon hit him with a heavy book and ran out the door. "C'mon!"
The ponies ran out quickly. Derpy was confused and painted as she flew. Vinyl used her magic to grab the clock from Derpy.
"What is this?" Derpy asked the doctor.
"An alternate universe. We've changed the past somehow. That's what!" The doctor shouted in panic. He place his hoof on his chin. "If only we could use our image processing glands for the exact date-"
The doctor was cut off yet again. But he had time in location, because the time was an hour earlier than their last. He explained that the magic of Princess Luna was thrown off and in need of adjustment. The aura was extremely violent and somepony had to keep the mane 6 safe from the avalanche. They devised a plan.
---the background six's first time there---
"Wait, Derpy the past may be alter-!" A white flash cancelled Doctor Whooves and his statement.
The first group of the background six vanished, but immediately, the second group of six then ran forward to ensure the six weren't hurt.
Octavia and Bon Bon held up the other pieces behind the elements and stayed out of sight. Doctor Whooves did the math and requested Vinyl and Lyra use a plant spell to make a branch grow for Applejack to grab on.
"Success." He whispered. Vinyl and Lyra winked at each other for a good job.
Applejack slid down to hold Twilight and to speak.
"Now listen here. What I'm sayin' to you is the honest truth. Let go, and you'll be safe." Applejack said.
"Yaaah!" Twilight started.
Twilight let go and was falling swiftly, but Derpy slid into the darkness and blew a major gust of wind to hold her for Rainbow and Fluttershy.
"Phew-wah!" Twilight shouted.
"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can." Derpy repeated. With great relief, she noticed a Rainbow figure and a yellow figure save Twilight.
The background six were happy and tried to return home, but the book from the bad future had a new inscription.
Here lies the Ponyville crater. Due to the unfortunate ursa attack, Ponyville was destroyed by the failure of Twilight Sparkle' s efforts. A transported water tower, spooked cows, and an angry infant ursa were all a hand in the destruction of Ponyville.
"What in blazes?!" Doctor shouted as he read in the time stream. Ponyville was indeed a destroyed mass of ruins in a crater. With no arguments, the ponies went to the day of the attack.
-boast busters-
They had twenty seconds...
Bon Bon grabbed a hammer and was lifted by Derpy to the water tower.
"Ok, Doc said to examine the side bolt and nuts." Derpy said flying to the side with a hammer.
"It's a round disc; it has no sides." Bon Bon got to work and pounded a few nails.
Derpy used the hammer to pound in the final nail and it wasn't not a moment too soon. They hid in the bushes and watched. Bon Bon nearly ran to town for some reason.
"What are you doing?" Derpy grabbed her tail.
"Um...I wanted to shush the chickens...they heard us." She chuckled. In actuality, she was thinking of a question."Do I have to hide in a crowd now to save my cover?"
Twilight yanked off the water tower. It flew near a farm and Vinyl played the sound of panicked cows on her loud headphones. Lyra grabbed the milk bottles she made and filled the tower at a fast pace. She now had a headache from the extreme spell.
The ursa was drinking and was rocked back and forth then, Octavia and Doctor Whooves hopped onto his ear and sang a lullaby.
**Sweet dreams to the lad
For mommy and his dad
Nightmares stay away
Let him rest until day
May Luna visit him
Make his life quite un-grim
For now he must go
I'll see him tomorrow.**
Dr.Hooves and Octavia slipped away just before he reached the ursa's mother. The ponies regrouped on a field.
"Did it work?" Derpy landed with Bon Bon on her back.
"Can we go home now...or at least our time I mean." Lyra complained.
Trixie ran past them all on her way out of town.
"Does that answer your question?" Octavia smirked at Lyra.
Suddenly, the book changed color on another page.
"No. No it doesn't." Lyra smirked back in a snarky voice.
"The town center fell on Rainbow Dash." Doc looked at Derpy.
"What? We all get a bit clumsy." Derpy blushed and smiled.
Another white flash appeared.
The ponies ran to the tower and fixed the inside of it. A fried bolt allowed the tower to lean to the right.
"Now, careful Derpy!" Dash could be heard from outside. Derpy turned and dashed for the door, but she was hit by Vinyl. Her glare added "what are your doing?"
"Whoops. I forgot I'm from the future." Derpy scratched her head.
Everypony ran behind curtain when Dash and Past Derpy fell through the floor.
"Whoops, my bad."
"How about now?" Bon Bon whispered.
"I have a theory. Whenever we use the clock we send a ripple in time that causes a change. If we are to get home we can either work closer or age through time."
"Perhaps the latter is okay." Octavia suggested.
"No way. We'd meet our pastselves and vanish or something. It always happens in movies." Lyra said.
"On the contrary, if we were to vanish we'd have done so already."
"Hi, everypony!" Derpy shouted to the other's.
"Derpy, what are you doing?!" Yelled in a whisper.
"I'm over here...Oh boy..." Prime Derpy said.
Prime Derpy and Derpy Two stared at each other.
"We can't take two Derpies! We need to fix this!" Lyra shouted.
"Applejack! Applejack!" Ponies shouted outside.
"Great Scott! I'm out of ideas. Perhaps we should go forward to the next time."
Derpy Two gasped and smiled. "I wanna see the future!" She hit the clock and and managed to send them to the day of Tirek's attack.
"I take it back!" Derpy Two shouted as she saw what the day was like.
"I've found the solution!" Doctor Whooves shouted to the sky. "We should simply-oof!"
Lord Tirek grabbed the clock and blasted everypony over. He glared at them all.
"I seemed to have missed a few. I only wonder of your origin. I'm sure I've seen you before." Lord Tirek was confused. He was sure he had drained everyone on Equestria except Twilight. He then drained the clock of it's magic. "I'm sure you all were in the town square when I-"
Tirek was gone! This was bad! Doctor Whooves shuddered at the thoughts.
"What's wrong?" Bon Bon asked. She knew Tirek was terrible, but the fear was immense in the doctor.
"I'll be quick." Doctor Whooves grabbed a chalk board. "Tirek, the evil mastermind, has a time machine he can control. He's due to use this to his advantage and gain power. I suspect he will return in...3 seconds."
Doctor Whooves was correct. The red titan came back larger than normal. He smiled and scared the seven ponies, but he wasn't alone! A gigantic, large-winged, green eyed, large fanged, and evil-eyed Chrysalis was near. A full bodied and red eyed Sombra came from the other side. An UN-rehabilitated Discord appeared last.
Vinyl grabbed her glasses and folded them closed. "We're in trouble. Aren't we?" She said.
Doc stood opposite of his opponents and had an angry look. He was two feet from Tirek, who bent down.
"Any last words? Either way, Equestria will belong to the one and only Tirek." Tirek looked at Doc.
Doc took a deep breath. "Discord, I know you can hear me! It's time to pay up!"
Weakened Discord, who belonged to this time, Bad Future Discord, who was getting glares from all angles, stood confused.
A portal in time opened and the chaos lord showed up. "I was wondering when you'd call back." He waved his hand and 4 different groups of the mane 6 popped out. "These rainbows won't fire themselves."
As the battle began with ponies and villains began, Discord snapped his fingers and took everyone to his home.
"So, what's new, Dr.Who?" Discord said in a calm voice shoveling ingredients from his tea.
Everypony grew sweatbeads when they looked out the window. The nightmarish realm was out of whack. Perfect for Discord. Rhinos ran backwards, fish flew, birds swan, and a mail pony screamed for help.
"This is just a callback from my favor to you." Whooves got up.
"I see from your time traveling you brought back two mares of your eyes." Discord giggled.
"I helped you beat Twilight in a science fair; you can help me by sending us home and fixing all of the paradoxes."
Discord grabbed the clock from the outside battle and ate it. He licked his fingers. "Ok, on one condition."
Discord whispered in his ear and the mares weren't able to hear.
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes with sugar and cinnamon on top." Discord said.
Doctor Whooves blushed and admitted defeat.
With the snap of his fingers, Discord sent everypony home in bed, only one day before at dusk. His home was time proof after all, so he had little to no trouble. Discord made sure every timeline was unaffected and left the background six with memories. Everypony went to sleep soon, except for Derpy Two and Prime.
"So if anyone wants to ask, I'm your twin sister." Derpy Prime tucked her new sister in.
"Okay. I might change my look a bit, maybe something that stands up." Derpy Two rolled in. "G'night."
"G'night." Prime Derpy went to a copy machine and set the invitations wrong again. It's unclear if she did this intentionally or not, but she felt okay with it in the end.
