Thread of Time

It rained the day of the funeral. A cold heavy rain that dripped through an umbrella rather than off it. A rain that always managed to seep down to the root of a pony's coat.

The scientist's son was the last to leave. He stood there, his umbrella long since pulled down. His dark mane sticking to the side of his face. He heard footsteps behind him but didn't move, didn't flinch.

His sister stood softly beside him,she reached her hoof around his neck and pulled him into a comforting hug. The colt did not move his eyes away from his father's grave.

"He didn't have to die, if I had just remembered his papers..." He choked and clench his teeth, he couldn't hold back his hot tears.

His sister moved in front of him and lifted his chin, "it is nobody's fault but the guy who shot him." She noticed he was shaking. She charged her horn with a sweet gold light and lifted her black scarf, pulling it around his neck. "It's okay to cry, no pony will judge you."

He sneezed and spluttered. "come on I don't want you to get a cold." She led him from the cemetery.

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A unicorn of the lightest purple ran across the campus of the Canterlot Science Academy, her bright yellow mane streaking behind her.

"Copper, I'm here! What's the emergency?" She burst into her little brother's lab, panic spread across her face.

Her light brown coated brother popped his head up from behind a large machine, "Dinky, quick come over here!" His bright green eyes sparkled with joy and excitement. "I've done it, I really have this time."

Dinky's golden eye glowed now, a large grin spread across her face. "Show me, show me, show me."

" The time travel spell, it, it was flawed you could only go back for a minute or two, but now..." He charged his horn with a cheerful green glow, floating a metal wrist strap towards his sisters face. "see this? Now I can isolate the magic so I can control how long you jump back or forward." He grinned.

"How?" His sister asked, she never really had been into science like her brother or father.

Copper twisted the strap around, "see this gap?" He added a little more power to his horn and picked up a bright glowing crystal. "The crystal is from The old empire, I had a crystal priestess make it for me. You  put the crystal in the gap and you can travel any where in Equestria, any where in time." He gave another wild grin.

His sister lifted him up into the air they both began to laugh. "Mom and Dad would be so proud of you." She laughed, "presenting the youngest, timetraveler there will ever be!" She plunked him back onto the ground, "can I hold the crystal?" She asked.

He nodded reluctantly, "don't you dare drop it its irreplaceable." He watched as his sisters eye glowed like they did the first time she saw there fathers flameless fireworks.

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"I do t see why they have such a big problem." Dinky spoke.

"Whether you like it or not I have to see the school council."

"Copper Whooves, due to complications, your research and your lab will be seized."

Copper burst into his lab and began stuffing his saddle bags with his work while silently cursing under his breath. The final thing he bathed in his emerald light was his wrist strap and crystal.

"You will not get my research!"

Dinky's door burst open, she gave a yelp of surprise. Copper ran into the room slamming the door behind him.

"Dinky I'm really sorry to do this to but I have time leapers after me, I need you to hide my work. I have to leave this place for a while.  Have to go back." He hugged his sister, "You will forgive if i don't come back?"

"Of corse I forgive you, I wont let them get any of your work." She smiled.

Copper ran back into the hallway, and his iris narrowed as he saw three time leapers I'm there white uniforms at the end of thee hallway. He turned on his heel running in the opposite direction while calibrating and entering the crystal into his wrist strap.

He let out a shout as they started to shoot at him. He charged his horn and let it seep into the crystal, then fired a few a blast at the time leapers, though it wasn't really a match to their guns.

He ran towards the window and leapt through it. It shattered around him, he turned as bullets began flying past him, one grazed his right foreleg.

Then, he was gone.