Forwards to an unfortunate future

Rarity opened her eyes, it was a bright sunny morning with all the birds tweeting the bell for the school house ringing and - wait, what! She looked around the place and discovered where she was. Ponyville? Why would Starlight teleport me all the way to Ponyville? Rarity thought. Her question was answered when she saw a filly come out of the School house, the filly had a white-coloured coat and a curly, purple mane. She travelled back in time. Starlight Glimmer was standing in front of the fences of the School house, Rarity trotted silently behind the fence . "What are you doing!?" Rarity questioned with frustration

"Just trying to stop a new friendship from being born," Starlight Glimmer replied, a mischievous smile sneaking up her face. Filly-Applejack came out of the School House and was about to bump into filly-Rarity until suddenly everything stopped, Starlight Glimmer used her magic to levitate filly-Rarity to the side to make sure that they didn't meet. Then time carried on and Apple jack didn't meet filly-Rarity, instead she just trotted past filly-Rarity. Again time stopped "What did you just d-" but Rarity was blocked by a weight of pain, she put her hooves over her head and whined in pain."Your memory of ever meeting Applejack is being erased, but look on the bright side, you don't have to meet with that farm pony that you despise so much," Starlight Glimmer explained "Well then I think I'm done here, good luck handling with your memory loss," she said as she used her horn to go to a different time line. Rarity knew that she couldn't let Starlight tamper with her friendship so she just jumped into the portal.

Starlight smiled to herself as she used her horn to float around the flight camp. She didn't notice Rarity coming out of the portal and landing on a piece of cloud I am so glad that I still have the effect of that cloud touching spell that Twilight cast on me. Rarity thought as she got up. She saw Fluttershy trying to fly then falling down and being bullied by other pegasus', she knew that bullying wrong but she didn't know what to do. "Hey, who are you and how are you able to sit on a cloud? I thought that only pegasi can touch clouds," sompony suddenly asked, Rarity turned around and was relieved to see Rainbow Dash. "I urm...," was all Rarity could say before getting blocked off

"Hey, there's a pony being bullied! Sorry, no time for talk, time for action!"Rainbow Dash explained before zooming off to defend Fluttershy, just before Starlight Glimmer got there.

Rarity was extremely relieved when the race to defend Fluttershies honour began, she was so into the race that she didn't even notice Starlight Glimmer staring at her. Rarity was amazed when the pegasus fulfilled the sonic rainboom, she cheered for Rainbow Dash when she won the race. When she turned around she saw Starlight Glimmer opening up a time portal and going in, Rarity took in a deep breath, jumped off the cloud and got sucked in.

The next place she arrived in was covered in buildings. Canterlot. Everything was frozen, Why would Starlight Glimmer travel all the war here? Twilight didn't even meet with any of us in Canterlot, so why here? Rarity thought. "You may still have your memories, but let's see how you'll survive here!" somepony suddenly yelled, Rarity turned to see that a time portal had already opened up and was now closing. Rarity galloped across but didn't make it in time and the portal ssealed up. Rarity sighed and looked around the place, she didn't even know what time period she was in. "You seem lost, do you need any help?" somepony asked, the voice sounded old.

"Urm, who are you?" Rarity asked, turning around

"My name is Star Swirl," he answered

"Star Swirl the bearded! I can't believe she'd go that far as to send me to this time period!" Rarity said with shock

"Time period? Are you not of this time? Have you somehow managed to travel through time using my spell?" the bearded pony asked with interest

"Well it's a long story, you see some pony else used your spell and added some adjustments to it so that she could go further back in time... " she continued explaining her story of how she arrived at the wrong time.

"This seems like a much intriguing story, but I'm most surprised to find out that some pony else managed to somehow alter my time travel spell," he responded

"Well some pony did and she plans to use that spell to erase friendship from Equestria! I'm not sure if I can even do anything right now," the mare said with frustration.

"Well I should be able to create a new spell that'll allow you to go forwards in time and stop this villainous mare, but it will take some time." Star Swirls explained "But you may be of some use to help me create the spell, follow me, I will take you to my library," he finished before heading towards the direction of the castle. After a while of walking both unicorns were standing before the Canterlot Castle "You live in here!?" Rarity yelled.

"Why yes, my friend Celestia has allowed me to use one of the libraries as a lab for spells," he explained before trotting off into the castle. Both ponies stopped in front of a door that leaded to an untidy room shelved with books, Star Swirl trotted into the room whilst Rarity stared open-mouthed at, what she believed, was an untidy room stuffed with books and scrolls. "Right then, now what I need you to do is to explain-" but Star Swirl couldn't finish because of Rarity accidentally toppled a tower of books over and made the bearded unicorn grumpy. He cleared his throat and caught the mares attention, "As I was saying, can you explain a few things to me?" he questioned with irritation

"Oh y-yes of course," she replied, a little embarrassed. She trotted towards the desk where Star Swirl was and explained to him all the things he needed to know. "This spell is still not complete, I need more time, the alteration of time is a troublesome thing-" he continued  to mutter random things to himself and left Rarity to wonder his library, glaring and reading many different spells that she never had even heard of. "Young mare," he called

"Did you finish the spell?"

"Not yet, there's something that is missing"

"Oh, how long will it take?"

"It could take a while,"

"Well, I need to go somewhere,"

"Which is?"

Rarity didn't reply, she just left his 'laboratory' and trotted around the castle, curious about the different areas of the grand building. Unfortunately she didn't know her way around the castle and soon got lost until she bumped into one of the royal guards. "Is there anything that I can help you with?" the guard questioned

"Well, I am a friend of Star Swirl the bear- Star Swirl-" she was blocked off by the guard explaining that Star Swirl had many friends. "Well, I'm a friend that is helping him with a spell and I just got lost so I'm wondering if you'd know where his library is," she demanded

"Really?" he asked

"Yes!" Rarity yelled, getting more irritated by the second.

"Very well," the guard responded. He leaded Rarity to Star Swirls lab. When she arrived Star Swirl was too busy scribbling down things on scrolls to even notice her, he put down his quill then read what he wrote on the scroll. "Did you finish the spell now?" she asked

"I'm nearly finished I just need to figure out what it is that I'm missing," he replied before muttering some strange words and then writing something else onto the scroll.

Hours had gone by and it took Star Swirl a great deal of time to figure out what he was missing and place it into the spell. "I've done it!" he yelled, Rarity was reading a book on how to freeze something from your horn until she was disturbed by the sudden yell. "Did you finish the spell this time?" she asked

"Why yes! You see all I had to do was-"

"Yes, yes, yes, now how about giving me the spell so I could go back home!" but before she could even reach for it, it was levitated away from her

"Why I never! All this hard work and I don't even get a thank you!" he said, Rarity sighed

"Thank you for you hard work and generosity," then a thought had struck her

"Star Swirl, why is it that I can still remember my friends and our enemies? Didn't Starlight manage to stop my other friends from meeting each other?"

"I'm not so sure maybe because when you were whining in pain you jumped into a time portal, that must have somehow managed to stop you from forgetting. Because you travelled through time whilst losing your memories,"

"I guess so, wait I need to quickly find out what changes Starlight Glimmer has done!" she yelled before grabbing the scroll with her magic. "Okay then let's see... So, what do I do now?" she asked

"You must set the spell on a time and place that you wish to go to and a time portal will appear," he explained

"Okay, urm 'When time flicks by, the birds will fly, but when time is changed, the future shall re-arrange.' This is just a rhyme, I don't see how it took you this long to figure it o-" but Rarity was blocked by a sudden time portal that had appeared right above her, it swallowed her whole before disappearing into nothingness. The old unicorn turned back to his desk "Now let's see, a story about six friends saving Equestria with their magic!" Star Swirl yelled "This story shall be quite the interest," he finished before taking out a parchment.