Forwards to an unfortunate future

When the mare landed, she noticed that she didn't feel the rocky hard ground, nor did she feel the swaying breeze of the wind. She didn't have any blades of grass tickling her furry as well, so where was she? Rarity could feel something smooth and furry instead, then she noticed that she wasn't outdoors. She was indoors.

She looked around, there were coats of armours surrounding her and fascinating paintings implanted onto the walls. "I must be in Canterlot Castle," she walked through the corridors and stared into all kinds of rooms. "I hope I didn't place myself in the wrong time!"

Rarity continued on trotting across the hallways, just when she was about to give up, there was a loud bang.

She galloped to where she heard the bang from, when she did get there she found out that she was a little more forwards in time. Through the door she could see Celestia being cocooned in some green shell (she nearly vomited at the sight of it), Shining Armour under Queen Chrysalis' control and the mane six surrounded by changelings. "I really need to improve on my spells, it seems like I've gone too forwards in time."

When Rarity looked closer inside, Princess Cadence looked dizzy and dumb. It was like she was under some sort of spell. Oh no thought Rarity, she knew what she had to do next but she didn't know how to do it.

Cadence and Shining Armour were all the way at the end of the and half the room was already covered in black.

Rarity thought hard on what to do, she couldn't just gallop in and save the day, one of the changeling's would obviously be able to capture her. Plus, it would be weird if another Rarity suddenly jumped into the room.

She tried to think of another way to get to Cadence without being spotted, then once again the window was there for her. Queen Chrysalis ordered for her subjects to go outside nd terrorise the ponies of Canterlot, Rarity used this as a chance to get to Cadence.

After hiding behind the doors when the changelings left, she teleported outside the window. Rarity held herself up with the floating spell and looked through the glass, Cadence stood there blindly and Queen Chrysalis admired the destruction outside.

"Did Starlight do that, or Queen Chrysalis?"

Inside Rarity thought of different ways to knock Cadence out of the spell "Wait a second, who do I have to knock out of the spell. Wait a second, second I have to knock Cadence out! Well ladies first, all I need is for something to hit her with..."

She searched around the place and even floated herself down a little to look closely, in the end she found eleven pebbles and rocks. The unicorn floated herself back to up and looked through the the window, everything was the same as last time she checked. Rarity threw a pebble but it missed and hit Queen Chrysalis on the side, "Who did that?!" she screeched "Was it you? You will pay for that you puny pony!" her horn began to glow and then Pinkie Pie got squeezed into a ball. She giggled at herself,

"Look at me, I'm a bouncy ball!" she said, Pinkie tried to move but couldn't do anything but roll "Hehe, looks like I can't move, urr, little help here guys."

Rarity threw another one but this time it hit Twilight's forehoove "Ow, who did that?"  she asked, the other ponies just shrugged. Twilight wiggled her hoof then looked back at Cadence "What are we going to do? I can't reach Cadence the from here and if I walk to her, well, her royal blackness will obviously notice me!"

"Can't you just use one of your spells to free her?" Rainbow whispered

"I don't know any spell to break her out of a trance!" Twilight replied "And besides, Queen Chrysalis cast a wall that can block any spell! Looks like there really isn't a way out of this," she finished.

But of course she didn't know that a time-travelling mare was outside, trying to save them. "Third time's the charm!" she threw another pebble which unfortunately hit Shining Armours ear, "Looks like I have no charm." Rarity threw another pebble which hit Pinkie (who apparently was a ball) and made her roll over.

"What's with all of us getting hit today!" Applejack said

"Yeah, so can one of you turn me back around?" Pinkie asked, Rainbow Dash picked her up

"Hey, I have an idea! Why don't we throw Pinkie at Cadence, then we'll knock her out of the trance," Rainbow suggested, she began to aim at Cadence but was blocked when Twilight levitated Pinkie off her hoof.

"It wouldn't work, only a spell can break that trance plus it would be rude for us to throw a friend at a princess!" then her expression changed to confused "Even though Pinkie's a balI, it kinda sounds weird saying 'throw a friend'."

When Twilight finished, Rarity dropped her pebbles onto the ground "What a waist of time!" she yelled. When the pebbles reached the ground they clattered all over it, which made it sound as if the pegasi had covered the sky with rain clouds.

"Oh no! Is it raining today? Oh, my mane will be covered in filth!" present-Rarity squealed

"You do know that we're indoors, right?" Applejack said

"Of course I knew that I mean I was a... Urm, just testing you," she lied

"Whatevs... "

Meanwhile Rarity floated outside thinking of a way to break Cadence out of her trance, "I need to think of a way to bounce that trance spell of the Princess, but how?" she continued to think.

Breaking a trance would be extremely hard for her, if she only knew a spell that could deflect a spell off a pony. If only she knew of a spell that could remove spells of a pony, if only-

"I've got it!" she screamed

"Did you hear something?" Present-Rarity asked

"Probably just your imagination," Twilight replied

"I really need to be more cautious," Rarity thought. She placed her forehoof on her chest then stretched and breathed out, she had thought of a plan, she just hoped it worked.

Rarity stared straight into the eyes of Cadence anedtried to think like Chrysalis, it was hard for Rarity to think like a villain but in the end she managed to do it. Her glowed the usual light blue colour, then she took a deep breath, and imagined herself casting a trance on the Princess. Her horn grew brighter which signaled to her that the spell was working, she finally made Cadence's eyes glow the same colour as her aura and broke the trance. Rarity took a final, relieved deep breath. She completed the counter spell.

Cadence looked around herself "What's going on?"

"Just wait a few seconds it'll get to you," Twilight replied.

A few seconds later Cadence regained her memory, "Now I remember! Chrysalis to over Canterlot then, then she cast a spell on me... What happened after that?" she asked

"Well you were in a trance just like Twilight's big bro and whilst you were in a trance the changelings invaded Canterlot and we were stuck here trying to figure out how to free you both," Pinkie explained

"Shining Armour?" Cadence turned her head towards him and placed her horn on his, tears began to swell in her eyes. Because of Cadence, Shining Armour awoke from his trance and took a while to stand still and understand the situation,

"No! I have to do something!" he concentrated on his horn and try as he might he couldn't do the protection spell. Cadence placed her born on his and the mane six watched in awe at what happened, Rarity in the meantime was being chased by a couple of changelings.

She flew above the roofs and around towers but still couldn't get rid of them. Then she decided to lure them somewhere and trap them in that place, she just needed too find a place to lure them in to.

Rarity turned a corner and saw a perfect place to trap them in.

She flew straight into an alley, flying closer and closer to the end. Then when it looked like Rarity was going to smack her face onto the wall, she flew up into and out of the alley. Since the changelings had kept their eye on her they didn't have a good look at their surroundings, they watched Rarity fly up before smacking their faces on the walls.

Rarity stopped flying and watched the chasing hunters be thrown away by Shining Armour and Princess Cadence's magic.

"Now that took some time, who knew that using a counter spell would be so hard."

Rarity flew across Canterlot and admired the view. The ponies were bustling about because of the reschedule of the royal wedding. To Rarity, Canterlot was still the same as ever, even when it was busy.

When Rarity was able to get out of the city and floated to the grasslands near Canterlot. "I hope that's the last issue in this time period that I had to solve," she said as she floated up and thought time.

But Rarity was very wrong indeed.

When Shining Armour and Cadence blew the changelings out of Canterlot, Starlight Glimmer appeared at the aid of Queen Chrysalis. She used a spell to make sure that she and the Queen weren't pushed back, they both survived.