Time Explorers

Princess Twilight looked up from her pile of books down to the shiny floor of her castle. She had lots of studying to do, obviously from all the piled up books. She was sitting on top of one of her history books: Starswirl the Bearded's childhood Magic. She was exhausted from the ridiculously large amount of reports Princess Celestia had requested. The one she was currently working on was a report of dark magic effects on objects.

With one out of the many paper scrolls piled up next to the lavender alicorn, she continued to write where she left off an hour ago.

....dark magic is also effective a few days after applied to the pony and/or object. This depends on how much of it is applied, time of day and type.

With the 5th paragraph out of 9th finished, she flew down from the massive book pile for a little bit of a break from reading all the words and writing down the results of the research.

As Twilight flew down, she suddenly cracked her left wing, causing her to fall into the pit of hardcover books. She noticed some scrolls, all spells. They were all different, but one particular spell was Twilight's favorite: Starswirl's time travel spell. It took her back to the memories when she tried to stop time, but failed in the process. Good times. She decided to set it aside and study it later.

...

Twilight informed Spike that he might want to travel with her, just in case she wouldn't return. "Alright, Spike," she said with a soft tone. "I don't know where- er, when this will take us, but this will work safely."

Spike disagreed, and spoke back. "I don't think we should do this," he said nervously, building up anxiety. "What if we mess up time COMPLETLY?!"

"It'll be fine, Spike."

Twilight surged power from her horn, causing a blinding blast of light overcoming the room around them. A magical dome spawned above them, and got sucked into the wormhole.

Pink, blue and green lights nearly blinded both of them, but they quickly got sucked into the time from the spell, completely unknown. With too much speed and pressure, Twilight blacked out.

...

"Uh..T-twilight?"

Twilight could hear Spike's voice echoing through her spinning head. She had no idea what was going on. With blurred vision, she felt she was in the middle of a pitch black void. In time, her strength and energy returned to her, and she stood up. Spike talked to the pony, who was in total shock.

"Can you believe it, Twilight? It's you as a unicorn!"

Twilight could not believe what she saw in front of her purple eyes. It was her past self as a unicorn. She wondered how far back that they had gone. She had rememberd one of Starswirl's quotes on time: the farther you go back, the tougher it is to return.

She finally brought out the courage to speak to her past clone. She opened her mouth with fear, wondering how she would react.

"Umm...how long have you been living in Ponyville?" She asked.

The unicorn replied calmly, as if she was already explained what had happened. "Oh! Me and Spike have lived here for only a few months. Why?"

Twilight realized that she and Spike had traveled back almost 5 years into the past. She looked over to the calendar, reading the date May 16th, 2011. She knew it was rude to leave on the spot, but the more time that they wasted, the harder it was to return home. She didn't waste a minute longer and told Spike that they had to leave her old library.

"Spike," she said. We're leaving, come on."

"Twilight, I forgot to tell you," the dragon replied. "You've been knocked out for an hour, so the spell can't work."

Twilight nervously picked up the scroll scripted with instructions on the spell, reading it inside her head.

Focus on the magic of your horn, and ignore the electric surges around your body. One time use only.

"HOW IN EQUESTRIA DOES THAT MAKE SENSE!?" Yelled Twilight. "Now we can't go back! Oh, I wish we could warn Starlight Glimmer...."

The unicorn Twilight immediately spoke up at Twilight's distress. "Actually, I have a spell somewhere that can send a letter to anypony in any timeline!"

Princess Twilight broke into a grin, happily cheering at her delight. "Thank goodness! I thought I was lost forever! Ohmigoshihmigoshomygosh I can't waittostudymagicwithyoumynewstudentand-"

Spike scilenced the babbling princess, returning her to the situation. "Twilight? Letter?"

Twilight nervously grinned back. "Heh heh....riiiiiggt.."

...

Starlight Glimmer, in her newly bought house in Ponyville, was sleeping soundly in her warm bed. She had lived in Ponyville for a few months, and was completely forgiven for her evil sins of her destiny.

Suddenly, a bright, nearly blinding light snapped herself awake out of slumber. The light illuminated the room, slowly fading and revealing a written scroll. She rested the scroll into her pink hooves, carefully unwrapping it with care. She read the contents written in ink.

Starlight Glimmer,

I know this isn't the best time, but me and Spike are stuck in the past! I tried everything I could to get home, but the spell I used could only be done once. I know a pony like you can do those spells, so come to our timeline as soon as possible.

Your greatful mentor,

Twilight Sparkle

Starlight quickly responded by taking action immediately. She did her spell just as before, as she had memorized it when she used it last time.

Her horn lit up an aura of magic, and created a wormhole which sucked Starlight inside. She was on her way to Twilight's location of time.

...

"Oh, when is Starlight going to get here? Do you think she got the note?" Asked Princess Twilight.

"I'm not sure," replied unicorn Twilight. "It's nighttime in our world, and it should be in yours too. She couldn't have woken up from-"

Before she could finish her sentence, Starlight Glimmer emerged from the back of the library. She stood, trying to keep her balance onto the wooden ground. She stood in shock at the sight of two Twilights.

"You've must've travled back to the past," announced Starlight. "I see you used to be a unicorn. And.. Where's the other Spike?"

Just as she said that, the other Spike came from the upstairs portion of the library. He stood surprised of how many ponies were in the room, including a clone of himself.

"Twilight.. Did you invite guests?" Asked the past Spike. The present Spike facepalmed at his past stupidity.

"Actually, we're from the future," added Princess Twilight. "A spell failed and we can't get home."

"And I was asked for assistance," added Starlight. "But my spell would take us to different times. We might be here for a while."

Suddenly, unicorn Twilight had an idea. "Follow me," she said. The princess, unicorn and two dragons followed her to her laboratory. It was freshly cleaned out.

"You're lucky I've cleaned this out," said unicorn Twilight. "With Starlight's time spell, we can make it possible to travel to alternate manipulated times, depending on the changes of the past. It'll take us a while to set time back to normal."

Starlight loved the idea of using her spell more often, and added to Twilight's idea. "Maybe we could build a base? You know, to keep track of everything?"

"Great idea," replied unicorn Twilight. "Let's get started."

They took action of setting up the new lab, of what they would spend time in for a while.