A Meeting In A Strange Timeline.

by ChAoS pOnY

Rating: everyone
Tags: Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Other, Comedy, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Starlight Glimmer, Random
Length: 4419

During Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer's battle across time Princess Twilight ends up in a timeline with two other timeline jumping Princesses. You made this story popular 4/23/2017.

During Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer's battle across time Princess Twilight ends up in a timeline with two other timeline jumping Princesses.

Now being extended from a one shot due to how much fun it was to write.

You made this story popular 4/23/2017.

Nyx from Past Sins belongs to Pen Stroke.

Published 2017-04-21 00:20:01 UTC
Last updated 2018-08-28 01:07:08 UTC

Well that happened.

Twilight Sparkle fell out of the time portal with spike hanging on for dear life and saw a strange sight as she dropped towards the cutie mark map. An alicorn Sunset Shimmer falling out of another time portal with a strange looking bright blue changeling hugging her while screaming his head off and yet another portal with an alicorn Starlight Glimmer flapping her wings hard while clutching the tail of a screaming orange unicorn with a blue cape with her mouth and trying to keep him from hitting the table face first.

"Well that happened." Sunset Shimmer said as she laid there touching noses with Twilight and listening to Starlight Glimmer trying to spit tail hair out of her mouth.

"Yeah." Twilight said as she winced as Spike unclenched his claws. "Battling a vengeful unicorn across time and getting kick into alternate timelines repeatedly?" She asked.

"Yep." Sunset said before adding as the changeling got off of her, "You actually, you blame me for the destruction of your library in Ponyville during the fight with Grogar."

"Tirek destroyed mine, but I got the castle afterwards." Twilight told her before asking, "Where did you live if you didn't live in the library?"

"The Princess actually had a summer cottage near Fluttershy's that she used as a vacation home." Sunset said as she sat up and used her hooves to smooth out her feathers. "Princess Mi Amore Cadenza rarely used it anyways so why let it go to waste."

"Wait, Cadence is your princess?" Twilight asked as she got up with a confused look. "What happened to Princess Celestia?"

"Same thing that happened a thousand years ago, Solar Flare and Nightmare Moon used petrification spells on each other and ended the Burning Moon war by being the only villains to take themselves out." Sunset said with a chuckle as she summoned a glass of water for Starlight Glimmer. "You would think ducking wouldn't work twice, but it did and don't worry, it held them still long enough to use the elements on them."

"Yuck! For the record watch out for that trash world." Starlight said as she joined them. "Sunburst sat in something that tasted horrible, so thank you for the water."

"Trash world? Don't tell me it was another Flim Flam Brothers take over timeline." Twilight groaned.

"Nope, Blueblood sold out Equestria to a race of giant alien rats to use as a garbage dump, but the Flim Flam Brothers, a mad scientist Pinkie Pie, and our counter part there, Princess Fluttershy, used their junk to build a ship and complained to the Galactic Council to get them to stop." Starlight said. "Something about it being illegal to dump star drives on a pre-star traveling civilisation and the deal being void since Equestria was already listed as a protectorate of race of eight legged ponies who were not very happy with what happened. We left just as the first ships of the eight legged ponies were landing to help clean up the mess and help restore the planet as much as possible."

"Princess Fluttershy? How did that even happen?" Sunset and Twilight asked at the same time.

"Turns out using her special talent to understand and talk to alien animals that got accidentally dumped on Equestria with the trash and using that to learn an alien language was enough for her to ascend to become an alicorn." Starlight explained.

"Huh, I guess that would work, but don't you need some kind of magical artifact as a power booster to do it?" Sunset asked.

"Or hundreds of star drives with lots of leftover energy." Starlight said.

"So did you find out what happened to Blueblood there?" Twilight asked.

"Fluttershy said Discord, the male version of Eris in some timelines, always wanted a housemate in his chaos pocket dimension." Starlight said before remembering something. "Funny thing is something in the alien trash is resistant to magic including Discord's and the elements of harmony. Which is why Discord couldn't just snap his fingers and get rid of all of it."

"So you have Eris but not Discord?" Sunset asked.

"Yes, and you?" Starlight asked.

"Both, their twins." Sunset said.

"Just Discord." Twilight chipped in before grumbling, "She can't be any more annoying than Discord."

"Yes she can!" Sunset and Starlight said together before Sunset continued, "Two things make her more annoying and worse, P.M.S. and she can and will follow you into the public little fillies room. At least Discord stops at the door to the restroom and doesn't threaten every pony with being turned into chickens once a month."

"Princess Luna waited until it was that time of the month to send her after Catrina when she escaped from Tartarus." Starlight added.

"Wish Princess Mi Amore Cadenza had thought of that when Grogar escaped." Sunset said.

"We still had to deal with her cell mate, Hydia, who escaped with her and was smart enough to avoid being turned into a chicken and capture with a witch's brew that cured Eris's cramps." Starlight pointed out.

"Hmm... I wander if Zecora or any of the other members of the zebra tribe in the Everfree know something similar?" Sunset thought out loud.

"You have more zebras than Zecora in the Everfree Forest?" Twilight asked.

"We call it the Everfree Historical Nature Preserve and yeah, they built their village over where Grogar hid his bells and he enslaved them when he escaped." Sunset told them. "After we defeated him and freed them they decided to stay. Mostly they work as the newly reformed forest rangers with Fluttershy and the deer, sell potions and herbal remedies in Ponyville, and help with the restoration of the castle the Canterlot Royal Historical Society are doing. Turns out the Everfree is safer to live in than the jungle they had been living in."

"We call it the Everfree Valley ever since Princess Luna and Solar Flare's battle tore most of the area up and left a 20 miles wide, 100 miles long, and a mile deep forested valley with the castle on top of a stone pillar right in the exact center. Turns out the Tree of Harmony protected itself and the castle above it during the battle."

"Umm... Twilight?" Spike asked as he pointed to something.

Turning, the three alicorn were met with the sight of three other alicorn and a changeling queen. Only they were drinking tea and eating snacks while watching them. "Don't mind us, we're just enjoying the show in between killing the endless waves of zombies." An alicorn skeleton with Cadence's mane and tail said before noticing her hoof and leg. With a quick shake she released the form and became her usual pink self. "Sorry, I usually use my Death Heart form to infiltrate the hoard and find out the real numbers, strength, and if it's being controlled by the Necromancer Queens or just a wild hoard of zombies."

"I still think you should have gone with Broken Heart, but with Shining Armor alive and commanding Canterlot's Defences it doesn't really work." Queen Chrysalis, wearing green armor, said between bites of muffins. "How does Derpy and Dinky pack these things with so much love?"

"Have you seen the lengths those two will go for a muffin?" Celestia said as she summoned a fresh tea pot full of water and set it on her tail before transforming into Solar Flare so her fiery tail could heat the water. "I swear those two are obsessed."

"Trust me, they dream about creating the ultimate muffin recipe." Luna said in between licks of her ice cream as she sat there wearing her Nightmare Moon armor. "Imagine a muffin so good it can turn any villain good and turn a zombie permanently back into a normal pony, griffin, dragon, etc. after one bite."

"What?" "How?" "Huh?" Twilight, Sunset, and Starlight said with perplexed looks.

"Funny, you three had the same reaction when they fell out of the portal and onto that table that just appeared out of nowhere." Chrysalis said with a laugh. "Especially since we could still see our undead Necromancer Queen versions of them fleeing back to their citadel at the same time."

As she laughed the portal reopened above the confused alicorns and their companions, who quickly scrambled to their correct alicorn's side just as they all got sucked up into the portal and the table disappeared. "Well that was an interesting distraction." Celestia said as she passed out tea to the others.

"Almost makes me wish it had worked out with them as our students." Cadence said before taking a sip of her tea.

"Obviously it did work out somewhere else and maybe if we retrieve the elements from the old castle with Crissy replacing Starswirl, Eris behaving herself as laughter, and unwavering Shining Armor as loyalty it can work out here as well." Luna said.

"Well then," Chrysalis said as she got up and motioned the others to get up, "a toast, to Elements and soon to be new friends, even if we have to slap them with a face full of rainbows!"

"To the Elements!" They all toasted before finishing their tea and heading back to Canterlot.

Oh No!

Another failure, another timeline Twilight thought as she fell out of the time portal with Spike on her back. They were just getting up when another portal opened, only to be bowled over by five fillies falling out of the portal. "Will you all get your tail out of my face Nyx!" "That's not my tail, I'm over here." "Scootaloo?" "Under Twist, Sweetie Belle." "This is getting annoying." "Girls, would you mind getting off me." "Mom!" "I don't think so. Not unless Barb suddenly became a boy dragon." "Mom? Twilight what's going on?" "I have no ideal Spike."

Finally Twilight had enough and levitated everyone off of her and sat them down on the table. "Okay, now please tell me what's going on and why one of you called me Mom?" Twilight asked.

"Umm... My name is Nyx Sparkle and you, or a version of you, adopted me after a crazy cult tried to bring Nightmare Moon back. Only they made me instead, things happened and I became Nightmare Moon with 2 weeks of eternal night, brought back the sun, saved you from being hung, cured the cultists who were being controlled by part of Nightmare Moon, fought off a bunch of monsters, Freed Princesses Celestia and Luna, got depowered back down to being a foal and adopted by you, then Discord was cleaning out his closet and gave Celestia an old mirror that made an evil foal version of her named Lux, (gasp) Lux escaped and stole a spell from a crazy unicorn named Starlight Glimmer, and now we have to stop her from changing the past so you and your friends will become the Elements of Harmony, so you can defeat Nightmare Moon and I can be created from part of her sometime between King Sombra's defeat and your becoming an alicorn." Nyx explained before falling backwards and gasping out of breath.

"Wait what?!!" Twilight and Spike said together before the other Cutie Mark Crusaders explained everything much slower.

"Okay, let me get this straight, there's a female version of me who has a crush on Big Mac." Spike said with a confused look.

"And Shining Armor." Applebloom said.

"And Time Turner." Scootaloo said.

"And Prince Blueblood." Sweetie Belle added.

"And Thunderlane." Twist chipped in.

"And..." Applebloom started to add.

"I get it, my female version is boy crazy" Spike grumbled as he sat with his arms crossed, before glancing over at where Twilight and Nyx sat talking while watching a tumble weed blow past an old rusty sign that read 'The Everfree Desert Next Water 350 Miles'.

"So I don't exist in your timeline?" Nyx asked in a sad voice as she tried to hold back her tears. Then she found herself being wrapped in a purple wing.

"No, but I met other princesses from other timelines who are stuck doing the same thing as us and trying to save their timelines. So I think we're just meeting each other like two ships sailing past each other on the ocean. We're both heading to different places, but for a little while we're close enough to say hello." Twilight said before smiling down at Nyx, "Besides your mom has to be, as Rainbow Dash puts it, 20% cooler than me to raise such a wonderful foal like you." They sat there for a minute longer before Twilight said, "Cake, Celestia's biggest weakness is cake. So in the next timeline you see one, grab it and use it to distract her long enough to prevent her from changing the past."

"You really think it will work?" Nyx asked.

"I don't know, but if nothing else you and your friends can eat the cake while thinking of something else." Twilight said.

That was when the portals began to open. "But we didn't activate it." Nyx said as the portals began pull them apart.

"It happened when I met the others." Twilight said as she grabbed Spike and watched the others grab onto Nyx. "I think it might be automatic if there is more than one of us in a timeline."

"Goodbye and good luck with Starlight Glimmer." Nyx yelled.

"You too and don't forget what I said about the cake." Twilight called out.

With that they were gone and the Cutie Map Table disappeared. A few minutes later Queen Lux appeared in a flash of light, but couldn't find the source of alicorn magic she had sensed. She gave where the Tree of Harmony once stood a glance before teleporting back to her palace to make sure her throne made from the tree was still there. A moment later the sand blew away to reveal a sprout where the table once stood, a crystalline sprout. Tiny though it was, like hope, faith, or love it would someday move mountains.

Author's Note

I had so much fun with the first one I think I'll keep going.

Honorary Villain

Celestia looked at the leader of the ponies arrayed 'against' her with a look of exasperation before saying, "No Pinkie, you still can't be the next villain."

"But I have evil minions and a cool bad guy costume." Pinkie Pie said as she pointed to her 'minions'.

Looking past her 'enemy' at the 'minions' she asked, "Enjoying your basket of muffins Derpy and Dinky?" Both mother and Daughter looked up with big smiles as they ate their choconut surprise muffins and wearing matching T-shirts that read '237th Annual Mother/Daughter Canterlot Muffin Eating Champions' nodded. Looking next to them she asked, "Enjoying your tea Fluttershy and... Kevin was it?" The two Fluttershys nodded as they sipped their tea. Both were wearing doctor coats and goggles on their heads and seemed to be enjoying themselves. Next she look at the high stakes, boys vs. girls touch hoofball game between the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Button Mash, Pipsqueak, Featherweight, Snips and Snails, that was being officiated by Big Mac and the other Pie sisters and asked, "Still a tie My Little Ponies?" This seemed to distract Snails, who tripped and ended up muzzle to muzzle with Silver Spoon. The two foals then ran around yelling about cooties. Shaking her head she turned to a group of buffalo eating apple pies and said, "Ya'at'eeh Chief Thunderhooves, enjoying your pies?" Chief Thunderhooves nodded as he finished his third pie. Finally she looked to three ponies sunbathing with two other grumpy looking ponies in maid's outfits serving them drinks. With a giggle she asked, "Lose a bet Applejack, Rainbow Dash?" Both 'maids' grumbled before nodding. She then asked one of the sunbathers, "Let me guess, they forgot that gems are often found in very dirty, hard, rocky places didn't they?" Rarity nodded while wearing her new gem encrusted sunglasses. Then she asked the other two sunbathers, "I take it your enjoying your summer vacation as much as the kids are?" The local school teacher, Cheerilee, and the preschool and kindergarten teacher, Love Tap, both nodded.

Finally she looked back at Pinkie and said, "Pinkie, your minions are anyone who showed up because it sounded fun or because you bribed them with treats. Though why Fluttershy is dressed like that is still a mystery."

"Umm... I like Dr. Adorable comics and Pinkie told me to wear my cosplay outfit." Fluttershy said.

Celestia gave her a smile before continuing, "As for the bad guy costume, your wearing the infinite chocolate milk hat Discord gave you last year with a plastic King Sombra horn you got from that haunted house in the crystal empire during the last crystal fair stuck to it, the moon themed socks Luna gave you last Hearth Warming Eve, a pair of changeling style goggles, a T-shirt for the rock band 'Colts of Tartarus' because it has Tirek in chains in the background, and an equal sign sticker over your cutie mark."

"Yeah, but I have hostages!" Pinkie Pie said pointing to her 'Hostages' at a second cutie mark map that had appeared a short time ago.

Rolling her eyes, Celestia looked over at the hostages and asked Discord, "Are you sure you don't want to know the secret to solving the minotaur finger trap puzzle?"

"No, I'm going to beat this thing without cheating or using my powers like I pinkie promised." As he yanked and pulled yet again in vain.

Looking to her sister as she gave a loud snore from her bed as she slept with ear plugs and a sleep mask on, Celestia asked Pinkie Pie, "Do I even want to know how you did it?"

Turning and giving you a wink Pinkie said, "Let's just say I have friends who love it when I do certain things and just leave it at that."

She then looked at the two Cadences and Shining Armors and a ten year old alicorn named Flurry Heart before asking, "Everything okay?"

"Yes." Said the cyborg Shining Armor as he looked towards her with half his face replaced with crystal before flicking his crystal wings out. "I have explained what has lead to me being like this in roughly ten years."

"And I have explained why they need to increase funding to research and development as well as the importance of a 'no time magic near the crystal heart' rule." The older Cadence said.

Celestia then looked to Princess Twilight Sparkle and Prince Dusk Shine and asked, "Any suggestions on how my male counterpart would deal with Pinkie Pie?"

"Have you tried having Discord and Luna agree too and naming her a honorary villain?" Dusk Shine asked. "It worked for Prince Solaris when Bubble Berry tried the same thing and Eris and Prince Artemis were happy to have enough players for their monthly former villains card game."

"Who else is part of the game?" Twilight asked.

"Barb after the greed growth incident and Elusive after what happened with the book." Dusk Shine said as he looked over at the two baby dragons who were eating cookies while telling Flurry Heart about the smarty pants doll/ egghead action figure incident.

"Fine with me." Discord said as he finally got free and bounced it off Luna's head, waking her up. She glared at him with the mask pushed up above her eyes and ear plugs floating next to her. "Pinkie Pie, honorary villain, monthly game."

"Fine, now return us and our bed to the castle post hast. Slender Mare part 4 opened in theaters last night and I will be very busy tonight." Luna said as she pulled her mask down and put back in her ear plugs before Discord snapped his fingers and teleported her back to her room.

"Okay your a honorary villain, now excuse me while I talk with our..." Celestia said as she turned to see the two time portals closing up and the table disappear. "Well $#π℅!!!"

Author's Note

I couldn't get this one out of my head while working on Beware The Embers Of A Dying Light.

Princess Fluttershy of Cloudsdale

Yes this was inspired by this Video here.

Twilight Sparkle and Dusk Shine looked around at the Saddle Arabian city that had replaced Ponyville in this timeline and were trying to puzzle out how that worked when the heard horns being blown. The next thing they knew there was a parade going past as the singing started.

Make way for Princess Fluttershy

Say hey! It's Princess Fluttershy

Then the very familiar voice of Discord began singing as a very embarrassed alicorn Fluttershy rode past on a Ursa Minor that looked like a very smug Angel Bunny.

Hey! Clear the way in the old Bazaar

Hey you!

Let us through!

It's a bright new star!

Oh Come!

Be the first on your block to meet her eye!

Then Pinkie joined in sing as she bounced around in front of the Ursa Bunny.

Make way!

Here she comes!

Ring bells! Bang the drums!

Are you gonna love this gal!

Princess Fluttershy! Fabulous she!

Fluttershy of Cloudsdale

Genuflect, show some respect

Down on one knee!

Now, try your best to stay calm

Brush up your sunday salaam

The come and meet her spectacular coterie

As they watched they saw Discord teleporting and shape shifting into different ponies amongst the ponies watching as he sang.

Princess Fluttershy!

Mighty is she!

Fluttershy of Cloudsdale

Strong as ten earth ponies, definitely!

She faced the galloping hordes

A hundred diamond dogs with swords

Who sent those goons to their lords?

Why, Princess Fluttershy

Next thing they knew Pinkie was balancing on a ball on the back of a camel by her nose while singing.

She's got seventy-five golden camels

Purple peacocks

She's got fifty-three

When it comes to exotic-type mammals

Has she got a zoo?

I'm telling you, it's a world-class menagerie

Then Discord appeared in front of them in a gold tuxedo as he sang.

Princess Fluttershy! Beautiful is she, Fluttershy of Cloudsdale

That physique! How can I speak

Weak at the knee

Well, get on out in that square

Adjust your tux and tail and prepare

To gawk and grovel and stare at Princess Flu...

"STOP!!!" Mayor Made yelled into a megaphone. "Discord! I gave you permission to put on a production of Aladdin in a theater. NOT! I REPEAT NOT! TRANSFORM THE ENTIRE TOWN INTO A GIANT STAGE AND SING COPYRIGHTED SONGS IN A WAY THAT WILL GET US SUED! CHANGE EVERYTHING BACK AND I MEAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!" With that she turned and started stomping back towards her office, but then stopped in front of the cutie mark map and looked at Twilight Sparkle and Dusk Shine. "Do I even want to know?"

"Just passing through from different alternate timelines." Dusk Shine said as the time portal opened and sucked him and Barb up into it.

"Well please come again when things are less crazy." Mayor Mare called out as Twilight and Spike got sucked up into the time portal just as Ponyville returned to normal.

Ghostbuckers

The Time Portal opened and Nyx, the CMC, Twist, and a white alicorn filly with a fiery mane and tail fell out of the portal and onto the table on top of a skyscraper. Then another portal opened and Princess Sunset Shimmer and an earth pony Sonata fell out next to them. "Hey Shimmy, what is Lumen doing here and when did he become a she?" Sonata asked as she pointed at Lux.

"Gender swap double, remember when we met Sundown Blaze, Symphony Dusk, and Nox who looks like the black filly over there?" Sunset asked.

"Oh yeah." Sonata answered before noticing another set of CMC and Nyx in grey jumpsuits and strange backpacks looking at them and Diamond Tiara wearing bubbles also watching them in front of a gate with two diamond dogs flanking her. "Hey, I know this movie. Have you done the 'Are you a God' part?"

"Yeah and Scootaloo, when asked if y'all are a God.... YOU! ANSWER! YES!" Applebloom yelled as smoke rose from her bow.

"Geez, I said I was sorry." Scootaloo grumbled.

"Hello? World ending filly waiting here." Diamond Tiara called out.

"That's it!" Nyx yelled. "This filly is toast."

The Ghostbuckers then lined up, but were interrupted by Sunset Shimmer, "You have to cross the streams and aim for the gate. It's the only way to beat her."

"Umm... Thank you." Sweetie Belle said.

"Anything else?" Nyx asked and all the others shook their heads no. She then looked at her fellow ghostbuckers and said, "Got your wands?"

They all unhooked their wands from the Proton Spell Packs, "Holding!"

"Heat'em Up!"

Suddenly all of their wands began charging up as Diamond Tiara began looking nervous. "Smoking!"

"Full Power Charge!"

The sound of the charge went to a higher pitch. "Ready!"

"Then let's show this fake bully how we do things here in Ponyville City!" Nyx said as they all aimed past her at the gate.

"Hey, can't we like talk this out over milkshakes and cookies?" The now terrified Diamond Tiara asked.

"How about nope." Applebloom said with a smirk.

"Fire and cross the streams!" Nyx yelled as Diamond Tiara ducked as the streams merge over her head and then she was sucked back through the gate yelling, "I hate blank flanks!" Just before the gate slammed shut and the two diamond dogs became Silver Spoon and the real Diamond Tiara.

"You four better not have damaged those spell packs my daddy bought for our business or I am taking it out of your pay!" Diamond Tiara yelled before adding, "Then I'm giving you your bonuses for saving us from that cheap wannabe copy."

"This changes nothing!" Lux yelled as the portal opened and they were all sucked up into it.

"OH COME ON!" Scootaloo yelled as the portal closed behind them and a second one opened to suck up Sunset and Sonata, but before it closed Sunset winked at the Ghostbuckers and fired off a spell before the portal closed. As soon as the spell hit the roof it began playing music as the Cutie Mark Map disappeared and was replaced with the sight of all six fillies dancing on the roof as the crowd below cheered the cities new heroes.

Author's Note

I couldn't resist this one.