Back to Equestria

I suck.

Really, I do. I've been trying with the next chapter of BtE, but it's just... ehhh. I feel like I'm writing it to get it out of the way, and as a consequence, everything I'm trying to put down is bland and awful.

I have some really, I think, funny and good ideas for this fic. But they're just not getting down correctly. My mind is going elsewhere, to other things I want to do. And that's not fair to the story, or to you.

And now, this is the part where I suck.

I'm thinking of putting BtE on hiatus until I can give it the attention it deserves. The ending I have planned leaves it open for a sequel, and if I write it right, I would feel better about DOING that sequel. So, yeah. It will be picked up in the future, and hopefully done in a much better manner.

In the meantime, I meant to leave you guys with the BIG REVEAL, which is happening in the next chapter. I hate to dangle such tantalizing info in front of you for so many months and then just cut you off. Except, there's not a button for the spoilers thing on the bar, and I don't know the direct command. Is it [spoilers] this? [/spoilers]

Anyway, when I figure that out, I'll post the solution to the mystery here.

Anyone with a time machine, feel free to pop into the future and read the rest of the story whenever you like.

Until then, be sure to keep your Mr. Fusion well-fed and don't fuck with your parents.

See you in the future!

Let me tell you about Back to the Future Part Two.

There are two things needed to go back in time. This is specified, very clearly, in the first film. you need the flux capacitor going, (which requires 1.21 gigawatts (hands up if you will forever pronounce it jiggawatt)) and you need the car going at 88 mph (which requires gas/locomotion/SOMETHING). These are the plot devices surrounding the DeLorean.

Now, when Doc was struck by lightning at the end of the second film, he was fulfilling ONE of the requirements. Just one. He had the power he needed, but was not going at the right speed.

This ALWAYS bugged me. So, I decided to make it into a plot device.

The thing is, when Doc was struck by lightning, my (bullshit) science said that he was unstable, passing through timelines, and that he simultaneously existed in a thousand places in the timelines at once.

This stranded a copy of the Doc, with a damaged DeLorean, in a thousand different variations of our world. But it was in only one world, that he could figure out a way to go back.

(Avid fans may notice that this bear similarities to the plot of the video game. I assure you, I came up with this before I even knew the game existed, and the game did it in a very irritatingly convenient manner, by leaving no Doc there. Maybe he was vaporized, and was actually dust on the seat. X3)

But, this took a while. Being an eccentric scientist, of a different species, and knowledgeable in a wide range of fields, he was taken in by Celestia, at her 'palace of the gifted', which is basically a huge sanctuary for knowledge and culture and whatnot. (In case you didn't get it, Doc was stranded further back than they go at the beginning of BtE. I attributed this to the distance that the Equestrian timeline was diverged from ours, it made the time difference just as great.)

Contrary to popular beliefs in the comments, Celestia ISN'T Clara. She and Doc just fell in love. (They're actually each other, in the timelines, see.) (That's the same reason why Luna and Marty start shamelessly flirting when they meet) (Yeah I went there)

Is that everything? Uhh, there's still some plot resolution, but nothing TOO immediate... The thing with the moon-trees is later on... Hmm.

Yeah, that's it. See you when I actually publish this!