"Welcome to the Time Dynasty!" Zaine exclaimed looking at the vessel, lifting both his arms up a tad

"The what now?" Applejack asked when Zaine touched another command on his forearm. They were at the back side of the vessel, if they were to guess, it was thirty to forty feet wide. Four gigantic boosters were located at the very end, all of them were pointed vertically. The height of the ship had to be twenty-five feet, the exterior design was a little hard to explain. You know how needles are slanted at the ends? Well, the front was like two needles, face away from each other. As the ship length went on, it got wider, and taller, until about three-quarters the length of the ship, it changes direction and goes inwards dramatically. One final fact is that the ship color was a dark blue.

An on-ramp sprang out on the left side of the ship, about five feet away from the boosters due to the command Zaine pressed. The ramp extended about a quarter the size of the height of the ship "Oh, that's just the name of the ship" Zaine clarified walking towards the wide platform, about seven feet.

"You do know, we can time travel as well?" Twilight curiously asked following him onto the steel like on-ramp

He scoffed "Stop with this foolery" He simply stated calmly, walking into the small room that was the entrance

"Yes, we can! With the help of magic, we can-" Twilight stammered

"See that foolery, there is no possible-" Zaine cut himself off "Oh... that suddenly makes a lot of sense" He agreed with himself

"What the hell? You were just against the idea of magic, now you're siding for it? That makes no sense what-so-ever" Rainbow argued, as the rest of the group walked into the compacted room, the temp was perfect and smelled like a hospital

"Yes, I am siding for it now, even though I still don't fully believe in it" Zaine replied, getting confused faces in response "Don't look at me like that"

"What are you getting at?" Lyra asked looking around the room. It was gray, no more than a ten to ten room

"I was sent here to this time era because a time anomaly appeared at this point in history. The only thing we knew, is that it wasn't directly caused by humans. So we thought that one of the members from TPA was involved somehow. We got here as soon as possible, then I followed the fragments of broken space-time, and that's how I found you. We thought you were extraterrestrials from space, but we saw no spacecraft, no nothing, you even had very primitive technology... So I guess your explanation of magic makes a little more sense"

"...Amazing... What's a `time anomaly?" Twilight asked, eerie hearing the words.

"A time anomaly is an event in time that wasn't supposed to happen, it changes the history of Earth. We scale these events on a one to twenty scale, we've never seen a twenty before, not even a fifteen. But in the year 2047, a time anomaly appeared, it well surpassed twenty. It also tells us if it's a good or bad change, depending on the color." Zaine explained "It was a bad way"

"What do you mean in a bad why? Like how?"

"I'm guessing, you guys got caught, took, and got your portal tech stolen" Zaine explained getting slightly disgusted faces "Yeah, humans all over history do that, sadly" Zaine finished "Really rare in the future might I add" Zaine added, their faces softening just a bit

"I only brought up that we can time travel because we could explore your history when we want" Twilight explained as Zaine went up to the door that was located ten feet after the entrance. He put his right hand on the right side of the door. The screen he placed his hand on looked to have scanned it, and with no further thought, the gray door opened.

"Nonsense" Zaine replied, walking into the new area. The group of four ponies walked in with him, hearing the on-ramp begin to close. Their eyes were greeted with a huge room around thirty feet long and twenty feet wide. The walls were planks of wood that were a dark brown. The floor was a bright red concrete substance that was stainless and perfect. The room was lit with bright lights that were beams went all along the sides of the room. The walls harbored a few paintings about landscapes, but the main one was the portrait of him to the right when you enter the room. It was still the same as what he was wearing, but just in a different pose with a black background, his hands were on his sides. There were beautiful, carved, dark, wooden sofa laced every so often by the walls, all different colors. In the middle of the room, both the walls on either side was a screen that also had commands. "Where we're going, you need protection from the wars we are going to be visiting. Also, I'm pretty sure this will be quicker" Zaine stated walking to the other side of the room

Applejack whistled "This place is lookin' mighty fine"

"Wars?" Lyra repeated, ears drooping.

"Why yes, you guys are wanting to go to the most important times in history, yes?" Zaine answered and questioned at the same time, stopping at the other side of the room. The other side had a door Zaine was standing in front of, Its color was the same as the dark brown walls, but looked to be made of metal. Doing the same thing with his right hand, it looked as if it got scanned again. With the door opening, he walked into a similar yet very different room. It was the shape of an elongated oval, wider than long. Same walls and same floor texture, but something was really interesting about this room. There was a huge pure black door to the left.

Zaine points to the door "That's the engine room, don't ever go in there without permission, or you might mess something up, or you might very well kill yourself" Zaine bluntly clarified walking into the, what seems to be, by far the longest room in the ship. A long hallway spreading around fifty feet. There were ten of those metal doors, five on each side, spaced ten feet apart "The ship was designed to hold a maximum of twenty people, these rooms were the rooms of... previous crewmates." Zaine sinisterly grumbled the last few words

Walking to the end of the hallway, Zaine stopped a few feet before the door and looked back at the four ponies "There's something I haven't told you yet..." Zaine trailed off, looking down putting his hands n his trench coat pockets

"What is it?" Rainbow asked suspiciously

"I have a crewmate in this vessel, but don't be alarmed, he knows about your existence and your presence on the ship." He turned around and opened the door "And he doesn't bite" Zaine jokingly added

Walking inside they saw that the room was bland, the length of the room covered the rest of the missing length of the ship. The walls were a light blue color along with the roof and floor. There were nineteen chairs all spaced out perfectly at the end of the room, and one bigger chair behind a behemoth of a windshield. The chairs could turn around, but not be moved. The chairs had heavy duty straps, to very likely keep you in place. They were connected to the ground with a metal pole keeping them in place. The windshield was gigantic, it went all over every single chair, spanning half way through the roof.

Walking in, they saw another human being sitting in the pilot's chair, the chair turned around that was harboring the human. What was revealed was nothing that was never thought to ever exist. The human's face was half-metallic above the lips. One robotic eye, and a spiked black mane. The iris in his eye was brown, and he was wearing a golden colored trench coat, with black pants and shoes. When he stands up, he heads towards the group with a soft smile. "Hello, my name is Nicholas, may I ask what yours is?" Nicholas asked with a soft, calming voice, with the same Equis accent as Zaine's. He bent down, just a tiny bit so he could hear them more clearly.

"Certainly" Twilight cleared her throat "I'm Twilight, Applejack, Lyra, and Rainbow Dash" Twilight picked off each one, pointing towards each one of them.

"It's nice to meet all of you. It's fantastic to have new partners" Nicholas cheered with glee

"That is indeed." Zaine agreed "You know what we're doing right?" Zaine said instantly Nicholas's smile evaporated

"Something risky" Nicholas responded with a hint of slight anger

"But this has the outcome of something that would out beat the risk. This could be the most revolutionary thing humanity will discover!" Zaine pleaded.

Nicholas crossed his arms. "Enlighten me," Nicholas said, rolling his right hand as a go on with it gesture

"They can interdimensionally travel" Zaine swiftly announced. A giggle emerges from Nicholas's mouth

"Alright, so you mean to tell me... that these creatures don't have pens... but they can travel through the theoretical multiverse?" Nicholas spat out with sultry "Please tell me that you're joking brother" Nicholas in disbelief announced their relation

"No, I am one hundred percent being honest at this very second" Zaine sternly announced, a grin growing on Nicholas's face

"Prove it" Nicholas cockily demanded

Zaine nodded at Twilight. Getting the memo, Twilight put her saddlebag in front of her, got a feather and a notepad out, and layer them on the floor "Well?" Nicholas's impatience making the ponies feel slightly angry. At that very moment, Twilight focused on the levitation spell, with the very weak magic Twilight had, she lifted the feather and notepad, lifting them a couple of inches above the cyan floor with her purple aura. "I... but... how? May I ask?" Nicholas stammered, the cocky-ness subsiding

"Is it really that hard for you humans to understand magic?" Lyra thoughtfully asked, trotting over to the captain's seat. Looking at the front of the ship Lyra saw through the windshield seeing the dark forest and the two prongs at the bow of the ship. In front of the seat were a lot of buttons, panels, and screens, with one huge lever in the middle

"Is 'magic' the word I'm hearing? Because that might-"

"Well, there is a nice explanation of that. I don't fully understand the mishap as well but I know this" Zaine cut off Nicholas, a gawking look grew on Nicholas's face "Think about it, no pens, no spacecraft, yet they're intelligent and are in the year 2047?"

"I... Fine, there is proof of this so-called 'magic', but this subject needs to be studied" Nicholas surrendered, straightening his golden coat walking to the hallway behind the group and entering the hallway "I'll be in the observation room!" Nicholas hollered

"Observation room?" Rainbow asked, testing out one of the chairs by doing a whole three-sixty in the seat

"Just a room where we write down facts and hypotheses" Zaine cheekily answered. A silence reigned in the room. The dawdling and looking around the room continued until much of the room was explored "Shall we discuss our first mission?"

"I guess so, though, you know, we know next to nothing about your species" Twilight answered a chuckle emerging from Zaine's person

"You are super blunt, I like that" Zaine complimented thinking of how to start things off "We should go to our library to plan out where and when our first mission will be" Twilight's ears perked up at the word library

"You have a library?" She curiously queried

Rainbow jumped out of the seat "Here we go again..." She facehoofed

"Yes, we do have a library. It's the first door on the right, follow me" Zaine commanded walking out of the open door following his own directions. The small group followed Zaine to the said door, watching him opening it and entering the room.

When they entered the room, they noticed something... off. No bookshelves, not even books for the matter. Just like the other rooms, it was lit up with the artificial lights. The room had a type of wall that were made out of screens, all four of the walls were made out of this type of material. The ceiling and floor were made out of a dark purple stone that was very smooth to the touch, more fine than any stone cutter in Equestria that's for sure. In the middle of the room there was a familiar looking sigh, a huge stone table with ten wooden looking thrones around it. Zaine marched to the end of the room, turned on the screen, pressed a command, then rapidly turned it back off.

"Where are all the books?" Twilight eagerly asked looking around the room in search for any sign of the word book.

"Ha, books..." Zaine chuckled "let's have a seat, shall we?" Zaine proposed, taking a seat to the nearest throne to him, the other obliging doing the same actions he took. "In the year 2021 books started to become digitalized at light speed. In the year 2071, books were officially classified as outdated. Now all of our literature is found on the internet" Zaine explained getting questionable faces in response.

"What's the internet mean?" Twilight seeked an answer grabbing some ink, feathers, and a note pad, dotting down the information Zaine announced

"What does digitalized mean?" Rainbow asked at the same time

"Well... digitalized means putting something on the internet and the internet is... how do I put this?" Zaine thought for a few seconds keeping the ponies on edge "The internet is something that is world wide, easy to access, billions of people have access to it, they can access it any time they want, and it is really cheap to do so"

Twilight scribbled down the information in a heart beat, putting more questions down "B-b-billions...?" Twilight stammered, almost denying what he had just declared

"Look, we came here to discuss our first mission, not ask a million billion question. Now as much as I would like to answer them, I don't want to spoil the surprise of our history" Zaine explained, not in a tone that was slightly angry, but a tone that was one of slight kindness. Twilight retracted her ears down just a bit.

"I understand, I would rather visit the point in history instead of being told it" Twilight replied in understandment placing her feather back down on the table

"Well, when and where will our first mission start?" Applejack put forth out of the blue

"Isn't that why were here, to discuss about it in this room?" Lyra asked, looking toward Zaine wanting a correct in response

"Precisely" Zaine answered snapping his fingers, pointing toward Lyra "Now that we have the time, we can discuss about the main article first, when. Do you have any suggestions?" Zaine asked, everypony's ear perking up at the question

"A billion years into the past!" Rainbow shouted, Twilight glaring at her

"The beginning of your civilization?" Twilight begged

"How about your time era?" Lyra fantasized

"Maybe the most deadliest time in your history?" Applejack bargained

"Probably not, very likely, very likely no, and most definitely" Zaine answered one by one, pointing his finger at them while doing so

"Wait, you can really go that far back?" Twilight asked, getting a victorious gaze from Rainbow

"Why can't we go to your time era?" Lyra asked, a slight sadness in her voice

"I am intrigued" Applejack responded, tilting her Stetson and relaxing back in the reasonable comfy throne

"One question at a time, please!" Zaine raised his voice just a smooge, silencing them "Sorry for the little out burst but I don't like getting asked several questions at once" Zaine explained, the ponies nodding in agreement "First of all, Twilight, yes we can go far back. In fact, we can go back to the beginning of the universe. And Lyra, we can't go back to my time era because it's too risky, I may be very well caught with you when we're there, and bringing passengers from the past or future, is one of the biggest crimes you can do in our society" Lyra nodded, but Twilight raised her head in confusion

"How old is your universe?" Twilight asked putting her ear out to get the clearest answer possible

"Around thirteen point seven-two-two billion years old" Zaine replied making Twilight's jaw drop

"Th-thirteen... billion" Twilight responded and repeated after the message

"I know it's hard to take in, but facts are facts" Zaine bluntly stated enjoying the view of Twilight's face with a smirk

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

The artificial lights went red as they heard a loud, annoying, beeping noise. They looked around confused as to what was happening "Shit..." Zaine said under his breath

"What' in the hay is goin' on here?" Applejack demanded slamming her hoof on the stone table

"A time anomaly..." Zaine announced with anger. At that second a metallic voice sang out of nowhere

"Time anomaly inbound" A low metallic voice announced in a low male voice "Ancient Egypt, 3072 BC"

"Hey Applejack" Zaine caught the attention of the orange horse while standing up off of his chair "Looks like your wish has come true!" Zaine announced running toward the door and running through the door way "Come on, we need to go" Zaine ordered, the ponies following him into the cock pit. Nicholas met them a few seconds later after they entered he room

Nicholas looked at the group for a few silent seconds whether to allow them to come or not "Come on, we need to Ancient Egypt right now" Nicholas commanded, approaching the pilot's chair, pressing a few minor buttons "Get seated, were going for a ride" Just like the, the ponies and human took their seats around the captain. When they sat in the chairs, are metal brace was out around there necks instantly

"For protection" Zaine answered, a sweat drop forming on his brow

"Alright here we go!" Nicholas excitedly yelled, putting his hand on the lever pushing it forward. With that, they started to levitate into the air, boosting into the atmosphere at ridiculous speeds. A red portal came into view in front of the ship as they entered through the unknown once more.

Author's Note

Ah, imagery... my worst nightmare. Hope I did the best at trying to explain the ship, got any questions about it? Ask away!