Author's Note

I'm so sorry, it is mainly my fault for not uploading this sooner, and I'm sorry. Mainly because I had to do research and come up with the ideas, and the second reason is... well I'm kind of a lazy fuck But once I started to write it again, I started to enjoy it again.

And when I say modern country names, I just mean the kand that the country occupies.

One more thing, if you're a religious person, you may get mad at some Atheistic dialogue

Even more preparing

Red engulfed Twilight's vision, it was the only thing she saw for what felt like five minutes. The only thing Twilight heard was a high pitched ringing noise, and nothing but that.

"Twilight...! Twilight...!" Lyra's voice called out, but was distorted, and echoey, you could barely manage a word coming from the location. With that, the redness ever so slightly started to fade to where she could see a foot in front of herself, then it faded some more to where she could see two feet in front of herself. The ringing subsided, while the redness retreated quicker and quicker until all of her senses came back to her.

Looking around the room, Twilight could see that everypony was still in their seats, except Lyra. She was in the process of struggling to get out of her brace. To what Twilight assumed, she was trying to get out to check on her, given the mishap.

"Lyra! Trust me, it is just a minor side effect from time traveling!" Nicholas and Zaine explained simultaneously

"You mean to tell me that not responding, won't talk, or Twilight's eyes being red is just a minor side effect?" Lyra retorted, her brace releasing her, in fact, it released everypony

Twilight fell out of her chair purposely, Lyra scrambled over to Twilight instantly almost tripping over her hooves whilst doing so. Rainbow Dash followed soon after Lyra, they both helped Twilight up to her hooves. "Are you okay, Twilight?" Lyra worried

"W... what the hell was that?" Twilight murmured quietly to anypony in the room

"Temporal time dysplasia" Zaine answered, Twilight raising her brow at the answer. "It's where your senses shut off for a short time, one of the many side effects of time travel"

"Lovely..." Applejack replied. Zaine swiftly walked to the right side of Nicholas, observing what lay outside the windshield

They were about five hundred feet hovering in the air In the landscape, there was a huge flowing river, to the sides of the river, there big farms that were growing crops. Houses were scattered that were made out of wood and a limestone looking material. Beyond the lush greenness, there was desert... and more dessert. "Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to Ancient Egypt!" Nicholas revealed with excitement in his veins

"One of the first advanced civilizations in human history, but not the first civilization in human history" Zaine added dawdling over to Nicholas's right side followed by Applejack, while Rainbow, Lyra, and Twilight proceeded to Nicholas's left side

"Not much to look at, ain't it?" Applejack asked everypony in the room. In response, Nicholas darted up out of his chair and onto his feet

"Not, really Applejack, but that doesn't mean it wasn't important" Nicholas said whilst getting through the small crowd that had surrounded around him "Now that we've had our looks at our missions' scenery, it's time to figure out what exactly went wrong" Nicholas finished with a sign of disappointment

"Agreed" The rest of the group simultaneously busted out, following Nicholas to the exit into the hallway.

When Nicholas bolted out of the door after unlocking it of course, he pointed to the door to the left of them "To the left of us, our history room lays. We use these for missions, as to search at how exactly time went wrong." Nicholas lectured, swiftly approaching the metal frame. Nicholas dawdled into the extremely bright, white room. In fact, all the surfaces in the room were the purest white the eye could see.

"Ah! Geez, could it get any brighter?" Lyra asked in shock, covering her eyes with her left forearm, trying to block as much light with it as much as she could, the rest of the group of ponies joining her.

"You'll get used to it" Zaine cockily replied with a smirk walking in the bright room, not reacting to it, not even a flinch!

It took a few seconds before the ponies eyes adjusted to the brightness. The group trotted into the room, eyeing its features. Couldn't really tell how big it was, but it was big enough for all of them to fit into the location.

"Gather round'" Zaine asked gesturing his hands to the ponies. They obeyed and made a circle around a circular frame. The object that they were now circling, was a perfect circle shape, about a foot tall, and two feet in circumference. The design on the sides were like tiles, a repetitive art style of different colored gray, hard, tile like, design. What lay on top of the, what their assuming, device, a flat, solid, glass surface. Obviously, you couldn't see anything beyond that, the only thing that seemed to be on the existence of that field was darkness.

"What is it...?" Applejack asked, slowly drifting her hoof to the device

"DON'T TOUCH IT!" Nicholas hollered frightening the group. Applejack instantly relaxed her hoof and pulled it back

"What's the big deal?" Rainbow asked defensively pointing her left hoof at him

"This device is extremely sensitive, the slightest wrong move can very well end its working capabilities" Nicholas stuttering explained

"Why's that?" Twilight butted in, in a questioning mood

"You are unknown entities to our technology who, have proven, to have magic that can interfere with the laws of physics. So who knows what would happen if you were to touch this already sensitive device" Zaine finished off urgently

"Exactly" Nicholas agreed. But the only pony in the room who got the memo was Twilight.

"Noted, but if you can't touch it, how is it supposed to work?" Twilight replied gaining a sign from Nicholas

"It's voice activated, and can only be activated by me or Zaine" Nicholas plainly stated

'Alright, let's get back to business" Zaine said, clapping his hands together "Ancient Egypt, year BC 3072" Zaine commanded toward the device with a stern voice

The lights dimmed quickly to where you could barley see five feet in front of you. And just when Applejack was about to ask what went wrong, the machine projected images of news articles, maps, dates, and a man wearing a strange white and red hat, which looked to be two hats, but combined into one.

Zaine scanned through the words on the news articles and maps "Mother above..." Zaine quietly muttered putting a hand on his quiff hair

"It's worse than we thought it out to be" Nicholas sighed after Zaine putting his hands to his side

"What went wrong, exactly?" Rainbow asked, genuinely curious about the situation

"Oh geez, well in the year 3072 BC a man named Menes, who was the first ruler of Ancient Egypt, well his parents were assassinated before he could ever be conceived"

"It's a dark tale, but why is he so important to your time line?" Applejack asked with a brow raised

"Menes had an idea of uniting both lower and upper Egypt. Which caused advancements in technology to make their nation last for hundreds of years. Of course, he pulled it off and united them. But without him, Egypt never united. For hundreds of years, they were upper and lower Egypt until one day in the twenty-fifth century, the Assyrian Empire took them over." Zaine stopped to take a breath "And without the advancements in technology, they never rose again. After the Assyrian Empire won, they took over the Middle East, this part of the world" Zaine pointed, getting closer to the projection "Then they proceeded to invade the Mediterranean" Zaine dragged his finger to the location "Then all of Europe, then India, South East Asia, China, Scandinavia, and the rest of Asia" Zaine stopped and pointed to Nicholas

"Right," Nicholas spoke up " then they took over North Africa, then the entire continent of Africa, and Oceania. Of course they had a few civil wars, but from what I'm reading off the page, it says that they won them all. They advanced their technology for hundreds of years, advancing medicine, weaponry, mathematics, science, and ships. They used those ships to sail out to conquer Iceland and Greenland, then Canada, all the tribes in America, spread down to Mexico and took over South America" Nicholas let out a breath of relief after the long paragraph "And all because one guy died before he could conquer a nation... that's history for ya"

"Well... isn't that a good thing? The Assyrian Empire unified the world, I don't see how that could possibly be bad" Lyra questioned the logic.

Zaine put rubbed his hand on his temples "The world wasn't supposed to unify until March 12th, 2113-" Zaine explained but being cut of shortly after

"Wait, I'm getting confused about those numbers your layin' down, what's with the BC stuff and all that?" Applejack asked adjusting her hat that was finding its way off her head

"Let me gather my thoughts for a moment" Zaine took a deep breath and released it "Me and Nicholas come from a time in human history that is labeled the year 3025. We number these years so we can keep track of what happened in what time of history"

"Then how did you start counting your years? You said that this universe was over a billion years old, and if that's the case, why is your year labeled only 3025?" Twilight hypothesized in her head, coming up with the only explanation that she could think of, which was that he was lying about the age of the universe

"I feel as if I'm being left out in the conversation" Nicholas turned on the lights and focused back on Twilight's question "Then this thing called religion takes effect in our time line" Twilight's ears perked up at the word religion " You know how we keep saying BC then the date?" Nicholas asked no one in particular, but got responses nonetheless with nodding of agreement "We say this because of a dating system humans used in the first to twenty first century. How we got this, you may ask? Well, over the course of those two thousand years, the main belief was Christianity, bonkers if you ask me, and they believed that a man named Jesus Christ was born 3025 years ago. He was so important because he was allegedly the son of the overlord himself." Images of what he was talking out, projected out of the screen every other sentence of the story "God was the overlord they believed in, he made all life, the universe, Earth, and humans, and get this, in a week" Nicholas let out with a chuckle "But about that BC date, there was history before Jesus Christ, so the dating system had a BC, which stood for, Before Christ" Nicholas finished off, making one or two of the ponies let out an oh

"But like what I was saying, its bad that the Assyrian Empire unified the world because in the millennium to come, billions and billions of people will have never have been born. Not to mention, technology never advanced to a point in history, which means that this technology that we're in right now, will have never existed in the year 3025" Zaine revealed, which popped in a major question in everypony's head

"Then... how are we on this ship if it was never created?" Rainbow asked, suspicion growing in her voice by the second

"Time is a tricky mistress, I must say, but we're still in here because history needs to play out fully before the affects of the anomaly's are permanent or actually start to affect history" Zaine explained quickly, killing the suspicion in Rainbow's voice leaving a silence spread over the room "Right, well the mission" Zaine looked at the ponies and slowly put his hand to his forehead making a face palm "I completely forgot at how we're going to do the mission with magical, talking ponies walking around Ancient Egypt"

Twilight's eyes glew up with an idea "Just tell them I'm another sentient species, one which is rare of course"

"Um... there's a SLIGHT problem with that Twilight.... Humans are the only sentient species on our planet" Nicholas revealed with disappointment lingering in his voice

"Of course... anymore surprises you have in stock fer us?" Applejack commented with a blank expression

"We probably have thousands, but for now we'll keep them surprises until further notice" Zaine replied putting his full attention to gaze at the individuals in front of him "But we need to focus at the problem at hand, or in this case, at hoof" He continued letting out a chuckle at his horrible pun

"I may have a solution to that" Nicholas surprisingly said out of the blue

"Erm, excuse me? How?" Zaine asked with slight surprise raising his brow

"It was supposed to be a present for Unification Day" Nicholas revealed, he sounded some what disappointed

"Ah, shit. I forgot completely about that" Zaine replied face palming shorty after

"It's fine truly , I don't mind spilling the surprise for our guest. I hid it in the best hiding spot- under the bed" Nicholas truthfully preached hearing a little laugh from Zaine "You just wait here while I get it" Nicholas informed as he took off in the search for the device

"Unification Day?" Applejack asked tilting her head

"For another day" Zaine replied with a smug smie

Nicholas shuffled in, s gleam off of the side of his robotic face hitting everyponys eye. As he was approaching Zaine he put his hand into his golden trench coat. Out came his hand with a small pen looking object

"A... pen?" Zaine quirked chuckling putting his hands into his light blue tench coat "Do you know how outdated those are?"

"No! Well, kinda I mean" Nicholas stammered only making Zaine's face grow with a bigger look of confusion on his face. "Lemme just explain it, it's a device that looks like a pen, but when you click the top" Nicholas said clicking the top as he said it.

A 2-D horizontal line was projected off of the top of the pen, it hit the top of Nicholas's hair to only travel down his face at a quite slow pace. After the line passed his hair line did something... amazing start to take place. His dark peach skin turned into a dark brown skin as his entire structure of his face turned into another human, and the attire he was wearing turned into a white kilt. The blue line traveled down on Nicholas until it passed his feet to only retreat back into the device.

A few seconds of silence and mouth opening amazement, did only Zaine break the silence "Quite interesting, brother" Zaine put his hand up to his chin to examine the new face before him. "Very interesting..." Zaine repeated, lifting his hand to touch Nicholas's cheek with his index finger which only got him a slap to his hand from Nicholas

"Dude, that's weird" Nicholas playfully insulted hearing giggles all around him

"How is that even possible?" Rainbow asked absolutely shocked

"Because it's not" Nicholas replied silencing the room

"Alright... Now you've completely lost ME" Zaine announced as Nicholas walked toward the projector

Hearing sounds of agreement, Nicholas turned around to face Zaine "You see, this device didn't actually change my face, it changed your perception of me to look like something else"

"Extraordinary..." Zaine cooed "So that means you are actually you and not ... him?" Zaine asked pointing towards his figure

"Exactly" Nicholas answered with a snap with his fingers

"So are we just supposed to do the mission while we look like... this?" Twilight asked unsure of herself at ho to word her sentence

"Ah, but fear not little lady, therefore I have a solution!" Nicholas put on an awful heroic impression. Instantly he put his thumb on top of the pen. He clicked the top of it swiftly. A bright flash took everypony's vision for a milisecond before their eyes adjusted to see properly again. Just like that Nicholas became himself again.

"Now you see me as my normal self, but to other people who were not exposed to the flash, that rewires your perception of me, sees me as the man you saw before I flashed you with the flash" Nicholas explained with a huff at the end.

Zaine clapped his hands slowly "Remarkable! But one more thing... Will it work on our guest here?" Zaine asked gesturing to the nearest pony to him which happened to be Lyra, she rolled her eyes

"Maybe...Who would like to be the first one to try it out?" Nicholas asked the group. The ponies looked at each other with confusion not wanting to try it out.

"I will" Applejack ambitiously stepped in, taking one step towards Nicholas with intimidation

"...Alrighty then" Nicholas awkwardly accepted as they walked to meet up with each other. They stood four feet apart, ready at the hand, Nicholas raised the pen , twisted the top to the right just a smooge, and clicked it "It may feel like something lightly draping against your skin"

"Huh?" Applejack asked, but it was too late, the projected hologram hit the top of Applejack's head and migrated itself down to her hooves, all the while Applejack held in giggles

"Now that it's scanned your 3-D form time to change your appearance to a randomly generated human being" Nicholas announced twisting the top to the right again, and repeating the same action as he did last time

Starting from the hoof up, it travels its way up her forehooves changing its structure to SEEM like it looks like something else. Her hooves transformed into dark skinned feet as her back side dissipated. As the transformation traveled upwards, did very very primitive clothes start to form. She was wearing sandals that were made out of papyrus and palm tree leaves. Human legs started to replace her fore hooves as a white primitive dress started to take form to cover the figure. Strange enough, the transformation continued upward even though there was no more Applejack to travel up to. You could see a human all the way up to the bottom of the neck. But the transformation still continued upward starting to sculpt a face. This part of the process was significantly longer than any of the other parts of the body. It took about a full minute to form the face. Brown eyes, dark hair that was cut short, and weird looking makeup around the eyes.

"Wow..." Everypony besides Nicholas cooed with feelings of astonishment and feelings of not knowing what to say or do

"Now, what Applejack feels and sees is the exact same as before, but to us she looks different." Nicholas explained, hooking the pen on his trench coat "If she speaks, to our eyes, she speaks from the human mouth, if she picks things up, she uses her hands to our eyes. But if we interact with her," Nicholas put his hand through her nonexistent head "let's just say things wont turn out great" He added, pulling his hand out and putting it back to his side

"I am at a loss for words Nicholas, this is amazing!" Zaine praised with excitement, Nicholas gave a little bow out of pride

"One more thing, be precautions at ALL times. Who knows what kinks, or problems will happen if you do something wrong, especially since you have magical properties in your being" Nicholas sternly addressed "Who's next?"

The room erupted with Me's!