Time Traveling Archaelogist

by RDDash

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Sweetie Belle, Mystery, Rainbow Dash, Science Fiction, Crossover, Sex, Daring Do
Length: 2492

They say there is a castle right in the center of abandoned city. The answers can be found 150 in the past.

The year is 157 of Friendship Era.
Equestria has entered into the second golden age.
The time traveling spell had been worked on, and improved so much that traveling time has been increased from few minutes to almost infinity.
They say there is a castle in abandoned city.
In it you could find a well preserved Alicorn's skeleton.
So far cause of death is 2 inch hole drilled right into center of a skull.
Nopony knows who did it and why, Alicorn's identity is also unknown.
With Princess Twilight blessing time traveling agency organized an investigation.
The idea was to send a pony into the past, keep low profile and observe.

One mare volunteered, can she do it without getting caught?

Published 2017-08-09 02:50:06 UTC
Last updated 2017-08-09 02:50:06 UTC

Chapter 1

The year is 157 of Friendship Era.

After Starlight Glimmer perfected the time travel spell in the year 7, allowing the user to travel back in time for as long as they wished. As well as to be triggered remotely based on the certain conditions. The Equestrian Kingdoms government realized that the spell was a can full of worms. So at first in an effort to control it, they made the spell public. The idea failed spectacularly when time travel anomalies started to show up all over across Equestria.

After that fiasco, The Parliament voted 254 to 46 in favor of banning the time travel spell from public use. So then the spell had been removed from the public domain, and the knowledge of the spell had been obliviated from ponies minds.

Then it was declared to create a government run agency tasked with investigating those anomalies. The agency directly reports to the Friendship Council.
The Friendship Council is made up of six Alicorns, A Princess Twilight, and her five advisors: Pinkie Pie, Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity.

The reason for the title Advisor and not a Princess was quite simple. When Rainbow ascended into an Alicorn she politely refused the title of the Princess of Equestria. She said she doesn’t need all of that frou frou. It was uncommon, for an Alicorn to refuse but it did happen from time to time. In the year 20 of Friendship Era Alicorns had been officially demoted from the ruling classes, The Princess became nothing but an honorary title. At the same time, the house of Nobles had been restructured into The Parliament with 300 members by default.

Speaking of Alicorns refusing the title of The Princess, some of them were more vocal than others. For example, Sunset Shimmer was quite furious and demanded to shove the title, where the sun didn’t shine. “I’ve gone through a lot of crap in my life just to achieve this title. The obsession ruined my life, and now I don’t want it. Would you please just shove it where the Sun doesn’t shine, " she said, turned 180 degrees and went through the mirror back to her home.

A pegasus mare by the name of Compass Rose was about to have her destiny changed. She was really excited. She was standing in front of Friendship Castle, and she was one of many to be selected for a mission.

The door opened, “Oh hello, hello, you are a bit early today, please come in, " said an earth pony with glasses.

Compass was slightly confused, that mare was extremely cheerful, unusually fast, and it feels like she was everywhere at once.

“Hi, my name is Compass Rose and you are?”

Mare blinked, “Oh, Of course, how rude of me, my name is Shiny Spectacle and I am personal secretary of Princess Twilight. I am sure you know this already but we need to repeat this as part, of should we say official record.”

Compass nodded, Shiny Spectacles grinned “This is exciting part, you see, you are an adventurer type so you will like this, aren’t you?” Compass nodded again “Excellent! Now then,” are tapped her hoof once, as per command the magic powered projector clicked and the presentation started.

“The mission is to investigate the time anomaly # 161.4, alternatively named ‘the castle’, similarly to the Evevefree castle ruins that are located in the former Everfree Province,” mare started chatting. “Now see there?” Another hoof tap, new slide changed, “here is our mystery. This castle located right in the middle of the abandoned city. Here is a clicker though, our specialists discovered a skeleton belonging to the now diseased Alicorn mare. Approximate age, I would say, is about 20-25 upon the time of death. We don’t know what exactly happened, but whatever it was, it happened about 150 years or so ago. That what our specialists are able to conclude.”

Shiny tapped her hoof twice, projector clicked and shut off.

“Water?”

“Excuse me?” asked Compass.

“Would you like some water before the mission starts? I mean if you don’t want to,” mare shrugged “My job is only to ask.”

“Oh, um, okay, sure, thanks for the offer.”

Hearing that Shiny beamed she then went to a nearby fridge and opened. Compass followed her and then took a bottle of water inside.

“If you would, please follow me into the next room,” so they did “Now then please stand inside,” she gestured towards pony sized container. She then quickly shoved Ms. Compass inside, closed the lid and activated a switch. Buzzing tone sounded, hearing that she quickly pushed a few buttons and rotated the rotary device. Another buzzer sounded, portal activated and the container with its passenger sucked inside.

“Bye Bye, please send a postcard in the next decade or so,” said Shiny, feeling a someponys presence, she turned her head to the right. “Oh hi, boss mare didn’t hear you come in.”

“Was all of that theatrics really necessary?”

“Well, it was certainly was fun.”

“Ahem?”

“Oh right,” Shiny Spectacle tapped her hoof one last time, Twilight blinked, Shiny Spectacle vanished in her place stood Rainbow Dash, she still carried her glasses Her cutie mark and horn glows soft silver for a second.

“Is this like your first time? I mean the first time for you to see me do this, not the first time for your stallion in bed. Or do you prefer mares?”

“Rainbow! Shut it,” Twilight blushed “I mean honestly, so immature. We’ve been over this.”

“What can I say I did have good teachers,” Rainbow flashed an innocent smile.

“We're one of those teachers happen to be pissed off former Changeling Queen?”

“She might have been, I mean I pulled a few favors back in the day.”

Year 975 of Celestia Reign.

Lightning cracked in the sky, portal popped open and the container fell on the ground, the portal closed.

Compass Rose sighed, “This is the last time I will time travel by a fridge. Oh, wait how would I go back,” those fridges or capsules need it to be reprogrammed by the specialist, and well without them time traveling fridge were useless.

Remembering the guidelines Compass quoted the lines “Time traveling agents need to use cover identity. Never ever use your real name.”

Compass stood up, “Now then I always wanted to be an Archaeologist. How about Daring Do? Oh, I know AK Yearling, the famous writer who writes stories about Daring Do’s adventures,” Compass gasped “This is perfect, I can be both of them at the same time.”

Author's Note

Yep, Daring Do was originally a mare named Compass Rose.
Her magical ability called "Trouble Maker".

Thank you all for reading this chapter.

Chapter 2

Sometime in season 5.

Loud crashing noise was heard. Well, I am fully awake now, now let's see whats all the racket was about? Thought Rainbow, she went downstairs opened the safe door and took the gold pocket watch and a sonic screwdriver. Honestly, she hated both devices, loathed actually.

Next, she opened a secret compartment and took mark 29 plasma pistol, "Honor Guard" had been printed on the barrel of the gun. The gun had been decorated with an image of a cobra frozen right in the middle of an attack. Seemed fitting at the time, the gun would kill everything in one shot, the second strike will disintegrate the target into a good.

Rainbow checked a battery charge 03/60 have been displayed. Rainbow took a spare battery and reloaded the pistol. This is the last one, need to manufacture more.

She did have other weapons in the ship's armory. Everything from ballistics to energy. For example, lasers were a lot more accurate than plasma but weaker in firepower, plasmas were powerful but extremely inaccurate. However, this gun was her personal favorite, a compact mini canon for a personal protection. This particular model had been manufactured by Ironhoof's Equestrian Warehouse in the year of 292 of Unification Era. What else filly needs?

Satisfied she tucked plasma pistol into a pocket of dirt brown coat she wore. She then went to the edge of the cloud house and took a dive. Clear, Fly, Fall, Complete, echoed in her head. She quickly dived into the ground, wings snapped open, she then bounced on the ground. She rolled to the side and expertly pulled a pistol with her wing.

3.01 seconds, still got it. Right in front of her was a little filly, Sweetie Belle. Rainbow visibly relaxed, "Oh, it's just you, report."

After processing the vocal command Sweetie Belle responded, "As you wish captain, as I did tell you earlier I was spending my day off with Button Mash," she said, "As I was about to kiss him, that thing fell right on top of us, " she quickly whispered.

Rainbow nodded, which prompted Sweetie Belle to enter the stand by mode. In front of her were debris of wood painted blue, lots of lots debris. Rainbow noticed something. Rainbow's eyes widened. Police Call Box. No way! No way in Tartarus!

"Command code 6.4-0 enter the sentry mode, extend the detection radius of 200 light minutes, disengage primary locks 0 -20," Rainbow barked orders.

"Yes ma'am, disengaging primary locks 0 -20, torpedoes are armed and ready to fire on your mark" equidroid reported back.

"Good," Rainbow said. If anypony foolish enough to ambush them right now, there is going to be a very very cold winter in Tartarus.

Rainbow still needed to deal with AI's boyfriend. Love Tap would kill her if anything would happen to Button Mash, she would then dig up her corpse and try to kill her again. Rainbow quickly found his body, Still alive, that's good.

"Beam him up into ships medical bay, beam all of this into the storage area, and mass produces 50 type 29 plasma pistol batteries."

"Yes captain, ma'am!" After a few flashes of light and a few seconds later, colt and debris disappeared.

"Ma'am, sensors detected hostile activity in the castle."

"Alright, I'll handle it. " It would seem that it was true what they say, there's no rest for the wicked.

Rainbow accelerated, a few wing flaps, and glided right on top of the castle's balcony. "Target is 200 meters North, North west, 20 meters downward."

Rainbow Dash pulled her trusty gun and went downstairs. It was dark, Rainbow only noticed that the target was some pegasus mare. She quickly knocked her out and attached a microchip on her, two seconds later the intruder was beamed on the ship. Interrogate plus a memory wipe. Standard procedure at this point.

Rainbow sighed, right now she needs it to sleep, but still not yet. "Beam me up."

"Aye aye, captain, " next second Rainbow disappeared as well. She was in ships cargo supply storage area number 12. In front of her was an equidroid. She was tired and prisoner can wait

" Wake me up in two hours please, I'll be in my office." Sweetie Belle nodded in confirmation.

Flashback to the season 4.

It was supposed to be simple plan, annoy her friends until they all agreed to join her on a journey to annoy the famous writer AK Yearling. Eventually AK Yearling would be annoyed enough and would just gave away an early copy of the book. That should work right?

So anyway everything well, until Rainbow conned her friends to help out Daring Do on her adventure. Rainbow would just leave Daring alone, but something told her she would had to take on the mantle of a dead pegasus buried somewhere in the temple.

There is also something else bothered Rainbow, a very faint taint of time distortion magic that followed Daring around everywhere she went. I am sure its nothing Rainbow shrugged off.

Back to the present. 5 a.m. local time, Space Destroyer "Crusader's Fury" high orbit of the Moon of Equus Star System. Approximate location Horsehead nebula.

Rainbow woke up, and remembered everything that happened last night. Feeling lazy, like if she didn't really wanted to deal with intruder, she thought that maybe if she just pretended to be asleep, then an automated winking device would beam her back to Poniville at what time it was again 7 am? "I am sure that mare would be fine" Rainbow whispered, her eyes studying an utilitarian design of her bedroom.

Door opened, a small filly unicorn came in. Rainbow sighted, "So, what did you managed to found out about our guest."

"Well, I don't know what she was doing there, but it does looklike that our guest is no other than Daring Do,"
responded Sweetie Belle.

Really? Hm, weird, maybe it was a false alarm, and... oh shoot that makes the whole thing looked like I was overreacted.

"Haha, yeah, false alarm." Sweetie responded nervously, "Oh yeah, It would seemed that our patient had been recovered, and the box repaired itself."

"Repaired itself?" Rainbow whispered. It would seemed that Love Tap wouldn't try to kill Rainbow this time.

"Yep she does that," Sweetie beamed happily "Although she was sad that she lost her master".

" Sad, huh?" Rainbow said remembering a chestnut stallion, who goes by the name of Doctor and liked gingers. "You neurolinked with another AI didn't you? No matter, no big deal."

Maybe someday Rainbow would restore his memory, but why would she? Stallion seemed to be happy with his ordinary life. There is no reason to bother him, he deserved a nice long vacation.

"Alright lets go meet our guest," Rainbow said.

10 minutes later.

"No! Not the fridge! Anything but the fridge!" Daring panicked.

"You'll live", Rainbow shrugged and shoved Daring into escape capsule, which ironically called Fridge and was shaped like one. Rainbow pressed the button, capsule jettisoned and floated in space for a few seconds. Capsule adjusted its trajectory and set course to the planets surface.

"Make sure to pick up that capsule, for recycling and reuse, " ordered Rainbow.

"Aye Aye captain," responded Sweetie Belle her sensors already calculated coordinates of a capsule landing site.

Author's Note

Thank you, Brutal Weather for another inspiration video, here is a backstory of how Rainbow Dash acquired Type - 40 TARDIS for her own sinister uses. Also, thanks Deleted Pony Videos, for restoring this video.

The Cutie Remark Prequel.

mark 29 Plasma Pistol is borrowed from a fan made game Fallout Equestria by Empalu or pfe for short

http://empalu.deviantart.com

Sweetie Bell magical ability called "Pinocchio", based on famous toymaker the ability is the compliment to a super advanced starship AI.
its primary function is to micromanage the 700 meters long Space Destroyer "Crusader's Fury".
Armaments as follows: 8 x21 inch magic beam turrets, 20 ship to ship "Bite Me" necromancer torpedoes.

Thank you, everyone, for reading this chapter.