The Time Veil Fail

Chapters

The Search for a Mother
New to School
Saved by Silver
Conundrums Hurt My Head
How it All Started

The Search for a Mother

The ponies moved Daniel in his sleep to Twilight's house. They made a makeshift pallet for him to sleep on so he could rest as it seemed as he hadn't slept in days. They discussed what to do with him.

"Uh. What...ah mean...where do we put em?" Applejack asked. All of them agreed on one thing. He needed somewhere to stay, but the question was who would take care of him.

"Ooh ooh ooh! I know I know! He can stay with that one pony! Um....whatshername...Laurie? Layra? Leerey?” Pinkie couldn't stop bouncing up and down. Everyone knew exactly which mare the pink party pony meant.

"Lyra! Oh my gosh she is perfect! She is absolutely obsessed with humans! That means she would be able to take care of him!" TWilight screamed loudly. Everyone gasped at the same time. The light aquamarine pony was "THE ONE" for the job! Humans were her life. She sat like them, acted like them, and did everything she could to be just like the odd creatures.

"I'll find her!" Rainbow said before zooming off.

"...uh...Rainbow...wrong way..." Fluttershy whispered just loud enough for the brightly colored pegasus to hear her. Twilight hoofpalmed. Rainbow Dash blushed and turned and flew the other direction.

"That mare would get nowhere fast without help." Rarity snapped. She quickly realised she said that out loud and apologized. They walked through Ponyville looking for Lyra. After checking every house, but one they found her. Her Bon Bon and Carrot Top were at Carrot's house gossiping about other mares.

"Oh he-EEeek!" Lyra screeched while being dragged off by her mane. Carrot Top and Bon Bon just stared wide eyed at the slowly disappearing pony. They walked, well...everyone except Lyra and Pinkie. Lyra being dragged and Pinkie hopping somewhat impossibly around. After a while Lyra just let it happen angrily. Finally they reached the library.

"Why did you girls dra-Is that a..!?! Is he!?!? OH WOW O WOW O WOW!!!" Lyra shrieked. She ran and pulled up a chair and sat, ...huh? Oh yeah. Pinkie says like a human.

Consciousness slowly crept back to Daniel. He opened his eyes once again. There they are again...those ponies...and a new one staring straight at him. Did I just imagine that they talked?

"Wakey wakey lemon shakey!" said the pink one. Well that answers that question. So lets think, I'm in a place where ponies talk. Daniel slowly reached towards the one in the chair in front of him. She started smiling widely. His hand slowly brushed her mane. She nuzzled his hand and then grinned cutely.

"Uh...so...you can talk? What is your name?" Daniel questioned. She acted like she had just won a million dollars.

"Oh I'm Lyra!" the mare stated. Well...this is a start Daniel thought.

It turns out Lyra was going to be the one watching him while he was here. Well. Might as well get used to it.

So um...Chem here again...I just wanted to say...this is just getting to the story. More or less filling in empty spaces in the background story. Um...please rate and comment...-Chem <3

New to School

Lyra said I had to go to SCHOOL. Ugh I can't believe this. It's so....lame. I don't know anyone here or anything. I just want to say home and watch cartoons. Wait do they even have cartoons here? Everyone, I mean, everypony is staring at me. I know I’m a human, but this is just creepy. Oh well. Lyra told the teachers name is....Cheerilee? Yeah that's it. This whole ponies talking thing confuses me still.

"Everypony this is Daniel Richards. He is a human that will be attending class with us. Please welcome him and treat him as one of your own" Cheerilee said simply. The little fillies all started whispering immediately at the mention of a human.

"A human?" "Those exist?" "Look how weird he is!" "I bet he doesn't even have a cutie mark!" they whispered. Daniel expected this much, but that last one he heard. A cutie mark? Is that the things on their back side?

"Ma'am? Uh Miss Cheerilee? What is a cutie mark...?" This seemed like an obvious question to Daniel. The immediate rush of confused and shocked fillies became way to loud.

"Let's quite down please, we have a very important lesson to get to, ...thank you." Cherilee commanded. "However a cutie mark is something us ponies get when we find our special skills. Go ahead and take a seat next to Applebloom and Silver Spoon." Um. Okay. I guess that she means her.

"Well howdy ahm Applebloom. So you're Daniel?" Daniel explained that she was right. "This here is Scootaloo, and that is Sweetie Belle. We are the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Those two that were makin' fun of ya are Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Don't worry about em, they are just bullies." "Oh and that colt over there is Walkeen. He's only been here a day longer than you have. He's with us."

"Ahem. If you two are done I'll continue with today's lesson. We will be learning about humans! Now since we don't know that much about humans would you care to give us a brief introduction to your species Daniel?" As Daniel stuttered his way through a rough draft of humans time passed quickly.

"Okay Daniel. That is enough for now it's time for recess."

Finally something fun to do. Everypony, and human, ran outside. Daniel made it outside last not wanting to get crushed by tiny hooves.

"Hiya. The names Walkeen. Just transferred from upstate don't ya know." After the introductions were all done and over Daniel ran around chasing the Cutie Mark Crusaders for a while. Making his final lap he glanced left and saw someone watching him. He was thinking who's that right as he tripped and fell. However he landed right on a certain pony.

"Oh I'm sorry Silver Spoon I tripped." Daniel apologized. "I guess I just got...distracted?" Silver Spoon blushed bright red.

"Its quite alright I can assure you." Silver caught Diamond Tiara glaring at her. "Oh, um, I mean get off me you...fool." This concerned Daniel. She was just fine with it...and that pony...watching me who was he?"

"Come on everypony! Recess is over!" Daniel thought he was the only one that saw the stallion, but Cheerilee had too. She vowed to find out who he was, but now was not the time. Daniel just daydreamed the rest of the school day. Who was he. What did he want from me.

"Um Lyra! I'm home!" Daniel shouted through the house. Where is that silly mare? "Lyra!? Where are you?" ...where could she be? Daniel walked into Lyra's room. Awh. There she is. She is quite cute when she's asleep..."You rest your sleepy head Lyra. I’m just going to sleep here. Daniel curled up at the foot of the bed. He giggled at the irony before falling asleep dreaming of that mysterious stallion and that one filly....

Hello Everyone. I hope you like the story so far...but so much conversation...haha-Chem<3

Saved by Silver

"Good morning Daniel. I've made you a mixture of oats and fruits mixed with water." Lyra smiled and said. Daniel thought to himself...wouldn't that be oatmeal? He decided it was better to not say anything. Hmm it's actually pretty good.

"So I learned a little about cutie marks at school yesterday, and I saw yours last night and was wondering what your special talent was." Instead of telling him Lyra decided to show him. The melody Daniel heard was simply jaw dropping. He closed his eyes letting the vibrating strings of the lyre pull him into a hypnotic state. "It's amazing Lyra. Thank you for that.”

Shortly after that Daniel headed off to hang out with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Oh there is their treehouse. He headed off in that direction only to be interrupted a few steps later.

"Heeeey maaaan. Want some cupcakes" The odd stallion with the cupcake on his rear said.

"Uh...I don't rea-" Daniel sputtered.

"Nah the pineapples hate cupcakes. The only like to eat Rarity's hats." Said a blue pegasus that came out of nowhere.

"I..what!? You guys need help." Daniel said while slowly backing up. The cupcake stallion reared up at him.

"I NEED you for the CUPCAKES!" The stallion said twitching. Right before getting kicked in the mouth.

"You leave him ALONE!" Silver Spoon screamed. "Come on Daniel!" Daniel was confused, but followed the filly into the center of Sweet Apple Acres.

"Thank you! I...have no idea what I would have done without you. You saved me!" Daniel gushed. This caused the filly to blush bright red once again. She was grinning like a, well...the best Daniel could describe was like a little schoolgirl.

"It was nothing. I just couldn't let someone as intriguing as you get hurt. I apologize for the darker side of Equestria. Daniel said nothing but just hugged Silver Spoon tightly. She turned a hue she had never before. "Let’s, um, get you to the CMC treehouse."

"Can you come and hang out with us?" Daniel pleaded. He didn't want to admit it but he had a crush on grey pony.

"They don't really like me." said quietly. She glanced around looking for Diamond Tiara. Not seeing her anywhere around she took her glasses off. Daniel gave her a weird look. "Oh I don't really need them....Diamond Tiara just thinks I look like more uptight with them."

"They just need to see who you really are." Daniel smiled. "You’re actually nice and kind."

"Diamond Tiara can't know. She would never forgive me." They discussed telling the other ponies, but decided to wait for another time. "Have fun Daniel. I'll see you another time." said before slowly walking away.
Daniel walked up the path to the treehouse and got a nervous chill. He spun around and saw that same stallion galloping away. "I’m going to find out who you are..." He whispered to himself.

"Who ya talkin' to eh?" Walkeen asked.

"Oh, um, no one dude." Daniel stated. Why is he following me. Why won't he just show his self.

"Hey wakey wakey!" Scootaloo said. Daniel snapped out of his daydream and headed into the treehouse.

"Um....I like Silver Spoon. She is epic. Just saying :D -Chem<3

Conundrums Hurt My Head

"Aw, Danny Wanny has a crush on Silver Spoon!" This has been nonstop for the past hour or so. I kinda told them that she is nice and they should trust her more. Oh well.

"Leave the guy alone eh? He's had enough torture for now." Finally the only other male sticks up for me. Other than teasing me constantly we have been playing hammer toss. Some weird game that Sweetie Belle said her sister taught her how to play. You toss a hammer and catch it with your teeth, and I'm kinda partial on playing this game.

"Applebloom! Daniel! It's time for yall to head home." We heard Applejack yell. Applebloom got a real sad look on her face.

"Aw shucks. Uh guys ah guess we will hang out later." We all agreed to meet up again next week because I had things to do all weekend.

I headed home by myself walking on the edge of Ponyville. Huh? I heard a whirring sound behind me. As I turned around a flash of light brown running away. "Hey stop! Who are you!?" He's headed for the schoolhouse maybe I can catch him! I took off running after him but by the time I reached the school he was already around back and I was out of breath. Why in the world did I think I could catch a full grown stallion...I gave up and walked around the corner.

"Now would you like to explain yourself? You have been stalking my students the past two days. What do you want from us?" Cheerilee had cornered the stallion! That is so cool!

"Um this seems a lot worse than it is. Ah here I'll explain. He reached into his saddlebags. "Now this lovely creature you see behind me, is a human. A very special one at that. However in a profession such at mine you don't just jump to conclusions.

"Wait so you have been...examining me!?" Daniel asked. "Just who do you think you are?"

"Ah well. Finally an easy question. In this dimension they call me Doctor Whooves." It turns out the odd stallion seemed to be an even more odd time traveler. Somehow it seems his time machine the "Tardis" crashed upon arrival here. He had been following and watching me because, well, I seemed to have discovered how to travel time and space when I was older. This all gave me a VERY big headache. Doctor Whooves explained that I was extraordinarily lucky that I wasn't turned into Dalek fodder. Whatever a Dalek is. He claimed to be the looking for a way to fix the Tardis, but seeing as how he hasn't had to fix it yet in the past he can't fix it in the present without advice from a future him. Yeah my brain hurts real bad. "So I want you to become my apprentice and maybe we can work things out." The Time Lord said. I glanced at Cheerilee looking for approval. I mean he had a good enough story for me.

"Alright, but if you aren't who you claim to be and you touch a SINGLE hair on his body I won't hesitate to get the entire town after you." My teacher said. You know...for a teacher she is pretty awesome. "However that can wait until later. Daniel needs to rest. Run home Lyra is most likely worried about you."

"Lyra I'm back!" I heard giggling from the kitchen. Walking from the front door I saw a cream colored pony with Lyra. "Hey Lyra. Who's this"

"Oh Daniel. This is Bon Bon. She is my best friend." The cream color pony giggled and smiled.

"Nice to meet you Bon Bon. Well im tired. Im headed up to sleep" While making his way upstairs he overheard the two talking.

"See! I told you humans are real!"

"Yeah yeah. I guess I owe you one." Bon Bon said.

"It's ok...I'm sure you can make it up to me..." Yeah. She is DEFINITELY going to be explaining that one in the morning.

As I laid down I couldn't help but smile at all the exciting things going on in my life. I remembered my dream from last night. Silver was in it. Didn't someone say that if you dreamt about someone, well somepony, that means they were thinking of you before you went to sleep. This made me smile even more as I closed my eyes to sleep.

Im just going to state that writing from the Doctors prespective is very hard. Thinking like 900 year old time traveling space alien isn't easy ._. Oh well. Hope you liked it.-Chem<3

How it All Started

"Daniel flick that switch." Timothy Eirsfield commanded. Daniel had been dozing off due to sleep deprivation.

"Huh? What? OH!" Daniel stuttered rapidly. He flipped the switch and heard hissing and whirring and all other sorts of noises. The noises were Daniel's favorite part of being a scientist, being surrounded by the sounds of mechanical activity always calmed him. He could get lost in the sounds for days. The only thing that brought him back to Earth was his senior officer of the "Time Veil" experiment occasional queries and statements.

"Daydreaming again were you? Ha I understand, it's ok." Timothy teased right before multiple sirens blasted from above. The sound was deafening causing both men to fall and clutch their injured ears. Unfortunately Daniel stepped on a small puddle of oil.

This was new. This sound... it was...falling. Yes thats what it is. This is what it sounds like to fall. Maybe this is just a dream. Glancing to his left there was a black hole caused by the Time Veil. Oh...nope not a dream he thought before being sucked into the whirling death machine of nature.

Time...we figured out...was just a cloak. All time is happening at the same moment just...altered. We needed to go back. Time was one thing we didn't have. So we created it. The end of the world was coming. Just as the Mayans stated, but that was just coincidence and mere luck. The end it seems came it a comical way. The Earth was going to simply implode. All volcanoes would erupt and the tectonic plates would collapse. The only solution was to go back. Convince other we needed to stabilize the core.

Mistakes. Regret. Pain. Anger. Daniel felt all of these as he swirled in a void. A place between time and space. We made a mistake. Our calculations were wrong. The ground beneath us had crumpled like tissue paper way before we had predicted. Now it was over. He closed his eyes drifting off into what he thought would be an eternal sleep.

"You needed us Zecora?" Twilight Sparkle asked curiously. The message Zecora had sent was urgent and jumbled, as if the writer was rushed and confused.

"I have traveled far and wide, but a glance at this I tried. My brain cannot comprehend what I see before my eyes." Zecora rhymed.

"Um, im not even sure that rhymed silly" Pinkie Pie laughed. The Mane Six had arrived at Zecora's hut as she requested thinking of some outlandish zebra ritual. What Zecora showed them was way different. Unlike anything they had seen before.

"I found it in a bush surrounded by fire. I doused the flame to find out what had transpired." The creature was...odd. It seemed to be sleeping, but they were cautious all the same. The thing was covered in cloth that just didn't seem to fit.

"...um...what is it...?" Fluttershy quietly pondered.

"I bet it's a hairless monkey!" Rainbow Dash yelled which caused everypony to glance angrily at her.

"I don't know what it is, but that cloth it’s wearing is simply hideous." Rarity stated. "It's a human sillies!" Pinkie blurted. She then went on to talk about how she once had hung out with a human on Earth for a whole week.

"Uhm a what and where now Pinkie?" Applejack asked.

"Wait. I've seen this before girls. Starswirl the Bearded ran into one of these on his adventures through the stars. They are known as...." Twilight paused as she reached in her saddlepack. "...Homosapien. They live in an alternate dimension in which they are the dominant species."

"Are yall crazy!? This is crazy!" Applejack screamed causing the "human" to stir waking up from his sleep.

Daniels head spun. Where am I? What in the...OMIGOSH THOSE HORSIES ARE TALKING!!! He screamed at the top of his lungs as he started crying. Eight year old Daniel tended to cry and fuss a lot, but this was a new level of hissy fits.

"Um...Hi, I'm Twilight." He heard right before fainting.

Um. Hi. I wrote this today because I had an idea last night....I think I will keep writing it....Hope you enjoyed.-Chem <3