Time travelling with Spike and Doctor Whooves.

Chapter 1: Forgotten artifacts.

It was a good day in Ponyville, the pegasi had scheduled a sunny day with only some clouds, and a beautiful light wind to make it even better, everypony was in their vacation routine, the fillies and colts just went out to play with their skateboards and play videogames all day, and the mares were cleaning their houses like the day before, everything was nice and quiet,
like always.

But Miss Rarity wasn't on her house, she was out on a gem hunt like she does every certain amount of time, although, this time she had some company: Twilight and Spike, the local princess and her number one assistant, Twilight Sparkle was helping her friend because she wanted to learn more about gems and their rarities, while Spike only did this to be closer to the mare of his dreams. They were walking to the gem fields with all types of preventions to the Diamond dogs. Everypony was quiet until Rarity spoke:

"Why, Twilight, I still can't think of a way to thank you for helping me and Spikey-Wikey with the gem hunt, darling."

"It's no trouble, Rarity, really, I want to learn more about gems, after all, the more you know, the more you grow, right?" Replied Twilight.

"Of course, Spike, are you having much trouble with the cart, dear?" Asked Rarity to the little dragon, who was starting to fall behind the unicorns.

"Of course not! I'm a tough dragon!" Said Spike sweating, pulling three empty carts, one for each claw and tail he had.

Eventually, they made it there without any obstacles, and so they began to search gems, each time Twilight found one she asked Rarity about its uses and features, and for every hour that passed without Spike eating a single gem, he earned a rare item and a kiss from Rarity, he was already wondering the color of the frame each kiss was going to have, besides, Spike was carrying a backpack to get as many gems as possible without the two mares looking.

They started searching for gems as soon as they settled down, the two unicorns were searching gems on the surface while Spike was doing his part on the insides of a cavern, with his backpack and a little torch to illuminate his path. The morning and some of the afternoon passed quickly, and the two unicorns had two carts full of gems, while the dragon was digging deeper with his claws inside a the cave, he already searched this part the last summer, what was the point of searching this point, then?

Spike then decided to search in another direction, he made another path right next to the part he had already dug, then, the wall in fron of him seemed to crumble, Spike knocked on the wall afterwards. "Hmm, it looks like it's hollow on the other side." He said to himself, appareantly there was nothing on the other side, Spike punched the wall and looked, it was very dark, so he breathed a little bit of fire and pulled out his extinguished torch, when the light was on, Spike looked into the darkness, and he couldn't believe what he saw.

"Hey, guys! Look what I found!" Shouted Spike, the two ponies quickly ran to his side to see what was going on.

"Spike, why did you scream like that? You scared me..." Said Twilight panting, then she saw what Spike meant and was left speechless, Twilight and Rarity lit up their horns to see better, and they saw something... unusual to say the least.

Inside the cavern was some kind of dusty bubble with a door in its right side and two chairs inside, not to mention it had lots of technology inside as well, like a little screen in front of the two seats and a button pad between the two chairs, and something big above them, like a technological circle which had a tube conected to it, and the tube then split into two and connected the two chairs with the rest of the bubble.

Spike approached the strange object with curiosity, and when he came closer he noticed a piece of paper that was stuck with the door of the bubble, Spike pulled out the paper and handed it to Twilight, who was slowly approaching the bubble with Rarity behind her.

"Wow, I've been hunting for gems in this cavern since I came to Ponyville, and I've never seen this before!" Said Rarity.

"What's this, Spike?" Twilight saw the paper and levitated it in front of her face, when it was close enough to the light, she began to read it out loud:

Hello.

My name does not matter anymore, but you should know that I created this time machine, I wish I hadn't done it.

This thing has done nothing more than cause trouble, that's why I left it here, where nopony would ever look for it.

But if you're reading this then it must mean that you found it, please hear my words: DESTROY IT.

Do not use it, your own existence is at risk, please destroy this stupid machine once and for all, finish what I couldn't finish myself. And if you hear my words, DO NOT LET THE MACHINE OUT OF HERE, DESTROY IT HERE, if this cursed artifact fell in the wrong hooves then the Universe itself could be in danger.

I hope you hear me out.

Goodbye.

"That's it, there are no names, direction or anything else, I wonder who they are." Said Twilight, still in surprise at the artifact in front of her.

"This is a TIME MACHINE?! Come on, Twilight, please let us bring it to the castle!" Pleaded Spike.

"Spike, darling, from what I've read on my novels I can tell that travelling through time could be very dangerous, if this even is a time machine." Said Rarity while getting closer to Spike.

"Spike, normally I would be excited to try this, but I've learned the same lesson two times already, one with myself and the other with Starlight: Do not meddle with time, besides, we don't know anything about this, this machine seems way too simple to be able to travel through time, I'm not even sure this thing is what this pony says it is." Said Twilight, putting her hoof on Spike's shoulder.

"Awww, but Twilight..." Attempted Spike.

"Sorry but that's a no, come on, I need your help to cover this thing back up." Replied Twilight

"What? You're not going to destroy it like this pony says?" Asked Spike.

"Of course not, if that thing really is a time machine then I will be skeptical about everything related to it, and what if something explodes if we try to destroy it? Would we be trapped in here until somepony else rescues us? And what if that thing can't be destroyed? Or what if it accidentally brings down the entire tunnel? I must..." Twilight began to imagine so many things that Spike had to stop her by covering her mouth with his claw.

"Okay, I get it, you don't have to imagine all that just because I asked something stupid." Said Spike afterwards, Twilight smiled and the three of them started to go back out of the cavern.

Once out, Twilight and Rarity used their magic to levitate the dirt and rocks from around them and form another wall covering the entrance to the "Time machine", once it was finished, Spike realized something.

"Hey, didn't you say you needed my help?" Protested Spike.

Twilight looked around feeling nervous, then she grabbed a shiny gem and levitated it in front of Spike, who just drooled at the sight. "Come on, Spike, catch it." Then Twilight tossed the gem out of the cavern, with Spike following suit. Rarity chuckled for a moment at this, when she stopped giggling to herself, she looked at Twilight.

"Should we go home now, darling?" Asked Rarity.

"Yes, I got all the information I wanted, and I think you got plenty of gems." Replied Twilight.

Outside, Spike was chewing on the gem, he was still curious about the thing he found inside, and he was planning to do something to find out more about the strange device. 'Hmm, I wonder if that was a real time machine, but I guess Twilight and Rarity won't let me find out, maybe I can do something on my own to know it, what if I go out tonight and I discover how it works? That might be a good idea.'

"Spike! Grab a cart and pack your stuff! Because we are going home now!" Shouted Twilight from the entrance of the cave. Spike did as just as he was asked to do.

'No, it might not work.' Spike thought while grabbing his stuff. 'Even if I get away and get here tonight I don't know anything about time travelling, or technology for that matter.'

"Spike, are you thinking of something?" Said Twilight to his left, Spike was so focused that he didn't hear her come closer.

"Ah, yes, I'm just thinking of something I heard the other day about my favorite team of Hoofball." Twilight didn't know anything about Hoofball, so she just shrugged it off.

'Oh, I know! Maybe later I can go visit Doctor Whooves! He is great with this technology-timey-wabby-weird stuff, maybe he can help me figure out if this thing really works! Besides, he is a scientist, right? I bet he won't deny the chance of travelling through time, if this thing really can do it.' Spike thought while he pulled his cart full of gems, tonight was going to be a blast.

If everything went well, it would be a blast from the past ;)

Author's Note

SURPRISE!!!

I bet none of you were expecting this, and to be honest, neither did I.

So, this story will be complicated at some points, because some of you will have differences in your way of imagining the space-time continuity and paradoxes, but there's no need to rub your ideas in the comments, this is MY version of the timelines, and YOU have your own concept, I hope we can all get along.

Also, the story will have some romance in the future, be prepared for your bags to puke because the shipping is getting ready to start!

And last: There will be ponified versions of some time periods in history, and some of them can be pretty bad, so don't be so harsh on me

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this little project of mine!

I'll see ya in the next chapter, goodbye!