Time Disruption: The Story of Midnight and Spectrum

by Shadic Midnight Blitzer

Rating: teen
Tags: Violence, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, My Little Pony Comic, Sad, Other, Princess Luna, Original Character, King Sombra, Adventure, Princess Celestia, Tragedy
Length: 6547

Midnight and Spectrum. Two different mothers, one father. Both Brothers and Half Brothers, and yet they are also not even brothers at the same time. Who are they, and how will this tie in with the future?

Midnight and Spectrum, brothers, half-brothers, and non-brothers. They existed in parallel dimensions, but yet, while different, they are the same. While each have their own mother, they have a common father. Both abandoned for a thousand years, dormant in a strange limbo after the fall of their parent's kingdom. But even though on opposing sides, their actions will have a ever-lasting effect on the generations to come. This is the story about their past, present, and future. This is the story about.....

Midnight and Spectrum.

Published 2019-02-21 21:40:01 UTC
Last updated 2019-04-21 17:16:17 UTC

Before Equestria

A blue alicorn waited for two other alicorns to wake up. The first one was a black male alicorn with a blue mane that had golden stars covering it. His wings starts out black but latter at the tips of some feathers they turn blue, and the same was with his blue horn. His cutie mark was a blue star which was covered by a crescent moon, and around his neck was a necklace that bared Luna's symbol, hinting that he had some type of association with the lunar princess or queen, depending on where and when he came.

The other alicorn seemed to be exactly the opposite of the first. His fur was white and his cutie mark actually seemed to be a combination of three. It was a black, white, and grey star, and there seemed to be a spiky circle in the center, and all that ended with a strange aura around it. Both of them had scars of previous battles and both of them looked worn out. The blue alicorn took one look at them, filled a bucket with water, and splashed it over their faces.

Both alicorns instantly woke up, coughing from the water

"What the heck is wrong with you!?" The white alicorn said, standing up, shaking the water off of his fur. His rainbow eyes changed to red as he glared at the blue alicorn.

"Yeah! Don't you see our condition?!" The other dark alicorn said, glaring at the blue alicorn with his red eyes. The blue alicorn rolled his eyes.

"Yes. I did. If I didn't then I would've left you two to die in that void that was consuming you." The blue alicorn said. The two looked at each other a little bit uneasy, knowing that they just insulted the one that saved them from a potential everlasting death. The blue alicorn sighed.

"My name is Time Ticker, one of the first alicorns born into this universe. But now let me ask you a question....who are you two?" Time Ticker asked. The two looked at each other, wondering who should say their name first.

"My name is Spectrum." The white alicorn said.

"And I'm Midnight." The dark alicorn said. The blue alicorn faced-hoofed.

"I asked who are you not what are your names." Time Ticker said. The two looked bewildered at him.

"Ugh! You are so complicated!" Spectrum said. Time Ticker rolled his eyes.

"Time IS sorta complicated...." Time Ticker said, pacing around them. "....but there are some things even MORE complicated than time. Like you two." Time Ticker said. He pulls out a scroll. "You two have very different but similar lives. While you both exist in different dimensions, roughly everything is more or less the same. Tell me more about yourselves." Time Ticker said.

"And if we don't?" Midnight asked. Time Ticker looked at him.

"Look I'm trying to help you. I could just erase you two from time and start everything over from scratch. That's the thing about having to control time. You have to make sure that you don't accidentally change the wrong thing, or the whole timeline might even collapse. So start talking." Time Ticker said.

"You're not giving us much a choice, right?" Spectrum said. Time Ticker sighed.

"Wished I could ACTUALLY give you more than two choices, but time is a bit picky. I don't have much control of it. I'm just the guy that tries to fix everything." Time Ticker said.

"But we got our friends! Our family! All of them are depending on us! We can't let them be stuck in that crisis for more than a minute!" Midnight exclaimed.

"I solved that problem a long time ago. Here, time moves so slow that we can be here for billions of years and not even a single second even passed in the outside world. It just freezes. Perfect to chit-chat with you two for a while." Time Ticker said. The two sighed.

"Alright! We'll tell you about our lives. But promise that once we finish you'll take us back home!" Spectrum said. Time Paradox shook his head.

"Nope. If you actually want to succeed in that battle of yours, you got to train with me before you can go. Luckily I'm a man who keeps his promises so after preparing you two, I'll let you go wherever you two want." Time Ticker said. The two alicorns looked at each other, before sighing.

"Okay, we'll tell you our story."

Saga: Before Equestria

Chapter One: The Division

There was a tale about a prosperous nations existing way before Equestria was even founded, in fact, way before those founders were even born. And before their parents were born. And before that generation and that generation and that generation, going all the way back to the first thousand years.....of chaos.

In those times, there was no pony to control basic things like life, time, space, such things. With these ponies not existing, chaos ruled. It was such much that even Discord's chaos would pale against it. Things like Time Remnants, beings who existed outside of time and wrecked havoc through it, roamed around. Ponies would suddenly drop dead and come back to life years later. A pony would be walking on the ground and suddenly find themselves thousands of feet above the ground and fall to their deaths. Unicorns couldn't control their magic, pegasus couldn't control the weather, climates suddenly changed, so one day it would be over 100 degrees and the next it would be in the negatives. Everyone suffered, even the ones who loved chaos. They wanted a change. They started to become desperate.

It was at that point that the first alicorns were born/created/made (whatever way you like to say). A normal pony couldn't handle the stress of intense magic, but a alicorn could. And slowly these bearers started to control their respective elements. Time was stabilized, the weather did not go out of hand, life became a predictable cycle, and no one would teleport accidentally to another place without knowing or deciding. Their names were unknown but many knew them by what type of element they controlled: Time, Space, Heat, Magic, Life, and Chaos. Each one eventually had children of their own who bared their forefather's element. Some found a family in each other, and others found one whom they both love and found worthy to become the mother of the one who would control their element. The family of royals was born and while all of them started out non-alicorn born, they eventually become alicorns, some as old as 21 and others as young as 2. Since they were mostly pure alicorns, that meant that they were all immortal, and so a kingdom was born. Each of the first 6 alicorns ruled distinct districts, where each set up their own little nation, and each would bring up some issues or discussions from each district. Peace was made, and that peace would rule for a long time.

But if something goes up, it must go down. Technology had reached beyond the stars. Everything went so well, until the war with the Remnants began.

The war was a harsh one. The Time Remnants pulled fighters from various worlds and timelines, and anyone who didn't had a high enough power level was defeated, captured, or killed. The kingdom was on a verge of collapse. But slowly the first of the alicorns gathered all the strength and might and technology they possessed and finally went all-out against this threat. The threat upon seeing technology and power that have never been seen, nor will ever be seen, was defeated. And for a time, peace was restored.

But upon realizing that their era was the only era that will ever be on top other the others, and upon realizing that if their kingdom would be ever defeated that their enemy would be undefeated forever, they started the project called Project Armageddon, otherwise known as the project that will become the fall of the kingdom. They sent all of their subjects in a sleep that would last a hundred years, and sent their heirs through different timelines and places, making sure that they would be reborn in that timeline, unaware of what their previous life was, and then the first ever born alicorns destroyed everything created in their reign, making sure that it couldn't be accessible, even by time travel, before sending themselves away for good.

No one actually was sure if this was all true, and if it was true, what happened to those six, nor what happened to those heirs. When everyone woke up, their memories about the great kingdom was gone. Unbeknownst to them about the great order they had, they slowly separated themselves into the three tribes, and the heirs of that great kingdom mixed their blood with those that were left behind, and following their fore-fathers footsteps, they too left this world. And finally, the last alicorn born was gone, and for a long time, no more appeared. And it was at that point where those who knew about the legend thought that there would be no more, forever.

Until they came.

A scroll was found. A scroll, left behind from all of the destruction, was found. At last, after thousands of years, it was found. But only a few believed it. When the scroll was presented, the rest stood there in disbelief. Then their rage was brought, and they finally split away from each other for good. But two more copies were made, one for each tribe, so that maybe if they read, at least one would believe. The scroll contained a prophecy. A promise. A promise about the return of a alicorn.

The scroll said that even though the original six and their heirs would not return, a new pair of alicorns would be born into this corrupted society. They would bring back peace and fight any chaotic being in their paths. They would be two sisters. One would be a unicorn, the other a Pegasus. That last part was what made the tribes split. It meant for the earth ponies that they were the rejected and lowest of the three races, or so that they thought, and it meant for both unicorn and pegasi that they would have to deal with the fact that one of the sisters was from a rival tribe. And of course none of them accepted this prophecy. Even though it had the royal seal of the six, their lack of memory and their rivalry was what caused all of this separatism to reach its climax.

And so for a long time, this scroll was forgotten, thrown out. For years their rivalry lasted. Decades. And it was at this point that Magic, or more better said, her future representative, had enough. She decided that she would send some of their representatives back in time, to take care of a small, but actually important situation.

For the time of the two royal sisters, was coming.

"And that's the end of the story kids." A tender golden female pegasi said to her daughters. One of them was a young white unicorn with pink hair, and the other was a younger blue pegasi. A dark blue unicorn wrapped around his hooves over the two children.

"Did you like that story, Daylight and Night Shine?" The father said. The two nodded.

"I wonder who will be those two?" The oldest, Daylight said. The youngest nodded.

"I wanna see them one day." The younger said. The two parents chuckled.

"You'll see them one day." The father said, and everyone laughed. But then the father pulled the mother to a safe distance where the two children could not hear. He looked worriedly at her.

"How long do you think we can hide them before they find out?" The father said. The mother sighed.

"I don't know. They're still too young! They hadn't even gotten their cutie marks!" The mother said. The father sighed.

"I know, but ever since we met each other we knew about the dangers about being in love each other. We were able to hide together, but with our children, it will become impossible to sustain ourselves in this desolated place." The father said. "They're doing a census tomorrow. If they find them.... I can't imagine what they would do to our children if they found out that one was a unicorn and the other was a pegasi!" The father said worriedly. "We were able to escape the last census because of who our families were, but with them being gone...." The father said, before staying silent. The two sighed.

"Do you think we could escape again?" The mother said. The father sighed.

"I doubt it. I heard a few months ago that two colts were taken away just because they were from different races and that they were friends? Can you see what type of chaos rules our world? We can't stay put, but we also can't leave. The population is expanding more and more, and the cold wind is expanding even more!" The father put a hoof to his head. "I hate saying this, but I think it's time we let our children go...." The father said.

"But how? You see how dangerous it's even to leave! Guards everywhere! Those dogs that hurt someone just for the fun of it! The ponies themselves! I can't give myself to think that our own kind acts more savagely than a wild animal! They kill! They steal! They lie! They destroy one's soul! I can't think no more!" The mother exclaimed. The father sighed.

"Tomorrow, we'll see. If they don't find us, they don't find us. But if they do, honey, pack up our stuff, I'll help you, because the fate of our children lie on our hoofs, and we can't let them have them. We'll help them escape, at all costs, even if it means losing everything we have, everything we are, and even if it means losing our own lives." The father said. The mother sighed.

"Okay, I'll do it. But promise me that nothing will happen to our children." The mother said. The father smiled.

"I swear by my own life that nothing will happen to none of us. Even if we're separated by our own tribes, our love will be stronger than their rivalry, and soon we'll see each other." The father said, saying the same thing he said to her when they vowed each other eternal love. The mother nodded.

"Then let's begin." The mother said, and they started to pack up what they could so that when the day comes, they would be ready.

To be continued....

Author's Note

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Before Equestria pt 2

Chapter 2: Persecution

The crow of a rooster shook the air. It was dawn already. There was a cool temperature in the area, as the sun would have to warm up the ground. The bird's chip was starting to be heard, and the sound of hooves marching on the ground was heard. Spears pointed up like waves. The stomping made the nearby earth tremble. Their prey was close by, and they would stop at nothing to get them.

In front of them was a abandoned house. Or so it seemed. Trained with various detective skills, the ponies were able to identify that the house was actually still occupied. There was shadows behind one of the windows, which meant that their prey was inside of the house, ready for their predator to make their first move so that they could flee. They earth ponies chuckled. They glanced at each other with a devilish grin. Using a torch they grabbed earlier, they threw it into the house, breaking the window, and setting the house on fire.

Immediately before the torch even touched the ground to light up every single part of the house, a gallop was heard as their prey made the run for it. The earth ponies laughed.

Time to get some unicorns and pegasus.

They started to gallop towards the sound, where they saw the family just getting themselves in a wagon before moving. Anticipating this, one of them loaded his sling shot, twirled it around in the air, and fire it, hitting on of the wheels. With the wheels starting to receive damage as more and more rocks hit, the father of the family step out and fired magical shot after magical shot, deflecting or destroying the pebbles before they could reach them. Shields would've taken much more energy, so quick energy beams would do the trick. The earth ponies dodged every single one of the now offensive energy beams that the stallion on the wagon was firing at them. A gush of wing swept beside them as the mother of the family dealt a clean hit at one of the more weaker ponies, before retreating back to safety. The earth ponies were now getting pissed off that their rival races, the unicorn and pegasus race, was beating them, and that the earth ponies would soon lose them again like last year as the forest got into view. It seemed that the family would escape.

Until a certain energy beam zapped through the air and took one of the forward wheels. Without the ability to control the direction that they were going, the wagon started to sway back and forth, nearly falling over, but it remained upright. But with a proper burst of wind from another figure, the wagon collapsed.

The earth ponies celebrated being able to catch them, and were about to congratulate the ones that helped them....

....until they realized that they were also pegasus and unicorns.

The happiness of the earth ponies soon turned to rage, horrified that their enemy would help them. The other groups from the two different tribes also became enraged, knowing they helped the enemy.

" What the heck are you doing here!? This is our prey! Stay back!" The head of the unicorns of their battalion said. The pegasus growled.

"You say you stopped them!? We were the ones that gave the finishing blow, so it was OUR victory!" The pegasus tribe said. The earth ponies growled even more higher than the unicorn or pegasus race.

"What the hay are you talking about!? We found them. We tracked them down. And even without your 'help' we would've been able to catch them anyways!" The earth ponies said. The unicorn and pegasus races growled at the earth, pointing their spears at them.

"Well one second ago you were basically LOSING to them until we came along and shot down their wheel. This proves that unicorns are the superior race!" The unicorn leader said. The pegasus growled even more.

"If it weren't for our speed you two would've lost them so it means that WE are the better race. Glory to the pegasus race!" The leader of the pegasus infantry said. The earth scowled at them.

"Glory!? What do you call this glory!? That was called taking someone else's win! That is not winning that is called cheating, you thief!" Earth said. The pegasus leader widened his eyes, before narrowing them, pulling out the mighty swords they had and the quick shooting bows, loading them with arrows.

"Oh. You are certainly going to regret calling us thief. Say that once again!" The pegasus race said. Earth growled at them.

"Thief." They said, before charging at the pegasus race, who charged at them. The unicorn race, even though not being insulted at that point, charged in as well to fight the two sides so that if they won they would finally show who was more superior. The three were about to start killing each other when they remembered why they were there. They turned around to see the family slowly backing up, trying to not be part of this slaughter. When they realized they noticed them, they started to run, but then they bumped into a wall made out of magic. The three tribes momentarily forgot their dispute as they concentrated all their forces around the family.

(Hey! For the first time in forever, they are working toge-)

(Every tribe mentally: SHUT UP!)

(Author: Okay......?)

"So look what we have here?" The unicorn leader said as he examined the family, making sure that they were not the wrong ones. He smiled when he realized they were the ones they were trying to find. "Looks like now we have you." The unicorn said. The pegasus growled.

"No. WE have him." They said. The earth ponies growled as well.

"What then hay man!? I already told you, WE had them since the very beginning!" Earth yelled. They started their argument again, and every single pegasus, earth pony, and unicorn had their weapons barely touching the other's neck. The tensions were so high that the entire atmosphere around them was beating them with a sickening heat. It seemed like for the first time in this 300 Year War, the first drop of blood would finally be splattered over the floor. But right when it seemed like a war would break out, they quickly glanced and saw that the family, somehow, had escaped.

"What?! Impossible!" One of the pegasus said. Then they turned against each other again as they started to blame each other once again.

"It's your fault!"

"No it's his fault!"

"No you!"

"It's your stupidity! It's definitely your fault!"

"No you!"

"Oh no it ain't me! It's his fault!"

"NO YOU!"

And as these three tribes bickered yet again, while the heat in the atmosphere around them heated to uncontrollable proportions, the temperatures dropped by a fraction. Above them, creatures fed by hatred against one another swirled around them. While they would not be as powerful as they would later be, soon, very soon, there would be so much rage to fuel them that it would be impossible to live there.

The times of cold was very far away, but it would come, very soon.

The family had escaped and were now too faraway for a expedition group to find them now. They regained their breath and laid down a bit. They had their wagon, but it was no unusable.

"What are we going to do now?" The Mother worriedly said. The Father inspected the wagon.

"This thing took too many hits already. I don't think it would work for much anymore." The Father said, sighing. "But at least the children are okay, but with so many things against us....I don't know what to do anymore...." The Father said. "I-i-i think it might be time...." The Father said. The mother gasped.

"No! We can't let that happen!" The mother cried out. The father sighed as another argument was about to unfold, and he hated arguments, especially since his logic would usually win, and thus his words would hit harder than any action possible to them.

"If we don't they run the risk of being killed." The Father said.

"There must be a way! Who would accept them anyways!? They would just be separated from each other and then we'll never be united again!" The Mother said, crying. "Even if somepony accepted them they would become his or her's slave!" The mother said. The father placed a hoof to his head as he sighed, trying to stop his emotions from getting him as well.

"I simply don't know. I don't regret marrying you, but we knew this would happen from the very beginning." The father said. He smiled a bit. "I would give everything again for you." The father said, wiping the tears away from his wife and love. "But we have to make the right decisions. If not, then not only our hopes in this life would die off, but the hope of Equestria itself would perish." The father said, hugging her. She sighed, tears still going down, but she decided to gulp all of that pain back in.

"I know....but who? Who would take in our children?" She asked. The father pondered a bit, trying to find something in his memory that might become useful. Then it hit him.

"Remember that certain unicorn that once did a speech about ending this segregation?" The father said. The mother tried to remember, and after a moment, nodded.

"But are you sure he'll accept them?" The Mother asked. The father nodded.

"I'm certain. Starswirl will accept them and hide them while this whole thing happens." The father said as they motioned their children to come with them.

"You know it'll be difficult to get there, right? He's in the middle of the unicorn tribe." The mother said. The father nodded.

"I know, but if we catch him when he travels to another tribe, we can convince him to take care of them." The father said.

"It will be dangerous, you know." The mother said, but a small smiled had formed on her face.

"I know, but we'll go through this together, and by the end, we'll be together again." The father said as they departed into the forest that hid them. They knew there would still be a lot to do and a lot of moments where their lives would be at risk.

But if they stayed together, nothing will happen to them.

The 300 Year Rivalry War would continue to rage on, but the time was coming for it to end, and from those ashes would bring an empire.

But even being united, this family, along with many other families like them, would continue to be under the constant threat of being separated, if not destroyed. Something must be done to stop this madness.

And help would be on its way.

"Only wait a bit more, only a bit more, and then our divided world will be reunified and rebuilt into a ever lasting empire, where its limits is the sky."

But for now, the stage is set, the conflicts are presented, and just like any story, it's time for the action to begin.

To be Continued....

Author's Note

Okay! That took WAY longer than it should've been, considering the number of words there are. My stories are being slowed down due to life, but I promise that I'll try to pick into high gear once summer comes. Until next time...see ya-

Random Reader: But hey! Isn't this story about Midnight and Spectrum?
Author: (1) Shut up (2) This is the setting up for their story. So please have patience.

Anyways...see ya then!

Present Day

A few thousands years into the future (present day)

A young alicorn princess was humming to herself. After all that happened it was time to relax. Yet another battle occurred, and yet again they have prevailed. She and her friends had been able to win again and again. The purple alicorn sighed. With all the villains now defeated and either banished forever or redeemed, now what?

"Spike!" The Princess of Friendship called out.

A sound of tumbling and crashing down the stairs was heard. A purple dragon came down tumbling down the stairs, before finally stopping himself in front of Twilight.

"Yes Twilight?" Spike said, still dizzy from the fall. Twilight placed him back on the ground and Spike recovered shortly.

"Can you find me a list of all the things that happened from the moment Nightmare Moon came to now?" Twilight asked. Spike nodded.

"You got it!" Spike said, leaving the room. More sounds of crashing and 'oof!'s were heard as the poor dragon kept hurting himself. A few more stressful moments later, the small dragon came with a small scroll. He opened it and suddenly it became a large piece of paper, containing all the events that Twilight and her friends had.

"Here it is!" Spike said, resting a bit on a couch. "Why do you need it anyways?" Spike asked as Twilight started to search through the list. Twilight smiled.

"Oh I wanted to revive some moments that we had." Twilight said. "Remember that time when everypony was asking me for that extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala?" Twilight asked. Spike laughed, remembering how desperate the then unicorn Twilight was when everypony was doing something for Twilight to win the ticket.

"Yep! I remember! I think I also said something about me being right!" Spike said. Twilight frowned a bit but then laughed.

"How about when we were doing Winter Wrap up?" Twilight asked. Spike laughed even more.

"You got sprayed by the skunks!" Spike laughed. Twilight giggled. Now thinking about it, that event was so funny it could've won them something in the Equestria's Funniest Moments Show.

"How about the Poison Joke?" Twilight said, only to be answered by more laughing on behalf of Spike.

"Twilight you're going to kill me with all of these things!" Spike said laughing out his heart. "I still remember how your horn was like!" Spike laughed. Twilight shook her head with a smile.

"How about when I became a alicorn?" Twilight said. Spike smiled.

"You were like 'Wait what? I'M AN ALICORN!?" Spike said, before laughing again. "But still that was probably one of you best moments Twilight! You're a Princess!" Spike said.

"You obviously remember when you saved the Crystal Empire twice, right?" Twilight asked. Spike nodded.

"Yep! They called me Spike! The Savior of the Crystal Empire! Or something like that. They have so many names for me now its hard to count!" Spike said. Twilight looked further down the scroll, before stopping.

"Hey Spike." Twilight asked.

"Yes?"

"Remember that spell that Starswirl the Bearded made?" Twilight ask, jotting something down.

"The one you complete before you became an alicorn?" Spike guessed. Twilight shook her head.

"Nope. I'm taking about the Time Travel spell. The one that my student Starlight used." Twilight said. Spike stopped what he was doing, which was cleaning up the mess he made, to think.

"Now thinking about it, when we came back, I remember the scroll containing the spell being sucked into that portal we came from. Where could've it gone to?" Spike asked. Twilight starts to write a letter to the Princess.

"I don't know. But I'm going to write a letter telling about this lost scroll. If it falls on the wrong hooves, it could create a destruction of the space time continuum!" Twilight yells as she writes her letter,

"Dear Princess Celestia,
I am writing you this urgent matter that cannot be postponed any longer. Remember when my student Starlight was still evil, and how she used one of Star Swirl's spells to time travel to try to destroy the chance of me and my friends ever becoming friends?After looking through the adventures of me and my friends, I realized that the scroll that contained the time travel spell had been lost in the last portal which brought us here. This means that at any given moment the scroll could appear in any place or time, and if it were to fall in the wrong hooves, then not only Equestria but the timeline itself would be in great danger! What should I do now?
Sincerely, your favorite student and now princess, Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight then gave the letter to Spike, who breath in and released a green flame, transporting the scroll to Celestia.

"Why do tense? It's probably going to float in the space-time continuum forever unless somepony else manages to use the time travel spell again in a different time." Spike said. Twilight sighed.

"I may not be an expert, but say if time runs like a clock that goes around itself. Say that we lived through the Summer Celebration and after a given time, time goes through that same event. If this were to be true then when Starlight used that spell in our time era, after going around the clock, time reaches that point again which means that the scroll would be released in whatever time period it ended! We can't risk that!" Twilight yelled. Suddenly Spike burped out a letter with the Royal Seal. He opened it and frowned.

"Well this ain't good." Spike said as he handed the scroll to Twilight.

"Please meet me in the Two Royal Sisters Castle immediately."

A few moments later.....

Twilight and her friends rushed through the dense Everfree forest, with the other five looking at each other. Starlight Glimmer was also there running with them.

"So Twilight....can you mind explaining us why we're running to the Everfree forest to the Two Royal Sisters Castle again?" Applejack asked. Twilight gasped for air while running.

"I'm not actually sure about that one, but basically when Starlight Glimmer here used that time travel spell, when we all returned that scroll got lost in time. When me and Spike were recalling all the events we went through we suddenly remember the scroll's disappearance so now we're going to figure out what's happening." Twilight said

"Wait. So let me get this straight. Time Travel. Usually bad. A Time Travelling Scroll got lost. Definitely bad." Rainbow Dash said. Starlight who quickly cached up to what her alicorn friend said nodded.

"Yes it is Rainbow. If that scroll landed in possession of a villain, then that villain could use that scroll to his advantage. He could use it to go back in time and prevent his defeat. And if he hadn't been been defeated yet, he or she would go into the future to see how he was originally defeated and use that knowledge to his advantage." Starlight answered.

"And even if it weren't a villain, the presence alone of that scroll means that time has now been changed, meaning that it would release a domino affect. When I went into the Chrysalis Timeline, Zecora explained to me that when I realized the different variations that were being produced from the event of stopping Rainbow Dash. Apparently even if each way got the same solution, Rainbow Dash not doing the Rainboom, the way each is done causes different things to change and as these changes are added it causes a huge domino affect to cause each one to look so different to each other. A simple pebble could be a case. Say the hero of Equestria were to somehow trip on that pebble. They'd be late for something. Here's some possible outcomes of that." Twilight said.

"Because of that second delay, the battle would start a second latter, which means that whatever helped the hero win in the original timeline is now one second earlier so if the hero were in a matter of life or death, that one thing would fail to be there and thus he would succumb to his opponent as he now has no way to save himself."

"What if that he still won? Still that one second would cause things to change. He finish the battle, but because of that second, he would've finished more later, or sometimes even more earlier, meaning that when the news comes, that would change a lot. Over time, that one second would become ten seconds to one minute, till the change is so grave that one thousand years later, another villain would've won because of that second because the environment is so different. Some might be thrown out of the timeline, and new ones would replace them, leaving to so many paradoxes that would throw the timeline off course and doom everypony!" Twilight exclaimed, right when they got inside the Two Royal Sisters Castle where they met Celestia and Luna.

"You found it?" Twilight asked Celestia the moment they barged through the door. Celestia had a sad smile, which meant usually that something was wrong.

"Well we did, and we did not." Celestia said. Celestia handed Twilight two books. "You remember these books, right? They contain the history of Equestria and not only Equestria, but the entire world before that." Celestia said. "Compare these two books and see for yourself" Celestia said. Twilight started to compare each book with the other, and suddenly her eyes widened. Twilight looked bewildered at Celestia. Celestia sighed

"Y-y-you're.....d-d...." Twilight stammered, not able to speak out loud. Celestia sighed.

"Yes Twilight. We're starting to disappear from existence." Celestia said, shocking the rest.

"B-but how?! You're Princess Celestia! An alicorn! Alicorns can't die!" Rainbow cried out.

"But unicorns and pegasi can." Celestia responded. At that moment it hit everypony.

"So they killed you in the past?" Rarity exclaimed. Celestia did a solemn nod.

"Before we were able to become alicorns, me and my sister were just ordinary unicorns and pegasus respectively speaking. We lived during the time when the three tribes still hated each other. Ever since we became alicorns, some of them hated us and attempted to kill us, only to realize that we're immortal. So I believe that one of them got this spell and thus eliminated me in my most weakest form." Celestia said. Twilight could see the pain Celestia was hiding and tears drifted from her own eyes.

"Don't worry Celestia. We'll find this threat and save you!" Twilight cried out. Celestia smiled.

"That's very generous of you Twilight so you'll be the one going." Celestia said. Rainbow piped in.

"Wait how will she be able to go without the spell and could we go along? We friends stick together!" Rainbow said and the group did a tight hug. Celestia sighed.

"Unfortunately we don't know when or where this threat exists, and while I've made a copy of the spell just in case this happened, you can't go as the more ponies that go through time, the more unstable it becomes, and plus we don't know how long this might take. Twilight on the other hoof is immortal and thus she could go and come back and she would barely age compared to you six." Celestia said, and the group sighed. Celestia smiled still. "Don't worry. Due to this...anomaly time would barely pass for you so the not even a few moments and Twilight would be back, though a bit more older I could say." Celestia said. Twilight sighed but still smiled.

"Don't worry Princess I won't fail you." Twilight said. Celestia smiled.

"You've never failed us. Now its time for you to save Equestria again. We'll be counting on you." Celestia said.

"Could I come? I'm a dragon and dragons age slowly." Spike said. Celestia thought for a moment.

"Well I guess it wouldn't hurt having a flamethrower as a back up." Celestia said. A soft laughter broke out between the friends. Spike frowned but then smiled.

"Well I guess that's a yes. Come on Twilight! We've got a timeline to save!" Spike said as he walked towards Twilight who held the modified scroll.

"This reminds me a lot of that time adventure we have." Twilight said, smiling.

"Yeah! But this timewe'll be going backwards! See ya soon guys!" Spike said as he waved at everyone. Twilight waved at them before the time rift appeared and took them through time.

To be continued...

Author's Note

Will Twilight and Spike be able to save time again? Or will they fail this time? Find out in the next chapters of this amazing story to save Celestia and Luna's life!