Fast and Ruby at the end of the Stage

by Fast Tap

Rating: teen
Tags: Alternate Universe, Sad, Silverstream, Original Character, Adventure, Death, Gallus, Drama, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 16150

Fast Tap was kidnapped by someone unknown, to a world that is familiar but at the same time not, Fast must discover who is behind all this, getting to know his friends again?

Fast Tap is entering the adult phase, and someone in a hood captures Fast and takes him somewhere very familiar for everything... except for the memories of his friends and his recent artifacts that have the same properties as Fast's, which leaves Fast to investigate what happens here, can Fast return to his world and defeat whoever has trapped him here?

Published 2020-09-04 18:10:00 UTC
Last updated 2020-09-04 18:10:00 UTC

Chapter 1: It passed a lot of time

But what happened to me and my friends?, it is too much what happened, it has been about a half year that I don't do this, but I will summarize it quickly:

When I returned to classes, Autumn missed me a lot and it was no surprise that with the spell of teleportation I teach her, she used it to come visit me every Friday, talking about it, Cozy Glow, every weekend, I visited her to teach her more about friendship and every time I managed to see what I saw of friendship with the company of some friends, what I teach her was that it is not only magic or power, that in reality, it required both of them for great harmony, after a couple of days and an adventure that so far scares me even today by how crazy was, she was finally reformed and gave her permission to leave Tartarus and is getting along with others despite what happened, in fact, Autumn and Cozy, went from being rivals to best friends, the tree of harmony, well, is not my bodyguard anymore, it told me that I was already prepared enough for everything, that I no longer needed it, honestly, I will miss it, about the crusaders they became friends with whom to study if something does not fit in my mind for an exam, nothing from the other world, the director EEA learned that all creatures can learn friendship and that he apply by giving a new rule book where it no longer discriminates against non-ponies and is a little more fair with classes (only 5%, on the last one), with my first friends (you know, the young 6) we were having fun and learning more about friendship, in fact, we have read a little and they can be next guardians of friendship, what an honor it is to have friends like that! And that confirms it when they had their own castle-club, I wish have one on a future ... and what about me? I became Professor Twilight's assistant, and my magic skills improved since my last adventure, and let's say I'm starting that phase where you go from being a teenage pony to an adult pony, or something like that.

But let's go to when it was about a year and a half in school, more exact, a Friday morning, it was a great day for my friends, the sun was shining and everyone was smiling.

Well, everyone except me, for me it was a sad day being in my bed and all I did was see my yearbook with photos of my friends, especially of a hippogriff, Twilight and Starlight didn't hesitate to call all my friends to that they were going to help me overcome the sadness I had when all my friends arrived, they started talking to me:

Silverstream asks “Fast, are you feeling well?”

Yona says “Headmare and counselor call us help you”

I turn my head to them sadly “Thank you, but this is more serious than normal”

Ocellus asks “At what scale from one to ten?”

Sweetie Belle, one of the crusaders, asks too “And can you tell us what it is?”

I respond to both “Ten, Ocellus and I can tell it Sweetie Belle, but it's something ... private ... Silverstream, Yona and Ocellus, can you please leave my living quarter, can the others stay please?”

Silverstream, Yona and Ocellus leave the room and close the door

I lay on the bed “Well, my problem is ... ummmm, I fell ... in love”

Gallus screams “YOU'RE IN LOV...!”

I shut his mouth before Gallus says it “yes, Gallus, I'm in love”

Smolder says knowing the secret already “it’s not a surprise, huh? Now you have to tell them Fast”

I say “ok, I fell in love on my best, huggable, cute and smiley friend, who supported me in Rainbow Dash classes, the one that I wanted to be my partner for the Spell-Venger, the one that hugged me when I needed it most”

Scootaloo, another of the crusaders, says “awww, you mean Silverstream, right?

Applebloom, the other of the crusaders adds “it must be difficult, she has been your best friend since more than a year and they became more united than the apple and the worm”

I move from the head above and below that is a signal of yes

Sandbar asks “and why don't you tell her already? you don't have much time to tell her now, just half year left to do it”

I say “I know the balance of magic and power, but between friend and girlfriend, the situation is completely different, if I confess to her, I can fall into only one, never in the middle”

Gallus calms down and tells me with serenity “At this age Fast, you are to fall in love, and you should not leave that behind, you just have to take the strength to confess her your feelings, if you could trust everyone, you can trust yourself”

I say responding “In that, you are right my feathered friend, and I must do it now, but how can I find that force? my nerves reach the moon you know...”

“you taught me, the force of making a change doesn't start there, “-Cozy points at my head-“but here” Cozy points at my heart

Autumn says “and what are you waiting for!? your future girlfriend is waiting for you crossing this door, you will never know if she feels the same about you as you do to her, and don't worry, we will support you”

From there, I drew the strength to tell her about my feelings (well, not really...)

But when I opened the door I didn't see her, nor the others, and suddenly we heard voices coming out of the school, we took a look and was a pony wearing a black hood, and her face could not be seen, I noticed that it was a mare because of her nose and voice, she kept yelling, it didn't spend seconds the teachers intervened on this:

She says, “I am looking for THAT student, I don't want to harm them, but if it does not appear in a minute Here, I swear that in the rubble I will look for it!”

Twilight asked, “W-Whom do you mean!?”

She says, “You already know him, after all, he is your assistant…”

When I heard that, I did not hesitate to go to action, when we headed to the front door, I saw Silverstream, Ocellus and Yona were watching from the side windows, and they had no face of being happy, I knew I had to do something, I had to do what someone would do for her friends when I went out the door, my friends didn't stop me, the teachers were ready to attack her, but I only approached her, being between the 2, this was a mistake:

Twilight says “Fast, you don't have to...”

I turn my face and I see her “Twilight, she just looks for me, not any of you, I don't want anyone to get hurt because of me, ”-Hence I see all my friends looking out the windows-“Guys, I'll be fine and if something happens to me or I won't back in a few days, please guys, tell her what we were talking about!”

The teachers walked away and entered the school trusting me, and looked at what was happening through the window too, turned towards the hooded pony and suddenly began to attack me with rays drawn from something of theirs that looked like my artifact, but the pearl was blue, she attacks and attacks until I fainted

My eyes opened and closed at the same time and I could only see some things, I saw that they dragged me aside and there were more hooded ponies like her, then I heard a sound that looked like a transfer to another world, then I opened them again and I was for some reason in the castle that I didn't know what it was, then I closed them and just heard a “poof”, after a while, I fully awake and I get scared of what I see.

Chapter 2: Two sides here and elsewhere?

What I saw was that I was in the middle of Ponyville, between the castle, the forest, the school and the village, I also saw my smolder friend, but I saw something different in her, she wore a necklace like mine too, just that the Pearl was purple...

Smolder says “Hey, are you feeling well? You must be new here”

I get up “wait WHA…!?”

“oh, I'm sorry, I don't introduce myself, I'm Smolder” Smolder extends her claw to me in greeting

I take the claw with my hoove and shake it “Fast Tap, but I already know you”

Smolder is confused “huh?”

Hence, with the great anguish, I had just by saying that, I realized that something was happening here, this was no longer normal in any way, but I had no idea what it was, but I had to know, when I looked around, there was no one else, as if everyone had suddenly disappeared, I was completely confused, looking from side to side:

Smolder says “ohhh, I understand you, there is more pals like me around here, only we hide for reasons that I will tell you later, follow me”

takes me to the village of Ponyville and on the road I asked her “Can you tell me, where did you get that necklace? I don't remember seeing you with that before ...”

“Is that ... uhh ... well ...” Smolder stops abruptly and tries to remember how she got that necklace

When suddenly at the background of it, I see someone in the sky, but only his silhouette, a griffin, it seems, was Gallus! I could recognize him from anywhere

I look at that silhouette “hey! that is ...!”

Smolder looks and is amazed “wooow, today is my day! You see, stories tell us that some time ago, there was someone who was in this place before and knows more about the past than anyone here, I assure you, it's agile, serious and a bit manipulative, but find it in the sky, it is a symbol of luck.”

I say “that explains somehow how you don't know about yourself, right?”

Smolder says a little sad but later happy “yes ..., nah, I will go for the others, they love to see someone new in the group, don’t move!”

“wait!”-I said but late-“What group?

I waited a while in the village and felt that there was someone watching me, I saw their silhouettes, but they looked fast, but I didn't know who they were and suddenly, they appeared in front of me, they were Ocellus and Sandbar and they also carried an artifact equal to mine, but these were red and green respectively

I scream “Ahh!”

Sandbar says “Don’t worry, we are friends”

Ocellus adds “although it is the first time we see you, my name is ...”

I interrupt “Ocellus and Sandbar, I know, what worries me now is… Why does nobody remember who was?”

Ocellus says but later doubts “I don't know wha... wait ... How do you know about us?”

Sandbar says “you will not be one of the rudes, right?”

I say quickly “no, no, I swear, I don't even know what that is, I swear by my right hoove”

Ocellus doubts, but end up believing me “well, we think you tell the truth, well, we must go to where our group is, is in school ...”

Smolder can be heard remotely “Fast! Fast! Where are you Fast Tap?”

Ocellus whispers to me “Quick, come with us”

Then I followed them to the friendship school and while I admired the landscape, but I saw another silhouette again, but, it wasn't Gallus this time, but it was Silverstream this time

I look in the direction of the silhouette “Oh, it's Silverstream!”

Sandbar says “Shiny Dream? nope, is the hippogriff, legends tell that ...”

I interrupt “she knows what’s happened on the past?”

Ocellus says “yep, finding it is a sign that it will be a good day, due to his kindness and affection for others”

Sandbar adds “well, not everyone, she hates the rudes, as we do”

I asked “huh? I do not know what about ‘rude’, but if I think about it, they are good people too”

Ocellus just says “Well, wake up Fast, the truth is one and it can't be as someone wants”

From there, we went on and arrived, to school, I expected to see my friends, but when I entered I saw half of them, I saw Cozy, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle, I also saw some teachers: Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Twilight and some more, but I didn't know them, they also carried the artifact and also in different colors

“Come on, introduce yourself to them!” Sandbar pushes me to them

“uhhh, hello?” I talk a little bit confused

Cozy responds “hello again, my name is Cozy Glow”

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle says “and we are both glad to meet you”

Twilight adds “we welcome you to the friendly group!”

Cozy notices that something is bothering me “everything good new friend?”

I respond “well I feel halfway if you guys understand me ...”

Sweetie Belle says “you won't be thinking about those greedy ’rudes’, right?”

-Fast: is that it is my first day in this world… I think so… but I do not feel ready for this change, but can you explain to me what it is that of the ru...?!

There is a knock on the door and familiar’s voices are heard

“YAK DEMANDS DOOR OPEN! OR YONA DESTROY!” one of them behind the door says

“or else I'm going to burn it; we know you have our new member!” another adds

Sandbar exclaims” Rudes at the door! all stealth maneuvers!”

everyone else in the friendly group was transformed and hid, except me

I asked but I could recognize that 2 voices of behind the door “ahhhh, that's why it's called ... wait! I recognize those voices ...”

And they open the door with anger I see, they were the others, including Yona, Autumn, Scootaloo, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Starlight Glimmer and others, also with their artifacts and with Smolder being in front

Smolder approaches me with an angry face “Fast, you have 30 seconds to explain what are you doing here!”

I didn’t know how to respond “well ... mmmm ... I ...”

“it wasn't his fault”- Sandbar leaving the hiding place with Ocellus and transforming into what they are, then others do it-“we only take him to where he should be, with the ‘friendly’”

Starlight Glimmer adds “where he should be? you take it to spy on us, right?”

Ocellus says “Of course not ...!”

“wowowow, I just want to know why did they suddenly separate?”-I was more super confused and a little depressed-“This is not as I remembered”

Scootaloo responds “I think it's obvious”

The two teams say at the same time “the others are despicable and incompatible with us!”

an unintelligible bustle is full of blind arguments

I try to calm down this “ok, but is there no other way to solve this? a talk or something...”

The two teams respond “what if you decide with your choice?”

“wait, what ...?” I said confused

And a song started: the rude team started” let me tell you, that you must be with us, we will be great friends, I assure you will be; Rude are better, more mature talks, we rude all here, nobody stop us; oh pony please, on our side it is red, do not think too much; you will be very great, you will not be scared, become like us, I can tell you, that ours is the best; We are better, I can assure you, Smolder, Yona, Autumn and Starlight, Better than those dumbs, With offending those, Scootaloo and Rainbow dash, Join to us, and you will see”

And next the friendly” Fast don't listen to them, We are more than your size, We are cute that yes, But it is part of the disguise; why be rude?, Why not be fun?, True friends you will have, You don't have to think about it now; we will thank you very much, If you come with us, And what will they give you?, A chocolate and that's it?; friends you will have, Who to play, Requirements?, Just join and then; We are better, I can assure you, Sandbar, Ocellus, Cozy Glow and Applebloom, Better than those us, With offending those, Sweetie Belle and Twilight, Join to us, and you will see”

While they were singing whose group was the best, I saw the silhouettes again through a window and headed for the forest, I saw my chance, and I escaped from the song

And both teams sing together against each other “Give up now, We have won, We're better, That you and point, give up now, We have won, We're better; We're better, I can assure you, This group will beat them, Give up and you're done, Better than you guys, With offending those, We will tell you then Fast, Join to us and ...; We're better,I can assure you, This group will beat them, Give up and you're done, Better than you guys, With offending those, We will tell you then Fast, Join to us and ...”
Ocellus asks “where is Fast?”

This is the point where you realize that this is more than a school adventure...

Chapter 3: the 3rd side

When I approached the forest I heard Gallus's voice out of there.

A Gallus from there says, “You don't know what happens, right?”

I respond “If I'm going to be honest, yes, but how do you know it? everyone I met again... don't remember what they were, some friends”

Gallus said “Then, come closer, we'll tell you”- I do a few steps -“Wait, I don't end yet! First, you must take off the pin, the pin that is in your ear.”

After he said that, I look for that pin in my ears using magic “what pi ...?”

I got a hidden pin on me and I didn't realize in the 30 minutes I had been here, when I took a look, I noticed that it was the same color as my skin, camouflage tactics huh? Suddenly I also heard the voice from the forest of Silverstream

And there Silverstream said “That pin, track your location, throw it on the floor and break it”

I throw the pin to the ground and I trample it leaving it broken and useless ”Like this?”

Silverstream said “Well, now you can enter”

Already entering the forest, I walked a little more and when I could not see Ponyville behind, some birds of pink and blue approached and became their original forms (hippogriff and griffin respectively), they also carried their artifacts, it was not surprising at this moments.

Silverstream says, “It was about time for someone to join us!”

Gallus adds, “Well, we are the only ones who remember what happened, my name is ...”

“Gallus and Silverstream, my best friends, or as I remembered,”-I got sad again-“now nobody even remembers who I am”

Gallus explains “Is that nobody in this world is where we know”

Silverstream adds “We all come from a different alternate time-lines each”

I got confused “What?”

Silverstream explains “Let us tell you what happened: a few days ago, a dark-hooded pony appeared and left us unconscious, and we ended up here first was Gallus and then I, knowing each other, realized in a while that we were coming from other alternate lines, and so it was with everyone else”

Gallus adds “We became great friends, but we missed our friends from our time-lines, and we wanted to leave this world and return to the one we know, and believe me, the more they were, the more they all wanted to return home and protests that were all over Ponyville, until one day, that pony got pissed”

Silverstream adds “She sent from the north to his other hooded friends and began to capture one by one, no matter what they hide, we both noticed that there was something that tracked them, and from there, we noticed that there was a pin hidden in our ears, and we got rid of them”

Gallus adds “We don’t know what he or she has done with others exactly, we only know that they were brainwashed with an unknown spell, and they got the idea of both sides, when we tried to integrate one of those groups, they told us that we had to despise to those of the other group infinitely”

Silverstream finishes “We couldn’t choose in one and the other, so we decided not to enter any of them, each day they came more and more, but they already came with an empty memory without being able to help us, because we need one that also does not take any of the groups so you can really help us, a week later, you appeared ...”

Gallus asks “And you can't get used to this as us, right?”

“Completely, now, how are we going to solve this chaos? We must investigate this matter further, but ho...?”- I got a great idea-“BINGO BANJO KAZOO!”

Gallus asks “What do you have in mind?”

I respond “When I was taken to this world I heard some spells, basic but keys, and there is a place where there are many spells, the Twilight castle, in the library, we may know more about what happened here and what she uses or happened to get here”

“I love your idea! only there is a problem with that,”-Silverstream climbs a tree and sits looking at the castle, then we do the same Gallus and I-“We have taken a look at the castle, but when we try to approach ...”

“the others appear and take us to another side, we had done it when there weren't many...” Gallus says

“Well, there are many and it looks difficult, but it doesn't mean it's impossible, you just have to make a plan and I know how, I just want to verify something,”-I use the teleportation spell in myself towards another tree and it works-“yep I know how we can get there, this is the plan, Gallus, you will go to the village, Silverstream, you will go to school, knowing that they consider them very special will distract them and I will go quickly to the castle, when I get there, I teleported them, and nobody will have noticed that we went to the castle”

“I think it's a good one,”-Gallus looks at the castle and the others are there and complaining a lot about the whole area-“but better now we have to wait”

And we wait, we talked for a while and we knew each other better, they were different and equal to my friends, in a good way, that Gallus came from another alternate timeline where fellowship is magic, he also had a great adventure at school, where only supporting his friends managed to overcome whatever, the Silverstream on the other hand in her alternate time-line, affection is magic, where to overcome an evil king she used all his love for his people to get forces and defeat him, and his adventures continue when she went to school, but also in her was the friendship school and from there I noticed, that in mine, it was, trust is magic.

While we were waiting, I was next to Silverstream, I began to remember what I had before and worried (it was not to be expected of somepony like me):

Silverstream asks “Fast, are you feeling well?”

I respond “If I'm honest, no, it's that ... you see... I've fallen in love with my best friend just before finishing here and I don't know what to tell her when I return back”

Silverstream says “Well, just close your eyes and let your heart speak for you, in fact, how do you think it recruits everyone in my kingdom to save it?”

from there I understood that I should only do it, there shouldn't be any "but" “Thank you! I hope that helps me, I've spent a lot of time with her...”

Gallus says looking the area “Guys, the area is clear, it's now!”

From there, we started the plan and to give a better surprise, they turned into flies so that when the time comes, they appear suddenly when they turn again when they left, I became a bird and began to fly in the direction to the castle and when I was halfway there I saw the sides and there were Ocellus and Smolder and they looked at me, in both directions, I was afraid they would go to me, but they just stayed there, because it was luck or coincidence, I decided to ignore that, When I arrived I looked out the windows and saw Gallus and on the other side of the Silverstream Castle, I teleported them when they didn't see them and it was time to investigate in the castle

Chapter 4: what the hay just happened?

When we arrived at the library we investigated each book and after a couple of hours we discovered nothing of a spell erases minds, and there was already one book left, Silverstream took the book and worried, it was a plumbing book, when it showed to us I reminded my friends of my alternate time-line, but also when Silverstream showed us the cover, she saw a small door behind the book, we opened it and there was another book one that said on the cover "My diary, owned by Ruby Funny", It wasn't locked, so we decided to open it and started reading:

“Day 1: It's my first day of school and I'm excited to make real friends and I hope they don't reject me like in the orphanage…

Day 187: I've met some very special friends, creatures and a pony that can change shape and use magic ...

Day 199: I just want to say something, is it normal to be sad when the only one who comes to help you is the one who caused it? ...

Day 242: I have decided to leave school, I no longer feel like it was before, I started my life alone, but I will not end alone, I will have to recover my friends by getting rid of who I take them off ...

Day 363: find a very strange artifact, a necklace that allows me to create anything and manipulate it, find it in a cave with a scroll that said about something special, the stick bent right on the next page ...

the scroll:
In the past there was a pony called Rival Friend, who had a brother named Heart Friend, Rival could create and manipulate things, while his brother, could be transformed into any creature, they were a great team together, one day Heart had disappointed everyone for not trusting others and wanted to fix this in a way, only that there was not, until he discovered a spell to erase their memory, he knew that doing what did not happen would be of no use, Heart did not want to learn it, for the good of his friends, but it wasn't the same thing that Rival had in mind, when Heart saw what his brother did, he tried to convince him to stop and return their memory, but to Rival and the power to control things, even the minds of others to his taste corrupted Rival and suddenly Heart face him and luckily Heart was the one who won, so that there are no problems in the future, he stole the artifact from Rival without him noticing and hid it in a cave where he would never find it, his artifact on the other hand was protected in a chest that only a friend who would be responsible for joining their friends until the end of time, but Rival promised something to Heart as a prophecy, that the next one who has his artifact will be whoever he hates more to the chosen one of the other device and will defeat him in a battle and show that he can control everything and make a better world, Heart knew how serious the matter was, so he went to Starswirl the bearded to see how that could be avoided happen, but he told him that the prophecies do not lie, but if he knew that artifact well, there was a hidden power that would give him an advantage for the battle, but he never told him how that was activated and it was also a theory, that that will have to Seeing the next one that has the device, if you have come very far here, it means that it is time to take revenge on who took what you most wanted at all costs, nobody stops you ...

Day 465: the time has come, I have created a spell to travel to other lines and I will use it to tear apart my opponent's heart, step by step, and when I have already captured it and it is in my trap, he will feel alone and that your friends will left behind, I will begin to create the second time travel spell and prevent it from ever being in my way at some time in my life, forever ...

Nothing will stop me, not even a giant monster, I will fulfill the prophecy, which will end the victory, he leaves me very alone, no friend is really that I know, Well, he took everything from me, but I will get it back; My cry will hide, and my plan will finally begin hurt, A lesson I will give him, and it will make him feel what he had done to me, No one came to help me, I will return everything to normal; Well, he took everything from me, but I will get it back…”

I close the diary, and Gallus says “So that was what she used to kidnap us”

I said “The artifact is not what interests me most, but what her journal says”

Silverstream asks “So what happened to ...? ohh, I was in the friendship school with one of us, ohhh ok, which time-line?”

Gallus re-makes her question “Who is she? that's the question”

I respond “Well, it may sound weird, but I had a friend who left friendship school one day, her name is Ruby Funny, just like the one in the dairy, when I met her, it was when everyone wanted to be my friends, she was excited and very happy, but every day I saw her more and more sad and even more alone, I tried to comfort her, but every time I tried she walked away from me, and she left one day, we missed her at my school for weeks”

Silverstream says “Well, everything starts to make sense, and with other questions, but it's something, well since we know it was, we have to remedy it in a way, but first we have to order all this first, we don't want to leave traces”

We started to store the books in reverse alphabetical order, when Silverstream was about to save the plumbing book

I yell “Wait!”

Silverstream stops and looks at me “What happens?”

I respond with honesty “That book brings me good moments from my friends”

Gallus says “If we have seen it recently, in fact, we have not actually opened it”

I explain but with sad “My friend told me about that book every slumber party she organized and had fun talking about it... and with this puzzle that we are solving, it is the only thing that makes me remember those times before I fall into this Moral jail, believe me, you guys look like other creatures when they have the physical appearance of my friends”

Silverstream says “Well, it seems that it is not bad to know who were your friends in your timeline at this point, it will help us with a piece, in fact, talking about what worries you will relieve you, believe me, it worked to my brother”

I say “I have almost 20 friends and everyone i met them differently, are Sandbar, Silverstream, Gallus, Smolder, Ocellus, Yona, Autumn Blaze, Cozy Glow, the cutie mark crusaders, etc., all cool guys, but here, friendship is split in two, literally”

Gallus finds a clue “Ohhh, that should explain why you're not happy to see them separated here”

I move my head up and down as a sign of yes

Silverstream says “Well, in summary, Ruby Funny seeks revenge towards you, brought you to this different world where there are people who have brought from other time-lines that have the artifact too, do not remember what they were and separate them into 2 groups where nobody wants to know about the other...”

I ask “But I don't know what happened to make me drop all this, what have I done to make this chaos?”

Gallus says “Well, as we have seen first we must remind them that they were in the past, and find it wherever it is”

I walk to a window “But it could be anywhere and on any other line ... guys, you might like see this”

What I saw in the window was a red castle very similar to the school, with black fabrics outside about half a kilometer away, the strange thing is that I had never remembered that it was there, I also saw it was surrounded by hooded creatures I could recognize at first look, but about 7 met in coming from 2 directions and they took off the hood, it seemed that it was me and my friends, but from other timelines too, which led me to conclude that she also kidnap some more so that they are by her side, but seeing them together, it has given me a great idea to rejoin the 2 groups

And I got an idea “I know how we can do the first step, but we will need to do it now, I will integrate into both groups and group them accordingly in the morning and there we remind them that they went and ask them to help us and stop Ruby just in time”

Gallus says “good idea, and if you need anything we will be for you and do not worry, I promise we will return home all”

I smile “Thanks”

And so, we start everyone's return home ...

Chapter 5: Dragon force

It was getting dark and we started with the group of the "rude", we went to the village walking, and to avoid confusion my friends turned into small creatures as a disguise, Silverstream became a cat, and Gallus a dog, when we arrived Smolder wasn't happy, but not much as I was before

Smolder says “Look who decided to appear after a few minutes”

I respond “I'm sorry, I just wanted to merit it for a while and finally I decided that I prefer this group, I would like to join the group to the rude, and these pets are following me now”

Smolder says “Perfect! but if you enter this group, you must do something, let me take you to the place of initiation”

After following Smolder for a while, we arrived at a mountain where there was a huge cave ahead and to go down I was back, and the field where I walked was large

I ask “So what exactly we do here?”

“Let me call others”-Smolder whistles with great force-“Initiation!”

After that more of the group approached and made a square drawn on the earth enclosing at 4

Smolder calls Yona “Yona! Is time”

And Yona approaches and stands next to Smolder “If purple pony wants join group, purple pony must-win fight against group leaders”

Smolder adds “And you will do it alone unless you want help from another who is not in one of the groups yet but since there is no ...”

I think about it and look at Gallus and Silverstream “Can the cat be my ally?”

Gallus says “Woof!? (What?!)”

Silverstream “Mew? (What?)”

I whisper to both “Trust me, just act like they used to be”

Smolder after a while says “Well, if you want to...”

Silverstream says “Mew! (Yay!)”

Silverstream becomes a hippogriff with great emotion and confusion at the same time, others are not completely surprised

“I wouldn't be impressed if the dog also does it too”-Smolder says whispering to Yona, but then speaks to me and Silverstream –“Well, these are the rules, we will all become dragons, no blows or flying, but if we push and lift and throw the other, to win a round is by throwing the other team in the square, best of 3, and if they beat us, then welcome, if not, wait until a few days pass and try again, Ready?!”

In short, what she said, let them out of the sand 2 times, and we had to hurry, so we had to enter the first try

When she explained, Gallus walked backward, watching with the other rude ones on one side, and Silverstream, I and Yona used our artifacts to become dragons and the first round began:

The first round was where Silverstream and I began to adapt, Smolder went straight to me to push me, but I intercepted her by simply moving aside, which left Smolder physically to fall to the ground, while Silverstream tried to take care of Yona, but it didn't take long for my friend to be taken out of the square, so it was me against 2, I didn't last long in the square, there we understood that we needed to get at least one of them to get an advantage

The second round began and we had to win the rest ones this yes or yes, and Silverstream began to take it seriously, as soon as it started, I quickly picked up Yona and took her out of the square in less than 10 seconds, while I with Smolder remembered the rules and didn't She said nothing about using the tail, so I used it to make her fall, then he got mad and went straight to me, and I did the same before, just use the tail to make it fall again and this time out of the square

When the round finished Smolder had been impressed and said something before the last round:

Smolder says “Not bad, I have to admit, but the last round is different, only one of you must beat me, one on one, that's the rules”

After she told us that, I whisper to Silverstream “Silverstream, you will”

Silverstream says “Don't you think it will be better than you ...?”

I put my claw on her shoulder “The reason I chose you and not Gallus, is the way we can demonstrate the union now, they are the only link that can now give them a push”

Silverstream says “Oh, not bad, I like the idea, because if so, let it come!”

I respond “Well, the time has come”

And the last round began, I stayed next to Gallus to see her, and Yona, accompanied us, but already going to the fight, both began to push each other until they did at the same time, Smolder managed to push her to the edge, but Silverstream suddenly jumped on top of her, but Smolder used the tail as I had done and dropped her, then lifted it out of the square, but Silverstream wasn't going to give up easily and suddenly grabbed by the body to Smolder and throws it out of the square

Silverstream says excited “I-I-I did it! Haha!”

Smolder stands serenely “Well, exceeded my expectations, I proudly welcome you to the rude group!”

I respond to her happily “For me, it would be an honor”

And so we entered the group of rude and it was nightfall, and bedtime was approaching, not without celebrating it in one of the houses discreetly, I can say that goes 1 and 1 remains

At night, where I slept with my friends, it was in one of the houses of the village, wait until it is only one hour to midnight to continue with the plan

When it was like middle night, I woke up my 2 friends and we flew literally straight to school, where the other group is, without waking another one

Chapter 6: fear VS past

When we arrived at the school, my friends used the strategy of before of the dog and the cat again, and we looked for Ocellus, we knew that it was by deduction the leader when we found her.

I speak to her in a low voice” Pssst, Ocellus, I take time to decide, and I made a choice, I want to be in this group, now”

Ocellus yawns “Can't you wait until tomorrow?”

I respond “If the morning is to enjoy this moment, in fact, the night is young”

“..., you convinced me,”-Ocellus gets out of bed-” If you want to join, go to the library and look for the grid and go in there, our friend will test you, nobody knows what will you face, but it will not let you out if you don't overcome it, good luck, enter when you feel ready, and don't worry, in the morning that friend will tell us if you have done it successfully, that’s all you have to know that, goodnight”

With that said, Ocellus went to sleep and we headed towards the grid that told us, we opened it and we watched it for a few seconds on an outside perspective having our normal forms

Gallus says “So, here it is, does anyone else remember this?”

Silverstream adds “Without a doubt”

I agree “My friends told me about their experience there the first time, they had to face their fears, I'm afraid something like this will happen to me if I go alone ...”

Gallus sighs “I will go with you, no matter what is going to be down there, we will go out at the end before the sun rises”

Silverstream says “I will see that it is not tomorrow, remember, we only have until the sun rises to accomplish this and do the rest of the plan”

After that, Gallus and I entered without fear, and we didn't see any one, it was just the cave with crystal roots that I remember, only lonelier... we walked for a while and suddenly we heard a sound coming from behind, and we saw that where we entered, it had covered itself with crystal roots and suddenly it became all dark without being able to see, and for a moment, I felt completely alone ...

And I tried call my friend “Gallus! Gallus! Gallus where are you dude!”

And suddenly a light fell on me as if it were on a scenario, then a kind of clone my friends appeared, but focusing on what seems to be my friends of my time-line for real, walking and chatting from one side to another, but as nobody noticed me, try to grab one's shoulder, but for some reason, I pierced it and shouted later, but no one listened to me, then the lights went out and everything lit up like the sun, and it seemed like I was home again, on my timeline, I cheerful, but I was also worried and super confused, then those who looked like my friends already listened to me

I was kinda happy “Guys, I'm glad to see you”

Sadly were hallucinations, one of them says “Yes, haha, mmm ...”

I ask, “Does something happen?”

Another hallucination responds “who are you? It's the first time we see purple pony...”

I blinked and suddenly they disappeared like dust, I had been left alone, without friends, that, and nobody remembers me, I started to cry and cry, suddenly a voice called me

Was saying from afar “Fast! Fast!”

I respond “Who is there?”

His call was heard louder and louder until he noticed that it was Gallus (obviously, who accompanied me), I noticed it by his artifact

Gallus come closer to me “Fast, I already discovered what happens here ...”

I respond depressed “What? that you can no longer do something to change the future?””

Gallus explains “No, everything here is simply your fear, you will pass the test if you only pass them”

I ask “And what is exactly?”

Gallus looks around and everything seems normal to him, but very lonely “I would say you don't want to be alone”

I explain “And how do you think I will beat it? No one can live alone, you know”

Gallus tells “If there is something that I learned in the abysmal abyss, it is that the only thing that limits you it's you, and if you need more help, pretend that I am not here, it's time to overcome that fear by yourself”

Just by telling me that, I turned my back and closed my eyes and tried to smile at loneliness

It felt like a song in my head “Don't look very happy; and what are you here for?; you walk across a bridge, called strong change. What do you want me to do?; try to go back; you make it look very easy, they were a big part of my life. I lost my friends, now nobody of here knows, oh well; I'm alone as it was in my childhood; Exactly!. Look back sometimes; I know it costs you a lot; But make an effort; You will not regret. Look back sometimes; You lived in an orphanage; Where were you lonely; Is there a change in reality?. Look back sometimes; It all went without help; You don't need friends; Don’t let them be your support. Look back sometimes; When you lose you also win; But you can with this; Dude just trust me. Look back sometimes; Look back sometimes; Look back sometimes; Look back sometimes. Don't you remember in art class?; How not to forget?; I created a mess, but I made a Velázquez. In that platform game ...; ... where I could play with another; I decided not to have it and that game I completed. I think I understand, what you try to tell me, I think; My friends are not always there and I will have to go on my own sometimes. You can do it alone!. Look back sometimes; I know it costs you a lot; But make an effort; You will not regret. Look back sometimes; You lived in an orphanage; Where were you lonely; Is there a change in reality?. Look back sometimes; It all went without help; You don't need friends; Don’t let them be your support. Look back sometimes; Maybe you will cry; But you are going to comfort yourself; But help is accepted. Look back sometimes; Look back sometimes”

and I began to smile and in one blink of an eye all that disappeared, I had lived a hallucination, everything except my friend Gallus.

I look to Gallus “Thank you Gallus, I owe you a huge”

Gallus says “For the phrase that I told you?”

I explain “For helping me overcome my fears and teach me accordingly to turn back to trust myself again, I don't know what I would do without you”

Then we turned to look back, the grid was on the ceiling where we entered and the crystal roots were leaving and opening the exit giving the signal that the test had been completed, look behind me and there was for less than a second a light that said My name, I and Gallus went quickly to the exit, and the first thing we saw having returned to the library, is our friend Silverstream who had fallen asleep, then we looked out a window, and the sun hadn't yet risen, but that doesn't mean that Ruby will do it after several hours, we wake up to Silverstream carefully and leave school as quickly as possible

Silverstream says “Well, we have already done the first thing in the plan, we have made the two groups meet tomorrow, but what now?”

I respond “Hmmm, we must make them recover their memory, but I don't know how we can do it, any ideas?”

Gallus got one “well, we can do a song that talks about their past, we have plenty of time to create it, so it's the option we have”

I like the idea “not a bad idea, with a catchy rhythm, we have it”

Silverstream adds “Oh, oh, I have the perfect instrumental, I know how to play music from my artifact”

I speak “Perfect, Gallus and I will do the lyrics, you have to do it quickly, I don't know when the sun will rise”

From there, we created a song/parody to be able to make others recover their memories

Chapter 7: remember and plan

When it was morning, it was like the plan, the 2 groups looked for me and when the 2 groups will meet in the center and complain and insult each other, I do a teleportation spell and the 3 appear in the middle of them

And I tried to explain what happened “Guys, if let me expla...”

Ocellus interrupts “Yes, explain that you are from our team!”

Smolder contradicts what she said “FOOLISHNESS! Fast belongs to our group!”

An extremely strong discussion starts again

“Guys!... Guys!.... GUYS!”- I yelled and they shut up -“We have to explain to you well what happens now, for BOTH, and why this ...”

I start to sing “I am from both groups; It sounds strange; No logic to you; But I had to do it; We need to talk; This will clear your past and you will not regret. You hate each other without stopping; No real arguments; They used to be friends and you don't remember it; It was in a while ago…”

Gallus continues “Just look at the other; And not with an angry face; Don't you remember something; Of a moment back?. A moment of adventure; Or maybe friendship; Where they were very happy; And they didn't hate each other to death. In his mind; Start remembering; Looks like inside something change; But this is just the beginning of what we want to talk about…”

Silverstream continues “How does something not add up?; Why do they have that necklace?; Which is almost the same as I have; Only in another color. It’s your friend; But at the same time not; Is from another line; Where they chose it. And so it is with everyone; We can change shape; That makes our necklaces special to others; But even more about this than we want to talk about…”

I continue “I had a friend; Called Ruby Funny; I don't know what I did to her; But now she hates me. She put us in this world; Without we can remember; Than it was before; We were lucky. With this pin it tracks us and removes privacy; Just throw it on the floor and then destroy it; And there is still more to tell you about a while ago….”

And we 3 continued “we have been here; Like a week; And our friends miss us; We are in a prison that looks a bit like our home; And we must return…”

Smolder and Ocellus asks “How can we trust you ...when you just cheated us?”

But Gallus and Silverstream respond “He is the only one who can help us and make peace; He was the one who found a way to scape here…”

I continue with the song “In our time-lines; ‘Something’ is friendship; And that is magic; It was crucial for us. Have been the key; Of our history; That comes so far; Where everyone comes together. At last we will leave here; Our friends wait there; And have more adventures with our friends; In fact, they have done here; And there is still something here that we must still tell you…”

Gallus and Silverstream add “Just look where they are; Does everything make you familiar?; From your friends, to those of the other group. The theories they made; About us; All have been true, except of hate each other. Remember their names; That means they know something about you; And that is enough for them to remember what they were; Now we need the help of all of you, but of everyone, everyone, everyooooone!.”

And we 3 sing the last “Of Ocellus and Autumn; Smolder and Sweetie Belle; Cozy Glow and Yona; Aplebloom and Scootaloo. Sandbar also; also from Gallus; also from Silverstream; and from our friend Fast Tap. Of the agile Rainbow Dash; From the Twilight smart; The skillful Starlight Glimmer; Pinkie Pie also; And the others others others others others others…”

Gallus adds “Guys, if there is anything I learned; Is to work as a team…”

Silverstream adds too “If we join; And we do all fronts; We can finally get out of here…”

I finish “it is an honor to help us to return to our worlds; And then friendship is magic as I remember it; And then friendship is magic as I remember it; And I can honestly say, friendship is magic as I remember iiiiiit~.”

Ocellus says to Smolder “Well, I see that I was wrong, a friend from another alternate time-line is my friend, I'm sorry I was very cruel to you, forgive me?”

Smolder responds “Of course not! ... just kidding, of course, Ocellus!”

They start another talk among everyone, but this time they were apologetic and hugging each other

Silverstream says “Ummm, should we tell them what we meant with the last part?”

“Not now, this moment I want to enjoy it too” I hug Gallus and Silverstream with great affection at the same time, feeling the arrangement in my heart

After hugs and apologies, we started the plan, to begin with, we showed them in discretion the red castle that we had seen before and the hooded ones, and from there, they remembered more than what had happened to them, they did not hesitate to help me, we organize to attack and capture Ruby before she spells, Cozy and I started to make a strategic plan to enter, and we have been in a great idea, they will be divided into 2 groups, Cozy will guide the 1st group and they will attack head on, according to her in leaving them unconscious, not killing them; while I will lead the 2nd group, where we will silently look for Ruby, and we will talk to her, with the help of Gallus, Silverstream, Sandbar, Ocellus, Yona and Smolder, while the others go with Cozy, a decoy strategy basic and perfect, we had no idea how it was inside, so when we entered we had to improvise, and we went on our own, and when it was time to execute the plan, we went in a full group

In group 1, they made a formation where Cozy was leading, while I with the other group passed over the castle like faucets, and no one noticed us luckily when they approached towards the door, in one of the windows a little hooded pony opened and also with the device and took off the hood and it was another cozy

Cozy with hood asks “What are you looking for?”

Cozy responds “We just want to get in, and talk to that Ruby”

Cozy with hood says “Sorry, now she is busy doing important things”

Cozy says “Let us in on a good way...”

“Or we will do it bad way” Autumn says about to become a Nirik.

Cozy with hood says “Well, well, I'll let you in ... RED CODE, REBELLION!”

And then all the hooded creatures and pony appeared from all sides and a battle that would keep many people distracted began right in front of the entrance, while, on the other side, in the back of the castle my friends and I looked for where to enter and found an open window, and we entered it and transformed ourselves into small mice and stayed close to each other

I talk to advise my team “We have to get together, don't separate, let's walk together”

And we walked together and looked at each door where Ruby could be, until we found a door protected by 4 hooded ponies, she had to be through that door, I became a Nirik, and I made a wall of fire that surrounded them, then Sandbar and Ocellus jumped that wall and became spiders and threw webs into his eyes, leaving them unseen, then Smolder and Yona became dragons and positioned themselves on both sides of the wall, and threw fire, leaving them dizzy and in the center, and finally, Gallus and Silverstream kicked the four hooded, leaving them unconscious, we transformed back to normal and there we were, in front of the door where Ruby Funny was when I started to open the door... Gallus and Silverstream for some reason, became sad, I was starting to feel somewhat distressed, but I had continued, when we opened the door some blue lasers appeared head-on, giving a direct shot to Sandbar, Ocellus, Yona and Smolder, leaving them also unconscious, and a blue cage fell on top of our others and caught us, and it was already just a few steps ahead of us

“Well well well,“-Someone on front of us takes off the hood of the head, rebelling that it is the red and black-haired pony, I been right, it was Ruby- ”it seems that someone managed to get here, but with the help of his friends, what dependent Fast Tap”

“Ruby, I don't want to hurt you, I just want to talk to you, why have you done all this? I just want to be your friend and he…” I speak before gets worst the situation.

Ruby respond and explained “well tell me… you see when I was very young, I decided to give a gift to him who was going to tell him that I wanted me to be his friend and he denied it to me just by moving his head, then, i got adopted, and I convinced my parents to go to friendship school to start over and I made it, I made my first friends, but then, HE returned, and with an artifact that was the cherry of the cake, and to make matters worse, He became the star of the school and of auction, I take off my friends, returning to the zero step, tired of getting in my way, I had investigated very hard and if there was an artifact that could turn you into anything, there must be one That was his counterpart, but if I wanted to be sure, I just had to leave school, in fact, it had been a relief, and to hide my identity, I bought a hood, then look in the farthest corners of Equestria, until I found it, and when I made, I got the artifact and now, he had to end something else, and that's how it all began, thanks to studying advanced spells in a secret library on Canterlot, such as traveling to other alternate time-lines, or erasing memory, the mechanism was prepared.”

I ask, “Bu-bu-but why to bring others who have been chosen in their alternate lines?”

Ruby keeps explaining “It was spicy of this, some were easy and others difficult, but the plan had problems, some not to say everyone wanted to return to their worlds and didn't want to do that, so I look for more chosen, but that their lives have ended in failure, like mine, but I had to do something in return, and the best idea was to improve my spell of traveling to other lines and travel through space and time and solve their problems, but another problem came, although my magic is great, it’s required at least twice as much, and fun fact: a superior artifact always can absorb an inferior artifact on magic, which leads me ...”

I get scared “Wait! before I would like to hear more about this plan, it's the only thing I want to know, and...”

Ruby continues “well, you'll regret it, but if you insist… making the deal, they started capturing the others, and when they did the spells to erase the memory, 2 resisted the spell and told me they would do anything for just go back, and who would say they are at your side right now”

I look at both sides and see Gallus and Silverstream, and tears begin to come out “H-how could they do this? Oh, it's the second time I've fallen for this...”

Ruby ends “And I am surprised that you haven't doubted what was happening even by hints, my diary without security, your friends with their pins, separate your friends in half, I predicted what you were going to do, even this, in fact, I'll use your magic, you must learn Fast”

Suddenly, its artifact shone, and the magic of my artifact came the magic as essence and passed slowly to it, each time I felt weaker and weaker, and the pearl became darker until I became unconscious and blue bars left, leaving them free

Gallus asks “Can we ... at least apologize to him?”

Ruby laughs as crazy “Hahahahahaha, you think Fast, hahaha, he's a good guy? hahaha, good one dude, hahaha, that was a good joke, sad but funny ... He deserves this! Fast has done more damage than other villains in his life!...”

And then Ruby sings “I'm not the evil one here; I'm just the one who starts justice; He made me what I am from the beginning; And Fast? he’s the bad guy. It all started as a child; Without realizing it has given me thousands of problems; So much that you could tell it was on purpose; So, he's the bad guy. With this plan; Everyone in happiness will finally be; And peace will come, to the entire universe; It will only cost to see Fast suffer; Well, he's the bad guy…. gentlemen, mission accomplished, it will only take a few hours for the spell to be prepared, and take the others to jail, including those on the floor here, I want to see them wake up in prison, except, you 2, have helped me a lot in taking Tap to my trap, so, I thank you, it's the least I can do... Oh, isn't it great?; Dreams fulfilled, and only one broken; This is worth it, see the villain lose; Don't go to school and stay on the street?. And everything was thanks to you; Without you the plan would have failed; He deserves it more than Chysalis or Tirek; Well Fast ...; Come on guess!”

Gallus and Silverstream guess “He’s the bad guy?”

“Perfect! Now, they can go home” Ruby opens 2 portals that lead to their alternate timelines

Chapter 8: the beginning of Fast´s end

When I woke up, the whole team, except Gallus and Silverstream, we were in a dungeon, in a large prison in a large room, under the castle, with a dark area the bars were a magic field, which would not let us out

Smolder says “Great, we are locked”

Sandbar adds “We never saw coming she knew we will do it”

Yona asks “Why Pony Fast look wall?”

I was in silence, filled with sadness and angry “…”

Ocellus asks “Fast, something worries you?”

I respond a little angry “I get betrayed twice by the friends I get in my life, and I'm tired of this! it must be the worst thing they can do to you in life!”

Autumn tells me “Calm down Fast, and trust me, everything will be fine, in fact, I lived something worse, this is better than some vampire fruit bat ponies attacking your village and you can't communicate with others”

Ocellus adds “No, mine was worse, imagine switching to a whole hive next to the light and stop feeding of love”

Cozy adds “Not mine had worse problems, my best friend, hates me for doing the worst in the future to avoid it later”

Then, each one talked about their experience

And Autumn says “See? we had worse moments”

I start to smile but a little “Thank you guys, it is good to have friends to help you in good times and in bad times, Ruby had to have felt alone when the same thing happened to her, only she had no friends ...”

Someone unknown asks “Ruby Funny?”

For me felt confusing “huh? Who said it?”

Ocellus says “It seems that the voice came out of the dark area of the prison”

An old pony comes out of it, but in a costume that seemed to be an expert magician “I'm Starswirl, the bearded”

I ask “And what took you here?”

Starswirl says “When I had researched the powerful magic, I discovered the alternate time-lines, after several studies I had discovered that in one time-line, there was going to be a confrontation that would decide the end of all the alternate timelines, between someone named Fast and Ruby, transformation and creation, I don't know who will do good and who evil, depending on the winner of the battle, will depend on the change of all existing lines, including the original, from which I come, if evil wins, the timelines will mix-up so much will end up in complete madness without remedy, leaving time and space in shreds, if good wins, the alternate timelines that are involved will have a happy ending and the sudden-end will be avoided, Fast, you have to fight against Ruby and beat her, but I don't know if you're the good one, or the bad one, if there was another clue I could take out...”

I try to help him on that “Well, my artifact was yellow and Ruby's Blue”

Starswirl says “Hmmm, that must be enough to decipher it, I suppose you are the hero, which leads me to a theory that I have had for thousands of years just like the other me of other timelines, we had the doubt that it happened if an artifact absorbs the magic of the other artifacts of different time-lines, it would fully load your artifact again and it would be much more powerful, I was the only one to discover it off all my mess, that's why I finished here, we will require 51 of the artifacts, 1 that absorbs the power of the others”

I start counting everyone with the artifact including me “There are 49, we will not succee...”

it is heard that the cell opens and the barrier leaves, everyone turns to see who was who opened and was Gallus and Silverstream

Gallus says “Yo guys ...”

And I get angry again, nice me “I thou...”

Silverstream interrupts “I know you have reason to hate us, but there's no tim...”

“NO! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I HAD TO DO TO THAT ALWAYS COMES EVERY TIME, I HAD TO TRAVEL ALL THE EQUESTRY FOR GET MY FRIENDS BACK, RISK MY LIFE TO SAVE THE MAGIC OF MY EQUESTRIA, AND WHEN I TRY TO DO IT FRIENDLY FOR JUST ONE TIME...”-I start remembering when a friend had betrayed me, and I control myself, and now the papers changed and I'm the one who doesn't forgive… oh-“...they always get away with it ... uhg! Gallus, Silverstream, sorry, I hate when someone uses me just to end very badly”

Gallus adds “Neither do we, when Ruby thanked us for what we did and opened the doors to return, we asked...”

Silverstream continues “...if it has to break hearts to get something in return? our friends wait for us but we want them to see us as we are, not as what we had to be to arrive, sorry for not telling you what was happening in the beginning”

“I forgive you guys” I give them 2 a big hug

Yona says “Now friends calm down, what Gallus and Silverstream talk about?”

Gallus says “Oh, yes, there is no time, Ruby will travel in time and prevent you from going to school at the start!”

Sandbar got scared “If that happens, maybe what you said didn't happen, and it could be much worse than usual ...”

“The prevented war, and the disappearance of magic, oh no!” I got scared too

Silverstream says “We must stop her! And we will do it, everyone, as...!”

I interrupt “We shouldn't, I have to stop it, I put you in this without wanting to, I will take you out, but, I won't do it completely alone, you know”

With the 51 prepared, we followed the orders of Starswirl so that the theory it would happen, if everything went well, I would have the opportunity to win the battle that awaited me, when everything was ready ...

I give a little words to them “Guys, remember, artifacts are just something that says they are, but you already prove it ...”

Smolder says “Don't worry, we know well that we can lose our magic, but save everyone and go back home, that's worth it”

Starswirl asks “Are everyone ready?”

And the rest says “Yes”

Straswirl says “Now the 50 think about giving the magic to Fast's artifact; Fast, close your eyes and think of your memory that you appreciate most”

And of the 50 artifacts began to shine and point as a laser to my artifact, I thought of my friends, in my best moments with each of them

when I create a big wave for Sandbar's birthday

when the crusaders helped me to be positive about things

when I broke a concrete block with Yona for one of her celebrations

when I exposed on the molt down with Smolder

when Cozy left Tartarus after several months of teaching her

when I won in intelligence tests on teams representing the school with Ocellus

when I learned to spin in the air thanks to Autumn Blaze and the times I fail

when I win the doubles videogame tournament with Gallus

and when I talk about my past to Silverstream and she took it in a sweet way with a hug

Remembering all that, it was enough, suddenly there were colorful lasers from the artifacts and mine was loaded with them, and that power was growing, I felt it stronger and stronger, when I finished, I opened my eyes and saw my artifact, it was no longer black or yellow, it was of a light, which had colors that changed every time, forming a rainbow

Starswirl “And now, you have the warrior artifact, you will have at your disposal any power and magic existing in Equestria, you can move winds, create huge rains and do thousands of other things, now it is your responsibility to use them from now on and save everyone”

“I promise not to let you down, in fact, I know I could beat her easily,” I said

Starswirl says “I doubt, Ruby has the greatest power, she can create everything she wants and manipulate all objects like paper, and now can travel in time, your artifact won’t be able to do that since the one it has, doesn't come from Equestria, like yours, I'll talk about that later”

“I'll keep that in mind, and by the way, friends, if I don't come back, at least I'll make sure they get back to their time-lines, including yours Starswirl,” I said

Silverstream says “Quick, Ruby must be making the spell at the top of the castle”

“Thanks, see you on the other side!” I transform into a hippogriff and I will be like that for a while and I go to where Ruby is

Chapter 9: the last stand...

When I left the dungeon, I found the hooded ones and they did not hesitate to shoot me lasers and attack me, I used my powers to guide the lasers and take them back, they dodged it by jumping away and it was a perfect moment to escape from there, every time I advanced and approached her, more hooded ones appeared and attacked me of all kinds of elements, like fire, poison, darkness and more, and use the most logical for each one, healing spells, water, light and to leave them behind , I became varied creatures and left them in a problem to keep up with me every single floor, and so it was with each floor and each one, I remembered the teleportation spell and decided to use it for a perfect introduction, I also took the hood off of one and changed it the color white with magic, when I reached the semi-last floor Ruby while the spell was very close, she hear the explosions and the spells flying from one side to the other, and for a moment without realizing it I teleported behind her, in the form of a pony

Ruby says “I see it was a bad idea to get with the old man ...”

I just try to make a conversation “I don't want to fight with you Ruby, I just want to talk to you, you are not ...”

Ruby looks at her artifact and glow strongly indicating the spell was ready, she lifts me with magic and throws me away, “Sorry ... I have to go!”, opens a time portal and enter it

As soon as she created the portal, I became a hippogriff and quickly got into the portal, and when I passed it, I was where my childhood was lived, in the orphanage, I looked down and noticed I was on the roof of my orphanage, look below and I saw to Ruby about to intercept Twilight who was going to the orphanage door, I didn't think twice and before I got to stop her, I teleported Ruby back up and she noticed I was preventing her from fulfilling her plan

Ruby says “You don't understand, you shouldn't go to school, I will defend my friends as you do, but first I have to kill you if it's necessary!”

As soon as her dialogue says, she creates a dragon similar to Smolder and it starts throwing fire at me, I jumped and flew on top of it and with my magic, I pushed the strongest winds to it and it flew off and when it went very far it disappeared in dust, Ruby open another time portal and jump on it, then I followed it

When I crossed the portal, I saw that I was in the caves of the school, I looked to my right and I saw myself, raising all the magic, turned to my front and Ruby creates a sword and a yak similar to Yona, both attacked me, but with My magic, I made a rainbow shield that helped me to protect myself from attacks, Yona rammed my shield and when I hit it, it disappeared just like Smolder, then Ruby, started attacking me with the sword and I defended myself with the shield and at least she couldn't expect it, I shoot a laser at Ruby's sword destroying it, then opens another portal and said:

“Try everything you want, but you won't stop me from doing the right thing” Ruby enter the portal, and then I do the same

On my third stop, I found myself in an abandoned city and I was on top of a huge hole, Ruby on a platform that she created, and created a giant flying creature, just as Ocellus had done in a while ago, it began to rise and fall on top of me, trying to leave me unconscious, and next to the hole, Ruby threw me lasers that passed through portals that she created suddenly and passed from one place to another in the place, I remained intact for a while and looked down when I had the opportunity and I saw that things were going to get worse, as I remembered this, according to the classes, a giant rainbow laser was going to be fired from the hole, removing anything that was up, as soon as I remembered, I teleported out of the hole, and it was just in time when I turned to Ruby, I saw that there was a portal and entered it

My next stop was further back, I was at the tip of a pointy castle and full of holes that opened and closed and in front of me was a giant pony similar to Sandbar, and behind it was Ruby and opened another time portal and entered he, Sandbar, did not let me pass, and I decided to use the holes to distract him and at the right moment I passed by him, he looked at me and out of nowhere a pink laser pierced him and vanished like the others.

The portal took me to Cloudsdale, but a long time ago, so much so that the teachers were just fillys, I looked for Ruby and almost hit me with a laser, Ruby created a griffin similar to Gallus and a manticore, but these became invisible from once in a while, Ruby used a constant and strong laser and the 3 went towards me at the same time, I didn't know when or where they were going to attack, after several attacks that almost gave me I discovered their pattern, Gallus attacked from behind and the manticore ahead, and I could grab them with my magic and make them collide with each other, disappearing at the same time, Ruby seeing this, shot me with the laser but this time stronger, then intercepted it with a constant laser also and at crashing a rainbow suddenly appeared in the background, Ruby did not hesitate to use that opportunity and opened another portal and entered it, after seeing what was happening at that time, enter the portal

Now that I was in a slightly destroyed meadow and a red sky, later in time, I looked up and Ruby on a platform shoot me thousands of lasers that grew stronger as the attack lasted, I protected myself with a spell of the barrier, I ended up with a big explosion, thanks to that I remain intact, we were facing each other

I try to stop her “Why are you trying to attack me with the strangest thing I have in my life!?, I’m just trying to talk with you, you know?”

After saying that, she creates 3 Silverstream-like hippogriffs and they didn't let me see anything, so Ruby took the opportunity to lift the land right where it was and throw it away, I jump very high and I noticed to see what I had to do is close my eyes, Ruby moved the earth without stopping giving thousands of giant pointy small mountains, I just went forward shooting everything in front and I could dodge each one of those and Ruby opened another portal on top of her and entered, I went in the direction of the portal and I saw that 2 big magic missiles were going to destroy that portal, so I accelerated the flight and managed to enter the portal just before the missiles collided and exploded

Upon passing the portal, the Silverstreams disappeared, and it was close to Ponyville, only the weather was not right, Ruby from a cloud of rain she controlled, makes a Cozy Glow-like filly, but she was taking off her hooves large and big chess pieces and could not be broken, I try everything, but they end up cornered me these pieces, meanwhile Ruby opened a portal of time, I teleported me out of them for a few seconds, which were enough to enter the portal

Then I find myself in a Ponyville turned upside down, suddenly the gravity disappeared and Ruby was in front of me with a kirin and about 3 fillies similar to Autumn Blaze and the Crusaders, which Ruby had created, Ruby opens another portal for the last time and enters in it, only that this portal was closed and its creations did not let me pass, my magic did not work here, but I saw how I could distract them, if I remember correctly from this moment, the chocolate milk exploded, so, take one that came to me and threw it at the 4, fading them one last time, and managed to get in the portal

At the last portal, I became a pony, it was night, in the castle of the sisters, suddenly and without notice, Ruby shoots me from above the attack was so strong that I fell to the ground, what scares me is that I felt I was going to die

Ruby asks “Your last words? monster...”

I cough “You're not alone”

Our artifacts began to shine and Ruby shot me a laser that ended with me, and mine has made her entry to my mind

Chapter 10: END OF THE JAIL

When Ruby entered into my mind, she was at school, when she was recently gone she see that we missed her a lot, even the conversations she hears at the start a conversation about me and her friends

One of her friends says “I still don't understand why Ruby had to leave, she was our friend for a long time”

Another adds crying “I really miss her, I wanted to see what happened to her”

I add to the conversation “Whatever it was, we must help her in what we can unless she live in our hearts”

Twilight enters the scene “Look for all Equestria, pitifully, Ruby left ...”

After that, my mind rewound to where Ruby cried at recess, behind her was a window and some friends of his:

Another of her friends too says “What happened to Ruby? it seems that something broke her heart”

One of her friends adds “I feel bad of her, who will see what happened?”

“I'll do it…”- I go to talk with Ruby, but Ruby cries more and leaves-“Wait! ... I just wanted to talk to you”

And one of her friends adds “I feel that no one will know what's wrong, never”

I speak still having hope “One day you may want to talk to us, I hope ...”

Ruby began to see that her friends were there for her and hadn't left on their minds about she

After that, my mind rewinds when we were little fillies, in a park near the orphanage, Ruby left a paper flower on my side, turned to see what it was, then read again and then I saw that the flower was still there, I stopped the read and took the flower, I looked everywhere, but I did not find whose flower was, and I decided to use it as a separator and keep it with me, while Ruby cried in a bush, some pals approached to see what happened to her, but she only sent them elsewhere, Ruby already understood that Fast was not the one who caused all this, it had been herself, Ruby began to cry more and more

But I still didn't show her enough, my mind began to accelerate time, when my adventure had only begun, on the train to Ponyville

Ruby saw that at all the time I had the flower in the books I read, in that of the elements of harmony, that of the artifacts, even in the little fables, I even showed to my first friends:

I pull out and show the paper flower to Gallus and Silverstream “This has made me see that I can change and be friends with you”

Gallus looks at it closely “What’s special about that origami work?”

I respond “Someone had given it to me, having it here makes me remember that I can change, stop being a loner and make real friends, like you guys”

Silverstream says “Awwww, that's very sweet of you to show us”

I add “I would like to know who gave me this and thank him or her for making me realize how wonderful this is”

After that, my mind went blank and around Ruby were my friends: the teachers, the creatures, the leaders of each group, everyone in the school, even Spike, began to spin on her and sang a beautiful song, in a different voice, in the end they repeated again and again that she wasn't alone

Ruby says with tears in her eyes “What did I do? I think I chose who I am and nobody else, Fast just wanted to help me …”

And they continued to sing my friends until the song ended and the spell was over ...

When Ruby returned from her adventure in my memories, she was where the battle was over and the sun had already risen, I was scattered on the ground, Ruby began to cry uncontrollably, had killed his last friend, the crying was heard very loudly that a unicorn entered the place, it was Twilight Sparkle before becoming a princess

Twilight asks “What happened here? Why are you crying?”

Ruby responds crying “I killed my friend without realizing is who helped me understand what happened to me”

Twilight hugs Ruby very dearly “Calm down, you will never be alone, in fact, you can solve this... somehow…”

“I think I know how…“- Ruby opens a time portal, lifts me with her magic and undoes our hoods, before entering, looks at Twilight before entering to the portal “See you later ... professor ...

Twilight says after Ruby enters “I’m glad to help”

Returning to the present of my time-line at last, in a slightly cloudy environment, my friends were waiting for me to return, a portal opened and from it, my corpse and Ruby came out, she leaves me on the floor

“Ruby?”- Twilight says and everyone approaches to her- “What happened?”

“I was the one who attacked Fast in the first place, and I took him to another world, I just wanted to let him understand what had done to me, made me see that I was I who forged me to what I was, but It was too late when I noticed it, and I ended up with him blindly, “-Ruby throws herself on the ground and cries- “I'm really sorry!”

Everyone looks at me and they start to cry, and Cozy says “We don't hate you Ruby, I understand that it was not your intention to end it like that”

Yona adds “Yaks see better someone sacrificed recover pony Ruby”

Ocellus cries louder “Only ... we won't see our friend anymore”

While on the cry, Ruby start singing a song that the rest start singing “When you are anymore here; And you are far from me; So much you can't see; What I can see... . You will live in my heart; You joined us more now on; Thank you Fast; You're the best friend of all. I will not forget you; Not even in the end…”

My artifact was suddenly shining, but only a little and nobody noticed, and was turning back to yellow

And they keep singing “If you return from your trip; And see us again finally; Nothing changed; Inside of me. When you will cry again; We are going to comfort you; Will remember; What do you have friends; I will not forget you; Not even in the end….” After they sing, a tear from Gallus, Silverstream and Ruby fell on me

I get up a little sore “uhg, dude, what nightmare! I dreame... oh...”

Ruby cries of happiness and hugs me “Thanks for coming back, true best friend”

And the rest hugs me too and Smolder says “Please don't go again! ...”

Gallus adds ”I hope this does not happen again!”

Fast says “Guys, calm down, it is not the first time my life is in risk for these things, in fact, it is the 3rd time in this month”

Sandbar reminds something “oh, Fast, we haven't told Silverstream about ...”

“Don't worry, I will do it myself, if I have learned something in the adventure I had, it is that: no matter what you do, you will always get something good and something bad; if you can't do something because you don't think you can do it, it is better to look back to see what you do, and see you can do this; and we cannot control the consequences, but we can choose how things end; so I'm going to do this alone ...” I say chilled

My friends move Silverstream forward to my front, and I tell her “Silverstream, you have been someone who has helped me overcome the problems I encounter in my life, with the hugs, time we had fun together, and the conversations we had, now I ask you after a year and months of meeting, would you like to be my girlfriend, or as some say, my special somehippogriff?”

Silverstream blushes and kisses me “Wow, Fast that was very nice of you and yep, I would like to be your girlfriend”

The rest says “Aww”

Twilight whispers to Ruby “Ruby, come here”

Ruby approaches Twilight without interrupting the couple “Twilight Sparkle”

Twilight says “I knew that one of these days, you were going to be able to solve your problem and look now, this is a happy ending, but, would you like to go back to friendship school?”

Ruby says happily “It would be an honor to see my friends again”

A portal opened alongside and my 3 friends from other time-lines came out, we approached them to them

Starswirl says “I see that things have finished well after all”

Gallus from another time-line adds “Me too, didn't expected to end well after what happened”

Silverstream from another time-line says “And I don't think it is necessary for you to introduce us to your friends and let us tell you something, our artifacts still have magic, and to spare”

I got a little confused but Starswirl explain it shortly “That's why they had to be 50”

Gallus asks “Who are they Fast?”

And the Gallus from another timeline responds sarcastically “I don't know me from Fast time-line, you tell me”

Ruby says “Starswirl, I'm very sorry for kidnaped you, I have been a very silly girl, but I know how to deal with it, please send this message to my hoody friends: ‘My promise cannot be fulfilled, but you can do it alone, you can say when your adventure ends and as it ends, I wish you luck, do not give up and always look around, the truth is that there is never absolute darkness, seek and find that light, which will be your guide, for a happy ending’”

Starswirl responds “I promise to send them to everyone”

Silverstream from another time-line says “By the way, our friends, have made peace with the hooded and now we are in harmony and found a way to do the spell and we are returning home”

Silverstream asks “wow! That's great, and how started that?”

Silverstream from another timeline hugs the Silverstream from my timeline with a wing “well, is a long story, you see...”

A ‘welcome back’ party was created at that time, we played and talked, but we ended up watching the sunset when the clouds disappeared

Sandbar asks me “And what will be your next Fast adventure?”

I respond “I have no idea, but I prefer to leave that to you guys the following adventures”

Smolder asks “So you are going to retire?”

I say “Not quite, if there are serious problems as an enemy returns or something, since I'm sure it will happen, don't think twice to call me”

Twilight says “I'll keep it in mind”

Autumn adds “Me too, you don't know when a jar of pickles can't open”

Ruby says “I will not forget this day guys, well, this week, rather”

Gallus and Silverstream from another time-line agrees “Me neither”

And I noticed something “You know something? ..., now that I think about it so that these adventures happened to me, it was thanks to Twilight, it was you who brought me to school to start, without you, who knows how this Equestria would be now”

Twilight says “You're welcome, I knew I brought the perfect one to school”

And I ask “By the way, did I miss something when I left?”

Gallus responds “Not much Fast, not much ...”

And ‘colored colorin‘, this School Tale has ‘Finished’...

Epilogue: letter to a mother

“Dear Twilight Sparkle:

If you are reading this, you have easily read the previous stories, and you reached the final epilogue, I know that I can send you this by mail, but I wanted to be sure that you read my adventures first, because now I give them to you, something to remind me of when It was those years where I was at school and not now that I am in Mount Aris for a few months, far away from you, and don't worry, after school, my adventures continue, but not exactly here, Ruby changed her travel spell in time for one where can travel to other worlds and it is fascinating, and I wish you would take a weekend and visit me one day, if you decide to read these books to the students, then tell them not to give up, things may seem difficult or no solution, but nothing is impossible, jump, climb or break the walls no matter, you decide how things will end and if they are persistent, you will get it, and if you want to publish these books somewhere, I will take care of that and other worlds, and then I have nothing more to tell you, my friends and I wish you the best, princess of friendship and my origin of living.

Fast tap ”

Prologue: Past and Present

A long time ago (and I mean years), there was a filly of red skin and black mane, who lived in an orphanage, one day, it was the day she was going to be a friend for the first time, or at least she set out to do, and to greet him, she carried with her a paper flower, she waited for time to go to the park and have fun, and when she arrived, she saw other foals playing with the ball, with the rope, running from side to side and speaking everywhere, but she noticed one that looked some pony different of others, it was a colt with yellow mane and purple skin, who was reading a book and in absolute silence, she thought it was a good idea to introduce herself to him and for not distract him, she left the flower at his side, hence the colt turned in the direction of the paper flower, and then returned to the reading, and left the filly with a broken heart and left, leaving the flower where it was.

Years later, that filly grew up in a strong and cold-hearted earth pony, wearing a black hood that covers her face and was on an icy mountain where she sang a song in a low voice:

“Thanks to you my life is a misery, Why do you still on my way?, the failure is mine, the success is yours, My heart doesn't beat anymore, I sing a song from highest skies, I know you can't hear me, You with the smile, me with the sad, Friendship I forgot what is that… I do not want to seek for a revenge, I'm looking for something else, I seek to recover what you stole from a start, And continue without ever turning back, Soon a light will attack you, And stole what on one time you once had, They are not revenge things are things happening, These are the consequences of life little pal.” She makes and enters the portal and is no longer known about it, from that moment

What happened to her is unknown, but she promised that pony broke her heart to recover what she lost and it wasn't because of the flower, it was actually something more important in her life.