A mysterious changeling colt who sported the look of the changelings while they were still separated from ponies soon approached an isolated area. "No more waiting around." The changeling said. "My mother and empress is counting on me to cause the Equestrian Cival War." He added. Suddenly he pulled from some other future; out came the heroes of Future Equestria: Sunny Starscout, Hitch Trailblazer, Izzy Moonbow, Zip Storm, and Pipp Petals.

"Ugh...what just happened?" Sunny asked.

"Hey, is that one of them changelings we heard about?" Izzy asked.

"Your right Izzy, it is. I heard that you changelings can transform into other ponies. Is it true?" Sunny asked.

"How does this answer your question?" The changeling before them then turned into a black pegasus pony. "You may refer to me as Dusk Shine. And...I have called upon you five heroes from Equestria's future for a purpose." Dusk Shine said.

"What sort of purpose?" Hitch Trailblazer asked, skeptical.

"Why that's simple: Don't you want to stop your three tribes from ever breaking apart? Prevent the magic of Equestria from ever going away?" Dusk Shine said. "I have brought you into he past for that specific purpose. Of course, fixing the past means of course you'll have to go up against the Mane Six themselves to change the future." He added.

"Well I would like to stop the magic from ever going away. So...what else is in it for us?" Sunny Starscout asked.

"You'll see soon. You'll all see soon." Dusk Shine said.

Chancellor Neighsay was doing some paper work when suddenly Dusk Shine in his Pegasus Colt disguise. "Dusk Shine? What are you doing here?" The Chancellor asked.

"Here to make sure things go as I want them to." Dusk Shine said before suddenly dropping his disguise and heading up to Chancellor Neighsay.

"What on equestra? Wait, what are you doing? NO! STOP THAT! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Chancellor Neighsay yelled out. But no one heard him.

The high coincil was doing their thing when all five members were suddenly hit by green themed magic. Dusk Shine soon appeared in his changeling form before giving off an evil laugh.

A bit later, Fluttershy was busy doing her thing with Discord when suddenly Discord was knocked unconcious by a green magic bolt.

"Wh-whose there?" Fluttershy asked. "Wait who are you? NO! NO! DISCORD WAKE UP! DISCORD! DISCOOOOOORD!" She screamed out.

Rainbow Dash heard Fluttershy's but got there to see a knocked out Discord. "What happened here?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I...I don't know..." Disord said as he came to. "Where's Fluttershy? The last thing I remember is hearing Fluttershy scream." Discord said.

"...I have a bad feeling about this..." Rainbow Dash said. "We need to gather everyone." She added.

The remaining members of the Mane Six were in the map room alongside Amiticia.

"I can't believe Fluttershy has gone missing." Twilgiht said.

"I checked everywhere. There's no sign of her." Rainbow Dash said. Suddenly Princess Celestia and Princess Luna appeared.

"What's going on Princesses?" Applejack asked.

"We're not sure. Not only have the members of the high court gone missing, but so has Chancellor Neighsay." Celestia said. Cozy Glow soon flew into the room.

"Not good, not good, not good, not good!" Cozy Glow said, panicking.

"Cozy Glow, is something the matter?" Amiticia asked the pink pegasus.

"Yeah. Something is most certainly the matter, as you need to come outside to see this." Cozy Glow said.

"Oh now what's going on?" Princess Luna asked.

Suddenly in the sky was a dark red color, replacing the cloudy day that was scheduled for that day's weather.

"Okay, that is most certainly NOT something done from the weather factory." Rainbow Dash said. Lightning Dust soon showed up, holding an injured Clear Skies; various magic burns coated his body.

"He...he came...out of nowhere...took me by surprise." Clear Skies said.

"Who did this to you Clear Skies? Who?" Rainbow Dash asked.

Clear Skies pointed to a changeling who has the form of what the changelings looked like prior to Amiticia helping them unite with Equestria. "He...he did this..." Clear Skies said.

"Dusk Shine. I should've known you'd be behind this." Cozy Glow said.

"Ah good, your all here. Then we can get straight to business." Dusk Shine said. Suddenly out from various portals came the missing high council members and Chancellor Neighsay. But Dusk Shine specifically was holding onto Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash said, and started to approuch Dusk Shine before the changeling colt stopped her with a magic blast.

"Oh no you don't. Take one more step towards me, and I won't hesitate to kill your friend here." Dusk Shine said.

"What do you want, Dusk Shine?" Twilight asked.

"What do I want? That's simple: I want the element of magic. You have three hours to hand it over, or your friend dies. Got that?" Dusk Shine asked.

"That's blackmail!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Tick tock, tick tock...I'd hurry and hand over the element if I were you." Dusk Shine said.

"Girls...don't do it..." Fluttershy said. "This colt is mad...please don't do it. Forget about me...just save yourselves." She added.

"Shut up you, or I'll shut you for you!" Dusk Shine said, an evil glare on his face.

"Fluttershy..." Twilight said. A tear rolled down her cheek. "I'm sorry...I can't sacrifice you..." She added before summoning the element of magic.

"Twilight, what are you doing?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Forgive me..." Twilight said and tossed the element of magic right at Dusk Shine who caught the element of magic.

"...Checkmate..." Dusk Shine said.

Song: Checkmate (remix of the rap battle from SMG4's War of the Fat Italians 2020

Sorry lads, game's ending early; I'm a power hungry colt in a bit of a hurry. With all these rules you expect me to comply; here's a rule called YOU'RE GONNA DIE!

You can't even compete so try and hit delete; while we kick your flank to this really sick beat. The worst you can do is write a mean tweet, so shut up and just admit defeat!

Dusk Shine, you villain wannabe; a big disappointment gurantee! Still a huge failure with all your plans; just shut up, go home and make an Onlyfans!

How dare you, this is war; It's time to even the score! Your painful deaths are overdue; come and attack 'em all my crew!

My creativity is all the rage, while you can't even be a mage!

At least my fasion is always in style; unlike you whose never on file!

Your tricks are all fake, you have no appeal; while my stunts are actually gosh darn real!

A cyan mare with a rainbow head? Yeah no thanks, I'd rather be dead.

We're next gen, your old news; we get much more movie views!

Your so mean and as cold as ice. Oh...sorry, that wasn't very nice.

Okay enough! My ears are stinging; too much singing, not enough killing! killing killing killing killing... (Dusk Shine tries to hit Sweetie Belle whose nearby with a magic blast but Smolder gets her out of the way of it)

Guys please stop fighting. There's only one true foe; using you to grow. It's that evil Dusk Shine!

Using them for his own gain? Oh Smolder, you a big brain!

Thanks Spike, I'm sure their nervous.

No problem Smolder, at your service.

He most likely won't deliver on the things he should

He promised us he'd fix our world!

To all of you, I bet he's so rude.

Oh my god, that's so true my dude!

That's right he's really not all that slick; he's just a massive prick!

You guys can't honesty believe these clowns; I'm one of the nicest colts in town. I'm always showing love and humanity, with some gold old fashioned truth and profanity!

Sorry man, I'll make this fast: No one likes a colt with a stick up his flank!

All right people, time to quiz: Find out who he really is!

You don't treat us with respect!

You guys don't earn it, last I checked.

Ooo, sorry, that's not helping your case; try again with a little more grace!

You promised us you'd help us get back our fame.

I don't recall, making that claim.

It's over bro, time for your demise, as everyone sees straight right through your lies!

FINE! I don't need any of you swine, the power of this element will be all MINE! (Dusk shine eats the element and starts unleashing things like crazy, and during the crazy, Dusk Shine grabs Cozy Glow and starts charging magic, but then she grins and catches Dusk Shine off guard)

A manipulative lying piece of trash.

Whose life is about to end, in a crash!

And I'm pretty sure the world can agree...

That the honor belongs to the evil Dusk Shine!

End Music

After being hit into the ground, Dusk Shine regurgitates the Element of magic, which is caught by Cozy Glow who promptly uses its magic to untie the high court and chancellor Neighsay. "High court, you may have the honors." Cozy Glow said.

"You came to the wrong house fool." The high court's chief member said before taking out Chancellor Neighsay's pony-only education policy. "It's pretty obvious that friendship isn't limited to just ponies after all." The high council said and tore the document up.

"NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!" Dusk Shine said but was punched by Smolder; the changeling colt began fading. "NO! I WAS SO CLOSE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Dusk Shine yelled out before finally fading away fully.

"Thank god...it's all over." Cozy Glow said. "Now I can finally go home." She said.

"Guess we'll be heading back soon too." Sunny Starscout said.

"Sunny, I may not know what the future holds, but if ponies like you live in the future...then it can't be all bad." Twilight said. Sunny smiled before she and the next gen ponies were sucked up into a portal.

"By the way Cozy Glow, there's something I have to know." Chancellor Nieghsay said. "Dusk Shine mentioned he was from some sort of future. Given how you didn't disappear but he did, means you exist on opposite timelines: One where my policy remained in place, and another where it didn't. So, I have to know: Are you really from the future like he is?" He asked.

"...Guess he said something he shouldn't have. It's true. I'm from the future." Cozy Glow said.

"So...you aren't even technically born yet. That's so strange." Pinkie Pie said. "I should know, I OWN strange." She said.

"So then...whose your mother?" Rainbow Dash asked. "I'm super curious what mare gave birth to a super genius." She added.

"...It's me." Twilight said as she approuched Cozy Glow. "It's always been me hasn't it Cozy Glow? Why else would my future self send you? There's only one person I would know that I would trust enough to make sure history remained as it was written, and that is me and no one else. Let's face it, even if all my friends have their own quirks, only I would ever think that far ahead." Twilight said. Amitcia whistled.

"Damn Twilight; looks like you're going to give birth to a super genius soon." The changeling of friendship said.

"Gee dad, you couldn't have made that sound more rediculous?" Cozy Glow asked.

"Now..." Twilight said before touching her horn to Cozy Glow; magic washed over the pegasus, soon revealing instead an alicorn.

"A-an alicorn from the future?!" Celestia exclaimed. "Not even I could've seen that one coming." She added.

"How'd you know?" Cozy Glow asked.

"What kind of mother would not know the truth behind their own child?" Twilight asked.

"Gee mom...no wonder you and dad work so well together." Cozy Glow said.

"So wait...that means that Cozy Glow mother really is Twilight Sparkle then?" Chancellor Neighsay said. "...And here I go..." He added before fainting. But he was jolted awake by another time portal.

"...It's time for me to go." Cozy Glow said. "But fret not, you'll soon get to see me grow up before your eyes." She added before she suddenly was sent through the time portal which closed up behind her.

"...I never got the chance to tell her how proud I am of her." Twilight said.

"I think you will sooner for her then you think." Amiticia said. Twilight smiled.

"Yeah...I suppose your right." Twilight said. Amiticia smiled back and the two leaned against one another.

Together, no matter what may come their way now, Twilight and the Changeling of Friendship will be ready for it.

Author's Note

Key to the song in this episode:
Dusk Shine (Hard to see in Night Mode)
Twilight Sparkle
Cozy Glow
Izzy Moonbow
Rarity
Rainbow Dash
Pipp Petals
Zip Storm
Fluttershy
Smolder
Spike
Sunny Starscout