Chapter 5

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I stretch my arms above my head as I sit on a cloud and lean back, closing my eyes.

Things have been… actually, pretty chill in Equestria.

My time in Cloudsdale has been quite pleasant. I definitely think, despite how interesting it would’ve been, living in Ponyville would’ve been far more stressful and, still trying to fully under why I’m now Max, I think I’d have been wound too tight, staying in Ponyville, considering how crazy things get in that town.

That’s not to say I’ve spent all my time in Cloudsdale and not been to Ponyville.

Derpy lives here, after all and, what with her and I kinda becoming friends after that incident between those two dimwit excuses for pegasi, she brought me down from time to time to see the place.

Twilight’s reaction upon seeing a human in Equestria was… well, it’s Twilight Sparkle. She Twilighted like crazy.

It took a lot to get her to calm down and not panic that humans from the EQG world were randomly showing up in Equestria as humans, apparently not helped by my revealing my wings, since that just made her think I’d permanently Ponied Up.

It was quite exhausting trying to explain my wings are from genetic manipulation causing mutation, not magic.

Derpy had actually had to go get Fluttershy’s mother and Misty to help clarify my story.

It took several hours (partly because Derpy got lost on her way to finding Misty), but, by day’s end, Twilight had accepted things regarding me.

Of course, that was mostly due to a reassuring letter from Celestia and a quick communication between her and Sunset to confirm no one named Max had mysteriously vanished.

Misty had also, thankfully, been able to convince Twilight not to make me a new subject of study, mostly by pointing out what my being Max means and, therefore, how her making me a new study would essentially be putting me in a similar situation as what Max was put through in the books.

Twilight wasn’t exactly eager to perform experiments on someone who had already been used in them all her life.

Granted, it’s my body that went through all that and not me personally, but the sentiment is the same.

So, with that out of the way, Derpy had shown me around town, introducing me to everypony… which thankfully did not include a certain mint green mare whom I knew would have a huge reaction upon laying eyes on me.

I’m still dreading the day she and I meet and is why I’ve only visited Ponyville every once in a while and only for short periods of time.

It has been enough for me to get to know ponies and get caught up on current events.

The CMC have their Cutie Marks, Shining Armour and Cadance have announced they’re having their baby and Discord had his little lesson to Twilight about jealously, strengthening their friendship.

I do have a nagging feeling though.

Like, I can’t explain it, but, I feel like something’s gone wrong and I can’t figure it out.

Nightmare Night and Hearth’s Warming having happened before I arrived certainly didn’t help, since it meant I’d arrived after events of the show that shouldn’t have already happened before others, but I can’t shake the feeling something’s off about that.

I’ve been visiting Twilight whenever I can to ask about it and she’s told me it’s nothing to worry about, that I’m probably just imagining things… but I don’t think I am.

Max in the books had a keen sense for danger and, whenever her gut told her she was in danger, it was rarely wrong, so I’m trusting my gut right now more so than Twilight’s.

I mean, Princess Bookhorse’s gut hasn’t exactly been trustworthy on quite a few occasions, has it?

Regardless, it’s why I’m hanging on this cloud right now.

I’m fully aware that a bird’s eye view of Ponyville should let me see whatever danger it is my gut must be warning me about.

Plus, I should easily be able to spot a certain mint green unicorn long before she sees me.

Sitting up, I lean forward over the cloud, my stomach pressing into my knees as my legs dangle off the cloud.

Looking Ponyville over, I spot Spike and Twilight, the former pulling a rolling suitcase behind him.

I frown. That feeling of something wrong just got another tick.

Seriously, what am I getting so scared of?

Deciding that, since this might be one I can actually deal with, I slide off the cloud, gliding towards the two purple people.

As I get close, hovering several feet behind them, I suddenly get an image of Ryuk and Rem from Death Note pop into my mind, specifically how they’d follow behind Light and Misa and how, anyone watching the three of us, I’d look like I’m a cute Shinigami following after the two of them and I can’t help giggling at the image.

I stop giggling, however, when a flash of green appears in my peripheral vision and I zip behind the nearest building, peering out anxiously from behind it… only to sigh with relief as I see it’s just some random green Earth Pony with a trio of diamonds for a Cutie Mark.

I shake my head, returning to the air and fly quickly towards Twilight’s castle, shoving my way through the doors and not bothering to close them.

“… that sounds better than Starlight Glimmer coming back with a plot for revenge,” Spike’s voice says from somewhere up ahead.

The mention of Starlight Glimmer’s name triggers something in my head and my heart leaps into my chest.

Without even thinking, I go into Warp Drive, rocketing down the hall, following the sounds of voices.

“Welcome home, Twilight,” Starlight is saying as I reach the door, leering as she turns her attention to a scroll levitating next to her.

My eyes widen as it clicks in my head what’s going on… which makes me briefly forget them I’m still flying and still in Warp Drive.

Before I or the ponies and dragon can do anything, I’ve shot past Twilight and Spike, colliding with the magic from Starlight’s horn as it’s connecting to the spell.

I… honestly have no idea what happened next.

The next thing I know, my whole body feels like it does normally in Warp Drive, only times a billion, I hear a deafening booming sound and… Barbie screaming?

I have no time to properly process what all these things could mean before the world goes black.

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Ow. My head.

I groan, turning over, snuggling into the fluffiness of the clouds beneath me.

Wait. Clouds?

Oh, thank Celestia. I was dreaming.

That suddenly makes more sense.

“Is it waking?” a voice says from somewhere above me.

“Maybe? Perhaps it can explain what that unicorn was doing with it,” another voice says. “Then again...”

I frown, but don’t open my eyes.

Really? Can’t these ponies have their conversation somewhere else? Can’t a girl get some peace and quiet while sleeping in her own bedroom?

…

Wait a minute.

Something doesn’t add up here.

Why are there ponies having a conversation in my room?

I don’t recognize the voices, plus, both are male, so neither of them is Misty.

I open my eyes… and am suddenly very aware that I am not in my bedroom.

Sitting up quickly, I can tell I’m in what I can best describe as a dungeon made of grey clouds.

Startled cries make me turn my attention to a door that is a more dark-grey clouds than the rest of the room.

There’s bars on the top of the door, through which I can make out two faces.

One is a kinda buff blue Pegasus, wearing either Roman or Greek armour, it’s hard to tell. He has light-blue eyes and a grey beard.

The other stallion is another Pegasus… who I think for split second is Flash Sentry, before I remember neither of the voices I heard sounded like Vincent Tong.

Still, the guy does look a lot like Flash Sentry. I mean, his coat look a slightly darker shade of yellow than Flash’s, but, otherwise, the two could be identical twins.

I do notice his armour is a different colour than the other Pegasus’ though.

While the Flash lookalike has silver armour, the buffer guy has golden, bronzish armour. The Flash lookalike’s superior, maybe?

“Well, at least it’s awake now,” the blue Pegasus says.

I frown, folding my arms. “Hey, I’m not an it, I’m a she.”

I blink, then inwardly snicker. Though that would be funnier if Twilight was here.

The two stallion’s eyes widen, before they get sad expressions for some reason.

“She isn’t mindless?” the blue Pegasus says, sounding heartbroken. “Her fate would have been kinder had she not kept her mind.”

I frown, returning my thoughts to the present. “Excuse me? Was that a threat?”

The Flash lookalike gets a frantic look and waves a hoof. “N-no, m’lay. He meant no ill to you. It’s just… with whatever spell that unicorn must have used to transform you into… whatever that is, we thought you would prefer not remembering.”

I glance down at myself… confused by what they mean.

“What are you talking about?” I ask, cocking an eyebrow. “This is how I’ve always looked.” Well, since coming to Equestria, anyway, but that’s not the point.

The two seem shocked.

“Truly?” the buff Pegasus asks, his eyes wide.

“Yes,” I say, getting a bit annoyed now, standing up. “Now, mind explaining why I’m in a worthless cloud dungeon? Since when were these even still a thing? Misty said they stopped using them shortly after Luna was banished.”

“What?!” the shout makes me flinch.

“Why would Princess Luna be banished?” the blue stallion said firmly, before narrowing his eyes at me. “Are you and this Misty friend of yours part of that group who tried to start that church worshiping Celestia alone?”

…

Okay. File that under Need To Ask Celestia About Later and WTF?!

“You know? Luna’s banishment after the whole Nightmare Moon thing?” I ask, folding my arms and raising an eyebrow.

“Nightmare… what?” the two look to each other, confused.

I frown. Where have these two morons been the last year and a half? How do they not know about Luna’s fall to Nightmare Moon, banishment to the moon and purification by the Elements?

“Please, just let me go!” a voice calls out.

My eyes widen. Starlight. Suddenly, everything comes back.

Starlight had just been about to use Starswirl the Bearded’s Time Travel spell to go back in time and stop Twilight and the rest of the Mane Six from gaining their Cutie Mark connection through the Rainboom.

I’d flown into the room just as she was casting it and… got between Starlight and the spell as she was casting it.

Holy crap! I’m in the past! No wonder these stallions are dressed in old armour and have no clue what I’m talking about regarding Nightmare Moon and Luna’s banishment.

Those things haven’t happened yet.

Shit, I could’ve just altered Equestria’s history by revealing what’s going to happen to Luna before it happens.

“That unicorn you mentioned,” I say quickly, putting the pieces together in my head as I hurry to the doors and grab the bars. “Did she have a scroll with her?”

The Flash lookalike, whom I’m now guessing is his ancestor, nods. “Yes, she did. We assumed it was the spell she’d used to turn you into… well…”

“Where is it?” I ask, my brain going a million miles a minute.

“Well, she’s several cells down that way,” I’m just going to call him Flash says, pointing to his right. “We put you in a cell too, since we weren’t sure the after effects of the spell and whether or not you were safe.”

“And, judging by your rambling, we weren’t too off there,” the other Pegasus says haughtily. “Banishing Princess Luna. Of all the nonsense.”

“No, not Starlight, the spell!” I say, though I inwardly thank Flash for that titbit of info.

Flash blinks, before nodding. “Oh, it’s on its way to Canterlot. We couldn’t figure out the markings and, since we thought you were under a spell, we thought a unicorn there could figure out the spell and reverse it, but… I guess we don’t need to now?”

My heart leaps into my chest!

Fuck! Starswirl’s completed Time Travel spell is heading for Canterlot?!

I nod, giving a quick salute. “Thanks for the tip, boys. Now, I gotta go before the space time continue starts choking on its own blood.”

Before either of them can even process what I was talking about, I turn and charge at the wall to Flash’s right, passing through it with ease.

Seriously, Silver Quill was right. Pegasus’ security stinks!

“Starlight!” I yell at the top of my lungs, bashing through wall after wall of clouds. “Starlight, where are you?!”

“Wha— Yes! Here! Here, I’m in here!” a frantic voice calls out.

I make a sharp turn and, opening my wings, shoot through more cloud walls.

After about ten of them, I have to backtrack after a pinkish-purple blur passing by me.

Starlight is bound in cloud chains, what looks like a metal ring around her horn.

“Wa-wait,” Starlight’s eyes widen. “You-you’re that’s biped who’s been hanging around Ponvyille every now and then.”

“Yes. Name’s Max. Time’s short. Introductions later,” I say quickly, grabbing the chains and poofing them, before giving her a raised eyebrow. “And you didn’t do that because…?”

Starlight blushes heavily. “I… didn’t know I could do that.”

The sound of a bell ringing our suddenly catches my attention.

I look to the ring on Starlight’s head. It doesn’t look like you can just pull it off. There’s probably a key somewhere.

Still, now’s not the time to go looking for it.

Starlight yelps as I grab her, wrap her in my arms and charge at the wall as I leap into the air, flaring my wings.

Starlight screams as I angle downward and we smash our way through the cloud floors.

After twenty, we’re met with fresh air.

Glancing back, I see what looks like a medieval castle made out of clouds, pegasi flying to and fro.

I go into Warp Drive, hoping the pegasi will be too distracted by all the confusion to notice us and follow.

That armour they’re wearing suggests warriors, so their tops speeds are likely way faster than mine… or so I think.

Before Starlight and I know what’s happening, the world becomes a literal blur.

I think I heard Starlight start to scream, but then everything goes silent, save the loud rushing of air in my ears.

It takes a few moments for me to catch myself and I stop my Warp Drive… only to see we’re so far away from wherever we were, I can’t even see it anymore.

A look of the land tells me we’re above some kind of swamp.

How bloody fast and far did I just go?

Glancing down to ask Starlight if she’s alright, I blanch as the unicorn mare looks half dead, her tongue lolling out of her mouth, her eyes having rolled into the back of her head.

Um… whoops.

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“You’ll be just fine,” the blue Earth Pony mare says to the slightly green looking Starlight. “You just went way too fast, too quickly. Some rest will have you right as rain again.”

“Thank you,” Starlight slurs, slumping her head to the pillow.

After realizing Starlight was possibly dying, I’d flown down to the swamp, hoping to find somepony to help.

By luck, we were near a small village in this place named Hayseed Swamp and I’d found this nice mare who’d given Starlight some medicine that had woken her up, but she clearly is still recovering from massive jetlag.

The mare was even able to help us remove the ring around Starlight’s horn.

Though, that might also have been a reason for Starlight getting sick. Her body tried to compensate after the fierce speeds she’d been through, her magic returning amplifying that and… it was just too big an overload of information for her body to physically handle.

“Ah’ll leave the two o’ you,” the mare says, heading for the door to the small room. “Let me know if’n ya need anything.”

“We will,” I call, waving. “And, thanks again.”

She nods, closing the door behind her.

Once she has, I turn to Starlight, my expression firm. “Starlight, you seriously fucked up this time.”

“Ugh, can’t it wait til I don’t feel like my stomach is in my lungs?” Starlight groans, turning over so she’s not looking at me.

“Unless you want to fade from existence, no, it can’t wait!” I hiss.

There’s a long pause, before Starlight slowly turns around, meeting my eyes with a distant and unamused gaze. “Huh?”

I scowl at her. “You’re messing with Starswirl’s old Time Travel spell has gotten us stuck in the past, before Luna even became Nightmare Moon.”

Starlight just blinks lazily. “That… is ridiculous. I meant to go back to Cloudsdale…”

“To stop Rainbow Dash from making the Sonic Rainboom and thus stopping Twilight and the others getting their Cutie Marks, I know!” I hiss. “But, something screwed up and, instead of sending the two of us to Cloudsdale when Rainbow was still a filly, you somehow sent us to Cloudsdale over a thousand years in the past!”

She just blinks back. “Uh… how?”

“If I had to guess,” I growl, rubbing the bridge between my eyes, “it’s because I got between your magic and the scroll as you were casting the spell. I was using Warp Drive and, it must’ve briefly super charged it and I ended up going so fast I broke the Time Barrier, you getting pulled along with me.”

“So… it’s actually your fault we’re stuck here, then?” Starlight deadpans.

I snarl at her. “No, it’s your fault. We wouldn’t even be in this mess if you’d just fucking read a history book or read a newspaper once in a while!”

She shows slight confusion. “Huh?”

I growl. “If you actually bothered to do your research, you’d know that Twilight and the others are the ones who stopped Nightmare Moon. You’d know they stopped Discord. Helped stop the Changelings from taking over Canterlot. Helped stop Sombra from taking over the Crystal Empire when it returned. Stopped Equestrai from being overrun by Discord’s old Plunder Vines. And, finally, stopped Tirek from taking all the magic in Equestria and ruling it! Without Twilight and the others getting their Cutie Mark bond from the Rainboom, Equestria is fucked!”

There’s silence for several long minutes, before Starlight gives a slight scowl. “You have got to be kidding me, right? What’s so special about Princess Twilight’s friends? How can a group of ponies that are so different be so important?!”

“Because that’s how fate works sometimes, Starlight?!” I scowl, standing up and indicating to myself. “Look at me. The same question you pose about Twilight and her friends being so important can apply to me as well! Why was I turned into Max? Why was I sent to Equestria? I don’t know, but you wanna know what won’t help me get answers?”

Starlight rolls her eyes. “No, what?”

I grit my teeth. “Trying to ignore the issue and just doing whatever I want without thinking of the consequences. For example,” I indicate around us, “because you didn’t think to simply talk with Twilight instead of trying to rewrite her personal history to make her suffer, the consequence is that you and I are now stuck over a thousand years in the past and all of time and space might soon implode from the paradox you’ve unleashed.”

Starlight looks confused again. “What paradox?”

I fold my arms and reply sarcastically, “Oh, nothing. Just that several ponies now know about Luna’s fall to Nightmare Moon and banishment possibly years before it’ll happen and Starswirl’s completed spell is now headed to Canterlot, where Starswirl will no doubt read it before he even started the original version of the spell. Not a big deal, right?”

Starlight blinks. “What?”

I scowl. “Eeyup. Those pegasi that were holding us prisoner? They thought the scroll was for a spell you’d used to turn a Pegasus into what I am, so it’s on its way to Canterlot, where its original creator is supposed to study it, even as we speak.”

Starlight just stares as the information processes, before her eyes slowly widen and her face turns to pure horror.

I nod. “Eeyup. Thanks to you, Starswirl is going to be given a completed version of a spell he likely hasn’t even created yet and, since he’ll have a completed version, he won’t need to make his own, meaning he’ll never have made the incompleted spell to begin with, meaning that spell will stop existing and the universe will die choking on its own blood, all because you couldn’t be bothered to read a fucking newspaper!”

“I… I…” Starlight stuttered, her eyes widening further and further in horror with each passing second.

“I mean, did it never once occur to you that the Princess of Friendship and her friends might’ve had some significance to Equestria’s history?!” I ask, waving a hand in the air, before making my voice high pitch to imitate Starlight. “Oh, gee, I wonder if being an Alicorn princess means Princess Twilight might be important. After all, Princess Celestia controls the sun, Princess Luna controls the Moon, Princess Candace rules over the Crystal Empire. Maybe Princess Twilight, the Princess of Friendship and her friends, might have some importance. Naw, I won’t bother looking that up. I’ll just mess around with the freaking space time continuum and risking dooming all of reality because I’ve my head too far up my ass to stop and think for more than two seconds!”

I stand there, panting heavily, glaring at the bedridden unicorn as she just stares back at me with a mixture of shock and horror.

After several minutes of panting, I take a deep breath, sit back down on the chair next to the bed and glare at the wall.

“Luckily for us, since we’re around a thousand years in past, mail should travel a lot slower than it does in our time. Since that Meadow mare said you should be fine come tomorrow, we’ll wait til morning, then you can use a scrying spell to find the spell, we’ll get it and then you can take us back to the future so you can fix this whole mess!”

Starlight just looks at me with annoyed guilt. “How old are you again?”

I rest my chin in my hand as I leave my elbow against my knee. “Six.”

She looks down, before rolling over. “Then why does your scolding me make me feel like I’m the six year old and you’re a scolding adult.”

“Probaby because I’m Max,” I grumble, sitting up and stretching, before folding my arms and leaning back against the wall. “Comes with being leader of The Flock.”

Even if I don’t have a Flock to lead.

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“Now turn north by north-west by a thirty degree angle!” Starlight yells over the rushing wind.

Soon as we woke up and Meadow had given Starlight the all clear, the unicorn had used a scrying spell to locate Starswirl’s Time Travel spell.

Luckily for us, it seemed like it hadn’t gotten too far from Cloudsdale.

While she hadn’t liked the idea of my holding her, Starlight knew, even though she demonstrated she could levitate herself with her magic like Pumpkin Cake can, she could never keep up with my speed, especially since we arrived in the past.

I even tested it a few times. Somehow, Starlight zapping me while she was also casting the Time Travel spell has magnified my speed, both regular and Warp Drive.

We had to hide for a while after I accidentally caused several sonic booms, alerting nearby ponies, several of them pegasi wearing armour like those who’d been in that cloud prison Starlight and I were in.

Anyway, it meant that, catching up to the group delivering the scroll to Canterlot was proving way easier than we’d originally thought it would be… which, considering the entire space time continuum is on the line, isn’t exactly something I’m willing to complain about.

Starlight also modified her levitation spell slightly so that the push of the wind wouldn’t be so rough on her, plus, I’d still be able to hear her when she directed me on where the scrying spell was telling us to go.

As I bank, my eyesight allows me to see we’re nearing a convoy of unicorns and Earth Ponies.

A quick scan and I can tell which of them is carrying the bags that likely contain the scroll, a grey unicorn with a short black mane and tail and a tornado for a Cutie Mark… who feels oddly familiar.

He’s the one wearing a saddlebag with a crest of the sun on it.

Granted, the other ponies are wearing saddlebags too, but theirs all look like supply bags. His looks more likely to hold other items.

I drop out of Warp Drive, Starlight shaking her head to clear it as the world catches back up to us. “Remember the plan?”

She rolls her eyes. “It’s not like it’s that hard to forget.”

I roll my eyes in turn. “Just making sure, Glimmer. We can’t mess this up. The longer we’re in this time period, the more we risk messing with history.”

“Which is why we can’t let too many ponies see us, blah, blah blah,” Starlight groans, giving me a deadpan look. “I get it, okay? I know I’m an idiot for doing this without thinking it through. I’m sorry. How many times do I have to say it?”

“Oh, you aren’t even close to getting started with the “sorry”s, Glim Glam,” I snort. “Once we’re back in our time, you’ve got a lot more ponies to apologize to.”

Starlight gives a loud groan, before lighting her horn.

A puff of pink and blue smoking sifts out from her horn and moves towards the group of ponies.

As the cloud falls onto them, the unicorn with the tornado Cutie Mark looks alarmed. “Somepony’s casting a spell!” he yells in a voice I can swear sounds familiar, before his eyes, like all the others in his group, droop.

He lights his horn, before flopping onto the ground at the same time as the others, all of them fast asleep.

I come down, letting Starlight go and we start searching all their bags.

Well, Starlight searches the others’ bags, anyway. I’m pretty sure this Tornado unicorn has the scroll, but she’s going to check the others anyway.

“Yes,” I say after searching through the stallion’s bag, pulling out a scroll and opening it to reveal Starswirl’s finished spell.

“Okay,” Starlight sighs with relief and we walk several feet away from the group. “I’ll cancel the spell and then we’re outta here.”

She lights her horn and all the ponies flash with light, groaning.

I take Starlight’s tail with one hand and hold up the scroll with the other.

She zaps the spell and a portal with ticking gears appears above us.

There’s a forceful pull and we’re yanked up into the portal, heading back to the future.

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The unicorn stirred, hearing a pair of voices he didn’t recognize. It sounded like a mare and filly.

He opened his eyes, noticing he was laying on the grass.

A look at his side revealed his saddlebag’s contents had been strewn on the ground.

Looking around, his eyes widened as they locked onto a unicorn mare with a pinkish-purple coat and a purple mane and tail, both with a stripe of light-blue down the middle.

However, that was all he noticed about the unicorn, as it was the other creature that drew his attention.

It was some hairless… thing. It seemed bipedal, reminding him of something he’d read in one of Starswirl the Bearded’s journals.

However, the odd thing was this biped had massive wings. They almost reminded him of an eagle’s wings.

He didn’t get much time to ponder this, however, before his eyes widened as the unicorn zapped a scroll the biped was holding, the same scroll he realized they were supposed to be delivering to Starswirl in Canterlot so he could study it!

Soon as the magic hit the scroll, a hole seemed to appear in the air above the two.

It had what looked like gears around it and the two were sucked up into the hole, which closed the moment the both had passed through, leaving the air still, it as if the two hadn’t been there at all, taking the scroll away with them.

The stallion just stared, dumbfounded.

Author's Note

Okay, this is STUPIDLY overdue.

I'm annoyed at myself for not having updated anything in weeks now.

i wanted to, i seriously did. Every day i was planning on using the computer i've told myself that i need to update something, but, whenever i got on the computer, the drive to write just left me.

Plus, i'd been debating on whether to try updating something or post a new story that's been spinning in my head for all these weeks.

The fic is about someone waking up as Post season 3 Bloom from Winx Club in the Dragonlands and following from there, with a surprise twist planned for the villain of the story with a link to G5

Debating about at least starting that fic or conituing others first didn't help, both decisions at war throughout all that time.

Today, however, I finally bit the bullet and chose to update this fic.

the reason being... a rather interesting one.

After the announcement of the Death Note parody for the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 33, Death Tome, I'd gotten in the mood to rewatch the original anime and, it was after getting through volume 6 and going into the trailers in the special features that the urge to update this fic took hold,

one of the trailers on the dvd was for Vexile, a CGI movie and, one of the characters happens to be voiced by the same person who voiced the character Max thinks of when she hears her voice for the first time in this fic.

So, here we are.

also, i swear on my life, the fact Death Note played a part in the inspiration for getting back to this fic was NOT the reason i wrote Max thinking about it as she flew down to follow Spike and Twilight and thus leading into everything that happens.

that was pure dumb chance. as was the fact i chose to do the season 5 finale events in chapter 5.

fate just apparently decided it wanted to be ironic.

Now, no, the other events from season 5 are still going to be happening. i just felt Max needed to experience the finale's events before those for personal reasons that will be made clearer in future chapters.

after all, events happening out of order isn't exactly new for characters who wind up in Equestria, either as themselves, ponies/other equestrain species or fictional characters from other franchises.

So, did Starlight and Max manage to get the spell and return to the future before altering the timeline too much?
Who was that unicorn Max thought seemed familiar?
Did Starlight cause more problems than she realizes when she accidentally zapped Max at the same time she cast the Time Travel spell?
Has Max's presence in the past caused a ripple effect no could ever have guessed?

You'll have to wait til next time to find out.

PS Because of Death Time, I will be getting season 34 when it comes out. probably the frist time in over five years the simpsons has actually given me a genuine reason to want to buy one fo their modern seasons.

I'm gonna wrap up here, because i've a few more things i want to get done before the day is out.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter and, til next time, stay safe, stay clean and see you later everybody