When Worlds Collide

Blast from the Past

Photon continued to run through this strangely familiar area. Around him were grassy hills and cliffs, large flowers, along with some cabins and small houses. “Yep total déjà vu. I wonder why this place is here?” Photon continued to run through the area and noticed a yellow pony in a patch of flowers. “Who’s that?” Photon ran up to the pony and recognized her to be Fluttershy. “What the! What’s Fluttershy doing here?” He went up in front of her and looked at her closely. “Um hey Fluttershy?” He asked her to se if she was alright.” She was crying and with her hooves over her eyes and her head facing down. When she heard his voice she looked up and was instantly relieved to see him.

“(Gasp) PHOTON! OH THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THAT was so frightening, it was dark and cold and I felt like I couldn’t move. This place is so unfamiliar to me so I had no idea what to do.” Fluttershy said still sniffling. Photon gave her a hug to comfort her and they stayed like that for a few seconds before speaking to her again.

“It’s okay, you’re safe. But you’ve never seen this place before?” Photon asked.

“No, I-I’ve lived near here for years and I’ve never seen this place before. It’s really strange seeing how it just appeared her.” She explained.

“Well no stranger than ending up in a whole new world where the laws of nature are totally different from what you understand, but then again I’ve lived through that. What’s important is that we find our friends and find out what going on here.” Photon suggested.

“WAIT! What happened in Ponyville?” Fluttershy asked. “The dr-dragon attacked and there was an explosion.”

“Oh yeah that place I saw near the town square. Maybe somepony is over there. I’ll go check it out. You on the other hoof should go home. You’ll be safer there.” Photon said running towards the seemingly deserted town. Fluttershy watched as he ran towards Ponyville when she heard somepony walking behind her. She looked behind her and saw a really young green colt. He looked almost exactly like Photon, only this colt was younger and shorter and was wearing a hat and black shoes on his hind hooves.

“Oh my! That’s strange I thought you just left.” Fluttershy said. The young colt just gave her a questioning look and turned around to walk to Ponyville. “Wait you can’t be Photon, who are you?” She asked. The young colt just looked at her. “Can’t you talk?” She asked. The colt just shrugged his shoulders. “Oh come with me. A little colt like you shouldn’t be out here all alone. Come to my house I’ll give you some food.” Fluttershy suggested. When the colt heard that he instantly started following her.

Meanwhile, Photon made it to where the purple buildings and voids were. But now it looked like a miniature city almost. The buildings were tall and neon lights on them. it looked like the inside of casino except not as luxurious. The lights were shining and some machines were on. “Okay now this is just as weird as a bunch of cliffs appearing near a forest in a matter of minutes.” He continued to observe the area around when he heard a voice.

“Photon! Ow! Photon!” Photon looked to his right and saw Twilight. “Twilight you’re alright!”

“I’m okay but OW! What’s with this place?” Twilight asked as she continuously got hit in the head with playing chips.

“Yeah, watch out for those.” Photon told her.

“What? You know about these things? Ow!” Then Photon and Twilight hid behind a wall.

“I guess its just an impulse I have because I get heck load of memories from this place.”

“You’ve been through here before?” Twilight asked.

“I guess.” After a few moments of running through obstacles the two ponies made it out in one piece or two since there were two of them.

“Thanks for getting me out of there. I was having the hardest time getting out of there. At least now I’m back in good old Ponyville. Well sort of old.” Twilight said relieved by making it outside.

“This may be a stupid question but have you seen this building before?” Photon asked.

“Of course not it just appeared out of nowhere.” Twilight answered.

“Oh I found Fluttershy she’s okay.”

“Oh good. Did you find anypony else?”

“No, but I get a feeling we should head to Cloudsdale.” Photon suggested.

“You go ahead I’m going stay here and look for the others.” Twilight said.

“Alright. See ya soon.” Photon ran towards Cloudsdale.

Photon made it to a grassy area under Cloudsdale when he remembered. “Oh great how am I supposed to get up there?”

When the ground started shaking when a red gem appeared behind him. “What the heck is that?” Photon asked surprised to see this random thing come out of the ground. The gem revealed a metallic and stony base and the gem itself began glowing. “Okay that may be random but this thing is also pretty familiar. What is it with today? First entire areas that I vaguely remember begin appearing in Equestria and now this. But if I remember this correctly.” then Photon stepped on the gem and a vortex of red light began to swirl around him. He closed his eyes and after a single second he opened his eyes and found himself in the sky. “Am I in Cloudsdale?” He asked himself. He looked behind himself and saw the City of Cloudsdale far behind and below him and the area he was standing on. Not only that, he heard some grunts and thuds off to his right. He jumped up to a platform above him and saw Rainbowdash wrestling with a wolf that, not surprisingly, Photon recognized. Rainbowdash looked through the side of her eye and saw Photon.

“HEY! PHOTON MIND HELPING ME!” She requested currently being held down. Then the wolf turned its head and saw Photon. His expression went from looking aggressive to one of realization.

“Photon? Is that you?” He asked.

“Apaulo? Wow you made it here too?” Photon asked. The wolf named Apaulo released Rainbowdash and walked to Photon.

“Geez Photon what’s going on here? I doubt I’m anywhere near Eden island.” Apaulo questioned where they were.

“You got that right. We’re in a world called Equestria, the Pegasus you were fighting is a friend of mine named Rainbowdash. She’s one of the first ponies I met when I first got here.” Photon and Apaulo looked at Rainbowdash who was glaring at Apaulo.

“Hey well.” Apaulo continued to direct his attention Rainbowdash. “Well you shouldn’t be here anyway. This is my sanctuary, and the ruins of my people.”

“You’re ruins are right on top of my home!” She yelled at him.

“Well I can’t do anything about it.” Apaulo said. Photon watched as the two argued. Then Twilight teleported next to him.

“WHOA! Twilight what are you doing here?”

“Never mind that. How did you get up here? I forgot to give a spell that allows you to walk on clouds. But looking at this, you’re not even on a cloud. How are these platforms here?” She asked looking at the plant covered stone ground. The entire area they were in was like a huge plant covered ruin that levitated in the air.

“Yep, I’ve been here to, and especially since he’s here.” Photon brought their  attention to Apaulo and Rainbowdash.

“Um, is he a good wolf?” Twilight whispered to Apaulo.

“He’s a good guy. Too bad he’s gullible, not too bright and really over protective of ancient inanimate objects.” Photon explained. Twilight giggled slightly. “he… um oh wait! I need you to check something for me.” Twilight requested.

“what? What do you mean?” He asked.

“I found one of those purple portal things in a cave outside of Ponyville and we need to see where it heads. It could lead to that dragons hideout or something.” Twilight explained.

“Nice observation. C’mon lets go.”

“Hey wait for me.” Rainbowdash yelled out. “DO NOT LEAVE ME HERE WITH HIM! He’s crazy and you can’t have a reasonable argument with him.”

“Yep that’s Apaulo for you. C’mon Dash we’re headed to the surface.” Photon said.

“I’ll take us there.” Twilight said, her horn glowing ready to teleport them to the cave. The three ponies stood in a triangle formation and twilight warped them to where the portal was.

The cave was in the side of a small mountain that was out in the dusty fields a few miles from Ponyville. The three appeared at the opening.

“In there.” Twilight pointed to light coming from deeper inside. Photon walked up to it and in reality it was something that didn’t really resemble a portal. It was a large red metallic door. “Wow I wasn’t expecting that.” Twilight was surprised to see a door inside a cave like the one they were in.

“Seems fishy, open it Photon.” Rainbowdash commanded. Photon walked up to the door and pushed it in. The inside appeared to be a luminous white-blue light that looked to have a watery texture. The three were sucked in and the door

closed behind them.

The three woke up and saw they weren’t in a cave any longer. “This place looks familiar.” Twilight said looking at the dilapidated ruins. She looked to her left and saw an altar with five orbs over it. Twilight then realized were they were. “We’re in the ruins that hold the elements of harmony!” She screamed.

“How do you know?” Rainbowdash asked. Twilight pointed to the orbs that were the elements of harmony. “What? How is that possible? We already got them, why they still there like we’ve never used them before?” She asked confused.

“What are you guys talking about?” Photon asked.

“It’s a long story Photon. You see…” Then Twilight was cut off by a sudden gust of wind and swirling dust. A silhouette flew through the air and landed in front of the altar with the elements of harmony. The silhouette then expanded and formed in to the shape of an alicorn. The alicorn was black with a long wavy dark blue mane. “NIGHTMARE MOON!” Twilight yelled out.

“You’ve gotta be kidding me!” Rainbowdash yelled out.

“Ah! Twilight Sparkle and Rainbowdash, the ones who defeated me on this day. But what of your friends? And this colt? Surely something is wrong here.” Nightmare Moon said hinting there was a difference. Twilight thought about and looked at her surroundings. After a few seconds she realized the alteration.

“Either I’m going crazy or we are on the exact day at the exact time that we defeated Nightmare Moon after she escaped from the moon!” Twilight announced her epiphany. Then she put even more thought in to it. “But wait, how do you know that we’re from the future and not now?” She asked.

“Isn’t it obvious? I’m the one who summoned you.” Nightmare Moon replied vaguely.

“That still doesn’t make any sense!” Then Twilight thought of another theory. “Is that you Princess Luna? Look if you’re attempting to prank us princess, you didn’t have to put this whole set up? It’s convincing but it’s not working.” Twilight remarked. Nightmare Moon became infuriated.

“NO PONY CALLS ME THAT ANYMORE! AND YOU SHALL SEE MY TRUE POWER AND THIS TIME… I WILL BE THE VICTOR! AND EQUESTRIA WILL BE MINE! HAHAHAHA!” Nightmare Moon yelled out. Her horn began to glow and she levitated different pieces of rubble of the ground walls and began throwing them at the three ponies. Some pieces were twice as big as them. They dodged the pieces and tried inching closer and closer to the dark queen. While doing this, Twilight began to ponder a plan.

‘Without all six of us we can’t use the elements of harmony. How do we stop her now? If we don’t the future will be altered.’ She then saw that Rainbowdash and Photon made it to her first. Photon was a bout to dash into her when she teleported out of the way.

“Wow! She’s fast for an alicorn. Wait, she just teleporting around the room. If you’re so powerful come back and fight!” He yelled at her again and she became infuriated and charged at him. “(gulp) Yeah I may have said to much…” Rainbowdash then intercepted her and caused her to fall back. Twilight then got an idea.

“Guys! Over here!” She yelled to them over the crumbling debris. The two others head over to her and hid behind the elements of harmony altar. “Okay we need to work together to at least weaken her and the find some alternate way of restoring Princess Luna.”

“But won’t that mess up the time-space thing whatever?” Rainbowdash asked stumbling over the choice of words.

“We have no choice, even if we got the other four from this time period it would still be impossible. So we need to weaken her and find a way back to out time period and hope that future doesn’t change and that Princess Celestia can do something about it. But how to weaken her is what we should be concerned about.” The three continued to think as Nightmare Moon searched for them.

“COME OUT! IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE YOU HIDE! I Control this world now.” She threatened. Rainbowdash kept watch while Photon and Twilight thought of a strategy. Then Photon had an idea.

“I know! Rainbowdash!” Photon called her. “You swirl around Nightmare moon and keep her distracted. Twilight you use you’re magic to throw me at her, when I dash at her and hit her down, Rainbowdash will come in help me bring her down.” Rainbowdash liked how it sounded, but Twilight was still confused.

“How do you know this will work?” Twilight asked.

“Just do it.” He simply answered. Twilight shrugged and began levitating him. Rainbowdash flew at Nightmare Moon and encircled her in a vortex of color.

“HEY! NO! STOP! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!” Nightmare Moon yelled. Twilight put more in energy into the spell she used to levitate Photon and spun him around her. Photon curled up into a ball hoping to crush Nightmare Moon as if he were a meteor about to crash into a planet. She let g of him and he zoomed through the air. Rainbowdash saw this and stopped spinning around Nightmare Moon. The dark queen was dizzy after this and wasn’t aware of Photon’s attack. She shook her head and noticed Photon flying towards her. Before she could teleport out of the way he hit her at the base of her neck and knocked her over on her back. She gasped for breath trying to get up. Photon and Rainbowdash held her down while Twilight tried to use a spell that would restore her back to the normal Princess Luna. But it wasn’t for long. Nightmare Moon shot out a blast that knocked the three back against a wall. They landed on the ground and tried to get up. Then Nightmare Moon walked in front of them.

“Don’t you see, you can’t do anything without your precious elements of harmony. And now that you are finally defeated, I SHALL CLAIM QUESTRIA AS MY OWN! THIS DAY SHALL BE NO MORE!” Nightmare Moon yelled and triumph. Her horn began to glow. “Now to finish you all off! PREPARE TO SAY FAREWELL to the day and to your futures!” She was about to smite them when one of the dragon’s portals opened behind her. The dragon came out of the portal and look down on them.

“IT’s that dragon again!!” Twilight yelled. The dragon bent down out of the portal and grabbed Nightmare Moon in it’s claws.

“NO! WHAT ARE DOING! LEAVE ME! YOU THREE! DO SOMETHING!” Nightmare Moon demanded. She was taken into the portal with the dragon and the portal vanished.

“Wait, did she just get kidnapped by the random dragon thing that attacked us earlier?” Rainbowdash asked.

“I don’t get it…… why did that just happen?” Photon asked.

“I don’t know but let’s just hope that this doesn’t change affect the future to much."

“Why would anything change?” Rainbowdash asked.

“Because 1. WE didn’t defeat Nightmare Moon, 2. WE didn’t use the elements of harmony, 3. Princess Luna isn’t here.” As she explained the consequences of their recent battle, another of the dragon portals opened up and out came Princess Luna. “Whoa um… okay, well..” Then another blue-white portal opened behind them.

“What do we do with the princess?” Rainbowdash asked. Then they heard hoof steps approaching and a voice that sounded very similar to Twilight’s voice.

“That must be our past selves!” She whispered. “That answers the question, we will handle it, let’s get out of here before they see us.” She suggested and jumped through the portal, followed by Photon and Rainbowdash. But before Photon went through he saw a glowing object on the floor next to Princess Luna. He ran over to her and she gave it to him.

“T-take this. I’ll be fine.” She said before fainting. He looked at it and saw it was a Crystal Star, he gave a nod and ran back to the portal jumped into it. The portal vanished before the past ponies got into the room and saw Princess Luna.

The three returned to the future and landed outside the cave they originally entered.

“We’ll looks like we’re back. And the sun is out and shining.” Twilight pointed out.

“So nothing changed?” Photon asked.

“Nope, I don’t think so.” Twilight said.

They began walking back to Ponyville and were near the Everfree forest when Rainbowdash suggested. “Wait, is Fluttershy okay?” She asked. “Shouldn’t we see if she’s okay?”

“You’re right, c’mon lets go!” Photon said and began running to her cottage.

The three walked up to the front door and knocked. Fluttershy answered. “Oh  Photon I need to ask you something.” She said. The four then walked into the living room where they saw something bizarre. “Are you and this little colt related?” Then the small colt walked up to her side.  Photon and the colt stared at each other dumbfounded. They walked around each other and looked at each other closely. Then Photon realized something.

“OH YEAH! I know this little guy. He’s my…” The little colt was actually a part of an experiment that Photon volunteered for. It was for cloning research. So essentially the colt is Photon’s clone. He didn’t want to say that, because if he did they would think he was crazy. So instead he came up with an alternate reason for knowing the colt. “He’s my brother, his name is…Ion.” Photon said.

“Wow I didn’t know you had a brother.” Twilight.

“HAHA! Funny, I thought he was your son or something! HAHA!” Rainbowdash said. Everypony began laughing along with her. Photon looked down at Ion and Ion smiled and nodded his head and jumped up and down acting excited.

That’s another chapter done. A whole adventure through time and space, if it wasn’t apparent yet. There were two portals used in this chapter and in future chapters. The purple portals like the ones used by the dark warping dragon used will be known as dragon portals while the light blue ones will be known as…. just portals. And Photon’s world is WAY more advanced than Equestria is, so the cloning research thing is something Photon’s world does for scientific reasearch. More to be explained next time. More stuff about Equestria’s parallel world to be revealed, and how is everypony adjusting to the changes in Equestria.