Time is Magic

September 4th, 2021

Well, my life is interesting, to say the least.

I got “borrowed” by Nightmare Moon to be her student in 2020. Why? She needed me to do some cool Jewish stuff to try and best Daybreaker. I spent ten thousand years in frozen time training with her to be ready for Daybreaker. Apparently, she had a student named Twilight Sparkle who was too pure for her own good. She found out what her teacher did and defected, joining us. I taught her a few things along the way, too! Push comes to shove, I fight Daybreaker, she kills my teacher, I get mad and ascend into an alicorn.

Yeah, still crazy when I think about it 20 months later. I was able to fly, use magic, and do other cool stuff. I tried my best to beat Daybreaker, but I couldn’t do it on my own. Thankfully, the Magic of Friendship proved to be handy during the fight. Sadly, we reached an impasse and I was sent back home to Earth, unable to exact my pound of flesh. For the next 20 months, I tried going back to my normal life the best I could, getting into a good college with straight A’s, and made my mom and sister proud.

And then everything came back. All the pony stuff.

I am getting ready for Rosh Hashanah, which is two days away. It was also a Shmitta year coming up, so it was an EXTRA special Rosh Hashana. I put away all of mom’s groceries again while I was listening to a lecture on the Sabbatical cycle in Israel. Chores suck, especially when you don’t have alicorn-tier superpowers to make it easier! Anyway, I finally got all my stuff done, and mom let me go back to my room to continue learning.

I saw Luna’s seal poking out of my bookshelf, and I thought for a moment about the time we spent together.

“Noah “Jewnicorn” Weinstein, Doth thou heareth me?”

Woah, I must be hallucinating. That sounds almost EXACTLY like my teacher, but if she was in Shakespeare’s England.

Even if it was her, the connection to our worlds was severed almost two years ago. No way it could be a Luna.

Until I realized that the letter mentioned a different Equestria.

“Noah... We are in need of thy help. ‘Tis a matter of great importance and involves thy brilliant mind.”

No. Bucking. Way! It is Princess Luna, but where is she coming from? My head? The walls?

And then, I feel something I haven’t felt in two years. MAGIC COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS. AND ALICORN MAGIC AT THAT!

A portal opens in front of me, revealing a familiar cosmic purple alicorn.

NO! BUCKING! WAY! It's Princess Luna! I am freaking out! I missed her so much!

“Jewnicorn, hurry u-”

I hugged her as tightly as I could. "“I am so happy to see you, Luna! I missed you so much! Those ten millennia of frozen time we had together were the best years of my life! Well, the other Luna, but you get the point.”

Returning the embrace, and planting a gentle kiss on my forehead, Luna chuckles.

“Well, it ties in quite well with thy magic skill set, involving memory and time. A pony by the name of Starlight Glimmer opened a school for young fillies and colts, and she needs somepony who knows about time to find out about other universes. Art thou ready to become Alicorn of Time once again?”

"Are you kidding me?! Of course! I've been wanting to go back to Equestria for TWO YEARS! I missed you so much!" I say, elated that somehow the multiverse allowed for this miracle to occur.

"Well then, follow us, Noah. We have plenty of things to do!" Luna says, walking through the portal in my room.

I follow my teacher into the portal, letting my alicorn form come to me once again.

I’m finally home.