MY LITTLE PONY: DELAYING THE FUTURE

by vinylthewriter

Rating: teen
Tags: Twilight Sparkle, Storm King, Drama, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Clover the Clever, Mystery, Starswirl the Bearded, My Little Pony: The Movie, Adventure, Alternate Universe
Length: 7204

After The Friendship Group saved Equestria from the eternal winter, a new force comes to turn the world into a stormy Wasteland

After The Friendship Group saved Equestria from the eternal winter, everypony is celebrating and having a good time, but Twilight Sparkle/Clover The Clever seems to have nightmares about a future, a stormy Wasteland, she starts to go crazy, inventing new spells to try to stop it, all this breaking some of her relationships apart, what will she do?

Published 2022-04-26 11:10:00 UTC
Last updated 2022-04-26 11:10:00 UTC

TENSIONS BETWEEN FRIENDS

Seconds later, in The Sugarcube Corner, Commander Hurricane, Private Pansy and Princess Platinum were sitting down on a couple chairs, Platinum was looking at the Menu, using her horn to levitate it while Hurricane and Pansy were reading there Menus too, holding them with there wings, eventually Smart Cookie walks over to the three and smiles softly.
"What would yall like to eat?" Cookie asks with a tilt to the head, Pansy then smiles softly and puts her Menu down on the table.
"I would like some Cupcakes please..." Pansy confirms in a quiet, shy voice, Cookie nods and chuckles, Hurricane thinks to himself.
"Hmmm... Cookies!!!" Hurricane exclaims, thumping the table below, like a brute, Cookie snickers at this and looks over to Platinum, who thinks to herself.
"Ill have my normal.." Platinum says in a posh way, looking over at Cookie, lowering the Menu, Cookie nods a little bit and nods softly.
"Of course... The Diamond Of Pie!" Cookie exclaims before slowly walking away to the Counter, Hurricane putting down his Menu.

A couple seconds later, Twilight Sparkle lightly walks into The Sugarcube Corner, the bell ringing as she walks in, walking over to a table away from The Friendship Group, thinking to herself, Princess Platinum notices this and tilts her head curiously.
"What's with Sparkle over there..? Why doesn't she come sit with us?" Platinum wonders, Commander Hurricane then jolts his head back at the Cloaked Mare and groans, looking away.
"She hasn't been paying attention to us for soo long..." Hurricane comments in some annoyance, growling lowly and aggressively, Private Pansy whines at this tone and shivers.
"She... She's probably dealing with things right now..." Pansy suggests shyly and quiets, Platinum sighs at this suggestion and looks down.
"She could just... Talk to us about it..." Platinum retorts, before looking back up at the two, Hurricane grunts and nods in a small short temper.

Meanwhile, Smart Cookie walks up to Twilight Sparkle, sighing as Cookie looks of at The Friendship Groups table, then back to Twilight.
"Why don't you go sit with The Friendship Group lately?" Cookie seems to ask, but Twilight just looks away and gives a deep sigh.
"Not feeling it... Going through some stuff..." Twilight explains in a bland voice, letting her horn glow, levitating a Menu and looking at it, Cookie sighs and sternly looks at Twilight.
"You say that all the time, if your upset, then just talk to us about it" Cookie says sternly, concerned for her friend, Twilight just groans and rolls her eyes.
"Just give me a Hayburger..." Twilight says bluntly, Cookie just sighs at this and walks away, as Twilight just thinks to herself about the book and about the dream she had last night.

A CONCERNED FRIEND

Later in Sugarcube Corner, Twilight Sparkle was eating her Hayburger, letting her horn magic levitate it as she does, soon finishing it, before getting up out of her seat, letting her horn glow, levitating some Bits and lowering them on the table, before walking away and out of Sugarcube corner, as she does, Princess Platinum notices how she was acting and thinks to herself, before getting out of her seat, tilting her head, Private Pansy and Commander Hurricane notice, tilting there heads too, curious.
"You ok Plat?" Hurricane asks, concerned, Platinum sighs and looks at the two, then back at Twilight through the window, as she walks into the direction of her Home.
"Just give me a minute... I'm going to figure out what's wrong with her..." Platinum states, going to walk of the the door, Pansy whines at this and shakes her head.
"I... Isn't that an invasion of privacy...?" Pansy asks, Hurricane sighs and looks at Pansy as Platinum goes on to follow the Cloaked Pony.
"Maybe it is... However we cant just stand here and watch... We at least need to let her know that we are here for her.." Hurricane explains, Pansy just gives a deep sigh at this and lightly nods.

Meanwhile, as Princess Platinum steps out of Sugarcube Corner, she looks over, watching Twilight Sparkle walk to her tree like Home, Platinum sighs and slowly goes to the same direction, as Twilight closes the door behind her, with her magic.

A BEACON OF MYSTERY

Meanwhile in some random Cave somewhere, Twilight Sparkle appears in a spark of pink glow, before hitting wall with her Hoof, screaming out in a lot of emotional pain.
"Nobody will ever understand!!!" Twilight screams even louder, her horn sparking with more and more magical energy, continuing to bash the Cave walls with her hooves, a suddenly bright pink beam of magic coming out the tip of her horn, suddenly bursting through the roof of the Cave, rubble, dust and smoke flying everywhere, an electric effect coming out of the magical beam, acting like a beacon of some sort, Twilight gasps and shifts her head down, trying to stop it, she was in tears, still in her emotional state, as she tilted her head down, the beam of magic suddenly burst through the Cave wall in front of her, rubble and smoke going everywhere as the magic from her horn suddenly stops, Twilight suddenly falls to the ground, feeling very weak as smoke covers up her body.

Soon after the smoke fades away, Twilight Sparkle weakly gets up, coughing violently from the very small amount of remaining smoke, looking forward at the hole she made in the wall, seeing some sort of lit up Cave system, Twilight groans a small bit, seeming interested, letting her horn give off a weak glow, levitating the book she brought with her and weakly stumbles to the direction of the light.

FORMING A CREW TO LOOK FOR A SPARKLE

Meanwhile in Sugarcube Corner, Starswirl The Bearded, Princess Platinum, Private Pansy and Commander Hurricane were sitting together, talking.
"Twilights missing!?" Pansy exclaims and a upset and fearful tone at this news, shaking a little, Platinum sighs and nods a small bit, before Starswirl then looks over at Pansy.
"Don't worry... We are going to find her and bring her back... I think We need one of each Ponykind to help us, the others will have to stay here to insure no threats come over our Village..." Starswirl calmly explains, Hurricane looks over at Pansy with a smile.
"I know for a fact that Pansy is great at calming Ponies down" Hurricane exclaims, Pansy nods at this and looks at Starswirl and Platinum.
"Yes.. Sounds good, I'm a founder, so ill stay behind" Platinum explains, but Starswirl quickly shakes his head, grunting a small bit.
"No no no, your going with Pansy, I could make a magical Force Field around the Village encase there an attack.." Starswirl retorts, but Platinum just shakes her head.
"No! I wont allow you to stay, she loves you, if there's anyone who is going to make her feel better, its you..." Platinum states, Starswirl sighs and looks down, nodding in agreement.

As Starswirl The Bearded nods in agreement, Smart Cookie walks over, to The Friendship Group table, putting her hoof on the table.
"Count me in, Chancellor said he can run Sugarcube Corner all on his own" Cookie exclaims, Starswirl quickly nods, smiling warmly.
"Ok good, lets go, would you be ok on your own Platinum?" Starswirl asks, Platinum just nods with a soft smile, Starswirl smiles back, before walking out Sugarcube Corner, Pansy and Cookie follow close behind.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME

Later on in the day, in the pain fields of Equestria Starswirl The Bearded, Private Pansy and Smart Cookie were all walking around, exploring the fields, they had followed the pink beacon from before, having the suspicion that it came from Twilight Sparkle,, but they weren't sure of that, Starswirl groans, loosing sight of where the beam of light came from, as it had now disappeared.
"Any of you know where the beam of pink light came from?" Starswirl asks, but Cookie just shakes her head, having no clue, Pansy thinks to herself and sits down, looking down.
"Nope... Ow... My hooves are soo very tired..." Pansy admits, giving a small whimper, Starswirl sighs and looks over the the tired Pony.
"Fine... But as soon as we are rested up, we shall continue" Starswirl states, before sitting down on the grass, Cookie doing the same, Pansy then nods at this statement.

After a while of waiting, being bored, Private Pansy closes her eyes and looks down, lightly beginning to sing to herself, being very quiet as to not disturb the other two, but they soon notice, Starswirl The Bearded and Smart Cookie looking over to her, tilting there heads.
"What are you doing?" Cookie asks curiously, Pansy's ears suddenly perk up at Cookie commenting on it, soon stopping and shaking her head.
"N-Nothing!!!" Pansy suddenly meeps, her cheeks going bright red in pure embarrassment, Cookie chuckles at this and smiles softly.
"Hey, it sounded nice, I would like to hear more, could boost up morale" Cookie states, Pansy sighs and shyly looks back in deep blush, looking down once again, slowly beginning to sing once again.

As Private Pansy begins singing once again, her nice, soft and elegant voice seem to attract some Birds her way, who fly up to Pansy and softly land on head, Smart Cookie Chuckles at this.
"Ya got a few fellas on your head" Cookie comments, Pansy then stops singing and shifts her eyes up to the Birds, smiling lightly.
"Hey guys..." Pansy whispers quietly, hearing the birds chirp in her ear, Pansy giggles very happily at the chirping and nods cutely.
Wow... Really? That's amazing Mr Bird..." Pansy comments, seeming to be speaking with the chirping Bird, Cookie tilts her head, watching this all.
"Are you talking to the Birds?" Cookie asks, wondering if it was the case, Pansy suddenly turns bright red and looks over to Cookie, gulping.
"Y-Yes... Why... P-Please don't make fun of me..." Pansy admits with a whimper, Cookie just chuckles at this and shakes her head.
"I wont make fun of ya, don't worry... Say, if you can talk to Birds, perhaps you can ask them if they saw a pink light?" Cookie asks, Pansy soon thinks to herself for a small moment, as the Bird begins to tweet into her ear, using its wing to point to a Cave far away.

As the Bird tells Private Pansy where the bright pink beacon came from, Pansy thanks the Bird and looks over at Smart Cookie and Starswirl The Bearded.
"He said the beacon came from that Cave over there" Pansy confirms, pointing over to the Cave with a small and cute smile, Cookie nods, and gets up, before helping Pansy up, Starswirl thin gets up too.
"You sure about this?" Starswirl asks calmly, Pansy nods, and so does Cookie, Starswirl sighs at this, knowing how honest Cookie was.
"Ok then... Lets go" He says, as the trio begins to walk into the distance, in the direction of the Cave, Pansy giggling as the Birds lightly fly off and away from Pansy.

A THUNDERING STRUGGLE

Starswirl The Bearded runs past the creature, letting his horn glow a light grey, shooting a laser at the creatures chest, the black Armour deflecting it back at Private Pansy, who gasps and gets hit in the wing, screaming as she crash lands into the dirt below, dust gathering up all around her.
"Pansy!!!" Starswirl yells, before violently getting backhanded away by the creature, Starswirl grunts at this, tumbling into Pansy's wounded body from the impact, the creature growls lowly and slams the Staff Of Sacanas down into the ground, dirt gathering up and around the staff, clouds getting summoned in the sky above it, turning into a very dark grey, rain beginning to pour down, the creature then points the Staff in the direction of Starswirl and Pansy, the storm clouds going there way, very slowly, lightning crackling as it slowly inches closer and closer, Starswirl looks over at the storm clouds and grunts, keeping a hold of Pansy, protecting her and her wounds, the creature was dead set focus on the two Ponies.

As the creature was distracted, Smart Cookie gallops quickly up and behind said creature, waving the Lasso in he mouth an launching it the creatures way, before yanking on the Rope, which tightens the Rope around the creatures arm, making The Staff Of Sacanas towards Smart Cookie, Starswirl The Bearded looks over at Twilight Sparkle and quietly nods as the storm clouds and lightning slowly inch closer and closer to Cookie, who shivers in a little bit of fear, not able to get away from it.

As the storm cloud inch's closer and closer to Smart Cookie, Twilight Sparkle quickly lets her horn glow a bright pink, shooting a laser at the creature, but the Armour suddenly deflects it over at Twilights direction, hitting her with her own laser, knocking her to the ground with yell in agony, Cookies eyes widen at this, but before she can think of what to do now, the storm clouds move above her and lightning suddenly strikes down onto the Earth Pony, shocking her and making her yell out in soo much pain, letting go of the Lasso with all her screaming, Starswirl The Bearded gasps at this and angrily shoots a laser out of his horn, at the creature, missing the Armour and hitting him on the white fur, causing the creature to get wounded.

As Starswirl The Bearded hits the creature with the laser, the creature yelps out in a wounded howl, suddenly aiming the Staff Of Sacanas over at Starswirl, very quickly, letting some lightning violently crackle at his hooves, quickly shouting out in pain and agony, the lightning hitting Private Pansy too.

RUNNING AWAY

Meanwhile, Twilight Sparkle weakly gets up on her feet, watching as all her friends get shocked and zapped by the lightning from the storm clouds, caused by the Staff of Sacanas, Twilight grunts and looks down at her wound, it was very bad and brutal, but she didn't care, shaking her head and looking back at the creature, panting heavily, getting angrier and angrier, quickly beginning to run at the creature in front of her.
"Storm king!!!" Twilight screams in a fury of rage, this "Storm king" looks back at the lavender Unicorn, grunting, aiming the Staff of Sacanas at her, sending an electrifying storm her way, Twilight lets her horn crackle violently with bright pink magic, teleporting out of the way of multiple lightning strikes, teleporting left, right, up, down and all around.

As Twilight Sparkle keeps dodging each and every stormy attack from the Storm king, she gets right up and close, quickly sliding in between his legs, letting her horn crackle a bright pink teleporting Twilight, Starswirl The Bearded, Private Pansy and Smart Cookie away.

After all four of the Ponies disappear in crackling pink sparks of light, Storm king slowly begins to step over to where the disappeared from, and lightly grins, sniffing some of the magic, soon widely his grin, now understanding where they ended up to, he waves the Staff Of Sacanas around in a circle, creating a massive, grand and destructive tornado, Storm king very slowly rises up in it, the tornado slowly moving into the distance.

TIME TO BE BRAVE

A couple minutes later, Smart Cookie, Starswirl The Bearded and Private Pansy were standing just infront of Ponyville, looking up at the giant tornado with lightning crackling around it, snow and sand storming around it, slowly heading to the Villages way.
"Wait for it..."Cookie says to Starswirl, having her hoof raised, the stormy tornado slowly inching closer and closer to the three.
"Now!!!" Cookie yells suddenly, slamming her hoof down quickly, Starswirl quickly allows his horn glow a light grey, letting out a magical Force Field, around the whole Village, grunting as it took up a lot of energy, Pansy grunts, floating in the air, her wings flapping, as Cookie just stands there, with a Lasso in her mouth, as the tornado continuously spins hard, against the Force Field, sparks coming off it.

After a while of hitting the magical grey Force Field that Starswirl The Bearded was holding up with a glowing, grey horn, the Shield suddenly shatters in a flurry of grey sparks, by the force of the tornado, Starswirl gasps and tries his best to run away, Smart Cookie trying to do the same, before suddenly getting sucked into it, Private Pansy gasps, outstretching her hoof out to them, yelling out in fear.

After Starswirl The Bearded and Smart Cookie get sucked into the stormy, raging tornado, Private Pansy shivers a little, the shiver going up from her spine, to her head, with anxiety, she pants heavily, lightly beginning to sweat like crazy, she quickly flaps her wings rapidly, to keep herself from being sucked in.
"Ugh Pansy... You have to save your friends!!!" Pansy exclaims to herself desperately, before quickly shaking her head, squirming.
"No no no… Stop it Pansy, you got to do this!!! Be brave!!" Pansy yells at herself, before braving it, letting her wings stop there flapping, letting the tornado drag her in too.

HEADING INTO BATTLE

Meanwhile, in the Cave where they all became friends and where they all created the Tree Of Harmony, Twilight Sparkle grunts, stumbling to the tree, holding her wound with her hoof, Princess Platinum helps Twilight stumble, so she can use her back as a support to keep her held up, Twilight groans, weakly looking up at the Tree, weakling shifting her attention to Commander Hurricane, who shrugs, Twilight sighs and looks back up at the Tree, seeing Chancellor Puddinghead hanging off the Tree in a goofy manner, trying his best to pull out all of the Elements Of Harmony, eventually managing to pull them out, falling off the Tree as he does, landing on his back, in front of Twilight, he then looks u at Twilight, sticking his tongue out, having the Elements in his hooves, Twilight smiles and gives a small laugh.
"Haha!!! A nice good laugh before we kick some butt!!!" Pudding head says goofily, Twilight smiles and nods, letting her horn glow a bright pink, levitating the Elements and quickly running out of the Cave, the rest quickly following.

As the four Ponies run out of the Cave, they see a giant, raging tornado made of snow, sand, violent winds and lightning crackling around it, Twilight Sparkle grunts and whimpers, everyponies manes and tails flowing in the wind, and so does Twilights hood.
"Lets do this..." Twilight states, before leaping over the cliff and quickly teleporting onto the floor below, galloping off, Princess Platinum looks at the others and quickly nods, before teleporting next to Twilight, Commander Hurricane flaps his wings quickly and flies off, while Chancellor Puddinghead just quickly gallops off, all three following Twilight, Clover The Clever.

PROTECTING AVILLAGE FULL OF FREINDSHIP

Meanwhile, inside the raging tornado, Private Pansy was flying around, flying up, down, left and right and all around, to dodge each and every lightning strike and crackle, she yelps at fear at the sounds of thunder, she then flaps her wings faster and faster, looking up to see Storm king, gasping and quickly swooping down, grabbing Starswirl The Bearded and Smart Cookie, quickly flying them out of the tornado, and onto the ground, away from it, grunting.

As the trio land on the ground, they weakly look up, panting heavily as the rest of The Friendship Group comes by, Twilight Sparkle sliding through, putting the Elements Of Harmony down, letting her horn glow, and creating a bright pink Force Field.
"Check of Starswirl!! Is he ok!? We need someone else to cast the Shield!!!" Twilight exclaims, using all the energy and might she has to protect everypony from the tornado. Princess Platinum soon rushes to Twilight.
"I can do it!!!" Platinum suggests, yelling out so she can be heard over the ravaging storm outside, Twilight grunts and shakes her head as she tries her best to keep the spell strong,
"No!!! We need you to help use the Elements!!!" Twilight shouts, groaning, using all her energy to keep Ponyville safe, Private Pansy whimpers and looks over at Starswirl The Bearded, landing before him and tries to help him up.
"Are you able to power through in your weak state?" Pansy asks, concerned, Starswirl then weakly nods, stumbling to Twilight, using Pansy as a support.
"Just go damnit... I've got it from here..." Starswirl states, grunting a small bit, a little weak, Twilight shakes her head, grunting from the pressure of the tornado.
"No!!! Your too weak!!! Just heal!!! I can hold it till then!!!" Twilight screams, not wanting her lover to hurt himself, Starswirl sighs at this reaction.
"I've got this my Sparkle in the sky~..." Starswirl weakly whispers into Twilights ear with a little bit of a flirty tone, lightly kissing her on the cheek.

After Starswirl The Bearded kisses Twilight Sparkle on the cheek, Twilight rolls her eyes, making the Force Shield disappear suddenly.
"Alright everypony!!! Just let the winds take you!!!" Twilight loudly says, quickly getting dragging into the tornado, the rest of The Friendship Group gets dragged in too, leaving Starswirl behind to protect the Village with a big, grey Force Field.

A NIGHTMARE OF STORM

It was a dark and stormy night, Twilight Sparkle was running around a sandstorm covered Wasteland, Twilight shivers and dashes down a hill, sliding down it, her Cloak suddenly flying off her body, her mane flapping in the wind, all of a sudden, lightning crackles below Twilights hooves, making her yell out and jump up in shock, the light of the lightning illuminated the area around her, a shadow like figure in the distance with a big Staff with Gem stone in the top that glows a nice, Icey blue.

As the light suddenly goes dark again, Twilight Sparkle quickly goes back to rushing away, panting heavily in fear and tiredness, covering her eyes to block the sand grains from getting into her eyes, before lightning suddenly strikes down again, impacting Twilight and shocking her violently, making her scream in pain and agony, the light form the strike feeling the area around in a blinding white.

SOME GOOD MORNING RESEARCH

All of a sudden, Twilight Sparkle jolts up awake, screaming loudly in fear, panting heavily in sweaty mess, as Twilight looks around on her bed, she sees the real world, she gets up and out of her bed, looking out the window, to see a nice, sunny and bright, Twilight sighs in relief, before slowly walking downstairs to the main section of her House, her horn beginning to glow a nice pink sparkle, beginning to levitate a book, to bring it her way, she then lays it down on a desk in the middle of the Library, sighing and opening it up to read.

After a little while of flipping through her book, Twilight Sparkle finds a page of interest, tilting her head, it was a page about something known as the Staff Of Sacanas, it was some sort of wooden Staff with a Icey looking Crystal connected to it.
"The Staff Of Sacanas... A Staff with the power to create and control storms... as well as being able to manipulate the daylight cycle..." Twilight reds quietly to herself.

All of a sudden a memory of Twilight Sparkles brother, Shining Armour flashes through her mind, and how he died through the hands of a great mix of multiple storms, thunder and lightning crackling, while snow flew everywhere, and so did sand, freezing and blinding him, as a tornado came to pick him up to where he was never seen again, meanwhile a shadow in the distance held the Staff Of Sacanas.

As Twilight Sparkle flashes back into reality, she quickly bookmarks the page, and closes the book, letting her horn glow, levitating the book and quickly putting it under her bed, putting on her Cloak and walking up to the door, sighing before opening it and walking outside, closing it on the way out.

A LOVER YOU CANT GET OUT OF YOUR MIND

Meanwhile, in a Hut somewhere on the outskirts of Ponyville, Starswirl The Bearded was using his horn to levitate a couple item, putting them in a bowl and mixing them up, and sprinkling in some seasoning, mixing that in too, before levitating the spoon out, taking out the fire below his Bowl, letting his horn glow, to levitate the Bowl over to him, walking as he goes to sip his Soup.
"My my.. That's good..." Starswirl admits, before continuing to sip it, walking across a hallway, into The Living Room, lowering the Bowl of Soap onto his coffee table, before sitting onto a stone slab.

After Starswirl The Bearded sits down on the stone slab, he lets his horn glow, levitating a book on his bookshelf, bring it to him and putting it on the coffee table, before levitating the Bowl of Soap again, bringing it to his mouth and sips it a small bit, opening the book with his Hoof, looking down at it, reading it in his head, with the image of Twilight Sparkle in his head, deeply sighing to himself, eventually finishing his Soap and lowering it down on the table, continuing to try and focus on reading, but as he does, Twilight keeps popping up in his head, before grunting over some time, before moving his book away and getting up.
"I need to find out what's up with her..." Starswirl says to himself, before walking out of The Living Room and out of his Hut.

As Starswirl The Bearded walks out of his Hut, he slowly begins to make himself to the Village known as Ponyville, walking into the distance.

EMOTIONAL OUTBURST

As Twilight Sparkle enters her Home, she lets her horn glow to shut her door tight, forgetting to lock it, before beginning to walk up the stairs, to her room, before seeing Starswirl The Bearded in front of her, who was levitating the book she hid under her bed, Twilight sighs and looks away.
"Are we really doing this again...?" Starswirl asks in some sort of annoyance, Twilight turns her back to him and shakes her head.
"You don't understand... We ca-" Twilight quickly gets cut off, Starswirl walking up to her and putting her hoof on her shoulder, making her face him.
"I understand plenty... Your too focused on stopping this dumb storm thing, we can think about that when we get there!" Starswirl says, getting a bit aggressive.

As Princess Platinum opens the door, she sees Twilight Sparkle get very, very angry, her horn sparking an aggressive pink glow.
"Your not the one who has been in a Wasteland for most her life!!!" Twilight yells in an emotional fury, a mix of angry and sad, tears leaking out of her eyes, Platinum slowly walks up the stairs, sighing.
"Twilight... We get that, but you cant keep doing this, I can tell its mentally straining" Platinum chimes in, but Twilight growls lowly, swiftly turning her head back to her.
"You have no idea what its like to still live in a nightmare Wasteland!!! To relive the deaths of everypony you have ever loved, that you saw right before your eight year old eyes!!!" Twilight screams in a fury, full on sobbing at this point, as her horn crackles with some electricity, before teleporting away in a sudden pink zap, taking the book with her.

As Twilight Sparkle teleports away in heated and emotional state, Princess Platinum looks at Starswirl The Bearded, they both then look down, sighing.
"She's too obsessed with the future... And not about the present..." Platinum says, Starswirl thinks to himself for a moment, before sighing and looking up to her.
"She's right you know? We don't understand what she's been through..." Starswirl admits, Platinum then looks up and tilts her head.
"How don't we understand? She's told us before, we understand plenty!" Platinum exclaims, but Starswirl just shakes his head.
"Yes, she's told us the story, but that doesn't mean we understand, we haven't lived through it, we don't connect with her story..." Starswirl calmly explains, before going down the stairs to the lower floor, Platinum watches as Starswirl goes down stairs, thinking about it, before following.
"I guess your right.. Shall we go and look for her?" Platinum asks curiously, Starswirl nods a small bit as the two walk out the House.
"Yes... Lets go get the others..." Starswirl says, as they both walk to the direction of Sugarcube Corner, walking through the doors.

THE CREATION OF THE STAFF OF SACANAS

Meanwhile, far away, deeper into the Cave Twilight Sparkle looks around, letting her horn glow a bright pink at the Cave slowly gets darker the deeper they go, illuminating the area around her, she then comes across a few Runes and a Mural of the Staff Of Sacanas, tilting her head Twilight opens up her book, flickering through multiple pages, find the Runes alphabet, looking back at the Runes on the wall.
"Once upon a time, there was a group of ancient Alicorns created a Staff to contain there magic if any of them went down a dark path... they called it the Staff Of Sacanas... As one of them turned, the others used it to contain there magic into the Staff... But this caused all four of them to get there magic sucked in" Twilight translates, tilting her head, thinking to herself a little bit.
"Interesting" Twilight lightly comments, before closing her book and walking down further through the deep dark Caves, into the shadows.

Eventually, as Twilight Sparkle goes deeper and deeper into the misty dark Caves, Twilight comes across four ancient Fossils, she tilts her head, seeming curious at this, she drops her book and lets her horn glow, levitating all four Fossils and bringing them to her, studying the bone structure, seeing that said bone structure involves a Unicorn horn, Pegasus wings and Earth Pony hooves, Twilight knew what these Fossils where from the sight of them, she gasps and suddenly drops them onto the ground.
"I... There the Fossils of the four Alicorns..." Twilight confirms, a shiver going down her spine, making her squirm, feeling a little sick after knowing what she held, she lets her horn glow to quickly levitate her book and gallop past the Alicorn remains.

THE CALL BEFORE THE STORM

Later, with Twilight Sparkle who continues to explore the Cave she way in, going deeper and deeper, her horn lit up, illuminating the area around in a misty pink hue, she looks around as she walks deeper into the dark, soon coming across some sort of stone Statue, the shape being the same as the shadowy figure in Twilights dreams and flashbacks, a tall, anthroponotic creature, two fingers and a thumb on each hands, two big, demonic horns on the top of its head, a large Crown too, some Armour, and the Staff Of Sacanas in its hands, Twilight soon gets shivers down her back and steps back as a crack suddenly forms in the stone, Twilight gasps in some shock at this, stepping back, a bright blue light beaming through the crack, Twilight yelps at this and drops her book, quickly beginning to galop away, dropping her book on the way.

As Twilight Sparkle tries to race away from the stone Statue, it cracks a little more before suddenly breaking open once again, staring down at Twilight, with his eyes glowing bright blue, his fur a bright right, the creature grunts, suddenly galloping like a Panther, digging his claws into the Cave floor and leaping over at the Cloaked Pony, who gasps in shock, rolling out of the way, and running away further and further.

All of a suddenly, Twilight Sparkle and the creature behind her burst through the Cave, grunting, the creature growls lowly and suddenly shoots lightning out of the Staff Of Sacanas at Twilight, she yelps and suddenly slides underneath it, dust and dirt gathering all around her from the friction, before continuing to run, panting heavily, dashing past The Friendship Group.
"Run!!!" Twilight shouts, terrified, crying out in fear, Starswirl The Bearded looks over at Twilight as she yells, tilting his head, Private Pansy then screams, seeing the creature go there way, suddenly flying away, Smart Cookie nods and goes to gallop away.
"Starswirl!! Lets go!!!" Cookie shouts, following the two other Ponies, Starswirl shakes his head and lets his horn glow, suddenly teleporting to the three Mares and casting a magic Force Field spell all around them, grunting.

SORTING THINGS OUT BETWEEN EACHOTHER

As Starswirl The Bearded protects Private Pansy, Smart Cookie and Twilight Sparkle with his grey, magical Force Field, generating from his Unicorn horn, as the creature before them waves the Staff Of Sacanas around, in circles and circles, the Crystal on the Staff begins to glow a Icey blue hue, thousands and thousands of little tiny grains of sands, and snowflakes, coming out of the Crystal, coming in droves at the four Ponies, spiralling around them, in a windy effect, almost like a tornado of sand and snow, bouncing off the magical Shield, Starswirl grunts as a lightning strike suddenly crackling all around them, the day turning to night.
"Any ideas!!!?" Starswirl shouts, curious, struggling to hold up the Shield, trying with all his might to keep it cast, groaning, shifting his eyes to the others, Twilight squirms and sits down, covering her face, shivers going down her spine, Pansy whines and hides herself behind Twilight, Cookie then thinks to herself as Twilight sighs.
"I... I don't know.. This is all my fault!! I should have ignored my nightmares!!!" Twilight yells and sobs to herself, shaking in fear, Cookie sighs and looks at Twilight, and then back at the creature generating the storm.
"Ok... Pansy... you and Starswirl go and distract him so I can go and tie him up, and Twilight will go and destroy the beast, as she knows about it, ok?" Cookie seems to suggest, Starswirl and Pansy both not, Starswirl shifting his eyes to Twilight, sighing.
"I should have taking you concern serious..." Starswirl says, before letting go of the Shield and teleporting everyone away from the storm.

After teleporting away, all four of the Ponies appear on some sort of hill, behind the white, furry creature, Twilight Sparkle whimpers a little, shaking.
"I... This wont work... We're gonna die..." Twilight says as shivers continue to go down here spine and all around her body, Starswirl The Bearded shakes his head and puts his hoof on her shoulder, sighing a small bit.
"And if we do... It will be together... As friends..." Starswirl states, Twilight sighs and looks over at him, giving a light smile to him.
"Ok then... Lets do this..." Twilight says, before Private Pansy and Starswirl rush into the creatures direction.

As Starswirl The Bearded and Private Pansy, charge over to the creature, Smart Cookie looks over at Twilight Sparkle, smiling softly.
"Hey... You got this... Just think about us..." Cookie says before running off the hill, getting her Rope in her mouth, Twilight shivers as she watches, lightly nodding.

A STORMS COMING

Meanwhile in Ponyville, Princess Platinum was waiting tables in Sugarcube Corner, while Commander Hurricane was giving everyone there drinks.
"What would you like ma'am?" Platinum asks to a Mare, Platinum then gives a soft smile, while Hurricane carries water in his wings, placing it at some Stallions table.
"A Blueberry Cupcake please" The Mare requests, Platinum nods and looks over at Chancellor Puddinghead, who was putting a couple of Cupcakes on a Plate, Platinum then walks over to Puddinghead and lets her horn glow a blinding white, levitating the Plate of Cupcakes.
"We have an order for Blueberry Cupcakes" Platinum states, before walking off with the Plate, lowering it down to a Pegasus Stallion.
"You got it Platy!!! Blueberry Cupcakes coming right up!!!" Pudding exclaims in a very excited and fun way, making a couple Ponies chuckle, he licks some of the Chocolate dripping from the Pudding on the top of his head, heading towards the Kitchen.

All of a sudden, a bright pink spark appears on Sugarcube Corner, Princess Platinum gasps, looking back at the spark, before it disappears in a split second, the rest of The Friendship Group appearing in its place, Commander Hurricane gasps at this and tilts his head, noticing this.
"Oh thank god... You got Twilight back... How wonderful" Platinum exclaims in relief, Hurricane nods, grunting a small bit and walking up to Twilight Sparkle and the rest. Platinum shakes her head and looks down.
"I'm soo sorry for going off on you lovely... Your right, I don't und-" Platinum suddenly gets cut off by Twilight who just grunts and tilts her head up, showing her wound.
"We have no time for this!!! Storm king is going to send a storm our way!!! I accept your apology, but this is serious!!!" Twilight yells in a somewhat scared tone, Platinum gasp and covers her mouth, Hurricane then chuckles a small bit, smirking.
"Its fine, we can handle it!" Hurricane exclaims as Chancellor Puddinghead walks out of the Kitchen, putting some Blueberry Cupcakes on the counter, tilting his head as he sees that the rest of The Friendship Group is back, Platinum then looks at Hurricane and shakes her head.
"No no no.. Twilight comes from a future were Equestria is destroyed by him..." Platinum explains, Twilight then weakly nods at this, Hurricane nods at this.
"Ok then!!! What's the plan!?" Puddinghead asks in a hyperactive way, jumping up and over the Counter, walking over to the six Ponies.

As Chancellor Puddinghead walks over to the six Ponies, Twilight Sparkle groans at the pain in her side, holding it with one of her hooves, as she tries to think of a plan, Starswirl The Bearded weakly gets up.
"We fight... We cant stop him... But I think we can c-contain him for a while... Turn him to stone..." Starswirl weakly stumbles over his words, groaning, Twilight tilts her head and looks back at him.
"H-How...?" Twilight curiously asks, not thinking it can happen, but Starswirl just weakly smiles in return, looking up at the Cloaked Unicorn.
"The Elements Of Harmony..." starswirl weakly suggests, Twilight lightly smiles at this and nods a small bit, looking at all the others who all nod too.

MY FUTURE IS NOT TODAY

Meanwhile in the tornado, Twilight Sparkle was riding up the winds, shielding her eyes from the sand and snow, grunting, struggling to control herself in there, yelling out, all of a sudden, Chancellor Puddinghead headbutts Twilights lower body, allowing her to bounce up from the Pudding, Chocolate flying off said Pudding as this happens, spiralling around Twilight in a mythical way, as this happens, Smart Cookie grabs Twilight with her hooves, and with all her strength might, she throws Twilight further up the tornado, giving her more air time, Commander Hurricane quickly flies as fast as he can, bumping into Twilight aggressively to bring her higher up, while Private Pansy flies up to Twilight, grabbing her with her hooves, flying upward, and throwing Twilight up more and more, Princess Platinum then gets into the mix, teleporting towards Twilight and grabs her hoof to hoof, suddenly teleporting the both up to the very top, with Storm king.

As Twilight Sparkle and Princess Platinum get teleported up to face Storm king, the others slowly rising up from the winds of the raging tornado, everypony holding onto each other, Commander Hurricane and Private Pansy holding onto a pony on each side to make sure nobody flies away from the violent winds, Twilight looks down at Storm king and grunts.
"We may not be able to stop the future yet... But we will delay it..." Twilight remarks, letting the Elements Of Harmony free from her grasp, Honesty goes to Smart Cookie, while Kindness goes to Private Pansy, Laughter goes to Chancellor Puddinghead, Generosity goes to Princess Platinum, Loyalty goes to Commander Hurricane, and last but not least, Magic goes to Clover The Clever, the Spark.

As each Element Of Harmony goes to there respective Pony, a twilight of sparkles flow around The Friendship group like a sparkling pink spiral, Twilight Sparkle closes her eyes, Storm king looking in shock and surprise, but still determined to turn everything into a Wasteland, everypony suddenly opens there eyes, that now glow a blistering, blinding white light, as all the Ponies hold hooves, a magical rainbow shoots out of Twilights horn, making her yell out and shout in pain and struggle, tilting her head back, tears streaming down her face, she then bites her lip, whimpering and whining, her horn slowly forming cracks in her horn, rainbow lights coming from the cracks, Twilight screams, the Cloak flying off in the wind, the rainbow reaches up into the sky and down on Storm king, who roars in agony, a bright rainbow light feeling the tornado and the whole of Equestria.

THE END OF A GENERATION

As the light fades away, Starswirl The Bearded falls to the ground, coughing and grunting, the Force Field he was holding was gone, and so was the tornado, and all its stormy qualities, He weakly stumbles over to everypony in The Friendship Group, collapsing to the floor, but he tries to get up and carry on, all of the Ponies were up on there hooves, but one was missing, Starswirl slowly stumbles over to them, seeing Storm king turned to stone, the Staff Of Sacanas to his side, Starswirl then stumbles further, the five Ponies then slowly step away, Starswirl then looks down at this happens, seeing Twilight Sparkle at his feet, horn cracked, damaged, he puts his hoof to here chest, hoping to feel a pulse, a heartbeat or something, but he feels nothing, he soon turns to tears, clinging onto her and in sorrow and emotional pain, shutting his eyes, his horn sparking a bit of bright grey magic, he takes a deep breath, before suddenly shouting out in agony, magic crackling violently into the air from his horn, screaming in a mix of rage, sadness and happiness, not knowing what to feel.

Later that night, with the Tree Of Harmony, was The Friendship, crying as they lied Twilight Sparkle gently on a bed of water and glowing pink Runes, the Elements Of Harmony back in there place Starswirl The Bearded sighs, looking down at Twilight, giving her one last kiss, before putting the lid over her, everypony sighs, tears streaming down there faces, before slowly walking out the Cave, that has a door now, and a sign with the words "The Shrine Of Harmony" engraved on it, as everypony walks away from the Shrine, Starswirl slowly shifts his head to look at the Shrine doors, looking at it in sorrow, before turning back to the others, and slowly walking away with a tear streaming down his face.

THE END