MLP:FiM; Turn back time

The usual chaos that happens when discord is released Celestia summons the bearers to the castle. Maroon and her friends get a strange feeling as their thoughts have them wanting to trap the being in stone once more. They looked at each other confused. “Did you girls get the same thoughts?” Rainbow asked
“Is it to trap something in stone?” Applejack asked

“Yeah”

“We might need to talk about this to the princess later but not now,” Maroon said with the rest nodding.

Meanwhile at the same time…

Discord caused a lot of chaos after his release but while the six were going after the elements of harmony Trixie walked up to Discord to chat with him.

“Hello Discord”

“Ah what a surprise are you here to challenge me?”

“No I’m just the messenger and I have a message from an old friend of yours for your return”

“Go on…” he said while holding the eagle claw out

“The message is ‘Welcome back king of cotton candy and chocolate milk!’” He was shocked but understood as he was horrified when he saw what he had become.

“Thank you for bringing me back to my senses.” Discord said

“You started a game with the elements of harmony and they have new bearers so we need your help in convincing them that not everything is as it seems.”

“I see and I will help with this but what should we do about him?”

“We can’t do anything as due to the creation of the first elements backfiring, you both are now linked so if one goes…”

“Both go…” he finished before saying “yes I see the predicament I’m in now but where are my friends?”

“Light is in the heart and needs to be saved before he can be released but the empire won’t return for a while, Nature is over in the Everfree but I never came across her while I was there, while Dark is either in Tartarus or the badlands.”

“I see, thank you but what should I do?” he asked while coiling himself onto a question mark.

“When the elements are about to hit you with a rainbow, teleport away and disappear for a while, drop hints before you go and let the chaos be turned back while you wait. You might find an old friend along the way.”

“Got ya loud and clear” he said while saluting with a smile glad to be himself after a long time.

“Thank you Discord.” Trixie said as she left so he snapped and made sure to act like he did before.

Back with the girls…

Celestia took them to the vault only for the elements to not be there and Discord just laughed with them wondering why he did that so Maroon asked “what's going on?”

“Discord” Celestia said “where have you hidden the elements?!?”

“Oh Celestia you wound me” he said as he appeared in glass of himself before talking “I just have them for my little game” he said confusing them while the element bearers feel the need to find them “I bet you’ve already noticed the slight changes have you not girls?” he continued after his eyes fall out of his face and roll into a new face of himself looking at the girls with Maroon asking,

“You mean…”

“Yes the elements themselves are alive and do the bidding of another, one who has been lost to time.” shocking them “twists and turns are my master plan, you’ll find the elements back where you began” he said before disappearing with laughter echoing through the hall.

“What did he mean by one who was lost to time?” Maroon asked,

“I’m not sure but we must deal with what’s at hoof first” they make their way to the maze but the elements try to pull them to their actual location. So the black being decides to try again and enters the maze after the bearer of magic only to run into a barrier with Discord saying “not this time bucko i'm in the middle of a game with them at the moment.”

“I will get that pony on my side and you will perish!”

“No can do Modi as something else is in our midst” the dark being was confused and showed it “the magical blast that the first elements caused upon their first use and self destruction caused our existence to be linked now” shocking the being “so if I go…”

“I go as well…” the being said before disappearing with the final words. “This is not over yet you unwanted creatine!”

As the bearers got corrupted they acted the opposite of their elements. Except maroon who understood what her opposite ment after seeing the others acting like theirs. So when she got the actual elements that were worried about the bonds snapping, she asked ‘magic’ “what do you want?!?” she got the feeling that it wanted her to put it on and stop her friends from being disconnected from the rest of them. “Fine but because this is too much chaos for me even though I don’t mind Ponyville’s natural chaos” she said causing the elements to call her a liar “if I wanted order I would have listened to my birth parents and returned to them and let them control me by just being what they want me to be” she said which caused the elements to realize that being here was the best thing to happen to her. So she put them on while helping her friends with them asking her why she never succumbed to Discord “I’ll tell you when all of you are here” she said to each of them. Once they got Rainbow dash off of the cloud and back to normal “you’re wondering why I never fell to Discord”s influence? It’s because I knew what my element was because I’ve already experienced it. My element is not magic but trust so my opposite is distrust and it would have caused me to leave and never come back as I wont trust in anything and will most likely die in the end, and I dont trust many fully but you girls are getting there” she said with a smile. That filled the girls with pride that they were getting somewhere with their friend though Fluttershy smiled at her marefriend and just straight up kissed her. Maroon kissed back.

After a while they ask her “so what should we do now?”

“Let's reverse all this chaos!” she said with them going to Discord and blasting him with the rainbow but once the rainbow was finished with its job it disappeared, however they didn’t see Discord as a statue anywhere at all. So they go on with their day as a smile graces their faces. They let the elements go back with Celestia.

Few weeks after Discord’s disappearance, Maroon was put to her mental edge as her birth parents were coming over to try and take her back to Canterlot against her will with a letter sent to her the week before. The letter, let her know she has no choice and that the law of the princess along with her restraining order are null and void as it’s just words and a piece of paper that had already met the shredder. She got the letter while on a date with Fluttershy under a tree on a nearby hill overlooking Ponyville and after reading it she was on the verge of having a panic attack and hyperventilating harder. Fluttershy tried to calm her down by taking her to their friends and getting their help. “What got her this way darling?”

“She got some mail about her birth family coming over and she is afraid that they are coming to take her back to Canterlot” she said quietly but it was understandable enough for their eyes to widen. Sure enough when they got to Maroon’s place she made herself as small as possible while being her normal size before using a shrinking spell. She hid under Flutershy’s wing while her birth parents were calling for her but Trixie asked

“Hello sir and ma’am but what may your business be here in this lovely town?”

“We are here to retrieve our daughter from this mudhole town and take her home” the stallion said his coat was a deep gray with a grandfather clock on his flank while his mane was a deep red. The mare had a pink mane and a light maroon coat with a crown on it.

“Why is a member of the most hated house of canterlot even here? And can’t we see our daughter when we want?” the mare said shocking the seven but trixie then said

“You do realize that there was a restraining order put on you both because of her constant panic attacks from even mentioning you both, thanks to both of you being so controlling of her, oh and I also remember that you, star crown and grand clock lost custody of her to my family? So get out of Ponyville or I will let my cousin know that you are here against the restraining order.” They laughed and said

“That piece of paper is gone now and will not come back” before she teleported, a stallion wearing the captain’s armor and he was a white pony with a blue mane

“Trixie, I was in the middle of something, so why did you teleport me here?.” he asked

“Maroon’s parents are going against the restraining order that was put on them along with claiming custody over her, as well as destroying the papers for that very order.” he looked at them with a glare that silenced their laughter instantly. “I warned you” was all Trixie said before they were arrested and had their rights read to them, after it was all over and her birth parents were gone, maroon came out and grew back to normal size, Celestia came down later that day to ask what happened only to find Trixie with Maroon and her friends, as they were comforting her. Celestia was confused and a bit worried for Maroon,

“Trixie? Is that you?” Celestia asked

“Its me princess there is a reason I dropped off your radar after leaving was to not be tracked by those who would use me to harm my family as that is how maroon’s birth parents found her” Trixie said with Celestia shocked about the birth parents trying to go against the restraining order as she was the one to personally issue the order on them, but understood wanting to protect her family.

“Did they say why they were back?” Celestia asked curious

“I guessed that they wanted me to come back to canterlot and nearly had a panic attack twice today thanks to both a letter and them actually barging into my home and started to take my things. That restraining order did help me a bit as whenever I knew I was going to come across them I would teleport to the other side of the radius of the restraining order, to get home after I was taken in by the stars and became an honorary star. The letter they sent me let me know that they had shredded the papers for the restraining order that they had and that your words and laws are words and paper.” Maroon said with her friends hugging her and Celestia joined in with her accepting the hug.

“I'll take care of this personally, and they will listen this time.” Celestia said.

“Thank you, princess,” Maroon said.

The next few days were a blur as they helped Luna come to terms with a holiday and helped her find a way to have fun with it and Rainbow saying “it will be an honor to be apart of the Shadowbolts so I accept your invitation to them and that I will earn my rank while I serve”

“That is excellent news as I was thinking that they could be stationed nearby as I am hoping that Ponyville would be stationed here rather than cloudsdale” Luna said

Managed to help rarity out with sister problems during the sister hoof social after a fight was causing a rift to form between them, though sweetie bell said something that actually hurt rarity and when she talked with applejack about it Aj admits that her and applebloom don’t always see eye to eye, like what sweetie bell thinks that they have a good sibling but really she acts more like a mother from what granny smith tells her.

Applebloom had her nightmare about cutie marks in the form of cutie pox with it starting off with losing her family then losing her friends for having one, after that it was not having one when her friends had one and losing them that way as well. The nightmare was resolved thanks to Luna helping out.

Rainbow Dash had a pet race at Fluttershy’s and got a tortoise named tank who was determined to the end and even got a propeller hat to help him live with Rainbow.

Hearth’s warming was coming and they were making a play for the holiday to tell the past to which it was certainly interesting when Maroon asked Trixie “what do you know about the holiday?”

“The beginning of a new era, we are doing a play of hearth's warming, is from over four thousand years ago as hearth's warming came into effect sometime after that. Did you know that the Migration era ended, on that very night??? Sense then another era came into play but its name was lost to time, after that was the Discordian era, when that ended was when Celestia and Luna became rulers and more happened from there to where we are now.” Trixie said which shocked them so they wanted to make sure it would work. The play went off without a hitch and was very smooth. Everypony enjoyed the show and the princesses were shocked at the accuracy of the play.

The con artists of Flim and Flam tried to get the apples into a cider off but Maroon asked “did you bring your own batch of apples to make into cider? Cause the contest is about quality not quantity” which the others agreed upon and Trixie said

“Plus if you get the farm the apples will have nowhere to live as they had lost their livelihoods plus they were the first settlers of this very town” and that caused the ponies of Ponyville to run them out of town.

After Rainbow saved a foal while it was falling down a well she got a lot of praise but Trixie knew what this could do for her ego in a bad way “hey Rainbow can we talk for a bit?” trixie asked

“Yeah sure” so they walked out of town a bit “yeah i know i'm awesome but what do you want to talk about?” she said bragging

“Your ego” Trixie stated getting straight to the point

“What about it?” Rainbow asked confused

“The reason the house of star is so humble, is because we know how far we have come from rock bottom but we dont let it get to our heads because all it takes is one wrong thing and next thing we know we have nothing left at all”

“And this has to do with me, how?”

“If you ride your success for longer than today it will come to bite you in the flank. You can ride it out for the rest of the day but remember all it takes is for something bad to happen for it to be blamed on you.”

“Pshh like that will happen” Rainbow brushed off

“Well you just jinxed yourself and don't say i didn't warn you” trixie said leaving rainbow in thought and later on she almost did keep bragging about it and almost paid the price thanks to her not listening at first but when the mysterious mare-do-well appeared Trixies words hit her as hard as how fast she could fly only for her to smack into a mountain. When her ears picked up cracking coming from somewhere nearby, she looked around trying to find what's causing the noise with no luck but found it was in the vicinity of the dam. She flew into town after that worried about how this would affect others so she brought maroon and rarity over to the dam to help her check things out.

“You said you heard something over here right darling?”

“Yeah sense I joined the Shadowbolts I noticed that my hearing has gotten better but not by much”

Maroon walked over and used a quick scanning spell to see what the problem was and found that the dam was close to collapsing. “Well you were right rainbow there is something wrong and it's the dam itself good thing you heard this otherwise it might have collapsed and flooded Ponyville.”

“Should we tell the mayor?”

“We have about a week or less for the dam to collapse and we are going to need all of the water drained out so that the dam can be fixed or rebuilt.” Maroon said as they made their way back to Ponyville to tell Mayor Mare about it

“So you’re saying that the dam is breaking?” Mayor Mare said

“It’s close to and were going to need help to repair or rebuild it” Rarity said

“Alright thanks for letting me know girls” she said as they left and the next day rainbow checked on the dam to see the water was gone and the dam was being repaired by the ponies of Ponyville, some help that Trixie called in from her family, and the Apple family who were in town for another reunion. The next few days were the community fixing the dam fully and once it was done everypony felt satisfied at the hard work they did with Rainbow learning a lesson of humility.

Fluttershy’s friends noticed the fact of Fluttershy being a doormat and wanted to help her. Trixie asked Maroon to help Fluttershy to be assertive in her own way. Which Maroon agreed with. She found Fluttershy being thrown out of her own home by Angel bunny and almost saw Ironwood’s flier for assertiveness so she walked over to Fluttershy and said with a sigh “we need to talk Fluttershy”

“About what?”

“Your being too kind to everypony not that it's a bad thing but you need to know how it affects others like me” she said with Fluttershy’s confusion so they went for a walk around Ponyville so that she can see what her marefriend was talking about. “Also being assertive doesn’t mean that you have to be cruel, it means that you’re standing up for yourself and there are ways to take things too far.” Maroon said “but I know you can do it.” and so Maroon helped Fluttershy be assertive in her own way which worked well.

Maroon created a cycle that does have an end thankfully ‘it’s about time’ but she felt as if casting the time spell after learning what she was trying to tell herself was more natural then any magic she knows and it confused her. It just felt right to her so she looked at her flank and almost forgot the clock part of her cutie mark which made her eyes widen.

Spike ran up the hill to the rest with a letter in his claws. “Trixie, Trixie! I got a letter from the main house!” He said as the rest of her friends look to Trixie while she asked

“Auntie and uncle wrote to me?” She opened it and read the letter stating that her cousin was getting married to Cadence and she got excited. “Girls, we are heading to Canterlot to attend a wedding!” They were shocked but it worked out. As after they got to their jobs cadence did the sunshine sunshine dance with maroon with trixie laughing while shaking her head while there was confusion about it with rainbow asking

“What was up with the dance?”

“It's something Cadence taught those she foalsits and it's something that gets stuck in our heads despite how silly it is, so we use it as a greeting.” she said with a smile as they watch “i need to go check in with somepony so i'll see with you later.” she walked away to somewhere unknown. The rest get ready for their parts of the wedding.

Meanwhile…

Shining armor was wandering around on patrol when trixie came up and said “hello love bug”

There was a shocked face before it turned confused “what are you talking about?”

“Don't worry we are alone and there is one thing i need to tell you”

“What is it?”

“The time is almost near. Do you think loca will be here to interrupt?”

“Most likely but how did you know that it was me?”

“The shield is not up for defense against the others as normally that would be the case”

“I see and if your wondering your cousin is safe and he did cast the shield at the top of the tower after all this is his plan that i'm going with”

“Alright let's get this going and it's good to see you again chryssy”

Things go very well for the wedding till the loco’s hive attacks canterlot brutally injuring shining armor and emotionally drained cadence to get enough magic to overpower Celestia. “Get the elements!” she said but trixie had lept into action with mismatched wings forming on her back out of feather fire and leather shadows.

Maroon and her friends were urged to do what the princess said but instead she pulled the two injured to her and made sure they were safe as they blocked the two form further harm as the disguise vanished revealing another changeling queen the real shining armor burst in with the cavalry and pushed back the invaders as the injured merge to save each other's lives as well as their own.
After a love bomb from the now merged alicorn queen and shining armor loco was defeated and sent off somewhere unknown. Trixie released the wings and fell asleep due to the strain on her magic that the fight caused but velvet caught her and slipped something into her bag. It took another week for the wedding to happen again but without any interruptions. As at the end of the dance maroon and fluttershy caught the bouquet while kissing with the others that wanted to bouquet were saddened but happy for the pair as they realized what just happened and their faces lit up like lightbulbs on max brightness.