What if....

6:00 P.M

Knock knock knock

“Coming, hold on!”

Spike walked towards the door and opened it. Standing right in the doorway was a dark figure. Spike smiled.

“Oh, hey Charlie.” Spike turned his head. “Wow that was fast, so how was your trip with Lyra?”

“Who is Lyra?” Charlie asked.

“You know, Lyra.”

“Right, vell, vhere is Twilight?”

“She’s still upstairs, by the way, what’s with the accent.”

“Nothing, just practicing…”

“Practicing, for what?” Spike asked.

“Silence small purple lizard!” Charlie suddenly shouted. Spike looked at Charlie with suspicion.

“Jeez, what’s your problem?”

“Nothing, just cold zhat is all.” Charlie suddenly softened up.

“Well, it is almost nighttime, why don’t you come in.” Spike said before stepping aside, letting Charlie walk in.

“Zhank you lizard.”

“Why do you call me that, my name is Spike!” Spike shouted.

“Riiiight, vell, vhere is Twilight?”

“She’s upstairs if you really have to talk to her.”

“Zhank you Spike. I must be on my vay.”

“Charlie” bowed before walking to the stairs. Spike watched as he walked up the stairs and through the door.

“Jeez, what’s wrong with him?” Spike thought before he shook his head and walked off.

Charlie walked up the stairs into the loft and saw a figure lying down in the bed in the disappearing daylight. He stood and watched as the figure moved up and down, very slowly.

“She must be sleeping.” Charlie said aloud. He walked over to the bed and placed his hands on the lump. He suddenly started shaking it viciously and shouted…

“TWILIGHT!”

Twilight violently opened her eyes.

“EEEKKKK, who’s doing that!?”

She turned suddenly and faced the figure that was shaking her.

“Charlie, huh?”

“Yes, it is me, Charlie.”

Twilight rubbed her eyes with her hoof.

“What, why did you do that?”

“Because, you wouldn’t vake up.”

“What!?”

“I said... BECAUSE YOU WOULDN’T VAKE UP.”

“Oh, okay.”

A few moments of silence passed before the door opened up.

“What’s going on!?” Spike shouted, and then he walked up the stairs and up the loft.

“Oh, Twilight could not hear me.”

“What did you do, I could hear you clearly from downstairs.” Spike asked, astounded.

“I magically amplified my voice.”

“Wow, when did you learn that?”

“Uh, just recently.”

“Oh, cool.”

“What!” Twilight shouted.

Charlie turned back around to Twilight and cleared his throat.

“NOTHING.”

“Oh, alright, well if you don’t need anything else, I’m going back to bed.”

“No, vait, hold on.”

“What!”

Charlie face palmed.

“Uh, Spike, can you vait downstairs?”

“Yes sir.” Spike said before walking down the stairs and out the door.

“Alright,” Charlie started. “TWILIGHT, CAN YOU TELL ME VHERE I CAN FIND OUT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRINCESSES!”

“Why are you shouting?” Twilight asked with a smirk. “Anyways, ask Spike, he’ll know.”

“Ehem, THANK YOU.” Charlie walked down the loft stairs and out the door. He then walked downstairs once more. Once he reached the bottom, he was approached by Spike.

“I heard that, anyways, even though you already know about the princesses, what do you want to know?”

“Oh, vell, thank you Spike.” Charlie placed a hand on his chin, assuming a thinking position.

“Vell, vhat makes them the leaders of this land?” he asked.

“Well, they are very powerful, even though Celestia has been defeated before.” Spike replied.

“Are you questioning your leader’s strength little lizard.”

“NO! Of course not, I was just saying.”

Charlie chuckled.

“Alright then, well what makes them different from the rest of this pony population?”

“Well, they are alicorns.”

“What’s an alicorn?” Charlie asked.

“Well, they have both a horn and wings.”

“Oh, alright.”

“Oh, did I forget to mention that they raise the sun and the moon.”

Charlie stood there, looking absolutely dumbfounded.

“Uh, Charlie, are you…”

“VHAT!!!”

“I already though you knew this, you’re starting to sound like what Twilight said Heinrich sounded like.”

“Vait, Heinrich is here! Vhere is he!”

Spike stood silent for a moment.

“That’s a good question, I suppose he’s gone after that explosion consumed him and you, but you survived.”

“Oh, zhat is too bad. I guess that makes me leader now.”

“Oh, cool, leader of what.” Spike asked excitedly.

“Leader of the OFE, little one.”

“Cool, can I join?”

“I suppose, you are now the successor to the OFE and I dub thee Sir Spike the… ehhh… brave.”

“Cool, thanks. By the way, what does OFE mean anyways?”

“It means Order of the Free and Eternal, Sir Spike.”

“Oh, cool!”

“I need to ask you one more question Sir Spike.”

“Yeah, sure.”

“Alright, vell, since the leaders raise the sun and the moon, are zhey… immortal?”

“Yes, they are.”

“…”

“Charlie, are you alright.”

Charlie stood wide-eyed for a second time.

“Yes, Sir Spike, I am fine. This is just… Excellent information.”

“Oh, alright.”

“By zhe vay, do you know vhere I can find zhat rainbow maned Pegasus I saw earlier.”

“Oh, Rainbow Dash, she’s usually flying around, but I can find her for you tomorrow.”

“Zhank you Sir Spike. You truly are an asset to the OFE.”

“I know.” Spike said with a smile.

13 hours later, 7:00 A.M.

“Come on Vinyl, we must really get going.”

“Ugh, give me a sec.”

Charlie stood outside of Vinyl and Octavia’s tent, waiting for the former to exit. Everypony had already waken up, with a little help from Charlie.

“We don’t have much time. If we don’t hurry… well I don’t know what will happen.”

“Hey Charlie!”

Charlie turned to the source of the voice, Lyra.

“Yes Lyra.”

“Since we weren’t able to talk last night, and I already packed up my tent, tell me of how you knew of the ruin.”

Charlie sat down on a rock behind him and thought for a moment.

“Well, it’s a short story, but in order for you to know how I knew, you must know my age.”

“Are you… 30 years old?” Lyra asked. Charlie shook his head.

“No, funny thing is that even I don’t know my age, but I do know that it was over 1000 years ago.”

“What!” Lyra shouted, astonished.

“Yes, just like Twilight’s friend’s reactions. Anyways, I was wandering the northern reaches of the lands I lived in, and I came across a cave. I was curious as to what was in it, so I walked in with a torch. I walked for a few minutes before I came across a small entrance. I walked through it and saw the ruin. It was quite a sight and I was curious as to what was in it. I walked into the ruin and saw the boneyard. It scared me a bit, as I realized that it was full of human bones. Something else, however, scared me even more. Next to a pedestal was a statue that seemingly was staring right at me.”

“So that statue was the one that we saw earlier.”

“Yes, it was.”

“Alright guys, I’m up!” Vinyl jumped out of her tent.

“Alright Vinyl, Octavia, close up your tent. Today we’re going home.” Lyra said while keeping her sight on Charlie.

“Alright, but first let Charlie finish his story.” Lyra turned around and saw that her friends had gathered behind her and were giving Charlie their attention.

“Go ahead Charlie.” Lyra said as soon as she turned around.

“Well, I walked up to the statue and noticed that it was very familiar to someone I had seen before.”

“Who was that dear?” Octavia asked.

“It was someone I had met before the purge, Mage Dmitri.”

A moment of silence passed before Derpy spoke up.

“Who’s that?”

“The one that held you captive.”

“Oh.”

Charlie looked up at the sky.

“Come on guys, let’s go.”

“Sir Spike!”

“Huh, what.”

“Come on, ve must get Rainbow Dash.”

“But why so early?”

“Zhis is of utmost importance.”

“Alright, let’s go then.”

Spike let the way in the cool morning air to Rainbow’s home. Good thing for Charlie that they were already close by.

“Why do you need Rainbow for?” Spike asked.

“I need her to help me.”

“Alright.”

Once they arrived under Rainbow’s home Spike cleared his throat.

“Rainbow!”

He waited a few seconds, but there was no response.

“Uh Charlie, she might not be home right now.”

“Nonsense, I’m pretty sure she’s home… let me try.”

Charlie placed his hands around his mouth.

“RAINBOW.”

A soft thump and flapping wings were heard. A few seconds later a door opened and Rainbow flew down.

“What, what, I’m up!”

“You may go know Sir Spike.”

“Thanks Charlie.”

Rainbow watched as Spike walked off, and then turned to Charlie.

“What’s up Charlie?”

“Rainbow Dash, I need your assistance.”

“Sure, what’s up?”

“I need you to come with me to the capital.”

“Why what’s going on?” Rainbow asked with suspicion in her voice.

“I need you… to help… you’re coming with me!” Charlie suddenly said. He took of his hood, revealing himself.

“What, you’re not Charlie!”

“Zhat’s right! Now you’re coming with me, NOW!”

“No way!” Rainbow extended her wings, but when she tried to take off, she couldn’t.

“What the?!” She turned and noticed that a light blue color surrounded her wings.

“Where do you think you’re going?!”