New Year's Shipping Challenge: Twilight Sparkle x Future Twilight

by Jet Cannon

Rating: everyone
Tags: Alternate Universe, Sad, Romance
Length: 136

Something goes wrong when Twilight goes back in time to see herself, and she ends up stuck in the past. But at least she has herself for company!

My entry for Indigo Eclipse's New Year's Shipping Challenge!

After an unfortunate, though well-meaning, change in dialogue by an eyepatch-sporting time traveller, Twilight Sparkle is left with an unscientifically-possible other her in her library!
The mare from the future cannot get back, and is understandably upset at the prospect.
But through their efforts to find a solution, and by (awkwardly) helping each other to see just how worthwhile they both are, might the displaced mare find a reason to stay?

Credit to Hinoratio for the cover art. Go check him/her/them out!

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-02-02 04:37:21 UTC

Introduction

I am the Author.

You already know the outcome of Twilight Sparkle’s misadventures with time travel.

Of how she didn’t let her future self deliver her message;

Of how she mobilised Ponyville’s residents to “disaster-proof” the town;

Of how she almost descended into a state of madness as she tried to monitor everything;

And how she finally sought answers from the texts of Starswirl, only to realise that the whole debacle was her own fault, and her subsequent failure to inform her past self of her folly.

But what if?

What if this time, in this time stream, some of the events unfolded differently?

The differences may initially seem minute, but they shall lead to grand changes, changes that nopony may have expected.

Continue on, now, and you may learn about these changes yourself…