It was the a bright sunny morning in Ponyville as various pony's walked around town, either picking up various groceries from the many shops around or just opening up there own shops for the day. Most of the citizens of Ponyville were awake The only ones that were still asleep were young fillies or those who just nothing to do. Things were peaceful at the Phantom/Dante house. Phantom hoof, The writer of Ponyville had gotten up early to start a new novel when there was a knock at the door.
"Hmm? The sun isn't even up...who could be visiting at this hour?" The dark tan unicorn thought to himself as he started walking down the stairs, careful not to wake up Dante. As he opened the door, three fillies ran in and started talking all at once.
"PHANTOM! LET US HELP YOU WRITE A BOOK!" Phantom sighed,It was the Crusaders
"Girls, writing a book is hard work."
Apple bloom thought to herself, then grinned, "Okay, Where’s Dante? Maybe he can help us ear-"
Phantom cut her off right there. "No...he had a long night trying to fix the lights around Ponyville so he's probably still asleep...besides, he's probably gonna say no..."
Dante, One of the town's electricians, opened his eyes after hearing the bickering downstairs. His eyes were red form lack of sleep and his red and black mane was frizzled, just like every morning. He groaned to himself and looked in the mirror that stood next to his bed. "I swear to Celestia..." The Grey Unicorn mumbled to himself as he dragged himself out of bed and began to trot down the stairs. "Someone better be dead or so help me I’m going to kill anypony I see" He started to yell.
Scootaloo was the first to run up to Dante "Hey, You're cooler than Phantom, so maybe you can teach us how to work with electricity...after all, you're the coooolest in Ponyville, right?" This was a clear attempt to suck up to him, which made Phantom facehoofed.
Dante shot a look of death at the young filly. "Wait till I tell Dash you said that" He said coldly as he began to walk away. "And if you all don’t leave me alone for about five minutes, ill show you how dangerous electricity is." He said without turning to the three. Dante walked into the kitchen and started to raid the fridge. "Like how it can easy hurt a filly, Or how easily it can make a Filly into fried chicken.”
Phantom and the Crusaders all kinda backed off a small look of terror on there faces. The cutie mark Crusaders turned around and immediately ran out the door trying to find ways to make their marks appear, that and they were a bit frightened from the gray unicorn. Phantom just shook his head, walking back to his writing desk and stacking some papers. Dante closed the fridge, grabbing a bottle of Apple family brand Juice and uncapping it with his magic. He slowly walked over to Phantom and peered over his shoulder, taking small sips from his juice.
“Whacha doin?” He asked
“Writing.” The Unicorn replied.
“Writing what?”
“My last will and testament.” Phantom replied in a sarcastic tone. “I'm writing a new story, This time I thought I would spice it up a bit by including me and you.”
“I'm in your story?” Dante asked. “Wow, I don’t know if I should feel loved or creeped out.”
“Hilarious. Anyways, I just got done with the last chapter?” Phantom said, feeling proud of himself. “Wanna read it?”
Dante raised an eyebrow. “Me? Read? Phantom, I don’t read, I listen to people read.” He stated “Plus, im not one for long stories.”
Phantom sighed. “Fine, how about I read it to you.” He sugested.
Dante nodded in response,”Why not, I don’t work until seven.”
Phantom smiled and picked up the first page using his magic and cleared his throat. He adjusted his glasses with his hoof and started.
It was a normal day in Ponyville. The usual Clear sky and sunny day. Perfect weather for everypony to frolic and play in the warm sun. All ponies except for the ones that had to work. The ponies that had only one day off every month. The pony that kept the electrical grid up and running. This pony in particular was Dante, The towns electrician.
“Oh hey, It starts out with me! That awesome! Keep on going.” Dante interrupted, seeming excited.
Phantom just ignored him and kept telling the story.
While Dante was at work, Phantom was out in town, running errands. He was the Electrician's room mate, and a writer for most of the pony's in Ponyville. After dropping off the gathered materials, he looked at the clock.
"Hmm, It's four, I think Dante told me to go get him." He packed a lunch, knowing Dante was probably frustrated, and went along his way.
When he arrived, he sighed slightly. "Oh geez...Apple Bloom and friends are talking to Dante. This can't be good."
Dante kept working on the electrical box in town central, Three little voices annoying him to no end.
"Can we please help mister Dante!?" Scootaloo asked.
"No"Dante replied quickly as he kept working.
A wave of please hit him as he kept working, slowly chipping away at his sanity. His left eye began to twitch as he carefully took out a circuit and replaced it with one from his bag. "For the last time no" Dante managed to get out calmly. "Don’t make me tell you again."
Dante interrupted a second time. “Whoa whoa wait, you put them in there?”
“Yes.” Phantom replied simply. “Problem?”
“No.” Dante huffed. “Just keep going.”
"Alright girls, leave Dante alone before he shocks himself." Phantom said as he slowly made his way over.
"But we need to figure out if we can be good electricians!" Sweetiebell said in a whiny voice.
"First, electricity is dangerous, and second, you guys are still only fillies. Only adult ponies can handle this dangerous job."
As Phantom lectured SweetieBell and Apple Bloom, a curious Scootaloo noticed a big blue button. "Hey Dante, what's this button?" She asked as she hit it.
“And then everything blew up! Right?” Dante yelled.
“Well maybe if you stop interrupting you'll find out!” Phantom yelled back.
Dante looked down to Scootalu and sighed. "That was the master override..." He said, holding back anger. "which just shut down what i have been working on for 8.....long....hours..." He said as his eye twitched with every word.
He picked up one of the loose wires and pointed it at Scootaloo, sparks jumping from the main wire.
"Hey Scootalu...Do you and your 'Crusaders' Want to become fried chicken?" Dante asked as he kept the wire pointed at the young Pegasus.
"Calm down Dante, they're just kids." Phantom said as he used his magic to try to pull the wire away. "I know you dislike kids, but you've got to admire their spirit." When Phantom noticed that Dante wouldn't let go, he used stronger magic to try to pry the wire away. Scootaloo tried to apoligize by hitting the button again to reactivate the power.
Meanwhile Pinkie Pie was nearby. After her Pinkie senses went off, she turned to the two males and started running. "Wait! Be Careful!"
"Oh ill give them spirit! Ill make them INTO spirits! COME HERE YOU LITTLE FREAKS!" He yelled, stepping closer to the fillies. "Phantom, I’ve been working all day and I swear to god if you interfere ill fry you to!" Dante yelled as he took another step closer.
Pinkie Pie's voice echoed now. "Will you two Stop? You're about to-"
At that point, something strange happened, when Scootaloo hit the stitch to turn the power back on, the wire Dante held gave a huge spark, which intern, startled Phantom enough to use a magic spell he didn't mean to use. Suddenly there was a flash in near the two, and Pinkie gave a loud sigh.
"....travel back in time. Why does no one ever listen to me when I try to warn them. It's like they all want stuff to happen to them...."
All Phantom seen before the blast, was a blue light, then darkness. It was awhile, but after, he felt something poking at his face. "...Do you think they're dead?" Said a teenaged female voice. "Don't be silly they're unicorns, magic probably just backfired on them...though they look weird.."
Dante groaned a bit after he felt someone poking him. " Ill zap you if you don't stop. "He mumbled quietly, not loud enough for them to hear.
Dante coughed a few times and opened his eyes, the light hurting his eyes. Due to the blinding light, all he could see was two outlines of what looked like unicorns. "The hell?" He mumbled, His head hurting a bit.
Phantom coughed then sat up slowly, holding his head a bit. "...Dante...what just hit us?" As his vision slowly adjusted, he saw the two outlines. He turned pail as his vision finally became clear. "Dante....It's Princess Celestia and Luna....Except..." Couldn’t believe his eyes, but in front of them was a pint size Luna, and a teenaged Celestia, back when her main was pink. "There, there fillies!"
“Okay, okay hold up for just a moment!” Dante interrupted again
“What is it now?!”Phantom yelled while he put the paper he was reading down and glared at Dante. “What could you possibly not understand!?”
“So Celestia and Luna are fillies correct?” Dante asked, ignoring Phantoms comment. “And apparently me and you, in the story, are trapped in the past yes?”
Phantom slowly nodded his head, looking irritated.
“Alright.” Dante shrugged. “Continue.”
Phantom just muttered something under his breath and picked the paper back up, starting from where he left off.
When Dante's eyes finally adjusted, all he could see was Luna's face, Her big eyes staring at him.
"OH! you said a bad word! Your gunna get in trouble! Right Tia?"
Dante tried to sit up, his head still hurting. "Tia?" He asked, then looked to Phantom, his vision still a bit blurry. "Tia as in Celstia? as in princess?" He managed to get out, looking back to Luna. "And the other one is....Oh Celestia what is happening?"
Phantom was giving a nervous smile. "I have no idea, but I'm frightened."
The Young Celestia tilted her head. "Excuse me, but who are you two? You suddenly came out from a bright light. We came, and we thought you were injured, so we sent our friend Discord to get help."
Phantom's eyes just narrowed. "...Discord...help?" He gave a small manic laugh, then fell back, and held his head under his hooves. "This is all a bad dream, and you'll wake up...when you wake up you can go ask out Zecora and all will be well ehehehehe" Phantom wasn't known to handle huge events well. This strange act only seemed to entertain the filly Luna though.
Dante looked to Celestia, his head hurting a bit less less now. "Sorry to drop in but we are quite fine." Dante looked to phantom as he finished ranting. "Like I said were fine." Dante grunted as he finaly stood up on all fours. "Just a bit of a headache but nothing badly." The unicorn continued, a bit of confusion in his voice. "Now im sorry to ask but would you two happen to be Celestian and Luna?" He asked, still a bit confused.
Celestia nodded. "Yes...and how do you know us?"
The small Luna gasped. "Hey Tia, maybe these are the two boys who try to sing to you at night!" She giggled as Phantom stood.
"I'm okay....Dante, Can I have a word with you?" Before Dante could respond, he was pulled to the side. "So..I think I know what happened...I think maybe, MAYBE, we got sent back in time when the electricity supercharged a my magic." Luna squeezed in between the two.
"Whatcha guys talking about?" This made Phantom give a small yelp, and jump back into a pond.
Dante looked to the young filly and smiled. "Were talking about getting you a present, So you better not listen or your not getting it."
After Saying that, Luna immediately squealed with delight and ran to her sister, bouncing happily. Dante then looked back to Phantom and raised an eyebrow. "Taking a bit of a swim are we?"
“Since when the Buck do I like kids!?” Dante yelled, interrupting the story yet again.
“I wrote the damn story! Now shut the buck up and listen!” Phantom yelled.
"You're enjoying this...aren't you?" As he got out of the water, he shook himself dry. Celestia walked over.
"You sure you two are okay? He seems a bit...well...out of his element?" She was looking at Dante, worried about the frantic member of the group.
"I'm fine...just....frazzled......" As he regained his composer, he sat down, took out a quill and a paper, and started writing frantically. "Dante, I'm gonna try to get us out of here."
Dante looked to Celestia then back to Phantom. "Yea have fun with that." He said as he looked back to Celestia. "Don t worry about it Avy...I mean Celestia, were fine." He said as he looked to Phantom and raised an eyebrow. "Can you give us a second? please?" He asked. "Ill deal with my crazy friend.”
"Okay, I just wrote this letter, and I'm going to send it to Twilight. I know she'll get it, I just don't know how fast it will be." He lifted the letter with his horn, and he squinted and focused hard, causing the letter to vanish. He collapsed soon afterwords.
".....You're sure? He seems really...scared." Celestia asked as Phantom rose to his feet.
"Excuse me..Prince- I mean Celestia...can you tell me where we are?" The mare blinked.
"Canterlot...why?"
Dante sighed. "Celestia Like I said just give us a moment." Dante said again as he turned to Phantom. "Alright Before you say anything just shut up and listen." He looked over to Luna, who was still excitedly bouncing up and down. "Im fully aware where we are and im pretty sure we both know who they are. But for now just go with it. You hear me? Just go with whatever they say." Dante instructed. "We dont need to go and screw around in the past. Now just follow me lead. Got it?"
Phantom growled. "Why do you think I'm trying to get to Twilight? We need to get out of here quickly!"
“Oh I get it!” Dante yelled.
Phantom simply sighed and looked to Dante.
“It's the whole step on a lizard thing”
“Butterfly.” Phantom corrected him.
“Whatever, potato, tomato”
Phantom put a hoof to his head. “My I continue now?”
Dante nodded, opening up a new bottle of apple family juice.
A smile was on Celestia as she apparently got into the huddle. "And why do you need to leave so fast?" Phantom, again jumped, landing in the pond once again. "Didn't mean to startle you, but I thought all the ponies were gathering for the Gala....that's why you two are here too, right?" Phantom stood, and shot a death glare at Dante to think of a lie and quick. He needed to calm down before he could think.
Dante looked to Phantom and shook his head. "The Gala you say?" He asked, sounding interested. " I dont think so but may I ask if you are going?" Dante looked to Phantom. "I mean we weren’t planing on going, right Phantom?" He asked, nodding a bit. "We wouldn’t want to impose on anything, Right Phantom?"
Phantom clearly shot another death glare, but Celestia spoke before he could open his mouth.
"That's a shame...you two clearly seem like an interesting pair. I bet you would be welcomed at the gala." At that moment, a smaller, friendlier Discord seemed to appear.
"They didn't believe me when I told them what happened..oh...their awake...let me go back and stop them then..." Discord vanished as fast as he came. Phantom, petrified again, spoke.
"We have business, so we sadly can't attend....now if you'll excuse me..." He fainted right then and there, landing at Celestia's hooves.
Dante chuckled a bit when phantom fainted the looked to Celestia. "What he is trying to say is, we would love to maybe spend some time with you and your sister before the gala." Dante said and he started to Poke phantom to wake him up. "But we might want to get someone to help us with sir faints a lot over here."
Celestia watched Phantom fall. "...does he do that often?....Anyway, hear that Luna? It looks like we have two new friends who aren't snobs like everyone else."
With a chuckle, Celestia splashed Phantom, instantly waking him back up. The colt shot up from the shock of water, then simply sat perfectly still. He was alert, but nervous...he didn't want to screw up the past.
Dante just nodded. "Only when he's spooked." He said as he looked to Luna. the young filly squeled and ran over to the group.
"Are they going to play with us?" She asked as she looked to Dante. The unicorn chuckled and nodded, causing the filly to bounce up and down in excitement.
"She Reminds me of her so much" He said quietly to himself and he looked back to Phantom. "Oh look he's awake again. Wounder how long till he passes out."
Phantom spoke in a calm collected voice. "I think I'm okay now....nothing's gonna make me faint." Celestia simply poked her head from behind him and spoke in a hushed manner.
"Boo." Phantom's fur turned red and he collapsed, but he was still conscious.
"Dante....I'd like to leave before I royally screw up my future if you catch my drift."
Celestia laughed. "No no, I'll leave you alone....for an adult though, you spook easy..more than that one Pegasus we know."
Dante nodded as Celestia walked off, taking her sister with her. They stopped a small distance away and waited. Dante glanced to phantom and shook his head.
"You do spook easily you know that right?" He asked, waiting for him to stand up."And I don’t think spending a few minutes with the pint size princesses will be all bad, I doubt it will screw anything up."
Phantom sighed. "Still, we're from the future...one slight slip of the tongue and the future screwed."
Dante chuckled, interrupting yet again
“WHAT NOW!?” Phantom yelled.
“Slip of the tongue.” Dante replied, holding in his laughter
“Really?”
“I’m sorry...continue...”
He slowly stood up and gave a deep sigh. "Anyway....what are you planning? You normally aren't this nice to kids."
Meanwhile in the pair's current time, Twilight was talking to Fluttershy when a letter shot out of nowhere and smacked Twilight in the face, startling Fluttershy. Spike ran over.
"Twi, you okay?!?" Twilight was silent for a moment, then sighed.
".......Guys...we may need to talk to the the Princess.."