What the Future Brings

The very same afternoon in Sugarcube Corner a grown middle aged stallion Pegasus with a brown mane and light peach fur with dark brown eyes was wearing a kitchen apron and sitting near a table reading a newspaper and drinking a hot cup of coffee.

He was with a green colored furred female Pegasus with an orange mane and blue eyes. The couple had two fillies that were students and were at a friend's house for a sleepover in the afternoon.

The male Pegasus was called Pound Cake and was the current owner and operator of Sugarcube Corner. His parents were laid to rest due to old age and his twin sister Pumpkin Cake had moved to Manehattan to set up a Sugarcube Corner there.

Then entered through the door was Dinky, an employee who they rented an extra room to as was accustomed to a third employee at the establishment.

"Hiya, Mr and Mrs Cake!" Dinky yelled bouncing in on all four hooves, trying not to over turn tables or chairs, like last time.

"Hello Dinky" Pound Cake nodded to the young colt with a smile. Then came through the door was a mare who looked exactly like Dinky. Applejack and Rarity then followed as Pinkie then noticed the Pegasus who looked like one of the twin children of her landlords.

"Pound Cake is that you?" asked Pinkie entering behind her grandson then looking at the stallion with a large…well larger grin on her face. "My have you grown up!"

"Hello Pinkie..." Pound Cake then replied before spitting out the coffee he was drinking. He looked at Pinkie and recognized (having a very good memory stretching back to his early days) the foalsitter he and his sister had seen as an older sister figure, not seeing her for many, many years as death over took her.

"Pinkie is that you?" asked Pound Cake wondering if this was a dream that came from eating a bad strawberry muffin this morning.

"It's simple enough to explain, Mr. Cake" Dinky said calmly, as he stopped bouncing in order to reply to the long conversation.

The next ten minutes both Pound Cake and his wife who had sat next to him after refilling the usual order of baked sweets in the kitchen were each having headaches listening to them…both at the same time explain what had happened. Applejack and Rarity were smart enough to cover their ears for it before they high-hoofed each other after they were done speaking.

*Up in Cloudsdale*

A blue adult furred male Pegasus with a green mane and magenta colored eyes sighed as he sat on his chair, his wife was working late and his daughter Firefly was outside with her friends. He was called Blazing Blitz.

All of his life he had to deal with the pressure of being the son of the legendary Wonderbolt Rainbow Dash. Once he became an adult he moved to Ponyville and got a career in weather management.

He met and married his wife and they had their daughter Firefly. His mother once she retired moved back to Ponyville to spend some time with his son and her family before she passed away.

He heard the door opening and saw Firefly coming through the door. "Hiya pops" she shouted as she entered. Blitz sighed, he truly did love his daughter very much but he did wish she was less of a braggart.

"Oh well, guess I have mom to blame for that" he snickered thinking of the…..challenges his mother often wished for others to do with her….even more so with his father, stating that she could do them in ten seconds flat.

He practically had a heart attack when one of the Cloudsdale police Pegasuses came to his door to tell him his daughter was arrested for drinking and flying under the influence, even though she was only sixteen.

His eyes widened as he saw a pony the age of his daughter who looked exactly like his mother did from the photos he had as a child.

He fainted from his chair onto the ground in shock only managing to utter the word "M-mum?" the same moment that Fluttershy entered into his house.

"We'll explain it to him once he wakes up" chuckled Firefly causing Dash to nod, not even knowing who the stallion was and thinking it had nothing to do with her as she followed her future granddaughter upstairs.

*Outside the library*

Spike Sparkle smiled sadly as he lay outside the Library on his stomach, looking at the younger versions of himself and Twilight talking to Sparkfang who nodded eagerly hearing old tales of them that the older version of his father never told of him.

He didn't want to let Twilight go…his heart was already spiting in two not being near him as she was when he was younger despise her younger version only being twenty five feet from himself. He grinned as he thought of all the trouble they gotten into when she was this very same age, all in the name of…'love'. But he knew that if she didn't return to her own time the changes could be drastic, and he didn't want his younger self to miss out the wonderful married life he would have with Twilight…something that he himself would give anything to go back to.

"Would you mind if I called you Mum?" asked Sparkfang sheepishly to Twilight, his head and eyes to the ground and his right front claw rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"Of course not" Twilight replied with a smile on her face as she reached out her left front hoof and touched his chin making him head move up to look him in the eyes causing Sparkfang to smile as she was still getting used to the idea that she would be a mother.

"So tell me…what happened to me? There should be an older version of myself here, should there not?" Twilight whispered to her future child as Sparkfang avoided eye contact and very gently pushed his mother's hoof away.

Spike Sparkle just nodded sadly in her direction with tears slowly running down his face as Sparkfang was now holding onto Twilight's left front leg, sobbing onto her fur.

Twilight gasped realizing what her fate must have been and the younger Spike looked sadly at Twilight realization hitting him as well but not knowing how to comfort the only he so dearly loved, Twilight was his best friend. Soon the older Spike and Sparkfang managed to calm down after ten minutes.

Twilight then used her magic to open the library door and then promptly dropped her jaw at the sight of what was to become of her library. She looked like what Pinkie would look like if a new law was passed in Equestria banning parties and sweets….a face of pure, raw horror and rage.

"What….what…what happened?!" Twilight managed to choke out due to all three males trying to calm her down as she was looking at the mess the books were in.

"I'm so sorry, Mum. Dad and I were visiting Canterlot and Dinky and Firefly threw a party and trashed the place when they were supposed to be looking after it" explained Sparkfang.

"I swear it won't happen again, I made Dinky Pinkie promise" he added as her glaze then turned towards her future son causing him to wince and back away five steps, the other two males doing the same even though Spike was already outside.

"N-NO THIS WON'T DO AT ALL!" shouted Twilight as she entered and started using her magic to rearrange the books in her normal, perfectly organized fashion.

"Come on, Sparkfang, let's help her out" Spike ordered lightly not used to having someone obey him and smiled slightly as Sparkfang only did such with a "Yes sir" and began to help while Spike Sparkle did what he could to clean outside the library, his wife's affect for cleaning having an effect on him despise being many years young then himself. The four going into a routine that could only be started and ended as a member of the Sparkle family.

*In Firefly's house*

Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Firefly had gone up to the young filly's room and they heard Firefly's dad get up.

"I will go explain it to him" said Rainbow Dash wanting an excuse to ask her future son about what her life will turn out to be, learning such information from Firefly herself. As Rainbow Dash rushed out of the room a photo fell onto the floor from the top of a dresser drawer.

Fluttershy slowly picked it up with her hooves and glanced at it, her eyes shining, for it was of a photo of Sparkfang with a purple heart drawn around it.

"Why do you have this?" asked Fluttershy.

"N-n-no reason" Firefly shot defensively, her cheeks turning red as she snatched it from her. Firefly then saw on her bed was a homemade soft toy made to look like Sparkfang which Firefly made herself. Firefly then made sure Fluttershy didn't see it as she took it and hid it under her quilt.

*Back in the library*

Twilight, more tired then what she thought she could ever be managed to finish putting the books away. Sparkfang then gently helped her to a spare bed he had upstairs.

Twilight smiled at the creature, she could really see this child being her darling son…and to think just a few hours ago all he was to her was some peculiar creature worth studying. She realized with a large amount of guilt weighed on her heart.

Sparkfang smiled at his mother's younger self, it reminded him of the last days of her mother's life when she would stay in bed due to a rare sickness.

He would take care of her. In her last hour alive, Twilight's dying wish was only to spend her last minutes with her husband and son and that she be buried next to her friends which was easily granted by the two princesses themselves.

"If you're a hybrid…does anypony make fun of you?" asked Twilight trying hard not to sound mean, also knowing that she wish she knew how to give a pep talk to the one she had given birth to…or would at least.

"Only by a few jerks at school…maybe a few mares or stallions, nothing I can't handle, Mum…like dad always said…we dragons always have tougher skin then what it seems" Sparkfang answered back, smiling sadly causing Twilight to pull him into a hug with her front hooves around his spine and chest as he tired his hardest not to cry "Most ponies accept me due to how respected dad is and the fact that my mum was the best mayor Ponyville ever had!" he added softly.

"It's …Okay as long as you are not made fun of often...your father is right you know…dragons are really tough creatures and with both our un-wiliness to allow bullies to tease us we…did you say MAYOR?" Twilight screamed the last word causing Sparkfang to laugh out loud as he nodded shaking his head, not hearing his mother make a joke in such a long time, even if she did it without knowing.

Sparkfang promised he would explain more soon enough. Soon the night was drawing near and Spike went into the bed next to Twilight though they were sure to keep on opposite sides of the bed.

Sparkfang went into his own bed and cuddled up with his Ms Smartypants doll, a childhood toy of his mother which she gave him on his fifth birthday.

The elder Spike Sparkle's tail entered through the window and helped turn off the light, envying his younger version and then went to sleep, barley hearing the words from his son.

"Good night, mum, night, dad...and dad" chuckled Sparkfang as he drifted off to sleep, his father following swiftly after.

*The next morning, Dinky's job and home*

In Sugarcube Corner, Rarity was waking up and looked like she had sand in her eyes.

"I COULDN'T SLEEP A SINGLE WINK, ALL NIGHT! JUST LOOK AT MY BEAUIFUL EYES AND FUR, AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON MY MANE!" Rarity screamed exasperated trying to curl her mane into its usual style with a front hoof but was failing…badly.

"Who in tarnation plays the drums in the middle of the night?" asked Applejack looking cranky as Dinky and Pinkie who was bouncing towards them.

"Sorry if I kept you up," shouted Dinky sheepishly "but playing the drums is what I do when I'm having trouble sleeping!"

"So when you can't sleep…you make sure nopony else could sleep either?" asked Rarity looking very upset.

"Hey I thought the drum solo was pretty good" commented Pinkie with a grin.

"Thanks grandma!" Dinky smiled with a nod at the two other mares "hey I just remembered, I didn't throw you a party yet!"

"I have got my party cannon!" Pinkie shouted a little too excited taking out her light blue party cannon with pink wheels as Dinky took out a rainbow colored bazooka.

"And I've got my party Bazooka!" replied Dinky. The Cakes came down the stairs and once they saw the Party Bazooka they took cover under a table as Applejack and Rarity joined them while the two Pies only shrugged at one another and fired off their party weapons, causing an enormous amount of damage around them...one that would haunt the area of Sugarcube Corner for the next week or two.

*Firefly's house*

In the town of Cloudsdale, Blitz was trying to enjoy his breakfast while watching his daughter argue with the younger version of his mother chuckling as he remembered himself doing the exact same thing many years ago when he was a teenager.

"No way could you ever hope to be better than me," Rainbow Dash spoke to Firefly in a very serious tone "my Sonic Rainboom beats any other moves! And is able to be done in ten second flat"

"Sonic Rainboom? Ha, that's old news!" retorted Firefly with a roll of her eyes, almost making Rainbow Dash smack her across the face "my Firefly Wave easily outclasses your dinosaur of a move and I can do it in ten seconds flat as well!"

Fluttershy held back her friend and Blitz held back her daughter to prevent them from fighting, just a normal day for the Dash family it would seem.

*In Ponyville library*

Twilight and Spike woke up together…a little to close with watchtower in their option as Spike was wrapped around Twilight's upper legs in a loving embrace.

Twilight let go quickly as they went out looking at each other with a large blush in their cheeks, not looking the other in the eyes then getting out of bed to stay away from their best friend for a few minutes…or an hour, whichever came first.

Sparkfang came to them with a tray of breakfast he made after the two had slowly got into bed to talk about what had happen but being sure not to touch before looking at their future son who had a daisy sandwich with as smear of cream cheese that he knew his mother enjoyed with a glass of milk and a ruby and slight diamond gem sandwich for Spike with fruit punch, knowing that the older version of his father would want the very same thing as he went to prepare it.

After they finished the two went out to see the elder Spike Sparkle outside with Sparkfang already outside asking a few question he had on his mind. Soon came Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Firefly.

"Twi, my granddaughter is such a braggart!" Dash growled with Firefly glaring at her.

"Like grandmother like granddaughter" Twilight muttered softly earning a glare from Dash.

Applejack and Rarity came up to them looking angry (Rarity in particular) while Pinkie and Dinky bounced up alongside them, not even noticing the very angry mares.

"Wow, Mr. Cake didn't seem too upset about the damage done to Sugarcube Corner" spoke Dinky referring to the fact that the party cannon and bazooka had pretty much blasted a large hole in the roof of Sugarcube Corner.

"At least Sugarcube Corner has a sun roof now!" chirped Pinkie happily.

"I'VE GOT DEBRIS IN MY MANE" shouted Rarity furiously.

"Why aren't you all a sight for sore eyes, my little ponies!" they heard a familiar voice speak with a gentle tone.

They turned around to see Princess Celestia smiling while walking up to them, not changed from the Mane six's timeline.

"Princess Celestia!" exclaimed the eight ponies, hybrid and the younger Spike excitedly.

Meanwhile in the cave where the dragon assault that attacked Ponyville rested the new master was plotting a new strategy of attack and what should be done with the famous dragon traitor and hybrid.