MY LITTLE PONY: THE HUMAN'S DESTINY PART ONE

"Ow..." Ryan groaned. He had been walking outside, just about to enter his house, when CRACK! a giant bolt of lightning struck him. Now he was at the edge of a forest somewhere, with who knows what kinds of injuries, whether internal or external. "Anyone!" he croaked feebly, weakly raising a hand as a poor attempt at a signal of his location. "Help me. I need a Doctor!" As he reentered unconsciousness, a yellow pegasus was walking up.

"Oh goodness! What happened to you?!" Fluttershy asked in a concerned tone.

"GAH!" Ryan shouted, unconsciousness evading for a brief moment. ""I'm Injured! I hate the sight of blood!" Woozy from said injuries, he passed out again. Fluttershy stood there, worried and not sure what she should do. "I...need...a..Doc..tor!" Ryan managed, his wounds starting to open, and bleed. An hour later, Ryan woke up in a hospital bed, his perception a blur, due mostly to not wearing his glasses. "Mom?" he said, seeing a blurry mess of light pink hair which caused him to think of his mom.

"Its me" Fluttershy said.

"Fluttershy?" Ryan mumbled unclearly, his hand groping around for his glasses. Where are my glasses?" He mumbled to no one in particular, still trying to find them without looking.

. "There right here, Here you go." Almost as soon as Ryan tried to put them on, they snapped in half.

"NO!" he shouted, startling the pegasus a little. "My glasses broke! My arrival must've put them into a fragile state! I can't see now! My eyes hurt just trying!" He held the broken glasses in his hands, almost crying. "Don't worry my sweet." he whispered to his glasses in a way that Fluttershy couldn't hear. "I'll fix you somehow. Do you know where I can get my glasses fixed?" he asked Fluttershy.

"Im afraid i don't." Fluttershy said.

"Could anyone you know try to fix them?" he asked, slight desperation in his voice.

"I dont think so" Fluttershy said.

"Could I see them?" Ryan asked. If he really was where he thought he was, he needed the proof

"See what? Your glasses?" Fluttershy asked.

"No, your friends." groaned Ryan.

"Um… Alright" Fluttershy said. Later, the pegasus returned with other ponies.

"Uh...Hi?" Ryan said apprehensively, afraid one or all of them was going to get violent and try upfront to get answers about him.

"Good afternoon, My name is Twilight Sparkle" said the purple pony.

"Hi-I'm-Ryan-McCrimmon-Can-you-possibly-fix-my-glasses-with-a-repairing-spell?" Ryan asked, desperate to get them fixed. he drew a big breath, recovered from talking in one sentence, and waited for answer.

Um... I'll try" Twilight said and then her horn began to glow, trying to fix his glasses. Ryan crossed his fingers. He was pleased to see Twilight had managed to fix them. "phew." he said, shoving them eagerly back onto his face.

"So, anything a human like me can eat around..uh.." Ryan hesitated, almost revealing he knew about everything in Equestria, up to a point at least. "this place?" he added in a hurry.

"Uh... Can humans eat apples?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah," Ryan said. "we have apple pie, apple turnovers, apple fritters, apple slices, apple bread..." He paused. "No, no we don't actually eat apple bread, but we use apples for almost everything else."

"Oh, well thats just dandy cuz we have all that food here too!" Applejack said.

"One other thing, though, and please don't hate me for it." Ryan continued. "Humans eat..." he gulped, nervous as to how the ponies, particularly Rainbow Dash, would react. "Humans eat meat." he sighed, a sad expression on his face. The ponies all gasped. "Not that I would eat you guys, but that's just how the human version of the food chain works." The teen cleared up. "Without protein from chicken, beef, and other meats, the human body would run out of the essential things needed to function properly."

"Ah, we understand" Twilight said.

"Wish I had a cake I could smash my face into." Ryan muttered. "then I wouldn't feel as bad as I do for, not really but still, killing ponies and animals like 'em for food."

"Here you go!" Pinkie said, handing him a cake.

"What the-?" Ryan was confused. "Screw it." he decided, having stopped trying to understand Pinkie a LONG LONG time ago, and smashing his face into the cake, splattering the walls and the ponies with icing and chocolate filling. Pinkie licked all the icing off her face. "Oops, sorry guys." The teen apologized.

"That's quite alright, sugarcube" Applejack said.

"Yeah..." Twilight said. Dying to explore Equestria, Ryan attempted to get out of bed.

"Do you... Want some help...?" Twilight asked.

"No, I'm fi-Ack!" Ryan shouted, nearly falling due to the cast on his leg.

"But theres no way you could walk on your own!" Twilight said, a bit concerned.

"Not if you carry me somehow." Ryan counteracted. "Got a heavy-lifting spell?" Twilight's horn began to glow, trying to help Ryan. POOF! Ryan found himself in a wheelchair. "That's not what I had in mind," he said. "But I'll take it."

"Now where do you want to go?" Twilight asked.

"Anywhere that I can buy a normal, non-pony-related sandwich." Ryan said plainly.

"Um... Ok" Twilight said and began to push him in his wheelchair.

"I've still got my arms Twi." Ryan reminded her, taking over, pushing the wheelchair's wheels with his hands. "Any idea as to how I got here?" Ryan asked as he rolled next to the bookworm mare.

"No…" Twilight said.

"All I remember is a random bolt of lightning striking me as I was entering my house and I blacked out after that."

"Hm... Thats odd" Twilight said.

"A PURPLE bolt of lightning." Ryan emphasized, annoyed that Twilight wasn't getting the fact that he was, unintentionally of course, accusing her of causing it.

"Are you accusing me of what happened?!" Twilight said, a bit anger in her voice.

"What, NO!" Ryan said defensively."Whatever." he added, rubbing an ash-and-dust-coated cheek. He felt a wound on his left hand suddenly reopen. "GOD DAMNIT!" he swore. "You've GOT to be KIDDING me! Blood oozed out of the opening like water sliding down a glass. "So Twilight?" the teen asked, taking out a handkerchief and wrapping it around his hand. "How're other ponies going to react to me? I mean, I'm not exactly native."

"Thats a good question, Im not sure how all the ponies to a human in Equestria" Twilight said.

'Crap' Ryan thought. 'If Lyra's anything like the fandom depicts her, I'm in for a rough ride.'

"Well, let's hope they don't turn on me instantly like something out of The Everfree." he said to Twilight.

"Yeah... Lets hope so" Twilight said.

"Aw jeez, look at my clothes!" Ryan cried, looking down at his red hoodie, gray shirt, green cargo pants, white socks, and blue sneakers. They were all singed and blackened. "And these were my favorites!" he complained.

"Aww... Anything i can do to help?" Twilight asked.

"Not unless you or someone else in town has a knack for sewing." Ryan replied with a wink. He knew Rarity was a sewer who had yet to be beat, unless you counted that one time in Manehatten.

"My friend Rarity is really good at sewing" Twilight said.

"Yeah, I kn-." Ryan caught himself. "I mean, really? That's awesome!"

"Yes, really" Twilight said. Ryan turned to the fashion pro.

"Rarity, how about it?" he asked. "Think you can recreate these clothes out of your own fabric?"

"I'll try" Rarity said, determination apparent.

'Here we go.' Ryan thought, apprehensive on how the marshmallow-colored mare was going to handle his fashion crsis. About a couple minutes later, Ryan, Twilight, and Rarity were standing, or sitting in Ryan's case, in Carousel Boutique, the others having departed for their respective homes.

"Hey Twilight," Ryan asked. "Think you could levitate me long enough to get me up the stairs?"

"I'll try" Twilight said and then tried a levitation spell on Ryan. Ryan shut his eyes tight and braced himself for when the spell failed and he started to fall. When no moment came, he saw that Twilight had succeeded, albeit with a little sweat in her mane. Not to mention she was really weak.

"You okay Twi?" Ryan called to her.

"Yes…" Twilight said, panting and sweating.

"Okay." Ryan said, a hint of apology in his voice. "Hey Rarity, let's get started."

"Yes, Lets" Rarity said.

"And if we can not have a fiasco with meeting Opal, I'll be happy.' Ryan thought. He wheeled into the room, and looked around. "Wow. Okay Rarity." Ryan said, taking off his hoodie with a swift zip of the zipper. "For now, let's start with my hoodie."

"Alright" Rarity said. As Rarity started to work, Ryan wheeled to one side of the room, looked at all of Rarity's different yarns.

"Hey Rarity," he said, plucking a spool of rainbow yarn off the shelf. "Where did this come from?"

"Dont touch anything, please!" Rarity shouted, noticing this obstruction to her order.

"Yikes!" Ryan yelled, started by Rarity's sudden outburst. As he quickly set the yarn back on the shelf, a spark of some kind came off of it, and entered the skin of Ryan's hand, unnoticed by neither the pony nor the human. About a couple hours later, Rarity was finished, but Ryan wasn't awake, having fallen asleep in his wheelchair before then. "No...studying's boring!" he mumbled in his sleep. "GAH!" he gasped, waking up at last. "Wow, what a horrible dream."

"If you dont mind me asking, What were you dreaming about?" Rarity asked.

"I was trapped back in school a day before a big test" Ryan said with a shudder. "I HATE studying."

"Um... Ok" Rarity said, chuckling a bit.

"Anyway," Ryan said. "Thanks for helping me." Then, out of the blue, and without realizing it, Ryan was holding Rarity in a hug.

"Uh..." Ryan said uneasily, afraid of Rarity's reaction. he just put Rarity back down. Rarity giggled.

"Its fine" she dismissed the hug with a wave of her hoof

"Whew, that's good." Ryan said. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRCK! his stomach growled loudly. "Oops." he blushed. "Got anything I can eat?" the teen asked. "Other than the obvious..erm..meat." he added, still a bit uncomfortable saying the word, particularly around someone like Rarity. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRCK! Another signal from his stomach. "Shut up!" he whispered to it. POOF! A cupcake appeared, and sat itself on Ryan's leg. "Did you do that?" the teen asked Rarity.

"No..." Rarity replied, most likely just as confused as the human was. Ryan picked up the cupcake and licked the frosting.

"Hmm." he mused. "That's funny. It's real, and you didn't make it appear."

"Where in Equestria did this come from?" Rarity asked, levitating the cupcake with her magic.

'I wonder if this has anything to do with Twilight.' Ryan wondered. Instinctivly, he stood up, and discovered his leg had somehow healed! "Okay, there's definitely something weird going on." Ryan said to Rarity, showing her how he could walk again.

"Ryan... Your leg... Is HEALED?!" Rarity asked, shocked.

"I know." he said, wincing and groaning slightly as he tried to pull his cast off. Hopping backward on one foot, Ryan continued to try to free his leg, not realizing the door wasn't closed. When he went to lean on it, it flew open and Ryan lost his balance and fell down the stairs. Rarity ran out of the room and looked down the stairs.

"Oh goodness! Are you ok?!" she asked.

"Surprisingly, yeah." Ryan said, his leg now free of the cast. "Normally I'd have loads of injures, and an even-more broken leg, but now I don't." Rarity ran down the stairs. Ryan shook his head, causing his already messy hair to become messier.

"Honestly Rarity, I'm fine." he assured her.

"Alrighty, just making sure" Rarity said, smiling. Suddenly, a mewing sound came from the next room, and a white-furred cat with a purple bow entered the scene.

'Opal'. Ryan thought, glaring at the cat in slight disgust.

"Hello Opal" Rarity said. When Opal saw Ryan, she hissed.

"Well hello to you as well Miss Snarky." Ryan retorted. "She has a bit of a reputation amongst my friends who have visited the boutique before." he half-lyingly explained to Rarity. "And I'm not much of a cat person...pony to begin with."

"Ah, I see" Rarity said, giving an understanding nod.

"Welp," Ryan said. "I'm gonna go see Twilight."

"Alright, See you later Ryan!' Rarity said regally. Ryan walked to the castle, his bare foot smacking the ground on every other step.

"Twi?" he called, knocking on the door. Twilight walked over to the door and opened it.

"Oh, hi Ryan." she said, a smile on her face.

"Can come in?" Ryan asked.

"Sure" Twilight said, stepping aside to let the teenager pass.

"OUCH!" Ryan screeched, having banged his nose on the pony-sized doorframe. "Fsgiukb." he muttered, trying again to enter the castle this time ducking. As he walked inside, he rubbed his nose.

"Are you ok?!" Twilight asked, concerned.

"Yeah." Ryan said, picking a book off of a nearby shelf at random, and plopping down to read it. "'Residual Magic and It's Effects'?" he questioned as he read the title. "Hmm…" Twilight walked over to Ryan and sat down next to him.

"I GOT IT!" Ryan shouted suddenly, opening the book to chapter 4, which was entitled 'Magic's effects on Non-Ponies'.

"Huh?" Twilight asked, confused.

"I know what happened when that cupcake appeared while I was at Rarity's!" Ryan cried, settling down to read a blurb from the book. "'Sometimes, when a non-pony is inflicted with magic, residue can be left, and that residue can manifest and give the non-pony magical powers not native to their species.'" That's the answer!" he told Twilight. "I must've been inflicted with magic! And I think I know how." the teen added.

"Really? How?" Twilight wondered.

"I touched one of Rarity's yarn spools." Ryan explained. "it must've been inflicted with magic!"

"Oooooh" Twilight said, fascinated with the idea. Then Ryan's eyes fell to a hexagonal chest with six keyholes.

"What's that?" he asked.

"Huh?" Twilight said, turning her head back to the chest. "Oh... Its some chest me and my friends received from The Tree of Harmony."

"Hmm..." Ryan mused. Putting a hand on the chest, the teen relaxed, and attempted to let his newfound magic flow. Twilight walked over and sat down, intrigued. FLASH! both Ryan and Twilight, along with the chest, arrived inside Canterlot Castle, specifically in the throne room. "Twilight!?" Ryan shouted, shaking the now unconscious purple alicorn mare. Suddenly, two giant shadows loomed over him. Ryan turned his head, and found Celestia and Luna were standing over him, serious, disproving looks on their faces.

"What did you do to her?" Celestia asked, glaring down at the teen.

"No. NO!" Ryan said, shaking Twilight harder, tears flowing down his face. "I swear I didn't do anything!" a couple tears dripped from Ryan's face. "I'm sorry!" Ryan, unable to contain himself, scooped Twilight into his arms. "I'm so sorry." he whispered, now sobbing directly into Twilight's coat.

"Ok, Right... Tell us exactly what happened here!" Luna demanded, glaring at Ryan.

"All...All I know is that I touched that chest, and we teleported here!" Ryan sobbed, pointing to the chest.

"Likely story" Celestia said, glaring at Ryan.

"Princess, I'm telling the truth!" Ryan sobbed. "Twilight wouldn't want you to be this way would she? Your faithful student, Celestia! Think of her!" a grimace appeared on the teen's face. "No." he said, putting Twilight down, and standing up. "I don't care anymore. Just remember that Miss Sparkle might be very shocked to see her mentor, and one of her best friends, acting this way." He turned his back to them, and started walking away. Celestia laid right beside Twilight.

"Twilight, Oh Twilight. My dear student Twilight..." Celestia said as she began crying. Ryan's heart lurched.

"Princess." he said, walking back to the alicorn and putting an arm around her. "Give me a chance to explain the truth, and I swear by the power of the sun I'll find a way to get your student back to you."

"Stay away from her!" Luna yelled, defensive.

"Luna!" Ryan shouted. "What about what Twilight did for you!? Taking the burden of Nightmare Moon off of you!? Being your friend while others ran away!? Saving you from those vines!? It'd be poor repayment if you left her for dead! And think about how Celestia feels right now! Think about your sister!" the grimace returned. "No!" he shouted. "That's it! I've had it!" Ryan walked towards the door again. Luna lied beside Celestia and Twilight.

"Is she really dead?" she asked, almost crying.

"I'm sorry." Ryan said. With that, he slammed the door to the throne room shut.

"I do not know sister, We will have to wait and see" Celestia said.

"But she... I... I never got to..." Luna said, beginning to sob.

"I am sorry for that. I know she was a dear friend to you" Celestia said.

Suddenly, Ryan burst into the room. "I've got it!" he said to the sisters. Twilight's not dead! She's just unconscious!" Twilight's eyes suddenly fluttered open.

"Princess Celestia, my magic, that I'll explain later, must've accidentally drained Twilight of her own!" he got down on the other side of the purple alicorn. "All I need to do is syphon enough magic back into her so she can be reenergized!" The two pony sisters got up, backed away Ryan and Twilight, looking down at them. Twilight got up.

"Twilight, stop!" Ryan shouted. "You were drained of your magic, and I need to reenergize you with my own!" Suddenly, Ryan's eyes opened wide, and glowed with white magical light, as magic flowed from his hands, and into Twilight's horn. "Can't a guy catch a break?" Ryan mumbled, passing out himself.

"Ryan!" Twilight ran over to him. An hour passed, or a second as it seemed to Ryan, and he woke up in a bed.

"Oh no am I back at the hospital again?" he groaned as Twilight, Celestia and Luna entered the room.

"Im afraid so..." Twilight said, apology in her voice.

"Celestia, Luna," Ryan addressed the sisters. "I'm sorry about appearing to have killed Twilight when we arrived at the castle."

"Its fine..." Luna said, a bit guilty on Celestia's behalf.

"If you could get me home that's great, but don't rush. I think I'm gonna like it here." he said with a smirk.

"Why's that?" Celestia asked.

"I've got the best mare in the world and her friends by my side!" Ryan laughed, gesturing to Twilight.

"Oh, Really?" Twilight said, smirking. Ryan nodded, pulled a fez out, and plopped it onto Twilight's head. "Fezzes are cool." he said. They all laughed. Then, the other five of Twilight's friends arrived.

"Hello, girls" Twilight said, removing the fez.

"'Sup ya'll?" Ryan said in a friendly poke at AJ's accent.

"Quite fine, Thank ya kindly Ryan" AJ said.

"Honestly," the teen said, still cracking AJ-related jokes. "I think that, with you girls by my side, I don't have anything to worry about here."

"Really? Well thats just dandy" AJ said. Ryan jumped out of bed, activating the roller skate function in his shoe.

"Hey, where's my other shoe?" he asked. All the ponies looked around for his other shoe. "Ah ha!" The teen said, taking it out of his hat, and putting it back on. "Naturally I would think to put it in my bigger-on-the-inside hat!" he then turned to the cyan-colored Pegasus. "Hey RD! How 'bout a race? Roller skates VS Wings!"

"A race? Your on!" Rainbow Dash shouted, smiling at the thought of a challenge.

"First one who can fly or roll to Manehatten and back the fastest wins!" Ryan said, bumping his fist against RD's hoof. Soon, both racers were speeding neck and neck, neither looking to stop. "Looks like you're not the fastest in Equestria anymore 'Dashie'!" Ryan mocked.

"I don't believe it... I lost to a wimp like you?!" RD shouted, momentarily distracted.

"Not yet, but you will!" Ryan yelled, speeding ahead of the pegasus.

"No! Come on Rainbow, Show him a little Dash!" Dash said to herself.

"Not that easy is it!?" Ryan shouted back to her. "My roller skate/rocket shoes were designed to break the sound barrier if I wished it!" Ryan sped up, nearly reaching Mach 5 in speed. Remembering the Sonic Rainboom, he had no doubt RD would try to pass him up. Suddenly FWOOOSH! Rainbow Dash thrust past the teen, having burst into a Sonic Rainboom. "Not so fast!" Ryan shouted, following her into the sound barrier. The combined force of the Rainboom and the sound waves Ryan produced nearly tore Manehatten apart! But luckily, there was no lasting damage. Ryan sped back to Ponyville, RD's self-doubt putting a slight grin on his face. "Sorry Rainbow," he said to himself. "But you can't win all the time." With a screeching halt, Ryan reached Ponyville Train Station before RD.

"I dont believe it... I lost to a wimp like you?!" RD said, shocked, landing beside him, fuming.

"Hey, you put up a good fight I'll give you that." Ryan praised Dash.

Wait... Really? You think so?" Rainbow asked, forgetting her anger entirely. "Who else could preform the Sonic Rainboom that way? I was lying about my rocket skates earlier. I was nearly torn apart by the sound barrier. "Rainbow Danger Dash, how about we go to Sugarcube Corner and celebrate both our feats in style!?"

"Sure! Why not?" Rainbow Dash said. And they both went to celebrate. after the party, Ryan stayed at the Corner, and lay on a borrowed mattress. As Ryan slept, something strange happened. A light purple aura had appeared around him, and had caused him to teleport noisily to the castle, waking Twi and Spike. Spike and Twilight jolted up, breathing heavily.

"What in Equestria?!" Twilight shouted.

"No, take me instead!" Ryan was muttering audibly as the duo came in.

"Ryan, What are you doing?!" Twilight asked.

"JESUS!" Ryan suddenly screamed, sitting bolt upright, and awake.

"Ryan, What are you doing here?!" Twilight asked. "It's late!"

"Wha?" Ryan said, looking around. "I was at Sugarcube Corner!"

"Did you sleep walk here or something?" Twilight asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No." It was then that Ryan noticed the aura around his hand. "What the What!?" he screamed.

"What is it!?" Twilight asked, running over to Ryan with Spike.

"I dunno." Ryan responded. "I think it's some kind of magic."

Suddenly, the aura around Ryan's hand surrounded Twilight's horn.

"What the huh!?" Twilight shouted.

"ACK! DO SOMETHING!" Ryan screamed. Suddenly, FLASH! the trio was transported to the Tree of Harmony.

"The Tree of Harmony? What are we doing here?" Twilight asked.

"Don't know, but I have a guess." Ryan replied. He slowly went up to the tree, and reached out to touch it. Twilight sat there with Spike, watching. Just then, Blorp. a plant sprouted next to Ryan, who looked to Twilight. "What should I do?" he asked.

"I... I don't know" Twilight said. A split second later, the plant bloomed, revealing a bracelet with all six symbols of the Elements of Harmony. It looked like a seventh Element, only, instead of being a necklace, it was a bracelet. Ryan took the bracelet and slipped it on. BAMF! White light shot out of Ryan's body. Twilight got up and took a few steps back with Spike. All the light was suddenly absorbed into the bracelet.

"I think I know what happened just now, Twilight." Ryan said, turning to the mare and dragon.

"Really? What?" Twilight asked.

"This goes back to when I was at Rarity's. I had picked up a spool of her yarn, which was rainbow by the way, and it must've been infused with magic. Maybe my appearance wasn't random, but a prophecy!" He held up the wrist with the bracelet. "Maybe this is a secret Element! Or even a magic controller! Is that possible?" Ryan asked the bookworm mare.

"I guess, Im not sure" Twilight said.

"Hmm..." Ryan mused, raising a hand and pointing at the wall of dirt and roots to his left. "I'm going to try something." He ran full-out at the wall. "HAI YA!" he shouted, slicing a hand through the air. A magic disk shot out landed on the wall, and morphed into a rounded trampoline. Ryan bounced on it, and shot straight at the mare and dragon. "INCOMING!" Ryan shouted, grabbing onto the duo as, with a flash of purple, they teleported back to Ponyville. "Oof!" Ryan gasped, landing on the ground hard. "Note to self: Never try that again." "You guys okay?" he added to the mare and dragon. Spike shook his head.

"Yeah..." He said.

"Weird." Ryan said, looking around. "All the paint on these buildings is kinda peeling. Almost as if…" Ryan's suspicions were confirmed when an elderly Pinkie Pie bounced up to them. "Pinkie Pie?" Ryan said, shocked.

"Hi!" Pinkie said, bouncing around them.

"Oh no, I get it now!" Ryan said in paniced realization. "We're in the future! Must've happened because of me!" Something snapped in the human's brain, and he started to panic. "What if we can't get back to the past?" He asked nopony in particular, starting to pace back and forth.

"Ryan, calm down. Its not your fault, everything's gonna be alright. Just calm down" Twilight said.

"Oh my gosh what if everyone though we DIED!?" Ryan blabbed, his panicked state overpowering his senses

"Ryan!" Twilight said more forcefully. She stood next to him and she did the breathing exercise Princess Cadence taught her. Ryan tried it.

"Why doesn't the air get out!?" he then continued to blab to himself. "I never got to foot-race with RD! What's she going to say now!? Oh my gosh, FLUTTERSHY! She's the most affected by this!" Twilight sighed, sightly annoyed. SMACK! Ryan suddenly slapped himself across the face. "Whew. Thank god for my reflexes." he commented. "Anyway, let's check the castle. Maybe we'll find something that'll get us home."

"Lets" Twilight agreed. Ryan slowly opened the rusty door.

"Wow." he coughed. "There's a lot of dust in here." Spike and Twilight coughed from all the dust. "Here's something." Ryan said, carefully pulling an aged book out of a shelf. "'Time Travel Tips and How to Avoid Accidents'." His eyes suddenly went wide. The writer was Twilight's idol, Starswirl The Bearded! he carefully opened the book, scanning the yellowed, seemingly withered pages for any clues that could help the trio get back to the past. Twilight sat down next to Ryan, looking at the book. "ACHOO!" Ryan sneezed, dust still floating around his face.

"Bless you" Twilight said.

"Stupid dust." the teen commented, looking back to the book. "Hey, I found something!" Ryan said, looking at one of the pages, which looked like a copy of an entry in some kind of journal from long ago.

"What's it say?" Spike asked.

"I think it's some kind of riddle that could be the key to getting home!" Ryan replied. "'She's brash, and loyal and flies fast, this pegasus's name is Dash. Who is she?' Twilight, it sounds like RD!" the human realized. "I think we have to gather the elderly versions of you and your friends, and the Element's power will send us back!"

"Well what are we waiting for? Lets go!" Spike said.

"Something doesn't feel right." Ryan said somberly, standing up. "I just realized Twilight's elder counterpart most likely should've been here. I'm not jumping to conclusions, but I'm just saying. I think we should head to Canterlot, and see if we can find Twilight's elder counterpart, or any of her friends, there." One train ride and a few miles of walking later, they arrived in Canterlot, and entered Celestia's castle."Hello?" Ryan called. "Celestia? Luna? ANYONE!?"

"I dont think anypony's here..." Twilight said. Suddenly, the bracelet from the Tree started to glow. Ryan held it up, and it revealed the true nature of the castle. Having been aged and crumbling to the ground, the castle had been rebuilt, but had a spell casted upon it to seem like it was undamaged, but abandoned, and it had given the impression that the Celestial Sisters had moved away.

"Someone HAS to be here." Ryan said determintly. "Who'd raise and set the sun and moon?" Suddenly, three tall figures appeared, and Celestia, Luna, and Twilight's elder self stood before them. "Twilight?" Ryan asked, unsure of how elder Twilight would take his being there.

"Ryan?" Elder Twilight asked, surprised.

"Wow." Ryan marveled at Twilight's look. "You look...incredible!" he said, smiling.

"Oh, thank you." Elder Twilight said with a smile, blushing a bit.

"So...where's me?" the human asked. "Am I still here?"

"Huh?" Elder Twilight asked, a little confused.

"The me from this part of the timeline." Ryan clarified.

"No, Your adventures in Equestria ended a long time ago, and you went back ho- Wait, Your from the past, arent you?" Elder Twilight asked.

"Eeyup." Ryan confirmed, nodding. "I also brought a couple passengers along for the ride." he added, stepping out of the way and revealing the past Twilight and Spike to the elder one.

"Hi me!" Past Twilight said, giggling a bit. Bowing to the Celestial Sisters, Ryan spoke to Celestia.

"I see you haven't changed much, Your Highness." he commented. Celestia looked down at Ryan, smiling. "Getting back to the point of our visit," Ryan continued, looking to all three princesses in turn. "I need you to gather the rest of Twilight's friends in the gardens. The power of the Elements of Harmony could sent Twi and I home." Later, Twilight's friends were gathered, and everyone was in the royal gardens. "No idea how this is going to work." Ryan muttered. "Okay..let's see..." he pointed in turn to every elder version of the mane 6. "You six stand in a circle around Spike, Twi and I, and we'll see if anything happens." All the elder versions of The Mane 6 nodded and circled around Spike. Ryan joined the circle. FLASH! the bracelet let out seven beams of light. Six morphed into the symbols of the elements, while the seventh took the form of a question mark. "TWILIGHT!" Ryan shouted. "GET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIRCLE! NOW!" The six symbols hovered above the elder mane six, while the question mark stayed in the middle of the circle. Twilight quickly ran into the middle of the circle. Just in time as well. FLASH! There was a big white flash, and the trio were sent back to their own time. "We did it!" Ryan said when they recovered a few minutes later.

"Woohoo! We made it back safely!" Twilight said.

"Aw yeah! Now thats im talkin' 'bout!" Spike said. Ryan looked out the window.

"OH NO!" he cried. "We didn't come back to the time we left! The sun's set!"

"Great, Now what do we do?" Twilight asked.

"Nothing we can do." Ryan said. Just then RD burst into the library, the other four following behind on hoof.

"Shoot..." Twilight said.

"Where were you guys!?" RD shouted. "You scared us half to death! Fluttershy was affected the most!" The cream-and-pink pegasus was indeed shaking in fear, but had a reassuring smile on her face all the same.

"This may sound crazy but... We were in the future" Twilight said.

"Do I have to believe you?" Rainbow Dash asked, glaring at Twilight.

"Considering the stuff you went through when you first met, not to mention Discord, I think you should." Ryan commented. "What?" he asked, realizing everypony was giving him a strange look. Rainbow Dash glared at Ryan. "You chicken?" she asked him.

"What? No!" Ryan said, realizing she was talking about the foot/hoof-race deal. "I was just too busy with this!" he held up the wrist with the bracelet.

"Uh huh. I cant believe you." Rainbow Dash said stubbornly.

"What if I said that it came from the Tree of Harmony and I could be the wielder of some secret seventh Element?" Ryan tried again.

"Nope" Rainbow Dash shook her head. Suddenly, the bracelet brought up what apparently was a video of Ryan's point of view of everything that had happened since getting the bracelet. "I... I dont believe it" Rainbow Dash squeaked, shocked.

"Believe it lady." Ryan responded smugly

I... I..." Rainbow Dash stuttered, too flabbergasted.

"Uh..." Ryan was unsure wether Dash was too flabbergasted to speak, or about to pass out from overdose of awesome. "Rainbow Dash?"

"Y-Yeah...?" the Pegasus asked.

"You okay?" the human asked.

"Yeah..." Rainbow Dash said, fully recovered and nodding. Ryan slid the bracelet off his wrist.

"So far, you've done more harm than good." he said to it. "I'm taking a break from you, and taking a nap."

"Well, Alright..." Rainbow Dash said, slightly confused.

Ryan face-palmed. "Not you RD, the bracelet." he groaned.

"Oh, right" Rainbow Dash said, blushing a bit. Setting the bracelet down on a table, Ryan went to sleep as soon as he found a bed. As he slept, he had a weird dream. He was dreaming he was back in time watching RD's Cutie-Mark-earning Pegasus race, standing on a cloud far off the track, but in sight of the race. As RD zoomed downwards to preform the Sonic Rainboom, Ryan was smiling.

"Luna?" Ryan questioned, suddenly spotting the Night Princess on another cloud not far away from his own. Luna flew over to Ryan's cloud, and joined him. "What're you doing here?" he asked. Before Luna could respond, however, RD had performed the Rainboom, and the shockwave dissapaited the duo's cloud. "I've got ya Luna!" Ryan said, floating underneath the Princess, caught her no problem, and flew her to the ground.

"Thank you for saving me" Luna said gratefully.

"It's nothing." Ryan responded. "You probably would've done the same for me." Luna smiled. "What ARE you doing here, by the way?" Ryan asked her.

"You are dreaming, Ryan" Luna explained.

"Kinda knew that. What I mean is, do you have any particular REASON for coming into my dream." Ryan clarified.

"Your friends need your help." Luna's voice changed to a sad one.

"What's up" Ryan asked.

"Theres this town in the north that needs the ponies help."

On it!" Ryan said, waking up. "Twilight!" he shouted, bursting upon the six Element bearers in their 'meeting room'. "Princess Luna contacted me within a dream, saying there's a town up north that needs us...well, you and your friends at least." Twilight nodded and looked over to her friends.

"Come on girls!" she said.

"I remember the directions clearly." Ryan said as they boarded the train later on. Leading them, Ryan eventually led them to a town smaller than Ponyville. Getting closer, Ryan and his pony friends looked on. "Ergh." the human teen shuddered. "Anyone get that feeling of amissness? The best way for me to describe it is that feeling you get when you want to remember something, but really can't think of what it is." Rarity cringed at the sight of the town. "

Whoever runs this place should seriously get a new decorator." she commented.

"Hey look. They all have the same cutie marks." Ryan said, pointing. "Hmm..."

"Forget the cutie marks, look at those smiles! I know smiles, and those smiles, there just not right" Pinkie Pie said, a grimace on her face. Suddenly, Ryan's bracelet, which he put back on before leaving, sent out a ripple of energy, and then brought up a map.

"Looks like the bracelet wants us to investigate something in this cave." the teen pointed to the aforementioned cave. "C'mon." Upon arriving at, and entering, the cave, Ryan gasped. "Oh my god!" he shouted with a mixture of confusion and horror. "The villagers' cutie marks! They must've been removed and replaced!"

"Why hello there!" A new voice said from the enterance of the cave. Ryan and the ponied whipped around, started. a mare was standing at the cave enterance

"Oh, it's only you." Ryan said, sighing. "Ryan James McCrimmon, friend to the Princesses and these six right here." he added, gesturing to the six ponies, and holding out a hand.

"Good afternoon, my name is Twilight Sparkle, The Element of Magic and Princess of Friendship. This here is Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity." said Twilight.

"PRINCESS Twilight Sparkle? We don't many princesses around here! How did you and your friends hear of our little village?" asked the mare.

"Well, I guess you could say it came to me in a dream." Ryan said.

"Ooh, really?" the mare was obviously intrigued.

"Sorry," Ryan added. "But who are you?"

"Starlight Glimmer, The mayor of this town!" the mare introduced herself.

"Not to cause any trouble, but why would you need these cutie marks here?" Ryan inquired of Starlight. "They should be on the flanks of whoever earned them."

"Well you see, different talents lead to different opinions which causes bitterness and misery." Starlight explained.

"What?" Ryan shouted. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" That comment bit him in the ass a few seconds later. Abandoning her nice demeanor, Starlight Glimmer zapped them all with a spell. "No." Ryan said weakly. "Not them." "Them" was obviously his friends. As they all withered in pain and agony, the ponies' cutie marks tore off, and floated into empty spaces on the wall. the same cutie mark the seven had seen on the way into town appeared in their place. "Twilight! Everypony!" the teen crawled over to the six as the 'mayor' discarded the staff the spell came from.

"They've spent there whole lives thinking cutie marks are a good thing." Starlight Glimmer explained. "But they were obviously wrong." She smirked.

"You monster." Ryan growled through gritted teeth. "You'll pay for this…somehow."

"Well now you and your friends can spend the rest of your lives here with us and we'll teach you how much better life can be without your cutie marks!" Starlight Glimmer smirked.

"NO!" Ryan said, standing up. "I'm not going to stand for this!" Unknown to the teen, as he was too focused on Starlight, his body started to radiate white light, and unknown wind flapped his mane of hair around. "You robbed everypony in your village of the nessasaey thing to TRUELY have friendship! So, why. don't. you. just. CHILL!?" Ryan shouted the last word, and it echoed around the cave. the magic he built up was released in a ripple, and the six cases holding his friends cutie marks broke. The marks went back to their corresponding owner. Ryan was left weakened and panting, and fainted a few seconds later.

"Heh, dumb kid" Starlight Glimmer smirked, leaving the cave.

"Anypony get the license plate number for that taxi?" Ryan said stupidly, reemerging from his limbo. The seven friends were still in the cave, but Starlight Glimmer wasn't there, presumably back in her town. "Ow." The teen rubbed his head. "What happened?" he asked the ponies.

"Starlight Glimmer took away our cutie marks" Twilight explained. Ryan looked to their flanks, confused.

"I thought you said she took your cutie marks." Ryan said. "They're still there." He then looked to the bracelet. "Maybe this thing had something to do with it." Quite suddenly, the memories came back. "Wow!" Ryan was amazed at what he had done. "I used magic to get you your Cutie Marks back! I think something's up, and the Tree of Harmony knows it. Why else would it give me a magical bracelet?"

"Oh my gosh, you are a GENIUS!" Twilight shouted.

"Hey, don't blow up my ego." the teen replied with a laugh. "Now...If I could save YOUR Cutie Marks, what's stopping me from saving the ones' belonging to everypony else? I think it's connected to you six, and perhaps that's why it only gave back yours'. Maybe."

"Hmm..." Everypony put a hoof to their cheek, thinking.

"We can think about that later." Ryan said. "We've got to stop Starlight Glimmer."

"Agreed" Twilight said. Naturally, when the seven went into town, Starlight was furious that the ponies had gotten their Cutie Marks back.

"That's why you don't mess with TRUE friendship!" Ryan said smugly. The teen got into a fighting stance, ready to face the crowd of brainwashed ponies that were now surrounding the seven. "Twilight, do something about Starlight Glimmer!" he called to the alicorn mare.

"Uh... Like what?" Twilight asked.

"ANYTHING!" the teen shouted. Just then, the bracelet let out another ripple of energy, and with a BLORP! a shield formed around the teen and his pony friends.

"What the...?" Twilight said.

"Well…that happened." Ryan said, not sure how else to react. Then, he realized something. "Starlight Glimmer lied to all of you!" the teen shouted to the villagers. "She's still got her Cutie Mark! She needed her magic to remove your own Marks!" This got Starlight's attention. Abandoning pretense, she tried to dispel Ryan's shield, a fire in her eyes blazing. "You can't win Starlight Glimmer!" the teen said. Indeed, every time Starlight tried to dispel the shield, it reformed again. It didn't help that Twilight decided to reenforce it. "Give the town back their Cutie Marks!" Ryan shouted.

"Never!" Starlight Glimmer said, and then ran away.

...or at least tried to. Ryan's shield broke off a piece, and the piece wrapped itself around Starlight Glimmer, keeping her in place. "Everypony STOP!" Ryan shouted, and by some random coincidence, a Time Spell issued itself, and everyone outside the shield/bubble froze in place. Ryan dropped the shield, and went over to Starlight Glimmer, who was still trapped. "I'll let you go, but only if you promise to give everyone their Cutie Marks back." he said.

"Never!" Starlight Glimmer shouted, struggling to free herself.

"Then we'll just leave you here." the teen said. "C'mon gang, let's try to get everyone their Cutie Marks back." Ryan led the way back to the cave, leaving Starlight in the bubble.

"Ok! Fine! Ill give everypony back there cutie marks! Ill make everything right! Just please let me go!" Starlight Glimmer begged.

"Are you being sincere?" Ryan asked, pausing to turn around.

"Um... Yes?" Starlight Glimmer said. Ryan walked back over

"Starlight, I'm going to lower the bubble." he said. "Give everyone their Marks back, or I'll simply recast it."

"Thank you." Starlight Glimmer said. Ryan put a hand to the bubble, and with a POP! Starlight was free. she quickly ran to the cave, Ryan and his friends following behind just in case. Starlight Glimmer lifted off the glass with her magic, and all the captive cutie marks, after whizzing around for a few seconds, returned to the flanks of the villagers, who unfroze the moment their mark touched their flank.

"We did it!" Ryan shouted. "We saved the day!"

"Woohoo!" The ponies cheered.

"Hey, why not come back with us Starlight?" Ryan asked. "Ponyville's the best place for friendship and harmony."

"Really? You want ME to come with YOU?" Starlight Glimmer asked with a smile.

"Yeah." the teen nodded. "Well, more like 'you and your villagers', but same thing really. I'm sure Mayor Mare will allow you to come."

"Thank you, Ryan." Starlight Glimmer said, crying a bit.

"Everyone deserves a second chance Starlight." the teen replied. "Even you." Starlight Glimmer nodded. "C'mon." Ryan said to the ponies. "Let's go inform the villagers." Starlight Glimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity all followed Ryan back to the village. "Everyone, pack up your things!" Ryan shouted, addressing the village. "Get ready to move back to Ponyville with my friends and I!" A loud cheer erupted from the village. Later, on the train, Ryan and Twilight spoke to each other. "I think I made the best choice for Starlight Glimmer." He told his alicorn friend.

"I think so too" Twilight said with a smile.

"Looks like we've got a lot ahead of us." the teen added, looking to the bracelet.

"Mhmm" Twilight nodded.

"But we're gonna face it together, like friends do." the teen put an arm around Twilight.

"You bet we are!" Twilight said with a smile.

The End...of this part