Author’s note
Final chapter is here, your patience rewarded, with this! That's right, that's how long this took to make from so many suggestions & needed efforts for a New Timeline to explain what new things will occur. Till then, enjoy...

 

Chapter 02: Battle across Time

 

The scene opens up to where the Sparkle Gang are at now, in a whole heap of trouble. First it started when Starlight Glimmer followed by Seekcurse ended up arriving in Rainbow Castle, where a Time Spell that was obtain was used on the crystal map to send those back in time. The Sparkle Family got dragged in to where the event what triggered the Sonic Rainboom by Young Rainbow Dash never happened. This resulted in alternate future timelines to which the gang have seen & dread the thought of what will happen if they don’t fix it. But now they are in a pickle, Native Versions of Ponies along with Pinkie Pie & Fluttershy had them surrounded with spears & calling them Changelings!

“Wait! We're not Changelings!” Twilight nervously spoke off to say this in trying to convince those here of who they are. I'm a pony! He’s a pony! She’s a pony! And these two are Dragons!” Twilight pointed off in stating to herself, Ben, Nyx, & Spike & Phobos to state who they are.

“A likely story! If it’s true, do something Dragonish!” Native Pinkie Pie narrow her eyes to the baby dragons before poking Spike with her spear to command for a trick only Dragons can do than Changelings.

“Burpfruvhmmm…” Spike was so nervous, that he ended up belching a breath of small emerald flames to a poof cloud against the pink pony.

“Caaaaeeeeugh!” Native Pinkie Pie wheezed from having breathed in that smoky stuff just now. “That works too!” Native Pinkie Pie spoke off in a wheezy voice as she backs away now.

“The servants of Chrysalis will do ANYTHING to save their evil skins!” Fluttershy sternly spoke off to raise her spear against the Sparkle Gang as they looked a bit worried in fear that this bunch still doesn’t trust them.

“But Dragons don’t have skin, we have scales!” Phobos protest in stating this argument here.

“Not helping Phobos.” Nyx whispered to her pet pal to state these things.

“Stop!” A voice was heard, ceasing the action before the Sparkle Family was almost…skewered. “If they are Changelings we'll soon see. Though I think they're not what they appear to be.” Appearing from the tree tops & leaping down to take front center of the Native Ponies was a familiar rhyming zebra shaman wearing a different getup, longer mane, same markings & puff hoof roofs around while wearing a sash to stare at those that if they be enemies or not.

“Zecora! Oh thank goodness. Please, you have to listen.” Twilight smiled in finally seeing a face of a pony who with her mind can be reasoned & understand this caper; but spears force Twilight back.

“Hey, hey, we get it already with the spears, okay?” Ben held up his hooves to try to calm this angry native tribe of ponies down as Native Zecora begins to approach as Fluttershy & Pinkie Pie moved away.

“Beneath this salve, no Changeling hides, for it reveals the truth inside.” Zecora taps her hoof in a coconut cup to hold out a magical salve that will help indicate those that stand before them.

Soothe Sparkle Family shut their eyes before opening them to see that they had the strange native marking stuff & dirt camouflage as the rest. Then a light glowed off their bodies, as it did to their confusion, it did cause the Native Ponies to gasp in shock to duck behind while Zecora stayed behind to observe, as she held her chin in thought of what this sign means

“Chief Zecora, what does it mean?” Native Pinkie Pie pops in to ask with worry, of what this means if what they used to reveal a Changeling form does not appear for those stranger to their parts.

“The meaning is far worse, I see, for it is we who should not be.” Native Zecora studied the Sparkle Family closely of their glow, & turn to the rest in announcing that they were misjudge mental in thinking these here were enemies when instead, they are friends.

“Can somebody translate?” Phobos asked off in not understanding the rhymes they hear.

“She means that they see we’re not the enemy.” Ben issued this off for Phobos to follow.

“Zecora, I…I think I can explain.” Twilight held up a hoof to speak out in having a way to explain this crazy situation.

“I’m sure you can, but let's not talk here. Chrysalis & her army will soon draw near!” Native Zecora issued off that they can hear what can be explained, but its best they not stay for the enemy may draw near.

“Well then, lead the way.” Nyx stated liking to be taken to where they can talk more freely as they were on the march.

Soon Native Zecora was taking her pack of ponies along with the Sparkle newcomers while some were in the trees scouting out ahead for danger.

“The Changelings took over not long ago. Though I'll wager in your world, that isn't so.” Native Zecora explained the tale of how some time ago, the Changelings took over this world, but perhaps it’s not so much from where their new friends came from.

“That’s right, Chrysalis & her army tried to take over Canterlot, but my friends & I stopped her. Though we did have a little...falling out before the invasion happened.” Twilight issued off to say this much about what happened during the Canterlot Wedding event while being sheepish about that last part.

“Yeah, & after that, there was the time she foalnapped Nyx's friends, tried to revive Tirek during Nightmare Night, tricked Twilight into helping her escape, tried to ruin her friendship with the others during the Miss Gala contest and…” Phobos was literally going on about the things that happened afterwards until…

“Okay, we get the idea, Phobos.” Nyx lectures her pet pal in going a bit overboard now.

“Right, no need to get into any more details.” Ben nods off to say that the details about what they been through, they rather just forget them.

Nyx comment, "All things considered, I would say the writers are trying to establish Chrysalis as Mommy's arch-enemy. That does not necessarily mean most dangerous enemy, though she can definitely be very dangerous if she's given a real chance. 'Arch-enemy' just means 'most personal enemy'."

“Those friends as you know them are not here, alas. But tell me, how all this came to pass?” Native Zecora sadly decline that the friends Twilight spoke of are not the ones here, but she is curious of how someone from a different world came here.

“Starlight Glimmer, a pony who traveled back in time to stop my friends & me from ever coming together! And caused such things to happen!” Twilight looked down to explain the tale about someone from their time went back to the past to stop an event that brought the Mane Six together.

“Not just here, a traitor to the Three Kingdoms, Seekcurse, is also at loose & he sees like he wants whatever brought Twilight to be together with her pals destroyed and wants it done right.” Ben explained on Seekcurse.

“And it is these friends you have in life, that keep Equestria free from strife?” Native Zecora asked off as they pass a moss mash area in understanding that from Twilight’s friends, they help keep Equestria safe.

“I guess so, I never really thought about that. But this is the second time I've come back & this world is even worse than the last!” Twilight exclaimed off to say in looking down in sadness about how much this world is no better then what she & the rest seen before.

“We’ve seen Evil King Sombra starting a war, then a new Qin Dynasty all in shambles, to now this. A world ruled by Changelings & forcing all of you to survive in the wilderness.” Ben pointed out how they seen some terrible futures, & this one is even worse because it’s force pony civilization to hid in the wild from invading insects.

“I agree with Ben on that. If Starlight keeps doing the same thing in the past, how could the present be so different when we return?” Twilight turn back to Zecora for her wise shaman advice, pondering how if the same event of stopping the Rainboom triggers different futures.

“Ah, a good question, an answer, I can advise. Time is a river, where even the tiniest changes seen, can lead to a cascade of effects downstream.” Native Zecora slowly spoke off in honesty to the group, as the shaman points to a river in stating this while she places her hood in where a tiny river of water goes down one path, but then from a block hoof press, the tiny water goes down a new way.

“Wait, so your saying, anything that could be a slight change, will trigger something new to appear?” Phobos asked off in seeing what he’s getting, any change could make a different result.

“That might not be good for Blackwitch, considering what was done already.” Nyx stated off in concern, Blackwitch was with Jade & they must be looking for Seekcurse, but this new timeline must be hurting the witch very much.

As Zecora continues to move on while everyone thinks this carefully about different effects lead to different results later on. Soon later on, Native Zecora finally brought those that travel with them, towards a leafy covering.

“This part of the forest is dark & damp, but it's done well to hide our camp.” Native Zecora exclaimed to the new arrivals, as she pulls the coverings away to reveal something to all…

Soon everyone saw it, a wooded camp made to be like a hidden village in the deep, dark deck of the woods, were many Native Ponies wearing their markings were proven to be true. Of course as one stallion chomp wood, his filly daughter ran to him with worry, in seeing Twilight & her group enter with Zecora’s native bunch. Spike & Phobos gave off friendly little waves to say hello.

“This is cozy.” Spike turn to a serious Native expression Pinkie Pie & Fluttershy in stating how things are set up.

“Yep, not too shabby.” Phobos replied of to the others in liking this place to.

“Waaaaugh!” Just then someone was heard shrieking from nearby that made many stop in their tracks, as it sounded like…Rarity! “Please! You have to help us!” Then rushing out of the bushes while looking pretty worn-out was a messy Rarity who was begging for aid, followed by an exhausted Rainbow Dash with chip feather spots & a sour looking Applejack from behind.

“The Changelings attacked Ponyville! We barely escaped with our lives!” Rainbow Dash issued off in stating with concerns about what happened with them, what happened to the village as everyone listen.

Twilight was about to happily go up to more of their other missing friends, but Zecora held a right hoof to stop the pony.

“Zecora, why are you stopping me, they need help! You heard what they said!” Twilight spoke off in why the zebra shaman was doing this act of not helping others in need.

“Wait a second Twilight, Rarity I understand being dramatic, but Rainbow Dash throwing in the towel without backing it up that she fought off the enemy to help others escape, seems off.” Ben spoke off in feeling that those that had fled here from attackers, something about them words didn’t settle right.

“Yeah, & if the Changelings had spread out across Equestria, then shouldn’t everyone be aware of this? Why would they attack now?” Nyx spoke off puzzled, something about this story doesn’t sit right.

“It’s because the only Changeling attack I see, is the one that come here looking for me!” Native Zecora issued forth in stating this with a serious frown face in declaring that the only Changeling attack is one that is in front of her of those coming for the shaman.

This was causing Twilight to have such a puzzlement, what did Zecora meant? Soon Applejack was seen moving in front of Rainbow Dash & Rarity with her hat down over the face before…

“It's taken quite a while to find you, Zecora.” Applejack spoke off with these strange words as if trying to find Zecora before she looked upwards to surprise the Sparkle Gang in showing a wicked & evil expression that ain’t like the OLD AJ! “Huh-Huh-Huh, Huh-Huh, Hah-Hah-Hah-Hah, Haahhh….” Then with an evil laugher with a different voice, an emerald light surrounds AJ’s body before flaring upwards.

This caused many of everyone to yelp or those that were brave to stand their ground, but many of the Native Ponies got brave to race off leaving Spike, Phobos, Ben & Nyx behind with worry concern before Twilight backs up to join them; something was definitely not right here. From AJ’s body, she grow…WINGS! Insect Wings to be precise! And she was extending her legs to be replace with a darken color with some hole marks, & a strangely shape horn grew off around the cowboy hat area before the magic disburse it to smithereens. Soon many of the Native Ponies held their spears to be ready, but the evil laughter grew louder as some of them began to look with worry while Native Zecora kept her serious expression in seeing this was no MERE Changeling, no…it was…Queen Chrysalis in the flesh.

“What a lovely village you've chosen to stage your little resistance.” Queen Chrysalis was commenting this by a taunting way of speaking, even to spill some powder from a hanging jar. “With so many ponies…It looks absolutely delicious!” Then the Changeling Queen leans forward to smirk evilly to say this to a gritted Zecora in not backing down from a major enemy in their mitts who slurps from licking her tongue. But then Bon-Bon lead some Native Ponies with spears to force the still smiling with confidence Queen Chrysalis back from their chief. “Oh, come now, Zecora. You think I came alone? You're vastly outnumbered.” As Queen Chrysalis spoke this off to say as the evil smirking Rarity & Rainbow Dash suddenly revealed themselves to be Changeling Soldiers in armor.

“Well spoken, sister…” Then from above, everyone saw something of there was a large humming of insect wings in the air as it was a large swarm of Changelings to be seen over the trees. “For they have fallen prey to me, Ronson, in having aided in infiltrating & revealing the location of your camp site, your secret resistance, is under-siege!” Then seen above the swarm was one that was like Queen Chrysalis, the Sparkle Family had also dealt with him once; he was once Mayor Ronson, but in truth…he’s Ronson, the Changeling King.

Now many Changelings were scattering around the tops of the trees to surround everything. And even surprises came as a filly Pegasus glowed to reveal herself to be a Changeling, much to one Native Stallion’s surprise before rushing away.

“Surrender now or we will level your home, just as we done to others before.” Ronson issued off this in wanting the Native Pony Resistances to give up or face the consequences.

“Listen well, I know you don't want your charges hurt. So, come quietly to the dungeons of Canterlot of where we rule & I promise to leave the others alone.” Queen Chrysalis issued off that she knows what will make Zecora give in, as she smirked in stating she’ll leave all of the other Native Ponies alone, as she wants the one that is their chief to break their will.

“Why would she ever think about trusting you?!” Fluttershy sternly & boldly stepped forth with a spear held up in stating this without fear as Zecora kept her serious position from being knocked over by these bad odds.

“Because my sister wants to remove that which sprung thorns. Give her up quietly or things will get nasty.” Ronson exclaimed to say this in a Demoniacal voice in stating the worse outcomes for those that resist them.

“What should we do? Stand & fight?” Spike whispered off in what they do in this situation.

“We can’t, that’ll make things worse.” Nyx whispered back about how they can’t do much here, for this timeline at least.

“Even if there's a chance Chrysalis will honor her word, shouldn't you try to think about it?” Twilight approached Zecora to try to see if they can make some negotiations even to a villain like Chrysalis & her brother Ronson.

“Listen closely…Race to the map while we hold off their attack. Stop Starlight & put the whole world back on track!” Native Zecora hushed her words to secretly whisper this to Twilight & her family in knowing that they will hold off the attack while hoping those here will set the world straight from what has happened.

“I understand. Thank you.” Twilight silently whispered while she nodded as she ran towards the opposite position of the attackers.

“Time to make a decision now or never, Zecora! The delaying the inevitable will not favor you for long.” Chrysalis issued off to say this while Twilight silently told her family to follow her as Spike rode on her & Phobos rode on Ben as they ran into the forest.

“Even if what you are saying were true, we'd never surrender to a creature like YOU!” Native Zecora issued off to sternly object the matter of surrender terms to the enemy. “HOAAAAYYYHHHH!” Then she makes a battle cry, followed by many of the Native Ponies joining their chief as they rush into battle.

Soon Queen Chrysalis hiss as she & her Changelings soon dives in, & soon the Changeling Queen’s emerald horn lights up as she faces Zecora before blasting her down; while many began to run amuck around the other native ponies.

“Hmm…” Ronson looked ahead of the battle to see…the Sparkle Family trying to get away. “Moe, Larry, Curly….investigate anyone trying to escape! It could be useful intel!” He turn to three Changelings with names while giving them orders; as the three took off with the others to chase the runaways.

Soon a Changeling hiss before he was blasted by a pink beam, as Twilight was rushing to the spot with her family. But a lot more Changelings were on the move.

Twilight Sparkle & Ben were panting like crazy, but hearing more insect roars from Changelings on the move only made them rush off faster. As the gang was coming up close to seeing the crystal map of where they left it. But a roaring noises from behind made Spike & Phobos look back, only to dodge a Changeling from almost biting them.

“Hurry up! These pest are really bugging us!” Phobos complains but some choose to ignore the whiny guy.

As many Changelings surround the group to almost attack, Twilight teleported her & her family in which the Changelings bump themselves. Then teleporting to the map, Twilight levitated the time scroll to view it, then prepared the magic as a familiar rotating of aura rings appeared in the spot that shot up.

“Not so fast! You’re coming with us!” Then appearing from behind the gang, Moe, Larry & Curly had got the drop on them…or did they?

“Look! Keith Richards!” Nyx pointed off in stating this of who was near.

“Where?” Larry & Curly asked off to look around in trying to find who Nyx spoke of; which unknown to them, Nyx wink to the baby Dragons who caught on the plan.

Then Spike & Phobos used their tails to whack Larry & Curly from left to right, which knocked into Moe in the center off backwards from the spot, allowing the gang to sigh in relief to get that problem off their backs before working on the time spell. Then the same Magical Time Portal appeared to suck those inside, as it vanished the next minute while the Changelings saw their prey escape. Even the recovered Moe, Larry & Curly saw what happened after they got whacked off there.

“Hey Moe, where they go?” Larry asked off in what just happened here?

“Why you asking me when you saw it yourself?” Moe remarked off the question when the answer was simple; those guys got away.

“Think the queen & king will wanna know about them escapees going into a weird portal thing?” Curly then suggested how they gonna explain this that will surely be unpleasant news for Queen Chrysalis & King Ronson to hear. “Owwwwh!” Then Curly yelped form when Moe slapped him on the face for having to ask a dumb question.

 

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BACK IN CLOUDSDALE’S PAST, AGAIN!

 

The scene opens around the training course in Cloudsdale, as a familiar Magical Time Portal above in the sky before dropping off the Sparkle Family. But this time, Twilight used her magic to levitate everyone & then focus on casting a barrier around them. Which at that very moment, it protected them from a familiar light blue magic beam from touching them. Once it was over, Twilight dropped her magic barrier to stare off with a serious face at…the attacker of that magic beam, Starlight Glimmer who stood on a cloud nearby as both mares had their serious faces on.

“There she is!” Spike pointed off in spotting Starlight Glimmer.

“Alright, let’s get her!” Phobos exclaimed that they can get the troublesome pony.

“Watch out!” Ben yelled out as he summoned his Hylian Shield to block something that almost hit the gang, a spear thrown by Seekcurse.

“Care if I intervene?” Seekcurse smiled off in having cut in the moment the good guys were gonna try to stop Starlight Glimmer.

“Looks like we’ll have to handle this guy.” Nyx stated to say this before transforming into her Battle Form.

“Hey Twilight, will you be okay alone?” Ben asked his love if she can be alright.

“I will! You all deal with Seekcurse & make sure he doesn’t try anything!” Twilight nods off to say this with determination being her guide while the others deal with another problem.

Then quicker then another could say, Twilight took off into the air, & fired a strong pink magic beam from her horn. But Starlight Glimmer used her magic on herself to make her body levitate away as that attack from Twilight slice the cloud in half that it actually fell off.

“Not a bad move, but it's gonna take a lot more than that to beat me!” Starlight Glimmer smiled lightly to comment that move, before getting all ego in stating that such an attack won’t stop her so easily as she got serious.

“Lucky for you Starlight Glimmer, there's more where that came from!” Twilight issued off to say this as she lit up her horn before taking off further into the sky before doing a cartwheel maneuver.

Then Twilight was doing rapid magic beam shots as she flew down, as Starlight Glimmer summoned a light blue barrier to protect her from the attack. Spike & Phobos yelped from the shards of Twilight’s attack that almost got near them while unaware of two Pegasus fillies smiled in seeing some action. But Ben & Adult Nyx were focusing on fighting against Seekcurse as Ben summoned his Megaton Hammer to POW the cloud ground which broke apart, causing the enemy to leap backwards, only for Adult Nyx to appear from her Star Dust Form to deliver a kick to his expose backside.

“Heh, so now you wanna be serious, hugh? Then you best not stop!” Seekcurse exclaimed from seeing how this was going, as Ben & Adult Nyx continued tonight the guy.

Right now, Starlight Glimmer fired off a Unicorn Burst move at Twilight moving across the skies to avoid it as the Alicorn mare zoom through the cloud rings which were sliced in half. And as Twilight zoom across parts of Cloudsdale, it caught the attention of more Pegasus fillies to smile in living this; a super-cool battle action right here before them. Twilight then focus to fire a beam shot from her horn as it disburse Starlight Glimmer’s cloud as she leaped off to dodge that move.

“You've REALLY gotta work on your aim a bit.” Starlight Glimmer used her magic to levitate herself as she was making this taunting remark before firing another powerful magic beam. Twilight yelps before focusing to teleport out of the attack that missed her & punched right through a portion of Cloudsdale.

Soon Twilight flew around in firing another magic beam to which Starlight Glimmer levitates herself to dodge. Then Starlight Glimmer focused hard in firing another magic beam when Twilight struggled to keep her magic barrier up. And even the two mares shot off two Unicorn Burst attacks at the same time while dodging them upwards & downwards of the attack pattern.

Even Ben used his Master Sword to fire a Sword Beam at Seekcurse who dodged across to avoid that move. Then Adult Nyx appeared to fire a Night Blast at the enemy, but Seekcurse used a shield on hand to block it. Then Spike & Phobos jumped to bite Seekcurse’s hooves that caused him to yell before Ben & Adult Nyx gave a mean left-hook blow.

Of course as the fighting continues, it did cause a problem, as it made Young Rainbow Dash, Dumb-Bell & Hoops that were having their race through some cloud rings to…stopped as they too noticed something going on that was cutting in-between their race. Now Twilight lands on the cloud surface, panting from exhaustion & seen Starlight Glimmer drop to the ground with her levitation spell on herself undo to pant & sweet. Both mares were panting & sweating from being tired out from this lasting fight. Even Starlight Glimmer fired a weaker magic beam while Twilight just managed to make a small shield barrier to block that shot.

“How you holding up Twilight?” Ben called out to see how Twilight is handling her situation.

“Okay…pant, you?” Twilight pants a bit while wondering how the others are faring.

“I have help here, so it’s not that difficult! Just wrap it up & we can go home to our Normal Future!” Ben stated to say this that they now have Seekcurse pin down & making sure he doesn’t make any suspicious movements.

“This is the end of the line of your evil, Seekcurse!” Adult Nyx issued off to say this as she had the foe right where they want him; Seekcurse snarled off in seeing this bunch got lucky.

“Whoa!” But then the moment was interrupted from a young pony’s voice as it made the tired Twilight & Starlight & the others that had Seekcurse pin down look back, only for the good guys to get a surprise. Young Rainbow Dash was seen with Young Dumb-Bell & Hoops as she was eating popcorn in where they were watching a movie, or a live action performance.

“Whoops! Maybe we should have taken this FAR out of Cloudsdale instead!” Phobos yelps in seeing that perhaps they should have taken the fighting AWAY from the location that their epic battles draw in too much a crowd.

Then teleporting near the three young racers that took a break from racing to watch the battle was…Twilight, & for good reason.

“What are you doing here? You have to finish your race!” Twilight asked off in why Young Rainbow Dash was stopping her race to make a Rainboom to watch their magical battle.

“No way! You kidding me? This is way more exciting! An Epic battle of magic, weapons play & a hovering Earth pony & Dragons tackling that scary evil pony actor. This is the best show yet!” Young Rainbow Dash exclaimed to say this in liking this exciting scene way more than some race she was having with two bullies, even they stop to watch.

“Sorry Twilight. I guess the battle caught too much attention. We got every filly & colt here.” Spike exclaimed to say this as he, Phobos, Ben & Adult Nyx approach Twilight while leaving Seekcurse behind in seeing the plan to keep interference of the RainBoom backfired, again.

“You see now? You can't stop me no matter what you & your group do.” Starlight Glimmer boasted off to say this as she approached those here without worry as the intervention of the Rainboom went off without a hitch; as she was preparing her horn to continue the battle.

“You fought well, but in the end, it is useless to struggle.” Seekcurse also appeared from nearby in stating this that no matter what is done, the heroes will only end with failure.

Twilight has her horn glowing, same with Adult Nyx while Ben, Spike & Phobos got themselves ready to continue the battle. But then a light flash from above, as the gang yelped in feeling themselves get levitated off the ground before being sucked in & disappeared once more through the Magical Time Portal; all while some young viewers watch what happened here.

“Aw, man, no winners. Just as it was getting good too!” Young Rainbow Dash pouted to toss her popcorn on the cloud surface ground in seeing the exciting battle has just been busted before a winner was decided.

“I will enjoy killing my enemy when she is not even a threat…” Seekcurse stated in seeing the young Rainbow Dash as he was about to reach a weapon to prepare his approach…only to be stopped by Starlight Glimmer.

“What did I say about no killing fillies,” Starlight Glimmer sternly snaps at what this guy was about to do if she didn’t cut in.

“You saw it, they fought back! Why not just kill her & the others before they can retaliate?” Seekcurse protest this to the mare that Twilight’s group will try to return to stop them unless they can kill them off when they are young now.

“Because taking a life is not us living in equality & I will thank you to stay away & let me handle this! Understood!” Starlight Glimmer sternly protest for the guy to understand that she will make everything be under equality, but taking life crosses the line.

“Understood…” Seekcurse lightly nods in sighing in defeat, as Starlight Glimmer left to guide the young foals away in saying ‘the show’s over’ & other excuses. “It appears something has made whatever evil we tried to enforce on you to weaken. However, if the moment that you are defeated, then I will step in & take control & do things…MY way!” Seekcurse darkly mutters this under his breath in seeing how Starlight is apparently lacking the right resolves in which he’ll step in when she fails for real; with that, everything goes dark at this moment…

 

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Now the scene changes to the same council table, where it still stood even from the little light from above as the Magical Time Portal was there, then vanished afterwards. Then the Sparkle Family landed on the crystal map in which they groan from their impacts to bounce off the table & onto the ground where they continued to ache some pains. The baby Dragons felt soar because that was a trip deal they rather not deal with. But now the focus was where they are from the term WHEN they landed in this time.

“That's strange.” Spike stated off to say this in looking up in seeing they are in a dark forest & hear the sounds of crickets.

“Well, you obviously don't mean us falling a lot, because that's becoming pretty routine.” Twilight stood up to rhetorically state the fact of how they kept expiring this so much, it must not be what Spike’s going on about as being ‘strange’ at this time.

“Can’t argue, you know how many times I landed on my head.” Phobos rubbed his aching head as the others got up from getting any feeling back.

“No you guys, it's just the other times we've come back, it's been day! But look!” Spike pointed off in being concern about when they came back to this present point, how it’s been daytime, but now…well, they look up to see for themselves. Above in the clouds, there was no sun, it was as if they skip the day & entered nighttime already.

“Spike’s right, the other times was during the day, never around nighttime.” Nyx nods off to say this in seeing that Spike was right, it is now night time here.

“This is strange. Why would the map bring us back to a different time of day than when we left?” Twilight looked to her family in being puzzled, why would they be brought back to this strange point in time during a different hour of the day.

But while some were puzzled about such things, the branches were heard making some cracking sounds that Spike & Phobos looked ahead to get wide eyes.

“Um, maybe we should figure it out later!” Spike spoke off in looking concern with worry about thinking about that answer for another time.

“Why’s that?” Twilight asked in why they should figure this out later than now.

“Oh, because of them!” Phobos slowly pointed off in being freaked out now.

Then something steps near for the gang to turn & focus their attention on. The growling noises were belonging to what appears to be, a small pack of…Timberwolves! They were covering the council table map, as if exploring a new territory. Twilight tried to light up her horn, but it went ka-blook, from her being tired. Even Nyx couldn’t transform from being tired, & Ben felt his strength from when they had those tough fights against Starlight Glimmer & Seekcurse, it must have sued up too much of their strength.

“Bad time to be too poof-to-puff!” Phobos exclaimed as he & Spike sweat-drop, they are in a bad situation now.

One of the Timberwolves was sniffing the air, before snarling with its growls to be join by another as their glowing eyes…spotted some company in the area.

“Any ideas?” Nyx asked off in what they do from here.

“Two words! RUN-AWAY!” Phobos simply screamed out a plan from his fear guiding him.

No sooner did Spike get on Twilight while Phobos rode on Ben, as they & Nyx ran with all they got to get away from the Timberwolves. “Awoorrruuuhhh!” Soon they make their howling calls as if calling in backup. The running ponies were panting to run, as they could see from within the forest, many glowing eyes of Timberwolves were about to be on the way. But then Twilight cease her running from almost going over an edge, but then she & the others looked ahead to spot something that made them gasp. A castle decorated with a midnight effect with dark blue walls & & the top of the towers were crescent moon-shapes.

“The Castle of the Two Sisters!” Twilight exclaimed off in recognizing what that castle was from studying such a building.

“But how, it was still in ruins, now it’s…” Ben was about to question this about how a ruin castle is now so new when…

Then more howling from other Timberwolves in the area made those yelp to snap back in reality that they are still being chased.

“Well, don't just stand here your guys!” Spike stated off to jump off Twilight’s back to run over the bridge leading from the first to the castle ahead.

“Yeah! Pick up the pace or your Timberwolves next CHOW-TIME!” Phobos issued off to say in joining this running from wolf pursuers.

The pony group quickly followed the baby Dragons over the bridge, where they soon came towards the castle itself. The Sparkle Gang entered through & then shut the door behind them; sighing with relief to be out of that trouble with such wolves. But afterwards, everyone looked inside to spot what the Castle of The Two Sisters looked like, it was decorative with a nice light blue & nighttime atmosphere with banners of stars, moon, plants, even shard glass windows had that. But the freaky thing was when the torches lit up, but it was a blue flame that seem, natural.

“Woah, blue flames…scary!” Phobos exclaimed a bit spooked out by what he sees.

“Phobos, you’re a Moon Dragon, you can make blue flames.” Nyx reminded Phobos that he can make blue flames too.

“Yeah, but not lit them up in suspicious castle themes.” Phobos stated off to say this about how such flames can be scary in certain use.

The group followed the living blue flames into the opening of the castle, leading to a certain throne room location.

“You know. This place looks a lot cleaner than I remember when we were doing it.” Spike spoke off in seeing how a place that was a ruined castle, looks a heck of a lot better as if it’s been well taken care of.

Then without warning, something that looked like a tapestry was levitated up before the gang that spooked them a bit. But then walking by was someone that the group seem to recognize, especially three diamond cutie mark on the flank.

“Rarity!” Twilight called out with joy as she & many of the others were happy to see a friend after such a rough night encounter.

But looking closely, the Rarity here seem to have her mane style in a European style of a ladyship, wore violet glass hooves, & wore a nightly castle decorative uniform as if having a job around here as she was setting the tapestry in place.

“If your here for a tour, the castle isn't open for viewings today. The tapestries all need changing. Again.” Rarity issued off to turn to the visiting group in lecturing them about visiting hours while stating what she is currently working on. “Again.” She rolled her eyes in stating that remark of how these tapestries need tone changed, it seems she’s still the fashion-stylish of seeing what needs to be kept in style.

“Rarity, it's me!” Spike approached Rarity when she was using her magic on the tapestry when a happy-go Spike surprised her by opening up to her.

“I don't socialize with Dragons, not after those Moon Dragons set fire on all the fine silks in the kingdom.” Rarity remotely issued off to say this about anyone that would hang or socialize with Dragons. “I don't know anypony who would with such things.” She remarked off to turn & scoff off in not caring much for Spike.

Spike heard all that with great shock as he starts to whimper like a sad little puppy; Rarity doesn’t wanna be or socialize with him. This place is looking less pleasant by the minute now.

“Hey, you got a problem with Dragons, missy?” Phobos snapped off in seeing how Rarity was insulting Dragons now.

“Easy, Phobos. You don't wanna go crazy on her.” Nyx held Phobos back from almost about to go crazy on someone that made fun of Dragons, who in truth is their friend.

“Well, I should've pounded that one delegate to the ground when he dismissed Spike when he was pretending to be princess while Twilight was sleeping that one time.” Phobos stated off in what he should’ve done during the whole ‘Princess Spike’ event in Canterlot.

“You mean Fluffy Clouds?”

“Oh, you had to bring that up again. I thought we agreed to never talk about that again.” Spike sighs to moan & complain that Phobos had to bring that up now.

“Rarity, you have to listen to me! The future of Equestria's at stake here!” Twilight leaps over Spike, Phobos & Nyx to try to speak some sense into this Countess Rarity version of her friend.

“I don't know how you know my name, but I am far too busy to entertain some tourist's ridiculous fantasies.” Rarity turns away to scoff about how Twilight knows about her name before remarking off about helping some crazy tourist about such nonsense before using her magic to levitate another batch of tapestries here upwards while many felt this mare was not being generous to offer help at all.

“I have to get back to the map outside, so I can stop Starlight from changing the past, because every present I come to is worse than the last!” Twilight explained forth this for this Rarity to understand how dire the situation is that unless they stop Starlight Glimmer, every future is more terrible then the last one they have seen.

“Time travel, you say?” Spoke a female’s voice in repeating the words that made Twilight free up; as she & her family looked to notice they are NOT alone here. Upon a throne of moon theme & demonic bat-wings, etc. sat a pony in shadows. The gang looked around to notice that from the tapestries, they show an image of a dark town with a full moon, & on that moon is…not Luna, but her evil self; Nightmare Moon. From that to the stain glass windows & on the throne was two descent moon pieces from left & right with a center crescent moon, all midnight color. But closer to who sat on the throne began to be seen. “Now that's something I would very much like to see.” The pony revealed her expression of wicked glee, it was Nightmare Moon, in the flesh.

“Aunt Luna!” Ben exclaimed off in shock in seeing what has happened to his aunt, she’s become, or rather still IS, Nightmare Moon!

“Aunt?!” Nightmare Moon repeated that word puzzled in being addressed as such. “We have no nephew. Of course, when we look at you, thou look similar to someone we once know…” She studied Ben in knowing she doesn’t have any nephews, but Ben does seem to make her think of…someone that was in the dark wildlife.

“So, you’re the one making it nighttime, but…shouldn’t it be day because things need sunshine for warmth & crops to grow?” Nyx questioned in seeing who was making the day night, but then if it’s always nighttime, how can things grow or be warm.

“Oh young one, we use special heat spells & enchantments on the plants to keep many alive. All to prevent those who are loyal to serve me from either freezing or starving to death in the eternal night.” Nightmare Moon smile doff eagerly to explain what they have that can provide simple things. “But you intrigue me, thou must have born of fate to match a resemblance to we,” She stated in taking a notice of Nyx, as if looking at a younger version of…herself.

“Gulp…” Nyx swallowed hard in having a bad feeling about that, an alternate Nightmare Moon looking at the reincarnation of herself from another time; spells trouble here.

Nightmare Moon begins to let off a magical laughter, as she does, ponies wearing what look like demonic Royal Guard style armor appeared as they defend the evil mistress of the night. As Rarity left the room, the heroes were surrounded by Nightmare Moon’s Nightmare Guard from all sides, keeping them box together.

“But enough of such small chat. Tell me how you came by this magic to travel through time.” Nightmare Moon issued forth to ask this as she flapped her wings off her throne to approach the group in wanting answers of something to travel through time.

Twilight, Ben & the rest remain firm & silent to not answer that, for knowing that it was bad enough one to two ponies are messing with the past, a third villain will make things worse.

“The princess asked you a question!” Spoke one of the Nightmare Guard from behind that spook the others, before she removed her helmet to reveal…a Rainbow Dash with a buzz Mohawk mane while looking like a drill-serpent with an attitude. “And unless you wanna end up in the dungeon, you'll tell her what she wants to know!” Rainbow Dash issued this off in threatening what will happen if those here don’t do as they are told, will suffer; Twilight & the rest are shocked to see another of their friends has become something, awful to be loyal to a villain then for the good of others in need.

“Oh great! Now we see Rainbow Dash here is a flank kissing lieutenant to this boy!” Phobos rolled his eyes in seeing what happened with this Rainbow Dash that once stood up reckless the first time Nightmare Moon showed up.

“What! Why you insolent little toad! You have any idea of who you are addressing.” Rainbow Dash protest off in seeing how rude Phobos was to Nightmare Mon. “This is Nightmare Moon, known as Black Yue, daughter of Tso Lan, the Moon Demon Lord.” She issued off to say this before those that dare make such a scene.

“The Demon Lords?” Twilight yelps in realizing what sort of future this was.

“That’s right, each of the eight Demon Lords have his or her side of Equestria they rule on this planet, followed by their children.” Rainbow Dash issued off to say this in what their world is ruled over by.

“Children, but the only children of those guys would be Drago.” Ben stated off in recalling that the group only seen Drago, Shendu’s son & no one else.

“Thou know of Shendu’s son, but lacks information of the others? Perhaps you did come from another time. Especially with a Moon Dragon I have not seen before & I know many that serve me.” Nightmare Moon stated off in seeing that the group have indeed come from a place different from her own world with even a Moon Dragon she has not seen.

“Eh-heh, just lucky I guess.” Phobos sheepishly let off a chuckle in getting a bad feeling about this case.

“Still…nopony in my kingdom, but me should possess a magic powerful enough to change the course of time.” Nightmare Moon slowly issued off in stating this in being firm about being one to have that which can change time.

“Wait…Your kingdom?” Spike spoke off in offense in hearing this, which made the others yelp before Twilight nudge a sheepish Spike for speaking out of term in their situation.

“Who else would rule this kingdom?” Nightmare Moon issued off i demanding who the baby dragon was referring to another who would rule then her.

“Um... Celestia, of course!” Spike nervously thought about this before smiling sheepishly to state who he was referring to.

Course the Nightmare Guard cringe with worry in having the name Celestia heard out of the bloom & right in front of Nightmare Moon too. As the gang seem to look worry as Nightmare Moon glared at them with a frown at first before…

Nightmare Moon was letting off a magical laughter as if finding what she heard to be truly a laughing riot that she couldn’t help it. “My sister has been imprisoned in the moon for years!” She issued off to point at the window, where there was a full moon in which…an image of the mare in the moon is seen, only this time it’s not Nightmare Moon, but…Celestia who was trapped.

“What…my mother is…” Ben yelps in shock, his mother was…sealed in the moon.

“But it is no less a fate than she'd sentence me to a 1000 years ago!” Nightmare Moon issued off to lean down to the group that were worried in having heard how she suffered worse for a 1000 years while it’s been a few for Celestia to suffer. “Now, you will reveal to me the source of this time magic you came about!” Nightmare Moon stomps her left hoof & opened her wings with a threatening gaze in issuing this demand for those to show her the source of time travel.

The gang was in a tight fix, they can’t get out of this with their strength not fully recovered, nor can they fight off the enemies in here. Therefore, Twilight came to realize that there was but one chance left to take…it was risky, but it has to work.

“…Alright.” Twilight looked to Nightmare Moon with a serious gaze in willing to give in to help out, much to many that were surprised.

“What, Twilight, no!” Spike protest to say this as Twilight looked a bit sadden in what she’s doing, it’s not easy when the odds are stacked against them.

“You can’t!” Nyx also protest in not wanting her mother to give in to the demand terms.

“We have no choice, Spike, Nyx.” Twilight sadly explained this to Spike & Nyx, before she approaches Nightmare Moon in defeat. “I can take you to it, of where we were, but you'll have to get past the Timberwolves.” Twilight issued that she can show the way, but the destination is blocked by Timberwolves that they ran from.

“I am but one of the rulers of all of Equestria. Do you think I can't deal with Timberwolves?” Nightmare Moon remarked off to say this with a big wide grin of confidence in her abilities to handle such predator creatures that are hardly a threat to her.

“No. I know you can.” Twilight looked down to say before looking up in being serious of knowing that this villain can easily take care of the Timberwolves easily.

But of course, Nightmare Moon’s cocky expression was replace with a stern frown face, something of what this mare said sounds like…there was a hidden meaning before such bold action against a being as powerful as her.

“Very well…And if you were thinking of trying to escape…” Nightmare Moon issued off to say this before her horn lit up with a magic glow. Then without warning, Spike & Nyx were levitated upwards. Then before anyone knew it, magic chains were wrapped around the two tightly, keeping them from escaping. “…it would be very unfortunate for your friend. Along with this one, perhaps a failed attempt to clone me, whatever the case, she too will be unfortunate.” Nightmare Moon made a sly & dark smirk in stating this threat of no tricks, or those she is using to blackmail, will suffer.

This caught Twilight, Phobos & Ben off guard, it looks like Nightmare Moon is not taking any chances with them.

“If you hurt our daughter, I’ll…” Ben was looking upset by how Nyx was being treated & was about to act when…

“Ben, no…despite her action, it’s still Luna inside.” Twilight stopped Ben in knowing that despite this being an enemy, it’s also a friend & family member under an evil influence.

“I…your right, I forgot she isn’t in the right of her mind with Tso Lan’s little experiment using Aunt Luna as a host. I’m just glad Nyx is still existing outside of time here even while we’re in this future.” Ben sighs off toggle in when knowing that they have to swallow hard & just do what this evil Alicorn wants…for now.

Seeing they must conspire with this enemy, the group had to listen, no matter what.

Later on, the scene changes to around the moment it’s still dark out & the moon with Celestia’s head is still there. There was some magic light along with growling noises. But from certain magic zaps, it was revealed to be Nightmare Moon, zapping any of the Timberwolves on sight to whimper & flee the scene. As Nightmare Moon lead forward, Twilight was with her as the night mare blew another wolf made of twigs apart while the rest of the Nightmare Guard had the others with them as they moved along with Nightmare Moon still hovering the chain Nyx & Spike.

“Pss…over here!” Suddenly from the bushes, a voice called to Ben before he saw….a strange looking unicorn version of Twilight.

“Hugh…Twilight?” Ben yelped lightly in seeing who this pony was, but…his Twilight is ahead with Nightmare Moon.

“Keep your voice down, the guards will hear you!” The other Twilight silently told Ben to keep his voice down.

“Who are you? Are you…some kind of alternate Twilight to this place?” Ben asked off in guessing this was an alternate version of Twilight, but how can there be when the Twilight with him was here now; weird time travel stuff.

“You could say that. After I failed my entrance exam, I'll admit I was badly depressed at first, but my time line's versions of you, my family and Moondancer helped me get over it reasonably quickly. In fact, I was actually pretty happy for a few years despite my failure. Oh, I continued to hone my magic, but I realized failure wasn't the end of the world. Unfortunately, the good times would not last forever. A few years ago, Nightmare Moon returned. I saw the signs but felt I needed hard evidence because, even being the marefriend of Celestia's adopted son didn't exactly make me close enough where I could present those kinds of suspicions without hard evidence. By the time my time line's Ben and Moondancer helped me gather sufficient evidence to prove my findings, it was already too late. Aided by Ben, Shiny & Moondancer, I tried to recover and activate the Elements of Harmony without success. In fact, three of the ponies I cared about the most ended up losing their lives because of Nightmare Moon's wrath. I escaped with my life - and with the worthless elements - but ended up in arguably an even worse mess. I ended up having to dodge not just her troops, but also a few monsters hiding out in an abandoned building. Pretty much the only reason I even try holding on to the Elements is so I can analyze them to try to create a weapon powerful enough to stop Nightmare Moon without me having to put any other ponies at risk.” Alternate-Twilight explained off the view of what happened here of what other adventures took place before those of Equestria Prime came around.

“Well don’t worry, we’re gonna set things right, for now, keep out of sight.” Ben whispered this to this Alternate Twilight.

“Don’t worry, she has me for that.” Then popping next to Alternate Twilight was…Pinkamena in dark camouflage.

“Pinkamena?” Ben raised an eyebrow in seeing who else was here.

“Shh, good luck on what you’re doing.” After that, Alternate Pinkamena took Alternate Twilight away, as Ben continued to move along without alerting anyone of what he saw; it was in a word; weird to explain.

“Tell me…How does it work?” Nightmare Moon spoke to Twilight in demanding to know how to work the time travel spell.

“A pony from my time used this spell to travel back & change the past. That’s all that happened & how we came here.” Twilight explained with a firm expression about what Starlight Glimmer did that travel back to change an event before they came here; as she points to a familiar map of where they needed to be

“How very interesting & now you will give this spell to me!” Nightmare Moon smile doff with wicked joy of how she can use such a spell for her advantage. “With it, I will ensure that the Elements of Harmony are never found, the Demon Lords are never banished; our reign lasts forever!” She issued forth this wicked evil plot to go back & time to change certain events to make sure, evil rules over all.

“But it won’t.” Twilight cuts in to say this in dropping the bomb on Nightmare Moon’s spotlight of victory.

“What?!” Nightmare Moon went wide eye to look at Twilight shock & puzzled, what did the mare mean…was there something she did not know?

“In my world, my friends & I found the Elements & used them to defeat you!” Twilight spoke forth in a bold tone in revealing something for the current Nightmare Moon of this timeline of what really occurs. “And I will do everything in my power to bring that world back!” As she opened her wings in pronouncing that she will return everything the way it should be.

“She ain’t the only one! Megaton Hammer/Powfruvhmm…” Ben issued off to say this in summoning his hammer, & stomps it on the ground to shake up Nightmare Moon’s Guards.

“No!” Nightmare Moon yelled off to say, as she fired a magic beam, but Twilight teleported away. At the same moment the Nightmare Guards were caught off by Ben’s stunt attack, Twilight teleported in to snatch Spike & Nyx to free them. At being free, Nyx used her own magic to turn into her Battle Form & fires a stun spell off at Nightmare Moon.

“It's impossible! How could thou be us when we are us!!?” Nightmare Moon asked off stun & demand this of seeing the black filly turn into some other adult version of herself, how?

“Know this, Luna. We will go back & get you back to normal. I was once you & I will never be you ever again!” Adult Nyx issued off to say this in knowing that she & Luna, will never be the evil Nightmare Moon ever again.

Soon Twilight teleported everyone onto the map as Nightmare Moon saw this & almost ready her magic attack…but Twilight used her magic to activate the time spell.

“Whelp, it’s been fun, but…gotta blast!” Phobos remarked off to taunt those here, as the same rotation magic ring was appearing before a familiar Magical Time Portal showed up.

“Noooooo!” Nightmare Moon yelled off in seeing the heroes escape through the Magical Time Portal as the Nightmare Guards tried to apprehend, but the portal vanished in a flash of light with blinded everyone; the heroes had escape another close & dangerous future encounter.

 

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BACK IN CLOUDSDALE’S PAST, YET AGAIN!

 

The scene opens to where the Magical Time Portal appeared where those from the emerald void fly out of it with the baby dragons riding on Twilight & Adult Nyx while Ben used his Hover Boots. Then Twilight instantly fired off a magic beam spell with a serious focus on a spot, just as Starlight Glimmer deviates herself to the area to attack; only to be hit & then trapped in a familiar Crystal Block with a stump expression.

“Now more than ever I know how important it is to stop you!” Twilight flies near the frozen foe in declaring that it’s more important than before, to stop this pony from changing the past.

Having heard that, Starlight’s expression made an upset face before her horn lit up as she blasted her way out of the Crystal Block prison to hover in the air again.

“Well then, good luck!” Starlight Glimmer issued off to say this in looking extra eager to do what she can, to stop the heroic bunch from stopping her as she levitated off which the gang yelp before following.

At the same motion, Young Rainbow Dash was racing against Young Hoops & Dumb-Bell through another cloud ring when…

“Whoooaaaa!” Young Rainbow Dash yelps out from an unexpected hoof came up & knocked her off course while the two young bullies flew ahead.

As it was shown to be Starlight Glimmer smiling at this while the others watch in seeing, they were too late. Then appearing in a flash of light was the Magical Time Portal, as it suck them in when they yelped while leaving a smirking Starlight seeing the gang left to see the changes in the future as the final spark blinded the screen.

 

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The scene changes to where we see the Sparkle Gang land on the map from a rough ride before the Magical Time Portal vanishes. Only to notice from getting up, heavy stomps are heard that made them go wide-eye, to look up to gasp in seeing what was happening. From red/orange skies, stomping across the trees was none other than…TIREK, in this Final Form only this time, he was leveling a nightly magic beam from his horns all over the area.

“HOLY….Tirek’s Rampaging all over Equestria again!” Ben exclaimed in seeing this, he remembers how hard it was to take this foe down when he had all the magic in Equestria.

“Get us back, GET US BACK!!! Phobos exclaimed off in being terrified, this was a future they do NOT wanna handle.

Spike quickly held up the time scroll in fear in wishing that they leave this place, pronto. A nervous Twilight also agreed as she used her magic on the scroll before things went bright white; no doubt sending them back to the past again.

 

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BACK IN CLOUDSDALE’S PAST….

 

Now we see the same thing, Magical Time Portal opening before closing while the Sparkle Gang got out. Twilight ready her magic horn that fired a beam at the target. Starlight Glimmer was seen with a confident face, but she instead moved away to let that magic shot impact Young Rainbow Dash as she was cutting between the bullies picking on Young Fluttershy; the result ended with the daring filly trap in a Crystal Block that surprised the young ones as well as Rainbow herself.

“Well done.” Starlight Glimmer smiled to clap her hooves in applying for the effort in doing the work for her in stopping the RainBoom.

“Oops, wrong one!” Phobos yelped in seeing what they did there.

“Here we go again!” Nyx exclaimed in knowing what happens next.

As the same white light flash over the gang as they are again sent back into the future of what’s to come.

 

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The scene opens up in where the Sparkle Gang pop out from….plush Earth colt toys like they needed some air. Seeing where they were, everyone looked around before nearly yelping in seeing something bizarre. It was Princess Luna & Princess Celestia, dress like….CLOWNS!? Everyone yelped with open mouths in not knowing what was happening here, before seeing the Royal Sisters running from…Discord? Yes, Discord in a royal king’s red robe cape, crown & wielded a gold scepter of his head-ornament, while riding a unicycle. Discord looked to be chasing the Royal Sisters in a circle motion while everything around was in a complete chaotic display of what the Mane Six once stopped long ago.

“Okay, this is a future, I rather we fix than live with a mom & aunt dress up to be Discord’s jesters.” Ben remotely stated. The last thing he wants is to live in a world and see his mother and aunt be treated like this.

"Well, I suppose there IS one upside to Discord's rule. At least he doesn't kill anyone for any reason. Admittedly, it's mainly because he knows that, if he does that too often, he'll run out of sentients to mess with. Still, at least it puts SOME limit on his activities." Twilight admits this off in seeing that at least this whacky future is not as terrible as the others, for most reason.

“Personally, I missed the good Discord than the crazy kind.” Phobos dryly stated about liking it better when they have Discord here as someone for good than a loose crazy loon.

“That I can agree with, Phobos.” Twilight lightly nods in agreement to that subject very much.

Course with raining pies that fell & hit Twilight’s head, her attitude become stern which made Spike & Phobos yelp in seeing the mare was still not too pleased here as she used her horn again before another flash blinded us again as another time travel trip was on the way.

 

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CLOUDSDALE’S PAST…

 

And like before, Magical Time Portal appearing, the gang coming out of the emerald void with Twilight about to fire another magic beam; until she looked off in puzzlement which the others shared. Young Fluttershy was confused because her body was going through the cloud ring course as Young Hoops & Dumb-Bell clapped in seeing her perform so well. But in truth, the yellow filly’s body was covered by a light blue magic aura & it was performed by Starlight Glimmer who looked back to smirk at the gang being too late, again.

“Oh no, not again!” Ben groans in seeing what’s about to happen next.

The same blinding white light from the Magical Time Portal appeared above to blind everyone as another visit to a change future is on the way.

 

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Now the scene changes to what looks like the Sparkle Family on the map as they look ahead to see Ponyville still standing & everything seems normal. But then they yelp when heavy machinery is in use that it pulled a tree off its root. The reason of being is because of a logo mark with the Flim-Flam Brothers on it. As seen, the brothers are piloting their construction vehicle to remove trees & have turn Sweet Apple Acres into a compound facility.

“What?” Twilight looked confused by what they see.

“How did these guys take over…” Ben asked how these salesmen ponies purchase the Apples’ Farm. Ben comment, "I definitely expected Sombra, Chrysalis, Aunt Luna - I mean, Nightmare Moon, Discord and Tirek to be tough in time lines where they were not stopped, but the Flim-Flam Brothers going from simple hucksters to rulers of the world? That definitely catches me by surprise."

“Folks, we got no idea what happened so how about we go back to the past and forget about it?” Nyx broke the fourth wall in stating this to the audience watching this while everyone looked at her puzzled, knowing she’s doing a Pinkie Pie theme.

Then another bright flash blinded us, as the group have gone back in time to the past, again.

 

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And again we see another failed motion in the past that soon brings the Sparkle Gang to where many of the enemies of alternate futures are together with their friends being servants to pour them wine in them having acquired rule of Equestria. But when noticing the Sparkle Family on the map, everyone looked to another before asking the same thing.

“Who are you?” Sombraverse/Chrysalisverse/Nightmareverse/Tirekverse/Flim&Flamverse/Past Applejack/Rainbow Dash/Rarity/Twilight Sparkle/Pinkie Pie/Fluttershy asked off in seeing the group that are here now.

“Ugh, let’s change scenery here.” Phobos nervously suggested i what they do here.

“Right! This is just weird!” Nyx nods off in thinking this was too weird even for her.

Soon the gang go off in a flash of light before they are soon going through some repeat motions of failing to stop Starlight Glimmer, which results in different alternate futures. Like the first one was about much of Equestria was in a strange gray, white, black design of futuristic city where many ponies wore strange matching outfits while watching Flash Sentry get chase by Dusk Ponies that appear from Corridors Of Darkness. The gang see a statue of a strange order group of 13 ponies in which their faces are hidden by dark cloaks, by it written, the Superior & the Apocalypse Ponies; which meant this future was ruled by them. Using the Time Scroll, the gang went back only trend up in another alternate future, this time in a weird way where many Dark Mystic Soldiers roam the areas of any towns under the Dark Mystics ruling like an empire.

“Geez, I feel like we have been through an episode of "Sliders"...except I don't like it at all!” Nyx complained off in seeing what this was starting to be.

The gang didn’t wanna stick around to see more, so they used the time scroll to get out again before they were caught…. If nothing is done soon, things are gonna continue to get worse & worse.

 

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Finally, another Magical Time Portal shows up in Cloudsdale again, as those that came out of it duck from another magical light blue beam. Just as the portal closed, everyone saw, yep, the same pony once again.

“Up for another race-ending fight, Twilight?” Starlight Glimmer’s voice spoke off before she was seen o na cloud above a race-track for the Pegasus as the Sparkle Gang landed on the cloud against the smirking foe.

“No. You were right Starlight. I can't stop you.” Twilight spoke off to say this in looking down in sorrow to expression this.

“Wait, you’re giving in?” Phobos asked off stump in what he heard.

“Phobos, that’s not what she means.” Nyx exclaimed to remind her pet pal of what Twilight maybe planning.

Suddenly Starlight Glimmer was preparing another magic beam, but Twilight reacted by casting a magic barrier to block the attack before lowering it down.

“I wasn’t finished, I can’t stop you Starlight Glimmer. But you can't stop me from trying & we could be stuck doing this for all eternity!” Twilight issued off to say this with a serious expression before getting concern that if they continue fighting i the past, then there will be no end.

“Really? If that's what it takes to keep you, & your friends from getting your cutie mark connection, then I'm game to go along!” Starlight Glimmer exclaimed off to say this with pretend concern while remarking that she doesn’t care so long as she keeps the Rainboom from happening.

“You can’t be serious?” Ben asked off in not believing the mare was serious about doing this for eternity.

“I am!” Starlight Glimmer issued off to say this; before firing another magic beam at the group.

Twilight cast another magic barrier to stop the attack before lowering it down from when it was over.

“You don’t understand. What you're doing goes way beyond involving matters of cutie marks!” Twilight issued off to say this in using her magic to take a nearby cloud to form a low hill with a house at the bottom. “For everything we do here in the past…even the smallest change that happens can snowball into an avalanche of trouble for the future!” As Twilight explained this, a cloud form of a tiny snowball was seen rolling down the hill towards the house which it collides to be knocked out, stating the future is like that; a wreck site.

But then the cloud demonstration is zapped by a magic beam shot, as the gang yelped from seeing Starlight Glimmer wiped it out.

“Oh really now, next thing I suppose you'll tell me, is that: ‘the fate of all of Equestria hangs in the balance’, right!?” Starlight Glimmer raised an eyebrow before making a pretend remark of sounding distressful about how Equestria’s fate is in peril, before remotely glaring about the subject in how the heroes are trying to tell her she can’t change the past because of that.

“But it does!” Twilight spoke forth in honestly stating that what she says is true.

“Spare me your overblown ego!” Starlight Glimmer rolled her eyes back in having to hear this from Twilight in saying such things are important. “No way is one group of friends, not even Princess Twilight's, is even that important!” She glared off to state & point off that whatever the change, it can’t be that the cutie mark bound from the Mane Six is crucial to happen for the benefit of the future’s sake.

“Have you not even know what we’ve been doing this whole time? Without us being together, so many different forces of evil overrun Equestria!” Ben explained that without Twilight & the Mane Five, all the terrible events that occur would not have been stopped & Equestria would fall.

“Lies! What’s so special about your group that no one else can handle?” Starlight Glimmer protest off again that she doesn’t believe the special moment that the Rainboom makes for the Mane Six is needed for Equestria’s fate to be safe.

Then as Young Rainbow Dash flew off from above, Starlight Glimmer flare up her horn to fire a magic beam.

“Aaaaaaah!” Young Rainbow Dash yelps from being knocked off from going through a cloud ring by Starlight’s attack while the bullies go through without being bothered.

“Here we go again! For the the who-knows number of times!” Phobos moans to complain in seeing this will make another trip to the future another headache to go by.

And soon the Magical Time Portal begins to open up above, preparing to suck in the Sparkle Gang once more to see what changes are made.

“I don't know how important other ponies' friendships are to the future, but I can show you what the world is like without mine in it!” Twilight spoke off in stating this to Starlight Glimmer about while others with their future may not matter, but she got serious that she will show the mare what life is like without the friendship form for the Mane Six.

As Spike & Phobos yelped from being pulled into the time void, Ben & Nyx helped push Twilight before the former two got sucked in. And then in a shocking moment, Twilight grabs Starlight Glimmer, as she resist while the Alicorn mare holds her as they get pulled into the Magical Time Portal before it vanishes in a bright light.

 

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Now the scene begins to open up in where there was wind blowing all around what looks like a wasteland. Everyone came out of the Magical Time Portal to bear-witness this place, tops for themselves, what it is that may possibly be…the future.

“There’s….nothing. Wow, for once, we have nothing to fear. Or is this a bad thing to notice?” Phobos was stating off from what he sees, but also questions it too. “Cause what is this, the Fallout Equestria or something?” The guy asked off in not knowing what to make of this.

“I don’t like it. It feels so empty. I’m scared, daddy.” Nyx stated in looking around, this place feels like all life is gone & it scares her.

“It's okay, Nyx. It's okay.” Ben spoke off to hug Nyx for comfort.

“Where are we?! What did you do during the travel?” Starlight Glimmer snapped off towards those that have brought her to a place she does not recognize.

“I didn’t do anything, this is where we end up ever time we’re sent back. The future. Or rather, the present.” Twilight explained it as everyone was by the map to look a bit sadden of knowing where they are to the upset Starlight Glimmer.

“But, that can’t be! There's nothing here!” Starlight Glimmer protest off in noticing that there is nothing around, how can this be the future without any signs of life.

“Any theories on why this is such a barren wasteland?” Spike asked off in pondering how this future might have come to be.

“Well, my theory is that the Plunder Vines went completely unchecked until they ran out of targets & then ended up dying out because they had nothing left to feed off of. Admittedly, the reasoning is purely because the Plunder Vines are the only season opener antagonist we HAVEN'T seen yet on this trip, but I digress.” Nyx randomly spoke off in having to state something that sounded bizarre at how she broke the fourth wall.

“That still doesn’t explain why there is no one around. There has to be someone.” Starlight Glimmer issued off that she wants an answer about why there was nothing around in this barren wasteland.

“I wish we could say we were surprised, but then again, we only be lying to ourselves.” Ben stated off to look down with a sad expression in seeing the map showed almost no towns, everything is dead without much life.

“Ben’s right, every world we come back to is worse than the last.” Twilight expressed off to scythes about how every world she & her family come back to, is worse than the last one they were at. “I don't even know why my friends & I are so important to Equestria, out of all other great & famous heroes we’ve met that would be better, but even still, we are.” Twilight shook her head off to exclaim this about why she & the Mane Five play a big role in Equestria, but somehow…they just are.

Starlight Glimmer stared off in shock, every future Twilight’s group has seen was worse than the last before coming here; could it be that….she caused all of this?

“No! I don't believe you!” Starlight Glimmer protest out to say this in refusing to believe Twilight’s words, how can six ponies be that important for Equestria that they are needed?

“Oh come on, Starlight, look around!” Spike stated off for the pony to look around to see the truth before them all.

“Yeah! We’ve seen things, King Sombra starts a war. Seekcurse, your BUDDY, enslaves ponies & kills humans, even the Legendary Mag’ne! And don’t get me started with the Changelings, plus Nightmare Moon with Demon Lords ruling Equestria, to Tirek’s rampage AGAIN, Discord NOT reform, & two of the Three Lords making this place a nightmare!” Phobos was pointing out all of the bad & nightmarish futures they have seen for the unicorn mare here to wake up & smell the coffee of all the horrors she’s done.

“You…you lie….there’s no way all that happens because six ponies didn’t get their cutie marks from a Rainboom!” Starlight Glimmer protest in being shocked, she refuses to believe any of this.

“Then where’s a future YOU wanted? Cause we never seen everything was alright, it’s NOT alright!” Ben sternly told Starlight Glimmer that what she was wanting, they never saw ONE future of where it looks like everything was alright & happy, just the opposite.

Starlight Glimmer was torn to look at everything from a different perspective, the future she wanted without the Mane Six’s special bound didn’t bring about a new future of better times. Instead, she hears nothing but futures where every villain that was stopped from ruling Equestria has seized victory, all because of a change in the past.

“It’s like I said, everything in the past affects the future, even the tiniest act.” Twilight issued off to sadly say this as she holds up a little dirt in her hoof before the wind blows it away. “And what you're doing in the past, leads here.” Twilight exclaimed this with truthful words to which slowly, Starlight Glimmer’s hateful &furious eyes begin to…show signs of regret & sorrow of all that has happened. “I know I can't stop you, but I thought showing you this might change your mind.” Twilight stated off to be honest, if Starlight Glimmer sees what she’s doing, it may get through to the mare that what she’s doing is causing more harm than good.

Some tiny emerald light was seen in Starlight’s eyes, but then it was fading too fast for unknown reasons. Starlight Glimmer showed an upset look from having heard what Twilight said.

“Say what…change my mind?” Starlight Glimmer snapped off to say this in flaring at Twilight who yelped back, but Ben stood determine against this angry mare. “You don't know anything about me in the slightest, Twilight Sparkle! I was perfectly happy before YOU & your FRIENDS & FAMILY ruined what I built!” Starlight Glimmer scolds off to say this towards Twilight & her family before lashing out & yelling at the gang from never knowing about her or that she was happy before they came & ruin all that she worked hard to achieve.

“You can’t speak to her that…” Ben was getting angry that again Starlight Glimmer was yelling at Twilight to make him upset until, Twilight held a hoof to stop him. “Twilight…” He looked puzzled, why does his love want hi mot not get involve when someone was being this hard to get through.

“Let it go Ben.” Twilight asked for Ben to not let such outburst get in the way as to what they need to get done. “Starlight, listen, I don't know what happened that led you to make your village without cutie marks. And I'm sorry my friends, family & I had to take it away.” Twilight spoke off in being honest about never knowing why Starlight Glimmer went down such a path to exist without cutie marks, but she is sorry that they had to take away that which someone was more happy to have then having cutie marks in anyone’s lives.

“Sorry? Why would we feel sorry from stopping her from ruining other ponies’ lives?” Phobos raised an eyebrow in pointing off this topic.

“Phobos, take it easy.” Nyx stated to calm her pet pal from making the situation harder than it needs to be.

“Hey, I’m just speaking the truth since she ended up walking in the villain shoes by being the Equalizer.” Phobos shrug off to point this off about what he thinks.

“That suit was designed by Tech of the Dark Mystics, I persuaded him to make it.” Starlight Glimmer explained about where she got the suit to begin with.

“But why, we still don’t know why you did all of this.” Spike stated off to say this in being puzzled.

“You want to know what happened to me?! Then I'll show you!” Starlight Glimmer sternly was yelling off in seeing that someone wants to know, as she deviates over the map as everyone watches as she’s about to perform the time spell.

But then suddenly, something made the pony move very slow & then something fast tackled Starlight Glimmer to the ground much to the gang’s surprise. Then as the dust clears, they all gasped in seeing Pinkamena held Starlight Glimmer down while looking like she was about to attack more until…

“Wait, Pinkamena?” Twilight yelps in recognizing this pony who seem different, even for this alternate future.

“How’d you know my name?” Pinkamena looked to the bunch while getting off of Starlight Glimmer as she too was puzzled in who this pink pony was doing attacking out of nowhere.

“Of course we know you, the Pinkie lookalike; sister to Golden Heart, etc.” Phobos rolled his eyes to comment of them knowing this pony really well.

“You know my brother?” Pinkamena raised an eyebrow in never believing someone here knows that much about her or her brother.

“Never mind that, happened to you. You’re in your Element form, but…you’re an Alicorn.” Spike pointed off in noticing the differences that Pinkamena shows, especially the latter part of not being an Earth pony no more.

“How can this be?” Twilight raised an eyebrow in how Pinkamena got wings & a horn to be an alicorn.

“I’m surprised that you know about Element Evolution, as for my Alicorn look, it’s simple?” Pinkamena stated off to say this about how she got to be such a way. “In the hardest times of battle to come, I had no choice but to extract magic from some Alicorns to help make me stronger by becoming one. Celestia, Luna when she was Nightmare Moon, Cadance, even my brother….It was a sacrifice I needed on their part, since it’s what helped me survive.” She looked down mostly to state how she had to do such a thing to help her survive.

“Survive, what do you mean? There’s nothing around here.” Starlight Glimmer raised an eyebrow i what the crazy pony here is talking about now.

“Oh but there is, no one knows how it happened, by the worse evil got out & his power was corrupting everyone to become his servants.” Pinkamena spoke off in mentioning that a great evil was unleashed

“What evil do you mean?” Ben asked off in what the pony was even talking about.

“I mean…lookout!” Pinkamena was about to say, until she cuts off her words.

Then Pinkamena pushed the gang out of the way before a black magic cloud hits her, as the magic particles starts to affect her to start making her struggle against a strange motion of..,changing into a darken version of herself.

“So, this is where you ran to.” Spoke an evil voice of so grim, that it made everyone’s fur & scales shiver as they look over a hill top, to find a large army of what looks like ponies & Mystics, but…they were all turn into darken versions of themselves with black auras coming off their bodies. And the one to walk before all as many kneel as this one made his presence was the one foe that the heroes have yet to ever face, it was….the Overlord King of Tartarus: Grimmore.

“Hugh.,,…Grimmore!” Twilight gasped off in noticing the very image of the Dark Elf that’s a Demon God sealed in Tartarus.

“He’s….free!?” Spike yelps off in fear, how can Grimmore be free instead of being sealed?

“That’s…what I’m saying…his servants obtain the keys to free him, ever since then…no pony was safe. Even the Mystics were caught unprepared before the few that survived are in hiding…But now it looks like my struggle is over before I become one of them.” Pinkamena explained as she struggled to not lose her good self, but was having a hard time as much of her body was going black.

“My dear, you had lost the moment all your comrades had fallen, one by one…” Grimmore issued to say this in forcing a transformation as Pinkamena suddenly rose up, blacken aura glowing with yellow eyes; as she was now a shadow of her former self.

“Oh no….he’s corrupting her….& she was scary WITHOUT the evil mood!” Phobos yelps in seeing how Pinkamena was starting to become scary, more so then usual.

“Hmmm?” Grimmore turns to notice the others around, & also stops a strange crystal table with a map before…sensing something from it. “Ah, time traveling, are we?” Grimmore stated in knowing what was going on here by the others that were new.

“He knows!” Nyx yelps in seeing that Grimmore knows about time travel without them saying so.

“Starlight, if you want to show us that past, then do it now….” Ben instead that the mare that wanted to show them something, do it now while the getting is still good.

Just then, Grimmore’s eyes focus on the scene, as a sudden gravity pressure of invisible magic aura was weighing down everyone. Many that felt this were struggling to push against this, but Starlight Glimmer felt this, & look at whose magic essence this was to suddenly begin to…develop fear.

“Hugh….” Starlight gasped in staring in terror at the eyes of Grimmore even from afar, it was making her sweat like crazy. “This….magic….it’s like an abyss…so much of it….so vile….so blacken…it’s…horrible!” Starlight Glimmer has felt magic & can tell magic of how strong it is, but what Grimmore was unleashing…even the Dark Mystics she once worked with were not capable of admitting this much evil power on a whim.

“Now you can tell why it’s hard facing enemies this evil & this is one we’re not prepared against!” Spike stated off that starlight Glimmer should know the enemies they fight are not normal & that Grimmore is a threat bigger than they can imagine.

“It would seem my prey has brought me to where I need to be, where now the future….& the past, shall belong to me…” Grimmore issued forth in seeing that from turning Pinkamena over to his side of evil, she lead to him a find…where time, can be the next conquest.

“Starlight, quickly, you have to get us out….” Twilight asked this as she & the others used their magical strength to push themselves up from the force pressure of Grimmore’s magic aura flow.

“Why would you trust me to help?” Starlight protest off in not once wanting to help those she wants to suffer.

“You wanna stay here & face THIS!?” Phobos issued off to point at the major scene of having to come face to face with a Demon God before them.

“Um, good point.” Starlight Glimmer sweat drop a bit in suddenly having a change of thought of the argument.

No sooner did Starlight Glimmer fire a beam onto the map, causing it to glow bright light blue before all. With the appearance of turning magic gear symbols & clock noises, everyone was diving into the map table before it suck everything & it was left back to normal. But as everyone left, Grimmore approached the crystal map as he smiled in seeing it to have uses before unleashing his dark powers in which all goes dark while we never see, WHAT…may happen.

 

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The scene changes to a strange, but peaceful little town of a different location compared to anything else in Equestria. And appearing from a white light, showed the Sparkle Gang along with a willing Starlight Glimmer, appeared from the ground in seeing this location. They have left the awful future to be somewhere within the past, but…where, or rather…when?

“Where are we?” Twilight asked off in not knowing of where they have landed in.

“That map of yours is connected to every part of Equestria and this part is my home.” Starlight Glimmer pointed off to glare at Twilight in explaining this to the group that the map connects to all parts of Equestria, including…where Starlight says it’s her home.

“Your home?” Phobos raised an eyebrow up in having heard this all of a sudden.

“Like where you grew up?” Nyx stated in realizing this was Starlight Glimmer’s home town.

“Yes, now follow me.” Starlight Glimmer issued off as she moves along as the others seem lost before shrugging it off to follow along to understand someone’s story.

Now we focus on something, as inside of a building, someone used magic to lift a book up on a tall tower of books. It was being done by a young unicorn colt with brilliant gamboge with light apple greenish splotches fur coat, brilliant & vivid vermilion color short mix mane & tail & moderate arctic blue color eyes. The colt smiled in having place the book up high while near him was, a filly version of Starlight Glimmer, only with pony tails & no cutie mark, but she clap her hooves happily to her…friend.

“Who’s that?” Ben asked off in seeing the colt playing with the filly version of Starlight Glimmer.

“My friend. Sunburst & I did everything together. In fact, I don't remember us ever being apart.” Starlight Glimmer issued off to explain this to those as they looked at the past through a window, they even saw the mare show a sad expression of…missing the days she had with the colt named Sunburst. “Until today.” Starlight Glimmer whispered this out with a bit of a hiss as the others seem lost by the subject.

We focus on the scene of where Young Starlight Glimmer was trying to focus her horn’s magic to move a book from the bottom stack that was a part of the game. But then Young Starlight Glimmer messed up, the foals yelped as the tower of so many books started to fall near the filly. Young Starlight Glimmer brace for the worse until a sunny yellow aura surrounded the books, making the filly open her eyes to see what happened. Sunburst ushered a lot of magic to move the tower of books away from the filly, levitated himself as the books spin around his body in motion. Then a bright light escape from him that made Young Starlight Glimmer yelp from the brightness before the tower of books were being placed back. Then Sunburst slowly lands on the ground a bit exhausted while Starlight Glimmer seems concern until…a light appeared on the colt’s flank to make appear: a sun bursting light rays out with sparkle stars, as his cutie mark. Sunburst was so excited, that he leap for joy & went off while passing Starlight Glimmer who watch what happened next. All of the other adult ponies in town including Sunburst’s parents saw their child had his cutie mark as the father levitates his son as everyone was making the colt the talk of the town; while leaving Young Starlight Glimmer behind to watch it all & see her friend leave.

“And just like that, my friend Sunburst was gone.” As Starlight Glimmer explained this off, her young filly self lets off tears of sadness, from seeing Sunburst…leave her alone. “His family recognized his magical talent & sent him off to Canterlot. I never saw him again.” Starlight Glimmer explained this from afar from the doorway while her filly self never saw who was there as she left the spot feeling sadness.

The Sparkle Gang were seeing this unicorn mare in a different light somehow, she had a friend, but she never saw that pony after all this time; it felt so sad.

“Well, why not?” Spike asked off the question that was on the mind, why couldn’t Starlight Glimmer see her friend; too bad that made the mare go from sad, to angry in a heartbeat.

“Because of his cutie mark!” Starlight Glimmer turn to glare at the group in protesting of why she never saw her friend again. “He got his, and I didn't get mine! He moved on with his life & I didn’t!” She came face to face with Spike, Phobos & Nyx, then up to Twilight & Ben in stating clearly about the problems she went through because Sunburst & her didn’t get things at the same time. “I stayed here in my town & never made another friend, because I was too afraid another cutie mark would take them away too!” Starlight Glimmer was letting off her words in touching her chest with tears in her eyes, letting off a heartbreak motion of why she never made any more friends because of fearing to lose them…by cutie marks.

“But that’s ridiculous. A cutie mark can't just take your friends away like that.” Twilight stated off in being surprised & speechless in seeing for the first time, that Starlight Glimmer was suffering a friend lost & believes it all happened from a cutie mark separating them.

“Right, sometimes one friend gets a cutie mark before the other, that doesn’t mean they can’t still be friends.” Ben nods off to say how sometimes friends get cutie marks ahead of another, but that don’t mean they can’t still be friends; even when Twilight got hers, he still be friends with her even if he hadn’t got his.

“Guess again! Not everypony's lucky enough to get her cutie mark at the same time as her friends!” Starlight Glimmer wiped away her tears to lash out at the others while making her horn glow to unleash a bolt of lightning in the air. This caused the Magical Time Portal to appear, as it sucked in everyone again & in a flash they were gone from the spot.

 

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AND ONCE MORE, BACK IN CLOUDSDALE’S PAST

 

Now the scene opens up to where we see Cloudsdale as the Magical Time Portal lets off the Sparkle Gang & Starlight Glimmer in the same areas on their clouds from before they left, etc. But now that they are back, everyone gets their serious faces on in knowing that another attempt to either stop of protect the Rainboom is about to take place, AGAIN!

“You don't know what it's like to lose a good friend because of a cutie mark, Princess.” Starlight Glimmer issued this off to say towards Twilight not understand while her horn lit up. “But once I stop the Rainboom that connects you & what came from it, you will!” Starlight Glimmer issued off to say this while seeing Young Rainbow Dash race the bullies on the course as the mare showed a wicked expression of going to make Twilight understand what it’s like to lose a friend.

Then without warning, the bag on Spike teleported away, much to the others’ surprise.

“Uh-oh! That’s not good!” Phobos yelps in seeing they lost the bag with the time scroll, which means…

“And when I destroy this scroll you used to return each time to fix what I done, there'll be no way for you to change it!” Starlight Glimmer issued off to make the levitated bag show a familiar time scroll, as the angry mare declared that when she destroys this, those here will not be able to undo what she’s trying to do.

And soon, Starlight Glimmer uses her magic to slowly begin to start a rip on the scrol, as the Sparkle Gang looks worried; without that scroll, then the hope of changing the future will be lost forever.

“Starlight, please…So just because you had ONE bad experience with friendship because of cutie marks..." Twilight tries to speak reason to Starlight, but...

"It was NOT just ONE bad experience with friendships because of cutie marks. I never made any friends for knowing cutie marks would take them away, I've seen it happen to those I almost became friends with only to see a repeated cycle to never see them again." Starlight Glimmer issued off to say this in protest of what she suffered through.

"That's still no excuse for going to these extremes. Any pony who would abandon a friend because of the gain of a cutie mark wasn't that good a friend to begin with. Besides, you have proven your magical abilities are at least an equal match for my own." Twilight stated off in focusing these logical debate matters for Starlight to understand.

"I was an extremely late bloomer. By the time my talent started showing itself, it was already too late for me. Even after what you did in the village I made, I meant up with those that held a bigger grudge against you, & so I underwent extensive training of my magic to compete with you. But I will admit though, that I was just using them for my own agenda." Starlight explained off to admit somethings of what she went through & also planned on doing from receiving an anonymous aid.

"There aren't that many who hold grudges against us that we haven't meant, but knowing who you likely was using, I seriously doubt they take kindly to back-stabbing." Twilight issued off to say this that they know who Starlight got help from, & if they learn of this, things will not be well.

“But why focus on just ONE point in time? With a time travel spell that powerful, there must have been lots you could have done?" Ben asked off in trying to get more answers out of Starlight Glimmer.

"You mean stop Starburst from getting his cutie mark, like that matters." Starlight Glimmer stated off in what would be the point of doing that. “And in case you’re going to ask, why didn't I fix it so my original plan worked? I thought of that. When I tried that, my original plan worked TOO WELL and I ended up dooming Equestria because there was literally no pony powerful enough to fight the truly powerful non-pony villains and monsters. Or control the sun and moon. I also tried allying myself with other old enemies of you and your friends, but the in-fighting undid us before we could even get one plan off the ground. I also tried patching things up with Starburst and follow him into Celestia's school, but Starburst turned out to be such a bullying jerk that it made me wonder why I even bothered.”

“Yeah. I was just entering Celestia's School by the time he graduated, but I heard a lot of stories about Starburst's bullying from some of the fourth, third and second year students. Anyway, the point is that not all ponies are like the ones that abandoned you after they found their special talents. In fact, the vast majority of ponies aren't.” Twilight explains seriously to her.

“Starlight, listen! How do you know Starburst is still a bully?” Ben pointed out a possibility that Starburst may or may not still be a bully. “Maybe he regretted what he did and his treatment. You can't hate him forever. You must at least give him another chance, at friendship...and more...”

“I can if I want to!” Starlight scowls furiously. “Like I said, even if that was the case, it still doesn’t matter!”

"It does because we all saw it, he risked himself to save you, cutie mark or not, if you intervene, your filly self would have been seriously hurt & then you make Starburst feel terrible in not having done anything when a true friend did act to help you." Ben stated from what he saw, Starburst wanted to save the Young Starlight Glimmer because they were friends, no true friend would standby to watch a friend get hurt, it only lead to devastation.

"What?" Starlight Glimmer yelped from having heard this, could what Ben say be...true? “Enough! I won’t be deceived by you! I told Seekcurse everything would be perfect & equal once this job was done, I’ll show him that I can do this without his aid.” She protest in not going to listen to Ben’s words, she must prove she can do the task given to her by the one watching her action.

“But don’t you see he’s using you?” Ben stated to say this about what Seekcurse was up to.

“Lies! Al lies!” Starlight Glimmer snapped off to say in not believing in Ben.

“Don’t you see? Your action is no better than Sunset Shimmer when she was being manipulated by the Superior before we convince her to be good.”

“That pony at least has something, I don’t!” Starlight Glimmer snapped off to say this off.

“I know where you've been, Starlight! I lost Ben years ago when he was turned into the Demon Pony! Twilight spoke in stating how she too lost a friend because of an incident.

“But he came back to you! Sunburst never did!” Starlight Glimmer issued off to say this about a difference between the two.

“Sunburst was more than your best friend. You were in love with him, weren’t you?” Ben stated to hit the old nail on the head on that one.

“Hugh…” Starlight Glimmer gasped, her eyes shaking & her body felt a sense of trembling. Could it be true that…Did she have feelings for Sunburst? “But what about you and Twilight? You two are so different.” Starlight Glimmer pointed out how the two lovers here are different from another.

“I know & there were some enemies that kept trying to pull us apart because of those differences, but despite that, our bond is still strong.” Ben stated off with a firm tone in not letting enemies tear them apart.

“However, that still doesn't excuse you from doing something that makes life miserable on a whole new scale!” Nyx issued off that they can’t let Starlight Glimmer do this, it’ll affect everyone in the worse way possible.

“While many of us might not know much of what you went through, but we can’t let you do this.” Twilight issued off to say this much in trying to do something to turn things around. “You are right, that I don't know what you went through! But I do know you can't do this!” Twilight admits this as she begs out that Starlight Glimmer shouldn’t do this of changing the past. “My family & I seen where this leads, & so have you!” Twilight shows pleadful eyes in wanting Starlight Glimmer to understand, that what they see, without the birth of the Rainboom, Equestria’s future will lead to horrible results.

“Yeah, the not-so-happy & TERRIFYING Future!” Phobos exclaimed off to wave his arms up in stating the scary event they saw in the future.

“Really now? I only saw what you showed me! Who knows what'll really happen in Equestria?” Starlight Glimmer pointed off her left hoof to debate the fact that what they saw, can’t be what the future will be like.

“Seriously, you were as close to being terrified when you saw Grimmore! And he’s even worse than you siding with those Dark Mystics!” Ben raised an eyebrow that the pony doesn’t get it, she saw the number one worse villain of all times, & Starlight Glimmer has only sense how strong the Dark Mystics are to know a HUGE difference.

“They were a means to an end, I never truly side with them. I only use what can serve my plans. And my plans for making the future better without six ponies is what I want.” Starlight Glimmer issued off that she only used the Dark Mystics to help her with a means to an end in preventing the Mane Six from coming together.

Twilight & the group see Young Rainbow Dash & the bullies approaching, if they miss this ONE final chance, then it’s truly game over. They have to solve this dilemma & not lose that time scroll, this is the only time that instead of fighting, words might have to be the only hope.

“But we’ve seen it a dozen times! No matter what beyond reasons, things don't turn out well in Equestria without my friends!” Twilight shook her head to honestly & sincerely say this about how without the Mane Six, Equestria has no future.

“Ugh! What's ‘so’ special about you & your friends?!” Starlight Glimmer groans to remark off this debate of hearing about Twilight & her precious friends, as she slowly rips more in the middle of the scroll. “How can it be that a group of ponies that are ‘so’ different towards another be so important?!” Starlight Glimmer debated over this issue to stomp her hoof in not understanding it; how are the Mane Six important that the future needs them, why?

“Hurry mommy, if we can somehow try to reason, maybe we can save the future.” Nyx whispered this to her mother, as they seem to be reaching out to the mare in having a hard time figuring things out.

“Better hurry, Rainbow’s making another pass.” Spike pointed this out in seeing Young Rainbow Dash race the bullies around another cloud ring; as the group are carefully & slowly approaching Starlight Glimmer in her moment of distraction.

“The differences between me & my friends, are the very things that make our friendship strong! It’s what has helped us stay together through so much.” Twilight expression with an honest smile to say this, as Starlight Glimmer seem to be…struggling with herself from feeling somewhat; confused over how much friendship Twilight has & why her friends are special.

“I thought Sunburst & I were the same.” Starlight Glimmer opened her eyes with tears flowing out, admitting this about how she & her colt friend for the past felt like that too long ago. “But we turned out different in the end & it TORE our friendship apart!” Starlight Glimmer issued off to say this in feeling frustrated that her magic was close to ripping the time scroll completely, one more inch & its over; the mare was feeling so much sadness that it was painful to her.

“So try again! Make new friends!” Twilight opened her wings to fly above in speaking out these words of what starlight Glimmer can do, try again in making friends, by making new ones. “And if there’s something that you can't control happens that changes things, work through it together!” Twilight explained off these things to smile & clap her front hooves together in trying to tell this pony something in how to handle friendship if things get rough. “That's what friendship is!” As Twilight said this, that tiny emerald sparkle of magic around Starlight Glimmer’s eyes return, making her upset face turn into…sadness & grief in hearing words that seem to be…reaching her. “And it's not just my friendships that are important to Equestria! Everypony's are!” As Starlight Glimmer feels a strange urge of emotions, Twilight’s words continue to speak true with honesty about friendships being important to everyone, not just the Alicorn princess alone. “When yours ended, it led us here. But just imagine all the others that are out there waiting for you if you just give them a chance!” Twilight spoke these words that from what Starlight Glimmer did when her friendship ended, it brought the mall here, but the mare doesn’t know that there were still friends out there she can make…if given the chance to try.

“She’s right, you let doubt become the darkness that holds you from coming into the light. But just like when any of us were lost in the dark, the light of those we care about shine our way. Yours can be the same.” Ben smiled to explain this, as they can see that whatever had Starlight Glimmer go down a wrong path, they can help change it for the better.

Starlight Glimmer felt as if her tears were on a break, she was close to ripping the time scroll to get her revenge, but…the words she heard, they…they’re making her second guess everything. The strange emerald light started to sparkle unseen around the mare’s body, somehow disbursing some random traces of negative emotions to be filled with something that was…letting her heart open up for.

“How-How do I know they won't all end the same way & make me feel all alone again?” Starlight Glimmer leaks off tears, as she expressed TRUE emotions of wanting something she truly lost, having friends but without going through the same experience & being all alone.

“I guess it's all up to you to make sure they don’t.” Twilight spoke off to say this with a sincere face as she fly close to a crying Starlight Glimmer before landing, stating the best way to not lose a friend like before, is to just…try.

“And if you like, we can help you too.” Nyx smiled off to say this in wanting to help Starlight Glimmer out.

Soon passing by was Young Rainbow Dash slowly making signs of the Rainboom to catch up to Young Hoop; Starlight Glimmer sees this but also sees…Twilight Sparkle raise a left hoof up as if suggesting her to…take it. Starlight Glimmer was literally torn between wanting revenge to now, following feelings of what she TRULY wants. She sighs & then…slowly, but hesitated for a moment before she raised her left hoof to almost approach Twilight’s as she, & everyone else were showing…friendly & honest to goodness smiles. Suddenly, Starlight’s horn cease glowing, as what happened next were two things; her hoof touch Twilight’s which were also join by Ben & Nyx’s &…Starlight Glimmer showed for the first time & an honest out blue smile…of happiness of acceptance. Course during the moment, Spike grabbed the falling Time Scroll as to not lose it.

“Thoupowfruvhmmm…!” But the moment did not last, as a magic shot impacted the backside of Starlight Glimmer. The mare yelped in pain as she toppled against the gang who caught her, but the moment caused Spike to lose his grip on the scroll as it flew off. Only for the time scroll to fall into the clutches of the attacker who smiled darkly at the touching scene afar as everyone stared at who it was…Seekcurse.

“How disappointing. I don't know what Amon saw in you. I see a weakness in you. All this because of losing a friend.” Seekcurse monolog off in addressing the case as he held the time scroll to all to pay close attention. “How pathetic can you be Starlight? Power is your friend. I learned that the hard way, so long ago!” As he address this, he wields a sword in planning to wield it close to…the scroll he now holds.

“Seekcurse, no! If you destroy it, we won't get back in time!” Ben protest to have the guy stop to know what he’s doing.

“All for more reason to give a chance to destroy Equestria's Hope. The princess & her five friends, & all your allies have been a thorn to my side far too long.” Seekcurse remotely stated this off in having had enough of the Mane Six that center around messing everything up he & other villains have planned. “I’ve work so hard to bring the true kingdom back & you keep ruining it! Well now I have a page memory since I’m immune to the changes of time. So the only way to achieve what I seek is that I will destroy you all! And that includes you, Sparkle!” He held his sword out in making this claim, as he will eliminate those in his way to obtain what he wants.

“Why?!” Twilight asked off as she hoped a hurt Starlight Glimmer who was hurt by healing her injury.

“Everyone mistreated me as a failure who couldn’t achieve anything. I will give them what they deserve. Because of those Westerns, I'm ruined!” Seekcurse issued off to narrow his eyes in making his claims of why he’s doing all of this, because of those from the west of Equestria the Mystics once called Westerners. “I’ve lost my best friend to them! I've lost my chance to become a minister because of them! I've lost my only home & kingdom because of them! And so, I will give them what they deserve!” He asked out in declaring what he shall do to those in return for the suffering he went through.

“All this for revenge?! And you're willing to kill the innocents?!” Starlight Glimmer spoke off these words as she struggled to stand on her own as the others watch her while she speaks to this enemy that attacked her in the backside. “You're insane! This is not what I wanted!” She snapped angrily to this isnane pony.

“You think?!” Spike and Phobos rolled their eyes that the mare realizes what this enemy would have gone for from the get-go.

“I gave you chances to do thinks right Starlight Glimmer, I thought the darkness of being around those Dark Mystics would have corrupted you, but something was keeping your little light alive? No matter, I’ll finish the job myself in where you were too weak hearted to have the stomach for eliminating the threat by permanent means.” Seekcurse explained forth this matter towards Starlight Glimmer in which she gasped, the guy plans to kill off the young & innocent, she said to not do that & he’s still going to do it.

“I guess we know why Blackwitch asked us to help her. This guy was misguided from the start.” Ben stated in glaring at the enemy in why Blackwitch wanted help to stop the foe.

“We shall see... Say goodbye to your old home! You will never ever see it again!” Seekcurse issued forth to say this, as he wields his sword in preparing to destroy the time scroll.

Everyone is in a slow gasping stage, as they see Seekcurse was slowly closing in & many of them were too shock with fear to know what to do….except maybe from one.

“I’ve lost my friend once. Not this time! I only managed to get a glimpse of this spell once, but please work…Time Freeze!” Starlight Glimmer spoke this under her breath as she tries to muster any strength to make her horn glow with enough magic; then she fired a certain spell on Seekcurse. Then within the evil pony’s space area, he was frozen in place as well as the time scroll.

“What…this spell…but how?” Seekcurse exclaimed off in shock, how did the mare even performed such a spell?

“That’s the Time Freeze Spell. The same one we saw the Superior use to freeze everyone in Canterlot High when we first met. But how do you know that?” Ben stated in recalling this spell, but how was it that someone like Starlight Glimmer managed to come across knowing it.

“I’ve tried to get clues about it from small hints that others had leftover of how it’s perform, it’s not a full scale version, but enough to stop a target or targets in a right size dome.” Starlight Glimmer explained the conditions of what she was trying to do here in using just enough of that spell, on a smaller scale. “But still, you lied to me! Everything Ben said was true!” She stated off in glaring at Seekcurse, for seeing the truth for once.

“You little ingrate! After everything the Dark Mystics & I have done, this is how you repay us?” Seekcurse exclaimed in glaring at the mare that dares to oppose him.

“We’ll take that!” Twilight stated to use her levitation magic to take back the time scroll to give it back to Spike.

“You think this is the end; so long as I live you have not heard the last of me.” Seekcurse protest to say this as he was fighting to break out of the Time Freeze Spell effect.

“You’ve done enough damage within your life, Seekcurse.” Then appearing from above, the one who spoke was none other than Blackwitch accompanied by Jade; surprising everyone.

“Blackwitch? Jade? Your here?” Nyx exclaimed off in surprise in seeing who has arrived; & the former looks a little more better considering how much she must have suffered from the alternate timelines.

“Blackwitch was really sore from all the different alternate futures, so she had to swallow some pride to seek aid from, get this…the Chronicler.” Jade issued off that from so much damage done, Blackwitch needed to seek help from another fellow being like herself, & that being was someone that lives on Equestria; Chronicler, keeper of books that tell tales of every creature’s destiny, etc.

“Hugh…why’s that?” Phobos raised an eyebrow in why those that came here went to see someone like the Chronicler.

“One was to heal over my wounds from so much inflicted injury of too many alternate timelines, & second was to gain this.” Blackwitch explained that she needed help to heal over & that the last reason came from…showing a strange book.

“A book?” Starlight Glimmer raised an eyebrow in seeing a weird book that seem design to be from a culture of the Qin Dynasty era, but why?

“While Seekcurse has his ability of being immortal & regeneration, there are ways to destroy one even such as he,” Blackwitch spoke off to mention this from looking between those here. “While other & more powerful villains are harder to destroy while their destiny lies ahead of what faith may have in store, Seekcurse is only able to live forever, but it ends when I erase his existence before he becomes an immortal.” She explained that while other powerful foes can’t be touch due to what destiny may lie for them, they can at least dismiss Seekcurse by erasing his existence from time.

“You see, Chronicler’s books he watches over, they each share one’s story, but while some can’t be alter to change unwritten futures, she’s going to put an end to Seekcurse’s long overdue ending.” Jade gave the brief version of how things are gonna end for the villain here.

“By order of Jade Emperor, Seekcurse, you have committed serious & dangerous crimes for not only destroying lives, but also defying & destroying Mystic Ponies. Therefore, I shall erased your existence for good!” Blackwitch issued off to stare sternly at the culprit, as she opens the book that tales of Seekcurse’s past to present & untold future after declaring the pony shall be no more. “Now your reign of tyranny comes to an end….Time Erase!” As Blackwitch spoke her words, her eyes glowed darkly while she cast a spell in a page to erase the events of Seekcurse ever becoming immortal.

“No! No! No! Noooooooo! This can't be happening!” Seekcurse gasped off in shock as he cries, he sees his body slowly aging while turning to sand as time was slowly catching up to him. His body turned into sands. “All I want to be is at the top of pyramid! To rule with our destiny over all! Noooooooo…..” With the last of his dying breath, Seekcurse’s body was completely turn to dust that was blown within the winds.

“It is done... We are finished.” Blackwitch slowly nods this before closing the book that told about Seekcurse & how a new ending of the fiend’s demise meant an end for a long awaited nightmare.

Everyone that watched this were in silence, they could not believe it; it was now finally over. Seekcurse, who caused some of them terrible manners of trouble in the past is now gone &, since the guy never became immortal, could not do anything in the future of the present or take any more lives to boot. Maybe things will work out better this way, somehow…

“Twilight... Thank you for helping me.” Starlight Glimmer spoke off to admit this with a heart-felt emotion coming along. “And I'm sorry for the damages I've caused, especially leading to such horrors that lead to everyone suffering.” She was apologizing for being a fool in not realizing something that caused so much trouble for the future, she did not know.

“I forgive you for the damages, because everyone who can earn a second chance can earn it.” Twilight spoke to say this as the two shared smiles as she held out a hoof to which Starlight Glimmer took to refill the moment of something the latter girl always wanted; a friend by her side.

“Too bad the same can’t be said for Seekcurse. Murdering lives & destroying good kingdoms too many times in his life, the only deserve punishment for him…is finally being rid of such a fiend.” Ben stated off to mention this in looking at the blown dust of what was once Seekcurse, now forever out of their sight.

“And this time, that monster will stay down for good!” Nyx stated off in not wanting such a foe to appear again.

“You & me both Nyx, never wanna see that guy again.” Jade nods off to also agree on the term of the subject.

“You said it!” Spike & Phobos responded off in also agreeing to never see Seekcurse ever again.

“Time Erase allowed me to erase a foe from existence for good, & now Seekcurse will never be a part of the history or story….since he never became immortal.” Blackwitch stated off to say this to herself in reminding her of what was done. “Our problem with him is over & the problem you seek to fix has also been done. Now, we can finally return to where we belong.” She issued off to say this that with the problems here over, it may be time to return, to their own respected timeline.

With everything resolved, unknown to anyone, Young Rainbow Dash had just created a Sonic Rainboom while flying off to make her cool rainbow. With the wind passing over all those in Cloudsdale, even those that have time traveled, they watch above in seeing history in the making, a Sonic Rainboom going over their heads made by the Young Rainbow Dash, the Sparkle Family smiled to see this while Starlight Glimmer watch this in awe. But Starlight Glimmer looked to Twilight, as both mares showed happy smiles that were enough to make everyone smile too in seeing that history was now back on track; & what a beautiful sight it is. And as the Magical Time Portal opened above to suck those that travel to the past, Starlight Glimmer hugged Twilight, Ben & Nyx as they along with the baby dragons felt joy that the journey of heartache over lost friendship, is at an end… Blackwitch & Jade also held on for when they too felt being sucked in as well. With that, the portal closes on that spot as a sign that things were done.

 

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WITHIN A REALM BETWEEN TIME….

 

Suddenly as the ones traveling through the time void were nearly reaching the exit point, a flash blinked them, as they all fell across a strange realm covered in bright white & gray lines, there was no walls, no solid ground to acknowledge if the gang stand on anything. Everything was strange, & just ahead of them was a strange object fashion to be a turquoise orb with a symbol of a white line pattern hourglass.

“Where…are we?” Starlight Glimmer asked off in where they even are.

“You don’t know?” Twilight asked in being surprised the pony that came through before them doesn’t know the answer.

“No, I only gone through the void tunnel & back with you.” Starlight Glimmer stated to say this.

“What’s that over there?” Spike pointed to the strange orb ahead of them.

“The Sacred Time Orb!” Blackwitch gasped off in recognizing the object in question.

“What’s that?” Jade asked the mare who knew about this strange time stuff.

“An object that exist in where we are now, the Time Realm, where the time stream flows & the orb keeps track of things from the past that go through to where the present & future lead to.” Blackwitch explained the case of what the Sacred Time Orb is & what its purpose is.

“Wow, so that thing connects the time stream, even the different routes to the alternative futures.” Ben pondered off to see how that thing works.

“Question, why are we here & not back at home?” Phobos asked off in being puzzled.

“Indeed, something is not right. It’s almost as if…” Blackwitch was wondering about the question until…

Suddenly without warning, a part of the realm was instantly shattered like a mirror, & soon a dark aura began to flow into the space shrouded with dark vapor mist. And soon entering the area made those that could sense the magic presence of an enemy, knew an enemy was right there. But soon entering was a foe the group may wish it was someone else, because it was…Grimmore, who stood to view them with a sly superior expression on his fiendish appearance.

“Hugh…Grimmore!” Blackwitch gasped in seeing who was here without warning.

“Oh boy!” Jade yelps with fear, this was not good.

“But how’d he get here?” Spike asked off in looking pretty worried now.

“Yeah, time’s fixed, he should be kept seal, right?” Phobos asked off in wondering how a major villain like this guy is not sealed in Tartarus.

“I am immune to the changes of time, I have seen the changes, including the event of the lost future you saw. All I did was simply enforce my will & broke through the boundaries to reach this place.” Grimmore spoke forth this to state that he is immune to the changes of time & that he has figured a way to break through to this place. “And now, if you believe I was the least of your problems, it’s time you learn that nothing is at it seems!” He issued to say this in having something to say here, that the problems the group have now will become far worse now.

That’s when more parts of the realm began to shatter within the realms as Grimmore was unleashing his aura of making them happen. Soon things began to appear from the shattered rifts within the time stream, & appearing were more enemies then the gang can count: Nightmare Moon & her Nightmare Guards, Discord (evil), Queen Chrysalis & the Changelings, The Flim-Flam Brothers, Tirek, the Demon Lords, the Dark Mystics & lastly the Apocalypse Ponies. They all stood in a line row of villains as Grimmore began the supreme leader of a league of history’s little villain league.

“He’s released the villains from their alternate timelines here! But how?” Twilight exclaimed in shock in not believing what she’s seeing.

“Better question, how do we get out of this? Judging their individual strength, we can handle one villain or their group, but an entire army seems much even for us.” Ben stated to say this in never guessing they end up having to fight an army of villains, & that from what they already gone through, one batch or a solo villain was hard enough, but this…WAS CRAZY!

“Not unless you have help.” Spoke the voice that interrupted the gang’s moment of hearing someone familiar to them.

That’s when something appeared out of nowhere o the opposite side of the area, it took the appearance of a red mechanical dome of high tech neon-bright light display of technology. And from the large storage doors opening, appeared a shock, nearly every Element User the heroes have befriended appeared: Crash Fire, Snowcrystal, Z-Strap, Magnus, Mangani, Flare Tiger, Flower Dog, Shadow Cat, Smoke, Anakonda, NeoVamde, Jones Venture, Kilik, Nightwatcher, Johnny Brock, Azuma, Gemini Sparks, Armor Stark, heck even Zebura. The army of evil glared off again the powerful foes that wielded elements that were standing in the way.

“Great job Flare Tiger, we made it in the nick of time.” Armor Stark spoke to look at the one that helped bring them all here.

“Armor Stark?” The gang replied off surprised, what was a guy from their timeline doing here; how’s he get here?

“Flare Tiger & her party gathered up many of us to explain the threat within the timeline, so we hopped into my own Time Protection Dome, & she helped take us to find you. But you kept moving so much it was hard to get a fix until now.” Armor Stark explained the case of how he & the others were brought here along with being protected from the changes that happened in the past that affected the current present to alter their future.

“Good thing your here, cause I think we’re gonna need every help we can get!” Phobos stated off in feeling like they be happy to accept the help.

“Alright, Ah say, we give them all we got!” Flare Tiger issued off to say this in what they do, give it one for.

“Yeah!” Shadow Cat & Flower Dog cheered to agree on the term of what to do.

Then what happened next was when many of the Element Wielders made loud battle cries, as they unleashed a storm of their elements powers to cause massive cloud burst of explosions left & right. For many of the normal rank foes of those serving as an army to villains, the warriors were beating them & even the villains had hard times & many that had great power were having themselves pushed back by the sheer numbers. Grimmore watched everything from the sidelines, seeing how the heroes struggled, but he secretly was planning something.

“Twilight, get to the Time Protection Dome, we’ll catch up so we can escape from here. Once we’re in the right present, then time should correct this oversight. Go!” Armor Stark issued off to tell the others to quickly get to his dome machine while they keep the villains at bay for a while.

Heeding the words of their armor stallion friend, the group had to make way towards the mechanical dome in where they could escape & return to the present. Twilight & the rest were trying to continue to move on from this point, only for something…to freeze them in place.

“Hey! What’s going on?” Phobos asked off in not getting what was going on here.

“Someone is using Time Spell! Grr! My body!” Blackwitch hissed off in trying to move, but her body is unable to move from this powerful spell.

Twilight and her friends yelped painfully as they felt their veins within the bodies twitched and cracked.

“I thought the others had the enemies distracted?” Spike questioned off in being puzzled off in not knowing how this was happening.

“Not all of them.” At this moment, someone merged from nearby to approach the group, & it was…Amon.

“Hugh…Amon!” Starlight Glimmer gasped off in seeing the last villain she wanted to see again after realizing her mistake.

“Well done, my former student. You've brought our prey here in perfect time. Now to begin things, & destroy the world you hoped to save.” Amon issued off to speak before standing in front of Ben while he was frozen.

“What are you planning?!” Ben asked off i demand with a frown on his face.

“Just a twist of things, you can say goodbye to your powers...Power Removal!” Amon placed his hoof on Ben's head in electrocuting him a lot. He screamed painfully causing him to lose not only Cutie Mark but his powers. Triforce Elements breached out from Ben's Cutie Mark as the Triforce hovers over everything.

“Stop it! You’re hurting him!” Twilight shouted off for this fiend to stop what he’s doing.

“You can’t take daddy’s elements!” Nyx stated off in wanting the enemy to not hurt her father.

“Yeah, no way they wanna be used by some evil jerk!” Jade stated off that Ben’s element can’t be used for evil.

“The Triforce Elements are not necessary good or bad. And therefore, I freed it & will use it to destroy the Sacred Time Orb & any timeline, especially the beginning.” Amon stated forth in looking at a target to use the power of the Three Triforce Elements…to destroy time by its central source.

“What! But then that would mean…The End! To everything!” Twilight gasped off in realizing what this villain was gonna do.

“Indeed, prepare for the end to come…but perhaps I shall make your end here for interfering with us for the last time, princess.” Amon stated off to say this in about to end things, but first…revenge against Twilight Sparkle for messing with the Dark Mystics.

Just then, a Shadow Spear was shot from out of nowhere that impacted Amon as he screamed in pain, as it caused the Time Freeze Spell on the rest to cease. Then in an unexpected event, the one that stood behind Amon was…the Equalizer.

“Wait, Starlight’s here, so how…?” Phobos asked off in seeing Starlight Glimmer was here & once more, the Equalizer costume is not in his bag, what’s the deal here?

“What are you doing?” Amon looked at the one wearing the Equalizer costume as if knowing who it was.

“Changing your plan, for my lord has other means.” The Equalizer in question spoke to say this in sounding different from Starlight even without the voice modifier.

Then shadow magic escaped from the Equalizer, as it connects the Triforce Elements to latch with the Time Orb. But it suddenly caused a strange upset as sparks were surging out of control from such a power. It ended up blasting away Amon & the Equalizer it which a portion of the helmet got busted to reveal…the masked pony inside, the Equestrian Eliminator.

“That’s…” Twilight gasped in seeing that the one that was knocked back, she saw something in recognizing it was the mask pony from…before.

Right now, Blackwitch tried to launch a powerful spell in preventing the Time Orb’s wild outburst to cease begins it was starting to create time loops in the time streams.

“This isn’t good, I’m still too weaken from the damage to the timelines, trying to fix this is too much with my current strength.” Blackwitch stated to say this in being unable to stop what has been started.

“But if you can’t, then it will be the end.” Starlight Glimmer stated in knowing what will happen in the end.

“Isn’t there some way to stop this?” Nyx asked off in wondering if they could stop this from destroying time.

“There is a way.” Spoke a voice of a female, as something teleported to be near the group. Everyone turned to find what appeared like a pale unicorn mare with greenish mane & stripes of red & blue like Twilight's mane style while her body was covered in a strange cloak. “I will help you, if you willing to accept the payment.” She stated off to mention this much.

“Celtic!” Blackwitch gasped off to recognize this pony. “All of you, do not trust her!

“You again? What are you doing here?” Ben raised an eyebrow in why this pony was here.

“Yeah, can’t you see we got a crisis here?” Phobos stated to say this that they have a problem to fix.

“I sense the interference & destruction of the timeline. And I've come to deal with it. I am here to help restore the timeline.” Celtic stated to say this in what she will do to fix the problem.

“Wait, you can do that?” Nyx asked in not believing that this pony can fix the damage.

“Don't! She's lying! She's a Mystic Demon! If you accept her contract, you must pay the prices she required! The prices are too high for you to accept! Do not trust her!” Blackwitch issued forth to warn the others.

“Blackwitch cannot restore the timeline. But I can. For I am the second Witch of Time. So, what will you do? Are you willing to see this to be destroyed?” Celtic issued off to say this in telling this to the others that they have a choice to make.

The group was in deep thought, they see the Triforce Elements & the Time Orb were getting a bit more out of control unless something can be done.

“What can we do?” Twilight asked off in getting ready to do what needs to be done.

“A wise decision. In order for me to restore the timeline, you must accept my contract & condition. A price must be paid... And you must willing to give it up, something you hold dear. For some it maybe family, others their identity, conflict emotions with a raging enemy & even the power to protect. These are the prices you must pay.” Celtic explained the case of what it is that needs to be done.

“And what happens if we don’t accept those terms to give up something you’re not telling us of what?” Ben narrow his eyes to question these conditions.

“If you do not accept it, the timeline may very well be destroyed. Everything you know of will be gone…” Celtic exclaimed to darkly say this to the group.

“Oh no, what can we do?” Spike yelps in not knowing what else that can be done.

“Hide in that thing Armor Stark brought & hope this ends peacefully?” Phobos pointed off in what they can do to hide away & hope things will be better later.

“I’m afraid there aren’t a lot of choices now.” Twilight sighs to say this before looking at the pony that gave them a tough choice when their options are limited. “Celtic... Mystic Demon Witch of Time, we’ll accept making a contract with you. We are willing to pay the prices.

“Twilight, don’t!” Starlight Glimmer protest to say that the Alicorn mare can’t do that.

“You can’t!” Jade stated that Twilight shouldn’t do this.

“No…” Blackwitch exclaimed that this was not what should be done, there had to be another way.

“Well done... The contract shall be made. Once I begin the restoration, everything you know of will be different than you remembered. And remember... Nothing is safe as before…Beginning….Time Restore!” As Celtic spoke, her eyes began to glow brightly while she glares straight at Twilight and her friends. They all got blinded by the light as everything around them turns into white and blank... “The world where you use to live in will be long gone now. You must continue the struggles till the journey reaches the end of all evil. I wish you good luck, to you & your friends to bring balance to the realm.” As Celtic spoke as the events she was making, she held five cards in what was about to happen next…

“I disagree.” Grimmore’s voice was heard within the distance, as Celtic’s eyes went wide before…. A powerful red beam was shot that went so fast, it impacted the mare to be knocked unconscious while the process that was happening to the Sparkle Family was cease. Everyone looked from when noticing something happened, & the five cards Celtic had were thrown off that they fell close to the Time Orb, where they too were drawn in & soon absorbed. “Foolish Witches of Time, your powers mean nothing compared to a God! And now….the Ultimate Goal.” Grimmore spoke these words in stating that no one, Blackwitch or Celtic, could be a match in stopping a far grander scheme at hands.

Then without warning, Grimmore held up his left hand as it unleashed dark surges of magic, as it was attracting the Time Orb that was loosely unstable. The Sacred Time Orb was drawing closer to the powerful Dark Elf, as everyone watched in seeing this.

“The Triforce Elements, the Time Orb, merge into one…I shall be ruler of space, time & reality of not just this world…BUT All Worlds!” Grimmore explained forth that soon, he will rule not one world, but worlds beyond…

The gang were in a state of lost & fear, the Triforce Elements were still merge with the Sacred Time Orb. With that much power & from what was heard, Grimmore could very well rule unleash unspeakable evil to worlds like Equestria, but separated by the boundaries of space, time & reality.

“Great, now we’re really in the DEEP soup! How are we gonna get out of this?” Phobos panicked off in seeing there was no way out of this.

“That is where I come in.” Another voice spoke, as everyone turns to see someone else coming out of the Time Protection Dome, as it was none other than…the Chronicler.

“Chronicler?” Twilight stated off in recalling this Equestrian friend they know one, did he travel with the others.

“Woah, Blackwitch, Celtic, & the Chronicler, can anymore ponies that watch over time & destiny be in the same room at once?” Jade stated off in seeing this was a rare gathering she never expected to see.

“Listen carefully Ben Mare, do you still carry your sword?” Chronicler asked this in wondering if Ben wields his sword.

“Yeah, I called it, but was frozen the whole time, why?” Ben lightly nods off to say this sword that he still had on him even when his Triforce Elements were separated.

“I have asked the other wielders of elements to transfer their power into these shards, they are from the Tree of Harmony. Let them be coated on your sword & use that power, to aim at the orb.” Chronicler showed off a large collection of shards that the Element Users each transfer their element’s power in & with the right magic coating on the Master Sword, they will aim at the Time Orb.

“Wait, what about destroying the orb will destroy time?” Spike asked off in recalling the dangers of doing that.

“No, these elements power will instead cause a relapse, allowing time to straighten itself on its right path. But the plan is only 50/50, what do you say?” Chronicler issued off in saying they can relapse this event to get time back on track, but there was only a risky gamble intruding to pull it off.

“Well at this rate, anything’s good. We tried to make a risky deal with Celtic, but at least now…yours sounds a little more comforting.” Ben stated off to say this in what he feels is better to do.

Ben soon takes his Master Sword, as the Chronicler uses his magic to let the shards of the Tree of Harmony with many other Element Users powers coursing through, be like a single light of hope. Then with all of Ben’s might, he hurl’s his sword straight at the target, & then…the sword penetrates the Time Orb, causing a strange surge of wild magic to become unleashed just as it was inches away from Grimmore’s grasp.

“Humm?” Grimmore looks at this action in puzzlement.

At that moment without warning, the Sacred Time Orb imploded on itself in shattering in a thousand pieces. At the same moment, those thousand pieces were close enough to actually…puncture through the skin of a Demon God, but Grimmore remain unmoving or reacting as if not feeling any pain. Soon within the Time Realm, the shattered portals began to suck in all those that came from them, including the alternate villains of different futures. Many were screaming & yelping from being taken away while the other Element Warriors watch this, before the alternate foes were sealed in their own alternate timelines while the realm began to make a quivering reaction.

“Ben….what did you just do?” Armor Stark asked off in seeing this in surprise, as all of the others that fought stop to notice what was going on.

“Well I’m hoping I just stop a great evil from doing unspeakable things.” Ben stated off in answering the question with his own thought of what he did.

“Sir, this area is becoming unstable due to time relapsing & rebooting itself. I suggest vacating the area.” JARVIS’s voice spoke from within Armor Stark’s armor in stating what was happening within the area.

“Well that sure sounds pleasant.” Armor Stark shrug off to make a slight joke of the manner.

“Quick, we gotta get in the dome!” Flare Tiger issued off to say this in what they need to do here; as everyone was making a break for the Time Machine Dome.

Everyone was quickly making a bee-line for the Time Protection Dome, preparing to get the heck out of here since they don’t wanna be around in what comes next. Even Jade went with the others as Blackwitch helped Celtic aboard as well. But as surges of everything were starting to quiver & quake, Grimmore stood in his spot as his own body was slowly drifting back through his own shattered portal to return to where he’ll belong. But through the eyes of the Overlord King, he begins to see things through a void loop of actions happening, events yet to come, battles the heroes will face & even…some terrifying events, all of which slowly was forming anvil smile.

“So this is what shall happen, how interesting.” Grimmore showed a smile despite what was happening all around even himself. “Do you heroes know why I exist in this world?” He asked this out to those that were trying to get out of time having a relapse start.

“Wait, what?” Twilight yelped to stop as she & her family wanted to know, what Grimmore was talking about.

“It’s because I am a creature that exist outside of time, I was born from the destruction of all evil creatures across multitudes of worlds. But I was left to be stationed in this world.” Grimmore explained forth about what he is, he exist in Equestria Prime because he was born from the destruction of so many evil beings that came into one central location. “However your act in destroying the Time Orb, the shards have taken pieces of my flesh, & now….when Time Relapses to start things up again, there will exist others like me.” He explained this off with a slight motion while showing a wicked smile about now there will be others…like him.

“What!” The baby Dragons yelped in finding that to be unpleasant news to hear.

“Some will be stronger than others by sheer strength & skill, others to be mages over magic, warlords over an army, but in such an attempt, my power seems to have hit a snag, but this is only temporary.” Grimmore explained that now there will exist many of him, those that are not as powerful as a god, but close to be recognizable threats even while the Dark Elf says he’s temporally lost a bit of power.

“Temporary?” Blackwitch raised an eyebrow in having heard this, it couldn’t be that…

“My power will return & even greater than before, but until then….” Grimmore spoke off that he is now less powerful of a Demon God, but he will reclaim it someday, until that time, he will tell the others something. “Continue to entertain me in your future struggles.” He issued this off as his little words to those here of what he’ll look forward to seeing.

Now Grimmore lets off a final magical laughter as he soon was completely through the shattered portal before it sealed up. Then everything shattered to become like a glass breaking all around, Ben was the last to just about to board the dome when….he slip through the crack floor beneath him.

“Waaaughh….” Ben screamed out as he was suddenly pulled away from the others from the complete collapse of everything in the time Realm.

“BEN!” Twilight called out as the others tried to reach for Ben but became separated.

At this moment, Twilight, Spike, Phobos, Nyx & Starlight Glimmer were seen trying to hold their ground on the dome, but they slipped do to the shifting of the realm’s lost gravity hold. Twilight, Nyx & Starlight Glimmer used their magic to levitate themselves & the baby Dragons onto the dome. Everything was a black emptiness, until a lonely portal showed the way towards a familiar timeline, Equestria Prime. Nearby, Ben saw that & knew it meant one thing…the pathway home.

“That’s the portal home…if I can just…summon the right item.” Ben stated off before as luck would have it, he summoned his Clawhooks & aim one to latch into the time portal home. “Yes, the Clawhooks done it, now to get the others to use the Golden Gauntlets to…” But at that moment, Ben saw something further out from his family, friends & allies, the Triforce Elements of Courage, Wisdom & Power hovered around, they must have been free from the merge with the Time Orb. “The Triforces….I could still get them back, but…the others…they’re in need.” Ben stated that he has two choices, get his elements back, or save the ones he loved, this was hard to choose what was best for Equestria, etc. “I know what I have to do, even if I lose what made me special…” He stated off in coming to a firm decision about this.

Ben aimed his last hookshot at the only thing that mattered to him, his friends & family & everyone in the mechanical dome. Now the stallion was helping to pull them towards his spot, & at that moment, the Triforce Of Courage glowed green in recognizing Ben’s courageous act before zipping off to remerge with him; on Ben’s flank showed the usual three gold triangle formation, but only the bottom right corner was shown glowing in a full yellow while the other left & top areas were just lines with empty spaces for the other two missing Triforce pieces.

“Hugh, guess it took real courage to make a hard decision like that, at least one’s a start, hang tight guys, I’m pulling us in!” Ben stated off to say this in seeing how his courageous act & choice now brought one of his Triforce Elements to him, as he now focuses on pulling the others with him towards their portal home.

Now Ben tries to help pull in the heavy dome, but with his Golden Gauntlets, he was making a valiant effort as everyone held on.

“Everyone hold on, gonna jump boost us right through.” Armor Stark’s voice stated from inside the dome in about to give it a jump start.

“Twilight, get Ben & then ye all hang on!” Flare Tiger’s voice spoke to Twilight’s group to get a hold on the other, as this will be a bumpy ride.

Then without warning, the Time Protection Dome shot off its booster rockets that launch itself & everyone aboard through the area where Ben was. As it entered, a large spark of light blinded everyone, as those within the dome felt themselves returning to a time & place, & Ben united with Twilight, Nyx, Spike, Nyx & Starlight Glimmer, yelped from feeling a new void pull them off towards a different destination. And with that, everything goes blank out in what happens next….

 

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The scene opens to where the Magical Time Portal opens up, & dumps off Twilight, Spike, Nyx, Phobos, Ben & Starlight Glimmer in a familiar castle setting. But during the motion, the time scroll slipped out of Spike’s grip as the scroll pops open before a bolt of lightning hits it, the scroll lights up. As everyone got up to see they are back in Rainbow Castle, the scroll shot magic into the map, as they all look down to see what was happening, before the crystal map shows much of Equestria….perfectly fine; it’s back to where everything is normal again. And soon the time scroll goes into the Magical Time Portal before vanishing in a flash of light act blinds everyone & flashes outside Rainbow Castle. Once over, nothing but sparkles rain around the town before vanishing…

Then without warning, Spike & Phobos are seen kissing the castle’s floor, much to anyone’s puzzling surprise.

“Oh, home sweet home!” Phobos happily stated off in seeing they are back.

“One Castle of Friendship…check!” Spike issued off happily to say this about having what was missing from the other travels back to the present.

Then something of doors were opening, as that caught everyone’s attention to see…the Mane Five along with Goldie’s group entering the mix here.

“What in Equestria was that just now?!” Rarity asked off stump & surprised as when they came here, they saw a bright light escape the castle.

“Is everypony okay?” Fluttershy asked meekly with worry with everyone was alright; course Rainbow, AJ & Goldie focus on noticing something happened that they need filling in.

“Eek! Question! Can you do it again?” Pinkie Pie squealed with joy in wanting that action to be repeated; course many of the serious ponies showed surprise, concern & suspicious faces in spotting something ‘else’ with the gang.

“Everyone’s here & acting like their REAL selves too!” Nyx smiled for joy in seeing everyone was back to normal & not acting like their alternate future timeline parts; what a relief.

“Yep! One group of amazing friends…check!” Spike issued off to say this with a smile as the Sparkle Family showed them except for…maybe one extra; Starlight Glimmer.

“Yeah, Spike. It looks like we're home!” Twilight patted Spike’s & Nyx’s backs in being happy to see that they are home again.

Course while the Sparkle Family were happy to return here, Ben noticed that Starlight Glimmer seem sad & worry. That’s when it hit the guy, no one knows about what occurred & if history is BACK on the right track, then everyone remembers Starlight Glimmer from her…’old’ acts of evil.

“Uh pardon de interruption, but… what's ‘she’ doin' here?” Applejack narrow her eyes to point out about Starlight Glimmer being in the same room while Rarity & Fluttershy seem worry.

“Enemy spotted! Preparing for Attack Sequence!” Omega issued off to bring out his cannons which were preparing to fire when…

“Woah-woah! Easy Omega! Stand down!” Ben stands between everyone to calm those down to not attack Starlight Glimmer as they got the situation handled.

“Ben, we got Fred & Barney out of that Crystal Block an hour ago, they told us what happened.” Goldie stated that they heard from the guards that were frozen, about Starlight Glimmer being in the room.

“So why are you defending her after what she did? Especially when knowing she’s the Equalizer!” Jack Zen pointed out that Starlight Glimmer is also the terrible Equalizer that did the whole Equalized Zombie event.

“I get the funny feeling you got some explaining to do.” Pinkamena teased off to say this in knowing somebody better start explain what’s going on here.

Starlight Glimmer looked away from the hateful eyes with sadness & grief, knowing that if history is still the same, everyone knows about what she did which in the latest of truths was not good.

“Actually everyone, it's kind of a long story.” Twilight spoke off to say this with a smile as she rested a hoof on the worried Starlight Glimmer to help assure everyone, that she will explain everything, but all is well. Starlight Glimmer looked to Twilight surprised that she was defending her, she made a small sheepish smile in knowing what happens next…

 

Minutes Later…

 

Fred & Barney are outside the Council Room with Starlight Glimmer pacing herself back & forth with a worried expression. The Royal Guards were told that the mare was sorry for the trouble she caused them, & to just let her wait outside as Twilight, Ben & the other council of friendship members go over things to decide what to do with her, but till then, she is to be treated right. So understanding, the guards stand their post while Starlight Glimmer continues to hear muffles of voices while looking worried, wondering how the discussion is coming along to decide her fate from all she’s done. And right now, inside, everyone is gathered around the Council table where the crystal map displays Equestria, as for the extra guest like Goldie’s group, spare chairs were provided as honor guest to oversee their act of what was being discussed & that happened; & it was a lot to take in too.

“And that’s about it, we ended up here from just escaping, that was even closer then meeting face to face with the Demon God himself.” Ben stated off to mention this of what a close shave they had before everything collapsed.

“What Demon God? There hasn’t been any since Apocalypse Devil & his Heralds perished long ago.” Pinkamena raised an eyebrow in being puzzled by what Ben was saying.

“Hugh? What are you talking about, we were referring to Grimmore, for ponies’ sake?” Phobos asked off in not getting this bunch of what they are getting at in not recalling such a feared foe.

“Phobos, while Grimmore is powerful to be in the top spot of the Three Lords of Equestria, he’s only known as a Mighty War-God type of villain.” Goldie pointed off to say this about knowing what Grimmore is, he’s just a powerful foe that he is at a feat that is like a war-god in general.

“A…War-God?” Spike raised an eyebrow in being lost; that sounds far different from something much scarier.

“War-God, is a term of stating one who has the strength & magical might to be close to a god. And Grimmore is in league of being above the rank of the Demon Lords while the only Mystic warrior that came close to stopping & sealing him was Mystic Avatar, who sacrificed his life by using the Elements of Light & Darkness, but not in perfect action to seal him away while giving up his life.” Omega explained what a War-God is, being closer to being almost a real god, but still over ranks Demon Lords & a powerful foe that no other Mystic can face since the last one that sealed the Overlord King in Tartarus.

“The guy maybe sealed in Tartarus, but he can still use his magic & he has his army to do his bidding; thus he’s the Overlord King in that area. The important thing is that he stays seal, we don’t want a repeat from Tirek on a scale that is much, MUCH worse.” Jack Zen pointed off to say this about if Grimmore got loose, then what happened when Tirek was free, will be exactly a repeat, only much worse.

“So, Grimmore’s not the most powerful enemy in all of Equestria?” Spike asked off in being slightly off that the fearsome foe that was a mighty foe that had the power to be a god & a demon of all horrors; is not anymore.

“Well he’s in the top spot of three: First is the Grimmore Army, Second is the Dark Mystics led by Dark Curse, Third is the Apocalypse Ponies of whom we yet to know who the leader is, they all seem to run their own deals in conquering & destroying Equestria.” Pinkamena explained off in who the top three bad guys are in all of Equestria. “But many of us know that Grimmore’s been gaining extra power since he secretly snatch a portion of Ben’s Triforce into a Copy Crystal during the day our first celebration to Luna got interrupted by a curse of nightmares spreading to everyone, & he has been acquiring a lot of Dark Stones out of anyone else. In fact, it’s because of that gain of power that he once threaten the EQG Universe for which, we forgotten the reason why…into a black hole. But still, with that kind of stuff & wild magic, & being immortal, the guy may be revered as a god of all the Dark Elves & then some.” She stated off that though Grimmore is not a full fled god, he has the capable of being what is a War-God out of his Dark Elf kind with the way he can gather magic to increase his own magic abilities to such an extent.

“I don’t believe this. Grimmore is not all powerful like he was before, but he’s still a potential threat.” Twilight held her head to process this, the enemy that held everything in the pawn of his hands without making an effort, is now just a powerful villain then an all mighty force; while there is some light to it, it still isn’t all good news.

“Great. Next thing we know, is that you don’t recall the epic battle we had against Boris when I was the Demon Pony.” Ben rolled his eyes to quote this off in what else he may as well be told about.

“Well, epic is somewhat a strong word.” Rainbow Dash shrug off to say this in having heard what Ben said.

“Seriously, you don’t recall the guy turning into a Red Devil Pony & stealing the talents of everyone’s wings & horns?” Ben raised an eyebrow in hearing this, doesn’t Rainbow Dash remember such a dark moment.

“Wha in Sam Hill ye talking’ about? Boris didn’t turn into somethin’ like dat when ye had yer final tussle.” Applejack raised an eyebrow that Ben must have gotten the subjects mix, when he last fought Boris as the Demon Pony a final time, the guy that tried to kill Ben was not even red.

“What about Discord? Is he still good?” Twilight asked off in being worried about any other changes; namely about the spirit of chaos.

“Well, he’s trying darling, at least not like Discord II or Chaotix as he is now called….to think someone from the Apocalypse Ponies used a spell to snatch the evil version of him & made him become alive & active. Ah, it’s horrible to deal with that he’s more loose & out of control.” Rarity stated off to mention about what happened with Discord being good, but then one of their enemies took the separate evil version to make it more evil as Discord II AKA Chaotix to cause greater harm then the old reform Discord would have done.

“What about the Demon Lords, when we went on our journey to the End of Equestria? Heck, we even ran from The Shadow that almost got us?” Spike asked off in being concern about what they did from that time & saw the eight immortal Demon Lords.

“Oh, well, you did overcome them & made it back safely, but somehow, the Demon Lords’ spirits have taken to become vessels of certain members of the Apocalypse Ponies. Ohohoho, I hate to see someone that had two different personalities.” Fluttershy shivered a bit on the after part, because while Twilight’s family did stop those things, they also left their bodies to join a group to be their vessels.

“What about the Rainbow Forms, or even the Element Forms, or what about when you all perform Xross Fusion to become Unity?” Nyx asked off the next bunch of questions that she had on her mind.

“Woah, easy there Nyx, first, we still haven’t figured out how to control the Rainbow Forms, second, we still haven’t achieve the strongest forms to take, Element Evolution, & Unity, of course we achieve her…we did when Brave Heart Visited us the first time.” Pinkie Pie slowed Nyx down to state the matters of what occurred, what they done, & about other things that they can & can’t do.

“What about the Mirrorverse, where we face or other evil selves?” Twilight asked off the next question that was on her mind about going to another world like a mirror of their own.

“I recall dat, we got sent & then came back.” Applejack held her chin in recalling that event.

“And what about the Smooze?” Ben asked off in thinking about the slimy guy.

“Still slimy, but an alright guy. Even Megan & her family say he’s better than the original Smooze.” Rainbow Dash smiled off to state this factor about the Smooze.

“Megan, does she still have the Rainbow of Light from when Tirek was destroyed & came back?” Twilight asked off in trying to figure something else out that was another factor in history.

“What do you mean, of course Megan still has the Rainbow of Light.” Goldie raised an eyebrow in seeing all these strange and off questions, the discussion from time traveling seems to have stress the Sparkles.

“What about Flutterbat….ugh, I mean the other Flutterbat, not you Fluttershy, I meant…” Twilight held her head in being so overwhelming of questions, it was hard to get them out right.

“The one who came from another world & NeoVamde helped & asked Pinkamena to help out, she can’t be out since its still daylight.” Fluttershy stated to say in answering what happened that lets them know about another matter.

“What about the other Element Users we met? Crash Fire, Snowcrystal, Z-Strap, Magnus, Mangani, Flare Tiger, Flower Dog, Shadow Cat, Smoke, Anakonda, NeoVamde, Jones Venture, Kilik, Nightwatcher, Johnny Brock, Azuma, Gemini Sparks, Armor Stark, heck even Zebura!?” Spike was asking off about a lot of Element Users that they have come across & saw in an important moment of their time travel matter.

“Heck, don’t tell me that you don’t even remember what Loki A. Fool did to you all while we went to rescue you! And not to mention, that Cadance & Shining Armor also are Element Users too! AND….that they are having a baby, I mean for real, a BABY!” Phobos was remarking off to say these other things about a trickster of illusions, to two ponies that also wield elements now & that they are gonna be parents.

“Of course we remember all that, those were fun memories. Some were more dangerous, other times of when we meant our new allies were also insightful. And of course I remember the news about the baby, silly.” Pinkie Pie smiled off to say this much that they all recall the events that they experienced from such times, including Shining Armor & Cadance are going to have a baby.

“And…” The baby Dragons asked off in awaiting a response.

“And that’s it!” Pinkie Pie smiled off to perk in having said what she could.

“Mommy, what do you think is wrong here?” Nyx whispered to her mother in being lost by what they are dealing with here.

“I’m not sure, Ben, do you recall something about our old adventures & memories?” Twilight whispered this off in asking this in trying to recall anything that they remember while the others say they don’t recall it happening like that.

“Well I’m remembering a time Crash Fire came, but…wasn’t there a battle…but according to my memories, he just came to set up a place to teach foals self-defense things.” Ben held his head in remembering something, but the guy in question came to set up a place to teach, it didn’t involve him…being a part of any battles back then.

“Hugh…Spike, what memories do you have about something that caused you & me to have a major fight that tore us apart?” Twilight held her head in trying to recall something that was a major argument she & Spike had if Ben was having difficulty with a memory.

“Oh man, that was a memory I wish I could forget, it was…hugh.” Spike was about to say, but stopped himself when he realized that…his mind was blank. “That’s really weird, I…don’t have a memory of what happened. I don’t think it was when I became too greedy that I turn huge.” He rubbed his noggin in not recalling that event of him & Twilight ever fighting or having a major disagreement.

“Phobos, what about you? You were involved in something that involved Spike, right?” Twilight asked the baby Moon Dragon for his thoughts in the manner.

“Well…I think it was being seal in something. But I can’t remember a thing after I found a way out to help Nyx out of a sealed safe. What was it I was in…a wall…a jar….inter-dimensional prison, nah, too silly.” Phobos was trying to think about this, where & what was he doing before meeting up with Nyx, he doesn’t really know.

“Spike, what about something of your family? There was something that caused a major event, right? There has to be since we….” Twilight was asking in trying to recall something as this was earning attention that a memory they should have, is no longer there.

“Twilight, calm down, the only family I ever had besides you, is my grandpa King Spykoran.” Spike held up his claws to calm Twilight in stating this to the mare of the only family he truly has.

“This is really weird…there are some things we went through in the past we still have vague memories of, but other events & occasions are being mix with something I’m recalling differently.” Twilight stated in holding her chin & close eyes to picture things, but then new flash images begin to push out others that…never seem to have existed. “I recall after Ben’s disappearance that I lost someone who I saw was….wait, who was it again?” Twilight opened her eyes in not recalling someone about what happened after Ben’s disappearance.

“Wow, judging by what you all are talking about, it’s clear what is happening.” Pinkie Pie spoke off to randomly say this before getting ready for a long statement of a theory. “When you escape from time traveling, something made a reckless action that caused events here to change, while everything maybe normal to us, you all are getting use to learning about what happened, but also about events that happened differently while the ones here are merging with your other memories, which in turn causes those older ones to fade & then you became so terribly confused that it’s enough to make your head EXPLODE! Guuuagh….in which in short, is like saying time crashed in on the space & reality & now we’re living in a new timeline zone!” Pinkie Pie was explaining a very long theory that sounded very randomly crazy before stopping to take a breath.

Many were looking at the pink pony in almost thinking, that was the single craziest thing to hear; a time crash event caused an overlap of their world to change & build itself of what it is today.

“Okay Pinkie Pie, I think that explanation has more than covered up the matter of what happened.” Twilight sheepishly say this in seeing that in a shocking turn of events, Pinkie Pie has label off all of that in which might explain things; they are now living in a new timeline much like their old one, only no majorly over leak balance of evil ruling Equestria, so it’s ‘mostly’ back to normal, with some good & maybe some bad changes to still try to fix along the way.

“Well, it wasn't easy, but we WERE able to fix the problem.” Spike said to the others with a shrug.

“Yeah, I know.”

Ben notices the sad look on his love’s face, making him ask, “Why so glum? You managed to stop Starlight without stooping to her level and fix the timeline - more or less.”

Twilight sighs as she explains, “It's just seeing how badly Starlight took Sunburst moving away after getting his mark makes me realize something I don't like thinking of. I mean, Moondancer took it almost as badly when I snubbed her party, even if Moondancer didn't hurt anyone but herself. It makes me realize, that, well –“

“That Moondancer might have ended up taking it that badly whether you attended her party or not, simply because - well, you don't swing that way.”

“Right. Well, she might have taken it A LITTLE better if I attended, even if only because I would have had the chance to break it to her gently. And I took it pretty badly after you disappeared for so long - even if the circumstances WERE starkly different.”

“But still, you know, I mean, I knew my Rainboom was awesome, but I never thought all of Equestria depended on it!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed off to say this with a wide smile in never once believing that Equestria was dependable on the Sonic Rainboom she made as a filly.

“Or on us too!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed forth to say this in never guessing that the Rainboom’s timely event that happened in the past would be needed for the Mane Six to follow through their cutie mark destine.

“On all of you, including others you would meet too.” Nyx stated off this other subject about the matter as well.

“I think it's more than that.” Twilight spoke up in getting everyone’s attention on the subject at hand here. “In a way; Friendship connects all of Equestria, & undoing one group of friends like us, made its magic less powerful.” Twilight pointed to the map in stating how friendship connects to Equestria, & that when one group of friends that are so true was undone made the magic less powerful than before.

“So in truth, without the united front of those that trust another, like true friends, they can’t muster up their real strength.” Autumn Gem stated off in having to suggest this topic of one point of view.

“That seems to be the case, without your join efforts, who knows what other villains you fought including me would have done?” Sombra admits this in knowing that without the Mane Six, he & other enemies would have been left uncheck & done terrible things.

“Well despite it all, it still amazes me. I mean, I can't believe y'all were able to travel through time like that.” Applejack stated off to honestly speak her mind that those here managed to travel through time to have such an adventure.

“Even more so, visiting other alternate future timelines, my processor is nearly blown away.” Omega issued off that such a thing to process is too much even for his system to keep in track of what makes sense to what is harder to compute?

“That Starlight must be pretty magical to have tried all of this!” Pinkie Pie nodded off in being amazed by what Starlight Glimmer could do that seem pretty hard for normal unicorns.

“Enough to compete against an Alicorn like Twilight, yeah, it was shocking to believe.” Phobos pointed off to say this in how shocking it was that Starlight gave even Twilight a fair bit of trouble in a magic battle. “But she even used the Equalizer suit to do some of the harder task, even wield a crazy staff to be nearly hard to beat. But now both the metal staff is gone & the suit & helmet are pretty much gone for good.” The guy pointed out all of these other things while mentioning that they lost the Equalizer suit during the time travel as it pretty much is…gone forever.

“Well, I think if she was to start over, it’s better that she isn’t the Equalizer anymore, & just be her own magical self.” Nyx stated off to say this much about the means of Starlight Glimmer being strong without donning the evil alias as the Equalizer.

“Nyx is right about Starlight Glimmer, she obviously has more talent for magic than almost anypony I've seen.” Twilight spoke off in stating how much magic Starlight Glimmer was able to use magic in ways she never expected. “My magic alone couldn't stop her. I had to convince her to stop on her own. Once I realized that, everything fell into place.” Twilight explained the case that her own magic couldn’t stop Starlight Glimmer, but from talking to her, it instead made the mare stop of her own accord that fix everything.

“I think the words Blackwitch said Chronicler spoke of came true, the best way to defeat an enemy, is by making them our friend. Without it, we never have been able to get Starlight Glimmer to realize her mistakes.” Ben thought this over in realizing just what they accomplished by turning an enemy like Starlight Glimmer into their friend, things worked out better without resorting to fighting.

“But if she's as powerful as all dat, we can't just send her on her way, can we now?” Applejack stated off this with a puzzled look in thinking they can’t just sent Starlight Glimmer away, could they now; it was a tough question.

“Actually, I kind of have something else in mind.” Twilight spoke off to say this with a smile to look at Spike, Phobos, Nyx & Ben as they all shared the same thoughts of what the Alicorn mare was thinking.

 

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Outside, Starlight Glimmer seem really nervous about what the others were discussing about her or what to do with her from what she’s done. Just then, the doors where Fred & Barney were at opened up as Starlight Glimmer yelped with worry. Then appearing from there was Spike as he smiled to nod to the guards that all would be okay, as he waved for the unicorn mare to come inside now.

”Gulp….hugh…” Starlight Glimmer gulps down her fears for a brief moment, then exhales her breathing in knowing the time & decision for her…has come.

Soon Starlight Glimmer walks pass Fred & Barney, as she enters the Council Room where everyone was there in expecting her. As she entered, Pinkamena spotted something on the pony & saw some glowing emerald light from them.

“Well I’ll be. So that’s where it ended up.” Pinkamena stated to say this out of the bloom.

“What are you talking about sis?” Goldie raised an eyebrow in what Pinkamena was saying.

“On Starlight Glimmer’s person, some pieces of that jade emerald gem I had when we went to investigate some missing ponies & met the Equalizer.” Pinkamena pointed this out of the pendent that she had that vanished when they seen Starlight Glimmer don her first appearance as the Equalizer.

“The one where she used a crimson gemstone to make everyone into more fighting types than slow minded equalized zombies?” Jack Zen raised an eyebrow in recalling that event very well.

“Yes, but while that’s destroyed, this one was not completely. It must have been that green pendant she’s carried on that has affected her.”

“You mean this?” Starlight Glimmer overheard the discussion as she levitates a familiar emerald pendant, which is busted but seem to leak out some emerald aura; the mare sees this to never notice it until now.

“Yep, somehow, whatever evil you had, that pendent helped slowly make you see the error of your ways, which is good since Twilight got through to you.” Pinkamena nods her head in explaining the case of how from that thing, though busted, still provided age.

“Agreeable.” Omega nodded off to also agree to the matter.

Starlight Glimmer only signs at learning about this, even if the object she still held from Pinkamena did keep her from becoming completely evil, she still needs to face the consequences ahead here.

“Even if this pendent helped me see my wrongs, I know there's no excuse for what I did.” Starlight Glimmer spoke off to say this with a heavy heart felt emotion that she knows there is no excuse for what she nearly performed. “But I want you all to know that I'm ready for whatever punishment you think is fair. Even if it means being sentence to Grimdark, so be it.” Starlight Glimmer was speaking true to her words that she’s ready for whatever punishment they have in mind for what she did, she will face them.

“Wow, going that far ahead in thinking, hugh?” Phobos stated off in seeing how Starlight Glimmer is already picturing her time in the slammer with other criminals.

“Shh, they’re about to say something here.” Nyx hushed her pet pal to not disturb the moment.

“In truth Starlight, you helped open my eyes to something. I’ve been thinking a lot about how badly Equestria fared without just one group of friends.” Twilight spoke off to say this with a concerning feeling about how Equestria would fair off if not for a helpful action of any particular group of those that are considered…friends that know & metaling with another, etc. “Because even when one friendship dies, the results can be disastrous in unexpected ways.” Twilight informed to rest her left hoof to her chest in declaring how when any friendship dies, the results can lead to unexpected disasters in the future.

“Hugh, I know first-hoof how true that can be.” Starlight Glimmer sighs to admit this with a sorrow look in experiencing such a thing while looking down; when her friendship with Starburst seem over, it lead to her doing things that were gonna be terrible for Equestria’s future.

“And that's why I've asked you here.” Twilight smiled off to say this as she approached the mare feeling down. “If you're willing to learn, I'm willing to teach you what I know.” Twilight raised her chin to tap her chest in offering something which left Starlight Glimmer, surprise & stump. “You'll have the power to make Equestria an even better place.” As Twilight said this, many of those around the Council of Friendship each showed smiles in feeling that with Starlight Glimmer, she can help out in making Equestria be a better under the right guidance.

“You really mean that?" Starlight Glimmer asked off surprised by what Twilight said.

"She is, plus, you don't have to worry about the enemies you betrayed, if someone messes with one of us, we all stand for each other." Ben stated off to make this kind statement that they will be there to protect their friends.

"Mommy & everyone aren't the types to turn their backs on ponies in trouble." Nyx smiled off to say this in positive thinking.

"Plus, it doesn't take a genius to do the math that with us around & all our super strong pals, you got nothing to fear." Phobos pointed off to say this about having lots of strong & kind allies also helps too.

"You see, what you experience, terrible as it seems, may help you to better understand yourself.” Twilight said to the former villainess with a smile.

“It’s weird that in some cases, we almost might be alike, Princess Twilight.” Starlight Glimmer said with a small smile. “I looked up about you, how you had a hard time handling friendship, all because of two tragedies you dealt with after you became Celestia’s personal student.”

“I did go through some hard times, with Ben’s disappearance, & even after that, even as I grew, I lacked how to be good friends with my old friends before I moved to Ponyville. But, now I know & so do you.” Twilight said to Starlight Glimmer with a chuckle. “Which is why you’ll only get a lifetime of community service until otherwise.”

“Well, I suppose realizing after what I did to make up for it; that surprisingly is at least more pleasant than going to Grimdark.” Starlight lightly comments to this. “I do realize I DO have A LOT to make up for. Which is why I’m pleasantly surprised that you’re letting me off with basically a lifetime of community service.”

“Right, now you can help us make things better, for everyone.” Twilight said to her new student with a smile.

Starlight Glimmer smiled in feeling like she was feeling so honored, she doesn’t know what to say, everything feels like instead of a cruel punishment, forgiveness & a new chance of a better opportunity is right before her.

“How do I start?” Starlight Glimmer gets a wide eyes before she hushed her voice to ask Twilight this question of confusion; how does she even get started since she’s so new.

“Starting is easy!” Twilight smiled off to say this much to Starlight Glimmer’s surprise of how starting off is easy then it sounds. “All you have to do to get started is make a friend!” She hugs Starlight Glimmer in stating the first step, is making a friend. “And you've got a lot of them right here.” Twilight declared off in smiling for joy, at what Starlight Glimmer has right here to help her start off.

At this moment, gathering around Starlight Glimmer was many of Twilight’s friends & family: Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Spike, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Nyx, Ben, Golden Heart, Pinkamena, Autumn Gem, Sombra & Omega. Starlight Glimmer views this with a heartfelt joy expressed on her face, as she sees this that warms her heart, having so many…friends. At this time, the background begins to play ‘Friends Are Always There for You’ as we see what begins to happen as Starlight Glimmer is lighted up while the background goes dark.

 

Starlight Glimmer: I never thought that I would find a place
To step right in and start again
I never thought that I could just begin
Right where I left off and make a friend

 

As Starlight Glimmer sang, she moved to look around while looking sad, as an image of her filly self comes into play. Then a flash of light shows images of Sunburst being lifted with his family & other grown ponies as they celebrate while a young Starlight Glimmer watches this with sadness to turn away to leave the scene. The filly moves off & away from the other fillies & colts she could have made friends with before the grown version appears before…an image of Twilight Sparkle appears as the two bump their horns for Starlight to notice. Twilight smiles as she became all real, as Starlight Glimmer expressed herself with sparkle in her eyes in starting again to have a friend; just as Twilight lights up her horn that blinds our view to change the scene.

 

Twilight Sparkle: Don't ever think that it might be too late
You don't have to wait, there's no mistakes with the friends you make
A friendship's only made of what you bring
And if you do it right, you can do anything

 

As Twilight sings, she walks with Starlight through the castle as she explained things as they both smiled. With her magic to open the doors, Twilight leads Starlight Glimmer outside to which to the latter’s surprise, the princess waves to the Mane Five as they were there happily waiting for those to arrive; Rainbow flapped her wings & Pinkie Pie bounce with eager excitement. As Starlight smiles to see a new group of…friends, Twilight brings her down & flies up to sing this portion of the song out. And soon AJ came to hoof-shake with Starlight to meet her honestly as a friend, before the rest gather around to happily greet a NEW friend to the group; before Pinkie Pie tackles Starlight down in a happy motion while everyone either stares at this puzzled, lost, confused, but some just smiled or kinda laugh at this heart filling moment.

 

Starlight Glimmer & Mane Six: Just use your eyes
This time, no lies
Just don't disguise
Who you are inside

 

Next scene changes to where we see Starlight Glimmer in the center of the Mane Six as they happily walked off together. From Rainbow Dash, Rarity & AJ on the left, to Twilight, Fluttershy & Pinkie Pie on the right. And soon starlight Glimmer leaps happily with joy with everyone else while Spike plays the drums followed by Phobos as Ben & Nyx fly over the gang in watching this moment happily be a beginning.

 

Song: Because your friends are always there for you
You don't have to be the same for friendship to be true
Because your friends are always there for you
Around the world, it's still the same
Together you have more to gain
There's nothing that a friend won't do

 

Scene changes to where Starlight Glimmer was in Rarity’s shop, as the fashion designer was sewing a nice dress for their new friend while Spike watches the action before floating diamonds are place on the dress for finished touches; making Starlight smile happily in LOVING it while Spike claps in liking it too. Starlight is seen with Fluttershy, as they hug for a moment in the air while one levitates before landing on the ground for the unicorn mare to befriend animals; but yelps when Fluttershy’s bear friend Harry surprises Starlight by giving her a BEAR HUG for joy. Next scene changes to Rainbow Dash flying through the cloud ring course as she waves to have Starlight Glimmer use her levitation spell to have herself move off to join in performing the course as both ponies were having a fun race. Then another scene shows Applejack kicking the back of her apple trees which Starlight Glimmer is also doing to kick & make apples fall in the baskets, both are happy to be working together. Then another scene shows Starlight Glimmer with Pinkie Pie in Sugarcube Corner as the pink pony shows cupcakes which starlight smiles in happily taking a bite of something…delicious. Then another scene shows Spike & Phobos napping with a book as a cover as Starlight Glimmer was with Twilight to go over certain books happily while Ben also helped Nyx with her studies as they all were sharing the moment.

 

Now the scene changes to where Twilight, Ben, Nyx & Starlight Glimmer were going off somewhere over the mountains pass…towards an old village that started everything.

 

Song: Everywhere you go
Friendship there will grow
When you find it, it's the key
Friends can change the world, you see

 

The village that Starlight Glimmer started, it was here that it was time to begin things anew. Below, we see Double Diamond having chats with Sugar Belle with Party Favor nearby before many of them notice along with Night Glider that flew in to see who was coming to the village, & who was…back again; Starlight Glimmer! As Twilight, Ben & Nyx stood back with smiles of confidence, a nervous Starlight Glimmer approaches the four upset ponies that she had lied to & deceived about ‘equality’, they all looked like they were not too pleased to see her until…Starlight Glimmer lowered her head down to admit that she was…’sorry’ for the trouble she caused, causing the four to look at her differently that, the mare that took their cutie marks was apologizing for what she’s done. While they were lost to this, Double Diamond, Sugar Belle, Party Favor & Night Glider showed smile faces in seeing that…someone has finally learn about what equality truly is; that they are equal to understand another as friends. And soon the four come to hug Starlight Glimmer as she embrace the hugging moment with joy to have…her friends from their town again, it was enough to fill even Twilight, Ben & Nyx with joy that friendships here are amended again.

 

Now the scene changes back to Ponyville once again…

 

Song: Everywhere you go
Friendship there will grow
When you find it, it's the key
Friends can change the world (ah-ah)
Friends can change the world (ah-ah)
Friends can change the world, you see

 

We see the Mane Six & Starlight Glimmer singing as they walk down Ponyville to sing this song about friendship. Soon they stop where the town’s folk were gathering as Starlight Glimmer felt herself lifted up a bit. Then appearing from one side, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, Big Mac, Granny Smith, DJ Pon-3, Octavia Melody, Amethyst Star. Royal Pain, Cloudchaser, Flitter, Thunderlane, Daisy, Rose & Lily Valley. Then appearing on another side was Wings, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Mr. & Mrs. Cake, Mayor Mare, Lyra Heartstrings, Bon-Bon, Time Turner, Miss Cheerilee, Berryshine, Caramel Apple, Derpy, Cloud Kicker, & Parasol. And even from afar watching this happen on top of some buildings of Ponyville were the many Element Wielders the heroes have meant & befriend as allies: Crash Fire, Snowcrystal, Z-Strap, Magnus, Mangani, Flare Tiger, Flower Dog, Shadow Cat, Smoke, Anakonda, NeoVamde, Jones Venture, Kilik, Johnny Brock, Azuma, Gemini Sparks, Armor Stark, heck even not so emotional guys like Nightwatcher & Zebura are there, but they are also showing their own express motions for this drama. And within the center was Starlight Glimmer singing this with the Mane Six, as the six mares hug their new friend followed by Spike, Phobos, Nyx & Ben during the last note of the song. Soon the hugging stopped, as everyone soon stares forward from everyone pony in Ponyville were giving out smiles before…a picture was taken while the scene goes dark around now just as the song was over…

 

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The scene changes to as everyone arrives at Rainbow Castle, they are greeted by a surprise visit of…the Royal Sisters & Azure Phoenix. This catches many of them off guard in not expecting those here to have arrive out of the blue.

“Welcome back, everyone.” Celestia smiled in welcoming back those that have return.

“Princess Celestia/Mom, Princess Luna/aunt Luna, Azure Phoenix!” The Mane Six & Ben exclaimed in surprise while Ben approaches near his mother to nuzzle with her as he was happy to see her again.

“What are you doing here?” Ben asked off in why his mother & aunt are here.

“Golden Heart sent us a message informing us about what you experienced.” Luna explained off to say this.

“You have all done well, my little ponies.” Celestia issued off to say in giving thanks.

“So, this is the one called Starlight Glimmer?” Azure Phoenix narrow his eyes on the one that was mention in the report.

“Um, yes…that would be me.” Starlight Glimmer nervously spoke in feeling a bit worried, knowing that if the report mentioned her involvement with robbing cutie marks, the Equalizer manner, allying with Dark Mystics to altering time, Azure Phoenix might explode.

“Wait, if you read the message, then you know that she’s good now, right?” Nyx stated to say this in making sure the guy won’t hurt their new friend.

“Yeah, have a heart. Don’t go roasting her for breaking who knows how many time laws.” Phobos stated off to say this while saying the wrong words at the moment.

“Not helping.” Spike issued off that Phobos wasn’t helping with such awkward attempts of keeping Starlight from facing one angry Mystic.

“Relax everyone, we know. Everyone deserves a second chance, take it from someone like me, even Discord, in how friendship can help us.” Luna spoke to say with a smile in helping those understand such things.

“And you have made a wise decision Twilight.” Celestia smiled off to say this towards Twilight. “It would seem the student has now become the teacher. I never would have believed it.”

“We are all proud of you, Twilight Sparkle, as am I.” Azure Phoenix stated off to say this in being proud of the new princess of friendship.

“Thank you, but I still have much to learn myself. And besides…” Twilight stated to say this before hugging Starlight Glimmer nearby to say this next part. “It’ll be nice having someone in which we can both learn more things about friendship.” She issued off this to say how the two will be working together.

Starlight comment, "As you said yourself, the ones that helped me train my magic to levels matching your own aren't the type to take kindly about me betraying them. I'm no coward, but I'm smart enough to know when I'm outmatched. I figure, by accepting your offer to make me your personal student, I can have enough back-up to stand a realistic chance when they eventually come to pay me back for my betrayal. After all, you aren't the type to turn your back on a pony in trouble - especially not your personal student. And your friends will follow your lead. Between you, the other Rainbow Power bearers, your coltfriend, your daughter, Discord, Sunset and Flash, well - it doesn't take a genius to do the math."

“Well, again, I will learn more friendship with you around.”

“Thanks Twilight, I guess I should find a place in town to setup.” Starlight Glimmer lightly smiled for the thought of the manner.

“Well, how’s about until then, you can stay in one of our guest rooms here in the castle?” Ben suggested this to the mare.

“You mean that?” Starlight asked off surprised to hear this.

“Yep.” Ben nods off in totally stating it was okay.

“On behalf of saving the course of our timeline & preventing a future of where disaster would have overcome many, we thank you all. For the deeds you have done in the past to the present we live in.” Azure Phoenix smiled off to thank many hat have done wonders that they are able to speak clearly on the subject of Equestria.

Many of the gang felt much relief joy in hearing Azure Phoenix say that, as many were starting to begin by having Starlight Glimmer get to know the royals here.

“By the way, Twilight, your parents wanted to hear from you.” Celestia said with a smile. “They said your little brother is being a silly pony again. Sparky Comet, if I remember right.”

Ben comment, "Wow, Twi. From what we heard from the others who weren't caught in the time loop, it seems like your parents have been pretty busy ponies."

The scene begins to close off around here…

 

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The scene changes towards where it’s nearly nighttime with the moon out, as a door within Rainbow Castle opens a nice guest room as Ben was showing Starlight Glimmer to it.

“What do you think?” Ben asked off if the mare likes it.

“It’s more than some pony like me deserves, but…thanks. And Ben…I’m sorry.” Starlight Glimmer spoke off to say this with a thankful expression while also looking down to say sorry.

“For what?” Ben raised an eyebrow in where that came from.

“For yelling at Twilight when she tried to consult with me in the town you visited &…calling you Earth Filth, that wasn’t nice.” Starlight Glimmer was apologizing for all of the things she did to Twilight & Ben. “As well as insulting you about your scar.”

“What was the earth Filth about, only ponies that don’t have much respect for Earth Ponies like to call us that?” Ben asked in recalling that some unicorns & Pegasus think less of Earth Ponies, but no one since Boris called him that.

Starlight Glimmer was looking a little bad in how terrible she was in calling a nice guy like Ben Earth Filth, she doesn’t know why anymore.

“But you know what, whatever happen in the past, stays in the past. You said you wanted ponies to be equal to another, and that also means…by treating others the way you wanna be treated.” Ben smiled to say this in giving Starlight Glimmer the benefit of a doubt that the mare was sincere, & that by treating others right will be the same thing for her too.

“Thank you.” Starlight Glimmer smiled a bit in being thankful of Ben’s thoughtful words.

“But, there is something or someone I would like to show you.” Ben stated out to say as he gets something out; it was a glowing crystal ball that showed an image of…an adult version of Sunburst.

“S-S-Sunburst? How…” Starlight Glimmer yelps in seeing this before using her magic to levitate it.

“I asked someone if there was a way to get him to talk to you & a magic crystal ball was his advice.” Ben smiled off in stating this about how he asked a favor of someone that had some connections.

“Starlight…” The crystal ball responded off to which Starlight looked & it was Sunburst, wherever he was, the mare was about to…see & hear her old friend’s voice after so long.

“Hopefully someday, you two will meet in the flesh.” Ben patted Starlight’s shoulder to say this of what the possible future may hold.

“I would love for that to happen.” Starlight Glimmer nods off to say this with a happy claim about such a thought.

Ben leaves the room to allow Starlight Glimmer a moment to adjust, including having a first time chat with an old friend. As Ben was heading down the hallway, he spots a pony that also came to the gang’s rescue i the Time Realm they were trapped in, the Chronicler.

“Thanks for that Chronicler, but I’m guessing your visit isn’t about helping a pony from emotion matters that almost spelt the end of our timeline.” Ben stated off to thank the guy for the aid in the crystal ball thing, but knew there was more things going on.

“Ah Ben, I had seen her story, but knew that she would be fine…what has me concern with is about your case.” Chronicler spoke forth in issuing the matter towards Ben’s direction.

“You mean my Triforce, yeah, it was crazy, Amon tried to take it & now…I lost two of them. I bet I can’t even…” Ben was waving his right hoof to say he can’t summon anything, but then…his sword appeared. “What the…the Master Sword, but…” Ben was confused, he thought he couldn’t do this.

“You thought you lost your connection to your items, gears & weapons, when in truth, you can still access them & more of the others waiting to be unlocked.” Chronicler spoke forth in stating that not ALL things Ben once could do, were removed.

“But…how?” Ben was confused, he can still call on the items he can use even with just the Triforce of Courage on his flank.

“You forget, your bloodline is that you are a descendant of Epona, the companion steed to Link, the Hero of Hyrule. Even with one Triforce Element, you can use it to help you overcome trials ahead.” Chronicler pointed out these things for Ben to understand his role.

“But even still, it feels like what Amon did in the Time Realm, the memory of that event is…playing out differently in my head here. Like it was almost the same, but different.” Ben was still having some trouble getting use to some memories of where two similarities are the same, but a different method plays out compared to the first.

“In this new timeline, Amon did separate your three Triforce Elements, but Courage never left your side.” Chronicler pointed this out about how Ben still has Courage within him. “And it will be from Courage that you seek Wisdom & then go forth to obtain the Power to make yourself whole & strong once more.” He explained that Ben will re-obtain what he lost as Courage will be his guide.

“Thanks for those words Chronicler, maybe you’re right, I can reclaim what I lost. And I won’t be alone either.” Ben nods off in thanking the guy while making this claim.

“More than reclaim, you will gain new experience, & your inner bloodline will awaken your inner strength as well while you progress.” Chronicler stated out to say these other things to Ben.

“My bloodline awaken my inner strength, what does that mean?” Ben raised an eyebrow in being puzzled by that claim of what it means.

“You will find out, when you face an enemy you feel betrayed, but through it, you will realize what is most important to you. Take care, young Ben….the future of what happens next is for us all to decide.” Chronicler exclaimed forth to mention these things, as though they are hidden clues of what Ben will face in the near future.

Ben was unsure about what the Chronicler meant, but perhaps whatever the case maybe, he’ll have to overcome it, somehow.

Later on at this moment, we see the Chronicler was seen exiting the Rainbow Castle in the middle of the night. As he was moving to prepare himself to return to Canterlot, he sense someone nearby to turn & find….Celtic, the Mystic Demon that even Blackwitch fears.

“You seem to say much to someone when you yourself only look through one’s story of their life through books.” Celtic spoke off to say to Chronicler of what she had witnessed. “Regardless, the cards I wielded were to change those five by giving up something to undo the damage of the time stream.”

“Your cards that held the contracts were non-in-void when they were taken & fuse with the Time Orb.” The Chronicler exclaimed forth in mentioning this statement of what happened during the matters within the Time Realm.

“Yes, apparently my contracts come with fine prints, which is what Blackwitch & the others would have feared.” Celtic issued off in knowing how her ‘deals’ can sometimes lead the Mystics to not trust her very much. “But as you said, they became non-in-void when what happened changed what I was planning to do.”

“In a way, yes, however, even without the contracts, those of the Sparkle Family will not know what it was they lost, but to find a change instead.” The Chronicler stated forth to mention this as some side to overlook. “To find is to lose & to lose is to find.”

“Is that something you got from your books?” Celtic asked off in having heard such things from this book keeper.

“In a way, yes….I see that what they will find is something they lost, but within this new timeline, what they lost will be found anew.” The Chronicler exclaimed forth to say this in being positive of his words.

Soon the Chronicler summoned five books, each one with Twilight, Ben, Nyx, Spike & Phobos on them as he looks through to see what new changes appear to be done.

“Spike’s family will be different, leading to a more pleasant life. Twilight Sparkle, destiny has many surprises in store for her from a growing family where each of them plays a part in their own adventure. Phobos has not change much as he will still be with the one he wants to be with young Nyx. And dear Ben Mare, the events from the Time Stream will be reflective upon here. But even still, he will reclaim what is his & he will not be weaken by this setback, nor will he be alone.” The Chronicler explained this off as he looks to skim through the books of what told the stories of the Sparkle Family, what changes are made differ from others, including those like Ben who lost something, will find it again.

“Then are you saying the sacrifices they made were…” Celtic raised an eyebrow in being curious of what this stallion would say next…

“Nothing but a change for a character, or characters undergoing change.” Chronicler stated off the simple term of how to acknowledge this point of view. “In either way, they will fare better…”

“Hugh…you & Blackwitch, you always seem to know what to do & what to say.” Celtic sighs to say this in seeing that like Blackwitch, the Chronicler knows what he is doing in the fated destiny of others…as they are written, told, & proceeded till the end of their journey.

“For now, let their stories play out, it’s a new chapter…for us all.” Chronicler smile doff to say this in knowing that the heroes of Equestria, will play out fine, as things are just starting here…

Celtic was silent before she decided to teleport out of sight, the same was done by the Chronicler. As the scene goes dark, many will soon believe that things will slowly move on track of what will happen on in the future.

 

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By next morning, Twilight was sitting in her library area, relaxing after the crazy time traveling adventure she, her family went through before finally resolving it. Just then a familiar book was glowing & reacting that Twilight saw, then opens it to check, only to gasp in…what it was as words appeared inside.

“Sunset….oh my, this sounds bad. I think that time travel really left me unable to respond, I’ll just….” Twilight stated off in reading the message as she needs to respond…but…

“Princess! We got ‘Big’ trouble happening!” Fred spoke out as he & Barney came into the room.

“Yeah, holes are popping all over Equestria!” Barney pointed out a window, where Twilight saw strange portals leading towards…Canterlot High!

“Oh boy, I’ll have to respond to Sunset later, looks like I have to figure out what’s causing another problem.” Twilight sighs in seeing what is happening here, her day is never dull.

So Twilight teleports out of the room to begin another action of where a hero’s work & acting princess is never a quiet day for a second. Things will be looking new with change, but hopefully, everyone can learn to adjust with a new friend like Starlight Glimmer apart of things. Everything begins to go dark now as the future of what else lies ahead…is a mystery to us all…

 

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In timeline stream, a mysterious statue of humanoid elf was floating and flowing around the area. A sudden of light and darkness clashed and static ignited on it for few times.

CRACK! The statue's face cracked. Its pieces fell off. His eyes opened and revealed the crimson pupil of serpentine and blackish eyeball.

“I'm free? Good... Good... Revenge... will... come...” The mysterious voice said with an evil crackle.

 

The End…for now!

 

Major Cast List

Tara Strong: Twilight Sparkle, Blackwitch
Kelly Sheridan: Starlight Glimmer
Jason Marsden: Ben Mare
Cathy Weseluck: Spike the Dragon
Daveigh Chase: Nyx
Chris Sanders: Phobos the Dragon
Brian Dobson: Seekcuse, Various Qin Soldiers
Ashleigh Ball: Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Shadow Cat
Andrea Libman: Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Pinkamena Diane Pie
Tabitha St. Germain: Rarity, Princess Luna, Adult Nyx, Nightmare Moon
Stacie Chan: Jade Adventure
Tim Curry: Grimmore
Martin Javis: Chronicler
Kate Higgins: Celtic

 

Minor Cast List

Rebecca Shoicht: Twilight Sparkle (Singing Voice)
Shannon Chan-Kent: Pinkie Pie (Singing Voice)
Kazumi Evans: Rarity (Singing Voice)
Troy Baker: Equestrian Eliminator
Jennifer Hale: Flare Tiger
Michelle Creber: Flower Dog
Bryan Cranston: The Equalizer
Terry Klassen: Young Hoops
Alessandro Juliani: Han Zero
Douglas Rye: Azure Phoenix
Peter New: Various Qin Soldiers
Brenda Crichlow: Zecora
Kathleen Barr: Queen Chrysalis
Nicole Oliver: Princess Celestia

Cameo Appearances

Jim Miller: King Sombra
Kirk Thornton: One-Eyed Anger
Doug Stone: Bullhound
David Faustino: Blazefist
P.J. Pryce: Laxtinct
Christopher Plummer: Ronson the Changeling King
Sean Hayes: Larry The Changeling
Will Sasso: Curly The Changeling
Chris Diamantopoulos: Moe The Changeling
Jason Statham: Amon Blood Statham
Adrian Pasdar: Armor Stark
David Kaye: JARVIS
Orlando Bloom: Golden Heart
Vic Mignogna: Omega
Brian Drummond: Jack Zen, Various Qin Soldiers
Lara Jill Miller: Autumn Gem
James Arnold Taylor: Fred Flintstoneward
Jeff Bergman: Barney Rubblestone
Ian McDiarmid: Mysterious Statue #12

Author’s note
The extra events that happened will signal a new timeline change in JusSonic’s MLP: Universe, due to Author Billy Arratoon leaving the group. New changes can be overseen & noted to be similar to Sonic & Mega Man’s Worlds Collide, with change of acting character roles of different events, & of different history play-outs.

Stories to relate to new changes are to be shown from JusSonic’s ‘The Consequences’ & VISION-KING’s ‘MLP: Observation Of Facts’ will explain over new changes & new understandings of what to expect & be a following up to help many know what’s what…

Ben will still be able to use his abilities even with just the Triforce of Courage & capable to awaken & unlock other things while reclaiming Wisdom & Power.

A Hidden Clue to the upcoming 'Friends Today…Enemies Tomorrow' is said by the Chronicler.

This story is connecting a bit during the events from Equestria Girls: The Friendship Games film. And there are more references in here. See if you folks can find them.

And there we go fans, the story is now completed. Starlight Shimmer is now a friend to the gang, & new things are to be seen in my MLP Universe. Thanks goes to VISION-KING for helping to help develop this work with suggestions given by other Authors that helped out. Now let’s enjoy what comes next...

“The Rise of Wraith: (set at the exact same time as "the Cutie Re-Mark"; VERY loosely based on the most recent James Bond movie "Spectre") While the Mane Six are dealing with Starlight Glimmer's revenge scheme, a trio of powerful monsters are unleashed. While Zecora, Doctor Whooves, Sunset Shimmer and Flash Sentry fight the monsters, Bon-Bon, Lyra and Muffins handle a dozen mysterious ponies who were trying to take advantage of the chaos caused by the monster attack by stealing an artifact Celestia entrusted Bon Bon and her organization to guard; an artifact that grants the wielder the power to read minds and see the future. After thwarting the mysterious ponies, Bon Bon discovers they were working for a top secret criminal organization code-named "Wraith". Can Bon Bon's organization foil Wraith's ultimate plans and bring the mastermind to justice?
Villains: Burns Strato Breezefield and the agents of Wraith.
Note: Wraith is an independent organization with no connection whatsoever to the Apocalypse Ponies, the Dark Mystics or any of the other main villains of this series.”