200 years into the future

Silver slowly got to his feet as he began to regain consciousness. Putting a hand to his forehead he groaned as she stretched his stiff limbs. When all of his senses returned, his eyes shrunk as he noticed where he was. He stood at the top of a rusty, rundown building. The sky above him blacked out by the dark clouds and smoke. Across the ruined city fires burned endlessly as a large sea of lava flowed between each building, the only safe surfaces being the buildings themselves or the roads and highways above the sea of fire. "No..." He whispered, falling to his knees. "No no no no! Why am I back here?!" He screamed in despair, clutching the sides of his head in frustration. "I couldn't even complete my mission! The future is still the same! Am I just destined to fail?!"

"Uggghhhh...keep it down...I'm tryin' to sleep here..." Silver paused as he heard the tired high pitched voice speak from behind him. Turning around he saw Pinkie laying on her side, trying to get comfortable on the harsh stone surface.

"Wait, what's she doing here? How did..." He stopped as memories started to come back to him, his confused expression turning into a scowl. "Mephiles! He betrayed me! I thought he sent Blaze and I back to the past to save the future, he just sent my back! No, wait a minute...that was his past self..." He groaned as he shook away his headache. "Fuckin' time travel..."

Silver sat down on a pile of rubble a few feet away from the pony, trying to get his thoughts together. First of all he needed to figure out what he would say to Pinkie when she woke up, if she didn't attack him the second she saw him, which was likely to happen. Then he needed to figure out what to do next, how to get back to the past to help Blaze and stop the...

"Oh crap, BLAZE!!!" His sudden outburst caused Pinkie to stir, slowly opening her eyes to see Silver pacing back and forth in worry. "She's still in the past! What if she can't get back?! What will I do if she can't get back?! I can't do all this on my own! I mean seriously-"

Pinkie, now fully awake, took in her surroundings and tilted her head in confusion. "Well, when you're completely lost, it's only logical to solve one problem at a time." She spoke with a smile that turned into a frown as she glared at the white hedgehog. "First problem, that meanie..."

"-I mean that toaster incident wasn't even my fault but I wouldn't have gotten out of it without OHMYGOD!!" Silver yelled as he jumped out of the way of four massive drills and tossing a bomb that was shot towards him off the side of the building. Pinkie stood with her party cannon and party bazooka ready with her three robots surrounding the hedgehog, who immediately threw his hands up in surrender.

"Ok...I know we got off on the wrong foot...but if you are willing to listen, I can explain everything." Silver tried to speak as calmly as possible, but it was kind of hard for him to keep his cool when a huge robot was revving its many drills just a few inches away from his body.

Pinkie narrowed her eyes and lowered her weapons, signaling the robots to back off slightly. "Alright." She began with a smile. "Go ahead."

Silver blinked in surprise and lowered his hands to a more relaxed position. "Oh...I didn't think you'd be so cooperative."

"Why not?" Pinkie asked with her usual happy tone.

"Well I did just try to kill your dad."

"Yeah, it's weird isn't it?"

Silver just stared at the little pony with extreme confusion. "Ok I don't know how to talk to you."

Pinkie giggled. "I tend to have that effect on people I just met."

Silver couldn't help but smile at the soft sound of her giggles. "Oh, I see."

"Now, enough small talk, how about that explanation?" Pinkie asked while she pulled a small bag of popcorn out of her mane, expecting a long, drawn out lecture on the events that led up to where they were now.

"Me and my friend Blaze have been trying to find a way to permanently get rid of the monster that destroyed this world since any time we manage to beat it, it just regenerates, so after one of our battles with the monster this guy called Mephiles showed up and told us he found a way to put Iblis, the monster, down for good. So he took us to his hideout, showed us the records he had that led up to when Iblis was released, and told us that Shadow the Hedgehog was the one responsible for unleashing Iblis onto our world. So to try and save our future he sent us back in time with his time powers so we could kill your dad and save the world." He stated simply before clapping his hands together.

Pinkie shrugged and put the popcorn back in her mane. "Not the weirdest thing I've ever heard, I believe you." She said while opening her case and recalling her robots, which all shrank down into their cubes before being safely stored away.

"It's not?" Silver tilted his head, confused at how nonchalant Pinkie seemed to be acting about everything.

"Spend a week with me and my family and you'd be lucky to walk out with your sanity intact." Pinkie giggled as she walked to the edge of the building. "Now, are you gonna stare at me all day or are we gonna go on an amazing adventure through the apocalypse to find a way to travel back to the present?"

Silver slapped himself and shook his head, trying to focus. "Not much we can do, I don't know anyone other than Mephiles that can travel through time."

"Well then we need to find a chaos emerald."

"A what?"

Pinkie smiled as she pulled her emerald out of her mane and held it up to Silvers face. "Magical gems that have almost unlimited power if you know how to use 'em, we just need another one of these babies and then we can use them to travel back."

Silver scratched his head while holding the gem in his other hand. "That seems oddly convenient and a little confusing..."

"Welcome to my world Silvy." Pinkie sang as she took the emerald from him.

"Wait hold on, I never told you my name."

Pinkie just pat him on the head and hummed a little tune to herself as she made her way back towards the edge. "I already knew silly billy, the writer has said your name a bunch of times already."

"...what are you talking about?"

"Oh I'm just rambling, now come on, adventure!" Pinkie quickly shouted before jumping off the side of the building.

Panicking, Silver ran over and quickly caught her with his powers. "Are you crazy?! There's nothing but lava and hard rock down there!"

"I was gonna land on that highway down there! I wanted to do a super hero landing!" Pinkie complained with an adorable pout.

Silver gently floated the two of them down onto the broken highway and groaned. "This is gonna be my whole day isn't it?

"You're the one choosing to stop and make sense of my adorable antics, that's just gonna make things hard for you~" Pinkie sang out as she skipped along the road towards a less broken part of the city.

Silver groaned again and followed behind her, slouching in defeat. As they were about to step off the highway onto more stable ground, a pillar of lava shot up in front of them, blocking their path. Pinkie just blinked in confusion as Silvers eyes shrank. "Oh no..."

A large, towering figure pulled itself up from the sea of lava and glared down at the two. "What is that thing?" Pinkie asked with more excitement than Silver was comfortable with.

"That...is Iblis."

Author's Notes:

Not gonna lie this was a tough one, went through so many different versions of this.

Anyway, Pinkie and Silver are stuck in the future with a giant lava monster towering over them. Sounds fun right?

Next chapter will focus on Shadow. If you see any mistakes let me know, thanks.