What the Future Brings

“My dear Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie” said Princess Celestia softly as she smiled down upon them “it’s been quite a while since I saw you all!”

She then walked up to Twilight and nuzzled her nose saying “And my dear, old faithful student, Twilight Sparkle, how I missed you especially!”

“Thank you, Princess” Twilight spoke calmly smiling, not trusting herself to keep from crying as she turned away and held her face with her left front hoof before she thought sadly that her mentor would remember her after she passes away, having no control over her fate.

“Eh, Princess, do you know how to get us to our own time?” asked Twilight embarrassed that she knew not know to return them to their own timeline, even if she and Rarity got them struck into a different one on accident.

“Well…I don’t think trying to use the time scrolls would be a good idea since it could just send you to another random time zone,” Princess Celestia replied thoughtfully “it could send you back to the tyranny of Tirek before Megan the human stopped him or during the reign of Discord! Neither would be helpful in getting you back to your peaceful era.”

“So we’re stuck here?” asked Rarity her head down looking as though she would lose all hope.

“Not quite,” Princess Celestia spoke louder and in a calm voice to keep them all form panicking “when Doctor Whooves makes his next visit I’m sure he would be more than happy to use his strange blue box to take you all home! It can travel to other timelines as well, you know”

“Doctor Whooves?” asked Twilight with a confused look on her face.

Doctor Whooves (although he claimed he was just “the Doctor”, was just what everypony called him) was a strange earth pony who was older than he looked and had a strange blue box which he called the TARDIS saying that it has taken him through time and space.

In the Mane Six’s timeline he got along quite well with Ponyville’s widowed mailmare Derpy Hooves and her daughters Sparkler and Dinky.

“Yes now he is quite happily married to Derpy and has adopted Sparkler and Dinky Hooves as his daughters.” explained Princess Celestia with a large, genuine smile on her features “They go to some world from time to time and just three days ago they went off again, something about going to Skaro to fight the Daleks or something….I am not sure but when they get back I’m sure they would be happy to take you all home!”

The Mane Six and Spike then looked relieved as they let out a loud sigh of content and peace. Princess Celestia then looked at them with a serious expression on her face, her eyes narrowed as she looked at each of them in the eyes as they bowed before her, Spike Sparkle, Dinky, Firefly and Sparkfang following their lead.

“But when you do go back I’m afraid I may have to erase your memories of your visit to the future,” said Princess Celestia “it could cause some drastic changes to the timeline if you knew of what is to come!”

Twilight, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash and the younger Spike then gasped and looked at their future family knowing they will have to forget about them when they get their memories erased. They sighed; it would be for the best...no amount of wishing otherwise could nor would change that.

“We understand Princess Celestia” nodded and replied Twilight with a depressed sigh.

“Since you won’t remember,” said Princess Celestia her smile returning as she continued “would you like to know what is to become of you?”

They nodded enthusiastically. Princess Celestia first faced Rainbow Dash.

“Rainbow Dash I can tell you will become a famous flier” said Princess Celestia spoke with pride in her voice “you moved to Canterlot and you do manage to join the Wonderbolts, becoming captain before you find yourself a colt and settle down! Though you do retire and move back to Ponyville where unfortunately an injury you sustained during a stunt causes your......well.......permanent sleep!”

Dash looked excited when she heard she would fulfil her lifelong dream of joining the Wonderbolts but grew sad when she heard what would happen to her. Firefly went up to her and patted her on the back with her left front hoof with a sad but loving smile.

Princess Celestia then looked towards Rarity.

“Rarity, you do become a successful designer in Canterlot,” said Princess Celestia calmly as she smiled “and you had a high profile wedding when you found the colt of your dreams which was the third best wedding I had ever attended! The second is Shining Armor and Cadence’s and the first.....”

Princess Celestia then winked to Twilight and the younger Spike who both blushed at each other, not truly understanding how they even fall in love and have a son when they known each other their whole lives.

In her mind Princess Celestia corrected herself, the Shining Armor and Cadence wedding would be tied for second with her own sister Luna’s wedding to her royal bodyguard.

“Though the stress of all the work and the enormous amount of blood pumping through your veins finally made your heart stop…not of your own free will my dear and well….took your life, something that none of us was able to predict” Princess Celestia whispered with a sad look.

“Hey, Ms. Rarity before you…well, you know….I got to meet you on a visit to Canterlot with my dad,” Sparkfang said proudly as Spike Sparkle and his younger version rubbed his son’s head with a smile “and I have met your granddaughter on a few visits as well and she is very nice!”

“Thank you my dear” Rarity spoke smiling as rears ran down her white furred face.

“Pinkie Pie,” Princess Celestia said looking at a bouncing and excited pink furred mare “you manage to help the Cakes extend Sugarcube Corner to various other towns in Equestria!”

“Oh wow!” Pinkie giggled excitedly “Thanks to me various other towns can enjoy Sugarcube sweets as well! But do I........”

The look on the princess’s face had answered her question and Pinkie gave out a quiet “Oh!” while being patted on the back by Dinky.

“With regret…..the many of sweets you consumed caused you to go into shock and then a coma…with the large amount of sugar in your body and not enough water your body shut down and well….I’m sorry my dear” the princess added as the happy excited mare stopped and could do nothing as her hair became flat but was comforted by her friends.

“I’ll try to watch what I eat from now on…I don’t know if I should Pinkie promise due to the fact I’m not going to remember though” Pinkie spoke slowly as her friends only smiled sadly.

“Applejack and Fluttershy you two managed to set up another Sweet Apple Acres farm in Manehattan which you managed to run before…well….Fluttershy became attacked by a wild manticore that was starved and furious from many bleeding wounds on its body, believing that she was there to wound it even more, herself dying from a wound to the chest as Applejack had a large support beam fell on her neck when an earthquake appeared to swift for anypony to do anything and shattered her windpipe….I am sorry, my young ones” Princes Celestia whispered with a look filled with sorrow when she went to the last words of her explanation.

“Why would we do that together?” Fluttershy asked confused.

“Well you did so as sister in laws” Princess Celestia spoke calmly with a hint of pride in her tone.

“Sister in laws…but I don’t have any siblings......” Fluttershy asked before stopping, realization hitting upon her.

“You and Big Macintosh?” Applejack asked confused and shock.

It seemed that Fluttershy and Big Macintosh themselves got together and after they moved out of Ponyville with Applejack, Applebloom was left to run Sweet Apple Acres with her own coltfriend-an earth pony with green fur and blue eyes with a red black mane and tail who moved in Ponyville around the time Twilight and Spike had gotten engaged.

“And yes Applejack I can assure you do find a special somepony for yourself” Princess Celestia laughed with a smile and wink of her right eye, causing the element of honestly to blush.

“And what about me?” asked Twilight finally looking her mentor in the eyes.

“I will let you guess for yourself, Twilight Sparkle” responded Princess Celestia softly with a sad smile.

Twilight then looked to the elder Spike Sparkle and Sparkfang. “I can guess me and Spike, um, eh…end up together but Sparkfang said something about me being a mayor” Twilight said softly with a blush on her face looking at her future husband sitting on her back who winked at her with his left eye and a large, sexual grin on his face making her roll her eyes.

Princess Celestia chuckled as she replied “Ah yes, a year after you and Spike had gotten married I got a letter from you saying that the Mayor at the time retired and your friends pressured you into running for the position yourself! You end up winning by a landslide and you did a good job running Ponyville until you retired a few months before…..you suffered a unusual illness that ran heat rapidly through your body, taking your life in only six months time…..no one, even myself knows where you had gotten just sickness...but it was with such a heavy heart that I laid to rest my most faithful student…I am sorry my dear.” She whispered as Twilight felt her tail, ears and mouth drop in depression, finding little comfort in anyone of her friends or even her lover’s and son’s words before the Princess continued.

“If it means anything, you have gotten to spend time with your family before your death and had wished for nothing more than to be with them.” she added with a sad but calm smile.

Princess Celestia then turned to leave but not before levitating a piece of tan paper to Firefly and said emotionless “You left this in the Castle during your last visit to Canterlot Firefly, and it definitely says a lot about you!”

Princess Celestia said with a wink of her left eye and small smile then walked down to her carriage to return to Canterlot.

Firefly opened the paper and looked at it before she gasped: it was a beautiful and quite graphic drawing she did on her last visit to Canterlot of her kissing Sparkfang with passion on the lips. Making sure nopony saw it she had no hesitation to roll it up and shove it up Sparkfang’s nose and he sneezed it out along with green flames causing the drawing to burn up and just barley miss her left front hoof.

“What was that for Firefly?” asked Sparkfang sternly to his female friend with a glare.

“Nothing Sparky, just shut up” said Firefly sheepishly as she turned away when Rainbow Dash looked at her in confusion and younger Spike called his son over and whispered something into his right ear to which he only nodded and replied with.

“Alright dad, I get it“. he said in annoyance and a roll of his eyes, earning a smack in the back of the head by both of his father’s tail.

“Looks like we will still have to be here for a while” sighed Rarity loudly, putting her right front hoof to her forehead as she spoke loudly causing everyone to wince at the volume of her tone.

“THIS IS THE WORST POSSIBLE THING….EVER!” wondering how she was going to stand sleeping in the Sugarcube Corner with two Pinkie Pies for a while longer.