“Ok Chance! Use Shock Wave!” I call out to my partner. He launches the electrical pulse at Topaz, the Mawile standing firm and taking the attack. It has been a little over a week since Chance joined the team, so me and my team are practicing in Whitetail Woods so we don’t hurt anyone. Right now Chance wanted a chance to battle Topaz while Selene and Twilight are on the sidelines watching. Sora smiles as Topaz tanks the hit and gets ready.

”Alright Topaz, use Swords Dance then Iron Head!” Sora calls out. The Mawile nods and quickly does her Swords Dance and gets ready. Lately Topaz has gotten faster and faster at using her stat booster move, to the point she can pull it off in under 10 seconds, when it normally takes over 15. I smile and nod to Chance.

“Alright Chance, counter her head on with Wild Charge!” He nods and covers himself with electricity. After a second both of the Pokemon rush forward. They hit each other hard, the attacks resulting in a mini explosion of electricity and kicking up dust. The cloud of dust soon begins to settle, showing both Chance and Topaz out cold with the swirls in their eyes.

“Topaz and Chance are both unable to battle. We have a draw!” Selene says like she is the referee. I laugh a little and grab Topaz and Chance with my Vectors and take them over to Twilight, where she was sitting with a first aid kit. I learned from training with Selene and Topaz that Pokemon have very fast regenerative abilities. All we have to do is make sure to disinfect and bandage any wounds of their and they should be fine within a day or two. It was difficult to train Topaz with Poison Fang because after she learned how to use it, I had to develop an anti venom in case she ended up poisoning Selene or Chance. Turns out Zecora is a really good toxicologist.

While the duo are unconscious, Twilight and I begin to bandage them up, mostly their heads from that last attack. After Chance joined up with us, Twi and I have been hanging out like before, especially since she wanted to learn all about the Luxio line. She was honestly a little disappointed she couldn’t see a Shinx because of how cute I described them to be. That was a good laugh.

Sora has also been testing how far our astral forms can go from our body. Turns out, she can go all the way to Canterlot before her form begins to flicker and she has to get back in my head. That knowledge will really come in handy if we need to get separated for whatever reason.

Aside from that, a few episode events have already passed with me just doing my own thing for the most part. If I remember correctly the next episode event that is going to take place is ‘May the best pet win’ so Rainbow is going to be getting Tank soon. I smiled at that cause Twi and Fluttershy actually invited me and my team to join them on their pet picnic tomorrow. That could be fun since Winona actually like Selene and Opal actually likes to naps on Topaz’s Head whenever she can get the chance.

I smile as the duo wake up again and shake their heads. They look to each other and shake each other’s hands/paws.

“Wow, you two are getting stronger.” Twilight says to the duo. They nod and smile to her as Selene jumps onto my shoulder.

“You said it Twilight. I am honestly surprised how much stronger they have been getting as of late. Not too much longer and they may end up evolving.” I say as Topaz stretch’s and jumps onto Chances back. Chance just rolls his eyes at this. Good thing Topaz is really light for a steel type.

“You have mentioned that before. Evolving. What do you mean by that anyways?” Twilight asks as we head back to town.

”It is something almost every Pokemon goes through. Think of it like a growth spurt that changes a Pokémon’s appearance and makes the more mature as well.” Sora explains as we walk into town. The townsfolk have already gotten used to Chance and the rest of my team by now so none of them are scared of the lion like electric type.

”That’s right. Even though Topaz here won’t evolve, me and Selene have one more evolution in our lines before we are fully evolved so you could see an evolution with your own eyes!” Chance says.

I smile at him as we arrive back at the library just as Spike was making dinner. I walked to one of the cabinets and take out the Pokemon food mix Fluttershy made these three and get their bowls ready. Turns out that she just needed to test what they liked and she could make their food like those little brown cylinders like in the show. All of us eat together in the main room and Twi and I go over some of her notes about each of my Pokémon’s evolution lines.

After dinner me, Twilight and Sora head back down to the basement to go through my experiments with my Virus. We got permission from the mayor and the hospital staff to experiment with some ‘samples’ taken from the local populace to see how my virus would react. It was slow going since we didn’t have as advanced machinery as back on earth, but we were making progress. So far we have found the the virus does effect male earth ponies and Pegasi the same way it would effect a human male, we just haven’t gotten the ‘samples’ from any unicorn males. I think it should react the same way, and if I am right, I am glad that Sora castrated that one stallion we ran into when we first arrived in Canterlot.

Though when we were testing on female DNA we were hitting a block. The virus seems to reject female earth pony and Pegasi, but it seems to react slightly to unicorns. I was curious about why that is so Twi and I spent most of the night throwing theories around. By the time we decided to call it a night it was nearly midnight and we went down around six thirty. We both laugh a little and head to our respective rooms to sleep. I was unaware of the fact Sora was watching my interactions with Twi the whole time and had her own thoughts on it.

’Those two really need a push to realize each other.’

The Next Day...

I smile as my team, Twi and her pet owl all walk towards the park where the others were going to meet up. I was honestly excited for this, it has been a while since all of us had hung out together. Plus I really wanted to see how each of the girls pets would interact with my Pokemon. We ran into the others on our way to the park and each of our pets/partners ran ahead to a tree and stated playing around.

“Weee! I am so happy! It has been a while since all of us have been together!” Pinkie says as she bounces next to us.

“You said it Pinkie. It’ll be nice to get out of the lab for a while and just relax. Plus my Pokemon could use a break from all their training.” I say with my hands behind my head.

“Ah have to say sugarcube, yer Pokemon are real strong. Ah saw some of your training the other day, Chance and Topaz must be some new kind of tough to battle each other like that.” AJ says as we go past the hill and see as the creatures are all by a tree. Looking into the foliage of the tree, I can barely see a blue hoof hanging off the branch Opal is on.

We all walk up and our respective animals walk up to us. I grab a stick and throw it, Winona and Selene running after it. I just laugh a little as I see the little dog and pokemon trying to take the stick from each other in a tug of war. Chance just walks over to the tree and lays down against it, Owlowiscious landing on his head and nuzzling into his mane to take a nap with him. Opal does something similar and lands on Topaz’s head to take a catnap. The Mawile just rolls her eyes and lets the cat rest, taking a seat under the tree next to Chance and I toss her the Daring Doo book she has been reading through as of late.

“I must say darling, your partners are really something to get along with our pets like this.” Rarity says to me. Sora appears beside me with a smile as she looks into the tree as Rainbow comes down.

“Hey, what are you all doing here?” She asks, hovering over to us.

”Oh, the girls invited us to join them on a pet play date today. We figured our Pokemon could use a rest from all their training they have been doing lately.” Sora answers, floating up to the branch Rainbow was on and just sitting there. I look to her with a raised brow as the girls go through their lines from the show.

“You know you could literally sit anywhere right? Why are you in a tree?” I ask my sister, a little confused. She just shrugs and lays back, resting.

”Cause why the heck not.” she says with a smirk. I just roll my eyes and go back to playing with Selene and some of the girls pets. It was really fun, just hanging out with the girls and their animals. I know that Selene was loving playing with Winona. Topaz really didn’t mind that Opal was sleeping on her head so she was relaxed and absorbed in her book. After a while though, Rainbow comes down again and goes through the whole ‘wanting a pet’ thing. After that, she and Fluttershy left to look for a pet. The rest of us just shrug and go back to enjoying our time together with each other.

After about an hour, all of us head out to Fluttershys to see how it is going with Rainbow and Fluttershy. As expected things are going just like the show but without a musical number it seems. Good, I really don’t like some of the songs from the show. As RD go through the ‘tests’ of deciding her pet, me, Sora and my team just watch. The five of us just watch the events play out like the show, just in person.

It took all day, but eventually we end up in Ghastly Gorge for Rainbows race test. The race begins, Tank in last place as expected. As the race goes on my team and Twilight look around the area, just to pass the times as the others look into the gorge for the ‘racers’. All of us just look around the area when Twilight goes by a pair of rocks and sees something shining between them. Looking closer, she sees it is some kind of multi coloured marble with the same symbol as the mega stone on Topaz’s necklace.

“Hey Nat? Do you recognize this marble?” Twilight asks, bringing it over. I take the marble in hand and my eyes widen.

“Twilight! This is a mega stone!” I say with excitement, my Pokemon and Twilight’s eyes widening. I smile and pull the unicorn into a side hug. “Twilight, with this stone Topaz has the potential to mega evolve into a Mega Mawile!” I say to her.

“Really? What does a Mega Mawile look like?” She asks, taking out her notebook. I go to answer before we feel a rumbling and see some dust being kicked up in the gorge.

“Avalanche!” Pinkie shouts in alarm.

“Oh, I hope Rainbow and the animals are ok.” Fluttershy says in worry.

”Don’t worry, I’m sure their fine.” Sora says, looking at the canyon the race was taking place in. I look to the canyon as well and get a bad feeling. I am not sure why, but I feel like something worse has happened.

“I think my team and I are going to check on the avalanche. I have a bad feeling about this.” I say, walking towards the canyon, Twilight and my team following suit. As we are walking to the site of the avalanche, the flying animals go past us. We continue of for a couple minutes before arriving at the site. Looking around it what we find is very very bad.

The cliff side has fallen apart and onto the ground. Looking around the rubble, I see a small stream of blood leading from some of the rubble. Twilight looks extremely worried as we follow it. After a second we hear the sound of struggling and pain. Going past the rocks, we see as Rainbow is pinned by a few boulders, not just on both wings, but also on her left arm.

“Rainbow!” Twilight rush over to the pinned pegasus and we see Tank the tortoise trying hard to move the boulders on Rainbows arm. Looking at it, the bone is clearly snapped and blood is freely pouring from her wounds.

“H-help. M-my arm.” She says in pain.

“Hold on Rainbow, we’ll just move the boulder then Twilight will close your wounds.” I tell her. I am about to use my Vectors before I remember what Twilight found a couple minutes ago. Taking out the mega stone, I look to Topaz and smile.

“Hey Topaz, wanna try this out?” I say. Topaz’s eyes widen and she smiles at me and holds onto the chain of her necklace where her mega stone is located. We smile to each other and I focus on my mega stone. I feel as the marble in my hand is begin to feel warm.

“Mega stone, please lend us the power to help our friend.” I say quietly and several streams of rainbow coloured energy goes out from the marble in my hand. The stone around Topaz’s neck beings to glow whitish blue and streams come out of her stone as well, connecting with mine. Twilight, Rainbow and the others look in surprise as Topaz’s form begins to glow the same colours as the streams and she begins to glow and change.

Soon the energy around Topaz bursts away with the symbol of mega evolution in front. Her new form as the her legs widening with lines and changing into a maroon colour and looking like those large bottom pants, her arms also gaining the colour to look like sleeves. The biggest change was the third ‘mouth’, two flytrap like appendages on the back of her head, looking like flytrap pigtails.

The girls and my other teammates look in awe at Topaz’s new form. She looks over herself with her own awe and nods. Topaz walks up to two of the boulders pinning Rainbows arms and uses her two rear flytraps and chomps down, getting a good grip before lifting the both of them. With a quick flick of her head, she throws them away. She does the same with two of the three on her wings, the last one being lifted by Tank. That was honestly surprising since the boulder was as big as me. Twilight quickly pulls Rainbow away from the rubble and Tank drops the rock and slowly goes over to the pegasus.

“Ok, I need to reset your bone, so this is going to hurt like hell.” Twilight warns. I take off the ascot from around my neck and hold it out to Rainbow who nods. Folding it up, I let Rainbow bite down on it. Twilight covered the pegasus arm in her magic and looks to her friend who nods. Rainbow is tensed before feeling and seeing the tortoise nuzzling her good arm.

“Ok, one..two...Three!” Twilight quickly resets her bone with a loud snap, Rainbows screams of pain muffled by the cloth in her mouth. She breaths heavily as I take my jacket and shirt off, ripping my t-shirt apart to use as a sling for her. At this point I don’t really care that I have just my bra and jacket on, Rainbow needs it more than me. Twilight looks to me for a moment with a blush before lifting Rainbow and throwing her good arm around her shoulder.

“Let’s get you to the hospital. Your wings are still messed up and I prefer if an actual professional looks at them.” Twilight says, beginning to walk with Rainbow leaning on her. My team and I head back to the others while they go ahead to the hospital, Topaz picking up Tank so we don’t have to wait. I notice she was still mega evolved so I guess it works on a time limit. The five of us soon make it back to the others, the girls all looking in shock at Topaz’s mega form.

“Sweet Celestia! Topaz? Is that you?” AppleJack says in shock.

”Yup it’s me. This is my new mega evolved form.” she says with a grin. I noticed that her voice has a slight echo to it in this form. Before they can question it, Topaz begins to glow again and shrinks back into her original form. So mega evolutions can last for a couple minutes then. She puts Tank down and looks herself over, seeing her necklace is still in place.

”Aw man. I wanted to see how much stronger I was.” she says with a pout. I just laugh a little and rub her head, the Mawile rolling her eyes with a smile.

”Uh Nat? Where’s your shirt and ascot?” Sora asks, getting everyone’s attention, all of them seeing that I just have my jacket and bra on. I quickly tell them about Rainbows injuries and Fluttershy suddenly flies off with Tank faster than I could track. Wow, I didn’t think she had it in her. The girls soon follow her, heading to the hospital to check on Rainbow. I quickly run by the library to grab a new shirt for me and some clean clothes for Twilight before going to the hospital as well.

‘Looks like that was another alteration to the timeline. That makes what, ten now?’ I think to myself as I rush to the hospital. Lately I have been keeping track of all the differences between what has been happening here and in the original timeline. So far, aside from the obvious things, I have noticed some smaller details that are different from show. Like Spike not acting like a love sick puppy with Rarity. He still helps, but doesn’t actively go over just to see her. He has also been spending quite a bit of his free time with Sweetie Belle.

Also I noticed during the Cutie Pox incident that Zecora found out what happened sooner than in the show and Applebloom was able to stop herself through sheer force of will long enough for Zecora to make the antidote.

Now there was this incident in Ghastly Gorge. Rainbow only hurt one of her wings in the show, but here she broke her arm and may have broken both her wings as well. She is going to be more restless than Adam waiting for a new episode of RWBY to come out if she gets stuck in the hospital. Though, we could introduce her to the Daring Doo franchise early.

As I walk into the front room of the hospital, I see the girls and Tank all sitting in the waiting room. Looking to them, I see some blood on Twilights clothes and her fur. I walk up and hand her the bag I had with her clothes in them, just now getting the girls attentions.

“Here Twi. I got you some clean clothes.” I say to her. Twilight nods in thanks and heads to the washroom to change. I take a seat on the chair across from the others, my pokemon sitting around me. “How’s she doing?” I ask the girls.

“We’re not to sure. The doctor said she should be ok, but that was a while ago. Oh, I hope the poor dear isn’t hurt too bad.” Rarity says. I notice Tank looking at the door to the rooms while he is sitting on Fluttershys lap.

“Guess you’re worried about her too, huh little guy.” I say to him, the tortoise slowly nodding his head.

After a few more seconds Twilight come back out in her clean clothes and takes her seat. Our group begins to just talk amongst ourselves to pass the time, mostly me explaining mega evolution and what happened in the gorge. After about an hour one of the doctors come out and calls us into Rainbows room, the pegasus in question having both wings and her arm in casts. Me and Sora cringe slightly at her injuries, having broken our arm once after a rock climbing accident, we know how that feels.

Rainbow complains a bit but thanks Topaz and Tank for the save, deciding to have Tank be the winner and her new pet. Topaz gives Rainbow the Daring Doo book she had just finished earlier and Rainbow went through the whole ‘books are uncool’ thing, ending in the same way, just with Topaz and Twilight telling her about the book. We are told we have to go since it was getting dark out so we head out, Selene, Chance and Tank giving the injured pegasus nuzzles before we all leave. Our group separates and heads to each of our respective homes for the night, Fluttershy taking Tank with her to keep till Rainbow is out of the hospital.

“Looks like your intuition was on the money Nat. I hope Rainbow doesn’t spend too much time in the hospital. According to Fluttershy, she can get really irritable if she stays cooped up in one place for too long.” Twilight says as we make it back to the library.

“I don’t doubt that. She is an athlete and a stunt flyer. I can’t really see Rainbow staying in a room for an extended period of time without going off the rails.” Sora says with a slight chuckle. The both of us just chuckle a little at her comment. Spike sees us come in and we give him a quick rundown of what happened to Rainbow. He was worried as well, but we all knew she would be fine after she has had time to rest. I go into the kitchen and start to make dinner for all of us.

‘Talk about a long day. Hopefully this is one of the only major deviation from the original timeline for a while. The last thing I want is Twi and the others to be in harms way because I couldn’t keep an eye on the current events.’ I think to myself.

Even though me and Sora have been here for a while now, we haven’t told the others about the fact we know the future from the show. I am not sure why, but I am scared about how they will react and will try to learn about their future. But with all these little and big changes into the timeline, I can’t help but want to tell them, but that just makes me more worried. Sora was in the same boat as me as she both does and doesn’t want to warn the others about some of the major threats they will be facing like Chrysalis and Tirek. Most of all, I am worried about how Celestia would react to the fact we have this knowledge. She may be nice to her ponies, but she is still a princess and it’s her duty to protect them at all costs.

I sigh and finish making our dinner of some spaghetti and wheat balls. It seemed my body and Vectors were being controlled by Sora as I was lost in thought, as seen by the fact I am back in our mindscape.

‘You heard all that huh?’ I ask my sister though thought.

’Yeah. I feel like we are both going to go stir crazy if we can’t figure out what to do. Maybe we should tell Twilight. She is the most sensible of the main six. Though, we would have to get her to Pinkie Promise to be quiet about it.’ Sora responds, taking all the food to the dining room. The other see that I am not the one in control of our body and get slightly worried expressions.

”Don’t worry, Nat is just taking a bit of a break from controlling our body.” Sora tells them, seeing their looks. The others all nod and shrug, but Twilight does glance at us from time to time.

‘Maybe we should summon a Displaced so we can talk to them. They probably are going through what we are.’ I say in thought. The past couple days we have found a couple other tokens aside from Loki’s. Like a Unitirx and an earring for someone called Zoro, probably the one from One Piece. I just sigh and retreat into our mind for a while, trying to sort out my thoughts.

“Hey Sora? Are you and Nat doing ok?” Twilight asks. Sora looks up from her plate and shrugs.

”I am not sure how to answer that simple question. Nat and I have had a lot on our minds as of late, and it is starting to make us tired.” she responds, taking a bite out of our dinner.

“You know, if something is bugging you two, you can talk to any of us, right?” Spike says. Sora just looks to him then sighs.

”Not about this Spike. Not about this.” Sora gets up from her seat and takes her dishes into the kitchen before heading to our room for the night. Twilight watch’s as we go to our room.

‘Natali. What is wrong? Why are you so worried?’