Just Another Day; Good Work Delta
Chapter 26: Chapter 25: Time Traveling
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Today Twilight volunteered to teach Nick and I a time traveling spell she had found in that old book I gave her a while back. Nick and I always wanted to time travel, and this is the chance to attempt it!
"So, what's first?" I asked, when it comes to something important, I was very impatient. Ever since I was a little kid, I always wanted to try time travel, and Nick had the same dream at one point. Twilight said this is very hard to pull off, even for a professional magic user like her. I tried my hoof at it and managed to open a portal back to when Twilight was singing at Shining Armor's wedding , she looked so cute with that dress too.
"D'Awwwwwwwwww!" Nick and I said in unison, and Twilight was as red as an apple seeing her past self sing that song. Nick had pulled off the same thing, the portal picturized D-Day way back in World War 2, which was awesome. Seeing into the past was just the tip of the iceberg though.
"There should be a spell where you can actually go into the past and interact with other things." She said, looking through the book, showing us this spell could mean we could save lives, and finally uncover the secrets of the past. I had attempted to go into the portal that I already created, mixing one spell with the other one. This time, it was a few hours before the wedding reception, and before Chrysalis reveals herself. I was still in Alicorn form because I didn't want to cause a stir within the castle, I carried my I.D. as well because of all the security. I had to disguise myself as a unicorn to keep a low profile. All Twilight said is to stop Chrysalis before she hurts anypony, and help out her past self to reveal her secret. I was stopped by two guards ponies at the trainstation, where I had went through the portal.
"Halt! Who goes there?" Was all he said before I showed him my I.D. They then gave me a salute and I walked past them, to see Twilight and her friends in the courtyard, talking to Shining Armor, and apparently the fake Cadence. I then kept myself on a low profile until Twilight showed up to try and stop the practice wedding.
"She's not the real Cadence, I saw her cast a spell on Shiny!" She said, everypony looked mad at her, until I burst into the room, everypony was in shock to look at the new Unicorn figure.
"She's telling the truth. It isn't the real Cadence." I calmly said, anypony would trust a disguised Unicorn, but the fake Cadence ran out of the room crying. Princess Celestia and Twilight's friends looked mad at us, shunning us and leaving us there in the room.
"I don't know who you are, but thank you for sticking up for me. C'mon, let's go apologize to Cadence." She started to trot to her room, but I stopped her, I was gonna tell her the truth.
"Look Twilight, I'm from the future, and I'm here to help you out, I know everything that happens for the next few hours. That really isn't the real Cadence, and if you go apologize to her she'll send you into the underground mines where you'll find the real Cadence. I'll teleport you down there so you can rescue her, give me the signal when it's time to teleport you back to the surface. good luck." I said, teleporting her underground. A few moments later Princess Celestia came in, probably going to scold me.
"I don't know who you are, but you stay out of this wedding unless you have business here." She did scold me, but I showed her my I.D. Showing that I was in the royal guard, the Delta Force regiment to be exact.
"I would've known if a new pony joined the Royal Guard, just who are you an what do you want with us?" I told her everything that happens within the span of the next few hours, how she ends up in the cocoon, getting defeated by Chrysalis, everything. Twilight then gave me the signal to teleport her back up, with her was the REAL Princess Cadence. The princess looked shocked at how I already know what's gonna happen, but I was here to re-write history, and prevent them from getting hurt. I set up the plan to catch her, I had told them to continue the wedding and Cadence will have to go into hiding until the actual marriage, where they confront the fake Cadence, and I'll take care of it from there.
"Thank you, whoever you are." Twilight came up to hug me, I hugged her back, but now all we had to do was wait for the right moment.
Once they had confronted her and revealed her true form, I trotted in, with some of that Enchanted C-4, this time it was enchanted so it would be non-lethal, just enough to blow her back, and then Cadence would get Shiny to deploy the shield like they did before. Once it all went down, my work here was done, the changeling army was repelled, and that's how I changed history. I had left before anything else changed, and I also left without a trace, the Princess wanted to thank me for what I've done, but I wasn't there. She may have thought that I was a figure of her imagination, and so did Twilight and anypony who did get to see me that day.
I had returned through the portal, to see present Twilight, she was different because all of the things I did in the past have updated and her understanding of what went down at the wedding changed.
"Thank you Drew, for your valiant effort to save the wedding." She went up to hug me, and I was done here, it was Nick's turn now.
"Wait, what do you mean you don't want to?!" I asked him, he said he didn't want to do any event in the past because he couldn't think of one to begin with. I had told him that the spell restricted time span we could travel is fifteen years, into the past or future if we wanted to, Nick had decided to go five years into the future.
Nick's PoV
I had decided to go into the future, five years into the future, to see what Ponyville would be like. I opened the portal and went inside, seeing that Ponyville had changed very little within the next five years. I had decided to go to Twilight's Library to see what's been going on recently. Once I had knocked on the door, she opened up too see me, and she went wide-eyed.
"Nick, why do you look so young? Where's Drew?" She asked me, I didn't know where the fuck future Drew was, I had told her about me coming from the past, and she understood completely.
"Okay Nick from the past. For starters, you're still single. Drew is married to Rainbow, the next best wedding ver, compared to my brother's wedding. Delta has been sent on more missions lately because the princess has now made her own form of Delta Force, you're not the only squad anymore. A lot's gonna happen in the next five years." I had understood everything, I wasn't gonna date these ponies no way no how. She had also told me that she was Jhon's coltfriend, which was cute, and Kaptn was also single just like me. Jhon was a good match for Twilight, I mean he's smart, athletic, and he's not that short, he's actually 5 ft 7", for an Asian that's pretty tall. I had to keep this information under wraps, so it doesn't get leaked into the past, which could ruin the future for the future Twilight. I had went back into the portal, waving goodbye to future Twilight, and then fell butt first onto the ground, with Twilight and Drew staring at me in curiosity.
"How did it go? Was there a good future or bad?" They had assaulted me with questions, I could only answer the simple ones without getting into further detail to not ruin any future surprises.
"How come you can't tell me what happens?" Drew was very childish at this point, whining like a four year old child, he hasn't lost his touch either. I told him the I have to keep things under wraps because it could possibly ruin the future for us, they completely understood, nodding their heads in disappointment.
Drew's PoV
I know Nick was telling the truth, I just want to know what happens to the relationship between Rainbow and I, but he wouldn't tell me that either. I just went ahead and stopped time traveling for today, I was already out of magic until I recharge, which will take hours to complete. I just wandered around Ponyville, a boredom patrol as it were, and helped out anypony who needed it, and then I came across a jewelry store. I went ahead and went inside, the owner looked like a relative to that one filly who bullies Apple Bloom and her friends, maybe it was her aunt, I wasn't for sure.
"May I help you?" She asked, I nodded asking if there were any high-quality earrings anywhere, she said to take a look at her display case. Once I had looked in there I was looking for one that would look good on Rainbow, because within the next few months, I was gonna ask her to marry me. It's been like almost two years since we've arrived in Euqestria, and my life here has improved greatly ever since the first day we came here. I had finally chosen a single piece earring that looked like a lightning bolt, bordered by smaller gems the color of the rainbow, surrounding the diamond that was shaped into the lightning bolt itself. It was perfect, I had bought it and stuffed it in one of my many built in storage units around town, ready for my squad and my squad only to use in emergency. We each had our own individual locker that was fingerprint, and eye identification protected, it was pretty high security, which was good for private reasons, such as those earrings for Rainbow.
I had went to see what Zach had been up to lately, he said he was trying to re-invent one of the hydrogen powered cars of our century, they were pollution free so they wouldn't cause harm to the ponies around here, it was just a faster form of transportation besides walking, running, or flying, which would make patrolling much easier.
A few hours later my magic has recharged, and I wanted to attempt something, to see my family one more time before they died. I opened the portal back to Earth, a few days before the terrorists attacked Vegas, I knew I couldn't change this timeline, because if I changed it I wouldn't ever be in Equestria in the first place. I had found all of them, in the MGM Grand playing poker, raking in the money, until they noticed me. I was already human before they took a quick glance at me.
"Hey son, what are you doing here? I thought you said you were going to stay home?" My dad came up to me, I was in tears and hugged him. Plus, everyone else came over to me, and they all asked me what I was doing here. I had told them goodbye, gave Angela a kiss, and just left without saying another word, back into Equestria.
At least I was able to see them again, and hopefully not changed any timelines. Well, I'm done time traveling for now I just want to rest up, the princess has called all of us to go to her ceremony she is putting on for us.
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