So the next few times we time-travelled, there seemed to be nothing wrong. "What on Earth was that monster?" I thought to myself. "Could it be the evil that Celestia was talking about?" I shrugged that thought out of my head. Getting the remaining of the mane six wasn't too hard, but it certainly wasn't easy. There were challenges here and there.

----

"Ooh, that was fun! Can we do it again?" said Pinkie Pie. I dusted myself off as I got off the ground. I don't think I'll ever get used to time-travelling.

"We will be doing that again later" I said. "Now then, as a wise doc' once said, 'when the heck are we?'" I took a look around, but didn't see anyone familiar, until-

*CRASH*

"What was that?" asked Twilight.

"I believe, that, was Rainbow Dash," said Trixie as she pointed toward her and yet another past Pinkie.

"I was going to tell you about the mountain," said the past Pinkie. Rainbow Dash simply flew off, annoyed. Pinkie then left after her.

I checked my watch and saw that the future, err, present (ugh, you know what I mean) Rainbow Dash was here. I told the ponies, and we split up to search for Rainbow Dash. All of us saw one reoccuring event: Rainbow Dash flying away from Pinkie, but being caught by her no matter what. All of us also decided to follow these past ponies in hopes of maybe finding some clues as to where the present RD could be. We regrouped at the town sqaure pavilion, and saw Pinkie and Rainbow Dash about to pull off their prank on Spike.

"What are they doing?" asked Twilight.

"Pulling a harmless prank on Spike" I replied. We sat behind some bushes and waited in anticipation. Spike came out and -on Pinkie's signal- Rainbow Dash kicked a thundercloud which cause a loud BOOM! It scared Spike and caused him to hiccup repeatedly, breathing fire onto the scrolls he was carrying. Everypony seemed to be laughing, including me. Everypony except Twilight.

"That wasn't very nice!" said Twilight.

"I told you, it was just a harmless prank!" I managed to say, as I was laughing very hard. That's twice today (is it still today? Curse time-travel!) that I laughed uncontrollably. "Boy, Celestia's in for a surprise, that's for sure." I said, wiping a tear from my eye. Eventually, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie left on their pranking spree. That's when it hit me. I knew when we were now.

"Aww crud" I said, as everyone turned towards me. "We have to make sure that the present RD doesn't meet Gilda. The results could be catastrophic!" I felt like Doc Brown after saying that, for some strange reason.

"Why?" asked Trixie.

"Because-" Twilight began.

"Because Gilda is big meanie! She has no respect for others!" interrupted Pinkie. She went on ranting about how mean Gilda truly was.

"Uh, Pinkie?" I said. Still ranting. "Pinkie?" I tried again. Nope, still ranting.

"PINKIE!" yelled Twilight. Pinkie slowly stopped talking, exhausted at the amount of things she could say. Pinkie took a deep breath, about to say some more things, but I covered her mouth. "That's better. Now if you could stop talking for just a second..." said Twilight. One.

"And she-" started Pinkie, but I tackled her to the ground.

"Pinkie, calm down! We know how mean she is! Maybe I can change her, just like I did with Trixie here!" I told Pinkie. I was on top of her, holding her down. She seemed to calm down a little, so I loosened my grip. Big mistake. She turned the tables and put me to the ground, now on top of me. "Argh!" I struggled, but she's stronger than I expected. I kicked her off and we started fighting in one of those cartoon tussles, where the characters randomly fight in a dust cloud.

"So, Gilda was being a jerk to pretty much everypony without Rainbow Dash knowing. But, Rainbow eventually found out about Gilda's true character at Pinkie's party." Twilight explained to Trixie as we were still fighting. "STOP!" yelled Twilight. Pinkie and I both froze with Pinkie grabbing my neck and me hers. "Now then, the party doesn't happen until tomorrow, and Gilda doesn't come until tomorrow either. So we have until then to find Rainbow Dash." said Twilight.

"Actually, Gilda could've come already, but Rainbow doesn't know. Or worse, Rainbow Dash went off to look for her!" I said, imagining the worst. Pinkie and I finally got out of the fighting mood and looked at each other. "Sorry" we said in unison.

"Very unlikely." said Twilight, probably about my last suggestion.

"I don't think so." said a voice from behind us. We turned around.

"Rainbow!" we all yelled. "We found you!" said Twilight.

"Technically, I found you." said Rainbow Dash. "Anyways, I'm off to get that jerk, Gilda, and teach her a lesson!"

"I don't recommend you do that." I said. "What I do recommend is that we leave, now." Rainbow Dash looked at me about to protest, but I told her, "Everything will happen like it's supposed to. Her mask will come off at Pinkie's party tomorrow."

"But she still won't learn her lesson!" protested Rainbow Dash. I thought of what Gilda did (or rather will do, I guess) to Fluttershy. I almost fell to her temptation about staying and teaching Gilda a lesson. Almost. But then, anger started boiling inside of me. So I thought, "You know what? Screw it. She deserves to be punished."

"I...I guess you're right..." I said, as I sped up time one day forward, using my watch. She made Fluttershy cry. She will pay.

"Green! What are you doing?!" asked Twilight.

"Something that needs to be done..." I said. I sped up time a few more hours and saw Gilda heading into town. "Just stay here...I won't be long." I said as I left in the direction of Gilda.

"No way! I'm not staying here while Gilda is a jerk to everyone!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash, as she followed me.

"Come back!" yelled Twilight as she and Trixie also followed suit.

"Wait for me you guys!" said Pinkie.

As I arrived, I saw I was too late. Gilda had already made Fluttershy cry by the time I got here. I could've gone back in time a little, but I thought maybe this would be a great excuse for me to beat up Gilda. I saw Fluttershy running away, and stopped right in front of Gilda. I told her, "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?!"

She replied with, "Who the heck are you?"

Now I know this was a bit cliché, but I responded with, "You're worst nightmare." As soon as I said that, she started to laugh.

"You?" she snorted. "Ha ha!" She began to laugh, and well, that didn't really help with my anger. I ran up to her and double kicked her in the face. I tell you, I would've done more than just kicked Gilda in that smug face of hers, but I was stopped by Twilight. The other ponies stayed behind so as not to be seen by the past Pinkie, who was watching me stand up to Gilda. Twilight just pulled me away from the angry screaming griffon. Moments later, we were out of town and Twilight was irritated with my behavoir, to say the least.

"Why on Equestria would you do that?" she asked.

"I don't know...What Rainbow said got to me, and I was rather angry at what Gilda did to Fluttershy." I replied.

Twilight looked at me with a face of forgiveness and said, "I know your intentions were good, but that's still no reason to try and beat up Gilda. Violence only causes more violence." Yeah, I know that saying all too well. I nodded in understandment. I turned to find a rather proud looking Rainbow Dash, but the face quickly went away when Twilight turned to her. "And you shouldn't have thought of that in the first place!" We said we were sorry and off we left to find another of Twilight's friends.

-----

"Wow, time-travelling is pretty slow," remarked Rainbow Dash.

"It's slow so that you don't get burned. It's the safer way to time-travel. I don't think you want your skin singed," I replied. They all simply nodded. I quickly remembered, however, that before arriving here, I was running at Mach 10. I guess it wouldn't burn me, but definetly them. "Now, when are we this time?" I asked. Once again, I looked around. We were atop a mountain, at the summit.

"Is it night time?" asked Rainbow Dash. I looked up.

"No, it's smoke," replied Twilight. She was right, this wasn't darkness, it was smoke.

"Is something burning?" I deducted.

"No, it's coming from the sleeping dragon inside that cave," said Pinkie Pie. She was right as well. How did she know? It doesn't matter now, as I thought for a second. Where have I seen this before? The summit of a mountain, filled with smoke that's coming from a sleeping dragon...

"Aha!" I said aloud. "We are in the time when that one dragon was sleeping and its snoring was causing smoke to go over Ponyville." They looked at me a little scared. "What?" I asked. They pointed behind me as the dragon was apparently woken up by a scream of terror. "How did he wake up?! Nothing would wake him up! Well, only until Rainbow Dash decided to kick him..." I said. I'm pretty sure the terror stopped her from protesting. We were backing up slowly until we heard something worse; the past ponies were coming up the mountain.

"What do we do now?" asked Trixie.

"I know!" I exclaimed. I checked my watch. Fluttershy is here and apparently inside the cave. I used something that well, is part of my watch's reality-bending powers. I stopped time. Everything froze except for me. I had exactly two minutes before time continued once more. I galloped into the cave and saw an unconcious Fluttershy.

"What happened?" I asked myself, realizing Fluttershy wouldn't hear me because she's unconscious and, time isn't flowing. I was pondering how to pick her up when my watch clicked one minute. "Oh shoot," I said. Struggling to lift her, I somehow managed to get her onto my back. These ponies are certainly heavier than they seem. "Better not tell 'em that, though," I chuckled, trying to ease the anxiety that was beginning to swell up inside of me. I reached the exit of the cave, just in time too. My watch began to count down.

10, 9, 8, 7...

I was then struck by the gravity of my situation. I would not be able to time-stop again any time soon, and I had no way of getting these ponies out of here. "I could time-travel," I thought. But I really couldn't. Since time stopped flowing, I couldn't travel through it. Time-travel is like swimming in a river: it's easier to travel through when it's flowing, especially if your going in the direction it's flowing, but it's nearly impossible when it's frozen.

5, 4, 3...

"It's gonna be close," I thought.

2, 1, 0. Time is restored.

Immediately, Fluttershy opened her eyes, and her heart was beating rather rapidly. "She was frightened," was my conclusion, "Not unconscious". I tried to time-travel, but my watch was still recharging after the time-stop. At least two hours before I can do anything with it. What to do now? Face getting burned and/or eaten by a dragon or breaking the universe apart by meeting the past ponies? Neither option was good, go figure. I guess this is it. I was about to give up, but then I remembered, I never give up on anything! Or, I at least try not to. This was not going to be one of the times that I gave up. I need to come up with something! Think, think! Hmm...we're standing a few feet before the cliff, and we could slide down. Though I doubt that they'll move now, they're too terrified. "A push," I thought. The dragon opened his mouth to breathe fire at us, but I quickly pushed everyone down the cliff. It took a lot of strength, since aforementioned, they're heavier than they seem. The dragon saw us go down and decided it was too much effort to chase after us. He went back to sleep, in time for the past ponies to arrive at the cave. That solves that problem, but now onto ours.

"Aaaahhh!!" We all screamed. We were tumbling down the mountain, not sliding as I hoped. This can't end good...

*CRASH!*

"Ugh, my aching...everything," I groaned. All the ponies had fallen on top of me, even though I was the last to go down. They quickly noticed this, and all them got off of me. "Youch. You're all..." I was going to say heavy, but caught myself, "okay..."

"But you don't seem to be," said Trixie.

"Nah, I'm ok, too," I said.

"Oh yeah, that reminds me. What are you doing with HER?!" asked Rainbow Dash.

"We don't have time to explain." replied Twilight.

"Actually, we do. My watch needs to recharge after stoping time. It'll take," I checked my watch, "at least an hour and 55 more minutes."

"You stopped time?!" asked Twilight. I nodded.

"I was wondering why I was on you all of a sudden. I saw the dragon and started to scream, then the next thing I know, I'm outside riding on your back," explained Fluttershy.

"You still haven't answered MY question," said Rainbow, a little bit more irritated.

"She regrets what she did and wants to help save everypony to apologize," I said flatly. Rainbow Dash didn't seem to convinced.

"And you expect us to believe her, after what she did? She took your watch and started this whole mess! How can you be so accepting of her?" asked Rainbow Dash.

I thought about what she said a little and replied with, "I believe in giving others second chances. If Trixie truly regrets what she did, let her try to fix things." I looked at Trixie and she smiled at me with deep embarrassment and remorse.

"Ugh, fine," said Rainbow Dash.

"Glad you agree. Now then, what are we going to do for and hour and" I checked my watch again, hoping some time went by,"57 minutes? Other than stay hidden, of course." They stared at me blankly. "No one has an idea?" They shook their heads. "I suppose we could just talk then." At this they agreed, for Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie started to converse amongst themselves. I couldn't help but laugh a little at this. "They're so like girls," I thought. I looked at Trixie, but she was no longer smiling. She looked very sad, so I decided to talk with her. It's weird, I'd never actually have the confidence to approach someone and talk to them (having the shyness of Fluttershy, apparently) unless they were bummed out.

"Something bugging ya?" I asked her. Of course something's bugging her. She caused something she regrets, and these ponies don't trust her whatsoever.

"I just feel...terrible at what I caused. And now because of it, I feel, lonlier than ever," Trixie told me, with the sad look still on her face.

"I know how you feel," I told her truthfully. "I've caused several things that I regret, that I wish I could go back in time to fix...but I can't."

"Why not?"

"I don't know...I mean, I have the ability to change whatever I want into whatever I want (as long as the Gods say it's ok) and I can even time-travel, but whenever I try to change any of my mistakes, they stay the same." Trixie just looked down after hearing this.

"Then how am I supposed to be able to fix things, if even the Great Green can't change his own mistakes?" she told me, while still looking down.

"Hey, don't get so down! I think the reason for why I can't change MY mistakes, is because I wouldn't have learned from the experience. In fact, now that I think of it, we make mistakes so we can learn from them. No body is perfect, which is why we make mistakes. But it's important to learn from your mistakes and not just your mistakes, but others' too; you can't make them all yourself," I told her.

She looked at me and her eyes started to tear up a bit. "Then what's the point of existing, if your simply going to cause mistakes all the time?" Woah, was she really going there? Did she really take it so far as to, think sadistically?

"Woah, woah, woah! Look, there are plenty of worse things that you could do than mistakes." I tried to think of something clever, but instead came up with, "You could...uh, be the meanest pony of all time." Yeah, nice one. She just looked at me again, still sad. "Ok, so mistakes are some of the worst things you can do, but some more than others. You could make a simple mistake, like misspelling a word, or a huge mistake--"

"Like mine?" she cut in.

"No, like what I did. I didn't turn on my watch's defenses. If I did, it wouldn't have been able to be taken off by anything," I explained to her.

"You wouldn't have needed to if I didn't take your watch," she said.

"Actually, I still would have needed to in order to protect it against bigger threats."

"So you don't think I'm 'Great and Powerful', do you?" Trixie asked me.

"Yes you are. You took my watch, something not many can say." She then reminded me that that was a bad thing, and that she's no good. Yeesh! There's no pleasing her, is there?

"Ok look, there's absolutely nothing worse than regret, that I can say for sure. But in all of my travels and experiences, I've learned to never give up. You've got to give it your best at everything, and never stop trying, never stop believing in yourself. Now, I may not understand why we still live life despite all it's hardships and truly, I have absolutley no idea what the point to life is. But I do know that life is gift, and that we should live it to it's fullest, which reminds me of a saying that I think of every day. 'Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, but Today is a gift. That is why it is called 'present'." I told her what I thought, and that seemed to do the trick. She started to smile again. The ponies stopped talking a while ago and listened to our conversation.

"That...was beautiful, Green," announced Fluttershy. She quickly added, "Oh sorry for eavesdropping again...It's just, it was such an interesting subject you see..."

"Don't worry about it, I know," I said.

"By the way, I've been meaning to ask this, but why are you a pony now instead of a human?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Interesting question...I don't know. I was supposed to become a horse upon entering this world, so as to blend in, but I didn't until I time-travelled. I guess my watch was malfunctioning, or something. I'd really prefer to be a human myself because, I don't know if it was the adrenaline rush that was helping me walk, but it's actually quite hard to walk with all fours. I mean, I have done it before as a human, but that was simply for fun. Also, I miss my fingers," I said, laughing a little. It's like that old saying, 'You never really know you have something until it's gone.'

"Can't you just change back?" asked Trixie.

"I can't right now, my watch is still recharging. But I think I'm going to stay like this for a while, until we get everyone back. That way, it'll be easier for everyone to see a strange colt than it would be to see a human," I explained.

"I'm wondering why you have wings and a horn just like the Princesses, though. Could you possibly be an alicorn?" asked Twilight.

"I don't know, but I doubt it. My wings are as big as a pegasus's and my horn as long as a unicorn's, not like the huge ones of the Princesses," I told them.

"Oh, well that makes sense. I suppose you're right," said Twilight. And so, we continued to talk. One subject we seemed to stick to was 'Do you do the same thing as us' like, speaking the same languages (surprisingly, the languages keep their names: English is English, French is French, etc.). Also, the days' names are the same, the time seems to go on the same way in our world, though I'm not entirely sure of the time-zone difference. We kept talking until we got to a rather strange topic to me, jobs.

"Do you have a job?" asked Rainbow Dash. "I'm in charge of the weather, Pinkie's a baker in Sugarcube Corner, Rarity is a fashion designer in her Carousel Boutique, Applejack sells her apples, Twilight and Fluttershy...I'm not too sure." After the last statement, Twilight looked at her Rainbow rather harshly, as did Fluttershy, but not as much.

"Well, I don't really have a job. Actually, I do, but it's not what you think it would be. I simply work at the kitchen in my school, serving-" I was going to say burgers, but decided to say something...less offensive," food to the students. It's only about 45 minutes on weekdays, since I still have to go to classes most of the time, but I do get paid," I explained. "Speaking of time, I think we can time-travel again." I checked my watch one more time, "Yup!"

"Then let's get going!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash. We got up from where we were sitting, I opened up a portal through time, and in we went.

----

You know, now that I think about it, I probably could of used Chaos Control (or better yet, Chronos Control) to stop time once more. Then again, I would've needed a Chaos Emerald (or Timestone) for that, since I don't have natural Chaos Force in this body. Shrugging that idea out of my head, I looked ahead into the future...or is it the past? Whatever. I looked ahead to see whenever we were going. This time, we appeared outside the Carousel Boutique. "Rarity," I thought.

I felt as if Twilight heard my thoughts (well, if we're friends and we trust each other, then it might make sense, seeing as how I have an 'empathy-trust link' with friends who trust me and me them), since she said, "Rarity must be here." I checked my watch- I do that a lot- and of course, we were right.

"How are we going to find her?" I asked. Then, I facepalmed (or is it facehoof?) myself for saying that. Where else would she be? As if my dumb question wasn't already enough, I received a smart-aleck response from Rainbow Dash.

"I dunno, maybe we should try checking inside her Boutique?"

"Right..." I said, blushing. "But maybe I should check? I mean, she knows all of you, but if this is the past Rarity, then she's going to confuse you and--"

"That's bad how?" asked Rainbow Dash. Ugh, must I explain everytime? I should get a billboard or something. Maybe a comic strip or PowerPoint, waaait, no electricty here, except for the clouds.

"Weeeell, you see..." I explained to her that the future meeting with the past could be catastrophic, but then I remembered something. Pinkie met with her past self, and I met her too. In fact, all of these events should destroyed time already! I then remembered that this only happened in the Back to The Future universe, where you'd disappear from messing with the past, and that there were Quantum theories that proved that if you time-travelled and changed something, you would just cause a parallel universe to split.

"Actually," I said, taking back my previous explanation, and told them my realization.

"So you're trying to tell us that all this time we could of interacted with the past and nothing would happened?" asked Trixie.

"Well not completely nothing, you'd just create an alternate universe," I said. Everyone seemed to get it now, and I'm a bit surprised at this. It usually takes a couple of times for me to explain this to anyone. "Still, I don't entirely reccommend that you go carelessly messing up the past, it could still be bad," I said.

"But you just said--"

"Hold it," I said, cutting off Rainbow Dash, "I think I hear something." I heard someone singing. No, not someone, somepony. "Is that, Rarity singing?" I said, looking in through the window. She was making dresses. I found out where we were without asking that repeated question, 'when are we?'. YES.

"Oh, I think I remember this," came a voice from behind us. Darn it, that happened again. The pony found us, she beat me to it. We turned around to face the stranger, and it was none other than...Spike?

"HUH?" we all said. It was Spike who was sent here, not Rarity? I checked my watch again, and sure enough, it showed Spike, not Rarity.

"I could of sworn, my watch said that Rarity was sent here, not you Spike!" (Well, there go my dreams of having to get Spike from the time he was greedy on his birthday. I was really hoping I could show my dragon-slayer spirit.)

"Nice to see you too Green," said the irritated dragon. I was embarrassed at that. I sounded terrible. "By the way, why are you a pony?" I thought of his question carefully, before forming a quedtion of my own.

"How did you know I was Green?" I asked. "In fact, how did all of you know that I was Green in pony form?" That, was probably one of the stupidest questions I've asked. Let me check my list....yep, stupidest question #5.

"Uh, you're watch?" said everyone.

"C'était stupide..." I said (yes, in French.)

"What was that?" asked Twilight.

"Nothing," I lied. "Now then, we have Spike, so let's get out of here," I said, but I was slammed into the wall by an opening door. I knew something was wrong when Pinkie was doing her 'Pinkie Sense' again. I just didn't remember the gesture, I guess. Knee-shake, eye-flutter, ear-flop? Was that it? It didn't matter, I was smashed against the wall, now sliding down.

"Oh, there you ponies are! I just finished your dresses! Come inside! Oh, and you can come too Spike," said the past Rarity. They all went inside except for Trixie, who had hid behind some nearby bushes.

"Oh, man! That hurts. Wait, did they just forget about me?" I looked through the window again. "Well at least they're doing what they're supposed to and making Rarity do the dresses all over," I said, rubbing my head. I waited for them to get out of the place, and eventually, they did. "What took you so long?" I asked, knowing the answer.

"Well, we told her to make the dresses again, just like the past us were supposed to," said a rather confused Twilight.

"I still don't see why we can't just tell her we're from the future," said Pinkie Pie.

"I don't know either, but it's best not to take any chances," I told them.

"Where's Trixie?" noticed Fluttershy. As soon as she said that, Trixie came out of her hiding place.

"Good," I said, "everyone's here." I felt like this was a rather short trip, but nontheless, we left toward the another of the mane six.

----

"Oh shoo--" I was cut off, as we all fell inside a lake. We got out of it quickly, as it was quite cold.

"Why did you do that for?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"What? Make us appear on top of a lake? I didn't do that! We simply time-travelled to the location of the next pony," I declared. She went on grumbling still. I didn't say anything else, the water was cold, that must've gotten to her.

"So who are we getting this time?" asked Trixie.

"Uh, let's see," I checked my watch yet again, "Rarity. This time it's really her. It's a good thing she wasn't here with us right now, she would of killed me if she landed in that water." I chuckled at saying that.

"But, where are we?" asked Twilight.

"Hmm, we seem to be on some small mountains," I observed. Just then, we heard a scream. "Was that Rarity?" I implored.

"Yes! Quick, let's go!" yelled Twilight. We hurried off in the direction of the scream, and found that Rarity was being taken by some large dog creatures.

"Great, not them again," muttered Spike. Sure enough, it was the Diamond Dogs. I couldn't tell if that was the past Rarity or not, at least not from here. I told them my situation, and I teleported us down toward the hole the she was taken into. The past Spike left already, looking for the ponies to help Rarity. I turned us invisible, just in case.

"You can make us invisible?" asked Fluttershy.

"Yes..." I said.

"Why didn't you just do that before?" retorted Twilight.

"I don't know, let's just go, but first," I made it so that we could see each other, but we remained invisible. "Good, now...ALLONS-Y!" I exclaimed. I always wanted to say that. We fell quite a few feet, but not enough to hurt us badly. Once inside the cave, we all noticed the endless maze of pathways.

"Which way do we go?" asked Pinkie. I checked my watch, and I signaled to go to the second-to-last one from the left. They looked at me confused, so I told them to follow me.

After a series of turns, Rainbow Dash asked, "Are you sure we're not lost?"

"Of course not! I know where we're going," I assured her. I saw the last turn we needed to make and was heading off there rather quickly. The ponies and Spike started to rush a little too. But then, some Diamond Dogs dropped from the ceiling. They must've heard us.

"More work ponies," one of them said. I reverted to my Celestrian Guardian form (AKA, Human form) and the metal saddle slipped off.

"I don't understand how you knew exactly where we were, but you can't put that thing on me if I'm a human," I contended. They grunted, seeing me as a threat, and charged at me. "Big mistake," I proclaimed. And so, a battle ensued.

I jumped up, high enough to dodge them, but low enough so my head wouldn't hit the ceiling. I landed as they stopped and changed direction. They came at me, so I did a low-sweep. That wasn't a good idea, I had to trip eight legs, and it didn't work. I was pushed towards a side of the cave, and slid down. "Ouch," I murmured. I thought for a second, as I lay on the ground. "Too dangerous to use an attack spell, and too dangerous to use brute force. What to do...Aha! I'll use a sleep spell!" And so I did; I cast kasnoozle, and they drifted to sleep.

"Good thinking, using a sleep spell," commented Twilight.

"Yes, it was," added Trixie.

"Thanks, but let's get Rarity," I said. We charged into the path, and saw Rarity strapped to a mine cart of some sort which was full of jewels. I checked my watch, and noticed this was the past Rarity. "Uh, that's not our Rarity," I whispered.

"What?" everyone nearly yelled.

"Let's just go back and--" I stopped, too stunned to move.

"What is it?" asked Spike.

"Them," I told him. The Diamond Dogs got their hands on the present Rarity. "Shoot, they got her!"

"We have to think of something!" I nearly bellowed.

"We could make a distraction," proposed Pinkie Pie. Not a bad idea, but instead I charged at them, knocked them out cold, and got Rarity all in one second.

"Sorry, I was in a rush," I said. Rainbow Dash looked at me with what seemed like jealousy, probably because I just went that fast when she could've, but didn't. "Now let's get out of here before--" I was interrupted once more, but this time by the past ponies.

"I heard something from over here!" yelled one of them.

"Shoot, we better get out of here. They'll handle the situation," I asserted. We quickly jumped into a time portal, and it quickly disappeared, before anyony saw a thing.

----

"Phew, that was a close one," drawled Pinkie.

"It sure was," I said. "I wonder where, err, when we're heading now." We came to the end of the time portal and landed in between some apple trees. "Shoot, better change back to pony form..."

"You have a pony form?" asked Rarity. I didn't need to say anything, she saw what I turned into. "You look....good," she mumbled.

"Really? Thanks! You look good too! Albeit, a little messy from being in that cave, but nothing a bath can't fix," I told her. Spike only heard my comment about Rarity and dragged me off to the side. The ponies were talking amongst themselves. Strange, Rarity didn't mind Trixie being there. Guess they must've explained to her.

"Listen, for your sake, you'd better not hit on Rarity like that again. She's mine," declared Spike.

"Dude, calm down. I'm not hitting on her...yet," I joked. I wanted to see his reaction to this.

"What?! Why you little--"

"Who's the 'little' one?" I messed with Spike a little more, but saw no real value in doing so. "I'm sorry Spike," I said, wiping a tear from my eye from laughing a lot. "I was only kidding, I don't have my eyes set on her. Besides, why would she even think about being with me? I'm a human, for crying out loud. Also, you've been with her a lot longer than I. She barely knows me." I eventually persuaded Spike and we went back to the group of talking ponies.

"Who are we here for?" asked Rarity.

"Let's see," I checked my watch, still laughing a little by what just happened, "Applejack should be here."

"In her own farm?" asked Twilight.

"Yup. Oh wait, that can't be good," I said. We started to hurry to the barn, but seeing all those apple made me hungry. My stomach rumbled and everyone heard.

"You hungry?" asked Fluttershy.

"Yes, but that can wait. We need to get Applejack right now," I said. We continued running and eventually reached the barn.

"Mamma mia!" I exclaimed. Applejack was harvesting, or rather, apple-bucking the apple trees. I thought it was the present Applejack, and yep, it was.

"Applejack, what are you doing?" asked Twilight.

"Ah'm just helping mahself with all these Apple trees. It seems Ah was sent back to when Ah was to stubborn to accept help from y'all," said Applejack.

I started, "Well, we have to go. We still need to get the princesses--"

"No. Ah'm not leavin' until Ah get at least half of the apple trees done," interrupted Applejack, while kicking a tree. "And may Ah ask what she's doin' with y'all?" She pointed to Trixie.

"It's a long story..." I insisted.

"Well we've got time, seein as how you can time-travel," retorted Applejack.

"Ugh, fine..." I told her everything up to this point. "And now we're here, talking to you. By the way, do you have any food? I'm famished now."

"Yes, as a matter of fact, Ah do! We have all sorts of Apple pastries," proclaimed Applejack proudly. She told me a list of pretty much everything, so that's what I went with, everything. "Everythin'?! You'll have one of everythin'?" She seemed thoroughly surprised. "Ya know how much that's gonna cost ya, don'tcha?"

"Eeeyup," I said, stealing that trademark of Macintosh.

"Well if ya say so," replied Applejack. She led us inside her house, assuring us that nopony was home (I told her not to mess with the past.) Pinkie went into the kitchen to help Applejack make the pastries. The rest of us sat down at the small table. There were enough chairs, surprisingly. I took a good look at the house. It looked so, peaceful. Living out on the country, it always tickled me inside. I wanted to live out on the country, I feel it would suit  me. "Is she really going to charge me for all those apples?" I asked Twilight.

"Yup!" replied Twilight enthusiastically.

"I thought she was joking..." I confessed. "Well no matter, just like she was too stubborn to accept help, I'll pay her every last cent! Including tips!" We stifled a laugh at this.

"Dinner's ready!" exclaimed Pinkie.

"Is it really evening already?" I asked. "We've been time-travelling! It should take no time at all!"

"Well, it's evening here," replied Pinkie Pie. She and Applejack brought an abundancy of apple pastries.

"I'm gonna need a bigger stomach," I joked. As I was about to grab an apple pie, Applejack slapped my hoof.

"First you need to pay," stated Applejack.

"Do I get a 'money back' guarantee?" I returned. She smiled at that, as I paid her at least 500 bits.

"Where'd you get all that money?" asked Trixie.

"I'm a reality-bender, I can make it," I told everyone.

"Well, let's dig in!" I exclaimed. We ate to our heart's content, but in my case, to my stomach's content.

"I think I ate too much pie," commented Twilight.

"You always eat too much pie," retorted Spike. We laughed once more.

"Ah, good times, good times," I said. I then noticed everyone's stomachs were actually bulging, including mine. "We're gonna need to burn this fat off. Or better yet..." I changed us back to normal.

"What did you just do?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Look at your bellies," I told them. They were no longer bulging.

"That's...convenient," remarked Applejack.

"I'm surprised no one's home yet," I observed. But then, something came at the front door. "I had to open my big mouth...Well, at least we're getting a move on." I opened another time portal and we jumped in. Onward, to the Princesses! Next Chapter: 4. The Princesses Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 13 Minutes