We left Fluttershy's cottage two minutes ago, by now. The distance between the cottage and Ponyville was much shorter then how it seemed while looking through that window, and the bridge built on top of the town river was a few kilometres away.

Twilight Sparkle and Rarity were walking side by side, talking to eachother. if the talk was about me or something else I couldn't tell, since I wasn't pay very much attention. In fact, I was walking slowly behind them, with my mind very much occupied thinking about everything that happened by then, and most importantly, how it happened.

How did I travelled back in time?! Was it a side effect happening for those who activates the SPP? If that's so, then why Celestia didn't warned me about it before I could do anything? I mean, she was part of the machine, she surely would've know about that. ...right?

It was useless fooling myself, I didn't have anything to cling onto. The only I could do in that moment, was guessing when I was. Which honestly wasn't very hard: this couldn't be Equestria during the war, since the Ministry Mares I saw in the memory orbs were pretty old, middle age more or less, while the mares I met so far were... very young. Slightly older then me, in fact.

So yeah, it was pretty clear that this was an Equestria where the shadow of the war was still far away: the same good-old Equestria mentioned by Scootaloo, in her recordings. The same Equestria that, according to Scootaloo again, was a paradise before war, rampant progress and corruption ruined it.

So now there was another question: what to do? I just made something that nopony else ever made: travelling back in time, having now the occasion of preventing hell on earth to ever happening. It would've been easy: all I had to do was warning both the future ministry mares and the two princesses about the upcoming war and what lead to it. After all, it was mainly a mixture between the zebras' belief about the return of Nightmare Moon, and Equestria knowing very little about the zebras empire and its culture. Maybe, if both parts could learn more about eachothers, if all the negative myths regarding both cultures could've been demolished by revealing the truth to each one of them... maybe that was all that was needed to prevent a cathastrophe.

But then... it would've been really enough to resolve things for the better? And if would've really worked, then... what would've happened to me? Or Velvet? Or Calamity? Or everypony in the Wasteland, for that matter? If the Wasteland itself would never existed in the first place, would the same thing happen to all the ponies they live in it?

All this questions, all this dilemmas continued to circle around my head over and over again, each one of them creating questions of their own, like a snake that bites his tail and ruotates on himself without ever stopping. I didn't even realized I was walking on the top of bridge, until Twilight took me away from my thoughts.

"Littlepip, are you okay?", Twilight asked, as she stopped walking and looked at me preoccupied. "You stayed silent all this time, and your face was very pale. Is something wrong?"

"Uhm... no, not really. I was just... trying to remember something. Anything, actually."

"Oh, right, the amnesia," she said while blushing. Meanwhile, we returned walking again. "There's no reason to be scared about it. Like I said, it should last a few days, but if you want we can make a visit to nurse Redheart later, to see if its a big one or not."

"NO!" I shouted, realizing only right after that it was a little too dramatic, thus suspectful. "Uhm, I mean... thanks, but there's no need for that, really. It's probably what you said, my memory will return very soon," the game here was trying avoiding any kind of doctor: chances are, they could discover that I had no amnesia at all, thus forcing me to tell the truth. And that's something I had to avoid at any costs. ...should I?

"Are you sure?" Twilight argued. "I mean, it won't take long as a visit. Besides, even though I read about it on a medicine book, I'm still not a doctor, so I can't really tell if yours' a bad case or not. Trust me, it's better for us to..."

"Twilight, darling!" Rarity interrupted her. Once again, my luck stroke. "I think it's better to give our guest the time to think about it, don't you think? In alternative, we can still wait a couple of days to see if her memory improves, then we shall speak about visiting a doctor or not."

"Yeah, you're right Rarity," Twilight said. She then looked at me with a guilty face. "Sorry for bothering you, Littlepip. I tried to be helpful, but looks like I exaggerated. Please don't think of me as a drip pony, I'm not usually like this!" these last words were accompanied by cute puppy eyes.

"Oh, I don't, really," well... maybe a little.

We returned walking and, after a few steps more, we left the bridge and entered the town. My suprise on seeing the buildings intact at the distance was now,like, quintuplicated now that I was seeing them in person. What made my jaw staying dropped wasn't just how "complete" they were, compared to the ruins of the wasteland, but also aldo how colorful they were: each building had a color of its own. Combining that with all the plants and flowers around (and yeah, I noticed only now how pre-war Equestria was so full of plants and green), the result was like a painting. And I don't mean the old paints ruined by time with all their colors lost, I mean the very few ones that were still conserved, thus looks like they were made recently.

At that moment, Twilight said to me, "Oh right, I forgot to tell you that today there's an oper-air market, at the center of Ponyville. Pretty much all the ponies that lives here are gathered there. I hope my other friends are there as well, so I can present them to you as well," I hope too, pre-war Twilight Sparkle. I surely do...

Sweet Celestia's teats, so many ponies! The open-air market had so many ponies around. Never before I saw such a great number, not in Stable 2, nor at New Appleloosa, not even at Tenpony Tower or Phillydelphia. The space between the stands was so much crowded, I almost felt like choking. When Rarity and Twilight stopped the walk to admire some ceramic wares (pretty impressive ones, gotta say), I pleaded them to hurry to the Mayor, since I felt like on the verge of a panic attack.

"Hmph, we were just admiring some fine hooficraft works for a couple of seconds, dear," Rarity said with a kinda snobbish attitude. "It's not very ladylike to interrupt with such a rush.," well, now I knew where Velvet Remedy took her little attitude from.

"I'm sorry, Rarity," I said, trying to sound as humble as possible. "It's just that, uhm... I'm feel very tired right now, and I'd like to find a bed as soon as po-"

Before I could finish, something crushed on me: well, somepony actually. From what I could tell, she was jumping instead of walking, and didn't saw where she was going, thus she landed on me...

"Nngh! Watch where you're jumping, will yah?" I said, while moving her aside from me.

I remained silent, however, when I saw more clearly who she was: it was Pinkie Pie, the future head of the Ministry of Morale. She got up in a flash, and started looking at me with a puzzled face.

"Pinki Pie, that could have gotten both of you hurt," Rarity started scolding her. " You have to look better where you're jumpi- "

She couldn't even finish, hoever, as Pinkie was now right in front, muzzle against muzzle: she loooked to me with a suspicious face for some instants, then she started, like... inspecting me, checking every part of my body. And yes, I mean every part, even... you know what part. After that, she made a thinking pose for some seconds, and finally... she jumped high while making a deep "GASP". She then run away fast, making her way through the crowd in the market.

"What... just happened?" I asked to the two future Ministry Mares, confused like I've rarely been before. I mean, I knew about Pinkie's randomness already, but that was still... too weird.

Twilight came near me and started explaining to me, while we returned walking: "Sorry for the randomness of my friend Pinkie Pie, that's just how she works sometimes. She usually spend the day while baking at Mr. and Mrs. Cake bakery shop, or by throwing parties to... well, pretty much everything she has in mind. I think she just took a while realizing if she had in front of her a pony she saw before, or a newcomer," well, given that her future-self knew, that I was watching her through the memory orbs, I wouldn't have been suprised by that. Then again none of the memory orbs I checked showed me this Equestria. " At the end, however she must have recognized that you're a new pony, so she fled away in a hurry probably to start the preparations for the party dedicated to you ".

Wait... a party for me?! Sweet, let's make the entire town knowing about the new, stanger pony. If you didn't know already, I wasn't very fond of having all the attention one me... especially when knowing my presence could screw up the entire space-time continuum, or whatever it's called.

" D-did you said party? " I asked Twilight. " But, there's no need to troubling herself for that, really. I mean, it's not like I'll stay in Ponyville forever, you know. "

" Sorry, but when Pinkie have an idea for a party in mind, there's no way to change it. Knowing her, she already begun working on it. "

Well, Luna's horny period, wasn't that great? At this point, all I could do was hoping for my luck to strike again at the right time. It's not very pleasant to let your luck dealing with your problems all the time: you're never sure if it will be effective or not.

Suddenly, Twilight put her hoof on my back as to consoling me. " I know that feeling, you know? This is the same situation that happened to me the first time I came here. Tell you what, I'll be there too checking that nopony will bother you too much. "

" Thanks, " I said with a little smile. Well, speaking of the devil...

The square at the center of the town was much more open-air and with fewer stands, thus less crowded: finally, I could return breathing normally. The Mayor's office was a few feet away, passed the fountain at the center. I started to gleefuly trotting near Twilight and Rarity, when suddenly...

"LOOK OUT BELOW!!!!"

Another pony crashed on me, this time coming from the air, and the hit was so strong that made rolled over until the stone wall around the fountain stopped me. It took me a good bunch of seconds to see clearly again, but when I finally did, I saw that the pony crashed on the wall as well... and it was Rainbow Dash. At this point I started asking myself, 'Did I just become a magnet for future dead ponies?'.

" Oww... that was a big failure," Dash said, while massaging her head on the point where it hit the wall. Finally she noticed that I was at her side looking to her, with a not amused expression. " Oh... eh eh, sorry for that. I wasn't very much in control of myself, you know. "

" My goodness, are you two alright? " Rarity said dramatically, while she and Twilight finally reached us.

" Of course we are! " Dash said while putting her hoof on my right shoulder. " I stopped her before she could crash on this wall. "

Again, not amused.

Twilight, of course, didn't fell for it. "Sure, why not. Anyway, since you showed up, allow me to present you our guest, Littlepip. Littlepip, my friend Rainbow Dash."

Rainbow Dash proceeded to make... a cool pose, I guess. " Yep, the best and the only. But of course, being the only pony in existence who performed a Sonic Rainboom and who's the Wonderbolts' best cadet, you probably heard about me already, right? "

" Uhm... " oh I did hear about you alright... just for others, completely unrelated things. " No, sorry, never heard of you. "

My response was followed by a jawdrop coming from Dash's face. Thankfully, Twilight aided me once again, "She is just recovering right now from a case of amnesia, Rainbow Dash. Right now, she don't remember where she comes from." Dash's face proceeded returning self-confident in one second flat.

Now it was time for me to ask some questions, "Speaking of which, what was the thing you were doing that ended up with you crushing on me?"

"Oh, that one. Well, I was just trying one of my new super air-acrobatics, with my biggest fan Scootalo checking if I was missing some move or not. Too bad she won't be able to tell me that, since I somehow ended up going a little too far then predicted."

And speaking of the devil, "Rainbow Dash, there you are!" guess I did just become a magnet for future dead ponies... "Sorry I couldn't see all of your moves, you went so far so fast I wasn't able to follow. I knew I should've brought my scooter from home too. Anyway, how was the final landing of awesomness?"

"Perfect, kid! It was so precise and awesome, all the ponies here dropped their jaws right away!" What followed those words was an unimpressed glare from both Twilight and Rarity.

I should've give mine as well, but... I was too concentrated looking the little orange filly. That was Scootaloo. Scootaloo, the future vice-president of Stable-Tec Corporation... and she was just a child, right now. A little pegasus filly with such a cheerful and happy face, I never saw it before in any other pony in the wasteland. To think that she will grow up being the pony that will lock up the inhabitants of Stable 1 forever... a pony full of sorrow and anger toward a corrupted and decaying Equestria... I don't lie when saying that I felt the urge of bursting into tears. Luckly, I still had the strenght to repress it.

Still, I didn't notice that Scootalo started just now looking at me: well, at my flank to be precise.

"Wow, what a cool cutie mark!" she shouted, drawing my attention at her once again. "What does it represent, Mrs.? Is it some kind of super high-tech watch? Or bracelet?"

Scootalo, it's not nice asking about others cutie marks without the permission of their owners!" Twilight scolded the little filly.

"Oh no, it's fine," I intervened. Then I said to Scootalo, "You're right, actually. It's a watch. A, uhm, Pipbuck watch. Very famous in my town, eheh."

"Wait," Twilight intervened, "how did you know that if you don't remember the town you live into?"

Oh Princesses raping me right now, my goddamned mouth again! " U-uhm... good question, you know. I don't even know how myself!" I feel me starting to sweat. A lot.

"Oh, right, silly me! It must be a sign that your memory is starting to come back already," phew, my luck still didn't forget about me.

"See, Twilight? I knew it wasn't something to worry about too much," Rarity said. Twilight nodded.

"Oh well, I guess me and Scootalo here we'll let you taking care of your guest: we still have lots of acrobatics to test, you know," Dash said while taking flight, with Scootalo on her back. "Call me if you need help, 'kay?" She then started flying away fast, leaving a rainbow colored contrail.

"Goodbye Twilight! Goodbye Rarity! Goodbye Mrs. guest!" Scootalo shouted.

"Oh well, let's go to the Mayor already," Rarity said. "It's already awfully late."

So we returned walking again. Still, my mind couldn't still leave Scootalo. The words of her future-self were true, she and Rainbow Dash were really like best pals. Thinking about that, and what was going to happen to both in a not so distant future... it wasn't pleasant, to say the least.

"Littlepip, is something wrong?" Twilight asked. She really couldn't snatch her eyes from me, could she.

"Oh, nothing, just thinking."

"Oh right, poor darling, that crush on the head must still awfully hurt!" Rarity said, while carefully massaging my head. "Here, Rarity will now make the pain go away faster," she then... kissed my scalp. Luna in heat like a horse, that was so hot I was blushing like crazy! Twilight giggled like a foal, at that scene.

Mayor Mare's office was right in front of us, by now. ...And the day was still pretty long.