//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Time Traveling Archaelogist // by RDDash //------------------------------// The year is 157 of Friendship Era. After Starlight Glimmer perfected the time travel spell in the year 7, allowing the user to travel back in time for as long as they wished. As well as to be triggered remotely based on the certain conditions. The Equestrian Kingdoms government realized that the spell was a can full of worms. So at first in an effort to control it, they made the spell public. The idea failed spectacularly when time travel anomalies started to show up all over across Equestria. After that fiasco, The Parliament voted 254 to 46 in favor of banning the time travel spell from public use. So then the spell had been removed from the public domain, and the knowledge of the spell had been obliviated from ponies minds. Then it was declared to create a government run agency tasked with investigating those anomalies. The agency directly reports to the Friendship Council. The Friendship Council is made up of six Alicorns, A Princess Twilight, and her five advisors: Pinkie Pie, Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity. The reason for the title Advisor and not a Princess was quite simple. When Rainbow ascended into an Alicorn she politely refused the title of the Princess of Equestria. She said she doesn’t need all of that frou frou. It was uncommon, for an Alicorn to refuse but it did happen from time to time. In the year 20 of Friendship Era Alicorns had been officially demoted from the ruling classes, The Princess became nothing but an honorary title. At the same time, the house of Nobles had been restructured into The Parliament with 300 members by default. Speaking of Alicorns refusing the title of The Princess, some of them were more vocal than others. For example, Sunset Shimmer was quite furious and demanded to shove the title, where the sun didn’t shine. “I’ve gone through a lot of crap in my life just to achieve this title. The obsession ruined my life, and now I don’t want it. Would you please just shove it where the Sun doesn’t shine, " she said, turned 180 degrees and went through the mirror back to her home. A pegasus mare by the name of Compass Rose was about to have her destiny changed. She was really excited. She was standing in front of Friendship Castle, and she was one of many to be selected for a mission. The door opened, “Oh hello, hello, you are a bit early today, please come in, " said an earth pony with glasses. Compass was slightly confused, that mare was extremely cheerful, unusually fast, and it feels like she was everywhere at once. “Hi, my name is Compass Rose and you are?” Mare blinked, “Oh, Of course, how rude of me, my name is Shiny Spectacle and I am personal secretary of Princess Twilight. I am sure you know this already but we need to repeat this as part, of should we say official record.” Compass nodded, Shiny Spectacles grinned “This is exciting part, you see, you are an adventurer type so you will like this, aren’t you?” Compass nodded again “Excellent! Now then,” are tapped her hoof once, as per command the magic powered projector clicked and the presentation started. “The mission is to investigate the time anomaly # 161.4, alternatively named ‘the castle’, similarly to the Evevefree castle ruins that are located in the former Everfree Province,” mare started chatting. “Now see there?” Another hoof tap, new slide changed, “here is our mystery. This castle located right in the middle of the abandoned city. Here is a clicker though, our specialists discovered a skeleton belonging to the now diseased Alicorn mare. Approximate age, I would say, is about 20-25 upon the time of death. We don’t know what exactly happened, but whatever it was, it happened about 150 years or so ago. That what our specialists are able to conclude.” Shiny tapped her hoof twice, projector clicked and shut off. “Water?” “Excuse me?” asked Compass. “Would you like some water before the mission starts? I mean if you don’t want to,” mare shrugged “My job is only to ask.” “Oh, um, okay, sure, thanks for the offer.” Hearing that Shiny beamed she then went to a nearby fridge and opened. Compass followed her and then took a bottle of water inside. “If you would, please follow me into the next room,” so they did “Now then please stand inside,” she gestured towards pony sized container. She then quickly shoved Ms. Compass inside, closed the lid and activated a switch. Buzzing tone sounded, hearing that she quickly pushed a few buttons and rotated the rotary device. Another buzzer sounded, portal activated and the container with its passenger sucked inside. “Bye Bye, please send a postcard in the next decade or so,” said Shiny, feeling a someponys presence, she turned her head to the right. “Oh hi, boss mare didn’t hear you come in.” “Was all of that theatrics really necessary?” “Well, it was certainly was fun.” “Ahem?” “Oh right,” Shiny Spectacle tapped her hoof one last time, Twilight blinked, Shiny Spectacle vanished in her place stood Rainbow Dash, she still carried her glasses Her cutie mark and horn glows soft silver for a second. “Is this like your first time? I mean the first time for you to see me do this, not the first time for your stallion in bed. Or do you prefer mares?” “Rainbow! Shut it,” Twilight blushed “I mean honestly, so immature. We’ve been over this.” “What can I say I did have good teachers,” Rainbow flashed an innocent smile. “We're one of those teachers happen to be pissed off former Changeling Queen?” “She might have been, I mean I pulled a few favors back in the day.” Year 975 of Celestia Reign. Lightning cracked in the sky, portal popped open and the container fell on the ground, the portal closed. Compass Rose sighed, “This is the last time I will time travel by a fridge. Oh, wait how would I go back,” those fridges or capsules need it to be reprogrammed by the specialist, and well without them time traveling fridge were useless. Remembering the guidelines Compass quoted the lines “Time traveling agents need to use cover identity. Never ever use your real name.” Compass stood up, “Now then I always wanted to be an Archaeologist. How about Daring Do? Oh, I know AK Yearling, the famous writer who writes stories about Daring Do’s adventures,” Compass gasped “This is perfect, I can be both of them at the same time.”