Author: Ferlathin
Prompts: The crossover that never should’ve happened and How it should have happened.
Title: There and back again?
Dash woke up, it was early, she couldn’t fall asleep, she was too excited. The reason was that today was her birthday and the day she became an adult. The same evening there was a huge party for both her and her grandma. Since their birthdays occurred at the same day.
Dash met up with her friends outside of her house, they chatted about the party and other awesome stuff. Suddenly they heard a wagon coming.
Twilight gasped. “Star Swirl the Bearded?!”
The unicorn facehoofed. “No. I’m not Star Swirl, he was my grandfather’s grandfather! I’m Zandalf.”
“I can’t help myself.” Twilight giggled.
After the party that evening, when Vega had done a “trick” to vanish out of thin air, Dash became worried. She went back inside and searched but her grandmother was nowhere to be found.
“She’s already left, you know...” Zandalf said.
“What are you doing in here!?”
“She left something for you though, right over there.”He pointed his hoof towards the fireplace.
Dash looked noticed a small pouch. She took a peek inside. “The... bracelet... She left the bracelet?”
“She did indeed. That’s why I was gone so long. To research, this bracelet. I just need to do a little test, to see if I’m correct. Can I borrow it?”
“Sure, take it.”
Zandalf thew the bracelet into the fire. “What are you doing!” Dash exclaimed.
“Schh. Just watch.” After maybe thirty seconds he took it out of the fire.
You’ll burn yourself!”
“No. It’s quite cold. See for yourself.” he gave her the bracelet. It was indeed cold. “Now, do you see something?”
“There’s... text.”
“Dang. It was as I feared. I need to go. You should go to Appleloosa, I’ll meet up with you there.”
“But...?”
“Only tell the ponies you can trust. Pack lightly and don’t use your real name. You should be, ms Undercloud.”
Rainbow raised an eyebrow. “Undercloud? That doesn’t even make sense!” He was already gone.
Dash told her best friends, and the next morning they took the first train to Appleloosa.
“Well. Now we’re here...”
“There you are, Undercloud!” Braeburn said and waved. “Zandalf said you would come. He’ll be coming by soon. Let’s go home to me, shall we?” he winked. Did he just...?
“Sure, whatever.”
Back at ‘his place’ they all gathered up in a big round room. There were representatives from all species in Equestria there.
Zandalf spoke up. “The bracelet must be taken to the volcano in Badlands. It’s the only way to destroy it.”
After a common murmur, some arguments and a proposed route the meeting was finished.
Dash whispered something to Zandalf. “Sounds awfully... difficult. What if...”
Twilight, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie had trotted towards the entrance to Badlands. “This better work...” Twilight said. Pinkie had brought a huge disco ball, Applejack gave it a buck so it started spinning, Twilight levitated it high up in the air while Rarity used her magic to make it sparkle massively.
“Hey! Over here! A party! Wheeeeeeeeeeee! So much fun!” Pinkie screamed in a megaphone to get attention.
– – –
“Well... That was incredibly easy, just dropping it!” Dash said as she flew beside Fluttershy.
“Can you imagine what it would have been like if we actually trotted the entire way!?” Fluttershy replied.
“Bwahahah! Don’t be silly!”