A Blast of the Past
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Ditzy Doo looked upon all the gadgets and gizmos spread out across the console of the Time and Relative Dimensions in Space machine, or the Tardis for short. She skipped over to one of the knobs and began turning it with her mouth. Then she outstretched a wing and began hitting buttons with it.
She may be clumsy but operating the Tardis was her specialty! She even felt she did better than the Doctor himself no matter how much he denied it. Quickly the device began to activate, and to note without the loud scratching sound that the Doctor couldn’t seem to get rid of. She felt the feeling of souring through space in time and it almost reminded her of flying. Although, flying was no were near as good as this!
As the Tardis flew around though she began thinking back to the last night and what the Doctor told her. She couldn’t afford to waste time because the fate of Equestria depended on her!
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Rainbow looked into the eyes of the stallion standing before her with a stupid smile on his face. “I just don’t even know what to think! That was just amazing and to think that…” he began trailing off and getting lost in his own thoughts. Suddenly he jumped up. “Oh wait! We have an angry princess to find and we have to do it STAT!”
He began running around the room looking at the now activated monitors trying to understand any of the information that was now scrolling across all the screens. Dash just watched in fascination as the bearded stallion studied everything he could. She then looked away and began walking around the room itself. She noticed a wall that had a lot of decorative panels all over it and started walking towards it.
As she approached she began to study the carvings that were clad in what looked like gold. Suddenly however the panels twisted around making multiple doors into a single room. Stepping inside caused all the lights to turn on and more monitors to activate. Most of these also just had a scrolling language that she didn’t quite understand. One though, was showing a sort of graphic that looked almost like a map! “Hey, Starswirl come check this out!”
“Not now Rainbow Dash, I have to find out where Luna went!”
Dash began looking harder at the map and saw two dots in adjacent rooms. She wondered what those dots meant. She then stepped forward a bit and was surprised to see the dot move! However, just as quickly as it started moving it just stopped. She leaned it to get an even closer look and it once again moved, this time only slightly. Then she saw the other dot begin to move around as well.
She looked back to see Starswirl pacing between three of the larger monitors. Suddenly it hit her! “Starswirl! You have got to see this! It’s a map and it shows where we are!”
“What in Equestria are you talking about Rainbow Dash?” he said as he began stepping towards the room. Sure enough the dot moved with him. “Well, I never noticed this room before,” stated the unicorn as he stepped through the doors. He stepped up to the map and began to study it. “Well, it is certainly the easiest thing to understand in this place that is for sure.”
“Look, those dots there are us,” Dash began looking around the map looking for a third dot. Sure enough, “Look! There, that must be Luna! We have to get to her now!” Before Starswirl even had time to interject Dash had begun Galloping towards the still rather dark hallway. He looked in awe as the lights turned on in front of her as she ran through out of sight.
He sighed, “That is one heck of a mare.” Then he smiled and activated his magic; teleporting to farther into the hallway.
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The Doctor had much easier time recovering from the teleport than Rainbow Dash did. Actually, he hadn’t had a single issue and was walking the second he exited. He took a good look at the castle sitting before him and smiled. He almost didn’t recognize the place without all the vines and trees growing all over it. “Ah yes, the Great hall of the Royal Pony Sisters,” he said as he began trotting towards the gates.
He was so fascinated by the great place that he didn’t even notice the Pegasi flying down behind him; hindering his escape. “Fascinating! The walls are so much larger when they are not completely crumbling apart.” He walked up to the gate and knocked three times and took a few steps back. He ended up backing straight into one of the Pegasi. “Oh well hello there fine sir! Do you min- Mmmphph!” He tried to fight back as they put a sack over his head which they then hit after the fight, throwing the doctor out of consciousness.
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Celestia was panicking. There was really no other way to say it. She looked around the castle desperately. The castle itself had long since been abandoned after She and her sister left some time ago. She knew though that her sister come here from time to time. Celestia burst down door after door as a mix of rage and terror took over her body. She finally got to the last door in the hall. This door she didn’t burst down, she knew better than to upset her sister in such a way. Instead she threw it open with her magic. The room was by far the largest bedroom in the entire castle.
She had given it to Luna after she had given Celestia the saddest look she had ever seen. She couldn’t bear to let her continue and forfeited the room. She stepped into it letting the memories of when they were fillies flood into her. Both of them had been so innocent, blissfully unaware of the duties they would be asked to fulfill some odd centuries later. ‘Centuries, had it truly been that long?’ Celestia thought to herself as she brushed her hoof against the still pristine sheets on the bed.
The tears had already begun to overtake her as she knelt to the ground. She allowed herself to be overcome with the sadness. She dropped fully to the ground. The princess of the sun cried for what seemed like days but was in reality only just a few minutes. When she finally opened her eyes she felt the sadness completely disappear. In its place was wonder, wonder about what that strange orb was doing underneath Luna’s bed. She rolled it out with her hoof, looking into the swirling light that held itself inside the glass object.
Celestia investigated the foreign object having never seen anything like it before in her very long life. She reached out her magic to bring it closer to her face and then almost instantly blacked out. Her vision came back but to an entirely new place.
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Spitfire was finding herself getting frustrated. She had flown across the desert for nearly an hour now and couldn’t even find a settlement! Her patience was fading and she wondered why the princess had even sent her here. “Something obviously went wrong in the spell, there is just no reason she would have sent me here of all places!”
However, as she said this she began to see the desert recede in favor of rocks instead of sand. A huge canyon had formed itself here and twisted along in hundreds of separate directions. She looked upon the twists and turns in awe as they diverged from each other and going on for miles. It reminded her of a maze except for one thing. None of the branches seemed to end, and soon enough the canyon littered so much of the desert floor that Spitfire couldn’t even see the edge of it anymore no matter which directions she looked.
It got her worried, extremely so in fact. ‘How am I ever going to get back home?’ she thought to herself as the desert canyon just kept dragging on. She began to think back to all the training she had received when working with the Wonderbolts. She pictured a map of Equestria in her mind to try to think of where there was not only a canyon, but also a desert larger than, well larger than Equestria itself.
The Wonderbolt cursed under her breath for not paying attention to the world geography class she took when she was just a young mare. She began trying to think back to that class and remember anything she could have learned that would have helped her pinpoint this place. “Soarin would have known not just what this place this is called, but the exact coordinates too,” she chuckled. Soon enough the chuckle became a laugh as she remembered all the great times she had with that stallion; with her stallion.
Her mind began to wander as she attempted to remember exactly every moment those two shared. Finally her thoughts went back to herself; to her particular predicament that she had dragged herself into. Suddenly panic began to take her over and she found herself gripping the strange device that Celestia had given her. The Wonderbolt expertly dropped to the surface of the desert and held the device in her hoof for a few minutes, staring at it, contemplating whether to use it.
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The Doctor awoke from his slumber with a start that would have resulted in a near gallop had he not been chained to a chair. He looked at himself and the peculiar way the ponies had tied him to the chair, much like a human if he did say so himself. He always did find it strange how many human customs the ponies of Equestria had adopted without even remote contact with the bipedal creatures. He would have to do a check into that sometime.
The stallion began to lose his curiosity in exchange for a bit of panic as he remembered how he got into this position. “Hello there? Is anyone out there at all? My name is The Doctor and I would really enjoy getting a chance to know you guys just a little bit better!” The Doctor called out. Much to a surprise he actually got a response.
“Hello there, Doctor,” a mare responded from an unknown position. “Why exactly did you come to this place?” the mare asked.
“Oh well, you may have noticed that the moon is still up and the sun, well isn’t. You see, that is because Princess Luna wont lower it for her sister’s sun and because of that we need to find her and,” he paused as he thought of the next thing to say, “persuade her to lower it.” He finished.
The mare turned the corner, and much to The Doctor’s disappointment, a moon and stars adorned her flank. “Well, in that case I guess we should just,” The mare took a mocking pause, “Persuade you not to.”
“Oh bugger.”
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Rainbow was following her namesake and dashing through the halls as fast as she could. The only way the stallion trying to follow her could keep up he had to teleport with her. “Wait a second Rainbow,” he teleported ahead of her. “Maybe we should talk about this,” He teleported again. “I mean come on, we need a, GAAAAH!” He teleported once again, this time his destination was right in the path of the speeding mare.
Dash tried to stop in time but without use of her wings she crashed right into the stallion. “What are you doing? We need to stop Luna!”
“Well first we need to make sure you don’t die! I mean, so we don’t die!” he corrected. “I mean come on! She raises and sets the MOON for a living for pony’s sake! I am rather certain she can handle a Pegasus that can’t seem to fly and unicorn that can barely cast telekinesis!”
Rainbow Dash looked at the stallion strangely before asking the question that immediately begged an answer. “Wait, I thought you were some super magical pony! You did make dozens of spells, didn’t you?”
“Well, yes but making spells and casting them are two VERY different things.” The stallion paused for a second before sighing. “You see, I was never good at magic but books are my strong point. I can go think of ways to conjure certain spells very easily and write it down on paper, but I don’t have the magical abilities to do more than that.”
“Well you seem to be good at teleporting.” Dash commented.
“Teleportation comes natural to almost all unicorns actually. It just hurts so much that most don’t like to use it.”
‘So it DOES hurt them,’ Dash thought to herself.
“However, when you get better at it then you can find ways around the pain very easily. It is ironic, I can’t telekinesis anything larger than a book or two but I can teleport my huge self nearly across Equestria without a sweat,” He scoffed.
“Well what ELSE are we supposed to do then?” Dash asked angrily.
The philosopher thought for a minute and his face brightened. “I have an idea!”
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Celestia looked around at the strange place she now inhabited. It felt so strange; her senses were being bombarded and felt sharper than a tack. The room she was in smelled of freshly baked bread. The sun wasn’t bright as it was setting among the hills in the distance. For some reason, Celestia felt, smaller than usual. She tried to look to the right to peek at the mirror she could barely see out of the corner of her eye.
She was alarmed when her body didn’t respond. However, the alarm increased tenfold when she began turning the other direction against her will. ‘I have been possessed!’ she thought, being unable to talk through her body anymore. She began screaming in her mind for someone to help her. Suddenly, she saw a familiar face step through the door. It was her mother, who had left her so long ago. Celestia wanted to run up to her, to tell her what Luna was doing and get her help! No doubt Luna would listen to her.
“Well, look at that, if it isn’t my little princess!” Her mother said. Celestia would have started crying if she could control herself. Her absolute joy was being clouded but the feeling of how someone was manipulating her mother! “Oh you are just so beautiful Luna.”
‘Wait, what?’ the princess of the sun thought to herself.
Sure enough, her body began to speak, in Luna’s voice. “Are you sure, I think it looks a bit too, frilly.” Luna then turned towards the mirror, revealing her as a young mare, no older than her teens wearing an extremely feminine gown. “I don’t really like it mother.”
Celestia began to piece it together. What she had found was a memory orb, while rare; they could be used to fill with a memory which would then make the user forget the memory forever unless looked at again. Celestia gasped when she realized the quality of the memory. This hadn’t been done by her teenage sister and certainly not centuries ago. This memory had been stored recently, in last two weeks she would say.
She began to wonder what had brought her sister to deleting this memory from her mind.
She then saw her mother step up beside the reflection of Luna. “I think you look stunning there my little princess. I am sure your father would agree!” She chuckled before returning to seriousness. “Just remember that this is a big deal! Discord is giving a great gift to our kind today and we need to look our best for him!”
“I know I know, you have only said it like, a hundred times.” Celestia giggled as her sister tried to be rebellious; even though she herself could feel the love Luna had for their mother.
Her mother knew it too. She put her hoof on Luna’s shoulder and smiled down at the young mare as she turned to face her. “Just think of it this way. Red Blood will be there.”
Luna immediately perked up and smiled. Celestia laughed as she remembered the huge crush her sister had on that stallion. It was amazing those two, well mannered, royals managed to make such a jerk those many years later. Add to that he got his mother’s immortality made Celestia want to puke sometimes.
Celestia began to wonder, out of all the memories Luna could have remembered, why in Equestria she would pick this one.
Luna looked up to her mother and Celestia could feel her smile, and the fight to get rid of it. “Yeah well, after what Discord does for us! There will be plenty of other stallions out there.”
“Oh my little pony, maybe I should keep Discord from doing this. Who knows how many ponies you would ogle over,” their mother laughed. “I might have to buy you a leash!”
Luna blushed and turned away, wishing this would just stop.
“Well, I best go check on your sister, we all know how much she freaks out over these kind of things,” mom sighed. “I just wish she would calm down once.” She then kissed Luna on the forehead and began to step out. She turned her head right before and spoke. “Maybe you should just tell him Luna; you never really know unless you say something.”
Luna began to get her makeup on. Celestia could feel all the emotions tugging at her poor sister as she sat there thinking. However, she also began wondering how long this memory lasted. If it lasted too long then she did not want to be here. ‘I can’t live through this again,’ she thought to herself.
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The Doctor screamed in pain as yet another bolt of Electricity shot him in the flank. “Now, tell us who sent you!”
“I bloody told you already you maniac! Celestia herself did! Luna is about to make a grave mistake and we have to stop her!” The Doctor did his best to not lose consciousness. The electricity was quickly hitting at his brain. He gave the ponies some credit though, when they did resort to torture, they knew what to do with it.
“Alright, so maybe you are not lying about that, tell me though why Celestia would want to betray her sister?” The mare asked.
“You are clouded! Luna is being possessed by something and you need to understand that what she is doing will cause Equestria to fall! How do you think you all will get food without sun?” The Doctor asked before being shocked again. The blackness began to ride at the corner of his eyes. “Without the sun the planet will get cold and the plants will die! After that the animals will die! Everything will die! You have to help us stop her before that happens!” he pleaded with everything he had left.
The Doctor had dealt with aliens of many different types; vampire fish, other time lords, Daleks, and yet it is colorful ponies that manage to get him in a situation he couldn’t escape from no matter what he tried. He hung his head in defeat before he noticed the distinct lack of electricity. Instead, he heard a second pair of hooves come into the room.
He raised his head and took a look at a mare with Derpy eyes standing behind the torture happy maniac. “Hey! That is my Doctor and you won’t hurt him!” She then jumped up; pumping her wings to get higher, and then did a pile driver into the crazy mare.
The other mare didn’t even have time to react. She was in the ground far too fast to cast a spell; the force of the Ditzy Doo smacking into her was too much. “Ah, Ditzy there you are! I was wondering when you would show up. You did do what I asked right?”
“Yup, past us and future Celestia know what to do! Oh, and I got you something!” Ditzy then reached into her saddle bags and pulled out a Sonic Screwdriver. “The Tardis just finished remaking it.”
“Fantastic! Alright, now we have to get into the castle and get the Elements and then make our way to Tartarus!” he said as Ditzy unhooked him from his bindings before they both bolted through the door; before they passed through it though The Doctor stopped her and looked straight into her eyes. “And Ditzy, thank you for showing up when you did.”
Ditzy smiled as massively as she could and hugged the time lord. “Oh you are welcome you silly colt!”
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“Are you sure this is going to work?” Dash asked as Starswirl stood on top of her. “It just seems a bit, dangerous.”
“Oh, and running head first is so much better,” the stallion joked.
“Hey, at least we didn’t risk blowing up the entire mountain in that plan! How do you even know what this stuff does anyway?”
“I don’t that is the beauty of it!” he said as he moved another panel of strange letters away. Suddenly the screen changed to a different one, this one seemed to have statuses of stuff in the base. One thing stood out in the diagram though; the room Luna was in had a device that didn’t even require power to be turned on. “I knew those things did something! Alright then, Dash go over to the panel with all the buttons.”
Rainbow trotted over to the strange device that seemed to be the only one with actual buttons. “Alright, now what do I do?”
“Hit the squiggly one!”
“They are all squiggly ones!”
“Ok, good point, let me do it then.” The stallion then started running back and forth from the screen and the device hitting one button at a time. Finally he hit a seventh button and then the device lit up, and nothing happened.
Dash looked around expecting some sort of explosion or something. Instead nothing happened, at least at first. Suddenly red lights began to flare up and a loud siren started to blare. “Enough of the sirens!”
“Perfect! I think it worked then. Come on, let us go!” Dash almost started running until the stallion trotted up next to her with his horn glowing. Suddenly she felt the teleport spell surround her and let a curse escape her muzzle.
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Celestia had been, literally, in Luna’s shoes for nearly an hour now. She had been listening to conversations from royalty for too long she felt. She knew that this was wasting time, but you couldn’t leave a memory orb no matter how badly you wanted.
She was happy to see everyone begin converging on the platform for, what was not known to them, Discord’s final gift to Equestria. Sure enough, the soon to be spirit of Chaos appeared before the crowd and smiled. Celestia looked at herself, much younger, on the stage with him. Celestia started to cry in her mind, remembering the Discord she used to know.
The now Alicorn stallion looked over the crowd and let his horn begin to glow. Celestia could remember her feeling as she had looked upon him the first time after he had given her, her sister and her mother the magic that gave them everything they had. Before they had just been horses, he had been an experiment from some sort of alien group apparently and they had made him a conduit to magic, much like all the ponies are today. With this magic he gave the ponies feelings and thoughts and even words.
And this was when he gave the rest of the world magic as well, Griffins, Dragons, Manticores, and the rest of the ponies. However, no one knew the sacrifice he ended up making. Celestia looked on as she relived that horrible memory as Discord began to be engulfed in the magic. It was too much magic for a single pony and so the magic transformed him into something else; an entity that could twist the world into his image.
Celestia just wished she could close her eyes for the rest of it. Discord quickly began to destroy the world and began making the ponies he had created into his own personal play things. It wasn’t very well known to pony kind that this tyranny had only lasted a short time. This is because of the sacrifice of another pony to transform herself into something that could stop Discord.
So Celestia watched again, as her mother sacrificed herself so selflessly to create the Elements of Harmony. Those Elements were her mother and everything she had represented. Luna and Celestia then wielded the Elements just as they would again and again to defeat any threat to pony kind. Celestia remembered how hard it was having just lost her love and her mother in less than two hours. She had to use every last bit of her feelings to use those Elements on the spirit of Chaos.
She realized now, she knew that no matter what happened, her sister must have done something similar and now Celestia would have to use the Elements against her. When she finally exited the orb; she began crying and couldn’t seem to stop.
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Author’s notes
Hey guys, sorry about that abrupt ending. I realized that writing that entire past of Celestia would take an entire other chapter. So, how did you all like that past within the past? I did enjoy writing this though as it says what I see as my fanon past of Equestria.
So yeah, more will be talked about on the aliens in the future although I am sure most of you have already discovered who it is. If not then next chapter will have a HUUUUGE clue.
Still looking for another Beta reader guys. It would be nice to have someone who could read these stories before anyone else would get to and tell me what I did wrong.