Snips in Time
Tuesday afternoon
Celestia's and Luna's reign
Year 0
So, If you thought that anypony could just walk up to Rainbow Dash and have a little chat with her about clouds or something you'd be wrong. She was fast, I mean really fast, so fast in fact that she didn't even hear Snips screaming after her when she zipped by.
"Rainbow hey! Rain...Ra...oh for Luna's sake! Come on! Stop!" Snips shouted.
Rainbow paid no heed to these calls, after all, she had plenty of training to do in order to enter the academy of her dreams. By afternoon, no Rainbows of any kind had been saved but Snips did gallop all over the place, all day, it made him quite tired, but then again, he was used to outrageous amounts of running, since he spent so much time with The Doc.
He had attempted at shouting something like "Free tickets to a Wonderbolts show right here." but that had gained him some unwanted attention from the numerous Wonderbolts fans in Ponyville, he had to give them a sheepish smile and inform them that there was, in fact, no tickets of any kind in his possession.
After a few more hours of running and cursing Snips stomped his hoof in anger. "Arrrrrgggghh!"
"Darling, please!" said a voice behind him. "Stop this needless running and shouting immediately!"
Snips whipped around and saw a familiar white unicorn with that familiar purple mane. It was Rarity, the CEO and top designer of the "Rarity fashion" brand. Of course at the moment she wasn't any of those things yet, and Snips was careful not to react like he had just met another famous pony again.
"You're Rarity!" he said excited. Way to go Snips.
"Why yes! Yes I am." Rarity answered beaming with pride. "You've heard of my designs then? I can tell you have an eye for fashion, That scarf is simply smashing! And to wear it during summer? How rebellious! I do believe we have not met Mr...?"
"Timey!" Answered a high pitched voice.
It was Sweetie Belle who Snips had met moments before.
"Hi, Sweetie Belle." said Snips.
"You've met this stallion before?" Rarity asked and raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, he's trying to catch Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo thinks he has a crush on her." Answered Sweetie and smiled slyly.
"Huh? No! I've just got something important to tell her!" Snips answered.
"Like that you like like her?" Sweetie said.
"Now, that quite enough Sweetie Belle! Its fine Mr.Timey, everypony in this town has been in love with Rainbow Dash at least once." she said and shrugged.
Snips simply gave up and decided to roll with it, it was much more simpler than trying to explain that he was from the future and that, if Rainbow gets accepted to the academy, it would lead her to her death.
"OK, I'll admit it, I have a huge crush on Rainbow Dash. I mean, I cant possibly continue on living if I don't get to talk to her right now." he said in a very unconvincing monotone voice.
Rarity however, being the romantic she was, giggled in delight like a school filly. "Well! That simply won't do!" She said dramatically "We must find a way for this young man to admit his affection for his true love!"
Sweetie Belle was pretty excited too, the thought "maybe I can get a cutie mark in matchmaking!" ran through her head.
Snips on the other hoof was regretting saying, what he said, immediately when the two white unicorns turned to him. Rarity cleared her throat and regained her composure. "Now, Mr.Timey how should we begin?"
"Uhh...maybe you could forget everything I just said?" he said sheepishly.
"Nonsense dear! Rarity wont simply stand by, while a young stallions heart yearns to quench the thirst for his true love!" Rarity said.
"Oh, oh! I know! Maybe Twilight can help us! She's super smart!" Sweetie Belle suggested.
"NO!" shouted Snips "I mean, no, she's busy studying right? We shouldn't bother her."
"I must say! You have a surprising amount of knowledge about Twilight yet, I do believe I've never seen you before." Rarity said.
"Well, you know, Twilight is the personal student of Princess Celestia, Rainbow Dash is a...fastest flier in town and you're a fashion designer I've heard about in the future...the past! I meant the past!!" Snips attempted at explaining himself.
"Don't worry, he's a weird pony sis, but he's nice." Sweetie Belle whispered.
"Yes, Pinkie and him would get along very well..." Rarity answered. "Well you're certainly a mysterious pony, and I might not have a full understanding of the situation...but there is one thing that I do understand, and it is love!" She posed dramatically once again. "Come, Mr,Timey, I have a plan!"
Snips followed after Rarity and her sister. They hid in a nearby bush and watched as Rainbow did his usual aerial stunts and spins above them.
"Isn't hiding from her kind of defeating the purpose?" Snips asked confused.
"Shh!" Rarity hissed. "Now, the best way to gain a mares attention is through jealousy, Just like Jack the stallion in "Galloping in the sunset of love", you must hit on another mare while Rainbow is watching."
"Uhh...you sure? I don't think those novels have anything to do with reality." Snips said nervously.
"There!" Sweetie Belle said and pointed at a gray pegasus sitting in the park enjoying some muffins.
"Perfect! She's a pegasus and even her mane style is similar to Rainbow's! The jealousy should drive Rainbow mad." said Rarity. "OK Timey, go get em."
"What? You can't just expect me to hit on some random pegasus in a park!" said Snips.
"Well, we can always ask Twilight to help us, if my methods aren't good enough for you." Rarity said and wiggled her eyebrows.
Snips huffed and trotted over to the gray pegasus with the yellow mane, he waved at her and gave his best smile.
"Hello miss." He said.
The gray pegasus was quite friendly however and was delighted to see a new pony in town.
"Hi! I'm Ditzy Doo, who are you? You want a muffin?" she asked and offered a muffin to Snips, he noticed that her golden eyes were pointing in different directions and that made her look quite goofy.
"Uh...I'm Timey." said Snips nervously.
The gray pegasus giggled at the name "Timey? As in Timey-wimey?" she asked.
"Huh, that's funny! That's what The Doc always says when he explains complicated time travelling theories." Snips pondered aloud "which I guess aren't just theories anymore" he thought.
"You know The Doctor?!" Ditzy asked excited
"You know The Doc?" he asked.
Snips was surprised, he had seen this gray pegasus delivering mail during his childhood, but he had not seen her with Time Turner.
"Sure do! We're always doing exciting timey-wimey stuff together, the other day we...oh, heh, I'm not supposed to tell you. Hey! You're trying to catch Rainbow Dash right?" She said out of the blue.
"Yes! But how the hay did you know that?" Snips said stunned.
"Don't worry about it! I think I can help you out with that whole catching Rainbow business, here." Ditzy pulled out a cloud from nowhere and handed it over to Snips.
"Huh? A cloud?" Snips asked confused.
"Yep! You know how to cast the walk on clouds spell right?" Ditzy said.
Snips nodded.
"Good! I want you to get on the cloud." Said the gray pegasus.
Snips did as ordered and got on the cloud after casting the spell. At this point Rarity trotted over confused. "What on earth are you doing? You were supposed to be kissing already!" she said annoyed.
"Snips here is going to ride this cloud to the sky and then jump off, forcing Rainbow to save him from death." Ditzy said proudly.
"Whaaaa...?" said Snips.
"Its the only thing she cant ignore, and besides, she loves being a hero." Ditzy said.
Snips swallowed nervously but at that moment he remembered those rose eyes looking at him, so full of life, so full of dreams, extinguished too early if he didn't find he's courage "I'll do it." he said.
"He's will was set...and only death would break it." Rarity recited a quote in her mind from one of her books and her eyes sparkled dreamily "To go such lengths for love...Rainbow is such a lucky girl." she gasped dramatically once again.
"She won't have much luck if I don't do this..." Snips muttered.
Ditzy gave the cloud a nudge and off he went to the sky. At this point Snips realized he could have just asked Ditzy to fly over to Rainbow and ask her to come down, too bad he was already halfway there.
Everything had went pretty much as planned, the cloud floating upwards with a shaking unicorn was enough in itself to catch Rainbow's attention but then the damn fool had jumped off for no reason! Naturally she flew over and caught the crazy stallion from the air before it was too late.
"What the hay!?" Rainbow shouted angrily. "Are you trying to get killed? Whats wrong with you?!"
"It was her idea." Snips panted and looked around for Ditzy Doo, the gray pegasus however was nowhere to be seen.
Rainbow misunderstood this, "Rarity's idea?"
"No, it was my idea." Snips said between breaths.
"Your idea? Ugh! I don't have time for this!" Rainbow said annoyed.
"Rainbow, please!" Rarity said "This young stallion bravely risked his life only so he could have a few chosen words with you!" she said, once again quoting some romance novel in her collection.
"Just to talk to me? Look, I know I've had some crazy fans in the past but..."
"Listen!" Snips cut her off. "Whatever you do, you cant go to The Wonderbolts academy!" he said with a dead serious expression on his face.
"Huh? What do you mean dweeb? You think I don't have what it takes?!" Rainbow asked angrily.
"NO! You cant go! Your life depends on it!" said Snips.
"Damn right my life depends on it! My path towards being a Wonderbolt begins from there!" Rainbow said.
"OK, somehow I'll have to convince her to give up on her life's dream without telling the truth...think Snips, think!" he thought in desperation.
At this point Sweetie Belle had also trotted over. "Timey! Did you tell Rainbow you have a crush on her already?" Sweetie Belle asked.
The silence between the three ponies was so thick it could have been cut with various kitchen utensils.
Rainbow simply said: "What?"
"Darn, I forgot that." Snips said.
Rainbow's expression had changed from annoyed to boasting "Well! That explains everything! I mean what kind of a stallion wouldn't risk his life for me?" Rainbow said proudly "Gotta admit that was pretty brave, I'll give you my autograph or something."
"No!" Said Snips and took hold of Rainbow's shoulders. "You have to understand! You can't go to The Academy or you will...you will..."
"I will what? Become a Wonderbolt?" She asked.
"You'll...I...I can't tell you but its bad" he said.
Rainbow would have shook him off, had it not been for the expression on his face that drilled right into her mind. This stallion was dead serious, he was fearing for her life and he had meant every word.
"I uh...is there something you know about The Academy that I don't?" she asked.
Great! She was starting to believe him! Snips felt his hopes raising.
"There you are!!!"
Snips let go of Rainbow and turned around, he felt his hopes crumbling to a pile of rubbish.
It was Twilight Sparkle, a very angry looking Twilight Sparkle.
"Don't even attempt at teleporting away! I've got a tracking spell on you!" she shouted.
Snips took that advice to the heart, turned around and ran off in a speed that Rainbow could not believe. Twilight went after him, puffing with anger.
The two friends stood there looking at the dust Snips and Twilight had left behind them.
"Well! Looks like Twilight has her sights on our dream stallion already!" Rarity said.
"Seriously." Rainbow huffed and rolled her eyes "You read way too much love novels."
To be continued in:
Purple velvet in the fabric of time