Remember to check my other story (Sweetie Belle Time Travels) to know how she got into the past
Tick.. Tock.
Goes the clock...
Tick Tock.
Round the arrow goes.
Tick Tock.
The blue portal.
Gilda awakens herself in room filled with nothing but floating clocks in a blue black stripy room hearing nothing but the sound of the clock.
Gilda looks all around her stuck floating in a space-like portal.
"Ugh..." Gilda felt a massive headache in the center of her brain, she checks her whole body to make sure nothing bad happened to her, luckily she only had a cut the size of the tip of a pen.
'I think I'm going to be sick' Gilda thought, turns out she wasn't going to be sick, she had an urge to destroy the place just to get the heck out of this gloomy endless room.
'Gilda, you think you can just - walk into my temple just to prank or hurt someone? You pathetic life-form, I had no idea Griffins were so greedy, alright Gilda, I'm going to give you a chance - Live in the past for the rest of your life, or die slowly but painfully on my wall?' a voice echoed, Gilda didn't want this to happen, so she thought.
"Alright, fine - I'll live the rest of my life in a damned place back in the past" Gilda shouted with worry, silence accord, all the clocks stopped ticking, Gilda looked around and finds a pony shaped figure walking closer and closer to a clear picture.
"So, Gilda, that is your choice? I'd very much like to have your blood" the blue female alicorn pony shouted at Gilda, at shock; Gilda responded quickly with a 'yes'
With panic, the blue pony smirked, "Very well Gilda, you made your choice, prepare to go back where Starswirl the Bearded created a spell what he couldn't complete" the pony's horn lit up with a orange aura making a blinding light, Gilda heard all the clocks spinning backwards really fast.
'Gilda, that was the best of the best I ever seen you've done' Rainbow Dash shouted, hugging the younger version of Gilda, and Rainbow Dash was just a filly, she knew she was sleeping or something, but Gilda started to think at how much she screwed up after that party Pinkie Pie pulled together for her.
Gilda woke up on a beach, blue sky, small puffy clouds, seagulls making their whistles, wooden pier sticking out into the ocean, with two wooden boats with no ponies in them, or... whoever might be here.
A distant voice is heard, sounded like a southern accent, and hoofsteps could be heard.
"Hey! Hey!" a voice is heard, she managed to figure out what the gender was, so Gilda was pretty sure a female pony was coming up to her, Gilda looks around and finds 4 ponies far across the beach running towards her, Gilda thought it had nothing to do with her, she she stood up and to take a go in the sky.
Gilda raised her wings, and shot into the air, but after 3 swings on the left wing, Gilda got the most painful cramp, she looses control and hits into the sand.
After minutes of Gilda being sad and having to walk, the 4 ponies finally got to Gilda, "Hey! You, Griffin- What's... what's you're... sorry, let me catch my breath" the same female pony that shouted asked, the 4 ponies gasped for air after a run like that, "What do you want, Dewb?" Gilda asked.
"Alright, first, my name is Apple Catcher, second, that storm out at sea knocked your boat out the waters, thirdly, are you alright?" Apple Catcher asked, Gilda got a little bit confused at the boat moment and the fact she's face to face with one of Applejack's possible great great great great great great great great grandmother, or just a different family position.
"I'm uh, fine, name's Gilda, and I'm not going to 'worry' about my boat, it was pretty wrecked anyway" Gilda lies, Apple Catcher however and her 3 friends or... wait, 1 sister and 2 brothers, all pretty much younger, Blue-ish fur for Apple Catcher, however, and the others were different shades of yellow and pink.
"So Gilda, I suppose you came from Equestria, right?" Apple Catcher asked, although Gilda had no clue where she was, she needed the help right now, "Well... no, not really, but I would like to go there" Gilda replied, "Really? perfect! We just shipped apples over from Equestria to this land, and we're pretty much ready to go back now, so feel free to come with us" Apple Catcher offered.
Apple Catcher turns around and walks to the pier, giving Gilda the look on her cutie mark, a pirate ship with a Green and red apple under it as the sea, "Apple Catcher, what does you're cutie mark mean?" Gilda asked, although being sent back in time, these ponies really understood her.
"I'm the captain of the family's ship, I've been sailing happily for 15 years" Apple Catcher looks at her own flank, admiring her own cutie mark.
We Drink for the rum, we work for rum!
Ey' Y'all, we here at the seas, sailing the waters is what we do
We are the apple sailors!
It was night, as the ship Gilda stood on, it slowly drifted towards Equestria, all the Apple's on the ship were drunk after a long delivery.
She thought back to her childhood, thinking if Lime Jelly has been taken by the time master or screwing up, and Rainbow Dash and her friends are happy they forgot about her or- just forgot she existed.
"What's wrong?" a yellow colt asked, Gilda sighed hopelessly, "I'm just.. homesick" Gilda whispers, the yellow colt thought she would be, afterall, she's a griffin! "Hey, we're all homesick on this vessel, I know how you feel, name's Apple Crust, I'm a pie baker" Apple Crust raised a hoof for a shake, Gilda sighed, and lifted her right hand for a greet, "Name's Gilda", Apple Crust gives Gilda a handheld apple pie, and walks back to the crew.
"Applejack, Gilda was in our family history?" Applebloom asked, with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo sitting next to her.
"That's right, Gilda helped us so much, we even- Ah' better not give you ponies any spoilers, anyway... under- " Applejack replied, the Cutie Mark Crusaders sat there in the Sweet Apple Acres barn with Applejack continuing from the story.
Under the sun rise, the sea gulls came out, hearing the sea clash and clash, with that ocean smell, only Apple Catcher was awake taking the wheel of the ship.
Minutes later, Apple Catcher sees land in the distance, wondering if it's Equestria, Apple Catcher pulled a strings making a bell ring in the sleeping quarters, minutes later, the whole crew came out of the sleeping bunks and get's to action at their position, Gilda however still sat on her bed.
"Alright, Apple's! We're nearly at Equestria, get to you're' positions and prepare for docking" a green colt shouted, everypony got ready for the captain's orders, "Now!" the captain shouted, 2 pony's thrown a metal claw in the ocean, but it wasn't that same they used in the future, it was like a dragon's hand., a big one.
Gilda decided to get her act together and went to the deck, watching ponies stopping the ship, Gilda looks at the beach ahead, seeing a large group of ponies on the sand waving their hoof in the air.
"Gilda, can you help pull this rope?" Apple Catcher asks, without replying, Gilda grabbed the rope in her mouth and pulled. helping other ponies tie the large blanket.
The ship slowly down so quickly, they managed to stop a good few meters away from land, Apple Catcher instantly jumped into the water and swam to the group of ponies that awaited their arrival.
"Hail ho! Hey there, my little sailors, how's my good old apples doing?" an old blue pony asked, "We're doing great, we've got a lot of bits aswell, and we got a griffin that needed our help", Apple Catcher replied, the old blue pony looked at the ship, spotting Gilda hovering in the air with some ponies talking to them.
"Wait, weren't we in some kind of war?" the old pony asked, wondering why Gilda was here, "She's not like them, she said she was born in Equestria" Apple Catcher replied, nervously with a drop of sweat rolling down her forehead hoping that the old pony doesn't go mad or anything in order for Gilda to survive.
"Well that's good enough by me, now we're mighty in a hurry, so get those gold coins, and anything useful off that ship and off to Apple Bunny farms!" a colt shouted, the old apple pony nodded and started walking to the farm upon land, some other apples stayed.
Although Apple Catcher was happy to ponies brought it, she quickly hurried onto the ship to tell Gilda about this 'war'.
"Whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa... Whoa, hold on, you're saying ponies and griffins are in a war?" Gilda questioned. and now, more history, more information, and more into the past.