SOMEWHERE, BACK AT FLUTTERSHY'S COTTAGE...! A hungry Angel searches frantically for something to eat. Suddenly, EagleClaw enters the cottage.
"...THIS is what that yellow winged horse's place looks like on the inside?" he asked himself, "WHAT A HIPPIE! I guess I should do a little redecorating with my...EAGLECLAWS!" He proceeds with his signature motion and posing before Angel shows up ready to fight. "HAHAHAHA! You think that YOU, a helpless little bunny, are enough to stand up against ME!? Don't make me laugh! EEEEEEEEEAGLECLAAAAAAAAAW!"
Fizz, Fluttershy, Future Angel and Future Jimmy arrive ready to attack him.
"That's as far as you go!" said Fizz pulling out his hoofheld crossbow.
"How did you find me?" asked EagleClaw holding his talons up in the air.
Fizz gives a low, muffled giggle before moving behind EagleClaw pointing the arrow in this back and saying "You could say that it was like-"
"MAGIC!" shouted a magician in a red wrestling mask materializing from a puff of smoke with a giant humanoid cobra in black bottomwear right behind Fizz.
"Exa- Aw pony feathers, there's another one!" claimed Fizz looking behind him.
"Two more" replied Fluttershy.
"...Whoa, where the heck!?" asked the magician.
"...I believe you have sent us into a world of unusually sapient creatures...Again" replied the cobra in an surly voice.
"Hey, don't blame me, I didn't even MEAN to use that spell!"
"That's not good" said Future Jimmy, "Carl and Cobraman were supposed to have arrived at the same TIME as Space Monster M"
"T-t-t-then why are they h-here now?" asked Fluttershy in a frightened tone.
"It's a butterfly effect" Future Jimmy explained. "When we rescued the Cakes, something had to take it's place"
"THIS IS TERRIBLE!" shouted Future Angel.
Present Angel looks at Fluttershy confused and points at Future Angel.
"...I'll...Explain Later?" she claimed giving a sheepish grin.
Cobraman knocks Fizz out. He, EagleClaw and Carl use this distraction to flee from the cottage.
"EEEEEEEAGLECLAAAAAAW!"
"Oh goodness!" That's all Fluttershy could say in response to Fizz's unconcious body.
Groaning, Fizz stands up two hours later as the party- Pinkie, don't even think about it! "Aww..." ...As the GROUP is gathered around in a circle in the cottage. He joins the disgussion sitting between Fireball and Slicer.
"So what did I miss?" he asks Fireball.
"We're just talking among ourselves for right now"
Twilight stands up and clears her throat.
"If I may have your attention, everypony" she says making her way to the center of the circle, "In light of the circumstances, I appoint myself leader of this operation"
"WHAT!?" exclaimed the Present Commander in disbelief and standing up just as quickly. "But you...Don't have 'Commander' in your name!"
"...On a more IMPORTANT note" started Hay Flower after giving the Present Commander a glance walking toward Twi, "Being the head of the most elete task force in Equestria, I'm a likely candidate as well"
"And what about Future Me?" added Rainbow. "She's got the most knowledge of the situation"
Pointing to everyone in order of who said what, Twilight says, "You're annoying, you were too late to throw your hat in and I called it first"
"...She has you all there" said Future Dash.
"...Just like that?" asked Rainbow with with a quizical look in her eyes.
"Hey" replied Future Dash, "After 16 years of mistakes in a post-apocolyptic situation, you appreciate what she has to say"
"Yeah, her organization skills made the R.O.E possible" added the Future Commander. "And this is coming from YOUR brain in a jar"
"Fine" groaned the reluctant Present Commander. "...What's it like in there, by the way?"
"You have very little mobility and I can't do stuff people with bodies do anymore"
"...With the issue resolved, what is our first course of action?" asked Fizz getting everypony back on track.
"...While you were unconcious" started Twi making a parchment appear in front of her, "Zecora sent me a list of some missing components to the potion that would send the Present Aquabats home...Then I had it revised by Zulu" She walks over to Applejack and gives the list to her. "First thing's first, we split everypony into teams. AJ, you, Paradise and Slicer will look for everything on this list. There's a group of herb-collecting ponies outside waiting for you. You'll make up the Collection Team. Commanders..." The Present Commander's face lights up. "You and both sets of the rest of the Aquabats except for Crash go with Hay Flower, the Future Cake Twins and the Rainbow Dashes to act as the Round-Up Team"
"Aw man!" groaned the Present Commander who's hopes of leading one of the teams has been dashed...No pun intended.
"You'll be in charge in gathering the villains of your world and making sure they don't get away from you until you can get back home"
"Hang on, sugarcube" started AJ, "Wouldn't my herding capabilities be better suited for that team?"
"Ooh, you're right" replied Twilight reconcidering her decision. "New arrangement; Slicer will take your place as team leader and I'll switch you out with the Present Commander"
"WHAT!? Why am I the one getting the boring job?" objected the Present Commander.
"Because this entire time, YOU'VE been complaining more then Rarity!" Twi snapped.
"...You HAVE been, darling" added Rarity.
"Now then" continued Twilight, "Fizz, you, Fireball and Murky will be the Protection Team who will stay here keeping the Cutie Mark Crusaders and the present variations of Crash, the Cakes, Fluttershy, Spike and Angel safe from any fatal harm"
"Well there you go" snarked Fizz at the Present Commander, "At least YOU will be out in the field"
"Why the Cutie Mark Crusaders?" asked Flutershy.
"It's important that they do" replied Future Dash. "In the future when the founding members got their Cutie Marks, they decided to make the Crusaders an organization across Equestria when they were a little older. This came in handy when Discord and Space Monster M took over. On the year we came from, a great dispute between them over the affairs of the Crusaders network broke out making them disband from each other. Dispite this, they continued their work, albiet separately. If anything were to happen to them in THIS time however, the Cutie Mark Crusaders' history will end in it's opening chapters"
"...Oh..." That's all our timid little friend could say.
"Alright then" Twilight said turning back to the center of the circle. "I'll be leading the Scout Team which will consist of Pinkie Pie, Rarity and myself. Okay everypony, let's go!"
Everyone starts heading out to do their jobs...At least they would, if both sets of the Aquabats didn't get stuck in the door again.
"...Exactly HOW did you goofballs bag the bad guys in your world?" asked an exasperated Rainbow.
Moments after getting THAT mess cleared up...Again, the Round-Up Team is seen at the Battletram. Present Jimmy exits with a robotic bird's head the size of a regular person's. He places it on a robot about Crash's size. "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Giant Robot Birdhead!" he exclaims. "May I see the Future Commander?"
Future Ricky and EagleBones hand Present Jimmy the Future Commander. After removing most of the stuff that was on the jar and places him into the robot. The robot activates.
"What the...?" the robot said with the Future Commander's voice looking at his hands. "Whoa, I'm a robot now! This is SO RAD!"
"Now we're talking!" said Future Pound Cake feeling amped up.
"Jimmy, when did you make this thing?" asked Present EagleBones.
"I built it prior to the meeting" answered Present Jimmy.
"Well, that's a coincidence" said Hay Flower, "I have a feeling we may need some additional help, so I called somepony back at H.Q for back-up"
"THIS IS AWESOME!" shouted the Future Commander, "But why a bird's head?"
"I was out of human-like heads" Presnet Jimmy replied.
Crash and Present Angel arrive with Fizz.
"I tried to stop him" Fizz said in an exasperated tone, "But he and the rabbit insisted on seeing you off on your mission"
"I also wante to ask" said Crash kneeling down at Future Angel, "How can you talk when THIS one can't?"
"...I don't know" Future Angel replied, "It came with the implants"
One akward silence later, the Future Commander gestures with the hand of his new body.
"Aquabats (and assorted pony homies), LET'S GO!!"
Meanwhile up in Pinkie Pie's loft on Sugarcube Corner, the Scout Team preps up to survail the perimeter.
"So what is OUR assignment, Twilight?" asked Rarity.
"We'll be providing surveillance incase anything unusual in the area happens. If that Space Monster M. guy shows up, it's all over. For now, we seve as the teams' eye in the sky. I've given each team leader a walkie-talkie to communicate with us incase they find something"
Pondering this, Pinkie says, "Wouldn't the eye in the sky thing work better with a balloon?"
"...I think she's got you there" Rarity said.
"That...makes sense...Let's go, girls"
"WHEE! I'll go grab some board games"
"What!?"
"It's for the best, darling, the last time I was stranded in a balloon with her and no supplies, she thought I was a cupcake...That reminds me, we'll need food and beverages"
"...Okay...Now I just hope everypony can pull this off"
Will our heroes prevail in this danger? Who is this special somepony Hay Flower sent for? Tune in next chapter to find out!