The princess was standing in front of the group of friends that were happy to see her, but not as much happier then Twilight. She ran to Celestia and hugged her; Celestia in response hugged her old student back for not seeing her in a long time… literally.
Seeing this, the royal guards pointed their weapons at Twilight and the captain spoke. “Step away from the princess immediately or you will be shot!” The guards were now ready to fire their weapons till Celestia said.
“I said stand down captain.”
“But princess they’re intruders that were in a restricted zone and that one just ran at you like she was going to-”
Before the captain could finish Celestia finished his sentence with a different word.
“To hug me.”
The captain just stood in his spot for a moment till he gave a signal and saying. “Stallions, weapons down.” After that the rest of the royal guards put their weapons on their backs.
Celestia turned around to look at Twilight and saw that her left cheek was bleeding and with that she wore a worried look and asked. “Are ok Twilight?” Twilight just nodded and the Celestia looked at her friends. “Are all of you alright?”
“Well besides being shot at by those royal guards, and then realizing that we were frozen for about 280 years, yeah we’re ok.” Rainbow Dash answered in a sarcastic tone.
Celestia smiled at Rainbow Dash’s sarcastic tone but then wore a serious face and said. “Yes, I know Rainbow.” She then looked at the rest of the group. “Follow me and I’ll explain everything to you all.”
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Later on Twilight and her friends followed princess Celestia to the throne room seeing that even in the future it hasn’t change much. They then saw princess Celestia on her throne beside her sister’s. Luna eyes widen when seeing that the elements of harmony were finally free from their frozen state. Celestia sat on her throne next Luna and told her what happened, Luna nodded and then went to somewhere else. When Luna was gone Celestia turn her gaze to Twilight and asked.
“I suppose you have many questions that I should answer, right?”
“Yes and my first question is why are we this far into the future?” Twilight asked with a worried face trotting a few steps forward. “My freeze spell potion wasn’t supposed to be this long?”
“Yes well it took me time to figure out what happened, and I found what the reason was.” Celestia answered then she lifted an empty potion bottle sitting behind her throne for this day to come. “You put an advance time potion in your freeze spell potion.” Celestia then gave Twilight a questionable look and asked. “Why would you use this?”
Twilight thought for a moment till she remembered that Spike brought her the wrong time potion and that with all of the dizziness she must have levitated that instead. ‘Errrr I’m such a nincompoop to put the wrong one!’ Twilight yelled in her head.
Spike then walked up to Twilight and said. “I’m sorry Twilight this is all my fault.” Spike put his claws to his face of being ashamed. Twilight trotted to Spike and said.
“No Spike this isn’t yours or anyponies fault. It was just bad luck, that’s all.”
With that Spike smiled and hugged Twilight till Applejack faced the princess and asked. “Well how are we supposed to get back to our time princess?” Celestia put her head down and answered.
“I’m sorry my little ponies, but there is no way to send you back.”
Celestia’s answer shocked the elements of harmony, now they don’t have any ways to go back to their own time. Rarity then whispered to herself.
“Guess that means I missed my client’s order.” She then hanged her head down and began to tear up. “And I didn’t even had a chance to say goodbye to Sweetie Belle.”
Pinkie Pie with her hair strait and her eyes watery asked. “So we’ll never going to see our friends ever again?” Celestia just nodded to answer and that’s when Pinkie broke down and started crying. “I didn’t even through a ‘Goodbye Forever Party”.
It was all quiet in the throne room till Luna came back and guest what had happened and asked. “I supposed you answered their questions?” Celestia only nodded again feeling the ponies in front of her their pain till Luna said. “Sister, I reported what happened and the counsel would want to see the elements of harmony bearers.”
Celestia then raised her head towards Luna with a shocked face and asked. “Why would the counsel want to see them?” Celestia then got up and trotted to Luna. “This doesn’t involve them.”
“They’re curious sister; the bearers purified me of evil, defeated and reform Discord, and many other times they defended Equestria from our enemies.” Luna spoke back to her sister before taking a few steps back. “Plus this might help us get a seat in the counsel.”
Celestia stood still for a moment thinking of want to do till she answered. “Alright, send them a message that they would be there when the S.S.P. Ponyville arrives.” With that princess Luna left and Celestia faced the group of friends. “You will all need to prepare for your new journey my little ponies.” Twilight trotted up to the princess and asked.
“Journey? Journey to what?”
Celestia simply trotted past Twilight and her friends and gave them a signal to follow them and said. “I’m sorry Twilight I can’t answer any more questions, but you can ask other ponies.” With that Twilight and the group stayed quiet and followed Celestia.
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Twilight and her friends followed the princess to a hanger like room and saw a weird looking ship docked, being hold by some kind of circular disks. Twilight and her friends were confused of why a ship is all the way from the nearest body of water. They were about to ask why it’s here till a dark brown stallion with a black mane and a whistle blower for a cutiemark and said.
“You’re probably wondering why theirs a ship here all the way from water, hm.”
“Good to see you again captain.” Celestia greeted the old stallion while he bowed before her.
“It’s an honor princess.”
Celestia then turned to Twilight. “Twilight I like to introduce captain Antlerson.” Antlerson then trotted up shook Twilights hoof. “He will be bringing you to the Citadel.”
“The Citadel? What’s that?” Twilight asked Celestia but Antlerson answered for her.
“The Citadel is the headquarters of the League of Races.” Antlerson then looked at the entire group. “The League of Races are alien races that band together to bring order and peace to other races.”
“Wait wait wait wait wait. Did you just say aliens?” Applejack spoke up looking at Antlerson. “Ya’l telling me that there are little green aliens that make crop circles?”
“Yes, aliens do exist, but I should advise you not to mention those terms in front of them. To them it’s racist.” Antlerson turned his gaze to Applejack seeing a look of regret. “There’s actually a Turian on board of the Ponyville. His name is Neylis, you can talk to him about his race.”
“What did you say about Ponyville?” Twilight asked.
“The S.S.P. Ponyville is the Pony Alliance’s most advance frigate in our navy.” Antlerson turned to the Ponyville. “We called her that because that is where you and your friends have saved Equestria more than once.”
Celestia looked at the group and asked. “Do you have any more questions before you board?” Twilight looked at her friends then shook her head. “Good now go with the captain.” Antlerson escorted them to the entrance to the Ponyville and said.
“You can take your seats inside, I need to speak to somepony else before we go.”
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With that, he left them and headed to a nearby locker room. In the locker room was a light brown stallion with a dark grey mane with a N7 as his cutiemark and a scar across his left eye. He was putting on his combat suit which had two white stripes and in the middle a red stripe on his right fore hoof of the suit. Just after he put it on, Antlerson came and said.
“Commander Shepherd, I see you’re ready to leave.”
Shepherd stood up and saluted.
“Yes captain.”
“Good, but before we leave I have a new assignment for you.” Antlerson said then began to pace around the room. “Have you ever heard of the bearers of the Elements of Harmony?”
Shepherd nodded and answered. “They were heroines two centuries ago and since then there have been no ponies the can wield the Elements.”
“That because there still alive.”
Shepherd raised an eyebrow and asked. “What do you mean?”
Antlerson stopped his pace and looked at Shepherd. “Unknown for the public the bearers were actually frozen by a mishap freeze spell.” Shepherd then gave a look saying ‘I know where this is heading.’ “And just recently they finally got out of their spell, plus the counsel found out about it and they have requested to meet them face to face.”
“And now I need to protect them till they get to the Citadel.” Shepherd responded.
“Exactly commander, this will be one part of your assignment but the rest I will explain when we get to Eden Octimus.” Antlerson then looked deep into Shepherd eyes with a serious face. “Can I trust you to get the job done?”
Shepherd stood attention with a solute and proudly answered.
“I’ll protect them with my life captain.”
With that both of them left the locker room and went to the Ponyville to begin their mission that unknowingly will soon send them all into saving the Galaxy.