Blue stepped out of the cage, and glanced to Red as he unlocked the other two cages, removing the binds and stepping back out.
“Red?” Blue’s voice caused Red to jump, and turn. Blue looked at Red, taking in the image of slight shock hidden behind his blank gaze, and the knocked out Giovanni.
“What happened?” Blue ignored the two ponies as they walked out, in a less coherent state then he was. Lyra was the quickest to recover, and immediately noticed the same thing Blue had.
“Who saved us Red?” As Lyra walked forward, Red looked to her, and a frown appeared on his face. Then, very slowly, and with a slight hint of confusion, he pointed to himself. The two blinked in response.
“Wait,” started Blue.
“What!?” Lyra reared up, and waved her arms in the air to emphasise her point, landing once more after she had done that. Red nodded, and glanced to the sky, in the direction the cloaked Red had flown off in.
“What do you mean you saved us?” Blue walked forward, and noticed Red shake his head.
“Wait, so you didn’t save us?” Lyra walked over to check on Twilight, who was starting to stir, commenting as she walked. Red frowned once more, and shrugged.
“So let me try and understand. You saved us, but it wasn’t you?” Blue watched Red sit down and draw a picture in the dirt. If Blue looked closely, this Red looked a little older than the one currently sitting in front of him.
“An…Older you?” Blue frowned in confusion, and sat down beside Red as he nodded. Blue tried to understand how exactly an ‘older Red’ could have saved them, but it made little sense to him.
“What about time travel?” Turning, they both saw Twilight stand up, and rub her forehead. Coming to join the two, she pointed to the grunts huddling in a small group near the portal.
“Should we-ah-be worried about them?” Watching the two glance over, Twilight frowned as they shook their heads. She didn’t know that Pokémon trainers were pretty useless without their Pokémon, or she wasn’t fully aware of it.
“What do you mean time travel?” Blue put a hand on his chin and glanced down, thinking about it.
“Well for me, and any high level unicorn, we can cast a spell to send us back, or forward, in time for a short amount of time, and only once. I don’t know how it would work for your world.” Twilight glanced to the boss human lying on the ground, and felt a smug satisfaction at the large black bruise on his face, they would have to bind him soon.
“I doubt it, there’s no way for us to travel through time. There’s a guy named Bill devising a way to trade back through and forward in time, but that’s about it, I doubt he’d make the destination changeable, probably causes big time paradox problems or some science-y stuff. I don’t think there’s any way that’s relevant.” Blue shrugged, and noticed Twilight glancing to Giovanni. Picking up the rope he had been bound in, he tied up the guy and glared at the grunts, who shrunk under his gaze. Releasing his recently required Eevee, he left her to sit on the body and rejoined the chat.
“But it’s possible isn’t it? You said this Red was older right? Maybe this Bill guy owes him a favour in the future.” Twilight watched Blue open his mouth to object, and then glanced to Red.
“Well you did save the guy from life as a Clefairy…” Blue glanced to Twilight as she raised a hoof in confirmation.
“Well there you go.” Twilight noticed the two still frowning.
“But even so, what reason would Red have to come back in time…” Blue paused, and then looked to Twilight with fake dismay.
“Without me! I deserve to go back in time too! I’m ten times as awesome!” Blue looked to Red as he gently bumped Blue in the face, and grunted.
“Red,” spoke Blue from behind Red’s hand, muffled.
“I get it, you can stop trying to kill me with your gigantic hands now.” Blue watched the hand be removed from his dashing face, and smirked at Red. Twilight watched the exchange, and looked away, a small smile forming on her face.
“So, what now?” Lyra looked to them and then to the damage caused by the group of humans that had through. Blue sighed, and stood up, grabbing Giovanni like a sack of potatoes.
“We head back, and take these people to the police, and hope that they are competent enough to have a police station.” Watching the others rise, Blue returned his Eevee.
“Alright you sad sacks of meat! Get your stuff and go back through the portal! Remember I can kick your sorry asses in my sleep!” Blue ordered the grunts to do the dirty work, and they grudgingly obeyed, knowing they were hosed. Blue paused at the portal once everything that had been brought through had been removed, and held up two fingers in the universal symbol for peace.
“Smell ya later losers!” Blue entered the portal, and was gone. Red stood up, and looked to the two ponies.