//------------------------------// // A Date With Golden Pie Part 2 // Story: A Good Share of Lives // by Sea Pony //------------------------------// A sand colored light appeared in the middle of Ponyville. When it vanished a familiar man stood in it's wake. Time Skip saw a Crystal Pony walking away from a tear stained Golden Pie. The time traveller put a uncharacteristic grim frown as he walk toward Sweet Tooth. He put a hand on the shoulder of the teenage filly making her jump in surprise. She turn around and gasp when she saw the mark on Time Skip's hand. "You're a Reapers! What are you doing here?!" She asked trying to put a courageous expression but failed miserably. "I'm a frenemy of Fluttershy's family and it's just so happen I'm really interest in the fate of the young Winter Song. You have plant the seeds of doubt in Winter's girlfriend but are you sure this is the path you wish to take?" "Of course it is! Winter deserve to have a better lover than Golden!" She replied angrily. "Then let's see if you still think so after seeing the consequences of your act." The two of them vanished in a flash of magic. They appeared in the Crystal Empire but Sweet Tooth could see through her own body and the human's body as if they were ghosts. "What is happening?" She asked. "We are in a time that may or may not ever happen. The ponies here can't see us or hear us, if we had appeared physically we would have created an alternate timeline and I don't think you will want to make in sort some of these things really happened to Winter, even if it is a alternate version of her." Time Skip motion to the Crystal Pony to follow him. They stare through a window, inside a older me and Sweet Tooth were having diner I smiled politely at her and she smile back but nothing was said between us. "There something...off about Winter." The real Sweet Tooth observed. "It's her cosmetic." Time Skip pointed out, the Crystal Pony looked closer and could see he was right. I had black masquara, I had put some red lipstick, I had some blush and my mane was curled in a similar fashion than aunt Rarity. Time Skip turn his attention on Sweet Tooth "After marrying her, you settle down here. Since she felt she had no one else to accept as a lover she put little resistance when you wanted to be more 'open' in your relationship which did nothing to help her feel better than a simple whore. Since she felt rotten inside she tried to be beautiful physically it did not help that much. Later on she will fall in a depression and after ten years of marriage she will cut connection with her life and reincarnate in another mare." "Ok but if I try not being too open what happen?" She tried to salvage the situation. "Same result with maybe three or four years longer of marriage before she give up. The problem is because of the error you made a few years ago. Because of that she would only see you as a friend with benefit with a fancy paper instead of a real wife." She winced at that but said nothing. They disappeared in another flash of light. They reappeared in Ponyvile but they were still transparent in front of them stood an angry me and a guilty looking Sweet Tooth. "You ruined the only love of my life! how could you?!" I screamed. "Come on Winter there other fishes in the sea." The Crystal Pony reasured. "I don't care about your bucking fishes! I want Golden Pie back but because of you she won't talk to me." I tried to stop them but the tears finally came out. "Look Winter Song maybe we could find another cute mare and-" "No! You ruined my life enough as it is, it's because of you that I began to sleep with other ponies and then you come and use that fact and made it look like I was hurting other ponies. I don't want to see you ever again, go away!" "B-but" Sweet tried to protest. "Go Away!" She ran away with tears streaming from her eyes. Time Skip turn to the real filly who also had tears in her eyes. "She never got another girlfriend after that, a year later she adopted a young Earth Pony filly. Winter will struggle to make bits and take care of the foal as a single mother it isn't the perfect life but she is somewhat happy about it. You and her will never see each other again." Then Time Skip looked at the teenage filly with a frown. "I have shown you two possibilities but this last one is the most probable of them." Once again vanished and appeared somewhere else. They were once again in Ponyville but the town was almost unrecognisable. A lot of the house had been ripped apart or had caught fire, the black smoke of the fires were covering all the sky and the streets were filled with undead ponies and humans wandering aimlessly. At the top of a house stood me facing Muerto Titiritero. I was clearly exhausted while the vampony smirked confidently. "I will kill you monster!" I screamed before charging at him with a hammer of ice. I swung the weapon at him but it's shattered upon impacting his spiritual shield. Titiritero laughed "I can't believe Grim Reaper was worried about you and the other elementalistes. You don't have your precious magic of friendship to save you this time." The vampony threw a orb at me I tried to block it but it passed through my shield like butter. Titiritero approached my dazed form and began to suck my magic out of me. My scream was the last thing heard in the burning town apart from moaning of the undeads. Sweet Tooth looked at the scene horrified. "What does this have to do with Winter Song love life?" The human looked at her grimly. "Ponies take their strenght from their emotions. After your betrayal and the relationship with the love of her life ruined Winter Song will be too much of a wreck to put any real resistance against Muerto Titiritero." "Then we will just have to evacuate Ponyville before the attack take place and Winter won't have to fight him!" She shouted. Time Skip shook his head. "I'm afraid since these realities are nonexistent you won't remember any of what I show you. It's like trying to keep water in a holed bottle." Sweet Tooth looked at him in outrage. "Then what was the purpose of all this?!" "You won't remember it but you should still feel that you have done something wrong by trying to separate Winter Song and Golden Pie. I would try to repair this problem myself but unfortunately it must come from you. Beside I don't think Winter and her entourage like me that much, bye now!" With that the two of them vanished once again. Sweet Tooth reappeared back in the real Ponyville she looked around and noticed that the time traveler disappeared. "Quick! I must go...What was I suppose to do again? It feel like it was important...Must not have been that important if I forgot about it." She then decided to follow Golden Pie on her date and see the fruits of her labor.