At Fluttershy’s cottage, she was making her bead neat for herself and Melody to sleep.
“Does that look okay to you?” asked Fluttershy.
“Wow, it’s great,” gasped Melody. “I think it’s about time we rest our hooves now.”
“Yeah, good night,” said Fluttershy as she wore her sleeping gown.
“Night to you, too,” replied Melody. “Your friends are nice!”
Fluttershy just gave her a smile, then turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Just a few moments into sleep, Fluttershy thought she heard some weeping sounds.
“Melody?” said Fluttershy quietly, then turned around to look at her. She could see her weeping and sniffing.
“My, oh my,” sighed Fluttershy. “You must be missing your friends from your own time!” She then turned around and continued to sleep.
But weird things began to happen.
Fluttershy began dreaming, dreaming that she was in the middle of a vast meadow.
“Where am I?”
Suddenly, she heard the sound of two foals laughing.
“Hey, you, over here!”
“What? Where? Wait for me!”
“Who are they?” wondered Fluttershy. The next thing she saw, the two foals had caught with each other. Looking closer, Fluttershy could see that both were Alicorn ponies, one was a yellow colt and the other was a pink filly.
“I think you need more exercise, Melody!” the yellow colt said.
“Hey! I’m not that weak, Orion Galaxy!” the pink filly cried.
“Melody and… Orion Galaxy?” Fluttershy was getting surprised.
“Don’t be angry, kid. I was just kidding!” the colt pacified her.
“Aww,” sighed the pink filly. “I thought you can protect me as my big brother.”
“Big brother!?” This time Fluttershy was getting more and more bewildered.
“I was giving you advice,” the colt continued. “You just need more training so that one day, you can be as strong as me!”
“Really?”
“Yeah, if you put in a lot of effort!”, said the colt, patting her mane and she smiled.
“Orion! Melody! Time to come home!” a voice called out.
“Princess Celestia?” Fluttershy was about to follow the two foals, but at the same time, her dream ended. She got up with a start but managed to calm herself down. Then slowly, she turned her head to Melody, who was now sleeping nicely. She began to remember the pink Alicorn foal she saw in her dream.
“Melody has… a brother?” thought Fluttershy to herself, before quickly getting back to sleep again.
The next morning, Fluttershy got up as early as possible. Melody was still sleeping so she quietly left her room. Greeting her downstairs was her pet bunny Angel.
“Oh hi Angel,” greeted Fluttershy. “Could you please take care of Melody while I’m out to see Rarity for the moment?” She hurriedly left after Angel gave her an OK sign.
At Carousel Boutique, Rarity was busily sorting out her fabrics when Fluttershy arrived.
“Oh, goodness Fluttershy, you’ve arrived!” sighed Rarity. “What else can I do for you?”
“Well uh… nothing,” replied Fluttershy. “I just came here to discuss with you about Melody.”
“Melody…” Rarity paused for a moment. “Come to think of it, I just noticed something special about her.”
“What was that?”
“Can you see that she looks almost like Twilight?”
Fluttershy was stunned for a moment. “Why, yes! The shape of her eyes, her mane, and her tail, it’s almost no complete difference between herself and Twilight!”
“But what’s different is the color of her eyes, mane and tail! And her cutie mark!”
“I know that, right?” she paused, then she continued. “Do you think we can ask her if she’s related to Twilight?”
“NO!” exploded Rarity. “Didn’t Applejack say that we need to keep one’s privacy?”
“Uh… okay,” sighed Fluttershy. “How can we find out if she can’t even tell us?”
“I just thought of a brilliant idea,” said Rarity suddenly. “Why don’t we see Zecora?”
“Zecora?”
“Of course, my darling!” replied Rarity brightly. “Remember when the Everfree Forest took over Ponyville, and we went to Zecora and she made Twilight see what happened in the past?”
“Of course!” agreed Fluttershy.
“Then we’d better get her now!” announced Rarity, and together, they raced to find Zecora.
At her hut, Zecora patiently listened to both of their stories.
“I see,” said Zecora at last. “Trying to foresee the future is like trying to find for a cure!”
“We desperately need your help, Zecora,” pleaded Rarity. “We wanted to know all about Melody.”
“Hmm,” paused Zecora for a moment. “To make a potion of time isn’t really a dime.” And with that she prepared the ingredients for the potion.
“Hey, I remember only Twilight can change this potion so that she can see the past,” said Fluttershy. “Can she even create a potion that can make me see the future without magic?”
“We’ll see about that,” said Rarity. “Maybe she’s got a different way to do that.”
Back in Ponyville, Twilight was desperately searching through her library about the prophecy Melody warned, but was unable to find a clue.
“Duh…!” groaned Twilight. “Isn’t there any book that can help me know more about Queen Myra?”
Just at the moment, Spike burst through the door, looking frightened.
“Twilight! There’s been a commotion!” cried Spike.
“What happened, Spike?” asked Twilight.
“I don’t know how to explain, but Melody’s been surrounded by all those foals!”
“WHAT!?” exclaimed Twilight, then rushed to where Spike was mentioning.
Sure enough, Melody was surrounded by all the foals, interesting to know a lot about her.
“So you’re from the future?” asked a colt. “What do you know about it?”
“What’s my job? What’s my job?” asked a filly.
“What would be my cutie mark?”
With all these questions pounding in, Melody felt that she finally had enough.
“Please, stop pestering me!” cried Melody. “I don’t even know you guys before, so I don’t know what you all will do in my own time!”
“Another thing!” interrupted Snips. “Do you have a boyfriend?”
“Why should I have one?”
“Having a boyfriend is cool,” answered Snails. “You can be quite popular!”
“Duh! Why would I need a boyfriend? I told you all that I know nothing much about you all in my time, okay?”
“Aww, that’s bad,” sympathized Diamond Tiara.
“But having somepony from the future seems really cool!” added Silver Spoon.
“Guys! What are you all doing here?” Twilight finally arrived to settle things down. “Melody, can you tell me what really happened?”
“Well, I was trying to search for you when these foals come and start pestering me with all those questions that I can’t even answer!”
“Alright then,” said Twilight sternly, turning to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who were looking terrified. “Which one of you is responsible for this?”
“Actually,” began Apple Bloom. “I told these two first.”
“We thought that it would be just alright,” continued Scootaloo.
“But then everypony just went crazy looking for her!” finished Sweetie Belle.
“*sigh* You know you sometimes end up something in trouble. You can’t always make a mountain out of a molehill,” said Twilight sternly.
“We’re sorry, Twilight and Melody,” apologized the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
“Well then, this shouldn’t happen again!”
“OK kids, it’s time to go back again!” Cheerilee’s voice made the foals scurried hurriedly back to the schoolhouse.
“Hi, Twilight! It’s sure a fine day, isn’t it?” greeted Cheerilee before setting her eyes on Melody. “Oh why, I’ve never seen you before! What’s your name?”
“Uh… I’m Melody Aurora.”
“Why, Melody, it’s a good pleasure to meet you! Is she new here, Twilight?”
“Actually,” said Twilight. “She’s from the future.”
“The future?” beamed Cheerilee. “I’d love to know everything about the future but I have a lesson to get to. See you later!”
“Later!”
After that, Twilight managed to escort Melody into her library.
“So Melody, do you have further information about Queen Myra?” asked Twilight.
“It’s a lot, a lot that I have no idea how to explain!” replied Melody.
“Man, that’s complicated!” exclaimed Spike.
Meanwhile at Zecora’s hut, Fluttershy and Rarity were still waiting for Zecora’s potion to be complete.
“Is it time?” asked Rarity.
“Aha,” said Zecora at last. “Have this drink and you’ll see what you think.” She handed the potion over to the duo.
“Err, I think I’ll drink it,” volunteered Fluttershy.
“If you see anything, just tell us!” encouraged Rarity anxiously.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Fluttershy took a huge gulp on the potion and closed her eyes. For a moment, everything in her mind went dizzy. Then, the distortions slowly cleared. When she opened her eyes, she found herself at the edge of the Everfree Forest.
“Wow…” gasped Fluttershy. “Am I really dreaming or what?”
Then something caught her eyes. A pink Alicorn filly was crying and rushing towards the enchanted forest.
“Melody, Melody!” a voice called out.
“Twilight…?” Fluttershy recognized the voice. Then, she saw Twilight chasing the Alicorn filly.
“Leave me alone!” she cried.
“Why? What’s wrong?”
“Everypony’s been calling me a big failure!” replied the filly in tears. “I failed my test, and I feel like don’t wanna live anymore!”
“Is that so?” asked Twilight. “Listen, Melody. You can’t just give up on your life like that. You still have a lot of things to learn!”
“But mom, I…”
“Mom!?” Now Fluttershy was more suspicious.
“C’mon,” comforted Twilight. “Your father died a long time ago. He told me that I should teach you well so that you can be a great one in the future.”
The filly hesitated for a moment, then she went into Twilight’s embrace and cried loudly.
“I… I’m sorry mom,” young Melody apologized. “I didn’t think that I was so foolish!”
“It’s okay,” forgave Twilight. “I can help you if you fail. Next time you might probably excel! Let’s go home, shall we?”
“Okay!”
“So Melody is… Twilight’s daughter?” asked Fluttershy to herself.
“Oh hi Fluttershy! What are you doing here?” Twilight’s future counterpart suddenly greeted her.
“Oh, er, hi,” said Fluttershy after recovering from her shock for being greeted suddenly. “Is Melody your… daughter?”
“Why, yes she is!” replied Twilight. “Is something wrong with you? You seem a bit absent minded today. Anyway, how did Chaos and Beryl do in the test?”
“Chaos and Beryl? Who are they?”
“Fluttershy, are you sick?” asked kid Melody.
“They’re your kids, of course!” continued Twilight. “Now tell me, how did they do?”
“Uh, well…” Before Fluttershy could continue, her vision ended.
“Huh? I’m back… in present day?” asked a confused Fluttershy.
“Fluttershy! Are you alright?” asked Rarity hastily with her hooves upon her. “Tell me, what did you see?”
“Uh…”
“Fluttershy! Rarity!” Suddenly they heard Rainbow Dash calling.
“Rainbow?” asked Rarity as she opened the door, only to see Rainbow Dash in a terrified state. “What’s going on?”
“You two better come back right now,” panted Rainbow Dash. “Ponyville’s under attack by some strange creatures!”
“What!?” exclaimed Fluttershy and Rarity in shock. Quickly they bade Zecora and headed back to Ponyville as fast as their legs and wings could carry them.
“You tell me about what you saw later!” reminded Rarity.
“Right!”
“What did you two do at Zecora’s place?” asked Rainbow Dash.
“We’ll talk later! Let’s hurry!”