//------------------------------// // A Problem to be Solved // Story: Futuristic Ten: Buck to the Future *CANCELLED* // by MajesticPoniesEverywhere //------------------------------// "OH MY CELESTIA!!!!!!!!!" the pinkish-purpleish alicorn screamed. "Okay! Just calm down! We can figure this out! Let's just go back to my castle and talk this over so we can get you back home!" Twilight tried to reassure the screaming alicorn, failing miserably. "CALM DOWN?!! YOU'RE NOT THE ONE STUCK A DECADE BEFORE YOU WERE BORN!!!!" "But we can't get you back home until we find out who you are and what spell you used!" Twilight pointed out. "She's right, Kamikaze," the so far quiet pegasus filly with pink hair and very dark green streaks in it said. "Ya gotta stop freakin' out or yer gonna just tire yerself out!" the dark brown colt of the group said. The screaming alicorn named Kamikaze stopped, breathless. She exhaled strongly. "Too late," she said, panting. "Come on, lets get back to Ponyville," Twilight said, the young party of ten following the Mane 6. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Once all sixteen ponies got to the castle, Twilight sat the young ones down at an elongated table: the future ponies on one side, the present ponies on the other. "Okay, first things first: you tell me your names," Twilight said. "Hi. I'm Kamikaze," alicorn filly that was screaming just about fifteen minutes ago said. She had a pinkish-purpleish coat, along with blue eyes and a navy blue and violet mane. Her cutie mark was a magenta vortex. "Hallo! I'm Constellation. I'm Kamikaze's twin brother, as well as these two dorks over here," Constellation said. Twilight knew him as the alicorn colt. He had a dark blue coat, a navy blue mane, and sparkling blue eyes. His cutie mark was a constellation. "Yes, I'm adorkable! The adorkable Andromeda," she said. Andromeda had an orange coat, dark blue eyes, and strangely enough, Twilight's mane. Her cutie mark was a book over a shield. "Violet Galaxy. Nice to meet younger you!" the final alicorn said. Living up to her name, she had a violet coat, purplish-bluish eyes, and a navy blue mane (wassup with the navy blue, guys?). Her cutie mark was a spiral galaxy. "Um, I'm Forest Ivy. But can call me Ivy if you want," the filly pegasus said. She was yellow, and had a pink mane with very dark green streaks in it. She also had tealish-greenish eyes and a cluster of trees as a cutie mark. "And I'm AWESOME! Name's Flight," the whitish-bluish colt from before said. He had a mane that consisted of a variety of different shades of blue, and he had magenta eyes, as well as a winged tornado for a cutie mark. "Don't listen to him; we may be twins, but everypony knows I'm the better one! The name's Rainbow Sky, but you can call me Sky," Flight's twin sister said. She also had magenta eyes, with a coat to match her brother's, except she had a rainbow mane. Her cutie mark was a winged lightning bolt, with a rainbow spiraling around it. "What are you talking about?! There is no way you're better!" Flight said. "Yeahuh!" Sky said. "Nuh-uh!" Flight countered. "Yeahuh!" "Nuh-uh!" "Yeahuh!" "Nuh-uh!" "Yeahuh!" "Nuh-uh!" "SHUT UP!" Sky retorted. "Troll!" Flight said. "Stupid wench!" "WESEAL CHUMP!" Sky back-hooved Flight straight across the face. "ALRIGHT THAT'S ENOUGH! I don't even know all of your names yet!" Twilight exclaimed. "Y'all should be ashamed of yerself. Look atch'a! Slappin' each other and callin' each other names! That's no way to introduce yerself!" an earth pony colt scolded. He turned to the Mane 6. "Sorry about them. Ah'm Honest," Honest said, sticking his hoof out. Twilight shook it. Honest was dark brown, had green eyes, blonde hair, and his cutie mark was the apple-shaped crystal amulet from the golden necklace representing the Element of Honesty. "I'm Cheesecake!!" the filly with the happy aura said. She was light pink, and her mane was brown with pinkish-red streaks through it. She had blue eyes and her cutie mark was a slice of strawberry cheesecake. "And I'm Jewel," an elegant young mare said. She had a white coat, a dark, purplish-bluish mane, and blue eyes. Her cutie mark was a emerald, ruby, diamond, amethyst, sapphire, and gold in one big cluster of gems. "Okay, so Kamikaze, Constellation, Andromeda, Violet Galaxy, Forest Ivy, Flight, Sky, Honest, Cheesecake, and Jewel," Twilight clarified. "Yup!" they said. "Okay, next question: where are you from?" Twilight asked. "The future. Here. In the future," Constellation answered. "Okay. When were you born?" Twilight asked. "In the the years 2023 and 2024," Andromeda said. "This is like Jeopardy!" Cheesecake said. "Huh?" the Mane 6 said in unison. "It's a thing of the future," Sky said. "Well then! Last question-" "Awww! It's ending already?! But we were having so much fun!" Cheesecake interrupted. "Agreed!" Pinkie Pie said, her outfit and mustache now off. Twilight glared at them. "Ahem! Last question: why did you call us 'Mom' and 'Aunt'? Are you our future children or something?" "Yes," the ten foals said in unison. "Well then I'll add one more: Which one of us is your mother?" "You," Kamikaze, Constellation, Violet Galaxy, and Andromeda said in unison. "Wait... all four of you?" Twilight asked, astonished. She knew these weren't pranksters; she could sense their alicorn magic. Upon hearing this, she sensed just how powerful they really were; if they weren't screwing her over, they came from her, pretty much the most magically powerful pony in Equestria, and were also born alicorns. You didn't want to get them on your bad side. "Yup! We're quadruplets!" they said with smiles on their faces. "No way. That's not possible!" Twilight said, refusing to accept the fact. "Oh, we both know it's possible!" Kamikaze said. "Oh boy. Alright! What about the rest of you?" Twilight said. "Applejack," Honest said. Flight and Sky just looked at each other then back at the Mane 6. "Rainbow Dash!" they said in unison. "Fluttershy," Forest Ivy said. "Pinkie Pie!" Cheesecake said, jumping up and hugging the Element of Laughter, who returned the act of affection. "Rarity," Jewel said. Rarity smiled. "So... who are your fathers, hmm?" she said, wiggling her eyebrows. "Sorry, can't tell you or we might cease to exist," Violet Galaxy said. "Aw, man!" Pinkie Pie complained. "Hmph! I agree! And I was hoping for some gossip!" Rarity concluded. "Well, in the mean time, eh get it? We'll have to find out how to get you guys home!" Twilight Sparkle said. "Right!" Kamikaze agreed. Twilight looked at Spike, who had been sitting there silently, and now she knew why. "Nice! That's my dragon!" Twilight said as she was handed a long parchment scroll, filled with notes Spike had been taking on the futuristic ponies. "It's always good to take notes!" Spike said, smiling. Twilight skimmed through the paper, holding it up with her magic. "Hmm, something's missing," she said. "Ooh! Another mystery!" Pinkie said, whipping out her mustache and placing it upon her face. Pinkie immediately zoomed around, analyzing the ten young ponies closely... in a literate way. She grabbed, sniffed, and poked at them with her eye (how she did it, nopony knows; she's Pinkie Pie). Finally, after her strange movements and actions, Pinkie zoomed back to her seat at the table, looked at the four alicorns, and said, "Welp! You used a spell but it went totally crazy haywire and you also had a tiiiiiiiiiiiiny magic surge because you're an alicorn but you're not fully developed yet and it's uncertain whether it was you, you, you, or you that actually conducted the spell and made this giant mess but all you know for sure was that you were trying to complete a major teleportation spell to the Crystal Empire *GASP* and back and your friends came to watch but they came to close when your spell did go haywire and since the timezone is slightly different in Crystal Empire you had to also activate a time spell and that's what made the original spell go haywire and since you have powerful magic you were accidentally teleported like ten years back into the past and then you all started arguing and the rest is history! *GASP* Eh, get it, history? Haha!" Everypony just stared at Pinkie Pie. "But... how...." Constellation face hoofed. Spike was sitting next to Twilight, still writing ferociously, taking notes of Pinkie Pie's impossible explanation. "Well it doesn't matter," Twilight said, "At least we know your story and that's one more step to getting you guys home!" "Yeah! And besides, this is gonna be a piece a cake!" Rainbow Dash said with determination. "Not exactly," Twilight responded, "From my calculations, this actually puts us back." "What?! But how?" Rainbow asked. "According to my calculations, not only do we have one to two weeks to get them back home because the time connection will close, but it'll be almost impossible!" "Um, excuse me, but, um, how?" Fluttershy asked politely. "What do mean 'how'?" Rainbow asked, subconsciously getting in her face. Fluttershy winced. "You know, h-how is it almost impossible?" she asked timidly. Twilight used her magic to pull Rainbow Dash back by her tail. "Well... the space time continuum is exhausted from the event, and since there was such a big time shift in their perspective, and not our's, it's acted like a tectonic plate, grinding and twisting and turning; that's what all our perspectives are doing. And, because of the event, they've created a gap in the timeline of the Universe. If I'm realistically talking here, that huge gap shouldn't mend itself for millennia. Basically, there's pretty much no way back." "WHAT?!" the young children said in unison, panicked. "Yup," Twilight said, content with her findings and lead on the case. "No way back?" Forest Ivy said, a worried look on her face. "No. No. No! Nononononono! No, NO!" Constellation panicked as his eyes turned to pinpricks. "This can't be happening!" Kamikaze said frantically. "Got any ideas?" Twilight asked her friends. "Nope!" Rainbow said. "Sorry darlin', I got nothin'," AJ said. "Ooh! Ooh! I know!" Pinkie said, her mustache off again. "What is it?" Twilight said, eager to hear an answer, even if it was from Pinkie Pie. I mean, we all know who solved the parasprite problem. "Lets throw them a you're-gonna-be-here-forever-so-mind-as-well-enjoy-your-stay party!" "Ugh, Pinkie Pie," Rainbow said as she banged her face on the table. Twilight sighed. "Anything else?" she said through clenched teeth. "Ooh! Ooh! I know!" Pinkie said. "What now?" "Or we can take this to Princess Celestia and see what she says!" "Ugh, Pin- wait, what?" Twilight said. "I said-" "That's... that's genius! Pinkie, you're a genius!" Twilight interrupted excitedly. "Really? Cool!" "Come on, guys!" Twilight said as she shoved Spike's notes into her saddle bag, "We've got a mystery to solve!" "Ooh! A mystery! You know what that means!" Pinkie said. She whipped out her mustache as she and the others galloped away.