Travels in Limbo

by DarkPinkie

To Age a Tree

Applejack was in dire need of help, a quite large part of sweet apple acres had been attacked by some unknown kind of tree rot. Its origin was probably from the Everfree forest. By the time the ponies had figured out a cure most of the trees infected had all ready died. Dealing a almost mortal blow to Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack had told she might as well close down the farm if anything else happened. She was just hoping they would recover from this loss fast enough to stay afloat. Twilight had not accepted this. She had vowed to try to fix the problem, and had set out immediately to do so.

It had felt like she had been doing these calculations all night. The hypothesis had been Simple. To make a plant grow at a exponential rate. Being able to fully grow a tree in the matter of minutes with the use of magic. The calculations had however been long and complex. Twilight had done them, double checked em, triple checked em and checked them once more, not to mention the multitude of times she had checked her sources. They needed to be perfect if the spell was to work correctly. ‘’But calculations can only take you so far.’’ Twilight mused. It was time to put the spell to the test.

In front of her was a small piece of bamboo, she had pulled some strings to have had this piece of exotic plant shipped to ponyville just for this experiment. Twilight sighed and closed her eyes as she focused her magic on the plant in front of her, the magic surging through her horn and into the plant. She opened her eyes to gaze upon the bamboo plant. It was small, barely a hoof in height. But as Twilight’s magic increased she noticed it began to grow, fast. Twilight started to feel a bit numb, but she put little noticed to the feeling and mentally brushed it aside as it was probably just a side effect from the spell she was casting. when the bamboo shot a moment later had hit roughly 3 hoofs height she stopped the flow of magic and admired her work. There it stood before her. Triple its original size in just the matter of seconds. This growth would have otherwise taken many hours. Twilight grinned as she walked around the plant taking the sight in.. A spell of her own creation would revolutionized farming all over Equestria, as growing an entire orchard would now be able to be grown in days compared to years.

After admiring the bamboo for a while she let out a yawn. Twilight had stayed up the better part of the night with this and now was time for bed.

As the unicorn headed up to the cellar stairs towards the door and opened it her eyes were attacked by bright light. ''Is it morning already?'' She groaned, it had not felt like she had been up all night. Twilight was startled when she got a sudden response.

‘’Twilight? Did you stay up all night?... Again?’’ Spike Cried out from the kitchen, not a hint of surprise in his voice.

‘’Yes Spike. But I was working on a spell to help Applejack out of that crisis.’’  Twilight groaned once more when she looked over on her wall clock, it was 8am already.

Spike popped his head out of the kitchen. ‘’Well breakfast is done. I was just gonna wake you up when you started talking.’’  The baby dragon gave Twilight a wide grin. ‘’But now I don’t have too.’’

Twilight sighed and joined her assistant in the kitchen for breakfast.

Twilight and her five friends had gathered in a field not too far from Fluttershy’s cottage. The purple unicorn felt confident. Here among her friends she was going to demonstrate her new spell. She had explained how the spell worked to her friends on the way here.

Fluttershy had at several occurrences mentioned that she was growing a new oak tree a few minutes from her house to get her multitude of tree dwelling animals more housing space. But it had not growth as fast as the pegasus had expected and it was not much more than a sapling, despite growing it for several months.

Twilight had thought it to be the perfect opportunity to show her friends the spell she had worked all night on, and help fluttershy at the same time.

As Twilight and her friends walked up to the sapling of a tree, she commanded her friends attention. "Now I will use the spell to make the tree grow. Fluttershy how old do you want the tree to be?"

"Well... If its not too much trouble... Maybe 200 years?" The yellow pegasus responded.

"Two hundred years is like way old. You think you can handle that? I know I would if I was a uni--" The cocky blue pegasus bloated before being interrupted by a orange hoof in her side.

"Ahm sure yah will be able to do it Twi. Ah bet that if yah arn't tha most powerful unicorn in Equestria ah will eat mah hat." The cowpony stated, completely unfazed that Dash was currently glaring her daggers.

Twilight blushed "I'm sure there are others that are better at magic. Princess Celestia is--"

Pinkie interrupted her by popping out from behind the twig of a tree. "She said unicorn. Alicorn do not count silly." No one seemed to question how the pink pony could hide more than half her body behind virtually nothing.

"The most powerful or not, let's grow this tree shall we?" Twilight commented trying to change the subject.

Twilight started to charge her horn with magic. Her friends were now all looking at the oak, with the exception of Pinkie who was poking it.

A few seconds went by with nothing happening. Then Pinkie started shuddering. "A dozy! A dozy!" she screamed as she grabbed hold of Twilight with the intent on shaking her.

No one had realized what had happened before there was a bright flash of light.

Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie had vanished.

Hello, This is the author here, and I just wanted to tell you guys, this is my second story to be submitted. (unless you count that Manhatten blue prologe, but come one, that was just fail)
Since I'm not ''that'' good, if you could give some feedback would be great (Just don't be to fanatical about it.)