The edge of Ponyville-to-be, I can still hear the sheer cataclysmic forces that are waging fierce battle in the capital, in the sky both inter-planetary bodies are risen, one threatening to block out the other. Ignore the stallion stooped placing his aged tome in a hole and help me think of a plan. It has to be flashy, it has to be a dues ex machina and most importantly we must get back to our own time! We’ll leave the two sleeping beauties here for now, hey you, unicorn over there! Can you protect these two fair maidens until we get back? Yes? Good, we’ll be back in a minute.
Ok, think, I’ve watched over deities, kings, queens and everything in between, surely I must have picked up some morsel of a time travel spell. Why are you looking at me like that? What is that whistlin- RUN! Nightmare Moon comes crashing from the sky, causing a near earthquake as she strikes the ground, leaving a crater. Celestia soon teleporting in to fire bolts at her sister,as she haphazardly prepares the Elements of Harmony. Wait, maybe it’s a good thing that the battle has been brought here! If I can get near the Nightmare when she is struck by the elements, I might be able to briefly wield their power sending you and the other two back.
They don’t deserve to be stuck in this time and I’ve had enough of merely lurking in the shadows, let that bright light take me, at least they will be saved. I better hurry, the fight is reaching its crescendo and the elements will soon be used. Remember me, my dear companion.
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That is the last thing I say to them, as I throw myself at the Nightmare, the rainbow of the Elements already darting their way toward her, it hits, both me and a god stuck at the centre of a spell so powerful that if used improperly would have destroyed the earth. If used on one alone, it would have killed the Nightmare. As it was, I turned my sole focus to taking, that crazy fool of a follower, Applebloom and the future Princess Luna, back to the future, leaving only a broken, pale unicorn who had been guarding them.
I could barely breath as the Elements spell warped, banishing the Nightmare to the moon for a thousand years and leaving me in a twisted body, a body that was neither earth, unicorn or pegasus. It left me blank, no power to call my own as I collapsed before the Solar Princess. For her part, she took me back to the castle and nursed me back to health. With the wisdom of years experienced, she could deduce that I was the one who left the note and was also brought with the filly and Luna to the past.
I lived there for a while, before moving on when the next capital was planned to be built on a mountain. Instead, I began travelling, visiting lands across the world, no longer merely experiencing it hidden, but able to explore it for myself. In years to come, I realise just what the elements had done to me. They took my magic, but in return granted me immortality. I can’t wait to see that fool that followed me again.