"Is time travel fun, or does it hurt? I have so many questions–"
Future Twilight shoved her hoof into Twilight's mouth. "I have something extremely important to tell you about the future, and I only have a few seconds, so you've got to listen! Whatever you do, don't–" She vanished in a magical flash.
"Future Twilight? Oh no! What was she trying to warn me about? Her clothes, her mane, that scar..." Twilight held a hoof up to her face. "Oh, what a mess she is! ...I mean, I am... or I will be!" She gasped. "She must want me to prevent whatever horrible thing happens in the future!"
With another magical flash, Future Twilight reappeared. "Oh, good. It does work more than once."
"Are you...?"
"Don't talk to me. Don't say anything." Future Twilight stared her down.
Twilight gulped. "Okay."
"Now, whatever you do, don't waste your time worrying about some disaster in the future. I can promise you, everything will be perfectly fine, at least until after Tuesday morning." Future Twilight breathed a deep breath. "Ah. That's better." She looked closely at Twilight. "Got it?"
Twilight nodded. "Everything's fine through Tuesday morning. Got it."
Future Twilight was already beginning to fade away. "Good." She vanished completely, without a magical flash this time, just becoming more transparent until she was gone entirely.
Twilight blinked. She shook her head. "That's weird," she mumbled to herself. "I could have sworn there was someone else with me a moment ago... but I can't quite remember..." She shrugged. "Oh well. I'm sure it'll come to me eventually."
Did... did Future Twilight just commit suicide?
5377763 ? No, she probbaly was just fading back into her time area
Of course this Twilight knew all along that the Time Spells were kept in the Starswirl the Bearded wing of the Canterlot Library without having to go back in time and tell herself where they were. She eventually remembered who was with her and went back in time to re-remind herself not to worry about next Tuesday again.
I do not believe in time. Time is just a tool invented by the Doughnut Corporation to sell more doughnuts.
KBO.
5375810 I think that at the end they will all become alicorns. Or none of them will because Twilight would be able to complete the spell without any complications and her friends would not around to wear their Elements. And since the Mane Six are the Elements of Harmony, that makes the Elemental Focusers they wear just useless pieces of jewelry. So, unfortunately, no alicorn Twilight. Because by every right she deserved to be elevated to an alicorn and a princess.
Ah, time travel. As one of the (relatively) few who can understand all the techno jargon surrounding it, I'm not surprised by this outcome. Still, looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
Ah, but there WAS something important that happened! Cerberus left his post guarding Tartarus. I favor the headcanon that says originally, without Twilight's warning, Cerberus was away from his post for even longer, and something even worse happened - maybe Tirek had more time and was able to absorb the magic from other prisoners, so was already powered-up early, and attacked before Twilight's ascension, and the Elements of Harmony weren't sufficient to defeat him. So Twilight had to go back in time to warn herself, but she did it in such a way that she would cause her past self to deliver the warning anyway (thereby creating a stable time loop and protecting the timeline) but also so that her past self would not be long-term traumatized by hearing about the fates of her friends in that original timeline. Unfortunately, this meant that original-looping Twilight did not know that even with her warning, Tirek would escape anyway, just more stealthily, so she couldn't tell her about that.
I can't help but imagine how that scene with Celestia in the 'astral plane' is gonna work out when she becomes an alicorn. xD
Celestia: 'You've cooome, such a long, long way—"
Twilight: 'Uh, actually I'm pretty much the same as when I left Canterlot. I didn't learn anything! :D"
So Future!Twilight fades away because she no longer has a reason to go to the past, except she never did have a reason in the first place. It's not like she was going to work herself up over nothing unless her future self comes back and tells her not to. The time travel didn't cause itself or prevent itself. It wasn't going to happen either way. So why did it happen the first time?
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That makes so much sense its scary...
Ah time travel, nobody ever gets it right. Time loops can not work. This kind of thing? maybe? I don't think so though, not exactly like this anyway.
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"I did it, Princess! I completed Star Swirl's spell that you gave me!"
"I'm not surprised. I had total faith that you could, Twilight Sparkle. Oh, btw, you're a princess now too. kthxbye."
Oh, Twily, if only you hadn't gone into fangirl-mode, all this craziness could've been avoided.
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This reminds me of a story where the mane 6 end up back way back in the past and Twilight ends up birthing Celestia and Luna and they end up being turned into the elements of harmony.
There we go, one day of stress avoided for Twilight.
5378148 That could work too. In fact, that could be the entire chapter.
5378183 Week, rather.
And then Ponyville got flooded, because Twilight didn't discover that the dam was damaged
That ending seemed a bit grim.
5378413 Oh yeah, I forgot about that bit.
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Deleted scene from BTTF2 ...
Ok, kinda confusing, but good chapter
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Is it bad that my left eye started to twitch while reading that?
5377877 I think my brain exploded
Oh shit... Unstable time loop...
Universe is ded
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That makes a scary amount of sense.
What about this?
:lightning: :Future Twilight appears:
Twilight:
Future Twilight: :shoves hoof in Present Twilight's mouth before she can say anything:
Future Twilight: :checks the script she's made for herself so she'll know what to say: I-found-a-spell-so-I-can-travel-back-in-time-from-the-future-well-next-Tuesday-actually-bad-things-will-happen-unless-you-just-don't-worry-at-all-and-continue-with-life-if-you-worry-you'll-turn-into-me-k-bye-gotta-go
Twilight: ... ookkkkkk then...
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I always wondered what would happen if Twilight simply never went back in time, wouldn't that have prevented this entire crisis?
Also what happened in the original timeline where Twilight first ent back in time? That episode gave me alot of unanswered questions.