Chapter 17.5: The Part Where Babs is Now Officially Weird
Babs Seed sighed as she reached her apartment in Manehattan. She was happy to be home, but she knew exactly what was waiting for her on the other side of her door.
“Nothin’ to do but get it over with,” she mumbled as she opened the door and walked in.
Babs Seed was not surprised to see her mother and older sister waiting for her. She was also not surprised by the smug expressions on their faces.
“Welcome home, Babs! So… should Ah head out and buy some doggie treats? Or throw away all our garlic? Ah might have bought it the first time, maybe, but a second extended trip to Ponyville? There’s no way ya haven’t been caught up in somethin’ freaky. What are ya hidin’, little missy?” asked Babs’ mom.
“Ah have no idea,” replied Babs with a smirk of her own.
It brought her no small amount of delight to see their confused expressions.
“Yeah, Ah admit somethin’ weird did happen to me this time. Ah got sent to the future, and bit by some kind of time spider. Apparently mah entire history has been rewritten so that what Ah used to be, ah no longer am. And nopony, not even you two, can tell anythin’s changed,” answered Babs.
Bab’s family just stared at her, but then their smug expressions returned.
“That’s it! The reason nothing weird happened on your first visit was because you were always a vampire, and this time the rewrite thing turned you into a normal filly! It all makes sense now!” declared Babs’ sister.
“Drat. Now there’s no way for us to tell for certain who won the bet. But she must have been a timber-pony. Ah just can’t imagine her ever bein’ sparkly enough to be a vampire,” countered her mother.
Babs bit back the moan that ached to rise out of her throat, and headed towards her room as her family giggled at her. She did not need to put up with this right now.
She closed the door behind her, tossed her saddlebag aside, and flopped down onto her bed.
“Maybe Ah should just turn right around and move to Ponyville. I’d probably fit in now, and Ah’d never have to deal with that buckin’ wolf/vampire debate again,” she mumbled.
“Language!” called Babs’ mom.
Once again, Babs wondered how in Equestria her mother always knew when she swore under her breath.
Still…
Babs got up and turned towards her mirror. Once again, she couldn't see anything wrong. But something was wrong. Or rather, something was right that shouldn’t have been right.
“OK, Ah’m clearly overthinkin’ this if Ah’m gettin’ poetic about it,” mumbled Babs.
Yet, she couldn’t help but wonder. Was her mane always that color? Was her coat always brown? Perhaps she was supposed to be the older sister of the family, or possibly the brother? Or maybe her sister was right: she was something unusual before, but now she was just a normal everyday earth pony.
Babs just sighed. That didn't seem likely. Why would she have refused to join the crusaders back then if she was just as weird as her cousin and friends? Or was that just part of the rewrite too?
“Well, no point in dwellin’ on it, Ah guess. Ah’m just goin’ to drive mahself crazy tryin’ to find something Ah know Ah can’t see,” she mumbled with yet another sigh.
The bright yellow eyed pony in the mirror sighed with her.
T.I.M.E. Incident Report #31415926535*
A visiting mare from a thousand years ago, Miss Babs Seed, was bit by a retroactive spider. The spider was successfully contained and the Time Busters managed to treat the bite without any complications. The mare was then sent back to her own time, and the employee who let the spider out was fired. Again.
Blah, blah blah, required triplicate attached, Yada yada yada. You know the drill by now. Also attached: important memo. Read it. Yes, right now.
-Agent Hindsight
*Also, it’s high time we came up with a new numbering system. We’re already at far too many digits for these incident reports.
Office Memo:
While this might seem like an open shut retro spider case, my investigations have revealed a disturbing development. Code yellow in fact. Yes, a spider bite caused a code yellow. No, really. I want this report and the attached documents forwarded to the head of security immediately. I don’t care if someone has to interrupt his WOW session, he needs to see this ASAP.
I won’t bother with the summary, we all know what retro spider bites do. As you also know, ponies like me are expected to look into what exactly was changed by the temporal rewrite, as difficult as it is. As usual, I can only give my suspicions, but by all forty members of the royal family, my suspicions are terrifying.
My investigation has led me to suspect that the bite resulted in her genetic makeup being drastically altered. Most of the resulting changes were fortunately limited to recessive genes, so Miss Babs Seed herself has not undergone a species change, or anything so drastic.
However, even alterations to recessive genes can have profound consequences. A quick glance at her future family tree would reveal why: Miss Babs Seeds’ genes were now in such a statistically improbable state that it caused her future daughter to be the first naturally born thestral in almost three thousand years.
I believe a humble retro spider bite resulted the miraculous recovery of a long extinct species. A species of which I happen to be a member of, and that I have reason to suspect I was not before the rewrite. While I can’t really complain about the results, nor do anything about them, this has displayed a very disturbing security risk.
What if the spider bite had done the opposite, and caused such a miraculous event to never happen? Or if the treatment had come later, and even more drastic changes had occured? And the worst part, because of the temporal rewrite, T.I.M.E. would likely remain completely unaware of such a tragedy, and be unable to fix it.
And all it would take is one of those stupid spiders biting the wrong pony visiting from the past.
This should be a wake up call to how dangerous the retroactive spiders really are. And why only having some minimum wage shmuck off the street monitoring the spider habitat is not enough. We’re playing with the space-time continuum here with the Princesses’ approval. I think we can afford to hire a single qualified security guard.
Or better yet, why not make the spiders unnecessary, at least in such great quantities? Why not put some of that oh-so-precious budget toward developing a better time machine that doesn’t leak as much raw temporal energy?
I get it: time travel isn’t a profitable industry. The only reason we exist is because of the Princess’s financial support, and we only get so much of it. But I believe informing her of the danger would convince her to increase our funding, not shut us down. Have you guys even meet the mare? She’s as fascinated by time travel as the lab coats. She won’t give up on it just because we discovered some easily avoidable risks.
I expect this matter to be addressed quickly. And to make sure this isn’t blown off until we have a major history changing accident, I’ve taken the liberty of forwarding my research to the Princess. I’m certain you’ll want to make sure that when she likely comes to see the problem for herself, you’ll have actually done something about it. We all remember what she did during the kitten orphanage incident. Best not give her a reason to do something that drastic again.
Thank you for your cooperation. And I’d like to see you fools try and fire me for this.
-Agent Hindsight
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so babs gives birth to a hole new speacies neat
That report worries me... not because of the negligence described (though that IS concerning), but how "the Princess" was described. It was clearly referring to Twilight, but the only way she could be "the Princess" instead of "Princess Twilight" is if Celestia (and possibly Luna) are both... well, dead. Since they're supposed to be immortal, that means SOMETHING really bad happened... will happen? Ugh, time travel...
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I don't think that's true due to this line
To me at least, this implies the princesses got busy.
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Just because there's MORE alicorns now doesn't mean that the original duo are still around...
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I don't think so. I've noticed that ponies that report to Celestia alone often refer to her as "the princess." Methinks that for many ponies, if they interact with a single princess on a regular basis come to think of that mare as "THE princess," and other princesses by their names.
Besides...
If you look closely at the grammar, "princesses'" indicates plural possessive. Granted, that may indicate any number or variety of Princesses, but at least there's more than one.
Her eyes weren't yellow before.
Huh. That's cool.
I'm inclined to agree.
You accidentally say spider bit instead of spider bite several times. Other than that, great chapter!
Babs Seed, mother of the reborn Thestrals. Well that's actually not so bad.
Anyway already two years this story is running and only three more chapter before the end. Wow. It's always hard to imagine with stories going for so long coming to an end. Though I'm looking forward for the spin-offs.
You know what this means, right?
The minute she gives birth and her family sees the bat wings, whoever had been betting on Vampire will scream "I CALLED IT!"
Dangit, I imagined babs would have her timeline break down or something, meaning she could travel through time whevener she wanted too. Just imagine how the agents would react to that!
Should be spider bite I think
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The report says the thestrals were resurrected and in an earlier chapter they were mentioned as a pony tribe that was wiped out by something or other.
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same thing its like scientist turing a chiken into a t-rex its the same thing but diffrent
Time travel: I love to hate loving it.
OH! The eyes are a hint to her Thestral Progenitrix Nature! Cool! ... I thought it was some weird Mirror Entity.
And yeah. All those "bit"-s, should be "bite"-s. Even the "bits" should be "bites".
... Who's the father, though?!
Well, this should be interesting. Babs is the most normal one, but yet she will have the most lasting consequence. NORMAL IS A FARCE!
So that explained why two of the future lab's staffs changed species after the 'cure'. They are Babs' descendants. Once you made a change to the ancestor, all the decedents changed accordingly.
Her eyes are green in canon, there's the change! And she'll give birth to the first natural Batpony, that too.
Huh. From her all thestrals will stem. She's the Bat Seed!
In any case, eagerly looking forward to the beginning of the end. This was been a wonderfully long, strange trip. The destination should be something to see indeed.
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Given how the royal family now numbers (er, will then number) in the double digits, I think "the Princess" in this context is more short for "the Princess in charge of T.I.M.E.," not "the sole Princess of Equestria."
So the rewrite made it so that she is no longer a bat pony herself but is instead the mother of bat ponies.
My first guess was close.
That report number. lol
I look forward to what's in store for the ending, and the eventual spinoffs.
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Descendant.
Decedent means dead person.
😩 I'm sorry: it was too easy!!
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You gotta admit though, it was obviously talking about Twilight.
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Thanks, my grammar is really rusty these days.
Holy guacamole
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Me too. Maybe we can have a nice sequel? AKA more than one spin off. How about a sequel where we still see and focus on the CMC's timeline, and a few spinoffs about other characters and story arcs? I mean, this is just such a great story, heck not just a great story, but a great universe you've built!!
Perhaps, later down the line, we can see how old applebloom gets and some storytelling of her long life and her many shenanigans of being the "Crusader Eternia" or the princess of the undead. Nah, more like the princess of cutiemarks. Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps she'll be like the bear and the bird from earlier. Bear claw and kamakazi?
I love this story!
Please spare us, mighty Goggleor!
I'm not sure i understand, did bat ponies not already exist?
Thank you for NOT using 'foalish' as a replacement for foolish. It's one of my biggest bothers in this entire fandom!
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She exists, just... rarely (and I don't recall any speaking role, but I could be wrong).
*Alondro takes the opportunity of the Eagles parade to release retroactive spiders aaaaaaaaaall over Philadelphia* This should be fun...
yay spin-off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well then. That's an awful lot of toys
Something doesn't seem right about that sentence. I can't quite put my finger on it. It's as if there's something about Babs' eyes or something like that. I don't know, maybe it's just my imagination. *cough*green*cough* Sorry, I think I'm coming down with a cold.
Oh well. At least giving birth to a whole new race is weird enough. Babs is just too young to know how weird she became. I wonder what the father would think though...there will be a father, right?
Green
YAAAAY
while a spin off is cool i still hope for a full squeal
Um, isn't Babs' eyes supposed to be green? After reading the above sentence, I thought her new ability allowed her to travel to a mirror universe or something like that, but I guess I was wrong.
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That's the point, her timeline got slightly altered.
I completely missed the hints in the previous chapter, so it surprised me that's what changed about her.
What do you mean Kitten Orphanage Experiment???? O.O
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Of course it's negligent. look at the number of incident reports. There's only so much of the same paperwork one guy can take.
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Exactly. I was going with the idea that traces of bat pony DNA remained in recessive genes for eons, and the rewrite made it so Bab's and her future husband's DNA were a perfect match for that one in Celestia-knows-how-high chance to bring them back.
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As for who the father is, well, that's going in the spin-off.
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Actually, the kitten orphanage bit (aside from a shout out to TF2's end of the line), was meant to be a hint that somepony other than Twilight was really, really interested in time travel. Not saying who or why thought.
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Doubt it. Hasbro would never actually try to sell a toy that connects MLP to Fallout, let alone five. Though it would be awesome if they did...
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Gee, it's almost like I intentional changed her eye color to something that clearly doesn't match what it is in the show. What are the chances? *Cough* Yellow *Cough* Aw crap, I think I'm catching your cold.
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Fixed. Once the next chapter is finished, I'll message the guys who volunteered to proof-read. Let's see if we can avoid any fixes for once.
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https://m.Thanks to tell us about those references
Can't wait for Babs to get deported to Thestralia ...made by her in the Sweet Apple Acres.
Well, she at least should get some bat power - i mean come on! Can't even squezze echolocation out of this baby? We have a great spider man refrence material here, at least she should get the tantabus as her venom suit...
Because she shouls get it next time in ponyville.
Keep up the good work
We still have one CMC member left to corrupt(?)!! Barb Seed is not the only one of addition CMC!!
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I can see it now . . .
"Ohmygosh you were bitten by a radioactive time-sucking spider?! Me too! And it rewrote half your genes as well? Omg what is this connection we're having?!"
For some reason I read that in Mabel's voice.
Are you planning on making a direct sequel to this fic at some point? Because I really wanna know what they’ll all do around the time periods of seasons five six and seven.
the miraculous recovered of a long extinct species.
*Recovery
I’m a little disappointed about Babs’ change. I mean, it cool and interesting that she’ll revive an entire race, but will she at least have some kind of ability besides that?