Sonic and Equestria Girls

by SonicAKG

Time after Time

Time after Time

It was a normal day in the city of Canterlot. Today was looking particularly nice. The sun shone brightly through the beautiful clear blue sky. It was peaceful and tranquil as people walked through the city, going about their own business as buses and cars moved around. In the sky, Silver was flying through in a green aura as he headed for Canterlot High. As he did, he took the time to actually appreciate just how magnificent the day was looking to be. He really admired what he saw as he looked around.

Silver had really enjoyed the time he had spent in Canterlot. For him, it was a great opportunity to be in such a beautiful place where people could go about their daily lives without much difficulty. He also took a liking to being a student at CHS. There, he had made many great friends which he knew he would last a lifetime. He had created fond memories with all these people. Today, he really started to understand and value how lucky he was to be here.

"(I gotta admit, living in this city is pretty great.)" He thought to himself.

Yet. as he started going over these feelings, he couldn't help but shake the feeling that something wasn't right. He didn't know how to explain, but a part of him actually felt bad for taking delight in living in Canterlot. The feeling had been nagging at him for a while, but he usually didn't give it too much attention

"(I wonder where this feeling is coming from?)" Silver contemplated.

Before he could think any further, he looked down to see Rarity walking on the street as she was close to CHS. Making sure he wasn't seen, Silver flew downwards to join her as she walked.

"Rarity!" She heard Silver say as she looked around to see him coming ahead.

"Oh, Silver! Good morning." Rarity replied as Silver was now walking next to her.

"Same to you. I mean, really, what a good morning, the city's never looked better." Silver said.

Rarity let out a small laugh. "The cities looked this way for the past few days now."

"I know, but....I just can't overlook how great it looks, you know? I mean, it really makes me appreciate just how great this city is." Silver said as he looked up with a smile on his face.

"Well, someone woke up on the right side of the bed." Rarity told him with a chuckle.

Silver just turned to her with a smile. Again, it was moments like these with his friends that he was glad to be able to have.....

....Yet again, that lingering feeling of doubt resurfaced as Silver did a small frown, which Rarity didn't notice. Why was he feeling like this?

Before he could ponder on it anymore, Silver realized that he and Rarity were approaching the entrance to Canterlot High as they could see the Wondercolt statue in front of them. Suddenly, they heard the bell ring loudly.

"Goodness! We better hurry! Don't want to be late!" Rarity exclaimed as she ran ahead, with Silver following. The two of them then walked through the steps of the school and entered it.

Inside CHS, Silver and Rarity entered a classroom on the right that was filled with many students as they headed for their desks in the middle. On the chalkboard, they could see the teacher, Ms.Cherilee erase writing on it before she turned around to her students.

"Class, I have some special news. Today, we're going to have a guest speaker." Cherilee announced, causing all the students to murmur among themselves. They wondered who it could be as Silver looked on with interest.

"He should be here any minute. He's a famous and well-published scientist who has written many books on his theories." Cherilee continued, which caught the students's attention.

Suddenly, the door burst open and a man carrying a briefcase came through it. He had well combed brown hair and grayish-amber skin and cobalt blue eyes. He wore a large brown trenchcoat over a light brown suit with a green bowtie. There was a symbol of a golden hourglass on his right shoulder.

"I hope I'm not too late." The man said with a British accent as he reached into his pockets to pull out a stopwatch. He checked it and grinned. "Yes, only a minute and 44 seconds left to spare!"

Silver formed a curious look on his face. This man seemed very precise.

"Welcome, Dr. Hooves! We are so glad to have you here." Cherliee welcomed as Dr. Hooves closed his stopwatch.

"Ah, it is a pleasure, my dear! I don't mind coming in and enriching these young minds with the various possibilities of science." He said. "Maybe someone here might appreciate my work." He added in a small tone as he glowered a bit.

Dr. Hooves quickly snapped out of it and he turned to face the class.

"Good morning students! I'm here today to talk to you about the magic that is science. I've been studying the field my entire life ever since a certain incident that happened to me when I was young. Science allows us to explore and predict the impossible! It makes sense of the world around us." He explained.

Dr. Hooves took out a piece chalk and drew a large circle on the board. He began to write letters on it, spelling out the word 'TIME'.

"This is my favorite field in the realm of science. Time! A concept that has been present and is as old as the universe. We've been trying to understand Time for as long as we can remember. Time is crucial to us, a necessary component of our existence. We all each have our time to which we belong. And the amazing this is, all of our times are connected!" Dr. Hooves elaborated as he drew a wide web on the board.

Hearing all of Dr. Hooves explanation about time caused something to click with Silver. Time.....Time.........Time!

Silver's eyes widened and he nearly let out a gasp. Now he realized why he got that nagging feeling every time he admired Canterlot. It was because this wasn't his own time!

"(What have I been doing?! I'm not from this time period! The only reason why I came back here was to prevent a disaster in this time in order to save my own! I didn't come here on vacation! I almost forget my purpose! While I've been here enjoying myself, my timeline could still be suffering or be even worse off!") He berated in a stream of thoughts.

Silver suddenly began to feel terrible. How could he have bene so selfish and forget the important mission that he was tasked with? He formed an extremely glum look on his face. Due to this, he more or less zoned out for the rest of Dr. Hooves presentation, barely remembering what he had said....

---

Before Silver knew it, the bell rang, bringing him out of his mood briefly as he looked up to see Dr. Hooves finishing his explanation.

"I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today. But, I'll stick around for the rest of the day until the end of the school. If you have any questions, please come find me." Dr. Hooves said as he began to erase the board and faced Cherilee. "Ms. Cherilee, it been a pleasure."

Cheerilee had a very bored expression on her face and looked as if she could doze off any minute. Hearing Dr. Hooves word made her more awake.

"Oh, what? Ah, yes! Thank you, doctor!" Cherilee quickly said as she clapped loudly with the students as Dr, Hooves took a bow.

"Class, you are now dismissed." Cherilee then announced as the students rose up to leave the classroom.

Silver headed for the door, still harbouring the feelings of guilt. He didn't notice Rarity come up next to him.

"Well, I'll say, that talk was.....interesting to say the least." Rarity said.

"Mmmmm." Silver just uttered, puzzling Rarity. She noticed the gloomy expression he had on his face and looked concerned.

"Silver, is everything all right?" Rarity asked as Silver turned to her.

"What? Oh yeah, sure." Silver answered in a disinterested tone.

"Are you sure? You seem quite different to how were this morning." Rarity stated.

"Yeah, maybe just feeling a bit tired. That's all." Silver told her. "If you don't mind Rarity, I need to go clear my head for a bit, just be alone for a while." He then requested.

"Oh, all right then then. I'll leave you to that. But if there is anything wrong, remember, the others and I are here for you." Rarity told him as Silver nodded.

With that said, Rarity took off deeper into the halls while Silver walked in the opposite direction to the front doors of the school. He went outside and turned left to the parking lot where no one was and he sat down on the sidewalk as he put his hands on his face.

"What's wrong with me? How could I have forgotten about my mission? Sure this world, this time...it's beautiful, but I don't belong here. " Silver rebuked himself as he closed his eyes. "I might have failed to save my own time."

Silver then levitated a few rocks in his hands using his powers as he twirled them around, trying to think of a solution to his problems.

---

Back in the school, Dr. Hooves was walking out in the hallway before he noticed a beeping sound coming from his pocket. He reached into it to pull out a small tuning fork-like device attached to a red digital screen, which was giving off a reading as a yellow dot.

"What's this? My energy meter is detecting something? Here?" He said in a curious tone. "This requires investigation!"

Dr. Hooves followed the reading he was gathering from his device as he marched through the halls, receiving some strange looks from a few students as he did. He followed the signal out of the school and onto the steps of the entrance as it was getting stronger. The reading turned a red color now.

"Ah, the energy reading is close." Dr. Hooves said as he looked around to find a possible source and he turned left.

Dr. Hooves continued to follow the information from his device just before he heard Silver speak.

"I have these great powers and I can't even use them to save my own time period." Silver said with a sigh, making Dr. Hooves eyes widen.

Dr. Hooves looked towards the parking lot and he could see Silver sitting down. What surprised him most were the floating green rocks which he appeared to be doing himself.

"The fate of the future depends on me. I have to do something!" Silver said with conviction.

"Egad, my boy! That is remarkable!" Dr. Hooves yelled, startling Silver as he turned around to see him and dropped the rocks.

Silver had a nervous look on his face as he saw the doctor approaching him.

"Uh, me? What was remarkable? I-I don't know what you're talking about." Silver said in anxious tone as he tried to save face.

"Oh, don't be modest, lad! I saw the whole thing. You must have been the signal that my energy meter picked up." Dr. Hooves simply replied as he showcased the device to Silver.

"Uhh, you're acting like this sort of normal." Silver said in a confused manner.

"Oh, I've seen stranger things than you, my boy, no need to worry. But I couldn't help but overhear what you said about time." Dr. Hooves continued. "You mentioned your own time period and the future."

Silver froze. He had heard all of that. He wasn't sure how to explain himself to the doctor and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Well, uh,,,you see....actually....it's.." Silver was saying.

"Are you really from the future?!" Dr. Hooves said with a hint of excitement. "If so, then that is just marvelous! It means my theories were correct!"

"Theories?" Silver said as he raised an eyebrow.

"As you heard in my presentation, I've been studying time for some time now. I've developed theories on time travel, but if you're from the future, then it means my work just wasn't all for nothing!" Dr. Hooves stated.

Silver was still kind of lost. Honestly, he wasn't sure where to go with all of this.

"Well, just on going back in time then. My forward in time ideas and experiments need some refinement." Dr. Hooves admitted with mild dismay.

This interested Silver. Going forward in time?' Could this be what he needed?

"Forward in time. You mean like traveling to the future?" Silver asked.

"Yes, actually. If traveling from back in time is done as you said, then I think I may have figured out a way to go forward." Dr. Hooves said. "Tell you what. After school, why don't you come visit me in my lab?"

Dr. Hooves handed Silver a small white card that had an address written on it. Silver looked down at it and then up at the doctor.

"Here is hardly the place to discuss my theories. Visit me in my lab and I can tell you everything I've been working on." Dr. Hooves suggested.

Silver was suddenly starting to feel a lot better. This was the chance he was looking for all along!

"Sure! You got it!" Silver agreed.

"Excellent. See you later, lad!" Dr. Hooves said as he walked away back to the entrance of CHS, leaving Silver to read the card again.

"Well, this is just my lucky day." Silver said with a smile.

---

Later, it was the end of the day at Canterlot High as students began to exit the school. Silver walked out of the entrance and quickly down the steps. He was sort of excited. A way to return to the future was in gasp.

"(I hope this Dr. Hooves guy is the real deal. )" He thought.

Shortly after he was down, Rarity emerged out of the doors as she was walked with AppleJack and Manic. She noticed Silver heading towards the sidewalk.

'Oh, there he is. You two go on without me. I'll catch up." Rarity told her two friends. They nodded and left her as she walked to find Silver.

"Silver." Rarity called, making him turn to see her.

"Oh, Rarity. What's up?" Silver replied.

"I just wanted to check in on you. I haven't seen you for the rest of the day. Are you feeling better?" She asked.

"Much better. Trust me." Silver answered as he got a slight smile.

"That's wonderful. The others and I are going to the Sugar Cube Corner for a treat. Are you joining us?" Rarity offered.

"I'd love to, really. But there's somewhere important I have to be. Like urgent." Silver told her.

"Oh, well in that case, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." Rarity responded.

"Yeah. Later, Rarity." Silver said as he parted ways with her and ran ahead on the sidewalk.

---

Silver followed the address written on the small card and he found himself near the outskirts of the Canterlot. As he was, he came in front of a small brown building with a few windows. He read down on the card and then on the address of the mailbox next to it.

"This should be the place." Silver said as he walked up to the door of the building. He then knocked on it.

Silver waited a while after he did. Shortly after, the door opened and Dr. Hooves was there. He grinned widely as he saw Silver.

"Ah, there you are! Come on!" He said as he eagerly grabbed Silver arm and took him inside.

Silver was amazed at what he saw. The inside was a dark area and it was covered by a series of machines. What was noticeable was that almost all of them had some sort of clock on them. There was a miniature old style airplane located at the top and a red sphere with many golden knobs coming out of it. A devices shaped like an old record player was in the center. There was also a small blue glowing plasma orb and in the center, a large floating jar with different colored flashing orbs in some kind of green liquid.

"Wow...."Silver said as he looked around.

"Welcome to my labatory!" Dr. Hooves said proudly.

"Doc, do you know where I can find more masking tape?" Silver heard a female voice say. He turned to see Derpy coming from the closet as she was wrapped head to toe in tape.

"Derpy? What are you doing here?" Silver asked. He wasn't expecting to see her in a place like this.

"Oh, hi, Silver. I'm the doctors's assistant." She informed him.

"Yes, Ms. Derpy is quite handy to keep around." Dr. Hooves answered. "As for your question my dear, there should be some underneath the cabinet on the-"

Dr. Hooves and Silver turned to see Derpy wasn't listening as she touched the plasma orb, sending electricity through her body as her hair went up and she had a grin.

"Um, should we do something about that?" Silver asked.

"Oh no, it's fine. The girl just likes to have her fun every now and then. Reminds me a bit of myself when I was her age. Ah, the things I did in my youth. I remember the time I once-'Dr. Hooves started to say before he shook his head rapidly.

"Wait, why are you here again?"He asked Silver.

"Because you wanted to talk to me about your time travel theories." Silver reminded.

"Ah, yes! I remember now! You're from the future!" The Doctor recalled. "Before, I begin, I think I need to know a little about your situation. Tell me about yourself, lad."

"Okay. Doctor, My name is Silver and I'm actually from 200 years into the future. Where I come from, my world is a place of ruins. Apparently, my master who trained me to use my powers told me that there is supposed to be some kind of disaster that occurs around this time period. I came back here in order to try and stop it. I used something called a time stone to travel here but it got destroyed and I've been stuck here. I've been in this place for so long that's I almost forget about my mission." Silver explained as Dr. Hooves listened with interest.

"I must say, that is quite the predicament." He responded.

"You said you've been working on theories on time travel and what I've done prove it true, right? If there's anything you can do, please, you have to help me!" Silver begged as he put his hands together.

Dr. Hooves then broke out into a grin.

"Well, my lad, there is something I've been working on. Follow me." He answered as he headed to the back of his lab.

Silver followed Dr. Hooves to the back and he noticed there was a large device wrapped in a white sheet.

"I've been working on a way to travel forward in time my whole life. Decades, centuries of research." Dr. Hooves began.

"(Did he say centuries?")" Silver thought to himself with a confused expression.

"Behold!' Dr. Hooves said as he took off the sheet.

Silver saw that he was staring at a red old-fashioned phone booth at first with a large window on the top. Dr. Hooves seemed to take pride in it while Silver was stumped.

"Uh........What is it?" Silver asked as he scratched his head.

"This is....well, I haven't thought of a name for it yet....but it has the potential to be a time machine. I've set it to be able to travel to any time period using all my research. I've been so close, but there's something missing. It requires an extremely powerful energy source and nothing I've come across appears to be sufficient." Dr. Hooves clarified.

Silver then began to go over the Doctor's words. He had an idea as his face lit up.

"Doctor, what if I told you that I know where to find such a power source?" Silver said, gaining the Doctors interest.

"You do?! If so, that would be amazing!" Dr. Hooves exclaimed as lifted Silver up with excitement.

"Yes. I think I can get it to you. If I can, then can we try out your machine to see if it works?" Silver suggested.

"My boy, that would be the greatest thing in the entire world!" Dr. Hooves said with happiness. "If this works, I could revolutionize science itself!"

"Uh....can you put me down, please?" Silver requested as he was still being held by the doctor.

"Ah, yes, sorry about that." Dr. Hooves said with slight embarrassment as he put Silver down.

"Anyway, since tomorrow's the start of the weekend, why don't I bring the power source and we can do a test run?" Silver proposed.

"That sound's marvelous! I'm looking forward to great things with you, lad!" Dr. Hooves said as she shook Silver's hand up and down rapidly, leaving him a little dazed.

"Great! See you tomorrow, Doctor and thanks so much!" Silver said as he headed for the door to let himself out. When he was outside, he couldn't help but smile.

---

The next day, the Rainbooms along with Sonic and Co were waiting in front of the Wondercolts statue in front of the school. Earlier this morning, Silver had sent all a text message saying he needed to talk to them urgently. They had arrived not too long ago and we're waiting for Silver.

"What could be so important that Silver called all of us out here?" Fluttershy wondered as she clutched her pet bunny Angel in her hands.

"Don't know. But he better have a good reason for waking me up early on a weekend." Manic grumbled a bit as he yawned.

"Maybe it's some kind of surprise! I love surprises! I wonder what is it?" Pinkie said full of energy as she tried to imagine all the things that could happen as she formed a giant pink thought cloud with a variety of scenarios.

"He did say it was urgent. Maybe it has something to do with that errand he had to run yesterday." Rarity brought up.

Suddenly, Silver was flying near the area and he noticed his friends in front of the statue. He then descended down to meet them as they saw he had arrived and approached him.

"Great, you're all here." Silver said.

"Yeah, so what's so important? Where's the fire, man?" Sonic asked him.

Silver cleared his throat.

"As you all know, I'm not from this time. I come from the future, right?" Silver started to say as the others nodded. In truth, it was hard to remember since he hadn't brought it up in a while.

"What about it?" Tails pressed on.

"Well, as I explained last time, I came here in order to save my future. A while back, I lost my means to return home and have been stuck here ever since. In that time, I started to lose track of my mission." Silver continued as his friends now gave him puzzled looks.

"Silver, where are you going with all this?" Sunset asked. "Is this about feeling you don't belong? If so, it's not true. I came from another world and I've been accepted here."

"No, it's definitely not that Sunset. I really do appreciate that you guys have welcomed me here, but I can't forget about my original purpose for. I need to save my future." Silver stated.

"I can relate to being devoted to your purpose, believe me, but aren't you stuck here? There's not much you can do it about it at this rate." Knuckles pointed out.

"Yes. I was. But that has changed, maybe." Silver announced, making his friends even more confused. Rarity wasn't liking where this was going as her eyes looked a little worried.

"Yesterday, in class, this doctor called Dr. Hooves came in and he talked about time. Afterward, I had a lucky encounter with him. Turns out he's been working on theories related to time and has a potentially working time machine." Silver said.

The others looked slightly astonished and turned to each other. Sure they had done a lot of things, but time travel without the use of a external source?

"A time machine? Sound kinda way out there, even for us." Rainbow Dash said with skepticism as she crossed her arms.

"No, this guy's the real deal. I hope. He said we can try out his machine today but he needs a super powerful battery of some sort." Silver went on. "I'm pretty sure you can guess what that is...."

Silver's eyes landed on Shadow. As they did, he instantly knew what Silver was talking out. He reached into his pocket and displayed the green Chaos Emerald.

"Chaos Emerald?" Shadow correctly guessed.

"Yep. So, uh...Shadow.....seeing as you have one..."Silver uneasily and slowly started to say before Shadow just tossed him the emerald, much to his surprise.

"Really?!" Silver said as his face lit up.

"I don't mind necessarily. You're not doing it for something useless." Shadow just simply said.

"Aw, thanks, Shadow!" Silver said as he gave him the thumbs up. Shadow didn't react and Silver turned away from him awkwardly.

"So does this mean your heading back to your own time?"Tails questioned.

"I'll wait and see. That's why we're doing a test run. It's why I called you all out here." Silver explained.

"In that case, sounds like good news for you, dude." Sonic said as he gave him the thumbs up.

"Silver, if you think this is what's best, then we support you." Sunset reassured as the rest of his friends looked at him with supportive faces. Except for Rarity. She didn't look too pleased with this news.

"Are you quite certain this is what you want?" She said in a slightly worked up tone as she walked over to Silver. "I mean, you seem to be having a good time here. And we....we do enjoy having you around."

"I know, Rarity. I'm glad that I got to meet you guys. But I can't just forget my mission." Silver said.

Rarity still didn't look too convinced by Silver's words. In fact, her displeasure seemed to grow. But she forced a smile.

"Well, as Sunset said, as your, friends we support you." She managed to make herself say.

"Thank you. I'm going to test it out now actually." Silver said as he looked at the green emerald.

"Wait. You don't mind if I come along with you, do you?" Twilight suddenly asked as everyone else turned to her.

"Twilight? Why do you want to go?"Spike asked her.

"Because....this a scientific breakthrough! I mean, a time travelling experiment using pure science alone! How can I miss this?! I can even add some extra reading on my list with this Doctor' theories!" Twilight said as she started to geek out heavily. She then noticed the stares her friends were her. She blushed a bit as she calmed down.

"I guess it wouldn't hurt." Silver said with approval. "But we better hurry. I don't know exactly when the Doctor will be at his lab."

"Right, then let's go!" Twilight eagerly said as she came to join Silver.

"Okay. See you guys around." Silver waved to the rest of his friends as he, Twilight and Spike took off as they looked on.

"I gotta say, that's pretty noble of Silver to prioritize his mission so much." Applejack stated. She then turned to see Rarity who was looking somewhat dejected with a frown .

"Rarity? Are you ok?" She asked her, making Rarity turn to see her.

"Oh, me? Oh, don't worry, darling. I'm perfectly fine." Rarity said with a somewhat nonchalant tone. That wasn't the case

'If you'll excuse me. I need to head back to the Canterlot Boutique. Get started on some designs." Rarity suddenly said, excusing herself from the group as she took off quickly on the sidewalk.

As she headed for her workplace, Rarity let out a melancholic sigh as she formed a slightly disappointed look on her face.

---

In front of Dr. Hooves lab, Silver, Twilight and Spike were standing in front of it. Twilight was giddy with excitement, putting Silver and Spike slightly off.

"I can't believe it! I'm going to be a witness to a scientific breakthrough!" Twilight said as she could barely contain her enthuasism.

Silver and Spike exchanged looks, with the latter just shrugging.

"Does she always get like this?" Silver asked him.

"You have no idea." Spike dryly answered.

Silver turned around and he knocked on the door to the lab. A little while after, Derpy opened the door.

"Hi, Silver. Hi, Twilight." She said as she noticed the latter.

"Derpy?" Twilight said in a somewhat perplexed tone.

"I'm the doctors assistant. Come on in." Derpy said as she entered the lab, with the two of them following.

When she saw the contents of the lab, Twilights jaw almost dropped. The entire thing was incredible to her and she looked like a kid in a candy store.

"This place....is....incredible! Just look at all the fine machinery. It makes my lab look like a junior science kit!" Twilight gushed as she examined the entire room while Spike looked on.

Silver couldn't help but form a small smile as he turned to Derpy.

"Where's the Doctor?" He asked her.

"Oh, he should be here right about..." Derpy said before Dr. Hooves suddenly burst through the door, drinking a milkshake.

"...now." Derpy finished as the Doctor walked over. He finished slurping his milkshake.

"Ahhh! Exquisite I say. They it could use a little work on getting the flavor and the ice to blend together at just the right percentage." He said as he began to examine his drink.

Twilight noticed the Doctor come in and her excitement increased.

"You're the owner of this lab!?" Dr. Hooves heard Twilight say as he looked from his drink to see her with a wide smile.

"This place is incredible. The structure! The contents!" Twilight praised as the Doctor chuckled a bit.

"Thank you, my dear. I spent a long time preparing this place." Dr. Hooves said. "And who might you be?"

"Oh, I'm Twilight Sparkle, an aspiring scientist! I heard about your theories on time travel and I-" Twilight began before she heard Silver clear this throat loudly.

"Uh, Twilight. I appreciate that you're glad to be here, but I do need to speak with the Doctor." Silver reminded her as Twilight slightly turned red.

"Oh, sorry, about that. I'll leave you to it." She said as she went to explore more of the lab.

"Ah, Silver! Good to see you again, chap. I must say, you're friend is quite enthusiastic." Dr. Hooves said.

"She wanted to witness a scientific revolution." He explained. "Speaking of which, I have the power source for your machine."

Silver took out the Chaos Emerald and he displayed it to Dr. Hooves, who looked on in awe.

"This jewel...it looks incredible!" He said as he eyed the emerald. "Are you sure it will be sufficient?"

"Believe it, it'll be more than enough." Silver reassured.

"In that case. Let me get my machine." Dr. Hooves answered as he went to the back of the room.

Dr. Hooves pushed the time machine, still covered in a sheet across the floor and to the center of the area. It took a bit of force and time but it was there. He then took off the sheet, gaining Twilights attention.

"Wow! That's the time machine?!'" She said in a quizzical tone.

"Yes, my dear. Come inside and take a look. You as well, Derpy." Dr. Hooves said.

Derpy was near the jar that contained the different flashing orbs and looked at them with amazement as she heard her name being called. She then removed the jar from it's holding and brought it with her over to the Doctor.

Dr. Hooves opened the front of the time machine and went inside it, followed by the others before he closed the door. It had a lot more space than one would think as it was wide enough to hold the 4 of them and Spike. The inside was blue chrome color and had different colored light bulbs around it and smaller switches. It had a flip switch on its right side and in the center was a large table-like structure with a hole in the middle, big enough for the Chaos Emerald to fit in.

"Incredible. This looks..." Silver said as he was at a loss for words.

"Amazing!" Twilight finished s she clutched Spike.

"All these years of hard work have been put to good use." Dr. Hooves announced. "Now then, are you ready to see the result?"

Twilight nodded excitedly as Derpy was still focused on the jar she had. Silver clutched the emerald and walked over to the center.

"(I can't believe it. I'm finally going to find a way back.)" Silver thought as he placed the emerald in the hole.

When Silver did, the light bulbs lit up brightly and the sound of a machine starting up began to appear. The machines chrome color now turned a bright green.

"Can you believe it, Spike?!" Twilight asked her companion, who had a disinterested look on his face.

"All right then, for a test run, why don't we try something small, like an hour into the future?" Dr. Hooves said as he reached for the flip switch. Silver nodded in agreement.

Dr. Hooves placed his hands on the switch and he lowered it only by a few inches. As he did, the machine began to shake and vibrate as everyone looked on.

"Oooohhh!" Derpy said with delight. "It's just like a roller coaster!"

The machine's shaking grew more unstable as Silver looked out the window of the machine to see that outside was starting to flash different colors. As he did, Silver suddenly noticing purple cracks of electricity started to form around. They were getting more violent.

"Is this supposed to happen?" He asked, a little unsettled by the sight.

"No need to worry. Just a small-" Dr. Hooves began before the machines' shaking started to get very uncontrollable. throwing everyone off balance as they hit the floor.

"-hiccup?" He now said with uncertainty.

The machine suddenly took a giant flash forward as it moved at hypersonic speed, sending everyone against the wall due to the force of how fast it was moving. They could barely move as due to how strong the force was. Outside, Silver now saw a giant purple spiral area as the machine started to move through it.

"Is this normal?!" He yelled over the movement.

"I'm not sure!" Dr. Hooves shouted back.

Suddenly, the machine came to a sudden halt, releasing everyone from the walls as they came to the ground with a hard thud. When Silver rose up and held his head, he looked through the window to see they were still in the purple spiral.

"Ummmm, aren't we supposed to have left this.....whatever here is?" He asked.

Dr. Hooves looked up to see through the window as well. He formed a frown on his face.

"This isn't right. We should be at our destination." He said as he put his finger to his chin.

"We can get out of here, right?" Twilight asked with slight worry.

Before Dr. Hooves could answer Twilight, the machine suddenly started shaking, sending everyone off balance once more. The shaking was even more violent than before as the machine rocked back and forth.

"Doctor, what's going on?!" Silver screamed.

"I-This shouldn't be happening?!" Dr. Hooves shouted.

The shaking continued, sending everyone around in the machine. From the window, Silver could see a series of black energy hands were surrounding the machine.

"What are those?!" He called out.

Suddenly, there were dents heard at the top of the machine as Silver and the others looked on. Whatever the hands were, they weren't friendly. There were scrapping sounds heard as well as a clawed hand made its way through the top of the machine.

"What do we do?!"Twilight yelled out with panic.

The top of the time machine was then torn open, much to everyone's horror as they saw the black claws reached towards them. Within seconds, multiple black hands came around everywhere and tore the entire time machine apart, trapping the 5 of them in the hyperspace as they started to tumble through it and float helplessly. As they did, Silver used his powers to grab the Chaos Emerald, which he placed in his pocket.

"Nooooo! All my years of work and research!" Dr. Hooves cried out with great distress.

Dr. Hooves was then grabbed by multiple black hands from the back as he struggled to fight against them.

"Hey, watch the suit!" He yelled as the hands took hold of his entire body.

The claws reached out and began to grab Twilight, who protectively held Spike, Derpy, and Silver. They all began to resist, but it was no use. The grips of the claws was strong and painful

"We have to do something!" Silver declared as his hand began to glow green as another claw reached for him. As it did, it disappeared, much to his surprise.

"My powers, of course!" Silver realized as his entire body turned green, getting rid of all the other claws that grabbed him. He now was floating and free. He saw Twilight striving hard against the black hands.

"Twilight, use your powers!" Silver called to her.

Twilight's hand began to shine purple and she used her telekinesis to remove one of the clawed hands from her body. Silver had the right idea. She then made the rest of them vanish as she released a telekinetic wave from her hand.

"Way to go, Twilight!" Spike congratulated.

"Good thinking, Silver. But we have to help the Doctor and Derpy!" Twilight pointed out.

The two of them turned to see Dery and Dr. Hooves in the clutches of the black hands as they frantically tried to escape. Using their powers, Silver and Twilight made them glow green and purple respectively as the claws vanished away from them, bringing them to safety.

"Egad!"Dr. Hooves said as he and Derpy were brought closer to Silver and Twilight.

However, the number of black hands surrounding them began to multiply. There was an entire array of them.

"There's too many of them!" Twilight called as the hands began to reach for them.

She was right. Silver wasn't sure if he and Twilight could fend off that many of them. They had to get rid of them and fast. As he looked around for an idea, his eyes then landed on the jar that Derpy held.

"Doc, what's in that jar?"Silver inquired to Dr. Hooves.

"Well, those are my flameless fireworks! But I'm not sure how to set them off!"He explained.

"You're about to find out!"

Using his power, Silver took the jar from Derpy, who wasn't expecting that as it was now floating in the center. Using his powers, Silver cracked it open, revealing the many different floating spheres. He then turned to Twilight.

"Twilight, I need you to help me grab those spheres and surround ourselves with them!" He instructed as Twilight nodded.

Silver and Twilight each carried energy spheres using both of their hands and placed them around themselves, Dr. Hooves, Spike, and Derpy in green and purple auras, cutting them off from the black hands.

"Ok, now try and crush them!" Silver called out!

Silver and Twilight then began to curl up their fingers, placing pressure on the energy spheres before they cracked and were set off. The fireworks made a large series of colourful explosions as destroying all the surrounding black hands completely. Derpy giggled at what she saw. It was destructive, yet beautiful.

"Remarkable." Dr. Hooves observed.

As the explosions cleared, everyone now could see each other as they floated to safety. Silver wiped his brow.

"Everyone ok?" Twilight asked as Derpy nodded.

"Just a question...how are we going to get out of here?" Spike asked.

"The talking dog is right. Without my time machine, we're sitting ducks!" Dr. Hooves realized.

Silver then reached into his pocket as he took out the green Chaos Emerald.

"We can use this." Silver said.

"How is that going to help?" Dr. Hooves asked.

"Again, trust me on this one, Doctor. Everyone, put your hands on the emerald and hold on tight.." Silver told the others.

Everyone else each placed their hands and paw over the emerald as Silver held it.

"Chaos...Control!" Silver yelled as he, Twilight, Dr. Hooves, Derpy, and Spike were enveloped in a brilliant blue flash as they disappeared

---

The 5 of them reappeared back in Dr.Hooves lab as they all landed on the floor. Silver looked around to make sure they were in the right place.

"Phew. We're back." Silver said with relief.

"That was.....more than what I was expecting," Twilight admitted. "I need to lie down for a bit."

Dr. Hooves looked on with an extremely dejected look. He let out a sad, loud sigh.

There goes years of hard work." He mumbled to himself.

"Doctor, do you have any idea what went wrong?" Silver asked.

"My guess is that after seeing what that emerald of yours can do, the energy generated by it was simply too powerful for my machine to handle." Dr. Hooves estimated.

"How long do you think it would take to make another one?" Silver questioned.

"If I'm lucky.....around 150 years." Dr. Hooves said, sinking Silvers hopes completely. So much for going back to the future.

Dr. Hooves noticed Silvers expression and he started to feel terrible that he couldn't help him.

"I'm sorry I couldn't be of much help."He said as he placed his hand on Silver's shoulder.

"It's ok, Doctor. I do appreciate everything you've done, I really do. I still feel like I owe you one for at least trying. If you ever need anything, just ask." Silver responded, causing the Doctor to beam.

"I must say, it was a pleasure meeting you!" He stated as he and Silver shook hands. "I don't think this was just a random encounter. With time, there's always a reason behind things."

---

Later, Silver was walking down the streets of Canterlot. Twilight had already gone home, but Silver needed to some time to himself after that whole fiasco as he placed his hands in his pockets.

"(My one chance to get back home, ruined. Now how am I supposed to save my time?)"

As Silver walked through the city, he passed by the ice cream shop. When he did, he noticed Rarity was sitting in a booth alone. She had ordered a large vanilla sundae but she was barely eating it as she touched it with her spoon. She seemed kind of down.

"Rarity?" She heard Silver say as she looked up to see him entering the ice cream shop.

" Silver. How was your experiment?" She asked in a dull tone as Silver sat down across from her.

"It was a failure." Silver replied in an equally dull one.

Hearing this caught Rarity's attention as her expression changed.

"Really?!" She said as her mood was improved slightly. However, when she saw the look on Silver's face, she started to feel guilty for feeling that way. She remembered how eager he was to go back to the future.

"Oh, Silver, I'm sorry." She told him.

"It's just that...I have to save my time. If I can't get back, then what can do?" Silver said as he rested his arms on the table.

"Silver, I know you feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Well, maybe it is...but, you don't have to go through this alone, remember. The others and I are here to help you. We're your friends." Rarity said.

Silver looked up to see the sincerity in Rarity's eyes. As he did, he thought over Dr. Hooves words.

"With time, there's always a reason."

With that in mind, Silver's mood began to change. He managed to make a small smile.

"You know what? Maybe I've been looking at this the wrong way. What if there's a reason for me to be here in the past? What if me being here is how I save my future?"Silver pondered out loud, gaining a new sense of optimism.

"What makes you think that?" Rarity asked.

"Some wise words from a friend. Silver answered.

His eyes then landed on Rarity's sundae.

"Are you going to eat that?" He said quizzically, making Rarity defensively pull away her desert.

"Of course! If you want one, you're going to have to order your own." Rarity replied.

Silver's smile then grew larger.

"That sounds like a good idea." He said as he reached for the menu on the table.

Comments

[sonicandmario826]

Dr.hooves is kind of a weird name now that he's human.

Really surprised Shadow gave it to him so easily. I would think he would be at least skeptical of the doctor.

It's always nice to see Twilight geek out about something and it was nice to see her and Silver use their powers to save the day.

I wonder if those dark arms are related to Time Eater in any way?

[SonicAKG]

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Eh, all EQG characters keep their names.

Well, I was writing that Shadow trust Silver at least.

Actually, those dark arms were based off an issue from Sonic Universe, the Silver Age, in the Genesis Portals.

[kinghearts]

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Ah the Silver Age...that was good