Twilight landed with a soft thud on the lush grass. She proceeded to remain motionless on said grass for several minutes, before deciding that she had spent enough time unconscious to make a point in her relatively small drop.
Besides, she did just travel four years into the past, right?
The mare quickly spun around, taking in what was supposed to be the view of a pleasant day in Ponyville. The problem is, there is no Ponyville. Or really, for the matter, an Equestria, either.
But she didn't know that. All Twilight knew was that perhaps, she had traveled a bit too far in the past, maybe... just a year or two before the founding of Ponyville? Either way, she was now blankly staring into the sky.
Would you just shut up, already? I can hear you, y'know.
...
...
In short, the narrator was never heard from again, aside from the note below. Something about not being paid enough to narrate beyond the fourth wall.
Note: From here on, it'll be first-person. Otherwise, give me an immediate raise.
-Mister Sir Narrator Guy Jr. (Definitely doesn't have Morgan Freeman's voice.)
Well then. Aside from that booming voice from the sky, I'll pretend that that never happened. Now, where am I...
I reached into my saddlebag for the scroll I had recovered. I happened upon it when I was working with the time travel spell I had used before, of which turned out with a disastrous outcome. I began rummaging through the bag after noticing the lack of any scroll-shaped object. I proceeded to turn the bag over, shaking vigorously in hopes for any loose papers resembling a scroll to float out.
Unfortunately, the scroll just wasn't there.
My mind went into overdrive.
What happened to it? Did a stray gust of wind blow it away? Did I drop it without noticing? Did that voice in the sky take it?
Now, I didn't actually ask myself if some voice in the air took it, 'cause I highly doubt that it would have the physical capability to reach down and grab the scroll.
Anyhow, the scroll was lost. I was trapped. Trapped in... whenever I happened to be taken to. I must've read something wrong...
I guess time travel back to the present isn't an option anymore. I'll just have to find another way. And maybe also find somewhere to stay during the time I work on my own time travel spell, as it'll likely take quite a while to complete.
I'd have to ask myself, though, where the buck am I? If I've really traveled only four years into the past, then what happened to Ponyville? Did I somehow manage to find another one of those alternate universes created during my battle with Starlight Glimmer?
Those questions continued to swirl about in my mind as I took to the air, hoping to find any signs of civilization. That 's when I saw it in the corner of my eye: Ponies. They looked rather odd at first, but I just left it with the reason that I was far away, allowing for atmospheric distortion of the image, but as I flew closer to the ponies, I realized that they were, so to say, different.
So different, in fact, that they appear to have more of a resemblance to the horses in the human world, than any modern pony I've ever seen. They were gathered in a small semicircle around what appeared to be a large, red gem. On top of that, they seemed to be singing in worship of said gem. I'm starting to wonder if I really have gone too far into the past, if I'm seeing rituals such as this.
I watched in the distance, when I noticed that up high, on a cliff, were two human-like figures. From up here, they both appear to be female, and-- lemme just get this written down... there! So, two of what appear to be humans, both of which are female. And they seem to be... reading a book?
Hovering mildly closer out of curiosity, I made sure to cast myself a cloaking spell for safe measure. Up close, the two humans, or at least, what I think are humans, were reading out of some sort of spell-dictionary. And from what I read over their shoulders, it contained the most basic of spells that I could imagine. That is, until they flipped to an excerpt on artificially triggering a landslide.
They were trying to kill the poor things!
It was already too late to prevent them from casting the spell, so instead, after they initially triggered it, I slowed the fall of the rocks using a minor anti-gravity spell. Why didn't I simply catch them all with my levitation? Simple, they tossed down the equivalent of a large hill worth of rocks. It would be far too much for even Celestia to manage, considering how both she and Luna failed to even prevent a storm in the Crystal Empire, though "storm" was more like "apocalyptic blizzard". Either way, that was snow. This was rock. I wasn't going to take any chances.
Luckily for the (somewhat primitive) ponies, nopony was hurt. As for me, I dropped my spell, and scampered off into hiding. I didn't want to risk changing the past more than saving a couple of lives, as I still didn't know whether or not I had happened upon an alternate universe. I'm just hoping that I haven't changed the present too much with saving those ponies.
For shelter, I stumbled upon a small cave surrounded by several large trees, which would serve excellently for camouflage. The cave itself was fairly small, but still larger than the Golden Oak Library, so naturally, I began setting up shop. I started out by carving a crude table from the soft limestone walls. Next, I began gathering soft materials for what hopefully would feel like a bed. I continued onwards, recalling tips and various excerpts of information from wilderness survival guides, until I found myself standing in front of a fully-functional wilderness shelter.
Now then, for my next concern; food.
Okay, not bad. Nice touch with that Author's Note.
Your italicizing triggers me, though.
That's not a bad thing, but it is a thing;
my eyes flew onto the page and I was like woah. Fancy.
(It'd also be the end and proof of dimension-hopping if TS were to run into Twilight.)
7704968 That's the entire point. Twilight Sparkle will eventually meet Twilight from Generation 1, who has an uncanny resemblance to Twilight Velvet.
7704984
Bahah, too good. You've been thinking too good.
Keep going, TMT. Any further and you might uncover the meaning of life,
earth might implode, and we will find ourselves in another dimension.
But I will still be triggered in that new dimension. Tracked
I'd be surprised if Derpy was somehow related to G1 Applejack.
7705022 *Universe merges with MLP universe*
*Ponies start invading earth*
7705067 idunno.
I always like a story where the Mane Six meet Megan.
So... the G1 ponies are quite literally more primitive ponies?
...
Cool.
If they are remotely like what I've seen from G1, then I suspect Twilight is going to engineer the FEV virus within about a month, two tops and force them to evolve into modern ponies much faster than nature ever intended.
Unless this is a closed time loop, in which case Twilight already did that, got worshipped as a goddess of creation figure for uplifting the ponies, and then went into hibernation or stasis until such a time as she could resume her place in modern Equestria after her future self traveled back in time, thereby completing the loop without any unfortunate paradoxes.
Although, you can really have some fun with this. Between dealing with the G1ness of the setting, you could also have a bit of fun with some villains that made their initial appearances-such as a young Tirek, Grogar (who I always love to see as being one of the most evil beings in existence who should never be underestimated), and just general insanity Twilight's going to get from being cut off from literally everyone that she has ever loved.
Also, kind of hoping that Twilight inadvertently creates Discord here. Maybe she absolutely looses it in this land and needs something to turn things on their heads, because anything is better than dealing with these primitive ponies.
Eh, I don't know. Point is, there's a lot of potential here and you're off to a pretty good and humorous start, and I'd love to see where you take this.
7705171 Don't forget the Smooze! Everyone loves a bit of Smooze, right?
So, Twilight just thwarted Draggle and Geselda, though it didn't really need a lot of effort. I can only wonder what her reaction will be when she learns about Tirek and the Smooze from this time period. Oh, and I'm betting meeting G1 Spike will throw her for a loop!
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7705186 Just wait 'till she meets gen 1 Applejack and gen 1 Twilight.
7705178 Of course.
You know, now that I think about it, the Smooze is fucking horrifying. It's capable of resisting the Rainbow Laser of Doom when even powerhouses like Tirek in his final form can't, it can grow to gargantuan sizes, destroys pristine landscapes and leaves wastelands behind (so food supplies are destroyed and survivors will have little food as famine sets in), and can even morph normally caring beings into being apathetic and wrathful towards one another. This thing fits more into HP.. Lovecraft than it does a very clearly designed for young kids show.
Which is just weird. G4 was designed with the intention to be bearable to watch by everyone and has genuine humor and likeable characters, in addition to the occasional genuinely intimidating and honestly pretty awesome villains. G1? To my knowledge, it needed to be kid friendly, and yet they created this abomination.
7705214 Gen 5:
Let's take all of Gen 1 here, and crush it into Gen 4, and then sprinkle in some more cross-references with... ooh, Deadpool!
7705220 You know what would help with that in your story?
Twilight unleashing her version of the FEV upon the world. Come on. You know you want this to happen.
Oh, by the way. Figured out why the Smooze reminded me of Lovecraft. It strongly resembles a shoggoth from H.P. Lovecraft's work, which have almost the same damn form and overall abilities, except the Smooze is even worse (it can influence and warp minds).
7705233
I can end off the story with the virus, which sends the ponies on a rapid evolution spree into Gen 4, since gen 2, 3, and 3.5 were (relatively) short.
I actually like generation 1.
7705302 :P
i should probably watch g1 before i read this fic. *starts watching* its not that bad actually. *continues watching* my ears, my ears!!!! *dies from the seapony's song... comes back to life continues watching* not counting the deus ex machina ear murder that is the seapony song, its not that bad.
7705392
SEA PONIES ARE LOVE
SEA PONIES ARE LIFE
7705465
7705392 SEAPONY.
Not bad for an Intro I hope you are putting some side chapters that takes effect to the present Equestria
7705475 I'm planning on keeping it as close to canon as possible, but sure, I can do side chapters.
7705465 are you insane?! cuz i am.
7705471 aaaaah!!! do not speak the evil ones name!!!! you will invoke its wrath!!!! *seapony song starts playing* nooo!!! you have invoked its wrath!!!!! the end is upon us!!!!
7705523
You know the Sirens are sea ponies, right?
7705539 Aw, snap.
7705539
7705552 uh, um, i have a really good reply to that... i just havent thought of it yet. sonata is best siren. tacos 4 life. *starts singing "its raining tacos"* what was i doing? oh, right, i meant g1 seaponies, and g4 is different. sonata is best siren. tacos 4 life. im getting deja vu now, wonder why.
7705568 Sonata meets seaponies.
7705570 i see her as taking one as a pet and feeding it tacos. that could be a what if chapter.
7705591 ooohhh...
7705593 *smiles*
I'm intrigued but where's Spike? He was with Twilight too, y'know.
7705914 Twilight SPARKLE hasn't notices him yet, nor has she noticed the gen-1 twilight.
7706300 I think you'er taking about gen 1 spike
and their asking about the spike that was time traveling with twilight
Oh. Twilight didn't take him with herself this time. He's on break.
7707117 Look at my comment below.
7705186 Shh, don't tell anyone about Spike. He's actually cursed with eternal youth and is several times older than Celestia.
7704984 Fortunately/Unfortunately, most of the G1 characters that were copied in G4 only appear in a single episode.
7707644 Just wait...
You really have a problem with overpronouncing random things here. It sounds weird.
7707938 In real life, I have a pretty bad speech impediment. At least it's better than that.
7707943
Still something to work on. I understand the point, it's trying to make the written statement sound the way you hear it in your head, but overemphasizing can be as bad as underemphasizing.
7707949 I guess I ended up with that sort of problem without noticing then. I've been self-editing for the past half a year, mainly because the people who used to edit for me kinda abandoned me after a week or two.
7709654 No, I just spew words onto a page and pluck out the cringy parts with tweezers.
Okay... this has my attention. :D
7709691 GRAB ALL THE ATTENTION!!!
7709654 Oh yes; not the entire thing just yet (I have a bad habit of skipping around in chapters), but enough to know that it's awesome! I actually have it in one of my libraries in fact.
This looks interesting, very much so, hohoho.
wait, was that the Fallout Looking One?