From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity
Dr. Crusher rushed over to Captain Raymond, who was lying on the floor with a gaping hole in his stomach. Not that it was necessary, but she scanned him quickly and shook her head, confirming he was gone.
Another blast rippled outward in a shockwave.
“I said, get down!” the voice rang out again.
From the brush brandishing two massive guns, Q emerged, firing off into the jungle.
“Q!” Picard screamed. “I should have known. What is your game now? You’ve just killed one of the best captains in Starfleet!”
“Captain, I’d love to argue,” another explosion thundered much closer to their position, “but as you can see, I’m a little busy at the moment. For now, just try not to die.”
Picard was outraged. Just what did he mean, ‘try not to die’?
The answer came in the form of a tree blasting apart right on top of them. Everyone jumped away from the crash as Q resumed his firing.
“Take that you cowards!” he shouted out.
Twilight and her friends were terrified. They’d never heard explosions like that before. They ran for cover hiding from whatever was happening; all except for Pinkie Pie, who was too curious now to be afraid.
Twilight counted her friends and quickly realized one was missing. She peered over a fallen trunk only to find the most impossible, absurd sight she had ever encountered.
Pinkie Pie’s body was trying to balance itself, standing on its own head.
“Ha ha ha! This is super-incredibly fun! Twilight! You’ve got to try it!”
The synapses in Twilight’s brain snapped. It just wasn’t possible! Pinkie had done many strange things from time to time. She sometimes appeared to pull objects from out of nowhere, managed to chase down Rainbow Dash with no wings, and of course she had her Pinkie-Sense that somehow predicted imminent events before they happened. But she had never seen Pinkie pull off her own head, place it on the ground and stand on top of it. No sir!
Pinkie started performing a dance routine on her head, concluding with a graceful leap, launching her head into the air with her hind leg, and catching it on her shoulders.
“Twilight! Did you see that!?”
Twilight jumped from behind the log and grabbed Pinkie by the arm. “I don’t know what you just did, Pinkie, but we need to hide. You saw Human-Discord. You heard the explosions.”
As if to add to her point, another explosion burst through the trees, shattering a group of them to splinters.
Captain Picard and the other Enterprise officers, meanwhile, were trying to fight in a battle they knew nothing about, with no phasers to actually fight with.
“Q! Answer me! What is going on here!?”
Q was nowhere to be seen, but he no longer needed to answer. The brush several hundred meters ahead of them had given way, providing them a clear view for Picard and the others to see. Several Borg drones were advancing on their position.
“How about some weapons, Q!” he called out.
All of them were instantly equipped with weapons in their arms from all across the galaxy. Many, they had never even seen before, let alone knew how to use them.
“I can’t promise they’ll do you any good!” Q called out, conjuring up an unusual looking cannon in his arms and firing directly at the drones.
Picard could see the impact. The drones’ personal shields did a lot more than merely absorb the blast. They transformed the energy into the shapes of missiles, growing straight out of their chests. At once the energy field was fired off back at them.
They jumped away just in time for the energy to impact the ground, sending dirt flying into the air.
“That’s new.” Geordi commented.
The Borg drones continued their march, now nearing to within fifty meters. One of them raised their arm and allowed their assimilation tubes to reach out into the open air. Clouds of spores began pouring out the ends of the tubes and soared off in their direction like a swarm of locusts.
“No!” Q shouted, realizing what was happening. Before he could respond, Pinkie Pie, in a second act of defiance for physics, expanded her own body into a giant trampoline. The cloud of air-travel ready Borg nanoprobes bounced off her skin, somehow unable to penetrate. They flew off in random directions away from the group.
“Way to go, Pinkie Pie!” Q shouted, entirely out-of-character. He waved his arm and the cloud of spores vanished. “I’m almost done, everyone. Hang on!”
“Almost done with what, Q?” Picard screamed, firing his own weapon, which appeared to be a handheld cannon that fired millions of metal projectiles that ignited on impact. But its effect appeared to be little more than fire crackers popping against the Borg’s shields.
“Just one more second.”
The Borg had reached their position. And in addition to this first wave, the drones had a lot more friends; an endless army of millions of drones were marching across the land in a synchronized horde.
Pinkie’s tail started shaking violently.
“Twitcha-twitch!” Pinkie cried.
Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash all looked at each other, then looked up.
A volley of green energy burst high into one of the tree trunks lobbing the top twenty feet off of it.
“Twitcha-Twitch!” Pinkie repeated.
They made a run for it, but the tree knocked over another tree and it was impossible to escape. They clenched their eyes shut as the trunk fell right above the heads.
A brilliant flash of light burst straight through their tightly closed eyelids. When the trunk hadn’t killed them, one by one, they opened their eyes staring out into oblivion.
Captain Picard stared all around him. He was able to see everyone and everypony floating amidst nothing but endless white space. The thought of purgatory briefly entered his mind, but he quickly dismissed it. He was still breathing, and he could feel his heart pounding against his chest. But, before Picard even had a chance to ask what was happening, the universe wrapped itself around them in a dizzying speed.
Stars whirled around them in a globe effect. It looked as though the universe was sliding over them as it reset its position. The last thing they could see was the Enterprise enveloping them inside, when it had finally stopped, they found themselves on bridge; about five feet off the ground.
*OOMF!!!*
They collapsed onto the floor as gravity took its hold on them.
“Ugh...Report,” Captain Picard ordered, while trying to get his eyes to refocus.
“You were momentarily beamed off the ship, Captain,” Data answered. “However, you were only gone for 6.38 seconds, Sir.”
“Tecumseh to Enterprise, would you care to explain why our captain was beamed off the ship and beamed back a few seconds later with a hole in his chest?”
Picard quickly replied, “There’s been an incident. Stand by and I’ll fill you all in.”
Captain Picard looked around the room. Lieutenant Commander Worf, Mr. LaForge, Dr. Crusher, and the ponies were all present and accounted for. There was an additional passenger lying on the floor as well.
“Get up, Q!” Picard barked.
Q’s seemingly unconscious body slowly morphed from its human form into that of his character persona known as ‘Discord’ to the ponies.
“Enough Q! Explain what just happened!”
Discord stirred slowly back to consciousness. He opened his eyes slowly and looked around the room.
“Did it work?” he asked, softly.
“Did what work?”
He sat up and realized the form he was in. “Thank me, I’m not human!” He carefully pulled himself up into a sitting position and looked back at the captain’s penetrating stare.
“Captain Picard,” he started off a little more formally than Picard was used to hearing from him. “Welcome to the final week of the universe!” He waved his arms in the air.
The captain had very little patience for Q’s theatrics, and it was rapidly wearing thin. “What does that mean?”
Discord sighed and looked up as though he was talking to God with his hands spread wide. “Computer, would you be kind enough as to describe the nature of the universe?”
Geordi tried to say, “The computer can’t answer a –”
“The universe is a spheroid structure 21,734 light-years in diameter,” the voice of the computer replied. On the main screen, an image of the spheroid structure was displayed.
“Captain, I’ve seen that before!” Dr. Crusher commented.
“Yes, you have, Beverly,” said Discord, as he started to stand “You’ve lived inside one for a short time. It’s a S–”
“Static Warp Bubble,” she completed. “Are you saying we’re trapped inside one right now?”
“My dear Beverly, of course not. This isn’t some little science experiment cooked up by your novice son. No, no.”
She was a little offended by his description of her son’s brilliant work so far ahead of his time, even if it had almost killed her.
“This, my dear,” he continued, “is all that is left of the entire universe.”
Picard analyzed the structure on the screen. It looked identical to the one created in Wesley Crusher’s ‘Warp-Bubble’ experiment.
“Captain,” Data chimed in. “This ‘universe’ is approximately only one-fifth the size of the Milky Way galaxy. The computer shows those stars that should appear beyond that range to no longer exist. And Sir… Earth’s solar system is outside that range. It no longer exists.”
Twilight, who was rubbing her horn after the hard landing, was trying to follow the conversation, but once again, she found herself lacking the knowledge needed. “If only I had access to a library on the ship!” she thought bitterly.
She attempted to speak up anyway: “Discord, where were we just now?"
"Why it's the same place you were once before, my dear Twilight." he explained. "You were in the Continuum."
Twilight was confused. "That didn't look like the Continuum. When I was there, there was nothing but a long road and an old building."
"What you saw was a physical representation that was drawn in such a way so you could understand it. The Continuum is a little too difficult to explain to such an underdeveloped species, suffice it to say, you see what you want to see to make sense of what you can't."
Twilight was lost and gone. She gave up asking about it and switched topics. "So, when you say the last week in the universe…what does that mean?”
The face Discord presented Twilight caused her to jump back in fear: Anger and actual terror were both spelled out across his face. Finally his head sank low.
“It’s my fault,” he muttered in barely a whisper.
“I’m sorry?”
“I said, IT’S ALL MY FAULT!!! OKAY!?”
“What is?”
“All of it, my dear Twilight…all of it.”
“Tell me what happened.”
He started to explain as though he were remembering an anecdote of an interesting story that happened to him: “Do you remember Celestia mentioning how you guys fought a war around oh say two thousand years ago, and I mentioned how I was sort of involved a bit?”
“A bit? A BIT!?” Twilight screamed. “You told me you were the one who nearly made my people extinct!”
“Well…you see…What I meant was, I may have pitted your kind against the predecessors to the Borg back then. You’d know them better as ‘Windigos’.”
All five ponies gasped.
“Q, what the devil have you done here?” Picard could feel the vein in his forehead trying to break free.”
“I was careful!” he said, defensively. I made sure that they never learned anything about ‘Pony Magic’. I separated them from the rest of their kind before I sent them to attack all of Ponykind. And their ship was destroyed, nothing but bits of harmless debris that would drift aimlessly and uselessly. I just… accidentally missed a piece, is all.”
“Missed a piece?”
“A data store from the Windigos’ ship managed to escape the wreckage intact and drift through space for over two thousand years. Unfortunately, it was a Borg ship that discovered it before we did.”
“I thought you were all powerful, all knowing, Q,” said Picard.
“I am all knowing, thank you very much,” Discord retorted back.
“Than why didn’t you see this coming and stop it?”
“I didn’t think of it.”
This was getting nowhere. “Why then, were you not able to think of it?” he asked in a slow soft manner, like he was talking to a child.
“My dear Jean-Luc. You know the ins and outs of this ship, do you not?”
“I do.”
“Then could you please tell me, why haven’t looked at the current efficiency of your warp nacelles? You are aware they’re only at 87.1 percent currently?”
“There haven’t been any reports which would indicate a–”
“Of course not!” he interrupted. “You simply didn’t think to check! Well it’s the same with the universe for me, Captain. If I can think of it, I can see it. If I didn’t think of it, I simply wouldn’t know about it.”
“Fine, moving on,” the captain pressed forward. “What happened after the Borg assimilated the data store?”
“They learned about “Magical Ponies” and came to investigate and assimilate the phenomena. Only, when they succeeded, they quickly discovered about the Continuum and launched a campaign against us. But by then, it was too late. That’s why you saw the Borg in the Continuum, Captain. You should feel honored. You were able to witness the destruction of the entire Continuum!”
Picard was still processing the information.
Q continued. “After that, without knowing how to properly control the power of the Q, the Borg unwittingly destroyed the entire universe! Fortunately, I managed to setup this warp-bubble just in time to save a small fraction of us.”
“How could you do that!?” Twilight yelled, after letting him finish his story. Tears were falling from her eyes. “How could you send such horrible creatures to murder us? And we called you our friend!”
Captain Picard thought he may have missed a step. “Friend?” he asked.
“Celestia gave him a chance to become a good creature. She summoned him through his statue and Fluttershy taught him the true value of friendship. Had Fluttershy known how much of a monster Discord really was, she would never have let him be her friend!”
Discord frowned. “Twilight, I don’t–”
“No! You lost the right to talk to me. Thanks to you, Fluttershy is now one of those horrible things!”
“Actually, Twilight…she’s not.”
Twilight wiped her eyes and stared at him. “What do you mean?”
“I mean, Fluttershy is perfectly safe in Ponyville at the moment…at least the Fluttershy in this timeline.”
Twilight started to catch on. She wiped her eyes and said, “Doesn’t that mean that there are also another Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and myself down there?”
“Indeed it does, Twilight. Now we have twice the chance of succeeding where you failed the first time.”
Twilight was confused and embittered. “How exactly did WE fail?”
“You didn’t use the Elements of Harmony to stop them before it was too late! Instead, you chickened out and escaped to the past.”
“How dare you!” Twilight screamed.
“Anyway,” he ignored her shout, “there’s still a chance to fix all of this. That’s why I brought everypony here.”
“And that is?” asked Picard.
“If we can stop the Borg before they assimilate the ability to destroy the universe, I’ll be able recreate the universe from this timeline …Also before this bubble collapses in five days.”
“Why only five days?” Rarity asked.
“This bubble was created around you and your friends’ time-jump, Miss. Rarity. If we don’t succeed, then the time loop will have ended as before and the bubble will collapse on itself.”
“Fine, let’s get to work and fix your mess,” Picard agreed, “but you had better remember well, Q. You played God one too many times, and now you have to pay for it!”
Discord did not like admitting to such a thing. “Yes, Picard,” he sighed. “For once, we are in agreement.”
“Mr. Data, inform the Tecumseh that we’ll be making for the Horse-head Nebula. Explain the situation. Have now acting Captain Hakins contact me in my Ready-Room, once he’s been briefed. Then get us to Equestria as quick as you can.”
“Aye Sir.” Data began programming all of the necessary details into his console.
“Mr. Discord!” Pinkie chimed in. She wasn’t as cheery as her usual self, but she needed to hold herself together and keep on smiling.
Discord leaned down close to Pinkie, forming his own grin with his one fang jutting out. He whispered, “Well done today, Pinkie. I knew you could do it!”
“Thanks!” Pinkie replied, “But HOW did I do all that?”
Discord mulled it over for a minute. “Perhaps it was because you were in my realm, and in my realm, anything is possible!” He winked.
Pinkie was left to imagine what that realm would be like if it weren’t filled with a bunch of grey baddies.
Looks like no winners this past week! 
As for this week, I can see the Canon trolls lurking in the corners ready to pounce when it comes to explaining the second discord episode in a way that doesn't break the flow of my original story, 
So I say that after my first story, Celestia had a statue of Discord created as a reminder to never forget that chaos watches over us. But as time passed, Celestia had an idea. Maybe it was Discord who needed to learn a lesson in friendship. She attempted to summon him through the statue they had created for him, and luckily he answered.
And that's my adaptation of MLP Canon to the best of my abilities! 
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Alright, re-creating another timeline by Q, getting Fluttershy out of the mess, meeting your doubles, fighting Borg... While I understamd how they are able to prevent the time paradox (the Doctor would most likely blow his mind in trying to understand Q's powers over time), I still have some bad feelings about there being 5 pairs of exact ponies.
But let me express myself at Q/Discord's attempts of playing god:
That´s probably Picard´s greatest victory over Q to date.
Also Pinkie has discovered the Continuum. My guess she´ll find a way to come back latter.
3035508
Wow. Nice!
3035518
Pinkie + Physics + Continuum = Pinkie-splosion!
3036022 More likely conclusion: the Continuum will be remade in the image of Pinkie Pie.
3036664
The Pink Continuum!
Certainly a novel way to adapt "Keep Calm and Flutter On" to this continuity. I imagine it wasn't quite so hectic as in canon. After all, Q has friends of a sort. Fluttershy's just the first to ask for so little in return.
I look forward to the impending ponidox. Especially if the other Twilight just sighs and asks, "Okay, what is it this time?"
3036022
I guess you could say we'd have...
Q Many Pinkie Pies.
3036727
Lol. Nice!
Two pinkies is too much physics breaking to handle for one story. Dont be surprised if your hard drive crashes lol
dam i love this i see if i can quot this right "fuck your realoty and sub-tut it with my onn" end quot and i kinder drudging for more
So discord is a daedric prince?
two pinkies? TWO Pinkie Pies.
Me> Fourth wall?
4th Wall> Yes Pegasus?
Me> Run, Run far, Run fast, maybe Pinkie 1 wont break you, maybe pinkie 2 won't break you, but together. . ."
4th Wall> "AAAAAAARGH!" *Runs screaming in terror*
Pinkie 1 & 2> Fun?funfunfun!
3041251
LOL!
crap... Pinkie plus continuum. you have destroyed us all.
Dear god, the Borg invaded the Q Continuum and without it, Q is not as omnipotent as it seemed, so in Q's realm, anything can happen. Oh dear...
Then earn it that knowledge the hard way like every other species.
eyes shut as the trunk fell right above the heads
Picard could feel the vein in his forehead trying to break free.”
1. Their.
2. Extra closing quotation mark.