"So Spike, what's on the schedule for today?" Twilight asked walking next to him.
"Not much. You have Royal Court in a few hours, other than that, nothing." Spike answered.
"Well I guess today is going to be pretty easy." Twilight said before her cutie mark and Spikes scales started to glow. "We're being called by the map Spike!" Twilight cheered excitedly.
"It's been awhile sense the last time you guys have been called." Spike said.
With a pop Twilight teleported them. "Okay, so where are we going?" She asked.
"It looks like The Castle of the Two Sisters, who would need help there?" Spike wondered.
"Could the Tree of Harmony need us for something?" Twilight asked.
"Well It's not exactly the "Tree" of Harmony any more, but ether way we should see." Spike said.
"You're right, we should go check." Twilight said before teleporting them to the castle.
"Good, you are here." The Tree of Harmony said in its sparkly version of Twilight.
"Are you the Tree of Harmony?" Twilight asked.
"Yes, but there is a reason I have called you both here." It answered. "I have received a recording sent from the future to you."
"You received a message from the future? How?" Asked Twilight.
"Spike from that time was using the fragments of the elements to send it. Such as you could still use the elements, so can I."
"So, what's the message?" Spike asked.
"I will play it for you now."
"I hope this is working. This is Spike, hopefully sending this to Twilight and my past self using what's left of the Elements of Harmony and the energy from the Gardens of Equestria. I'm recording this 200 years after The Great War with the zebras. I don't know whether I should say if we won or lost, because truly we all lost. During The Last Day when the Megaspells dropped everything ended. Equestria is a wasteland now. Ponies that were able to make it into one of the Stables are lucky. I've been hacking Sprite-Bots to survey the wasteland undetected. The ones that didn't make it either died from the explosion, died from the radiation, turned into zombie ponies or became ghoul ponies (basically zombies with a soul or living zombies). If ponies happened to live past, they either had to scavenge, or kill and then scavenge the pony they just killed and make sure whatever isn't radioactive. Without any order the wasteland became violent, with raiders and slavers while others are just trying to survive. I still try to figure out why the Ministry of Peace would release the schematics of the Megaspells to the zebras. That was the dumbest thing anypony in the history of even before Equestria has ever done. Even dumber then when Discord was pretending to be Grogar and tried to boost Twilight's confidence by having Sombra, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow and Tirek to attack her. I hope you all made it into one of the Stables before the apocalypse happened. Twilight I hope you get this and try to prevent this war and future from happening."
"That is the end of the message." Said The Tree of Harmony.
Twilight had a shocked look on her face while Spike was more worried.
"Twilight?" Spike said shaking Twilight.
"What do we do?" Twilight asked worried.
"Only you can choose how to prevent this future or not." The tree said before disappearing.
After the hole thing with the Tree of Harmony, Spike, the future, the Great War, the Megaspells, and the Last Day, Twilight could not focus on anything aside from Future Spike's warning. That night Twilight couldn't sleep, she kept having nightmares.
The next morning, Twilight spent the whole time modifying the mirror portal. "Twilight I really think this is a bad Idea." Spike said cautiously. "You've already messed with time travel more than once."
"First Spike we've only been to the past never the future and if I can figure out what starts the war I can prevent it." she answered.
"But we already know that it's coming, if we know that can't we just keep an eye out?" Spike asked.
"That's not good enough Spike. And this is the only way." Twilight said.
"But what if something goes wrong? You just became the new ruler, and if something does go wrong and the war still happens we'll need you." said Spike.
"Don't worry, I'll be back." she said before turning and walking through the portal.
Twilight woke up on a strange stone ruin in the air. "where am I?" she wondered looking around. She attempted to fly to take a look around but couldn't. "My wings their not working!" Twilight said worriedly. "Okay, calm down, there has to be a reason why I can't fly." she said more calmly now.
Twilight decided to look around and saw a big stone door with two strange looking dragons on each side. She tried to open it but it was looked. "There has to be a key somewhere." All Twilight was able to find were two things that looked like tongues that belong to the stone dragons and a lighter.
Twilight put both tongues in the dragons mouths. Twilight heard a click when she placed them in. She then tried to open the door again and amazingly it was unlocked.
Twilight went inside and all she found was a ladder leading down. "It's so dark, I can't see." she said. Twilight tried to use magic so she could see but couldn't. "I can't use magic ether! But how I was able to levitate?" Then Twilight noticed she still had the lighter. She looked around squinting her eyes and saw a something on the wall with a plate and a candle in it. Twilight lit the candle making it brighter and continued down.
When Twilight reached the bottom there were two doors. She took the right and couldn't see, there was another candle and Twilight used the lighter again. There was another, every time Twilight got close the spears would jutting out. Twilight couldn't teleport ether. She took another ladder and found something that looked to be broken. "Well this doesn't seem to work." She decided to go back up and check the other door on the left.
What she was almost the same, she thought. But when she went down there was another door and the thing that was broke wasn't here. Twilight pushed the stone block down and heard a click. She went back up to check the door with spikes on this side, the didn't move when she got close.
Twilight entered it and saw a stone cube on a pedestal with three symbols on it. All were mostly the aside from the position. and a symbol on the wall that looked like some kind of bug with wings, She decided to leave it for now and check what was though that other door.
"Why aren't any of these rooms lit." Twilight said annoyed. She saw the same symbol of the bug when she had light an another ladder. Going down she had to light again. There seemed to be three doors covered big stone slabs but next to them was a carving of the same three symbols. "I think I get it, if I rotate that cube and face the symbols to the one on the wall one of these doors should open." Doing that worked. Each room had a golden statue on the wall with one of those bugs and a red jewel.
While exiting the third room Twilight saw a stone slab by the door. She took the slab and headed back up to the door with spikes that is broken. She placed the slab against the spears. Twilight crouched down and crawled through the door, the slab preventing the bottom two spears from moving.
Inside there were three stone pedestals with a basenji on top. Each of the pedestals had an insertion of the three jewels. When she placed the first jewel in it lifted i the air. "Interesting." she thought before placing the other two.
When the last jewel was inserted it revealed a ladder. When she went down Twilight didn't know what she was seeing. Inside was a glowing green crystal floating in the middle of the room. Twilight reached out and touched it. After that everything went dark aside from the glowing crystal.
Twilight heard a voice.
"You have collected the ancient crystal of wisdom." "Wisdom gives you endless power to find your own path in life." "May it serve you well."
When Twilight woke up, she noticed she wasn't in the same place she last was. "Hah, where am I now?" Twilight asked looking around. "What's this? she said looking at a strange rusty machine with three numbers. Pressing the button it started to do something before parts broke off. Twilight sighed.
Continuing to look around the small room she noticed three glyphs. Twilight translated them as Greeting, Box, and Air. She couldn't do anything with the Greeting Glyph, but when she touched the Box Glyph it opened and revealed a stone plate with another glyph on it that read Autumn. Twilight them tried the Air Glyph, and in doing so opened a passage. Entering it she found a Jadeite before going down.
Exiting she began again to try and find a way out and prevent the future. "Why do I have this feeling that I should have listened to Spike." she thought. "No! I can't think like that, this is going to work, it has to if I can get out of here."
On the corner of a wall there was a big stone pony head with a slot in the wall next to it. On the other side She found what looked like some kind of handle. There was something on the wall that the handle was leaning against. Squinting her eyes Twilight noticed something off. Using her levitation magic that seemed to be the only magic she can do here, she grabbed another plate from the wall, this one with the symbol of Winter. "Winter, so I'm guessing there are probably two more of these."
Twilight not knowing what to do next tried potting the handle in the slot on the wall. It worked and on the other side of the room the floor opened. Twilight went down and grabbed a wooden stick that was just leaning against the wall.
Going the next room she grabbed a wooden bowl that was on the wall. There also seemed to something sticking up inside the wall. Twilight tried pressings it down but didn't seem to do anything. "Maybe if I put the bowl on it." It didn't work.
On the other side of the room Twilight found more glyphs that read "Air, wind and fire dig through the sand." she read before entering the next room.
Each room was mostly the same. Twilight pressed the square o the wall and it turned to reveal a glyph that read Wind. Twilight went back to that other room to reread what the order was. "Air, wind and fire." she read before going back and passing the square again that turned to reveal a different glyph that read Fire. She pressed it again that now read Sand. Twilight tried again and it spun to now read Air. "Finally." she said before going in the other two rooms to repeat the prosses with Wind and Fire.
In the second room there was another Jadeite and in the third room there was another Box Glyph. Twilight pressed it and it opened like the other one, only this one had a round stone. Twilight headed back and saw that a new floor opened.
Going down the ladder, Twilight found another Jadeite, and on the wall was a outline that looked kinda like the wooden stick she found and a hole under it that seemed to be able to fit it. Twilight took the stick and stuck it in the hole. After doing that it revealed a Topaz.
When Twilight reached the bottom there were more of those spears from the other location. Twilight looked down past the spears, there wasn't a floor. "Well, I can't go that way anyway sense I can't fly." she said before walking the opposite direction.
She found another Jadeite. "How many of these are there?" she said before she noticed a rope above her. Twilight tried to pull it down but it wouldn't budge. Continuing to walk there was a stone statue on the wall with three glyph under it, a Water Glyph a Drink Glyph and one that read ( Refutation - Denial - Rejection ).
Continuing, on the wall was a pony face and a wheel with more spears blocking the way. "More spears." Twilight groaned. Calming down examined the wheel. "Okay, now what does this do?" She asked spinning it. After turning it sand spilled out of the pony's mouth. Thinking Twilight held the bowl under it and filled it with sand.
Returning upstairs she and tried using the bowl again now that it was heavier. Twilight was feeling optimistic. She placed the bowl but it didn't work. It wasn't heavy enough. "Grrr." She growled. Heading back down to refill the sand Twilght suddenly shopped at the statues with the three glyphs. Twilight facehoofed. "I'm and Idiot." She said.
Refilling the bowl she poured it in the cup that the statue had. She heard and saw that there is now a rope she can climb.
