Part 3: Rooting the Bloody Apple Acres: Chapter 2

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[Sweetie Belle's POV]

We were all just relaxing in Twilight's library, enjoying the peace and quiet as she and young Spike tried to get as much information as they could about time travel, when a certain four ponies appeared right in the middle of the room.

To our credit, we barely even flinched while Twilight and Spike both yelled in surprise.

We all looked at the group that we were half expecting to appear as they slowly stood on their hooves... and feet if you focus on the draconequu.

"Well," Flurry said with an eyeroll, making us all snicker softly. "It's about time you all showed up."

"Hey!" Discord huffed as he flexed his wings, probably stiff from the hard landing. "Do you know how hard it is to navigate a time stream to an altered timeline, hmmm?"

"Nope," Absentia said bluntly. "Mainly because we were a bit too busy doing the altering?"

"Don't you... dare start, Discord," Trixie cut him off before he could even think of responding to her quip. "We just... travelled through... time and... I need... a moment... to recover." She proceeded collapse on the floor, covering her head and blocking everypony out as she tried to get her bearings.

"Well," Starlight said, removing her hood. "At least we just proved that travelling to a separate timestream is possible." She looked around at all of us, sighing softly to herself, before being unceremoniously tackled by a certain dragon.

"Starlight!" our version of Spike smiled as he squeezed her, most probably smashing her lungs. I winced as Apple Bloom shook her head, all of us imagining the feeling.

"Sp... ike," Starlight managed between gulps of air. "It's... great to... see you... but I... can't... breathe...," she gasped for air as Spike released her, a little red in the cheeks.

"Well," she panted slightly, but she recovered and continued. "From what I've seen so far, you guys are doing great. Two down and four more to go. So, which one did you guys decide to do next?"

"Apples," I said hesitantly, watching Apple Bloom whom had spaced out... again.

"Is Apple Bloom okay?" Thorax slowly walked up to her, watching as she got paler. "She doesn't look too good. Uhhhhh, Bloom," he tapped her on the shoulder, making her jump and nearly nailed him in the face with her hoof. She blushed as Thorax backed away quickly, not willing to test his luck twice.

"Ah-ahm alrigh', " Apple Bloom managed to squeak out, a light tint of red was present on her muzzle until she started to sink back into her thoughts. I slowly made my way towards her and patted her on the back gently. She stiffened for a moment before turning to me with a guilty look.

"Friendly reminder that Sco-Abs," I amended before continuing. "And I are your friends and you can talk to us about whatever's bothering you, okay?"

"Yeah," she smiled slightly before looking at me. "Thanks. Ah really appreciate it."

We both turned to see Twilight trying to make sense of everypony and plying Starlight with questions.

We both turned to see Twilight trying to make sense of everypony and plying Starlight with questions

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