-Chapter I- Revolutionary Journey

-The Revolution Base, Skyrim

-December 14, 2012

-7:00 A.M.

-Twilight

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Nick asked as he and Twilight walked across the halls of the Revolution Base. "I mean, traveling across time is kind of a...dangerous sorta thing, isn't it?"

"Well, it can be," she replied coolly to the human walking alongside her, "but with Princess Celestia's magic, I should be able to reach some point in time when Sapphire lived, and we could learn why Dusk Shine is out to kill you."

"What significance does Princess Celestia's magic have?" he asked curiously. They turned the corner to pass by Cloud, the muscular, blond, powerful warrior of Midgar, and Link, the quick, intelligent, lithe hero of Hyrule.

"Hey Nick," Link said with a wave of his hand, his green tunic rippling over his movement as he took his attention away from the conversation he and Cloud were having.

"Hey guys," Nick quickly replied. "But seriously," he said, turning back to the purple alicorn.

"Princess Celestia revolutionized magic by using science to conduct spells," she explained, "I will alter the Lifestream and move the timeline around me, sending me either forward or backwards in time."

"That sounds kinda familiar, actually," he stopped suddenly, holding his hand to his chin. "Wait, won't that, like, completely sap your magic?"

"No, not really. I just need to make sure I'm careful about when I choose to emerge from the Lifestream. Plus, I need to use a sort of magic safety cushion."

"You sure you won't run out of magic while doing this...time traveling thing?" Nick asked.

"Nick, I'll be fine!" she said sternly, stopping and turning to face him, her purple-eyed gaze meeting his unusually bright-blue eyes behind a few stray brown hairs, "quit worrying about me, I'm a princess!" she reassured him.

"I don't exactly see how that'll help anything," he retorted with doubtful look.

"I say let's go for it," Saria said as she walked up from behind the two, her bright-orange hair thrown over her shoulder. "I mean, maybe finding out what happened between Sapphire and Dusk Shine will shed some light on what's going on, and we could find a way to either reverse it or find a way to find a peaceful solution to this all," she explained, placing her hands on her toxophilite's belt.

"She's nearly killed me two or three times, reawakened King Binary, used the Alicorn Amulet to nearly destroy Twilight, and is probably still got plenty of other tricks up her pony sleeve to kill me, and, in extension, Sapphire!" Nick retorted with a flare of anger as he tightened his fists. "I don't want to lose someone because of her!"

"Which is exactly why we are trying to get rid of at least one threat," Twilight explained.

"I still say it's way too dangerous for you to go."

"Oh, please," Saria said as she rolled her deep-blue eyes irritably, "she'll be fine."

"What's with you?" Nick asked.

"Nothing," she stated firmly, "Now come on, let's do this," she pushed aside Twilight and walked even faster forward.

"What is with her?" Twilight asked irritably before sighing, "all right, let's get this over with."

"Are you ready, Twilight?" Tails, the youthful, yellow fox asked as he pressed some keys on his control panel in the Revolution's R&D Research Lab.

"As ready as I'll ever be, I guess," she replied with a simple shrug.

"Okay," he flew down to her from his panel using his two tails to recalibrate the large machine that surrounded her, "now, this machine with create a field that will remain on until you return, which should be like a second or two for us."

"I take it the field is to keep me tethered to the present as I wander around the past?"

"Exactly," he said with a reassuring smile, "so that way if you do run out of magic by traveling to the past, we can still pull you back."

"I still think I should go instead," Nick debated from the other side of the room with Saria at his side. "Maybe I can do something? After all, we're both Power Keepers, right?"

"Nick, you can't use magic at all, what makes you think you can pull this off?" Tails asked as he flew back up to his control panel.

"Maybe I can't, but Sapphire can."

"You're not using the Dark Guardian, especially with what happened with Wilfre," Saria scolded.

Nick rolled his eyes before giving his response, "fine...although Wilfre is kind of corrupt, while Sapphire was supposed to be all pure and whatnot,"

"Supposed to be," Twilight reminded him. "We're not exactly sure what she was like."

Nick looked down at his feet and crossed his arms without another word.

"All right, ready?" Tails called down to the alicorn.

"Wait," Saria said just before Twilight could respond. She walked up to Twilight with a regretful expression. "I'm sorry," she whispered.

Twilight smiled, seeing that her friend was still herself after all. "It's all right, I just want to know what's going on."

"I'll tell you later. But, um...good luck," she said with a reassuring smile.

Twilight returned the smile happily, "thank you, Saria." she waited for Saria to return to a safe distance before looking back up to Tails, awaiting patiently for her word. "Ready when you are," Twilight called.

The last thing Twilight saw before the world around her evaporated from existence around her was Tails pulling down a large lever that connected his panel to the machine. A loud roaring sound resounded all about the room before a large spark flew across the cables and a bright light flashed before her eyes. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in a small, unfurnished room with nothing but a small bed and a bright-blue Crystal Pony before her, startled as she sat up from the bed and stared at her with large, fearful eyes.