Chapter 3- The Calm before the Firestorm
Questions flooded firestorms mind as he tried to decipher what little information his future self had told him, Why did everyone have to be so mysterious? It angered the young Alicorn, as he went to ponyville library, hoping to find a book on the prophecy the Alicorn imparted to him, but also to see his marefriend, Twilight Sparkle. He opened the door and twilight came up to him. "Hey sweetie" He said as he came in close to her, they rested their heads on each other, before gently kissing for a few seconds. As he pulled away, he went over to twilights office, where he found his spell lexicon, with a few runes on the floor, burnt out by magic. "What's all this?" he asked, as he flicked through the book to identify the runes. "Chronos runes" Firestorm was surprised, Chronos runes were extremely powerful, allowing a pony to manipulate age and other things besides.
"These are dangerous angel, sure they're easy to activate, but only a Chronomancer should use them" he told her as he cleaned up the burned up symbols, he then took the book and placed it into his saddle bag, she sighed, and went over to her calendar, and made another cross. It was only 23 days until her birthday, she was going to be 21, firestorm shuddered a little, remembering what the future firestorm had said, he then made an attempt to leave. "Listen sweetheart, I need to drop some herbs off at Zecora's, I might see you tomorrow yeah?" He kissed her on the cheek, and rushed out of the door, twilight was very confused, why did he just run out like that? She didn't know, but took a broom and started sweeping up the ash the runes had left behind.
As Firestorm ran through the everfree forest and towards Zecora's house, he passed the clearing where he met his future self, he sped up again and got to her door, he knocked twice and went in.
"Greetings Alicorn, do you have that which I seek?"
"Sure here are the herbs Zecora" he was about to leave when the zebra stopped him
"Something is on your mind Alicorn, what is the problem?"
"I was told, that... When a certain unicorn turns 21, she will truly realise her purpose in life, and start the wheels of the cataclysm."
"times seem bleak Alicorn, there is nothing you can do, once this event is in motion, it will only end, if it stops rolling, or you destroy it, and equestria!"
"I couldn't do that!"
"Well let it set in motion Alicorn, from there, you can attempt to dull the damage that is yet to come" and he ran out the door and to inferno mansion.
Chapter 4- It begins...
A few weeks after the events with the black Alicorn, firestorm was trying to decipher who this mysterious harbinger of destruction was, was it twilight? No, never, There isn't an echo of evil in her, besides, if there was anything that was going to happen to her, it would've begun by now, her birthday was very soon, his thoughts were shortly interrupted by Rainbow and Soarin slamming on his front door. He opened the doors and they rushed out to him, there was terror stricken across their face.
"Storm! You have to come!" Soarin was yelling at him.
"Soarin, calm down, what do you want to show me"
"You need to believe it to see it stormy" Rainbow said, with the same tone of panic as her coltfriend. So to settle the two pegasi, he followed them out into ponyvilles outskirts, where their friends had gathered around a crater, within which lie a burnt, and bleeding unicorn.
"So are we just gonna stand here? Or help her?" Firestorm asked, as he picked up the unicorn, and placed her on his back, and slowly walked back to inferno mansion.
"When did you find her?"
"Well there was a big blast, and when we went to see what it was, there she was in the crater" AJ said, firestorm frowned at them for not doing anything.
"Rainbow, can you get Ditzy and the Doctor for me?" firestorm asked her, she nodded and flew off in a flash meanwhile, rarity and pinkie attempted to try and wake up the unicorn. "Is she dead?" pinkie asked nervously
"Don't think so, she is still breathing" rarity stated, as she saw the pony's chest move in and out, slowly.
A few minutes later, the TARDIS appeared near the ponies, the doctor, ditzy and Rainbow came out the door. "Well how about that, it's bigger on the inside" the doctor mouthed as rainbow said it. "Is it? I'd never noticed, anyway what did yo- oooh, that is interesting" He said as he approached the scarred pony, he took out his sonic screwdriver, scanned her, and looked at what it told him. "Yep, pony, unicorn, 21 years ol-" "She's 21?!" firestorm cut him off, and everypony looked at him, he settled down, this cataclysm issue was going to his head "Is there anything odd about her doctor?" firestorm asked the time lord.
"Bring her onto the TARDIS, we'll patch her up and run some psyche tests" The time lord ordered the royal Alicorn and he lifted her up with her magic, and brought her into the powerful time machine.
