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Author's note: Originally posted by Anon e Mouse Jr. on 2017-12-09. This is the third of four chapters posted today.

Disney/Kingdom Hearts Loops, Chapter Twenty-Two, Part Three of Eight

22.8 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] / [Doctor Who] - also compiled in MLP Time Loops as Loop 175.4.

Gravity Falls: Friendship is Magic 8: In Which a Treasure Hunt takes place…

"AAAAAAApppplejaaaaaaack….." Rainbow Dash said, pointing at the Journal. "Don't you hate Pacifica's guts?"

"I don't hate 'er." Applejack responded. "I just want her to realize she's not queen of the world. She needs to be knocked down a few pegs."

"Then we can prove that her family is a fraud using this lead right here!" Rainbow Dash said, pointing to the Journal's page vigorously.

"I'm not out for revenge Rainbow, and I'm not in th' mood to go on a crazy treasure hunt."

"Who said it was a treasure hunt?"

"Your expression." Applejack rolled her eyes. "You can go if you want, I'm going to try and change her rather than just beat her up with embarrassing secrets."

Rainbow Dash grumbled as Applejack walked off.

"Dashie…." Pinkie said. "I'll help you!"

Rainbow Dash turned to her friend. "As long as you don't just use your Pinkie senses, Eldritch powers, Force powers, or anything else I'm not thinking of to just find it automatically. I want this to be a fun treasure hunt!"

Pinkie nodded vigorously. "Of course! TO ADVENTURE!"

The two friends left the shack to go treasure hunting…

Advisor Celestia stood up so quickly, her sister, Advisor Luna, looked concerned. "What is it?"

"Someone has found the trail." She said, peeking out of the blinds. "The Mayor is no longer in a position to protect this town's secrets…"

Luna sighed, dramatically taking the headphones off her head. "Can't we just let them get it? I've almost beat the enderdragon…"

"Your games can wait, Luna. This is a matter of national security." She squinted. "I wonder if they'll manage to lead us to it…"

"That seems silly. If we want it hidden the best thing is to not even know where it is ourselves." Luna remarked.

Celestia sighed. "We still have to find out what is going on. Come. We must find some people who look like they are investigating."

Lyra Heartstrings took out her binoculars and watched closely.

9 AM, RD and PP left the building. Left observation post to pursue. She recorded. The "observation post" was just a really densely leaved tree.

As the two walked away Lyra noted that Rainbow Dash wasn't using her wings, and Pinkie Pie wasn't… just appearing places randomly. Good. That made them easy to track.

She scribbled more notes, making yet another note to try and figure out why the regular citizens never seemed to notice (or care) about the wings… She looked at her watch, realizing she hadn't written a date down.

Huh. Was it Pioneer Day already?

This could be interesting.

Stan was driving into town. "Play it cool Stan." He kept muttering. "It's just Pioneer Day. Loop after Loop you do this, over and over. It's not that bad. It's just another stupid holiday in a stupid town…"

Fluttershy, who was in the back seat of the car, blinked. "Stan? Why are you so… tense? Do you need a massage or something?"

"NO I DO NOT NEED A - wait you can do that?"

"I've calmed down a bear with a simple wrench of their neck before."

"Huh. I can respect that." Stan frowned. "Nah, this isn't anything. This is just Pioneer Day. And I have to drive into town…"

"WHY do you have to drive into town?" Applejack asked.

Stan blinked. "Reasons." He said. "A certain ventriloquist dummy needs to be put in his place."

"Ah. Say no more." Applejack said, leaning back in the car.

Minutes later Stan was running for his life from the woodpecker that married the creepy guy (Stan wasn't even sure if he had a name). Stan had a grin on his face despite this. If he got this correct, the plan would occur seamlessly. The little Gideon twerp would be arriving shortly and would insult the bird in his presence, resulting in fake psychic boy ending up in the stocks for insulting a woodpecker!

What he wasn't expecting was to trip over Celestia.

"AUGH!" He yelled, falling over, and conveniently landing right into the stocks. "What? HEY! THIS ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!"

Celestia stood up, mud all over her nice official Advisor suit. She glared. "Stanford Filbrick Pines, how interesting."

"Look, lady." Stan said, realizing that this was someone important. He checked his loop memories. Really should start checking them in more detail soon as I Awaken… "…Advisor Celestia, can you just help me out of here? I was-" The woodpecker took that moment to hammer at his skull." OW! OW! HEY! HEY! OW! HELP ME!"

Celestia smirked. "It's Pioneer Day. Putting an innocent man in the stocks is a common occurrence." She yelled out. "HEY EVERYONE! THROW SOME TOMATOES!"

Luna came up behind her sister. "Celestia… There's no need to be cruel-"

"He knocked me over into a pig sty."

"That was the street."

"Might as well be a pig sty."

Luna sighed, looking at the now-tomato-covered Stan with sympathy. Celestia marched off, and Luna followed, planning to come back and release Stan later.

Stan grumbled. He was in the stocks. Again. He had really tried to avoid this and—

Oh no. That meant…

"Why hello there Stanford Pines!" Gideon said, walking up in a strange cowboy outfit. "I reckon you must've done something mighty nasty to get into the stocks here!" He observed the quickly emptying bowl of fruit. "Such a shame not to give you yer full experience… Howsabout we do this?" He stood up on a crate. "Ladies and gentlemen, the Tent o Telepathy is donatin' a dozen barrels of fruit for the express purpose of peltin' this here man!" Gideon began to cackle.

"I don't think so." Applejack said, stepping into the confrontation. "Y'all should just go home. This man did nothin' wrong."

"Oh but that's where you're wrong little miss Pines.' Gideon said, his eyes becoming full of hatred. "Ya see, your uncle here has been scamming this town for as long as anyone can remember!"

"Yer like, what, ten?" Applejack said. "How can you be sure 'bout that?"

"I AM PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF KNOWING THE HISTORY OF THIS TOWN THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" Gideon yelled, before calming himself down. "Now… you just be on your way and we'll complete our pelting of the sleazy scum."

"Ah… no." Applejack said, walking up to the stocks, intending to simply break them with a kick.

"You dare go against the will of the town?"

"Ain't my town." Applejack responded, readying a kick. Gideon simply pointed. "There's your target."

The fruit went flying.

"Pinkie."

"Yes, Dashie?"

"Why are you folding the ancient scroll into a paper hat?"

"It just seemed like the right thing to do!"

"Follow up question. Why is there now an obvious map on the hat?"

"Probably because whoever made this scroll wanted someone to fold it into a paper hat!"

"Pinkie. Do you have any idea how many types of paper hats there are? What are the chances that you folded the right one?"

"Almost a hundred percent. Seriously Dashie, I expected you to be more aware of plot necessity at this point."

"Yeah. Okay. I'm just going to roll with it. I think it goes to the museum. TO ADVENTURE!"

Lyra picked up her notebook and followed them. She scribbled down "Cloud Cuckoo-lander skills?" into her notebook, and created another table for "weird things Pinkie Pie does."

She followed them into the Gravity Falls Museum of History. The receptionist offered them a balloon, but Pinkie just produced several out of her Pocket and passed them out to everyone. Smiles were had and a receptionist was ticked off. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie fist bumped and continued to look at the art in the museum.

Pinkie quickly did a number of cartwheels, did one of her trademark extreme gasps, and flipped Rainbow Dash upside down. "Look! It's an angel pointing!" She said, solving the puzzle before Rainbow Dash even saw the upside down art.

Rainbow Dash blinked. "Wow. That was fast. Uh…"

Pinkie ran out, dragging Rainbow Dash with her.

"Hi Lyra! Bye Lyra!" She said, leaving Lyra a bit dumbfounded. The minty girl quickly shook her head, continuing on with her investigation of them. She wondered what they were trying to uncover…

Behind her Celestia and Luna poked their heads out from behind a statue.

"Why are we following children, sister?" Luna said, obviously annoyed with this whole extravaganza.

"Luna, you should know that children are the ones with the best ideas. The minty one is obviously investigating the other two. The other two are probably on the trail…"

"Or they could just be enjoying Pioneer Day." Luna mumbled. "Like I should be, at home, playing Super Amazing Wagon Adventure."

"…Oregon Trail?"

"Good grief, no, that's a horrid game."

Celestia rolled her eyes. "We just need to follow them."

Minutes later, Lyra was writing down most unusual and convoluted locking mechanism ever devised: hanging your nose off a statue's finger. How on earth had Pinkie thought of that?

She shrugged, watching as the two unusual siblings walked down the suddenly-visible staircase into the depths of who knows where.

Lyra followed. What she saw astounded her.

As the traps of the hallway triggered, Pinkie just started… teleporting around everywhere, seemingly without any focus at all. An arrow was about to hit her? ZIP suddenly elsewhere. Rolling boulder? NOPE on top of the boulder. Some kind of bear trap? Suddenly there's a stuffed bear in it.

Oh and Rainbow Dash took on her "harpy" form. Not as interesting.

Lyra blinked, scribbling down what she understood… and what she didn't. Then she continued on, cautiously. The two of them had triggered all the traps. Eventually she came to a chamber. Rainbow Dash was reading from a scroll.

"Let it here be recorded that Nathaniel Northwest, famous in his native Gravity Falls for standing in the park and hitting himself with a large boating oar until he blacked out, was chosen to become the patsy mayor of Gravity Falls. Northwest spoke in a series of grunts and screams and often yelled his trademark phrase: 'I am going to eat this entire oak tree because I am a powerful wizard!'

"The fabled founder of Gravity falls was, in fact a fraud. His last moments on Earth were spent choking on a giant piece of bark, attempting to live out his beautiful dream. He was hated by everyone that knew him. He will not be missed."

Rainbow Dash stopped reading. "Well, that's what we came here for. TAKE THAT PACIFICA!"

"She's not here right now Dashie. Keep reading."

"Thomas Jefferson was actually just two kids in an overcoat standing on each other's shoulders. The current and forever President of the United States is actually Santa Claus. Under the reign of Mr. Claus, America is not a democracy, but a jollyocracy. The statues at Mount Rushmore are actually gigantic presidential-faced robots that will be called into action when America needs them the enormous, evil, time-traveling baby from another dimension is frozen in an Atlantic glacier. Fortunately, glaciers never melt, so we should be fine. Writing jokes for cartoons is more important than sleep. If you recite the pledge of allegiance backwards, you'll gain secret wizard powers! (This one is true, kids! Try it at home!)"

Rainbow Dash and Lyra took a moment to pause at the sheer amount of absurdity this document contained.

"How many people do you suppose actually read all of this?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Not enough!" Pinkie said, grinning. "That's why we're reading it! For everyone!"

"For who?"

"Just keep reading."

"The true founder of Gravity Falls was: Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III, Esq." The 'harpy' blinked. "Who on earth is Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III, Esquire?"

"Exactly who you weren't supposed to find out…" Celestia said, coming out of the shadows.

Lyra yelped. She'd been followed. Crap. She should have been watching her back.

Celestia walked towards them slowly. "Now since you're here I suppose we might as well tell you what actually happened… now that you know-" She was interrupted by a series of beeps behind her. She turned around to see Luna playing on a gameboy. "Luna!"

"Gotta catch Rayquaza…"

"Ugh…" Celestia muttered, returning to the three children. "Watch this." She said, readying a reel of film.

"Actually I have a pretty good idea what you're going to show us!" Pinkie said, grinning. She took in a deep breath. "Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III Esquire was an amazing man who ended up being the eighth and a half President of the United States due to all of his opponents being crushed in a landslide and then made several amazing things like the negative twelve dollar bill and the depantsipation proclamation and appointed babies to the supreme court and fought a war against imaginary man eating spiders all the while founding a town named Gravity Falls in his crazy endeavors and grinning like a cute madman while he researched a way to immortalize himself in peanut brittle and he succeeded look over there!" Pinkie pointed at a giant block of peanut brittle with a man from pioneer times imprisoned inside.

Rainbow Dash blinked. "He looks like Han."

Lyra stared in disbelief at Pinkie, then at the block of peanut brittle, then at Rainbow Dash, then at the two Advisors. "Uh…"

"By the way…" Rainbow Dash turned to Lyra. "Why were you following us?"

"Simple curiosity, Rainbow Dash." Lyra said, smiling. "You are most interesting." She pointed at the blue girl's wings.

"Oh those. Those are normal." Rainbow Dash said, completely serious.

Pinkie giggled. "Actually they're only normal when you're a pegasus. Silly Dashie!"

Rainbow Dash shot Pinkie the death glare. "Pinkie. I thought you had fixed your keeping secrets problem."

"Yes! Yes, I did! I just thought it'd be fun to see Lyra's reaction!"

Lyra was scribbling notes profusely.

"Anyway." Celestia said, folding her arms. "We're going to crate you off to Washington D. C. and let the higher-ups deal with you."

"Crate?" Lyra asked.

Minutes later…

"Oh." Lyra said. "An actual crate."

"I think we're being loaded onto a train…" Rainbow Dash observed. "I shall save us!"

Pinkie leapt up. "How about we simply-"

"No Pinkie. I want to do something on this treasure hunt other than just follow you and your intuition around!"

"It works doesn't it?"

"It isn't really that fun."

"Oh. In that case, I won't tell you to break the peanut brittle."

Rainbow Dash face palmed. "I'm just going to get out of this a fun way." She grabbed a chainsaw from out of her Pocket and began to cut through the box.

"Luna do you hear something?" Celestia asked.

"Nope." Luna said, completely engrossed in the boss music.

Rainbow Dash lifted the chainsaw for another swipe, hitting the peanut brittle that encased Trembley. The sweet candy broke apart into a million pieces, revealing a perfectly healthy man.

"And now I shall lead us all in a daring escape!" Trembley said, grinning. He took out his president's key. "I shall unlock this crate!" He bashed the key into the wood. "Hrm… wood… my age old enemy…"

Rainbow Dash blinked. "Oh my gosh. Not another one. The Doctor was enough."

Elsewhere in the Loop, the Doctor Awoke. He felt like there was some stupid one-time-joke reason why. He hated that feeling.

Back on the train, Rainbow Dash was about to slice down the box when it simply fell apart for seemingly no reason.

Trembley shook his head. "No good. We didn't escape through the hole. Let's rebuild the box and try again."

Pinkie squealed. "I like you so much right now!"

Lyra sighed. "Can we just get off the train?"

Celestia stood in front of them. "No. No you may not. LUNA!"

Luna sighed. "What?"

"They got out."

"As I expected."

"As—wait you expected this?"

"We're obviously fitting into the "amusing villains" trope here, sister."

"What?"

"There's cake in the next car." Luna said rolling her eyes.

Celestia hesitated all of four seconds before rushing to the next car. Luna turned to the others. "Sorry about that girls. She's a bit… forward. Nobody will believe that there's an eight and a half President of the United States, anyway. And Trembley?"

"Yes?"

"Thomas Jefferson wants his salamander back."

"No. I'll never release him!"

Luna blinked. "That was not the response I was expecting… You all better go before Celestia gets back here once she realizes it was nothing but muffins from the diner. Now back to my game…"

Lyra, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Trembley all leapt off the train and mostly all hit the ground hard.

"That… that was stupid." Lyra muttered.

"IT WAS SILLY." Pinkie and Trembley said at the same time.

Rainbow Dash simply glided down to them. "Well. This has certainly been a day."

They all paused as Celestia's cries of rage rang out across the country.

"That's quite the variant of her there…" Pinkie noted.

"I think she was better than some of them. Remember that time she was basically king Sombra?"

"Oh! What about that time when…"

Lyra took this moment to slip away before they had time to question her. She'd have to be more careful. They knew about her now…

In the distance, a top secret agent stood on top of the train, watching. The agent was supposed to be watching Trembley, but she was actually watching Lyra much more closely. This just got complicated…

Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash returned to the mystery shack to find Applejack and Stan covered in bruises.

"It had to be pineapples." Applejack muttered.

Pinkie and Rainbow Dash decided not to tell her about embarrassing Pacifica with what they had found.

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22.9 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] - also compiled in MLP Time Loops as Loop 175.4 continued.

Gravity Falls: Friendship is Magic 9: There is no pig.

"Have you seen any time anomalies around here?" The very bald time traveler known as Blendin Blandin asked Twilight.

Twilight had half a mind to respond with "The entire existence of this world here is dependent on a time anomaly the likes of which you could not comprehend" but decided against it, as the official time-travel types tended to never stop with the questions. She simply responded with "aside from yourself, no."

Blendin sighed, putting his face in his hands. "I-I-I gotta find them…"

"I suppose I could help." Twilight offered. "But in order to do that I'd need to know how your time machine works."

"Your mind could not possibly comprehend this technology!"

Twilight recited an entire textbook's worth of knowledge on Quantum Mechanics in two minutes. Blendin simply stared at her in disbelief. "I... I suppose you can understand. Maybe we'll even recruit you… B-but I c-can't promise anything!"

Twilight walked up to Rainbow Dash. "I just got a portable time machine." She said, grinning.

Rainbow Dash looked up from the Journal. "Seriously? Cool! How functional is it?"

"It doesn't seem to have any location selection, only able to make sure you don't end up in space. But it measures out time for you to travel." She said, producing a tape measure. "I am now basically an apprentice time traveller to this… Blendin Blandin. We went to see the founding of the town by Mister Trembley. It was just as weird as you made it out to be." Twilight blinked. "He really did have a weird fascination with peanut brittle…"

Rainbow Dash grinned. "So now we have a time machine. What are we going to do with it?"

"Dunno." Twilight said. "Time Travel within the loops is always strange. Outside of the Doctor's loop it tends to become really easy to cause a crash… And I would ask Stan but he'd probably just swindle me or something."

"Swindle you for what?"

"That's the thing. I don't know. He's really good at getting what he wants…"

Rainbow Dash shrugged. "How about we experiment? Find a small event and change it a little. Possibly make the world a better place…"

Twilight Sparkle looked out the window at Stan's makeshift carnival that had been set up yesterday. There were obviously several rides that he kept in his Pocket, and a few Pinkie had donated. It was actually somewhat impressive. Of course the "fair" was likely absolutely crappy and lame in a true baseline. She'd ask Stan about that later. If he actually talked about the loop. Ever.

Soos ran across the fair screaming. "THE GIANT STUFFED CATERPILLARS ARE ALIVE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES EVERYONE!"

Rainbow Dash and Twilight blinked, looking out the window at the fairgrounds. Sure enough, the giant stuffed caterpillars were alive, crawling all over everything. They were destroying the fair.

Stan, of course, was nowhere to be found. As usual when all heck broke loose.

As the fair was destroyed, a lightbulb went off in Rainbow Dash's head. "Let's try to stop the caterpillars from attacking!"

Twilight shrugged. "I don't see why not. Since the time machine exists going back a day shouldn't be a problem." Shouldn't…

Twilight grabbed Rainbow Dash and pulled out the tape of the time measure, going back a few hours. They vanished in a puff of light. They re-appeared as Stan and Soos were setting up the fair.

"Ah there you two are." Stan said. "Hammer this post into the ground would you?"

Rainbow Dash narrowed her eyes. "You most certainly have a hammer in your Pocket."

"Where's the fun in that?" Stan responded, grinning. "SOOS! Give them your hammer!"

"But Mister Pines! That's my prized possession!"

"Last time it was a screwdriver."

"…Last time?"

"Nevermind." Stan said dismissively. "Now set this fair up!"

Twilight and Rainbow Dash re-set up the fair, watching out for the Live Giant Stuffed Caterpillars. They didn't have to wait long. A few hours later the fair was in full swing, and everyone was playing the games. Some were riding the double ferris wheel, and then… there was the bottle game.

Sunset was in a rage for some reason. She grabbed a tennis ball and threw it at the bottles, knocking them all down. They shattered into a million pieces, sending strange magical dust everywhere. This caused all the Giant Stuffed Caterpillars to come to life, attacking everything.

Twilight nodded, heading back in time with Rainbow Dash. She simply went to the bottle game, took the bottles, and placed them in her Pocket. No more problem. She turned to her friend, smiling. "Easy as cake."

The two walked off, so happy of themselves.

Then they heard something shatter behind them. Somehow, Sunset had managed to step on a shard of glass, causing the magic to disperse into the air. And the Caterpillars attacked again.

Twilight's eye twitched. This was going to be one of THOSE wasn't it?

"Attempt thirty-seven…" Twilight spoke into the recorder. "Bottles and all glass shards have been placed in a sealed box within Pocket. The Giant Stuffed Caterpillars have been buried underneath the volcano. I am observing both using remote trans-dimensional video surveillance. I will find out what's activating these things…"

The video feed went fuzzy, and suddenly there was a on top of her head, eating her hair in time with "It's raining tacos."

Her eye twitched.

Rainbow Dash had long ago stopped helping Twilight with the caterpillar problem, and was instead spending every time back in time embarrassing Robbie in extremely more interesting ways.

She had already gone through the classics: a whoopee cushion, sudden appearance of a dress, pants becoming really tight, hair turning a bright pink, and ice bag down the pants. She had gotten the last idea from that time they were at the convenience store. Poor Thompson.

She grinned. This time she took something Malon had invented when her branch's other Loopers weren't around to mess with her.

"Freeze-dried cucoo! Just add water!" Rainbow Dash grinned deviously, opening the pouch and pouring out the powder. She then put a single drop of water on the powder, and suddenly a full-grown white cucoo was sitting in front of her, clucking.

Rainbow Dash gently lifted the cucoo and placed it in front of Robbie's path.

"Out of my way stupid chicken!" He said, kicking it.

The swarm descended.

Rainbow Dash broke out into hysterics as Robbie ran away screaming.

"Attempt one-hundred and seventy-two…" Twilight said, hair a mess and completely mental at this point. "The stuffed caterpillars were burned, locked in an alternate dimension, tossed into a singularity, enchanted with the most powerful magic known I know, and the glass bottles have had magic locks placed on them before I tossed them into deep intergalactic space. Then I set temporal locks around them using the Time Measure! There's no way-"

A Live Giant Stuffed Caterpillar ran into her.

"SON OF A-"

Rainbow Dash grinned again.

Let Robbie flaunt his tight pants.

Let Robbie take dramatic poses.

Let everyone stare at him because while he thought he was wearing tight pants, he was just in his pink underwear with pink ponies all over it.

Hehehehehhehehheh.

Twilight threw her hands in the air. "THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO: FAILURE. WHAT. AM. I. DOING. WRONG?"

"Twiliiiiiight…." Pinkie said, walking up. "You should realize at this point that this universe operates under "you cannot change anything" time rules, at least for this event."

"But… but… but…" Twilight twitched. "There has to be a way to stop such a simple event-"

"Oh, the easy way to do it is to simply make sure Gravity Falls never existed by going back to the foundation of the town and altering the geographical formations so that Quentin Trembley didn't fall off a cliff and found the town. Easy."

Twilight slowly turned to Pinkie. "…I'm just trying to change a little thing…"

"I know. I know all three hundred and fifty."

"I've only tried three hundred and forty-two-"

"You forgot to count six and tried two times without recording anything."

Twilight didn't even ask how Pinkie knew all this. "Just… It's got to be solvable…"

"No," Pinkie said, grinning. "No, it doesn't. You should know that from being around me so long."

Twilight sighed. "Fiiiiine…." She put down her recorder. "Let the stupid fair get eaten by caterpillars…"

Pinkie grinned. "Good Twilight. Now let's go get RD and stop all this…"

"Yeah…" Twilight said. They found Rainbow Dash quickly, who was unleashing a giant cat on Robbie.

Rainbow Dash grinned. "This is going to be fun."

To her surprise, Robbie actually manned up and punched the cat across the face. The giant cat fell to the ground, knocked out.

Wendy walked up to Robbie "That was so cool dude!"

"Yeah I suppose it was." He flexed his arm. "So… I've been meaning to ask you… We've been hanging out a lot… I was wondering if you'd like to go out with me?"

"…Sure."

Twilight and Rainbow Dash's jaws dropped. Pinkie just snorted.

Rainbow Dash blinked. "That's… that's not right. That guy's a jerk."

"It's… her decision Rainbow Dash…" Twilight muttered.

Pinkie snorted again. "He gets the sub-standard balloons."

Blendin appeared. "YOU THREE! YOU HAVE BEEN CAUSING TIME ANOMALIES LEFT AND RIGHT!"

Pinkie raised her hand. "I haven't been traveling through time at all!"

"THEN WHY HAVE I DETERMINED THAT YOU ARE THE TIME ANOMALY?"

"Oh. Nature of being, I suppose. Silly willy I'm not dangerous! Well, unless you ruin a party or break a pinkie promise…"

Blendin growled. "You are going to give me that Time Measure!" He yelled, holding out his hand.

"There's still so much we can discover with it!" Twilight retorted. "Let us study more!"

"No! You cannot, not while that close to a living time anomaly! Plus, y-you've been abusing the power. S-so HAND IT OVER!"

Pinkie grabbed the Time Measure, pulling out the tape to a random time. "Sorry. Nope. Bye!"

The three of them appeared in front of a hungry T-rex.

"Huh." Pinkie said. "Fluttershy would be useful right about now."

Blendin appeared on top of the T-rex. "G-give it back!"

Twilight simply grabbed the machine and went to another time. They appeared in front of the Mystery Shack, though it was snowing and it appeared to be newer. The words "Mystery Shack" weren't even on it.

A man opened the door. He blinked. "Who are you three?"

Pinkie took a deep breath. "We are from the future and we are here to-"

Twilight shut her up. "Sorry to bother you…" She took a closer look at the man, cocking her hand.

Rainbow Dash gasped. "Stan?"

"Hrm?"

"You are Stanford Pines right?" She asked.

"Yes." The man narrowed his eyes. "Why are you asking?"

"Just well-" She blinked. "Wait. You aren't Awake are you?"

"What on earth are you talking—" He stopped talking, drawing his crossbow. "I have no argument with the Time Baby, Blendin. Leave me alone."

Blendin, who had appeared behind him, held up his hands. "W-w-woah hey hey! K-keep it cool man! I'm j-just here for these three!"

"Take them and leave." He said, gesturing with his crossbow. "Go on."

Blendin quickly grabbed their Time Measure and took them back to their time. "Now, you three should know full well that—"

Two beefy Time Agents appeared behind Blendin Blandin. "BLENDIN BLANDIN. YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR CAUSING TIME ANOMALIES!"

"What? No! I've been framed! It was those three kids!"

"Those are technicolor ponies Blendin."

"Them— wait WHAT?" Sure enough, before him were three technicolor ponies. He blinked. "I'm losing it."

The time agents vanished, and the three equestrians returned to human form. "Pinkie…" Twilight said, turning to her unusual friend. "Why did you do that?"

"Do YOU want to go to time jail?"

"But why—never mind." She shook her head. "Let's just continue on with the Loop…"

She looked at Stan, who was playing with Soos, laughing his head off. He seemed so jovial now.

Yet, his unAwake self seemed… scared. Terrified. A bit crazy.

Almost as if they were completely different people…

Stan chuckled.

They would never find out that HE was behind the Live Giant Stuffed Caterpillars.

He put his Time Measure back into his Pocket.

Well. That was fun.

Not really baseline, but totally worth it.

Wkh pruh Vwdq wkh phuulhu!

22.10 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] - also compiled in MLP Time Loops as Loop 176.1.

Gravity Falls: Friendship is Magic 10: The Grrrrrreat and Powerful Trrrrrixie!

"Come one, come all, to the Grrrrreat and Powerful Trrrrrixie's show of mystery and magic!" The blue-colored human snapped her fingers, causing her tiny traveling cart to literally explode into an open stage. "Grrrravity Falls! Prepare to be utterly and completely AMAZED!"

The people of the town clapped excitedly. "THIS IS AMAZING! WE'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE!"

Trixie disappeared in a puff of smoke, reappearing suddenly with a rabbit in her hand. She then stuffed the rabbit into her fancy hat, shook it around, and produced a storm of butterflies. She smirked, snapping her fingers, causing two large swords to appear in either of her hands. She threw them into the air, and they didn't come down. She snapped her fingers once more, causing the swords to fall to the stage. The blades hit a loose board, causing it to flip around in circles, launching a package of peanut butter crackers into the air. Trixie grabbed them, and began to much and bow at the same time.

"This is just a taste of what you can see at the Grrrrrreat and Powerful Trrrrrrrixie's show! Come one come all! Trixie's magic will make you believe the impossible and question reality itself! Shows at eleven, three, eight, and ten. The peanut butter crackers are not for sale."

And with that, Trixie vanished into her stage-cart thing.

Twilight and Rainbow were in the audience, the former with a thoughtful look on her face and the latter rapidly flipping through the Journal.

"The Journal does mention that some people have latent magical power within them, but there is always a source of some kind or reason…" Rainbow Dash blinked. "Did you sense any magic coming from her?"

"If she has any she's either hiding it extremely well or it's not enough to be felt over the latent magical properties of this area."

Rainbow Dash kept flipping through the Journal. "There's nothing here about testing for magic…"

"I could probably figure out if I could cast a scanning spell." Twilight smirked. "Though where would the fun be in that?"

"Investigation time!" Rainbow said, grinning. "Time to see what's up with Trixie…"

Elsewhere in the audience, Pinkie grinned. Oh boy, they were no longer the new po—people in town. She could throw a party! And nothing was going to stop her!

She looked up, an annoyed expression on her face. "Oh yeah? Wanna bet?" She paused. "You're on!" She was gone instantly. Nobody even saw her move.

Next to Pinkie, Lyra had been recording data. Seems to be talking to some voice… an entity of some kind? She turned to the stage, wondering about Trixie. Could she be related to all this somehow? She set up a new page, labeling it Trixie. She scribbled a few notes about the impressive magic show display, and how the town seemed to enjoy her show. She scribbled furiously.

"Lyra…"

"What is it Bon Bon?"

"You really should stop with all that conspiracy stuff. You're going to get involved with something-"

"I should never have told you about the sisters…"

Bon Bon rolled her eyes. "You know if you don't talk to me there's nobody to talk to. You live all alone in that big house at the base of Northwest Manor. You need me to talk to. And those three kids don't count."

"They can be helpful-"

"And they are exceptionally stupid." Bon Bon said matter of factly.

Lyra opened her mouth to object, then shut it. She looked back at the stage where Trixie had been. "Bon Bon you know me. I can't just let mysteries lie. I have to figure them out."

Bon Bon sighed. "Fine. Just be careful okay? Don't want anything happening to you-"

"I'll be fine Bon Bon." Lyra said. "I know more about what's going on in this town than anyone. I can handle a possible mage." And with that Lyra left, leaving Bon Bon with a torn look on her face.

Near the front of the crowd, Gideon was seething. "She dares come into town? MY town? And open up a magic show?" He stomped his foot. "She will regret this…" He turned to yell at the cart. "I WILL GET YOU OUT OF TOWN WOMAN!"

Trixie poked her head out and threw a half-eaten mango at the little kid. "The Great and Powerful Trixie objects to your tone. Be off."

Gideon's eye twitched. "You have no idea what you've just done… YOU WILL FEAR ME!"

"Trixie finds that most unlikely."

As the little kid ran off in an angry huff, the two sisters watched.

"Could she be one of us Luna?"

"Maybe."

"Perhaps we should investigate…"

"Maybe."

"Think we can find out anything about-"

"WOO HOO YES I WON I JUST BEAT R-TYPE AHAHHHAHAHAHHA!"

Celestia glared at Luna. "Put your portable arcade away."

"But…"

"Put. It. Away."

Luna slowly nodded.

The crowd dispersed, and the various factions went about their business…

Poor Trixie.

Trixie did a little dance, humming a tune. "Never gonna give you up, never" There was a knock at the door. She sighed, opening it. "Yes? Who wishes to see Trixie?"

Apple Bloom was standing in front of the cart. "Ahm terribly sorry miss Trixie, but Ahm lookin' for mah friends. I think they are somewhere around here."

"Trixie shall assist you in finding your friends." Trixie said, smiling to herself. "Where would they be?"

"Ah dunno." Apple Bloom said. "Could be any of these buildings 'round here. I'm gettin' worried."

"Fear not little one, Trixie shall find them for you!" She waved her hand, and it seemed to sparkle. "Let's go search that old barn."

"Yay!" Apple Bloom said, lighting up.

From a nearby tree, Lyra took notes. Sparkling hand, confident demeanor. Likes children apparently.

In another tree, Twilight was taking notes. Seems to be following Apple Bloom around. Why is Apple Bloom out here?

Apple Bloom stopped in front of a worn-down barn. "Uh…"

"What is it little one?" Trixie asked.

"Ah uh… dunno what Ahm supposed to do now…"

"What do you mean?" Trixie asked, this time narrowing her eyes.

"Well Ah was supposed to lead you here and—oops."

Lyra facepalmed. She should have listened to Bon Bon.

"What are you doing here?" Another voice said from behind Lyra, causing her to fall out of the tree. Hanging from the tree by one foot, she saw Rainbow Dash flying in front of her.

"Oh. Hi. Observing Trixie." Lyra responded.

"Like you were observing us?"

"Pretty much yeah."

"I have a few things to say to you-"

Rainbow Dash didn't get to say anything, as Trixie noticed them. She pointed her finger. "What are you two doing?" She blinked, looking at Rainbow Dash's wings. "Trixie must know how to get those! Tell Trixie where you got them."

Rainbow Dash blinked. "Uh… Joe's wing shop?"

In the other tree, Twilight rammed her head into the bark. This gave her a headache, causing her to fall out and hit the ground with a THUD.

Lyra laughed. "Ha! She was observing as well! Thought you were better than me did you?"

Rainbow Dash glowered. "Shut up."

"I bet I'm the one who gave you the idea-"

"I said shut up Minty."

"Only Bon Bon gets to call me Minty."

"MINTY MINTY MINTY MINTY."

Lyra twitched. "I'm LYRA!"

Trixie tapped her foot impatiently. "Why are all of you watching Trixie?"

"MAGIC!" Apple Bloom volunteered. The three others fixed her with death glares.

"If you wanted to see Trixie's great show you could have simply waited-"

Celestia and Luna watched from afar, unsure of how to proceed.

"Perhaps we could simply walk up and ask everyone what is going on?" Luna suggested.

"No. We must be stealthy. None must know of this."

"Sis. All of those present obviously know about magic and the weirdness. What harm could there be?"

The older sister glared. "We will be stealthy and not interfere! We will ask Trixie when she is alone."

"Sister…"

"Seriously Luna, you have to learn to appreciate the art of stealth more! The less we are in the open the better."

"Sister…"

"Come to think of it you should learn to put your games down and appreciate life itself more. Get out of your cave and come into the sun."

"Sister…"

"WHAT?"

"They're watching you yell at me."

"I AM NOT YELLING—" Celestia stopped, turning to see Lyra, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Trixie, and Apple Bloom staring. Apple Bloom and Rainbow Dash had popcorn. Lyra was furiously scribbling.

Celestia's eye twitched.

"So…" Luna said, turning to the others. "What's been happening with you?"

Rainbow Dash shrugged. "Been investigating things. Trying to figure out what Lyra's up to. Cake. That sort of thing."

Celestia's eyes brightened at "cake." "You wouldn't happen to have any cake with you?"

"No." Rainbow Dash said, lying through her teeth. She had metric tons of cake in her Pocket for variant Celestia emergencies. This was not one of them.

Celestia frowned, and returned to a state of not-sure-how-to-handle-this-situation.

Luna sighed. "Forgive her. She can be a bit… off. Actually she is a bit off. Do not worry, she will not harm you. Probably."

Trixie growled. "Why are all of you people so interested in Trixie?"

Luna decided honesty was the best policy. "We were hoping you would know something about magic."

"A show woman does not reveal her secrets, and Trixie is no different!"

"I do not mean show magic, I mean-"

"THERE YOU ARE!" Gideon yelled, arriving on the scene. "I WILL CUT YOU TO SHREDS!" He said, holding a solid black sword that was obviously too big for him.

Trixie blinked. "Trixie is amused by your antics. What could you hope to do with that… thing?"

"This is no normal sword fancy show woman! This is the blade of darkness! Of demise! It will drive you insane just by touching it! I will-"

He tripped over his own chubby legs. He quickly stood back up, dusting himself off. "Mmkay gotta check myself here… Give me a sec folks… Gotta get my shirt adjusted… one moment… now! READY! FACE MY WRAT—" He blinked. The sword was gone.

Rainbow Dash, flapping above him, was holding his sword. "Looking for this?"

"YOU GIVE THAT BACK RAINBOW DASH PINES!"

"Mhm…. Lemme think about that… Nah. Not really feeling it right now."

"I WILL BREAK YOU-"

Then, something exploded in the middle of them, sending streamers and balloons everywhere. Pinkie erupted from nowhere. "WELCOME TO GRAVITY FALLS TRIXIE LULAMOON!" She yelled, leaping into the air. She grinned.

Then she frowned. Everyone had run off except for Twilight and Rainbow Dash, who simply sighed and walked away.

Pinkie let out a sigh. Then she looked up. "So… did either of us win the bet?" She paused, as if listening to someone. "Hey! You said— I have a photographic memory and you know it!" She rolled her eyes. "Okay so it's just a memory spell same thing. So no you do not get the floating baby head."

She walked off.

Trixie's mind was stuck on one word: Nope.

Nopenopenopenopenopenope. She quickly packed up her cart, got in, and made it go. She pressed the hidden levers and the cart rolled out of town quickly. Nopenopenopenopenope. She turned it up to maximum speed, trying hard not to even look at the forest or behind her. Nopenopenopenopenooe. She took out her stash of peanut butter crackers and started nervously munching. Her comfort food.

She took a marker and wrote on her map in big large red letters over the state of Oregon: NOPE.

Stan had been watching the arcade all day.

Nothing. Had. Happened.

His eye (currently the one that was under his eyepatch) twitched. He got the feeling that he had missed something. He rubbed the bridge of his nose. He was getting too old for this.

Scratch that. He'd been too old for this for thousands of years. That didn't stop Yggdrasil.

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22.11 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] / [Doctor Who] - also compiled in MLP Time Loops as Loop 176.1 continued.

Gravity Falls: Friendship is Magic 11: The Gideon Pile

The scene before them was not the weirdest thing they had seen in the Loops.

Though it probably made it into the top thousand.

A tiny pinkie pie was bouncing on top of Gideon's head, with a bunch of Diamond Dogs strewn about everywhere overtop of a crystallized flower that had taken on the shape of Sombra only moments before. Around them were several gigantic deer and miniature elephants, and a few living giant stuffed caterpillars.

Oh and Pinkie was holding a flashlight with… Pinkie powers. That had somehow managed to turn the sky into a psychedelic pink and was giving everyone in the town illusions of flying manta rays.

Nobody was exactly sure what to do now. To everyone's surprise, Rarity ended up being the one to march up to Gideon and stare him in the face.

"Ah, my darlin' Rarity! Can you perhaps get me out of here-"

Rarity glared. "Don't you 'darling' me Gideon. I am older than you can possibly imagine, and am way out of your league. I have been through the destruction of entire realms of existence and have crafted shawls out of materials that would make your mind explode simply by looking at them. I may not be as good at magic as many of my friends, and I may not have as much experience, but I still have the capacity and skill to control an entire planet should I desire. Such things are not ladylike, and I personally would never do such things under normal circumstances. You, on the other hand, seek to control me, to make me your own using your own power. Don't make me laugh. You know nothing of the arcane, nothing of true power. You are just a little man, Lil Gideon. And this is the last straw. I have been extremely generous. I've let you go about your antics and pester us since that seems to be your place in this world. Well, I've had it with you. I already have a man, and he is so beyond you I expect that your mind would simply break trying to comprehend it." She glared deep at him.

Gideon blinked. "Darlin? Have you gone crazy-"

Rarity waved her hand, and Gideon disappeared in a flash of white light. The Diamond Dogs let out a bunch of painful sounding arfs as the foundation of the pile was removed. They scampered off in random directions.

"What did ya' do to him?" Applejack asked.

"Teleported him to a random location on the planet." Rarity responded, fixing her hair. "I doubt we'll see that ruffian again."

"Ah hope you're right." Applejack responded.

The six friends walked off, deciding to forget all about the little kid.

Lyra, who was sitting in a nearby bush, had heard everything. Her mouth was still hanging wide open. Her body was not responding to any neural input. (What little there was anyway). She fell out of the tree with a thunk.

She came to with Pinkie Pie looking down at her. "You're awake!"

"Uh…" Was all Lyra could manage.

"You might want to keep that hush-hush." The pink human cautioned. "Rarity doesn't go off like that all that often. It kinda embarrass her. She prefers just to be a lady and not a powerhouse."

Lyra blinked. "Okay…"

"Goodie! Just go home and don't bring this up. I'll give you a cupcake for it."

Lyra slowly nodded. She stood up, looking at Pinkie. "Who ARE you people?"

"We're Loopers!" Pinkie said, giggling and running off.

Lyra just stood in the clearing, her mind trying to process everything.

The Doctor stepped out of the Tardis, into London. He had been exploring time and space for a while this Loop and had already found a whole lot of nothing. Sure there were a few aliens and magic here and there, but it seemed like this world was boring.

Unless you counted the Time Baby. But The Doctor had quickly decided that messing with what amounted to a literal deity of time would probably end with a Loop crash.

So he'd decided to come back to London, one of his favorite cities. Humans were always fun, always interesting. Maybe he'd find a companion and the "boring" cosmos wouldn't be so boring anymore.

"AAAUUUUUGGGGGH!"

The Doctor blinked. "Is that a pig squealing?"

Gideon landed right on top of the Doctor with a squeal. The Doctor sighed, picking Gideon up. "So, they literally fall from the sky now do they?"

"What?" Gideon asked.

"Been a while since I took a non-Looper child on board…"

"What?" Gideon asked again.

"Perhaps I could teach him about life and the cosmos-"

"What?"

"Oh sorry." The Doctor said, grinning. "Hello there! How would you like to travel across space and time?"

Gideon quickly put on his cutest lil' look possible. "Aw, I'd love to mister!"

"Well then! Allons-y!" The Doctor dragged Gideon into the Tardis, not noticing the child's very very disturbing face. A face that had stopped many Loopers dead in their tracks. It struck fear into the minds of many, making them shudder to their very being.

That face.

Not that Gideon knew this. In his mind, it was a perfectly normal face to make. Needless to say, Gideon was disturbing.

The Tardis dematerialized with a VWOORRRP VWOORRRP VWOORRRP.

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Compiler's note:: And the adventure continues.