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Author's note: Originally posted by Anon e Mouse Jr. on 2017-12-16. This is the second of four chapters posted today.

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

22.20 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] - also compiled in MLP Time Loops as part of MLP Loops: Gravity Falls.

Gravity Falls: Friendship is Magic 20: Unusual Investigations

Twilight examined the wreckage of the laptop. "All of this is completely useless! Are you SURE he said he gave you a hint?"

"Positive!" Rainbow Dash responded, arms folded. "He said he gave me the hint right then and there!"

"Maybe it was more metaphorical?"

Lyra flipped through all the Journals. "I just can't find anything… there are hardly any mentions of him at all, and those there are say that he does keep his deals, though he skews them as much as he can. He must've given us a hint of some kind…"

"Maybe it was just a hint to mind our own business." Rainbow Dash huffed.

In a nearby bed, Pinkie let out a loud snore.

Twilight looked back at the smashed laptop. "We have to tread carefully, he's a Loop Aware entity. It probably won't be possible to just overpower him with our abilities if it comes to that. We'll need a backup plan."

"And we know like nothing about him!" Rainbow said, holding up Journals 2 and 3 to their respective Bill Cipher pages. "And the information even contradicts itself!"

"And then there's that WHEEL…" Lyra said, shuddering. "Symbols… Symbols everywhere… All enigmatic and mysterious… WHAT DO THEY MEAN?"

Twilight began to pace. "What can we do… What can we do… We need a place to find more information…"

Pinkie snored once more.

Lyra lit up. "We could go talk to the Shapeshifter."

Rainbow Dash grinned. "Oh that'll be fun…"

Twilight shrugged. "I don't see why not. Come on, the Bunker is a ways off. We'd better get going…"

And with that, the three girls left the Shack, leaving Pinkie to snore.

A few minutes later Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy entered the room. "Huh. Guess they left." Applejack observed.

Fluttershy shrugged. "Maybe they discovered something-"

"And they left this horrid mess of machine bits everywhere!" Rarity exclaimed. She pointed her finger, using her magic to get the laptop bits off the floor. "Honestly, it's been several quadrillion years at this point. You think they'd know to clean up after themselves…"

Fluttershy looked at one of the pieces floating in midair. "McGucket labs…" She read aloud.

Applejack raised an eyebrow. "McGucket? Like, Ol' Man McGucket? His labs? That sounds a might far fetched…"

"Look at it. It's right there." Fluttershy said, handing Applejack the mechanical bit. Sure enough, in really small print that was probably obscured by a lot of mechanical pieces, the logo of a McGucket labs was right there. Applejack cocked her head.

"Well this is mighty interestin.' We should probably go ask the ol' feller about it, see if he wants his laptop pieces back. Or if he can fix it. Dunno why the others haven't thought of that yet, he is pretty good with machines."

Rarity nodded. "Of course! Maybe it has some long lost pictures of his family! Or his past! Something to help him live in that horrid hovel in the junkyard the townspeople have forced him into…"

Fluttershy nodded. "It's the least we could do."

And with that, the three ponies picked up the laptop's pieces and headed to the junkyard.

Twilight was very carefully melting the Shapeshifter. Rainbow Dash had re-sealed the door and was actively barricading it with rocks. Lyra was setting up magical traps all around the Shapeshifter.

"This is going to take a few hours to me to melt properly…" Twilight said.

Rainbow Dash groaned. "Really? A few hours? Ugh…"

Lyra looked up from her work. "Come on Rainbow, I'm sure it's going to be very interesting. And I seriously doubt he's going to talk to us without you kicking his flank first. Or whatever body part makes up his rear when you end up kicking it."

"What if he turns into something that doesn't have a rear?" Twilight asked.

Lyra pondered this. "I have no idea… perhaps we can experiment?"

"Oh Fiddleford…" Fluttershy said softly, barely tapping on Old Man McGucket's door. "We'd like to see you, if that isn't too much of a-"

"COME ON COME IN! I just caught a junkyard rat and was looking for some people to share it with!" McGucket cackled. "My kids never developed a taste for this."

Rarity twitched. "That's… quite all right darling, but we're here to talk about something else."

Applejack dropped the sack with the laptop pieces into a random table in the barely-standing home. "We found your name on this…"

McGucket scratched his head. "Well Ah gotta say I'm thankful, and this does look mighty familiar, but I don't remember anythin' about this… McGucket Labs. Don't remember much of anything really. I have two kids, I know that. Tate likes to play ball now! And if I recall you were the ones who helped me with him!" He hugged all three of them. Fluttershy smiled, while Applejack and Rarity squirmed. "Now if only I could find my little girl…"

"Perhaps we could help you remember?" Fluttershy offered. "If you do, you'd know about this laptop and about your past!"

McGucket smiled. "You've already helped me so much… so generous the lot of you!" McGucket cracked his knuckles. "Let's go on a memory scavenger hunt! Right after we eat this rat." He dug in hungrily. Rarity squirmed again. Over dinner, he told them what he remembered. He, for some reason, was extremely good with machines and remembered making hundreds over his life, although the memories were jumbled. He remembered almost nothing at all from before thirty years ago. He did know he had two kids, but he had no idea who the mother was or when they were even born. His earliest definite memory was waking up in the Gravity Falls Museum of History, in the eye exhibit.

In under ten minutes the four of them were at the eye exhibit.

Rarity shuddered. "I feel like they're watching us."

Fluttershy nodded. "I know the feeling…"

Applejack squinted. "They're not watching us… all these eyeballs are looking at that fireplace right there…" She pressed a button, revealing a secret passage behind the glowing furnace.

McGucket blinked. "Ya know, this is a mighty ominous tunnel that I am somewhat disturbed I remember nothin' about. Let's go in and party!"

They descended into the secret passage, looking left and right, wondering what they would find. They heard footsteps coming towards them. Rarity quickly cast an invisibility spell to hide them.

"Well that's mighty fancy!" McGucket praised.

"Shush! It's an invisibility spell not a silencing spell!" Rarity retorted.

The four went silent as a group of two people in long, red dark robes passed by them. On the foreheads of the hoods was an eye with an X across it.

"Is it just me, or does that look like Bill's eye?" Applejack commented.

Fluttershy shivered. "It does."

Rarity raised an eyebrow. "That means they're his enemies right? Maybe they can help us."

"Ah dunno…" Applejack said. "They seem rather spooky to me…"

"Ah get a bad feelin' about them." McGucket said.

Rarity walked on ahead. "What are we waiting for? Let's follow them!"

The four followed the red robed men into a central chamber of some kind, where two people were tied up: Lazy Susan and Derpy. Derpy was telling Susan that "I just don't know what went wrong!"

Around them the people in robes were chanting "Novus ordo seclorum."

Then one robed man, taller than all the others, walked into the circle. "Who is the subject of our meeting?"

One of the other men gestured to Lazy Susan and Derpy. "These women."

The taller man walked up to the two of them. "What is it you have seen?"

"Speak!" Chanted all the others.

"Uh, well, uh, I was leaving the diner, and I saw these little bearded doodads, and I was, like, Bwaaa?"

Derpy continued with her own story. "My muffin came to life right after that."

The lead man took out some kind of gun with a lightbulb at the tip. He typed something into it. "There there, you won't be like "Bwaaa" for much longer… And you will not feel the horror of your food coming for revenge…" He methodically blasted the two women with the gun. "Now, what do you recall?"

Both of them, at the same time responded in a monotone voice. "My mind is cleared thanks to the Society of the Blind Eye!"

The Society changed. "It is unseen!"

Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy's jaws dropped. They had just cleared a person's memory!

Slowly, the three turned to look at McGucket. "They took yer memories, didn't they?" Applejack said.

McGucket slowly nodded. "Ah believe so…"

As some members escorted Lazy Susan and Derpy away, the evident leader took a strange tube out of the memory gun and walked down a hallway.

Rarity squinted. "Time to find where they store those memories…"

Slowly, the four invisible people crept up behind the leader as he walked into a hall covered in memory tubes from top to bottom. The vast majority were just stored on shelves, but a few were placed at the end of the hallway in a special design. The leader took out a marker, wrote "Lazy Susan and Derpy" on the tube, and gently set it on the shelf.

He turned around. "I know you're there. Nothing escapes my eye." He took his hood down, revealing a bald, stern looking man with a false eye.

Rarity dropped the spell. "Then why did you let us see that?"

"So we could corner you, of course." The other members stepped out from behind them. They were trapped in the hallway.

Applejack glared. Rarity gasped. "Who are you people?"

"I am Blind Ivan," The leader said. The other members lowered their hoods as well, revealing a cast of characters many people remembered from around town. Toby Determined. Bud Gleeful. The guy who married a woodpecker. Berry Punch. Maud.

"Maud?" Fluttershy said, cocking her head. "I don't remember seeing you around…"

"Oh. She knows my name. Interesting." Maud said, completely deadpan.

Blind Ivan shrugged. "She won't for much longer."

Fluttershy looked up at the tall man. "Why? Why do you do this? Can't you see it's harming people?"

Blind Ivan simply held the memory gun up to his head and fired. "Not anymore. But to answer your question in a more simple matter, we do it because the burden of knowledge is a strong one. We make sure none know of the mysteries of Gravity Falls, so that they will not suffer from what they have seen. We are dedicated to erasing all of the weird, ever since a traumatizing event our founder experienced long ago. It apparently inspired our logo. But nobody but the Receiver remembers anything about that, and she's not here right now."

He smiled. "We take it upon ourselves to help the troubled townsfolk of Gravity Falls. Thanks to us they are able to go around having a happy, normal, ignorant life just like everyone else in the world. As a bonus we can make ourselves forget about bad memories. Everyone has things they'd rather forget. Though at this point none of us know what exactly we treated for this." He shrugged.

Applejack sighed. "Look, I know you think yer doin' good here, but there are dangerous things out in these woods that probably kill people. And you probably make sure that nobody even remembers those who have been killed! It's very dangerous what you're doing!"

Blind Ivan shook his head. "There are some things here that are not meant to be remembered. Have you ever encountered a Gremloblin? I can see from the looks on your faces at least some of you have. It drove someone to madness didn't it? We cure that. We stop that. We prevent that. We can't discriminate, since we don't know what exactly will drive each person to madness. The only reason we'd been leaving you lot alone was because the Receiver has told us never to go near that Shack. But trust me, we've had to erase a lot from the people you've encountered…"

Rarity's eyes widened. "So that's why Rainbow can fly around and nobody seems to care…"

"Now…" Blind Ivan said, holding up the memory gun. "Time to make you forget this entire day." He pulled the trigger.

Rarity put up a reflect spell, sending the beam back. Blind Ivan dodged it. "Impressive spell. But we have a few mages of our own here you know." He waved his hand, fire appearing in his hand. "We will never let our secrets out!"

McGucket grabbed onto his hat. "Oh no… This is going to go down!"

The Society of the Blind Eye cast several spells at the four intruders, all of which were quickly deflected. Rarity lit up her hand, encasing all the members in crystal. She shook her head. "You know nothing about finer magic, ruffians." She levitated the memory gun into her hand. "We really need to stop these hooligans from ruining any more lives… But how can we do that…"

"Just make 'em forget about the Society." Applejack answered. "Simple enough. All of them aside from Ivan here seem to have lives they can get back to."

They quickly erased the society from everyone's mind, sending them on their way. But they didn't erase Blind Ivan's memory.

Fluttershy looked down at the man before her. "You should feel ashamed of yourself."

"Do you have any idea what you've done? The Weirdness will spread! You will no longer be safe!"

Fluttershy sighed. "What are we going to do with him?"

"…Let's take him back to Stan. Maybe he has a suggestion." Rarity offered. "But first…" She walked up to the altar where special memories were stored, and found the tube labelled Fiddleford Hadron McGucket. She plugged the tube into a memory screen.

The memories were horribly garbled, but the three Loopers, McGucket, and Ivan were witness to a rather harrowing story. It told the story of a young man, a Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, who had come to Gravity Falls to work on a big project with the Author, though the Author was never seen in the memories. Nor was he ever actually named. Shortly after the memories were all a panic, about a young man wishing to unsee what he had seen. Something terrible, something unspeakable, something that drove him to madness. Something that drove him to invent the memory gun. Something that drove him to found the Society of the Blind Eye, to keep everyone from having to suffer what he had suffered.

The memories became more jumbled and crazy. There were scattered images of people around town, mostly of Tate and some girl who looked very familiar. Images of McGucket slowly going crazy, losing his mind, and defacing every triangle with an eye he could find.

The feed went dead.

Blind Ivan's jaw was hanging open. "So that's how our society was founded…" He shook his head. "I am terribly sorry, Founder, but memory tubes that old are highly unstable. It is unlikely you can restore all the memories you wish to."

McGucket sighed. "You know what? Part of that old me was right, I probably don't want to remember all of what happened back then. But that was no excuse to go around creating a society to wipe things from the minds of everyone. What I saw was probably a special case." He turned to the girls. "I'm sorry… Things are starting to come back to me, my memory was jogged a little bit, but everything's still very fuzzy."

Fluttershy hugged him. "It's okay, we'll be here for you regardless of what happens." Rarity and Applejack responded with an affirmative.

"I'd still like that laptop. Maybe I can find out more from it."

"Be our guest."

And then the four of them carried Blind Ivan out of the secret society.

"Want to talk YET?"

"YES YES I'LL TALK STOP BEATING ME UP ALREADY!"

"Good!" Rainbow Dash said, relenting. The Shapeshifter stood up, groaning. "Now, first question, who is the Author?"

"I don't know his name for sure. He was almost always alone with me. The only other person I saw during my imprisonment called him Ford, though it was an obvious nickname. He had six fingers on each hand, if that helps."

Twilight frowned. Ford. Well there was a nickname at least, though it wasn't much to go on. But she didn't remember anyone at all with six fingers in town… So it was probably someone they hadn't met yet. They'd just have to find them. "Can you tell us anything about Bill Cipher?"

"Oh that guy." The Shapeshifter said, chuckling. "He was fun. He came down every so often, was good for a laugh. Called the Author Sixer all the time. I think they had a falling out shortly before they both just stopped coming down here."

Twilight nodded. She knew that the Author had trusted Bill for at least a little while already, and that he had come to regret it. The details were still elusive.

"Do you know anything else about him? His plans? His desires? His weaknesses?"

The Shapeshifter grunted. "Nope. Nothing. He always talked through the Author anyway, I don't know what he's really like."

Twilight nodded. Possession. She had expected that.

The Shapeshifter looked closely at Lyra. "You know, I keep thinking that I remember you from somewhere…"

"I'm not even thirty years old. There's no way."

"Which makes it very interesting… why do I think I remember you?"

Twilight marked down "possibility of time travel" in her notes. "Thank you for your time. Now, we unfortunately can't let you loose on the world above, but leaving you down here to rot for more decades would just be cruel. I'll have Rarity come down here to furnish this cavern up for you, bring food, and everything. If we feel like we can trust you, maybe we'll let you out one day." She looked right into the shapeshifter's eyes. "And I'll know if you're trustworthy. I can read your mind if I have to."

The Shapeshifter sighed. At least it was a better life than what he was used to. Maybe he'd actually get a good meal rather than just surviving on magical aura.

"Deal." He said.

"Good." Twilight said, smiling. "I know we'll become great friends! I'll bring everyone down here from time to time."

"I am not dealing with him." Stan said firmly.

"But we can't just erase his memory, that'd be cruel!" Fluttershy complained. "He'd be a shell of person without the life he put into that!"

"So? It's what happens to him in baseline." Stan responded, managing to sell a shirt to a customer. "Just get it over with."

"No." Rarity said. "We aren't barbarians."

Stan chuckled. "Could have fooled me." He walked around, getting back to business.

The three sighed. "What now?"

Twilight walked into the room. "Hey girls… who's this guy?"

"Blind Ivan." Rarity responded. "We need to find a place to keep him where he won't cause trouble."

Twilight's eyes sparkled. "Oooh I have just the place. I was just coming here to ask you if you'd furnish up the Bunker for our friend the Shapeshifter, we made a deal with him. You could put Ivan in there as well!"

"Furnish up a cavern?" Rarity said, eyes sparkling. "That'd surely be a nice challenge…"

Rainbow Dash, currently with wings, ran into the door. "WHY IS THERE AN ANGRY MOB AFTER ME? I'VE BEEN FLYING AROUND FOR OVER A MONTH AND NO ONE HAS HAD A PROBLEM!"

Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity all became rather sheepish. "Well, ya see… that may be our fault…"

Blind Ivan and the Shapeshifter were in the cavern playing a game of chess while Rarity furnished around.

"So what's your story?" Ivan asked.

"Was hatched from an extraterrestrial egg by some six fingered mad scientist. Kept down here for almost all of my life since then."

"Ah. I don't remember much of my story. I suspect it was really tragic though, seeing as how I have tattoos all over my forehead corresponding to various sections of my brain. Also considering the fact that this is a magical fake eye."

"Must be rather interesting, not knowing one's own past."

Ivan shrugged. "I live with it just fine."

"Checkmate."

"Darnit."

July 2012,

The Founder, Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, returned to us, wishing to remember his past. In the process, him and his group erased all knowledge of the Society from all the members, and took current leader Blind Ivan to an unknown location. His fate remains unknown.

The Society has fallen, so this will likely be the last entry in our Chronicle. I am also using this last entry as a notice of my resignation from the Society: it has become evident that we were going about protecting Gravity Falls the wrong way. I will continue to carry the burden on my own.

May this Chronicle never be uncovered, and if it is, never let it drive others to the insanity that comes from the Beast with One Eye. May I be able to protect this town. Our town.

The Receiver of the Blind Eye Society,

Starlight G McGucket

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22.21 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] / [Doctor Who] - also compiled in MLP Time Loops as part of MLP Loops: Gravity Falls.

Gravity Falls: Friendship is Magic: 21: More Time Troubles

"I CHALLENGE YOU TO GLOBNAR!" Blendin Blandin said, standing before Twilight, Pinkie, and Rainbow Dash.

The three Loopers cocked their heads. "Which one of us?" Twilight asked.

"ALL THREE OF YOU!" The time agent's voice squeaked.

"Wouldn't that be unfair?" Twilight said. "I mean, it'd be three on one, and you probably know we aren't pushovers-"

"GLOBNAR IS THE MOST DANGEROUS COMPETITION OF ALL TIME! YOU MUST ALL FACE ME!"

Pinkie glared at Blendin. "Take the two of them, I'm busy right now."

"BUT-"

"No buts. You can come back for me later. I've got a large man-gopher to cheer up." She walked off.

Rainbow Dash grinned. "So. Globnar. Competition. You challenge us. This should be fun."

"YOU WRONGED ME AND I WILL PUT YOU BACK IN YOUR PLACE!"

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Do you have to shout everything?"

"UH… no. Sorry. WAIT NO I'M NOT SORRY!"

Twilight shrugged, as she and Rainbow were taken into the future to experience Globnar… The most dangerous and challenging competition of all time and space!

Meanwhile, back in Gravity Falls, Pinkie had a mission. Fluttershy had tagged along.

"So… what's wrong with Soos again?"

Pinkie's face was stern. "His birthday makes him sad. This cannot be allowed to stay. I need to figure out what is causing the problem and make his birthday the best. Birthday. Ever."

Fluttershy nodded, understanding. Enjoying birthdays was serious business after all. "So how are we going to figure out what's bothering him?"

"Why ask him of course!"

Fluttershy raised an eyebrow. "Um… you aren't going to try your usual method of asking things are you?"

"What do you mean?"

Fluttershy sighed, thinking of more than a few moments where Pinkie had completely ruined anything because of her near lack of restraint. Some things required calmness. "I'll go talk to him." She said, walking ahead. "Do not use any party cannons while I'm doing it."

It took her less than a minute to find the large man, who looked rather depressed in stark contrast to his normal happy and blissful self. She frowned, walking up to him. "Soos? What's wrong?"

"Oh.. it's nothing Flutters." Soos said, sighing dramatically.

Fluttershy shook her head. "Something's obviously bothering you, and I'm not the only one who's noticed. Everyone sees your sadness. We just want to help."

"There's probably not much you can do to help." He responded.

"Soos, even if we didn't have amazing powers and magic all around us, we can still be your friends." She smiled. "And I think right now you need someone to lean on."

Soos smiled sadly. "Thank you Flutters. You're really nice, you know that?"

Fluttershy nodded, smiling. "We want to know how we can help you Soos. We are your friends, and we can't stand to see you so down today. How can we help?"

Soos sighed. "I don't think you can. You aren't him."

"Who?"

Soos paused for a moment, deciding if he would tell Fluttershy or not. "My dad. He never came to any of my birthday parties as a kid. I rarely ever saw him at all. All I got every year was a postcard." Soos pulled something out of his shirt. "I got another one today. I haven't seen his face since I was really little, but I keep getting these."

Fluttershy's eyes widened.

"I just… I wanted to see him, you know? I want to at least be with him for one moment. And every time my birthday comes around I get one of these and I'm reminded that I never have, and likely never will. I just… want to see him."

Fluttershy stood up. "Then we can go find him."

Soos blinked. "How?"

"We can pool our resources. Use our abilities." She smiled. "We can find him." She paused for a moment, frowning slightly. "Though I should warn you he may not be what you want…"

Soos stood up. "I don't care. I want to see him." He turned to Fluttershy, eyes pleading. "Do you think you could find him?"

She smiled. "I'll get Rarity and Pinkie right on it."

Soos smiled. "Thank you Flutters." He grinned. "Maybe I can see him after all."

"I, THE GREAT TIME BABY, DECLARE GLOBNAR TO BEGIN!"

Twilight blinked. The ruler of the highly advanced future was a giant baby. What. The. Buck.

Rainbow Dash flew up. "Wait! What are the rules?"

Time Baby sighed, taking a baby bottle out of his mouth that he had just begun to enjoy. "GLOBNAR IS A SERIES OF OVER A HUNDRED EVENTS THAT EACH OF THE SIDES MUST COMPETE IN EACH OTHER AGAINST. GET THE MOST WINS, YOU GET A TIME WISH AND GET TO DECIDE THE FATE OF THE LOSER OR LOSERS. FIRST EVENT IS TEMPORAL TENNIS, GO."

Twilight and Rainbow suddenly discovered that they had tennis rackets in their hands with clocks on their handles. Blendin had one as well. "The fun part about this game is that it's played in reverse!" He said.

Rainbow Dash groaned. She hated things where time made no sense. So she had to play in reverse-

"Wait." She said. "Wouldn't that mean we already know the score?"

"This isn't scored like regular Tennis!" Blendin said, grinning. "The score is ten to ten right now. You just have to guide the balls to keep from losing points due to paradox!"

"Crap."

As the two Loopers played against Blendin, a certain blue phone box appeared in the bleachers. The Doctor stepped out, with a very ticked off expression on his face. "Great. I really shouldn't be here. Time authorities can be really annoying…"

"Doctor, you are under arrest for interrupting an official Globnar competition. Please, surrender your TARDIS and come with us."

The Doctor sighed. "Fine, fine, don't let me explain that I ended up here completely by accident." He paused, turning to glare at the Tardis. "Or, more likely, it was her fault…"

"You will come with us. Now."

"Fine fine hold your horses…" The Doctor said, following them. He stole a glance at who was in Globnar. HIs eyes widened. Twilight and Rainbow Dash.

Well then, he supposed he was going to run into them again eventually… Though he honestly didn't expect the future.

"MOVE IT!"

"Alright! Alright! Yeesh!"

Back in the stadium, Rainbow Dash and Twilight won Temporal Tennis 10 - 0. Blendin's jaw hit the ground.

Twilight whispered to Rainbow Dash. "I saw the Doctor get taken away. Since this doesn't look like it's going to be that difficult, I'm leaving you with a magic shell of myself. You can win on your own can't you?"

"Easy peasy." Rainbow said, grinning.

"Good." Twilight quickly created a magical shell of herself to play the games with Rainbow. She teleported into the audience the instant she was away. Strangely, the audience (which composed of aliens, robots, and strange beings she had no real words for) paid her no mind. They were completely fixated on Globnar.

Now to find the Doctor.

Fluttershy knocked on the door. Soos's Abuelita welcomed her in. "Ah, Soos's friend. Welcome to my house."

"Miss Ramirez." Fluttershy said, walking in. "Soos recently asked us to look for his father. I wanted to know if you knew anything he did- oh no." Fluttershy noticed the old woman's face darken.

"I… I am terribly sorry little one. I know nothing about his whereabouts."

Fluttershy knew that was a lie, but she also knew something else.

"…How bad was he?"

Abuelita turned to look at the diminutive pink girl before her. Her expression softened. "Children like you do not need to be burdened with tales of the past. That is far behind us now."

"Soos just got another postcard though."

Abuelita tensed. "He… He still sends them?"

"Yes. I saw today's just under an hour ago."

Abuelita tightened her fists. "Who does he think he is…"

Fluttershy frowned. "…he really was that bad wasn't he?"

"The man dropped Soos off with me when he was barely a baby, and I saw him less than ten times after that. He never calls me, never writes, and I had thought he'd stopped sending those postcards." She sighed. "I guess Soos just stopped showing them to me."

Fluttershy's head drooped. "He… he wasn't a good person was he?"

"No. He was not. It was more than just being caught up in work, he was…" She paused. "Uncaring."

Fluttershy looked around, as if trying to find something. "There must be some way we can cheer him up though… and It's already going to be bad enough telling him we aren't going to find his dad for him anymore…"

Abuelita frowned. "Maybe he does need to find his father, to see who the man really is…" She sighed. "I don't know where my son is. He was in Japan last I knew, and that was years ago."

Fluttershy sighed. "Thanks anyway. I'll go break the news to him."

While Globnar was 21 to 3 (Rainbow Dash's lead) Twilight explored the future. That was all she could call this place, seeing as she had no other idea of where she was. She was just following the Doctor's rather unique temporal signature with a spell, attempting to navigate the time-anomaly filled corridors.

She had seen a lot of pictures of Time Baby, like he was worshipped as some kind of god or supreme ruler. The time agents were everywhere, disappearing and reappearing left and right. Twilight noticed, to her pride, that they were using several dozen sets of pronouns to differentiate from different forms of time travel tenses. Good for them.

But she had to find the Doctor and get him out. She began to speed up, trying to navigate the confusing halls of time. She considered using time spells, but she had no idea how a place like this would respond to them.

After crossing three feet in five hours (TIME ANOMALIES!) she arrived to see two time agents escorting the Doctor through the building.

She walked towards them. They reacted instantly, drawing time weapons yelling. "THERE'S THAT GIRL WHO TRIED TO FREE THE PRISONER!"

Crap. Time anomalies made things really annoying. She felt the weapon's shot impact her, knocking her through time. She landed on top of the Doctor.

"Who's this?" One of the agents said.

"SHE'S TRYING TO FREE THE PRISONER!" The other yelled, shooting at Twilight again.

Twilight facepalmed as the time annoyances continued.

Rarity frowned.

The computer had come up with Soos' dad alright. It had only taken a few searches to find him.

The man was in jail in some far off foreign country for unspeakable crimes.

She shuddered.

Stan stood in the doorway, sighing. "Don't take it too hard."

"Why? Soos's father.. this man.. he's a horrible person! A crime against everything!"

"It's different every time."

"What?"

"The Loops can't decide on what Soos's dad is really like. Sometimes he's a nice guy who had a good reason for being away. Sometimes he's a master criminal. Sometimes he's just a jerk. It's always different. I should know, I've found the man dozens of times." He sighed. "Just... know that sometimes he does have a good reunion. That sometimes everything does work out. But mostly… not."

Rarity sighed. "We… we're going to have to tell him no aren't we?"

Pinkie appeared in the room, face contorted in anger.

"I found him." She said. "He's the most jerky grumpy pants ever. Just… GRAGH! That man has ruined birthday parties for Soos forever! What are we going to do to help him? How?"

Stan sighed. "You know what? I can't stand to see this. Soos generally will begin to move past it if you give him a good birthday by spending all day with him doing things. He just needs a little push."

Rarity blinked. "But… that's what Pinkie was going to do in the first place before Fluttershy suggested going soft…"

Stan snorted. "Sometimes a guy needs a little push."

Pinkie lit up. "Oh! I know! Laser tag! He loves that! LET'S SPEND ALL DAY DOING THAT!"

Rarity smiled. "I'll go get Fluttershy…"

"Where are you going Twilight?"

Twilight turned to see the Doctor. "Oh. You freed yourself." She groaned. "This place is confusing."

"Actually if my theories are correct I get captured again in about fifteen minutes." He shrugged. "And then I think I get freed over there and you get me back to the Tardis."

Twilight blinked. "Time is confusing."

"Yes. Yes it is. Want to go watch Globnar while I wait to get recaptured?"

"Why not."

The two of them made their way back to the stadium. Twilight realized she hadn't learned that much about the Future. It all seemed very… unfeigned. Like Yggdrasil hadn't defined it that well.

Just as they arrived back at the stadium, they heard the verdict. "THE CHALLENGED WIN BY A LANDSLIDE."

Rainbow blasted into the air, raising her arms. "OH YEAH! YOU GOT THE BEAT DOWN BLENDIN!"

Blendin roared. "Why? Why? How could I lose! This was my one chance at getting my life back…."

"And we'll give it to you." Twilight said, smiling warmly. "We are allowed to decide your fate… We give you your old job back."

"And some hair." Rainbow added.

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Yeah that too."

"AND NOW YOU GET YOUR TIME WISH, THE REWARD FOR WINNING GLOBNAR. ANYTHING WITHIN THE RULES OF SPACETIME YOU WISH FOR, IT WILL BE BESTOWED TO YOU."

Twilight's eyes sparkled. That… that would be amazing. She grabbed the time wish and stuck it into her Pocket. "Thank you, Time Baby."

"YOU EARNED IT YOURSELF." The Time Baby said. "BUT IT IS MY CREATION."

Twilight nodded. "What could I use it for…"

"WELL I'D SUGGEST USING IT TO FREE YOUR FRIEND RATHER THAN BREAKING HIM OUT. WE'D JUST HUNT YOU DOWN IF YOU BROKE HIM OUT ILLEGALLY."

"Ah…" Twilight said, a tad confused at how the time wish could bend the legal system. She turned to the Doctor, who was getting recaptured. He shrugged.

The time wish was probably way to overpowered to keep anyway. Had to keep things interesting, and just getting your answers by a wish wasn't any fun. She wished to set the Doctor free.

He and the Tardis just vanished instantly.

The Time Baby nodded. "NOW, WE WILL LEAVE HIM BE. AT LEAST UNTIL HE APPEARS IN GLOBNAR AGAIN. HE IS NOT WELCOME HERE. NOW RETURN TO YOUR TIME!"

Twilight and Rainbow were sent back to the past…

Fluttershy and Pinkie fist bumped.

Soos was having an amazing time. The postcard had been thrown into the trash hours ago, and he was running around laughing and shooting at people with the laser tag guns.

Fluttershy drooped. "I'm sorry I got in your way… you probably would have gotten through to him-"

"Are you CRAZY?" Pinkie said, bouncing up. "He wouldn't have been able to move on if he didn't talk about it with anyone! He may have had fun, sure, but every birthday after this would have ended up being the same! Now he's moved on, and every birthday can be amazing!" She giggled. "Though nowhere near as amazing as this one… Now come on Fluttershy we need to get back into the action! FOR THE PINK LASER NATION!" Pinkie charged. She was crushed as Twilight and Rainbow appeared above her, landing with a crash.

Rainbow Dash took one look at where they were before bursting into a grin.

"I. Am. Going. To. Rock. This. Game."

"Just because you played future laser tag-"

Suddenly everyone found that a rainbow laser had tagged them all simultaneously. Rainbow grinned.

The game soon devolved into Everyone vs The Harpie.

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22.22 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] - also compiled in MLP Time Loops as part of MLP Loops: Gravity Falls.

Gravity Falls: Friendship is Magic 22: Ghost Hunters

Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Lyra walked through the great doors of Northwest Mansion, the largest and most fancy estate anywhere near Gravity Falls. The three of them were dressed in fancy suits, designed to look fashionable to appease the Northwests, as well as useful. Various equipment of all kinds were designed all around their clothing, making them look posh and professional. Each of them had a journal under their arms.

Rainbow Dash hated it. "Can't we just, like, waltz in and embarrass them?" She asked.

"Be glad Rarity managed to make something fashionable that wasn't a dress." Twilight responded.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. "So, what are we here for again?"

Lyra looked towards her two friends. "Pacifica came to my house asking for assistance with a haunting. With the society gone, we have become celebrities of a kind." She handed the two of them a newspaper clipping of them facing a gigantic vampire bat. "They don't fear us anymore, thanks to our openness. But…" She frowned. "Well now they want us to deal with anything supernatural. Hence us being here."

"We better be getting paid a lot for this." Rainbow Dash muttered.

"We're getting a vast sum of money. I refused being allowed into their little high-society party. I've been before. It's more boring and dull than concrete."

Twilight nodded. "I know. Pinkie's talking about having a party to end all parties outside the front gates to make the Northwest's jealous."

Lyra grinned. "Totally going to that party after this is dealt with."

Pacifica walked up to the three of them. "There you are!" Her parents appeared behind her.

The father, Preston, put on one of those rich-people smiles. "Ah yes, the Pines and miss Heartstrings. Pacifica be a dear and show them the problem room."

Pacifica nodded. "Of course." She turned to the three of them. "So… how's it been since the golf game?"

"Been good. Stopped a secret society from wiping the town's memories." Twilight responded, smirking as she saw Preston do a spit-take in the background. "Same old."

She nodded. "Have you seen Sunset?"

Twilight shrugged. "Nope. You think she's still there?"

Pacifica bit her lip. "I uh… I can get a new second. Easy. Don't worry about it."

Twilight frowned. "I was under the impression she was one of your friends. Don't you care about her?"

Pacifica blinked. "Well… She's rather helpful if that's what you mean."

Twilight sighed. "You've got a lot to learn. Here let me-"

Preston took out a bell and rung it repeatedly. "I said get going!" Pacifica stood to attention, quickly walking away. The three girls followed her.

Psychological training Twilight thought this is worse than I thought… How am I going to get through to her?

She heard the bell ring again, Pacifica freezing in her tracks. "Oh and by the way Pacifica, remember not to keep them around too long hm? The party starts in just under six hours."

"Yes dad."

"Good girl." He smiled before turning his back.

Rainbow whispered to Twilight. "This is messed up…"

"I know. I'm working on it." She was going to help Pacifica. She sure needed it.

"And this is the problem room." Pacifica said, waving her hand at a very normal looking room.

"Okay…" Rainbow Dash said, flipping through Journal 3. "This one has the best information on ghosts… Usually wronged in death, these restless spirits often spend their entire existence torturing the living. Good ghosts are possible, but decidedly rare. They are classified by a simple system, from category one to ten. One being Casper the friendly ghost to ten being a spirit of power capable of warping the countryside."

Twilight shrugged. "On that scale, we've encountered a seven hundred fifty-six. Remember that Loop where Universes had their own spirits?"

Lyra blinked. "That sounds so awesome and yet so terrible at the same time."

Pacifica looked around. "So you could easily take care of whatever's in here?"

"Keep in mind I didn't say we defeated the seven-hundred fifty-six. But yes, even a ten should be no problem whatsoever."

Lyra pressed a bunch of buttons on her ghost device. "The fireplace seems like it has it-"

Then, all at once, every crack in the room started bleeding out, blood dripping to the floor in rivers. Pacifica began to tremble.

The Loopers just blinked in surprise. There had been a surprising lack of blood in this Loop so far. It was interesting, to say the least.

The fireplace erupted, belching fire towards them. "NORTHWESTS!"

"Oh look. A ghost that has desires for revenge against your family." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. "That's totally surprising." She cracked her knuckles. "How are we going to take care of this thing?"

"Simple-" Twilight began, quickly interrupted by a black skeletal hand reaching out of the fireplace. It formed a fist, smashing into the ground. The floor gave way, tossing them into some kind of basement. The skeletal being roared, slowly becoming enveloped in blue wisps of ethereal energy. "NORTHWESTS!"

Twilight leapt to her feet, her hand becoming encased in a violet light. She squinted, magic surrounding the lumberjack ghost.

"NORTHWE- WHAT MAGIC IS THIS?" The ghost said, trying to break free. Twilight simply snapped her fingers, encasing the being in a small and spherical magical prison. She held her hands out as the sphere dropped into her hands. She could see the ghost struggling from inside. "LET ME OUT!"

Twilight rolled her eyes. "As much as we don't like the Northwests, you do look like a crazed axe murderer." She stuffed it into her pocket. (NOT her Pocket.) She dusted her hands off. "That's it. We're done." She looked around. "Where are we?"

Lyra gasped. "DO YOU SEE THAT? THAT'S A LLAMA. A LLAMA IS ON BILL'S WHEEL. OHMYGOSH WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?" Lyra quickly descended into panic mode.

Twilight turned to see what Pacifica was looking at. Paintings. Paintings. Paintings after painting. Paintings of her rich and powerful Northwest family.

Paintings of them scamming, cheating, and lying to everyone. Pacifica's eye twitched. "I… I…"

Twilight walked up to her. "Look, you don't have to be like them. You can-"

"Yes I do!" She yelled back. "Have you seen my dad? He expects me to do all these things when I grow up! He expects me to-"

"Who said you had to do what he said?"

As if on cue, they could hear the bell ringing in the distance. "Pacifica? Where are you? Is everything dealt with?"

Pacifica instantly stood up, walking away. "Sorry." She said, obviously fighting back tears. "I have to go." She ran out of the room.

"LLAMA!" Lyra yelled, pointing at the llama. Rainbow rolled her eyes.

Pinkie and Preston were glaring at each other through the gate.

"It is ON Preston. This party will be so great you're going to WISH you were invited!"

"I highly doubt that, pink pony magician. The kinds of class I have here will not wish to mix with you and your hovel. You insist on walking around in that childish performing outfit!"

Pinkie, who was currently in her pony performer form (which was just a pony with a top hat, eyepatch, and cane.) bristled. "IT. IS. ON. I will attract all your guests away!"

"You do not understand the ins and outs of high society, you're just a street performer. Your special powers mean nothing: you are not worth our time."

Rarity walked up. "Darling, surely you can understa-"

"And you are a traitor to our way, just like miss Heartstrings." He said, turning away. "We do not need you for anything."

Rarity bristled. "Pinkie, we're taking all his guests from him as the night goes on. Got it?"

"Got it!"

Twilight took the ghost out of her pocket and examined him.

"I suppose I should seal you away now…"

"I suppose you must. But first, listen to my tale of woe."

"The Northwests ended up killing you long ago and now you're enacting your curse."

The ghost, to his credit, didn't miss a beat. "We were all promised a party after we completed the mansion! But after so many of us perished in construction, they denied us entrance! We were too low for them! They are horrid people who must be punished! Their party must be ruined unless the common people can enjoy it as well!"

"Trust me, Pinkie's going to throw a much better party outside their gates."

"That doesn't redeem the Northwests. It won't change them. They will still stomp on all of us for eternity! I must show them that their way will only result in pain!"

Twilight blinked for a moment. "Redeemed…" She looked closely at the ghost. "Listen, I have a proposition for you."

The parties were in full swing. In the manor, a fine quiet and sophisticated party was taking place. Right outside the gate a wild Pinkie Pie party was going on, the loud music blaring.

Preston snorted. If she thought she could attract guests by loud music, she was wrong. He had soundproofed the manor long ago. None of the outside noises would get in. He smirked. "Welcome one, welcome all."

Pacifica stood at his side, looking nervous.

"Now Pacifica, we must look our absolute best for the party. Keep whatever it is you're going through locked up inside for tonight. You can go let it out in your room when you go to bed later."

Pacifica obeyed, but Preston rang the bell anyway. It always made it more effective.

Preston frowned as the sports stars left the party to go to Pinkie's… loudness. He shrugged. He didn't like sports stars much anyway.

Then he frowned as he saw more and more guests leave. No matter how many times he tried to suggest a toast, more people kept leaving. The party was half as large as it usually was.

His phone rang.

"Hello darling," Rarity's cultured voice sounded over the line, smooth like poisoned silk, causing Preston to twitch. "The partygoers out here want to let the party into the manor, and we'd love to use up the now empty space-"

"You little insignificant peasant! I will never let your pathetic poor kind in here! You will bring in uncleanliness, stupidity, and complete disorder to my house! I will not permit any such thing, and you are a fool for asking!"

"Oh my, how scandalous! Chandra did you get that?"

Preston heard another voice say. "It will be on the news shortly."

Preston twitched, hanging up.

Little did he know that he had just given Twilight the signal.

A little round ball crashed through the window, cracking upon hitting the floor. The lumberjack ghost was let out, and he let out a roar. "NORTHWEST!"

Preston got out of there in under ten seconds.

The ghost began to laugh, turning the entire manor into wood. The guests began to be petrified. He laughed. "This curse will stay, unless a Northwest shows the way!" He laughed. "Let us in, or lose your life!" He seemed mildly annoyed that he couldn't come up with a rhyme on the fly. People screamed as they were turned into wood, eyes glazed over, and chaos reigned.

Pacifica turned to the gate controls. She had to fix this-

RING-A-DING!

"Pacifica, dear, you honestly aren't going to open the gate? We have a bunker down here, we can wait it out."

Pacifica looked to her dad, and back to the gate controls. She reached for the "open" lever.

RING-A DING! "Pacifica Elise Northwest, you will get down here this instant! Our reputation must be upheld!"

She twitched, frozen in spot.

"Hell-o? GET BACK INTO THE BUNKER RIGHT THIS INSTANT!" Pacifica didn't move. "Is the bell broken?"

"Our family name is broken!" She yelled back, pulling the lever.

Preston gasped. "You just didn't…"

The ghost grinned. "Ah yes… I can be at peace now… at peace…"

"TURN EVERYONE BACK TO NORMAL FIRST!" Twilight yelled from outside.

"Oh fine." He clapped his hands, returning everything to normal. "Now… I rest… Peacefully…"

He was gone with a poof.

Preston crawled out of the bunker. "Pacifica, come here. We are going to have quite the talk before those filthy outsiders get in here-"

Suddenly Rainbow Dash tackled him to the ground. "Look at yourself, Preston Northwest, one of the richest people in the world. You have the power to influence world leaders and change the way things are done simply by being present. You could do so much in this world. And what do you do? You don't do anything! Even villains are better than you, at least they have some purpose to their life and power. You? You just sit here pretty in a town in the middle of nowhere, caring about nothing but your stupid reputation and class!

"And what's worse? You can't stand to think of your family name being anything other than dishonest, stuck up, rich, snobby, arrogant, and superior! It's so bad that you brainwashed your own daughter! That's so messed up I can't even- you know what? I'm done here."

She punched him, launching him across the room.

And then Pinkie leapt into the room, grinning. She unleashed seventeen party cannons on the room. "TIME FOR PARTY! WOOHOOOOOOO!"

And then party happened.

Pacifica took one look at her out-cold dad, shrugged, and decided to party with everyone else.

It was one of the best days of her life.

As the party wound down, Old Man McGucket approached the mane 6 and Lyra. "Hey uh…"

"What is it McGucket?" Twilight asked.

McGucket showed them the fully repaired laptop. On it was one thing: a timer.

23:42:12. 23:32:11. 23:32:10.

"Somethin' bad's happening…" He fretted.

"Something bad… tomorrow evening." Twilight observed. "Well then… Things just got interesting…"

"It has something to do with the Llama. I'm telling you." Lyra commented.

Sweetie Drops lowered her binoculars, taking out the camera.

Twenty-three hours. They had to act now.

She walked up to Powers and Trigger, who were in some absolutely abhorrent disguises. She bumped into them, sticking a secret message into each of their pockets.

The message was simple:

Tomorrow.

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Compiler's note: Well if that wasn't ominous...