"Yes, Elemental?" Time Steve asked.
"I sense some weird presence- Something, or someone, it's... weird," Elemental Steve replied.
"Hey, I'm back," Said Dark Steve, walking over to everyone. Meanwhile, Time Steve and Elemental Steve are still discussing in the meantime.
"Hey Dark, good to see you're back, what you been doing today?" Sabre asked.
"I just been talking to the other steves and been helping them out with things. Plus, I've been speaking to the leaders, getting to know them better as well. We've all moved on as well, since... y'know, our complicated history," Dark Steve replied. Sabre nodded, and was going to say something back, but he partially overhears what Time Steve and Elemental Steve are discussing.
"That's good Dark but uh- Time, Elemental, what's wrong? What are you talking about?" Sabre asked, everyone else also looking at them.
"I sense weird energy signatures, and it's not 'Discord' kind of weird," Elemental Steve replied.
"Oh, that don't sound good," Sabre thought to himself.
"We'll go check on it. Let's go, Elemental," Time Steve responded. Elemental Steve began striking lightning, teleporting himself and his brother.
The 2 are now in a swampy forest. They are only a few blocks away from an eroded path of gravel, podzol and course dirt blocks. The oak trees around them, despite being ancient, still had lush green leaves roofing over the swamp.
"Why have you taken us here, Elemental? We already know about this place," Time Steve questioned.
"Had to teleport a good sixty blocks away from where I sensed the weird signature, follow me," Elemental Steve answered with a whisper. Time Steve follows his brother, both walking slowly, looking out for anything. It is dark, and they can't see further than 10 blocks.
"We should go on the path. It'd save time."
"We don't know where that energy source is, or what it could do to us," Elemental Steve replied, rejecting Time Steve's suggestion, and still whispering.
They have been walking for a minute, keeping close to the eroded path, but a few blocks away. Then they could see what looks like a yellow glow, which casts out a shape from the pitch darkness of night time. The casted shape shows a 4 legged creature or sorts. It also appears to have 2 long curled horns. However, the lack of night from the night sky, plus the leaves blocking the dim light made it hard to show the whole creature. They could only see it's shape.
"You were right about something Elemental, but how did you sense that from such a distance?" Time Steve very quietly whispered.
"We're both technically Indigo Steves, connection in space time and so on- It doesn't matter, do we follow it?" Elemental Steve replied.
"We don't know what it can do. I'd say we should relay this back to the others. This is too weird," Time Steve stated.
"Who dares to intrude my land wielding such oppressive amounts of power? The power... I can sense it..." A voice echoes, and although the little light illuminated little of the dark, they could see 2 glowing bright pinkish purple eyes. Those eyes are seen glaring at whatever the creature is, the one Time Steve and Elemental Steve can't make out.
"Oh... you... welcome back. Have you got that bell? You know... it's of great importance to us..."
"Quiet, we don't know if anything else is around, but yes I do," The creature spoke with a slow, deep monotone voice.
"Let's go, while we still can," Elemental Steve whispered his suggestion to his brother.
"I agree Elemental, let's go. We should also check on the Interdimensional TV to see if we can make out what that creature could be," Time Steve responded, whispering back to his brother, silently teleporting out of the swampy forest.
Time Steve makes the teleportation take him and his brother straight infront of the Interdimensional TV, in the Time Dimension. Upon getting there, Time Steve is pressing and flicking all 3 buttons and levers that are opposite to the TV. Then the area he and Elemental Steve were at. However, they couldn't see anything there, not even the other 2 that were present.
"Uh... ah ha... uh- You saw that other creature Elemental, right?"
"Yeah, pretty sure I did. Why isn't it showing up?"
"Let's rewind it, maybe it'll show the creature then." Time Steve flicks the levers and presses the button to the left, rewinding the recording of that moment back as far as he could. Still, no sign of the creature.
"Maybe we're overthinking, Time?" Elemental Steve said with reluctance. He's sure that he seen this odd creature, but with it not even showing up on the recording, he's now uncertain.
"You're right, we're probably overthinking. The First Curse don't seem evil, not anymore at least- Pretty sure it was him, the one with the glowing eyes," Time Steve replied.
"Do we tell the others?" Elemental Steve asked.
"I think- Yes, we probably should. Maybe wait until tomorrow. Everyone's probably asleep right now," Time Steve stuttered as he replied. He isn't sure if what they seen is real, especially as the creature didn't show up on the Interdimensional TV.
(The next day)
Sabre wakes up, off of his king sized bed, lifting with the massive brown blanket of him with his left hand, then lifting head head off the 3 white fluffy soft pillows. He sits up right, with his legs still underneath the blanket.
"*Yawns*. Ah, today's a new day. I hope whatever it is Time and Elemental went to check has been figured out- Woah woah woah!" Lightning began striking on Sabre, and began teleporting him.
Sabre found himself in a large room. On each side are tall glass panes, and ahead are a small flight of stairs. Beneath him is a long red carpet the goes from the stairs on one end to the exit on the other end. On the throne is Twilight, with Spike to her right on a smaller throne.
"What's going on!? I just woke up!" Sabre yelled.
"Sorry, it's kinda impor- No, it is important," Time Steve responded, walking over to Sabre.
"Uh, where's Elemental, Time?" Sabre asked.
"He's at that friendship school thingy," Time Steve answered.
"Anyway, what's going on here!? I literally just woke up and then I just get... randomly teleported!" Sabre exclaimed, who is not too impressed. He had just barely woke up and then he gets dragged onto his feet.
"We're just waiting for everypony else to show up. Time and Elemental found something important," Twilight briefly put it. A portal with blue edges open, which Fluttershy and Discord came out of. Then the rest of the mane 6 show up, the tall doors at the entrance of the throne room opening as they came through.
"Sabre? It's been ages! How you doing?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"The usual and yeah, it's been a while. We all been busy, huh. It's good to see you all again," Sabre replied. The mane 6, Discord and Spike nodded.
"Hey everyone, sorry we called you all, but this is important," Time Steve started off.
"Has Calmness somehow turned back into-"
"I sure hope not!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, cutting Pinkie Pie off before she finished.
"No, but last night... me and Elemental saw a creature outside where the First Curse lives. We couldn't see what it was, other than it had two curled horns, and there was a yellow glow to them. It looked like it is from Equestria, so we thought you all might know," Time Steve explained.
"That is rather odd," Applejack responded.
"Discord, do you know what it may be?" Fluttershy asked, looking at the draconequus.
"Many creatures have curled horns, so I don't have a definitive answer. What they seen could literally be anything," Discord replied.
"We tried looking through footage on the Interdimensional TV, but nothing came up," Time Steve stated.
"Could it be Hypno Steve messing with you two then?" Pinkie Pie shared her thoughts.
"I very much doubt it darling. He hasn't been seen for a while," Rarity disagreed.
"With the amount of things Pinkie just predicts and it ends up being right, how could she be wrong?" Said Time Steve
"Look, if it's another bad guy, we can defeat them. I mean- We went against Madness Steve for crying out loud! What could be even worse than that?" Rainbow Dash stated, raising her voice with ego.
"Just because an enemy isn't as powerful as the last doesn't mean they aren't a problem," Spike replied.
"Calmness also said he'll only step in if something super major happens, Rainbow Dash," Sabre also replied.
"So, a creature with two curled horns and a yellow glow, hmm..." Twilight uses her magic and teleports several books to her location.
"I've read them all, and I don't see anything that indicates what this creature could be," Time Steve instantly responded.
"Wha... what? I'm sorry, but what?" Twilight knew Time Steve could read books very quick, but not that quick.
"I think Time paused... well, time. From there he probably just read the books really quick," Sabre assumed.
"Yep," Time Steve nodded. He did what Sabre assumed he did.
"Until we find out what it is, I'm saying it's Hypno messing with us," Pinkie Pie firmly stated, feeling pinkie certain that she is right.
"It is a fair guess," Rainbow Dash also thought Pinkie Pie is onto something.
"Applejack, you can tell easily whether someone's lying or not, right? Should we go and question the First Curse?" Sabre proposed his suggestion.
"That ain't a bad idea there Sabre," Applejack replied, agreeing to Sabre's idea.
"Okay, let's go talk to the First Curse. Time, take me and AJ to the swamp," Sabre ordered.
"Alright then," Time Steve responded, Sabre and Applejack getting close to Time Steve, who then summons lightning, teleporting to the swamp.
