Chapter 10 (Goodbyes Are Not the End)
Appearing at the base of the Spirit Tree, the four went ahead to return back to their homes to rest while the group had to were crowding around Espie. "Looks like this is goodbye, my pony friends. It's time for me to send all of you back." She was reluctant to let them go back as she cherished their friendships but had to. They had their normal lives to resume living, their normal lives to return back to.
Espie felt very downhearted and ran to Fluttershy to hug her, feeling most closely bonded with her. "Fluttershy, thank you for taking care of me while I was injured. I'll miss you…"
She started tearing, lamenting to have to leave Fluttershy and all the other pony friends. Espie ran to hug each and everypony before finally getting back the courage to continue.
Wiping off her tears, she bravely proceeded to bring them back to Equestria.
"I will bring you all back to Ponyville in just a moment. Before we go, there are different temporal timelines between Nibel and Equestria. So a day here is a week in Equestria. Just give me a moment to adjust the spacetime coordinates to when and where we started on our trip so that you don't lose any amount of time in Ponyville for coming here."
Espie calibrated the staff to the precise time that they left for the Nibel trip and warped them through the spatial and dimensional expanse, reappearing at Twilight's crystal castle shortly.
"Espie, thank you for the enjoyable trip to Nibel. It was exhilarating. Now, I would need to return back to Canterlot. I would need to go now. See all of you again!" She flew up into the sky and back to her palace in Canterlot.
"I guess we y'all need to say goodbye sometime, whether we like it or not," Applejack said solemnly.
They had a final talk with each other and bid farewell. "Twilight, can you wait here a moment, I have something to discuss with you."
The rest of the Mane Six left, leaving Twilight and Spike behind with her.
Espie took out a luminescent pendant from her bag. "This is an energy stone pendant. I have infused this with Spacetime energy so that you and your friends may one day return to visit Nibel or time travel in cases of emergencies. Keep it with you, make it secretive within your Mane Six group. Keep it in good paws, but in your case, keep it in good hooves."
She hung the pendant around Twilight's neck, bidding farewell and warped instantaneously from Ponyville back to Nibel.
She returned back to the Spirit Tree where Ethos was left standing for a while.
Espie was ready for another adventure - this time with Ethos.
"Ethos, shall we go for another adventure?"
"Sure! But now just after one adventure?"
"Yup! Let's go!"
She used her staff and opened a portal, allowing both of them to step into a dimensional space where there were all sorts of rifts, anticipating more adventure in the next dimension where they were going.
Floating in the dimensional expanse, Espie and Ethos flew towards a big dimensional bubble that seemed to be the most interesting place to go out of all the rifts they could go to.
(Continues in the ES 2.2 - Espie and the Pokémon Adventures, coming in 2017)