//------------------------------// // Act 2: 2 New Babies and 1 New Enemy // Story: My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic: THE MOVIE // by DakariKingMykan //------------------------------// ACT TWO Once at the palace, they were warmly welcomed and Twilight panicked in worrying if the queen was all right. Dr. Penny was there, and getting ready to deliver the baby. She explained to her that everything would be fine. Then she proceeded into the royal bedroom where the queen lay ready to give birth. Grand Ruler Celesto and everyone else had to remain outside. Grand Ruler was very excited after all this time of waiting, his child was finally coming. The friends waited anxiously, and found it hard to keep their voices down. Even Goldwin was there. “I’ve never seen a baby foal before. Gee, this is so exciting.” he said softly. “No Joke.” said Buddy Rose “I wouldn’t miss this for anything. Well, except maybe my garden being danger.” Lightning was very happy for his mentor. “After all these years, you’ll have a full-fledged family of your own.” He said. Grand Ruler smiled “Yes…” he said “But don’t forget Lightning, I’ve always had a family of my own. You and everyone else have always been like family to me, and you Lightning, were always like a foster son to me, and I will always cherish that; always.” Lightning smiled, but suddenly everyone could hear the soft muffled cries of a newborn baby coming from the bedroom. “Ah! The baby’s here! The baby’s here!” cried Pinkie as she bounced all over the placed. Rarity halted her with her magic and reminded her “Hush, Pinkie.” “Sorry!” Pinkie peeped softly Dr. Penny came out of the room, everyone anxiously gazed at her and she proudly said “…It’s a girl.” Everyone softly began giggling and cheering softly. Rarity’s eyes twinkled lovingly “A girl?!” she squeaked “Oh, how simply wonderful!” “Gosh…” said Fluttershy “A new princess of United Equestria.” She held hands of her colt-friend, Rhymey who said… “What can I say? This is a proud and wondrous day.” Grand Ruler felt tears of happiness coming to his eyes “A daughter. I have a daughter.” Suddenly, Princess Luna came to the door hollering Penny to come back and quick as something strange was happening. Penny dashed back in slamming the door shut leaving everyone outside feeling worried. “What do you think is going on?” asked Dyno. “Ay’ Ay’ Ay’! I hope it is not serious.” said Myte. This made Twilight worry if maybe the queen was ill, or the baby? “No!” she cried “Please let them be okay.” “It’s okay, Twilight.” Spike said trying to comfort “Don’t go worrying yourself.” Grand Ruler stood perfectly still with his whole body filled with worry and his nerves were going crazy. Soon, they all heard more baby cries, and Princess Luna was the one to emerge this time. “Luna.” Her brother-in-law asked “My wife-- is she…?” Luna smiled warmly “Fear not. Celestia is fine, and you have a son.” “What?!” snapped Rainbow Dash. “But, didn’t Dr. Penny say it was a girl?” asked Artie. Luna nodded “A boy, and a girl; twins!”  Grand Ruler began to chuckle warmly and happily “My goodness.” he cried “I… I… need another cradle I guess.” “Congratulations, Master!” cheered Lightning. “Two new foals!” cried Twilight, and everyone went wild with cheering but tried their best to keep it soft. It wasn’t long before Celestia was out of bed, feeling all better. She stood by her husband’s side out on the terrace overlooking the crowds below and the two of them raised the babies up high for all to see.  Their son; Prince Castor; a white alicorn with a blonde mane and brown eyes, and their daughter; Princess Leilani; also white but with a pink mane and violet eyes. They both each had only one horn and were both humanoid like, and both their names had the same meaning as their parents’ names “Heavenly” The crowds went positively wild with cheers and fireworks went off, even though it was midday. The Wonderbolts flew overhead as a salute to the newborns and with them was the new cadet, Rainbow Dash who had finally earned her lifelong dream, and she even performed a special Sonic Rainboom; though she remained loyal to Starfleet too. A couple of nights later a gala ball was held in celebration of the newborns. Artie brought his canvas and paints. He just had to paint this lovely scene to commemorate this date. Other Ponies and other creatures from all over were gathered, and many leaders of the many nations of United Equestria came to offer their gifts to the newborns, including Princess Cadance and Shining Armor who came visiting from the New Crystal Empire, and offered the children each two special heart-shaped lockets made of gold, which Cadance had enchanted to ensure that her little cousins would grow up peacefully with love and harmony by their side.  Buddy Rose even offered Celestia a very big, very special bouquet of flowers he had grown just for the occasion. “Why, Buddy Rose, they’re lovely.” She said as she accepted his gift and sniffed the sweet fragrance. Buddy Rose bowed to his queen saying “If I fertilized them right, they’ll last a long time.” Then he took a moment to bow to Grand Ruler. “You know, I haven’t seen this much excitement since your royal wedding.” Grand Ruler was inclined to agree. Goldwin couldn’t take his eyes off of the twins. “So this is how real ponies start out.” he said “They’re so cute.” He slowly moved his head forward to get a closer look, and Castor liked Goldwin’s mask so much, that he reached up with his little hands and pulled it off him, turning Goldwin back into a golden statue. Everyone couldn’t help but giggle at how cute and funny that was. Celestia gently took the mask away from her little son. “Now, now, you give that back. It doesn’t belong to you.” she said softly. She then placed the mask back on Goldwin’s face and said the magic words with everyone else… “Powers of life, now begin awaken the magic from within!” …And Goldwin came back to life. “What happened?” he asked feeling startled “Oh, I remember. Castor took my mask.” Everyone chuckled, and Goldwin remembered that the babies didn’t know about his magic mask. He would just have to be more careful. Shining Armor couldn’t help but give Twilight a noogie “Looks like you’re not the littlest princess anymore.” he teased “You’ll be doing the foal-sitting now.” Twilight blushed and giggled. It was true had been offered a part time job as a foal-sitter by Queen Celestia, and Lightning agreed to watch over the library for those days. Twilight couldn’t stop gazing at the babies and wiggling playfully her finger at them and they playfully reached for her giggling. And Twilight and Cadance both softly sang their favorite rhyme to the babies. “Sunshine, Sunshine! Ladybugs awake Clap your hands and do a little shake.” But the moment they said “shake” did the ground start to quake. The babies began to cry in fear as the main doors burst wide open letting in stormy winds which blew fiercely. Pinkie Pie felt her whole body twitching “Ooh, something bad is coming. Really bad!” she cried. “Really, we didn’t notice.” Starla said as lightning and thunder struck. At once all the lights went out, and suddenly, in the middle of the room appeared a Draconequus. He looked rather like Discord, but much younger, smaller in size-- about the same size as their royal majesties-- His colors were inverted to that of Discord’s. He had no beard, and no buck tooth, and around his neck a string was a large glowing red orb.  Fluttershy was quivering in fear. “Who… who is that?” “I don’t know, but I don’t like the looks of him.” Lightning said. Grand Ruler angrily sneered “Who dares to enter unannounced?” The creature snickered softly “Now, now, your majesty. Is that really anyway to use your voice near the little ones?” Celestia calmed the children down and left them for Cadance and Shining Armor to watch over while she joined her husband. “Who are you? Why have you come here?” “Oh, my, where are my manners?” the creature said sarcastically “If you must know, my name is Distraught. I have traveled a vast distance across dimensional space search for my father, Discord.” “Father?” snapped Twilight “Discord was your father?” Distraught glared at her angrily “Yes, he was!” he put a heavy emphasis on the “was” He knew the whole story and that his father was dead; murdered at the hands of all the ponies of United Equestria. “You horrid, miserable creatures killed my father; the most glorious creature in the universe. He promised happiness and peace and all the glory for all.” Everyone began to feel Distraught was highly confused, but Distraught told the tale of how he and his kind, the Draconequui, were not originally part of what used to be planet Equestria. Their origin dated to a distant dimensional planet called Khaos, where all they ever did was laugh, and play and enjoy themselves all day long, doing as they pleased and brought joy to all their kind. His father, Discord promised to teach his son all about the magic of bending reality and making all your dreams come true after he would return from what he believed was a diplomatic mission, to spread the joy he gave his people to the universe, but the days turned to weeks, then to months, years, decades, centuries and his father never returned! Centuries ago Distraught realized that something awful must have happened to his father, and decided to go searching for him, promising to bring his father back, however, as he was unskilled in the art of reality-bending, he would require a different source of power. That’s when his mother gave him a special red orb, the same one he wore around his neck. The Red Chaos Orb; which was one of two powerful orbs that possessed extraordinary powers. Not as powerful as reality bending, but power enough for him to take on his journey to find Discord. His search took him across space to many dimensional worlds and galaxies, but he never found as much as a clue to the whereabouts of his father. However, upon happening upon a blazing planet, he did happen to notice a monstrous dragon that seemed, there was no mistaking it, it was his father, and he noticed Grand Ruler and Celestia along with several pony friends battling with him and sending him crashed down to the blazing planet causing it to explode and taking the life of his father with him. Their majesties, even Lightning and a few of his friends realized it was obviously Unicornicopia, moments before it exploded from Discord’s attack. They had just barely escaped with their lives. Distraught continued to say that he hurried back to planet Khaos to inform his people of what happened, only to find the most horrific sight he had ever laid his eyes on. His people, all his people… dead! Even his poor mother was gone. He was the only one left! All he could hear was a sinister voice that told him telling him that the ponies did this, by destroying Discord, and all those who had learned how to bend reality from him, and he should seek his revenge, and once the ponies were destroyed would his people return. Distraught didn’t know what to think or do, or even where that voice had come from. Everyone in the room couldn’t help but feel bad for Distraught, especially Lightning; knowing what it was like to lose your whole world and all your people, but the idea that an entire would die out all because of the death of but one was totally ridiculous. “My father was destroyed by you, and with his downfall went my entire race, and I intend to see you pay for it!” Distraught growled. “You don’t know what kind of creature your father was at all.” Lightning snapped at him. “He was an honorable creature.” Distraught said, still not knowing the full truth “He would have lead the universe to a grand age of endless joy and blissful glee if not for you wretched beasts!” It became perfectly obvious that he was not willing to listen to anyone about the truth regarding his father. Distraught was now laughing sinisterly as he stated “This is declaration of war, United Equestria. I plan to do horrible things to you and any other race of your allegiance.” “You don’t scare us.” said Twilight “We’ve faced bigger bad guys than you. Do your worst.” Distraught snarled at her and held up his orb. “With this, even my weakest magic is enough to blast the soul clean out from your body. Trust me; you do not want my worst! Then again, perhaps I’ll do just that anyway, and slowly but surely bring your world and all who reside in it down to their knees.” Grand Ruler could feel his anger and hatred rising. He glared at the evil creature and warned him “You put one foot wrong, and Starfleet will hunt you down!” This only made Distraught laugh more. “Don’t think for one minute that I am intimidated. Allow me to demonstrate as small sample of my power.” He waved his hands over the red orb and it began to glow brightly sending out a wave red light in all directions spreading all over the kingdom, and then, nothing seemed to happen at all. “What was that?” asked Spike. “What’s going on here?” wondered Shining Armor. Distraught chuckled “…Consider yourselves warned. This is the beginning… of your end” He laughed loud and hard as vanished out of sight. The minute he was gone did the lights come back on again, and everyone began to feel very worried and confused. So many questions were still unanswered, and the number one question of all was what sort of spell did he just cast? Grand Ruler and the Queen did not wish to take any chances, and immediately canceled the rest of the gala and ordered everyone to return home to safety due to the imminent threat and intended to issue matters of high security everywhere.  Cadance and Shining Armor promised to do the same for the New Crystal Empire and decided to head home immediately via Krysta’s warping portals, but Lightning, Twilight and friends were invited to remain at the palace for the night, as their services were going to be needed the most. “Guys, we’ve got serious work to do.” Lightning said, and the others couldn’t agree more.