(Twilight Sparkle's Castle, Basement)
Twilight Sparkle woke up again, this time hearing a loud buzzing sound followed by several banging noises. She knew Burning Star was the source of it and walked downstairs, her mane was a mess. She followed the sounds into the basement, and knocked on the door.
"Burning Star! Knock it off! It's 4:30 in the morning." Twilight said, putting her hooves to her ears, trying to block out the ear-piercing noise.
The screeching sound stopped, and Burning Star opened the door, he was wearing welding goggles.
"Oh, sorry about that Twilight. I was working on my gift I was going to give to the Cutie Mark Crusaders... You need something?"
Twilight Sparkle let curiosity get the better of her as she asked, "Can I see what you're working on in there?"
Burning Star looked perplexed, "You want to see my inventions? Are you sure about that Twilight? Some of the stuff in here is pretty dangerous."
Twilight puffed out her chest and said, "I'm an Alicorn princess," she walked inside. "I think I can handle anything that... you... have."
Those words died in her mouth as a rack with a dragon skeleton was hanging in front of her, his teeth were as long as Twilight was tall. All around her, there were pieces of technology strewn on the wall and floor.
She gasped out and said, "how did you get ALL of this down here without me noticing?"
Burning Star said in the most smug tone he could, "I have my ways Twilight... I have my ways..."
Twilight Sparkle looked on the rack up against the wall, there was a cover on something obviously made of some sort of metal. Burning Star wrapped it up in thick rope with his magic and brought a large freight cart out. He then picked up the gifts with his magic and lowered them into the cart. He then cast a teleportation spell and it landed outside.
Twilight Sparkle asked her companion, "sooooo, what are those gifts exactly?"
Burning Star gave Twilight Sparkle a smug grin, "you see soon enough, I recall that you asked me about how I came to be King Sombra's student yes?"
Twilight nodded and pulled out a pen and paper, "yes. Are you ready to tell me more about your past? You left off at Romane Fire being taken from your village."
Burning Star inhaled, "Yes. Groups from all sides wanted the last of the Romane Fire. But, we wouldn't give up without a fight. My parents assembled a rebellion and we fought back against the Changelings. The battle was long and there were many casualties on both sides. I even went hoof to hoof with their Queen!"
Burning Star's mane was about to ignite, so Twilight stepped back. "But the queen did something that made me who I am today... she killed my parents right in front of me."
Twilight stopped writing as tears started to well up in her eyes. "So what happened afterwards?"
Burning Star's face contorted into a angry grimace. "That's when IT happened..."
Twilight Sparkle asked her now flaming unicorn companion, "It?"
Burning Star turned towards the sky and pointed his horn skyward, Twilight took cover as Burning Star inhaled.
"MY FIRE POWERS FINALLY BLOSSOMED!" He roared as he blasted a giant beam of fire into the air, which detonated mid air and caused a noise that probably woke up everyone in the entire kingdom.
Burning Star stepped forward with his mane ablaze, "I felt as if I was reborn! I was so full of hatred and anger towards the Changeling Queen, that I lashed out with a blast of fire so intense it incinerated everything in front of it, including the entire village and all the Changelings that Attacked my village. I killed them all without mercy!"
He lifted his horn, eyes full of fire. "And then tore out the Changeling Queen's heart with my horn and smashed it under my hoof!"
Burning Star finally calmed down, his blue eyes welling up with tears, "then... the townsfolk made me the monster. They drove me out and I wandered the wilderness on my own."
Twilight asked her companion, "how old were you when this happened?"
Burning Star put his head on Twilight Sparkle's shoulder, "I was 18 years old..."
Twilight Sparkle put her wing around her acquaintance and dried his tears, "it's ok Burning Star... I'm sorry you lost your parents, they must have loved you a lot."
Burning Star got up and took a deep breath, "They did... thanks Twilight Sparkle... you're the best friend I've ever had."
(Carousel Boutique, Ponyville)
Burning Star was once again, writing in his notebook with his raven feather pen.
"Day 3"
"After laughing my flanks off with Pinkie Pie yesterday... I'm off to see Rarity, the element of generosity. I remember her, she was the one who walked in on me taking a shower. Hopefully, she did not see my back, then she would know that I'm a..."
Twilight Sparkle pulled on Burning Star's ear, "will you hurry up! Jeez, it feels as if you keep lagging behind me to prevent me from seeing what you're writing."
To Burning Star, The carousel boutique was a cute little building, with its ribbons and banners on the outside of it, although it was nothing compared to Twilight's castle, it certainly showed that Rarity was a wealthy pony.
Twilight Sparkle opened the door to the dress shop and called out, "Rarity! You here?"
Burning Star stepped in and was immediately ambushed by three fillies hiding among the dress racks. "Gah!" He said as They jumped on him and tackled him to the ground.
"Did we get him good?" Said The runt Pegasus known as Scootaloo.
"Yep look at him, he's positively petrified." Said the young unicorn known as Sweetie Belle
"I dare say he's scared senseless. But, why is he glowing?" Said the young earth pony Apple Bloom.
Twilight Sparkle grabbed the three young ponies before Burning Star ignited his mane and tail.
Burning Star went outside to literally blow off steam, when he returned he approached the fillies and said, "i don't like surprises... I really don't like surprises."
Rarity entered the main lobby and greeted Twilight warmly, "Twilight darling! Good to see you." She looked over and saw Burning Star standing outside, There were gifts on a cart out there.
Burning Star saw Rarity come outside to check out what he was towing to the door. Rarity said in a serious tone, "oh... its you."
Burning Star smirked and said to the alabaster Unicorn, "you enjoy the Show the other day, Rarity?"
He was rewarded with a slap to the face.
Rarity huffed out a response. "Oh how rude! To think that I would actually enjoy such a sight of such... vulgarity."
Burning Star smiled, "anyways... I came to learn about generosity and I came prepared."
Rarity walked over to the cart and asked, "Dear. What is in here exactly?"
Burning Star replied in a kind tone, "a few gifts for the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Where are the little fillies?"
Rarity shouted inside, "Sweetie Belle! Scootaloo! Apple Bloom! Burning Star has some gifts for you!"
Within seconds, the Three little ponies rushed out the door and stopped in front of Burning Star.
Burning Star picked up a box wrapped in a red ribbon and gave it to Apple Bloom. "Here you go, a box of Crystal Apple Seeds as well as a guide as to how to plant them. These things are really tasty, they also make really strong cider, even Rainbow Dash would keel over from the cider these things can be turned into."
Apple Bloom gave Burning Star's leg a hug, "Thanks Mister! Maybe your not as bad as the rumors say..."
Burning Star leaned in and asked, "Rumors?"
Apple Bloom nodded, "yep. Some ponies said that you destroyed the path leading to the Everfree Forest as well as smashed the Ponyville gate. That wasn't you?"
Burning Star shook his head, then moved on to Sweetie Belle, "I wanted to give you this Sweetie Belle." He said as he pulled a bag out of the freight cart and gave it to her. "This is a bag of Firebrand Gems from my home, we had tons of these lying around so I wanted to give them to you."
Sweetie Belle Looked into the bag and saw a small pile of red-orange gems. She smiled with glee, "thanks Mr Burning Star!"
Scootaloo walked up to Burning Star and said, "what about me?"
Burning Star said to the little Pegasus, "unfortunately I don't have my gift for you here. Its back at the castle."
Scootaloo bent down and went into a running position, "I will race you there!"
Burning Star went into the same position and the two sprinted off towards Twilight's Castle.
Rarity walked over to Twilight and said, "He certainly is learning fast. I'm impressed darling. You're teaching this fire unicorn to cool it."
She leaned in closer to Twilight's face, "I think he also "likes" you."
Twilight blushed, "well... I wouldn't say that yet! But, there are hints that he does. I'm just not sure that he is ready to admit it yet..."
(Twilight's Castle, Backyard)
Scootaloo reached the backyard first, Burning Star close behind her. She saw a large metal rack with a cover over it. When Burning Star caught up she said, "what is that?"
Burning Star walked over to the metal rack and grabbed the cover. "Well I heard that you can't fly because your wings aren't growing correctly. So, i decided that my gift to you would be extra special. Well I thought that I could lend a hoof. Since you're all giving me back my life. I would repay you..."
Scootaloo was practically smiling ear to ear, "What's under the sheet? What do you mean you can fix my wings?"
Burning Star grabbed the cover and pulled it off the rack, revealing a pair of metallic plates. "By giving you back the skies!"
Scootaloo's jaw dropped and her eyes went wide, sitting in front of her was a pair of metallic wings!
"A-a-are those wings for me!" She said, eyes wide.
Burning Star unhooked the wings, there appeared to be metal needles attached to the bottom of the wing shafts. "These are still experimental, but these are wings that were crafted to allow other ponies other than Pegasi and Alicorns, to fly. It's called the Magitek Aerial Movement Augments, or M.A.M.A for short."
Scootaloo looked confused, "so, how are these going to let me fly?"
Burning Star said with some concern in his voice, "if you let me, I will augment these to your existing wing nerves and the magitek wire will attach them to your spine. You'll be able to control them as if they were actual natural wings! But, it's going to hurt a lot. You sure you want to do this?"
Scootaloo turned to Burning Star and said, "yes! I want to fly. I wanted to fly for so long and now you're saying that these metal wings can let me fly? I'll do it!"
Burning Star winced, realizing what he was about to do, he saw Twilight and Rarity as well as Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle run up to him.
Rarity said in a worried tone, "what are you doing to Scootaloo?"
She looked at the metal wings in Burning Star's magic grasp, "what are those?"
Burning Star said with pride, "these are magitek wings, they would let non-Pegasi fly, but I modified them for Scootaloo. She was just about ready to let me implant them when you showed up."
Twilight Sparkle pushed Burning Star backwards, "What! Implant! Like these things are going to dig into Scootaloo's flesh?! That sounds painful!"
Burning Star nodded, "yes. Extremely painful, but they will work. Are you ready Scootaloo?"
The orange pegasus nodded, putting on a brace face, "if I have to go through extreme pain to be able to fly, so be it."
Burning Star lifted the wings over Scootaloo's wing stubs and closed his eyes as he shoved them into the wing stubs.
Scootaloo contorted in agony as the Magitek dug under her skin and into her flesh. She was crying from the pain. Rarity tried to go help, but Burning Star blocked her.
"No! If we stop now, Scootaloo could be paralyzed! We need to keep going!"
The magitek wings fit tight over Scootaloo's stubs as they sat limp and Scootaloo collapsed, before struggling to her feet.
Burning Star asked the orange pegasus, "You ok Scootaloo?"
Scootaloo tried to flap her wings, they went up and down, smoothly and fluidly. Twilight's jaw was on the floor, she couldn't believe it.
Burning Star approached Scootaloo and said carefully, "now I need to run a few tests to see if they are properly coupled to your spine, so don't move..."
Scootaloo was overjoyed that she had wings and she said while flapping for takeoff, "ALRIGHT!" Scootaloo said, taking off with a burst of wind.
She dashed in and out of the clouds, "this is awesome! This is amazing! I can fly! I can actually fly!"
Burning Star smiled and said to Rarity, "did I pass?"
Rarity said, tears in her eyes, "you got a perfect score."
With that, Burning Star gave her a hug, and then walked towards the door of the castle.
Twilight asked him, "where are you going?!"
Burning Star responded, "I'm going to bed. I'm bushed..."
Twilight laughed and watched Scootaloo do loops and dives before landing in front of her, her new magitek wings folded up as if they were real.
Scootaloo said to Twilight and her friends, "I'm going to go flying some more! I'll see you in the morning!"
Twilight Sparkle walked inside after saying goodbye to Rarity and the other fillies, she caught Burning Star looking at Scootaloo from his balcony.
Twilight said to her very kind, very generous companion, "you did good Burning Star... you did good."
Burning Star turned towards Twilight and said, "I know. But you're the one who taught me..."
Suddenly, Twilight got a full on kiss from Burning Star! He then left the balcony and went into the bathroom to take a shower. Twilight Sparkle just stood there, stunned.
"Uh... thanks Burning Star... oooh..." Twilight said, blushing hard enough for her face to be confused with Big Macintosh's.