3:20 pm the disorder living room of guest cottage on the grounds of Night Rose stable, Noble Ward, City of Canterlot, Capital city of Equestria
Since discovering that her sister Gem Cutter kidnapped Princess Blueberry Swirl Silverlight from the Canterlot Royal Palace, Black Rose and Gem Cutter have fought turning the living room of the guest cottage into a battlefield. Magic bolts fly through the air striking anything in the way blowing huge holes in the walls.
“Damn you Gem Cutter! do you know how hard our mother worked to get out from under grandfather’s dark shadow!” Black Rose said gruffly as a magic bolt passes inches over her horn.
“Get out from under grandfather’s dark shadow? HA!” Gem Cutter said bitterly as one of her sister’s bolts took out one side of the sofa she was hiding behind.
“Our family had an Empire before Celestia and Luna took it from us. Then it returned and once again it was taken from us by Celestia and Luna’s niece. Now sister, you bow to those that took our history from us. I am simply taking back what was taken from us; our dignity.” Gem Cutter said brazenly as she fired a bolt at her sister.
“Dignity! Our grandfather stole hope and love from the ponies he ruled. How is that dignity, Gem Cutter!?” Black Rose said hotly ducking the bolt fired at her.
“Sacrifice had to be made for the good of the empire!” Gem Cutter said ruthlessly as it caused Black Rose to charge up her most powerful bolt and fire it, taking out the back wall of the guest cottage. Quickly Gem Cutter jumps through the hole in the wall and runs off into the city.
Meanwhile back in the nursery, Blueberry’s small stomach begins to growl. She looks around the nursery for Black Rose and doesn’t see her anywhere.
“Mama...hungry...hungry...baby.” Blueberry said in her small voice as she gets to her hooves and walks out of the nursery into the busy hallway of the main house,
“Hungry...hungry...baby...mama.” Blueberry calls again trying to get some pony attention so they can feed her. When she doesn’t get any pony attention, she begins to cry as her stomach continues to growl.
Flustered with no pony paying attention to her, Blueberry stops crying and continues down the hallway to look for some pony to feed her. She comes to a door and peeks in, she spots a pale pink color.
“Mama...mama...mama...hungry.” Blueberry calls running towards the box thinking it’s her mother Celestia but runs into a box of fabrics instead. The box closes with Blueberry inside it as a protecting spell cast upon her by her mother kicks in forming a shield over her. The address on the box reads the Carousel Boutique Ponyville.
4:00 pm Solar Guard Wing, late Prince Justice Silverlight old command office, Canterlot Royal Palace, Royal Ward, City of Canterlot
Since the death of Prince Justice Silverlight, his old command office in the Solar Guard Wing of the Canterlot Royal Palace has remained empty and locked out of respect to the best Solar Guard Commander the unit ever had.
Now a light shines once again in the office. Sitting behind Justice’s desk was his wife Princess Celestia. Ever since the kidnapping of her baby Princess Blueberry the M.O. of the crime has felt oddly familiar to her like it has happened before. But she can’t put her hoof on it. After summoning up her inner strength, Celestia headed to her late husband’s office to get the answers she needs.
‘I know the kidnapping of my family member feels strangely familiar to me. it’s like I’m reliving an old case file. That Justice and I solved years ago, but where is that case file?’ Celestia thought flipping and reading through the many case files that she and Justice solved together.
A moment later walking into the Solar Guard Wing of the Royal Palace with her wings folded on her side was a white pegasi mare. She had a dark blue mane and tail with a sky blue streak running through her mane to the end of her tail. On her flank was a whirlwind cutie mark.
This Pegasi mare was Elite Scout Anita Stormchaser. She was an old foalhood friend of Justice from his homeland of Dream Valley and when commanding the Solar Guard unit Justice’s Executive Assistant. As Anita set hoof into the building she stops and notices the light coming out of Justice’s office. She quietly uses her wing like a hand and loads her leg mounted magic crossbow with a bolt.
Quietly she makes her way to Justice’s office door with crossbow at the ready. She kicks the door open and flicks on the light. To her surprise, looking through a huge pile of case files on the desk was Princess Celestia.
“Oh, Your highness! What are you looking for here?” Anita sounding upset as she unloads her crossbow and sets off the empty weapon.
“Huh!” Celestia exclaims,
“Oh, Lady Stormchaser. Could you help me find a kidnapping case file?” Celestia asks as Anita walks over to the very last filing cabinet and opens the bottom drawer with her hoof.
“What city your highness?” Anita inquires
“Ponyville, I think that’s where it happened?” Celestia answers as Anita searches through many case files in the drawer marked “kidnappings.” till she finds the case file from Ponyville. The folder was marked with a white diamond on it.
“Gasp! that’s a Gem Cutter case.” Anita exclaimed carrying the case file over to the desk in her wing to give it to Celestia.
“Your highness do you know who Gem Cutter is?” Anita exclaims as Celestia’s hopeful mood changes to sadness and she begins to cry.
“I know that name all too well, Lady Stormchaser. If she has my baby, blueberry will never come home again. I will never be able to hold my baby again. She took my precious little filly away from me (as visions of her baby’s final moments of life flood her mind). I am sorry baby; mommy was unable to save you. The only thing I can do now is hope some pony finds my baby’s body and bring it back to me so I can lay it to rest next to her father.” Celestia said heartbroken as she dissolves into tears.
4:30 pm that same day Carousel Boutique, home to Miss Rarity, Ponyville, land of Equestria, Carousel Boutique front room.
“Well it’s about time this box of fabrics from Manehattan arrived this will set back my delivery date a week. but I finally got them. I just have to work faster to complete the delivery.” A female voice said as the top of the box opens.
Looking into the box was the most beautiful unicorn ever with a purple mane and blue eyes. This unicorn is Miss Rarity the owner of the Carousel Boutique in Ponyville and the element of Generosity.
“Wahahaha!” Rarity exclaims as a tiny pair of scared light blue eyes stare back at her from beneath pieces of fabric in the box. Rarity uses her magic to carefully lift away the fabric revealing a scared baby unicorn filly grasping a piece of pale pink fabric in her front hoofs.
“I don’t remember ordering a filly, darling but you are one cute filly.” Rarity comments lifting the baby unicorn filly out of the box with her magic and setting her on the ground to get a better look that at her.
“You kind of look familiar to me my little filly. Who are you?” Rarity said as the baby unicorn filly’s tummy growls again.
“HUNGRY!...HUNGRY!...BABY!...MAMA!” The unicorn filly screams in a loud Canterlot voice that she picked up from her Aunt Luna. Quickly answering Rarity’s question who this filly belongs to.
After running out to get a few things she needs to feed the hungry baby filly, Rarity sits Blueberry down in Sweetie Belle’s old high chair in the kitchen of the Carousel Boutique. She watches Blueberry eat her foal food and drink cow milk out of a small plastic cup.
“Well darling, it looks like you answered my question for me on who you belong to.” Rarity comments.
“There’s only one pony who used a loud Canterlot voice when she spoke. From what Twilight told me, that pony was your aunt, Princess Luna. So that means you are Princess Blueberry Swirl Silverlight the baby daughter to her highness Princess Celestia Silverlight. So darling, what is a little princess doing in Ponyville away from her mother Princess Celestia? I know for a fact that Alicorn mother of yours will never just lose her little princess.” Rarity comments floating the dishes into the sink so she can wash them.
“Miss mama bye home go.” Blueberry said sadly clutching the Celestia plush toy Rarity sewed together for her from the pale pink fabric she was tightly holding in the box. Tears begin to fall from her light blue eyes as this is the first time she been away this long from her mother Celestia since birth.
“Oh Princess, don’t cry, .I’ll get you back to your mother, you just have to stay with me for a while, until Twilight and Spike get back to the castle, then Spike will send a letter to your mother, telling her you are in Ponyville and come pick you up at the Castle of Friendship.” Rarity said kindly as Blueberry cheers-up.
“Mama...mama...go...home...go...home.” Blueberry said excited as she hugs the Celestia plush toy and slowly drifts off to sleep with a gleeful smile on her tiny snout.
It’s a week later, a depressed Princess Celestia arrives at the Castle of Friendship with remaining members of her royal family half expecting to pick-up the body of her dead foal Blueberry killed by Gem Cutter. Celestia snaps at Twilight telling her to get on with it. She wants to get back to Canterlot so she can do what she had to do before it gets later. The sudden outburst from Celestia catches Twilight totally by surprise. She gestures her two royal guards to open the door.
As the door opens, Aurora’s jaw drops. Having trouble running toward her mother Celestia was Blueberry. Aurora grabs her mother’s head and turns it towards the foal. Her breath catches in her throat. Seeing her baby filly alive running toward her, her heart fills with joy. She gets to her hooves and runs towards her baby losing her horseshoes along the way. She slides on her belly towards Blueberry and scoops her up into her front hoofs as she hugs and kisses her over and over again.
“How? Can this be I thought my baby was dead? Gem Cutter kidnapped her and her hatred toward me would cost me my filly’s life. But she is alive and that’s the most important thing to me. I can hold my precious filly again.” Celestia said overjoyed but puzzled with this outcome.
“I don’t know how it happened Princess. I found your baby in a shipment of fabrics I bought about a month ago in Manehattan. It was lost in delivery, then this afternoon the shipment finally arrived from somewhere. When I opened it, grasping a piece of pale pink fabric was your baby, she was well cared for, but a bit hungry, so I fed her and watched her until Twilight and Spike returned to the castle.” Rarity explains as Celestia was thankful for the return of her baby, but was still very puzzle. How could her baby end up in a shipment of fabrics from Manehattan that was lost in delivery?
“But anyway, thank you for feeding and caring for my baby until I could come and get her, Miss Rarity.” Celestia said thankful hugging and kissing her baby again.
“Think nothing of it Princess, I am happy I was finally able to pay back your late husband Justice. He risked his life to save my sister Sweetie Belle all those years ago after she was kidnapped by Gem Cutter.” Rarity explains as she leaves the throne room of the Castle of Friendship and heads back home.