//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: A Celestial Surrogate // by Blueprint_ //------------------------------// With the feeling sudden weight being pushed against his joints his entire body spasming and jerking forward as if he had been shocked. Blueprint eyes snapped violently open as he felt his wings flare out in panic a tear rolling down his cheek. Blueprint bycicled his hooves his breathing erratic and short. MUST FLY! FLY! GET AWAY! His mind screamed with his fight or flight instincts taking over and up was the only option. His heart beat pounding into his ears and drowning out all other sounds he began flapping his wings mindlessly. Blueprint strained but could not achieve any altitude his heart racing more like quivering in his chest a loud but steady rapid beep rapped in time with his heartbeat. Floundering over the side of the bed and onto his hooves just about spring him off the ground to take flight a tight cylinder of a brown hoof pushed down right between his wings making them go limp no matter how hard Blueprint tried to flap. Blinded by the dream Blueprint still felt like he needed to get away from falling to the ground. Arching his back away from the hoof that pushed him down he tried to get away from it scraping his hooves down across the marble floors getting nowhere mewling and whinning loudly like a scared foal. "Blueprint, your alright. Your just dreaming" Doctor whooves said slowly and quietly almost whispering trying to coax Blueprint slowly out of the dream. "Blueprint" Doctor whooves spoke again softly. Slowly like unwinding a clock Blueprint began to come out of the dream the grogginess set in and Blueprint stopped struggling under Doctor Whooves hoof and laid himself flat against the marble floor laying his head down. Doctor Whooves reluctantly released some of the pressure off of Blueprints back. Blueprint lay still unmoving, unblinking and hardly breathing still trapped in a slight mixture of fear and confusion of what events had just occured. Blueprint was unfocused in his vision but was coming to grips with reality. A slight shake had embedded itself in Blueprints spine causing his vision to ripple slightly everytime it coursed through him. "Blueprint?" Doctor Whooves asked more of as a question with a concerned look in his eyes and even more obviously on his face. He studied Blueprint closely to make sure Blueprint was still alive. At hearing his name called, Blueprint fully snapped back to reality completley. The large white washed marble room the Doctor had called his wing filtered back into place. A bed sat invitingly to Blueprints right and an I.V was stuck into his hoof probably keeping him hydrated. Blueprint blinked a couple times trying to grasp what happend but his memory was lost to him such as normal for dreams not to be remembered always. "Doctor?" Blueprint asked looking up at him craning his neck using his breath to throw his wild mane out of his face. "Yes Blueprint?" Doctor hooves looked down at him seemingly unfazed by the events that had just occured. Though supposing one as old as he pretty much left you with nothing new in the universe to experience even with all that timey whimey stuff. "What just happend, why am I on the floor?" Blueprint asked cautiously with intrepid curiousity. "You had quite the vivid dream." Doctor Whooves stated planely unwilling to budge on the subject even though Blueprint began to pester him about it. "Your aunt Luna wishes to see you" Doctor Whooves said in mild irritation after nearly shoving his hoof in Blueprints mouth or possibly drugging him back to sleep again. Aunt Luna or Auntie Luna as Blueprint had taken to calling her waiting in almost anticipated impatience. Her silver clad hooves scraped against the marble as Luna waited her starry mane flowed in a unseen breeze. She got bored and sat her flank against the cool tiles of marble and decided to wait patiently by balancing a book on the end of her snout and practice the art of not moving in order to keep the book as still as possible. As childish as it was, it was a wonderful past time with the royal sisters generally going for days on end. Coughing lightly Luna nearly dropped the book on the floor and caught it with her magic before it struck the tiles and levitated it back to the shelf. Another soft cough emanated from the door way as the speaker was trying to supress laughter. With a sudden rush of grey pegasi in her face Blueprint errupted with glee. "AUNT LUNA AUNT LUNA! YOU CAME TO SEE ME!" Blueprint shouted at the top of his lungs nearing the point of the canterlot voice. Excitement poured out of him like waves of energy genuinly eager to see his aunt, related or not. "Hast Thou not expected your dearest Luna to come see thy blueprint?" She questioned raising one of her eyebrows Blueprint raced around Luna in circles nuzzling at her affectionatly with a big smile. "That ist better" Luna said quietly pulling Blueprint into a large hug and she in return showered him with love and affection. "I hath come to give thou a break from being couped up in here all day with Doctor Whooves" She said jokingly poking fun at the doctor. "Come Blueprint" Luna said more as a command. Thus Bluprint followed her. Doctor Whooves went back to his desk and looked down at the open brown leather notebook sitting amongst the clutter. A sneer on his face as he began to read his passage that he wrote: After running tests on Blueprints DNA and genetics as well as blood it appears that Blueprint is not 100% pony. His DNA has been changed and spliced together with what appears to be an unidentifiable source. From the UDNAS (Unidentifiable DNA Source) I was able to understand that it changes the appearence and attributes of the carrier. At this point I am unsure whether this is a contagion or not, after running more tests it appears it is not spreadable through bodily fluids nor is it a virus but i cannot say that it is 100% safe because it may be spreadable through the transmission of blood. Futher tests and studies are required into how this new strain of DNA works. However; I was able to take a strain of my own DNA and put it under a microscope against Blueprints after I coded each of our DNA's to show what traits were placed where. When the two strains collided the UDNAS took the more prominent of my traits and added them to its own carriers DNA. However it did not take the parts of my DNA to change the carriers appearence only certain traits are taken like hearing or vision; or in our case it took a pegasi's wings and then compared those wings to Blueprints small frame and rejected those wings so it modified the DNA it was trying to take into something that would suit the carriers body better. This gave the carrier the perfect set of wings for his body at this time, it is unknown if the wings will adapt and grow as the carrier does. I destroyed our particular strain with acid i poured into the tray. The UDNAS seems to not always take the traits of another ponys DNA when the collision happens. I am afraid that this may affect what these ponies call a "Special talent" because if the UDNAS were to adjust or add to Blueprints special talent it could have severe consequences. Blueprint already seems to be able to learn just about anything with a spell that was embedded into his cortex aswell as the blueprinting spell; which ill assume is why his name is Blueprint. If the UDNAS and the spell were used together as an example if Pony A had the ability to heal. Then the UDNAS would be able to take that spell thats used from Pony A and add it to his cortex of spells. Think of it as accelerated learning but not as quickly as Twilight Sparkle. Though I have noticed there are limitations to my theory. These are due to Blueprints brain already having disabilities which I will have to look into in depth. Whatever pony did this to him as a science project I am intruiged to meet but they are without a doubt a monster for doing this to Blueprint. On a side note: I believe Twilight Sparkle is the best suited teacher for Blueprint at this time. With a snort he shut the notebook and rewrapped the black cord around it to keep it shut disgusted but intruiged by what was actually going on. Dropping the book back onto the table Doctor Whooves walked out into the night on his balcony and overheard two ponies speaking. One with quite excitement and one speaking with controlled amusement. "Aunt Luna! What is that con...conste...constellation!" Blueprint asked in awe of his aunts knowledge of the stars. Well it was her night sky after all. "That is the Ursa major constellation, and if you look to the right that is the star Sirius" Luna said her body language soft and she she smiled as she spoke; it had been awhile since anypony took as much excited interested as Blueprint did. "Wowwwww" Blueprint said in a breathy voice overwhelmed that his aunt had made this all and made it every night. "Would you like to see a star up close?" She asked looking down at him her eyebrows raised as she flicked her wings and huddled Blueprint closer to her. Blueprint nodded so furiously it caused him to sneeze. Which made Luna erupt in a fit of giggles and she ruffled the hair on Blueprints mane. She placed her hooves together and a bit of alicorn magic caused the air around them to suck into a visible sphere between her hooves. "What are you doing?" Blueprint inquired "Just watch" Luna spoke as she concentrated on the whirling ball of gasses as it suddenly erupted from the center expanding outwards till it touched her whooves and then it shrank back slightly pulsing with light and energy. "You see, stars are nothing more than a ball of gas that is on fire. Now this is not a complete star but it will burn indefinitly using the air around it to fuel itself. The Stars I have up there in the night sky use what is called fisson to burn." Luna spoke informativly looking down at Blueprint who was eyeing the faux star with curiousity and wonder and the star that was burning a cool blue color and was white in the center for it was an easily understood concept to explain it that way to the younger ponies. "This is also a cold star, it is called that because it emits nearly no heat above 80 degrees E." She spoke much like a teacher would to a student. "Aunt Luna" Blueprint said looking up at her barely able to tear his eyes away from the star. "Yes Blueprint?" Luna asked. "Can I keep it in my room near the ceiling?" Blueprint asked still awed by the star and his aunts abilities. "Certainly" Luna said with a soft giggle and suddenly the star was whisked away in a pop of light. Soon there after Luna was laying down with Blueprint nestled under her wing fast asleep and snoring lightly but audibly. "Luna are you alright out here?" Celestia came up to the balcony for it was almost dawn. "Yes I am sister, but be soft for the little one is fast asleep." Luna said smiling "It appears he loves spending time with his aunt Luna" said Celestia with a smile laying down next to Luna and the fast asleep Blueprint. "It truely a wonderful twilight tonight." Luna said smiling. "That it is dear sister." Celestia smiled back at her sister and nuzzled her affectionatly. Over in a tower of the castle adorned with its white marble and bronze regalia. Blueblood sat at his writing desk looking distraught as cups of coffee seemed spilled and stacked around the room towering as high as the ceiling. He was feverishly writing in a notebook concerned and sweating. Day 7: Blueprint is missing and I have not been able to conduct a search due to my.... obligations to my work. I must find him quickly in order to study him and the effects of the modifications. As Blueblood finished writing and closing the notebook a large white pegasi landed with a soft pattering of hooves as he bled off speed approaching the balcony doors which were thrown open. "Captian, I am glad you could make it" Blueblood said with a dry amusment a hint of his accent seeping through his facade. In Bluebloods mind he knew what the end result was going to be. The Captian saluted Blueblood and bowed slightly. "I have been unable to find him, he is getting stronger though. I have been testing him as you have asked; it appears that Twilight Sparkle has become his personal mentor" The captain spoke with a frown. An audible hiss came from Blueblood just as the captain was jerked up against the wall a aura of white magic around his throat constricting it tightly. "Find him before you fail me again and this last time may be the last assignment I give you before you wind up sitting before Faust herself; I must go find a way to deal with Ms. Twilight. Sparkle. before she meddles unconciously into my affairs." Blueblood said neatly and quietly before adjusting his monacle coughing once and dropping the captain onto the floor with a loud thump before turning away and striding out of his chambers. The captain coughed and gasped for air rubbing his neck with his hooves before diving off the balcony to the gardens below. Not wanting to again fail.