//------------------------------// // Starting anew // Story: My Little Pony: Legends of Old and New // by AlphaToothless95 //------------------------------// In Maretime Bay, At the Hospital As the purple unicorn woke up, the first thing she felt was pain around her stomach and mouth which were both wrapped up. The first thing she heard was.. crying. She looked around and saw her pegasus friend who was in tears, shaking her head. She gently reaches over and pats her on the head. “Hey.. cheer up. I’m not dead yet.” she said and her friend was startled at first but then hugged her, still crying. “There there.. tell me.. what has become of home? And our friend?” she asked but her friend just started crying harder as soon as she mentions their friend and she starts fearing the worst. “Firestar.. is she ok?” she asks, the fear evident in her voice. Her friend shakes her head then lifts it to look at her. “She.. she’s..” she starts but then starts crying again and the unicorn is instantly filled with sadness and one more emotion, one she hadn’t felt since the island was attacked.. hatred. “Where is she..?” she asks and her friend looks confused and shakes her head. “I just told you she’s.. gone, Nebula..” she says and to her surprise, her friend slams her fists down and shouts. “I meant the alicorn damnit!! Sunny Starscout!!” she yells with a large amount of pain and fury in her eyes. “She has to pay!” Firestar is very scared at this point. She doesn’t know whether she should lie to her friend or tell her that Sunny was here in the same hospital they were in. “Uhhh just calm down, maybe she was forced to do it, she’s a good pony, I know she is. And you probably would know too if you’d just take a breath, calm down and think.” she said and her friend glared daggers into her eyes and she started to get more and more scared.. that is until Nebula got distracted by something and suddenly got up, disconnecting herself from the wires under her bandages and walked out and she went after her. “Nebula what are you DOING? You were still on pain meds!” she says and she gets no response. She looks ahead of her and sees that she’s following four ponies, including two of Sunny Starscout's friends, Izzy Moonbow and Hitch Trailblazer. She then goes wide-eyed and frantically shakes her head. “Nononono! Nebula, you can’t punish them for her mistakes and even if they were involved, it wouldn’t bring Shade back! Besides you’re still hurt!” she says, desperately trying to talked the angry unicorn out of whatever she was about to do, but Nebula wasn’t having any of it. One way or another, she was going to get her revenge. The only thing that could possibly stop her is if her friend bursts through one of these doors right now, saying everything was just a cruel joke. She suddenly felt a sharp pain in her stomach and stops for a second to hold it. “Then HELP me.. because I’m not going to stop.. so you can aid me.. or consider our friendship over.” she says to her friend who hesitates before putting one of her arms over her shoulders to support her and help her walk. They continue following Hitch, Izzy, Brightburn, and Artemis until they stop outside of a room and walk in. When they look through the window, Nebula's blood boils as soon as she sees Sunny laying in the bed, wired up just like she was. “Why. Is. She. Here?” she asks her friend who frowns. “She was betrayed Nebula.. whoever sent her to attack our home shot her as soon as she was done.. they wanted to kill her but they failed.. we found her in the ocean and decided to bring her back with us.” she explains before Nebula pushes her off, obviously feeling betrayed. She shook her head in disbelief before limping away from her friend, telling her that she needs to be alone right now. Firestar frowns more and pinches the bridge of her nose, shaking her head. “What have I done..” In Zephyr Heights, the “dungeons” Zipp stood in front of one of the cells with her arms crossed, the same one that the blue pegasus who was stealing from Zephyr Heights was in. She glared at the thieving pegasus and sighed before speaking. “Ok.. obviously we got off on the wrong foot so.. let’s try this again.. I never got your name.” she says and the pegasus finally turns to look at her instead of looking around the dungeon taking in how.. not dungeon-like it was. To her, it was paradise. “The name’s Skylight, you can call me Sky.” she says with no trace of anger or hatred in her voice, it was surprisingly soft and calm. And kinda playful. Zipp raised an eyebrow before uncrossing her arms. “Nice to meet you Sky, I’m Zipp.. buuut you already knew that.” Zipp says awkwardly towards the last part. Sky giggles and Zipp couldn’t help but smile at how child-like it was. “Soooo you mentioned other ponies who needed this stuff.. why didn’t you just ask and I probably would’ve helped you, our family's good for it, we could’ve given you enough to possibly start a small village.. so why’d you think it was best to steal from Zephyr Heights instead, especially considering the state that it’s in right now.” Zipp asked and Skylight crossed her arms, frowned and sighed. “Because Queen Haven has refused our requests before.. specifically to my parents.. so is it THAT surprising now?” Sky says, looking up at Zipp with a sad look on her face. Zipp was shocked, she didn’t even know what to say. Why would her mother refuse to help fellow pegasi in need? The more she thought about it, the angrier she got, the more confused she got. Sky could see this and she nods. “Yep, so now you understand why I had to steal.. and you stopped my whole plan.. I could’ve ended our troubles but noooo.. you just had to be a hero, a spoiled “momma’s girl” and stop me..” she says and she sniffles, wiping a single tear from one of her eyes and Zipp felt horrible. She sighs and places her hand on the scanner next to the cell, opening it. “You got your strength back right?” Zipp asks, to which she got a confused look from Sky. “Cause if not, I’m gonna have to carry you out of here.” she continues and Sky hesitantly nods, shocked that Zipp was letting her go. “Good, now get on out of here and take your stuff, it’s in a room not too far from here with a sign on the door that says 'criminal belongings/evidence room'..” she sighs before saying “and feel free to take SOME of the gold and stuff out of the vault, mom will kill me if she finds out I let you steal all or half of it.. and if not that she’d probably disown me and lock ME up.” she says. “Wait but the cameras here.. they’ll see that you let me out, I can’t just run off. That’d put you in a lot of trouble.” she says, genuinely concerned about Zipp's fate. “Well you did knock me out.” Zipp says with a wink and Skylight smirks and nods. They make it look like Zipp's taking her somewhere before Skylight's right hand glows white and blue with electric-like energy and she turns and punches Zipp through the wall, actually knocking her out. “I’ll apologize later.. thanks princess.” Sky says before she runs to the evidence room then the vault and out of the castle faster than anyone can see. After a while, Zipp wakes up to find her mother and her sister both right by her side with worried looks on their faces. Once they see she’s awake they both hug and nuzzle her happily. “Oh thank hoofness, my little filly is ok.” Haven says and Cloudpuff lands on Zipp's lap and starts licking her face as he flys up and she chuckles and pets him and hugs her mother and nuzzles her sister back. “Yeahhh I’m just peachy..” Zipp says as she rubs her cheek, feeling a lot of pain there.. and everywhere else. “Zipp what happened? We heard a loud crash and when we got to the cells, we found you on the other side of the wall knocked out.. and her cell was open.” Pipp says and Zipp remembers what happened and growls a bit. “That little.. ugh.. she could’ve at least pulled that punch.” Zipp thought before answering. “I was going to take her somewhere for questioning but she got the jump on me and knocked me out. She’s a lot stronger and smarter than I thought.. wait where did she go?” Zipp asks, trying to put some evidence of confusion and concern in her tone. “Don’t worry, she left, took all her things..” Haven sighs in frustration before continuing. “-and a lot of the gold and jewels in the vault and just.. left. The royal guards are looking for her as we speak. But Zipp, before she knocked you out, did she tell you anything? Anything at all?” Haven asks and Zipp thinks about telling them what she told her but decided to only tell them her name. “She told me her name is Skylight.” she said after sighing and Haven raises an eyebrow before answering. “Ummm alright well-“ she starts to say but before she can continue, Thunderbird shows up and addresses Pipp and Zipp. “Pipp, Zipp, come on! We have to go to Maretime Bay, right. Now!” he says and they both jump a bit and ask why. “Sunny’s there, she’s in the hospital.” he answers and they both instantly nod and stand by him. “Mom, when we get back ummm.. there’s something you and I should talk about.” Zipp says and Haven looks confused but then nods and Thunderbird teleports himself and the royal sisters to Maretime Bay and they instantly start making their way towards the hospital. “Please be alright kid..” Thunderbird says to himself as they fly towards the hospital.