Sitting in the city square of crystal city was a thirty-four-foot long, ten-foot tall and sixteen-foot wide crystal-power exploration medical personnel carrier from the Silverlight Antiquities and Heritage Research team. Due to the remote nature of some of the research team dig sites and no formal medical institutions in remote areas of Equestria.
Imperial Prince Justice Silverlight allowed his youngest daughter Blueberry Swirl Silverlight access to Great Library citadel station through her grandmother Chief Research Supervisor Lara Borealis, to search the Epochs of other Timekeeper Administrators for some way to bring medical treatment to those remote areas of Equestria.
In several Epochs volumes, the Timekeeper Administrators mentioned something called a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH.) or Combat Support Hospital; it was used during the war on their respected planet to quickly bring wounded soldiers to the locations for Emergency medical treatment before sending them to rear Hospital for in-depth treatment. With that idea in mind, Blueberry assembled an exploration medical personnel carrier. It was based on an armored personnel carrier design mentioned in several Epochs volumes of Military Style vehicles from many planets.
Inside the exploration medical personnel carrier (EMPC.), the unconscious Princess Cadence Sparkle Aperture recovers inside a compact Imperial Alicorn regeneration tube. Her mind wanders in reverie as her body recovers from hypothermia, trying to make sense of who she is. Her slenderly gracefully rounded gorgeous shaped pair of light pink tapered shaped bare feet with bright blue toenails polishes softly pip-plops across the solid glass block floor of the reverie.
Unlike her aunt Princess Celestia Silverlight who took some time to realize that she was on another plain of existence, Cadence knew right away that she was not in the real world. She also realizes that this reverie is of someone else memories, as all the memory portals are sliding steel doors. Due to her deep understanding of pony hearts, she quickly figures out that each number above the portal represents a powerful emotional connection to that memory. So the higher the number, the more powerful it is and the more profound the emotional connection to that memory is.
'So Princess of love… let's avoid the higher numbers as the emotional connection to that memory will be more than I could take. So let's stay at nine and below.' Cadence thought as she’s pip-plopped way from ten and above. To try to figure out to whom these memories belong.
So Cadence pip-plopped in her light pink tapered shaped bare feet over to a memory portal marked with the Roman numeral V and touched the sliding door. Slowly the sliding steel door slides open she steps through the portal.
Once through the portal, she enters another room; the ambient sound changes to the sound of her slenderly gracefully rounded, gorgeously shaped pair of light pink tapered shaped bare feet walking across the metal plates, which is quite jarring to her slightly more tender, petite naked feet.
At the same time, her light purple eyes try to adjust to the constant red flashing light of this room and the annoying emergency warning alarm that echoes in the room. Her eyes change to the flashing lights, and her ears adjust to the sound. She finds herself standing toward the back of a room; every inch of this room is covered with holographic monitor screens. Sitting in front of them were Imperial Alicorn mares and stallions frantically working their assigned station. And soon, Cadence figures out she's aboard some kind of spaceship.
Before Cadence could gasp, she was knocked to the ground by a sharp jolt that moved the spaceship. The quick jolt hits several Imperial Alicorns out of their stations, and they quickly reach their feet. Cadence reeled with astonishment; just in front of her, slowly getting to her feet, was a marvelous looking grayish heliotrope color imperial Alicorn mare with a pale light grayish arctic blue mane and tail.
Her 6ft 6in perfect equine figure was attired in a white with a red striped form-fitting space suit. On her twelve and two-third inch, long grayish heliotrope colored sizable and attractive bare feet were white with red striped form-fitting boots. And folded on her back were her gold bio-mechanical metal bird wings. This Imperial Alicorn mare was Queen Filomena Amore Aperture, the ruler of the southern star sector and Princess Cadence Sparkle Aperture's mother.
"Mommy!" Cadence exclaimed as she brought her hands to her snout, and tears streaked her light pink cheeks.
"Gunners! Return fire! With the main battery! IAS Hydra can take a hit and hit right back! Fire!" Filomena ordered as the firing of the main battery shook the room.
"Your majesty! The fleet from the Lagoon Nebula star sector is retreating! Should the patrol ships pursue?" A bridge officer inquired as Filomena dusted off her space suit with her gloved hands.
"No, Lieutenant! Begin repairs on the space fleet! I am going to the captain quarter's send me the damage reports for the Southern Star Sector battle fleet! And set course back to the Hydra Palace." Filomena orders as she turns on her heels and walks toward the turbo lift passing by Cadence.
'Follow me, little one; no other Imperial Alicorn can see you in this memory.' As she follows her into the turbo lift, Filomena's voice echoes in Cadence's mind.
A few minutes later, Queen Filomena Amore Aperture waits in the captain's quarters for her daughter Princess Cadence Sparkle Aperture, to sum up, her courage to walk to the captain's quarters to see her. As Filomena waited in the quarter's wave of acid wells up from her belly.
She has not seen her foal in the flesh since sending her to Canterlot to keep her safe. Slowly the door into the captain's quarters slides open through the door and walks the beautiful barefooted Princess Cadence Sparkle Aperture. Filomena's brilliant amber-colored eyes are moist with joy upon seeing her daughter approach her. Soon Filomena noticed the spasm of irritation that crossed her daughter's face.
"Why, mother?! Why did you abandon me!?" Cadence said, her voice carried to the edge of indignation that shocked her mother.
“Was I not good enough for you, mother!?” Cadence said venomously as Filomena gasps.
"No, baby! I had no choice! I sensed something was brewing behind the scenes of Crystal Empire. But I didn't think it was something like that? For several months strange things happened, many unrelated events. So I send you to Canterlot to keep you safe." Filomena explains as Cadence's face flushes with indignation.
"I never made it to Canterlot! The pony you entrusted me with gets me to Canterlot! Didn't!" Cadence said sharply as Filomena gasped in shock.
"That pony left me at an orphanage in Bitsburgh! When I turned seventeen, I was adopted by Aunt Celestia and Luna! So I spent most of my filly hood at that orphanage!" Cadence said bitterly as Filomena's stomach knots with her daughter's lost filly hood.
"I am so sorry, baby or Miss Sparkle (Cadence gasps). Went I sent you with that crystal pony, I never thought, the pony would not fulfill my last request and get you to Canterlot." Filomena said, her voice cracking as tears ran down her grayish heliotrope cheeks.
"How do you know my last name?" Cadence's voice edged with tension as Filomena wiped the tears with her gloved hand.
"The truth... Cadence is that I never abandon you…I follow you through your life…As an energy bird, I couldn't interact with you. But went you need me, I will sit on your shoulder to keep your spirits up.” Filomena explains as the breath catches in Cadence’s throat.
"The Crystal Caves under Canterlot during my wedding …Went I felt hopeless that I would never be rescued, I felt a warm light sitting on my shoulder encouraging me to keep hoping for rescue…it was you," Cadence exclaimed as her eyes moist with joy and Filomena nodded her head.
"I was there, went you trying to maintain the shield protecting the Crystal City…I lend you my strength even those it could kill my own baby…You were determined to keep that shield until help arrived and they defeated that evil creature named King Sombra." Filomena, her voice cracking as she began to weep, almost killing her baby.
"Thank you, mommy," Cadence said, grateful as Filomena's moderately arctic blue eyes blinked with surprise.
"You called me mommy?" Filomena said, her voice strained as Cadence nodded her head.
"Till I met you and heard your side of the story, mommy…I was angry with you for abandoning me…But that was misplaced…You never abandoned me…you stayed at my side and helped wherever possible." Cadence explained as a smile formed on Filomena's snout.
"Well, not always…I have a few complaints about your husband…his name was Shining Armor?" Filomena said with a playful demeanor as Cadence fixed with a smoldering look toward her mother.
"Mom! You are not allowed to complain about my Shiny!" Cadence said hotly.
"And why not, dear? I am your mother?" Filomena said annoyed
"Because I say so, mom!"Cadence said sharply as both mares began giggling.
"All right, dear, let's meet in the main area of the reverie…this memory always puts me on edge," Filomena explains as both mares reappear in the central area of the reverie.
Cadence watches as her mother transforms her white with red striped form-fitting space suit into a white short-sleeve lace midi length fit and flare dress that hits just passed her knees. On her twelve and two-third inch, long grayish heliotrope colored sizable and attractive Greek and taper bare feet with mint green toenail polish was brown caged styled mare's Delilah gladiator sandals with one-inch wedge heels.
Through the opening on the front of the sandals, you could clearly see that her second toe is the longest on her feet. Why rests of her toes gently taper off the end of her feet. And folded on her back were her gold bio-mechanical metal feathered bird wings. This Imperial Alicorn mare was Queen Filomena Amore Aperture, the ruler of the southern star sector and Princess Cadence Sparkle Aperture's mother. Filomena gestures to her daughter Cadence to come and hug her, but she doesn't move an inch. A wounded look appears in this female Imperial Alicorn's moderate arctic blue eyes.
"Are you a power crystal miner? And is that assault shuttle that crashed in the snow field yours?" Cadence asked as the breath caught in Filomena's throat with her daughter's questions.
"I am? But how do you know that you were still a foal went we crashed on this planet, and yes, that assault shuttle is mine?" Filomena said, her voice edged with tension with her daughter's knowledge.
"My uncle told me what you were…went I gain entry into your assault shuttle and found the mare with a pickaxe picture on her clothing." Cadence answered as her mother was dumbfounded by her daughter.
"What uncle! You and I are the only ones left from the Aperture family…my family was killed by the supernova that destroyed the southern star sector." Filomena said, her heart etched with sorrow.
“My Aunt Celestia and Luna are the daughters of Timekeeper Administrator of the tenth circle of the Great Library Citadel Station Lara Borealis, and my uncle is Imperial Prince Justice Silverlight, the great-grandson of Empress Galaxy Cosmos!" Cadence exclaims as Filomena sinks to her knees in shock.
'The great-grandson of my ruler….Empress Cosmos? And the daughters of the head of the Great Library Citadel Station Lara Borealis? Why are those Imperial Alicorn families here on this planet?' Filomena thought, confused with her daughter's relationships with those powerful families.
Meanwhile, in the awakening world, Imperial Prince Justice Silverlight arrives at the Exploration Medical Personnel Carrier in the center of the ruins of Crystal City at the request of his younger daughter Blueberry and Cadence’s daughter.
"Greeting daughter and you to Flurry Heart; why did you want me to come?" Justice inquires, hugging both mares as he looks at his niece Cadence still recovering inside micronized and compact Imperial Alicorn regeneration tube.
"Flurry Heart told me they came to the remains of the Crystal City and the palace because of the secret room in the palace," Blueberry explains as Flurry Heart nods her head and Justice's face glazed with shock.
"A secret room?" Justice exclaims, his face growing haggard with worry.
“Mother theorizes that the secret room is an Imperial Alicorn crystal laboratory…Whatever that means, father?" Blueberry comments, a bit puzzled by the idea, as Flurry Heart is just as dumbfounded by the same idea.
“I was hoping to bring you up to speeded very slowly about my people, the Imperial Alicorns, daughter and niece…but it looks like that plan is out the stable room door.” Justice comments kissing both mares on their cheeks and hugging them once again.
"An Imperial Alicorn crystal laboratory…is what is on the cover, my dear daughter and niece. Within Imperial Alicorns society, we have Galactic scientists of various disciplines…They build these Crystal laboratories for research and study of their disciplines…Miss Aperture was the premiere Bio-Geneticist at the Pillars of Creation Institute in Imperial Alicorn space." Justice explains as Blueberry and Flurry's heart eyes widen in alarm.
"No need to be frightened, daughter or niece…the job of a Bio-Geneticist is to study the origins of a specific species to learn how they evolved through DNA., and it is a bio-geneticist that attaches our bio-mechanical metal feathered bird wings to our backs," Justice explains as he continues explaining Imperial Alicorns society to his daughter and niece.
Back in reverie, Queen Filomena Amore Aperture still can't get her head around how her daughter was able to get involved with Infinity star sector royal family or the Great Library Citadel Station.
Cadence, frustrated with her mother's confusion, decides to attempt a trick that her uncle employs on her went she like that. She knocks her mother onto her back, wraps her arm around her mother's leg, finds the zipper on the back of the sandal, and removes it. Revealing her twelve and two third-inch Greek and taper-shaped wickedly gorgeous and exquisite curvy and slender grayish heliotrope colored lovely slender barefoot with mint green toenail polish.
Cadence focuses on her mother's normally shaped arch, which had an exquisite shape with a generous smooth curve to it, making her naked foot very appealing and high enough to be inviting. A sudden tingling sensation begins filling her Imperial Alicorn body, and without warning, Filomena explodes with laughter as her daughter tickles her sensitive arch. Filomena had never felt this sensation before in her long life, as the touching was not unpleasant.
She wants to stop the tingling sensation in her lovely slender bare foot. So she uses her sandal-clad foot and pushes her daughter on her back, forcing her to release her leg.
“By the first star, baby! What was that unusual sensation you did to my foot?” Filomena inquired anxiously as she rubbed her sensitive arch with her fingers to stop the sensation.
"My uncle uses that trick on me…went I get overwhelmed. It was such a wonderful experience; it helped me relax…I enjoy being forced to laugh." Cadence said, appreciating as she tossed her mother's removed sandal to her, and she put it back on.
"Baby, you must explain how you came in contact with the Royal family and Great Library Citadel Station…I know it is possible because of our Royal Bloodline. But still, it takes time…It took me several space cycles to meet with Empress Cosmos.” Filomena explained as Cadence signed softly and nodded her head.
"Went I first met the imperial Prince…he was Royal palace guard at my aunt's castle, and I didn't know that he was royalty from space…Over time, I got to know him and enjoyed being around him and his family." Cadence explains as a sudden spurt of adrenaline courses through Filomena's veins.
“What! His family!” Filomena exclaims.
“Yes, his Grandmother, mother and his two sisters.” Cadence comments.
“The Crowned Imperial Princess, the daughter of Empress Cosmos…Countess Silverlight and Baroness Silverlight?" Filomena's comment shocked.
"Oh, I almost forgot his aunt, too," Cadence exclaims.
"Duchess Nebula…That all the members of the infinity star sector Royal family. They run the days to day affairs of Imperial Alicorn space.” Filomena exclaims.
“What about the Great Library Citadel Station?” Filomena asked
“I just recently found out that my adopted aunts were the daughters of the head of the Great Library Citadel Station Lara Borealis...Like them, I am still learning about them."Cadence comments as she hugs her mother.