Castle Canterlot - Ambassadorial offices.
"Nightlight, I am understanding of the personal situation that you are in. Perhaps you should take some time off" The mare said walking into the office of Ambassador Nightlight.
"Urgh, For the last time know that I need to, but I cannot with the current issues between Equestria and Germaney" Nightlight said firmly back to her. he looked over at the many documents that had the requests from their current leader.
"Sir your wife is pregnant and due within the next few days" she stated back, taking the files off of him. "So as your assistant you are taking the time off until after the foal is born"
"But the requests need to be-" he began
"they can wait for your return" she interrupted.
the phone rang and she beat him to the phone. "Ambassador Nightlights office. what is your enquiry?" she said.
Nightlight slammed his head into the desk. she was always like this.
"I will pass that on" she said hanging up.
"Who was that?" Nightlight asked.
"You better pick up your son from the crystal embassy. Your wife just went into labour" she said calmly.
His jaw hit the floor and muttered something in Germane and bolted out the door. Passing many of the ambassadors, including one from Saddle Arabia who was busy contemplating the cup of coffee he had been offered, he rushed into the Crystal Empires room.
Playing around the desk was a young Shining armour and a Young Princess Cadance.
"Oh thank Celestia, Nightlight. your son is one heck of a handful" the Ambassador from the empire said. "please take him and Cadance please!"
"well I don't know. I mean she is the only one from the empire in the last thousand years is Cadance and she is technically the Princesses niece" Nightlight stated. the ambassador moaned in annoyance. "Fine ill take them, I was going to anyway. Shinning, Cadance we have to go to the hospital"
"But dad why?" Shining asked. Nightlight smirked.
"Your sister is coming" he said. "Would you mind letting The princess know that I have Cadance in case she calls"
Shining screamed in pure joy and picked up Cadance and hugged her.
"Sure by all means. Take her; it's not like I can stop you" he said, "Or split the two of them. I'll let her know that you will be there at the hospital"
Nightlight lead the pair out of the offices to the other ambassador to breathe a sigh of relief.
~0~0~
“Okay Mrs Velvet. Push now push” the doctor said over her screams of pain. Even with the pain relieving magic that the doctor was using, she still screamed in pain.
Looking over the birth was a very young Colt and mare. The mare was an Alicorn foal of pink and light blue mane and tail, whist the colt was a unicorn of white and electric blue mane. Cadance and Shining armour. Towering over the colt and filly was a regal Alicorn of white and pastel rainbow mane and tail that flowed with a wind that didn't exist.
The doctor helped her push out her foal, a lavender mare with pink and orange mane and tail. With a quick snip, she was cut free of her mother’s cord and wrapped neatly up in a bundle. She wailed for attention proving that she was not a stillborn as the father had feared.
“It’s a girl, congratulations!” the doctor said handing her over to the parents.
The trauma was short lived however as she screamed again. The Doctor looked confused but noticed a light black head start to pear out.
“Twins, Hurry up and help me here! Nurse, make sure she doesn't go into shock!” he ordered around as the mares were shaken from their stupor of the new mother.
“The Magic scans didn't show twins!” Nightlight Sparkle said firmly.
“Well then you better tell the other foal that!” the doctor retorted. “Miss Velvet; Push like before please”
Above, whilst Cadance and Shinning were merrily prancing around Celestia, the Alicorns face changed to that of bewilderment, a pony foal that doesn't show on magic scans. It didn't make sense, unless. No it was impossible. If it was, the foal would have been a stillborn.
When the foal was expelled into the waiting doctor’s hooves, he looked at the foal before him. It also began to cry for attention. Quickly wrapping it in a bundle of blankets, “It’s a Girl as well” he said handing her over.
Velvet sighed in relief as she was handed the second child. It was a light gray with light green mane and tail, a horn poking though the mane. Both were content to sit in their mothers arms, sleeping in her warmth.
What she didn't see and what the doctor hid, was the pair of bug like wings adorning the foals back or the start of what appeared to be an Insect carapace on its chest that was a light green. The Doctor knew what it was, but he wished he didn't. He looked up to Celestia and shook his head at her.
She let a small tear of sadness fall from her face, before walking out, leaving the unaware children to continue.
~-~-~
“A changeling, Yes that is what it is” Celestia said, her form loomed over the crib that held the now called ‘Evening Star’ and her sister ‘Twilight Sparkle’. “I am surprised that the foal Twilight was unharmed. Normally there is a still born when one of them is implanted into a host like she was. But this was something completely unheard of. Both foals surviving, even in my time as ruler, i have not seen this before.”
“As was I when I saw it” the doctor said. His brown coat was hidden by the lab coat he was wearing. “Now what do we do with the larva?”
Celestia looked down; she breathed in heavily before taking the infant in her magic and held it aloft in front of her. The Wings on its back buzzed subtly and it giggled. “You know what happens to anypony within the family?” Celestia asked. The doctor shook his head, “they are the first to become drones. Her first drones. As this is the case it must die for the safety of all”
The Doctor looked sullen but nodded a necessary evil he resolved himself with.
“Leave us. This is for me to do and me to do alone” Celestia said. The Doctor nodded and left. “Forgive me you abomination of nature; your kind is not welcome in my lands” she said.
The TK field holding the larva began to constrict. The larva screamed in agony as its body was beginning to be crushed, it sounded like a small feral animal screaming for mercy. Celestia did not waiver as the field continued to shrink and crush the larva further.
What she wasn't expecting was the huge magical burst sending her flying into the nearby looking window by another force, the window cracked outwards where she had hit it. Weakened by this, Celestia looked up to see that it had been ‘Twilight’ to do the magic, a rich vibrant orange coloured magic emanating from the newborns horn. She watched in amazement as the larva was engulfed in an orange aura and then suddenly vanishes in a loud crack as the sound barrier was broken.
Twilight stopped shortly after and began to wail for attention stopping as a pair of royal knights burst into the room. One rushed to the princesses side whilst the other too Twilight’s.
“Your highness Celestia; Are you okay?” one asked, helping her up.
“I will be fine Captain. What of the Foal and the larva?” she asked. The other knight shook his head.
“Only the foal remains. The larva is gone”
Celestia looked annoyed but disappointed. “Better tell the family that their daughter ‘Evening Star’ has died, the body gone” Celestia said. She walked up to twilight, who simply cried as Celestia loomed over her crib. “You however, I have plans for you Twilight Sparkle. Magic like yours does not come by every day. Nor should it” she said. 'But fate would have you elsewhere and at a different time. I will be watching you miss Twilight Sparkle"
Hidden in the closet was a mare, who had witnessed the whole thing, she kept quiet so as not to draw any attention to herself. As was her talent was hiding after all, that's why she didn't have many friends.
~0~0~
"Miss velvet, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your foal has disappeared" the doctor said. Nightlight looked over to him as his wife took in the news. her mouth just moved but had no voice coming out.
"What the buck do you mean, 'disappeared'? A new born foal just does not simply vanish off the face of Equestria!" Nightlight said firmly.
"Sir please calm down-"
"-Calm down? how dare you tell me to calm down!" he shouted down the throat of the doctor. "Which one vanished then"
"It was Evening Star, I'm sorry" he said. he walked out to the family to deal with their loss.
As he shut the door, he walked past the princess, who was carrying the now sleeping Cadance. "I mean no disrespect your highness. but I sure hope that you are happy with yourself"
"I should have you flogged for that comment" she replied back coldly.
"I don't care if you're the princess. well you are in this case, but still. You just ruined a family" he replied leaving her alone. she heard the cries of anguish as Velvet finally spoke up. she swallowed upon hearing this, but turned around and left the grieving family alone.
Back inside the room, the news was broken to Shining Armour as 'she went to a better place'. but that story would only last until he asked about her years later and the truth was revealed to him. but until that day, as he watched over his baby sister, he thought to himself that he would protect her from any harm.
~0~0~
Deep on the wastelands of Equestria, nearest the Changeling hive of queen amaryllis, the sound of a babies cry alerted the nearest patrol of changeling drones to its position.
the pair of drones looked at the foal that was obviously a changeling Larva, but it wasn't at the same time. it for a start wasn't in one of their incubation sections and secondly it had a small band with a name of the foal wrapped around one of its legs.
They didn't know what was written on the band, being actual drones they lacked that particular aspect of the changelings.
the foal screamed for attention. the drones stopped for a moment and seemed to look at each other. they shook off whatever had affected them momentarily and picked up the foal. With the sound of buzzing wings, she was taken to the nearest hive, the hive of Queen Amaryllis.
~0~0~
Twilight bounced around in joy at the fact that she now had her cutie mark; it was a star surrounded by five others. she was now following Princess Celestia to her new quarters where she would be staying during her tutelage. she had been told that Spike, her new dragon, would be raised until she was able to do so.
"This will be your quarters, close to the royal palace, but far enough away for privacy" she stated.
"Princess this is a tower" Twilight said flatly to the princess. she rolled her eyes in response to her students lack lustre comment.
"Your tower for study and sleep. where you will be staying. however after that magical burst earlier i want to do something so that never happens again" She said back. Twilight looked embarrassed at the comment. "Are you okay?"
"Um yeah, just a little taken aback is all" she replied. Celestia chuckled in response.
"Well take a seat, this won't take long" she said. her magic began to weave into twilights own horn. her basic magic aura of Orange fought back but eventually failed allowing the alicorn access to the unicorns untapped magical power.
Inside though, Celestia found the source of her magic. Using her own she created a large dome over the metal projection of a geyser, to stem its own magic flow. she breathed out as it completed but rather than letting Twilight have no magic, she created a nozzle to one side that allowed for a stream of magic, no bigger than a rat in diameter, to filter out. as it did it changed to purple-pink as it hit the floor and passed it's magic on to the user.
in the real world Celestia got up and summoned up a blanket to covert the now sleeping Twilight. she smirked, "Now that's one problem solved" she said to herself softly.