Star Bright, Star Light.

by AzureHoodie

Chapter 1: Falling Star

Hello, my name is… Bastard, Runt, Weirdo, Freak, Monster, Psycho, Unwanted Child, Weakling… to be honest I have been called so many things, it no wonder that I forgot… I forgot my name and every name I ever knew. But that is not what this story is about… this is about how I got lost, found a new name, and was forced to be something I felt I wasn’t. It all started in November, about a week before Thanksgiving.

The smell of moist grass and dirt filled my nose… I could hear the sound of crickets and owls around me… and a gentle breeze rolled over me. I opened my eyes, my vision still blurred from what happened earlier, I looked around. I spotted large trees colored in autumn leaves and a very bright moon reflecting in the lake that was just a few feet from me. My eyes widen as I realized I was outside, panicked I tried to get to my feet, stumbling around I landed with a heavy thud on the ground with my hand out in front of me… no, not hands… hooves. Before I even got a chance to let the thought of what I saw sink in a tall dark figure descended down upon me. The figure was as black as the night and had small white spots that gave out a little bit of light covering its body; it let out a small hiss before it raised it sharp knife-like forelegs and brought them down to where I was. In an instant I was at least ten feet away from the figure; its black horse shaped body rode upon six knife-like legs, little illuminated dots covered it whole body, and to make matters even scarier… it had no face that I could see, but it did have a mouth… with several rows of sharp teeth. As I looked at this creature I began to try to get up again… so I could run, but instead a red dot appeared in my vision, and from this dot a line started to form out to the right, and connected to this line something began to form… words.

I began to hear a large amount of whirling, ticking, and clicking noises from behind me and before I could even turn around to look. The red dot in my vision which was over the creature suddenly turned into a red circle crosshair, and then it turned green. I heard a large thump from behind me as a large bright light flashed over my head towards the creature as it was partially engulfed in the light. Trying to regain my sight from the brilliant blast I looked in awe at the creature, as stood on three legs trying to keep its balance. Again more sounds began to go off behind me when suddenly the creature looked up at the sky letting out a horrific screech. As it tried to run away, golden light encircled the creature pinning it to the ground.
“Well Done Sister, Hold the Beast Steady So I Can Finish It!” A voice boomed from above.
“Luna Behind You!” Another voice yelled.
Looking up I noticed a dark blue unicorn with wings coming down on the three legged creature with a large floating scythe cutting it down as another appeared behind it. A large high pitch noise went off from behind me as I saw a thin red beam of light strike the creature behind the winged unicorn severing its head. Another thud went off behind me as I felt exhaustion take ahold of me. I looked at the fallen creatures as their bodies began to dissipate, hundreds of small lights flew out of their bodies and up into the night sky.

The yellow words that appeared obscured my vision as two large winged shadows appeared before me.
“Luna is that…” The golden lit shadow spoke.
“Yes dear sister… This was the brightest star in the sky that night I returned… but why… why did he take so long to fall?” The purple shadow questioned.
“It’s because…”
Everything went black…

The sound of a steady beep, the smell of rubbing alcohol and sterilizers filled my nose. The pinch of a needle in my arm, the feel of over wash starched blankets on my chest and the bright light coming in through my eyelids… “No doubt I am in a hospital again…” I muttered to myself.
“Doctor I think he is awake?” A female voice gentle spoke.
“Yes I think your right…” A male voice spoke, “It’s okay, you don’t have to get up so fast… take it nice and easy.”
I tried opening my eyes but the light coming into the room was too bright, squinting I began to rub my eyes with my han…ds?! The feel of smooth metal rubbing against my face forced my eyes to open quickly, sticking both of my hands out in front of me. Hooves?! Metallic legs starting from my elbow… or would it be knees… going down to the tips of my hooves. I quickly tried grabbing the blanket, fumbling around with it until I covered the lower half of my body. That’s when I noticed the same thing on my back legs… metal legs. I followed it up to my copper brown butt which had a large glowing star lined with metal and what appeared to be circuit lines coming out of it. But what caught my attention most was the long black tail I had with a white and gold stripe on it, I began to try kick away from myself hoping this was a dream.
“It’s okay little one, everything is going to be fine.” A male voice said.
I turned to the voice to see a white horse with a slightly large head, a stethoscope around his neck, gently waving his fore legs; and then proceed to what I considered to be the most logical thing I could do. I began to scream and cry.
After about an hour of these horses coming in and out trying to calm me down, they decide to leave me alone for a bit… or at least until someone who knew what they were doing could show up. I looked around for a bit, sitting on my haunches, the star on my butt giving a slight glow and hum as it pulsed. Suddenly the words return in my line of slight…

“Plasma Conduit…? Trans Gear…? These are my inventions… but what does it mean online? I never finished these… did I?” I asked out loud. Suddenly a HUD filled my sight, adjusting from red to green and finally setting on a transparent blue. As I was about to inspect the HUD a small blue blinking arrow appeared in my vision to my right. I followed it until my eyes reached the door, and a green horse slowly poked their head into the room.
“Hello little one… Do you mind if I can talk to you?” She asked.
“Umm… sure.” I replied pulling the blanket over my naked body… or at least that’s how I felt.
“Can I come in?” She asked. I nodded as she began to walk into the room, suddenly I began to feel fear grab ahold of me again, but this time from some reason she became aware. She then stopped halfway between me and the door, but that is when I heard a loud “Pomf!” Her wings had extend out in surprise as she began to walk away. My fears disappeared as my curiosity took hold as I stared at her in awe; she then turned to her wings and gave them a slight flutter. “Never seen wings on a pony before?”
I shook my head no. She came began to move towards me until she was able to place her wing unfurled next to me, “You can touch it if you want.”
“I can.” I said with a crack in my voice. She replied with a gentle nod. As I reached out with my ha… hoof, that is until I became aware of my metallic fore leg and pulled back placing it under the blanket in front of me. “Nevermind.”
“It’s okay little one, I’m not afraid and you don’t have to be afraid either.” She spoke.
With a furrowed brow I looked at her and her big eyes, I mean really big eyes. I shook her appearance out of my head before I looked at her again. “Why do you keep calling me ‘little one’? I know am at least as old as you are.”
She jerked back in surprise, “Really and how old are you?”
“I’m 24.”
“Twenty four… really, and here I thought I was looking at a colt of about 10 or 11 years old.” She said.
That’s when it hit me, she was a lot bigger than I was… everyone was a lot bigger than I was. Fear and panic began to fill me as tears began to flow over my eyes… “But… I…” I began to take deep breaths, my eyes jerking around everywhere as if trying to find an answer.
I think the winged pony noticed my reaction as her wing gentle wrapped around me as she gave a gentle hush. “It’s okay… everything’s going to be alright.” She then turned to a purple ‘pony’ who had snuck into the room, “I need everything you have on this young colt right now!”

About 20 minutes later…
“What do you mean you have nothing!” The green pegasus yelled.
“That’s just it Heart String, he just showed up on our doorstep 2 days ago… dehydrated and unconscious.”
“Nurse Tender Heart, are you telling me that this colt has no records at all?” Heart String exclaimed.
“Well, without a name we can’t check our records.” Tender Heart replied.
“What about all of these scans and x-rays? You did this without consent?” Heart String asked as Tender Heart nodded. “Scarring, bone remodeling… why does this all say inconclusive?”
Suddenly a male voice cut in, “It because the colt in there cannot be any older than 11 years old, and some of the injuries are 10 years and older. Plus when they brought him in I thought he was an earth pony…” A brown glow enveloped some x-rays and lifted them up into the air, “But what I thought was malnutrition was the fact that his body is that of a pegasus… or even a unicorn…”
“But if that was true where are his… Oh Celestia no… you can’t be mean…” Heart String slowly backed away from the brown unicorn in front of her.
“I’m afraid so, the metal plates on his legs, and forehead, the scarring in his joints and back… I think whatever he had was cut off.” He replied.
Nurse Tender Heart looked away in horror and shame.
“But who would have done this to him?” Heart String asked.
“By his reaction to all the earth ponies that were surrounding him when he woke up… I am assuming earth ponies…”
Heart Strings back legs gave out as her flank hit the floor, “By why would they do something so horrible to him?” She said looking through the glass at the small copper-brown colt who was busy staring out the window. “He just a little colt.”
“Doctor Heart String… I suggest we move him to a proper medical facility that doesn’t have… so many earth ponies.” He said.
“But Doctor Stables?!” Nurse Tender Heart exclaimed. “Winter will be here by nightfall.”
“I know, so we have to hurry or he will be stuck here. It’s the right thing to do, that is why I call Doctor Heart String here from Canterlot… We at Ponyville Hospital do not have the experience dealing with such…” As Doctor Stables began to look for the appropriate term, Heart Strings interrupted.
“I understand doctor… I will get a carriage and have him moved by the days end.” She replied leaving Doctor Stables and Nurse Tender Heart to begin the transfer.

As I looked out the window I noticed a blur of rainbow colors flash across the sky clearing the clouds. I followed the blur trying to see if I could get a better view of the flying creature who was moving so fast. Even with the Dot system I was having a hard time, and I was so focused on the rainbow blur I don’t even noticed when the green pegasus knocked on my door or even entered my room.
“Hey there champ.” She called out.
I turned with a ‘huh' and a 'hmm’ and then turned to look back out the window to the rainbow colored flying blur.
“Who’s got your attention?” She asked. I pointed to the rainbow blur outside my window. “Rainbow Dash huh? She is pretty cool… Even I heard stories about her, but you... there’s a pony’s story that I am interested in…” She said looking down at me.
“Who?” I replied.
“Yours.”
“Mine?!” I asked looking up at her.
“Mhmm, like what’s your name, your birthday… favorite food.” She began to ask.
As I was going to reply, but was left speechless, I tried to mouth out my name but to no avail. It was not that I couldn’t speak, no, it was that I could not remember… I couldn’t remember any name. I looked up at the green pegasus with a look of confusion.
“Oh, how rude of me; my name is Doctor Heart String.” She said sticking out her chest.
“I don’t remember.” I replied in a whisper.
“Come again, I don’t quite catch that.”
With a sigh I replied, “I don’t remember my name.”
Heart String gave me an odd look before she realized I was telling the truth, “You poor little thing… well I promise you, I am never going to let another bad thing happen to you again.”
I looked up at her with a serious look on my face, “I’m sorry miss Heart String that is a promise I afraid no one can keep.” I said with a yawn as I continued to look up at Rainbow Dash. Letting my thoughts run their course, I can't let on how old I am... or what I was... even normally people would have a hard time believing me. So for now I will play this game, live this life until I can find a way home... Last thing I want is to be locked up for being crazy. Plus all this Pony Stuff sound familiar somehow.
A loud growl then escaped my small body, with blushing cheeks I looked up at Heart String. “I assume that you haven’t eaten yet?” She asked.
I shook my head no.
“Well then you’re in luck, I think they are having hayfries and hay burgers in the cafeteria today.” Heart String said as she trotted out of the room. “Come on, follow me.” She said urging me out of my room.
My eyes quickly darted around as ran out of the room and headed to Heart String’s side.

.