Star backed away from the tree while making a lot of noise as the bush rustled. She froze in hopes that the group wouldn’t come out to see what had made the noise. She did her best to peak inside but as far as she could tell, they had left. Her fears were confirmed when the sound of the door to the library opened. She shivered as a cold wind blew by and caused the leaves of the bush to tickle her nose. She could feel a sneeze coming on and did her best to keep herself from sneezing but it was useless. She sneezed and caused the bush to make a noise as the sneeze forced her to move a bit. The sneeze and the rustle of the bush was just loud enough for the group to be able to find her and before she knew it, she was pulled out of the bush by her tail. Star covered her head and shook from being cold and frightened. It was odd though, she shouldn’t be frightened by the ponies surrounding her but she was. “Please, I didn’t mean to do anything.” Star was picked up and taken inside with haste. “Please don’t hurt me.”
“Calm down young one, we’re not going to hurt you.” Star looked up and saw that it was Rarity speaking to her. “You look absolutely terrified, you poor thing.” Rarity wanted to grab the filly in her hooves and hold her tight but even Pinkie would be able to tell that that was a bad idea.
“What the hey were you doing out there anyway, don’t you know it’s dangerous out there?” Rainbow Dash said rather harshly and caused Star to shrink back in fear.
“Rainbow!” Twilight criticized. “Don’t speak to her like that, she is terrified and for good reason I’m sure.” Star wasn’t sure if there really was good reason but she wasn’t going to argue. Twilight turned to Star, smiled and spoke softly. “Hey, do you need some help, why aren’t you at home?” Star replied with tears in her eyes and apologized. “Hey, why are you sorry, you didn’t do anything wrong?” Twilight was shocked when the filly grabbed her in a tight hug and despite the shock, returned the hug. “What happened?”
Star looked up into Twilight’s eyes as tears ran from hers. She had yelled at Twilight, her mother for giving her up. Star said that she hated her and then ran off and now she felt guilty for it. It wasn’t Twilight’s fault that she was forgotten, it was Celestia. “Mom, I’m so sorry, I do love you.” Star hugged Twilight tighter.
“I’m sorry, mom?” Twilight asked and looked to her friends for help but none of them knew what to say? “I’m sorry young one but you must have me confused with somepony else.”
“No, no I don’t. You’re my mother in the future but you gave me up.” Star let go of Twilight and backed up. She had to convince Twilight that she was her mother.
“Now hold on, are you sayin that your from the future, as in time travel?” Applejack asked. Star nodded and a small smile appeared on each of the ponies faces. “Well I’ll be darned, Twilight learned how to time travel.”
“Oh yeah, our buddy is awesome!” Rainbow flew over and gave Twilight a big hug.
“Well, it was only a matter of time darling.” Rarity flipped her mane.
“Matter of TIME; good one Rarity.” Pinkie fell to the ground laughing.
“Girls please, we may not have much time.” Twilight turned to Star. “How much time do you have here?” Star shrugged. “Ok well lets get to it, first off, what is your name?”
“My name is Starry Night but I like to go by Star.” Star’s smile grew wider as she looked around the room.
“Well, Star, why did I send you here?” Twilight sat down and put a hoof around her supposed future daughter.
“I don’t think you meant to and it’s my fault anyway. I ran from you and toward some forest, I heard you telling me to stop but I didn’t listen. The next thing I knew I was in the past or future and then I was here further into the past. It’s a little confusing but anyway, I said that I hated you, all of you. I didn’t know that it wasn’t your fault that you forgot about me.” The others looked at each other unsure of what to say or do. Twilight couldn’t believe that she would forget her own daughter but she must have assuming this was her daughter. None of it made much sense but time travel had always been confusing. Star once again began to cry.
Twilight did the only thing she could think of and cuddled with the filly. “Girls, why don’t you five leave and give my daughter and I some time.” The five looked at each other and nodded. One by one they left and soon only Twilight and Star were left. Without warning Twilight lit her horn and used a specific spell on Star. The young filly pulled away from Twilight and wondered what she had done to her. “I apologize Star, I was just making sure that this wasn’t some kind of Changeling trick. You have to admit that this sounds a little farfetched.” Star thought about it and nodded, it really did sound crazy. “Tell me what you know?”
Star really didn’t know much but she had guesses and that was all she could give. “I know one thing for a fact, you were forced to forget me or at least I think it’s fact. I also know now that you loved me greatly and refused to give me up. Everything else is just guess work such as I think that I was an accident.”
“An accident, I was, no matter, I love you. I mean how couldn’t I? Hold on a minute.” Twilight ran off and grabbed a camera before she returned. “Let’s take a picture together so that I won’t ever forget you.” Star ran over and stood next to Twilight. The camera floated in front of the two, held up by Twilights magic. Once they were ready, Twilight took the picture. “I thought there was something odd about you when I saw you; I saw myself.”
Star hugged her mother tightly and then saw a pony behind her mother that didn’t look friendly. “Mom, look out!” Before either pony could react, Twilight was knocked into a bookcase and Star was bucked across the room. Star’s vision became blurry and watched with cloudy eyes as the black earth pony climbed on top of Twilight and put a black ring on her horn. “NO!” Stars anger rose and a lump got caught in her throat. She couldn’t let her mother get hurt. Star stood and lit her horn and fired off a magic bolt of black at the pony attacking her mother. With blurry vision it was rather hard to hit anything with. The bolt just barely missed. “You won’t hurt her!” With her vision clearing, Star fired another bolt that sent the black pony flying into the bookcase. She stood up weakly and walked over to her mother. “Mom?”
“I’m fine, thank you.” Twilight took off the ring and turned to the black pony and trapped him in a magical bubble. “Go up stairs and get Spike.” Star nodded and ran upstairs.
“Princess Twilight, I’m thrilled to hear that you’re alright.” Celestia turned to her guards. “Take him away, he will be put to death in the morning.” Celestia checked once more to make sure that Twilight was ok before she left.
“Mom!” Star panicked as she saw herself begin to disappear. “What’s going on?”
“I suppose that guess of yours was right, it was because of that pony that you came along. You’ll disappear now, because you saved me from getting raped, you don’t exist.” Twilight tried to hug her daughter but Star backed away. “Are you alright?”
“NO, I don’t want to disappear, I want to be with you.” Star said as she freaked out.
“I’m sorry that you won’t be here but-” Twilight was cut off as Star continued to panic and whine about disappearing. “Star, I don’t know what to say.” Star began to run in circles before she stopped at looked into her mothers eyes.
“Don’t let me go, don’t you love me, I am your daughter.” Star asked angry and sad.
Twilights heart broke as her little girl panicked. “I can’t just go and get pregnant just to save her but she is my daughter. Then again, what would everypony think if I did something like that. Still, if she is my flesh and blood then I have to save her but she isn’t yet. It doesn’t count right or does it?" Twilight was in panicked thought and then she heard Star yell out to her again. “Screw it…and screw me.” Twilight nodded and put a hoof around Star. “I won’t let you go.” With that said, Twilight teleported away and wondered why she would be doing this.