//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Princess Sky Stormer // by Skymaster9929 //------------------------------// Green leaves blew in from a warm summer's breeze as a lone white pony standing on a Los Pegases skyscraper stared up at the blue sky. The pony, a pure white with a light blue mane and brighter green eyes, thought. Her green eyes had black star-shaped pupils, thanks to her unusual heritage. Wind blew her mane as she wondered what all the jerks that had bullied her in Flight School would think of her now. The awkward Pegasus with big, floppy wings like bunny ears had grown up, with curves in all the right places. But one part of her was the part most ponies would have their eyes drawn to, besides her big flanks the stallions in town just couldn't get enough of, they had a Cutie Mark of a Twister with green leaves around and inside it. Sky Stormer thought about what she had done today. It seemed like the right thing to do! Just go and make a big tornado to take up water, and dump it in Zebraca where poor foals were dying from having no clean water. She wasn't expecting to become an Alicorn! She nervously bounced on her hooves and bit her lip as she waited for her best friends to arrive. She had written a note, but she wasn't sure how quickly they could- "SKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" A mare shouted as she flew over to her, a pale blue Pegasus carrying a red Earth mare and a blue Earth mare. "Keep it down!" Sky said, nervous and afraid. Her whole world was changing, and her body had already changed, considering the horn on her head. "You said there was an emergency, what's- oh sweet neptune!" The red Earth mare with blonde hair said, jaw dropping in horror. "Sky Stormer! You're... horny!" The blue mare said, laughing a lot. "I need help! Stroke, tell me you have some kind of invisible paint, or horn-removing cream, or anything!" Sky said, afraid. "I don't have any." Stroke whispered quietly, looking away. From where Sky stood, she could see her Cutie Mark, splashes of red paint on blank canvas. Sky sighed. She felt bad asking this of her friend, she knew how low the bad artist's self-confidence was. That poor, shy little mare with art so... weird. "Sky, why are you so horny?" The blue mare asked, grinning. "Shut up, Patty." Snowy said bluntly, her tongue as cold as the ice sculptures she made. "Sky, TELL ME. Why are you hiding this new horn? Why, if I had a horn, I'd-" "Show your ex a thing or two?" Patty asked, her big and annoying grin getting even bigger, because she had pony lips. "Shut up, Patty." Snowy said, slapping her with a wing. "Oh, that's it! Come on, Stroke! Two on two, you and me, right now!" Patty growled, wrapping an armhoof around Stroke. "You're going to die alone some day." Stroke said quietly. Patty backed away slowly. "Girls, focus!" Sky stressed desperately. "I need help! I became an Alicorn, and I don't know what to do!" "You reveal your heritage, go to Canterlot, and marry a Prince!" Snowy said, looking up. "But I don't like princes." Sky said sadly. "Details, details." Snowy said dismissively, closing her eyes. "Well, you could always join a circus." Patty said happily. Stroke bit her muzzle, and that shut Patty up. The Earth Pony with a Spatula on her flanks covered her muzzle and screamed, and Stroke smiled shyly. "Ummm... I have an idea, but it's stupid." She said, and got sad, heart sinking like a rock. "Tell me anyway, please!" Sky begged. Patty kept screaming. "Ummmmm... Maybe you could put on a jacket, and pretend you're just a Unicorn?" Stroke suggested shyly, tears forming in her eyes. "Stroke, honey... That would be a good idea, but... ponies here know me, and they remember me as a Pegasus. Changing species is considered weird, that's why I'm so nervous." Sky said softly to the poor, shy dear. "I can't just go around telling ponies I became a Unicorn, even if I would get a raise at work for Transforming." "How did this happen?" Snowy asked, grabbing Sky's horn. Sky giggled and smiled for the first time all day, because that tickled a lot. It was so new and strange, and Snowy slowly dragged one hoof along it as she inspected it closely. "How did you get such a wonderful horn?" Sky opened her mouth, but incomprehensible babbling came out. Her wings spread out. "Really, I must know." Snowy said, stroking the very tip of her hoof along the horn's curl. Sky screamed and shot out a magic beam, followed by glowing blue goo that caught fire when it hit the ground. Exhausted, Sky Stormer fell to the ground, sleeping cutely. "Awesome! Do it again! But point yourself at a tractor first. Or Suri Polomare." Patty said while thinking. That wasn't something she did often. "Shut up, Patty." Snowy said angrily. She looked down at the mare in her hooves, winged and now horned. "Oh, you poor, poor dear... I wish I had your horn." "Would you use it to blow up Suri Polomare?" Patty asked hopefully. "You know what? If it would shut you up, yes." Snowy said angrily. "I made a tornado to take water to Zebraca." Sky mumbled, waking back up. "What? You're just a weather pony, Sky. What were you doing over in Zebraca?" Snowy asked the beautiful Alicorn that had once been such a lame Pegasus. "I was thinking about all the Zebracan foals starving to death, and they were thirsty, too, and... I wanted to do something! I wanted to help ponies!" Sky declared. "What... happened to you? Just yesterday, you were crying about how useless you think you are. And now... Alicorn?" Snowy asked, confused. "I thought about them, Snowy. I thought about them, and realized... I'm not really miserable. Or helpless. I can help them, and in that moment, I realized I should." Sky said, eyes glowing with power. "You should have cooked some lions, so the starving ponies could eat them." Stroke said quietly. "Oh no... I forgot to give the starving Zebracans food!" Sky said sadly, getting back up as her eyes stopped glowing. "It's okay, you did something." Snowy said. The Alicorn was hit in the head by a meteor spell, but she barely even felt it, it felt like a spitball as the flaming rock smashed against her head. "Huh?" She asked, turning around. A yellow Pegasus kicked her in the face, pushing it back a little. Sky wondered why this didn't hurt. Snowy grabbed the yellow Pegasus and flew into the air, spinning and flying to the ground and hitting her with it. She flew back to find Patty beating up two Pegasi mares at once while Stroke took on four Earth Pony stallions, and Sky was being electrocuted by a bunch of Unicorns who were burning themselves out casting it. Snowy kicked the nearest Unicorn in the horn, making him scream, and then she kicked the mare Unicorn next to him in the horn. Once she'd stopped them all, Sky broke free and rushed towards Patty, grabbing her. Sky flapped her wings and sent all of the ponies she was fighting off the building, and then she got ready to help Stroke, but she'd already thrown all four off. An arrow sunk deep into her neck, laced with enough poison to kill an elephant, followed by eight more. Sky looked up at the Pegasi flying other ponies to the roof long enough to see a Pegasus pull the tail of a magically-changed skunk and then throw it at her, releasing a green cloud like a grenade on impact. Sky gagged from the smell, and her powerful wings blasted the cloud back at the throwers, and they fell out of the sky like dead birds, getting caught by other Pegasi, only for them to smell the ponies and fall. But then the poison started to take hold, as did the curses Unicorns on other buildings were putting on her. She began to fall asleep again, and this time, it hurt. "No... I have... to save... my friends..." A large needle was shoved into her neck by a Pegasus, and she screamed because she hated needles. The pegasus injected the sleeping poison, and Sky's last thoughts while she was conscious was... Why were these ponies wearing Royal Guard uniforms? A bucket of water was splashed into the face of Sky Stormer, waking her up. "Rise." Princess Celestia said. Sky threw up, her body naturally cleaning toxins and getting rid of poison, to the disgust of the three Alicorns in the room and the royal guards lining the walls. "Sky Stormer, is it?" Princess Luna asked, horn glowing as she vanished the smaller Alicorn's vomit. "Y-yes." Sky said, getting nervous now that so many eyes were on her. "Why are you... horned?" Princess Luna asked curiously. "You are not one of my sister's playthings." Princess Celestia angrily cleared her throat, a subtle warning. "Students." Princess Luna corrected herself angrily. "I... I don't know! I did a good thing for the first time in my life, and... suddenly, I'm horny the magical Unicorn!" Sky said sadly. Princess Cadance laughed. Princess Celestia frowned. Sky got even more scared. "Where are my friends?" Sky demanded, voice cracking. "They're safe." Princess Celestia said. "But you... you are not. You are an ordinary weather pony from Cloudsdale, your Sky Spirit mother notwithstanding. Aside from your large wings, and your strange eyes, you have nothing. So tell me... Why is it that you became an Alicorn so quickly, when it took centuries of planning to ensure Twilight, the strongest Unicorn in a hundred years, would ascend to the throne with me? Why do your powers dwarf hers, why do you, an untrained foal, have might to rival my own?" "I... I don't know!" Sky said, afraid. "Was it the disturbance we detected over Zebraca?" Princess Celestia asked. "One similar to the Sonic Rainboom a few years ago?" "Maybe?" Sky asked, unsure and confused. "Sonic Rainbooms do not turn you into Alicorns." Princess Luna said. "Rainbow Dash's hornless head is proof of thy falsehood." "You're not part of my plan, Sky Stormer." Princess Celestia stated coldly. "And unless you want yourself and your friends to be erased, you had better become a part of it." "I'll do whatever you want! Just please, don't hurt my friends!" Sky begged selflessly. Princess Celestia smirked. "You have a choice, Sky Stormer. I will have your friends killed in front of you, one by one, and then you can ascend to the throne by my side as my magic warps your mind to make you my loving, loyal slave, much like Twilight, but infinitely more so. You will only exist to eliminate threats to our rule and ensure I win any ties or arguments between myself and my Alicorn sisters for all of eternity. Whether you believe your friends were traitors to the throne that needed execution, or whether they were simply holding you back from your precious destiny... is up to you." Sky couldn't believe her ears. Was this truly the Princess Celestia she had admired, wanted, and wanted to be for so long? An evil, controlling tyrant that would do absolutely anything to remain in control? "Or, if you do not wish to take part in my plans..." Princess Celestia said, the sun appearing behind her, and in front of her, an illusion of what would happen. "As an Alicorn, you cannot die, so I will seal you into the sun, where you will burn for eternity. For the rest of your eternal life... You will know only pain. And I will let your friends go, their memories altered to remember nothing of you. My Royal Guardsmen will seek out any evidence of your existence, and destroy it. It will be as though you were never born. And when foals wearing sunglasses look up at the sky and ask why it looks like there's a face in the flames... their mothers and fathers will know to say they are imagining things." "I'll do it!" Sky snapped without thinking. "Excuse me?" Princess Celestia asked sternly as her horn glowed gold, flame creeping in around the room, burning dragons snapping at Sky's hooves. The illusions were gone. This fire was real, and under her control. "Burn me!" Sky demanded. She was terrified, but she couldn't let this monster hurt her friends. Her massive wings unleashed themselves, ready to blow back any flames she had to. "Do whatever you want with me, just let my friends go!" The three Princesses stared down at her. "Well played, Sister." Princess Luna said sarcastically. "She has figured out your ruse." "What ruse?" Sky asked. "I'm using truth spells and belief spells, I could tell her the sky was pink all along and she'd believe me." Princess Celestia said, poking her tongue out at the blue pony and ignoring the white Alicorn. "Huh?" Sky Stormer wondered. "I lied." Princess Celestia said with a smile. "I'm not going to burn you. That was all a test, my little pony, to see if you had the heart of a Princess... and you passed." Princess Celestia said with a smile. The royal guards in the room cheered and threw their hats into the air, and streamers burst as Pinkie Pie appeared and started the party, a wall disappearing and revealing Sky's friends, Princess Twilight, and Twilight's friends. "Pinkie!" Twilight yelled. "Paaaartay!" Pinkie said happily as she danced, in her own little world of streamers and cupcakes. "Nice one, Sky! I knew you wouldn't sell us out!" Patty said happily. "I'm glad you won't die." Stroke said quietly with a smile on her face. "Darling, you're a real Alicorn princess now!" Snowy said. "I... I am!" Sky Stormer gasped. "I'm the Alicorn Princess of the Sky!"