Horseshoe Bay shoreline, Equestria
Twilight Sparkle woke up with a headache and the feeling of pins and needles poking at her body. She grunted, causing a very recognizable brother who removed all of the needles. She smiled as she hugged her brother who returned the hug. Twilight then looked around and couldn’t help but be amazed by the technology used.
“How long have I been out?” The purple mare asked.
“Five days,” Shining replied. “Welcome back to the real world, L.S.B.F.F.”
“Thanks, B.B.B.F.F.,” she said before stepping outside.
A strong light momentarily blinded her which caused her to back up. She shook her head a few times then went outside again to find that the light was just a lamp pointed at the entrance. The guards positioned around looked at her before returning to their posts as a dark blue alicorn walked towards her and checked her left hoof.
“You managed to bring the power here,” Luna realized as she moved few furs away to show a burn. “How did that happen?”
The guards were suddenly alerted by an intruder.
“Uh… What’s going on?” Twilight asked, now unsure of what had happened.
“Somepony went too close.” Luna faced the guard nearest of her. “Bring the trespasser to thy camp. Follow along, Twilight Sparkle. You’ll be surprised.”
Twilight nodded then began to follow Princess Luna as she headed towards a small spot in the beach where a small blue camp sat still in the sand. They entered the camp to find that it was bigger on the inside, and the intruder was none other than…
“Mrs. Cake?” Twilight called. “What are you doing?”
“Well, I was about to secretly check on to you,” Mrs. Cake explained as she looked towards the floor and drew a rune which made the guards back away towards Luna. “Until they spotted me and brought me here.”
“Alas, why are you worried about dear sister’s student?” Luna asked. “You have a crush on her, yes?”
“Oh no. I’m married,” Mrs. Cake defended. “It’s just that a Stargazer must make sure that everypony who comes towards Dream Realm Destroia must be safe.”
“Stargazer?” Twilight asked.
Luna ignored Twilight. “I am a Stargazer as well, am I not?” she asked.
“Yes, but that was until you entered yourself,” Mrs. Cake defended. “It’s been a thousand generations, your majesty.”
All of a sudden, Mr. Cake came bursting in carrying an orb.
“You! Why’d you left this Spirit artifact in our house!?” Mr. Cake angrily snapped. “You could’ve hurt the babies!”
“Sorry about that!” Mrs. Cake shouted back as she took the orb and looked at Mr. Cake and winked.
Mr. Cake winked back as they both shook their heads and stared at the orb. “What’s with the orb-thing again, honey?”
“Something valuable since the dark ages,” Mrs. Cake told him as she opened the orb to reveal a long stick with a trigger.
“Hey, I know that.” Twilight tried to remember the name of the object. “It’s a lightsaber hilt.” She took the lightsaber hilt and activated it, which made a bluish blade.
“Why does it look familiar?” Luna asked as Twilight happily swung the lightsaber, cautiously trying not to destroy anything. Twilight then stopped and deactivated it to anticipate Mrs. Cake’s answer, now being curious.
Mrs. Cake sighed. “It’s Starswirl the Bearded’s first lightsaber.”
“First lightsaber?” Twilight asked. “Wait, Starswirl the Bearded’s first lightsaber!? You mean Starswirl is a…” Twilight looked at Luna before to looking at Cup Cake. “Really? Starswirl’s lightsaber?”
“Yes, until he unfortunately lost it during one of his travels,” Mrs. Cake continued. “Fortunate a pony found it and hid it until her dying breath. I think the pony’s name was Searching Star.”
“The Stargazer,” Luna concluded. “It all comes full circle now.”
“Uh…why?” Twilight asked.
“She’s my granddaughter,” Luna told her.
Mr. Cake now smiled as he took something from the orb and threw it towards Twilight which she quickly dodged without looking. “Um, Twilight, you should probably take a rest before you come back to Destroia, because you aren’t done yet.”
Mrs. Cake nodded. “Being the Stargazer, I also say the same. Now, sweetie…”
“Yes, I know.” Twilight looked around and placed the lightsaber hilt beside her book, which was on Princess Luna’s table.
Princess Luna’s eyes widened as the lightsaber began to levitate and the book opened. Twilight noticed this and felt the familiar pain she had on her left hoof. Mrs. Cake and Mr. Cake could only watch in horror as the lightsaber deconstruct itself until the magic crystal which is the saber’s power source was left, and the crystal is then absorbed by the book. The lightsaber reconstructs without the blade then falls back into the book which was closed again. Twilight picked up the lightsaber and activated it again, only for nothing. She activated it a few times until she saw the burn on her left hoof.
Twilight then activated the lightsaber again using her left hoof and, much to Luna’s surprise, it activated and now sported a purple blade. Twilight looked at her left hoof to find that a scar had took place. She huh’d. She turned off the lightsaber again and they all called it a night.
The next day, Mr. Cake had left as Mrs. Cake, Princess Luna, and Twilight Sparkle prepared for another teleport until Mrs. Cake stepped out of the procedures. Princess Luna wondered why she did an action and she replied that Twilight is the one that should be back, not the both of them. Luna wondered how a 1-pony teleport worked until she found Twilight drawing runes around herself.
“Uh…” Luna didn’t notice what to say. “What thou doing?”
Twilight looked up at Princess Luna and pointed to her book which was…on fire. Luna quickly dove in to save the book only to be too late since Twilight vanished as soon as the book was ash. Luna and Cup Cake looked at each other before recognizing the runes she used.
Destroia Xtermis Tower, Illyria, Dream Realm Destroia
Twilight groaned as she rose from her location in what seemed to be another Destroia Xtermis Tower. She stood and checked her surroundings, only to recognize her wand, her fountain pen, and the saddlebag. She also saw a note from King Armor the Fourth and read it.
“‘By reading you returned, Through her the book is burned,’” she read out loud. “Huh, what does that mean?” She looked at the saddlebag and realized whose bag it really was.
She went towards the saddlebag and began to search for the lightsaber. After a few careful inspection, she found the lightsaber and activated it. The hum of the now violet-bladed lightsaber echoed around the room as Twilight swung it around. She then heard voices. Familiar voices. Voices of her friends and mentor. She smiled as she deactivated the lightsaber.
“Hello?” she called out. “It’s me, Twilight!”
She see six pony heads pop from a corner looking at her. She waved back awkwardly as they come out one by one and look at Twilight. Before Twilight could’ve move, they all hugged her except for Princess Celestia who seemed to be confused. Twilight looked at her mentor and approached her.
“What’s wrong, Princess?” Twilight asked.
Princess Celestia looked around. “You came alone?”
“Uh… Yes?” Twilight answered. “Is it because nopony came alone here?”
Celestia nodded.
Think, Twilight. “What if Starswirl the Bearded was the first one who came alone?”
Celestia and the others looked at Twilight. “You can’t possibly mean—” Rarity began only to be interrupted by the hum of her lightsaber. Twilight deactivated the lightsaber again.
“Where'd you get that thing?” Rainbow Dash questioned.
To answer Rainbow’s question, she first wrote something in her book before turning to Rainbow Dash. “This tool was Starswirl’s first lightsaber.”
Celestia remembered something about the lightsaber. “Starswirl the Bearded had a blue blade. Why is it violet?”
“No idea, I guess the book have the answer,” Twilight answered as she noticed the original crystal embedded in the front cover. “Ooh. I think it’s this crystal.”
Twilight went to approach the crystal only to stop. She looked at the lightsaber and closed her eyes. She opened her eyes again to find two lightsabers and and a pile of ash. She chuckled.
“Unexpected,” Twilight told herself as she activated the first lightsaber to check its blade. Violet. She deactivated it then holstered the lightsaber on her belt— stop. She’s wearing something. She’s wearing the same clothes she noticed Mar wore.
She looked around and saw all of them wearing similar robes. Rainbow Dash was more or less posing as an action hero while Rarity was also more or less trying to modify her robe. She felt somepony poking her only to find Princess Celestia with her own lightsaber which had a green blade.
“I thought I lost these, actually,” Celestia excused to why she had her own lightsaber.
Twilight looked back to find that the book has regained and there are four more lightsaber hilts. She blinked.
“Well, looks like we’re the Destroia Resistance while Ms. Ravenshire is the Destroia Empire,” she announced. All of a sudden, there was a flash of thunder and at the opening doorway was King Armor and Mar who was holding a blaster and a lightsaber respectively.
“I’ve been waiting for a generation of the pony Dreamer Squad to say that!” Armor exclaimed in anticipation.
“May the Force be with us all,” Mar proclaimed before getting strange looks. “I’m a Jedi Knight, and I don’t think we’ll get through this easy. They have the Dark Side of the Force, and I’m just one. All others are in other Dream Realms.”
“Do I count?” Celestia asked.
“I don’t know,” Mar admitted. “My Master, a time travelling one, says that true Jedi can be found both in acts and enlightenment. She said emotions guide to both the Dark and Light, but be wary of the true balance.”
“And true balance comes with harmony, which powered the magic of friendship inside one’s hearts, I presume?” Celestia finished.
“Yes, but, how did you know Master Flystar’s words?” Mar asked.
“She was also my mentor,” Celestia answered with a wink.
Twilight knew who her mentor was, it was well written. But to think that…
Starswirl…? Twilight now looked at her lightsaber and saw how different it was from the original, which was the second one. The difference from his and mine is the the violet blade and the… hilt. It’s changed completely from the last time I saw it. If Starswirl the Bearded is Flystar… “Who is Flystar?”
“Master Ro-Wan Flystar,” Mar answered.
“Rowan G,” Rainbow noticed. “Wasn’t that the name you kept babbling when we came for another sleepover at your library?”
“Rowan Geneva Flystar?” King Armor pointed out. “You’re kidding. That guy’s a mad man!”
“Why?” they all asked.
“He’s the—" King Armor felt something and ran off.
“He’s the what?” Twilight asked before the room darkened for another enter teleport. “Clear the middle!”
Everyone cleared out as a man appeared and the room lightened themselves back up. The man looks around before he looked up and turned into a colt. The colt looked at himself and chuckled.
“Oh jeez, never been a pony since the day Starswirl Sr. adopted me as Starswirl the Bearded!” he exclaimed out of joy. He looked around and regretted saying that since he spotted both Mar and Princess Celestia. “Blasted potato-creamed cockroaches. Hello, my apprentices.”
“Hello,” they both growled back. “Master/Teacher.”
Rainbow Dash pulled all the other six and whispered, “things just got real.”
Twilight smiled.
Luna’s Sanctuary, Unknown Location in probably NOT Equestria
“Welcome to my sanctuary, citizens of Ponyville,” Luna announced. “Be lucky that you were the only ponies, along with a select few of the other nations, to be chosen to see this. Princess Celestia doesn’t even know this place.”
“Why doesn’t Princess Celestia know of this?” the Mayor asked.
“Because she cannot visit this place,” Luna answered. “Only I can.”
Mr. Cake smiled. He now know of a sanctuary, and looking at it there was somepony here before. He needed to know who was. “Excuse me, Princess, but it looks like somepony was here before.”
Luna smiled. “Who wants to know who?”
Almost all of the ponies raised their hooves.
“Very well.” Luna looked around. “Starswirl the Bearded.”