The Alicorn Prince

by Rightben370

A New Start

I.Q. had been busy traveling the town to make a "mental map" as he liked to call it. But as he came across a building looking like a gingerbread house bam! he was hit in a flash of grey and blinding neon yellow, "Hey you okay I didn't mean to crash into yo-" it was Neo at a loss for words,
"Nice to run into an old friend." I.Q. quipped,
"What are you doing here?" asked Neo,
"I could ask you the same thing" countered I.Q,
"you have to answer my question first book worm." one of many nicknames I.Q. was given,
"Well I live here now, I moved here with Bolt after the foster fiasco, as for you. I thought you lived in Cloudsdale." he replied,
"well I do but I come here to go to school and see my sister, have you seen her?" the sister he was looking for was Rainbow Dash, not one of the most humble ponies in I.Q.'s opinion,
"sorry no, did you say she was friends with the princess before?"
"yeah why?" asked Neo,
"I believe she went with her out of town for a few days." concluded I.Q., "my brother said he got word that princess Twilight and her five friends went to a special calling from her new castle." as they continued this conversation I.Q. filled him in on the other reason he was here and Neo was at a loss for words until he asked I.Q. to come meet a few friends of his of which he could relate.

the first destination was a small house near the center of ponyville, Neo then knocked on the door. An earth pony mare with a cutie mark of a foal's bottle along with a teddy bear and a heart came to the door, "Neo what a pleasant surprise I'll go get Button." she left inside and came out a few minutes later with a brown coated earth pony colt with a propeller hat and no cutie mark,
"Hey Neo how are you?" asked the colt,
"I'm fine Button Mash I want you to meet my friend from Canterlot, I.Q. Quips." introduced Neo, the colt shook his hoof and introduced himself. They talked to get to know each other, I.Q. leaving out what happened to his parents.

they eventually went to see three more of Neo's friends being an orange pegasus named Scootaloo, a white unicorn named Sweetie Belle whom Button had difficulty speaking to, and lastly in a large expanse of land an earth pony of the same soft yellow fur color as I.Q. who he had trouble speaking to named Apple Bloom. They started chatting and as they started to depart I.Q. had noticed that each of the three fillies that he had met didn't have their cutie marks, which gave him glee seeing that he wasn't the only one with a blank flank.

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He went through Ponyville with a smile as he ran into two ponies his same age with pink and grey coat colors and cutie marks symbolizing wealth lets get this over with I.Q. thought as he approached the two ponies on the way top his house. "Hey who's the new..." started the pink one but she froze with an open mouthed expression on her face. I.Q. stood there with an indifferent expression where the grey one was confused at why her friend stopped in the middle of an insult. suddenly the pink one spoke up, "Hi I'm Diamond Tiara and this is my friend Silver Spoon, I just wanted to say welcome to Ponyville." she said with a shy grin,
"Di what's going on with you?" asked Silver Spoon I.Q. just said a polite greeting, farewell, and quickly left the strange encounter

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He went home and did his usual after school routine, he placed his saddle bag on the couch, grabbed a book he was reading, fed Scorch, and began to read. After he got to a good stopping point he placed his bookmark inside and put away the book into his library. After Bolt got back they ate and I.Q. went to bed afterwards, but not before setting it up first.

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He awoke to an image of his older self and five other ponies sitting at a picnic table when a wave of magic blankets the entire town receding almost instantly and the only thing left standing is the six ponies. The image went away in a flash and was replaced by an image of the same six ponies walking towards a crystalline tree with five branches with glowing gems and a star shaped gem at the center. The image flashed away once again and showed the six ponies with only one standing and a hooded unicorn with yellow eyes smiling mischievously. This image didn't go away in a flash but instead in a mist of shadow accompanied by a gray pony with sharp red eyes and even sharper teeth lunging out towards I.Q.

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I.Q.'s eyes shot open as he saw Scorch standing over him, illuminating the room. he realized it was just a dream but couldn't help but to second guess himself and worry about times to come.