Chapter 1: What in the WORLD?

“Put the puzzle back together, see what I'm dreaming, when I find the pieces…” a radio softly plays in the background.

“Yo! Starlight! Get me a donut!” Prince Eclipse calls to me from the other room.

“You have maids for that!” I yell back at him. “Besides, you're not the only royalty here!”

“Yeah, but I was crowned before you!” He yells back at me.

“Ughhhh… I've almost finished my calculations, and if I stop now, I'll lose my progress!” I groan.

“So what? You ARE the scientist! I mean, look at your cutie mark!” My annoying brother says.

“First of all, I control the stars, I'm not a scientist for the LAST TIME!” I yell at my foolish brother. “Second of all, I've spent almost 8 months on these calculations, and I don't wanna be stuck trying to redo them for another 8 months.”

“Woop de doo, YOU'RE IMMORTAL!” Eclipse yells at me.

“Ugh!” I yell as I lock the door and and activate the soundproofing magic I know. My horn glows a soft red, and my brother’s ranting stops. “Finally…” I sigh, and slide onto the floor.

“What are you worrying about this time?” A voice says, and I jump.

“Gah!” I shout, and then look up at the sound of the voice. “Celestia! I'm so sorry I didn't hear you come in, I activated my soundproof wall s to block out Eclipse and his complaining about how long I've been in here.” I say.

“He has a reason, you know.” Celestia says.

“Yeah yeah, it's been 8 months, but I'm so close!” I say, waving my hoof at the chalkboards around my room.

“Hmmm. You may be right.” Celestia says as she looks at the chalkboards. “Well, these certainly are complex, I can see why you've been in here so long.” she notes, before looking at me.

“What?” I ask after she stares at me for a little too long.

“How long have you gone without any sleep? Or anything to relax with?” She asks.

“Let's see...“ I say, looking at a couple of clipboards scattered on the floor. I pick them up one by one with my magic. “Nope. Nope. Definitely not. Close but not quite, there it i- nope that's just a coffee stain…” I throw the clipboards up in the air in frustration. “Flare!” I yell, and an orange dragon runs in.

“Yes Starlight?” the young dragon asks.

“Have you seen my log for the last time I slept or did something relaxing?” I ask.

“Give me a sec!” Flare says, and flies up to the shelf of clipboards. “Yeesh, you're worse than Twilight!” she says, looking at the massive amount of organization of clipboards, papers, and other official things.

“I am not as bad as Twilight!” I yell at the impish dragon.

“Here it is!” Flare yells out after a couple of minutes. I grab it with my magic, pulling Flare along with it, and when the clipboard is next to me, Flare falls off.

“Let's see here….” I say, looking at the clipboard. “It's been about…. 3 months, give or take a couple days.” I say. Celestia sighs. “What? I've been busy!” I say.

“You're coming with me.” Celestia says, dragging me towards the door.

“But I'm so close!” I exclaim, trying to break free of her magic.

“No buts, except yours out the door.” Celestia says in her no nonsense tone of voice.

“Ughhh…. Fine. Flare, keep my brother away from my calculations, please!” I say as I walk out the door.

“Yes Ma'am!” Flare says, saluting, before flying up to the small lookout perch I made for when I have to go out. I fly up, flying around the building.

“Starlight!” Celestia yells at me. I fly down, landing less than gracefully, aka, on my face.

“owww…” I moan, getting up.

“You're going to Ponyville. Got it? And you're not flying there, I'll enlist some royal guards to escort you.” Celestia says, and I groan.

“Ponyville? Seriously? That place is, like, the most unrelaxing of all of Equestria. You realize how that town attracts evil, don't you? I've done about 3 papers on it!” I complain. “Besides that, it's not like I can stay with any of my pals without them being mobbed by the paparazzi.”

“Rainbow Dash has already agreed to let you sleep at her cloud house.” Celestia says.

“Seriously?! AWW YEAH!” I shout, jumping up. “Wait… what about the paparazzi? And my brother? He WILL mess with my calculations, you know.” I ask.

“I've already told them that if they bug you, they will answer to me. Also, I've requested that 4 guards be stationed at your door at all times.” Celestia tells me.

“Oh thank you! But how will they spare the guards? Also, now can I go?” I ask.

“Well, we've upped the amount of Royal Guard recently, so it won't be much trouble to Shining Armor. Hold on one moment.” Celestia says, walking over to a couple of royal guards nearby, and speaking to them. She walks back over with the two guards.

“These two will escort you to Ponyville. Now go pack up, you're taking a large break from your calculations.” Celestia orders.

“Ummm how long exactly?” I question with fear that I already know the answer.

“For 2 weeks.”

“DAMN IT!” I shout, before blushing as I realize I just flew above Celestia. “Heh… heh… oops?” I say as I land… on my face. Again. “Owwww!” I think about 5 curse words as I pull my horn out of the ground. I trot back towards my room, and walk in to see my brother trying to get inside my room. “Seriously Eclipse? Again?” I say, levitating him away from my door, and see Flare on the ground. “Again?! This is the 10th time, Bro-Bro!” I exclaim, levitating Flare in front of his face.

“Well your dragon was in the way.” Eclipse justifies.

“She was GUARDING my room! I've told you, you're not allowed in my room, and also, I'm taking a two week vacay to Ponyville. There will be 4 royal guards guarding my room at all times. So don't mess with my calculations, or ELSE!” I threaten.

“Fine, fine, fine. I'll leave your silly calculations alone!” Eclipse grunts, before trotting back to his room.

“Bring Flare with you so you can fix her up!” I shout down the large hallway. Flare gets covered by a dark blue magical glow, and levitates towards my brother’s room. I unlock my door, and walk into my room, before locking the door again. “She never said I couldn't bring the portable copy of my calculations…” I mutter, picking up a medium sized stack of papers, before casting a spell on them, causing them to shrink in size. I put the now-tiny cube in a small case, and put it on a necklace. I put the necklace in a bag which I levitate towards myself. The bag is a simple saddlebag, but with more space because of a spell I cast on the bag, making it bigger on the inside (Author's note: Please tell me someone gets that reference. If no one does, I will be disappointed). I sigh, pulling some checklists out of the bag. “Let's see… that's a 3 day vacation packing list… that's my “I've finished my calculations, let's celebrate with a long vacation” packing list…. Aha! Here it is! My two week vacation packing list!” I triumphantly exclaim. I look at it, and levitate the chalkboards into a large storage closet I had built for them. I look at my massive amount of storage containers, like crates and desks. I sigh, and unlock the door as I trot towards it. I poke my head out of the door, and yell down the hall, “HEY ECLIPSE! IS FLARE ALL FIXED UP YET?”

“She's coming right now!” Eclipse yells back at me. Flare flies over.

“Okay, Flare. I'm packing for a two week vacay. Here's my bag, I'll read the checklist, you pack the stuff.” I say, handing her the bag. She sighs, and walks over to the desks. “Quills?” I ask. Flare grabs five quills and stuffs them in the bag.

“Check!”

“Ink?”

“Check!”

“Paper?”

“Checkkk. Why do we have to do this EVERY TIME?” Flare asks.

“Because otherwise I'll forget something, and you know how much I hate that.” I tell her, and then look at the next item on the list, before seeing a picture of Discord instead. “Discord! Get out of my checklist!” I shout as the picture dances.

“Honestly, you're no fun, Starlight!” Discord says as he pops out of my checklist.

“I'm trying to PACK!” I shout angrily. “Out out out out!” I say, levitating the draconequus towards the door.

“Fine.” Discord says, and teleports out of the room.

“Okay then. Drawing pad?”

“Check.”

“Extra bits?”

“I can't carry those!” Flare complains. I levitate them into the bag.

“Check!” I say cheerfully. “Okay... let's see… wing blades?” I ask.

“Check!”

“Extra blankets? It is winter there right now, ya know.” I tell her.

“Check!”

“That's everything!” I say, before remembering something. “Hey, don't forget your blanket!”

“Already on it!” Flare says, carrying a blanket I made for her. She stuffs it in the bag, along with a small stuffed animal for me.

“Oh my gosh! I can't believe I almost forgot my stuffed animal! Thanks Flare!” I say, hugging her. “Now then, LET'S ROLL!” I say, and trot out the door, noticing the four royal guards on duty already. “Evening Gentlecolts.” I say casually.

“Evening Princ- oh! I'm so sorry I didn't recognize you at first!” One of the guards says, pulling the other three down as he bows.

“No need for formalities, gentlecolts. I'm sure you've heard, but I'm going on vacation!” I tell them, and they sigh. “We've heard.” One of the other three says.

“Don't worry, I'll make sure you four get special recognition from Shining Armor.” I tell them, and they look at me with wide eyes.

“We really don't deserve that, Princess!” one of the guards says.

“Nonsense! You're guarding a room with my research in it!” I tell them, and then trot off to have a talk with Shining Armor before I leave. I find him a couple minutes later, pacing back and forth. “What's with the pacing, Shining Armor?” I ask. He quickly looks up.

“Oh! Princess! Sorry I didn't see you walk up, I'm just worried.” the captain of the royal guard says.

“Worried? Worried about what?” I question.

“Well, a million things could go wrong while you're gone, since you seem to be really good at fighting things.” Shining Armor says, and I stop him right there.

“Relax, it'll be fine! Also, make sure that those guards get special recognition, they're doing really well.” I tell him.

“Yes Ma'am!” Shining Armor says, saluting.

“Now I have to go, have a fine day.” I tell him, and trot out the door.

“Princess, we will leave on your command!” A royal guard says, as he hooks himself up to a carriage.

“Perfect.” I say, levitating my bag into the carriage. “Flare! Hurry up!” I call.

“I'm coming, I'm coming!” Flare calls out, flying out of the door. She lands in the carriage, and I wave at the guards.

“We're ready!” I call to them. “Please proceed to Ponyville, if you will!” They salute, and take off. I hope nothing goes wrong with my calculations… I think to myself as we take to the skies.

Chapter 2: What am I.... (Part 1 of ?)

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Find the Pieces Chapter Two: A bumpy Landing (literally)

“Isn’t this exciting, Starlight? We haven’t been to Ponyville in AGES!” Flare shouts as we fly through the air.

“Yes, yes. Just let me focus.” I mumble, looking for the cyan pegasus that’s supposed to meet us before we arrive.

“Oh come ON! You do know Rainbow WILL meet up with us, ri- what was that?” Flare asks, as we somehow hit a bump, even though we’re flying.

“What in the WORLD?” I ask the guards.

“We’re HIT!” One of them shouts, and my reaction is to panic. So I do just that.

“WHAT?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE’RE HIT?! CAN WE LAND SAFELY?!” I shout, and then see a welcoming sight. “Is that who I think it is?” I ask, and in response, I get a sonic rainboom. “Yep.” I answer my own question.

“HANG ON, STARLIGHT!” Rainbow Dash shouts as she flies towards us.

“KINDA HARD TO SINCE WE GOT HIT!” I shout back. She flies toward the guards, and releases one of them from the carriage.

“I got this, sir!” She tells him. The guard salutes, and flies to the back of the carriage. We shoot towards the ground, gaining momentum quickly. Rainbow pulls up, and the other guard follows her lead. “Come on…. come on… please work!” Rainbow mutters as she tries to save us from crashing on the ground into a million pieces. Thankfully, the carriage pulls up, and Rainbow cheers.

“Hey Rainbow, we’re not out of the water yet!” I shout.

“Don’t worry, Pinkie and Twilight are already at the best emergency landing spot!” She shouts at me, turning towards where she was going to land.

“That gives me more reasons to worry…” I mutter, thinking of the energetic pink mare.

“There they are!” Flare points out, seeing a break in the clouds, where the alicorn and the pink mare are. Rainbow pulls the carriage down slightly, so we can land somewhat safely. We manage to land, and I step out of the carriage, before collapsing.

“Remind me never to trust Celestia with stuff like this again…” I mutter, before falling unconscious.
~TIME SKIP~

“I think she's waking up…” I hear a voice say.

“Ow…” I mutter, opening my eyes.

“Starlight! You're okay! I was really worried there!” Flare says, hugging me.

“Owww!” I exclaim when Flare hugs me. I turn my head, to see that my wing is bandaged up. “Greatttttt. What's with the bandaged wing?” I question.

“Well, you got hit when your carriage was hit, it wasn't too bad, just a light sprain.” Twilight says, walking up to me.

“Great. Just great. How exactly am I supposed to get to Rainbow’s home now?” I mutter.

“Uhhh, we're already there.” Rainbow Dash says.

“Wait what?!” I exclaim, looking around. “Then how is Pi- waitttt. Cloudwalking spell?” I ask Twilight.

“Yep.” she says.

“Called it!” I exclaim. Maybe this trip won't be as bad as I thought… I think to myself.

“oh… my…” a voice says, and I turn my head. “Fluttershy?” I say, before gasping in pain. “Okay… how did that hurt this much?!” I question myself, and turn back to the way I was facing before, as Fluttershy trots over.

“Ummm… pardon the intrusion… but I thought I saw your carriage get hit… and I think I know what hit it.” she says.

“Wait what?!” I exclaim, looking at her.

“Well, you see… I was gathering flowers, and I saw this little guy.” Fluttershy says, stepping aside to reveal a small, mouse like creature, yellow in color, and not unlike a mouse at all, except for the thunderbolt on its tail.

“Ahhhh, one of these…” I mutter, but Twilight hears me.

“You know what this is?” Twilight asks, looking at me quizzically.

“Well yeah! Don't you remember the last time I came here? I was doing a research paper o-” I start, before Twilight cuts me off.

“On the creatures of the Everfree Forest? I remember, yeah.”

“Well, one of the creatures I talked about was a little guy not unlike this one, except… well… this Pokémon you have here, it's lighter than the one I found…” I tell them, looking the small Pokémon over. “Doesn't appear to be sick, but I might as well check my research paper just to be sure.” I start to levitate my bag over, but Twilight cuts me off.

“Pokémon? What's that?” She asks me.

“Well, it's a shortened name I came up with. The very little info I found about them called them ‘Pocket Monsters.' I won't lie, I found that quite offensive. So I shortened it, to Pokémon, because it sounded better, and might I add cooler. But… it seems this little guy, who I think I'll call… hmmm… how about… C-” I say as I get up, before the Pokémon says something.

“Pikachu!”

“Nani?!” I exclaim, hopping backwards back onto the couch. I blush. “Heheh… sorry… habit of saying that.” I explain, before looking over the Pokémon. “Doesn't appear to have a cold… it might be it's name… but highly unlikely, what kind of creature would have the name Pikachu? But… Maybe that's how it spe- wait… IDEAAAAAA!” I exclaim.

“Please tell me she's not…” Twilight mutters, but I hear her.

“Didn't you say something like that the first time Pinkie sang about something? Wasn't it like, about giggling at the ghosties or something?” I ask.

“Uhhh, ye-” Twilight starts to say, before Pinkie cuts her off.

“Oh yeah she definitely did, I remember that because that was the day I became an Element of Harmony and I would definitely want to remember something like that, and I just started singing, and Twilight here was like, ‘Please tell me she's not…’ and then Rarity was all like, ‘She is.’ as she watched me bouncing around a whole lot, and I was singing about not being scared of the ghosties, and stuff and I was ha-” Pinkie Pie says, and starts to say more, but Rainbow Dash cuts her off, with her hoof covering Pinkie’s mouth.

“Pinkie Pie, I think she gets it.” Dash says, and Pinkie nods. Dash slowly pulls her hoof off of Pinkie, and she doesn't start talking again, which is a relief. “Why'd you wanna know?”

“No reason, just wanted to make sure I heard Twilight right.” I say, and turn back towards the creature. “Now then… how to get myself back to the ground…” I mutter to myself, but of course, Pinkie Pie interrupts me.

“Back to the ground? Why would you wanna do that? Don't you like it here?” She questions.

“Well, I was looking at this… ya know what, I'll just call it Pikachu. I was looking at Pikachu, and I noticed something oddly similar about it. So I WAS going to grab my research notes about it, mainly because I carry them everywhere with me, in case I need them, and then I didn't get a chance cause of Pinkie Pie, soooo yeah.” I say, getting up and walking over towards my bag. I pick it up, and levitate another necklace out, and pull it open. I cast the counterspell to my shrinking spell, and a fairly good sized stack of papers, paperclipped together in order of what creature each section is talking about, appears. Well, not so much appears as grows larger. I look at the table of contents I put as the front page, and find what I'm looking for. “Aha! Here it is! Pokémon!” I exclaim, and pull the appropriate stack of paper out. I leaf through the stack, before finding the diagrams I had included, as well as pictures of each new Pokémon I had found. I look at the top one, levitating it towards the girls. “Notice something similar?” I ask.

“Well for one, it has very similar characteristics to Pikachu, that's for sure… just… darker in color. And… the one in the picture is slightly larger than Pikachu.” Twilight notices, and I nod.

“Exactly. I noticed that too. But… it's almost as if this one in the picture, which I call Raichu based on what it constantly said, is some sort of… evolution of Pikachu. It's fascinating, and I certainly wouldn't mind finding out if my suspicions are correct. But, unfortunately Princess Celestia says I'm taking a vacation from research, so I'll have to come back once I've finished my other calculations that have kept me inside for 8 months.” I say, levitating a checklist out of my bag. The top of it says ‘My To-Do List’ and the rest is a list of things I need to do after I've finished my calculations. I levitate a quill out, as well as some ink. I then proceed to write ‘Further research Pokémon, and their plausible evolutions’ on the quickly growing checklist. I roll it up, and then put everything back in my bag. I cast the shrinking spell on the papers again, after reorganizing them of course. I place the now small stack of papers back into the necklace, and close it. I place it back in my saddle bag, and close the bag, putting it on myself. “Okay, so I kinda just wanna go explore, it's not like my wing is that hurt.” I say, and stretch my wings, before gasping in pain.

“Oh no, your wing cannot take that strain for long, so you are staying here.” Dash says.

“Seriously, Dash? I would think you of all ponies would know how I feel. You were stuck in the hospital for a couple of days when you broke your wing!” I exclaim.

“Yes, but at least I knew that I needed to stay i-” Dash starts, before Twilight cuts her off.

“Oh no! You were complaining just as much, Rainbow!” Twilight says, glaring at her.

“Well at least I gave up trying to escape after one attempt, ya egghead!” You can guess who said that. I fly between them before they kill each other, and I don't even feel any pain in my wing.

“Both of y'all better stop, or else y'all are gonna have some serious ‘splainin to do to me, y'all clear?” I say, giving them a glare that Fluttershy would be proud of.

“Crystal.” they both say at the same time.

“Hey, Starlight, how are you flying?” Twilight asks.

“Wait what?” I ask, and look around. “Huh. My wing doesn't hurt anymore.” I say, pulling the bandage off, and looking at my wing. “I'm sorry, but either I have extreme healing speed or a cut just healed right in front of my face.” I exclaim, causing the others to look at me.

“Wait, did you just say that a cut healed right in front of your face?” Twilight asks, staring at me.

“Yep. I did. Now if you'll excuse me, my head hurts from that little idea.” I say, landing. Twilight rushes over to me and sees a couple of cuts heal themselves, and then go away as if nothing ever happened. “Okay, what in Equestria is happening?” I ask, looking at Twilight.

“Okay, we need to go see a doctor, maybe he'll know what this is.” Twilight says.