After surviving a Pinky Pie Party, Hope and Astrana said their farewells to the town of Ponyville. Hope wasn’t surprised that Twilight and Spike had insisted on joining them, but was surprised that they had brought some other friends with them. Applejack Apple was an honest, strong, hardworking, farmer pony. Rarity was a fashion designer with the magic touch of her unicorn horn to help her with her dreams. Fluttershy was an extremely shy pegasus that worked with animals. Rainbow Dash was an extremely fast flyer of the athletic type, having the dream to be one of the pegasus on her favorite flying team, the Wonder Bolts. Even Pinky Pie had decided to come, thinking that they couldn’t let Twilight and Spike have all the fun. Astra was still a bit nervous about being near so many ponies, but was surprised that none of them were afraid of her for her looks. She felt reassured that ponies were not as judgmental as they had been about her in the past.

As they reached the capital though, she put her cloak on again while Hope lowered her own hood. She gave a wistful smile that only Spike understood, as he was the only one who knew her secret. They walked through slowly and carefully, while a few of the fancy ponies looked at them, some with disdain and some with curiosity. As they reached the palace, Hope and Astra recognized some older unicorns and ponies in the guard who didn’t even wait for an explanation, they just opened the gates for the group. Twilight looked at them in surprise.

“Like I said, I know the princesses…” Astra said shyly. She had taken off her hood as they had gotten closer to the palace and had kept her eyes hidden under her mane. She kept quiet up until they were all led into the throne room. Many ponies looked at her with shock, but a few of the older ones looked upon her with relief and smiles.

As princess Celestia looked upon them from her throne, she felt her heart stop. Twilight noticed Spike still clutching onto Hope and smirked.

Celestia then summoned her little sister, Luna. Luna was rarely ever summoned during the day save for something important so she was surprised as she came through the throne room and the hooded unicorn bowed to her with respect. She was even more shocked by Spike clutching onto anypony other than Twilight. Hope turned her head as the second princess entered and sighed in what seemed to be relief. Luna had grown up strong and beautiful, much like her older sisters.

Hope’s eyes seemed to gleam with a small light as Luna entered. She whispered something to Spike who smiled and nodded eagerly. Luna felt scared for some reason, as though she was ashamed of herself once more for having been Nightmare Moon. Luna’s fear suddenly strengthened as she saw what looked like a Nightmare standing in front of the court. As she passed the pony on her way towards her sister, the dragon-like eye staring at her with fear shocked her. She then noticed the shine in the mane wasn’t from rain or anything like that, but from stars that seemed to glow in her hair. Luna’s eyes widened as she looked upon the cloaked pony.

“Will you please take off your cloaks, it’s not usually common for guests to wear… disguises.” The head advisor was choosing her words carefully. She was one of the youngest in the room and had not been around when there had been four princesses. She was afraid of the dark pony before her princess.

Astra looked once more to Hope who smiled kindly at her. “Spike, will you hold mine please?” Spike nodded and took off Hope’s cloak for her while Astra took off her own. The compass cutie mark on Astra's flank started to glow a little. Hope smiled as the royal court members stiffened. It wasn’t easy to startle them and it always gave her pleasure to do that. Spike also smiled as he looked at the snooty ponies and unicorns stare in shock.

Hope’s dusty rose fur looked pale compared to the elegant dark purple of Astra. The group bowed before the royal court and the princesses. Hope’s smile vanished as she looked around. She wanted to return to her valley and not complicate things any more than they already were, but she had a feeling right down to her tail that she was going to be dragged right into the royal world again.

“Present yourselves to the princesses, please.” The head advisor was still concerned about such a dark unicorn that she didn’t notice Astra’s wings.

Astra looked down sheepishly and then up and was about to open her mouth when Spike started to speak. This was when Hope started looking a little nervous. “Announcing the Princess of the stars, Princess Astra!” Astra blushed as she her wings went out instinctively. Hope felt a pain in her back and glanced quickly towards the bandage that was strapped tightly. She felt a twinge of guilt and sadness, but then remembered that it was for the princesses own good. “The princess of Friendship, Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight bowed her head respectfully as her own wings opened for a second. She hadn’t even been aware that there was such a princess before. “Applejack the honest,” Applejack nodded her head respectfully after she finished her bow. She wasn’t used to being in such a fancy environment for long periods of time. “Rarity, the generous,” It seemed that Spike was naming all their elements, save for Twilight’s at this point. “Fluttershy, the kind,” Fluttershy blushed as she bowed her head, she was always the shyest of them all. “Rainbow Dash, the loyal,” Rainbow was tempted to do one of her fancy tricks right now but decided against that. “Pinky Pie, the Party Pony,” was now Pinky’s official title. “ and Hope Healer, of Sunrise Valley.” Hope breathed out a sigh of relief as Spike hadn’t said her real name. Then Spike blushed as he remembered that he had to introduce himself. “Oh, and I’m Spike Hope Healer, Princess Twilight Sparkle’s assistant.” He noticed Hope’s smile show once more as he had addressed himself as her son.

“Spike… Hope Healer?” The adviser looked from the baby dragon to the unicorn.

“Umm, yeah, see, it’s been my mom’s name for the last few hundred years and well…” Spike blushed. He wasn’t used to seeing the whole royal court staring at him, just the princesses. The princesses had never been quite so intimidating, but the fact that he had just introduced a long lost princess seemed to tense up the whole room.

Before the head advisor could ask another question, Princess Celestia walked towards the group Luna followed nervously. The two stopped in front of them while Spike merely stood behind Hope. Celestia then dismissed the royal court, but allowed the oldest of the royal guards who had been there when there were in fact four sisters as the princesses to stay. Celestia and Astrana held what seemed to be a glare for a few minutes until they both started crying at the same time while laughing.

“Astra, you’re alright!” Celestia cried as she and her twin nuzzled each other. “You’re alive, oh bright shining sun, you’re alive! And you’re back to normal too, oh Astra! My sister…”

“Yes, oh it’s so good to see you again, Celestia. I missed you so much.” She then looked upon her younger sister with tears in her eyes, “Oh, and Luna, dear, you’ve grown so much, oh bless my stars!”

Luna smiled tearfully as she looked upon her older sisters. “Astra.” She trotted towards her sister carefully and then rushed right towards her, nuzzling her sister, hoping it wasn’t all a dream. “Oh shining silver moon, I hope this isn’t just a dream.”

Spike took in Twilight’s confused face at the sight of this and laughed.

Author's Note

Okay, so "BOOM!" Yeah, There are more members in my story than ya thought hehe, but just wait till we get further along hehe, if you think this is "Chaotic" wait till I bring in Discord and his daughter, Screwball! It took me a while to figure out a good intro for them, and I still can't do them justice in my opinion, but please, I am trying. I'd really like a comment or something so I can know what to fix within the later chapters and how to make it a better story. Hope ya like what i got so far. See ya in Equestria!