My Little Pony: Origins

by rdlover777

Chapters

Chapter #2: First Day on The Job
Chapter #3: A Rocky Start
Chapter #4: Canterlot
Chapter #6: Heart of Flurry
Chapter #7: Journey to The Crystal Empire
Chapter #8: Visions of The Past
Chapter #9: Sneak Away
Chapter #10: Discovery
Chapter #11: Fowler 4F
Chapter #12: Ghosts of The Past
Chapter #13: Rescue
Chapter #14: Aftermath & Recovery
Chapter #15: Family Bonds: Part I
Chapter #16: Pancake Talk
Chapter #18: A Fractured Bond. Part I
Chapter #19: A Fractured Bond. Part II
Chapter #20: A Fractured Bond. Part III
Chapter #21: Breaking The Rules
Chapter #22: Café De La Réunion
Chapter #23: Baby Girl
Chapter #24: Broken
Chapter #25: Statues
Chapter #1: The Robbery
Chapter #5: The Crystal Empire
Chapter #17: Family Bonds: Part II

Chapter #2: First Day on The Job

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Chapter #3: A Rocky Start

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Three.
A Rocky Start.

Location Unknown, Date Unknown, Time Unknown.

A large swirling Vortex opened up as '642', '644', the twelve wagons and the brake van rolled out the other side, the momentum they built up slowly subsided as they approached flat terrain, the train squeaked to a halt as David looked around, he was no longer in Cumbria or North Yorkshire or England for that fact. His radio was playing static, he pulled out his phone. He opened Google maps and tried to find where he was, the landmass his phone showed he was on looked nothing like any land mass he'd seen in an atlas, it looked like someone took the British Isles, North America and Japan, put them in a blender and poured the resulting mess onto a flat surface.

''Well, let's see what town is nearby so i can ask for directions.'' He said to himself, he zoomed on his location and found out that he was a few miles west of a market town called 'Ponyville'. ''Well, let's get this done.'' He added, moving the throttle forward into notch four, the engines begin to move forward, David kept the speed below 40 mph as the train moved across the snow covered land, the place looked like a wasteland, their were no trees, no life. Nothing. The snow pelted the rails as '642's snowplow cut through the snow drifts like a hot knife through butter, the brake pipes and coupling chains were frozen and covered in ice and snow, icicles hung off the buckeye couplings between '642' and '644'. The horn echoed through the blizzard as the train approached the first landmark, which was a curve that went up a slope and to the left, surrounded by large pine trees that we also covered in snow and ice that made them sparkle as the sun broke through the cloud cover.

''What's with the weather today. Make up your mind, is it sunny or snowy?'' He said as he slowly applied the brakes, despite the fact that the train was going slow enough to tackle the curve was ease, but David didn't want to run the risk of the train slipping on the icy rails and falling off the track and down the embankment, especially in weather like this, who knows how long he would be stuck there until someone comes along and finds the wreck. The fog cleared as the train approached the top of the slope, the track straightened out as it crossed a small viaduct, that was wide enough to support two tracks. The viaduct crossed a small, frozen stream, a deer stepped onto its icy surface. The track groaned under the train's weight, the track began to head down hill will turning back east, the train slowly crawled down the slope that was surrounded by a forest.

Meanwhile six ponies were running through the forest, being chased by a large wolf made of oak and birch wood.
''Who knew that an Alpha Timberwolf wouldn't be affected by alicorn magic'' Said the pony leading the group, she was an alicorn and her name was Twilight Sparkle.
''Well maybe if you didn't let Rainbow punch the thing in the face!'' Said another pony, she was an earth pony and her name was Applejack.
''Hey! You saw what it did to Fluttershy!'' She another pony, she was a pegasus and her name was Rainbow Dash, she looked over at the pony in question who was also a pegasus and her name was Fluttershy. The snow crunched under their hooves as they ran towards an opening in the forest.

''This is so much fun!'' Said another pony, she was an earth pony and her name was Pinkie Pie, she bounced up and down as the timber wolf chased close behind.
''Pinkie Pie darling, now isn't the time!'' Said the last group member, she was a unicorn and her name was Rarity. The mares continued to run towards the opening.
''Twilight, you do know that the opening leads right towards train tracks.'' Fluttershy said, her wing still damaged from the Timberwolf attacking her, the wolf closed the gap as they run out of the forest and across the snow covered tracks, Applejack laughed, ''Stupid wolf, you know you can't cross over here!'' Rainbow said, the wolf jumped out and grabbed her left leg by its jaw, biting down hard, she screamed in pain as he dragged her to the ground, she smacked her head on one of the rails.

''Rainbow!'' Twilight said, the wolf let go of Rainbow and growled at her, it opened its jaw, allowing the pegasus to see the three sets of razor sharp teeth that lined its mouth, it moved its mouth towards her head, the rails began to vibrate and shake, Rainbow turned her head right and saw nothing but when she turned her head left, she looked on in horror as the headlights of a train rounded around the bend, the train sped up and blasted its horn, causing Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and the Alpha Timberwolf to looked down the line.

The sun was still shining as '642' rounded the bend as it descended the slope, David looked ahead and saw a large wolf, that was almost the height of the train, on the tracks and ready to attack something, ''Oh hell no!'' He said, he moved the throttle into notch eight, the train began speed up, he blasted the horn, the wolf looked at the train.
''Rainbow! Run!'' Twilight said as the wolf started to growl at the oncoming freight train, Rainbow tried to fly but she was in too much pain to fly, she looked down and picked up a piece of ballast and threw it at the wolf's head, it looked at her as she blew raspberries. Rainbow looked at the train, its shape began to become clear, it was nothing like the trains she seen before, it lacked smoke and chugging sounds, it was almost quite.

The Alpha Timberwolf opened its jaw and prepared to attack her again, she looked at it again before looking back at the train as it was now only a 25 meters away and closing in fast, she leaped clear of the track only seconds before the train got to her. The train plowed into the wolf causing David to smash his left shoulder and right knee on the control panel, the wolf's wooden body splintered, it cried in pain as the wooden parts were mince under the wheels, Rarity covered Fluttershy's ear with her hooves to drown out the cries of the wolf as the wheels torn it limb from limb. Twilight and the others watched in shock as the brake van rolled past, leaving a trail of shredded wood and dust in its wake.
''Rainbow dear! Are you alright?'' Rarity said as Rainbow limped over to her, blood dripping from her leg and along the snow, ''Never better.'' Rainbow replied, the train's tail lights becoming small red specks in the distance.

David looked out the window and saw the dust cloud behind him, ''Hell yeah!'' He said, before holding his knee in pain, ''I think my knee is busted.'' He said to himself, the train track began to climb down hill again, and under a large stone bridge.

Just outside of the small market town of Ponyville, sat a small, two platform, railway station. The platform were just long enough for a four carriage passenger train, the mainline curved south on the west end of the platform and curved north on the east end, just south of the station, sat a small four track yard. The yard housed a small turntable, which was big enough for a tank engine, that connected a small, two track, engine shed, the yard also had a water tower and a coal filling station. Just a 100 meters west of the station was a junction that connected the mainline with a branch line, a crossing, called farmer's crossing, marked the start and end of the branch line.

A large stallion, that was pulling a cart full of hay, was about to crossover the crossing, he was an earth pony, his coat was a brilliant amaranth with light yellowish grey hooves, his mane and tail were a brilliant orange, his eyes were a moderate sap green and his name was Big McIntosh or Big Mac for short.''Eeyup.'' he said to a small filly, she was also an earth pony, her coat was a pale, light grayish olive, her mane and tail were a brilliant amarnth with a light brilliant crimson bow, her eyes were a brilliant gamboge and her name was Apple Bloom. Big Mac pulled the cart up and over the tracks until it half way, a loud snap rang out from until the cart as the the axles broke in half, causing the cart to drop onto the tracks, ''Nope.'' He added, grunting as he tried to pull the cart.

''It could be worse.'' Apple Bloom said, looking at the twisted and bend metal axle, ''I mean, there could be a train coming...'' She said before the crossing warning lights began to flash, the warning lights were met with a ringing sound as two barriers, one on each side, began to descend and block the crossing, Big Mac looked angrily at her.
''Quick! Get it off of their! Hurry!'' Shouted the signalman from his signal box, ''Um! Big Mac!'' Apple Bloom said as she felt the rails begin the vibrate beneath her, Big Mac tried to pull the cart while Apple Bloom pushed.

David held in knee as the train begin to climb up hill, but the time track was in an mirrored 'S' shape, turn south first for half the slope and then turn back east for the rest of it, the throttle was still at max power, making the slope seem like nothing to the heavy train. He looked up as the line of tree, that blocked his left view of the land, disappeared, he looked on in horror as he saw a cart on the track, ''Oh my god!'' He said, he slammed the brakes on hard, sparks showered out from under '642' and '644', he pulled down the horn lever, give a long blast of the horn.

Big Mac and Apple Bloom leapt clear and braced for impact, as did the signalman. David pulled down the horn lever again, giving and short blast of the horn, followed by a long blast, he too braced for impact. The train smashed straight into the cart, damaging '642's handrails and ditch lights, the cart sprayed wood and hay everywhere.
David was send forward, hitting his head on the control panel, cutting just above his left eyebrow. The cart, now split into pieces, laid spread across the ground as the train crossover over into the yard, still going too fast as it entered the sidings.

Rainbow and the others looked up as they heard the three blasts of the horn, followed by a loud, explosion like sound.
''Sweet Celestia!'' Applejack said, ''Maybe it derailed!'' Twilight said, looking into the distance. Her horn lit up with a rose pink hue, engulfing her and the five other mares, in a flash they left the remains of the Timber wolf behind. They appeared in a flash and looked around, expecting to see a derailed train, but all they saw was shredded remains of a cart, and a very shaken up Big Mac and Apple Bloom.
Big Mac! Apple Bloom!'' Applejack shouted, running up to her siblings, ''Thank goodness you alright!'' She added.
''What happened here?'' Twilight asked, Apple Bloom pointed her hoof at the freight that was now in the yard, it was now crawling along, smoke pouring out from underneath its wheels, Rainbow looked at it and ran towards it

'642' groans as it slowly came to a stop, her ditch lights flickered as the wires sparked and hissed, the brakes were red hot, they smoked as David moved the throttle to idle and the reverser into neutral. He looked out the window and looked at the smoking wheels, he sighed, placing the air brake into the 'application' position, the needles moved over, adjusting to mark the correct psi reading on the panel. He stood up slowly, his right knee crunching in pain, causing him to raise his leg in the air. He sighed, limping over to the shut off switch, the engines hum faded as he grabbed a fire extinguisher and limped his way out the cab. The damaged handrails scraped against the frozen door as it was forced open, a cold blast of air sent a chill straight to David's core, making him shiver, he limped down the step and onto the untouched snow, it crunched under him.

''Sorry girl.'' David said, patting the side of his now crippled engine, he looked at the wheels, most of the brake blocks were burned out or severely damaged, but a few were unharmed. He took his hand out of his glove and placed it on the brake block, it was warm but not hot enough to burn him. He sighed in relief as there was no need for the extinguisher. He was snapped out of his thoughts by a whistle, he looked over to see a black tank engine pulling up behind his train, ''Is that a Fowler 3F Jinty?'' He said, confused, he put his hand into his jacket pocket and pulled out the sheets of paper for the wagons he picked up, check their destinations, all of which had 'Ponyville' written on it. He rolled his eyes before looking at a signal box, it too had 'Ponyville' written on it, he sighed before walking up to the gap between '644' and the milk tankers, he uncoupled the engine.

He just finished putting the chain from the milk tanker onto its hook when he heard what sounded like someone walking in heavy boots, he looked down between the six axles and saw four twine coloured hooves moving towards him, he leaped out from the gap and came face to face with a mare, she was an earth pony and her name was Dusty Trail. David stumbled back, falling against '644's ditch light, ''Jesus Christ!'' He said, grabbing the handrail.
''Sorry mister, did i scare you?'' Dusty said, David shook his head, ''Nah, just startled me abit.'' He added, standing back up.

''Oh, i see you've uncoupled the wagons.'' Dusty said, she waved at the Jinty, it blew its whistle before backing away, pulling the wagons along with it, ''Oh and yes, it is a Fowler 3F Jinty, number '47500' with...'' She added, ''BR late crest?'' David said, she nodded.
''My name is Dusty Trail by the way.'' She said, holding out her hoof, David looked at it, ''It's ok, i don't bite, unless you want me too.'' She added, winking at him.
''My name is David Wyne...'' He said, shyly, his hand met her hoof, he gently shook it, ''She is so soft.'' He thought, looking into her blue eyes, he placed the paper work for the wagons in her hoof.
''Thank you.'' She said, turning away, ''I'll see you around handsome.'' She added, walking away

David shook his head, ''hey! Do you know where Canterlot is?'' He shouted, Dusty turned around and pointed behind him, he turned around and saw a large castle, ringed by city, hang on the side of a mountain.
''Can i ask you something?'' Dusty said, David nodded, ''Why didn't you freak out when i started talking, most humans freak out when we ponies start talking, why didn't you?'' She asked.
''An old family friend of mine was a pony, a pegasus and talking ponies aren't the weirdest thing i've seen today, i mean a hit a wolf made of wood with my train, what could be weirder than that?'' He said, she nodded, ''Well, see you around maybe.'' He said, she smiled, ''I'll like that.'' She said, looking back at the human before walking back towards the Jinty.

David looked at the double train railway line that twisted up the mountain and towards the city, he was surprised at how the city and castle seemed to define gravity and hanged off the mountain. He slowly made his way back to the cab of '642', he heard the snow crunch behind him, he turned and saw a female blue pegasus, clearly out of breath or in pain, standing behind him, ''Um are you ok miss?'' He asked, concern filling his voice, she squeaked when he spoke.
''Y-Yeah, J-J-Just me a minute.'' She said, before collapsing on the snow, her rear left lower leg had blood slowly leaking out, he ran to her and placed a finger on the neck, checking for a pulse, luckily finding a one. He looked over at her wounded leg and picked her up slowly and carried her to the warm cab.

End of Chapter Three.

Author's Note

The follow youtube link is to a clip from an old 1999 movie where WestRail 642 and 644 come from and shows has fast the train hitting the cart would of looked like (train hits and knocks away a derail-er)

Horn
Railway Crossing Sound (UK Based)

Jinty

Dusty Trail

Chapter #4: Canterlot

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Four.
Canterlot.

February 14th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 8:15 am.

Rainbow finally awoke after what seemed like hours, but in reality was only a few minutes, she slowly opened her eyes and slowly looked around, the place was very dusty and covered in cobwebs, she looked down at her, that was now cleaned up and covered in a bandage.

''Where am i?'' Rainbow said, slowly standing up, taking in more of her surroundings, there was a black chair, leather possibly, there was a cardboard box full of photo album, sketch pads and a very old guitar, she moved over to the box and looked inside, finding a broken picture frame, missing the glass, that still had a photo inside, she picked it up slowly, trying her best not to damage it. She pulled it free from the frame and looked at it in detail, 'Christmas 1997, David and Candy' was written on the bottom, she gasped when she looked at the photo, dropping it.

''What the?'' She said, backing up against the bulkhead of the cab, her head knocked against a handle, she fell backwards as the rear right cab door opened behind her, she fell onto the right walkway, ''Ouch.'' She groaned, rubbing her head.
''I hope you like hot cocoa.'' She heard somepony say, panicking, she jumped down onto the snow and limped off towards town at breakneck speed, David walked up the small steps holding to large mugs full of hot cocoa with marshmallows floating on the surface, he looked on in surprise and confusion when he found the cab to be lacking a blue pegasus and had a door open.

''I.. Um... Did i imagine that pegasus?'' He said, scratching his head, he put one mug down and put the other in a cup holder, he sat down in his chair after shutting the open door, he drank from the mug that he placed in the holder and closed his eyes, he head rested against the back of the chair. He sighed as he was deep in thought.
''What do i do?'' He thought, ''Should i face my past or start anew?'' He added to his chain of thought before being snapped out of it by a high pitched whistle. He looked over to see '47500' pulling up alongside his engines. He smiled and waved as Dusty looked at him from her cab.

Rainbow limped across the train track and towards her friends, ''Rainbow!'' Twilight shouted as the pegasus limped over to them, ''Thank heavens your alright.'' She added, nuzzling Rainbow's cheek, she looked down at Rainbow's hoof.
''What happened?'' Twilight asked.
''I don't know.'' Rainbow said, ''It weird, i mean their i was, only a few feet from this human, he asked me if i was ok, I said i just need a minute and then i fainted.'' Rainbow explained, ''Next thing i know, i wake up in this dusty room, i panicked and ran over to here.'' Rainbow added, she didn't tell Twilight what she found.

David put his left leg up on the control panel, pulling up his trouser leg, showing his knee was cut and breeding, he sighed, leaning over and pulling out a few plasters from a box, he placed them along his cuts before pulling his trouser leg back down, he began to drink from his mug again when there was a knock on the front door, he rose from his chair and made his way to the door. He opened the door to see Dusty standing their, she was gently kicking the floor with her hoof.
''Hey Dusty, can i help you?'' He said, she looked up at him and smiled.
''Yes, are you by chance heading for Canterlot?'' She asked him, looking at his blue eyes.

''I will be soon, but first i'm gonna rest, I've been driving since midnight.'' David said, yawning, ''Why do you ask?'' He added, stretching his arm.
''Well you see, we have some empty coaches that may need to taken to Canterlot if they need them.'' Dusty said, ''I was just wondering if you would take them if they are needed?'' She added, looking over to her right side, seeing a rank of eight maroon coaches. Which were laid consisted of.
A Maroon Brake Standard Corridor (BSK) MK 1 at the front, two Maroon Second Open (SO) MK 1's, a Maroon Restaurant Miniature Buffet (RMB) MK1, two Maroon First Corridor (FK) MK 1, a Maroon Brake First Corridor (BFK) and a Maroon Brake Gangwayed (BG) MK 1 at the back.

''Sure, i'll take them, just let me know if they are needed, Ok?'' David said, yawning loudly, he looked over her shoulder to see a black British Railway Standard Class 9F thundering past, pulling a long line of HAA hoppers full of coal, they had a dirty silver livery with red framework.
''Sure, i'll let you know.'' Dusty replied, her ears twitched as the 9F rattled past the yard, she hopped down and walked off with a smile on her face.

February 14th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 8:15 pm.

Night soon fell over the small town of Ponyville, the full moon casted its pale white light on the town and the surrounding terrain. Mist began to roll in, covering the ground in a think sheet of white, the area was so quiet, you could hear an ant yawn, the silence was soon broken by the sound of an engine starting up, the darkness was chased away as a pair of headlights lit up. David yawned as he hopped down from '642', the thick frog was at knee height. He looked back as Dusty's Jinty pushed the coaches gently up with coupling distance of '644', the coaches stopped, they sat cold and dark as the Jinty was uncoupled from the rear coach, the maroon paint was dimly lit by the moon's glow.

David looked down at the MK1's coupling, it, much like his Class 19's had a knuckle couple that could be lowered to use a hook instead, accompanying the coupling was a set up of dual brakes, consisting of vacuum and air brakes and a steam heat pipe, on each side of the gangways were RCH jumper cables and below the right buffer was a ETH cable and dummy socket while below the left buffer was the receiving socket for the ETH cable from '644', David moved over to the coupling and raised both knuckle couplers and locked them in place. He yawned some more as he pulled the locking bar down, opening the knuckle of '644', luckily the coach's knuckle was already open, he connected the air brakes and ETH cables together.

He looked up at the stars, the thousands of white specks twinkled and danced on the endless ocean of darkness, there wasn't a cloud to block the beautiful night sky, he sighed as a blast of cold air blew against him, ''This is the only thing i missed back when i use to live in London.'' He said to himself as he looked up at the stars, as he breathed out, he could see his breath in the cold night air. The wind picked up, making the nearby fir and pine trees rustle in the breeze, he turned north and looked over at the city on the mountain, the lights sparkled and flickered in the distances, he then turned south and looked at the ocean that the surface reflected the moon like a mirror, the ocean brought a cold breeze inland.

David stepped into '642's cab and slowly back the train up until he heard the clicking sound of the knuckle coupler closing and locking. He looked up at the ETH control screen, a light was flashing below the 7.9'' screen, 'ETH cable connected. Push ON button when ready.' flashed above the screen, he pushed the ON button, the screen flickered to life, it began to display the current coaches temperatures at -2°C as well as displaying carriage lighting and recommended radiator temperature. He pushed two icons on the screen, one was red and marked 'Carriage Lights OFF' once pressed, the icon changed to green and was now marked, 'Carriage Lights ON'. The second icon was also red but was marked, 'Carriage Radiators OFF' once pressed, the icon also changed to green and was now marked 'Carriage Radiators ON'.

As David waited for the all clear, he checked on his control panel screen, it displayed fuel levels, sand levels, current train length at 152.37 meters and current time.
''Ok, fuel is at 90% and sand is at 87%.'' He said to himself as his stomach growled, he sighed when he remembered that he had no food in his cupboards, he looked up as the signal went green, he moved the reverser into forward gear as he waited for Dusty to give him a map of the line from Ponyville to Canterlot.

The snow crunched under Dusty's hooves as she walked along the ballast, she gently held the map in her mouth, she hopped up onto the front of '642' and knocked on the door, the metal door was cold to the touch, the grey paint work was covered in frost, ice and snow., The ice cracked as the door opened, David looked down at her and smiled.
''I brought you the map.'' She responds, trembling slightly, she placed the map in his hand, ''Open it once you leave the yard, Ok?'' She added before running away, her face was bright red.

David, now confused, sat back down in his chair, the brake released with a hiss, the throttle moved into notch one, the wheels slowly began to move forward, gripping to the rails.
''Ok, here we go.'' David said as he brought the train up to speed, he unfolded the map, he looked at map, the line went straight to Canterlot, he breathed in as he moved the throttle into notch four.

February 14th 2015, Canterlot, Equestria. 9:05 pm.

''Canterlot! The city that never sleeps! What a town!'' A stallion royal guard said, his nose taking a breath of the air.
''Your drunk!" Responded a female royal guard, she was his superior officer and she did not look pleased in the slightest. ''And your sexy.'' He replied before passing out, the mare rolled her eyes and continued her look outs over the great city, she looked down as the valley below the city and watched the twinkling lights of Ponyville which looked like a simple speck in the distance.
''Hello? What's all this then.'' She mumbled to herself as she saw an unfamiliar train pulling into Canterlot, she shrugged and continued the look outs.

'642' crawled along as it rolled into the south station yard, the remaining brake blocks slowing the train down as it came to a stop on a long siding, the engine hummed quietly, David put the reverser into neutral, he turned off the ETH control screen, the carriage lights flickered off and radiators began to cool down, he sighed as he stepped out of the cab, a piece of paper in his hand.
''Damn, now that's a view.'' He said, looked at the castle, a flag that sat at the tallest tower of castle fluttered in the gentle breeze. He pulled the locking pin, the knuckle unlocked, he disconnected the ETH cable and the air brake pipes, the ice around '644's snowplow cracked as the air brake was left hanging under the coupling, the pipe swinging and hitting the ice. David got back into the cab and slowly moved the engines, clearing the knuckle coupler.

Canterlot railway station, known by locals as Canterlot Citadel station was the main railway station and the hub for most of the Equestrian railway, the station had eight platforms with platform one being bi-directional, platform three being northbound with platform four being south bound, the rest of the platforms were bay platforms with platforms two, five and six being used by south bound traffic and platforms seven and eight being used by northbound traffic. The station was built as a replica of the Carlisle Citadel railway station of what it looked like in the late 50's, early 60's.

WestRail '642' stopped outside of the south station yard's engine sheds and office, David left the cab, the snow crunched under his feet as he made his way to the office, he looked at the back of the picture.

'Dear David.

Greeting from Equestria, hope you are well, things over here are a bit hectic, what with Christmas right around the corner and with me moving to my new home of the Crystal Empire, Hope to see you and the family soon.

Love
Candy

P.S if you're in the area, look me up or my husband, S.....'

The rest of the note was smudged and torn, he sighed as he slipped it into his pocket as he opened the door of the rundown yard office, the door creaked and moaned as he opened it. Despite its outward appearance, the inside of the office looked like it was just refurbished, he looked around the building, there were three desks, the first one had a slow spinning fan, the second one was empty and the third one was full of paperwork, a female pegasus sat behind it, looking very tired, she yawned, her eyes struggling to stay open, David cleared his throat, startling the pegasus.

''Um can i help you sir.'' She said, trying not to yawn, her sleepy eyes tried to stay open.
''Um, i've just brought in a rank of MK 1 coaches from Ponyville.'' David responded, nervously as she stepped out from behind the desk and walked towards him.
''Ok, let me just tell the crew that they can now move them.'' She replied, walking up to the door, David followed her out the door. The pegasus walked over to two stallions who sat on the running board of an Ex-SECR H Class with 'Equestrian Railway' on the side tanks, she told them about the coaches and where they were to be shunted, they nodded and got into the engine's cab.

The pegasus walked back over to David and weakly smiled, ''Thank you for bring them up.'' She said, yawning, ''I think i need to go the bed and stay there.'' She added, turning away.
''Hey! Do you know where the Crystal Empire is?'' David asked, she turned back around and turned his head and made him look at a bunch was wavy lights at met at the horizon.
''See those auroras? Just follow them and you'll see it.'' She said, turning back to the office, leaving David staring at the auroras.

End of Chapter Four.

Author's Note

BR MK 1
Brake Standard Corridor (BSK)
Second Open (SO)
Restaurant Miniature Buffet (RMB)
First Corridor (FK)
Brake First Corridor (BFK)
Brake Gangwayed (BG)

You can find out more about the BR MK 1 HERE

Coal Train
British Railway Standard Class 9F
HAA Hopper

You can find out more about the British Railway Standard Class 9F HERE
You can find out more about the HAA Hopper HERE

Canterlot Citadel
Bases

You can find out more about the Carlisle Citadel HERE

SECR H Class
Locomotive

You can find out more about the H Class HERE

Chapter #6: Heart of Flurry

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Six.
Heart of Flurry.

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 7:51 am.

Cadence jumped down from her crystal throne and ran over to her human brother and placed her hoof under his chin and made him look at her, she looked into his eyes and smiled before hugging him. A faint tear escaped her eye and slid down her cheek, her horn lit up with a light blue hue, the hoof cuffs slipped off David's wrists. Midnight was displeased and yanked David away from Cadence.

''You humans are all the same, lying, pathetic and war hungry. Our empress would never hang out wi-!'' Was all Midnight was able to say punched in the face by Cadence, David ducked out of the way.
''Get out of here!'' Cadence screamed, screaming at the lieutenant, Midnight stood and ran out of the room, out of fear of what might happen to him, if he stayed any longer.
Cadence turned to her brother and smiled, she leap at him and gave him a bone crushing hug.

''I thought you were dead.'' Cadence said, crying into his should, ''We all thought you were dead!'' She added, now screaming into his shoulder, he wrapped his arm around her.
''Sometimes i wish i was dead...'' David said softly, ''Mum certainly wished so.'' He added, Cadence pulled away and looked at him.
''Well mum can go to Tartarus for all i care! David, i know she blamed you for what happened to dad and i know you blame yourself for it. The people who invaded the base were after the computer virus you and dad were working on, dad wanted to protect you and he did, didn't he?'' Cadence said, raising an eyebrow, David slowly nodded, Cadence stood back up and dusted herself off, an idea flew into her head, she opened her wings and hovered at David's shoulder height, her wings gracefully cut through the air as she grabbed him by the shoulders.

''What are you doing?'' David said as he feet were dragged along the crystal floor, ''Also, how do you walk on this floor on bare hooves?'' He added, wincing at the thought of walking on ice cold crystal flooring without anything warm on your feet or hooves.
''I want you to meet somepony, i think you'll like her and i want to give you a tour of the castle.'' Cadence said, humming a tune to herself, not wanting to answer about walking on ice cold floors.

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 8:00 am.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the castle, inside a bedroom was a teenage pony, she was a pegasus, she sat on the floor watching a small, toy train go around a large model train layout, the toy engine was an LBSCR A1 'Terrier' class in Southern Railway green with 'Port Hope' in the side tanks in white, a number '2705' and the name 'Jewel' in yellow just below the 'Port Hope'. The little engine was pulling two Ex-LMS 12T steel vans, two Ex-PO 8 Plank open wagons and a Southern Railway Pillbox brake van in chocolate brown with 'Crystal' on the side. She smiled as be brought the train to a stop below a coal stage and imagined the wagons being loaded with coal.

Flurry Heart heard some voices on the other side of her door, she turned to see her door handle turn around, the door slowly swung open. Her mother stepped through the doorway and smiled.
''Oh, it's just you mom.'' Flurry smiled as she moved the 'Terrier' and its wagons onto a siding. Cadence walked over to her daughter, stepping over the layout.
''Flurry Heart, there is something i need to tell you.'' Cadence said, looking into her daughter's eyes, ''How do i say this, you know how Twilight is the the only family member you have outside of me and your father, right?'' She added, Flurry nodded, slightly confused.
''Why are you telling me this?'' Flurry questioned, raising an eyebrow at her mother.

''Well. How do i say this.... You have an uncle.'' Cadence said, Flurry laughed like crazy.
''Good one mom.'' Flurry laughed, she fell on the back and rolled on the floor, ''Where was he all this time then.'' She added, still laughing.
''It's the truth! David, come in now!'' Cadence said, raising her voice slightly, Flurry stopped laughing when she heard heavy footsteps outside her door, her eyes widened when she saw a human step into her room, ''Flurry Heart, meet my brother and your uncle, David.'' Cadence added, Flurry mouth dropped in surprise, the top of her head was no higher then the human's hips, ''David, meets my daughter and your niece, Flurry Heart.'' Cadence added.

Flurry looked at Cadence and then David, then back to Cadence, ''This is a joke right?'' She said, not wanting to believe that a human was her uncle.
''Flurry, dear, what can i do or say to convince you that he is your uncle?'' Cadence said, again, looking into her daughter's eyes.
''At least explain how he became your brother?'' Flurry asked, Cadence looked over at David, giving him the look of 'help me', David strolled over to the two and looked down.
''Why don't i explain, your mother was only a foal when she was found.'' David said, Flurry rolled her eyes, ''How convenient.'' She thought.

July 25th 1974, Upperby Park, Upperby, Carlisle, United Kingdom. 12:00 pm.

The summer sun was beating down over Upperby, a small suburb just south of the City of Carlisle. A young boy, no older than 5 years old was walking along a gravel path that ran by a pond in the local park, he was bounding a football along the ground, when a gust of wind blew it into the water, he went over to the edge and looked down, the water was only a few inches deep, he looked around, seeing no one around, he stepped into the water and walked over to his ball.
''David! What are you doing?'' He heard his dad shout from the path, he heard the splash as he father stepped into the water after him, David quickly picked up his ball and turned to his father.

''I was just getting my ball.'' David said, looking at his father, who just smiled warmly.
''Come on, let's get out of the water.'' His father said helping David up onto the path before climbing out himself, they walked along the path, going to towards a picnic area that David's mother and sister were waiting. As they walked, the cloud overhead turned grey almost instantly.
'What the?'' His father said, all his years as pilot, he'd never seen weather change like this that quickly, a bolt of lightning hit ground in front of them, a white orbit like shape appeared as the lightning disappeared.

A pony like figure appeared from the orb, it looked very weak and was bleeding heavy, David and his father ran over to the creature, it was a female, her left ear was gashed open, blood leaked from the mouth and nose and she was holding a bundle of blankets. David looked at its back to see bloody stumps on the back, ''Dad.'' He said, getting his father's attention, his father looked at the stumps, marking where wings her once located.
''But that's impossible...'' His father said, looking over the creature, ''What is an native Equusling doing here?'' He added, picking her up, ''David! Come with me!'' His father asked, they ran to the car, a dark blue Ford Orion, David opened the backseat passenger doors, allowing his father to place the creature inside.

The pony was a pegasus, her coat was a very pale vermilion, her mane and tail were a gradient of brilliant raspberry to moderate cobalt blue, her eyes were a brilliant amber.
''Miss, do you know where you are?'' His father asked the former pegasus, but all she was repeating was the word 'Sombra'.
''Miss, what's your name?'' David said, trying to take the blankets from her, she held them tight, ''Its ok, i wont hurt you, i just need them to make you comfortable.'' He added, she looked at him, she loosened her grip on the the bundle. David began to unwrap them but stopped when he felt them wriggling, he slowly unwrapped them when a small pink wing appeared.

David almost dropped the blankets in surprise but held them tight, he slowly uncovered the face of a tiny pink pegasus wearing a romper suit, embroidered with the words 'Mi Amore Cadenza' on the chest, the pegasus foal opened her purple eyes and smiled, making giggles sounds. David's father looked over at the foal.
''My name is Empress Amore of the Crystal Empire.'' The bleeding pony said, coughing some more, ''At least i was the Empress.'' She added, trying to look at her severed wings.
''Who did this to you.'' David's Father said, his voice sounding angry, Amore coughed some more.
''My student, Sombra.'' Amore said as she began to come in and out unconsciousness, ''Please, take care of Cadence.'' She weakly added, raising her hoof at the tiny pink foal, Amore closed her eyes as she took her last breath, Cadence began to whimper and cry as Amore's hoof fell limp against the back seat of the car.

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 8:10 am.

Flurry Heart looked at her mother, who had tears in her eyes, Flurry then looked at the David, who was on the brink of tears. Flurry though over the previous statement.
''Is it true mother?'' Flurry asked, looking at the human, who was comforting the pink alicorn, Cadence nodded, Flurry's ears fell flat against her head.
''It's true, all of it. King Sombra. Amore. They're real.'' Cadence said, wiping some tears away from her face, Flurry ran to her and wraps her legs around her mother and hugged her tight.

''I have an uncle...'' Flurry whimpered, then it hit her, ''I have an uncle!'' She added, flapping her wings, dragging David around like a toy.
''Flurry, i've got to go do something, why don't you show your uncle your model collection.'' Cadence said, standing back on her hooves and making her way over to the door.
''Sure thing mom!'' Flurry said, dragging David over to her model train collection.

Cadence walked down the corridor and entered her study, closing the door behind her, she pulled out a pen and a sheet of paper from the top drawer, laying the paper out on the desk, she wrote the following:

'Dear Twilight.

I am writing to you because i have an important guest at the Crystal Empire and i'd like you and your Friends to make HIM feel welcome here. Enclosed with this letter are bits, enough to pay for six first class tickets for the CEE train from the Canterlot Citadel station to the Arctic Crystal station.

Empress Cadence.'

Cadence placed her pen down as she attached the letter to a sack of gold bits, in a flash of blue, the bag and the letter disappeared.

''And last but not least, my most favorite train i've got, my CEE model.'' Flurry said, dragging David over to the only shelve in her room. Upon the shelve sat an e300.
''Is that a TGV TMST?'' David said, looking at the twelve coach High Speed Train model sitting on the shelve, ''A what?'' He heard Flurry say, he sighed, ''A Class 373.'' He replied, Flurry nodded.
''Yes, its a Class 373.'' She responded, blowing some dust off it's plastic shell.

February 15th 2015, Ponyville Castle, Ponyville. 8:11 am.

Purple claws scratched against the tiled floors of the castle, The being was a small dragon, his scales were a light mulberry with a light spring budish gray underbelly, his ears were a light lime green, his spikes were a moderate harlequin, his eyes were a moderate pistachio and his name was Spike.
''Twilight! Twilight!'' Spike shouted as he ran through the halls and towards the thrown room, he threw opened the large oak doors, startling the alicorn on the other side of the doors.
''Spike, what's wrong!'' the alicorn shout, getting Spike's attention, she ran over to the dragon.
''Important message from Cadence, Twilight'' He responded, panting, Twilight took the letter and read it out loud

''Spike, go get the others, now!'' Twilight commanded him, he nodded before running out the thrown room and towards the castle doors.
Twilight pulled a quill, ink and a piece of paper.

'Dear Cadence.

I have received your letter and me and my friends will be there as soon as possible.

Twilight Sparkle.'

She rolled up the paper into a scroll and sent it on its way as Spike returned with Twilight's friends in tow.
''You needed us Twilight?'' Rarity said, trotting into the room, yawning slightly, AJ, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Rainbow groaned, slowly following.
"I got this from Cadence." Twilight replied, showing her friends the letter for Cadence. Rarity's jaw dropped.
''Twilight dear, you don't mean?'' Rarity said, trying to hide her excitement.
''Yes, we are going to the Crystal Empire!'' Twilight proclaimed.

End of Chapter Six.

Author's Note

LB&SCR A1 'Terrier' 'Jewel'
Jewel
Ex-LMS 12T steel vans
Ex-PO 8 Plank open wagons
Crystal
Crystal

You can find out more about the LB&SCR A1 'Terrier' HERE
You can find out more about the Ex-LMS 12T steel vans HERE
You can find out more about the Ex-PO 8 Plank open wagons HERE
You can find out more about the Southern Railway Pillbox brakevan HERE

CEE e300/Class 373/TGV TMST
Bases

You can find out more about the e300/Class 373/TGV TMST HERE

Chapter #7: Journey to The Crystal Empire

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Seven.
Journey to The Crystal Empire.

February 15th 2015, Canterlot Citadel, Canterlot. 9:30 am.

''Wow, i can't how grand this station has become since was it was renovated!'' Rarity said is awe as the glass roof of Canterlot Citadel sparkled in the morning sun, the snow had stopped falling.
''Where is the train?'' Twilight said, looking down Platform One, ''It should be here by now.'' She added before a high pitch horn broke through the noise of the station, Twilight and Rarity looked southward down the platform and saw a sleek, aerodynamic train snaking its way from the depot, over to the platform. It's nose was yellow, which gave away to white, it had a blue roof, undercarriage and window edges, the engine and first carriage had grey grill on the side and large text that read 'Crystal Empire Express'. A metal rod stuck out the top of the engine, it touched the overhead cable, sparking every now and again.

The train pulled up to the platform and stopped, its brakes squeaked, the sound of its whirring electric motors quieted down, leaving only a hum. The doors slid open with a a click, the guard stepped out the first class coach.
''All aboard!'' He called out as the passengers boarded their respective coaches. Twilight, Spike and the girls boarded the first class coach right behind the Bar-Buffet coach. Twilight and Spike had the guard check the tickets while the other sat down in their seats.
''So, there are seven on you?'' The guard asked the Princess of Friendship, Twilight nodded, the guard looked at her, ''Ok, everything checks out, enjoy your trip now.'' He added, giving the tickets back, he then turned and greeted the other passengers

While Twilight sat down, Spike went to the buffet coach and brought seven hot cocoas and a book titled 'The History of the CEE and Fleet'.
''What did you get Spike?'' Rarity asked as the young dragon sat down in his seat.
''I brought this book for Flurry, i'm not sure if she has it yet.'' Spike replied opening it up and reading it, Rarity chuckled, sipping some cocoa.

The guard blew his whistle, the doors slide shut with a beep, the train blasted it horn, it electric motor began to hum to life as the train began to roll out the platform. The train was a Class 373 EMU which was laid out with.
A Driving Motor (DM) at the front, a Motor Standard (MS), a Trailer Standard (TS), a Restaurant Buffet (RM), a Trailer First (TF), a Trailer Brake First (TBF), a Trailer Brake First (TBF), a Trailer First (TF), a Restaurant Buffet (RM), a Trailer Standard (TS), a Motor Standard (MS) and a Driving Motor (DM) at the back.
A BR Green A4 pulled in on platform pulling a set of Maroon coloured Mark 1 coaches.

''Next stop, Manehattan!'' The guard announced on the PA system as the CEE rolled past the Canterlot Citadel signal box, it sneaking onto the northbound, four track mainline.

February 15th 2015, Equestrian Countryside, Equestria. 10:45 am.

A high pitched horn broke through the silence of the snow covered countryside as the CEE rushed past a farmyard, heading north towards Manehattan, at 140 miles per hour. The mainline was split into six four track with the electrified lines on the left side and the non powered lines on the right. On the Canterlot bound track of the non powered track was an InterCity 125 in InterCity Executive livery, it was going at 125 miles per hour. The two trains blew horns as they past with a speed difference of 55 miles per hour, as the CEE passed the IC 125, it blasted the diesel powered train with snow.

February 15th 2015, New Harbour Bay Bridge, Manehattan. 12:21 pm.

The crystal blue water of Manhattan's Harbour Bay twinkled and sparkled in the midday sun as the CEE crossed the New Harbour Bay Bridge. The bridge had recently been built, the two line on the ocean side had over head cable will the two on the city side were now the 'classic' lines and ran across the original bridge. The new bridge was a 'Through Arch Bridge, the steel was painted blue while the bridge ends were a mixture of brown and red brick work.
''Hey guys, i'm going to get a snack, want anything?'' Rainbow asked her friends, they all shock their heads, Rainbow walked towards the buffet coach, she walked through the gangway, the door slid shut behind her.

''So Twilight, what does Cadence need us for?'' Pinkie asked, Twilight shrugged, ''But Twilight, you know everything about everything.'' Pinkie added, Twilight rolled her eyes.
''I don't know, all the letter said was that she had a special guest at the castle and wanted us to help them settle in.'' Twilight replied, pulling the letter out of her saddle bag and reading it over again.

Rainbow approached the counter in the buffet coach, a chocolate bar in hoof, she placed it on the counter along with some bits and waited for the staff to serve her. A staff member appeared from the area behind the counter.
''Hello miss, what can i do for... Dash?'' The staff said, getting Rainbow's attention. The rainbow mare looked at buffet worker and gasped.
The staff member behind the counter was a pegasus, her coat was a light turquoise, her mane and tail were a brilliant amber with brilliant gold streaks, her eyes were a brilliant gamboge.

''Lightning Dust, is that you?'' Rainbow asked in surprise, the other mare nodded, Rainbow gasped more.''No one have seen you since the Wonderbolt Academy.'' She added, ''Where did you go?'' Rainbow asked Lightning Dust.
''Look, Rainbow. I would love to talk to you but, this is my stop and i've got to pick my daughter up from her dad's. Also, here's your change.'' Lightning Dust said, yawing, giving the rainbow mare the change from the chocolate bar before stepping out from behind the counter carrying a saddle bag.
''Wow, Lightning, you look tired, if everything ok?" Rainbow asked, concern filling her voice.

Lighting Dust sighed, she pulled out a post it note and a pen and wrote something down and gave it to Rainbow.
''If you're ever in Manehattan again, look me up.'' Lightning Dust said as the train stopped in Manhattan's Central station, the doors opened and the turquoise mare stepped off before talking to a stallion.
"It's all yours." Lightning said to the stallion as he boarded the train. He walked behind the counter as Rainbow trotted back to her coach.

February 15th 2015, Northern Manehattan, Manehattan. 12:30 pm.

The CEE snaked it way from the heavily clustered city and towards the arctic and the Crystal Empire.
''Well, it'll take another four hours to get to the Crystal Empire.'' Twilight said, reading the timetable.
''Welp, i'm gonna have a nap. Wake me up when we're there.'' Rainbow said, finding some empty seats and laying down on them.
''Sure thing Rainbow.'' Twilight said as Rainbow closed her eyes.

The screech of brakes. The rumble of rails. The blast of a horn. The sound of an explosion. The sounds faded as images appeared, the first one begin that of a collapsing viaduct, it faded into an image of a funnel with smoke pouring from it, that too faded into an image that was three large wheels pounding the rails, they were connected with a metal rod, the chuffing sound of a two cylinder steam engine. A whistle screeched out.

Rainbow awoke with sweat dripping from her forehead, she looked at her surrounding and found herself back in the cab of '642', but it looked different, it looked new, brand new in fact, she walked towards the windows and saw that her and the class 19 were in a factory alongside three other class 19's, all four were in the undercoat grey. Three men were talking. A calendar behind them read, 14th June, 1974
''Which one was built first?'' Asked one of the men, he was wearing a suit, making him stick out amongst the factory.
''That would be D642.'' Said the second one, he was wearing typical factory clothes, the three men walked towards the engine numbered D642, the same one that Rainbow was on. The vision melted away into a black void.

Rainbow awoke, she looked around, finding herself back on board the CEE as it began to pass the suburbs of the Crystal Empire. Rainbow looked over at her friends, they were all asleep in there seats, she walked over to them and nudged them one by one.
''Wake up guys, we're here.'' Rainbow cooed as they slowly woke from there slumber, AJ stretched her legs as the train began to slow down as it crossed the overpass that crosses the path to the park just before entering the station.

Arctic Crystal Station was the terminal station for the Arctic line and the biggest, the station had six platforms. The station was built as a replica of the Charing Cross railway station in London. The CEE pulling in on platform one, stopping just in front of the buffers with a meter to spare, everyone who got on at Canterlot and Manehattan got off and everyone who were going to Manehattan or Canterlot boarded. The mares and Spike walked through the station entrance as the CEE's destination board changed from 'Crystal Empire - Arctic Crystal' to 'Canterlot Citadel'.

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 4:45 pm.

The sun began to sit jump above the horizon as Spike and the others made it to the palace, two royal crystal guard stood my the door.
''Hello Princess Twilight. Hello Great and Honorable Spike the Brave and Glorious.'' The first one said.
''What brings you to The Crystal Empire today?'' The second one said.
''We got a letter from Empress Cadence asking us to come here.'' Twilight said, pulling the letter out and showing the guard the letter, they nodded and opened the door
''Enjoy your stay, princess." The first guard responded as Twilight, Rarity, AJ, Pinkie, Rainbow, Spike and Fluttershy stepped into the elegant palace, the doors shutting behind them with a slam.

The group approached the throne room and stepped inside where they met Cadence, Flurry, Shining Armour and a strange creature.
''Hello Cadence, we're here.'' Twilight said, eyeing up the creature who was standing on two legs.
''Ah, Twilight you're here. I'd you all to meet my brother, David Wyne.'' Cadence said, pointing her hoof at the human. Rainbow burst out from behind Twilight and the others.
''You!'' She shouted.

End of Chapter Seven.

Author's Note

CEE/Class 373
Bases
Horn Sound
Door Chime
Engine Idle
Engine Speed Up
Engine Slow Down

You can find out more about the Class 373 HERE

BR Ex LNER A4 (BR Green)
Locomotive

You can find out more about the A4 HERE

InterCity 125 Executive
Train

You can find out more about the IC 125 HERE

Arctic Crystal Station
Bases

You can find out more about Charing Cross HERE

Chapter #8: Visions of The Past

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Eight.
Visions of The Past.

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 4:55 pm.

''You!'' Rainbow shouted, storming over to the human and looked into eyes, ''How dare you!'' She added, glaring at him.
''David, what did you do to anger her?'' Cadence said, stepping between the two, ''Rainbow, what did he do to anger you?'' She added.
''He saved my life, twice! And he didn't even stay longer enough to let me say thank you!'' Rainbow said, nearly shouting.
''Hey! I would of stayed long enough, if you didn't run away!'' David said, trying his best to remain calm.
''Oh...yeah...'' Rainbow responded, blushing red with embarrassment, David facepalmed, shaking his head.

''Anyway, I'm Rainbow Dash, and they are my friends, Twilight Sparkle, her assistant Spike, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Applejack.'' Rainbow said, pointing a hoof and the six figures behind her. David waved at them slightly. Fluttershy hid behind AJ and was shaking. Flurry Heart broke the silence.
''Let's have dinner!'' She said, trying to stop the awkward atmosphere in the room.
''That's a lovely idea Flurry.'' Rarity said, walking towards the dining hall, ''Come along.'' She added, walking down the hall, the others followed. David was about leave the palace when he was caught in Cadence's magic.
''Oh no you don't.'' She said dragging him with her.

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 5:55 pm.

David wondered the palace, trying to find the exit after sneaking out the dining hall, he looked at the stained glass windows, they depicted mayor events in the history of The Crystal Empire, from when it was founded up until the Equestria Games. Two window caught his eye, one was depicting Cadence in a sword fight with a black unicorn that had a red horn and wearing silver armor and the other window depicted a purple and green dragon with the crystal heart above them, the heart was surrounded with blue that was emitting from ponies around it.

David placed his hand the window that had a black unicorn, his eyes snapped open as they began to glow white, he looked around as everything went black, the electric lights were replaced with burned out candles.

''Sombra, for the last time! I will leave my husband for you!'' David heard a pegasus shout, she was wearing a royal cloak and a crown, ''Now, if you excuse me, i have to go and play with my daughter.'' The pegasus added, walking away from a black unicorn.
''So be it, Amore.'' Sombra said, drawing a sword made from black crystal and swinging at the Empress, cutting her wings off in one swing. Amore screamed in pain, alerting some guard, they attacked Sombra but were quickly cut down. Everything went white as the hallway turned into a blizzard.

David saw a weakened Amore running through the blizzard, clutching a tiny foal wrapped in blankets.
''Amore, give me the baby.'' Sombra said, an army of brainwashed soldiers stood behind him, he approached the fallen Empress, his sword was soaked in the blood of anyone who stood in his way.
''I'll never give Cadence to you, you monster.'' Amore weakly said, spitting blood at Sombra, he growled at her and swung his sword, the blade shattered before it even hit her.
''What!'' Sombra growled, Amore and the baby were surrounded by an orbit, they then disappeared in a flash of white, the force knocking Sombra and his army back.

David looked around and found himself back in the throne room of the palace, the floor was soaking in blood.
''Sombra! You traitor!'' A dark red male pegasus shouted, ''You killed my wife and you killed my daughter! I will not let you take the empire!'' He said.
''You underestimate my power, Ruby Tember!" Sombra shouted, drawing his sword, Ruby drew his sword too and leapt at Sombra, the two engaged in a sword fight, some of Sombra's brain washed army appeared and tried to attack Ruby, the dark red alicorn held out his hoof and knocked them all back with his natural magic, he swung his sword at Sombra, cutting the unicorn's cheek.

The throne room changed into to the balcony of the palace. Sombra and Ruby were circling each other, the pegasus was missing most of his left wing. Most of the palace was ablaze, charring the once white crystal into a black hulk, Sombra leapt over Ruby who tried to cut the unicorn but missed, Sombra landed and stabbed Ruby through through the throat, he then twisted his sword, breaking the blade. Ruby fell to the floor, blood leaking from his wounds, he struggled to breath as his heart stopped. Sombra laughed as he kicked Ruby's body of the palace and watched it fall into the flames below. David went to punch Sombra but he went straight through the unicorn. Sombra's eyes began to glow red with purple mist escaping them.

David looked around as he was now at the base of the palace, he saw a line of humans in chains, their were also some crystal ponies and foals, also in chains
''You humans are to be executed as are your family's, under this new regime, only pure blood crystal ponies and crystal ponies alone will live in this empire.'' Sombra said, pacing up and down in front of the line, ''Now you may be thinking, why do i have crystal ponies and foals in this line too? Well that is because you crystal ponies are no longer pure! You have mated with these humans and have had children, so you and your foals will be executed too!'' The twisted unicorn said, his brain washed soldiers draw their blades and slash the throats of everyone in the line. David covered his mouth as tears left his eyes, the blood from the throats of the people and ponies flowed down the street and into the drains.

David looked through his teary eyes and found himself at the top of the palace, he saw Sombra carrying something in his magical grip, it was the crystal heart but it look grey, Sombra dropped the heart on the center of the floor and walked away, the heart floated back up, a visible cracked appeared on its surface.
''No one will ever find you.'' Sombra cackled as he walked down the stairs.

David opened his eyes, finding himself laying on the floor of the hallway, he looked at his hand before trying to get up.
''Uncle! Are you ok?" Flurry Heart said, running over to him and helping him up, he looked at the window and then his hand, ''What you lookin' at?'' She added, looking at the window with Sombra on it.
''That's weird.'' He said, still looking at the window, he walked over to the window. ''What weird uncle?'' Flurry buzzed, she looked at David as he put hand back on the window, his eyes went white before Flurry pulled him away from it. David looked at the window with Cadence fighting Sombra.
''Hey Flurry, you wanna see you mum kick some ass?'' David said, Flurry Heart smiled.
''Hell Yeah!'' Flurry shouted, the two approached the window and touched it at the same time, their eyes going white as everything changed around them.

The wind howled as David and Flurry appeared at the top of the palace, Flurry's mane fluttered in the wind, they turned around to see Sombra and Cadence in a sword fight and Sombra looked like he was about to lose.
''Its over Sombra, i have the high ground!'' Cadence shouted, standing her ground, her and Sombra circled each other, mirroring what happened a thousand years ago.
''You underestimate my power.'' Sombra barked, his eyes glowing red, he leapt over Cadence but was struck down by her sword.
''The Crystal Heart has returned, use the love and light within you to make that Sombra does not.'' They heard Spike shout below, the palace shook as the heart returned to its rightful place.

The top of the palace was now ringed with blue flames.
''What the... NO NO NO NO!'' Sombra yelled as the staircase was blocked off, the blue flames blocking the view of the sky.
''Oh yeah, you're going down Sombra! Your getting erased. Crystal Heart, pretty clever huh?'' Cadence said as Sombra began to panic.
''Let me out, let me argh!'' He said, trying to teleport away, only to find his magic being blocked, ''Ah, why isn't this working!'' He added, looking at the floor.
''Hey look at me! Turn around and look at me you demon!'' Cadence shouted, Sombra looked at her, ''Your a real wise guy but you make one fatal mistake, you messed with my family.'' She added, gritting her teeth.

''Your making a mistake, i'll give you anything. Money, fame, riches, infinite power, your own country! Please! No!'' Sombra wailed in pain as he body began to glitch and twitch, ''What's happening to me?!'' He added before shouted a distorted message as he body flickered between his unicorn form, shadow form and his umbra form.
''Cadence!" He said, holding out his hoof to her, begging for help, she raised her front hoof and swung it, punching him in the face, making him shatter like glass, ''Ah!'' He screamed as his shattered particles were vaporized as the Crystal Heart began to protect its home once more.

''David? Are you ok?'' David heard Cadence shout as she ran over to him and helped him up before helping Flurry up.
''I'm fine.'' He groaned, his shoulder clicking as he stood up, looking at the window, Flurry dusted herself off.
''David, why did you leave the dinner?'' Cadence asked him sternly while her magic was telling her of great pain in him, ''David? What's wrong?'' She tilted her head. David trembled before hugging Cadence tightly and borrowing his face into her feathers.

''I'm sorry i wasn't there for you.'' He sobbed into her neck, ''I'm the worst brother ever.'' He added, hearing this made Cadence's heartbreak, she welled up.
''Shh, it's ok. your not the worst brother.'' Cadence said, rubbing his back, ''No matter what you may think, no matter where you might go, you will always be my brother and i will always be a Wyne.'' She added, wiping his tears away with her wing. ''Come on, i'll show you to your room.'' Cadence said, letting go and walking towards the rooms, David followed her down the hall, Flurry had already trotted off.

End of Chapter Eight.

Chapter #9: Sneak Away

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Nine.
Sneak Away.

February 16th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 12:25 am.

David was laying in his bed looking up at the ceiling, the full moon barely glowing through the crystal walls, casting the room in a dark blue glow, he sat up and looked at his bare chest, it had scratches and scars across it. He got out of bed and put his tattered shirt and jacket on, he looked over at the dresser, a pen and some blank paper were neatly placed on it. He stepped over to the dresser, grabbing a blank sheet of paper and the pen, he wrote down a letter and folding it and wrote 'Dear Cadence' on the front before placing in back on the dresser. He put his shoes on and walked out the room and down the hall, towards the palace entrance.

Flurry Heart was asleep in her bed when she heard footsteps pass her door, she quitely hopped out of bed and opened her door, she saw David walk down the hall and towards the palace doors.
''What... why are you leaving?'' She said to herself, she quietly moved over to her desk and grabbed a quill, ink and paper and quickly wrote something down and placed the note on her bed. She opened a window, about to fly from it but was blasted with cold arctic air and snow with blizzard like force, she shook the snow off and put off snow boots, a scarf, a woolen hat and a cloak. Grabbing a saddle bag with wing warmers inside, she leapt out the window and fluttered down to the ground outside.

Her light magentaish gray hooves land on the freshly laid snow, she looked up at the palace one last time.
''So long Empire.'' She said, opening her saddle bag and putting the wing warmers on. She heard David step out the palace and walk towards Lower Crystal Square TMD, Flurry heart follows close behind him. Midnight Blaze watches this and smirks.
''This is too perfect.'' The guard said, stepping into the palace and walking towards Flurry's room, he enters the room and closes the window, he took of his helmet, revealing a horn, in a flash of dark blue, he cast a spell on the room, blocking out sound from the room.

Without warning he started to trash the room, he flipped the bed over on its side, smashing the desk into pieces and shattering the mirror, once he was finished, he grabbed Flurry Heart's mane brush and pulled out her hair from it and scattered the hair across the floor and moved some shattered desk around, making it look like a struggle had broken out.
''Now, i need one more thing.'' Midnight said to himself, he ran at a wall and knocked himself out, the spell he had cast stops working.

February 16th 2015, Lower Crystal Square TMD, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 1:35 am.

The snow blasted David as he got back to '642', he opened the cab door and stepped inside the ice cold cab, Flurry Heart snuck into cab and hid under the sink in the small kitchen in the nose. David started the engines, the cab lighting flickered on, as did the headlights, David then left the cab and turned the tail lamps on, the blizzard deafened out the sound of the engines as he got back into the cab and sat in his seat, looking at the palace and sighed. He moved the throttle into notch two and released the brakes, the class 19's start moving along the siding and towards a balloon loop to turn around and head back south.
''I'll see you again soon Candy.'' David said as the train turned around and started the long journey back south. The CEE rattled past on the high speed line as it bridged over the freight line. Flurry Heart's heart was beating quickly as the train sped up, forcing its way through the blizzard.

February 16th 2015, Arctic North, Equestrian Border. 3:05 am.

'642' crested the hill and rattled along the level stretch of track, the blizzard died down as the train crossed over the border and into Equestria, David moved the throttle into notch eight, the lights of The Crystal Empire faded away in the distance, the now calmer snow of Equestria pelted the rails as the bright headlights lit the path as the train started to head down hill, twisting through the mountain range of northern Equestria. David found it hard to keep awake as his train headed towards Ponyville. Flurry Heart had fallen asleep.

February 16th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 6:00 am.

Cadence woke up before everyone else did, she hoped out of bed and skipped to the kitchen, she found Arctic Lily preparing breakfast, the maid placed a plate of toast onto a tray and was about to take it when Cadence smiled at her.
''Good morning ma'am.'' Arctic bowed to the Empress before picking up the tray.
''Who's the breakfast for?'' Cadence asked the maid, taking note of what else was on the tray, a glass of milk and a knife and fork.
''It's for mister David.'' The maid replied, nervously, Cadence noticed this and took the tray in her magic aura.
''I'll give this to him, why don't you go and see if Flurry Heart is awake?'' The Empress added, the maid nodded and walked out the kitchen.

Cadence walked along the hall and knocked on David's door and waited for him to open the door, after no response she knocked again and waited again, once again, no reply.
''David? You awake?'' She said, opening the door, she was surprised to see the room empty, she looked around, confused. She walked over to the dresser and placed the tray down, she noticed the letter laying on the top of the dresser, she picked up the letter and opened it.

'Dear Cadence.

Thank you for your hospitality, but i can't stay here with you and your family, i just don't feel needed here. I'll be returning to Port Hope. Good Bye.

David.'

Tears stained Cadence's cheek as she read the letter again and again. She looked at the bottom of the letter and weakly smiled.
''Oh, David. I need you here.'' Cadence whispered. She dropped the letter when she heard Arctic Lily scream. She ran out the room and towards the screaming, Twilight, her friends and Shining ran to the scream too.

Cadence ran into the thrashed and saw Midnight Blaze laying on the floor, she froze in place as Shining pushed her aside and shook Midnight awake.
''Who did this? Where is Flurry Heart?'' Shining said, looking at Midnight. Midnight weakly pointed his hoof at Cadence.
''Her brother did this, he kidnapped Flurry.''

End of Chapter Nine.

Chapter #10: Discovery

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Ten.
Discovery.

Shining Armor glares at Cadence, the pink alicorn could sense the fire in her husband's eyes, she frowned.
''There must be some mistake, my brother would never do that.'' Cadence said, calmly, ''Maybe Flurry Heart followed him.'' She added, knowing full well that her daughter was known to escape the palace at night.
''I'm with Cadence on this.'' Rarity said, ''The human doesn't look like the kind that would kidnap.'' She added, the girls nodded. Shining though over what Midnight said, something just didn't add up.

''Ok Midnight, tell us what happened.'' Shining said, Midnight gulped, ''Well, go on then, tell us.'' Shining added.
''Well, i was making my rounds outside the palace when i heard loud bangs coming from Flurry's room, i ran to her room as fast as i could. When i got to her room, i saw him tying her up, i tried to stop him but he knocked me out.'' Midnight explained, Twilight was skeptical and first but hearing this made her even more skeptical, she felt the presents of dark magic in the room. The kind of magic that was banned. Among the presents of dark magic, Twilight picked up on a spell that had be cast hours ago, a sound prevention spell. While this was going, Cadence had left the room and stormed down the hall.
''David would never do that! I've got to find him before Shining does.'' She said to herself.

''Hey? Where did Cadence go?'' Twilight asked, noticing a lack of pink alicorn in Flurry's room.
''Probably off fucking a human.'' Midnight smirked, ''Filthy non pure blood.'' He added, Shining glared at him.
''What did you say? You don't speak ill of my wife and your ruler!'' Shining snapped, swinging his hoof at Midnight, who only chuckled.
''You lied, didn’t you?'' Twilight asked Midnight, ''Didn’t you?'' She added. Midnight just nodded.
''Where’s Flurry?'' Shining asked.

February 16th 2015, Arctic Crystal Station, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 6:20 am.

Cadence stormed over to the private platform at Arctic Crystal Station, sitting at the platform was a shortened version of the CEE, but unlike the CEE, it was painted crystalline blue and was a diesel-electric hybrid, giving it the ability to travel over sections of track that weren't powered.
''Morning ma'am.'' The driver said, getting a glare from Cadence.
''Get me to Ponyville as fast as possible.'' The empress bluntly said, glaring at the driver, making him tremble in fear, ''O-of course, ma'am.'' he said, getting into the leading cab. Cadence stormed onto the train and waited for it to depart, she then saw the others running towards her.
''Midnight lied, Flurry snuck out!'' Twilight shouted as she boarded the train.

February 16th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 11:55 am.

'642' and '644' snaked off the mainline and into the yard, '47500' sat on a siding in front of the coal stage. The class 19 was brought to a stop along side the tank engine. Dusty was sitting on the running board, drinking soup from a mug, the diesels shut down with a mumble, Dusty noticed them and waved as David exited the cab, the freshly laid snow crunched under his feet. Flurry Heart awoke, still under the sink, she wriggled out and quietly opened the kitchen door and looked around, the train was silent. She cracked the door open and quickly escaped and flew into town.

David put his hands into his pockets, he felt the map inside and pulled it out.
''Oh, here's your map...'' He said before noticing something on this, ''What is that?'' He added, noticing a faded line coming off where the branch line was drawn on, he blew on the map, thinking the line was a bit of hair but when it wouldn't move, he was surprised.
''Let me see that?'' Dusty said, confused, David handed her the map, '''That seems like the old branchline to the Everfree coal mine. But that line was abandoned in 1952 when the Everfree Forest began to reclaim the land. This map was made only last year, why is it still here?'' She added, her and David looked over at the branchline as it darted down hill.

Dusty hopped into '47500's cab, David followed her into the cab, she released the brakes and moved the regulator forward a bit, steam poured out from under the wheels as the steam engine moved forward.
''Let's see what's on that line.'' She said as the jinty left the yard.

The Jinty chuffed along the line as it climbed the incline of the branchline, Dusty moved the regulator back a bit, slowing '47500' down as they approached the spot where a junction should be.
''It should be there.'' David said, looking down the line, he saw splintered wood littering the track, he smiled, remember what caused that.
''What happened here?'' Dusty asked, taking note of the wood clogging the tracks, she looked over at David and noticed the smile plastered on his face, ''David, did you have something to do with this?'' She questioned him, he looked over at the mare and explained what happened on his first day.
''Geez, that explains why your train is dented.'' She said, noticing the junction appearing, abet only the clearing that exposed the existence of something that wouldn't allow the trees to grow back.

The Jinty slowed down, the brakes squeaked as it came to a stop just in front of a rusty point lever, Dusty hopped out the cab and walked over to the lever, nearly slipping on the ice on a few occasions. She wrapped her hooves around the lever arm and with all her strength, she threw the lever over, the clicking and movement of rusty metal rang out, she brushed the snow off the rails using her tail, the point blades had moved over, the line was now opened towards rusty rails. The mare carefully made her way back to the engine, David held out his hand to her and pulled her back into the cab, she blushed at his touch but quickly shook it off. The regulator mover forward slightly, giving Jinty just enough speed to traverse the points.

The train stopped, just clearing the points, David got out this time, he walked over to the points and, with little effort, threw the lever back into its previous position. He got back to the cab, Dusty gave him one oil lamp painted eggshell white and two other oil lamps painted a reddish pink, he put the white lamp central lamp iron on the front running board, he lit the lamp, it began to glow a yellowish white. He walked to the rear of the engine and placed the red lamps of the outer lamp irons and lit them, they began to glow red. He got back into the cab and Dusty started to move the engine.

Twigs snapped and buckled under the weight of the little steam train as it creeped along the rusty rails, a second set of points appeared as a second line connected on to the rusty line and jointing the line back onto the other branchline from western end. Bushes and shrubbery scraped the undercarriage of '47500' as The Everfree forest tree branches hung over the line, blocking out the sky, causing the forest became dull the further they drove him.
''So, why did you want to be a train driver?'' David asked her, she looked over at him.
''I was a general at a town called Snow Lake, when The Crystal Empire returned, my best friend and my lover was killed by Sombra, i quit the army and left that town, moved to Ponyville and picked up on a job i wanted to do when i was a foal. Dreams come true i guess.'' She said.

A shape appeared ahead, the headlamp barely lighting it, the Jinty stopped just in front of the object, David leaned out of the cab and looked that the object, it appeared to be a Great Western Railway built 20t toad brake van. He hopped down and grabbed his phone from his pocket, he turned on the flashlight app and used it to look around. The brakevan had faded paint grey paintwork with white handrails, the grey paint was flaking away at the bottom of the brakevan, rotten wood and rusty screws appeared where the paint has fallen away, Dusty joined him and looked beyond the brakevan, a coach appeared from the darkness. Dusty nudged David, he looked at coach. The pair walked toward the coach.

The coach had faded blue and light grey paintwork, much like the brakevan, the paint has flaked away where the coach met its frame, allowing rust to shine through, the coach had two large doors, one at one end and another at the other end, this was the same for the other side, 'Royal Mail' was painted on the side is white, it too had flaked, mostly, away. David noticed a second coach appear, it was identical to the first coach but had three doors on each side. A third coach appeared from the darkness as well, it was identical to the other two but only had two doors on one side.

''What is this? These looks like TPO's.'' Dusty asked in awe, David grabbed the front most door of the leading coach and forced it open, air rushed inside, he hopped up into the TPO and helped Dusty in, the two looked around. Dusty walked around the coach, she heard something crunch under her hoof, she looked down and saw bones, she looked up and came face to face with a skeleton, she let out an ear piercing scream, alerting David, he spun around and saw the skeleton, he then saw two, then three, then four. He counted nine skeletons, all of which were wearing British clothing from the 1950s, David saw something goldish reflecting against the light from his phone, he looked down at a small crate and opened it, his jaw dropped when he saw what the contents were, bars of gold.

Dusty opened a sack and found what looked like bits, she dragged the heavy sack over to him, he looked in the sack.
''Pound coins?'' He asked himself, he then looked over at the gold, ''Gold bar's, pound coins, skeletons. This doesn't make any.... sense.'' He added as he thought of a story he learned in school, he quickly left the coach, Dusty followed him.
''Whats going on?'' She asked him, he explained to her the story of people who stole from the four banks of the United Kingdom all at once and that they disappeared without a trace.
''I've got to know.'' He said, quickly walking towards the front, a tender appeared, it had faded charcoal black paint, that flaked away, revealing rust.

He shone his phone on the tender, a faded British Railway logo appeared on the rusty object.
''BR late crest.'' He said, Dusty looked at it, noting coal rails on the top of the tender, David looked at the engine at the front, ''Six drive wheels.'' He added, Dusty climbed up into its cab.
''The brakes are hard on.'' She shouted to him, something caught his eye, he looked at the cab side, his jaw dropped again when he looked at it, written on the side.

'4F'

'43999'

End of Chapter Ten.

Chapter #11: Fowler 4F

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Eleven.
Fowler 4F.

February 16th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 12:30 pm.

David looked at the number on the cabside as the pieces fell into place. This engine, this Fowler 4F was 43999. The same engine that was part of the robbery of the four banks of the Four Kingdoms of The United Kingdom. He placed his hand on the cabside. Dusty lent out, over the cabside and looked down.
''You ok?'' Dusty said, looking at David, he looked up at her.
''I'm fine Dusty, it's just i wish my dad was here to see this.'' David said, looking down again at the overgrown ballast before looking back up at Dusty, ''He told me stories about this engine. How she went missing. How British Railways erased her from history.'' He added, some of the rusting paint work of '43999' flaked away as David ran his hand along her running board.

David noticed that '43999's front buffer beam was crushed and buckled but still, by some luck, had the buffers, vacuum pipe and the screw link coupling intact.
''Hey, Dusty? Wanna survey the train for any damage?'' He asked her, she smiled.
''I've got a pad of paper and a pencil in 47500's cab, I'll go get it.'' She smiled some more, she climbed down from the cab. David followed her, his hand brushing against the the flaking paint work of '43999's tender. As the two walked back towards the tank engine, green mist began to leak from a nearby tree and began to flow around '43999''s drive wheels.

The leaves in the trees rustled as a nearby robin tweeted, '47500' hissed slightly as her safety valves popped, releasing some steam out the brass valves. The Everfree Forest was eerily quiet with the exceptions of a woodpecker pecking at a nearby tree trunk.
Dusty climbed up into '47500's cab and grabbed the pad of paper and the pencil, she noticed that the water level in the boiler was low, she gave David the paper and pencil.
''Why don't you start surveying, i'll be along once i've filled the boiler up.'' She said, he nodded. David walked back along the side of the train. Dusty went to open the injectors.

The green frog dissipated as David flashed his phone on '43999's front buffer beam and quickly drew a rough sketch of the beam, he noted that pieces of broken wood was caught in the screw link and the vacuum pipe.
Dusty heard an eerie, low moan coming from the tree line, followed by the hiss of '47500's safety valves blowing of more steam, the sudden sound of steam being released startled Dusty. Breathing in calmly, she released the brakes and slowly closes the gap between the Jinty and the brakevan. The buffers of the two gently touched each other, Dusty put the cutoff in the neutral position and closed the injectors before climbing down from the cab.

David looked around the cab, like the buffer beam, he drew a rough sketch of the cab, noting on the drawing that the regulator was closed and the cutoff was in the neutral position. The needle in the boiler pressure gauge was at 0 psi and the glass plate covering the gauge was cracked. He turned to the brake pressure gauge, the glass plate covering it was completely gone, leaving sharp and broken glass around the gauge there were two needles on the gauge, one black and one red. The black needle was scratched and bent slightly, it was pointing far to the left, hovering over the 0 psi mark. The red needle was worse for wear, missing most of its paint and rusted, it was pointing to the right, hovering over the 120 psi mark.

David looked down at the brake lever, it was swung over to the right as far as it could go, it was currently in the handle off position, he placed his hand on the handle of the lever, he was about to try and move the brake lever when. ''What are you doing?'' He heard Dusty say behind him.
''Ah! Oh, i was just looking around.'' He said in a panic, she raised an eyebrow and then saw the sketch of the cab on the pad of paper in his hands.
''Mind if i see that?'' She asked, looking at the pad, David looked at the pad and gave it to her, she looked at the two used pages, ''Not bad, not bad at all.'' She smiled, giving the pad back.

Dusty climbed up onto the tender and looked into the bunker where coal was, or should be, she was confused to see the bunker was lacking coal, David followed her and he too looked into the bunker.
''Shouldn't there be coal in there?'' He asked, just as confused, ''I'd understand if she was dumped here but, why leave her with wagons, gold money and skeletons?'' He added, scratching his head, ''But anyway, why erase her from history?'' He mumbled.
''Well there is someone i know who lives not to far from here Zecora i think her name is? Maybe she used all the coal for her house?'' Dusty said, noticing the open water filling cap.

''That would explain it.'' David said, he too noticed the open cap, he helped Dusty down, the two climbed out the cab and walked over to the gap between the tender and the first TPO. David helped Dusty up onto the tender, she found a stone resting near the open hole for the water tank, she picked it up and dropped it into the tank, instead of hearing a splash, she heard the sound of stone hitting metal.
''Water tank is empty, either Zecora used it too or it just dried up.'' She said, climbing back onto David's shoulders, ''You sure are strong.'' She added, David rolled his eyes, ''I wanna have a look at the internal cylinders and valve gear rods.'' The mare said, hopping off David's shoulders.

Dusty crawled under '43999', wriggling between the valve gear and the track, once she was directly under the crankshafts, she flipped over onto her back and looked up, the crankshafts was only a few inches from her face.
''Ok, David, you got the pad with you?'' Dusty said, trying to move as little as possible, ''Yeah, it's here.'' She heard the human say. ''Ok, write down the following; The left and right cylinders are in perfect condition. Left crankshaft is slightly bent, can easily be fix, right valve gear rod is in good condition, in need of oiling. While i'm under here, i'm gonna check the bearings for the axles.'' She shouted out from under the engine.

Dusty wriggled around some more, trying to get a good look at the six bearings on the six axles.
''Ok, write this down too, all bearings and locking plates are in good condition with the exception of the locking plate on the central left axle, locking plate is cracked and needs replacing.'' She said, David wrote this down as well, Dusty wriggled out from under the Fowler. The green mist leaked into the first TPO as David and Dusty climbed up into the carriage. David started sketching the inside of the TPO, the green mist flowed into one of the skeletons, its bony hand began to clench into a fist.

End of Chapter Eleven.

Chapter #12: Ghosts of The Past

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Twelve.
Ghosts of The Past.

February 16th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 13:30 pm.

Dusty forced the gangway door between the first and second TPO open, the door groaned as it slid open, throwing dust everywhere. Dusty coughed and waved her hooves around. The coach was empty, much to the dismay of both her and David.
''Well that disappointing.'' David said, looking at the collapsed letter sorting desk and rotting letter that had never been delivered, mail sacks were slumped up against the side of the carriage. The two walked across to the second gangway and forced that door open as well, their noses were filled with a smell worse than death.

Dusty looked around the third coach, she reared back when she saw more skeletons, unlike the ones in the first carriage, these ones were dressed in Royal Mail uniforms and British Railways crew uniform.
''Poor bastards...'' David said, noticing that some of them had wedding rings on, ''Never even got to say goodbye.'' He added, finding a blanket and covering them up as a sign of respect. Dusty bowed her head in respect as they moved back to the second coach and shut the gangway door back up.

The two walked back along the length of the train, David hopped down from the open side door on the old mail sorting carriage, he helped Dusty down onto the overgrown track bed.
''Dusty, couple up the Jinty, we're getting '43999' out of here.'' David said, walking towards '43999's cab, Dusty nodded and quickly ran towards the tank engine. The green mist engulfed the rest of the skeletons, one of them began to twitch, its head flicking side to side as the chest bounced up and down, it began to screech. The scream from the skeletons was masked by the sound of '47500's safety valves popping.

Dusty went and coupled up '47500' to the brake van, she expected to see vacuum brake pipes, but the brake van didn't have any.
''David! You're gonna have to try and release the brakes on your end, the brake van doesn't have a brake line!'' Dusty shouted, she coupled up the Jinty to the Toad before getting into the tank engine's cab, ''Ready!'' She shouted again, blasting the whistle. David climbed into '43999's cab and placed his hand on the brake handle, the trees rushed in the wind.
''Here we go.'' He said, he forced the handle into the release position. Nothing happened, he sighed.

A hissing noise began to fill David's ears, he looked up and saw the black psi needle twitch before moving to the right, the red needle twitch as well, moving left, he watched in awe for the next few minutes as air filled the brake line for the first time in over fifty-five years. The brakes released, throwing dust from under the wheels. David was surprised when '43999' started to roll forward due to slack between all the couplings, '43999' stopped rolling when the slack between the Jinty and the brake van tightened. '47500' was now the only thing holding the whole train in place.
''Ok Dusty! Brakes released!'' David shouted, Dusty responded with a sharp blast of '47500's whistle, she opened the regulator.

'47500' rolled backwards for only a few feet before the wheels started slipping, sparks began flying from under the tank as the Lancashire built steam engine struggled to pull the train, things got worse when the train began to roll forward, dragging the tank engine with it. Dusty put sand down but it had little effect. David, noticing something was wrong, quickly slammed the brakes on, bringing the train to a stop, Dusty quickly shut off the regulator, '47500's wheel quickly stopped spinning.
"Fuck." Dusty sighed, getting out the cab. '47500's wheels were smoking, the spinning left the rails shining against the rusty track. She uncoupled the brake van from the tank engine. She heard a demonic screech, David heard it too, it was coming from the first coach.

The two walked towards the coach, Dusty was trembling, David looked nervous. They looked in through the still open door on the TPO, they saw skeletons standing up, mucus, rotting flesh and the clothes fell away from the corpses. Dusty went to scream but David stopped her from doing so, but the skeletons turned and looked at them, one of them screeched.
''Run!'' David shouted, the two ran as fast as they can, the skeletons quickly followed the two. Dusty and David hid in the gap between the brake van and the third coach.
''What are we gonna do?'' Dusty said as quietly as possible, the sound of the skeleton's feet making contact with the ballast got closer. David looked at Dusty.

''Go back to Ponyville! Go back and get my diesels! Get help!'' David said, a skeleton peered around the corner, its bony hand snapped at them.
''What! No! I'm not leaving you behind!'' Dusty objected, the hand of the skeleton was getting closer as it was trying to get between the coach and the brake van.
''Go!'' He shouted as the skeleton grabbed him and began to drag him, Dusty nodded quickly before jumping to the other side of the train and running towards the Jinty.

Dusty quickly climbed up into the cab as more skeletons chased her, she pulled the cylinder drain lever. Steam sprayed out from the cylinders, blinding the skeletons in hot steam. The tank engine rolled backward, just fast enough to get away, but slow enough to not jump the tracks. The engine burst out the clearing, Dusty slowed '47500' down and jumped out the cab and ran ahead, she threw the point lever over, the point blades moved just as the tank engine past, Dusty climbed back on.

February 16th 2008, Ponyville, Equestria. 13:39 pm.

The shortened CEE rolled into Ponyville, stopping in the yard, Cadence and the others got off the train and ran towards the town.
''We've got to find David and Flurry!'' Shining shouted, the others nodded. Before the group could behind the search for the imperial princess.
''I’ll write to Celestia and Luna to help us!'' Spike shouted, quicking writing a letter and sending it with his fire, in a matter of seconds the two queens appeared in a blinding flash.

Before Celestia could respond, a high pitched shriek of a whistle echoed around, they looked at a small steam engine racing into the yard, sparks sprayed from the wheels as it sharply braked, backing up against the class 19's, Dusty jumped down and scrambled for the couplings. She folded the knuckle couple on the leading diesel down and quickly connected the screw link coupling and vacuum brake pipes, she was in too much of a rush to pull the buffers out, she quickly hopped back into the cab of the steam engine
''Hey! What are you doing!'' Cadence shouted, her magic pinning the train down, '47500's wheels were now spinning, sparks flying again.
''Hey! I'm trying to bring these to David!'' Dusty shouted back, applying the brakes. Cadence was shocked, her magic engulfed Dusty, bringing the earth mare towards her.

David was able to break free from the skeletons grip and ran into the TPO, slamming the door shut, the skeletons clawed at the door. He looked down at the floor and saw a Type 56 AK47 laying on the floor, he picked it up, accidentally pulling the trigger, causing it to fire, blasting a small hole through the ceiling. He didn't bother question how or why it was still working. The monsters forced the door open.
''Come at me bro!'' David shouted, firing the machine gun.

''Did you just say David?'' Cadence asked, Dusty struggled to escape, biting her lip.
''Yes! Now, if you so kindly let me go, i need to get these to him before those bony freaks kill him!'' Dusty shouted, Cadence dropped her at the sound of screams and gunfire in the distance.
''Where is he?'' Cadence asked, fear and dread filling her voice, the alicorn looked straight at Dusty eyes.
''In the Everfree Forest.'' Dusty said, the others gasped in horror, Cadence was the most shocked out of them all. In a flash, she appeared in the cab of the Jinty.
''Come on them!'' Cadence shouted, Dusty quickly climbed into the cab, ''You'll need a fireman.'' Cadence added.

Flurry Heart walked out of a nearby cafe, a box of donuts sticking out her saddle bag, she overheard voices coming from the yard, she looked up and saw her mother, her father and the others in the yard. Flurry attempted to quietly back away but was stopped by a pink blur appearing out of thin air.
''I FOUND HER!'' It shouted, everyone looked at Flurry Heart, the pegasus tried to back up, but the pink blob was pushing her forwards like she weigh nothing, Flurry's hooves dragged dirt with them as she was pushed up to the group.
''Pinkie! Stop!'' Flurry shouted, she unfolded her wings and attempted to take off but was weighed down by Pinkie.
''Nope.'' The pink mare said, somehow being able to weigh down Flurry Heart, despite not holding onto the ground.

''Flurry Heart!'' Cadence shouted, Flurry looked down at her mother, she smiled innocently as she was engulfed in a light blue aura and brought down to ground level.
''Um...'' Was the only thing Flurry Heart could say as her mother's eyes fixed on the box sticking out of her saddlebag, Pinkie smelt the donuts.
"DONUTS!" The mare screamed and lunged at the bag and the box inside, her attack was only stopped by Twilight holding her by her tail.
''Flurry Heart. Why do you runaway?'' Rarity asked, using her magic to straightening the tiara on Flurry's head. The princess looked at the tiara before knocking it off.
''Because i don't want to be a princess.'' The pegasus said, the others, minus Cadence, gasped, mainly Rarity.
''But why darling?'' Rarity replied, her magic picked up the now dented tiara.

''We've got to go!'' Dusty shouted, everyone, minus Flurry Heart, remembered what was happening, the ponies in town began to hear the distance screeches and gun fire and began to run in terror.
''What's happening?'' Flurry Heart asked, Cadence looked at Flurry with concern, ''Mom, what's wrong.'' Her daughter tilted her head.
''Your uncle is in danger!'' Her mother said, climbing into '47500's cab, Dusty released the brakes and opened the regulator, the steam engine and the two diesels started to move, the others followed them.
''Wait what?!'' Flurry shouted, running after the others, she hoped that they would get to David in time.

End of Chapter Twelve.

Chapter #13: Rescue

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Thirteen.
Rescue.

February 16th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 13:40 pm.

David fired the Type 56 AK47, the bullets ripped through the skulls of the skeletons, their eyes were ablaze with a deep green flame, brighter green mist escaped the eye sockets, the same coloured mist flowed through the rib cages. One skeleton roared as a bullet exploded through the skull, shattering the bone into millions of pieces.
''Take that fucker!'' David shouted, pulling the trigger again, only for no bullets to spray out, ''Shit.'' He said, chucking the gun at another skeleton before running past the confused being, it threw the gun away and chased him, ''Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!'' He shouted as he ran around the front of '43999', cutting his arm on the sharp edges of the broken buffer beam, causing a sharp grunt from him as he held his arm close to his chest as he continued running for cover, tripping over a stump.

David fell to the ground, a sharp pain running through his ankle. He caused even more pain as he struggled to stand up, causing him to limp as he struggled to find a suitable hiding spot. He crawled under the first TPO, cutting his head as he squeezed under the rusting chassie, David gritted his teeth in pain as he rested his back against the bogey of the coach, his jacket sleeve was soaked in blood, dripping onto the few pieces of snow under the wagon. He watched as a skeleton slowly marched past his hiding spot, he tightly held the large opening on his arm, blood seeped through his fingers, gritting his teeth in pain.
''What have you gotten yourself into David.'' He asked himself as his ankle went numb from the freezing air around, his breath was like a mist, the screeches of the skeletons slowly fell silent as the next blizzard rolled in, the wind began to pick up.

David slowly moved out from under the carriage, he couldn't see or hear the skeletons anywhere, he slowly looked left and right before fully emerging from under the coach, he leaned against the carriage shell, the snowflakes settling on his head and shoulder, he looked down and found a tree branch and picked it, using it as a makeshift walking stick. He felt weak as he slowly walked towards '43999's cab, grunting with every painful step. The fresh snow crunched under his foot as the stick dug into the ground, his bleeding arm dropped blood with each step, he dragged his hand along the carriage body, leaving a bloody handprint on the side. Twigs snapped behind him as he limped towards the rusting locomotive, the roaring wind masking the snaps.

David stopped when he felt a presence behind him, he turned around, only to see nothing but the fast falling snow, he turned back around but froze when he felt something land on his shoulder, he looked over and saw mucus dripping down, followed by another drop. He looked up, coming face to face with skeletons, there eye sockets glowing green, one jumped down and knocked David backwards, landing near '43999's tender, it snapped the branch in the process. Another skeleton appeared and clawed at David, leaving five deep gash marks on his chest before uppercutting him, sending him backwards some more. David dragged himself into the cab of '43999', grabbing the fireman shovel to protect himself. The skeletons let out an ear piercing scream as they closed in on the cab, David rose of the cab floor, leaning against the rusting regulator, blood dripping from his chest and arm onto the cab floor. One on the bony creatures jumped down into the cab, getting a swift hit with the shovel blade to the skull, knocking the head into the forest. The metal blade of the shovel was now dented and bent, another skeleton jumped down and attacked David, dodging the shovel swings in the process. David tried swinging at it, missing and heading the cab, the blade broke off and bounced off into the the forest as well.
''Shit.'' David grunted before the skeleton punched him out the cab, it jumped out, screeching.

'47500's six drive wheels pounded the rails as it topped out at 40 mph, it raced along the branch line, dragging the currently off class 19's. Dusty fully opened the regulator as the tank engine climbed up the incline, Cadence leaned out the cab side, the others were on the forward running board for '642'
''There's the junction!'' Dusty shouted as the opening to the spur appeared on the right hand side of the line, she started to apply the brakes with a hiss, sparks began to fly from the brake shoes as '47500' began to cross over to the spur line, the screeches of the skeleton began to get louder.
''What were you guys doing here?!'' Cadence asked, dodging a tree branch to the face, she looked at the earth pony as the line straightened out again, ''Well? Answer me!'' She shouted.
''Look it was his idea ok?!' Dusty snapped back, ''I only went with him because i too wanted to know what was on this line. We found a steam engine with three coaches and a brake van full of gold bars, money and dead bodies. The bodies came alive and began attacking!'' Dusty added, slamming the brakes on as the toad brake van appeared ahead. Cadence jumped down as the tank engine slid to a stop, she ran off towards the screams.

David backed away as the rest of the skeletons surrounded him, his escape was blocked by a large tree trunk, one jumped at him, pinning him down.
''Guys, can't we talk about this?'' David said, hiding a whimper under his grunt, the skeleton opened its claw like hand and was ready to strike.
''Get your filthy fucking hands off my brother!'' David heard Cadence scream, the skeleton was shattered in seconds by a powerful punch from Cadence, David looked over, as did the skeletons, to see an enraged Crystal Empress, ''Come on! I'll take you all on!'' She shouted, summoning two blue crystal swords before charging at the skeletons, they charged at her and piled on top of her.

A blinding flash of blue erupted from the pile, sending pieces of bone everywhere, Cadence swung her swords as more skeletons charged back at her, slicing them in half from head to toe. She kept slicing and dicing until she was surrounded by small pieces of bones.
''Mom! That was awesome!'' Flurry Heart shouted from behind Shining Armor, the rest of the ponies, including Luna were left surprise as what they had witnessed, Cadence finally snapped out off her rage when she heard David grunt in pain, she turned around and saw him, quickly running to him,
''Oh no! David!'' She said, stopping beside him, she looked up and down his body, seeing all the blood and cuts along him, ''What did they do to you?'' She asked, her hoof getting covered in his blood.

''I've been through worse.'' He wheezed out, hiding a chuckle under his breath as he staggered to his feet, his ankle crunched under his weight, sending a shockwave of pain up his leg, he bit his lip as he placed his hand on tree trunk. Cadence was glaring at him as he stood up, he looked at her, feeling the heat in her eyes, ''What? I told you i'm fine.'' He said, Cadence continued to glare at him, her nose scrunched up even more.
''David! You aren't ok. You're hurt. Let me help you.'' Cadence sighed, looking up at her brother leaning against the tree, she caught '43999' out the corner of her eye, ''What the? Is that what i think it is?'' She asked, David nodded, limping over to the cabside.
''Cadence, everyone! I'd like you all to meet '43999', the lost fowler 4f.'' David said, presenting the locomotive, a long awkward silence followed, the only sound was both the wind and '47500's safety valves popping.

''Oh my gosh!'' Flurry Heart shouted, breaking the silence, she quickly buzzed around the train, taking in every detail of the aging railway stock, she flew around the cab of '43999' babbling complete nonsense..
''Is she ok?'' David asked, feeling rather confused as he watched a nearly adult pegasus, seemingly fangirling over a steam engine, a rusting steam engine.
''Give her a minute.'' Cadence said, hovering at David's shoulder height, tending to some of the cuts on his face, ''David, what happened? Why did you leave?'' She asked, rest of the ponies looked around the rusting train, David flinched as Cadence's hoof brushed past the cut above his eyebrow he received after hitting the hay cart, he looked down, looking away from her face, an expression that was a mix of pain and shock was plastered to her face, her eyes were void the usual happy-go-lucky spark that filled them, in place were the eyes of someone who was about to cry a river.

Cadence turned her head away from her brother, she shut her eyes, forcing herself not to cry, after all the stupid things her brother had done, this took the biscuit, she was so mad at him, yet also pleased that he wasn't dead. She had bottled up her sadness since she had heard David had ran away, she bit the inside of her cheek so hard, she could taste the iron in her blood.
''Cadence? Are you ok?'' She heard David say, she turned back and looked at him, she couldn't hold back her emotions any longer, her eyes filled up with tears, she lept into David's chest and burst into tears.
''David!'' She sobbed, tears flowing from her eyes, soaking his shirt, ''I thought i lost you!'' She screamed, her tears streaming from her eyes, she dug her face deep into his chest. David was taken aback by the sudden influx of emotions from the pink empress, he felt the friction burn from her fur rubbing against his skin. David was unsure on what to do, should he comfort her and tell her that everything was ok or if should should let get it out of her system before doing anything else.

Twilight's horn lit up, the magenta glow of her magical aura casting a dull glow in the surrounding area, her mane and tail fluttered with every step the alicorn took as the strong winds of the blizzard were weakened to nothing more than a breeze inside the haunted forest, the roar of the wind outside was deafened by the trees and undergrowth. The mare stopped as she felt a rat scurry across her hoof, she flinched her hoof back, losing her footing and hitting her head on the side of the first TPO's front buffer beam, she fell between the tender and the coach. The mare grabbed the rusting screw link coupling with her hoof, she expected to feel the the cold touch of the rusting steel but instead, felt the touch of something else. It was cold but felt organic, almost like it was once part of a living being, a being now long since dead and scattered to the winds. She inspected the object, finding that it was once a hand and lower arm, the skin had tightened, showing all the features of the bone below, she looked down at the torn flesh, the broken bone's razor sharp edges clearly showing that it was violently torn away from a body. She stopped her inspection when she heard Cadence shouting.

''David! Why did you leave in the middle of the night!'' Cadence shouted at David, tears still streaming from her eyes, she punched him in the chest, perhaps too hard, but at this point she was letting her true emotions control her every motion. David said nothing, he just stood there, staring into her ice blue eyes, ''Tell me.'' She said, he did nothing, just continued to stare, ''Tell me!'' She roared, everything went silent, like all sound in the world was muted.
''You really want to know why i left. Why i really left all those years. Why i left last night?'' David turned away from her, closing his eyes. Cadence glared at him, ''Well, do you?'' He added, opening his eyes as he waited for her answer.
''Yes, i do. I do want to know. Tell me!'' She ordered, her legs were trembling with both fear and anxiety, what did he mean by what really made him turn his back on his family, turn his back on her, his own sister. He reached deep into his jacket pocket and pulled out an object, he turned back to her a held it his hand, it hung from a piece of string.

''A flash drive? Really?'' Cadence said, she was about to explode with anger, she felt like she would explode with such force, that it could rival the world's most powerful nuclear bomb, her eye twitched as she tried to keep her anger under control.
''It's not just a flash drive. It's the flash drive that our dad died trying to keep from the Russian terrorist. If it wasn't for me, he'd still be alive today.'' David said, no emotion in his voice whatsoever, Cadence tilted her head, what did he mean by this? ''If it wasn't for the file on this drive, he would still be alive. A file that i made. A file that if executed, could hack into government network of any enemy country, steal their nuclear launch codes, it could then use these codes to use the enemy country's missiles against that country. I made a program, a virus, that if in the wrong hands, could cause a nuclear holocaust. It's all my fault dad died. Mum was right about, she always was.'' He added, Cadence's ears flopped down, she went to speak, ''Now, you may be wonder, what does have to do with me leaving? The terrorists were able to track it from the underground base, who's to say they aren't tracking it right now, who's to say they aren't already here and are waiting for me.'' He looked at the silver piece of computer hardware, ''That's why i left the family, that's why i left last night. That's why i'm here.'' He put the flash drive back into his pocket.

The pink mare just stared at him, she didn't know where to start, her jaw was hanging low, her wings were touching the snow covered ballast.
''Now you know why i left. It was to protect the family, my friends and you.'' He added, collapsing to his knees and punching the ice hard, Twilight had heard the whole story, her brain was still processing this, maybe the stories she was told about humans being truly evil were false, she had watched David, she felt the remorse he had for the role in his father's death, she watched as he punched the ice repeatedly, she slowly placed her hoof down, and moved away from the TPO, her mind deep in thought.

''David.'' Dusty said, walking up behind the human, he looked at the earth pony, ''Are we gonna get '43999' out of here of what?'' She added, placing a hoof on his shoulder, '47500's safety valves popped again, sending scorching steam into the cold air.
David looked back at the train, spotting the last two surviving class 19's behind the tank engine, ''Let's get to it.'' He spoke, smiling as he stood up and began limping over to the diesels, ''Dusty, i gonna need your jinty to couple up to the front of-'' He said before Dusty cut him off.
''Already ahead of ya!'' She said, hopping up into '47500's cab, she released the brakes and set the reverser into reverse, she slowly opened the regulator. The tank engine slowly backed away from the Ex- Great Western Railway 20t brake van.

The tank continued to slowly back up, '644' began to emerge from the forest as the tank slowly started to clear the top of the triangle junction, Dusty slowly applied the brakes, dumping some of the air before leaving them in the running position. The brake shoes moved over and made contact with the wheels, '47500' slowed to a stop, '644's nose was directly facing towards Ponyville. Dusty climbed down from the jinty's cab, she uncoupled the tank engine from the leading diesel locomotive, the brake pipes were released with a hiss, the maroon paint work of the rear buffer beam was chipped away as the heavy screw link coupler swung down. Dusty climbed back up into '47500's cab as David towards '642', the earth mare moved the reverser into the forward position and released the brakes, the tank engine slowly rolled ahead, crossing back over the points at the tip of the triangle junction. The steam locomotive stopped, just clearing the points. Dusty leaned out the cab, she was about to jump down to switch the points, but as she did so, the points lever was engulfed with a light blue hue, the lever moved over, the tracks switched over, opening access to the left side of the triangle.

Dusty looked up and saw Cadence's horn glowing, the empress nodded, Dusty nodded it back, setting the tank engine into reverse and releasing the brakes, '47500' rolled backwards, clearing the points once again as it braked to a stop, Cadence closed the points, giving the class 19's access to the fowler now.

David climbed up onto '642's front running board and entered the cab. He walked over to the rear bulkhead, looked at the start/shut-off switch and turned it to the left. The class 19s roared to life, exhaust bellowing from the roof grills, the remaining ditch lamp flickered to life alongside the headlights. The air brakes released with a hiss as David moved the reverser into the forward position, moving the throttle into notch one. '642' jerked to a rolling start s the rails sunk into the ground under the weight of the locomotives, Dusty blew '47500's whistle as the diesel rumbled past, crossing over the points and descending into the darkness of the Everfree Forest. Tree branches scraped the roof and windows of both '642' and '644' as the two got closer to the Fowler, the rusting rails creaked as the class 19's rolled along the old spur line, David slowed the train down as the brake van came into view, the brake shoes locked against the wheels, the train squeaked to the stop, the buffers pressing against the brake vans buffers, he put the train into idle before leaving the cab.

Rainbow had been exploring the second TPO, she approached the gangway door between that TPO and the third one, as the mare went to open the door, she found it to be locked.
''Sugarcube, what in the hay are you doing?'' Applejack said, appearing behind the pegasus, startling her and causing them fall over, ''Well, what are you doing?'' The earth pony asked, raising her eyebrow.
''N-Nothing!'' Rainbow said, still panting from the scare by the cowgirl pony, ''Help get the door open will ya?'' Dash said, trying to force the door open, Applejack rolled her eyes as she trotted over to the locked gangway door and started pushing, the oak door beginning to crack open. The wood splintered as the door flung open, knocking the two mares onto the floor, kicking up the dust. A foul smell filled there nostrils, they scrunch their faces up at the stench emanating from a pile at the back of the coach.

''What is that smell?" Rainbow said, trying not breathe through her nose in a bid to not inhale what smelled like a rotting corpse left in the sun for a week, Applejack approached the pile slowly, the floorboards creaking as her orange hoofs made contact with the aging pine wood.
''I think it's coming from this.'' AJ said, placing her hoof on the sheet covering the pile, whatever was under it was soft, like clay or a water balloon, the smell was intense at this point, she looked at Rainbow, ''Should i do it?'' She asked the rainbow maned mare, Dash nodded, AJ breathed in and gripped the sheet.
As she was about to pull it off, the coach jerked forward abit followed by a horn, ''I think they're hooking this train up, we better get going.'' AJ said, walking out the coach, dragging Rainbow with her.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack hopped down from the open door on the first TPO. The two walked back towards the brake van along the track bed, the ballast crunching under their hoods, Rainbow ran ahead. David stepped down from '642' and walked over to the coupler, stepping under the buffers and grabbing the chain screw link coupler of the brake van, gripping the rusting iron and lifting it up, he felt a hoof brush against his hand as the chain was lowered around '642's hook. David looked down and saw Rainbow's hoof resting on his hand.
''Hello there.'' He said, looking at the mare who had her eyes shut, he moved his hand away, startling her, she blushed and moved her hoof away from the coupling as David tightened the screw link.
''Can i help?'' She asked the man, tilting her head, David placed his hand on his chin and had a thought, ''Well? What can i do?'' She added, her rose pink eyes looking into his pale blue ones.
''If you want, you can release the brakes in '43999's cab.'' He said, Rainbow looked at him and smiled, ''I would do it from '644' but the brake van has no vacuum pipe lines.'' He added, she nodded, understanding completely, backing away before David stopped her.

''Release the brakes when i blow the horn ok?'' David said, Rainbow nodded, running towards the fowler and climbing into the cab. David rolled his eyes and walked past '642' and towards '644', climbing up the front steps of the running board and entering the cab, he sat down in the driver's seat, the hum of the idling engines was the only sound heard from the cab, he flicked the switches on the control panel, the headlights and ditch lamps flickering to life, his cold fingers gripped around the lever of the horn and pulled it down, sending a long blast echoing through the forest. Rainbow heard the horn blast echoing around, her hoof wrapped around the brake lever, she closed her eyes as the world around felt like it was in slow motion. She could hear her heartbeat and breathing, she opened her eyes and pulled the lever.

The brakes released with a hiss, air flowing back into the brake line. The brake psi gauge needles twitching and moving around as the brake shoes released from the wheels, '43999' rolled forward down the slip before stopping, being stopped by the braking power of both '642' and '644'. David felt the jerk as '43999' dragged the two class 19's backward a few inches, friction stopping it, he pushed the sanding button, dropping sand onto the tracks. He moved the reverser into forward position as the other ponies boarded the brake van, the throttled moved into notch one as the class 19's brakes released. Very slowly, the two diesels began to pulling the train away, the weeds that had grown around '43999's drive wheels broke away from the metal.

Unbeknownst to those aboard the brake van, a small object stuck to the undercarriage of the first TPO began to flash a red light, emitting a beeping.

End of Chapter Thirteen.

Author's Note

This chapter is dedicated to my cat Tilly who died during the production of this part.

Chapter #14: Aftermath & Recovery

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Fourteen.
Aftermath & Recovery.

February 16th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 14:10 pm.

With one final roar of the engines, '644', '642' and '47500' brought '43999' to the top of the slope. The train slowly trundled over the level crossing, snaking over the main line and entering the yard. '644' ran over a set catch points with a click-clack. David gave a short blast of the horn, slowly decreasing the throttle and applying the brakes. Dusty and '47500' was all the way at the back of the train, coupled to '43999' due to the need for the braking power of the 4f and its three coaches. She replied to the horn with a quick sharp blast of the whistle, she eased up on the regulator and applied the rearward brakes. The mix-matched train eased into the yard with the occasional flange squeal. As the consist began to brake to a halt, '642's fuel tank began to slowly leak, the thick black liquid inside trickling onto the ballast. Dull white smoke began to bellow from under the axles of '644' as the brake shoe pressed hard against the wheels.

Cadence sighed heavily and placed her head on the rear wall of the brakevan. Shining saw the look plastered on her face, he walked over and placed a hoof on her shoulder.
''Are you ok dear? You haven't said anything since we left the Everfree Forest.'' He said, putting a hoof under her chin, making the Empress look at him, ''It's about your brother isn't it?'' Shining asked, Cadence didn't need to say a word, the way she looked up at her husband told all, ''You want to tell me what's eating you up?'' He added, kissing her forehead.
Cadence took a deep breath, ''I'm so stupid. I thought he was dead. Mom told me he died in a car crash and i believed her. David was gone for 16 years. I was foolish, thinking that everything could go back to the way it was before it happened, before dad died, before my only brother ran away.'' The alicorn sighed, struggling to hold back the tears. Her husband gave the mare a tight hug, patting her back.
''It's ok honey, Things will go back to normal in no time, just let your brother adjust to being back in your life.'' Shining assured his wife, she smiled at him as the train finally came to a stop. '43999's tender now sat directly under the coal tower.

Dusty shut off '47500's regulator, the tank engine released steam from its safety valves. The earth mare put the reverser into the neutral position, jumping down from the cab after dampening the hot coals in the firebox. The pony climbed up onto '43999's running board, wrapping her hoof around the clock hand like locking keys on the smoke box door and forcefully turned them until they became loose enough to freely spin around. The door slowly creaked open, long burnt ash was frozen solid against the sides of the smoke box.
''You poor thing.'' She patted 43999's boiler, rusting metal clunking with the touch of a hoof, ''Don't you worry, I'll get you cleaned out, put some coal and water in your tender and give you a firing.'' Dusty closed the smoke box door, the settling snow crunching under her weight as she jumped from the ageing locomotive, the pony looked up at the coal tower.

David looked around, breathing slowly as he released his grip on the brake lever. His hands trembling as they fell to each side of the chair he sat in. He sat there for what felt like hours before sitting up, looking back out the window, sighting the toad stationed behind '642'. The man slowly rose from his chair, knees clicking as he stood up fully. He limped over to the back of the cab, the engine cutting off with a splutter and a flick of the switch. David staggered to the front of the cab and swung the nose door open as the wind picked up, sending snowflakes into his face and hair with soft snow crunching under his boots as he climbed down from the locomotive. David watched as the ponies began to climb down from the western Brake van. His eyes fixed on the lavender alicorn; Twilight he assumed. The two locked eyes as the princess nodded at him. David sat on the middle step of '644', Twilight trotting over to him.
''Hello, and welcome to Equestria.'' She closed her eyes and smiled, proudly holding a hoof to her chest, ''I am Princess Twilight Sparkle.'' The alicorn chirped, placing a hoof out. The human slowly took her hoof and shook it gently, she looked at David's ankle, ''Let me help with that.'' Her horn lit, the magical aura wrapping around his foot.
''No, no. That's fine, it really is.'' David said, Twilight stared at him, ''I insist.'' She replied, the human sighed, ''Fine, make it quick.'' He added. Twilight twisted the foot.

Dusty's hooves wrapped around the chain, coal poured from the coal tower into '43999's tender. Clouds of coal dust enveloped the crisp air around the mare, causing her to cough and wheeze as Flurry Heart, Celestia and Luna disembarked from the train. The pegasus duchess sighed, strolling ahead of the alicorns, the larger of the two planting her lily white wing on Flurry's shoulder.
''Flurry, a word?'' Celestia said in a soothing and calming voice, almost sounding motherly to an extent, relieving the pegasi of some stress. The pair stopped and sat down on steps of the brakevan.
''I guess this is about me running away during the night isn't it?'' Flurry sighed, looking down at her pinkish white hooves. She tightly closed her eyes as tired formed in her eyes, ''I'm in trouble aren't I? It's my fault Uncle David was nearly killed today wasn't it?'' She cracked, her voice full of fear.
''Listen to me dear, you aren't in trouble at all. What happened to the human wasn't your fault.'' Celestia soothed the younger pony, holding her close to her chest.

''Flurry Heart dearest. We only want to ask why you left in the middle of the night, nothing else.'' Luna said in a calm and collected voice, placing a blue fetlock covered hoof on Flurry's shoulder.
''Ok... I'll tell you.'' Flurry spoke, breathing in slowly while trying not to start trembling, ''Now, please don't get mad.'' She added, the two queens nodding in unison. ''As you know, i try to life a normal life, but being a duchess makes it very difficult. I'm always in the public domain, always in the news for stupids things like 'Duchess caught eating donuts' or 'Duchess caught shopping for a bottle of milk'. I'd rather not be in the news full stop. When i heard that my uncle was human and lived day by day, living a life i longed for. I made my choice, i decided to live my royal life behind. I want to be free of this royal burden.'' The pegasus trembled, tears flowing from her eyes. Celesta embraced the duchess in a hug.

End of Chapter Fourteen.

Chapter #15: Family Bonds: Part I

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Fifteen.
Family Bonds Part I.

February 16th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 22:00 pm.

"Thank you for letting us stay here the night Twilight." Cadence said as she walked into the bedroom with her mane wrapped in a towel.
"It's no problem Cadence!" Twilight replied as she levitated a towel onto the bed from a neighbouring cupboard, "I always have room for my best sister-in-law." She added as Cadence sat down on the rather springy mattress before laying flat on her back.
"I'm your only sister-in-law Twilight." The light pink alicorn chirped in reply, stretching her wings with audible clicks, "Oh shoot! Twilight, would you mind getting my saddle back please, I forgot to get something out of it." She added, Twilight quickly nodded and left the room. The door shut. Cadence sighed and stood back up, exchanging her wet towel for a fresh, dry one. She began vigorously drying her mane while humming to herself.

"What. A. Day." The empress finished drying herself off and threw the towel aside. She slid off of her bed and then bent over, grabbing her hind leg and pulling it up behind her head. Her hip joint clicked. She proceeded to do the same with the other leg, groaning as her joints clicked again.
"I need to do my yoga exercises more, I'm getting stiff from just sitting all day." Gently rubbing her legs just as Twilight returned with her saddle bag.
"What's this about yoga?" The younger alicorn placed the requested item on the bed before sitting on the bed herself.
"Oh, just saying that I need to do them more." Cadences horn light up as she brought the bag over, opening it and pulling out a necklace with a heart shaped pendant attached. Placing it around her neck, she brought the pendant up to her face and gently kissed it. "Thank you for bringing my saddle bag Twilight." The alicorn smiled as the pendant swayed from side to side with a slight rotation.

"What is that for?" Twilight pointed at the necklace. "Is it a good luck charm?"
Cadence let out a sigh. "No Twilight, it's not a good luck charm." Cadence looked down at the heart shaped pendant.
"Then what is it?" Questioned Twilight, looking at Cadence with a hint of concern.
Ok Cadence, She thought, no more lying. She placed her hoof on the pendant and let out another sigh, "Ok Twilight, I'll tell you. But please, don't question anything until after I finished, got it?" Cadence looked at her fellow Alicorn who nodded in reply.

"Before I became your foal sitter, I gave birth to a daughter, a Pegasus, I named her Shooting Star. She..." Cadence paused, sighing again, "She was a stillborn Twilight. This necklace has a locket with the only picture of my baby girl." Cadence levitated the locket over to Twilight, opening it in the process, revealing a picture of a barely 16 year old Cadence looking visibly tired with a tiny baby that looked exactly like her in her arms, "The only other ponies to know about her other then you, is Shining, who got me this necklace, so I could take her everywhere with me so she was never forgotten," She paused again, "and Celestia, who was with me when I went into labour. This was why every January 30th I wasn't available to foal sit you, I would be at her grave reading her a story and tell her how much I miss her. Something I do even to this day." Cadence began to tremble as she fought back the tears that started to form at the corners of her eyes, "Shooting Star is the sole reason why I was so protective of Flurry Heart, because I-." She blew her nose, now crying, "Because didn't want to lose her like I lost Shooting Star." Twilight moved closer, embracing Cadence in a tight hug. "You know, she'd be 24 now." Cadence looked through her watery eyes, blowing into a tissue. The two pulled away from each other, "Thank you for listening Twilight, now you know why I carry this necklace with me everywhere."

"Don't mind if I take another look at the photo do you?" Twilight politely asked, Cadence nodded. She opened the locket and placed it in Twilight's hoof for the purple mare to inspect., "She looks so much like you, like you and her were clone.... No offence." Cadence gently chuckled at that fact.
"No offence taken. But yeah, it's uncanny how much she looked like me, it's like as you said, it's like she was a clone of me." Cadence replied as Twilight passed the necklace back to her. "I miss her a lot, I wish I had listen to Celestia when she suggested we go to the hospital." Cadences ears drooped down.
"Why didn't you go the hospital, if I may ask?" Twilight looked at her with even more concert, "Where you scared that they would look down at you because you were so young?" She added, placing her hoof on Cadences, giving the pink alicorn as signal of 'Its OK, you can tell me.'

"No, it wasn't just that, it was because I'd had of tell them the father's species." Cadence looked out the corner of her eyes, checking to see if the bedroom door was still closed, luckily it was, "Twilight, do you remember when I told you I grew up in Port Hope?" She asked the fellow pony.
"Yes, that's in the human world isn't it?" Cadence nodded in reply, "Oh! The was human, I get it. But why were you scared?" Cadence bit the inside of her cheek and let out a deep sigh.
"No, I was scared because Shooting Stars father was David." Twilight chuckled darkly.
"I'm sorry, I must has something in my ears, because it sounded like your brother was the father." Cadence blankly stared at her, "Please tell you're joking." Cadence continued to blankly stare at her, "Oh sweet Celestia!" Twilight screamed.

"See, this was why I refused to go to the hospital." Cadence started pacing back and forth, "This speciesism ponies have against humans. It honestly sickens me, it sometimes makes me wish I stayed in Port Hope." Twilight placed a wing on Cadences shoulder.
"Listen to me Cadence, I'm not being speciesist. If I was, would I be dating a dragon?" Twilight looked into her eyes, Cadence was about to respond, "it's a rhetorical question." She added, Cadence let out an audible 'Oh'. "I'm just asking, why your brother thought? Why not one of the other humans? Surely they would of had sex with you?" Cadence looked directly at Twilight before pacing back and forth again.
"It wasn't as simple as that Twilight." Cadence paused and looked at Twilight. "See, in their world, ponies and horses aren't sentient, all they do is stand around in fields all day and eat hay. The humans also have laws against sexual activity with animals, now despite me being sentient and given UK citizenship, I still looked like an animal, so while it wouldn't of been illegal for a human to have sex with me, they still saw it as morally wrong. At the end of the day, I still looked like an animal." She continued to rant as she paced around the room.

"Ok, I understand, but why your brother? I admit he does have a charm about him but again, why him." Twilight questioned as her eyes continued to track Cadence as she paced around.
"Because Twilight...." Cadence paused, "Because I was in heat." It was now Twilight's turn to let out an audible 'Oh'. "See, a few months before I became an alicorn, before Celestia found me, I went into my first heat cycle and I didn't know what to do. I told David what I was feeling, sudden hot flushes and random spikes of horniness. So we went to the library and found a book about horses and looked up what I feeling and we discovered I was in heat and the only way this was going to stop was the wait it out for four more days or have sex." Cadence sat back down on the bed, "We got back home, now both our parents and our sister were away at Nord Bridge for a shopping trip, it took about 5 hours to get there and back by car and we got home just as they were leaving, they asked if we'd like to join them but I told them I was studying for an exam and David was helping me, so they told us to be good and and they'll be back soon. Now keep in mind I was 15 and David was 19, so I was in the company of an adult anyway. Anyway once they left, I told David I wanted him to fuck me... I asked him again and again, for 2 hours straight before he finally said yes. We then did it right there in my room, we did it for 45 minutes." Cadence bit her lip as she remembered the pleasure she felt that day as it flooded back into her mind.

"Wait, 45 minutes?! Sweet Celestia, I didn't know humans had that much stamina." Twilight said, trying not to bit her lip in sudden arousal.
"Human males can last on average between 10-15 minutes before ejaculation." Cadence deadpanned.
"But still, 45 minutes. That's impressive" Twilight replied, now biting her lip slightly.
"Anyway, nearly a month later I started to feel sick and queasy and I thought 'Oh shit, I'm pregnant!'. I told David immediately and he ran down to the pharmacy and grabbed a pregnancy test, now thankfully it was just us two alone in the house at the time and the test was thankfully negative. It turned out me being sick was the result of a stomach bug and I went into heat again a few days later and again, we did it in my room, assuming he couldn't get me pregnant. As this continued, we started to do it every time we were home alone, even when I wasn't in heat, I don't know why but I enjoyed it, we both did. We got to the point of planning to run away together and getting married so we wouldn't need to fuck in secret anymore, but that all change when I became an alicorn. Anyway, I guess I fell pregnant at some point between our second time and when I became an alicorn." Cadence looked down in sadness and shame.

"Ok Cadence I understand your reasons but why didn't you tell him about Shooting Star?" Twilight asked, placing a hoof on Cadences leg.
"I guess it was because I was afraid that he might think it was his duty to pay for the medical bills, and it would of broken his heart to tell him that I lost her. I didn't even know I was pregnant until I went into labour." Cadence sobbed into her wings.
"Cadence, you have to tell David about Shooting Star." Twilight said, bringing Cadence closer.
"I can't tell him."
"Why not?"

"I'm scared that he'll close himself out to me, I'm his sister for fuck sack, imagine me saying 'Oh David, remember when we fucked, well you got me pregnant and I lost our baby.' I think it wouldn't go down well with him." Cadence stood up and looked in the mirror opposite the bed. "I'm scared he'll run off again for another 16 years. I wouldn't be able to handle that, not again." She closed her eyes, remembering the pain she felt in her heart when her sister told her that they found David's car burnt out while wrapped around a tree.
"Cadence, you don't know that, for all what it's worth, he may not run away again, but instead want to remain here with you." Twilight's words did little to calm the empress as she began to tremble in fear.
"You don't know what it was like, I lost my dad and David in the space of a year, I closed myself out from everyone, even Shining. I mourned them for 17 years. When I saw David being dragged into my throne room, that last glimmer of light in my heart started to get brighter, that just glimmer would of burnt out had he not of been dragged before me. That's a feeling I don't want to leave me Twilight." Tears began streaming from Cadences eyes, she felt the urge to repeatedly punch the mirror.

"Ok Cadence, listen to me, you should tell David everything, then, take it from there, got it?" Twilight said as she grabbed Cadences face.
"Ok... I'll tell him tomorrow, maybe the sleep will help me clear my mind." Cadence replied, pulling away.
"Good. Now, you better get some sleep, its been a long day for all of us." Twilight went to open the door. "Twilight! Wait." She heard Cadence shout. "Yes Cadence?"
"How do I tell him?" Cadence croaked as she pulled the sheets off the bed.
"Don't worry you'll think of something Cae-Cae. Good night." Twilight opened the door.
"Thank you for understanding." Cadenced replied.
"No problem." Twilight walked out the door, shutting it behind her.
"Night..." Cadence said, turning the light off with her magic.

End of Chapter Fifteen.

Chapter #16: Pancake Talk

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Sixteen.
Pancake Talk.

February 17th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 07:00 am.

Twilight awoke to the smell of food cooking in the kitchen, she slowly sat up in her bed as the sun barely poked above the horizon, "Oh Spike. That's smells delicious." She said, pulling off the covers.
"You're welcome Twilight...." She heard beside her, she looked over to see a sleeping Spike next to her. Twilight raised an eyebrow in confusion, she quickly got out of bed and trotted to the door.
"Hmmm. Pastel Pen is probably up and making her breakfast, I'll go and join her, no point trying to get to sleep now." The alicorn whispered to herself, thinking of her former student and best friend. Twilight trotted out the door, following the inviting oder but was shocked when she saw Pastel Pen leaving her own room, yawning.
"Morning Twilight...." Pastel Pen stretched, she was a unicorn, "I smell Spike cooking breakfast already. It smells great." She said, yawning some more in the process.
"Spike's still asleep, i thought it was you." Twilight replied, this confused Pastel.
"If Spike is asleep and i just woke up, then who's cooking?" Pastel questioned, placing a hoof to her chin, "Come, let's go see who this cook is." Pastel trotted ahead.

As the pair got closer to the kitchen, they began to hear what sounded like music and someone singing alone.
"Is that... Cadence?" Twilight leant out into the doorway, listening to the singing.
"Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down! Duh duh duh duuuh duh duuuuh!" The voice sang.
"Yep, that's Cadence." Twilight whispered, looking at Pastel, "She always sings that stupid song! I'm sick of it!" Twilight raised her voice as the singing stopped but the music continued to play.
"Um Twilight, the singing stopped." Pastel said as both she and Twilight felt something rushing past them in the shadowy darkness of the hallway.
"Rick Astley is a god!" Cadence bellowed from behind them, causing the two mares to hold each other and scream, Cadence fell into fits of laughter. "You two should see your faces! Oh my god!" She fell on her back and laughed harder. "I've never laughed this hard in my life!" She continued to throw fits of laughter on the floor.

"Cadence. That wasn't funny!" Twilight screamed, trembling slightly as she still clung to Pastel Pen
"Oh, lighten up Twily. I'm just having fun." Cadence giggled out loud before quickly placing her hooves on her head as a sharp pain ran up her spine into the brain, "Ouch! Sugar crash. I knew I shouldn't of added lots of sugar to those frosted chocolate puffs." She grunted as a huge headache hit her like a freight train.
"Are you ok?" Pastel asked, gently tapping Cadence's leg as the empress wriggled around on the floor.
"Just give me a minute." Cadence replied, feeling the sharp pain beginning to wear off.
"Anyway, why are you up this early?" Twilight questioned her former foal sitter, "I expected you to have a lay in, especially given what happened yesterday." She continued, Cadence rolled over and stood back up.
"I've been up since 4 am, i just couldn't sleep any longer, i had all these things rushing through my head." Cadence blurted out all at once before sniffing the air, "Do you smell burning.... OH SHIT! THE PANCAKES!" Cadence raced towards the kitchen as fast as her wings could manage.

Cadence's horn lit up as she moved the frying pan off of the stove, she grabbed a spatula and gently pried the pancake off the bottom of the frying pan and flipped it over, the side now facing up was partly burnt.
"That'll be my one then." Cadence placed the pan back onto the stove, turning the heat down in the process.
"Wow Cadence, that smells delicious." Pastel drooled, pulling a chair out and sat at the table and as Twilight followed her into the kitchen.
"Aww, thank you Pastel." Cadence replied, turning off her music before turning to face Pastel, "It's a recipe my brother taught me." Cadence placed a large stack of pancakes on the table, "Take as many as you want, i went overboard with the amount i cooked." She gestured to the 3 stacks of 20 pancakes behind her. Pastel and Twilight's horns lit up as each took a desired amount, "Sorry if they are a bit cold by now, i didn't know when you'd be up." Cadence pouted slightly before turning around and putting the last of the batter into an adjacent frying pan.
"So... David is your brother correct?" Pastel asked between bites, Cadence nodded, "How does that work, did your parents adopt him or something?" She added, Cadence simply giggled.
"Nope." Cadence chirped, "His family found me and raise me as their own. Simple as that really." Cadence sat down at the table with her own pancakes, Twilight sweated slightly and took a hard gulp, knowing all too well what Cadence and her brother really got up too.

"So then, what was it like to grow up with a human family?" Pastel asked Cadence, taking another bite from a pancake, Twilight got up from her seat and over to the sink and got herself a cup of water, "What did you and your brother get up to?" Pastel asked, Twilight spat out her drink, coughing hard in the process.
"You ok Twilight?" Cadence quickly shot out of her chair when she heard Twilight cough sharply, followed by a wheeze escaping the purple alicorn's lips.
"I fine.... I think i just swallowed my drink too quickly..." Twilight wheezed as her horn lit up, cleaning up the water she spat out.
"Are you sure Twilight, that cough didn't sound to healthy." Cadence gently patted Twilight's back as she coughed some more.
"I'm.... Fine...." Twilight panted heavily as she walked back over to the table and gently sat back down, Cadence doing the same.

"Um, sorry, Pastel. What was your question?" Cadence asked, while cutting one of her pancakes into easy to chew pieces.
"Oh, i was just asking what it was like growing up with your brother, I'm assume you had a similar relationship to that of me and brother, you know, like fighting all the time." Pastel took another bit from her pancake.
"Oh, well kind of, we did have the odd argument, who didn't?" Cadence said taking a sip of coffee, "But in our case, we argued over what we were going to eat Friday nights, as both our parents would be at work and our sister would be having a sleep over at her friend's house. These arguments were mostly over stuff like what we wanted to eat, David would want pizza or kebab while i would want curry or stir fry." Cadence paused to take another bite from her pancake, "But we'd nearly always find a middle ground, say if he wanted a kebab and i wanted curry, he'd go down to the kebab shop and get me chip with curry sauce, and let me tell you, chip shop curry is great if you have a chesty cough or a sore throat, that shit will sort that out, believe me on that." Cadence finished, taking the last bite of her pancake.
"Wouldn't make his journey longer? Going to a chip shop then to a kebab shop" Pastel took a mouthful of orange juice from her glass.
"No, chip shops sold kebab. Yes, i know that its name sounds like it only sells one thing but they really don't. If i remember correctly, they'd sell kebab, burgers, pies, fish and chips and, in some places, southern fried chicken." Cadence calmly responded, getting up from her chair and walking over to the sink, she began washing her plate.

"Cadence, forgive me for asking, but did you ever eat meat while you were living with humans?" Twilight finally spoke, drinking some juice.
"I did try it once, why?" Cadence replied, drying the plate off with a towel.
"What did it taste like?" Twilight added, taking a bite from her pancake, as she did so, it felt like an explosion of flavour in her mouth.
"It.... Tasted like rubber." Cadence cringed slightly, remembering the foul taste in her mouth, "It's something i would not like to eat again." She added, taking a drink of ice-cold water from the tap, trying to wash the taste of rubber out of her mouth.
"Did you and your brother ever fight over anything else?" Pastel asked, leaving the table and walking over to the sink.
"Well, as I said, we did have the odd argument, but it was mostly just small things like, 'Who's been in my room' or 'Who took my books' you know, stuff like that but..." Cadence paused, "It all changed a week after my fifteenth birthday." she continued, Twilight took another hard gulp.

"Why? What happened?" Pastel put her plate in the sink and began cleaning it, "Did he take money from you or something?" She added.
"Oh, he took something alright~" Cadence said, biting her lip in the process, slightly crossing her hind legs, "But, i also took something from him as well~" She crossed her legs fully, Pastel noticed them and look at her with confusion.
"I don't understand. What did he take from you?" Pastel raised an eyebrow, "And what did you take from him?" She added, drying off the plate. Cadence bit her lip again as she sat back down at the table.
"Remember when i said everything changed a week after my 15th birthday?" Cadence looked out the side of her eye, Pastel nodded, "Well.... I went into heat and David helped me stop it, we took each other's virginities." Pastel gave her a look a confusion. "To put it bluntly, we fucked each other." Cadence found her hoof slowly sliding down to her thighs.
"YOU DID WHAT?!" The three looked over in surprise to see Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Flurry Heart, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Fluttershy standing in the kitchen doorway, all with faces showing a mix of disgust and shock.
"Oh shit." Cadence blushed.

"You slept with you brother?!" Applejack shouted with disgust in her tone of voice, "Why would you do that?! How could you do that?!" The farm pony snarled like a lion about to attack.
"I have to agree with Applejack on this one." Rarity added, pointing a hoof at Cadence, "I hope to Celestia it was a onetime thing." the blue unicorn continued to point at the pink alicorn.
"It wasn't just a onetime deal." Cadence coldly replied, getting a gasp from Rarity, "We did it just shy of 17 months. From August 1st, 1989 to December 28th, 1990." The alicorn continued, looking at the group out the corner of her eye. Rarity's jaw nearly hit the floor.
"Mom, what are you saying?" Flurry Heart slowly approached her mother, "Are you saying that you and my uncle were.... in love?" She added, Cadence slowly nodded, Flurry's ears fell flat against her head.
"Flurry, I didn't want you to find out like this." Cadence spoke with sorrow as she approached her daughter, placing a hoof under her chin, only for Flurry to slap the hoof away.
"I don't want to talk to you." Flurry turned away from her mother, "Leave me alone!" Flurry barked before running from the kitchen, Pinkie and Rainbow gave chase.

"Flurry! Come back!" Cadence was about to chase after her daughter, but found her exit blocked by a enraged Applejack and a furious Rarity, "Let me through!" She shouted, Applejack refused to budge, "Let. Me. Through." Cadence's horn let up as she prepared to fight her way through.
"WAIT!" Fluttershy shouted, placing herself between Cadence and Applejack, "Before we all rip each other's heads off, let Cadence explain reasons I'm sure she had for letting her brother rut her." The butter yellow Pegasus bellowed, stunning both Cadence and Applejack, "Now, I'm going to give Cadence the benefit of a doubt and believe her reasoning was justified. Got it? Don't make be slams your head together." She held her hoof up like was about to punch the living snot out of the pair.
"I.... um...." Was the only thing Applejack would say, "W-why don’t w-we all sit down?" She stuttered, clearing scared of Fluttershy. Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Cadence all sat down at the table.
"Good!" Fluttershy clapped her hooves, "You lot talk it over while i make us some tea." The butter Pegasus added calmly.

Cadence, Applejack and Rarity all awkwardly stared at each other, Pastel Pen coughed.
"So.." Applejack broke the silence, "Why did you do it?" Cadence looked up at her, "Why did you sleep with your brother?" Applejack crossed her front hooves.
"Well..." Cadence looking back down at the oak table, "I was... I heat." This got an 'Oh' reaction from before AJ and Rarity,
"But.... why him?" Rarity responded, Cadence continued to look down in shame, both her ears laid flat against her skull.
"I guess it was because i trusted him, he was my only friend growing up." Cadence's lips quivered, "I never had friends when i was growing up, he was always there for me, he was my shoulder to cry on when i was upset, he always listened to what i had to say, even if it was nonsense." Cadence fought back the tears that were beginning to form at the corners of her eyes.

"Wait? You didn't have friends?" Pastel asked with concern, "But, you're you! Everyone loves you!" Cadence looked at her, wiping away a stray tear.
"I was too different from all the kids at school, they'd call me names like 'freak of nature', 'God's failed experiment', 'Alien' the list goes on." Cadence sobbed slightly, "I never even dated anyone. David was my first friend, and in a way, my first boyfriend." Cadence hid her face into to her wings, sobbing louder. Rarity moved around to her and wrapped her hoof around her.
"There there dearie, everything is alright. We understand your reasons. Don't we AJ?" Rarity's words stunned Applejack to the core.
"Y-yes!" AJ quickly responded.
Rarity's horn lit up as she placed a handkerchief to Cadence's face, "Now now dearie, you mustn't make your feathers wet." Cadence opened a gap between her flight feathers, allowing the blue unicorn to see her puffy red eyes below.

"You don't even know the half of it." Came Cadence's muffled voice from under all the feathers, followed by another sob.
"Then tell us, we're your friends, anything you say, you can say it to us." Rarity soothed the crying alicorn.
"Ok." Said the muffled voice, " He... Got me pregnant!" She sobbed out loud, "And she was a stillborn!" She screamed into her feathers, her feathers going a dark pink as she continued to cry into them.
"Hold up." Pastel said, moving closer to the crying alicorn, "Your brother got you knocked up?" Pastel raised an eyebrow, Cadence nodded her head, "Did he know you were pregnant by chance?" She added, this caused Cadence to scream again.
"No!" She wept into her wings, her throat began to feel sore everything she screamed.
"Did you ever tell him?" Pastel asked, this made Cadence scream once more.
"No! I never told him! I was too ashamed of myself to tell him!" Her muffled voice said in reply, "I never even had the chance to tell even if i wanted to!" She shouted through her sore throat.

"What do you mean dearie?" Rarity calmly spoke, Cadence sighed and removed her soaked wings from her face.
"Our family found out about us fucking, Dad...." Cadence paused, gulping hard, her throat felt like sandpaper, "Dad beat David within an inch of his life. He probably would have killed him had i not stepped him. Then you had the court case, see, as i was 15 when me and David started, i was under the age of consent and as such, it was seen as statutory rape. I testified saying it that i wanted it, hell, i even showed them my memory from that day, clearly showing them that i was asking him. While they did give him the not guilty verdict, Mom had a restraining order put on him stating he wasn't allowed within a mile of me or the family. I never saw him again. I wrote to him for a few months but stopped after i got no replies, i assume the letters were intercepted before reaching him and destroyed." Cadence looked down at the floor, tears trickling down her cheeks, Rarity gently patted her back in comfort, "I'd do anything to go back in time and bring him to Equestria with me, we would've lived out the life we had planned together before i became an alicorn. I'd give up my alicorn status to do so." Cadence clamped her eyes shut, fighting back more tears. "Yes, i know i sound like I'm being selfish and not thinking about what i have now, it's just that i missed him so much." She wiped away her tears and looked up at everyone.

"Are you ever going to tell him? About the baby i mean." Fluttershy said, placing down some tea cups. Cadence's horn weakly lit up, her aura embracing the lily pink cup, she brought it to her face and gently took a sip of the hot liquid.
"I want to tell him about her. But I'm scared of what he'd might say." Cadence put the cup back down, looking at her reflection in the liquid, "I'm scared." She added, sighing deeply, she got up from the table and walked over to the sink. She turned the tap on and splashed water into her face, washing the tear stains.
"Cadence, you have to tell him, he has a right to know about the baby." Applejack calmly responded, taking a sip from her tea-cup.
"Shooting Star." Cadence looked down at her locket, "Her name was Shooting Star, she was a beautiful Pegasus, she looked like me but with his eyes." She opened the locket, looking at the picture of her holding Shooting Star. Cadence looked up and smiled, "I'm telling him."

"That a girl!" Pastel cheered, whistling in the process, Cadence turned around.
"Thank you all for listening to me, and for understanding." Cadence smiled, unfolding her wings and scooping up Pastel, Twilight, Fluttershy Applejack and Rarity into a hug, "Now, to tell David... If i can find his room." Cadence added.
"He isn't in bed." Fluttershy wheezed, struggling to escape the crushing hug, "Don't you remember? He said he was going to get up early to help Dusty clean out that old steam locomotive they found." She escaped the hug and panted sharply.
"Oh." Cadence frowned, release the other three mares from her death like hug, "Off to the train yard then." She chirped, sprinting out the doorway.

End of Chapter Sixteen.

Chapter #18: A Fractured Bond. Part I

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Eighteen.
A Fractured Bond Part I.

February 17th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 11:45 am.

Cadence's private train slowly rolled into Ponyville yard, snaking onto a siding adjacent to '43999'. The Electro-diesel multiple unit gently braked to a stop. Rain ran down the windows as the doors opened onto the small staff halt.
"Thank you for taking me to see her, Cadence." David said as he stepped down from the train, pulling up his hood. He looked up at the royal train he had just disembarked from, the blue colours it was painted in were fading, the livery of its previous owner coming through. The train was in a sorry state, not exactly living up to its royal purpose at all!
"David, no need to thank me, you were within your right to see her. You were her father after all." Cadence replied, putting on a hoodie. She stepped down onto the wooden platform, looking up at the sky and smiled as a weight she carried for years disappeared, she was now at peace with the past, "David, i better get going back to Twilight's castle, gonna try and explain this all to Flurry." She added, and explained to David how the others had found out.

"Well alright, but before you go, can i be honest with you?" David asked, Cadence smiled and a nodded, "Well you see, i kind of had a hunch you were pregnant but i never thought much about it."
"Oh really? What gave you this hunch? It wasn't any mood swings was it?" She questioned, frowning slightly.
"No, its just um..." He paused, blushing, "Well your..." He nervously rubbed the back of his head, he pointed at her crotch. She let out an 'oh!' as she understood what he meant.
"Don't worry, you can say it, my crotch tits." She smugly said, making David blush even redder.
"Well, your teats were getting bigger, i just never thought much about it as you were still growing up after all." He chuckled nervously.
"Ah, i see." Cadence responsed, giggling at the blush plastered on David's face, "Before i go, let me give you something." She said, pulling the hood over her head.
"Give me what?" David raised an eyebrow.
"This~" Cadence hovered up to his cheek and kissed it, "Thank you." She said before trotting out the yard.

Cadence arrived back at the castle a few minutes later, it was a welcome sight as she run up the steps. She paused, looking over to right at Twilight's School For Friendship. Cadence remembered the day Flurry Heart had started attendance, she was so proud of her little girl that day. The school had closed for the winter and was due to open next week, meaning Cadence wouldn't see Flurry for another six weeks until the spring half term. She had to talk to Flurry Heart, now or never. Cadence threw the doors open, unzipping her hoodie and tossing it to the side. She shook herself off before trotting towards Flurry Hearts room. The long corridor felt unwelcoming, barely decorated, the few decorations consisted of mostly pointed plants and the odd coffee table with a picture frame taking place at the centre. Cadence sighed as words of what she was going to say to her daughter filled her mind. At last, she reached the end of the corridor. She passed through the opens doors, seeing that the kitchen lights were still on.

As Cadence passed the kitchen, she saw Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie staring coldly at her. She walked down the corridor, Cadence thought she heard Pinkie Pie talking.
"What's she doing back?" She heard the earth pony say darkly as she climbed the stairs leading to the guest rooms, Cadence sighed as she reached the top.
"Hi Cadence!" She heard Spike shout, breaking her from her trail of thought.
"Oh. Hi Spike...." Cadence frowned, looking down at the carpet. She let out a surprised yelp when the dragon embraced her into a tight hug.
"Twilight told me about Shooting Star." He hugged the alicorn tightly, "I'm so sorry." Cadence rested her head on his shoulder
"Thank you Spike...." She said quietly, sniffing as she pulled away, "I need to explain this to Flurry Heart." She added, quickly explaining how Flurry had overheard her when she was telling Pastel Pen. Spike placed a claw on his chin.
"Ah, i see." The tall drake calmly said, "Well then, i'll leave you too it." He chuckled before tripping over his own wings, "I'm ok!" He added, dusting himself off before walking down stairs, Cadence hid a chuckle as he went out of sight.

Cadence stood outside Flurry Hearts room. She took a deep breath and opened the door. Cadence was surprised to see the room devoid of her daughter, she sat on the springy bed and waited for Flurry Heart to appear. The door that led to the ensuite bathroom opened and out came Flurry Heart dripping wet, draped in a towel, she froze when she saw Cadence sitting on the bed.
"MOM!" Flurry screamed, covering herself with a towel in embarrassment.
"Oh relax dear." Cadence chuckled, patting the bed next to her, "Come, sit down." She added.
"No!" Flurry shouted, "Not after what i heard what you and uncle did." She glared at her dear mother, "I don't want to talk to you!" She protested.
"Sit. Down. Now!" Cadence raised her voice. Flurry instantly trembled in fear, hell hath no fury like an angry mother. Flurry quickly sat at the spot Cadence had been patting.

"S-s-so...." Flurry stuttered nervously, Does she think she's in trouble? Cadence thought, looking at how terrified her daughter looked, Did i scare her? Oh no, did i raise my voice again? Cadence's mind raced at a thousand miles a second, "So.... you and my uncle had a fling??" Flurry broke through Cadence's trail of thought.
"Yes, we did." Cadence bit the inside of her cheek, "And, that was the best 17 months of my life." She said proudly.
"But why?" Flurry asked, her voice filling with anger.
"I went into heat, and i chose him to help me stop the burning i felt." Cadence said, "And my god, he was so big, i thought he was gonna rip me in half!" Cadence bit her lip. This caused Flurry Heart to blush madly.
"Mom! Too much information!" Flurry screamed, hiding her face in her wings.
"Hey! You asked why." Cadence said smugly, pulling Flurry Heart to her closer and squeezing her against her chest.
"Seriously mom!" Flurry struggled to breath, "Why did you sleep with him?" She wheezed, breaking free from her mom's grip.

"Ok ok, i'll tell you everything." Cadence said, picking up a mane brush, Flurry turned her back to her mother as Cadence proceeded to brush her mane, "Well, it all started a week after my fifteenth birthday..."

Cadence awoke feeling rather hot and sweaty. She looked over at her bedroom windows, expecting them to be closed, thus explaining why she felt so hot, to her surprise, they were wide open with a strong breeze blowing through.
"Why am i so fucking hot?!" She screamed into her pillow, throwing off her sheet as she left her bed. Cadence pulled the large fan from her wardrobe. She placed it right next to her bed, plugging it in and setting it to full. She pulled down her shorts, flinging them to the side. She wriggled out from her t-shirt as it clung to her sweaty back, she tossed it over the bed knob. Wearing nothing but her white panties, she threw herself onto her bed, laying on her chest. The young Pegasus's wings unfolded at her sides as the breeze rushed over her damp feathers. She felt a chill run down her spine, the fan cooling her back.
"That's much better..." She said as she succumbed gently to slumber.

Cadence woke nearly an hour later, panting and sweating as she struggled to get out of bed, the sheet sticking to her.
"What the hell is going on with me today?" She questioned herself as she pulled a towel from her wardrobe, draping it over her back. Cadence slipped her panties off as she opened her bedroom door, she quickly ran across the hallway and into the bathroom before anyone could she her. Her hooves clip-clopped against the tiles as she slide open the glass shower door. She turned the cold tap, wincing as the ice cold water landed on her back.
"This'll cool me down for sure." She said to herself, grabbing a shampoo bottle from the window sills. She shut the shower door, placing the bottle on the shelf next to the shower gel. Her messy mane stuck to her wet fur, water trickling down her face. Cadence ran her hooves through her mane, making sure every inch of her elegant locks were wet. She lent over and and grabbed the shampoo bottle, flicking the cap and smelt it.
"Ooooh! Strawberry and Mint!" She squealed in delight, squeezing out some of the syrup like substance onto her hoof. She rubbed in the shampoo while placing down the bottle, she ran her hooves vigorously through her mane, every inch of her extremely long mane slowly being engulfed in bubbles.

Cadence emerged from the shower a few minutes later, quietly sneaking into her room unnoticed. She slipped into her slippers as she shut her bedroom door behind her. The mattress sunk down with a squeak as her rump made contact with the silky fabric. She stretched out her legs, drying herself off with a large cotton towel. Cadence made sure she was completely, making her way over to the chest of draws. She pulled out a pair of panties, pulling them up and over her flank, her tail popping out through the hole cut in the back. She trotted over to the wardrobe and pulled out a blue shirt and a red one, looking in the mirror, making a choice on which one to wear.
"I think blue suits me today." She said, removing the chosen item from the hanger, her wings popping out of the custom made clothing as she pulled it over her torso. Cadence put on a matching pair of shorts, tying them up tightly.

As Cadence began brushing her mane, she once again felt herself burning up again despite sitting right next to the fan.
"Oh! You gotta be fucking kidding me!" She screamed in anger, no idea why she kept feeling hot, "How can i STILL be hot?!" She threw herself onto her back, punching her pillow in frustration, "Unless.... No. Can't be, i can't have a fever, i would of gotten chills and i would be arching." She questioned herself, placing a hoof on her chin, "Although, i wouldn't hurt to get a second opinion." She looked over at the clock sitting on the bedside cabinet, "David would be up right now..." She frowned, remembering the fight she had with her brother the night before. Cadence groaned as she sat up right, slipping off the bed and exiting her room.

Cadence trotted down the stairs and turned left into the kitchen, she rummaged through the draws for a thermometer, but came up empty hoofed.
"Looks like i'll have to ask David to check my forehead...." She paused, "But what if he's still mad at me?" She questioned herself.
"I'm not mad at you." Cadence jumped in fright at the voice behind her, she looked down from her hiding spot above the refrigerator to see it was David.
"You're not?" She leaned her head over the edge.
"No i'm not." David said, raising a hand to her cheek, "Now, get down please.", He added, raising both arms. Cadence wriggled over the edge, David catching her, his hands gripping around her waist. Cadence smiled as she felt her hooves touch the floor.
"Thank you sir David! You have saved your princess from the evil Fridg Rator!" She chuckled while faking a royal voice.

"What are you doing up at this time anyway?" David asked the teenager before him, causing her to frown.
"I couldn't sleep." She moaned, "I think i have a fever. David, can you feel my forehead?" She said, her hoof lifting her fringe from her head.
"Sure." He replied, placing his palm flat on her head, he frowned, "You're not even hot." He added, this confused Cadence even more.
"Are you sure i'm not a little hot?" She raised an eyebrow, putting his hand back onto her forehead.
"No, you're barely warm." Cadence frowned even more.
"This doesn't make any sense." She replied, placing a hoof on her head in annoyance.
David put his hand to his chin, "Tell you what, you go into the front room and i'll fix us up some breakfast, then we can talk about what's going on." He suggested, Cadence nodded eagerly, quickly trotted down the hallway. David simply shook his head and chuckled.

David returned from the kitchen some time later carrying a tray with two plates and two glasses, he sat the tray down on the carpet between the sofa and the TV.
"Hope you're hungry." He said, turning around only to see Cadence laying on her belly on the armchair, preening her wings, "Well then looks like more pancakes for me." He smirked. Cadence looked up mid preen, her tongue sticking out slightly.
"Did you say pancakes?" Cadence spoke, spitting out a feather. She quickly scuttled off the chair and sat next to David, eating the stack of deliciousness before her.
"So... What's the matter?" David said, wrapping one arm around Cadence, making her blush. She looked up at him and smiled.
"Well... I woke up feeling like i was burning from the inside. I thought it was my room but even with the the strong breeze blowing in from the bay and the fan, i was still roasting! I even had an ice cold shower for fuck sake! And even that didn't work!" She ranted, pausing to take to drink from her glass, "I honestly have no idea what to do!" She slammed the glass down.

"Hmmm." David let out while in thought, "Doesn't sound like a fever or any illness i've heard of." He added, this caused Cadence to pout, her ears fell flat against her head.
"Well that doesn't help my situation in the slightest." She crossed her front hooves in disappointment.
"Tell you what." David said, "I have to drop some books off that the library, you're welcome to join me. We could have a look through the science books and see what matches up with that you told me." He added.
"Ok..." Cadence slowly nodded, finishing the late of the pancakes. A few minutes later, the pair were walking up to David's car, Cadence opened the passenger side door and sat down in the seat and shut the door, strapping herself in as David sat down in the drivers seat.
"Ready to go?" He said, placing a carrier bag of books in the footwell on Cadence's side. His sister nodded glumly, "Rightio." He said, turning the key, the engine roared to life as he strapped himself in. The ex-rally car hummed out the driveway, barreling down the road.

Before long, Cadence and David arrived at the library. Cadence grabbed the handle of the bag in her mouth as she stepped out the car, closing the door behind her, David followed suit, locking the car with a buzz. He took the back from her as she sprinted up the steps.
"Come on David!" She impatiently stomped her hooves on the concrete steps.
"I'm coming." He said, quickly walking up the steps, "I just had to double check i locked the car." He added, stopping at the top of the stairs, Cadence sat at his feet, looking up at him and frowning, "What?" He asked her, she continued to frown.
"I really want to find out what's happening to me!" She raised her voice, David held his hands out in defense.
"Hey hey hey, no need to shout." He said walking past her and opening the Library door, "You coming or what?" He asked, Cadence stood up and followed him, the door slowly closing behind them.

David approached the returns box and put the books inside, Cadence rushed past him, running towards the biology section, her hooves sliding on the laminate floor as she turned the corner. David calmy tracing the young pegasus steps through the building, finding her surrounded by science books.
"No, no, no, no. Argh!" She slammed her hoof down on the table before repeatedly hitting her head on the oak surface, "This. Is. Hopeless!" She said, rubbing her now sore head as David stopped behind her.
"It's not hopeless." David said, placing a hand on her shoulder, "You just need to know where to look." He added, spotting a computer out the corner of his eye, "Hey, why don't you go on that computer while i put these back." He suggested, picking up all the books Cadence had got out and placing them onto the correct shelf while she slowly trotted over to the computer, sitting down at the desk. She looked over at the people on the overside of the desk typing away at the other computers, she looked behind her, seeing people reading books at desks.
"Scooch over then." Cadence was startled, turning her head around in surprise, to her relief it was just David, She moved her chair over, allowing him to place a chair in front of the computer.

"Right then." David said, sitting down next to his adoptive sister, she look at him, her mane covering her right eyes, she batted it away, "So, you tell me what you were or still are feeling and i'll type it on here and we'll see what comes up." He said, turning to her. She smiled nervously, looking down at her shirt, the dolphin made from sequins sparkled in the light emitting from the computer screen, "So, you ready?" David asked her, she nodded.
"Well, i firstly felt like burning up from the inside." She said, David typing down hot flush, "I was also feeling slightly aroused." The keyboard tapped with every keystroke, "And..." Her face went red.
"And what?" David turned to her, she took a hard gulp, she gestured him to bring his ear closer, she whispered into it, David blushed, "I see..." He stuttered, quickly typing down what she said, "Ok, according to his, you are in estrus."
"What?" Cadence asked in confusion, she had never heard this word before, even in science class.
"You're in heat." He added, she raised her eyebrow, now even more confused, "You're in season, you know? Like a dog or cat." She let out a gasped, she now understood completely.

"So then." Cadence looked at the screen, "Does it say how i stop it?" She asked, trying to use the mouse with her hoof.
"It says here that there are two ways to combat a mare in heat, option A is to keep her isolated from any stallions for the 4 days under the estrus ends or B is to breed her." David said, looking at the screen. Both his and Cadence's faces squished together.
"Breed? Like what?" Cadenced asked with confusion.
"You know..." He said, looking left and right, "Have sex." He whispered, both his and Cadence's faces went red. They pulled away from each other awkwardly, she turned her ice blue eyes away from him.
"We should be getting home." Cadence said, stuttering like mad. She nervously rubbed the back of her neck.
"Yeah..." David said, closing the internet program before getting up from the desk.

The pair left the library some time later, David pulled out his car keys with a clink, he looked down at Cadence, she had been surprisingly quiet since discovering she was in heat.
"You ok?" He asked her, she looked up and smiled weakly.
"I'm fine, just thinking, that's all." Cadence waved her hoof as David unlocked the car, she opened the door and back down in the seat, shutting the door before buckling herself in.
"Thinking about what?" David asked said as he sat down in the car, turning the key in the ignition. This question brought a blush to Cadence's face.
"None of your business!" She shouted, David just shrugged as he brought the car out the parking bay, unknowing of a plan Cadence was slowly hatching to put an end to the burning sensation she felt every second.

They soon arrived home, as David's car pulled in to the driveway, they both saw Jessica and their mother putting bags into the other car.
"Looks like they're getting ready for the big monthly shopping trip to Nord Bridge." David said, turning the car's engine off. They stepped out the car, walking towards the other two.
"Oh there you too are." Rose said, shutting the car boot, "So, where did you two go off to.?" She raised an eyebrow.
"I went to the library to drop of the books Jess had took out, and Cadence asked to come with me." David said, Cadence sighed quietly in relief.
"I see." His mother replied, "Well, me and Jess are about to leave for Nord Bridge, you want to come with us." She said, Cadence's eyes widen, now was her only chance.
"No. David said he'd help me put some stuff into the loft" Cadence blurted out, pushing David towards the front door.
"Oh, oh ok." Rose said as Jess got in the car, she looked at her watch, "We should be back by about 1:30 - 2:00." She added, opening the car door, "Be good you too!" She said, getting in the car.

Cadence waved to them as the car rolled out the driveway.
"Have fun!" Cadence said as the car rolled down the road, she shut the front door, "Good, i thought they'd never leave!" She purred, forcing her mouth onto David's. He pushed her off, wiping his lips.
"Cadence! What the hell are you doing?!" He shouted, she frowned at him, slamming her rump down on the carpet.
"Fuck me David~" She lustfully said, pulling off her shirt, exposing her fluffy pink chest, "Fuck my pink pony pussy." She started to undo her shorts.
"Let me stop you right there. No. I am your brother and even if i wasn't, you're 15, it's statutory rape, even if it's consensual." He added, throwing her shirt back at her. He frowned at her as she pulled her shorts off, flinging them at him, her crotch was soaking wet with a sticky trail running down her thighs.
"I want your cock inside me. My body yearns for it. I need it!" She screamed, turning her rump to him, her white panties were soaked, "You can smell my scent can't you? It's intoxication isn't it? Go on. I won't bite." She purred, her wings folding .

She let a squeak when she felt his hands wrap around her waist, "Good lad." She said before seeing him walk past her, "HEY!" She screamed, chasing him, "I want you to pop my cherry!" She shouted, flailing her hooves around.
"No you don't." David said, causing her to frown, "Hey, why would you me to do it anyway? I'm not a jock, i'm not some badass. I'm not anything worth paying attention too." He said, walking up the stairs, "I'll speak to you once you've calmed down." He added, shutting his bedroom door behind him.
"I will get your cock in me." She put her shorts back on, "If its the last thing i do." She grabbed her shirt.

David sat in his room, trying to listen to music for the past hour, Cadence had sat outside his room repeatedly asking for him to fuck her, to which he'd always reply with no. He paused the music, expecting to still hear her at the door begging, but to his surprise it was silent.
"Hmm, must of got bored of asking. Good. That means i can go at get something to eat." He said, putting down his pencil. He walked over to the door and opened it looking left and right.
"Please?" He heard her ask, looking down, he saw her sitting like a cat, her tail curled around her.
"No!" David slammed the door in her face, she frowned.

David quietly snuck out his room sometime later, he quickly made his way into the kitchen. He make himself a simple cheese sandwich, he made his way to to the front room, sitting down on the arm chair.
"Sandwich. Moist and delicious." He said, taking a bit from it as he looked out the window, watching the beach.
"You wanna know what else is moist and delicious?" Cadence appeared behind the chair, nibbling on David's neck, "Why don't you follow me to my room and find out?" He stood up in surprise
"That's it!" David shouted, grabbing his slipper and throwing it at Cadence, hitting her square in the face, she fell back onto the sofa, acting like she was shot, "Grow up." He groaned, she sat up and frowned.
"Well excuse me~" She said, wrapping her tail around his waist as she stood up on her hind legs, "But i want you inside me~" She purred, stretching up her neck to trying and lock her lips with his, he pushed her down.
"No way Cadence. We are not having sex. End of discussion!" He raised his voice, looking down sternly at her.
"Oh... I see..." She looked down before standing back on all fours, she turned away from, "If that's what you really want. I'll leave you be. I'll just go back to my room, alone, and lay on my empty bed." She sniffed, trying her best not to cry. David just watched her leave, slumping on the armchair, he held his head into his hand.

It had been nearly an hour since David last saw Cadence, he hadn't seen or even heard her all during that time. He walked up the stairs, where he heard sobbing coming from her room.
"Cadence? Are you ok?" David asked, trying to open the door but was stopped by something heavy behind it, "Cadence, open the door." He jiggled the handle.
"No..." She sobbed into her legs as she sat behind the door, "Go away!" She screamed, hitting the door in anger.
"Cadence..." David said, sitting down on his side of the door, "Look, i'm sorry i shouted at you. You know we can't have sex even if your weren't my sister, you know the law." He said, resting his head on the oak door.
"I know, but we aren't related biologically." She said, sniffing, "And all the girls at school brag about have sex, even the ones younger than me..." She said, hiding her face in her wings, "Please David, i want it..." She added, crying again on the last part. Hearing this broke his heart, he was meant to look out for his sister, it was his duty to make her happy, even if it means doing the wrong things for the right reasons.

"Ok... i'll do it." He said, he heard Cadence, sniffle, "Just please stop crying." He added, placing his hand on the door.
"What did you say?" She weakly said through the tears as she looked up, her eyes were red and sore from crying.
"I'll have sex with you." He said, "Now please open the-" He fell over as the door opening behind him, he ended up on the floor looking up at her, "Hi." He smile nervously.
"Hey~" She said, leaning down and nuzzling his cheek with her muzzle, she licked him slightly in the process, "Do you really mean it?" She asked.
"Yes, if it makes you happy." He said, nodding slightly as he sat up, Cadence let out a squeal before hugging him tightly.
"Oh thank you thank you thank you!" She squeezed him tightly, releasing him, she locked her lips with his before dragging him into her room fully, gently kicking the door shut behind her. She flew over to the window, shutting it and closing the curtains, "Now then. Where were we~" She purred, throwing David onto her bed.

She turned away from him, making sure her rump was in his line of sight as she pulled down her shorts, kicking them off her leg, she then pulled off her white panties, flinging them onto the bed post. Her marehood was now on full display, allowing David to see it in all its glory. She turned back around, she leant down and wriggled her rump in the air before pouncing.

"And we then did it for close to an hour." Cadence concluded as she finished brushing the back of Flurry's mane.
"So." Flurry Said, turning to her mother, "It was just meaningless sex?" She almost sighed in relief.
"Well, it did start out like that, but its charged after my christmas prom." Cadence said, brushing Flurry Heart's fringe
"Um... Whats Christmas?" Flurry asked in confusion.
"It's the human version of Hearths Warming." Cadence said, she put the brush down on the bed.
"Why did it change?" Flurry Heart asked as she tried to tie the bow for her mane.
"I'll tell you once we're done here, ok?" Cadence smile, Flurry nodded eagerly.

End of Chapter Eighteen.

Chapter #19: A Fractured Bond. Part II

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Nineteen.
A Fractured Bond Part II.

Cadence placed the brush back down on the mattress as she tied a bow into Flurry's tail.
"And we are done." Cadence cheerfully said as Flurry climbed off the bed, "You ready to listen to the rest of the story?" Cadence asked, Flurry Heart nodded rapidly.
"I will admit, it is interesting to know my mom had a life before i was born!" Flurry said, perhaps a bit too loud as Cadence held her hooves to her ears in pain, "Sorry." Flurry said, covering her mouth.
"It's alright." Cadence smiled, wrapping a wing around her daughter, bringing her closer, "Now, where was i?" Cadence asked herself.
"Something about a Christmas prom." Flurry said, resting her head on Cadence's chest
"Yes. That's it." Cadence replied, "Well, the story really starts a few days before the prom." She began.

David awoke fairly early one morning, he groaned as he sat up in his bed. He slowly got off the bed and walked over to his window, opening the curtain. He wiped at the fogged up glass, seeing it had snowed during the night. David turned and looked at the clock on the bedside cabinet.
"5:30? Is that all?" He said to himself quietly as he walked over to the calendar hanging next to his wardrobe, marking off today's date, "December 11th. Mum's birthday." He sighed, he had very few memories of his real mother, she having died not long after he and Jess were born. David put on his slippers and quietly left his room, making his way down the stairs, boiling himself some water as he made a cup of tea. He sat down in the arm chair, looking out the window, only to see the streetlights of the town below and the distance lights of a ship at sea
"The roads are clear thankfully." He quietly spoke, take a sip of the hot drink, it warmed his insides.

Some time later, David had returned to his room and got dressed. He made his way back down stairs and towards the front door, he opened it, getting a blast of arctic like air. He slowly made his way over to his car, wiping snow off of the windscreen, he unlocked the car, quickly got in. The engined started with a roar, he turned on the heater and the radio.
"Next stop, Upperby." He said, backing out onto the road.

"Cadence! Time for school!" Rose shouted up the stairs, the young pegasus let out a yawn as she threw off the covers, shivering slightly as she trotted to the bathroom for her morning shower, she placed her towel on the toilet lid and striped down into nothing, she smiled when she saw her wet crotch, remembering how the night before, she and David had a quickie on the armchair when everyone else was asleep. Cadence let out a moan as the warm water splashed down her thighs, she was still feeling rather horny from the night before. She returned from the shower a few minutes later but instead of heading to her room, she trotted into David's room.
"Oh David~" She sang, flicking on the bedroom light, "I need some person assist...ance..." She said, stopping when she saw his bed empty, "Oh come on!" She moaned, leaving his room and angrily trotting to her own. Cadence came down stairs sometime later and some cereal, she sat down in at the table and ate, still annoyed that David wasn't in to give her some 'assistance'. She watched Rose hoovering the carpet, she sighed deeply as she finished her breakfast, walking back to the kitchen and washing up her bowl. Cadence grabbed her hoodie and school bag and left the house, the snow crunching under hooves as she walked along the road.

"God damn its cold!" She said as the school gates came into view, "Where was David this morning?" She said under her breath as she was swallowed amongst the crowd of students. As she headed for the Year 11 section of the building, she passed some girls talking.
"Did you see Cadence?" One of the girls said
"Yeah, what a joke, no date for the prom. She might as well not show up."
"Yeah, she's just pathetic." The girl's friend nudged her as she spotted Cadence behind them, her ears drooped in sadness as the two girls stared coldly as her as she passed by. Cadence sat down in the Year 11 Recreation, placing her face into her hooves, she shook her head as other students slowly filtered into the room, all sitting in their own little groups.
"The sooner this day's over, the sooner i can go home." She said as the bell rang and everyone went to first classes.

It was approaching lunchtime, and Cadence was bored out of her mind in History, just doodling in the book as the PA System beeped to life.
"Attention all students. Due to a snow storm due to hit at 1:30 this afternoon, we will be closing the school at lunchtime. All students will be allowed to have lunch here before going home should they choose too." The headmaster said, the speaker fell silent. The entire class cheered as the bell rang, all rushing out the room, Cadence slowly followed behind, her bag slumped over her back as she trotted to the canteen. Most of the students had already left the school by the time Cadence entered the canteen, meaning she didn't need to wait in a queue.
"Hello Cadence." Said the school cook as he appeared from the walk in freezer.
"Hey Louis...." Cadence sighed, leaning on the serving tray rail.
"What's gotcha down my little pony?" He said, leaning on the counter.
"Its David...." She sighed, resting her head on her hoof.
"Why, whats my friend been saying?" Louis said, leaning closer, "Do i need to crack a skull?" He said darkly.

Cadence's eyes widened, she held her hooves out, "What? No!" She said defensively, "Nothing like that!." She added, Louis just chuckled.
"But seriously, what's happening?" Louis asked.
"Well..." Cadence sighed, "Remember when me and David told you what we do in secret?" She added, Louis nodded, "Well. I don't want it to be a casual thing anymore. I want something more." She said, looking down at her hooves.
"You mean you want to be David's girlfriend?" Louis asked, Cadence nodded, "Then why don't you just tell him how you feel?" He replied.
"I.... tried too..." Cadence let out a deep sigh, "He wasn't indoors this morning..." She added glumly.
"Well, what you need to do is tell him how you feel the moment you two are alone, got it?" Louis replied as the other cook appeared from the storage room, "What would you like today." Louis said, gesturing to the cook behind him, Cadence nodded.

"Can i get a pizza to go?" She asked.
"Certainly, but we only have sharing bases today. Will that be ok" Louis replied, pointing to the shelf with bases on display.
"That'll do fine, i can just warm up the rest later." She said, pulling out her purse from her back.
"Stuffed crust?" Louis added, Cadence nodded, "Well, you're in luck, we have one mozzarella stuffed crust left." Cadence smiled, "So, what toppings?" Louis asked.
"Tomato puree on the base, cheese and sweetcorn, oh, and can their be a lot of cheese please?" Cadence smiled, Louis just nodded.
"Of course you can." Louis replied as the other cook returned to the storage room, "That'll be £2.99 please."
"You serious?" Cadence raised an eyebrow.
"Mates rates my dear." He replied, Cadence placed the money on the counter, "Thank you, it'll be done in a few minutes, i'll call you over once it's ready, alright?" He smiled, Cadence trotted over to one of the tables and pulled out her diary and she started to doodle her and David with hearts surrounding them.

Before long, Cadence receives her pizza and she was now on the final leg of her walk home. The snow crunching under her weight as she opened the front gate, to her surprise, there were no cars parked in the driveway. She opened the front door.
"Hello?!" She shouted, no one replied, "Looks like i'm home alone for now." She said, pulling the large pizza box from her school bag, she threw her back and coat on the sofa and sat down on the floor. As she opened the box, her nose was met by the heavenly smell.
"Louis may be a weirdo, but he makes a damn fine pizza." She pulled out a slide, the gooey cheese stringing as she brought the slice to her mouth, taking a bite as she heard someone pull into the driveway.
"Hello?" She heard David shout as the front door open, Cadence's heart fluttered as she raced to the front door.
"Babe!" She shouted, tackling him and passionately kissing him, "I missed you this morning~" She winked at him, "Let's make up for lost time~" She purred, kissing his neck.
"Cadence..." David groaned, trying not to moan as he felt her nibbling on his ear, "We can't do this anymore!" He shouted, Cadence flinched back at the sudden outburst.

"Cadence. We can't have sex again." He said, sitting up, Cadence scoffed, waving a hoof.
"Of course we can have sex again. We are home alone." She said, her tail wrapping around David's neck seemingly of its own accord, "I missed our morning quickie because you weren't indoors." She added, wrapping her hooves around his neck.
"No Cadence, we can't." David pushed her off, "Don't you remember what Jessica said when she caught us last night." He continued, sitting down on the sofa. Cadence's face fell in disappointment.
"She... said she'd tell mum and dad if she caught us again..." She sighed in sadness, her lip quivered, "But... We can do it right now. No one is here but-" David put a finger to her lip.
"Cadence... I don't want to run the risk. What if mum or Jess were to walk in right now." David calmly said, "You understand?" He added, Cadence nodded glumly.
"Is it my fault?" She asked, tears filling the corners of her eyes, "What did i do wrong..." She hid her face into her wings.
"Cadence. It's not your fault." He placed his hand under her chin, "And you didn't do anything wrong, you are a fine young lady, you'll make a man happy. Trust me on that." He kissed her forehead, she smiled slightly before turning away.
"I.... Need to be alone for awhile.." She picked up the pizza box and quickly ran to her room and slammed the door, she proceeded to cry her eyes out into her pillow.

David and Cadence didn't speak to each other for the rest of the day, nor the next day for that matter. Cadence woke up feeling like crap, she weakly looked up at her alarm clock, she was surprised by the time, this was the first time she woke up an hour before her alarm. Cadence struggled to even move from her bed, she felt drained, she felt like she had been drained of her colours. She slowly left her room and made her way down stairs, she paused on the bottom step when she saw David moving around the kitchen with a mug of tea. Cadence felt like running back to her room and hiding forever, she breathed deeply.
"David..." She said weakly, causing him to turn around, "Hi..." She sighed, looking down at her pink hooves.
"Hi..." David said, placing the mug down on the counter, "I thought you weren't gonna talk to me ever again. Look Cadence, i enjoyed the sex we had. But we had to stop."
"I know."
"Do you."
"Yes."

David and Cadence sat down on the sofa, the Christmas tree lights lighting up their faces in an array of colour.
"So...." David placed his hands together, "Got a date for the prom?" He broke the awkward silence between them.
"No..." Cadence sighed, shaking her head, "I might not even bother going." She looked down, the flashing lights reflecting in her eyes.
"No, you have to go." He said, "You'll regret it if you dont." He placed his hand on her chin, making her look up at him.
"But i don't have a date for it though." She moaned, "I'll be a laughing stock if i turn up on my own." She hid her face in her wings.
"You don't need a date for the prom." David sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose, "Hell, both me and Jess went to the prom without dates, no one laughed at us at all." His thumb ran down her soft cheek, "Have you asked everyone?" He added, Cadence shook her head.
"Well, you have that rich kid, Lucas i think his name is, i haven't asked him yet, i doubt he'll take a low life like me." She sighed, she let out a sharp yelp and rubbed the back of her now sore head.
"Don't talk about yourself like that." David said, retracting his hand and placing it on the arm of the sofa, "Look, ask him today, and even if he says no, you can still go the to prom." He added.
"Ok..." Cadence nodded, before letting out a yawn as they heard Rose getting up.

It was approaching half 3 in the afternoon, the sun was setting behind the hill that Port Hope was built around. David was laying on the sofa, having fallen asleep just before 2 o'clock. He let out a sharp groan as he felt his chest being compressed, he opened his eyes, only to see Cadence sitting on him, her tail wagging like a dog.
"Can i help you?" He said, rubbing his eyes, letting out a yawn.
"Guess what?" She said, edging closer to his face.
"What?"
"I got a date for the prom." She smiled proudly, hugging him extremely tight.
"Yay..." David wheezed, forgetting that Cadence was strong for a teenager, "Let go, i cant breath."

It was finally Friday night, the night of the prom and Cadence was a nervous wreck.
"Hows does my dress look? Is my makeup on correctly? Does this dress make me look fat?" She panicked, pacing up and down next to her chest of draws, David sat on her bed, trying to comb her mane.
"Cadence. Relax, you look fine." He said, trying his best to calm her down, "Now sit still, i need to finish combing your mane." He added, Cadence sat down on the bed and turned her back to David, she closed her eyes in bless as she felt the comb making its way along her long mane. Cadence started to hum to herself as David tied her mane into a bun.
David turned the young pony to the mirror, "You look just like a princess." He said, Cadence gasped in surprise, she looked gorgeous.
"David.... You made me look gorgeous." She gasped, "I love it!" She smiled, kissing his cheek as a sign of thank you, she quickly skipped from her room.
"You were always gorgeous...." He said quietly, slowly following her, not knowing she had heard him.

The pair sat in David's car, waiting for the traffic lights to go green. Cadence looked down, doubt had slowly started to fill her mind. The light went green, the car roared away, Cadence looked out the window as they travelled down the fairly calm high street, the Christmas light strung up between the shops twinkled in the cloudless sky.
"David...." Cadence turned too him, "I heard what you said. Was i always gorgeous?" She asked, David looked away from her, she placed a wing on his chin, making him look at her, "Please tell me." She asked again.
"Yes...." David slowly nodded, "You were... you are gorgeous, if i wasn't your brother and younger, i'd gladly date you." His face turned away in shame, Cadence blushed as the car pulled up outside the school.
"David... I did-" A loud tapping interrupted her, she looked over to see it was Lucas dressed in a blue suit, he opened the door and helped Cadence out.
"Cadence, i'll pick you up after the prom ok?" David said, Lucas leaned.
"She'll be staying at mine tonight." He said, quiet rudely, Cadence gave a look of disgust as Lucas threw a large amount of money at David's face. In anger, David slammed the door shut and revved the engine, the car skidded out the down the road, leaving the smell of burning rubber in the air. Cadence turned away from Lucas and huffed, trotting towards where the prom was happening.

Cadence stepped into the sports hall, her ears were filled with music. Most of, if not all of year 11 was here, she walked over to the table with food and drink on, grabbing a plate and two slices of pizza, she walked over to the stage and sat down on it, taking a bite of pizza.
"Hey Cadence!" She heard Louis shout over the music.
"Oh, hey Louis." She paused, "Wait? Louis?!" She shouted over the music, "What are you doing here?!" She hugged him.
"I'm covering for the DJ, he had a family emergency or something. I'm only here until Mr. Norris gets here." Louis said, "Well, i best get back to DJing." Louis walked back over to the turntables.

Cadence looked up at the clock that hung above the hall, she'd been at the prom for barely an hour and not once had Lucas came over to her and asked her to dance. All Cadence did was ferry between the stage and the food table with plates of pizza. Cadence was contemplating leaving the prom, but stopped her line of thought as Lucas finally walked over, she let out a smile that quickly faded as he walked past her and up onto the stage. He grabbed a hands free microphone, placing it over his ear, making sure it was near his mouth as he stepped out onto the stage, the music dying down.
"Ladies and gentlemen, can i have your attention please?" He spoke into the mic, "As you know, my family has been sponsoring this prom since 1946. But today i'd like to announce that my family are now the number 1 sponsor for the school!" He added, most of the students cheered, "Now then, enjoy your night!" He said before walking off stage. He ignored Cadence and walked towards the double doors that lead to the sports field.

"Hey Lucas." Said one of the other rich as Lucas grabbed a cigarette from his jacket and lighting it.
"Jonathan." Lucas said, lighting Jonathan's cigarette, "Are Marcus and Andrew here yet?" He asked, taking a long inhale of smoke.
"Here they come now." Jonathan said as two more well dressed boys approached from the car park.
"Hello Lucas." Marcus said, lighting his cigarette, "I see you brought that pony as a date." He took a puff.

Louis held the headset closer to his ear as he heard Lucas talking about Cadence.
"So then, whatcha gonna do to her?" He heard Andrew speak, the mic picking up everything, "What devious plan do you have." Louis switched the mic relay into the speaker.
"Once the party's over, i'm gonna get her into the limo and put these in her drink." The sound of a bottle of pills rattled in the background, "Then once she's out, we all have out turn with her." Cadence's pupils shrunk, "Once we had our fun, we stripe her clothes off, shave her, clip her wings and tie her up in field where she belongs- Oh shit the mic is still on!" The mic cut off as Lucas quickly ran up on stage, only to be tripped over by Louis, the pill bottle bounced out of his pocket, stopping at Cadence's hoof.
"Flunitrazepam." Cadence read the label, "You were gonna roofie me?" She shouted, Lucas just smirked.
"So what?" He stood back up, "If you haven't noticed, my family holds a great deal of power in this fucking town. They'd just pay off the police and clear my name." He got right up in her face, "So try me bitch." He spat at her. Cadence wiped her eye and punched Lucas square in the mouth, he fell backwards off the stage, smashing through a table. She shook her hoof in pain, "I'm going home." She stepped off the stage, "Where i belong." She grabbed her purse and walked out the sports hall, leaving a stunned crowd being as the door slammed shut.

Cadence trotted down the school steps, tears filling her eyes. In anger, she punched a lamp post, leaving a large dent in its metal frame. Cadence looked up through her watery eyes at her home just behind the treeline, she was tempted to go straight home, but she needed time to think, deciding to instead walk the long way home.

Cadence slowly trotted along the beachfront promenade, the full moon casting the entire town in a lunar white glow. She sat down on a bench overlooking the beach, the moon reflecting off the calm water of the north sea. The silhouette of the wreck of the S.S. Mi Amore blocked out part of the moon. The lights from distance ships on the horizon twinkled like stars.
"I'm such a fucking fool." She hid her face in her hooves, "I was so stupid to think anyone one loved me except...." She paused, remembering what David had told her earlier, "I am gorgeous..." Then it clicked, "David loves me!" She shouted, saying that made her feel warm, "I gotta tell him how i feel." She shot off the bench, running as fast as her hooves carry her, her dress fluttering like a cape behind her. She skidded as she turned the corner and ran along the road, she galloped faster as her house appeared in the distance.

David let out a sigh as he sat in his empty home. He looked up at the clock, seeing that it was barely 9:15 pm.
"Might as well go to bed, Cadence is spending the night with that Lucas..." He said sadly, "Wish i told her how i felt." He sighed, rubbing his eyes tiredly. He was about to get up when he heard the doorbell ring, followed by rapid knocks. He quickly walked to the door and opened it, he was surprised to see a frantic Cadence, her lip quivered.
"I'm so sorry!" She shouted, tackling him and burying her face into his neck, "I should of seen the signs before. I love you David Wyne!" She kicked the front door shut with her hoof. David staggered slightly from the force of Cadence lunging at him.
"Cadence. What are you doing here?" He stuttered, "You should be at the prom with.... Lucas...." He trailed off sadly, removing the mare from him, he sat down on the sofa. Cadence frowned, trotting over to him and sitting next to him, her ice cold fur rubbing up against his arm.

"Lucas... Was a fucking jerk! First off, he was rude to you, then he was ignoring me, and then i heard him planning to fucking drug me!" She seethed with rage as she paced around the room
"Hold up." David stood up, "That little prick was planning to do what?!" David shouted, his voice full of rage, "I’ll kill him! He bolted for the front door, only to be stopped by Cadence.
"David! Stop." She roared, "I've already dealt with him." She showed him her slightly bruised hoof, "Plus, he forgot his mic was on, so the whole prom heard his plan..." Cadence looked away.
"Ok ok..." David breathed deeply, slowly calming himself down, "So... what now?" He asked the mare before him, she smiled.
"Why don't we have a little prom here, just me and you?" She twirled around like a princess, David nodded, this brought a smile to the mare's face.
"I don't see why not." David shrugged, "Shall i order some foo-"
"PIZZA!" Cadence cut him off, shouting like an excited child.
"Lucas threw like £300 at me, he's paying for this." David smiled, Cadence chuckled.

David grunted as he moved the sofa and armchair right up against the wall, allowing space for Cadence to dance. As he wiped his forehead, he heard a knock at the door.
"I'll get it!" Cadence shouted, sprinting past the front room door and opening the front door. David sat down on the leather sofa, panting as he heard the door slam, "Pizza's here!" She called out, placing the four boxes of pizza on the coffee table, she ran over to the boombox and pressed play.
"Come on and dance with me!" She shouted, holding out her hoof.
"Nah. I can't dance, i have two left feet." He shook his head, Cadence rolled her eyes and pulled him off the sofa.
"I literally have two left feet, and if i can dance, so can you." She said, standing on her hind legs and wrapping her hooves around his back, making him blush lightly, she smiled, rested her head on his chest.
"I love you Cadence..." He mumbled under his breath, her ears twitched, she looked up in surprise, causing her to low her balance and falling over, dragging David down with her, he landed on top of her.

"Cadence, you are alright?" He asked with concern, he tried to get off her, only to find her legs locked around him.
"I'm fine babe." Cadence said, wrapping her hooves around his neck and kissing him, "David. Do you love me? And no, i don't mean as in brotherly love, i mean love love." She cooed, kissing him again.
"Yes Cadence." He said shyly, "I am in love with you, i have been since November, but i never had the nerve to tell in case you rej-" She kissed him again.
"Oh David~" She purred, pulling away, "I love you too!" She cried with happiness, she wrapping her arms around him tightly, rolling him over, now she was on top, "I want you to be my boyfriend." She said, hiding her face in embarrassment. David parted her wings and gave her a kiss, "Is that a yes?" She blushed, David nodded, Cadence beamed from ear to ear. The pair passionately kissed as a sign of their new found relationship, they rolled over again, Cadence now under David again.

Cadence let out a moan as she felt David's fingers slowly running down her chest and over her belly, she bit her lips as she felt them brush over her erect teats, "Oh... My..." She squealed in arousal, her wings stretching out. She gasped when she felt his fingers gently entered her marehood, spreading it open.
"N-n-n-o..." She winced, David stopped almost instantly, he retracted his sticky fingers from her panties, "N-n-n-ot here...." She stuttered, wrapping her hooves around his neck, "Lets take this to your room~" She whispered into his ear, nibbling on his neck. David scooped her up in his arms, carrying her bridle up the stairs.

David threw Cadence down on his bed and gently started kissing her chest, slowly working his way down to her belly.
"Oh David~" She purred as he worked is way lower to her panties, "Pull them off~" She said with lust, he obliged, gently pulling her white panties up off her legs, throwing them to the side. He softly kissed her leg, gently caressing her soft fur. She moaned in delight as he gently squeezed her flank, now kissing her thigh, "David.... Lick me, please..." She stuttered between moans, he winked and worked his way lower, kissing her opening.

"Mom! Too much information!" Flurry Heart covered her ears in disgust, Cadence grabbed Flurry Heart in a headlock and ruffled up her mane, "Mom, stop!" Flurry chuckled, "I'm ticklish!" She wriggled like a worm on a hook. Cadence froze when her hoof ran over a telltale lump on Flurry Hearts head, "Mom?" Flurry asked in concern.
"Flurry Heart..." Cadence sighed, "Do you remember what we told you about your broken horn?" Cadence looked down
"Yeah.... You told me that i was flying around too fast as a baby and crashed into a bookcase and it fell on me." Flurry cocked her head in confusion, "Why did you ask..." She added.
"Flurry dear, it’s not entirely true. You see, when you were just a baby, Queen Chrysalis has successfully taken me and your dad captive, Sunburst was able to escape with you, the Queen ordered you be hunted down and killed by her drones. Thorax found you and Sunburst but the drones also found you, a fight broke out and one of the drones was able to hit you, your horn was broken off in the fight..." Cadence looked away.

"Mom..." Flurry said in shock, "Why didn't you tell me?" Her voice crept up in tone.
"Because...".
"Because what."
"Because...."
"Because what!"
"Because i didn't want to lose you like how i lost Shooting Star!"

End of Chapter Nineteen.

Chapter #20: A Fractured Bond. Part III

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Twenty.
A Fractured Bond Part III.

"Mom, who the fuck is Shooting Star?!" Flurry shouted, Cadence let out a gasped shock, she had unknowingly put herself in it
"No one." Cadence lied through her teeth.
"Who is she!?"
"NO ONE!"
"WHO THE FUCK IS SHE!"
"SHE WOULD OF BEEN YOUR OLDER SISTER HAD I NOT LOST HER!" Cadence screamed through her forming tears.

Flurry took a step back, she had never seen her mother this angry in her life and she genuinely felt scared.
"Mom.... Calm down." She trembled, stepping back some more, backing up against the writing desk.
"I will not fucking calm down!" Cadence roared, her horn sparking and fizzing as her anger grew, "I am your fucking mother, you don't talk to be like that!" A random beam of pure magic erupted from her horn, shattering one of the windows. Cadence stood their panting, she looked in the mirror and saw herself, "Oh my god...." She said in dismay, "Did i do that?" She looked at the glassless window. Flurry Heart was trembling in the corner of the room, Cadence sat on the bed and started to sob into her hooves, "I'm so sorry Flurry Heart." She sobbed, "I shouldn't of snapped like that." She trembled, "I'll leave you be!" She cried, sprinting out the room.

Flurry Heart wondered the castle, "Mom!" She called out, opening the mop cupboard and closing it, "Mom!" She opened a door, only to close it after seeing Spike and Twilight in a compromising position.
"Did you hear something Twilight?"
"Keep licking casanova."

Flurry Heart opened the door to the huge library, peeking inside, spotting an object covered in a blanket on one of the sofas. Flurry Heart closed the door behind her and quietly trotted over to the blanket and sat down on the floor in front of the sofa.
"Mom..." Flurry said, lifting up the corner of the blanket.
"Go away...." Cadence muffled under the blanket, "I don't deserve a daughter like you..." She let out a sob.
"Don't say that..." Flurry spoke smoothly, "You are great mom." she tried to comfort her mother.
"If i'm such a great mother, how come my first daughter was a stillborn..." Cadence sighed deeply, "Just leave me be to wallow in self pity. I'm just a useless mare who got knocked up at sixteen...." Cadence curled up into a ball.

Flurry pulled the blanket off Cadence and hopped up onto the sofa, wriggling until she was wrapped in Cadence's wings.
"Mom..." Flurry nuzzled her mother's cheek, "What did Shooting Star look like?"
Cadence let out a sigh, "She was a beautiful pegasus, she looked exactly like me but with slightly darker colours... she had.... she had her dad's eyes.." Cadence tightly hugged Flurry Heart.
"Her eyes were open?" Cadence nodded, Flurry shivered at the thought, That's.... creepy to say the least, the teenager thought, "Do you miss her?" Flurry asked.
"Yes.... Everyday...." Cadence nodded, "I just hope that up there, amongst the stars, she's looking down on us." Cadence looked up at the ceiling.
"Do you by chance know the causes of the stillbirth, if don't mind me asking." Flurry placed her wing over her chest, laying down on it.
"Honestly, no clue." Cadence shook her head, "I was told it was just natural causes but.... but it shouldn't of happened to a baby carried to full term. I personally believe it to be a combination of me transforming into an alicorn and or stress of moving to Canterlot." Cadence looked down in sadness, "But the way Celestia told be what the autopsy results, it felt like they weren't being honest with me." Cadence sighed, placing her head back down on the cushion.

"David was her dad, wasn't he?" Flurry raised an eyebrow, Cadence nodded, "Thought so.... Does he know?" Cadence nodded again, "So is that why David wasn't around for years?" Flurry asked.
"Not only." Cadence sighed, "Celestia had wrote a letter to the family and told them what happened, i didn't even know she had sent it until today..."
"How come?"
"David kept the letter all these years." Cadence sniffed slightly, "Anyway, dad came to see me and demanded i tell him who the father was, he soon worked it out. He was angry to say the least, nearly beat David to death before i was able to stop him." She looked down, "Then you had the court case where David was found innocent but Mom put a restraining order on him, he wasn't allowed within a mile of the family, and me." Cadence tightly hugged Flurry, "I never saw him again after that, i wrote him letters daily, but never heard a response back so... i just gave up." A lone tear escaped Cadence's eye.

"Does my dad know?"
"Yes, he's known since we first met, he didn't seem to care, because he loves me all the same." Cadence smiled slightly.
"When was her birthday?"
"6:35 Am, Wednesday 30th January 1991. "
"You remember the exact time?"
"Yep, i even remember the exact time you were born."
"Really?"
"Yep, you were born at 12:30pm, Friday 17th March 2000." Cadence smiled proudly, kissing Flurry's forehead.

"Mom, how far pregnant were you when you went into labor?" Cadence paused and took a hard gulp
"I was full term...." Cadence's face fell, "Full 9 months...."
"How did you know you were full term?"
"The autopsy...." Cadence looked away, "The autopsy confirmed so. It stated they she was conceived around 28th April 1990..."
"That is, if i do the math, more or less nine months dead on, give or take a day or two." Flurry worked out in her head, Cadence nodded and smiled.
"Thats right." Cadence smiled, "Me and David did do it on April 28th." She bit her lip, "I remember that day..." She trailed off.

David rolled over in bed, expecting his arm to land on the chest of the beautiful mare he called his girlfriend, instead, his arm landed on the mattress.
"Cadence?..." He mumbled, lifting his head and seeing the lack of the sexy pink pegasus. He sat up and yawned, stretching as he threw off the sheet and climbed out of bed. He walked over to the window and opened the curtain and threw the window open. David lifted his arm up, getting a sniff of his armpit, "I smell disgusting.... I better take a shower." He said to himself, thinking about where Cadence had gone off too, "Maybe she's downstairs watching cartoon." He added, grabbing his towel from the wardrobe and leaving his room, to his surprise, he didn't hear the tv on downstairs, "Perhaps she's gone down to the beach today. Good, that means i can be alone for awhile." He added, remembering how Cadence had ran him sore from the endless sex this week while Rose and Jess were visiting family in London.

David shut the bathroom door, not bothering to lock it. He slide the shower door open turning the taps on before taking all his clothes, tossing them aside. He caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror, he flexed slightly before sighing and stepping into the shower.
"Why hello handsome~" David heard Cadence purr as she lent into the bathroom, she shut the door behind her and locked it, quickly pulling off her loss fitting t shirt.
"Cadence?!" David said with embarrassment, quickly covering his manhood in reaction.
"You don't need to hide it babe, i've seen it all before~" She striped off all her clothes, without saying another word, she climbed into the shower and gently started licking the tip of his dick, "Lets wake him up shall we?" She gently kissed the shaft, wrapping her tongue around it.

"Mom?" Flurry waved her hoof in front of Cadence's face "You ok?" She added, Cadence blinked and shook her head.
"Huh? Oh! I'm fine, just remembering something." Cadence smiled, placing a hoof on her necklace, "Flurry Heart, would you like to see a picture of Shooting Star?"
"Don't see why not." Flurry shrugged, Cadence unclipped the necklace and levitated it over to Flurry Heart, opening the locket, Flurry gasped as the picture, "Mom.... She looks so pretty... and normal!" Flurry's voice cracked.
"What do you mean 'normal'?" Cadence raised her eyebrow, her voice filled with concern.
"To be perfectly honest, i thought she'd be a centaur." Flurry smiled innocently.
"I see." Cadence stared blankly as Flurry looking at the picture, seeing how sad and tired her mother was, a barely sixteen year old alicorn with visible tear stains running parallel down each cheek.
"I would've loved to of met her..." Flurry said sadly, handing the necklace back to her mother, Cadence brought her into a warm hug.
"She will always be with us." Cadence placed her hoof onto her chest, "She'll be forever in our hearts." Cadence kissed her daughter's forehead.

End of Chapter Twenty.

Chapter #21: Breaking The Rules

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Twenty One.
Breaking The Rules.

David sat in the cab of his locomotive, he and Dusty had called in quits for the day as the ice in '43999's smoke box refusing to melt despite everything they did, she said she'd have to get Spike to try melt it with his fire breath. David let out a sigh as he rested his head on the control console, gently flicking a pencil up and down. The only sound present to him was the rain trickling down the metal shell of the ageing diesel and the squeak of the window wiper. His eyes focused on the overflowing box that sat below the conductor's seat. He slowly sat down on the floor, dragging the box over to himself. The world slowly ticked away as he looked through all the little trinkets he found over the years.

The clouds slowly dissipated, allowing light from the full moon to shine through the windows of the dimly lit cab as David sat on the floor, flicking through old magazines. As he placed one of the magazines back in the box, he heard three knocks on the thin metal door in the nose. David stood up and gently limped down the steps and forced the stiff door open, to his surprise, he saw Cadence pulling down her hood.
"Can i help you?" He said, a cool breeze blowing through his hair.
"Gather your things." She smiled proudly, "You are moving in with me at the Crystal Empire." She held out her hooves and tightly hugged him.
"Great...." He said, a hint of annoyance feeling his voice, he broke free from Cadence's grip.
"What's wrong?" She cocked her head to the left, she followed him inside the cab as he sat down on the pile of blankets he called a bed
"Its just.... I don't think Shining likes me..." David placed his head in his hand, "I would be awkward for him if his wife's former lover was suddenly living in the same place as him, it sounds like some TV Sitcom..." He added, flicking through another magazine.

Cadence sat down next to him and frowned, "David... You can't keep living like this." She pointed at the mold on the walls, "That isn't good for your health." She placed her hoof in his hand, "Please David... Please come and live me with, forget what Shining says, i can deal with him." Her voice cracked as she begged him.
"I don't know Cadence...." He put the magazine down and looked deep into the icy blue eyes, "Didn't you see how he was staring at me when we had dinner at the palace. He clearly doesn't like me." David put the magazine in the box, causing it to fall over, spilling its contents over the floor, a large binder landed at Cadence's hooves.
"Whats this?" Her horn lit up, picking up the binder, she opened it, all that was inside was a polly pocket full of letter envelope, all addressed to David in her handwriting, "You received my letters?" She looked at him, her eyes filling with anger, "And you never opened them?!" She shouted, flicking through each envelope.
"I was scared at what i would find inside..." He said, looking away from her, "I thought you were writing to me, telling you found someone else and you wanted nothing more to do with me. So i just kept them unopened and forgot about them." He sighed.

Cadence placed her hoof under his chin, pressing her forehead against his.
"David.... I thought you never received my letters, i loved you to bits, i wanted you to come to Equestria and live with me. That is what was in these letters David, me begging you to come to Equestria, Celestia even said she'd marry us on the spot the second you arrived...." She said, a tear escaping her eye, "But after not hearing anything from you.... I gave up." She looked down, "I missed you David, every day of my life..." She pulled her head away, wiping tears from her cheeks.
"Cadence I...." He stuttered, looking deep into her eyes. He felt the urge to do something he knew he shouldn't, even if it felt go, "Oh, what the hell, come here you!" he said, bring her closer and kissing her square of the lips. Her pupils shrank in surprise.

David quickly backed away, instantly regretting that decision.
"I’m so sorry." He screamed, "I didn't think about what i was doing." He hid his face in embarrassment, "I'll understand if you want me to leave you alo-" Cadence kissed him on the lips, wrapping her hooves around his neck. David fell onto his back as the pair kissed passionately.
"David..." Cadence purred, pulling away, a trail of saliva forming between them, "I missed this!" She said with a smirk, rolling the pair on their side, "David, lets do it, right now~" She kissed him.
"But what about Shining?" He asked, pulling away from her.
"He's been....." She paused, looking down, "He's been cheating on me." She sat up and placed her head into her knees, sighing heavily.

David sat back up, wrapping an arm around her shoulder, bringing her into an embrace.
"How long?" He said simply.
"Since before Flurry Heart was born..." Her lip quivered.
"Son of a bitch...." David said under his breath, trying to calm his anger, "How did you find out?" He looked down at her.
"One morning, not long after having Flurry Heart, i caught him sneaking out, so i followed him, where i....." She gulped, "I saw him making out with one of my maids!" She wailed into David's side.
"That bastard..." David embraced her more, kissing her forehead, "Did you ever confront him?"
"Many, many times over the years, he says it won't happen again, but its just a cycle at this point." She rubbed her eyes.

"Why don't you just divorce his ass?" David said, running his finger through her mane, scratching behind her ear.
"I've been tempted many times, but i didn't want to put Flurry Heart in the middle." Cadence sighed, looking down at her fluffy chest, "David.... I want us to make love, just like we used to all those years ago..." She kissed David, wrapping her legs around his neck, she fell onto her back, she looked up into David's eyes and smiled. David's eyes slowly trailed down her body, he was surprised at how beautiful she'd become over the years, a fluffy chest, narrow waist and wide hips, she let out a smirk, "See something you like?" She teased, rolling over onto her chest, raising her rump into the air and moving her tail to the side, allowing David to see her dripping wet marehood, her clitoris winked. She raised her head and licked her lips before rolling back over onto her back, wrapping all four hooves around David, bring him closer, she purred as she felt his shirt rub against her fur.
"Cadence?" He said, his face red with blush, she looked at him, fluttering her eyes, "Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?" The only responses he got from her were rapid nods followed by another kiss.

"David~" Cadence sang slightly, "Take off your shirt please~" She nibbled his neck in arousal.
"I um.... i don't know...." David trailed off, backing up slightly, crossing his arms, Cadence tilted her head in confusion?
"Whats wrong? I've seen it all before babe~" She cooed, "Let me help you~" She purred, she raised her head in an attempt to pull of his top with her teeth, only for him to pull away.
"I don't know if you'd like what you'd see..." David looked down in shame.
"Take it off. Take it off! TAKE IT OFF!" Cadence said, her voiced raised in volume as she repeated herself.
"Ok fine!" David said, turning around and taking his top of slowly, he heard Cadence gasp in horror as he pulled the shirt off his shoulders, tossing it aside, "Now you know why i didn't want to take it off.
"David...." Cadence said sadly, running her hoof over the scarred skin, "What happened?" She rubbed his shoulders.
"I was too close to the car when it blew...." He turned to face her, "3rd degree burns all over my back...." Cadence embraced him, his head resting on her chest.

The pair fell back onto the makeshift bed. Cadence kissed him passionately.
"Cadence...." David said, smiling slightly, "Let's make tonight magical." He said, nibbling her neck, she let out a squeak and giggled, "What?" He said, rubbing the fur on her ear.
"It's just you said that when we made love after i became an alicorn~" She kissed his neck, "You got protection?" She whispered in his ear, she let out a smile as she felt him shake his head, "Good, i want you to fill me up~" She purred, wrapping her hooves around his back.
"But what about.... you know, possible pregnancy?" David said quietly, he heard Cadence snort and let out another giggle.
"I have a spell for that." She smiled as her horn started to glow, followed by a small burst of magical sparks, "Ok, now i'm ready." She kissed him again.

"What was that?" David said as he looked at her with a funny look.
"Just a simple contraception spell." Cadence replied, she let out a smile as she felt something prodding her, she looked down and saw a bulge in David's trousers, "Oooh, what's this?" She bit her lip as she undid his trousers with her magic, letting out a lusty growl as she saw his erect member plop out and smacking on her teats. David sat up and aligned his tip with the open and slowly thrusting deep into her cunt, she let out a moan and quickly wrapped her hind legs around his waist and held him close
"Oh David~"

End of Chapter Twenty One.

Chapter #22: Café De La Réunion

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Twenty Two.
Café De La Réunion.

David awoke to the sound of birds tweeting outside, he rolled over to see a sleeping Cadence alongside him. He smiled at how she was somehow able to sleep with easy while her legs and wings were spread out in painful looking positions, he gently leaned over and kissed her forehead, causing a smile to cross her face before snuggling into his chest. He gently sat up, careful not to wake her, as he sat up, he noticed she was wearing his shirt. David quietly stood up and tiptoed around the sleeping beauty and down the steps leading from the cab to the small kitchen.

Cadence slowly opened her eyes to the sound of a spoon hitting the sides of a mug, she slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes while yawning.
"Oh, you're awake then." She heard David call out from inside the nose, just as she was about to stand up, David returned with two mug of hot chocolate. He sat down next to her and handed her a mug, she let out a smile.
"Thank you...." Cadence said as she cuddled up to him, looking down at the marshmallow floating in the mug, "David?" She said quietly, looking up at him.
"Hmmm?"
"Did you ever date anyone after me?" She asked, looking deep into his eyes.
"No..." He shook his head.
"Why?"
"I guess i just lost interest in the prospect of dating and love after everything that happened." He took a sip from his mug, "And i doubt there's someone out their who would love me," He looked down at his foot. Cadence looked down at his hand, placing her hoof on it.

"You're wrong." She mumbled, David looked at her, "There is someone who loves you.
"Who?"
"Me." She kissed him, wrapping her forehooves around his neck, "I love you David Wyne...." She pulled off the shirt.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" David and Cadence turned to face the windshield only to see a furious Twilight Sparkle
"Fuck!" Cadence screamed.

Twilight threw the door open, nearly pulling it off its hinges.
"Cadence!" Twilight shouted, "WHAT THE IN THE EVER LOVING FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!" She screamed, slamming her hoof down in anger. Cadence stood between Twilight and David
"Twilight, it's not what it looks like." David held his hands out in defense, Twilight stared coldly at him, causing a chill to run down his spine, she eyed him up and then turned to Cadence, only see her wearing his shirt.
"Cadence, why are you..." It then clicked, "Oh my god, tell you didn't." Cadence smiled nervously, "OH FOR FUCK SAKE!" Twilight shouted, "WHY THE FUCK DID YOU SLEEP WITH HIM?!" the purple alicorn screamed, her horn sparking in rage, "WHY DID YOU?! HOW COULD YOU!" The princess seethed with rage, "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO SHINING?" The mares butted heads with each other, horns locking.
"Ladies!" David forced himself between the two mares, "You are both pretty." he said in a calming voice, Twilight glared at his hand on her chest.

"I wouldn't needed to of slept with... this hunk of a man." Cadence said, trying not drool while thinking able what she and David did last night, "I would've needed to sleep with him if YOUR brother wasn't a cheating scumbag!" She poked Twilight in the chest sharply.
"What the fuck are you talking around?!" Twilight fumed, biting her tongue as she slapped Cadence's hoof away.
"Your brother has been cheating on me with one of my maids since before Flurry Heart was born." Cadence turned away in anger.
"I don't believe you." Twilight shook her head in disbelief, "Shining would never do that!" Twilight reputed, shaking her head.
"You weren't there Twilight Sparkle!" Cadence turned around to face Twilight, tears streaming down her cheeks, "You weren't there!" Cadence screamed placing her hooves to her face, her horn sparkled and fizzled, in a bright flash, she disappeared, the magic crackling.
"Cadence.... I..." Twilight mumbled, "I'm so sorry..." She whispered, looking down.

Cadence rested her head on the tabletop, watching as waitresses trotted past her with serving trays for other tables, she let out a sigh as she remembered seeing Shining kissing her maid.
"Why Shining, why?" Her lip quivered, she bit the inside of her cheek in an attempt to force herself not to cry.
"Miss?" She heard someone say, Cadence looked up to see a waitress looking down at her, "What will you be having?"
"What?" Cadence said confusingly, looking up at the waitress.
"Your order? What will you be having miss?"
"Oh..." Cadence sighed, "The largest banana milkshake you have."
"Right away miss." Cadence rested her chin on the table, eyeing the waitress as she trotted away.

Cadence looked up as she heard a pony trotting towards her, she eyed them up as they sat down in the chair opposite her, she rubbed her eyes and blinked twice, the pony seemed oddly familiar to her.
"There you go miss, one milkshake." The waitress placed down a large glass down on the table before turning to the other pony, "Hello Glimmering Hope, the usual?"
"Yes please." Glimmering spoke quietly, the young mare looking down. As the waitress trotted way, Glimmering looked down at Cadence, "Hey, you're Empress Cadenza aren't you?" She cocked her head, strengthening her wings.
Cadence looked down and sighed, "Yes..." She nodded, her cheek rubbing against the oak tabletop.
"Why so glum?" Glimmering looked down at the Empress sitting before her.
"Why do you care?" Cadence glanced away from the other mare.
"I don't like seeing others upset, it makes me upset. I've been that way since as long as i can remember...." Glimmering looked down, "Anyway, why are you so sad?"

"Its a.... it's a long story..." Cadence headbutted the table.
"Ok ok.." Glimmering smiled slightly, looking down at the waitress placed down a plate of cheesy fries and a glass of milkshake, "So, why are you in Ponyville?" the pegasus said, eating some of the fries, the cheese stringing as she did so.
"Visiting family..." Cadence said, taking a sip from her glass of milkshake, "And my.... ex..." She added, swallowing her pride, she looked at the mare, "You asked me why i look sad.... Well, my sister-in-law caught me making out with my ex....", Cadence looked closely at the mare, she felt like she'd seen her before as a child, she shook her head, thinking she may of just seen her about in Canterlot.
"Ah...." Glimmering sighed. now it was Cadence's turn to look with concern.

"What's wrong?" The alicorn cocked her head.
"I... don't have a family...." Glimmering looked down, her dark blue eyes avoiding contact with the Empress.
"What do you mean?" Cadence moved around the table, sitting next to Glimmering.
"My mom died while in childbirth.... She was a maid at Canterlot Castle...." Glimmering let out a deep sigh, "It's said she fell in love with one of the Royal Guards who died in a battle before i was born. At Least, that's what my foster parents told me before they also died...." A lone tear escaped her eye, running down her cheek and down to the floor.
"Is that's why you're here in Ponyville?" Cadence wrapped a wing around her, pulling out a tissue and dabbing it on her cheek.
"Y-yes." Glimmering choked, rubbing her eyes, "I'm trying to find my grandparents, if they're still alive that is...."

"I know what it's like to lose someone..." Cadence said, looking down at the table.
"What?" Glimmering said, looking at Cadence as she blew into the tissue.
"When i was 16, i became pregnant, the foal was... a stillbirth. Then when i was 24, both my dad and my brother died within 10 months of each other..." Cadence sighed, tears slowly escaping her eyes. The two mares embraced each other.
"At Least you have a family, all i have is just a picture of my mum holding me before she died..." Glimmering pulled a folded picture from one of the pockets in her overy large green coat. Cadence looked at the picture and froze in place.
"Shooting Star...." Her voice broke, the picture was identical to the one in her necklace.
"T-thats my birth name, how did you-" Was all Glimmering could say before Cadence bolted out the cafe. Glimmering Hope gave chase.

"How do you know my birth name?!" Glimmering shouted as rain began to fall, Cadence froze on the spot, tears and rain drops trickled down her face, she turned to face the mare.
"Because, i'm your mother."

To Be Continued.

Chapter #23: Baby Girl

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Twenty Three.
Baby Girl.

"What did you say?" Glimmering said, rain trickling down her face as she stared at Cadence, the alicorn mare just stood still, her mane clinging to her wet fur.
"I-I'm....." Cadence looked down at her hooves, "Your mother..." She said softly.
"What?" Glimmering cocked her head.
"I'm your mother..." Cadence said slightly louder than before, but still soft.
"What did you say?!" Glimmering shouted
"I'M YOUR MOTHER OK?!" Cadence shouted through the tears, "I-I didn't want to believe it but it's true..." Cadence sighed, she looked up at Glimmering as the mare got closer.

"How do I know you're telling the truth?" Glimmering frowned, rain trickling down her coat.
"W-why would I lie? I'm an empress for christ sake." Cadence stuttered with shock.
"It wouldn't be the first time ponies have lied to me." Glimmering starting to walk away.
"I'll prove it to you!" Cadence shouted, tumbling for her locket, pulling it up and opening in, "See, we have the same picture." She added, pointing her wet hoof at the photo in the heart shaped locket.

Glimmering stared that the aged photo, sliding a hoof into her pocket, she pulled out her own photograph. She looked at both photos.
"They're the same...." Her voice trembled, Glimmering looked up at a teary Cadence, "Mom..." She hugged her mother tightly, sobbing loudly.
"Shhh..... It's ok, mummy's here." Cadence soothed, embracing Shooting Star with her wings, wiping a tear from her eye. Shooting bawled her eyes out, then pair slowly falling to their knees.

"Mom, were you raped? Is that why you give me up?" Shooting looked down at her hooves as she sat on a bench.
"No, i wasn't raped." Cadence said, looking at her daughter, "And i didn't give you up..." Her voice trailed off.
"Then why was i put in a foster home?"
"I honestly can't explain it." Cadence spoke softly, "I remember holding your body in my hooves, i was told you were a stillborn." Her voice trembled, covering her eyes with her hooves, trying to hold back tears.
"Do you know who my father is?" Cadence simply nodded in reply, "Is it Shining Armor?". Cadence shook her head
"No, he isn't your father. You were born before I met him." Cadence looked over at Shooting, "And before you ask, he isn't dead, despite me thinking so for 15 years..."

"What do you mean?" Shooting Star cocked her.
"Well." Cadence took in a sharp breath of air, "I got pregnant when i was 15, your father was 19 at the time, my parents found out after i gave birth, he was arrested and charged with rape, the charges were dropped but my mum filed a restraining order on him..... I never got to speak to him after that.... About 16 years ago, i was told he died in a accident by his sister.... Officially, the accident was deemed a suicide, but i knew for a fact that he was killed." Cadence looked down.
"Thats doesn't explain how you thought he was dead for years, wouldn't his body of been recovered?" Shooting said, placing her chin on Cadence's lap.
"Nobody was ever found, i.... we all assumed he was vaporized in the explosion-"
"WHAT! An explosion?!" Shooting shouted with concern, she shot off the bench, painicing loudly, "I gotta see my dad!" She shouted, Cadence grabbed her, holding her daughter close to the chest.
"Shooting Star, listen to me." Cadence gently pressed her forehead against Shootings, "Your father is fine remember." Cadence cooed gently, "Your father was the ex my sister-in-law caught me with." Cadence gently rubbed Shooting's back.

Cadence pulled away from Shooting Star before grabbing her head in pain.
"Mom, are you ok?" Shooting Star asked, her voice filled with concern as Cadence fell of the bench, "Mom!"
"My... head! It's on fire!" Cadenced screamed in agony as she clutched her head, "I'm beginning to..." Before she could finish, her eyes snapped open, quickly followed by a blinding white flash of light.
"Mom!" Shooting screamed, wrapping her hooves around a very dazed Cadence as she struggled to sit up, "Thank goodness you're alright!".
Cadence gently cuddle her daughter, "I remember everything." Cadence smiled weakly.
"You do?" Shooting smiled, tears filling her eyes.
"I do." Cadence said, her eyes frowning, "And I know exactly what happened."

"Your highness, Empress Cadence is at the castle gates, she demands an audience with you immediately." A royal guard spoke calmly as he stood before Queen Celestia in the throne room.
"Alright." Celestia calmly replied, taking a sip of tea, "Send her in." The guard bowed before trotting out the room. Celestia placed down a second tea cup and saucer.
"CELESTIA!" Cadence threw the doors open, "I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION!" The doors smacked against the wall.
"Cadence!" Celestia said pleasingly, "What a pleasant surprise visit from my favourite niece!"
"Don't niece me!" Cadence slammed her hoof down on the marble flooring, "I want to know why you took Shooting Star away from me!" Her nostrils flared in anger.
"I have no idea what you're talking about deary." Celestia said flabbergasted, "Why would you say such a thing." She sounded disheartened.
"Cut the bullshit Tia." Cadence moved her wing, gesturing to the doorway.

Shooting Star slowly trotted up to Cadence, pulling down her hoodie. Celestia dropped her tea cup, the china object shattering into pieces on the floor.
"Celestia, you know my daughter Shooting Star right?" Cadence smiled smugly, draping a wing over Shooting's shoulder.
"I don't know what you're talking about, i've never met this pony before in my life." Celestia recomposed herself.
"Stop lying to me!" Cadence screamed, "I know exactly what you did!" Her horn sparked and fizzed in anger.
"What are you talking about." Celestia yawned, "You're being very cryptic here sweetheart."
"Fine!" Cadence snarled, "If you wanna be like that?!" Her teeth gritted, "Why don't I show you?!" Her horn lit up, shooting a beam of pure energy into the air.

Cadence sat upright in the hospital bed looking down at the sleeping foal in her arms.
"No matter what happens next little one, I'll always protect you." Cadence smiled, kissing the tiny foal on the forehead and getting a yawn in response. Cadence cuddled her baby as a single tear of joy escaping her eye, "My little Shooting Star, my little bundle of joy, I love you so much." Cadence snuggled her daughter gently and she slid down into a lying position. She gently placed Shooting Star into the cot next to her bed, the foal stirring in slumber as Cadence's eyes caught a glimpse of the slowly rising sun.

Cadence's head snapped to the door as it opened, she smiled slightly as Celestia walked in.
"Hi Celestia." Cadence tiredly smiled, a smile that soon dissipated when Celestia stayed silent, slowly continued to walk over to Shooting Star's cot, "Please don't wake her." Cadence said, leaning over the cot defensively. Celestia continued to move towards the sleeping foal, "I'm warning you, back off." She growled, her motherly instinct kicking in. She ignited her horn, only to find her magic flicking, "I-I'm too weak." Cadence struggled to cast a spell.
"I'm sorry little one." Celestia's horn lit up, knocking Cadence back, "This is for your own good." Celestia casted a spell at Cadence's head. As Cadence began to black out, she saw Celestia leaving the room with a screaming Shooting Star.

"You took my baby, erased my memories of being pregnant, told me she was a stillbirth and for what?!" Cadence shouted "My own good?!" Small black crystals began to form around her.
"I-I was protecting you." Celestia stuttered defensively.
"Protecting me from what?!" Cadence screamed, Shooting Star struggled holding her back.
"You were too young to raise a foal on your own, you weren't married and what would visiting members of state of said. I was protecting you from being treated less than your worth." Celestia rebutled, Cadence's nostrils flared in anger.
"Me and David were going to finally have a family and you took it all away! He was so excited to finally meet his baby and you…. H-He doesn't remember any of our plans." Cadence's pupils shrank as realisation dawned on her.

"What did you do to him?!" Cadence punched Celestia's chest as tears welled up in her eyes.
"I-I erased his memories of your pregnancy, I erased everyone's memories of the pregnancy, including your family." Celestia looked down at Cadence.
"You monster!." Cadence fell to her knees sobbing, "You utter bitch.... How could you...." She cried, Celestia placed a wing on her.
"I'm sorry Cadence." Celestia looked down in shame, "I wish there was something I could do." She gently stroked Cadence's mane.

"You can start by giving everyone's memories back." Shooting Star spoke up, "I know it's possible since the only books in my orphanage were spell books."
"Fine…. If that is what you wish." Celestia looked down, her horn emitted a bright yellow flash, "There, the spell is broken. I'm sorry." Celestia out stretched her hoof towards Shooting Star.
"Stay away from me." Shooting flinched backwards, Cadence slowly stood up, her eyes puffy and red, "And stay the hell away from my mum."
"W-What?" Celestia flabbergasted.
"You heard me." Shooting Star's eyes narrowed, "Stay the hell away from me, my mum and her family." Shooting embraced Cadence.
"I'm proud of you." Cadence whispered, "Come on, lets go." The two turned around and walked towards the door.
"Wait." Celestia spoke up, Cadence looked at Celestia out the corner of her eye, "This belongs to you Cadence." Celestia pulled out an old tattered shoe box, Cadence snatched the box from Celestia's grasp and left the throne room with a slam of the door.

Shooting Star mindlessly stirred her tea as trees whizzed by the window, she rested her chin on the table top as the interconnecting door slid open.
"I didn't know what you wanted so i got you a cheese sandwich... Whats wrong?" Cadence cocked her head, sitting down next to her daughter.
"Nothing..." Shooting looked at her mum glumly.
"Come on." Cadence wrapped a wing around Shooting's shoulder, bringing her close to her, "You don't need to hide anything from me." Cadence kissed her forehead.
"It's just I can't get over what Celestia did." Shooting sighed, resting her head on Cadence's chest, "She is meant to protect all her subjects, yet she pulls a stunt like that."
"Listen baby." Cadence embraced her, "Forget about Celestia, we're together again, and I'll always protect you." Cadence nuzzled her, causing Shooting's cheeks to flush bright red with embarrassment.
"Muuuuuum." Shooting groaned with embarrassment, rolling her eyes in the process, smiling slightly.

Cadence and Shooting opened their sandwich packets, Shooting took a bite of her sandwich as Cadence levitated the tattered shoe box over to the table.
"I-It's my old memory box." Cadence trembled, a lump forming in her throat, "I thought I lost it years ago." Cadence threw the lid open, her eyes filled with joy as more happy memories resurfaced.
"Hmmm?" Shooting Star said with a mouth full of sandwich.
"I made this box when i was a filly, no older than 15, I kept everything in here, my dairy, love letters from your father, even the very results of a doctor's visit that confirmed I was pregnant with you." Cadence smiled, pulling out a stack of opened letters. She flicked through the letters, pulling out a random one and presenting to Shooting Star.
"Your father was so romantic back then." She smiled, wrapping a wing around her daughter as the pegasus read the letter. The pair read through every letter for what felt like hours as the mountainous view turned into farmland.

"Shining, calm down." Twilight spoke softly, placing a hoof on her brother's shoulder.
"Calm down? Calm down?! You just told me Cadence cheated on me and you're telling me to calm down?!" Shining shouted, batting Twilight's hoof away, "Oh, im gonna kill him!" He added, venom filling his voice.
"Shining!" Twilight stood in front of him, "Just think for a second." Her tail swooshed in anger, "Maybe she had a good reason." Twilight raised an eyebrow.
"What are you getting at Twilight?" Shining replied in a harsh undertone.
"Well for one thing, she told me you were also cheating on her with one of the palace maids." She bluntly stared at her brother.
"Of cause she'd say that." Shining scoffed, pushing past Twilight, as he made his towards the door. Shining threw the castle doors open, storming down onto the cobblestone path.
"Where are you going?!" Twilight shouted at the doorstep.
"To sort this out once and for all." He spitfully said.
"Don't do anything stupid!"

Shining Armor approached David, taking note of the fact the human was busy chiseling the ice from the smokebox of the steam locomotive that had been dragged from the Everfree Forest a few days ago.
"You son of a bitch!" Shining shouted, David turned around to be met by a hoof to the face. The force of the impact caused David to fall off the locomotive, landing back first on the icy ballast.
"You broke my nose?!" David shouted in pain, holding his bloody nose as he struggled off the icy ground.
"That's for sleeping with my wife." Shining grabbed David by his jacket collar, punching him again. David fell onto his side on the ground, Shining stood over him, "I don't want you anywhere near my family ever again." Shining kicked him in the gut, "If you so much as even look at my wife, my daughter, my sister or any of her friends." He kicked him again, "I will personally hunt you down and finish what I started." He grabbed David's collar once more, "Do I make myself clear?" Shining glared as David dared not speak a word, "Good." Shining smiled smugly as he threw him to the ground, taking David's silence as a yes before turning away from the human, "Oh, and one more thing." Shining turned back, punching David one final time, "And that's for that little stunt you pulled with Flurry." Shining proudly turned away as David struggled to stand up.

David weakly watched Shining trot away from, he so wanted to just threw a few punches at Shining during the very one sided fight but knew doing so would just make things worse for himself, as far as most ponies would care, he was just a random savage human relying solely on animalistic tendencies and besides, Shining is royalty, surely throwing a punch at a member of royalty is a crime punishable by death right? David turned around, slowly limping back towards '642' due to his artificial foot getting damaged during Shining's attack. He grabbed the first set of handrails he saw, pulling himself up onto the rear platform of the brakevan instead, letting himself inside the cabin at the front of the vehicle, slamming the door behind him as his back slid down the door.
"I'm... So done with this shit." He weakly spluttered out, blood still trickling from his nose as he looked at the small furnace that sat in the middle of the brake van's guard compartment. He felt this chest, feeling the areas where Shining had kicked him, noting that they had already started to bruise. He paused when he heard what sounded like Cadence giggling with someone getting closer, he weakly lifted his arm up, sliding the dead bolt across the door in hopes that Cadence wouldn't find him, get bored and go back to the castle to be with her family.

"I'm so done." David said, whizzing as he felt the old flash drive in his pocket, he pulled it out in his fist and threw it against the opposite wall in anguish as the voices got closer.
"David?" He heard Cadence's muffly voice speak out, "David? You here baby?" She called out again, "David, where are you? I've got someone I'd like you to meet." The voice emanating from close by the rear platform, he heard her let out an annoyed grunt, "Well David, if you are here, i'll be at Twilight's castle, don't keep me waiting." He heard her voice trailing off.
"I'm sorry Cadence, i can't stay here, I've made a mess of everything." He said to himself, gently banging his head against the door.

To Be Continued.

Chapter #24: Broken

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Twenty Four.
Broken.

Cadence looked down at Shooting Star as she rested her head against her mother's side, Cadence smiled and gently placed a kiss on her sleeping daughter's forehead as the train slowly made its way down the mountain.
"We will shortly be arriving at Ponyville. Please take all your belongings with you when exiting the train. Thank you for traveling with Equestria Railway." A voice said over the PA system, Cadence watched as ponies stood up from their seats, some grabbing luggage from the luggage racks.
"Hey... This is our stop sweetie." Cadence gently nudged Shooting Star, nuzzling her at the same time.
"What?..." Shooting sleepily yawned, rubbing her eyes with her hoof, "I was in the middle of a good dream, i found my real mother in it." She yawned again, Cadence put a hoof to her mouth and smiled.
"Honey, it wasn't a dream." Cadence brought her in close, nuzzling her mane, "We truly found each other again." She sang, Shooting Star nuzzled into her fluffy chest, "Come on." Cadence rose from her seat, magic engulfing her memory box. She gently placed it in her saddle bag as Shooting Star zipped up her hoodie. The pair walked towards the nearest set of doors as the outskirts of Ponyville came into view out the windows.
"Mum?" Shooting looked at Cadence, "Can we go see dad first?" She looked down, rubbing her front legs together.
"Of course we can." Cadence replied, gently booping Shooting Star's muzzle.

The train gently came to a stop at the platform, the doors sliding open with a hiss. Ponies spilled onto the platform, Cadence and Shooting Star gently stepped off the train amid the hustle and bustle of the station. The pair trotted along the platform as the train doors closed with a whine.
"So, how did you and dad meet?" Shooting Star looked over at Cadence as they trotted down the platform steps.
"Well." Cadence rubbed her chin, "Short answer is that we grew up together."
"And the long answer?" Shooting Star raised her eyebrow.
"It's.... Complicated."
"In what way?" Shooting replied as her and Cadence stepped down onto the ballast.

"I was...." Cadence sighed, "I was his foster sibling." She looked down in shame.
"Ok then." Shooting Star calmly shrugged, Cadence looked at her confused.
"Wait, you're not upset?" Cadence raised her eyebrows.
"Why should I be? You and dad shared no biological connection, its not incest technincally." Shooting took a bite of her sandwich smugly.
"Oh what a relief!" Cadence chirped happily, feeling a huge weight leave her chest, "Lets just say, not everyone was as ok with this information as you were."
"I see." Shooting Star took another bite of her sandwich as the pair trotted past the rusty 43999. Cadence couldn't help but let out a giggle, she wrapped a wing around Shooting Star, drawing her close.
"Your dad is gonna flip when he meets you." Cadence said with glee, squealing like a school girl meeting her favourite pop star as ballast crunched under their hooves.

"David?" Cadence called out as she approached the brakevan's rear platform, "David? You here baby?" She called out again, stepping up onto '642's front platform, opening the cab door, "David, where are you? I've got someone I'd like you to meet." She shouted into the empty cab.
"He's not here Mom." Shooting Star pouted, leaning against the brake van's wooden frame.
"Hmm." Cadence rubbed her chin, "Well David, if you are here, i'll be at Twilight's castle, don't keep me waiting." She stepped down onto the ballast, turning away and slowly trotting back towards Twilight's castle. Shooting Star quietly followed her.

"Before we head to Princess Twilight's castle, can we make a stop by my caravan?" Shooting Star said, looking at Cadence out of the corner of her eye as the pair trotted through the centre of town.
"Caravan?" Cadence cocked her head to the left.
"Yeah, I bought a caravan from some traveling show pony, Roxie. I think her name was?" Shooting Star rubbed her chin as the name eluded her.
"Trixie?" Cadence asked.
"Yes! That's the name." Shooting Star wiped her forehead with her wing, "Come on, I'll show you!" She grabbed Cadence's leg and pulled her along.

The pair weaved through the busy market, getting a few confused looks from the market goers.
"Down here." Shooting Star said, leading Cadence down a side street, towards a worn down caravan, "Ah, here we are, home sweet home." Shooting Star grinned at Cadence.
"It's uh...." Cadence looked at the wagon as the chimney fell to the ground, "Pleasant..." Cadence bit her cheek as the chimney rolled at her hooves.
"I'll give you a tour." Shooting Star smiled, twisting the door handle and forcing the door open.

Cadence followed her up the steps, one snapping under her hoof.
"Watch your step." Shooting Star called from inside, Cadence slowly made her way up the rickety step and her jaw hit the floor as she saw upon the state her daughter lived in, dirty plates and bowls in the sink, junk and wrappers on the floor, boarded up windows, blankets scattered about the bed.
"Why..." Cadence exhaled under her breath.
"Why what?" Shooting Star asked, sitting down on her bed, pulling leggings up her legs.
"Why do you allow yourself to live like this?" Cadence's voice broke, trying to hold back her distress.
"Because i had no choice. The orphanage kicked me out when I was 16." Shooting Star pulled a mustard yellow top over her torso, her wings popping out of poorly cut holes in the sides.

"What do you mean? Weren't you adopted?" Cadence spoke, her face forming an expression of confusion
"I was but...." Shooting Star froze midway into slipping into an overly large dark green trench coat.
"But what?" Cadence put a hoof on her daughter's shoulder.
"But my foster parents are dead." Shooting Star shrugged, looking at Cadence out the corner of her eye.
"But i-i..... How?" Cadence sat on the bed.
"When Cozy Glow, Tirek and Chrysalis blew a massive hole in Canterlot Castle" Shooting Star said, putting on a blue-ish brown hat on her head "Come on, let's get to the castle."
"You don't seem that upset about it though." Cadence gave a confused look.
"It happened a long time ago, I grieved for them and moved on. What more could i do?" Shooting Star causally shrugged, grabbing a harness from the wall before leaving the caravan.

Cadence stepped out of the caravan, she looked down at Shooting Star strapping the harness to herself. Cadence jumped down from the caravan.
"Here, let me." Cadence spoke, her horn ignited as she removed the harness from Shooting Star.
"Hey! What gives?" Shooting Star eyed up Cadence.
"I'll pull your caravan," Cadence put a hoof to Shooting Star's chest. The pegasus rolled her eyes, Cadence smiled, kissing her forehead.
"Mom!" Shooting Star embarrassingly groaned.

David stood on a small stone arch bridge that connected both halves of Ponyville. He had a single arm in his jacket against his sore ribs, they were still throbbing in pain after Shining Armor had kicked him. His other arm was at his side, the flash drive gently swinging in the breeze from its chain. The water flowing below was calm like glass.
"Time to end this." David said, looking down at the drive as it now laid in the palm of his hand, "So long buddy." David balled his hand into a fist and threw the drive into the stream, watching it sink to the bottom. David turned away from the water and sat down, his back resting against the side of the bridge, he wiped his face of a bit of dried blood.
"I did as you asked of me father, the virus is destroyed." David smiled weakly, he had finally let go of the last piece of his father he had, "It took longer than expected, but it is done."

"Room for one more?" David heard someone speak, he looked up to see a pinkish-purple unicorn mare with eggshell blue markings running from her chin up to her horn and round the back of her head, her ears were white topped, she had white sock like markings on the lower part of her legs with freckles on her knees and cheeks.
"Sure." David said, shifting over to the right. The mare sat down, pulling out a whiskey flask from her saddlebag. Her horn lit up as she twisted the lid off, taking a drink from it. She looked at the human and smiled, moving the flask towards them.
"Want some?" She shook the flask in her magical grasp.
"No thanks, i don't drink whiskey." David shook his head in disgust, holding his hands out.
"Oh, don't worry, it isn't anything like that. It's ice tea, I just don't have any other flasks at home." She said, screwing the lid on and placing the flask back in her bag, "My name's Starlight Glimmer, what's yours?" She smiled, holding out her hoof.
"David Wyne." He replied, shaking her hoof gently before wincing in pain.

"Are you ok?" Starlight asked with slight concern in her voice as she looked at the pained human.
"I'm fine, i'm perfectly fine." David said, holding his side in pain as he pulled himself up into a standing position.
"You're not fine!" The mare shot up off the ground, "Come along, let's get you checked out." She motioned for him to follow.
"What?! No way, I'm not going to a hospital!" David threw his arms out in front of himself.
"What, no. I have a small first aid kit at my work, it's just around the corner." Starlight pointed forward towards the town centre.
David pinched the bridge of his nose, "Ok, fine.".
"Goodie" Starlight clapped her hooves together,a big grin plastered on her face, she grabbed David's hand and dragged him towards town.

To Be Continued.

Chapter #25: Statues

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Twenty Five.
Statues.

February 18th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 12:45 pm.

"And that's everything that happened right up until I sat on that bridge." David said as Starlight wiped away the last of the dried blood from his cheek.
"That's..... Alot to take in." Starlight replied, throwing the wipe into a neary trash can.
"Yeah.... It's been a crazy few days to say the least." He replied, looking down at his hands as Starlight stuck a bandaid on where the dried blood had been.
"So.... You and the Empress aye?" Starlight nudged David in the shoulder and winked.
"Yeah yeah..." David replied, pushing Starlight's leg away, "So.... You work at one of these.... I'll be honest, I thought they all closed down decades ago." He responded, rubbing the spot where the bandaid had been placed.
"It's the last one anywhere apparently." The mare answered, placing the medical kit back onto the shelf.

"You know, I've been sitting here for the past hour or so telling you my life story, but what about you?" David responded, rubbing his imaginary facial hair.
"Not much to tell really." Starlight shrugged, "Grew up in a small snowy town, got married, had some kids, kids flew the nest, took this job because the house felt empty." Starlight continued, cleaning her hooves in a sink, "Anyway, you must be hungry. I make a killer pizza." She smiled at David as her hooves were dried in a towel.
"Thanks for the offer but I better be going, or Dusty is gonna think I bailed on her." David replied, looking at the clock that hung above the doorway.
"Oh, I understand. Allow me to show you out." Starlight smiled as she opened the door. The pair walked back towards the locked front door, David felt a chill travel down his spine as he walked past a small stage, briefly, he turned his eyes towards the stage before quickly looking forward again as a second chill ran down his spine.

The door unlocked with a dull clunk, Starlight pulled on the handle, letting the large door swing open. Starlight stood on the doorstep as David turned around to look at her.
"Thanks for helping me." David weakly smiled, "See you around maybe?" He added before waving.
"I'll hold you to that." Starlight smiled as she closed the door. After locking the door, she looked up at the stage, "As you were!"

"Shining, please tell me I misheard that?!" Twilight shouted in a hushed tone.
"You heard me." Shining said smugly, "I roughed him up a little." He added, taking a drink from a mug of ale, "That'll teach him to mess with my marriage." Placing the mug down, Shining smiled, savoring the taste.
"No, no, no, this is bad, really bad." Twilight began to hyperventilate, "Do you know how much this could affect Earth and Equestria relations?" She began to blow into a paper bag, "Think about it, a Royal Prince attacking an ordinary human? How would that look on the royal family?" She added between hush breaths.
"As if anyone on Earth would believe him, have you seen how he dresses, they'd just think of him as a pill popping homeless person and send him to the nearest mental ward." Shining took another sip, "Trust me, this’ll all blow over."

"Well here we are." Cadence smiled as she unhitched herself from Shooting Star's trailer.
"So, this is the Castle of Friendship?" Shooting Star gazed up at the large crystal structure as she put bricks under the wheels, "To be honest, I expected it to be smaller." She continued, wiping her hooves on her coat.
"Wait until you see my palace." Cadence smirked, "Come on, I'll introduce you to everyone." Cadence trotted up the steps, Shooting Star following close behind. Cadence opened the door and heard Twilight and Shining talking.
"No Shining, this will not blow over, i've got to report this to Celestia!" Twilight shouted, "Do you know what this could mean for Equestria?" She added, rubbing her forehead.
"Um, what's going on here?" Cadence asked, Shining and Twilight both looked at her.
"He can tell you, I'm going out." Twilight furiously made her way to the front door.
“Where are you going?!" Shining shouted.
"To clean up your mess!" Twilight rebutted, slamming the door behind her.

As David went to walk away, he felt the need to look back at the now locked door. He slowly turned around just as Starlight's tail disappeared into the inky darkness of the entrance. Turning on his heel, he made his way towards the town centre. Soon enough, he found himself in a large park. He placed his hands into his pockets as he sat down on a bench overlooking a fountain, birds gently chirped in the trees as he leaned back, looking up towards the winter sky. Letting out a sigh, David looked back down at the fountain, noting the statues placed around the park. Most of the statues were pretty mundane but clearly well kept, one statue however, stood out the most. Despite it being at the far end of the park, he could tell it was larger than the others and was overgrown with vines and other vegetation. Lifting himself off the bench, he made a b-line straight for the large statue. The ice on the ground crunching under his large boots.

David came to a stop a few feet from the statue, he looked it up and down. The first thing he noticed was that instead of having a single pony or other creature, it had three. One being what appeared to be a child, no, a filly clearly distressed, the other was a centaur looking like it was cowering in fear. The last creature being some kind of pony-insect hybrid, perhaps no bigger than Celestia lunging out towards them with a look of attack on its face. He knelt down to get a closer look at the overgrown plaque affixed to the base the statue was mounted on.
"Tirek, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow." A voice behind him spoke out, startled, he turned around to see Twilight standing behind him, sorrow in her eyes, "They were once living creatures, turned to stone as a last resort." She continued.
"What did they do to get this as a punishment?" He replied, looking back at the statue.
"They were able to divide us ponies by spreading fear and mistrust between the earth ponies, pegasus and unicorns Allowing them to take over Equestria with the aid of Grogar's bewitching bell." She placed her hoof on the base of the statue, wiping away dirt from the plaque.

"Bewitching Bell?" David looked down at her as she stood back upright, "Who's Grogar?" He asked some more
"Grogar was the ancient ruler of Equestria, long before the three pony tribes first united. He was known in legend as the 'Father of Monsters'. The bell was the source of his power, he would use it to drain the magic from creatures, and add it to his own magic, making him stronger. It is believed that if he were to have taken the magic of every creature on this planet, he'd have been able to take over the universe." Twilight solemnly explained.
"So, where ever happened to Grogar?" David asked, placing a hand on the statue, feeling the cold rock.
"Honestly, I don't know. It's possible that without his magic, he simply faded from this reality." Twilight looked up at David.
"So, how exactly did they managed to take over with Grogar's bell, surely it would only work with him right?" David pondered.

"To be quite honest, I'm not sure. But a friend of mine, Discord, said that they had managed to figure out the spell, they gave themselves what was left of Grogar's magic, before stealing Discord's. They made their way to Canterlot, stealing the magic from the Pillars of Equestria on the way. They then attacked Canterlot castle, blasting the castle to ruin. I barely escaped while Discord, the Princess and my friends stayed behind to hold them off. But they were overwhelmed just as i left.."
"How were they overwhelmed, after the Princess, like gods or something?" David responded, looking down at Twilight.
"They stripped the Princess of their magic, just like Discord as soon as they attacked. I would have been next, had it not been for Rarity using the rubble of the throne room as a shield. Honestly, i wish it had been me." Twilight continued as the pair walked over to a nearby bench. "Discord and the Princesses later caused a distraction, allowing my friends to escape and later find me in the Crystal Empire." Twilight soon explained the final confrontation between her and her friends and the three villains, and how six of her students helped reunite the races of Equestria against the threat, and how the Princesses and Discord turned them to stone.

"So, are they doomed to remain in this state for the rest of time?" David responded, looking perplexed, both hands on his legs.
"I hope to one day free them from this statue, even if only one of them accepts the hoof of friendship." She looked down, a lone tear escaping her eye. "Look, Mr Wyne, I'm sorry for what my brother did to you. It was most uncalled for." She looked up at the human. David leaned over, wiping away the tear from her cheek.
"It's water under the bridge." He smiled, "To be completely honest, I deserved it." He added, causing Twilight to let out a small chuckle.
"Come on then." Twilight smiled, getting off the bench. "Let's go back to my castle and smooth things over with Shining."

"So, what was all that about?" Cadence asked Shining, awkwardly smiling as he poured another bottle of ale into his mug.
"Nothing for you to worry about babe." Shining respond, taking a drink from the mug as he walked past Cadence, "Cadence." He added, then walked past the second mare, "Cadence." He again said, he walked forward before stopping, nearly choking on his drink, "Wait...." He turned around, rubbing his eyes in the process, "Wow, this ale is strong stuff, because I'm seeing double." He walked forward, intending to kiss Cadence.
"Stay away from me you drunk blaggard." The second Cadence shouted in annoyance.
"Come on babe, don't act like that, now give me a big kiss." He responded, moving closer.
"I said back off!" Second Cadence roared, before punching Shining square in the face.
"Shooting Star!" Cadence shouted, kneeling down to check Shining's pulse, "Was that really necessary?" She added as Shining yet out dazed moans, "Lucky for you, he isn't knocked out, just dazed."

"Cadence! You're back!" Spike shouted happily before looking down at Shining Armour as he stumbled back onto his hooves, rubbing his jaw in the process. "Whoa, I didn't know you had an identical twin, Cadence." The tall drake added, shaking the other mare's hoof.
"About that Spike, she isn't my twin, nor my sister. She's Shooting Star, my daughter." Cadence smiled, wrapping a wing around Shooting Star's side.
"What!" Shining and Spike said in unison, "How is that possible? You told us all she was dead." Shining asked, rubbing his sore head.
"It's quite a long story, if i'm completely honest, i'll explain all in good time, now. Do you know where David is?"
"Yeah..." Shining rubbed the back of his head, "About that."

"So, you're telling me that Discord thought Fluttershy wanted a normal afternoon tea and nearly caused himself to fade from existence?" David asked Twilight in bemusement as they walked up the steps to her castle.
"Mhmm." Twilight replied as she opened the door to the castle, "We're back!" She shouted before pausing, "Why are there two Cadences?" She asked, David fell to his knees in shock as both Cadences ran over to him.
"David, this is Shooting Star, our daughter. Don't ask me how, but I found her." Cadence smiled, tear forming at the edges of her eyes, "I found our baby all grown up."
"No way!" Twilight's jaw dropped, she quickly shook Shooting Star's hoof before asking her a bunch of questions, "Are you a time traveller or are you from an alternative universe?
"I don't believe so? On both counts." Shooting Star raised her hoof nervously, "Could we, ya know, get some privacy please?" Shooting added, Twilight quickly nodded, shooing away Spike and Shining Armour.

Shooting Star turned back to face both her parents and smiled. She quickly trotted over and sat in front of her father, tears in her eyes.
"Is-Is it really you?" David stuttered, trying his best not to cry.
"Yes dad, it’s really me." Her voice cracked. David placed a hand on her chin and smiled before embracing her, "Oh dad!" She cried, tears flowing freely by this point. David pulled Cadence into the embrace, all three now freely crying.

To Be Continued.

Author's Note

Im sorry for the over a year delay, honestly i was struggling with what to do with this one, plus, work has been a pain in the ass

Chapter #1: The Robbery

Author's Note

All Characters unless stated otherwise, belong to there respected owners.
Enjoy the story.

Chapter #1: The Robbery

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter One.
The Robbery.

January 8th 1959, Bank of England, London, United Kingdom. 12:39 pm.

''Stop them!'' A man cried, blowing a whistle as three men hopped into a black van before speeding off down the road followed by three Police cars.
''Borya, find a path to the rendezvous point.'' Said one of the men in the van, he had a thick Russian accent, he held onto his seat as the van darted between the traffic.
''I'm trying Dimitri.'' Borya replied, turned the steering wheel left and right as he dodged the traffic, he too had a Russian accent, ''Vlad, try and contact Osip and tell him, we're on our way.'' Dimitri said, ''Ok.'' Vlad replied, he also had a Russian accent, he pulled out a briefcase and opened it, a radar dish the size of a large coin popped up and turned around, finding and locking onto a signal.

''Osip, this is Iron Red, we're on are way.'' Vlad said, speaking into a microphone, ''Prep the Fowler.'' He added, the radar dish beeped as the signal was transmitted, ''Ok, Iron Red.'' Osip replied on the other end, ''The Fowler's boiler will be at pressure when you arrive, Iron Hawk out.'' Osip added, the signal shut down as the van sped through the city, trying to escape the Police cars as they sped through the streets of London, dodging other cars and people in the process, ''Vlad, where is the rendezvous point?'' Dimitri asked as the van sped into the borough of Camden, ''Well we're to meet Osip and the others at Skipton, but I got us a space on a Leeds bound goods train, we can then drive from the Leeds Hunslet Yard to Skipton.'' Vlad replied, the van sped over the Regent's Canal, ''We're meeting up with the goods train at Kings Cross Goods Yard.'' He added as the Police cars began to fall behind, as they thought they were in the clear, the back window got shot out, ''Christ!'' Borya said as he tried to avoid the bullets.

''We're almost there!'' Vlad said as the van passed a sign saying 'Kings Cross Goods Yard - Next Right.'.
''Hold On!'' Borya said as he turned the steering wheel hard to the right, the van turned sharply to the right before smashing through a wooden gate as it entered the yard.
''Hey! You can't be here!'' Said a yard worker as the van weaved between the goods wagon. The Police followed them, one car was hit by an oncoming train.

The van stopped by the goods train, ''Quick! Load the money and gold onto the train, I'll hold them off!'' Dimitri said, picking up a Type 56 AK47 and a handful of F1 grenades, ''This is for Mother Russia!'' He added, pulling the pin from a grenade and throwing at the police, it bounced along the ground and rolled under a Police car, ''Grenade!'' Shouted an officer, they jumped away as the grenade and the car explodes, the car bounced up from the force of the explosion, Dimitri then fired the AK 47 at the Police, ''Give Stalin my regards.'' He added, throwing another grenade at the Police causing another car to blow up, killing two Police officers in the process.
''Dimitri! The cargo is secure!'' Vlad said, pulling Borya up into the brake van, ''Ok!'' Dimitri replied, throwing the last grenade at a tanker full of petrol before jumping up into the brake van as the train pulled away. The tanker explodes, killing more Police officers.

''Oh right!'' They all said, high fiving each other as a second tanker explodes, killing the remaining Police officers, ''Argh!'' Borya yelped in pain as a piece of shrapnel shot through his leg, he placed his hand over the hole as they moved into the cabin of the brake van, Vlad lit an oil lamp to light up the cabin, the men sat down on the floor, ''Borya, are you alright?'' Vlad asked, Borya nodded, ''It's just a flesh wound.'' Borya chuckled, looking at his bleeding leg, Dimitri ripped off part of his coat and wrapped it around Borya's leg as a snowstorm outside began to form outside.
''Vlad, how long until we are at Leeds?'' Borya asked as Dimitri lit a small fire in a stove, ''well if we were on a express to Leeds it would take just under three hours, but where on a goods train which will stop to allow fast trains past, so about three to four hours maximum.'' Vlad replied, working out the math in his head.
''We're in for a long ride then.'' Borya said as the engine blew its whistle.

January 8th 1959, Hunslet, Leeds, United Kingdom. 17:09 pm.

The snow storm raged on outside as the goods train finally pulled into the Leeds Hunslet Yard, ''Guys, we're here.'' Borya said, nudging Vlad and Dimitri as the train came to a stop, they got up and yawned as Borya opened the cabin door causing a blast of cold air to rush inside. ''Ok, I'll get us a car or a van, you guys unload the gold and money.'' Vlad said, running off into the storm, Dimitri and Borya opened the door of the rear most van and started to unload the gold and money as quickly as possible. They finished just as Vlad arrived with a van, they smiled as he stepped out, ''Well, what do you think?'' Vlad asked as he opened the back doors of the van.
''It's just right.'' Borya said, loading the gold and money into the van.

They hopped into the ran and sped off as Police sirens played through the snow, ''How far to Skipton?'' Borya said as he drove the van along the road.
''It's about twenty eight miles.'' Vlad said, looking at a map of Northern England, ''It should take about fifty five minutes.'' He added as the van ploughed through the snow drafts
''Reminds you of home doesn't it?'' Dimitri chuckled, Borya and Vlad chuckled as well as they went past a sign, 'Skipton - Twenty Eight miles.'

January 8th 1959, Skipton, United Kingdom. 18:10 pm.

Osip paced up and down as the Fowler's safety valve popped, he looked up at the Fowler's number '43999' the numbers were written in a faded white.
''Where are those three idiots.'' He said, looking down at his watch, he looked back up as a yellow van with 'British Railways' written on the side stopped by the Fowler.
Dimitri stepped out of the van and Osip smiled, ''Good! Your here!'' He said as Vlad and Borya got out of the van. Three other men opened the back of the van and loaded the gold and money into one of the coaches.
''Osip, are the others here yet?'' Borya asked, Osip nodded as the last sack of money was loaded on board.
''So, this is what we're got?'' Borya asked, looking at the train which consisted of a Fowler 4f 0-6-0 tender engine with coal rails on the tender, three mark one TPOs used on traveling post trains and a GWR built toad brake van, Dimitri, Vlad and Borya hopped onto the first coach while Osip hopped into the cab on the engine.

The Fowler gave two sharp blasts of its whistle before slowly rolling out of Skipton and onto the mainline. The train turned right as it went over the point.

January 8th 1959, Garsdale, United Kingdom. 19:20 pm.

The snow storm began to pick up as the Fowler and its line coaches made its way through the Yorkshire dale of Dent Head, the storm sent blasts of cold air around the engine, covering the front in a blanket of snow.
''So we each got ten sacks with £1,000 in each sack and ten bars of gold then?'' Dimitri asked, the other men nodded as the engine blew its whistle again.
''Water trough.'' Osip said to the driver and fireman as they approached a flat stretch of track, the fireman placed his hand of a handle and span it round, making a scoop fold out from under the tender, causing water to spray out from under it as the water was forced up the scoop and into the tender, once it was full, the scoop was retracted.

Up ahead a signal man stood on watch waiting for a delayed express train to come past, he looked down the and saw a train coming towards the signal box, he took note of the headcode.
''Wait, a mail train isn't meant to be here.'' He said, he pulled a few levers, point blades moved over causing the train to be diverted off the mainline and onto a branch line. Osip, the driver and the fireman were unaware of this change until they noticed the double track mainline darting to the left as they started to climb a hill, Osip grabbed the brake lever and turned it as far as it would go but the brakes didn't respond, he turned it again but the brake still didn't respond. The Fowler picked up speed at it crested the top of the hill and started downhill, the weight of the three coaches and the brake van forced it to go faster.

Osip climbed up onto the tender, he walked along to the gap between the tender and the first coach, he looked down at the brake pipes and stepped down onto one of the steps on the tender, but the step was covered in ice, his foot slipped, he tried to grab something but alas it was late. He fell between the gap, he grabbed onto the screw link coupling but the force of the train ripped his arm off, leaving it hanging off the coupling as his body was torn to shreds by the wheels of the train.

Dimitri and the other felt the TPO jerk up, Vlad shot up and ran to the gangway door and saw Osip's arm hanging off the coupling, he looked up as the driver and fireman jumped clear, leaving the train a runaway.
''Dimitri! Help me with this!'' Vlad said, hopping up onto the tender and making his way to the cab, Dimitri followed him.
''Christ!'' Dimitri said as the train began swaying violently as it approached a tunnel, the track darted to the right, he tried the brakes but still no response, he then tried the regulator but found it jammed open by the ice, he also tried the cutoff but that too was jammed because of the ice.

The tunnel began to light up as the headlamps on the Fowler got closer, but then a large crack appeared in the space around the tunnel mouth, it ripped open causing the train to go through it, it snapped shut not long after. The train never came out the other end of the tunnel.

???

A blizzard was raging as a large crack appeared in the air above a rusty and overgrown train track, the crack ripped open as the Fowler shot out followed by the TPOs and the brake van.
''What the fuck!'' Vlad said as they looked around, they were no longer in the United Kingdom. The Fowler continued to speed up, the old rails began to creak and sink from the weight of the train.
''What happened?'' Dimitri said, pulling the whistle lever down as a horse like creature stood on the tracks, the creature jumped out the way and shouted.
''Watch where you're going!'' It said as the Fowler shot past, Dimitri noticed that this 'horse' had a pair of wings on its back.

They looked up as lights from a town appeared through the snow, the train jerked to the left as it went over a set of points, the town darted to the right as the Fowler headed towards a forest.
''Oh shit!'' Vlad said as buffers appeared at the end of the line, he pulled the brake lever for one last attempt, the brakes locked onto the wheels but the Fowler slipped on some ice and was sent smashing through the buffers, stopping dead as it smashed into a large tree trunk, causing all of the men but Dimitri, Vlad and Borya to be killed instantly. Borya opened the gangway door as Vlad put out the coals in the firebox.
''What happened?'' Borya said, picking up his AK47, he shut the gangway door up and jump down onto the snow covered ground.
''Stupid train derailed.'' Vlad said, hopping from the cab, they looked at each other as the blizzard began to die down.

A pair of green eyes watched them through the trees, a green acid like liquid leaked out of its mouth and landed on a rock, melting it, it moved its paw onto a twig, making it snap.
''Who's there!'' Borya said, putting his figure on the trigger, Dimitri and Vlad stood behind him as a pair of green eyes stepped out of the shadows, revealing that it was a wolf made of wood.
''What the fuck is that!'' Vlad said, Borya pulled the trigger, the bullets made mince meat of the beast's legs, it fell over and fell apart, Borya continued to fire the gun until all the bullet were gone, he threw the gun to the side.

''Christ!'' Dimitri said as two more wolves appeared from the trees, they leapt at him and Vlad and ripped them apart, leaving Borya alone.
The wolf that Borya shot reassembled itself and stared at him, he pulled out a knife as it opened it jaw. It screeched as it leapt at him.

End of Chapter One.

Chapter #5: The Crystal Empire

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Five.
The Crystal Empire.

February 15th 2015, Arctic North, Equestrian Border. 5:00 am.

The winds howled across the snow covered waste land as a heavy amount snow fell, an Arctic fox carried her cub into her burrow. The humming of a engine began to radiate in the air. A snowplow pushed the snow away from the train track as a train made its way north, it was running light engine. It was covered ice and snow, ice hung off of the coupling, brake pipes and handrails.
''I can't see a thing!'' David said, moving the throttle into notch two, keeping in in a slow speed as the snow came down thick and fast, '642's wheel pelted the icy rails as the twin engines began the climb through some hills.

The snow began to clear as the engines crested the top of the hills, the track leveled out for a mile or two before descending back to sea level. Just about half way between the two slopes sat a large, 150 meter long siding, just adjacent to the junction for the siding sat a small signal box, it was no bigger than a 12 ton box van, the box sat alone along the long stretch line with only a cottage for company. The pony manning the signal waved as '642' and '644' slowly rattled past, he looked down at his hot cocoa as the vibrations from the train made ripples in the liquid, he smiled as he went back to control the section of line.

David looked at his fuel gauge, '45%' it read, displaying the combined fuel readings of both '642' and '644', he yawned as the train approached the downhill slope, he looked over to the right and saw the lights of a city a few miles away.
''There it is!'' He said, blasting the horn as his engines began to descend down the hill and towards the lights of the city.

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, Crystal Plaza, The Crystal Empire. 6:00 am.

The Crystal Palace was peaceful at dawn, the light of the barely risen sun shone through the stain glass windows, lighting the halls in a colorful glow. The first of the morning rounds started as an alarm clock beeped in a bedroom chamber, a large pink hoof moved out from under a bed sheet and pressed the snooze button, hoping to get more sleep as a maid walked into the chamber and opened the curtains, the owner of the pink hoof hid under the sheets, shielding theirs eyes from the blinding lights.
''Five more minutes...'' The mare said, burying herself deeper into the bed.
''Sorry ma'am.'' The maid said, picking up a hair brush, ''But today is the sixteenth anniversary of Emperor Sombra's defeat.'' She added as Cadence rose from under the sheets.
''It's ok Arctic Lily.'' Cadence responded in a motherly tone.

Cadence was an Alicorn, although she wasn't born a Alicorn but born as a Pegasus and earned her Alicorn status. Her ear twitched as Arctic Lily brushed the Empresses mane.
''So what is my schedule for today?'' Cadence said, looking at her reflection in the mirror, humming to herself.
''Um, you are to make a speech at 12 pm and start the festivities, other then that, your free all day.'' Arctic replied, carefully brushing Cadence's mane, the empress smiled.
''Thank you Arctic, you are now excused.'' Cadence responded, Arctic Lily nodded, ''Thank you ma'am.'' Arctic bowed before exiting the room.

February 15th 2015, Lower Crystal Square TMD, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 6:30 am.

'642' pulled up along the diesel filling station of the Lower Crystal Square's TMD, the yard was empty except for one or two coaches and an old, rusty brake van. David stepped down from '642' and expected to hear the sound of snow and ice crunch beneath him, but instead he heard what sounded like the sound of someone stepping onto a thick slab of glass, he looked down at the 'ground', it looked like a giant stain glass window, he leaned down and tapped it.
''Is this? Crystal?'' He said to nobody in particular, he shrugged and limping over to the fuel tanks and opened the filling caps and attached the filling hoses onto the fuel tanks and started to fill up the tanks.

David waited for half an hour until the fuel tanks were fuel of diesel, he put the hoses back on the pumps and shut the filling caps, he made his way back over to '642's cab. He sat down at his seat, looked at the picture of him and his family on Christmas Day 1997, he smiled slightly as he remembered that day, but his smiled soon fated when he remembered what happened in the weeks that followed Christmas.

January 8th 1998, Location: Top Secret, United Kingdom. 12:30 pm.

Loud warning sounds rang out through the halls as a man in his late 40s ran along the hall, pulling his 28 year old son up to a safe room..
''Dad! What's happening?'' The young man said as he was dragged along behind his father.
''I don't know David, i don't know.'' His father said as they approached a door with a number code lock, the older man punched in the code, making the door slide open. David's father pushed him into the room and stood in front of the door, he leaned down to his son and handed him a flash drive.
''David, my son. I want you to take the S.P.R.I.N.G.Trap virus and destroy it, i don't care how you do it, just destroy it. Do it for me please.'' David's father said, looking into his son's blue eyes, David nodded as his father slid the door back and locked it before destroying the number pad.

''David Wyne Sr.!'' A man shouted as David Sr. turned around, ''Where is the S.P.R.I.N.G.Trap virus?!'' The man added, pulling out a MP-443 Grach Semi-automatic pistol with his metal left arm.
''I'll never tell you, Phantom!'' David Sr. said, pulling out a Browning Hi-Power Semi-automatic pistol, he pulled the trigger, shooting Phantom in the left side of his head, hitting his left eye, Phantom screamed in pain, he too pulled the trigger, getting a lucky shot on David Sr.'s chest, he fell to the floor as Phantom walked over to him and clocked his gun and aimed it at David Sr.'s head.
''Now tell me, where is the S.P.R.I.N.G.Trap virus?'' Phantom said, his finger wrapping around the trigger, his eye was gushing blood.
''I'll... never... tell... you.'' David Sr. said, spitting out blood, Phantom smiled.
''To bad... You would of made a great scientist for the second Soviet Union.'' Phantom said, looking at the scientist, he pulled the trigger.

*BANG!*

David shook back his thoughts as he caught something shining in his eyes, he looked over in the city and saw a castle, no a palace! He looked at the Eiffel Tower like structure made of pure crystal standing in the center of the city, he stood up from his seat and walked over to the cab bulkhead, he locked the cab's rear doors and shut off the engines before moving back over to his seat, he pulled out the picture of him and 'Candy' as he made his away down the front steps and onto the front of '642', he climbed off her and onto the crystal like surface, he turned and walked towards the inner city, begin followed by two royal crystal guard, one was a mare, the other was a stallion.

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 7:30 am.

David stood at the base of The Crystal Palace, he looked behind him and saw the two guards that had been following him since leaving the Lower Crystal Square TMD, one or two crystal ponies looked at him and waved.
''Is that a human?'' He heard one say, ''I though they were wiped out by Emperor Sombra!'' Said another one, David drowned out the voices as he looked at the bottom of the castle, there below it, was a light blue crystal heart that was placed between two spikes of crystals, making it float like the magnetic globes you would buy from a science museum.

The heart began to spin as the ground began to glow white-blue hue, all the ponies turned Crystally , the palace flashed white as a loud bang was heard, followed by a blue-ish ring as auroras erupted from the of the tallest point and spread across the blue morning sky, partly covering up the moon that was still in the sky along side the rising sun, he pulled out his phone and took a picture of the auroras. The male guard walked forward while the female one looked on.
"Leave him alone, Midnight Blaze, he's just a tourist.'' The female guard shouted to her partner as he continued to move forwards, to the human.
''You know the law, Solar Flare, any human caught on site must be taken straight to the ruler. The law has been in place since Emperor Sombra and the Empress hasn't repealed it yet, so the law still stands.'' Midnight Blaze said, pulling out baton and some hoof cuffs.

Solar Flare ran in front of Midnight and blocked his path, but to no avail, he pushes her aside and approached the human and smacked him on the back of the leg, knocking him over, he locked one of the cuffs around the human's wrist. Solar Flare and the other royal guards watched in horror as their superior officer attacked the human for no reason.
''Your coming with me, human!'' Midnight hissed in the David's ear, locking the cuffs tightly around his wrists.
''What! Is it illegal to take a photo!'' David screamed back as Midnight forced his head down.
''It's illegal for a human to be here!'' Midnight added, David tried to fight back, but saw Midnight pull out hid baton.

''No! Not my knee! Not my Knee!'' David scream

*SMACK*

''Ouch! My fucking knee!''

February 15th 2015, The Crystal Palace, Los Cristales, The Crystal Empire. 7:50 am.

Empress Cadence sat in the throne room, sorting out some paperwork, when she heard the doors to the room fling open and saw Shining Armor's second in command, Midnight Blaze march in, dragging a human behind him.
''What are you doing with a human?'' Cadence asked, in both shock and slight anger, Midnight stops and pushed the human forwards, much to the dismay of both the human and the empress.

David looked up and weakly smiled at the pink alicorn, a bit of blood leaked out of his split lip.
''Hey Cadence, remember me?'' He said weakly, he coughed up some blood as Midnight punched him in the gut, ''Are you gonna give your big brother a hand?'' He added, getting punched again by the royal guard. Cadence's eyes widened at that statement.
''David?'' She said, now confused.

End of Chapter Five.

Author's Note

TMD - Traction Maintenance Depot

Chapter #17: Family Bonds: Part II

My Little Pony: Origins.

Chapter Seventeen.
Family Bonds Part II.

February 17th 2015, Ponyville, Equestria. 07:45 am.

Cadence trotted through the very quiet Ponyville high street, she smiled as she passed a small cafe, waving at the staff who were setting up for the day ahead. The mild breeze blew through her feathers as she paced along, the slowly melting snow sloshing under her hooves. She stopped and looked up at the sky, it was cast over with nearly black clouds.
"Looks like its gonna rain." She said no one in particular as she heard a slight rumble in the distance, "Better get to the yard before they open up." She quickly picked up the pace as move clouds slowly moved above the town. Cadence trotted towards the train station, the rustic building gave it a welcoming feeling. As she stopped outside the warm building, she saw a rather confused unicorn looking at a town map.
"Excuse me miss, are you lost?" Cadence asked the unicorn, startling her, "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." She added, holding her hooves out calmly.
"Um, yes. You wouldn't know where Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is, i have a job interview there and i have no idea where it is. All i know is that it's the Ponyville location." Asked the unicorn, before gasping in surprise, "You're Empress Cadenza! I'm Starlight Glimmer, huge fan." Starlight Glimmer shouted proudly, rapidly shaking Cadence's hoof, making the alicorn blush with delite, no one has ever been this calm when meeting her in person.

"I'm Cadenza Mi Amore Wyne Sparkle, or Cadence for short." Cadence said proudly, before remembering the mare's name, "Starlight Glimmer? OH! You were Celestia's former student weren't you?" She added, Starlight nodded furiously, "It's finally nice to meet you." Cadence clapped her hooves together.
"Likewise, ma'am." Starlight smiled, "While i'd love to continue to chat with you, but i really must get to my interview, you wouldn't happen to know where Freddy Fazbear's is do you?" Starlight asked, pointing at the map of the town placed outside the station building.
"Oh! Follow that road towards the town hall, you go over the bridge, take a right and continue straight on." Cadence pointed on the map, Starlight smiled.
"Thank you." Starlight said, trotting happily away.
"Good luck Starlight!" Cadence cheered before trotting over to the footbridge and walking over the bridge and into the train yard. She looked around before spotting David, she smiled and trotted over quitely

David climbed up onto '43999's running board with a grunt, the cold night had left a thin layer of ice. As he stood on the locomotive's running board, he looked around, taking in the stunning scenery, he felt the cold air blowing through his hair.
"Hey David!" Dusty shouted, getting the human's attention, "No time to admire the scenery, help me melt the frozen ash from the smoke box!" She added, bringing a hose pipe.
"What? Oh yeah." David was snapped out of his trance, he turned to face the smoke door and began to unscrew the handles. The door slowly swung open in the breeze, David lent down to Dusty and took the hose. He turned back to the smoke box and opened the valve at the opening of the hose. Steaming hot water sprayed out the nozzle, the ice fizzled when the hot water made contact with it's cold surface. David looked up at the now storm looking sky, he turned his head around after sensing something behind him, shrugging after not seeing anyone or anything behind him.

David suddenly let out a sharp grunt when he felt something wrap around his waist.
"Gotcha."
"Ca-Cadence?!" He shouted in surprise.
"Who did you expect dummy?" Cadence replied, purring slightly before releasing David from her grip.
"What are you doing here?" David asked, his voice still full of shock, "Did you come to check that i didn't run off again?" He fuzzed up her mane, making her both frown and blush.
"No actually, i need to tell you something." Cadence paused. Her horn lit up, turning the hose off, "Something important. Something in private." She rubbed her left leg with her right.
"Ah, i see." David looked at her, "Hey Dusty! I'm gonna be awhile!" He shouted, Dusty nodded in replied. David climbed down from '43999' and walked over to the neighboring class 19s. As David climbed up the steps, Cadence noticed he had a slight limp to the right.

David forced the nose door open and stepped inside. "Welcome to my office." He chuckled slightly. Cadence let out a horrified gasp when she saw the state of the inside. A makeshift bed sat on the floor made from old blankets, cobwebs clung to the corners of the roof and mold was present at most of the windows.
"David. You....." Cadence's voice cracked, sounding like she was about to cry, "You live like this?" She asked, still struggling to not cry.
"Yep...." David paused, "Have done for the past sixteen years." He place his feet on the control desk of '642'. He groaned slightly as his stiff joints clicked.
"Y-you should come back!" She shouted, "We all thought you were dead, you should of come home and told us you were alive." She sharply embraced him.
"Why bother, i doubt anyone missed me." Cadence slapped him around the face, "Ouch! What was that for?!" He rubbed his now red cheek.
"I FUCKING MISSED YOU!" Cadence roared, hardly poking his chest, "I MOURNED YOU FOR SIXTEEN YEARS! I MOURNED FOR MY LOST LOVE FOR SIXTEEN YEARS! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I WENT THROUGH?!" She shouted, poking harder into his sore chest as she began to sob loudly, "I... missed... you..." She broke down, slamming her face into his chest, screaming into it. David gently patted her back.
"Sssh. It's ok Cae-Cae." He gently whispered in her ear, making it twitch a bit.

Cadence gently raised her head, her ice blue eyes looking into David's dull blue eyes. She smiled slightly.
"How.... How did you survive the car crash?" Cadence said, her voice cracking slightly, "The car exploded, all the doors were still attached. How did you escape? Please i want to know." She begged, looking directly at him.
David sighed, he knew someone would ask one day, "I think it should be best if i tell you how my car crashed in the first place." He looked at her pleading eyes, she gently nodded before laying her head back down.
"Well." David sighed, "As you know, i was living in Mesley due to the restraining order mom.... Rose had put on me, i guess she told people about what we did and people began spreading rumors that i was a child rapist and grooming schools girls. People began to make false reports against me, the police would always find me innocent." David paused. "But one day, a huge mob appear outside the flat i was living in, i escaped the flat through the bathroom window. I got in my car and i drove as fast as i could as the mob chased me in their cars and vans." He wiped his eyes. "I got to a sharp turn near Titfield, i tried to brake for it but my brakes her cut. One of the cars rammed me off the road and down the hill, the car rolled all the way. The next thing i remember they all surrounded me with cans of petrol, pouring it all over the car and igniting it. I was lucky to get out before the fuel tank exploded...." He looked down at her shocked expression. "But not all of me survived." David sat up and pulled up his left trouser leg, revealing that everything just above the angle joint down was artificial. Cadence gasped sharply.

"David...." Cadence gasped, "What did they do to you?" She cried, tears running down her cheeks.
"My foot was badly mangled by both the crash and the explosion." David gently stroked her face, "Thankfully someone found me and rushed me to the nearest hospital, i refused to give them my real name in fear that the mob would come back to finish me off. By the time i was discharged and i made my way back to Port Hope, i saw you all at the old house, with my burned out car on a flatbed. I just couldn't bring myself to go over to you all. So i just boarded the next bus out of their back to Mesley, i packed as much stuff as i could into my two rucksacks. I broke into the Mesley train yard and i stole these two class 19s and i never looked back. Been on the run ever since." He finished, looking out the window. Cadence lifted her head and looked at David's face, her cheeks were soaked from crying.
"Running...." Cadence's voice cracked, "From what?" She sobbed slightly.
"Everyone. The mob, the police...." He paused, "My past." He placed his hand on the window, "I spent the next sixteen years just living from cargo to cargo, hauling anything and everything i could. It's a live i've come to enjoy." He added, looking down at his sister.

"David...." Cadence signed, placing a hoof on his cheek, stroking his skin, "Why didn't you tell me?" She sternly asked him, he looking down.
"I was scared." He replied, "I was scared that you'd think i was weak." He added, trying to move her off him, but she stuck to him like glue.
"David, i would never think your weak. Asking for help is not a weakness." She frowned, "You taught me that years ago when i had to build that diorama of the Titanic wreck, remember?" She hugged him, still clinging to him, purring.
"I remember..." He chuckled, "Modeling that was bloody hard." He added, Cadence chuckled, "To be fair, it was accurate for the time." David chuckled again before falling silent after hearing Cadence snoring slightly, he gently shook her, "Cadence? You awake?" He quietly asked, he saw her stretch.
"What? I'm awake?" She yawned slightly, stretching her wings.
"Cadence, i know that you didn't just come here to ask me how i survived the car crash do you?" He questioned her.

Cadence took a sharp gulp, "You're right." Cadence paused, taking in a sharp inhale of air, "I need to tell you something." She paused again, looked at him but before she could say anymore, she found David's finger on her mouth.
"Cadence..." David said, looking into the ice blue eyes, "I know about Shooting Star." He looked away from her and bit his lip, "Cadence, i know about her."
"But i.... But i never told anyone..." Cadence frowned, "I never told you." Cadence gasped for air in shock, "How did you find out?" David picked her up and placed her on the drivers chair as he walked over to the box sat under the conductor's seat.
"Celestia wrote a letter to the family while you were resting." David said, pulling out a partly crumpled letter from the box and holding it out to Cadence. Cadence's horn lit up as her aura engulfed it, unfolding the letter and bring it to her face.

Dear the Wyne Family.

I regret to inform you that Cadence gave birth to a stillborn foal today at 6:35 am, who she's named Shooting Star, Cadence is currently resting. She was refusing to let the doctors examine her, we had to tranquilize her just to take the baby away to determine the causes of the stillbirth. She was also refusing to tell us who the father is. Please, one of you must get here as fast as you can.

Yours truly.

Queen Celestia.

The letter dropped to the floor. Cadence trusted Celestia. She made Celestia promise not to tell anyone while she was in labor. Cadence slammed her rum down on the chair in anger.
"I TRUSTED HER!" Cadence screamed. "I!" She screamed, punching the window, "TRUSTED!" The glass cracked, "HER!" The glass shattered, slicing her hoof open in the process, "I FUCKING TRUSTED HER AND SHE BETRAYED ME!" Blood slowly trickled onto the floor as Cadence punched the cab interior wall, denting it, leaving a bloody hoof print in place. David grabbed her hoof, she turn around with the intent of punching him until she saw her hoof.
"Cadence stop! You're hurting yourself." He shouted, snapping her out of her blind rage. David lent over the control desk and grabbed a first aid kit, "Stay still." He sternly said, Cadence nodded nervously, looking down at her bleeding hoof, "Cadence, you do know that Celestia was only looking out for you right?" He calmly asked her as he gently wiped away the blood with antiseptic wipes, Cadence bit her lip as her hoof stinging.
Cadence let out a sigh, "Yeah i know. But she could've at least asked me first!" Cadence raised her voice as David wrapped her hoof up in a bandage. She let out a sign as she looked at her now patched up limb, "I suppose that explain why Dad showed up demanding i tell him who the father was." Cadence added as sudden realization dawned on her.

"Cadence..." David paused as he placed the first aid box back in its place, "Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant?" He asked, his voice full of sadness.
"I didn't know i was pregnant." Cadence said, placing her hooves on his hands and looking into his eyes, "And by the time i worked out i was pregnant, it was too late." She added, sighing deeply.
"What do you mean 'too late'?" David raised his eyebrow slightly, "Unless you mean you found out after your waters broke." He added, Cadence shook her head.
"No, not like that." Cadence frowned slightly, "Well, the night before i went into labor, i had been feeling unwell so i went to bed early. Around midnight, i started to feel cramps so i just gently rubbed my belly as when i had cramps in the past, that eased them, but instead of my usual jelly belly, it was firm. But what shocked me the most was when i felt her kick very hard. I paced around for hours, with things like 'I can't be a mother yet, i'm not ready' and 'How do i tell you' filling my mind. Come around 6 am i was very grumpy because i had been up most of the night and i was very tired, Celestia came knocking on my bedroom door, i told her to go away but she came in anyway. I shouted at her and moved towards her to get her out and my waters broke, right then and there." Cadence recounted, her ears falling flat on her head.

"Do you know what caused her to be stillborn?" David asked, he looked like he was about to cry.
"No, i just assume it was a mix of stress with the move to Equestria and me getting transformed into an alicorn." Cadence said, sighing. She placed a hoof on her necklace, "Would you like to see a picture of her?" She asked David, she was surprised when he shook his head, Surely, she thought, Surely he'd want to see a picture of our daughter, her mind said to her. David turned away from her and grabbed piece of paper from the sunblind that hung above the windshield.
"That letter wasn't the only thing Celestia sent us." He said, looking at the piece of paper, "She sent this with it." He showed Cadence the piece of paper, to her shock, it was a picture of her holding Shooting Star, the exact same picture in her locket, "I've kept this photo and that letter with me as a remember for me to go on with life, no matter what. I tell myself it's what Shooting Star would of wanted." He added, slumping down in the conductors seat. Cadence's horn lit up, taking the photo from David's hand. She looked deeply at the cleary aged photograph, a single tear drop splashing down on its glossy surface.
"David. I will admit, we did make a damn cute kid." Cadence smirked, looking out the corner of her eyes, this got a small smile from David that quickly faded.

"Was she buried?" David asked quietly.
"Yes." Cadence replied.
"Where?"
"Canterlot."
"I want to see her grave." David said, looking at Cadence, she having him a shocked look.
"What did you say?" She question.
"I want to see our daughter's grave." He replied. Cadence nodded.
"Ok, i'll take you, if it makes you happy." She added, limping over to David and placed a hoof on his hand. He smiled slightly, "But, you have to travel aboard my private train, it's on me." Cadence added.

David looked out the window as trees passed by. Cadence sat a few seats down the length of the coach. She had offered him a seat next to her but be refused, choosing instead to sit alone. Cadence lent over, looking at how glum he appeared. She left her seat and trotted towards the gangway. David heard the interconnecting doors slide open and close, he looked down at the table in front of him, running his finger in a circle. David rested his head on the window as the interconnecting doors opened again.

"What if?" David said to himself, his warm breath fogging up the glass.
"Whatcha thinking about?" Cadence spoke, plonking down next to him, placing a cup of hot chocolate in his hand, smiling as she too a sip from her cup.
"Thanks." David said, taking a mouthful of the hot chocolate, "I'm just thinking of the what if." He placed the cup back down, looking at the liquid sloshing around.
"Like what?" Cadence said, wrapping her wing around David, bring him closer.
"Cadence, do you ever think of what would of become of us had Shooting Star not been a stillborn?" He replied, sighing deeply.
"Every single day." Cadence looked down at the table.

"What do you think would of happened?" David looked out the window as the train began to pass the Canterlot Suburbs.
"Well~" Cadence placed a hoof on David's thigh, "If our daughter had survived. I think we'd be happily married with four more beautiful daughters." She purred, moving her face closer to his.
"F-f-f-four?!" He questioned with confusion feeling his voice.
"Well, we wouldn't want Shooting Star to be an only child would we?" She added, moving her face closer again, applying a bit more pressure to David's thigh.
"Well no, but-" He added, Cadence placed a hoof on his lips, he batted the hoof away, "But what would their names be?" He asked, Cadence placed her hoof back on his lips.
"The second oldest would be Flurry Heart. Because she'd be born in winter." She replied, her face now a few inches from his, "And the last three would be triplets, called Carmine Cream, Sapphire Lily and Emerald Knight." She said, her voice filling with lust.

Cadence removed her hoof from David's lips and without warning, locked her lips with his. David pushed her away.
"No Cadence." He said, holding an arm to her chest, "You're a married mare! We can't do this." He added, holding her back, she pouted.
"Shining hasn't paid attention to me in months. I need some action." She said, her voice filled with lust. Cadence threw herself onto the table, her hind legs overhanging the edge, "Come on David! Take me right here, right now!" She begged, wiggling her rump.
"No! You are married." He replied, standing up and walking away, "It's just your heat talking." He added as her magic aura surrounded him, she brought him forth to her rump.
"Do it, fuck me. Fuck my pink pony pussy." She purred, her wings unfolding and laying flat at her sides.

"Your highness, we have arrived in Canterlot Citadel." A voice broke over the intercom.
Thank fuck for that guard, David thought as he quickly made a run for the carriage door, stepping out on to the platform.
Cadence frowned, placing a hoof under her head, So close, She thought, sliding off the table. Cadence calmly made her way to her private washroom, she opened up the cabinet and pulled out a small plastic bottle of pills.
"Guess i'm back to taking this for four days." She said in disappointment, shaking out two pills onto her hoof and placing them into her mouth. She placed the bottle back in the cabinet and left the room.
"You ok now?" David said, tensing up for a potential slap from Cadence.
"Don't worry, i've taken my tablets." She said, the lust in her voice fading, "Now, follow me." She added, trotting for the station exit.

Cadence lead David through a small graveyard, towards a line of hedges.
"She's just beyond the hedgerow." Cadence said, wrapping her wing around David's hand, she felt him trembling, "You don't have to do this, if you don't want to." She added, looking at him.
"I know, but i want to." David said as Cadence lead him to the gap in the hedgerow.

The two walked along a narrow cobble path lined with red and white roses. They walked along the path for what felt like minutes before the two came across a small-ish headstone at the base of a large rose bush.
"Here she is. Here's our baby girl." Cadence said mournfully, sitting down by the grave. David sat down next to Cadence. The two looked at the inscription.

Shooting Lilian Star.
January 30, 1991.
Born without breath, not without love.

"Hey Shooting Star, it's me, your daddy." David said, Cadence rested her head on his lap, "I never got a chance to meet you in person. I'm sorry baby." His voice filling with sadness as he placed his hand on the headstone, wiping away some moss "I'm so sorry." He sobbed loudly, "Cadence. I'm sorry you had to go through this alone. I'm sorry i did this to you." He added, looking down at Cadence.
"David, it wasn't your fault. I wanted it, i wanted you to do it inside me. It's my fault as much, if not more then it is yours." Cadence replied, looking up at David, "Don't blame yourself for any of this." She placed her hoof on his chin.
"But we should've used something." He replied, looking away her, Cadence placed a wing on his shoulder.
"We both thought you wouldn't get me pregnant, don't you remember when we had that pregnancy scare after our first time, remember how the test was negative?" Cadence added.
"Yes, i remember..." He nodded quietly, "But still, we should of used something." He continued, looking at her again.

The two continued to sit by the grave amongst the flowers.
"I made this private garden when ever i had free time from college and at weekends, so our daughter had somewhere respectable to lay in peace." Cadence said, sniffing a low hanging rose from the rose bush.
"You did this all by yourself?" He asked, noticing a small pond by the path, "Cadence, its beautiful." He added, looking up at the rose bush, seeing it had pink roses.
"Celestia helped out when she could, as did Shining Armor, he even helped dig the pond." She looked down at her necklace, remembering the day Shining gifted it to her.
"Shining sounds like a nice man, he's lucky to have you as a wife." He added, laying down on his back, looking up at the blue sky, "Is it true? What you said about Shining not giving you attention?" He asked, Cadence nodding, laying down next to David, resting her head on his chest.
"Yes. He's been busy lately training new troops at Celestia's request. When he is at home, he's too tired to really do anything." Cadence replied, looking at David with half lidded eyes.

The pair laid on the grass for an hour, sleeping. David had taken off his jacket and used it as a makeshift pillow, Cadence just slept with her head still on his chest.
"David, we best be getting back before the others get suspicious." Cadence cooed, sitting up, her mane stuck to her face from drool. She gently shook David awake. David slowly sat up and stretched his arms.
"Right right." He quietly said, slowly standing up, "Before we go, i want to leave this here." He placed his hand into his inner jacket pocket and pulled out a small teddy bear, "I bought for her years ago but never really got the chance to give it to you." He looked down as Cadence took the bear and placed it in front of the headstone.
"It's perfect." She smiled, gripping David's hand in her wing.
David looked back as the two began to walk away, "Sleep well my little star." He said quietly, smiling slightly.

End of Chapter Seventeen.