Celestia talking

Luna speaking

Time skips

'Thoughts'

After Luna and I returned to the astronomy tower and sat down in our chairs we started talking about our lives before recent events, she asked me about if I wish to discover a way to get back to earth. I honestly only have one thing there that matters to me and that is my brother, I honestly just need to get back so I can tell him why I disappeared for who knows how long. The thing about time is that time is only relevant depending on how close you are to a star, like on earth we have 24 hour days with about 8-15 hours of daylight and 16-9 hours of nighttime, but here however there are 36 hour days with about 19 hour days and 17 hour nights. Their day night cycle is the same since the princesses decide when to raise and lower the sun and moon. Based on this information I have no idea how long I have been gone, it is possible for me to do the calculations but it would take a long time. I was thinking about these things when suddenly I remembered something.

"Luna? How will the citizens here react to having a new prince?"

"I truly do not know, if this was before I was banished to the moon then I would say that they would have mixed reactions."

I sighed. "Well I guess I will just have to wait and see."

I got up and grabbed a book on the known stars and the physics of the cosmos. When I sat back down I noticed that Luna had a book already, so I started reading. After a few minutes I noticed something in this book regarding where the stars came from, I frowned and went to the shelf to grab a book to check if this was consistent. After looking through this book I was starting to get confused, so I read another and another only to be met with the same results.

"Luna, You might want to speak with Celestia about why there doesn't seem to be any record of you and your mother creating the stars."

"What? What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that all of the books I just looked through had theories about how the stars were created and mentioned neither you nor your mother."

Luna started pacing and mumbling to herself, while she did that I looked out the window and saw some thing that looked like a Griffon or a Pegasus outside the window standing on the window sill. If they saw me looking then they must have thought I couldn't see them since they are wearing black, the person had on them what looked like a crossbow and a sword as well as a throwing knife belt, I didn't show any outward reaction to them being there. Instead I walked over to Luna and gave her a hug while whispering in her ear.

"Don't react to much but there is a Griffon or Pegasus outside the window and from what I can tell it may be an assassin based on what they are wearing and their weaponry."

"What weaponry do they have? And do you have any weapons of your own?"

"They have a crossbow, a long sword, and a throwing knife belt like mine except half of their knives are missing and there is blood on the sword. I have several weapons on me right now, if they are stupid enough to attack then I will kill them."

I pulled away then took off my ACU jacket and unbuttoned the gun holster on my left shoulder and removed my CZ 75 B and flipped the safety off then checked the mag to make sure it was loaded. I mentally counted my ammo and I have 64 rounds for my CZ 75 B, 51 rounds for my Glock 17, and 60 rounds for my Glock 40. I subtly glanced over at the window to see if the assassin was still there and saw them undoing the latch on the window, I waited till they were in the room and spun around while dropping to a knee and unloaded two rounds into their chest and one into the head. 61 rounds left. I kept my pistol at the ready and went over to check the body, it was a female Griffin and looks to have been in her mid 20s. There is a crest on her armor of a Chinese Dragon twisting around a castle with blue flames flowing from its nostrils.

"Luna, do you recognize this crest or is it from during your banishment?"

"Sadly I do recognize it and it belongs to a famous assassin guild from before my banishment called The Dragons Castle."

I nodded and picked up the casings and put them in my ACU jacket left arm pocket, I walked over to the body and levitated the bullets out and put them into a pocket on my ACU pants. Once I was done with that I walked over to the door and called down the stairs for the guards to come and that there had been an assassination attempt. The guards ran in and a Sargent ordered the Private who was with him to go and get the Captain of the Guard and have Princess Celestia woken from her sleep. As soon as I heard Celestia's name I took off running to where I remember being told her room is, I burst through the door with my CZ 75 B in hand and did a sweep of the room and checked the balcony. By this time Celestia had woken up, and was looking startled by the sight of me.

"Sorry Celestia, Luna and I just had an assassin attempt to kill us. She wasn't fast enough and I killed her, as soon as the guards mentioned you I realized that you might be a target as well so I got here as fast as I could."

It seems that with the arrival of a new Alicorn and my sisters return that someone is getting nervous. I will be boosting security."

"Oh and Luna says that the crest the assassin bears belongs to The Dragons Castle guild." I said as I was walking out the door.

I walked over to the medical wing and found a doctor that specializes in healing spells. As soon as we were in his office I told him what I am planning and after voicing his displeasure, he admitted that it could work. So we walked to the O.R. and I pulled out a knife but at the doctors look I sterilized it with fire and cooled it with water, I asked him to hold my wing out and I put a strip of leather in my mouth to bite down on. Once I was ready I stabbed the knife into my wing membrane, it felt like a combination of being stabbed with a hot knife as well as the pins and needles feeling of a limb waking up multiplied by ten, in other words it hurt like hell. I pulled the knife out and motioned for the doctor to heal it, once he was done we did it with the other wing as well. The doctor gave me painkillers and once the pain lessened I tried to use the feelings of the limb that I had gained during that unpleasantness and stretched them out, albeit very weakly and very painfully.

The doctor directed me to a physical therapist who helps with wings here in the castle, the name of the therapist is Strong Wings. I asked if she is available at the moment and he told me that she probably is, so I walked down to her office and knocked on her door. Strong Wings opened the door, took one look at my wings and pulled me inside. As soon as I knew what was going on I realized that my wings were being preened by someones hands and someone else was checking the muscles surrounding them. I looked around and saw Strong Wings walk in front of me and say that I needed to do 50 wing ups a day, a version of push ups that has the wings taking about 50-60% of your weight using the wings which she then demonstrated. I was instructed to come back in a week so she can check my progress and once I am fit to fly she will send me to a flying instructor.

ONE WEEK LATER

Over the last week several things have happened. The security was boosted immensely, so much in fact that wherever I go there are four guards flanking me. Anyone who wishes to enter the castle is to be checked for weapons and poisons, only military personnel, Luna, Celestia, and I are allowed to be flying in the castle air space. I had done my wing exercises and several more that I had come up with after studying the muscle structure around and on Pegasus and Alicorn wings. I started flying lessons yesterday however we discovered that my transformation gave me an instinctual and reflexive ability to fly, after that it was fairly easy to get around. Celestia and I had started my magic lessons and I seem to be like a sponge when it comes to learning magic, so far I have completed all of the basic, advanced courses and just need to practice more to master those spells. I am still working on the mastery courses and haven't even been allowed to touch combat magic, being told that it is far too dangerous for peace times. I decided to head to the Royal Archives to see if I could find anything on space travel so I could get home. 'Heh, maybe if I get home I should just take over and fix the problem of wars... But thats a thought for another time.' About 20 minutes later I reached the Public Archives and went to the back of the room where I had been informed by Celestia that the Royal Archives resided. As I approached the entrance I was stopped by two guards who stated that by protocol I was required to show proof of permission to enter, instead I just gently picked them up via levitation and flared my wings.

"Is this proof enough?"

The two guards just nodded and after I set them down they provided me a seal to carry on my person that will allow me access no matter what guards were on duty. My guards joined the two outside the door seeing as they are not allowed inside which I thought was very strange. Once I entered I realized that the Royal Archives are absolutely massive (Think of the lost library from Avatar The Last Airbender) but there is what seems like a directory of some sort on a pedestal in the middle of the bridge in front of me

I walked over to the edge of the bridge to look down and the floors just kept going until I couldn't see past the darkness, I then walked over to the directory and looked for the sections on space and the stars. The book says that the section I'm looking for is on floor 1,296, now I dreaded what floor I was on and rightfully so because I saw that I'm on floor 13,768. After this I just sighed and jumped over the edge, while falling I sent three large bolts of light ahead each one set to stay in place after a certain distance. After I don't know how long I started to see a reflection of light far below me so I slowly spread my wings so as not to cause too much stress on my joints and muscles. By the time I had my wings fully extended I saw the floor fast approaching so I flapped my wings as hard as I could and sent a blast of air down using magic to cushion my landing, the combination of the gust caused by my wings and my magic slowed me down enough that instead of feeling like I just fell more than 275,000 feet it was instead that of a 10 foot fall (my math may be a bit off but I have the archive set up so that each floor is 20 feet tall and thats not including the approximate 5 feet of stone in between floors). After I landed I started flying up and counting the floors as I went up, after I passed 1,250 I started to slow down and soon enough I found the floor I was looking for. I landed on the floor and found that there was a ton of dust everywhere so I sent a small gust of wing in front of me so I could actually see where I'm walking. I started to search through this floor and every once in a while I would pick up a book with my levitation and eventually I was reaching my carry limit before I had even found what I was looking for.

After about two hours I had searched only a quarter of the floor so I went to the bridge and set four mini suns of light to hover in the four spaces away from the bridge before taking flight and being careful to not lose my haul at the same time. After 3 hours and multiple rest stops on various bridges I finally made it to the top floor, as I exited the Royal Archive I asked my personal guards 'Hmm, I need to get them some personalized armor' where I could find a book bag. After we spent another hour looking for a book bag I found one in a closet, then gathered my guards and headed to the personal study I was given by Celestia as thanks for saving Luna, when we arrived I asked my guards to sit and introduce themselves.

The first guard (a unicorn) rose from her seat and Introduced herself "My name is Fire Blaze, and as my name implies I have an affinity for fire magic. I hold the rank of Sergeant." She then bowed and sat down again.

The second guard rose from his seat (also a unicorn) and introduced himself "My name is Lightning Glory sir, as my name suggests I excel in Electric and Lightning based magic. I hold the rank of Warrant Officer." He then saluted and returned to his seat.

The third guard (a pegasus) rose from her seat and introduced herself "My name is Stormy Skies, as my name suggests I have a talent for creating storms that my teammates use to their advantage. I hold the rank of 2nd Lieutenant." She returned to her seat.

the fourth guard (an earth pony) rose from her seat and introduced herself "My name is Shattered Grounds, as my name sort of implies I have the unusual gift of geomancy. I hold the rank of Captain and lead the Special forces unit designated to guard you your highness." She Bowed and returned to her seat.

I then stood up and decided to give them a formal introduction "As you probably know, My name is Scorpio. I Was brought here by Nightmare Moon from another planet and was turned from my old race into an Alicorn when I held her in place and both of us were hit by the Elements of Harmony. I will be having new armor commissioned for you four to show that you are my personal guards and the four generals of the Army I am going to be forming." I then sat down and waited for a response.

While waiting I studied my new generals, Fire Blaze is around 5'4" with a blood red mane and gray fur with purple eyes, Lightning Glory is about 5'6" and has a blue mane and yellow fur with deep blue eyes, Stormy Skies is about 5'6" and has a black mane and grey fur with red eyes, and Shattered Grounds is about 5'9" and has a dark brown mane and black fur with bright green eyes. They all looked shocked at what I said so I told them to take some time and gather their thoughts before looking at the pile of books I had set down on the table to my left and browsed through the titles before finding the one I wanted to read first. I picked up the book titled The Cosmos and Beyond by Starswirl the Bearded and a letter fell out addressed to Scorpius The Stupid Scorpion the nickname my brother gave me. Curious I unfolded the letter and the only thing there was this

Dear Scorpio,

It is your friend Starswirl writing this letter as per your own instructions. You instructed me to put down these coordinates as proof that It is me writing you this.

44.9537° N, 93.0900° W

Now that I have proven what this is I will tell you the location of your airship that we built together. The airship resides in the care of your wife Queen Sombra in the Crystal Empire of the Frozen North. If you are correct then when you read this you will have another 3 years before your empire reappears, the cure we developed for your wifes illness will be inside the chamber under your throne. I wish you the best of luck my old friend.

Your friend Starswirl

List of Weapons so far and ammo count
1. Glock 17 with 51 9x19 rounds with 17 rounds per magazine
2. Glock 40 with 60 10mm rounds with 15 rounds per magazine
3. CZ 75 B with 61 9mm rounds with 16 rounds per magazine
4. 4 Ka-Bars
5. 50 throwing knives
6. 2 hunting knives

Author's Note

Sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up, my laptop broke and I just recently got a new computer. Beware there was a lot of foreshadowing in this chapter... MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

on a side note I must have edited this chapter at least 7 times and I still probably have a ton of errors and yes, this is going to involve minor time travel at one point but its only going to be for a few chapters

anyway, see ya in the next chapter!