A Derpish Love story
It was a beautiful morning in Ponyville; everyone in town had awoken early to help each other prepare for the Summer Sun Celebration which was going to start the next day. All were helping with the preparations; fillies, colts, mares, stallions, young and old. All except an alicorn stallion named Morning Star who had slept in unaware of the current events taking place.
“Star, it’s time to wake up sleepy head.” The violet mare said “Star, Wake up” she said louder than before “Wake Up!” she screamed while releasing her wings as far as they’d go.
“(Yawn) good morning Twilight” he said while he wiped a little drool from his chin. “Why are you up so early? Isn’t that my job?” he said with a smile
“Don’t you know the summer sun celebration is tomorrow? Everypony woke early to prepare for it.” She said with an inquisitive look on her face
“Even Dash?”
“Yes, even Dash.”
“In that case, what will you have me do commander?” he said with a smile
“I’m glad you asked. Follow me into the throne room.” She said as they made their way out to the hall.
As they entered the throne room Star noticed a small stack of papers on Twilight’s throne. The map in the center of the room was inactive and the other thrones had looked exceedingly clean, free of dust and debris.
“You’re not going to make me do paper work are you? I thought we talked about this, I don’t do paper work your highness.” Star wined sarcastically
“First off, don’t call me that. And second, this isn’t paper work. It’s probably a good idea to ask what it is before you complain.” She said with a disapproving expression. Star looked away and smiled awkwardly through his glasses. “Anyway” she continued “There will be an after party this year and there are a lot of ponies in the outer area that haven’t heard about this news. So I was wondering if you could pass out fliers. Please make sure they get all the information before you continue and answer their questions.” She requested
“Oh! A party, I bet pinkie pie is all over that.”
“No, actually it’s semi-formal, so rarity has been planning everything for the entire week. Pinkie is handling the decorations, under rarity’s authorization of cores. Applejack is handling the refreshments such as drinks and food. Fluttershy is orchestrating the main musical number. Rainbow Dash, Vinyl Scratch, and Octavia are putting together the rest of the musical lineup.” She said while levitating the pile of papers tords Star.
“OK, I get it now, but why an after party? From what I’ve heard about the other Summer Sun Celebrations, this is the first after party that’s ever taken place in the history of Ponyville.” He said with a confused expression
“Princess Celestia thought it would be good idea, considering the fact that this will be the first time all four princesses will be in Ponyville at the same time. So the first annual Four Princess Ball is being held in the castle’s ballroom.” she explained
“Wait a second, we have a ball room?” Star said
“Of cores you have ball room darling, what’s a castle without a ball room?” Rarity came out of
one of the corridors that splintered from the main hall near the entrance. She was wearing a green visor, red glasses, and had a pencil on her ear.
“Oh, hello Rarity, I can see that you’re excited about this project of yours.” Star said surprised at his friend’s appearance
“Pardon my appearance; I loved attending formal ball room dances when I was a filly. The gorgeous gowns, the lovely decorations, handsome stallions” she turned to look at Star and smiled “THE ROMANCE” she said as she leaned closer. Star took a side step away from Rarity, she continued “I thought it grand to plan one for a change.” A loud explosion erupted from the ball room “Pinkie Pie! That wasn’t your party cannon, now was it?” Pinkie poked her head from the hall, gave a suspicious smile and said
“Why no it wasn’t Rarity, I don’t even know what you’re talking about, I left my party cannon at home.” She grinned again and rushed away
“But I thought you never leave without it!” she said as she darted around the corner
“Obviously you can see that we have our own problems here” Twilight said as she put a saddle bag filled with fliers on Stars back and shoved him out the door.
“Woe, wait a second! How in Equestria do I get…..” the door slammed leaving star outside the castle confused and unaware of his destination. “Well, that could have gone better” he said to himself “Maybe I just go strait, or left. No wait! Definitely strait” he assured himself as he trotted down the road.
Three hours of second guessing himself had lead him to the outer area of Ponyville. The sites had not changed much for Star, just housing districts and new faces.
“Wow, the feeling that you get from this area of town is somehow different, more peaceful than were the castle is.” He said admiring the new faces he had never seen before. Before he could finish his next thought there was a collision between his skull and another which had resulted in the feeling of being hit in the with a brick. The collision knocked the glasses from stars face preventing him from seeing what he had collided with.
“Oh my Celestia, are you OK? I didn’t see you there, I just don’t know what went wrong!” the young gray mare apologized
“NO! I’m sorry, I wasn’t paying attention to what was in front of me” he explained as he searched for his glasses
“Oh! Are these yours?”
“Thank you” he said as he slipped them back into place. As Star gazed upon his unmovable object, he noticed that her golden eyes were slightly off alignment but were beautiful all the same. Her gray coat was well groomed along with her golden main and tail. Star could feel his heart begin to beet faster and faster until it felt as though it was going to burst. All of his thoughts were racing around at supersonic speed, each one as distracting as the last. He had forgotten the pain he was in only moments ago as he tried to utter his first words to the mare he pictured as the product of beauty.
“Um, are you ok? You’ve been staring for five minutes.” she asked
“OH, I’m fine. It’s just that I haven’t seen you around the castle” he said as he snapped out of his trance
“Well that’s a weird thing to say. You’d have to sit outside the castle a lot to know something like that”
“I actually live at the castle with Twilight Sparkle. You may have read about me in a paper that was published last year, I’m Morning Star” as he finished explaining Star had noticed a look of disbelief on her face
“Wait, you’re that male alicorn from the paper? What’s it like to be mentored by Princess Luna herself!? What’s it like to use magic and fly at the same time?!”
“I’m just glad that nopony recognizes me. I hate being the center of attention. By the way I didn’t catch your name” he asked awkwardly
“My name is Ditsy Doo” she replied. ”now that I answered one of your questions you get to answer a few of mine” she said
“OK” he started “But I’m doing a favor for Twilight. I guess if you helped me I could answer all of your questions while I…..”
“I’ll do it!” she said ecstatically as she grabbed the fliers out of Stars hoof “Wait a second” she paused “Semi-formal ball at the castle? Is this for everypony?” she asked
“Oh of cores it is. Twilight told me that it will be the first summer sun celebration with all four princesses attending. So it’s a big deal, apparently” he said
She gasped in awe “I have to go to that. I just don’t know if the Doctor will want to” she said as she looked down with a worried expression
“May I ask, who’s the Doctor” Star asked
“Oh, he’s my roommate” she said with a smile “You have to meet him, I have the feeling he’s gonna like you.” She said as she grabbed Star’s hoof and tried to pull with no success
“I have to finish this job for Twilight. It’s like the only thing she’s ever made me do”
“You can finish it on the way there!” she said as she struggled to pull Star along. Star had eventually decided go along with his new friends plane.
Several hours have passed and all of the fliers have been posted and the sun descending. Star had found himself telling Ditsy, his new friend, his entire back story, including the land had come he had from.
“Wow” she said with eyes filled with wonder “dose living in Equestria feel any different from a land without magic?” she asked
“Well back home, since there’s no magic, the pegasi can barely hover, unicorns have almost no use for their horns what so ever, and the earth ponies aren’t as strong as they are here in Equestria.” he explained “Oh! And it’s more industrialized, so the air is cleaner here”
“I think you’re gonna like the Doctor, he’s a foreigner too, except he won’t tell me about his home” she said
“Hmm” he thought “Don’t you think ‘Doctor’ is a strange name?”
“Oh no, his real name Time Turner, he just prefers to be called the Doctor” she stated
“Oh! Then I can’t wait to meet him. He sounds interesting” he said as they continued on for another half a block.
The sun was barely touching the horizon when they had reached the street that the Doctor had lived on. With the sun descending on Equestria, its light had begun to vanish making it increasingly hard to see the small details of the environment. Star had spotted the street sign and read the name aloud
“St. John Ambulance Boulevard” he read
“Yea, isn’t it neat? The Doctor told me that this one of the oldest streets in Ponyville” Ditsy said as they stop at the fortieth house on the peculiar street. The house was small in size and blue in color with only two doors in the front for an entrance.
“Welcome back Ditsy!” a strange brown stallion with a spiked main and green tie said as he popped out from behind the two doors.
“Sorry I was out so late Doctor, I was helping this stallion post these fliers everywhere saying that there’s going to be this ball and I was wondering if….” She couldn’t finish before the Doctor spoke up
“May I ask what your name is?”
“I’m Morning Star” the Doctors face began beaming
“You’re that alicorn that was in the paper last year. I’ve been wanting to meet you since the day I read about you.” He said. Star didn’t get the chance to speak before the Doctor had grabbed his hoof and dragged him inside his shack of a house, Ditsy soon followed.
Star had dropped his saddle bag in disbelief when he saw the massive interior of the Doctors home which appeared to outsize everything on the outside.
“It’s bigger on the inside” Star said as he nearly forgot to blink
“Yes I know ‘It’s bigger on the inside’.” He continued “This is about as far as unicorn magic combined with advanced technology can get you. All I can tell you is that it’s almost like a parallel dimension in time and space. But that’s not even the best part of your visit here today” he said as he placed a large helmet on stars head and attached it to a monitor.
“Umm, what does this this thing do?” Star said as the Doctor fastened a metal cone to his horn
“This machine that I built is designed to document the amount of magic a simple unicorn, or in this case an alicorn, can produce. I want to see what makes you tick, and as a bonus, I might be able to find out what made an alicorn in the first place. You see unicorns, earth ponies, and pegasi give off different and unique magical signals, and I have been itching to try it out on an alicorn for a long time.” The Doctor said with an excited look on his face
“This all sounds well and good but it’s getting dark and I really have to get to the castle and let Twilight know that the poster job is done. I hope I’ll be seeing you at the ball tomorrow night” Star said as he placed the helmet back on the table and rushed out the two doors. Star had noticed that the windows were low enough to the ground to see through them; letting his curiosity get the best of him, he began watching. As Star watched he could just barely make out what they were saying.
“That reminds me, Doctor, I was wondering if you would, um…, go to this ball with me. I understand if you don’t because it’s such short notice and all but……” Ditsy said as her face began to redden
“Of cores I want to go Ditsy, not only because you want to, but also because it’s the best opportunity I have to get close to the princesses and run some tests” he said eagerly
“OH THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!!” she said as twirled in the air abruptly ending in a nose dive at the Doctor. She began hugging him as if the next day would never happen.
Her face was filed with great admiration witch had turned into a face of enjoyment and ecstasy. It was at that moment that Star realized Ditsy had feelings for the Doctor. He felt his heart drop from his chest and shatter against the ground into a million pieces, the sound of the shatter echoed in his mind and beckoned the return of unwanted memories.
‘I’ve had this feeling before’ he thought to himself ‘This always happens when I meet a mare
that I might like’ a small storm cloud began to form over his head made of excess magic ‘They are always ether not interested or in a relationship’ the cloud began to erupt with thunder and spark with lightning ‘I don’t want to be alone’ the cloud began a full downpour, soaking his mane relentlessly. He then began making his way back to the castle.
Star, in all of his grief, proceeded to his room on the second floor of the castle without making so much as a creak as he made his way up the stairs. He crawled into bed and drifted into a sorrow filled slumber as the rain continued to pound his face through the night.
“STAR, WAKE UP! YOU’RE GOING TO MISS THE SUNRISE!” Pinkiepie said as she slapped Star across the face. Star jumped to life as the pain ran through his body
“OW!” he screamed in agony “Was that necessary Pinkie”
“Umm, Yes! This is like, a big day for Ponyville that you should be there to see and not be in bed, sweating!”
“What happened to the rain cloud?”
“What rain cloud? WAIT NO TIME. We gotta go NOW!” she said as she grabbed Star by the hoof and dragged him outside
Star saw a huge crowd of ponies gathered under the moon light in front of the castle. He heard the royal trumpeters playing, and there on the castles main balcony, stood the four princesses ready to perform their duties. The crowd watched in awe as Celestia raised her horn to the sky with a goddess like majesty. The anticipation of the summer suns arrival in Equestria filled the residence of Ponyvilles hearts with happiness and joy. The crowd began to cheer as the sun crawled over the horizon. The sunlight bathed the crowd in its nurturing warmth. It was officially summer.
Celestia walked tords the edge of the balcony “I would like to thank everypony for coming to this year’s Summer Sun Celebration” she continued “I would also like to formally invite you all to the first annual Four Princess Ball currently taking place this afternoon at sundown in the palaces’ ball room. The whole affair will be hosted by my dear friend and faithful student Princess Twilight Sparkle. I look forward to seeing you all there.” The crowd cheered as the four proceeded into the castle.
Several hours after Celestias announcement, the time for the ball to begin was fast approaching. Luna appeared as if she was enthusiastic about something when she walked up to Star with a beaming smile on her face.
“Morning Star, I have wonderful news that I must share with you!” Luna said ecstatically
“Yes” he said with a slight look of depression on his face
“I have been conversing with my sister. Since you’re my royal student in the same way Twilight Sparkle was to my sister, you get to stand next to me when we greet the guests on the stage in the ball room” she said trying to suppress her excitement
“That’s great I look forward to it” he said trying to hide his sadness. Luna proceeded to talk to her sister with glee.
Two hours had passed since star had discovered his new role in the ball. As he squeezed into a dress-shirt and tied his tie he noticed that princess Cadence had entered the room with slightly concerned look on her face.
“Oh, princess Cadence, you scared me” he said with his back now to the Mirror.
“So, what’s her name?” she asked with a nurturing smile
“What’s whose name?! I don’t know what you’re talking about!” he lied intently struggling to
keep himself from looking suspicious. His eyes darted back and forth and he finished his fib with a wide-eyed smile.
“Really Star, not only can I tell you’re lying; but I can also tell that you’ve fallen head over heels in love with somepony.” Star looked at the ground with depression “Wait, you aren’t happy?” She stopped and began to think “Unless she’s in love with somepony else!”
Star slid down the mirror and bowed his head in sorrow. “What can I do about these feelings? I mean, I barely know her and I know it’s wrong to find ways to make her love me back! But I’m terrified of being alone forever and…and she is just so beautiful and unique that I want to be there for her in any way that I can!” he paused for a moment as tears began to pool in his eyes. He peered at his hooves that were wet from his tears and looked back at Cadence “I know that all I want is for her to be happy” he cleared his throat and wiped away his tears “I guess that means even if it’s not with me”. He looked up at Cadence as she returned the gaze.
“Does that feel like it’s the right decision?”
“Y-Yes”
“Then do what you think is right ‘If you love something, set it free’”
Star arose from sadness and planted his four hooves firmly on the ground. He peered over Cadence’s shoulder at the door that had been left open from her entry.
“I guess we should get going, the guests are on their way.” He returned Cadence’s nurturing smile with a thankful bear hug and jokingly stated “After all, I am technically the guest of honor” he left the room with a large smile on his face and a mended heart.
The guests began to arrive minutes later. The four princesses and star took their positions near
the door to welcome them. The sounds of cheerful conversing and the patter of hooves dancing across the floor filled the air and bounced off the walls of the ballroom. Fluttershy’s instrumental took place before the rest of the musical lineup and ended with the wonderful sounds of everypony in the room cheering and requesting an encore. Though the birds did not perform a second time, the crowd was still ecstatic to have heard it.
“Everypony, are you ready to dance the night away to the awesomest music in all of Equestria!?” shouted a disembodied, raspy mare’s voice. The entire room’s population simultaneously shouted “YES!” The curtain lifted revealing DJPONE-3 sitting at her turntable that had been connected to her large surround-sound speakers “Then let’s get this party started!!” the voice shouted one last time before the music started blaring Dubstep.
“Are you enjoying yourself Star?” Luna asked as Star finished acquiring snacks from the food table
“About as much fun as I do at every similar social event I’ve been to. I’m more of a wall flower than an outgoing pony when it comes to this kind of stuff.” As they conversed, from across the room Rarity leans against the beverage table next to Applejack with her hooves pressed against both of her cheeks and stairs at Star with wide-eyes filled longing.
“OK! Ah’ve had enough of this! If ya like ‘em so much sugar cube then why don’t ya ask ‘em ta dance”
Rarity, continuing her gaze, stated “Oh, I will AJ darling trust me. You see I plane to what until the most romantic slow song of the night begins to play. That’s when he will place his hooves on my waste and I will place mine on his shoulders. We waltz into the night gazing into each other’s eyes and that’s the words ‘Rarity, I love you’. He will close his eyes and I will close mine as we lean in closer and closer until…”
“RARITY, snap out of it!” Applejack screamed for her attention. Rarity opened her eyes to discover that her lips were about to make contact with old mop. Her face turned a bright cherry red as she threw the mop back into the yellow bucket filled with brown water. She turned to look at Applejack who had been out of breath from laughing so hard.
“It’s not funny Applejack! I can’t believe I almost kissed that dirty thing!”
“Yea it’s real shame! Yawl would ‘a made cute couple” she fell to the floor laughing even harder than she had been. Rarity disappeared into the crowd and left Applejack laughing hysterically on the ground when, still by the food table, Star noticed the Doctor and Ditsy walking into the room. The Doctor was wearing a brown pinstripe suit with a black tie with light blue circles and carrying the helmet that he used on Star. Ditsy was wearing a plain black dress that only went down to her heels and a burette that kept her blonde hair swaying to one side of her face. Despite his intervention with Cadence he still thought her uniqueness was extremely beautiful. The gray mare noticed and waved at Star, flailing her hoof in the air.
“Princess Luna could you do me a favor?” Luna nodded. As they approached, the two ponies they both bowed and introduced themselves.
“You highness, my name is the Doctor”
“And my name is Ditsy Doo”
“I’m happy to see that not all of the old traditions are gone. It is a pleasure to you both; any friend of Star’s is a friend of mine” she looked at the brown stallion kneeling before her holding the strange the strange devise “If you don’t mind me asking, what exactly are you a doctor of?” her question only put a smile on the Doctor’s face. He arose and proudly stated
“Your highness, I am a doctor of everything.” His smile only widened when pulled the odd
helmet from behind him “I was wondering, your highness, if I could run a few tests with my magic analyzing doohickey here?” Luna spun her head and looked at Star with mildly confused look.
“You see Luna. All this machine dose is analyze the different types of magic and its level within each type of pony. The doctor here just wants to record alicorn data, if it’s OK with you of cores.”
“I will partake in these tests only if I have your guarantee that it is safe”
“Princess; I assure you that my machine will not harm you in any way shape or form. Now; if you would kindly step right over here” they made their way over to a vacant table that was out of the way of the rest of the festivities. As Star watched them leave he felt his heart begin to tap-dance inside of his chest, his stomach broiled and churned and knotted up as he realized that he had been left alone with the gray mare that he hadn’t quit gotten over. He kept trying to remind himself that anything he imagined, any situation he could possibly concoct were based on feelings that couldn’t possibly exist, feelings that were made up for an improbable fairy-tale that could not exist, and that love at first site was myth.
“Thank you for doing that for him Star. You wouldn’t believe how happy he was before we got” the young gray mares voice echoed through his head, snapping him out of his thought filled trans.
“No problem. You two would have done the same for me” he paused and pondered upon the things that he would say to the gray mare standing before him that had once stolen his heart “SO- uh…. What’s you plan for the even…….” Cutting his sentence short Star felt two arms wrapping around him. He felt her blonde mane on his face, tickling his nose and smudging his glasses with the hairspray that was used to keep it in place and smelled of summer time lilacs. She ended the hug, her mane moved slightly and beautifully in the air current. Star, who was already on the break of an emotional breakdown, peered into her eyes and felt as though they were gazing into his soul.
“Enough!” he screamed at a level that was just below the music volume “Listen Ditsy, I know this may sound strange, but you are one of the most beautiful mares I’ve ever met.” her face began to turn red.
“But Star, I……”
“No, I have to get this off my chest. It’s weird when you think about it. I can’t stop thinking about you. I-I think I’m in love with you. But when I saw the face you were making when you hugged the Doctor through the window and realized that you had feelings for him I didn’t know what to do. This has happened before, I start caring about somepony and then find out that they either have feelings for somepony else or are in a relationship. Having these feelings is tearing me up inside and I can’t stand it anymore” he began breathing heavily “Well, any comments?” tears began well up in her eyes
“I never thought I could make somepony love me just by being myself. I really appreciate everything you said to me Star but you’re right, I’m in love with the Doctor, and he needs me, because without me, he would be alone and I want to make sure that never happens” a look of sadness quickly fell across Stars face “Hey, we can still be friends and besides, you never know when somepony close to you might actually be falling for you. Or at least that’s what the Doctor always says.” Ditsy ran off to join the Doctor and experiments. A slight feeling of happiness fell over Star with the sudden realization that she was right which made him respect her even more.
