Rewrite the Stars

“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh this is so fascinating!” Twilight squealed as she and Starlight had Rachel laying down on the couch back at the castle library. Twilight was hovering over the human, with her belly exposed, wearing a black bra, taking pictures of her scales.

“Is this really necessary?” Spike asked, being forced to step back as the two powerful magic users were all over his mate.

“Yeah seriously, that’s enough with the pictures.” Rachel grunted, waving the cameras away.

Twilight had five cameras, four of them were levitated by her magic while the fifth was in her hands, Starlight was taking notes as she watched Rachel’s reactions. Twilight snapped a photo of Rachel’s face.

“Ah!” Rachel hissed when the white light flashed across her eyes.

The film spits out the camera, the princess pulls the photo out and shakes it to cool off before examining it. Aside from the stunned expression on Rachel’s face, she got a better look of her eyes. Her pupils dilated like it always does, but she could see the lighter hue over her brown eyes.

“This is all documents before I make a call to Dr. Stinefall.” Twilight said as she levitated the photos to Starlight.

“Why that wack job?” Rachel asked with a grunt, trying to sit up.

“He’s working on the Mother Cells program, he would~”

“Don’t bother.”

Everyone looks at the human.

“Rachel,” Spike starts, “if this is connected to the Mother’s Cells, then they can~”

“Professor Brimstone is on his way. I won’t be surprised if he shows up sometime right now.” Rachel said.

Spike started to sweat bullets when Brimstone was mentioned. Since she did cut off while they were talking before the assault, the living lie detector was on his way.

“Oh that’s right!” Starlight said. “Brimstone is the head researcher of the division, and has been working with the humans since day one of the portal opening.”

Spike wormed his way to his mate, sitting down next to her as he grabbed her hands. Though he only had one interaction with Brimstone, he terrifies the dragon; add that to the Twins….

“He was on his way before I lost contact.” Rachel said, giving her mate an assured look before looking back at the girls.

Watching this from the doorway, not only Pinkie and Dash were still there, but after word spread across the grapevine, AJ and Flutters made their way to the castle. Discord left via portal traveling and Big Mac went home to be with his girl.

“So what the hay happened?” Apple Jack asked as she watched from the doorway outside in the hallway.

“Rachie got jumped by the White Mantel, you should’ve seen the other two.” Pinkie giggled, using binoculars to look at Rachel’s shiny stomach since it was best for the girls to hang back.

“How bad?” Fluttershy asked, glad to see that their smaller friend was alright.

“Well, from what I saw,” Rainbow Dash let out a long, low whistle. “One’s in a coma and the other won’t be able to use his leg ever again.”

Fluttershy’s ears drooped. “O-oh...T-they shouldn’t have tried to grab her.” She whispered but truly horrified.

She knew Rachel was a force to be reckoned with, this just elevates on what she’s capable of. “D-did one of them give her scales?”

“I have no clue.” Dash said with a shrug and then grinned. “One thing for sure, she did a lot of damage. Spike just knocked one of them out but sweet geez!”

As Twilight was really close to Rachel’s scales, she let out a hum. She then glanced up at Spike’s arm. Looking at his purple scales before looking back down at the stomach. “Sorry about this.” She said.

“For what?” Rachel asked puzzled.

RRRRRIIIIP!!

Twilight tears a scale off of her stomach.

“AH!” Rachel screams and out of reflex, backhands the princess so hard, it spun her around and she dropped to the ground.

“Oh shit!” Spike gets up from the couch and goes to Twilight’s side, the other girls congregated by the princess’s side.

Rachel sat on that couch in horror of what she just did.“Oh fuck, Twilight I’m so sorry!” She covered her mouth

First she hits Prince Blueblood (for good reasons), she just hit Twilight!

Twilight waves her hand up in the air, trying to get some space so she could stand. “It’s fine, I’m fine, wow that was a wake up call!” She said with a laugh. Her cheek was bright red from where she was smacked.

“Are you alright?” one of the girls asked, Spike helped the princess up on her feet.

“I’m fine I’m fine, it was my fault, I should’ve given a better warning.” She said, holding the piece of Rachel’s scale between her middle and index finger.

“Ask more likely.” Spike said before taking a closer look at her cheek. “Can one of you get some ice please?”

“I got it.” Fluttershy said as she got up and ran out of the library to fetch the ice.

“Twilight, I’m so sorry, I-I” Rachel ran her fingers through her hair.

“Rachel, it’s okay.” Twilight said, waving her off before approaching her again. Rachel now instinctively scooted away from the princess, almost crawling off of the couch.

“Hey, hey it’s okay.” Twilight said, having to raise her hands up in defense. “I’m not pulling.” She said before looking back at her stomach.

Right on the edge of the scaled area, right hand side, there was a small raw pink dot, the size of a bit coin. She wasn’t bleeding but it did sting a lot.

“Does it hurt?” Twilight asked.

Rachel gave her a look. “What do you think?”

“Point taken.” the princess said before looking at Spike. “Uh...may I?”

Spike narrowed his eyes on her. “Are you serious?”

“It’s for research.” Twilight responded with a big wide smile.

“Shouldn’t you wait for the doctors to conduct that sort of thing??” AppleJack asked.

But every pony knew in this room knew that once something sparked bookhorse’s interest, she will drive herself absolute nanas.

With a low growl, Spike raised his right arm up. He glided a finger over his scales before finding one that was about to come off on its own. He grips it and rips the scale off. He winced but didn’t react as bad as Rachel reacted before handing the purple scale off to the princess.

“Thank you!” Twilight said, taking the two scales and flew off to the second level of the library to a little magic lab she had set up for potions and tests and things.

Rachel watches her go before covering her face with her hands, tilting her head back with a loud, frustrating groan. “Today is not a good day.”

“It was for a little bit.” Pinkie giggled, bouncing over to her, digging into her hair before pulling a plushie out that looked a lot like Hades and handing it to her.

Rachel removes her hands to look at the Hades plushie and lets out a small giggle, grabbing it and hugging the pooch. “What is up with your hair? Seriously??”

“You don’t wanna know.” Pinkie winked, nudging her with her elbow before getting up.

Fluttershy comes back in, going up to the second level to give Twilight the ice for her cheek.

“Thank you.” Twilight said, using her magic to put the ice on her cheek but was focused with her microscope, comparing the two colorful scales. “Interesting.”

“What is it?” Fluttershy asked, wanting to see before Twilight moved around the butterscotch pegasus to look through a stack of notes all containing what she learned about Mother Cells and combed through them.

During that time, there was a knock on the doorway. Everyone stopped to look and saw a very frazzled Rarity standing there. Her purple mane looked like an absolute rat’s nest, she wore no makeup but it was apparent that her eyes were red and puffy from crying. She wore the outfit she had when trying to grab Sweetie Belle earlier and her purse.

“Is every pony alright?” Rarity asked softly.

The girls and Spike looked at each other, obviously thinking of the same thing before Rachel said, “Uh Rarity, I got jumped by two ponies and have scales on my stomach, you look like absolute crap.”

“It’s been an...exhausting day for me, but not as much as what you went through, darling.” Rarity sniffed, rubbing her snout with her arm before coming into the room.

Spike made a sound but didn’t say anything, getting by Rachel’s side. The unicorn stared at the dragon for a brief moment before turning to Rachel. Her eyes widened when she saw the gold coloring.

“Oh my sweet Celestia, what on earth is that??” Rarity said, seeing the scales for herself.

“We’ll know soon enough.” Rachel said, putting her head on Spike’s arm.

Twilight and Fluttershy soon came down to the ground level. “Hi Rarity,” Twilight quickly greeted her late friend before looking at Rachel. “One more test, I promise I’ll be done.”

Rachel raised a brow at her. “What test?” she asked with a grunt. Already tired of the tests.

Twilight looks at Rarity. “Got a needle?”

Rarity nodded before opening her purse and pulling out one of her traveling sewing kits and opened it up. She pulled one of her needles and handed it over to her. “There you go.”

“What are you doing?” Rachel asked Twilight.

“Just a strength test,” Twilight said. “I am going to stick ya with the needle.”

“Twilight, that’s enough for the evening.” Spike snapped at her.

“I-it’s fine, but I swear Twilight, what happens next is on you.” Rachel warns the princess. “One last test.”

Twilight nodded. “One last test.” She repeated before getting ready. “Okay, brace yourself.” She said, now warning Rachel.

Rachel nodded, holding Spike’s hand tightly.

Twilight counted to three before sticking the needle right in the center of the scaley area. The needle didn’t even puncture, it bent at a 90 degree angle.

“Okay, Rachel, do you taste sulfur in your mouth by any chance?” the princess asked, everyone’s eyes widened when seeing the bent needle.

“Not at the moment, no.” Rachel responded, putting her hand on her stomach.

“Well something tells me that is going to be soon.” Twilight said. “Those are definitely dragon scales you have on your stomach.”

“So Rachel’s turning into a dragon??” Pinkie Pie said with a loud exasperated gasp.

Starlight looks at Twilight at that. “Are you sure?”

“Well, that’s what I’m going with, or at least she’s turning to some type of draconic being. We’ll know soon when the Professor comes.”

“What happened to the two ponies that assaulted you?” Fluttershy asked the couple then.

“One’s in the hospital. The mare is in a coma.” Twilight said.

“Don’t ask me to apologize.” Spike said with a grunt. Rachel rubbed his arm when he said that, he smiled down at her softly.

Rarity let out a gulp. “And the other scoundrel?”

“In the dungeons.” Starlight said, pointing down on the ground, gesturing to the cells below. “Never thought I’d see the day we actually have to use them.”

“Has he been treated?” Apple Jack asked.

Spike made a so/so hand motion. “Enough to where he won’t bleed out to death, but once he tells us what we need to know, he’ll get better treatment.”

“So wait, he’s just sitting in that cell without proper care?” Fluttershy asked.

“Him and that cunt tried to kidnap my mate, working for the White Mantel, he’s lucky he fucking got any care at all.” he said, still frustrated about this situation.

But what was soothing him was the fact Rachel was okay, for now.

After what seemed to be a sleepless night, everyone still gathered in the library when the light of Celestia’s sun peeked through the window.

Knock, knock, knock!

Three loud knocks hit the front door.

AJ dug into her pocket and pulled out her cell, many spider cracks on the screen for the countless times of dropping it to see what time it was.

“Huh, it’s just six in the morning. Who could that be?” She asked as Starlight got up and went to the door.

Rachel rubbed the out of her eyes as she sat up, she patted Spike’s shoulder to get him up off her lap - he was using her lap as a pillow before sitting up himself and stretched his arms.

Twilight was face deep into her research reading, curling up in one of the beanbags, only looking up when Starlight came back.

“Guys, Brimstone’s here.” Starlight announced, causing Spike’s eyes to snap wide open.

The red stallion walked in, his suitcase in his hand. His silver mane was slick back and his single eye, as black as coal, honed right at the human girl. “It’s Professor Brimstone, thank you very much,” he grunted, looking at Starlight.

Starlight let out a gulp when he stared at her. “And he brought company.”

As soon as she said that, the sexling twins, Ruby and Gemcity popped up right behind him.

“Hellooohooo!” the twins cooed in unison, both holding suitcases in their hands as well.

“OH FUCK!” both Rachel and Spike shouted in unison.