Rewrite the Stars

Teal unicorn Ruby and purple unicorn Gemcity took no time to jump around Brimstone, completely ignoring all of the other girls, making a beeline straight for Rachel.

Before Rachel could say anything, the twins used their magic, combining auras of Red - for Ruby and emerald Green - for Gemcity, the twins engulfed Spike in their auras, using their magic to lift the dragon up.

“Whoa whoa hey!” Spike exacerbated, trying to move but he couldn’t, the twins ended up yeeting the dragon away from their human friend, setting the dragon down somewhere in the library before claiming his spot on either side of Rachel.

The Mane 7 were so shocked that they couldn’t do anything about it.

“That was uncalled for!” Rachel growled at the two.

“Hey, we told you if something happens again, we’ll be all over that drake’s ass.” Ruby grunted as she took a look at Rachel, setting her suitcase down by her hooves.

“He’s lucky there are witnesses.” Gemcity said, flipping her short hair with her hands.

“I’m right here!” Spike hissed as he scrambled up to his feet.

“Hush now, sisters are talking.” Ruby calls back.

Both Rachel and Brimstone bury their faces in their hands as a result of that.

Rarity looked disgusted that the twins were even there, Pinkie Pie was laughing and Dash ended up joining her on that, Fluttershy’s ears flung back and hid behind her wings, Aj took her hat to fan herself when looking at how sexually revealing the twins were wearing, Twilight was silent and Starlight was nervously scratching behind her neck with her nails.

“For the record guys, I’m so sorry for whatever the twins do from this point forward.” Rachel said, putting her hands down before looking at Brimstone.

The red stallion adjusted his coat as he entered the room. Twilight did get up to go and greet him.

“Professor Brimstone, it’s nice to finally meet you.” She said with a smile. Having dark bags underneath her eyes indicating her lack of sleep. “I’ve been reading a lot of your essays and research on quantum traveling and the results of the Settlement program.”

“Why thank you, Princess,” the professor said, giving her a formal bow. “I do apologize about my plus ones. I did call them but I didn’t know that they would be coming.”

The twins gave him a flirtatious wave, causing the professor to roll his single eye.

“We’ll always be here for our little sister,” Gemcity said, wrapping her arms around Rachel for a big hug.

Ruby joined in for that hug, making Rachel sandwiched between the two strippers. Their triple f size boobs were mashing her face. “What did you expect when you called us, Professor? It was just by luck that your train made a stop in Filly.”

“Can’t...breath...” Rachel muffled, her face and body turning red with embarrassment.

Spike blushes and turns his head away from the sight.

“Alright, alright, off of her, you two, shoo!” Brimstone finally had enough and moved closer, waving his hands at them as he made his way to Rachel. “Give her space, will you!?”

“Oh calm down, we just miss her.” Gemcity said, petting Rachel’s hair as the human tried to push the two strippers off of her.

Ruby let out a sigh before removing herself off of the couch and then tapped Gem’s horn.

“Hey!” Gem grunted.

“Let Brimstone do his thing.” Ruby said as she grabbed her arm and pulled her twin off of her.

All while the mane 7 were trying to hold their composure, not trying to laugh at this interaction. Though this was the girls’ second interaction with the twins, they couldn’t help but be entertained how the twins were with Rachel.

Starlight came up to the twins. “If you two follow me, I’ll show you where you’ll be staying.” She said.

“We’ll share a bed.” Ruby said. “So don’t bother splitting us up.”

“We’re used to it.” Gemcity giggled.

Starlight nodded, not sure how to take that before looking at Brimstone. “Professor?”

“In a moment.” Brimstone said, now seeing the scales without the twins hovering over the girl.

He noticed the pink dot, glanced up at Rachel before turning his head to Twilight with a grunt.

“Uh...it was for tests?” Twilight said with a nervous smile and her octaves going up a few notches.

The professor narrowed his single eye, subtly adjusting the patch over his other eye before turning to Rachel. “Now, what happened?” he asked her.

Rachel sighed after finally having a moment to breathe from being in a boob sandwich. She gave Spike an apologetic look before turning back to the stallion. “White Mantle goons tried to get me to go with them, we got into a fight, I got shot, Spike got there and the fight was over.” She said, feeling the scales with her hand. They did feel an awful lot like her mate’s underbelly. They have a much smoother texture like other dragons have, minus the one spot Twilight pulled. “Next thing I knew, I had scales.”

“And your eyes.” Brimstone noted.

“Huh?” Rachel asked with a raised brow. Twilight teleports the picture to her and she sees that her eyes weren't a rich brown color, it was more of a golden brown.

“After conducting some tests, I believe when she touched the Crystal Heart, not only did it react to Rachel’s untapped magic essence, but it also triggered a sort of a transformation. Since humans weren’t from this realm, it’s stripping her humanity and turning her to what is usually appropriate for this world!” Twilight explained with a huge grin. “Now since she is a Mother Cell, a human that had draconic magic in her past life, I’m guessing she’s turning into a dragon.”

Brimstone’s face turned stony when Twilight explained her findings. Rachel buries her face in her hands in embarrassment.

“I have it all right here.” Twilight said, holding up her findings as if she was so proud of it and handing it to the Professor.

Professor Brimstone grabbed it, took one glance at it and then said. “I would appreciate it if you do not conduct any more tests on the Mother Cells.” He said.

Twilight’s ears flung back as he walked over to her and handed the princess her files back.

“Nor tell me what I already know.” He said.

“Oooh.” Twilight said before letting out a nervous laugh. “Sorry.”

After making clicking noises, he let out a grunt. “However...you are correct.” the Professor said.

He went to grab his suitcase and opened it up and grabbed three ten inch thick three-ring binders out.

“Those files are just getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger.” Rachel said, seeing it as if it wasn’t the first time she saw them, hugging her Hades plushie.

Applejack let out a whistle. “Wow Rachel, I didn’t think you were more involved in this Mother Cell project.”

“There are other files from other subjects, however I just happened to incidentally discover new things about that.” Rachel said.

Brimstone opened one of the binders and then pulled two photos out, he went over to Rachel and handed them over to her so she could see. Everypony and Spike gathered around the couch to see what it was.

All of the photos were of X-rays that he had taken photos of with a camera and had them developed. “Now, this one was taken from the hospital after your...barn incident.” Brimstone explained, showing off the X-ray of Rachel’s skeleton from torso up..

Spike looked to the ground when the Professor brought that up. He still hadn’t forgiven himself for that.

It looked like a typical human skeletal image, however it was the first time that they could see signs of old bone fractures that had healed years ago. Various fissures and impact and pressure fractures ridiculed up around her collarbone and shoulders area and along her ribs.

The room was quiet when they saw them. No one said a word.

And Rachel appreciated that.

“This one,” Brimstone taps on the second photo. It was more interesting to say the least. It was blank, not in a normal sense. It had the outline of her body, but there was nothing but this bright white mass swirling about. Her bones weren’t showing, just this.

“Even though we still do not understand why the heart reacted the way it did. But as we can see,” he looked at Rachel at that. “It’s already begun.”

“Ooh! So swirly!” Pinkie said, grabbing the swirly image and looking at it herself.

“Now Rachel, are you feeling anything else?” Brimstone asked her.

Spike looked at Rachel then. He knew something was bugging Rachel but she refused to say what it was since they came back from the Empire.

“No, I haven’t.” Rachel said, she stared in his eyes, trying to seem that she was telling the truth, but her ears were burning red. Her telltale sign of her lying.

Brimstone grunted. “Rachel.” He said her name in a way that is like a father scolding his child who’s lie they caught. “I don’t even have to use my talent to know that you’re lying.”

Spike starts snickering at that, along with the twins. Oh how he had been wanting to call Rachel out on that, right now she was squirming in her seat. Spike had been trying to get his mate to talk to him about her condition.

This was amusing to him.

Soly on the fact that Rachel’s body language reacted to the Professor’s scolding.

“Ooh, papa be mad.” Gemcity snickered to Ruby.

“Have you felt anything else since you touched the heart?” Twilight asked Rachel then.

Rachel put her X-ray down before grabbing the plushie again and held it. “Okay,” she sighed. “I did feel something.”

Now everypony was listening to what she had to say.

Rachel looked to everypony. “Alright, when I touched the heart, it felt like my whole body was being torn apart and put back together again. This burning sensation in my veins. When Spike pulled me back from the Heart it stopped, however it left something behind.”

“What is it?” Starlight asked.

She looked at Starlight. “This creature hung around the back of my mind. Every once in a while I could feel it clawing at me, wanting to get in. I felt it when I encountered Blueblood~” She paused for a moment. A thought came to her mind before continuing. “While I was in the gym earlier, I felt it, though I noticed my strength and stamina had increased. And tonight, well…” She tapped on her plushie’s head before saying, “When I got cornered by those fuckers, before they even first grabbed me, they said something to me that pissed me off so much… that I let that thing come in freely….and if Spike hadn’t come, I would’ve killed them.” She admitted.

That’s how pissed off those two White Mantle goons got her.

Rarity bit her lower lip nervously and was sweating. Twilight, Starlight and the others of the mane 7 didn’t know how to respond to this.

Brimstone rubbed his forehead with his hand, knowing exactly what set her off. He let out a sigh before grabbing the X-Rays from the girls and set them back inside of the binders.

“What I don’t get,” Spike starts then. “How isn’t the transformation not instant?” he asked the professor. “Before the other portal opened, we stepped through the mirror portal and we changed into humans with no problems.”

“With you as a dog.” Twilight reminded me.

Spike rolled his eyes before looking at Brimstone for answers.

“We still have no idea what caused the second port….what there’s another??” Brimstone’s single eye widened at that.

“Uh...yeah.” Twilight said. “It’s in my study. I have to power it up but it's there.”

Brimstone looked at the princess for a long minute before continuing. “We still don’t know what caused the other portal to open, but what was learned from the many travelers coming to and from our world to the human world that no one else changed forms, what magic that caused the portal to open seemed to prevent it. Like a safety net. However, when Rachel touched the Crystal Heart, with her being a Mother Cell, it took that safety net away, hence her...scales. Why the change isn’t instant or how long it’ll take, I cannot determine that at the moment.”

“So Rachel’s not going to be human any more?” Fluttershy asked. “Aren’t you scared?” She asked the girl in question.

Rachel shrugged. “I still feel like me. I’m more agitated, frustrated, exhausted, scared isn’t really part of that equation.” She said. Spike reached over and put a hand on her shoulder. She moved her hand away from the plushie and grabbed Spike’s hand and held it.

“If she changes, would she be able to go back home?” Apple Jack said.

Rachel lets out a grunt. “This is my home, Applejack.” she said, looking at the pony agitated. Spike squeezed her shoulder gently to reel her back. She sighed before saying. “Sorry, Equestria is my home. It always has been since the second I decided to come here eight years ago.”

The old stallion looked at Rachel with a soft gaze before letting out a sigh.

“Okay, I don’t know about you guys,” Gemcity announced, clapping her hands loudly to get everyone’s attention. “But I’m starving!”

“Oh same!” Ruby said.

“Ooh don’t you two sluts start.” Rachel said, trying to get up but Spike was keeping her down. Thinking they were thinking about their other main source of food.

The twins laughed. “We do eat real food you know.” they said with a smirk, seeing how quickly heated she was getting.

“And don’t think because you got shot means you’re off the hook.” Ruby said. “We need a tour guide.”

The twins were looking at Rachel for that.

“Oh geez.” Rachel muttered.

“So, how long do you guys intend on staying?” Starlight asked the twins and Brimstone.

“I don’t know about them,” Brimstone said, motioning to the girls. “I would be staying at least three days.”

“And that’s how long we’re staying too.” the twins said with a grin.

After Applejack, Rarity, RD, Pinkie, and Fluttershy left to go home and get much better sleep, Spike and Rachel were in their room.

Rachel was standing over by her dresser, going through her clothes looking for a shirt to wear.

“Three days,” she said. Not knowing how these days are going to be, Brimstone is easier to deal with than the Twins. “Can I handle three days?”

“Sounds like you don’t want Ruby and Gemcity here,” Spike chuckled, though a part of him felt uncomfortable around them. Now Ruby was more mature than her twin but they act so alike, so very sexual and loud in a way Ponyville was just not ready for.

“I do want them, but they’ve popped up like this? I would’ve given the girls a better heads up.”

Sitting on the bed, Spike watched Rachel slipping on a blue tank top, pulling it over her stomach, covering the scales. She then moved her hair over her ears and signed, crossing her arms.

“How are you feeling now?” Spike asked her.

“I...don’t know how to feel about this.” Rachel said, looking at him.

Spike pats a spot next to him, having her come over and sit next to him. Spike then wrapped his arm around her shoulders, bringing her in for a hug. “At least I don’t have to worry about assholes having a problem with me being human.” Rachel said.

“What does that suppose to mean?”

“You know. Babe, we always had folks saying that what you and I have is a disgrace. Me being human dating a full grown dragon. I had both sides of the spectrum coming up to me with that bull shit.”

“Rachel, I never cared one way or another that you’re human. Those assholes are just ignorant who don’t know any better.” He planted a kiss on top of her head. “Even though how we learned about your changing isn’t how anyone wanted to learn, all I see is what I’ve always seen in you.”

“Your Dragoness?”

Spike grinned. “In hindsight, you’ve always acted more like a dragon.”

Rachel stared at him in thought for a moment before letting out a snort. “That is...not the first time someone told me that.”

“And it won’t be the last.” he then booped her nose, causing her to smile. “Seriously though, this just means what I see in you is coming into the limelight. Does it change how I feel about you? No. No matter what you’ll look like, you’ll always be beautiful to me.”

She kisses him on the lips tenderly, placing a hand on his cheek upon doing so before saying. “So is this what you call, rewriting the stars?”

Spike smiled softly, gently pressing his forehead onto her’s and said “Somewhat.”

They giggled at each other before someone knocked on the door and it opened.

“Uh uh, don’t you two start yet.” Gemcity sticks her head inside with a smirk.

Spike bit his tongue when she came in. He turned and saw that she was still in her pony form.

“Oh honey you are not going out dressed like that.” Gemcity giggled before coming inside of their room and went to Rachel’s dresser, opened the drawer and went through it.

“Um….I’m going where?” Rachel asked, not realizing she was going anywhere. “Gemcity, I had a very...very trying past few days. I want to sleep.”

“Sleep is for the dead, missy.” Gemcity said, grabbing a corset top, tight pants and boots and shoves them on Rachel’s lap. “We’re gonna hit Ponyville!”