Rewrite the Stars

Princess Luna led Twilight and her friends to the throne room where Celestia was, signing some documents on her throne.

She looked up and saw company. "Dear sister, Twilight, is everything well?" She asked, seeing this serious look on Luna's face.

"We have to tell them about Victor's origins. Twilight Sparkle and her friends need to know."

"Pardon meh, Ah'm a bit confused, what y'all talkin' 'bout? " Applejack asked them.

Celestia's eyes widened. "Luna, I don't know what you're talking about." Everyone could see that Celestia was lying through her teeth.

Luna glared at her. "I know you have love for the boy, but he's endangering and killing innocents on a massive level. We're getting messages from the Human Leaders that they will take matters into their own hands and storm their troops here to save their race. If you won't help then you, dear sister, will have a much bigger problem."

"Princess," Twilight stepped up. "Blueblood attacked us, we have reasons believing that he's the leader of The White Mantle. If you know something please. "

"Wait, what does that guy have to do with all this?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"He sent Garble and that army at us. For whatever reason, he wanted Rachel." Twilight said.

"The same reason that attracted Spike to her. She's a Mother Cell. She does have magic traces in her that certain creatures are attracted by scent. It attracted Spike because of her dormant dragon magic, it's her very dorment magic that attracted Blueblood." Luna said. "I do keep tabs on the project, especially her touching the heart and releasing unstable magic."

Celestia poofs the quill pen and documents away with a defeated sigh. "You're right, Luna. It's gotten way out of hand." She looked at Twilight and entourage.

"Over a thousand moons ago, as you all know that when King Sombra was banished, he took the Crystal Empire with him, citizens included." her horn lit up and her eyes flashed white.

The whole room was engulfed in total darkness, soon showing a frozen wasteland. Standing where the Empire was.

The Sisters stood in a state of disbelief, horror, and guilt. Both wearing battle armor, Celestia held a large sword and shield of the sun for her weapon and Luna bare a crescent shaped scythe, for which slipped from her hands and landed in the snow, dissolving into nothing.

They won against Sombra, but lost everything else.

Celestia showed how distraught they were back then about failing the Crystal Ponies. "The feeling of us failing the empire fell heavily on us. We searched for survivors but we had believed we lost everyone." She said as she displayed them scouting for a soul within the frozen land of ice and snow.

"All but one." Luna spoke then, as the winds carried a sound of a foal. The scene then transitioned to them finding something wrapped in a black blanket and it was moving.

The younger Celestia picks it up, revealing a white baby unicorn with a tuft of blonde mane.

It was baby Blueblood.

"Wait, Blueblood's a crystal pony???" Pinkie blurts out loud.

"He doesn't look like a crystal pony." Fluttershy said quietly before the two were hushed. "Oh okay sorry." She whispers but then listens.

The Sisters looked at the girls before continuing. "Luna and I were absolutely surprised to find a survivor, moreso to find a baby. We assume he didn't have the Crystal pattern because of Sombra and the Empire banished." Older Celestia said. She casted a soft look, seeing her young self holding the small foal. "Mainly out of guilt and the urge to make things right and give the boy a life he was taken from, we took him in." The scene changed from the winterscape to some room at the old Castle of the Two Sisters. Blueblood had grown a little but still considered a foal, surrounded by many toys Celestia was playing with him, both having a large happy smile on their faces.

They were happy.

"At the beginning, we didn't suspect what his lineage was. Things were… Peaceful." Celestia fast forwarded, showing the growth of the young prince. Reaching just around the time before Nightmare Moon made an appearance.

"For you, dear sister. You haven't seen his dreams." Luna commented. "Constantly filled with frightened images of destruction. Destruction for all. When he was of age, we told him of the empire and he became furious." She looked at her sister, giving a look that said "Show Them".

Celestia sighed and changed scenes to that moment. Blueblood and the sisters were standing in the throne room.

And this is how it played out.

"So what you're both saying, when you banished King Sombra, you banished my home as well?! " Younger Blueblood shouted at them, angrily pointing a finger at them. "What made you two pick me, huh?"

Younger Celestia approached him. "You were found in the middle of the wasteland. We didn't know Sombra would take it with him." She tried to calm him down but it was aggravating him more.

After more shouts and words exchanged from them, that's when they saw a change in Blueblood.

Consumed in anger, pain of feeling like he was betrayed, his head suddenly felt like he got hit hard, causing him to shout and fall to his knees, gripping his head.

Frightening, Celestia got to him, trying to see what was wrong. A dark chill ran up and down Luna's spine. "Sister, move away from him, now." She gave her sister a warning in a low tone. Hand instinctively stuck out and summoned her scythe.

However, Celestia didn't need her warning. When she finally got her beloved nephew to look at her, she was taken back.

His bright blue eyes were red, the whites were green with a deep purple mist seeping out. Fangs grew and gave Celestia a look from Tartarus. "You murders!" He shouted before blasting Celestia away from him and he stood.

Luna shot straight at him with her scythe, against the pleas and shouts from Celestia. She goes and swings the scythe, just as she did, Blueblood became a shadow, parting ways just as Luna slashed, embedded itself in the floor.

Blueblood came back together next to her before attacking her as well.

It took both of them to restrain Blueblood. Having him locked up for attacking them.

"Wait, that looks like-" Starlight started.

"Sombra's shadow abilities." Twilight spoke in a frightening whisper.

Luna had a grim look on her face. "The foal we found turned out to be an offspring of the tyrant himself."

The six girls gasped out loud.

Celestia looked saddened before continuing. "At first we tried to explain our reason, how we plan to bring them back but Blueblood didn't want to hear it. He tried attempts to attack us, consumed in hatred and pain that it was too much to bear. "

" I saw him as a threat and begged my sister to nip this in the bud so to speak. While he was still young, knowing that he'd be a much bigger problem, but Celestia had… other ideas. "

Celestia turned her gaze away from them all."I couldn't think of hurting him nor cursing him like Discord, I did what I did because I loved him as if he was my foal."

"What did you do?" Twilight asked them.

"I…. had decided to erase his memory of that moment. Before we told him, before he attacked us. " She shamefully admitted to them.

The princesses let that sink in before Luna spoke. "A short time later, I became Nightmare Moon and was banished to the moon. If I was to win on my conquest, Blueblood would have certainly died by my hands, but alas."

"During Luna's banishment, I had discovered that Blueblood practically stopped aging at a certain point. Due to being born with dark arcane magic, it kept him young." Celestia said. "He would ask questions about where he's from, why he hasn't age, and each time I told him, thinking it'll be a different outcome, his dark magic comes and each time stronger than the last time. I erased and rewritten his memories many times I cannot remember. Eventually I put a timer spell that would automatically reset his memories every twenty years and stripped him of his magic for a long, long time… I only recently began adding more magic back. "

"When I came back and was told of this, I told her she was making a huge mistake. Look where we are now. " Luna glared at her sister.

"His anger towards me worsened over time. When Cadence ascended to Alicorn status, he begged for his ascendance, but I strictly forbid it. Blueblood as an Alicorn would make him unstoppable, combined with his dark magic he inherited would make him the most powerful creature there ever was. The amount of magic I gave back isn't enough to tap into his internal darkness. " Celestia said as the spell ended and the throne room returned to normal.

"When the Empire returned, he demanded it go to him but we sent Cadence and Shining Armor to reside there as rulers of the Empire. We believe that sent Blueblood over the edge and he broke away, only returning in formal events… you becoming an Alicorn and granted the title The Princess of Friendship was just the tip of the iceberg." Luna said, looking at Twilight. "There's no telling how long he's been planning this revenge, but when the portal to the Human world opened, it is likely that he began gathering resources to use against us. Including humanity's short tempers."

"Uh, didn't you send Blueblood to the Empire during the Gala?" Pinkie Pie asked.

Luna gave Celestia a deadpan look.

"That… was a lapse of poor judgment on my part. " Celestia said, looking away from Luna's scolded look.

"So.. Blueblood wants the Empire, like his Father? "Twilight asked.

"I'm afraid his ambition is more than that, he wants Equestria… he wants Equestria to burn. And the death of his father, he wants revenge. " Luna said in a dark tone.

"Oh no… Spike." Twilight whispered frighteningly. Spike and Cadence were responsible for vanquishing Sombra. Cadence has the full might of the Crystal Empire and the Heart to protect her, Spike currently doesn't.

"There is hope however. The spell that would erase his memories is about to take effect." Celestia said somewhat hopefully. "He won't remember himself orchestrating this terrorist group. And with his memories gone, he would see what he's doing is wrong."

"What makes you think he hasn't figured out a way to reverse your curse, dear sister. " Luna grunted.

"Because it's a spell I wrote. Only I know how to reverse it."

"It won't change what he has already done. He has to be punished for what he did." Twilight said firmly.

The Remaining Mane 7 nodded in agreement.

"Lead us to where this spoiled brat is and we'll stop him." Rainbow Dash said, rolling her shoulders.

"We're afraid The Elements of Harmony may not be able to stop him alone. We're gathering up forces, we have to plan this carefully without triggering a massive war that will slaughter more innocents." Celestia said. "We shall begin your training, all of you."

Back at the settlement, Spike and others gathered in the viewing room above Rachel and Ember.

One of the researcher ponies then turned to Spike. "Since you were there when Rachel first absorbed magic from the Crystal Heart, how long was the initial contact?" They asked.

Spike scratched his neck as he thought. "I don't know, maybe five seconds? It happened very quickly. " He said, still very unsure of Rachel doing this. She just woke up, so little time to heal.

The pony nodded before pressing a button. "Okay ladies, we're ready." They said in the intercom. "Ember, we need you to go ahead and begin the process. Five seconds worth of dragon magic please."

Ember nodded and looked at Rachel. "You ready?" She said, holding the staff in her hands and it started to glow red.

"No," Rachel responded, not really wanting to do this but she literally has no choice.

Easily one of the reasons she declined coming back here was these damned experiments.

"Sorry, can't help ya there, brace yourself." Ember twirls the staff in her hands and then points it at Rachel.

"Oh fuck me." Rachel whimpered before bracing herself.

Ember shot a beam of pure draconic energy straight into Rachel. It hit her straight in the chest.

Rachel let out a sharp gasp, the wind completely knocked out of her body. This fire ignited from within her, before blue fire consumed her entirely, however the fire did not harm her.

It was taking everything in Spike's very being to stay put. Automatically he wanted to jump down and stop this and extinguish that damned fire.

Just reminded him of her being hurled in a ball of flames. His stomach turned before growling.

"Stop this." Spike whispered. He looked at Brimstone. "You shut this damn thing down now or I will!" He snapped at him.

Before Brimstone said anything, one of his teammates waved their hand. "No no, no need." They then pressed the intercom button. "Okay okay, you can stop now, Dragonlord Ember. Pull back, pull back!"

Ember held out for two more seconds before she pulled back her staff, stomping the end of it on the ground three times ceremoniously. The red gem stopped glowing.

As soon as the staff stopped, the blue fire spread out and then dispersed.

Everyone tensed up when they saw what Rachel now looks like. Ember was trying in vain not to burst out laughing.

"Uh… Was that supposed to happen?" Spike asked, his voice raising a couple of octaves.

"Owhow! How did that both feel good and bad at the same time." Rachel whined. She was sitting on the ground, rubbing the side of her head.

Then froze when she realized a body part or two of hers was missing. "Uh… Where are my ears??" She asked, feeling the sides of her head, she still had her hair. She was pushing her short locks aside to see if her hair was hiding them. Her ears were not in their usual place.

She heard Ember snickering, which caused her to look up.

Ember points at the top of her head, motioning her to look up there.

Rachel slowly moved her hands up, feeling the top of her head. She froze when her claws touched something quite furry.

And strangely enough, pony like.

"If… If it makes you feel any better, it's an improvement… Cute even." Ember giggled before it turned to full on laughing.

Spike quickly ran out of the viewing room and heads downstairs to where the girls were quickly.

By the time he got there, Ember had already tapped her staff, it glowed before a mirror appeared and Rachel saw what she looked like now.

She still had scales, from her neck that disappeared down in her white long sleeve shirt. However, places were scales were on her face, the top half of her arms and no doubt her legs though covered by her white pants, were covered in yellow fur. Her ears were now pony like and on the top of her head. She still had human flesh in the mix of now pony and dragon like features.

"OH MY GOD I'M TURNING INTO A FUCKING FURRY!!" Rachel shrieked.

Ember collapsed onto the ground, clenching her gut, laughing her ass off.