Starfleet Season 2 (Rewrite)

One night, Lightning came to the royal palace to deliver a Starfleet report, and to get a special present she had kept there by permission of their majesties. When Goldwin asked why, and he explained he was on his way to Fluttershy’s birthday party and the present was from her and their majesties for Fluttershy, “What’s a… birthday?” Sapphire asked.

“It’s to celebrate the day you were born on. Everyone has a birthday.” and then he left to head for the party, leaving Sapphire alone. Everyone had a birthday except her! After all, she wasn’t born, she was created in a lab by humans. "I wonder if that counts."

She went to Fluttershy's party which was held in the New Canterlot Ballroom. All her friends were present.

Fluttershy’s birthday party was fabulous. There was cake, other treats, songs, dances, and games for everyone. Pinkie Pie couldn’t stop going wild and crazy with joy due to her love for parties. Fluttershy received a lot of presents; among them was a special book from Twilight, a special plaque their majesties for her bravery in past battles. Rainbow gave a sonic rainboom to go along with Dyno and Myte’s fireworks. Rhymey even wrote his mare-friend a poem which turned into a song, and Fluttershy almost burst into tears of happiness after hearing it. “Thank you all so much.” she cried “This is the best birthday I’ve ever had.”

That's when she spotted Sapphire. "Oh hi, Sapphire."

"Hey." she replied with a little sadness.

"Hey... I just thought of something. Sapphire, when's your birthday?" Buddy asked.

"Yeah, now that you mention it, you never told us your birthday." Artie added. Sapphire sighed and her face turned really sad. "That's because... I don't have a birthday."

Everybody gasped in shock.

"DON'T HAVE A BIRTHDAY?!" Pinkie screamed.

"But everyone has a birthday." Rarity added. Sapphire turned around. "I don't think being made in a lab counts. I guess I’ll never have a birthday, a birthday party or a birthday cake. I won’t be able to celebrate with my friends. I’ll never truly have a day I can call my own." she began walking towards the door. "Anyway, I just wanted to see what you were up to. Bye guys." she closed the door behind her.

Her friends felt horrible for her. Sapphire never had a day to call her own or to celebrate herself. "Poor sugarcube." Applejack said.

"We've gotta do something." Rainbow added.

"Yeah, she's our friend and the darling deserves a day of her own. Especially after what she'd done for us." Rarity claimed. The others agreed.

"Spike do you have Twilight's calendar?" Lightning questioned. Spike saluted and zipped off and came back with Twilight's calendar. He flipped through it and found what he was looking for. "There, tomorrow of last year is when we first met Sapphire. That should be her birthday."

"Right." the friends stated. Now all they had to do was plan her birthday. "So what's the plan?" a voice came. Everybody turned and saw their majesties walking in. They all bowed to them. "You two want to help?" Lightning asked.

"Indeed. Sapphire Shimmer deserves a day for herself and we want to help." Luna explained.

"Everybody creature pony or human should have a day to themselves and Sapphire is the Princess of Harmony after all. She's spread friendship and peace throughout our universe and it's our turn to give her the same thing in return." Grand Ruler added. The team nodded.

"Yeah! Party!" Pinkie cheered as she threw confetti all over. "Alright, we'll start preparations in the morning." Lightning said. "Artie, Rarity, Starla, you're in charge of decorations. Dyno, Myte, you're in charge of fireworks. Buddy, Applejack and Pinkie; you're in charge of food and catering. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash will keep Sapphire busy and happy while we prepare the party. And I'll work on the entertainment with their majesties. Okay?"

"Yes sir." the team replied.

That night, Sapphire climbed into bed, feeling down about not having a birthday like the rest of her friends. "Guess I'll have know what is it to have a birthday." She sighed sadly and fell asleep.

The sun rose the next morning. The sunlight creeped into Sapphire's bedroom. She yawned and woke up to something she never expected... magenta eyes. "Wah!" she screamed. Rubbing her eyes, she heard a soft voice. "Ooh, sorry if we woke you." She recognized the figure and the voice. "Rainbow Dash? Fluttershy? What are you two doing here?"

"We're here to give you a girl's day out!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"A girl's day out?"

"Yes." Fluttershy said. "It's a day where girls just... hang out and have fun."

Sapphire thought about that. "Well... I guess I could try this 'Girl's Day out'." Rainbow and Fluttershy smiled. Sapphire put on her clothes and the three girls headed out. Rainbow and Fluttershy saw Lightning over head and gave a thumbs up. Lightning nodded and flew off. He pressed his energizer. "Alright, Fluttershy and Rainbow have Sapphire. Go!"

"You heard him y'all." Applejack addressed the rest of the gang. "Let's get this party planned."

"Hey, what about me?" Mykan asked. The gang contacted him and told him about giving Sapphire a birthday and he was all for it. "You ca take care off her chibi dinosaurs." Starla said with a smirk. Blitz came to his side, yawned and then... chomped on his leg. "Ow! Blitz!" he fell to the floor and tried to get the munching dino off his leg. The gang and even their majesties giggled at the scene... until Blitz laid his eyes on Grand Ruler. "Oh no!"

Blitz released Mykan and tried to chomp on hid horns. Grand Ruler ran away with the chibi dino on his tail. "Blitz, no! Not the horn! I order you to stop!" but try as he might the chibi dino didn't listen. Celestia and Luna burst into laughter watching him getting chased by little dinosaur.

The gang stopped laughing and got to work on the birthday preparations while Celesta and Luna went to work on the entertainment while getting Blitz away from Grand Ruler. "I hope the others aren't like that." Mykan groaned, not wanting to get munched on by the other chibi dinosaurs.

Meanwhile, Rainbow and Fluttershy were relaxing at New Ponyville Spa. Fluttershy and Sapphire were getting massages while Rainbow watched from the side, claiming she was 'too cool' for spa treatments. You can bet the spa ponies were surprised when Princess Sapphire came in. They were more than happy to serve her to their best treatments. Sapphire sighed. "This is... relaxing."

"I know, Sapphire. Everyone needs a break every now and then." Fluttershy claimed. Sapphire agreed and continued to enjoy her spa treatments.

She and Fluttershy had a relaxing mud bath, followed by a hand and foot massage, which Sapphire found very relaxing. She accidentally fell asleep while getting it, provoking giggles from Fluttershy. After the spa massage, the girls decided to leave and walk around Ponyville. "So Sapphire, what should we do next on our Girls Day Out?" Rainbow asked.

"Ummm... I don't know, whatever you want to do, I guess."

"How about some shopping? You know, just to look around." Fluttershy suggested.

"Alright." The girls headed to some of the stores in New Ponyville.

Meanwhile, the preparations for Sapphire's party were going off without a hitch, the catering and decorations were looking great. Lightning came to check on them. "Looking great, everyone. We should be done by sundown." Pinkie popped up beside him. "And then we can PARTY! WHOO-HOOO!"

The gang rolled their eyes. Typical Pinkie Pie.

"HELP!" Mykan burst into the room bring chased by Blitz, whom wanted to continue munching on his legs. The other chibi dinosaurs tried to stop the little Styracosaurus, but it was in vain. They ran around the room, miraculously missing the gang and the decorations and caterings. The gang couldn't help but laugh at the scene. "YOU ARE NO HELP AT ALL!" Mykan bellowed as Blitz tackled him to the ground and munched on his arm. "AHH! Stop!"

The sun was beginning to set on New Ponyville.

Fluttershy, Rainbow and Sapphire came out of a clothing shop in New Ponyville. Sapphire just bought some bracelets and earings, since nothing else caught her eye. Fluttershy and Rainbow saw the sun setting and Lightning in the air, he gave them a wink; time to bring the special guest.

"Hey Sapphire, wanna go to New Canterlot?" Rainbow asked.

"Umm... sure. I would like to see Blue and the raptors again." The girls laughed. "You'll be getting a bigger surprise when you get there."

The three girls flew to New Canterlot and went to the throne room in the royal palace. "Why are we going to the ball room?" Sapphire asked.

"Ooooh, just a little something special for you." Rainbow teased. Now Sapphire was curious. "What are they talking about?" Entering the ballroom, she found the entire room pitch black for some reason. "Why is it so dark?" she asked aloud, receiving no response.

"Rainbow? Fluttershy?"

Suddenly, the whole room lit up, and all the ponies, even the royal ones, and Abra, Cadence and Shining Armor leapt out yelling, “SURPRISE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAPPHIRE!"

The whole throne room was lovely decorated. Several tables with plenty of refreshments were set up and one by one all his friends came up to offer him a personal happy birthday with hand-shakes or hugs. Celestia even gave her a small peck on the cheek.

Sapphire never felt so happy before, “But I don’t think today is my birthday. I don’t remember when it is, but I know it’s not today.”

“Sapphire, you’re our friend.” said Lightning “The day we met you was very special, so we thought, we’d celebrate today, and do this every year just for you?” Sapphire felt touched and felt really lucky to have such loving friends.

“Well, one thing’s for sure.” she said “I’ll remember this day forever. Today is my first birthday.” Everyone chuckled, and then it was time to party!

Just like at Fluttershy’s party, there were games, songs, dances. Abra even put on a magic show for all of them. Sapphire even enjoyed the gifts some of the others brought him or had for him…

Rarity found some time to make her lovely red cape to add to her royal attire. It really looked good on her and went nice with her skin color.

Rhymey recited his poem to Sapphire, and Fluttershy’s animal friends did their performance for her. Mykan gave her a necklace with her name on it. "Aww, Mykan." she blushed and kissed her boyfriend on the cheek, making him blush in repsonse

Lightning's gift to Sapphire was a special magical book. It had every animal in United Equestria and Earth, even prehistoric ones. So she could refer to it instead of relying on only her memory.

Then, their majesties came in with a somewhat large box and a piece of paper. "What's this?" Sapphire opened the box and found a light blue egg with dark blue stars on it. She took it out of the box. "An egg?"

"It's not just any egg." Celestia said. Just then, the egg began to crack and jiggle around. "It hatching!" Mykan cried.

The egg cracks all over, and the glow becomes brighter. Just then the egg breaks, and the glow disappear. The baby dragon has finally been born. The little dragon is a beautiful white color scales with light ice blue spikes, and stomach. She has white wings with light blue on the inside, and gold marking of a snowdrop on it's forehead. The newborn dragon is pure and white as snow.

Everyone in the room are in awed to see the new baby dragon has hatched. They can tell that the baby is really lovely, and is white as the winter snow. They can see the new baby dragon looking around it's surrounding and is not sure what's going on around.

"Aww!" The girls squealed happily.

"She's so cute!" Pinkie happily exclaimed

"And so white," Rarity added.

Lightning laughed, "Well Sapphire, looks like you're a mother now."

"I-I guess I am." When she looks down at the baby dragon, she smiles at it, and very happy to have the little white beauty. The baby dragon then smiles as it makes baby noises, and try to reach for Sapphire's face.

Fluttershy comes up to Sapphire and the baby dragon as she says with a smile, "The little dragon looks so beautiful, and so sweet."

"I agree," Sapphire said.

Then Rainbow asked, "So is it a boy or a girl?"

Their majesties and and Fluttershy look at the baby, and can see that the baby is smiling at them and giggling. After close examination, their majesties and Fluttershy knows what gender the baby is.

"Congratulations Sapphire, you have a healthy baby girl dragon," Celestia happily announced. Sapphire and the others were happy to have another dragon with them. "So what are you going to name her?" Rarity asked.

"I'll call her Snowdrop." The baby dragon babbled and giggled at the mention of her new name. "I think she likes it." Pinkie giggled, leaning close to the baby. Just then the baby sneeze, and blowed out a cold wind at Pinkie's face. The cold air causeed her face to freeze a bit, but it breaks off of Pinkie's face in a matter of seconds.

Pinkies shivered a bit, and says, "Burr! That's a cold breath."

Lightning became confused, "I've never seen a dragon breath ice before."

"That's because Snowdrop is an Snow Dragon." Grand Ruler claimed

"A what?!" Everybody asked in surprise.

"A Snow dragon. Very little about them, but they are very rare. They breathe blue fire, and breathe cold air to freeze any danger," he explained.

"Wow, sounds to be like you got a rare dragon living with you," Buddy said, looking at Sapphire.

"I guess, but what I'm going to feed her?"

"When I was about Snowdrop's age, Twilight first feed my crushed gems along with my egg shell mixed into it," Spike answers.

I'll go and bring a few gems and a grinding bowl from the kitchen, and a bottle with some milk." Spike ran out of the room to give the baby she needs. After getting the stuff they need, he made the formula for the little baby. "It's ready."

Sapphire grabbed a spoon, and scooped a little bit of the powdered egg shell and gem. "Alright sweetie, it's time for your first breakfast," She slowly brought the spoon to little Snowdrop. The baby dragon open her mouth, and Sapphire puts it to her mouth. The baby loved it.

"That's good Snowdrop, make sure you eat all your food," she replied with a smile.She continued to slowly give her new baby dragon her food. After feeding her powdered eggshell and gem, she gives the baby her bottle.Sapphire held the baby as the little dragon drank from her bottle. Sapphire is very happy. Rarity sat next to her, "I have to say her scales are so white, and blue as icicles. Yet, she has a snowdrop on the middle of her forehead."

"I agree, but I think it's a unique mark for her." Sapphire replied. Mykan came over to the girls. "Now we get to have a Snow Dragon here in New Ponyville."

"I have to agree, but would she be okay when winter comes?" Sapphire asks with concern.

"The Snow Dragons' breath remains cold while their blue fire is hot, so they are able to live during spring and summer," Celestia explained.

"That's good, we wouldn't want our new buddy to get sick or feel unhealthy," Spike said.

Spike looked at the baby dragon, and happily said, "Hey Snowdrop. I'm your're new big dragon brother, Spike. Someday, I'm going to teach you how to use your claws to dig, and how to use your fire breath."

The baby stared at Spike for a bit with a curious look. She then giggled and started to touch Spike on the face.Sapphire passed little Snowdrop to Spike, and Spike is able to hold her. Spike sat down and started playing with the little dragon.

Applejack happily said, "Well look at that, Spike and little Snowdrop are friends already."

"I agree, this calls for a party!" Pinkie cheered, throwing the confetti and streamers around the room, making the baby giggle.

"Looks like she wants a part too," Spike added.The others laughed.

“So what are the papers for?” Lightning asked, referring to the papers in his masters’ hand.

“Well, we know Sapphire never truly had a family to call her own so we decided to give her one." Grand Ruler said. The girls had a feeling about what was about to happen, especially Pinkie Pie. "You don't mean?" Pinkie squeaked. Their majesties stared at Sapphire, "Sapphire, if it's okay with you, we would like to adopt you as our daughter." Celestia offered. Everybody in the room gasped in the utmost shock. Rarity dramatically fainted on the ground. The entire room fell silent.

Sapphire was speechless. She never expected an adoption in well... ever. And now she's was given a chance to have a real family. She looked at the royal couple with a biggest smile she ever had, almost Pinkie-like. "... YES!" she leaped into their majesties's arms, crying in joy. "I will let you adopt me!"

The entire room went up in cheers and a roar of applause. Their majesties signed the adoption papers, officially making Sapphire their daughter. The girls were ever so happy for her. "Congratulations darling." Rarity said.

"Yeah. Now you have two awesome parents and a family too." Rainbow added. Mykan came over and hugged her. "Congrats." Sapphire smiled and kissed his cheek. "Thank you." Now Sapphire has a true family of her own.