Canterlot Castle, Throne room
2000 hours, March 18 1980

Gears was pacing back and forth waiting for his princess, and teacher, to arrive. He pulled out a scroll and a pin and looked over the final preparations for the debates. As he was giving the scroll a once over. The throne room doors open, revealing Twilight Sparkle with two royal guards on each side of her, both wearing a purple jackets with new M4 rifles, Twilight looked at Gears in amusement. She was always reminded of herself when she saw somepony lost in a paper work.

“mmhhm” twilight cleared her throat, grabbing Gears’ attention

“Princess” Gears walked up the twilight giving her a hug. She returned the hug with her own feeling how tense he was. “So princess, may I asked why am I here.”

“I will tell you, after you tell me about what you have to report.” twilight requested, giving him a reassuring smile.

“You know how we having an electron for the first mister position. Well I’m finishing the set up for the debates, both of them.”

“Wait, both of them?” twilight asked

“Yes, two parties popped up before we go into the debates for first mister and shadow. We're going to deal with the Celestial democrats, and the lunar republicans.” Gears finished.

“Well, parties is not what I intended but we will push forward, anyway. Well Gears, the reason I have called you here is because we found a young colt who seems to have a bloodline connected to Celesta and I need someone to look after him I was hoping you could take care of him.” Twilight explained

“What?! Are you sure, princess? I've never raised a foal and I don’t have a mare so theirs no motherly figure for him. Plus I have to oversee the EIA and I have project mjolnir to start.”

“Gears, I know you're nervous but I know you will do fine in fact when you have foals of your own, you would have some experience raising one.” twilight raises his head to look at him.

I guess it makes sense, and I always wanted a foal. But the EIA.”

I will have captain Vladimir to oversee it and the mjolnir project is go to be put in the hoofs of professor Crossbones. You'll meet him tomorrow at the lab. Now you’ll find blueblood at the northern foal orphanage.”

Okay, I’ll go for him now.”

Canterlot, northern foal orphanage
2004 hours, March 18, 1980

Blueblood was bouncing off the walls. He had just got a letter from the princess saying that he was getting adopted by her own student. There was a guard outside his room standing in place wait for the VIP to get the colt. Blueblood walked outside and moshing the guard in, she rolled her eyes and walked in. blueblood sat down on the bunkbed and spoke

“I can't believe I’m getting adopted. I never thought I would” blueblood beamed

“Well good for you foal, I just happy to see somepon- someone excited as you are, I mean I you kinda remind me of my daughter when she was your age.” the Guards mare explained

“Really?!”

“Yes, her name is Aurora. she's a pegasus and anytime she would get excited she would not stop talking about it.”

“Okay…. What's your name, Mrs?” blueblood question after a brief pause’

“Names Red Harvest and before you ask I’m here to keep you safe for the VIP.”

“Okay. what a VIP?” blueblood asked

“A VIP or a very important pon-person is someone of high states, so your luck probably be living in a mansion with some servers-

“OR he will live where I do, which is an apartment down arabic streets.” A stallion interrupted her. She turned around and the VIP. she jumped back a bit, she knew the VIP looked strange but she never guessed how strange till seeing him. Blueblood hid behind the guard, only getting a small glimpse of the stallion. He was purple like the princess but his mane was pink and so were his eyes but unlike other ponies the stallion's eyes were dragon's eyes. The stallion was also larger than the mare by two hooves lengths.

“You must be the VIP, Gears right?” the guards mare inquired, trying and failing to hide the fear in her voice

“Yes, I am.” Gears turned his head down to see a colt. The colt had a blonde mane with a white coat and blue eyes. The colt was shaking a bit, making gears’ face fall, but he glanced up and kneeled down and got as close to eye level with blueblood.

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to hurt you. Look I’ve lost a lot of people over the years and all I want to do is just have a family and work on other jobs so if you’ll have me I would be honored to be your father.” Gears said in a soothing and loving tone in his voice. Gears extended his leg towards blueblood. Blueblood hesitantly left the safe of the guardsmare and walked up to the odd stallion’s out stretched leg and notice his hoof had claws on them. He looked at the stallions eyes and altho scared he didn’t feel as if he was in danger. He grabbed the stallion's hoof and walked with him still a bit nerves about the stallion. Gears was walking outside, but before he did he turned to the mare and said

“Thank you for not attacking me like the others did.” Gears added as he walked out with blueblood. Red harvest was dumbstruck. Did she just see what she thought she saw? A creature just came in and adopted a foal and to top it off, thanked her for not freaking out. She shook her head. She only came to one thought and one thought only “who was that? And why was he a VIP?”

Canterlot, Arabic street
2100 hours,march 18, 1980

Blueblood was following the stallion gears. He thinks that was the stallion's name, anyway. They walked up the stairs of a small building. Once they reached the door gears took his keys out of his sable bag and opened the door. He motioned blueblood to go inside, to which he complied. Inside the condo was nothing special, just a living room with a brown paint job and a carpeted floor. The stallion walked in behind him and turned on the lights.

“So blueblood, what do you think?” Gears asked

“I think it's plain” blueblood answer

“Oh well, thanks," Gears said sarcastically

“No problem." Blueblood committed the sarcasm going over his head. "So you my dad now!?"

"Yes I am, blueblood. Now are you hungry? I can make some food and you can take a look around. What do you say?" Gears offered before blueblood could reply his stomach growled. Gears chuckled and walked to the kitchen. Blueblood, for his part walked around the condo looking for anything interesting. He found a desk with drawings on an enormous sheet of paper. Blueblood walked up to the desk and sat down looking at the drawings. He saw a crystal label (heat crystal fragment from the fire lands) blueblood then look at the poll that had been made from something blueblood never heard of "clter"

“Blueblood dinner is ready." Gears yelled to get his attention. Blueblood walked to the kitchen and saw a place for him. It was fish on a stick with steamed vegetables. Blueblood sat down and looked over to gears and saw him with a cut of meat with vegetables. Blueblood stared at the meat with a confused look on his face.

“What is blueblood?" Gears asked

“It's just I never seen that before" blueblood pointed to gears and his own.

“Well that's a fish and mine is a piece of zebra meat."

“That used to be a zebra?!" Blueblood shouted

“Lower you voice or do you want to wake up the neighbors." Gears yelled in an authority toun. Blueblood cowered in fear, looking up at Gears. "I'm sorry of yelling, but look, I'm different from other ponies. I have to eat stuff that dragons eat or I could die."

“But zebras are living creatures."

“Well, so are plants, but you see no one crying for them. Look I don't want to scare you but please don't tell anyone I eat this stuff. It isn't because it's bad but because they don't understand." Gears explained

“Okay Gears” blueblood said with a nervous look on his face as he ate his food. After the two ate their dinner in silence, once they finished gears grabbed the dishes and to them to the sink. Blueblood walked over to the couch and sat down. After cleaning the dishes, Gears sat down next to blueblood.

“So Gears what made you adopted me” blueblood asked breaking the silence

Gears didn’t know what to say, so he looked back to what twilight told him. “Gears honesty is the best way for a relationship to flush” Gears cleared his throat and turned to the colt.

“I didn’t the princess choses you for me” Gears answered

“So you didn't want me?” blue started to tear up

“No, no just because I didn’t choses you, doesn't mean I didn’t want you. Look most of all parents don’t get to choose their foals, they just get them and they don't care, they care for them regardless.”

“Blueblood blinked his tears away and started at his hoofs “my parents didn’t want me and a stallion is now forced to take care of me, I'm just a matake.” blueblood’s tears fell Down his face freely, the colt just sobbed before feeling a claw on his shoulder he turned to Gears, who was giving him a reassuring smile and pulled him into a hug. He cried as he gears patted his head.

“You are not a mistake and I wasn’t forced. I was given a choice to take care of you or not and I agreed to this.”

“Why?” blue asked, wiping his tears

“I know what it feels like to feel unwanted, but I had my parents and then I started to find ponies who didn’t care I was different. I want to be that for you.”

“Thank you mister Gears” blueblood yawned as gears lifted him up and took him to his room he put blueblood on the bed and tucked him in. gears turned off the light and walked out of the room he walked into his room and got ready for bed.

Author's Note

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