Rock Bottom & Upward

It was a warm Spring morning, ponies bustled about the busy open air market. Lavender Dream was sent by Blueblood to mail a stack of letters and do some shopping. Walking merrily across the park our young Threstral saw something that made her blood boil. She was walking along and saw Sassy Saddle with another stallion, she was in a place for a convenient photo shot. Once she completed her task she counted the bits that Blueblood gave her to get herself a special treat.

Sugar Cube Corner - Fillydelphia Branch

Walking into the new Sugar Cube Corner, she froze and made it look like she was calculating something on her forelegs and snapped another photo. Sassy Saddle was there with the same stallion from earlier. Lavender Dream knew that she will be keeping tabs on the duet.

With the Spring dance at the University coming in a few months and knowing how much Blueblood loved Sassy, she needed more Intel before she had to break his heart with her information. After few months of photoshooting Sassy with the other stallion it was concrete solid proof that Sassy was cheating.

6 weeks before the Spring Dance

"Master Blueblood...I need to give you this but promise me that you won't channel any malice at me. These photos in this folder were collected over the course of five months; I am not trying to cause problems just trying to help you not get your heart broken. "

"I promise" as Blueblood flipped through the photos his rage was becoming evident. He stormed toward the door.

"My lord, maybe you should calm down first?" Blueblood shoved her out of the way and stormed down the stairs. Lavender followed him and all the way to Sassy's home. When he knocked the butler who had answered said that Sassy was busy. The noises floating down the stairs said other wise. Blueblood stormed up to Sassy's room and pushed the door open. He saw Sassy in bed with another stallion.

The stallion stood, "A knock would've have been appropriate my old friend."

"And stealing my marefriend isn't messed up? I thought I knew you better than that Fancy Pants!" The two began to deliver blows and were getting violent. Lavender got in the middle to break them up and got a solid left hoof to the face. The fight ended when the recently hit Lavender was hurled by Fancy Pants over the stair banister.
Lavender had caught herself as she was holding on Blueblood watched helplessly as he was pinned to the wall and Sassy walked over smirking. "You little whore...pity you had to go poking your nose into everything."

"The only...real pity....is that you weren't lady enough to be faithful to a stallion who had given you his heart! That is something not to be toyed with...back home you would have been burnt alive after being dragged the streets getting humiliated!" Sassy had heard enough raising a vase Lavender braced for impact. She felt herself fall, then hit something made of marble and then the floor. Sassy was at the bottom waiting for her.

Lavender's health system summed up injuries before the cyborg legs went into shut down mode due to the damage done to them in the fall. Defenseless Lavender panicked and began to cower under Sassy's gaze. Sassy smirked as she raised one of her father's golf irons. Lavender instinctively tried to block her face. After a few moments Blueblood had used his magic to blast Sassy away and letting Sassy know that they were over.

A few hours later

Lavender woke up in a hospital with a battered and bruised and yet smirking Blueblood looking down at her. "Hey Cupcake you're alive! When I got you in here you were on the cusp. Do Threstrals heal quickly or something because you shouldn't be awake yet?"

"Seeing your face.....I wish I was still asleep...cuz that is only a face your mother can love." Lavender then proceed to stick out her tongue.

"Easy Cupcake, by the way I have the guy who built those coming over to fix them." At that moment, a filly about eight years old strode and sat on the ledge of the bed. Blueblood noticed the tag in her ear was the same as Lavender's and it was the one he and his family used and it bore the family seal upon it. The filly also lugged in with her a massive suitcase.

"Lord Blueblood I presume?" She asked looking a tad wearied from her quest; your folks sent some stuff for your stay here and let you that they just purchased me. The name is Ocean Breeze at your service. They knew you'd ask about my tagging choice and I'll go ahead and answer your thoughts now." She paused and looked at Lavender Dream then back to Blueblood. "I'm Lavender's daughter, and yeah everyone thought I was dead after being tossed overboard like unneeded cargo another slave ship picked me up. To be perfectly honest.....it was worse than the first, the crew were to umm........play with the cargo except for me and I think the captain wanted me for himself."

"So, Half-Pint are you hungry?" To be honest Ocean Breeze was starving and didn't want to say it in those terms.

"I'm a little hungry" stomach betrayal kicked in, "I hadn't eaten since lunch sir."

"There is a cafeteria downstairs and go get yourself some food."

"Aren't you afraid I'll run off with your bits?"

"I gave them to you so they're yours and besides if you're like your mother I know can trust you." Ocean Breeze gave him hug trotted merrily on her way. He then saw his trust tech repair and tech informant Greenfield and his Equestrian Royal Army Captain retired wife Makita who most of the gear they needed to test Lavender's cyborg legs. Behind them came in a mare and stallion he'd only seen a few times; the next set were Lenova and her husband Flytrap. As they set to work Lenova dropped the note that her brother and ended some royal duties in Threstralia early to personally look into this incident and his partner Sparks had already started a full investigation.

As the night drew on Blueblood dozed off on the spare bed to the sounds of hushed whispers; overhead Ocean Breeze hung on an oxygen line support arm studying her new master. What was it that made her mom like this guy?