When You Wish Upon a Star (rewritten)

Deep inside a small cavern, there lives a lovely unicorn mare in pink, her mane with beautiful colors of the rainbow, her diamond blue eyes kept watch of the crystal shining waters of her beloved Fount Well. She hums herself a little tune of her own, looking at the reflection of water she suddenly feels a sudden shift of the aura. She then sensed another presence.

Another Wish Maker? she thought to herself, How is this possible? Could it be…? She rushes to out of the Fount Well area and into the hallway. After searching and scanning through the halls, she then could hear a familiar voice. "You will face your judgment!"

She could see the four ponies, one adult and three fillies and Discord behind them. She needs to put a stop to this, now! “Devine! Stop!” She exclaims in anger as everyone now see the angry pink unicorn in marching charge towards the bird. She stop right in front of Devine with a disappointed scowl. “What is the meaning of this?” She asked in a demanding.

“Lady Wishing Star,” He says in shock, “I-I was about to head back to the Fount Well, but then these intruders found the entrance, so I was about to-”

She puts her hoof to his beak and looks at the group, she was still in shock after seeing the young earth pony stallion. She walks up to him, her widened eyes scanning him. “Uh… h-hi?” Wish greets in confusion.

“I don’t believe it…” she gasps in awe, she placed her hoof on his cheek, “It’s you! It really is you! The one that the Great Stars foretold years ago!”

Wish looked at the fillies, who were clueless as he was. How could they know? They were kids! He then looks at Discord, who just shrugs his shoulders and shook his head.

“The Stars’ prophecy?” The dog voiced asked behind them, holding the side of his head. He somehow he regained consciousness. “I thought it was just some legend that they told to keep others’ hopes up?”

“It does Bluu,” she says to him excitedly, “and this young man is living proof!” Now everyone, except for Devine Light, we’re getting really confused. The pink unicorn realized something and took a step back, introducing herself, “Oh, forgive me, I am Lady Wishing Star, but I’m sometimes known as the Lady of Wishes. You must be Carson Andrews, yes?”

Now it was stallion’s turn to have his eyes go wide in shock. He hasn’t gone by that name ever since he was founded by Gleaming Sword and his guardsmen. “H-How did-?”

“They told me that you arrived here fourteen years ago,” she explains to him, “I disregarded it as something that had happened many times before, a human accidentally falling into Equestria. But you,” she placed his hooves on hers, “You are the one we were waiting for!”

“We?” Carson asked her.

“Yes yes! You must come with me to the Fount Well!” The lady tells him excitedly as she took his hoof and guided himself to the sacred area. The Crusaders and the draconequus followed suit, leaving the blue and white dog and the tall bird in utter surprise.

“Is it true on what she said?” Bluu asked. Devine Light just stared at the teal earth pony, not saying a word as he follows them soon after.

The Crusaders then began gossiping quietly. Sweeite Belle started, “He’s from a different world? I thought he was born in Equestria?”

“Didn’t you hear the name she said to Wish? Carson Andrews. What kind of name even is that?” Scootaloo questions.

Apple Bloom then said in a upset tone, “What Ah don’t understand is why he lied to us. Applejack would’ve caught his lie! How could he lie to us, not to mention the Princesses, and just stay here?!”

“I’m sure there’s a logical explaination why Apple Bloom,” Sweetie reassured her fellow Crusader, looking at the adult unicorn and earth pony walking in front of them, “Wish wouldn’t lie to us. Besides, if Applejack could tell he was lying, she would’ve caught on to it.”

“Unless she was in on it.” Scootaloo suggests.

They then went in to an area that was probably the most beautiful area the ponies had ever seen, three statues of the three races, bowing in respect to the one bigger statue resting above a waterfall is an alicorn. From the waterfall streaming down is a whirlpool that seems to be like a white glowing void, and the water itself seems like the midnight sky that Luna herself embodies.

“This place is beautiful!” The white unicorn filly exclaims in awe of the area.

“Isn’t it?” The lady says to the ponies, “The Fount-Well is one of the most sacred that I have designed in my image.”

Carson continued to look around in awe of the area while Scootaloo asked in shock, “This is the Fount-Well of Wishes?!”

“A place were your judgement is tested, no thanks to your friend here.” Devine tells them coldly who is no longer looking at Carson, but at the draconequus. Discord looked at him confused, but the tall bird snaps, “Don’t play the lady like a fool, you know what you had done, and what lead the events to occur.”

“What are you talking about?” The pink unicorn mare asked.

Devine obliges by explaining, “My lady, the pony that you met whom that have exploited you wasn’t a pony at all, but it was the Lord of Chaos himself.” She turned to look at him, so did the others as the avian continues on, “He's manipulated you to use your power to be famous amongst your people had caused it to backfire, and it’s all thanks to a chaotic spell he enchanted on your wish."

The pink unicorn looked at the draconequus in surprise, leaving him quite speechless as he tried to explain to himself, only to come out with stumbled words. Discord then hung his head in shame as he then says, "Look... what I did was wrong. I have no excuse for what I've done, and I can understand if you won't be able to forgive me, because 'sorry,' is all I can give."

It all got quiet, and the ponies were nervous as to what the Lady of Wishes herself would respond to this, all the while Devine Light just smirks at the chaotic hybrid. They then heard the pink unicorn... snort. Then a mouth closed giggle, and started to laugh her head off as she fell to her side, tears coming down her face.

"Umm... am I missing something here?" Carson asked the group, only for the Crusaders to shrug their shoulders.

He looked at Discord, who then responds, "Don't look at me! I may be an all powerful and chaotic being with knowledge, but this is something that I'm completely dumbfounded with."

The pink unicorn calms herself down, a few giggles escaped her lips, as she then says, “Who would’ve thought? I had met the lord of chaos himself, and I never knew it!”

“Hol’ up,” Applebloom interjects with a raised hoof in understandable confusion, “Ya knew who Discord was?”

“Ohh, much more than that,” she clarifies to them, looking at the draconequus, “Before Carson had made him have a change of heart, I had one dream of befriending him and cause a little shake up in Equestria, to brighten up everypony’s day.”

The spirit of chaos hung his shamefully as he says, “And I ended up ruining that dream that you so desperately wanted to achieve.” He raised his head a little to look at the Lady of Wishes as he continues on, “As I said, I have no excuse for what I’ve done, and for that, all I can say is I’m sorry.”

The tall bird wanted to say something, but he got cut off by the pink mare, “There’s no apology needed Discord. Yes, back then, it did hurt me because of the backfire, and it caused me to lock myself away for… goodness, almost six hundred years now. Although, it’s now made clear that I wasn’t destined to redeem you,” she looked at Carson as she finishes her sentence with a very kind smile, “It was you.”

Then the Crusaders looked up at the teal stallion as the little light yellow filly then asked in a upset tone, “But why? Why would you lie to us?”

Carson looked at the very disappointed looks on the fillies faces, he knelt down and said, “Girls… I know you’re very confused, but I want you to understand that I didn’t lie about what I said… I was indeed raised in Canterlot, and I lived there for fourteen years…” he sighs hesitantly as he then explains, “But my old life as a human? It’s nothing really exciting, and it wasn’t in a good state either with everything that happened. Corrupt and greedy people, places in states of war or poverty, I could go on. I never knew my mom and I never had any contact with my dad after I left for high school.” They looked at him confused as he then simply said, “Let’s just say we didn’t end the conversation we had on good terms. My point is that I never lied about my life, I just chose to not talk about it.”

Scootaloo, who just looked awestruck at the stallion, then asks, “S-so then, that’s why the star chose you?”

Carson shrugged his shoulders and admits, “I don’t know why I made that wi- …That thing that some would do, but I’m here now, and I would lie to myself saying that you guys wouldn’t be able to change my life around. I’m glad that I was wrong.” He looks at the Crusaders and then tell them, “And if you three decide to no longer have me as a Cutie Mark Crusader, that’s completely fi-“

“NO!!!!!” The three fillies shout as they rushed at him for a hug as they begged.

“We don’t want you to leave!” Squeaked Sweetie.

“We wouldn’t forgive our selves if we did!” Scootaloo tells him.

“Yer our family too!” Applebloom exclaims.

Carson’s face slowly switched from shock to comfort as he returns the embrace for the three fillies. “Thank you.” He says to them.

As they let him out of the hug, Applebloom then says in realization, “But if the others knew about yer past life, Ah don’t know how they’re gunna react!”

“So, what? We just keep quiet about it?”

“It would be for the best little ones,” The Lady tells the gamboge pegasus filly, “Until Carson is fully ready to tell the Elements of Harmony the truth about himself, he’ll for now remain as Wishing Star.”

“And when will that truth come for them?” Bluu asked impatiently.

The pink unicorn just scoffs playfully as she says, “When he’s ready Bluu. Have you forgotten one of your Willing Wolf virtues again? Besides, I think you owed somepony an apology for scaring them.” She gestured her head to the group of ponies, having him to look at them.

Bluu looked at the fillies for a moment as he then tells them very sincerely, but sternly, “I was only doing my duty that was required of me of the Lady, but I now realized that I made a grave error. Had I cut you all down from where you stood, it would’ve been my fault. I don’t expect forgiveness for what I did.” In his giant paw, he gripped his katana sheath tightly, seemingly shaking violently.

Sweetie Belle took notice and walked up to the blue wolf. She then tells him apologetically, “We’re very sorry too. And I’m sorry for hitting you on the head with the pan. I-I thought you were-“

“No apology need for that little one,” he says calmly to Sweetie Belle, “You were doing what you had to do.”

She gave him a cutie smile, she then gestures her hoof to have Bluu come closer. He does so, but before he could ask, he felt the filly tilting his head down and gave it a pecking kiss from where she whacked him. “Better?” She asked him.

The wolf blushes and replies back to her, “M-much better.” He turns his head towards to the pink unicorn, who gave him a gentle expression on her face.”I-I’ll excuse myself for now mistress. I need to go meditate.” He turns tail and leaves the area.

It was Devine’s turn to interject himself out of the conversation as he says, “I must take my leave as well.” As he turned around the enter the tunnel, he gave Carson one last glance then looking forward to the tunnel.

The Lady of Wishes just sighs, but then everyone here heard echoey, high-pitched, chittering noises. The pink unicorn turns her gaze to the whirlpool and says excitedly, “Oh! They’re appearing! Their introduction is always my favorite part whenever new visitors come here.” The others stood by the edge of the shallow area. All of a sudden, five little glowing balls of light shot out from the whirlpool and began to dance around, following more chittering in different tones. One got close a close look at Carson, almost seemingly curious. The little light chitters towards the pink unicorn, which earned her a giggle as she clarifies to it, “Yes Chippy, this is the one that the Star Council had described.”

The little light, Chippy as it was called, swirled around the teal stallion, going up and down as if examining him. “U-uh, what is it doing?” Carson asks her.

“Oh, don’t worry about Chippy,” She reassured him with another giggle, “He’s just very curious about you.” Then a gruffy chittering could be heard, the curious star then returns to the line up with the other four as the Lady then introduces them, “My friends, I like to introduce to you the Star Council. You’ve already seen how curious Chippy can be. He represents of what choices are open for you and explore them. There’s also Dipper, a navigator that created of your path; Scale, the judge of your options; Gaze, a watcher of the choices you make; and the greatest of them all, the Great Star, the father of all stars.”

The Great Star then chitters at the pink unicorn as she bows her head. It then said something to her, to which she responds, “Star Council, the speculations has finally been put to rest. The teal stallion that stands before you is the human that you have prophecies is really here! The human that will help change Equestria!”

The pony in disguise was quite surprised by this and then asks, “Wait wait. There’s a prophecy?” The lady nods. “About me?” She again nods. “And you think that I would help save this Equestria?”

Scale chitters in a judging tone. The two ponies looked at each other as the Lady explains, “Scale said that there is no mistaking that you are the one, but it depends on the choices that you make during your time here.” The judging star continues on, then she finishes on what it said, “And so far, the choices you made are somewhat pure.”

“Somewhat?” Carson asked.

“Your wish for Discord to have a change of heart has caused a huge shift in this Equestria’s history.” The lady explains, “Meaning that Discord would no longer be considered as a threat in the future events that is to follow.” The teal stallion was in shock. Not too long ago, Discord said that it would be impossible to change everyone’s fates no matter what he does, yet here is the Lady of Wishes and the Star Council telling them that it is possible. But the lady wasn’t done speaking, “However, in said future events, you must be careful. There will come a time where you have to make the hardest choice of your life.”

“Will that include us?” Scootaloo asks her, the three Crusaders seemingly scared about what is to come.

The lady just gave them a reassuring smile and tells them, “I would not worry about your futures yet. You three are still young and curious, so you should still live this life while there is still time.” She went to the edge, dipped her forehoof in the water and took out three, small, brass bronze stars. “Here,” she says to them, giving one star to each Crusader, “Take these stars, make your wish, and toss them to pool. They will show you how you can achieve your dreams.”

“They can?!” Sweetie Belle asked excitedly, then turns to her fellow crusaders and exclaims, “Come on Cutie Mark Crusaders!”

They hurried to the pool and started to form a plan for their wishes. Carson chuckles as he shook his head, “Planning to have them get their Cutie Marks early?”

“And you don’t?” She teased him.

“Hey, I got my friends to help me with that. I don’t need my powers to do that for me.”

Discord then jumps in to the conversation as he says to the pink unicorn, “I must say, it’s intriguing that you’re allowing them to receive their Cutie Marks from a wish.”

The lady then explains, “Well, that’s not how that works my dear draconequus. You see, in every dreams when you fall asleep, you’d create a wish of the goals you have in mind. When your wish is made, your star will flow down this pool and into the whirlpool there. The vision is then created, showing you what you must do in order to achieve your wish.”

“Well, my powers are much different than that, and I don’t know how to control it without saying it.” Carson tells her.

The pink mare giggled, “That is because you’re at the beginning stages.” The teal stallion looked at her confused. She sighs and says, “Let me explain. Your wishes are fueled by desire. Your desires to change Equestria and it’s inhabitants are what’s causing them go through a change in yourself.”

“So, it’s like Greed induced bigness, but worse?”

“Depends on the user’s point of view,” she tells him.

"WHAT KIND OF VISION WAS THAT?!" Scootaloo shouts in anger, understandable as both the lady and Carson looked at the rather disappointed and scowling fillies.

"Miss Lady, we were gipped!" Sweetie complains.

“That’s gypped Sweetie.” Carson corrects her.

“This ain’t funny!” Applebloom retorts angrily as she stomped her hoof, “Diamond Tiara got here first didn’t she?” She looked at the ground with a pout and then said, “Somehow she always got to us first.”

Carson knelt to their height and asks them, “What did you three see?”

“Well, we saw us getting our Cutie Marks.” Scootaloo starts, “We couldn’t see what they were, but somehow we got ‘em!”

“But then we saw Diamond Tiara,” Sweetie Belle continues on, “And we were… friends with her?”

“That ain’t no vision!” Applebloom tells them upset, “This was nothin’ but a sham!”

The lady gave Applebloom a patient smile as she explains to her, “My little ponies, the Fount Well would never bend to the will of anypony, let alone Diamond, nor any dark force that wishes to control its power. The vision you saw is just one of the many futures as to how you would accomplish your goals. How you achieve your Cutie Marks depends on how your actions. Who knows, you might get Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon to see the error of her ways and might become friends.”

“She’s right you know,” Carson adds as he got up, “I mean, look at me. I thought I would earn my Cutie Mark after defeating Discord. It hasn’t shown, but you know what? I’m not giving up. There’s path that’s waiting for us to make our dreams come true.”

“How would you know?” Sweetie Belle asks him.

He chuckles as he then says, “Well, there’s an old song that someone once sang.” As soon he said that, a little melody could be heard, like as if the stars knew what he was going to do and so they play.

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep

Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true

Scootaloo, inspired from Carson’s song, then exclaims, “So you’re saying that we should keep doing our crusading to achieve our cutie marks?”

He tells them with a shrug, “If that’s what you believe that is the way to get your cutie marks, it could.”

“Well,” Sweetie Belle ponders, “I guess it couldn’t hurt to add new crusaders. In fact, I know a couple of foals who don’t have cutie marks!” She turns to the pink unicorn and asks, “Miss Lady, can you take us home? We Crusaders got some work to do!”

She giggled at the three fillies optimistic attitude and tells them, “I’d be more than honored to.” She then looks at the teal stallion and the draconequus. “I think I should return you two home as well. Besides, I think there’s somepony can’t keep his eyes open.”

Carson rubbed his eyes as he then jokingly said, “Well, that’s what I get for handling puzzles and trekking through a dangerous forest.” He then looks at the Crusaders and tells them, “That goes for the same thing for you three, you’re probably are going to need some sleep.”

“Awwww…” the three fillies complain.

“Come on now.” He tells them, he then looks at the pink unicorn and gave her a bow, “Thank you, Lady of Wishes. May we speak again.”

She giggled and bows in turn, “May we shall indeed.” Her horn glows brightly and send them back to the Carousel Boutique. She sighs as then hummed herself a little tune that Carson had sung.

The dreams that I wish will come true

From the shadows, the tall bird had kept a close eye on the group until they left. Oh, how he despises the boy. He could then sense a presence in a form of a cold shiver, like a hand gripping tightly on his shoulder, with a voice that sounded as if it born from the darkest depth of Tartarus itself. “That child is threat, be mindful of that.” Devine Light turned around to see a dark reflection of himself, a dark red pulsating figure that looked like as if his body was soaked and dripping with blood. “Until my power returns, I cannot take his power of wishes.”

“Ah, but that’s the trouble, old friend,” Devine says with playful caution, “Until he fully understands the power he wields, you won’t be able to take it. And even if you would at his beginning stages, it would be downright impossible.”

“Do you dare question my capabilities?”

“With a face like that? How could I even challenge you?”

The dark red figure dissolve and then reappear behind the white bird as it spoke once more with a threatening tone, “Do not forget your place and where you stand Devine. Anywhere you go, I control whatever, whomever, and whenever I chose to. I may not have a physical body such as yours, but the body that I will possess will be far powerful than anyone has ever dreamed of.”

As the dark figure turns to leave, the white bird asks, “What about Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek, the others? Will they pose a threat to our plan as well, or can they be trusted?”

A low growl rumbled as the figured turns it’s head slowly as it said, “They will cooperate, or they will face my wrath.”

“And what of King Sombra and Grogar?”

…

…

“They will be a pawns in our plan… until then, we take time to build our plan, gain power. Only then will we put our plan into motion, it is when we strike at the heart of Equestria itself.”

The white bird nods in understanding as the dark figure dissolved once more, leaving the hall. Only then. Devine thought to himself.

As the crusaders got into the boutique, Carson, now Wishing Star once again, has bid Discord farewell for now as the draconequus had to return to Canterlot to inform the Princesses, excluding some vital parts of information. Wish then took the Crusaders into his room, accommodated by Rarity herself, placeing them on his bed, grabbed the biggest blanket he could find, and draping it on the fillies. He then tucked himself in to his bed. Before he fell asleep, the CMC hugged their friend.

“Thanks for takin’ us out today.” Applebloom says to him.

“Yeah, it was great!” Scootaloo adds.

“I want to go on more adventures just like that.” Sweetie Belle tells him.

Wishing Star then returned the embrace and replies, “You’re very much welcome. Now, let’s get some sleep.”

“Good night.” They said in unison, laying back down and snuggling next to him.

He chuckles and then says, “Goodnight my little ponies.” He closes his eyes and falls asleep, once again allowing Luna to them to the world of dreams.