Rainbow was having a really, really weird day. The reason it was so weird? She wanted to race someone. In the air.

She knew no one around here could keep up with her. At all. So when she landed near the Buti- Buti- Clothing store that Rarity owned and used a stupid fancy word for it! She was confused at the fact that Rarity seems to have adopted a yearling.

A pegasus yearling. "Hey, who's the kid?" She asked, looking at Rarity. She wondered why Rarity would adopt a pegasus.

"Oh, that... She says her name is Sora." Uh... "She isn't from around Equestria."

"Rarity, you know some ponies don't like having a gender, right?" she asked gently. "Maybe they don't want to be called a girl or boy?" Rainbow tried.

"I... I hadn't asked. Why the sudden interest, Rainbow Dash? Sora is an earth pony," Rarity said, confused. Which made Rainbow confused.

"Uh... Hey, kid? What kinda pony are ya?" Rainbow asked, and Sora looked away with a shrug. "Dunno? How can you not know? Let me take a look." Sora just nodded, and laid down. Why did this pony act like a cat?

Rainbow stopped, before she even got too close. three scars. Three. One over the heart, like someone stabbed it, but the angle seemed... Self done. And the two others.

"What in the name of Celestia's Scat, happened to your wings!?"

Twilight was having a weird dream again. She was in a weird Library with Spike, and she had wings! Oh, how she would love them!

"Hey mama," Spike said, waving. "Back again?"

"Yeah, I am sweetie." Twilight found this Dream Spike responded better when she was... more motherly. Hello subconscious, what are you telling Twi? "Why am I here?"

"Don't know mama. But it's peaceful here, isn't it?" Dream Spike smiled, eating a gem.

"Yeah... Yeah it is." Twi yawned, and curled up. Why was she tired in a dream? Can she fall asleep in a dream? What?

"Hello darling. Waking up?" Celestia's voice asked. Darling? "How lovely it is to see you again, my dream Twilight." WHAT!?

"Um..."

"Oh, do not worry. It was confusing the first time... But I understand that this old mare's dreams of Twilight calling me mommy, are... Something I honestly want." OK! WHAT!?

"Oh... Uh, thank you, mommy." Ok, just... Just pretend Twilight! Maybe this is your own subconscious, letting you live your dreams! Just, at a deeper level! "Uh... Mommy happy?" Twi nuzzled Celestia's leg, hoping that was right.

"Aww." Celestia nuzzled back with a soft sound. "Thank you, sweetheart." Oh... This... This is really, really nice!

And then Twilight woke up, with a start. Spike looked up from his basket, with a sleepy look. "Is it weird I prefer when you fall asleep in the Library? Less weird dreams then."

"... How did you-"

"Twi, you always wake up like that when you have the ones where I call you mama." Spike drawled. "Even horror and gore, and... Other bad types of books, never make you react like that, ma-i friend."

"Nice catch sweetheart," Twi giggled without thinking.

"Sw- Never mind. Don't you have a lesson today?" Spike reminded her, and pointed to the door.

Twilight nodded, and decided to head to Celestia's room. She's never said no to Twilight joining her in the mornings, even during Celestia's morning nap that she took after rising the sun.

She gently walked in, and saw Celestia slowly waking up, but breathing heavily like she was startled awake. "T- Twilight? Darling?" She asked, looking like she was still half asle- Wait...

"Mommy?" Twilight tried, wondering if...

"Oh, am I still dreaming? That's nice." Celestia muttered, and raised a wing. "Want some cuddles, my little Pony?" Twilight loved cuddles... So why not?

Sora groaned, as the yellow mare looked over his scars, and the blue one was muttering at a mile a second.

"Why do you have a scar over your heart, darling?" Rarity asked gently.

"Long story," Sora said, sighing.

"What happened to your wings!?" Blue mare asked with a loud and fast voice. Sora should learn her name. Her hair is Rainbow. He's gonna call her Rainbow.

"Dunno. Maybe one of my power resets. I've had the power of a god, like... Seven times now? I dunno, it's been a long five months." Sora yawned. "And one in a Coma... And like, a day or two in another Coma... And there was that week in hell... And time travel... Uh... You know what? It's gonna take too long to explain in one conversation," Sora said, as he noticed all the horrified looks.

"I... I..." Butter Yellow Mare stuttered, before breathing in, then out. "We don't have time to unpack this. At all." She sighed. "Can we see your forehead please?" She asked gently. "I... I have a feeling about something."

Sora nodded, and used a little magic to make a small gust of wind, pushing his hair up. All three stared at his forehead, and looked... Horrified? Scared? Rarity fainted.

Huh. What's? Oh, there's a broken horn there. Huh, weird. But cool. He tried to make Aero form around him, the original one that was more protection. He hissed, as he felt it struggle to even kick up around him. "Dang it," he sighed, having lost his magic yet again.

"I'm sorry, you... You have a broken horn... And... And missing wings." Fluttershy... Oh, that's her name? Wait, when did he hear that? Oh, she's dating Rainbow... She's got the Heart and Wings, surrounding the Rainbow on her heart, and Rainbow has her in that on her own. Cool.

"What does that mean?" Sora asked.

"It means, you're an alicorn, darling... I invited an alicorn into my home without cleaning up! Oh, I'm so sorry your highness, I should have cleaned it for you!"

"... I'm not... I'm not royalty," Sora corrected. "Uh... At least... I don't think so?" He thought about it. "... Maybe? It's complicated."

"Everything about you is," Rainbow Dash said with a dull look. She just sighed, and gently looked at the scars again. "Everything. Celestia's Wings."

Celestia yawned, waking up from her nap. It was such a nice dream. Twilight, despite not being an alicorn like the usual dreams, had snuggled into Celestia's side, as they both fell asleep.

When Celestia opened her eyes, and saw Twilight, still snuggled into her side, she blushed. Oh, that wasn't a dream, it seems. "Morning, sweetheart," she said, gently nuzzling the small unicorn.

"Mommy?" Twilight muttered, waking up slowly. "Weird dreams..." she muttered, nuzzling back down.

"And now you are awake, dear." Celestia said gently, nudging... Nudging her child awake.

"Oh... Ok..." Twilight blinked, waking up. "Did... Did I call you... Uh..."

"You did. I don't mind," Celestia said with a motherly tone. "I... Suppose, you are the closest thing to a daughter I've ever had."

"... Thanks, mommy." Twilight nuzzled into Celestia more. Celestia smiled gently. Perhaps this was... right.

Sora sighed, as he laid down, his legs sore from standing all day, as he was looked over by doctors, and the three mares that had decided to try and make sure he was fine.

"So, you're an Alicorn," Rarity said gently. "But, you're not a Princess?"

"I'm a colt," Sora sighed, "Not a filly." He was getting annoyed now. "Why do you think I'm a girl?"

"Well darling... Nothing about you seems like a colt," Rarity said, blushing slightly. "I... I honestly thought you were a filly that just wanted to look like a colt, because of a bad experience trying to get a coltfriend... Which might still be true, that last part?" Rarity tried, with a smile.

"I don't like anyone," Sora groaned. "Never have, never will. I don't... I don't feel like that. With anyone. I love my family, and I like my friends. But... I don't feel love like that," he explained, and curled up, snuggling into himself. "At all."

"Ah, sorry darling... It's just... You don't act... Uh..." Rarity looked away.

"Probably because my corpse and memories are female." Sora drawled. "Only my literal ghost and heart are male," he said, eyes half lidded.

"YOUR WHAT!?"

Fluttershy meekly poked her head in, wondering why Rarity was yelling.

"Hello, Fluttershy dear. Just found out, Sora has BUCKING DIED!" Rarity giggled in hysterics. Fluttershy looked at Sora with a confused look.

"Like, three times," Sora shrugged. Fluttershy's eyes fell to the scar over Sora's heart. "Yeah, that was the first time," Sora nodded. "The other two need a lot of context, and explanations on a lot of fu- buck-off magic." Sora said, correcting the swear to a pony based phrase.

"Language..." Rarity mumbled, before crawling onto her couch, and rocking back and forth in a ball. "My goddess, you've died three times... Three. And you're only Fourteen... God, who would kill an eleven year old?"

"... Why do you think I was eleven?" Sora asked.

"Well, darling... Killing someone three times in the span of a few mont-" Rarity cut off when Sora started nodding. "They tried to kill you, in the span of three months. And succeeded twice, with another time being yourself."

"Quite," Sora nodded, sounding bored. "Now, if you excuse me? I'm going to try and see what magic I ca-" Sora stopped, at both Fluttershy's and Rarity's saddened looks. "A broken horn means something here, doesn't it?"

"Well darling... Even just a small cut, scratch or scar, or heaven forbid, a crack, in a horn... It makes it so the Pony can't use magic quite the same... a broken horn... Well, they might as well have been an Earth Pony that doesn't even have Earth Pony magic," Rarity whispered, saddened.

"... Ear- Ok, next stop, find the library." Sora shivered, and looked ill. "Those are three words that I never thought I'd say again." he mumbled.

"Uh..." The two older mares looked at each other, confused.

"Long story. Like... Really long story." Sora sighed. "So much context needed..."

"Context...?" Fluttershy whisper asked Rarity. "Do you have... any?"
"Daring I wish I did," Rarity admitted with a heavy sigh.

Author's Note

Thanks to Prism Shadow for beta reading this!