His name was Ace Ray, once a proud Wonderbolt who got discharged and dismissed for poor acts of conduct, and constant mockery towards the Starfleet comrades whom he loathed and despised for reasons that were defiantly not true.

He accused them of…

-Blaming them for the destruction of Equestria
-Turning the world into a tightly controlled police state
-Being monstrous murders that killed creatures without reason.

…Of course none of this was true, but he simply refused to believe it. It was suggested he take courses and seek professional help for his unbearable attitude, but he refused, and instead of getting better, he grew worse!

He would gather friends who felt the same as he did and started pep rallies trying to persuade people that Starfleet was no good and deserved to be punished, beat up, or killed, but nobody else supported them and merely ignored their every word. They loved their new world, and appreciated Starfleet and their dedication to fighting evil, and they knew that Ace Ray was nothing more than a petty-minded bully that everyone but his group of mockers seemed to loathe and despise the way he despised Starfleet. “They blew up our planet!” he would whine “How can you support cold hearted killers?”

“They did no such thing!” he would get as a response “And they don’t do things without reason. They are far better ponies than anything you will ever be, you failure!”

Even his own sister Skye didn’t wish to support her brother, namely because her friend, First-Class Major Rainbow Dash was now a full-fledged Wonderbolt and member of Starfleet, and the fact that she found respect and honor for Starfleet since day one. This made Ace Ray so mad that he ultimately threatened to beat up his own sister from time to time unless she complied with his way of thinking, to which she angrily refused.

Everyone suggested, begged her, to get Ace Ray some help, but every time she thought about it she completely went the other way, almost as if she were too much of a coward to go through with it, to the fact that she was just as stubborn as her brother some time, and felt she could help him herself.

Rainbow Dash constantly checked up on her, and was worried about her friend, and would sometimes think about turning Ace in herself, but Skye insisted she not do it.

One day, Mykan and Spike were looking forward to a good breakfast at the café with Lightning and Starla.

Rainbow Dash came along after finishing her patrol rounds along with Rhymey and Fluttershy. “What up chums?”

Her friends smiled. “All is quiet I assume?” asked Lightning.

“Yes sir, Admiral.” Rainbow said as she saluted. “Too bad I can’t say the same about Skye.”

“She’s still down hard about her brother?” asked Starla.

Rainbow nodded and explained her brother and his friends were getting more and more out of control with their mocks and outright spite of Starfleet and those who sided with him. “He still blames you guys and says you destroyed Equestria.”

“But we didn’t, and everyone else knows that.” said Lightning “Well, everyone except him that is.”

“He mocks us all day and night.
I think he’s really looking for a fight.” said Rhymey.

Everyone felt very annoyed, but they decided to let it slide. So far, Ace hadn’t done anything to violate any of the laws seriously, and unless he did they were to take no action. “You know… I wonder…” Fluttershy said “Do you think maybe he blames you because he doesn’t know the real story?”

That was a possibility everyone had considered, but it was hard for them to get even so much as a word out to Ace as he didn’t care to listen and always assumed he was in the right and just mocked and picked at them more.

That’s when the soft sounds of the morning were broken by the sounds of an angry mob lead by Ace came marching into the area hollering bad things about Starfleet and holding signs which also gave bad messages. “Humph!” grunted Starla “Just pretend you don’t see them.”

Everyone in the entire café simply turned their backs to the miserable mob. “Hey!” snapped Ace “We’re talking to you. Starfleet has got to go!” His mob of friends seemed to agree with him, but everyone in café just ignored him completely, and passersby took no notice and just walked right past the buffoon.

Ace had finally taken enough of being ignored and walked right into the outdoor dining area at the café. “What’s wrong with all of you?” he shouted “You’ve been brainwashed by these losers! They’ve ruined our whole world!”

Still, no one cared to even notice him and his pointless whining.

“They’re murderers; they go on killing everything they deem as evil. They never once thought of talk and reason. You know what they are, violent, evil sneaks, and they turn our world into a police state, watching us all day and night.”

Spike was starting to lose his patience and wanted nothing more than to see him get trashed for all he was spewing. He stood up, but Starla told him to calm down. “Just ignore him, Spike.”

Rhymey agreed with her and said…

“There’s no need to make a fuss
There is nothing he can do to us.”

Ace turned and marched angrily over to the table. “And you… will YOU STOP WITH THAT RHYMING!!” he screamed.

Rhymey glared at him angrily and picked his ear.

“I fail to see why you yell and mock.
There’s nothing wrong with the way I talk.
My entire family speaks in rhyme.
We have been doing so for a long, long time.
There is nothing wrong with the rhyming I do.
But if you think so, then something’s wrong with you.”

His voice was sounding angrier, but Starla cautioned him to cool it, but Ace continued to be as rude and obnoxious as ever. “You lousy bunch of murdering tyrants…! You’re not going to intimidate me. You’re all the same, just like the wonderbolts. I’m almost glad they threw me out so I don’t have to see what disgraces they’ve become.”

Rainbow really hated it when someone insulted the wonderbolts, and stood up angrily to protest. “Take it easy, Rainbow.” Fluttershy said “I mean… he is just expressing his opinion.”

“That’s right.” mocked Ace “And if I think that you’re all stupid and retarded for allowing and all this into our world with no objections, well that’s my opinion too.” his friends in the mob laughed and applauded him for the mock.

“Excuse me.” Ace’s friends stopped their laughing and applauding and Ace turned and saw a figure in front of him. The figure was wearing a cloak black as night and all you could see was it’s peach colored horn and wings. “How are you?” Ace rudely questioned.

“Just someone so doesn’t the take very kindly to you harassing these ponies.” by the sound of her voice the figure was a female.

No one could say a word; they were either unable to speak for fear of starting a riot, or in amazement that she was standing up to him like this.

“And what if I don’t. What are going to do about it?” He threatened. The figure got into a fighting stance. Everybody knew what that meant; a fight was about to break out. “What is she doing?” Applejack asked.

“Is she crazy?” Rainbow added.

“Lightning, stop her!” Rainbow pleaded.

Lightning just looked dead ahead. "I'd like to see how this goes down."

Everyone looked at him in disbelief, including Mykan. "Are you out of your mind!?" he said. "Jerk or not, he's still an ex-Wonderbolt! He's still dangerous!"

Lightning smiled at this. "I have a feeling she's got this. If she doesn't, I'll swoop right in before Ace can do any real harm."

Ace got into a battle stance as well. “Fine, if this is how you want it... then you’re gonna get it.” He roared and charged the clocked female. She jumped high into the air and kicked Ace hard in the back, sending him skidding on the ground.

“Woah!” Rainbow exclaimed.

The figure wasn’t done, she began glowing and in a bright flash, her cloak came off and there was gray wolf in her place! “She can shape shift too!” Mykan cried. Ace stood up and growled. “That little trick is not going to scare me.” he said.

The figure-turned-wolf charged Ace and bashed him hard. The force was so hard it was enough to throw him clear out of New Ponyville! Everybody in the café was amazed and shocked at her strength. Who knew? She howled in victory and did a fake lunge at the mob, who dispersed quickly.

She went over to her cloak and placed it on her back. In another bright glow, she changed back and she walked off.

The crowd was amazed. “She was awesome!” Rainbow cried. “She kicked his butt.”

“Yeah.” Applejack agreed. “She sure got some fightin skills.”

“Did you see those wings and horn,
She’s got to be an alicorn.” Rhymey added.

“We better go find her and thank her.” Fluttershy suggested. The others agreed and exited the café.

The followed her footprints to the field outside of New Ponyville. They found her but watch her from a distance. Looking from the top of a hill, they saw her holding what looked at be fruit in her arms. They could tell the fruit was old and it had some mold on it. “What is she doing?” Pinkie whispered.

“I don’t know, let’s keep watching.” Lighting responded. They watched the female go to small tent made out of leaves and sticks with a small stack of them nearby. We placed the fruit down and pulled off her cloak. The friends gasped.

What they thought to be a alicorn pony was actually a human girl! She looked to be Mykan’s age and height; 19 years old, 5 feet and 10 inches. She had blonde hair and peach colored skin. The clothes she was wearing looked really weathered; the colors were faded and they were covers in dirt and grime. Her hair and skin weren’t much different. Looking closer, the friends saw she was thinner than usual and her left leg had what looked to be a gash on it. There was some puss coming out of it but the girl didn’t seem too worried about it.

The girl sat down and started eating the moldy apple to everyone’s horror. “Why is she eating that horrible apple?” Rarity asked in disgust.

“Why can’t she just go to our farm and get a fresh one?” Applejack added. “Or get that leg injury looked at. It looks mighty infected.” Lightning began adding the pieces in his head and he gasped. “Honey, What is it?” Starla asked.

“Guys, I think she’s... homeless.” Lighting replied. Everybody was a little skeptical of that. “Homeless, now Lightning-“ Rainbow started but was cut off by Lightning. “Guys look at her, the faded and dirty clothes, eating trash, living away from civilization; The girl’s homeless.”

The friends took a look at the girl and gasped softly as they realized he was right.

“How long do you think she’s been living out here?” Starla asked.

“From the state she’s in now, I’d say for a long time.” Mykan replied. The gang knew they couldn’t leave the poor girl in this state so they only had one choice. “We have to get her out of here.” Lightning stated. “It’s what’s best for her.” His friends agreed and decided Mykan, Rainbow and Lightning would go and try to convince to her come with them.

The girl was sitting on the ground eating her fruit. ”This should last me for a few days then it’s back to scouting for scarps.”

She heard footsteps and saw a human looking to be 19 years old, peach colored with short, brown hair. Along with two anthropomorphic ponies; One was butter yellow with a link mane and tail. The other was white with a brown mane and tail with a golden horn.

Not seeing them before she dashed into her tent. Mykan was the first to approach the tent. “It’s okay, we’re not here to hurt. We just want to help you.”

The tent flaps opened and the girl peeked her head out. “Help me?” she peeped. Mykan nodded. “We want you to come us. We’ll get you cleaned up and get you a nice warm meal. What do you say?”

The girl looked hesitant at his offer. Lightning stepped forward. “Don’t worry, everything will be alright, okay?”

The girl didn’t answer for a long moment. Until she looked at them “O-Okay.” She came out of the tent and gently grabbed Mykan’s hand. “You can stay with me, is that okay?” Mykan offered. The girl nodded.

“Let me take a look at your injury, please?” Fluttershy asked. The girl agreed and met Fluttershy look at her leg injury. “Oh dear.”

She took out her first aid kit and immediately began cleaning the wound. When she was done she wrapped the wound in a bandage. “There.”

The girl looked at her work. “Thanks.”

“Oh, we didn’t get your name. My name is Lightning Dawn and these are some of my friends; Fluttershy and Mykan Stevens. What your name?”

“S-Sapphire Moonlight.”

“Neigh”

Suddenly they all heard a horse whinny and they saw a horse coming towards them. “Who’s that?” Mykan asked Sapphire. “My friend, Kyara.”

Kyara came up to Sapphire and the three noticed Kyara was no ordinary horse. Her body, mane and tail are pink and her mane and tail were elaborately braided. Also, she had golden horn and a pair of wings!

The friends stated in awe at Kyara. “She’s a Alicorn!” Lightning exclaimed.

Sapphire chuckled. “We get that reaction a lot.”

“This is amazing! So what’s the story with her?” Mykan asked. Before Sapphire could reply, her stomach gurgled. She put a hand on her empty stomach. “How about I tell you after some breakfast?”

The three smiled at Sapphire. “Okay. Come on let’s go.” Lightning said. With that, they bearded towards town with Kyara trotting behind.

When they got Sapphire and Kyara into town, they introduced them to the rest of their friends. Kyara happily leaves around them. They could see she’s happy to have some new friends. Kyara and Sapphire got a lot of stares from the ponies in town, mostly Kyara cause nobody has seen a four-legged alicorn like her ever since they were all turned humanoid.

They also told them they were all past of Starfleet, the most powerful fighting force in the universe.

Lightning was an Allied Commander, Lightning’s friends, except for Starla, were Lieutenant Colonel. Starla was a Colonel, a higher rank than her friends but lower than Lightning. The girls were all First-Class Majors while Spike was a Captain. Also, Mykan was an auxiliary member of Starfleet, only permitted to enter battles when its necessary.

Unlike Kyara, Sapphire acted really shy and nervous around them and the other ponies. The friends could tell she hasn’t been socialized with ponies.

They took her to the café to have a nice, hearty breakfast. Kyara has to stay outside but she could still she them through the window.

As soon as Sapphire saw the plate, filled with bacon, eggs and shredded hash browns, she dug in without any regards for manners. Eating with her hands and licking the grease off of her mouth. Only to stop when Rarity asked “Sapphire, darling, don't you have any table manners?”

“What’s table manners?” That question shocked everybody. “You don’t know what table manners are!?” Rainbow exclaimed.

“No.” She went back to eating her breakfast until it was all gone and she let out a burp. “That was good.” She said.

The others ignored the stares they were getting from the other customers and exited the café. Kyara came up to Sapphire and nuzzled her. “She must really like you, Sapphire.” Buddy commented.

“Yeah. She’s my bestest friend... and my only friend.” Sapphire replied. That made the gang confused. “You’re only friend?” Pinkie asked. Sapphire nodded sadly. “Why?”

Sapphire lowered her head. “I-I don’t wanna talk about it.” The friends could see she was uncomfortable with the topic so the decided to change it. “Sapphire, darling, let’s go to my boutique so I can make you some new clothes.” Rarity offered.

Sapphire raised her head. “Okay.” They all went to Carousel Boutique where Rarity immediately took Sapphire’s measurements and got to work on her new clothes.

Meanwhile, Sapphire was taking a nice long shower. Rarity immediately and rather forcefully insisted on it saying no women should ever walk around treading dirt. For Sapphire, it was surprisingly nice and refreshing, being that it was the first one she’s taken in a while.

After the shower Sapphire was drying herself off.

Knock Knock Knock

“Sapphire, darling , I have you’re clothes ready for you.” Rarity called. “Okay.” Rarity cracked the door and gave Sapphire her new clothes.

Soon, she came out of the boutique was wearing a new shirt, pants and boots. Her shirt was white with pink outlines and her pants were blue with a yellow belt and her boots were black with a pink at the ends. “How do you feel?” Mykan asked.

“Strange... but clean and okay.”

“Great.” That’s when Spike burped out a letter from their majesties. He opened it up “Their majesties want to see Sapphire and Kyara in New Canterlot immediately.”

“Right, Kyrsta!” Lightning called.

“On it.” Kyrsta warped all of them to the palace and they were soon all in the throne room. Sapphire and Kyara stared in awe at the two royal ponies in from of them.

The female wore a light golden gown with a white top showing her cutie mark of the sun.

The male was a tall, white male alicorn with a short dark mane with images of space flowing like a picture. He wore jewel-encrusted golden armor with doublets on each side into it, a red cape with gold markings fluttering on his back, even though there was no breeze. He had golden pegasus wings, black boots with golden edges round the feet. Atop his head were three golden horns, all shimmering like the stars.

They were Queen Celestia and Grand Ruler Celestio, the rulers of United Equestria and Co-Commander and Commander of Starfleet.

The friends except for Sapphire and Kyara bowed to them in greeting and they bowed back. “Welcome everyone, I see these are the pair you’ve spoken of Lightning Dawn.” Grand Ruler started.

“Yes, Master.” Grand Ruler walked towards Kyara and examined her closely. Kyara just looked at him curiously as well. “I see her golden horn is rather rare but it doesn’t posses the power of the Uniforce.”

Kyara neighed at him. “Kyara says she can do lots of things were her horn and she has some tricks too.” Sapphire translated.

“Like what?” Lighting added. Kyara trotted around their majesties and plants began to sprout as she went by. “Woah.” Rainbow said.

“Incredible!” Celestia added. Kyara returns to Sapphire’s side and neighed. “She says she can heals creature with her horn and she make small tornadoes too.” The ponies, Spike and Mykan were all amazed by Kyara’s abilities. “So what powers do you have, Sapphire?” Celestia asked.

“Yeah! And what can you do with your wings and horn?” Pinkie asked excitedly.

“I don’t know much, I haven’t used my horn or wings very much. I mainly try to hide the fact that I have them at all.”

“Why?” Buddy asked. The friends couldn’t understand why she’s would hide something so amazing from others. Sapphire sighed. “How I got them is something I don’t like to talk about.” The ponies could tell what ever happened to Sapphire to give her the pair of wings and horn wasn’t pleasant. “Maybe we can figure out another way.” Lightning said.

“What is it?” Artie asked.

“Dr. Penny’s Memory Operating Machine.” Lightning added.

The gang, except for Sapphire and Kyara, knew what he was talking about. The machine takes up about half the room, and consisted of a large central generator shaped like a large box. It needed to be big in order to process all the data received, as well as do what needed to be done.

Whoever sat in the chair, and connected the electrobs to their temples, the machine would focus the magic of memories the subject thought back to, and would then display them visually for all watching to see. It was almost like a lie detector with pictures.

“That may work, but will Sapphire go through with it?” Celestia asked. Everybody turned towards Sapphire. “Okay, I’ll do it.”

Soon the boys got the machine from Professor Brain’s lab and set the machine right next to Queen Celestia’s throne. “Okay, now just sit in here. This machine will let us see your memories even your bad ones so you don’t have to tell us what happened to you.” Grand Ruler explained. Sapphire nodded and sat in the machine. Buddy attaches the electrobs to her head and Sapphire’s head and she closed her eyes.

The machine immediately picked up on her memories and showed the images.

Sapphire's POV

White.

Everything was white.

I opened my eyes and found myself surrounded by water. Two humans in white lab coats came in front of me. “Drain the tube. Let’s get her out.” One human said.

Soon, I was laying on a table being scanned by the humans. “The creation is a success! This girl now has everything DNA of every single animal that has ever lived on Planet Earth!” The other human declared.

“I’m a creation?” I whispered to myself.

“Now let’s begin the tests.” Soon I was placed in a large room with five doors in front of me. “Test Number 001: Transformation. Begin!

The first door opened and a dinosaur came out of it. It walked on four legs had a large frill and three horns on its head: Name: Triceratops.

“Test Subject 01... change into the Triceratops.” The head human ordered. I focused on the Triceratops and my left eye glowed and in an instant I looked exactly like the Triceratops in front of me.

“Success!”

I did it four more times with a Pterodactyl, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Fukisaurus and a Utahraptor.

“Now onto the next test: Battle.

It was place in a room similar to a Colosseum. There were four doors. There was a man with a whip standing at one end of the room. One of the doors opened and out came four Velociraptors. They all had gray skin but one had a blue streak down its body. The second had stripes on its back. The third had gecko eyes and the last had a scar on its nose.

“Test Subject 02... Attack the Velociraptors!”

I looked at the raptors who just stared at me, curiously. They didn’t even look like they wanted to fight with me and I couldn’t attack them.

Suddenly...

SNAP!

Something stung me in the back really hard. I screamed in pain and fell to the round. The raptors hissed angrily. I looked and saw the man with the whip standing over me waving the whip in his hands. “He said attack the dinosaurs! Do it! Unless you want another lashing!”

I got up again and reluctantly transformed into a Velociraptors. It roared at them and pounced towards them.

When the battle was over, I was beaten and the man gave me five lashing for my failure. “You were suppose to win, you pathetic animal!” I was then tossed into a cell. ‘Hope you like being hungry cause that’s what you’ll be for the night.” He slammed the cell door and left.

For the next fourteen years, it was nothing but test, fights, lashing and going hungry. Whenever I failed, the man gave me lashings and insulted me.

“You’re pathetic!”

SNAP!

“You’re weak!”

“I-I’m Sorry... l-“

SNAP!

“You should be tougher than this!”

“Stop, please!”

SNAP!

They kept testing my horns and wing power, ending with pain and more lashings. When I tired to tell them I had enough they didn’t listen and continued to beat me.

When I turned fourteen was bruised, battered, weak and mentally unstable. I continuously had nightmares about the man torturing me. I didn’t get a good nights sleep for years.

The four Velociraptors took care of me like I was a hatching. The fed me scraps of food and comforted me when they got the chance. Whenever I was thrown into the cell with them as a punishment, they were the only ones who showed me kindness. They could clearly see how miserable I was.

One night, the men were bringing me back from another failed battle and lashing. I wa aching all over and bruised and scratches like you wouldn’t believe. My stomach was growling endlessly and I was so exhausted. I almost fell to the floor if the man didn’t pull on the collar that was around my neck.

The man noticed four of the cells were open. “Who left the cells open!” One mane thundered. Suddenly he was pounced on by the blue streak Velociraptor which the men calmed Blue. Blue tore into the man and killed him easily. The other three raptors whom the mean called Delta, Charlie and Echo came up to me as my legs gave out. Delta caught me on the back and she ran off.

The dinosaurs bashed all the electrical components and wiring in the lab. The place began to shake and the dinosaurs deserted as the place went up in a large BOOM!

The raptors carried me far away and set me down on the ground. With one last look, they disappeared into the forest.

I was wandering for days when I discovered a pink alicorn in the bushes. She was neighing in distress and I soon saw why. Three wolves were surrounding the poor thing. “Hey!” I called. The wolves looked at me. They seemed frightened by my appearance. “Leave the little filly alone.” The wolves whimpered and they ran away. The filly trotted over to me and neighed happily. “You’re welcome. Hey, you wanna come with me. It’s not safe to leave you here all by yourself.” I offered. The filly grateful accepted and neighed. “You name is Kyara. Okay Kyara, let’s get moving.”

For the next five years, Kyara and I traveled planet to planet, meeting lots of friends along the way until we decided to stay here. I found the cloak and I used it to hide my wings and horns. I didn’t want to remember the lab but my wings and horn constantly do. So I try not to show them to others, fearing the memories that came with them.

The images vanished as Sapphire stood up with tears just flooding her face. Kyara came to her when she started sobbing. Kyara nuzzled her for comfort. Mykan came up to her and hugged her.

The ponies were devastated. The girls were horrified while the guys were disgusted. Their majesties were both.

“Shhh... it’s okay... shh.” Mykan soothed Sapphire as she sobbed.

“I’ll take her back to your place Mykan.” Fluttershy offered.

“Okay.” Mykan gave Sapphire to Fluttershy and she gently lead the poor girl out the door with Kyara following close behind.

As soon as they were gone...

“HOW HORRIBLE!” Rarity cried. “How dare those ruffians treat Sapphire like she a piece of garbage!”

Everybody was in the same boat. “That’s total abuse!” Rainbow said.

“That’s just sick!” Lightning added.

Their majesties couldn't fathom how humans could treat one of their own with such cruelty. “That is inhumane and out right cruel!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

“No wonder the poor girl’s traumatized. She’s been totally neglected.” Mykan said. “Poor thing doesn’t even want to show her gifts in front of people... cause of fear.”

“Not anymore! We’re definitively not sending Sapphire back to that horrible place work with those horrible humans!” Rainbow declared. You can bet everybody agreed with that. “Right, now we should do what we can to comfort the poor girl.” Dyno said.

“Si, she needs friends more than ever before.” Myte added. The friends all promised to comfort Sapphire, now they’ve discovered why she was so traumatized.

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