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Altered Destiny By Admiral Q

As Celestia's sun shown through the window it was time for Star Wanderer to begin her day. She was a unicorn with red fur and a gold mane with a red zigzagging stripe going through it and her tail with a gold six pointed star as a cutie mark. She washed up, had breakfast and got her saddle bags on and locked up her house. Most of the time she hired herself out as a unicorn for hire. Whenever a construction crew or a company or family needs a job done that only a unicorn can do she was the mare Ponyville hired. But that just pays the bills. Her real job is finding lost artifacts, especially magical ones. Every few months or so she would take a break and head out searching for an artifact she heard about. Basking in the glow of sun for a minute she looked around and at the latest addition to the humble town, the Rainbow Castle. Created from a chest from the Tree of Harmony itself it now serves as the home for the fourth Princess of Equestria Twilight Sparkle. Star considered herself fortunate, while not as close to her as her fellow Element bearers she did become good friends with Twilight. Their love of knowledge and magic made that easy and Star was pround to say that she could give Twilight a run for her money in the magic and spells department. Twilight always had the edge, heck she was the Element of Magic so she should in the end best Star but that fight got harder and harder for Twilight to win. That was all before her ascension to the rare ranks of alicorns and now Star is completely outclassed but she still occasionally duels with Twilight if only to see how well she mastered a spell. And speaking of a certain purple alicorn she saw Twilight walking nearby. "Hey Twi!" Twilight looked over and smiled at the sight of her friend. "Hey Star, going adventuring again?" "YUP! Got a clue about something in the western forest emitting magic energy so I'm going to check it out. So what are you up to today?" Twilight sighed. "I've got to mediate a dispute later today with some of the business heads for the town and the local branch of the Children of the Night. They mayor asked me to help after she failed to solve the issue." In the months since the Princess Luna returned with the Children of the Night, a group that loved the night and has Luna herself as a patron has been reintegrating into Equestria. Most decided to form a new town while the rest spread out. Two of the biggest branches were in Cloudsdale and here in Ponyville nearly double the town size. And that has lead to some head banging. Out of curiosity once Star ask a Child of night name Lunarmoon why so many came to Ponyville. The answer she got was this. One it's close to Canterlot thus allowing them close to Princess Luna. Two it's the closest town to the Royal Pony Sisters Castle. When they heard of it's existence they flocked to Ponyville and while they are still building their section of town they plan to continue the restoration that Twilight began on the place. And three, Sweet Apple Acres. Star couldn't argue with that last one. "Ouch, I think you need more luck in that then I do." "Thanks a lot." Twilight said sarcastically causing Star to chuckle. "Well if any can do it should be the Princess of Friendship herself. Cya later Twi." Twilight shook her head and replied. "Have fun Star." And the two part company. For the next several days Star traveled to the western forests with not much to break the routine of walk, eat, and sleep. Finally though she enters the forest focusing on her horn and it's ability to sense magic. She slowly trekked her way through the woods. Slicing any vine or branch that got in her way not to mention any creature that tried to hunt her. For hours she plowed through the forest till she came upon and ruin castle. She slowly approached the ancient ruin and the thing was in even worse condition then the Royal Pony Sisters Castle. The bulk of the stonework covered in vines and decay everywhere. She have to be very careful in this place for the magic was being emitted from it. She passed the outer wall with no trouble and through what was the courtyard and through the main doorway. Star looked around and was amazed how the place stayed up. So many supports were gone or compromised the place had to stay up for sheer stubbornness. She step on a stone in front of her and it crumbed and fell into some darkness below. "Great, now I have to watch where I step." She had a couple more close calls before she ended up in the center of the castle ruins. She stopped and took a breath before focusing on her horn and which way she needed to go. 'Let's see.........downward....I have to go downward.' She spent a few minutes looking before she found a stair way going down. Slowly step by step she walked gown the stairway. Good thing too for halfway down a step gave way and she nearly fell. She just managed to teleport to another step. Thankfully solid beneath her feet. She spent a couple minutes taking deep breaths. "THAT, was too close." She continued down the stairway being very cautious. A couple more steps gave away but this time she didn't have all her weight on that hoof so didn't go plunging to her death. As she neared the bottom she saw a light. It pulsed white gold and red an illuminated the surrounding area and definitely helped her spot places not to go to. She makes her way down but still manages to get another weak step and that causes a cascade and several stones fell and she had to dodge around till they finally stopped. She looked around and she was in a big room and in the middle was a orb that emitted the pulsing light. She cautiously approached the orb, it's magic washing over her like wind. The closer she got the warmer it got. Like a fireplace and felt nice. Before she knew it she was right next to the orb. Before she could do further though she heard cracking and more of the ceiling collapsed. On instinct she dodged but her horn it the orb and she knew nothing but white. When she opened her eyes again she was in a strange room. It was seeming lit by the ceiling and bathed everything in a white light. The room had a red carpet and in front of her was a very large window showing stars and some construct she had never seen before. Just in front of the of the window she saw a pair of desks with some kind of creature behind them. The creatures had small manes and odd fur, if that was fur? They reminded her of Spike, Twilight's baby dragon with how they moved. She further looked and saw a door in an alcove on the upper left side of the room, then another desk with another creature working behind it then a wall filled with moving lights which more of the creatures touched. Looking to her immediate left she saw the start of the wooden railing tinted red with two seats, one very small with little back support with another arger with complete back support. The larger was occupied bu another creature with a long brown mane and green eyes. She had no fur for that close it was some king of outfit they wore. This creatures was mainly black with blue around the barrel area and covering her fore legs. It wore a pin on it's left side with a weird looking silver triangle, it was like the triangle was trying to be a star and a slim oval in gold behind it. It wore two solid gold pips with a third hallow. Star then looked to her right and saw a similar layout to what was on the left and the creature next to her on that side wore a similar outfit but red where the other was blue. She looked down at herself and she was changed. She looked like the creatures but hers had a lot more gold with the red coloring on her outfit. As strange as this place seemed it also felt familiar. "Admiral."She felt herself perk up and looked behind her to see the top of the red wood railing and a creature behind her. "I have the Defiant on long range sensors." "Just the Defiant?"She or more correctly he asked. That was a male voice coming from her mouth. "No sir I read to Klingon ships behind her. A bird of prey and a Vorcha attack cruiser." "Brave but foolish. Between the Defiant, us and Deep Space Nine they will be slaughter if they tried to attack." "Maybe not sure reading several ships decloaking." "Onscreen."The window changed in front of her showing several she guess ships appearing in shimmers. Some kind of invisibility spell she guessed. Dozens of ships appeared and some did you like predatory birds and all had a green hull. "Red alert!" Star said in her male voice and she saw a change in her surroundings. Red lights began flashing and a noise went off and the creatures around her acted with more haste and were more tense. From her right she heard a male voice say. "I can't believe we are about to fight the Klingons. Decades of peace and an alliance gone like that." "Fear can motivate people to do stupid things Jack."She heard herself say. "The Dominion could be among the greatest threats to not only the Federation but the Alpha Quadrant itself. Especially since it's top leadership can change forms. The Klingons have reason to worry but sadly have acted hastily." "Sir the lead ship has hailed Deep Space Nine."The male behind her reported. "Let's listen in." What follow Star didn't fully understand but it sounded like one group had a group of VIPs and the other wanted them even though is has been proven they aren't changelings. Yeah that would be a big deal. But the first group was refusing. "And here we go, good thing the civilians are back on Bajor."She felt the room shake as it was fired upon. "Mr. Hemmerjer phasers full spread and unleash the torpedoes, spare nothing. Helm start moving us within firing range of the Negh'Var. Take her out and it would dishearten the Klingons a bit."She watch and the view moved and saw beams and bolts of light fly both ways and saw fireballs engulf ships. She felt what was now her own ship shake a lot. In minutes one of the walls exploded. A fire started by that wall and she heard herself yell. "DAMAGE REPORT!" "Decks 10 14 20 25 and 30 thru 35 all have hull breaches. Shields are gone and there's damage to the warp core. We also have several casualty reports."The ship lurched again from the opposite side and more sparks appeared and lighting was dim."That was deck 42."She felt her muzzle rest on a blunted claw and felt sadness and a deep resolve. "That's it." She press something on her chair and heard a chime. "All hands this is the Admiral. ABANDON SHIP! I REPEAT ALL HANDS ABANDON SHIP!"A new alarm for lack of a better word started and she saw the creature start to flee the room. With a nod to her companions they both got up and left to as she stood up and looked around with immense sadness running through her. ?ost another one.?With that she heard a snap of something and a white light engulfed her. She awoke with a start and found herself in a shield dome of gold magic. Looking beyond it she saw the place was collapsing. She focused hard and with a pop she teleported outside and watch the castle ruins just crumble. 'That was way to close.' she thought to herself. 'Where did that shield come from and where's the artifact?' With a sigh she started to walk home declaring this an epic failure. She had just entered the woods again when a pair of figures dropped from the tree tops. They were bipedal ponies in bacl fur. She never heard of these ponies before. Both looked at her with angry eyes. "You should not have come here pony. That fragment was to be left alone and now you will die to be sure no one knows of it."A ball of magic appeared in his hand and threw it at Star. She suddenly found herself 10 feet to the left. She was thinking of dodging left but she went farther then she plan and faster as only now the bolt hits the ground where she was a second ago. "What? How did she get over there so fast!?" "She's got it. She has the bloody fragment. He have to kill her now or she'll get them all and bring him back."Several more bolts appear and she manages to dodge them. It felt like she was teleporting but she wasn't focusing on her teleport ability nor does she feel wind while doing it. She finally stopped and was flanking them and charges up her own bolt and fired it. It flew true and hit the lead pony did more then she expected. Instead of a small burst it was an explosion and she heard a brief scream. The other raged and continued to chase her. She was running fast so couldn't look behind her to fire again. 'If only I could shoot without looking behind.' She left her magical energy charge up into a ball at the end of her horn and the bolt shot out behind her. Another explosion and a longer scream reach her ears and she slowed down and turn to look to see half a body fall to the ground. Not waiting to see if he got up she raced off again to the edge of the forest. Trees wiz by faster then she'd ever seen and she quickly dodge any in her way and to her surprise she was out of the forest. She paused to take a breath. 'Okay, what the HAY happened back there!? Not only did I create a shield while unconscious but she dodge magic bolts like they were nothing and easily took out two unknown ponies from a tribe she has never seen before. She killed them, she had never killed anypony before but they were trying to KILL her. One of them said she had a fragment. Was that the orb? She needed help and she knew one pony would can. She started walking towards Ponyville and Twilight Sparkle.

Months earlier In the woods north of Equestria all was quiet except for a couple dozen of ponies in a nearly abandoned complex making a living. Some miles from them a patch of forest was a mess with broken branches everywhere except a around a black shape. The shape almost blended with the night but it;s purple mane and tail stood out a bit. Then suddenly the mane and tail started flowing even though there was no wind. Then the mane and tail started to look like a starfield with a purple back drop then eyes opened to reveal turquoise eyes with dragon slits.