Ah, 20 years since the last time we did this. Perhaps I should go over what has happened in those 20 years.
Well, I'm a father now. A father of... 5 kids. Two with Rarity, one with Rainbow, one with Pinkie, one with Fluttershy, and lastly, one with Sunset. 5 girls, and 1 boy. There names are: Silver, Quartz, Lavender, Fluffy, Electric, and Blaze. Silver is the oldest, and Quartz is the youngest. Silver was my first baby with Rarity, and about a year after that, came Fluffy. 2 months later, Lavender was born into this world. About roughly 2 years afterwards, Blaze was born. A few months after that Rainbow gave birth to Electric. 2 years later, Rarity gave birth to our second child, Quartz.
Thanks to the girls, I was able to get my powers. The only downside to it was my original blue hair color never came back. So my hair is still red which sucks. You what also sucks? Quartz and Lavender both inherited my blue hair. I don't know how that works, but I guess it's because my family hair color is blue.
There is one problem I have with my kids. Quartz doesn't really... respect anyone except his older sister, Silver. Even with her sometimes, he disrespects her. I don't what the hell is wrong with my kid? I'm getting to old right now for all this. I'm 44 years old now, and I don't think my old bones can take it.
You may not think that's old, but when you go through what I went through, then yeah, your bones will become brittle quickly.
The strongest out of my kids is obviously Silver. She's sort of like me when it comes to vigilance, and the calm mindset I have. Her more feminine side comes the same as her mother does. You can see the difference when it shows. As for her accent, she doesn't have one. She has a normal accent, and not her mother's refined, delicate accent.
Silver excels in ice magic, and wields a sword and a shield. She also inherits Rainbow's loyalty as well. She's an amazing mystic and fighter. She had quite the record in her school years. She was student council president all 4 years for high school. Went, and still is, on a high winning streak. Ranked 55 in the entire mystic. Whew, the list goes on and on. She is the price and joy of us.
Fluffy is exactly like her mother. Outgoing, always excited, talk fast, and breaks the fourth wall a lot. Her weapon of choice is a lightning long blade. The weapon is able to stun an enemy on contact, and is extremely fast and ferocious.
She's on a winning streak too. She was on the student council as the vice-president. Quite an accomplishment for someone as rowdy as her.
Lavender is elegant, yet shy like her mother. She specializes in healing, and usea her battle harp to increase her healing powers. Yes. she fights with a battle harp. Music is a deadly thing that I just can't comprehend.
She's the secretary of the student council, but she is on a losing streak. She doesn't like dueling, so she tries her best to stray away from it.
Blaze is like me, and Sunset combined. You can just assume how she is. She's strong-willed, and won't take a second before helping someone in need.
She chose not to be on the student council, and chooses to live a normal student life. She is also on a winning streak right now. Her weapon of choice are armblades similar to Thunder, but smaller to give her more speed.
Electric is just like her mother as well. Athletic, and everything you can relate with Rainbow. Strong-willed, with a burning passion of sports. Right now, she's captain of every single sports team at school. However, her grades are lacking severely due to it. She uses flying swords as her weapons. She was able to use her levitate ability on a pair of swords which soon turned into a lot of swords. She soon was able to fight extremely well like this, and this became her "weapon" of choice.
This brings me to my son. He's... just a disrespectful young man. He gets into fights at school, and doesn't like to us or any of his sisters. His older sister, Silver, tries to see what's wrong with him, but he dislikes her the most. Rarity and I don't know what to do with him, but all we can do... is hope...
A silver haired young woman stood before Cobalt. She wielded a sword and a shield as she stood before him.
"Do you remember your training from today Silver?" Cobalt of course had aged since we had last seen him.
His hair was long again, just not outrageously long. He had grown a goatee on his face, and his face grew a little more masculine.
"I don't know Father. I usually duel Electric or Fluffy, but I can't duel you..."
"I'm not as strong as I was when I was your age Silver..."
"No, I just don't want to make a fool out of you when I win...," Silver readied herself when she said this.
"When did I teach you to be arrogant Silver?"
"It's in the family..."
Cobalt laughed as he spawned his spear once again, "Very well then my daughter. Let us go!"
"Yes Father!" The two charged at each other as Rarity was hanging clothes up outside of their summer house in the mystic realm.
"Try not to go too overboard. We still haven't fixed the fountain you broke last month," Rarity grew into a fine looking woman. Curvaceous body, along with a wonderful bust. Her hair still flowed elegantly in the wind as she wore a nice summer dress, sown by her of course.
"Don't worry sweetie, we'll try our best."
"That's not what I... oh nevermind..."
Inside the house was Electric and her mom, Rainbow Dash playing some type of video game. It looked like a hack-and-slash type video game. Possibly Dynasty Warriors.
"Wow mom, I didn't think you were this good at this game...," Electric responded as she controlled her character on screen.
"I don't have much time to play anymore ever since your dad put me on the Imperial Council, but I still got my skill from when I was your age kiddo."
"You are officially 20% cooler in my books."
"Thank Elec..."
In the front yard, Pinkie was showing her daughter, Fluffy how to work her party cannon for Quartz 16th birthday in a few months, "All you really have to do, is pull this string here, and a party of confetti, balloons, streamers, and tons of other party favors come blasting out!"
"Alright, let's see if this works...," Fluffy pulled the string, which caused the party cannon to go off, "Whoa!"
"Party!"
Meanwhile, in the garden, Fluttershy and Applejack were tending to the plants as Lavender played on her harp.
Applejack stopped to look at her in amazement, "Yer' daughter is amazin' on that harp. Why dontcha' try and have her go big?"
"Well, Cobalt doesn't want that for her. Besides, she'll be too shy around a large crowd to perform."
"'Ah get what yer' saying. Still, she's amazin'..."
"Thank you, I agree. She's amazing on that harp."
In the study, Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, and Blaze all sat in there studying. Twilight and Sunset looked at Sunset's daughter as she was studying, "She sort of picks up from you too Twilight."
"I see that, but she's your daughter. She acts like you still. I see a little bit of Cobalt in her as well."
"Yeah, I'm proud of her. Quartz on the other hand..."
"Give him some time Sunset. He's just going through a phase."
"I hope you're right."
And on the roof, was Cobalt's son, Quartz. He stared down at everyone, and then back up at the sky, "Hmph...," Was all he could muster up.
Back at the duel, sparks came flying towards the large family of Cobalt, minus Quartz. They watched on in amazement as the two were evenly matched.
"Father, perhaps your age is catching up to you."
"Possibly, but I'm still going toy give it my all."
"That's why I respect you father. You give it your all until the very end!" Silver came barreling down towards Cobalt, who was on the ground, but he had managed to block the hit off. They met in deadlock as the two smirked at each other.
It was then Cobalt said, "Ah, my back... my back...," Cobalt collapsed onto one knee as he grabbed his back.
"Father," The others stared in shock as Silver rushed to her father's aid. Cobalt smirked as he kicked her legs from underneath her and she fell to the ground with his spear at her throat.
"Never let your guard down Silver. I taught you better," Silver groaned in frustration as she tripped her father in retaliation.
"Damn it Dad!"
"Normally I wouldn't approve of that language, but what the hell, come here!" Cobalt pulled her down, both of them laughing. Electric ran over to them, and jumped on top of them.
"Dog pile on daddy!" The rest of the kids jumped on Cobalt as their mothers went over to them.
"You kids be careful before you really hurt your father's back."
"Too late...," Cobalt said in a slightly pained voice. The kids stopped, and got off their father.
"Oh dear, Fluttershy deary, can you heal Cobalt's back for him please?"
"I got it, don't worry...," Fluttershy knelt beside Cobalt, and began waving her hand over Cobalt's abdomen. Her hand glowed green as she did so.
"Rarity sweetie, can you bring the kids inside. I think we should talk about... that..."
"Huh?" They all stared at Rarity and their mothers as Cobalt said this.
Silver walked up to her mother with a questioning look, "Mother, what is father talking about?"
"He'll explain when Fluttershy heals him. Head on inside children," Rarity ushered the girls inside as he looked at Fluttershy.
"Flutters..."
"Cobalt, you know how your son will react, right?" She continued healing him as he sighed.
"Perhaps, but he needs to learn to grow up. It maybe because of all of you and his sisters. I don't think he sees them as his family since they're all half blood related."
"But Silver is his full blood sister. Shouldn't he see her as family?"
"He should see all his sisters as family. He even disrespects all of you. I don't know what to do with that boy..."
"Just give him a chance. He's still young, so don't worry about it," Fluttershy helped Cobalt up as he stretched, "Don't strain yourself for a little bit. I suggest you lie down after you talk to the kids."
"Alright, thanks sweetie," Cobalt kissed Fluttershy on her cheek, causing her to lightly blush and smile.
Cobalt walked back into the house with all his kids, minus Quartz. He looked around for him, adding a sigh with it, "I couldn't find Quartz Cobalt darling..."
"Quartz!"
"I"m here old man...," Quartz came in through the back door, leaning on it as he looked away from them.
"Don't you talk to your father like that Quartz!" Rarity berated, but Quartz just scoffed at her.
"Calm down Rarity. Let's just get this family meeting done and over with," Cobalt turned away from his son as he began speaking, "As you know, I'm not like how I was 20 years ago, before all of you were born. I may have hinted at this, but I'm planning on resigning as emperor," All of their kids looked at each other, this even caught Quartz attention, "You know the next heir for the throne will be one of you, correct?"
They all nodded, but this caused Quartz to look away in anger. Silver caught this, and could only look down from him, "I've been watching how all of you have grown over the years, and I'm close to making my decision. I'll make my decision before the end of the year. I think it's pretty clear who I'm choosing."
This caused Quartz to groan, "Of course it's obvious...," Quartz walked towards the front door, only to be stopped by his mom.
"Now stop right there young man. I can't stand your behavior Quartz. Why are you acting like this? This... is not how we raised you..."
"Maybe I don't want to be raised by people who aren't family. Maybe I don't want to be around a group of ignorant people. I don't belong here..."
Rarity was about to say something else, but she stopped herself, "I'm done trying to get to you Quartz," She walked towards Cobalt, and looked at him before walking further into the house. Cobalt looked at his son, and sighed in frustration.
"Everyone, please leave my son and I alone," Without hesitating, everyone, except Silver left. Cobalt looked at his daughter, and ushered her to leave, "Please, just go see your mother...," She nodded as she walked towards the direction her mother left. Cobalt then stared at Quartz before walking towards him. Quartz shuffled back, grabbing the front doorknob in the process, "Son, I need to know why you're like this. Have you seen how you make your sister feel?"
"I've noticed, I just don't really care at this point..."
"Why? She's your sister. She's not your half-sister, she's your full blood sister!" Quartz could only frown, and turn away, "The last thing I want from you is to disrespect your family. We're all your family, half-blood or not..."
"I don't need to hear this from you old man. You wanna know why I'm like this? It's because you look down upon me because of how your little princess is."
"Huh?"
"Are you oblivious to your own actions? You praise Silver for everything she does. No matter what, you praise her. Even if she makes a mistake, she gets praised beyond belief. Even the other girls, but what's different with me? No matter what I do, I can't get any type of praise from you father. I find it easy to go somewhere people can praise my work."
Quartz opened the door, but his father said something that caught his ear, "So are you wanting something to boost your already high ego? Son, I've noticed recently that your ego has gotten out of control. You're strong, that's for sure, but... your ego is what's preventing me from praising you. To add to it, you're too ruthless."
"Too ruthless?"
"Let me ask you something. Would a normal brother nearly kill his sisters in normal sparring duel?"
"I..."
"Or would he nearly kill every classmate that even looks at him the wrong way?"
"..."
Cobalt eased on his son as he walked away, "You're way too out of control. I raised you better than this Quartz...," Quartz gritted his teeth as he walked out the door, and slamming it before leaving his father in a look of disappointment. He turned around to see all of his wives and kids looking from the hallway near him. He sighed as he walked towards them. Silver moved her sisters into her room, leaving the parents alone, "We really need to get through to him...," Cobalt walked up to his wives, and hugged them all.
Meanwhile, Quartz walked along a broken down neighborhood. He kicked around a can on the sidewalk as he mumbled to himself, "Ruthless my ass. You're such an idiot father. And you call yourself a genius. Hmph...," Quartz kicked the can once more before it was kicked back at him with a large amount of force. Quartz reacted calmly, and stopped the can in midair with a force field.
Quartz looked up to see some teens about his age. The teens recognized him, "Well looky here boys. It's Quartz, son of the Emperor. Living the high life, huh?"
"I don't have to deal with all of you. You should pick on my family, but not me," Quartz continued walking, but one the leader of the teens stepped in front of him.
"Oh, what's wrong? Can't take what we say?"
"Nah, I don't feel like hearing lip from a bunch of low-class heathens such as yourselves. My family will show mercy to you, but I won't... if you provoke me."
"Oh, if we provoke you?" The teens surrounded him, and they manifested swords, spears, or any other type of weapon, "Let us remind you that we outnumber you. Let's see where your ego can get you..."
"Let's see where your stupidity can get you boys...," Quartz spawned a spear that looked heavier than Cobalt's, and had a whole different look all together, "Let's get this going...," All the boys charged him all at once, but Quartz teleported into the ground, causing the teens to collide with each other.
"Where'd you go you little runt?!"
Behind one of the teens, a pair of legs grabbed his head, and flipped them over. Quartz stood over the teen, and kicked his head fiercely, knocking them out. Quartz then stared at the rest of them before moving to attack.
He jabbed his spear into one of teens legs, and spun him around him, knocking the teen into the others. Once the teen fell off Quartz spear, he looked on without a change in his facial expression, "Should've just said your comment and left. You should think twice about your actions."
"There's still more of us that you can't see...," Quartz looked around as a bolt of lightning struck beside him. Quartz managed to dodge it, but he didn't see a large hammer coming from beside him. It knocked him into a nearby wall, sending him crashing through it.
Quartz groaned as he jumped back into the fray only to see 50 plus people surrounding him. He was at first shocked before getting confused, "What is...?" He looked at the mass amount of people around him. Teens and adults alike, "Is this... a hit job?"
Quartz held his abdomen as he looked at the odds he faced. It was then he saw in the corner of his eyes. A flash of silver appeared in the distance. Almost instantly, multiple shards of ice shot from the sky. This scattered the mysterious people, causing them to retreat in the process. Quartz withdrew his weapon as Silver landed in front of him with her sword and shield in hand. She turned toward her little brother, and ran towards him. He turned away, afraid to meet her gaze.
"Are you alright Quartz? I was so worried about you when you ran off...," She placed a hand on his shoulder, but he brushed it off.
"You don't have to worry about me. I can handle myself Silver..."
Silver looked down as she stabbed her sword into the ground, causing Quartz to jump a little bit, "Quartz, as your older sister, it's my duty to protect you. I won't be able to live with myself if anything were to happen to you..."
"..."
"Quartz, please stop acting the way you are, or what happened today will not go as it did..."
"I don't need your insight Silver...," Quartz turned away from her, and dissolved his spear before saying, "Thank you though Silver...," Quartz walked away as his sister slowly smiled at him before looking at the retreating mysterious people.
Who were those people...?
Once Silver and Quartz stopped in front of their house, Quartz took one look at his sister. She was clearly quaking in her boots, "What's wrong?"
Silver turned to Quartz, and grabbed his sleeve, "They don't know I'm out. We're out past curfew! Oh we're in so much trouble. I mean they expect it from you, buttheycan' 'sgoingtohappen?!AmIgoingtobegrounded?!OhIcan'teventhinkabout-."
"Silver!" Silver snapped out of her trance like state as Quartz shook her, "It'll be fine. I'll cover up for you. I'll say that you went to find me. You know I'm the one that always gets in trouble, and I don't wanna see you get in trouble nor do I want to see your reputation destroyed over something this controversial."
"But Quartz..."
"Shush up, let's go...," Quartz grabbed his sister's hand, and dragged her across the front of the house. After slowly walking in, they were greeted with everyone.
"It's nice of you to join us you two..."
"Father I can explain-," Silver attempted to speak, but Quartz stopped her.
"She went out to look for me, and she even saved me from a group of attackers. It's my fault we're out past curfew."
"That's not why we're all here. We're here because of that attack."
"Huh?"
Cobalt held his hand up as a massive hologram of the entire mystic realm appeared from his hand, "You see, attacks like that have been reported all over the mystic realm. They've been targeting everyone, and not just high-class officials. It seems it's an attack on our humanity. No one has survived their attacks, except for the two of you. Did you catch anything about them that caught your attention?"
"They had some type of old school military uniforms. Like, back when all of you were still in your 20s...," Cobalt looked at his wives as he showed more pictures, "Did they look like any of these?" It showed multiple colored robes and armor of different colors and designs.
One of them caught the attention of Quartz and Silver, "Right there. That purple and black one. Wait, it looks like the uniform of the Imperial Army now. Why is that a culprit?"
"When I was in the Imperial Army, the main color was purple and black. It may be purple and black now, but there's a distinct difference between the two. Think about the crest on the armor," Everyone scanned and a saw an obvious difference, "See it now? The old crest was of the family of Brisk and Harmony. The present crest is our family crest. With this uniform, people may assume that it's our own army and think it's some controversy."
Then Rarity spoke, "Which is why Cobalt and I will be heading off to investigate these attacks. As for the rest of your mothers, they'll also investigate these attacks."
"Wait, doesn't this mean that all of you will be leaving us alone?"
"Sadly yes, but this means we'll be sending all of you back to the Earth Realm," Cobalt said, but he was nudged by Rarity, causing him to chuckle, "I-I mean... we'll be sending you to the Earth Realm with Thunder as your guardian. Silver, I want you to teach them while they are there."
"Yes Father."
"While we're gone, I don't want any of you to use your powers unless told otherwise."
"What?!" They all responded in unison.
"I told you they would react that way darling. We can't have you raising any suspicions on Earth, our former home. All mystics have already been banned from Earth already, and we don't need them to know we broke the deal."
"But Father, we use out powers for nearly everyday use. How will we survive without them?"
Cobalt looked at his wives and chuckled lightly at them, "Well, your mothers lived for 18 years without powers, and I had to re-earn my powers. If we can do it, I know all of you can do it."
"Hmph...," Quartz looked away from them as he sighed in frustration.
"Problem son?"
"Listen old man, you can't expect us to just drop our powers like that. We've spent our entire lives using them, and you expect us to stop using them? How plausible is that?"
"As disrespectful as that was, Quartz is right. I remember our mother telling us that you used powers everyday on Earth before...," Silver explained, causing him to laugh.
"Yeah, I may have been used to using my powers too much, but that was before the ban on mystics. I made a deal with the world leaders there, and we came to the conclusion that if they see any mystical occurrences, they'll take action. Now, I don't know what they can do, but to avoid any situation as such, we refuse to send anyone there. However, with our current circumstances, it must be done. Also, this will teach all of you control."
"Control?"
"Well...," The girls looked at there geodes, and then Rarity continued, "Apparently, sweeties, your powers affect our geodes. Much like when we were younger, when we used our powers too much, it would cause our geodes and our powers to go all crazy like. For some reason, they've recently started going out of control."
Then Rainbow added her input, "More like for years," Cobalt and the other girls glared at her causing her to lightly chuckle, "Right..."
"This will be a a good experience for all of you while living on Earth while we deal with this situation. We'll try to finish this problem as fast as we can."
"I don't know father... I'm still...," Silver tried to follow up, but she couldn't think of anything. Cobalt walked over to his daughter, and cupped her face.
"Silver, my daughter, I want you to stay strong and watch over your siblings. You are a woman now, and you must learn to take this sort of responsibility," Silver nodded as Cobalt glanced at all his kids, and ushered them to him, "All of you, you're all growing to be fine young people," He then glanced Quartz, "Well, some of you," Quartz turned away from them as his father continued, "Anyway, I know this change will be hard, but this will test all of you well."
"There he goes, giving out some big speech," Rainbow said as they stared at Cobalt while he delivered his little pep-talk.
"But that's why we love him, right? Well, part of the reason...," Rarity trailed off as she stared at her husband. It was hard to believe how far they've come. Rarity is on the Imperial Council with her husband, along with her friends.
She never expected to leave Earth almost permanently, but what can you expect when your husband is the emperor of a of other realm. However, the many years of stress, battles, and politics has taken its toll on Cobalt, and this new problem that has just surfaced might send Cobalt over the edge. Which is something not only Rarity feels, or even his other wives... it's the entire mystic realm.
"I also want to use this as a test to see who would be next to the throne," This caught the attention of all of his kids, "As you know, all this stress I've gotten from all this, and the damages my body had sustained during the Great War, which means I'll have to step down soon enough as I spoke of earlier today. This will be a good test to see who has the most control, and can handle harsh situations like this."
"Harsh?"
"Well, you won't be able to use your powers. So that's one way it's harsh...," Cobalt looked at his wives who all sighed in frustration, "Yeah, but this will be a good way to see if you have control. I can use this one who to choose for the next head of the family," Cobalt then glanced at his wives, and nodded, "You'll all be heading out tomorrow morning. Pack whatever necessities you need, and I'll open a portal to Earth," They all nodded, and Cobalt smiled before standing back up, "Alright, everyone bed time! I think you'll need some rest before heading back to Earth."
Each mother took their kid with them, and left the summer house, leaving Silver, Quartz, Cobalt, and Rarity, "Alright kids, off to your room," Quartz didn't even hesitate when he walked to his room.
As Silver passed her father, and bowed to him, "Good night Father..."
"Good night Silver," Cobalt nodded to acknowledge her bow, and sighed as she walked back to her room. He then turned to his main wife and kissed her on the cheek, "I'll be in my study if you need me Rarity."
"Very well then darling. I'll be waiting for you in our bedroom," Rarity walked off as Cobalt opened a portal to a library of sorts. He snapped his fingers as many lanterns lit the study up.
"This is pretty... lit...," Cobalt chuckled kind of painfully as he said that, "I'm too old to be making a joke like that...," Cobalt walked to a large desk in the middle of the study, and looked at the massive amount of strategies on his desk, "All these strategies for this upcoming war...," Cobalt sighed in frustration as he got to work with finalizing these strategies.
Many hours later, a portal opened for Rarity to walk through, "Cobalt darling, it's nearly midnight. It's time for you to head to bed."
"Rarity sweetie... I'm scared..."
"Of what darling?" Rarity walked up to Cobalt, and hugged him from behind, following it up with a kiss.
"Well, I know a war is brewing now, and it's only a matter of time before it begins. It's best to be prepared for this war then to regret it later. You know, better safe than sorry," Cobalt then grabbed Rarity's hand, "I'm more afraid of losing all of you," Cobalt stood up, and pulled Rarity in for a hug, "That's the last thing I want to happen. It happened once, and I don't want it to happen again..."
"Oh Cobalt...," Rarity cupped his face, and kissed him on the lips lightly, "nothing like that would happen again. We'll be prepared for this battle. With the support we have from the other nations, we'll be prepared for when and if Harmony decides to fight us."
"I don't know... what about the kids? That's the last thing I wanted them to see in their lifetime...," Cobalt trailed off as he hugged Rarity tighter.
"Cobalt darling, your beard is rubbing my forehead," Rarity back up slightly as he chuckled lightly.
"Sorry about, but you did just kiss me just now."
"I know...," Rarity paused for a second before continuing, "but you need to shave that off honey. If you do, these may last longer," Rarity began frenching Cobalt, forcing him onto the desk. Rarity began moaning as she grinded her knee along his pelvis causing him to shudder in light ecstacy.
Cobalt pushed her off, confusing her, "Hold on, let's continue this...," he lifted her up, causing her to shriek slightly, "in our bedroom..."
"Don't forget to set up the sound barrier, or should I do it," Cobalt lightly chuckled as he opened a portal, "Well, I think I should do it."
"Yeah, that would be for the best...," They entered the room for a night of fluffiness..., and the next morning is a day to change the lives of their kids forever...