First step: Crash the wedding

Jeez, where to start? I know my friends have written every once in a while a fanfiction in first person, but this will be more like a diary for me. Whether you belief this story is actually true or not. Oh man, where the hell (should I write Tartarus, I wonder?) should I start?

Story of my life as a human? Not interesting. And pretty normal too. I mean, I even have parents, a little brother and I like driving with my skateboard around the neighborhood. My human appearance isn't outstanding at all. I have long black hair, I don't look like a supermodel, my skin is normal color too, a little brown from the family trip even. My eyes are chocolate brown and NOT blue. I am not particular awful looking, heck I even had a few boyfriends. I was on teenage hormones, 'kay?

Even NOW I'm acting like a teenager after remembering who I really am. Must be because I wasn't even Nightmare Moon in particular for more than a few hours. After I was born I got shot directly to the moon of a planet called Equis, where I went into some kind of sleep/coma in order to avoid becoming insane. Then getting back to Equis and getting blasted by the elements of harmony. Damn, I never want to go through that one again. That was the most disturbing memory I recalled.

Now, I lived sixteen years a normal human life until one day I had a dream right before my 16th birthday. Dreaming what actually happened to me, plus a few of Luna's memories (mostly magic, how to use an alicorn body, etc). I was sweating bullets and when I woke up, I was like...

I needed to spend 5 weeks in the nuthouse.

After that little episode, I needed to see a psycho doc, because I was depressed, confused, but mostly depressed. I was thinking: "Is my life a lie? Am I going insane? Was I obsessed with THAT show?"

Yup, you guys got it. Nightmare Moon is officially a pegasister. Meh, for convenience sake, just call me by my human name Laura. So, back to the pegasister thing: my favorite pony or rather ponies are Twilight and Sunset Shimmer. They could be sisters, don't you think? Although I like it when they're shipped together too.

How did I get into writing about this all? Meh, since I started it, I might as well go through with this. So after I got over my confusion and depression, I decided to tell my family about all this. More like I showed them, knowing they would put me straight back into the nuthouse. Hell, I needed to disturb earths time in order to get them to belief me, meaning I made it night at lunch time. Almost caused a few planes to crash. As far as I researched nothing mayor happened. Well, I hope so...

I put things back into order. First time I used the sun. Well, earth is not like Equis, so I actually moved the planet and EVERY-FREAKING-THING on it. How? NOTHING here has any magic resistance and I freely powered myself up with both the sun AND the moon. It's an alicorn thing and being a night goddess and all, I can't really explain it. I just can't do this stuff on Equis, since Celestia "reserved" the sun and Luna the moon. I can use the moon, when I posses Luna. Not any other time, except I lock her away magically or do something else.

So yeah, my family's reaction. Uhh...yeah~...

How do I put this?

Well my brother thought it was cool and asked me all kinds of questions. My parents...

It took some time to warm up. It certainly helped I was blood related to them, so I got some instinct bonuses. But how the heck did I end up here in the first place? How come I became my mother' and father's daughter? How come I lived a normal human life and THEN all of the sudden remembered my old life. How come my magic returned?

For two years I ignored all those questions. I lived my life on, knowing I would never be accepted at my birthplace. Eventually my parents came over it, my stay at the nuthouse became a joke among my friends and me and most importantly I continued with my hobby: skateboarding.

Of course, I could suppress it for only so long. I knew my body would stop aging once I hit the 20. I'd survive my family and every child I'd get would be a half-god/-goddess and would eventually find a way to Equestria. It wouldn't take long for Celestia or Luna to find out who they truly were. There was always the chance they would turn up as alicorns, which would narrow down the results really quick. And once they "decoded" his or her or their magic reading (I can't put it into better terms), they'd be in danger.

There's one thing about traveling between worlds. It's as good as impossible to do it right, even for alicorns. Solar waves, radiation, to sum it up EVERYTHING the cosmos can throw against you IS going to be thrown at you. Without a strong enough shield, you won't even survive the travel.

What does it all have to do with going back to Equestria? Well, accidental time travel is not out of the question. I may have been away from Equestria for 16 years, but who knows where I might land? Good thing I could take safety measurements in order to come back to the earth in the right timeline. It's like marking a book on a certain page where you stopped reading. It's not like I'll be gone for one second and come back in the next, but rather I come back after the exact time I stayed on Equis.

So, now to the day I decided to go back to my birthplace. I call it my birthplace, because my home was now here on earth.

I was sitting on the roof of the house, staring into the moon thinking about the questions I mentioned earlier. More than once have I thought about going back in order to find those answers. I was just afraid Celestia and Luna would kill me before I was able to find them. I doubted they would ever belief I was not the same as before.

"Hey!"

My brother climbed out of his window and joined me. He wrapped an arm around me and pressed me against himself. He knew exactly what I was thinking about. "You should go, you know?"

"What?" I stared at him in disbelief. In return my little bro gave me a smile. "You'll just go insane and go eternal night again. Like that last time, when you almost did that because you couldn't find your DVD."

I blushed. "Th-that...I-I wouldn't..."

"You turned me into an apple after you found out I was the one who hid it from you."

I put his head down. "If you don't shut up, I'm going to turn you into a chicken for at least a month." I told him. We shared a laugh, before the two of us looked up into the sky. "You really think so?"

"I talked with mom and dad today. We all think it is for the best." He hardened his grip on my arm. "And if any of those candy suckers does anything to you, I'm gonna give them a good smack with the Pipe of Doom."

Don't ask about the last part.

XIII

They already had my bag prepared for me. Inside were some of my things, mp3 and the like, and a picture of my family. My family even had something special for me: a new skateboard in blue color with lightning all over it. I later enchanted the wheels, so I could use it not only on the road, but on dirt paths, grass and the like.

"Good luck." my mother told me.

"Promise you come back." my father asked of me.

"Show 'em what you got."

Those were all the words I needed to hear. I gave each of them a hug, before I walked in the middle of the living and inhaled a deep breath. "Okay, here goes." I announced, before channeling my magic. It was a dark blue, almost black. Or to put it better it was black with a blue glowing. I extended my arm, releasing the magic from my hand. A ball of magic stopped in front of the chimney and started forming a portal. My arm was stretched out the entire time, until the portal was finished. I was breathing a bit heavily and a few balls of sweat had formed on my forehead.

I was ready.

I only needed one set of clothes: my jeans, my white shirt, my black vest, a black jacket in my back and my brow hiking boots. I learned how to clean that stuff and repair it with my magic.

"Okay, I'll see you later."

Not goodbye. It could be interpreted as never see again. No it was a silent promise. A promise that I would come back, ALIVE.

I couldn't help myself. I put on my bag, grabbed my skateboard and shouted: "MOONJUMP!" and jumped through the portal. I'm sure I heard my brother falling to the ground, laughing his ass off.

Later mom. Later dad. Later bro.

XIII

After what seemed like the universe sliding away besides me, I stumbled through the portal, still being in my human form. "Wow, wow, whoa...! Got it." I managed to catch myself. The portal behind me closed, making some noise. "Well, not exactly the place I wanted to land in, but I can always teleport I guess." I mumbled to myself. I used the power of the moon and sun from earth, so in case Celestia and Luna would notice me, I would at least be able to flee. Hey, I promised on coming back to my family alive.

I was in a cave, but I didn't recognize it right away. I turned on my nightmare eyes, giving me basically night vision, but at the same time exposing who I really am. My eyes basically turn into the eyes I have in my pony form.

I pulled my skateboard tighter to my body, readjusted my bag and started walking. It wasn't long until I found a weak magical barrier. I frowned at my found, not expecting to have to go against magic so soon. I was barely back at home after all, so it kind of unnerved me. Equestria wasn't heaven, you know? So out of caution I broke every spell around this place.

I stopped in my tracks, when all off the sudden I heard sobbing. The cave was a one way trip, so I only needed to turn around a corner to find the source: Twilight.

Oh don't tell me...Celestia will recognize me the moment I teleport in! Disguise or not, my magical signature will give me away. Then again, it just so might be my only chance of proving myself.

"Hello?" I asked cautiously, as I approached the unicorn sitting on the ground. Her head jerked around, revealing teary eyes, which went wide upon seeing me. "What...Who are you?" she asked. I smiled and crouched down in front of her. "Somepony familiar. Although" I shrugged "I'm not much of a pony right now." I grinned. "You can call me Sarah for now. What happened? There was a magical barrier and some other spells here, but I broke through them. Someone obviously tried to keep you in here. Mind sharing?"

Twilight hesitated at first, but then she started telling me her story. Slow paced at first, but then she was literally crying her eyes out as to how nopony would belief her that the Cadance at the wedding was a fake. She told me basically everything that happened in the two parter of the episode up until the point we were now.

"Changelings, yeah. The bastards are tricky. And if what you say is true, the queen is fueled up with love from your brother, making her temporarily as strong as an alicorn." I closed my eyes and focused. "Huh, go figure."

"What?" Twilight asked. I smirked. "We're not alone. And this definitely is not a changeling. Come on, I'll carry you." Before she could even give her answer, I was carrying Twilight in my one arm, while riding my skateboard.

"A-a-are you sure this is safe?" Twilight asked. I illuminated the way with my free hand, waiting for the wall to appear. "Safer than increasing my speed with my magic."

"Wall ahead!"

"That's where we're heading." I blasted the wall with a quick spell, causing Twilight to shriek. I jumped off my board and threw it up with my feet, so my left arm could catch it.

"Please...don't...do this, again." Twilight took some deep breaths. "No promises." I replied with another grin.

"Who...?" a new voice asked. Cadance surprisingly didn't get hit by anything, but she had seen better days. Looks like she still doesn't quite get the hang of putting herself into a deep slumber.

"Is that...?"

"Twilight?" Cadance asked. I let Twilight down. "If you want to be 100% sure, ask her something only she would know."

Cadance, apparently not freaked out by my appearance, immediately caught up and did that little special hoofshake with Twilight.

"CADANCE!" Twilight exclaimed happily and gave her former foalsitter a tackle-hug. I watched them for a while, but then I felt the need to go between them. "Okay, as much as I hate interrupting this, we got a wedding to crash."

I approached the two. "Who are you?" Cadance asked. "Rather, what are you?"

"Call me Sarah. As to what I am, normally a pony, but right now I'm a human. It's a long story and we don't have time. Anyways, the changeling queen is going to be a pretty tough opponent, even for Celestia, since she's not expecting anything. Changelings have the power to hypnotize, so I guess the queen will give your bro the order to drop the shield, as soon as we go in or when the ceremony is completed. But we got one ace up our sleeves." I grinned.

"What ace?" Cadance asked.

"Two alicorns should be able to overpower the queen."

"But...I'm not strong enough. And aunt Luna is always asleep during the day. Her chambers are teleport-proved." the pink alicorn told me.

"Oh, I wasn't talking about either of you two."

Cadance and Twilight's eyes widened. "You're an alicorn?" The two asked.

I just nodded. "Come on, let's get this show on the road." I pulled them up in my magic and looked for the magic source that felt like the sun, but wasn't the sun. It took me a minute, but when I got it, I teleported us out of the cave.

XIII

"What's up, suckers?!" I exclaimed, when we arrived right in front of Chrysalis, still disguised and Shining Armor. Must have been quite the shocker to see a hairless ape appearing out of nowhere. Must have been more of a shocker to see a second Cadance appearing.

My focus wasn't on the fake Cadance at the moment. My eyes scanned for a certain Princess, until I found her. "Seriously Celly. Not trusting your own student? You're a real bitch, you know that?" I needed to say it, just to see the reactions of the ponies.

It. Was. Worth. It.

Celestia found her composure back rather quickly and asked in a sharp tone: "Who are you?"

"Really?" I deadpanned. "You didn't recognize my magical signature? Whatever, we can talk later. I got a changeling to beat up." I put my skateboard down, jumped on it and used my magic to increase my speed rapidly. The bug managed to doge, which was impressive, given what she was wearing. Shining Armor tried even hypnotized to live up to his name and protect the fake Cadance with a shield. Luckily Chrysalis did not include a second alicorn in her plan, so I just hold out my hand and shot a dark beam at "Cadance", which easily broke through the shield and hit the changeling queen directly.

My target hit the wall on the other end of the hall. She fell to the ground afterwards, but her disguise was still up. "Jeez, I think I hate queens who are pumped up with love."

In the meantime the royal guards and Celestia didn't know what to do. They just couldn't figure out who the real Cadance was. "Out of the way!" I threw a bunch of ponies with my magic away, so I could fully charge with my board at Chrysalis. She was still rubbing her forehead, when she finally noticed me coming very fast. There was no room to dodge, Shining had already been proven useless, so she reacted by creating a green shield around herself, taking the energy from the love she stored over months. I got cocky and didn't put enough energy into my fist. I got completely repelled. Me and my board flew away and hit the ground.

But the green magic was just the revealer I needed. Everypony now knew who the real and who the fake Cadance was. I smirked as I got up and finally got rid of my bag. "Gotcha."

Chrysalis now noticed too that she had revealed herself and growled dangerously. "You...I was so close. But whatever, it looks like I'll just have to improvise." Green fire surrounded her and revealed the real Chrysalis. The audience gasped loudly. I turned towards the elements of harmony and shook my head at them. "You know, you five, when Twilight gave me that speech before you all defeated me, it really got me thinking. But you know what impression you're giving me now? That you're all just a bunch of hypocrites." It needed to be said. "Aren't friends supposed to trust each other? That's at least what I expect from my friends.

Whatever, back to the matter at hand. You said you just needed to improvise? Well" I chuckled "you'll need to do one heck of an improvising, if you think you can defeat two alicorns."

"What are you talking about?" she asked.

"Simple. Twilight, you remember I said I was an old acquaintance of yours?" I asked the unicorn. "Yes...? Do I know you from somewhere?"

I snorted. "Come on girl, I already gave you a hint. What did I say earlier? Speech you gave me?"

Twilight frowned. "Well, I guess it'd be easier to just show you. By the way, do me a favor and don't shoot me with the elements of harmony again." I shuddered. "NOT COMFORTABLE."

That said I started releasing my magic. I flew into the sky and was soon surrounded by a ball of dark energy. It's the same Luna used to transform. I broke out of it, when the transformation was completed and revealed my true self. I could almost taste the fear of the ponies, like Chrysalis could taste love. She was obviously taken aback by seeing me in my alicorn form.

"Nightmare Moon..." Celestia stuttered in disbelief.

"Ah, feels good!" I stretched my wings after landing on the ground. I wasn't wearing my armor, since I lost it. Most likely the elements destroyed it.

I smirked over to the bug queen. "Let's dance."