Chapter One
"You called for me sister?" Luna cantered in to the throne room, her starry mane and tail flowing, the power of the moon surging through them. She had agreed to meet with her sister after she raised the moon.
"Yes, we need to speak." Celestia spoke in a calm manner, although Luna got visibly worried at Celestia's words. It was no secret that they hadn't been getting along that well even after she came back from the moon; it was almost as if Celestia still did not trust her. She didn't let her raise the moon for a while after the whole thing, afraid she would turn evil again.
"What for sister... Is something wrong?" Celestia shook her head lightly back and forth, her smile unwavering. Luna's worry did not go away as she looked at her sister's smile; it was unsettling to her for reasons unknown.
"Take a seat princess Luna." She pointed with her muzzle towards the small chair before her throne, it was quite a chair. It was upholstered with red silk, had two plush arm rests, a small cushion to lay your head against, and was as soft as clouds. Luna slowly sat down in the chair, noticeably uncomfortable; her alicorn flank could barely fit into the chair. She squirmed under her sister's gaze and the lack of size in the chair.
"Tia… sister… what is so bad that you would make me sit in THE chair?" The chair was known throughout the land, if Celestia had you sit in it you knew you were in for bad times ahead. It was often used when poor ponies came begging for gifts, money, or even for the princess to bring back dead loved ones. She had to keep harmony in the land, and could not give things out to most ponies, especially the bringing back of the dead. Celestia did possess that power, but would never use it, she had to restrain herself. Even when she had lost countless friends over her immortal life, she would not use it.
"Luna, nothing bad is happening, just something that will probably shock you." Luna embraced herself nonetheless for whatever news the princess had. "I wish for Twilight Sparkle to join us, help us, to become a princess." The princess of the night let out the air she was holding in and replaced her worried expression with one of joy.
"Sister that is wonderful, but do you believe she can handle it? I know her magic is strong, but she is still just a regular unicorn." Celestia let out a small laugh, before she looked back at her sister.
"Allow me to explain Luna. Twilight Sparkle will not only become a princess, we will give her our power. She will raise the sun and the moon every day. She will be immortal. She will wield all the elements of harmony one day. She will be stronger than both of us combined! We shall finally retire to being normal ponies. Is this not great sister?" Luna's expression of joy grew darker as Celestia went on. Twilight Sparkle, her magic is strong… but not THAT strong.
"Sister I just got back… not to mention doing this would be a grave mistake, do you not remember what happened with Sombra!?" Celestia's smile turned to a frown as she glared at Luna.
"Do not be selfish Luna; being on the moon for so long has clouded your judgment. Besides this is different Luna, you know that. You gave Sombra some of your magic, as he was to be a Prince. He was your student and you trained him poorly. Twilight is better than Sombra ever was." Luna glared right back at her sister as she stood up, shaking the chair of her flank in anger.
"He was at Star Swirl the Bearded's level of magic! If not higher! Even a highly trained unicorn like he, was unable to handle the magic of alicorns! Twilight is not at that level yet! Sister, please listen to me! I am trying to protect her and all of Equestria!" Celestia stood from her thrown and made her horn glow for several seconds, her secret signal to the guards telling them to get the mane six, Discord, and reinforcement.
"You underestimate her Luna. She is more powerful than Star Swirl was at his PRIME. She can handle the power of the alicorns easily. Do you not wish to stop being a princess? It brought you so many troubles! We could have things go back to the way they were when we were fillies!" Luna's face softened at the memories for a split second, before returning to her glare, as the large door behind her flew open. Celestia is deranged if she thinks Twilight can handle the alicorn magic. She is biased as Twilight is her student! Luna's mind screamed at her to stop this.
"Princess Celestia, don't worry the elements of harmony are here!" Twilight Sparkle ran into the room, her five friends and dragon assistant running in with her. Discord followed behind Fluttershy, quite leisurely, poking his tongue out at Celestia, as he noticed her glare.
"Twilight?" Luna's head turned to the mane six, plus friends, as guards piled in behind them forming a circle around the edge of the room. "Sister WHAT is the meaning of this?!" Luna's canterlot voice boomed out in her rage, as her hoof slammed on the floor. Fluttershy looked around the room confused as to why the guards were piling in. Pinkie Pie's smile left her face as she noticed the angry alicorns in the center of the room; she didn't think that the two sisters' should fight, not after they were apart for one thousand years. Applejack knew something fishy was going on between the two sisters. Rainbow Dash wanted to know why the hay Luna was yelling at Celestia. Rarity hated the thought of a sister feud, memories from her own flooding her mind. Twilight just looked at Celestia with a worried expression willing to do anything to save her mentor, even use the elements, which they were all currently wearing, against Luna.
"Twilight come here." Celestia demanded, ignoring Luna's question. Twilight ran to the princess's side, making a wide arch around the other, angry princess in the center of the room.
"Yes princess?" Her student asked, eagerly anticipating an answer. She nodded as Celestia whispered to her, her eyes grew wide with astonishment and a moment later her face grew solemn. "Girls come here!" The other five ponies ran to the end of the staircase, which led up to where the throne sat. Even Discord looked at the sun princes with no smirks; he was even sort of worried for what she had in store for Luna, last time they had an argument she sent her to the moon. What a kill-joy. Discord thought to himself, as the ponies formed a line in front of the princess of the night.
"L-Luna we're going to use these elements against you… and take your power away. You are un-unfit to be a ruler." Twilight had not informed her friends of her intentions and they let out collective gasps, minus Rainbow Dash as she had to agree with Twilight.
"What's with all the gasps? Luna BETRAYED Equestria a thousand years ago, she's obviously not princess material." Said Rainbow Dash, almost incredulously that no pony else agreed. Fluttershy gasped, again, at Rainbow Dash's words. They were so cruel, and they probably pained Luna to no end.
"Rainbow Dash! You know Luna was under the evil of nightmare moon!" Fluttershy yelled at her lifelong friend, from the other end of the line of ponies. The rainbow haired pony flinched at Fluttershy's tone; Fluttershy had never raised her voice against her before, although she often did towards the yellow pegasus. Luna's heart sunk as she remembered the Nightmare Moon fiasco, one thousand years of hate in her heart, that evil voice filling her head, wishing nothing more than to make her sister pay, it's a miracle in itself that she didn't snap during that time.
"Yeah, so? Couldn't she have, oh I don't know, tried harder to not become EVIL?!" Fluttershy glared at her friend. Celestia looked down on the ponies, if they keep this up then the elements wouldn't be able to be used, due to one of them refusing to use them… or worse one of them wanting to end connections with the others.
"ENOUGH! Guards grab Luna! Girls use the elements! Discord be prepared to channel the magic into Twilight!" Luna looked around the room like a trapped animal, fear in her eyes, her chest heaving, head whipping back and forth looking at her soon to be attackers, when suddenly she felt a soft hoof on her shoulder.
"It's going to be all right," Fluttershy moved her mouth to the princess's ear, and managed to lower her quiet voice even more. "I won't let them hurt you." Keeping on her words, Fluttershy moved in front of the princess of the night and stood on her hind legs, putting her front legs out blocking the guards from getting to the princess.
"Fluttershy! Stand down immediately!" Celestia's voice boomed through the halls. The pegasus didn't even flinch, if anything her eyes burned even more with the desire to protect the princess of the night. She had heard bits of their conversation from the other room, things like "She's not ready yet." "Even he was unable to handle the magic of the alicorns." It frightened her.
"I will not allow you to take away Luna's power. She just got back from one thousand years of exile and this is NO way to treat her!" Fluttershy raised her voice, towards the princess. Discord watching from behind the princess of the night, a safe distance of course incase Celestia decided to attack, and watched as his friend stood up for another past villain. His friendship towards her grew more every day, as does his disdain towards Celestia.
"Listen to me ponies! My sister is trying to take my power away, by FORCE, and make Twilight Sparkle immortal. But she cannot handle the power of alicorns; we tried to do this once before with Sombra! Look how that turned out!" Luna yelled out to the ponies as the guards continued their approach. Applejack looked shocked and then ran towards Luna; she knew something wasn't right with the way Celestia was acting.
"Goodness, Applejack where are you going?" Rarity yelled out to her earth pony friend as she bucked away a guard. Applejack moved behind Luna and bucked away at the guards, attempting to keep them at a distance.
"I have ta' keep these gosh darn guards away from the princess." AJ replied in-between bucks, she thought she saw a few of one guards teeth fly out of his mouth, no time to worry about that now though, she's got guards to buck.
"Applejack are you really going to betray the princess?" Twilight asked incredulously, as if she couldn't even fathom what was going on around her. Spike stood behind her, afraid of what might be happening to the friends.
"I'm not betraying anypony! I'm just protecting the princess." Applejack called out, after moving to the back side of the princess and guarding it.
"Unbelievable! Twilight I'll go stop AJ." Rainbow Dash scoffed and tried to fly over to restrain the earth pony, but was stopped when she felt something grab her tail. She crashed to the floor with a painful wince, and looked behind her to a pink pony with tears in her eyes.
"Pinkie Pie?" Rainbow Dash coughed out, as she attempted to get up off of the steps she crashed onto. Pinkie Pie looked at her in shock and began running towards Applejack and Fluttershy.
"I'm soorrrrryyy!" She yelled back as she met with the 'traitors'. "Are you guys okay? I was so worried, I saw Rainbow Dash trying to fly over here… I was afraid she was going to hurt one of you… so I… So I… I bit her tail!" Pinkie Pie broke down in front of Fluttershy trying to keep it all in, unsuccessfully. She looked down at her sniveling friend and nuzzled her, wiping the tears away. Pinkie Pie pulled herself together and pulled out her party cannon.
"Where were you keeping that?" Luna asked wide eyed.
"I keep it where I always keep my party cannon, duh!" She replied before shooting her party cannon at a trio of guards. Discord smirked at the pink ponies antics, she's very chaotic. I'll give her that. He thought to himself before transporting himself to the group of Luna protectors.
"Well it's been fun Celestia, but we have to go, ponies to see, places to go, what am I saying? You know how it is. Ta-ta. ~" He wiggled his lion paw fingers at her before teleporting them all out of the castle, to the outer wall of Canterlot.
"Thank ya mighty kindly Discord… Wow never thought I'd be saying that." Said Applejack, before a group of guards moved from the gate, towards them.
"Yeah, thanks." Pinkie Pie added sarcastically, before pushing the princess's flank with her head. "We gotta go!"
"Discord, could you be a dear and-" The yellow pegasus was cut off before she could finish her question, as Discord snapped his fingers. They all coughed as the smoke cleared and they arrived in Fluttershy's cottage.
"Why didn't you just transport us here in the first place?" Pinkie Pie questioned him throwing her hoofs up for emphasis.
"Heat of the moment." The draconequis dead panned, before he continued. "Besides, we can grab first aid and food from here." Fluttershy nodded and flew upstairs grabbing a few satchels Rarity and her had worked on in the pass. The yellow pony had even made one for Discord, she had measured him while he was asleep one of his many nights here. It was to be a surprise, but no time for that now.
"Wait, Discord." Luna began fastening the first aid kit around her waist, as it was the only thing that would fit her alicorn body. "Why can you not provide food and supplies with your magic?" The other ponies turned to him, wondering the same thing.
"Well, Celestia will know. She can tell when there is chaos in her land, how do you think she was able to tell so quickly the first time I escaped?" The ponies all let out "ohs" and "of course…" acting as if they had known the whole time, while Discord knew they, of course, hadn't.
"Good thing I made you this satchel." Fluttershy smiled, holding the harness with a large bag on each side at an arm's length in front of her, as the draconequis accepted the gift.
"No one's… ever made anything for me… Thank you Fluttershy." Pinkie Pie smiled at the friends endearingly, she thought it was so cute when Discord acted all soft around Fluttershy.
"We need to get to the farm! And fast! I reckon those pony guards could be here any second. They probably know Discord put us here!" They all nodded as Fluttershy gave Angel a list of things to do for the animals daily while she was gone.
"Now be good Angel bunny." She nuzzled him before tightening her harness and flying out the door to catch up with the others.
"Let this night go swiftly by my little ponies, I believe a storm is coming." They all sped up at Luna's words, and continued to push forward to Sweet Apple Acre's.
"WAIT!" Pinkie Pie screeched out, and they all skid to a stop. She ran into the shop next to them, and they reluctantly followed.
"Pinkie Pie is that you? We heard screaming?" The Cakes walked down Pumpkin and Pound Cake in a baby harness on Mrs. Cake, a baseball bat in Mr. Cake's mouth.
"Oh Pinkie Pie!" Mr. Cake dropped the bat. "I thought I was going to have to use that on somepony." He laughed, but as his eyes scanned the room and landed on the princess of the night and master of chaos. "WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE?!" He screamed out, before Pinkie Pie could shove her hoof in his mouth.
"They're friends. Don't worry." His tiny pupils landed on them again and he nodded, still quite frightened. She removed her hoof and he sucked in a copious amount of air before looking at his wife and kids and moving in front of them. Mrs. Cake just smiled anxiously before moving in front of her husband.
"Pinkie why do you have all of your… friends here, and why does it look like you all just went for a jog around town?" Pinkie shook her head quickly.
"No time. You'll know in the morning, you guys won't see me for a while… And if anyone comes asking. We were never here." The pink pony's face was serious for a moment before Mrs. Cake nodded and she shot up the stairs.
"Pack lightly Pinkie! We need food space!" The Cakes looked at each other with fear deep in their eyes, they were scared for Pinkie. She was like a surrogate child to them.
"I'm done!" Pinkie called down the stairs before she practically jumped down them. She pecked both the Cakes on the cheeks before giving a forehead kiss to each of the younger cakes. "Make sure to feed Guppy, and remember we were never here. You'll know why we had to leave soon, trust me."
They all ran out the door before the Cakes could get two words in. Mrs. Cake just sniffled back a tear before she decided to return the, now toddlers, to their cribs. "Pinkie!" Pound and Pumpkin Cake cried out in unison as their mother ran up the stairs, trying not to cry in front of her husband and two children.
"Shh. Shh." She cooed Pound and Pumpkin cake as she set them both in their respective cribs, and they quickly fell asleep.
"She'll be alright sweetie." She turned to her husband's voice before running to him, letting the few tears she had out on his shoulder.
"I know… I know… I'm just worried. What do you think happened at the palace?" She asked sniffling away the last of her crying, and looking up at him.
"I- I don't know, something bad if they had Luna and that Discord with them." He spat out Discord's name, remembering all the cakes they lost that day when chaos reigned. "Come on, let's go back to bed." He nuzzled his wife and led her back to the bedroom. They fell asleep after a while; the full moon's light shining through their bedroom window, perfect night to escape Ponyville.
AN: So yeah that's chapter one of this story. Not sure what I should call it. One of my longest chapters ever… I have a feeling all the chapters in this fic will be quite long. Goodness. I hope they didn't sound OOC, they might have though . Anyways any ponies you guys want to really see? This is an everypony story so just ask in the comments and I'll see if I can't squeeze them in.