Alright, time for the official season 4 start. I'm sure you can all see why I waited to do this. But anyway, I really enjoyed writing this and had this planned for a while. So, I hope you all enjoy!


Currently at the Golden Oaks Library, Twilight Sparkle and Spike could be seen on the roof of the library both wearing sunglasses and doing nothing but laying down and enjoying the sun's rays hitting them.

Twilight let out a relaxed sigh as she levitated a bottle of fizzy apple cider towards her and opened it up with her magic as well. "Now this is the life Spike." Twilight said as she took a long sip of the bottle of cider.

"You said it Twilight." Spike agreed as he reached into the bowl next to him and grabbed a ruby from it and happily munched on it. "It's nice to finally just sit back and relax."

It's been a few days since Twilight and her friends came back together. They were still affected by the events that have transpired involving Sunset Shimmer and Princess Celestia, they figured they always would be.

But they couldn't let them split them apart or effect their lives. They've faced hardships before and always come together and prevail. And they weren't gonna let this split them apart. So lately they've been making up for lost time and have been doing big group activities together from picnic's, to going to various shows and events taking place or simply just hanging out together.

Things have seemed to go back to normal between all them, although some ponies have noticed that Fluttershy stuttered and blushed a lot when interacting with Rainbow more often since then. Well, the only pony that didn't seem to notice that was Rainbow Dash herself.

And Twilight was taking the advice her mother given her to heart. Her life was her own and she was allowed to do whatever she wanted with it and not have any pony tell her what to do. So lately she's been taking it easy and relaxing more then she probably has her whole life.

She was still Twilight of course so she was still a massive bookworm that worried about the littlest detail. But when it came to simply kicking back and taking it easy, she was embracing it a lot more now. She was no longer stressing about potential assignments from Celestia or any potential royal duties.

Just then Twilight and Spike heard somepony coming up to the roof and looked to see Lincoln climbing up the latter that led to the top. "Sup." Lincoln greeted with a casual smile. "Room for one more?"

"Plenty." Twilight answered as she levitated a bottle of cider over to Lincoln. "Come relax, the sun feels great today."

"Thanks." Lincoln said as she took the bottle and walked over to the two of them. Lincoln took off his hoodie and revealed a sleeveless orange shirt under it and showing off a lean muscular build. He balled the hoodie up and used it as a pillow and laid down next to Twilight and started enjoying the rays of the sun himself. "Aaaaaaah." Lincoln sighed while in a relaxed state. "Now this is living. Perfect temperature."

"Perfect sky." Twilight said as she looked at the near cloudless sky.

"Perfect day to lay back and relax." Spike sighed out with a smile as Lincoln and Twilight nodded in agreement.

Lincoln opened up his bottle of cider as Twilight turned to him and asked. "So how's it going for you today Lincoln."

"Pretty good so far." Lincoln answered after swallowing his cider. "Just got off a call with my sister Leni."

"Oh yeah, I remember you mentioning she was the sister Rarity reminded you of?" Twilight asked as she remembered Lincoln pointing out that Rarity's love for cloths and sewing were just like his sister Leni. Lincoln nodded in response as Twilight said. "I bet its been nice to be able to talk to everyone back in your universe again."

"Yeah, I've been missing them a bit so getting to hear from them again is great." Lincoln said with a smile on his face as he remembered the past few days, he was swarmed with phone calls, voice messages, and text from his friends and family back home. His best friend Clyde Mcbride in particular had Lincoln on the phone for four hours straight the morning after he called Wendy. Lincoln then turned to Twilight with a smirk and said. "Sure, would've been nice to have my phone yesterday though."

Twilight blushed in embarrassment a bit as she sheepishly smiled and chuckled. "Sorry, the time just kinda flew by while I was talking to Sunset." Another thing that's been going on lately is that Twilight has been making phone calls to Sunset Shimmer everyday to check on how she was doing in the human world as well for the two of them to get to know the real them.

And its been going really well so far. The two would have lengthy conversations over the phone and they found out that they had a lot of things in common including a love of books, and learning. Twilight's also been an outlet to Sunset in letting the Unicorn turned human talk about her problems with the Alicorn. Things were still rough for Sunset, and the yellow skinned girl said she was having problems falling asleep at night and would often experience anxiety.

Despite her friends with the human version of Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash, as well as Wallflower Blush, Sunset didn't fell like she deserved to talk about her problems with them. It took Twilight a few hours of convincing, but she eventually got Sunset to open up to her and talk to her. Twilight listened to everything Sunset had to say and when Sunset wasn't able to fall asleep Twilight would stay up with her and simply talk until Sunset was able to sleep.

It was slow progress, but things were getting a little better for Sunset.

"Ah don't worry about it." Lincoln said as he looked to the sky. "It's nice that your spending so much time talking with her. She needs it."

"She deserves it." Twilight responded with as she also looked to the sky. "Although I wish I could actually see and be there with her."

"Well with your brains and all of Lincoln's powers I'm sure you two can get that mirror working in no time!" Spike said with a supportive thumbs up and smirk.

Twilight looked to the young dragon with a thankful smile and said. "Thanks Spike." The three of them then laid back down and enjoyed the suns raise once more.

It was like that for about 15 more minutes with the three of them simply relaxing in pure silence until suddenly the sun was covered up making them all frown a bit. "Hey, what happened to the sun?" Spike asked as he and Twilight took off their sunglasses.

"That would be me." The three of them looked up to see Rainbow Dash hovering over them with her wings blocking out the sun. The blue Pegasus gave them a little smirk as she said. "Am I interrupting something?"

"Well we were just enjoying a lazy day." Lincoln said as they three of them gave Rainbow Dash blank looks. "What is it Rainbow?"

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes in response as she landed in front of them. "Sorry, just looking to get away from Mayor Mare and figured seeing you guys was a double win." Rainbow explained to them as the three in front of Rainbow Dash got up with Twilight raising an eyebrow at Rainbow Dash.

"Why would Mayor Mare be looking for you?" Twilight asked with a curious tone.

"Oh gosh what'd you do this time?" Lincoln asked Rainbow with a humorous smirk.

Rainbow rolled her eyes and smiled at Lincolns little joke before looking to Twilight with a raised brow. "You don't remember what tomorrow is?" Rainbow asked as Twilight shook her head. Rainbow sighed in response and said. "Guess I can't blame you. It's the Summer Sun Celebration."

Twilight's good mood quickly turned around as she gave an annoyed sigh. "Oh…greeeeeat." Twilight said sarcastically with Lincoln and Spike frowning a bit as well.

"We feel the same way darling." Another familiar voice said as everypony looked to see the rest of the mane 6 climbing up to the roof of the library, even Fluttershy despite being able to fly.

"Mayor Mares been at our tails all day to get to us help out on the celebration." Applejack said in an annoyed tone as she walked next to her marefriend. "Ah don't know about the rest of ya'll, but I don't feel like celebrating a lie."

"Yeah, normally I'm super-duper excited to plan a party but this celebration is no longer worthy of a Pinkie Pie planning!" Pinkie Pie said firmly as she stood on her hind legs and cross her forelegs and shook her head.

"Yeah…" Fluttershy agreed quietly as she turned her head a bit. "Plus, well…"

"Mayor Mare won't leave us alone about it!" Rarity said with frustration evident in her voice. "She wants us all to help out in planning and working on a big party for the celebration and frankly I don't wanna part of it."

"Yeah, normally I'm open to celebrating holidays in other worlds, but after learning everything about it and you-know-who I rather skip out." Lincoln said as he took a drink of his apple cider.

"Yeah, I'm not too excited for it anymore either." Spike said as he scratched the back of his head.

"I was actually supposed to go to Cantorlot to partake in the celebration over there as part of my ascension but no thank you!" Twilight said as she leaned back against the fence around the edges of the roof. "From now one, I'm a free pony that wants no part of being a part of royalty."

"You go sister." Lincoln cheered for Twilight before he turned to the rest of the pony's present. "So, what are you guys gonna do know? I'm pretty sure the rest of the town is gonna be part of the festivities."

"That's what we're trying to figure out." Rainbow admitted with everypony else behind her nodding in agreement. "We also came here because we wanted to see if we can plan something for us all to do together."

"Hey, that sounds fun." Spike said with a smile.

Twilight smiled as well and walked up to her friends. "Yeah, I like the sound of that." The purple Alicorn said as the rest of her friends smiled as well. "Come on, let's head inside of think of something."

"Woohoo! Super friend squad party planners!" Pinkie Pie cheered as she started bouncing away on her butt. Everypony else looked to each other and laughed a bit at the usual antics of their pink friend and simply went down from the roof to go inside of the library.

A little later everypony was inside of the Golden Oaks library with the mane 6, Spike, and Lincoln sitting around a table and discussing what they could do in place of the Summer Sun Celebration. "Alright ya'll, no need to make this thing a big spectacular event." Applejack reminded everypony as they all nodded in response. "Let's just think of something nice and simple."

"Oh! Maybe we could all dress in fancy gowns and have a mini ball!" Rarity suggested with sparkles in her eyes at the thought.

"Uuh, I'm not sure how I feel about that." Rainbow Dash said with uncertainly as she didn't even wanna imagine herself in a girly ball gown.

"And I've worn a ball gown before, and they do not work for me." Lincoln said in a firm tone with his arms crossed. Everypony looked at him strangely in response as Applejack opened her mouth to say something but Lincoln quickly shut her up. "I don't wanna talk about it."

"Anyway…" Twilight said before looking to everypony and smiling. "It's like Applejack said, we don't need it to be spectacular, just something for us all to do together."

"Um, well, I think, I may have an idea." Fluttershy meekly spoke up as everypony looked to her when she said that. Fluttershy twirled her mane with a hoof. "Well, I was just thinking, why don't we just set up a little party and celebrate when we all came together."

Everypony heard Fluttershy's idea and perked up a bit as Pinkie said. "That sounds like a wonderful idea!" The party mare cheered as she jumped up in her chair.

"R-Really?" Fluttershy asked as she felt happy at her friends liking the suggestion she put out.

"Yeah!" Rainbow Dash cheered as she patted Fluttershy's shoulder. "Way to think shy!"

In response, Fluttershy's face went a light shade of red as she hid her face in her mane. "O-Oh, i-i-it's n-nothing, r-re-really." The yellow Pegasus stuttered.

"No, it really is a great idea Fluttershy." Twilight added in with a smile as she watched the sight of the pink maned Pegasus try to hide in her mane. "The day the 6 of us all came together and freed Luna from Nightmare Moon."

"Best Friend get together party!" Pinkie Pie said as she reached into her mane and pulled a big pile of confetti and threw it up into the air.

"That's a great idea ya'll!" Applejack cheered as the idea of just having a simple celebration of the anniversary the 6 of them all came together when Twilight came to Ponyville sounded perfect to her.

"Well I'm certainly ok with it." Rarity said with a smile before whispering to Applejack. "Can I still wear the ball gown?" Applejack kissed Rarity's cheek in response and that was all the confirmation Rarity needed as she gave a quiet squeal in response.

"Where would we have it?" Spike asked as everypony gave their attention to the young dragon. "I don't think here would be a good idea since a few ponies in town would probably come by and try to get us in on the celebration."

Everypony hummed in thought. They really haven't thought about that part. If they had their little party here, pony's outside would probably constantly come up to the library and ask why they were there and not participating in the Summer Sun Celebration and they really didn't want to deal with that.

They thought about the perfect location to have it. It had to have a decent amount of space but was also far away enough so that they wouldn't be bothered by anypony else. Lincoln was scratching his chin in thought before an idea came to his mind. "Hey, I have an idea." Lincoln spoke up making everypony turn to him. "Why not that big open field where Twilight opened up the portal that brought me here. It's a good enough distance away from town and has a lot of open space."

Everypony looked at each other for a moment and thought about Lincoln's idea for a bit before smiling and nodding at each other. "Hey, that's not a bad idea." Spike with everypony agreeing with the dragon.

"That, um, would be nice." Fluttershy quietly agreed with a small smile.

"Outdoor party! Woohoo!" Pinkie cheered as she threw even more confetti into the air.

"We can set things up tonight and just spend the day together there and have fun." Applejack explained as Rarity happily agreed and gave a loving nuzzle to the farm pony in response.

"Then it's settled!" Rainbow Dash said as she flew up from her seat. "We just gotta set up a few things over there, bring some food and drinks and we're good to go for our-"

"Friendiversary!" Pinkie Pie finished for the Pegasus as she jumped up to be eye level on Rainbow Dash for a few seconds.

"Ah just gotta finish some chores at the farm before ah can get working on that." Applejack admitted sheepishly while scratching the back of her head.

"And I got some hats I need to finish." Rarity added in.

"And I gotta quickly finish up some last-minute weather stuff." Rainbow Dash told everypony while gesturing her head out the window.

"I gotta start baking some treats for tonight." Pinkie said followed by the licking of her lips at the thought of baking a bunch of delicious cakes and pies for her friends.

"I need to finish taking care of my animals today." Fluttershy said as she just needed to finish up taking care of a few things for her animal friends today.

"Well while you're all doing that, I can start doing a bit of planning for it." Twilight said as she levitated a piece of paper and quill over to her. She looked to see everypony giving her a sly smirk. She rolled her eyes in response and said. "Relax, I'm not gonna go over the top with it, just gonna write down some stuff we need and can get for it."

Everypony giggled in response as they all got up from where they were sitting and begun walking out. They stopped when they heard Lincoln standing up and sighed with a smile. "Well, you all have fun with your party. I'm gonna head out."

Everypony rose a brow at what Lincoln said as Pinkie took a step forward to him and said. "Aren't you coming tonight?"

To everyponys surprise, Lincoln simply shook his head and said. "Nah, this party about the seven of you, I rather not intrude." Lincoln explained as he gestured his hands to the mane 6 and Spike.

"That doesn't mean you can't come sugarcube." Applejack persisted as she stepped up to Lincoln. "We'd all love to have ya, right?"

"Yeah!" Everypony replied instantly.

Lincoln rose his hands in response and chuckled a bit. "Guys, relax it's fine." Lincoln assured all of them before putting his hands in his hoodie pockets. "Plus, I was actually thinking of heading over to Cantorlot during this whole thing and spend some time with Princess Luna."

Everypony was a bit surprised by what Lincoln said as Twilight turned her head and asked. "Really?"

Lincoln nodded in response as he went on to explain. "I don't think she's doing any better after everythings happened like you all were just a few days ago. I just don't here to be alone ya know. She could probably use some company."

Everypony looked to each other before giving small smiles and looking to Lincoln again. "Well that's really nice of you Lincoln." Fluttershy complimented making Lincoln sheepishly scratch the back of his head.

"Give Luna our regards darling." Rarity said as Applejack wrapped a hoof around her.

Lincoln nodded in response as he and everypony else except Twilight and Spike left the Golden Oaks Library. "See ya later Twilight and Spike!" Lincoln yelled to the two of them before closing the door.

As he watched the other ponies walk, or in Rainbow's case fly, away he activated the Ultimatrix and turned into, "Jetray!" After transforming, the Aerophibian quickly took to the skies in the direction of Cantorlot Castle.


In the room of Princess Luna in Cantorlot castle, the Lunar Princess was surprisingly awake. While it was the afternoon, it wasn't the time Princess Luna usually found herself awake. The Lunar Princess was alone in her room with a neutral expression as she went over some paperwork...with a rather large, to say the least, pile of paperwork on the side of her desk that she still has to do.

Luna sighed as she rubbed her head as he stared at the paper in front of her. She was used to doing paperwork due to being one of Equestria's rulers, but there just seemed to be a lot more than usual lately.

Plus there was the Summer Sun Celebration that would be taking place the following morning. It was safe to say that her sister wasn't showing up to 'raise the sun.' That meant she would have to do it and have to make up an excuse to everypony about why Celestia wasn't there.

Just more things that were added to her list.

It was then that Luna heard a knocking at her head and gave a tired sigh as she said. "Please, I'm working. I don't want company right now." Luna told whatever pony was outside. She simply wanted to get her work down, go to sleep, take care of the Summer Sun Celebration real quick, and then go back to sleep.

"Not even from a human?" Luna's eyes widened at hearing the familiar voice outside her door and looked over to the entrance to her chambers.

"Lincoln?" The Princess of the Moon asked as she rubbed her eyes. The door to her room entered as she watched as, indeed, Lincoln Loud stepped into the room and gave Luna and wave and smile. "Lincoln? What are you doing here? And how did you get past all the guards?"

"That was the easy part." Lincoln said with the role of his eyes. "As for what I'm doing here, I just figured you could use some company today."

"Really?" Luna asked with a raised brow, but a small smile on her muzzle.

"Yeah, the others are having a friendiversary instead of celebrating the Summer Sun Celebration so I figured while they're doing that I could come here and keep you company." Lincoln explained as he pulled up another chair in the room and sat down next to her. "I figured you were taking all of this pretty hard and could use some company."

Luna was silent for a moment before she slumped down and sighed. "I...suppose having someone around would be nice." Luna admitted as she rubbed her head again and gestured to all the paperwork on the desk. "Especially with all this work."

"Yikes!" Lincoln said as he looked up at the mountain of paperwork on the desk. "I knew running a country was hard but this just seems ridiculous...and a waste of trees."

"Yes well, it's just something I have to deal with." Luna answered with a frustrated sigh. "There's no avoiding it."

"Well at least let me help out a bit." Lincoln offered with a smile as he took a piece of paper from the giant stack. "I may not be as experienced as you when it comes to stuff like this, but I still think I can help out a little, and I can always go Brainstorm or Gray Matter if it calls for it."

Luna couldn't help but give Lincoln a grateful smile. "I would really appreciate it." She said honestly. She's pretty much been by herself ever since the events involving the Crystal Mirror happened.

And since then her mind has been in quite the conflict. She was mad at her sister, that much was obvious. But as every day passed...she honestly grew to miss her. Luna just couldn't understand why. Luna was mad, but for some reason she just couldn't hate Celestia. And as of late she's honestly missed her sisters' company...Luna just didn't know exactly how to feel.

As Lincoln looked at the piece of paper in his hand, he rose his eyebrows in confusion. "Wait, why are you taking care of this one?" Lincoln asked as Luna looked to him with a confused look. "This paper talks about asking for approval to build a structure in...Vanhoover, ok are all the towns and cities here horse puns?"

Ignoring the last part of Lincoln's sentence, Luna answered the white-haired humans claim. "Well it's my job to oversee all the work, construction, and development that goes into Equestria and all its many civilizations."

"Ok but...why exactly?" Lincoln asked in a confused tone

Luna's refined stature was broken a bit as she gave Lincoln a confused look. "Wh-what do you mean why?"

"Well, it's something involving Vanhoover right?" Lincoln asked with a raised brow with Luna nodding in response. "Well, why doesn't Vanhoover decide on something like this themselves?"

Luna put a hoof to her chin as she tried to think of a response. "Um..well-" Luna tried to say but was interrupted by Lincoln.

"Look, I understand you have to look over your country, but you're gonna drive yourself made focusing on a bunch of little things like this." Lincoln told her while holding up the paper in his hand. "Plus, other people, er, ponies should be able to figure things like this on their own. It's something that involves Vanhoover and nowhere else, so Vanhoover should be the one taking care of this not you."

"...Really?" Luna asked with a bit of...happiness in her voice. She would admit, the idea of not doing some of the work did excite her.

Lincoln and her response and nodded his head. "Yeah, leave the small stuff to the towns and cities that it's gonna effect. Let THEM settle THEIR problems. You're one of the princesses that rule all of Equestria. You shouldn't focus on the small stuff, focus and the big stuff that affects most of the country or a big event that could be extremely vital to the wellbeing of a town or city."

Luna tapped her chin in thought as she thought about what Lincoln told her. She then turned to the human and asked. "So, what you're saying is that for stuff like construction and small projects, I should let the ponies in that area settle those things for themselves. But for events or projects like starting entire farms, parasprite invasions, or events that could affect all of Equestria, those are what I should focus my time and energy on?"

"Yes! Exactly!" Lincoln confirmed with the snap of his fingers. "Just separate the small stuff and important stuff and your life is gonna get a lot easier, trust me."

Luna was silent for a moment for her eyes moved over to the mountain of paperwork on her on her desk. She then moved her eyes back to Lincoln and asked. "Where do we start?"

Lincoln chuckled in response as her set the paper about the Vanhoover project back on the desk before cracking his knuckles. "Alright, let's briefly go through each one and make two piles. Big stuff, and small stuff."

It only took Luna a second to smirk at the idea before levitating two large stacks of papers, one for herself and one for Lincoln before saying, "Let's do this."


LATER THAT DAY

"Aaaaaand small." Luna said as she levitated the very last piece of paperwork they had to the unimportant pile. Once they were done, Luna and Lincoln stepped back to take a look at the difference in size between two piles of paperwork. Luna had to visibly contain her giddyness at what she saw. "I can't believe it."

"How that's for a difference?" Lincoln said with a smirk as her observed it for himself. The pile of 'small things' paperwork was HUGE. Practically having almost every piece of paperwork Luna originally had. And the 'big things' pile, a mere 20 pages.

"This...this is amazing!" Luna said as she grabbed the 20 papers from the 'big things' pile. "I can get this done in at hour at most! I'll practically have the rest of the day off!"

"See, what'd I tell ya?" Lincoln said as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face.

"This will make things so much easier!" Luna couldn't help but cheer as she briefly jumped up and down. However, her sights then turned to the large pile of paper worked deemed 'small things' and frowned a bit. "Still, I can't help but feel a little bad. No doubt the other ponies will be upset that I'm flat out ignoring their other projects."

"Well then they need to grow up and accept that." Lincoln answered simply as he closed his eyes. "They need to learn to take care of their own stuff and learn that you need to concern yourself with bigger matters then simply building a simple statue."

Luna took a deep breath and nodded in response and said. "Yes. It's a change they'll have to learn and accept." It was then that Luna relaxed a bit and casually said. "Plus I really don't wanna have to do all that."

Lincoln chuckled in response and nodded. "Yeah, if I had to do that much paperwork every day, I guarantee you I would go insane by day 5, and that's if I'm lucky."

Luna couldn't help but giggle in response. "Yes well, I suppose I did have some practice and training in the field."

Right after Luna said that, suddenly the clock in her room let out a loud ding that made both Lincoln and Luna flinch in surprise at the sudden sound. Luna and Lincoln looked to the clock and saw the time.

Luna's eyes widened a bit as she turned to Lincoln and said. "Pardon me Lincoln, it's time for me to...r-raise the moon." Luna sighed at her stuttered. "Sorry, I know you know the truth its just-"

"It's fine." Lincoln said, interrupting and surprising Luna. "Look, it is wrong that you and Celestia lied about this. But it isn't really the biggest deal. It's not really affecting anyone; more ponies are happy for the most part. Yeah, it's not perfect but nothing is. But just let the ponies believe what they think is true. It's not like your using your powers to become a heartless dictator."

"...You really think so?" Luna asked with some uncertainty in her voice.

Lincoln gave a soft nod in response. "Yeah. Sometimes it's better to just let things be the way they are."

Luna looked down and gave a small smile and a quiet. "Thank you." Before going out to rotate the planet so the moon could come up.

Lincoln gave a small smile as he simply leaned against the wall. But suddenly his ears twitched as he suddenly heard what sounded like a cracking sound. Lincoln looked around for the source. He heard it again more loudly and was able to hear where it was coming from now. Looking down he saw a small crack forming in the wall and the cause of it being what looked like a black vine with blue thorns.

"What the?" Lincoln said as he looked more closely at it and failed to notice the incoming darkness from the moon coming up. Lincoln leaned down a bit to see the vine was starting to grow bigger causing the crack in the wall to become more noticeable.

Just then he heard hoofsteps coming closer to him as well as Luna saying. "Well, I suppose that takes care of all of that. I thank you for your company but now I must-"

CRACK!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Luna suddenly screamed as before she or Lincoln could react, the vine coming out of the wall suddenly grew to large sizes and suddenly wrap the night princess up.

"Princess Luna!" Lincoln shouted as the vine started to drag her away quickly. But this time Lincoln was fast enough to react and quickly grabbed one of Luna's forelegs with his left arm and kept the vine from taking her any further. "Don't worry! I got ya!"

"Please help!" Luna asked as she tried to hold on tight to Lincoln's hand. "I don't know what this is! I can't use my magic!"

Lincoln grunted as suddenly more black vines with blue thorns appeared and started to wrap themselves around Luna and started to pull her again. Lincoln grunted as the vines were overpowering him as well as his grip on Luna slipping.

Lincoln's eyes then widened as he looked to the Ultimatrix and shouted. "It's hero time!" Lincoln used his free hand to quickly activate the Ultimatrix and simply slammed it down and once it came up and hoped he'd get a good alien.

When the green flash that covered him died down, standing in Lincoln's place was a 5-foot 11 plant like creature. He was mostly a dark moss green and black in color. His head had a flame pattern around it with red petals covering his shoulders and his feet being root-like. His face lacked a nose and his eyes were green and oval shaped with black pupils. The Ultimatrix symbol was located on his chest.

"Swampfire!" The transformed boy called out in a nasaly voice. Swampfire looked at his hand before smirking and balling his hand to a fist. "All right! That's what I'm talking about!" Swampfire then reached his hand out and fired a fireball at the vines holding Luna.

Sure enough, the vines were quickly incinerated by the fire, freeing Princess Luna. Luna landed on her belly and was breathing heavily after being freed, so Swampfire was quickly to help the Princess of the Moon onto her hooves and ask. "Are you alright?"

Luna gave a shaky nod as she recovered, but then her muzzle scrunched up as she breathed through her nose and smelled a putrid scent coming from Swampfire. Luna quickly covered her nostrils with a hoof and said. "Pardon me Lincoln, but you completely stink."

Swampfire sighed in response and nodded. "Yeah, that's the methane." Right as Swampfire said that, suddenly more vines identical to the ones that just wrapped up Luna came into the room through the walls. "Run!"

Luna didn't need to think twice as she and Swampfire quickly ran out of Luna's bedroom with the vines hot on their trail. "What are these things?!" Swampfire asked as he threw a fireball at the vines chasing them.

"We don't know!" Luna said, using the royal we now. The Princess of the Moon took a look back at the vines chasing them and narrowed her eyes at the strange plants. "They-they look like the plants from the Everfree forest!"

"Everfree forest?" Swampfire questioned as he threw more fireballs at the incoming vines. "But thats all the way in Ponyville, how did they here?"

"We're afraid we don't know the answer." Luna stated as they kept , Luna eyes then widened as something in particular came to her head. A memory from a long time ago. "Unless…"

"Unless what?" Swampfire asked as he and Luna turned at a corner.

"...We have to get to Ponyville and get to Twilight and her friends." Luna answered Swampfire as he simply nodded in response. Considering the situation they were in, he wouldn't ask for a detailed explanation.

But as they were running, Swampfire suddenly stopped and face palmed. "Hold on, Swampfire can control plants." The Methanosian then smirked and turned around at the incoming plants and held his hands out. "Stop!"

However, to Swampfire's surprise, the Everfree vines didn't listen to him. Swampfire's eyes widened a bit as her made a 'shooing' motion with his hands. "Hey! I said stop!" but the vines kept coming. "Ok, why isn't this working?"

"Lincoln! Look out!" Suddenly Luna's magic covered Swampfire as the Lunar Princess pulled Swampfire away before the vines could reach him.

The two began running again as Swampfire turned to Luna and asked. "Why wasn't that working?" The plant-like alien asked as he went back to shooting fire at the vines. "Swampfire should be able to control plants."

"The Everfree forest is an uncontrollable place of chaos and unpredictability." Luna told Swampfire as they made a left turn in the halls. "It's incredibly difficult for any one being to control that forest."

"Great." Swampfire groaned sarcastically. "Can't anything be easy?"

"It would appear no." Luna said as she was forced to stop as she and Swampfire looked forward to seeing a dead-end right in front of them. "We're trapped!"

"Dang it!" Swampfire growled as they both turned around to see all the vines in front of them and were starting to approach. Swampire through a barrage of fireballs at the incoming vines, and while he was successful in burning away that vines he hit, almost immediately more vines would come to replace the ones Swampfire burned.

Swampfire growled as he and Luna were forced to back to the wall. As the vines approched, Swampfire narrowed his eyes at the vines as he suddenly grabbed Luna. "Hold on tight!"

"Wait! What are you doing?!" Luna yelled in fright in surprise as Swampfire slapped the Ultimatrix symbol and was covered in a green flash and transformed into-

"Big Chill!" Once transformed, the Necrofiggian held on tight to Luna and started flying right at the vines.

Luna's eyes widened when she saw that they were approaching the vines that were chasing them. "Lincoln, what are you doing?!" Luna yelled but didn't get an answer as Big Chill kept flying. "Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Sto-"

But Luna was suddenly cut off as Big Chill went intangible and spread it to Luna and the two ended up flying right through all the vines that were after them. Big Chill didn't stop there as he quickly flew upward through the ceiling of the hall they were in and kept going till Big Chill flew himself and Luna right out of the castle.

Luna hesitantly opened up her eyes and looked in surprise to see she and Big Chill were now outside the castle. "Well...I guess that worked." The Lunar Princess said in surprised as she looked down at the castle.

"Uuuuh, Luna. You might wanna look at this." Big Chill said in a slightly shocked tone.

Luna looked up and her eyes widened at what she saw. "The sun and moon are out!" The Lunar Princess yelled in shock as both the sun and moon were out causing one side of Equestria to be stuck in the day and the other to be stuck in the night.

"Now, I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure that's not normal." Big Chill said as he looked back at both the sun and moon in the sky.

"No, it's not." Luna said with narrowed eyes. "First the Everfree forest attack the castle and now this. Something is definitely wrong, quick, we need to get to Ponyville, and fast."

"Roger!" Big Chill said as he let go of Luna and the two of them proceeded to fly to Ponyville to get help from the Mane 6.


GOLDEN OAKS LIBRARY

"Well, then it seems we've reached an impasse. I'm telling the truth, but you think I'm lying. What do friends like us do in a situation like this?" Discord asked as he faced the mane 6.

Currently Ponyville was facing the chaos of the Everfree forest themselves as black vines with blue thorns grew all throughout the town and covered all the houses and structures in ponyville.

When this started happening, the Mane 6 quickly got together to try and solve what was going on while also avoiding the vines from attacking them. Put once Twilight put everything that was happening together, she could only think of one possible explanation for this.

Discord.

However, the Spirit of Chaos was claiming he was innocent in all of this. Stating he had nothing to do with the strange occurrences...despite rather enjoying the look of everything.

While most of the Mane 6 didn't believe his claims, there was one pony who spoke up for Discord. "Um, well, what if he's telling the truth." Fluttereshy spoke up as she faced her friends.

"Finally, somepony willing to give me the benefit of the doubt." Discord cheered as he faced the rest of the Mane 6. "You know you all could learn a thing or two about friendship from my dear friend Shuttershy here."

"Um, it's Fluttershy." Fluttershy quietly corrected.

"Yes, whatever." Discord shrugged as she pulled Fluttershy close to his with his eagle arm.

"Hey guys! Look out below!" A familiar voice was heard from above everypony. The mane 6 and Discord looked up and saw Big Chill and Princess Luna flying towards them. The ponies all gasped as they backed up and made room for the two to land.

Once they landed, Big Chill hit the Ultimatrix symbol and turned back into human and said to everypony. "So...I like what you've done with the place."

"Agreed." Discord said as Lincoln turned back to see that he was here as well.

"Lincoln! Princess Luna!" The Mane 6 said as they approached the two.

"I'm glad to see you're all ok." Luna said as she looked at each of the mane 6. Luna then look a look around the town and saw vines identical to the ones that were trying to capture her all around Ponyville. "I see the Everfree forest has invaded here as well."

Twilight's eyes widened at hearing Luna said that as the purple Alicorn asked. "You mean it's happening at Cantorlot as well."

"Yeah, the vines tried to take Luna while we were there." Lincoln said making everypony gasp in concern as they looked to Luna with the Moon Princess nodding in confirmation.

"Well, don't worry Princess, because we just found the culprit!" Rainbow Dash said as she pointed a hoof at Discord.

Discord scoffed and crossed his arms while looking away from Rainbow. "Now how many times do I have to tell all of you that it wasn't me for you start believing me?"

"I'm afraid I must say he's correct." Luna said while gesturing her head to Discord.

Everypony's jaw dropped in response as they all yelled out a "WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!" All with the exception of Fluttershy who smiled a bit in response.

"Ha! I told you it wasn't me!" Discord said while pointing a finger at everypony before snapping his fingers making a pair of 'Deal with it' sunglasses appear on him and crossing his arms with a smug smile on his face.

"But, but, but, but, if it isn't Discord then who is it?" Rarity asked in a completely confused tone.

"Do you know what's going on Princess?" Applejack asked as she stepped up to Luna.

Luna nodded her head in response as she faced the mane 6. "Yes, I believe so. There's a bit of a story behind it so listen closely." Luna instructed everypony.

"Oooo! Story time!" Pinkie said as she laid down on her belly and looked at Luna with sparkles in her eyes.

Luna took a deep breath before she began telling everypony the tale.

"Over 1000 years ago, Equestria was in a state of chaos and disharmony brought on by Discord. Ponies were in a state of misery as Chaos spread widely throughout the land without any hope to stop it."

"So far so good." Discord commented with a smirk as he munched down on some popcorn. Luna gave Discord a light glare for a brief second before continuing.

"Me and my older sister tried everything to put a stop to Discord, but his powers were too much for us to handle. When all hope was lost, we suddenly heard of one thing that might be able to put a stop to Discord and his Chaos...The Tree of Harmony."

Everypony's eyes widened when they heard Luna said that was they all looked to each other. "I've...never heard of the Tree of Harmony before." Twilight said as she's never once heard of anything with that name despite all the books she's read.

Luna nodded in understanding as she said. "Yes. It was never recorded, and my sister and I thought it was best to keep it secret." Luna then cleared her throat as she continued her story.

"So, me and my sister traveled deep into the Everfree forest and managed to find the tree. Within the tree, we found the elements of harmony. And with their power, we were able to put a stop to Discord and his chaos and free Equestria."

"Another happy ending!" Pinkie cheered as she jumped back up.

Discord rolled his eyes in response and said. "Yes, I still have the souvenir picture." The spirit of Chaos then snapped his fingers and a photo of him being turned to stone for the first time appear in his hand. "You think they would have at least gotten my good side."

Luna rolled her eyes in response as she turned back to everypony and stated. "I fear that the reason for the Everfree forest behavior is that the Tree of Harmony's magic is finally near depleted after all this time."

"Huh, 1000 years without its power source." Lincoln muttered as he crossed his arms. "Impressive battery life."

"Wait...the Tree of Harmony is...in there?" Fluttershy squeaked as she pointed her hoof to Everfree forest itself which looked more chaotic than it ever has.

"Oh dear…" Rarity said as she quickly latched onto Applejack.

"Well, guess we're going in to find a tree." Rainbow Dash said as she started flying towards the forest.

But before Rainbow could get far however, she was stopped as Princess Luna caught her in a magical grip. "I'm afraid it's not quite that simple Rainbow Dash." Luna told the Blue Pegasus as the Princess brought Rainbow back to the group. "If we want to return the tree to normal, then...we'll need to put the elements of harmony back into the tree."

Everypony slummed down once they heard that. They need the elements...and they didn't have them. "Great time for us to give them up huh?" Applejack said sarcastically.

"Well...Celestia might have them." Pinkie Pie said while rubbing the back of her head and looking at the ground.

"Great, just greeeeeeat." Twilight grumbled and she rubbed her head.

"Well this is certainly going to be awkward." Discord said before smirking at the audience. "I better get my camera."

"Ok look, I'll go get them from her." Lincoln said to calm everypony down and to just get this over with. "I'll just keep it professional, get the elements, then we can put them back on the tree and everything is back to normal. You all just stay here and help anyone that might be in...hey wait a minute, where's Spike?"

"Oh, I told him to stay inside." Twilight said while gesturing to the library. "I figured it was safer for him there."

"Ok, well the vines are vulnerable to fire so you're gonna need him." Lincoln instructed as he looked to the mane 6. "You all focus on helping out anyone that might be in trouble or trapped. I'll get the elements and be back as soon as I can."

Everypony nodded at Lincoln's orders as a certain Lunar Princess walked up to the human. "I'd better go with you." She said making Lincoln turn to her with a raised brow. "I...I know where my sister is. It's somewhere safe where the forest most likely couldn't get to her and you won't be able to find it without me."

"You sure?" Lincoln asked as he figured that Luna probably wouldn't be too thrilled about seeing Celestia again.

Luna took a moment to take a deep breath before nodding. "Yes. It's for the good of Equestria." Luna told Lincoln while looking in his eyes. "Come, we must head back to the castle posthaste."

"Lead the way." Lincoln said before using the Ultimatrix to turn back into Big Chill and following Luna back to the castle in Cantorlot.


Once the two of them made it to the castle, they saw Everfree vines all over the place and all heading in one direction. Most likely looking for both Celestia and Luna. Speaking of which, with Luna back in the castle the vines constantly tried to move in to try and take her, but luckily Lincoln simply turned into Heatblast and easily burned away any vines that tried to grab the night princess.

So, with Heatblast easily able to take care of the Everfree vines that head their way, they simply followed where a majority of the vines were heading. And where that led was the Cantorlot castle library and once there they saw a giant wall of vines pile up against one particular bookshelf in particular with everything else in the library being untouched. Luna sighed sadly at where all the vines were. "I knew it." The Night Princess muttered quietly.

"What about it?" Heatblast asked with a confused tone.

"Well…behind that bookshelf is a bit of…private study room I guess you could say." Luna explained as Heatblast burned a vine that tried sneaking up on Luna. "My sister explained it to me shortly after I returned from the moon. She set it up as a sort of…get away room. She placed a number of enchantments on it such as defensive enchantments to keep it hidden which is probably why the Everfree vines can't make their way in. She explained to me how to open it in case I ever wanted to use it as she's told me that she hasn't used it in quite some time for some reason."

"Well then let's get it open." Heatblast said as he aimed his hands at the vines covering the wall and shot out two streams of fire at the Everfree vines. In a manner of seconds, the vines trying to get past the bookshelf were turned to nothing but ash. "Alright, you're up."

Luna nodded in response as she used her magic to rearrange the books on the shelf to a specific order. Once that was done, the shelf shook a little bit before lowering itself and revealing a door. Just then they heard and felt rumbling and looked back to see a swarm of vines approaching them. "Open the door! Quick!" Heatblast told Luna as he blasts the vines with more fire.

Luna quickly nodded as she used her magic to open up the door that led to a staircase. "Get in! Quick!" Luna said as she went inside. Heatblast fired one more fireball at the coming vines before quickly get inside the door. Once Heatblast was inside, Luna quickly shut the door.

Once both were safe inside, they both breathed a sigh of relief as Heatblast changed back into Lincoln. "Well…that was a close one." Lincoln said as Princess Luna nodded in agreement.

"Indeed." Luna said before looking down at the descending stair and taking a deep breath. "Well…let's get this over with." And with that said, the two started walking down the stairs to the secret study room.

It was about 10 minutes worth of stairs before they finally reached the bottom and the door leading to the study room. Lincoln said and bent down a little with his hands on his knees and complained. "Why do…secret rooms…always have…so much stairs."

Luna didn't respond. She simply starred at the door in front of her with a saddened frown. Luna swallowed a lump in her throat before she used her magic to slowly open the door a crack and peek her head inside.

She saw the room had a few bookshelves covered in dust, some furniture that was wrapped up in plastic a few other dusts covered items. And at the end of the room was a desk along with a plastic covered chair that was facing away from the door. "Sister…" Luna called out to quietly. "Are you in there?"

She didn't get an answer. But she swore she heard the sound of gulping coming faint from the other end of the room. Luna groaned quietly before fulling opening the door to allow herself and Lincoln to enter the room completely.

When Lincoln entered, he look a look around the room for himself before feeling his fit lightly hit something. Lincoln looked down to see an empty green bottle on the floor and went down to pick it up to saw that it was an empty bottle of wine. "Oh boy." Lincoln sighed as he already started to put together what this meant.

Luna herself looked across the room and saw a pile of empty trays that had crumbs and frosting on them showing they used to have cake on them. Not only that, but on the other side of chair was a large pile of empty green bottles identical to the one Lincoln picked up. "S-Sister…" Luna stuttered out in a worried tone.

Just then Luna and Lincoln headed over to the chair behind the desk. They saw a familiar looking tail and mane coming from the other side of the chair. Luna then reached a hoof out and turned the chair around and-

"Sister!" Luna gasped out as Lincoln's eyes widened at what he saw. "What…what's happen to you?" Lincoln didn't notice but Luna's tone sound…worried for her sister.

Sitting in the chair was none other then the Princess of the Sun Celestia. But similar to Luna, one would be extremely surprised to see Celestia in the state she was in. Her mane and tail and were no longer sparkling and constantly flowing in a nonsexist wind and were know extremely unkept and messy. The Solar Princess's eyes were red and puffy along with bags under them and in her hoof, she held a opened bottle of wine that was half empty. Celestia's cheeks were an extremely bright shade of pink along with her muzzle being covered in cake crumbs and frosting. To be blunt, she looked like a wreck.

A few seconds after Luna said that, Celestia slowly looked up and looked her little sister in the eye…and started laughing. "Hehehe, oh hiiiiiii Lu-HIC-Lunaaaaaa. Whaaaaat are yoooooou, HIC, doing, HIC, here?"

"Tia…" Luna said quietly with a worried frown as Celestia kept laughing and hiccupping without a care in the world.

"Aaaaaaaaand she's completely hammered." Lincoln said sarcastically as even a blind person could see that Celestia was beyond drunk.

"Sister…what are you doing to yourself?" Luna asked in a saddened and worried tone.

"Whaaaat do you meeeeean, HIC, Lulu?" Celestia said in a way to happy tone. "I'm jusht, HIC, I'm jusht walking on, HIC on shunshine like I always do."

"Sister please." Luna persisted despite the state Celestia was in. Meanwhile Lincoln simply decided to stay quiet and lean against the wall and watch the conversation. "I need you to listen."

"Lishten?" Celestia questioned with a giggle. "That'sh funny don't, HIC, ya think. Hehe, I never lishten to you. That'sh my whole, HIC, thing, right? Being a big shister that doesn't, HIC, do a thing to help when her own little shister is feeling completely neglected, HIC, by the entire country."

Luna felt her heart sting a little at hearing her big sister say that and kept trying to snap Celestia out of her drunken state. "Sister please, you need to listen."

"Alright, alright." Celestia with a chuckle as suddenly used a free hoof to pull Luna closer to her. "Tell your horrible big, HIC, shister that did nothing but ignore you what'sh. HIC, wrong."

Luna winced at hearing Celestia berate herself like that but decided to get to the point. "Look, we need to help and tell us-"

But as Luna was talking, she was suddenly interrupted by Celestia. "Help? Hahahaha, oh no, no, no, no. I don't, HIC, help poniesh. I ushe them! Like pawnsh, HIC, on a chessh board. Afterall I've done nothing but hurt poniesh, HIC, right? I've shent you to the moon for 1000 yearsh just because I was an attention, HIC, hog. And I threw Shunshet Shimmer away like a piece of, HIC, trash all because she would be usheless to me and getting the, HIC, shishter I didn't pay attention to in the firsht, HIC, place back. And then I ushed Twilight, HIC, to get her back! Don't you love, HIC, the, HIC irony!"

Celestia then started to laugh and hiccup uncontrollably as Luna pried herself from her sisters grasp and gave Celestia a pained looked. "Please sister! Stop saying that!"

But right after Luna said that, suddenly Celestia laughs turn to sobs as Luna looked to see that her sister laid her head down on the arm on the chair and, while still having a dopey smile, had tears coming out of her eyes. "Tia…" Luna said quietly as she wiped away from tears on her sister's face.

"It really is ironic isn't it." Celestia sobbed up with a few hiccups following her sentenced. "I tried so hard to get my little sister back for century's, but I was the reason I lost her in the first place. All because I didn't look after and care for her back then." Celestia sobbed out as more tears came down her eyes. "What's the old saying? You don't know what you have until its gone? Hehehe…I guess it's true."

"Tia…" Luna slowly said as she just watched her sister cry and berate herself.

"And you know something, HIC, else?" Celestia as she took a swing from the wine bottle she was holding. "I've…I've always wanted a daughter. Not as an heir…but just a little filly to love, to take care of, to hold and cheer up when their sad, just to be a mother to." Celestia voice choked a bit as she continued. "I guess I was to stupid to see I had that…and what did I do with her…I just threw her away and broke her heart."

Luna was about to say something else but Celestia's sobs interrupted her as the sun princess said. "Why is it whenever I have family…all I ever can do is hurt them…"

Luna gave Celestia a sad and sympathetic look as she put a hoof to her sister's shoulder. "Celestia…" However, Celestia hoof came up and removed the hoof Luna put on her big sis as Celestia's sadness made her a little bit sober as she gained an expression that could only be described as completely depressed.

"What are you doing here Luna?" Celestia asked in a broken voice. "I didn't think you'd ever want to see me again."

Luna looked down in sadness as the Princess of the Night said. "The Everfree forest is attacking sister." Luna answered as Celestia never moved her head to look at her. "We need the Elements of Harmony. Do you have them?"

Celestia simply sniffled and said. "There in that chest over there." Celestia answered as she covered her face with her messy and dirty mane. "Please…just take them and leave."

Luna's heart stung greatly at hearing that as she tried to please to her sister. "Sister…"

"Please…just leave…" Celestia answered with a sob. "I don't wanna hurt you again."

Luna backed up when Celestia said that and simply lowered her head and started walk away. Luna took one more look at Celestia before walking over towards the wooden chest in the room. Opening it up, she saw all the elements of harmony were indeed inside and simply grabbed them all with her magic. Lincoln followed close behind Luna as they approached the door leading out of the study room.

Right when Luna opened the door to get out, she heard Celestia speak up one more time. "Maybe it's better if I just stay down here and rot…and least then I can't hurt anypony again."

Luna's heart clenched at hearing that as the Princess of the Night started shedding a few tears herself before she pulled Lincoln out of the room and closed the door.

Once they were outside, Lincoln looked to Luna with a concern expression and asked. "Are you ok?" with a tone that matched his expression.

"I don't know what's going on with me." Luna answered as she wiped away her tears and rubbed her head. "Just a few days ago, I would have said I was mad and didn't want to see her…but now…I don't know how I feel. I'm still angry at her but…I miss her…and…and…"

"You just can't seem to hate her right?" Lincoln finished for Luna.

"…Yes." Luna answered quietly with a nod.

"Yeah…I know the feeling." Lincoln responded as he leaned against the wall. "I have ten sisters and believe me they've all done things to really piss me off, but you can never seem to hate your family. No matter what you try and tell yourself." Lincoln said as Luna nodded slowly with agreement. "Besides, I'm far from a saint myself. I've done and frankly still kinda do selfish things at their expense. Guess it just comes with being a family huh?"

"I suppose." Luna said sadly as she looked at the door leading into the room Celestia was isolating herself in. "I…I wanna help her. Despite everything, she's still my sister…and I still love her."

Lincoln nodded at Luna as he said. "I'll help out anyway I can." The white-haired Loud boy told Luna as the Princess of the Night gave him a grateful smile. "But first, we gotta take care of the Everfree forest and the Tree of Harmony. Then we can do that."

"Right. Let's go!" Luna said as the two, with the elements on hand went back upstairs.


Now how was that for a chapter? I'm honestly really liking this the more and more I do it. I only just became a MLP fan this year but I'm just having a lot of fun with the show and this fic. I would honestly like do to the entire series of maybe even a sequel. What the sequel is about I think I'll just keep between myself and my best friend Petrus.

But I will say this I won't to every single episode. Manly flash back episode and other episodes I don't think I could fit Lincoln well enough into. Also episodes that just wouldn't make since to do in this fic in particular. For example, considering Rarijack is a thing in this story the episode Simple Ways really wouldn't make any sense.

So with all that said, remember to leave a fav, follow, and review and stay tuned for next time.