"What do you mean 'cancelled'?!"

"Wrong demographic my shapely pale flank! It's popular, isn't it? There's conventions and everything!" Celestia seemed apocalyptically angry, but quickly seemed to calm into a quiet state of acceptance. She sighed softly. "No, no, that isn't necessary. Yes, I'm well aware of who pays the bills and allows Equestria to exist." There was another pause. "It'll be done overnight tonight. I will see to it. Bye."

Celestia threw her headset off into the distance with her magic and a growl as the caller hung up. She sat down right where she was on the road and looked up at the moon in the night sky, lost in her own thoughts momentarily. She stood and looked back at the house behind her with heavy sigh before her horn glowed and she teleported away.

"Luna! We have a huge problem." She boomed as she reappeared in Canterlot Castle. She appeared in what looked like an audio/video room with dozens of monitors and a few computers.

"Holy-!" Luna gasped in surprise, nearly falling off the stool she was perched on. "Stop teleporting right beside me! You take a century off my life every time you do that!" she made a pouty face and put a hoof on her heart as she caught her breath. Her expression then brightened suddenly and she laughed. "Check this out. I call it 'The CMC Discover Rule 34'." She tapped the monitor of the computer she was at with her hoof. A still image of the Cutie Mark Crusaders looking at a computer screen with various levels of shock was shown. "Great, huh? I was about to upload it to Ponychan."

Celestia waved a hoof with an annoyed noise, not in the mood for that at the moment. "Luna, they pulled the plug." she said simply. "The network cancelled the show."

This time Luna did fall off her stool, landing on her back with a solid thud. She winced and got to her hooves again, stretching her wings out to make sure they were fine. "What? You can't be serious! It's popular, right? I mean it even has conventions and everything!"

"That's what I said!" Celestia growled as she sat down at the bank of television monitors that seemed to be hooked up to cameras within the cast house. "But they told me that it's not popular with the demographic they wanted, so they're going to reboot the show."

Luna hung her head, staring at the desk in front of her. "That's a load of horseapples. What are they replacing it with?"

"They're going to bring Posey, Gusty, Fizzy and the others out of retirement." The sun princess muttered as she looked over the happenings on the monitors. Rarity and Pinkie Pie were cooking up a storm in the kitchen, while the main centre of action seemed focused in the game room and the battle between Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

Luna couldn't help but snort a laugh at that. "Yeah, because that worked out so great the first time with them. That was cancelled after, what, two seasons?" That god a nod from her sister, but she decided her sarcastic commentary could not end there. "Let me see if I can remember the reason for that. Hmm. What could it have been? Oh yeah, epic lameness!"

"Well, regardless, it seems they have made their decision on this. It's to have the same fate." Celestia turned to look at Twilight Sparkle reading happily on her bed and felt her heart tighten. Twilight had become a true friend to her, just as she was made out to be on the show.

The dark princess scoffed once more. "But this show is awesome! They should just re-market it to the new demographic! They should embrace the new popularity, not run away screaming like an extra in those Japanese monster movies." She glanced up at her screen capture of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and sighed, before pointing at Celestia. "And I'm not just saying all this because I've gotten screen time for a change in this show. You know that."

Celestia nodded and sighed heavily, finally pulling her eyes off of the screens. "I know, sister, and that's not up to us. You know that, Luna. The network-"

"I know, I know." Luna cut her off with a stern tone. "You don't have to remind me."

There was a long silence between the two sisters with Celestia finally standing and beginning to walk around the room a little. "Dear sister, you and I have always been Yin and Yang to each other. Sun and moon, light and darkness, the beginning and the end." She turned to look at Luna with a genuine regretful look on her expression. "I created these ponies with my magic, it's what I do. The network, they don't even want to keep them around for the odd home movie release. They want them more than swept under the rug." She paused again, thinking of just how to say what she needed to say. "That means for the first time, Luna, you need to un-create them."

Luna's eyes widened at her sister's words. "Un-create, you mean..." she began, stumbling over her speech in shock. "You mean kill them! Don't you?!"

Princess Celestia paced around the room angrily and with more than a little frustration in her body language and tone. "That's a harsh term for it. It's just un-creating them with the opposite type of magic that I used to make them."

"The result is the same." Luna responded flatly. "Removing them from existence."

"What other choice do we have!?" Celestia shouted angrily. "We can't simply leave them be, or place them in the real world! Pegasi, Unicorns, talking ponies? Can you fathom what that would cause? They were created for the sole purpose of this show, they've never even seen the outside world. No one knows they are here, or knows of the house. No one will know." She said, sounding like she was trying to justify it to herself more than to Luna.

"But we will. We will know. And we will have to live with it. Can you truly deal with making such a decision in your heart?" Luna asked softly.

"I've already made it, sister. If we do not do as the network asks of us, they may very well pull the plug on the whole franchise. Ponyville, Canterlot, all of Equestria and the world as we know it could be gone. Is the risk of that really worth these group of ponies?" She looked back toward the monitors, seeing Pinkie Pie walking into the game room with a tray overflowing with snacks. "The network is just too powerful. I'm sorry, Luna." She turned sharply and moved to the door. She needed to get away form this now if she were to let it happen.

Luna stared at the ground in front of her for a few seconds, the ping of guilt already burning her. "When?"

"Tonight." Celestia responded quickly.

"Should we at least tell them?" the younger sister asked almost pitifully.

"And what would that accomplish, Luna? It would just cause distress and panic. Let them experience the remaining time they have in peace and calm." she then moved to leave once more.

"Celestia!" Luna called after her, desperation in her voice, and moving after her for a few hoofsteps. "There has to be another way!"

"If you can find another way that will still satisfy the network, then by all means." Celestia left then, and walked down the corridor in silence to her room.

Luna sat down heavily on her stool once more, feeling like she might be sick. "How can they ask me to do this, like... like it's my job?" she asked herself weakly. She blinked out a tear and let out a shaky breath as she looked back up at the screens, seeing the ponies go about their evening. "If I can find another way..." she reminded herself of her sister's words, beginning to think hard of a way, any other way to do what the network wanted.

She sat and watched the ponies go about their lives for hours. She watched the epic battle between Rainbow Dash and Applejack come to a high point and then finally end. The Cutie Mark Crusaders had gone to their clubroom and had fallen asleep in their beanbag chairs in the middle of planning their next attempts at getting their cutie marks. Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Applejack had all gone to bed, while Rarity was having a well needed soak in the hot springs. The only other ponies still awake were Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash who happened to be roommates. Twilight read at her desk and made the occasional note on some paper with her magic. Rainbow Dash, meanwhile, lay on her back on her bed and listened to music on large studio style headphones as to not disturb the studious unicorn next to her.

It hadn't worked. Luna, if anything, felt even more miserable about what she needed to do now. Her head hung low as if she had been scolded, and she swallowed hard, wincing at the pit she felt in her stomach. Finally, she picked her head up with a heavy sigh. "Alright, it is time." she allowed herself one last glance at the monitors. "This is the best that I could come up with. Please forgive me, girls." Luna closed her eyes and began to concentrate as she always did when she was casting a difficult spell. Her horn began to glow brighter and brighter and as she opened her eyes, they were like shimmering stars. The power increased so much that the princess levitated off of her chair, and finally released a great magical burst.