Chapter one - Luna's new responibility
Chapter one - Luna's new responibility
999 years ago
Princess Luna looked around the large, open cave. "This..." Princess Celestia, who stood beside her sister on one of the high metal belconys, started to say. "This is the Magic Factory, and you are now in charge of it Luna."
Luna looked at her older sister with shock and suprise. "Why me sister? Their must be somepony else who could do a better job runing this than me.. Like you!"
Celestia shook her head as she replyed, "I already over see the secret Rainbow Factory." Celestia extended a wing over her sister. "Besides, i know you will do an amazing job."
Turning around and walking into the room behind where the sisters where just standing, Celestia used her magic to pull a large rolled up scroll from a shelf beside a large dark maple wod desk. Unrolling the scroll, Luna saw that it was a map of the whole factory. "This is just a map of the main work floor as well as the hallways that are under this floor. "Here," Celestia pointed her hoof at a large open part that Luna asumed was the large cave area they had just been standing above. "Is the work floor. The scientist's here create and test new spells on subjects."
Luna looked up at her sister in horror as she finished her simple statment. "Why would we use them as test subjects?! Why is something this horrible happening to other ponyies!?"
Celestia didnt flinch at Luna's words but instead simple said "The unicorns that preform the tests have to cast a spell everytime before hand so they wont be affected. And the test subjects that we use are ponys and peagus that have comited crimes so their deaths wont be on our hooves." Luna still didn't look convinced so Celestia continued. "Besides, the death rate here is very low. For every 500 experiemnts, only one or two deaths occure." Celestia contuned explaining the different areas of the factory. After another half hour of exploring the Magic Factory, the two sisters where once again standing on the metal belcony.
"So Luna, what do you think now that you know a bit more about this place." Princess Celestia questioned her younger sister.
"I.. I guess i can do it. But when the time comes, I will most likely pass it on to somepony else." Princess Luna said to a nodding Celestia.
"I understand sister, i would perfer if that somepony was an alicorn and that i too agreeded that they could do the job." Luna nodded along with her sister in agreement but kept her thoughts to her self. And may that somepony be strong enough in heart to do this job as I am not as strong as I thought myself to be.
And with that thought in mind, Luna bid her sister good bye as she teleported back to the castle before trotting back into the office and sitting down on the black leather chair. Studing the map her sister had given her once again, Luna used her magic to pour herself a small glass of hard cider. It was gonig to be a long night.
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"Good morning miss- i mean Princess Luna!" A black unicorn mare with a lovely deep green mane greeted Luna when she trotted to the experiment portion of cave. "What can I- I mean, what can we do for this this evening?"
Luna cast a quick glance around before leaning in close to the unicorn and whispering "Meet me in my office in 10 minutes" into her perked ears. Not waiting to see the mares facal reaction, Luna turned and trotted to an open area of the cave and spread her wings. With a short but powerful whosh, she flew the short distance up to the belcony outside her office.
"I know, i know, 'A Princess will use her royal wings in that of an emergancy.' " Luna muttered to her self, mocking her elder sisters voice. Besides Luna thought. Had i walked up the stairs like a normal pony or unicron, i would have arrived up here at the same time as that other mare and would be out of breath! How can i have a professional talk with somepony else when im almost out of breath?! Luna worried to herself as she finished the remaining hard cider in her glass.
Ten minutes later, a slight knock on Lunas office door told her that the mare she had spoken to had arrived. Using her magic, Luna opened the door. "Come in, Come in." She said to the nervious looking unicron. Motioning to one of the two fully fluffed chairs in front of her desk, Luna watched the pony as she sat down and looked around. "Im guessing your wondering why I called you here...." Luna started before leaning on the desk and looking the unicorn in the eyes.
"I called you here because im curious about your experiments and want to become involved in them." The mares mouth hung open as she attempted to say something, but only came out as unauditable sounds. "Im just curious!" Luna said as she waved a hoof back and forth in a reassuring motion.
Collecting herself, the mare opposite Luna spook. "Your a princess... I-if an experiment happened to go wrong while you where near it, Maker almighty, Your sister, Princess Celestia would surely send us to the Moon- or the Sun!"
Luna closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair, rubbing her temple with a hoof. "My dear sister will know that it is due to my own will that i will be helping with the experiments." Opening one eye, Luna looked at the unicorn before her. "Besides, it will give me a change to become more aquianted with the workers here." Letting her hoof drop from her foarhead and opening her other eye, Luna studied the mare before her. "If i may ask, who are you?"
The unicorn before Luna shifted in her seat a tad uncomforable.
"Chrysalis. Dr. Q.Chrysalis. Everyone just calls me Dr. Chrysalis" The mare said as a lose piece of hair fell inbetween her eyes to witch she blew it out of the way in a tad of annoyance.
"I look forward to working with you, Dr. Q.Chrysalis.. Dr. Chrysalis." Luna said as she held out her hoof to shake with the other mare.
When Dr. Chrysalis and Princess Luna shoke hoofs, both mares felt a mutual eagarness to start the experiments that neither of them would every think could compleatly change their lives forever.
Author's Note
Hello! This is my first ever story/chapter post ever so please bear with me as i work on it when i have the time. School will be starting up soon for me so i will be busy so the new chapters will come at odd times. Sorry about that but i can get very busy with everything!
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Chapter two - First impressions say a lot!
"This here is Tea Leaf, she's in charge of spells and potions that involve altering the state of food or creating it out of thin air-" Dr. Chrysalis said before a high pitched mares voice cut her off.
"We're still working on that part," the unicorn mare turned around to face Dr. Chrysalis and Princess Luna. Her coat was a forest green with deep brown eyes and a black mane that was styled in a sort of Chinese fashion. Her horn was glowing black in a magical aura while it levitated a clip board and pencil. On the work bench in front of her sat multiple test tubes and plates with all kinds of food.
Dr. Chrysalis cleared her throat. "Tea Leaf, this is Princess Luna. She will be supervising the whole factory, but will be working here in the lab with us."
Tea Leaf didn't bat an eyelash at the news, but instead turned around and went back to her work. Before any of the mares behind her could say anything, Tea Leaf said over her shoulder, "I don't need any more help in this department."
Luna looked at Dr. Chrysalis in confusion who just whispered in the Princesses ear "She's not very talkative and prefers to work alone."
Leading Luna away from the working anti-social mare, they trotted to many other sections of the laboratory and Luna was introduced to the mares and stallions of the different departments of the lab.
Golden blitz was a white stallion with a shining yellow mane who was working on spells and potions that would give unicorns (and earth ponys or pegasus with enough bits to buy the potion) an advantage to sports on the ground or strength boosters for laboring ponys. Golden Blitz called his area of the lab the "Need for Speed" area (1)
'Mamma' Tea Pot (2) work on spells that helped with cleaning faster than doing it yourself. She was on if the oldest ponys in the lab, and with her white mane in a loose bun and half moon glasses that sat on the edge of her nose didn't help hide that fact. "I know that moving a feather duster with your own magic is easy enough, but with this new spell, the feather duster will move on its own!"
Dr. Chrysalis steered Luna away from the elderly mare as she continued to ramble on about what her spells would do and how wonderful they would be. "She likes to talk," Dr. Chrysalis said as she looked back at the still talking mare. "A lot."
Creepy crawly, or 'bumble bee' as everypony had nicknamed him who is in charge of the more fun and prank playing spells, wasn't as creepy as Luna expected. His yellow coat seemed to glow (3) despite his black mane as he hopped around the corner of the lab he had claimed as his own. Bright mulch-colored streamers where hung from the rocky walls and ceiling, brightening up the place. Unlike all the other ponys lab coats, his was brightly colored and almost seemed to change colors ask he talked. The stallion noticed that Luna's eyes kept wandering towards his lab coat. "In case you were wondering, this is a 'mood coat'. When my mood changes, the colors of the coat change." He said with a grin. "And since I'm really happy right now" Bee leaned in and whispered in Luna's ear "because I'm going to be getting more funds for my party experiments," he than leaned away and raised his voice back to its normal volume "it changes colors at random! I love it!" Bumble Bee started to jump on the spot again. Luna just smiled at his enthusiasm.
"Sapphire, this is Princess Luna." Dr. Chrysalis said to the mare concentrating on doing her mane in a new fashion. Sapphire, a blue coated mare with a navy blue mane was working on styling her mane in front of a floating bejeweled hoof mirror. The light blue magical aura that was doing the mares mane disappeared and she turned around. Luna held in a gasp. The mare was defiantly younger than Luna, but she could almost pass as a twin. While Luna has a slightly darker coat and lighter mane, Sapphires was the opposite. "Sapphire here works in the miscellanies department of the lab along with myself and a few other individuals. We work on spell and potion requests as well as our own experiments." Dr. Chrysalis said in a 'matter of fact' tone. Before sapphire of Luna could say anything more, Dr. Chrysalis ushered Luna on to the next area of the lab saying 'its almost time for lunch'.
"Oh how nice it is to finally meet you! Word of your arrival has spread like the pledge in the middle of summer all across the lab." A tanned orange stallion with a brown mane greeted Luna as they arrived in at his area in the lab not too far away from Bumble Bees corner. "I am Dr. Stephan Twig Van Cope. Everyone calls me Dr. Stethoscope for short my dear."
"That's not the only short thing about you, Twig!!" Sapphire muttered very loudly from the lab area beside Dr. Stethoscope, who started to blush. The sounds of unicorns working on spells and potions was replaced with snickers and some ponys saying 'Ooh'.
Bumble Bee pulled his head out of a cannon he was working on with a large grin on his face turned to face Dr. Stethoscope and Sapphire. "Did I just hear a comeback from our little timid gem, Sapphire?!" He yelled. Before anypony could say anything, a loud bang blast through the air, followed by confetti and streamers.
"I almost had this potion perfected Bumble Bee!" A scientific stallion yelled.
"I just finished cleaning my lab!" Mamma yelled as if she were yelling at a colt that walked through her living room with dirty hoofs.
"Just wait till I get my hoofs on you!" A black stallion close to Bumble Bee's lab muttered loudly.
Bumble Bee just laughed at everyone's angers shouts before yelling out "What's the fun with all work and no play? You ponys need to unwind a bit!" Before Bee could continue his small speech, Gramma throw a pot that just missed Bee, who had just fell to the ground in a laughing fit. As he rolled around on the ground, a few ninja stars just missed his laughing body by an inch. Everypony turned to see Tea Leaf balanced on one of the dividing walls that didn't touch the roof (4) with a bunch of ninja stars floating around her in her black magical aura. Her face showed only the slightest bit of emotion (5).
"Bumble bee..." Upon hearing his nick name, Bee looked up first a sly smile on his face. "You got confetti in my salad spell. Now I have to recreate it!" And with that, she leaped from top of one divider to another while ninja stars flew past her and towards Bee. Jumping up from his fallen position, Bumble Bee started to run around the lab, dodging the ninja stars that Tea Leaf was throwing at him as well as items other scientists hurled his way.
"Any way, Dr. Stethoscope here works on spells that doctors, physicians, dentists, and so on can use." Dr. Chrysalis said loud enough that Luna could hear her over the yells and sounds that Bee was causing in his wake.
"And as you can see, the lab can be very loud and busy at times." Dr. Chrysalis said as both mares stood outside of large twin metal doors, watching Bee run around the lab.
"Dear Queenie, have you forgotten to introduce me?" An amused and cunning voice said from behind them. Dr. Chrysalis sighed as they turned around. Standing in front of two closing metal doors, stood a brown stallion with a white mane. One of the things that seemed to pop out about the stallion before Luna was his horn, It seemed to be bent. A pair of strangely designed goggles rested over his eyes.
"Ah, you must be the delightful Princess Luna. I am more than please to make your acquaintance." The stallion said as he did a slight bow towards Luna. "I work alongside my dear Queenie here in the dreadful miscellanies department." The stallion said as he wrapped one of his front legs around Dr. Chrysalis's neck, who was leaning away from the stallion, ignoring the strand of hair that fell in between her eyes again.
Pushing away from the stallion, Dr. Chrysalis blew the piece of hair in between her eyes back. "You are in the presence of royalty and you have not yet removed your goggles or introduced yourself." Dr. Chrysalis said as she narrowed her eyes at the stallion.
"Oh dear heavens me, I am so sorry. Let me introduce my self properly." The stallion said as his white magical aura pulled the goggles down to the stallions neck. Luna tried not to back away or gasp as she looked into his eyes. His yellow and red yes. "The name my dear, is Discord." The stallion said with a sly grin.
Author's Note
- He claimed its because of all the speed spells he conducted, others clam it's because he's just slow in general.
- who is not at all related to Tea Leaf
- test gone wrong~!
- because the roof was so high up
- mostly anger. OK, a lot of anger. Steam was rushing out of her ears.
*NOTE* I just want to remind everyone that all the stallions and mares working in the lab as scientists are unicorns.
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