Dead Steed Redemption

                                                                         Dead Steed Redemption

By: Scootaloo the Endgame

Author’s note: Welcome reader. The story of which you are about to read is a fan fiction of My Little Pony: Friendship is magic and a cross between the famous Rockstar game Red Dead Redemption.

I hope you enjoy this unique combination, have fun reading.

Prologue

Before the days of civilization and order. Where madness, chaos and other insidious crusades plagued the corrupted land of Equestria, Discord the Lord of Chaos ruled with a tyrannical power far more powerful than any magic that could be conjured at the time.

    Tirion Hooves, was just a young colt, unicorn trying to scrape off what little he could use to survive with inside the dreaded wastes. He watched desperately as the power struggles between the unicorn high lord council and the unending legions of Discord’s minions showed no end in sight.

    Most don’t know a thing about the days before when Celestia and Luna had full control over the post-apocalyptic land which is now known as Equestria. This is mostly due to the undeniable fact that Celestia ordered a special group of royal guards that she could trust to burn any documentation of the time period and to make sure no pony speaks of the era again. If the information contained within those torched documents were to ever get out into Equestria’s new modern society, Celestia’s rule over all of Equestria would be threatened. For within those documents are every single atrocity Celestia and her warlords ever committed to gain and achieve ultimate power over Equestria.

    Well you’re probably wondering, what happened to Luna? Well Celestia lied and covered up many things about the situation involving Luna. One thing she didn’t lie about is the fact that she banished her to moon for what was supposed to be an eternity. That is fact. You can forget about all this she turned into nightmare moon on her own bullshit, and how she was sadden by how no pony appreciated her beautiful night, that is also just plain bullshit. What really happened is that Luna felt remorse and guilt for the atrocity’s that she had helped her sister commit. So she threatened to leave the Solar Empire and start the lunar republic if she did not change her truly insidious ways. And that she would also inform the unicorn high lord council of these terrible sins. Celestia had felt great fear for she knew she would lose her precious empire and be banished from Equestria more importantly there would be another kingdom for her empire to compete with, she couldn’t let that happen. So Celestia devised a plan to eliminate Luna… from all of Equestria.

    So within the following days when Celestia’s plan was perfectly pieced together she called Luna to the master’s terrace. When Luna arrived she was ambushed by Celestia’s warlocks. They quickly grabbed her and held her down with their overwhelming magic.

   Celestia approached her terrified sister, leaned in and whispered in her ear and said, “Did you really think I was going to let you go that easily?"

Luna tried to yell for help but was quickly suppressed by the warlock’s magic tightening its grip around her frail chest.

    “Why do you torture me like this sist-”, Celestia intervened in Luna’s weak statement and yelled in pure rage,

    “YOU FORCED THIS UPON YOURSELF, YOU INSIGNIFICANT TWIT.

    Luna’s eyes widened in a mix of shock and fear, Celestia turned her head away in shame for she could not bear to look at Luna or… herself. The warlocks stood motionless but ready for Celestia’s orders. Celestia’s lip began to quiver. She then turned to the warlocks and screamed,

    “WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, YOU MISREBLE FUCKS?! GET ON WITH IT”!

    “Yes your majesty”, the warlocks replied.

    One of the warlocks that wasn’t holding Luna stepped in front of her. His horn lit up with a dark and powerful magic he then slowly brought his horn to Luna’s head. When the horn met Luna’s head a blast of wind danced around the room as if they were in a cyclone, but the warlock was persistent and kept the horn close. The foul and corrupt magic began to poison and brainwash Luna’s already vulnerable mind. The small alicorn tried to fight back, but there was no use so Luna submitted to the magic’s embrace without a fight. When the spell cast was finally over, the wind ceased and silence grew upon the chaotic site. Luna fell unconscious after the spell cast as planned by Celestia.

    So Celestia leaned in once again and whispered, “When you wake you will be known as…”

    Celestia paused then thought for a moment, but before she could clearly gather a name for the newly corrupted Luna one of her trusted guards ran into the room. He took a few deep breaths in as if he had galloped the whole way to the terrace.

    “Yes”, Celestia hissed.

    His eyes were now flushed with fear, but without hesitation the guard dug his mouth into his saddle bag and took out a few pieces of a full body armor suit.

    “Sorry for the delay your majesty, the blacksmith needed a little more time to make the armor since it was such a short notice”

    Celestia replied with a sigh of disgust “I don’t give a fuck about that useless peasant, but if he screws up again it’ll be his head. Now make haste and put the armor on her before she gets up."

    The warlocks lifted her body and stood her straight up like a mannequin. The guard did as planned and slowly put the armor on what seemed like the corpse of Luna. The guard seemed baffled

    “Did you kill her”, he questioned.

    “No, she is very alive”, Celestia replied.

    She then watched carefully as the guard slowly placed every single piece of armor on her sleeping sister. When the task was finally complete the guard stepped aside and stood at attention.

   “The task is complete your majesty. Any last requests?"

    Celestia walked over to Luna’s levitating body and began to inspect it as if it were a work of art. She glared at every detail within the armor then turned to the guard still waiting in anticipation for his next task. She put her hoof up

    “That would be all, you may carry on with your nightly patrols."

    Then she did a swinging motion with her hoof as if to shoo him away.

    “As you wish your majesty”,

    he then turned and ran away with a sigh of relief. One of the warlocks spoke from within his dark and tattered cloak.

    “What do you plan on doing with her… your majesty?"

    Celestia could hear tension in the young warlock’s voice, but ignored it. She then began to ponder the idea for brief moment, she had never put any true thought into where she should put the newly corrupted Luna. She began to pace around the terrace until finally she stopped and stared at what seemed to be a perpetual midnight. The blanketing stares danced above her head and silently flowing mane. Suddenly a devilish grin engulfed what used to be Celestia’s trembling lip. Her eyes immediately darted to the moon… she had an idea. This idea was irregular for it hit her foul and sinister mind like an ocean wave, sucking all her attention and imagination to the dry and forgotten shore until finally they are sucked and compacted too closely together that they eventually explode into a tidal wave of nightmarish thoughts. Celestia then turned her mentally constructed plan into a reality by slowly, but confidently walking toward Luna’s body.

    The maniacal alicorn aimed her horn at her savagely betrayed sister and began to cast what seemed to be an overwhelmingly powerful spell. Sparks from Celestia’s horn began bounce madly all around her and the spectating warlocks. The unicorn warlocks had never seen such immense power in all their studies of magic. They knew she was powerful, but they had thought her endless energy and endurance to cast spells far more advanced than their own was only but a myth… they were wrong. As Celestia’s spell was almost completely charged to its maximum proportion,

    Celestia yelled at the top of her lungs, “WELCOME TO HELL… NIGHTMARE MOON!"

    Suddenly a large shadowy bolt of uncontrollable magic ejected itself from her horn and dashed straight for Luna. BOOM! The bolt violently exploded causing a massive shock wave to creep across the floor as if a living embodiment of destruction itself. Darkness slowly cascaded around the room as the remnants of blast turned into a faint echo. Celestia was then thrown back a few feet but managed to stay on her hoofs. She took a few deep breaths, and waited for the smoke and the magic residue to clear away. An awkward silence hovered above the disaster area as the smoke and magic residue emptied itself out the window.

    She began to slowly limp toward where Luna’s body once levitated with a trail of skeptic thoughts stalking close behind. Though before she could examine the terrace any further she looked to her sides only to see the warlocks thrown over debris and crushed under the remaining intact furniture. Not even bothering to give the crippled warlocks any sympathy at all she continued her search and looked ahead of herself only to see that Luna had disappeared. Her eyes widened with the slight feeling of success mixed with dark emotions of pure evil.

    She turned around and began to limp back to the night sky from outside the terrace. Celestia began to search the heavens hastily, looking for a distinct sign until finally her eyes bolted to the moon only to see it twinkling violently. Astonishingly a sly grin crawled up Celestia’s scratched and bruised face.

She mumbled faint but clear words, “The lunar banishment is complete."

That is what really happened to Luna. She was forced into nightmarish state by the warlock’s foul grip on Luna’s young, but weak mind. Now because of Celestia she must now bear the name of Nightmare Moon for an eternity. Do you now see how corrupt Equestria really is? There are many more examples of Celestia’s madness in later history. As for Discord, even I don’t know his sinister origins.

I wasn’t joking; literally everything you know is a lie. Well seeing how you're caught up with the truth, let’s get on with the real story.