I began to wander the halls looking for anyone to 'tag'. Why I was even bothering I really don't know, but I may as well come off as nice and courteous as possible to these things. I was debating on whether or not to use my plasmids to help me 'tag' any of these ponies. Not many of them would really be useful, though scout would be incredibly so. Or I could always do the wait for passing prey trick thanks to my natural camouflage gene tonic. A combination of the two would also be nice, though slightly wasteful of my eve. Never know when I might need it.

I heard hoof steps and quickly got close to the wall and stopped moving. I heard the familiar sound that comes with turning invisible, and saw that it was Starswirl. His eyes were wide and alert. Just as he stood in front of me he stopped and sniffed. "Delta...I know you're here somewhere...you wouldn't do this to an old stallion...would you?" I poked his side and sprinted down the hall...no regrets! I heard a loud yell behind me. I turned down several corridors and quickly got horribly lost.

I came across a door that suddenly opened and I was pulled inside by a dark blue aura. "Shhh, he won't find us here." It was the second princess, Luna I believe was her name. She was sitting in the center of what looked to be a janitorial closet. We were in a very dark room and my lack of activity caused me to turn invisible. Her eyes widened up to the size of dinner plates. I then waved my hand and it wore off. "How did you do that? We didn't detect a magical presence when you disappeared."...I have no paper to write it down...crap.

I made a writing motion with my hands, hopefully she would understand. "You do it with writing?" God dammit. I tried a writing motion again, though this time after I did it I did a 'gimme' motion. "You do it by writing and dancing? I didn't see you dance." I saw a small smile on her face, she was messing with me, grand. So tempting to take off my helmet...so tempting. "Here." Her horn glowed for a second and suddenly a piece of paper as well as a quill and inkwell were in front of me.

+Thanks.+

"Not a problem. Sorry to drag you into this, I don't have to raise the moon for about another thirty minutes, so I thought to myself 'why not see if this thing can play tag' and you could!" She seems rather excitable, while saying that she put a hoof to her chin on the 'why not see if this thing can play tag' and suddenly her hooves exploded upward when she said 'and you could!'. "So how did you disappear?" Oh yeah...that. I wrote down the rather lengthy explanation on gene tonics and plasmids. Been here for...wait, how long was I out for after Celestia throw me all over the place? I guess I'll find that out later.

She suddenly had glasses on her face while reading my answer...where did the glasses come from? "Hmmm interesting...yes, yes. I recognize most of these words." I helmet palmed. I heard the sound of hooves hitting the ground. We both looked at the door. Her eyes were wide open and the irises were pinpricks. "We've been found." She hissed. The door slowly opened revealing none other than...Celestia? I heard a loud yell to my left, which just so happened to be where Luna was. I looked up to Celestia, normally this would not happen but I was sitting. She then put her right hoof up and touched Luna's nose.

"Tag." She had an enormous smile on her face. "Oh and it just so happens that the moon needs to be raised now." Luna had a rather sour look on her face. She grumpily got up and walked away. I decided to follow her. We walked silently, it was as though sound was dampened around her. We had reached the garden with the fountain, seemed as though I was going to be coming here a lot.

"Time for the night." A small smile met her lips as she looked to the sky. I looked up as well. I turned to her and saw that her eyes were closed. I looked back up. The moon was just meeting the horizon and several stars were coming out of the wood works, making themselves shine brilliantly. I looked back to the moon, it had moved at an alarming rate, now the bottom of the moon was just barely touching the horizon.

+It's beautiful.+ I would show her that when she had her eyes open.

"Thank you, I do try hard to make my night beautiful." She still had her eyes closed, and on top of it was looking up, how the hell did she do that?

+How did you know what I wrote down?+ She smiled a bit.

"Each star is like an eye for me, I can see all over Equestria right now. But no one can see me."

+Sorry, I didn't get that last bit, what did you say?+ She finally opened her eyes and looked at me, the moon was about a quarter of the way through the sky.

"Nothing, lets go back inside." She tossed her head towards the way we came. She had a look in her eyes that was full of melancholy...how do I know that word?

+If it's alright with you I would like to stay out a bit, it has been a long time since I have seen the night sky.+ She visibly brightened at those words.

"Sure!" She trotted over to the bench, her right fore hoof was high in the air for a while, then the left, and same with the back ones, it was a slow and happy walk. When she finally reached it she still had a large smile on her face, she looked to me expectantly. I walked over to the bench and sat down with her. She looked up to the sky, as did I.

"It's peaceful, isn't it?" I simply nodded in agreement. "What was the night sky like where you're from?"

+From what little I can remember, not much at all. We had stars, one moon. Though I don't think anyone raised them for us, I can't quite recall actually.+

"Heh. No one to move your celestial bodies. That would be weird. Even Discord moved them, but only when he felt like it." I wonder what exactly this Discord person is like?

Author's Note

I know it's short, but I wanted to put something out there. I promise one that is at least 2,000 words long next time, if I don't then...I don't know, Celestia'll throw a banana at my face I guess.