Noteably New Nobility

Sitting on one of her sister's golden chariots, waiting for all of the spells and her guard used to transport her, her mind wondered.

Sister, needs to calm down with the use of copper and gold, it’s starting to become rediculus, and it looks like our coffers are the ornate objects lining the walls! Hmm hopefully we can get some moonstone or some darker colors, I know that it is a gigantic display of power, but there is a line that needs to be drawn when buildings blind our ponies during the day. I do hope that some darker colors are reintroduced in future building projects. Those can be influenced if thee gives false hopes to some of the noble ‘brown muzzles’ that a few of the court guards whisper.

Thinking about it, my reintroduction has caused quite a stir. The implications of two more Alicorns could be completely catastrophic, or a highly potent boon for Equestria. If they are Alicorns what would they have power over, or master, to reach Alicorn? Would they contend for our positions as Diarchs? How would our ponies react to the introduction and reintroduction of three Alicorns? If the two come along without raising a blade at anypony, would we have to accommodate them at the new castle? If the two strike out at us, what will the appropriate counteraction be from My sister and me? We would be forced to use the Elements, but can the current Bearers use them at the right time?Hmmm... I do hope that the Elements shall not be abrasive with me once being their opponent and slightly insane.

“Princess Luna, we are about to begin our takeoff, if we follow the predicted time schedule, we will land in Ponyville within two hours.” A chariot-pulling Lunar Guard batpony said, bringing Princess Luna back down to earth.

“VERY WELL, WE DOTH NEED TO BE THERE, POST HASTE!” Luna said using the Royal Canterlot Voice.

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In Ponyville, batponies are a rare sight, they are only seen when a train from a large city, like Manehatten or Los Pegasus, stops in Ponyville to refuel or repair. Meaning, Star Gazer wasn't met with any open hostility, though interactions were plenty one sided. Thankfully obtaining 'traveling supplies' via 'haggling' from the market district was plenty easier with his large stature, his intimidating natural appearance, and a few well thought out words.

Resting on a park bench, he was eating something called a 'cupcake', which he got from a pink pony that was in a major rush, about a party of all things. Taking the last bite of the unnecessarily sweet 'cupcake', he was trying to think of something to do until it was time to meet up at the tree. An exclamation of “FOUND YOU!” from a very familiar polychromatic pegasus, hovering a few meters above him, snapped him out of his thoughts.

Not letting his pursuer's repeat mistake of letting the element of surprise go to waste, Star Gazer kicked off the bench and took to the skies, flying directly at her.

Not expecting the batpony to charge at her, she dove to get out of the way of the large stallion trying to do a literal flying tackle. Instead of following after her though, he continue to fly in the direction of town that was to her back. Angry that he tricked her by letting him get behind her, giving him a head start, she quickly did an Immelmane Turn to try to make up for lost time. To her enjoyment, she was proving why she owned the title as 'The Fastest in Equestria'. Rainbow Dash was easily catching up to the batpony, and she wasn't even at her max speed.

Star Gazer didn't miss the fact that his pursuer was catching up with just pure speed, so to level the playing field, he dove when he was over the residential district, and decended. Not one to give up, Rainbow Dash followed right behind him. He flew through multiple narrow alleyways, though to his disappointment, she didn't loose sight of himm. The Silver Lining was that she stopped gaining on him. Seeing an allyway that was a spiderweb of wires that had cloth draped from the wire, he flew into the allyway. Once in there, he flew like around erratically as he could possibly do without being tangled or being covered in the loose hanging cloth. Satisfied that he did enough, he flew straight up and landed on one of the rooftops with a view of the allyway, watching a pony sized, bundle of cloth bounce a few times into the street.

He wouldn't have been spotted, but sadly he was caught when a cloth pony bursted out of it's egg and stared up at his guffawing form. Realizing the chase was back on, he took to the skies, with his pursuer, being a bit more cross than he remembers, right behind him. With the good laugh putting him in an equally good mood, he decided to be a little risky, and fly at pony head level. With even more determination to chase after the pony that was laughing at her, and to not loose the obvious challenge to her skill, she flew down to the level that he was at. Feeling cocky, Star Gazer bobbed and weaved through groups of citizens, minding their own business, in the open streets they traveled. He eventually started to notice that the buildings were getting larger and stalls were starting to be seen, meaning they were entering the market, making him think, things are going to start being fun.

Heading into the heart of the mass of market stalls, Star Gazer flew through the cluttered stalls freaking out ponies, both owner and customer alike. Snatching the occasional bit of food, or object, Gazer tossed anything and everything back at his pursuer. He was also enjoying throwing a small wrench into random ponies' transactions, and one literal wrench back at his pursuer, which sadly missed. Though just looking back and seeing the enraged determination on his pursuer's face was fairly entertaining, he needed to end this chase, and he was feeling like he wanted to end it with a bang. Starting to fly upward to get a good enough look of his surroundings, he saw a fairly large, circular, garish, building covered with ponnequin. At the sight of the eyesore, he got an idea that might be considered 'ending with a bang' worthy, if he didn't mess up. He quickly beelined toward one of the building’s windows, and right before impact he folded his wings to his sides, shielded his face with his forarms, and crashed right on through.

Rainbow Dash was slightly winced at the damage done, and angered that she 'let' him go smashing into Carousel Boutique. So she flew right in, shortly behind her target. she landed inside the center of Rarity's Work Room, and quickly begun to scan the room, for anything that seems out of place, or a good hiding spot. Shortly though, she heard something move behind her, and as she was turning her head to see, she saw a pony go right out the window from the corner of her eye. A snide grin plastering her face, Rainbow Dash flew out the window to catch up. Looking everywhere around the buildings nearby she didn't see him any where. Letting out a shout of pure rage, she shot off as fast as she could trying to pick back up the trail.

A few seconds passed within the boutique, before a chuckle was let out by Star Gazer who put the pointlessly large hat and cloak back on the ponnequin. Looking out the broken window to not see his pursuer or anypony, he  brushed himself off and checked for the cuts he thankfully didn't get from the shards of glass. Doing a short hop out the window, he saw the ponnequin in the bushes that he through back out the window. Checking again that the polychromatic psycho wasn’t in eyesight or anypony else, he let out a less restrained laugh, while lazily walking back to the general direction of the town center. Still wondering what to do, he finally decided to go ‘borrow’ another pony’s coinpurse, and go sample something more complex than raw carrots, and something that wasn't as overly sweet as a 'cupcake'.

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    After nearly two hours, of searching the town, every pony in the mane six plus one spike, regrouped outside of Golden Oak Library.

“Sorry Twi’. Nothin' in at the residency district.” Applejack annoyingly huffed.

“Nothing near town hall girls.”  Twilight said with a few strands of hair gone astray.

“The brutes didn’t go back to my shop.” Rarity said grinding her teeth, over the damaged window, one of her male ponnequins being torn, her new work in progresses being roughed up, and a missing wall from the 'Cutie Mark Crusaders Window Repair'  debacle.

“I got nothing after seeing him the first time.” Rainbow Dash said irately, crossing her forehooves as she hovered.

“I, uh, didn’t see the two get onto a train.Sorry.” Fluttershy nearly whispered.

“Didn’t find any clue from the market, that Rainbow doesn't already know.” Spike said with a shrug, followed by a grumble from Rainbow Dash.

“Don’t worry Girls! I have great news!” Pinkie said excitedly.

“REALLY!?” Everypony shouted.

“YEAH! I have Princess Luna’s 'Congratulations-for-not-being-evil-anymore/Welcome-to-Ponyville/I-for-one-I-accept-our-new-Alicorn-Overlords' Party READY!” Pinkie jovially shouted as she tossed a hoof full of confetti into the air with a party horn sounded from no where. With an awkward silence resounding all around Pinkie, she looked around with a sheepish smile, ”Weeeell, we haven't tried Golden Oaks yet!” she said pointing a hoof at the door they all were standing next to.

“Pinkie that is ridiculous!” Twilight exasperatingly tried to explain, “Why on earth would two of the most powerful-”

Stopping Twilight mid-question, the library door slammed open with a large white unicorn stallion stand in the doorway, whom was extremely aggravated.

“WILL YOU QUIET DOWN?! This is a place of learning, and I am trying to use it to triple check that I am right about a seemingly impossible revelation that my friend and I are in... in...” With recognition and annoyance etched on his face, everypony present, plus one dragon, stood there in another awkward silence. The silence was quickly broken, when the alicorn slammed the door shut and shortly after the door let off a magical glow.

Pinkie spoke up after another short silence, “I may have an idea where one of them are.”

After pulling her forehoof away from her face, Twilight ran up to the door, extended her hoof and pulled on the door knob, and the door didn’t budge an inch. With a few more tugs on the handle, and a few grunts of growing annoyance, she grabbed the door with her telekinesis, and pulled as hard as she could exert, yet the door did not budge an inch.

“Did... did he just lock himself in my library!?” Twilight angrily questioned. Twilight quickly shifted from enraged confusion to a calmed down calculating expression after having a moment to herslef. After a few seconds  coming up with a plain, she spoke up. “OK... I suppose that we have to keep him from leaving the library until Princess Luna comes,so we can ascertain what he and his missing friend want, and where they came from. The library windows are opaque enough so he wouldn’t have enough of an accurate view of the outside to teleport away. So! For him to get away again, he needs to exit through the front door, which seems unlikely at the moment, or stand on one of the three balconies.

“If this is to work, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, I need you to carry Pinkie, to the top balcony, because he seems to be afraid of the Party Cannon for some reason. Once Pinkie is at the top of the balcony, take Applejack to either balcony, it doesn’t really matter which of the two, as long as you two can get up to the last, undefended, balcony before he gets there. Rarity, Spike, and I will make sure he doesn’t escape from the front, if he realizes the easiest and quickest ways out of there are blocked.”

With a nod of understanding from everyone, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash grabbed a giggling Pinkie and carried her to the top. Once Pinkie was dropped off, she pulled her cannon out from behind the mounted telescope, leaving a baffled and confused Twilight on the ground. Ignoring their friend’s usual shenanigans, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash flew down and picked up Applejack to place her down at the lowest balcony, and none too soon, for the Alicorn in disguise was seen through the glass door, to stop look at Rainbow, Fluttershy, and Applejack, for less than a second and continued running up the stairs. Not missing their cue, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flew up to the second balcony, just in time for them to discourage him from their balcony.

Climbing up the stairs to the top of the tree-library, Blueblood cursed his luck that the only six mares that know what he really is, are the ones he yelled at, and seem to be blocking him from leaving this library. Though respect where respect is due, the brains behind this is relatively quick to think this clever plan up, he admitted to himself. Looking up he saw that the stairs ended into a wooden door. Considering the last two exits, there is going to be a pony out there. So I’ll have to disable this next pony, though a shield spell sound like a good insurance plan.

He slowed down the ascent to the door to a walk, then a complete halt, a few feet in front of his exit. Raking his memory of spells that could handle something heavy duty, noticing that the door in front of him was solid oak, he thought of one good spell.

Deciding on what to do, his horn started to glow a bright Vermilion as he ripped the thick wooden door completely off it’s hinges, and magically reinforced it within a second of it being detached. He reflexively put his ears back, bracing for the sound of the the defensive measures taken to withhold him inside. Though all he heard was something, not unlike a child badly playing a Flugelhorn for the first time, and a wet slap hitting his improvised shield. Confused as to what just happened He spun his door, to see what hit it, and what he saw confused him even more. It seemed some kind of cake or dessert was smeared over the fired at side.

Throwing the door over the balcony, all he saw was the cannoneer from the orchard's awkward smile to counter his ‘are you kidding me?’ look. Before she could do anything else, he quickly casted a Zone Out Spell to temporarily disable her. With her just standing there staring off into space with a dopey grin, he shot a magical flair skyward to alert Star Blazer or whatever that things where happening.

Though what he saw in the distance, when he fired the flare, made him raise his hackles.

Nightmare Moon was riding in a Solar Chariot completely covered gold being pulled by two Lunar Guard, which he couldn't help but stare as the chariot landed in front of the main entrance to the library. NIghtmare Moon walked off the chariot to the purple unicorn he met in the orchard, and he could hear her all the way up there.

“THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT HATH ARRIVED! ART THOU TWILIGHT SPARKLE?”

Blueblood couldn’t hear, nor really care about one ‘Twilight Sparkle’, though he could easily hear Nightmare Moon's portion of the conversation.

“THOU DOTH SAY THEE CONTAINED ONE OF THE TWO?”

His utter anger at letting Nightmare Moon find out that he was here, disgusted himself greatly. Not caring to hear much more, he lifted the colorful cannon and went back inside. Poor Luck for you Nightmare! This time you won't have an Alicorn pulling their punches for being your sister! Running down the stairs and using a familiar spell to split and reform the cannon into a rapier, he hears his soon to be opponent use the Royal Canterlot Voice to directly 'talk' at him.

“THE PONY WITHIN THE LIBRARY, WE COMMAND THEE TO RELEASE THINE SPELL UPON THE ENTRANCE, AND LET US ENTER!”

Finally getting to the Library’s foyer, Blueblood stopped to steady himself in front of the door, and reenforced his grip on the rapier in his magic. After taking deep breaths to mentally prepare him for the fight, he got up close to the door, pivoted, quickly turned around, released his Unmovable Object Spell on the door, and bucked the door clean off the hinges, sending it flying toward Nightmare Moon. Sadly, Nightmare Moon’s guard were in the way, and they quickly stopped the door from smashing into her with their faces. Though the silver lining was that it hit them with enough force to knock them out, even with their helmets on.

“WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!” Nightmare Moon angrily questioned.

Blueblood answered with his army’s battle cry, “LAUDATE DIES! LAUDATE SOL!”

The instant the cry was heard, Luna’s expression changed to a mixture of confusion, astonishment, surprise, and alarm. Before he could lunge at her, he was intercepted by a dive tackled by a batpony, returning with his own battlecry, "OB AETERNA NOXT!"

The response call brought forth even more confusion to rise within Luna. Everypony not involved in the fight just stood there slackjawed, though most just wondering what they yelled and why they fight, while Luna was wondering who these two actually are to know such old war cries.

Snapping out of the shock of the familiar battle cries, she turns to Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, and Spike,"TWILIGHT SPARKLE, TAKE YOU AND YOUR COMPAINIONS AWAY FROM HERE! WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF THE SITUATION!"

"Princess, we can help yo-"

"NO TWILIGHT, LEAVE THESE MATTERS TO US, WE CAN NOT CHANCE THE ELEMENTS TO BE HARMED BY WHAT MAY HAPPEN! NOW GO! THAT IS A ROYAL ORDER!"

Hesitating Twilight Sparkle eventually bowed before running over to Spike and Rarity to tell them to go to Sugarcube Corner, and that she will meet up with them after she helps everyone down from the balconies. She then teleported to each of the balconies to let her friends know what is happening and that by royal order they have to go, broke the spell over Pinkie, and helped Applejack get down as Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy got Pinkie get down. As they were leaving, Rainbow Dash helped Applejack move the knocked out guards to a safe location, and all moved to meet up at Sugarcube Corner.

After making sure that Twilight and friends, get her guard away without being caught in any of the crossfire coming from the two disguised Alicorns, she Quickly casting a Telepathy Spell contacting her sister.

Sister! I defiantly found the two Alicorns under very detailed disguises, but fighting has broken out between the two, and I worry that things might get out of hand. though I have to ask, how well known are war chants from around our... defection at this age? From both sides?

I am pretty sure I haven't had anything written down details down to that level. Why? Celestia responded while prepping her Long Distance Teleport Spell.

Well, one of them shouted your army's war chant, and tried to attack me with a makeshift rapier, then the other alicorn intercepted him before he could strike me with it, and shouted one of my  army's own war chants.

What?! Hold on LuLu, I am almost done casting the spell!

SISTER CAN YOU TELEPORT TO ME RIGHT NOW?!

Celestia responded instantly starting to worry over the new alarm in her sisters voice, Yes I can now. What  has happened?

JUST GET HERE NOW! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!

Closing her eyes Celestia casted the teleport spell, and braced for the transit. She arived in a burst of light, and as she opened her eyes, her expression changed from hidden worry, to outright horror. For Celestia saw Luna standing next to two bodies.

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Mortimer dragged his ravenclaw-ed hand down his face at two who are standing in front of him. After dragging his hand down his long face he folded his arms, sighed, and asked two big questions, "Should I even ask why you two are Alicorns? Or how you died within a day of being brought back?"

Both Alicorns felt a little ashamed as one was trying to remove the blade from his neck, and the other trying to correct where his head should be facing on his neck.

Finally getting the blade out of his throat, the Lunar Stallion gave a short series of coughs to clear said throat, before speaking up to defend himself.

"In my defense, I was defending my Leige's life, from this moronic sun worshiper."

Angered at the insult, the Solar Alicorn "Oh, quiet you! If you wouldn't have stopped me I could," he interrupted himself by loudly popping his head back into place, "Aaaaah much better. Where was I? Oh right! I could have-"

"SILENCE! BOTH OF YOU!" Mortimer boomed as his size grew to easily strike fear into the veteran warriors. "I DO NOT CARE ABOUT HOW OR WHY YOU REACHED YOUR SECOND DEMISE, BUT IF YOU LET ME SPEAK I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FOR YOU TWO ASININE MORONS!" Finally receiving their full attention, his boy started to shrink from 'crush you with a finger' size to his original size of 'wow he's tall'. "Now that I have your attention, and stopped caring about you two, I can tell you what is going to go down.

"You two are once again the luckiest or unluckiest ponies, for you are managing to slip through a loophole with how the natural order of things work by being Alicorns. Here is why: in the beginning, when The Creator was making the sun and moon for your world, he ordered me to never reap any Alicorn directly connected to the sun or moon, and to not reap any other Alicorn if they pass from age. Meaning before you two, I couldn't kill Celestia or Luna. For some reason, the instant you were returned to the mortal plane, the sun and moon accepted you two, as well as the two sisters.

Meaning, I can't touch you two.

So what is going to happen now is that you are going back to the land of the living, fix your head, pull out that blade, wait for your natural healing magic to kick in, and not die anytime soon or I am going to get pissed got it?" Mortimer ended with growing back to his fright  educed size, to drive the point home.

Before the two could nod in pure fear, or react to the information, Mortis snapped his fingers, and the two re-experienced being brought back to life.