Princess Luna

She awoke from a long slumber, only to immediately be greeted by a splitting headache. It felt as though she were being bonked on the head by a pipe. It didn't help that there were these new voices talking much too loud. A saying kept pounding in her head. 'Wake and remember! Wake and remember!'

"Wake and remember." Luna muttered aloud, as if that would get it to stop. As she tried opening one of her eyes, she found it was a difficult task. She shut it immediately, the lights around making her head ache even more. She did however hear the voices stop. Hoof steps could easily be heard walking closer to me, only instead of making the usual clop noise, they instead sounded a bit more muted. She decided it must be a subject coming to aid her. The princess was grateful to have somepony beside herself here. Maybe they could explain the events that had transpired.

She forgot what had happened previously, there was something about her sister being in trouble, and that was it. She tried thinking about what happened after, but relentless pounding in the cranium made that a bit hard.

"Excuse me, ma'am? Are you alright?"

Does this subject not know who I am? Does he just not prefer to use the official title of Princess? Oh well, better address him in the royal fashion.

"Yes, we are alright."

"Oh, ok. So, um... why were you unconscious in front of my trailer?"

She went to rub her forehead to try to relieve some of the pain, but she found she couldn't move her hoof. She struggled a little to move, thinking it was still... wait, what? Still what? Gah, she almost remembered what had happened! What had happened to her?

...

And what was a trailer?

"What? We don't know how we got here. We were hoping you could tell us."

"Ok, so you guys are all in a group of some sort?"

She opened her eyes, and went to respond. "What do you mean, 'you guys'? Wait, what are you?"

"Oh, well my name is Tommy, and my sincerest apologies for tying you up. You know how it is around here, with all these addicts and shit."

"No, I mean... what species are you?"

"Huh?"

Luna had her head cocked to the side as she stared at this odd being. It only stood on two hooves, only had fur on the top of it's head, its snout was not elongated as it should be, and for some reason it wore pants and shoes but not a shirt. Luna was going to ask the same question again, but instead decided to go with something that (she hoped) sounded more nonchalant.

"Why is it you do not wear a shirt?"

Fwap!

Oh, well there's something familiar. Luna remembered Twilight Sparkle 'face-palming' whenever she got annoyed or agitated. Apparently, Luna had done something to offend this creature.

"That's a long story."

It rubbed the back of its head with a hoof, which she now noticed had some weird, worm like appendages growing out from the stub. Then, another creature came forward, probably the same species, though the skin was considerably lighter, as well as some other minor differences in appearance. This one did have a shirt on, (so at least she hadn't insulted some culture), and he had something in his lips, with a burning tip pointing out directly at her. His eyes seemed to be staring straight down the little cylinder, gazing right at her face with a blank expression, eyes moving ever so slow, as if analyzing her every inch. It was certainly enough to make her feel a bit uncomfortable.

"She isn't any sort of drug addict, that much I'm sure of."

"How can you tell?"

"Speech pattern, position, and air of elegance and self-righteousness, mixed in with a lot of confusion, but that's normal."

The first creature gave the second a surprised look... wait, what! Of course Luna would hold herself in elegance, she's a princess and the co-ruler of Equestria for buck's sake! And self-righteous! How dare they! They even tied me up! Had Luna not been so focused on the confusing creatures and pounding headache, she would've noticed the rope binding her earlier. She tried using her magic to untie herself, but for some reason, nothing happened.

She tried to put all of her energy into it, and indeed, after a little while, the rope did slacken a bit. Success!

"There you go. Sorry again for the rope. I hope you can understand our caution."

Strike that, another creature was untying the rope.

"We-" Gasp!

Luna was taken aback by the appearance by this new creature. It had the same structure as the others, but its face was exceptionally... creepy. There was no other word that could fit... well, truthfully there were many unflattering remarks that could fit well, but creepy was definitely the best. Its face was a medium light blue, drastically darkening into a pitch black the lower her eyes went. There were even a few streams of that pure blackness coming from its eye... sockets? It had no eyes! Was it blind? Could it see? Just what were these things!

Wait! Stay calm. Luna was sure that if she just stayed calm, she would be able to get some information as to how and why she was here. Maybe, if she just told them who she was, as they obviously (and confusingly) didn't know who she was.

"We can honestly say," she said slowly to the disturbing one, making herself loud enough for the other two beasts to hear full well. "that we don't. We happen to be royalty."

The disturbing one crooked his head, the first one squinted his eyes in confusion, and the scrawny one looked suspicious. Luna then heard another voice.

"My ass! Tie er back up man, she's obviously fucked as shit."

"Shut up Danny Boy. Let's just untie her and the rest. It's clear they're not addicts." the scrawny one exclaimed. Addicts? Rest?

The first one started to argue with the scrawny one, while Luna looked around for those it was referring to. She easily saw more creatures, all tied up as she was, and all wearing clothes that had certain patterns to them. Each having familiar looking manes... and each looking very oddly like some ponies she knew.

...

Luna slowly looked down at herself, seeing the rope, but also seeing two appendages sticking out from her chest. She tried moving her hooves, and discovered that there was a weird feeling. Like, there were five little worms stuck to her hoof, and she could feel them. They were a part of her. Just like the weird hooves of the... creatures.

"Are you alright ma'am?"

The two pale creatures came closer, and Luna was able to see her reflection in the little one's glasses.

Surprise was quickly dispelled from her senses as they shut down, and she collapsed into unconsciousness.

Celestia

Princess Celestia was having a slow and boring morning, but she was happy for that. She was glad that everything was peaceful, and was mostly glad that there was no evil king, queen, or monster to try and overthrow the land. Looking through her telescope atop her giant tower, she viewed her kingdom. The great city of Canterlot, with its citizens dressed in stylish, upper class manners. Their facial expressions ranging from sneers to glares, and their over all vibes of energy at a constant negative. Celestia sighed while looking upon her richer subjects. She wished they could be happier, and less uptight.

Ponyville, with its inhabitants exceptionally more cheery and upbeat, either chatting with one another or helping each other out. Celestia felt a smile grow on her face as she watched these joyful ponies live their little lives. Their energy was so much more positive, and everything about this little, green town just made Celestia think of happy times. Times she had shared with her sister Luna back when they were just fillies. Back when they would go outside and play, while their mother an father took over the duties of making night and day. Celestia had always spent so much time with her sister back then.

Nowadays she was lucky to even speak one word to her. Luna was always so tired by the time morning came around, and Celestia herself was always exhausted by the evening. Then again, Celestia knew she shouldn't focus on something like that. She needed to remain focused on surveying her kingdom. Besides, at least Luna wasn't Nightmare Moon anymore.

Celestia continued to view Ponyville. There were the Cakes, selling their desserts. Over there was Zecora walking with the CMC. Over there was a cross eyed pegasus walking next to brown pony near a big blue box of some sort. A little bit north was... a storm of pink clouds with brown colored droplets of precipitation falling from them...

"Ok. So it's going to be one of those days."

"One of what days?"

Celestia had lived for thousands of years, and in that time, even when some of the most unexpected of things happened, she knew to control her surprise, and how to refrain from gasping in shock, and the like. That is why she turned so calmly to a semi-smiling Pinkie Pie who happened to be sitting right behind her.

"Hello Pinkie Pie. Listen, it looks like Discord is back-"

"Uh huh."

"so I'm going to need you and your friends to knock some sense into him."

"No can do."

"Ok."

...

"Wait, what?" Celestia asked, thinking she heard Pinkie Pie wrong.

"Yeah, I came here to tell you that the others all got sucked through this creepy sounding vortex thingy."

"A vortex thingy?"

"Yep. Some big meanie did it because he was mad at Discord."

Celestia's brows furrowed. A being that was mad at Discord took away Twilight and her friends. Why? What did Discord do to upset something that apparently has enough power to create vortexes that ponies can transfer through?

"Wait, I thought unicorns could transport themselves using magic."

"They can. What makes you ask that?"

"Then why are you surprised that something has enough power to transport ponies through a vortex?"

Celestia opened her mouth to answer, but then realized something.

"How did you know I was thinking about that?"

Pinkie cocked her head in an innocent fashion. "You said it, just now."

'I did?' she thought.

"I did?" she asked.

"Yeah."

Celestia was going to respond, when she heard a scream come from outside. She looked through her telescope to see that apparently Discord was arriving in Canterlot, with the clouds forming above the city, making the atmosphere much darker.

'One problem at a time, I guess.'

"Well, since this has something to do with Discord, we might as well ask him about it. Pinkie, go wake up my sister."

"Oh, didn't I tell you?"

Celestia raised her head from the telescope and slowly looked at Pinkie Pie, who was getting up to go out the door.

"Tell me what?"

"It took Princess Luna, too."

Celestia stared at the spot Pinkie Pie had been standing, not even flinching as Pinkie Pie closed the door rather loudly to go to who knows where. Twilight, her pupil and close friend, was gone. The other protectors of the elements of harmony, were gone. Luna, her little sister, her longest friend, and the last thing left in the universe she loved with all of her heart, was gone. Every muscle in Celestia tensed as her eyes went from shocked confusion to a determined glare.

This probably wasn't the best time for Discord to pop into the room with his usual smug grin.

"Yo, sun-butt! Wazzup!"

Author's Note

As Fall Out Boy once said, Thanks for the many reads, thanks for the many reads!