Escaping from Celestia

The evening had arrived and Luna woke up, ready to have supper and then raise the moon before heading off on her routine patrol of the Everfree Forest and the surrounding areas. When she left her chambers she saw that Yellow Eyes was still standing guard at her door. She asked, "Yellow Eyes, have you been here all day?"

Yellow Eyes replied, "Yes Your Majesty, I have been."

"Did my sister approach you over anything regarding me being in bed this morning?"

"Yes she did and it was kind of odd. Once I told her how ill you were, she seemed happy. She then took off and was saying something to herself but I couldn't make it out." He paused for a moment before continuing, "I don't know what is up but nopony should ever be happy over somepony else being ill, especially as ill as I told her you were."

This brought out a lot of suspicion in Luna. Celestia normally wasn't the type who would be happy over anypony's illness. She suggested, "Where is White Wings this time of day? I have a feeling he may know something."

Yellow Eyes replied, "With Celestia not being here I wouldn't know but I think checking the throne room would be worth a try."

Luna nodded and headed straight towards the throne room. She knew how Celestia had been lately and figured that if she would share anything with anypony, that it would be him. She headed towards the throne room and caught him gazing out of one of the windows. She tapped him and asked, "White Wings, have you seen my sister?"

This caused him to jump. He had heard about her illness and wasn't sure exactly what to make of the situation. He remained silent which caused Luna to become more irritated, "White Wings, where is my sister?"

White Wings wasn't sure about how he was going to answer this. He knew that this was a lose-lose situation. If he told Luna the truth, Celestia would be irate once she found out but if he refused to tell Luna, she would be irate. He finally decided to tell the pony standing before him, "Well I think she went out to look for Twilight. I know she is scared of that forest but I have this nagging feeling she went there."

Luna knew that if Celestia did go into that forest and was caught that she would likely face a very unpleasant fate. She knew that there were more than just three ponies in there that Celestia had wronged and figured that probably not a single one of them would have any problems harming her or perhaps killing her. She sighed, "Well thanks White Wings. After I have some supper, lower the sun and raise the moon, I'll have to go out and find her. I just hope this doesn't wind up being a recovery mission."

White Wings' eyes grew wide when she said this, "Princess Luna, do you really think the ponies there would kill her?"

Luna gave him an intense look and asked, "Can you promise me that you won't say a word of what I'm about to tell you to anypony?"

White Wings replied, "My lips are sealed."

Luna nodded and began, "Well as it turns out Celestia has sexually assaulted more than just Twilight and Sunset Shimmer. If what those two are telling me is true, she has been doing this with her proteges ever since I got banished to the moon."

White Wings grew pale when he heard this. He stood there in a state of shock before replying, "I, I never imagined she was like this. I know she wanted to take Twilight out to that castle but, but....."

Luna continued, "This is hard on me too, I never imagined my sister would do things like this. I remember back when we defeated Discord and even when she battled me, her sexually assaulting ponies was something I never imagined she would do." Luna sighed in frustration, "Well if I do bring her back alive and all of this is true, she will have to be punished, she will have to be locked away where she will never be a threat to anypony."

White Wings asked, "I'm assuming you're thinking of Tartarus?"

Luna sighed, "Either that or the sun. If this is true, I just don't want to see any more ponies suffer at her hooves." Her stomach growled and she added, "Well it is time for supper and then I have to lower the sun and raise the moon before I go out looking for her."

After eating supper and doing her duties, Luna headed off towards the forest. She knew that Celestia was terrified of that forest and had vowed to never go into it. She hoped that when she got to the border of it, she'd find Celestia standing there, pale and too scared to enter. When she finally reached the border of the forest, where the path led in, she did not see any sign of Celestia. She knew that she didn't have time to fly along the whole border of the forest unless she was to just lower the moon and raise the sun from out there.

After thinking it over for a minute she decided to take the path in and hope that if Celestia was captured, assuming she went in, that she was simply being held captive with no injuries. As she walked further into the forest, she was expecting to run into Moonlight, Twilight and Sunset before too long since they seemed to be patrolling the northern areas. When she approached the first lake, she sighed in frustration hoping that they would maybe be at the second lake.

When she approached the second lake she saw what she was looking for. She saw three unicorns on the other side and immediately they flared up their horns. She could tell that it was Twilight, Sunset and Moonlight. When it looked like they might strike, she lit up her horn three times, hoping that they would know she meant no harm. When it looked like they weren't going to attack, she continued to approach the lake until she heard a yell, "Halt. Who goes there?"

Luna yelled, "It is me, Princess Luna and I'm looking for my sister."

One of the unicorns motioned for her to come to their side of the lake and once she approached them, it was indeed Twilight, Sunset and Moonlight. She spoke first to Twilight, "Twilight, I am so glad I found you. My sister has gone missing and I am wondering if she came here?"

Luna received a glare from all three of the unicorns before her. Moonlight and Sunset sighed in frustration while Twilight was more confrontational, "Luna, what makes you think she would come here? You know that coward is scared of dark forests and even if I did know where she was, who is to say that you wouldn't take her back to Canterlot, coddle her and then allow her to molest yet another protege?"

It was at that moment that Luna knew the three knew where Celestia was and given Twilight's confrontational attitude, she thought she would ask Moonlight about her, "Have you seen my sister? She is white......"

Moonlight snapped, "Yes I know what that tyrant looks like." She then began to laugh, "Or should I say looked like!"

Sunset suggested, "How about you come with us and perhaps we can get this situation involving your sister taken care of."

The three glared at her and flared their horns up before leading Luna towards their village. Luna knew that with those three being a bit more confrontational than normal that she may not be received all that well in the village. Once they got into town, everypony went silent seeing another Alicorn being brought into town. They all watched her with suspicion as they were leading her towards the palace.

Once they got to the palace they were greeted by Shooting Star, "The tyrant's sister I take it."

Moonlight replied, "Yes. I am assuming she wants to speak to the queen regarding her sister."

Shooting Star nodded and headed inside. When she did that Luna asked, "So do I have to have permission to speak to her or what?"

Twilight replied, "This is the case with all visitors and with why you're here, you can't just go in without permission."

Luna sighed in frustration realizing that not only was the one pony she felt so close to in the past much more businesslike but that the monarch she was going to be dealing with would likely be rather hostile towards her.

A couple minutes later Shooting Star returned and addressed Luna, "Queen Radiant Hope will see you as long as they are present."

Shooting Star motioned for them to go in and when Luna saw who the queen was, she was in a state of shock. "Radiant Hope, you're still alive?"

Radiant replied, "That is either Queen Radiant Hope or your Majesty to you Luna and yes, I'm still alive. All of us who your sister wronged are still alive."

Luna asked, "But how? You're all just unicorns."

Radiant replied, "If you didn't notice it but out in the town square, there is a magical crystal that has given us the lifespans we have." She became more serious as she continued, "Now about why you came. I am assuming it has something to do with your sister, correct?"

Luna replied, "Yes, it involves my sister Cele....."

Radiant flared up her horn and yelled, "NEVER say that name here, never!" She then motioned for Luna and her captors to follow her, "If you want to see the tyrant, I shall lead you to her."

Radiant flared her horn up more as did the others to provide proper lighting to go down the stairwell to the dungeon. Once they got to the dungeon, Radiant led them all the way to the back cell where Celestia was laying there, badly injured and badly burned along with a broken horn. Luna became enraged when she saw this, "How could all of you do this? How could you do this to my sister?"

Twilight gave her a deep glare, "She was caught trespassing." Twilight then turned to the cell and screamed, "Wakey-wakey, your sister is here."

Celestia woke up and screamed before calming down when she saw Luna, "Luna, you came to save me!"

Luna asked, "Celestia, why did you come here when you knew they hated you? Why did you come here when it was so dangerous?"

Celestia held her head low and sighed, "I came to get Twilight...."

Twilight flared her horn up in anger and yelled, "No, you were going to try and force Sunset and I to go back with you so you could molest us some more."

Before Celestia could respond Radiant addressed Luna, "Princess Luna, I am not sure if your sister has told you about some of the things she has done since you were banished to the moon but I must say, it has not been good and she has wronged many."

Luna turned to her sister and asked, "Sister, what is all this about? What have you been doing all this time?"

Celestia saw her captors had their horns lit up and would strike if she didn't admit her wrongs, "Luna, it wasn't long after you were banished to the moon that I began to take my proteges out to our old castle and did to them what I did to Twilight."

Luna's eyes grew wide as she asked, "Celestia, what did you do to Twilight and what did you do to the others?"

Celestia began, "Well I would take them out there, I would try to force them to fall in love with me by making them read romance novels with me while I was holding them close. Just like it was with Twilight, none of the others ever showed any interest so finally when the fifth morning arrived, I cast love spells on them, I forced them to eat my juices, smeared them with it and declared them as my wives."

Luna then became so angry that she reverted to the ancient way of speaking, "Sister, dost thou not know how immoral and illegal that is? Dost thou not know the punishment for such crimes, horrible crimes against thy fellow ponies?"

Celestia began to cry, "I know but I couldn't help it. They were all so hot and I thought I could get away with it."

Luna sighed in frustration, "Celestia, even if I can get them to agree to free you, you will still have to face a severe punishment for the crimes you have committed against probably more than 200 ponies."

Radiant commented, "217 to be exact."

Celestia snapped, "Oh and what are you going to do, throw me in Tartarus, banish me to the sun, toss me into limbo?"

Luna snapped in return, "Well it will have to be something because you can't just go unpunished. Either you can stay here and likely face execution or come back to Equestria and face our punishment." She then turned to the queen and asked, "Your Majesty, I am wondering if you would free her and I could take her back to Canterlot with me?"

Radiant began to head back towards the stairwell and commented, "Perhaps but it is extremely late and I will be able to think better with some sleep." She turned to Moonlight and asked, "Do you think she could stay with you until morning?"

Moonlight replied, "Yes, she can."

She along with Twilight and Sunset grabbed Luna in their aura and began to drag her out with them. As they were leaving Sunset commented, "Don't even think about leaving or a not so pleasant fate will come to your sister."

Luna snapped, 'Oh and what would that be?"

Twilight laughed, "Death by the Sparkle! So if you value that bitch's life, you will not try to leave nor will you show us any disrespect."

Moonlight added, "Just because the queen is contemplating letting you take her home doesn't mean she will." Once they got to Moonlight's house she pointed to the couch and said, "Luna, you can sleep out here."

Twilight sat in the recliner, flared up her horn and added, "And I'm keeping watch to make sure she doesn't cause any problems."

Moonlight gave her a smile as she and Sunset headed to their bedrooms. Luna looked at Twilight and began to cry, "Twilight, why are you being like this? Why is it that since you've been down here you have become so cruel?"

Twilight snapped, "I have not become cruel. It is simply a matter of me not liking the idea of that bitch sister of yours, the pony who sexually assaulted me and over two hundred others being allowed to still draw breath." She saw tears begin to run down Luna's face and added, "Now get some sleep because Faust knows you'll need to be at your most alert tomorrow."

As Luna closed her eyes and tried to get some sleep, she felt like everything had gone straight to Tartarus. She knew her sister was in love with Twilight but never imagined that she would not just sexually assault her, but over 200 others over the centuries. One part of her wanted to just leave Celestia to face their wrath but the part of her that put family first wanted to take her home and give her a standard villain's punishment in Equestria, one that involved banishment rather than death.