Reversal

by Nopony_Important

Rating: everyone
Tags: Adventure, Princess Celestia, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Main 6, Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna
Length: 1046

What if the story was flipped? What if Celestia attacked Luna, what if Celestia was jealous, what if Luna was the one who seemed to be loved more? What if Nightmare Moon never existed, and her story was all a lie?

What if the story was flipped? What if Celestia attacked Luna, what if Celestia was jealous, what if Luna was the one who seemed to be loved more?

What if Nightmare Moon never existed, and her story was all a lie?

Finally got to writing this. Thank goodness summer break exists.

Published 2015-06-16 18:10:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-06-16 18:10:01 UTC

Luna

I remember the day so perfectly.
I remember the jealousy in my sister's eyes when she attacked me.
I remember my surprise - she had been so happy the day before!
I remember the way she talked to me, how poison-tipped her words were.
I remember it, clear as the night sky around me.
I remember her so well, or who I had thought she was, so long ago.

I remember Tia so well, or who I had thought she was, so long ago.

Why?
Why so, so many years?
It's so boring...
Are we not sisters?
Does she not care?

I see the Earth-rocks near me, had she been practicing?

Oh- what's this? My chains are dispersing into the air, the ring on my horn as well! (The craters, too. I do not know how Celestia can wipe away craters like they never existed.)
Is she-
Is she letting me out?

I return to the castle, but it is abandoned. I hear music. My night-they always loved a party in my night. I follow my ears.
"Come on, Twilight, it's time to watch the sunrise!"
What?
Does that not happen every day?

I fly towards the place where they are walking. I know it is because of the decorations.
Celestia is not here.
Something is wrong.

I wait and watch.
Transformation and invisibility were always my strongest spells.

Some mare-I assume somepony in power-starts praising Celestia and announces her.
Celestia is still not here.
Something is so, so very wrong.

I decide that they might know of the other princess.
I walk out, but it is a foolish decision. Every pony gasps and stares.

Nobody remembers me.
Wait-a purple unicorn mare says she does.
"You're the mare in the Moon. Nightmare Moon!"
...My name is Luna...?

Something clicks. I see what Celestia has done: she has lied. She has said that I am evil.
There is only one thing that doesn't make sense: do they not remember me? Do they not remember how they gasped at my meteor showers, how they gazed upon my night for hours on end? How they loved the night?
Do they not remember how they loved me?

I'll show her. I will never let the Moon fall from its place again.
"From this moment forth...the night will last forever!"

A few idiots attack me. I am alicorn, foals, I think, defending myself.

I follow the purple one-she seems to follow Celestia the most.
"Elements, Elements..."
What are the Elements, and what could they possibly do that would help her?
"Are you a spy? Huh?"
A blue pegasus with a colorful mane questions the purple unicorn, who admits to reading about "me".
I wait a while longer, then leave. I must practice if I am to take down Celestia's "Elements". I hasten to the old castle, leaving several obstacles in my wake.

What? Less than an hour, and the purple unicorn is here? How, and why?
I have practiced enough for now.
She approaches the old rocks Tia and I used to play with, saying something about a spark empowering them.
Those must be the "Elements".
Her friends leave her, a lamb without the herd. More vulnerable now. I can take her down, but to be safe, I take her and the rocks to another room, leaving the others calling her name. Twilight.

Twilight charges at me. She must be as stupid as the ones who attacked earlier.
"You're kidding. You're kidding, right?"
Oh-no wonder. She teleports over to the Elements.
Ha.

She fires up her horn. "Just one spark. Come on, come on..." She manages one and screams.
"No, no!" This could bring down the castle if she keeps at it.
"But... where's the sixth Element?" she says, bewildered.

"You little foal! Thinking you could defeat me?" I slam my hooves into the floor as forcefully as I can, breaking the stupid rocks.

"You think you can destroy The Elements of Harmony just like that? Well, you're wrong, because the spirits of The Elements of Harmony are right here."
Spirits? The rocks are just that: rocks.

She goes on to list the other ponies now around her, talking about some small feats they performed by defeating the obstacles I put around the castle, then says herself, the element of "magic".

No.
No, no, no.
Celestia is aiding them. I recognize this magic, though it is shrouded in rainbows.
No.
I scream. I know I cannot win.
"Nooo! NOOOO!"

No.

They do not see what happens. Celestia has blocked their vision with rainbow-colored magic.
There is

no

way

can

return

goodbye world

*

*

*
no no no
oh, the pain of it
celestia, why
tis not enough to banish once
everything is a lie

Celestia

I smile. It worked so well, and I even convinced little Twilight and her comrades that they are the bearers of the "Elements of Harmony" and that they defeated and reformed "Nightmare Moon".
And within a thousand years, I finally developed the controlled tangible hologram spell.
Maybe someday they will realize that "Luna" isn't a pony at all.
Maybe someday they will realize that I essentially killed Luna.
Maybe someday.
But that day should be so far away.
It has to be.

The pink one, Pinkie Pie, insists on a party on Luna's return.
During it, Twilight approaches me, frowning in deep thought. "Princess, do you know what the Elements of Harmony do? Why did is it just that Nightmare Moon went from hating us to saying, 'I missed you so much, big sister!' within a minute? And why did Luna look so young?"
"I believe that the Elements took the jealousy from her heart, leaving the love for her older sister. As for her youth, I don't think she is at full power."
"But isn't some hate part of being a pony? If we were all loving and perfect, wouldn't that be boring?"

Oops.
Twilight caught on a little too soon.
Uh...
I panic.
"I...don't know... I just said that's what I believed, right? It doesn't have to be correct!"
"Princess, is something wrong?"
"No, no, nothing is wrong!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! Absolutely sure!"
Oh, no. Now I look crazy in front of all these ponies.

This won't end well.