This was it. The fall of Equestria. All because I couldn't stop her. And now I plummet to certain death. I'm sorry Celestia. I have failed you. Twilight's last thoughts before she hit the ground were interrupted by the sound of the beating of pegasus wings. Her fall was stopped just short of the gray stone path by a cyan colored pegasus. "Rainbow Dash?!!! Thank goodness you're here! I-" "Save it for later Twilight, I just saw the whole thing. Now we need to get in there and save Equestria!" Rainbow interrupted. "Er, right. Mind giving me a lift?" Twilight spoke, acknowledging her exposed bone. Rainbow shivered. "After this, you definitely need to see a doctor, Twi." "No kidding." Twilight replied dryly.

"At last. I shall finally rule Equestria as I had intended 5,000 years ago." Midnight had been pacing around the throne room, unsure of what to do next. "Do I announce myself? Or should I make sure everyone who may interfere is gone? Hm." She looked over to Celestia's imprisoned body. "You would know, wouldn't you. Of course you would. It's not like you haven't had practice over the last thousands of years or anything." She spoke sarcastically. "But you are the older sister, I suppose." Midnight Eclipse began to feel something she had not felt in over 5 millenniums, buried under all the hatred she'd felt towards her sisters. "What am I doing... NO! I am seeking revenge. I SHALL rule Equestria, and no one is going to stop me! I now take my rightful position." In the midst of her thoughts, Twilight entered the room with a pegasus she had never met before.

"Well, it seems you've somehow survived." She spoke angrily. "Thanks to me, of course!" Dash bragged. "Hmph. Very well. I will have to take care of you myself." Midnight shot a magical beam at Rainbow Dash, whom was too fast to be hit. "You're faster than I thought." "Heh, yeah, heck yeah I'm fa-" Dash was knocked out by the beam. "Not very smart though, I see. Now for you Twilight." Midnight looked around to see Twilight attempting to break Celestia free. "And what do you think you're doing." Twilight spun around and thus began a full out magic battle. It seemed to last forever until they became completely exhausted.

"It, seems we, are, at, an impass." Midnight breathed heavily between each word. At this moment Twilight realized magic would do nothing against her. She had to take a risk.

"Midnight, you are weak and pathetic."

"What?! How dare you insult me?" "Because you can't handle ruling by yourself. Without Celestia and Luna, you could never rule Equestria. Nopony would accept you, especially after what you have done."

Midnight was taken aback. She began to let her guard down and even closed her wings down to her back. "But they need a ruler! Without Tia and Luna, what would they do? They'd have to come to me! They'd be forced to love me then!"

"Even if you defeated me, Equestria would find another ruler to take you down. You said you wanted to just be loved. What love will there be if you force everypony to bow down to you. The way you are acting right now, no pony loves you. Not even Celestia or Luna. Why should they love someone like you. Celestia had no choice when she banished you. Don't you see that? She had to make a decision while you were taking over Equestria, trying to kill her and Luna, and at least try to save YOU."

At this point Midnight's eyes were huge and back to normal. Twilight could she tears in the corner of her eyes.

"What have I done... If Celestia is going to rebanish me for eternity, so be it. I don't even deserve her love, or anypony else's. You are right Twilight Sparkle. I'm so sorry."

Twilight was astounded how that had worked so quickly and easily. It seemed maybe too easy. Perhaps she was lying, or maybe she had already wanted to free her sisters? She would probably never know.

Midnight casted a spell that would eventually completely free the princess and ponies from their prison.

She layed on the floor, awaiting her punishment as the ponies began to be freed.

Celestia walked over to Midnight and stared down at her. "Celestia, please, I am so sorry. I have not realized until now what it means to be a true ruler. I will agree to be banished forever now."

Celestia laughed. "What's so funny, sister? I thought you were going to punish me?" "Oh Midnight, I see you've already learned your lesson, there's no need for that excessive amount of punishment." She leaned down to hug her sister and whispered in her ear, "but you're not going to go unpunished for what you've done this evening." Midnight whimpered, "Okay, Tia."

Celestia stood up and gathered the ponies once again. "I would like it if you spread the news of the new princess of the stars, and that we should all be safe now."

Midnight perked up at hearing that. "Really? You mean after all this, you're going to let me do the stars too?" Celestia replied, "of course, as the redeemed princess of Equestria, you deserve something better, do you not?"

"Well..." Luna shushed her sister and spoke. We can continue this reunion later. Don't you think we should lower the moon now so ponies can get back to doing their thing?"

"By now it's already night time, Luna! Celestia needs to lower the sun."

They laughed and for the first time in forever, all the sisters were happy. The subjects of Equestria, however, may have a hard time adapting to this newer, yet older princess...

Author's Note

Sequel, perhaps? If yall didn't think this sucked too bad that is.