Looking out of the viewport to the old world that she once knew, that blue and green ball that was home, Luna sat on her throne wondering why. Why did her sister not understand? They needed a change, since hard times had befallen the equines of the world. Through it all, Celestia had done nothing to help the suffering or stop the pain.

She stood by while her people died off by the thousands. All the while, Luna pressed her sister to see the wrong in the world, but she had not done a thing to stop it. Celestia knew her subjects were suffering famine from a war that nearly shattered the kingdom. How could she be the sister she knew? Luna had always thought highly of her older sibling- looking up to her, trying to be just like her. Maybe that had blinded her to what her sister truly was.

Luna stood up and her two guards snapped to attention. They followed their queen as she trotted out of the throne room, knowing the time was near. This would be the change that Luna had wanted all these years. In the halls all that could be heard was the clop clop, clop clop of the three ponies’ hooves; no one seemed to want to speak a word.

Viewing Bridge was a tunnel made of glass and steel, spanning the entire crater where the base was settled, like a single fruit in a bowl. Along the bridge was a moving sidewalk which could be used to move along the length of the bridge. But Luna wanted to see the base through the glass walls on both sides of the tunnel. Her work here was something to be admired.

It started nearly one thousand years ago, when Celestia banished her for treason. Her punishment was to spend a small portion of her life “grounded” on the moon. This was supposed to correct Luna and make her see the error of her ways, but it furthered her rage. The royal’s anger was felt by the ones who supported Luna in her blight, but they too were banished. They became known as “Luna Lovers,” the ones who betrayed Equestria. The ones who were open about their feelings were banished as well, with the first being a pony named Razgriz.

Razgriz was an alicorn with a long, blood-red mane and tail, steel gray eyes, and a faded red coat. This colt faced three problems in Equestria. One being he was born with all three races in him, making him an alicorn. It was a one-in-a-million chance this could happen, and even smaller still he would have "Magic Disorder" and "Wing Disorder" along with the power of being an alicorn.

The second thing he faced was that he looked a lot like a mare. The doctors could not find out why he was born like this. They said that just before the lunar rebellion, a lot of these births happened, along with a varying amount of other defects that had never been recorded in Equestrian history. And the last thing that Razgriz had faced was he liked the night more than the day. The lure of the stars and the comfort of the moon all seemed better to him than the blinding sunlight.

This colt was banished just days after Luna was, being that he took her place as the rebellion leader. He tried to rally more ponies behind the cause, and succeeded. Several ponies were made in charge of their own small groups that would all hide out until the return of Luna, and teach their children to pass down the knowledge of what really happened- how Celestia neglected her duties to the ponies of the land, and how she cast away her own sister.

Soon after Razgriz had set this in place, he was caught, and put on trial for war crimes even though there had been no war. The fight between Luna and Celestia was a one-on-one fight; Luna didn’t want her followers ending up with the same fate as her. Razgriz had confessed, knowing he would get the death sentence.

But by a stroke of good fortune, he was given a second option, which he gladly took- it was to be banished to the moon for the same time as Luna. This in turn would raise the question of how that was possible. Celestia had given him the Curse of Immortality for those thousand years, leaving him with only one pony to keep him company.

This had been a much better choice than death, or so Razgriz thought. When Luna was banished to the moon, she had a massive amount of rage. She had boundless hatred for her sister, her country, and herself. When somepony showed up, they would be facing her wrath. Razgriz was that pony, and he had to hide from her patron for many years. She wanted revenge more than anything in the world, and Celestia had sent her younger sister a toy to release her anger on.

However, Luna soon saw that it was doing her no good to smack around the only ally she had, the only one who she could talk out her feelings to. He was the one pony who she knew could understand her.

In the following years, Celestia had banished many of Luna’s followers, finding them in small uprisings all around Equestria. They were all given the same sentence: one thousand years on the moon, although this would be Celestia’s downfall after their banishment. Most of them were told that they were given the same immortality as Razgriz, but this was a lie. They would soon die off, another error of Celestia. They got married on the moon, and had many foals. Soon Luna had an own army at her command, ready for the time they would be let off the moon.

Luna greeted her forces as they trained, bowing to her. The great black pony reassured them to let them know that what they will be doing was morally right because their anger was justified. After this, Luna went to the armor bay, where all the hover tanks were being built. Two guards followed her down the rows of the Avenger class Hover tanks.

The tanks were crescent-shaped with two 7.5 magic cannons, the cornerstone of Lunar Magic Corporation. The way the weaponry worked in Equestria was from magic, and would create a blast in the area of impact.

Luna’s army was at about forty thousand strong, while her civilian population was about twenty thousand total. With these numbers, she knew would be ready for war when they could all return to Equestria in one week's time. And even though they were prophesized to return one thousand years after their banishment, Luna had other plans. She wanted to make sure they were ready for the war they were about to wage. She would wait for three years before returning to the home she once knew to fight the wrongdoings of her sister.

Author's Note

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