Back in Ponyville there was mass panic, Mayor Mare Struggling to keep ponies under control, nearly everyone were huddled up in their homes all knowing the overwhelming truth, that Nightmare Moon had returned, though... for a select few whom were dotted throughout Equestria, the news of the Dark Queen’s return was one of great celebration. One resident of Cloudsdale in particular was ecstatic at the news, a White Haired, above average size, Stallion with Silver in his mane and tail, Commander Lightning Flash of the Wonder Bolts. He had discretely slipped out from a Meeting of the senior members to see if the rumours were true. As he travelled through the cloud paved streets of Cloudsdale, he saw various Pegasi talking in small groups with slightly fearful expressions, but when noticing Lightning and his permanent giddy smile practically trotting by, he’s met with looks of a different nature. These looks didn’t go un-noticed by him and thought it best to head home, doing so quickly.

Nightmare moon smiled with triumph, seeing so many ponies with fear in their eyes made her want to laugh loudly as she walked past, she revelled in their fear but welcomes the odd smiles from the few loyal followers of hers, happy to see her as she walked around, soon walking up to a Pegasus and asked them where ‘Lighting Flash’ lived smiling widely when finally told where he lives, she planned to pay him a visit, flying to his home in Cloudsdale and wait for his return, but when she arrived, she notices the house was empty and so teleported herself inside, taking a seat and getting comfortable, awaiting the arrival of her, soon to be personal guard.

As he drew closer to his home, he finds no other pegasi around, that or hiding in fear, he finds this fact odd when approaching his home, opening the front door with his wing and walking inside. What he finds within he would never forget for the rest of his life, there, sat in his front room was the Dark Queen of the night herself! He couldn’t believe his eyes, not only for the fact she had returned but now that she was sat in his home, plain as the eve. He drops to his knees and bows humbly, the biggest smile he’d ever have, on his face, “My Queen... it’s such a great honour to have you in my home.” His words filled with both pride and excitement.

Nightmare Moon smiles and walks up to the bowing Pegasus, "Your loyalty shall be rewarded, I am making you my Personal Guard Lightning Flash," she says grandly, leaning in and kisses his lips in gratitude for giving her the power to rule Equestria, "without you, I would not be able to stand in front of you and make you my guard, so it is I that am honoured to be in your home."

This is all too fast for his mind to process, first he discovers the Dark Queen of the Night, Nightmare Moon in his home, and then he is appointed to be no less than her own, Personal Guard, which is the greatest honour in itself, but most unexpected of all he finds himself sharing an intimate kiss with the Dark Monarch, his tongue feeling over her sharp fangs which makes him blush deeply, however, he does become confused at her explanation afterwards, “WithOUT me? I’m sorry my Queen, but I don’t think I understand, this is the first I’ve met your highness in person, not that I’m complaining of course, you’re as beautiful as I imagined you would be,“ Lightning says with a blush.
Nightmare giggles softly, showing a side that no pony, except Lightning, had seen before a bit of kindness in her dark heart. "I know you do not know this, but a version of you from the future helped me become as powerful as I am now, that's all I can say about why with-out you I would not be here," smiling at him as she starts making armour appear out of thin air and begins putting it on the Pegasus personally by her own hoofs, "I hope you like your new armour Lightning."

Once more he can’t help but blush, due to the fact that, in his mind, the True Queen of Equestria was in his home, still being giddy about this fact, but he can’t help but smile in reaction to her soft giggle and seemingly gentle nature around him, he never knew that the Dark Queen could be so... affectionate to one such as him. Lightning makes sure to hold still as Nightmare places and fastens on each part of his new Royal Guard’s Armour, once the set is on securely, he walks over to a full length mirror nearby. A great swell of pride filling his chest as he admires his new armour, it being similar in design and colour to his Queen’s armour, but little personal touches she had added in herself, making the armour light weight and sleeker in order for him to fly at great speed with minimal drag. Looking back to Nightmare, he unfurls his large wings and bows in respect, “Thank you, so much my Queen, I don’t know what else to say, except that I will perform my duties to the best of my abilities.” He says with pride in his voice, “If your highness would allow me to ask, what are your plans for Celestia, you would need to overthrow her in order to cement your rule.” Lightning asks with concern in his voice when stepping over to Nightmare.
She smiled and kissed Lightning again, just to ease his nerves, "you’re going to help me give her a new home," she says, starting to rub her belly while grinning wickedly, picturing where her so called ‘sister’ will soon reside, Once she over throw Celestia with Lightning's help of course, "How would you like to give me a belly rub after I’ve had my massive meal lightning?" She giggles, hoping that he caught on to what she was going to do to her sister.
Eyes widening as he’s once again kissed by her, it calming him almost immediately, purring softly when it is released, a blush upon his muzzle when hearing Nightmare’s plans for her ‘sister’ Celestia, the thought of her bringing a slight frown to his brow, thinking to himself of how he loved to admire Luna’s Star lit Night sky, only for the morning sun to practically erase all of Luna’s hard work, his mind brought back to reality when hearing his Queen’s question and smirks devilishly, “Oh, I would be more than happy to assist you in the digestion of the ‘Unworthy’ ‘Princess’ currently residing on YOUR throne... my Queen.” He says, bowing once more, before looking up at her a smirk nearly as menacing as one of her own, “Tell me what I need do to assist you and I will gladly do it.” He says in reassurance, “But... may I ask your highness a small request? Could your highness put a reformation spell upon me so that your highness can devour and digest me when you wished?” Lightning asks with a deep blush.
"Good my loyal guard, let's pay my dear sister a visit and have some dinner," she laughs evilly and starts to walk outside the house, "come, we have work to do," she spreads her wings out getting ready to fly as her armour starts to form on her body.

A confident smirk spreading over his muzzle, as he observes Nightmare walk out the front door, he closes it behind her with one wing and presses a concealed button with his hoof, then a slow cranking sound starts up and a hole opens in the house’s ceiling, the mechanism set on a timer, unfurling his wings and readying for a vertical takeoff once the wholes are wide enough, “Easy...” he says to himself, muscles tensed in his hind legs and wings, “NOW!” he yells, and with, an explosive release of pent up energy, he rocketed up through the holes with them each snapping shut behind him. Stopping after climbing fifty odd feet in the air and looking down to see Nightmare takeoff herself, grinning, Lightning Flash speeds after her, catching up with ease, “Evening your highness...” he says with a cocky tone, “these wings are more than just for show ya know.” He says, flying faster and heading toward the palace.

Nightmare smiles, happy that her own guard would impress her with a little show, "come back here you," she giggles, Actually feeling happy that one pony is making her smile, she starts picking up her pace and catches up with Lightning, "not so fast are you," she smirks showing her fang like teeth, then started to fly even faster, to start a small race as they were getting closer to the castle where Celestia resides.
Blinking when seeing Nightmare not only catch up but pass him by, “~well, she IS an Alicorn so I gotta give her points for THAT. ~” he thinks to himself, increasing to keep up with, matching her speed and then faces her, flying backwards while still keeping pace! “Not bad your highness, though you realise that I’m not even trying now,” He says with confident cocky tone, “Then flies straight once more, “let me show you why I hold the Equestria Air Speed Record,” He says with more intense tone, pulling out all the stops as he has a sudden burst of speed, rocketing forward as a cone of air begins to form around him, flying faster still and performs a sonic boom as he breaks the sound barrier. He arrives at the Canterlot city boarder and waits for Nightmare, flapping his wings silently to not cause too much attention, as if his Sonic Boom hadn’t already.
Nightmare smirks, but manages to stop the boom from making a loud noise, she had been practising a variety of spells while trapped on the moon, but she lands at the border knowing she could teleport them both into the castle, but they needed to be a little closer in order to conduct the teleport spell successfully into Canterlot, "we must enter into Canterlot and get close to the castle, but we must stay on guard, knowing my sister she must have gotten the news that I have not been defeated, and knows I will be after her, so security will be very, very tight," she says to Lightning in whisper, thinking of any plans to sneak into Canterlot.

Landing beside Nightmare, Lightning remains silent, listening to her whispering words and joining her in thinking of a solution to their current situation, looking to her form once more, “Your highness, you can change your form, maybe disguise yourself as another pony?” Lightning asks.
Nightmare smiles and nuzzles lightning approvingly, "An excellent Idea, hmmm there’s a guard pony," she says, grabbing him and forces him onto a wall, "time for a new look," she says and bites into his neck, she starts to change into the pony as the pony looks paler and paler till he was passed out, "how do I look?" She says in a male voice, she was exactly like the pony, she did a better job than a changeling ever could, "time for you to change, but all you need is a change of armour" she smiles as the armour changes to look like armour one of Celestia's guards would ware.
Lightning flinches in response to Nightmare suddenly biting into the neck of the guard’s pony, draining his strength as her form slowly changes to look exactly like the guard, even to the point of imitating his voice, releasing the bite to show the guard’s pony, laid out unconscious and looking as pale as stone. Lightning has a slight blush on his muzzle, “I’m... feeling a little jealous of him right now, do you think you could do that to me sometime, not the whole changing forma bit but just the neck biting and draining of my body.” He asks, making himself shiver a little, before noticing his armour changing to that of a Celestial guard’s pony, the fact he was wearing the armour of Celestia’s royal guard made him cringe, “Please tell me I don’t have to stay in this ugly armour long.” Lightning Groans as he follows after the disguised Nightmare, the pair heading up to Celestia’s private quarters, “Although...” Lightning says with a mischievous smirk and trotting alongside Nightmare, “I am enjoying the fact that I’m taller than you when you’re in this form.” He says with a cheeky grin.
Nightmare smirks, "True, but soon I will be taller than you, so don't get too cocky or you will have to ware that armour for a week," just to show she can still be cruel, but as she taps on Celestia’s door you hear the sun princess say, "oh, yes, come in, I must know about the rumours," though she will find the rumours to be true as they both walk in, a fake smile on her face as she bows before her sister, just to act like a guard of hers, and soon to lock all three of them in the room, making sure no other guard can enter.

Lightning scrunches his muzzle up at hearing Celestia’s voice and snorts softly, clearly the situation is making him feel uncomfortable as they’re both allowed access into the room if he had to choose between wearing this stupid Armour week and pretending to be nice to Celestia, he’d would rather pick the armour, following Nightmare’s example and bowing before the sun princess, “Thank you for coming captain, I assume you have an update for me regarding the rumours that Lu... I mean Nightmare Moon wasn’t defeated, is this true?” Celestia asks in her soothing voice, correcting her momentary slip of the tongue, though she becomes curious as to why the Unicorn Guard had decided to lock the door, perhaps as a precaution? She the looks to the other Guard, a rather large and impressive Pegasus Stallion, “Hmmm... I don’t believe we’ve met are you relatively new to your station private?” she asks in a, polite, sweetly tone that irritates Lightning’s ears, holding back a cringe and scowl, “Yes, your highness...” Lightning Says reluctantly.
Though she doesn’t show it, she is becoming curious of this large Pegasus, she could sense the distain in his voice, though was unsure why he was acting so, tense, “It’s alright, you don’t be so tense around me, you may relax and stand at ease if you wish?” Celestia says with a soft smile, “Captain, you may relay report, please?” Celestia asks, turning back to the Disguised Nightmare Moon.

Nightmare tares intensely into Celestia’s eyes, speaking with a deep voice, "yes, I have not been defeated and I’m more powerful than ever now and will not be stopped until I have brought about eternal night! Now, dear sister, it's time for you to reside in your new home," she says with a smug smirk, waiting to see if Celestia caught onto her words before she, turns back to her original form, wanting to torment Celestia in so many ways before eating her, she smiled just wanting to laugh and be her true evil self once more, "I can sense my guard his heart belongs to me, ha he’s actually really tense around you, it's funny.”

Celestia’s calm expression turns to that of dread and sorrow, “No... This can’t be. This... this wasn’t how it was supposed to be, you were supposed to come back to me Luna...” Celestia says stretching out a shaking hoof to Nightmare’s intensely grinning face, while, unnoticed by both, of them, Lightning’s breathing deepens, his armour changing back to his original set that Nightmare had given him personally, the pieces glowing slightly, “Don’t... you EVER SAY HER NAME!!” Lightning shouts at Celestia, his burst shocking even Nightmare as he glares at Celestia, fear growing on her face from two fronts now, one from Nightmare Moon, the fear of possibly never getting to see her little sister again and the sudden outburst from the enraged male Pegasus, “Personal... Guard, Is it not enough to have corrupted my sister’s mind, now you do it others as well?!” she exclaims in distraught. Lightning begins walking toward the cowering Celestia, currently sat on her flanks and backing away slowly, “No one... is corrupting me... Unless you count yourself ruining your own sister’s beautiful starlit night with your ‘sunrise’,” he says, spitting bullets with each syllable, “I would do ANYTHING for my Queen, the TRUE ruler of Equestria...” he says, leaning in and his facial expression shifting into a smug smile, “Including the assignation of you.” He says with an almost light hearted tone, backing up to now stand by Nightmare’s side, both of them in their transparent blue armour.

Nightmare moon opens her wings in triumph, "it seems my guard has his own hatred of you sister and I'm not your sweet little Luna anymore!" she spat on the ground just in front of Celestia as she starts to slowly walk closer to her, "You’re going to make a great meal sister, and I will be the queen of this land, Equestria is mine, and it will exist under my night FOREVER!!" She laughs loudly and in an evil tone, when she looks at Celestia her pupils turn into a sharp slits as her mouth starts to build up with saliva, getting ready to eat the princess of the sun, meanwhile in the background there is sounds of guards galloping to Celestia's room.

Lightning smirks at watching his Queen berate and torture Celestia so exquisitely, Noticing Celestia’s facial expression turning from a look of fear to pure terror at the sight of Nightmare’s mouth widening before her, Lightning’s smile widening also, “She shall make a lovely morsel my Queen.” He says with a deep intensity, his head snapping around at the sound of Galloping hooves heading toward the bed chamber, turning sharply with wings unfurled he readies himself for battle as a spear made from the same metal as his armour materialises in his hoof, “My Queen... was this you?” he asks, turning his head only to catch Celestia’s head entering Nightmare’s wide jaws and then sliding into her throat, the sight distracting him a moment, a slight blush on his cheeks at watching Dark Alicorn he admired so devouring the Princess of the sun. His attention alerted back to the door as it bursts open and at least 6 guard’s ponies charge into the room, “Enjoy your meal my Queen handle these traitors.” He says fiercely.

“The only traitors here are you two! Charge!” one of the Guard’s announces as all 6 attack at once, Lightning smiling, raring to fight, “C’mon then!” he yells, dashing in and taking out 2 guards with 1 body slam, a third with a hind buck kick to the jaw and a slitting a 4th’s throat with the sharp end of his spear, being a Wonder Bolt Commander meant he was well versed with Arial and hoof to hoof combat.
All that can be heard from the dark queen was her moaning with pleasure as she takes gulp after gulp around her ‘former’ sister, sliding her jaws down the white Alicorn’s neck as a long bulge descends down hers, using her magic to clasp around her struggling front and rear hooves to prevent injury to herself and to Nightmare. Meanwhile Lightning stands huffing with exhaustion all 4 hooves drenched in the blood of the one guard’s throat he slit open, two more ponies laying dazed and unconscious beneath him while the other three huffed with exhaustion from their fight, they find it impressive that a lone Pegasus, despite being bigger than average, had repelled 6 highly trained Canterlot Royal guards. Lightning dare not look back to check on his Queen’s progress but from the sounds of the loud gulps and beginning of stomach noises, she was making decent head way.

By this point Nightmare has just widened her jaws over her large wings, pinned to her side by magic and right now gliding down Nightmare’s throat her stomach starting to bulge massively from the princess sliding into it as she continues gulping. Lightning standing his ground between the feasting Dark Alicorn Mare and the Loyal Solar guards trying to pass and save Celestia, though, from a glance, there wouldn’t be much TO save as Celestia’s Sun cutie-mark vanishes past Nightmare’s jaws, sat on her haunches and head tilted right back while levitating Celestia’s rear hooves, securely in the air. Her previous Alicorn meal of Dusk had been excellent practice for her current feat of gluttony, gulping loudly as the hind legs of the white mare descend down her throat with ease and her stomach bulging massive, gurgling noises sounding around Celestia from within already, a clear sign that her stomach is eager to break her down.

All that can be head from the Dark Queen, now was her moaning with pleasure as she commits to a final gulp and her stomach bulges massively with the last of the princess sliding into it, it’s now that she notices Lightning and the Guards preparing for another bought, "STOP NOW MY SUBJECTS!" she announces in her very Royal voice, "your princess is now within me and soon to be digested, so you might as well surrender and serve me or be executed for treason and miss out in my great night, it is your choice," her horn glowing with lightning levitating over to her as she places by her side, she stares at the surviving guards, "you did a great job Lightning, thank you," she says with genuine praise and began to rub her belly as Celestia does not fight, knowing she is defeated, but, oddly, she is happy to be in her sister’s stomach, she knows it's not truly Luna, but it felt like her. She starts rubbing the inside of Nightmare’s stomach, to show her forgiveness for her actions, a sentiment that nearly all but ignored by the dark Queen where she now lay.

Lightning does not resist when being levitated over to his queens side, struggling to stand on his hooves once Nightmare’s magic releases its levitative hold on him, bending down and laying his head upon Nightmare’s large stomach, purring softly at hearing it softly gurgle and churn around the Ex monarch, rubbing her belly soothingly as he’d promised her before, “Mmmm, she sounds delightful, digesting inside you my Queen.” Lightning says happily. The guards were at a loss, they had just witnessed the impossible, their sovereign princess had just been devoured by Dark Alicorn, and now proclaiming herself as queen while the Princess they were loyal to digests within the massive, yet steadily shrinking stomach. There was no choice left for them, the three remaining guards laying their spears down on the floor and bowing before the Black Mare, “We are your humble servants my queen, what would you ask of us?” the one Guard asks.

Nightmare smiles at the Guard’s submission, "excellent, you made the perfect decision, now go put on your new armour, the armour you currently wear insults me," her horn glowing as a door opens, leading to a room with new armour and weapons on display for her new guards. As they walk away, she closes her chamber door and looks to lightning, happy that he enjoys being with her as she lays a wing over him to keep him warm and comfy, "are you enjoying your cushion, Lightning?" She asks softly, as if she was treating him like she loved him.
Lightning can’t help but sigh peacefully, he could listen to her stomach all night, nuzzling into its softening girth as Celestia is broken down and the stomach continues to shrink and recede faster. Lifting his head from it when feeling the bulge becoming rounder, and stirs awake, grunting slightly from his aching joints, still very much fatigued from his fight with the Ex-Solar guards, returning Nightmare’s soft smile to him as he cuddles up under her wing, very much requiring a nap after his exertions and a bath later to rid his hair of the dried blood, but for now, he is content with simply laying there with the one Pony he would do ANYTHING for, the Dark Queen of the Night, Nightmare Moon.

Author's Note

The Longest chapter so far, as well as a look into Lightning Flash's motives behind his grudge toward Celestia.