Discord fills in for celestia
A council of 20 ponies circled a table, to decide how to deal with the situation. Celestia was dead and Luna had been seriously injured. They had informed the public of Luna's stabbing incident, however had not yet released info on celestia.
"The public deserves to know. Celestia served a good long run." Said Shining
"It will become pandemonium without their guidance" objected blueblood
"For once in my life I agree." Said rarity
"Well if it's guidance you seek..." boomed a godly voice that had too belong to celestia.
"Discord, manners" murmured fluttershy
"Hmmph"
"Twilight, your awfully quiet on the subject, do input your opinion" encouraged cadence
"Discord you act as celestia, i will take over for Luna until she is better."
"Well now that's settled" exclaimed applejack
"My first act as celestia is to banish applejack" exclaims discord
*Gasp*
"Discord..." trailed fluttershy
"YOU GET ONE WARNING!" Yelled Cadence
The day began for the citizens of equestria with a important announcement on equestrianewsdaily channel. Celestia announced that twilight will be taking over for a while as Luna was currently in the hospital on urgent care. Some of canterlot nobility was shocked with her decisions, for example to drink tea without a cup. Slowly they got used to the changes happening throughout the day.
That evening after twilight raised the moon she made another trip to canterlot hospital. She was dressed in pure black, with the ability only to see outside. The only thing out of her suit was her wings. Around her waist she had a belt with many knives, and 2 large bombs.
"Luna I'm sorry..." she said
A voice entered her head, she could hear Luna comforting her, finding a way to communicate.
'dont be, I know you didn't mean anything.'
"Still trying to veer me down another path? I don't think so. There is no going back now, you have formed me into who I am today." Snarled twilight, "You have a choice, either tell me where starswirl is or DIE!
I will die in honor, my sister would have wanted it
"You're whole life was just about what she wanted."
Twilight grabbed the smallest and dullest of knives out of her belt.
"Lets make this fun!" She exclaimed with a wicked grin
Screams filled the night so long the cops showed up. Twilight dropped a bomb, and flew from the window. For the next 10 minuets patients were being rushed out into the streets, discord raised the sun up so people could get out easier, and nurses and doctors flew around trying to get everyone out. The police tried for 5 minuets to disarm it, but gave up. They started running down flights of stairs, but as twilight had planned they were too slow. The building exploded shooting fire and debris everywhere.
The next day was chaos The death count hit 206 ponies, and the bomb eliminated all traces of evidence. Luna was announced as one of the dead ponies, and this caused equestria to freak. A terrorist had killed 204 people, including a princess.
Twilight had been locked in the castle all day, and many said this showed how inexperienced she truly was. She however knew otherwise. Discord had also given up and cadence alone was trying to calm the public.
Twilight sat alone in her room, pondering the last few days events. She heard a knock at her door. Expecting it to be the royal guards coming to take her away she grabbed a knife and flung the door open.
" Oh discord? Hi."
"I give up. Reveal my tricks to the public." He begged
"Fine whatever."
They walked to the front of the castle where the crowds had gathered. Discord morphed back into the draconaques he is and yelled "Celestia is dead."
A hush fell over the crowd as Shining cuffed him.
"Well let you out soon, but you gotta take your pony form." Whispered shining
"It doesn't matter anymore does it?" Murmered discord.
"It does for my sister." He replied a frown forming on his face.
It had been a bad day for twilight, all of the stresses were adding up. As the replacement for celestia, she had finally learned what important role she played. Of course she would never admit that to celestia though.
She was just entering the canterlot hospital to see how celestia was doing , when she dropped her phone. 'ugh great, another thing for me to deal with' she thought. She assessed the damage and saw that the whole screen was shattered. She groaned and continued her search for her old mentor.
As she rounded the hall into the royal corridor, she saw 3 rooms in use. 2 were for guards and the largest belonged to celestia. She stopped outside the door at the sound of hushed voices.
"Starswirl, you know well I can't publicly execute her! She has potential, and so do I you realize!" Came celestias voice.
"You're tough to convince master, but we have little time. Soon twilight will begin to murder everyone." Came a serious voice.
The voice was familiar she just couldn't put a name too it...
"If thou may present their thoughts, I see no evidence in her dreams, what you see in her mind may be a little more...how should I say...logical I think she is fine as of now." Came a deep female voice.
"Regardless this prophecy is very vague, and has little proof. That is what scares me the most." Announced Celestia
"They always say, keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer, so I think you can continue to stall for time. I don't know how long it will work though." Said the familiar voice
" I believe my plan will work, I will see you soon starswirl." Dismissed celestia
Twilight entered to see only Luna and celestia, acting perfectly normal and professional. Luna got up to leave as soon as she saw twilight enter. Twilights visit didn't last as long as she planned...
Under the cover of darkness
A scream echoed through the deserted streets of canterlot. Citizens thought little of it, few even heard it. But to others it meant something totally different. 3 royal guards burst into Celestias room scanning their surroundings, too slow. 3 gunshots echoed through the empty halls of the hospital. Slowly Luna flew into the room.
"Drop your weapons, i mean you no harm" she boomed,
"Tell me everything, now." Twilight commanded,
Luna explained of starswirls prophecy, an how twilight would lead to the end of equestria. Celestia knew she couldn't kill a child of a family so close to the royal family, so she begged twilights parents to let her attempt to enter magic school. She decided she would keep twilight under her wing and guide her down a different path. Celestia broke the egg during the exam, and made twilight a princess to veer her from the killings.
"So...what about nightmare moon?" Asked twilight.
"It was all staged. I was never sent to the moon, celestia just used all my power to stage everything that happened so correctly.
"I dont know what too say."
Silence filled the room. Luna assessed the damage. Twilight had left no evidence, holding the knife in her hand to take with, and having not touched the room at all. The bodies were untouched on the floor, blood pooling on the floor.
"Truce?" Luna asked reaching out her hand
A final scream rang through the streets that night, and the night, and day came to an abrupt hault. No sun or moon could be seen in the sky.