From One world to another
Chapter 6

‘Well, this is fun.’ I thought to myself as I watched some foals run up to one of the houses, holding candy bags and wearing costumes all the while. I sighed in happiness as I watched them be greeted by the owner of the house they ran up to. After a few moments of talking, the mare dropped a couple of pieces into each bag, smiling as the colts and fillies galloped to the next house.

I had been released out of the hospital just six hours ago after having a few final checkups and a reminder from the doctor checking me to not do any serious for the next week. I was surprised that they let me out so quickly, since they didn’t have access to things like the advanced healing potions I had. I had actually contemplated giving them a couple as a thanks, but decided against it. After all, messing with the past would badly affect the future. At least, it should be the past.

I shuddered at the thought of what it would mean if this wasn’t the past. That would likely make getting back home much more harder.

Clearing my head, I look down at my own costume for nightmare night, a lunar guard. After I had left the hospital and finally got managed to finish a conversation with Pinkie pie after she found me, I had spotted a costume shop that had been set up. While I didn’t have too many bits left after paying the medical bill, I figured that I still had enough to spare for a costume, and decided to check it out. While most of the good ones were either too large or small for me or were already bought, there were still a few good ones left, including three sets of the armor, one for a unicorn and two for thestrals. I had asked the stallion why no one else had taken it, and he said it was because most people either associated it immediately with Nightmare Moon (who most residents had an encounter with at the Summer Sun celebration) or wouldn’t take it because it wasn’t just a costume. I inquired about what he meant, and his response shocked me.

“It’s actual Lunar armor from back before Nightmare moon was banished. Most of the time after Nightmare Moon’s banishment, it had been stored in a few museums across the country, with the most recent one in Baltimare. However, about 15 years ago, the museum nearly went bankrupt, so they sold a lot of their collection, including the armor. I’m a historic collector and seller, so I bought it and tended to it up until now, even adding some of the enchantments that had worn off back. I decided to leave the armor up during nightmare night to see if anyone would want to buy it. Even with the lowered price though, they still wouldn’t buy it.

After that, I had inspected the armor more thoroughly myself. It was in excellent condition, and I saw the faint markings of several magical runes and enchantments on the armor. There was even a small card right next to it that explained what kinds of runes the armor had. It had a few enchantments that helped with endurance and minor repair and maintenance, as well as increased agility, speed, and slight improvement in physical and magical strength. There were also a few enhancements that were more ancient, however these ones were surprisingly unknown. I spent a few minutes thinking about it before deciding to buy it. While it costed 850 bits, which was more than half of the amount I had, I figured that it was worth it. Not only was it a cool costume for nightmare night and had badass enchantments on it, it could also be used as more permanent armor in case I got into any fights. It was even my size!

So after buying the armor, along with some maintenance kits and a lunar themed scabbard for my sword, I bought a camping tent and took it to the plains outside of town, where I pitched it up and took a quick nap.

I had slept for a few hours before being woken up by my pipbuck’s alarm clock. Checking outside, I saw that nightmare night was about to start, so I had quickly put on my lunar armor over my Stable-tec barding and saddlebags.

So far nightmare night had been pretty good, I got to talk to some ponies, played a couple of games, and even got to do an intimidation of a guard for a group of foals. Needless to say, this was amazing. Nothing could ruin it!

*ZAP*

I yelped as I felt a shocking sensation go through my back as a loud crack of thunder roared just above me, followed by familiar laughter. Looking up, I was surprised to see Rainbow Dash in a shadowbolt uniform, laughing herself off on a thunder cloud.

“Haha! Priceless!” She said, before taking her cloud and zooming off.

Sighing in annoyance, I checked my armor, hoping that there wasn’t any damage. Rainbow Dash must have made the lightning bolt stay above me instead of hitting me, since I didn’t see any burns or damage.

Determined to not make that stain my view of the night, I trotted off to a commotion that was happening nearby. When I got there, I saw that it was a sort of act/speech by the mayor, who had decided to wear an odd clown outfit. As I was listening to her speak, I looked off to the side and that drew all of my attention.

Twilight Sparkle.

I knew I was going to meet her at some point, but it still didn’t stop all of the thoughts and emotions I had about her flashing up before my eyes. I quickly dashed them away before refocusing on the mayor, who had been replaced by Zecora. The zebra mare was just now leading a bunch of kids, and Pinkie Pie, away on some path. Curious about what was happening and seeing that Twilight went with them too, I decided to follow.

After a couple minutes of walking, we were nearing a slightly less creepier area of the Everfree forest. I started to look around, but was interrupted by a voice.

“Oh hey, I remember you. You were that mare in the hospital.”

Surprised at this, I looked to the side and saw Twilight trotting beside me, clad in a mage’s cloak and hat, along with a fake beard. As I finished this observation, Twilight continues speaking.

“I wanted to say thank you for protecting the girls you saved from the timberwolves, and sorry about that putting you in the hospital.” She had a slightly guilty look to her face as she finished. Deciding to put her worries at ease, I respond with a kind and forgiving tone that Fluttershy would be proud of.

“It’s alright, I’ve definitely suffered much worse. Besides, it turned out well in the end, and I got released in time for nightmare night, so that’s a plus.”

Hearing this brought a happy and relieved look to her face. “Great, I’m glad it wasn’t much of a trouble. Although, what about your medical bills? I had heard that the doctors had to use some heavy-duty magic to heal you and keep you stable.”

‘It was that bad!?! Huh, no wonder the medical bill was 2,000 bits.’ I mentally thought, keeping it within my head as I responded in a more appropriate way. “It’s alright, I managed to pay for it, so no need to worry.” With that, most of her guilt was washed away, replaced by a more happy face.

“Well that’s great! I’m Twilight Sparkle by the way, what’s your name.” She asked, holding out a hoof as she stopped trotting

“I’m Littlepip.” I said with a growing smile as I shook her own hoof, marking the start of a good friendship.

A few minutes later

‘I got to admit, that is quite scary.’ I thought as I watched the little scene play out before me. Zecora was using a combination of magical green powder (don’t you dare make any kind of rude connection), the general spookiness of the area, and her own rhyming abilities to scare the children and couple of adults that came with.

It was especially interesting that Pinkie Pie decided to stick her head in the ground like an ostrich, even though she was a chicken. I watched as one of the colts backed away from the performance being shown in fright, only to bump into Pinkie Pie. This sent both of them screaming and running away, with Pinkie yelling to give into the demands of sacrificing her candy. Not surprisingly, she and the foals dumped all of their candy at the base of the nightmare moon statue that stood in the center of the clearing we were in.

What did surprise me was the rapidly closing and shifting thunder clouds overhead that answered Pinkie’s yells, with arcs of lightning spreading throughout it. At a hole in the stormy weather, a dark chariot approached, being flown by two armored ponies and flanked by about four more. As the chariot drew closer, I realized that the ponies were thestrals that were wearing modern Lunar guard armor. As they hovered over us momentarily, I realized who must’ve been the passenger.

‘There’s lunar guards and it’s nightmare night, so this must be Pri-’ my thoughts were interrupted when almost everypony present ran in terror towards Ponyville, screaming like they were being chased by the devil. Shortly after leaving, the chariot followed them.

“We should go follow them.” Twilight said. Without waiting for a response, she galloped after them, with me following behind her.

After a few minutes of constant galloping and a couple of short teleports from Twilight, we reached the town center just as the chariot paused in the air yet again. This time, the chariot landed on the street, letting the tall passenger walk out. After looking around at the scared and confused ponies for a moment, the pony threw back the hood of the cloak they had on, revealing their identity.

Princess Luna, princess of the night and guardian of dreams has arrived.

Author's Note

Well, sorry for the late update. Between being busy with other stuff (including the new story 'Undertale: Chara's new home' and loosing a bit of motivation for a while, I haven't had the time to properly work on it.

Also, In case your wondering about why Littlepip had bits in the first place, I'm making it story canon that the NCR is trying to transit into a better currency and decided to reinstate bits. While news ones would be made, they decided to temperarly use pre-war style bits before they could make their own, which is why Littlepip had them.

In case you hadn't noticed, I changed the story a little bit towards the end. I did this for dialogue reasons in the next couple of chapters. Speaking of chapters, the next updates will be slow, but probably not as slow as before.

Stay determined folks!