"Anon..."
"Thank you for coming such a long way, my faithful human."
"Did you follow my instructions to the letter? Does she know?"
"No?”
”Good. You see...
“Yes, you are correct, this is about her."
"Or rather, the both of you."
"Please drop any sense of formality, it will make this easier."
“I wish it were so simple, I truly do!"
”No, no, I’m afraid this is a friendship problem of sorts.”
“A dire one.”
"Anon, I... I'm sorry."
"Not since I banished my sister have I been so distraught."
"Yes. It is awful, and this will cause so much hurt, my faithful subject."
"I don't expect this explanation to make it any easier, but you deserve to know. You've earned that much."
“Luna and I can see the future.”
"And because of that, for untold generations we steered this planet towards a future of peace and harmony."
"By our hooves certain doom was stopped time and time again, but it could not last forever."
"My sister and I can’t be everywhere.”
"You’ve already seen it, we can't possibly keep Equestria safe on our own. Not anymore."
"Were our six friends not born this generation, I shudder to think what would have happened to my little ponies..."
“Luna and I knew the element bearers would come. All manners of divination foresaw their births."
"Twilight is to be my replacement, as Cadance is Luna's."
“Luna and I are tired and old beyond the most ancient of dragons. It was inevitable that one day we’d have to pass on the torch.”
“Not that we would stop working, of course, but we won’t be around forever.”
"Yes, you heard correct, Twilight will rule Equestria.”
“I’m sure you’ll agree there is no better pony up to the task.”
“All divine magic points to futures of her and her friends leading Equestria into a golden age."
“…”
"All futures that... don't have you...”
"I've been so confused since that day Twilight summoned you to help with Nightmare Moon."
”Me and my dear sister, neither of us ever foresaw your arrival.”
”Yes, yes, Twilight has told me time and time again it was an accident.”
“Goodness, I created the spell she cast and even I’m not sure what went wrong.”
”Would you believe I thought you a villain?”
“Yes, some agent of Nightmare Moon at the time.”
”But you helped save my sister despite having no stake in that fight.”
”A wisp of Discord’s chaos magic, I then thought. He always did relish playing the long game…”
”But you and your friends bested the lord of chaos himself.”
“I daresay you kept Twilight’s sanity intact through that whole ordeal.”
”But I still had my doubts.”
“Some foul new breed of changling?”
”Sombra sleeper cell?”
“A tendril of the nightmare being?”
“Member of Tirek’s tribe?”
“An entirely new threat?”
”You proved me wrong every time.”
“There’s not a malicious bone in your body. Never once have you shown contempt toward my subjects.”
”He’s the best accident that ever happened, she told me…”
”She certainly did, you’re very dear to her, as I’m sure you know...”
”Oh heavens above, Anon, I’m so, so sorry.”
”You don’t deserve this. Twilight doesn’t deserve this…”
”I swear on my life, what I am about to say is the truth.”
”Something happens, Anon!”
“Something very bad happens if you stay with Twilight!”
”Thousands of magical tests, all showing something terrible is fated to happen, and I can’t allow it!”
”Dowsing, blood magics, dream prophesies, paths of the stars, and complex, brutally powerful spells to see the many potential futures…”
”But it’s not just spells known only to me and Luna.”
”The Griffons cartomancy, and reading their tarot and playing cards.”
”The cleromancy of the Yaks, who cast lots to see the future.
”Even the Dragon shamans and their dracomancy…”
”They are all predicting something.”
“Something unspeakable with you and Twilight.”
”Endless wastes.”
“Dunes of billowing ash choking what vegetation dares to grow.”
”…”
”And those are the good ones, Anon”
“…”
“No.”
“I cannot show you these things.”
“It shames me to admit, but for all my power I cannot show you these visions.”
“I have no proof except what me, my sister, and what the mediums whisper to me.”
“I mean no insult, but someone unskilled in magical theory cannot possibly comprehend how difficult these are to understand, much less cast.”
”No. No, Anon. Divination is not time travel. Not exactly.”
“I remember the adventure you two got into when you found that scroll in the Canterlot Archives.”
“What we see is no mere coincidence.”
“We have millennia of experience seeing the future.”
“Untold events have happened as we foresaw, and just as many were altered to maintain harmony.”
”No… No, I… What exactly brings such destruction is uncertain.”
”Maybe Twilight gives her life to protect you.”
“Perhaps the elements are slain because of something involving you. “
“Perhaps Twilight decides to settle for a humble life with you in Ponyville, and does not wish to take the throne.
“I just don’t know.”
“Vague meanings and cryptic signs are normal, but with you…”
“Every future is bleak.”
“That even the primitive magics of other species are seeing something…”
“That might be the most frightening.”
”It might not even be you; if Twilight managed to sire a child of yours…”
”You two have gotten so close it-“
”Oh my word, that ring…”
”So you did plan on asking her.”
”Oh, you sweet man. You ill-fated, sweet man.”
”…”
”You know what I’m asking.”
“Don’t you, Anon?”
”Anon? ANON!”
”Don’t you dare!”
“After all I’ve told you, don’t you dare try to run!”
“Of course Luna knows! It tore her apart that it had to come to this!”
“She pleaded I do this without her. She has the utmost respect for you, and so do I!”
“Why do you think she isn’t here!?”
“Twilight can’t know. You’re a smart man, Anon, you know she’d never believe this.”
“I’ve foreseen it.”
”Just… please, just come back here.”
”No! No, no, no, nonono, No bloodshed, I swear it.”
”Violence is always the final option.”
“If there’s ever an alternative I’ve always taken it.”
”The dragons, gryphons, the yaks, all their leaders… “
”They begged me to strike you down.”
”They pleaded I see reason, and I do. I really do.”
“Never before has something like this happened.”
”There is only one alternative.”
"Anon... You must leave Equestria."
"You must leave here and never return."
“You must leave her.”
“And she can never know.”
”Journey far past the Dragon Lands and the Yakyakistan mountains.”
"You cannot settle until reaching the very ends of the earth, and even then…”
“They have sworn not to harm you, on the condition that you don’t turn back.”
“But know they will be watching.”
“No letters. No messages. Not a trace of your existence can come back to Equestria.”
”Of course she will miss you.”
“She, and Spike, and all your friends…”
“More than you imagine.”
“One day, maybe two before she really starts to worry and contacts me.”
“She will search for you, she will grieve, and she will be hurt like no villain has hurt her before.”
“But in time she will move on, she will always have the support of her friends.”
”I will lie to her. It disgusts me to have so many plans for whatever the future holds.”
”I will say you returned to your old world through some cruel twist of fate.”
“I know you would never willingly leave your beloved princess of friendship.”
“Please, Anon, please. I can’t…”
“I have food, water, clothing, and supplies. Take everything you can carry.”
“By royal decree, Anon, you are forever banished from Equestria.”
“Equestria’s border ends at that vale.”
“You will cross it and not come back.”
"..."
“You have every right to say that.”
”I don’t expect you to ever forgive me.”
“Know this.”
“I won’t hesitate to do what’s necessary if you disobey me.”
“This is for the future of Equestria."
"This is for the good of all.”
”Please…”
“Just…”
“I am begging you.”
“Just go…”
Author's Note
Posted on March 11, 2019
https://pastebin.com/mYVNMSW6
Wanted to write something sad around the time the Season 9 trailer came out, so I scribbled out the original version and posted it on /mlp/.
There are some noticeable differences from the pastebin version.
Celestia didn't talk naturally so I had to reread and change things to sound more natural.
