Twilight woke up with a horrible headache. She let out a groan as she blinked away the darkness.

“Where.. Am I?” she mumbled, getting up on all fours. The young alicorn looked around, suddenly she screamed so shrill any windows would have shattered.

“WHHHHHHHATTTTT?!”

Pinkie appeared...out of nowhere and hugged Twilight. “There you are!!! We’ve been in this weird theater for like, hours!”

Twilight gasped before slowly pulling Pinkie away. “We?” the bookworm muttered. “Who else got sent here?” She looked beyond the party pony and saw that the rest of her friend group was trying to figure out how to break out.

Fluttershy was trying to push off a closing to a ceiling alongside Rainbow Dash, but it seemed to stick. “Uhm...it seems like this won’t work.”

“Damn it…” Rainbow flew away back to the floor and sat on her haunches with an annoyed growl.
“What can we do now?” Pinkie wondered.

Twilight sighed. “We can only wait around. Maybe something will happen?”
She also noted that the two royal sisters were huddled together, muttering things too quietly for Twilight to hear. Just then, a cloud of smoke burst into the room, making everypony cough.

“What in tarnation?!” Applejack hacked on the smoke that made her lungs ached.

“What is the meaning of this?” Luna jolted, her wings flaring in alarm.

Celestia looked around the room carefully. “Why are we all in a theater room?”

“BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO WATCH SOMETHING!”

Everypony turned to the source, which was… a umbreon? She was a shiny variant and looked rather stiff, and a rather new set of stitches could be seen on the underside of her left ear.
“My name is Robot, and I am here to change everything!” she jumped a bit too high and tugged at her stitches.
“OW!”
Rainbow facehooved, Applejack winced, and Twilight just blinked in utter shock.

Pinkie giggled, Rarity stared alongside Twilight, and Fluttershy’s eyes lit up.

Once Robot had recovered, she winced and rubbed her ear. “Anyway, I am here to say that we brought you here to watch the backstory of two ponies in this room. But before we do that, I need to put down some rules.”

“Number 1, you will call me Robot. You may see my cohost appear sometime. His name is Kitty, but you can also use they/them. Call us anything else and we will snipe your legs.” Everypony winced at the threat.
“Number 2, no screaming. If you need to scream, then bite in a pillow.”

“Number 3… Uhhhh….”

Robot just stared into space for 5 minutes after that.

Twilight coughed. “And….?”

Robot gasped. “Oh yeah! Before we see the backstory, we are going to be watching a quick animation that a fan made.”

Luna narrowed her eyes. “Show us, then.”

The tiny creature giggled in glee and suddenly shouted. “HEY KITTY! CAN YOU PLAY LULLABY FOR A PRINCESS ON THE SCREEN?”

“Uh-sure thing!” The sylveon responded, pressing a button while still being out of sight.
As the lights dimmed, Twilight noticed that her mentor has gone pale at the title.

“Princess?” she asked. “Are you ok?”

Celestia nervously looked at her apprentice, and forced a smile. “O-of course I am, Twilight!”

Rainbow rolled her eyes. “Yeah, I don’t think-”

“SUSH!”

[Celestia was shown pointing at a screen in her pocket dimension.

“Once did a pony who shone like the sun, look out at her kingdom and sigh….”]

Celestia looked away.

Everyone else went quiet, eager to learn some more about the co ruler of their land

[“She smiled and said, “Surely there is no pony, so lovely, and so well beloved as I…”]

Luna felt the bitter taste of jealousy once again ring in her mouth.

Rarity rubbed Luna’s shoulder, least in the best way she could due to the height difference.

[The screen showed an amazing picture of Celestia, her pink hair waving in the wind, her wings stunningly beautiful it was almost blinding.

“So great was her reign and so brilliant her glory that long was the shadow she cast..”]

Twilight frowned, trying to wrap her head around it. It seemed like her mentor back then was getting so much praise she might as well have been a living god. So why did she sound so guilty..?

Celestia lowered down in her seat, knowing what was to come. Pinkie looked closer to the screen in curiosity.

[The screen switched, showing the majestic Celestia, and a familiar pony wilting in the shadows.

"Which fell dark upon the young sister she loved.. And grew only darker as days and nights passed.”]

Twilight gasped.

AJ looked away darkly.

Rainbow hung her head.

Luna had a blank look on her face.

Pinkie’s ears drooped.

Rarity and Fluttershy muttered “Oh dear…”

Twilight turned to look at her mentor, already knowing what she was going to see.

Celestia hid her face with a pillow.

[The scene switched to a bedroom, and a much younger Luna could be seen crying in a ball. Celestia was at the doorway, and she looked vastly different. She was still lithe with rather long legs, but she looked way younger, probably barely reached adulthood, and her hair was completely pink. Celestia looked sad at first, but she then tried to reach out with a smile.
“Soon did that pony, take notice that others, did not give her sister her due.”]

“They completely forgot about me.” Those were the only bitter words that Luna could choke out through the growing lump.

AJ tensed up, knowing the feeling of older sibling jealousy all too well.

Twilight had never felt that, but the raw emotion was enough for her to get the hit.

Rainbow didn’t have any siblings, but the feeling of jealousy was an old friend, so she could kinda relate to Luna.

Rarity looked down with guilt, knowing how she used to treat her little sister.

Pinkie felt sympathetic and expressed that through droopy tears, even if she usually got along with her sisters fairly well.

Fluttershy joined Pinkie in crying, what if her brother felt the same way since she got her life together much earlier than him?

[Luna uncurled out of her ball and thrusted a hoof at Celestia, a look of seething hatred on her face.]

Everypony watching winced at that, and even more at Celestia’s heartbroken face.

“And neither had she loved her as she deserved.” The two sisters started fighting.
Luna got so infuriated she slammed on the ground with such force it cracked. She used a spell that shut Celestia out the door.
“She watched as her sisters unhappiness grew..”
Luna’s tearing eyes open, and they were dilated and hateful, her teeth gritted.

“I’m...sorry.” Celestia whimpered out.
But before Luna could comment-

“But such is the way of the limelight, it sweetly takes hold of the mind of it’s host..”
Luna, older, but still not as old as now, was seen in her mind accepting the holds of…
Nightmare Moon.

“Oh no…” Twilight muttered. “Oh no no, NO…” She started hyperventilating in panic.

Pinkie held Twilight’s hoof, taking deep breaths with her. “B-breathe Twilight, b-breathe…”

AJ gritted her teeth so loud, even Robot could hear it.

Fluttershy curled up in fear, while Rarity held her.

Rainbow shuffled around, not knowing what to do.

Celestia continued to look away.

Celestia was soon outside the door, breath quick and eyes wide, she looked at the door sadly before walking away, her head hanging.
“And that foolish pony did nothing to stop, the destruction of one who had needed her most…”

Luna wanted to drop dead. Anything would be better than the storm of emotion she was going through right now.

Celestia’s breathing hitched a little.

Everypony was too stunned by emotion to comment.

The screen panned up to the solar eclipse.
Yellow and Blue flashes were seen clashing. The screen got a close up of Nightmare Moon and her elder sibling in another impact, Celestia was seen looking heartbroken while Nightmare had a gritted sneer.
“Lullay moon princess, good night sister mine.”

“L-lullay…?!”

Rainbow Dash’s shocked words are what sent Twilight into muffled hysterics.

Luna was silently sobbing.

Pinkie held Twilight closer.

Rarity and Fluttershy cried next to each other.

Celestia practically was blue screening.

AJ said nothing or did anything. She had already blue screened.

As the two sisters bounced back from the impact, Nightmare fired a beam. Celestia shielded it and flew into Nightmare Moon, and they rolled in mid air before Nightmare bucked her elder sibling in the chest, sending her flying down. Celestia barley got her feet and zoomed away before Nightmare shoot a beam where she was just at.
“Rest now in moonlight’s embrace..”

Twilight blue screened, becoming the next victim, and Luna looked to be joining them soon.

Pinkie was still trying her hardest to comfort Twilight, bless her, and the other two were sobbing at this point.

Robot looked at Celestia. “You ok, there, Sunny? You look like someone poured bleach on your face.”

‘WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?’ the few ponies and co host who were not mentally shutting down thought in confusion.

Rainbow looked at the umbreon. “Uh, why aren’t YOU freaking out?”

Robot smirked.

“I only recently found this video 2 days ago. I just recovered this morning.”

Rainbow became the next pony to blue screen.

Kitty could be heard cackling in the distance.

Robot had to pause the video to unfreeze everyone. She hit play once Twilight, Rainbow and AJ had been slapped enough times.

“Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth-”
Celestia was seen flying extremely low the ground, avoiding Nightmare’s continuing spell blasts. She flew up over her opponent.
“Through cloud and through sky, and through space”
Celestia fired a spell blast, catching Nightmare in it, she was seen getting dragged down by the spell before it exploded. Somehow Nightmare wasn’t affected.

“DODGE-WAIT-NO-AAA I DUNNO WHO TO ROOT FOR!!!” Pinkie cried.

“They shouldn’t even be fighting!” Twilight yelled in frustration. “I don’t know what to think!”

Luna felt it best to not comment.

Rainbow turned to Celestia. ‘You good?” the speeder asked nervously.

Celestia made a few more incomprehensible noises in response.

“ . . . Ok then, I’m not going to even think about how to respond to that.”

“Carry the peace and the coolness of night-”
Both sisters fired blasts at each other. The shockwave was so powerful that it made the screen ripple and send goosebumps down the viewer’s spines.
“And carry my sorrow in kind..”
Celestia had the most regretful look while shedding tears, and Nightmare Moon was only more angry.

A small whimper left Twilight’s mouth, and Luna was 99% close to breaking down in tears.

AJ let out a choked sob.

Fluttershy and Rarity were basically hugging each other and crying at this point.

Pinkie rubbed Twilight’s shoulder.

“Luna you’re loved so much more than you know-”
Nightmare’s blast was winning. She let out a unhearble scream. Celestia closed her eyes, readying for impact. The blast hit her and sent her flying.

“NO!’ Twilight screamed.

AJ just cried.

Rainbow would deny that she was crying, but she was.

Luna was choking on her own spit, how she wasn’t breaking down was a mystery.

Robot smirked. “The good parts coming.”

“W-what good part?” Fluttershy managed to get out.

“May troubles be far from your mind…”
Celestia was sent crashing into a room, where a huge ball with artifacts was seen. A purple star fell out of a ball, falling to the floor. An injured Celestia opened her eyes to look at it.
The Element of Magic.

“No….” Twilight whispered.

“And forgive me for being.. So blind…”
Robot’s words came true as Nightmare was seen crashing into the room. In slowmo, Nightmare Moon was hit with a bubble, sending her essence to the moon for 1,000 years.

That was it. Robot sensed the shitshow about to happen and paused just in time.

Twilight just fucking snapped. She was screaming and howling.

Pinkie tried to make Twilight smile, but she couldn’t stop her own tears.

Fluttershy and Rarity continued to keep sobbing, even harder this time.

Luna sat there. She didn’t react. She could not BREATH. She-

THUNK.

Robot looked in shock at the collapsed alicorn. “..She fainted…?!”

Rainbow glared. “No, she’s just resting.”

“Oh, ok-”

“OF COURSE SHE FAINTED!”

As Robot swore and muttered about shouting, Applejack was trying her best to console Celestia.

Celestia knocked out of her state, and noticed Luna laying on the floor. “Luna?”

Applejack sighed. “Your li’ sis here just fainted. Poor rascal…”
No one had the heart to comment on the fact that she just called an immortal alicorn a rascal.

Robot butted in. “Ok, as fun as it was to traumatize all of you, I’m just gonna stop it right there and call a snack and drink break before we get started on the REAL video.” She suddenly disappeared, and the lights went back on.

Rarity wiped away some tears after that was said. “Wait, what?”

Rainbow blinked. ‘What just happened?”

AJ only shrugged, wiping away her flowing tears.

After Twilight had calmed down, she woke up Luna, who slowly pressed herself into her elder sibling’s fur.

Celestia immediately hugged her sister, quietly apologizing.

Luna only said sorry in return.

Rainbow padded over to the cramped tables filled with snacks and drinks. “Well, might as well eat our sadness away!” she said as she popped a chip into her mouth. Twilight sighed and joined her, relishing in the cool drinks and tasty food.

Pinkie dove into eating the sweets, and Rarity brought some food for Fluttershy to help cheer her up.
Twilight grabbed some plates filled with food and padded to the royal sisters. “Do you want some food? It will make you feel better…”

Celestia nodded, and used her telekinesis to eat some cake slices.

Luna grabbed some leaf sandwiches and started munching down.

After everypony had ate to their heart's content, Robot reappeared.

“Has everyone recovered yet?” Robot huffed. “I’m sick of waiting!”

“I think so.” Fluttershy muttered. Rarity hummed in agreement.

“Much better!” Pinkie proclaimed, then sipped on a milkshake.

Twilight nodded, chomping away at chips. “We have all calmed down.”

Luna, who was contently snuggled into the other alicorn, nodded.
Celestia sighed in relief.

Robot clapped her hands, or paws? Whatever. “Ok, so the real video will now be playing, so GET BACK INTO YOUR DAMN SEATS!”

Everypony promptly did that.

“Ok!” The Umbreon said with a strangely cheerful voice. “Let’s do this, Kitty!”

AJ rolled her eyes.

Pinkie clapped in excitement.

“Ok!” Kitty said, then pressed the button again.

“Is anypony gonna-”

“RAINBOW SHUT UP!”

Author's Note

If you are wondering why I am using She/Her, this is before I came out as a trans guy ^^
-Robot

Also, this story is not meant to be taken seriously. It is not canon to TSOCAL.

-Robot