The Solar Empire Vs The New Lunar Republic

Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash followed Luna down a Hall. As Fluttershy walked, Pinkie Pie jumped and Rainbow Dash flapped her wings. Fluttershy was curious. “Er... Princess Luna.”

Luna kept walking, but replied to Fluttershy, “yes? I am listening.”

“If it’s not too much trouble and if it’s okay with you, could you tell us what you’re going to show us?” Fluttershy lowered her ears. “That if it’s okay with you...”

Luna looked at Fluttershy. “I’ll show you the three of your rooms first and then the three of you can explore the place.”

Rainbow Dash raised a hoof. “Princess Luna, when will training be?”

“Training will start at night and end at midnight. Of course, before training, you will have dinner. The training will take place in the training room. You will have two types of training: Attack and defense.”

“What will we use to attack? A party cannon?” Pinkie Pie brought out a light blue party cannon and confetti came out. The confections fell on the manes of the mares. Fluttershy looked a little scared because of the noise, Rainbow Dash was taking out the confetti that fell on her mane and Luna had an expression that wasn’t happy at all.

“The unicorns will use their magic to attack and they can use swords if they want, the Pegasus will use blows and spears, Earth pony will use only blows, Bat Ponies will use their wings to knock out the Solar Empire ponies and when they knock out, it will kill them and I will use my sword to defend and attack,” Fluttershy was scared when Luna said that after knocking out the Bat Pony will have to kill the Solar Empire pony. “But to answer your other question, no. But since you already have a weapon that’s your party cannon, I think I can make an exception for you.”

“Thank you! Thank you!” Pinkie Pie went to Luna and hugged her tightly while smiling, Luna’s serious expression changed in surprise.

“You’re welcome,” Luna started to feel pain in her back. “Pinkie ... you’re going to break my spine ...”

Pinkie Pie stopped smiling and released Luna. “Sorry.”

“It’s okay, Pinkie.” Luna started to squirm.

When the princess felt better, she started walking again. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash followed again, but Pinkie Pie had to save her party cannon first. That done, she skipped again, they suddenly stopped. Luna opened a door with her magic, revealing a room. The room was dark blue and dark purple, the wall had Shadowbolts flags, the color of the blanket was black and had light blue ray patterns with purple clouds and also had a balcony. Apart from the fact that the flag isn’t a Wonderbolts flag, Rainbow Dash loved the room nonetheless. The pegasus wondered if this room was for her.

Luna looked at Rainbow Dash with a smile. “Rainbow Dash, this is your room. Feel free to explore the rest until dinner time.”

Rainbow Dash made a maneuver in the air. “Oh yeah!”

Luna looked at Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. “You two can also explore after I show you your rooms.”

She started walking again. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie followed. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie wondered what their room would be like. Would it be as beautiful as Rainbow Dash’s? Fluttershy looked at Pinkie Pie. “Pinkie Pie, how do you think your room will be?”

“I think mine will be all pink and will have party decorations!” shouted Pinkie Pie, excited.

“Er, I don’t know if Princess Luna likes this color and this type of decoration, Pinkie ...” said Fluttershy uncertainly, looking at the left side.

Luna stopped and opened a door. “Fluttershy, this is your room.”

Fluttershy went to the bedroom and was surprised. The room was dark blue, the blanket was black and had turquoise bat designs and a balcony. The pegasus entered the room.

Luna started walking again, Pinkie Pie skipping after her. Pinkie Pie came very close to Luna. “So Princess Luna, how my room looks like? Is he hot pink? Light pink? And how is the decoration? Will there be balloons and decorations? And what is the color of the wall? What color is the bed? Which is…”

As Pinkie Pie continued to speak, Luna couldn’t help but notice that she started to get a headache, after showing the room to the pink pony she planned to sleep a little to see if her headache would go away. When they reached a door, Luna opened the door with her magic. Pinkie Pie hopped into the room and her eyes widened in awe. The bedroom was a turquoise color, the bed blanket was blue and had designs of cupcakes and sweets, the wall had turquoise stripes and also had a balcony. Pinkie Pie went to Luna all happy. “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I loved it!” Pinkie Pie started jumping happily around Luna. Luna would never understand how and why Pinkie Pie had so much energy and never got tired.

Celestia led the way in a hall. Rarity and Applejack didn’t recognize this part of the castle, as they had never explored the castle before, but Twilight Sparkle did, this was the path that led up to her room when she was still studying at Canterlot. Would Twilight sleep in the same room as her foalhood? She hoped so. The princess stopped and opened a door with her magic. “This is your room, Rarity.”

Rarity went to the bedroom entrance, stars appeared in her eyes and she placed her hooves on her cheeks. “By the stars, princess! This room is fabulous!” the room was white, had a balcony, the blanket had pale blue diamond designs, similar to her Cutie Mark.

“Did you like the room, Rarity?” asked Celestia, smiling.

Rarity lay down on the floor and started kissing the golden perk which had on Celestia’s hoof. “I loved! I loved! I loved! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”

Celestia didn’t know what to feel and say about it. Twilight Sparkle noticed this and looked at Rarity not happy. “Rarity! Stop this! Don’t you see that the princess is embarrassed?”

Rarity stopped what she was doing, looked at Celestia before getting up and bowing. “Forgive me, princess.”

“It’s okay, Rarity,” said Celestia, now smiling.

Rarity stopped bowing while smiling, she watched Celestia leave with Applejack and with Twilight, on the back of the lavender unicorn was Spike. Rarity wondered what her friends rooms would be like. Would it be as fabulous as hers?

Twilight Sparkle looked at Applejack, a little sadly. “Applejack, I still don’t understand why our other three friends joined Princess Luna. Don’t they realize that Princess Luna betrayed Equestria?”

Applejack looked at Twilight Sparkle. “I also don’t understand Twilight, and it was with their help that we managed to defeat Nightmare Moon and Discord.”

Although Twilight Sparkle looked hopeless, she wasn’t going to give up. “I will think of something, Applejack. Don’t worry.”

The two mares and the dragon heard the sound of a door opening, they looked at Celestia and saw the princess opening a door. Celestia looked at Applejack. “This is your room, Applejack.”

Applejack entered the room and saw that it had a balcony, the wallpaper was light blue stripes and the bed blanket was pink with an apple pattern. She entered the room and lifted the two front hooves. “Eeehaa! Now that’s more i liked it!” Applejack looked at Celestia and bowed. “Thank you, princess.”

“You’re welcome.” Celestia started walking again, Twilight Sparkle followed her.

As they walked, Twilight Sparkle started to think of a way to bring her other friends to the Solar Empire, but at the moment she didn’t see any ideas in her head. The unicorn looked at Celestia. “Princess, will more ponies be joining in the Solar Empire?”

Celestia looked at Twilight Sparkle. “Yes Twilight, tomorrow I will announce what happened between me and my sister and ask to join me.”

“Will everypony be joining you, princess?” asked Twilight Sparkle, concerned.

“I hope so,” said Celestia. She and Twilight stopped. Celestia opened a door with her magic. “This is your room, Twilight.”

Twilight Sparkle looked at the room and realized it was the same room she slept in when studying Princess Celestia’s tutelage whenshe was living in Canterlot. Twilight Sparkle looked at Celestia with a smile. “Thank you, princess.”

“You’re welcome, my dear student,” said Celestia, smiling.

Twilight Sparkle was in doubt. “Princess, how will training be?”

“The training took place in the castle garden. Training will take place after breakfast. You and the others will have two types of training: Attack and defense.”

“Are we going to use any weapons? Are you going to use any weapons?” asked Twilight Sparkle.

“You and the other unicorns will use your magic, pegasus and Earth pony will use blows. And to answer your second question: No. As much as Luna has ceased to be my sister, I would never have the courage to hurt her. I will only use my magic as defense and attack,” said Celestia.

Twilight Sparkle didn’t understand why Celestia wouldn’t use a sword to defend against Luna. After all, Luna betrayed Equestria a second time.

A royal guard approached Celestia and Twilight Sparkle. When he got very close, the guard bowed. “Princess, they need you in the throne room.”

“Thanks for letting me know. I’m already going. You can return to your post,” said Celestia.

The royal guard bowed before leaving. Twilight Sparkle watched her mentor leave. The unicorn didn’t know what to do to get her friends to join the Solar Empire. Why did three of your friends join Luna? Did they not realize that Luna betrayed Equestria and that Luna wouldn’t be a benevolent ruler like Celestia? What was she going to do?

Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy left their rooms to explore the place. They were now in a room where they had all the ponies that were part of the New Lunar Republic. In the room there was Earth Pony, unicorns, pegasus and bat ponies, the decoration had tapestries of moon, stars, Princess Luna and the symbol of the New Lunar Republic. The ponies were talking to each other, not noticing the three mares that had just arrived in the room. Fluttershy felt uncomfortable being surrounded by several ponies, Pinkie Pie was excited to meet them and Rainbow Dash was smiling, especially when the pegasus started to wonder if the Wonderbolts were here and if they was, would she have a chance of her join them? She hoped so.

The three mares started to walk in the room until the end of the room. The ponies didn’t seem to notice because they were busy talking. As they emerged from the crowd of ponies, they saw two doors. One on the left and one on the right. Fluttershy looked at her friends. “Girls, which door should we go in?”

Pinkie Pie jumped for joy. “I know! I know! Uni duni te… ”

“Why don’t we vote? Who wants to go to the left door?” asked Rainbow Dash.

Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash lifted the hull. “Who wants to go to the right door?”

Nobody lifted the hloof. Rainbow Dash looked at Fluttershy. “Fluttershy, aren’t you going to vote?”

“It’s just ... I don’t know who to vote for ...” Fluttershy’s ears were down as she looked to the side. Rainbow Dash gave a facehoof.

“How about if we go to the left first?” asked Pinkie Pie.

“Ok ...” said Fluttershy in a low tone.

The three mares approached the door on the left. Rainbow Dash opened the door with a hoof. Inside there was a dining room next to the room, there was a kitchen. They went inside and went to the table. The table was dark blue with designs of a crescent moon and stars and had several chairs. There were so many chairs, it was impossible to know how many they had.

Fluttershy raised a hoof. “Oh my goodness, how much chair.”

Pinkie Pie was excited. “Oh! Will there be a birthday party?”

Rainbow Dash looked at Pinkie Pie. “Pinkie, the reason for having so many chairs is because there are so many ponies here.”

“Oh!” said Pinkie Pie.

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash went to the kitchen to spy and saw several cooks making food. Pinkie Pie came over to spy too. The smell of food was very good. Pinkie Pie started to float because the smell was so good, but Rainbow Dash managed to put her back on the floor with a hoof.

“Let’s get out of here,” whispered Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie nodded before they sneaked out of the room.

As they left the room, the mares went to the door on the right and saw three doors, there was one on the left, one on the right and one at the end of the hall, but it wasn’t that far from the other doors. They decided to go to the left first. When opening, they saw a bathroom, it had a sink, a towel to dry the face, a huge bathtub and a toilet. The bathroom was white.

“What a huge bathtub! It is much bigger than the of Sugarcube Corner!” Pinkie Pie went to the bathtub and put the hooves on while moving them around.

“This bathroom is much bigger than the one in my cottage,” said Fluttershy.

“This bathroom had to be twenty percent cool,” said Rainbow Dash, a little disappointed. “But are we going to explore the rest?”

“Sure, Rainbow,” said Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy in unison.

Rainbow Dash led the way. Rainbow Dash was starting to realize that she was leading, it made her feel happy, because although Twilight Sparkle was always the leader of the Mane six, Rainbow always wanted to have a chance to lead, she just didn’t tell Twilight that because she knew that the unicorn wouldn’t leave her. They decided to go to the right now. When they opened the door, they were surprised to see a large telescope.

“An observatory ...” said Pinkie Pie.

Rainbow Dash had already used a telescope to spy on Fluttershy when she and Pinkie Pie were going to make a prank on her, but Pinkie Pie said they shouldn’t do that, since Fluttershy was the most sensitive and would be hurt, even with the most innocent prank. The pegasus approached the telescope, she never saw the stars in a telescope but she has seen the stars in the sky when she was just a filly. The night has always been her favorite period, as she liked to spend a lot of time awake at night and spent most of the day sleeping on top of a cloud. Rainbow Dash put her eyes close to the eyepiece and saw several constellations in the sky and the full moon, she took her eyes away from the eyepiece and got wide-eyed.

Fluttershy noticed her friend’s expression and was concerned. “Rainbow, is everything okay?”

“This ... is ... awesome!” Rainbow Dash made a move and looked at Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. “Fluttershy. Pinkie Pie. You both need to look through the eyepiece at the sky.

Pinkie Pie was jumping up to the telescope. “Me first! Me first!” Pinkie Pie approached the eyepiece and when looking through the eyepiece she couldn’t help but deny that the night was beautiful. Pinkie Pie looked at her friends. “Do you know what that means?”

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy shook their heads. “A party!”

“Pinkie, I think now is not the right time to have a party,” said Rainbow Dash.

Pinkie Pie was confused. “Why not, Dashie?”

“We’ll have to have dinner in a little while and then we’ll have training.”

“How about having a party after training?” asked Pinkie Pie.

“I think you can do it after the training.”

“Girls, can I look in the telescope now? That’s if it’s okay for you two…” said Fluttershy.

“Go ahead, Fluttershy.” Pinkie Pie made room for Fluttershy to go to the telescope.

Fluttershy went to the telescope, approached the eyepiece and looked, she couldn’t help agreeing with the two that tonight was beautiful.

Suddenly, they heard footsteps. Rainbow Dash entered in front of Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy protectively, she had her wings spread. A Lunar Guard appeared at the door. Rainbow Dash stopped what she was doing and her wings closed. “The dinner is ready. Princess Luna is waiting for the three of you.”

“Come on.” Rainbow Dash spread its wings to fly to the dining room, Pinkie Pie started to skip and Fluttershy started walking normally. As Fluttershy was the last to leave the observatory, she closed the door with a hoof.

Luna was sitting in a chair waiting for Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, the other ponies were already at the table eating. She still couldn’t believe that it had ponies that stood beside her. But she was still happy that three mares that saved her from Nightmare Moon joined her. Luna never imagined that Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash would have joined her. Luna’s main reasons for thinking that the three mares wouldn’t join her were simple: Luna thought that Fluttershy would join Celestia because she was a benevolent ruler and that she would never become evil, Pinkie Pie would join because Celestia was much happier than her and Rainbow Dash wanted to join Celestia was due to the pegasus having the element of Loyalty. But it looks like it didn’t happen, and she was relieved about it.

The princess of the night heard footsteps and saw Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. Rainbow smiled with pride, Fluttershy smiled sweetly and Pinkie Pie smiled happily. They realized that it had three free seats where Luna was sitting. Rainbow sat on Luna’s left side, Fluttershy on the right side and Pinkie Pie on Rainbow Dash’s left side. Luna looked first at Rainbow Dash then at Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. “Did you three have fun exploring?”

“Yes, Princess Luna,” said the three mares in unison.

“Have you explored the observatory yet? For me, it’s the best place here,” said Luna.

“Yes Princess Luna, and your night is very beautiful today,” said Fluttershy.

“Thank you, dear Fluttershy. You have no idea how much these compliments mean to us,” said Luna.

Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were confused. “Us?”

“It’s the Royal We. It serves to refer to me and the subjects,” said Luna.

“Oh! Now it makes sense,” the three looked at Pinkie Pie. “You know, for a moment I thought you were referring to you and Nightmare Moon.”

When Luna heard the word “Nightmare Moon”, she was sad and her ears were lowered. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy noticed the princess’s expression and looked at Pinkie Pie not happy. “Pinkie!”

Pinkie Pie was confused. “What’s it?”

After the ponies finished eating, Luna led the way. “Princess Luna, where will the training be?”

“It will be in the training room,” said Luna.

“Princess Luna, do you know if you will train us or be another pony?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“We and the leader of the republic will train all of you,” said Luna.

The princess of the night and the ponies passed through a large room. Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie recognized the room. This was the same room that the ponies were talking to before. Luna opened the door and walked straight to the end of the hall. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy realized that they were going to the room that they hadn’t yet seen. Did that door lead to the training room?

Upon reaching the end of the corridor, Luna opened the door with her magic, the princess watched her subjects enter the room, when everpony entered she entered and closed the door with her magic. The training room was huge, huge enough to hold more than a hundred ponies. The color of the wall was dark blue, the wall had two papers. The first paper showed Luna in the form of when she was released from Nightmare Moon the colors present were red, yellow and gray, her expression was a smile and it was written: “Resist.” While the other paper white and showed Luna in her form current the color of your skin in the photo was black, on the mane had more stars than normal, but the mane, the crown and the eyes remained the same, on top there was the symbol of the New Lunar Republic, Luna’s expression on the second paper was serious and was written below: “Rise Up For A New Lunar Republic.” When Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash saw the two papers on the wall, they had different reactions: Fluttershy felt nervous, Pinkie Pie smiled and even started laughing a little and Rainbow Dash smiled with pride, since her loyalty belonged to Luna now.

“Welcome, ponies,” Rainbow, Pinkie and Fluttershy looked at the hooded pony. “Welcome to your first day of training. I will be in charge of organizing the training for all of you, Princess Luna will observe the training for each of you and will help if any of you are in doubt or if you need advice and help for fights. ”

Luna went to the hooded pony. “Form pairs, and then the unicorns take a sword and the Pegasus spears to start your training, but if you want to fight without a weapon it can.”

Pinkie Pie raised a hoof. “Can it be a trio?”

“It can, but it will be a little more difficult that way,” said the hooded pony.

“Uhu! I’m going to train with my best friends!” Pinkie Pie grabbed Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash with their hooves.

“For those who recently joined, the unicorns will attack with their magic, but they can use swords if they want, Pegasus can use blows and spears, Earth pony will use only blows, Bat Ponies will use their wings to knock out the Empire Ponies and Luna will use her sword,” said the hooded pony.

A bat pony raised a hoof. “Is Princess Luna going to train too?”

“Yes. She will train with me,” replied the hooded pony. “Good training for everypony.”

The unicorns and Pegasus went to where it had swords and spears. The unicorns took swords and Pegasus took spears. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy decided that they wouldn’t use any spears. Pinkie Pie took her party cannon.

“Think fast!” Rainbow Dash was thrown away. “Pinkie! What happened to you? Why did you throw me away ?!”

“I’m sorry, Dashie, but this is my technique that I will use when the day comes when we went to attack the Solar Empire,” said Pinkie Pie.

Rainbow Dash smiled. “I have to admit, until this technique of taking the enemy by surprise is good.”

“Thank you, Dashie. What will be your attack technique? And the defense one?” asked Pinkie Pie.

“My attacking technique will be punches and kicks,” replied Rainbow Dash. “I And my defense technique will be avoid flying.”

Pinkie Pie looked at Fluttershy. “What about you, Fluttershy? What will be your attack and defense technique?”

“I-i ... I ... I don’t know yet ...” Fluttershy scratched the knee of the front hoof.

Rainbow Dash gave a facehoof, again.

“Training is over! Unicorns must put the swords and the spears they used. You can go to sleep, ponies. Or stay awake up in the night of our princess.”

As the unicorns and Pegasus guarding swords and spears, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash left the training room. They didn’t plan to sleep yet. Fluttershy intended to stay on the balcony watching the night sky, Pinkie Pie planned to have some fun and Rainbow Dash would exercise in the bedroom.