Stardust

“Moonlight!?” Luna called. She seemed to be floating in a dark place with no gravity. She tried again “Moonlight!!?”

“Over here!” said a voice from the dark “hang on I have to find the light switch”. She waited a few seconds listening to him muttering and was suddenly blinded by a bright light, she abruptly closed her eyes.

“Oops!” he said “I forgot to give you these”. She felt him grab her head and put something around her eyes.

“There” he said “now open them”.

She did so and was greeted with a spectacular sight. All around her were different items, suspended in air. She looked and saw the same thing in every direction, endless space with objects everywhere.

“Put this on as well, your wings don’t exactly work here”. She looked toward the source of the voice and found the weirdest looking clothing article floating toward her.

“Like this” he said and she looked at him. He had on a metal helmet that covered his whole head. His jumpsuit was glowing a faint blue color; she saw that the garment in her hand was similar to the material of his jumpsuit.

She put it on like he demonstrated and found that it was a jumpsuit. She tried to run but found she still couldn’t, “how do you work this thing?” she asked.

“Imagine yourself moving and you will” and with that he started flying around apparently looking for something.

She closed her eyes and imagined herself flying forward; she opened them slowly and found that she was moving.

Excitedly she began to go faster and faster, far surpassing her normal flying speed, weaving left and right to avoid objects. She let out a whoop of delight when she felt something move under her.

“Having fun now are we?” Moonlight said in a sarcastic, challenging tone. He was flying upside down beneath her moving in and out of obstacles with ease. She frowned at him and continued on, speeding up as she did so.

No matter how fast she flew he always seemed a step ahead of her. Her face became a contorted look of determination.

“aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand stop here Luna” he said, coming to a complete stop next to a door. She zoomed past him fazed by his sudden stop and tried to slow herself down. She looked forward to find herself crashing into another door.

“Wrong door Princess!” Moonlight shouted at her. She grumbled and slowly floated herself to where he levitated by the door. He smirked to himself and opened the door “after you my liege” he said, overacting the statement.

She scowled at him and went through the door, as soon as she was through she found that her suit stopped working and crashed to the floor.

“be sure that you have both hooves firmly placed on the floor before entering” he said in the same joking tone. She muttered something, punched him in the foreleg, and got up.

She looked around the room and found that it was circular with a high celling. In the center was a glowing blue tile.

“Welcome to the training room” he said “here is where I entertain myself whenever I am bored” she looked at him

and found that he had taken his helmet and suit off, she did the same. “This place was built by me to simulate fighting simulations” he walked to the blue tile and stood on it. “Ray, activate training room main base”.

“Certainly sir” said a voice as the room was engulfed in blue light “What location would you like to simulate today?”

“Ship bridge, Stardust” Moonlight responded quickly “we have a visitor today and we don’t want to disappoint her”

“Of course not sir, Stardust bridge coming right up for you!” and with that the room grew darker and the bridge of

Moonlight’s old flagship materialized around them. Luna sat and watched with awe as everything clicked into place around her.

“Well here it is” he said “my pride and joy, or rather, what used to be my pride and joy”. He walked over to the viewing platform and looked out one of the many small windows. “Ray, can you pull up a Drakkon attack squad near the door please? AI deactivated”.

“You know I can sir” the computer replied cheerily. Luna turned toward where the door used to be to find 5 large lizard-like creatures.

“These Luna” Moonlight said, suddenly standing next to her “are the bastards that destroyed Alicron, our home planet”.

She looked at him and looked back to them “I can see why they won” she said “those sharp talons could rip a pony open in no time”. He looked at her with a devilish glint in his eye.

“you haven’t seen anything yet” he said mischievously. “Ray can you pull up my armor please? I would like to do a little demonstration for our friend here”.

“Ooh! Going to have a little fun ey?” the computer said peevishly “here you go sir!” Four metal boots appeared on the ground next to Moonlight.

Luna looked at them “they are a bit large for you” she said “have you shrunk?” She laughed to herself at her insult.

“you could say that” he responded. His body was enveloped by a white light and his form began to change. His legs got longer, his wings larger, his hooves wider until he stood about twice his size. He then proceeded to put his hooves in the boots.

“Ray, put on heavy skirmish armor please” he told the computer.

“yes sir! Would you like some cannons with that?” It sounded like the computer was taking an order at a restaurant.

“No Ray, just the knives” Moonlight said to the air. Ray gave a huff and began the task of fitting armor on Moonlight.

Luna watched, with extreme fascination, as robotic arms came down from the ceiling and up from the floor and began to attach plates of armor onto Moonlight.

After a few minutes they retracted and left an iron pony standing where Moonlight used to be. Luna cautiously moved forward to examine the armor. It was far superior to anything that equestrian had and looked like a spear or an arrow would bounce right off of it.

The armor gave a hiss and she jumped back, startled. Moonlight stepped off of the plates holding his boots and began to walk around.

“looks like everything is in order in here” a metallic voice said from the suit. He stopped and flaps opened all over his armor, he began mumbling something about airbrakes.

When he was done with all of his armor checks he went to stand by Luna. She got the full effect of his height this way; he stood a good 12 hands above her.

“Luna, I want you to go stand over there by the wall behind me ok?” she nodded and went to the indicated location. “Ray, I want plasma all around that area ok? No gaps”.

“My thoughts exactly sir” and with that a box of plasma shields enveloped Luna, startling her. Moonlight took one last check to make sure everything was in order.

“Ray, activate AI” he turned himself toward the 5 Drakkon warriors “let’s have some fun”