Everyone in the family was thrown into the half destroyed apartment with a loud 'Bang' as the hole through time was forced closed after their exit from within, the button Athi had been carrying bursting into ashes after its one time use. The apartment was massive, but still a wreck from their first departure. Azula was spread out on a table which had shattered like cheap glass under her weight, the Mr.Handy his brother had brought along was screeching about 'messy this' and 'messy that' while trying to tidy up the place. His mother slumped in a corner, his father trying to stand up after having smashed through a wooden chair. His brother was already up and squealing like a kid in a candy store at the Holo-display Television he had in the Livingroom of the apartment. Azula slowly got up from the half shattered table unharmed, if a little dizzy from the ordeal. "I....do not ever want to do that again please." She groaned and flopped onto the ground holding her head, she could feel it pulsing with her heartbeat, eyes clenched shut as they throbbed in their sockets.

Athi himself, was sprawled out halfway into the sink and over the thankfully cold stove in the kitchen of the apartment. "Yeah...let's not do that shit again...." He got up slowly, cracking his back and other non cybernetic joints, which wasn't many. And observed the room. "God damn it Discord...." He cursed to himself halfheartedly, the apartment was a mess for sure, but he had all the cash he could need to repair it, and more importantly he had his family back.

His father looked out one of the windows which were one way, and his jaw dropped at the sight. The apartment complex was near the main starship port on the planet, and his father got a first row seat to watch a ship a mile long rise into the sky as smoothly as a balloon floating through the air left adrift by a careless child. He looked down from the ship that ascended into the skies and beyond to the city down below. Dozens of species could be seen, Deathclaws in powered combat armor hauling heavy items, Akun skittering too and fro, while pegasi flew about pushing clouds and unicorns worked in teams of four to life massive crates from the loading bays into a train that was hovering over metallic rails. He looked into the skies, and was awed further upon seeing not one, but two stars lighting up the skies, both of which were a slightly darker hue of orange than the sun he was used to. "We're...really on another planet?" He asked turning to his son Athi, voice trembling with doubt.

Athi nodded as his brother squealed again prodding at another device, he'd gotten over the violent tumble he'd taken with everyone else rapidly after seeing a Holo-display television. "Yes, this is Leva, the Manuka's homeworld, I'm stationed here to work at one of the hospitals that've gone up, to give the natives more advanced medical care, this apartment is temporary as once my term is up here I'm moving back to the Capital city of the Crystal Empire with Azula, which is just two weeks away."

His father looked back to the window just staring at the scene going on outside, the bustle of a city still clearly under construction as several large machines rolled past with teams of Akun wearing bright orange body paint and hardhats shaped for their skulls directing the flow of material to a building that was midway through the construction process.

With what looked to be a great effort, Botan looked away from the mesmerizing scenery outside the window and back at his son. "What.....What the hell do we do now son? None of those governmental nuclear drills prepared me, or anyone else in our family for anything even remotely like this! This is almost like something out of one of those pulp fiction magazines kids liked so much!"

Athi smiled as he was about to respond, when a loud authoritative knock pounded on the door, before it was ripped off the hinges by a large android in tactical military gear, several more following behind it as they aimed their weaponry at everyone present in the room, which looked to be long and sleek looking laser rifles with a purple shell and gold colored detailing, giving the weapons an almost royal look to them. "By order of Emperor Lorenzo, Doctor Athi Christoph and any present are to be escorted to the Imperial Palace for an audience with His Imperial Majesty. Lethal force is authorized, it is advised to not resist as the Emperor would prefer no bodily harm occur."

Aaron's Mister Handy raised its buzzsaw revving it to life, it wasn't sentient all it knew was that its owners were in danger and as dictated by its programming it had to defend the home and them. "For King and Country!" The machine bellowed and began aggressively floating towards the military androids as rapidly as it could, sparking its flamethrower and setting one of the androids ablaze. Unfortunately for the Mister Handy one of the androids was carrying an EMP unit and disabled the machine with a quick blast. The robot wasn't destroyed, just out of commission until its next reboot which would have to be manually initiated.

The android that had been set on fire was unharmed, albeit its uniform was scorched and had minor warping and melting in some areas, but it had been designed to handle automatic plasma bolts, a few gouts of undirected fire wasn't going to compromise its armor very much. Athi looked back at his family. "It's fine guys, everything is going to be just fine if we do as these guys say, alright? Don't try anything stupid like that bucket of bolts." His brother made a visible effort not to protest his best work so far being degraded like that but managed to keep his mouth shut. "Azula set the gun down, it won't help you here." She did so, slowly as one of the androids had the barrel of its weapon trained on her head.

With everyone now disarmed, except Athi given his weapons where inside his limbs and thus couldn't be removed normally, the family was hustled out of the apartment and into an awaiting aircraft that was hovering silently over the pavement, not even blowing any dust around, much to Aarons amazement and the fathers bewilderment, his mother was just clutching a crucifix necklace she'd always worn as far back as Athi could remember. His face was still as stone but he felt anxiety and worry welling up as the crafts hatch closed and it took flight, rapidly approaching and bypassing Mach one, then leveling out at Mach five. The aircraft rapidly approached the side of a building, causing panic in the family except for Athi and Azula, Athi just smirked to himself as his mother screamed for them to pull up as the wall rapidly approached, clutching at his Father so tightly her nails dug into his skin and caused minor bleeding.

Before the aircraft could slam into the buildings side wall however it opened into a portal-gate that lead to Equis, and more importantly near the Crystal Palace. The portal-gate doors slamming shut as soon as the aircraft passed through it. Athi's brother Aaron was trying his hardest not to squeal in delight at the sight of both the new technology, and the city below them. Everyone, even Azula who'd seen photos of the city from a birds eye view stared in open awe at the city below them. A metropolis of crystal, metal and concrete faintly glowing in the light of the midday sun. What grabbed everyone's attention, including Athi himself, was the Crystal Palace at the exact center of the city which stood taller than any other building that could be seen. A spire of blue crystal that rose into the sky almost a mile in height with an otherworldly glow coming off it from the sunlight dancing across its crystalline surface. Atop the Palace at its highest peak was a flagpole bearing a flag of purple and white that waved and flapped in the wind, in the center of it a white snowflake.

Despite the awe inspiring sight before him that had rendered his entire family speechless, Athi could only worry inside his head as his anxiety grew further the closer they got to that palace. How could he have been so selfish, and stupid in the process? He'd known about the time travel laws and then blatantly shattered them in one swell swoop. Despite this anxiety growing determination also welled within him, even if he'd have to face punishment he'd refuse to let the Emperor punish his family, they'd been innocent in all this and hadn't even had any idea of the Crystal Empire nor its laws until a few minutes ago. Athi knew the Emperor was more or less a reasonable person, but the prospect of trying to convince his Monarch of this still made him nervous. He'd only heard stories and second hand accounts about Emperor Lorenzo, he'd never spoken to the man himself which only added to the nervousness he'd feel about this situation regardless.

Before he could think about anything else, moreso a way to explain how be willingly broke a law about time travel of all things, in hindsight the fact the law existed should have hinted it was possible but he'd not taken it seriously enough it seemed, the aircraft landed on a circular pad built into the left side of the Crystal Palace. The landing pad retracted into the Palace itself, bringing the aircraft along with it as the wall slid shut as if the aircraft hangar hadn't existed in the first place to anyone on the outside observing the Palace from the streets. The androids that had been sitting silently stood up as the aircrafts hatch slid open, prompting the family to follow suit. Athi, Azula, Aaron, Botan and his wife Cryline were marched out of the craft and into the depths of the Crystal Palace in silence, two androids behind and in front of them at all times.

Nothing was said between the family, nor between the androids marching them to their destination. As they approached a set of large ornate doors lined with precious gems etched into the woodwork and outlined with enchanted gold trim, two Assaultrons pulled the doors open silent as a mouse. Not even the squeak of hinges was heard as they shut just as silently behind them after entering the Throne Room. It was truly a sight to inspire and awe, a long and wide room made of the same blue crystal as every other within the Palace, but the walls had intricate patterns and images carved into them. Each designed to draw the eye upwards to the throne which itself was illuminated by floating orbs of crystalized magic that'd been placed around the room in a strategic manner to fill it entirely with a golden light that shone throughout the entire room.

The throne itself was made of blue and purple crystal that glimmered in the golden light giving the person who sat upon it an almost ethereal glow as he stared down at them from atop it. Athi slowly lowered his head as they were marched within twenty feet of the throne, and raised it slightly in surprise as two taller than normal Akun stepped out from the shadows carrying spears with glowing blades of plasma at their tips in place of sharpened metal, wearing only dull grey body paint. Crossing the two weapons to block their path to the throne. He'd remembered the tradition, he'd read about it after all. Doing as he'd read he stepped forward and bowed his head. "I too serve His Majesty the Emperor."

They retreated silently back to where they'd been standing before, blending back into the shadows casted by twin pillars on either side of the throne room. Athi as well as the rest of his family stopped ten feet away from the throne, Athi immediately took a knee before his Monarch, bowing his head as well. Slowly and awkwardly, his family copied him. Azula had taken a knee the same moment he had, she'd known proper respect for her former Empress, it hadn't changed much for an 'Emperor'.

Emperor Lorenzo stared at Athi from his seat upon the crystal throne, face expressionless and his emerald eyes looking right into Athi, past him and into his very soul. The center gem in Lorenzo's crown drew Athi's gaze to it, it was almost hypnotic to watch the slowly spinning galaxy that seemed to be held within. Lorenzo's gaze was so intensely focused Athi thought for a split moment the Emperor was looking at every sin he'd ever committed and silently passing judgment upon him, before he spoke. "Arise Doctor Athi Christoph, there is much to discuss."

Athi did as commanded, and just as slowly as they had been to kneel as Athi and Azula did, his family stood too. Emperor Lorenzo stared Athi down, his face expressionless, as was his tone. "Do you have any idea what you could have done? Any idea at all?" The Emperor's tone was cold, yet held no anger in it.

Athi bowed his head low, shoulders slumping slightly. "Yes My Emperor, I only just realized the grave mistake my actions may have caused, I only ask you to punish me accordingly instead of my family as they had no choice nor say in my actions, I know I have no right to ask or beg this of you but I have too for their sake." Azula was taken aback by surprise, she'd never seen her lover talk or act like this. Subdued, almost fearful as his gaze was firmly fixed on the floor of the Throne Room. His family stood behind him confused but respectfully silent.

Emperor Lorenzo's intense glare died in intensity as he let out a sigh. "You are an utter moron you could have completely rewritten the timeline if Discord hadn't been playing goalkeeper on this little stunt of his!" He sighed again. "But I suppose I can not blame you, you had a chance many would have taken without second thought, I may not be able to understand it, but I accept it and will allow it this one time, and I assure you, I shot Discord in the ass with buckshot for his little stunt."

Doctor Athi was taken aback but did his best not to show it. “I….I thank you Emperor Lorenzo, may I ask how I repay you for this kindness?” Athi said, a tone of almost reverence in his voice.

"Next time you see Discord set his tail on fire." Lorenzo said with a deadpan look, before turning his eyes to the family behind him. "As for you lot, I'll have to accelerate the sign up process, I can't exactly just toss you out and lose one of the best medical professionals stationed on Leva, go on now, introduce yourselves."

Aaron despite clearly being nervous, was the first to step up and speak. “Y-your majesty I am Aaron, Athi’s younger brother. I worked as a part time engineer modifying robots and other electronics, I look forward to finding employment in my field here if possible." He spoke rapidly, but respectfully, something he'd always done when nervous as hell.

His Father spoke next. "Greetings Your Majesty my name is Botan Christoph, mechanic and father of these two boys, this is my wife Cryline she worked as a church helper when we still lived in our old home." Cryline was whispering to him as silently as she could. "Honey why are you," Botan lowered his voice to an even quieter whisper, but calm anger in his tone. "Please don't start now honey I don't think he is willing to hear any complaints right now so behave yourself!" Botan looked back up. "Sorry, she's just shy."

Emperor Lorenzo just chuckled. "You lot are dismissed, follow the android in purple and you can get yourselves signed up as proper citizens, you'll be taking a few educational classes but that can wait a few days, but read the laws very, very carefully."

As they began walking away, escorted by the android in purple armor Emperor Lorenzo called out. "Oh, Athi?"

Turning around he spoke. "Yes Your Majesty?"

Emperor Lorenzo's expression shifted from friendliness into a serious face that would give stone a run for its money. "There won't be a next time." His tone was colder than any weather the Frozen North could hope to produce.

Athi's eyes widened. "I, I see, I understand Your Majesty, it won't happen again."

Emperor Lorenzo went back to smiling. "Good, now be on your way, can't help your family with the signup process if you're not there!" He chuckled to himself, and Athi did as he was told quickly hurrying off after his Family, Azula at his side.

-------------Several Hours Later Elsewhere in the Crystal Empire's Capital---------------

The moon was high in the sky as Discord was glaring at the Crystal Palace through a comically large telescope that had a night vision attachment, somehow, muttering to himself. He'd had no idea Lorenzo would be so serious about something as minor as a little time travel! Sure he'd tried to read the booklet of dumbed down laws the Crystal Empire had but it had been so BORING he'd turned the book into a bird and made it fly into an airships engine to get some amusement out of it.

While Lorenzo had shot him in the rear end with a double barrels worth of buckshot, he'd fixed that with a snap of his claw but was still muttering to himself before a physical lightbulb popped into reality over his head. Discord's eyes widened in delight as he plucked it from the air and tossed it into his maw with a crunch as he savored the flavor. Yes that was it, he could get back and break that silly little rule at the same time without causing too much harm in the process, yesss that would be absolutely delightful! With a grin he tossed the telescope behind him, causing it to explode into a flock of bats which rapidly flew off scared out of their minds. With a grin that nearly split his face in half the Lord of Chaos ripped open another portal in the fabric of time and reached inside, yanking an unconscious person out and tossing them into a pile of trash bags in the back alley he was in before vanishing, closing the portal in the process.

The man who was now sprawled out on a pile of disgusting trash with empty Jet inhalers scattered around him could almost be described as a 'severe burn victim' with how his skin looked to be flayed, cracked and wrinkled and overall had a charred appearance. His clothing also looked so old fashioned no one could likely recognize it either, he wore a red frock coat and tricorn hat that looked like it came right out of the late 17th and early 18th century. It was torn and tattered in a few areas, some of which had makeshift patchwork and stitching to fix the wear and tear, but it was obviously shoddy and makeshift work, not that of a skilled tailor.

As the man's eyes opened he let out a groan. "Oh God...What was in that jet?" Slowly sitting up and feeling the squelch of the garbage beneath him he stood up shakily with a groan of frustration, wiping his hands on the back of his coat. It was the middle of the night, or so it seemed to him when he looked up. Checking his holster he let out a sigh of relief as his trusty double barrel was still locked and loaded in its proper place where he'd left it. He'd gone on more than one chem trip an ended up losing the damn thing only to find it in the oddest places, and was glad that wasn't the case this time. After he walked a few feet away from the pile of rotting trash he stood stunned. The air smelled....fresh, for a lack of better term. Goodneighbor always had the stench of piss and other bodily fluids alongside the ever present smell of rusting metal and decay that wafted in on the wind. There was none of that here.

Stepping around the corner and out of the alleyway he was stunned further at the sights he saw before him. Either he was still on that chem trip or having a seizure. Cars rolled along a well paved road lit by street lights, even at this late hour a decent amount of traffic was on the road. And what looked to be living Giddyup Buttercup toys roamed about, he nearly shit himself when he saw a Deathclaw, a fucking DEATHCLAW, of all things walk up to an outdoor drink dispenser machine and grab a coffee after sliding a card into a slot. "What the fuck is this?" He muttered to himself, walking slowly down the sidewalk. Finally he saw something normal, normal being a relative term considering the current situation he found himself in, a person was walking down the road towards him. It was a man, dressed in clothes he'd never seen before looking at a small device in his hands that gave off a bluish glow.

Walking up he coughed to get the man's attention. "Hey pal, can you tell me how to get to Goodneighbor from here? I'm not exactly sure where I am at the moment ya get me?" His voice sounded like he'd started smoking at the age of two weeks old and never stopped since.

The sound of his ruined voice startled the man into looking up from his device, when he got a look at the man before him his eyes widened. "HOLY FUCKING CHRIST!" He yelped before turning and running in an apparent blind panic, dropping the device he'd been holding which clattered to the ground as the man fled.

Glaring at the man's back, he looked down to the device which was still on, albeit it had a crack in the screen now as he reached down and picked it up carefully. It was a small rectangle about half an inch thick made of black plastic with an oddly colorful screen displaying tons of little images. He'd never seen anything like it in all his years, terminals and pipboys alongside the tech that came with them generally had black and green screens, with little to no graphical display as it just wasn't practical with the technology that'd been around pre-war. This looked to be ten times more advanced, he poked the screen and to his shock, the icon he pressed opened into another program. It seemed to be called 'DailyNews' from the title now at the top of the screen. Before he could toy with the device any further he heard sirens that reminded him of police sirens he'd head in a Holotape audio drama. Sleek black and white cars screeching down the road towards his location, he didn't like the look nor sound of that so he tucked the device away into a pocket and booked it. Running between alleyways and hiding behind a dumpster as the cars screeched past him, then out of sight and sound as the wailing sirens faded into the distance.

What the fuck was this place? Cars were a rarity, working ones at any rate. Wrecked ones could be seen all the time, sometimes they had good salvage in them, or other items of value. He'd not even seen one wrecked rust-bucket the whole time he'd been next to the road, and that road itself also had astonished him because not only was it well paved, but maintained and still in active use. In the Wasteland working vehicles were rarer than non irradiated mutefruit, only people with a good understanding of machinery could get them back into working order, or jury rig them back into running. All the cars he'd seen looked shiny, new. Sure some had scuffed paint or a dent now and then but compared to the wrecks he'd seen these were downright pristine. Carefully as to not be seen, he walked across a roadway and then stopped next to a tall building.

Looking at the side, he saw row upon row of parked cars, trucks, and other such vehicles, looking around to make sure no one was watching he slowly crept up to one of the cars. It was a dull greenish gray colored truck, but looked to be far too small to fit a person inside it, peering into the windows showed the seats also looked wrong, they had a hole in the back.

"Hello there buddy, what are you doing with my Motorcar?" An oddly accented voice hissed from behind him, causing him to twirl around like a startled cat, aiming his sawed off at the source of the voice. The owner of said voice hissed in alarm, his snout turning a pale color as one eyeturret looked at the weapon while the other focused on him. "Let's not be hasty here! I have nothing of worth that you could take!"

The man lowered the gun with a frown. "I'm not a damn bandit, you jus startled me was all pal." He held out a hand after holstering his weapon. "Names John Hancock, an you might be?"

The Akun looked at his hand, which looked to be burned like the rest of him and carefully reached out and shook it. "I am Suvill, I apologize for startling you, it was not my intent when I walked up. I merely wanted to know what you'd been doing peering into my Motorcar." Suvill tacked on an interrogative cough.

Hancock looked down at the creature, it looked almost like a Deathclaw had fucked one of those Gekos he'd seen a photo of from the Mojave shown to him by a wandering trader, but smaller. "I've never seen a working car before, got me interested to see what one that wasn't a burnt out wreck looked like inside."

While most Akun couldn't tell one human from another, or even the gender of the human most of the time Suvill knew what serious burns looked like given the fact he'd seen a human after they'd accidentally touched a hot stove. "Are you alright? You appear to have suffered serious burns, if you like I can call medical services for you JohnHancock." He spoke the name as if it was one word.

Hancock smiled, not that Suvill really knew what it meant other than a gesture of amiability among humans. "I take it you've never seen a Ghoul before? Least you took it better than the last guy who saw me." He chuckled to himself.

Suvill tilted his head, making the negative gesture with a hand. "I have not, I assumed you where just a human suffering from serious burns, what is a 'Ghoul' as you say?"

"Simply put, Ghouls are men and women are no different from regular humans when it comes to what makes a person a person, we jus look different an live longer. As for how a Ghoul is made, typically its a chance of good luck, or bad luck dependin on your view of such things, enough radiation exposure and luck, good or bad an a human has a chance of turnin into a Ghoul, if they don't outright die." He thought it best not to mention feral ghouls, moreso to something he'd never seen before.

This made the Akun let out a startled hiss and back up. "You are Radioactive?! How are you alive, your organs should be liquefied!" It paused for a half second, its eyeturrets widening slightly in abject terror as it backpedaled from him. "Are you IRRADIATING ME?!"

Hancock shrugged. "No, you should be fine, as for how I got this way? Experimental radiation drug made me what I am, the high was so damn worth it." He said mostly to himself, fondly remembering that high like a father remembering his child's first steps, or perhaps someone remembering the first time they'd tried their favorite food.

Suvill gave a low hiss of alarm. "You are radioactive! I must contact authorities at once!" He reached down to pull a mobile phone out of one of the many pouches of the belt he wore but Hancock reached out and grabbed his wrist firmly.

"No need pal, I'm not spittin rads out I jus can take em without harm." He tried to assure the odd creature, its turreted eyes swiveling about made him want to see what happened if it was high but Hancock doubted his chems would work on this thing. Slowly, he let go of Suvill's wrist. "Know any nearby hotels? I got a couple caps on me, should be enough to get a room for a night."

Suvill made the negative gesture. "What are 'caps?', we use Bits, or charge cards here."

Raising an eyebrow, Hancock reached into a pocket and pulled out a handful of Nuka Cola bottle caps, mixed in with random beer caps and showing them to Suvill.

Suvill let his jaw hang open in a tongue waggling laugh. "Foolish Human! You can not buy anything with bottle caps, they are trash not currency! This is currency." He pulled out both a fistful of quarter inch thick golden coins that jingled, and a plastic card that looked like something Hancock had seen in a few of the less burnt pre-war magazines.

"Well shit then." He said, eyeing the coins. "Guess I have no money then, ah well it's not like I haven't made my own shelter before." Hancock said with a nonchalant shrug.

Suvill tilted one of his eyeturrets to the side. "Have you no home JohnHancock? No currency, this is a truth?"

While the way it was worded was a little odd, he nodded. "For now it seems yeah, but its not too big a deal."

"If this is the case, you also cannot purchase food for yourself, truly a sad state of affairs, if you come with me I could allow you to join me in my flat for a meal and then you can take the night to figure out what you desire to do from that point." Suvill offered, looking up at Hancock with both eyeturrets, a sign of complete attention among his species.

Mulling it over, Hancock thought to himself that the creature didn't look too threatening and so far had been alright to talk with, it had no visible weapons on itself besides its obvious claws and teeth, which he was sure his trusty sawed off outdid any day of the week. "Eh sure why not, lead the way friend."

Suvill turned around and began skittering towards the apartment complex behind them as Hancock followed at a leisurely pace. The inside of the apartment building was decorated in an odd manner, at least to Hancock, and to be frank Suvill would have agreed, but for a completely different reason.

Stepping into the elevator with a small bit of caution after Suvill did, he watched the male press a button for the 15th floor and stood back as the doors slid shut, looking at the digital dial showing floor numbers. It only took about a minute before they opened again with an odd hybrid of a bell and a hissing noise. Suvill skittered out and down the hall, his new companion following alongside him unaware that the two of them were being watched by an oddly persistent bird that'd been following them the entire time now hovering outside peering into the apartment from a window. Already squad cars with their sirens off began rolling into the parking lot.

-------------------------------------------Canterlot Castle, Princess Celestia POV---------------------------

Princess Celestia sighed as she drank from a cup of warm herbal tea, enjoying a dandelion salad alongside it. She was sitting across from Luna whom was in the process of tearing apart a small bowl of lemon pudding as if it was the last bowl of lemon pudding on Equis itself with none to come after. Much to Celestia's amusement since Luna oh so loved to tease her for her cake habit.

"I bring good news from our Moon Colony sister," Luna began taking a pause in the consumption of her pudding. "Mining of Moonsilver has finally begun to yield larger results as a vein of the metal was found recently that's larger than all others before it that we've been able to find, so it shall yield a lot for us to use."

Celestia nodded in approval. "That's fantastic Luna, I'll be sure to prepare the Mages and runesmiths to work with it after it's smelted into a form we can use, and I have good news as well!" She said happily taking another bite of her salad. "The secondary Capital of Equestria is now complete! The Everfree is trimmed back quite a bit, and our old castle is completely repaired, should Faust Forbid it we ever need to flee Canterlot, that is where Equestria shall be run from just as the days of old."

Luna grinned. "I always did love screwing with the castle staff unaware of the hidden passageways within those walls, it was always such a joy to terrify them for a short bit."

Celestia rolled her eyes with a smirk. "Yes yes, I know you loved your little pranks on my Day Guard, I still remember the time you coated the floors with olive oil so nopony could walk! It took a team of forty pegasi three weeks to clean it all! The floor near the locker rooms still smells faintly of olive oil even today."

Luna wheezed loudly before calming herself down. "Twas a fun day to watch your high and mighty commander slip and fall like a foal learning to trot for the first time, he spun in circles three times before he landed on his side, unable to right himself for he could not get grip on anything! Hah!" She polished off the bowl of pudding, even going so far as to physically lick the inside of the bowl clean. Causing Celestia to snicker to herself as she sneakily took a photo to prank Luna with later.

Carefully teleporting the small camera away Celestia stood and looked out a balcony that gave her the best view of Canterlot anypony could ask for, but rather than look at the city below her gaze was fixed firmly upon the night sky above. Luna walked next to her sister, looking at her then back up at the sky alongside her. "We will make them pay sister." Celestia said to Luna, a grim determination in her voice alongside a malice that startled Luna into giving her sister a wide eyed gaze. "They have hurt our little ponies so much, even now the glassed ruins of those cities haunts my dreams, every time I sleep I see that happening to not only all of Equestria, but Equis as a whole."

Luna frowned. "I wish you'd let me into your dreams sister, I could prevent those types of Nightmares before they begin, but I do agree that those pests shall be dealt with swiftly as possible."

Celestia looked down from the sky and at her sister's face. "I can't allow you to do that Luna, it serves as a reminder that I failed them once, and that I will not allow myself to fail them ever again." She sighed. "I wish I had somepony other than you to speak with about these things sister, you know me better than anypony else, but I still wish for fresh perspective on this matter, perhaps I can get it from one of my other few friends, the more opinions I have on this the better judgment I can form on how to stop those vile vermin." The venom Celestia spat when she spoke of the alien species that had caused so much destruction so quickly could have killed a thousand immortals with its potency, rather than think about it Celestia just wrapped a wing around Luna looking up at the moon.

"It's so amazing how far we've come in so short a time, Luna. You don't understand how rapidly these changes are for me." She looked back at her sister who was now looking at her silently, having wrapped her own wing around Celestia in return. "For a thousand years I was forced to stand alone and watch as ponies grew and changed, as new inventions came about and improved their short lives, I watched the first steam locomotive travel down twenty feet of primitive iron railway line, but the pony who'd built it was so proud of herself." Celestia looked back at the sky. "Now we have starships that can cross the vast space between the stars themselves, so much opportunity and we must live not in joy, but fear of what lies within, never in a thousand years did I ever imagine our ponies would be settling on your Moon as casually as Appleoosa settled in a desert." She smiled looking at the Moon.

Luna grinned. "Nor I, even a steam train amazed me when I first returned, but all of this? I get to see it happening in real time and still sometimes cannot fathom how it's being done, Equestria and ponies shall expand across the stars, even if slowly and cautiously, we can not let one bump on this new untraveled road stop us from making the journey, if ponies did that everytime some minor thing happened we'd have no trains, no steamships, no airships or aircraft or anything worth having besides grass and dirt." Her horn lit up and she leaned forwards, touching Celestia's forehead with a smirk. "Now you'll have no choice but to have a good dream tonight, dear sister." Without any further warning Luna teleported away in a flash, leaving Celestia to just smile and roll her eyes at her sister's antics.

Author's Note

Henlo all! sorry for the delay, I just moved, literally just moved lmfao, I hope you'll like this longer than normal (for me) chapter, I did want it to have more but this felt like a good place to cut off, let me know what y'all think of it! More to come, eventually. I'd like to note unless i say I'm taking a break just assume I'm being slow as normal because I honestly take awhile to write stuff, if you guys got questions about anythin feel free to ask! I love reading the comments :D