And the Stars Will Aid in Her Destruction
Twilight Blows up Nightmare Moon
By iAmSiNnEr
Edited by Stinium Ruide
“...but you must simply stop reading those dusty old books!”
Twilight gasped. She couldn’t believe what Spike just uttered.
How…
She snatched the scroll away from Spike’s claws with her magic, and read the parchment for herself. She read it, she reread it, she re-reread it…
Celestia did not care.
Her jaw dropped. Her pupils dilated.
B-but—
“Twilight?” Spike looked at her with concern. “Are you okay?”
“No, I’m certainly not okay!” Twilight sputtered indignantly. “Princess Celestia just brushed aside an Equestrian level threat! Does she not understand—”
“Yeah, yeah.” Spike waved it off. “She’s also assigned you to go to Ponyville and you know, um...make friends?”
Twilight furrowed her eyebrows. "Make friends?! Equestria is in danger and she wants ME to make FRIENDS?"
“What are you gonna do about it?” Spike shrugged. “The Princess clearly thinks Nightmare Moon isn’t a threat, you should go enjoy yourself at the Summer Sun Celebration!”
“Spike!” Twilight exclaimed sharply, before rushing to the lectern and pointing a hoof at an illustration of a shadowy figure. “If I’m right about Nightmare Moon, this might be the last Summer Sun Celebration ever! How can I enjoy myself if the world is going to end?”
Spike tiptoed and peered into the contents of the book. “I don’t think Eternal Night is going to end the world, Twilight. You’re just overreacting. Relax, she’s probably just a myth parents use to scare their fillies!”
“No,” Twilight stated firmly as she slammed a hoof onto the page. “I refuse to believe that. Nightmare Moon isn’t just a myth! There has to be a spell somewhere around here I can use to—”
“Do what?” Spike chuckled. “Travel to the moon and blow Nightmare Moon up like what the Power Ponies do in the comics?”
“Oh, Spike, you genius!” Twilight’s eyes lit up. “I can go to the moon and stop her before she ever returns to Equestria and sends us all into Eternal Night!”
“Wait, no, it was just a joke—”
Twilight’s horn lit up, and before Spike knew it, a cascade of books flew down to them. Without a moment of hesitation, she began frantically flipping through them. “Spell to travel long distances…spell to travel underground...oh, where is that spell to travel to the moon?” she muttered as her eyes spent precious seconds hunting that elusive spell down.
Spike let out a lungful of air. “I guess this means we’re not attending the Summer Sun Celebration?”
“I found it!” Twilight shouted in exhilaration. “I’ll be back, Spike!”
“Wait, what? Twi—”
With a flash of light, Twilight was gone.
“This is bad,” Spike gulped. “I should probably tell Princess Celestia about this.” Shaking his head, he produced a quill and paper from the nearby table and started writing.
Twilight emerged on the desolate lunar surface, her spell depositing her onto the grey ground unceremoniously. Her throat contracted, and she nearly choked at the surrounding vacuum.
Oh, right.
With a quick spell, oxygen flooded her lungs, letting her breathe again. Much better. Now, where is—she froze as a shadow loomed over her, plunging her senses into darkness.
She lifted her head up slowly to see an armored black-colored alicorn baring her fangs at her. I assume that’s her. I definitely didn’t think this through. I should probably run now.
“Has my sister sent me a snack?” The alicorn hissed. “As graceful as the gesture is, it will not work. Once I shall return to Equestria, the night will last," she threw her head back as she cackled evilly—“FOREVER!”
Oh yeah, time to run. Pushing herself up from the dusty surface, she broke into a gallop, and ran for her life. “NOOOO! I DON’T WANT TO BE EATEEEEEEEEEN—”
Suddenly, a flash of light blinded her senses. Twilight slammed head-first into an armored chestplate, and fell backwards. “Where do you think you’re going?” Nightmare Moon demanded, her horn glowing an iridescent blue. “You’re mine, now.”
“Stay away!” Twilight squeaked as she backed up, scrambling backwards. “I know a lot of spells!”
“Indeed?” Nightmare Moon smirked confidently. “Pray show them to me?”
“Like this!” Twilight lit her horn, and the ground underneath the mad alicorn blew up. Dust billowed everywhere, and Twilight coughed as some of it entered her lungs.
Twilight cautiously approached the cloud of dust, peering through it. “Did that work…?”
“Nope!” Nightmare Moon replied cheerfully as a blue-colored bolt of magic slammed into Twilight, sending her flying.
Oomph, Twilight rolled on the ground, groaning from where she had slammed into it at high speed. Ouch, that hurt. Right, what can I do? Stun spell. Transfiguration spell. Freeze Spell. Buck it, let’s use them all.
“Come on, now,” Nightmare Moon chided. “Did you really think that you, a lowly unicorn, could hurt the Alicorn of the Night?”
“Yes,” Twilight answered. “And I’ll prove it to you.” Springing forwards, she fired a stun spell at the alicorn, forcing her to pull up a shield.
“This is futile!” Nightmare Moon laughed. “You cannot hope to—”
“Wrong,” Twilight teleported behind her, firing a freeze spell. Immediately, the alicorn was encased in ice. “I can.” Twilight fired her last spell, a transfiguration spell just as Nightmare Moon broke out of the ice.
“YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME—” she bellowed as she charged at Twilight. The unicorn smiled as the alicorn charged straight into her trap.
“Nope!” Twilight replied cheerfully. “You cannot defeat me!” At that, the ground under Nightmare Moon exploded with a force one hundred and sixty-nine thousand, three hundred fifty-seven and two-thirds times larger than the earlier explosion.
Celestia paced around the ruined castle, waiting for Nightmare Moon to arrive. “Where is she?” she muttered. “It’s already ten minutes past the thousand-year mark!”
Maybe Twilight did actually go to the moon and—Celestia pushed away the thought. There was no way any pony could have gone to the moon using a simple spell, even Twilight!
Just in case, I should go and check—A flash of light, and Nightmare Moon collapsed onto the ground along with Twilight beside her.
“Princess!” Twilight exclaimed joyfully. “I defeated Nightmare Moon, and Equestria is safe again!”
Celestia blanched at the sight. Wait...this isn’t how it’s supposed to go—
“I told you she was real!” Twilight beamed. “Did I do a good job?”
“Twilight?” Celestia found her voice.
“Yes, Princess?”
Slowly, Nightmare Moon began turning back into Luna.
“That’s my sister you just attacked.”
Twilight turned around to see Luna lying on the ground, motionless. “Oh, horseapples—”
Author's Note
I regret nothing.
Quality shitposts go brrrrr
if you were tricked by good start
Don't worry.
It was all meant to be.
