Time passes during Celestia's time at Princess Twilight's School for gifted unicorns. As Luna had prophesied, Celestia had passed her midterms with flying colors. Celestia would spend time with Lucky Star and a selection of other mares at the school while keeping in touch with her sister Luna.

Luna meanwhile would continue bonding with Spitfire, though none of the other pegasi at the school brushed Luna off as too "high strung" for their liking. In reality, they simply thought that her mother was bribing the night blue filly's way through flight school, though Luna was doing enough to pass her classes without any bribes which did annoy Spitfire a lot that the others were just not even trying.

Though there was a Griffon there named Gilda who did actually genially enjoy Luna's presence. As such, Gilda became a close friend to both Luna and Spitfire which was solidified when some ponies actually tried to ambush Luna at night one day to make her too injured to fly for the big flight test coming up. Gilda had caught them spying on Luna and proceeded to stop them from doing anything big. As such, the three pegasi who tried to injure Luna were kicked out of flight School which did let Spitfire be relaxed around Gilda. After all, if Gilda is willing to defend Luna like that, then Spitfire can appreciate that.

But outside of Luna's constant improvement in flight, and Celestia's ever eagerness to continue to ace Princess Twilight's School, not much of note happened otherwise during the eight year lead up to the 1,000th Sun Celebration Event in Ponyville.

"You want me to go to Ponyville to oversee the Sun Celebration Event?" Celestia asked. Celestia had grown quite a bit over the eight years she's been in school.

"Yes. And I also want you to make some new friends down there too. Seems that's where your sister lives now too." Princess Twilight said.

"That's good to know. I always wondered where she went after she came home to pack her things and move out of house. Mom and Dad knew she'd move out of home sooner or later." Celestia said.

"You do you part okay Celestia? I know your worried about the one known as Shining Flare, but rest assured, things are in place in case she comes back." Princess Twilight added.

"I hope so." Celestia said and then left right away.

"...It's time my love..." Twilight said to herself and readied herself for what must be done.

Thanks to the royal guard giving her a Chariot Ride, Celestia arrived in Ponytown while there was plenty of time to do everything. Her pet pheonix, Philomena, was following Celestia.

"Right, let us start off with seeing how ponies are around here..." Celestia said but was then met with a yellow pegasus.

"Hey, are you Celestia?" The yellow pegasus asked.

"That's me. I don't believe we've met before though." Celestia said.

"Well it is a great joy to meet you. Your sister talked a lot about you." The pegasus commented. Celestia realized who this was.

"You...your Spitfire, aren't you?" Celestia said.

"That's me alright." The pegasus said.

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you then. Thank you for looking after my sister while she was at flight school." Celestia said, shaking hooves with Spitfire.

"It was nothing really. In fact, why don't I show you where she lives out here so you know where to find her." Spitfire said.

"Shouldn't you be clearing the clouds though? It's supposed to be clear skies." Celestia said.

"Pah! Just watch this!" Spitfire said and within but 10 seconds, she had the entire sky cleared out.

"Whoa..." Celestia said. "I've only ever seen one pony go that fast before, and that's Ms. Rainbow Dash." She admitted. Spitfire gasped.

"YOU'VE MET CAPTAIN RAINBOW DASH?!" Spitfire exclaimed.

"Err...she's not the captain of the royal guards, that belongs to Princess Twilight's brother, Shining Armor." Celestia said.

"I'm not talking about the royal guards; Rainbow Dash is captain of the Wonderbolts. As in THE Wonderbolts; the best of the best when it comes to pegasi in Equestria." Spitfire said. "It's my dream to get into the Wonderbolts, let alone meet Captain Rainbow Dash face to face. I am so jelly of you right now. You've got to tell me everything about her; absolutely everything about her; on the way to your sister's place." She explained.

"Oh boy...well, where to start..." Celestia said.

To be continued...

Author's Note

I apologize if the picture for Celestia as a Unicorn is not one people were expecting me to use, but it is the only one I could find that didn't use regulia like Luna's did. And that was the only "Pegasus" version of HER I could find. Maybe in the future I'll use PonyTown to make a more accurate version of Unicorn Celestia, but for now...this is the best I can do.
Also as you can see, the order in which Celestia meets her version of the Main 6 is going to differ greatly from Twilight and we can see that here with the first one being Spitfire. And yes, the pictures from the extra episode for the Prologue will be being reused here so as to punctuate, these are still the same five mares who; alongside Celestia; will become the Elements of Harmony for this alternate universe.