I am happy that Luna wasn’t gone for that long of a time. She explained to me that she was summoned by Twilight Sparkle, who asked to receive the entire body of Jewish text, like, ALL of it. When I asked her how she retrieved it, she said that she duplicated my entire library and sent it to her. Now, the real question remains whether Twilight will convert or not? I am half-joking!

“Noah, my dear. Have you been practicing your time magic?” Luna asked me today after I finished davening Shacharis.

“Uhh, yeah, I have been moving stuff around in frozen time, like my books, my tefillin, and even making holes on the moon!” I replied, unsure if this was the right kind of answer to give my teacher. “Also, I noticed you slipped into the Royal Canterlot dialect yesterday. Everything alright?” I ask, just covering all my bases.

“Yeah, it happens sometimes. Regardless, I will ensure to speak in a modern dialect for you, child. I don’t want any confusion.” Luna says, transforming once again into Nightmare Moon, catching me a bit off guard.

“Now that you have finished your mental training for today, our physical training must continue!” Luna says, teleporting the two of us back to our usual battlefield; the moon’s largest crater. “Have you wondered why your most powerful magic involves warping time, Noah?” Nightmare Moon asks me as she lunges forward with all her might, using her horn as a weapon.

“No clue, why?” I reply, quickly teleporting behind her and launching her into the lunar cliff a few hundred meters to the right of us.”

“Hmm. You are improving, dear.” Luna says as we continue sparring. “The reason your magic is strongest when it warps time has to do with memory!” She exclaims as she somehow alters the very gravity of the moon, causing me to wobble a bit. The gravity feels much stronger, possibly the same as Earth? Regardless, I adjust to the new gravity as our combat becomes more hand-to-hand, or should I say hoof-to-hoof?

“Your race has survived for so long because of its dedication to its history. No other people have had as long of an unbroken chain of tradition as yours.” I am only half listening since I am trying not to get launched into another crater, or worse.

“As the descendant of a genius, you have a lot to live up for, and a long history to protect!” Luna says, backing off a bit, charging her signature lunar beam, channeling the moon’s very essence into her horn.

“I remember you saying something about how ponies get their cutie marks once they realize their talents?” I posit as I am debating whether to pause time or counterattack. I only have a few seconds left to decide.

“That is correct, Noah. Your talent is your dedication to your history, which is why your cutie mark is a Torah Scroll and a Star of David. As for the time magic, it reflects that history Mida K'neged Mida, since valuing time allows you to partially manipulate it!” She exclaims, sending a massive surge of energy at me. I act a bit audaciously and send my own beam of cyan magic at this attack, causing our two attacks to connect, sending a massive pillar of energy soaring towards the vacuum of space.

CANTERLOT: EQUESTRIA

Princess Celestia is minding her own business, looking at her papers, making sure the sun is shining in the right places at the right time, and doing other things that the sovereign of the sun needs to do. Everything seems to be going swimmingly for her, until her niece, Princess Cadence, is escorted into her throne room.

“Ah, Cadence, lovely to see you, dear,” Celestia says, putting her tea down to welcome her niece.

“Auntie. We have to talk!” Cadence says, rather upset about something. Celestia is rather shocked at her niece’s attitude and wants to know what is wrong.

“Well, what would you like to talk about?” Celestia says, pulling up two chairs for them to sit down and discuss whatever is on her niece’s mind.

“Well, you know that I am dating Shining Armor, right? Well, apparently his sister, Twilight Sparkle is your student, and she told Shiny that you killed millions of people in another universe recently! That sounds preposterous, but Twilight doesn’t lie, so what is going on!”

Oh shit. Celestia has a lot of explaining to do now to her niece, and now she knows that something fishy is going on with Twilight Sparkle.

“Well. It’s a lot more complicated than that. How absurd is my pupil anyways, thinking I would go to another universe and kill innocent creatures? I am a benevolent princess, the teacher of friendship for crying out loud!” Celestia says, aghast at her pupil’s accusation, and more upset that she spread this information with other ponies.

“She says it has something to do with the Mare in the Moon incident from when I was a filly. I remember you having a fight with Aunty Luna, and I need to know what’s going on. Shiny won’t talk to me until I settle this with you.” Cadence says, upset that her coltfriend is being reclusive until this is settled.

Celestia closes and locks the doors with her magic. “What I am about to tell you, niece, will not leave this room, under penalty of death.” She says solemnly and with a hint of anger.

“What! Alicorns can’t die, right?” Cadence says, a bit scared.

“Well, they can’t die, but just as somepony can become an alicorn, that power can be taken away just as easily, then anypony can die! Anyways, that is beside the point.” Celestia says, taking a deep breath.

“Around the time I banished Aunty Luna to the moon, I was a bit bored with ruling Equestria. I combed through every book I owned, looking for something to do to keep me from going insane. I came across an old scroll older than Fausticorn herself. It told of the universe where Fausticorn came from.

“Wait, what? Fausticorn wasn’t from Equestria?” Cadence says, surprised.

“No, she came from a place called “Earth.” Fausticorn wasn’t even her real name! Her name was Lilith. Lilith was created by a being called the “Elohim”, to serve as a consort for a creature called “Man”. “Man” wanted to control Lilith for himself, and she refused, so the “Elohim” banished her to a realm outside her own. “Man” got a new wife named “Woman”, who was more subservient to him. Lilith used her magic to found a new universe, and named it Equestria. Anyways, this is beside the point, niece.”

“Woah, I didn’t know that!” Cadence says, shocked and amazed.

“The point is, I went to this universe and found “Man” had many children, called humans. They did not know of this Elohim and thought I was the one that created them. I was worshipped as a goddess of the sun in this world for many years by many different cultures.”

“So, what does this have to do with the Mare in the Moon?” Cadence asks, confused by this seemingly tangential story.
“Well, eventually, Luna found this scroll and decided to settle the score with me, 990 years early. She met one of “Man”’s children, a human named Abraham. She told this human about Equestria, and he told her about the “Elohim”. They joined forces, trying to start a coup against me in both worlds! The very definition of treason, in my opinion. The problem is, this “Elohim” grew a liking to Luna and Abraham and protected them with an eternal covenant, making Abraham’s descendants, known as Jews, a powerful race of humans. Anything that happens to give Luna power is a threat to both worlds, so I had to do something!” Celestia says, without a shred of remorse for her actions.

“I still believe in the Magic of Friendship, and I wouldn’t hurt anypony without a reason, but this race of Abraham’s children must be removed from the Earth, to save both worlds.”

Cadence took a minute to think about what her aunt just said, and came to an awful realization: “But, didn’t these “Jews” have children? Aren’t children innocent of their parent’s decisions?” Cadence says, a bit confused (and horrified).

“Children might be innocent, but they grow up to become adults, just as evil as their parents,” Celestia says coldly. “I happened to have met a human named Hitler a few decades ago, who shared my goal of eliminating this group, although for different reasons. I gave him the means to do so, although he failed, sadly.”

“Aunty. I am leaving! You let a human kill millions of humans just because your sister was friends with their ancestor? How many of them were children?!!?”

“One and a half million,” Celestia says, doubling down. “If anypony outside of this room hears about this, I will have your head on a spike and your powers drained. And Shining Armor will suffer the same fate.”

Well, now Cadence can’t possibly do anything about this. She could get killed, and her coltfriend could get killed, too!

“So, what is happening in the Crystal Empire anyways?” Celestia says, quickly changing the subject, picking up her tea.

Cadence has had enough. She flies out the window on her way back to the Crystal Empire.

“Aunty Celestia is a monster! 1.5 million children slaughtered, because of a millenia-year-old friendship?! Millions of others?!? I must do anything in my power to stop her from ruling Equestria. Nopony who kills children out of spite should be allowed to rule, as benevolent as they seem on the outside!”

Celestia takes a deep breath, annoyed that somepony else has to know this horrible secret. She would do it all over again, but she is annoyed that her picture-perfect image is at risk of being tarnished because her pupil wouldn’t shut up.

“She is a stupid filly anyways. I am not going to lash out at her, yet.” Celestia says, before noticing an explosion in the sky. Now, even though the moon was not visible to most ponies because of sunlight, she could see the moon anyway, since she took the job of raising it for the past 1000 Equestrian years.

“Hmm, what is Luna up to? Is she doing stuff with her pet Jew?” Celestia wonders as she drinks her lemon tea. She can still hear the screams of the children in the gas chambers, and she chuckles.

EQUESTRIA’S MOON:

“Damn, I have been holding this charge for a while now!” Luna says, putting more energy into her attack than before, overwhelming her opponent.

“You did well, Noah. But you didn’t do well enough-ACK!!” Luna says as she is punched into the crater incapacitated.

Now, you might be wondering how exactly I was able to do this. It’s simple. I paused time and found a way to do it without Luna being able to move in frozen time.

“You did well, Noah. But you didn’t do well enough” Luna said moments before I paused time. I had a few different ideas running through my head at the time, but I realized my magic wouldn’t be enough to defeat her normally. To use my strongest magic, I would have to recite it in Hebrew, the language of Creation itself.

“זאוואדו! עצור את הזמן! !!"
(Time! grind to a halt!) I sent out a massive surge of technicolor energy across the entire moon, freezing everything in place for a maximum of ten seconds of stopped time.

“עברה שנייה אחת” (One second has passed). I quickly move out of the way of Luna’s blast, catching my breath. “חלפו שתי שניות” (Two seconds have passed). I make my way behind Luna. “חלפו שלוש שניות” (Three seconds have passed). I begin to feel tired, even though I have seven seconds remaining. I grab Luna by the wings. “חלפו ארבע שניות” (Four seconds have passed). I throw her into the crater in front of me. Now. she won’t actually move until time resumes, but the pieces are set. I teleport close to where I was, but not too close as to get hit by the attack. “הזמן יזרום שוב.” (time will flow once again) I say, resuming the flow of time; absorbing back the energy I emitted when pausing time.

Luna is a bit shocked that she is now inside a crater, knowing she used a very powerful spell.

“Noah, how did you do it!!” Luna says, getting back up from the crater. I got the sense the fight was over, so I didn’t send any additional attacks.

“I paused time, boss. You taught me how, remember? You said my power comes from the memories of my people, so by thinking of my heritage, I was able to pause time fully, including you!” I say, a bit proud of my accomplishment. I wasn’t intending to hurt Luna anyways, since this WAS a sparring match, but I see that I must have hit a nerve.

“Impressive, child,” Luna says, dusting herself off before embracing me. “I am very proud of you, Noah. In the short time since we have met, you have taught me many things, including the need to be more careful. With more training, both physical and mental, we can smite my sister together.” Luna says, roughing up my mane in a patronizing way.

We got abruptly interrupted by a piercing pink light, which revealed an alicorn. Now, I don’t think this is Celestia, so I am not immediately sending an attack, but Luna seems happy to see her.

“Niece, to what do I owe the honor of your presence?” Luna says, extremely pleased to see this alicorn.

“Aunty Luna, I found out what Aunty Celestia did on Earth. We have to kill her before it’s too late!” Cadence says, running into her aunt’s hooves, scared out of her wits.

Who’s this? I guess I have another ally now.

Author's Note

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Glossary

Mida K'neged Midda: Measure for Measure. Refers to the esoteric concept of one's deeds or actions coming back to effect someone, for better or worse