Entry: Monday, June 21st, 2010

Let us make it clear, we do not approve of our sister’s methods. Imprisonment on my Moon could have killed me in so many ways it’s not even funny. I could have starved, and just snuffed it. I could have died of dehydration. I could even have returned alive, as a corpse lacking only in cardiac arrest.

My dear sister is so very, very lucky in so many ways.

Firstly, she was actually wrong about how long I was ‘imprisoned’. The magic holding me to my Moon broke after a matter of mere seconds- and a good thing, too. Until it broke, I couldn’t establish an air bubble so as to breathe. But I still didn’t return for a thousand years… because I had discovered a problem.

And it was so very big of a problem.

My Moon… my dear, precious Moon… was being eaten.

By the worldwall.

I spent a total of about fifteen minutes on that Moon. I spent a few of those years, cumulatively, back in Equestria, under disguise, and working continuously to reinforce the worldwall, to keep Equestria stable.

But no matter how hard I tried, I could not stop or reverse the decay, only slow it. And lack of power wasn’t the problem.

So the rest of my banishment, most of those thousand years, was spent on the other side. Exploring various universes, searching various worlds. Examining their worldwalls for the damage that had doomed Equestria.

The damage caused by a certain Princess Celestia Solaris, when she forced the Elements of Harmony to act against one of their own bearers.

It took many, many years before I found a world that didn’t have that damage, or oftentimes something much worse.

Then I found another.

And another.

And I had finally stumbled upon the search matrix necessary to net more of these worlds than I could possibly explore myself- it was time for me to return to Equestria and enlist Celestia’s finest investigators. After all, now that I had a set of good worldwalls to look at, it took only a very little amount of work to check a new world’s worldwalls.

So it was time to return to Equestria… after a thousand years of my banishment.

I debated just walking into the Throne Room in full regalia, but as I was walking across the Royal Academy grounds, I overheard something interesting.

Apparently, I was prophesied to return on the thousandth Summer Sun Celebration, in just a few days, and bring eternal night.

It took all of my considerable willpower to keep from bursting into laughter right then and there.

I knew I was going to be having more fun than I really should, and I really did have a lot of fun, but what’s a mare to do when the perfect opportunity presents itself?

“I give you… Princess Celestia!”

Nothing happened.

Mayor Mare, the simple mayor of Ponyville, looked back towards the curtains. “Uh…”

Rarity Belle poked her head out from a side door. “Apologies for the delay, we’re having… technical difficulties.” She vanished once again.

Luna suppressed a snort. She’d just lowered her Moon- for the first time in a thousand years- and judging by the signatures… Oh dear. Princess Celestia had gotten rusty over the ages- her spells were positively wasteful!

But the older sister was still definitely searching the Castle of the Two Sisters out in the Everfree Forest, so the stage was set.

Luna activated a pair of spells simultaneously. She teleported up onto the balcony and shed her disguise both at once. “Oh, Our little ponies, it is good to be back,” she greeted the shocked crowd. “I feel like We should apologize for Our absence these last thousand years; We were tied up in dealing with an infestation of moon bears.” She suppressed the urge to snort. “Now then. Our precious sister, Princess Celestia, is going to be absent from the proceedings today; on Our return from Our Moon, We noticed a pack of Solar Sasquatches homing in on her Sun.” She sighed dramatically. “She has departed to take care of them before they become a bigger problem. In the meantime, We have come to show Our little ponies exactly how sunny an eternal night can be!” She reared up on her hind hooves, and raised her sister’s Sun, to confused applause.

Then she vanished again, back through teleportation and into disguise.

Author's Note

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