Tales of Zephyr Nimbus: Arrival

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Part I: Royal Fumbles

In Canterlot, 11:25 p.m., Day Zero

Everything in Equestria was calm, despite the recent events. The wedding of Shining Armor and Princess Cadance was already old news. The only of interesting news was that Princess Luna had scheduled a meteor shower for the entirety of Greater Canterlot’s entertainment. As of the immediate moment, Celestia was taking her position to lower the sun, and Luna was resting in her quarters, saving her energy to kick apart some asteroids for the shower.

In her dream, it was so dark that Luna, even with her enhanced night vision, could not make out her own hoof in front of her face. Walking around, she found one beam of light. Suddenly, with a flash of bright yellow, she heard screaming, loud enough to drive a pony insane. The sound was quickly muffled to less than a whisper, and it was gone. The light disappeared, only to be replaced by another, brighter light that flared up for a few seconds, then flew off into the sky.

Luna jolted awake, panting, wondering why she would have such a weird and random dream. As she took her place to raise the moon, she had a strange feeling that her dream had to do with her meteor shower. Dismissing the thought, she effortlessly raised the moon, having had 2 years to get back into raising it. She then flew into the nearest asteroid field, picked the three largest ones, knowing full well that one kick per each would shatter them into pieces small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. She did promise her subjects more than one wave of meteorites, after all. The first kick went off smoothly, sending the fragments to burn in the upper layers of the atmosphere. The second was equal to the first in all aspects. Just as she was cocking her legs for the third and final kick, Celestia contacted her through their magical telepathy.

“Hey sis. Whatcha doin?”

Luna jumped (or as much as you can jump in space) and missed her kick, breaking the giant rock into many small pieces and one larger (about pony-size) piece.

“Oh no oh no oh no oh no!”Luna exclaimed. “'TIA! Why did you do that?!? I was in the middle of making a meteor shower, but now a meteoroid larger than the others is hurtling towards Equestria!”

“Oops.”