Chapter Twenty-Four
Fallen Star Part One

“Our war will soon be ending, Peace Fighters. I have devised a plan to bring this conflict straight to the dark hearts of our Princesses and kill them before they use their spaceship, MY HEAVEN, to destroy us and leave this planet forever” Shining Armor declared as he stood at the podium in the briefing room of the Peace Fighter home base, informing his army of the plan. The soldiers not present were having the speech broadcast to them all across the globe.

“Scattered all across Equestria are Imperial bases, used to quickly and effectively strike their opponents in that region. We, with the aid of the Canines and the Felines, will assault these bases with the interest of preserving as much of their equipment as possible so that we may use it against Canterlot. Now, I have been told that Canterlot’s only defenses are infantry soldiers stationed in the city. This would normally allow for an absolute streamroll invasion, but the Princesses have their ship MY HEAVEN hovering above Canterlot. It is possible that they have stationed soldiers on the ship to use its defenses against an invasion. After we successfully invade the royal city we will move on MY HEAVEN and secure it, ensuring it is used to save all life on this planet before the sun dies. Questions?” Shining finished.

One soldier raised his hoof. “What about the Princesses?”

“Lieutenant Strong Spear and myself will take care of them personally” Shining flatly answered. With no other questions posed the Peace Fighter leader nodded in satisfaction and declared “let’s get to work, soldiers.”

“The inspection cycle is complete, sister, and all that remains is for you to personally certify MY HEAVEN for use once again. I hope you do it soon, so that we may end the Peace Fighters and leave this planet once and for all” Princess Luna said to her older sibling as the latter sat upon her throne at the top of Canterlot Tower.

“Very well, Lu. I’ll tend to it today” Celestia replied, getting up from her chair and walking down the steps, accompanying her sister as they walked through the palace, eventually heading outside and taking flight with their wings to the massive ship.

Once inside the two sisters were completely alone, and began talks of their plans to leave.

“I am going to miss this place, dear sister. It was a good run, regardless of the thousand years I spent away. Too bad it ended so soon” Luna said as they exited the main hangar and into the winding halls of the front of the ship.

“I suppose it was. Still, you’re right; it is unfortunate that this ended so quickly. Hopefully next time it’ll be different. It’ll be a few years before we’re ready again, and there’ll be a few places we’ll have to stop at” Celestia responded.

“I still wish you’d turn this weapon on the Leviathan of the Haro, Tia, but I understand if you still don’t want to.”

“Luna, our revenge upon the Leviathan will be enacted when we leave” Celestia insisted as the two of them passed the crew quarters and turned the corner for the bridge.

“Of course, sister” Luna said, sealing the door to the bridge once they were both inside and heading for the viewport at the front. Together they sat and stared out the window at Canterlot and the landscape below.

“Should I start the archival process?” Luna asked casually.

“No, wait until after we’ve left” Celestia stated, getting up and climbing into the command seat of the spaceship, taking the control stick in her right hoof and the throttle in her left. The chair conformed to her frame and ensured maximum comfort without inducing complacency.

Luna took her place at the weapons station behind the command chair and ensured that the main gun as well as the defense cannons were operational. Igniting the ship’s thrusters Celestia pulled back on the control stick and MY HEAVEN tilted upwards, pointing into the sky. “Arm and fire the main cannon, Luna” Celestia commanded.

The sister of the night did as told and loaded a round into the rail gun affixed to the top of the vessel, charging the magnetic bands around the barrel and firing into the sky, an awe-inspiring BOOM cracking through the midday air and shaking the ship as a 1,000 ton solid-steel slug lanced into space. Turning the much smaller defense cannons into space Luna fired those, their considerably less-powerful rounds being spit out at a faster rate from all four guns; eight barrels thundered with power as they too sent rounds into space.

“The guns work, Tia! Take us up and around!” Luna declared, the older sister pushing the throttle and pushing the engines to their limit as MY HEAVEN flew away from Canterlot and towards outer space, the massive thrusters taking the ship well past the speed of sound.

Within minutes the Princesses had breached the atmosphere and were in space, viewing their planet from millions of miles above the surface, observing the many oceans, deserts, arctics, forests, and even cities etched upon its surface.

“You think it’ll be different next time, sister?” Luna asked, getting up from her seat as Celestia turned the propulsion down until they were merely cruising along from momentum.

“Someday it will be, Lulu. Maybe not next time, but someday we’ll find a perfect planet and a perfect race and then everything will be fine” Celestia answered, stepping down from the command seat and approaching the viewport, looking down upon the planet below.

“Are we going to destroy the Peace Fighters today?” the darker Princess said.

“No, we will save that for next week. Then, a week after they’ve been destroyed we’ll leave this planet forever. For now we must make sure this ship is 100% up to snuff” the sun Princess replied.

Looking back down on the surface of Equestria and knowing the war that was raging down there Princess Celestia had to wonder herself if things ever truly would get back to normal for her and her sister.

There’s always next time. There will always be a next time for us.

Author's Note

I released this early because it's super short.

Legal note: Princess Celestia, Shining Armor, and all related characters belong to Hasbro. Lieutenant Strong Spear and all related characters belong to me. All other original characters belong to their respective owners. My Little Pony belongs to Hasbro.