Metal Gear Pony: Day or Night

~Chapter 14: Mentor and Student~

    This is it. Twilight Sparkle and Princess Celestia stand outside the ruined Metal Gear hangar, staring each other down. One with eyes full of hopeful magic, one full of murder.

    “Princess Celestia. I think its time you stop this.”

    “You think YOU of all ponies can order me to stop..? You are MY student. Twilight Sparkle. You disobey me, you pay with your life!” She fires a magic blast from her horn at Twilight, but she dodges. “I understand your plan now Princess..” Twilight puts up a barrier to protect herself from the next attack. “You knew that me and my friends would have the power to take you down..so you tried to kill us.”

    “No! There is nothing that can defeat me! She fires a powerful magic beam at her, and Twilight counters with her own less powerful beam, only to make them collide with each other and create a cloud of smoke. Celestia starts firing wildly into the cloud, hoping to hit something. “I tried to kill you all because you were annoying..! The world needs a ruler, not friendship!”

    “You deny it...but you’re afraid now...” Celestia looks up to find Twilight hovering in the air above the cloud. Twilight fires several magic blasts at her to distract her, then flies down and rams into her, pushing her back several feet. “You didn’t know for sure if we would be able to find a way to revive the Elements..so you tried to get rid of us as well. But you failed.”

    “I NEVER FAIL!!!” As they continue with their magic battle, the others watch on in awe.

    “I-Its amazing..!”

    “Twilight’s actually standing up the Princess..and winning!”

    “But how long can she last..” They share a look and continue watching..and hoping.

    Celestia growls angrily. “Why...Why does my magic feel weak?!” Twilight dodges another blast. “Your corruption and anger are affecting your abilities. Normally certain moods or situations can affect a pony’s magic. You are no exception.” “...I am Princess Celestia..I am a goddess! Controller of the sun! I will not lose to YOU!!!” Her horn glows and she raises it up toward the sun. The sun stops moving completely. “Now you will all die in a blaze from the sun itself!!!” Suddenly, a beam of fire straight from the sun fires down on Twilight. She quickly puts up a barrier to hold it back, but quickly starts to struggle against it. “I..can’t...”

    “...Hmph!” Rarity steps forward and adds her magic to the barrier. “You seem to be forgetting something, Princess Celestia.” Her eyes begin to glow. Rainbow Dash also steps forward and points an electrified sword at the sunbeam, her eyes glowing as well. “Magic doesn’t come from some girly necklaces or a tiara!”

    Pinkie steps forward with a huge grin on her face. “This is something we kinda learned right from the beginning!” Her eyes start glowing, and the barrier becomes stronger. Fluttershy, Applejack, and Flame-Tail all join them, their eyes glowing. Flame speaks up. “Like Rainbow said. Magic doesn’t come from necklaces and a tiara. It comes from us.”

    Twilight’s eyes finally start glowing pure white. “You are the one who taught us after all...Friendship is MAGIC!!!” The barrier finally absorbs the sunbeam completely. After a short moment, it fires back at Celestia as a multi-colored blast, blowing Celestia off her feet. “NO!!! YOU CAN’T...STOP...me...” She stops mid sentence..and lands on the ground, unconscious.

~Pony-Hound HQ~

    Princess Celestia awakens to find herself in a large room. “Where...am I?” After looking around a moment, she finally spots Twilight.” Twilight..!”

    “Princess...you..you’re back to normal..” The Princess stands up and hugs Twilight. “You..have no idea how proud I am. I am so sorry Twilight. I never would have expected to still have such a connection with the Elements of Harmony...can you forgive me..?” Twilight smiles. “We already do.” She looks back at the others behind her, all smiling.

    “Sister..”

    “Hm..?” She turns around..only to be nearly tackled to the ground by Princess Luna. “Ahah..Luna..!” “I missed you so much sister..!”

    Well. This is it. With Princess Celestia back to her original kind self, there was no more need for two separate kingdoms. The Solar Empire and the New Lunar Republic have now joined together and reformed the old world of Equestria. While the suffering cannot be undone, they can be forgiven. After plenty of work, all will be rebuild anew. By request of Princess Celestia, Ponyville will be the first to return. And that is what happened. Ponyville was rebuilt. Everypony returned to the wonderful town. Fluttershy went back to her cottage to resume her old life as an animal caretaker. Posey opened up a flower shop in town.

    The Cakes were long gone of course, but Pinkie Pie revived Sugarcube corner on her own and is once again the number one party pony of Ponyville. Rarity and Sweetie Belle are back in the boutique. The Cutie Mark Crusaders are obviously no more since they all have their cutie marks, but they still remain friends.

    Applejack reunited with her family and went back to working the farm. Rainbow Dash is a special case. She needs the cybernetics to continue living. She will not age or grow. She retains her ability to reproduce, but I doubt she’s interested in having foals anytime soon. She goes back to being the best flyer in Equestria, with a twist. Best swordspony in Equestria. Flame-Tail decided to join the Royal Guard in Canterlot, seeing as how he was raised to be a fighter and really any other job would mean wasting his skills. In the end, everypony went on to live happy lives.

    All is well now.