//------------------------------// // Luna's New Moon // Story: Sonic: Friendship is Eternal // by VGFanatic20 //------------------------------// Luna’s New Moon Nightmare walked up to the timid Luna and struck her in the mouth with her fore hoof before swinging the other to slug her again. Luna felt the blood ooze from her lip and mouth from the hits. Falling to the ground in a heap as she groaned softly from the pain in her jaw. “All the fight gone? No more resistance?” Nightmare asked as she moved Luna’s head to face her with her hoof. “How pathetic, Princess of the Night. Such a title doesn’t deserve to be yours.” She said with a scowl. “No wonder all your subjects fear you, you are no princess. You are just a mare with a delusion.” Nightmare said before grabbing her with a dark tendril and slinging her around, slamming her into the ground over and over again before tossing her. Luna could feel the tears leave her eyes as she felt utterly helpless in this situation. She didn’t know what to do, she didn’t know anything anymore. Her mind began to reflect on everything in her life, her family and friends, her trials. Then something popped up in her head, Pipsqueak, a young colt that had recently begun writing to Luna ever since that Nightmare Night. A small smile appeared on her face as she began to push Nightmare’s words away and stood back up. “I am Luna! Princess of the Night!” she shouted with incredible vigor as a pure lunar aura appeared around her, white in color as her power reached an incredible height. Her eyes turned a pure white as her mane turned a cosmic fiery blue. Nightmare was startled by this sudden turn around. Luna grinned before rushing at Nightmare before summoning multiple stars and making them rain down on Nightmare. Each one exploding on impact as Nightmare screamed in pain. “You think you’ve won?! I’ll just keep getting up!” Nightmare Moon shouted as she charged at Luna, full speed with a dark aura surrounding her. Luna charged as well, clashing with her. The energies built up before knocking them both back, causing Luna to revert. She landed on her hooves and looked up, watching as Nightmare Moon was coming in for the kill. //I can’t kill her…and that’s not why I’m here? So why?// she thought before she realized something and smiled sadly. //she was right all along…damn her// she thought. “Any last words?” Nightmare asked as she got closer and closer. “You were right” she said softly. Nightmare stopped right in front of Luna, just inches away. “What?” she asked, a little confused. “We are one in the same. It’s nopony’s fault but my own for why you exist. You are the side of me I pushed away, the side of me I needed most. Every moon has its dark side right?” she asked Nightmare with a smile. Nightmare landed in front of her and raised her hooves as if to strike her. Luna recoiled, prepared for the blow that never came. Instead to her shock she felt Nightmare Moon hugging her. Tears fell down her muzzle as Nightmare hugged her lighter self. “That’s what I’ve been saying all this time. Thank you Luna…for finally seeing the truth” she said as Luna hugged her back. “I’m sorry I didn’t see it sooner” she said as Nightmare vanished, returning to her heart. In that moment Luna felt power surge through her before her fur turned a richer color than before. Her mane became a little longer, same with her tail, turning into a more vibrant blue color. She smiled, feeling vast power within her. “I see now, this is incredible” she said. Nightmare Moon no longer existed as a separate entity, but was now one with Luna. Their power as one, their hearts as one, and minds as one. There weren’t two voices anymore. Just the voice of Luna as she felt incredible from the change in her from doing this. “Now I really do know why this room is called the Room of Self-Actualization. It is used to help a pony discover who they really are as an individual. Incredible” she said as the doors appeared and she exited the room. Celestia was smiling as her sister came out of the room, shutting the doors behind her. “You did it little sister, congratulations” she said happily before they embraced each other in a hug. “Thank you Tia” she said happily. Her stomach growled loudly, causing her to giggle. “I could use some food right about now” she said before they both ended the hug and went down to eat. Eggman’s Base Eggman laughed as the bot swung its lances at the heroes. The lances laced with Electricity, sending out blades of energy that were sparking with electricity. Every time they hit the metal of the base the electricity shot through the entirety, since metal was such a good conductor. The heroes could feel the shocks of each strike as the attacks hit the metal. “How in Equestria is he so strong now?” Twilight asked “The power of the emeralds. Remember how I told you that all 7 bring about miracles and incredible power, the likes of which you’ve never seen?” he asked. “Well, looks like I’m seeing it now huh?” she asked, completely mind blown by the fact 7 little gems could bring about such incredible power. “You all have no hope!” he said as every attack launched by our heroes bounced off of his shield. “There’s no way…” Rainbow Dash said as she fell to the ground, exhausted. “No, there must be a way! Everything has an Achilles’ Heel.” Twilight said remembering what Shadow taught her before it clicked, Sonic had managed to stab that kunai into its foot earlier. She grinned as she ran at the bot and avoided its attacks before getting directly under it. Her body glowing red as she grinned. “Chaos Blast!” she shouted as her energy exploded forth, pushing the bot up and doing damage to it. When the attack ended the bot did have visible damage to its body. “You little…” Eggman said as he moved back and focused light energy in two lances and dark in the other two before firing two concentrated beams at her one of light and one of dark. The beams began to spiral around one another as they closed in on her. She put up a barrier just in time to block the attack, which nearly shattered the barrier. “Well there’s a weakness. Time to exploit it” Shadow said as he readied a Chaos Spear. //Dammit…looks like I’ll need to be a little more careful// Eggman thought. He charged forward, engulfed in flames as he rushed at the heroes. Shadow fired his Chaos Spear as the bot passed him, doing damage to it. Silver quickly used his power to hold the bot, which was successful. “Let him have it!” he shouted before Twilight and Shadow fired a twin chaos spear, Trixie fired a magic blade, Pinkie fired her party cannon, Espio threw a few exploding kunai, and Rouge tossed a few sticky bombs. The bot took heavy damage before breaking free of Silver’s grip. Eggman growled in intense hatred. “You vermin won’t get another shot like that again!” he shouted as the jets combined and moved in front of the bot and began to spin rapidly, energy charging deep within it. Tails saw that and donned his armor, which was now about 75% restored. He got his rings out and activated absorption mode. Fluttershy saw this and got scared. “Tails, are you sure?” she asked. “This may be all we can do to bring him down. I have to take that chance” he said. She walked up and kissed his cheek before distancing herself. “Be careful…” she said softly. Eggman grinned as it reached full charge and fired the powerful beam from the jets. Tails stood in the path of it and held his hands out. The beam made contact and the absorption began. He soon found this was far more powerful than the Harmonic Blast, his systems already getting overloaded by it. He kept absorbing it, electricity sparking throughout the suit as it already began to fall apart on him. “Dammit! Hold together!” he shouted as the beam faded and he grinned, forming the single magnification ring. “Hey Eggman! Ever hear of Karma?! What goes around comes around!” he shouted as he fired the devastating beam from his suit, which fell apart once again. Eggman saw it coming and put up his shield. “Too bad!” he said as the shield blocked it, for just 2 seconds. The shield shattered and the beam tore through the Egg Emperor Mk II. Eggman was shouting his fool head off as he was thrown from the machine and sent flying a great distance away. The emeralds fell to the ground as the bot exploded. “We did it! I always knew we could!” Rainbow cheered. “Huh…a second ago you were talking about how doomed we were” Twilight teased. Rainbow just huffed at her. Tails was lying on the ground, worn out from that. Fluttershy went over to him and nuzzled him a bit. “Hey beautiful…” Tails said softly. Fluttershy blushed and smiled happily. “Hey yourself, handsome” she replied happily. Sonic walked up to the seven emeralds and smiled happily. “We got all 7 now.” He said before picking them up and giving them to the others. Shadow got the green and Twilight got the red one. Sonic gave Dash the Cyan one, Fluttershy the Yellow one, and himself the Blue one. The white one was handed to Silver and the Purple one to Rouge. They exited the base and were greeted by stampeding buffalo, they rammed the base hard as they could. The base toppled and cheers of victory rang out. “My friends, thank you so much for your help” Chief Thunderhooves said with a smile. “It was no trouble Chief. Glad we could help” Sonic said with a thumbs up. Canterlot, with Vector Vector was out and about again, heading to where he first met Vinyl to see if there was more of interest. A smile crept on his face as he spied the white unicorn with the shades sitting on the bench from yesterday. She smiled and waved when she saw him. He smiled and waved back as he went up to her. “Heya Vinyl, fancy meeting you here” he said. “Yeah, I had a feeling if I came to this spot I’d see you again Vex” she said, giving him a nickname. Vector didn’t seem to mind it and found it a sure sign of their friendship. “So anything you want to do today?” he asked. She thought for a moment and shrugged. “No idea” she said with a smile. Vector just chuckled at that, finding it funny. “Well, how about a nice walk?” he asked. She just smiled and stood up. “Sure thing” she said happily. “Hey Vinyl, think you could do me a favor?” he asked. “Sure thing Vex” she said. “Could you maybe, not wear the shades?” he asked “How come?” she asked. “Cuz I want to feel like I’m talking to Vinyl Scratch, not DJ-Pon3” he said. She just smiled before using her magic to remove her shades. Looking at him with her bright crimson eyes. He just smiled as he looked into her eyes, finding them beautiful. They blushed and looked away once they realized they had been looking into each other’s eyes for about 5 minutes. “Let’s get walking” she said, Vector nodded and began to walk with her. They walked and talked, telling more about themselves and grabbing a bite to eat. The sun began set and Vector stood with Vinyl in front of her home. “I had a great time Vex” she said with a smile. Vector just smiled back. “Same here, I really like spending time with you Vinyl” he said. Vinyl just smiled more and blushed. “Hey, how about you come to the Palace tomorrow? I’ll introduce you to my friends” Vector offered. Vinyl nodded. “Sure thing Vex” she said before giving him a hug. “See ya later” she said before entering her home. Vector returned to the Palace, smiling the whole way.