Luna wasn't the first one to wake up in the room full of batponies. Her ear twitched as she picked up words, and she heard a pony whispering "T-There's no way that's Luna! Why would she be stuck in here with us?" Another voice answered, saying, "Maybe she came back to rescue us and got stuck, too? W-What if those things are coming back?" Luna cleared her throat, and her horn lit up with a gentle light as she sat up. "Sorry for falling asleep, guys..." She said, as she stood up, shaking herself a little. "It's a long, long story, but you've all slept for centuries, and the mare that imprisoned you is long gone" She said. Luna gently pounced on a nearby, scared-looking mare, and she gave her a warm hug and a nuzzle to try helping her feel better.
As she did, she smirked at some of the others, saying, "We're busting out of here~". Once all of the batponies were woken up and given rough explanations of the situation, Luna lit up her horn, and with a flash of her magic, the Luna-Sized hole in the wall became much bigger, shards of crystals flying out into the grass. With Luna at the front, the Lunar empire took to the skies, flying over their ruined city to the plains where their evil ruler had been dispatched. As they landed, two batponies came flying from the Celestia. They both landed, one trotting into the crowd to find her friends, one looking into it with worry across his face. It was an older stallion, and the lines in his face weren't being helped by the worried expression. Out of the crowd came a velvet red mare, just slightly younger than him. Tears ran down her face as she dove into his arms, and she muffled the words "I'm so sorry!" into his chest.
"M-Misty, what's wrong...?" He asked, looking down at his sister. "Y-You're okay, right?" He said. Looking up at him, then at Luna, she said "I-I woke up that... that thing..." in a soft voice, and Luna's worried frown turned into a smile as she sat down next to the pair, giving them a hug. She poked Misty with her snout, saying, "Don't you dare blame yourself... if it wasn't you, it would be someone else" she said. It was hard to ignore a message from Luna herself, so Misty sheepishly smiled at her, giving the princess a weak nod. "Come on misty, you need a rest... we're too old for this much chaos" said her brother, as he stood up and took her hoof. "Yeah, yeah, Drift... t-thank you, Luna" Misty said, returning the Alicorn's nuzzle. Luna grinned a bit more, saying, "And hey, you waking them up led to them being saved ya know". That made Misty's smile widen in a more genuine way, before she took off for the ship with her brother.
The rain had stopped before they left the crystal prison, but the clouds had just began to part to allow the sun through. Luna turned around, gazing at the crowd. Tears welled up in her eyes, which contrasted with the wide, happy smile on her face. "For centuries, I've thought I let all of you ponies die, and yet here I am, standing in front of every last one of my little batponies~!" She said, prancing just a little. "I hope you all can find it in you to forgiv-" she started to say, before squeaking as she suddenly got to experience a lot of ponies yelling at her, then it was Luna being smothered with hugs instead of giving them out. Well, she considered that to be a point taken!
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After one Month, things had settled down. It was decided that the Lunar City would stay a city for batponies, and Luna and her bat winged children were all hard at work restoring it. At the other end of the grassy plains, New Canterlot was being built! The same rock quarries that supplied the Lunar City's stonework were brought back to life, and with all of Equestria working together, it seemed like New Canterlot was going to be finished before the lunar city was restored!
It wasn't a race, though. Some of Equestria's ships moved to more convient places, but the four princessly freighters stayed, resting in a line against the forest. Not everypony chose to move out of the ships and into New Canterlot, and eventually, enough ponies moved out of the hulking ships for all of the ponies left inside to have their own rooms. The top floor of the SS Twilight had become the next PolariSoft, where Polaris, Saphira, and Fluttershy had gotten to work kickstarting Equinox's new Internet. Prop and Track had settled in just fine, and so had Reeve and Tenti.
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Pearl, Polaris' mom, had invited Tinker to come live in the room next to hers, and he didn't mind. After he had moved in, Pearl came over to his quarters, not through the main hallway, but through the doorway to her own living space, which she'd covered with nothing but a curtain. "Wait, that's... there's a doorway there?" Tinker asked, looking confused to spot it. The smile Pearl gave him as she walked up to him made his chest flutter just a little, and the older mare Nuzzled him softly instead of saying anything. "So, I know we're both getting up there in years..." She said, leaning against him, somewhat like a cat. "I thought maybe you and I could keep each other company~" She said, kissing the dragonpony's jaw. The way his wings flew open gave her the answer she was hoping for, and she giggled as she pulled him down into a kiss.
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Celestia had moved into New Canterlot, along with Northern, the ponies of ThreeTown, and some of the other UnderWorld communities. It was only the ponies of DarkRock, Crystal Cavern, and Limestone town that decided to stay on the ship. Luna, obviously, had already moved into the half-restored Lunar Castle, and for now, the Crystal Empire had spread to take over most of the Cadence and the Luna, which was fine by the blue princess since she had her home picked already.
Equinox's very first Mango tree was planted in one of the Lunar City's gardens, by a very excited looking blue batpony. He also planted trees two through twenty, though not all of them fit in the garden.