On the eternal night. “Empress?” He asked, tired from a day without sleep. First, they had to call the army. The grand general and his wife, the princess of justice, appeared in Equestria.
“You will go to the capital. I need to speak to my subjects. I will bring the rest of our forces once I have secured the destruction of the elements.” Nightmare moon turned to mist and went to Ponyville.
The two appeared inside the Castle, and the general easily knocked out multiple guard ponies while his wife continued to the throne room, looking at the stained glass, lifting her veil a little to see a bit clearer. “My mother and Celestia has had so many adventures before my time.” The unicorn with bat-like ears and eyes nodded, looking at the artwork.
He sighed. “Take it in before miss madness shatters it all.” Alecia rolled her eyes at the remark, even if she agreed. “So, wanna sit on the royal throne?” He asked jokingly as the princess looked at the seat of the nation.
She just thought about it and decided to jump to it. “Aaahh, it feels nice to be a princess of Equestria. I wish Nightmare Moon gave me a seat instead of making me stand all the bucking time! My legs hurt after four hours!” He chuckled even if he stood in attention. “Don’t worry, the old hag isn’t anywhere close to listening to us. Kinda odd, the Unicorns here don’t have the same ears as we do on the moon.” Shadow swipe nodded as a white unicorn with a blue mane entered. “Oh, another toy to break?” She asked as shadow swipe readied for a fight.
Then Cadence stepped in and greeted the Royal blue Alicorn with a shady purple mane. “Hello, I’m Cadence, and I wanted to ask why you’re attacking Canterlot?” Shadow Swipe relaxed his stance, and so did Shining Armor.
Alecia sighed. “Finally, an Alicorn. My name is Alecia, nightmare moon returned, and she is going to destroy the elements of harmony.” The Cadence and shining were shocked at what they had heard. “We’re here waiting for her to be defeated or return, having destroyed the elements.” Shining armor glared at the unicorn in armor, which appeared to be some kind of jacked with metal plates on it rather than made of metal.
Shining armor took a domineering stance. “Then why did you attack my Guards and take Celestia’s throne?” Shadow Swipe sighed, annoyed rather.
Shadow spoke “I took down your guards, and it’s hedging our bets. Because ponies on the moon worship Luna as our guardian and see her current state as heretics poisoning her, it is said one great star and five gems will cleanse her of this poison and lead to a new era without the evil of Nightmare.” Shining nodded. “But neither I nor my wife trust prophecies, so better take over the palace and keep her majesty's throne warm.” Alecia finished enjoying the cushions.
“Is that why you just knocked them all out?” Shadow Swipe nodded. “And you’re from the Moon?” Shadow Swipe nodded again, the scarred dark gray pony growing annoyed. “I don’t believe you’re actually from the moon; I mean, you wouldn’t have any air. Twilight has told me enough times that no pony could live on the moon unless they were immortal or an Alicorn.” The Alicorn cleared her throat at that remark.
Alecia spoke. “Well, we didn’t live on the moon, more like we lived inside the moon. But honestly, that’s a story too long to repeat. But the abridged version, long ago, our ancestors, made up of those ostracized by ponies, started asking for help from the only one with power. They viewed her as not being controlled by the nobles. My mother, Luna, then asked Celestia, yet she didn’t listen. She called her followers criminals, leading to her turning into Nightmare Moon, and we all decided to start a civil war. At the Siege of Everfree, the soldiers of the Lunar army won, but at the last moment of the fight between the corrupted nightmare moon and Celestia, the elements chose her and launched us all into the moon.” Shining Armor was about to question a few things until he remembered Equestria hadn’t conquered land in centuries.
Once they saw the sun, their bodies stiffened. “Let’s hope Princess Luna is safe.” Shadow Swipe spoke, and worry filled his chest.
Alicia stepped off the throne. “Cadence, wasn’t it? Would you kindly give us a tour of your magnificent palace?”
Harvest Moon walked to the citadel, a large fortress at the edge of tranquility that stood in the middle of the nation. “The army is still standing, and I don’t believe the false beast has control of our true queen.” The committee grew silent before cheering with joy, and Harvest Moon sighed in frustration.
The oldest bat pony started to speak. “That’s enough. There is an issue.” He spoke one eye blind while the other was as piercing blue as the ocean. “The queen, our princess, and the grand general are all stuck on eques. If that’s the case, we don’t know how the eques ponies will treat our royalty.” He turned to harvest the moon. “Am I the correct student of our princess?” She nodded.
“With all my attempts, there’s no magical way of reaching eques without some physical rune door. Most of you understand that rune gates work for those in the room with fewer investments," She Looked at the nourishment Officer Carb apple, who smiled at her, embarrassed. "They allow us to travel between two places by using rune doors, yet without a rune gate on eques, we are stuck, and so is the Queen. Hopefully, my bro-“ She cleared her throat. “The grand general should be able to produce such a gate and, from there, Assist us with some of our local issues." They looked to the elderly The water management officer.
"Yes, I feared this might happen, but our efforts of sending probes to Jupiter and Saturn's moons have been successful, and without the false queen’s wasteful decadence baths, the supply we have now will last us months, and with the army now returned we can concentrate on producing water." They let out a sigh of relief. "The food issue is still open. We don't want the black famine again." The older unicorns looked at the ground while younger ones cringed when a new mold infected and destroyed the crops. The death toll was in the millions. "We can't just dig food from the moons of Saturn or find grain from cores of asteroids! Our population just now have we regained pre-famine numbers!” The entire committee looked shocked as the nourishment officer had a little meltdown. “Sorry, just don’t want it to happen again.” The water management officer put a hoof on his shoulder.
Harvest Moon nodded. “We just have to trust the general.”
General threw an entire desk at the wall. “What do you mean you don’t have any ARCANE INK?!” After which, he lay on the floor.
Alecia gulped. “So, do you know any good places to drink?” Shining nodded