Twilight gets a Puppy

by TDR


Season 1, Friendship is Puppies, Prologue

Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR

Season 1
Friendship is Puppies
Prologue

[3 days before the Summer Sun Celebration]

Celestia frowned as she looked out of her window over Canterlot. Below her, her little ponies were making the final preparations for the celebration. Every city in Equestria was going to have some sort of party for the celebration. It had become a rather extensive tradition.

Looking back she should have stopped this event when it first started. The last thing she wanted was for Her to return and see Ponies celebrating her defeat.

Still it was too late now, they say hindsight is 20/20, well if that was the case Celestia had a telescope.

Her preparations were all in order. No one below knew what was going to happen. The only ones who did were a small number of trusted servants and Guards, ones without immediate families to boot. They had already gone into seclusion in the old crystal mines under the city. She fully expected they would be ready to wage a rebellion to reclaim Canterlot from Her.

Celestia had no illusions about who would win when the fight between them came. The last few years had shown an increased difficulty in moving the moon at night. The power coming off it alone was enough to give her warning of what was to come.

She had sent Cadence and Prince Blueblood off to the Minotaur nation to forge a 'new trade' deal after an issue arose with the old one. Prince was less than happy with it as he was still focused on trying to find the mare who had captured his heart on his twentieth birthday. Odd that not long after his failed date with Twilight he had found what he was seeking, only to lose it again. she rather hoped he found her soon, Celestia was not fond of the mask he had adopted to keep other mares from seeking his attentions.

Cadence was easier to convince, particularly after she promoted Captain Shining Armor her Guards Commander.

As for the trade deal, there was nothing wrong with the old one. The Minotaur were one of Equestria's staunchest supporters. King Kaz was the god of fire after all and what was her sun but the ultimate fire?

Once darkness fell she expected Cadence and Kaz would work something out to help overthrow Her. The Minotaurs were the most technologically advanced race on Equss. She was a thousand years out of date with technology, the new 'magic' would surprise her.

It was her student though that had most of her focus. Earlier in the day Twilight had sent her a letter warning her of the possible return of an old pony tale threat, Nightmare Moon.

Celestia had actually written off her initial plan a while ago. The idea of putting Twilight and her brothers on the front line against Her was unacceptable. Still, she sent a few copies of the books about the Elements of Harmony and the prophecy to be placed in Twilight's collection a year ago when Twilight and her brothers moved into the old observatory tower.

Twilight had put forth a rather convincing argument for getting out of her parents house years ago, but it took until she turned eighteen before she was allowed to. And she spent the day after her birthday moving everything out of her parents house.

Twilight still had not forgiven them for the events of eight years ago it seemed. Twilight, Rahs, and Spike had moved into the tower fully at the start of the year and as far as Celestia knew, were still unpacking their things, she had planned to visit, but with what was coming, time was not something she had.

Celestia couldn't help but smile at the letter as she wrote her reply. Despite her plans to keep Twilight away from Her, as best she could, her student had found something and was not likely to let it go.

She wrote back to Twilight, wording a letter that would send the trio to Ponyville where the Sun Celebration was to be held this year. The choice was made to put Celestia as close to where She would return as possible to minimize damage to anything and to keep Her from going straight to Canterlot.

The idea was to send Twilight to Ponyville to oversee the preparations. She and her brothers would likely be there for a long time. Golden Oaks library had a few choice books that would be needed. Things Celestia had 'donated' a while back when the plan was first in play.

Worst case Scenario Twilight would be trapped in Ponyville while She had to deal with the rebellions popping up all over. There was no reason for Her to stay in the small town. That way her student was sure to be safe, well as safe from eternal darkness as any pony.

Twilight would have time, and the delayed delivery spell she had set up with of all the information Celestia had on the Elements of Harmony would show up the day after the Sun Celebration so that Twilight would know exactly what to do if all Celestia's other plans failed.

There was the issue with the other Element Bearers. Celestia had no clue who they were having lost track of whomever did the Rainboom early on. But she expected that the Element's would choose to draw their bearers together in a time of need.The list of things Twilight needed to check on would take her across Ponyville to meet a number of various ponies. Any of them could be the Bearers. Mayor Mare was the one who chose the ponies to prepare the festival, she simply sent Twilight that list.

Truthfully she expected Twilight might already be traveling with two of the Bearers. Rahs was loyal to his siblings almost to a fault, and Spike was rather earnest in everything he did. He also had no real filter and spoke his mind easily. Really though Honesty was a hard one to pin down most times.

She knew Rahs would protect Spike and Twilight to the best of his skills, despite having some connection to Her.

With the time delivered information, perhaps Twilight could find the others and gather the Element's of Harmony before the eternal night caused too much damage for Equss to recover from.

Despite all her planning and preparation, she had just as much fear of what was going to happen soon as she did years ago.

Celestia still considered it odd however that despite all that she had prepared, she felt her greatest hope for victory lay with an unstable Unicorn, a baby Dragon, and a creature created by the very enemy Equestria was to face.