A long time ago, there used to be three main pony species; the pegasi, masters of the sky, Unicorns, students of Magic, and normal ponies, strong, durable, and workers of the earth. Above them the alicorns ruled, for a time. Eventually, the pegasi and unicorns vanished and faded into obscurity, and with them, the alicorns; leaving the earth ponies to themselves. These eventually were to be viewed only as myths. But the alicorns still watched over Equestria. Sometimes they would disguise themselves as normal ponies and have children, who would go on to influence history, but the alicorns forever lurked in the shadows.
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." A voice echoed from a distance.
"Its a shame." Celestia sighed. She knew what was going to happen, but she could do nothing at all to stop it.
"Luna!" she screamed, as her sister appeared next to her.
"WHAT IN DISCORD DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING. WHY IS YOUR FOAL SAYING THINGS LIKE THAT?"
"Wait a minute honey, it not me, its the mortals. Faust thinks its a good idea too, so you'll just have to deal with it."
"But the moon's my territory," Luna said calming down,"just as the sun is yours. You wouldn't want ponies messing about on the sun, would you?
"In fact, I already decided to ruin the Sun as a precautionary measure, Cadence has already ruined Venus, but Armor is on the fence about the whole thing. But I'll tell you what, I'll let you pick who gets to go to the moon, on some conditions. But first you have to swear on the Styx, you'll do it." she told her.
"What conditions?" she asked.
"I won't tell you until you swear on the Styx."
Luna thought about it, by swearing on the Styx, she would have to do whatever Celestia said, if she wanted to have any say, but if she didn't, any type of pony would be allowed on her sacred territory. Faust was going allow them anyway. She could either have a say in it or not.
"Okay, but please, be gentle. I swear on the Styx to Celestia's conditions." Thunder boomed off in the distance.
Celestia smiled. "Okay. The first condition is that you have to pick colts that are the foals of former Hunters of yours."
"WHAT!" Luna yelled. "Those Hunters betrayed my trust, and had sons. Why would I let one of their foals into my sacred territory?"
Celestia's smiled widened. She continued. "The second condition is that there has to be at least one of my children to accompany them. No before you get mad, it doesn't matter if they walk on the moon, but they have to be included in the mission."
"Fine. What's the third condition?"
Celestia braced herself. Luna was going to be furious, with a capital F. Luckily, she had already swore on the Styx. "You have to have a foal."
"No." Thunder boomed louder, it was much closer. "Okay, Okay." It was never good to break an oath sworn on the Styx.
"That's it. I've had enough. You know what's wrong with you, and your whole virgin act?" Celestia said furiuously. "You're chicken. You're afraid to stick out your neck and say 'Okay, life's a fact.' Ponies fall in love. Ponies do belong to each other, because that's they only chance anypony's got for real happiness. You call yourself a 'free spirit and wild'. You're just terrified that somepony's going to come along and stick you in a cage."
Luna was speechless.
"Maybe its time to realize, that you're already in that cage. You built it yourself, and it not bounded by bars, it's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
Luna burst into silvery flames that danced across her body. "I would kill you, but you had me swear on the Styx. Forget about the present I was going to get you for your birthday."
She disappeared and Celestia went back to listening to the assembly. It wouldn't have been a great birthday present anyway, she thought.