//------------------------------// // 3-no stone left unturned, nopony left unaccused // Story: the wedding is off (a reimagining) // by wertyui //------------------------------// Princess Celestia was in her throne room angrily signing the last official papers with her magic some documents had been incinerated because of the turn of events, her guards were so scared they fled the castle in fear of how she would react if they even talked to her, one guard peeped in the see how the princess was doing and she gave him a glare that could turn a pony to stone, he fled sooner rather than later, as she signed the last paper, the throne room doors opened and revealed Cadance with a stern look of disappointment on her muzzle, they locked eyes, it appeared neither was in the mood to even see each other. "What do you want Cadance, can't you see I'm busy?!" she blustered, Cadance flinched. "I just came in here to tell you that Twilight will be staying in Canterlot for a while, she's still upset with you and the others for what happened earlier, she won't be returning to Ponyville anytime soon," she said, Celestia gave a frustrated sigh. "Fine by me Cadance, just leave me be" she ordered "Well," cadence said "I expected you to be a bit less rude" Celestia signed and said, "frankly cadence, being threatened to a criminal extent is not something I look forward to, but it's not you, or your breakup, or even twilight, I can't find luna anywhere, she somehow disappeared two days before the ceremony, when she should've been helping with it." cadence sighed and said "alright if you say so" she slowly closed the door and left to be with twilight Meanwhile outside... Princess Luna had landed in Canterlot, "Hello everypony, did I miss anything?" she asked, but she was soon greeted by a bunch of royal guards who were none too happy to see her. one however was worried sick "LUNA Where in hell have you been?! the guard demanded an explanation, Luna gulped, she was in big trouble. "You went to the moon last time you ditched, so you'd better have a good excuse for ditching the changeling attack!" "Changeling?" she asked. "Don't play dumb with us Luna, your sister is going to kick your ass once we get inside!" one guard said, once again Luna gulped. the guard blew his honorary whistle "private, in spite of the circumstances, you don't get to speak to royalty in that tone, 48 hours in the cell" with that, the other guard was silently dragged away The throne room doors opened up again, to reveal a still angry Celestia, when Luna saw this, she quivered in fear. "Thank you guards, you are relieved for the day," she said. "Yes, your majesty." they said exiting the throne room, once they did, Celestia used her magic to lock the doors, making sure her sister didn't go anywhere when Luna saw this a big shadow hovered over her, she could see her life flashing before her eyes" "Luna, I like to think of myself as a forgiving leader, especially with what's been happening ill need to be forgiven myself, so I will ask nicely dear sister and I expect a straight answer, where..have..you..been?!" she asked in a serious tone. "celly, I..." "Speak up!" she said. "one knew that there was a threat, but I didn't know who or what caused it, I saw that the shield was put and I figured there would be no problems if we didn't know what the cause of it was, so thou said to thyself, 'hecketh with it, so when nopony was looking I left." "Luna, big or small, as a princess, we always take a threat seriously, we don't ditch it, besides we did find out what the cause of it was, a group of creatures known as changelings, and their leader was disguised as Cadance, but that doesn't matter anymore, because Twilight has quit on me!" "Why sister?" "Because she barged into the rehearsals, and told us that Cadance, the fake Cadance, was evil, she didn't make a good case for her argument, so the imposter stormed out of the room crying, Shining Armor told Twilight reasons for her strange behavior and then essentially banished her from the wedding, I wasn't so merciful either, I walked by and simply told her that she had a lot to think about and left the room, looking back that made no sense, I mean I was trying to show disappointment, but that was just kinda vague- "TIA PLEASE" "Oh, my apologies, we soon discovered that she was right, now she won't even talk to me anymore, Twilight has ended her friendships and the elements of harmony could very well be disbanded." "I'm sorry." Luna said, "And I'm sorry that I ditched the threat, I shall promise thee to take things more seriously from now on, canst thou forgive a ditcher, Tia?" Celestia showed a compassionate smile and hugged Luna. "You're my sister, I'll always forgive you, but you're going to have to be punished for this, you are to not to leave Canterlot for two weeks, agreed?" "Yes, sister," she said with disappointment, she knew she deserved this, now all that was left was to see if Twilight would ever buck up and forgive her friends, or if she would carry her grudge forever. "But you know sister, you haven't really been taking threats seriously yourself," Luna said. "What are you saying?" "What I'm saying is that every single time a threat comes to Equestria, you always make Twilight stop it, such as when Discord got set free, Twilight had to defeat him, while you just sat on your big fat ass and did nothing, she has every right to quit, which is what the big point is, you call her your student, but in other perceptions, you've just been using her as a tool to get attention and glory, when it all should've gone to her, plus the fact that you're always relying on those filthy elements of harmony to solve everything, same ones you used to banish me, so it's partially your fault too." Celestia lowered her head in shame. then she thought a little bit, "lulu, didn't I give them a stained glass window, and aren't we preparing to make her a princess someday, luna, are you fucking high?" "I ate some plants before I came here," luna announced as she began to sway from side to side" they looked a little strange" hearing this, Celestia could only help but laugh at what she just heard, luna soon joined into the ludicrousy both burst into laughter over this accusation, in times like this, they needed a reason to laugh. meanwhile, twilight showed spike and cadence her exact plan, she would be under the cover of darkness, and she would sneak back to Ponyville by train, wherein she would go under disguise as an anonymous source, a "Canterlot insider" and tell the story to all who were in earshot of twilight. "Alright, the goal is to take away everything that matters to them we start with the elements of TRAVESTY, cadence, you'll go to sweet apple acres and Sugarcube Corner. "at your service, twilight" cadence announced "spike, you go to wonder bolts HQ and tell captain spitfire what happened, ill provide you with a hot air balloon and a boatload of gems" "aye-aye, twilight" spike replied, saluting her in addition "ill go to Fluttershy's cottage, I have a spell that will allow me to communicate with them, just like her, then ill deal with rarity, once their businesses, relations, and goals are "dashed" THEY'LL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CRAWL TO ME!!!" "now disperse" the pony, the alicorn, and the dragon all went to prepare what was needed for the scheme.