//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: Solar Vs Lunar - Sibling Rivalry // by SwordFlare //------------------------------// Prologue Princess Celestia and Princess Luna strode side by side down the long, wide hallway to the Canterlot palace throne room, where a mastermind was at work. Strange, buzzing noises could be heard from the room, accompanied by the crackle of a powerful unicorn at work. "When did he say he would be finished, sister?" Princess Luna enquired with her sister, who seemed rather eager in her strides. "He didn't say. Actually, he said it would be a while. A long while." Princess Celestia replied wistfully. "If all goes to plan, then I'm certain It'll be worth the wait anyhow." Silence creeped between them as they imagined the fun they would have. "Sister?" Luna said. "Yes, Luna? What is it?" Stopping in front of the large doors to the throne room, Celestia turned to face her sister. "Well... Thou said so much about this before, We have not really taken it all in yet... could thou explain again for us? We have... forgotten." Luna blushed a little at this. She didn't like to make other ponies repeat themselves, because it made her feel silly. "I'm sure Brainy Horn will explain for you." Celestia replied sympathetically. To be fair, she had explained it in such an excited and bubbly tone that it was understandable that Luna had been unable to grasp any of the information properly yet. With one alicorn to one double door, they majestically opened the double doors to reveal... well, certainly something they had never seen before in all their years of immortailty! All around there were strange, rectangular panels tilted at odd angles, connected to each other, facing one empty large square area with a purple mat. The sisters could not do much but stare at it all in wonderous awe, their minds meandering through the possibilities of how all of the magical equipment worked, and what it was for. "P-professor Brainy Horn? Art thou in here?" Luna called inquisitively, glancing around the huge room, which before the equipment, used to be very large and spacious. However, you could hardly see yourself amongst it all now. "Hm? Who's there?!" A strange, sing-song voice emerged from somewhere around the far left corner of the room. Craning her neck, Celestia being the larger mare, could just about make out a silver mane over the top of all the clutter. "Err, It's Princess Celestia." She answered back. In honesty she was more than a little confused as to why the stallion didn't recognise her voice. Hadn't they spoken for a long while previously? "Oh, sorry princess. I get distracted easily and with my line of work you tend to try to keep the most impo- FAUST DAMN IT!" The professor's odd voice was cut off sharply by a series of loud crashes and sounds of things falling to the floor. Luna slowly turned to face her sister, with her eyebrows raised. Celestia answered with a slow shake of the head, when suddenly a silvery maned, grey-coated stallion stepped out of the mass of equipment to greet them. "Hello there again, Princess Celestia. And you must be Princess Luna. Lovely name.Whoever named you must have been very clever" He grinned at her rather goofily, as Luna blushed at his flattery. "What is it you require of me now, Princess?... Er, Celestia?" The tall white alicorn regarded the stallion warily. "Well, first of all I'd like very much for you to explain to Princess Luna here what exactly you are constructing and for what cause." As soon as she finished the sentence the Brainy Horn's face lit up in excitement and joy. "Okay. So. Basically, I am creating a portal for you two.. and many soldiers of your choice, to step into. It will transport you to an uninhabited world, and your goal is for your team to wipe out the other team. Solar against Lunar. Now, some of you will take camera-ponies for each side to video the progress taking place, and so everypony else can watch it happening. I can assure you, it will be very fun!" He explained quickly. "Is that not a tiny bit violent? We mean, how will we simply kill each other? Dost that not mean we die?!" Luna exclaimed shortly after the stallion finished his sentence. A knowing smile appeared on Brainy's face. "A-HAH! That's where the brilliant part comes in, princess. When you die, you are sent back here, and you can only watch events unfold. No communication can take place between the two worlds. And to answer your second question, you will be sent in with weaponry such as swords, and shields and whatnot. Otherwise, it can all be improvised. Lastly, in reply to your first question, yes, it is violent, but everypony needs to blow off steam every now and then, and I'm sure you two get very stressed whilst running equestria. Don't you often have petty sibling quarrels?" At this, a wicked grin spread across Celestia's face, while Luna glared at her and frowned, answering the brilliant professor's question without words. "When will it be finished, then? What is your progress so far, Brainy Horn?" Celestia asked without taking her eyes off of Luna's eyes. "Ah, well I predict I will be able to send you all off in around two weeks time. Which gives you two..." He paused for a moment, "Plenty of time to find out who will be best for the job! You may each take 40 soldiers." "So what thou says is... we will hoof-pick our best soldiers and guards to fight for us?" Luna recalled. "Not for you, with you. You will both be in the action too." He reminded her. "And yes, that is exactly the case, Princess Luna." To this, Princess Celestia nodded her head, and then suddenly looked at the professor oddly. It was almost as though he had planned all this without their permission. "One last thing, Brainy Horn. What if we don't want to take part in this?" "Once you have seen and know how revolutionary and fun this will be, I'm sure you will. I'm almost 97.8% certain." The stallion said. He certainly did sound certain. The two sisters looked at each other for a while, the ancient competetiveness and rivalry rising between them, neither moving. Then, almost as though they both sensed what the other would say, said, "It is on, sister. May the best mare win!"