*Calming Blaze POV*
The day of the Summer Sun Celebration is here.
The while town was excited as everypony had almost finished preparations.
All the ponies had their own jobs decorating the town, composing the music and such.
I hadn't met the one who was making the music, which turned out to be Fluttershy of the beasts.
Well, just 'Fluttershy'.
She doesn't have her army of beasts yet.
The difference in personalities is still quite jarring.
One surprising revelation, though, is that there's an extra member in the apple family.
They still had their monopoly over apples in Equestria, even more now since Applejack seems to be quite capable of being in her job.
She has seemingly endless stamina alongside incredible physical prowess.
Strange how I've never heard of her before.
Button Mash has introduced me to 'video games'.
It was very entertaining to enact in lethal combat without truly risking your life.
Although it proved to be vastly different than real combat, it was exciting enough.
This new life of mine grants every wish of mine.
It changes tonight, though.
When Nightmare Moon comes down from the moon, I'll have to follow and make sure she is dealt with.
The disasters must never repeat themselves in this word.
I will not allow it.
Even if I must pay the ultimate price for it.
"You good dude?"
"Yeah, I'm good,"
I was currently sitting on a bench in the middle of the town with Button Mash, drinking a chocolate shake.
"Seriously, you seem more distracted than usual,"
"When am I ever distracted?"
"Well, sometimes you just go quiet and start brooding or something while looking like you are about to go to war."
Oh.
*Sigh* "I'm fine, what would I have to worry about?"
"I guess that's true."
With my friends' worry relieved, I start to think about my plan.
Nightmare Moon is powerful, extremely, even.
I have prepared the most I could.
I trained my body to its limits by infusing magic through it to strengthen the bones and muscles whilst healing it to achieve the best results.
The only thing it tested was my ability to hold on and my ability to hide from my mother whilst training, which was more than easy considering the fact that she had a job now.
She seems to work in postal service, along a mare named Derpy.
I'd imagine it must be a nickname of sorts, but I haven't bothered to investigate.
Whilst going through my plans against Nightmare Moon, Button complained about someponys mental health and started dragging me.
"What the? Where are we going?" I ask as I let myself get pulled through the dirt.
"Dude, the ceremony is almost starting, and you've been staring at the sky for almost 4 hours now," he said with an irritated voice.
"Oh. Sorry, " was all I could say at that.
Properly walking now, we hurried on our way towards the town hall as ponies were gathering.
"Blaze, Button, there you two are, you almost missed the starting ceremony," Mother said as she was standing next to a cream colored mare, Buttons' mom.
"Hey, at least we made it,"
That got a giggle out of them.
"Well, why don't you two boys enjoy yourselves until the ceremony starts?" Button's mom suggested.
"Sure thing, mom," Button replied as he ,once again, dragged me, this time towards the food stand.
"Noooooooooo, the apple stuff is goooooone" he started crying with actual tears, though nopony cared much since it was a common thing.
Sitting on a nearby chair, I survey the crowd to notice two new ponies.
Well, a pony and a dragon, more specifically.
A purple unicorn with a navy blue mane with two stripes of pink and purple.
Alongside the purple and green baby dragon.
It's a rare sight at this time.
The unicorn seems slightly annoyed by the ramblings of Pinkie Pie.
Suddenly, the whistling music from a row of small birds silenced the crowd.
The mayor stepped onto the elevated platform to give her opening speech.
As the ponies cheered, my instincts screamed at me that something was wrong.
The speech continues on, and with every word, my body tells me that it is very close.
Following my gut, I take a peek at the purple unicorn.
She was staring at the moon with a fearful and anxious expression.
Following her sight, there it was.
The moon, now without its signature look of the pony shaped markings on it.
"Princess Celestia!" The speech ended, and the curtains were pulled alongside a bird song to reveal nothing.
Rarity goes backstage, presumably to check, only to come back out shortly.
"She's gone!" She announced to the anxious crowd.
"Blaze? What's going on?" Button asked me with a scared look.
"Whatever it is, we gotta get to our moms and get out of here," I tell him before dragging him with me.
I spot our mothers as I use a spell to clone myself, letting the clone guide Button as I secretly go into the backstage.
I should be back before the spell runs out.
A loud gasp from Pinkie and the crowd goes silent.
A dark blue mist gathers at the stage, only to disperse and reveal the alicorn inside.
"Oh my beloved little subjects, it has been so long since I have seen your precious, little, sun-loving faces" Nightmare Moon spoke with a regal yet malicious voice.
"What did you do with our princess!" Rainbow yells as she's about to rush her, only to get stopped by Applejack at the last second.
As for me, I had reached the top floor without anypony noticing.
A spell to dusguise myself, appearing as a generic pony.
Regular ponies shouldn't notice much, even while inspecting closely.
Just in case it doesn't work out.
After the spell was applied, I stumble slightly before recovering.
My magic reserves are far too low in this body.
"SEIZE HER! ONLY SHE KNOWS WHERE THE PRINCESS IS!" Mayor Mares' voice rings out loudly as I focus back on the scene.
"STAND BACK YOU FOALS!" Nightmare Moon shoits as thunder rains down from the ceiling, knocking out the guards who tried to approach.
Sprinting out from my hiding spot, I run towards the alicorn as she hears my steps.
She turns around with haste, only to be met with a hoof.
*Bang*
As the hoof connects, her head turns, only to turn back and glare at me as I notice her horn glowing.
Fuck.
*Boom*
I grit my teeth and look around myself, noticing the orange barrier I made in a hurry had almost been shattered, which was also layered by a purple barrier that was also almost broken.
The alicorn scowls in anger as she flares at me for a few seconds, only to turn into mist and glide away.
I shouldn't be surprised at my loss considering my young body, but it still stings that I lost to that disaster.
"Are you alright?" The purple unicorn ran to me as the barriers fell.
"I'm fine"
She was surprised at my young voice.
Unfortunately, I didn't have enough magic for a voice changer after the clone and disguise spell.
The clone spell will hold with ambient magic, but the disguise spell continously drains magic from the caster until they run out, which was what was happeing right now.
"A colt?" Her mind seemed to break at the new info.
"Don't you have something important to find, since you seem to know about her"
With a loud gasp, she runs out of the town hall while lifting the dragon on her back, followed by Rainbow, which prompts four others to follow too.
With an annoyed groan, I stand to my hooves.
That blast dealt more damage to me than I thought.
Alas, alicorns gain ridiculois strength after all.
"*Sigh* This might prove to be harder than I would like"
With that, I run to try and catch up with the six ponies and one dragon.