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// Nightmare Moon 
// Story: Know your Mare 
// by overlord-flinx 
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Know your mare, know your--

"What is the meaning of this!?" The mare on center stage roared as lightning seemed to crack out from the darkness behind her, adding more of a boom to her voice.

No lightning effects unless we authorize it...

...We have a lightning budget and you're already burning it out...

"Oh my deepest apologies, sir. It won't happen again."

Goo--

The darkness cracked with a little bolt of lightning once again. "Go on..."

Nightmare Moon...

...needs more souls...

"Souls aren't really a part of my plan..."

Nightmare Moon...

...her plan is to agriculturally ruin her kingdom by depriving it of sunlight...

"It's a bit more complicated then--"

As well as slowly killing off ponies by robbing them of vital vitamin C...

"They had oranges."

Nightmare Moon...

...thinks oranges grow in the dark...

"I did not exactly say that."

Nightmare Moon...

... suffers from short term memory loss...

"I most certainly do not!"

Nightmare Moon...

...forgot that she suffers from short term memory loss...

"I AM NOT SOME SENILE OLD GOAT! I have NO form of memory loss!"

Nightmare Moon...

...is talking smack about Grogar...

"...Who?"

See...?

Memory loss...

"SILENCE YOU WHELP!" Lightning cracked against the darkness once more, followed by the charge of thunder.

Hey!

Stop doing that...!

You're scaring the little colt...

"Scaring the little colt!? Scaring the little colt!? You weak-minded--"

Now you know...

Nightmare Moon the child hater...

"I do not hate children!"

Well they hate you...

She wanted to rebuke that, but as she stood there in thought, she dropped her hoof and walked off with a look of realization across her helmet covered face.