“Are you certain about this, my beloved sister?”
Luna walked toward her older sister, Celestia. Celestia was looking at the data she got from her spell. “Yes. Yes I do. I think this is our best solution.”
“I am not worried about you, sister, but… wouldn’t this not kill the culture of the ponies on the long run? Would they even be ponies in their hearts?” Luna asked.
“I’ve already thought about that.” Celestia said. “I have a solution for that problem. But don’t you worry about that part, my dear sister. You better prepare yourself to raise the moon, because this is going to be one long night.”
“Of course.” With that, Luna walked out of the court room.
It was a problem that had struck Equestria, even if nopony had ever realized it. Since a couple of decades, ponies were able to choose which gender their foal would be. Harmless, you might say… well, most couples preferred to have mares. A lot of couples, actually. Now, there weren't enough stallions. Celestia's first intention was to forbid the use of the spell and have a few unborn foals be made stallions by the use of that spell to replenish the number of stallions in Equestria. But...
But something had come along. Over the past few centuries, Celestia had shared stories about Equestria with other universes in the exchange of technology and stories from the other side. This had served her country a great deal. For the last 30 years, she had worked together with some people on Earth. There was a company there under the name ‘Hasbro’. They shared stories with that company in exchange for steam technology. The company made a toy franchise out of the stories about Equestria under the name ‘’My Little Pony’’, Celestia had found that fitting, as she called her own subjects that from time to time.
30 years ago, she told them stories about the past of Equestria, and about how 180 years ago 2 girls and their brother came to Equestria and spend time there during their childhood. Now, decades later, she told them what her student Twilight Sparkle experienced during her time in Ponyville. By the use of magic, she made an animated series out of it so it could be easily distributed. Hasbro made a cover story that said that ‘’artists’’ were involved.
The franchise was very popular with little girls over the years, so she had heard. She smiled at that thought that young beings from another planet could relax by the idea of Equestria. Not that they ever would come here though.
But then, something else came; a group of male adults, under the name ‘Bronies’. She was very surprised when Hasbro told her about this. But that presented her with an opportunity for this problem. See, she had heard that lots of those humans actually wished to go to Equestria, a lot of those even wanted to become ponies. Now she had a solution to her problem while granting the wished of those humans.
She needed to make a test, though. She couldn’t just pour thousands and thousands of humans in Equestria not knowing what to expect. So, she randomly took an internet community with a list with a few dozen names and locations. It was an internet community based on friendship and some sort of economic system. Later on, a lot of them became Bronies. They sounded friendly enough, Celestia thought. There would be no harm in taking them.
“Sister? I am ready,” Celestia heard Luna say. “Where do I need to go?”
Celestia turned around and saw her sister coming towards her. “Very well,” Celestia said. “I have a list of names and traced their locations. You will need to get the people from this list.” Celestia ripped the list in half and gave one half to her sister. “You can’t stay on Earth for longer than 5 minutes, or your magic won’t function anymore and you will be stuck there.” Celestia said. “And after you got someone, teleport them to the infirmary. There they can adjust to the magic from Equestria and get the physical form that is solid for them.”
Luna nodded and took a good look at the list. “I don’t think persuading them won’t be that hard, ” she said while chuckling. “I had my doubts, but this? Equestrian Citizen? I hardly doubt that guy would have something against going to Equestria…”
Celestia grinned. “Ready to go, then?”
Luna nodded.
With that, the two sisters both went to get the people on their lists.