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// Alternate Ending 
// Story: My Little Luna 
// by Alcatraz 
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	It is time.

I wandered how long it would take Celestia to get to earth to take Luna back to Equestria, and that time was now. It was a month after the visit from the Doctor and River, I went outside to check the mailbox but didn't take two steps outside the door. In the middle of the driveway was a bright blue, tall oval-type ring hovering above the ground. You couldn't see through the ring, the middle of it was all white. I'm going out on a limb here and assuming this is Celestia's portal.

My heart sank, I knew what this meant. "Luna. You might want to come out here. Like, now."

Suddenly there was a pop and a bright flash next to me, and there stood Luna. Oh yeah, gotta love teleportation.

"Dad... Does this mean what I think it does?"

"I'm afraid so. Lets just see what happens from here on out."

As if on cue, a horn appears out of the portal, followed by a head, a long slender neck and multicoloured mane, two front legs, a georgous well kept body, and finally the rear legs accompanied by the same multicoloured tail. There she stood. Seven feet tall of pure alabaster beauty.

There was a long awkward silence before anyone spoke.

"I..." Began Celestia. "I've come for my sister. Just please understand I don't want to make this any more difficult than necessary."

"You make that sound like you're a judge handing out a sentence." I sniped.

Celestia was taken aback my my verbal outburst, hanging her head slightly. "I understand you will be upset, but I don't understand how else we would handle this situation."

"You can start by explaining how Luna got sent here in the first place." I replied flatly, my gaze fixed on her every move and word.

"Yes, I do owe you that at the very least."

I sat down on the concrete steps leading up to the front door, as did Luna.

"It began during a storm. A rather unusually large one at that. We had the weather pegasi out trying to ease the thunder and lightning, but they weren't having any luck. Luna volunteered to aid the pegasi that kept getting near misses with lightning. Figuring she'd protect them with a spell that would avert the lightning away from them, when Luna began to charge the spell, lightning struck her horn and she vanished in mid air."

"That... makes sense, but not a whole lot of. You see, when I found her she was but a filly. I found her when I was walking to work when a bolt of lightning struck a building nearby. Upon investigation I found an unconscious Luna inside. I took her home, and things continued from there. I've essentially taken care of her for in excess of a year."

The look on Celestia's face was all I needed to see, the expression was all of awe, shock, and amazement. "I see. But for me it has only been about five weeks or so. Admittedly time differentials are hard to keep track of, but that's besides the point. I don't know how to ask this properly, but... I must take Luna home."

I look up at Luna who was wearing a blank expression. "Luna, what do you want to do?"

Looking between me and Celestia for one long minute, she finally speaks. "This is my home." Both Celestia and myself drop our jaws. You'd need a spatula to scrape them off the ground. "But..." She continues. "I also have a home on the other side of the portal too. This is too difficult of a choice to make. One cannot simply have their cake and eat it too."

I look up at Luna with a smirk. "Luna sweetie, what good is cake if you can't eat it?" A little off topic, but it does well to lighten the mood somewhat, and even earning a chuckle from the two alicorns.

"I've spent too much time here to simply let it all go. I am not choosing to stay, I am not choosing to leave." Luna's voice got bitter as she said "So please, do with me what you wish Tia. I simply cannot abandon what I hold near and dear."

"I am sorry to have to do this to the both of you, I sincerely am. But Equestria needs Luna back." With that, Celestia's horn light up with her trademark golden glow, which envelops Luna, lifting her off the ground. Instantly, Luna droops all limbs and head and begins to sob profusely. I can feel my throat tighten with emotion as I too begin to weep, falling to my knees as Celestia turns to leave, taking a sobbing Luna away in her glowing golden aura. 

"Celestia please! First it was Rainbow Dash, then Fluttershy, now Luna! How many other times has this happened? I know how heartbroken you left the other two people who took care of them, I found her, raised her, fed her, I even kissed her cuts and scrapes! I beg of you Princess, she calls me father, dad, HER DADDY!" Celestia stops dead in her tracks, inches away from the portal. "You know, after my parents died in an accident, I took Luna aside and said to her; "No mater what happens to you I will never, ever leave you." And you know what? I made that a Pinkie Promise too. You know what they say about Making pinkie promises. Cross my heart hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye. If I break a promise to Pinkie Pie, I can kiss my flank goodbye."

Celestia stops and droops her head and pained sniffling can be heard. "I'm sorry. Believe me when I say this. I never wanted anything bad to happen to either of you. But Luna needs to come back with me. I will however, allow you your farewells."

Celestia puts Luna down and she throws herself around me. Both of us are crying profusely.

"Goodbye dad. I will miss you."

"I will miss you too Luna. You will never be forgotten, remember that."

This time Luna voluntarily walks through the portal with Celestia, and it closes behind them.

I stand looking at the space where the portal once was. "Never say goodbye, goodbyes are forever. But to say you'll see them 'round is to wish a future. Luna my dear, I will be seeing you soon."

Tonight, I go to bed heartbroken and end up crying myself to sleep. Once I am asleep, I feel that familiar floating sensation again.

I hear a voice echo out from the darkness of my dream. "Hi dad."