"Wait so I got to get drunk and go raving!? Why can't you disappear on vacations in the real world?"
"Because, you miss aren't allowed to do either of those things for at least one hundred years."
"What!?"
"No buts. No maybes. That's what's happening. And anyway shouldn't you go to bed?"
"Fine. Good day."
"Good day."
Once I had come out of the WIM 3008 I had told Luna what had transpired upon her asking and she had been really taken by the idea of drinking and raving all night.
I decided to head down to the kitchen for a nice morning snack. After finishing of the marvellous food the chef prepared for me I went to the throne room to hold court for a while and monitor the state of affairs.
Once I finished holding court, I gobbled down a delicious salad for dinner, before trotting off to my bedroom for a nice nights sleep. Before lying down, I paused briefly to lower the sun.
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After a lovely nights worth of sleep, I woke up and gave the sun a boost above the horizon, before getting ready for my day.
As I finished off breakfast I decided to finish off the last question that had been bothering me. So as soon as I finished shoving food down my throat at a ridiculous rate like a lady, I left to Luna's room.
When I arrived at Luna's room, I opened the door cautiously, I had learnt the hard way that opening her door quickly sometimes ended with an explosion in your face. When nothing happened, I walked in.
To my surprise Luna wasn't there neither was any of her experiments or the WIM 3008. After looking around for any clues to her whereabouts, I found a note and next to it were two small buttons, one red and the other blue.
The note said "To who ever is reading this please stop reading if you are not Celestia. If you are Celestia, then if you want to come visit my secret laboratory you will have to do something. Next to this nite are two buttons. The red one makes something happen and the other stops it. So if you want to visit me destroy this note and press the red one."
'Okay... This is a little weird, but it's Luna so whatever.'
After reading this, I teleported the note to the sun. I then pushed the red button.
Nothing happened...
A bit frustrated at Luna I tried the button a couple more times, before heading to leave. I opened the door to leave, but instead of a castle corridor, I found myself looking into a laboratory that looked like what a child would expect to see in a mad scientist's hidden laboratory. There were smoking beakers spotted here and there some of them containing different coloured liquids and others containing electricity somehow.
"Do you like it?" I suddenly heard from next to me, "I got it all cheap from this guy in the dungeons. Though it was hard to get some of the blood stains off." Luna said excitedly.
"Oh Luna..."
"What?"
"Nothing, just why do you need this?"
"Well I needed somewhere to put all my experiments that was out of the way so I asked around and this dude was practically giving this place away. So after I cleaned it up, I set up some buttons to change my door between a portal to here and being a normal door. Then I moved all my stuff here." She said as if this was a normal everyday occurrence. Though considering it was her, this truly could be one.
I just sighed, before asking her "Hey mind if I use the WIM 3008 for a bit?"
"Yeah, it was made for you. And if you are going to use it now, when do you want to be woken up?"
"Tomorrow if you don't mind?"
"Okay. Tomorrow it is. And it's just over there in the corner." She said, before pointing of into a corner.
I wandered over in that direction, weaving through the tables and piles of stuff littered everywhere. Once I reached the pointed out corner, I quickly found the machine I was looking for. Having pulled it from a mound of stuff I set it up from memory, hoping that I would get it right.
After a while and a bit of experimentation, I got it up and running. Once it was all good, I slipped the weird helmet atop my brow and pressed the button.
As the darkness settled in as swiftly as always, I started concentrating on my question. 'What if I didn't stop Luna when she became Nightmare Moon?'
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The cruel, bone chilling wind howled past my body as I looked across the desolate plain, where there was once a forest. The empty feeling of the area was enhanced by the pale light shining across the dead land, beamed down from the full moon hovering in the sky.
As I looked around, I thought to myself 'Why? Why did I have to hesitate and let her take away my only chance at saving my little ponies?'
This had been a reoccurring thought ever since, when on the brink of victory I lost the Elements to my sister, because I hesitated when using them and she had taken off me. This had doomed every single pony or other creature on the planet not capable of withstanding the dreadful winds and the permanent low temperatures. And even if something could do that, there was no food or crop that could survive these conditions.
As for me, well after my defeat at my sister's hand I was left to trudge across what was left of a once magnificent land. For all my powers even I couldn't stop this now.
There was nothing left alive on this region of the planet. The only place left that could sustain life, was a band travelling around the planet where the sun's heat could be felt, but not so much that it cooked and burnt the land and it's inhabitants as it had on the other side of the planet.
The problem was that the entire band was unpopulated at the time of Nightmare Moon's rise. So there was nothing living there, but non sentient animals and plants.
I felt like I was going to go insane soon, from the lack of company and the constant silence. I had many eons left to live, so my chances of staying sane in this cruel, harsh, unforgiving and unfriendly hell were very slim.
After my defeat Nightmare Moon stripped me of my powers leaving enough to let me live in this world. The only food I had was a collection of tinned food that I had scavenged from empty houses.
There was really nothing left to do, but contemplate the world and slowly trudge towards the band of life.
After many more hours of trudging, I finally decided it was time to sleep. So after laying down my head and curling up, I went to sleep and dreamt many horrible nightmares.
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When I was freed from the dreadful world I had just experienced, I rushed over to Luna and gave a big hug.
"Umm. I appreciated hugs as much as the next mare, but why the hug?"
"Well the place I just went to wasn't very nice and I needed to cheer myself up."
"What was the question and why wasn't the possibility very nice?"
"I'll tell you once I've had some nice hot chocolate with some biscuits."
"Sounds good to me."