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// Movement 
// Story: Thorn of the Earth 
// by Robipony 
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One week and three days before impact

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have some terrible news. This morning I awoke as a terrible pain throbbed through my skull.  At first I thought it was just a migraine until I realized it was the alarm spell going off. Urgently I pulled out the telescope and set it up to look at the object. When I found the object in the view-finder, I was shocked to see that it had made a complete loop and had started moving towards the moon.  

I would strongly recommend that inform Luna so that she will do something to prevent the object from crashing into the moon. 

Sincerely,

Princess Twilight Sparkle 

Picture found pertaining to the Object

This is a photograph showing Scootaloo, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell smiling at the camera, while pointing at the bright spark in the sky. 

It should be noted that at the time that this photo was taken that the Ponyville schoolhouse had cancelled classes for the day due to the appearance of this phenomena. As a result the Cutie Mark Crusades ran around Ponyville continuing their crusade to find their cutie marks. This included playing various games, eating a few sweets at Sugar Cube Corner, being harassed by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, and hanging out at their clubhouse. 

Later that night
The following events are based off of a verbal account given to us by Princess Luna herself.

Princess Luna stood looking up at the moon from her tower in Canterlot. It was her moon, it had been given to her by her sister, Celestia long ago to serve as a guardian in the night. To be a light source to guide the creatures of the dark and to aid the way word travel to the sanctuary of their home. In her youth Luna hadn't understood the responsibility she had as a guardian of the night and had abused this gift to become Nightmare Moon. Despite this when Luna had returned her sister had forgiven and had let her keep her gift as a guardian of the night. Now something was posing a threat to that gift. 

In response to Twilight's letter Luna made preparations to remove the treat the object posed to her moon.  She already had a few ideas of what she would do. One was to simply send an energy beam and destroy the object entirely. However this method would require a large amount of magic and the debris from the object could come crashing down on their heads. Also if she missed she could possibly damage the moon resulting in the same hazard they were trying to prevent. 

The best solution for this problem would be to create a shield around the moon. That way the object would bounce off back into space. Of course the spell for this method would also take a large amount of energy to cast. 

Luna's horn glowed blue as she pooled the energy to cast the spell. Then she aimed her horn at the moon and casted the spell as she did a long beam of light shot forth. Upon coming in contact with the moon the blue light enveloped the round stone before dissipating. Luna knew that while she couldn't see the spell shielding the sphere she knew it was there as she felt the magic being slowly drained from her. 

The Alicorn would have to hold out until this event transpired then she could stop fueling the spell with her magic. While the night had barely started the spell had taken a lot out of Princess Luna, so she decided to go to bed early. 

Message from Rarity to Applejack

Dear Applejack,

Due to the recent events regarding the star in the day sky, I was wondering if it would be alright for Sweetie Bell to stay with your family for a while? At least for a few weeks until this dastardly thing is sorted out. 

I seriously hope you don't mind. If it is an issue I will try to find somewhere else for Sweetie to stay. I will be waiting for your response. 

With love,

Rarity

While it isn't included in this report, Applejack did reply back to Rarity, saying it was okay for Sweetie Bell to stay with the Apple family until things cooled down.

One Week before impact

Dear Princess Celestia

I fear that the situation has become worse. Once again I had a migraine in response to the spell I have been casting to monitor the movement of the object and it appears that the shield Luna erected around the moon has only made matters worse. The path of the object has changed and now it is heading for Equestria. If my calculations are correct then the object will be crashing near Ponyville. It also doesn't help that Pinkie Pie's tail won't stop twitching. 

I will approach the Major later to discuss plans to evacuate the town in case my predictions are correct. We may need to evacuate the town, however we need to be careful in the manner we do this as panic could make the problem worse. However I also think we should have another meeting to discuss this situation as I have more important information that needs to be brought forward that I can't rely by letter. 

Hope to hear back from you soon. Spike will be by my side to ensure that I will receive any messages you send me. 

Sincerely,

Princess Twilight Sparkle