You're probably wondering what happened to this chapter. It was pointed out to me in a comment that there was a problem with the chapter, and the more I thought about it, I realized they were right. So I felt compelled to take the chapter down and rewrite it. Here is the new verson of this chapter. Enjoy.
“It’s working!” said Doctor Whooves while he stood at the control panel of the TARDIS. “The plot hole is closing.”
Behind him, the seven unicorns, four pegasi, griffon, minotaur, and changeling queen stood and watched the small computer screen on the TARDIS’s control panel, which showed the image of the swirling vortex in space, collapsing in on itself. They all let out sighs of relief. They had done it. They had saved the universe.
The plot hole finally collapsed down to a single tiny glowing point, and then disappeared completely.
Then something unexpected happened.
At that exact moment when the plot hole disappeared, a blinding white sphere of light suddenly exploded out in all directions from where the plot hole had been.
“WHAT’S THAT?” shrieked Upper Crust in fear.
“It’s a temporal shock-wave!” replied the Doctor. “All of you brace yourselves!”
None of them knew what a temporal shock-wave was, but because of the urgency in the Doctor’s voice, they all obeyed him and quickly grabbed hold of something solid on the TARDIS. And just in time too, because at that moment, the shockwave hit them.
The TARDIS rocked and shook for a bit, and then, after a few seconds, everything became still.
“What just happened?” asked Flim as he and everyone else let go of what they were holding onto and looked at the Doctor.
The Doctor moved back to the TARDIS’s control panel and looked at the computer screen. “Well, what do you know! We’re back on Earth!” he said.
“Oh, thank heavens!” sighed Upper Crust in relief, glad to be on the safety of solid ground once again.
“More specifically…” the Doctor added, “… we’re inside the Ponyville library.”
That was a surprise to everyone.
“Ponyville library!?” asked Trixie in confusion. “What are we doing there?”
“I didn’t bring us here!” said the Doctor. “I believe the TARDIS was put here by default because this is the location where the paradox first started, where Twilight Sparkle traveled back in time to herself to try and change the past.”
“What do you mean?” asked Hoops, scratching his head with his hoof in confusion.
“When the plot hole closed, it created a ripple effect throughout the space story arc continuum, undoing all the anomalies that had ever been created by the plot hole. In a sense, we are now living in a universe where it’s as if the plot hole never existed. But since the TARDIS was protected by its temporal shielding, we were all unaffected by the corrections in the time line. So, since we didn’t get rewritten, the universe basically didn’t know what else to do with us except just stick us in the exact point where the paradox first started. That’s also the reason why we can all still remember the way things used to be when the plot hole was around.”
They all let this sink in for several seconds.
“So, all the anomalies have all been fixed?” asked Prince Blueblood.
“That’s right,” said the Doctor happily.
“And we’re the only ones in the world who can remember the way things were before?” said Trixie.
“Yes.” Then he realized something. “Oh, and more good news! Since the plot hole never existed, that means all those ponies that were on the Heart Star and the Ascendency when they exploded are all alive and well, since they had never gone into space to begin with now.”
“So Rarity, Shining Armor, and Princess Celestia, they’re all alive?” asked Flim.
“They should be,” said the Doctor. “And they shouldn’t have any memory of anything that just happened.”
“So… everything’s back to normal?” asked Dumbbell.
“Well, that depends on what you call normal,” said the Doctor. “Keep in mind, the plot hole created many anomalies all throughout time, many of them you lot are completely unaware were even anomalies. Out there is a completely different universe now from the one you all remember. All the anomalies have been corrected. You’re bound to see quite a few things that will seem very strange to you at first.”
“Like what?” asked Iron Will.
“I don’t know,” the Doctor said with a shrug. “We’ll have to find out together, won’t we?”
“But otherwise, it’s over? We saved the universe?” asked Gilda.
The Doctor nodded. “Yes. We saved the universe.”
“Good.” Gilda then turned to Lightning Dust and punched her friend right in the nose.
Everyone gasped.
“OW! WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?” Lightning Dust screamed at Gilda, holding her hurt nose with her hoof.
“FOR WHEN YOU BUCKED ME IN THE HEAD BEFORE!” Gilda yelled back, pointing at her forehead with a claw. “NOW WE’RE EVEN!”
Lightning growled. “DIDN’T YOUR MOTHER EVER TEACH YOU THAT TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT?”
“SHOULD I MAKE IT THREE THEN?”
“ALRIGHT! YOU ASKED FOR IT, BIRD-BRAIN!”
Gilda and Lightning Dust tackled each other and started fighting around on the TARDIS floor, while everyone else stood around them, watching them.
“Should we stop them?” asked Hoops.
Dumbbell held a hoof up to stop his friend. “No, Hoops! Never interfere in a cat fight! You’ll just end up getting hurt yourself… or worse! Instead, just stand back and enjoy the show.”
“Very logical,” said the Doctor, nodding in agreement with Dumbbell as they continued to watch Gilda and Lightning Dust fighting on the floor.
Queen Entomala rolled her eyes. “Whatever,” she said in annoyance. “My work still isn’t done! If Celestia’s alive, then I still haven’t gotten my vengeance!”
“Well, here’s your chance, Changeling.”
They all turned around at the sudden voice behind them, and saw Princess Celestia walking out from behind a doorway on the far side of the TARDIS.
“Celestia!” Doctor Whooves gasped in shock.
Gilda and Lightning Dust immediately stopped fighting at the sudden appearance of the monarch, and got up off the floor.
“What are you doing here?” demanded the Doctor, still in shock as he faced the white alicorn. “How did you get in here?”
“Does it matter!” said Entomala as she glared at Celestia angrily. “She’s MINE!” The changeling flared her wings and leaped into the air, flying right at Celestia, crooked black horn pointed right at her target.
Celestia, however, was completely unfazed by the changeling queen’s attack, and her horn lit up with magic light. Entomala then suddenly froze in the air, mid flight, right in front of Celestia, the changeling’s body now glowing with the same golden yellow light as Celestia’s horn.
“You’re not NEARLY as powerful as Queen Chrysalis was,” said Celestia said to Entomala, who had a horrified look on her face as she stared back at Celestia with wide eyes. “You’re young, and also clearly haven’t fed in a while… which means I can easily do this.”
The flash of a spell shot out of Celestia’s horn and struck Entomala like a bolt of lightning. Entomala went flying across the control room, and she landed on the hard metal floor with a thud. From how her body was lying limp and completely still, not even breathing, and how her eyes were still open as if staring off into space, they could tell the changeling queen was dead.
“Y-You killed her!” Blueblood stuttered as he and everyone else looked back and forth between Celestia and Entomala’s lifeless body. They didn’t feel too bad for the changeling, since they hardly knew her, and she had intended to kill all of them, but Blueblood had never seen his aunt Celestia actually kill anyone before.
“She was going to kill me,” Celestia said simply. “I acted in self-defense.”
“You didn’t have to kill her!” said the Doctor. “You were more powerful then she was! She was no real threat to you!”
“ENOUGH!” Celestia raised her voice. “I am in no mood for your lectures, Doctor. You have all been so much trouble to me!”
That was when the Doctor realized something. “You remember!” he exclaimed in surprise. “But that’s impossible! How can you remember?”
Celestia explained. “Before the Heart Star was destroyed, I teleported over to your ship. Once I was there, I transformed myself into a magical cloud, and slipped by all of you into the TARDIS without any of you noticing, so I was protected from the changes in the timeline same as you.”
The Doctor was actually impressed. The others, however, were just terrified. Unknown to them, however, the Doctor had a plan.
“Aunt Celest-” Blueblood began, but Celestia quickly cut him off.
“SILENCE, nephew!” she snapped at him. She was clearly quite angry. “I hope you’re all proud of yourselves.” She said to them like a disappointed parent. “I was trying to help the world and bring every living creature together in friendship and harmony, and you’ve all ruined it.”
“Good,” said Iron Will bravely. “I wouldn’t want to live in a world where you drug everyone’s minds with magic to get them to behave the way you want them to.”
Celestia sighed and shook her head. “None of you understand!” She looked at Lightning Dust. “Lightning Dust, I’m so disappointed in you. I thought you had finally decided to become part of something greater than yourself.”
“Greater than ME?” scoffed Lightning Dust. “Impossible! Ain’t nothin’ greater than me!”
“Trixie is,” said Trixie.
Lightning Dust turned to face her angrily. “Wanna bet?”
“Challenge accepted! Anything you can do, Trixie can do better!”
Celestia shook her head again. “This is exactly what I’m talking about! You all NEED help. You call yourselves friends, but even now you’re fighting with each other. Don’t you see?”
“Hey! Just because we fight with each other, and get on each others nerves sometimes, and occasionally try to kill each other every now and then, doesn’t mean we’re not friends! We like the way we are, and we like each other the way we all are. We have our own way of friendship, and you have yours. To each their own, you know?”
Celestia shook her head. “Perhaps you all can tolerate each other, but none of you get along with the rest of the ponies in the world, and they can’t get along with you, because of the way you all are. And it’s the same way all through out the world. So many are divided from others, because of their hatred and arrogance. I want to bring all creatures in this world together, so that everyone can be friends with each other. My faithful friend, Twilight Sparkle, and her friends are perfect examples of how everyone should be.”
“Oh, I think I’m gonna barf,” groaned Gilda.
Blueblood spoke. “Not everypony has to be friends! Not everyone has to like each other! There are PLENTY of ponies in the world who I don’t like. For example, I don’t like hillbilly, farm ponies.”
“Trixie doesn’t like anypony whose better at magic than she is,” said Trixie.
“And I can’t stand ponies who go around talking about friendship and love all the time,” said Gilda.
“And I’m sure they don’t like us either. So I just stay away from them and don’t associate with them. I’m happy, they’re happy, everypony’s happy then. You can’t force ponies who don’t like each other to become friends. There’s nothing wrong with two people not liking each other as long as they leave each other alone.”
But from the look on Celestia’s face, she clearly still disagreed. “No. You’re wrong. It is better for everyone to be friends with each other and live together in peace and harmony. That is how the world should be!” she said matter-of-factually.
“Oh, and I suppose that just gives you the right to use magic on ponies to influence them without their knowledge or consent,” said the Doctor.
“I don’t see the problem,” said Celestia. “It helps them. Besides, I’m their Princess.”
“And what about the changelings, and your sister, Princess Luna? Did you also have the right to do what you did to them?” said the Doctor, pointing an accusing hoof at the white alicorn. “We know the truth, Celestia. You tried to use a spell on a valley of Flutterponies over a thousand years ago, but the spell went wrong, and you ended up creating the changelings, a race that must feed on the love of others in order to survive. And then, to cover up what you did, you betrayed your own sister, and caused her to go mad, just so you could keep her from blabbing. Don’t try to deny it! We know the truth!”
Celestia sighed and hung her head. “Yes,” said Celestia. “I caused the changelings, and I caused my sister to become Nightmare Moon. Yes, its unfortunate and sad, Doctor, but it was necessary. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.” Then she looked up at them. “And besides, what my little ponies don’t know won’t hurt them.”
The Doctor walked right up to Celestia and looked her in the eye. “You’re a monster,” he said to her.
Celestia simply rolled her eyes. “Oh, this talk is all pointless!” said Celestia. “Anyway, I’m afraid I have to deal with you all now. You all know too much.”
“You’re gonna kill us?” asked Jet Set fearfully.
“Of course not! But I will have to imprison you all. I can’t have you going around telling ponies what you know.” Then Celestia smirked. “Not that many ponies would believe you anyway, but still, I’d rather not take the risk. I may have failed this time, but I’m immortal. I have all the time in the world to see my dream come true.”
At that moment, a sly grin appeared on the Doctor’s face, and then he began chuckling.
Celestia and everyone else in the room stared at him in confusion. “What’s so funny?” Celestia asked.
“The fact that you’ve failed to notice something,” the Doctor responded while still lightly chuckling.
Celestia raised an eyebrow at him. “And what would that be?”
The Doctor’s smile got even bigger. “That the TARDIS is still broadcasting everything we say in here on the Equestrian emergency broadcast frequencies. I never turned off the transmitter, or the microphone.”
Celestia’s eyes widened at what he just said, and her expression slowly transformed into one of horror. “What!?”
“That’s right!” the Doctor laughed triumphantly. “Every pony in Equestria just heard every single word that you just said!” The Doctor then leaped over to the microphone on the TARDIS control panel. “You hear that, Equestria? We’re here, right now, in Ponyville library!”
“NO!” screamed Celestia once she realized she had just unknowingly announced her incriminating secret all over her kingdom.
The others in the room all smiled at the Doctor, impressed by his cleverness, as well as the fact that he had just totally screwed Celestia.
“You should see the look on your face, Princess,” Gilda said to Celestia. “Its priceless!”
Celestia glared at them all, panic still written all over her face. “IT’S NOT TRUE! YOU’RE BLUFFING!”
“Am I?” said the Doctor. “Go see for yourself.”
In a state of panic, Celestia galloped past them all, over to the doors of the TARDIS, and threw them open with her magic, revealing the inside of Ponyville’s library. A quick glance at the dim light outside through the windows told her that it was very late in the evening, and the sun had already set. She quickly looked around the library, but no pony was in there. She then ran to the front door of the library and threw that door open as well with her magic. Her eyes widened in horror at what she saw.
In the dim dusk light, everypony in the town was out there, gathered all around in the streets outside the library. They all took a step backwards away from the Princess the moment she had emerged from the library’s front door, and they all stared at her with shocked and horrified expressions on their faces. It was true. They really had all heard everything that she had just said inside the TARDIS.
Celestia quickly spotted Twilight Sparkle in the front of the crowd, except she wasn’t an alicorn, or a princess, anymore. The purple mare was back to her normal unicorn self.
Behind Twilight were all of her best friends, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash, as well as Spike, and even Shining Armor and Princess Cadence were there with them. All of them were gaping at the white alicorn standing in the doorway of the library in absolute shock and disbelief.
“C-Celestia…” Twilight stuttered sadly with tears starting to well up in her eyes. “…P-please… tell me it’s not true!”
As Celestia looked upon Twilight’s worried and confused face, she could only imagine what the purple unicorn had to be feeling at this moment. She desperately wanted to try to reassure Twilight that none of it was true, that it was all a lie and they could go back to the way things were before. But when she took a step towards Twilight, Celestia felt her heart break when she saw the purple mare actually recoil, taking a step backwards away from the monarch, fear in her eyes.
“OH, IT’S TRUE, ALRIGHT!” the Doctor’s voice suddenly blared loudly on a radio speaker somewhere nearby in the town.
Celestia turned around and saw the Doctor, as well as Blueblood and his friends, all coming out of the front door of the library behind her.
“They’ve lost their faith in you now,” the Doctor said, speaking to Celestia. “All of Equestria knows the truth now, and they heard it straight from your mouth. I doubt they’ll continue to just blindly follow you anymore. It’s over, Celestia! You’ve lost!”
It was silent for a few seconds after that. No one moved or spoke. The only thing that could be heard was Celestia’s heavy, panicked breathing as she stared down at the ground with gritted teeth and wide eyes. Blueblood wondered if Celestia was just having a hard time taking in the fact that her dream would never come true now.
Then, in a flash, her head shot back up and she glared at them, her face twisted in a look of pure rage. Blueblood was and many others were frightened, as they had never, in their lives, seen Celestia so angry.
“YOU’VE RUINED EVERYTHING!” Celestia yelled, allowing her fury full rein. “YOU’VE RUINED EVERYTHING I’VE SPENT CENTURIES TRYING TO CREATE!” On that last word, Celestia suddenly erupted in magical flames all over her body, and her eyes glowed bright white.
Everyone gathered there took a step or two backwards away from her in fear.
“YOU WILL ALL PAY DEARLY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!” Celestia screamed in the ear-piercing royal Canterlot voice. Her horn began to glow as she prepared to cast a spell at them.
The Doctor and Blueblood and company all cringed in fear; afraid of whatever it was Celestia was about to do to them.
“NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT, SISTER!”
At the sudden voice behind them, they all turned around, and their eyes widened in shock at what they saw. Princess Luna was standing there in the doorway of the TARDIS inside the library, awake! Her eyes were glowing white, just like Celestia’s, and also like Celestia, she had a look of pure rage on her face.
Celestia’s expression immediately changed from rage to shock as soon as she saw her sister. “Luna-”
Before Celestia could utter another word, Luna shot a powerful blast of magic from her horn out the library door, right past Blueblood and his friends and Doctor Whooves, straight at Celestia. The white alicorn was struck in the chest by the blast, and sent flying backwards through the air, over the heads of all the ponies gathered outside, crashing right through the wooden wall of a house all the way across the street, creating a large cloud of dust, and leaving a big gaping hole in the side of the house.
“MY HOUSE!” some pony in the crowd shouted in horror.
Blueblood gaped in astonishment, looking back and forth from the now no longer comatose Luna, to the wall Celestia had just been sent crashing through. As relieved as he was that Luna had come to their rescue, he was shocked that Luna had just attacked her own sister! Did that mean… she remembered now?
Celestia emerged from the massive hole in the wall of the house a few seconds later, walking a bit wobbly on her legs, and wincing in pain. “MY WING!” Celestia screamed. “I THINK YOU BROKE IT!”
It was then that they noticed that Celestia’s right wing was hanging in an awkward angle, indicating it was badly hurt.
“Ouch!” said Dumbbell, wincing as he looked at Celestia’s injured wing. “The worst part about having wings is that they can be easily broken, and it hurts like a bitch! I speak from experience.”
“Kinda’ makes me glad I don’t have wings,” said Flam. his brother Flim nodding beside him in agreement.
Blueblood and his friends, and the Doctor, all got out of the way as Luna walked past them out of the library and then flapped her wings and flew up into the night air. She flew over the crowd of ponies gathered there in the street, and then hovered high in the air, right in front of her sister down on the ground.
“I remember everything now, sister,” Luna said as she looked down at Celestia, barely containing her anger. “You poisoned me, made me go insane and believe I was evil! You betrayed our friendship! You betrayed ME!”
“I’m sorry, Luna!” Celestia cried up to her sister above her. “But you were going to ruin everything I had worked so hard for! I did what I had to do to maintain order and peace! You must understand that!”
“Do you want to know what the worst part about this is?” Luna continued. “That, for the longest time, you let me feel guilty for something that was NEVER MY FAULT! I know we haven’t always seen eye to eye in the past, but I can’t believe you would do something like that to me! TO ME, YOUR OWN SISTER! You are, and always have been, a terrible, TERRIBLE SISTER!” Luna let out a relieved sigh. “THERE! I SAID IT! AND IT FELT GOOD TO FINALLY SAY IT!”
“D-don’t do something you’ll regret, Luna!” stuttered Celestia, trying to sound strong, but actually sounding fearful. “You know you’re no match for me!”
Luna simply smirked. “Actually, I think I am. So I just have one question for you, sis.”
When Luna didn’t continue, Celestia raised her eyebrow at her. “What?” she asked nervously.
Luna smiled maliciously. “Do you like bananas?”
Celestia’s eyes instantly widened in horror. “Oh, no!”
Luna’s horn glowed and she fired a beam of magic at Celestia. Celestia quickly ignited her own horn in response and shot a beam of magic from her horn back up at her sister.
The crowd of ponies standing nearby watched in awe as the two beams collided between the two alicorns, sending bright sparks flying everywhere as the two beams of magical energy were forced against each other.
Celestia and Luna grimaced as they both poured more and more power into their spells, trying to overpower the other, but still, neither of them were able to gain the upper hoof. It seemed they were both evenly matched.
“GO, LUNA!” Gilda shouted from the sidelines. “KICK HER FLANK!”
Celestia and Luna continued to stand their ground, neither of them letting up on their spells, and continuing to pump more and more magic into their attacks. Celestia’s body even began to glow with golden light as she levitated herself up into the air so that she wasn’t down beneath Luna anymore. Luna, seeing this, flapped her wings to fly higher up, trying to keep Celestia below her in order to maintain her advantage.
They were both so intently focused on defeating the other that neither of them noticed the brightly glowing sphere of magical energy starting to build up where their two spells met in the air between them.
Doctor Whooves, watching from the crowd below, however, did notice, and quickly realized the danger. “BOTH OF YOU NEED TO STOP, RIGHT NOW…”
But it was too late. At that exact moment, their was a deafening boom as the built up magic between the two princesses exploded in a blinding blast of white light, momentarily illuminating the entire town like it was daytime for several seconds. Every pony watching was forced to either close or shield their eyes from the blinding explosion.
Celestia and Luna’s faces changed from anger to panic for a split second before were both hit and engulfed by the blast, and their bloodcurdling screams were only heard for a split second before they were droned out by the deafening noise of the explosion.
When the white light faded away, many ponies ears were still ringing from the explosion. Once everyponies’ eyes readjusted to the darkness, they discovered that both Celestia and Luna were nowhere to be seen. However, a small, shiny object could be seen falling from the sky. It hit the ground with a metallic clink, and everyone gasped in shock when they saw what it was. It was Celestia’s golden crown, or rather, what was left of it. It was scorched, twisted, and a bit melted in places.
“C… Celestia’s crown!” Twilight choked out as she gaped at the smoldering item lying on the ground in front of all of them.
“But… where are Celestia and Luna?” asked Applejack as her eyes scanned the sky.
“Gone,” said the Doctor solemnly, and everyone turned and looked at him. “The blast destroyed both of them.”
Everyone gasped in shocked.
“You mean… they’re… dead?” asked Princess Cadence nervously, stepping forward with her husband Shining Armor by her side.
The Doctor slowly nodded. “No pony could survive that blast. Not even them.” He looked right back at the crowd. “I’m sorry. I tried to warn them… I’m so sorry.”
“No,” sobbed Twilight, tears streaming down her face not wanting to believe it. “It… can’t be!” Her friends beside her began trying to comfort her.
The crowd of ponies slowly began murmuring and crying in both sadness, uncertainty, and worry amongst themselves, saying things like “What do we do?” and “How can this be?” and “What’s going to happen now?” or “I didn’t even know they could die!”
Blueblood and his friends all hung their heads in sadness. The danger was finally over, at long last. Equestria, as well as the universe, had been saved, and Celestia had been brought to justice, but this sudden unfortunate turn of events had snuffed out any joy they would have felt. Luna had sacrificed herself in getting revenge on Celestia, and because of that, they would not celebrate their victory. They hadn’t wanted either of them to die.
………………
“Where am I?” Celestia asked herself as she suddenly found herself in a completely different place. The last thing she remembered was a blinding light and feeling an intense, searing pain, and then the next thing she knew, she was standing in this new place. She was in a large room inside what looked like a fancy, oriental looking palace.
In front of her, sitting atop a larger then life desk, was young unicorn colt, with a pale white fur coat, yellow eyes, and a black mane and tail. His mane had three odd white, horizontal stripes on one side of it. And around his neck was a collar with an odd looking pony’s skull on the front of it. He had a bored look on his face.
Celestia also noticed, out of the corner of her eye, Luna was standing right beside her, looking at her. Celestia turned to look back at her. Luna looked just as confused as she was. Their previous quarrel with each other was momentarily forgotten by both of them due to their current unknown situation. Celestia then noticed a glowing yellow halo floating above Luna’s head. Celestia glanced upwards, and saw the glow of a halo above her own head.
She noticed some windows in the room and through them she could see fields of fluffy golden yellow clouds as far as the eye could see outside. She wondered where on Earth she and Luna could be.
The colt up on the desk in front of them spoke. “Hello, and welcome, both of you, to the Afterlife. My name is Death the Colt, and I will be your Reaper for this evening. King Yemma has business elsewhere at the moment, so I’m filling in for him.”
Celestia and Luna were both still confused as they stared up at the colt.
“Reaper?” said Luna.
“Afterlife?” said Celestia.
The colt nodded. “That’s right.” His horn glowed with pale white magic, and he levitated up a clipboard that was sitting on the desk next to him, and looked at it. “You two must be… Celestia and Luna from Equestria. Am I right?”
“Yes, we are,” said Celestia, still confused. “Um… what’s going on here?”
“Okay, I’ll just be frank with you. You two are dead,” said the colt.
Celestia and Luna’s eyes widened. “DEAD?!” they both exclaimed at the same time.
“Yes. And now it’s my job to send you both to your proper place in the afterlife.”
Celestia was flabbergasted. “But… But how can we be dead!?” said Celestia. “We’re immortal!”
“Um, sorry to disappoint you, but just because you have the potential to live forever, it doesn’t mean you can’t still be killed by something. And according to this…” he looked back down at the papers he was levitating, “… you two blew each other up.” He looked back up at them. “Yep, that would do it!”
"But… But I’m too young to die!” cried Luna.
“Too young? You’re both over a thousand years old!” the colt stated with a role of his eyes.
Celestia and Luna were both silent, in shock of everything that was happening to them now.
“Well, anyway…” He looked back down at the clipboard, and then up at Celestia and Luna. “Given this long list of controversial information on the two of you, we aren’t quite sure where to send you right now. There are a lot of positive things in your records, but also some big negatives, like you two murdering each other for example. So here’s what we’re gonna do. I’m gonna give the two of you a little test.”
Celestia and Luna were taken aback.
“What kind of test?” asked Luna.
The colt continued. “The two of you are sentenced to the purgatory room for an indefinite amount of time, during which, you will play video games with each other, and try to get along with each other. If the two of you can reconnect and learn to be friends, and perhaps even family, again, then the two of you will be allowed into Pony Heaven. If not, then you’ll go to the other place.”
Celestia and Luna’s mouths dropped.
“But it was all her fault!” Luna stated desperately, pointing at Celestia with her hoof.
“MY FAULT!” Celestia shouted, enraged. “YOU attacked ME!”
“YOU ruined my LIFE!” Luna screamed back, getting right in Celestia’s face.
“HEY! Shut up, both of you, or I’ll just send you straight to Pony Hell right now!” Death the Colt snapped at them.
Celestia and Luna immediately became silent, but they still eyed each other angrily.
“Alright then,” Death the Colt said. “Have fun, you two, and try to get along with each other. Remember, your eternal souls depend on it.”
Death the Colt’s horn glowed with white light again, and then there was a flash of light, and then Celestia and Luna suddenly found themselves in another place. This time, they were inside a small room. This one was small and mostly empty except for a red couch, and a T.V. set with a game console hooked up to it, and a stack of various video games lying next to it.
Celestia glared at Luna in rage. It was her fault she was dead now. But as much as she would have liked to attack Luna right then, she knew it would do no good. They were both dead. Whether they liked it or not, they were in the same boat.
Celestia’s legs gave out from under her and she collapsed back onto her haunches, hanging her head as she begrudgingly accepted her fate with a long sigh.
Unknown to her, at that moment, Luna was having similar thoughts. As much as she just wanted to beat her sister within an inch of her life for what she had done to her, she knew it was pointless now. And besides, they needed each other.
Luna walked over to the stack of video games and levitated one of them up into the air in front of her. Perhaps playing a few games really would help them get along and rekindle their sisterhood again. Plus, it might be kind of fun.
She looked over at her older sister, who was still slumped over on the floor. “You want to play a video game?” she asked, trying as hard as she could to make an effort to be nice.
Celestia looked up at her with an unhappy expression. “Well, I guess we have no choice!” she said with a sigh. “But I call dibs on the first game!”