//------------------------------// // Nightmare Rarity // Story: Deviation // by Snowy Flanks //------------------------------// Separates in Book 6 page 5 “Using my powers to bring the moon closer to the earth is harder than I imagined!” said Luna as her horn began to glow. “WAIT!” shouted Twilight “That's your plan?” “Of course what else do you expect?” said Celestia “Now please be quiet Twilight we have to concentrate. “Why, why would you want to do that” asked Twilight with a look of utter confusion. “It's the only way you will be able to walk on the moon” said Luna as she began to pull. “You want us to walk on the moon? There is no air up there, or pressure, or warmth, OR AIR!” said Twilight getting more exasperated. “Twilight you have to stop screaming, Luna was up there for a thousand years and she was fine” said Applejack pulling on her lasso. “Princess Luna is an immortal alicorn moon princess, of course she was able to survive; but we are mortal ponies, we would be dead long before we even get to the moon” said Twilight looking at her friends continue to try and pull the moon. “I'm sure the princess has a spell that will let us survive, isn't that right?” said Rainbow Dash turning to the princesses. The princesses looked at each other “Uhhh, yeah we were totally going to cast that on you right after we got the moon down here” said Celesta quickly looking away from the pony group. Twilight shook her head “Well if that is true you still shouldn't pull the moon closer to us, if you are strong enough to pull the moon, it would be easier just to throw us towards the moon rather then try and pull it down, or you could just use the spell that sent Luna to the moon. There are so many...” started Twilight as she began to lecture. Celestia quickly cast a spell on Twilight that stop her from talking. “I am sorry Twilight Sparkle but you are distracting us and we need to concentrate in order to finish this task. After we rescue Miss Rarity we are going to have a long discussion about your actions here” said Celestia as her horn began to glow bright. Very slowly the collected group managed to pull the moon closer and closer to themselves. “Wow this is really pretty” said Pinkie Pie as she beat her drum and stared up and the slowly growing and bright moon. “Yes it is” said Princess Luna “We are glad you enjoy it.” Twilight was trying to get their attention but all of the ponies were focused on pulling the rope so none of them paid attention to her. Twilight jumped up and down, banged her hooves and shot sparks with her horn but it was to no avail. By the time the moon had been moved twice as close to the ground as it had been, the ponies had had enough of Twilight's antics. Celestia turned to the irate purple ponies and undid the spell. “What is the problem Twilight Sparkle, we are trying to save your friend, why are you trying to stop us?” said Celestia angrily. Twilight's friends were all staring at her with harsh eyes. “Don't any of you know what happens when you move a moon closer to a planet?” shouted Twilight. All of the ponies stared at her “We get to save our friend?” asked Rainbow Dash. “No, we end up destroying the world. All of the world. Way worse then if the Nightmares take over” said Twilight “Besides we could save Rarity when she come back, there is no reason for us to go up there.” 'What are you talking about?” asked Fluttershy looking at her friend. Twilight was about to start talking again when a member of the pegasus guard flew down and landed in front of the Princesses handing them a letter. The Princess opened the letter then dropped their jaws and the letter. “Manehatten has been completely destroyed” said Celestia in shock. The ponies fell to the ground and shouted “WHAT? HOW?” “My guess would be a massive flood started by a tidal wave” said Twilight sadly. The ponies turned to the purple unicorn “How do you know that?” asked Luna. “The moon controls the tides, move it closer and you are going to have larger tides, that means all the coastal cities in Equestria are going to be flooded. Then things are going to get bad” said Twilight with a moan. “What could be worse than that!?” asked Rainbow Dash. “Massive superstorms that make the Everfree look like the Mareiterranean, swiftly shifting temperatures, earthquakes, personality changes, migration fluctuations. It will be a never ending marathon of death and destruction on a global scale” said Twilight “Not even all the pegasi in Equestria could keep one city safe.” “What are you saying Twi? What can we do?” asked Pinkie Pie. “There is nothing we can do, we are dealing with a world wide fallout, no pony is going to avoid the effects of this” said Twilight. “The only thing was can do is to put the moon back where is was and start global recovery effort” said Celestia. “How are we going to do that?” we can’t pull it back from here and we can’t get up there to push it back” asked Applejack. “Wait a minute, don't you control to moon Princess Luna, can’t you just move it back to where is was before?” asked Rainbow Dash. Princess Luna and Celestia look at each other “Ummm, we don’t have enough power right now to put back where it belongs.” “But you move the moon every night how can you not have the power?” asked Pinkie Pie. The Princesses began to sweat “Umm, err, you see the thing about that is we, umm don’t know how” said the princess finally. The ponies were shocked “What do you mean you don't know how?” asked Twilight Sparkle. “Does that mean you don't really move the moon?” asked Pinkie Pie. “Oh no we really do move it, we just use the spell that was already created, making a new one will take time” said Celestia quickly. “Can’t you just grab it with levitation and move it back?” asked Pinkie Pie. The Princess shook their heads “No it would take a hundreds of times the power in order to move the moon that way, we just don't have enough magic to do it.” “Well what if you got all of the unicorns to do it together would that be enough magic?” asked Applejack. The princesses looked at each other again “Maybe that would be enough but I don't think that would be a good idea” said Luna. “Why not?” asked Rainbow Dash. “Well if we did that then ponies would lose faith in us and we wouldn't be able to help them” said Celestia. Twilight looked up “Don't you think that they might lose faith in you after seeing half of the nation destroyed?” Applejack stood next to her “and I'm pretty sure they will blame you since you are the ones who move the moon.” Pinkie was next “Plus civilians always blame the government when a disaster happens so they have already lost faith in you.” The rest of the mane 6 stood next to Twilight and looked and the Princesses who began to sweat more and more and stutter until, in a bright flash of light, both of the alicorns disappeared. Applejack turned to Twilight “What are we going to do now Twi?” Twilight shook her head “I don't know girls we are talking about moving something on a galactic scale, that hasn't been done by ponies in over two millennia. I don't even know where to begin.” The ponies began to slowly walk back to Ponyville with a look of frustration on their faces. Twilight looked around “Wait a minute has anypony seen Spike” she asked fearfully. The girls looked at each other “Not since we stopping pulling on the moon.” “Do you think he went up without us?” asked Fluttershy softly. “We will have to deal with that later, right now we have to look through the library, maybe we can find something on something we can do” Rainbow Dash and Flutter began to fly around the top shelves and pulled books of the shelf scanning the titles. Applejack and Twilight pulled books of the lower shelves. Soon a large pile was formed in the middle of the room. Pinkie Pie just skipped around the room for a little bit before bumping into on the shelves knocking a book on her head. “I found it, I found it” she sang as she hopped over to the table with the book in her mouth Twilight came over and scanned the title of the book 'Traversing Selenic Satellites for Unperspicacious.' Twilight turned to stare at Pinkie Pie “Ok seriously, Pinkie Pie how do you do that?” “How I do what Twilight?” asked Pinkie Pie as she turned her head sideways to stare at her. “Never mind, question for later” sighed Twilight as she opened the book. Twilight’s eyes scanned over the book as quickly as she could, harshly flipping pages. “I found it” she shouted as the ponies crowded her. The process of moving the moon If you are reading this then the princesses have broken the moon again. Don't worry this happens every so often and we have figured out the best way to deal with it. At first we tried time travel but that turned out to release big hairy monsters that eat everything so it wasn't worth it. The we tried blowing up the moon but that just made things worse and we had to rebuild it. So we settle for just pushing the moon away or pulling it closer. The following spell will allow you to gather enough collective energy to move the moon back to where it belongs. In order to move Equestria's moon you need to generate 3.837 X 10^28 joules of magical energy, this will be too much power for any mortal to sustain so make sure you follow all the instructions: Step One: Using red paint mixed with mud place three concentric circles around a unicorn's horn. The unicorn will start to see creatures glow orange. Make sure you pick the strongest unicorn in the area. Step Two: Place the green jewel included below, inside your unicorns navel making sure that it is tightly screwed in. Once powered it will begin to glow and the unicorn will smell minty ice cream. Step Three: Slide the yellow band over the unicorn’s hooves, pushing up until the are tightly held in place. The unicorn will now begin to taste old cheese. Step Four: The unicorn must now climb to the highest point in the area and press their hoof to their forehead. Step Five: You will now be able to speak to all of the beings of the earth except for the princesses. Ask them to donate a bit of their life in order to generate enough magical energy to move the moon. Step Six: The unicorn must now raise their hooves up in the air and pull the magical energy from the entire world. This includes the plants, animals, and sentient beings. You will feel at one. Step Seven: Now use a simple levitation spell to to move the moon back to its power location. Just be careful. Or you may destroy the very planet you're trying to protect! Once you have fixed the moon use the remaining magic to cast a blanket memory wipe spell on every being on the planet. Once this has happened this book and items will disappear until the next time the sisters break everything. Blue Belle Star Swirl the Stubbly Spats Puddinghead Twilight raised her head from the book “I don't know what is scarier, the princesses breaking the world, or that it happens so often there's actually a procedure for it.” “I would say the first part, I'm glad somepony has planned how to counter their mistakes” said Pinkie Pie. Twilight sighed “Pinkie, bring out some red paint, AJ some mud, Rainbow Dash clear a spot on the clock tower, Fluttershy could you please bring the mirror in from the bathroom? I've got some magic to do.” Pinkie shook her mane and a jar of red #4 fell on to the table along with a paintbrush, Applejack came in with a bucket of mud a few minutes later. Once Fluttershy flew in with her mirror, Twilight began to paint the circles around her glowing horn making sure not to drip any paint on her face. Each circle was precisely the same distance from each other and such a perfect circle that it could have been drawn with a compass. Once she set the paintbrush down, Pinkie Pie walked up to her. “You look like a bullseye Twily” said Pinkie Pie as Twilight levitated the green gem. Twilight lifted herself up and tried to green the gem to stick in but it was more difficult than she expected. Pinkie grasped the gem in her hoof “Here Twilight let me help” she said before she slammed the gem stone into Twilight’s stomach with a twist. Twilight fell over with a cough. “Thanks Pinkie, but did you have to do it so hard?” asked Twilight. “Have you seen pony navels? There are so small and tight you really got to cram it in there” said Pinkie. Twilight stood up and shook her head “If you say so Pinkie” Twilight coughed out as she levitated the yellow bands over to her self and fit them on her hooves. Fluttershy and Pinkie each took one hoof and pushed the bands up until Twilight’s legs began to bulge over them. “Glowing ponies check. Mint ice cream check. Yucky cheese check” said Twilight while levitating a list. Rainbow Dash picked up Twilight and carried her up to the to the top of the tower let her down right next to the pointy top. Twilight Sparkle steadied herself then slowly placed her hoof to her head “Hello can anypony hear me?” “What, who is that?” “Twifly is that you?” “What's going on?” “Vem är du?” “WITCHCRAFT!” “My name is Twilight Sparkle, you might have noticed that the moon is a little closer than it used to be, as well the wide-scale destruction that came from it.” “That was you?” “Stupid ponies.” “I consider this an act of war.” “My clanchan is dead because of you.” “Everypony please, listen to me, it was not I that moved the moon where it was but I am trying to save us all. Please I need your help, I need you to donate a small part of your life force to power a spell that will move the moon back...” “You want to kill us all” “CH'ING SHIH!” “SUCCUBUS!” “SHTRIGA!” “BHŪTAPRĒTAKŌ!!” “No listen to me, this is the only way it will work, we all need to band together in order to save ourselves otherwise the disaster are only going to get worse, the skies will rain fire, plagues will ravage everywhere, everything will die. I don't care what you think of me, I don’t care what you want to do to me, I just need your help in order to save us all, after that you can do whatever you want to me, I beg you have mercy.” There was silence. “But you are taking our lives.” “Its only a small portion of your life, you will just feel tired! If we don’t hurry all of us will die!” begged Twilight as she pressed harder and harder against her skull. Twilight raised her hooves and waited and she began to feel energy come from all around her. She was the wind brushing through the grass below her, she was a river running against a rock in Avalon, she was a fish swimming below Grouseland, she was a bug crawling in Saddle Arabia, She was an elephant wandering in Zebica, which shocked her since elephants were extinct. Then she was a griffin hold a child in one claw, she was a dragon guarding her hoard, she was a crane sitting in his garden, she was a diamond dog licking gems, she was a Katar raiding a tomb, she was a Skalk in the thralls of passion with his lovers. She was Zecora, Gilda, Trixie, Iron Will, Scorpan, Cassie, Spitfire, Garble, Pipsqueak, Mulia, King Aspen, Lyra and Crackle. She was everyone and everything. Twilight almost feel to her knees “Thank you everyone, this is so beautiful, this is so wonderful, I, I love you all.” Calling upon the absolute power that now coursed through her body Twilight lifted her head and stared at the sky. “It is all so simple” she laughed wrapped her magic around the moon like it was a marble “the princesses know nothing of true magic.” With an almost casual ease she pushed the moon back into the sky, its place as obvious to her was the back of her hoof. As she felt the magic within her begin the disperse she slowly smiled and pulled two small creatures from the moon, bringing them home. She then pushed the world around her. Waves reverse back to the seas, violent storms calmed to gentle breezes, fallen mountains were righted. For one brief moment nothing was impossible. Then it was gone. Twilight awoke is a state of shock “What happened, why am I up here?” she called out as she fell to her hooves hoping she would not fall. Rainbow Dash flew up and took her to the ground “What were you doing up there Twilight?” “I don't know” responded Twilight “The last thing I remember was Rarity getting abducted by the nightmares.” As the two ponies looked up at the moon they saw a golden cloud approaching them. In it was two beings: a white unicorn and a small purple dragon. As the two landed they both rushed toward the startled unicorn. “THAT WAS AMAZING TWILIGHT!” shouted Spike as he leapt up the hug her. “I have to agree darling, I thought everything was over, the nightmare had taken me and poor Spikey over when all at once I felt you within me. And not just you Applejack, Fluttershy, Sweetie Belle, Pinkie Pie, it was if all the ponies I had ever meet were inside of me. Then your magic was all around me, such absolute loving magic, the darkness just disappeared in an instant and I felt myself being pulled towards home” said Rarity with a nuzzle. “What are you talking about Rarity, you were only just taken. We haven't even had a chance to start a rescue. My magic could never reach the moon, let alone draw you back you must have been dreaming. Rarity and Spike shook their heads “No Twilight you told us that you need to push the moon away so everypony could live, and then you did it was amazing” said Spike. Rainbow Dash laughed “Come on Spike don't be silly, Twilight might be powerful, but she could never move the moon, only the princesses could do that. “Come one Rares, we have to tell everyone you are back. Then I have to send a message to Princess Celestia” said Twilight as she walked towards the library. Rarity and Spike looked at each other with complete confusion.