//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Celestia’s Disappearance // Story: My Little Pony - An Equestrian Emergency - // by IceStorm //------------------------------// “Spike! Spiii-iike!” Twilight called loudly. It was already after one, and she was supposed to be meeting her friends for a picnic in the park, as per their usual, and she had misplaced her basket. Within in a heartbeat spike is right next to her, “What is it twilight?” “I need you to help me find my picnic basket. I’ve seemed to have um… misplaced it…” Twilight said, her cheeks flushing a bit. “Whoa, whoa, whoa… You! Twilight Sparkle actually misplaced something? The world is ending!” Spike yelled teasingly. Twilight gave spike a very dissatisfied look, and then continued, “Come on spike, there will be plenty of time to remind me of it later. Right now I need to find it or I’m going to be late for our weekly picnic!” “Alright, alright fine. But don’t think that for a moment that I’m ever going to let you live this down. The all mighty, super organized Twilight Sparkle actually lost something!” Spike said laughing. Spike walked up the stairs to their bedroom and looked in there, and sure enough, it had gotten scooted underneath Twilights bed. “Twilight! I found it!” “I highly doubt it, I’ve been looking for it for the last hour.,” she said walking up the stairs. “There’s no way that you’re going to just walk in and…” she said being cut off at the sight of spike holding the picnic basket, “find it.” “Gosh Twilight, it was the easiest thing in the world to find. It was only under the bed.” “Under the bed!? How did it even get upstairs? I don’t ever remember bringing it up here…” Twilight commenting in a puzzled look. “Don’t ask me. I wasn’t the last one that used it.” “Spike!” “What? You asked,” he commented walking back downstairs. “Besides, since when does it take you an hour to fold up the blanket and put the napkins in the basket?” “Well, it doesn’t. I just wanted to have everything organized for when it was time to go without having to rush everything.” She explained. Without wasting any more time she folded up the blanket and napkins as she placed them in the basked and headed for the door. “Come on Spike!” “Actually twilight, I think I'm going to stay here today, I'm a bit behind on my chores so I need to get them done.” Twilight smiled back at him, “Well just don't work yourself too hard,” she added giving him a nod and started to head towards the park. Twilight got there just as everypony else was and was greeted with a smile. “Hey girls,” she said looking around and noticing that Pinkie Pie hadn’t shown up yet. “Where’s Pinkie?” As if on cue Pinkie Pie popped right up next to her, “I’m right here silly! Where else would I be this time of week?” she replied bouncing over to where she normally sat. “So, Twilight,” Rarity began, “How’s your week been since the wedding?” “I just can’t stop thinking of Cadence, and how Shining Armor and she are married now. My old Foalsitter is now my big sister! I mean, even when I was a foal, I could only dream of what it would be like to have her as a sister, and now she actually is! I don’t think I could put into words how happy I am!” “So yew still ain’t upset ‘bout yer brother not tellin’ you himself?” Applejack asked. “No, actually. I more or less think Chrysalis was behind that, not him. I still can’t believe her. Trying to use Cadence, the best foalsitter in the history of foalsitters, like that! I’ll never forgive her for what she’s done!” “Hey! Not to mention that she tried to make clones out of us!” Rainbow Dash added. “I can’t let there be any more of me going around and being all awesome and such. That’s my job.” “Not to mention that she almost completely ruined the party of a life time. Like really, could she have picked a worse time to be a party crasher?” Pinkie grumbled, all the other ponies looking at her. “What!? She did!” “I think it was absolutely appalling that Chrysalis needed to make such a ruckus that I was forced to drop my dresses on the ground. I’ll admit The Elements of Harmony were far more important at the time, but the simple fact that we had to resort to trying to get to them was absurd. I mean…” Rarity said looking off in the distance as massive storm clouds looked like they were building in the distance and quickly moving in. “Um… Rainbow, correct me if I’m wrong, but we weren’t supposed to have any storms for a couple of days right?” “Huh? Yeah that’s right. Why?” Rainbow questioned as Rarity pointed behind her. She turned and saw the same clouds. Lightning streaked across the clouds and the winds started picking up to a point where they were almost dangerous. “Whoa!” Rainbow yelped as the wind caught her wings. “Everypony to the library now!” Twilight yelled as the six bolted towards her home. They quickly ran inside, and they no sooner ran inside when Spike ran in screaming. “Twilight!!” He screamed running over to her. “Twilight! What’s going on!” “I don’t know. This storm came out of nowhere.” Lightning flashed and sparked right next to the tree, the crash of thunder instantly spreading through the tree knocking out the power. The shrieks of screams could be heard briefly as Twilight used her magic to light up the room, and as quick as the storm had appeared, it left the area. “Is everypony alright?” Twilight asked. “I’m fine, though what concerns me more was where that storm came from.” Rarity stated. “The only thing I can think of is that it’s a rogue storm from Cloudsdale. It happens from time to time, and the ones that get away are the ones that tend to be really strong. That being said though, it was moving completely the wrong way to be coming from Cloudsdale. Heck, it was moving in the direction of Cloudsdale.” Rainbow Dash stated. “Uh, it’s not just going through Cloudsdale. Look!” Twilight pointed out of panic. “It’s got a funnel and it’s heading straight for Canterlot!” “What!? Canterlot is on a mountain!” Rainbow said flying to the window. “Besides, Cloudsdale would never let a tornado hit Canterlot,” she said looking out to see the funnel ripping through The Castle City. “Oh, this is bad, this is bad, this is bad, this is bad…” “I don’t know about you girls, but this is all too weird. A storm that didn’t come from Cloudsdale and a tornado in Canterlot where it should be climatically impossible for one to form. I don’t like this at all.” “You’re telling me. I just hope that all the animals were able to get to shelter in time. Normally when we have a storm, I’m able to let them know in advance when to stay inside,” Fluttershy commented. Moments later spike got a rumbling in his stomach. It was quite a bit different than normal, and it fell weird. He let out a belch of black flame and a black scroll with a crescent shaped seal on it appeared. “Spike! Are you okay? I’ve never seen you have a black flame before…” Twilight asked. “W-I don’t know… it felt really weird…” Twilight moved over to the scroll and lifted it with her magic and opened it. “What’s it say Twi? Applejack asked. “It’s… from Princess Luna… She said we’re needed in Canterlot as soon as possible. That an Equestrian Emergency has occurred.” “Oh my! What happened?” Rarity asked. “It doesn’t say. The only thing else it says is to make sure to bring The Elements of Harmony.” “The Elements!” Rainbow shouted. “Oh my, if it’s that bad already that we need the Elements of Harmony, then we better hurry before it gets worse.” “Well it’s a good thing she sent a chariot for us, otherwise it would take even longer.” Twilight said as she activated her telekinesis to pull out the chest with the elements in it and gave each pony her element. “Come on, let’s hurry!” The group of six all ran out to the chariot and got in. The guards of the chariot seemed very concerned. “What’s going on?” Twilight asked. “We can’t talk about that here. Princess Luna will inform you soon enough,” the guard responded. The Chariot ride was filled with nothing but worry. The most concerning thing that puzzled Twilight was the one fact that Princess Luna had sent the letter. Normally when something like this happened it was Princess Celestia that sent the letter. Like with what happened with Discord. She couldn’t put her hoof on what was going on, but twilight, and the rest of the group were scared. “Twilight…” Rarity said breaking the silence. Are you okay? “I’m scared. Princess Luna has never sent me a letter before, and now this. Something’s really wrong. The last time something happened on a scale as large as needing The Elements of Harmony, it was Princess Celestia that sent us the letter.” “Well, hopefully the elements are just a precautionary thing. You know, the bad thing hasn’t happened yet, but we’re ready in case it does.” Rainbow chimed in. “We can only hope,” Twilight said as the chariot stopped. “Alright girls, let’s not waste any time.” The six ponies ran through the streets of Canterlot as quickly as possible. Guards were stationed everywhere just as they were on the night of the wedding. There was no barrier though. This made them even more nervous and the scaled the palace stairs. The doors flung open and they all changed into the Princess’s chamber. “What have you done with my Aunt, Luna!?” Princess Cadence shouted. Twilight couldn’t believe her eyes, or her ears. She had never seen Cadence so angry before, and did she hear her correctly? Did she ask Luna what she had done with her aunt? “For the last time I had nothing to do with this!” Luna screamed back through the tears on her face. “I know I’ve made mistakes in the past but I’m not Nightmare Moon anymore! I love my sister and she’s the only pony that didn’t fear or hate me when I stepped in the room!” “Princess Luna!” Twilight interrupted. “Twilight!” Cadence shouted in both a relieved and hurt tone. “Twilight Sparkle…” Luna greeted with a hung head. “We came as soon as we got the letter, and we brought the elements.” Twilight announced. “Yeah, we’re ready for anything that could come our way. There’s nothing we can’t handle,” Rainbow dash said confidently. “I sure hope so Rainbow Dash… I sure hope so…” Luna said and collapsed into tears. “What’s… wrong…?” Twilight asked tentatively fearing the answer. “Twilight…” Princess Cadence started, “It’s Princess Celestia. She’s been abducted.” “WHAT!?” all six mares shouted simultaneously Rainbow dash dropping from the sky at the news. “I’m afraid you heard right. Princess Celestia has been kidnapped,” Cadence continued. “We don’t know by who or what. Though I have a pretty good feeling I know who,” she added throwing a menacing glare to Luna. “Why are you blaming me for this!? You forget she’s my sister!” Luna shouted back. “Because you’ve always wanted complete control over Equestria! That’s why she banished you to the moon to begin with, and now that you thought nopony was looking, you’d take your chances of trying to gain control of Equestria once again.” “I would never…. NEVER… hurt my sister!” Luna replied. “Really,” “Cadence… I don’t see Luna having that in her. Not after she came to visit Ponyville on Nightmare…” “You leave Princess Luna alone! She’s not the Monster you make her out to be!” another voice came from the entryway. In the doorway, stood a medium-sized Unicorn Mare. Her coat was a very light icy blue in color, while her main was as deep a blue as the purest of oceans. A small stripe of white flowed down the center of her mane. On her flank was a small patch of dark blue, resting above her cutie mark, a mound of snow cradling two shards of ice. Her eyes held a fire in them that showed her determination in proving Luna’s innocence. “Ice Storm!” Luna yelled in the most relieved voice Twilight had heard since they’d gotten here. “Hmph, If that’s the case, Ms. Ice Storm, then how can you explain that Luna is the next in line to take control, and then coincidentally, Aunt Celestia just disappears.” “I’m not taking control of Equestria,” Luna announced. Everypony in the room was taken back at this statement. “What? Who’s going to take control of Equestria then?” Twilight asked as Luna looked to Cadence. “She is! Mi Amora Cadenza.” “What!?” Princess Cadence said almost jumping out of her royal bracelets. “But I don’t know the first thing about ruling anything!?” “Well you Obviously don’t trust me to do the job, and if my own niece doesn’t believe that I’m not the one responsible for my sister’s disappearance than what makes you think anyone else will? No, I’m going with you Twilight Sparkle. I will help you find her, and then maybe clear my name from the clutches of Nightmare Moon.”