Luna walked along the surface of the moon, sighing. Although she had been purged of the Nightmare, she was unable to lower the moon. Not because she still wanted eternal night, she actually wanted to see the sun again, and not because the elements left her too drained either. No, the reason that she could not lower the moon, was because she couldn't even look at it. After being trapped on the moon for a thousand years, she was having trouble looking upon it with anything other than pain.
Luckily, Celestia managed to notice her sister's plight, and had a simple suggestion, go back. Few ponies knew this, but the princesses were able to travel between Equestria and their respective celestial bodies at will, and often did when they needed to be alone. In fact, the Elements tapped into this ability when sealing Nightmare Moon. Now, Luna used it to attempt to purge the memories of her confinement.
After wandering the surface for a while, Luna entered the crater where she was imprisoned. At the bottom were six, black, crystalline chains, shattered when she escaped. Luna sighed, when she was first imprisoned, they were each a color of one of the elements, and rather beautiful in their own way. However, as Nightmare Moon struggled, the chains absorbed her power to keep her contained, turning black in the process.
Luna gazed at them, then unleashed a blast of energy, destroying all that remained to remind her of what she used to be. She exited the crater, looking upon the rest of her charge, and, for the first time in a long time, smiled.
As she got ready to leave, she noticed something strange. A light, but that was impossible. It was too low on the horizon to be one of the stars, and she was the only thing that could even get to the moon. Luna sighed as she contemplated the stars, contrary to popular belief, the stars had no shepherd, and were quite lonely despite Luna's best efforts. Now however, they seemed to to be as curious as her, and a few were even a bit giddy.
'Why would the stars be acting like that?' Luna thought to herself, 'the only reason the would act like this is...' Luna's eyes widened, and she shot off towards the light, the only reason the stars would take notice in anything is if it had stellar magic, which only Alicorns could wield.
'Could it be?' Luna thought, 'what do you think Noctia?'
'Possibly,' replied the moon, 'but this seems different.'
'Of course it would be,' Luna replied to her oldest, and possibly only, friend, 'Celestia's stellar magic is much different than mine since she commands the sun, why wouldn't the magic of the warden of the stars be different?'
Luna increased her speed, hopeful to meet somepony who could truly appreciate her night, even if she now had to share it with them. Inwardly, she hoped the new alicorn would be a stallion, sharing dominion of the night with somepony would be even better if she could share a life with them as well.
When she arrived at where she she saw the light, what she found was slightly unusual, but not totally unexpected. The light was caused by a building of some sort. It was nothing like anything Luna had seen before, it was the size of a decent sized house, but cylindrical and made of metal.
'This must be where they live,' Luna thought to herself, 'do you know when this got here Noctia?'
'I'm not sure,' Noctia replied, 'the only way this could of gotten here without me knowing about is if it happened when...'
'When I got loose,' Luna finished, 'can we not talk about that.'
'Sorry,' Noctia replied, 'think he's cute?'
'Noctia!'
''Oh please,' Noctia retorted, 'I could tell you were thinking about it.'
Luna responded with all the grace a princess could muster.
'Shut up.'
Noctia merely laughed as Luna searched for the Alicorn with her magic. It was easy, as she could sense stellar magic, and every living being had a magical signature that could be detected if you knew how. All Luna had to do was search for anything that generated a stellar magical signature, and determine which one was the new alicorn by process of elimination. First there was some background signal from Noctia that she filtered out. Next was the numerous, yet relatively weak, signals coming from the stars, those were ignored for the moment. Two large signals came from off the moons surface, but those were just Celestia and Solana, the sun. There were several signals coming from within the building, but none of them were large enough to be a unicorn, let alone an alicorn. Before Luna could wonder what they were, she detected another signal, larger than any pony she'd ever sensed that wasn't an alicorn, though not quite as strong as her's or her sisters. In Luna's mind, it could only be the new alicorn, and it was just on top of a nearby hill.
Luna squeed, although if anyone asked she would deny it wholeheartedly, and ascended the hill. When she got to the top, she saw a figure behind a rock, partially obscured, but she could make out a white coat. "Hello, I am Princess Luna, who might I be addressing."
"Huh," the figure said, "I'm not one hundred percent sure anymore, but I suppose you could call me Fourze." Luna smiled, while the name Fourze was strange, along with what he said, the voice was clearly that of a stallion. Before she could reply, he continued, "If you don't mind, I've been having a shit day so far, and I could use a friend right about now."
Luna's smile grew as she rounded the stone, "But of course, we would be happy to befriend Equestira's latest ali...corn." The figure she saw was defiantly male, but other than that, she had no idea what he was. At first glance, he appeared to be a minotaur, but he was clearly lacking horn, and his legs appeared to be different. Although it was hard to tell, what Luna assumed to be a white coat, was a strange suit that covered him completely. On each of his limbs was a colored shape, his right foreleg, or rather arm to use the minotaur term, had an orange circle, while his left had a black square, and his left and right legs had a yellow triangle and blue cross respectively. His head was encased in a cone shaped helmet with large orange eyes, and on his waist was a strange blue device. Luna had no idea what he was, or where he came from, but he was certainly no alicorn.
"Um," Fourze asked hesitantly, "I don't suppose the planet down there is Earth by any chance?"
Luna shook her head, still to stunned and embarresed to speak.
"Fuck."