World that never was
“Does my crown no longer count now that I have been imprisoned for a thousand years?” The dark Queen of the Night demanded to know. “Did you not recall the legend? Did you not see the signs?”
Suddenly the doors burst open.
“We did!”
Whatever hope of rescue the crowd had, was snuffed out, when they beheld sable robes, adorned with silver moons.
The strangers were many, at least twenty and they wore their determination like a badge of honour.
Well, that and their complete exhaustion. Most were wheezing and panting, as if they had run for a long time.
The one who had spoken, a tall unicorn stallion, slowly approached the dark princess. “We have seen the signs, we have awaited your crown!” he said loudly and got onto his knees as he finished “And we have prepared, my lady! We, the followers of Nightmare Moon, are honored and happy to welcome you back!”
Twilight Sparkle’s head almost exploded. “You have followers?!” she asked loudly.
“I didn’t know that!” Nightmare Moon answered, equally confused.
“During your exile, we have hidden from the eyes of Celestia.” The leader explained loudly “We lived amongst our fellow ponies, waiting, plotting, knowing that one day, you would return to us.” He sighed deeply “And honestly, we almost blew it. Our train was late and we had to run all the way from the station.”
“I told you to arrange for enough seats in the earlier one, but somepony did not listen…” came from somewhere in the ranks of the followers.
“Do not digress!” Nightmare Moon interrupted quickly “You claim to be my followers? You would swear fealty to me, the Mistress of the Night? Then where were you during my rebellion? What have you done while I was chained to the moon, I command?”
“I second that question!” Twilight yelled “How long have you crazy ponies been working against Celestia?”
“Erm… Four years and seven months.” The stallion admitted “But hey, we are almost thirty members by now! We even beat that book club from down the road!”
Several proud stops echoed through the hall. They had little acoustic competition. Most ponies in the hall, including the guards, were too confused, perplexed or busy keeping Pinkie Pie from interrupting the whole thing.
“Very well, my *follower*!” Nightmare Moon spoke with both amusement and arrogance “Entertain our curiosity. How have you prepared for my arrival? Are you aware of what is to come?”
The leader took a deep bow. “May I address your subjects?” he asked carefully.
“You may!” the dark princess answered with a wave of her hoof.
“Citizens of Ponyville!” the stallion announced and turned to the crowd “This summer sun celebration marks the 1000 anniversary of the banishment of the princess of Equestria! A millennium ago, we lost our princess of the night! And for a thousand years, Celestia ruled alone! Until today! For today, the stars themselves returned our just ruler and sovereign, our Lady Nightmare Moon, to us!
From this day on, we shall no longer celebrate the sun, but the return of our ruler! From this day forward, the rule of Nightmare Moon begins and may it last more than a thousand years!
Fear not, my fellow ponies, gryphons, zebras, donkey, cows and I think that over there is some kind of green and purple potato!”
“DRAGON!” An angry dragon proclaimed.
“Sorry! As I said, Fear not, for as much as this is the end of one aera, it marks the beginning of a new one. And we have prepared for everything. The night will last forever and we will prosper under this night!”
“STOP!” Twilight yelled. “This is crazy.
The leader sighed. “Look, Sparkle, Celestia had her turn and she had a good one, she clearly failed to prepare for this day. Otherwise, she would be here, blowing Lady Nightmare Moon up, or something. Just accept that we are at the beginning of a new era and roll with it.”
“But this is crazy! She is an usurper! A traitor to the crown! And she is clearly evil!”
Nightmare Moon was about to retort but the leader of the followers was quicker.
“Yes, yes, all of those things are true.” He answered calmly “At least Milady was at the time of her banishment.” He grabbed into his cloak and pulled out a few pieces of paper. “Now, we ran this through with our law experts and historians and according to them, a usurper ultra vires and, let us take the most extreme, perpetrator of attempted regicide, would be banished for life from the kingdom.”
Twilight nodded triumphantly.
“Now, there was a very interesting clause in the minotaur tolerance patent, section 707.” The stallion continued “Since the life expectancy of minotaurs is much longer than the average pony, princess Celestia set a standard for prison times that takes the length of the average life into account. Part of her reasoning was that if we ever had to sentence a dragon, we had to take their potential age into account.” Beneath the robes, a smile crept onto the stallion’s lips. “Long story short: Milady served her sentence. More than that in fact, since the law had a clause that allowed it to be applied ex post facto. And since her sentence has been carried out completely and without complaints, Milady has to be seen as completely rehabilitated, so would you please not slander your rightful ruler?”
Twilight’s jaw dropped.
And so did Nightmare Moon’s for that matter.
“You can’t be serious.” The student stammered.
“I have the copies here.” The stallion answered smugly “We also looked into Princess Celestia’s title claimants. She never revoked the title of “Princess of the Night”, therefore, it still belongs to Lady Nightmare Moon. In other words, Milady IS our legitimate ruler, even IF Celestia shows up now. Rather, any attempt by Celestia to remove her from office has to be considered an attempt to usurp her title illegitimately. In other words: You fight Milady, you’re the traitor to the crown.”
“bubububub…” the purple unicorn stammered, unable to formulate any coherent sentence.
Behind them, Nightmare Moon broke into maniacal laughter. “MUAHAHAHAAHA! Still hoping I would crawl back to you, Celestia, did you! But you have handed Equestria to me on a silver platter!” Grinning broadly, she addressed her followers “Had I known how useful followers could be, I would have put more effort into it! You have made your Princess very proud. Now let us celebrate my return! And let our enemies howl in despair, for the sun shall never shine again!”
Cheers followed from the followers, interlaced with some confused cheers from some ponies and Pinkie Pie, who was just happy that at least the silly dressed ponies were happy.
Twilight turned to one of the guards. “Can’t you arrest them or something?”
“Sorry, Ma’am, the documents are legit.” The guard answered. “And honestly, if she managed to stand up to Princess Celestia, she would probably whoop us in a few seconds.”
“We guards are mostly here to look good.” The other guard added.
“Yeah, we are basically eye candy for the tourists and the princess.” The first one explained.
“But… my brother is the captain…” Twilight sobbed. She was close to tears now.
“Yeah, only because he is the sexiest of us all…” the first guard answered.
AAAAAAAAHHH
Twilight awoke from the nightmare, her coat soaked in cold sweat. Out of reflex, her horn lit up and she looked around frantically.
“Twilight?” a soft and caring voice asked groggily. “What is it? Did you have a nightmare?”
Her senses finally returned to her and Twilight felt the soft coat of Princess Celestia, the familiar warmth of the royal beds and the sweet familiarity of her lovers embrace.
“Yes, Tia…” she answered slowly and relaxed into her princess’ closeness. “It was terrible…”
“What happened?” Celestia asked softly.
“The followers…” Twilight explained “They came to Nightmare Moon’s arrival… and they… they…” the unicorn dissolved into tears.
“What happened? Did they execute your friends? Did they turn the country into a dictatorship?”
“No!” Twilight wailed loudly. “THEY BEAT ME BY DOING RESEARCH!”
Stats
Page generated in 0.022 seconds
Total duration
776 users online
1,155,341 hits today, 2,054,621 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
"Oh, and in case you get any funny ideas, under clause 1936 of the Equestrian nonagression act, the Elements of Harmony would be classified as superweapons. If you attempted to use them, you would bring war on Equestria from every known species for breaking multiple international treaties."
That line at the end was priceless!
Also, I'd suggest inserting a page break when Twilight wakes up screaming.
Ah lawyering. The most evil of ways to win.
4004328 Did the edit and I'm glad you liked it.
4004346 Hell needs no fury, because it has lawyers.
Nice to see a new chapter for this. Always found the cult amusing in the Between Day and Night story and glad for some limelight for them. I like this and how fitting Twilight's nightmare would revolve around being out beaten in research, also the bit about the Royal Eye Candy was also nice this is often what I wonder if it was their actual role especially in the early episodes.
For a moment I thought "aera" was a typo, turns it out it might have been an archaic spelling of era but it is definitely the Latin term.
Also is there a picture for a Dragon Potato, how is Spike mistaken for a Potato anyway?
Hang on, NMM came back and declared herself sole sol ruler. Even though she's apparently half of the diarchy, she moved first to overthrow the other half and therefore any action Twilight takes up to and including release of Discord for the preservation of the Day Cycle is exempt from pretty much all treaties under the "Thank You For Bringing The Sun Back We'll Sign Anything You Want" treaty of 0001.
Firewarde does have a point. Nightmare Moon did, upon her return, re-usurp Celestia. She's still a traitor to the kingdom and crown. Repeat offender, even.
i love it when ridiculous laws come together like this.
Rules are always funniest when they help the bad guy.
4004346 4004357
The only typo I noticed was a missing apostrophe on "lover's", but I was too busy snickering at the closing line to do a thorough check. Which should answer your last question.
The "Time Loops" series has a couple of its own takes on this sort of premise. Twilight uses it against Nightmare Moon (and again to prank Celestia), and Mayor Mare of all people uses it to successfully defeat the Vogons.
Glad to see you're still writing!
4004361 I'd go so far as to say that even Shining Armor is basically eye candy. So far the guy has usually been either the dude in distress or the moral support to the heroines. Basically, he is in full Disney Princess mode at this point (which I find actually appealing. Its an interesting twist to say the least)
The thing with Spike is a reference to "Dave the Barbarian", where the pet dragon is at one point refered to as "less of a fomidable beast and more of a flying potato."
4004409
4004764 At this point, she mostly delcared herself as "back" and demanded to be acknowleded as the ruler. And from what we can guess, she did not have a huge battle with Celestia prior to showing up in Ponyville. Mostly because Celestia would have not survived such an encounter. (that is not a hit against Tia, but a sad fact. Celestia still sees her sister, where Nightmare Moon sees an obstacle. Ruthlessness beats equal power in such a case). So it can be suggested that Celestia has taken self imposed exile, which would leave the next in line to the throne, NMN as both regent to the sun and ruler of the moon.
Also Twilight hasn't met Discord at this point in time.
Basically, they are screwed. Time to munch on some mushrooms...
This was really funny, surprisingly hilarious in fact. I really, really enjoyed it
4005643 Shining is also the Royal Equestrian Navy's catapult.
Oh dear holy edifice this is hilarious.
*snerk* The Twilestia stuff isn't my cup of tea but honestly it was such a minor blip I can't imaginie criticising for it. This was hilarious. Bravo.
This was epic. Amazing and seems legit.
Very well done. I enjoyed this greatly.
It's interesting that the joke Blueblood is far more believable than any other good-guy Blueblood depictions I've seen.
This story had me at "CUTIE MARK CRUSADER CULT FOLLOWERS YAY!"
images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120307133927/fantendo/images/0/00/LOLOLO.gif
I knew it!
God damn that was hilarious.
GENIUS.
I like it!
I didn't see too many spelling errors; rather, they were grammar/punctuation errors. If you look up 'dialogue punctuation', you should see where you went wrong.
This is deliciously demented....
“THEY BEAT ME BY DOING RESEARCH!”
'They out-researched you my dear?'
'Yes! Oh it was horrible! I -'
'Twilight, I think we should take some time apart.'
'But, what, I... I don't -'
'See I only ever said I loved you because I thought you were the smartest pony I had ever seen. But if you can be outsmarted by your own subconscious, see I don't think this is going to work anymore.'
'Oh. I. We can still be friends though, right?'
'Actually, I don't think that's going to work out either. Goodbye forever Twilight.'
In the moments before Celestia had gathered the requisite mana to send her former protege and special some-pony to the moon, Twilight heard her murmer,
'I wonder what Lulamoon is doing now.'
---
AAAAAAAAHHH
Twilight awoke from the nightmare, her coat soaked in cold sweat. Out of reflex, her horn lit up and she looked around frantically.
“Twilight?” a soothingly familiar voice asked roughly. “What is it? Did you have a nightmare?”
Her senses finally returned to her and Twilight felt the familiar warmth of her own bed and the soft touch of her lover and adopted brother's embrace.
“Yes, Shiny…” she answered slowly and relaxed into his comforting solidarity. “It was terrible…”
4408512 Oh! The Irony! The explicit and unfettered irony!
4408585 And I thought, I was depraved!
Well, I still am, but only slightly less depraved than this...
4411204 Honestly if it's a question of sort-of incest or sort-of pedophilia, I'm not entirely sure which I would consider worse. When you get right down to it, neither one is all that bad. In this particular context anyway.
4414176 Usually I try not to go too deep into the pedophilia argument, but I have to express it here: No, its not pedophilia
Pedophilia is the impulse to form a sexual relationship with a child
CHILD
Not someone younger. Not someone inexperienced.
With an undeveloped child.
In my stories, Twilight is at least 20. Therefore, she is an adult.
When two adults are involved, there can be no pedophilia.
It does not matter how much older one is, as long as both are developed adults, neither is a pedophile.
As for the incest: While it would not be biological incest, it would still feel a bit weird to me for her to want to have a relationship with someone to whom she was as close as to Shining Armor.
Look, if you enjoy that ship, go crazy, but as someone who has a stepbrother, I would find it completely impossible to even consider having a relationship with him. But then again, to me, Family is not about who has your genes, but who are the people you love.