Twilight Sparkle liked to be neat. Her room was neat. She also blew up when somepony ruined the neatness. Twilight liked to think that she had OCD. Spike liked to tell her that it was anger problems.
Twilight Sparkle also liked to think that she was clever and carried out her research with the utmost neatness and carefulness possible. Everypony knew the fact was true. That said, the Alicorn used her magic for 82.67% of the research she conducted, and everypony knew magic was Twilight's strength.
Twilight Sparkle loved research. She couldn't go a day without doing some research, or she'd go mental.
That particular day, the newly crowned Princess was researching stars. Specifically, she was seeing what the biggest star in the universe was, and when it would blow up.
It worried Twilight that if she did find a star bigger than normal, it'd turn Equestria to dust. Stars, they were mean.
"Twilight, I still think you've gone wrong here," Spike grumbled, holding the 50m parchment in his hands. "Like, how the heck can a star be 864938 miles in diameter?"
"Anything is possible, Spike," Twilight mumbled, carefully inspecting the sheet of paper. "Hmm, the locations of where this humongous star is are vague, but it looks as if it's close to the sun."
Spike raised an eyebrow. "So does that mean that if this weirdo star explodes, the sun will, you know, die?"
"It appears so."
"Woah."
Silence filled the basement as Twilight squinted at the papers. She squinted closer. Was that...? No, it was impossible...but anything was impossible...she had to alert the
Princess at once!
The Alicorn got to her hooves, urgency in her eyes. "Spike, take a letter to Princess Celestia! The sun's going to explode!"
* * *
"Haha, your moon isn't on this game, but my sun is!"
"Sister, I think you're missing the point. Besides, the Minecraft studio said they're gonna add the moon to the next update," Luna pushed her controller to the right, narrowly missing a skeleton's arrow. "Argh! Why did you destroy our house?"
"Because it was small," Celestia pointed out. "And made out of stone."
Luna rolled her eyes and groaned. "Sometimes, sister, I wish I could slap-"
A parchment appeared out of nowhere and accidently smacked Celestia in the muzzle.
"-you in the face." Luna put a hoof over her muzzle, making a poor effort to restrain the fit of giggles threatening to spill out.
Celestia sighed and resisted the urge to roll her eyes at her sister. "Well, I'd better see what Twilight wants me to know about."
"Wait!" Luna immediately removed her hoof from her mouth and looked pleadingly at the white Alicorn heading towards the door. "Don't leave me!" Seeing that Celestia
had no intention of staying of staying behind, she gritted her teeth and frowned at her Minecraft game. "Now I know why Cadence told me that I should give up on teaching Tia how to play Minecraft."
* * *
Princess Celestia pulled the hood of her clothes closer around her head and fidgeted with the hair bobble that was holding an enormous amount of ethereal mane. She had tried putting her mane in a ponytail, but what the heck, Celestia's mane didn't become anymore manageable, so she had put it in a bun.
She was not pleased.
"I look like a freaking granny," Celestia muttered as she walked through the streets of Ponyville. "Who's one thousand years old."
The Princess didn't know any full transformation spells - only Changelings could master that art - else, she would have simply turned into some dentist of something. So Celestia could only borrow one of Luna's hoodies to hide her mane and transform her legs to an incredibly short height. They were very uncomfortable. And fat. Definitely fat.
"Ooh!" A pink blur whizzed past Celestia and circled her at a crazy speed. Pinkie Pie. Just looking at the pony made Celestia feel dizzy and sick.
She didn't have time for ponies who were high on caffeine. Neither did she have time for crazy pink lunatics that liked to party. Celestia had received an enormous amount of letters from ponies complaining that they couldn't sleep due to 'highly distracting noises from the crazy cupcake place.' Although she put on her 'nice' face in front of Pinkie, she was fuming inside. Did she know how much trouble Celestia had received from her? Did she?
’Nope,’ Celestia decided. ’Probably not.’
Celestia carried on walking, a grumpy expression on her face. God, Pinkie was annoying. How was Twilight her friend? Thank the lord that the other Elements weren't as unbearable as her. When would she go away? Celestia frowned and plodded on through the streets, receiving a few strange looks from other ponies. Heck. She couldn't blame them.
* * *
Twilight Sparkle trotted anxiously around the ground floor of her library. "Where is she, Spike? I told her to come at ten thirty AM, and," she looked up at the ticking clock. "It's three minutes past eleven!"
Spike sighed and set down the books he was carrying on the window sill. "Twi, take a chill pill."
"Take a chill pill?!" The Alicorn glared at Spike. "The Princess has never been late in the three thousand years she's lived!"
"I'm sure she's just-" Spike's voice trailed off as he looked out of the window. "Hey, Twi, you may wanna see this."
"What can be so important that it-" Twilight's voice trailed off as she looked out of the window. "Oh. Oh."
* * *
Princess Celestia fumed as she took off her hoodie. "I hate Ponyville. I hate Pinkie Pie. I hate pink. I hate pie," Then she stopped. "No. I still love pie. Just not pink pie."
Twilight sighed. She had seen her mentor in this state before and she hadn't liked it. "Would you like some tea, Princess?"
"Tea?" Celestia's eyes lit up. "Of course!" Then she stopped again. "Wait. It's not pink, is it?"
Twilight groaned into her hoof. This was going to be a long day.
* * *
"So, Twilight," Celestia smiled a little too widely at the uncomfortable purple Alicorn opposite her. "What was so important that you needed me to be in Ponyville?" She was still a little traumatised about the experience she had had with that pink...tyrant thing. No, cross that out. She was very traumatised. And embarassed.
If it was possible for Twilight's face to fall any further, it did. "Of course, Princess. But...you might not like...um...you know..."
"Twilight, you're a Princess as well. You can call me Celestia. And no, I don't know."
"...you might not like the results of my research..."
"Is it about pink ponies?" Celestia's eyes glittered.
"Nope," Twilight said quickly. "Nope, nope, nope! It's about the sun."
Celestia gasped. Would she...? Under all the tuition she had given her? Heck, she had trusted Twilight. She would have trusted her with her freaking life. The Alicorn shook her head sadly. "You want to take over the sun, don't you?"
Twilight gasped in unison with Celestia. “What?! Of course not!” She shook her head and stood up, swishing her tale restlessly from side to side. “I think you should come down to the basement.”
* * *
“I must say, Twilight,” Celestia smiled, looking around. “That your basement is very tidy, compared to others I have seen.”
Twilight smiled proudly, blushing profusely and mumbling something inaudible. She then shook her head again sadly, as if she were seeing the other Alicorn for the last time. “B-before I show you my research papers, I have to ask you, Pri- Celestia…” She looked up hesitantly. “Uh…is your life force connected to the life of the sun?”
Celestia looked at Twilight, bewildered. “Wherever did you get that thought from?”
“Because,” Twilight frowned. “The day you were born was when the sun appeared.”
“Oh.” ’I should really check that. It’s quite a worrying thought.’
“It’s also the rumour currently being spread around Ponyville,” Twilight added. “Rarity told me the spa ponies won’t shut up about it. But, Pri - I mean - Celestia, is that a yes or a no?”
“Um…” ’God, Twilight’s smarter than me.’ “…no…”
“Oh!” Twilight’s face creased into a happy and relieved smile. “It won’t be that bad, then!”
This was really starting to worry Celestia.
Aw shit, Celestia. Ya dun bucked up now.
Well it's a yellow star so technically it won't explode, just balloon up into a red giant, then contract back to a 'smaller' size, then convulse four times 100,000 years apart before wafting away in the interstellar wind, leaving behind a white dwarf.
By the laws of physics, Celestia's life being tied to the sun is impossible.
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Also, Celestia moving the sun is impossible. Also, the moon taking on a pony face because Luna has been banished there is impossible. Also, Luna moving the moon is impossible.
However, talking horses with magic is totally probable!
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Actually this is DIFFERENT... This isn't the sun running out of life -- this is a nearby supergiant blowing up and causing significant problems for their sun. Of course Tia could hide the sun behind equestria at that point BUT anything that would damage the sun would really not be good for equestria either.
4198595 The size Spike described isn't a supergiant, it's a star similar to our sun. As near as I can tell, Twilight picked up on a star that was going to die really close to their sun, but upon further investigation realized it was their sun.
... author plz correct?
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"Anything is possible, Spike," Twilight mumbled, carefully inspecting the sheet of paper. "Hmm, the locations of where this humongous star is are vague, but it looks as if it's close to the sun."
Spike raised an eyebrow. "So does that mean that if this weirdo star explodes, the sun will, you know, die?"
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Looks like two separate things to me -- the humongous star and the sun.
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"Like, how the heck can a star be 864938 miles in diameter?" That star is extremely small. Less than 25 times bigger than our planet. Probably the size around Jupiter. So at most it's a dwarf star but that is highly unlikely. But other than that good story!
Well if Celestia stopped eating so much cake then maybe the sun won't turn into a red giant.
If the star was strong enough to destroy the sun wouldn't it be plausible that said star's death could also destroy Equestria before most if not all of life is wiped out by lack of sunlight?
I want to know more, keep it coming.
4198661 Maybe their sun and planets are smaller.
4198515 The amount and variation of xenos would surprise you.
4198661 Thats actually around the diameter of OUR sun, 865k.
You had my interest sir, now you have my attention.
Ok, I have to see more of this! Up voted and faved!
>>>"Like, how the heck can a star be 864938 miles in diameter?">>>
That's not a very big star, actually. Sounds like a regular class G main sequence in diameter, similar to the Sun.
The BIG stars are the diameter of Mars' orbit or larger. They make our Sun look like a pea sitting next to a beach ball.
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Don't look at me I hate science
Ahh, but maybe those stars don't exist in Equestria.
4198805 If the supernova was strong enough to destroy Equestria's sun, the planet itself would be reduced to irradiated vapor screaming through space within the explosion shock front at nearly a quarter the speed of light almost instantly.
I should note that there are some stellar co-orbiting pairs of giant stars and neutron stars, meaning one of the pair already underwent a supernova without destroying the companion star.
This would be akin to a case where a Sun-like star was very close to a star like Eta Carinae.
However, due to the immense mass loss and solar wind from such a hypergiant, the planet orbiting the low-mass star would be irradiated into utter lifelessness, and likely have a super-heated surface from the intense particle bombardment. To say nothing of what a direct impact from the stellar mass ejections from such giant stars would do to said planet.
Equestria could be in danger from a wandering neutron star or black hole, jettisoned at high velocity from an asymmetic core-collapse type supernova.
Of course, Earth is also in danger from such an event. So, since we're all doomed, you should all go out and gorge yourselves and screw anything and everything you feel like because WE'RE DOOMED, MAN!!! IT'S ALL OVER!!! *jumps off cliff in despair*
4203195 >>>Don't look at me I hate science>>>
THOU HAST BLASPHEMED AGAINST THE ALL-MIGHTY SCIENCE!!! AS CHIEF OF THE SEA OTTAHS, I DECLARE THEE A HERETIC AND SHALL CRUSH THY SKULL ON MY TUMMY!
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SCIENCE BE PRAISED!!
Uhh, this is not cannon. We know from the Hearth's Warming Eve play, that a bunch of unicorns were the ones controlling the sun before Celestia was born.
4203555
And whoever said this was canon?
4203555 What was your first clue it wasn't canon?
Also, AU tag.
4199225 Oh sorry, well it's still pretty small and it shouldn't affect Equestria too much. Yea I'm bad at comparing sizes.
4203175
You're thinking too small.
VY Canis Majoris.
Estimates put the star large enough to cover Jupiter's or Saturn's orbit, depending on its exact size.
4203212 To the TARDIS!
*Runs away screaming.*
4204037 Note: 'or larger'.
I was just generally noting the group of the largest stars. We may not have even found the biggest yet!
We have several hundred billion to measure after all just in our galaxy.
4204283 But then the Tardis cracks open and destroys the universe.
...
Wait... *goes back to old-generation Doctor Who TARDIS, which had the Eye of Harmony open... and then looks at the new Doctor Who... and notes that the Daleks could easily destroy Tardises and that didn't destroy the universe when they did it... and notes that Tardises could be decommissioned and taken apart... so how could one breaking destroy the entire... gahhhh... GAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!*
HOW THE HELL DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE?! *is mad at that episode now*
4204548
Maybe the Doctor's TARDIS is powered by a box containing our own universe! So when the other TARDISes were destroyed they only destroyed other universes.
Eh.
It's the best I got.
4203212 wut...
4205104 Seek not to know the madness that is Alondro, for if you glimpse the true form of the madness, it shall consume you... as it did me... *Alondro is not the original Alondro.. that being a dark elder god with lots of tentacles for the molestation and the hentai.*
4205125 i.imgur.com/1Zfnv.gif
This looks like it will be a good one. Please continue.
just replace it with one at a specific stage in its life(and a specific energy output) every few thousand years and you will be fine.
4204548 It's pretty confusing. Maybe it didn't blow up because Dalek death lasers kill instantly and maybe the energy died out instead of being released. While outright blowing one up tends to destroy everything letting it die out and having the energy leaked slowly like nuclear fuel either through time or disassembly seems possible.
Oh well, plan B.
*Rides a DeLorean*
4203555
Uh, did you even look at the tags?
4206940 Yeah, but... the universe is really big.
I kinda hate it when they make things so OP that one character suddenly becomes the Be-All, End-All of the entire omniverse.
I liked it better when the Doctor was just an meddling do-gooder in his blue box, who often won against much stronger foes by a combination of luck and cleverness rather than being this mythic figure who makes people crap their pants if his name is about to be spoken.
It forces the show to constantly one-up itself in scope... which is unsustainable.
The Day of the Doctor was a nice refreshing sort of turn. He didn't do anything God-like. Instead, he found a little temporal loop-hole and got some help from a clever Doomsday device to save the day.
THAT'S the sort of thing that made Doctor Who such a hit in the first place, not god-moding. I would point out that the original incarnation of the series suffered terribly once they started throwing in bizarre powers and crap under Sylvester McCoy, which was a shame because I rather liked his Doctor. The stories were just absurd.
The legend of the Doctor in the universe worked when no one really knew why he was legendary, and the Doctor played on that when he could to save things (such as in "Silence in the Library") even when the reality was if the bad guys or bad carnivorous germ things called his bluff, he'd be stripped to bones or blown up.
Essentially, it was better when he was an alien Everyman battling gods rather than being a god himself.
The moon is so bad ass!
4207423 A toast to that! Gods fight with power but when a man fights a powerful enemy he does it in style.
OP characters are okay but I like the more relatable ones better. More plot and less Deus Ex Machina/"I win button."/Holy Swiss knife of ownage.
Oh my God. Oh my Goooooood.
I fucking LOVE this Celestia. I fucking LOVE her! This had me giggling like a dumbass for so long. Finally a Celestia that isn't a Mother Hen that farts rainbows.
4207646 There's something to be said, however, about a badass God who just pwns everyone because, "I'M GOD, BEEYATCH!! DEAL WITH IT!!"
Ah, Old Testament God, how I miss your wrath and fire and brimstone.
Those were the days.
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That comment made my day.
Expect some more badass Celestia stories in the future.
dis gon be good
4208203 Yup.
Run.
Tea?
The sun twilight first mentioned was ours.
Why would you use a controller in Minecraft?
4213369 When you play Xbox.
4213369 cause it's easier to relax in my lazyboy with a controller than a keyboard. It's Minecraft dude, it's all about the chillin and creativity.
Cap
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Tons of paragraph errors in this chapter. I didn't want a wall of text pointing them out XD.
Anywho, where'd she get "when Celestia was born the sun appeared"? That ignores the Hearth's Warming tale completely. Or that Unicorns used to control the celestial bodies prior to Tia and Lulu coming to power.