The real MacColt

by ChiefKitsune

Commercial

Ponyville, Equestria

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"Have you been feeling off lately? Have you been wearing a frown and you don't know why? Well we here at The Hive have specially designed hibernation pods to help you forget all your troubles. If there one thing we Changelings are known for, besides needing to eat love, is that we are good at ......." The undisguised Changeling cheerfully advertising an emotional get away, is silent as Rarity pressed the 'mute' button so they could try to understand just what they saw.

"What the BUCK was that?!" Rainbow Dash exclaims loudly causing the others' ears to splay out from the volume.

"Did you really want to know what that Changeling was selling?" Rarity asks Rainbow Dash with nothing more than a cocked eyebrow.

"No not that....well not just that. What the hay is Nightmare Moon doing there, didn't we destroy her with the Elements?" Rainbow reiterates.

While those two are arguing AppleJack is trying to get Fluttershy out from under the couch, which is where she fled when Nightmare Moon first appeared on screen. The whole couch was shaking like a leaf, with Pinkie sitting on top saying things like 'This makes my voice sound funny' and 'You girls should try this'. Twilight is still staring at the screen with nothing more than a thin frown and the occasional twitch in her left eye and right ear. Their was a soft 'sproing' each as strands of Twilight's mane started to stick out.

"Twi, do ya think you could help out ov'a here with Flutters?" AppleJack asks Twilight not only because she needed the help but to try and snap Twilight out of whatever she is in.

"Wha...huh? Okay. That was a thing." Twilight commented as she moved to help AppleJack still she had a glazed look in her eyes and a vacant expression. Signs that she was thinking about lots of things that AppleJack knew would put her to sleep faster than a story from Granny when she was a filly, if she was to ask what Twi was thinking 'bout.

With a very audible 'Snap' of his claws Discord broke through to them all, well it helped that Fluttershy was also now in his Talon and paw, bringing Twilight back to what he thought of as insanity, bringing a pause to the conversation going on between Rainbow Dash and Rarity, and well Pinkie will always be Pinkie. Coincidentally Pinkie was the only one of the group Discord personally thought to be sane, with Fluttershy close behind only because she is his best friend.

"As much as I'm enjoying the sight of the four of you 'Blue-screen'ing I had to snap you out so you could comfort Fluttershy." With that the discussion started between the mane six, and Spike, while Discord winked at the wall and gave an 'OK' with his talons.

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The Real MacColt Studios, [REDACTED], Equestria

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I smirked at the little view screen in my hooves when Discord gave the 'all okay' sign, looking like a foal in a candy shop. "Well I am glade that they only had mild reactions to your appearance on the show Moony" I comment as I look up and back to see Nightmare Moon standing behind me looking at the view screen looking like she just ate a lemon, causing me to giggle at her and thus enhancing the look.

"You know very well that I hate that Nickname that you saddled me with. The same one that all your 'employees' use whenever they address me." Nightmare sneered at me lightly while I got my giggles under control. "Also change the view so we can check on the Sisters." She tried to rush me, which really wasn't needed.

"You know you can't keep calling yourself Nightmare Moon, and just calling you Nightmare won't work because the Sisters act as though you were nothing more than a parasite that was destroying Luna." I began quickly to stop any interruptions. "Even if that was what originally happened, you are no longer that same entity. Your time with Luna on the Moon changed that, and the Elements just finished for you. I did they honestly think something promoting Harmony would just outright destroy something?" I finish to Moony, moving in to give her a hug since this conversation hurts. I then get an idea to change her mood, thus I switch the view screen for the 'hidden-camera' spell to the Royal Sisters' sitting room, hoping to get a show for my show.

I wasn't disappointed.

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Canterlot Palace, Canterlot, Equestria

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"WHAT IS THIS!!! DIST THOU KNOWN SHE WOULD BE THE 'GUEST'?" Luna all but screamed in the Royal Canterlot Voice. Her sister Celestia handled it far better than most, though she still was thrown back a little bit.

"No! I had NO idea that she had this planned nor do I know what the questions will be." Celestia answered, nervousness clear in her voice her mask completely shattered by the turn of events. "I only knew she had asked me the other day if she could be the first to announce the pregnancy, before anypony else was told." That last bit froze Luna mid-freak out.

"What dost thou mean? If she knew about it before anypony not part of the Royal Family, then how did she know? Wait is that the reason you scheduled the press release about the foal for tomorrow morning?" Luna asked her string of questions rapid fire.

"Well I learned long ago that Wall Flower always, always knows what's going on within the Kingdom, and more frequently than I would like before I do." Celestia complained. "And even when I looked into her there was nothing. I had her tailed on multiple occasions, each time she gave signs that she was aware of them from the moment they began. I had here house here in Canterlot put under surveillance for a whole month where I was distracting her with this and that. They had look outs watching the building around the clock, with a rotating positions never the same one twice. She made it blatantly clear that no matter where they were or how long they were there, that she knew that they were there. Don't tell anypony or anyone, but she honestly frightens me more than Discord and Sombra, if only for the fact she must have an amazing network." Celestia went on in what Luna could tell was a well used rant, but there was still the matter of the Nightmare existing outside of herself.

Luna honestly didn't know how to feel about Nightmare Moon still existing, its a mixed concoction of fear, anger, and surprisingly a good portion of relief. Luna however pushed those feelings aside for now, they needed to act fast if they were to apprehend Nightmare Moon before she left the Studio. "Sister we must hurry to rouse the Guard to get to the studios as soon as possible, so that we may apprehend her." Luna commanded her sister expecting her to respond in the affirmative, she was thus greatly confused when Celestia sat back with a very large sigh of resignation. "Sister what's wrong, we must make haste." Luna tried valiantly to rouse her Sister to get moving, but Tia just motioned for her to sit back down.

"It would do us no good to rouse the Guard and rush to the Studios, also I am not comfortable with the thought of you facing Nightmare Moon. I don't want to risk losing you for another thousand years or even longer." Celestia urged Luna to calm down.

"Well why not go yourself or better yet send our saviors in Ponyville, to capture her she is still a threat." Luna retorted with conviction. Celestia felt a little bad about having to take the wind from her sails.

"Its not that I won't its more I can't. Wall Flower has told me of her home town where she mainly lives, from what she said it is not something known by outsiders since before the Unification of the tribes. She has never told me, not that she didn't want to, but its just their way. I even hired Daring Doo to try and find out just what her hometown is, when she came up with nothing I tried to have her trailed. When they lost her at the boarder of the city every time, I decided to try to magically track her through Scrying. Even then the spells always lost her at the edge of the city." Celestia informed her sister tiredly.

After about a minute to think that over Luna asked, "Wait you said she must have an amazing information network, you even admitted to it being far better than our own, how were you able to keep all of those efforts from her notice?"

"She said she knew about every single one along with the Scrying spells, she even knew about my orders to Daring Doo. Which I did at Daring Doo's house in pony no less!" Celestia took a deep breath. "After the first trailing attempt, and we had our usual get together she told me she found it amusing in my attempts to find her home. She even encouraged me to continue trying, stating that it lets her practice her art. Every time we met up she would have a full report of my agents that had tailed her last, she always insisted that she meet with the agent for a few hours the next day. They always had a huge increase in there ability to stay hidden, and gather information, but even after those lessons they still couldn't tail her which she found even more amusing when she talked with me. Yes while, with her hobby of helping our agents improve, she still has a far better network. Though she does give us packets on threats, ponies of interest, and so on every week. She just refuses to merg her network with ours, stating that 'two ears are better than one'." Celestia took a moment to think on what she wanted to say next, only to be interrupted by the Show resuming. "Oh, look its back on. Lets just sit back and watch, since Flower hasn't even informed me that Nightmare Moon was still alive, then she must not see her as a threat."

Luna lets out an explosive sigh as she slumps down. "okay maybe your right, not like we could do anything if we wanted to."

And thus they watched.

Author's Note:

There a little world building, I think, well anyways it at least explained what I, Wall Flower, do as being a friend to Celestia. Again we still need questions to ask Moony, also please keep them PG rated.

*Real AN*
To be completely honest I wrote both of these chapters late in the day on around three(3) hours of sleep. Even if its not that good, I'm still put out two chapters of more than 1,500 words. I could never write more than 500 words before that wasn't just details about Everything. So again any mistakes, thoughts, ideas, comments, or just to say hi it would be great.

Comments

[LEGION55]

Wall Flower

Maybe you could "in the rewrite" make this Wallflower blush?

[ChiefKitsune]

Thanks for the suggestion