"How?"
Princess Luna shivered as she stared up at the moon, slowly descending towards the earth, as the inky-black painting of the Mare on the Moon locked eyes with her.
"We defeated her! We blasted her with the Elements and everything!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed angrily, her eyes glaring at the moon up above.
"Oh no..." Luna took a step back before stopping as a white hoof rested on her shoulder.
"Luna," Celestia asked, a worried look on her face as she stared down at her younger sister, "Is everything alright?"
Luna stared up at her sister, before taking a look at all the ponies gathered, "Let's speak somewhere more comfortable," She told them all and turned around, her hooves carrying her to the Ponyville Library.
Soon both Princesses, The remaining Elements of Harmony, the Baby Dragon, and the three fillies, stood inside the library, waiting for Luna to explain.
"Something is happening," Luna started once she had everyone's attention on her "Something we had hoped would never come to pass."
"Did you eat too much Broccoli?" Pinkie Pie jumped with a question, "Sleep through your alarm? Use salt instead of sugar? Accidentally wear your shirt backwards all day? Realize your mom was right about everything?"
Luna blinked in surprise before shaking her head, "When we were trapped as Nightmare Moon, we thought we could show everypony how special we were by making them fear us," She explained, her eyes looking elsewhere as if lost in memory.
"The Nightmare Forces somehow knew exactly what to say to convince us... To give us their energy and hate." Luna continued, ignoring the fillies mouthing the words Nightmare Forces.
"After our curse was broken by the Elements of Harmony," Luna continued her story, "We believed the forces of Darkness would wither and die... But we were wrong."
"Legend says that if the Nightmare Forces can harness enough strength through the cycle of the new moon, they are granted one more chance..."
"One more chance to what?" Twilight Sparkle, The Element of Magic asked.
"To claim what Nightmare Moon promised- an All Powerful Kingdom of their own!" Luna shouted, standing on her hind legs and spreading her front legs and wings wide, an image of the sun appearing behind her before being covered up by the inky and shadowy clouds of the Nightmare, creating a pseudo solar eclipse of Nightmares blotting out the sun.
"Then It's time for action!" Rainbow Dash yelled, her blood pumping as the thought of kicking the ass of Nightmare Moon and Saving Rarity appeared in her mind.
"But why take Rarity?" Applejack interjected, "What does that Gobbledy-Goo care a flying feather about us?"
Luna took only a second to think of the answer before taking a deep breath and telling them, "Together you possess the Elements of Harmony, Which have defeated the Dark Forces before," The three fillies in the room once more mouthed the words Dark Forces, confused as to which type of Forces they're really called.
"Now they will come after all of you- The only ponies who can defeat them... And destroy your home-"
"PONYVILLE!" The ponies all exclaimed in shock before they started moving around in a hurry.
"We need to go get Rarity home in a jiffy!" Applejack exclaimed loudly, followed by Rainbow Dash complaining that she was trying to get the rescue started all along.
"But how do six ponies and a baby dragon get to the moon?" Fluttershy asked.
"Okay, Hear me out-," Rainbow Dash said, "We get an enlarging ray and shoot me with it. Then I'll carry you all to the moon and -Surprise!- A Million ponies jump out and stomp those Moonies to bits!"
"Don't you little ponies worry," Princess Celestia told the group, "I know a way."
At the top of a tower, connecting to a castle on the moon, Nightmare Moon frowned as something started interfering with her magic.
"Larry," She said calmly, a beaked figure covered in wispy and smoky shadows materialized next to her.
"Oh glorious Nightmare," The Nightmare creature asked, his shadowy hands rubbing against each other, "What is it that you called me for?"
The Unicorn that was Nightmare Moon looked from her tower and to the earth below, "Why has the moon stopped its descent?" She asked, her eyes not leaving the small town near the Everfree Forest.
"I shall go and check right away," Larry, or as he would call himself, Shadowfright, told her before his body dissipated into a cloud of black wind as he flew away.
Leaving Nightmare Moon alone atop the tower.
"This is just a regular Lasso," Applejack said as she looked at the rope that Princess Celestia brought.
"It's not just any regular Lasso," She told the group, as her horn started to glow gold, a miniature sun forming from the golden aura at the tip of her horn as the rope started to levitate and grow.
Before the rope became so long, it wrapped around the moon, Halting its descent and creating a path for the ponies to reach their friend.
"You all go ahead," Celestia told Luna and the Elements, "I'll stay here and begin to prepare Ponyville, Good luck."
Staring at her older sister, Luna smiled, "Thank you,"
"What are we waiting for? Let's get moving!" Rainbow Dash yelled at the group before flying upwards, making sure to stay close to the rope.
"You heard her girls! Let's move!" Twilight Sparkle yelled as she stepped onto the rope, slowly balancing her way up.
And as the group walked up the long rope, The two Pegasi and the Alicorn flew, They soon made it close enough to the moon that they could see the clouds of shadows that were made of the Mare on the Moon, hiding the castle somewhere underneath the inky darkness.
And when they reach the castle, they reach Rarity.
Only that tragedy struck.
And with a snapping sound, the rope that held the moon broke, throwing the ponies and dragon down toward the moon.
Making fast work, the Pegasi and Alicorn quickly caught the falling ponies, Luna's horn glowing as her magic tried to catch all of them, "Just a little longer!" She called out.
Soon, the blue glow from Luna's horn enveloped the group, slowly guiding their fall into one of the dark spots of the moon.
"Great," Rainbow Dash grumbled loudly as she bumped into a rock under the pitch-black darkness of the Nightmare Cloud.
"Finding Rarity in pitch black? No problem at all,"
"Let us take care of that," Luna said, and with a glow to her horn, the darkness fled, letting the group see where they were, "However, now they'll know where we are,"
"And who is They exactly?" Twilight asked the princess.
"When the Nightmare Energy came back to life, It needed a form to take," She told the group, "Unfortunately, The peaceful inhabitants of the Moon became its victims and are now trapped under its spell."
Fluttershy gasped, "How could they do that to sweet little animals?"
Luna answered, "They aren't sweet anymore..."
"Hey, Larry! How's your day?" A Nightmare creature asked his coworker, who quickly turned to him and slammed him into the wall, His arms taking the form of large mallets.
"It's not Larry you idiot! It's Shadowfright!" The leader of the Nightmare Forces, the Nightmare that orchestrated the revival of Nightmare Moon and the Kidnapping of the two Unicorns yelled at his underling before pausing as he felt a group of ponies enter one of his Nightmare Clouds.
"Actually..." Larry- I mean Shadowfright turned to look at his underling, "I have a job for you..."
The white-eyed and flat-faced Moon creature gulped as his red-eyed and Beak-faced boss looked at him.
Impulsive as always rainbow
I have gone and read the comic here are some inaccuracies in this chapter. Larry doesn’t know Jerome’s name ( it’s one of the argument pinkie used to make him side with the ponies ) and Nightmare moon call Shadowfright Larry, The gag is that only himself call himself Shadowfright but everyone else call him Larry lol.
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Fixed it :)
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Well I assume she wrote at least once and when he didn't respond she lost hope and figured that e wanted nothing to do with her. But he wasn't exactly better he assumed his best friend would want nothing to do with him because he failed magic school considering it looked like she never got to say anything about it before he took off that a big assumption to put on your friend. His parents might have been disappointed in him but his friend would have been sad for him.
God, I still can't accept the fact that they pulled the moon with a lasso. This fact really breaks my brain, well, like what prevented her from pulling the moon while she was still on the moon and knocking all the shit out of a nightmare hypothetically? Although, in principle, Celestia vryatli would be able to do something other than opezdyulitsya once again.
Moreover, she now has a universal button "code lavender" which itself solves all problems.
Now, of course, I understand who would rightfully lead the space race.
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The Moon was pulled by Luna and Celestia, The Lasso was only used to give the Ponies a tightrope to walk across in order to reach the moon.
Also in this fic, the moon was slowly descending anyway, so Luna and Celestia had a lot less work to do.
But yeah, pulling the moon down with a rope will be impossible without Luna's magic.
I really wished we didn't go the route of Lasso The Moon. I had hoped we get a bit more of saner magical approach or creative liberty like dream teleporting or something, because this simple lasso trick kinda clashes with what the lore. Why couldn't Luna just walk away from the moon or why Celestia couldn't just visit Luna during this banisment?
It was a fever dream of cartoon logic that I still remember more than 5 years ago, right next to Chrysalis actually murdering some cats in front of the crusaders just to prove she will do that to them.
Hehe, Gotta love comics logic.
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The way I wrote it here, I tried to make it so the Lasso was nothing more than a very long rope that the gang could use to walk to the moon, seeing as the moon was already lowering itself thanks to Nightmare Moon's magic.
For example, Celestia couldn't Visit Luna on the moon because she was still Nightmare Moon and Celly couldn't use the Elements of Harmony by herself.
As for why Nightmare Moon couldn't simply fly down to Equestria? She was banished to the moon by the Elements, with emphasis on Banished, The Magic of the Elements made sure that she would remain on the moon for one-thousand years, without that she easily could have escaped back to Equestria.
Because that's precisely what she did in the first episode.
The moment the Elements of Harmony's banishment was done, She immediately flew to Equestria, defeated Celestia, and threatened eternal night once again.
Also, you got to remember that MLP is a magical world, with weapons that shoot beams of concentrated friendship, shapeshifting bug-horses, an evil Spanish king who's secretly a ghost-insect-horse, Indiana Jane fights a creature from Aztec myth on a monthly basis, The Dog people are Celtic and the Yak people are Vikings.
And that's not even getting started on Discord or Tirek or Starswirl or whoever else.
The World is a children's fantasy storybook, with magical princesses and talking dragons and friendship and everything.
A very long lasso that can pull the moon isn't even in the top 10 weirdest things.
So why not enjoy the more fantastical elements of this fantasy world?
If I tried writing this story to be as serious and Non-Fantasy as I could, I would make this an Equestria Girls fic instead.
This is a magical world, I've written enough about the more realistic aspects in previous arcs with the Gala and the Art Museum, Let's enjoy the magical aspects of the world just as much.
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Wow, now I realized one thing I'm too serious about
and really completely missed it.
It's fantastic!
Maybe I'm too old, but as soon as I swept the logic under the pink carpet and re-read it, almost the whole story began to be perceived in a completely different way.
(usually I wouldn't comment on others, but this is a special case)
Alondro taps his steepled fingers together, sitting behind a desk, "This plan has... merit."
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I'm glad to see you've found enjoyment in my story, enough to get invested at least.
But yeah, If I try an make an mlp story with more realistic magic, then it won't be as fantastical or enjoyable as it could be.
If I remove the magic from "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" I'll be legt with "My Little Pony: Friendship Is"
And that just isn't a very good title.
But yeah, this story isn't to be taken as seriously as something like my "Replica" or "Restart" stories, since this story is a completely different genre.
This fic takes a lot of inspiration fron Korean Webtoons and Manwha, where the comedy aspect is directly correlated with the more serious aspects of the story.
If I wrote a story that took itself super seriously all the time, I wouldn't have had Blueblood be the MC, instead focusing on more serious characters like The Pillars of Equestria.
I mean, Comedy is one of the tags on this story.
Sure, it might not be as funny as some other stuff, but comedies can be serious at times while maintaining their comedic aspects.
And so, A very long rope will Lasso the moon.
Why?
Because this is My Little Pony.
And so it's Magic.
Something is wrong with me if I see them lassoing the Moon and I start trying to figure out the math such a feat would require.
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I'm more curious how lassoing the moon from equestrias surface stops the moon from getting closer to it .
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Then the same thing's wrong with me.
I couldn't help it, the magic lasso thing pulled me out of the story for a bit. So they're walking vertically on a rope, not climbing, to get to the moon? What happened to gravity and oxygen? They need to walk vertically for hundreds or thousands of miles to get there? Or if the moon is close enough to Equestria that there's some kind of zero gravity going on then wouldn't the surface area of the moon entering through the ozone layer of the planet be causing the surface of the moon to glow red hot from immense friction and such which would be a different problem entirely? I know magic solves a lot, but personally it was enough logical fallacies at once to have me overthinking horse words. Maybe if the pony's hooves were enchanted with the power of the sun to become 'jet hooves' or something it would've covered enough of the logistics for me. Though the lack of oxygen confuses me too, maybe I missed the explanation on why the moon has habitants that can breathe there or there's some pony lore I don't know about.
It's easy to leave a comment that's a complaint or a ponderance, but I did binge read all of the fic up to this point not too long ago. Has definitely been a fun read, thanks for taking the time to write it.
Magic rope. Cool.
Ah well, time to rescue a prince!
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Lol, that's literally how the comic was written. You're overthinking it; Just think of it as comedy, and insert magic... Voila! you have ponies going to the moon by walking on a lasso, lol. I mean, we're talking about a show where Tartarus is a thing.
The 'Rope to Moon down to Equestra' idea was always to silly and unpractical, obviously we need a better solution...
Pretty sure Nightmare Rarity Moon will need saving from new Blueblood