Bat in the Kitchen
Shining Armor let out a sigh of boredom as he stood guarding a large wooden door. The hallway was completely deserted. He didn’t even see one of the castle servants since he got here. If he had to guess, he’d say they were avoiding this area. The only time something had happened was when the pink alicorn had left to go to the restroom a few minutes ago.
Part of him wanted to be in the same room as Princess Luna and the senators. After all, he was brought down here to guard them. However, Celestia’s nobles had refused to allow Luna’s bodyguard into the conference room. One said that he might attack them on some silent command given by the night princess. Others simply believed that he had no place within those halls. Princess Luna, on the other hoof, said that she would not continue if she were to do so in a room that was full of Canterlot guards and she wasn't allowed to have one of her own to protect her. In order to please the pig headed nobles, Celestia ordered all guards to leave the room.
Even though he wasn't in the room, that didn't mean that Shining couldn't hear anything. From the moment they began their talks it had been one argument after another. The first point that they wanted to discuss was how the two sisters would divide their power. Prince Blueblood had several options for Princess Luna. One of them being in change of waste management. For Princess Celestia he had suggested thing like power over the courts, military, and various other high powered positions. Needless to say that Luna’s party wasn’t thrilled by this. It took awhile, but eventually both sides were able to come to an agreement.
The next big issue was the sharing of government secrets. The nobles wanted all high calcified documents handed over to them as soon as the deal was done. In turn, the senators asked for the exact same thing. Not a problem right? Wrong! The nobles responded by asking why they should give members of the ‘former’ Lunar Republic anything when they would no longer have any position of political power. This soon turned into a large debate that had been going on for several hours.
As for Shining Armor, he had to wonder if this was really worth it. He understood what Princess Luna was saying. They needed water, and if Discord or any other villains like him ever showed up again, having two alicorns working together might be their safest bet. That being said, they could easily just take the water. Heck, they didn’t even need to get it from Equestria! They could simply get it from one of the oceans on this planet, remove the salt, and be done with it. Also he doubted that anything could really threaten them.
Shining then heard a commotion going on. He looked down a hallway and saw several guards running towards the main entrance of the castle. The white unicorn frowned, wondering what was going on. He wanted to dismiss it at nothing at first, but as the number of guards going to the entrance kept increasing a feeling of dread began to grow within him. Were they under attack? No, if they were then the guards should have gone to the princesses to protect them. Perhaps an intruder?
The captain of the Shield Corps frowned. What should he do? His duty was to be nearby in case something goes wrong. Yet something was going wrong in the castle. He hesitated for a moment or two before his curiosity got the better of him. All he would do was see what was going on and, if it was something serious, offer a helping hoof. Spirit of cooperation and all that.
Quickly Shining galloped down the hallway in the direction he had seen the soldiers go. As he did, he began to hear a ruckus. Several times he paused as he tried his best to remember which way he should be heading. All these hallways looked the same to him. It almost made him feel like the first time he was at Luna’s castle.
After awhile he finally found where the noise was coming from. There weren't as many guards as he thought there should have been. The ones that were there were circled around something small on the ground. There was also what looked like a chief with a big, long moustache who was speaking very loudly.
“When will you start doing your jobs?!” the chief demanded angrily. “I found this…this rat in my kitchen! Now I will have to get the whole place sterilized!” The chief then kicked what was in the middle.
“Hey, how do you think we feel,” said one of the guards as he also gave the object a kick as well. “We don’t like pests like these in the castle.”
“Let’s just put it out of its misery,” said the voice of Iron Wall. “And we should be quick about it. If Princess Celestia found out then-”
“Found out about what?” demanded Shining Armor as he made his presence know. All the ponies stopped what they were doing and looked at him. Some even jumped, like they were caught doing something that they knew they shouldn’t. Yet they kept their circle as Iron Wall moved over to the white stallion.
“This isn’t any of your concerns,” said Iron Wall as he did his best to look intimidating. “Now, walk away and I won’t tell your princess that you left your post.” Shining looked at Iron dead in the eye, not flinching in the slightest.
“Move aside,” said Shining Armor. “Or else I will tell your princess about what I saw here. Whatever it is, I can tell that she wouldn’t be happy.”
Iron Wall wasn’t a stupid pony in the slightest. He was usually able to see sixteen moves ahead of his opponent as well as several different outcomes. Threatening him seemed to have little affect and violence wasn’t an option. Should anything happen to him, then Princess Celestia and Princess Luna would be pissed. Iron Wall knew that Shining was a captain of some kind. Having him sent to the hospital by their hooves could end up in an all out war. If Shining Armor really did follow through with his threat, there was a very good chance that the Princess might decide to investigate. All it would take was one pair of loose lips or a truth revealing spell for her to find out. Yet, if he showed him what was going on, the Lunar unicorn would understand and the matter would be kept quiet.
Or so he hoped.
“Very well,” said Iron Wall as he gestured to his troops to stand aside. They hesitated for a moment but then did as commanded. And what Shining saw nearly caused his heart to stop.
Lying there on the floor was an unconscious little filly no more than four or five. She was a bat pony with a midnight purple coat and a cream colored mane. He could see that she had several large bruises all over her tiny body. But that wasn’t the worst of it. She was thin, nearly skin and bones. Never before had he seen anypony looking like that. It was almost enough to cause him to vomit.
“Found this little rat in the kitchen stealing my food,” said the chief. “Knocked it out and called the guards to help me throw it into the trash were it belongs. But not before we make sure that it’ll never sneak its way back in.”
“No,” said Shining Armor.
“Excuse me?” asked the chief.
“No,” said Shining with more force. “I will not allow you to hurt this child anymore that it already has been! You are all disgraces to your uniforms!”
“Who are you to judge us?” demanded one guard. “We are simply taking care of a serious threat.”
“Yes,” said Iron Wall. “This thing snuck into the castle. Now, I don’t know how you moon ponies deal with dangerous intruders but around here we-” The captain got no further as he was slapped by Princess Cadence. She had just teleported in front of him and slapped him with her right hoof, nearly knocking him to the ground. “P-Princess Cadence?”
“I heard the noise and saw that Shining Armor wasn’t where I had last seen him,” said Cadence as she glared at Iron Wall. “So I got curious. Now imagine my surprise when I saw several grown stallions beating a clearly starving child!”
“But,” began Iron right before he was slapped again. This time, however, he hit the floor. As he looked up he saw the child being magically lifted onto Cadence’s back.
“Believe me,” said Cadence as she looked down upon Iron Wall. “Princess Celestia will be told about all of this. And action will be taken” She then looked at Shining Armor. “Will you please escort me to my room?” Shining Armor nodded.
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“You want to look at what?” asked Dr. Blue Cross. He was right now in Cadence’s room which was nice and cozy. There was a large bed, a dresser, beauty station, desk, and a closet. But the room didn’t matter to him right now. He had apparently been summoned to tend to a bat pony child.
“I want you to treat this poor child and do all you can to help her,” said Cadence. The doctor grunted and while moving over to the bed he muttered that they should have just taken it to a vet. But he was the royal doctor. If the princesses asked him to treat somepony it was his duty to do so.
Yet as he worked, Shining Armor kept a close eye on him.
Blue Cross went to work right away. He first scanned her body with his magic to see if she had any broken bones. Luckily for her she had none. He then pulled a few pills out of his saddlebag and almost shoved them down her throat. After a few more minutes of treating her bruises he returned to the princess and Shining Armor.
“I gave…her, some nutrient pills,” he said with some hesitation. “She’ll live, but only if she starts to eat regularly again. I also used some of my magic to soothe her pain and heal some of her bruises.”
Cadence was about to say thank you when they heard a slight groan from the bed. Three heads turned to see that the little filly was slowly opening her eyes. At first she looked a bit confused, yet soon became afraid. She had no idea where she was or how she got there. Not only that there were three strangers in front of her. The poor girl cringed as she feared for the worst.
“Don’t be afraid,” said Cadence as she reached out a hoof to the girl. The bat filly whimpered and began to shake. “I promise we won’t hurt you. Would you please tell me your name?”
“It,” whispered the bat pony. “That’s what everypony calls me.” She then began to cough and Blue Cross used his magic to put her to sleep.
“She needs her rest,” said the doctor as he moved towards the door. “I’ll write you up a list of foods to feed…her, and an eating regimen.” As the doctor exited the room, two more ponies came in. Two alicorns.
“Shining Armor, why were you not at your post?” asked Princess Luna with a slight frown. She then noticed the other two occupants in the room. And when she noticed the condition of the child, her eyes went wide in horror. Shining Armor began to tell her the whole story, being as brutally honest as he could. Yet as he spoke, memories of a thousand years ago began to wash over Luna as she stared at the sleeping child. She could smell fire and soot all around her. She could hear the cries of ponies calling for the death of the monsters. The cries of foals who had lost their parents.
“This is just awful,” said Celestia once Shining Armor had finished his story. “I never thought that things were getting this bad.”
“I was a fool,” said Luna softly.
“Sister?” asked Celestia. Luna turned to face her older sister and glared at her with a look of utter hate.
“I was a fool to think that you and your ponies had changed! A thousand years and you are making the same mistakes! The only difference is that you have found a new target. And what are you doing to fix it? The same as before: nothing!” Luna then turned her back on a flabbergasted Celestia.
“Sister wait,” Celestia managed to say. Luna paused for a moment. She wanted to leave right then and there. However, Twilight and Shadow were still in Ponyville. If she acted too rashly then it would make things more difficult to get them in the long run.
“We shall remain here until the morning as we had promised,” said Luna without looking at Celestia. “We shall both make the announcement that there will be no merger between our nations and then we will leave. After that, dear sister, you shall never contact me again. I hope that is clear.” And with that, Princess Luna left the room.
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Good chapter. How will the Lunar Republic get the water though? Are they going to do what Shining Armour was suggesting? I can't wait to see how Celestia deals with the guards who were beating the bat pony child.
First. "It's" name should be Moonlight Eclipse.
If I were the Lunar Republic, I would go to the north in the more winter lands and take the ice. Fresh water and it won't be under Celestia's jurisdiction. No muss and no fuss. And before they leave, I would suggest looking for any more bat ponies currently living in Equestria so they wouldn't be subjugated to any more racism.
Well this just turned into an international incident.
I hope that during her announcement, Luna will say something along the lines of "You ponies are racist bigots." Because I love it when a character bitch-slaps others (that deserve it) with words.
And pray tell me, Luna, how exactly your decision is gonna help the bat ponies currently living in Equestria, like "It"? Ironically, your studen took a better approach: "Let´s prove them wrong until they admit their mistake".
Ok, not gunna lie, I was wondering what kind of story this would be. Lunar Republic has been awesome so far though!!
Now, first off, I REALLY want to stress that I like Celestia well enough. She's a flawed character, when you read between the lines, but at least she didn't tank her country in ruling essentially for 1000 years. That said, her biggest character flaw seems to be her lack of being direct in her approach to anything. Her faith is her weakness, as we see here.
Throw in that, as we've seen, Luna's republic has been very progressive and has worked out largely to it's advantage, only it's location and resources being troubled. As far as I can see, Luna is in the right, and Celestia, if she learned anything about her sister leaving, it sure as sugar wasn't the lesson she needed.
Also, her idea of allowing those in power to BE corrupt, when Luna nipped that in the bud, doesn't look good.
Also, as an alternative...well, what about the Location of the former Crystal Empire? Surely it isn't directly under purview of Equestria. Far from it, given the area should be largely uninhabitable without the Crystal Heart and the city long gone, it'd be a good place to mine ice for water purposes, while comet harvesting would continue apace.
Then there is the ability to secure harvesting rights to the clouds that form over Everfree forest. I would think given the Republic's technological level, gaining control over such clouds and their rain would be doable, if not exactly easy.
Finally, loving the character development. And as things progress, I feel Equestria deserves the Republic's good will less and less. Granted, there are good aspects in Celestia's kingdom, but a few bad apples, or rather a great many, spoils the bunch.
Awe well, loving this story, and I can't wait for more. Best of luck and I wish you well in you endeavors!
Dear Princess Celestia,
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Seriously, you've just had 1000 years to fix the mistakes that made your little sister leave and start a new nation on the moon, and what did you do? Jack fucking squat! How the hell would you manage to fail so miserably? You just let orphans get beaten up? Are you unaware of it? Well that's no goddamn excuse, you should pay attention to your subjects! What, you thought it was just a coincidence that no batpony got a high-ranking job for ten whole centuries? Are you insane? And how about those nobles? Imagine their faces when they see the Republic's advanced technology! They'll either demand exclusive access to all of it, or want it destroyed! It's like you don't even care! It seems to me that the Lunar Republic shouldn't be joining Equestria, Equestria should be joining the Lunar Republic!
Your loyal subject, kingtiger666
P.S. I'm moving to the moon next week. Got a great deal on a habitat dome on the shore of the Sea of Serenity. You're probably wondering how there can be a shore without water, right? Well guess what: We're taking water from the ocean, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it!
P.P.S. Your faithful student is coming with me.
P.P.P.S. Her dragon, too.
NOT THE POOR BAT FILLY
Oh just great, 'THEY' are living their alternate lives now... Just great...
That poor filly. Will she leave with Luna and the rest for a new life in the Republic? I really have to side with Luna and the Republic in this story. Frankly from what I've seen so far in this Equestira it deserves any trouble that comes it's way. Are Twilight and the others now stuck forever with their lives in this dimension?
Celestias nation: over 1000 years and they just now started steam tech, still have massive racial issues, (some what) corupt noble government, and havent even made peace with the other nations yet.
Lunas republic:Anti-grav tech, equality of all races, LIVE ON THE DAMN MOON, have a well organised and efficent government, live in bio domes with little resources and yet still do better.
Conclusion: Celestia you have nothing that the republic needs, in fact the republic probably has things that YOU need, they can just go get the water from another nation or place. Also Celestia your sister is younger than you and still better at everything so...get one up'd!
So far so good. Granted Equestria isn't looking so good right now but its still early in the story so things can change, although changing the perceptions of Luna and the ponies with her will be something of a uphill battle now.
However now I'm wondering if Luna in good conscience would actually go back to the moon right now or if she might let her sister or one of the...ugh...."nobles" convince her to take a tour of Equestria to see their shining civilization. And while that's happening several of her soldiers, led by batponies, could be searching out batponies and offering them a chance to go some place where they wont be looked down upon.
This would be a good time for a rival nation to either approach Luna in order to gain a stronger Economic/Political position against Equestria and Celestia or to just attack outright.
I do have a several questions though.
Given that the Lunar Republic has had close to a thousand years to chart the orbits of comets shouldn't they have a better idea as to when the next comet will make an appearance?
Likewise with their advanced technology couldn't they have launched ships to harvest comets in wider ranging orbits?
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Sorry, that chapter was posted before I had a beta reader.
Whelp, this is somewhat hilarious. It would be nice to think that only the Canterlot elite are bigots, but we can pretty clearly see from the Ponyville chapters that the rot is much deeper than that. It's ironic but somehow UTTERLY PREDICTABLE that a relatively much more peaceful exile and departure that ended up with the exiles doing better than their homeland created an even greater amount of prejudice and injustice than a war to the end would. If things are as bad as they seem, Discord making an early appearance would make perfect sense.
On the gripping hand, the Lunar Republic seems a much tighter-run ship than Equestria, with a smaller population, so Luna doing so much better with social control is unsurprising. And there are a few hints that the Republic itself may have some flaws - Shining Armor seemed semi-serious about the airlock threat.
Poor lil bat pony.
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Well, charting random comets can be difficult. I mean it has to pass by close enough to the moon for them to grab it with their magic so they are limited by that. As for your second question, who ever said they haven't tried?
so batponies are like the mutants from marvel? (in the way their treated not powers) so would luna offer asylum or refugee status to batponies and there families?
you also get 12 stars out of 10 and a
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Yeah, basicly they are a slight genetic mutation of Pegasus ponies. They are simply more adapt for nighttime flight which, to me at least, makes sense. Pegasus ponies are the flight race so it would make some sense that from time to time they would give birth to ponies that could fly better at night. In this story they are not seen as benifital. Same as the X-Men, they scare normal ponies due to personal fears and misinformation. In fact, that was my reasoning for having Rainbow's cousin being the writer for the X-Ponies. As for Luna, she took as many as were willing to go with her to the moon when she left. However, more were still born in Equestria and even after she leaves again more will continue to be born.
I have three questions. One where is Spike in all this? At first I though he would be with Trixie, but it doesn't look that way? Two since Luna never became Nightmare Moon does that mean Nightmare Night doesn't exist in this universe? If it does exist in some form close to the original I can see Luna and the Republic being very upset once they find out about it. Finally three did only Ponies go with Luna to the Moon or did other species like Griffons or Diamond Dogs also follow her?
I suggest still seperating the normal Mane 6 from the (Mane 6 of this Scenario) Like Back to the Future Style where the Mane 6 attempt to fix the problem in the background because the ghost mode didn't work.
Now i'm just angry at both Luna and Celestia.
Luna is bitching about racism while Celestia obviously haven't tried to fix it...
I just want to take my W.A.M and launch it into Equestria, and then fire my O.I.C against the moon.
W.A.M = World Altering Missile
O.I.C = Orbital ION Cannon
yo did you you get the idea of the what if spell
from the what if machine from futurama also i might have spelt the shows name wrong
2234305 diamond dogs are very simple minded and love shiny objects so i doubt they would join.
griffions would be suicide to bring cause they eat meat and well if shit went south it wouldnt be long until ponys became food for those moon griffions no affence to griffions.
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To be honest Luna should be bitching about racism!
Did you read:
To be fair, Celestia clearly did not know about the guards brutalizing the bat pony.
5913302 but the same problem luna notice before is still there. the very reason she took her ponies and left. The only real difference between the two worlds is the fact Luna does have ponies that like her, thus preventing Nightmare Moon.
2230130 but Twilight doesn't have the experiences that Luna has. Luna witness the persecution first hand er hoof. There's a reason the term NEVER AGAIN hold's special meaning to the Jews and the same applies here.
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But said brutalising only goes to show that there is still an unprecedented prejudice toward bat ponies, luna sees this and is lead to believe. Albeit rather rashly. That equestrians have not changed in their ways of victimising beings of other races or belief (I.E the ponies that appreciated and worshipped the night)
2232638 The Lunar Republic have anti-gravity tech. That implies reactionless drives. They could build spaceships and go fetch comets from further out in space.
Argh. Just ...argh.
Why does everybody feel they have to shoe-horn the real world's make-believe racism into their stories, even if it takes depicting a palace kitchen staff, or maybe it's an entire nation, as murderous brutal bigots, while writing Princess Celestia as having a childlike ignorance of it all?
The Lunar Republic wants water and has technology. Equestria has water and wants technology. Keep the politics out of it--just make a business deal.
8109823 There has ALREADY been instances of Racism in the show ALREADY! Have you forgotten about how Ponyville treated Zecora just because she LOOKED different and "Spooky"? That's even WITHOUT the many centuries of stories that have given ponies reasons to hate Bat Ponys in this one. That's not even getting into things like how the Rich look down upon Poor & Middle class as seen in the Canon on the show. So whatever issues the show has, they would be FAR WORSE if they were going for an older demographic like most fanfics do.
Furthermore, it was already stated that this could be a problem. If you don't want to read about it, go find another story. Also a big reason for the integration was due to matters of National Security with creatures like Discord & Tirek. Furthermore, many of us really ENJOY having Real Life Topics in our fanfics. It makes the stories more believeable and feels more mature than what the show can offer.
8145231 Hear, hear. Real world connections draw the reader further down the rabbit hole.
The only thing I’m confused about is why Luna needs celestia for water. If they’re so advanced, surely they could just build some rockets and start mining the ice in comets or other moons in the solar system with ice if there are any. You don’t need to wait for a comet to come flying by.
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They are still working on interplanetary travel
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That requires way more work than is nescessary than going over to the next planet and getting water. Not to mention quicker, they don't have time to waste.
Tirek: I have finally stolen all the magic in equestria
Lunar republic: *drops nuke*
Tirek:mwahahah-media1.giphy.com/media/oQtO6wKK2q0c8/giphy.gif
The Lunar Republics classified data is kept in blocks of Calcium?
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All classified information is etched into the bones of the Lunar Princess to ensure information is not lost or leaked.
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This is how Fallout Equestria began, right?
That would be a bad idea
Luna just ran away she has done nothing to fix the problem.