{"sf1_id":791841,"sf2_id":null,"title":"To Boldly Hoof It Ch 20. Fallen Idol","author":"BluebloodFan91","words":5408,"posted_at":"2014-12-04T20:31:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Applejack","Blueblood","Cadence","Celestia","Character Development","Clean","Death","Doctor Whooves","Dragon","Equine","Fantasy","Flam","Flim","Fluttershy","Friendship is magic","Griffin","Gryphon","Hoops","Horse","Humor","Iron Will","Jet Set","Lightning Dust","MLP","Mare","Minotaur","My Little Pony","Pegasus","Pinkie Pie","Plot Development","Pony","Prince Blueblood","Princess Celestia","Princess Luna","Princess cadence","Rainbow Dash","Rarity","Sad","Sci-Fi","Shining Armor","Spike","Stallion","Story Progression","Story Series","Sunset shimmer","To Boldly Flee","Trixie","Twilight Sparkle","Unicorn","Upper Crust","Violence (not In Yiff)","alicorn","anger","changeling","dumbbell","gilda","luna","parody","score","space","video games"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791841-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-20-fallen-idol","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/791841","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=791841\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Ch 20. Fallen Idol\n\n\"It's working!\" said Doctor Whooves while he stood at the control panel of the TARDIS. \"The plot hole is closing.\"\nBehind\nhim, the seven unicorns, four pegasi, griffon, minotaur, and changeling\nqueen stood and watched the small computer screen on the TARDIS's\ncontrol panel, which showed the image of the swirling vortex in space,\ncollapsing in on itself. They all let out sighs of relief. They had done\nit. They had saved the universe.The plot hole finally collapsed down to a single tiny glowing point, and then disappeared completely.Then something unexpected happened.At\nthat exact moment when the plot hole disappeared, a blinding white\nsphere of light suddenly exploded out in all directions from where the\nplot hole had been.\"WHAT'S THAT?\" shrieked Upper Crust in fear.\"It's a temporal shock-wave!\" replied the Doctor. \"All of you brace yourselves!\"None\nof them knew what a temporal shock-wave was, but because of the urgency\nin the Doctor's voice, they all obeyed him and quickly grabbed hold of\nsomething solid on the TARDIS. And just in time too, because at that\nmoment, the shockwave hit them.The TARDIS rocked and shook for a bit, and then, after a few seconds, everything became still.\"What just happened?\" asked Flim as he and everyone else let go of what they were holding onto and looked at the Doctor.The\nDoctor moved back to the TARDIS's control panel and looked at the\ncomputer screen. \"Well, what do you know! We're back on Earth!\" he said.\"Oh, thank heavens!\" sighed Upper Crust in relief, glad to be on the safety of solid ground once again.\"More specifically...\" the Doctor added, \"... we're inside the Ponyville library.\"That was a surprise to everyone.\"Ponyville library!?\" asked Trixie in confusion. \"What are we doing there?\"\"I didn't bring us here!\" said the Doctor. \"I believe the TARDIS was put\nhere by default because this is the location where the paradox first\nstarted, where Twilight Sparkle traveled back in time to herself to try\nand change the past.\"\"What do you mean?\" asked Hoops, scratching his head with his hoof in confusion.\"When\nthe plot hole closed, it created a ripple effect throughout the space\nstory arc continuum, undoing all the anomalies that had ever been\ncreated by the plot hole. In a sense, we are now living in a universe\nwhere it's as if the plot hole never existed. But since the TARDIS was protected by its temporal shielding, we were all unaffected by the corrections in the time line. So, since we\ndidn't get rewritten, the universe basically didn't know what else to\ndo with us except just stick us in the exact point where the paradox\nfirst started. That's also the reason why we can all still remember the way things used to be when the plot hole was around.\"They all let this sink in for several seconds.\"So, all the anomalies have all been fixed?\" asked Prince Blueblood.\"That's right,\" said the Doctor happily.\"And we're the only ones in the world who can remember the way things were before?\" said Trixie.\"Yes.\"\nThen he realized something. \"Oh, and more good news! Since the plot\nhole never existed, that means all those ponies that were on the Heart\nStar and the Ascendency when they exploded are all alive and well, since\nthey had never gone into space to begin with now.\"\"So Rarity, Shining Armor, and Princess Celestia, they're all alive?\" asked Flim.\"They should be,\" said the Doctor. \"And they shouldn't have any memory of anything that just happened.\"\"So... everything's back to normal?\" asked Dumbbell.\"Well, that depends on what you call normal,\"\nsaid the Doctor. \"Keep in mind, the plot hole created many anomalies\nall throughout time, many of them you lot are completely unaware were\neven anomalies. Out there is a completely different universe now\nfrom the one you all remember. All the anomalies have been corrected.\nYou're bound to see quite a few things that will seem very strange to\nyou at first.\"\"Like what?\" asked Iron Will.\"I don't know,\" the Doctor said with a shrug. \"We'll have to find out together, won't we?\"\"But otherwise, it's over? We saved the universe?\" asked Gilda.The Doctor nodded. \"Yes. We saved the universe.\"\"Good.\" Gilda then turned to Lightning Dust and punched her friend right in the nose.Everyone gasped.\"OW! WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?\" Lightning Dust screamed at Gilda, holding her hurt nose with her hoof.\"FOR WHEN YOU BUCKED ME IN THE HEAD BEFORE!\" Gilda yelled back, pointing at her forehead with a claw. \"NOW WE'RE EVEN!\"Lightning growled. \"DIDN'T YOUR MOTHER EVER TEACH YOU THAT TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT?\"\"SHOULD I MAKE IT THREE THEN?\"\"ALRIGHT! YOU ASKED FOR IT, BIRD-BRAIN!\"Gilda\nand Lightning Dust tackled each other and started fighting around on the\nTARDIS floor, while everyone else stood around them, watching them.\"Should we stop them?\" asked Hoops.Dumbbell held a hoof up to stop his friend. \"No, Hoops! Never interfere in a cat fight! You'll just end up getting hurt yourself... or worse! Instead, just stand back and enjoy the show.\"\"Very\nlogical,\" said the Doctor, nodding in agreement with Dumbbell as they\ncontinued to watch Gilda and Lightning Dust fighting on the floor.Queen\nEntomala rolled her eyes. \"Whatever,\" she said in annoyance. \"My work\nstill isn't done! If Celestia's alive, then I still haven't gotten my\nvengeance!\"\"Well, here's your chance, Changeling.\"They\nall turned around at the sudden voice behind them, and saw Princess\nCelestia walking out from behind a doorway on the far side of the\nTARDIS.\"Celestia!\" Doctor Whooves gasped in shock. Gilda and Lightning Dust immediately stopped fighting at the sudden appearance of the monarch, and got up off the floor.\"What are you doing here?\" demanded the Doctor, still in shock as he faced the white alicorn. \"How did you get in here?\"\"Does it matter!\" said Entomala as she glared at Celestia angrily. \"She's MINE!\"\nThe changeling flared her wings and leaped into the air, flying right\nat Celestia, crooked black horn pointed right at her target.Celestia,\nhowever, was completely unfazed by the changeling queen's attack, and\nher horn lit up with magic light. Entomala then suddenly froze in the\nair, mid flight, right in front of Celestia, the changeling's body now\nglowing with the same golden yellow light as Celestia's horn.\"You're not NEARLY\nas powerful as Queen Chrysalis was,\" said Celestia said to Entomala,\nwho had a horrified look on her face as she stared back at Celestia with\nwide eyes. \"You're young, and also clearly haven't fed in a while...\nwhich means I can easily do this.\"The\nflash of a spell shot out of Celestia's horn and struck Entomala like a\nbolt of lightning. Entomala went flying across the control room, and\nshe landed on the hard metal floor with a thud. From how her body was\nlying limp and completely still, not even breathing, and how her eyes\nwere still open as if staring off into space, they could tell the\nchangeling queen was dead.\"Y-You killed\nher!\" Blueblood stuttered as he and everyone else looked back and forth\nbetween Celestia and Entomala's lifeless body. They didn't feel too bad for the changeling, since they hardly knew her, and she had intended to kill all of them, but Blueblood had never seen his aunt Celestia actually kill anyone before.\"She was going to kill me,\" Celestia said simply. \"I acted in self-defense.\"\"You didn't have to kill her!\" said the Doctor. \"You were more powerful then she was! She was no real threat to you!\"\"ENOUGH!\" Celestia raised her voice. \"I am in no mood for your lectures, Doctor. You have all been so much trouble to me!\"That\nwas when the Doctor realized something. \"You remember!\" he exclaimed in\nsurprise. \"But that's impossible! How can you remember?\"Celestia\nexplained. \"Before the Heart Star was destroyed, I teleported over to\nyour ship. Once I was there, I transformed myself into a magical cloud,\nand slipped by all of you into the TARDIS without any of you noticing,\nso I was protected from the changes in the timeline same as you.\"The Doctor was actually impressed. The others, however, were just terrified. Unknown to them, however, the Doctor had a plan.\"Aunt Celest-\" Blueblood began, but Celestia quickly cut him off.\"SILENCE,\nnephew!\" she snapped at him. She was clearly quite angry. \"I hope\nyou're all proud of yourselves.\" She said to them like a disappointed\nparent. \"I was trying to help the world and bring every living creature\ntogether in friendship and harmony, and you've all ruined it.\"\"Good,\"\nsaid Iron Will bravely. \"I wouldn't want to live in a world where you\ndrug everyone's minds with magic to get them to behave the way you want\nthem to.\"Celestia sighed and shook her\nhead. \"None of you understand!\" She looked at Lightning Dust. \"Lightning\nDust, I'm so disappointed in you. I thought you had finally decided to\nbecome part of something greater than yourself.\"\"Greater than ME?\" scoffed Lightning Dust. \"Impossible! Ain't nothin' greater than me!\"\"Trixie is,\" said Trixie.Lightning Dust turned to face her angrily. \"Wanna bet?\"\"Challenge accepted! Anything you can do, Trixie can do better!\"Celestia shook her head again. \"This is exactly what I'm talking about! You all NEED help. You call yourselves friends, but even now you're fighting with each other. Don't you see?\"\"Hey!\nJust because we fight with each other, and get on each others nerves\nsometimes, and occasionally try to kill each other every now and then,\ndoesn't mean we're not friends! We like the way we are, and we like each\nother the way we all are. We have our own way of friendship, and you\nhave yours. To each their own, you know?\"Celestia shook her head. \"Perhaps you all can tolerate each other, but none of you get along with the rest\nof the ponies in the world, and they can't get along with you, because\nof the way you all are. And it's the same way all through out the world.\nSo many are divided from others, because of their hatred and arrogance.\nI want to bring all creatures in this world together, so that everyone\ncan be friends with each other. My faithful friend, Twilight Sparkle,\nand her friends are perfect examples of how everyone should be.\"\"Oh, I think I'm gonna barf,\" groaned Gilda.Blueblood\nspoke. \"Not everypony has to be friends! Not everyone has to like each\nother! There are PLENTY of ponies in the world who I don't like. For\nexample, I don't like hillbilly, farm ponies.\"\"Trixie doesn't like anypony whose better at magic than she is,\" said Trixie.\"And I can't stand ponies who go around talking about friendship and love all the time,\" said Gilda.\"And I'm sure they don't like us\neither. So I just stay away from them and don't associate with them.\nI'm happy, they're happy, everypony's happy then. You can't force ponies\nwho don't like each other to become friends. There's nothing wrong with\ntwo people not liking each other as long as they leave each other\nalone.\"But from the look on Celestia's\nface, she clearly still disagreed. \"No. You're wrong. It is better for\neveryone to be friends with each other and live together in peace and\nharmony. That is how the world should be!\" she said matter-of-factually.\"Oh,\nand I suppose that just gives you the right to use magic on ponies to\ninfluence them without their knowledge or consent,\" said the Doctor.\"I don't see the problem,\" said Celestia. \"It helps them. Besides, I'm their Princess.\"\"And\nwhat about the changelings, and your sister, Princess Luna? Did you\nalso have the right to do what you did to them?\" said the Doctor,\npointing an accusing hoof at the white alicorn. \"We know the truth,\nCelestia. You tried to use a spell on a valley of Flutterponies over a\nthousand years ago, but the spell went wrong, and you ended up creating\nthe changelings, a race that must feed on the love of others in order to\nsurvive. And then, to cover up what you did, you betrayed your own\nsister, and caused her to go mad, just so you could keep her from\nblabbing. Don't try to deny it! We know the truth!\"Celestia\nsighed and hung her head. \"Yes,\" said Celestia. \"I caused the\nchangelings, and I caused my sister to become Nightmare Moon. Yes, its\nunfortunate and sad, Doctor, but it was necessary. You can't make an\nomelet without breaking a few eggs.\" Then she looked up at them. \"And\nbesides, what my little ponies don't know won't hurt them.\"The Doctor walked right up to Celestia and looked her in the eye. \"You're a monster,\" he said to her.Celestia\nsimply rolled her eyes. \"Oh, this talk is all pointless!\" said\nCelestia. \"Anyway, I'm afraid I have to deal with you all now. You all\nknow too much.\"\"You're gonna kill us?\" asked Jet Set fearfully.\"Of course not! But I will\nhave to imprison you all. I can't have you going around telling ponies\nwhat you know.\" Then Celestia smirked. \"Not that many ponies would\nbelieve you anyway, but still, I'd rather not take the risk. I may have\nfailed this time, but I'm immortal. I have all the time in the world to see my dream come true.\"At that moment, a sly grin appeared on the Doctor's face, and then he began chuckling.Celestia and everyone else in the room stared at him in confusion. \"What's so funny?\" Celestia asked.\"The fact that you've failed to notice something,\" the Doctor responded while still lightly chuckling.Celestia raised an eyebrow at him. \"And what would that be?\"The\nDoctor's smile got even bigger. \"That the TARDIS is still broadcasting\neverything we say in here on the Equestrian emergency broadcast\nfrequencies. I never turned off the transmitter, or the microphone.\"Celestia's eyes widened at what he just said, and her expression slowly transformed into one of horror. \"What!?\"\"That's\nright!\" the Doctor laughed triumphantly. \"Every pony in Equestria just\nheard every single word that you just said!\" The Doctor then leaped over\nto the microphone on the TARDIS control panel. \"You hear that,\nEquestria? We're here, right now, in Ponyville library!\"\"NO!\" screamed Celestia once she realized she had just unknowingly announced her incriminating secret all over her kingdom.The\nothers in the room all smiled at the Doctor, impressed by his\ncleverness, as well as the fact that he had just totally screwed\nCelestia.\"You should see the look on your face, Princess,\" Gilda said to Celestia. \"Its priceless!\"Celestia glared at them all, panic still written all over her face. \"IT'S NOT TRUE! YOU'RE BLUFFING!\"\"Am I?\" said the Doctor. \"Go see for yourself.\"In\na state of panic, Celestia galloped past them all, over to the doors of\nthe TARDIS, and threw them open with her magic, revealing the inside of\nPonyville's library. A quick glance at the dim light outside through\nthe windows told her that it was very late in the evening, and the sun\nhad already set. She quickly looked around the library, but no pony was\nin there. She then ran to the front door of the library and threw that door open as well with her magic. Her eyes widened in horror at what she saw.In\nthe dim dusk light, everypony in the town was out there, gathered all\naround in the streets outside the library. They all took a step\nbackwards away from the Princess the moment she had emerged from the\nlibrary's front door, and they all stared at her with shocked and\nhorrified expressions on their faces. It was true. They really had all heard everything that she had just said inside the TARDIS.Celestia quickly spotted Twilight Sparkle in the front of the crowd, except she wasn't an alicorn, or a princess, anymore. The purple mare was back to her normal unicorn self.Behind\nTwilight were all of her best friends, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity,\nFluttershy, and Rainbow Dash, as well as Spike, and even Shining Armor\nand Princess Cadence were there with them. All of them were gaping at\nthe white alicorn standing in the doorway of the library in absolute\nshock and disbelief.\"C-Celestia...\" Twilight stuttered sadly with tears starting to well up in her eyes. \"...P-please... tell me it's not true!\"As\nCelestia looked upon Twilight's worried and confused face, she could\nonly imagine what the purple unicorn had to be feeling at this moment.\nShe desperately wanted to try to reassure Twilight that none of it was\ntrue, that it was all a lie and they could go back to the way things\nwere before. But when she took a step towards Twilight, Celestia felt\nher heart break when she saw the purple mare actually recoil, taking a step backwards away from the monarch, fear in her eyes.\"OH, IT'S TRUE, ALRIGHT!\" the Doctor's voice suddenly blared loudly on a radio speaker somewhere nearby in the town.Celestia\nturned around and saw the Doctor, as well as Blueblood and his friends,\nall coming out of the front door of the library behind her.\"They've\nlost their faith in you now,\" the Doctor said, speaking to Celestia.\n\"All of Equestria knows the truth now, and they heard it straight from your mouth. I doubt they'll continue to just blindly follow you anymore. It's over, Celestia! You've lost!\"It\nwas silent for a few seconds after that. No one moved or spoke. The\nonly thing that could be heard was Celestia's heavy, panicked breathing\nas she stared down at the ground with gritted teeth and wide eyes.\nBlueblood wondered if Celestia was just having a hard time taking in the\nfact that her dream would never come true now.Then,\nin a flash, her head shot back up and she glared at them, her face\ntwisted in a look of pure rage. Blueblood was and many others were\nfrightened, as they had never, in their lives, seen Celestia so angry.\"YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING!\" Celestia yelled, allowing her fury full rein. \"YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING I'VE SPENT CENTURIES\nTRYING TO CREATE!\" On that last word, Celestia suddenly erupted in\nmagical flames all over her body, and her eyes glowed bright white.Everyone gathered there took a step or two backwards away from her in fear.\"YOU WILL ALL PAY DEARLY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!\" Celestia screamed in the ear-piercing royal Canterlot voice. Her horn began to glow as she prepared to cast a spell at them.The Doctor and Blueblood and company all cringed in fear; afraid of whatever it was Celestia was about to do to them.\"NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT, SISTER!\"At\nthe sudden voice behind them, they all turned around, and their eyes\nwidened in shock at what they saw. Princess Luna was standing there in\nthe doorway of the TARDIS inside the library, awake! Her eyes were glowing white, just like Celestia's, and also like Celestia, she had a look of pure rage on her face.Celestia's expression immediately changed from rage to shock as soon as she saw her sister. \"Luna-\"Before\nCelestia could utter another word, Luna shot a powerful blast of magic\nfrom her horn out the library door, right past Blueblood and his friends\nand Doctor Whooves, straight at Celestia. The white alicorn was struck\nin the chest by the blast, and sent flying backwards through the air,\nover the heads of all the ponies gathered outside, crashing right\nthrough the wooden wall of a house all the way across the street,\ncreating a large cloud of dust, and leaving a big gaping hole in the\nside of the house.\"MY HOUSE!\" some pony in the crowd shouted in horror.Blueblood\ngaped in astonishment, looking back and forth from the now no longer\ncomatose Luna, to the wall Celestia had just been sent crashing through.\nAs relieved as he was that Luna had come to their rescue, he was\nshocked that Luna had just attacked her own sister! Did that mean... she\nremembered now?Celestia emerged from the\nmassive hole in the wall of the house a few seconds later, walking a bit\nwobbly on her legs, and wincing in pain. \"MY WING!\" Celestia screamed.\n\"I THINK YOU BROKE IT!\"It was then that they noticed that Celestia's right wing was hanging in an awkward angle, indicating it was badly hurt.\"Ouch!\" said Dumbbell, wincing as he looked at Celestia's injured wing. \"The worst part about having wings is that they can be easily broken, and it hurts like a bitch! I speak from experience.\" \"Kinda' makes me glad I don't have wings,\" said Flam. his brother Flim nodding beside him in agreement.Blueblood\nand his friends, and the Doctor, all got out of the way as Luna walked\npast them out of the library and then flapped her wings and flew up into\nthe night air. She flew over the crowd of ponies gathered there in the\nstreet, and then hovered high in the air, right in front of her sister\ndown on the ground.\"I remember everything\nnow, sister,\" Luna said as she looked down at Celestia, barely\ncontaining her anger. \"You poisoned me, made me go insane and believe I\nwas evil! You betrayed our friendship! You betrayed ME!\"\"I'm\nsorry, Luna!\" Celestia cried up to her sister above her. \"But you were\ngoing to ruin everything I had worked so hard for! I did what I had to\ndo to maintain order and peace! You must understand that!\"\"Do\nyou want to know what the worst part about this is?\" Luna continued.\n\"That, for the longest time, you let me feel guilty for something that\nwas NEVER MY FAULT! I know we haven't always seen eye to eye in the\npast, but I can't believe you would do something like that to me! TO ME,\nYOUR OWN SISTER! You are, and always have been, a terrible, TERRIBLE\nSISTER!\" Luna let out a relieved sigh. \"THERE! I SAID IT! AND IT FELT\nGOOD TO FINALLY SAY IT!\"\"D-don't do\nsomething you'll regret, Luna!\" stuttered Celestia, trying to sound\nstrong, but actually sounding fearful. \"You know you're no match for me!\"Luna simply smirked. \"Actually, I think I am. So I just have one question for you, sis.\"When Luna didn't continue, Celestia raised her eyebrow at her. \"What?\" she asked nervously.Luna smiled maliciously. \"Do you like bananas?\"Celestia's eyes instantly widened in horror. \"Oh, no!\"Luna's\nhorn glowed and she fired a beam of magic at Celestia. Celestia quickly\nignited her own horn in response and shot a beam of magic from her horn\nback up at her sister.The crowd of\nponies standing nearby watched in awe as the two beams collided between\nthe two alicorns, sending bright sparks flying everywhere as the two\nbeams of magical energy were forced against each other.Celestia\nand Luna grimaced as they both poured more and more power into their\nspells, trying to overpower the other, but still, neither of them were\nable to gain the upper hoof. It seemed they were both evenly matched.\"GO, LUNA!\" Gilda shouted from the sidelines. \"KICK HER FLANK!\"Celestia\nand Luna continued to stand their ground, neither of them letting up on\ntheir spells, and continuing to pump more and more magic into their\nattacks. Celestia's body even began to glow with golden light as she\nlevitated herself up into the air so that she wasn't down beneath Luna\nanymore. Luna, seeing this, flapped her wings to fly higher up, trying\nto keep Celestia below her in order to maintain her advantage.They\nwere both so intently focused on defeating the other that neither of\nthem noticed the brightly glowing sphere of magical energy starting to\nbuild up where their two spells met in the air between them.Doctor Whooves, watching from the crowd below, however, did notice, and quickly realized the danger. \"BOTH OF YOU NEED TO STOP, RIGHT NOW...\"But\nit was too late. At that exact moment, their was a deafening boom as\nthe built up magic between the two princesses exploded in a blinding\nblast of white light, momentarily illuminating the entire town like it\nwas daytime for several seconds. Every pony watching was forced to\neither close or shield their eyes from the blinding explosion.Celestia\nand Luna's faces changed from anger to panic for a split second before\nwere both hit and engulfed by the blast, and their bloodcurdling screams\nwere only heard for a split second before they were droned out by the\ndeafening noise of the explosion.When the\nwhite light faded away, many ponies ears were still ringing from the\nexplosion. Once everyponies' eyes readjusted to the darkness, they\ndiscovered that both Celestia and Luna were nowhere to be seen. However,\na small, shiny object could be seen falling from the sky. It hit the\nground with a metallic clink, and everyone gasped in shock when they saw\nwhat it was. It was Celestia's golden crown, or rather, what was left\nof it. It was scorched, twisted, and a bit melted in places.\"C... Celestia's crown!\" Twilight choked out as she gaped at the smoldering item lying on the ground in front of all of them. \"But... where are Celestia and Luna?\" asked Applejack as her eyes scanned the sky.\"Gone,\" said the Doctor solemnly, and everyone turned and looked at him. \"The blast destroyed both of them.\"Everyone gasped in shocked.\"You mean... they're... dead?\" asked Princess Cadence nervously, stepping forward with her husband Shining Armor by her side.The Doctor slowly nodded. \"No pony could survive that blast. Not even them.\" He looked right back at the crowd. \"I'm sorry. I tried to warn them... I'm so sorry.\"\"No,\"\nsobbed Twilight, tears streaming down her face not wanting to believe\nit. \"It... can't be!\" Her friends beside her began trying to comfort her.The\ncrowd of ponies slowly began murmuring and crying in both sadness,\nuncertainty, and worry amongst themselves, saying things like \"What do\nwe do?\" and \"How can this be?\" and \"What's going to happen now?\" or \"I\ndidn't even know they could die!\"Blueblood\nand his friends all hung their heads in sadness. The danger was finally\nover, at long last. Equestria, as well as the universe, had been saved,\nand Celestia had been brought to justice, but this sudden unfortunate\nturn of events had snuffed out any joy they would have felt. Luna had\nsacrificed herself in getting revenge on Celestia, and because of that,\nthey would not celebrate their victory. They hadn't wanted either of them to die...................\"Where\nam I?\" Celestia asked herself as she suddenly found herself in a\ncompletely different place. The last thing she remembered was a blinding\nlight and feeling an intense, searing pain, and then the next thing she\nknew, she was standing in this new place. She was in a large room\ninside what looked like a fancy, oriental looking palace.In\nfront of her, sitting atop a larger then life desk, was young unicorn\ncolt, with a pale white fur coat, yellow eyes, and a black mane and\ntail. His mane had three odd white, horizontal stripes on one side of\nit. And around his neck was a collar with an odd looking pony's skull on\nthe front of it. He had a bored look on his face.Celestia\nalso noticed, out of the corner of her eye, Luna was standing right\nbeside her, looking at her. Celestia turned to look back at her. Luna\nlooked just as confused as she was. Their previous quarrel with each\nother was momentarily forgotten by both of them due to their current\nunknown situation. Celestia then noticed a glowing yellow halo floating\nabove Luna's head. Celestia glanced upwards, and saw the glow of a halo\nabove her own head.She noticed\nsome windows in the room and through them she could see fields of fluffy\ngolden yellow clouds as far as the eye could see outside. She wondered\nwhere on Earth she and Luna could be.The\ncolt up on the desk in front of them spoke. \"Hello, and welcome, both of\nyou, to the Afterlife. My name is Death the Colt, and I will be your\nReaper for this evening. King Yemma has business elsewhere at the\nmoment, so I'm filling in for him.\"Celestia and Luna were both still confused as they stared up at the colt.\"Reaper?\" said Luna.\"Afterlife?\" said Celestia.The\ncolt nodded. \"That's right.\" His horn glowed with pale white magic, and\nhe levitated up a clipboard that was sitting on the desk next to him,\nand looked at it. \"You two must be... Celestia and Luna from Equestria. Am\nI right?\"\"Yes, we are,\" said Celestia, still confused. \"Um... what's going on here?\"\"Okay, I'll just be frank with you. You two are dead,\" said the colt.Celestia and Luna's eyes widened. \"DEAD?!\" they both exclaimed at the same time.\"Yes. And now it's my job to send you both to your proper place in the afterlife.\"Celestia was flabbergasted. \"But... But how can we be dead!?\" said Celestia. \"We're immortal!\"\"Um, sorry to disappoint you, but just because you have the potential\nto live forever, it doesn't mean you can't still be killed by\nsomething. And according to this...\" he looked back down at the papers he\nwas levitating, \"... you two blew each other up.\" He looked back up at\nthem. \"Yep, that would do it!\"\"But... But I'm too young to die!\" cried Luna.\"Too young? You're both over a thousand years old!\" the colt stated with a role of his eyes.Celestia and Luna were both silent, in shock of everything that was happening to them now.\"Well,\nanyway...\" He looked back down at the clipboard, and then up at Celestia\nand Luna. \"Given this long list of controversial information on the two\nof you, we aren't quite sure where to send you right now. There are a\nlot of positive things in your records, but also some big negatives,\nlike you two murdering each other for example. So here's what we're\ngonna do. I'm gonna give the two of you a little test.\"Celestia and Luna were taken aback.\"What kind of test?\" asked Luna.The\ncolt continued. \"The two of you are sentenced to the purgatory room for\nan indefinite amount of time, during which, you will play video games\nwith each other, and try to get along with each other. If the two of you\ncan reconnect and learn to be friends, and perhaps even family, again,\nthen the two of you will be allowed into Pony Heaven. If not, then\nyou'll go to the other place.\"Celestia and Luna's mouths dropped.\"But it was all her fault!\" Luna stated desperately, pointing at Celestia with her hoof.\"MY FAULT!\" Celestia shouted, enraged. \"YOU attacked ME!\"\"YOU ruined my LIFE!\" Luna screamed back, getting right in Celestia's face.\"HEY! Shut up, both of you, or I'll just send you straight to Pony Hell right now!\" Death the Colt snapped at them.Celestia and Luna immediately became silent, but they still eyed each other angrily.\"Alright\nthen,\" Death the Colt said. \"Have fun, you two, and try to get along\nwith each other. Remember, your eternal souls depend on it.\"Death\nthe Colt's horn glowed with white light again, and then there was a\nflash of light, and then Celestia and Luna suddenly found themselves in\nanother place. This time, they were inside a small room. This one was\nsmall and mostly empty except for a red couch, and a T.V. set with a\ngame console hooked up to it, and a stack of various video games lying\nnext to it.Celestia glared at Luna in\nrage. It was her fault she was dead now. But as much as she would have\nliked to attack Luna right then, she knew it would do no good. They were\nboth dead. Whether they liked it or not, they were in the same boat.Celestia's\nlegs gave out from under her and she collapsed back onto her haunches,\nhanging her head as she begrudgingly accepted her fate with a long sigh.Unknown\nto her, at that moment, Luna was having similar thoughts. As much as\nshe just wanted to beat her sister within an inch of her life for what\nshe had done to her, she knew it was pointless now. And besides, they\nneeded each other.Luna walked over to the\nstack of video games and levitated one of them up into the air in front\nof her. Perhaps playing a few games really would help them get along and rekindle their sisterhood again. Plus, it might be kind of fun.She\nlooked over at her older sister, who was still slumped over on the\nfloor. \"You want to play a video game?\" she asked, trying as hard as she\ncould to make an effort to be nice.Celestia looked up at her with an unhappy expression. \"Well, I guess we have no choice!\" she said with a sigh. \"But I call dibs on the first game!\"","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791838-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-19-mistakes-mistakes-everywhere.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791843-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-21-moving-on.json"}