The next morning, Princess Solarium Equinox Brilancium Celestia awoke in the cement cell of the currently under construction Minty Palace. She was still getting used to being x2 smaller and having her old pink mane as long with losing the duty of raising the sun.  She sat, looking at the cinder block wall in front of the triple-layered bars. She sighed for the 14th time that morning and kicked a chunk of rock. She was bored out of her mind. Suddenly, she turned around and saw the blue hoof tapping on her shoulder through the high back row of bars. She recognized those hoof covers.... Luna? A piercingly teal eye widened in shock through the bars. " Tia? Is thou ok? Thou has not seen thyself this way sense childhood!" Luna spoke softly. Celestia blushed, embarrassed. " I guess you're the big sister now." She chuckled sadly, pointing to the spot where her hair had molded to her tiara's shape. She tried molding it back into place, but it bounced back into its molded form.  " Aww.... Do not be saddeth. Thou shall free thee from thy captures!" Luna held out the hand grenade she had been keeping in her rippling mane. Celestia's eyes widened. She didn't like the idea of her little sister running around with a high explosive weapon, but she couldn't argue with freedom. " Take the pin out of thy shell and thou hand grenade shall explode!" said Luna, looking happily at her handiwork. Celestia grabbed the bomb and carefully pulled out the pin, counted to 7, and rolled it through the bars.

CRASH!!!!

The inner foundation of the castle was ablaze, wood snapping and bricks falling. Luna quickly zapped the bars and made them warp away as Celestia frantically climbed out as the dungeon began to belch smoke and flames.  Coughing, Celestia ran quickly and prepared to take off, then remembered she didn't  have wings. Pouting, she turned to Luna pleadingly.

Luna didn't like the idea. But now that the order was reversed and Celestia was little again, It could be done. Clutching her younger sister's mane, they soared into the sky, arrows of guardsmen whizzing past them. " Ow! Thou is embracing thy mane much too tightly. " Said Luna, looking around at Celestia, clutching her mane, scared to look down at the sea of guardsmen  below.  " Tis foolish to fret! Thou will be safe after the safe altitude is reached!"Said Luna, letting out a burst of speed upwards and shutting her wings up, like a rocket.  Through the blanket of clouds they burst, and soon enough they were safe high above weapon's reach.  Luna flew through the cold and fluffy void above until she reached the secret coordinates of their " Camp" as one could call it.  Down they landed in front of the hut. Then, looking around to make sure it was safe,  Luna preformed the secret knock: 3 knocks left, 1 knock down, 6 and 1 half knocks upper left. The door swung opened and a zebra hoof beckoned the princess pair inside.  Once inside, Luna showed her now younger/older sister to the few renegades to show the mission had been a success. When Celestia saw her student in the corner, she flushed in embarrassment when she realized even her student was taller than her. " Uh.... How is this week's assignment going? I see you've gone through a bit of a growth spurt." Said Celestia jokingly.  Twilight looked in bleak shock. " P-princess? Why are you.... kind of.... small?" Twilight sputtered. Celestia sighed and pointed to the empty space where the tiara had been.  " Well, if the crown is missing, we should probably go before Lyra goes Nightmare Moon on us." Said Fluttershy. Luna looked at her in  held back fury, until a smile flashed across her face and she turned to her sister. " Tis it! We shall have the crown in no time!" Luna squealed happily. " Thou must maketh thy jealous! With most haste!" Luna said to her. Celestia cocked her head in confusion. " Why in hays name do you want me to make you jealous?" She asked. " Tis some left of her! Thy could become her again if needed!" Luna said, gesturing to her now very familiar looking mane. Celestia's eyes widened in shock. " You don't mean!...." She gasped. Then she burst into tears and clung to Luna's hoof. " It wouldn't be fair to me! To make me see everything all over again, and to make me send you to the moon again? No! I forbid you to do it." Celestia cried angirly, looking up at her sister's pouting face. Suddenly Luna's expression morphed into a smug smile. " Thou is not the big sister anymore." She said mockingly, then warped back to seriousness. " Tis to be done if the tiara is to be repocessed!" Luna said. " Now, thou must maketh thee as jealous as possible !" She said to her sister, with all seriousness. Celestia sighed. " And should thee get a bitteth out of hand, give thee candy and thou shall calmeth down." SO with that, Celestia began. " I invented the lunar eclipse to make you jealous! Nobody likes Nightmare Night! Your fanfictions suck! there never was a Mcdonalds toy of you! I banished you to season 2! I let your pet owl go while you where on the moon!" and on and on she rambled until Luna began to grind her teeth as her eyes widened in fury. Suddenly, they knew it was working when her eyes became feline-like and she started warping from periwinkle to black and back again. Her wings and horn shrunk and grew as she flashed in between colors until finally there was a sea of blue lightning and sparks and there stood Nightmare Moon. Or at least it looked like her.  " THOU FEELETHS AWESOME!!!" Screamed Nightmare/Luna in Nightmare's voice. " Hey nightmare!" said Celestia, " The sun princess is in that big castle over there and she's not gonna lower the sun until somebody steals her crown." Celestia pried, batting her eyelashes like an innocent philly.  " But first," said Twilight, " You're going to need this." She floated Rarity's necklace onto Nightmare, despite her disgusted look as the gold band clashed with her periwinkle armor. Celestia received Pinkie Pie's, Zecora had Rainbow dash's, Gilda got applejacks's and Twilight and Fluttershy wore their usual jewelry.  " Come on, everypony. Let's go get that crown!" Twilight said in a motivational spirit, and with that, the group was out the door, hoping that somehow this would work.