Authors:

Redskin122004

Doctor Fluffy

Inquisitor-Awesome

"Welcome back to Alliance news network, so far for today we have the trial of self proclaimed 'Princess' Celestia, which she has been charged for countless crimes against humanity, ranging from Xenocide to Planetary Theft, and we'll broadcast the trial without interruption. There haven't been a trial of this magnitude since the Slaver Stryl of Klov Sector, aka Slave Master of the Regonk Arm, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to Death by Black Hole, over one hundred Galactic Cycles. In other news, thanks to the collaboration between Dargon’s Scientists and Mind Melders along with unicorns, many transformed humans have gotten their minds back, but so far not their bodies. Stay tuned for the trial after these messages. And now for a quick sponsor to the new drink, brought by one of the wronged humans, Coca-Co--"

Council chambers, Alliance station "Union".

Today was a day of busy activity, many kinds of small shuttles flying to and fro from the numerous ships orbiting the station. Not including the platform Ion Cannons protecting the system to assure the safety of the most important people in galaxy.

Celestia saw the guards place a device in front of her which scanned her harmlessly. She looked into the holographic rays surrounding her and for a moment thought she’d been teleported due to how 'real' everything looked. The building she was in appeared to be of human nature, a coliseum-like building that had been expanded to a very large degree. All around her, as far as her eyes can see, pairs of multiple aliens reside in each section, looking at her with disgust as far as she could tell. To her surprise, her sister Luna was in the audience, met with both stares of disgust for what she’d participated in, and admiration for how she was attempting to fix her mistakes.

"The trial for Celestia, former Princess of Equestria, will commence at this time." The judge, an elder Avaloan, said loudly and clearly as he bangs his gavel. Celestia watched on as the judge brought a data pad and began to read.

"You have been charged with the following crimes: one count of planetary Theft, Crimes against Sentience, Attempted Xenocide of an innocent species, three point three Billion Counts of First and Second Degree Murder, three point nine Billion Counts of Attempted Murder, three point nine Billion counts of Enslavement, two Billion Counts of Consciousness Wiping, Total destruction of priceless artifacts, Landmarks, and Culture... I... Can not read this anymore.... In all my life as Lord Judge, I had thought I had seen the worse the galaxy has to offer... Today I have been proven wrong. In this day and age, what you committed were crimes so heinous, in our past, my people would cut you down before you spread your 'Harmony'. I'll get straight to the point, how do you plead?"  The judge said to Celestia in what seems to be his voice over a speaker through the council chambers as he shakes his head in complete disgust and anger. See could see in her peripheral vision some counselors shaking their heads as they converse to their compatriots. Celestia herself was beginning to get nervous but with over a millenia of practice her face gave the Impression of her remaining calm. She looked to the hundreds of aliens species, all of them judging her and her actions, and she felt small. If so many deemed her wrong... who was she to go against them?

"I plead guilty," Celestia said quietly after a moment silence,  causing the entire Union to fall silent in surprise.

"You...Plead Guilty?" The Judge said in surprise, in which Celestia nodded her head to his statement.

"WHAT?!" someone yelled, the sounds of hooves running and shouts of surprise coming from a nearby  hall. Celestia watched as a New Foal with green fur and a red mane raced out, anger on his face as he rushed up to her.

"NO! YOU CAN’T JUST FUCKING PLEAD GUILTY AND FUCKING LEAVE! I DIDN'T WAIT FOR A YEAR TO SEE YOUR STUPID FACE JUST SO YOU CAN ROLL OVER AND DIE WITHOUT A FIGHT!" The strange New Foal said as he pointed his hoof towards Celestia's holographic form.

“Security, hold that human out of court!” The judges orders were executed to perfection, the guards that seemed to be part of the floor raised up and grabbed the pony by its rear legs. It tried to fight, but balance became impossible as the aliens held it up. All the New Foal could do was flail angrily.

"Why are you so riled up about me already pleading guilty? If you wanted me dead so bad, why are you angry?" Celestia asked, her holographic face showing confusion as she stared at the New Foal answering his 'problem'.

The New Foal held his head and growled in anger at her apparent stupidity. "Because you forced us into a fucking war we didn't want! You demanded that we 'heed' your new Harmony. You didn't give us a choice! You didn't try to help us. You just fucking called us animals and sent our own changed people against us to either be slaughtered or force us to change! You were always so God damn sure of yourself! All of us wanted to see you get torn down piece by piece and you can't even give us fucking that!"

"But why are you so riled up? You won. I am going to die." Celestial said to the New Foal as he shook his head once more, his face showing nothing but pure anger.

"Why I am so riled up?! I'll tell you why!"

Outside a spaceport, Earth

"Defend that point! Don't let any of the bastards through!"

"There's too many of them. And not enough ammo!"

"We were never going to survive this! We just need to hold this position long enough to get these supplies to the last remnants in space so shut the fuck up and fight!"

"What the fu- PB!" Shouted a man as he screamed the most dreaded words in a single sentence. A potion bomber.

"Join the herd!"  The bomber shouted happily as he jumped into a machine gun nest going out in a purple mist. And it didn’t last but a minute when three New Foals popped out with creepy ass smiles on their faces.

"I don’t know why I resisted so long," the ponies said in unison, completely without inflection, as they climbed out the sand bags staring at the humans.

"I know. Hey let's share the potion wi-!" Was the only things they could say before they were chewed into red mist from a hurricane of bullets. But with that time more and more of the pony horde came, quickly making the nest useless.

"Fuck! that machine gun nest was the only thing holding out those fuckers!"

"What do we do now commander?!" A man yelled as he pelted the seemingly infinite newfoal horde with his Sidewinder auto-rocket launcher.

"We were never guaranteed to survive. Remember, we all volunteered to hold this point till we got the shit our people need in space. Just three more minutes and I can die happy knowing that our species will survive," the commander said, calmly as if he was asked for the time of day. But everyone knew the tone he was using. He was ready to die, if not for himself at least for his species.

"It was always an honor serving you, commander," replied a soldier.

"Likewise my friend. Likewise," the commander said as he looks at the timer. Two more minutes. Just need to hold a little longer.

"What the--!"

"Shit.Shit! Shit!"

"What is it, Tucker?!"

"It's the Tyrant! And she's coming in with her guards! Fast!"

"No! Fuck no! She shouldn't be here.  We can't lose this shuttle, fight!"

"Fuck! I'm outta ammo!"

"Ahh dammit! Same here!" telled the commander as he threw his gun to the side grabbing out his combat knife. "But that doesn't mean I'll go quietly."

"Now die, you sons of bitches! Ahhhhhhhh!"

Courtroom

"You were the resistance commander!" Celestia gasped in realization.

“Hell yeah I was, you fucking bitch!” the New Foal yelled. “And it was worse than hell being trapped inside something else’s mind in this body. I lost my eldest son and baby daughter in the same day. I finally came back to my senses only to learn that they were beyond saving, and I DON’T REMEMBER THEIR NAMES! How would you feel if your children are dead and you couldn’t even remember their names?! I couldn’t even remember my wife! For all I know, I might not have even had them! I was stuck in a void when I was under the effects of your brainwashing, slowly feeling parts of myself die painfully on each and every day.  I hold no forgiveness for you, and none of my people shall give you an ounce of it. You took our future and raped it till there was nothing but a walking corpse remaining. Nothing you say will change that, and your death will be celebrated by not only my people, but the ones you lied to as well!"

“Are you quite finished?” the judge asked.

“Absolutely,” The New Foal said, trembling in primal rage with every word as he stared at Celestia.

“Everyone? Everyone will celebrate my-?” Celestia started. She knew not everypony had approved of her actions, but she hadn’t been prepared for that level of hate.

"Well, what did you expect, Celestia the Liar, Rapist, and Slaver?! This is your legacy you leave for us, dear Sister,” Luna said.

“Liar, rapist, and slaver?” Celestia gasped, tears welling up in her eyes.

“Of course,” Luna said. “That’s what the humans and ponies have taken to calling you. I, for one, cannot find fault with it.”

“Sister, please!” Celestia heard herself cry. She didn’t even know what she was pleading for at this point-redemption? An escape from her responsibility?-but whatever it was, she poured her heart and soul into it.

“If you want mercy or pity, you will not find it in this world,” Luna snapped. “No one aside from your slave-corpses shall mourn you. All New Foals shall be herded to new areas away from humanity where they will live the rest of their days until they all perish.  Every foal they bear will be given to another family away from their influence, so that they can develop healthily. Until you are nothing more than a lesson for us all to know and live by."

“I just… I just wanted to create perfection!” Celestia yelled. “Especially for them! They made war against each other, they perpetrated such horrible atrocities… if you’d seen them do what I had, you would want to intervene too!”

“DID IT EVER STRIKE YOU THAT THERE WERE OTHER WAYS TO GO ABOUT IT?!” the newfoal yelled.

"We were not so different, once,” Luna whispered. “They were on the same path as us-I believe that they were trying to improve themselves, while you simply stamped them out. What you failed to understand is that there is no such thing as a perfect being, nor is there is any being better than others. It is your final lesson to us all. Goodbye, Sister. Twilight and her friends send you their most hateful regards." Luna said to Celestia as her features hardened a little in the middle of her speech. She turned and left.

"Oh and also before I go?” the newfoal asked. “Having enough of my self left to be able to say this is a gift enough, but I’m happy to say: Burn in hell Celestia, and do try to say hi to the devil for me." The New Foal said, a sly smile on his face as he and trotted away, leaving Celestia to the judge and counselors.

To say that they had been merely “sad” to hear of what Celestia would do was an understatement-there were things that she had done which the Alliance did not have words for, and several charges “such as ‘Crimes against sentience’” had to be made up on the spot. They had thought that their disgust could not reach depths any lower, but they had been proven wrong after the former New Foal had revealed of the amount of pain the young race had to endure. Not even the Avaloans  had suffered anything near as much in their entire history.

To lose everything about yourself, your entire people's existence wiped away so no one would know you have even existed in the first place, so much gone because you didn't fit someone's example of perfection, that was a type of atrocity that some races didn't have words to describe.

It was sickening.

"Princess Celestia, as Lord Judge of the Galactic Alliance, I sentence you to execution by black hole. Your execution date is tomorrow, enjoy your last day on this plane." The Lord Judge said in a harsher tone than he expected, but no creature would blame him for what he had heard of what the humans were forced to suffer through due to this tyrant.  With the sentencing done, the Lord Judge banged his gavel on the stand, and with that, the hologram ended, leaving Celestia alone with her thoughts.

Next day.

Celestia just sat in her cell. Crying, crying for realizing what she had truly did, and what really happened. 'I thought I was helping them!' she repeated in her mind over and over, she couldn't even remember if she slept or not. But she heard noises from outside, and after the shield went down, the guards walked in.

"it's time," they said. They were wearing full combat gear in case she had any ideas. But Celestia went with them willingly and without confrontation. After a while she was being escorted down a hallway. The only thing there was her sister Luna.

"Where are the elements?" Celestia asked confused. “Surely they would be here to at least give me a piece of their minds.”

"They didn't even want to come in the first place, and even if they did, they wouldn’t know what to do with Fluttershy. After she learned of what actually happened to the humans she was so devastated that she locked herself in her cottage for weeks not wanting to come out. It took the combined efforts of all of her friends to at least to get her to stop crying for more than a minute. And even then she's the one who harbored the deepest hatred of you. The elements were afraid of what would happen if she saw you-the poor mare has been put on suicide watch," Luna explained, with a sad frown as she remembered Fluttershy’s mental state after.

"And what of the others? Please, Lulu-”

Luna scowled upon hearing her childhood nickname.

“At least tell me what happened to everypony. Make it my last wish if you want. I just want to know." Celestia desperately, wanting her final thoughts to be of everyone she knew and loved. Though none of them were likely to reciprocate by now.

"Very well sister. Rainbow Dash is trying to do what she can with Applejack and many other volunteer ponies to try and reconstruct the human civilization as a way of apologizing to them. Rarity is trying to recreate human fashion and also reteach it to the humans who were fashion designers in their past and forgot how to even be fashion designers. Fluttershy is doing what she can for all families who are forced to realize their children are beyond saving, when she’s not under counseling herself. Twilight is researching how to reverse the effect of the potion so the humans would get their bodies back, day and night, routinely forgetting to eat, sleep, or drink. And Pinkie Pie is trying to cheer everyone up by creating parties. While Princess Cadence and Shining Armor are doing what they can to keep order in the absence of things. The humans are still less than happy to put it nicely. Some pony named Lightning Dust, though…. she tried to lead a pro-conversion movement, and that failed horribly. She was killed last week," Luna said to her sister who was solemnly staring at the floor.

"The poor fool, it was a lost cause and she still attempted it anyways. And what about you, Lulu? What have you done?"

"I am doing what I can to lead the ponies on the right path, and trying to undo what you did." Luna said with a slight hint of anger, Celestia felt hurt by the remark. Still, it wasn’t as if she didn’t deserve it.

"Well then, farewell sister. May your future shine brightly, without my foolishness to block you any further."

Celestia had heard of black holes before.  She’d never actually thought she’d see one-she represented the power of a star, and a black hole was like the antithesis of a star, so they’d sounded terrifying.

She couldn’t scream as her pod rocketed her towards the black hole, the pod’s inside coated in hundreds of interlocking spells to prevent her from resisting.

Someone was probably watching her. There might have been a camera. She’d never liked ponies who stayed to watch executions-she thought it was sick.

My last moments in a millennia-spanning life, she thought. Some part of her wanted to break out, even though she’d suffocate soon enough. The same part wanted her to scream and protest and proclaim that someone would save her, even if they had to create a chain of bodies, and claim that they’d never understand true harmony, that they’d all be perfect ponies soon.

The pod began to shake, the sound of metal groaning echoed all around her before one side caved in, then another, and soon the small pod was a lot smaller than before.

Tears streamed from her eyes as pain and fear filled her. She didn't want to die, not like this! Not crushed to the size below an atom! She didn't want to...

But…

What was the point?

There was no way out. It was-

For a moment, she thought she had been saved. Or was in some afterlife. She stood on a cloud, in the middle of fog, “Where… where am I?” she wondered. “What’s-

The fog parted, revealing a massive black and spiky ship hovering above her, every side of it seemingly bristling with weapons. It sat in space above a large arid world, sands and grasslands covered the planet, and right below the ship was a massive army that was laying waste to everything in their path.

No…. no, no no. Why was whatever higher power that existed showing her this?

Punishment for her intrusion into this universe?

To show her that her mistake led to this human folly, more of their stubborn insistence to destroy themselves as the ship emptied its guns into the planet below, destroying what looked to be a very large settlement.

Was her interference on their world force the humans into monsters that believed everything was out to destroy them?

She caught a glimpse of the creatures in the ship, her vision suddenly sharpening impossibly fast to reveal that the creatures controlling the ship were not human, and never could have been. While they had similar body shapes to humans, which was somewhat weird, they had too many eyes and the texture of their skin was far too veiny.

No, no, no! she thought. Why does it have to be that way? Why couldn’t they all work together? It was something from the dark ages of Equestria, before they had founded the empire-which soon, in the fullness of time, just became Equestria.

The aliens on the ground were desperately battling against the invaders, using weapons far in advance of anything from Equestria, weapons that shot either light or various kinds of energy-she could detect physical presence in the beams from some of the weapons. It was impossible for her to tell what they were.

Unfortunately,  these weapons mattered little as the horde of aliens continued on unabated,  unleashing their own attacks in return.

No, she thought as the ship turn its sight onto the large alien settlement. No no no! Why do I have to watch this?!

She suddenly found herself zooming away into the very region of space. A large portal ripped open, magic and otherworldly energies brimming from it as an equally large ship appeared above the planet, unfamiliar and boxy, a sharp contrast to the spiky, angular look of the ship bombarding the planet.

Reinforcements? Celestia gasped as she read letters painted on the side of the ship.

UAS Harmony's Light

She was technically right. The boxy ship opened up, and what looked like a hundred smaller ships shot out of them, all of them in shapes that evoked Equestria’s birds of prey. There were humans at their controls, and, impossibly enough, Pegasi?!

There were pegasi controlling some of the ships, using a bizarre interface that looked as if it was hooked up to their wings somehow.

Humans and ponies alike fought alongside them in the smaller ships, controlling the turrets and letting loose on the aliens. Explosions filled the air as the large ship unleashed its own attack ships to deal with the human/pony warships.

Other ships ignored the battle all together, flying right through them into the upper atmosphere before opening up, still in midflight. Ponies and humans ran out of the ship, the humans outfitted with huge backpacks, landing and running along clouds, as naturally as if they had been able to do so their whole lives. They had huge weapons, far in advance of anything she remembered from her war against the humans, all of which blended both magic and technology.  The pegasi scampered across clouds with them firing their back-mounted weapons, taking out several air support ships. If Celestia could gauge their reactions correctly, the nonhuman enemies were utterly stunned at seeing the the group running across clouds, desperately trying to ignore the evidence of their own eyes. One human even leaped onto a passing airship, unloading his weapon into the cockpit before jumping off and landing on another cloud.

The dropships continued their descent, many more beings readying themselves inside. The moment the ship landed; humans, unicorns, and earth ponies rushed out carrying equally massive weapons in hand or hoof,  as they charged at the army, annihilating them with a constant barrage of… well, she wasn’t sure. They looked to be shooting hyper-accelerated projectiles, plasma, fire, light focused into a beam, and magic… except some of the magic looked to be coming from humans?!

She couldn’t pretend that she understood how it was possible. But while she hated the violence, she couldn’t  help but be amazed at how well they’d worked together. The humans and ponies had shared everything for the common good, in a better harmony than anything she had even approached when attempting to convert them.

She saw the settlement that the humans were protecting as well, a great mining settlement full of numerous other races, all helping each other under the onslaught. Humans lifted Avaloans from under rubble and ponies rushed about, carrying wounded deeper into the settlement, aliens carried them both out of harms way when they hurt, they were doing their best to help each other survive.

She wept.

How could she not? There they were, not just happily coexisting judging by the Equestrian influence on some of the buildings and signs, but working together in a crisis.

It wasn’t quite harmony, given the ships attacking overhead.

But it was beautiful in its own way, it showed her that they could indeed coexist and work together.

She suddenly found herself in a single room, filled with ponies and humans working at various stages. Several doors open and she found herself staring slack-jawed at what she saw.

Three ponies, ones she never seen before, each wearing an Element of Harmony around their necks; Laughter, Kindness, and Generosity.

But it wasn't the ponies that had drawn her attention, it was the humans that appeared to be wearing bracers around their wrists. She could feel the power resonating within. They were the Elements of Harmony as well, on three humans no less; Loyalty,  Honesty, and Magic.

All six walked up to one another, smiling as one as a device rose from between them. Each Element began to react, their smiles now holding a confidence that put her to shame.

The Elements were reacting... Because they truly were the bearers. She watched as they Elements gave off its beautiful light, filling the room with its warmth before being sucked into the device.

She found herself once again out into space, watching as barrel extend from the massive ship, swirling lights of all the colors of the rainbow glowed brightly within it. She was able to read a simple line painted onto it.

Friendship Cannon

For that single moment, Celestia couldn't help but think it was such a silly name. How threatening can a cannon be if it fires Friendship?

Apparently, very lethal to whoever was on the receiving end, as the cannon unleashed its power, splitting apart into various colors and slamming in the dark ship, gutting it with complete ease before it exploded.

On the planet, the massive dark army shuddered as one before falling, as if they were mere puppets whose strings had been cut. The defenders and the human/pony alliance cheered as one as the UAS Harmony's Light held itself above the planet.

Other visions flashed past her eyes, of yet more worlds. Worlds of ponies mingling with humans in the great cities that Humans had so many of, worlds where the barrier was actually a crisis on earth and Equestria worked together with the humans to find a solution, worlds where humans traveled to and from Equestria with ease. Worlds that seemed almost idyllic.

Tendrils of blackness spread through her field of vision as the pod approached the black hole.

There was so much that Equestria could have given to humanity, and so much they could have given to Equestria. Yet she hadn’t even let the humans have what little dignity you could have by taking things-she had just chosen to destroy, assuming herself and her ponies to be right in every way.

It was… Oh, only now did she realize the terrible act she had perpetrated. How shortsighted she had been.

”I never understood,” she whispered as it all faded to black.  “It’s so beautiful…”