Iron Giant In Equestria (Draft/Test)

>It had been an ordinary spring day in Ponyville when it happened

>Everypony was going through their everyday rotations like usual

>Little foals scampered to and fro

>Stallions saddled up for work

>Mares did what they do best

>There had been no omens or warnings that could of possibly forewarned the citizens of Ponyville, the citizens of Equestria for that matter on what strange series of events would transpire in the next few days

>In a nearby school house, a bell rings as a class of giddy foals scramble outside

>A trio of fillies sticks out from the rest, parting ways from the group to race towards their mutual clubhouse

>Today was Friday, signaling the beginning of the weekend

>A time for relaxation and rest... But for these fillies, it was the time in which they would finally earn their cutie marks

>They boarded themselves up in their treehouse and began excitedly spinning off wild and crazy ideas on how they would earn their cutie marks together

>Sure they had done this all before, but this was different

>The beginning of weekend is like a beginning of a new year for a child… a new life

>Lost possibilities of yesterday become the guaranteed prospects of tomorrow

>Then again, it is equally fair to say that for any new beginning

>And tonight was the beginning of something far more momentous than a measly two-day vacation…

 

>As the dusk loomed overhead, the girls decided to camp out in their clubhouse together

>Soon enough, the excessive talk of cutie marks lost its zest and they all agreed to decide on a plan sometime tomorrow

>The fillies instead began to play games, chatted about venom-less gossip and had fun in the ways that many other foals do

>Meanwhile in the far off reaches of Canterlot, a cobalt-blue alicorn looks over her tower's balcony to admire the beautiful night sky she herself had fashioned into existence

>With her sister gone, who had long since fallen asleep, the power and duties of a Equestrian monarch had been passed effortlessly to her

>The goddess of the Moon, known to her people as 'Princess Luna', would have spent the remainder of her night  inspecting her arrangement of stars and the vivid dreams of her subjects

>By Night, she was ruler of her country with absolute power but by Day, it was Princess Celestia’s turn

>Naturally, the nights in Equestria were rather… uneventful

>No ponies came to offer petitions or praises to her

>But neither were there changeling invasions or boring ceremonial duties

>That was one way to look at it

>Princess Luna had only recently returned to her position of power after 1,000 years of solitary confinement

>For her, the amount of time she spent on the moon was superficial

>Nothing greater than a 5-minute time-out for an immortal alicorn

>But Equestria had changed while she was forced to remain stagnate

>It would take time for her to adapt to this new world, and she accepted that

>In fact, she had made significant progress in the months pass… but Luna knew she was not yet ready to rule side by side with her sister again

>Soon… but not yet

>For now, the Princess of the Night would plainly watch over the dreams of her subjects

>While she learned their way of life through their imagined fantasies, she would also ward off any nightmares or foul imaginings

>That had not changed

>She was still their Princess and they were still her subjects

>She had vowed for life to protect her little ponies when she accepted the crown so long ago

>Even if now she could only shoo away their troubling thoughts

>The mare become slightly startled when something flashes in the corner of her eye

>She turns from the dreams and to her night sky once more, looking up to a star that was burning just too bright

>Luna positions herself behind her telescope to better study the apparent flaw she had overlooked

>She focuses on the burning light to see it was in fact… not a star

>Its form was of a black metallic ball and it was surrounded by an aura of white light, probably eclipsing a star

>Luna continued to study it, puzzled

>The last meteor shower she had scheduled was to be three weeks from now

>’What in the hay was it?’, she wondered

>Suddenly, the black matter begins expanding and the white light distorts into scorching red flames

 

>The alicorn jumps back from the telescope when she realizes that it was not growing or expanding in space

>It was coming closer… it was falling

>She stands there in naked shock as the unidentified object falls from the stars in a giant mass of burning metal

>Ripping itself from her night sky, it plummets down to earth. Each passing second, approaching faster and smoldering brighter

>And that’s when Luna hears it

>The stars… they’re crying

>Their shrieks and howls blind her thoughts, as well as her ability to focus her magic

>The Guardian of the Night can only sit and helplessly watch as the orb of twisted metal roars over her head

>Luna follows its path in horror as the object twists into a path towards Ponyville

>The object soon disappears from her sight as it flies miles away…

>Only moments later does she hear the subtle echo of the crash

>In an instance, the cries stop and she is able to regain focus

>But even then, Luna hesitates

>’What is it? Where had it come from?’ These were all probable questions running through her head

>But the most prompt was surely… ‘What do I do?’

 

>The mare suddenly bolts off the balcony and back to her chambers

>Making haste, she orders the pair of bodyguards to assemble a platoon of the Royal Guard immediately  

>Now was not the time for indecisiveness,

>Now was not the time for hesitation!

>When they had assembled in the Royal Court, the Princess of the Night filled them in while giving them their orders

>Ponyville, for all she knew, had been destroyed

>She had felt many dreams collapse the moment the ‘supposed’ meteor made impact

>That could mean one of two things…

>Luna:”You all should now know the gravity of the situation… I BEQUEATH TO THEE THIS DUTY, NOW BEGONE!”

>In her state of racked nerves, the princess accidently reverts to the Traditional Royal Canterlot Voice

>As its volume echoes throughout the palace, the winged night guards take off in flight

>Their primary objective was to verify the safety of the citizens

>Their second objective was to search and located the mysterious object that fell from the sky and report back to Princess Luna

>And so the platoon of jet black pegasus flew out into the night, towards the small quaint town of Ponyville