The sudden flash that the explosion caused, hurling around shrapnel of glass and purple liquid, was contrasted shortly afterwards by the immediate blindness, and the strange extracorporeal feeling of your body changing locations without you even thinking about it or being able to do anything to stop it. Sadly, Sweet Bun’s shriek of “NO, DON’T DO THAT” wasn’t fast enough, and neither it had the power to stop the dreaded physics that ruled the universe. When Cherry Cookie turned around, and saw the alarmed expression in her visage, she could only glance back at what she was doing, and realize that she had put into high gear the series of events that’d lead into this: Carelessly, she had picked up a book from the table, the edge of the cover hitting a small hollow cylinder used as a pencil case, which tumbled over and fell onto the wide part of a spoon that was precariously balancing itself by the middle in a small eraser, and promptly giving a little nudge to a potion with a suspiciously unstable shape to fall off the table. It was so hilariously connected, like disaster dominoes, one may think it was a purposeful Rube Goldberg machine someone set up there to cause exactly that.

A blur was the only thing that was seen from the Countess, as she proceeded to give a go at these WonderBolts courses she had done, speeding towards Cherry in a vain attempt to push her out of the way of the potion’s magical influence. However, it was to no avail, she was to slow, her reaction time, her speed, her flying, Cookie’s reaction time. The sizzling, oozing, black liquid of evil, left earlier by Princess Luna right at that very spot, for the Count to analyze it later, started to chemically and magically react with the carpet it fell onto, and the surroundings around it, engulfing everything in a spherical void of darkness, driving the winds crazy as the atmosphere was abruptly changed by such arcane powers. The circle of darkness went past Sweet and Cherry, all happening in a fraction of a second, expanding larger and larger, before it couldn’t sustain its own reaction, becoming prompt supercritical, and collapsing upon itself, the air being sucked into the interior…. Right before it blew up with a grand fashion, the purplish-black force suddenly replaced by the white and yellow of a detonation in Countess Sweet Bun’s room, which was then followed by darkness…

The lack of any illumination was terrifying, to say the least. The fact that they felt like if they were suspended in some sort of alternate dimension, where everything just ceased to exist, was even worse. They couldn’t feel anything around them, they couldn’t hear anything except the heavy tinnitus the deafening conflagration did, they couldn’t even see anything, and it was too dark. It’s like if they had teleported into the nothingness on the universe, forever left alone to slowly die a horrible de- BOOM.

The world shifted again, it was like if they were completely crushed, twisted, then bent, like if the reality that was holding them in place, their home, was altered in such a way everything inside it was also affected. Despite that, it was not painful… and they really didn’t know what was happening to them, as they literally couldn’t see. It just felt odd and unnerving… and like if there was something happening to them but they couldn’t know what… nothing was scarier than that… Thankfully, it lasted only some seconds, as suddenly, with the same abruptness that caused the explosion to ravage the interior of Sweet Bun’s abode, a light flashed into their very eyes, like if the universe decided to “Think fast chucklenuts” them and tossed a flash bang at their general direction, which landed on their hooves, in an extremely dark room. The stun they both felt was nothing to joke about, leaving them disoriented, dizzy, nauseous even, unable to actually stand still…

Stand still? Hold on… they were… somewhere… Neither of them could actually figure out what was going on, but it was different than their extra sensorial experience a moment ago… they could actually feel the floor underneath their hooves, they could actually feel something… the air around them… they didn’t feel awkward anymore… “Ugh… where I am… Gosh… I’m… ack… my head” Said a supremely confused Pegasus of yellow coat, attempting her best to get up from her prone position, but failing the first two times, before in the third one she held onto a wall to her side. “Ow… sorry… I didn’t mean that…” The earth pony with the appearance of an Oreo cookie let out, almost like a horse whine, feeling bad to the core this happened. Sweet Bun, being also prone to some magical mishaps in her time, didn’t really pay much attention to it, instead trying to comfort her friend. “Don’t worry… I uh… maybe that was just a teleportation spell mixed with disorienting effects…. some prank from some student perhaps….” She added, in hopes it’d calm her companion down

“If… you say so… but I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to knock it over I’m so clumsy…” Cherry said, beating herself up over this, but was quickly stopped by a soft, kind, motherly Pegasus that, despite the fact she was so dizzy she was seeing three chocolate earth ponies, still approached her and put a warm, gentle hoof into her shoulder. “You didn’t do anything wrong, I promise. It was just an accident. Heck you don’t know just how many accidents I’ve had with potions….” She let out a chuckle in that last part, making the brown pony feel a little bit better, as she could see the Pegasus wasn’t mad at her “Come on, let’s just focus on… figuring out where we are and… maybe getting back home if it’s not dangerous. I doubt the spell would teleport us too far; it didn’t seem to have that much of content” She added, analyzing the circumstances with a logical mind

“Okay… I just… I’ll help in what I can” The cookie said, almost to the point of tears for making such an accident, but feeling better thanks to Bun’s words, maintaining her confidence to push forward. This is exactly what the Countess wanted, as she looked at her with a proud, kind smile, petting her cheek with the sole of her hoof. The earth pony purred at such a contact, slowly and shyly letting her continue to treat her like a cat, even letting her head rest on the hoof, as it just massaged her and made her feel happy, the physical comfort working wonders for her psyche. “I’m… scared though…” She added, looking with her blue eyes towards the Pegasus, who just gave an understanding look to her. “I know, this can be very scary. But… I promise I’ll be here for you… Now let’s just… analyze where we are, okay?”

Looking around, feeling a bit better from the whole world rocking like if it was in a washing machine, she tried her best to figure out what were her surroundings. The first thing she noticed is that the floor underneath her was a bit soft to the touch, almost like padded… she wasn’t sure why, but assumed she was in some kind of bed. The thing is that it didn’t correspond to the rest she saw; there was a giant wall, a massive one, extending far into the sky. It was surmountable, however it would take a bit of time to fly, and especially carrying an earth pony that sadly didn’t have the ability to mobilize herself in the sky by her own volition. She also could see some sort of adornment in one of the wall’s top, something like a fleur de lis, or shaped vaguely like that. She would’ve flied out, but didn’t know what the reason for the wall was, and, if there’s a wall, it was to keep something out, or to keep something in.

The top of the weird ‘building’ she was in, was open, revealing the sky that was present for them both… awkwardly, it felt like an artificial kind of sky, with differing colors and patterns, mostly purple, not something she had ever seen. It didn’t seem to be nighttime either, even though the source of illumination was not the sun, but a multitude of small lights in the sky, appearing blurry at a distance. Sadly, she wasn’t able to utilize the stellar guidance, in order to figure out her location, something she had learnt thanks to Princess Luna’s teachings. “Okay… I’m… not exactly sure where we are, but I’ll fly outside, check everything out, and then come back for you okay? Then we’ll figure out where we are… this seems like some kind of fort that was stopped being constructed halfway through” She explained, the idea seemingly being sound enough; she’d check why was everything walled up, if there was any danger outside, and then bring Cherry with her so they could ask where they were and get back to the castle, however long it’d take

She started flying towards the open-topped end of the architecture, trying to find a way to get out or any reason as to why there was a wall. But suddenly, when she was about to leave, she could hear the thunderous noise of thumping, repeatedly, and slowly increasing in power, as if going in crescendo. This was not good, but given how she was almost near the edge, she decided to take a look, then head back and stay hidden… However her reaction time was slow again, and the figure, or whatever entity was approaching to their location, was too fast for her. Before she could actually look around, she was overwhelmed by a terrifying, yet also exhilarating sight… In the vast expansiveness of the sky… there was now an entity, apparently unaware of their presence. She could recognize that color, that helmet, the starry mane, all of these characteristics anywhere; it was Nightmare Moon.

Her thoughts raced and collided with each other’s like the world’s smallest particle accelerator in her brain, as she rushed ideas to and fro, attempting to logically explain this or somehow bring a reasoning that she would be comfortable with, as to why Nightmare Moon, a villain that was banished with the Elements of Harmony, was here still. Why it wasn’t Princess Luna, where she was, and what was going on. The dark alicorn with the blueish, beautiful astronomical mane, apparently was talking with someone else that the Countess couldn’t actually see from her position. “Yes, don’t worry dear subject. We shall raise the moon high in the sky, and thou shall ravish on it if you wish”. She seemed to have a smile, probably due to the fact that whoever she was talking to seemed to enjoy and love the night just like her, but not only that, they seemed to love her too, for who she was, accepting her, acknowledging they were the Princess of the Night

But the thoughts of popping out and saying something were cut down short, as Sweet noticed something rushing towards her. It was her hoof, the sole, dark as the moonless night sky, was descending upon them both like if the sky was falling apart. She was briefly mesmerized by the impending doom that would befall upon them, but she act to had fast and do something, otherwise both would be squished. Looking back at Cherry, who also acknowledged the danger that giant appendage possessed, she realized she had to go back, pick her up somehow, and then get out and to a safe zone. She had no idea what the potion had on it, but apparently, it was mixed with a shrinking spell, or it made everything else gigantic but that’s less likely. Rushing towards Cherry, who was about to cry, terrified and with legs shaky, she attempted to pick her up “WE’VE GOTTA GO NOW”

But it was too late, the frog of the hoof kept coming down, signaling them of the fact that they wouldn’t escape the confines they were trapped in, before it came down fully, enclosing it on them, and reducing their available space to breathe or be comfortable in. Still, the determination and survival instinct on Bun’s, to not mention the intentions to save her friend too, which otherwise would be unable to get out, made her still flap her wings intensely, rushing blood through her entire body, her heart beating faster the more physical activity she did, propelling herself through the pain and attempting her best to swoosh away while carrying that heavy load. The shadow loomed closer, and closer, starting to block away the lights in the sky that offered them illumination, and both could only close their eyes in fear of what would happen….

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“Oh… ..uh… hello? What are you… two doing there?” A beautiful voice said, with the confusion heavily noticeable in their voice. Sweet and Cherry assumed they were in heaven or someplace like that, given how sweet and kind the voice sounded, but… upon opening her eyes, she realized something that may probably give her a mix of fear and happiness… Nightmare Moon, apparently had noticed the small speck of yellow trying to flying away with an speck of brown in her hooves, them both not being really that small to be unnoticeable, and her predator eyes spotting the smaDERIBOORU EXCLUSIVEll, moving object right under her with great dexterity. For Sweet, it was both a good and a bad thing, the good thing was that Nightmare Moon had spotted them both, and the bad thing was that Nightmare Moon had spotted them both

The hoof that was about to flatten them like a pancake, suddenly stopped midair, almost grasping the walls of the structure they were in. Sweet looked in a bit of terror to the alicorn, knowing what deeds she had done before to earn that adjective onto her name, meanwhile Cherry really didn’t know much of the story behind Nightmare Moon, but the basic, popular knowledge that she wasn’t one of the good guys made her fear for her life, as she looked at the evil looking slit pupils gazing at her, fixed onto her, like a targeting pod… Honestly, her cyan/blue/turquoise eyes were so mesmerizing… so beautiful… however they weren’t really here to bow and submit to her power just by her eyes alone “Um… magic mishap? With a potion… that someone threw at us” Sweet said, lying in that very part so they could gain the smallest amount of compassion and empathy from the dictatorial monarch… She was expecting the nightmare princess to laugh, snarl, or maybe even fulfill her step, as bad as it’d be for them both. However what she’d say next was something she wasn’t expecting in a billion years

“Oh… that sounds… awful… Tell me, dear subject. Would thou like me to fix you back to normal? I… I think it’d be better than you being in… my clothing” She added, and Sweet immediately got hit by the truck of realization, which rammed onto her and ran her over as she basically realized why the padding, why the walls, why the weird fleur de lis shape. But that wasn’t something she was supposed to focus on, so, returning her stare at Nightmare Moon’s eyes, she spoke. “Y-Yes… please… Um… if that’s okay…” The realization of what’d happen to her a bit ago, hadn’t she been spotted by the alicorn, and the fact that this Nightmare Moon, as weird as it was, seemed to be gentle to them, made her feel excited and blushy, a pink-reddish coloration under her eyes, as she basically stared at, deep down, one of her favorite villains in Equestria. It was a weird ‘Best of X’ to have, indeed, but you couldn’t really blame her, given how close she was to Princess Luna, that her evil version would be of her interest.

For both ponies, the worry faded away, and that was replaced by some sort of social anxiety; the nervousness of being with a royalty, which was further exacerbated by the fact they were in a rather… compromising position, to say the least. “Great! Then thou shalln’t wait for too much, as I know the spell required to banish thee curse away… though I’ll return you two to your original size later… But thou can stay with me” She added with excitement, bouncing lightly despite the fact her hoof was raised above the floor. Her horn started glowing a bright blue, shimmering with the intensity of the moon’s shine in a full moon night, and both the Bun and the Cookie could feel the thaumaturgical forces collide with them, engulf them. Feeling Nightmare’s Moon magic, especially a nice, friendly, Nightmare Moon magic, was weird. Sweet had the slight hunch they weren’t in their own reality anymore, given how the dark, evil-looking alicorn existed… though it could also be a dream she’s having after passing out from the toxic fumes of the potion… or maybe it’s Princess Luna, who was getting ready for the night celebrations…

Suddenly, they were both on the princess’ mane, the starry, lovely, flowing mane feeling wonderful, almost like a massage of sorts, like if a thousand fluffy strands were attempting to comfort her, to hug her, to snuggle her and keep her warm and for themselves. It was so surreal yet such a lovely experience. “Huzzah! Hold on tight! We’ll go out, then after this event is over I shall aid you and help you in your endeavors” Nightmare Moon said, making sure that with her telekinetic spells, they kept themselves on top of her head, visualizing everything from their hidden position, and that they wouldn’t fall off. Sweet wasn’t sure where she was, and her perception of reality or guidance was threw out of the window if this was an alternate dimension. However, if she was here, with a Nightmare Moon, she may as well have a fun time, right? Looking at Cherry behind her, she seemed to also agree in the sentiment, if not already starting the enjoyment herself, as she giggled from the mane embrace and the dreamy feel of the experience, loving how she was kindly and gently treated with care by such an evil villain.


Ack! I hope I’m not too late for this… This is a silly cute gift art I did for my friends Sweet Bun and Cherry Cookie, because when there’s art events that legitimately force me to draw something in Derpibooru, I usually decide to take advantage of that and draw something cute for someone important for me <3

They kinda requested the idea and stuff… I think? I don’t remember, however, I’m glad I drew this, despite the perspective was difficult. I think I’m moderately happy with the result and I could try to get better in the future :D. Hopefully both of them love it x3