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Lauren's signature weapon is her celestial greatsword.
Created for theΒ Nightfall in Equestria project.
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Both of which also happens to be size of mountains.Β
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Luna: "May I have one, Mother?"
Celestia: "And me as well?"
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LAUREN: "Oh? I thought you two already have your own signature weapons?"
Celestia: "I have not wield my Warhammer in millennia. I still have it though; had it stored in the heart of the Sun, but no longer potent enough to shake continents with every blow..."
Luna: "Mine scythe still lay inert in my stronghold upon the fair Moon, still potent enough to cleave entire mountains and entire forests into pieces, though I still had bad memories of wielding it against my own sister when I was Nightmare Moon..."
LAUREN: "I'm afraid I would advice against getting one, at least for now. A blade like my own Polaris is far beyond anything you two have been trained to use; Last time I swung it the wrong way I cleaved a whole galaxy in half, and it was only with a fraction of its potential power. Thank goodness by sheer chance the whole galaxy is uninhabited..."
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Celestia: [Smirks and chuckles] "Yes, Father told us about that...incident. He said the look on your face was priceless!"
Luna: "Concerning that: could we all...take our Weapons out sometime? For...practice? It would do good to get used to wielding the blade without the weight on my conscious. 'Tia could re-vitalize her Warhammer as well. Perhaps some barren worlds would be sufficient targets...?" [smiles hopefully]
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Princess Twilight Sparkle: "Hey, Cadence, have you seen Celestia and Luna anywhere? I haven't been able to find them all day."
Princess Cadence: "Oh, yes, they went out with their Mother on a field trip. Something about 'Visiting relatives', 'Weapons training' and 'Blowing up a few planets about to collide with other inhabited planets in another galaxy'. I already raised the Sun for Celestia this morning."
Princess Twilight Sparkle: "Figures. They should had at least tell me about that part; all I had is a note saying I'll be raising the Moon for tonight."
Princess Cadence: "Celestia means well - she don't want you to feel weird out by their family habits."Β
Princess Twilight Sparkle: "Yeah, I know, if what their Mother and Father told me is true... Weapons training... I didn't even KNOW they have signature weapons to begin with. I wonder what yours and mine would be like...?"
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Princess Cadence: "Well, maybe I'd have something light and elegant--a rapier, with a heart-shaped pommel? Ooh, I like that! As for you, Twilight...how about a crossbow that shoots shooting star arrows? Or maybe some kind of enchanted musket!"
Princess Twilight Sparkle: [giggles] "That's awfully specific. Are you gonna ask their Mother when they come back or something?"
Princess Cadence: "Maybe, maybe not." 
Princess Twilight Sparkle: "Wha--what? Oh, you have to tell me this!"
===Meanwhile, Out In the Cosmos:===
[Lauren and her Daughters are merrily practicing their blade skills. Celestia and Luna had let loose many of their limiters, and were easily the size of planets; their respective weapons were similarly gigantic, and glowing with incredible power. Lauren had shrunken herself down--though she was still impossibly large by mortal standards--and was coaching her children. Now, she was sitting on Luna's shoulder.]
LAUREN: "Alright Luna, let's try a backswing. Diagonal this time, low-to-high. Try to get as many of those meteors as you can at once."
Princess Luna: "Yes, Mother; I shall make gravel of them!" [She hefts her Scythe into a striking position, spinning it around for an uppercut slash. With a loud cry, the Moon Princess heaves the scythe in a wide arc, the weapon leaving a trail of blue light behind it as an after-image. The meteors she was aiming for--easily the size of Equestria's own Moon, maybe larger--were sliced clean in half! The cut is so clean that it renders the exposed insides of the meteors smooth as glass, and polished to a sheen.]
[Luna goes with her attack's momentum, spinning around once before coming to a stop and looking on her shoulder, where her Mother still stood.]
Princess Luna: "Huzzah! The rocks have been gutted! 
LAUREN: "Wonderful, my little moon! You're already getting more comfortable with your old weapon. Though you over-committed a little on that swing; better to follow up such an attack with more slashes immediately rather than spin with the blade. Try a little less force next time, alright?"
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LAUREN: [She teleports to the head of her elder daughter] "Now then, my little Sun, it's your turn. When was the last time you hold your weapon again?"
Princess Celestia "Around 2 million years ago, and that was to help Luna to make a moon in that solar system."
LAUREN: "Do you still remember the basics, dear?"
Princess Celestia "I suppose so, Mother..." [she brings the warhammer close to her - a weapon which dwarfs the diameter of gas giants in length. Her horn glowed as she gripped it in two places with enough telekinesis to move worlds] "Forward facing stance: hold a dominant grip near the hammer-head, hold a weaker grip near the end of the handle..."
LAUREN: "Good, good. Now, what are the main means offense and defense?
Princess Celestia "To beat or to hard-block. The former involves the use of quick, sweeping attacks, while controlling momentum and avoiding over-balancing. Hard-block involves using the handle, not the head, with emphasis on putting plenty of empty space in the path of the weapon..."
LAUREN: "Very good! You still remember your lessons from Uncle and Father. Now, try this on that planetoid over there. Remember: your weapon is heavier than most other weapons - well, than most planets, actually, so be careful when you swing."
[Princess Celestia locked onto the planetoid. Taking a forward stance, she took a deep, airless breathe, and then, she swung]
[Unfortunately, she made a mistake mid-swung, and the planetoid only took a side-hit. Worse, she underestimated the momentum of the strike, and so the swung carried on, and her with it, causing her to ended up spinning like a sprung up top]
[Even so, the sheer power from the side-blow was still nothing less than apocalyptic - the planetoid was broken into two pieces, one large and small, and countless tinnier ones the size of islands. The pieces were scattered in all directions across the cosmos at relativistic velocities]
LAUREN: [Still sitting on top of Celesita's head] "Oh dear, you really do need to practice more with that thing." [She closed her eyes, and willed her daughter to stop spinning, which Celestia did. An eye-blink later she was next to her elder daughter, at a similar size] "'Tia, are you alright?"
Princess Celestia [Eyes spinning and her perfectly beautiful white equine face green with nausea] "So... dizzy..." [She held a hoof to her mouth as if about to barf]Β
Princess Luna: [Laughing her flanks off] "Oh Father, that was hilarious! Let's just hope those pieces of space rock won't end up ramming into some poor planet!"
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[50,000 years later]
Emperor Zortak: "Mwahahaha! At last, my Super Terror Star is complete!" [He/It beheld his/its ultimate planet-sized super-weapon with his/its tentacles from the bridge of his/its flagship] "Now the galaxy will KNOW and FEAR the name of ZORTAK, the ULTIMATE CONQUEROR!"
Chancellor Evilion: "Pardon if I may, your highness, I'm in for our galactic conquest plan, but I still think that giant super-weapons are a gross mis-use of our funding and decades worth of building with slave-labor. Wouldn't it be better to get actual conquest legions and space fleets?"
Emperor Zortak: "Oh relax, my good old loyal minion, once this beauty get's going blowing up star systems all those years of investment is going to pay off. Why wasting all that money paying for an army and fleet when you could use it to maintain an automated super weapon? I mean, it's not like it's going to be wasted by getting blown up in the next few seconds or any..."
[As if on cue, a giant hyper-velocity planetoid fragment chose this exact moment to appear, and collide at the half of light speed with the Super Terror Star. It was completely vaporized in one epic blast before anyone could say a word.]
Emperor Zortak: [shocked and horrified] "... thing?"
Chancellor Evilion: "... Now, about that army and space fleet."
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LAUREN: "No, I have a feeling they won't. I'll look them up in the future just in case, though. Anyway, let's try a few more swings, Tia, and then we'll go have a proper skirmish - I know of a galaxy overran by hordes of vicious eldritch abominations that's about to collide with a galaxy inhabited by countless peaceful interstellar civilizations. I will deal with that galaxy and most of the horde, while you two can practice your skills by dealing with any stragglers that escapes from terrorizing the other one."
Princess Luna: "Ha, not that there'll be much stragglers to deal with; you and Father often deal with these problems by EATING those galaxies, all in one bite."
LAUREN: "Now, Luna, that's not true... half the time. I do feel like having snack now, though..."
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Twilight Sparkle: "... So what happened next?"
Princess Cadence: "Oh, He took them home when it was getting late. I heard auntie Celestia talking about Titan wanting to have a word with Queen Chrysalis on some matters, though she didn't say what - actually, auntie Celestia was almost scared when she mentioned it."
Twilight Sparkle: "Huh. I wonder how's that Queen holding up to at the moment..."
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[Nice!]
[In the Badlands:]
Queen Chrysalis: "So...whose autographs do you have, anyway?"
Antennae: "Well, Mister Titan is the newest, ker-duh. Buuuuuut, I also have Lauren, Cadence, and Mister Armor--from when we were all tiny--Tiamat the Dragon Queen, Sultan Hofflieman the Magnificent of Saddle Aarabia, the Griffon Prime Minister, King Tidal of the Sea-Ponies..."
Queen Chrysalis: 
Antennae: "Daddy doesn't like to talk about it, but....I tend to sneak out. A lot."
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Princess Celestia: "I never understood how you and Father had 'snacks' like that so often and managed to keep your figures; whenever I tried it, those neutron stars always went straight to my flank! Took centuries to work it off..."
Princess Luna: [Smirks] "Perhaps if you were not eating so much cake in the interim, Sister...." Β
[Celestia gives her younger sister a friendly wing-slap, cutting her off.]
Princess Celestia: "Oh? And what about all those moon pies you wolfed down as a filly, hmm?"
LAUREN: [Chuckles] "Both of you, hush! We're training for battle, remember? You're supposed to save the bantering for after the fight!"
Princess Celestia/Luna: [In unison] "Yes, Mother..."
LAUREN: "That's better. Now, let's get to work, shall we?"
[An eye-blink, and the three Alicorn deities were gone; they appeared in another corner of the Universe in the same instant. Before them, two galaxies lay on a collision course--one pulsed and festered with malice, hatred, and evil energies that even from light-years away made Celestia gag in reflex. The other sent out gentler waves: goodwill, hope, love, and peace were dominant, backed up by the usual menagerie of artificial transmissions and FTL energies. It would take millions of years for the two galaxies to collide, but even from here it was clear that wouldn't be long enough for the peaceful galaxy to prepare itself for the eldritch horrors heading for it.]
[Luckily, that wouldn't be necessary.]
LAUREN: "Well, girls; shall we begin?"
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