//------------------------------// // A Full Moon Wedding Nightmare // Story: Project: FORSAKEN // by Doctor Magnum //------------------------------// The minute she raised the sun from behind the horizon, Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria, just knew it was going to be a long day. Not only did she have a wedding to perform but for some reason she could just feel a sense of foreboding. Her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on her bedroom door. She opened it to see her sister Luna with very tired look on her face. “Sister?” Celestia asked, instantly worried, “What’s wrong?” Luna sighed before saying, “We may have a problem sister. Last night there was what we believe to be sabotage on the wedding.” “What?!” Celestia cried, her fears now proving true, “What happened? Show me.” Luna nodded before hurrying in the direction of the throne room with Celestia right behind her. As they neared the tall doors that stood slightly opened, Celestia began to notice how cold it felt in the halls and she had an eerie feeling like someone was watching her. As they stopped in front of the doors, she took the time to look back to see if anyone was following her but she saw nothing but shadows. She turned away still feeling uneasy and just missed one of the shadows snake away down the hall towards the kitchens with an evil cackle. Celestia looked to the doors as Luna slowly pushed them open the rest of the way and gasped. Before the hall had been decorated with many a flag and banner and ribbon with tables set out for drinks and food with fine silk cloth laid over them and the tapestry had been strung in a glorious manner along the top of the stained glass windows. But now it was like a tornado had torn through the entire place. The windows were busted and the ribbons were torn and the banners were ripped and scattered along the floor and the flags were nowhere to be seen. The tables were broken with their cloths ripped to shreds and the tall candle holders were bent and knocked over and the rug was torn as well. “Oh my…” Celestia said quietly, “Who did all this?” “I do not know.” Luna said, “We found everything like this just a few moments ago.” “How did no one witness this act?” Celestia asked confused. “Again, I do not know.” Luna repeated. Celestia looked around at the carnage before remembering something, “What about the Elements? They put all this up.” Luna just pointed to a corner of the room where Celestia could see a group of ponies huddled together. As she came closer she noticed that the ponies were Twilight, her student, her friends Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy along with two guards. Twilight and Rainbow seemed uneasy and Fluttershy was attending to another pony. “Twilight? Is everything okay?” Celestia asked as she approached. Twilight looked up at her mentor and said, “Its Rarity, your highness. She’s not saying anything.” Celestia looked pass her student to the white mare Fluttershy was helping and gasped. Rarity’s beautiful white fur was now pale and looked gray and she was sitting down with her head tilted upwards with her mouth hanging open in a silent scream and her eyes were pinpricks in a wide space of white. She looked like she had been scared to near death. Almost like…….she had seen a ghost. “Oh my….” Celestia said in shock, “What’s wrong with her?” “I don’t know,” Fluttershy answered, “I can’t get her to respond. It’s like she’s paralyzed.” “Maybe I can help?” Luna said before pointing her horn at Rarity. A soft, blue aura of smoke slowly curled around Rarity and after a moment, her eyes rolled back as she collapsed onto the floor. “What did you do?” Twilight asked. “I have put her in a deep sleep. When she wakes up it should all just appear as a dream to her. We should avoid talking about it when she wakes up though.” Luna explained. “Thank you sister.” Celestia said. While the ponies where tending to their friend, a certain spirit was creeping in the kitchen. His target was taller than him and covered in frosting. What better way to postpone a wedding then to destroy the cake? He crept along the ceiling as he watched the staff run about making all sorts of treats but two ponies in particular were tending to the cake itself. A pink mare with a crazy mane was putting the finishing touches on the frosting at the top of a tall step ladder. Below her, steading the ladder was an orange pony with her hair tied back. “Careful Pinkie, we don’t want this here cake fallin’ over!” The orange pony said. The ghost smiled before crawling over to the ovens where several dishes were being baked. He manipulated the temperatures to near nuclear levels on several before turning to the cake. It was sitting on a stand with wheels in the bottom to help roll it around. And this just made it easier for the mischievous spirit to do his work. He slithered across the ground, invisible to the ponies and carefully began to turn a screw in one of the wheels; stopping right at the point where it would come out the minute they started rolling it down the hall. As he finished, the pink pony came sliding down the ladder and cried out, “It’s ready!” “Great, let’s git it down to the throne room” Together the two began to push the cake along but only got so far as two steps before the loosened screw gave out and the wheel shot out from beneath the stand and the entire tower of sweetness came toppling down. No one had time to react as the collision with the floor caused the cake to explode, covering the entire room with frosting and bits of cake innards. Both Pinkie and Applejack just stared with frozen expressions at the destroyed cake trying to understand what just happened. Everyone in the room was covered from head to hoof and a few looked to be near tears. It wasn’t long before the door burst opened and the princesses came in along with Twilight, Fluttershy, and a few guards. Upon seeing the destroyed cake everyone gasped and their faces fell. “Oh no…” Twilight said. “As if this day couldn’t get any worse.” Celestia thought. “What happened?!” Luna asked. “Ah…..Ah don’t know….” Applejack said, still in shock, “It just…fell over.” Fluttershy went over to comfort a sobbing Pinkie whose hair had turned straight and dull. The rest of the staff was groaning about the whole ordeal when one of them smelled smoke and something burning. “THE OVENS!” he cried as he ran over to the ovens and began to turn every one of them off. The others ran to help him and soon the damage became clear: over half of the items prepared were ruined. Everyone in the room became depressed as they realized the wedding would have to be postponed in order to fix everything. “We need to talk to Cadance.” Celestia said, “We have to tell her the wedding must be postponed until later tonight.” “WHAT IS THIS?!” A voice suddenly yelled from behind them. Everyone turned to see a pink alicorn standing in the doorway to the kitchen. She looked both shocked and ready to murder someone. Excuse me, somePONY. “Cadance,” Celestia began carefully, “I know it all seems bad but I promise you the wedding is still on. We just have to postpone it until later tonight. We’ll have a full moon wedding. It’ll be wonderful I promise. Does that sound okay?” Cadance, or Chrysallis in disguise, appeared to be panicking a little as she looked back and forth between the cake and Celestia. She then suddenly went very still and her eyes glazed over almost like she was in a trance. Actually, she was communicating with her generals in charge of the invasion. After quickly explaining what had happened, her generals assured her that they could still pull off the invasion at night. “In fact,” one general added, “It might make things easier to take control of the city.” Chrysallis agreed and returned to the scene of the kitchen and said in Cadance’s voice with a heavy sigh, “Alright I guess…..it’s just a little saddening that I have to wait even longer now…” Celestia trotted over and placed a wing around the alicorn’s shoulder and said in a soothing tone, “I know. I’m so sorry. We will do everything to make sure this will be the greatest full moon wedding anyone has ever seen.” Up in the ceiling, Zack gave a triumphant fist pump as his mission became accomplished. He zoomed through the ceiling until he reached the outside world and checked on the location of the sun. It was just past noon so he would have to wait a little longer to wake everyone else up. So, in the meantime, he decided to have a little fun and spy on some unsuspecting ponies……… A FEW HOURS LATER…… "Wake up!" "Mmmmmmmmm...." "Wake up!" "No" "WAKE THE FUCK UP!" *WHAM!* Zack was never subtle when waking up the guys. They were immortal so they couldn't get hurt but they were also undead so it was hell trying to wake them up. Luckily he found that dropping their coffins from the ceiling was a pretty effective way to wake them up. Assuming he kept out of arm’s length. "ZACK YOU ASSHOLE!" You would think after all these years they would learn or get used to it. "Hey you told me to wake you up at dusk and its dusk. In fact, it's pretty late so you guys have to hurry." After checking to make sure he didn't have a knot forming in the back of his head, Dom marched over to the clock on the wall and checked the time. Sure enough it was almost nine. "So you did it?" He asked Zack as he helped Michael out of his coffin. "Yes I did!" Zack said proudly, "It all went off perfectly and they have rescheduled the wedding to take place an hour from now. So get ready guys!" He zoomed into the ceiling and left the two dazed vampires to pull themselves together. Right away they pulled open a cooler and took out two bags of blood and sunk their teeth into the plastic. Several minutes later, they threw the empty bags into the trash can. Michael took a look into the cooler, "Man we could not have picked a more perfect time to do this. We only have four bags left." "We'll get more after this is over." Dom said as he stepped into the bathroom. Michael heard the sound of running water and took the time to fix his hair and brush his fangs. He had taken a shower last night so all he had to do was get dressed. Michael had just finished putting on his boots as Dom stepped out of the bathroom. "At least we won't smell of cave or blood when we introduce ourselves." He said as he opened his wardrobe. After both brothers were fully clothed, they stepped out into the hallway and made their way to the main cavern. The entire cave system was a maze but all they had to do was smell their way thanks to the enticing aroma of coffee. Hey even the undead love a good cup of joe ok? The two entered the spacious area to see Henry and Mark already up. Mark was chugging a strange liquid and upon seeing the two, Henry quickly walked over and gave them both two large pills and mugs filled with black coffee. "Take these they will negate the venom in you fangs. We don't want to spread our curses to the ponies. No telling what that might cause." "Ah great." Dom said before sticking the pill into his throat and swallowing hard to get it down. Michael had a little more trouble but managed to swallow his too. Henry also took a pill before donning his top hat which completed his ensemble of a black dress coat with tails and a buttoned up white shirt with a bow-tie. He was also wearing black slacks and shoes. Dom raised an eyebrow when he saw what Henry was wearing. "Don't you think that's overdoing it?" Henry huffed and said, "I believe in making a good first impression and someone has to look good due to the fact that you all wear the same clothes every blasted day." "Point taken." Michael said, "You look good." "Hey I hate to break up this heartfelt moment!" A voice cried. Everyone looked up to the ceiling to see Zack poking his head out of the stone, "But the wedding bells are ringing so let’s go people it's show time!" "Very well. I will meet you at the gate Zackary!" Henry called. Zack nodded and disappeared. "Let's go bro! We got some climbing to do." Dom said before both he and his brother leapt up the wall and into a tunnel at the top of the cave. Henry then approached Mark, "Good luck old friend." Mark nodded confidently before running through a tunnel leading beneath the city. Henry looked around to make sure everything was in check before exiting the cave whistling all the way. A few moments later, a bush rustled alongside a barely used gravel road in the mountain. It was suddenly brushed away by Henry and he stepped out onto the road and brushed at his clothes. He took a deep breath of night air and saw that the sun was gone and the moon was gleaming behind some clouds. He could already feel his blood begin to boil. He looked ahead with his enhanced vision to see the back of the huge city just a few meters from him. The gates could be seen as well. They were a set of iron doors with watchtowers on either side built into the wall. Luckily, no one was manning them as they didn't expect anyone to just waltz up to the back entrance. But that is exactly what Henry did. As he walked with cane in hand, he heard the sound of rustling fabric and looked up to see two black shapes leap across the gap between the mountain and the castle. One landed on a spire just to the side of the throne room. The other landed on one on the other side. They carefully slide down the shingled roofs and alighted on two gargoyles. Henry turned on his communicator, "Michael, Dom, I can see you both. Can you see into the throne room?" He saw Michael wave in his direction before his voice answered him through the mic in his ear, "Yea, it looks like they're preparing for the bride now. It shouldn't be too long. Better get inside." Henry then called to another person, "Zack are you there?" "Heyo!" A voice answered loud enough for him to cringe. "Not so loud Zackary. Are you in position?" "Almost. I'm checking on the number of Changelings in the city." "How many are there?" It was Dom who asked that question. "A lot. Probably more than a hundred. Way more than when I was in the city last time. Most are outside of the castle but there are a few inside with the procession." "What about outside the city?" Henry asked. "Hang on." There was a pause for a moment before they all heard Zack let out a small gasp. "Zack?" Henry asked feeling worried. "It's like a huge black ring around the mountains." He said, his voice resonating shock, "It's like the entire hive has emptied out." "Ah hell..." It was Mark, "Dat ain't gud." "It's a goddamned swarm." Dom said, "Maybe we should call this off." "No!" Henry yelled into the receiver, "We have waited long enough. I don't care what happens tonight we are not hiding anymore!" Everyone went silent as his words resonated in their ear pieces. After a few moments Michael spoke, "I agree with Henry. We've come too far to go back. We have to help or the entire city will be overrun." Dom sighed which sounded like static through the transmitters, "Fine but be careful." "I think it is the Changelings who should be careful." Henry said as he stopped in front of the gate, "Zack I am at the gates now." "Knock first please." Henry rolled his eyes but knocked anyway, deciding to have a little fun. After a moment, the doors opened up and two guards stepped out with spears. At the sight of Henry, they froze and stared at the strange creature in front of them. Henry smiled and took his hat off and bowed before coming back up and addressing the stunned guards, "Gentlemen! I hope I am not late for the party?" The guards never had a chance to answer as Henry watched two spectral arms appear behind them and with a fluid movement, grabbed their heads and bashed them together, knocking them out cold. The rest of Zack appeared and motioned inward with a bow, "Right this way sir." Henry stepped over the sleeping guards with a nod, "Thank you Zack. Now if you will be so kind as to show me to the castle gates?" "Right away!" Zack said as he flew down the street with Henry following right behind him. "Well this is it," Henry thought, "We have made first contact and we knocked it unconscious. And now we're running through the city waiting for hell to break loose. This is going to be a gas." Smiling, he ran down the empty streets after his specter friend. In the throne room of the castle, Celestia and Luna were standing at the throne, waiting to call in the bride. Shining Armor was standing to the side with an extremely tired look on his face. Both princesses were still stressed out but just glad to be getting it all over with. Still, both were bothered by the same thing. "Have you seen Twilight anywhere?" Luna asked her sister, knowing full well what happened. "No," Celestia said, "I had hoped to find her and talk about what she had said to Cadance but I can't find her anywhere." Suddenly, music sounded as the doors slowly opened to allow the bride through. "It's too late now sister," Luna said as they watch Cadance slowly walk down the aisle, "I'm sure she's fine." Elsewhere, a doughnut shop was seeing very little business. The colt stuck behind the counter was feeling very unhappy about not going to the wedding when his boss and friends were. The only customers he had was one old pony who thought the wedding wasn't that important, a couple who decided to spend time together while all the shops weren't so crowded, and the last customer actually kept him from just quitting right there. "So why aren't you at the wedding Spike?" Joe asked the purple dragon. "Eh, weddings aren't really my thing plus there wasn't really anything I could have done to help." The dragon responded. "Yea I hear ya." Joe said, thankful for the conversation. Mark was also in the store but no one could see him. He lay just below the tile floor as he waited for the signal to emerge. He could smell every single doughnut in the store and was trying to identify the different types to pass the time. Henry and Zack were already on the move but it was Dom who would call when to strike. Suddenly his communicator sounded, "Dom, Zack and I are in position near the square." Mark waited for Dom to respond but all he heard was silence. He reached up to turn on his mic and said very quietly, "Hey. Eryting OK?" Then Michael responded, "We have a problem." High upon the castle towers, the scene unfolding in front of Michael in the throne room was anything but what they had expected to happen. Out of nowhere, a purple unicorn mail burst through the doors with the REAL Cadence in tow and exposed Chrysallis before the ceremony could even start. "Oh crap..." Realizing she had been found out, the Queen of the Changelings turned into her true form in a flash of green light. This signaled the other Changelings in the room to change as well begin rounding up everyone in the room. Then something else unexpected happened. Both the princesses began to fight the queen and looked like they might actually win. But then Chrysallis suddenly began to show a lot more strength and the amount of magic in the room erupted, shattering the glass windows and shaking the city as the entire throne room was flooded with light. Underneath the doughnut shop, Mark had to steady himself as the foundation shook violently. Everyone in the shop looked around to try and figure out what happened. “What was that?” Spike asked. Mark was wondering the same thing when he heard screaming and a sound like a thousand buzzing insects. Outside Dom heard it too and looked down to see Changelings attacking ponies in the streets. Then he heard the buzzing noise and looked up. And one by one, the stars were blacked out by the huge swarm of the Changeling invasion. He knew there was a force field but there was no way in hell that it was going to hold. They had to act now. That’s when he yelled into his mic to everyone, “GO NOW!” At that order, Henry calmly stepped out of the shadows and into the town square. He stopped behind a group of Changelings herding a crowd of ponies into a corner. The ponies all gasped and some even screamed when they saw him. The Changelings, wondering what was scaring them besides themselves, turned to look behind them and they too gasped in surprise. Henry just smiled as he took off his hat and coat, “Greetings ladies and gentle…..ponies?” he said in a tone like he was announcing the next act at a circus, “My name is Henry Woodlock and I am here to rid you of your pests.” The Changelings growled as they realized he was talking about them. But Henry just put on a very eerie smile as he watched the moonlight slowly creep up the street towards him. He didn’t know how long it would be until it got to him or how long it would stay on him with the swarm in the air. He just knew it had to be long enough. With a creepy smile and a gleam in his eye he asked the crowd, “Would you like to see a magic trick?” Everypony in the square just stared and then gasped again as he put the hat in the air and it started to float. He did the same with his cane and jacket and they stayed in the air as well. Finally, he took off his shoes, bow-tie, glasses, and shirt leaving only his pants and his bare, pale chest. From beneath the floating hat a gruesome smile appeared and then a pair of eyes as another creature materialized before the scared ponies only this one was floating and transparent. The ghost put the clothes on a trash can as Henry spoke once again, “And now for my next trick!” And that’s when the moonlight shone down on him. He looked up and felt the change begin. His eyes turned yellow and he hunched over as a searing pain grasped at him. He fought through it as hair suddenly began to cover him. Dark fur formed over his skin as he grew in height and his muscles began to bulge. There was a cracking sound as the bones in his legs morphed to resemble canine legs. His arms elongated and claws grew from his fingers. His mouth became longer as his jaw turned into a hideous maw of sharp teeth and his ears grew longer and all the while the hair grew longer and his muscles became larger. Finally, he stopped growing and looked up at the ponies, his canine eyes piercing their souls. The changelings were frozen with fear and backed away from the monster. It just snarled before letting out a howl that echoed through the night. Deep and long, it was soon joined by other howling as timber-wolves howled with it in unison. The whole ordeal shocked every pony and changeling to their core and then the werewolf and poltergeist charged into battle. Mark heard the howl and took it as the symbol to begin. In the doughnut shop, everyone was shaking with fear from the howling when another horror emerged. The tiles began to bulge out as something started knocking against them. Suddenly they burst out as an arm appeared, greenish and rotten; it knocked several tables away and caused everyone to scream. It clawed at the floor as it pulled the rest of itself out of the hole. Finally, Mark stood up in the middle of the shop and looked around at every single terrorized face. He stopped at Spike and tipped his hat before barreling into the street, knocking the glass doors apart and taking two changelings down in the process. Other changelings noticed the sudden appearance of the creature and ready to face it. Mark just gave a wheezing laugh as he charged at them with a roar. Dom and Michael both knew they would have to deal with that swarm but first they had to clear the throne room. It looked like six mares, including the purple one, were trying to escape. “Okay Michael let’s do this.” Dom said. Michael nodded, “Right, in and out.” “That’s right. Try not to be seen too much.” In the throne room, the six mares were backing away from the Changelings to the wall near the door. They had no idea what they were going to do when one of them just suddenly was thrown out the window. It looked like a shadow had picked him up and thrown him. Suddenly, every single changeling was being thrown into the walls and out the window by shadows that blazed by so fast that no one could see what it was. Chrysallis was thrown into a rage at the sight of it all. “No! NO!” she cried. The six mares took their chance to run to the door but Chrysallis saw them and teleported herself in front of them. “YOU ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE?!” she yelled as she brought her horn down. But she never casted a spell as something grabbed her horn. The queen and the elements gasped as they saw the tall and dark figure of Michael standing there. “That’s not very nice,” he said as he threw Chrysallis across the room into the throne before turning to the six in front of him, “Whatever you’re going to do, do it fast. We can’t hold them off forever.” He walked over to the window and saw Dom already taking on the swarm. “What are you?” a voice asked. Michael turned and saw that it was the purple one, “My name is Michael and I’m a vampire.” He then leapt out of the window and into the swarm. He grabbed changeling after changeling and threw and bit and swiped and punched as he fought back the seemingly endless wave of the insects. At first, the changelings were caught off guard but came back to their senses as they begin to fight back. They got a few lucky hits in and some managed to get past but the brothers were taking a huge chunk out of the swarm together. Down below, Henry was demolishing the army of changelings. He bowled over entire squads and hurled chunks of destroyed houses at the scurrying insects. All the while he made sure to get the civilians out of the square as he made his way to the gates. Zack was using his powers to levitate objects and hurl them at his foes. He was taking note of how many headshots he was getting. He was currently up to twenty-two and counting. He knew there was no killing but they didn’t say anything about major headaches. The duo was joined by Mark when he came running out of an alley with a huge amount of changelings grasped onto him by their teeth but this barely slowed him down as he grabbed each one and rammed them into the ground. He threw punch after punch and sent the insects flying with his supernatural state. Suddenly one changeling flew up and came down hard with a kick to Mark’s head causing it to fall back. It was holding on by a thread of skin but Mark just grabbed it and placed back where it was originally as the bones in his neck awkwardly reconnected. He growled at the changeling and the smart fellow flew away in fear. The trio managed to bust down the gates and started engaging the changelings in the courtyard. The guards already fighting were startle by the sudden appearance of the monsters and tried to attack them but Zack grabbed their weapons and immobilized them. “We’re on your side!” he said as he let them go before picking up a statue and knocking a group of changelings aside with it like a bat. The guards decided to listen and together with their monster allies pushed the changelings back to the castle. Henry took the time to look up and see there were still changelings coming down but for the most part, Dom and Michael were taking care of the majority of them. He rushed a group of changelings and threw them aside into a fountain as he reached the steps. Mark and Zack were moving through at a slow pace but Henry just walked over the insects. He reached the doors and began to bash against it and on the third try, managed to knock it open. Inside he saw six mares getting captured and ran after them as he grabbed the changelings from behind and started to pummel them one by one. The six screamed when they saw their savior but Henry managed to calm them down with a gesture. Zack and Mark appeared in the door and caught up to Henry. “There are more of you?” Twilight asked. “So I take it you met the brothers?” Zack asked. “Brothers?” Rainbow said. “Well yeah,” Zack said, “We have two vampires. What are you six doing getting captured?” Twilight just shook herself and got straight to the point, knowing that they could use all the help they could get, “We need the Elements of Harmony to defeat the Queen.” “Tha wat now?” Mark asked. “The Elements of Harmony!” Twilight said, enunciating each word, “There the only thing that can stop the queen.” “Well I’m sorry honey but you’re not gonna be able to get them out there.” Zack said pointing behind him to the still raging battle, “You got a plan B?” The other five looked to Twilight as she thought for a moment, “Maybe if we can get the real Cadance to Shining Armor, she can heal him and get the magical barrier back up. That would send the changelings out of the city!” She got a triumphant look on her face as she realized her plan just might work. “Alrighty then,” Zack said, “Henry and Mark will escort you there. I’m gonna go get the bros.” Zack took off through the ceiling as the main six followed the werewolf and zombie to the throne room. He came out through the roof and quickly spotted Dom and Michael. He tried to reach them on their communicators. “Dom! Michael!” “A little busy Zack!” Dom replied. “Hey listen! We have a plan. We need you both to meet us in the throne room. These six ponies say we might be able to get rid of all of these insects plus the queen if we get the real Cadance to Shining Armor!” There was a pause before Dom answered, “Okay we’re on our way.” Zack went back through the ceiling and took off for the throne room. In said room, Chrysallis was busy restraining the princesses and Cadance to the floor with a strange glue like substance while Shining just continued to stand at the altar in a trance. More changelings had arrived and were herding the crowd into the back of the room. “I don’t know what kind of warriors you summoned, Celestia,” Chrysallis said to the bound sun goddess, “But they are no match to my full army bearing down upon the city.” She walked back over to the throne and placed a hoof on Shining Armor’s heard, “Soon, this fool will be dead and all of Equestria will be mine!” Cadance almost began to cry as Celestia and Luna just glared at the queen, unable to do any form of magic due to the substances covering their horns and Cadance was too exhausted from her time in the caves. Suddenly a voice rang out, “STOP!” Chrysallis looked to see the Elements standing in the doorway with a blanket of fog to their back. “Well, well, well……if it isn’t the Elements of Harmony come back to save the day.” She said as she calmly walked down the steps from the altar with her changelings right behind her, “But you seemed to be missing you pieces of jewelry that you need to defeat me, too bad for you.” The six ponies then smiled confidently causing Chrysallis to frown. “We have something better than that.” Twilight said. And out of the fog stepped five figures, two tall and dark men in cloaks with black hair and red eyes, fangs bared in gruesome snarls. One was massive and covered in fur with a canine face and a monstrous build; it snarled and barked at the changelings. One was rotten and missing pieces of its body but stood tall and shambled forward with a moan. Finally, one was floating in the air with a spectral glow and appeared transparent and gave a ghostly and creepy smile. Chrysallis stared in horror at the group of monsters and stumbled with her words, “W-w-what are those things?! Destroy them my army!” The changelings all charged the group and Dom said quickly to Twilight, “Get to the princess quickly!” before jumping and grappling with a big changeling. Henry and Mark both tore through the ranks and put changeling after changeling on the floor. Michael appeared to fly through the air as he fought his way through the swarm, leaping from point to point. Zack used tables and chair and silverware to beat the changelings who just passed through him harmlessly. Dom subdued his foe and turned to the queen, “You and me, bitch! Let’s go!” Chrysallis let out a cry of rage as she sent a bolt of magic at Dom. It collided with him and dug his feet into the tile as he fought back the beam of energy. While the fight was raging, Twilight and her friends dug at the glue and managed to free Cadance. They still had to get her to Shining and they couldn’t do that with the Queen in their way. Dom saw this and slowly but deliberately made his way to her. Step after step he drew closer to her and she put everything into her spell. But it wasn’t enough as Dom grabbed her and flung them both away from the altar. “NOW!” Dom cried to the ponies. Cadance raced to Shining Armor and when she reached him and embraced her husband, a bright light shone from them both. Everyone covered their eyes and looked to see that both wife and husband were together, touching horns and smiling at each other as they rose into the air and waves of magic began to form around them. Dom released Chrysallis and went over to his friends who were backing away from the sight. “No….” Chrysallis said incredulously, “NOOOOO!” With that shout, the two lovers released their love and Chrysallis and her minions went sailing out of the room as every single changeling was picked up and sent along with them. The entire swarm and their queen disappeared over the horizon as Chrysallis cried in despair the whole way. The magic finally dimmed and the town was revealed whole and undamaged thanks to it. As the dust settled in the throne room, the five friends took a sigh of relief as they realized that it was all over. Then they turned to the ponies in the room as all of them were giving them looks of fear and apprehension. Dom decided to speak when the doors burst open again and a full battalion of guards rushed in and surrounded the humans. Soon they found themselves with almost a hundred spears pointed at their faces. They each raised their hands in a show of good will and Zack took the moment to speak. “Trick or Treat?”