King of the Dead Part 3 preview

“Your majesty, I received a letter from you, calling for aid against an Og Nag attack?” She looks confused. I hold out the letter. She takes it and reads it over, “I didn’t send this.” I glance at Emeris, then back to Celestia. “Your highness...who would have a reason to forge a letter from you?” She thinks for a moment and comes up with nothing. I turn to Emeris, “What’s going on? What possible reason would someone have to send us here?” Emeris , “I could see them sending us to an area for an ambush but that would take some serious guts...unless they don’t want to ambush US, they just want us gone so they can…” We both think it at the same time: Taraska. “They want us gone so they can take our city.” Celestia and Luna both Gasp.
Luna “Do you need our assistance?” I suck up my pride, “Actually, if you think you can get to Taraska faster than we can and help hold them off until we arrive, it may make or break our defensive.” She nods and takes off. We haul it down the road to get back to our units. Sergeant Dayke meets us before we even descend the mountain, “Sir, smoke from our city! They’re signalling for aid!” I growl angrily, feeling stupid “Get everyone back to the Rollers now!” We start down the mountain when Luna flies back to us. “Raiden, there’s a massive wave of Og Nag to the South! They’re going to hit Ponyville! I’m sorry but I must evacuate my people!” Before she flies away, I ask one last question “Luna, how many? Can you give me an estimate?!” She swallows “Thousands! And we don’t have enough guards to hold them!” Emeris looks at me and says what I was hoping he wouldn’t “We can either save them, or save us. They don’t have the forces to hold off the Og Nag, they’ll have huge casualties. But we don’t know how many are hitting Taraska. We do know they needed us gone though. So we can save our city, or Ponyville. Your call Captain.”