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// Retribution 
// Story: Halo: Equestria 
// by shenadri 
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Meanwhile, unknowingly, Ambassador Wisperwind was gloating over his little victory, according to the traitor Blueblood, the heavenly sisters themselves were going to fall on this day, because, thanks to all the help between the obese griffon and the prince, poison Which was being administered to Celestia was fulfilling its task, and thanks to the poisonous words of the prince himself, the stupid mare had left to the command of some troops, marking victories pretty easy for Griffons, while the campaign with the Changelings continued advancing .

With this thought, the small smile on the face of the fat griffon momentarily disappeared, although it was true that the effort between his own people and the changelings was evident, it was those insects that had provided the warriors of Griffenhalla with the so-called 'carbines ', And it was thanks to the elaboration of these weapons by the Changelings, that in the end the war was possible.

'None of this matters,' the ambassador thought, 'once we put the pompous imbecile here in command, he will provide the materials for his own destruction.' The changeling carbines themselves were some pretty awful weapons, yet the version the shapeshifters gave the griffons lacked a crucial element to make them truly unbeatable.

Thaumium, the scarce mineral in Griffonia, was one of the most rare and precious materials for the Griffons, not only because of it's resistant magical properties, but also because of the ability to penetrate shields of magical origin, as well as the peculiarity of being lethally effective against magic users.

And the mineral, which, thanks to a perfect manipulation on the part of the ambassador, the prince had ceded the rights for his exploitation to the griffons of the frontier, thus guaranteeing that the armories of the empire could at last produce weapons capable of neutralizing even the Celestial Sisters.

'The cherry on the cake,' Whisperwind thought to himself, 'is that those insignificant Changelings do not know of my little agreement with the stupid little prince, once we have conquered Equestria, my mercenaries will be able to go and murder that stupid queen and her entourage, And the Griffons 'empire will once again be the greatest power in the known world.' The mustard-colored griffon ended up laughing like a maniac, raising worried looks from the members of the airboat crew.

"Now," the obese bird said, turning his keen gaze upon the immaculate castle on the horizon, "we should turn to our prize, shall we not?"

None of the crew seemed to notice the brief green flashes in the ambassador's eyes.

Canterlot Trone Room, 45 minutes later.

To say that Twilight Sparkle was not ready was an inference of the greatest caliber. After the successful arrest of Blueblood (who, inexplicably did not have some teeth due to some incident during his capture, according to several soldiers and an Applejack quite insistent in evading the subject, which generated more questions), the rest of the nobility was brought to the throne room, which was also being remodeled with a throne that currently supports the enormous weight of the reappeared princess and her armor (several of the servants still could not understand how anyone could break a solid marble throne just by sitting down), so, when the nobles arrived, several of the pompous stallions and mares did not expect to see a purple metal golem next to a destroyed throne and the best adviser to Princess Celestia, Sunny Edge, giving a stern lecture to the aforementioned golem, who was in a position of submission to the disaster caused by his ... back.

"I understand perfectly, Your Highness, that you want to always be in armor at the moment, but there are simply moments in which a more... delicate approach can work wonders for your image." The honey-colored mare was saying, frowning towards the mess caused by the armored princess.

"I understand Sunny," the golem replied with a surprisingly feminine voice for many of Canterlot's snobs, "Damn it, Celestia is going to kill me"

"Ahem"

Turning quickly, the mare and the spartan met with a multitude of eyes in them, before the panic took one of the most irrational members of the nobility to act, one of the guards stationed at the door proceeded to do the respective Announcement of petitioners in court.

"Darling," Rarity exclaimed among the nobles, opening up to the front and running to give a hug (which Twilight, because of the height difference, could not reciprocate) "I thank Faust almighty that you are well, what happened exactly? ! "

"Hello Rarity," the spartan replied, rising from the ground, "eh ... well, I did not really remember that the armor was that heavy, since the princesses put me in charge, I wanted to meet all the nobles and ... . "

What Twilight was going to say was forgotten, when all the nobles heard that the Celestial Sisters had left the spartan in charge they began to whisper and outright shout towards the startled spartan, in the subsequent chaos no one noticed a young noble trying to go without raising suspicion towards the door.

Door that was suddenly opened inwards by a kick, and Applejack came in with her shotgun at the ready, seeing the noble just in front of her totally surprised, the cowgirl smiled.

"I have you now, damn changeling!"

"Applejack, wait !!" Twilight tried to warn, only to have the farmer pull the trigger, separating the legs from the body to the noble, at the same time ripping its disguise.

And bathing the nobles who were closer in changeling blood in the process, the closest to Twilight were protected by a barrier that the young mage could conjure in the last second.

Seeing the destruction and the chaos that she caused, the orange spartan simply leaned on the butt of the still smoking gun, shrugging her shoulders, and staring at the stunned Rarity and the angry princess in front of her, Applejack simply lifted her hand towards the helmet, giving the protective headgear a couple of taps.

"What, you told me to use the gizmos you build in the armor, did you not?"