Celestia stared at Sombra in shock. That was her Sombra. The one she had fallen in love with, and he was now a servant to this Overlord.
Sombra stared back at her. She saw regret and hopelessness in his eyes. What was going on here? Was he the Overlord's slave? Was he mind controlled? It could not possibly be that he was serving him of his own free will... Right?
"Sombra!" Celestia heard, She turned to see the Alternate Celestia pull out a spear. "Give up! You are Outnumbered!"
Sombra glared at the Alternate Celestia hatefully. It was clear to her at least in a basic sort of way, that Sombra blamed her for what had happened to him.
In a certain sense, she blamed her as well. But she could not put it past her, the Alternate Celestia was just evil, by nature.
"Check again," Sombra said, as suddenly, flaming eyes started opening in the wall of darkness behind him. There were dozens of them.
"Now then," Sombra started, as he walked down the pile of debris, "I do not want to fight you."
Sombra came to a halt on a rather large boulder and looked down upon them all. A series of hisses and groans emerged from the wall of darkness. It was clear that the eyes were angry.
"I merely want that idiot," Sombra stated, while pointing the tip of his axe at the Unconscious Alternate Pharynx. "Now hand him over, and no one has to get hurt."
"That is not happening," Ember said as she walked forwards, frowning. "You think we are idiots? Why would we give you a strong warrior back as a prisoner?"
Sombra was about to say something, when a crimson changeling burst through the Black shade.
"ENOUGH OF THIS!" the changeling screamed. "WE CAME HERE TO KILL AND DIE! NOT TO NEGOTIATE WITH INFERIOR SWINE!"
He unsheathed a black broadsword and snarled viciously.
"ALL HAIL THE OVERLORD! LET EQUESTRIA BURN!" the changeling roared, before jumping down from the pile of rubble created by the destruction of the wall and charging towards the party guests. Soon the rest of the flaming eyes in the darkness followed suit and dozens of changelings were charging at the guests.
Sombra rose his hoof in an attempt to stop it, but it was too late.
The Equestrian royal guard barely had enough time to put up a spear wall, before the battle itself began.
Ember was infront of the spear wall, so she was one of the first people attacked by the Crimson changelings in front of her.
There were 6 changelings booking it straight towards her, but she merely snarled at them and took a deep breath in, and spewed out a wave of violet fire directly onto them.
All 6 were completely engulfed, and when she stopped exhaling fire all 6 of them were sufficiently burning, but they still charged forwards, despite their immolation.
Ember could even swore she heard one of them laughing.
"What the-" She stared before the closest one jumped into the air and swing a sword at her.
The Sword slash glanced off her scales, and Ember delivered a quick punch to the changeling's face, flinging it through the air, where it collapsed it a burning heap on the pile of rubble far in front of Ember.
Ember looked on at her handiwork and smiled before dodging out of the way of another slash, this changeling wielding a billhook polearm.
She attempted to kick him, but a second burning changeling slashed her leg as it thrust outwards with a strait sword, leaving a deep gash.
Ember roared in pain before she swatted both of the changelings away like bugs (Pun intended) with her tail. She collapsed to one knee, the cut in her leg preventing her from standing.
A 4th changeling pounced towards the injured dragoness, but just when he was about to slash her, he was struck with a cyan beam and thrown away.
Ember looked over to see Thorax flying towards her.
The two remaining changelings hissed towards the changeling king, and came to a screeching halt, despite the fact that they were rapidly burning.
Thorax landed next to Ember, his horn and two antlers shining with cyan energy.
The two remaining changelings hissed and took off, to join another conflict that was happening.
Thorax looked over to Ember and smiled. "I guess they're afraid of me."
Thorax bent down to help up Ember.
"You ok?" he asked.
"I'm fine," Ember said as she pulled herself up, her body slightly shaking, not from fear, but from pain., "I could have beaten those guys alone, you know."
"I know, but it seemed like you could have at least used a little help," Thorax said as he helped her.
Thorax looked over to see that the Royal Guard were pushing the Changelings back a little, with their wall of spears impaling the charging Changelings, who did not seem to show even the slightest bit of self-preservation.
"I'm fine," she said, pulling herself away from him and taking to the air, spewing fire down on several changelings.
"That dragon is going to kill herself," he said, before he too took to the air and started shooting beams of cyan light into the Changeling army.
Ember strolled through the Overlord's new palace, unaware of the battle going on just through a mirror a couple floors below her.
She walked into the Overlord's throne room, to find him consulting with 4 changelings.
One was the 'Barxt' gentle-stallion, that she had absolutely trounced, while she did not know the other three.
The One closest to the Overlord wore a full suit of black segmented armor and a helmet, with two large spikes emerging from the sides, with talons emerging from his hooves like the Overlord and Pharynx. He spoke in a deep voice. "My Overlord. I am sure, without a shadow of a doubt, that the world through the mirror is simply not worth the effort to conquer. I say that we get Pharynx and Sombra back and simply shatter the mirror."
Another Changeling with a dark red suit (Similar to a tuxedo) and a monocle spoke out next, his voice eloquent and savy, "While Lord General Morion does present a rather sound argument, I feel that two Equestria's would be much better then one."
A third changeling spoke out, this one had an Eyepatch, and wore a suit of Black plate armor. "I second general Lurick on this. My Lord, it is clear to me that one day this Equestria will dry out of food for us. If we own both Equestria's we will be able to hop to that one while this one replenishes, and vice versa."
Barxt was the last one to speak out. "Once again, I unfortunately find myself against the Lord-General in terms of Tactical thinking. I believe that we should indeed take the other Equestria."
"Other Equestria?" Ember said as she strolled towards the 5 Changelings. "What do you mean by that?"
"Oh Ember my dear, please take a seat," the Overlord said as he snapped his fingers, and two Changelings flew in with a chair for Ember to sit in.
Ember did as she was told and sat down.
"Now the, tell me, what do you know about multiverses?" the Overlord said.