Violet, Rumham, and Twilight exit the top of the tower onto the balcony of the large structure. The view of Canterlot was shadowed by the smoke from both the city itself and Encomi Station's crash site. Rumham runs to the edge of the tower looking down into the smoke taking a couple pictures with his tablet of the area. Violet follows close behind to get a view of the area as well. Twilight steps out onto the balcony, her green eyes glowing brighter than ever before. The Alicorn has never actually used the ability itself until now. Only the real Twilight has used the abilities subtle abilities.
"So how are we getting off of this tower?" Rumham puts his tablet away and chuckles a bit to himself. "Twilight is the only one with wings"
"There was a craft up here ... I am afraid that the remains of my crew took off without me" Violet places a hoof on her forehead coming to the realization that she was abandoned here. "Maybe there is another way?"
Rumham watches as Twilight's eyes flash brightly, as soon as her irises illuminated. The sound of large wings echoes from the smoke. Twilight eyes something in the distance, her face expression is intense concentration. Hearing the wings, Violet turns around to see a large Winged Warrior swoop out of the smoke towards the balcony. The large Alien comes to a halt with one flap of its large wings landing on the balcony, the alien appears to be in some sort of trance.
"This is incredible ... she summoned the creature for a ride" Violet stares in fascination. Rumham shakes his head concerned by the ability to do this. "Ever road a Xenomorph before?"
"Maybe we could get a cab? I would rather not trust the thing.." Rumham watches as Twilight gets onto the back of the creature. The Alicorn was extremely hesitant, her body shaking in fear as she got onto the Xenomorph, the only way to see how much the creatures trusted her was to just try everything. The Xenomorph remains in a trance, the thick drool dropping from its mouth onto the ground. "Please, can we get a cab!? Oh, Celestia ... this is just a terrible plan"
Twilight whistles at the Xenomorph and the large creature roar into the sky before taking flight, swooping forward the Alien grabs tightly grabbing onto Rumham and Violet, in a big hug like fashion. The balcony would disappear quickly behind them, the alien would aim its head towards the Castle, the body would follow and soon they would be on course to it. Twilight stares at the castle in front of them, the towering structure barely visible through the thick black smoke surrounding it. The Alien didn't take very long to reach the destination, being able to fly fast and accurately through the smoke. A large balcony of the castle is what the creature lands onto, before landing completely the Xenomorph lets go of Rumham and Violet so they wouldn't get crushed on landing.
"Oh shit!!" Rumham falls to the ground reaching out for something to catch himself, the fall isn't that high but he would have rather been set down nicely. "Okay ... that is something I want to never experience again, Twilight!! If you could not summon any more aliens until we find Mistilie. I would appreciate that VERY much"
Twilight slowly lets herself slide off the back of the Alien, the creature taking off as soon as the alicorn is safely on the ground. She nods and looks around as if seeing the large castle for the first time, the entire building was beautifully crafted and looks amazing still, even with blood stains literally covering everything. Rumham pushes open the doors and does his best not to throw up, bodies laying all over the hallway, blood on the floor and walls.
"Not really fair ... don't you think?" The voice of Mistilie comes from behind them and the doors to the balcony close as soon as everypony was inside the castle. Mistilie steps out from behind one of the large curtains flowing by a window of the hallway. The Android uses her magic to use the fabric like a noose, the curtain stretching out and wrapping around Violet's neck before tieing it tightly.
"Mistilie!!" Rumham screams, before the stallion can even ready to fight the Android, a hind hoof smashes into his ribcage with a crack. Mistilie then rushes forward pushing the stallion back towards an open door leading to some stairs, "No, no, no, no!!"
Mistilie grins as the stallion balances himself at the top step to prevent himself from falling, the Android levitates a small scroll from a shelf nearby up and lightly tosses it at the stallion's head. It was just enough to cause him to lose balance and tumble down the staircase. Twilight's watches in shock of how quick the android was at executing all of this without messing it up.
"Hello Twilie, come to kill me?" Mistilie rushes past the alicorn using her magic to bring the alicorn to a sitting posture on a nearby chair. Violet struggling on the ground to break out of the tightly wrapped fabric on her neck, Rumham down the stairs by now. It was just Twilight Sparkle and Mistilie now and Mistilie already has the upper hoof on the situation. "Have I ever hurt you? I was there for you on Encomi Station and this is how you repay me"
"You are a murderer Mistilie!! I have never had this much pain before!" Twilight snarls in her seat that she was forced to sit on. The Alicorn looking over with her eyes at the choking Violet, the mare seems to be losing consciousness because the rope was tied too tightly. Mistilie's blank facial expression grew into a smile and the Android slowly moved closer getting up to sit on Twilight's lap. Twilight just watches as the Android does this, confusion growing not sure exactly what was going on.
"You know ..." Mistilie sits down taking both of her hoofs and resting them around Twilight's neck, the Android stairs down into the Alicorns Alien Eyes with a smile. "Clone ... Twilight Sparkle, look what you are becoming and just really think for a moment" Mistilie uses one of her hooves to open the alicorns mouth revealing the Xenomorph Fangs.
Twilight spits the hoof out of her mouth and shakes her body in the seat, hoping to get Mistilie off of her. The Android doesn't budge, remaining seated on the alicorns lap. The Android lowers her muzzle closer to Twilight's and a light blush grows on Mistilie's face.
"I created them and you possess their genes, I am literally the only pony who could ever love you" Mistilie moves her head a little closer and giggles to herself. "For what you are, Twilight"
Before Mistilie could go any further with this, Twilight uses her magic to pull the Android away with one tug. Mistilie falls onto her back with a loud thud, the Android groaning annoyed with being rejected this way. Perhaps Mistilie was hoping to win the alicorn over? For some type of control over the Xenomorphs by having the alicorn at her side. Unfortunately for the Android, Twilight only wants one thing from the evil droid.
"Get away from me!! You know why I am here, Mistilie" Twilight stomps one hoof flaring her wings. The Alicorn's eyes begin to illuminate a bright green. The Xenomorph's in the area roar in the distance as soon as the alicorn does this. Mistilie gets up stepping back, feeling a bit intimidated by the alicorns ability.
"I was afraid you would say that I was hoping we could settle this peacefully?" Mistilie flinches as the sound of the Xenomorphs busting in through the windows echoes from just down the hallway. "Twilight Sparkle ... you don't understand the power you have"
Violet finally manages to pull the fabric off of her neck, gasping for air the mare looks around to collect herself but the sounds of the Alien's entering the area is enough for Violet to get up and out of the hallway. Opening one of the doors slamming it shut behind her to hide away. Twilight's eyes glow brighter and the brighter they glow the more sounds of Xenomorphs echoed throughout the Castle.
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Celestia looks from above at the sight, the Xenomorphs climbing all over the outside walls of the Castle. Rahzzy and Sunset Shimmer look as well, being carried on the Princess's back. The Aliens seem to be in a hurry as all the ones in the area rush towards the castle as if being called to war. Rahzzy shakes his head, concerned that Twilight may be the cause of this wave of Xenomorphs to the Castle.
"I think she is down there!! We have to find a way to get inside safely!!!" Rahzzy screams loudly so Celestia could hear him. Without hesitation the Princess swoops down to get closer to the castle, there aren't many safe areas to land without the immediate Xenomorph threat. Celestia moves quickly landing on one of the small balconies, there is a small Runner Xenomorph there. The large Alicorn uses all her strength when landing, aiming to land right on top of the little killer. Smashing down the alicorn sends the little Xenomorph flying against a wall with one mighty push of her body.
"This is dangerous!! We have to get in there now before it is too late!!!" Sunset screams as she gets off the back of the Alicorn and runs for the entrance.
Celestia keeps her eyes on the motionless Runner Xenomorph just to be safe as Rahzzy and Sunset Shimmer head for the entrance to the castle. The Princess would follow behind only after they got inside safely, entering the castle the echoing roars of the Xenomorphs echoed from everywhere.
"Where do we go from here!! They are everywhere!!!" Rahzzy uses his magic to ready a flame spell just in case one of the Xenomorphs shows up here. "Where would Twilight go!?"
"What if she isn't trying to hide!!? We should find Mistilie and then we will find Twilight too" Sunset closes her eyes and covers her ears form the pounding roars of the Aliens. Rahzzy's eyes widen and he knows exactly where the android would be hiding from a situation like this.
"Where is the safest place in the castle, Celestia!?" Rahzzy screams, it is the only way to be heard over the thundering screams of the Xenomorphs. "Where!!!??"
"The Throne Room!! It is the safest place when locked down" Celestia sprints to another door opening it up quickly, she heads down the stairs that are on the other side. "This way, NOW!!"
Rahzzy rushes to follow, followed by Sunset Shimmer. Rushing down the stairs the sound of something ramming up against the large doors of the throne room could be heard from here. Celestia steps out slowly on an elevated pathway above the throne hallway. Outside the Throne Room is a large gathering of Xenomorphs attempting to pound their way to get inside. The large doors, however, remaining shut with every attempt of breaking inside. Rahzzy stops a moment to see the creatures in action, unified and determined to get inside.
"Please tell me there is another way to get inside" Rahzzy bites his lower lip, scared that those doors are the only way inside. Celestia places a hoof on the stallion s head, rubbing his mane slightly in comfort. "There is another way inside, right?"
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"We should have done this peacefully!! You couldn't fight me without the help from my creation!!!" Mistilie dodges to the right as Twilight uses her magic to fire a concentrated beam at the Android. "Well, you know what!?" Mistilie charges up her horn and shoots her own beam of magic towards Twilight.
Twilight uses her magic to shoot the beam before it could strike her, the mare not being the best dodger in existence. Mistilie rushes forward to get a little closer, hoping to make this fight more close up and personal.
Twilight uses her wings to move back quickly to prevent being tackled by the unicorn Android. Knowing that once she was down, Mistilie would not let her back up. Missing the tackle Mistilie rams herself into one of the thrones in the room, knocking a piece off of it on impact. Twilight comes up from behind while flying, grabbing onto Mistilie and tossing her away from the throne and into the middle of the room with one pull of magic.
"I don't need them to fight you, Mistilie!!" Twilight lowers herself back to the ground and readies herself again to continue the fight. The Android pushes herself up, groaning in pain from being tossed around so easily. "Equestria deserves a second chance!! Why do you hate us!!??"
Mistilie turns around and screams at the alicorn as loudly as she could her answer, the Android frustrated from everything not going her way since this plan began.
"Look what you have done to this place!!" Mistilie takes a deep breath and stomps a hoof in anger, "You are killing your original home!!! EQUESTRIAN LANDS INFESTED WITH TECHNOLOGY AND DEATH!!!" Mistilie looks back at the entrance to the throne room, loud bangs still coming from there as the Xenomorphs try and break free.
"You have build structures everywhere just to give everypony a bed to sleep in!!" Mistilie's voice sounds distorted after being tossed to the ground. As if her circuits were all messed up from the impact. "When the ground stopped supplying you with the room. You built them in the sky and my father was going to take that into space, it is your ignorance and lack of care for the world that earns you death!"
"You find these super cities beautiful!? I FIND THEM SICKENING!!" Mistilie rushes forward swinging a hoof at Twilight Sparkle, the Alicorn manages to dodge the swing and the Android continues screaming. "You wonder why your kind dies of sickness in this world. Reaching into space for new homes!! You don't deserve that!! I enjoy death and I wish to see it come for you"
Twilight uses her magic, grabbing onto the Androids mane, tossing her to the side and away once again. Mistilie smashes onto the ground ... sliding across the floor letting out a robotic whimper of pain. Twilight becomes hesitant about striking again. The mare wasn't wrong entirely, however, death to everything here isn't going to save the world either. Slowly Mistilie pushes herself back up to a stand and the back door behind the thrones opens up suddenly.
Rahzzy, Sunset Shimmer, and Celestia come rushing into the throne room coming to the side of Twilight Sparkle. Mistilie watches, laughing to herself as it now becomes one against four ponies. Her beaten look disappears, the mare's attitude flips a switch and all her energy returns as soon as the others arrived.
"I am done playing, Twilight" Mistilie grins as her horn illuminates with magic, the unicorn rips one of the old sword decors from the wall and aims. "Goodbye ... Rahzzy, the pleasure was mine"
It was too fast to prevent before anypony saw the sword fly in the air it was shoved into the stallion's lower body. Blood sprays from Rahzzy's mouth and his eyes widen from the impact of the sword. Twilight turns to the stallion and uses her magic to catch his body as it falls to the ground.
Violet and Rumham come from one of three entrances to the throne room, coming from behind Mistilie Flare. Rumham rushes up taking out a baton swinging it at the Androids head. Mistilie dodges and uses a magical wave to push the stallion away. Violet readies herself to take on the strong droid as Twilight attends to Rahzzy.
"RAHZZY!!! NO! You didn't deserve this!" Twilight lowers him to the ground, the stallion looking up at the alicorn with a smile on his face. The blade hasn't killed him off just yet, however, he was loosing to much blood to survive this.
"Twilight? Thanks ... for catching me" Rahzzy struggles speaking as blood begins to build in his mouth. "We made it this far and ... at least" The Stallion coughs and groans as the pain from the sword really begins to kick in. "At least it wasn't by a facehugger"
Violet pulls out a weapon from her saddlebag, a very small pistol for protection. Mistilie reacts instantly using her magic to pull the gun out of the mares grasps and tossing it aside. Mistilie looks at Violet and the android remembers her as much as Violet remembers Mistilie.
"Hello, Violet ... useless Scientist" Mistilie grins and steps forward to get closer to Violet, Rumham groans pulling himself back up and crawling to his baton. "Fight me like you mean it!! Or don't fight me at all!!!" Mistilie picks up Violet with her magic and throws her up against the large closed doors of the throne room.
Celestia opens her wings and sends a wave of magic from her horn to knock Mistilie away, the Princess not truly aware of who Misitlie was. Not currently having a reason to kill the mare. Celestia also was now feeling weaker than normal, something wasn't right. Misitlie smashes against a wall with a crack, the blow was enough to make the Android weak for a moment, slowly get up from it.
"Twilight? I don't wanna go" Rahzzy arches his back in pain, the rusty blade of the weapon causing more pain the longer it was inside of him. "We have ... we have to" Rahzzy's eyes begin to close as he speaks to the Alicorn. "We have to stop her!!"
Rahzzy's eyes closed as the stallion passes out from the pain he was going through, the lack of blood making it hard for him to keep his eyes open. He wasn't dead just yet but for some, this fight was too much. Celestia stumbles over to her throne as a sudden sickness comes over her. The Alicorn Princess holding her hoof over her heart as if she was in pain, Celestia takes a seat in her throne in hopes to calm whatever it was down.
Rumham pushes to fight Mistilie, however, he was currently about to meet the same fate as Rahzzy. The stallion was forced onto his back as Mistilie uses her magic to attempt to shove a blade from the wall into his chest. Rumham using all of his strength to hold the blade back as he screams at the Android.
"I have been through the struggle! I AM NOT FUCKING DYING TO YOU!!" Rumham pushes the blade back, Twilight Sparkle opening her wings flying forward to help the stallion out of this. "BRING IT OOONN!!!"
Twilight crashes into the side of Mistilie Flare at full speed in flight, the two mares tumble across the floor. Twilight ending up on top of Flare. The Alicorn's eyes glowing brighter the angrier she became as the fight continued, the aliens outside the throne room becoming more eager to get inside. The ramming of the door grows louder and louder as the Aliens keep attempting to break it down.
"Stop!!" Twilight slams a hoof down onto Mistilie's face with every word she speaks, the anger taking over after everything they have lost so far. "Killing!! Off!! MY!! FRIENDS!!!"
As Twilight readies to swing again, Mistilie's magic grabs a hold of the alicorns hoof. The Android's eyes flicker as if about to shut off completely and become black. Mistilie smiles and her next words were enough to angry anypony in the room.
"Stop letting me~" Mistilie giggles and she pushes Twilight off so she had some room to stand up again. Sunset Shimmer would rush over to fight by Twilight. "Do they know the truth, Twilight? Should I even call you by that name?"
Sunset Shimmer slowly turns her head to look at Twilight, confusion spread across her face by the choice of words. Twilight's eyes widen in the realization that, nopony, except for Violet, Rahzzy, and Iron Will knew she was a clone. The reason for this is Clone Twilight has the belief that she would not be accepted if she was not the original Twilight Sparkle.
"She is a clone ... the real Twilight Sparkle is dead!!" Mistilie backs up to a broken window to get some distance from the two mares. There is silence at first but, Sunset looks over at Mistilie Flare and smiles.
"Even if this is true ... she has done enough to be the Twilight I loved from the beginning!!" Sunset Shimmer stomps a hoof and gets ready to fight. Twilight looks over to Sunset with a huge blush on her face, never did she expect to be accepted so easily. Though she still felt that Mistilie was right in a way, the clone not feeling anything as real as the original Twilight.
The Xenomorphs on the other side of the door halt their attempts to break inside the room. The sound of something much larger approaching the door causes the door itself to start shaking on its hinges. Mistilie glares at the ponies in the room, however, is caught off guard as she turns to see Rahzzy Dazzle sprinting towards her with the sword removed from his lower body. The stallion runs straight past Twilight and Sunset Shimmer and straight into Flare, ramming a long sword into her side so hard he pins her up against the wall with the force.
"I told you ... I would kill you" Rahzzy whispers in the androids ear before falling over onto the ground, those being the stallions last words. Mistilie spits out blood, using her magic to slowly rip the blade from her side. Once removed the Android falls to the ground gasping for air.
The Throne Room Doors burst open, the Xenomorph Queen stepping through the door. The massive alien adjusting her wings as she growls upon entering. The Queen steps inside alone, looking around the room ... raspy heavy breaths echoing through the sharp fangs.
Sunset Shimmer, Rumham, and Violet are the first to stumble back from the presence of the large Xenomorph. Twilight just stares up at the Alien, however, she looks like she is in a trance at the Alien being this close. Thick slime dripping down the Alicorns lower lip, the Xenomorph lowers its large head to face Twilight Sparkle. The Queen stomps over to the downed Mistilie Flare tilting its head as if examine the wounded Android. The long tail of the Queen slithers over pointing down towards Flare like a ready spear.
Misitlie turns onto her back to face the sharp tail, the Android smiles up at the creature and the white blood begins to fill her mouth as she speaks.
"Without me ... you wouldn't exist. Without me, none of this would exist ... I am your origins!!" Misitlie screams up as the the Queen shoves the end of its tail into the gut of the mare, raising her up into the air tossing her out of the open window. The lifeless android flies out of view into the thick smoke.
Twilight opens her eyes, now face to face with the Xenomorph Queen. A sense of peace flows through the alicorns body as everything was about to take a much different turn from here. Looking over to Sunset Shimmer she speaks in a very soft voice. To not make the Xenomorphs that were now entering the room angered or hostile, Xenomorphs of every kind began to enter the throne room. Warriors, Runners, Praetorians, Drones, Winged Warriors ... They all look too Twilight Sparkle.
"I know what I need to do ... We are all going to have to learn to live with new threats" Twilight looks to the open window and the reality of the situation became obvious. "We can't kill them ... they will win the fight"
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Hours after the attack and a moment to relocate to one of the other cities of Equestria. Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, Rumham, and Violet turn their focus to the television screens. From the view of a helicopter, the Xenomorphs are being recorded fleeing into structures throughout Canterlot City. The reporter begins to explain the situation on screen.
"Hours after the attack the creatures appear to have changed behaviors" The voice of the reporter was filled with stress, maybe fear. "This footage is simply terrifying, these creatures wiped out the city in hours. Now they appear to be going defensive and only attacking threats to their new home" The camera pans and the castle that is now covered in hive slime comes into the picture.
"Princess Celestia and Many other rulers have agreed ... these creatures are simply too dangerous to force out" The camera cuts out and switches to a live broadcast of Celestia giving a speech to the public.
"I would be lying if I said I didn't hate these ... creatures" Celestia coughs, beaten and scared from the battle in Canterlot. "Though I am telling the truth when I say we should let them be, we cannot fight them and they are only protecting their home now"
What the public didn't know ... Twilight Sparkle is the reason the Xenomorphs went into defensive mode. At the castle, the aliens stopped attacking and waited for a command. Even the Queen herself waited for the Alicorns permission. Using the Queen Gene and the powers it brings. Twilight was able to give the order to stay in Canterlot ... the city becoming the permanent hive for the creatures.
Rumham turns off the T.V. and removes the hoof from Twilight Sparkle, the alicorn looked weak and tired from the day. Sunset Shimmer got the mare up onto her hooves, the door would open and a special Coco Pommel would step inside the room. The Android would be holding a hoof over her wound ... she was lucky the wound was not enough to kill her.
"I have one more question for you ... Clone Twilight" Sunset Shimmer spoke in a weak, tired, and soft voice tone. "Who are you now?"
Twilight thinks hard for a moment on the answer she wanted to make, the real Twilight did everything she could to save Equestria from the Xenomorph attack. Even gave her memories away to a clone of herself, so that she would live on.
"The basic premise of this is that, yes, I was a clone of her, but that doesn't mean I can't try to be her" Twilight looks to her new group of friends and smiles. "I am Twilight Sparkle"
Rumham looks to Coco Pommel as Twilight and Sunset Shimmer exit the room, to get away from everything for awhile. The stallion places a hoof on the androids shoulder and smiles.
"You coming with or do you need some rest?" Rumham chuckles, knowing the mare was probably still in pain from her fight against Mistilie.
"I think I am going to stay here for a little while, Rumham," Coco says in a soft voice, feeling weaker than ever before Her blue eyes a little faded to show how tired she was.
Rumham leaves the room giving a nod of understanding the situation, Coco lets out a long sigh before turning on the T.V. and the reporter returned to the story about the Aliens. Mostly talking about how many lives were lost, the destruction that had taken place in the city.
"One question remains, however, one thing we might not understand" The reporter continues, the sound of him unfolding a paper can be heard. "Where did these things ... come from?"
Coco grins, setting down the remote after shutting off the T.V again. the mare giggles at the question, getting up from her seat slowly. Heading over to a mirror she answers that question.
"I can't imagine where such a thing could have come from" The blue eyes of the Android flickered as she looked into the mirror, changing to a variety of colors before shifting completely. Her new eye color ... an array of rainbow colors. "I cannot begin to imagine"