//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: Equestria under One Flag // Story: The Destruction of Equestria // by Deathstroke3170 //------------------------------// Chapter 4: Equestria under one flag Celestia, Luna, Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie,Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Discord gathered in the throne room area as the echoes “For Equestria” had only just died down. After everyone was done shouting Celestia told everypony to stay calm and to continue with their daily business until they had thought up a plan. Before they ended the spell of everypony hearing each other, they had convened a council meeting with all the leaders of the capitals in Canterlot. Each of the 4 alicorn princesses helped in teleporting the leaders into the same room. Cadance, Shining Armour, Flurry Heart and Sombra were the first ones to arrive, but everypony in the room went ballistic preparing their magic again when they saw those green eyes. Discord on the other hand looked in disgust at Sombra, “Ugh, why does he have to be here, you know reader’s you should ask to read my thoughts. I know I am a fictional character that was created by Lauren Faust I read my own wiki but anyway you are probably wondering why I feel disgust about him, well firstly he is a boring antagonist that only wants to conquer the crystal empire which is so dull. No sense of expansion or making an army, secondly since this is non-canon fanfiction where this is an alternative timeline Sombra is lucky to still be alive, he should be still dead in this. And thirdly I didn’t get my own chapter, now move along let the story continue.” “Hold!” Shining said calmly, raising his hoof in front of Sombra. “Are you sure big brother, Cadance vanquished him, he shouldn’t be alive,” Twilight said, with a bit of concern, she looked at Sombra’s state, “He wasn’t missing any body parts, which is a relief, he isn’t a Zompony, those are just works of fiction.” “I dunno if he can be trusted,” Applejack stated, “Yah think that since he returned that he would learn his lesson of taking over the empire, but to be honest with yah he still has that evil glint in his eyes.” “Oh my, the royal red cape is ruined, must fix.” Rarity whispered, looking ready to faint. “He is such a meanie!” Pinkie Pie yelled and pulled a pie out of nowhere ready to throw. Fluttershy didn’t know what to say as she looked towards those glowing eyes, Discord however stood valiantly in front of her and yelled, “I’ll protect you,” holding out his hands. It was a funny position for Fluttershy and made her giggle. “I’m gonna knock him out first before he can do anything to us,” Rainbow Dash yelled rushing forward towards him. Shining on the other hoof was getting tired of this and held a bubble of magic around Rainbow Dash in which she protested and started banging on the ball. The Princesses hadn’t moved at all, their wings were flared out with their horns sparkling with magic as they were keeping a wary eye on Sombra, but the intensity of the stares was like they were having an internal conversation. Cadance was trying to calm Flurry Heart as the tension in the room was thick as fog but it was then Princess Celestia nodded towards Sombra, and Princess Luna nodded towards Sombra. “Well you did say Twilight, friend or foe, we need as much help as we can get,” Luna said, looking sourly towards the sky, it was such a weird sky as it was now just sparkling stars but without the moon to enlighten the sky it was dark. A bit too dark for her liking, she was going to make Unicron pay. “You are right, we most likely need him for whatever we plan on doing,” Twilight said lowering her magic, all her other friends decided it was best to also stop attacking Sombra. Twilight then rushed forwards towards her BBBFF and hugged him tightly. “It’s good to see you Twilight” Shining said, placing the bubble down on to the floor, releasing Rainbow from her prison. While Twilight hugged him, she stared intently towards Sombra, the green eyes looking away as if in shame. “I must go now,” Luna said sourly, still looking at where the moon should be but before she vanished Celestia hugged her. “It’s alright Sister, we will win this, we must,” Celestia said, comforting Luna “For everypony’s sake.” “I must go too,” Twilight said hugging Shining one last time. The warmth of her brother was comforting to her but she had to go. Twilight and Princess Luna teleported away for a split second and then brought in two new leaders who the majority were not familiar with. One being the leader of Griffonstone, and the other being the leader of Saddle Arabia. “I am the appointed leader for Griffonstone, my name is Blackbeak II son of the commander of the Griffon defence force.” Blackbeak II said before bowing, his majestic black wings unfurled. “And I am Amira, the corresponding ambassador for Saddle Arabia.” Amira said, her pink horse like features amazed everypony around. “Yes, please have a seat while we wait for the other leaders to arrive,” Celestia said, ushering them towards the giant round table that had been set up in the throne room thanks to Discord’s chaos magic but what surprises he had for them when they all sat. Celestia vanished next as everypony and Discord conversed about the approaching threat that was looming. As time progressed more leaders popped up, Ember the dragoness, Scorpan the Gargoyle, Mayor Mare, Sendak the elder Centaur and many more from different races. By the time everyone was in the room the Alicorns were exhausted from the constant magic, and it was with Discord floating around like a lunatic trying to make their lives comfier that got everyone worried as they were needed the most in the plan against Unicron. “Fellow citizens of Equestria it is time for us to reunite as one kingdom as once done by my father, it is in this dire time that we must put aside our differences and amalgamate so that we can defeat the greater threat, the threat called Unicron,” Celestia said confidently, “Now let us sit and discuss what we must do.” But as everyone sat the sound of a fart could be heard from everypony. Everypony looked towards Discord immediately while the non-ponies looked at each other weirdly. “Is it too early to do this?” Discord asked innocently. “DISCORD!” everypony shouted. “Alright, alright, it isn’t the time or the place to do it, yada, yada, yada.” Discord said, “Shouldn’t we be focusing on the threat anyway?” The alicorns in the room face hoofed themselves simultaneously which made Flurry Heart giggle and copy them, but she started crying while every other pony groaned. The non-ponies had no idea what was happening but before any of them could ask they were interrupted. “Why is this fool here anyway?” King Sombra asked, “Aren’t you powerful enough to alter reality, you could just make the planet vanish away.” “Well to answer that question deceased unicorn,” Discord smirked, every non-pony’s attention shifted to Sombra wondering how he managed to survive death and studied him suspiciously as Discord continued, “The planet is called Unicron and he is a lord of Chaos himself if I have heard correctly, whatever I do to him only empowers him,” Discord retorted, “But yes I do have the powers to alter reality, but I am also chaos in that whatever I do will not help us in anyway as it will cause disharmony to whatever we plan to do.” “Ok, any other suggestions?” Luna asked plainly wishing that somebody have a great idea, “How about you Starswirl, you must have a spell that could destroy a planet?” “Sadly, I do not, nor is there enough time to create a new spell,” Starswirl said, still pondering. “Well instead of wondering how to stop him, first we need to know how much time we have, he already destroyed the moon, some of you have not witnessed it because of the time zone but if you look outside Luna’s moon is destroyed,” Twilight said, there were soon shocks and gasp as they looked through the window to see a pitch-black sky with white spots. “If the moon is destroyed, how come Unicron hasn’t attacked us yet?” someone asked in the crowd. “That was my thought exactly, he is not attacking us for a reason, whether it is because he fears us or is taunting us I have no clue, but from my readings of wars previously, there have been multiple reasons that the enemy does not attack,” Twilight said. “But Twilight those are about old wars about ponies, we are fighting against a planet, a planet that knows our history. But yes you are right for the planet is sentient and you raise a valid question on what is he waiting for,” Celestia said, everyone in the roomed murmured in agreement, but no one said anything. “I know!” an old gray hermit said as her disguise slowly dissipated, everyone in the room stood there shocked not realising that she was in the room, disguised as an old pony hermit. No one in their mind had thought to question the old hermit before and Chrysalis was getting tired of hobbling over like an old pony and saw that this meeting was going nowhere. “It has come to my attention that we are in a dire situation, and that we need a plan to stop a giant planet from eating us alive, the reason he is waiting is he is scouting ahead, as I used to do myself, when I first invaded the Crystal Empire, it took months of planning and scouting ahead so I can only assume that he has placed a spy among us,” “She does have a point, it’s like a liar knows a liar kind of thing, I myself should know, I know everything,” Discord cackled, twirling his grey goatee, as everyone in the room agreed, but they all looked towards each other. The intense stares filled the room as they try to spot the spy, the enemy within, but it was Shining that slammed his hoof on to the round table cracking it ever so slightly that got everyone’s attention. “There is no point of ratting out the spy in this room, we can’t frisk everyone in this room to tell us who is the spy, it may not even be that someone is helping Unicron. From what I heard he sounds like a God, he could be listening to us right now, so there is no point in fighting against each other. If we keep blaming each other, we will get nowhere with this meeting and every moment we spend bickering with each other we waste precious minutes that we might not have. “Well spoken,” King Sombra said who was in the corner of the room, the darkness in him was slowly spreading, it was because his body was still healing that he appeared in a wisp like form that the darkness had spread. “Shut up,” Shining replied, then he looked towards Cadance and Flurry, but Flurry was playing with a black tentacle made out of shadows and it was coming from Sombra, “And put yourself back together faster, you’re scaring my daughter,” “Thanks, Shining, that could have gotten out of hoof, I don’t understand why no one is making any good suggestions,” Twilight whispered. “You know whispering would work if everyone in the room was talking but now since you got everyone attention it’s kind of hard not to notice,” Discord whispered while trying not to giggle out loud. Twilight blushed and looked towards the floor, but before anyone could say anything about her Sombra intervened. “I have a solution, how hard is the spell to create the same shield against the blistering cold and me,” Sombra asked Cadance. “Not very hard but to hold it requires extensive magic and depending on the magic user it can only cover a certain distance,” Cadance replied. “I think we can cover the whole of Equestria in a shield,” Sombra said, everyone in the room looked at him if he was crazy. “Um, what do you mean?” Luna asked. “I mean that if every single unicorn or magical being uses the same spell we could cover the whole of Equestria, and that should protect us from Unicron attacking us, the shield you placed up Cadance lasted for as long you emitted magic, if we take turns we could survive,” Sombra said. “THAT’S GENIUS!” Twilight shouted unexpectedly, causing everyone in the room to shift to her, she blushed again but continued with every word bringing courage in her. “If what Sombra said is correct, which I hope it is, we could theoretically last as long as we have magic, and find a proper way to stop Unicron.” “But how much force can the barrier hold, if I am not mistaken from what my father said, Unicron is 3 times the size of our planet, the amount of pressure that Unicron exerts could demolish through our shield,” Celestia said grimly. “Well Cadance stopped me for a week at most,” Sombra said, “If everypony where to create the same shield we could potentially hold the barrier against Unicron, for a year. What stop giving me those looks, I did not have a good education!” “All in favor,” Celestia asked, “Aye, there is nothing else we can do” Scorpan said, “It is the best solution so far.” everyone else agreed and said “Aye” simultaneously. “Then it is settled, rally all magic users that are possible, and we will tell them of the plan. Twilight and the other smart beings in this room will help work out how many magic users we need theoretically to hold against Unicron, and the rest of you will help me to decide on how to stop Unicron once and for all, meeting adjourned,” Celestia said, tapping her hoof on the table as the same spell was casted.