The Alternate Celestia, whose appearance had shifted to more closely resemble that of Daybreaker, rose from her chair and charged directly towards the Overlord. Using magic, she created a spear out of shining energy and thrusted it at him. Just as quickly, a Zweihander made out of flame appeared in front of the Overlord and parried Celestia's spear.
The two held their weapons together, in a shaking parry, as they solidified. Celestia's light spear becoming a spear golden in color, with a blade as white as ivory, while the Overlord's weapon became a grey Zweihander, so dark in shade that it was almost black. Both weapons were wrapped in the respective colored magic colors of their owners. Golden for Celestia and Crimson for Overlord Thorax.
"You prove my point, Celestia," the Overlord said as he walked forwards, pushing his blade forwards with him, forcing Celestia to take a step back. "Ponies are mindless savages, only driven by base desires for vengeance and controlled by their emotions. You do not deserve to rule, if you let your emotions control you."
"You killed my sister!" Celestia screamed in response before pulling her spear back, shooting out sparks as the gold platting of the spear was scratched up by the black steel of the Overlord's weapon.
She suddenly rushed forwards, wildly stabbing at the Overlord. The Overlord merely walked backwards to dodge her insane thrusts, and stabs. When one of her strikes looked as if it were going to stab him in the heart, he rose his blade and slammed it into her spear from below, causing Celestia to lose her magic grip and the spear to sail high into the air, before slamming into the street a couple meters behind Celestia, stabbing into the cobblestone street.
"You're right, Celestia. I did kill your sister." Thorax walked forwards, his blade coming to his side. "Worry not, however. You are about to join her."
Suddenly a second spear came flying at him. This spear was similar to the other, but had gems encrusted along its shaft, making it differ from the pure gold of the other. It was similarly wrapped in golden aura, but the Alternate Celestia's horn was not glowing.
The Overlord rose his sword in time to bat the spear away, but it was an incredibly close shave. Thorax was then punched in the side of the head by a white hoof with a golden slipper (Or whatever those things Celestia wears are called.). The Overlord was propelled away by the blow and landed on his stomach, back facing the Alternate Celestia.
The real Celestia flew back from hitting the Alternate Thorax and landed by her counter part, taking her spear back into her grasp. The Alternate Celestia followed suit, grabbing her Spear as well.
The Overlord rose to his feet, before turning his head and flaring his eyes with an animal like snarl. The Fire burning in his eyes was much more intense now. He quickly turned around and raised a hoof. He swatted it through the air and 6 Zweihander appeared floating in the air in bursts of fire. They all shot towards the dual Celestias at once, but both of them rose golden magic shields in time. The Shields broke after the third Zweihander, but the two ducked in time to avoid getting hit by the Zweihanders. The three which had not been blocked impaled into the street behind them.
"You dogs truly are persistent. Try as I might to discourage you from throwing your lives away, here you are, raising your spears against me. How pathetic." The Overlord said as he walked forwards. "Suicide is hardly a good idea for monarchs."
The Alternate and real Celestias flared their wings. The Overlord flared his Elytra. Instead of the clear, thin, carapace wings that Changelings usually had, fire emerged from behind them. The large inferno that came out of The Overlord back soon took the vague shape of wings. "Now then, vermin, prepare to meet your deaths."
With a flap of the flaming wings he propelled himself into the air. Soon he was far above them. The two Celestias took to the air after him.
Thorax waved his hoof through the air several times and created several dozen Zweihanders. All at once the Zweihander shot towards the two. Skillfully they dodged through the swarm of blades, weaving in-between the swords as they flew towards the two. Those they could not dodge they easily hit away from them with their spears or created shields to block. The remaining blades rained down past them and ended up impaling many a crimson changeling below.
Just before they arrived at him, the Overlord created yet another sword and grabbed it in his clawed hoof, he held it horizontally right in front of him and scraped his other hoof across the flat edge of the Zweihander, creating Crimson sparks.
The real Celestia arrived first. She thrust directly at his heart with her spear. He caught the spear with his free front hoof and brought his Zweihander down directly on it's middle chopping the spear in half. With the section he still held, which included the spear, he thrust it towards the real Celestia's chest.
Just before it hit her, it was blasted out of his hand by a golden beam. The Falling section was grabbed by the real Celestia's magic and slammed back into place on her spear, which she cast a repair spell on, fixing it.
The other Celestia pulled up next to the Overlord and the two struck towards the Overlord in unison.
The Overlord dodged by flying upwards. He then created a second Zweihander and took it in his other hoof. The, now duel wielding, Overlord flew down to their level and slashed at both of them with his swords.
The Princesses blocked, the Alternate one being much better at it than the real one, and both began attacking the Overlord with their spears. The Overlord used his swords to block the many thrusts until he eventually knocked the real Celestia's spear from her hands.
The Real Celestia was forced to fly away from the Overlord to avoid a slash from his Zweihander.
"Enough of this!" Celestia yelled before her horn was covered in golden light. She fired it directly at the Overlord.
The Overlord only had enough time to raise his sword and block the beam with it. When the beam stopped, all the Overlord was left holding was a hilt and a mostly melted blade. The Overlord tossed it away before he rose one of his lower hooves to kick the Alternate Celestia in the face, flinging her away.
The Overlord then turned to look at her. "You realize by doing this, you have declared war on my kind right?"
"I don't care. You killed my Sombra." Celestia said, her eyes narrowing into hateful slits.
"Au contraire, mon cher," The Overlord said. "He killed himself."
"Celestia, be careful." Twilight said as she saw her teacher squaring off with the mad Changeling King above them. The Changelings did not close in on them, they were too busy reorganizing after quite a few of their crossbow men had been killed by falling blades, or watching the fight that was going on.
She was knocked out of her trance when a cyan beam suddenly shot by her. She followed it's trajectory where it struck the Alternate Pharynx in the side as he was about to bring his blade directly into the downed form of Gallant. Thorax jumped from his seat and went over to the sight of the battle between the alternate Pharynx and the warriors. Although the word slaughter was more accurate.
All of them were coated in wounds head to toes with cuts, bruises and other such wounds, a couple of them had broken bones as well.
Twilight was about to rise from her seat to help but suddenly ropes shot out of it and wrapped around her, keeping her still, she charged for horn to ready a spell but then found it covered by something, preventing her from preforming a spell. She looked around to see the others were in similar situations.
The Table suddenly changed into a Crimson changeling with flaming eyes.
'Oh right.' she thought. 'The seat was a changeling.'
Thorax gulped at the damage he saw. If this was a world without magic all of them would probably be dead, or would at least be crippled for life.
His antlers and horn glowed Cyan and he picked all of them up and held the 6 of them directly in front of him.
"Don't worry, I got you guys." he said.
He channeled Cyan magic into them and used his advanced healing magic, as provided to him by being a Changeling King, to heal their many wounds. He set the 6 of them back onto their hooves/feet.
"Let's go. We need to grab the others and get through the portal right now." He said to them. They nodded and looked to the portal/mirror but were stopped as Dozens of Crossbows were leveled on their position.
"Not another step dogs." Barxt said directly behind Thorax.
The Warriors were also frozen as the Alternate Pharynx crawled out of the rubble he had been shot into and hissed at them.