The little pink filly with greed shining through her eye's directed a half the crowd who were apparently changelings. This caused wild panic sending the other half of the crowd running in random directions screaming and yelling as they attempted to escape the chitinous enemies. Celestia took a calm breath and prepared to cast her magic upon the enemy, but before she could green slime shot forth from the little filly horn. This gooey substance covered the white unicorn spell casting horn, limiting her ability to blast her fire magic upon them.
"So weak Celestia.." purred the filly as the changlings ran rampant among the crowd. Celestia stared at the filly before she groaned as the slime weakened her.
"The time is nigh my little lings capture the potential, take this year treasure for our." The little filly sighed "For our king."
Slime spewed forth from the horns of the changelings covering Applejack and Fluttershy. Applejack wrestled with the goo as it covered but more changelings joined in until she was cocoon of goo.
"What.. in..Tarn..atio.n." her words failing to commit to the air around them. She struggled her hooves flailing in the goo causing the nearby ponies to shout at the situation. Before anypony could leap to the rescue several of the chitinous ponies grabbed her and flew off. Twilight sparkle jump into the fray charging her horn "Celestia!" her voice rang above the crowd momentarily.
The attack grew more intense as the changelings began dragging random ponies in several opposing directions. Celestia reached up and touch her horn "Save them my wonderful student." Twilight stared at mentor confusion clouding her judgment giving the changelings ample opportunity to attack her backside unprotected.
"Watch out" Quietly yelled Fluttershy as she barged in front of Twilight getting swept into the air with small changeling group. They looked at each other with a mild shrug and flew off with a quiet screaming pegasus snapping the lavender unicorn into action. With her horn fully charged she levitated several nearby changelings and used a gravity spell create a spinning orbit of group.
"Fluttershy I'll save you, please wait for me!" She yelled as the changelings began hurling green goo all over the area.
"Okay." was barely heard as the menace flew off with the kind pegasus. The group of changelings quickly flew off in the same direction of Applejack giving Twilight a beginning of an idea. She stomped one hoof on the ground sending a single changeling from her orbit into a nearby one knocking them down covered in their own goo.
Rainbow Dash was back into a corner by group of changelings brandishing their fangs in her direction by a nearby building. She stood up on her hind quarters and slammed her hooves on the group kicking up a cloud of dirt. She eyed in the growing distance her two captured newly made friends. Causing her hair to stand on in giving her enemies a moments pause before they advanced upon her.
"I'll crush you and I'll save my friends in ten seconds flat." she threatened angrily. She buzzed her wings in place like a humming bird before she blasted herself into a changeling slamming it and one other into ground pinning all three of them as she punched the one top with her hooves. Two other potential threats approached her and before they wrestle her off she vanished before their eyes. She was high in the sky her mane charged with pegasus magic so fast that it sent the ground changelings skittering across the ground.
"That was about twelve seconds right number thirteen?" spoke a changeling who had several bruise across his muzzle.
"Shut up and catch her you buglets!" he shouted as he spun in circles throwing out his hooves pointing her general direction.
Pinkie Pie watched as Fluttershy bravely attempted to save the lavender mare in front, it gave her inspiration reaching into her mane she pulled out a blue metal cannon with cute daisy sticker on the side. She aimed it at the buglike ponies carrying off her new found friend when she heard a little filly voice.
"Help, save me Pinkie!" came a desperate voice from light pink filly with a diamond tiara for a cutie mark. Two changelings wearing armor was pinning down the filly as she desperately attempted to fight them off.
Quick as a pink flash, the cannon disappeared into her mane as she charged the two offending buglings. She bowled one over onto the patch of grass next to filly as the other grabbed her mane pulling her down with him. The fallen changeling got off the ground and went to assist the his cohort in capturing their target. Green goo was pouring all over the struggling mare wrapping her into a cocoon made by the two armored changelings.
The filly stood up with a wicked grin "They always fall for the helpless acts eh boys."
A changeling with the red helmet remarked "Yes mistress.." A falling changeling came from above crashing into two guards, knocking them over. Running around corner of a building was a enraged unicorn glimmering with lavender power. With a flash teleport she appeared next to the filly and shot a purple jagged beam of energy surge into the filly shocking her into revealing her true form. A tall feminine Changeling with a smile so cruel, it made any nearby pony shiver with fear.
"Chrysalis you dare attack us now!" screamed the lavender unicorn as she launched more and more of her own minions upon her enemy. As this happening from out of the corner of Chrysalis eye she saw a small white unicorn using her horn to free the pink mare from her slimy cage. She grinned as her magic created clouds of smoke that made them disappear.
Twilight yelled while sweat trickled down her forelegs "No not Rarity!" She looked away from her hostage and pulled more magic stretching her limit to push the smoke away. It revealed Rarities battling over the cocoon "No I will free her." Both spoke at the same time while imitating each others Mannerism's. To her side one of the guards was missing from the pile of injured and unconscious changelings.
"Oh no Twilight which one is your friend, how will you save your dear friend from my game of who's who." came a cruel voice full of victory. Twilight's magic began dampening from all her spells she threw out in quick succession weakening her temporary. Her lavender glow began dimming when something caught her eye the slime cage was empty but still undamaged?
"Tee hee I almost forgot to have fun Chrysalis, I love games let's see who's who hmm." came voice full of joy as a pink mare appeared next to the Rarity on the left leaning on her flank.
"Darling thats embarrassing, please stop that." came voice in a small squeak that was quite indignant.
"Okie dokie lokie Rarity." Pinkie pie smiled as her front clops twice as she was sitting making the two them disappear from sight. The only thing left in their place was a two cupcakes with words upon them.
"What pinkie how did you?" the lavender mind was racing before she noticed that there was no changeling being pinned down from her magic. Her head crackled with pain as she fell over with a powerful urge to vomit, she clutched her stomach attempting to hold it in.
Rising from the pile of injured changeling rose forth the red helmet chitin enemy with rage burning in his eye's. Twilight struggled to rise to her hooves, but all she could was clutch her stomach as he approached. She felt fear pulsing throughout her body giving her enough strength to look him right in the eye afraid what will happen next.
"You won't hurt my friend, you dang bug!" came shout that crackled the sky like a lightening thrown into the wind. Both the changeling and Twilight look toward the sky. What they saw startled them both, it was a rainbow filled with enough power that it was brimming lightening bolts. What scared them next was this rainbow lightening bolt was coming down on them.
Primal screaming was heard from both pony and changeling as it slammed into the red helmet bug sending him back into the pile of injured changelings scattering them like a bowling ball hitting a bunch of pins.
"Like I said ten seconds flat." The cyan mare said as she wandered in circles in front of Twilight who was unaffected from the strange weather magic.
"Wha again what happen, ahh never mind that for now we need to save Applejack and Fluttershy." Twilight barely rose to legs as her mana began to mysteriously refill slowly.
"Sure, ugh where's the pranking mare and Rarity?" Rainbow dash replied as she straightened out.
The two cupcakes sitting precociously on the ground caught the eye of the multi colored mane mare attention. She scooped them up and look at Twilight with a question on her lips.
Twilight looked at her slightly agitated "What does it say?"
Rainbow dash ignoring her friends anger replied "Thanks dashie and yup in the middle of Ever Free."
Twilight slapped a hoof to face and slowly dragged down her muzzle " Of course in the middle of danger zone, lets go save our class mates Rainbow dash.