The Overlord was in pain. More pain then he had even been in his life. Which was weird. How exactly could he feel pain in a place that wasn't even there?
The Overlord stammered as he stared down at his enemies. He tried to speak, but he could only stammer out a simple phrase.
"Guh… St... n..." he stuttered. He slowly reached out towards them with a hoof, weakly. Ponies were sensitive, he could exploit their emotions to his own gain. He hoped he could, at least.
The Rainbow one spoke first. "Ha! Look at that! He is begging us to not fire again!" She was already ready to fire again.
Then came the voice of the yellow one, she stared at him with concerned eyes. "G-Girls... maybe we shouldn't. He looks like he's in pain..."
Then came the cowpony. "Well of course he's in pain. We just about sawed him in half." The cowpony readied up to fire again.
He slowly felt his voice come back to him. "N-no! Please! Let... Let me explain myself!" he stammered.
"Explain yourself? Explain yourself!?!" Twilight screamed. "How could ANY of your actions be justified?"
The Overlord noticed foremost, that all eyes were on him. He secondly noticed a small rumbling inside a store, alongside a flash of red. The Overlord had one shot at this.
"Men," he said in the minds of his soldiers, "get into position. Prepare to capture them. These ignorant bumpkins need to learn true pain."
"They can't be serious," Starlight said as she watched the events unfold from the Canterlot throne room. "Are they really going to send the Alternate Thorax to Limbo after what had happened with the pony of shadows?"
Everyone was quiet, and tension was all that could be heard.
"I think he needs to be sent to Limbo," Gallus said. "The actions he has committed are inexcusable!"
"I don't know." Discord said as he took a bite of popcorn. "He could literally turn Equestria into a pile of ash, and he will still have killed less creatures then little Twilight clone here."
Discord emphasized his point by Teleporting Starlight into his arms and giving her a little noogie.
"Wow. Nice to know I am worse than a tyrant who literally conquered Equestria and turned the Changeling race into insane asylum escapees," Starlight said as she pulled herself out of his grapple.
"I never said that, per se…." Discord shrugged. "I am just saying that, hey, if you and I can get redeemed, then why not 'Overlord' Thorax?"
"Maybe because you and Starlight never directly killed anypony," Cadance said with a glare.
"Actually... that's a pretty interesting question." Sunburst stroked his beard. "Discord? Have your antics ever gotten anypony killed?"
Discord turned to him. "Nope. I have never gotten a single pony or anything else killed in my entire, eternal life."
"Point proven," Cadance said as she turned back to the magical viewing screen.
Twilight stared the Overlord. "Well?!? Do you have nothing more you can say?!?"
The Overlord's reaching hoof was now aimed squarely at her. "P-please. I w-was necessary in this world. Without me, my kind will die out."
Twilight angrily stomped her hoof. "How? How will the race that you enslaved die out without you!? In this world, were changelings not sharing love with Equestria?"
The Overlord frowned. "Think for a second, child. In this world, everything you hold dear is flipped. You should know, seeing as how this world's Celestia nearly destroyed both of our worlds."
Massive plumes of fire started to bust forth from the Overlord's wound as his cape flew wildly in the wind. His flaming eye flared in brightness, and shrank into a glare. "Tell me, do you really think that this is a world, where love can exist?"
Twilight's eyes widened, and she took a step back. What he said had knocked her off guard. Was that true? Could the Changelings only exist in this world if they acted like the Overlord?
"Twilight!" Celestia suddenly screamed to her. "He is just buying time! Fire the Elements!" Celestia and the other leaders were then tackled from behind by Crimson Changelings.
Twilight turned to her teacher. The Overlord smiled and spread his claws, firing a flaming laser at her. She jumped away from it, becoming in line with the window in which the Alternate Pharynx was thrown through.
They fired the Elements at the overlord. Before they connected, A swarm of changelings jumped in front of the rainbow beam. There was an explosion as the changelings were tossed away like ragdolls, in their old black and holey forms.
Then, there was a roar to Twilight's left. She turned her head to see the Alternate Pharynx pounce out of the store he had been thrown into. The wound in his chest had completely disappeared. The Alternate Pharynx soared towards her. She ducked down. She was suddenly met with the feeling, of her tiara being removed from her head.
She turned around, pure fear on her face. The Alternate Pharynx landed away from her, next to the leaders who were being held down by Crimson Changelings in regular black plate, rather than the flaming armor of the ones currently facing the warriors.
Pharynx stared her straight in the eyes, and crushed the tiara in his clawed hoof, with a dark smile on his face. Twilight gasped and stammered as he broke the Tiara even more. He then tossed the twisted metal tiara, with a shattered gem away like it was trash.
Twilight reached out for the tiara with her hoof uselessly in shock. "Wh-what? N-no."
She and the other Elements were suddenly tackled from behind by more changelings. The Overlord's smile only grew as he lowered himself to the ground.
The Alternate Ember flew through the sky towards the enemy locate, flanked by a dozen or so armored Dragons. She landed in the street where the Changelings had pinned their enemies.
She gasped when she saw the Overlord landing. He was missing half his body.
"My Lord!" Ember shouted as she tried to rush up to him. She was blocked by a halberd wielding Overlord's Guard.
"Do not approach the Overlord without permission, dragon!" the guard said.
The Overlord raised his hoof. "It is ok, soldier. Let her through."
Ember smiled at the guard, before she harshly tossed him aside. "My lord, are you alright?"
The Overlord rolled his eyes. "I am PERFECTLY fine, Ember."
Ember raised an eyebrow. "You sure?"
"Are you being sarcastic... or…?" the pink pony asked.
"No," the Overlord said with a smile, as fire burst out of his wound in a huge torrent. The flames took the shape of half of a Changeling's body, connected to the other half of his body.
After a few seconds, a shell of Crimson carapace formed around his body. It solidified as he opened his second flaming eye. He opened his mouth and licked his new fangs, before he stretched.
"Oh. My. ME, was that painful!" he laughed.