//------------------------------// // Chapter 56 - A Canterlot Wedding Disaster Part 3 // Story: My Little Pony: Ren's Adventures In Equestria // by MaxTV1234 //------------------------------// Previously on My Little Pony: Ren's Adventures In Equestria W-w-w-w-w--w-w-w-w-what?! Where am I? Twilight...why are you acting so depressed? Plans? What plans? And where in Equestria are we? I have no sister! Shut up! Just shut the hell up for once in your damn life! There is no way that I would abandoned my friends! I mean that Jamie might be in danger and if I have a feeling that we need to hurry. I...have no idea that you were jealous of me. Well, didn't know you looked up to me as some admirer! I-I want to help and I want to prove myself that I am reliable in your eyes! I want to prove that I'm not weak! NOW! LET'S SEE HOW YOU FEEL TO BE LEFT IN THE DARKNESS! You're right! We need to hurry before it's over! I'm so sorry...I was a major jerk. "H-hey...it's okay. I'm the one who should be apologizing for what I said back there. I was the major jerk. Your majesty, I object! Damn, when the hell did he grew a spine to stand up to her like that? So...this is your true form... My Little Pony: Ren's Adventures In Equestria No way…this is Queen Chrysalis. This insane bug queen who’s responsible for…everything. Making that threat, trapping Twilight, Nicole, and Cadance into those abandoned crystal mines, and worse of all…caused our friendship to be destroyed…I can’t help but feel intimidated by her appearance. All of that confidence I had went away through my body…now I was back to being the coward I once was. “Holy cow! What the heck?!” Ren exclaimed in shock. “No offence, but…is that your true form? Well…I guess final bosses do look terrifying in a way.” “Why thank you, young Ren Loodan.” Queen Chrysalis laughed mockingly. “What?” Ren asked in confusion. “You know Ren’s name?” Kodiak asked as well. “Well of course. I’ve heard many tales from each and every one of you humans from an old colleague of mine, as well as hearing about you all from the many news of Equestria. I didn’t pay any mind you fools for a while because you all were pretty much useless to even combat me and my army.” She explained with a sly smile. “But now doesn’t matter, what matters is that my plans is nearly complete! Soon, all of my Changelings will steal as many love as much as they want here in Canterlot, and then we’ll spread out everywhere in Equestria and I shall be ruler of this land!” “Y-you’re frigging insane!” Jack threatened, clenching his fists in anger. “You’re just making crap up!” “Oh, no I’m not.” She shook her head. “This will truly to be the day we Changelings will take over everything under MY rule!” “You monster…!” Mason growled. “You think we’re gonna let you get away with this?!” “Big brother’s right! Why are you doing this?!” Carrie demanded, feeling a bit scared at the sight of Queen Chrysalis. “Why?” Queen Chrysalis asked with a raised brow before letting out a loud laughter. “It’s to steal love! It’s the way how we Changelings survive! Besides, why would a bunch of humans like you care about ponies?” “What? What are you talking about?” Kaede asked. “Jeez, you really don’t make any sense.” “For sure.” Rantaro shrugged before crossing his arms. “But stealing love? Is that what you’re after? That sounds pretty dull to be a motive. Now power…that I understand.” “To be fair, it would seem that love might be a source of energy for them.” Nicole guessed before adjusting her glasses. “Though, to do all of this just to steal love from all of us. I guess you would say that is pretty dull.” “Well it doesn’t matter!” Cadance stepped up with a serious look on her face. “You and your Changelings will never get the chance! Shining Armor’s protection spell will keep them from ever reaching us!” However, Queen Chrysalis only laughed at that as she replied “Oh, I doubt that. Isn’t that right, dear?” “Mm-hmm.” Shining nodded with a creepy grin on his face. “W-what? Why is Shining…acting like that?” Kaede asked. “He was acting fine a little while ago…” “Wait…look.” Nicole pointed over towards Shining Armor’s eyes as we gazed at them before widening our eyes, mouth jaw-dropping, and paled expressions…well except Nicole because she held a calm look with narrowed eyes. “I see…you’ve hypnotized him.” “What?!” Cadance gasped before glaring angrily at the Changeling queen. “You monster!” “Ah, ah, ah.” Queen Chrysalis shook her head with an arrogant smirk on her face. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. I could kill him as much as I want.” Cadance backed off before gave off an angry glare towards her. “So why didn’t you?” Ren asked. “It’s like you’re trying to use him as a hostage or something.” “Indeed I am.” Queen Chrysalis nodded. “Ever since I took Cadance’s place, I’ve been feeding off Shining Armor’s love for her. Every moment he grows weaker and so does his spell. Even now, my minions are chipping away at it.” “What?” Mason questioned before hearing a gasp from his sister as she looked outside at the force field, seeing some cracks on them. “She’s right! Look!” Carrie pointed out on the window as we all gazed over outside, and much to our surprise, we saw, probably, a thousand bug-like ponies which I soon realized where like Queen Chrysalis, a Changeling, were kicking and charging towards the shield, breaking it piece by piece. “Well…that isn’t good.” Rantaro said bluntly. “Quite.” Nicole nodded in agreement, which gave some of us baffled looks towards them, but Jack growled angrily and exclaimed “You frigging think this is some dumb joke, you idiots?!” “Ha ha ha ha!” We turned back to Queen Chrysalis, who was cackling in glee. “He may not be my husband, but he is under my total control now.” “You monster!” Kaede yelled out. “Why are you doing this?!” “I told you, to steal as much love from Equestria. I’m doing what’s right for my precious babies.” “Precious…babies?” Ren asked in confusion. “Well of course, I am their mother.” Wait what?! S-she’s joking, right? You mean that every last of them have the same mother and that’s her?! “Seriously?!” Kodiak gagged at that. “That’s really disgusting. I’m sure to feel disgusted by that.” “Obviously.” Mason coughed a bit before glaring at her, attempting to take out his bamboo pole. “But as of right now, we can’t allow you to get away this act of crimes you’ve committed.” “Yeah!” Ren nodded with a determined look. “We’re gonna stop you Queen Chrysalis and we’re gonna save Shining Armor and the rest of Canterlot!” “Oh, I’m sorry to say that you can’t.” She cackled, stroking underneath Shining Armor’s chin. “I’m sorry to say that Shining Armor is unable to perform his duties as captain of the Royal Guard.” “Not my Shining Armor!” Cadance begged. “Soon, my changeling army will break through. First, we take Canterlot. And then, all of Equestria!” “Y-you’re so mean!” Carrie cried out, holding onto Rarity in fear as she held her close to her as Mason, Ren, and Jack stepped up to face her off as Ren held his Hacking Gun close, Mason with his bamboo pole, and Jack with his fists. The rest of us stayed back and watched them attempt to fight off Queen Chrysalis. There’s gotta be some way I can do to help everyone. “No.” Huh? We all looked over to see Princess Celestia with a bold look on her face. “You won’t. You may have have made it impossible for Shining Armor to perform his spell, but now that you have so foolishly revealed your true self, I can protect my subjects from you!” “C-Celeste?!” Ren gasped. “Indeed.” Princess Luna glared at the Changeling Queen. “We shall not thou let you destroy our kingdom, you rotten fool!” “Is that so?” Queen Chrysalis scoffed. “I have more power than you can ever imagine. There is no way you fools can ever have the hopes of defeating me.” Princess Celestia and Luna didn’t reply anything back as the former charged towards the Changeling Queen, their horns clashing against each other like a sword duel as the two struggled to fight back with each other. The Sun Princess managed to push the Changeling Queen back, causing her to grunt before firing a powerful green fiery magic beam towards her, but the princess retaliated back with another magic beam of her own as the two attacks collided with each other. “Alright! Go Princess Celestia!” Kaede cheered. “Hell yeah! Kick that buggy queen’s butt!” Jack shouted. “Yeah! Go Princess!” Carrie jumped for joy as we watched over this with intense looks on our faces. Come on, you can do this Princess Celestia… Suddenly, Princess Luna came over and was ready to help her sister till Princess Celestia spoken “No Luna! Stay back! You could get hurt!” “Trust me on this, Tia! I can help!”  Princess Luna offered. “No…get…back…Luna…!” H-huh? Why is she hesitating? W-wait…the beam! It’s fading! Queen Chrysalis’s beam seemed to get more stronger and it straight towards Princess Celestia, who widened her eyes in shock and…. BOOOM! We all stared in horror and shock, but no one was more shock than me and Twilight as our expressions turned pale as we watched Princess Celestia’s crown fall to the ground…she was knocked out. Impossible! The princess of Equestria…was defeated! Even her horn had worn out as a black smudge covered it as she fell to the ground unconsciously. “Princess!” Carrie shouted as the rest of us ran after her as we all examined Princess Celestia. “Tia!” Princess Luna called in horror as she picked up her sister with a worried look. “Tia! Speak to me…!” “U-ugh…Augh…!” Princess Celestia coughed as she opened her right eye and muttered “L-Luna…” “Oh crap!” Jack exclaimed in shock. “What the hell just happened?!” “Yeah, I thought Celeste got in the bag?” Ren asked, looking at Princess Celestia in shock. “I don’t get it! Why did she ended up like that?!” “Ah! Shining Armor’s love for you is even stronger than I thought!” We all looked over to see Queen Chrysalis smirking evilly and smugly. “Consuming it has made me even more powerful than Celestia!” “What?!” Ren exclaimed. “More powerful…than even the princess herself?!” Kodi gasped. “Is that even possible?!” “Wow, did not see that coming.” Rantaro remarked, holding his hat on his head. “It would seem that we aren’t that strong enough to fight off her…” Nicole stated with her eyes furrowed at Queen Chrysalis. “…For now, that is.” “Huh? What do you mean?” Kaede asked in confusion. “The Elements of Harmony…” Huh? We looked down to see Princess Celestia looking over at us all. “You must get to them…and use their power…to defeat the queen.” “W-what?” I asked in surprise. “C-Can we really do that?” “Well I’ve seen Twilight and the other girls pulling that off like twice in a row.” Ren stated with a confident smile on his face. “So I know that they can do it!” “Thanks for the encouragement, Ren.” Twilight nodded. “B-but..where are they?” Fluttershy asked in confusion. “They must be at the tower.” Mason suggested. “From the last time, she placed them in a chest that was in a tower surrounded by a protective barrier.” “Oh that’s right!” Kaede nodded with a smile while some of us stood there in confusion. “Huh? What now?” Jack asked irritably. “How about you frigging tell us about this tower? What the hell are you guys talking about?” “No time fatty!” Rainbow replied with a serious look on her face. “Right now! We gotta head over!” “Don’t worry, we’ll explain along the way!” Ren grinned. “O-Okay!” I nodded before looking back to see Queen Chrysalis laughing evilly while Princess Luna glared angrily at the Changeling Queen. “P-Princess Luna?” “You all go on without me.” Princess Luna said, her tone filled with anger. “Princess Luna?” Carrie called in worried. “Do not worried about us, young Carrie.” Princess Luna assured with a soft smile. “Go and retrieve the Elements of Harmony before it is too late!” “Princess Luna!” Carrie called in worried. “No…” Mason stood over with a serious look as he glared at Queen Chrysalis. “I shall stay and keep her protected.” “Sir Mason…” Princess Luna muttered in surprise. “I cannot allow this vermin of a queen get away harming any of my friends. I shall protect everyone here.” Mason stated. “Mason…” I muttered. “Mason…are you sure?” “Trust me, I shall be alright.” “Big brother!” Carrie gasped in shock. “Don’t worry Carrie, we shall be alright.” Mason nodded. “Mason, don’t!” Rarity exclaimed. “What if something terrible happens to you!” “Rarity…” Mason sighed. “I can’t allow you to just leave you this…this disgusting vermin of a queen!” Queen Chrysalis narrowed her eyes at us. “If something were to happen to you and Princess Luna, then I…I…!” “Rarity, it is alright.” Mason assured with a soft grin before crossing his arms and said “I assure you everything will be alright. Even if I fallen from her, I know you guys can end all of this!” “M-Mason…!” Rarity cried out, causing some of us to feel a bit tearful. “Big brother! Wait!” Carrie called out but she was held back by Kaede while Rainbow Dash and Jack held back Rarity as Mason drew his bamboo pole as he and Princess Luna prepared to fight off Queen Chrysalis. “Hmph! We shall see who triumphs in the end.” Queen Chrysalis chuckled. “Let us see the amazing power you possess, human.” “Very well.” Mason scoffed before smirking at Princess Luna. “Please forgive me if I am assisting you.” “It is quite alright, sir Mason Hunter.” Princess Luna assured. “For now…we shall face off this vermin who dared hurt thou sister!” Mason nodded before glaring at Queen Chrysalis while the rest of us looked at each other in worried. “Oh, I’m so worried for Mason and Princess Luna.” Fluttershy muttered. “Well…we gotta trust in them.” Ren assured with a smile. “I know Mason and Princess Luna are strong, so they can be sure to buy us some time.” “You are right.” Rarity nodded before smiling softly towards Mason. “After all…it would be a shame if we don’t believe in his or Princess Luna’s skills.” “Yeah, I’ll believe in my big brother!” Carrie nodded. “Good because we’re running out of time here.” Rantaro pointed out. “For now, let’s get these Elements of whatever and go.” “Elements of Harmony, Rantaro.” Twilight corrected. “Don’t care, let’s go.” Rantaro shrugged before he ran out of the door. “We should be hurry before the barrier gets destroyed. Let’s go.” Nicole said, which we all nodded before heading out. As we ran through the halls while the rest of the guests flee in terror, I ran next to Ren and asked “A-are you sure Mason and Princess Luna can handle it? Not that I’m discouraging them.” “Don’t worry! They can do it!” Ren nodded. “Whether if they beat her or not, they’ll buy us enough time to get our trump cards!” “Trump cards?” Kodi asked, listening in on our conversations. “I think he means the Elements of Harmony.” I guessed before remembering about it. “And…are we really gonna get the Elements of Harmony? Will it be enough to beat Queen Chrysalis?” “Like I said, don’t worry Jamie.” Ren assured with a soft smile. “You gotta believe in them, and if you believe in them, then we know for sure that we can win this and save Canterlot and possibly all of Equestria!” “Believe…” I muttered as we immediately headed straight out of the castle and onto the streets of Canterlot. Believe….what does it mean to ‘believe’? Does he believe in people and ponies despite not knowing so far. I-I mean, I know Mason for quite a while and I trust him…but we trust in others that we haven’t establish much of a bond? Does he…believe in friendship? CRACK! “H-huh? What was that?” Kaede asked as we all stopped in our tracks. “Ah! Look!” Pinkie pointed her hoof towards the force field as we all watched the Changeling army breaking through the force field, breaking it like glass as they swarmed around town. With no force field, the Changeling Army were attacking innocent civilians, shooting out some strange green goo at them and causing them to be stuck in it. “Whoa….” Ren and Kodi muttered in shock. “What are they doing?” Jack demanded. “What the hell is this?!” “It’s some sort of goo that traps its victims…” Nicole deduced before saying “We should hurry before we get captured by them.” “Don’t need to tell me that!” Rantaro shouted, pulling her away before a giant blast shot towards where she once stood. Nicole was slightly surprised by that before she looked over at the destruction as the rest of us widened our eyes in shock. “W-what was that?” Fluttershy asked, hiding behind Ren. Kodi walked over and sniffed it, getting some goo on his nose before shaking his head, getting rid of it. “Ugh…whatever it is, it smells weird and it’s sticky.” Kodi replied in disgust. “Amazing…” I spoken, taking out my notebook and copying down some notes. “It’s like this is kind of the same stuff used for silk. You know, like a caterpillar covering itself in a cocoon.” “That is certainly a possibility.” Nicole said, making a small smirk. “Umm…hello?” Twilight called for us. “Elements of Harmony?” “Ah!” I froze in shock upon remembering that. “S-sorry! I didn’t mean to!” “It’s okay! Right now, let’s hurry!” Twilight said with a serious look on her face. “Good because we got some trouble up ahead.” Rantaro pointed to the skies, seeing more green sludge bombs heading our way. “Incoming!” Ren shouted as we all began running through the streets, trying our best to avoid all of the blasts. While running, Ren grabbed out his Hacking Gun and shouted “Eat this!” Ren shot multiple ‘Burn’ bullets at the blasts, causing them to overheat and explode on our sights as we continued to head straight threw the city of Canterlot as Ren kept helping us along the way by blasting away those green sludge blasts. “Are we almost there?!” I asked, almost running in breath but kept my stance. “Yeah, it should be around here!” Ren assured. “I think we’re almost there!” “You think?!” Jack exclaimed. “Umm, guys! Look out!” Applejack shouted as she pushed them out of the way before a green goo sludge hit them. Ren and Jack looks over at it in shock before looking over to see thousands of Changelings in our way. “Oh, you bastards!” Jack cursed, cracking his knuckles. “Oh man, we’re surrounded!” Kodiak shouted. “What do we do?” Carrie asked, holding onto Kaede as she held her too. “I say bring it on!” Rainbow exclaimed, rubbing her hooves together like she was ready to bawl a fist at them. Suddenly, the Changelings were surrounded in green flames, transforming straightly out of Rainbow Dash’s appearance. She widened her eyes in shock as she exclaimed “W-w-what the?! How did they?!” “They’re Changelings, remember?” Twilight reminded her, which caused some of them to transform into Twilight. “They’re Changelings, remember?” The Twilight clones spoken, trying to provoke her. “Wow, they’re good.” Kodi commented. “….” Nicole stared at them for a while before bluntly saying “Hmm, nope. I don’t see the difference between them.” That caused the Changelings to stare at Nicole in shock before smirking and some of them transforming into Nicole, much to our shock. “What the hell?!” Jack exclaimed. “So they can transform into us as well?!” “Well they do have the ability to shape-shift into anything…” I pointed out. “But I never imagined that they could transform into any of us.” “…Hmm…I still don’t see the difference.” Nicole said bluntly, causing most of the Changelings to nearly fall down, along with us. “Is now the time to criticizing on how they look when they transformed into us?!” Kaede exclaimed. W-well…Kaede does have a point. Though Nicole is hardly affected by this. Well…almost everything. “HISSSSS!” The Changelings recovered from the shock and started to snarl and hiss at us as they slowly began to come towards us. “Guys, we got no choice!” Ren exclaimed with a serious look, raising his Hacking Gun. “We have to fight our way straight out of these guys!” “Hell yeah!” Jack grinned, cracking his knuckles. “Well this is troublesome…” Rantaro sighed before taking out a tazer gun out his pockets with a cocky grin. “Hmph, oh well…things is gonna get exciting.” “U-umm…I-I help out too.” I nodded before standing between Ren and Jack, who grinned at me before glaring back at the Changelings. “Okay!” Rainbow clapped her hooves together with a smirk on her face. “Looks like we’re gonna have to do this the hard way!” “Yeah!” Ren nodded with a smirk. “We can do this!” Pinkie added before they noticed several other changelings transforming into him with evil smiles on their faces. Pinkie glared at them and said “So, you might know everything what I’m going to do, but that’s not gonna happen to help you, since I know everything you’re going to do! Strange, isn’t it?” “Wait what?” Ren asked in surprise. “How did you know THAT line?” “What line?” Pinkie asked with a dumbfound look, causing Ren to sweat-dropped a little and replied “Uhhh…never mind.” “Whatever! Let’s take them down!” Jack grinned toothily, glaring down at the imposters before they charged towards us. “Don’t let them distract you!” Twilight announced as we positioned ourselves in defense. “Twilight’s right.” I nodded in agreement. “We have to get to the Elements of Harmony. Like Ren said, they’re our only hope.” “Mm-hmm!” Ren nodded before raising his Hacking Gun. “Let’s do this!” O-okay…this shouldn’t be a challenge. I mean, there’s like fourteen of us and…a thousands of them….Oh man, we really are gonna die. N-no! What am I saying? I have to stay confident! I come this far and I can’t let them get away with this! I was brave enough to venture down the abandoned crystal mines and was able to save Princess Cadance, Twilight, and Nicole along with fighting off those weird shadow monsters…So the best way to do is to believe in the others…and myself! With that, we all engaged ourselves into battle as the Changelings charged towards us. Twilight fired multiple magic beams at them, shocking them and reverting them back to their original selves. Kaede, Carrie, and Fluttershy stayed together in a small group before noticing their fake imposters approaching them. Before I could anything, Ren came out and shot multipled ‘Paralyze’ bullets, shocking them and making them fall unconscious. “You girls alright?” Ren asked in worried. “We’re alright Ren.” Fluttershy thanked with a soft smile. “Thank you so much.” “Yeah, thanks.” Kaede chuckled. “Thank you Ren!” Carrie giggled with a smile, causing Ren to smile back at her before he noticed several more clones of him approaching him, causing him to glare at them before raising his Hacking Gun and shoot multiple bullets of ‘Break’ at them. Kodiak was busy fighting off his own clones. Well actually, he looked like he was interacting with them. “So cool…you look just like me.” Kodi said in awe. “Nuh-uh! You look just like me!” His fake retorted till Kodiak shook his head and said “No! You are!” “No you are!” “No you are!” …..It’s best if I skipped that. Anyway, Jack and Rainbow Dash tackled and punched many of their imposters with Jack body slamming some of Rainbow Dash’s clones, much to the imposter’s pain. Rainbow Dash kicked some of the Jack imposters in the butt with an apple-buck, knocking them straight into walls while I was with Twilight as she was trying to protect us with many magic beams around them. Applejack apple-bucked them into next week, Rarity used many of the stuff she brought over to fight off her clones, and Pinkie Pie using her party cannon, which confuses me on how she even brought that over here to Equestria, but it’s best not to question that. I’m trying not to keep asking her that many questions… All I did was staying around near Twilight with a scared look. What can I do? I don’t know how can I help? Maybe I should stay with Fluttershy, Kaede, and Carrie who we were also trying to protect from those Changeling imposters! I…don’t know what I can do! I have no weapon so I can’t do anything. That power…. Huh? What the? That power…the power to fight back the darkness and despair…you are… W-who is saying that? What are they even trying to say? That power…you are one of the ones…who can unlock… “Jamie! Watch out!” Huh?! I looked over to my right to get pushed onto the ground as I looked up to see an imposter of me, glaring evilly at me and hissed, much to my shock. “Jamie!” Twilight shouted as she prepared to fire a beam at my imposter as he was prepared to throw a punch at me. However, I tried to grab something nearby till I found a rock and smashed it on his head, forcing him to fall on his back as I immediately got back up with a feared look on my face as he got up and glared at me, getting a little bump on him as his head. His hissed angrily, making the others to transform into me as they pounced towards me. “Jamie, watch out!” Twilight and Ren got in front of me as they prepared to help me out as I covered my head with a feared look till I noticed another one of my fakes jumped and was ready to attack me. “AHHHH!” I screamed as I bent down in fear till…. ….. …. Nothing happened. Confused, I gotten up and looked to see the Changeling in front of me was unconscious, much to my surprise. “Jamie?” I turned over to Ren and Twilight, who stared at me in surprise. “H-huh? Did you…guys save me?” I asked in confusion till Ren shook his head and replied “We…don’t know. We just saw a barrier protecting you from that Changeling.” “Huh? Then…Twilight, did you-” Unfortunately, Twilight shook her head and replied “No, I was too busy focusing on protecting you and fighting off some of the Changelings that transformed into you that I didn’t have enough time to create a barrier.” “W-what?” I asked in confusion before looking back at the unconscious Changeling. “S-so then…who?” “Guys! Look out!” We looked back at Kaede as she fearfully pointed towards to see another wave of Changelings heading our way. “Dammit! There’s no end to these guys!” Jack exclaimed angrily. “Now frigging what?!” “We obviously can’t keep fighting like this.” Rantaro answered as an unconscious Changeling started to wake up till Rantaro shocked it again with his Taser gun. The Changeling was immediately shocked to death before falling unconscious again. “We need to move!” “No way! We can take them!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed, clapping her hooves. “No, he’s right.” I answered, shocking and confusing Rainbow Dash. “We need to move because at this rate, we’ll be worn out in order to fight back.” “Jamie has a point.” Ren nodded. “I mean, we can’t keep on fighting on like this. I’m almost out of battery in this thing.” “And I’m getting too tired out to even fight back.” Rarity added. “We need to hurry over to get the Elements of Harmony!” Rainbow Dash looked at us before back at the next wave of Changelings before sighing “Oh alright fine! You all win!” “Hmph! I could’ve still stayed around and fight off these creeps…” Jack grumbled. “Oh well…let’s head over to these Elements of Harmony or whatever they are.” “Good choice.” Nicole nodded. “For right now, there’s too many in the area.” “Yeah yeah yeah, we get it!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Let’s just get out of here and find the Elements of Harmony!” With that, we began heading after to another street to avoid that wave at Changelings as we began going another way in order to avoid the Changelings. “Come on! We need to keep going partners!” Applejack yelled out. “But where are we?” Carrie asked, looking around the area while we ran. Nearly, the entire city was covered in those green slime things. “We just need to keep on going!” Ren exclaimed. “I know it’s around here somewhere…” “Y-yeah…well you guys been there before so it would make sense…” I sighed as we continued running past some Changelings attacking some people while they fought back against them. Are we really gonna make it? Go to where your heart tells you… Huh? That voice again…who is saying that? And…go to where my heart tells me? But…h-how? I-I’m so useless…No, I can’t keep thinking these kind of thoughts…… I soon stopped at my tracks before looking over to my right, seeing an empty street over there. The others soon took noticed that I didn’t kept coming with them as they stopped with Twilight looking at me with a concern look and asked “Jamie, what’s wrong?” “I…think we need to go this way.” The others grew confused as I continued “W-well…I think it might be this way.” “You think?” Rantaro asked with a deadpan look. “Look kid, if we keep going into circles, we’ll end up getting lost.” Nicole stared at me for a while before saying “Let’s go…” “Huh?” Nicole began walking off and as she walked past me, she nodded and said “I trust you…you might know something, do you?” I stared at her in confusion before nodding meekly as we immediately began heading out towards the empty street, which the others soon followed after us. We kept running through the street and soon to another, and then another. Five minutes later…we arrived in front of a tower. “It’s the tower!” Ren exclaimed in joy. “This is where we last saw the Elements of Harmony!” “Yeah! Nice going Jamie!” Kaede thanked, causing me to blush a bit. “I-It was no problem…” I shook my head as Twilight walked over to me with a smile and said “Amazing Jamie! That was great!” I blushed in embarrassment and smiled meekly at her, happy to hear her approval of that. Suddenly, Rantaro walked over to me and asked “Okay, so how did you know it was here?” “Huh?” I asked in confusion. “You somehow knew this place was here. But I thought only Ren, Mason, Kaede, Carrie, Kodiak, and those mares knew it was here.” Rantaro pointed out, tapping his foot. “How in the world did you know that it was right here?” “O-oh…umm…” I looked away in fear before answering “I-I really don’t know…I just knew….” “You…just knew?” Nicole asked curiously. “That seems really weird.” “I-I just knew…that’s all.” I answered. “I-I’m sorry if it’s not good enough.” “Just knew?” Kodi asked, tilting his head in confusion. “But Jamie’s never been around here, right?” “I don’t know…” Ren shook his head before shrugging “But I guess maybe he just knew, that’s all. I don’t think Jamie has any ill intents on us to do it.” “You’re right.” Twilight nodded. “Right now, we need to keep focusing on getting those Elements of Harmony!” “Yeah!” Ren nodded in agreement as we slowly began to walk over to the doors. “Come on! Those Elements are just over by the-” But at that moment we opened the doors, all of our hopes turned into a quick void of despair as we didn’t see the Elements of Harmony, but instead a whole army of Changelings. I widened my eyes in shock as I squeaked “W-what?” “Oh…crap-baskets...” Ren muttered. “You cannot be serious.” Jack said in a deadpanned look. “Oh no…this is troubling.” Nicole sighed. The others stared at them in shock as the Changeling army stared at us with hisses and evil smiles before pouncing over all of us. “AHHHH!” Kaede and Carrie screamed as I watched in horror and let out a shriek. As I continued to shriek, it happened again the moment everything turned black. Don’t be afraid…don’t run away…you must overcome the fears of despair because you are one of the ones who….save me… Fifteen Minutes Earlier Mason’s POV They were gone now. After Ren and the others took both Rarity and Carrie out of here with them, I stood there next to Princess Luna as we both were ready to fight off Queen Chrysalis as she make an arrogant smile at us. “So…you dare fight against me? The Queen of all Changelings?” Queen Chrysalis asked rhetorically before scoffing “You two are already dumber than I thought. For a human, I guess you really are stupid.” “Don’t underestimate someone like me.” I said with a solemn look on my face. “You have really gone on too far. Manipulating my friends, even the princess, and worse of all, hypnotized Shining and made him your slave, and trapped Princess Cadance into that abandoned crystal mines. How far do you go to make these crimes?” “Please, I would do anything to get what I want.” Queen Chrysalis stated with a scoff before making a sly arrogant smirk towards me and Princess Luna. “Besides, you two will join in on Celestia’s fate.” I narrowed my eyes before noticing the barrier around the city was starting to break and soon enough, it broken into millions of shards as her army of Changelings charge towards the city. “No!” Cadance shouted in shock. “They already breached through the city! Twilight! Everyone!” “Carrie…Rarity…my friends…” I gritted my teeth before glaring at Queen Chrysalis,  who was mockingly laughing at me as she said “Ooh, don’t feel bad Hunter. I’m sure they’re already getting captured by my Changelings and taking their love away.” “You monster!” Princess Luna growled. “Would you let your minions do that?! Even to innocent people and ponies like a young girl?!” “So what?” What…? What the hell did she just say to us? “It doesn’t matter who we steal love from. We only do this to survive ever since Equestria refused to let us live peacefully. Besides, I know what’s best for everyone, so in a way, think of it as give and take.” “Give and take?!” I exclaimed. “You bastard! You’re going to kill everyone if you do that, even my friends and sister?!” “Oh? You wished to protect your little sister?” Queen Chrysalis chuckled. “Ooh, I can smell how strong your bond with your sister is. It would be a wonder on how strong her bond with you will be.” “What?” I asked, my anger slowly boiling in as I clutched onto my pole tightly. “What…did you just say?” “Oh? Are you curious about us? Us Changelings can be able to sense how strong a loving bond can be. Why else did we come here as I send Cadance to the underground mines while I took her place. While I stood in her place, I slowly began absorbing the life out of Shining Armor’s love, and slowly making him under my control.” She walked over to Shining Armor, who kept smiling creepily with his eyes still green as it showed that he was still in her grasp. He slowly nodded as she stroked him underneath the chin, much to our disgust and Cadance’s anger. “You monster! You dare touch a mane on my Shining-” “Or what Princess?” Queen Chrysalis scoffed with an smug look. “You gonna try and save him? By now, your energy is too drained up after spending some time in those crystal mines.” “You shall pay for everything!” Princess Luna growled. “Very well…I have no time to discuss much about you incompetent specimen.” Queen Chrysalis grinned evilly. “As of right now, we shall proceed to see how far we can fight. But do you really think you can take me on? I am the Queen of the Changelings, I am the most powerful being now in all of Equestria!” “Really? All I’m hearing is just arrogant comments coming out of that vulgar mouth of yours.” I said bluntly, causing her to flinch before glaring coldly at me. Princess Luna and Cadance couldn’t help but snicker at how right that was. “If you so claim to be strong, then why not show me your power?” I got into a battle position with a dark glare along with Princess Luna. Queen Chrysalis stared at us for a while before licking her lips as she said “Once I am through with you, I shall steal as much as much as I want from the both of you.” “We shall see about that, you vermin.” Queen Chrysalis grinned before firing a green fiery beam at us. Princess Luna got in front of me and protected us in a small light blue barrier. She keeps holding back as I immediately jumped over her and slammed my pole at the bug queen’s face, canceling out her attack as she hissed at me before she began using her horn as a sword, causing the both of us to fight off. I held my ground, acting my pole as a sword as we kept dueling each other. “Yeah! Get him Auntie Luna and Mason!” Princess Cadance cheered, much to Chrysalis’s irritation. “You shut your trap, princess!” Chrysalis exclaimed before I round-housed her away, just five feet away from me. Before long, Princess Luna fired a spell straight at her before yelling “This is for Tia, you vermin!” As Queen Chrysalis stared at the beam in horror, something came in front of her and took the shot, falling down on the ground unconsciously. We immediately looked over and saw a small black creature, sleeping on the ground. “W-what?!” Princess Luna exclaimed in shock. “Oh yes, I must thank one of my own babies for saving their mother.” Chrysalis chuckled. “Hmph! Isn’t that wonderful? I guess even love can be used as sacrifices.” “You monster!” I exclaimed. “You just let one of your minions, even your own children, take the hit and that’s what you say?!” “Hmph! You would never understand that!” As Chrysalis screamed, she fired multiple fiery blasts towards me, causing me to block by covering my face with my arms while enduring the pain. As it was over, I unfolded my arms, seeing the sleeves of my sweater burned up to a crisp as I looked over at Queen Chrysalis, but she wasn’t alone as five more Changelings flew down with her, and worse of all… “AHH! Let go of me!” Ah?! I looked over to see Cadance getting stuck in some green goo slime attached to her legs. I growled a bit before yelling “What the hell are you doing to her?!” “Unhand thy niece, you despicable dispute of a vermin!” Princess Luna demanded. “You’ll pay for this!” “Oh relax, we’ll be keeping her alive…for now till after our royal dinner.” Queen Chrysalis licked her lips, forming an evil grin as I glared at her angrily. “To treat a lady such as her like this, even on her wedding day. You really are ignorant, aren’t you? And you call yourself a queen? At least the princesses know a thing or two about chivalry and how to treat their ponies well unlike you.” I stated, angering Chrysalis. “That I agree.” Princess Luna nodded before glaring at the bug queen, who was starting to get more and more angry. “That’s it! I have had enough of your insolence!” Queen Chrysalis fired multiple beams at us, causing us to keep dodging them as I began twisting my pole around, blocking away the attacks. I soon came charging in as her minions came charging towards me. I sidestepped before hitting them each in the chest, causing them to fall on the ground, wincing in pain. “W-what?!” Chrysalis exclaimed in shock. “Don’t worry, they’re alright.” I assured. “I just used a special punching acupuncture technique that’ll make them lay like that for a long while.” “Oh, so you really are full of tricks, eh?” Queen Chrysalis smirked evilly. “I wished you could’ve joined us and take over Equestria. I mean, these simpletons don’t even deserves to have happy lives, not sharing their love with me.” “Maybe if you just not came up with such a stupid plan like this. You and your kind could have been as kind as these ponies. They may be…too honest and innocent, but these are very peaceful people that don’t deserved this.” I stated before giving a backhand hook behind me, knocking out another Changeling.   “Well..you certainly have a talent for fighting. Let’s see if you can even fight…” She started to become surrounded by green flames and soon… “Yourself!” Ooh, you have got to be kidding me. Upon those green flames, I stared at her, who just…look just like me. Every angle, every aspect, every look on me…she looked exactly like me. “So you can even transform into one of us as well, huh?” I asked, narrowing my eyes. “True, it took a while to practice this form.” She laughed, placing her hands on her hips, or…’my hips’, ugh! You know what I mean! “Ever since he gave me a lot of info on you guys, I learned so much about you nuisances but I didn’t bother to take you all on because I realized that you all were just probably worthless to even fight on.” There she goes again. Who is this ‘he’ she keeps mentioning? I’m not sure who it is, but right now, my first priority is to keep fighting on while protecting Princess Luna and Cadance! “But anyway, right now…I think it’s time to finish this off!” She laughed evilly as she threw a knee strike towards me. I immediately dodged it before giving her an elbow strike to the gut, causing her to wheeze out. “You keep on fighting, Mason!” Princess Luna shouted before protecting me from the other Changelings as they tried to pounce at me, but was blocked off by her magic barrier and shooting them away with her magic powers. “I shall protect you all!” “Hmph! I don’t need any of my minions, I am alright by myself.” My other me shook his head before glaring at me as he tried to strike me again. We kept blocking our blows from each other with me delivering a Rear-leg pushkick, only for her to block it with her palm and tried delivering a Knee strike towards me, causing to jump away from that. I grabbed my bamboo pole and charged towards her as she tried blocking away my attacks, but it wasn’t good enough because I was more good with using my pole than with my fists and knees, and it would seem like that it could applied to Chrysalis as well! She was struggling to stop the blows, and it kept getting bruises to her body. “Impossible!” She exploded into anger as she tried firing a green fiery blast from the palm of her hands in that imitation of hers, but I immediately side-step out of the way before elbow kicking her in the gut and knocking her straight in the skull with my bamboo pole. She winced and held her head in pain before growling and reverting back to her original form. “You little gremlin! How dare you try and hurt me?! Do you know who I am?! I am Queen Chrysalis! Queen of all Changelings!” “Just because of your high status doesn’t prove anything.” I stated with a death glare. “Being leader means that you must lead people to the right path, which is the duty of any ruler such as you, Cadance, Celestia, and Luna. I made a promise to someone I love and I am not willing to break it! I will protect my friends, no matter what!” “Oh yeah?! You little cretin!” She snarled before returning transforming back into me as she tried to attack me again with many of the techniques like roundhouse, elbow strike, and such. However, I kept dodging her as I planted my pole on the ground and lifted myself off the ground before kicking her from the face. She shook off the pain before reverting back in her original form as her horn began to glow. “You little bastard! You think you’re so frigging smug?!” She snarled as Princess Luna finished up finishing off some of the Changelings. “That depends on who you are facing.” Princess Luna commented with a small smile. “Score one for the princess.” I smirked before looking over at Queen Chrysalis. “Just face it…even if you transform into me, you still can’t beat us.” “Oh yeah? Well then, why not dodge this?!” She fired a powerful green fiery flame towards us as Princess Luna fired another beam of magic, but it wasn’t strong enough to go through it. “Hang on, your majesty!” I assured before running past her as I jumped over some of the Changelings’ head. Some of them tried to fire their magic beams at me, but I kept dodging them by jumping onto a nearby pillar and leaping over at the Changeling queen. “Take this!” She looked over at me and widened her eyes before I gave her a Hi-Jump kick to the face, knocking her down as her beam was weaken, which made Princess Luna’s beam shot her through the horn, causing her to fall down and hit on the debris. “Thank thou Mason Hunter!” Princess Luna thanked, panting heavily. “It is my pleasure.” I nodded before looking back at Queen Chrysalis, who slowly gotten back up and growled at me. “You…you…!” She growled, gritting her teeth. “Just face it, I think you and your minions should retreat. Right now, you are just embarrassing yourself.” I stated with a cold dark look on my face. “GRRRRRR!” She growled angrily, her face turning red while her Changelings started backing away in fear upon seeing her enraged look. Hmph, at this rate…I think she’ll give up and soon enough, they’ll get the Elements of Harmony and use it to defeat them. “Heh heh heh heh….” Huh? She started chuckling and started laughing evilly before she started to form a smirk at me. “Well…so you’re willing to protect anyone? Even these princesses?” “What?” “Ahhh!” I heard a loud screeching, and it came from one pony! Princess Cadance! I immediately turned around to see some Changelings hissing at her, and some licking their lips at her. Queen Chrysalis walked over to Cadance and stroked her by the chin with a sadistic grin on her face. “You leave them alone!” I demanded. “Hmph! I will…if you just bow down.” Queen Chrysalis stated. “Let’s make a deal, you surrender and I shall let them live…” “Tch!” I growled. “Mason!” Cadance shouted. “Don’t listen to her! She’s just lying!” “Mason, it’s all a trick!” I looked back at Luna, who was starting to grow worn out. “That vermin is just a liar! She is just lying so that she may hurt us all and steal all of our love!” “Really? Would I ever lie?” After everything you did when disguised as her, I cannot side with that bug queen. “Besides….you wouldn’t want to break a vow to her.” “W-what?” I asked, widening my eyes a bit. Where is she going with this? “I said that you wouldn’t break a vow to…” She was suddenly surrounded by green flames and then transformed into… “Me…” ……No….Why? How? Why did… She transformed into Elena…?! How…How in the world does she know that?! She smirked at me with a loving smile, but instead of the kindness and the radiance of goodness coming straight out of her heart, it was filled with misery, grief, and…despair. Her face was twisted…like she was the devil herself. I just stood there with a shocked look…like I couldn’t move at all. Maybe because she managed to transform into her, or…because on how I thought I would never see her face once more. I don’t care for each way…I don’t know… “What’s wrong Mason? Too afraid to even fight me?” She asked with a soft smile that was like any devil you would see make. Her eyes glowed green before firing a green blast at me, hitting me straight at the chest as I fell to the ground with a hard thud as I struggled to get back up. She came over and kicked me to the side as I fell down the stairs. “Sir Mason!” Princess Luna yelled before glaring at Chrysalis. “You rotten little!” She charged towards her with an angry look till more Changelings tackled her and knocked her down next to her sister. “Y-your majesty…!” I exclaimed as I struggled to get up before getting blasted again on the side, causing me to roll over and whither in pain. “Ooh Mason…how disappointing…” She chuckled, walking over to me and smirked darkly at me. “You can’t even fight the ones you protected because you’re too loyal with her and your sister and your pathetic excuse of a bunch of friends. You can’t do anything right because you’re so loyal…but who can you really be loyal too?” “T-Tch…!” I scoffed as I slowly tried to get up but not before she placed a boot on my head, forcing me to struggle. “You claim to be strong, but in actuality, you’re so weak because you cling onto the loyalty of your beloved and friends that it makes you weak.” Chrysalis chuckled. “You…monster…!” I growled. “Leave him alone!” Cadance demanded angrily. “Leave my friend alone!” “Hmph! Or what?” She scoffed as I struggled to get up as a bunch of Changelings soon flew over to me and smirked and laughed at me. “Shut up!” I exclaimed. “You all don’t know anything about love! Love isn’t something to just steal! It isn’t just an ‘object’! It’s something to give and share with those you care!” Queen Chrysalis stared at me in her Elena disguise before scoffing “You’re such an idiot. Oh well…I guess I might as well suck up your love. Your love of this girl I taken the form of and the bond you share with your sister is quite scrumptious…it might satisfied my appetite a bit more than it already is.” So…this is it? I wasn’t strong enough to fight her off. I stared over at Princess Luna, who was being encased in a green cocoon-like pod along with the unconscious Celestia while Cadance stared at me in horror before she looked over at her future husband, who was still under her control. “Shining…!” Cadance cried out. “Please…I know that isn’t you. I know that you’re still inside…because I believe in you. I know that you are still inside…!” It’s no use Cadance…he won’t respond as long as she’s still here. I can’t win…I just don’t know how…! Don’t be afraid… W-what? Who said that? Don’t be afraid…of the dark…and the despair of a vigilante's heart… What? Who is saying that? I don’t understand anything of what its saying…. Because…you are one on of the ones’ who can…unlock and use my power… “You won’t get away with this!” Huh? My thoughts were cut-off as we looked over to see Cadance glaring at Queen Chrysalis. “I just know that Mason can beat you! Along with Twilight and her friends, they’ll-” Suddenly, we heard the hall doors opening up as it revealed a whole bunch of Changelings, bringing in… “C-Carrie…? Rarity…?” What are they?…No…This can’t be happening! It can’t be! Where are the Elements of Harmony?! Why aren’t they wearing them?! What’s going on?! Did…we fail? Jamie’s POV How could this have happened? We were so close onto getting the legendary Elements of Harmony and this happened! I feel so useless again…now we’re captured and brought back here to where we last saw Queen Chrysalis, Mason, Princess Luna and Cadance, but instead…we saw Princess Luna and Celestia trapped in cocoon pods, Cadance getting her legs stuck in the same goo stuff we saw, and worse of all, we all saw a battered Mason being stepped on by some lady. Wait…where have I seen her before? “You were saying?” The figure asked, smirking at Cadance before turning back to us. “You do realize that the reception’s over, right?” “It’s not over till we say it’s over!” Ren exclaimed before raising a brow. “Hey wait…do I know you from somewhere?” “Yeah…you look familiar…” Kaede muttered, looking over at the girl. Strange, I feel like I’ve seen her before as well…but where? I just can’t remember who- “Okay, who’s the chick?” Jack asked in confusion while Carrie stared at the girl in shock. “Carrie…is there something wrong?” Kodi asked in worried, nuzzling her as she just stood there in shock. “E-Elena!” Carrie exclaimed. “C-Carrie!” Mason sputtered out before coughing. “S-stay away from her-UGH!” He was kept being stepped on pretty hard by ‘Elena’ as she just scoffed “You be quiet, you despicable dispute of a useless tool.” Mason winced, not only from the pain, but by the insult she gave out. The others glared at the figure as Ren exclaimed “Hey! Leave our friend alone!” “Hmph! Why should I? I’m just doing what I feel like I can do.” She scoffed, angering Carrie. “Leave my big brother alone! You’re not Elena!” Carrie exclaimed. “The real Elena would never do anything to big brother like that!” “Indeed!” Rarity nodded, glaring straight at her. “You have no right to do that to Mason! Mason described her as a royal princess who is very generous to those she loves! Not such a cruel, ungrateful, whelp like you!” “After what Carrie and Mason told us about their past and history, there’s no way that’s really you.” Kaede pointed out, glaring at ‘Elena’. “Yeah, I’m surprised that you all aren’t freaking out this woman is human.” Rantaro pointed out with an irritated sigh. “God, you guys are so slow…” “And plus, that’s Chrysalis.” Nicole said bluntly. “It’s clearly because of her eye color.” We all took a closer look before noticing that what Nicole pointed out. “Ooh…I see it now.” Ren stated in awe. “Wowie zowie, you got good perception there, Nikki!” Pinkie said in awe. “I wished I had super vision like you!” Nicole went silent before looking away from Pinkie, and I could’ve sworn that she was smiling softly at her compliment. “Umm, Pinkie? I don’t think the time is right.” Fluttershy said softly. “The chick’s right!” Jack nodded, growling towards ‘Elena’. “Let us go, you crappy bug!” “’Crappy bug’?” ‘Elena’, who is actually Queen Chrysalis, growled at him. “Do not call me a ‘crappy bug’, you fat freakshow!” “Hey!” Jack exclaimed in anger. “Cool your jets already.” Rantaro said with a calm and bored look. “Right now…we should just listen in and do what she said. I mean, she got the princesses and Mason in her grasp, along with the groom.” “Shining! Cadance” Twilight yelled, looking at her brother in worried before glaring at the imposter. “You monster! Give me back my brother and my future sister-in-law!” “Sorry, can’t do that.” Queen Chrysalis chuckled darkly. “And right now, we all some lunch to go and eat.” She turned to her Changeling army that surrounded us as she commanded “Go my Changelings! Go! Feed!” With that, they laughed evilly before she glared at them for a moment as they immediately head straight out through the windows as Queen Chrysalis reverted back to her original form, stepping over Mason as he was struggling to get up. “Big brother!” Carrie exclaimed, running over to her brother as the rest of them checked over him. Ren and Jack helped him out as he wheezed out and said “I am so sorry you all…I wasn’t strong enough to beat her. I’m sorry.” “Don’t say that Mason, you did your best.” Ren assured with a soft grin. “Yeah! You sure look like crap.” Jack joked with a toothy grin. “Heh, don’t worry, we’ll take care of this crappy bug for ya!” “Yeah, don’t worry! We promise to avenge ya big brother!” Carrie said with a determined look. “She hurt you, Luna and Cadance and even mocked you while she was in disguise as Elena! I’ll fight and protect ya big brother!” “She is quite right!” Rarity nodded with a determined look before glaring at Queen Chrysalis. “She shall pay for ever hurting you, sweet Mason! I promise that I’ll fight her off, even if I have no choice but to dirty my own hooves and do some…uncouth things.” “Carrie…Ren…Jack…Miss Rarity…everypony…thank you.” Mason chuckled. “You know, it’s funny, really. Twilight and little Jamie here were suspicious of my behavior all along, including those other humans…” She walked over to me and Twilight with a smirk and was about to touch Twilight before she swatted her away as I stood there in fear. “Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize those suspicions were correct! I guess those humans are more better friends than your pony friends.” “Sorry, Twi, James.” Applejack walked over to us with a sad look. “We should’ve listened to you.” “It’s not your fault. She fooled everypony.” Twilight assured. “She’s right…don’t blame yourself.” I shook my head with a sad look. “After all…we were all fools. We all were in her trap.” “Hmm, I did, didn’t I?” Queen Chrysalis chuckled before looking out the window with a dark grin. (Queen Chrysalis): This day has been just perfect The kind of day of which I've dreamed since I was small Everypony I'll soon control Every stallion, mare, and foal Who says a girl can't really have it all? She ended her little song with an evil laugh as we all stood there in anger, shock, and fear. “Big brother!” Carrie exclaimed, running over to her brother as the rest of us checked over him. “…That was quick for a little song.” Nicole said bluntly, unintentionally angering the Changeling queen. “Why don’t you shut up, you emotionless nuisance!” Chrysalis yelled at her. “After what you’ve tried to do to expose me, I had no choice but to send you away to the same place where I send Cadance!” Nicole looked at her with a sigh as the rest of us stared at her in shock and confusion. “What?” Rantaro asked. “What do you mean? Nicole? Care to explain?” “….” She isn’t replying? Why is that? “Nicole, what’s wrong?” Ren asked in worried. “I don’t know what you did, but I’m not going to suspect you, I want to believe in you.” “I am not hiding anything. I’ll explain later.” Nicole assured. “But of right now, we need to focus on getting out of here.” “It’s too late!” Chrysalis smiled evilly at us. “We’re almost done taking over Canterlot and soon, Equestria’s love will be ours for the taking!” Nicole stared at her before looking over at the Changelings, seeing them laughing alongside her and smirked evilly at them. Even Rantaro stared at her with a mild annoyed look on his face. Meanwhile, the others glared at her. “Look, we don’t have to do this, Queen Chrysalis.” Ren said with a worried look. “We can just negotiate and talk this through. You can’t just steal love from them, think about it!” “Oh, I can and I will.” Queen Chrysalis chuckled darkly. “I’m doing best for what my babies want and I rather not be in the way of you foolish humans.” “W-what?” Ren asked in confusion. “I know a lot about you. A ‘friend’ of mine told me so much about you all. Well I never paid much attention you insolent freakshows because I realized that you all were too weak to fight against me and my army of Changelings.” Queen Chrysalis chuckled with a smug look on her face. “Don’t you get it? Your kind are nothing more than such insolent weaklings who are cowards in disguise.” “What you say?!” Jack exclaimed. “I swear to god, I’m gonna frigging kill you!” “Jack! Calm down!” Applejack shouted. “Y-yeah, violence isn’t a good thing to do!” Fluttershy agreed, trying to prevent Jack from trying to thrash at Queen Chrysalis. “It’s the truth. Somepony once told me that no species can understand anything. All they did is fight for nothing but for selfish desires. But we have the power to remake the world into our image.” Queen Chrysalis explained. “The world is nothing more than filled with foolish ignorant beings who don’t care about anything. Unlike me, I care for my precious subjects because I want them to get them to savor the taste of sucking in the love of our dinner.” I just stood there in fear, shaking in fear as Twilight spoken “Like you’ll get away with this! We’ll stop you!” “Really? Are you really gonna go that far? Even for ‘them’?” Queen Chrysalis pointed over to our friends, mainly the mares. “After they discouraged you because they didn’t care about you, but their little wedding plans of theirs!” “That’s not true!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “We were just…too busy with stuff!” “Yeah, like that’s a good lie to come up with.” Rantaro snorted with a smirk, ignoring the death glare from her. “But you know, from the way you’re saying, I bet it relates to your past, isn’t it Chrysie?” “’Chrysie’? Tch! How original.” Queen Chrysalis scoffed before smirking arrogantly at us. “But yes, I can understand that. Always getting ridicule and shunned by ponies. They say that friendship is magic and all that, but it isn’t. That was what he told me.” “Eh?” Kodi asked with a dumbfounded look. “He?” Kaede muttered. “Oh well, that’s enough about me.” Wait what?! That’s it?! But wait, why is she- “Let’s talk about you two.” “Huh?” Me and Twilight asked. “W-what are you saying?” I asked in confusion. “Why bother saving this world if these ponies don’t care about you, especially you little Jamie.” H-Huh? I stared at her with a confused and surprised look. She looked at me with a sly smirk as she came over and stroked me underneath the chin, staring me in the eyes. “Don’t you remember what they told you earlier before the wedding and my little invasion?” S-she isn’t…talking about that, right? H-how does she…? “Hey wait, how do you know that?!” Kaede demanded as Mason glared at her with gritted teeth. “You…you’ve been spying on us, weren’t you?” Mason asked weakly, which made her smirk and replied “Right you are, human. I saw that bratty blue haired human looking through the door where I banished Twilight down into the abandoned crystal mines. I had to spy on him to see if he doesn’t try anything and I was planning on sending him down with his friend till I overheard the whole conversation. To prove that, her horn started glowing green as it shot to the air and revealed an image…of us. I widened my eyes in shock as we watched over the screen, but this image was showing my conversation earlier with them. “W-what is that?” Twilight asked in surprise. “What are you trying to show us?” “I don’t know, why not ask your little boy toy there?” Twilight turned to me with a concerned look, causing me to wince and stare at the screen with widened eyes, already realizing what this is going on? Soon, the image soon transpired and showed me arguing with my friends. “I-it’s Cadance! Twilight was right! That wasn’t Cadance!” My mirror self exclaimed with a panic look, but instead of seeing shocked looks, all he saw…was doubt. Even Shining had an angry look. “Jamie…what are you talking about?” Rainbow Dash asked. “W-what? I’m saying that Twilight’s in danger! We need to find her!” My mirror self exclaimed. “And why bother?” Huh? We looked over to see Shining Armor scoffing. “Don’t bother with him, you guys. He’s probably just joking around and making things up just like Twilight.” He walked over to him with a glare, causing my mirror self to flinch. “Ha…now I can see why both you and Twilight are friends, you two like to make things up.” “Now hold on!” Ren said, stepping up. “Why you would say that about your sister?” “Stay out of this, Ren! I’m busy with my wedding than with my sister!” Ren and the other humans gasped in shock while Princess Celestia and the girls looked at each other. “N-no! I-I’m not making it up!” My mirror self shook his head with a worried look. “Come on you guys! You have to believe me! Twilight is our friend!” “She was our friend till she screwed it up.” Rainbow blurted out, much to my shock. “W-what?” Twilight asked in shock. The others winced and looked away in depression and sad while Cadance looked at this in shock and horror. “What is this?! Why did you guys…say all that?” Cadance asked. “Why would Shining say that about Twilight?!” “This is all took place before the wedding began and after what they say about Twilight.” Queen Chrysalis laughed, causing the others to grimaced. “They say so many wrong things to her and abandoned her off the hall, and even to poor little Jamie. They should’ve known that he was telling the truth and not making things, but due to being more caring of your wedding instead of their friendship, they made him go to the deep end.” I stood there in shock and horror, staring at the screen as it continued playing. It began showing us many images of the gang not listening to me, not believing that nothing’s happening to Twilight and Nicole, even Shining scoffing and not caring much about her sister, even…the part where I grew outrage. “Skittles, that was too far!” Jack yelled out in shock. “I mean, did you see how tearful she was?!” “It’s a Twilight thing-” “NO IT’S NOT!” The mirror self yelled out, shocking the others as he glared at them angrily. “You all don’t know Twilight at all! You guys call yourselves friends and yet you don’t know each other!” “J-Jamie…please calm down!” Fluttershy pleaded, feeling a bit scared at my outburst. “Yeah Jamie!” Pinkie nodded. “How about we calm down and-” “No! I won’t calm down!” he shouted. “She’s our friend! Twilight may panic but we all our different and we all make mistakes!” I winced and looked away in fear, not wanting to see this. I don’t want to remember seeing the outrage look on my face. Not even Ren and the others could watch it. “Jamie…” Twilight turned to me with a worried and sad look. “Did…this really happen?” “…..Y-yes…it has.” I nodded with a sad look, trying my best not to cry. “B-but it’s okay…I was so stupid for just telling them that…I should have provided with some evidence and I should have even stood up for you earlier…” “Jamie…” Twilight gritted her teeth, trying her best to hold back her teeth. “Ooh, don’t cry yet little peasants.” I looked over at Queen Chrysalis, who smirked at us as the next image began playing and…No, why this one? S-she eve saw this? It was an image of me…an image of me about to leap off the balcony of my attempted suicide. So she saw that too…she watched me try to kill myself. At the moment I leaped off the balcony with a tear-stained look, Cadance and Twilight gasped in shock till I was saved by Ren and the other gang. The others, except Ren and co., widened their eyes in shock upon seeing this. “No!” Cadance yelled out. “How could you do that?! Why?!” “Princess…” Applejack muttered. “Jamie!” Pinkie cried out. “Oh no…We…we didn’t mean for that to happen!” Fluttershy exclaimed, letting out tears. “What have we done?” Rarity asked, looking away with a sad and grieving look on her face. “No way…” Twilight turned to me with a shocked look. “Why?! Why did you try and to kill yourself?!” “I-I…Because…” I stuttered a bit, wondering what should I say. “Jamie! How could you?!” Twilight exclaimed. “I can’t believe you would do something that crazy! I know you’re better than that! I…I can’t believe it!” Twilight…I’m so sorry. I…I didn’t mean to make you so angry. I should have… “Is it true?” Rarity asked me in horror. “Did you…really tried to kill yourself?” “…W-well…” “I-it’s…true…” Mason coughed. “But…we were able to save him before he fell off to the ground.” “Yeah, we worked together to save his life.” Ren added, feeling a bit grimace at that. “But we were able to encourage him back to not give up on life.” “It’s true.” Kaede nodded in agreement. “We understood why because he felt so useless to others and weak…but we made him realized that he was actually strong inside.” “Strong?” Fluttershy asked in confusion. “What do you mean by that?” Before any of us could try to say anything, Queen Chrysalis began laughing manically. “Ha ha ha ha ha! You’re all so immature!” Queen Chrysalis mocked me. “I mean, are you serious? Ha, I guess you fools are so bend up on wanting to keep making these stupid beliefs.” “What?” I asked in confusion, feeling my fears rising up again. “Wanna know something? My dear Shining Armor didn’t say anything from my mouth when I started draining his love energy for Cadance…” She grinned evilly at us and continued “Everything he said to you and Twilight…was from his own mouth. I guess it goes to show you how friendship is nothing more than lies to you.” “Huh?” I muttered. So…everything he just said…was from his own mouth of his own free will? Does that mean….he really meant it? “Do you see it now?” She asked with a smug look. “Your friendship with them is nothing more than a bunch of lies! They never cared about you, they only cared about their selfish selves!” I could only just stood there, my arms shaking and sweat forming around my body with a painful look on my face because from what she said…is true. “They should’ve helped you but instead, they abandoned for a wedding over your friendship. I guess they never cared about you. Oh well…that’s a shame.” “No! That’s not true!” Pinkie exclaimed. “Quit bullying Jamie like that! Stop mind manipulating with your…mind tricks!” “Oh? So now you care? Or are you pretending to care for him just to further break his emotions even more?” Pinkie flinched at that as she stuttered “N-no…that’s not what I-” “Of course it’s true.” Queen Chrysalis chuckled darkly before turning to me. “Do you see now little Jamie and Twilight? Your friends never cared for you…they’re just trying to hold you back from understanding the true value of friendship. I would know because I know everything to satisfy myself and others.” I-is that right? Is she…right? No…it can’t be… “No! You’re wrong!” Huh? Twilight glared angrily at Queen Chrysalis as she got into a battle position. “I know why my friends would leave me like that because I was too foolish to do anything and it made them lose my trust in them! But Jamie…he stood up and tried to help me, but instead gotten his trust for them lost as well. But soon after, he regained it back.” “Hmph, do you really believe in that?” Queen Chrysalis scoffed before I noticed a little glint in her eyes. “Oh? What’s this?” “Listen to yourself!” Twilight glared harshly towards the Changeling queen as she continued “I know that my friends didn’t have any ill intention to harm anyone! I believe in my friends because…I trust them. I know at first that I never knew about friendship, that I thought of it nothing more than just a mere challenge but after spending time with them throughout Ponyville. I learned so many things that a book couldn’t taught me.” T-Twilight…do you really mean it? “Ren, Fluttershy, Kodiak, Rarity, Mason, Carrie, Rainbow Dash, Jack, Rantaro, Nicole, Kaede, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Spike…” The people and ponies who were called up beamed up with smiles and felt encouraged. She then turned to me with a bright grin. “And Jamie….they were always there for me. They taught me so much…so many things, allowed us some places around Equestria, and…I’m glad that I’m happy to be with them.” Twilight…thank you. After being with you for some time around in Equestria, reading many of my novels and your research books with you and Spike on endless nights, learning about each other’s cultures in our worlds, and for you to understand me so much…Thank you for being there for me as well. “Oh?” Huh? She looked over us with a soft smile before grinning “Well well well…I’m sensing a quite amount of love from you two. Even stronger than Cadance and Shining Armor….could it be from the bond you two shared?” “Huh? Wait, what are you doing?” I asked in worried before widening my eyes in shock. “Wait…you aren’t going to…” “Why of course. I could eat you two up so good.” She chuckled with an evil grin before looking back at the hypnotized Shining Armor, the beaten Mason, and trapped Princess Cadance. “I came here to suck up the powerful loving bonds of Shining Armor and Princess Cadance, but after meeting you all…I sense a strong bond from those two little siblings…” Mason gritted his teeth as his sister held her brother’s arm in fear, despite him being in pain and possibly hurting him… “Along with those two…” She pointed towards Ren and Fluttershy, which the latter yelped in surprise before hiding behind Ren, who held a concern look for his special somepony while Kodiak barked at her. “They have an incredible strong love for each other. This is all just too much of an appetite! It would seem that I, er no, we have hit the jackpot!” The rest of the remaining Changelings laughed in agreement with her. I started to grew fearful of her the moment she turned to me with a sadistic smile on her face. “But you know…I am curious to know what a human’s heart taste like.” She chuckled as I began backing in fear. I…I don’t know what I can do. I mean…I don’t have any powers to begin with…I’m just…useless to people and ponies. “Oh? Do I sense fear? You don’t have to be afraid. I understand that feeling Jamie.” “What?” I asked, my face starting to turn pale. “You and I are like the same. Shunned by everyone we meet, can’t trust anyone, always felt lonely…that’s why I find you interesting because…” She smiled darkly at me. “You’ll be the first for me to eat.” She licked her lips as I shivered in fear…unable to do anything but simply stand there like a fool. “You leave him alone!” Twilight exclaimed, stepping up for me. “T-Twilight?!” Cadance shouted in fear. “Twilight no! Don’t go anywhere near her!” “What’s this? Are you protecting him? Is this the result of your bond?” She asked. “Are you protecting the one you love and care so much?” “Of course I’ll protect Jamie!” Twilight looked at her with an angry look. “Back then, he managed to save us along with Ren and Mason and Princess Luna by getting rid of those bridesmaids and leading us all the way to the other exit of the cave. The moment I saw him, I saw something in him. Instead of nervousness and being fearful of everything, I saw courage, bravery, and something that I can’t explain. Maybe…determination? But either way, he was acting all brave than I can ever imagined. He was like someone that I never knew, and I appreciate the strength he carried.” “T-Twilight…!” I exclaimed in shock and surprise by hearing all that. So…she admired seeing that ‘me’? I…I thought she never noticed, but I guess I was wrong. No, I was wrong because I know she saw me like that. She believes that I am brave and I can be strong…Strong….That word is what made me remember earlier back on the balcony. Ren, Kaede, Mason, Carrie, Jack, and Rantaro encouraged me to believe in myself. Believe…is what they said to me. I have to believe in myself. “Hmph…you’re such an idiot. Well, more idiotic than your brother if he couldn’t even see through my disguise.” Queen Chrysalis scoffed before her horn began glowing out of irritation. “Now if you kindly get out of my way or else I’ll blast you!” “No! Jamie saved my life and I’ll do the same for him!” Twilight exclaimed, glaring at the Changeling queen. “T-Twilight!” Fluttershy gasped. “Twilight don’t!” Ren shouted. “That’s too hard to handle!” “I don’t care! I’m gonna protect you all because that’s what friends would!” Twilight shouted before firing a magic beam at Queen Chrysalis, who retaliated just in time with her magic beam. However, due to the increased strength she gained while absorbing Shining’s love, her beam was too powerful for even Twilight to counteract! I stood there in horror, unable to do anything. I…I have to do something! I must do something! I can’t afford to do this. This is my chance…my chance to prove that I am reliable! “TWILIGHT!” I shouted before jumping in the way and pushing Twilight away, forcing her to stop shooting her beam as Chrysalis’s beam shot forward and… “AHHHHHH!” Everything turned white. Everything in sight…I couldn’t tell what was happening, but I feel so much pain….so much agony….so much…darkness… “J-Jamie!” I slowly began opening my eyes to see Twilight looking at me with a worried and stressful look. The others were trying to come check over me, but the Changelings were blocking their path. “Jamie! Are you alright?! Speak to me!” Twilight shouted with a scared look on her face. I struggled to get up as I glanced over at my body, seeing many burn scars on my body and bruises. “Jamie, why did you do that? Why did you push me out of the way?! You knew that you were gonna get badly hurt, so why?!” “B-because…I didn’t want you to suffer and get hurt.” I weakly replied, much to her confusion. “I…I wanted to prove something. I wanted to prove that I wasn’t a coward and I can be proven useful, I….I guess I was wrong…” “No you weren’t!” Twilight yelled out throughout the hall, shocking the others while Queen Chrysalis simply scoffed at me. “You are useful! To just…save my life and to sacrificed yours…” “I-It’s nothing….” I slowly began getting up from the ground. “What do you mean it’s nothing?! You could’ve been killed!” “I-I know…but…it was worth it.” I muttered as I finally stood on my own two feet as I glared at Queen Chrysalis. “I…I couldn’t just stand there and do nothing and watch her keep making us all suffer like this. She…she manipulated the others, and destroyed our friendship with each other, and even took control of your brother into a mindless slave….I couldn’t take it….I…I’m…” Tears began forming around my eyes as they streamed down from my cheeks. “I…I can’t be brave like any of you…not Ren, not Jack, not Mason, no one but…myself.” I continued. “I realized now…you guys are my friends. All this time, I kept being unsure of it when we first met. That is till I really saw how you guys interacted with each other, and such. I then realized that you guys even acknowledged me as a friend, whether you told me or not, you all still thought of me as a friend….and I know that. For all these years…I was alone…bullied by people for what I am…but after being here with you all…I realized that you all treated me nicely….You all thought of me as your best friend…all this time, I thought of myself as a useless novelist, but after what I did…” I started walking towards Chrysalis, but due to the injuries I received from that blast, I was limping about towards her. “After everything I went through…I realized that I wasn’t useles…I was helpful, and I was strong because of my determination to be strong. All because you guys showed it to me. You all…are my friends, and I’m glad to be your friend too! I’m glad to meet wonderful people and ponies like you all!” “Jamie!” Ren gasped in shock. “Don’t do this!” “I have to…if I don’t, then what would be the point…?” I coughed as I glared at Queen Chrysalis, who looked at me with an angry look. “…You’re such an idiot. What would be the point of just taking your love if you’re gonna keep being this stubborn?” She asked me with an angry look before smirking devilishly. “Oh well…it doesn’t matter. What matters is that I should take it from you to just soothe the pain you went through.” “No that’s wrong!” I exclaimed, pointing my index finger at her while trying my best to ignore the pain. “You’re wrong Queen Chrysalis! There’s a difference between you and I and that’s my strength coming from the power of my friends!” “What?” She asked. “After being in Equestria for a while, I learned that my strength came from my friends! They’re the spark that triggers my heart to be confident in myself! I’m gonna try and save everyone! What you are is nothing but an arrogant monster who enjoys watching us suffer! You think you know what everypony wants, but you don’t! You don’t care about anyone! You only care about yourself and that’s why you fail in earning love from others!” “You…You…!” She gritted her teeth while the others were shocked by everything that came out of my mouth. “Wow…I never thought the nerd would say that.” Jack commented with a surprised look on his face. “Well it’s always the timid ones that shout out loudly.” Ren commented bluntly, unaware that Fluttershy was blushing in embarrassment. “Alright then…” Queen Chrysalis smirked at me and Twilight with an evil smile. “Let’s see if you handle this!” She turned to her Changelings and that exact moment, they charged towards me and pounced towards us. “Jamie! Watch out!” Twilight yelled as she surrounded us in a pink barrier as all of the Changelings banged against the barrier and tried to get through it. “Twilight! Jamie! Hang on tight!” Ren yelled out before shooting a ‘Break’ bullet towards the Changelings as the others tried to help out, even Mason, despite how much pain he went through his fight with Queen Chrysalis. Meanwhile, with the Changeling queen, she was laughing evilly at us. “Ah ha ha ha! Look at you all! So worried for your friend that you’re gonna watch as my Changelings are gonna take away all of your love! Ah ha ha ha ha!” Queen Chrysalis laughed as I glared at her as Twilight began sweating, implying that she can’t keep hold of it any longer. “Ugh…! Don’t worry…we’ll get out of here Jamie.” Twilight muttered. “…Twilight.” I spoke up with a serious look on my face. “If we don’t make it out of here…I want to let you know…” I took a deep breath with a soft smile. “It was so nice being around you. You…were my first friend to understand me completely and share a few of my hobbies. Our time together…wasn’t meaningless. You…encouraged me to be with me. You…were my best friend...No, more than my friend. Because I….I….” And I should let her know much about my true feelings. I need…to let her know. “Jamie…I should be thanking you.” Hm? What? She glanced towards me with a soft smile. “Our time together was something I’ll never forget. I want to thank you for trying to stand up for me.” She let out a giggle despite already getting a headache. “It’s funny…I had these strange feelings whenever we see each other. You were always telling yourself that you’re weak, but instead…you were strong all along. You were trying to prove that you were strong…but it also showed how far you were gonna prove to be strong and I’m proud of you for it.” “T-Twilight…” I muttered as she slowly walked towards us, unaware that the force field was slowly disappearing. “I…I don’t know what I’m feeling, but I understand now. You…You like me, don’t you Jamie? I’ve noticed why you keep blushing around me, but it took me so long to figure this out. I…I don’t know what to say Jamie, but…I’m glad to met a human being like you.” Twilight smiled softly as I stared at her in astonishment and shocked before chuckling to myself as I glanced away from her and replied “T-Twilight…I never knew that you figured it out. Heh heh…here I was, acting like a coward who couldn’t do anything to satisfied you.” “But you did…and thank you for everything Jamie.”  Twilight thanked. “No Twilight, it’s you that I need to thank. You’re mainly the spark that flies in my heart…and…I really like for being who you are.” I smiled softly at Twilight stared at me with a shocked look before blushing a bit before smiling over me. “Ha ha ha. I guess the two of us were too scared to share our feelings with each other.” Twilight chuckled with a soft smile. “I’m…so glad to meet you Jamie….” “Me too…Twilight.” I smiled softly before we slowly held each other by the hands/hooves before we slowly began to approach each other and then, at that moment the force field began to crack to pieces….we kissed. We kissed for the first time. I don’t know how to explain this…but it felt so…passionate. I don’t know how to explain it…it gave me the spark I needed to learn the true meaning of strength, and that’s the power of my friends. I am thou, thou art I... Thou hast acquired a new vow. It shall become the wings of rebellion that breaketh thy chains of captivity. With the birth of the first Guardian of Magic, I have obtained the winds of blessing that shall lead to freedom and new power. And with that, the force field broke into pieces as the Changelings charged towards us, but not until a giant glow surrounded us, and everything in sight turned white. I don’t know what happened….but at least I finally gotten my wish true… Several minutes earlier Ren’s POV “Jamie! Twilight!” I shouted with a horror look on my face, seeing the Changelings swarming around them while they were trapped in the force field. “Those two-timing bastards!” Jack yelled out, gritting his teeth as his face was turned completely red out of anger. “No!” Fluttershy cried out. “Jamie! Twilight!” Kodi exclaimed. “Not them!” Applejack gritted her teeth before glaring at the laughing Queen Chrysalis. “You think this is funny?! You let them go!” “Why should I? Those two have a strong bond with each other, so it should be enough for my precious Changelings to eat.” Queen Chrysalis remarked, upsetting most of us. “You monster!” Cadance shouted as she struggled to get out of the goo trapped around her hooves. “Calm down princess, they’ll be fine once my Changelings finishes them off.” Queen Chrysalis assured with a soft yet devilish grin on her face. “Like I had for Shining Armor…” “No…” She muttered as she started to tear up. I glared at Chrysalis with an angry look before exclaiming “No, that’s wrong!” “Ugh, don’t give me that look boy.” She scoffed with an arrogant smile. “It’s too late. The princesses are incapacitated, Shining is now under my control, and now my Changelings can feed on the two friends you all abandoned.” “We didn’t abandoned them!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Au contraire, you did.” Chrysalis pointed out. “You all abandoned them for not even believing in them. You even let poor old Jamie Watson try to kill himself. You all should be ashamed for yourself.” “But…we never wanted this…” Pinkie sniffled a bit, letting some tears out. “It’s all our faults…” Applejack lowered her head before taking off her hat and placed it on her chest with a sad look. “N-no…it’s not your faults…” We all turned to Mason, who Kaede, Carrie, and Rarity were carrying after me and Jack tried to help out and defeat the Changelings. “We saved him…and gave him another chance. Twilight never gave up…and that’s what makes her give up. She never gave up on saving us all, and even what they done was wrong…she doesn’t blame them because you manipulated them…and that’s what makes her special. Even Jamie isn’t willing to give up…Ugh…!” “Big brother!” Carrie yelled out, holding onto him with a worried look. “Hmph…do you really think that they could fight back? Even after losing to my Changelings since they’re probably devouring their love together.” Chrysalis smirked. “No! Mason’s right!” I yelled out with a serious look on my face. “Twilight and Jamie aren’t the type to lose that easily! They’re gonna beat you! We all are gonna save everyone from your wrath!” “Oh really? And how are you gonna do that?” Queen Chrysalis smirked teasingly. I smirked before raising my Hacking Gun in front of her as I prepared to fire one of my Truth Bullets at her. “Oh? You are going to shoot me with that stupid thing?” “Not just that…” Jack stepped up with a scowl. “I’m gonna take ya down you frigging little bug! I’ll crush you with all of my might!” “I may not have powers, but that’s not gonna stop me from defeating you!” Kaede exclaimed, glaring at Queen Chrysalis. “You’re nothing more than a creepy bug with sharp teeth and an ugly distorted voice.” Nicole said, narrowing her eyes at Chrysalis. “Yeah, even I don’t have the heart to sell out a life.” Rantaro stated, narrowing his eyes towards the bug queen. “Same here!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed with determination. “Once we’re through with you, I’m gonna go and apologize to them for what we did.” “I want to apologize with them as well.” Fluttershy nodded in agreement. “I wanted to forgive them, but I grew afraid. That’s why…I wanna try. I wanna try and not back away in fear because like Jamie, we all can be brave.” “Yeah! I should’ve stood up for them!” Applejack nodded. “But instead, I was the one who suggested to instead check up on the princess instead of our friends.” “We all thought of them as jerks, but we were the jerks instead.” Pinkie stated with a serious look. “I wanna make them happy again and that’s what I’m gonna do.” “How charming…” Queen Chrysalis scoffed. “Oh well..it doesn’t matter.” “No…they’re right!” Cadance exclaimed with a serious look. “I…I don’t know what you guys did to Twilight and Jamie, but I forgive you and I know it wasn’t your intentions. So that’s why I’m gonna keep going and fight head on towards them.” “Really? You’re gonna keep on fighting? Even if I have your beloved Shining Armor under my control?” Queen Chrysalis laughed mockingly at her before sighing “Oh well…it doesn’t matter. You all are gonna die anyway.” “Oh yeah? Here’s what I say…” I raised my Hacking Gun in front of her and said “Eat led, Chrysalis!” But before I could fired it, we saw a bright flash coming from the swarm of Changelings, much to our surprise. “What the heck?!” Kodi exclaimed. “What’s happening Ren?!” “I don’t know!” I shouted as the bright flash exploded, blasting away all of the Changelings in the room as we all were blinded by the light. Ugh, what the heck’s happening? Why does it give me this Kingdom Hearts vibe all of a sudden? “WHAT?!” Queen Chrysalis yelled out in shock. Soon after, the light began to died down as we all uncovered our eyes and once we did, we saw an unbelievable sight. We saw Twilight and Jamie…kissing each other, and were the ones producing that light. “Twilight?” Fluttershy muttered in surprise. “Jamie?” Kaede gasped, covering her mouth in surprise. “And are they…?” “Holy crap…” Jack blinked before barking up a laughter before placing his hands on his hips with a cocky grin. “Who knew the nerd had the guts to do…that?” “Amazing…” Mason grinned a little while the the light surrounded us the area. Soon enough, Jamie and Twilight ended their little kiss as they looked at each other in awe. “Wow…” They both muttered in awe. “Wow, it’s about time those two finally get a room.” Rantaro sighed, adjusting his fedora. “….They look nice with each other.” Nicole said bluntly while Jamie and Twilight looked over at us with soft smiles. Wait…hold on, what’s that on both of Jamie’s cheeks? It looks like a tattoo. The shaped of that tattoo looked like a heart-like shield, but the background of the tattoo on the outer area had a full moon and sun marks surrounding it, and the color on the inner color of the heart-tattoo like shield were the color of a rainbow, and what’s weird that it had a mark on the center of the heart-shaped shield-like tattoo. That mark…doesn’t it look like Twilight’s cutie-mark? Wait a minute…it is! What the heck?! Where did THAT come from?! “Jamie! Twilight! You’re alive!” Kodi exclaimed happily, panting heavily before running over and jumping on top of Jamie, causing him to yelp before he fell on the floor and he began licking his face multiple times while the rest of us ran over and checked up on him and Twilight. “H-hey! S-Stop that! I know you like me, but please!” Jamie begged as the rest of us laughed at the scene. “Dude, that was so epic!” I laughed with a cheeky grin. “I never imagined that you would kiss Twilight, even at a time like this!” “Guess our little man is growing up finally.” Jack chuckled. “Indeed.” Mason chuckled before coughing. “Yeah…” Jamie softly smiled. “I guess I never expected that to happen.” “Are you kidding me?! That was like the craziest thing I’ve ever seen!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Oh my gosh! This is something we need to celebrate on!” Pinkie laughed. “Who knew you had it in ya to kiss Jamie like that, Twi?” Applejack chuckled, along with the rest of the girls while Twilight blushed in embarrassment. “H-hey, take it easy girls.” Twilight chuckled, trying her best to hide away her blush. “It’s nothing…” “It’s okay Twilight. I understand how you feel.” Fluttershy assured with a soft grin. “When I first kissed Ren, it was something…magical. Like all of that hope that I lost earlier just suddenly came back to me.” “Thanks for at least understanding me, Fluttershy.” Twilight chuckled. “H-hey!” I yelled out, my face turning red. “Flutters! Don’t remind me of that!” “Sorry Ren.” Fluttershy apologized. “Oh well, it doesn’t matter.” Kaede smiled brightly towards Jamie and Twilight. “What matters is that you guys are still alright.” “Yeah…I can’t believe that happened.” Jamie replied. Soon enough, we all took noticed of those strange-heart shaped shield-like tattoos on each of his cheeks. “W-what? What is it?” “Huh, that’s a strange detail on your face.” Rantaro remarked. “I guess that little make-out session wasn’t the only thing we would expected.” “W-w-wait what?!” Jamie began rubbing his face, wondering what we were talking about. “What’s on my face?!” “Calm down, we’ll tell you later.” Nicole assured before cleaning off her glasses. “In the meantime…we should probably take care of her.” Her? Oh right, Chrysalis! I totally forgot about her! We all immediately turned back to see Chrysalis slowly getting up with a scowl on her face. “You little brats! You all can’t just sit down and give up, do you?” Chrysalis growled. “You all are gonna pay for this.” “Yeah right!” I exclaimed, glaring straight towards the Changeling queen. “No way we’re gonna lose to you! Jamie and Twilight came this far together and knocked out all of your minions, leaving only you but we can fight alongside them!” “What?” She asked in a dumbfounded look. “Jamie and Twilight endured all the pain from their hearts when the girls abandoned them, and while we were trying to comfort them, they managed to overcome so much pain and suffering from the betrayal! They never gave up on trying to save us all because they still believed in us! Even if Twilight was in tears, and Jamie was trying to commit suicide, we still managed to encourage them. And thanks to our encouragement, they kept on fighting you and the rest of the Changelings! That’s the reason why their bond is so strong, and I bet the same goes for Shining and Cadance because of their willpower is as strong as them, along with me and Flutters!” “Yeah!” Kodi nodded in agreement. “Too bad that you can’t understand love!” “True.” Nicole nodded in agreement with a somewhat stern look. “You think you know everything about what’s best for everyone, even for your minions. Well you’re wrong, you don’t.” “Probably because that she never ever learned to be love in the first place.” Rantaro mocked with an small cocky grin on his face. “I bet because of that ugly looking face of yours along with that little arrogant and sly personality of yours, I can imagine why someone like you could never be loved by anyone.” Queen Chrysalis growled angrily with many tick marks appearing on her head. “You little bastards! Don’t you dare mock my beauty!” She fired a powerful fiery-like beam towards us as Jamie stepped forward and shouted “No! Leave my friends alone!” Suddenly, a force field appeared around us as it blocked away her magic beam. “The hell?!” Jack exclaimed in shock and surprise. “Twilight, did you do that?” Carrie asked in surprise. “No, I haven’t even began using my magic!” Twilight shook her head, having a surprised look on her face. “Even my magic can’t excel into doing that!” Rarity pointed out. “So that would mean…” We all slowly turned to Jamie, who was just surprised as we are. “Jamie?” Carrie muttered. “Did I…do that?” He asked himself as he looked at his hands in surprise. “I don’t…believe it.” “I can’t believe it!” Kaede exclaimed. “How did he do that?!” “Impossible…” Mason muttered in shock. “Jamie, how on earth did you do that?” “I-I don’t know!” Jamie exclaimed, raising his hands in surrender with a panicky look on his face. Thanks to that, it caused the shield to disappear while Chrysalis became shocked by seeing that. “What?! Impossible! How can a brat like you used magic?!” Chrysalis demanded. “Humans are nothing more than useless defenseless freaks that can’t do anything!” “Well you’re wrong!” Twilight exclaimed, standing next to Jamie. “Because these guys proves you wrong. Jamie, Ren, Kaede, Jack, Mason, Carrie, Rantaro, and Nicole are all trying to fight for us. Everything is nothing but bias and I’m proud of be called a friend to them.” We all nodded in agreement while Jamie looked at Chrysalis with a serious look. “Twilight’s right. You claimed that you and I are alike, but you’re wrong. You’re someone who loves to suffer pain on anyone you meet and manipulate, but I’m not you. I’m someone willing to help a friend and prove to you that our friendship is as magical as we claim!” Jamie exclaimed, causing the rest of us to grinned. Jamie…it seems like you really gotten your courage back. You held all that strength that you never knew about inside of you, and it’s being unleashed right now. Come on James, we can’t afford to lose to her. “Hmph…Oh really? Let’s see how strong your bond is.” Chrysalis smirked. “In case you forgotten, I still gotten the Captain of the Royal Guard under my hoof. So I’ll have him deal with you.” “Huh?…What’s going on? Where am I?” Huh? We all looked over behind Chrysalis to see Shining Armor, and he was back to normal! Judging by his eyes, he wasn’t hypnotized at all! “Shining! You’re back!” Cadance gasped before nuzzling her husband, who chuckles to see her before looks around in confusion and bluntly asks “Wait, is the reception over?” “Really?” Rantaro asked in a deadpan tone. “Oh well…looks like his mind is all right.” “W-what?!” Chrysalis exclaimed, widening her eyes in horror. “Impossible! How could?!” “Don’t know, don’t care.” Jack grinned. “Looks like you’re outnumbered.” “Yeah, but remember? She drained all of Shining’s magic.” Twilight reminded them. “So he can’t fight back.” “You’re right…” Jamie nodded. “But who’s say that we don’t have a chance?” “Yeah!” I nodded in agreement. “Hey Jamie, Twi? How about you two show Chrysalis that something that she and the other Changelings lacked?” “Huh?” Jamie and Twilight asked in confusion. “He’s talking showing both of your love for each other.” Kodi said, causing the two of them to blush madly. “W-w-what?!” Jamie gasped. “Quick being such a punk and do it!” Jack exclaimed. “W-w-well…” Jamie blushed while Queen Chrysalis growled at them. “You insolent fools! You always ruined my glorious plans and that is why you all will pay dearly!” Chrysalis fired a green fiery ball of light straight towards them. “Not so fast!” I exclaimed before shooting a ‘Knock-Back’ bullet, sending it away back to her before she dodged it in time while that magic attempt of hers explodes right behind her. Soon after that, I stood next to Jamie, who looked at me in surprise as I grinned at him back and nodded before glaring at Chrysalis and said “We aren’t just gonna let you get away with that! Because we got each other’s back! And we won’t let you get away with this!” “Ren…” Jamie muttered in awe. “Thank you for saving us.” “Hey, I know you can do it. I mean, your love for each other will give each other strength.” I said with a determined grin. “Now show them, you guys! Show them that our power comes from love and friendship!” “Ren’s right!” Cadance shouted. “Our love can give us strength!” “Ha ha ha!” Queen Chrysalis mocked us with her signature laugh as she arrogantly smiled and said “What a lovely but absolutely ridiculous sentiment.” “And there you have it.” Jamie said, glaring at the Changeling queen. “Because you treat love like an object that you couldn’t understand it. You can’t learn love because you’ve never bothered to learn what love means to you! It’s an emotion that grows inside of us all, and you failed to even acknowledged that because you never been loved or even showed love to anypony. That’s why you were treated like this because of your cruel nature of treating anyone you meet as a puppet for you to control.” Soon, the two tattoos on his cheeks began glowing brightly as he and Twilight held each other by their hands/hooves as Shining and Cadance smiled at each other with nods as their horns intersected by the tip of it, sparking up some magic as they started to glow brightly from the strength of their love before being swarmed around them and a warm embrace. The two looked surprised before smiling softly at each other before their eyes started glowing the moment they kissed. Jamie held Twilight’s hoof with a soft smile, which Twilight nodded before the two looked at each other as Twilight’s cutie-mark began glowing along with the tattoos on Jamie’s cheeks as they started floating in the air, surrounded by a bright pink glow and a warm embrace. Twilight and Jamie smiled at each other as the former said “You know, I guess this was kinda out of the blue.” Jamie blushed madly before replying “Y-yeah…I never expected any of this to happened so suddenly, I-I’m not so sure if I-I’m ready.” “Maybe…” Twilight put her hoof under his chin, much to his surprise. “But you don’t to conquer it alone. We got each other.” Jamie stared at her for a while before smiling softly as tears began raining down his cheeks before he replied “Yes…we do. And…I’m glad that I have you and everyone by my side…Twilight.” “And I couldn’t agree more with that…Jamie.” Twilight and Jamie slowly began getting closer, and closer, and closer until… “No! I won’t let you fools do this!” Chrysalis screamed as she prepared to attack them back. “I will not be satisfied till I claim your love! It’s the survival of the fittest for us Changelings! This is-AHHHHHHHH!” She was immediately struck down as she started swirling her eyes like crazy as electricity began surrounding her body before she fell to her knees. We all became shocked by that before we looked over to see Rantaro raising his taser gun in the air with an annoyed look, but kept it with a calm and sly smile on his face. “Survival of the fittest my behind.” Ooh wow, he used that line from that movie? Only except that last part…Oh well, never mind. You don’t need to hear it. Other than that… Ah ha! In your face Chrysalis! The moment these Jamie and Twilight kissed, both of their loves grew stronger along with Shining and Cadance’s love for each other as they beamed brightly as a strong bright light shot towards around the area as we all immediately covered our sights as we hear Queen Chrysalis screamed as we were blinded by the light. Soon after, it all went silent as we all uncovered our eyes as we all watched in awe to see Shining, Cadance, Jamie, and Twilight all floating back down with smiles on their faces as we watched them in awe. “Whoa, that was so awesome!” I exclaimed in awe. “Yeah.” Huh? We looked back to see Mason slowly getting back up, but all of his wounds were healed. “I gotta say, that’s pretty impressive.” “B-Big brother?!” Carrie exclaimed in shock. “How are you?!” “Huh?” Mason looked over and noticed that his body was completely healed, no bruises or scratches. “What the? When did…how the?” “Mason!” Rarity ran over and wrapped her hooves tightly around Mason, catching him by surprise as she began sniffling and tears began descending down her cheeks. “I’m so glad that you’re alright!” “Y-yeah…” Mason chuckled while Jack glares at him before he flickers his head, much to his annoyance. “Ow! What was that for?!” “Just wanted to make sure.” Jack huffed with a cocky toothy grin before adding “Also, for whacking me on the head with that pole of yours.” “Jeez, thanks…” Mason rolled his eyes as Carrie hugged him tightly along with Rarity while he chuckled. Though while his body was somehow completely healed, probably from that giant flash of light coming out of Jamie, Twilight, Cadance, and Shining, his clothes were still shredded into pieces. I guess Kaede and Rarity should fix that up when we get back. “Oh dear!” Rarity gasped, noticing how his sleeves were ruined. “Mason darling, what happened to your sleeves?!” “It’s…a long story.” Mason chuckled, sweat-dropping a little. Yeah, I bet it is a long story and it’s kinda obvious what it was. “Ooh…” Huh? We looked over to see Princess Celestia and Luna slowly getting out of their pods with groans. “Princess Celestia! Princess Luna!” Twilight and Jamie ran towards them with worried looks as Jamie asked “Are you two okay? Nothing happened, right?” “We are fine.” Princess Celestia assured with a soft grin. “But I must say, we have to thank you all for helping us.” “Actually, it was more like Jamie and Twilight, along with Shining Armor and Cadance saving the day.” I stated, placing a hand on Jamie’s shoulder. Jamie looked at me in surprise before smiling softly with a blush. “C-Come on…” Jamie muttered while the others walked over to compliment the gang. “Jamie, Twi, we’re so sorry for not standing up for ya.” Applejack apologized. “Yeah! We all should apologized!” Pinkie exclaimed. “Please please please please forgive us!” “Okay you guys, just calm down.” Twilight chuckled. “We don’t blame you guys. We’re just glad that you’re all alright.” “Yeah.” Jamie nodded while Jack smirked at him before ruffling his hair, much to Jamie’s surprise. “H-hey! I-I’m sorry!” “Nah, I ain’t hurting ya nerd. Just appreciating how strong you became…” He gotten closer to his face before making a sly grin and whispered “Especially kissing the chick of ya dreams.” “S-Stop it!” Jamie exclaimed while the rest of us laughed. “You know…I’m surprised that you did that to my sister.” Uh oh. Looks like Jamie is about to get chewed out by Shining. We all turned around to see Shining walking over, along with Cadance, who also gotten out of the goo slime off of her hooves. He held a stern look and said “I mean, a human kissing a pony, nonetheless my sister.” “U-uhh…..” Jamie blushed and looked away in fear, which caused some of us to give him sympathetic looks and smirks on our faces. “Looks like Jamie went back to his soft and nervous side.” Kodi whispered to me with a small smile, which I nodded in agreement and replied “Yeah, he sure is.” “Shining, calm down.” Twilight assured. “Indeed. After all, we all need to rest up after the battle we fought.” Princess Luna pointed out. “After fighting off all of those Changelings have worn me out a bit.” “Indeed, Luna.” Princess Celestia chuckled. “We all went through such an intense battle.” “You tell me.” Rantaro couldn’t help but agree to that. “Still though Celeste…Next time you get another threatening letter, be sure to double check anyone if you feel like there’s something off with them. You guys are too naive to fall for this stuff.” “I can’t help but agree with Rantaro on that.” Nicole slightly nodded with a sigh. “You all fell for her trick when she was obviously an imposter due to her condescending and demanding demeanor appearance and attitude, along on how she kept insulting with the rest of us.” That caused some of the ponies to sheepishly rubbed the back of their heads until we heard Shining groaning as he placed a hoof on his head. “Oooh….not another headache. I’m already getting sick of it.” Shining groaned, causing Twilight to chuckle. “Don’t worry Shining, we’ll get you healed up.” Twilight assured with a soft grin. “Yeah, we all deserved to rest up after today.” I nodded with a smile before noticing Kaede looking around the destruction of the hall with a concern look before she chuckled nervously with a sweat-drop and added “Yeah…I think the wedding is gonna be put on hold, right?” “It would seem so, Kaede.” Celeste nodded with a smile. “Yeah…” Cadance nodded. “By the way…Shining?” “Yes Cadance?” The moment Shining turned to her, he was slapped in the face by her as she gave him a scolding look. “Ow! What was that for?!” “That was for insulting Twilight like that! I mean, she was practically in tears and you even straight out nearly gotten Jamie to kill himself!” That caused Jamie to shiver a bit as Twilight comforted him with a soft hug. “Yeah, that’s gonna be one thing we want to forget.” Kodi said. “But at least we still encouraged him to keep being strong, right?” Carrie reminded us with a cheerful smile. “I still think Jamie is still a strong guy like Ren, big brother, and Jack.” “T-thank you Carrie…” Jamie thanked, a light blush on his face. “Yeah, you were quite amazing out there.” Kaede complimented, furthering embarrassing him. “Speaking of which…” Princess Celestia walked over to Jamie as she gently placed her hoof on Jamie’s cheek, much to his confusion. “Ah…!” “W-what? What is it?” Jamie asked nervously. “Your cheeks…” Princess Celestia spoken in surprise. “It has cutie-marks.” “Wait WHAT?!” Jamie yelled out before he began rubbing his cheeks. “W-w-where?!” “Here, I have a mirror.” Rarity offered, taking one out of her mane as she showed it to him as Jamie looks at his cheeks, seeing those heart shaped shield-like tattoos. It’s strange that Twilight’s cutie-mark is on the center of the tattoo, but the shaped of the shield looks like Cadance’s heart cutie-mark, and the sun marks has Celestia’s sun cutie-mark, and on the back on the shield is Luna’s moon cutie mark due to the full moon centered on it. “W-what is this?” Jamie asked in shock. “Why…do I have something like this?” “Oh yeah, never noticed that.” Jack said, taking a closer look on his face. “Damn…what’s up with those cutie-patootie marks on your faces?” “You mean Cutie-Marks.” Carrie corrected. “But…where did they come from?” “More importantly, why exactly does Jamie even have that?” Rantaro questioned. “Why?” Fluttershy asked in confusion. “Can’t humans even get cutie-marks?” Pinkie Pie asked innocently. “No, they can’t.” I shook my head before adding “Well…at least I don’t think so.” “It would seem that something caused Sir Jamie Watson to have those…peculiar Cutie-Marks.” Princess Luna remarked, inspecting Jamie’s new cutie-marks. “Tell us, did anything strange happened?” “W-well…” Jamie thought for a while before answering “Oh yes! I think I heard a voice!” “A…voice?” Mason asked in surprise. “Yes, something about ‘saving me’ and ‘I’m being one of the ones’ or something like that.” Jamie explained. “I’m not sure what it was, but I’m sure I heard a voice when we were fighting Queen Chrysalis.” “That is quite indeed strange.” Princess Celestia thought aloud. “You know, it’s weird seeing those cutie-marks on your face like that, Jamie.” Kaede said, touching his cheeks a bit. “It’s like you gotten a tattoo.” “Y-yeah…” Jamie nodded a bit. “Well either way, I’m glad that’s over.” Shining sighed before turning to Cadance and apologized. “Listen Cadance…I’m sorry for what I did. Especially you Twily and Jamie. I just…I never mean to hurt your feelings.” Jamie and Twilight looked at each other for a while before smiling softly towards him. “It’s alright Shining, we don’t blame you.” Twilight assured. “Twilight’s right.” Jamie nodded. “We don’t blame you. If we have just had some evidence, we might’ve proved it but I guess we thought you guys would helped us because we believed in our friendship, and thanks to that, Chrysalis took that as an advantage to herself.” In a flash, Jack punched him in the shoulder, making Jamie flinch. “Just shaddup already nerd!” Jack exclaimed. “So what if she did?! We already gotten rid of that ugly cockroach, doesn’t mean that you have to keep blaming yourself.” “Yeah, besides you got us!” Carrie said with a smile. “I know.” Jamie smiled a bit while I patted him on the back with a grin. “You know, I think you really improved dude.” Jamie looked at me in confusion, which caused me to chuckle. “I’m talking about how you’re not stuttering anymore. You’re speaking quite well.” “O-oh? You think so?” Jamie asked, blushing a bit. “Sure seems like it!” Rainbow Dash agreed before making a teasing smile at him. “But you know, who would’ve thought that a simple kiss from Twilight would make you brave?” That gotten the two to blushed madly with embarrassed looks on their faces while Shining raised a brow and Cadance laughed at their reactions. “You know, what Chrysalis said wasn’t a lie.” Cadance chuckled with a teasing smile. “These two have a strong bond, along with Ren and Fluttershy.” “Well duh, they are dating.” Kodi pointed out, causing me and Fluttershy to blush as we shouted “Kodiak!” That gotten everyone laughing as we began feeling joyful and gained a lot of good times in the aftermath of the battle for Canterlot. With that, it was all over. Canterlot was in peace, we all finally forgiven each other and reformed our friendships, and now that the REAL Cadance is back, we can go get something to eat, take a goodnight’s rest, and soon finally, the real Canterlot wedding will begin. Meanwhile Somewhere in the outlands of Equestria, Queen Chrysalis and the rest of the fallen Changelings were all groaning as they were badly injured from the blast. “Ugh…” Chryalis slowly began to regain consciousness before looking around the area. “No…No…NOOOOOO!” The other Changelings covered their ears and whimpered in fear upon seeing their mother’s furious look. “I was so close! I was so close on stealing all of their love until those humans ruined it!” Chrysalis shouted in agony. “GRRR! Where did I go so wrong?!” “Because you were too overconfident in your abilities.” Chrysalis and the other Changelings looks back to see a familiar dark masked wearing figure appearing out of the shadows. “Void…” Chrysalis grimaced out of disgust. “Because you were too arrogant and overconfident in your plans, you failed to see how powerful those humans such as Jamie Watson was. Thanks to you, you finally managed to unlock one of the keys to their secret power.” Void said, walking over and grabbed her by the throat with an irritated look. “A-AAH!” Chrysalis choked out. “H-how is this my fault? W-what power?” “It doesn’t matter, you cretin!” Void scoffed, throwing her off a distance from where he stood. He looked away and muttered “Great…this is a problem. If I don’t get those Elements of Harmony along with that power those freaks took away, then I won’t be able to make this world see true hope like I did back then…” “H-Hey!” Chrysalis gotten back up with an irritated scowl. “Answer me! What power are you talking about?!” “….” Void became silent before sighing a little. “You keep your mouth shut. For now, I need to hurry. But then again…” He took out a small crystal-like shard as it was covered in darkness. “I must thank you again for what you did.” Void chuckled. “What?” Chrysalis asked in confusion. “Thanks to you, I gained enough darkness and negative emotions from those ponies gained during your little invasion, but this one mostly came from the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, along with those humans after their little fight.” Chrysalis widened her eyes in realization upon what Void was talking about as he crossed his arms and said “Heh heh, I guess what you seem that you lost hope, despair always has it ways to ruin that moment. Oh well, with this much power, I am able to search for the last one from there.” “Y-you…you used me…” Chrysalis muttered in shock. “So?” Void asked nonchalantly. “You little! You used me!” Chrysalis exclaimed, bursting with anger. “After those files you left me after you took your leave, I thought you trusted me! Me and my beloved Changelings worked for days to practice transforming into those humans! But you…you!” She retaliated by firing a powerful green fiery blast, only for it to be cut down. She widened her eyes as she was being threatened by Void, who held a dark scythe that was emanating from darkness before it disappeared. “That was the point. I used you.” Void stated before turning away from her. “Besides…anyone would’ve done it. And you’re telling me that ‘I’ used ‘you’. How ironic considering that you were using your own Changelings with the Hive Mind.” Chrysalis growled in anger as Void slowly began disappearing from the shadows. “I am done speaking with the likes of you. Goodbye…” With that, Void disappeared from the shadows as Chrysalis let out an angry scowl on her face. “One day Void…you’ll be begging to come back to me…” She scoffed before taking something behind from her, revealing to be the ‘files’ Chrysalis stated that Void left her that one of her Changelings found in her palace. But on the front of the stack of files…had a picture of Ren, and on the other files were a picture of the other humans. Queen Chrysalis narrowed her eyes before her horn glowed and burned them into pieces. “Hmph! I don’t need them anymore because I know one day…” Chrysalis looked over at the skies with an angry look on her face. “I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!” She screamed in the air with a vengeful look on her face. It would seem that this won’t be the last time Ren and friends won’t see her again. To Be Continued