//------------------------------// // Attack on the camp // Story: The Changeling empire // by red reaper //------------------------------// After an hour, Twilight explained what happened to her since Starlight used the time travel spell, about the Rainboom, and about the other Equestria. The CMC listened to the alicorn's words like it was a story about a different world, a better world. When Twilight finished, Applejack nodded to Gilda, and the griffon caught Starlight. "What the hay are you thinking you doing?" Starlight asked as she tried to resist the griffon's grasp over her body, "Let me go!!" "A'm afraid ah cannot let you do that," Applejack sighed, "But if what Twilight told us is true, ya' the one to blame for all of this," all of the ponies then looked at Starlight, and the unicorn spotted fire in their eyes, "Because of ya' ponies died, fillies and colts, family and friends." "Because of ya' Big Mac is dead, Granny Smith is dead!" Apple Bloom and she ran to her sister. "Because of you, Rainbow Dash is being tortured by the changelings!" Scootaloo aimed her bow on the unicorn. "Because of you, Rarity is under the mercy of a psychopath!" Sweetie Belle shouted in rage as her horn glow. "Okay, that's enough!" Twilight shouted as she ran to protect Starlight. "Twilight, what are you doing?" Spike asked, confused. "Starlight will face her crimes, but it will be done when I take her to our timeline," Twilight promised the angry ponies. "Very well," Applejack agreed, and she nodded back to Gilda to let go of the unicorn, "But she is yar responsibility, if something happens to her, is yar problem, got it?" Twilight nodded and she walked towards Starlight. "Are you okay?" Twilight asked as she helped her rival to get on her legs. "Yeah," Starlight answered, "But, why? I wouldn't stand for you." "We're not the same, then," Twilight said and she walked outside, Starlight tried to say something to the alicorn, but she couldn't and she just followed her and Applejack. Applejack took the two mares and the dragon to their chamber, it was a small room, made of wood and he contained two wooden beds. "Ya will leave tomorrow," Applejack told the mares as Trixie ran towards her boss. "Make it till midnight," Applejack corrected herself, "If ya stay tomorrow, ya belong to Eclipse." Twilight woke up to the sound of screaming ponies, she saw Starlight was awake too, and so was Spike, and the three walked outside, and they saw war. Ponies fighting changelings wearing golden armor, griffons, and dragons flying in the cave's sky fighting their counterparts that wore golden armors and held spears and axes. Fire everywhere, making the cave light in red, and the ground was filled with blood. Twilight put Spike on her back, and she and Starlight ran towards Applejack's cabin, blasting changelings from right to left. As the three arrived at Applejack's cabin, where she, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Trixie, and the CMC fought diamond dogs, wearing Eclipse's symbol on their golden armor. "What's going on?" Twilight asked Applejack as she and Starlight help to get rid of the dogs. "Eclipse attacked us when we weren't ready," Applejack answered she kicked a diamond dog behind her, making him fall on two of his kind, "Ya have to leave now!" "We will not leave you!" Twilight answered, as she used her magic to hold one of the dog's legs and she threw him on a small division of changelings that came to attack them. "Alright then," Applejack called for Trixie, Pinkie, Fluttershy and the CMC, "Then we must go!" Applejack led the group towards a secret tunnel, as the fight grew stronger and stronger. The sound of screams gave shivers down the spines of the fellowship, and changelings chased them, flying after the ponies. As finally, the ponies arrived at the entrance of the cave, Twilight saw two red eyes, accompanied by 60 green eyes of changelings. "Leaving so soon?" A metallic sinister voice asked, and the owner of the red eyes came to the red light of the fire, reflecting the flames on the golden body of General Eclipse. The changelings stormed on the ponies, leaving Twilight and Starlight alone, and Eclipse walked toward them, "After all that I have done here, just for you, Twilight Sparkle?" "How do you know my name?" Twilight asked as she blasted purple bolts at the golden stallion, but the bolts just deflected from his body, leaving no mark. Changelings surrounded her, Spike, and Starlight. "Oh, I know more than you think, little alicorn, more than you think," Eclipse smiled behind his mask, "Separate them." The changelings did as they were told, and they separated the two mares, leaving Twilight at the mercy of the cyborg. Starlight used her spells to blast changeling after changeling as she saw Twilight fell under attacks of Eclipse, with a deep breath, the unicorn ran towards the General, and she leaped to his head, distract him for Twilight to escape, and the last thing Twilight saw was Starlight fighting the general as Pinkie, Applejack, Trixie and the CMC took her towards the tunnel. I guess we are the same Twilight thought as she again blacked out.