Celestia also noticed that Sunset was there and looked at her very strangely. She started to think - how much did Twilight tell her? Did Sunset know the truth? her She refocused on why she there.
Celestia said joyfully, “Twilight, I’m so sorry about what happened to you. I want to be a family again.”
For a couple of minutes, Twilight said nothing. But then, Twilight responded.
”Are you serious? Why would I want to be a family with you, the mare that banished my mother to the moon?”
As she spoke, the darkness of the shadows wrapped around her and then became solid as steel. On her chest, an orange gem appeared.
She continued. “Or did you forget what you did? Because I didn’t! And you didn’t tell anypony about me or my mother! Oh and then I found out you didn’t tell anypony about the past, which makes me think you don’t want anypony to know about it. But I’m already giving little Sunset reason to doubt you.”
As she said this, her horn glowed with sickly green lightning. Thinking fast, Celestia used a bubble shield to block the dangerous spell. As an extra precaution, she placed a second bubble shield on Sunset. The Princess of the Sun dropped her shield and flew up into the air. Twilight followed her.
Back on the ground, Sunset thought, Is it true? Did Celestia do that? And if it is true, then what else has she been hiding?
The next thing she knew, her phoenix Philomena flew down to her. Philomena looked at her as if to say, why are you having doubts about Celestia? Sunset got up and said, “It may be true, what happened, but Celestia is still the ruler of Equestria, and I will not abandon my beliefs.”
As she said this, she dropped the shield spell. Her phoenix got her prison ring, and she felt her magic coming back. She got to work casting spells.
In the sky, the two Alicorns flew around Canterlot castle. Celestia fired magic bolts hoping to stun Twilight. But Twilight fired deadly elemental magic. Fire, ice, sickly green lightning, and dark blue lances. The Princess of the Sun’s plan was to try to outfly her, but every time she thought she had outflown her, she nearly got hit by an ice shard. She had to try to continue flying and firing stunning spells.
Down at Canterlot castle, Shining Armor and Cadence stood as Cadence held the shield of light spell, knowing that if she dropped it, the hollow ponies would go inside the castle and slaughter them; All the staff, all the guards that had survived, and all of the ponies that had managed to get here. As for Shining, he was helping anypony like Blue Blood, and Shining was surprised that he had made it across the battlefield.
Then he saw Cadence struggling under the spell. He approached and asked, “Is there anything I can do to help you?” The Princess of Love said, with pain in her voice, “No, I just need to be able to concentrate.
Shining knew she was losing a war in her mind, and he said “You actually need help.”
He and one other unicorn came together and connected their horns with the shield spell. Surprisingly, Shining Armor held the spell well, even better than his comrade.
Then a bright light appeared behind him, and on his blank flank, a cutie mark appeared. It was a purple shield with a pink star, and above it were three silver stars. Cadence then understood that it was his destiny to hold up the shield.
BOOM!!!
Cadence looked up and saw that Celestia was in trouble. She said to Shining Armor, “Can you hold up the shield around all of Canterlot?” He replied, “Yes, ma’am.”
Then Cadence flew up to Celestia with the knowledge that Shining Armor could manage the sheild wihtout her. Hold on, auntie, she thought.
Celestia was trapped by a binding shadow spell, and Twilight was about to deliver the final blow to her with two spells: the sickly green lightning spell and the spell of black flames. It would have been the end for Celestia, but a light blue lightning spell sped past her, combining which hit her green lightning spell and the black flame spell. The combined spells hit the train station. Then, the light blue lightning got absorbed by the orange gem on Twilight’s chest.
Twilight looked to where the attack had come from, and said, “Well, well, well. What do we have here? A pegasus that got her horn by spreading love. How sweet.” Cadence said, “Twilight, you don’t have to do this. You can be a better pony. Just stop this and get to know the world that you are new to.”
But Twilight’s form started to get smoky, and she said, “Of course you would say that! Tell me, do you like this peace-loving land, or are you curious as to who your parents are? I am curious about how much magic you have.
Twilight then changed into a dark shadow cloud with two purple eyes. Several shadow tentacles reached out and tried to grab Cadance. Cadance managed to get out of the way by using a teleporting spell. She then fired a stunning spell at the shadow cloud, but the spell just passed right through it.
Several purple bolts then zoomed by Cadence, and she got ready to throw a counter spell. But then she saw a whole bunch of Twilights, and the black shadow cloud was gone. Two of the Twilights announced, ”I, Twilight Sparkle, present the shadow cloning spell. I welcome you now to your doom.”
Then four of the clones used the sickly green lightning spell and three other clones used the black fireball spell. Cadence closed her eyes and concentrated.
All of the Twilights fired at the same time, which created a massive explosion. As the smoke cleared, there was Sunset with Celestia and Cadence in an orange fiery shield. As Cadence looked closer, she saw Sunset, but her body looked different, or maybe it was the new fire wings that made her look different.
Sunset looked up at Twilight, who had a surprised look on her face. Sunset said loudly, “You will not kill her. You need to let go of the past. If you continue this attack, I will stop you. I will stop you at any cost!”