Shining Armor led Twilight and Flash down the stairs to the foot of the tower. He gazed through the shielding surrounding it and saw Princess Celestia laying on the ground, battered. Chrysalis stood over her, holding the Princess’s wings with magic and grinning evilly. Princess Cadence and Princess Luna stood on the ground nearby, surrounded by Changelings and bowing their heads in surrender.
“Lower the shield!” Chrysalis said.
Unwilling to risk his monarch’s life, Shining Armor did so. The shield surrounding the tower faded. The changelings filling the area then took hold of the three ponies and brought them up to Chrysalis.
The Queen looked at Twilight. “Awake are you? Well, no matter. As long as you are separated from your friends and you don’t have the elements of harmony it makes no difference.”
Twilight glared at the Queen. “You must be the one who was impersonating Cadence.”
“That’s right,” Chrysalis replied.
Twilight seethed slightly. “My friends will get the elements and when we do….”
Suddenly a new group of changelings joined them, escorting the mane 5 as well as Spike. They noticed Twilight and looked at her in relief.
“Twilight, you’re awake!” Pinkie yelled in delight, but it vanished after she remembered the dreadful situation they were in.
Chrysalis merely scoffed and looked at Twilight, “You were saying?”
Twilight sighed. Chrysalis then took her chin while speaking to the mane 5 and the others.
“Its funny really, Twilight here was suspicious of my behavior all along. Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize those suspicions were correct.”
“Get your hooves off her!” Shining Armor snapped, moving to put himself between the Queen and his sister, but the Changelings near him restrained him.
Applejack looked at Twilight remorsefully. “Sorry Twi, we should have listened to you. If we had you wouldn’t have fallen under that curse! If not for Celestia weakening it we would have killed you!”
“Some element of loyalty I am!” Rainbow cursed.
“We’re so super sorry!” Pinkie sobbed.
“What we did was cruel!” Fluttershy said.
“We don’t deserve to be your friends for this darling!” Rarity bowed her head. “I feel so ugly right now. If we get out of this, you can throw all the mud you want at me! I deserve it!”
“I’m sorry too Twilight!” Spike said.
Twilight sighed. “What’s done is done. We’ll work it out later, after we deal with this!”
She released a wave of magical energy. Chrysalis was forced away from Celestia, and the other changelings near her friends and family.
Chrysalis growled at Twilight. “Oh you want to fight me now eh?”
Twilight nodded. “After you turned my BBBFF, mentor, and all my other best friends against me? As well as what you did to the Princess? Yes!”
Twilight fired a beam of light at Chrysalis who countered with her own. Twilight beam was pushed back, until another beam joined hers. Shining Armor had come to his sisters aid.
“Its payback time Chrysalis!” he shouted.
Together, the two unicorn siblings had enough power to overcome the Changeling Queen. Their spells hit Chrysalis in the horn, sending her flying back with a scream. Her tiara fell off her head as she collapsed.
The Changelings nearby stood in shock at the sight of their Queen defeated.
“Back away! All of you!” Shining Armor shouted.
The Changelings retreated back several paces, fearing the wrath of the two siblings that had just taken down their Queen as though she were nothing. The Mane 5, Spike, Flash, Cadence and Luna than took their place beside Twilight and Shining.
“All of you! Leave Canterlot and never return!” Shining Armor ordered as he charged magic on his horn. “Twily, Cadence? Could you please add your magic to mine?”
“Oh, of course my love!” Cadence said.
“Sure thing BBBFF!” Twilight said.
They both put their horns on Shining Armor, adding the strength of their magic and love to his shield as he put it back up and spread it across Canterlot. All the Changelings in the city, as well as the unconscious Chrysalis were swept away in a blinding flash of light.
Twilight smirked. “Good riddance.”
She than looked down at Chrysalis’s tiara and with a stomp of her hoof smashed the thing as a final revenge.
Back in the alleyway, Maleficent awoke as she felt a powerful magic surge. She looked up at the sky and caught a brief glimpse of all the changelings being thrown out of the city. Chrysalis was visible among the countless bugs, and Maleficent snarled as she recalled her betrayal.
“You will pay for that when I find you again Chrysalis!” the evil fairy said.
She put a hand to the wound the Changeling Queen had inflicted on her. Her strength had returned while she had been unconscious, and healing the wound was easy. Maleficent then got to her feet and looked around the streets of Canterlot.
With the changelings gone, her humanoid pigs were now being gathered up by the royal guard. Her army was gone.
Maleficent snarled again.
“Now they shall deal with me, and all the powers of hell!”
A massive wave of magic burst from her and she laughed evilly as she grew into her true form.