Chapter 13: Journey Through the Center of Canterlot Mountain
Dusk was going through the caverns he went into. He used his horn to light up the way. It didn't take a lot of magic for him to do it, but it was enough to help him go through. Dusk eventually made it half way through the caverns.
"I just hope that Mom and the others are looking for me," Dusk said. As soon as he was about to keep going, he heard something. It was the sound of a woman crying. He looked around to find the source of the crying. He walked towards the crying and checked to see who it was. He found out who was crying, and couldn't believe his eyes. "YOU!" He was angry and tried to tackle her, who happen to be the real Princess Cadance.
"No! Wait!" she said, but was tackled by Dusk.
"Don't try those shapeshifting games with me, shapeshifter!" Dusk said, angrily. "You're the reason I ended up in Appleloosa in the first place!
"That wasn't me!" said the real Princess Cadance. "I'm the real Princess Cadance! I've been stuck down here for a week!" Then she got a good look at Dusk and said, "You... you must be Dusk Shine, Twilight's magically born foal."
"Don't try that with me!" Dusk said. "You're not going to fool me with that! Even if you are the real Mi Amore Cadenza, tell me something that the real one would do!"
"Okay, okay!" Cadance said. "I was adopted at Princess Celestia's niece when I lost my parents when I was a foal, I prefer to go by Cadance, and no matter how old we are, Twilight and I always do our special nursery dance ever since she was a kid." She then got up, and did the dance. "Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake! Clap your hooves and do a little shake!"
Dusk was awestruck of how Cadance was behaving. He then asked, "You're... You're the real Princess Cadance?"
"I am!" Cadance said. "Please, I have to get back up to stop the changeling queen before the invasion starts."
"Oh, right, let's go!" Dusk said. Then he got confused on one thing. "Wait... what invasion?"
Meanwhile, on top of Canterlot Mountain, there was a huge swarm of changelings getting ready for the attack. Well, one wasn't wanting to go.
The changeling who saw Dusk go into the hole, Thorax, was on the edge of either wanting to invade or not attack. But that was until one of the changelings walked up to him.
"Yo, little bro," said the changeling, Pharynx. "Get ready. It's almost time to storm the city."
Thorax sighed and said, "I'm not too sure I should go through with this."
"Oh, here we go again with the 'I don't want to take love but share it' saying," Pharynx said. "Listen, Thorax. You know what'll happen if the queen hears about that. I can't keep it hidden from her for long. If you don't want to get banished from the hive, don't bring up that talk again."
"But I'm not the only changeling that's not sure about this," said Thorax. "You know that young changeling."
"Oh, you mean Ocellus," said Pharynx. "That little hatchling isn't ready. She's too scrawny and scared to even do any love sucking. So we left her back at the hive all by herself so she can learn to steal love like how things should."
"Isn't that a little... dark?" Thorax asked.
"It's how to get things done," said Pharynx. "Now, are you going to help us get ready for the invasion or not?"
Thorax just sighed and asked, "Guess I have no choice, do I?"
"That's the spirit," said Pharynx. Then he had Thorax hit himself. "Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?"
"Pharynx!" Thorax whined. "Stop it! You know how much I hate that!"
(Imagine that Twilight in this video is Dusk Shine)