The days turn fast into weeks and then months. Faust was learning more and more of this new Equestria she was now living. Cadence was one who helped her to get accustomed to this new time. Also Celestia's student Twilight Sparkle the purple unicorn whom she met first when she arrived back into Equus. Twilight was always having tons of questions and Faust was more than happy to answer any of them even those considering Celestia's and Luna's foal hood. Faust could still remember the look on Twilight's face when she told that Celestia was always trying to steal some extra cookies from the pantry. Faust had also learned of the coming wedding of her new friend Cadance. She was getting married to this Captain Shining Armor who indeed was Twilight Sparkles' older brother. Today she and Cadance were supposed to meet at the library, but she didn't arrive she didn't even message her that she would skip their daily meeting which was odd so Faust decided to go and see her. Walking through the halls of the castle asking where Cadance was she was told she should be in her room and soon she arrived at the door which had Cadaces cutie mark she knocked at the door.
"Cadance you there?" Faust asked.
"What is it, peasant! I'm a princess and should be treated as such." Cadance said from sounding angry.
"What? It's me Faust we had a meeting at the library today and you didn't show up?" Faust said wondering what had happened. Hearing hoove steps coming closer to the door which burst open and there was Cadance standing in front of Faust first having an angry look at her then it changed to that of surprised.
"Can I come in?" Faust asked while looking at her friend.
"What... Oh, yes of course come right in Princess Faust." Cadance said and Faust entered the room and Cadance closed the door. Walking into the room Faust was getting worried Cadance never called her princess maybe because she wasn't one so she decided to do one of her own magical checkups on her. She recognized that magic signature it wasn't that of an alicorn it was something she hasn't sensed in ages it was that of a changeling. Faust faced "Cadance".
"Where is the real Cadance? You aren't her you're a changeling." Faust said having angry look on her face. "Cadance" was taken aback by that comment she has managed to fool Celestia and Luna, but this alicorn just walks in and immediately sees through her disguise. A green fire engulfed her and she reveals her real form.
"Well and who might you be? I thought there were only three alicorns not four. Even Celestia couldn't see through my disguise so how did you?" the changelings asked.
"I ask again who are you?" Faust asked anger clearly radiating from her face.
"I am Queen Chrysalis and it's my job to gather love for my hive and Canterlot has lots of it."
"Your ancestors traded love with my kind, a long time ago you should do the same." Faust said while taking a defensive stance.
"Trade? With cattle how humorous." Chrysalis said taunting and letting out a beam of magic from her horn. Faust summoned her magic to form a shield around her and hold off the attack, but she could feel that strain on her body again.
"How? I should have much more magic in me than this how can I start to feel my limit already?" Faust thought while small cracks appeared on the shield. Faust used her experience and let some of the magic through her shield and reformed it around her shield. Doing so for a couple of seconds she released the energy her shield blowing and releasing energy that pushed Chrysalis to the wall hard. Panting hard Faust could feel her magic energy getting weaker. Chrysalis let out an angry roar and another bigger beam of magic hit Faust who managed to raise her shield back up, but this time it was overpowered after a couple of seconds. Faust lay on the ground feeling pain all over her body. Chrysalis walked next to her and assumed the form of Cadance again. Four soldiers appeared from green flames through the floor. Chrysalis took a sword from one of the guards and stepped Faust through her leg with it. Feeling the pain shoot from her legs Faust lets out a loud cry of pain.
"Hurts, doesn't it? Take here into the mines with the other princess." She yelled to the guards and soon the green flames engulfed Faust and darkness took her.
"Faust! Faust! Can you hear me! Please something!" Faust could hear a voice it was a mare by the sound of it. She could feel her leg getting healed, but not entirely and the pain was still there. Opening her eyes she sees Cadance her horn lit and focusing her magic on Faust's leg.
"Cadance? You're okay. I was worried something bad happened to you." Faust said having a smile on her face and coughing.
"There, I managed to heal some of your wounds, but you need help. We need to get out of here. And what happened to you? who could do something like this to you?" Cadance asked. Words that Celestia said to her on her first day in Canterlot popped into her mind "We asked for a doctor just to be safe. He told that your magic is fluctuating oddly like something is holding it back." What happened to her during her time in the void?
"My magic. Something is wrong with it. Something happened to me when I was locked in the void." Faust said and got up leaning on Cadance for support. Soon they heard someone yelling.
"Hello anypony there!?" the voice yelled. Cadence and Faust started to move towards the voice. After a walk through the caverns, they found the source of the sound.
"Twilight! Are you okay?" Cadance said dashing forward but stopped when the mare pointed her with her horn glowing and ready to attack.
"Stay away you two! You won't fool me twice!" Twilight said clearly panicking. Cadence stops before beginning to dance?
"Sunshine sunshine ladybugs awake clap your hooves and do a little shake." Cadance sang and finished her dance.
"Cadance it's really you!" Twilight released the magic she was holding and dashed forward to hug Cadance almost crushing her.
"Twilight! Air!" Cadance said and Twilight released her noticing Faust limping towards the two.
"Faust! Are you okay?" Twilight asks, but before Faust gets a chance to answer Chrysalis appears floating over them.
"Now isn't this a sweet sight. Unfortunately, I need to get rid of you three you know too much to be left alive." Chrysalis said and shoot a beam of green magic at the roof and stones started to fall.
"It was nice to know you." Chrysalis said and disappeared engulfed in green flames once more. More and more rocks start to fall from the roof and a couple of them make hits on all three of them. Panting they do their best to dodge them, but one rock hits Cadance and knocks her out. Faust has an idea. A stupid idea, but it might just save her friends.
"Twilight get next to Cadance and stay still." Twilight looks at Faust questioning look on her face but does as she says and soon a bubble of protective magic appears around her and Cadance.
"Faust! What are you doing!" Twilight said.
"Your magic hasn't recovered enough to help me create a shield for us and mine is strong enough to shield you two. I won't let you two die here. You two have so much of life left to live and Cadance needs to get back to her stallion." Faust smiled at the unicorn who tried her best not to let her emotions get the better of her while trying to cast protective magic around Faust, but her energy hasn't recovered yet. The first stone hit her and Faust could feel the pain flow through her body, but she ignored it and focused on keeping the shield up around her friends. More rocks hit her some were sharp and pierced her and some were blunt cracking some bones. Finally, after what felt like hours, the cave in stopped, Faust's magic disappeared and she herself collapsed to the ground panting heavily while losing the feeling in her body.
"Faust!" Twilight yelled and dashed to Faust's side.
Cadance was waking up placing her hand on her head.
"Owww... My head." Cadance said while rubbing her head. Looking around she sees Faust on the ground bleeding badly and Twilight trying her best to heal her.
"Come on Faust! Don't give up!" Twilight yells trying to cast different healing spells while her eyes are wet from tears. Seeing this Cadance moves towards them and gets next to Twilight trying to assess the situation. Doing a scan on Faust, Cadance is horrified at how badly wounded she is and her heartbeat is slow and getting slower. Joining in to help Twilight heal her. Doing their best Cadance and Twilight were hard on focusing on healing Faust, but all they managed to do was slow the inevitable. Faust's heartbeat was almost gone.
"I'm sorry Faust. I'm not good at healing spells. There is nothing I or Twilight can do." Cadance said. Faust raised her hand and both mares took hold of it.
"I'm sure you tried all you could. Please tell Celestia and Luna that I'm sorry for leaving them for good. And be there for them once I'm gone." Faust said while feeling the need to just lay down and sleep.
"We promise." Cadance and Twilight said. Faust gave a reassuring smile to them and her arm went limp and fell to the ground next to her once her heart stopped. Cadance and Twilight were crying when Chrysalis appeared over them.
"Awww... So the white one is gone. I'm going to deal with you two later for now I have a stallion to marry." Chrysalis said taunting them and disappearing while laughing like a true villain.
Twilight got up and helped Cadance on her legs. "Cadance we must move now. Faust gave us a chance to stop Chrysalis we... we can't let her sacrifice to be in vain." Twilight said trying to sound confident. Cadance gave a nod, she kneeled down and kissed Faust on her forehead.
"Thank you for everything Faust. I'll see you get a proper burial after this is over." Cadance said and left with Twilight in search of escape.
Faust opened her eyes she couldn't feel pain at all getting up she looked around herself and it was all white. Getting up she started to run around, but everywhere she run there was only white.
"Hello! Where am I!" Faust yelled into the nothingness. Nothing. The silence was her answer until she heard a voice behind her.
"You look as beautiful as the day when I left for the battle." A warm voice full of love said behind Faust. Every fur on her stood up. Silently she turned around to see a stallion she hasn't seen in thousands of years. There was a light grey alicorn stallion. He was a head taller than Faust and his cutie mark was depicting a golden shield with a sun in it.
"Sun? Is it really you?" Faust asked while moving her hand to touch his cheek. Taking hold of her hand he pressed it onto his cheek.
"Yes. It's me, my love." He answered while keeping his eye contact with Faust.
"So I really am dead then?" Faust asked while moving closer.
"Yes and no. I am here to help you get back." Sun said.
"But I want to stay with you, my love." Faust said and gave a kiss to her husband.
"I know you want. I want it too, but it isn't your time. Our daughters need you. I have seen how happy you have been with them after you got back." Sun said while the empty white space started to show images of Faust with Celestia and Luna spending time together after her return. Looking at the moments they have shared in the short time she has been back brought a smile to her face.
"Mothers are powerful even more so than fathers. They need you right now." Sun said and the images changed to what was happening in Canterlot.
"It's my special day, not yours!" the real Cadance yelled following Twilight into the cathedral.
"How? How are there two Cadances." Celestia asked. The guests looked stunned, but it didn't take long for them to see who is the real one.
"This farce has gone on long enough. I'm Queen of the changelings and it's my duty to get food for my people." Chrysalis said and transformed into her normal form discarding her disguise.
Chrysalis looked at Cadance and Twilight. "So you two ants survived. I had hoped you die in the caverns like that white alicorn." Chrysalis taunted while crashing sounds of the barrier could be heard.
"What? You don't mean... Cadance please say it isn't true." Celestia pleads and looks towards Cadance who just looks shamefully towards the ground.
"You... You monster! We just got her back! Now you'll face the full wrath of the sun! Luna, you take care of our ponies I'll deal with this "Queen"." Celestia yelled and dashed towards the Queen of changelings. Chrysalis didn't have time to react when she was rammed through the wall of the cathedral.
"Twilight! Go and get the elements with other bearers I'm going to help Celestia." Luna said hatred could be clearly heard from her voice and her fur was starting to get dark.
Cadance was running towards Shining to free him, but he was sucked into the ground surrounded by green fire.
"No! Shining!" Cadance yelled after failing to rescue her husband.
Seeing what happened to her brother Twilight ignored Luna's order, she cast a quick location spell and found out where Shining was held. He wasn't far from here.
"Cadance, come with us. Shining is being held somewhere close. We should get him back and then get the elements." Twilight said and started to run towards her brother's location with her friends, Cadance quickly followed her and her friends.
At the streets of Canterlot soldiers were fighting against the invading force of changelings. Black crystalline swords met steel forged swords of the guards and changeling magic was hurled against pony magic. There were losses on both sides, but changelings were ordered to try and keep the livestock alive for further use. At the marketplace Celestia was fighting against Chrysalis, princess of the sun and the queen of changelings were throwing spells against each other there were explosions around when either of them missed their intended target. Luna was fending off the drones that were trying to help their queen against Celestia, but the princess of the night saw to it that not one of the drones managed to reach the queen. Using her magic and the dual moon blades against them Luna did her best not to use lethal force, but the adrenaline and her growing hatred against these creatures who took her mother away were blinding her and her blades and magic started to find vital spots of the drones.
"Come worms! I'll slice each one of you until there is none of you left!" Luna yelled her fur now completely black and dark as the void of space and she continued to attack her enemies around her slicing and disintegrating drone after drone.
Back with Chrysalis and Celestia, their fight had gone on the only difference was that Celestia was starting to feel tired after fighting the queen. Chrysalis wasn't even showing any signs of tiredness. Avoiding another beam of Celestia's magic Chrysalis gave a wicked grin to Celestia.
"How... How is this possible? I am sure I have made hits on you, but there isn't a scratch on you." Celestia said panting heavily launching another beam of energy towards her enemy. Chrysalis shoot her own magic towards the beam dispelling both of them and dispelling Celestia's attack.
"Since you are almost done I can share a secret. You won't believe how much Shining loves your niece. His love has given me an incredible boost in power. As long as I'm linked with Shining I can use his love to heal and amplify my magic and strength." Chrysalis said and started to charge her next spell intending to finish Celestia, but she was interrupted by Luna who kicked her hard and she flew towards the wall of a nearby building.
"Your drones are done "Queen" and you're next. I'm going to take my time cutting you down." Luna said with a dark icy voice that was devoid of any emotion. Celestia looked in at horror her little sister. Nightmare Moon was starting to take her over once more. Celestia stood in front of her sister blocking her from reaching Chrysalis placing her arms on Luna's shoulders.
"Luna, this isn't you don't let her take you over again." Celestia pleaded with her little sister.
"Out of my way Celestia! That monster killed our mother. I'm going to make sure she pays for it." Luna said her eyes starting to morph into slitted eyes.
"I too want to make her pay, but I don't want to slaughter her." Celestia said moving her left hand to Luna's cheek.
"This is my final warning out of my way Celestia!" Luna said anger radiating from her.
"No! I won't let you fall to her level." Celestia said. As those words left her mouth a blade was stabbed through her abdomen. Celestia Looked down at the sword then towards Luna.
"Luna... I..." Celestia tried to speak but fell to the ground coughing blood. Seeing what she did Luna looked horrified at her sister breaking through her feelings of hate her body returning back to normal.
"No! Sister!" Luna yelled her voice full of grief and got down next to her sister doing her best to try and heal the damage she had done.
"I'm sorry, please don't leave me." Luna said crying while removing her blade from Celestia's abdomen and continuing to heal the gashing wound it left.
Chrysalis was about to attack, but watching the exchange between two sisters and seeing Luna stab Celestia was something she hasn't anticipated, but she did welcome it.
"You truly are a warrior princess Luna, but your emotions make you weak. But you have my thanks for taking Celestia down. Now I can take both of you out with one spell." Chrysalis started to summon a dark green ball of magic from her horn and it radiated a massive amount of energy.
"All hail Queen Chrysalis" Chrysalis taunted them and hurled the ball towards two princesses. Luna was still focusing on healing her sister. If she dodged the ball Celestia would surely die from the resulting explosion. If she shielded them Celestia would likely bleed to death while she was holding the protection around them. Luna just hugged her sister and continued to heal her wound.
"I'm sorry, but this seems to be our end after another of my mistakes. At least we will see mom and dad again." Luna said and prepared to face her death. The ball reached the two princesses and there was an explosion of green energy mixed with dark red energy.