Aurora Sunshine and Luster Dawn walks around, in Ponyville. Aurora is dressed in a great outfit that just embrace her pretty looks.
"Hey, where did you had that dress, you didn't told me about it!" Luster says.
"Rarity and Twinklesprite made it. It is done with their both expertise and cultural manner to make a dress, which makes it very convenient with our friend group!" She smiles, quite happy.
"Great!" She smiles too, but then she get curious. "But what is that leashed dog then?"
"Oh. This is Kayron, my new pet. Fluttershy and I really got into a search for which animal could be the best suited for me, and find out that even if his little pouty face can be cold at first, he is a very lovely and adorable little doggy isn't he..." She says while petting the dog.
Kayron pouts and roll his eyes.
"He is really cute." Luster says. "I never knew what animal could fit me. I'd may reach Fluttershy for that too one day."
"That'd be great, our pets would play together!" Aurora smiles.
Luster Dawn enters the throne room of the ruling Princess, Twilight Sparkle.
"Your majesty." She bows. "I think I have solved all of my friends' issues. I want to ascent to alicornhood and rule over Equestria."
The Princess have wide eyes, while Spike, that is aside of her, spurts his drink loudly. Twilight glances at Spike, like to tell him that he don't need to be that dramatic. Aurora comes in and walks until reaching Luster Dawn.
“Um. It doesn't work like that." Spike says. "It isn't just a said list of tasks or something."
"What is it then?" Luster asks. "I wish to have wings now. I wanna be a princess. Like Twilight."
Twilight stands up and walks to her, as she reach the impatient unicorn she pat her shoulder. Aurora enters the room too and get aside of her.
"My dear student Luster Dawn." Twilight Sparkle starts, in a wise voice. "It isn't about the wings or special ascension occasion to alicornhood that make somepony important."
"Really?" Luster asks in reply.
"For sure." Aurora smiles. "What makes you interesting is the way you act for and help everypony else. Not your look nor the royal tag you have. I find you pretty important in my life already."
"And I'm sure a bunch of pony thinks like that too." Twilight adds. "You don't need a title to be somepony."
"But what if I pass out and my name is forgotten? I don't know how many will remember me. I want to be useful for the world, other than basic psychology helps that are just friend-talks in fact.”
"My friend." Aurora snuggles her. "Don't say such things. I will never forget your name nor the things you done for me, my family and my friends. Without you, my life would be so much different."
"But wouldn't it be only slightly worse without me?" Luster asks.
"Of course it would be way darker than currently." Spike says, coming-by too. "I don't know how many times you with your friends of Ponyville have saved stuff. Numerous parties and projects wouldn't be up today if you weren't here."
"It looks like there is still some lessons to teach you about generosity and loyalty." Twilight says. "No matter if you have rewards. Your objective in life is to give and spread love and friendship. Kindness and caring. If you always are reluctant or want to be paid for it in some way, then there isn't good actions as a thing anymore. It is not because you aren't naïve that you will never let somepony get access to what you can offer for them."
"Great. I think I understood, perhaps." Luster says.
"I will give you couple of quests for you to solve if you two feel bored. You might reach for Starlight in order to have her work with the map to call you for tasks in Equestria." Twilight says.
"No need to!" Luster Dawn says, knowing that her friend wouldn't point it out herself with her shyness. "Aurora is so strong with magic she can work with the map on her own!"
"Oh really. Aurora overpass your level of magic Luster doesn't she?" Twilight laughs. "Her powers are limitless are they."
"Oh, can I bring my friends in with my quests?" Luster asks.
"Of course." Twilight smiles.
Arriving at Ponyville, Twinklesprite the earth, Strawberry Jam the licorn, Suncream the pegasi, Flowercorn the doe, Luster Dawn and Aurora Sunshine the unicorns, all runs out of the train and aim for the castle.
"Come-on everyone, let's get to the castle!" Luster says.
But when they run throughout Ponyville they perceive more and more that everyponies and other beings are sleeping. If some rare are awake they either looks really sleepy or drowse.
"What. Is happening here." Twinklesprite says.
"Isn't Ponyville supposed to be more... Active usually?" Suncream asks.
"It is, but surely something is wrong." Aurora says.
Walking around they suddenly here a clanking noise coming from behind a street nearby. Getting afraid, Strawberry and Twinkie starts to panic a bit, while Flowercorn draw a wooden sword and Suncream spit on her hooves, ready to use them. Luster Dawn casts a shield that covers all of her friends in a bubble that circles around them.
The next instant a screaming spider-bug thing shoot at them it's sharp spikes, that are absorbed by the shield but makes the protection explode in pieces.
"Flowercorn, Suncream, at left!" Aurora shout. "Luster, join me at right. Twinkie and Strawberry, try to grab its attention while we attack!"
"Great idea!" Flowercorn says, before leaping within houses where the monster loses sight on them, as Suncream follows her.
The plan goes on, the spider thing can't throw any things much more but walks towards the two attention-seeking ponies, until, urging from a pass between two houses, Suncream and Flowercorn dashes into the monster to rain strikes on them. Luster and Aurora shoot lasers from the other side.
The spider gets angry and destroys a few properties, along with some walls of houses and some stands. Fortunately enough, Luster can seize with her magic the few sleeping ponies that happen to be standing in range of getting hurt from the battle.
But suddenly, Strawberry Jam, the tiny, shy and clumsy pony, shout.
"Stop!!!!!!!" She tells.
The scene sit still, which makes her able to reach just a tiny step close to the big bug.
"I can't remind when I said I was okay or me agreeing onto this." She says in a big unusual voice. "This is a sleep-spider. She spreads fumes to feed into ponies' energy when they sleep. If you had reached for me I would have said that tricking her with an energy source away would work fine to release Ponyville from the spell."
She walks closer and rub the chin of the creature, that does a dog-whining sound for a second.
"See. You are attacking while the thing to do here is convincing." She says. "Would you like to not disturb Ponyville anymore and seek another place for feeding?" She asks the creature kindly.
The creature lowers her eyes while the other friends gather, a bit shamefully. Twinklesprite comes aside of Strawberry and raise a gem at the creature.
"Maybe you could aim for a less harmful type of diet?" Twinklesprite says.
The spider eat the gemstone and does a little sound of hungry still, even if the creature seems to like that food.
"You see my dear sleep-spider, when you shoot your stings to cast one's sleep, they risk of falling or somehow get hurt. It isn't really nice. Plus it is disturbing the life of creatures that have to be active in daylight. I will gladly make up a cozy place for you to settle at in the forest, where you can't harm any beings and surely make friends. I will bring a plate of stones if you want. Do you accept?"
The creature seems to do a pouting. Strawberry glances at Twinkie that brings from her bag a pretty sky-blue diamond, the size of her hoof.
"Will this change your mind?" Strawberry grabs the precious stone and aims it towards the creature.
The creature have sparkles in its eyes and eat the diamond. As it swallow it, the spider halfly falls asleep as Strawberry smiles.
"See. Now the strong two of you can carry it to the Everfree forest, gently, while Twinklesprite and me will prepare for making it food and stuff to stay far as possible." She wisely announces.
All others don't seem much against it and works that way. As they come back to Ponyville, they work around in order to wake every beings and heal or help them if they have issues.
After all of this is complete, the sun is nearby the end of the day, and they all find themselves to rest, sitting together as the group of friends they are, in front of the castle of Friendship.
"Why we wanted to go to the castle? I don't remember anyway." Suncream says.
"I hope it isn't important, we might be very late." Flowercorn sighs, exhausted.
Princess Twilight appears, flying in the sky with few guards she lands aside of the team.
"I heard Ponyville had a little nap issue?" She says.
"We took care of it." Twinkie says.
"I am glad you were here then." Twilight smiles.
"Princess Twilight!" Luster says. "Aurora and me are sorry. We thought that fighting the monster was important as to show Ponyville's strength and that it won't comply to an intruding creature stealing their magic." She explains.
"But speaking with them wisely and finding a solution for them is way more beneficial for everyone involved rather than roughness." Aurora says.
"That is a very important lesson I hope you all will remember." She smiles.
Starswirl the Bearded, Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst, and also Twilight Sparkle stands in a room, somesort of line in front of Luster Dawn and Aurora Sunshine.
"I reunited you because I think you are the most powerful magic casters of Equestria. I have found a problem." Luster Dawn says.
"We are all available to help, my students." Twilight says.
"We have found an incoherence." Aurora says. "An incoherence that have brought me and Luster to think about something that would change our way of thinking for ever."
The two mares shines their horns and their magic fusion, making a screen to show what they want to explain.
"Apparently, we are immortal." Luster Dawn says.
"What got me on the pathway to solve that mystery is that when we resolved the sleep-spider problem of Ponyville, Strawberry could talk to a creature that is five times her size." Aurora says. "After what I have lived during my trip to the Deerlands right before Equideer have been settled is that our land is different. I have thought that something is keeping our kind to be actually hurt."
"It make no sense for a pony to be able to talk to a dragon." Luster says. "But a while ago, Fluttershy could ‘kindly’ ask a dragon to sleep away from our lands just like nothing."
"Isn't this just result of her cutie mark and the magic that she wield as a pony just like all of us have?" Starlight guesses.
"No. At least. Not only." Luster says. "It looks like along with the magic that let unicorns levitate things, pegasi to fly, and earth pony to raise plants that easily, there is another kind of magic. An other kind of magic that is protecting Equestria from any hurt."
"And I theorized a specific point of time where all of that started." Aurora says. "I called it. the Extinction of the Hurt."
Starswirl looks at Twilight, and he sighs, walking closer to the two mares he start speaking wisely.
"It looks like we can't keep the truth away of you two much longer." Starswirl says. "You are right on one thing. A long time in the past, a single event in time made Equestrian creatures invincible, only able to align comic-friendly looks and faces to bear with the situations they are in."
"Yes! We were right!" Aurora is happy. "Do you know more about it?"
"Unfortunately. No." Starlight says. "A long time in the past there have been an event which magically made ourselves protected from real pain, hurt, and death."
"The problem is. That protection is in danger." Luster says.
They all gasps.
"Why that?" Sunburst asks.
"With the venue of Equideer, and the past of Equifrancian ponies that is so different than Equestrian ponies, Aurora and me could sense that this magic shield is in danger. Researching on their past, Aurora and me found out that violence is one pillar if not the key of the foundation of their world. Equifrancia's revolution, the reestablishment of royalty, the war against Coatmany, all of that resulted in many deaths. Equestria didn't registered a single one since long time ago."
"After my calculation, The Hurt would be reestablished.. in less than a moon." Luster Dawn announces.
Twinklesprite runs around Trotetia, trying to scare off the yaks.
"What is it? Are you scared of scissors?" Twinkie smiles.
"Yak never seen blood. Yak scared. But yak war Equideer for haughty against yaks." A large beast says, close to her.
She does movement with her hoof holding the tool like if it was something so dangerous. Some yaks tries to walk away but some still slaughter the buildings and punch the ponies and deers.
Suddenly, the army, with Queen Esperanza and King Ethan show up.
"It looks like the party is over." Ethan smugs.
The next instant, Ethan have his wings and licorn horn and Esperanza's chest brights with the shape of the cube inside her.
"For Equideer!!" The both shout.
After a spellcasting noise from the two a laserbeam shoots from their horns to the crowd of yaks that were attacking a statue of the King and Queen. Many yaks have their fur burned or sharped out of their figures while some are lightly bleeding.
"This is our last warning to you, yaks!" Esperanza shout.
"We won't use such a gentle ray next time!" Ethan warns them.
All the yaks runs away in sign of retreat. Soon the Equideer people will be happy and proud to have resisted the attack of yaks.
At that moment, Luster Dawn and Aurora Sunshine comes by, close to Twinklesprite, Flowercorn, Suncream and Strawberry.
"Girls. What happened here?" Asks Aurora, concerned.
"Yaks have destroyed all our things. Again." Twinkie replies.
They all walk in direction of the King and Queen of the country.
"My subjects!" Esperanza grabs their attention.
"We assure you this will not be forgotten!" Ethan says.
"We will address an official demand for reparations!" Esperanza continues, under the crowd that agrees. "If they will not refund, there will be consequences!!"
"Yeah!!" The crowd replies. "Reward them what they deserves!" Somedeer says. "They should get the same damages than us!" Somepony says.
"Oh no, what is happening?!?" Luster Dawn says, quite panicking, to her friends, that are concerned by this too.
Sombra, Tirek, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, and Symfora, all walks in the same direction. In the forest, they meet yaks, that runs in the opposite direction, some are hurt and most are afraid or angry.
"What. Happened there?" Cozy Glow asks. "I didn't knew yaks could look all frightened like this?"
"See? I was right." Symfora says. "These are just horrible with those that don't comply to their standards." He says.
"Let's strike them then." Sombra tells them.
Walking outside of the forest they see the people of Equideer repairing and building again the destroyed stuff the yaks messed with, and soon their group is quite made aware from the local population. Equestrians recognizes the legend-ish baddies while Equifrancia and Deerlands recognizes Symfora, the leader of the pony-hunting lingotas.
Ethan and Esperanza teleports in front of the crowd along with a line of soldier to protect all of them.
"On guard!" Esperanza orders. "What are you 5 are doing here huh?" She shout in their vague direction, quite aware they probably aren't all here just for cupcakes.
"We need to defeat you!" Chrysalis says, flying upwards. "Let's go!"
She flies in direction of the crowd but Valentia and a squadron of aerial pony and deer show up in face of her.
Sombra uses his magic to teleport aside of the crowd and manage to place a few helmets on some of them, returning them into his own sake.
Tirek grab a handful of people and drinks their magic, the deers losing their crystal features and the ponies gets more greyish than their colorful usual.
Symfora dashes through the crop fields and uses his magic to fight with a magic-made sword against a few guards, occasionally trying to claw or bite them to deal damages too.
A tiny pink coated and blue maned pegasi show up to the team of friend.
"Hello. I'd like you to help me!" The pink pony cries a bit.
"Oh no, what's wrong cutie?" Twinklesprite approach her.
"My family is attacked. If only you could protect them against them!" She gesture at the fighting in the background, at that exact moment Esperanza can cast a shield to protect Ethan from a projectile coming from Sombra's magic.
"Girls! Look at this! We have to help Equideer!" Twinklesprite shout to her friend.
The group of friends rush in direction of the battle, and defend the people of Equideer. Cozy Glow does a frustrated noise while striking the ground with a hoof.
Coming by, the 6 friends can all help to counter attack one of the baddies. Strawberry manages to cast a spell to make vines grows from the ground, slowing Sombra's movements, Flowercorn leap over Chrysalis' lasers making her only misses her shoots and keep her distracted, Suncream dashes regularly from the sky and hit Tirek, Luster Dawn and Aurora Sunshine shields along with the soldiers the attacks of Symfora from reaching the crowd, while Twinklesprite and Cozy Glow fights against each other, while the crowd encourage their defenders.
Having prepared enough, Ethan and Esperanza, approached friendly by Starlight, Faustine, Trixie, Thorax and Coral, casts a beam that shoots the five meanies far far away in the sky, before a star shows that they are really pretty much thrown away far.
The scene comes to a calm again. Starlight wrote a letter and sent it to Twilight, which appears soon after, with the main six, the pillars, Sunburst and Flurry Heart.
"Starlight." The Princess nods in her respect of her friend. "I've received your letter and came as fast as I could."
"Tirek, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow and Sombra are back." Starlight replies.
"They also brought a new friend with them. Symfora." Valentia says. "Our worst enemy nearby.. It only means his army is ready to surge on Equestria's shores and roll over us. My Queen, we need to prepare new secret weapons to close the convoy."
"The convoy? Where are you going?" Twilight asks the Queen and King of Equideer.
"As far as possible from these beasts." Ethan replies. "We are outnumbered, under their technological standards, and under their violence resistance."
"I don't understand." Starlight says. "Why not fighting them with the Magic of Friendship?"
"Because it doesn't work!" Ethan tells them. "They are incompatible with love. They are only based on fighting... which makes them proof of the Magic of Unity."
"And therefore probably the Magic of Friendship too." Esperanza guesses.
Then, Faustine Shell gesture at Coral.
"But I befriended a lingotas didn't I?" Faustine says.
Twilight tries to think about it.
"Maybe we can friend them and stop the invasion." Twilight says. "We can at least try to before fighting them."
"Well. You friendship cult followers tries to retain them, we will avoid contact with them as much as possible." Esperanza says, turning her back on them. "Seira, Downguard, Valentia. I want every single people of Equideer in a transport within our protection by the end of the day. This is like Order 7, the good old days in Equifrancia."
"What? You are going to leave Equestria just like nothing?" Flurry Heart asks.
"Without the resources of Equifrancia's lands or the knowledge of my mothers we are doomed against these violent carnivorous." Esperanza tells her.
"What resources you need? Why you said your technologies are behind them?" Twilight asks.
In Saddle Arabia, a leader receives a letter. He start to read it as advisors and delegates and such take notes and hear the actions.
"As sharing and friendly Equestria have been towards your mighty and proud nation, it only can hope of your cooperation to help our nation against a new threat we are facing."
In a cold and dry place, a griffon received a letter.
"We need as many steel, aluminum, carbon and titanium as possible. We will utterly pay the price but for that with need to survive the raid."
In a mountainous place, a great Lama leader received a letter.
"As our survival is not guaranteed, any kind of help will be well known and remembered."
In a temperate forest, a leader, of a country made of people shaped like chickens, with boar snouts and goat horns, reads a letter.
"Your reward will be not less than our entire nation's gratitude, and the infinite debt we will owe you."
A queen around seaponies see their external affairs delegate comes in with a letter.
A blue dragon sees Spike bowing and giving them the letter.
A zebra leader sees a messenger coming with a letter.
Sombra, Chrysalis, Tirek, Cozy and Symfora are together in a throne room.
"Urgh. You told us your powers could erase Equideer from existence but all they did is be weaker than this pastel ponies and fragile deers." Chrysalis grumble.
"Wait. Just wait to see their face when they will be upfront the entire army right at their door. Their colors won't be too efficient against my 105mm armed assault tanks." He laughs evilly.
A time after, Symfora walks in front of the endlessly aligned in rank army of his that all are on guard for him.
Multiple companies of lingotas armed with axes, hammers, swords and crossbows, some collection of steampunk vehicles like cars and tanks, all the army being the size of nothing else anyone could believe of.
A ship mainly made of rubbles and made-up stuff reach the shore. A few centuries intercept them but they find they are only harmless. Valentia and Starlight show up.
"We are only a group of rebellion of the lingotas, please don't hurt us!!" Someone of them begs. "I lost my family during the revolts." A cub says.
Starlight and Valentia look at themselves and understand their own looks.
"We can't attack them." Starlight says.
"But let's keep an eye on them yet." Valentia says.
Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle, are all together at Ponyville, along with the 6 friends that are Guardians of Equideer.
"So. What did you wanted to see us for?" Applebloom asks.
"We are happy to help with whatever you need!" Sweetie Belle says.
"We gathered that the magic of Equestria is in decline." Luster Dawn states.
"That is why we need you, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, to find each of our place in our group of friends. To make our best potential work out of our team." Aurora says.
After speaking with them and having a speech in private, the CMC comes to a reason.
"We know what are you to one another now." Sweetie Belle says.
"Suncream, your preferred item is an axe." Scootaloo tells. "You are strong and mighty."
"Twinklesprite, yours is a guitar." Sweetie Belle tells. "You like to sing joy and bring wonderful looking aspects along your side."
"Flowercorn, you favorite is a sword." Scootaloo says. "You are agile and precise."
"Strawberry Jam, you are the exact nature of a wise and gentle healer. Yours is a wand." Sweetie Belle says
"Luster Dawn, your wish is to always be there to help and protect as much as people as you can. Yours a shield." Applebloom says.
"And finally, obviously." Scootaloo says.
"Aurora Sunshine, yours is a book." Applebloom says. "You master knowledge and you are the one that is best at writing, reading, spells and magic, and your imagination is limitless."
"I think your group is great and strong. I don't see why you needed us but, I hope what we could see in you helped." Sweetie Belle says.
Suddenly Twinklesprite comically extend her front hooves in order to grab all of them in a hug.
"Friends for life!" She says.
Chrysalis does a face. She looks immensely bored at the table, desperately trying to find fun in the little soldiers and minifigures on the battlemap. Sombra, on the other hand, is quite interested.
"Why do we have to do this again?" She sighs.
"I am training you, for you to have your own corps. That way we can cooperate on a large front with a great global damage being done all along the frontline." Symfora says.
"Obviously." Sombra smugs to Chrysalis. "How can you not know that and pretend to be a queen of something."
"I didn't knew what an army corps was before too." Cozy Glow says.
"Of course, you are a pathetic little thing." Tirek mocks her.
"What? Are you sure you said that?" She replies, angry.
They start fighting in a ridiculous looking way. Sombra and Symfora does enjoy the strategic thoughts of the simulation of the battle, for a moment Sombra glances at the three baddies that are not doing anything too productive then he sighs, gesturing them to Symfora.
The great lingotas walks towards them and strike the ground, which makes them all stop.
"I'm wading within idiots!" He shout.
"It's Tirek that started it!" Cozy Glow says.
"Enough!!!" He shout again.
But before they could restart fighting they find themselves put in a bubble where they can't touch eachother nor talk for a second, before they all agree to calm down. Sombra is out of this and smug at them, proud.
"Look, Sombra." Symfora grab his attention. "The idea of a simulation is to roll dices in order to be prepared for the worse."
"Indeed it is very thoughtful." Sombra acknowledges. "So we throw the D twenty and add a bonus because this one is ontop of a hill?"
"Exactly. Here we measure the centimeters it is higher, each of one represents a meter therefore here we can add 3."
Symfora levitates a dice up with his magic and just let it fall down. It falls and gives a random number. Chrysalis roll her eyes.
"Why can't we choose the result of the thing? Wouldn't it funnier if one side crush the other?" She asks in an evil grin.
"What is the point of preparing to unexpected scenarios if you choose how they happen?" Sombra tells her. "The thing is to be organized in your behavior instead of running blindly into things, to respond to issues as they come by properly."
She hisses.
"It's not personal, it's factual. When you have a strict ruleset of replies you barely are surprised if anything goes wrong and you know how to turn things to your advantage once trained enough." Symfora says.
"I don't need training! I need food!" She says.
"Great, I have that." Symfora replies.
Coming back to the room of the battle operation map, Queen Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, Lord Tirek and King Sombra, have now all been upgraded, magic being given from the farms of Symfora.
"So. During lunch I have thought. How do you emulate the others' decisions. I bet it is very hard to think like infected ones of the friendship cult." Sombra asks.
"Oh, that is simple." Symfora uses his magic. "I just bring up one of its good old member."
A mare, linked to chains and other retention stuff, white coated and orange maned, hairs that don't float and her purple eyes that looks weak, and her cutie mark is a open book with probably stories to tell, appears aside of him.
"Right? Princess of Kindness?" Symfora giggles evilish.
"You keep a princess in your dungeon?" Tirek asks.
"Yes. I keep both of them. But this one is more compliant with the slightest pressure." Symfora smugs to the enslaved princess. "The great part about having their knowledge on paws is being able to exactly know how they teach their little one to react to things. Even if cause of this fool of Valentia, Esperanza could sometimes come up with somethings special, all of their military and social values are stored just here. Isn't it nice, miss book-pony?"
"I thought you wanted to eat them? Why do you keep them alive?" Chrysalis retorts.
"What? No. In fact, such prizes is part of a collection or something. They are still a last secret weapon if these fools decides to give up willingly if promised to let these free. So!" Symfora smiles. "What would you do with these companies?"
The mare can't do much else than comply to the great-feline's wills and thinks about. Her cutie mark shines a bit as her knowledge of history comes back to her mind.
"I'd use the forest behind the river to hide my soldiers while bringing close a fast unit to close enemy steps behind mine as they try to enter the forest while the soldiers keep them outside, at reach of the faster ones." The mare suggests in her light voice.
"See." Symfora says.
He levitates the dice and let it fall again.
"Oh. That is a nice score." He says.
"So this company takes points of damages, and when its moral is done it just runs away?" Sombra guesses.
"Exactly." Symfora says.
Tirek come close to the table and guesses his possible roles in this.
"I have powers of reclaiming one's magic and giving to another. Maybe I could sneak attack a group and deliver extra supplies to our own sake." He says.
"Nice idea." Symfora smiles.
Cozy Glow, now curious, comes-by too, but can't think of what to do.
"What could I do in all of this?" She asks.
"You are very good at convincing. Maybe you could be a moral support, bring heal and supply to the frontlines back and forth from the backlines." Sombra says.
"That's great." Symfora says. "I see you are coming by an agreement within ourselves now."
Chrysalis still is quite pouty and doesn't move, she stay sat a bit away from the great table where the operation map is.
"Maybe you could give enemies false orders, Chrysalis." Cozy Glow says. "Your powers would be quite useful for us."
"What is her powers exactly?" Symfora asks.
"These powers." Chrysalis says.
In a second, she transforms into the orange maned alicorn princess.
"Doubtlessly the most important part of the plan." Tirek says. "If we trick them to send many rescuers or such lightly armed plan we might even capture the Princess herself, thinking she was saving her relatives or such."
"Exact." Symfora smiles. "We won't even have to move the actual Princesses from here, just making them think they are in control of the situation while they blindly fall into our trap."
"There is no way she is going to fall into that trick. I won't be able to act for long as her." Chrysalis says. "Plus I'm not sure if I can trust you. I want my hive first."
"Okay, we will attack north first." Symfora shrugs. "But for the acting part, I suppose the originals could teach us how they were at their time..." He smiles at the princess that looks defenseless at him.
"Don't hurt my daughter! Please!" The alicorn says. "Esperanza is so sensitive! She won't be able to take it if you trick her that way!"
"Quiet!" Symfora says, as he speak he spawns a whip and beat her with it.
"Ouch-" She whines in pain. "Sorry.."
"You will regret your decisions for eternity!!" Symfora shout.
"We said a hundred of times, we are sorry!" Obsidianna cries. "I'd do anything to buy your forgiveness!"
"But your pathetic little powers will never bring back our deads!!!" He shout back to her. "You will pay for it one day!"
"I wasn't going to let your cozy little excursions into our lands eating our sheep and goat friends unpunished!" The mare retorts.
"Because of one fool tribe you put all of us in the same basket!" He shout. "Now. Those that want to see my troops training goes with me. Others, you get the princess back in where she belongs."
Sombra and Symfora walks around, watching the soldiers throwing axes and fighting with swords on targets and scarecrows.
Chrysalis stood in the operation room, pouting.
Cozy and Tirek brings Obsidianna to her jail room. Cozy opens the door, Tirek drops her in, and she closes the door by then.
Tirek firmly walks out of the corridor in direction of the stairs, not caring much about anything. While Cozy walks slowly, somewhat of reluctant or something. She overlook another cell that contains an alicorn princess, white coated and white-pink-blue maned, same as the other her mane is not shiny or sparkly, nor floating, altho the size of the mares are comparable to Equestrian princesses.
She stands there, for a minute, not minding anything much, just thinking about the actual cruelty outside of Equestria, and she finds herself quite lucky to have survived until now.
The colored mane mare don't even look at her. She just stare at her own hooves on the ground, endlessly. The orange maned princess fixes her as she was walking away. When Cozy's and Obsidianna's looks crosses, Obsidianna gets up and turns around, looking at the back of her cage.
"Hey.." She mumbles gently. "What are you the princess of?" She asks the other princess. "What is about you?"
"Me? Huh. The Princess of Justice." She sighs. "Look where it got me."
"Don't say that." Obsidianna retorts, between her quiet and subtle sobs, still emotional from the scene before. "We can't always win, Glowy."
"It is just unfair!" The firm princess retorts to the gentle princess. "We couldn't let them wildly assault our citizens! Every animals that are sentient are living beings that can feel pain, therefor they are protected by Equifrancia's laws!" She says. "What else could we do, Obsi, let our people live all against all?"
Glowstone strikes the ground with a hoof, and the chains of hers reverberate all throughout the corridor of the dungeon where they are kept. Obsidianna caress the wall, like in an old habitude, trying to comfort the princess.
"Sweetheart, you know we did our best. What could we do? It isn't like it wasn't literally the end of the world." The orange maned princess says.
"Oh, Precious, how can I fail to save you and be kept here like the mistake I am. I don't even deserves hearing your voice." The colorful maned princess says.
The princesses both become quiet as they lay their head in their hooves and share their boredom and pain of being there.
Suddenly, Cozy Glow have a lightning of genius.
"You are the two mothers of Esperanza, right?" Cozy asks.
"Oh my, by all gods, do you know our daughter? Is she alive? Is she alright?" Obsidianna asks impatiently, getting up again, as the chain noises.
"I hope so. I taught her so many different ways to beat up anypony that stands in cross of the destiny of our country!" Glowstone says. "If ever I can see how a mighty and powerful mare she became, I think that I'd be unbeatable, overflowing with pride and legitimacy!"
"Urgh. It's a pain Discord got defeated by Abyss and his little protégé, he could have liberated you and sent us back to Equestria safely in a snap." Cozy says.
"Discord? The Lord of Chaos?" Glowstone says. "I think I heard of him. But he is only a long time legend."
"Well not only he is a thing but also he wants us to work in a team against lingotas." Explains Cozy Glow. "At least he tried to, until Abyss came around."
"Oh yeah. Abyss is a real threat. But hey, what's your name?" Obsidianna asks.
"Oh. I'm Cozy Glow." She smiles.
"Cozy Glow. May I ask, therefore, if Discord wanted you to be against lingotas. Which side are you?" She asks.
"Huh. Mine." She replies.
"What surprising." Glowstone says.
"Hey!" Cozy Glow retorts. "Why is it?"
"Because you are a baddie and probably don't care about us." She says.
"Um. Actually. I have a plan to buy myself free from the stone statue prison in Equestria, for, ever." Cozy says.