As the fighting carried on, no one could shake the feeling that this was only the beginning.. like the villains weren’t going all out. They were.. holding back. And what was even more unsettling was that Midnight had not joined the battle yet. They couldn’t focus on that as they continue fighting. As Rainbow Dash battles the Washouts, with some difficulty, she goes to help her friends fight Twivine. After a while, she realizes that.. she’s the only one really using her powers. They were never gonna win if that was the case.
“What are you guys doing?! Don’t let me do all the work, use your powers!” She says and they hesitate until Twivine jumps at Fluttershy, causing her to scream in fear as she jumps and closes her eyes. That scream however, sends Twivine flying through buildings. Everyone looks at her shocked, especially Twivine. They then reluctantly decide to all use their powers to defeat their friend-turned-enemy. When Twivine charges at them, Rarity makes an ice wall in front of her, making her crash through it and tumble forward. She quickly recovers though and tries to attack them both but Pinkie and Applejack both kick her from both sides at the same time, crushing her from the sheer force behind the kicks.
She falls to her knees before being wrapped in plants tightly but not too tightly and she looks to see Fluttershy's hands and eyes glowing green. She quickly breaks out, only to be blasted by multicolored lightning. Rainbow Dash smirks and looks at her friends. “See? That was way too easy.” Rainbow says but before the others can agree- or realize where she went wrong saying that, black crystals form between them all as Twivine suddenly gets up and slams her fists down, both of them glowing red and orange, causing the crystals to glow the same color before exploding, stunning all her friends. Just as they all get up, she picks up Fluttershy in magic and throws her into Rarity and Rainbow Dash.
Pinkie Pie and Applejack try to attack her and she flashes her horn but they still hit her, making her fall. They both smirk.. until it turns out to be Pinkie Pie after the illusion disappears. This confuses Applejack and she looks at the Pinkie Pie standing across from her, only for that illusion to fade as well, revealing Twivine who immediately blasts Applejack with dark magic. She then looks around at her defeated friends.. and she didn’t even need Tirek OR Frostbite’s help. They both notice this and are a bit annoyed but Frostbite uses the telepathy spell that allows all the villains to communicate and tells Midnight that Twivine has it handled.
“Good, well Tirek, you go help take care of the young ones. Frostbite.. get Celestia and Luna ready for me and Astelle.” Midnight says and Frostbite immediately agrees as she spots them. She didn’t know how well she would do against them on her own, but she had her orders. Time to fulfill them..
As Celestia and Luna continued defending their former kingdom from destruction, they also tried their best to keep their guard up in case Midnight or anyone else decided to sneak attack them. They both sense a presence behind them at the same time, getting closer with every second and they sensed a powerful attack coming so they dodge in opposite directions before returning their own attacks. Their attacker absorbs them with a magical ice ball that is then slammed into the ground, causing a cloud of ice and snow to spread everywhere.
Both of the royal sisters, now separated, try to navigate their way back to each other. “Sister? Sister! Where are you?!” Luna calls, getting no response. She groans in frustration and is about to use her magic to try and clear the snow. Before she can though, she gets tackled by their attacker who tries stabbing her as she drags her across the ground. Luna blocks it though and kicks the pony away. Despite being half as big as Luna, this pony was incredibly strong to be able to drag her like that with one hand. She gets up and readies her magic in case of another attack from her assailant.
She feels a sharp pain in her leg and one of her wings, making her fall to one knee. She feels more pain come from her shoulder and her side and that time she could’ve sworn she saw something. So not only was this pony strong, she was fast and smart too. And incredibly skilled. Luna figured that out when she blocks and counters one of the attacks, picking the pony up by the throat, only to have her stomach slashed, allowing the pony to wrap her legs around Luna’s arm, slip free of her grasp and use a maneuver to throw Luna over herself using her arms and her wings to balance herself.
It was such a smooth maneuver that Luna is utterly shocked when the pony is already attacking her again. She quickly dodges, blocks, then attacks. The pony dodges, expecting that but what she wasn’t expecting was for Luna to have planned something for that dodge. So when she stabs at Luna with her ice dagger and Luna teleports behind it, grabbing her arm, she is very surprised. Luna swings her around before letting her go which causes her to spin uncontrollably which she uses to her advantage by preparing herself then jumping into the air and sticking the landing. Luna surprises her yet again though by delivering a sharp roundhouse kick to the side of her face which stuns her and sends her tumbling away.
Luna then uses her magic to clear the cloud of snow, easily finding her sister who wasn’t very far from them. Celestia sighs in relief and lands by her sister, glad she’s alright.. although she does have some visible wounds from her fight with Frostbite. She frowns at them and Luna rolls her eyes, her wounds healing themselves, letting her sister know she was fine. They both hear a pained, familiar echoing voice from behind them.. but what it says shocks Luna most of all.
“Luna..” Frostbite says and Luna feels her blood run cold as she slowly turns to face the pony who, until now, was just trying to kill them. That voice was so.. familiar but at the same time not.. but when Frostbite turns to face them and half her mask is broken, Luna sees half the face of a pony she never thought she would see or hear from again. “Luna..” She says again, and Luna can’t help but respond back this time with a shaky voice.
“S-Sn.. Snowdrop..”
Hearing that name, Celestia looks shocked, looking back at Frostbite.. seeing that it truly is.. or was Snowdrop..
When she takes off her mask, or what’s left of it, that confirms it. It was Snowdrop.. only she didn’t look like she had aged since that day. She was still a young adult but.. she looked so.. dead inside. Her eyes were empty but they were glowing a whitish blue and the outfit she had on.. this couldn’t be her. This had to be one of Midnight’s tricks. The Snowdrop they knew would never be capable of doing something as terrible as even thinking of helping Midnight of all creatures.
“No.. no Luna, it may look like her but it’s not.. the Snowdrop we knew is gone.” Celestia says but Luna wasn’t having that so she just moves a bit closer to her.
“Don’t.. don’t you remember me..? I’m your friend..” She says but Frostbite.. Snowdrop doesn’t answer. She just continues to glare at Luna as she gets closer. “It’s me, Snowdrop.. Luna.. I finally fixed things with my sister.. like you hoped..” Luna says, continuing to get closer.
“Snowdrop.. is gone.” She says, slowly standing up while glaring at Luna. “Frostbite lives to serve Midnight.” She says before bowing, which confuses the former royal sisters.. until they sense a presence behind her and get knocked into the air then dropped down on by a ball of dark magic that slams them through the roof of the castle. They both quickly recover and get up in time to see the ball disappear, revealing Midnight.. and Astelle. They are both shocked to see their former sister again.. but also much less than pleased.
“Well isn’t this a lovely little reunion.” Astelle says as she and Midnight both ready their weapons and magic, prompting Celestia and Luna to do the same. “Nice to see you again little sisters.. did ya miss me?” She asks mockingly, earning unamused glares from Celestia and Luna. “Awwww you did.. well no need to worry anymore.” Astelle says before walking forward a bit, smirking as her eyes glow red and her pupils turn to slits.
“Big sis is home..”