In Canterlot midnight arrived and their was still no storm, which Twilight thought that there would be, so she along with her army left the low level shelter and headed outside. Twilight said, "Well I am glad that all my paranoia was over nothing."
General Iron Sheath replied, "I am happy as well my Queen. I think we should all get some rest."
Then it hit. Bolts of power came striking down from the sky. These were not lightning bolts though, these were bolts of energy coming from Alicorns.
"WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" shouted Twilight "General Iron Sheath, get your forces in position to fight them off. General Dark Night, make sure your unicorns are in sheltered areas but to where they can still fire bolts of energy at the enemy."
Luna shouted to her family, "Be careful of the changelings, when they fire their energy they will start to cover you in green ooze. Try to wipe as many out as you can!"
The royal family was battling the changelings when suddenly red bolts of energy started being fired from the ground. "It's the unicorn soldiers!" shouted Galaxia "We need to take them out. Celestia, let Cosmos and Luna handle the changelings, you need to help me with these things."
"I'm coming mom. I just need to maneuver through these changelings." replied Celestia
Luna shouted, "Be careful of those things. If they hit you, their energy will leave burn marks and cause great pain."
While Luna and Cosmos were battling the changelings, frying many of them with each bolt of energy, Celestia and Galaxia started to take out the unicorn soldiers. Doing this was tricky as their bolts of energy were more powerful than those of the changelings.
While Luna and Cosmos were battling the changelings Cosmos began to have trouble flying and using his magic. "Dad, your covered in ooze!"
Cosmos replied, "I know what do we do, am I a goner?"
"No," replied Luna "Let me free you from this nasty stuff". Luna sent a calm beam of energy to Cosmos removing the ooze.
"Thank you princess!" said Cosmos
"The thank yous can wait for later, we need to keep killing these things. We need to use energy balls to take them out!"
Cosmos shouted, "Luna, are you more powerful as Nightmare Moon? If you are, you need to transform into her!"
"Yes, I am much more powerful as her!" shouted Luna
"Transform yourself into her, we need as much power as we can get!" replied Cosmos
Suddenly a powerful wind struck the battle scene, thick clouds shrouded the sky as Luna transformed into Nightmare Moon. Beams of powerful energy began flying around the battle scene killing changelings left and right.
Twilight saw how her forces were being decimated and flew up to the upper courtyard and started firing her own bolts of energy at Luna and Cosmos, but they were able to get out of the way numerous times and caused Twilight to kill some of her changelings. Twilight realized that she needed to beef up her forces. She said to Iron Sheath, "Gather as many of our forces as you can over there, I need to cast a duplication spell."
"Yes my queen. I will get them together." replied Iron Sheath
Iron Sheath gathered about 1,500 changelings into the same area. Twilight's horn began to glow and she recited, " From one to two, two to four and so much more. When one is simple mere, more shall appear."
That part of her force had doubled, she ordered them to stay in place and she cast the spell again, now having many more changelings than before the battle. She said to the changelings, "Get back out there and fight! This is not a social gathering!"
Before they could spread out a massive, extremely powerful bolt of energy came out of the sky, killing every single changeling Twilight had created along with Iron Sheath. Nightmare Moon could be heard screaming "Death to the changelings, death to the dark unicorns, victory is near!"
Twilight got fed up with trying to stop those two and saw Galaxia and Celestia taking out her unicorn army. She used her power to pick up Celestia and drop her on the courtyard floor in front of her.
Twilight said, "You will not stop me this time either, your royal lowness. This will be a matter of student crushes teacher. Get ready to meet your own mortality!"
This enraged Celestia and she shouted, "You ungrateful, spoiled brat. You want a war, you got a war!"
This would come down to a matter of whose energy was more powerful. Twilight fired a bolt of energy at Celestia but she missed. The two Alicorns then fired bolts of energy at one another. The energy beams met in the middle. Now the power struggle would begin.
Celestia shouted, "Come on, more power Celestia, more power."
Twilight shouted, "Why bother Celestia, you can't beat me, nopony can beat me."
Twilight suddenly sent a surge that knocked Celestia backwards and rendered her unconscious. Twilight was thrilled with this and started dancing around Celestia. Twilight started shouting, "Student crushes teacher, this makes your defeat complete, now you must retreat!"
LaurFa saw this and realized that now was the time to make her return to Equestria official. Suddenly a light as bright as the noonday sun came down from the sky. She knew it was time to put an end to this. She decided she would first destroy Twilight's armies.
She flew upright, the light radiating from her became brighter as she recited a spell to destroy Twilight's armies. "The enemy is full of tyranny, their soldiers are many. For without them the enemy is done and they will have to run. The enemy's defeat is certain, so upon their rule falls a curtain."
A bright flash of light spread across all of Canterlot, killing every single one of Twilight's soldiers. Once this happened, Nightmare Moon transformed back into Luna since she wouldn't need massive amounts of energy to kill off enemies.
LaurFa landed in the courtyard in front of Twilight. She glared at Twilight and said, "What has become of you Twilight Sparkle? I have watched you from afar and you went from a wise, caring mare into a total monster."
Twilight looked back at her and said, "That is Queen Twilight to you, your are probably insignificant in their cause. I can beat you just like I beat Celestia."
This angered LaurFa greatly, she began to glow white and said, "I am Goddess LaurFa, the Queen of all Queens. It is not wise to speak to me that way."
Twilight began to mock LaurFa dancing around and chanting, "ooh, look at me, I can glow! I'm the best thing in the world! Ooh, look at me, I'm some kind of goddess!"
LaurFa pointed her horn directly at Twilight and said, "Your time has come Twilight Sparkle, your tyranny will be crushed and the ponies of Equestria will be freed."
Twilight aimed her horn at LaurFa and both ponies fired bolts of energy at one another. Twilight was fighting LaurFa as hard as she could, but she felt her own energy getting shoved back inside her. She thought to herself, "Come on Twilight, we need one massive surge of energy."
Twilight began to glow purple and green energy began to radiate from her eyes and a massive surge of power came from her horn, throwing LaurFa backwards. Twilight began to shout, "Call me Goddess Twilight, I am more powerful than the allegedly all powerful LaurFa! Bow down before me!"
LaurFa was helped up by Celestia who had came to. Celestia said, "You can do it your Highness, you can defeat her."
Luna landed next to LaurFa and said, "Your Majesty, she has probably wore herself out with that one bolt of energy. Now it the time to take her out! Go and finish this battle!"
Twilight was standing over on the other side of the courtyard shouting, "What's the matter, you scared LaurFa?"
This caused LaurFa to charge towards Twilight, her horn began to glow and she prepared to fire at Twilight. Twilight fired just as LaurFa did and another battle began. Twilight tried her hardest, but she could not get another power surge to defeat her enemy. LaurFa reached deep inside herself and fired the most powerful bolt of energy she had ever fired in her life. This sent Twilight sailing clear to the end of the courtyard. LaurFa and the royal family then flew over to where Twilight lay.
Celestia started to panic and asked, "Is she alive or is she dead?"
Luna put her hoof on Twilight's side an said, "I'm sorry Celestia, but she has passed."
Despite the way Twilight had treated her recently, Celestia was devastated. "NO, NO, NO! MY TWILY IS GONE! NO, NO!" cried Celestia
Celestia ran off in the other direction as she could not stand to look at Twilight's body anymore. Celestia's cries were so loud that they could be heard five miles away.
Luna looked down and saw Twilight's spirit next to her body, but this was not the spirit of Queen Twilight, it was the spirit of the little filly right after she got her cutie mark.
Luna looked over at LaurFa and said, "Do you see what I see?"
"Yes, Luna. I see what you see." replied LaurFa
Twilight's spirit cried to LaurFa, "I'm so sorry for everything I have done. Please don't let me die. I was corrupted. I promise you that I will be good."
Knowing that she has to be revived quickly, Luna asked LaurFa, "Do you want to bring her back?"
"Yes, I do," replied LaurFa "I believe that once she is reborn the evil effects of Chrysalis and Sombra will be gone."
Luna pointed her horn at Twilight's spirit and motioned for her to reenter her body.
Twilight's spirit began to return to her body as LaurFa's horn began to glow white as she recited, "The fallen one's time has yet to be, she still has many days to run free, for potential she has a lot, without life it would all be for not, for life shall be renewed, her past decisions need not be reviewed."
With that a gentle flow of energy went into Twilight. Twilight came to in a way more like she was waking up. "Uggh, what happened" said Twilight
Twilight looked up to see Luna, Galaxia, Cosmos and LaurFa standing over her. She said, "Princess Luna! It is so good to see you! I mean no disrespect to the rest of you, but I don't know who you are."
LaurFa replied, "It is ok Twilight, very few ponies even know I exist, much less know who I am. These two with me are King Cosmos and Queen Galaxia, they are the parents of Princess Luna and Princess Celestia."
"Wait a minute?" replied Twilight, "Where is Princess Celestia? I need to see her and apologize for everything."
Twilight heard crying coming from the entrance to the castle so she flew over there and landed in front of Celestia. "Princess, are you ok?" asked Twilight
"Go.....Twilight, is that you?" asked Celestia
"Yes, it is me princess. Why would you ask me if it was really me?" replied Twilight
Celestia told Twilight about the whole battle and how she had powers strong enough to defeat her and that she was killed by LaurFa.
"LaurFa killed me?" asked Twilight "I only remember her bringing me back from the dead."
"Yes Twilight, you had become extremely corrupted and you nearly killed me with your powerful magic." said Celestia
Twilight started crying and begged for the princess's forgiveness. Celestia wound up telling her that there was nothing to forgive since Twilight was not herself when all of this happened.
"I have another question Princess?" asked Twilight
"What do you want to ask me Twilight?" replied Celestia
"What am I doing in this ugly crown and this tight body armor? My guess is that I discarded my old crown for this one when I was corrupted. Do you think I could have my old crown back?"
"I am not sure what happened to your old crown but we can have a new one made for you since you have your element." said Celestia
"Wait a minute," said Twilight "isn't my element corrupted now. Will it no longer work?"
Celestia replied, "Don't worry Twilight, when LaurFa brought you back that cleansed the element to the state it was in prior to your corruption."
"Oh thank goodness," said Twilight "I was worried that I had put all of Equestria in danger."
"Twilight, so many things happened after Chrysalis corrupted you, but I think that we need to get ready for sunrise and then breakfast. We can discuss all that later, let's get some rest." replied Celestia
"I agree princess, I am horribly tired." replied Twilight
After an epic battle that cost Twilight her life only to be brought back they headed to the castle to get some much needed rest.