With the passage of some time had the drones found the little Sweetie Belle. Through about the same tricks as Rarity, had they managed to bring her over to the castle. She was brought into the room only a day after the crowning of Rarity and her emerald green eyes looked shocked upon the sight. “Sis..? What..? Why..?” was all that Sweetie could bring out upon the sights her eyes caught. Yet what they caught was the ivory coated unicorn, instead of the changeling she actually was.
The unicorn walked up to her sister while she spoke both soft and kind. “Sister, soon, you will rule along my side as a true princess. I only ask you, to sleep for a couple days.” The filly was not willing to disappoint her elder sister in any way. Though the decision was hard to make for her. Yet in the end she nodded and together they walked into a side room of the throne room where a pod was installed. Even stronger, it was the same pod that changed the unicorn. “Enter the pod, and we shall rule together as sisters.”
“I... I am not sure sis,” the filly said before she looked to Rarity who began to tear up slightly.
“Please Sweetie, accept my gift for you. I can make you, so much more than you ever could dream of,” she brought out. The white filly let out a deep sigh before walking up to the pod and made herself comfortable in it. The pod closed and raised to the ceiling. “I will see you in a few days again, my princess,” said Rarity to her. She wiped the tears away. Then went back to the throne.
The unicorn mare didn't had to move the sun and the moon anymore. After princess Celestia and Luna passed away, the moon and sun had begun to move on their own. It almost seemed like as if their souls had taken place in them. She didn't had much to do. Though she fulfilled her dream and left the tailor life, Rarity had become more than she ever thought to be. And how? One simple encounter had changed her whole life. The unicorn ruled over the land with an iron yet elegant hoof, not planning to change back to her changeling form anytime soon.
She had everything that she wanted from her life. All of those marvelous thrills and utter excitement. But she didn't knew her limits anymore. Ever since that encounter with Chrysalis, her borders had been lost in the realm of space and time. And that was a truly dangerous combination.
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After a couple of days the new finally did reach Ponyville where Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were all sitting in Twilight's library. The unicorn read the letter out loud for them all. “The name of the new ruler is, queen Rarity!?” spoke Twilight with disbelief in her own voice.
“Rarity!?” was all the others could bring out. None could believe the facts as they were.
“That backstabbing mare... Ah’ll give her a lesson she will not forget,” spoke Applejack in anger. She slammed her hoof into the table before only growls left her mouth.
“Not only you, Applejack, I want a slice of it as well,” added Rainbow. Who’s rage could be seen in her eyes. She was willing to put Rarity out of commission if she had to.
“But, why, why does Rarity such a thing..? It is not like her at all...” Fluttershy just couldn't wrap her head around it all.
“Normally, I would agree on a party, but for this... We need to bring her back to earth!” the pink earth pony spoke in anger. Everyponies attention turned to Pinkie and they all rose an eyebrow to her words. “What? Nopony takes over and gets away with it!” she added with a shrug.
“Pinkie does have a point. But what is our plan of attack. I mean, she has an entire army behind her!” Twilight said while her expression changed to a worried one.
“Ah know, we just buck our way in!” replied Applejack. She slammed her hoof on the table again, causing cracks to appear in the wood below. She huffed out a small cloud of steam afterwards.
“How about support from the air?” asked Rainbow with eager in her voice.
“We need both ground and air support. If there is any resistance that is,” spoke Twilight thoughtful. Where the others were just making blind charges, Twilight took it a bit easier.
“Can’t we just go and make a plan up as we go?” said Pinkie. She was eager to leave as well.
Twilight thought for a bit more but they conflicted against each other before she just said her final words on the matter. “Forget it, we go. Everypony, saddle up.” The unicorn was the first one who began to grab her gear. She packed everything that was needed for the journey.
Each of the friends rushed back home in order to pack and soon enough the all were back at the entrance of the tree house, waiting for the mulberry mare herself. Twilight did left her home a couple seconds later and allowed her eyes to fall on her four friends.“Everypony ready? Then we go.” she asked while looking at each of her so beloved friends. All four of the mares nodded and they began on their journey to Canterlot and their so called ‘queen’.
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Meanwhile in Canterlot had Rarity made some adjustments to the throne room to make it more to her personal liking. Purple curtains and a new throne on top of the old one where she always would sit on. She looked at the sight before her. The whole throne room was made exactly as she wanted it. The mare began to smirk a little but one of the drones bowed before her, catching her attention. “I hope you have news for me,” spoke Rarity towards the drone. One who began to buzz back to her.
“I see... So my old friends are coming for a visit? I say let them come. In the meantime, keep an eye out on my little sister. And don’t fail me or it's your head you'll be looking after,” replied Rarity. She positioned herself a bit more comfortable before she waited for her ‘friends’ to arrive.
Another drone brought a couple letters were brought in and Rarity read all of them carefully. “Ugh... Bla, bla, bla, is that all these ponies can write to me?” she spoke in an annoyed voice. Her horn charged up in the aura of green magic as the letters simply caught fire. “Offer, denied.”
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“Can’t this train more any faster!?” Applejack grumbled highly annoyed. Everything just went too slow for her liking. Time was running out and she knew that. But the train took its time.
“Easy here, Applejack, it is going as fast as it can,” responded Twilight. She then placed a hoof on Applejack’s shoulder. All of it was done in the hope to comfort her.
“That backstabbing mare shall taste mah hooves when Ah'm there. Because after all these years of being our friend, she just turned us the back, just like that,” the cowgirl replied to the unicorn. She had slowly came back to her senses but was still angry about it all.
“Twi, I don’t want to disturb you but, this, is not normal!” Those words were spoken by a terrified Rainbow Dash. She started to tremble in pure fear while glanced out of the window.
“Let me see, Rain, bow... Oh no... What has she done!” was all Twilight could say before shaking in fear herself.
The rest looked outside as well and saw Canterlot under a massive dark cloud with green lightning coming down from it every once and awhile. The train rolled in the station and they made their way to the palace as fast as they could. Once again they stood before the humongous castle. But everything was quiet, a little too quiet for their liking. “No guards, no ponies... No changelings,” said Twilight to them all. She inspected the exterior a bit further, looking for any sign of life.
“I don’t like this, but we got to go inside,” said Rainbow. She was off to the inside of the castle in the distance. They had to put an end to it before it was too late, if there was still time.
Everypony else galloped behind her and they hold their eyes open any surprise ambushes. But as they were making their way through the main hall, the silence was eerie, almost creepy as the lights were dimmed and the lightning strikes green.
“It is far too quiet everywhere! I can’t take the silence well!” the pegasus suddenly yelled through the halls as she slowly went crazy of the eerie silence.
“Keep it together, Rainbow. We are going straight to the throne room,” said Twilight as she started to gallop to it.
Pinkie was being herself and she separated herself from the group. She began to do some exploring on her own. The more she wandered off, the more she lost track of her friends. That was before just losing them entirely out of sight. When Twilight began to do a head count, it became obvious they missed the pink mare and she looked everywhere from her position to find her.
“Pinkie! Get back here this instant!” Applejack yelled through the many halls.
Much to everypony’s surprise bounced Pinkie Pie happily back to them as if nothing had happened. “Sorry, but I just had to take a look over there. Where to now?” asked Pinkie.
Twilight placed her hoof in her face and sighed before she spoke in an annoyed tone. “Just where do you think a ruler of a land would be in her own castle?”
“Oh,” was all Pinkie said and she bounced happily around the group.
“Ah sometimes just don’t get her,” whispered Applejack gently to the yellow pegasus. She was hoping it would calm her fires of rage down a little bit. Not much, but enough to think straight.
“She is special, in her own way,” replied Fluttershy under a small smile.
“Ah suppose you have a point there, sugarcube,” Applejack returned. Her eyes fell upon to the bouncing Pinkie for another moment.