Princess Mi Amore Cadenza was waking up from at her usual time and she wasn't surprised to see her husband wasn't next to her. What did surprise her was the blackness of her bedroom even with the sunlight streaming in through the windows. A burst of energy rushed through her as she realized where she was. She got up quickly and ran out onto the balcony just in time to see the dive bombing Changelings landing and attacking the citizens of the Crystal Empire.
"Guards where is Shining Armor?" She asked the guards that had flanked her.
"Ma'am I believe he is there." One of them said pointing the edge of the Empire where dark and purple blasts were erupting from.
"Any guards that aren't mobilized, I want mobilized!! Get somepony down there to back us up!" She ordered when she realized what the black energy was.
"Us?" The Guard asked as Princess Cadence took off towards where her husband was fighting Sombra.
"You can't block my attacks forever" Sombra mocked as Shining Armor used another shield spell to defend himself from Sombra's dark magic.
"I don't need to block forever, I just need to hold long enough for your shields to fail you!" Shining Armor shouted back as Sombra's spell bounced off of his shield. He quickly shot a purple blast at Sombra.
A black crystal came out of the ground and absorbed Shining's magic. Then it shattered and Sombra shot again. "Then my shields won't fail me!" Sombra spat out as he shot.
They went back and forth like this for several minutes as the Changeling landed around them. Eventually Sombra's shield failed and Shining got a shot through. Sombra slid several meters and Shining prepared another blast. Mirid was laughing, "You shouldn't have done that." she said in between snickers.
"Aaarrrgg!" Sombra shouted rising quickly and shooting a blast of pure dark magic fueled by his rage. The moment it clashed with Shining Armor's shield it broke it. The resulting hit to him caused him to fly back, but he got up quickly blinded by his Sombra's magic and with a broken right forehoof.
"Shining!" A very familiar voice yelled out. He looked up to see his wife land next to him.
"Thank Celestia; we need to banish them now!" He spat out quickly.
"You won't be doing that!" Sombra said his horn charging for another attack.
When it came Princess Cadence put up her shield and deflected the beam. "We have to cast the spell we used to dispel the changelings the first time we faced them." She said to her husband.
"I won't allow it!" Sombra bellowed his dark beam increasing in power and intensity. He was smiling; while he was distracting them Mirid had been placing the unicorn horns around them. He was originally going to have Chrysalis do this but when he had learned that he had dehived Mirid he decided she would make a good servant, especially for sneakiness.
He allowed his attack to dwindle down, like he was tired. The foolish royalty bought it and worked together to shoot back, it was powerful enough to shatter the first crystal that Sombra used to protect himself but not the second.
Sombra was doing his best evil laugh, the one he had used before killing the previous ruler of the Crystal Empire and shot several tendrils of magic at the unicorn horns. "You didn't even notice them being placed" he gloated as the horns began to pull energy from Cadence and Shining Armor. "Now young rulers you will die" he said as they began to thin.
"Ahem" this got Sombra's attention. Mirid had done it, "Milord, one of the conditions you made with my former queen was that you wouldn't kill these two." She pointed out.
Sombra groaned in annoyance and said, “Fine, they are weak enough as it is, there spell won’t work”. He walked past them, “Mirid get the changelings to separate them; we cannot allow them to be imprisoned together.”
“Yes milord.” Mirid said bowing and flying away, with in a minute, ten changelings hovered over. Six of them taking Cadence and four of them taking Shining Armor; they flew off in opposite directions.
Sombra used his magic to gather the unicorn horns. Mirid landed next to him, “My former Queen wishes to see you milord.”
“Where is she?” He asked looking at the carnage that was spreading around.
“She is battling the Elements of Harmony near the Palace milord.” Mirid said bowing.
“Then we shall meat her there.” Sombra said as he began to walk in that general direction. He was enjoying the looks of fear that his slaves had on their face as they saw him among the Changelings. He remembered that it wasn’t long ago for them that the Great Extermination had taken place and they were living their true nightmare.
There was also a sense of irony about this arrangement with Chrysalis. he had led the charge on the Great Extermination back when he was an adviser of the royal family he had killed.
These memories brought up a sense of darkness in him, he was truly happy. He started to laugh as he walked along; Mirid joined in with this laughter, but she was nervous about it.