"Hello?" cried Twilight. We were down inside what seemed to be a very dark cave, but we couldn't see anything. Twilight was helpful enough to use her magic to bring out some light from her horn. Our voices would just echo back at us. We were all alone down here.
"Is anyone here?" she yelled again. We walked straight into a mirror, but it was actually a large crystal wall. The whole cave was made out of crystals. Rarity would love this place.
We heard a faint laugh that made me feel uncomfortable.
"Where are we?" I asked. Suddenly, the walls glowed green and Cadence's image was projected on the crystals.
"The caves beneath Canterlot. Once homed to greedy unicorns that wanted to claim the gems that are inside." she said. Her image disappeared, but her voice was still here.
"And now," her image suddenly popped up behind us. "Your prison!"
"Help, help!" Twilight yelled as we ran randomly, with the laughs behind us.
"It's no use. No one can hear you two." her image came back. "And no one will ever think to look for you two either." Her evil face disappeared once more. "Most ponies have even forgot that these cave even exist. Which is why it's the ideal place to keep the ones that tried to interfere with my plans.
Her face were shown on the ceiling of the cave. She started to laugh like crazy.
"Plans, what plans?" Twilight asked.
"The plans I have for your brother of course." 'Cadence' said.
Twilight's horn began to to shine with magic, while I clenched my hands into a fist." Don't you dare do anything to my brother you...you monster.!"
"Only way to stop me is to catch me." she said mocking us. She began to laugh and started to have her sinister image pop all around us saying, "Over here!"
Twilight turned and shot a beam at the image, but it started to bounce off the walls. I had to quickly dodge every time it would fly past me.
"Nope, over here." she said as she continued to pop up everywhere, even the floor.
"Show your self you coward!" I yelled. Though she continued to be everywhere and Twilight continued to shoot at her images. The whole time, she was laughing at us.
Twilight turned around and shot at a wall which shattered into pieces. Sitting behind it was Cadence with a bunch of scratches on here with where mane and tail a tangled up. Twilight suddenly charged for her.
"No! Wait." Cadence yelled but was too late when Twilight jumped on her. "Please don't hurt me." she begged until she looked up at her. "Twilight it's me. Please, you have to help me, I've been imprisoned like you. The Cadence that brought you down here was an imposter!"
"Likely story!" Twilight yelled.
"Sunshine, sunshine." Cadence began, doing the same dance Twilight did. "Ladybugs awake. Clap you hooves together.." they clapped hooves together and said in unison "And do a little shake." Both of them smiled and Twilight hugged her.
"You remember me!" she said.
"Of course I do. How can I forget the filly I loved to sit for the most?" Cadence said. I was standing in the background, watch this touching moment. She looked up at me and didn't seemed to be too surprised. "Twilight, who's that?"
Twilight looked at me and said, "Oh, that's Wyatt, he tried to help me with the imposter."
I walked forward and did the usual routine to shake hands and hooves. In the distance I saw a twinkle, like an opening to this cave!
"Hey, I think I know how to get out of here!" I told them. Cadence and Twilight looked, they too saw the twinkle down the cave.
"We have to get out of here." Twilight said. Cadence nodded and began to walk forward but fell to the ground.
"Cadence!" Twilight and I yelled. I bent down to see if she's okay. "I'm fine." she said. She stood up and continued forward but started to fall again. I quickly caught her, which was really hard , and placed her wing over me.
"Let me help you." I said.
"Thank you Wyatt." she said. We slowly walked forward, getting a little faster each time. I let most of her weight go on me, which I could handle a bit.
"We have to stop the imposter." Twilight said. Cadence and I nodded. The evil laugh still echoed a bit through out the cave.
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Up in Canterlot, the other Cadence was getting ready for the wedding. She lifted a rose and began to sing.
This day is going to be perfect
The kind of day of which I dreamed since I was small
Everypony will gather round
Say I look lovely in my gown
What they don't know is I have fooled them all
Back down in the cave, Cadence started singing next to me.
This day is going to be perfect
The kind of day of which I dreamed since I was small
But instead of having cake
With all my friends to celebrate
My wedding bells they may not ring for me at all
Back to the surface.
I could care less about the dress
I won't partake in any cake
Vows, well I'll be lying when I say
That through any kind of weather
I"ll want us to be together
The truth is I don't care for him at all
No I don't love the groom
In my heart there is no room
But I still want him to be all mine
The caves.
We must escape before it's too late
Find a way to save the day
Hope, I'll be lying if I say
I don't fear that I may lose him
To one who wants to use him
Not care for love cherish him each day
We can up to a stuck mine cart. We pushed it out from the rocks and jumped into it while Cadence continued to sing.
For I oh-so love the groom
Oh my thoughts he does consume
Oh Shining Armor, I'll be there very soon
We hit a bump, but Cadence was strong enough to lift us up with her wings. On the surface, the imposter was walking down the aisle with an evil grin.
Finally the moment has arrived
For me to be one lucky bride
In the caves after we landed. me continuing to help out Cadence.
Oh, the wedding we won't make
He'll end up marrying a fake
Shining Armor will be
At the surface, the other Cadence finished the song.
Mine. all mine
She did her evil laugh when the song ended.
"Mare's and Gentlecolts. We are gathered here today to witness the union of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Shining Armor." I what we heard Celestia say from above.
"Oh, we're never going to save him." Cadence said beginning to cry.
"We will, we just have to find..." Twilight began but say the way out of here.
"Cadence, look." I said to her and pointed at the opening. Her crying turned into a smile that spread across her face.
"There!" Twilight yelled and teleported us to the ledge underneath it. Once we got up there, the old bride maids started walking up like zombies with their eyes glowing and said together, "You're not going anywhere."
"Oh crap." I said.
"Wait." Cadence said and pulled out the bouquet of flowers and tossed it over to the side. The bride maids quickly jumped after it. "Let's go."
We walked over to the opening and first helped Cadence out, the me, then Twilight. We looked around and saw that we were somewhere in the Royal Garden.
"We have to stop the wedding. Twilight, you lead." I said and picked up Cadence to help her walk again. Twilight nodded and ran ahead.
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"Princess Cadence and Shining Armor." Celestia said. "It is my great pleasure to announce you..."
"STOP!" Twilight yelled at the door way. Everypony gasped and began to whisper to each other.
Apple Jack and Rarity both both their hooves on the foreheads and shook their heads. Spike just looked at the ground.
"Uh, why does she have to be so possessive about her brother?" the imposter yelled. Celestia starred at her with confusion.
"I mean, why does she have to ruin my special day?" she said fake crying.
"Because, it's not your special day!" the real Cadence shouted. She limped in while resting on my shoulder so that I could help her walk. "It's mine!" Everyone gasped at the sight of two Cadences.
"What? But how did you three escape my bride maids?" the imposter yelled. Cadence quickly said how easy it was to fool them.
"Huh, clever. But you're still to late." the fake one said.
"But ah don't understand. How can there be two of them?" Apple Jack asked.
"Because, she's a Changeling. She takes the form of somepony you love and gains power by feeding off your love for them." Cadence said.
"So why don't you show your true form!" I yelled.
"Be quiet weakling!" the changeling shouted and charged a green beam which made her eyes glow. She shot it and it hit me in the shoulder with much more force and pain than Shining Armor's. It made to flips and smashed me into a pillar, slightly cracking it. Once I hit the ground, everyone gasped.
Everything was a bit foggy, but I could see the changeling transform in to her real self. Her coat was black with a blue mane and tail that had holes in them. Her wings looked like bug wings, they too had holes in them. Her horn looked like a messed up tree branch, and her legs had holes at the bottom of them like swish cheese. She had fangs for her teeth.
"Right you are princess, but your friend can't stop me. So as queen of the changelings, it is up to find food for my subjects."
She walked down from the front of the church, "Equestria has more love than I have ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be able to devour so much of it. That we will gain more power than we've every dreamed of!"
"They'll never get the chance!" Cadence yelled. "Shining Armor's protection spell will keep them from ever reaching us!"
The Changeling Queen started to laugh, "Oh, I doubt that. Isn't that right dear?" Shining Armor nodded his head, completely under her spell. Cadence started to charge but the changeling said, "Uh, uh, uh, you don't want to end up like your friend, do you?" Everyone looked back to me lying on the ground with my shoulder smoking greatly.
"You also don't want to go back to the caves, now do you?" she asked again. Cadence started to back up, but with a determined look in her eyes. "Ever since I took your place. I've been feeding off of Shining Armor's love for you. Every moment he grows weaker, and so does his spell. Even now my minions are chipping away at it."
Outside the bubble was dozens of changelings, smashing their bodies at the bubble.
"He may not be my husband. but he is under my total control now." She said. Twilight and Cadenced gasped. "And I'm sorry to say, unable to perform his duties as captain of the Royal Guard."
"Not my Shining Armor!" Cadence yelled.
"Soon, my changeling army will break through! First, we take Canterlot, and then. All of Equestria!" the Changeling Queen shouted with victory.
"No." Celestia said. "You won't. You may have made it impossible for Shining Armor to perform his spell, but now that you have so foolishly revealed your true self." She charged at the changeling and the Queen charged to Celestia. They locked horns to fight. "I can protect my subject from you!"
Celestia charged a beam from her horn and so did the changeling queen. Both of their beams hit each other in mid-air and started to push back and forth to see which one is stronger. I seemed that Celestia was winning, until the changeling's magic over powered her and hit her horn. Trowing her back and knocking of her crown with a burnt horn.
Everyone gasped and Twilight yelled, "Princess Celestia!" She quickly ran over to her with her friends.
"Shining Armor's love for you is even more stronger than I thought." laughed the changing queen. Consuming it has made me even more powerful than Celestia!"
"The Elements of Harmony. You must get to them and use their power to defeat the queen!" Celestia told Twilight and her friends. All of then nodded and threw off their dresses, except for Rarity who was catching them as they fell. "Rarity!" the five ponies yelled. She dropped them and followed her friends. The queen was laughing as the left. "You can run, but you can't hide!"
Soon, all of the changelings started to smash the bubble and instantly broke it when they hit it all at once. They started raining down like green meteors and forming small craters in the ground. "Go, go!" Twilight yelled as they dodged the falling bug ponies. They stopped to find that they were surrounded by changelings. "Looks like we're going to have to do this the hard way!" Rainbow Dash quickly ran forward, but was stopped when she saw herself.
They looked at each other with confusion until the changeling Rainbow hit her to the ground. "How did they..." she asked until they all started to change into the mane six.
"They're changelings, remember." Twilight said.
"They're changelings, remember." copied a group of Twilights.
"Don't let them distract you, we must get to the Elements of Harmony." Twilight said. With that they sprang into action against themselves.
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The changeling queen still continued to laugh. "They'll never make it. My minions will stop them." She was starring down at Celestia until I stood up holding my shoulder.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." I said. My shoulder was still smoking and felt like it was burning like hell. I cracked a small grin on my face.
"Filthy peasant, why won't you stay down!" she yelled. She charged another beam from her horn, oh man, not again.
"Oh crap, this is gonna..." I began, then the beam hit me in the chest.
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The fight was still going on when they heard something from the distance. Everyone turned towards the direction as I came flying in from the blast."hhhhuuuuRRRRTTT!" I slammed into Twilight and Rainbow Dash. My chest was burning, but not on fire still. That is so weird.
"Oh crap! Sorry Twilight, sorry Rainbow Dash. But suddenly the changed their forms and were changelings. "Uh..." I began to say, but the fighting broke out a again when a Pinkie Pie punched me in the face. I quickly punched her back and she changed to her original form.
"This is just weird!" I shouted as I continued to fight. If I can take three magic blasts, then I think I can handle myself in a fight. Pinkie suddenly started using Twilight as a machine turret, hit dozen of changelings at a time. The fighting died down and we all started to head for the Elements of Harmony. I was patting my chest to see if I could make the smoking stop.
"More and more changelings started showing up from behind us as we continued to run. We finally reached the building that holds them, but inside were hundreds of changelings. There was even more from behind us, more than we could handle. The jumped us and started to take us back to the church.
Celestia was hanging upside down in a green capsule from the ceiling.
"You won't get away with this!" Cadence shouted with her hoofs stuck in green goo. "Twilight and her friends will..." The door opened to find all of us taken by the changelings.
The queen noticed me and said, "What does it take to kill you?" Cadence was shocked to see that we have failed to get the Elements.
"You do realize the reception has been cancelled, don't you?" she said. I looked around to find that there was no one else but Celestia, Spike, Cadence, Shining Armor, my friends and me. "Go, feed!" she yelled. All of the changelings flew out and started to terrorize Canterlot.
"It's funny really, Twilight and Wyatt here where the only ones that were suspicious about my behavior all along." the queen said. "Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize the suspicions were correct."
"Sorry guys, we should of listen you you." Apple Jack apologized.
"It's not your fault, she fooled everypony." Twilight said.
"I did, didn't I?" the queen agreed. She walked up to the window and sang.
This day has been just perfect
The kind of day of which I dreamed since I was small
Everypony I'll soon control
Every stallion, mare and colt
Who says a girl can really have it all
Twilight sneaked up to Cadence, "Quick, go to him when you still have a chance." She used her magic t get rid of the goo.
Cadence walked up to Shining Armor and starred into his zombie eyes. She hugged him tightly as her horn began to create sparks. She used her love spell on him which snapped him out of his trance.
"Where...huh...is the wedding over?" he asked.
The queen came down and said, "It's all over!"
"Your spell, perform your spell!" Twilight yelled.
"What good will that do, my changelings already roam free!" the queen yelled pointing outside.
"No!" he yelled. He tried to use the spell, but it didn't work. "My power's useless now. I don't have the strength to repel them."
"My love will give you strength." Cadence said as she hugged him. The changeling queen just laughed.
"What a lovely but absolutely ridiculous sentiment." the queen said looking out the window.
Shining Armor and Cadence soon touched horns, and both of them began to glow. The wind started to rush around them as the floated in the air. The changeling queen looked at them in horror as their eyes glowed bright white and soon their whole bodies did.
A huge bubble started to expand outwards while pushed the changelings out. The whole time, the queen yelled as she and her changelings were thrown out to the Everfree Forest.
They slowly floated down and there bodies stopped glowing. Twilight ran over to Princess Celestia.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. You have a real wedding to put together" said Celestia.
"Now that was totally awesome!" I yelled.
---
Twilight and I went through the check list. Going way more smoothly than before. Once we finished, I asked Rarity id she still had my tux. She pulled it out from the closet and gave it to me. I quickly changed into it and took my place next to Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy. Twilight was next to her brother because she was his best mare.
Twilight glared at his badge and quickly fixed it for him. Down in the first row was their parents, who there mother was crying a bit with joy. Then the music started to play. Cadence came walking in with Scootaloo, Sweety Bell, and Apple Bloom in front of her throwing out flowers.
"Seriously though." Twilight said to her brother. I get why the queen of the changelings wanted to be with you. But how did you get someone as amazing a Cadence to marry?"
"I told she wouldn't just be gaining a husband, but she'd be getting a pretty great sister too." he answered.
Rarity began to cry as Cadence came up, so I gave her a handkerchief to clean her tears.
"Mares and Gentlecolts. We are gathered here today to celebrate the union of the real Mi Amore Cadenza." Celestia began.
"Princess Cadence is fine." Cadence said.
"The union of Princess Cadence and Shining Armor." Celestia corrected. "The strength of their commitment is clear, the power of their love undeniable. May we have the rings please?"
Spike help out the rings as Celestia placed them on Cadence and Shining Armor's horns.
"I now pronounce you mare and colt." she said, and then every cheered including me. They walked out to the balcony to look over the enormous crowd of ponies. All cheering fro them.
"This is your victory as much as theirs." Celestia said to Twilight. "You and Wyatt persisted in the face of doubt. And your actions brought the real Cadence back to us. Learning to trust your instincts is a valuable lesson to learn."
Out on the balcony, Shining Armor and Cadence were kissing. "Rainbow Dash! That's your cue." Celestia whispered to Rainbow. She quickly flew out of her dress, out side and quickly did a Sonic Rainboom which formed a rainbow over Canterlot.
"Best, wedding, ever!" she yelled.
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Even though it was dark out, the wedding party was still going on. Luna came flying down and landed next to us.
"Hello everypony, and Wyatt. Did I missed anything.?" she asked.
"Oh, just about everything." I said, which made everyone laugh. Twilight nodded to Pinkie, who ran over to a D.J. booth and pulled out Vinyl Scratch. Pinkie threw a microphone to Twilight and yelled, "Let's get this party started!" Twilight caught it with her magic and began to sing.
Love is in bloom
A beautiful bride, a handsome groom
Two hearts becoming one
A bond that cannot be undone because
Love is in bloom
A beautiful bride, a handsome groom
I said, love is in bloom
Starting a life and making room
For us
"Twilight!" Shining Armor said as they began to go one the carriage. "None of this could be possible without you and Wyatt. Love you, Twily."
"Love you too BBBFF." Twilight answered. He climbed into the carriage and asked Cadence, "Ready to go?"
"Oh, I almost forgot!" she looked out the window and threw the bouquet of flowers. Rarity jumped in and yelled "Mine!" when she caught it. She then looked around and giggled a little, dropping the flowers.
The carriage started to ride down the road when I ran up beside it and continued to run. "Have fun you guys. Hope to see you soon!" I said next to them waving.
"We will." Shining Armor said. I stopped running as I watched the carriage ride off into the sunset.
"This was a fun day." I said to Twilight and her friends.
"It sure was." Twilight said.
"Oh hey, just wait until what I have planned for the bachelor party." Spike said. Usually they come before the wedding, but I just nodded and continued the party, laughing with my friends.
Large fire works made the night sky glow as the last one was one giant heart. I can't wait to see those two again, and walked off to the rest of the group, already talking to the other princesses.