Griffifth was running like a mad man through some caves deep underneath Canterlot, using his advanced tracking skill he was currently following Twilight's scent there. He had to find her as fast as possible or the evil Cadance will have her way to do... something! Taking a few sniffs he could sense her behind a wall.
Meanwhile On the other side of the wall. Twilight and the real Cadance were currently trying to find a way out of the cave, but none had found one. "Oh, we're never going to save him..." Cadance said dishearten, she was too weak to preform any magic and it was too far to the outside for Twilight to teleport.
"We will." the unicorn tried to encourage her, "We just have to find... Do you hear something crumbling?...", just as she had said those words, the wall was kicked down by Griffifth preforming a karate kick, "I'm the Hero! Deal with it!" he shouted as he landed in a three-point landing.
"Griffith!" Twilight she said relieved, pulling her friend in a tight hug. After she let him go, he turned his attention to Cadance, "You're the real Princess Cadance, right?" he asked, gaining a nod from her.
"How do you know?" Twilight asked, she her self already knew that this worn out Cadance was the real one, but for Griffifth to trust so easily, it was strange.
"She smells different from the other Cadance." he explained as he gestured for them to follow him, "And she is not looking so well..." he added, as they followed him out of the caves.
"Well sorry, that I smell. I haven't had a bath in..." Cadance apologized sarcastically, but Griffifth shook his head as he interrupted her, "Don't need to know that. And with smell, I meant your natural scent.".
The wedding meanwhile was in full swing, just before Celestia could pronounce Shining Armor and fake Cadance husbandu and waifu, Twilight and Griffifth burst into the hall, "Stop!" They both shouted at the same time. "Why does she have to be so possessive of her brother?" fake Cadance lamented before breaking down in a sob, "Why do they have to ruin my special day?" she complained but before she could anything else, the real Cadance appeared, "Because it's not your special day. It's mine!" she declared gaining a confused look from guests.
"Super Special Awesome plot twist!" Phoenix said as the rest fake Cadance grit her teeth, "What? But how did you escape my bridesmaids?" he demanded to know.
Twilight looked at her companion before answering, "Griffith... Ate them...".
"It's called consuming." he corrected her but she responded with a quick, "That's what I said, ate them.".
"Clever." Fake Cadance complimented, "But you're still too late!" he declared, everybody was confused how there could be two Cadance... because apparently twins have never been heard of in Equestria. That would just be silly.
"She's a Changeling." the true Cadance explained, "She takes the form of somebody you love and gains power by feeding off your love for them."
At this, the fake Cadance shed her disguise, transform into her real self, the leader of the Changelings, Queen Chrysalis.
"It is up to me to find food for my subjects." Chrysalis explained, trying to justify her reason for attacking, "Equestria has more love than any place I've ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be able to devour so much of it that we will gain more power than we have ever dreamed of! Ever since I took your place, I've been feeding off 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. He may not be my husband, but he is under my total control now. And I'm sorry to say, unable to perform his duties as captain of the royal guard.".
"Ugh, I just love it when the villains do there monologue while we just stand there." Griffifth thought to himself as he rolled his eyes, but his train of thought was interrupted by the voice of Celestia.
"No. 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, I can protect my subjects from you!" the sun princess declared as both she and Chrysalis blast each other with a stream of gold and green magic, respectively. As both beams clashed in mid air, McGrath couldn't help but shout, "Bitch fight!".
Despise all her power, Celestia was overwhelmed by Chrysalis spell, flinging her across the room. Reacting quickly, Griffifth jumped at her catching her mid air. "Ah!" Chrysalis said surprised but she quickly regained her confidence, "Shining Armor's love for you is even stronger than I thought! Consuming him has made me even more powerful than Celestia!" she declared, breaking down in laughter.
Griffifth held the defeated princess in his arms, his own ruby red eyes locking with her magenta once, "Your alright, Celestia?" he asked worriedly.
"The Elements." Celestia responded weakly, "You must get to them, and use their power to defeat the queen.", with a thud Griffifth dropped her as he and the gang run out of the hall.
"You can run, but you can't hide!" Chrysalis laughed.
Outside the Castle, the Changeling were ravaging the city, as the guards were scattered all over the city with no commander.
Before the Harmonic Heroes could set another step, a army of Changelings appeared in front of them, taking their form.
"Looks like we're gonna have to do this the hard way." Rainbow said, flexing her legs, ready for battle. "You mean the fun way!" Phoenix corrected her as he conjured a large flame in his hands.
"... My hair doesn't really look like that, does it?" McGrath asked as he took his own personal fighting stance. "Don't let them distract you." Griffifth instructed the rest of the gang as his claws came from his hands, "We have to get to the Elements of Harmony. They're our only hope."
And with that said the gang let out a loud yell as the charged head first into the sea of Changelings, ready to fight there way through.
Meanwhile, back in the throne room, where Chrysalis all but celebrating her victory, "You won't get away with this!" Cadance said as she was placed inside a green cocoon, just like her aunt, "Twilight and her friends will..." before she could finish her sentence, the Harmonic Heroes were brought back by her army of Changelings. Despise giving it them all, they were out numbered ten to one.
"Wait a minute. How did this happen?" Rainbow asked, "We're smarter than this."
Sutakira shrug his shoulders, "Apparently not."
"It's funny, really." The queens said as she slouched in Celestia's throne, "Twilight and Griffith here where suspicious of my behavior all along. Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize those suspicions were correct. And now I have all Harmony users. Nobody can stop me!" she broke down in a victory laugh as Phoenix quickly did a head count, "We are missing one." he said, making Chrysalis stop. "We are with eleven, and only Archmage, Rainbro, Moody, Diva, Waffles, Chuckles, Pomme, Star, Sunshine and me are here. Messiah isn't." he stated but Chrysalis scoffed at this.
"Hah! It's useless anyway." she scoffed, the idea that someone could pose a threat to her, it was laughable, "Let him come, he's but one man, I have a army!" she declared, "We have a Skywalker!" Twilight retorted at the same time, a thunder claps could be heard outside, making everybody save, the queen look up. "What's wrong? Scared of a little lightning?" Chrysalis mocked, but Griffifth responded, "More afraid of what comes after it.".
The glass dome above them breaks and Skywalker uses one of the Changeling to body surf and lands in a three-point landing. As he stared down Chrysalis, a shock of fear went through her spine, "Those eyes... That glare... Those hellish amber eyes!!" she thought to herself.
"What in Oblivion's name are you!?" Skywalker shouted, pretending he was shocked. "I'm Chrysalis, queen of the Changelings." he answered.
Skywalker scratched the back of his head, "I feel sorry for the king..." he muttered loud enough for Chrysalis to hear, "I have no husband! You little brat!" she shouted, offended by his lack of manners.
"Why am I not surprised?" Skywalker said dryly, as he rolled his eyes. "You dirty little monkey!" Chrysalis said, slamming her hoof on the floor.
"I rather be a monkey than what ever the hell you are." he said crossing his arms as he gave her a cocky smirk, his plan was working. "Do you even know why I am here?" the queen asked, Skywalker thought about it for a second before speaking up, "Obviously not to find a husband. So your majesty, do your legs whistle when you fly?" he asked as everybody, even her own Changelings save Chrysalis broke out in laughter.
"Okay go on. Do your evil monologue. I'll be quite now." Skywalker said, trying to fight back his laughter.
"That bravado!" Chrysalis spitted, "It's the same as that witch, that almost caused the genocide of my race! I am a threat unlike any other! I easily defeated Celestia! Think what I can do to you, filthy ape! Changelings too me!".
As she commanded, nearly all her Changelings filled the throne room, all of them hissing at him and ready to strike.
Skywalker uncrossed his arms as he shot her another cocky grin, "I like this game! Its like eight thousand of you against only one of me... and it's still a unfair fight!", the Changeling charged at him, trying to swarm and overwhelm him with their sheer numbers.
Skywalker gave one last smirk before grabbing two hilts from his belt and with a click, two red energy blades came from them. Standing his ground, one by one Skywalker slew one Changeling after another.
"He's like a machine!" Rainbow said, awed at how far her friend had come, "Two Lightsabers at the same time!?", the rest of the gang was just as awed, "Good thing he's on our team." Griffifth said dryly.
Seeing as their plan of attack was failing against the Knight, the Changelings swarmed him as they tried to bury him.
"So much for your Champion." Chrysalis said with a smirk, but her victory was short lived as Skywalker let out a loud roar as he unleashed a powerful telekinetic repulse, sending the Changelings into a wall, those unlucky enough to be to close to him were disintegrated.
I... I am the ruler of the changelings, you must fall simple cretin!" Chrysalis shouted as she try to blast him with the same spell she used to defeat Celestia. His friends tried to tell him to get out of the way, but Skywalker smirked unleashing his heat vision to counter the oncoming attack, forcing it into a beam war.
"Sorry, I never do what I'm told to do." Skywalker said, as Chrysalis struggled to overpower him, "Awww, isn't that cute? She thinks she can beat me!" he laughed, this last insult made Chrysalis lose her temper as she directed all her magic into her struggle, forcing her to release Shining Armor from her control.
"Wha... whe... huh? Is...is the wedding over?" He asked, still dizzy from the spell. "Your spell! Perform your spell!" Skywalker commanded, he hadn't planed that Chrysalis would put this much power into her spell.
"What good would that do?" Chrysalis taunted, trying to give him a taste of his own medicine, "My changelings already roam free!", her laughter became louder as Shining Armor failed to use his repel spell, his strength drained.
"Just use the Power Of Love, or something!" Skywalker said as he was forced to one knee, losing the beam war. "Ser Skywalker is right!" Cadance said as she walked towards Shining Armor, placin her head on his shoulder, "My love will give you strength."
McGrath chocked a little, "Sorry, throw up a little in my mouth..." he said.
As Cadance and Shining touched horns, a loud thunder clap was heard as one giant repulse send Chrysalis and her army flying out of Equestria. Skywalker closed his eyes as he dropped to his knees, panting heavily as this battle drained him of most of his solar energy.
"This isn't coming back to bite us in the ass right?" Rainbow asked as she helped her best friend back to his feet, providing him support. "I mean we sent them all over Equestria...". Griffifth cut her off as he said dryly, "Whatever nobody cares.".
"Yeah but..." Rainbow try to say but everybody shouted at the same time, "Nobody cares, Rainbow Dash!"
Griffifth checked if the princess of the sun was alright, she tried to thank him but he told her he didn't do it for her. She then turned her attention to her star Champion, thanking him but he scoffed and turned away.
"What's wrong?" Celestia asked, this behavior was strange for him, "Why did the others got a extra job and I didn't?" Skywalker asked, so that's what's this was about, "I though I was the greatest champion Equestria had ever seen?".
Celestia chuckled before reassuring him, "Well as Knight Of The Wind, I thought you would like to relax for a change.".
"Oh... Okay then..." Skywalker said, "Well we have a real wedding to put together."
As so the true wedding came, the gang was currently waiting for Cadance to enter and be married to the captain of the royal guard.
"Question, Shining." Skywalker asked, after all he, Twilight and Griffifth had done Shining Armor would allow him to ask him anything. "I get why the queen of the Changelings wanted to be with you, but how did you get someone as amazing as Cadance to marry you?", thinking he asked him as sort of advice, Shining told him "I told her she wouldn't just be gaining a husband, she'd be getting a pretty great sister, too.", this made said sister smile.
"You have a sister other than Twily?" McGrath asked, gaining a irritated groan from Twilight.
Skywalker thought about it, before smiling at him, "Good one. I thought because you have blue mane.", that last thing made Shining give him a questioning look, "Blue hair is a chick magnet! But I guess getting Tia as a mother in law sounds like a pretty good deal.".
"Celestia is not our mother." Twilight explained, but all she got was a confused look from her guy friends, she pointed to her mother in the front row, Skywalker let out a low whistle, "That's a milf.", the other guys had to agree with him.
After a successful wedding, both Shining Armor and Cadance said the yes word to each other and they were now Mr and Mrs... Wait how do last names work in Equestria? Anyways, they had a great celebration after that, Unfortunately, some took a few drinks and weren't thinking right. And so...
"Sky... Sky... Skywalker!" A drunken Shining Armor said as he took a place at the same table Skywalker was sitting. "I just want to go on record by saying that th... this is the greatest day o... of my life...", he shouted placing one of his front legs around Skywalker's shoulder.
"Um, Shining Armor, I think you should calm down and ease up on the booze..." Skywalker said slowly, smelling the alcohol on his breath. "No, I-I-I'm fine, little bro." the newly wedded man said, this was the first time he would refer to Skywalker as his little brother, "Don't worry 'bout me; I'm... just dandy... A-And I wanna thank ya, Skywalker, for being the savior of our wedding. None of this would've been possible without you. I really appreciate it, little bro."
Skywalker took a sip from his beer before responding dryly, "No problem, man.", his drunken companion suddenly got serious, as serious as a drunken pony can be, "Hey, Skywalker, I'm gonna make you a promise... Look, I promise, n-no matter what happens, in return for today, I-I-I-I'll be your Best Man at your wedding..." he declared, tightening the hug he was giving Skywalker.
"What?" Skywalker said confused, "Nah, man. It's alright. Uh, you don't really need to do that..." he said shyly, he had never thought about his own wedding, hell he hardly thought about what he would be eating for dinner.
"It's fine, Skywalker." Shining Armor declared, raising his glass, "I make this promise in the name of Celestia. You won't be disappointed..." and after saying that, he fainted for drinking more than what he can handle.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in a far away land.
Chrysalis woke up, she had lost consciousness after being hit by the love repulse, her commander quickly walked up to her and made a bow, "My queen, we're much too weak to launch another attack on Canterlot right away." the commander reported, "What do we do? We need to regain our strength! Regroup! Form another plan..." he advised her but they noticed that they had landed in a country filled with fluffy creatures filled with love, "These creatures are very loving..." The queen said as she picked one up, "And we do feed on love... I guess we could eat." she said with an evil smirk.
It didn't took the army of Changelings long to conquer this land as the creatures had no means of defending themselves.
"We'll have the rest of this place converted over to our needs within the month." The commander said, gaining a approving nod from his queen, "It may still be a while before we can attack Celestia again. She'll be expecting us." he told her but Chrysalis turned around, "Feh to Celestia. She isn't my target anymore.".
The Changeling Commander was confused by this, they had strict orders to take out Celestia, "Wha... What? My queen, but what about his plan?" he commander asked, "Feh to his plans! I want that Skywalker guy! Perfect little Skywalker. Clever little Skywalker. Brilliant little Skywalker. It's his fault that we aren't rebuilding Canterlot into our newest conquest!" Chrysalis shouted, she could not believe that one of them could have defeated her, especially someone with the same hellish eyes.
"But my queen..." The commander pleaded, he was forced to obey his liege orders but he wouldn't want to see her hurt, "Isn't he more powerful than even you when empowered by Shining Armors love."
Chrysalis thought about this for a moment, before she came up with a plan, "Well, I'll get him... and his little human and pony friends too." she said looking up towards the darkened skies, "I'm going to lure that spiked menace here... Put him and his friends through trials that will band them together. Then, when their emotions are peaked, I'm going to drain Skywalker. I'm not going to drain his love... I'm going to drain his powers. And I know exactly when I'm going to do it." she said that last part more to herself than her commander. He hoped that his queen knew what she was doing.