Twilight was shaking in her boots. She was nervous, very nervous. She was one of three commanders for Equestria, which means she has a lot of responsibilities on her shoulders. But she was able to remain calm and not show any signs of being weak, but that could work against her.
Twilight, Shining Armor, Celestia flying high above, and the rest of the army were just about to reach the exit to Canterlot. Random Canterlot pedestrians were cheering on the army as they marched to their certain death. All of them were primarily looking at Twilight and Shining Armor, their armour standing out from the rest of the army.
Twilight looked back at herself, she thought she looked really good in the golden armour. Her tail braided, it looked rather pretty in her opinion. Also her mane was braided, it was hanging off the left side of her neck but she couldn’t feel it because of the armour.
The army were about to reach the exit to Canterlot, and you could tell just by glancing at all of them they were ready. Shining Armor never felt so ready in his entire life. He was ready to blast those retches back to Enza for good. Twilight was still very nervous, but just as ready as Shining Armor was!
The entire army reached the main gates to Canterlot, Princess Celestia swooped down and touched downed right in front of the army. Both Shining Armor and Twilight could tell she was just as ready as both of them.
“Alright everypony!” Princess Celestia was ready to give a mini-speech. “I cannot guarantee we will all come back alive, but I can guarantee that we will wipe Enza off of Equestria, FOREVER!”
The entire army and some of the crowd around them started cheering.
“This isn’t the first time Equestria has fallen into war, and I know some of you know what I’m talking about! While we can’t stop further wars from happening, we can stop this war ridden country from taking over us!”
Twilight and Shining Armor stepped up right next to where Princess Celestia was. Just like Celestia, they both kept the straightest poker face you’ll probably ever see. Celestia walked over to the doors and used her magic to open them.
“Alright everypony! Move out!” Celestia and the two other commanders turned around and walked through the gates.
The army didn’t cheer, just walked through the gates silently. Twilight started lagging behind the two other commanders, she was slightly doing it on purpose so just in case there was a barrage of magic bolts she wasn’t the first to get hit. One of the soldiers decided to step up and try to talk to Twilight.
“Um, hi Commander T-Twi-Twilight,” the soldier started sweating.
Twilight didn’t even look at him. “Hello, what do you need?”
“I was just, um, saying, h-hi and that I w-wish you, um, good luck!” the soldier felt like the biggest idiot in the world.
Twilight looked over at him. “I’m not special, you don’t have to talk to me all hesitantly,” she was trying not to get annoyed at him.
“I know it’s just, you kind of pretty,” the soldier smiled weirdly.
Twilight stopped and looked him in the eye. “You’re sweet, but sweetness won’t win us this battle, however I will give you this.” Twilight kissed one of his exposed cheeks.
The soldier started to blush as Twilight turned back around and caught up with the two other commanders.
“Wow, she’s amazing,” the soldier thought as he fell back in line.
They were still marching down the hill to Ponyville. All of them could see the destruction that was happening. Princess Celestia flew up to have a good view of the entire army.
“I want the Pegasus guards to follow me, the rest of you all follow Commander Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle!”
All the Pegasi lifted up from the crowed and followed Celestia towards Ponyville. A lot of them had spears, axes, and swords. The earth ponies also had the same weapons, except the unicorns, they could use their magic to deal damage.
They were about half way to Ponyville, they were expecting some sort of squad to run into them but nope, it was a smooth march all the way down. Twilight and Shining Armor were marching in front of the army, keeping a steady pace all the way down.
“So Twilight is this the first time you’ve ever been into battle?” Shining Armor looked over at her.
“Yes it is, and it’s slightly pressuring knowing I’m a freaking commander,” Twilight smiled anxiously.
“I don’t blame you, this isn’t my first battle. I would go into what my previous battle was, but I think we’re almost to Ponyville so I wouldn’t be able to finish my story. Plus you never know of a surprise attack,” Shining Armor was looking into the air.
“We did have some pretty incredible fliers, but they’re not that battle worthy. Our earth ponies however, watch out for them,” Twilight was checking her surroundings.
“What’s so special about them?” Shining Armor looked afraid.
“They’re really fast, really clever, good with weapons, know how to freaking kill in every way possible!” Twilight was scaring herself hearing her say this.
“Okay that’s enough,” Shining Armor had a frightened look on her face. “One more thing Twilight, do you feel bad, ashamed, or even awful for killing ponies from your own home?”
Twilight looked at Shining Armor with a blank face. “I hated Enza. When I first came to Equestria I didn’t as much. But then I saw how peaceful loving this country is and it made me hate Enza. And to answer your question, no I don’t feel awful. You know what they say, ‘All is fair in love and war’.”
“Ain’t that the truth,” Shining Armor turned his head back to centre.
They weren’t too far from Ponyville. They could already see the havoc that was going on. Somehow they didn’t see them walking down the huge hill. Probably didn’t notice, or they already knew they were coming somehow they were on the way. Hopefully not option two.
They hit a fork in the road. Both ways lead to Ponyville, just one path led to the western side of Ponyville and the other path went east. Shining Armor had an idea and turned towards Twilight.
“Twilight, I want you to take the unicorns and go right to the western front of Ponyville and I’ll take the Earth Ponies the other way,” Shining Armor was satisfied with his plan.
Twilight started having an anxiety attack. “Shining Armor, not only is this my first time fighting in a battle, this is my first time ever having a massive about of responsibility. What if I mess up? Can you even trust me?”
Shining Armor walked over to Twilight and put his hoof on her shoulder. “Twilight, you’ll be fine. The only pony you should worry about is yourself. Even then you’re wearing the strongest armour in the world. You’re pretty much fully protected besides the face.”
“Still, what is one of the soldiers has some sort of problem and he’s relies on me to-” Twilight was cut off by Shining Armor.
“Twilight Sparkle, listen to me, you’re going to be fine. The soldiers here know how to take care of themselves. You’re going to be one-hundred percent fine, do you trust me?” Shining Armor smiled. The army of soldiers just sat there behind them and didn’t say a word.
Twilight took a deep breath in and out. “Yes, I do,” she then cracked a smile.
“Good, now I’m going to take the Earth Ponies that way and you’re going to take the Unicorns towards the right, okay?” Shining Armor started walking towards the left
.
Twilight raised her head with great inspiration. “Okay!” she then turned towards the army right behind her. “ALRIGHT I WANT ALL THE UNICORNS TO FOLLOW ME AND ALL THE EARTH PONIES TO FOLLOW SHINING ARMOR!!” Twilight shouted as she walked towards the right.
The entire army agreed and walked to their respected commander. Once all the ponies were grouped, Shining Armor waved goodbye to Twilight and Twilight waved back really sad. For all she knew this could be the last time she saw him.
Twilight and the other unicorns traveled the western road. Twilight was in front of the pack with nothing but a long face. One of the soldiers caught up to her and tried talking to her. It was different guard from before.
“Hey Commander Twilight, you okay? You seemed kind of stressed talking to Shining Armor,” he said.
Twilight didn’t turn her head towards her. “Yeah I’m okay, but I’m very freaking nervous. Is this your first battle?”
“Yes however I know a lot about it because my father fought in the royal guard before he retired. He used to tell me all kinds of stories from his battles. Some of them were just horror stories.”
“Where I come from, war was really common. Until the Princess almost got assassinated then whenever somepony tried to start something she would have them executed with no trial. May sound terrible, but it worked.”
“Is where you’re from really that bad?” the guard couldn’t close his muzzle.
“Afraid so. I use to think it wasn’t that bad until I saw how wonderful and peaceful this country was. Now I’m glad to be fighting for Equestria to eradicate Enza from this wonderful country!” Twilight was sounding more serious than ever.
The soldier was getting slightly afraid. “Wow, I would kill myself if I lived there.”
“If you lived there your entire life and didn’t know about any other country you probably wouldn’t.”
“True,” the soldier fell back in line.
After about a good half an hour of marching. They finally reached the outer wall of Ponyville. They silently navigated their way through the bushes (not all at once of course). Twilight whispered to an officer who was sneaking by her.
“On my mark, we jump out and strike them all in the rear flank. Right now Shining Armor has them distracted and we shouldn’t have to worry about an air assault. Telegraph the message to the two other officers via magic sense. Okay?”
“Alright Ms. Twilight!” the officer horn started glowing.
“You can just call me Twilight, if you were a regular soldier it would be fine but you’re not so.”
The officer finished telegraphing the message. “I know but it’s respectful.”
“Whatever,” Twilight peeked over the edge of the wall they were leaning on. “Hmm, looks like Shining Armor doesn’t have the attention of all the Enza soldiers. However looks like the ones that aren’t distracted by the fight are in limited numbers. Which might give us the upper hoof. This might just work.”
The officer liked the plan. “I think it might work. Ready to give the signal?”
“Yep, you ready for the fight of your life?” Twilight walked over closer to the edge of the wall.
“Ready as I’ll ever be,” the officer braced himself.
Twilight’s horn started to glow then start to flickering rapidly. The guard to the north of her nodded. Twilight then jumped out of the bushes. “CHARGED!!!”
The rest of the unicorn army jumped out of the bushes and from behind walls and joined Twilight in the rush. Twilight and the rest of her army charged at the distracted Enza soldiers. By the time one of Enza’s soldiers turn around, he was already blasted by a massive bolt of magic created by Twilight.
The other unicorns started joining in the slaughter of the Enza soldiers. This gave the Earth Ponies and Shining Armor a quick breather. Twilight looked up to see Celestia and the other Pegasus doing surprisingly well against Enza’s fliers.
Twilight stopped for a sec and looked around. She was looking left and right Enza’s soldiers getting slaughtered, killed, but she could only think one thing to herself. “This is too easy. Why aren’t they fighting back at all?”
That’s when she heard two officers not far from her talking. “Half of our soldiers our dealing with the prisoners south from here! We need their backup! We’re getting slaughtered!” one of the officers said.
“I’ll make the trip over there! You try to rally everypony up and we might just have a chance!” the other officer said.
Something about Enza’s soldiers, they didn’t know how to cooperate. Which so far Equestria exceeded at.
The two officers were about to break but then Twilight started running towards them. It was weird, she started thinking her armour made her much faster and stronger. Maybe that’s what Shining Armor meant by ‘strongest armour in the world’?
Twilight killed one of the officers with a magic bolt and jumped on the other. The force of her pounce was strong enough to knock his helmet right off his head. Twilight was about to jab her horn right into his throat until she got a good look at who he really was.
“T-Twilight?” the officer spoke.
“Captain Baskon?” Twilight’s eyes started glowing red.
“Twilight, sweetie why are you fighting for them?” Baskon felt tears approach.
“Why are you fighting for them?” Twilight felt no sympathy whatsoever. “You know how awful and war ridden Enza is and how shitty it is!”
“I know but it’s still my country. And you’re not fighting for your loyal country!” Baskon couldn’t hold back the tears anymore.
“Screw Enza! If you lived in Equestria even for an hour. You’ll see how much better it is than Enza! Besides, how are you even alive? You got impaled with the splinters just like me!”
“I drifted to a rogue island not far from the crash site. I pulled all the splinters out of me and wrapped the wounds in spider webs. I was later found on the bridge of death by an Enza search and rescue team. Took a couple of weeks but they found me,” Baskon was hoping to get through to Twilight.
“I would tell you how I stand here today, but I don’t feel like it. Too bad you escaped death once to be taken by it again,” Twilight was getting ready to kill him.
“Twilight, sweetie, why are you like this? You weren’t like this at all when I first met you before we set out on the voyage. What happen to you?” Baskon started crying.
Twilight didn’t shed a single sign of emotion. “I’m never nice. I was only nice to you that one day and during the voyage because I knew if I pissed you off you would be on my case throughout the entire voyage. That goes for all the other crew members.”
“Did you even have any other friends while you were in Enza?”
“Like two or three, and that’s only because you pretty much need at least one or two friends to fall back on,” Twilight smiled evilly.
Baskon had a lot more question he wanted to ask Twilight. But he knew he was only delaying his death so he just decided to accept it. He knew all the other soldiers where either fighting Equestria’s soldiers or getting killed by Equestria soldiers, so he wasn’t getting out of this one this time.
“Alright Twilight, if you’re going to kill me, just do it,” Baskon braced himself.
“One more thing, where are the prisoners that you were speaking of earlier?”
“Head down the southern gate, towards a huge river, the first two ships should be the ones holding all the prisoners,” there was no point in lying, she would have found out eventually.
Twilight was satisfied but was still going to kill Baskon. “Any last words?”
“I love you,” Baskon smiled.
“That’s sweet,” Twilight kissed his cheek. “Well bye.”
Twilight raised her horn up and jabbed it into Baskon’s throat as hard as she could. Blood was flying everywhere and Baskon started coughing up blood. He eventually stopped coughing and stopped moving. Baskon slowly passed away.
Twilight got up, rubbed her horn of the blood and looked around. “I need to find my other friends.” The closest house from her position was Sugarcube Corner. She rushed over to Sugarcube Corner as fast as she could and barraged into the door.
“PINKIE PIE! PINKIE PIE???” Twilight yelled.
She didn’t get a response. Twilight started shaking. “PINKIE PIE? IT’S TWILIGHT! I’M HERE TO RESCUE YOU!”
Pinkie appeared from inside a cabinet. She saw Twilight’s golden armour so she knew she was safe.
“Twilight, thank goodness you’re here. They came in here and took Mr. and Mrs. Cake! And I bet you they took our other friends!” Pinkie was scared.
Twilight tried to calm the pink pony down. “It’s okay Pinkie Pie, I know where all the Ponyville prisoners are. Would you like to come with me to try to find them?”
Pinkie shook her head. “No, I don’t want to get killed. But you should probably go find our other friends. I’m assuming you already know where Rarity is. Rainbow Dash is safe, I know that for fact, Fluttershy and Applejack I don’t know however. Applejack might be at Sweet Apple Acres which is north from here. Fluttershy has a tree like cottage which is west from here. Please look well.”
“I will Pinkie, thank you.” As soon as Twilight said that, the door busted down behind her. Two Enza soldiers were standing in the door frame.
“Halt, both of you just lay down and come with me.”
Pinkie fell to the floor covering her head while Twilight just laughed. The two guards didn’t recognize her armour and they thought she was just a regular soldier. They got even more pissed.
“I’ll say it again, LAY ON THE FLOOR AND ARMOUR OFF TOO,” the guards approached Twilight.
Twilight turned around revealing her face and the Equestrian insignia on her helmet. Her horn started to glow.
“IT’S COMMANDER TWILIGHT! RUN!” considering they were both Earth Ponies, they couldn’t teleport away or something.
Twilight grabbed both of them with her Magic and slammed them against the wall. Twilight approached both of them slowly while Pinkie rushed over and tried fixing the door.
“I’m going to ask both of you a question, and if you don’t answer it in a way I find satisfying, your neck is going to be in two,” Twilight smiled with no remorse.
“Y-y-yes ma’am!” both soldiers replied.
“Oh my so polite, I love it when ponies turn into a goodie-goodie two horseshoes when they’re looked into the eyes of death!” Twilight giggled.
Twilight went back to being mature. “Anyways. Did you take anypony that has the following features: a dark blue mane and tail, and white colour coat?”
“Yes, I know that for fact,” one the guards spoke.
“Prove it, where did she live?” Twilight got closer to his face.
“Um, it was some sort of tent like house with a tone of unfinished dresses and like beyond thousands of sewing machines.”
Twilight was satisfied. “Very good, next question. Did you take a Pegasus pony that has the following features: A pink mane, and yellow coloured coat?”
“No and that was because she had a freaking bear come and through me out and left a huge scar on my left hoof!” the other guard spoke.
Twilight saw the scar but wasn’t satisfied. “That could be any old battle scar. TELL THE TRUTH!”
Pinkie jumped in for a second. “Actually Twilight, Fluttershy does have a brown bear that she takes care of and that does look like a mark he would have made.”
Twilight’s eyes fell half shut. “Oh, well okay! Final question then I might set you free. Did you take a pony with the following features: A blonde mane and tail, and an orange coloured coat?”
Both guards looked at each other and hesitated. “Uh, nope!” one of them said.
“Yep, haven’t see anypony like that,” the other one spoke.
Twilight become enraged. “There is hesitance in your voice. You’re lying!”
“We’re not, we’re promise we’re not!” one of the guards said.
Twilight ran up and punched the wall right next to the left guard’s head that it made it crack. “Listen, if there’s one thing I know about Enza’s soldiers is that they’re liars. Now if you could just make things simple for me that would be great.”
“Look Commander Twilight,” the left guard said. “We’re not lying. We were supposed to go and investigate this one other part of Ponyville but another squad took care of it. We saw them carrying some ponies out of there but we didn’t get a glimpse at who they were. So to answer your previous question. Yes, we did.”
Twilight back off and walked around for a bit. She was thinking, she knew she didn’t have much time so she had to think of something fast. “Hmm, okay, I’m satisfied.”
“Does that mean you’ll let us go?” one of the guards asked.
“No,” Twilight smiled.
“You said after we answered all your questions you would let us go!” the same guard yelled.
“Yeah, I said ‘maybe’, and to my knowledge, maybe generally means no,” Twilight laughed.
Both guards started to struggle to find a way out. Twilight laughed and decided to end it. “You want a way out? Find here you go, have a nice trip.”
“Wait wh-” with a quick and fast snap, Twilight snapped both of their necks and they fell to the floor with a huge thump.
Twilight didn’t seem the least bit astonished by what just happened. But Pinkie Pie was sure as hell was.
Twilight turned around to see Pinkie Pie backed up into a corner shaking and looking like she just saw a ghost.
“Uh, Pinkie are you okay?” Twilight looked worried.
“I-I-I’ve never seen anypony killed in front of me like that ever before! Especially in cold blood!” Pinkie wish she could disappear behind the wall.
Twilight thought to herself for a second. If Pinkie was a citizen of Enza, she wouldn’t be acting like this at all. She has to remember she’s not living in Enza anymore, nor fighting for them.
Twilight walked over to Pinkie and brought her up to her feet. “Pinkie, I’m sorry you just had to witness what just happened. I slightly did it for my own selfish desire to kill everypony in Enza but if I didn’t, they probably would have captured or even killed more Equestria’s locals!”
Pinkie got up from her sorrow and thought about what Twilight had just said. “That’s true, but still, it’s frightening seeing some pony die right in front of you, you know?”
“Hardly, remember Pinkie I come from a very war ridden country where death is not uncommon.”
Pinkie shrugged. “That’s true I guess.”
“Well Pinkie I got to go find Fluttershy, stay out of sight while I’m going and pick a better hiding place by the way,” Twilight was walking towards the now fixed door.
“Okay, thanks again Twilight,” Pinkie walked towards the stairs.
“Alrighty Pinkie Pie,” as Twilight walked out the door Pinkie Pie went upstairs to find a good hiding spot for her.
Twilight walked out of Sugarcube Corner and took a good look at her surroundings. When she entered Sugarcube Corner, it had looked like Equestria was pounding them, now it looks about even. But to Twilight’s knowledge Equestria was still winning.
Twilight looked around for the path that led to Fluttershy’s cottage, it didn’t take her long to find it. It was oddly enough behind a flower shop. Twilight proceeded to rush down the path as fast as she could, trying to keep out of sight of any of the Enza soldiers.
Twilight was looking around at the trees while she was heading to Fluttershy’s cottage. She didn’t want to get backstabbed by any sneaky Enza soldiers. But everything was clear pretty much throughout the entire walk there (which took a whole five minutes).
She finally caught sight of the cottage to see all the windows boarded up and the brown bear the Pinkie mentioned sitting in front of the house active. Twilight knew she had to be careful or else she might be without a head. Ah who was she kidding, she could easily take that bear.
She walked across the mini-bridge and that’s when the bear spotted her. As soon as the bear looked her into the eye she stopped moving. She knew she couldn’t call on Fluttershy to help her, the house was too boarded up.
“Please don’t attack, please don’t attack,” Twilight kept telling herself. The bear squinted at her, but he wasn’t attacking. Twilight started sweating, she was starting to worry. “Why isn’t he moving?” she thought.
The bear went into a laying down position and went to sleep. Twilight broke from her current position. “That was too close,” she was relieved.
Twilight walked up to Fluttershy’s boarded door and looked over at the sleeping bear. She had a nervous look on her face, Twilight never really liked animals. She knocked on the door waiting for a response. She knew Fluttershy wouldn’t comply at first, according to Rarity Fluttershy was a huge scaredy pony. Rarity, Twilight had to go find her and Applejack after she dealt with Fluttershy.
“GO AWAY, I’M NOT COMING WITH YOU, wait, how come the bear hasn’t dealt with you yet?” Twilight could hear Fluttershy’s hoofsteps come closer.
Fluttershy took out one of the boards from her window and looked at Twilight who was giving her a ‘really?’ look.
Fluttershy gave a sigh of relief and walked over and took down the rest of the boards from the door and ran out and hugged Twilight tight. The hug didn’t last long because the scales on Twilight’s armour started poking her.
“You don’t know how better I feel now you’re here!” Fluttershy really wanted to hug Twilight longer.
Twilight felt weird. “Thanks, I guess. Anyways do you know if Applejack is okay? And where’s Rainbow Dash?”
“Applejack’s been taken, Rainbow Dash is hiding upstairs in my cottage because she almost got taken until one of the Equestrian Pegasus freed her,” Fluttershy walked over to the staircase leading up to her bedroom. “Do you know if Rarity’s been taken?
“Rarity has been taken I know that for fact.”
Fluttershy walked upstairs to get Rainbow Dash. Both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash walked downstairs together. Rainbow Dash smiled big when she saw Twilight. She flew over and hugged her really tight, but encountered the same problem Fluttershy did for the fact that Twilight’s armour was poking her.
“Hey Twilight, sorry about that,” Rainbow Dash laughed.
“It’s okay,” Twilight smiled.
“So Twilight what’s the plan?” Rainbow Dash got serious.
“Well, I want both of you to go get Pinkie and take her here, and I’ll go get Applejack and Rarity.”
“Wait, you get to rescue them, what if I want to?!” Rainbow Dash was slightly annoyed.
“Rainbow Dash, look at me carefully, then look at yourself,” Twilight had an annoyed look on her face.
Rainbow Dash took a good look at Twilight’s golden armour. “Good point…” Rainbow Dash felt like an idiot.
“Yeah, well you all know you’re mission, just don’t get killed.”
“I’m not going, good luck Rainbow Dash,” Fluttershy stepped back a little bit. Rainbow Dash and Twilight gave Fluttershy an ugly look.
Twilight walked up to Fluttershy and got in her face. “Look Fluttershy, you have to be brave. If you’re not, they’re going to come and find you again and this time your little bear might not protect you. Besides, Rainbow Dash is smart and athletic, she can protect you, won’t you Rainbow Dash?” Twilight looked over at Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow saluted. “Absolutely!”
“Thank you, now, Fluttershy, are you in?”
Fluttershy thought about it for a sec. She knew she had to be brave, but she didn’t know if she could do it. “Twilight, you know I’m not fit to fight, could I possibly come with you?”
“Fluttershy, if you come with me you’re guaranteeing your death. I’m going to the camp where all the Enza soldiers are. I don’t know if I’m coming back alive, even with this armour.
“Look Fluttershy, you can stay here as long as you stay hidden and stay safe, and I’m pretty sure you can do that.”
Fluttershy nodded. “Yeah, I most likely can.”
“Okay then, Rainbow, you have your mission. If you find a fallen Equestria Pegasus soldier, take his armour, it’ll put you on equal ground,” Twilight started walking towards the door.
Rainbow Dash followed. “Yeah, don’t want to pick up the armour from an Enza soldier or else Equestria’s soldiers might get me!”
“Yeah, and I don’t think that’s really good for the soul.”
“No it is not.”
Both of them stepped outside, the sun was still shining bright. But they could see all the battles that were being fought up in the skies.
“Rainbow, don’t fly too high, you might get caught and might have a million and one Enza soldiers on your ass. You should be fine however,” Twilight smiled at Rainbow Dash.
“Thanks Twilight, and thank you for forgiving me that one day at the party. You’re a great friend,” Rainbow Dash smiled back.
“You’re a great friend too,” Twilight kissed Rainbow Dash’s cheek.
Rainbow Dash put her hoof on her mouth and blushed. Twilight just smiled, she didn’t feel ashamed in the slightest. Fluttershy then walked out of the cottage.
“Will you too stop making out and get going?” Fluttershy laughed.
Rainbow Dash give her a dirty look. “Hey, we weren’t-”
“Just let it go Rainbow Dash, we got a war to win,” Twilight started walking towards the trail. “I’m going to head out towards the camp, Rainbow Dash you know your mission.”
“Yes ma’am Twilight!” Rainbow Dash was still smiling weirdly as Twilight left her sight.
Fluttershy leaned towards her. “You have a crush on her don’t you?”
Rainbow Dash broke her smile and looked towards Fluttershy. She opened her mouth about to say something, but she just closed her mouth hesitantly and flew off. Fluttershy tried her best not to laugh at the irony she just witnessed.
Twilight didn’t check for any sneaking soldiers coming out of the forest. When she jumped out of the path, everything looked the exact same. Twilight wasn’t that sad by what she was seeing. She’s seen this too many times, too many times to count.
Celestia touched down in front of Twilight. She didn’t look angry in the slightest, not like she was when she first took off.
“Hello Princess Celestia, how is the fight going on up in the skies?” Twilight smiled.
“Could be better, but we’re winning. Where you off too?”
“I’m off to end this war. The Enza camp is south of Ponyville, right by the huge river,” Twilight walked in front of Celestia looking for an opening from all the fighting.
“How do you know this?” Celestia looked confused.
“I’ll tell you later, could you give me a lift, the path is kind of, bloody?” Twilight turned towards Celestia.
“Yeah, sure hop on,” Celestia walked to the left of Twilight. Celestia extended a wing so Twilight could get on easier. Celestia took off, she looked slightly nervous however. “Twilight, any Pegasus that decided to follow me, blast them out of existence will you?”
“Absolutely!” Twilight looked ready.
Celestia and Twilight didn’t run into any Pegasus until they saw sight of the campsite. A bunch of enemy pegasus suddenly circled them with swords, axes, and spears. Twilight started to panic but Celestia looked calm.
“Twilight, cover your eyes, or you might go blind,” Celestia closed her own eyes.
“What wh-” instead of asking question, Twilight lowered her head and covered her eyes with her hooves.
Celestia horn glowed brighter, all the enemy pegasus around her started looking at each other in confusion. They all shrugged and lunged at her with great speed. Celestia’s horn glowed so bright, some of the pegasus had to cover their eyes. Finally, Celestia unleashed all that light built up in her horn. All the pegasus around them got stunned and all fell to the floor.
Celestia didn’t look hindered by all that magical unleashed. Twilight probably would have fainted from the magical build up alone.
Twilight opened her eyes and looked off one side of Celestia to see all the enemy pegasus falling to their doom. She could only laugh at the sight. Celestia wanted to say something to Twilight, but it was the way Twilight was so she couldn’t have really said anything to try to change her mind.
The two commanders touched down not far from the beach, they assumed that Enza was on high alert because of the light burst. Twilight hopped off Celestia and took cover by a tree. They could see some of the captured Equestrian ponies! Twilight’s face brighten we she saw both Rarity and Applejack sitting not far from each other safe and sound.
Celestia looked over at Twilight. “Alright Twilight, looks like it’s just you and me. Shining Armor probably would have come with us but he’s managing the ground control.”
“That’s okay, so you ready Celestia? If we can find their main general and take him out, we might be able to finish them all quick after that,” Twilight looked determined.
The two commander nodded and jumped out from their hiding spot. The Equestrian captives all cheered but none of the Enza soldiers aim for an attack. The two commanders looked baffled at this and thought about why they weren’t attacking. Then they heard a voice that was familiar to Twilight.
“Hello Twilight Sparkle,” Princess Mespha flyed down from one of the ships. Twilight’s eyes glowed red at the sight of her. Celestia was confused, was this the Princess of Enza that Twilight spoke of when she first got here?
“What do you want?” Twilight replied.
“It’s been a long time Twilight Sparkle, how have you been?” Princess Mespha had a straight face.
“Don’t play dumb with me Mespha, give us back the captives and we’ll be on our way!”
“Okay, fine, but first there’s somepony I want you to meet first!” Mespha smiled as she stepped aside.
One of the Enza officers stepped up in front of them. He was a dark blue with bright blue eyes. This looked strangely familiar to Twilight.
“Hello Twilight,” his voiced ringed a bell in Twilight’s head.
“Who the hay are you?” Twilight felt mixed emotions.
The strange colt took off his helmet to reveal somepony that Twilight hasn’t seen in a very long time.
“F-Father??” Twilight’s eyes glowed red again.