by Europa
The tension could be cut with a knife. Twilight frowned and looked back and forth between her workerfriend and her sister-in-law, who stood at opposite ends of the conference table and shot glares at each other. It was a small fortune that her BBBFF had excused himself before he did something he would regret. It wasn't that Twilight was worried for Chryssy; she'd knocked down Celestia for pony's sake. No, Twilight was more worried for everypony around Chrysalis should things come to blows.
"I hardly see how it's my fault," Chrysalis sneered. "You wouldn't even have the Crystal Heart if my kind hadn't invented it!"
"If you're so good at inventing love distributors, then why did you run out anyway? Acting too much like locusts?" Cadance spat back.
"I'm so sorry that we lost the technology when Discord emerged all those centuries ago and wiped the world back to the stone age."
"Then why's it malfunctioning now?!"
"Garbage in, garbage out. You should make your little crystal ponies happier; I understand you like to throw around love like cheap Hearth's Warming presents to those who don't need it, but hoard it from those who do."
"You're one to talk about mind-altering magic!"
"Because I could just let him keep the shield up, right?!"
"You could've not invaded at all!"
"You could've not invaded at all," she said mockingly. "You could've asked Celestia for help oh yes the information I had at the time painted such a sympathetic picture of your little sun goddess, little miss blast-the-problem-with-an-unnecessary-show-of-force!"
Twilight groaned and facehooved. The two continued to argue, their tones rising until it was starting to give her a headache. Finally, she took a deep breath, tilted her head back and, "QUIET!" she bellowed. Both changeling and alicorn shut up. "Thank you. Both of you, please! The wedding invasion was years ago, can you two please just move on?"
Simultaneously, both of them pointed at the other and exclaimed, "She tried to kill me!" They snapped to glare at each other. "No I didn't!"
Before they could begin again, Twilight lit up her horn and shot a bolt of magic between the two. It opened up into a miniature portal into the vacuum of space. The roar was immense and the wind was undeniable. Cadance and Chrysalis both strained to pull away from it as it pulled their manes in. Before things could get too much worse, Twilight turned off the portal.
"Thank you," she said sweetly. "Chrysalis, I want you to apologize to Cadance for leaving her for dead under Canterlot."
She didn't need to be a changeling to know how the queen felt; Chrysalis was a very pride worker and disliked apologizing for anything. All the same, she gritted her fangs and spoke. "I'm sorry for leaving you to die in the caves."
"Good. Now Cadance, apologize to Chrysalis for blowing her hive up."
"I'm... sorry for destroying half of your hive with my magic."
There was a tense silence, then Twilight piped up. "Good!" She banished the conference table away. "Now everyone hug!" She telekinetically pulled them towards her and forced them into a group hug. "Feeling better now?"
"... yes Twi."
"Of course, love."