“Did she feel any pain?” Twilight asked the medical professional as he dead friend lay on a silver table. Discord was angrily in the morticians room himself.
“Princess, are you sure you want to hear this? I can’t ensure that you will be happy with this. The doc looked at Twilight with sorrow in his eyes. Twilight nodded her head in reply. The doc lowered his head and was ready to announce Rainbows final moments. “Rainbow dash unfortunately suffered terribly. For the fifteen minutes it took Discord and everybody to realize where she was she had laid there on the bottom of the canyon unable to breath. Her lunges were punctured by her own ribs. The fall had broken the lower portion of her spine so the only places she didn’t feel anything was from the waist down.” The doctor really wished he could have expressed a happier ending but sadly Rainbow dash went out hard. Discord grew more and angrier as he sat there.
“What the hell happened Twilight, what caused that train wreck~!” Discord stood up angrily as he used his lions paw to tip over a nearby table. “I want to know~!” discord was so infuriated. He knew she wasn’t going to tell him. He let out a roar as he scratches the air opening a rift to view the past. He watches to see a demonic pony throw Rainbow to death. “That pony is mine, she is going down.” Discord said angrily as he then zoomed up on Rainbow dash whom was lying on the hard ground.
“Don’t worry my friends. Y-your safe n-now” Rainbow said as she groaned laying there on the hard ground. This part of the past brought tears to his eyes immediately, Rainbows eyes watched and reflected where empress flew off to. “I’m sorry Twilight” she coughed again. “y-you’re going to be s-safe now… y- you’re with discord by now…. Y-you’re s-safe.” Discord closed the rift and looked at Twilight.
“You want to explain to me why that Demon possessed Sunset Shimmers cutie mark?” Discord said as he looked at Rainbow on the chrome table. “I will find this pony and I will take this into my own hands.”
“Do you think that’s what Rainbow would have wanted~!” Twilight yelled back at him.
“She gave her life for you princess butt and all you’re going to do is sit here and grieve? We should be trying to stop that thing before it hurts anyone else~!” Upon his words Luna and Celestia burst into the room.
“She’s headed for the crystal Empire… She is headed for cadence~!” Luna yelled out. She saw Rainbow on the table and nearly collapsed crying now. “N-no it can’t be.” She said in near disbelief.
Guards stood at the entrance of the Crystal palace.
“Hey opal shield… Do you think my helmet is too big? We got that new armor order so I don’t know if mine exactly fits?”
“I wouldn’t be too worried about it. It’s just armor. Not like you’re ever going to have to use it.” The other guard rolled his eyes. “Wait, wait what’s that?” He said pointing at a trail of smoke above them. Empress was now flying over the crystal palace. Her Cyan eyes glowing making every guard more visible to her. She could even see the ones behind walls or underground in the ruins. She saw her point of entrance. Two smaller guards stood at the front door. They would be very easy to take out. She closed her wings and tilted her body down in a swoop of an action. She landed only teen feet in front of the guard. Before they could even speak they were a pile of ash at the doorstep. Several guards were alerted by Celestia’s letter to guard and hold back anything from getting past the front door. Once the front door swung open several of them pointed their weapons at the mare that had entered. Empress looked at all the spears and sword pointed at her.
“Attention dear Crystal guards~!” she said rather loudly. “You have thirty seconds to clear out this hall~!” she watched insanely as not a single guard took her seriously. “Fine, I understand you have your orders and your laws. I would have disobeyed them for once.” Empress reared up on her hind legs before slamming her front hooves back down. A wave of red energy was sent out turning all the guards in the main hall into hard burnt stone. She flapped her wings and they all turned to nothing but ash. All guards but one was dead.
“Celestia warned me that you would be coming. Stay away from my wife.” Six more guards came in to back up shining armor. Empresses cyan halo like eyes watched the guards.
“You guards and your valiant efforts, I must say your astonishing ability to continue fighting when you know you stand little to no chance intrigues me. Really it does, there is on the otherhoof something that is bothering me.” Empress let her wings cling to her own sides. “Can you stand a chance against each other?” Her irises started to swirl as cyan halos went around the heads of shinning’s back up guards. Their eyes were now glowing like hers as one immediately thrust a spear at Shinning. Shinning was well trained so he quickly reacted by using the hard part of his hoof to knock the weapon away. Another guard quickly used there spear handle to put Shinning in a choke hold while another started kicking him in the gut. Shinning was getting his ass kicked. He needed some kind of motivator. Despite the pain he closed his eyes and thought about cadence and the coming baby. Shinning opened his eyes and flipped the one who had him in a chokehold. He kicked him in the throat causing the spear to fly up in the air. Shinning used his rear hoof to kick the spear into the other ones chest. The other four finally made their attack. Three of them swung their swords for his head. Shinning quickly duct and swipe his back hooves in a tripping manor. He used his magic to appear away from the assault.
Shinning used magic to create a bow and arrow. He shot two of the guards with the magical arrows. This left a couple more. He aimed and shot the last two. As he went to Aim where Empress was standing seconds ago, she was gone. He frantically started looking around. Before he knew it she was standing behind him going for his neck. Shinning dodged and thrust the sword right into her. She looked at the sword stabbing her in the chest. She gave a blank stare at him as the sword turned into a mist and then reformed and hit the floor.
“Did you really think I would be that easy Shining armor?” Empress said as she shook her head. “And you think you are going to protect cadence and your thrones from me. How about you just give up now.” She smiles as her eyes began to glow.
“I may not be powerful. I may not be that tough of a stallion. I swear I will do all in my power to stop you. That was when an eye appeared on one of the drapes above Empress.
“You don’t have to~!” discord now replaced the drape. He pounced on Empress with his hands glowing. He immediately bit into Empress’s side and tossed her against a wall. “You killed my friends~!” Discord growled as her got in a ready position. Empress slowly stood up the bite wound healing before discords eyes.
“Well if it isn’t Discord himself~!” Empress said as the bones in her demonic bat wings began to glow. “I should have figured you would track me down, seems you’re just as loyal as Rainbow was.” She let out a chuckle as she said this to him.
“Don’t you even say her name~! You have no right~!” discord said as he was now walking on all fours. His tail was swaying back and forth for he was ready to fight. He snapped his fingers to try and cast a spell upon empress but for some reason his magic had stopped working. He looked around to see a strange red crystalline structure growing on all the walls. Empress on the other hand was still able to wield her magic.
“Come on dipcord.” Empress said using the voice of Rainbowdash herself. Empress gave a grin as she flew above Discord who quickly punched getting her back on the ground.
“Stop taunting me with her you vile creature.” Discord said as he picked Empress up by the throat ready to bite her again. Empress fazed through him appearing on his back biting his neck. Discord let out a scream as he felt dizzy. He grabbed hold of the red mare chucking her into another wall. Unfortunately for him she had balanced herself well enough to start flying again. Discord growled as he kept his eyes locked on the powerful demonic looking creature. “What is your name?” He asked “why did Rainbow have to die~!”
“The name is the Empress of flame, the one who killed your friend. She was simply in my way. Wrong place wrong time.” Empress said as she landed slowly walking toward Discord. “It was not intended, besides you should be thanking me. Those ponies don’t love you back. You’re their magical play thing. Rainbow dash was not your friend. You’re still evil, like me” empress said as she placed a hoof on his chest. Stone started to coat the top of him.
“w-what how are you doing this~!” Discord yelled out as his arms and legs were quickly turned to stone. Shining armor was now running up behind her at this point. He had to try and save Discord.
“I am part Element of magic, and now…. You suffer.” Empress chuckled and laughed loudly. Shining armor jumped up in the air headed right for a kill shot. He had foolishly opened himself up for attack. In an instant Empress had formed a long tail with a spike on the end of it. The tail resembled a red xenomorph tail. Without looking empress had plowed the spike right into his gut. She maneuvered her tail to hold Shining in front of her face to face. Discord reached out to try and heal him but by the time his talon touch him Discord was completely stone. The tail vanished bringing her soft fire looking tail back.
“It’s like you have eyes on the back of your head.” Shining coughed up blood and he tried to get back up. He was way too weak to be able to fight back He looked down to see his own insides hanging out. “P-please don’t hurt her. She’s all I have besides t-twily.” Shining pleaded. Empress actually appeared to be thinking. He was making a good point. Her soft side finally showed for a short moment. Her eyes glowed and so did his wounds. The wounds appeared on her and healed him. The wounds quickly disappeared on Empress and she touched his head forcing him into her control.
“I will allow you to see your family live. But you will listen to what I say and do as I say.” Empress said as shinning was now under a hypnotic spell. “Take me to her now~!” Empress said as she looked back at discord that was now full stone. “I will follow you soon.” Empress walked up to discord and her eyes were now Sunsets eyes. She touched the stones head and sent images of happiness to him. Almost as if for this brief moment Sunset was in control.
Discord saw wonderful memories of Dash flying racing and even getting her cutie mark. He saw RD taking flight to save her friends from a tornado. The parasprites that even she couldn’t clean up. Lastly he felt a warm hug from her one last time. Empresses eyes returned to the dark eyes they were as a tear now came from the eye of Discord. Empress walked away to go take over the empire. Her first step to taking over Equestria. Empress caught up with Shinning rather quickly. They were arriving at Cadences room now and the crystal empire would soon be ruled by one darker than the rule of Sombra. Shinning opened the door to cadence who at first was happy to see him. That was until she couldn’t feel anymore. A ring of cyan was over her head the moment Empress stepped into the room. Empress had taken over her mind as if she was filly who couldn’t fight back. That was when Empress saw the throne. She gave a smile as she walked towards it. She rubbed a hoof on the crystal surface.
Discord was in his own thoughts now.
“come on let me out… the crystal empire is doomed.” He yelled within his mind. “I failed again, one after another just another failure. I always let the ones I love down.” He slumped over in this dream world like state.
“You didn’t let me down.” A feminine voice sounded next to him. He looked up to see Rainbowdash looking at him. “Come on dippy you can do this. Equestria needs you right now. I may be gone but I can still help you.”
“If I get out I’m just going to fail again. Your dead I failed you~!” discord yelled at himself to beat himself up.
“Discord I am never gone. I will always be right here.” She placed a hoof on his chest. “Now would you man up so I can stop being so sappy over here. Celestia and the other will never know what happened if you don’t get back to them. There is no need to avenge me. I was ready to go; I did it for my friends. Sometime in friendship you lose one. You can’t always control it but you can become stronger from it. I don’t think anyone has all the answer to life’s questions. You can count on your friends to help you make it through it, Even if one of them has passed.” Dash said as she smiled at him. Discord let out a roar and the stone on the outside began to crack. He snapped his fingers and the stone broke into pieces. He knew which way empress had gone, but what would be the point in fighting her again when she had the red crystalline spell ability. He knew what he had to do; he had to get back to Celestia, Luna, and Twilight.
The world was changing fast since Sunset had arrived back home. Things were escalating fast, with no end in sight. The only question was. Was Equestria the only world in danger.