Super Stallion

by PioneerofImagination

Chapter 37 The 2nd Sphere

95% of changelings had accepted love and Clover took it upon herself to teach the changelings how to be good to honor Chrysalis's memory. They started by breaking their late queen’s throne into pieces and scattering them around the Badlands prison to stop the rogues from sneaking in via magic portals.

"This seems like a good way to start getting on good terms with ponies, don’t you think Clover?" Thorax asked Clover as she was riding on his back.

She was about to answer when she saw her cabin in the Badlands had been broken in so she had Thorax fly right over there faster and she went inside. Clover was running around cleaning the mess and a few changelings came in to help as well. "So Thorax before I forget to ask you later since you are the leader now I was hoping you could approve an idea of mine."

"What kind of idea?"

"I was thinking of leading a class of sorts where I bring other changelings together and we all talk about our emotions and our problems. I think I'll call it a feelings forum."

"Actually that sounds like a great idea, you should definitely do it."

"Oh I'm so glad you agree." Suddenly the 2 changelings stopped when they saw a small red present in the cabin and Thorax held up the note that was attached to the present.

"Warning do not open, splut inside," Thorax read. "What's a splut?" The other changelings shrugged so Thorax opened the present and was suddenly hit in the face with a rather large banana cream pie that had a spring under it. "So that’s a splut." Thorax then started to clean the pie off of his face and heard Clover laughing at him.

"Ah thanks Thorax I needed a laugh right now but now I need to get to Canterlot and talk to Celestia right away."

***

In Canterlot, Princess Celestia was having a meeting with one of the ponies that runs the prison in the Badlands. "So are things going well in the prison?" She asked, hoping to hear good news.

"Yes actually, prisoner morale is up and quite a few prisoners are turning themselves around and the changelings setting up the throne pieces has made it even more secure. But speaking of prisoners there is a problem I felt you should know, when the rogues broke in and caused yet another riot 1 prisoner was able to escape."

"Just 1. That's pretty good considering who is the prisoner in question?"

"CELESTIA!" Clover said as she appeared right beside the princess, shocking her so much she screamed and flew up in the air a little bit and the pony she was talking to jumped back quite a bit and almost screamed himself.

"Clover, what are you doing just teleporting right into my throne room all of a sudden?" Before Clover could answer, Super Stallion flew into the throne room and was ready to fight all out.

"I heard the princess scream what's going on?"

"Somepony has taken my ball," Clover said.

"Excuse me?" Princess Celestia asked, speaking for everypony in the room.

"My ball is gone, somepony got in my cabin and took it."

"You're upset that your ball is gone?" Super Stallion asked as he flew next to Princess Celestia. "That's weird even for you."

"I rather have to agree," Princess Celestia said. "Have you been forgetting to take your medicine again?"

"No!" Clover answered right away as she reached inside her pocket to look into her medicine capsule and make sure that she did indeed take her daily medication. "No I didn't forget we need to get my ball back at all cost."

"Is this like a special ball?" Super Stallion asked. "Like a gift you got from Star Swirl the Bearded?"

"Yes, actually something I'm sure you are quite familiar with," Clover answered, which rather surprised Super Stallion. Clover then made a bubble of silence appear around her and Super Stallion so they could talk in private. "I've been taking those pills and as a result I've been getting my memories back, half and half anyway. I don't know who you really are but I know what makes you Super Stallion, you found Star Swirl's sphere didn't you?" Hearing that Super Stallion was shocked and wasn't sure what to say.

"Is this ball another special sphere?" Super Stallion asked, deciding to somewhat trust Clover.

"Star Swirl made 2 of them since he was going to give them to the royal pony sisters. You had the one that was going to give to Celestia and I had the one that he was gonna give to Luna but I didn't remember it until I lost it. It's funny isn't it, you don't realize you don't have something until the moment you don't have it, like a relationship sometimes you don't know what you have until it's gone."

"Prank, I mean Clover focus!"

"Right, sorry. I had the ball in my cabin in the Badlands, somepony broke in and that was the only thing that was taken like they knew exactly what it was."

"So there could be somepony out there with all the powers I have, great I really wanted to have an all out battle."

"Actually the sphere taken from the cabin was a bit more developed; it even had a bit of the Tree of Harmony making it better suited to fight chaos magic. Too bad it also came with such a horrible side effect. Well that's all on my end I'm heading back and taking the changelings to the Crystal Empire. Ta ta for now."

"Wait hold on what?" Clover then teleported away and popped the bubble of silence.

"So what did she tell you that was so secretive?" The guards asked.

"If I told you it wouldn't be a secret now would it?"

"But was Clover okay?" Princess Celestia asked.

"Well Prank Master she was not. But let's just say that she still needs to be taking those pills." Soon after that Princess Celestia went upstairs as she had to go lower the sun. Super Stallion came along with her as he wanted to change back into Squeaky Clean while also explaining what Clover explained to him.

"That sounds like it could be very troublesome."

"Yeah no kidding especially if it fell into the hooves of somepony like Mimicry or Mad Alicorn or Wacko though would it work on him?"

"Well between you and me I'm still hoping that Clover just misplaced it."

"Well between you and me that's very possible considering who we're talking about."

"Now Squeaky."

"What the 1st time I met her she was trying to make a time portal of all things you never know what the heck that pony is going to do."

"Well the 1st time I met her she helped me lower the sun and my sister raise the moon allowing us both to get our cutie marks so give her a bit of the benefit of the doubt. You don't know her like I know her."

"When I first met her I didn't want to know her anymore than I already did."

"Is that how you're going to treat all of my old friends?"

"Just the ones that act utterly crazy."

"Well I'd like to see you act normal after going through, whatever it is she went through to make her go crazy," Celestia said with a rather stern look but Squeaky couldn't help but laugh a bit which rather confused Princess Celestia. "What could be so funny at a time like this Squeaky?"

"Listen to us argue like an old married couple," Squeaky answered and Princess Celesta found herself laughing as well.

"I suppose you're right and what makes it even funnier is that we aren't far off from that are we?" Celesta asked as she recalled the question she asked about a year ago. "How the time flies." Suddenly to her surprise Squeaky literally swept her off her feet carrying her in his fore legs and walking over to her bed with his back legs. "Oh my somepony has been hitting the gym quite a bit haven't we?"

"Yes I have. All for this moment, that and Super Stallion gets stronger when I get stronger." Squeaky then placed Princess Celestia on the side of her bed and he held her right foreleg with both of his while she was sitting. He then got on 1 knee and got a small box out showing a small golden ring which made Celestia put her other foreleg on her heart.

"What are you doing, Squeaky?"

"I know we already agreed, but I still want to do this." Squeaky then took a deep breath as he began to stroke Celestia's hoof a little. "Princess Celestia you are and will always be the most beautiful mare in this or any land and by you returned my affection and made me feel like the luckiest stallion in Equestria. We've had so many wonderful moments together even before we were in a relationship. You make me happy just by being in your radiant presence. The time we've spent together I wouldn't trade for anything." Hearing that Princess Celestia couldn't help but cry tears of pure joy.

"Oh Squeaky."

"I want you to make me the happiest stallion ever, Princess Celestia, will you marry me?" Princess Celestia then picked up her soon to be husband and gave him the passionate kiss to end all passionate kisses.

"As if you have to ask of course I'll marry you, you'll make me the happiest mare ever." Squeaky then took the ring out of the box and placed it on Celestia's long elegant horn. "I'll send a letter to Twilight in the morning telling her I want her to organize our wedding with her friends helping." Squeaky then kissed his soon to be wife with a passionate kiss that rivaled the one she gave him moments ago.

"Well I should probably get to cleaning what with it being my job after all. Then I'll go home and get a few things we'll need for our wedding. Sleep well my beautiful princess."

"Rest easy my handsome prince." Squeaky then made his way out the door to clean a bit and head for home while Celestia took off her ring to admire it. "Life just doesn't get any better than this." Suddenly she was struck from behind with a powerful stun spell that forced her to the ground and was just as suddenly knocked out.

"3 alicorns down and 1 to go."

***

Squeaky was carrying a box about half his size on his back to the castle but when he got to her chambers and knocked there was no answer. "Did she fall asleep already?" Squeaky then placed the box by the door and opened up and saw she wasn't there but her ring was on the floor and his jaw nearly hit the floor. "There's no way she would just leave this on the floor." Squeaky searched all over but Princess Celestia was nowhere so he turned into Super Stallion hoping to hear her but instead heard Twilight's special signal and flew over hoping Celestia was with her.

"Super Stallion!" Starlight said in a loud whisper as she gestured to Super Stallion to come down.

"What's going on?" Super Stallion asked while standing next to the mares and Spike, who he didn't see earlier because he was behind Trixie's wagon.

"My friends have been taken by changelings and they came in after me," Twilight answered.

"What, but I thought they were good now."

"Not all of them, Super Stallion," Twilight continued. "They tried to grab Spike, Starlight, and I but I was able to get us out."

"How did this happen?"

"My castle was attacked by a small group of changelings and before we snuck out I saw that they had captured my friends and figured right away that they were after us. So I got us out of there and started calling you."

"This isn't good, this is out of my league," Trixie said starting to panic and was breathing very hard and fast. "I'm just a performer, this is princess and or superhero level stuff. Actually there's a princess and a superhero here, what do we do?"

"First Super Stallion I need you to get us all out of here and take us to Canterlot that way Luna and Celestia can help us out."

"Not gonna work Twilight, Princess Celestia is missing and if that's the case Luna and her probably got grabbed as well."

"So what do we do, Twilight?" Spike asked.

"I have an idea," Starlight said. "Maybe Super Stallion could take us to the Crystal Empire so Cadance and Shining Armor can help."

"They won't," Thorax said who came out of the trees helping Clover the Clever walk and the group could see they were rather beat up.

"Thorax are you okay?" Starlight asked, having recognized Thorax by his voice, suddenly Starlight charged her horn ready to attack. "How do we know you're the real Thorax and Clover the Clever?"

"That's right they could be the changelings that grabbed Rarity, and the others," Spike said. Thorax then set Clover down and turned into Twilight mimicking what she said when Spike showed the others that he was good.

"Okay now that that's settled what were you talking about?" Super Stallion asked.

"We were in the Crystal Empire and some changelings and a pony I didn't recognize captured Cadance, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart. Me and the other reformed changelings tried to stop them but the pony was too strong."

"On the bright side I finally know where the 2nd sphere I got from Star Swirl ended up," Clover said.

"This pony that attacked the Crystal Empire and helped the group of changelings pony nap the princesses and Twilight's friends took it?"

"Yes Super Stallion and he's a lot better at kicking some hindquarters than even you are. That's a tall order by the way for those of you that didn't know. Which was probably every pony and dragon and draconequus beside me."

"So somepony did notice me, you'd think that I'd stand out more even in the dark," Discord said, who was laying on top of Trixie's wagon for quite a while.

"You know now that I think about it you probably kicked his hindquarters too huh Super Stallion?"

"Yes I have though how do we know you're really Discord?" Discord snapped his fingers and all of a sudden Super Stallion was completely bombarded by pie. "Yeah it's the real Discord," Super Stallion said, shaking the pies off.

"Excuse me, can we get out of here before the changelings and the pony that can kick hindquarters more than Super Stallion show up," Trixie said, still freaking out.

"No worries," Discord said. He then pointed up and the others saw that Discord had made a bubble and saw that the changelings were looking around for Twilight, Starlight, and Spike. "We can see and hear them but they can't see or hear us."

"Are you sure?" Spike asked.

"Where'd they go?" Pharynx asked while flying right above the bubble that Discord made. "It's not like they just vanished into thin air."

"Pretty sure," Discord answered. They then saw that another changeling flew over to Pharynx.

"Hey Pharynx, listen up."

"What do you want? I'm looking for the 4th alicorn."

"I was looking for her too wise guy but the boss says we gotta get back to the hive so he can store the new prisoners with the others." The changelings then flew off and eventually teleported to the hive.

"The hive?" Spike asked. "Where Thorax and the other changelings used to live?"

"Yes it's nice that a different character says stuff that helps get the plot moving on," Discord said.

"Well then I'll fly right there and get everypony out."

"Super Stallion wait!" Twilight said. "You heard Clover, whoever that pony is he can, uh kick hindquarters better than you can."

"You're gonna go by her. She ran around doing whatever crazy things that popped into her head for the longest time. No offense Clover."

"None taken but seriously there's a very high chance you're gonna get pummeled."

"You only fought that guy for 2 seconds," Thorax said.

"It was all I needed."

"If that's true we're gonna need a plan. Spike go to Canterlot and round up the royal guards and wait for me to contact you later."

"No way Twilight I'm staying with you, we have to save Rarity, and the others."

"Well whatever we do we need to do it quickly. Maybe I could fly over there first and the rest of you could go around getting whatever backup you can find and meet me there," Super Stallion suggested.

"But how would we be able to get there fast enough?" Spike asked.

"Oh I could do something like this." Discord snapped his fingers and the group found themselves in the former throne room where the ponynapped ponies were stored in green cocoons on the ceiling.

"Thanks Discord now let's get to freeing everypony and getting out of here then we can get to stopping whoever did this," Super Stallion said.

"I don't think so," a pony said as he stepped out of the shadows.

"Stone Wall?!?!" Super Stallion said his jaw nearly hit the floor.

"Yes, it's me."

"What are you doing here?" Super Stallion asked his old friend, still in major disbelief that he was even there.

"My job, protecting Equestria and the royal ponies. And now that you're all here I can complete the final part of my mission by putting the last few needed to complete the collection, and a few extras."

"But that doesn't make any sense," Twilight said. "How is what you're doing here protecting any of them?"

"By placing them here nothing will ever happen to them or get to them they'll be in bliss especially Princess Celestia. She won't have to worry about running the country of Equestria in its entirety or stopping forces that threaten it ever again. Here she can just stay here and sleep in peace for all eternity as well as the other royal ponies and you can all join them."

"Yeah I'm not really a nap kind of pony," Starlight said.

"Too bad you don't have a choice, if I let you all go you'll tell others about where the royals are being kept."

"Even if you do make us go up there with them, eventually the other changelings from the Crystal Empire will come looking for me and they'll come here," Thorax said.

"Then once you're all put up there I'll just teleport them all somewhere else where no creature will ever be able to find them," Stone Wall answered.

"Oh, that's a good plan."

"Ha the great and powerful Trixie isn't afraid of you. Do you really believe you can take on the lord of chaos, the princess of friendship, Super Stallion, the others, and of course me the great and powerful Trixie all by yourself."

"Yes I do," Stone Wall answered as he got out the 2nd sphere and put it on.

Suddenly the group was attacked several times and none of them were able to block, dodge or counter, not even Discord.

"Wow he's better at the whole beating creatures up than you are," Discord said. Stone Wall then fired powerful stun spells at the group this time Discord was able to dodge by teleporting away. Twilight used a barrier that was barely able to block the spell and Super Stallion flew around Stone Wall and tried to stop him with a stun spell of his own. But Stone Wall reacted before Super Stallion could even charge his horn and blasted him through several walls. Super Stallion charged through the holes and grabbed Stone Wall, forcing him through several walls as well.

"Stone Wall, stop this, you were the captain of the royal guard once. Snap out of it," Super Stallion said, trying to reason with his friend.

"I'm doing this for the good of the royals, and a few extras," Stone Wall answered as got Super Stallion off of him and threw him up so far up he was forced through the ceiling of the hive and almost out of the atmosphere. He then flew straight up and grabbed Super Stallion only to blast him up close forcing to land on the ground outside the hive making a crater.

"This is probably the largest crater I've made," Super Stallion said to himself as he got himself up. Stone Wall then flew down and attacked Super Stallion several times then pushed back to the hive nearly forcing him through it again. Super Stallion tried to counter but he wasn't fast enough and even though he got in a couple hits they didn't even slow Stone Wall down. "This isn't good. He's faster, stronger, and tougher. But maybe I can reason with him somehow." Super Stallion then charged ready to continue fighting his old friend, meanwhile Twilight was with Discord in the former throne room.

"Discord we gotta help Super Stallion before he really gets hurt." Suddenly Super Stallion was forced through another wall and landed near Discord and Twilight.

"I think the ship may have sailed on that one Twilight."

"Super Stallion can you still stand?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah," Super Stallion asked as he got up. "But I don't think I will be for long, he always was the better fighter."

"Perhaps you can try reasoning with him," Discord said.

"Tried it already. It's like banging my head against a, well you know."

Stone Wall showed up again and the changelings that helped Stone Wall take the royal ponies and in-prison them heard the commotion and came into the former throne room.

"Hey boss, what's with all the noise we've been hearing?" One of the changelings asked.

"And when did they all get here?" Pharynx asked.

"They came to try and rescue the others but that's not going to happen," Stone Wall answered. "Circe around the group that I managed to stun and trap them in cocoons."

"Uh, usually I'm okay with all that," Pharynx said. "But one of them is my brother and I know we never really got along all that well-"

"I said trap them in cocoons!" Stone Wall repeated with more anger in his tone which shut Pharynx up right away.

"We better do what he says," one of the other changelings said.

"I guess we're gonna have to fight now and rescue the others later," Twilight said.

"Fine with me Twilight," Discord said as he cracked his knuckles and hit Super Stallion on the head with another pie.

"I meant with Stone Wall and the changelings!"

"Sorry, force of habit."

"I'm beginning to notice that," Super Stallion said as Stone Wall charged at him ready to continue fighting. But when he planted his feet he slipped on the pie and fell on his face.

"But you can't say I'm not helpful," Discord said while Twilight tried to keep the changelings away from the others. Deciding to take advantage of his friend's confusion, Super Stallion raised his hoof and whacked Stone Wall right in his face.

"Nothing personal," Super Stallion said as his punch was so strong he forced Stone Wall through several floors. "Wow that attack looked really strong, maybe I should try to attack from an upper angle more often." Stone Wall then flew up and uppercutted Super Stallion and he landed outside the hive.

"Discord I think you should go help him," Twilight said.

"Why don't you both help him out," Stone Wall said as he grabbed both of them at the same time and he teleported himself, Twilight, and Discord outside where Super Stallion was and tossed them not so gently over to where he was.

"Now that all three of you are out here with me I can keep you busy while the changelings restrain the others in peace. So that's 5 down and 3 to go and then I'll be finished and you'll all be safe."

"Stone Wall you can't honestly think that what you're doing is good for anypony. How will what you're doing help Equestria in any way," Twilight said, trying to reason with him.

"The royal ponies are what bring danger to Equestria in the 1st place," Stone Wall said. "You're a magnet for all sorts of dangerous things. 1 royal pony sister nearly making ever lasting night just because she was jealous of the other, A centaur from a far away land that wanted to gobble up the powerful raw energy of alicorn magic, and what about Discord would he even have become this close to ponies if it weren't for you?"

"He actually has a point there Twilight," Discord said. "The other points were rather good too sun butt and Lulu just can't seem to keep themselves out of trouble can they?"

"After today they will and from now on until the end of time."

"I'm not going to let that happen," Super Stallion said. "And besides, what about the others?"

"Twilight's friends have a connection to the Elements of Harmony so I saw fit to take them as well. Discord here is far too dangerous and unstable to be left alone. And then there's you. Can you even remember how many weirdos and abnormally dangerous troublemakers appeared when you came along?"

"They were already coming along before I showed up. It was just luck that I showed up first so that I could stop them."

"But now you can stop doing that, you can just go to sleep and never have to worry about anything ever again."

"I'm not just going to take a nap when I still have rogues to fight and ponies to save."

"Then I guess we fight." Stone Wall charged at the trio. Discord managed to teleport away but Twilight wasn't as fast and was pinned to the ground but Super Stallion got him off Twilight before he could blast her. But Stone Wall was quick to counter and forced him to let go and managed to blast Twilight before she got back up and dodged several things Discord tried to drop on his head.

"You're quite the fighter Stone Wall but my chaos magic and the chaos magic I've been giving to Twilight will break right through your powers," Discord said as he sent a barrage of concentrated chaos blasts and Twilight fired several blasts of her own but Stone Wall managed to dodge every single one of them.

"Your powers won't help you if they aren't fast enough to hit the target and speaking of hitting the target." Stone Wall then flew right at Discord and punched him right in the face and sent him so far away the others almost couldn't see him.

“Ow,” Discord said when he landed.

"That was for making the castle 1 big chaotic mess, and there's plenty more where that came from." Stone Wall attacked Discord more, landing several powerful hits until Super Stallion showed up to block his attacks with Twilight’s help.

"I can't believe I'm protecting you of all creatures," Super Stallion said.

Stone Wall forced through the defenses and blasted them all with a powerful spell. "I imagine by now the changelings I recruited have secured the others so that will just leave you 3, and you're all just about finished." Stone Wall then turned around and smacked a spell with just his hoof that Starlight tried to hit Stone Wall with. "I stand corrected."

"Starlight, what are you doing here?" Twilight asked.

"When we were stunned Trixie was able to use a bit of her magic to break the stun spell on me and then she teleported me away. I tried to get back in but by the time I did the others were already trapped. So I tried to get out of there before they found me. After that I made my way outside to help stop this guy."

"I admire you for your sneak attack from the feel of it from my hoof it was quite a powerful stun spell. But unfortunately for you I learned a long time ago to never let my guard down."

"Oh way well I know quite a thing or 2 about magic and I'm not gonna go down as easy as last time." Stone Wall flew down at Starlight so fast she didn't even see him move and then he bucked her so hard she landed next to the others. “You’re right, that was even easier than last time.” The 4 were then blasted by another one of Stone Wall's spells and Discord found that he couldn't stand up.

"What's going on? I feel like I'm getting turned back into my insanely uncomfortable stone prison."

"Clover said his sphere had a bit of the Elements of Harmony within them so I imagine that is what allows his magic to deal more damage to you than I can,” Super Stallion answered. “She also said it had a nasty side effect but that doesn't seem to be true.”

"Any idea how to beat him?" Starlight asked.

"No but maybe there's some way I can get through to him the way Princess Celestia was able to get through to Prank Master." Just then Stone Wall charged straight at the group.

"Well you better do it fast," Starlight said. Super Stallion flew straight up, actually managing to land a solid hit and throw him rather far away.

"Well come on we can't let Super Stallion do all the fighting," Twilight said.

"You're right Twilight," Starlight said. "But maybe I should just stay here for a second." Twilight then made her way to where Stone Wall and Super Stallion went. "Uh Discord do you think you can move?"

"Yeah I feel better now I'm more than quite sure that I can stand up and get back to fighting right now."

"So why don't you go back up Twilight?"

"You know if she needs me she can come get me."

Elsewhere Super Stallion had landed several more hits against his old and very dear friend but was still having trouble fighting having taken quite a beating earlier.

"Stone Wall stop doing this, this isn't you do you really think Celestia would be okay with what you've done?"

"No she wouldn't because too often she puts others' needs before hers. My job was to protect her and I'm protecting her from herself."

"You're right that was your job at 1 point protecting her meant the world to you. That's how you got your cutie mark, remember?"

"I told you never to tell anypony that!" Saying that out loud made Stone Wall stop right in his tracks. "Wait I never told you that, the only pony that I ever told that was." Stone Wall stopped and Super Stallion removed his sphere. “Squeaky Clean.”

"Yeah it's me, Stone Wall." Stone Wall then removed his sphere as well but then suddenly collapsed to the ground. Shocked, Squeaky went over to his old friend and discovered he had torn muscles all over and several broken bones. "My gosh you've been torn to pieces using that sphere. You were being ripped apart and you just kept fighting like nothing was wrong. My gosh even when you're doing something terrible you're amazing about it."

"My body is wrecked. I couldn't have fought much longer. I'm surprised you lasted this long." Just when it seemed to all be over suddenly a portal close to the changeling hive opened and the rogues came out.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me! What are they doing here?" Squeaky put his sphere back on. "Stone Wall, you stay here while I take care of this."

"I don't think I could move even if I wanted to, so okay," Stone Wall replied. And with that Super Stallion flew over but had a little trouble doing so.

"This isn't good, Stone Wall isn't a problem anymore but I'm in no condition to fight and those rogues aren't gonna go easy on me." Super Stallion made his way to where the rogues were; they made quick work of the changelings and saw all the trapped ponies.

"Well well look at this," Scar Flank said. "It's a giant collection of valuable ponies to hold for ransom."

"And a changeling and former team member for some reason," Weather Warper added.

"Somepony must have gone through a lot of trouble to do this," Mad Alicorn said. "That might have been the magic I sensed."

"Well then let's take all his or her hard work for ourselves and get out of here," Scar Flank said.

"Sounds good to me," Mad Alicorn said but before any of the rogues could get to them Super Stallion showed up.

"I don't think so."

"Super Stallion, what are you doing here of all places?" Mimicry asked.

"My job, making sure you rogues don't do anything you aren't supposed to and taking ponies against their will is on the top of that list."

"Uh, is it technically against their will if they're asleep?" Weather Warper asked.

"How about we just skip the whole me beating the tar out of you and you all just give up."

"Oh somepony has been through a tough fight," Mimicry said, noticing his bruises. "Let me guess you fought off whoever did all this and now you can hardly even stand. Am I right or am I right!" Mimicry said as she shot out a spell that forced him into the wall. "Oh I'm gonna enjoy this very much."

"Why should you get all the fun sister?" Inferno asked as she hit Super Stallion with a fire spell.

"I guess those 2 can take the role of keeping Super Stallion at bay the rest of you can get those pods down while I make the portal." Weather Warper, Scar Flank, and Wacko then got to work getting the cocoons Scar Flank most of all.

"With all the bits we're gonna get I can finally set my family name back on top where it belongs."

"Not on my watch," Super Stallion said about to fly over and stop them, but Inferno and Mimicry stopped him by jumping on him and blasted him at the same time.

"Sorry stupid stallion but it's time we got our long awaited victory," Inferno said.

"And our revenge on our brother," Mimicry added.

"He didn't care about you 2."

"What was that!?" Mimicry said.

"He didn't care about you or the rogues that he got to work for him. He was gonna let you all rot away in a prison while he tried to make himself king of Equestria."

"You're lying!"

"I figured you wouldn’t believe me, guess I felt like mentioning it anyway.” Super Stallion then summoned a burst of magic that forced the sisters off of him and allowed him to fly over to the others. He tried to get over to Mad Alicorn to stop her from making the portal but Wacko got in his way and forced him to the ground. "This isn't good, I'm not strong enough to force Wacko off."

"I am!" Suddenly Wacko was forced off Super Stallion thanks to Discord who had Twilight and Starlight behind him.

"Uh crud, what's he doing here?" Scar Flank said who backed up quite a bit and Weather Warper did as well.

"Was he the one that Super Stallion was fighting?" Weather Warper asked as Scar Flank stood by her and they were both ready to fight.

"Not quite," Discord answered.

"What in the world is this creature?" Mad Alicorn asked.

"Discord he's the spirit of chaos and disharmony," Super Stallion. "And I suppose right now he's my back up."

"Yes, I got beat up quite a bit but I have quite a fair share of magic left." Discord then summoned a large mallet. "So you're the warped Super Stallion I've heard about, does that mean you don't mix well with chaos magic?" Discord then whacked Wacko several times with the mallet that he could tell hurt a lot. "Thought so."

"Wacko no feel well."

"Wacko's about to feel a lot worse." Discord continued to wail on Wacko while Twilight kept the Mad Alicorn at bay and stopped her from opening a portal. Starlight stopped Scar Flank and Weather Warper from getting the cocoons while Super Stallion stopped Mimicry and Inferno from getting in the way. However, fighting Stone Wall took a lot out of a lot of them. After forcing Twilight to a wall, Mad Alicorn bound her with magic.

"All right all of you stand down or I blast her head right off!" Mad Alicorn ordered.

"Not on my watch," Stone Wall punched Mad Alicorn with the strongest right hook he could muster.

"Stone Wall what are you doing, take that off before it breaks your body completely!" Super Stallion said.

"If you're so worried let's make this quick." Super Stallion and Stone Wall flew around and attacked the rogues, sending them all over the place and the others freed the trapped ponies.

"No, our ransoms!" Scar Flank said, utterly irritated.

"I think we're gonna have to retreat again," Mimicry said.

"Pretty pretty," Wacko said as he stared at the waking Princess Celestia.

"You aren't getting away this time, you've all done enough of that already," Super Stallion said when suddenly the changeling hive started to crack and crumble. All the fighting made it too unstable. Stone Wall quickly stopped a large piece of it from falling on the knocked out changelings. In the confusion Mad Alicorn made another portal and Super Stallion couldn't stop them as he had to help the others.

"One of these days I'm gonna be the one that forces you to run away with your tail between your legs," Mad Alicorn said as she and the other rogues got away yet again. After that the floor started to crumble and Stone Wall fell through. Super Stallion flew down to get him and Twilight and Starlight went down as well until they got to him.

"Leave me to die," Stone Wall said to the others.

"Stone Wall, what are you talking about?" Super Stallion asked.

"I don't deserve to go on after what I did just leave and let this place be my tomb."

"What kind of talk is that," Starlight said. "So what if you've done bad things you can still go down a better path if you really want to, trust me I know. Our mistakes don't define us, we can learn from them and try to be better ponies."

"Pretty nice speech kid it actually makes me want to help, but I can't move and besides you need to rescue the others."

"That's where you can redeem yourselves and help. All of us actually, I have an idea." Super Stallion flew up and carried Stone Wall while Twilight did the same with Starlight and when they got back to the others they all used their magic to teleport themselves and the others out of the hive half of which collapsed within itself. After they all got out safely Super Stallion set Stone Wall down and collapsed.

"I haven't been this exhausted since my all out fight with Discord."

"Stone Wall," Cadance said in a considering tone as she approached him while holding Flurry Heart with her foreleg. "Are you okay?"

"No Cadance I'm not, I betrayed the royal ponies along with their friends and everything I believe with it."

"It's all right Stone Wall you weren't yourself," Princess Celestia said as she rubbed the head of her former captain of the guard and the closest thing she had to a son. "But don't worry we're going to get you all the help we need just like what we did for Clover."

"But what are we gonna do with these changelings?" Shining Armor asked.

"Hey we didn't want to do what we did, that stallion forced us," one of the changelings said. "And believe me he is very persuasive." Shining Armor couldn't help but agree, remembering Stone Wall when he called the shots as captain.

"Well maybe you can come with us," Thorax said. "Or rather you stay here while I bring the changelings back here. I've rather missed the hive and it could use a good fixer upper right now something all changelings could do. So what do you say?" The other changelings got together and talked it over.

"Fine we'll do it but we're still not getting all lovey dovey," Pharynx said.

"In that case I might need a little help with teaching them to be good," Clover said.

"I guess I could help with that," Starlight said.

"You?" Twilight said surprised.

"I know it sounds strange but I want to help them reform the way you helped me. So I'm thinking maybe I could stay here for a bit but go back to the castle whenever it's time for another lesson."

"Actually Starlight, I don't think there's much left to teach you."

"What?" Starlight asked this time the one surprised. "Really?"

"Yes, despite how scared I could tell you were, you still did all you could to help and you even showed Stone Wall compassion after all he did or tried to do. I think you can teach the changelings a lot, so consider this your graduation."

"Wow, thank you Twilight. But before I help the changelings maybe we should help Stone Wall."

"I'm on it," Discord said as he teleported Stone Wall away but not the sphere.

"Discord, what did you do with him?" Celestia asked, shocked.

"Relax sun butt I teleported him to the medical ward of the prison he escaped from."

"You could have healed him," Super Stallion said, still on the ground.

"Yes but in his mental condition it might be best to make sure he doesn't get back on his hooves for a while." Discord then smashed the sphere with his hammer, leaving only several crystals that he gave to Twilight knowing she'd want to look at them. "One of those things is more than enough."

"Wait, what was that thing?" Shining Armor asked. "Was that what made Stone Wall even stronger than he already was?" The others were about to discuss that as well as a few other things Princess Celestia cleared her throat and got their attention.

"Well we have a lot to discuss and figure out but for now I have a very important announcement, well mostly for you Twilight."

***

Princess Celestia returned to her castle after telling every creature she was getting married. Princess Celestia asked Twilight to be in charge of it and she was all too happy to. In about a week Twilight organized the picture perfect wedding Squeaky's only nitpick was that Stone Wall wouldn't be there. He kind of wished he could be the best stallion but he was never really much for weddings anyway. So instead he asked Swift Sweep to fill the role of the best stallion who was more than happy to fill the role in a wedding that was a long time coming.

"Now you're finally a literal prince not just a metaphorical one."

"Good to know, now can we gobble up some giant chocolate cake?"

"You read my mind." Swift Sweep wasn't too far behind the royal couple and was so grateful that Squeaky allowed him to be the best stallion that the next day.

Squeaky got to return the favor.

"Sheesh who knew the royal pony sisters had a thing for janitors," one of the royal guards said to the other. Princess Luna told her sister after her wedding that she was going to have her's the next day so she put off her honeymoon to help her with the wedding. She asked Twilight if she could plan this wedding as well and she agreed. After that the royal pony sisters went on their honeymoons, leaving Twilight to oversee Equestria while they were gone.

"So Princess Twilight what's the first thing on your agenda?" Flash Sentry asked.

"Thought my friends and I would go to my castle real quick and get some supplies then maybe you could escort me to a nice little restaurant?"

"Oh it would be an honor princess."

***

"Well it's been a crazy couple days hasn't it?" Princess Celestia asked when she and Squeaky arrived at their honeymoon suite.

"Yeah but now we can forget about it and finally start living happily ever after."

"You know what Squeaky?"

"What?"

"That sounds just perfect to me."

Author's Note:

The splut joke was from Garfield and Friends.
I originally planned to kill off Stone Wall in this chapter after he redeemed himself. But I changed my mind, I still have plans for him.
With Celestia and Luna's wedding dresses I looked into different colors than white. Red represents love, infatuation, strong emotions, excitement, energy, strength, and passion while pink represents innocence, a child-like personality, freshness, purity, love, good health, and good life. I kind of figured those were the royal pony sisters to a t. (sort of)
The hearts and pink aura were to cover up some erased lines but they look great don't they?
Re-Edit-11/15/2023 15 more chapters and I'm all caught up. I put off working on this put I'm making up for lost time.