> Prince Marshall > by Mocha Jon > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a beautiful day in Equestria, the birds were chirping sweetly, courtesy of Fluttershy, no clouds were in the sky, courtesy of Rainbow Dash, fun games happening, courtesy of Pinkie Pie, nice treats, courtesy of Applejack, and beautiful outfits courtesy of Rarity (what else is new?). What else is new you ask? Well for one thing, Twilight has added a new member to her group silly, Starlight Glimmer! She was adapting to the idea of friendship fairly well, though the position as the 'seventh ranger' was not as appealing as it sounds. And let's not forget the other new member, as this is a fanfiction so rule of thumb means self insertion is a requirement. Mocha Jon struggled being part of the group as well. The two bond fairly well, often making sarcastic remarks to each other when they over hear dumb questions. However, the two often feel left out and less important than the Elements of Harmony, and everyone in Equestria lets them know it. The main group was meeting in Twilights castle discussing how their lives have changed ever sense forming their group. As one would expect, Rainbow Dash is boasting about her athletic performance performing and Fluttershy was talking about becoming more brave. They were interrupted when Spike ran in and announced that the royal coronation for the latest Alicorn Prince. "Wait, Alicorn Prince? Sense When did Celestia have another student?" Twilight asked, concerned and probably jealous. "Well the all powerful ruler of Equestria probably would have her teacher's license revoked if only one student graduated from her class." Starlight told Mocha Jon. "Oh my gosh! The party we had for Twilights was so amazing we can finally throw another royal party!" Pinkie Pie yelled out, blasting her party cannon. Twilight looked a bit hurt by this, "I know she had other students but Celestia usually tells me when they make breakthroughs, I thought she trusted me with that." "Well dearest, She probably wanted to keep panic down." Rarity began. "Yeah, imagine somepony ratting out that he's about to become a Prince and ruins his surprise and makes him stop tryin'" Applejack followed. Spike then coughed up six front row seat tickets for them and tells Twilight that she needs to give a speech on the balcony with Cadence. Mocha Jon and Starlight look at each other annoyed as Spike coughs up two more invitations, they were seated in the back row... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the train ride to the Canterlot Palace, some pony fell asleep in the back row, Rainbow Dash and Mocha Jon sneak over and yelled 'MONSTER!' into his ears and made him wake up and yell, Rainbow Dash became histarical. Starlight was looking out the window and seems strangely depressed, but not enough to make her friends concerned. Spike noticed her and came over to her row and wanted to know if she was alright. "Starlight, why so glum? We're on our way to one of the most important and tax deductible events in all of Equestria!" "It's nothing, it's just, do you ever feel like a third wheel?" She asks. Following we see Spike remember some photos of the mane six where he has to rush into or hides behind them all. "Not really, anymore at least." "Well you, Twilight and her friends have been so good to me and Jon but I feel like you guys have to go out of your ways to let us in." "Hey, ever sense I met you two... minus that one time... I probably would have been talking to you a lot more even if you didn't join our group, and I'm sure they all feel that way too." Spike tells her, she grins and hugs him lightly, making him blush. Twilight was reading her speech to Rarity (and a sleeping Applejack) and she was filling it with cliché metaphors and over the top phrases heard in every single speech made by unwilling middle school valedictorians. Rarity took away Twilight's two foot long stack of index cards and told her that a speech should be from her heart not from a card and tells her to wing her speech, following, Rainbow Dash files over and throws the cards out the window. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The group finally arrives at the Crystal Empire meeting Cadence and Shining Armor were waiting at the stop, Flurry Heart was strapped down... Twilight and Cadence ran to each other and did their signature 'Sunshine Shunshine, Lady bugs blink, clap your hooves and do a little shake!' routine, causing Starlight and Jon to look at each other annoyed. Shining Armor looks around and notices Flurry Heart begins to fly away and he with Rainbow Dash run and fly after her. "So have you met this new Prince yet?" Twilight asked Cadence. "Oh Marshall, we've met a few times while he was training, very charming hinny." She responds, Twilight looks a bit upset that Cadence knew him but she didn't. "A hinny became a prince?" Rarity asked in shock, imagining an unsettlingly ugly hinny wearing one of her gowns and not matching it at all, thinking he's too dirty for it... "Hey! Three of my cousins are hinnies!" Mocha Jon yelled out. "So what is this Marshall prince of? Strength? Order? Cleaning?" Twilight asked, clearly still jealous. Cadence looks over and can see Flurry Heart carrying Shining in the air and Shining freaking out due to being so high up... "Prince of Change, I'm not exactly sure what that means though, actually his train's about to arrive here any moment and you two can meet." She responds as Flurry Heart drops Shining who is screaming frantically and Rainbow Dash catches him. The next moment, a new train arrives and after everypony leaves the train, a strange pony flies out and lands in front of the group. As the dust clears, the pony is revealed to be the hinny prince, all the girls look at him and are all stunned by his attractiveness. He looks around and notices them all, "My my, I can see that some beautiful mares must be involved in my corination..." {voiced by Enrique Iglesias} He says, looking over at Rarity and Fluttershy, they blush in response. He then looks back over at Cadence, "Mi amor, it is a treasure to be in your presence once more..." She awkwardly blushed at that remark. Shining Armor and Rainbow Dash managed to bring Flurry Heart down and Cadence tries to pretend that didn't happen. Pinkie Pie excitedly blasts her party cannon to break the tension, "Best day ever! New Prince and new Friend!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back at the Canterlot palace, Prince Marshall begins showing everypony around and explains his past through all his awards and prizes. Mocha Jon seems to recognize him a little bit but cannot put his hoof on it. "You see here, this was when I realized I was meant to be a great leader..." He says as he points to a class ribbon, "I earned this when I managed to win my class election as president, I was working up hard against a strong filly who out up quite a fight, it surprised everypony when this hinny won!" He explained, with a rather smug look on his face. "Hey, this was dated long ago, how are you just our size if you're that old?" Spike asked, making Marshall look emberassed. "Us hinnys are known for being... short... I'm actually older than Cadence..." He admits as he blushes, "Anyway, I even got this picture of my glorious day!" He admits as he reveals the portrait, he was a pegasus back then, standing with his pegasus dad and donkey mother. Following, he presented his own recreation of the portrait, twice the size, in a manga representation... "I also even made my own copy, it took me a couple of minutes but it was worth it in the long run." He nonchalantly gloats as everypony admires greatly in complete shock and praise. "Wow man... you really... you really drew that thing..." Jon responds... he draws in a similar manner and has never drawn that well... Following, Marshall uncovers a vinyl record looking award from behind a curtain, "And this was from when I released my first album, 'Wings up high, Fly higher'..." "Wait a minute, are you... Hip Hop Hinny!?" Cadence asks in admiration, "I remember that album, I know it only had one hit song and your record label dropped you after but..." She continues, but it just makes Marshall blush awkwardly, nopony wants to be remembered as a one hit wonder. Jon squints in annoyance, he had always wanted to be a pop-rap star sense he was in grade school but even after learning a spell to auto tune his voice, he never even released a single! They all finally arrive in the dining hall, and the waiters all come out and pour coffee for everyone (and a special decaf for Flurry Heart... that Pinkie Pie sneaks to her...). "Please enjoy, I made this myself from my family's secret recipe, I made it special for such... beautiful creatures..." Marshall states, looking at Cadence specifically, making her blush as they all taste it. Everypony, especially Cadence, enjoys is splendidly... except for Jon... "Wow... this is... even better than mine..." He looked crushed, though he tries to hide it. His cutie mark is a coffee mug and coffee is very... very important to him... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Later that night, Twilight was in her room and was attempting to recreate her note cards... struggling greatly... she calls Rainbow Dash and Applejack Rainbow Lash and Applesmack... Spike had already fallen fast asleep, turns out his coffee wasn't very caffeinated... Suddenly as Twilight was about to get back on track, Marshall comes into her room. "Marshall hey, I was just getting ready for your big day tomorrow, I've worked really hard on your speech, I know you're gonna love it!" "Why thank you miss Twilight, but I wanted to speak to you about that... I was hoping you could try and keep your speech brief, not telling much of your stories, I'm sure Celestia knows enough about them." He responds nonchalantly. "Excuse me? What do you mean?" She asks, confused and a little annoyed. "You see, it's like this..." He begins, "I have worked my entire life to get to where I am today, I spent so long and it was hard." He began. "Well I went through them too, are you worried I'm gonna steal your thunder cause I'm not Rainbow Dash." "No, it's just I am the first Alicorn Prince hehe," he chuckles awkwardly, "Nopony who is a stallion has ever made this honor, your brother isn't even an alicorn and he's a prince." He follows. "Shining Armor? He's chairman of the royal guards, he's never shown interest in actually being royalty, has he?" She asks, becoming alarmed with Marshall's tone. "Did you? Last time I checked you were only Celestia's student in magic, and every time you saved Equestria, the chances were all random, but your brother risks his life every day and nopony has ever given him praise as a Prince," He now starts to become more sinister in tone. "And as the Prince of Change, I have lots of change for Equestria that will make it a much more 'fair' place for every pony, now just stand back and let a stallion take charge for once..." He says as he flies out... telekinetically taking her note cards with him. Twilight feels conflicted, partially angry at how mean he just was, and partially guilty, she thought Marshall dis have a point at least, but she didn't want to worry about it now, it was late and she had a busy day tomorrow... > Part 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joy is incipient with the ceremony of Marshall's coronation was about to commence. Twilight didn't really tell anypony about Marshall's comments last night, taking them to be stress about becoming a Prince. Everypony else seemed fairly content and happy about the occasion, Pinkie Pie was excited, Rainbow Dash was proud, Rarity was glossing over Marshall's beauty... So everything seemed normal. The group took their up close seats, and Applejack looked far back and tried to wave at Starlight Glimmer and Mocha Jon... of whom cannot see her waving... Jon managed to sneak his pet badger Toby in, which made the ponies behind him seem fairly uncomfortable (some of which were covering their noses). Jon was also carrying two large things of popcorn and six boxes of candy, Starlight wanted to take one of them assuming one was for her, but it turns out Jon got those all for himself! But they both were still upset that they couldn't get to sit up their with their friends. Celestia and Luna had finally arrived up on stage and were finally ready to introduce Marshall, of whom was taking in all the fame...! Celestia welcomed everypony to the ceremony and introduced Twilight to give her speech. Twilight was nervous about her speech, she lost her cards and she was worried about upstaging Marshall, what he said did take a bit of a toll on her, but she decided to carry on anyway: "Welcome everypony," She began as she looks around, her friends all waving around though she looks a bit nervous, but she hides it well, "It seems like just yesterday that I was up here receiving my honor the same way Marshall here has. But I want to just explain that if it wasn't for my friends, I never could have had this honor to be here where I am! So Spike, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity..." She begins as she looks a bit nervous, almost losing her place... She looked over at Marshall, who gave her a faint scowl implying that he wanted her to hurry up, "Well I just want to thank you for all you've done to get me here. Their friendship has gotten me to where I am able to pass on Equestria's magic to a new pony, Equestria's first alicorn Prince! Everypony, please welcome Prince Marshall!" Marshall flies up in joy and egotism, proud to finally be where he is. Twilight's friends look with immense joy; however, Starlight and Jon look at each other with feelings of abandonment... as Toby falls in one of the popcorn buckets. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back at the palace, Shining Armor was in one of the sitting rooms, Mocha Jon was walking down the hallway chasing Toby and he guided him right into that room. Jon bumped right into Shining, which Jon made a joke about to break any tension, "Sorry about that, just be happy my horn's too small to poke through skin!" Shining Armor got up quickly, as a militant he has lots of stamina, "Oh hey, you're Don right?" "Jon actually, Mocha Jon," He suddenly started panting in excitement, "Oh my gosh, I'm actually talking to Shining Armor! Equestria's biggest hero!" Shining Armor looked surprised, "Wait what? You know my name and you think I'm a hero?" "Of course! You're chairman of the royal guards! You risk your life every day, don't ponies tell you that?" Jon asks as he tries to get Toby out of a vase... "Well actually, most ponies don't even know I exsist, sense I'm married to Cadence everypony seems to prefer her... Speaking of which, where is she?" Shining responded, looking a bit flurished, as if he hasn't admitted that. By the door, Marshall can be seen passing by but over hears the conversation and waits behind the door eves dropping. "Oh she went shopping with the girls and Spike, so basically she went shopping with the girls. Toby wanted to go but they weren't going perfume shopping..." Jon responded as he got Toby out, Shining sniffed and knew what he meant... "What do you mean everypony prefers Cadence? Aren't you a Prince?" Shining looks embarrassed now, "Well honestly I don't even know. I mean I love Cadence with all my heart, but every time I try and make a friend I just can't tell them I'm married to Cadence because then they only want to be with her... By the way you really need to give that thing a bath." "I already did, but don't you inspire anypony at least? And I know how you feel, I love Twilight and her friends, they took me in and taught me all about friendship but it's hard being the new guy (especially when you're just a fan made character by a bad writer who will never have any of his stories published...), I mean she didn't even thank me in her speech." Jon responded as Toby climbed on to his back. Shining felt apathetic towards Jon admitting that, Shining felt really nervous admitting his envy to Cadence, "Hey, you know, I saw how you looked yesterday, you seemed pretty jealous of Marshall too." "Jealous? I'm not jealous of him, he's a great artist, he's had an album released, he's a Prince, and he makes better coffee than me, I'm not jealous, but I'm totally envious of him, there's a difference, come on, your sister's Twilight!" He responds, "Jealous would be me being worried he'd take my friends from me, you should be jealous of him, did you not see how he was putting the moves on your wife?" Shining sighed, "Oh yeah, I trust her, she's the Princess of Love so when other ponies show interest she has this innate instinct to follow along and not break his heart, but her heart belongs to me, but I don't mind her feeling like that is she's faithful, which I know she is," he grinned following. "You know what, the girls shouldn't be the only ones having fun tonight, come on, I'm taking you on a boy's night on the town!" Marshall flied away from the door that moment, "Seriously? Sweet! Race you to the front!" He said as they ran out... Mocha Jon became out of breath right after he passed the doorway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The girls were tired from all their shopping because Cadence and Twilight, as princesses, managed to get them quite a bit of discounts. As one would guess, Spike was the one carrying all the bags... which was not easy for him. They decided they needed to take a break and stopped at a café near by. They all got settled but Applejack batted her eye and noticed Big Macintosh was sitting at one of the tables alone in the corner. She got up and went over to see what he was doing. She snuck up behind him and yelled out, "Apples!" and he yelled and jumped out of his seat... "Big Macintosh, what in tarnation are ya doin' out here in Canterlot, ya didn't tell me ya had plans over here." Big Mac looked nervous, "Nope..." "What, ya got like some special business here or somethin'?" She asked inquisitively. "Nope." He responded, still nervously. "Are ya thinking of movin' out to the city and leaving the farm?" "Nope." "Are ya taking a job as a royal guard for Celestia?" "Nope." "Then what in tarnation are...?" She began to ask until a female pegasus came by saying Hi. "Hey Big Mac, sorry I'm late, there was this ceremony I had to go to and, hey, aren't you Applejack?" She stated, (voiced by Cree Summer) Applejack grinned and squinted her eyes, "Oh I get it now..." Big Mac looked nervous, "Big Mac why didn't y'all tell me ya had a girlfriend? She seems real nice and all." "Oh, thanks Applejack, Big Mac it's about time you introduced me to your sister, I was beginning to think that was never gonna happen!" "Eeyup..." He annoyedly responded. "Well I hate to be a third tractor wheel, I'll leave y'all be, nice to meet ya..." Applejack said as she started to walk off. "Oh it's Ginger Snap, but you can just call me Ginger, hey we should hang out some time!" She yelled as Applejack walked away. "Eeyup..." Big Mac said as he sighed and placed his head down. > Part 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Original song here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4JRfCZpvjwA] (I'm waking up on Sunset Boulevard
Maxing out all my credit cards
Living my own pony story
Living it up 'til the morning) The two are seen ordering dozens of ice cream orders... and Shining only takes one ice cream cone...
 (Shining!
I'm not trying to show you love and affection
I'm trying to live the life a kid always expected) The two are walking over and are about to see a movie.
(Over on Sunset, finished a couple sessions
One foot in the door, one in the hills, questions) They leave laughing maniacally and Shining even rolls on the floor.
(Angels in leather, I ain't talking 'bout the motor club
But I tend to go really hard when I go to clubs) The two are leaving a motorcycle dealership and ride out heading to a party.
(Let's take some time to see the lights With some nice mares who hang out every single day & night) Lyra Heartstrings winks in their direction, Jon blushes...
(Who cares what they all say
Try'na find some girls like what do you say?) Jon is seen walking to her and she hands him a paper with her number, Shining Armor hoof bumps him.
(Had you for a week but I heard you say fiance
Na na, none of that now)
 I fell in love, the streets got a glow
The city of angels is calling me home
And she said, and she said uh
The duo check into a hotel by the beach. I'm waking up on Sunset Boulevard
Maxing out all my credit cards
Living my own pony story
Living it up 'til the morning
We'll be rocking out like super stars
Living off of hotel minibars
Living our own pony story
Living it up, living it up
We living it up
Jon is ordering lots and lots of sodas and coffees from the mini bar, Shining was paying for everything as he's a prince! (Everybody's a model or a wannabe
If you're that bad it's Manehatten where you ought'a be) The two head out to the beach and another party is happening.
(She's an actress, working on the late shift
Only longs for a big break as a waitress) A pretty mare passes by them and blows the two a kiss.
(Walk the strip, see the fashion getting wacky now
Out the door, passing out) The two are heading to the stores and are buying a series of comedic costumes, Shining went as pirates, cowboys, vikings,Jon goes as vampires, werewolves, zombies... scaring one of the kids by on accident...
(Hit the floor, see the studio
Credit card at the game never closing out) The two are watching a race, Jon chuckles as Shining seems to have lost a bet!
(But the weather's so nice, nobody slowing down
Well except for the 101) Shining accidentally crashes the motorcycle he rented, Jon laughs at this... then he does the same!
(Gotta SUV stuck in traffic with a ton of buds
I can promise you tonight's gon' be a ton of fun
Know that c-c-c-c)
 ('Cause I fell in love, the streets got a glow
The city of angels is calling me home And she said, and she said uh)
The two are at a karaoke club singing a duet together. (I'm waking up on Sunset Boulevard
Maxing out all my credit cards
Living my own pony story
Living it up 'til the morning
We'll be rocking out like super stars
Living off of hotel minibars
Living our own pony story
Living it up, living it up
We living it up) Shining and Jon get the third prize trophie, behind a boy band and a girl group arguing who was better...
 (Upper Edge Cafe like Sugar Cube
She got a big party, every time I see the view
Shining Armor, everyday summer
Never on the sheets like you're on top of the cover) They return to the hotel and start a video game competition, of which Shining Armor creams Jon at.
(Every day when I'm away look I'm stone cold
Look at the cops, don't even care, you can just blow up
I'm Robin Hood on the beat
I get paid in Canterlot and give it back to the Princess) Jon gives back the bits money he won at the ball game earlier...
 (I fell in love, the streets got a glow
The city of angels is calling me home
And she said, and she said uh) The duo hit up a pool and both trip on the diving boards...
 (I'm waking up on Sunset Boulevard
Maxing out all my credit cards
Living my own pony story
Living it up 'til the morning
We'll be rocking out like super stars
Living off of hotel minibars
Living our own pony story
Living it up, living it up
We living it up!) A quick montage of them passing from laser tag, bowling, mini golf, and DDR, it getting more and more competitive. At last the duo finally decided to head back home and call it a night and brag to the girls! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back at the resturaunt, Twilight seemed worried about Marshall, not only because of what he told her, but because Celestia didn't even tell her about him, why was that? "Hey, does anypony else think Marshall's kind of...?" Twilight began to ask. "Dreamy...?" Rarity and Cadence said in unison, following Cadence looking embarrassed from that. "Well actually, more like, creepy? I mean last night he spoke and he went on about how Shining Armor isn't appreciated and how he wanted my speech to be short and took my cards and..." "Oh that explains it!" Starlight yelled out happily, making them all look over at her confused. "Huh... Anyway... He just gives me this weird feeling that's all." Twilight completed. The rest of the group just started laughing, "Twi, are you seriously jealous of Marshall? Come on Twi, just because he's a stallion doesn't mean he's evil." Spike said. "It's not that he's a stallion, it's that..." "Is this because he's a hinny? 'Cause I already had to have this conversation with Rarity." Applejack asked. "Will you guys listen, he gave me that rant and told me 'he plans to make a lot of change' and just walked off in a sinister tone, he didn't say anything else, and I'm still worried about Shining Armor too." "Twilight, I've met him and can tell you there's nothing wrong with Marshall, sure he's a little snarky and egotistical, but so is Rainbow Dash, nopony's perfect... even if they look perfect." Cadence responded, blushing a bit, but then remembering she's married to Shining Armor. Twilight just looked annoyed, "That's great advice everypony, I think I heard Queen Chrysalis say that... remember?" And suddenly they all looked awkward and started listening to her more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over at Big Mac's table, Ginger was looked right past Big Mac and trying to wave at Applejack, much to Big Mac's dismay. "It's about time you introduced me to ya sista, I've been waiting to meet her for years!" Ginger said. "Eeyup..." Mac sighed. "I mean we needed to mix it up, it was getting boring with us, wouldn't ya say?" She asked. "Nope?" He responded in confusion. "Hey, maybe ya could get her to come by my house tomorrow, ya know, some one on one time with her, could ya do that honey?" Big Mac started to get suspicious... "...Um... Uh... Umm, Nope." "Wait, whatchya say to me?" "Nope." "Wait hold up, are ya tellin' me ya ain't gonna get me close to Applejack?" She asked in a sassy tone. "Eeyup." He responded. "That's it, see ya... or not." She got up and was about to fly out... "Wait what?" He asked before she left. "Look I just wanted to get to know Applejack, the element of harmony, so I tried spending time with some big hick but clearly it was for notin'" She responded, "Lata!" "Nope!" He exclaimed, "Ya know what... I've got a lot to tell ya... First, we're done...!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Following, Shining Armor and Mocha Jon were walking down the street heading back for the palace. Shining Armor was trying to get Jon to try Twilight and Cadence's Sunshine routine. Shining said he has always wanted to try it but Cadence said it was always for mares only. Jon was reluctant but Shining managed to convince him to try it. Afterwards, they both looked horribly embarrassed... "Let's never speak of this again..." They said in unison. "Yeah, I think I'll stick with the classic Patty-Cake." Jon added, and suddenly without warning or given reason, Shining started clucking like a chicken, much to Jon's annoyance, "Okay pause... Really? I thought you were embarrassed too, why are you taunting me? Uh Shining?" Shining wasn't taunting, he kept acting like that and even started pecking at the floor, "Dude why are you acting like you're loco for cocoa?" Then Shining stopped whatever he was doing and looked back up, "Tell me about it, I can see why she said it was for mares only." Shining said, not remembering the sudden chicken outbreak. "But... didn't you... You know what, I don't even wanna know, let's go." They started walking again, but then they see Big Macintosh standing by a bus stop looking depressed. "Hey, aren't you Applejack's brother?" Shining asked. "No, he has that cutie mark as a tattoo." Jon sarcastically responded. "What are you doing over here in Canterlot and why are you so glum?" Shining asked again. "Wait, I recognize that face, you just left somepony special?" Jon asked. "Eeyup." "You really cared about this pony?" Shining asked. "Eeyup." "She didn't really like you?" Jon asked. "Nope." "Just using you to get to Applejack?" Shining added. "Eeyup." "Alright join the club, come on, you need a boys' night out." Shining and Jon said in unison. Suddenly a quick montage of the events Shining and Jon did were flashing with Big Mac put in, enjoying himself now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Later, everypony meets back at the castle at the exact time, Cadence was unaware that Shining had went out that night. "Shining Armor? What were you doing, who was watching Flurry Heart, also, who is this?" She asked "While you all went out tonight, I went out on a much needed guys' night out, and don't worry, Marshall was watching her." He responded. "This is Applejack's brother, he had an unusual night, we'll explain tomorrow." Jon added. Marshall came out and was exasperated by watching Flurry Heart, showing extreme distress... "Please... Never never again!!!" A flashback shows Flurry Heart flying all across the castle, ruining every single book on the shelves, and accidentally setting fire to a filled bathtub... Back to the meeting outside, everypony went inside for bed. "Miss Twilight, may I have a word." Marshall asked, to Twilight's concern. In Marshall's room, he seemed apologetic, "Listen, I wish to apologize for my horrible behavior last night, it was very out of line and I am truly sorry." "Oh... Well, I guess..." She began. "And I am also sorry for requesting to Celestia to not tell you about me, I asked her to keep my progress from you..." He awkwardly admitted. "But... but why?" "Because then you would have been my teacher, and my accomplishments would not have been mine as a student, they would have been yours as a Princess and a teacher." He responded, sounding casual. Twilight was hurt by that comment, "What's that supposed to mean?" "Simple, you're a mare, every pony expects greatness from you and expect you to pass your own wisdom down on a simple stallion like myself." He answered, pouring himself a drink. "What does me being a mare have to do with anything?" "Well, sense I was the first Alicorn Prince, every pony would assume I needed every Princess to achieve my goal, and I needed to prove that a stallion can be great on his own. Now Twilight, I am so glad to have gotten this off my chest, goodnight Princess, thank you for giving me your time I feel wonderful! Now if you excuse me, I must have a word with your brother!" He says as he excitedly flew out... even though it was his room. "What did he mean by that?" She was now more concerned than ever, but now she also felt slightly guilty. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marshall knocked on Shining's door and Shining let him in, he was expecting Jon to show him his manga comics but he was happy to see Marshall. "Oh hey dude, look I'm sorry Flurry Heart was a handle. we thought she was getting better and..." "Oh do not worry about that amigo, I actually wanted to ask you a favor..." Marshall asked. "Oh, um, alright I guess." "I've been practicing a new spell, would you like to see it...?" He asked, in a mildly sinister tone... "Oh sure thing, I love seeing new magic!" He nerdy-wise answered. Marshall's horn began to glow and he recited this exact spell... "Sin lanzar un ataque, el semental presentará..." At that moment, Shining Armor's excited face began to glow the same color as Marshall's horn and he closed his eyes. When he opened them his face was expressionless and his eyes turned from turquoise to bright cyan... At that moment Mocha Jon walked into the room showing his comics, but he saw what was happening to Shining, "Shining? Shining!? Shining Armor! Snap out of it!!!" Jon tried waving his hoof to make a snapping sound, "Man, I need something on my hooves that can make a snapping sound..." Marshall walked closer, much to Jon's shock, "Marshall? What's going on? Also, really? Shining's hypnotized again? Dude your memoir will not have a lot of chapters." "Sin lanzar un ataque, el semental presentará!" Marshall yelled out and suddenly the same thing that happened to Shining happened to Jon... I DO NOT OWN THAT SONG, IT WAS ADDED PURELY FOR PARODY PURPOSES ONLY, CREDIT GOES TO SAMMY ADAMS, HIS RECORD LABEL, THE PRODUCERS, AND WHOEVER OWNS THE SONG!!! > Part 4 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next morning, Cadence took the group out for breakfast, she wanted the boys to go along with them this time, but Marshall was desperate to make sure they stay at the castle alone. Nopony noticed Shining Armor or Mocha Jon enough to consider anything wrong with either of them. Twilight however was desperate to know what Marshall meant last night. She wanted to talk to him again but she was worried about what he would say. She didn't like any of the things Marshall has told her, they were all out of malice and were extremely uncalled for, but they were taking a tole on her. Was she chosen to be a Princess because she was a girl? Would Celestia love her as much if she was a stallion? It's a shame that she felt this way, because she's even worried about how everypony will feel about Flurry Heart being born into being a Princess and Marshall needing to work so hard. When they left, Marshall was alone with Shining Armor and Mocha Jon in the study, Big Macintosh was sulking in his room. "You two! I believe it's time we spoke to your friend... He could use some 'cheering up'" He said in a sinister tone with his deep latin accent and started to walk off. "Yes Master..." They said in unison, their eyes still glowing cyan, as they started following Marshall, to which he retorted with a smug grin. The stallions entered Big Mac's room and noticed Big Mac was looking at Ginger Snap's picture and was sobbing in a cartoonish fashion (he was sniffling and sucking his hoof like a thumb). He looked over and when he saw them enter, he stopped crying and began to blush in embarrassment. Marshall did chuckle a little but he still remained serious. The others followed obediently and didn't make a sound. "Hello there Big Macintosh, I shall skip the introduction because, you know, I'm a Prince and all, so I need no explanation," He smugly told the red stallion, "So word on the street is you had a special somepony, am I right?" "Eeyup." "And she broke your heart just so she could meet your sister, is this true?" He unsympathetically asked. Big Mac sighed, "Eeyup." "That's typical of mares, wouldn't you agree?" "Eeyup...? Wait... Nope? What?" "See, girls always want to use us, she didn't care about you, she only wanted to meet your famous sister, another girl, see us stallions must stick together to help stop this pain." "Eeyup?" Big Mac was confused, what was Marshall talking about? All mares are using him? For a second he looked over at the other two, Jon was just looking blankly forward, and Shining Armor looked like he had a headache as he blinked and put his hoof on his head. "And the worst one of all... The Princesses! All those girls never gave us a chance, with Cadence and Twilight becoming Alicorns but not Shining Armor, to all the elements of Harmony include the girls but not Spike!" Marshall yelled out more seriously and sternly, he seemed to have more plans. "Nope?" Big Mac never thought of the Princess as bad, girls or boys, the Princesses were deep in his heart and he was loyal to them deeply. "How do you feel about rejecting Celestia and joining my new kingdom...?" Marshall asked as he leaned down and revealed his horn. "NOPE!!!" Big Mac yelled out. He looked furious, he would never dream of leaving Celestia in a million years. Marshall may be a Prince but he has never saved him like Celestia has. Suddenly Marshall's horn began to glow... "Sin lanzar un ataque, el semental presentará..." And just like that Big Mac's eyes turned cyan and Shining Armor put his hoof down. "Eeyup!" He responded and Marshall chuckled with egotism afterwards. "Oy, I cannot have a good evil laugh with this attractive accent! All I can do is this chuckle." He complained. "Anyway, to test all of your loyalty, I want you to go out in the hall and the first thing that shows any Princess!" "Yes Master..." They all said in unison. "And stop that slow zombie like talking, it's creeping me out, just obey me and talk normal." He retorted, actually having a point, when ponies are hypnotized they can still act normal and not creepy. "Sorry Master." Shining Armor blushed, sounding normal though still hypnotized. "We thought it would be funny, I guess not." Jon responded, also sounding normal. "It's like watching that pink friend of Twilight, it gets old very fast." He answered. They all walked out and the first thing they was was a six foot high bust of Celestia and Luna. Without warning, they all just got angry looks in their eyes and all at once turned around to kick it. Shining Armor and Big Mac kicked again almost instantly, but Jon sat on the floor for a moment and was panting out in pain from that one kick he did... He looked really pathetic and was about to cry, he even rubbed his eyes with his neck-chief... He managed to shake it off when Celestia's head broke off the bust and he stomped on the horn breaking it off. "Man her horn's still bigger than mine!" He complained, his horn is incredibly tiny and he hates that... As the three destroyed the sculpture, Marshall walked over and congratulated them, "Very nice boys, it's great to finally see somepony stand up against those two." "Eeyup." Big Mac responded. "Now sense I have you all under my spell, I can tell you my plan without it backfiring like some stupid villain in a story," He sarcastically stated (then they all looked at the camera and winked), "Anyway, I want to start a rebellion, those mares have ruled over us stallions long enough! When I have every stallion in Equestria under my power, I will over throw them all, Equestria will change and become run by us men instead of those women!" They all nodded in response, "No offense Master, but between the three of us, only Shining Armor has enough magic to even make a blast, we aren't the best army." Jon snarked. "Well speaking of which, Shining Armor's wife is who I need, there's a reason I've been flirting with her so much, I knew Shining Armor would allow the Princess of Love to give me that, but I care not about her, I just need her magic, Shining Armor... I command you to end your marriage with Cadence! I shall take care of it from there." "Yes Master, I don't want to loose her, but if you command it, I must obey..."Shining Armor responded, he didn't want to do that at all. He may be hypnotized but he was still Shining Armor, but he was going to do it... "And you Jon, you're close friends with Twilight, the Princess of Friendship, if one of her friends tells off her and her friends and stops being her friend, then she will be too emotionally crushed to stop me and..." Marshall began to explain. "Say no more, that book worm and those girls who have nothing in common will hear everything bad they need, so don't get your ponytail in a bunch!" he snarked at him, he may be hypnotized too but he was still Jon and Jon is snarky, and to be honest Marshall likes the idea of having a sarcastic slave. "What about me Master?" Big Mac asked. "I need somepony to entertain me while they do that, Big Mac, roll over, sit, lie down." Marshall commanded. Big Mac obeyed these commands as if he was a dog, in a very cartoonish and comedic way. "Plus I need somepony to give that badger Jon has a bath... It does not smell clean." "He's a badger! Sue him!" Jon yelled, he never really thought the badge smelt bad because his nose is weak. The two hypnotized stallions walked out of the castle eager to ruin some lives. Marshall was levitating a red ball around the room with Big Macintosh and Jon's badger racing against each other to fetch it as Marshall chuckled to himself. > Part 5 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shining Armor and Jon were heading over to another restaurant, Canterlot has more than Manhat... I mean Manehatten. Jon was seen rubbing his eyes frantically and in discomfort. He and Shining Armor's eyes did look their normal colors though. "Man these contacts itch like crasy! I had that laser eye surgery for a reason, why are we wearing these again?" Jon asked, still rubbing his eyes, and accidentally moved a contact so half his eye was cyan and half was his 'natural' hazel. "During my wedding Twi was the first person to notice my green eyes, it's just to keep us from getting caught." Shining Armor responded, also lightly rubbing his eye and fixing Jon's lense. At the café, the girls were starting to complain, "Why exactly do we keep going out for food anyway?" Fluttershy asked. "Well the private chef stayed in the Crystal Empire... and when I cook usually the things become burnt on the outside and stay frozen on the inside..." Cadence responded, blushing in embarrassment. Pinkie Pie was seen pouring the entire contents of the sugar pourer into one small cup of tea then giving the drink to Flurry Heart, Cadence took it away instantly and splashed it onto Pinkie, to which she licked it up happily. Twilight was looking off into space blankly, lost in thought. When Fluttershy asked what was wrong, Twilight responded, "It's just, I feel like Marshall is up to something and I'm not sure what." "Hold the phone! What's wrong? Cause I swear if you think he's evil I will fly right up to him and...!" Rainbow Dash yelled out and everypony, including some from other tables looked over and she just fell down in embarrassment. Their opinions have changed slightly and are more willing to accept Twilight's premonitions after she reminded them of Chrysalis. "No, it's not that, I actually really want to see what he's got planned." They all looked confused at that. "Wait, I thought you said he seemed iffy?" Spike asked. "Well yeah, but he's just a little smug and proud really, and Rainbow Dash really taught me how to handle that," They all laughed at that, "Anyway, he told me that Cadence and I were turned into Princesses too easily, I mean we save Equestria a few times and Shining Armor did it on a daily basis and even he doesn't have wings." It turns out Marshall's words were starting to take a toll on Twilight for ways she didn't expect, she actually felt guilty for this, "Because we're mares we had it easier, I mean has Shining Armor ever felt, I don't know, left out about any of this?" Cadence didn't seem worried or upset, "Honestly Shining Armor never once seemed to want to be a Prince, he's..." She began to respond. "Why would somepony not want to be a Prince?" Rarity interjecte, to which Cadence ignored. "He's always been happy respecting snd upholding the law but never really wanted to become the law, did he tell Marshall that?" She continued. "I don't know, but maybe we're about to find out..." She said as she pointed over and exposed Shining Armor and Mocha Jon heading in their direction, looking angry. "Hi honey, I didn't know you were heading over!" Cadence seemed excited to see her husband after all her girl time. Shining Armor nodded his head to the left and guided her in that direction to which she confusedly followed. The group seemed confused to their angry expressions, Jon didn't even touch the uneaten ice cream sundae in front of him, "Hey if it isn't miss prissy princess, diamond coated make up bag, miss psycho balloons, ego storm, cry baby, redneck red apple, and girl who almost destroyed Eauestria." Jon said, referring to Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Starlight respectively. They seemed confused but not offended. Over at Shining Armor and Cadence, Cadence was breaking into tears, "W-what? What do you mean you're leaving me!?" She asked heartbroken. "It means I'm raking the yard to make a picture of you out of leaves, what do you think I mean?" Shining Armor responded sarcastically, "Our love is done, I'm tired of putting my life at risk all the time and having everypony always think you're their hero! I can't take it anymore!" "But Shining... I..." "I don't want to hear it, you can keep Flurry Heart too! An alicorn is clearly more important than a simple unicorn like me! Don't even show her pictures of us when she grows up!" He takes out a picture of the two and rips it in half, splitting the two up. Cadence was crying and heartbroken. Shining Armor has never done anything like this and has never yelled at her before. In a desperate attempt to talk some sense into him, she fired a magic heart from her horn and tried to send it to Shining Armor, but he turned around and used his horn to put a force field around the heart that shrunk so much that the heart burst... "Goodbye Cadence..." Shining Armor angrily said as he walked off. Meanwhile, Mocha Jon was still yelling at the group, everypony looked shocked except for Pinkie Pie who just looked angry. "Hey! You can't say things like that to us! You're nothing but a character written by some inexperienced writer! You can't do that and expect us to forgive you or have readers give nice comments!" Pinkie yelled out. Jon ignored that and directed his attention toward Twilight, "And you! The worst of the bunch! It's bad enough you took pity on the lonely barista but you had to make him your third wheel! I'm not your friend, I'm just some lesson in friendship so you can impress Celestia! You didn't even bother to mention thank me in your speech!" "Um actually that was just cause..." Starlight tried to awkwardly add in. "Well guess what! You're not the Princess of Friendship because you just lost me as a friend!" He yelled out and followed Shining Armor back to the palace. Twilight and her friends certainly were shocked and surprised by this action, but none of them (except Pinkie) seemed to be truly hurt, in fact, they assumed something was wrong with him. "Ya know, somethin's wrong with that boy, he yelled all that stuff but he didn't eat any of that ice cream there!" Applejack mentioned and everyone then freaked out at her mentioning Jon didn't eat the ice cream more than his yelling. Cadence was crying strong tears and just took Flurry Heart and flew off. Back at the palace, Marshall was pretending to throw a frisbee for Big Macintosh to chase, but really just put it behind his back, but Big Mac still tried to run after it. Needless to say he was laughing at that like there was no tomorrow. Shining Armor and Mocha Jon reentered the room then and Jon was relieved to finally get to take those itchy contacts out, revealing the hypnotized cyan eyes again, Shining Armor did the same thing and Big Mac stopped trying to find the frisbee. "So did you two ruin your relationships with the mares like I asked?" Marshall asked them. "No Master, we went out and wore those uncomfortable contacts because we were going to the roller derby." Jon responded sarcastically. "Yes Master we did, Cadence was crying her eyes out begging me to take her back!" He said gloatingly initially but after he finished he ended with a saddened sigh, he still wanted to be with her despite the hypnosis. "Very good, now I can start phase two of my plan! You're sure she didn't use her love spell to make you stay?" He responded. "Nope." Shining answered. "Nope? What in tarnation does that mean?" Big Macintosh asked in confusion. "Wait what?" Stated a confused Mocha Jon, following Marshall whispered to him and Shining. "He kept going 'Eeyup eeyup eeyup, nope nope nope...' over and over again, it was getting annoying so I temporarily erased those words from his memory, he'll remember them in about two hours, don't worry." "So what did you and Big Mac do anyway? I mean did he yell at that ex girlfriend of his?" asked Shining. "Oh no, we just had fun, played some games, ate some apples, even did some Patty-cake and..." Marshall began until Shining started making bawking chicken sounds and began pecking at the ground... "Bawk, bawk bawk bawk..." "Uh... Is he alright?" Big Mac asked. "I said it before and I'll say it again, dude you're loco like cocoa!" Jon retorted and suddenly Shining Armor stopped that chicken act again and went back to normal, or at least his hypnotized by Marshall state. "Loco indeed... I don't even want to know..." Marshall added in confusion. "Now... If ya'll don't mind my askin' Master, why exactly did you need them to do that?" Big Mac asked Marshall, not remembering what he just said. "All in good time my servant, I'll explain later... Now I have a date with the Princess of Amor..." He concluded as he walked out of the room and went to find Cadence... In the chapel room of the palace the wedding was held, Cadence was sitting in one of the pews and was still sobbing to herself thinking of Shining Armor. Suddenly the doors opened and Marshall entered the room looking sympathatic. "Señora Cadence...? What plagues your heart? Are you okay?" Cadence turned around and the first thing she did when she heard his voice was rush right to him and gave him a strong hug which surprised him, he thought she would just say Hi. "Marshall, Shining left me! He came right up to me later and broke my heart in front of everypony! I thought we were soul mates but I meant nothing to him!" She resumed crying into him again, finding comfort in his presence. "Mi Amor, that 'burro' does not deserve a beautiful creature like you. Your tender heart makes you worth much more than any Crystal Heart. Usted merece suficiente amor para hacer que su corazón el nuevo corazón de cristal." Marshall told Cadence, he wanted her to trust him and find him as a source of safety and love... "Marshall, I know I don't understand your language but it was still beautiful...! Look," She sighed, "I need to tell you something..." [original song here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=koJlIGDImiU] {Cadence} Would you dance if I asked you to dance?
Would you run and never look back?
Would you cry if you saw me crying?
Would you save my soul tonight?
Would you tremble if I touched your wings?
Would you laugh? Oh, please tell me this.
Now would you cry for the one you love?
Hold me in your arms, tonight.
 {Marshall} I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will fly by you forever.
You can take my breath away. 
{Cadence} Would you swear that you'll always be mine?
Would you lie? Would you run and hide?
Am I in too deep? Have I lost my mind?
I don't care. You're here tonight.
 {Marshall} I can be your hero, baby.
I can take away the pain.
I will fly by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
 {Both} Oh, I just want to hold you.
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah.
Am I in too deep? Have I lost my mind? (That line was sung by Shining Armor in the other room with him holding his forehead in confusion)
Well, I don't care. You're here tonight.
 {Marshall} I can be your hero, baby.
I can take away the pain, oh, yeah.
I will fly by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
I can be your hero.
I can take away the pain.
And I will fly by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
You can take my breath away.
I can be your hero... After the song, Cadence once again hugged Marshall in an attempt to find comfort in him, but while they hug, Marshall gets a sinister grin in his face that she doesn't see that implies he is up to something... "Marshall, thank you for all of this, I don't know what to say..." "Mi Amor I just have one thing to say..." Marshall adjusted his head to where their two horns touched, her eyes still closed from tears, "Sin lanzar un ataque... El semental presentará..." Marshall said as his horn was lighting up, and due to touching Cadence's horn, hers was glowing too. Cadence didn't understand Marshall's language and was oblivious to the fact that he just amplified his stallion mind control spell massively...! > Part 6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suddenly everypony who was a male suddenly started getting the same cyan eyes that signal the spell. Everypony began acting differently than they normally do. For example: Mrs. Cake was looking very stressed out and was baking a dozen wedding-looking cakes topped with another dozen cupcakes each. Clearly she needed some help. "Honey, can you give me a hand here? I'm worried if I stack anymore cakes they'll all collapse on themselves." Mr. Cake wasn't willing to help, he pretended to be concerned and headed over to the counter by her then he looked at her with his cyan eyes and dropped some news on her instead... "Yeah, that's not gonna happen, it's the woman's job to do all the cooking and cleaning..." He then swiped the full tip jar from the counter, "And it's the man's job to earn all the money, later!" He said as he just galloped out, leaving Mrs. Cake looking befuddled. The camera then zooms over to the baby twins, the boy's were also cyan and he splashed his sister with his bottle then swiped her bottle and drank it for himself! Next, the scene changes to the Wonderbolts. The team was ready to start practice for their next challenge and were all on a time schedule and making record time. However it was on an all or nothing win or loose basis, and right before Soarin was about to cross the finish line but right before he finished the race, he just stopped as his eyes also turned cyan and just ate up the clock. "Soarin!? What on earth are you doing?" One of the bolts yelled out. "Ordering pizza, what's it look like?" He sarcastically responded as he started to slowly (and I mean slowly) fly off in the opposite direction. "Hey! Get back here! You have seven seconds! Six! Five...! Four! Three...! Two... One...?" The clock just ran out and the team looked enraged at Soarin, who just looked back and started blowing them raspberries as he started flying faster away. He also removed his helmet and tossed it back, hitting the girl in the head. Next up, the scene changes to Diamond Tiara and her father. He was about to give her a cute new puppy as a reward for her getting straight As on her report card and for keeping herself from insulting the CMC for over a month. She was super excited and eager but right before he handed her the puppy... you probably can guess, he just took it right away! "Sorry dear, you have too much as it is, in fact, from now on, every time I think of getting a girl like you a present I'll just donate it to charity! Now go to your room! You're grounded!" He yelled out and just walked out of the room leaving Diamond Tiara confused. "Okay just for that I'm gonna sell all your golden trophies!" She uses her horn to try and move one but it just falls and breaks her 'cutest filly ever' award in half. "Aw man!" Next, the scene changes to the massage parlor, the woman seemed relaxed and was about to take Lyra Heartstrings into the massage room but they both just got ran over by Bulk Biceps who just ran out of the building yelling "I QUIT!" knocking the two mares to the ground. Lastly, Matilda and Cranky were wanting to head out to go to the beach, and as you probably guessed, it won't to as planned... "Honey, are you ready to go, my parents don't like to wait up." She said wearing her swim suit. Cranky was just lying on the couch eating popcorn, not dressed, "I ain't going anywhere with ya, I don't feel like it." He then tossed the popcorn at her... "Yeah yeah... what else is new?" She said rubbing the popcorn out of her mane and rolling her eyes. After that montage of hypnotized stallions, the scene returns to Cadence and Marshall in the wedding room. "I remember this room, we were going to get married, but then he got possessed and I got captured right underground of this very room, then when we defeated those changelings we finally had our special day and now it's as if I was still in that catacomb now without Shining!" Cadence cried out, still very depressed about Shining Armor leaving her. "This bouquet looks just like the ones at our wedding..." She said guiding them to Marshall. Marshall's eyes began to tear up and he started sniffling when he got the flowers... "Oh my... I didn't want to make you cry..." "It's not that Amor, it's just..." He begins very nervously then he suddenly starts sneezing uncontrollably... "I'm highly allergic to flowers..." He kept sneezing until he swatted the flowers away. "Anyway, ignoring that embarrassing moment, you said you were trapped here? That sounds terrible." He still kept sneezing a bit, looking much less attractive for the moment but he managed to pull himself together, "Cadenza, may I be so pardoned to tell you something..." "W-what is it...?" She 'nervousitedly' asked. Marshall walked up close to her and looked like he was about to say something romantic... but when he got close enough he got an evil grin on his face and blasted the floor surrounding Cadence causing her to sink! "I hope for your sake you remember how that crystal room is arranged!" Cadence was shocked! She was too distracted by confusion, anger, and self-pity to teleport out, "But I thought you cared about me!? What are you doing!?" Marshall just laughed, "You think I actually cared about a worthless Mare like you? How pathetic, adios Princess..." He began to walk off, leaving Cadence worried. But before she fully sank under, he walked back for a brief moment with his horn glowing and aimed right at her... Following, Marshall was walking right out and noticed that his spell had worked, there were stallions everywhere telling off mares and some were even humiliating the mares in ways like pranks and trippings. Marshall was happy to see all these through the windows, but he wasn't looking and ran right into another bouquet of flowers and started sneezing again... He then set the flowers on fire... He then walked out of the building and flew to the sky... "Stallions of Equestria! You are now all under my power! You are now able to see how you all have been mistreated and under appriciated!" He yelled out, every male pony being able to hear him due to the spell, "Mares have ruled Equestria for too long! From now on, it is time for us stallions to stand up and make a change!" He continued, "I have been referred too as Marshall, the Prince of Change, even some ponies have referred to me as 'Master' but from now on I reject then all!" He uses his horn to remove the band holding his ponytail in his mane, at which his mane begins to flow on its own while glittering... just like Celestia's... (though nowhere near as long as hers...) "From now on, you all shall accept me as Equestria's one true King!" All the stallions were cheering and bowing down at their new King and obediently followed him as he flew in a new direction... All the stallions were heading across Equestria and gathering more and more of the hypnotized stallions to join their mob and rebel against the mares... Mocha Jon and Shining Armor however were not following the mob however, they were still in the palace (however Big Macintosh was nowhere to be found). The two were playing ping-pong while waiting for Marshall to return (and not only was Jon loosing terribly, he kept getting hit in the face by the ball...) "Very funny! We can't all be athletes!" He said as he threw his paddle down in anger with his horn... and due to his horn being so small it bounced back and hit him in the face... "Ow... I hate this stupid tiny horn!" Shining chuckled at that, "Well anyway, I... I... Uh..." Shining began and suddenly he put his hoof on his forehead and when he opened his eyes again, they were normal turquoise. Suddenly he snapped out of his trance and was back to his normal self again. "Uh, so what do you think Marshall wants us to do now?" Shining asked. "He just said wait, he wanted to tell me his plan but I was like 'Exnay Hinay' just in case either of us snapped back to normal." He responded, not noticing Shining's eyes, (he isn't observant enough to notice the difference between turquoise and cyan). Shining chuckled at that comment and pretended to agree, "Hehe, yeah, well, I gotta go to the bathroom... I'll be back in a minute..." He nervously said as he walked out of the room. "Gee thanks for sharing, I really wanted to know that..." He sarcastically responds, not really paying attention to him. He was busy trying to practice ping-pong again with his badger... Needless to say the badger was beating him and he was still getting hit with the ball... Once Shining Armor got out in the hall, he quickly ran off panicing, "Oh gosh, I need to find Twilight...!" > Part 7 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The girls and Spike (carrying one of Rarity's pink shopping bags) were walking across the streets or Canterlot seemingly ready to head back home. They were wondering where those insults Mocha Jon gave them came from and were wondering where Cadence went too. The girls were passing by some stallions (with the cyan eyes) who gave them a 'huff' look and turned their heads in disdain. "Uh, what was that about?" Starlight asked, to which one of the stallions turned back around. "Well first of all, you're a group of mares, second of all I don't think that dragon is enough of an escort for all of you!" He said and walked back off. "Now that was mighty rude, I know Canterlot's a city but gosh darnit that was just uncalled for." Applejack added. "Escort? What's he mean by that? Heck usually I'm not allowed to go out unless Twi's out too." Spike asked, not hypnotized like the other guys. "Okay something's not right abound here... Ouch!" Twilight began to ponder before Shining Armor came rushing and ran right into her, knocking her down. "Twilight! Oops... Sorry sis... Come on I need your help!" He was yelling, leaving them all confused, and two more stallions walk by. "Oh please, what stallion needs help from some stupid girl?" They asked, laughing as they walked off. "Well anyway, you've got a lot of nerve after what you did! I over heard you yelling at Cadence!" Rarity scolded him. "Cadence? Oh gosh! Where is she?" "We don't know, after breakfast she just flew off and didn't even bring Flurry Heart..." Fluttershy answered, as Flurry Heart was pulling hard on her mane. "What...? Look, follow me, we need to get out of here, I'll explain on the way!" He said pantingly and desperately guiding them over, to which they confusedly followed. A while later as the sun started to set, Shining Armor seemed to have explained what had happened to him... "So you say you were possessed by Marshall's magic and he used you to dump Cadence? How sad is it that none of that surprises me...?" Twilight noted as she placed her hoof on her forehead in annoyance. "Wait, we've been seeing guys act weird all day? Plus, those guys over there have a banner with Marshall's face painted on it..." Rainbow Dash noticed pointing to two unicorns marching off after hanging a banner of Marshall over a building. "Wait, these guys have been talking down to us all day cause we're girls! Marshall was telling me the same thing! Hey...!" Twilight yelled out, with a male pegasus dropping a water balloon on her." "I hate girls!" He yelled to her as he flew off... "Also, you just left Jon there? Why didn't you try to set him free too?" Starlight asked, splashing some of the backsplash off her mane. "Have you seen the way those two argue...?" Shining began. The scene changes to a flashback to Shining Armor drinking tea with Big Mad and Marshall. Jon was walking over carrying one of his cups of coffee. Without provocation, Jon literally just splashed the coffee in Marshall's face to get his attention... "Hey Your Royal Hinnyness, I really doubt Twilight's gonna take you enslaving her friends lying down! What exactly are you gonna do when she walks in and sees our eyes turned blue?" He sarcastically asked. "Okay, first of all, you're lucky this was white chocolate as that's my flavor, second, I have planned that out, she won't even see us considering how desperate she would be to avoid Cadence's cooking she'll be out a lot, and lastly..." He said as he used his horn to remove all the liquid from his body and splashed it right back on Jon's face... "Oh real mature! If that's how you want to execute your plan you're gonna have a lot more failures than I did in gym class!" Jon responded. "Hey! I don't pay or control you to mouth off to me!" "You hardly pay or control me at all!" The two started yelling at each other and their dialogue became incomprehensible to the audience and Shining Armor and Big Mac just looked over at each other and walked away slowly... Back to the present, "Believe me, Marshall is gonna loose more if Jon stays with him longer, we can get him back later." Shining Armor concluded, and they all nodded in agreement. Spike looked confused and a little angry, "Hey! I'm a guy, how come I'm not acting weird?" He asked. He was also digging through the pink bag and pulling out a nail file. They all looked right at Spike with an expression that just says 'Really?' and Spike got the message, "Okay stupid question." He said as he started filing his claws. More stallions could be seen in the background looking as if they were forming a mob. "Well anyway, we need to find Cadence! Actually, I think we could get Discord to help with this, he does know about spells like this." Fluttershy stated. Suddenly Discord popped up out of nowhere right behind her, cyan eyes and holding a torch. "Sorry dear, I'm part stallion so I'm part of the mob! Ta Ta!" He said as he just teleported away out of nowhere. "Come on! Let's find Cadence!" Shining Armor yelled as he ran off with them following. The scene changes to Marshall leading the stallion army to what looks like Celestia and Luna's castle. All the guards were standing in attention, all their eyes were turned cyan due to Marshall's hypnosis spell. They saluted him and instantly let him in the palace, his mob waiting outside. In the throne room, Celestia and Luna were sitting casually when they heard a strange noise outside, Luna looked out the window and noticed the mob of stallions. "What is the meaning of this? What do they want?" Luna asked, and before she could get an answer, Marshall flew in. "Prince Marshall? What's going on? Did you see the crowd outside?" Asked Celestia. "Prince, that's funny Princess, but I no longer accept that title, from now on I am Equestria's King!" He exclaimed, to which the crowd yelled out things such as 'Praise the Hinny King!', 'Stallions take charge!', 'Defeat the evil mares!' etc. "You see Celestia, all the stallions in Equestria answer to me now..." "Guards!" Luna yelled out, and only Flash Century came in, wanna guess how his eyes look? "Hey, what's up?" He casually asked. "Flash Century, watch over this man while I message Twilight and..." Celestia began until Marshall interrupted her. "Actually, instead of that, wait in the hall and pretend to be Salsa dancing." He ordered in a humorous voice. "Yes sir, Hinny King!" He saluted and went out, he could be seen doing very awkward dance moves when he passes by the door... (he did trip a few times...) "You see Celestia, thanks to a special spell I managed to create, and thanks to some two Alicorn magic curtesy of a mislead Cadence, I have managed to put every stallion under my spell, and we are taking Equestria for ourselves!" He gloated, Celestia lookig angry. "You betray my trust, abuse your power, abuse Cadence! You have lost my sympathy!" She yelled out in rage as her horn started glowing and pointing towards the hinny. "Oh, nuh uh un! I wouldn't do that, see I figured you would try to bring me down, so any pain I feel, all my servants feel the same pain, and the 'Princess' wouldn't want to hurt her innocent subjects now would she?" He gloated more. "You're bluffing!" Luna yelled out. "Watch and learn!" He said as he took his hoof up and just slapped him self across the face three times, he clearly hurt himself as he was yelling in pain. There was a loud rumble outside and everypony suddenly started yelling 'OUCH!!!' and could be seen rubbing their cheeks in discomfort, including Flash Century who was still fake Salsa dancing outside and accidentally tossed his rose towards Marshall... who started sneezing a bit, "Okay, anyway, you have already lost Celestia..." He said as suddenly his own horn started glowing brightly and aimed right at Celestia! Luna noticed her sister was in danger and right when Marshall blasted right at Celestia, Luna ran right in front of the blast herself as a sacrafice. She yelled out in fear and Celestia looked down in shock. Suddenly Luna managed to struggle to stand up again, and her mane was no longer flowing like it normally does, it was still like it was after Nightmare Moon was defeated... Also, both her horn and her wings were missing too! "Wha... What happened?" Luna asked, looking disoriented, she looked over in a mirror to the side and yelled in fear. Marshall walked over to her, "Oh no, it's a true shame, honestly out of all the Princess, you were probably the only the only one who I actually liked a little Luna, you could have been my Queen, of course sense you're a girl you'd just be a trophy wife, but your Alicorn power will do I suppose...!" Marshall continue to gloat. Celestia looked down at her sister and had a tear in her eye; Marshall walked over to her too, "Oh don't feel bad for her Princess... You're about to meet the same fate...!" He said as he simply loaded his horn up and blasted at Celestia, who was too distracted with that happened to her sister to defend herself... She fell down and her flowing mane was now bland and her horn and wings were also gone... Marshall flew out the window, tripping over some wires and falling off the balcony in a slapstick fashion... but managed to get up and fly into the sky. "Equestria! I have the power of three Princesses and am now strong enough to control it all!" He yelled out and flew up in the sky, taking in all the new power and the praise from the hypnotized stallions. The scene then transitions to Cadence in the crystal catacomb underground again. She looked confused and worried for a moment but managed to shake that off fairly well. The camera was only showing her face and views from her perspective and not her full body. "What the...? He must be joking? I've been here before, I can just poof out and...!" She said as she closed her eyes and tried to teleport out, only to open her eyes and find out she was still there. "Wait? Why am I still here?" She asked. She walked over to a crystal wall and saw her reflection. She yelled loud in panic as she noticed her horn and wings were missing! "What did he do? What am I gonna do?" She asked, now looking more worried. She looked around and saw the lath that lead to the exit last time, "Looks like it's time for a trip down memory lane I guess..." She uttered as she went towards the hole. Upon reaching it, she was greeted by no other than Big Macintosh who was blocking the path... "Nope!" Cadence tried to think fast sense she couldn't just fly past him, and she saw another flower bouquet by her. She picked it up and tried to toss it like last time, but Big Mac just caught it easily, then he bit off the flowers, spit them out, and comedically threw the stems back at Cadence... "Nope!" > Part 8 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the castle, Marshall and Mocha Jon were setting up for the redecoration, getting rid of all the girly flowers and replacing them with more masculine decorations such as wrestling posters and filling the book shelves with horror novels instead of spell books. Celestia and Luna have been stored away in the dungeons in separate rooms to avoid talk of a conspiracy and or revenge. Mocha Jon was also moving into the castle as well, Marshall was making him his full time right hand man. Upon entering one of the rooms set aside for Jon, Marshall was shocked and disturbed to see the entire room was filled with stuffed animals. "Really? You told me you only had a couple!" He yelled out in surprise. "Yeah, I had to give most of them away to Big Macintosh before I moved in here," Jon responded. Marshall was looking around at all the plushies, Jon had a surprisingly large variety, he noticed a cowboy ferret, a viking goat, a gangsta squirrel, the list goes on. "Alright if you're gonna be my right hoof man you're gonna need to learn to let these things go at some point if you ever want to be successful." "Last time I checked Celestia and Cadence both had a pretty youthful streak and it got them at very good... oh wait... okay I see your point... but I ain't loosing these guys." Jon responded, cuddling a skunk plushie dressed like a knight with his pet badger playing with him. Marshall walked over and noticed something that instantly caught his attention, a brown bunny rabbit plushie dressed like a pirate. Without warning, Marshall picked that doll up and ripped its head off and tore off all the limbs of the plushie in a pretty angry manner, causing Mocha Jon to rush over in panic. "Hey! Captain Fluffytail was two moons away from retirement! What up with the attack?" He angrily asked, his mild bronx accent becoming a bit more pronounced. Marshall got a hold of himself and sighed in response, "Ugh i apologize... my hermana had one just like it..." "Who?" "My sister Teresa... She brought this doll everywhere and I don't like thinking about her!" He said in a little bit of anger. "Okay pause! This sounds interesting, tell me everything that evil mare did to you! I wanna know more about some evil mares!" Jon was eager to hear more about how bad a girl could be, courtesy of Marshall's hypnosis spell. "Okay I clearly need to tone down your mare hatred half and tone up your good slave half of the spell later. Anyway, it all started like this...:" The scene shifted to a flashback of Marshall as a colt, he had his wings but no horn. He was walking in and was eager to show his parents (Pegasus father and donkey mother) his report card to where he had received all A-'s. "Mama, Papa, my first straight A's in school! I finally learned how to fly through that hoop and..." He began until his sister, also a winged hinny, interrupted him by rushing right before him, revealing straight A+'s. "Mama, my teacher says I was the best in the class and that maybe soon I could be able to join the racing team in just a few moons!" She yelled out in a high Latin accent similar to Marshall's. Their parents got off the couch and went over to congratulate Teresa on this accomplishment. "Wow honey! That's great news! You know, Marshall's been having trouble with his flying, maybe you could give him a hand sometime?" Their father mentioned without any accent in his voice, making Marshall look a bit upset and try to show his report card again, but before he could, he got cut off by the mother. "Felicitaciones Teresa! I knew you would do so well so I called some of your friends and am taking you all out tonight to celebrate, it will be a fun fiesta for such a talented mare!" The donkey mother said, being the one who has the Spanish accent. "Marshall, go fetch your hermana's favorite toy before we take her out." Marshall walked off grumbling faintly and crumbled up his paper, thinking it would be a lost cause now... In a narrative background, Marshall stated, "She was always the favorite of everypony, of our parents, of our teachers, of friends! Our time in boarding school was the worst..." Flashing forward, we can see Marshall was sitting alone at a lunch table looking angrily at Teresa who was sitting at the popular girls' table. "So do you have any sisters?" One of the unicorn mares asked Teresa. "Well I do have one brother, but trust me I would much rather have a sister, Marshall is gross, silly, half the time he smells like a bunch of deodorant and the other half like he needs deodorant, and don't get me started on how clumsy he is!" She stated with all the girls laughing out loud afterwards. Marshall over heard that comment and noticed all the girls including his sister laughing at him and he legitimately looked depressed. He even picked a flower from the bush he was sitting by to pull stems off of until he started sneezing really loudly from it, making all the popular mares turn around and see him look all nazily and stuffed up, making them all say 'Ew" and then laugh at him more. In further narration, "Those mares always hated me, I was always an outcast because everypony cared about their opinions and never wanted to spend any time with the allergy ridden male hinny! So I had a plan..." Suddenly the intercom for the school comes on and announces that there are going to be an election for student council Princess: "Attention students! It is time for our annual student council election! Our last Princess graduated last year and now it's time to indite a new girl for the job! It takes a lot of responsibility but it is the biggest honor you can achieve at this school. Sign ups will be held this afternoon in the gym, if you're interested in being Princess of the Student Council and have a chance to feel like Princess Celestia, come on down!" Marshall rubbed his chin with an interested look on his face and suddenly he started grinning, until he ha to sneeze one more time... In the gym, Marshall was seen at the table and was about to sign up. He was up next but before he was able to get up close, three girls instantly cut him in line and the front girl signed up. They turned around and were revealed to be Teresa and two of the popular girls. They looked confused and a little angry and even a little amused at seeing Marshall there. "What are you doing here hinny boy?" The unicorn asked. "Signing up for student council? I have my note from the principle saying I can do it." He answered confusedly. "You can't!!" The other girl exclaimed with a smug look on her face. "It's 'Princess' of student council, because only us mature mares can handle the responsibility!" Teresa said as she finished writing her name down. "Yeah, when has there ever been a famous Prince? Celestia is a girl, her niece recently became a Princess, and I heard her sister used to be a Princess, but no Prince!" The unicorn added as she chuckled maliciously. "That shouldn't matter! I can do this because I..." Marshall began to add until he got cut off. "Besides, why would anypony want a Prince? Stallions are just gross and immature anyway, go ahead and sign up, you won't be able to beat me anyway!" Teresa said as she and the girls tarted to walk off laughing at him. Marshall watched them walk off and got a bit of a tear in his eye but he shook it off and signed his name on the sheet. Again in narration, "From that moment I knew I had to do something, but it didn't end there... Her campaign was largely aimed with one specific practice..." A brief montage shows Teresa and her mare friends handing out buttons that say 'Why vote for the guy?' over a picture of Marshall sneezing again, handing out candy bars saying 'nerdy boy vs. pretty girl', and the two doing their campaign interviews/speeches, to which the girls drop a bunch of flowers over Marshall, making his allergies burst out on stage and prevent him from answering the questions, while Teresa just laughed. As the students left the auditorium, they all clearly didn't like any of Teresa's strategies. "Man, how can he teachers just let those girls bully that guy like that?" One guy sympathetically asked his friend. "Tell me about it, for a private school, they're surprisingly lax on their zero tolerance policies. Poor Marshall..." She responded. Teresa's friends over heard that and they went to tell Teresa that her plans aren't working and she begins to panic until they have an idea... The screen changes to what looks like a classroom that is not very well lit. The three girls take out a box from the desk and can see that Marshall has most of the votes, and they begin to swap all the ballots with ones that say Teresa... "I will not loose to a colt!" She quietly exclaimed. To the surprise of the girls, the door suddenly opened and Marshall with a teacher came into the room and turned on the light, "You know I really appreciate you helping me clean out the black board erasers Marsh..." He began until they looked over at the fillies stuffing the ballot box... "It's not what it looks like!" They all said in unison. The teacher was no fool though, he could see the ballot papers. "You know what girls..." He gets a bit of an angry look on his face... "We need to go to the principle's office... but first you all need to say hello to the new Prince of the school!" He said pointing to Marshall who looked ecstatic and hugged the teacher. The flashback finally ends, Marshall looking depressed and angry, "I hate that mare and never want to see her again!" He cartoonishly yelled out in anger as he threw a dinosaur plushie at Jon, who started a comedic cry then, "Wow, was the story that sad?" "No..." Jon started rubbing his forehead, "That dinosaur plushie had a battery cartridge in it..." > Part 9 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We can see Cadence sitting bored in the crystal chambers flipping her hair back and tossing a small broken crystal up and catching it like a ball. Big Macintosh was still standing by the exit pathway, blocking it. He tossed Cadence some apples and cartoonishly bumped her head with one, to which he apologized. "You know soon somepony will know I'm gone and come looking for me." She mentioned. "Eeyup." "Still not gonna let me go?" "Nope." Cadence just rolled her eyes, figuring that nopony's gonna help her anytime soon. When she started eating the apples, she began to wonder what she's gonna do now, even if she manages to get free, nopony would take her seriously without her wings and horn and without Shining Armor anymore her love magic just seems to bring her to tears. She began to shift from her angry expression to one of despondence and depression. Big Macintosh noticed she was heartbroken and felt a little sorry for her. "Ya know, just because I'm being controlled by the new King of Equestria and need to guard you down here, and the fact that you're a girl doesn't mean we can't be friends." He tried to say to cheer her up. "Uh... none of that made any sense, plus ever sense we've been down here, all I've heard you say is 'eeyup', 'nope', and 'I hate girls with a burnin' passion!'" Cadence responded, imitating Big Mac's deep southern drawl. "Hey, you just got heart broken, imprisoned, and lost your magic, I'm pretty sure you've suffered enough, besides, I'm only ordered to keep you in here, that doesn't mean we can't have some fun while we're down here." Big Mac said as he pulled out a massive box filled with stuffed animals, "One of my friends gave me like a dozen of these boxes, take a look!" He said as he tossed a stuffed wolf toy to her. Cadence winced an eye at interest of that, despite being aware that he's possessed and forced to hold her captive, he was still trying to be nice. The scene then shifted to Twilight flying in the sky by herself, looking extremely angry and ready for a fight. She could be heard grumbling to herself as well, "Okay this guy must have some nerve thinking he can just take over half of Equestria like that and do who knows what with the Princesses and not think I'm gonna send him all the way to wherever King Sombra was sent...!" She then was revealed to be flying to Celestia's former castle, now over run by the Hinny King. Guards were all over the entrances, all under Marshall's control. Twilight landed right at the front entrance, the guards were all looking her down, clearly not happy to see her, but they reluctantly let her in before she even said anything. "He's been expecting you..." They said in unison and let her in, much to her confusion. Twilight walked in and was shocked by how it was redecorated, particularly disturbed by the 20 foot statue of Marshall in the lobby (with Mocha Jon, Shining Armor, and Big Macintosh bowing down and kissing his hooves) "Okay somepony has some issues to work out..." She quietly said. Marshall walked into the room shortly after, Jon following, carrying some of his stuffed animals. Jon instantly rushed over and hugged Twilight in a cartoony fashion, "Twilight! I'ts great to see you again! Marshall made me the back King up in case anything happens to him and..." He began saying until Marshall telekineticly moved him away. "Sorry about that, he's been eager to brag lately, anyway, it's been a long time coming Princess, how's it feel to be in the presence of your King?" Marshall smugly asked. "You are not a King!" She yelled out in anger as she used her magic to throw a Jon's dinosaur plushie at Marshall, to where he and Jon yelled out in pain. "OW! You realize my subjects under my spell feel all the pain I feel right?" Marshall asked rubbing his forehead. "It was a stuffed toy?" Jon sighed, "That one had batteries in it..." He said rubbing his forehead again, Twilight looked sorry and embarrassed... "Well anyway, royalty doesn't use magic to get his way and make Equestria an unfair place to live!" Twilight yelled out in anger. "Unfair?" He shook off the pain and chuckled, "Honey let me show you something..." He said as his horn started to glow and suddenly a large circle of magic began to show up in front of them. "Take a look at that big red apple farmer when he was a colt:" Suddenly a flashback appeared on it and it presented Big Macintosh as a little colt who was putting on his harness for the first time and had to pull his first heavy load on the farm. Bog Mac was clearly not happy and the heavy weight was being a huge strain on him. He was breathing heavily and sweating hard. Twilight looked closer and noticed another kid in the background, it was Applejack, sitting on a rocking chair playing with dolls with Granny Smith. "Be sure to plow the field twice Big Mac, be sure you don't miss any spot!" Granny Smith yelled over to him, right as he fell over, panting more. Twilight looked befuddled, "What? That can't be true?" "Oh there's more..." The next flashback reveals Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon revealing decorations outside for a party. They had smug looks on their faces like always. "See, sense it's Pipsqueak's birthday today, we took the liberty of throwing him a surprise party! We decorated the playground ourselves!" Silver bragged. They revealed the slide had a pink tarp placed over it, dolls were covering the jungle gym, making it unusable, the cake had a frosting drawing of a purple star over a pink heart, red bunting was placed over all the tables, and all the party hats Diamond was handing out were pink with translucent bands coming off them looking like fairy princess hats. Most of the girls and Cheerlee were all super excited and rushed over to the events, while the boys (and Scootaloo...) looked at everything with disdain and felt uncomfortable... Following, the magic showed Dr Whooves in his lab, he was writing something down on paper and seemed very hyper and eager to finish, with Derpy eating a muffin and drinking tea in the background. "At last! I think I've finally managed to find a cure for the common cold! It's so simple and easy to do that anypony can do it! After ten moons I finally managed to... What are you doing...?" He said as he was about to finish until he looked over at Derpy, looking at a mini catapult and placed her tea in it. "No don't do that...!" He tried to yell in panic as she launched the catapult and her tea flung right onto Dr Whooves paper ad ruined it... "You psychopath that was my entire life's work and you just...!" He began to yell until she flung her muffin with the catapult and hit him in the muzzle... Next, Twilight was shown a flashback of Caramel knocking on somepony's door attempting to hand her some grass seeds. "Hey there, I'm sorry this took so long, I had to do about twenty other orders and my coworker's out sick and..." He tried to nicely and calmly explain until he was interrupted. The mare who answered the door, revealed to be Spoiled Rich, was not happy though she took the seeds and threw them right at Caramel's face, "I expected these seeds this morning so my daughter's petunia garden would be big and poofy by the weekend so she could have the greatest bouquet for show 'n tell! Were you being lazy or just plain forgetful again!?" She yelled at him followed by slamming the door on his face before he could answer, leaving him saddened and tearing up a little bit. Next, Mayor Mare was in her office with a stallion earth pony fling some papers for her. He was seen putting pictures of Pinkie Pie's various parties under the file 'Party Taxes' and storing them away. "Alright Mayor Mare, I spent the last two moons working on the monthly Party Tax and I just need to discuss some final notices about how to take care of the final say on if it should be proportional to income or equal for every pony despite income..." He tried to ask, before the mayor started to walk out. "Thanks for that hon, but first I need to head to the salon, I have an appointment to get my highlights in my mane redone sowe'll handle ti when I get back." "Buy Mayor, I spent so much time and effort into these plans and had to cancel so much with my friends and family to get it done and really need you to give the final say on it..." He tried to explain until she just walked out and left him alone with all the paperwork. Twilight was amazed at how under appreciated the men were around here, "I... I don't believe it, how was all this happening in such a sweet place like Ponyville?" "Sweet place? Twilight we get invaded by evil monsters and magical creatures like once every couple of weeks! Equestria's about as sweet as a lemon soaked in salt water." Mocha Jon snarked as he poured himself coffee in the background. "Before I became king, men were only good for pulling heavy carts and not much else, but now take a look at them with me as their King..." He said as he switched the magic to show the present: They are now shown Pipsqueak sitting on a birthday themed chair, eyes glowing cyan, and the kids were all playing laser tag together. Snips and Snails were blasting Scootaloo and laughing, then she joined in the laughter and started blasting them back, giving Pipsqueek a hoofbump. Caramel was knocking on Sugar Cube Corner's door and was carrying a box of poppy seeds as Carrot Cake answered the door, both of them having cyan eyes, "Hey dude, I got those poppy seeds for your bagels and muffins right here!" He said eagerly. "Wow, I wasn't expecting these until tomorrow!" Carrot said in joy. "Yeah, King Marshall sent some of the old Royal Guards who were tired of having to risk their lives so much to help me with my deliveries!" Caramel said in excitement. "Well if that gives you some free time later, some of my friends were heading to a hoofball game later, maybe you could come along? As kind of a thank you for the ingredients." Mr Cake responded. "Sure thing! I'll see you guys tonight, thanks!" Caramel walked off and the two waved each other goodbye. Next, Derpy was seen trying to burst into Dr Whooves' lab again, but before she could run in, she ran right into Bulk Biceps as the Doctor greeted her... guess what color their eyes are. "Sorry dear, but I hared some extra security to make sure nopony comes in and disrupts my studies and breaks my inventions before I can get insurance on them." He said as he looked over at a very sick, sneezing colt pegasus sitting in his chair. His nose was dripping and he had a blanket. The Doctor handed him a small drink and right when he drank it he instantly cheered up and flew right out of that office feeling better than ever. Lastly, the mayor's assistant walked into her office, also under Marshall's spell, and confronted her in a firm but light hearted manner. "Listen, I know you have a lot of responsibilities around here and all but I have been working hard too and King Marshall says that I need a vacation, so I'm taking some time off, but I have a list of great temporary interns here for you who can do this very well, just promise me when I get back that you'll know much I do for you..." He sighed as he left some papers on her desk and walked out. Twilight's entire world was shaken by the past few minutes, "You actually made all these changes yourself?" "Of course, my mind control spell cannot change who ponies are deep down, I only used it to give these men confidence to help them stand up for themselves and make their lives better, and it has worked." Marshall calmly responded. "He could have possessed the girls and forced them to devote themselves to baking cakes for the men but he didn't, that's gotta prove something..." Jon snarked. "But what about Celestia, and Luna, and..." "Don't worry, very soon they will be back, I only needed to end their oppressive reign over the stallions..." Marshall eerily responded. Twilight had a tear in her eye, she couldn't believe that all this unfair life was happening and the Princesses couldn't do anything about it, or worse, wouldn't do anything about it. She couldn't believe what she was about to say... she wanted to bite her tongue, but she just sighed and said it... "You're right..." Marshall couldn't believe what he just heard, "What did you just say...?" Jon made another snarky sarcastic comment in the background, "She said that she's thinking about trying out for the Wonderbolts, duh! What do you think she said?" "Marshall, you're right, no stallion has ever had the opportunities a mare had, we usually just have them pull wagons and never gave them a chance to be as close to Royalty as mares were... Marshall, I want to leave Celestia's kingdom and join yours." Twilight was heart broken hearing herself say that, but Marshall was ecstatic hearing that. "You're a smart girl Twilight... You have so much potential to do so much, and with me as the King, I can give you many more opportunities than Celestia ever could, she cared about you, but I care about you and all of Equestria, I believe you can do so much as my apprentice...!" Marshall said with his signature smug/sinister tone in his voice. Back at Twilight's castle, Twilight's friends and Shining Armor were waiting in the mane room around the Map waiting for Twilight to return. "Look I still don't know about Twi going alone, Marshall has half of Equestria under his control and we don't know what he could do." Shining said in fear. "Oh please! Twilight's too awesome to loose, we trust her, plus we needed to stay behind to make sure those zombie dudes don't do anything crazy!" Rainbow Dash gloated as suddenly Spike coughed out a letter. "What in tarnation?" Applejack asked Starlight Glimmer took the paper and read the note in her head. When she finished, she was looking extremely depressed... "Twilight's joined the King..." They all gasped in shock from that... > Part 10 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The group were all sitting in Twilight's castle and were all panicking and freaking out wondering why on earth Twilight would join the enemy like that. They knew Marshall was pretty smooth and clearly he knows how to get in ponies' heads but they thought Twilight would be the only one to not turn like that. "What got into her, what did that King do to make her just abandon us like that!?" Rainbow Dash yelled out in anger, seeing as the element of Loyalty wouldn't be happy about this. "What is it with the writer of this story?" Pinkie Pie asked, "First he makes a random character and says he's one of us which is totally uncool, then he makes Twilight do this!? STOP THIS!!!" She said as she threw a cupcake at the fourth wall... much to the disturbance of everypony else... Spike went onto the table and was throwing a huge fit, "Okay this is not cool! Twi can't just give up like that! She must have something planned or something, I mean she can't be serious, can she?" Flurry Heart was pulling on Fluttershy's mane again, much harder this time, "Um Shining Armor... I think your daughter misses her mother..." Shining Armor began to panic again, "Oh gosh, Cadence! I think she may be the only one who can help us! And I think I know where she is, follow me!" He said as he began to run out. "Wait hold on..." Spike said as he started making lanyards that said 'guided by Shining Armor and Spike' and put them around the girls' necks, to their confusion, "Hey, you all saw how all those possessed guys kept asking for male guides for you all, might as well make it look less suspicious." He mentioned, to which they nodded in agreement, and they all started following Shining Armor. The scene changes to Twilight standing out on the balcony of the castle, sobbing to herself alone looking at the sunset. Her whole world was turned upside down. What hurt her the most is that all those things she saw were not all from Equestria but from Ponyville, and she was the Princess of Ponyville and she let all of that slip under her nose all this time while Marshall managed to fix them in a few days. Was she really fit to be a Princess if she couldn't solve even the smallest of problems like that? Suddenly Mocha Jon noticed she was alone outside and decided to comfort her. "Hey girl, why so glum? You just saw all those guys get much happier lives, the King took you in as his new Princess, and you get to live in a castle with somepony as funny as me!" He tried to humorously say to break the tension. "Still the snarky guy I can tell..." She noted, surprised he's still acting like himself despite being controlled by Marshall, "Well it's just I don't know if I was doing a good job as a Princess if everypony was treated the way I saw, and I'm pretty sure there were many worse, I mean I can promise that those Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon fillies were definitely not fair to any of those boys and were much more verbal than Marshall showed me." "You're kidding right? Girl last time I checked you were the one who managed to stop Nightmare Moon, Discord, Changelings, Sombra, Tirek, need I go on? I'm pretty sure you did quite a bit for Equestria." Jon responded. Twilight blushed a bit, "Actually about half of those weren't even defeated by me anyway, and either way, the little problems may not be as big as the big problems, but they're just as important, I just never realized Celestia never even bothered to try and fix anything like that..." She said with a tear in her eye. "Girl please!" Jon exclaimed, "Look there's gonna be problems no matter who's in charge, you, Celestia, Marshall, even Starlight Glimmer back at her old creepy town, they all will have problems that just can't get fixed, that doesn't mean it's anypony's fault. I mean come on, you took me in, a simple stallion with a tiny horn, when I had no friends, an uncaring boss and felt like all I could do was work in a coffee shop and made me feel welcomed into your group and made me feel loved. If you were a bad Princess Marshall wouldn't have let you stay a Princess with him, wouldn't he?" He asked, trying to reassure her. Twilight just looked over and hugged him in gratitude, "Thanks, that really helps." She breathed in a bit trying to feel better. "Wait why are you being so nice to me? Doesn't that spell make you hate me cause I'm a mare?" "Girl please!" He chuckled out, "Just because time before Marshall was unfair to stallions doesn't mean I need to be unfair to mares now, two wrongs don't make a right after all." He responded as he got up to head back inside, "By the way, if you really want to make a stallion feel special, maybe you could use a spell to make my horn a decent size!" He said as he walked back inside, but he poked his head back outside for a moment, "That was about 70% sarcasm, 30% serious! Come on in and I'll make you some coffee." And Twilight just chuckled at that and followed him back inside. Next, the scene changes to Big Macintosh and Cadence back in the crystal prison underground. Cadence was playing with a rat plushie dressed like a farmer and Big Mac was playing with a stuffed alien doll. "Oh please don't mess up my field with anymore crop circles, I already made a dozen myself to scare my neighbors and can't risk anymore!" Cadence made the doll say, imitating Big Mac's voice. "I'll leave your crops alone if you take me to the leader of your world!" Big Mac made the alien plush respond. "But I'm just a simple farmer... I don't ave any connection to royalty, the Princesses probably doesn't know I exist..." Cadence made her plush respond until she noticed Big Mac looked offended... "Oh sorry about that, I forgot you did that..." She said, embarrassed. Suddenly Shining Armor, Spike, and all the girls came up behind them, Shining Armor yelling from the distance for Cadence. "Shining? What are you doing here?" Cadence asked in confusion. "Nope!" Big Mac said as he blocked their path, throwing all of Mocha Jon's plushies at Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy to knock them down. "I remembered this is where you said you were trapped during our wedding, listen, I never meant to say anything I told you, I was brainwashed by that new evil King and he made me do that, I would never want to hurt you like that I swear!" Shining Armor pleaded to his wife. "Controlled by an evil member of royalty... how sad is it that this doesn't surprise me..." She reluctantly noted, trying to reach to him, with Big Mac blocking their reaches. "Nope... Nope... Nope..." The two tried to reach to each other but Big Mac just kept blocking them off surprisingly well, looks like he takes his King's orders fairly well. "Ugh my word! Must we keep this bit up! This place is beginning to creep me out..." Rarity noted with a faint shiver. "BOO!" Applejack jokingly sneaked up behind her and yelled that, causing her to jump and yell. "Well that was mature!" Shining Armor was getting annoyed at this, "Okay, I haven't tried this before but it looks like I need to do this..." He said as he took a strong stance, closed his eyes and light up his horn. He was grunting a bit and clearly struggling to do whatever spell he was trying and it was clearly taking a large strain out of him. Before they knew it, Big Mac's head began to get the same aura as Shining's horn. Without warning, Big Mac started to shake his head and when he opened his eyes, they were back to their normal green color. "Eeyup...?" He said out of confusion, "What just happened?" They all looked over in confusion at Shining, wondering what he just did. "Well ever sense my disaster of a wedding... I went through a lot of training to fight mind control spells both on myself and on other ponies, but it's really hard to do on other ponies. Cadence said it was a waste of time." "And I was kind of right..." Cadence added. A flashback just appeared showing Shining Armor standing with a Pegasus who appears to be a hypnotist with a pocket watch cutie mark, who also seem very tired and exasperated. "You know, I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of this in case that evil Changeling Queen ever..." Shining began to say until he was interrupted. "Patty-Cake..." He annoyingly said. At that moment, Shining Armor started pecking the ground and making clucking sounds like a chicken... "Bawk bawk bawk..." "Cocoa..." He said afterwards. "Tries to come back and take over my head again!" Shining continued as he returned to normal, not seeming to have noticed he was just acting like a chicken. "Ugh..." The Pegasus just sighed and placed his hoof on his forehead. Back at the crystal catacomb, everyone just looked flabbergasted and puzzled. "You know... that explains so much..." Big Mac noted, remembering when Shining acted like a chicken with him and Marshall. Shining and Cadence ran right towards each other and instantly hugged each other tightly. "Cadence I'm so sorry, I love you and would never leave you again, please forgive me, that wasn't me who said all those horrible things!" He started sobbing. 'I missed you too, I never stopped think about you when I was down here, I love you too and just never want to let you go again!" Cadence sobbed back, hugging him tighter. All the others seemed to think that this was very sweet and cute, until Rainbow Dash broke the mood... "Patty-Cake!" She yelled out and suddenly Shining stopped hugging and started pecking at the ground... "Bawk bawk bawk..." "Yeah, sorry to break up the super gross and sappy Romantic Comedy, but there's an evil King who's got half of Equestria enslaved and is using them to enslave the other half!" Rainbow Dash yelled out, reminding them that there were more important things to focus on, while Shining was still pecking the floor, "Cocoa..." And then he stopped clucking and they all started to run out. > Part 11 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walking out of the catacomb, the group was basically trying to avoid the elephant in the room about how two of them were recently brainwashed and were more concerned about Twilight switching sides. "Wait what? Twilight's working with Marshall!?" Cadence yelled out in panic, in a cartoonishly over the top fashion. "She can't do that, I mean sure he's smooth and powerful and handsome and..." Shining looked over annoyingly at her then, "Uh never mind..." "What happened to you wings and your horn anyway?" Shining asked. "That evil king took all my power away! He played me .so he could use me!" She reluctantly continued, "Look, Twilight doesn't know what she's getting into! We gotta help her!" She said as they passed a statue fountain crafted of Marshall. Suddenly as they all walked passed it, Rainbow Dash and Applejack stopped right in front of it and for some reason started saluting at it. The rest turned around and all looked confused by this. When the camera pans to them it is revealed that their eyes were turned cyan like all the stallions' eyes were. "Rainbow Dash? Applejack? What happened?" Spike asked. Rarity just rolled her eyes and walked back over to the fountain herself, "Let me handle this one fellows..." She said as she took a bucket and filled it with water from the fountain. She then walked over to the two and splashed them both with the water bucket, causing them both to shake their heads off and return to normal, looking a little angry at Rarity. "You know there's a reason I tell you two to act more Lady-like!" She smugly said as they walked off, the rest of them laughing at them. They shook that off and continued walking off, but suddenly Spike spit out another letter from Twilight, to the group's surprise. 'Dear everypony, Twilight Sparkle is here by indited as the Hinny King's new Princess. Her coronation is this weekend and you are invited to the event.' "This weekend? I have a bad mitten match followed by a tennis match!" Pinkie yelled. "We can't let her go through with this, we need to stop her!" Starlight said concerned, not wanting her mentor to negate everything she taught her. Suddenly in the background, Big Macintosh and Shining Armor noticed a depressed looking pegasus sobbing on a park bench. They stepped to the side for a moment to see what was wrong. As they went off Fluttershy said she had an idea to take down Marshall but it was it heard. When the two walked over to the pegasus, she was revealed to look a lot like Marshall, same coat color, same mane color, and she even had a very mild Spanish accent in her voice. "Hey, what's wrong?" Shining asked. She looked up but didn't seem like she wanted to talk to them. "Oh please, like any stallion would listen to a mare like me, even though I don't deserve it anyway." She depressingly said to herself as she looked away. "Nope." "Yeah, we aren't under that spell anymore, long story but you don't need to worry." Shining responded. "Wait what spell? Never mind, just leave me alone, it's my fault anyway." She answered, still refusing to talk to them. "Nope!" Big Mac yelled as he got right up in her face. She eventually gave in, "Look it's my fault all these stallions are revolting and why my brother is so mad with power!" "Your brother? Marshall's your brother? The new King of Equestira is your brother?" Shining asked in surprise. "What do you mean this is your fault?" She stopped crying for a bit and decided to explain, "Look, when Marshall and I were kids I was always a bully to him and to colts, I always tried to show off and prove how much better I was then he was. I always made fun of him and told him he couldn't do anything because he was a boy, me and my friends always put him down." She sighed and began to tear up again, "Once I did something that was just too far and I got in trouble, Ever sense then he went crazy, we haven't spoken sense boarding school." Big Mac patted her on the back and looked sympathetic towards her. Shining Armor looked at her and also seemed sorry for her. "Hey, I'm sure you weren't that bad, maybe you're just nervous for your brother?" "No, me and my friends openly told him he would never accomplish anything because he was a stallion. We felt horrible for how we acted and after school we got together and opened a colt play center for little boys to learn about themselves and make friends. We tried to make a difference after how bad we were, but clearly we didn't do enough! I'm sorry but I just can't be here right now...!" She said as she ran off, accidentally knocking Big Mac down, "Oh sorry dear, see, I hurt stallions all over!" The two looked at each other confused and dumbfounded. They weren't really sure how to respond to that. Was she really that bad to him? Maybe she could help them take down Marshall, maybe she knows secrets about him they could use? Either way they didn't know and went back to the group, who seemed angry. "No! I won't do it! I want to get Twilight back but that's the one thing I just can't do!" Starlight cried out in rage. "But we're sure it will take him down from power, why in tarnation will ya not do it?" Applejack asked. "Plus it will make a great story climax and be great development for your character!" Pinkie added. Starlight was not impressed, "Look, two wrongs don't make a right and this is a huge wrong! I don't want to hear another word about this, now let it go!" She yelled out in rage. Whatever it was, Starlight Glimmer did not want to do whatever it was that they suggested. "Oh dear..." Fluttershy noted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back in Marshall's castle, he was seen sitting on his throne as Mocha Jon walked in carrying cups of coffee and handed one to Marshall. "What is this? You now I prefer white chocolate to hazelnut!" He annoyingly yelled at Jon. "Hey, you only had enough creamer left for one cup of white chocolate latte, and I'm allergic to hazelnut!" He said as he chugged the rest of his cup, making Marshall roll his eyes. Suddenly Twilight walked into the room about to reveal her Princess outfit. When she got in, she was wearing a dress that extremely resembled a maid's uniform... "I don't know if I should congratulate you or ask you on a date." Jon sarcastically noted as she rolled her eyes. "So what exactly do I need to do as Princess of Equestria? Do I need to schedule an appointment with Yak-Yakistan's ambassadors or send a note to the press reporters about our new arrangement?" She asked Marshall. Marshall flew down after he finished his coffee, throwing the cup at Jon's face, "Actually I have a lot of paperwork about the tax reports and international trade commissions and I need somepony to clear the mess up." He said as he opened a wall with his horn and revealed a large room filled with yard high paperwork for Twilight. When Twilight walked into the room, she was about to say something but Marshall just closed the door with his horn and chuckled. "Have fun with that!" Jon rubbed his forehead, "Okay what was the point of that?" "I wasn't aiming for your head I just missed the trashcan and..." Marshall began until Jon cut him off. "Not that! But still, 'thanks a lot for that'" He sarcastically responded, "I meant what was the point of passing off all that paperwork on Twi?" "Oh that, sure she's nice and a good Princess, but she's still a mare so she's best for cleaning, plus it would be funny to see her get annoyed filling all those." Jon rolled his eyes again, "You want to annoy and punish her for being a girl with that? This is Twilight we're talking about, by that logic you should punish me by throwing me a party and baking me a dozen red velvet cakes." He sarcastically responded as he walked out of the room. > Part 12 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marshall was seen using a spell to see through the wall and was surprised to see how quickly she had finished. Twilight jumped through the portal holding one last file folder. "So I finished organizing all the papers and noticed dozens of discrepancies within the budget planning and managed to fix them after I sent a letter to the accountant to get it fixed, also I organized these pictures of your old dog in order from cuteness, least to greatest." She said. Marshall was stunned to find she did all that so easily, honestly he assumed that would have made her at least made her yell in panic at least once, "Great job Twilight, but I still need more to be done, can you go down stairs and organize all those stuffed animals your coffee friend has, every time I go in there I always end up tripping over some random tiger dressed like a viking." Twilight looked shocked by that, "Wow, I may be able to organize all the budget forms of all Equestria but handling all of his plushies is a lot to handle!" She yelled out, making Jon blush in embarrassment. "If I do this I better get a really big tiara this weekend!" She said as she walked out. Marshall closed the doors afterward and laughed to himself. "Okay pause!" Mocha Jon said as he splashed Marshall's face with his coffee, "I know what you're doing, you don't want Twilight to be your Princess, you just want her as a figure head for appearances while you make her do all the work to see her suffer cause she's a girl." Marshall wiped his face off, splashing Jon's face in return, "Yeah so what if I am doing that, what are you gonna do about it?" He tauntingly said. Jon wiped his face off too, they both are getting used to that by now, "All I'll say is you're lucky I'm completely under your control other wise I'd totally rat you out." He said as he started walking off, "And by the way, organizing all my stuffed animals? That's cruel and unusual punishment for anypony! And she better not make JoJo the squirrel and Jimmy the chipmunk sit by each other, they told me their break up is final and don't want to get back together!" Marshall just rolled his eyes, "Wow, it's so hard to get good slaves in here." He sarcastically noted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight was seen walking down a series of stares, "Thank goodness he gave me a nearly impossible task, gives me time to do this." She said chuckling to herself. She approached a gated door that was dark underground and lit by torches. Twilight took a bobby pin out of her hair and picked the lock and entered the dungeon. She was walking around a bunch of empty cages and prison cells until she reached two cells occupied by Celestia and Luna. "Twilight...? What are you doing here?" Celestia asked. "And what are you wearing?" Luna added, surprised by the maid uniform Twilight was wearing. "Long story, listen, I know what he's doing and I think I have a plan..." She said as the camera started fading to black. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was seen next was a brief scene with Teresa and her friends at work watching all the colts, who were all throwing massive fits doing such acts like throwing paint all over the walls, breaking all the building block sculptures, and drawing very insulting pictures of the women on the chalk board. Teresa was seen dramatically crying in the corner... "Why? Why!? WHY!?!? Why did I have to be so mean to boys as a kid!? It's all my fault!!! Why? Why!? WHY!?!?" She dramstically cried out in a comedic over the top fashion to where her tears ended up looking like a McDonald's arch. Her friends/coworkers were also annoyed with how they were acting but they were more annoyed with Teresa's attitude... "Teresa, we've been over this, he's an adult bow so he should know what was right from wrong and..." One of the mares tried to say, Teresa didn't believe her. "No! That doesn't make it right back then! This is my karma!" She continued to cry in the same over the top manner, until one of the colts flung orange paint in her face, making the other two girls laugh a bit until another colt splashed them too and they just put their hooves on their foreheads. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back in Ponyville, the group was in the castle working on a way to get rid of Marshall, but Starlight Glimmer was nowhere to be found. "Where did she go? I haven't seen her sense we were in the park." Cadence asked. "She ran off after we asked her a favor, she felt way too uncomfortable doing it and she just took off... ouch!" Fluttershy calmly explained, until Flurry Heart pulled on her mane again... "What did ya want her to do?" Bog Mac asked. "Don't ask, believe me it was way too much, if she did that so much stuff could happen causing natural disasters, world wide depression, and maybe even banishment of the color blue!" Pinkie responded, before making a funny face at Flurry Heart. to get her off Fluttershy's mane. Spike was looking around for a certain spell that may be able to help them take Marshall down, and when he opened a desk drawer he was surprised to find what he found... "I can't believe it, Twilight actually bought Marshall's old album from when he was a one-hit wonder!" He said in surprise and annoyance as he held it up, Applejack looking at it. "Why in tarnation would anypony buy this anyway, even before he was an evil King this wasn't even that good and..." She began until she looked at Marshall on the cover and her eyes turned cyan again and she almost walked off, Rarity rolled her eyes then as she splashed a cup of water on Applejack and snapped her out of it, "Hey! What gives?" Rarity rolled her eyes again, "I said it before and I'll say it again, Act... More... Ladylike!" Shining Armor sighed to himself, "Look, I hate to say this but I think we need to go to Twilight's ceremony..." This was to the shock of the rest of them. "What is it with this author making us do all these bad choices after bad choices?" Pinkie yelled in anger as she looked towards the fourth wall and threw a cupcake at the author's face... "Listen I know it's not ideal but it seems important to Twilight and I want to support my sister no matter what, and I think as her friends we all should be there to support her, even if we don't support Marshall." Shining Armor continued, clearly not happy about it but willing to suffer if it means he can support his sister. Cadence looked over in agreement, "You're right, Twilight needs us to support her. She's really lucky to have you as a brother." "She's really lucky to have you as her stepsister too." Shining said as the two nuzzled each other affectionately, making Rainbow Dash gag in the background. "I've got a bad feeling about this..." Spike noted to Big Mac. "Eeyup." He agreed. > Part 13 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight was seen speaking to Celestia and Luna in the dungeon. She was planning her own specific rebellion towards Marshall in a manner similar to his. "You really think you can convince everypony to take us back?" Twilight looked hesitant, "Look it will take a long time, maybe many moons before I get enough credibility to have an influence that goes past his spell, but someday I'll get you out and set things right." She said with more confidence. Luna didn't look as despondent as Celestia, "Honestly this isn't much of a bother, after how long I spent on the moon this is nothing." Celestia looked embarrassed at that. "Look, this won't happen today, tomorrow, or anytime soon, but just trust me, Marshall is no King and I won't let him stay in power, but I need him to think I want him too..." Twilight said until the screen started fading a little and suddenly Marshall could be seen looking into a crystal ball that projected Twilight talking to the Princesses. "That stupid girl!" He laughingly said to himself, "She actually didn't think I didn't bug that room, no wonder she was dumb enough to surrender!" Mocha Jon was getting a headache, "Wait, so you lied about wanting her to be your Princess just so you could treat her like a servant but she was actually lying to gain your trust but she doesn't know that you know that she knew you didn't really like her or something... I'm too confused..." Marshall rolled his eyes, "Of course I planned on this!" He said as he revealed something that looked like Twilight's old Element of Harmony tiara but this time the jewel was sea green instead of burgundy. "Hey, that looks like the Element of Harmony, wasn't that thing like destroyed or transformed or absorbed by her so something?" Jon asked, still trying to wrap his head around who was lying to whom. "Oh no, it was made by my cousin who works with jewelry, he does great work with stuff like this all the time...!" He said as his horn light up and the green gem started glowing bright. "She won't be making any changes anytime soon..." He chuckled. "Uh... what's that doing? If that thing is supposed to be some magic key to the underworld I swear I will burn this castle to the ground!" Jon asked. "It's my test for the mare side of my big spell... Once she puts on this tiara all she will want to do as Princess is cook and clean and all that boring stuff designed for girls!" He exclaimed as his eyes started crossing a little bit. "I don't mean to be a prick, for probably the only time ever, but so far everything you've done are signs of being completely insane..." He said with a mix of sarcasm and personal fear. Marshall didn't seem to care though, in fact he seemed to take it as a compliment, "Ha! You don't think I know that!" Mocha Jon just sighed, "Okay, so far your logic has been 'what I'm doing is wrong, I know it's wrong, but I'm going to do something that's wrong!' and that's not right!" And suddenly Pinkie Pie just crawled out from the bottom of the screen through the fourth wall looking annoyed... "Oh please! If you believe any of what you just said than you wouldn't have posted any of this story except maybe parts 7 and 10." She said as she crawled back through the fourth wall and left the scene completely, leaving Marshall confused. "Yeah you get used to that..." Jon noted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The time passes and the scene turns to Twilight's coronation outside the castle. Her friends were sitting up front, Shining Armor was wearing contacts again to make their eyes look like he was still hypnotized (and they kept making him rub his eyes). Cadence and Big Macintosh were wearing wigs and sunglasses so Marshall wouldn't think they left the catacomb. The rest of the crowd were nothing but Marshall's hypnotized subjects (Caramel, Dr Whooves, Mr Cake etc.), all eager to see how their 'great and forgiving King was giving a stupid girl a chance at greatness'. Starlight Glimmer was nowhere to be found, she was still upset about that thing she was asked to defeat Marshall. Twilight was looking out the window and was clearly nervous for this. Even though it was not important to be Marshall's Princess and she had no idea that Marshall had a secret motive for her. Marshall was walking through the hall and approached Twilight (and was making Mocha Jon hold all the bouquets himself...) and tried to be comforting to her, he didn't show his more angry side because he didn't want her getting suspicious of him. He was acting like his more smooth and romantic persona and managed to calm her down, enough to take the crown in front of the crowd and she agreed to go outside. When they walked outside, Marshall started looking more smug and thought he was totally going to get away with this. He approached the crowd and began to speak "Ladies and much smarter and stronger gentlemen...!" He began, much to the girls' annoyance, "The time has come for you all to see that even though us stallions finally have our place as the rulers, we can still show our humility and humbleness towards the mares. That's why I wish to present to you your Princess Twilight!" He said as he presented her, she was looking depressed. Marshall took the tiara and as he was about to put it on Twilight, he was looking more and more sinister. Twilight was looking more and more depressed as he came closer and closer to her, and her friends were looking more and more nervous for her. Right before Marshall was about to place the cursed tiara, Rainbow Dash snapped and rushed right up there and knocked the tiara down and broke it, causing the gem to stop glowing as the rest of the group came up. "Twi! You can't do this! Look Equestria may have had problems with inequality but this isn't the answer! You need to see how bad this is!" She begged looking Twilight in the eyes, though Cadence and Big Mac's disguises fell off s they jumped up and Marshall's eye was just twitching... "I can't take it anymore... You know what... SIN LANZA UN ADJUSTE, EL SEMENTAL PRESENTARÁ!!!" He just yelled out in anger as his horn was glowing massively and an suddenly Big Mac's eyes turned cyan again and Shining's turned orange (until he took out his contacts and they turned cyan again). This time even Spike fell for it and he turned. While all the girls looked confused and a little worried, the rest of the stallions in the crowd just looked like a mix of blank and angry... "Stallions... As your King... I order you to attack and destroy the first mare you see! Don't hold back!!!" He yelled out and suddenly they all started to riot... Big Macintosh just looked over at Fluttershy with a strange smirk on his face... "Eeyup..." He said as he started running after her cartoonishly. Rarity looked nervous and wanted to run out, "Darlings I believe we must be on our..." She tried to say until she looked over at Applejack and Rainbow Dash who of course had their eyes glowing too as they just saluted and looked over to each other and started doing wrestling moves on each other (body slams, leg pins etc.). Rarity just sighed and put her hoof on her head in annoyance, "Ugh I told you two before, ACT MORE LADY LIKE!!!" She yelled until she got pulled away from Caramel... "Say neighbor, wanna know how much it hurts pulling your wagons...?" Shining Armor started quickly charging towards Cadence, "By the way babe, in case it's not clear, it's over again!" He said as he tried blasting her with his horn. "Shining... Come on you know how to fight this... Please stop!" She was yelling until she ran into the wall of the castle and fell down... Shining was getting closer and charging his horn again and was about to blast... Impulsively in panic Cadence just instinctively said "Patty-Cake!" and suddenly Shining stopped running and started pecking at the ground... "Bawk bawk... bawk bawk bawk..." He utterd eating imaginary seeds... Cadence just sighed and walked off... Pinkie Pie was trying to crawl through the fourth wall to escape again but before she could get all the way through, Bulk Biceps managed to grab her tail and pull her back up. He also started spinning her round and round by the tail in a very fast manner like a lasso... "WWWEEEEEEEEE!!!" She yelled, having a surprisingly large amount of fun being spun like that. Spike just threw a bunch of flower bouquets at Twilight, he was never really good at fighting... Some of them bounced back to Marshall and made him sneeze uncontrollably... Before he could throw a sub-psychotic tantrum at everypony, Starlight Glimmer just teleported behind Marshall to his surprise... "What are you doing here? Can't you see I'm in he middle of a nervous meltdown!?" He yelled, his eye twitching. Starlight looked furious... "I promised myself I would never consider this again... I swore to myself that it would never happen again... But I just can't let this happen!" She yelled as her horn started to glow, but it stopped when Marshall got hit by a thrown chair... Making him hurt and by extension, all his slaves hurt. "Ow! Sorry Sir, I was aiming at her but my aim is just really really bad..." Mocha Jon embarrassingly said. Starlight just shook her head and continued while he was down, her horn glowed and suddenly Marshall's crown cutie mark was glowing the same aura and it just suddenly fell off and flung into a glass jar... After that, all the stallions (except for Shining...) suddenly stopped where they were and all seemed to have strong headaches. "Wha...?" Marshall was disoriented, "What did you do to me?" He weakly asked. "I took away your cutie mark, you weren't meant to hold it's power!" She responded as she teleported the jar away, she looked heart broken having to do that again, "I forced ponies to not be who they were once and it was wrong, I just can't let it happen again." She said as a tear appeared in her eye. Twilight walked towards him and looked angry too, "You didn't really care about stallions, you just wanted power that you didn't deserve..." Twilight said as she started to use a spell on Marshall... Suddenly he had lost both his alicorn horn and even his original wings... "I swore I would never use this spell but you are no King... Now I believe the dungeon needs a swap..." She said as Starlight just grabbed him with her magic and carried him off, causing him to throw a large tantrum with lots of yelling and kicking and swears for revenge, making them all just cringe in disturbance. Twilight looked around and could tell that despite the hypnosis ending on all the men, they seemed kinda depressed... "Great, now I have to go back to getting yelled at from everypony..." Caramel sighed to himself, Rarity putting her hoof on his back in sympathy. She looked stern and decided to make a statement. "Listen up everypony! Look Marshall may have been completely insane and went way too far but he did help you all! He was right, Equestria has never been fair to any of you, we've just seen you all as wagon pullers and laborers, we never really stopped to take the time to show you how much you all mean to us and how much you call can do. You don't need some mind control spell to feel important, and you definitely don't need to start a rebellion, because I swear from now on Equestria will be fair to everypony, mare and stallion! You all are special and you all can achieve whatever you want!" All the stallions just looked up to her and applauded her for her speech and felt more comfortable with themselves. Twilight walked over to Cadence then, "Come on, we need to go downstairs and get Celestia and Luna back to being the Princesses we all know and love." She said as they walked into the castle to restore Celestia and Luna. Mocha Jon looked over at Shining Armor who was still pecking the ground... "Uh, are we just gonna ignore the fact that Shining Armor keeps acting like a chicken? Seriously what is with that?" Big Mac came by and just whispered that he'd explain later and said 'cocoa' to Shining. "Huh? Hey, where'd Marshall go?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After some time had passed, Marshall had been seen locked away in the dungeon as a simple earth hinny, tucked away in the shadows reluctant to see anypony and still plotting revenge. Suddenly the door opened and the mane group walked in reluctant to see him, but they were the guide for a certain visitor, Teresa. When she saw Marshall sitting alone in the cell she just started tearing up and dramatically sobbed up again... "WHY!? I'm so sorry Marshall! I should have never been so mean and force you to be so vile! NO NO NO! Please forgive me! Please forgive me!!!" She started groveling on the floor then and tried to reach through the bars, "Please accept my new love! Don't forget me ever!!!" Marshall didn't bother responding. The group just looked uncomfortable after that performance, Rarity seemed the most annoyed, "My goodness gracious, someponies just don't know how to handle themselves and can be so dramatic, it's so pathetic." She vainly noted, causing the rest of them to look over at her with an annoyed expression that Rarity didn't understand, "What?"