> Assassinverse: Unicornia The New Order
>  by efug25g
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> Prologue: The rise and fall of Equestria
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Once upon a time, there was a unicorn pony named Twilight Sparkle. After discovering her great potential that might help change Equestria to a better future, Princess Celestia, the eldest, wisest, and most powerful alicorn and ruler of Equestria, decided to bring Twilight in as her prized pupil. As time went on, Celestia sent Twilight Sparkle to live in Ponyville to study friendship. After Twilight met her friends, Applejack the farm earth pony mare, Rainbow Dash the fastest Pegasi, Fluttershy the soft-spoken Pegasi, Pinkie Pie the cheerful, hyperactive earth pony, and Rarity the fabulous unicorn fashionista, they helped her uncover the most powerful relics used to protect Equestria from any invaders, the Elements of Harmony. From that day forth, Twilight and her friends, now known as the Mane 6, help protect Equestria from any dangers that came in their way. To make things even better, most of the villians that Twilight faced eventually gave up their evil ways and accepted the magic of friendship such as Discord, Trixie, Sunset Shimmer, and Starlight Glimmer.

After Twilight came a long way, Celestia helped grant her the most greatest destiny of all. When Twilight helped finish Star Swirl the Bearded's spell, she became the 4th Alicorn princess of Equestria. All of her friends and her family were rejoicing her newly found path. However, what no pony knew was that Twilight's royal decisions did not come without a price. When Twilight made her royal decisions revolving around creating a democracy by letting other races in, develop new technology to strengthen their land, and helping other ponies find their path regardless of traditional ways, there were a series of protests made against Twilight's reign. Half of the Equestria was afraid to accept Twilight's changes for it might destroy Equestria, dooming millions of lives. 

When Twilight Sparkle was on throne, after one year, disaster struck. The news spread out that Twilight Sparkle had been assassinated in her sleep. All of Twilight's friends, her family, and her followers were suffering because they were forced to see Twilight leave this world. In order to avenge Twilight Sparkle and clear up her dishonored name, Princess Celestia went mad by enforcing all of Twilight's decisions to the fullest without caring what the traditionalists thought. In this case, Celestia's decisions also led to the destruction of her school and more deaths throughout the land. It became so intense that the traditionalists declared a civil war which stuck Equestria like a never-ending dark tide.

The traditionalists did not fight Princess Celestia and her subjects alone in this war, for they had unearthed an ancient kingdom that would do anything to put Celestia in her place. It was known as the Kingdom of Unicornia. It is said that after Princess Platinum, who used to be their ruler, signed the peace treaty to unify the kingdoms of Unicornia and Equestria, she had difficulty in dealing with the very same traditionalists that shattered Twilight's Democracy. After Platinum passed away, a new leadership had risen in Unicornia, with darker and more sinister intentions that will put both kingdoms in mortal danger. Majesty Blueblood, who was the daughter of one of Twilight's killers, led the forces of Unicornia as their one and only Alicorn Queen. At the start of the civil war, Majesty first made her move by attacking Canterlot. Because of how the Bluebloods defiled Princess Platinum's legacy earlier, they had Majesty therefore, tore up Platinum's peace treaty.

Many battles had been fought between Celestia's forces and Majesty's forces during this catastrophic event. Eventually, Celestia started losing the fight, despite the allied  forces of the Crystal Empire and the Changeling Republic. Just a few years later, Unicornia had won the civil war. When the Unicornians stormed through the Canterlot and through the Crystal Empire, the royal sisters and Princess Cadence surrendered to Queen Majesty and were forced to let all of their subjects be either enslaved or executed. After Queen Majesty took over the throne in Canterlot, she let Queen Cicada of the Changeling Insurgents take over the Crystal Empire and helped Tirek rule over the badlands accompanied by Morning Blade's Battalion. All of the reforms that Princess Twilight established were destroyed. Friendship and harmony have turned into hatred, distrust, and violence. 

For 15 years, after they conquered all of Equestria, Unicornia has taken away from every Equestrian pony their rights, their democracy, and their freedom. Furthermore, they tore down what Equestria took centuries to build, terrorized the land with their power, enslaved millions of lives, and crushed all who rebelled against them with an iron hoof. Worst of all, they stole away Equestria's future. With Twilight Sparkle dead and the remaining Princesses of Equestria defeated, there was no hope left for every Equestrian pony, including the remaining Element bearers of Harmony for even they were enslaved by Majesty's tyranny, fearing for the safety of their lives and their families.
> Chapter 1: Almost Lost Hope
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After 15 years have passed, sorrow, depression, death, and tragedy were spread throughout the land. However, one night at Canterlot, when all is quiet, Twilight Sparkle, the alicorn princess who was thought to be dead, slowly opened up her eyes and slowly tried to get back on her hooves. However, the glass lid that was sealed in her coffin prevented her from getting up. 
"What the? Where am I?? Hello??? Is any pony there??? HEY???" Twilight yelped as she was pounded her hooves on the glass lid. "Oh Yeah! That's right!! My magic." Not a moment too soon, Twilight remembered her magic and blasted her way towards freedom.

Upon seeing magic shooting up into the night sky from a distance, one of the Unicornian guards took notice. "Hey!! What's up with that light??" One the Unicornian guards asked Morning Blade, who was on patrol with him.

"I don't know what that is but we better check it out!!" Morning Blade acknowledged as he ordered three more of his guards to accompany him during his immediate investigation. 

As she struggled out of her coffin, Twilight collapsed on the ground, looked around, and found herself in the middle of the Canterlot Memorial Gardens. Looking back at the coffin, Twilight saw her date of birth and her decease date in the front of the coffin. "My decease date?? But that means...." Twilight exclaimed to herself, as her eyes widened. 

"You've been dead for 15 years," A familiar voice spoke to Twilight, finishing her sentence for her. Twilight turns around to see Discord standing a few feet away from her. 

"Discord?! What are you doing here?! What's going on-UGH!!!" Twilight asked but not before she started having pain all over her body. It turned out that her immediate pain came from the fact that her body was reactivating itself.

"I know I have a lot of explaining to do. But first, we have to get out of here right now!!! Some pony's coming!!!!" Discord responded as he snapped his claws. In just an instant, Discord and Twilight disappeared in a flash.

After Discord and Twilight disappeared, Morning Blade showed up at the very same spot where Twilight's grave was at. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF SIR BLUEBLOOD JUST HAPPENED???" Morning Blade said in a stated of shock. Instead of seeing Twilight's corpse, Blade sees an empty coffin and a shattered glass lid lying a few feet away from the coffin. 

"I don't understand, I thought that Princess Celestia left her little bitch to rot in that glass casket," Morning puzzled. He didn't know what to do until one of his men came up to him to follow up in this bizarre scene. 

"Uh sir, you might want to come take a look at this," One of Blade's guards said to him as he pointed at the ground. Morning Blade came up to see a foot print of a cloven hoof and a dragon's footprint. 

"Discord!!" Morning Blade presumed. "He must've been there too."

"Sir, what are your orders?" One of the Unicornian guards asked Morning Blade. 

Not a moment too soon, Morning Blade issued the following order to his guards. "I want you men to find Discord and bring him in for questioning, look everywhere if you must. I don't know what happened here, but I've got a very bad feeling about this!!" Without hesitation, Morning Blade's guards scattered in groups of five all over Canterlot, attempting to capture Discord. 

"General Morning Blade, what's up with all the shouting??" A startled voice grunted behind Morning Blade. As Morning Blade turned around, he saw Amadeus Blueblood in his nightgown, half-asleep and feeling groggy. "I'm still trying to sober up while under the influence of alcohol and I'm trying to sleep in my room. This better be good or else." 

"My apologizes Lord Amadeus, but a ray of light fired up into the sky and when I went to see what was going on, one of the memorial graves was empty," Morning Blade responded to Amadeus. 

"I hope it's not the grave of that tyrannical harlot," Amadeus said in a slurred speech. 

After giving it some thought, Morning Blade made a response. "Sorry sir, but for some reason the corpse of that harlot is nowhere to be found at the moment. Not to worry, however. I have already dispatched some search parties to go after Discord for interrogation." 

"And why does that Draconneques freak have anything to do with this??" Amadeus said while intoxicated. 

"Because Discord's footprints are shown near Twilight's grave," Morning Blade answered.

After hearing all of this, Amadeus got totally livid with Morning Blade, with his face turning red. He then started glaring at Morning Blade before making his speech in front of him. "You better pray they find him. And you better not tell any of this to my daughter Majesty or she will have your head. I mean, it's bad enough that Twilight attempted to destroy Equestria in our presence and now this? Well, you better help your men with this search and make sure they succeed or else!!!" 

"Understood, my lord," Morning Blade acknowledge with a salute as he left the Memorial Gardens without saying anymore.

Somewhere in the slums of Canterlot, Discord and Twilight appeared in a shadowy corner near the city streets. 

"Let's hole up in that abandoned school. No one will see us there," Discord told Twilight as they both went inside the building while he  carried Twilight on his back. Inside, Discord used his magic to summon drapes to seal off all windows and some plunder vines to barricade the doors. 

"Hey, didn't this place used to be Celestia's school?" Twilight asked after seeing all of those familiar designs. Despite Twilight remembering that this school used to be the very same one that she studied in, she saw burnt walls and furniture, shattered windows, torn-up books, and all sorts of debris lying on the floor. 

"It used to be, until a group of terrorists came up and almost burned this place to the ground," Discord answered. 

"What else happened when I was gone?" Twilight asked Discord. 

"I'm afraid things did not go well. Not just for you, but for everypony else. Rarity and Applejack were forced into slavery by the Evil Queen's will. Under the Queen's orders, Rarity was forced to make dresses every single day without any sleep or any food in the Queen's castle, though I was still able to smuggle some snacks into her room unnoticed, and Applejack was forced to work overtime, along with the other earth pony slaves, at the Canterlot farms. However, I was able to save Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie from getting captured and forced into slavery. As for Rainbow Dash and Spike, they're both locked up in prison at Manehattan and they're serving a life-sentence in prison for attacking the Queen." 

"Oh Sweet Faust, not my beloved Spike!!!" Twilight panicked in silence. She remembered that she had raised Spike the dragon, as her adopted son. Upon hearing the horrible fate of Spike, it made Twilight worry about his safety.

"I'm sorry it had to be this way Twilight, but I could not save all of them from their cruel fate. Earlier, while you were gone, a civil war broke out between your people and the traditionalists. To make matters worse, they rallied the armies of Unicornia, which were led by their evil Queen, to force all of Equestria to bow at their hooves. So much death, destruction, and slavery occurred left and right. As for the royal sisters and Princess Cadence, because of how powerful the Queen of Unicornia really is, they fought a losing battle and they, therefore, surrendered, gave up all of their rights, and have been stripped of their powers by the Queen herself; even I could not defeat them, since they almost took away my chaos magic." 

"So who is this Queen that you're mentioning?" Twilight asked Discord. 

"Her name is Majesty Blueblood and she happens to be an alicorn raised by her only father Amadeus Blueblood," Discord explained to Twilight. 

Upon hearing all of this, Twilight started growling to herself thinking that she had lost everything. 

"Amadeus Blueblood, why that no good, ruthless, psychotic, son-of-a-bitch. I should've blasted him a million times when I had the chance," She didn't forget about how Amadeus and his son, Prince Blueblood, made her suffer earlier. She still remembered the sorrowful look on Gallant Heart's face before he slit her throat and ended her life. "I don't know what to think anymore. I mean, I can't stop thinking of the fact that Gallant Heart was hesitant to kill me." 

"Well, I can't really blame him for killing you because I learned from your brother that Gallant was forced to do this in exchange for his brother's life." Discord answered. 

"What?? Really?" Twilight said in shock. "How long have you known this?" 

"I was eavesdropping on Shinning Armour for quite some time before everything in Equestria fell under this shit storm." Discord said. 

"By the way, how's my brother and my family doing? Are they okay?? And what happened to Flash Sentry?" Twilight asked. Discord shook his head. 

"I'm sorry Twilight, but Shinning Armour and your parents are being held in a concentration camp which is north of Canterlot and are forced to work in the mines there. As for Flash Sentry, he committed suicide, unable to live on without you by his side." After hearing what happened to her family and her colt friend, Twilight started crying in silence with tears coming out of her eyes. 

"Oh, Discord. I don't know what to do anymore." She started sobbing on the ground unable to say anymore, until Discord sat by her side and patted her head with his lion paw. "I can't believe this is happening. After all this time, after everything that I did in order to fulfill my destiny,  I feel so hopeless." 

"You're not hopeless, Twilight." Discord protested. "You already showed me, Trixie, Sunset, and Starlight how a true leader should behave. That is, by treating others fairly, giving them things to do without hesitation, without being sinful in all sorts of ways, and by not abusing the power that you possess. It's just like what Princess Sunbutt said: You are an inspiration for us all, Twilight." 

"Yeah, but still, maybe if Celestia had never made me an alicorn princess then none of this would've happened." Twilight said as she continued sobbing. "I mean look at me, I couldn't save my friends. I couldn't save my family. I couldn't even save myself!!!" 

"I know what you're getting at and that handling leadership is a huge responsibility, but that's no excuse for you to get discouraged or negative." Discord said in a calm voice. "You know, when you reformed me, I'm actually grateful for that because you gave me a second chance to understand friendship just like any other pony would. So, there's no point living in the past anymore because you already taught me that friends always stick together and help each other out when the situation turns dire, right?" After hearing what Discord said, Twilight eventually stopped crying and wiped away her tears before looking back at him. 

"Well, even so, I still don't know if there is any hope left for Equestria anymore. After what you said about Amadeus, Unicornia, and Queen Majesty, it sounded like they have already won." 

"Actually, I'm afraid that's where you're wrong Twilight Sparkle. They may have taken over Equestria, but since you came back from the dead, I do believe that there is still hope left." Discord replied with a wide grin on his face. "When they overthrew the royal sisters and Princess Cadence, I was able to escape with my life and I helped some of the ponies and creatures that still believed in your reforms escaped Queen Majesty's reign of terror. Also, I did help Princess Moonbutt escape captivity and helped her get her powers back from Queen Majesty." 

"But how??" Twilight asked.  

"Long story, short. I had one of the former Changeling Republican soldiers disguised himself as Morning Blade after knocking him out cold while freeing Princess Luna and got her out before Morning Blade could recover a few months after their surrender." Discord responded. 

"I'm glad! It serves him right!!" Twilight smirked. She hadn't forgotten that Morning Blade was also one of the guards that wouldn't stop harassing her. 

Discord continued with his speech with Twilight. "Every pony and creature that fled Majesty's presence went down to the sewers. With Princess Luna leading them, she formed a revolutionary group known as the Lunar Republic and started a rebellion against Majesty Blueblood and her forces for the freedom of Equestria. She also wanted me to continue to help free the other ponies and creatures that are still trapped within Unicornia's grip, while she keeps Majesty's forces at bay." Impressed by what Discord said, Twilight finally realized that she had just found an opportunity to get her revenge against the ponies that had betrayed her. 

"So, are Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie with Luna right now?" Twilight asked Discord. 

"Why yes, they are. I'm sure they will be happy to see you again alive and well." Discord said while smiling.

"I can't wait to see them again. I've been gone for so long and I wish to make it up for lost time." Twilight said with a bit of eagerness. 

"Very well." Discord acknowledged Twilight's eagerness. After seeing Twilight Sparkle encouraged once again, Discord gets up on his feet and walks over to a rug on his right. With one tug, he removed the rug revealing a trap door. The moment Discord opened up the trap door, it revealed a ladder that leads to the sewers. 

"This trap door will lead straight to our hideout down in the sewers. So, follow me and stay close." Discord said to Twilight. Discord went down the ladder, with Twilight climbing down next. Twilight used her magic to close the trap door and then covered it up with the rug.
> Chapter 2: The Lunar Republic
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During their 10-minute trek down in the sewers, Discord and Twilight came across a steel door with a sliding window that only opens from the other side.

"Wait here, Twilight," Discord told Twilight. Discord walked up to the steel door and knocked on it. After a few seconds, the sliding window opened up. 

"Who's there?" A female voice from the other side of the door spoke. 

"It's me, Discord. I brought in a new recruit. Trust me, you're not going to believe who it is," Discord responded while smirking. As the steel door opened up, a blue unicorn mare with a white mane appeared. The moment she sees Twilight appear next to Discord, her eyes widen with shock. 

"What the?? No way!! P-Princess Twilight, is that really you?" The Unicorn mare said. 

"Hello, Trixie Lulamoon. It's been awhile since I've seen you," Twilight responded. 

"Wow, I don't believe it. The Great and Powerful Trixie is happy to see you alive and not in that coffin," Trixie responded in a happy tone. "Trixie just can't wait to tell others about this." Trixie lets Discord and Twilight into the doorway before sealing it back up. 

"So Trixie, who's also down here with you?" Twilight asked. 

"Starlight Glimmer, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Sunset Shimmer, Princess Luna, and Gladius Strife are down here with us too. I'm sure they'll all be surprised to see you too," Trixie responded in a happy tone. "We also have several other Lunar Republican resistance groups operating in Baltimare, Manehattan, the Everfree Forest, and in Ponyville. Ever since Princess Luna took command of the Lunar republic, we've been slowly starting to work our way throughout Equestria. First, we dispatch street urchin spies into the city streets, gather information and details, plan out and execute our missions, and then evacuate immediately before enemy reinforcements arrive. We'll get to all of that later." 

When Trixie and Discord went to the briefing room, they see Princess Luna going over the paperwork at her desk, levitating a couple of files and documents with her magic. Behind Luna, there is the banner of the Lunar Republic hanging on the wall. On the left and right of Luna, there is maps and charts for towns and cities displayed on both walls. After a few minutes looking at her paperwork, she sees Discord enter the briefing room, staring at him with an angry look on her face.

"Discord, we received a report that the Unicornians at Canterlot are going on high alert and are looking for you," Luna said glaring at Discord. "What in the name of Queen Faust did you do?? I told you not to leave anything that will arouse any suspicion!!!" 

"My apologizes, Moonbutt. Though, something actually came up," Discord responded to Princess Luna in a nervous grin. "What was it, again? Oh, yes. I know you probably won't believe this but I actually found a new recruit unlike any other." 

"Who is it?" Luna asked, still glaring at Discord. 

"Hello, Princess Luna. Did you miss me?" Twilight said to Luna who appeared behind Discord. The moment Luna saw Twilight appeared, she let a gasp. 

"Twilight? But how can that be???" Luna gasped. "Did Tia, did she really...? She must've tried to revive you with her magic, didn't she?" 

"Yeah well, I'll be thanking her right after we save her from Queen Majesty," Twilight said. "Discord already told me what was going on recently. I was hoping I could find a way to make it up for lost time." 

"You do need some rest first. The sleeping quarters are stationed at the left hallway and during breakfast, the cafeteria will be across the sleeping quarters. Well, discuss on what needs to be done later," Luna suggested to Twilight before tears started coming out of her eyes. "Twilight, it's good to see you again." 

"It's good to see you again too, Luna," Twilight acknowledged. As Twilight left the briefing room, she also ran into Starlight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Sunset at the sleeping quarters. They all stared at Twilight under a state of shock. The moment Fluttershy saw Twilight, she was the first to hug her, while she cried. 

"OH MY GOD!!! TWILIGHT, YOU'RE ALIVE!!!" Fluttershy wailed very loud, as tears started coming out of her eyes like a waterfall. The other three started hugging and crying after seeing Twilight appear before them alive and well.

"I'm missed you too girls," Twilight said to them. After they let go of Twilight, Sunset Shimmer spoke up first. 

"Oh, Twilight. We thought we would never see you again. When I saw you inside that coffin, you had no idea how bad I felt. I'm so glad you're okay," Sunset cried in joy.

"Same here," Starlight Glimmer added.

"I know, it's been a really bad experience for me as a leader," Twilight said, doubting herself. "I should've think twice before making changes to every pony in Equestria."

"Well, that doesn't matter to us anymore, Twilight. You already did what you had to do," Starlight said. "In fact, we were all pretty impressed that you made it this far to inherit Celestia's position, much to our excitement and her approval."

Before any pony could say another word, Pinkie Pie started running towards Twilight, with her mane flowing down while sobbing on her shoulders. 

"I'm so sorry Twilight!!!" Pinkie Pie wailed.

"Sorry about what??" Twilight asked Pinkie.

"When my sister, Marble Pie, went out on a date with that dirtbag Blueblood, I could not help but think that she would spill the beans on where the Orichalcum metal was at in our Pie Farm," Pinkie cried.

Starlight, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Sunset were all shocked after what Pinkie said about her sister.

"What??!! Unbelieveable!!!" Starlight gasped before asking Pinkie Pie. "Why didn't you stop Marble Pie from telling Prince Blueblood about it??"

"Marble was just drunk during that time and I wasn't even there when it happened," Pinkie sniffed.

"Now that I think about it, I bet that metal was the reason why I didn't wake up after Celestia revived me until 15 years later," Twilight explained to herself. After a few seconds of silence, Twilight continued her conversation with Pinkie. "Not that it matters, I'm still concerned for the safety of the rest of our friends and family. So, Pinkie, what happened to your family now?"

"Well, I may have escaped from those deranged meanies thanks to Discord, but the rest of my family is still put into slavery, along with Applejack and the rest of her family," Pinkie sobbed. "To make matters worse, when Unicornia took over Equestria, they forced my family to harvest and ship 10 crates of Orichalcum ore straight to Canterlot every single week, to provide materials to forge Orichalcum weaponry in their armory."

"Oh, Sweet Faust!!" Starlight exclaimed in horror. "This just can't get any worse!!!"

"Starlight, Sunset, how were you able to escape from Unicornia's grip?" Twilight asked the two unicorn mares.

After giving it some thought, Sunset became the first to answer Twilight's question. "Well, back in Canterlot high, I received a warning message from Princess Celestia that Unicornia attacked Canterlot. I was horrified when reading this because I was concerned for the safety of my former mentor. I did not wish to disdain her any further the way I used to disdain you when she let you into the Equestrian Royal Family. So, I decided to pack up for my return trip to Equestria to help Princess Celestia fend off the Unicornian invaders. However, it didn't end well for either of us. The moment they stormed through the palace at Canterlot, I was trying desperately to help the royal sisters evacuate but they refused. Instead, they made their last stand at the throne room in order to buy me some time to escape captivity. Princess Celestia issued one final order to Gladius to escort me down into the sewers. That's when I ran into Discord. He helped me and Gladius setup an underground base there. Luckily, one month later after my escape, I met up with several Changeling Republican Soldiers in the sewers and we planned a rescue attempt on the royal sisters. Discord's group was able to save Princess Luna, but for my group, again, it didn't end well. Instead, me and my group ran into a trap that was made by Lord Tirek and his men using Princess Celestia as bait. I was only one who escaped Tirek's grip but not before my entire group was captured and publicly executed 4 days later. Never-the-less, I still wanted to help the Lunar Republic any way I can."

After Sunset finished explaining her story during this recent dark time, Starlight Glimmer explains her story to Twilight next. "When I heard on the news that Canterlot was under attack by Unicornia, I went to help save Sunburst and Trixie Lulamoon from getting caught up in the crossfire. Unfortunately, Queen Cicada and her Changeling Insurgents laid a siege upon the Crystal Empire. As a result, Princess Cadence and Prince Shinning Armour were unable to help the royal sisters fend off the Unicornian invaders at Canterlot. I teleported to Crystal Empire only to find that the Changelings were able to breach through the Crystal Princess' shield barrier and razed the city to the ground. By the time I went to the town square to find Sunburst, it was too late." The next thing Twilight saw was Starlight Glimmer crying before she continued her story. "As they drained the crystal ponies of their love, they forced Sunburst to serve under Queen Cicada as her personal butler. I fought with her head on in order to save Sunburst from her grip. However, I started to slowly lose the fight because I could feel her powers draining away my love and my magic. Just when all hope seems lost, Trixie appeared out of nowhere and intervened. She unleashed a massive smoke bomb while she dragged me out of the Crystal Empire during the confusion. After Trixie treated me of my injuries, she and I decided to head down below the sewers so that we will not be followed by the enemy."

"Well, it seems that you both need help in dealing with those traitors," Twilight said responded to both of Sunset's and Starlight's stories. "For now, let's get some shut eye. We have a lot of work to do tomorrow."

After Twilight finished her conversation with Fluttershy, Pinkie, Starlight, and Sunset, they all went to their separate bunks and fell asleep. 

"I hope we can help restore Equestria to its former glory someday, despite everything that happened recently," Twilight said to herself before she fell asleep.

Meanwhile, at the Canterlot Palace, after Unicornia took it over, the entire place became filled with black walls, and obisidian towers, all bearing the banners of Unicornia. In the palace hallways, they were Unicornian guard ponies bearing black armor and carrying swords and spears with their magic. As servants make their way through the halls, they were being held under strict surveillance by most of the guards there. Outside, there were slavers dressed in black cloaks and head bands. With their magic, they were whiplashing every earth pony that is slack off from doing their work on the crops. Most of young ponies happened to be innocent mares and colts who were beaten and threatened without mercy. They were covered up in whiplash marks and dried blood stains on all over their bodies. At the throne room, there was Queen Majesty Blueblood, an adult alicorn mare. She had a stainless white body and a silvery-blue mane and tail. She was wearing a golden crown filled with silver, black, and blue jewels. She was sitting at the throne which is now covered up with a black royal carpet with red linings on the edges. She was standing tall above all of her servants and her guards, who were stationed on both of her sides. On her left, there is stained glass windows portraying herself, in which inspires her beauty and admiration to all ponies around her. Despite her regal beauty, she flipped out when one of her servants presented her a dress.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS???" Majesty roared at her servant as she lifts up the dress with her magic and threw it to the floor out of anger. "I ASKED YOU TO MAKE ME A DRESS FILLED WITH BLUE AND SILVER EMBROIDERIES, NOT JUST SOME LAME COMEDIAN TRASH!!!"

"I-I'm sorry your highness, I thought that this is the dress that you asked for," The unicorn servant stammered in fear.

Majesty started growling at the servant with sheer maliciousness in her eyes. "Well, you have 24 hours make me a dress that is perfectly filled with blue and silver embroideries. OR ELSE YOU'RE GOING TO FACE AN ADDITIONAL 10 MORE WHIPLASHES FOR YOUR INCOMPETENCE!!!!"

"Y-Yes, your highness," The frightened servant said as she galloped immediately out of the throne room, before the Queen's anger gets worse.

"Stupid fashionista. I cannot go to that council meeting in Manehattan looking like a clown," Majesty said to herself. After taking a breather, she turns to one of their commanders on her right. 

"Commander Vermillion!" Majesty announced to one of her officers. "What's the situation in Manehatten?"

A black armored, red unicorn stallion with a grey mane, bearing an orange circular strip cutiemark, stepped forward and bowed down to the Queen before responding to her question. "There has been some riots occurring in the western sections of the city. We already suppressed the rioters residing there. When we arrested 15 of them, one of traitors was bearing the emblem of the Lunar Republic."

"I getting sick and tired of those wretched rebels disturbing the peace in Equestria," Majesty snarled as she was drinking a cup of tea that was being held by another of her servants. "Tell the Manehatten guard unit to expand their patrols. I want those Republican infidels found and eliminated for good."

"Yes, your highness," Commander Vermillion acknowledge with a military saluted before leaving the throne room.

"Where's General Morning Blade?" Majesty asked her subjects. "He was supposed to meet up with me this morning after his night patrol outside of the palace?"

Before any pony could say another word, another Unicornian guard stepped forward. "I'm afraid he won't be joining us for awhile. They said that Morning Blade sent out a search party to go after Discord and was ordered by your father to join in the search."

"Get my father over here, now!!" Majesty ordered her guards.

After being yelled at by Queen Majesty Blueblood, the frightened unicorn mare went back into her room, closed the door behind her, and started sobbing on her bed. The mare happens to be none other than Rarity, who was once a lovely white unicorn with a purple mane that is bearing a 3-diamond cutie mark. Despite her natural beauty and style, she degenerated into a tortured mare who had severed whiplashes all over her once beautiful fur and a dried blood stains all over her face. 

"Twilight, Sweetie Belle. I'm so sorry. If only you were both there for me!!!" Rarity cried as her tears came down her eyes as she looked up at the bright blue sky. 





"Rarity, you will be my royal dresser from now on," Majesty said to her. "I'll be sending you the details on the dresses that I want you to make for me. You do that, and your parents and little sister will not suffer while being held at their concentration camps. Do it not, and you'll be whipped 10 times in the dungeons."





After sobbing for one minute, Rarity went back to work, trying to make another dress to satisfy Majesty's personal demands.

Outside of the Palace, there was an earth pony mare named Applejack working at the farms. She was wearing a cowboy hat on her head, have freckles on her face, and is bearing the cutie mark of three apples. She was plowing through the corp fields while being whiplashed by on of the slavers behind her. Despite her best efforts, Applejack was being chained by the neck and by the hooves while plowing through the fields.

"Move it, you little bitch," The Slaver hissed while beating her with a whip. "We haven't got all day."

"Ugh. If only I was able break free from these restraints," Applejack growled quietly to herself.





"No, not ma family!!!" Applejack shrieked after seeing them get dragged in chains by the Unicornians. As she charged forward, knocking down every guard that got in her way, in order to save them, she was met by a rear kick to the face from a Unicornian commander and is sent flying backwards to the ground. Before Applejack had a chance to get back up and fight back, 3 more guards came in, pinned her to the ground, and restrained her.

"Silence, you little earth whore. You should be grateful we didn't harmed them yet. Since you'll be working in the crop fields at Canterlot, you'll do as what we tell you and they will not be hurt," The commander sneered at Applejack, followed by an evil cackle.





"Big Mac, Applebloom, Granny Smith, please be safe y'all," Applejack muttered to herself before resuming her work, followed by a few more whiplashes from her slaver while a small tear came out of her eye.

In the dungeons underneath Canterlot, Rainbow Dash and Spike are both being held in separate jail cells. Spike, who is now a teenage dragon, is sitting on top of his bunk looking down at the ground with tears coming out of his eyes, while they're both closed. "If only my mother wasn't murdered, I'm sure none of this would've happened. I wish those heartless, homicidal assholes drop dead." Spike cried to himself before curling up into a ball on top of his bunk bed. 

As for Rainbow Dash, she was lying on her back on top of the floor in her jail cell. Her entire cerulean body was covered in bruises and burned marks, her wings her broken with barely any feathers showing, and her entire mane was burnt to a crisp. "Well, I wish I hadn't got drunk and said all those horrible things to Twilight when she was warning me about the consequences for my behavior when joining the Wonderbolts. Oh Twilight, I'm so sorry. I should've listened to you." She cried with tears coming out of her eyes.





"There she is, Spike. Let's get her!!!" Rainbow Dash snarled as she flew straight to Majesty's face, attempting to delivered a kick to the skull. However, Majesty dodged Rainbow's attack, used her magic to restrain her, and broke her wings, in which made the pegasus yelp in pain. 

"Is that the best you've got, Rainbow Dash? I was expecting more from the Element bearer of Loyalty!!" Majesty smirked while taunting Rainbow Dash. "So pathetic!!"

"Not quite, asshole!!!" Spike shouted as he charged forward unleashing dragon fire at Majesty.

Unfortunately, after Majesty broke Rainbow Dash's wings, she used her magic to levitate Rainbow in front Spike's attack, using the pegasus as a meat shield. After Spike stopped spewing out fire, he realized that Rainbow was writhing on the ground, screaming in pain as her mane got caught on fire. Upon seeing this, Spike's eyes widen with horror due after doing something that he didn't mean to do.

"OH MY GOD!!! RAINBOW DASH, NO!!!!" Spike screamed. Before he could see what was going on, one of Majesty's guards came from behind and whacked Spike with a war hammer, knocking him out cold.

"Thanks for dropping in lieutenant," Majesty said as she displayed an evil grin on her face. "Now, if you don't mind, I want you to take these two miscreants down to the prison in Manehattan and lock them up for their mutiny."

"Yes, my Queen," The Unicornian lieutenant acknowledged her orders as he dragged Spike and Dash away with his magic.





"If only Twilight and others are still with us during our fight with that wretched alicorn, things would've been different," Rainbow Dash said to Spike. 

"I know, Dash," Spike told the burned out pegasus. "Since it's too late, however, I don't think we'll ever be able see our friends or our family again." 

Spike started crying in silent as he looked up to the window from the cell that he is in.

Next morning, down in the sewers where the Lunar Republic HQ is at, Twilight woke up with a yawn before getting out of her bunk to go eat breakfast at the cafeteria. After breakfast, she meet with the rest of her friends before they went to eat breakfast in the cafeteria. Twilight went back to the briefing room where Luna, Discord, and Gladius are waiting for her arrival.

"Princess Twilight, you're a sight for sore eyes," Gladius said as he bowed down to Twilight. "It's so good to see you again. When Luna told me about what happened to my brother, I could not forgive myself for not being able to stop him from coming after you."

"It's okay, Gladius. I understand," Twilight responded to Gladius. "Though, there is a lot that needs to be done first."

"I know, Twilight," Luna said. "Right now, I want you to listen up because our mission to save Equestria from Unicornia hangs in the balance. We have to do this for our people and for our future. In the Lunar Republic, we have various groups working everywhere in Equestria. Spitfire and her men are operating in the Hollow Shades, Agent Sweetie Drops and her group are operating down in Manehattan's underbelly, and Daring Do's group is operating in Ponyville. All of their HQ's are hiding underneath Unicornia's surveillance, while dispatching their forces everywhere. They've all been carrying out missions in rescuing, infiltrating, sabotaging, assaulting, and assassination every single day and night. Discord and I have been talking about what we went over when he brought you to us. I do want to express my apologizes for not being able to warn you about what Gallant Heart was really up to."

"What do you mean, Luna?" Twilight asked. Upon hearing this, Twilight got curious to see what kind of royal guard is Gallant Heart really is.

"Gallant Heart was actually working for me as an undercover agent. I sent him to infiltrate the Blueblood family earlier before everything went down hill," Luna said. "I should've spoke up during the trial when I had the chance before he was executed by my sister unwillingly. Since it's too late for that, I have to move forward by keeping a closer eye to my other undercover agents. What do you want to do first, Twilight?"

"First, I want to save the rest of my friends, save our families or whatever is left of them, and then find a way to overthrow Majesty Blueblood and her father Amadeus Blueblood," Twilight answered Luna's question.

"I understand, but first, in order to make it up to you, I'll teach you the same way I taught Gallant Heart," Luna spoke up in a intense voice. "Not as an undercover agent, but as a Lunar Republican commando or should I say LR commando for short."

"Lunar Republican commando? Never heard of it," Twilight said in a shocked tone. After realizing what Luna said, Twilight figured that it is best to follow Luna's advice than rather just Celestia's advice alone because it may be her only chance to bring all of her killers to justice.

"Tia may have taught you on how to use your magical abilities with proper care and control," Luna explained revolving around Twilight's past educational experience while under Princess Celestia's tutelage. "But unlike from her teachings, a Lunar Republican commando is known not only for his or her magic, but also for their superior fighting skills, agility, survival, and covert warfare. During my reign, as an alicorn princess, I created the Lunar Republican commandoes to serve under me as a Equestrian Secret Service Agency for over more than a thousand years. We're known to work in the darkness to serve the light. During our days of recruitment, about 2,000 ponies from the military and the noble families, that were still loyal to me and my sister, have been selected to undergo this kind of training but only 25 of them succeed. That is where you come in, Twilight. Ever since Unicornia has taken over Equestria, the LR commandoes have been scattered all over country and I had lost contact with all of them. So, I'll have no choice but to recruit more LR commandoes in order to help turn back the tide. Furthermore, you will not be proceeding through this training alone, I've also planned to train Starlight Glimmer, Sunset Shimmer, and Trixie Lulamoon with you during this rigorous course."

"What? Is that true, guys?!" Twilight asked as she turned around to face the three unicorn mares that just entered the briefing room all at once, with her eyes widened with shock.

"Sorry about that Twilight, we should've told you about this," Starlight said to Twilight. "But we have to keep this a secret between all of us unicorns or else our entire campaign will be put into jeopardy. I hope that after Luna taught me on how to be a LR commando, I might be able to successfully save Sunburst from Cicada."

"If I were to rescue Princess Celestia from her captivity again, I have to take it to a whole new level first," Sunset Shimmer added. "And being an LR commando maybe my only chance to prove my worth for all of Equestria."

"The Great and Powerful Trixie will do anything to help you save Equestria, even if she were to take very high risks," Trixie said in a very encouraging voice towards Twilight Sparkle.

"So, Twilight, will you accept this position?" Luna asked.

"Luna, now that you mentioned it, I can't help but notice, until the last minute, I've been running away from my problems on the very day that Princess Celestia brought me in as her star student. After everything she taught me, I thought I can make a living here in Equestria, along with the ponies that I cared about. However, when I learned from the Bluebloods and their associates the hard way, I didn't want to think that every single decision that I make is a big deal to them. I didn't want any violence to occur and I didn't want to let ponies think that I'm a threat. However, since they pushed me to far like that with extreme prejudice, I will have no choice but to make an exception. I'm afraid that my time with politics is now over. The time for retribution is about to begin. Therefore, I ACCEPT YOUR OFFER!!!!" Twilight replied to Princess Luna in a royal Canterlot voice.

"Very well then, we shall begin our training at once," Luna announced to Twilight and the rest of the unicorn mares.
> Chapter 3: Rescuing Rarity
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

After 3 months of LR commando training under the guidance of Princess Luna, Twilight, Trixie, Sunset, and Starlight are able to perform new skills to their advantage against the enemies of Equestria. Twilight Sparkle was able to excel in, strategic planning, close-combat skills, aerial attacks, and with the use of various bladed and long-shafted weapons such as halberds, swords, axes, and spears. Trixie was able to learn new evasive actions, new illusionary and summoning spells, cunning, and guerrilla tactics. Starlight Glimmer was able to successfully learn on how to wield heavy, blunted weapons, such as warhammers and flails, and with the use of performing distractions to confuse and ambush her opponents. As for Sunset Shimmer, she was able to learn on how to use firearms, such as  flintlocks and musket rifles, explosives, and taking good vantage points in order to provide covering or sniper fire. All three unicorns and the purple alicorn were able to learn stealth, infiltration, and using disguises whenever they needed too. As soon as they're all done with their training, they were told to report to Princess Luna for their very first mission in the Lunar Republic. For Pinkie Pie, she decided to help the Lunar Republic by scavenging, smuggling, and stealing weapons and equipment from the Canterlot Armory that might provide the LR commandoes some good advantage. Fluttershy was trained by Nurse Redheart and Zecora to be an assistant medic and create new combat drugs for Twilight and her team to use during their missions.

"All right, every pony. This is it!!" Princess Luna announced to the group. "Your first couple of missions will be revolving around rescuing our comrades in enemy territory. You will do whatever it takes to rescue your friends and bring them down to the sewers, so that Nurse Redheart will be treating them of their injuries if they have any, by using what you all learned from your training. However, every mission you do must be done as quickly and efficiently as possible before enemy reinforcements arrive. Remember, always plan ahead first, stay close to each other, and find an escape route in the area you're in. Good luck, every pony."

"You all heard what Princess Luna said," Twilight told the rest of the group. "Let's go get our friends back." Without hesitation, Twilight, Trixie, Sunset, and Starlight made their way out of the sewers and into the alleyways during daylight hours. The unicorns are all wearing cloaks to hide themselves from the public.  

"Okay guys, let's try not to attract too much attention," Twilight told her comrades. "We'll start with rescuing Rarity." While hiding in the shadows, Twilight uses her magic, while under her hood, to bring out a map of the Canterlot Palace. 

"According to one of Luna's spies, Rarity is presumed to be held in the eastern tower at the Canterlot Palace!" Twilight announced her plan to the group. "Since Majesty Blueblood is preparing to leave Canterlot for another delegation at Baltimare in 30 minutes, we'll wait until she leaves. We have a few hours to rescue Rarity before she returns. About 4 guards will be stationed at entrance of the tower and they switch places every 2 hours. In total, there will be 25 guards stationed nearby. Sunset, you go find a good vantage point west of the eastern tower that's clear enough for you to see the full view of the guards and the entrance of the tower and eliminate any guards that get too close to our position. Starlight, I want you to find a way to lure the four guards away from the eastern tower and kill them silently. Trixie, you follow me to the eastern tower as soon as it's clear and stay close, no matter what. Starlight, as soon as we have Rarity in our custody, you met us at the southern tower, there will be a sewer grate in the basement beneath that tower. Sunset, as soon as we leave the area, rendezvous with us at down below the sewers. We'll discuss our plan of rescuing Applejack as soon as we head back to HQ with Rarity in our custody. I want you all to use these ear-buds so that we can communicate with each other during the mission. Any questions?"

All three unicorns shook their heads, assuming that they all have their orders, while each of them took an ear-bud from Twilight before proceeding. Starlight went on ahead to find a different entrance leading to the eastern tower of Canterlot Palace while Twilight and Trixie took the main entrance while wearing both of their hoods over their heads. Sunset went up to the western area of the palace. Up the stairs to her vantage point, she spots a Unicornian guard standing over the balcony, facing in the direction of the eastern tower. Wasting no time, Sunset uses her magic to pull out a knife from her cloak before she snuck up to the unaware guard. Before the guard could do anything, he had his mouth covered by Sunset's hoof as he felt a knife slit across his throat. After blood spilled out of the guard's throat on onto his guard armor, he collapse dead on the floor. After Sunset hid the guard's body, she took out her musket rifle, which is equipped with a X2 scope, and a silencer, and loaded a single bullet into the chamber of the rifle. Sunset, then, aimed her rifle at the 4 Unicornian guards but not intending to shoot them. 

"Twilight, this is Sunset. I'm in position," Sunset said as she spoke to Twilight through the ear-bud.

"Understood," Twilight acknowledged to Sunset with her ear-bud. "Starlight, what's your status, over?"

"I'm behind the eastern tower," Starlight responded through her ear-bud. "Let me know if you and Trixie are nearby."

"Trixie, lets go!!" Twilight whispered to her before proceeding to the palace entrance while waiting until Majesty leaves the Canterlot for her meeting. "And try not to attract too much attention to yourself, okay?"

"Understood," Trixie acknowledged sheepishly.

Meanwhile, at the eastern tower at the Canterlot Palace, Rarity was finally able to make dresses to completely satisfy Queen Majesty Blueblood. However, it didn't changed the fact that Rarity will never be free from the evil Queen's captivity.

"OH, WOE IS ME-E-E-E!!!" Rarity cried in tears. "If only my Spikey-Wikey wasn't captured by that horrible alicorn queen, he would've been able to come to my rescue."

Outside of the tower, the 4 guards that were positioned near the door could hear Rarity's whining and sniveling.

"Ugh!! that unicorn is driving me nuts," One of the guards complained after hearing Rarity's sobbing for almost 10 minutes. "I wish they would give her 20 more whiplashes than rather just 10 sometimes."

"Or maybe cut out her tongue so that no pony will hear her scream anymore," The second guard suggested.

"Well let's not come up with any crazy ideas yet," The third guard protested. "We all have strict orders not to do anything other than stay on guard outside of this tower's entrance, unless ordered otherwise."

"Hello, boys. How's it going?" Morning Blade asked the four guards while on his routine patrol. "I hope you didn't plan on trying anything stupid, right?"

"Of course not general," The fourth guard responded to Morning Blade while ignoring Rarity's whining that is coming from inside the tower. 

"SHUT UP, YOU LITTLE WHORE!!!" Morning Blade roared at Rarity while she was sobbing inside the tower. "Man, I wish we had the chance to gag her and tie her up. Well, keep up the good work boys. I'll be down at the barracks. If something goes wrong while any of you are on guard duty, you know where to find me."

After Morning Blade finished with his speech with his guards, he went downstairs to see Majesty Blueblood, in her new regal dress walking towards the exit of the palace with her escorts, led by Commander Vermillion and Colonel Black Scythe, who happened to be a female grey pegasus with black mane and tail. She bears the cutie mark of two black scythes crossing over each other and is wearing dark-blue armor and helmet with grey linings.

"I take it you'll have everything under control when I'll be away for a while?" Majesty asked Morning Blade.

"Not to worry my queen," Morning Blade responded to the alicorn. "I'll keep in touch if something goes wrong."

"Very well then," Majesty said in a calm voice. "One more thing, next time if my father was giving you orders, let me know first before I can make my decision."

"Understood your highness," Morning Blade acknowledged as he bowed down to the queen before she made her way out of the city, escorted by Vermillion and Black Scythe. 

From the window of his room, Amadeus watched as he let his daughter leave Canterlot before going down to the kitchen to get some tea.

Meanwhile, back at the balcony where Sunset Shimmer is hiding at, she spots Majesty Blueblood leave Canterlot on a royal caravan. "Twilight, this is Sunset." Sunset spoke to Twilight through the ear-bud. "The Queen has left the city. I repeat, the Queen has left the city."

"That's our cue. Trixie, let's move it!" Twilight said to Trixie, only to find that Trixie was staring at a group of unicorns performing a magic show nearby a coffee shop, much to Trixie's interest. "I SAID, LET'S MOVE IT!!!"

"What?! O-Okay!!" Trixie yelped after hearing Twilight's loud whispering.

As Twilight and Trixie made their way toward the entrance of the Canterlot Palace, they see the guards standing at their posts unaware of their presence. Not wanting to attract attention, both unicorns went to the left and found a rusty grate underneath the wall. Trixie used her magic to silently cut out an opening before she and Twilight went through the opening. As soon as they got inside the palace walls, Twilight used her magic to seal up the grate before moving on. 

"Twilight, I got a tango heading your way!!" Sunset silently said on her ear-bud.

"Take him out!" Twilight responded to Sunset.

Before the guard spotted Twilight and Trixie, Sunset fired a shot from her rifle. The next thing the guard knew, a bullet struck on the side of his head and exploded into a bloody mess before he collapsed on the ground. Trixie dragged and hid the dead guard in a nearby bush before moving forward.

Meanwhile, back at the tower where Rarity was held, one of the guards started holding himself with his hooves.

"Uh, guys? I think I need to go take a leak," The guard said.

"Well try not take too long," The other guard responded. "We only have 20 minutes left before we switch places."

From a distance away, Sunset spotted the guard leaving his post to go take a leak. Not wanting to have Starlight exposed, she immediately switched channels on her ear-bud to warn her.

"Starlight there is a guard headed your way," Sunset said to her in a whispered tone.

"I got him!" Starlight responded as she came out of her hiding place and snuck up behind him, as she raised her warhammer up high above his head. "Bottom's up, motherfucker."

"Did some pony just said something?" The guard said to himself before he finished with his leak. 

The only respond the guard received was a crushing blow to his skull before he fell face flat on the ground, dead.

"Starlight, we're close to the tower. Where are you?" Twilight said through her ear-bud.

"I'm still behind the tower!" Starlight responded to Twilight. "I just took out one guard while on his bathroom break."

"Alright then, change of plans. Trixie, Starlight, get behind cover. We'll take the down the other the three guards all at once!!" Twilight silently ordered both unicorns.

As Twilight and Trixie hid behind separate bushes, that were a few feet way from the tower, Starlight Glimmer snuck up behind the wall, right next to the third guard, while using her magic to unsheathe a dagger from underneath her cloak. Underneath their hiding spots, Twilight and Trixie used their magic to pull out their mini crossbows and aimed at the two guards. Both crossbow bolts struck the two guards in their necks before they fell down while the third guard was grabbed by the mouth and had his throat slit by Starlight.

"Twilight, we have 15 minutes before the next 4 guards show up!" Sunset said to Twilight on the ear-bud.

"Okay. Guys, help me hide the bodies!" Twilight said to Trixie and Starlight.

They used their magic to carry the dead bodies into a huge hedge, while Trixie used a potion to make the fresh blood stains disappear in an instant. After that, Twilight used her magic to unlock the door that Rarity was in. The frightened unicorn gasped as see saw the door open with three cloaked ponies standing in front of her.

"No! No! Mercy, please!!!" Rarity shrieked, fearing that she would get tortured again.

"It's okay Rarity, it's us!!" Twilight while still wearing her hood over her head. 

Upon hearing this, Rarity's eyes widen. "T-Twilight?? Is that you???" Rarity asked with fresh tears coming out of her eyes.

"Yes. It's me Rarity," Twilight said as she took off her hood, revealing herself. 

As Twilight stepped forward, Starlight Glimmer and Trixie Lulamoon also took off their hoods, revealing themselves.

After seeing Twilight again, Rarity ran up to her and started hugging Twilight as she started crying with tears of joy.

"Oh my Faust!!! Twilight, darling, you're alive!!" Rarity exclaimed to herself. "But how can that be?? Starlight!! Trixie!! How did you guys find me here???"

"It's a long story Rarity," Twilight said to her. "Right now, we need to get you out of here. Sunset Shimmer will cover our retreat."

Rarity responded with a nod before Twilight carried Rarity with her shoulders. During their trek down the southern tower, Trixie and Starlight went on ahead to make sure the area is clear before proceeding further. At the Southern tower, Trixie sees the four guards that were stationed at the entrance of the tower leave their posts. As soon as the area is cleared Trixie and Starlight moved in while escorting Twilight and Rarity to the tower's basement.

Meanwhile, after Amadeus is done drinking his tea, he left the kitchen to go get some fresh air outside. However, despite the natural scent of fresh air, he started smelling something stinky coming from the bush.

"Ugh! What is that horrible smell??" Amadeus grunted as he held his nostrils with his right hoof. 

On his right he, noticed that there is a hoof sticking out from a nearby bush with flies buzzing over it. When he went over the bush and looked what is underneath it, he started at it under a state of shock and horror. Before he knew what was happening, Amadeus started vomiting all over the pavement. Not a moment too soon, Morning Blade appeared after he left the barracks only to find Amadeus vomiting on the ground. 

"My Lord!!! What's wrong??" Morning Blade asked Amadeus.

Before he could say another word, Amadeus pointed at the bush with his hoof. When Morning Blade looked to see what was inside that bush, his eyes widened with horror.

"Oh, shit!!!" Morning Blade said to himself as he raised the alarm. 

All of the guards on duty and in the barracks came up to the palace grounds. The moment they saw Morning Blade and Amadeus, Morning Blade immediately issued the following order: "Soldiers, secure the entire area and put it under complete lockdown. Send a word to Queen Majesty. Tell her that an immediate string of murders have occurred at Canterlot."

"Twilight, Morning Blade has spotted the bodies and raised the alarm!!" Sunset alerted Twilight.

"Sunset, stay right where you are but do not engage unless I tell you to. Starlight, get Rarity to the hideout!!" Twilight ordered to both mares before issuing any orders to Trixie. 

"Understood," Starlight acknowledged Twilight's orders as she carried Rarity down the sewers.

The moment Starlight disappeared into the sewers with Rarity, Twilight closes the sewer grate before issuing new orders to Trixie Lulamoon.

"Trixie, help me.... Trixie?? Where is Trixie???" Twilight shouted, realizing that Trixie vanished without warning. "JESUS CHRIST, I told her to stay close to me!!!!"

"Uh Twilight, this is Sunset," Sunset whispered through Twilight's ear-bud. "Trixie is getting nabbed by Morning Blade's guards."	

"I guess I'm going to have no choice then," Twilight growled to herself in anger.

Meanwhile, during the time that Twilight and Starlight helped Rarity get down to the sewers, Trixie got distracted after seeing her old wizard cape and hat in the storage room. Before she could retrieve them both she turned around only to see a Unicornian guard appeared behind her. As soon as the guard could drew out his sword, Trixie charged at him with all her might, disarming him with both of her front hooves. The guard immediately shoved Trixie to a nearby wall only for the light-blue unicorn to kick him in the stomach with her hind legs and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. However, before Trixie could finish the guard off with her mini-crossbow, another guard appeared behind her. This time, he grabbed Trixie with a headlock before the other guards came in and hold her down. 

Outside of the southern tower, during the commotion, the guards that restrained Trixie appeared before Amadeus and Morning Blade. 

"General Blade, we caught an intruder sneaking around in the storage room underneath the southern tower." One of the guards said to Morning Blade while still holding Trixie with a headlock.

The moment Trixie sees Morning Blade and Amadeus glaring directly at her with hostility in their eyes, she smiled nervously and squeed out of embarrassment for getting caught.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the great and powerful lunatic, Trixie Lulamoon." Morning Blade said as he sneered at her before asking her, while pointing at his dead guards. "What are you doing here?! Did you do this to my men?!" 

After hearing his question, Trixie spat at Morning Blade in face. After Blade wiped the spit off his face, he slapped at Trixie across the face with his right hoof. 

"I'll take that as a yes," Morning Blade said himself before continuing his interrogation with the female unicorn. "How many people you've got with you??"

"Just your mom!!!" Trixie said in a cackling, lying tone of voice. 

*GACK!!!*

*COUGH!! COUGH!!*

*URGH!!!*

Trixie felt a hard punch in the stomach in which was caused by an angry Morning Blade. As a result, the light-blue unicorn started spitting out blood as she gasped for air coming out of her lungs.

"You lying little piece of shit!!!" Morning Blade hissed. "If you don't tell me the truth, you are going to get beaten to death in less than a second, do you understand me?! I'm not going to ask you again. Who sent you down here??" 

"Your mane dresser!!!" Trixie said while laughing, which was silenced by another punch in the stomach.

"ARGH!!! Y-YOU...I-I....URGH!!!!" Morning Blade shouted in frustration, not being able to get anything out of Trixie. "Guards, lock this unicorn lunatic up for now; we'll deal with Trixie later. And notify Queen Majesty Blueblood that there was a-"

*AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!*

Just like that, Morning Blade and Amadeus Blueblood heard more blood curdling screams coming from inside the southern tower, nearly startling the both of them at once. Next thing they saw was a cloaked pony coming out of the tower and stop a few feet away from them.

"I want my friend back, now!!!" The cloaked pony said in an angry voice.

"W-Who are you?" Morning Blade asked the cloaked pony.

"Morning Blade!! Amadeus Blueblood!!" The cloaked pony snarled at Morning Blade and Amadeus. "Did you guys miss me?!!"

"WHAT THE??? TWILIGHT SPARKLE??!!!" Amadeus shrieked as his eyes widen with horror, while finding it unbelievable that the very same alicorn princess that he ordered Gallant Heart and men to kill would actually appear right in front of them and starting speaking to him in a very hostile voice. "Y-YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE D-DEAD!!!!????"

"Shut the hell up, you heartless scumbag!!" Twilight snarled at Amadeus as she unveiled her hood revealing herself, also much to Morning Blade's horror. 

Upon seeing the two corrupted ponies, Twilight glared at Amadeus and Morning Blade with sheer anger and hate while growling underneath her breath.

"Then, that means.... Oh, Shit!!! Discord must've found you alive and helped you escape after you broke free from your coffin, didn't he?!" Morning Blade exclaimed.

Twilight nodded while smirking at them.	

"Like I was saying, give me back my friend Trixie Lulamoon and I won't cause any more further damage to you and your men," Twilight growled while threatening Morning Blade and Amadeus Blueblood.

"You fool. Don't you get?! It's over, Twilight Sparkle. We already won over Equestria. Your pathetic wish for spreading friendship and harmony is useless to us. My daughter, Queen Majesty has already ascended the throne in Canterlot and your fellow princesses are all done for," Amadeus snapped at Twilight. "We can't have both of our destinies occurring all at the same time. One must sacrifice the other for the sake of all of Equestria. It is, therefore, the law of our land."

Undaunted by Amadeus' speech, Twilight refuses to back down. 

"Law of our land, my flank!!! I was just trying to be fair with you and your people but you never believed in me and you never gave me a chance to prove myself otherwise. As a result, all of my friends and my family are suffering under the hooves of Unicornia because of you!!! But no matter, I will find a way to rescue them all and when I'm done with that, I'll be coming after you next, you and your daughter," Twilight vowed to herself as she made a dauntless stance against her number one political nemesis.

"Well, you can't always get what you what, girl!!" Morning Blade laughed while taunting at Twilight. "I've been in the military even before you and your brother were even born and me and my family were the closest to serve directly under the Blueblood family for more than a 100 years. Because of that, I always believed in the Blueblood family more than I believed in Princess Celestia. You, however, are just a tool to fall under that foolish miserable excuse of a sun princess. You no longer have any loyalty towards the royal sisters no more and no longer have any loyalty towards the rest of Equestria no more. So, what are you going to do about it now, huh??"

Despite most of Morning Blade, his guards, and Amadeus laughing at Twilight, along with the ones who are still restraining Trixie, Twilight still remained morally and mentally tough. Trixie smirked and gave a silent nod to Twilight while they aren't looking. As she noticed Trixie's facial gestures and body language, Twilight uses her hoof to activate her ear-bud as she makes contact with Sunset Shimmer.

"Sunset, get ready to fire on my command," Twilight whispered to Sunset with her ear-bud. 

"Understood," Sunset quietly replied to Twilight with her ear-bud.

As Twilight turned towards the ponies who are still laughing at her, she made one more speech.

"Well guys if you put it that way, then right now I am going to do what I should've done 15 years ago," Twilight growled as she drew out her great sword with her magic from underneath her cloak, along with a severed head of one of the pony guards that she killed in the southern tower.

Her great sword was a long, pointed steel, and sharp edged blade, embroidered with purple and blue gems incased inside a golden handle grip. The metal on the sword was forged with orichalcum ore. Upon seeing all of this, Morning Blade and his men stopped laughing. Before they knew it, they've all been startled with fear as they see Twilight hurl the guard's severed head towards their hooves. The next thing that Twilight did was that she marched forward to their position as she readies her weapon, preparing to strike back at her would-be killers.

"Twilight, No! No!! No!!!" Morning Blade fearfully stammered as he waved his hoof in a denial gesture. After realizing what Twilight is about to do, Morning Blade started panicking as his eyes widened with horror. 

"MY LORD, GET BEHIND ME!! NOW!!!" Morning Blade shouted at Amadeus as he used his magic to drag Amadeus out of harms way.

"RRRAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!" Twilight roared in a furious war cry while she immediately struck at the guard on her right with her sword with full velocity and with full force. 

Before he could even react, the guard made a deathly gurgle after he felted his throat slashed and gushing out blood from his neck, before he fell on the ground, dead. On her left, Twilight stabbed the second guard in the stomach with her sword, pulling it out, and slashed at his throat before he even had chance to draw out his sword.

"KILL HER!!!" Morning Blade ordered his guards, not wanting to get attacked by Twilight Sparkle. "DON'T STAND THERE, KILL HER!!!!"

Just as most of the guards drew out their swords and their spears, Trixie, who was still restrained by her captors, used her magic to summon a smoke bomb that exploded right under their hooves.

"Hey, where did that light-blue unicorn go??" One of the guards said while being startled during the confusion, realizing that Trixie broke free from their grip.

"Surprise, mother fuckers!!!" Trixie said as she appeared after the smoke disappeared and started joining in the fight with the Unicornian guards, while lighting up her horn as she cast one of her battle spells at them.

Before they could see what was coming, Trixie unleashed a volley of magic missiles, adding a small chain lighting reaction to her spell. Upon impact, the missiles exploded and set of an electric discharge that shocked any nearby guards that got too close to the small explosions. 

During the fight, Twilight sheathed her sword, flapped her wings, made a backward flip, and flew up into the air, dodging the enemy spear formation that was directly aimed at her.

"SUNSET, FIRE!!!!" Twilight shouted through her ear-bud while in mid-air.

After hearing Twilight's orders, Sunset starting firing her rifle down on the unsuspecting guards, delivering bloody head shots whenever possible. Twilight drew out her halberd, in which has the same features as her sword, and performed an aerial ace with her halberd pointing straight at her enemies. Unable to counterattack such a move, the guards that were in Twilight's sights were stabbed, hacked, and knocked to the ground with full fury. 

After all the guards are neutralized, Morning Blade and Amadeus fled with their lives. However, Twilight, who was still in the air, caught up to them and attacked them with full fury. Morning Blade was the first to see Twilight heading straight for them and made a defensive battling posture to protect Amadeus.

"N-No, wait!!! S-Stay back!!!" Morning Blade shrieked with fear while drawing out his sword. 

Unfortunately, just as soon as Twilight drew out her sword and clashed blades with Morning Blades' sword, Twilight grabbed him by the neck, head butted him, and shoved him straight into a wall on his right. After he hit his head on the wall, Morning Blade fell backwards and landed on the ground, unconscious. For Amadeus, after seeing what Twilight did to Blade before she angrily marched forward to his position, he started shaking in fear for his life, unable to move anymore.

"N-Now, look. W-We can resolve this. I-I know how you feel. W-We should talk. W-We can work this out," Amadeus stammered before he was met with a punch to the face by Twilight's hoof, knocking him to the ground. "You have no idea...."

Despite Amadeus begging for mercy, Twilight repeatedly grabbed him by the hair and threw several more punches at Amadeus while he was on the ground. Before, he can get up, Amadeus felt his hair being pulled by Twilight's magic. The next thing he knew, Twilight drew out a small knife and slashed at Amadeus in the left eye, injuring it. After that, Twilight let go of Amadeus and watched him squirm on the ground, screaming, while clutching his left eye with his hooves as blood started coming out of it. Before Twilight can do anymore damage to Amadeus, her ear-bud started beeping, indicating that Sunset is trying to contact the purple alicorn from the eastern tower.

"Twilight, enemy reinforcements are heading your way," Sunset said to Twilight on the ear-bud.

"Copy that, get out of there," Twilight responded to Sunset on the ear-bud before she turned to face Amadeus, while snarling at him. "We'll settle this for another time, Amadeus, but for now, let this be a lesson for you!!!" 

As Amadeus looked up, he sees Twilight lighting up her horn with her magic before she teleports herself away from the carnage in the Canterlot Palace grounds, followed by a disappearing flash.

"So long, sucker!!!" Trixie laughed and wooed as she spit out raspberries at Amadeus before she used her magic to teleport herself away from the scene too.

After Twilight, Trixie, and Sunset have all disappeared from sight, Amadeus slowly got up on his hooves only for him to trip on his hooves due to his injured state. 

"ARGH!!! C-CURSE YOU, TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!!!" Amadeus shouted to himself as he fell on the ground, still bleeding from his left eye, in frustration that his plan of assassinating the alicorn princess went up in smoke.

Meanwhile at Baltimare, after the delegation, Majesty Blueblood was being escorted to Bistro to eat lunch there. During her lunchtime, one of her guards came storming into the restaurant trying to speak to Majesty.

"My Queen, we have a situation back in Canterlot," The guard said to Majesty as he pull out a scroll from his guard armor. 

After reading what was said on the scroll, Majesty spitted out her beer and started storming out of the Bistro, leaving behind a small bag of bits to pay for her lunch.

"Keep the change," Majesty said to the waiter as she went back to her caravan for an immediate ride back to Canterlot.
> Chapter 4: Finding Applejack
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Meanwhile down into the sewers, before Twilight, Trixie, Starlight, Rarity, and Sunset proceeded forward to their underground HQ. Twilight wishes to have a talk to Trixie, despite their successful rescue mission. Before any of the unicorns knew what was going on, Twilight angrily smacked Trixie across the face in an instant with her front right hoof.

"TRIXIE LULAMOON, WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING BACK THERE?!!!" Twilight Sparkle lividly roared at Trixie in a Canterlot voice. "JUST WHAT PART OF 'STAY CLOSE TO ME' DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND???"

After a few minutes, Trixie turns around to face Twilight, while feeling her bruise on her face with her hoof.

"Well, I-I uh..." Trixie stammered in fear not knowing what to say, while the rest of the unicorns started at Twilight with their eyes widen with shock and fear.

"I was about to exfiltrate the palace when I noticed that you weren't there with us when we got Rarity out. Before I could do anything else, Sunset told me on my ear-bud that you were being restrained by Morning Blade's guards," Twilight angrily added. "YOU ALMOST GOT US KILLED!!! In fact, I just had to expose my identity and fought my way through Morning Blade's guards before saving your sorry flank."

"I-I'm sorry Twilight," Trixie apologized in a cowering tone of voice. "I just missed being my old self again. I found my old wizard stuff and my traveling wagon in the Canterlot's storage area and I tried to get it back from them but not before I got caught. During the invasion back in Canterlot, I escaped in a flash but not before realizing that I left most of my stuff behind at the palace."

"Argh, you..." Twilight said angrily at Trixie, unable to come up with anymore words to say due to her frustration for a few seconds. After taking a few deep breaths and stretching her hoof from her chest and away from her, Twilight continued with her sentence towards Trixie while still glaring at her in a stern look. "Don't you realize that we have more important things that need to be taken care of, than rather recovering and retrieving lost items??!! DO YOU??!!!"

"Now look, darling. I'm sure Trixie didn't really mean it." Rarity told Twilight in a sympathetic way. 

"Rarity, her actions almost put our entire mission into jeopardy." Twilight responded to her fashionista friend in a stressed out tone. "It's bad enough that most of my friends got captured and enslaved by the enemy. When Princess Luna gave me an offer that I cannot refuse, in order to redeem myself, I promised myself not to leave another friend behind."

"You know what? Why don't we deal with Trixie's idiocy later, Twilight?" Starlight suggested to her. "We still need to get back to HQ for a debriefing."

"I guess you're right Starlight," Twilight huffed, finally calming down from her immediate anger with Trixie's disobedience. "Let's go."

Not a moment to soon, the 5 unicorns proceed further into the sewers before heading back to HQ. As for Trixie, she is still shaken from the fact that her actions had almost put every pony in Twilight's group in even more bigger danger than they're already in. After getting beaten by Morning Blade, Trixie could not help but almost wasted her own life thinking that she would meet the same fate as Twilight's friends did. Despite experiencing such trauma, Rarity patted on Trixie's back telling her that everything will be okay once they reach their HQ.





Meanwhile back at Canterlot, Queen Majesty was able to make it back with the help of Vermillion and Black Scythe, while being escorted by her Royal Caravan. By the time Majesty looked through the window of her Royal Stagecoach, she sees medics and guards all swarming all over the palace. As soon as the Unicornian Queen got out of her Royal Caravan, the moment they stopped, Majesty immediately went on ahead to investigate the situation. When Majesty asked her guards to if her father is okay, they brought her to the medical tent. As soon as she went inside, Majesty was notified by one of the doctors that all 25 guards are dead, all in one day. However, her father was still alive. Unfortunately, the moment Majesty got closer to check up on her father, she noticed that Amadeus has a big bandage covering up his left eye and a couple of bruises all over his face. As for Morning Blade, he's still lying on a stretcher unconscious, while suffering from a traumatic brain injury, and is scheduled to be sent to the hospital to perform an immediate brain surgery.

"Father!!! Are you okay??" Majesty asked in a panicked state. "What happened?? Who did this to you???"

Majesty hadn't forgotten that after she defeated Princess Luna before the end of the civil war, she nearly used up all of her magic in order to perform an exorcism on her father. It was the only way to drag Luna's Tantabus from Amadeus' body for good. Right now, she's starting to have a breakdown not knowing what to do anymore since Amadeus got attacked again. The moment Amadeus turned around to see his daughter, he took a deep breath before he responded to Majesty's question.

"An incursion took place in our castle grounds. All 25 of our guards were massacred during the line of duty. You're not going to believe who showed up while causing all of that bloody mayhem." Amadeus said to Majesty while still traumatized from his injuries. "It was Twilight Sparkle, she came back from the dead to seek vengeance on us!!!"

"What?!! But father, you told me that Princess Twilight was dead!!!" Majesty said to Amadeus, unable to think clearly about how all of this started. 

"It turns out that not only did we underestimated Twilight Sparkle, we also underestimated Princess Celestia as well!!!" Amadeus explained to his daughter with a new theory. "I know Celestia. Her magic revolves around powerful healing and revival abilities and has been practicing them every single day. She must've tried to revive Twilight earlier before she gave up and never realized how successful she was until the last minute. What's worse, Twilight Sparkle already had accomplices helping her out. They already vanished leaving no traces."

"My Queen! You've got to take a look at this." One of the guards said to Majesty as he led her to the eastern tower.

When Majesty got to the eastern tower, she went inside only to realize that Rarity was nowhere to be found. On the wall to her right, she sees a huge writing next to a window. It said, "OH THANK FAUST, I'M FINALLY FREE AT LAST!!!! SO LONG MAJESTY BLUEBLOOD, YOU SPOILED, BRATTY TORMENTOR!!!! -Rarity."

"AGH!!! I can't believe this is happening!!!?" Majesty shrieked to herself. "Not only was Twilight Sparkle and her group after us, they were after their friends as well. They must've came here and got Rarity out when I wasn't looking."	

After Majesty left the eastern tower, she meets up with Vermillion and Black Scythe at the castle grounds.

"I guess I will have no choice but to notify all of our garrisons and our allies about this new impeding threat heading our way," Majesty said to herself before speaking to her two officers. "Vermillion, alert the rest of our armies from the other cities about this. Black Scythe, send word to our allied leaders. Tell them to meet up with me in the Canterlot Palace for an emergency conference."

Without hesitation, both commanders took off while following Majesty' immediate orders without any further delays.





Back at the Lunar Republican HQ, Twilight's team was able to bring Rarity into the medical ward to be treated of her injuries. After learning that Rarity was saved, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie both hugged Rarity while crying in tears of joy. Later on, Twilight was summoned back to the briefing room to go over the results of her mission. Unfortunately, Luna gave Twilight a stern, angry look, in which wasn't a good sign.

"Twilight Sparkle, I was impressed on how you were able to save Rarity," Luna said to Twilight before continuing with the results of her actions. "However, I also read further on your report that after you took Rarity to the extraction point, you went violently reckless by attacking several guards in the palace courtyard. That's not acceptable because they could've outnumber you from 10 to 1 in less than a minute. So, may I ask why did you cause so much unnecessary deadly force on your enemies before you left the area?"

Before Twilight could say anything to Princess Luna, Trixie stepped forward and wishes to make a confession.

"Actually Princess, it was my fault that Twilight did all that!" Trixie spoke as she answered Luna's question for Twilight, feeling guilty of her actions. "I was just trying to recover my stuff from Canterlot, but I got caught by the enemy. If it weren't for Twilight Sparkle, I would never see the light of day again."

"Is that true, Twilight?" Luna asked her after hearing Trixie's confession, with her eyes widened with disbelief.

"Yes, it's true Luna. I didn't want those bastards take away any more of my friends from me. You already told us that most of your other LR commandoes went MIA on you and that we must always stay close to each other in order to survive out there. Since we're nothing like them, I do not wish to make the same mistakes they did." Twilight said to Luna. "If I were to succeed in doing these rescue missions, I have to make sure all of my team members and friends survive. Otherwise, we'll fail our mission in saving Equestria. I've already been through this more than once with my friends."

"So, you're saying that all of this happened because one of your fellow team members disobeyed a direct order from you?" Luna asked Twilight, trying to summarize all of the bad news that occurred during her first rescue mission.

"Yes!!!" Twilight answered to Luna's question.

"Okay then, I'll let you both go with the warning this time," Luna said to both Twilight and Trixie. "However, if this happens again, one of you will be suspended from proceeding onto the next mission until further notice. Now go get some rest. Your next mission will start at dusk. And you, Trixie, if you wanted to recover your personal belongs, make sure you write it down first and let Pinkie Pie take care of it for you."

"Understood, your highness." Trixie said to Luna while apologizing for her incompetence.

"Thank you, Princess Luna. Come on, Trixie. Let's go get something to eat." Twilight said to Trixie before they both left the briefing room.

"So, Moonbutt, what makes you think that what Twilight did to Amadeus was reckless? She pretty much wanted revenge on him for a long time but was hesitant to do so due to attempting to make peaceful solutions earlier." Discord asked to Luna as he appeared right next to her.

"Discord, she's still not ready to face Amadeus or his family yet," Luna said while answering Discord's question. "Twilight still has a long way to go before she can take on those wretched vermin. I'm pretty sure you have a long way to go before helping us stop Tirek in his tracks."

"Well, since Twilight gave Amadeus quite a scare, it's only a matter of time before she'll bring him to justice if she faces him again." Discord continued. "I know, there maybe limits to one pony's revenge but Twilight won't be able to hold it back any longer if they keep tormenting her any further. You know what I mean, right?!"

"If that's true, then Twilight needs to take it easy and handle to next mission carefully," Luna said to Discord before he left the briefing room. Luna turned towards the portrait that displays a stained glass of Princess Celestia herself. "Oh, Tia, if only you were still here with us."





Meanwhile, in an unknown shadowy part in Equestria, there were two alicorns locked away inside a dark prison tower. Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence were bound in chains, stripped of their magic and their cutie marks, and imprisoned inside the top level of the tower. Below them, they see their innocent subjects being whipped left and right as they were put under forced labor by Cicada's Changeling servants. While being held prisoner in the dark tower, Celestia and Cadence were comforting each other while they let their tears fall silently from their eyes.

"Oh, auntie. I'm sorry. I wish there was some way to end this horrible nightmare, the very same nightmare that took away my dear foal sister." Princess Cadence said to her aunt Princess Celestia as she comfort her with her hooves.

"I know, my dear. Fret not, Cadence, I'm sure Luna will find a way to save us both." Princess Celestia said to Cadence while still crying in silent. "Though, I wish I hadn't enforced all of Twilight's reforms so fast like that. I hope Gladius will able to take care of Sunset Shimmer when I'm gone."





 During the final siege of Canterlot, Sunset Shimmer, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Gladius Strife were all struggling to fend off the Unicornian invaders that rampaged throughout the city of Canterlot. Unfortunately, despite all of their best efforts, the invaders keep getting closer and closer. Before they knew it, all of their defenders were overwhelmed and taken down in an instant and the 4 remaining defenders were losing their stamina for fighting off an endless wave of enemies. Celestia gave the order to fall back to the throne room inside the palace. As soon as they finished barricading the palace doors, they tried to recover and take a breather. However, in just 20 minutes later, the Unicornians were using a battering ram to take down the palace doors leading to the throne room.

"Princess Celestia!!! The Unicornians are about to breach through the Palace doors. What should we do??!!" Sunset Shimmer asked her mother-figure Princess Celestia.

"I'm sorry Sunset Shimmer, but I'm afraid that this is where we will part ways." Princess Celestia responded to Sunset.

"Part ways?" Sunset Shimmer asked in a horrified tone, with her eyes widened. "You don't mean...."

"You still have a long life ahead of you, Sunset Shimmer. For your own safety, your must leave this place at once and don't look back." Princess Celestia ordered Sunset in a royal Canterlot voice. "Gladius Strife, you will look after Sunset Shimmer from now on. That will be the final order I will give you."

"But Celestia, I can't move on without your guidance." Sunset Shimmer protested in fearing for her mother's safety.

"Sunset, you must live for my sake and go find yourself another mentor." Celestia said in a tearful voice.

"Come on, Sunset Shimmer. Let's get out while we still have the chance." Gladius said to Sunset as he used his magic to uncover a secret passage behind the throne. "It's been an honor serving you, Princess Celestia."

"NO!!!! I WON'T LEAVE YOU!!!!" Sunset Shimmer wailed very loud as she keeps getting dragged by Gladius' magic before disappearing into the secret passage. "PRINCESS!!!!!"

After Sunset disappeared through the passage, along with Gladius Strife, Princess Celestia gets up on her hooves once again.

"I'll always be there for you in your heart, Sunset Shimmer." Princess Celestia said with a tearful smile on her face. "Luna, are you ready to finish this fight together?"

"Ready when you are Tia!!!" Luna responded to her elder sister. 

The royal sisters see the palace doors burst wide open. The next thing they saw was Majesty Blueblood marching into the throne room preparing herself for the final battle between her and the royal sisters of Equestria.

"Luna, Celestia, say your prayers!!!" Majesty hissed at them before she unfurled her wings and charged toward them, unleashing a massive surge of magic coming out of her horn. 

As Majesty unleashed her magic upon the royal sisters, Celestia used her magic to form a shield barrier while Luna flew up above her and launched her magic at Majesty. Unfortunately, because of the training she took from Lord Tirek and from her other teachers at Unicornia, Majesty fired a massive beam at Luna, colliding into Luna's spell. After a few minutes of struggling over the magic of both alicorns, Majesty finally broke through Luna's spell and struck her squarely in the chest. Upon impact, an explosion occurred that sent Luna crashing through a nearby stained glass window and plummeted straight into the ground unconscious, much to Princess Celestia's horror and devastation. Enraged after seeing her sister get beaten so easily, Celestia used her horn to summon forth all of her alicorn magic and aimed at Majesty. As soon as Celestia fired her magic, it unleashed a massive beam of sun magic straight at Majesty. However, Majesty was able to counteract it with a huge deflector shield. As a result, the entire palace of Canterlot exploded, destroying the palace roofs in one go. Both Majesty and Celestia unfurled their wings and took to the skies, engaging in an aerial battle, firing their spells at each other while in mid-air. Before Celestia could see what was coming, Majesty used in illusion spell to keep her off guard. The next thing Majesty did was that she flew right behind Princess Celestia, summoned all of her magic and formed into a huge arrowhead, and slammed her straight into a nearby tower. Upon impact, the tower collapsed, taking down Celestia with it. For Majesty, she was still in the air. As soon as the tower fell, Majesty landed on all four hooves in front of Princess Celestia. Upon seeing the sun princess coughing up blood and suffering from internal injuries and bruises, Majesty started gloating at Celestia in a evil cackle.

"Princess Celestia, this is the end. Victory is mine." Majesty Blueblood spoke in an intense tone of voice.





"Let's not give up hope Cadence. I'm sure someday, there will be a hero that will bring forth back the light that was taken away from us." Princess Celestia said to Cadence.

Meanwhile, back at the Lunar Republican HQ, Twilight and her team finished with their lunch break and are preparing to head out to rescue Applejack from the slavers.

"Okay, guys. I just received a report from Luna that Applejack is being hauled off in a slave caravan along with a group of 20 slaves in cages mounted on wagons from one of the Canterlot farms to Baltimare." Twilight announced to the group. "First up, they'll be traveling through the forest at sunset. Our objective is to ambush the slave caravan before they reach the city. If they successfully reach Baltimare, the threat level there will be too high for us to handle there. Sunset Shimmer, before they reach their destination, you will plant the explosive charges one of the tallest trees 100 meters ahead of their encroaching position. When you're done, wait until they get close enough, then set off the charges so that there will be a blockade in front of the caravan. As soon as they stop, me, Trixie, and Starlight move in a eliminate all of the slave masters and slavers, while you bring out the blambow and aim at their battle wagons. After all threats are neutralized, free all the slaves and escort them to Daring Do's group so that they can take care of them for us, while we bring in Applejack, so that she can recover. Don't forget, some of the slavers are actually working undercover as Daring Do's spies, so be careful in choosing your targets. They'll be wearing forest green headbands on their heads. The moment we strike one of the slaver wagons, they'll start engaging the other slavers and slave masters while they're still confused."

Wasting no time, Twilight and her group geared up once more before heading out. This time, they took a hot-air balloon to their destination with Twilight directing it with while using her wings to flying into the clear, sunsetting sky. When they got close to the the forest, Twilight helped made a clear landing on the grassy area. After Sunset, Starlight, and Trixie disembarked from their balloon and grabbed all of their weapons and equipment, Trixie used her magic to cast an illusion spell on the balloon, turning it into a huge boulder before proceeding further into the forest. Starlight and Sunset went on ahead to scout the area for the slave caravan. After there search, Starlight pointed out to Twilight that the caravan was slowly coming down from the west 500 meters of their position. 

"Okay guys, time to take point. Starlight, you find a safe hiding spot in the trees near their location. Trixie, go hide behind the bushes or behind the trees. We wait until Sunset gives out the signal, then we strike with all our might." Twilight told both mares before using her invisibility spell to disappear into the woods.

"Trixie, try not to do anything that'll upset Twilight this time, okay?" Starlight told Trixie, while still feeling concern for her friend's safety.

"I won't. I promise!!" Trixie replied to Starlight in a sheepish tone.

"I'm serious, Trixie. Twilight was right at one point, you were being irrational during our last mission and your actions had almost put our entire team in danger." Starlight said in a serious tone of voice. "This isn't a game. The fate of Equestria all depends on our mission, do you understand me?! Twilight still cares about us as much as she cared about her family and the Mane 5. You should be grateful that Twilight gave all of us a second chance to understand friendship as much as she did. As of right now, we still owe her our lives. So, don't disappoint her again, okay?!"

Trixie made a simple nod to Starlight before she disappeared into the woods, while Starlight using her levitation magic to lift herself up into one of the trees above. 

Somewhere, on other side of the forest, the slave caravan was proceeding further down the main road leading to Baltimare. In front of the caravan, there were three slaver wagons and in the back, there were 4 caged wagons with each of them carrying 5 slaves. About 2 slaves are dragging each wagon forward down the road. Behind the slaves, they were being whipped by the slavers who were sitting at the front seat of each slaver wagon. Both sides of the caravan were being escorted by a couple of slavers, while the rest of the slavers and slave masters are sleeping inside their slaver wagons.

"Forward, you maggots. Forward!!!" One the slavers shouted as he whiplashed one of the slaves in front of him.

"Argh, damn faggot." Applejack mumbled to herself while being beaten by one of the slavers behind her as she continued hauling the second slaver wagon down the road. "If only Rainbow Dash was still here."

In second the slaver wagons, there is a huge, muscular earth pony stallion sitting in the middle of the wagon. The stallion had a brown body with a red mane and tail. He happens to be in charge of the slave caravan. He bears the cutie mark of a red-orange relic cross and is wearing grey spiked armor and helmet. Next to his left side is a huge flanged mace and next to his right side is a spiked shield. His name is Crimson Cross, who once served in the Unicornian forces as one of Morning Blade's favorite officers during the civil war. He was also known as "Bloody Beater," due to his reputation of aggressive torturing and interrogation. While in the Unicornian army, he has beaten and interrogate more than 25 POWs, about 20 of them were able to leak out information to superiors after one minute of brutal beating. He was also the one who took Applejack down when she made a failed attempt to save her family.

"Hey, Applejackie." Crimson Cross said to Applejack, followed by a evil cackle. "When we get to Baltimare, how about you and I go on a date? I heard that city is famous for it's bars. I always liked hanging out with sexy, cute earth ponies like you."

"Ya wish, ya ugly freak!!!" Applejack fuming while still hauling the wagon that Lasher is on, gritting her teeth.

Crimson Cross laughed at Applejack while taking a sip of apple cider from his mug. "I'll always enjoyed your apple cider, little lady. Tell you what, you go out on a date with me and I'll treat you fairly, unlike the rest of the slavers."

Applejack grunted with anger. She knew that Cross is lying to her because the last time she was forced to go out on a date with one of slavers, she got mugged by a group of them and one of them gave Applejack a burn mark on her neck before she collapsed for a few hours. As far as Applejack can tell, Cross will not be any different from any of his fellow slavers.

Meanwhile, more than a 100 meters ahead of the slave caravan, Sunset Shimmer successfully planted the dynamite to a tree nearby the main road. After she was done, Sunset went to hide in the tall grass while waiting until the caravan gets closer to the trap. Right next to Sunset is a detonator that will be used to trigger the explosion, making the tree fall right in front of the main road.

"Twilight, this is Sunset. The dynamite is armed and ready." Sunset said to Twilight through her ear-bud.

"Roger that. Wait until I give the order." Twilight silently acknowledged to Sunset through her ear-bud, while hiding in another spot behind the tall grass.

For Trixie, she is hiding behind a tall, wide tree which is across the main road from where Twilight is hiding. 

After 20 minutes have passed, Starlight was finally able to see a full glimpse of the slave caravan with her telescope while hiding in the trees above the road.

"Twilight, I see the caravan. They're heading this way." Starlight silently told Twilight through the ear-bud.

"Okay." Twilight replied to Starlight before switching channels to communicate with Sunset next. "Sunset Shimmer, get ready to blow up that tree on my command."

"Understood." Sunset acknowledged Twilight's command as she grabbed the detonator, preparing to set off the explosive charges.

As soon as they reached 100 meters, Twilight gave the order to Sunset Shimmer. Without hesitation, Sunset activated the detonator. Without warning, an explosion occurred from the right of the main road. Before any of the slavers or slaves could see what was happening, a huge tree fell on top of the main road, preventing them from proceeding any further.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON, OUT THERE??" Crimson Cross shouted as he woke up from his dream and jumped out of the slaver wagon.

During the commotion, the rest of the slavers and slaves also woke up from their sleep after hearing the explosion coming from outside of their wagons. While still hiding, Sunset uses her magic to bring out the blambow. It was a long bow armed with 3 grenades attached to each arrow. Sunset aims her blambow at the first slaver wagon.

"What in tarnation just happened??" Applejack muttered to herself after hearing the explosion. 

As most of the slavers and slave masters came out of their wagons to investigate the fiasco, Sunset fired her first shot into the the first slaver wagon with her blambow. Upon impact, the wagon exploded into a million pieces, startling most of the Crimson's slavers. Just when a couple of the slavers and slave masters went to investigate the second explosion, the undercover slavers started attacking, disarming some of them before grabbing, beating, and shooting them down with their weapons. During the fight, Crimson Cross and a couple of his slave masters regrouped and fought against any traitorous slavers that came in their way. Suddenly, without warning, Starlight Glimmer jumped out from her hiding spot in the trees and made a bone-crushing, blood gushing strike on one of the enemy slave masters from above with her warhammer. Before the other slaver could react, Starlight started swinging a metal ball and chain at him, knocking the slaver to a nearby tree and collapsed. Trixie and Twilight sprang out from their hiding spots and opened fire with their magic and with their flintlock pistols at the enemy slavers.

During the fight, Applejack, who is still restrained by her slave harness, spotted a full glimpse of Starlight Glimmer knocking away every opponent with her warhammer. 

"Starlight Glimmer??" Applejack spoke up in a surprised tone of voice. "How did ya find me here??"

"I'll explain later, Applejack." Starlight said to Applejack while she used her magic to levitate a key that she got from one of the downed slavers and released the farm pony from her slave harness. "We're here to get you out."

"Not yet, sugarcube." Applejack protested. "I've got ah score to settle with that wretched slaver brute. I need ah weapon, like that ball and chain ya have in ya hooves."

"Okay, if you insist." Starlight said as she reluctantly handed over the ball and chain to Applejack.

"All, right ya mangy, rapist buckers." Applejack snarled as she held her left hoof with the chain and her right hoof swinging the metal ball above her head. "It's payback time for y'all. YEEEE-HAAAAAWWW!!!!"

Before they could see it coming, Applejack charged at the enemy slavers with all her might, knocking every one of them with her blunted weapon with full earth pony fury. As the fight continued, Twilight moved to the side, avoiding a whiplash by a nearby slave master, and slashed at him with a downward cut, in which gave the slave master a blood-gushing wound, with her sword before it hit the ground. At the same time, the wounded slave master fell to the ground, dead. 

As Twilight fought with 3 more enemy slavers, Cross spotted her 20 feet away from his position. After he broke the skull of a nearby traitorous slaver with his huge hoof, he marched with his remaining slave masters, closing in on Twilight's position. After Twilight killed all three slavers, she spot a couple more of Crimson's slave masters closing in on her. All of sudden, Twilight started spinning around very fast and formed a bladed whirlwind that engulfed and shredded all of Crimson's slave masters in one go, as if they were all caught inside a blender. The next thing Crimson saw from his fellow slave masters were all nothing but a pile of bloodied, chopped up pieces. He, then see Twilight Sparkle land on the ground after her flight, feeling a little dizzy for her whirlwind attack.

"Well, if it isn't Celestia's little bitch." Crimson Lasher said while he drew out his flanged mace and shield. "I thought you were dead."

"I hate it break it up with you Crimson, but true heroes never die." Twilight hissed at Crimson before holding her sword in a warlike stance, after she snapped out of her dizziness. 

"True Hero?! Oh-Bah!!!" Crimson sneered at Twilight. "The only true hero I always put my faith in is Queen Majesty Blueblood. She needed slaves in order to keep every pony under a strict disciplinary code of conduct. And I'm one of the best slave masters she's got. I can't wait to bring in your head upon her doorstep once I'm done with you."

"Like that's ever going to happen." Twilight snarled at Crimson. "Bring it on, you dim-witted beast."

Angered by Twilight's taunting, Crimson charged at her with his shield in front and his mace behind his back. As both of their weapons collided with each other, Twilight dodged Crimson's shield bash by performing a 10ft flip into the air with her wings. The next thing Crimson saw was Twilight flying straight at him, performing an aerial ace with her sword pointed at him from her right. Crimson got out of the way of Twilight's aerial ace and attempted to slam her in the back with his mace. However, Twilight rolled on her back while in mid-air and blocked Crimson's attack with her sword in front of her exposed body. After parrying against Crimson's blow, she flew away from him and unleashed a lighting bolt spell from her horn. Not moment too soon, Crimson raised his shield up high in order to prevent Twilight's spell from hitting him. As the lighting bolt struck Crimson's shield, a small explosion erupted above where he was standing. However, the shield was left undamaged by Twilight's spell. Shocked by what Twilight saw, it turns out that Crimson was using a ebony-steel tower spiked shield, filled with anti-magic enhancements.

"Where the hell did you get that shield from??" Twilight asked in a state of shock.

"Well, it was made for me by one of the best blacksmiths in Unicornia and I've been able to keep this with me, since I joined the Unicornian Army."Crimson said in a cackling voice.

Crimson launched himself up into the sky and tried to bash Twilight with his shield, only for her move to the left away from Crimson's attack. When Crimson landed on the ground with his hooves, he started shooting at her with his flintlock pistol. Twilight used her magic to form a shield barrier that deflected every shot that Crimson is making. As soon as Twilight made a dive bomb from the sky, she lashed out at Crimson with her sword only to be parried by his flanged mace again. After several more parries between both ponies' attacks, Twilight eventually broke Crimson's mace in two after she focused all her energy into her blade. However, the moment Crimson's broken mace fell to the ground, he finally bashed Twilight with his tower shield, sending her reeling into a nearby tree. After Twilight face flat on the ground, Crimson grabs her by the neck and lifts her up high above his height.

"That maybe a good display of fighting and flying stunts you got there, girly." Crimson sneered while laughing at Twilight, who was still struggling to break herself free from his grip with little or no effort. "Though, it's still not going to save you. Now say good night, you little brat."

Before Crimson was about to straggle Twilight to death, Starlight and Applejack joined in the fight. They both used their blunt weapons to knock Crimson out cold by striking him in the back of his body. As he fell down, Twilight broke free from his grip and took a breather. Upon seeing Twilight again, Applejack hugged Twilight while sobbing on her shoulders.

"Oh, Twi. I can't believe you actually came back. B-But how was this possible??" Applejack cried as she wiped away her tears with her hoof.

"Well, it turns out the Princess Celestia used her magic to revive me before she even knew it." Twilight answered Applejack's question. "However, I didn't wake up until 15 years later because of the Orichalcum that was embedded beneath my flesh."

"I see. Well, I'm glad I was able to break free from these slavery restraints." Applejack said to herself. "By the way Twi, did ya know where they took ma family? It was a couple of months ago when ah last saw them."

"I don't know Applejack." Twilight responded to her. "Well, I hope Luna will be able to discover the whereabouts of our families very soon."

"Princess Luna?? But ah thought she was kidnapped by those bucking assholes!!!" Applejack exclaimed in a state of shock.

"Well, it was actually thanks to Discord and the Changeling Republic that I was able to see Luna again." Twilight told Applejack.

"Where are they at, y'all?" Applejack asked Twilight.

"They're at our hideout, down below the sewers underneath Canterlot." Twilight answered.

"That's good ta hear!!" Applejack said before she turned around to see Crimson regaining consciousness. 

After taking the beating from Applejack and Starlight, Crimson slowly started to get up on his hooves again, when all of a sudden..... WHAM!!!

Before any pony could see what was going on, Applejack smashed Crimson's face into the dirt with both of her front hooves.

"That's for beating me and torturing me half to death." Applejack snarled at Crimson before she walked away from him.

When the battle was won, all of the enemy slavers and slave masters that weren't killed or beaten surrendered after seeing their head slavemaster defeated and were rounded up by Twilight's team and Daring Do's team. They all freed the slaves from their cages before parting ways. Daring Do's team also decided to round up the prisoners and haul them away from the area. Before Twilight's team left the area, she received a scroll from Princess Luna, telling her that she wants Twilight to bring in Crimson Cross for interrogation. Twilight accepted this order and had her friends tie up and gag Crimson while he's still out cold. As Twilight, her team, and Applejack made their way to their hot-air balloon, they all got on, except for Twilight and made a lift off into the blue, night sky, with Twilight pulling them from behind. During their flight back to their hideout, Applejack was a little curious on what Twilight did back there.

"Say, sugarcube?" Applejack asked Twilight. "Where did ya learn all those bad ass moves, ah? That was amazing on what ya did back there. If Rainbow Dash found out what ya did to those mangy buckers, she will be really jealous!!!"

"It's a long story, Applejack." Twilight said to her while flying through the sky. "Well, let's just say that Luna taught me some things that helped me even out the odds against those heartless nobles."

"Thank you for saving my life, y'all." Applejack said congratulating Twilight and her friends. "Ah sure would've never been able to live it all down, if I were to spend the rest of ma life as a miserable slave."

"Not a problem, Applejack." Twilight said, smiling at the earth pony mare. "Not a problem."
> Chapter 5: Rainbow Dash and Spike Break Free, Literally
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Meanwhile, during the time that Twilight and her team escort Applejack back to the LR hideout in the sewers, the emergency conference back at Canterlot is now in session. There, Tirek, Queen Cicada, and several of the other nobles and commanders who were on Majesty Blueblood's side have all gathered in the meeting room to go over what had happened recently. After Queen Majesty made her speech, explaining the incident that occurred back in her castle, everyone of her allies and officers were completely shocked at hearing this twisted turn of events.

"Wow, I-I don't believe it." Tirek said to himself before speaking to Majesty Blueblood. "So, you were saying that Princess Celestia actually revived Princess Twilight Sparkle, in which already occurred right under our noses even after we took over Equestria?!"

"Yes, that's exactly the point, Tirek." Majesty said to Tirek. "If I didn't know any better, I would've thought all of our hard work to take over Equestria would be far from over."

"So, what happened to Morning Blade and you're father?" One of the nobles asked Majesty. "Why aren't they joining us in this meeting?"

"WEREN'T YOU LISTENING, LORD BRONZE??" Majesty yelled at him, hating to repeat herself during the conference. "General Morning Blade received a concussion after getting jumped by Princess Twilight and is now sent to the hospital to recover. As for my father, he doesn't want show himself in front of the public while being crippled."

"Wait, you mean Lord Amadeus was...?" Lord Bronze said before his question was interrupted.

"Yes, my father got beaten up by Twilight Sparkle too." Majesty said in a calmer voice. "You should've seen the look on my father's face when he was being treated of his injuries."

"Was any pony else helping Twilight during that incident?" Tirek asked.

"My father did say that a blue female unicorn named Trixie Lulamoon was with Twilight." Majesty explained to Tirek.

"Man, I should've went after that unicorn when I had the chance." Tirek muttered to himself. He still remembered the time that the very same blue unicorn that he ran into was able to escape his grip, in which was way before he ran into Unicornia and formed an alliance with them when he was recruited by General Morning Blade.

"Well, they did say that Trixie Lulamoon used to be one of Twilight's rivals. She used to a be a boastful unicorn, a lunatic, and a liar of all sorts." Majesty explained to Tirek. "But because of how Twilight forgave her of her misfits, she never felt discouraged by Twilight in the slightest. Well, General Blade was about to have her locked up in prison, along with Rainbow Dash and Spike, but Twilight showed up and got Trixie out."

"By the way, what happened to that fashionista that was making dresses for you?" One of the nobles asked Majesty.

"I hate to say this, but Twilight and Trixie helped Rarity escape." Majesty said. "Don't bother going after them. We don't know where they are hiding at the moment. It's just going to be a waste of time pursuing them on a wild goose chase; just like when Morning Blade and his men made a foolish attempt in going after Discord for some unexplained reason."

"Well, if we were to proceed further in carrying out the new order of Unicornia, we do need to exercise with extreme caution from now on." Queen Cicada suggested to every pony and creature.

"You know, I think you're right Cicada." Majesty said to the Changeling Queen. "There's no telling where and when will Twilight and her assassin group would strike next; it could be anywhere."

"Not to worry, my queen." Another pony noble spoke to Majesty. "I already made preparations in testing out some new experimental soldiers to serve in the Unicornian Army. Believe me, they won't go down that easily like those royal guards you have in your castle."

"I hope you're right about that Professor Felhand." Majesty replied to him a serious tone of voice. "We also have some new experimental weapons that need to be tested first as well, but only if some pony would stop stealing the weapon's blueprints and materials from our science research center in Manehattan."

"You've gotten nothing to worry about your highness." Professor Felhand spoke to the Queen in calm voice. "We'll start deploying them as soon as possible."

"You do what you have to do Felhand." Majesty acknowledged. "Tirek, Cicada. Don't forget to have your soldiers to test out the new experimental weaponry that Felhand had sent to your kingdoms. They might help you deal with Twilight Sparkle and her assassins."

"Understood, Majesty Blueblood." Both Tirek and Queen Cicada acknowledged.

"One more thing, Felhand." Majesty spoke to him. "As soon as these so-called experimental soldiers are ready for deployment, have them to rendezvous with me at the palace."

"By the way your highness." Lord Bronze spoke up. "I just received word from a group of deserted Lunar soldiers that wish to speak with you. They said that they have experience in dealing with these so-called assassins you're mentioning about."

"And what makes you think that these deserted Lunar soldiers could help us deal with Twilight and her assassin group?" Majesty asked Lord Bronze with a stern look.

"Because most of these deserters were former LR commandoes!" Lord Bronze said as he answered Majesty's question.

"Very well." Majesty acknowledged Lord Bronze's request. "Every pony and creature, the meeting is now over. You are all dismissed."





Meanwhile, back at the Lunar Republic HQ, Twilight and her team are able to successfully bring Applejack into the infirmary. During her recovery, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie were all relieved to see their farm pony friend again, while hugging Applejack. For Crimson Cross, Starlight Glimmer was able to drag him to another room where he will be interrogated by Princess Luna and Discord. The moment Crimson woke up, he finds himself strapped tightly to a metal chair in a very dark room, wrapped around in chains and duct tape. When the door in front of Crimson opened, Princess Luna appeared before him with Discord following behind her. Princess Luna decided to sit down in front of Crimson, leaning forward on a table between them. As for Discord, he walked right behind Crimson to make sure he doesn't try anything stupid in front of Luna. 

"So Crimson Cross, Twilight Sparkle told me that you were carrying an anti-magic enchanted tower shield on your back." Luna explained to the bulky earth pony. "May I ask, who exactly made this powerfully, forged device?"

"I don't know shit, Luna." Crimson said smiling in a lying tone of voice. "I swear."

"Don't test my patience, young man." Luna snarled. "If Twilight and her friends keep facing enemy ponies that are using similar equipment as this, they won't be able to stand a chance against such a feat."

"So what?! It serves them right." Crimson protested not want to spill out the beans. "And you can't really get anything from me by giving a taste of my own medicine, would you, Luna?"

"We'll see about that, you stubborn moron." Luna hissed as she gave Discord a nod.

Before Crimson could realize what is going on, Discord attached 2 metal pincers to the metal chair Crimson is sitting on and the other 2 metal pincers on a live electrical wire. Without warning, as soon as Discord flipped the switch on, Crimson started experiencing an electrical jolt crawling inside his skin, follow by a great deal of pain coming from inside his body. The brown earth pony started screaming in pain for 30 seconds, until Discord turned the switch off. During the interrogation, Twilight, the mane 4, Starlight, and Trixie all watched as they see Crimson get tortured on a makeshift electrical chair from a nearby window.

"Now listen Mr. Cross, I may not enjoy hurting ponies during the time I was spreading chaos magic everywhere." Discord said as he stood next to Lasher. "However, because of how much pain you gave to most of my friends, including Fluttershy, I will have no choice but to make you pay the price for your hurtful actions."

"I want you to stay focus and answer my question." Luna ordered Crimson in a royal canterlot voice. "ARE YOU FOCUSED, YET??!!"

Unwilling to say another word to Princess Luna, Crimson spit on her face before she wiped it off with her hoof. She ordered Discord to turn on the power again, giving Crimson another painful jolt in his body. Despite Crimson's screaming, everyone in the area felt unfazed by the noise he is making.

"Scream all you want, Crimson. No pony is going to hear you since these walls are completely soundproof." Luna taunted the tortured earth pony. "In fact, we could do this all day long until you tell us about that anti-magic tower shield or until we ran out of power, it's your choice."

After several attempts of getting jolt by the electricity in his body, Crimson started to faint when all of a sudden, he was able to answer Luna's question.

"Wait, Luna. They made that shield for me at a Research Prison Facility after Unicornia took over Manehattan." Crimson finally explained to Luna. "During the civil war, they built that Facility above the water in the middle of the city. There, they test out their experimental weaponry and equipment, mostly on prisoners that we captured during the war. Many rioters attempted to destroy that facility after the war. However, they all failed. As a result, every pony that was arrested was sent there immediately. You'll never find a way into that place. It's heavily guarded and the only way to get there is by boat. If you think you can do it, well good luck with that. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!"

"A Research Prison Facility in Manehattan, huh?" Luna said to herself. "I guess that's enough for me to move on. Discord, lock him up."

Without saying another word, Discord grabbed Crimson Cross and hauled him off to a nearby jail cell on the right of the torturer chamber. At the briefing room, Luna requested the audience of Twilight and her team, along with Rarity. During the time, Twilight and her team went off to rescue Applejack, Rarity went under Luna's LR commando training, after 24 hours, Rarity was able to learn to use a katana, as well as harnessing various ninja skills.

"Okay, girls. I received word from one of my foal spies that there will be a tour at the Research Prison Facility in 3 days from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm." Luna announced to Twilight and her team. "You will all have to disguise yourselves as tourists before you blend in with the crowd. Before the end of the tour, sneak away from the crowd, find a safe place to hide, and wait until nightfall. The prison security there will become less tight during that time, unless caught. While you're all at it, find a way to rig the generator with explosives, help free the prisoners there, and escort them to the prison docks. A battleship commandeered by Agent Sweetie Drops' men will be waiting for you there but don't take too long. If they noticed that a prison break is occurring, you'll all have 2 hours to exfiltrate the area before it becomes surrounded by Unicornian Battleships. And watch out for any experimental soldiers in the facility. There's no telling what kind of surprises will be waiting for you there. If any of you ran into them during the escape, they won't go down that easily. So, keep attacking them until you find their weak spots. As soon as you're all out of the Prison Facility, blow it up. Any questions?"

"Not at all." Twilight said to Princess Luna.

"Good. Then move out, we have no time to lose." Luna ordered Twilight and her team.





Meanwhile, at the Research Prison Facility in Manehattan, Professor Felhand appeared at the docks while being escorted by three prison guards. Felhand was a Male Green Unicorn who is wearing glasses and has a yellow mane and tail. He was wearing a white lab coat on his body, which displays a badge the says his name, and bears the cutie mark of a yellow claw. He marched straight into the Facility, along with his escorts. The Facility was like a huge Coliseum, with lots of windows all over the building. Above the building, there were watch towers equipped with floodlights. Around the and inside the area, guard squads of 5 to 10 patrol the facility in a 24/7 shift. At the main entrance, there was a huge double steel doors that were 50ft tall. At the checkpoint, near the entrance, Professor Felhand shows his badge to the security there before they opened the doors that lead to the Facility. When he went inside, he was greeted by Eagle Eye at the reception desk, who happens to be the Head Warden of the Research Prison Facility. Eagle Eye was also a unicorn with a dark blue fur coat and a white mane, and is bearing the cutie mark of a white crosshair. He was wearing a Black Beret on top of his head and a black prison warden uniform on his body. Eagle Eye was carrying a spear and a X5 scoped sniper rifle strapped to his back.
"Welcome back to the Facility, Professor." Eagle Eye spoke to Felhand, while working on his paper work at his desk. "How did the meeting at Canterlot go?"

"Not too bad, Eagle Eye." Felhand responded to the Head Warden. "Queen Majesty is requesting us to send in our experimental soldiers to reinforce the garrisons at her castle as soon as they're ready."

"I understand, Professor." The Head Warden said. "I heard about the news of how a resurrected Princess Twilight and her assassin group struck at Majesty's castle while she was way for a while. But no matter, it's a good thing we brought back one of her best personal guards from the dead as well, thanks to one of your rejuvenating drugs. As soon as we have him deployed, she won't keep her guard up anymore."

"I know where you're getting at, Eagle." The Professor laughed. "You should see the look on his face when he found out where he was back then, it was priceless. He maybe trying to resist us earlier, but I was able to implant one of my latest inventions onto his chest while he was still under sedation. In fact, I was just about to have him go for a test drive as my one and only "Experimental Test Subject X."

"I can't wait to see this for myself." Eagle Eye laughed. 

After their conversation, Eagle Eye and Professor Felhand went down to the testing chamber. The testing chamber was on the 5th floor in the facility. Overall, about 20 floors were built inside the Prison Facility. When Eagle Eye and Felhand reached the testing chamber, they see 10 prisoners trapped in the room. In the Testing Chamber, there were glass doors on all sides of the room, surveillance cameras poised at the ceiling, metal grates all over the floor, and 4 huge shatter-proof windows on all sides. Eagle and Felhand sat by outside the testing chamber from one of the windows, while one of the scientists there is waiting for Felhand's orders.

"Professor Felhand, Experimental Test Subject X is ready to proceed for demonstration." One of the scientists said while standing next to a control panel. "We're requesting permission to unleash the test subject."

"Alright, then." Felhand acknowledged the scientist's request. "Begin the test drive."

Not a moment too soon, the scientist press one of the buttons on the control panel, which unlocked one of the glass doors in the testing chamber. The moment the test subject came out, the prisoners freak out the moment they saw him approach them in a vicious, belligerent stance. 

"Subject X, get rid of those prisoners." Felhand ordered the test subject while speaking through the microphone.

Without hesitation, the test subject charged at the prisoners with all his might. Before any pony could see what was going on, the test subject quickly mauled them to death with his lance. Just as the last prisoner was about to run for his life, while banging on the door that leads to the exit, he felt his body impaled with one of the test subject's javelins before succumbing to his wounds. As the prisoner falls to the ground, he left behind a bloody smear on the exit door.

"Very impressive, Felhand." Eagle Eye congratulating the professor. "If Princess Twilight Sparkle ever shows up here, you know what you have to do in order to put her down."

"Understood, sir." Felhand acknowledged Eagle Eye's praise as he saluted him before the Head Warden left the Testing Chambers.

"Also, don't forget to deploy your experimental soldiers in the facility as well, if you see Twilight in your sights." Eagle Eye ordered Felhand.

"I'll keep that in mind, sir." Felhand acknowledge the Head Warden's orders.





At Manehattan, two days before the tour, Twilight and her team members decided to stay at a nearby hotel, in which is a couple of blocks away from the Research Prison Facility. Twilight decided to go over the plan before proceeding to move forward with their 3rd mission. 

"Okay, guys. At one hour before the tour, we have to store all of our weapons and equipment, except for our small trench knifes, inside a crate in the alleyway behind this hotel." Twilight announced to the group. "One of the agents from Sweetie Drop's group will come by, pick up the crate, and smuggle it to the prison's armory, disguised at one of the prison guards residing there. Rarity, tomorrow at morning, you help me find buy some dresses at a nearby boutique and try not to get too carried away with fashions this time. We just need them temporary to blend in with the other group of tourists at the Prison Facility. Remember girls, the northern docks will be where they will start their tour at. The tickets will cost 10 bits each, so we need to at least save 50 bits before going on the tour. If any of you are going to hang out at the city, don't forget to meet me at the northern docks before 5:00 pm at the day of the tour. We can't make any foolish mistakes during this mission, otherwise it'll only end in total disaster. As soon as we sneak away from the crowd, we head down to the armory to gear up for the prison raid. After that, I explain the second part of our plan. Are we clear?"

"Understood." All of the unicorns responded in a positive tone.

"Don't worry, Twilight." Starlight added. "I'll make sure Trixie doesn't blow our cover.

"What do you mean by that??" Trixie snapped. "Do you guys still think that I can't be trusted yet??"

"QUIET, TRIXIE!!!" Every pony shouted at the light-blue unicorn.

"I feel unappreciated!!!" Trixie pouted to herself.





Inside the Research Prison Facility, Rainbow Dash and Spike, who were still locked up inside their jail cells, were both hearing all of those horrible noises of ponies being tortured and mutilated from the Testing Chamber. As the blood-curdling screams becomes intense every hour, the pegasus and the teenage dragon are getting really scared.

"Rainbow, what do you think is going to happen to us??" Spike cowered in the corner of his jail cell.

"I don't even what to know!!" Rainbow Dash shrieked. "Whatever it is, I don't like the sound of it."

"We'll, what you're hearing right now is ponies being tortured by Professor Felhand's experimental creations." One of the prisoners said from one of the jail cells.

"Wait, you don't mean...." Rainbow Dash said in a horrified tone of voice.

"Yes, my dear." The prisoner said. "This isn't just a prison, it's also a research testing facility. Those wretched Unicornians built this place so that they can test out their experimental weapons before they send them out to reinforce Queen Majesty's Army."

"Who are you, telling us all of this?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"It's seems like you forgot about me already." The prisoner spoke to Rainbow Dash. "I guess it was because of the torturing that I took that made me unrecognizable to my one and only pegasus marefriend. You probably don't remember do you? We used to be in the Wonderbolts together, you and I."

After going over what the prisoner said just now, Rainbow Dash gave herself some time before realizing who it was. Her eyes widen with shock because she remembered that the prisoner used to be a former member of the Wonderbolts, alongside with her.

"S-SOARIN?? I-Is that you??!!" Rainbow Dash asked the prisoner as tears started coming out of her eyes.

"Yes, it's me darling." The prisoner spoke as he came out of the shadows inside in cell. 

As Soarin revealed himself, his body was covered up with severe bruises, burn marks, and dried bloodstains after endless hours of torture.

"Oh my Faust!!!" Rainbow Dash cried, letting tears go come out of her eyes. "Soarin, w-what did they do to you??"

"I don't want to talk about it." Soarin said in a forlorn voice. "It's just too horrible to bear. I was with Agent Sweetie Drops leading to mob to attack this place, but the defenses in this facility were too strong. We were able to fall back. However, I could not catch up with Sweetie Drops' men because they shot my wings while I was trying to fly out of here. The next thing I knew, I fell from the sky and hit the ground rock bottom before they arrested me and brought me here."

"MUWHA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!" Eagle Eye laughed as he appeared outside of the jail cell, gloating Soarin and Rainbow Dash. "Isn't this precious: A tearful reunion between two Pegasus lovebirds. Too bad none of you will be ever see the light of day ever again."

"YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS, EAGLE EYE!!!!" Rainbow Dash growled. "It's bad enough that you dragged me and Spike down to his hellhole during the time you were one of Majesty's guards."

"Oh, yeah?!" Eagle Eye laughed. "We'll who's going to stop me now, Rainbow Dash?? And who's going to save your sorry little flank, huh?? Well, I did heard that your precious Princess Twilight Sparkle came back from the dead and has already started wreaking havoc upon Equestria again, with the aid of a group of assassins. 

"Twilight's alive???" Rainbow Dash asked, with eyes widen.

"Yeah well, it won't matter because if she and her team ever show up here, we'll be ready for them." Eagle Eye smirked before he left the jail floor, cackling to himself.

"I-I don't believe what I'm hearing. I could've sworn I thought my mother was dead." Spike said to himself.

"Well, if it's true for what Eagle Eye just said, then let's just pray that Twilight would find us before he finds her first." Rainbow Dash said to Spike.





Meanwhile, outside of the Prison Facility, Twilight and her group are able to rendezvous at the northern docks 30 minutes before the tour starts. After they discarded all of their weapons, equipment, and their LR Commando uniforms, they disguised themselves as tourists. All five unicorns are wearing normal civilian clothing, big hats, and sunglasses to cover up their faces and their cutie marks. At the start of the tour, Twilight and her group were able to stick together, along with the rest of the crowd before getting their tickets and proceeded into the ferry.

"Alright girls, just go with the flow, stick together, and don't make any scenes." Twilight ordered to rest of her team as they got closer to the ferry.

When the ferry reached the docks at 5:50 pm, the crowd went on board as they gave their tickets to the checkpoint. After Twilight and her disguised team went on board the ferry, they went up on deck to see the view before the ferry departured from the dock. At 6:10 pm, the ferry reached the docks near the Prison Research Facility. There, Professor Felhand directed the crowd of tourists to the 1st level of the facility where he did his part as a tour guide.

"This is the 1st level in which is our main entrance to the facility; it's where we bring our prisoners to the front desk and have them frisked before we took them to the jail area, which is in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the facility." Professor Felhand announced to the tourists, unaware that Twilight and her group are hiding amongst them. "At the 5th floor, we conduct our tests when we let loose our experiments upon the prisoners who were sent to death row."

When Felhand lead the tourists to the 5th floor, he let them see the living experiments unleash hell upon the helpless prisoners in various testing chambers. Twilight and her friends were all horrified at seeing such bloody mayhem and horror occur inside the testing chambers. Then again, Twilight and her team did their best not to draw any attention to the tourists or to Professor Felhand, while they wrote down everything that Felhand said during the tour in their notebooks.

"At the 6th floor, we develop our latest drugs, our latest technological weapons, and our experimental creations." Felhand continued with the tour around the Facility. "Though, the 6th floor is off limits to all unauthorized personnel, the same goes for the 7th Floor, which is the armory, and the 8th floor, which is where we test our latest drugs at."

When the tourists reached the 9th floor, they see the generators giving out power throughout the entire facility. On the 10th floor, there was the prison guard barracks, security surveillance room, the mess hall, and the cafeteria. As the tour went on from the 11th to the 20th and final floor, they see all of the Professor's creations inside their cells with such shock and awe.

"As you can see, every pony. After we finished building our experimental creations, we send them up to the 11th to 20th floors in this facility. They may look scary and violent but they will not attack any pony unless ordered otherwise." Professor Felhand said to the group of tourists. "As of today, we have just finished creating about 500 Terminator ponies, Cyborg Ponies, Mechanical Hounds, and Sentinel Ponies. However, I was recently ordered by the Queen of Unicornia to send in all of these experimental soldiers to her garrison at Canterlot immediately. So, if any of you wish to see them, it will be the last thing to do here before they leave the facility. As a matter of fact, the tour is coming to a close, so if any pony wishes to use the bathroom, now will be the time."

As some of the tourists went to their bathroom breaks, Twilight and her group went in last, which is also part of their plan. In the Mare's restroom, Twilight and her team were able to unlock the grate in one of the stalls. One by one, they went through the ventilation shaft that leads to the armory in the 7th floor, with the last member of Twilight's group sealing back up the grate behind them. After they came out of the ventilation shaft, they went to a nearby room in the armory, where they found their weapons crate standing in the middle of the area. As soon as they geared up to proceed with their mission, Twilight announces their second part of the plan to the LR commando team.

"Alright guys, this is where we finally come in. It'll be nighttime in 30 minutes after 7:00 pm." Twilight said as she explained the second part of their plan. "Rarity, you head down to the security surveillance room in the 10th floor, kill every guard pony there in silence, and disable all security systems and unlock all of the jail cells in all 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors. Starlight and Trixie, you both head down to the jail area, find a hiding spot there, and wait until Rarity disables the security systems. There will be a blackout when all security systems are shut down. However, their backup generator will immediately start running in 45 minutes. So Rarity, during the blackout, you head downstairs to the meet up with Trixie and Starlight while helping free the prisoners. You three will all have about 45 minutes to free as much prisoners as you can before heading down to the prison docks with them and kill any prison guards that get too close to the escaped convicts. Sunset Shimmer, you follow me down to the generator room in the 9th floor and help me plant the C4 explosive charges there, they'll be rigged by a remote detonator. When we're done with that, we both meet up with Rarity, Trixie, and Starlight while continuing to escort the prisoners out of here. Whatever you do, do not activate the detonator until we're all outside of the facility, along with most of the prisoners onboard Sweetie Drops' ship. Take these night vision googles; they'll help you see everything through the blackout. And remember, as soon as the power goes back online, get ready to fight because the moment they'll see us, they'll unleash their experimental creations from the floors 11 to 20. During at time, we are to hold them off at our position at the 1st floor. Don't forget, most of these prisoners used to be soldiers that still served in the  Equestrian Army, so have them armed and ready because this is going to a big fight of their lives."

After Twilight Sparkle announced the second part of the plan to the rest of the group, they all picked up their night vision googles from their weapon crate before moving on. Starlight and Trixie opened up one of the weapon cabinets in the armory, grabbed as many weapons as they can, and stuff them inside 3 duffle bags before they moved out. Twilight and all of her team members are now wearing black assassin jumpsuits to adapt into the night before they head out. 

After they left the armory, Twilight and Sunset headed took the elevators to the 9th floor, Rarity pulled out a grappling launcher and fired it into a sturdy pipeline above the ceiling and hoisted herself up to balcony of  the 8th floor, and Starlight and Trixie took the stairs down to the 4th floor. When Twilight and Sunset reached the 9th floor, they were almost greeted by on off-duty prison guard. However, before the guard could draw out his nightstick, Twilight charged at him and repeatedly stabbed him in the chest with an orichalcum dagger 7 times, while holding his mouth with her other hoof, and slash at his throat with full force, making him succumb to his wounds, collapsing into a bloody heap. After Sunset hid the body, she and Twilight head down to the generator room where they spot one guard carrying a bolt rifle while patrolling on the balcony and two guards were sleeping in the lounge room across from their ground position. Sunset took out her silent musket rifle and shot at the guard above them, making his brain explode into a bloody mess before he fell off the balcony. When Twilight entered the lounge room, she snuck up to one of the guards, grabbed him by the neck, and made a loud crack, killing him instantly. Before the second guard could wake up to see what was going on, Twilight hurled her dagger at him, piercing his neck while blood was gushing from it. Not a moment too soon, the second guard collapsed onto his stomach before succumbing to his fatal wounds. Twilight and Sunset hid inside the lounge room, not wanting to get caught by the surveillance cameras in the generator room. 

For Rarity, after she hoisted herself up to the 8th floor's balcony, she disengage from the rope of her grappling launcher and put it away into her jumpsuit. After that, Rarity  pulled out a set of suction cups and attached them to her hooves. She jumped onto a huge pipeline and climbed onto the ceiling, like a spider crawling up to its web. Rarity went up to one of the ceiling vents and teleported herself into the ventilation shaft above her. As she went through the ventilation shaft, she was able to reach the 9th level but not before she spotted 2 prison guards patrolling the corridors through one of the vents, right above where she hiding at. She stayed still and hold her breath, not wanting to draw any attention. After they passed through her concealed position and out of sight, Rarity used her magic to quietly unscrew the vent before slowly lifting herself up. When she got out of the shaft, she screw back up the vent before proceeding to the security surveillance room. 

As for Starlight and Trixie, they spot 2 guards standing below them in the stairs leading to the 4th floor. Both of the unicorns drew out their trench knifes, jumped off the rails, and simultaneously pounced on both guards as they landed their faces onto the floor. Before the guards could react, Trixie and Starlight stabbed them both in the head with their daggers. As they left the stairs, Trixie spotted Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Soarin down below at the 3rd floor, sulking in their separate jail cells. She spots nearby guard on the balcony of the 3rd floor patrolling the area near the two pegasus and the teenage dragon. Trixie, pulls out a small crossbow from her right hoof and aimed it at the guard. Before the guard could see what was coming, he felt a powerful crossbow bolt piercing his skull before he collapsed on the floor. As Trixie and Starlight went down to the 3rd level, they hid into the shadows, away from the surveillance camera positioned at the west side of the jail area. 

Meanwhile, Rarity finally found the security surveillance room across the prison guard barracks. When she looked inside the security room through a door window, she spotted one prison guard watching over the surveillance cameras through a set of TVs while sitting a few feet away. As she quietly went into the room, Rarity drew out a pocket knife and slit the guard's throat in a heart beat. After the guard collapse dead on his chair, Rarity used her magic to open up the panel underneath the security control panel and used a cutting tool to dissect all of the wires, forcing every TV to shut off immediately. After that, Rarity used her hoof to smash the security master switch, disabling all of the electronics and surveillance throughout the prison, causing a massive blackout. Professor Felhand and Eagle Eye were both drinking coffee in the lounge room at the 6th floor when the massive blackout occurred.

"HEY!! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE POWER???" Felhand said as he freaked out, spilling the rest of his coffee onto the floor.

"Don't worry, professor." Eagle Eye said to Felhand in a sympathized tone. "We still have our emergency backup generators up in the 7th floor. They'll startup in 45 minutes. Until then, we'll do a clean sweep over the area."

During the blackout, Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Soarin started freaking out not being able to see what is going on right now. Before they could do anything, the prison door suddenly flew wide open letting most of the prisoners out.

"WHAT IN CELESTIA???" Rainbow Dash shrieked very loud. "WHO TURNED OFF THE POWER??"

"Hello, Rainbow Dash. Long time, no see." Starlight Glimmer appeared in front of the shocked pegasus.

"Starlight!! Trixie!! When did you guys get here?!" Spike asked in a surprise tone of voice.

"It's a long story, Spike." Trixie said to the little dragon. "Right now we need help getting as may prisoners out of here as soon as possible."

"Don't forget about me guys!!" Soarin said to the unicorns as he walked out of his jail cell.

As soon as Trixie and Starlight escorted Soarin, Rainbow, and Spike to the 1st floor, they also saw most of the escaped prisoners there attacking the prison guards. 

"Okay, guys. Don't you want to avenge your fallen royal sisters of Equestria?!" Trixie asked to the mob of prisoners.

"YEAH!!!!" Most of the former royal guard-turned inmates said.

"Then be my guest." Trixie said as she took out the duffle bags and dumped a mountain full of weapons in front of the prisoners. "Go give e'm hell boys!!!"

As soon as most of the prisoners, including Spike, Soarin, and Rainbow Dash armed themselves, they started rampaging through the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors as they fought their way to the 1st floor and to prison docks. At the docks, a battleship dropped anchor and started loading up the prisoners for an immediate departure. During the prison riot, Trixie and Starlight put on their night vision googles before they joined in the fight. Trixie pulled out a blunderbuss with her magic and started shooting at the prison guards at point blank range. When one of the guards tried to attack Starlight with a nightstick, she dodged out of the way, grabbed the guard by the arm with her hoof and threw him to a nearby wall, flipping him upside down. As two other guards aimed their bolt-rifles at Starlight, she used her magic to lift up a riot shield and hurled it at the guards. When they got slammed by that hurling riot shield, they lost their aims and got pummeled to the ground by Starlight's shockwave spell.

"Sir!!! There is a prison outbreak occurring in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th levels." One of the guards shouted on the portable radio. "We need help, they're trying to escape!!!"

"I guess I have to get down there and help deal with this outbreak too." Eagle Eye said to himself as he geared up. "Felhand, as soon as the power goes back on, unleash all of our remaining creations and give them the order to attack."

"Understood, sir." Professor Felhand acknowledge before Eagle Eye disappeared along with a group of 10 armed prison guards. 

Meanwhile, during the prison riot, Sunset Shimmer finally finished setting up the C4 explosives while Twilight was able to cover her, hacking away any guards that entered the generator room with her halberd in the darkness. As soon as Sunset was done with the explosive charges, the power went back on, which also means that both Twilight and Sunset need to meet up with their other comrades before they get caught up in this endless fight.

"Oh Shit!! Sunset, we have to leave now!!!" Twilight shouted at the orange unicorn. "They already got the power back on!!!"

"I'm on it!!!" Sunset Shimmered replied as she and Twilight made a run to the other side of the generator room. After they left, the purple alicorn and orange unicorn went down the staircase leading to the jail floor.

"Follow me." One of the Prison Guards said as they took another route down to the jail floor.

"Professor Felhand, it's Twilight and her group!!!" One of the guards said on the radio. "There in the facility trying to get the prisoners out."

"Unleash the experimental creations. Leave none alive." Professor Felhand ordered as he made his way to his airship at the top of the facility. "And Head Warden, take care of them too!!!"

"Understood, Felhand." Eagle Eye responded to the professor through the radio. "It's been an honor working with you, Professor."

As Twilight and Sunset made their way to the jail floor, they were greeted by a squad of Terminator Ponies. Just in an instant, they started opening fire with their mounted Chainguns. However, Twilight and Sunset teleported away from their line of fire. Twilight reappeared flying in the air as she launched herself at the terminators while holding her halberd with her hooves. She was zeroing into the terminators like a torpedo. Before they had a chance to react, Twilight flew right past them at a very fast maneuver only to have all of the terminators get beheaded before they all exploded behind the alicorn.
As for Sunset Shimmer, she used her magic to summon a triple barreled laser rifle and started shooting at the terminators, but despite her best efforts, the android ponies keep coming closer. 

"Sunset, aim for the head!!!" Twilight ordered as she used her halberd to chop off the heads of three more terminator ponies.

Without giving it a second thought, Sunset aimed her laser rifle at the terminators in the head make them explode before they fell to the ground. Twilight shoved her halberd at a nearby Prison guard's face, making him fall off the balcony, and stabbed the second guard in the stomach, lifted him up high, and slammed him into another terminator pony, crushing both of them before causing another small explosion. Meanwhile, at the 1st floor, the fight between Trixie, Starlight, Spike, Rainbow Dash, Soarin, and the rest of the escaping inmates continue but more intense and gruesome. Prison Guards, Terminator Ponies and Cyborg Ponies started coming out of the elevators and started shooting at the inmates with everything they've got. The inmates who were fighting back were fleeing behind cover unable to return fire with their bolt-rifles. Trixie unleashed an inferno spell that spewed out a raging fire, like flamethrower, at the Cyborgs and Terminators. The androids got caught on fire by Trixie's spell and went down in less than 10 seconds. Spike was using a bolt rifle that he grabbed from one of the dead prison guards and started shooting at the androids. Despite being shot at by Spike, the androids weren't getting taken down that easily.

"Damn, these guys are tough!!!" Spike snarled as he sees some of them move forward, despite how damaged they are.

"Just keep shooting at them, Spike." Starlight told the little dragon.

"Hang in there, Spikey-Wikey." Rarity called out as she dropped from the ceiling and unsheathed her ninja sword. Her sword happens to be a 15 inch Katana that was forged for her by Princess Luna herself during Rarity's training in the Lunar Republic.

"RARITY, YOU'RE HERE!!!" Spike cried out in a happy tone.

"It's good to see you again, Spikey-Wikey." Rarity said to the little dragon in a happy tone of voice. "Well, don't hold back anymore darling. We've got a mission to accomplish here."

"Understood, my dear." Spike said as he continued firing upon the android ponies with his bolt-rifle.

During the shootout, Starlight was hacking away every Prison guard and android with her double bladed ax. A Prison guard with a nightclubs and riot shield came up to Starlight and tried to shove her with his shield. However, Starlight dodged the guard's riot shield and performed an execution move that chopped the guard's head off, followed by a squirting fountain of blood coming out of the guard's body. Several other Cyborg ponies tried to close in Starlight too but just with one swing of her ax, they all had their heads chopped off before they all exploded. Despite the fact that both pegasus were unable to fly due to their injured wings, Rainbow and Soarin were able to take down most of the prison guards with their nightclubs and riot shields. As for Rarity, she made a lot of fast quick draws that cut down most of the android ponies in two pieces before they exploded. 

"Uh, guys!!! Did you hear that?" Spike said as he heard a mechanical growl coming from the windows. 

"I think I do, Spike!!!" Trixie said in a frightened tone. "What is that horrible noise??"

"HEH! HEH! HEH!" One of the prison guards cackled. "Allow us to inform you that a pack of our mechanical hounds have started appearing in the facility; and they're most likely coming after you!!!"

Upon hearing what the guard just said, Rarity, Spike, Trixie, Starlight, Rainbow Dash, and Soarin all gasped in horror.

"Please, say that isn't so!!!" Trixie said in a scared tone of voice.

"Well, it's nice knowing you all, you fuck faces!!!" The Prison guard laughed.

Suddenly, a loud crash occurred from one of the windows above the 1st floor. A mechanical hound jumped through the window and started coming towards the group in a hostile stance. It had glowing red eyes staring at the three unicorns, the two pegasus, and the dragon with an intent to kill. Several more mechanical hounds crashed through the other windows getting ready to pounce onto the group.





Meanwhile, back at the jail floor, Twilight used her magic shield to defect the plasma fire from the Cyborg Ponies and the Sentinel Ponies. As they closed in Twilight's position, she swung her halberd high above her head and whacked every cyborg and sentinel on the head, making them fall down and exploded upon death. For Sunset Shimmer, after she ran out of ammo for her triple barreled rifle, she tossed it away and drew out a plasma whip with her magic. After making each whiplash, she was able to take down the Sentinel Ponies that got too close to her when they drew out their plasma hand blades. As the unicorn and alicorn fought their way to the 2nd floor, they find themselves in the middle of the jail area. However, the androids and the Prison guards stopped following them for some reason. 

"They stopped following us. Is it over Twilight?!" Sunset asked, not being able to understand what's going on.

"No, Sunset." Twilight responded in a alarm tone. "I think they're just getting started."

"My plan, exactly Twilight Sparkle!!" Eagle Eye appeared at the balcony above her, while hold his rifle with his magic. "I did plan to come here and finish you both off myself. But first, let's see if you could handle your ex-coltfriend before we get this over with, shall we?"

Twilight did not understand what was Eagle talking about. She was already told by Discord that her coltfriend committed suicide after learning of her death. 

"I don't know what the hell are you talking about, Eagle Eye!!!" Twilight protested. "My coltfriend was dead because of you and those idiots."

Despite Twilight's protest, Eagle Eye started laughing his head off before he continued with his speech.

"Well if that's true, then who is that?!" Eagle Eye asked as he pointed his hoof at the direction behind Twilight.

When Twilight turned around, she sees familiar male pegasus emerged from the shadows. Her eyes widen as she noticed that the pegasus had an orange body with the blue mane and bears the cutie mark of a blue shield with a lighting bolt in the middle. Unfortunately, the pegasus isn't wearing his yellow royal guard armor anymore. Instead, Twilight saw that there is some unknown device latched onto his chest. What's worse, instead of carrying his spear around, he has a huge steel lance on his right hoof, a steel kite shield on his left hoof, and a quiver of javelins mounted on his back.

"What the?? H-How is this possible????" Sunset Shimmer said to herself in a surprised tone of voice.

"N-No way!!! T-That can't be!!!" Twilight Sparkle muttered to herself under a state of shock. "FLASH SENTRY????"
> Chapter 6: Flash Sentry's Reunion
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Upon seeing Flash Sentry again, Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer were both very confused for not being able to understand how was it that he's not really dead. Before Twilight could come any closer, Flash raised his steel lance and pointed it straight at Twilight Sparkle. Judging from the look in his eyes, Twilight suspected that something isn't right here because it didn't look like Flash even remember her.

"FLASH SENTRY???" Twilight spoke under a state of shock. "I-I don't understand!!! I thought he committed suicide."

"Well, when we took over Equestria, we did a little grave digging back at Canterlot." Eagle Eye explained to Twilight. "Professor Felhand was quite a mad scientist who was also obsessed with using his research on the dead. He made an experimental drug that helps revive dead ponies, restoring themselves of their former healthy state, their consciousness, and making all of their wounds disappear in an instant. It was very complicated research. Several tests have been done on other dead ponies that we dug from their graves. However, there was a 1 out of a 1,000th chance that this experimental drug will succeed and I do believe that Flash Sentry happens to be one of the successful subjects to be revived by this drug. Of course, when he woke up, he resisted us because he said that his loyalties still lie with you and the royal sisters. However, since we implanted one of our latest inventions into his body, I'm afraid all of that is going to change. Because unless the device is removed from his body by force, he will always obey my every command without question. The device was programmed to have its host obey the leaders of Unicornia. So, he won't even remember what he'll ended up doing. In fact, he is now Experimental Test Subject X!!!"

"You fiend!!! You can't treat my colt friend as if he was one for your lab rats!!" Twilight snarled at Eagle Eye.

"Sorry young lady, but I'm afraid it's too late for you to save him, now that he is a living testament in this Facility." Eagle Eye laughed before he left the area. "Flash Sentry, destroy them both."

As soon as Eagle Eye left the room, closing all doors behind him, Flash Sentry started charging at Twilight and Sunset with all of his might. Without backing down, both of the mares used teleport to dodge Flash's attack. When Twilight appeared in the air, Flash unfurled his wings and flew straight at her attempting to stab the alicorn. However, Sunset Shimmer teleported in mid-air and jumped onto his back, attempting to restrain the orange pegasus. As Sunset grabbed Flash with her hoof around his neck, they both started struggling while in the air, with Flash fall off course from his flight pattern. 

"Flash, it's me Twilight!!!" The alicorn princess cried. "Don't you recognize me??!!"

"It's no use, Twilight." Sunset protested while still holding onto the rampaging pegasus. "I think the only way he'll snap out of it is to get this mind-control device off his chest."

"Now that you mentioned it, keep him busy for a while!!!!" Twilight ordered Sunset Shimmer in a royal Canterlot voice. "I have an idea!!!"

During their struggle, Flash and Sunset eventually came crashing down to the floor, with Twilight descending from her flight to help out Sunset Shimmer. Despite Sunset holding down Flash Sentry with a headlock, the orange pegasus eventually flipped the unicorn off his back and attempted to stab her with his lance. Luckily, Sunset was able to roll herself away from Flash's lance before it hit the ground. Just when Flash charged at Sunset with a lance thrust, the unicorn was able to raise her magic shield to block Flash's attack. But before, Sunset could draw out her plasma whip, Flash smashed her with his kite shield and pinned her down with his lance. Twilight ran towards Flash and used her halberd to hold him by the neck and flipped him over from where she was standing. Flash immediately made a few jabs at Twilight only to parried by her halberd a couple of times. As Sunset got up upon her hooves again, she charged at straight at Flash, grabbing him by the stomach, and pinned him to the ground. Suddenly, before Sunset can use her magic to grab the device onto his chest, she felt a sharp pain in her lower right side of her abdomen.  It turns out that Flash used one of his javelins to stab Sunset in her lower abdomen, making her fall to her side, bleeding from her wound. 

"Flash, No!! Please!!!" Sunset cried as she begged for mercy while clutching her bleeding wound.

Before Flash was about finish the female unicorn off, Twilight uses her magic to ensnare Flash inside a prison bubble and disarming him of all of his weapons. 

"I will draw you Eagle, as if poison was drawn from a wound." Twilight exclaimed, with her glowing eyes turning white, as she used her magic from her horn to grab the device from Flash.

Despite Flash grunting and struggling while incase inside Twilight's spell, the device started to slowly come off.

"If I go, Flash Sentry dies!!" Eagle Eye said in a demonic voice through Flash's speech. "URRGH!!"

Twilight continued to use her magic to shove Flash away from her, inside the prison bubble, while trying to pry the device off his chest.	

"You will not kill me, you will not kill him!!" Twilight said in a intense voice while still prying the device of the pegasus' chest with her magic.

"EQUESTRIA IS MINE!!!!" Flash said in a demonic voice.

"BE GONE, FIEND!!!" Twilight roared.	

All of sudden, Flash roared as he was about to charge at Twilight only for her to successfully pull out the device from his chest and pushed him away from her position with her magic. Flash fell backwards onto the floor. As Flash slowly got up on his hooves again, he started blinking his eyes before he finally came to his senses. 

"What the?! W-Where am I??" Flash said to himself. "What just happened?? WHAT DID I DO???"

After he looked around, he finally see Twilight Sparkle in his sights. The moment he saw the purple alicorn, his eyes started to have tears coming out of his eyes.

"P-Princess Twilight?? I-Is that really you??" Flash Sentry asked. "This isn't a dream, is it?"

"It's not a dream, Flash. It's really me. I'm finally back from the dead!!!" Twilight said as she started to have tears coming out of her eyes too.

The moment Flash touched Twilight's face, he finally realized that his lost marefriend came back for him. Without hesitation, Flash immediately hugged Twilight in his hooves while silently crying to himself.

"Oh, Twilight. I missed you so much. I-I can't believe your alive!!!" Flash sobbed.

"I missed you too, Flash." Twilight said while hugging the pegasus stallion back. "I should never have let you go."

Upon seeing their happy, romantic reunion, Sunset could not help but let a tear come out her eye, while smiling before she collapsed on the ground unconscious, with her wound still bleeding on the floor.

"B-But Princess, how did you get in here?!" Flash asked Twilight.

"It's a long story, Flash." Twilight replied to the male pegasus. "But right now, we need to get out of here. There is a prison break occurring here and we're trying to get as many prisoners out of this wretched place before the Unicornian Fleet arrives."

"Understood, your highness." Flash acknowledged as he grabbed with weapons and his gear.

"But first, help me carry Sunset Shimmer." Twilight ordered Flash. " She needs medical treatment when we get back to base."

"As you wish, my princess." Flash said to Twilight as he lifted the injured unicorn onto his back.

The moment Twilight and Flash left the room along with an injured Sunset Shimmer, Eagle Eye spots them through a surveillance camera, as he sees them proceed further down to the 1st Level from his security office.

"GRRRRAAAARRRR!! USELESS JACKASS!!!" Eagle Eye roared as he smashed his hoof onto the control panel. "It seems that I just said too much, didn't I?! Well, I guess I'm going to have to take care of this myself."

As he left his office, he grabbed his gear before proceeding down to the 1st floor.

Meanwhile, back at the 1st floor, Starlight and her group of team members and their allied prisoners were slowly losing their ground while fending off the Mechanical Hounds and the rest of the prison security and their androids. Several of their allied prisoners were getting mauled by those robotic dogs as they feel their throats being ripped to shreds, with blood squirting out, before they collapse on the ground, dead.

"Starlight!! We have to get out of here." Trixie screamed as she fired another inferno spell at one of the hounds. "We can't hold them off much longer and the Unicornian Fleet will arrive in 30 minutes."

"Trixie, Twilight and Sunset promised us that we'll meet them here in the 1st floor as soon as they're done setting up the charges at the generator room." Starlight protested as she bashed two more hounds with her warhammer. "Don't give up every pony, hold them back!!!"

The 2 pegasus and Spike were still holding up as they kept firing their weapons at the androids, the hounds, and the prison guards. However, most of them started running out of ammunition. Soarin was the first to noticed that all of the prisoners that can't fight back were already on board Sweetie Drops' ship. The ship was a steel battleship armed 5 main gun batteries, 2 CIWS, 3 missile batteries, and 4 anti-aircraft machine guns mounted on both sides of the ship. Sweetie Drops did explained to most of Twilight's friends that she and her men hijacked this ship from a Unicornian shipyard from the northern shores of the Crystal Empire while on a scavenging mission a couple of months ago. After repainting and refurbishing the ship, Sweetie personally named this ship "Alicorn Avenger." The ship's hull was coated with Yellow and Blue paintings to symbolize the royal sisters, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and is bled with the purpose to avenge the fallen princesses of Equestria.

"Guys, every pony is finally on board!!" Soarin said. "Let's get out while we still can!!!"

"Not yet, Soarin." Starlight persisted. 

"STARLIGHT!!!! BEHIND YOUUUUUUU!!!" Trixie shrieked as she saw a mechanical hound trying to pounce on to Starlight Glimmer.

Before Starlight could see what was going on, the hound pounced on top of the unicorn, pinning her to the floor. Just when the hound opened up it's metal jaws and is about to bite Starlight in the neck, a javelin struck at the hound, with the spear tip lodged into its head, before its head exploded and fell right next to Starlight's side. The next thing every pony knew, three more javelins came flying towards the hounds, striking them all in their stomachs, making them explode into a million pieces.

"Sorry, I'm late guys." Twilight said as she appeared from the staircase with Flash Sentry coming out from her right. 

"TWILIGHT, YOU'RE ALIVE!!!!" Rainbow Dash cried joyfully in tears.

"M-MOTHER, Y-YOU CAME BACK!!!!" Spike cried.

As soon as Twilight and Flash came closer to the main entrance, Starlight noticed that Sunset Shimmer was injured and out cold.

"What the? Sunset Shimmer!!!" Starlight exclaimed. "What happened to her??"

"You don't want to know, Starlight." Twilight replied to her student unicorn. "Right now, we need to get out of here!!!"

As soon as most of Twilight's team went on board Sweetie Drops' ship, with Sunset being carried on a stretcher, a sniper bullet struck the ship's hull inches away from where Twilight was standing. The moment Twilight and Flash turned around, they see Eagle Eye aiming his sniper rifle at Twilight Sparkle.

"Do you really think I would let you escape my Prison that easy?!! DO YOU?!!!" Eagle Eye shouted at Twilight as several more prison guards, androids, and mechanical hounds appeared behind them, waiting for his command. "You may have saved Flash Sentry from my control Twilight Sparkle, but you'll never leave this place alive!!! NEVER!!!!"

"Then, let's end this together!!!" Twilight snarled as she drew out her halberd. 

"Stand down every pony, this is between me and Twilight." Eagle Eye ordered his guards, as he tossed away his sniper rifle before drawing out his spear with his magic.

"Wait, Twilight." Flash exclaimed as he appeared right next to her. "I'll help out too. Please, let me serve you as your personal bodyguard once more!!!"

"Very well." Twilight responded to Flash's request. "Just don't leave me again."

"You know I won't, Princess!!!" Flash said as he drew out his lance and kite shield. "I'll always fight by your side in the end, whether or not the entire world will turn its back on you!!!"

"Go on ahead without us, guys!!" Twilight ordered the rest of her team as they weighed anchor from their ship. "We'll catch up later."

"But mother, we're finally reunited!!" Spike cried.

"I'm sorry I have to do this Spike, but you just have to trust me!!" Twilight said to her adoptive son.

"It's just like every pony says: you were always a brave fool, Twilight Sparkle!!!" Eagle Eye sneered at the alicorn as he readied himself with his spear. "And you, Flash, it seems like you're coming back from retirement to serve your beloved princess. Well, enjoy it while you can boy, because it'll be the last thing you'll ever do!!!"

Without hesitation, Twilight and Flash charged at Eagle Eye with their long-shafted weapons, while Eagle Eye charged at the two flying ponies with his spear. Flash Sentry attacked Eagle Eye first, clashing his lance with Eagle's spear in a full frontal assault. Twilight flew up into the air and started performing a dive bomb at the Prison warden, with her spear pointing directly at him. However, as both Eagle's spear and Flash's lance clashed into each other, Eagle spots Twilight zeroing in and jumps out of the way, dodging her attack. As Twilight landed on all four hooves, she attacked Eagle Eye with her halberd. As the fight between the two ponies and Eagle continued, one of Sweetie Drops' sailors spot a group of 4 battleships and one flagship heading their way. 

"Agent Sweetie Drops!!! It's the Unicornian Fleet, they're aiming their guns at us!!!" The Sailor shouted, alerting every pony onboard the ship.

Sweetie Drops, a.k.a Bon Bon, emerges from the Captain's Quarters and issues the following orders. 

"Ready the main batteries! Prepare to fire on my command!!!" Sweetie Drops ordered her men. "And raise all sails!!! We're blasting our way out of here!!! Bring out the Gravity Cannon!!!"

Wasting no time, the rest of Twilight's remaining team, except Sunset Shimmer who is in the infirmary, went up topside to prepare for another battle, this time in the sea.

"Mother, Flash Sentry, please stay alive!!!" Spike muttered to himself in a worried tone.

At the center of the fleet, their is a Unicornian Flagship pressing forward from the rest of the ships, it had a grey hull and a black flag bearing a white cross with a Unicornian emblem in the middle. On deck, a unicorn with a turquoise blue body and a golden mane and tail, wearing a white naval uniform with golden trimmings, stepped up on deck. His name is Admiral Thunderball. He has an anchor scar on his right eye and is bearing the cutie mark of a harpoon stuck inside a ball. On both of sides of the flagship, the other battleships have a black hull and the same features to that of the Alicorn Avenger.

"Attention, unauthorized vessel! This is Admiral Thunderball!" The unicorn announced with his megaphone. "You are under arrest for trespassing upon government waters. We all have you surrounded. Stop now or we'll destroy you. This will be your first and final warning!!!"

"Do not falter." Sweetie Drops said as she shouted orders to her men. "Push forward! Battle stations, every pony!!! Bring out and charge up the Gravity Cannon and get ready to fire on my command!!"

In the middle of the deck of the Alicorn Avenger, a large hatch opened up. The Gravity Cannon was raised up on deck. It was a huge turbine-like cannon, loaded with gravitational cells, and its wires are attach to a power generator behind the cannon. One of Sweetie Drops' crew ponies got on the seat next to the Gravity Cannon and took aim at one of the Unicornian battleships. 

"Unicornian Battleships, open fire!!!" Admiral Thunderball said as he ordered his fleet. 

As soon as the Unicornian vessels close in Sweetie Drop's ship, they opened fire. Thunderball's Flagship and the 4 battleships have unleash a rain of fire coming out from their main gun batteries heading directly at the Alicorn Avenger. 

"Evade and raise the shields!!!" Sweetie Drops ordered her crew.

Several unicorns, along with Starlight, Trixie, and Rarity, all used their magic to form up a very huge shield barrier to protect their ship from incoming fire. When the enemy shells struck the shield barrier, multiple explosions started erupting all over it.

"Fire at will, every pony!!!" Sweetie Drops bellowed her orders to the entire crew.

All of the weapons mounted on the Alicorn Avenger's deck, except the Gravity Cannon, started shooting up into the sky and struck the 1st enemy vessel, on the right of the Admiral's flagship. Just in an instant, the enemy ship started erupting in an endless chain of explosions, blowing up holes onto their deck. The ship exploded from the inside, making it sink into the sea. As soon as the Gravity Cannon charged up, the weapon fired a light-green beam of light at the second enemy vessel. After being fired at by the Alicorn Avenger's Gravity Cannon, most of the crew onboard the vessel was felling pressurized by its power, making them fall flat onto the deck, unable to move, while others bursted into a bloody explosion from within their bodies. For the rest of the second vessel, all of its gun batteries was crumpling itself up into a metal ball and it's propellers started to malfunction, disabling the ship in the middle of the sea. After disabling the second enemy vessel, the Gravity Cannon was now used as a tractor beam. It moved the wrecked ship on top of the 3rd enemy vessel. As soon as the Gravity Cannon disengage it's tractor beam, the wrecked vessel smash the 3rd vessel from above. Every pony that was on deck of the 3rd vessel was forced to jump off the ship before their deck was slammed by the 2nd vessel's wrecked mass.

Meanwhile, Twilight flew out of Eagle's spear thrust and attempted to slam the blade of her halberd onto his head, only to be blocked by Eagle's magic shield barrier. Behind Eagle, Flash Sentry made another aerial strike with his lance attempting to pierce Eagle's flesh. However, Eagle teleported out of the way and makes another jab at the orange pegasus with his spear. Flash performed a barrel roll to his left in order to dodge Eagle's spear jab, only to get hit in the back by Eagle's front hooves, slamming the pegasus to the ground. Before Eagle was able to perform a killing blow by stabbing Flash in the back, Twilight rammed at the warden unicorn, sending him away from the unconscious pegasus. As Twilight charged straight at Eagle, she was met with a swing of the rear end of Eagle's spear. Luckily, the purple alicorn dodged and attempted to make a upper thrust with her spear. Eagle narrowly avoids it with an inch from his head, lifts his spear up high, and slammed it into Twilight's halberd's shaft. Suddenly, without warning, Eagle kicked Twilight in the stomach sending her flying a few feet backwards before hitting the ground. As she got up Twilight charged up her horn and fired her most powerful magic at Eagle Eye, but not before he charged up his horn at the same time. Both of the alicorn's and unicorn's magic smashed into each other, trying to direct their magic into their target. However, despite their efforts, both of their spells caused an explosion between the two ponies, followed by a large cloud of dust. After the dust disappeared, Twilight looked around to see where did Eagle Eye go. Suddenly, Eagle appeared behind the alicorn and as soon she looked behind her, Eagle's spear pierced directly into Twilight's shoulder blade, making her fall on her back.

"ARGH!!!" Twilight screamed as she felt pain and blood coming out of her shoulder.

"Why won't you die already?" Eagle Eye hissed. "Unicornia has already owned Equestria as part of their nation. You can't hope to bring back Equestria's former glory, it's just going to cause more disorder than unity. After all, Unicornia has more dominating power than any other nation do. So, why do you keep persisting over something that we already took away?"

"Because, I was meant to do great things for Princess Celestia and for my family." Twilight grunted. "It's not just power that makes me who I am right now, its how I was able to get along with others without fear first. As long as I have friends by my side, I will move on and fight to the bitter end, with friendship on my side. AND THAT'S THE ONLY THING I WANTED!!!"

Before Eagle could see what was coming, Twilight pulled out a orichalcum dagger from her jumpsuit and hurled it at Eagle piercing his eye with the blade coming out of his skull.

"AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHH!!! Eagle screamed, realizing that a dagger was lodged straight into his head, rendering him to unable to do anything else.

As Twilight got back up, she grabbed her halberd and impaled Eagle straight into his chest, killing him immediately. After Eagle fell flat on the ground, dead, Twilight walked up to Flash and gave him a wake up call. Flash slowly woke up and got back on his hooves only to see Twilight collapsed on the ground due to her bleeding wound, but not before he grabbed her by with his right hoof.

"Princess!! Please hang on!!" Flash Sentry said as he lifted Twilight onto his back before he unfurled his wings and took off into the night sky.

During his flight, he spots the Alicorn Avenger coming under heavy fire by the remaining three Unicornian vessels. As he descended from his flight, Flash landed all fours onto the ship's deck and asked the crew to help carry Twilight to the infirmary. 

"Mother!! Are you okay??!!" Spike shrieked as he saw Twilight wounded.

"Don't worry, Spike. It's just a flesh wound!!" Flash told the teenage dragon.

"Alright then, our work is done here!!! Helmspony Lyra Heartstrings, full speed ahead!!! WE ARE LEAVING!!!" Sweetie Drops commanded as their ship headed past the wreckage of the three destroyed Unicornian vessels before disappearing into the night.

Before they left the area, Starlight Glimmer took out the remote detonator and activated it. From a distance, the whole Research Prison Facility exploded from within, turning the building into a living inferno and destroying all of the research and drugs residing there. The last thing they saw from the facility was a huge nuclear explosion follow up a mushroom cloud reaching up to the sky.

"Oh shit!!! The Research Prison Facility exploded." Admiral Thunderball exclaimed. "We lost quite a lot of power letting this happen."

"Not quite, Admiral." Professor Felhand said as he appeared behind Thunderball. "As long as I still have my research stashed away in my country house in Canterlot, I'll continue with my experiments there. We will find a way to drive away those rebels for good, very soon."

After dropping off the escaped prisoners at a secret L.R base outside of Manehattan, Twilight and the rest of her team left the area and decided to make their way back to their L.R HQ in the sewers at Canterlot. Soarin decided to go with Twilight's team because he doesn't want Rainbow Dash to suffer anymore, the same thing goes for Flash Sentry since he still loved Twilight.

"Are you still okay, walking normally, Twilight?" Flash Sentry asked the purple alicorn.

"I'll be fine, Flash." Twilight said while walking slowly with a dress wound covering up her injured shoulder blade.

During their trek, Rarity was carrying Sunset Shimmer on her shoulder, who has a bandaged up dress wound on her abdomen. 

"Man, Twilight!! What you did to that lousy prison warden was AWESOME!!!!" Rainbow Dash said in excitement while walking beside the purple alicorn. "Since when did you learn how to fight like that??"

"Let's just say the Princess Luna taught me a particular set of skills that made me a nightmare for ponies like Eagle Eye and Amadeus." Twilight said in a calm tone of voice. "By the way Rainbow, what happened to your wings?"

"Well, me and Spike had quite a freak accident before we where thrown into that wretched place." Rainbow Dash said. 

"Hey, Flash. What did they try to do to you that made you go crazy earlier?" Twilight asked her colt friend.

"Well, Twilight. The thing is...." Flash Sentry responded to Twilight before explaining his flashback.





As soon as Flash Sentry woke up, he finds himself strapped to an immobile chair.

"WHAT THE FUCK?? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE????" Flash Sentry screamed as he was struggling on his chair.

"Well, it's about time you woke up." Professor Felhand said to himself. "I thought that my revival drug will not work this time, since this is the 556th time."

"Revival Drug? What are you talking about?? What is this place? Who the hell are you??? Flash asked while freaking out.

"My name is Professor Felhand and I'm here to take good care of you." The unicorn responded. "This is the Research Prison Facility where you'll be my latest test subject. We've the been testing out various creations to use as weapons to support Queen Majesty Blueblood."

"QUEEN MAJESTY BLUEBLOOD??" Flash asked as he freaked out even more.

"Yes, she is the new ruler of Equestria." Professor Felhand said to Flash. "And I take it you must be Flash Sentry."

"That's not right!! I-I thought Princess Celestia and Princess Luna rule over Equestra." Flash said in a panicked tone of voice.

"Well, not anymore." Professor Felhand cackled. "At the start of her reign, one of the decisions that the queen carried out was to give us rights to conduct experiments and research to help improve her military power over Equestria."

"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WOULD LISTEN TO QUEEN MAJESTY???" Flash asked while screaming in anger. 

"Because her destiny is carried out by her father Amadeus Blueblood and her destiny is part of the Blueblood noble family lineage." Felhand explained. "We do need to remove every pony that will attempt to oppose their rule, such as Princess Twilight Sparkle.

"HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT HER LIKE THAT IN FRONT OF ME??!!!" Flash Sentry snarled. "I used to be one of her favorite personal guards back then. My loyalties still lie within her and the royal sisters and I always believed in Twilight and her democracy. She was just trying to help protect Equestria with her Democratic reforms. That isn't until you and your people keep portraying her with false, negative images. Because you assholes took her away from me, I LOST EVERYTHING!!! I mean, just what sort of threat does Princess Twilight Sparkle pose anyway???"

"It doesn't matter, Flash. We have to make her step down by force or we can't proceed in our quest to gain the power to rule over Equestria." Felhand said to the restrained pegasus. "Anyway, I'm afraid its time for you to be experimented on.

"NOOOO!!! I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE!!! Flash screamed his head off, trying to break free from his restraints but with little or no effort. "GET ME OUT OF HERE, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!!!! GET ME OUT!!!!"

"Sorry Flash, but this is for your own good." Felhand said as he injected a sedative into his hoof. "Now time to go the sleep." 

"I...don't.....want...to....be.....in this....place." Flash muttered to himself before he passed out. 





"That was the only thing I could remember before I saw you again." Flash explained to Twilight.

"But it won't matter any more." Twilight said while slowly smiling at Flash. "Since you came back, our journey to be together is just the beginning."

Flash Sentry nodded, realizing that he just got a second chance to be with Twilight Sparkle once more.

"I can't wait to go back with you guys to see all of our friends again and celebrate our reunion there." Rainbow Dash said out of excitement. "It's going to be so awesome!!!!"

"Well, you can tell Pinkie Pie to begin our reunion party as soon as we get there." Twilight said
> Chapter 7: Assault on Lunar Republic HQ
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Meanwhile, during the time that Twilight and her team made their way back to the sewers, Majesty Blueblood held a secret meeting with the former LR commandoes lead by their commander Red Moon. She was a dark-red pegasus who bears the cutie mark of a blood moon with two daggers crossing over each other on top of it. Lord Bronze, a dark-brown earth pony colt with a golden mane and tail that bears the cutie mark of a bronze coin, led the former LR commandoes to speak with Majesty outside of her castle.

"So Red Moon, Lord Bronze told me that you and your men used to serve under Princess Luna as her LR commandoes, right?" Majesty Blueblood asked the female pegasus while standing outside of the Canterlot Palace.

"Why, yes indeed, your highness." Red Moon replied to the Queen as she bowed at her hooves. "We have a score to settle with Princess Luna for abandoning us."

"And why would you want to side with me and the rest of my faithful subjects?" Majesty asked Red Moon.

"Because our allegiance lies with rulers that have more power above all others, like yourself." Red Moon answered Majesty's question. "We fled deep into hiding, thinking that Luna will come and save us but she proved us wrong. So, we all wish to show Luna the error of her ways, as well as teaching her a lesson for getting her nose into places where it doesn't belong."

"I see you want revenge on Princess Luna as much as we do!!" Morning Blade said as he appeared behind Queen Majesty.

As soon as he revealed himself to Majesty and Red Moon, the left half of Blade's face was now replace by a metal alloy with a red light coming out of his left eye. After a few months of surgery, his right front hoof was dissected and replaced by a metal grappling claw that shoots out in a range of 25ft, and can crush anything it grabs. Despite his surgery and robotic implants, Morning Blade still has his horn on top of his head and that he's still wearing his black armor on his body.

"How do you feel after they made a few enhancements on your body?" Majesty asked the unicorn general.

"My head still hurts a little." Morning Blade said. "And after I fell on the ground unconscious, the doctors told me that my front right hoof was dislocated and twisted behind my back and they had no choice but to perform a surgery on it in order to relocated and fix my hoof. Anyway, I can't wait to teach that purple alicorn harlot a lesson."

"Then, you'll be accompanying Red Moon while during her raid upon Luna's Underground HQ." Majesty ordered the altered unicorn. "My father wanted me to let you know that if you ever see Princess Luna and Princess Twilight again, please tell them both goodbye for him."

"Understood, your highness." Morning Blade said as he bowed to Majesty before following Red Moon and her men. "Alright every pony. Tomorrow, we attack at dawn!!!"

At Luna's HQ, Twilight and the rest of the Mane 5 celebrated their reunion of the Element bearers of Harmony, along with Soarin, Flash Sentry, Discord, Zecora, Luna, Redheart, Sunset, Starlight, Trixie, and Spike. As they continued with their party, they were holding mugs drinking apple cider, played music, and started dancing the night away. During the party Rainbow Dash apologized to Twilight for not believing that her drunken attitude would cost the female pegasus her Wonderbolts career. As Twilight accepted Rainbow's apology, Flash Sentry took Twilight's hoof to go out dancing with her. The purple alicorn accepted Flash's request as she started blushing. After their dance, Flash and Twilight sat at one of the tables and ate dinner together in the cafeteria. As soon as their done eating, Flash took out his rock guitar and started playing his favorite romantic song, which is based on his relationship with Twilight Sparkle while she leaned over the table with her hooves hold her cheeks as she smiled at Flash.

I Know You I Walked With You Once Upon A Dream
I Know You The Gleam In Your Eyes Is So Familiar A Gleam
And I Know It's True That The Visions Are Seldom All They Seem
But If I Know You, I Know What You Will Do
You'll Love Me At Once, They Way You Did Once, Upon A Dream

I Know You I Danced With You Once Upon A Night
There We Were Wishing This Dance Could Last Forevermore
I Hope It's True That This Vision Is More Than What It Seems
Because if Dreams Can Come True, I Know What We'll Do
We Will Dance Once More The Way We Did Then
Upon A Dream

After Flash Sentry sang his song, every pony and creature started clapping and cheering for Flash out of excitement.

"Oh, Flash. That was most beautiful song I ever heard!!!" Twilight said in a romantic smile, followed by a happy squeal.

"Well, I was trying sing this song in order to cheer you up, when those wretched traditionalists tried to made you look bad, but I never had the time to do so." Flash explained while smiling at Princess Twilight. "But now I do!!"

"Thank you, Flash. I'm not worthy." Twilight said happily as she hugged him, followed by a nuzzle on his cheek.

"Well, it's good to have you back in the royal guard, Flash Sentry." Luna said to the orange pegasus. "Though, our problems with those power-hungry nobles are still far from over. We have yet to find a way to free the rest of our people, as well as our families. But first, we need to find a way for them to seek sanctuary and I do believe that the Crystal Empire will be are only bet."

"But, Luna. That city is already crawling with a massive army of Cicada's Changelings." Starlight protested. "How are we going to get past them all."

"Don't worry, Starlight. I already contacted the other LR commanders." Luna announced to Starlight and the rest. "They said that they will bring all of their forces and meet us at the Crystal Wastelands. For now, let's get some shut eye. Tomorrow, we'll get ready, pack up, and leave first thing in the morning."

As the rest of the ponies and creatures went to their bunk beds, Twilight and Flash both slept together in the same bunk bed, with Flash's hooves holding onto Twilight's belly, the same thing goes for Rainbow Dash and Soarin. 

Meanwhile, earlier in the morning, the ex-LR Commando team, led by and Morning Blade and Red Moon, are making their way down the sewer entrance, below the causeway. They pressed forward, walking on their hooves silently. Morning Blade directed the team with a sewer map that he got from Lord Amadeus. As soon as they reached the metal doors, leading to the Lunar Republic HQ, Red Moon ordered two of her members to plant demolition charges in front of the door. On the other side of the door, Discord came out of his bunk bed, after leaving Fluttershy for a moment, to go use the restroom. However, before he makes his way back to the barracks, the Draconneques heard some muffled whispering coming from outside of the entrance. When he look, to see what's going on through the sliding window, he spotted a group of ponies readying their weapons and preparing to attack. 

"Holy shit!!!!" Discord said to himself, while freaking out. "Intruders!!!!"

Without hesitation, Discord ran straight down the hallways, back to the barracks before shouting.

"EVERY PONY, WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!!" Discord shrieked. "COME ON! GET UP!! GET UP!!!"

"Mmmm? What?" Twilight yawned as she opened up her eyes.

Before any pony got up on their hooves and out of their bunk beds, they heard a loud explosion coming from the entrance of their hideout. Upon hearing the distant explosion, every pony jumped out of their bunk beds, startled by the noise.

"OH MY GOSH!!!" Rainbow Dash yelled in shock. "HOW THE HELL THEY FIND US???"

"Every pony, arm yourselves!!!!" Twilight ordered her friends as she and the rest of the Mane 5 and their followers went straight to the armory to fight back against the intruders.

At the main entrance, the metal door busted open and fell flat on the ground. In just seconds, the Red Moon's LRC team came in as they bring up their Moon tower shields to form a frontal shield formation. Several Changeling Republican soldiers show up in the main hallways, hurling their spears and shooting their crossbows and their magic at Red Moon's men but with little or no effort thanks to their tower shields. The LRC marksponies appeared from behind the shield formation and started shoot back at the Changelings with their hand crossbows and their musket rifles. As casualties from the Changeling Republic started piling up, Princess Luna ordered them to fall back.

"Princess Luna!!" Gladius shouted as he came up behind the dark-blue alicorn. "Crimson Cross is gone!!!"

"We'll deal with that later, Gladius!" Luna said while using her magic to shielding the CR soldiers from getting hammered by enemy fire. "Right now, we need to hold off the intruders!!!"

"Understood, your highness!" Gladius acknowledged Luna's orders.

After every pony geared up in the Armory, Discord, Nurse Redheart, and Zecora decided to haul off their supplies to the emergency exit, which leads to the outside at the outskirts of Canterlot, while Twilight, the Mane 5, Starlight, Trixie, Sunset, Flash Sentry, and Soarin head out to prepare for counterattack. As Luna, Gladius, and the remaining CR soldiers fell back behind Twilight's group, they unleashed a volley of fire at Red Moon's commandoes. Pinkie Pie started firing a gatling cannon, with Fluttershy and Spike helping out with the ammo. Rainbow Dash and Soarin, after Nurse Redheart fixed both of their wings, started zeroing into the intruders with a sonic boom, followed by several spear thrusts the pierced the enemy in their sides. Twilight and Rarity jump from above and broke away the shield formation by landing in the middle of Red Moon's team. Rarity unsheathe her ninja sword and slashed across one corrupted LRC in his torso before getting stab upside his head. Twilight drew out her greatsword with her magic, charged it up, and made several sword strikes that broke most of the corrupted LRC's shields in two before getting their bodies cut off from their limbs. Flash Sentry made a spinning lance thrust into 3 corrupted LRC's piercing right through their shield before getting stabbed in their chests, killing them. Applejack, Trixie, and Starlight drew out their blunted weapons and started smashing their way through several waves of enemies. Gladius drew out his spear and started fight alongside Flash, taking down several more corrupted LRCs in a bloody frenzy. As the fight continued, Luna's eyes widen with shock after getting a full glimpse of Red Moon.	

"Red Moon?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING???" Luna screeched in a royal Canterlot voice. "I thought you where helping me and my sister defend Equestria from Unicornia??"

"Sorry, Princess Luna. We were going to find a way back to our HQ, but you abandoned us." Red Moon spoke in a hostile voice. "So as of now, you are going to pay for not helping us find our way back to HQ!!!"

"Red Moon, don't do this. You were one of the best LR commanders I ever recruited!!!! Please, don't do something that you're going to regret." Luna pleaded with the dark-red pegasus.

"It's too late to make amends, Princess." Morning Blade said as he appeared behind Red Moon. "You no longer have any more power to help and guide Red Moon and the rest of her LR Commandoes to serve and protect Equestria. So, say your prayers."

As Morning Blade approached the night princess, he raised up his right hoof and shot his claw straight at Luna. Before Luna was about to do anything, she was immediately grabbed by Morning Blade's metal claw in the neck, crushing her windpipe.

"N-No.....P-please...." Luna wheeze as she is starting to lose consciousness due to Morning Blade's strangling.

In the nick of time, Twilight Sparkle appeared, unfurling her wings as she rammed into the altered general, making Blade lose his grip on Luna. After Luna collapsed, she took a breather first before getting back into the fight.

"So, you must be Princess Twilight, the very same harlot that was once Celestia's bitch!!!" Red Moon taunted.

"Watch it, Red Moon. Or you're next." Twilight snarled. "I heard that you and your men were one of Luna's LR commandoes until you all went MIA on her. YET, YOU DARE SIDE WITH UNICORNIA???!"

"Sorry, my dear, but Princess Luna is not worth listening to anymore and neither are you!!" Red Moon said in glaring at Twilight. "So, prepare to die!!!"

The moment Red Moon drew out her Rapier, she charged straight at Twilight. The alicorn and the pegasus clashed into each other with both of their swords held up high. Twilight made a horizontal slash at Red only to be parried by raising her sword next to her eye level. After Twilight and Red made 5 more parried between their blades, Red Moon made a fencing stance pointing her rapier directly at Twilight's face. However, Twilight dodged Red Moon's fencing jabs from both left and right as she raised her sword to form a defensive stance against Red Moon's flurry of jabs. Twilight made another horizontal slash at Red Moon, only for her to unfurl her wings and flipped backwards away from the purple alicorn. After Red Moon landed on her hooves, she pulled out her repeating hand crossbow and started shooting at Twilight, only for her to form a magic shield barrier from her horn, blocking 10 crossbow bolts before they hit the floor. As the fight continued between Twilight and Red Moon, Morning Blade snuck up on Twilight and grabbed her by the throat with his Metal Claw, crushing her windpipe within his grip.

"AAAAAAAGGGGH!!! URRRRGHK!!!" Twilight screamed as she felt her neck getting crushed as she started to collapse on the ground.

"NO!!! TWILIGHT!!!!" Flash Sentry screamed, fearing that he is about to lose his beloved Alicorn Princess again.

Just when Flash was about to intervene, several more of Red Moon's men went in front of the orange pegasus and shoved him away with their tower shields.	

"Not so tough now, are you?!" Morning Blade glared at Twilight as she made a futile struggling against his metal claw. "Say goodbye to your kneecap, chuckle head-uh?!!"

Suddenly, before Morning Blade could strangle Twilight's to death, something huge rammed him in his side, loosing his grip on Twilight. This time he was sent flying hitting his back on a wall to his left. As Blade got up, he spotted Crimson Cross glaring at him with an intent to kill. For Twilight, she started coughing out air, with Flash trying to get her back on her hooves again. Every pony in Twilight's team and Princess Luna were all shocked to see the very same earth pony that enslaved Applejack appear right in the middle of their battle with Red Moon's men.

"What the??!! Crimson Cross??" Twilight gasped in a surprised tone of voice.

"Are you okay, Princess?" Crimson asked.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING??!!" Twilight shouted at the brown earth pony in loud royal Canterlot voice.

"I came back to help you guys." Crimson Cross said answering Twilight's question.
> Chapter 8: The terrible truth of Crimson Cross
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Help Us???" What do you mean help us?" Twilight asked in bewilderment. 

"Well for one thing, I should never have trusted Morning Blade from the start." Crimson said as he growled at the Unicornian General. "After all this time, I've been living a lie!!!"

"What are you saying?!" Twilight asked Crimson Cross. "I still don't get it."

"I'll explain later." Crimson Cross responded to Twilight.

"ENOUGH TALK!!!" Morning Blade roared as he drew out his sword with his magic. "Let's get this over with, shall we?"

As soon as they continued fighting against Morning Blade and Red Moon, Twilight, Flash, and Crimson engaged them 3 versus 2. Crimson drew out a sledge hammer and started swing it at Red Moon. However, Red Moon stepped back away from Crimson's attack and lunged at the brown earth pony with her rapier. Crimson blocked Red's lunge attack, raised his hammer up high his head, and attempted to smash Red on her head only for her to block the hammer with her rapier while using both of her hooves. As for Morning Blade, he launched his Metal Claw at Twilight only for her to knock the claw away from her face with her sword with an uppercut block. Twilight, then, unfurled her wings as she launched up above Blade and dived down aiming her sword at the altered unicorn. Blade used his magic to raise his sword up high above his head to block Twilight's aerial attack, performing a shoulder guard against her sword. Flash Sentry, who was also in the air, charged straight at Morning Blade while using his lance to perform a jousting attack but Morning Blade used his teleportation spell to dodge it. 

As for Starlight and the others, Trixie unleashed a fireball spell that struck 2 corrupted LRCs before they closed in Rarity. Starlight Glimmer focused all her energy into her warhammer and smashed through one LRC's tower shield before it cracked his head open. Sunset Shimmer threw out a cluster of grenades at the incoming intruders. When the grenades exploded, about 5 of the intruders were sent flying with explosive shrapnel piercing their skin. The fighting in the sewers continued until Luna unleashed a powerful, blinding flash that made all of the remaining corrupted LRCs get burned alive. All of the intruders collapsed, while burning in agony except for Morning Blade and Red Moon. As Red Moon made another fencing lunge attack at Crimson Cross, he slammed the evil pegasus with his sledgehammer squarely in the chest, making her stagger in pain. The next thing Red Moon saw Crimson reaching both of his hooves toward her face and forced her neck move to the left and right before her neck snapped in two. After Crimson broke her neck, she collapsed on the ground and left behind her final gasp of air coming out of her lungs. 

When Morning Blade lashed out at Flash with his sword, Flash parried it with his lance and forced Morning Blade's sword straight to the ground completely stuck. Unable to get his sword free, Morning Blade let go of it and launched his Metal Claw at the orange pegasus. However, Flash Sentry dodged the Metal Claw only for Twilight to use her magic to summon a huge metal crate and smashed it right on top of the extension of Morning Blade's Metal Claw. Morning Blade grunted in pain. By the time he struggled to get his Claw out, the extension broke apart, leaving Blade's claw stuck underneath the crate. Upon seeing his Metal Claw destroyed, Morning Blade screamed.

"ARGH!!! You haven't seen the last of me, Twilight Sparkle." Morning Blade said. "I'll have my vengeance!!!!!"

Before any pony got closer to Morning Blade, he used his magic to teleport himself out of the sewers.

"Good riddance, Morning Blade." Rainbow Dash growled.

After treating every pony of their wounds and disposing all of the dead Changeling Republican soldiers and corrupted LRCs, Crimson was brought in before Princess Twilight and Princess Luna for more interrogation. Despite Crimson helping Twilight and her friends defeat Red Moon's men, they still did not understand why would Crimson have a change of heart.

"Alright, Crimson. This better be good or else we're going to leave you behind, completely tied up in chains." Luna said in a Royal Canterlot voice.

Before any pony could say any further, Twilight noticed that Crimson started to have tears come out of his eyes. This can only mean that Crimson had his own reasons for joining the Unicornian Army. After Crimson wiped away his tears, he took a deep breath before explaining his reasonings.

"I know you ponies all have a lot of reasons not to trust me." Crimson said in a forlorn expression. "Before any of you could say anything, there is something that I want to show you all. Trust me, it's going to give you all quite a shock."

Crimson used his right hoof to pull out a picture from his fur coat and showed it to Twilight, Applejack, and Princess Luna. As Twilight used her magic to hold Crimson's picture, she sees 2 little fillies in a peach and light-brown color and an earth pony mare, with a yellow body and an orange mane and tail, standing next to them with Crimson holding her by his shoulders. Upon seeing what was on the picture, all of the ponies other than Crimson stared at it with their eyes widen.

"Crimson, are they....?" Twilight asked the sad earth pony.

"Yes, Princess. It's my family!!" Crimson said to Twilight Sparkle. "Everything that I did, including joining the Unicornian Army and taking charge as the head slave master; I did it for them."

Upon hearing what Crimson just said, every pony, including Discord, gasped under a state of shock.

"Wait, are you trying to tell us that you made a deal with Morning Blade, but it went sour?!" Luna asked Crimson.

"Yes, it did. He promised me that if I serve in the Unicornian Army for 20 years, he would let my family go." Crimson said crying. "During the invasion of Unicornia, my entire family was captured at Manehattan and hauled off to a concentration camp. I used to be held prisoner there, until Morning Blade brought me into the military."

"So, ya trying ta say that this Morning Blade fella was just using ya from the start?!" Applejack asked the sad earth pony.

"YES!!!" Crimson cried out loudly. "I didn't really have any choice during that time. Before all of that, I was just a hard-working earth pony that harvested all sorts of fruit in my farm down at Manehattan and that I had a family to support, my wife Yellow Peach and my 2 daughters, Bright Song and Bella Harp. I thought for sure that joining Morning Blade's battalion would earn me my permanent freedom. I guess you can all say that, I was never free and neither was my family."

"So when you tried to escape from us, what also did you learn from them?" Luna asked.

After Crimson gave himself some thought, he slowly make his way to a couple of hours earlier before Red Moon and Morning Blade prepared their attack upon Luna's HQ.





As Crimson escaped from his imprisonment inside Luna's HQ, he came out from a sewer grate in the middle of street during the night. When he proceeded forward through the shadows, he ended up hearing a group of ponies coming from around the corner to his right.

"All right every pony, tomorrow we attack at dawn!!!" Morning Blade told to Red Moon's men. After hearing his speech, they all cheered before the proceeded down to the sewer.

"Uh sir, we received a report that Crimson Cross was captured by Luna's commandoes when his slave caravan was raided in a forrest near Baltimare." One of Red Moon's men said. "Shall we go rescue him?"

"I think not. Since he failed to escort the slaves to the Baltimare docks as planned, the deal is off." Morning Blade said as he denied the corrupted LRCs request. "He already served his purpose in my battalion, but now it's over. I have no further use for him. Well, that idiot doesn't realize that we have no intention of letting his family go, whether or not he joins us to help conquer Equestria. We only wanted him to help enforce the slave labor in our nation because we can't get enough resources to gain power if we don't have enough slaves to harvest them for us. Second, if anything happens to him, we could always find a replacement for Crimson Cross; I made him after all since everything always come with a price. So, if any of you ever see Crimson down in the sewers, you kill him immediately. Now let's go every pony, we have no time to lose."

Upon hearing everything from Morning Blade's mouth, Crimson Cross realized that he made a really big mistake. Not a moment too soon, the earth pony started crying in silent while hurdling himself up in a corner.

"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" Crimson wailed. "What have I done????" 

After crying for 3 hours, Crimson got back up on his hooves and grabbed a sledge hammer from a nearby workshop and decided to go back to the very same place that he escaped from.

"Princess Luna! Princess Twilight! I should've listened to both of them." Crimson muttered to himself. "I've got to make things right, not just for me, but also for them and for my family."





After hearing what Crimson said through his flashback, every pony was completely shocked.

"Wow Crimson, if ah didn't know any betta, ah would've thought that ya were lying through your teeth when you said that ya would treat me fairly at Baltimare." Applejack said with her eyes widened with horror on her face. "Why did ya not say so in da first place??"

"I was trying to understand what honesty is really about through your perspective. As a matter of fact, you do remind me of my wife when she was your age Applejack." Crimson said to the earth pony mare. "I may be a slave master and torturer just recently, but I'm also a devoted husband and father who had a lovely mare and 2 little fillies to take care of. But now, I don't know what to do anymore and I'm probably never going to see my precious Yellow Peach or my children again!!!"

Before any pony could say anything else to Crimson Cross, he started crying again as he covered up his face with his hooves. 

"I'm so sorry, Crimson. I had no idea." Applejack said as she embraced Crimson in her hooves.

"No Applejack, I'm the one who owes you an apology, you and Princess Twilight." Crimson replied to Applejack. "I wasn't really trying to throw all of that negative rant at your princess blindly, I was just doing that in order to stay alive and do my job so that I can see my family again."

"Well Luna, what do you think?" Twilight asked the night alicorn. "Are we going to let him come with us to save his family or leave him here to rot?"

After Princess Luna thought to herself about everything that Crimson Cross said, she took a deep breath before making her decision to every pony in the group.

"Crimson Cross, if what you say is true, then as the Princess of the Night, I shall issue the following decision." Luna announced. "If you help us retake the Crystal Empire, I will do my best to help you bring back your family. However, if this is some sort of trick, I will have you publicly executed myself. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!!!"

"Yes, your highness." Crimson responded as he bowed down to Princess Luna. 

"Alright then, every pony." Twilight said to the rest of the group. "Time to pack up. We are leaving the sewers at once."

As they continue to haul off all of their supplies outside of the sewers, they were meet by a fleet of transports that are lead by Daring Do's men. The moment their ships stopped by, Twilight and her friends started loading their stuff onboard the transports. However, before they proceeded to leave the sewers, Princess Luna decided to have the entire group split up into two teams so that they will not attract too much attention from Morning Blade's men. Princess Luna, Discord, Zecora, Nurse Redheart, Crimson Cross, and the remaining Changeling Republican soldiers decided to board on one of Daring Do's transports before heading out to the Crystal Wastelands, while Twilight, Flash Sentry, Soarin, the Mane 5, Starlight, Sunset, and Trixie walked on foot, as well as staying off the main roads leading directly to Canterlot. Nevertheless, both groups had promised each other to meet up at the Crystal Wastelands, despite taking different routes to avoid getting detected. Before their journey, Luna also warned Twilight's group to be wary of any guard patrols outside of Canterlot, as well as Diamond Dog Bounty Hunters and Cicada's Changeling Scouts. For nearly six months, the Diamond Dogs were hired by Amadeus Blueblood to hunt down any fugitives or wandering rebels that get too close to the Crystal Empire, Cloudsdale, Appleloosa, or to Canterlot.
> Chapter 9: Trekking to the North
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Meanwhile, back at Canterlot, after losing badly against Twilight and Flash Sentry, Morning Blade shows up at cabin down at the western district. The cabin happens to be Professor Felhand's summer house. Upon reaching the door of the cabin, Morning Blade knocked on it with his left hoof. 

"Felhand, it's me, Morning Blade." The crippled altered unicorn announced. "I need your help."

After several minutes, the cabin door slowly opened with Felhand coming out with his eyes widen seeing Blade's broken robotic attachment.

"Morning Blade!! What happened to your Metal Claw??" Felhand asked in a startled tone of voice.

"That Damn harlot smashed it into pieces and Red Moon and her men are dead." Morning Blade shrieked. "I can't face Queen Majesty looking like this. She'll cut my head off for failing to kill Luna and Twilight."

"Let's go inside, Blade." Felhand told the crippled unicorn. "I've got a few ideas to make your right attachment more deadlier and more durable."

Without giving it another thought, Morning Blade went inside as he used his magic to close the cabin door behind him. As Blade and Felhand went down the basement, Felhand turned on the lights to see more of his research and experimental creations. On Blade's right, he sees several creations inside huge pods and on his left, there is weapon blueprints hung up on the basement walls, different kinds of drugs and materials stored in small barrels stacked up in metal shelves, and experimental weapons and explosives stashed inside metal crates. On Felhand's workbench, Morning Blade sees another robotic attachment on the table; it happens to be a some sort of small double-barreled cannon that has two switches, one attached to each barrel, and a third switch attached to the trigger.

"What is that??" Morning Blade asked the Professor.

"This is my latest experimental weapon, the U217-type Conversion Beam Lancer." Felhand announced to Morning Blade. "It fires an fusion laser that can cut down anything it touches from a very long range. After making some test runs over this weapon, the fusion lancer is also powerful enough to break through a unicorn's magic shield in less than 10 seconds. It can be activated into three versions. The fusion laser is one thing, but the fusion overdrive is another. When activating the fusion overdrive, it can fire a very powerful charged projectile at your enemies causing a small explosion that'll disintegrate any pony that is within its 10-inch radius. However, because of how unstable it is, there is a good chance that using the fusion overdrive on your Lancer will overheat and will explode if anything shoots at it, when it is overheated. Also, I strongly recommend you to only switch to use one version to fire, not two, or else it'll cause a rupture that will disintegrate your entire arm. For the third version fires both barrels at the same time. However, it does not shoot anything that'll damage your enemies. Instead, it generates a Green Stasis Shield that spreads out in a rectangular space that covers up 10 x 10 feet. As long as the Green Stasis Shield is on, it'll block and absorb any incoming enemy fire. However, if the Beam Lancer overheats when the shield is on, the shield will automatically turn off until it cools down."

"I understand." Morning Blade said to the Professor.

"Oh, and one more thing. Amadeus wants to speak with you." Professor Felhand said.

As Morning Blade turned around, he see Amadeus appear from the shadows. As he revealed himself again, Amadeus has an eye patch covering up his left eye.

"Well, it seems that you found another weapon to use on that harlot, huh?" Amadeus said to Morning Blade. "This is should be fun. I can't wait to use one of the experimental weapons on Twilight someday."

"Not to worry, my lord." Professor Felhand said to Amadeus. "You'll get your turn very soon. In fact, I have a really big surprise for you at the Canterlot Palace. It'll take about 12 to 24 hours to tune it up."

"Well, if you finish this big project that you have in store for me in less than 12 hours, I'll give you 60,000 more bits." Amadeus told Felhand.

"Be my guest, sir." Felhand said as he went back to his research.

"So, Morning Blade, are you still having trouble dealing with that harlot?" Amadeus asked the unicorn general.

"Yes, but no matter, I will find a way to beat Twilight Sparkle at her own game and make sure she won't succeed in restoring Equestria to its formerly, foolish glory." Morning Blade vowed to himself as he took apart his broken attachment from his right hoof and replaced it with the Conversion Beam Lancer. "In fact, one of these days, I am going to command an army that cannot be defeated by mere ponies."

"Not to worry, Blade. I will try to help any way I can when the time comes." Amadeus said as he walked back up the stairs. "One other thing, if you cannot find her anywhere out there, then don't worry about it. I already sent word to the Diamond Dogs about Twilight Sparkle. I promised them a bag full of 50 gems to any Diamond Dog that brings me Twilight Sparkle's head, in which I already have in the Canterlot Treasury. And don't forget, that I also received word that Queen Cicada has sent in her Changeling Scouts to hunt down Twilight and her rebels."

"Understood, sir." Morning Blade said as he saluted Lord Amadeus before he back up the stairs.

After they left Canterlot, Twilight and her group ventured into the woods, with Soarin and Flash Sentry towing a stagecoach while Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Spike, and Sunset on board. Trixie and Starlight moved on to scout ahead.  Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity stayed close to the stagecoach. In just 4 hours later, they stopped by at an abandoned bunker, which used to belong to Princess Celestia's forces. As most of the ponies went inside the bunker to rest and eat lunch, Flash, Applejack, and Rainbow were on guard. 

"So, Twilight, Trixie told us about what you did to Amadeus." Rainbow Dash laughed. "I'm glad you showed that asshole who's boss."

"I know, right?" Twilight said to Rainbow Dash as she laughed with her. "That actually felt good. I should've done all of that before everything in Equestria fell apart."

"You know, Twi, if only we were able to seeing our parents again." Applejack muttered to herself. "We all miss them very much and I'm sure you missed your brother and your parents too, right?"

"Yeah well, we do need a bigger area for all of our parents to stay at, before we let all of this blow over." Twilight suggested to the rest of the group.

"So, Starlight, what happened to Sunburst, ah?" Applejack asked the pale purple unicorn.

"Well, the last time I saw him was when he got captured by Queen Cicada." Starlight replied before continuing her flashback.





When Starlight entered the Crystal Empire, she sees a huge crack in Princess Cadence's shield. As soon as the shield broke, a massive swarm of Cicada's changelings stormed through the Empire like a meteor shower. Upon impact, the changelings made small explosions all over the street and Crystal houses were hammered and caught of fire. Every crystal pony was fleeing in terror and Crystal Pony guards are scrambling to repel the changeling invaders. However, as the changelings keep coming in endless waves, the Crystal Pony guard weren't able to hold them off. Instead, most of the guards were falling back to the Crystal Palace with several of them were immediately captured by the Changelings. 

"SUNBURST, WHERE ARE YOU???" Starlight screamed as she ran with her life on the line.

As Starlight kept on running, she sees the changelings storm through several Crystal Houses and rounded up all of the Crystal Pony residents in each and every one of them. Unable to run for a moment, Starlight hid in the alleyways to take a breather.

"If only Twilight Sparkle was still here." Starlight said as she cried while holding up a picture of her and Twilight with Twilight's Castle behind them. 

Suddenly on the other side of the alleyway, Starlight heard a scream coming from a male unicorn. By the time she went to see where was the sound coming from, her eyes widen with horror. It was an orange unicorn with glasses and a orange mane and tail named Sunburst. She saw Sunburst running away from the Changelings only for him to stumble into Queen Cicada herself. Before Sunburst was able to get away, the Changeling Queen used her magic to restrain the orange unicorn putting him to sleep.

"My Queen, we secured the Crystal Palace and the Crystal Heart." One of her Changeling Guards reported. "What are your orders?"

"Take the Crystal Prince to the concentration camps south of here, make sure the crystal heart is stored in a secured area, and lock up the Crystal Princess." Queen Cicada ordered her men. "And you, Sunburst, you will be my butler for the rest of your life. MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

"NOT SO FAST!!!" Starlight screamed. "Give me back my Sunburst."

"You wish." Cicada cackled. "This is my Kingdom now!! MY KINGDOM!!!!"

Without warning, Starlight charged at Cicada, unleashing her magic upon her.

"You can't take away Sunburst from me." Starlight snarled. "It's already been over ten years since I last saw him. I am not going lose him again."

"TRY ME, IF YOU DARE!!!" Cicada hissed as she shoot out her magic at Starlight Glimmer.

As Cicada's magic and Starlight's magic clashed into each other, Starlight slowly is losing her ground against the Changeling Queen. Suddenly, Starlight's eyes widen with horror as Cicada's magic exploded upon her face, sending her slamming to a wall of a nearby Crystal Building. The unicorn collapsed on the Crystal floor. Just as soon as Starlight was about to get up, she started coughing up blood from her mouth. The next thing she knew, Starlight's vision was getting blurry and disoriented before her world went black.

"Foolish little unicorn." Queen Cicada jeered. "You cannot defeat me. I am the last living heir of Queen Chrysalis and I am dedicated to lead the Changelings to their natural born glory!!!! Thanks to the forces of Unicornia, I will see to it that the Changeling Republic pipsqueaks will tremble before me!!!"

In just moments later, Cicada used her magic to lift up the unconscious female unicorn. However, before she can drain Starlight of her magic and her love, another unicorn appeared from the shadows. It was Trixie Lulamoon.

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!!" Trixie yelled as she used her magic to blast her way through Cicada's Changelings. "You're not taking Trixie's best friend away from her!!!"

Before Cicada and her changelings can do anything, Trixie blasted Cicada in the face with her magic, making her lose her grip around Starlight. As Trixie lifted an unconscious Starlight Glimmer with her magic, she hurls a smoke bomb at Cicada's feet. When the smoke disappeared, Trixie and Starlight both vanished without a trace. 

"Damn, that unicorn. They both got away." Queen Cicada muttered to herself. "But no matter, they do realize that they can't hope to save this city anymore. I rule the Crystal Empire now! MEEEEEEEE!!!!!

As Cicada and her changelings took over the entire Crystal Empire, her laughter can be heard from a mile away. About 100 miles away from the Empire, Trixie and Starlight appeared in a nearby forest.

"Take it easy, Starlight." Trixie said in a worried tone. "Trixie just finished treating you of your injuries."

As Starlight slowly got up, she felt her body wracking with internal pain and internal bleeding. The next thing she knew, the pale-purple unicorn had a body cast bandaged all over her coat.

"Oh, Sunburst. I'm so sorry!!!" Starlight Glimmer cried as she felt Trixie embracing her in her hooves.

"Don't worry Starlight, I'm sure that someday we'll find a way to retake the Crystal Empire." Trixie said as she sympathized the sad unicorn. "Well, right now we need to find a safe place to hide until we can get help."

"Okay, I understand." Starlight said as she let tears come out of her eyes while looking down in shame.





"You've got nothing ta worry about sugarcube." Applejack told Starlight. "As soon as we find a way into the Crystal Empire, we'll help you find that Sunburst fella and the Crystal Heart."

"I glad you guys came with me." Starlight said to the group with a weak smile.

"Every pony quiet!!" Twilight ordered the group. "I hear something rustling in the forrest."

As every pony looked up through the bunker portholes, they see strange dog-like shapes appear from the bushes. Upon getting a closer look, the ponies see several Diamond Dog Bounty Hunters searching everywhere outside of the bunker.

"Keep search the area, you mangy mutts!!!" One of the Diamond Dogs barked at the other Diamond Dogs as he drew out his cutlass. "We know you're out there Princess!!! You can't hide forever!!!" 

The Diamond Dogs spread out all over the forest area near the Bunker that Twilight and her group are in. Some of them were howling up into the sky before they drew out their weapons. 

"Every pony stay away from the bunker doors and keep quiet." Twilight whispered to the others as they all backed away from the closed bunker doors, while drawing out there weapons.

After a couple of minutes, the Diamond Dogs were about to leave the area, when all of a sudden, Pinkie Pie accidentally tripped over a empty metal can on the ground.

"THEY'RE INSIDE THE BUNKER!!!" One of Diamond Dogs howled. "BREAK IT DOWN!!!"

"PINKIE PIE!!!" Applejack yelled at the pink pony for her negligence.

"Oopsies!!!" Pinkie Pie said sheepishly, followed by a smile.

"Get ready for battle every pony." Twilight said as she drew out her two swords with her magic. 

The sword in her right hoof is enchanted with fire magic and the sword in her left hoof is enchanted with ice magic. As Twilight drew out her weapons, she made a dual-wielding battle stance in front of the door, with her fire sword raised up high above her head and her ice sword held straight in front of her eye level. All of the ponies were able to back away from the door and formed up into a defensive formation, with Rainbow Dash, Soarin, and Flash Sentry up front, with their long-shafted weapons pointing straight at the door, Rarity, Trixie, Sunset, Starlight, and Twilight in the middle, and Fluttershy, Applejack, Spike, and Pinkie behind them. As soon as one of the Diamond Dogs made a hole in the wooden bunker door with his club, Sunset Shimmer fired her repeating Henry rifle at the Diamond Dogs. After shooting down 2 of them, the Dogs knocked the door down and charged at the ponies with their weapons held in their paws. As soon as they got close all of the ponies, except Fluttershy charged at them with all their might. When several of the Diamond Dogs charged at Twilight, the purple alicorn unfurled her wings, spin around up in mid-air few feet from the ground and started attacking the dogs. Every time she swung her 2 swords, a wave of magic started shooting out of her blade and struck at the dogs with deadly precision. 

"ARGH, IT BURNS!!!" One Diamond dogs screamed as his fur got caught on fire. The next he knew, he was running around, screaming in pain before he fell on the ground, burned to death.

When the second Diamond Dog got struck by Twilight's Ice sword, he immediate froze into a big ice cube, much to Rarity's excited reaction. Rainbow and Flash made a relentless spearheaded attack that knocked out and stabbed most of the Diamond Dogs, making them fall flat on their backs while bleeding. Starlight shoved her warhammer at a Diamond Dogs face and whacked him across his head before he smashed his face on the bunker wall. Trixie used her magic to cast a lighting nova spell that zapped 5 dogs all at once. Rarity parried against a Dog's cutlass with her ninja only to have her make a deep bloody gash into the Dog's abdomen. As the Dog screamed in pain, the white unicorn shoved him to the ground and finished him off with a killing blow with her ninja sword. When Applejack made a back kick that send one of the dogs flying straight into a wall behind him, the earth mare picked up his wooden shield and started slamming it one of the Diamond Dogs in the head, making blood squirt out from his brain, as well as breaking the wooden shield apart. After Applejack dropped that shattered shield, she took out her retractable talons and launched into the air and stabbed a Diamond Dog in the neck. Just when one of the dogs takes out his musket rifle, the earth pony mare made a mid-flip that slammed her rear hooves into the dog's skull, breaking his neck. After Sunset ran out of ammo when shooting down 7 more Diamond Dogs, she drew out her Flamberge with her magic and chopped one Diamond Dog in two. The next thing Sunset Shimmer did was making a wide arc that chopped off a Diamond Dog's right arm before being stabbed in the stomach. When she pulled her Flamberge out, Sunset kick the Dog with her left front hoof, knocking him out of commission. After Twilight slashed her ice blade at another Diamond Dog in the neck, she clasped two of her blades together and made an spinning attack over her head, that cut down 5 more Diamond Dogs, and slashed at one with both of her blades, simultaneously. Spike sprayed his fire breath at the dogs before whacking them away with his sword. After 20 minutes of fighting, the Diamond Dogs retreated into the forest.

"All right everypony." Twilight announced. "We better leave this place now before more enemy reinforcements come."

As Twilight and the group packed up everything on their stagecoach, Rainbow Dash heard a buzz coming from the east of their position.

"Uh, Twilight, you're hearing what I'm hearing?" Rainbow Dash asked the purple alicorn.

"Yes, Rainbow." Twilight replied. "Flash! Soarin! Get us out of here."

"We're on it!!!" Both of the male pegasus acknowledged Twilight's orders.

Just when Twilight went inside the Stagecoach, Rainbow Dash, Flash Sentry, and Soarin pulled the stagecoach with all their might as they made a run for it. When they left the forest, a platoon of Changeling Scouts were pursuing them from behind. Without hesitation, Pinkie pops out above the stagecoach and started firing a chaingun that she retrieved from one of the dead Diamond Dogs.  Before any of the Changelings got closer, the pink pony opened fire at them with a spray of bullets heading in their direction. As some of the Changelings avoided being shot at, they returned fire with their venom rifles. Not wanting to have her friends get shot, Rainbow Dash and the other two pegasus started making sharp turns, while Starlight and Twilight used their magic to form a shield barrier to protect their stagecoach from enemy fire. Before they could see what was coming in front of them, several more Diamond Dogs popped out of the ground and tried to attack the stagecoach. However, Sunset opens up a window from inside the stagecoach and started blasting them away with her blunderbuss. 

"After them, boys!!" One of the Changeling Scouts screeched. "We can't let them get to the Crystal Wastelands!!"

The chase continued until Twilight and the ponies reached to Neigheria Falls. They all fled into a dark cave in order to lose sight of the Changelings and Diamond Dogs. It was decided that Twilight and her group lay low until nightfall before continuing their trek to the Crystal Wastelands. As they slept, Flash Sentry and Starlight kept on watch for any impeding threats. When the sky turned dark, they got up on their hooves again and pressed forward in silence as Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash pulled the stagecoach through the dense fields. 

"Rainbow, I'm getting tired." Fluttershy quietly said. "I wish Discord didn't leave me like this."

"Come on, Fluttershy. We're not much further to the L.R encampment at the Crystal Wastelands." Rainbow Dash said to the yellow pegasus. "I'm sure he'll still be waiting for you on the other side."

As they got closer to the encampment, they spotted Lunar Republican Flags waving up high into the air. 

"Guys, we finally made it!!" Rainbow Dash said to the rest of the ponies.

As they came out of their stagecoach, they were immediately greeted by Princess Luna and Discord when they both came out of their tents. 

"Twilight, I thought you wouldn't be able to make it in time." Luna said to the purple alicorn in a worried tone. "I heard that several groups of Diamond Dogs and Changeling Scouts were dispatched by the enemy earlier."

"Everything's fine, Luna." Twilight said to the night alicorn. "What's our plan?"

"We'll discuss it in the morning." Luna said. "For now, go get some rest."

As every pony left Luna's tent for some R&R, Twilight went with Flash Sentry. As the two ponies looked up to the night sky, Twilight could not help but worry what will become of her future after they deal with Amadeus and his cronies.

"Say, Twilight. Are you still having doubts over your royal entourage?" Flash Sentry asked.

"Yes, because I don't know if I can continue taking care of the Equestrian Throne any longer." Twilight said in a worried tone.

"It's okay, my dear." Flash said to Twilight. "When I first joined the military, I used to have doubts in myself because of how dangerous it can be. However, it just takes quite a while for some pony like me to get used to."

"Well, I still don't know how are we going to save Equestria from Amadeus Blueblood." Twilight said. "I mean, even if we were able to put him down, there will still be a chance that some pony else will carry out his evil legacy someday. If that happens, this whole nightmare will start all over again."

"You already came a long way, Twilight." Flash said as he comforted the princess in his wings. "So, I can assure you that we will work something out with those selfish nobles."

"I'm glad that I met you, Flash." Twilight said to the orange pegasus, as she smiled at him. "Let's go get some rest, tomorrow will be a big day."

Before they went to one of the tents to get some rest, Twilight gave Flash Sentry a kiss on the cheek. After she went inside the tent, Flash stood there smiling at the purple alicorn.

"It's so good to have you back, Princess Twilight." Flash Sentry thought to himself as he went to his tent.	

Meanwhile at the Crystal Empire, after Queen Cicada took it over, the entire city turned into a darker version of its former self. As crystal ponies were being enslaved with huge restraints over their necks and chains attached to their hooves, they walked down the road as Changelings were keeping a close eye on them from above and on the ground. Throughout the entire area, there was green Changeling cocoons stuck on most of the crystal houses. At the walls of the Crystal Empire, there were Changeling Guards patrolling the battlements. Many flags bearing the Changelings were raised up high on top of the guard towers around the city. Right after Cicada secured the Crystal Heart, she hid it in her makeshift private chambers. In the Crystal Throne room, after Cicada took over the Empire, she transformed it into a darker version of it and filled the room with green cocoons hanging above the ceiling and instead of a red throne chair, it was replaced by a changeling seat that made Cicada very comfortable to sit on. Behind Cicada's throne, several banners were displayed right above her, bearing the Changeling Emblem. On her right is Sunburst, who is now wearing a steel harness around his neck and is chained next to Cicada's seat. As several of Cicada's scouts appeared before her, she gave them an angry look before any of them could say anything.

"You fools!! I gave you the order to eliminate Twilight Sparkle, yet you all have failed me!!!" Queen Cicada hissed as she used her magic to disintegrate several of her scouts, turning them into ashes. "General Rasputin, if the Lunar Republic attacks this city, you will be in charge of the city's defenses. So, don't fail me."

"Yes, your highness." General Rasputin said as he bowed down to the Changeling Queen before leaving her throne room.

As he emerged from the shadows and walked up to the balcony of the Crystal Palace, General Rasputin is wearing obsidian Changeling armor with red linings. He has a black sword attached to his back, in which is enchanted with dark changeling magic. His eyes are glowing in a dark-green color and has red and black changeling wings. As soon as he came out of the Crystal Palace, he made his announced to the rest of the Cicada's armies down below the balcony.

"By the order of Queen Cicada and by the order of Queen Majesty, we have been given the right to destroy the Lunar Republic resistance." General Rasputin. "For they cannot defile the legacy of us Changelings. As soon as they launched their assault upon our city, we'll drive them back with everything we've got. ANNIHILATE THEM, FOR YOUR QUEEN AND COUNTRY!!!!"

As Rasputin finished his speech, all of his Changeling soldiers cheered for him as they all prepare for battle by tomorrow morning.
> Chapter 10: Retaking the Crystal Empire part 1
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At the crack of dawn, all of the resistance fighters of the Lunar Republic have all gathered before Princess Luna, Discord, and Princess Twilight Sparkle. Upon seeing Twilight again, every pony was completely shocked that the Princess of Friendship came back from the dead to seek vengeance against the ponies that were against her Democratic Reforms. The Lunar Republic fighters were various earth ponies, unicorns, pegasi, changelings, griffons, and all sorts of creatures that wanted to fight for freedom and for their friendship upon Equestria. Most of them were bearing the Lunar Republic emblem on their dark-blue armor, while some of them were wearing white capes in order hide their weapons from the public. Before any pony could speak, Princess Luna stepped up to the podium to make her announcement to the entire resistance group.

"Every pony, listen up!!!" Princess Luna spoke in a royal Canterlot voice. "We are all gathered here today to reclaim one of our strongest fortresses that have been captured by the enemy. We'll all be up against Queen Cicada and her Changeling Warriors. Do not fret, I have already contacted our neighboring allies from the Griffon Kingdom and Yakyakistan to form a blockade to prevent any Unicornian forces from reaching the Crystal Wastelands during this siege. However, we have to storm through the Crystal Empire with everything we've got before Unicornia gets past our allied forces or else our entire Republican force will be wiped out down to the last filly and gentlecolt. Before we can proceed to attack Cicada's makeshift fortress, Princess Twilight will come in first. We already build a underground tunnel that will lead to a secret entrance in the Crystal Empire. Twilight's group will use that tunnel to carry out their plan to infiltrate the Crystal Empire. As soon as she and her team raise the main gates, I'll give the order to attack and help free the crystal ponies. ARE YOU WITH US?!!!!"

After hearing Luna's speech, every pony cheered in agreement as they all raised their weapons up high as they all prepare for battle. During the time the crowd move on to form up their battle formations, Luna walked up to Twilight for another plan.

"Twilight, after you help raise the main gates, I want you to go find Tia and Princess Cadence. One of my scouts reported that they're both being held at the top floor of a dark prison tower near the Crystal Palace. And don't forget to dispatch another group in your team to find and recover the Crystal Heart." Princess Luna told Twilight Sparkle. "We'll hold them off as long as we can. Just don't get killed again."

"I'll do my best Princess Luna." Twilight said with a bit more encouragement before she left to discuss her plan with the rest of her group. "Alright, girls. Princess Luna wanted us to use the underground tunnels to sneak into the Crystal Empire unnoticed. They'll lead straight into the courtyard, right where the Crystal Heart used to be. She also expects us to divide our team into two groups just as soon as we help raise the main gates. As we fight our way back to the courtyard, one group will go rescue Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence, while the other group recovers the Crystal Heart. We must proceed with caution. I also have been warned that if Cicada deploys her troops onto the battlefield she'll also send in a squad of three Black Juggernauts to defend her fort. She'll also have General Rasputin lead her army to stop us in their tracks. As soon as he and the Juggernauts show up, we'll take them down with everything we've got. Remember girls, this fight is going to be more intense than the last time when we infiltrated the Research Prison Facility at Manehattan. I'll be leading the 1st group to rescue Princess Cadence and Princess Celestia. So who else is going to be coming with me on this rescue mission?"

After giving it some thought, Starlight, Spike, Trixie, and Flash Sentry decided to accompany Twilight Sparkle to rescue the 2 alicorn princesses while Sunset, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Soarin, and Rarity volunteered to go recover the Crystal Heart. As soon as they all geared up for the mission, all of Twilight's team, except for Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, went down to the underground tunnels to proceed.

Meanwhile at the dark tower where Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence at chained up at, they see a huge army standing down below outside of the Crystal Empire standing by. After getting a closer look at the army's banner, Princess Cadence realized that the banner symbolized the regality of Princess Luna.

"Auntie, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Cadence asked the sun princess.

"Yes, my dear. It seems that my sister has finally come for us." Princess Celestia said to her niece. "If only my dear sweet Twilight Sparkle was there for us. I missed her so much."

After mentioning her remembrance of how proud Twilight Sparkle was even before she became the 4th alicorn princess of Equestria, Princess Celestia could not help but started crying in her hooves again when she lost her beloved student and daughter-figure to the evil power-hungry nobles of Equestria. Cadence comforted Celestia in her hooves once more as she let tears come out of her eyes. 

"If only there was still time for Prince Blueblood to change himself first, then maybe all of this wouldn't have happened." Princess Cadence said to herself as she embraced her aunt. "I can't believe those monsters took away my one and only child and locked her up in Cicada's Quarters.

The Crystal Princess never forgot on the day that Cicada and her changelings have taken over her beloved Empire all in one day, it's as if it was like yesterday.





Inside the Crystal Palace throne room, several guard ponies were barricading the door that leads outside. Unfortunately, Cicada's Changelings have already taken over most of the city and are now preparing to storm through the palace and capture Princess Cadence and Prince Shinning Armour. "CADENCE, TAKE OUR DAUGHTER AND FIND A WAY TO ESCAPE, NOW!!!" Prince Shinning Armour said to his wife as he drew out his sword and ordered his men to form up in a spear formation. 

"But Shining...." Cadence pleaded to the crystal prince.

"I'm sorry, Cadence but this is for your own good." Shinning Armour said. "The Changelings have already breached the outer walls and their Queen has already captured our crystalling pony."

Without another word, Princess Cadence fled back deep into the palace along with her daughter Flurry Heart and 15 other crystal pony guards escorting her down the hallways. As soon as Shinning Armour marches in front of the door that was about to be breached, he makes one final announcement to the rest of his surviving troops.

"Soldiers of the Crystal Empire!!! We men are warriors." Shining Armour said to his remaining platoon. "To lead you has been my honor!!!"

As soon as the rest of the Crystal pony guard and the Changeling Republic have assembled, the decided to make one final stand against the rebellious changelings.

"Cicada awaits for us!!!" Shinning Armour shouted while raising his sword and his shield in a swordsmen stance. "I'd say, we make her wait a little longer!!!"

Behind Shinning Armour, his men drew out all of their weapons and prepared for the final attack. As soon as the Changelings bursted their way into the throne room, Shinning Armour and his men make one final charge against them. While most of the Crystal guards engaged the changelings with their crystal swords and their spears, the Changeling Republican soldiers started firing their crossbows and hurling their spears at their evil brethren.

"Twily, if only you were still with us..." Shining Armour thought to himself as he chopped one enemy Changeling's head off with his sword. "We might be able to turn back the tide more sooner than expected."

As three more Changeling warriors charged forward at the white male unicorn, Shinning unleashed a flurry of sword strikes at them. One Changeling attempted to thrust his spear at the prince, only for him to step out of the way and stabbed the changeling in the neck with his sword. The second changeling lashed out at the prince with his crude ax. As Shinning blocked the ax with his sword, he makes a clean horizontal slash at the changeling's legs, making him lose his balance, and killed him finishing blow, stabbing the changeling in the head. As for the third changeling warrior, he attacked the prince head on with his crude sword. However, Shinning parried against the changeling's sword and made a downward slash with his sword, gutting out the changeling's entrails. Next thing the Shinning did was kicking changeling in the face, making him fall out his back before he bled to death. After taking down 5 more changelings, Shinning Armour realizes that his men are slowly losing their ground, being outnumbered from 20 to 1. General Rasputin came out of the Changeling group and drew out his black sword before engaging Shinning Armour in a one-on-one quick draw. When Shining Armour charged forward with his sword pointing at the Changeling General, Rasputin performs a bladed stance with magic as his sword pointed downwards. As soon as Shinning Armour got closer to Rasputin, the Changeling General made a huge wide arc with his sword. Before any pony could see what was coming, Shinning Armour's sword broke in two, much to his shock and horror. The next thing Shinning Armour saw was a green magic beam coming out from Rasputin's horn and hitting the prince in the face and causing a small explosion that sent the male white unicorn flying, hitting a nearby crystal wall with the back of his head and fall on the ground unconscious. 

Just when Princess Cadence was about to leave the Crystal Palace from a rear exit along with her infant daughter, she and her escort guards were immediately attacked by a group of Changeling Drones. The next thing Cadence saw was most of her escort guards getting butchered and killed in less than a minute. Before she tried to get away, a Black Juggernaut appeared in front of her and grabbed Cadence with its left mechanical hand. 

"UGHH!!! LET GO OF ME YOU HORRID FIEND!!!!" Princess Cadence shouted as she made a futile struggle to escape the Juggernaut's grip. 

Cadence's baby was left on the ground unattended when, all of a sudden, Queen Cicada appeared with Sunburst imprison inside her magic bubble.

"MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Queen Cicada laughed. "Nice try, Princess Cadence, but you cannot hope to escape us that easily. "I'll take the alicorn child into my chambers. You guys go lock up Princess Cadence in the tower."

"NO, GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER!!! YOU CAN'T DO THIS, CICADA!!! " Princess Cadence shouted at the Changeling Queen while being dragged off by her minions. "You can't."

"It's already done!!" Queen Cicada laughed as she flew up into the sky and headed towards the Crystal Palace.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!! FLURRY HEART!!!" Cadence cried as she got taken away into the darkness.





"Well, I hope Princess Luna will find a way to come and save us." Princess Cadence said to Princess Celestia, as she let go of the sun princess before looking down from the dark tower.

Meanwhile, Twilight and her group are making their way through the underground tunnels that lead to the Crystal Empire. At the end of the tunnel, they came across a ladder that leads straight up to the ceil. Above them, there is a trap door that leads to the Crystal Courtyard. 

"All girls. As soon as we come out of the trap door, proceed quietly to the gate house and kill any enemies that get in our way." Twilight said to the rest of the group.

As Twilight went up the ladder first, she used her magic to open up the trapdoor a small creak. Around her, she sees a group of Changelings sitting around near a campfire next to a couple of Crystal Houses and one patrolling the outer walls of the Crystal Empire. She slowly came out of the trap door and moved to a nearby building to hide behind cover. As the rest of her friends came out, Trixie, who was the last one to leave the underground tunnels, used her magic to quietly close up the trap door before moving on. During their stealthy trek towards the gate house, Starlight spots a changeling guarding the door leading to the gate house. As Twilight gave her a nod, Starlight hurled a little pebble to draw the changeling away from the door. Just as soon as the Changeling walked towards the sound of the little pebble, Starlight took out a dagger and stabbed him in the head while covering up his mouth. After the Changeling collapsed on the ground dead, Twilight and the rest of the group proceeded forward. When they got closer to the gate house, three more changeling drones came out of the gate house, all drunk and disorderly. Before any of them could see what was coming, Rainbow Dash, Soarin, and Flash flew straight at them in a swift, silent dash and stabbed them all at once with their spears and lance. Twilight and Trixie both went inside the gatehouse, only for them to see two changeling marksmens guarding the control panel that is used to raise the gates. However, they're both staring out at the open field unaware that the alicorn and unicorn are getting ready to assassinate them with their knives. Just when they're about to turn around, Twilight sliced at one changeling in the neck, with green blood gushing out of it, and Trixie to grab the other changeling by the neck, turning around, and performed an arch killing move that broke both the second changeling's spine and neck in two. As Trixie used her magic to turn the wheel to raise the gate, Twilight grabs a nearby torch with her magic and started waving it at the Lunar Republican Army outside of the Crystal Empire walls. Upon seeing the signal, Princess Luna gave her army the order to attack.

Meanwhile, at one of the front garrisons, General Rasputin sat on a chair while drinking coffee only to hear the sounds of the horns of  the Lunar Republic. As soon as Rasputin got out of his seat, he walks up to the battlements to see Luna's army heading straight for them. When Rasputin spotted the gatehouse, he sees Twilight and her group leave the gate house to engage his army.

"Changelings, deploy the garrisons." Rasputin shouted orders to his men. "The Lunar Republic Army is attacking!!!"

At the Crystal Palace, Queen Cicada appears at the balcony to see the Lunar Republic advance upon the city. Without hesitation, she ordered the rest of her minions to issue a counterattack against the Lunar Republic.

"Changelings, deploy the Black Juggernaut squad." Cicada ordered her minions as she went down to the armory to mount up.

As Cicada left the armory, she is now wearing Orange Changeling armor with green linings and is carrying a huge battle ax on her back. At the main gates, the Changeling Marksmen moved up to the outer wall garrisons and opened fire with their venom rifles and venom crossbows. When their venom weapons struck at the oncoming LR Warriors, they collapsed on the ground with their skin turning green and started suffocating from the inside, while the venom is eating away their flesh. However, most the LR warriors used their magic to raise their shields in order to protect themselves from enemy fire. As soon as the Lunar Republican army got closer to the gate, a large group of Changeling warriors assembled and formed a spear formation. Just in less than a minute, the Lunar Republican soldiers and Cicada's changelings clashed into each other as they started engaging in a full frontal assault. During the fight, Twilight's group split up and proceeded forward with their plan of rescuing the other two princesses and securing the Crystal Heart.

"All right, girls. You all know what you have to do." Twilight said as she drew out her orichalcum greatsword. "FOR EQUESTRIA!!!!"

Twilight, Starlight, Spike, Trixie, and Flash headed down to the courtyard, along with several dozen of Luna's soldiers as they fought their way through the changeling warriors and drones. Twilight made a large wide arc that decapitated three changeling warriors with her sword and made a huge chop that split the fourth changeling warrior in two. Flash hurled three javelins at the Changeling marksmen, impaling them in their chest before they fell on their backs dead. Trixie used her magic to pull out a wizard staff, summoned an electrical essence, and aimed it at the encroaching changeling drones. In less than a second, her wizard staff discharged a powerful lighting bolt that exploded a few centimeters to where the drones are standing. The explosion send 5 drones flying in different directions, completely burned of all flesh. After Twilight took down 3 more changelings with her sword, she tossed her ice blade to Starlight Glimmer. When Starlight grabbed the ice blade with her magic, she moved forward and made a horizontal sweep that froze every changeling in her sights. Flash used his lance to move a changeling warrior's spear away from him and stabbed it in the stomach. As soon as he saw 2 changeling marksmen in the sky, the orange pegasus unfurled his wings and launched a "death from below" jousting attack.  Before they could shoot at Flash, he flew straight at them so fast that they didn't see him shish kebab both changelings at once. Spike pulled out a fire hand grenade from his pouch and threw it at a group of 2 changelings. Upon impact, grenade exploded sending both changelings straight into a nearby building as they got caught on fire. The teenage dragon pulled out a flintlock pistol and shot a Changeling marksmen from his left, delivering a bloody headshot that made the changeling fall on its back dead. As for the second group, Sunset Shimmer, Rainbow Dash, Soarin, Rarity, and Applejack fought their way to the left road that leads to the palace. Sunset shoots down several changeling marksmen from the sky with her flintlock pistol. As soon as 5 drones teleported in front of her, she and applejack drew out their weapons. Sunset unleashed a fire spin attack with her flame-enchanted flamberge that engulfed all of the drones all at once. Applejack unleashed a flurry of stab wounds at one changeling warrior before she slashed him in the neck. Another Changeling warrior charged at the earth pony with a sword in his hooves only for her to stab the warrior in the head with one of her talons. Behind Applejack, a changeling drone appeared but before he was about to attack her with his sword, the changeling was met by a rear kick from the earth pony mare. Rainbow Dash and Soarin both flew up into the air and performed a dive bomb aiming their spears at the changeling marksmen. Despite the Changeling Marksmen shooting at the pegasus with their venom weapons, Rainbow and Soarin were able to easily evaded them all as they took down with a powerful aerial attack. As soon as Twilight and her group reached the courtyard, they were all met by a Black Juggernaut that is poised to strike at them with its weapons.
> Chapter 11: Retaking the Crystal Empire part 2
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"LOOK OUT EVERY PONY!!!" Twilight shouted as she and her team scattered across the open space around the Black Juggernaut.

Without moving a muscle, the Juggernaut started firing its rockets at Twilight and her friends. When the rockets exploded upon impact, they unleashed a small radiation that caused the ground to turn green and hazardous for a few seconds. Luckily, Twilight and Flash flew up into the air and performed an aerial strike poising their weapons straight at the Juggernaut. However, just when Twilight and Flash are about to attack the Changeling walker with their greatsword and lance, the Juggernaut used both of its gauntlets to block both of their attacks while they're in mid-air. Not a moment too soon, the Juggernaut started aiming its gauntlets at the two flying ponies, spraying acid at them. Flash and Twilight were both able to fly higher into the sky to avoid contact with the acid. As soon as the Juggernaut's Acid thrower ran out of ammo, it started to fire its Green Javelin rockets into the sky. Spike threw a flash grenade at the huge walker, making the Juggernaut temporary blind for a couple of seconds. Flash flew to the right of the Juggernaut and Twilight flew to the left of the Juggernaut. Before the Juggernaut had a chance to react, both of the flying ponies flew straight at it with high velocity and made several lighting strikes that puncture the Juggernaut's side armor. Behind the Juggernaut, Starlight appeared after using her teleportation spell and smashed the enemy walker with her warhammer in the back of its head, sending the walker kneeling to the ground. In front of the Juggernaut, Twilight uses her magic to raise her greatsword way up high in front of her and zoomed in to perform a quick slash that sliced right through the walker. As soon as Twilight landed on all four hooves, the Juggernaut exploded behind her, making it fall on its face. After they took down the 1st Juggernaut, Twilight's team proceeded to the dark tower next to the Crystal Palace.

Meanwhile at the Palace Courtyard, Rainbow and Soarin were able to storm right through the enemy Changeling ranks, along with a dozen of squads of Pegasus and Griffons. However, before Rainbow's team can proceed inside the palace, they were met by another Black Juggernaut, who already blew up 5 pegasus to smithereens and crippled several griffons and Changeling Republican soldiers. 

"That is so not cool, at all." Rainbow Dash hissed. "Let's get him!!!!"

As soon as the Juggernaut set its sight on the light-blue pegasus, the walker launched 8 Green Javelin rockets at Rainbow Dash. Not a moment too soon, Rainbow flew up straight into the clouds and zoomed straight at the Juggernaut with her spear aiming at its cockpit. In just in a heartbeat, the female pegasus rammed at the Juggernaut and punched straight through its hull with her spear and flew right past the mech from underneath its legs. The rockets that were following Rainbow Dash struck at the Juggernaut, causing a lot explosions around it. After the damage was done, the Juggernaut fell on its back completely crippled by its own weapon.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Rainbow Dash laughed while still hovering above the wrecked walker. "I bet you can't beat that, you big dumb junkie."

Before Rainbow Dash could see what was going on, the Juggernaut slowly got up and used a regenerator pack that was latched onto its back. Upon seeing this, Rainbow Dash shrieked with fear after realizing that the Juggernaut isn't beaten yet. The walker started firing its acid thrower at the light-blue pegasus only for her to fly at top speed and flew behind a building in order to avoid getting sprayed at by the acid. While the Juggernaut is distracted by Rainbow Dash, after Sunset Shimmer killed another enemy changeling with a throwing knife, she used her magic to summon at anti-armor tank rifle and aimed at the Juggernaut's regenerator pack. After the unicorn fired her rifle, the bullet pierced the regenerator pack, making it explode right behind the Juggernaut, loosing his concentration. Applejack appeared from the Juggernaut's side as she leaped towards it and slashed the Mech right across the face. After the earth pony mare landed on her feet, she dove underneath the walker and slashed both of its legs with both of her talons before it collapsed onto its torso. Before the walker got up, it was met by an electric shock from a thunder cloud that Rainbow Dash brought down from the sky. After the female pegasus kicked the cloud for several times, it unleash multiple lighting bolts onto the Juggernaut's face. Rainbow Dash and Applejack appear right in front of the robot and started engaging the Juggernaut in close range combat. The walker threw a couple of strikes with its fists only for Applejack to evade it with a side step and slammed the robot with her metal ball and chain in the face while Rainbow Dash stabbed the robots, lower torso with her spear. All of a sudden, Applejack wrapped the metal chains around the Juggernaut and pulled it right behind her, making the robot fall on its back. The next thing Rainbow Dash did, was thrusting her spear straight through the glass frame of the cockpit, killing the Changeling pilot that was commanding it. After Rainbow disengaged, pulling out her spear from the defeated Juggernaut, she spots several more of Cicada's Changelings closing in on them as a couple of her marksmen started opening fire with their venom rifles and venom crossbows. Before any of venomous projectiles struck at the light-blue pegasus, Rarity appears and uses her magic to summon a massive shield wall of large gems to defend against incoming enemy fire.

"Come on, guys. We have to move it!!!" Rarity said as she hurled the gem shield at the changeling marksmen. 

As soon as the gem shield crashed into the changelings, it exploded into a million gem shards. Every single changeling that got too close to the explosion got pierced by the gem shards before they collapsed on the crystal floor dead. Not a moment too soon, Rainbow Dash flew in a very fast pace and knocked down the surviving changeling marksmen with the shaft of her spear. Behind Dash, Applejack ran up behind the pegasus, walked on top of her, and jumped at one Changeling Warrior nearby and lunged at it with both of her talons. After the female earth pony stabbed the warrior with both of her talons in the neck, she ran up to and alongside the palace wall on her right and impaled another changeling from behind. Just when a Changeling Drone came out of a doorway behind Applejack, the farm pony turned around, unholstered a revolver from her left hip, and blew the drone's apart in a bloody mess. Rarity, Rainbow, Sunset, and Applejack finally head inside the palace to recover the crystal heart, with Soarin closing the door behind them.

Meanwhile at the dark prison tower, Flash Sentry zeroed into 2 changeling warriors and whacked them both off their feet with his lance. After Flash stabbed one warrior with his lance, Twilight threw a dagger at the second warrior, piercing his skull before he fell on the ground dead. Before one Changeling Marksmen took aim at the purple alicorn with his venom crossbow, Starlight Glimmer appeared behind him. As soon as the marksmen turned around, Starlight punched him in the face as she knocked the crossbow away from him, lifted the changeling up high with both of her hooves, slammed him to the floor on his back, and broke his neck, killing him. Inside the doorway to the prison tower, 4 more changeling drones came out and drew out their crude swords before attacking the three ponies. However, Trixie appeared before them, after using a teleportation spell, and sprayed at them with a dragon breath thrower, unleashing a massive jet stream of fire at them. Upon contact, all four changelings started screaming as they all got caught on fire before they collapsed. As soon as Twilight ran right next to the doorway, she spots more changelings heading her way. The purple alicorn took out a fire grenade, pulled out its pin, and threw it into the doorway. When the grenade exploded in a combustible effect, the changelings got vaporized in the explosion. The four ponies and the teenage dragon move inside the dark prison tower and ran up the stairs to rescue Princess Cadence and Princess Celestia. Spike went up ahead of the 4 ponies and spray a long range of dragon fire at one Changeling Warrior up the stairs. As soon as the warrior got engulfed in flames, he screamed as he ran out to the top floor of the tower, fell of the balcony, and plummeted straight down onto the crystal pavement.  Just when Twilight appeared before them, both of the alicorn princesses were surprised under a state of shock.

"What the? Twilight, is that really you??" Princess Celestia asked as she started to have tears come out of her eyes.

"I-It can't be." Cadence said as she spotted a familiar alicorn appear before them.

"Long time no see you two." Twilight Sparkle said with a smile on her face. "Cadence, if you don't remember me, then maybe this will do: Sunshine, Sunshine, lady bugs awake, clap your hooves and do a little shake."

"But that's... OH MY FAUST!!! Twilight, you're alive!!!!" Princess Cadence wailed, realizing that it was the very same chant that she and Twilight made when they were both little fillies, as she and Princess Celestia both hugged Twilight in their hooves.

"OH MY DEAR, SWEET TWILIGHT!!!" Princess Celestia cried very loud. "B-But how is this possible?? I could've sworn that I failed to save you with my healing magic earlier!!?"

"I can't blame you for doubting yourself over such things because I bet its that Orichalcum that was embedded underneath my flesh." Twilight said to the Sun Princess.

"Orichalcum?? What do you mean by that??" Princess Cadence asked Twilight.

"I'll explain later." Twilight replied to her foal-sitter. "Well, right now we have a former kingdom to reclaim. Princess Luna and the Lunar Republic are already trying to retake the Crystal Empire as we speak. Anyway, do you know where is Sunburst??"

"That wretched Changeling Queen has him imprisoned underneath the Crystal Palace." Princess Cadence said. "I overheard the changelings that if any invaders breach in their makeshift fortress then Sunburst and the Crystal Heart will be used as bait by the Queen herself."

"But that means.....OH SHIT!!!" Twilight exclaimed in horror. "Rainbow Dash and the others.... I think they're all walking into a trap."

"Then you must go help the others." Princess Celestia suggested to Twilight. "Me and Cadence will fly to Luna's camp until her army has successfully retake the Crystal Empire."

"Understood." Twilight acknowledged to Princess Celestia as she used her magic to break the chains off both of the princesses before flying out of the prison tower.

As soon as Twilight landed on the ground, she told Starlight, Trixie, and Flash the situation at hand. After Twilight explained what is going on right now, all four ponies decided to fight their way to the Crystal Palace, while Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence flew out of the tower and headed straight to Luna's encampment. Meanwhile, inside the Crystal Palace, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Soarin, and Sunset fought their way down to the dungeons to retrieve the Crystal Heart.  As they proceed forward to the lower levels of the Crystal Palace, the four ponies were met by more changeling warriors and drones. Applejack charged forward, grabbed one warrior in the arm with her hoof, and slammed him at a nearby wall. Rainbow kicked one drone in its knee, making him fall forward flat on the floor, and stabbed him in the back with her spear. A Changeling Drone drew out his sword and started swinging at Rarity. Unfortunately, the white unicorn leaned back after the drone made a few swings with his sword, grabbed the drone's arm with her left hoof, and slashed across the drone's chest with her tanto blade, as well as slashing across his neck, killing him. Sunset ducked an oncoming spear thrust from one of the Changeling Warriors, grabbed the spear's shaft, and jabbed the warrior in the neck with the spear's other end, making the warrior fall on the ground completely paralyzed. Another warrior came and attempted to slash at the yellow unicorn with his sword, only for her to grab the warrior's arm that had the sword and slammed it into a nearby wall, knocking the sword off his hoof, and kicked at the warrior's left hind leg, dislocating it. As the warrior screamed in pain, Sunset stabbed him with a trench knife and shoved him to the ground. Rainbow Dash ran forward past Sunset Shimmer, slid forward with her knees, grabbed a venom rifle that one of the Changeling Marksmen is holding in his hooves, kicked him away with both of her hooves, and shot him with his own rifle, making the Changeling burst into an explosion of blood. When another Changeling Marksmen appear in front of the female pegasus, Rainbow Dash ran right past him and slammed him in the chest with her hoof, damaging the marksmen's windpipe, and then knocked him upwards with the opposite end of her spear. After fighting their way down to the dungeons, the went into a large round room. In the middle of the rotunda, there was the Crystal Heart incase inside a large rectangular glass container. Behind the Crystal Heart, there was Sunburst without his green cape. As soon as the four ponies got closer, they noticed that Sunburst was covered up in bruises and cuts all over his body.

"SWEET FAUST!!! Sunburst, what are you doing here?!" Rainbow Dash said in shock.

"There's no time to explain!!" The orange unicorn said in a weakly tone of voice. "But you guys should get out of here."

"Don't worry fella, we're hear to rescue ya!" Applejack said as she approached Sunburst.

"No, Applejack. It's a trap!!!" Sunburst exclaimed in a wheeze.

Before any pony could step closer to Sunburst or to the Crystal Heart, a high-pitched scream erupted from behind, in which came from Rarity. Just when they all turned around, Applejack, Rainbow, Sunset, and Soarin saw Rarity get stabbed in her side before she fell on the ground. Much to Applejack's horror, she sees Rarity clutching her bleeding wound while going in and out of consciousness. The next thing she knew, Rarity closed her eyes and lost consciousness.

"WHAT IN THE HAY???? RARITY!!!!" Applejack screamed in fright as she ran towards her unicorn friend. "No, Rarity. Please hang on!!!"

As soon as Applejack came by Rarity's side, General Rasputin and Queen Cicada appear out of the doorway that Applejack and her team came through. They were both laughing at Applejack and her team with scorn and jeering. 

"There is no escape from the retribution of the changelings, girl!!!" Rasputin cackled as he carried his black sword in which has Rarity's blood. 

"YOU ARE SOOOOO DEAD, YOU CHANGELING WHORE!!!!" Applejack snarled as she drew out her talons. "Rainbow Dash, help me......."

Before Applejack could say anymore, she heard more screaming coming from behind her. As soon as she turned around, she sees another Black Juggernaut crashed from above the ceiling of the rotunda and grabbed Rainbow Dash and Sunset with its huge gauntlets by their waists and with its right foot on top of Soarin.

"What in tarnation????" Applejack freaked out seeing that all of her friends are being ensnared by Cicada's and Rasputin's web of woes. "Oh Twi, please help us!!!"

The next thing Applejack knew, is that she is now surrounded by Queen Cicada, General Rasputin, and the 3rd Black Juggernaut. All of them are poised to strike at Applejack on all sides in the rotunda.
> Chapter 12: Retaking the Crystal Empire part 3
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As Twilight and her group make their way down to the bottom rotunda floor, they ran into several more Changeling Warriors and Marksmen. Without hesitation, Trixie went in front of Twilight as she pulled out both of her revolvers with her magic and shot down 3 Changeling Marksmen in a heartbeat. As soon as Twilight ran passed Trixie, she drew out her orichalcum greatsword and made unleash a massive horizontal sweep that decapitated the bodies of 2 changeling warriors and stabbed one marksmen in the chest before she pulled her sword out, leaving behind a dead, bleed changeling falling onto the crystal floor. Spike walked up behind Twilight Sparkle and leaped into the air. The moment the teenage dragon got close to three Changeling Drones flying overhead, he spit out a huge fireball that exploded above the purple alicorn and engulfed the changelings. All three changelings crashed into the pavement, like falling meteors that exploded upon impact.  For Flash, he threw a javelin at one Changeling Drone that send him tumbling off the staircase leading to the rotunda. 

Meanwhile, back at the rotunda, Applejack is still cornered with an injured Rarity by Cicada, Rasputin, and their Black Juggernaut. Despite Applejack's brawling abilities, earth pony mare is badly outnumbered from three to one. 

"Man, this is bad as rotten applesauce." Applejack thought to herself. "What should ah do???"

"It's come down to this, little mare." Cicada cackled at Applejack. "You either hand over your alicorn princess or face our wrath. It's your choice."

"Why should I???" Applejack snarled as she drew out her metal ball and chain. "You guys have no idea how bad I felt when I thought I had lost Twilight. However, we're really grateful that she finally can back from da dead after all those years of pain and suffering.  Because of that, ah finally regained the strength ta fight back and help her reclaim Equestria as our own. Only this time, we will not go down without ah fight!!! So, if ya varmits are obsessed in going after Twi then you have to get past us first."

"So be it." Cicada hissed before issuing the following orders to her 3rd Juggernaut. "Finish her off."

As soon as Cicada and Rasputin left the area, Rasputin used his changeling magic to seal off the rotunda so that there will be no help coming from the outside. The moment Applejack turned around, the Juggernaut threw out Soarin, Rainbow, and Sunset to a nearby wall, knocking all of them out before engaging the earth pony mare in a one-on-one fight. Before Applejack could make a move, the Juggernaut unleashed a salvo of rockets at her. Applejack threw Rarity out of the way with her mouth and ran across the room, avoiding the oncoming rockets firing at her. The earth pony ran up the walls and hurled a metal ball at the Juggernaut's face only for it to grab the chain that was holding the metal ball, much to Applejack's shock. The walker yanked the chain off Applejack's hooves and threw a huge punch at her with its right gauntlet. As Applejack continued to scale the walls, she jumped up high to avoid the Juggernaut's fist. While in mid-air, Applejack injected herself with a combat drug onto her body. While under the drug's effects, the farm pony started to see her surroundings move in a very slow pace, with only her unaffected, giving her full adrenaline. During her adrenaline, Applejack drew out her talons and made several slashes towards the Black Juggernaut. As soon as the effects wore off, Applejack stabbed the Juggernaut's right gauntlet with her left talon only to get slammed on her back by its left gauntlet. In just less than a second, Applejack fell flat on the floor with her stomach, leaving a huge crack on the crystal pavement. The poor farm pony was whimpering in pain as Applejack starts feeling a couple of broken bones all over her body. She now realized that she can't move after getting struck by the Black Juggernaut.

"No!!! It cannot end like this!!!" Applejack cried in pain, unable to get up on all four hooves. "Twi, Rarity, everypony. I'm sorry!!!!"

Applejack slowly closed her eyes and lost consciousness. However, just when the Juggernaut was about to finish an unconscious Applejack off with a huge stomp, Crimson Cross jumped off from the ceiling and landed on top of the huge walker. Before the walker could do anything, Crimson smashed a hole with his right hoof on top of the Juggernaut and revealing an exposed engine on its back, pulled out a pin from an HE grenade with his teeth, and threw it inside the engine compartment. As soon as Crimson jumped off the Juggernaut, it exploded in a million pieces. Crimson went up to the unconscious ponies to check up on them. After seeing how critically injured Applejack and Rarity are, the earth pony gentlecolt lifted both ponies onto his back. The moment Crimson was about to leave the area, Twilight and her team appeared at the entrance of the rotunda, using her magic to break apart Rasputin's emplaced magic barrier with Trixie's and Starlight's combined magic. Their eyes widen after seeing Applejack and Rarity in such critical condition.

"NO, my dear sweet Rarity!!!" Spike cried after seeing his favorite unicorn badly wounded. "What did they do to you??"

"OH MY GOD!!! APPLEJACK!!! RARITY!!!" Twilight shrieked after seeing the fashionista and the farm pony crippled and out cold. "Crimson, what happened to them?"

"Some Changeling Juggernaut almost crushed Applejack to death and Rarity is bleeding from a fresh wound." Crimson responded to Twilight's question. "I already took care of the Juggernaut. So right now, I'm going to bring her and Rarity to the medical tent for immediate treatment."

"Thanks, Crimson." Twilight acknowledged before she moved on to help the others get back up on their hooves. "Come on guys, we need to bring the Crystal Heart to the foyer."

As Sunset, Rainbow, and Soarin got back up on their hooves, they noticed that Applejack and Rarity are not here. After Twilight told them what happened to both of them, they almost broke down, until Twilight told them to snap out of it and that the mission is far from over. When they got the Crystal Heart out of the glass capsule, Starlight broke Sunburst free from his chains and they embraced each other in their hooves, crying with tears of happiness and reunion. After exiting the palace, Crimson took off immediately with the aid of a group of LR pegasus, while Twilight and the rest of her surviving team attempts to reactivate the Crystal Heart. Without warning, however, some green laser beam shot out of nowhere just inches away from where Twilight and Starlight are standing before they could bring the Crystal Heart back into its place. The moment the purple alicorn and the pale-purple unicorn turned around, they see Cicada and General Rasputin standing right in front of them, both armed to the teeth. 

"Not so fast, little ponies." Cicada hissed as she used her magic to draw out a battle axe from her sheath. "Do you really think you guys could retake the Crystal Empire that easily?? It ain't over until the Changeling Queen drops dead!!! Come on Rasputin, let's get e'm."

"With pleasure, your majesty!!!" Rasputin acknowledged as he drew out his black blade.

"Sunburst, take the crystal heart. Me and Starlight will handle this!!!" Twilight ordered the orange unicorn as she tossed the crystal heart and drew out her greatsword.

The moment Cicada charged at the two ponies, with Rasputin right next to her, Starlight drew out her flail and started swinging at the Changeling Queen with all her might. Cicada barely dodged Starlight's flail by a thread away from her face and skidded away from the unicorn. Cicada raised her battle ax high above her head and slammed straight into the pavement, attempting to butcher Starlight. However, Starlight was able to dodge Cicada's ax by running to her left. The unicorn made a horizontal swing at Cicada with her flail, only for the Changeling Queen to duck below. The next thing Starlight did was a overhead slam with her flail. However, Cicada was able to block the flail with her battle ax. The moment Starlight's flail wrapped around the Queen's battle ax, the Changeling Queen yanked the flail away from the female unicorn. As for Twilight, she made a vertical slash right above Rasputin's head, only for the Changeling General to parry Twilight's blade in a horizontal block with his black sword. After making a couple of more parries between Twilight's sword and Rasputin's sword, Rasputin jumped backwards dodging Twilight's horizontal slash. As Rasputin landed on all fours, Flash Sentry appeared from behind and tried to stab the Changeling General in the back. However, the moment Rasputin saw Flash, he used his changeling magic to conjure up a dark-green shield and blocked the pegasus' attack with it.

During the siege of the Crystal Empire, Luna's forces and Discord were able to press forward into the crystal town square. As they all fought through Cicada's armies, Luna ordered Discord to help her secure the crystal town square, while Sweetie Drops, Daring Do, and Soarin take whatever men they could spare and help free the Crystal ponies from their Changeling Prisons. The moment the crystal ponies got out of their cages, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy bring out a large cart full of weapon crates for those who could still fight arm themselves in order to retake the Crystal Empire. As the fight continued, Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence were able to be reunited with Princess Luna. After the royal sisters and Cadence have embraced each other in their hooves, Luna told them that she had sent Twilight and her group to recover the Crystal Heart from Queen Cicada. Wasting no time, Princess Cadence flew out immediately to go help her foal-sister.

During the fight between Twilight and Starlight versus Rasputin and Cicada, the rest of Twilight's friends got preoccupied by more of Cicada's soldiers encroaching into the palace grounds. Rasputin charged up his horn and started shooting at Flash Sentry with all of his might. Just when Flash raised his kite shield to defend against the changeling general's magic, it pushed him away from the foyer, leaving the orange pegasus stunned. However, before Rasputin could march towards Flash to finish him off, Twilight teleported in between the two and lunged at the Changeling General with her greatsword. The moment Twilight's greatsword and Rasputin's black sword clashed into each other, they started struggling over keeping their guard up. As Rasuptin's black sword started charging up with dark magic, Twilight slowly loses her ground. However, Twilight's eyes turned white just as she started to charge up her greatsword with her magic. Before Rasputin could see what was coming, Twilight threw a fast punch at the Changeling General in the face, making him lose his balance. The next thing Rasputin saw was a huge magic wave coming out of Twilight's greatsword. The magic wave flew straight at him and caused a huge explosion that send him flying into the black tower that once hold Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence at. Upon slamming the Changeling General into the Black Tower, it caused an explosion that made the tower topple over and crashed straight into the crystal pavement, crushing several Changelings that got too close to it, along with General Rasputin. 

"That's for my brother!!!" Twilight said triumphantly as she sheathed her sword back into her scabbard.	

As for Starlight and Cicada, the Changeling Queen unleashed her dark magic at Starlight again, only for the female unicorn to use her magic to defend herself. Just when Cicada's magic struck at Starlight's magic shield, Starlight unleashed a bomb spell that sent the Changeling Queen backpedaling a couple of feet away from the unicorn. However, Queen Cicada uses her magic to take out her battle ax and started charging at Starlight Glimmer with all her might. After making a few more strikes with Cicada's battle ax, Starlight kept teleporting out of harm's way. As the female unicorn used her levitation spell to lift herself up, Starlight shoots out more magic beams at Cicada. However, Cicada took off to the skies and flew straight at the female unicorn, dodging every magic beam that is shooting out from Starlight's horn. Just in an instant, Cicada grabbed Starlight by the neck with her hoof, lifting her above before making another evil cackle while in mid-air.

"I looks like you failed again, Starlight Glimmer." Cicada hissed as she started choking the female unicorn with her hoof, while holding her battle ax behind her.

Just when Cicada was about to win again, Starlight suddenly slammed her right hoof on Cicada's arm so hard that the Changeling Queen yelped after realizing that her arm got dislocated. The moment Cicada's arm was struck, she accidentally disengaged her magic, making her battle ax fall straight into the crystal pavement right below her. Starlight held the changeling queen with both of her hind legs and slammed her straight down from the sky and into the crystal pavement head first, breaking the queen's horn into pieces. Just when the Cicada was struggling to get up on her hooves, her eyes widen with horror as she sees Starlight used her magic to grab the Queen's battle ax and chopped her head off clean from her body before it collapsed with blood pouring out of its neck.

"Sunburst, it's time!!!" Starlight said to her unicorn coltfriend.

As soon as Princess Cadence appeared right next to Sunburst, the orange unicorn threw the Crystal Heart into the center, reactivating it. The moment the Crystal Heart started spinning again, a huge blinding flash erupted all over the Crystal Empire, destroying all changeling hives in the city, transforming every pony and creature into their crystalized versions of themselves, and sent every surviving changeling, other than those from the Changeling Republic, flying away from the Empire for good. Upon realizing their major victory, the entire Lunar Republic Army and the Crystal Ponies started cheering. For the Draconneques, Discord was making a victory dance after realizing that his body became crystalized too.

"Ho Oh, Yes!!!" Discord cheered as he summoned a huge flag bearing the Crystal Empire's Emblem in front of the Crystal Courtyard and started waving it above his head. "This is just the happen to be the greatest, chaotic victory, EVER!!!!"

During the time the Crystal Heart reactivated itself, Princess Cadence and Princess Celestia have both got their powers back and appeared in front of the Crystal Palace, along with Princess Twilight and Princess Luna. Upon seeing their beloved rulers of Equestria reunited once again, every single pony and creature bowed down to them as the rest of the Crystal Empire lit up in a cerulean blue surrounding. The battle is won and the Crystal Empire has been saved.
> Chapter 13: Camp Raid part 1
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One week later, after hearing the news spread about how Luna's forces were able to reclaim the Crystal Empire, dethroning Queen Cicada from Princess Cadence's seating, all of the remaining Unicornian forces and the traditionalists outside of the Crystal Empire were completely outraged upon hearing of this defeat. The defeat of the Cicada's Changeling Army has reduced the allied power of Unicornia to 1/4 of a fraction. Furthermore, since Queen Cicada is no more, Queen Majesty ordered all of her forces to stand down from breaking through the front lines of the Yaks and the Griffons and to have them all return to base. Outside of Canterlot, Majesty, Morning Blade, and the remaining Changelings uphold a parting funeral for the fallen Changeling Queen before the rest of Cicada's remaining followers fled into parts unknown, ending their allegiance in disgrace. As for Tirek and his Badlands Army, they have been summoned from their homeland to reinforce the garrisons surrounding Canterlot and wait for further orders. For Morning Blade, he decided to make preparations for the rest of his Royal Knights and his army in order to avenge Cicada's defeat. Queen Majesty has issued an emergency decree, stating that all Unicornian Forces go on high alert 24/7 and deployed every single Royal Knight to all garrisons throughout the rest of Equestria.

Meanwhile back at the Crystal Empire, after Luna and Twilight were able to reclaim the city as their own once more, they also were able to successfully restore all of the defenses with the help of Princess Celestia, Flash Sentry, Princess Cadence, and Gladius Strife. When Cicada was defeated, Starlight Glimmer put her severed head on a spike and posted it  on top of the gatehouse. As for Princess Cadence, she was able to recover her baby daughter, Flurry Heart from inside the Crystal Palace. Much to Twilight's surprise, it turns out that Flurry Heart was actually her niece who is also an newborn alicorn. After Rarity and Applejack recovered from their wounds, Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends were able to help the other crystal ponies fix and rebuild everything that was damaged during the siege, as well as gathering and foraging food for both the citizens and the LR Army. During the time they were rebuilding the Crystal Empire back to its fullest, Luna continued to dispatch some of her best scouts to gather information from the Unicornian Army. Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence helped rebuild the palace with the aid of some of the crystal construction ponies. For Flash Sentry and Gladius Strife, they helped retrain the Crystal Pony Guard in order to reestablish the Crystal Empire Army to aid the Lunar Republican Army in defending the city from any oncoming invaders. As for Discord, he was able to gather more materials from the Crystal Mountains in order for the Crystal pony smiths to forge new weaponry and equipment for the Crystal Empire Guard and the Lunar Republican Army.

After one month of rebuilding the Crystal Empire, Twilight and her friends were eventually called back to the Crystal Palace for another mission. This time their mission will involve rescuing the citizens of Ponyville and Canterlot from the concentration camps that were residing at the South of the Crystal Empire and North of Canterlot, including their families. Upon hearing this, Twilight and her friends wasted no time to carry out this mission, hopefully they'll be able to see their families again. Crimson Cross wished to go volunteer in this rescue mission as well because he said that before Morning Blade pressed him into the military, he did managed to steal some documents from the Concentration Camp that he was in and hid it inside his bag. The documents he stole were a full map of the concentration camp and a roster of all the prisoners being held there. Upon seeing the list of prisoners, the Mane 6 found out that all of their families are being held in separate bunk houses inside the camp. Undaunted by this information, Twilight and her team pressed forward with a foolproof plan of their own.

As Princess Twilight stepped in, she made her announcement to the rest of her team.

"All right every pony, this is where we finally rescue whatever is left of our families. They're all being held in a concentration camp 50 miles south of the Crystal Empire." Twilight spoke. "Because we have aroused too much attention from our previous missions, such as the bombing of their Research Prison Facility and the incursion back at Canterlot, there will be a very high chance that Queen Majesty will be sending in some of her Royal Knights to man the defenses at the camp that we're heading too. We'll expect heavy resistance at the concentration camp if they ever see us in their sights. Before we proceed, we'll be accompanied by a group of Changeling Republican soldiers disguised as prison guards and while we all disguise ourselves as prison inmates first. After that, we'll proceed onto one of the slave wagons that Daring Do's men hijacked back at the forests near Baltimare. As soon as we reached the camp, we'll pretend to act like them so that they'll let us in. When they bring us to work in the mines along with the rest of the camp inmates, we'll eliminate all prison guards residing in the mine, release the slaves, and hold our position until nightfall. As soon as it's nightfall, the Changeling Republic will move to the left side of the camp and wait for the signal. As for us, just as soon as we head to our bunks on the right side, we'll sneak into the Communications Center, which is in the middle of the camp. The Changeling Republican soldiers will leave our weapons crate in the barracks during the nightfall, which is located right of the Communications Center. Once we secure that building, we'll contact the rest of the Lunar Republic Army. They'll be waiting for us from outside of the camp. As soon as they get our message, they'll attack the camp with full force and the Changeling Republic will rescue the fillies, while we rescue the rest of the captured ponies from the right."

As soon as Twilight is done announcing her rescue plan to the rest of her teammates, they took out their prison jumpsuits and put them on their fur coats, before proceeding onto the slaver wagons. The changelings clasped chains and balls onto Twilight and her friends as soon as they went inside the slaver wagon. As they all proceeded to the concentration camp, with 2 Changelings, Flash Sentry, and Soarin have all disguised themselves as prison guards. Meanwhile at the concentration camp, General Morning Blade and several of his royal knights arrived while onboard a Unicornian Military Caravan. At the entrance of the camp, they meet up with Lt. Commander Dark Light who happens to be the one in charge of the camp's security. 

"General Morning Blade, reporting for duty, sir!!!" Dark Light said as he saluted his commanding officer.

"Lt. Commander Dark Light, I'm sure you're wondering why are we here." Morning Blade said to the dark-green unicorn. "Ever since Princess Twilight came back from the dead and that we lost control over the Crystal Empire due to Queen Cicada's defeat, there has been a major rebellion spreading throughout Equestria like a wildfire. I will be assuming command of this concentration camp. You, Vermillion, and Black scythe will take several regiments and bolster up all defenses around this entire area. If any of you see any suspicious activity in or outside of this camp, you all report back to me immediately. However, if any incursions start to occur here, you will all have the right to resort to maximum use of deadly force to eradicate the threat by any means."

After Morning Blade moved on, all three members of his Royal Knights went to their stations to reinforce the garrisons around the concentration camp. The Camp was a huge outdoor complex with fences and barbed wire covering 2000ft wide and 2000ft long. The camp housed many ponies from all over Equestria, approximately more than a thousand. Unfortunately, because of how harsh they were treated and the lack of health residing at the camp, most of the ponies have succumbed to such unfortunate conditions. During the time of their enslavement, all of the ponies there were being separated from their families, that is many fillies, including the CMC, were being hauled off to the other side of the camp away from their parents. Their parents and the elder ponies were forced to work down in the mines, while their children were forced to work in the plantations and in the mess halls. Some of the elder ponies were former nobles and guards that once supported Princess Twilight Sparkle with fearless devotion. Because they refused to accept serving under Unicornia, they were either executed or forced to work in 24 hour shifts. To make matters worse, many ponies died either from starvation, malnutrition, or from overwork due to their forced labor in the mines. On the right of the camp, there was bunks made only for the adult and elderly ponies and on the left of the camp, they setup bunks for the little fillies. In the Center of the Camp, there was a huge Barracks, a Mess Hall, and Communications Center. Morning Blade decided to setup office at the Communications Center incase they needed reinforcements. Many guards and legionaries went up to the guard towers and to the battlements, by the order of Morning Blade. Most of the Prison Guards, Cyborgs, and the Terminator Ponies volunteered by guarding most of the buildings in the camp. 

"I know you're out there, Twilight Sparkle!!!" Morning Blade growled to himself. "You may have killed Eagle Eye and blew up his Research Prison Facility, you may have taken down General Rasputin and his army, but you'll never get past me this time because I'm nothing like them. In fact, you'll just be running straight towards your execution in this god-forsaken camp."

As he went inside the Communications Center, Morning Blade makes his public speech throughout the entire concentration camp. 

"All right every pony, you all know what you have to do in order to keep Twilight and the Lunar Republic at bay." Morning Blade said as he announced his speech through the microphone in his office. "Whatever you guys do, do not let them get anywhere near the prisoners. You'll destroy any LR resistance members heading your way, but remember, Twilight Sparkle is mine!!!"

Down at the mine shaft, there were several ponies digging up various minerals, gems, and metal ore from various places throughout the tunnels down below. As the ponies were digging up materials in the mines, some were being whiplashed by the prison guards for not working hard, while others were dragged away and locked up in separate cages without food or water. Shinning Armour was down in the mines, along with Big Mac, Maud Pie, Igneous Pie, Marble Pie, Limestone Pie, Fancy Pants, and Mayor Mare. All of them were beaten and tortured while harvesting orichalcum ore. For Twilight Velvet, Night Light, Granny Smith, Cloudy Quartz, Zephyr Breeze, Rarity's parents, Rainbow Dash's parents, and Fluttershy's Parents all were locked up in huge, separate cages for more than 4 hours without food or water. At the mess hall, the CMC, Shale Pie, Diamond Tiara, and the rest of the ponies from Ponyville were working in the kitchen; washing dishes and preparing food for the Prison Security. The rest of the ponies from Ponyville and from Canterlot were harvesting crops from plantation areas around the camp, with several of them getting whipped by the Unicornian guards. 

Meanwhile, Crimson's wife Yellow Peach was working at the 3rd plantation alone, along with two of her children Bella Harp and Bright Song. Yellow Peach is an earth pony mare, with a yellow body and an orange mane and tail. She bears the cutie mark of a golden peach. Bella Harp, who is the oldest of Crimson's two daughters, is a little filly who has a red-peach body with a yellow mane and tail and bears the cutie mark of a bell. Bright Song, who is the youngest of Crimson's daugthers, is a little filly with a light-brown body and a beige mane and tail that bears the cutie mark of a "B" sharp. Crimson and his family used to live in Manehattan, until the Invasion of Unicornia changed their lives forever a few years ago during the civil war. The moment Unicornian troops marched throughout the streets of Manehattan, explosions erupted, many buildings caught on fire, and millions of ponies were running for their lives. Many response teams at Manehattan were all eliminated in just two days during the attack. After the mayor of Manehattan surrendered the city to the forces of Unicornia, Morning Blade gave the order to his fellow Royal Knights to apprehend and secure every pony citizen in the vicinity. The moment Blade's knights brought in Crimson and his family to the concentration camp, he had an interest for Crimson due to his impressive career record of farming and hard work. Without  hesitation, Morning Blade pressed Crimson into his Army so that he can take advantage of the brown earth pony's enthusiasm. After Morning Blade took him out of his concentration camp, he brought Crimson to his army and after the war, he sent Crimson to continue his service at Canterlot as a Head Slave Master. However, due to the recent events revolving around Crimson's defeat, Morning Blade used his magic to incinerate Crimson's contract to consider the earth pony's resignation. 

At the plantation that Crimson's family is working at, Yellow Peach was forced to dig up rows every single day while her two children were forced to plant seeds in every row Peach dug up.

"Oh my dear sweet Crimson." Peach sobbed silently. "How could those heartless ruffians turn him into a monster?? I know my husband would never do such a thing. I always believed in Princess Twilight's democracy because there's no way me and our family could handle over overwhelming farm crops alone. I always wanted to see the world change to a more well-adaptable future, were all races could live happily amongst themselves. WHY?? WHY CAN'T THEY LET PRINCESS TWILIGHT DO IT?? WHY DO THEY HAVE TO KILL HER??"

Yellow Peach started sobbing on the ground, worrying about what will become of Crimson Cross in the future. Before she saw what was going on, she started getting whiplashed by one of the guards.

"HEY, BITCH!!!" A Unicornian Guard shouted at Yellow Peach. "Stop your goddamn sniveling and get back to work or you're GONNA GET IT!!!"

As soon as Yellow Peach got back upon on her hooves and went back to work, she overhears some of the guards talking to each other on the other side of the plantation.

"Did you hear about the incident outside of Baltimare?" The 1st guard asked. "They said that Crimson Cross was captured by the Lunar Republic."

"Oh really?" The second guard responded. "Well, it serves that fool right. We're not getting him back since every pony is expendable."

"I know. As a matter of fact, I heard that he wanted to atone for his actions made against Princess Luna and Princess Twilight." The 1st guard said. "Well, because of how Morning Blade made him turn his back on those who were loyal towards Princess Twilight, I seriously doubt they would forgive him that easily."

"Well, even if they forgave him, we still better hope that Crimson won't show his face anywhere here or we're going to have to deal with him immediately." The second guard said. "Now let's go get some lunch. I'm starving."

After their conversation, the two guards went to the Mess Hall and disappeared from sight. When Yellow Peach heard about what those two guards said, she was starting to suspect that her husband might have came to his senses.

"Crimson, please save us." Yellow Peach silently prayed to herself.

At the main entrance of the concentration camp, a huge transport wagon of prisoners appeared before the security at the gate. After the security looked at the ID of a prison guard that is hauling the group of prisoners in, the main entrance opened up and the transport wagon moved in. As soon as the transport wagon stopped, two prison guards came out of the wagon and started hauling out 7 female ponies, dragging them in chains, wearing prison jumpsuits, with their hoods over their heads. They were dragged straight into the mines for work. However, as soon as the door to the mines closed, one of the new prison guards locked the door behind them. When the 2 prison guards unrestrained the 7 female ponies and when they went up closer to the nearby guards stationed at their workplaces, they all struck at them without warning. Before any pony could see what was going on, one of the new prisoners picked up a pick axe, in which was lodged near an orichalcum vein only to slammed the ax straight into a prison guard's chest, making him fall on the ground as he bled to death. One female prisoner took out a small dagger from underneath her jumpsuit and stabbed one guard in the head. The 1st guard punched a nearby prison guard in the neck, damaging his windpipe, while pulling out his flintlock from his holster and shot at him straight in the head. A female unicorn grabbed one guard from behind and twisted his neck, killing him. One female pegasus flew straight at another guard slamming him straight into a wall and trampled him to death. The 2nd guard slashed at one prison guard at the back of his neck with a knife and stabbed the other prison guard squarely in the chest, killing both of them at once. A cloaked female earth pony grabbed one prison guard by the neck with a headlock and bend it to his right side, killing him. Once all of the prison guards are dead in the mines, the rest of the prisoners stopped working and started staring at the 7 cloaked prisoners and the 2 prison guards, under a state of shock, while they unlocked all of the cages in the mines letting the rest of the other ponies out.

"What the??" Shinning Armour said while getting startled at the immediate chaos. "What the fuck is going on here???"

"Dearie, are you seeing this?" Night Light asked his wife Twilight Velvet.

"Yes, I am Night Light." Twilight Velvet said. "But I don't understand. What are they doing???"

The rest of the other ponies in the mines were all asking similar questions until the 7 female ponies and the two guards approached them without resorting to any further violence.

"Mom, Dad, BBFFF." One of the cloaked prisoners spoke while under her hood. "It's been a very long time. I missed you all."

After hearing one of the cloaked prisoners speak, the Sparkle Family was speechless. Until Shinning Armour spoke up first.

"T-T-TWILEY?? I-IS THAT YOU????" Shinning Armor spoke with tears coming out of his eyes.

"Hello, Shinning Armor." Twilight said as she unveiled her hood, revealing herself in front of all of the prisoners before their very eyes. "It's been too long, hasn't it?!"

"OH MY FAUST, TWILEY. YOU'RE ALIVE!!!???" Shinning Armor wailed as he ran towards his sister and gave her a great big hug. 

"No way, P-Princess Twilight??" Mayor Mare spoke in a surprised tone. "I-I could've sworn that you were dead; we all saw you inside that coffin back at Canterlot."

"I-I don't believe it, Princess Twilight actually came back." Fancy Pant said to himself while under a state of shock.	

As Shinning Armor hugged Twilight in his hooves, Night Light and Twilight Velvet ran up to their purple alicorn daughter and started hugging her in their hooves, both wailing very loud as they let their tears fall out of their eyes in happiness.

"Oh, my dear sweet baby filly. I can't believe that Faust brought her back to us." Twilight Velvet wailed as she held Twilight in her hooves.

"I know, mom and dad. I missed you both." Twilight said before she suffocated under her family group hug. "I...need...air...please." 

"Princess Twilight, if you were really are here, then that must mean....." Igneous Rock Pie said before the rest of the cloaked prisoners and guards revealed themselves.

Before any pony could see what has happening the other six prisoners and the two guards revealed themselves as Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Sunset Shimmer, Trixie Lulamoon, Starlight Glimmer, Flash Sentry, and Soarin. Upon seeing all of them appear before their very eyes, Rarity's parents, Applejack's brother and Granny Smith, Bow Hothoof, and Windy Whistles came up to them and embraced their dear children in their hooves, crying in tears of happiness and reunion.

"Good evening every pony." Flash Sentry said as he took off his prison guard beret from his head revealing himself. "Do not be alarmed. For we are here to rescue you all."	

"I guess that must mean, OH PRAISE QUEEN FAUST. Princess Twilight must've came back to save us all." Cloudy Quartz  spoke to herself. 

"P-Private Flash Sentry???" 	Shinning Armor exclaimed in a state of confusion. "I thought you were dead too."

"My apologizes, your highness." Flash Sentry responded to the unicorn prince. "I would've met a fate that's worse than death itself if it weren't for your sister and for that, I still owe her my life."

"What do you mean by that??" Shinning Armour asked the orange pegasus.

"Let's just say that they were conducting illegal experiments on me before I even knew what was going on." Flash said to Shinning Armor briefly.

"Um, Princess Twilight, what happened to our daughter Pinkie Pie, is she okay?" Cloudy Quartz said to Twilight as she bowed down to the purple alicorn.

"Not to worry, Mrs. Quartz." Twilight responded to the gray earth pony mare. "She's safe at the Crystal Empire."

"But Twiley, I thought that place was taken over by Queen Cicada." Shinning Armor spoke unable to understand what Twilight is elaborating about. "How is that even possible?"

"We already reclaimed the Crystal Empire, liberated all of its citizens there, and defeated Queen Cicada and her Army." Twilight spoke up, answering Shinning Armor's question. 

"I see." Shining Armour said before he continued to ask more questions at Twilight. "But what about Princess Cadence and Flurry Heart, are they both okay?"

"Don't worry BBFFF." Twilight responded. "We already saved them both from Cicada's grip."

"Oh, thank Faust." Shinning Armour said, relieved that his wife and daughter were both safe and sound.

"But your highness, what about my sister Fluttershy? Is she okay?" Zephyr Breeze asked Twilight as he came up to her along with the rest of Fluttershy's parents.

"Not to worry, Zephyr Breeze, she's doing fine." Twilight said to Zephyr. "Discord is already taking good care of her."

"I guess I owe that Draconneques a lot." Zephyr said to himself. "It seems that he really did change despite his bad reputation 1,000 years ago."

"But Twiley, how are we going to get out of here?" Twilight Velvet asked Twilight Sparkle. "There will be guards scrambling all over the camp is something happens inside these mines."

"Not to worry, mom." Twilight spoke to Velvet. "Me and my friends already got it all planned before we even came here."

Meanwhile on the other side of the concentration camp, Yellow Peach was about to finish dig up another row at the planation she's working on, when all of a sudden, some unidentified prison guard appeared out of nowhere. At first, Peach thought that she was about to get torture again, until the moment the unidentified guard approach her, he grabbed the prison guard that was watching over Peach by the face and slammed him straight into a nearby wall several times before the back of his head started bleeding. After taking a brutal beating, the prison guard fell face flat on the floor dead. The other guard that appeared on Yellow Peach's left saw what was going on. However, before the second guard was about to raise the alarm, the unidentified prison guard ran up to him, grabbed him by the neck, and twisted it, ending his life in a heartbeat. The next thing Yellow Peach knew, the unidentified guard grabbed her by the hoof and dragged her inside an empty bunk, along with the two dead prison guards. After the unidentified guard hid the two dead bodies, he came up to Yellow Peach, not showing any hostility towards her, even though she started shaking in fear.

"What do you want from me?" Yellow Peach shrieked. "What are you doing??!!!"

"It's alright, Yellow Peach. It's me, Crimson Cross!!" The unidentified guard said as he took off his disguise.

"C-Crimson?? OH MY FAUST, YOU'RE OKAY!!!!" Yellow Peach wailed silently as she and Crimson embraced in each other's hooves, with tears coming out from both of their eyes, and started kissing each other. "How is it that you're able to come back for us??"

"Well, I had some help with Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends." Crimson answered Peach's question.

"Wait, Princess Twilight is here??!!" Yellow Peach said in a state of shock. "If so, how is it that she's not dead??"

"I'll explain later, but we have to wait until nightfall before we can make our escape first." Crimson suggested Yellow Peach. "For now, just keep doing what you're doing at the plantation."

"Okay, if you insist." Yellow Peach said as she came out of the bunk and started going back to work.
> Chapter 14: Camp Raid part 2
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From afternoon to nightfall, Twilight's team and Crimson got rid of all the bodies and disguised themselves as prison guards to slip past the rest of the camp's security unnoticed. As soon as its nightfall, Twilight's team lead their parents and the rest of the prisoners to their bunks and waited for the chance to escape Morning Blade's concentration camp, leaving Shinning Armor, Soarin, and Flash protecting the rest of the prisoners from outside of their bunks. As for Crimson Cross, the moment the night sky appeared before him, he escorted Yellow Peach and his children to hide in the mess hall, while he rallies with the undercover Changeling Republican soldiers before carrying out their plan to rescue the ponies of Ponyville. As most of the prison guards, Morning Blade, and his men went to the mess hall for dinner, Twilight and her group moved into the Communications Center, right after they grabbed their weapons in the Armory next to the building.

"Crimson, this is Twilight." Twilight Sparkle spoke through her ear-bud. "What's your position, over?"

"This is Crimson, I'm at the storage area near the kitchen in the Mess Hall." Crimson quietly responded with his ear-bud.

"I want you to keep a close eye on Morning Blade and his men." Twilight ordered the brown earth pony. "Let me know if any of them are heading to the Communications Center."

"Understood." Crimson acknowledged.

As Morning Blade and his men started eating dinner at the Mess Hall, Morning Blade asked if any of his guards discovered any suspicious activity around the camp.

"Dark-Light, is there any sign of Twilight and her group from you station?" Morning Blade asked the dark-green pony.

"Nothing yet, sir." Dark-light responded after drinking a mug full of cider. "Though, I'm feeling a little queasy after letting those new prisoners and guards enter our camp."

"Oh, really?" Morning Blade asked, giving Dark-Light a stern look. "They didn't try anything funny, did they?"

"Not at all, sir." Lt. Commander Dark-light said. 

"Vermillion, Black Scythe, do any of you have anything to report from your stations?" Morning Blade asked the other two of his royal knights.

"We have nothing serious to report, sir." Vermillion responded after taking a bite of bread.

"Me neither." Black Scythe said as she chewed up a piece of lettuce.

"Well, I hope we'll all survive through the night." Morning Blade said to every pony in the Mess Hall. "We can't let Twilight Sparkle get away with everything that she done in the past couple of months. If any of you see her or her friends here, you all know what you have to do."

While Morning Blade and his men continued with their dinner, Twilight and Sunset make their way to the side entrance of the Communications Center. The moment the purple alicorn and the bright-yellow unicorn reached a nearby corner, they peek around to see a guard standing left next to the entrance of the Communications Center. Twilight snuck around the corner and pulled out a knife from her coat. Before the guard turned around, he had his mouth covered by Twilight's hoof and the next thing he felt was a knife stabbing him in the neck. After the guard falls quietly on the ground dead, Sunset, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash move in. Sunset used her magic to quietly open the door, letting herself and all three ponies infiltrate the Communications Center. Inside the Communications Center, there is only two floors inside the building. On the top floor, there is two guards patrolling the balcony and at the bottom floor, there is one guard standing next to the staircase, drinking apple cider from a mug. Twilight spots the control center at the top floor and orders her friends to spread out and neutralize the guards in complete silence. Near the staircase, Applejack hid behind a stack of crates. The farm pony threw a rock at a nearby wall a couple of feet away from the stairs. The moment the guard there approached the source of the noise, Applejack snuck up behind him and stabbed him in the head with a steel dagger, ending his life. After Applejack hid the body, she makes her way underneath the staircase. As for Rainbow Dash, she flapped her wings and lifted herself onto a unguarded section of the balcony at the top floor. The moment the light-blue pegasus landed on all four hooves onto the balcony, she pulls out a throwing star and hurls it at a nearby guard that was approaching her position. Before the guard could see what was coming, the throwing star pierced his neck with blood gushing from it before he collapsed lifeless on the balcony. On the other side of the balcony, Sunset Shimmer uses her magic to lift herself up to the ceiling above the 3rd guard unnoticed. The unicorn pulled out a gallows-like rope and lowers it right behind the 3rd guard. As soon as the 3rd guard turned around, he felt a noose around his neck. Before the guard could do anything, Sunset pulled the rope up high, strangling the guard as the noose wrapped around his neck very tight. As soon as the strangled guard reached the ceiling he stopped struggling and suffocated from the noose. Sunset lowered herself onto the balcony on all floors and used her magic to lower the dead guard to a nearby hiding place in the shadows of the building. After all the guards inside the Communications Center are eliminated, Twilight moved straight into the control center at the top level. The purple alicorn used her magic to shut down all communication arrays throughout the camp, disabling all radio frequencies so that Morning Blade cannot make any contact from outside of the camp. After that, Twilight pulls out an AM/FM Radio with her magic and switches the channel to contact the Princess Luna and her Lunar Republican Army from outside, 30 yards away from the camp.

"Princess Luna, this is Princess Twilight. We've successfully shut down all communications at the concentration camp." Princess Twilight said to Luna with her AM/FM radio. 

"This is Princess Luna, I hear you loud and clear, Twilight." Luna responded with her AM/FM Radio. "We going to prepare to attack. As soon as we reach the gates, get ready to fight!!"

"Understood." Twilight responded to Princess Luna with her radio. "Okay guys, time to take point."

Before Twilight or any of her friends could head back to the bunks, another prison guard came inside through the doorway and spotted Applejack in front of his sights. Before the guard could draw out his revolver, Applejack slammed her front hoof into his face and pinned him to the ground. Both the prison guard and the female farm pony were struggling over the revolver with both hooves on it. The next thing Applejack saw, is that the guard started firing his revolver several times, away from her face, alerting the rest of the camp security at the mess hall.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT NOISE???" Morning Blade shouted as he jumped up from his seat, spitting out his cider.

"General Blade, its the Lunar Republic." One of his soldiers shouted as he busted his way into the mess hall. "They're attacking!!!"

"Every pony, to your battle stations!!!" Morning Blade said as he activated his Conversion Beam Lancer. "Don't let them get the prisoners."

"Oh, Shit!!!" Crimson said to himself while still hiding in the storage room. "It looks like our attack actually began sooner than expected."

Back at the Communications Center, the alarm started blaring out all over the area. Applejack continued struggling over the revolver in the guards hooves when all of a sudden, the farm pony took out a knife from her right hip and stabbed it right on top of the guard's hoof, right where the revolver is, making him scream in pain. The next thing the guard saw was Applejack taking the gun away from him and shot him in the head several times before he fell on the ground dead. The main door bursted wide open with five Centurions appear before Twilight, Rainbow, Sunset, and Applejack.

"WHAT THE.....??" One of the Centurions said in a state of shock. "INTRUDERS-GAH!!!"

Before any of the Centurions could do anything, Sunset jumped off the balcony and used her magic to take out her blunderbuss and blasted three Centurions at point blank range with it, killing them all in a bloody fashion while the other two ran for cover. On the left of Sunset Shimmer, more unicornian guards and terminator ponies started storming through the building and immediately engaged Twilight and her team. 

Outside of the camp, Luna declared a full-scale charge at the camp's defense with pegasus and griffons flying straight at the battlements head on, while the rest of the L.R troops press on from the rear flank. As soon as the Unicornian forces manned the garrisons and the guard towers, they started opening fire with their rifles and with their magic. After several ponies and griffins were shot out from the sky, Luna issued an order to return fire. The L.R unicorns and griffins took out their rifles with their magic and started shooting at them with everything they've got, killing several of Unicornian soldiers and cyborgs. As soon as they reached the gate, the L.R Army was meet with a platoon of Unicornian Centurions, raising their Black lances up front, followed by a tower shield formation. A huge clash occurred between the Centurions and the LR soldiers. Most of the Centurions were able to take down three LR soldiers before they got killed after getting stabbed repeatedly in the chest and in the neck. Lt. Commander Dark-Light appeared in the middle of the fight at the gate and drew out his Heavy Maul. Every time Dark-Light swings his maul across his chest, he sent three or four LR soldiers crashing to the ground with broken ribs and blood coming out of their mouths. For Colonel Black Scythe, she took out her Scythe and started lunging at the LR pegasus and griffins head on. As she swing her Scythe at them, the grey pegasus unleashes a huge wave of dark magic that decapitated most of her targets with complete ease, leaving them all in a bloody mess. 

Back at the Communications Center, Twilight and her group head out to the rear exit of the building. The moment they all got outside, Sunset Shimmer hurled an HE grenade into the building through the rear exit. In just seconds, the Communications Center exploded from the inside, with fire spewing out of the windows in a huge conflagration. One of the guards that got caught on fire, due to the resulting explosion, bursted his way out of one of the windows from above screaming, and fell straight down on the ground, silencing him forever. As Twilight and her team ran back to the bunks, they also hurled several more grenades at the Unicornian Tents, exploding all munitions and equipment and setting most of the buildings on fire. During the destructive chaos, the Changeling Republic started engaging Unicorian's guards and their experimental creations everywhere. Starlight and the rest of the group came out of the bunks, along with Shinning Armor and engaged the rest of the Unicornian Camp Security head on. Shinning Armor drew out a broad sword that he retrieved from one of the fallen guards in the mines and started attacking. The white male unicorn made two quick slashes with his sword at several prison guards. Twilight used her magic to summon a meteor shower that blew up three cyborg ponies. One Centurion appeared on the purple alicorn's right and started lashing out at her with his black sword. However, Twilight drew out her ice blade and with just one swing, the Centurion turned into a huge ice cube. When another Centurion appeared on Twilight's left, she stabbed her ice sword straight into his chest so hard, that the blade came out from his back. After Twilight pulled out her sword from his chest, she knock him out with the hilt of her sword. Flash Sentry flew right above Shinning Armor and hurled four javelins that struck two Centurions, both of them were pierced by the javelins twice before they collapsed, face flat on the ground. When Trixie and Starlight broke through the ranks of the Unicornian guards, they were met by Commander Vermillion, who swung his Lighting Saber at the light-blue unicorn, giving her a heavy jolt.

"GYAAAAHHHH!!!" Trixie screamed as she got immediately electrocuted by Vemillion's sword. "God, that burns!!!"

"I'm going to light you up!!!" Vermillion snarled as he lunged at Trixie Lulamoon with all of his might. 

However, before Vermillion got close in stabbing Trixie, Rarity appeared in front of Vermillion, drew out her ninja sword, and blocked Vermillion's saber in an instant.

"Light you up?!!" Rarity growled. "I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S LIGHTING UP!!!"

In just an instant, Rarity and Vermillion clashed into each other with their swords in total aggression. Vermillion made an horizontal cut at the white female unicorn only to have her block side with her ninja sword. The next thing Vermillion saw, was Rarity's sword raised straight up to his face. Vermillion leaned his head back, avoiding Rarity's ninja sword just inches away from where he was standing. The red unicorn raised his saber up high his head and struck at Rarity with a vertical chop. However, Rarity was able to parry against Vermillion's saber with an upper block from her ninja sword. After they both disengaged, the two unicorns jumped away from each other. After Vermillion landed on all four hooves, he took out his tesla gun and started shooting at the female unicorn, only for Rarity to summon a huge gem shield that blocked the tesla's electrical discharge that was heading straight for her. Before Vermillion could see what was going on behind Rarity's gem shield, the female unicorn jumped over it, did a back-wheel flip, and slammed her ninja sword straight at Vermillion's head only for him to parry against it with an uppercut block with his saber.

While Black Scythe was busy hacking more of LR soldiers out of the sky, Rainbow Dash appeared right behind her, attempting to stab the grey pegasus with her spear. However, the moment Black saw Rainbow coming in from behind, she made a strong flap of her wings and hoisted herself above the light-blue pegasus, dodging her by an inch of her hoof. 

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the show-off speedster Rainbow Dash." Black Scythe taunted. "I thought for sure that you and Spike will never escape that prison alive in Manehattan."

"There's always the first time for everything." Rainbow Dash snarled at the grey pegasus, while still in mid-air. "I hadn't forgotten the fact that you wouldn't stop thrashing and spraying graffiti on Twilight's castle's exterior like there's no tomorrow at one time and that all suing charges made against you were unpredictably dropped at Canterlot because of your lawyers. How could they even let you get away with it, huh?"

"Amadeus was able to help me hire the best lawyers to cover up my defense at court, most of it was used to deceive Princess Celestia." Black Scythe cackled. "You can't really put all of your devotion on that purple harlot. She doesn't have any right to bear the Equestrian crown, not on my watch."

"DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!!!" Rainbow Dash growled as she raised her spear to perform a lunging attack.

"If you really think you'd let Twilight bear the crown of Equestria and inherit the throne in Canterlot, then you are a total doofus!!!" Black Scythe laughed while still in mid-air.

"THAT DOES IT, LADY!!!" Rainbow Dash shouted at the top of her lungs. "You want to know who's a total doofus? I'll show you who's a total doofus!!!"

Without hesitation, Rainbow Dash zeroed into where Black Scythe was at, aiming her spear at her chest. Before Rainbow Dash could come any close, Black made an uppercut swing with her scythe, unleashing a wave of black magic at the light-blue pegasus. Undaunted by such dark magic, Rainbow did a barrel roll to her right side, evading the scythe's dark magic. Rainbow thrusted her spear at Black only for the grey pegasus to block it with the shaft of her scythe. The next thing Black did was a horizontal sweep with the blade of her scythe at Rainbow Dash. However, Rainbow was able to fly up high above Black, evading the scythe in an instant. Rainbow pointed her spear downwards and flew straight at the grey pegasus from above. Black used her wings to fly forward, dodging Rainbow Dash's spear. 

Meanwhile at the main entrance of the camp, the rest of the Lunar Republican Army breached through the camp's battlements and fought their way towards the bunks. During the fight, several LR soldiers blasted the bunk doors down and attempted to release the prisoners from their captivity and escorted them out of the camp in order to proceed onto the transports. Crimson took out a heavy flail from his sheath and slammed several cyborgs and terminators straight to the ground exploding upon impact. As soon as a couple of Changeling Republican soldiers came out from the middle of the battlefield, Crimson ordered them to escort his family out of here.

"Yellow Peach, you and the kids go with Luna's men. They'll help escort you all back to the Crystal Empire." Crimson said to them.

"But father, I don't want to leave you again." Bella Harp said out of worry.

"Sorry kids, but this is for you own good." Twilight said as she appeared before Crimson's family. "It's too dangerous to be here, anyway. I will make sure your father stays alive."

"But Princess...." Bright Song said before her speech was interrupted.

"No buts, kid!!" Twilight said at Bright Song in a royal Canterlot voice. "Now get a move on, we don't have all day."

Without saying another word, Crimson's family was able to leave the camp, along with the rest of the escaped prisoners. Unfortunately, before Twilight and Crimson were able to get back into the fight, they were both met by an old nemesis. The moment General Morning Blade appeared, he fired his Conversion Beam Lancer at several pegasus in the sky, dissecting them all with one shot. As General Blade approached the two ponies, he switched his Lancer to the Green Stasis Shield and drew out a huge Orichalcum Broadsword with his magic.

"Hello, you two. We met again." Morning Blade said, followed by an evil smirk on his face. "Are you both ready for round 2?"

"BRING IT ON YOU BITCH!!!" Crimson angrily roared at Morning Blade. "You're going to pay for deceiving me earlier. I should never have listened to you from the start. In fact, I just ended up making my family suffer further because of your malicious offer."

"Sorry it has to be this way, Crimson." Morning Blade sneered at the brown earth pony. "But just so you know, the Blueblood family and I have other plans to execute with the element of surprise."

As the fight continued on around Morning Blade, Twilight Sparkle, and Crimson Cross, they all drew out their weapons, getting ready to fight for their lives, out in the open and face-to-face. Crimson charged forward with his heavy flail and struck at Morning Blade with all of his might. However, Blade raised his lancer high above his head and activated the Green Stasis Shield. Upon impact, the stasis shield emitted a blinding flash that sent the brown earth pony flying backwards a few feet away from Morning Blade. As soon as the General drew out his broad sword, he sees Twilight Sparkle fly straight at him, lunging with her ice sword. The purple alicorn made a flurry of strikes with her ice blade at the unicorn general, only to have him activate the Green Stasis Shield again, blocking every attack Twilight makes. In one minute, Morning Blade switch to the fusion laser and started firing at the purple alicorn. However, Twilight unfurled her wings and flew up to the skies, dodging every shot coming from Morning Blade's lancer. As soon as his lancer overheated, Twilight charged up her horn with her magic, aimed at the Unicornian General, and unleashed a massive beam at him, while in mid-air. Morning Blade used his magic to teleport himself away from the blast that caused a huge crater in the middle of the concentration camp. When he appeared, Morning Blade was about to aim his Beam Lancer at Twilight again only for Crimson to appear on his right. 

Unfortunately, before Crimson got any closer Morning Blade, Lt. Commander Dark-Light rammed at him with his heavy maul, knocking Crimson onto his side. Dark-Light raised his Maul up high and attempted to smash Crimson in his ribs. However, Crimson punched Dark-Light in the stomach, in which send the dark green earth pony slamming his back into a nearby bunk. As Crimson got up on his hooves, he lunged at Dark-Light with his Heavy Flail, only for the Lt. Commander to dodge it, as it hit the bunk's wall, and ran right past him with his maul in his left hoof.

"Nice try, Crimson." Dark-Light taunted. "It won't matter what kind of allies you'd bring in to oppose us, you can't defeat us."

"We'll just see about that, Dark-Light!!!" Crimson hissed as he circled around the dark-green earth pony with his flail in his mouth.

While Crimson and Dark-Light charged straight at each other, the rest of Twilight's friends who weren't engaging Morning Blade and his royal knights moved on to help escort their parents and their siblings to Princess Luna's transports. When Rarity's parents and Rainbow Dash's parents saw their daughters fighting against the royal knights, they all prayed that they will return all in one piece. Meanwhile, Applejack and Sunset noticed that some of the fillies were having trouble trying to make their way out of the camp. The yellow unicorn and the farm earth pony dropped by to help rescue the fillies but not before they ran into four more Centurions. 

"Sunset, get these kids out of here. I'll take care of those creeps." Applejack told the unicorn as Sunset ran off with the little fillies.

Just when the Centurions charged forward at Applejack's position, she drew out her talons from her front hooves and lunged at them, hoping to shred them all at once. However, one of the Centurions used his tower shield and bashed Applejack in the face, sending her backpedaling. When Applejack got up, she injected herself with an adrenaline shot. As soon as she saw the world around her move very slowly, Applejack ran right past one of the Centurions and stabbed him in the side of his head. After that, Applejack stabbed the next two centurions with both of her talons in a crossover. Lastly, Applejack slid underneath the fourth Centurion and kicked him in the shin with her right hind leg, making him fall over on his chest. Before he landed on the dirt, however, Applejack came up behind the Centurion and stabbed him in the back of his head with her right talon. When Applejack's adrenaline wore off, all of the Centurions that she just stabbed fell on the ground with blood gushing out of their wounds. One guard attempted to lunge his spear at Applejack, only for her to cut the spearhead off his shaft and stabbed him squarely in the chest with her talons. 

Meanwhile, Sunset Shimmer successfully got the lost fillies out of here, when all of a sudden, she hears the screams of the CMC come from behind her. As soon as she turned around, Sunset sees the CMC get surrounded by a mob of Unicornian guards. Sunset took out her blunderbuss and aimed at the guards. However, before she could fire, Sunset felt a sharp blade touching her throat. 

"Not so fast, Sunset Shimmer!!!" Black Scythe said as she spoke from behind the unicorn. 

Behind Black Scythe, Rainbow Dash was laying on the ground unconscious, with her spear broken in two.
> Chapter 15: Camp Raid part 3
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When Colonel Black Scythe flew away from Rainbow Dash's downward spear attack, she flew up above the light-blue pegasus. The next thing Rainbow Dash saw was the grey pegasus zooming straight into her position with her scythe raised up high her head. As soon as Black Scythe got closer to Rainbow Dash, the light-blue pegasus started unleashing a flurry of jabs with her spear. However, Black was able to dodge every jab Rainbow Dash was making, when all of a sudden, Black grabbed the shaft of the spear with her right hoof, with its tip inches away from her face. The next thing Black did was that she took the spear away from Rainbow Dash and broke it in two with her left hind leg. Before Rainbow saw what was coming, Black flew straight at her so fast, that she didn't see the grey pegasus whack her with the broken shaft with such strength and reflex. The next Rainbow Dash realized is that she started to fall from the sky, after seeing stars. As for Black, after she threw the broken shaft to the ground underneath her, she grabbed Rainbow Dash by the chest and slammed her straight into the ground. Upon impact, the light-blue pegasus crashed into the dirt unconscious, while Black let go of her and flew back up into the sky. Not a moment too soon, Black drew out her Scythe once more and flew straight at Sunset Shimmer, holding the scythe's blade up to her throat.





"What makes you think you can change yourself, Sunset?" Black Scythe sneered at the female unicorn. "Do you honestly think they will forgive you, after you let your ambitions get the best out of you? DO YOU??"

"I wish to change myself so that I'd stop living in the past." Sunset explained while being held by Black's scythe by her throat. "I was grateful that Princess Celestia actually forgave me after all those years when I disdained her as my mentor."

"Oh, really?! Well, what about the other ponies that you disdained back in Canterlot?!" Black Scythe taunted the yellow orange unicorn. "You can't hope to atone for your sins that easily. What makes you think that purple harlot can be trusted? I thought you were jealous of Twilight too when she was able to get what you could not."

"That maybe, but I was a fool to go against her, especially when I made a failed attempt at using the crown's power against Princess Twilight." Sunset Shimmer said as she quietly took out a flash bang from her front pouch with her right hoof. "Yet, she already told me that you don't really need power, nobility, or regality to make yourself feel good, there are other ways were you can live your life without bearing such hubris. If you don't know that, then you're likely going to be making a even more bigger mistake than even I DID!!!"

Before Black Scythe could see what was going on, Sunset threw a flash bang straight at her hooves. The next thing that occur was when a huge flash erupted in front of Black's face. Black started screaming as she covered her face with her left hoof, letting go of her scythe as it dropped on the ground. After the flash disappeared, Black slowly opened up her eyes only to find that Sunset Shimmer disappeared. The next thing Black saw from Sunset was that she used her magic to teleport the CMC and herself away from Black's men. Upon seeing this, Black got really annoyed for letting her guard down in less than a minute. As soon as Sunset lead the CMC away from the chaos, she sees Black unfurl her wings and flew straight at unicorn with the scythe in both of her hooves. Immediately, Sunset takes out her Blunderbuss and started shooting at the grey pegasus. However, every time Sunset fires a shot, Black spins her scythe around in a circular motion so fast that the blunderbuss bullets were scattering all over the ground, not even touching Black's skin. As soon as Black zeroed in Sunset, she used her scythe to disarm the unicorn, knocking the blunderbuss off her hooves, raises the scythe up high above her head, and prepares to do a vertical slash with it. Ultimately, Sunset summons her flamberge in an instant and performs a overhead block with it. As both the pegasus' and the unicorn's blades clashed into each other, the blade of the scythe was sticking out inches away from where Sunset's head is at. However, Sunset shoved her flamberge up high, breaking away Black's chop attack and makes a horizontal slash with her sword, only for the grey pegasus to parry it with the shaft of her scythe.

During the fight between Rarity and Vermillion, both unicorns started grabbing each other with their hooves and the next thing Rarity saw was Vermillion grabbing her by the throat. Just when Vermillion slowly had the upper hand, Rarity made a strong kick in his left hind leg, breaking free from his grip and knocking his lighting saber off his hoof. However, before Rarity was able to strike back with her katana sword, Vermillion jumped up and did a double kick towards Rarity's chest, knocking her to the ground, before he landed on his side. As soon as both unicorns got up again, Rarity performed a side kick with her left hoof and pinning him below the fashionista. In just an instant, the unicorns both used their magic to take control of their swords once more. Rarity used her magic to reclaim her ninja sword and made a vertical slash above Vermillion's face only for him to use his magic to reclaim his saber and performed a horizontal block right above his chest. Vermillion used his magic to teleport himself away from Rarity. As soon as he appeared, he charged up his horn and started shooting at the white female unicorn with his magic but not before Rarity charged up her horn and fired her magic at Vermillion. Both of the unicorn's magic collided into each other, struggling over who would repel their opponents magic. Despite their efforts, both Rarity's and Vermillion's magic exploded in the middle, sending both of them flying into nearby bunks. Before Vermillion got up on her hooves, Rarity got up first and charged at the him with all her might. The next thing Rarity did was raised her ninja sword up high with her magic and attempted to do another vertical slash over his head. However, Vemillion parried against Rarity's katana with his saber, redirecting the ninja sword into a wall of a nearby bunk house.

During the fight between Dark-Light and Crimson Cross, Dark-light back away every time Crimson swing his heavy flail at his face. Just as soon as Crimson charged at him, Dark-Light raised his heavy maul and caught the heavy flail in the maul's handle. When Dark-Light pulled the heavy flail away from Crimson, he swung his heavy maul at his face. However, Crimson grabbed the maul with his right hoof and head butted the dark-green earth pony, reeling him to the ground. As soon as Crimson raised the Heavy Maul above his head, he attempted to slam the maul at Dark-Light's chest. However, the dark-green earth pony rolled away from Crimson's fatal blow to his left and grabbed a black lance from one of the fallen Centurions. After Dark-Light made several jabs at Crimson's face, he dodged each single one of them until Crimson slammed the maul into Dark-Light's groin making him collapse while holding himself. The next thing Crimson did was smashed Dark-Light's skull in, leaving behind a severe head injury, with blood coming out of it.

Just when Morning Blade aimed his conversion beam lancer at Twilight, she unfurled her wings and took off to the skies, missing the fusion laser just inches from where her left hoof was at. While in mid-air Twilight charged up her horn and unleashed a powerful ray of magic at Morning Blade. Before the ray struck the altered unicorn, however, he quickly activated his Green Stasis Shield again, defending himself against Twilight's magic. In just three minutes, Blade's Lancer started to overheat. As soon as the lancer shuts down, Morning Blade used his magic to teleport himself away from the impeding blast that Twilight is causing. Twilight performed a mid-air flip with her ice blade in her hooves, lurching herself at the Unicornian General. Morning Blade raised his broadsword up high and performed a uppercut block with it, parrying against Twilight's ice blade. Before Blade could see what was coming, Twilight unsheathed her fire blade from her right hip and made another swipe at him with it. Twilight unleashed a blazing magic wave from her fire sword after she swing her blade, horizontally at the Unicornian General, only for Morning Blade to activate the fusion overdrive after the lancer cooled off and fired a shot. When the fusion projectile and the blazing magic wave hit each other, a small explosion erupted leaving a small  crate filled with fire and radiation on the ground between the purple alicorn and the evil unicorn. Twilight zoomed into Morning Blade, while still in mid-air, and attempted to strike at him with her fire sword. 


During the ensuing fight between Twilight Sparkle and Morning Blade, Shinning Armor decided to help her sister, after he decapitated 2 unicornian guards with his sword, stop Morning Blade in his tracks. Unfortunately, the moment Morning Blade saw the unicorn prince charging at him, he swiped both of Twilight's swords away from her, grabbed her by the mane, dragged the alicorn right in front of her brother with a headlock, using her as a meat shield.

"Stay back, Shinning Armour." Morning Blade threatened him as he held to the purple alicorn at gunpoint with his lancer, directly on the side of her head. "Or your sister's head will disintegrate."

"Morning Blade, don't be a fool." Shinning Armor protested.  "I know my sister will never do anything wrong to you or your family."

"Oh yeah?! Well, guess what? When my father retired from the military, he promised to help keep all incomes in check at the Canterlot Treasury, starting with the Blueblood's wealth and status." Morning Blade said. "I can't let Twilight carry out any democracy in Equestria because her actions will hinder all insurances for the Blueblood family and for my family as well. Any pony supporting any other creature is just going to cost too much for us to handle. Because of what she did, our entire treasury was decreasing in less than a week."

"You can't expect yourself to do all those horrible things out of selfish greed. We all need to sacrifice some of our wealth for the sake of others." Shinning Armor protested further. "Don't let this all of this end in anymore foolish bloodshed."

"I'LL TELL YOU HOW IT'S GOING TO END!!!" Morning Blade snarled as he aimed his beam lancer at the unicorn prince. 

However, before he could fire any shots at Shinning, Twilight grabbed Morning Blade's lancer with her both of her hooves and threw him over her head before she used her magic to grab Morning Blade's sword. The next thing Morning Blade saw was that Twilight stabbed his sword straight into the conversion beam lancer, making it cause a small explosion, destroying both Blade's sword and his lancer. Upon seeing this, Morning Blade screamed realizing that his right hoof is completely disintegrated. In a rage, Morning Blade lashed out at Twilight, trying to punch her in the face with his left hoof. However, thanks to Luna's close combat training, Twilight grabbed Blade's left hoof with her own left hoof and punched him squarely in the nose with her right hoof. Before Blade could see what was coming at him, Twilight kicked him in his right hind leg, immobilizing him, and flipped him to his side. 

"You know what you ponies don't get?!!" Twilight growled as she lifted a crippled Morning Blade with her magic. 

The next thing Twilight did was that she started shouting at Morning Blade with livid behavior, while unleashing a barrage of punches at his face. "WE'RE NOT A FUCKING BUILDING!!! WE'RE NOT A FUCKING FLAG!!! WE'RE NOT JUST ONE PONY!!! Assholes like you having been trying to kill us for a long fucking time. But you know what?!! After a thousand years from now, we'll still be here!!!"

After taking several beatings from Twilight, Morning Blade was slowly start to lose consciousness as he felt Twilight strangling him with a headlock, right after she disengaged her magic that was holding Morning Blade above. After seeing their Unicornian General suffering from a brutal beat down by the raging purple alicorn, Vermillion and Black Scythe disengaged their fight with Rarity and Sunset in order to save Morning Blade from getting killed. During Twilight's violent rage, a fatally injured Dark-Light took out a frag grenade from his side and with the last ounce of his strength, he pulled out the pin from the grenade, and threw it at the ground before finally succumbing to his wounds. Both Shinning Armor's and Crimson's eyes widen with horror, noticing that the grenade is a few inches away from Twilight Sparkle and Morning Blade.

"TWILEY, GRENADE!!!" Shinning Armor shrieked in a loud tone of voice. 

After hearing what her brother just said, Twilight unhanded Morning Blade and used her magic to teleport herself out of the grenade's blast radius, leaving Blade face flat on the ground, before the grenade exploded. As soon as Twilight reappeared, unharmed by the grenade's effects, she sees Morning Blade get hauled off by Colonel Black Scythe and Commander Vermillion, with the remaining Unicornian soldiers covering their retreat. 

"Why won't that fucker die?" Twilight snarled at Morning Blade as he fled with his life.

Before Twilight could go after them, Shinning Armor put a hoof onto her shoulder as a sign to make her stand down.

"We'll go after them later, Twiley." Shinning Armor said to her sister in a sympathizing tone. "Right now, we need to get all of these people back to the Crystal Empire.

After the fight at the Unicornian Concentration Camp has finally ended, most of the people that Twilight and her team had saved where able to seek sanctuary at the Crystal Empire but not before most of the ponies from Ponyville and Canterlot were all surprised to see Twilight live again. Even the CMC were shocked at seeing Princess Twilight appear before their very eyes. For most of the day, there has been a lot of questions that were being directed at Twilight Sparkle. Unfortunately, because of how Twilight was still traumatized by her horrible past with her subjects, she does not wish to make amends with them yet, at least not until they drive away Majesty's and Amadeus' reign of terror from Equestria for good. 





Meanwhile, back at Canterlot, Queen Majesty Blueblood heard about the news of how Twilight and the Lunar Republic were able to rescue almost all of the prisoners from Lt. Commander Dark-Light's Concentration Camp. Upon reading the latest headlines, Amadeus felt really enraged that Twilight Sparkle was able to get the upper hand in just a couple of months after her resurrection. However, Amadeus still doesn't feel discouraged, not after Twilight did some personal damage on him for not handing over Trixie back to her side peacefully. 

"As soon as that big metal boy of mine comes into play, that harlot and her friends will never defy me again!!!" Amadeus smirked to himself as he remembered what Professor Felhand presented to him several months earlier.

During the time when the LR Army laid a siege upon a Changeling Infested Crystal Empire, Professor Felhand was able to finish Amadeus' secret weapon before his very eyes, about one hour before 12 hours have passed, leaving it dwelling inside the shadows of the Canterlot Armory.

"So, Professor Felhand, how do you think this contraption would work?" Amadeus asked the mad unicorn scientist. 

"This mech actually capable of destroying almost anything it comes across. Thanks to my best engineers and researchers, we were able to install 5 weapon systems, a huge jetpack w/ thrusters, and a implanted shield generator." Professor Felhand explained to Amadeus. "You're going to love this bad boy because if Twilight sees you inside that machine, she's going to wish that she never attacked you on sight."

"That's good to hear." Amadeus smirked, followed by an evil cackle. "I know it maybe a matter of time before Twilight and her friends will come after me. But no matter, I'll show them not to underestimate the might of the Blueblood Family. MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!





After hearing the news of Lt. Commander Dark Light's death, along with the fall of his concentration camp, Queen Majesty makes her way down the halls. As she looked out to the window on her left, Majesty was thinking to herself if she really was doing the right thing for Equestria. After she turned her face away from the window, a big purple book came falling from the sky and landed on the floor a few feet away from where Majesty was standing. When she looked up, Majesty sees a small glimpse of Discord before he vanished from sight. As soon as she looked down to see the book that landed in front of her, Majesty spots a sticky note on the book cover. The note says, "Majesty Blueblood, the journal I left behind for you to read belongs to Princess Twilight, if you're reading this, you may need to think twice before going after her or her friends because resorting to destructive chaos and death is not always the best way to solve everything. -Discord. PS: There used be several other ponies and creatures like me who pursued similar paths like you and your father did, but it didn't go so well for me or them because we were all forced to pay the price for our sins at the end." 

After reading the note, Majesty used her magic to lift the journal towards her face and started reading it in her room. After a few hours of reading, Majesty's eyes widen with shock and fear.

"What the hell am I doing?!" Majesty muttered to herself while sweating nervously in fear. 

"Majesty, my dear. What are you reading over there??" Amadeus said as he appeared behind his alicorn daughter when entering her room.

"Father, it's not true is it? Tell me this isn't true." Majesty asked as she turned around to face Amadeus. "Did you really make all those false images about Princess Twilight so that you could force her to step down from the Canterlot Throne? Did you??"

"Listen, Majesty. I did what I have to do in order to help you fulfill your destiny." Amadeus said. "It doesn't matter what Twilight would do when carrying out her royal duties in Equestria. She'll always be a threat to our power and our pride. I have been warned by my father that any unicorn that possesses unique potential will become a terrible enemy someday. I mean, just because Twilight was able to posses great raw potential that doesn't mean she has any right to control us."

"Father, why would I want to believe that?" Majesty protested. "After reading this journal that Discord gave me, I'm starting to think that portraying Twilight as an tyrannical enemy is likely going to become my undoing. And that if we keep pushing her to the brink of madness and violence, then I'm afraid it'll be us who is posing a threat to her very existence, not the other way around."

Just when Majesty started to walk away, Amadeus immediately teleported himself in front of his daughter before she was about to leave the palace of Canterlot.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK, YOU'RE GOING??" Amadeus snapped at his own daughter. "You're not trying to make amends with that alicorn harlot just because of a stupid book that you just read, are you?? I gave you power. I taught you everything on how to become a better pony noble than any pony else. I even helped you gain the regal right to rule over Equestria and Unicornia. Yet, this is how you repay me, by talking down on me as if you're doubting our own family and attempting to resort to peaceful solutions to the enemy without relying on your peers??"

"Sorry, it had to be this way, but I will do my best to reason with Twilight Sparkle without resorting to violence any further." Majesty glared at Amadeus. 

"What makes you think you can reason with that harlot?" Amadeus roared. "SHE'S NOT TO BE TRUSTED AT ALL!!!"

"Well for one thing, I haven't even met her in person." Majesty explained while glaring at her father. "And besides, I pretty much owe Princess Twilight, her friends, and the rest of her loyal subjects a really big apology."

"I don't think so, young lady." Amadeus smirked in a vile manner. "I never wanted to admit it from the start, but I noticed that you were not taking most of my lectures for granted due to personal reasons. Too bad, no pony is ever going hear you out anymore."	

Before she can get past at Amadeus, Majesty see Morning Blade and his royal knights appear right behind her father and closed in on her.

"Morning Blade? Black Scythe? Vermillion? What are you guys doing??" Majesty shrieked as she felt her hooves restrained by Blade's and Vermillion's magic. "Unhand me at once!!!"

"Sorry, my queen. But your father already came up with a backup plan of his own. On the day that you were born, Amadeus did hire us that if anything goes wrong due to your lunacy, you will be restrained against your own will and locked up until you learn how to behave yourself in front of your father." Morning Blade said as he used his magic to restrain the queen.

Without thinking, Majesty used her magic to teleport herself out of Morning Blade's grip and made a run for it. However, before she was able to reach the door leading outside of the Canterlot Palace, Majesty felt a glowing yellow lasso wrapped around her waist. Before she even knew what was going on, Majesty got pulled away from the door against her will, with Black Scythe and Vermillion leaping right on top of her. Black took out a anti-magic cuff from underneath her wing and clasped it onto Majesty's horn, with Vermillion holding her down with his magic. After that, Vermillion used his magic to summon a huge chain and wrapped it around Majesty's body and her wings.

"You're not going anywhere, Majesty Blueblood." Amadeus hissed. "You either help us retake Equestria as our own or face the consequences of your actions against your family. Unless, you behave yourself and cooperate with us, I'll assume command of the rest of the Unicornian Army in your absence. Lock her up men."

"Father, how could you do this do me?" Majesty muttered to herself as she got thrown into the dungeons underneath Canterlot. "My mother. My brother. I bet they all died because of him. What have I done?!"
> Chapter 16: The New Order part 1
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After locking Majesty Blueblood away due to her insanity, Amadeus Blueblood decided to summon forth the rest of the Unicornian Royal Knights to man the defenses all over Canterlot, as well as Tirek and his Badlands army to defend the courtyard near the Canterlot Gates. Many of the Unicornian soldiers were wondering what happened to their Queen after realizing that she's nowhere to be seeing. Amadeus convinced the Unicornians that Majesty Blueblood got sick and she gave him the right to command the rest of the Unicornian Army until she recovers, in which was a lie. It didn't take that much for the rest of the traditionalists and the Unicornians to believe in Amadeus' lies. As soon as Amadeus walked up to the balcony of the Canterlot Palace, he is now wearing a full black mantle of heavy Unicornian armor and helmet that bears its national emblem, as well as his Noble Family's emblem, embroidered with light-green linings. He takes a deep breath to make his announcement throughout the entire city.

"All every pony, listen up. Ever since Princess Twilight Sparkle came back from the dead because of Princess Celestia, our entire regime of Unicornia is slowly starting to lose power over Equestria, as well as our vestiges of our alliances with Cicada and those who happened to be traditionalists of Equestria. First, it started off with the incursion within the castle grounds of Canterlot, the raid upon one of the slave caravans, the destruction of the Research Prison Facility at Manehattan, the liberation of the Crystal Empire, and last but not least, the raid upon our concentration camp up north. But not that it matters, as long as we nobles were still in command of Unicornia, I'll assure you all that Twilight and the Lunar Republic will not set hoof in Canterlot ever again. Because we lost control over the rest of the cities outside of Canterlot, there is only one option left. We must rally all remaining forces from the other cities. As soon as all of our forces are gathered around in this city, we'll bolster up all defenses around Canterlot before we face the full might of the Lunar Republic, and hit them hard with everything we've got. GIVE NO QUARTER EVERY PONY, FOR LET IT BE OUR FINAL BATTLE!!! FOR UNICORNIA!!!!"

"FOR UNICORNIA!!!!!" The rest of the traditionalist crowd clamored below Amadeus.

Meanwhile back at the Crystal Empire, the ponies of Ponyville and of Canterlot were rejoicing in each other's hooves as may fillies were reunited with their lost parents. As for Twilight and her friends, they celebrated their reunion with their parents, along with their loved ones at the Crystal Palace Courtyard. During their celebration, Cheese Sandwich also appeared amongst the ponies that were held in Dark-Light's camp, much to Pinkie Pie's happiness. As the two party ponies celebrated, they also fired some fireworks into the clear-blue night sky. As the ponies celebrated, Princess Twilight came up above the balcony of the Crystal Palace before making her announcement.

"All right every pony, I hope you will all enjoy the best from this party that Pinkie Pie honed in the Crystal Empire because tomorrow morning we'll commence our final battle against Amadeus and the Unicornian Army." Twilight spoke in out loud in a royal Canterlot voice. "Only this time, we will not stop until we retake Canterlot and neutralize any threats that stand in our way. When I woke up from my coffin, I thought for sure that I would be able to finish up where I started from. However, after learning about how our entire world nearly tore itself apart, I could not help but notice that we would actually lose our country to a massive army of political insurgents. Nevertheless, I know that most of you ponies still have trouble thinking that my democracy will not be without consequences and that some of you cannot take it for granted. But if you're not satisfied with what I do as your Princess, then can we at least try to be more confident in making civil agreements and disagreements over changes in Equestria without judging every single one of them as if it was a big deal?"

"Yes, my Princess. We're all sorry for doubting you, your highness." One of the Crystal Ponies said below Twilight. "We didn't really think that the Bluebloods would actually trick us into believing that they're the heroes of Equestria.

"Lead us on, my lady." Another Crystal Pony spoke in a positive tone of voice. "We must avenge all of those who fell prey to the Unicornians and the Bluebloods."

"TWILIGHT!! TWILIGHT!!! TWILIGHT!!!" The Crystal Ponies and the Canterlot Ponies shouted.

"I was hoping you would say that. Ever since I heard that Unicornia have conquered Equestria during the time that I was gone, this is what I learned so far." Twilight Sparkle spoke to the crowd. "The Unicornians have sent us a message that they can take whatever they want and that no pony will stop them. But we will send them a message. You ride out as fast as the wind can carry you. You tell your other friends to come and tell them that Princess Twilight Sparkle calls to them. You fly now with me, my brothers, my sisters. And we show the Unicornians, THAT THEY CANNOT TAKE WHATEVER THEY WANT. AND THAT THIS, THIS IS OUR LAND!!!!"

Upon hearing Twilight making her speech in a royal Canterlot voice, every pony cheered for her as they all scampered and prepare for the final battle that will shake all of Equestria in a cataclysm event forever. As for the Mane 5, the three unicorns, and the two pegasus, they all headed down to the Crystal Armory to gear up for the final battle at Canterlot. All of Twilight's friends are now wearing crystal armor bearing emblems and colors to that of their natural fur coats and their cutie marks. As for Twilight, Princess Celestia gave her a full suit of Royal Alicorn armor with a regal cape, including a roman praetorian helmet to wear for the final battle. Twilight's suit of armor and helmet had a solid color of purple, with red and blue linings, and bears the Equestrian Emblem and her cutie mark on her breastplate and helmet. After Twilight put on her Royal Alicorn armor and helmet on, she went downstairs, leading outside of the Crystal Palace, to met up with her friends. After all of Twilight's friends, her brother, Crimson, and her coltfriend geared up for the final battle of Equestria, she and the Mane 5 decided to make amends to all of their parents first.

The moment Twilight Sparkle and Shinning Armor met up with their parents, along with Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence, Celestia comforts Twilight Sparkle once more before saying anything.

"Twilight, please be careful out there." Princess Celestia said in a worried tone. "It's our understanding that you have a score to settle with Amadeus from the start but try not to get too crazy if you see him again."

"I'll do my best, Princess." Twilight said to the sun alicorn while being embraced in her hooves.

"Just remember everything that I taught you, Twilight." Princess Luna spoke to the purple alicorn. "And don't let your guard down. I know Amadeus from the very beginning; it's not just his jealously or his son's jealously that makes the Bluebloods a potential threat to us, it was Amadeus' cunning and manipulation allows him to force every pony in be kept in line, including his family. When we first faced Majesty Blueblood in battle, during the civil war years ago, she refused to listen to us thinking that our intent of sharing power to ponies like you is not acceptable. Of course, we can't blame you for making it this far to end up becoming one of us royal alicorns, Twilight. I guess it's now time for you to show Amadeus and Majesty that Equestria is not theirs for the taking, just don't let your guard down. We still don't know what he'll throw at us, since Professor Felhand is still developing weapons for the Unicornian Army."

"Twilight, dearie. We all understand that your story may not have a happy beginning, but it doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, of what you choose to be." Twilight Velvet as she hugged her daughter in her hooves. "So, no matter what happens out there, we'll always fight for you to the bitter end because we all love you."

"Thanks, mom." Twilight said as she smiled at Twilight Velvet during her embrace before her mother lets go of her. 

"And you've got nothing to worry about, Mr. and Mrs. Sparkle." Flash Sentry appeared behind them. "I'll make sure your daughter will stay alive to see the dawn of a new order that will save Equestria from its pandemonium."

The moment Twilight, Shinning, and their parents turned around, they see Flash Sentry now wearing a full set of golden armor, bearing the emblem of a purple star and a yellow sun, symbolizing his loyalty towards Princess Celestia and Princess Twilight, with orange and blue embroideries.

"We're all really impressed the way you were able to help Twilight carry out her royal duties without fear or hesitation." Shinning Armor said congratulating the orange pegasus as he lower his sword on top of his head, as if he was dubbing a squire that completed his training and promoted him into a true knight. "And from this day forth, Flash Sentry, you are hear by dubbed thee the first of Equestria's Royal Knights and Lt. of Princess Celestia's solar guard. This is also my way of showing not just my gratitude, but also my apologizes for not trusting you."

"I accept your apology, my prince." Flash said as he bowed down to his Guard Captain, impressed with his promotion. "If only Gallant Heart was able to do otherwise, instead of being forced to do something that he wasn't proud of, I'm sure he would being lying in his grave, as we speak."

"Don't give it another thought Lt. Flash." Shinning Armor said in a calm voice. "I already gave his word to look out for his brother Gladius."

"BBBFF, Flash, its time to go." Twilight Sparkle said to both of the stallions.

"One more thing, Twilight." Princess Luna said to the purple alicorn. "As soon as you leave the Crystal Empire to reclaim Canterlot, you will be leading the rest of our forces against Unicornia. We'll wish you luck out there and just do your best."

"Thanks, Princess Luna." Twilight said as she smiled at the dark-blue alicorn before flying away with Flash Sentry to the main entrance of the Crystal Empire, with Shinning Armor following them on foot.

As for Rainbow Dash's parents, Bow Hoothoof and Windy Whistles came up to their pegasus daughter and embraced her in their hooves.

"Oh, my dear Rainbow. We all thought we would never see you again." Bow Hothoof told Rainbow while he let tears come out of his eyes. 

"I know, dad. I missed you so much. The same thing goes for you, mother." Rainbow Dash said to her parents in a sympathetic tone. "If only I had the chance to find a way to make it up to my former Wonderbolt members."

"Actually, Rainbow. We still felt pretty bad not being able to seeing you again in the Wonderbolts." Spitfire said as she appeared behind Rainbow Dash. She and her Wonderbolt members are all dressed up in their Wonderbolt jumpsuits, armed with swords, spears, and shields made of fine crystal steel.

"What do mean?" Rainbow Dash asked her former team leader. "Even if you guys accepted my apology, it won't really help me get rehired into the Wonderbolts."

"Well, that's were you're wrong, Mrs. Dash." Spitfire protested. "Me and Soarin had a little chat from yesterday and we decided to let you back into the Wonderbolts after we reclaim Canterlot."

"WHAT? REALLY??" Rainbow Dash said in total excitement.

"Yes, but only on one condition." Spitfire said. "You have to go back to basic training at the Wonderbolts Academy first, but we will guarantee that your retraining will not take more than a month and that you must swear to us not to get drunk again because the moment your retraining is complete, we'll put you on probation for 2 to 3 years. Are you okay, with all that?"

"Yes, I am." Rainbow Dash said in a positive tone. "In fact, I'll do anything for you and Soarin."

"Then it is settled. But first, you must stay alive during the time we retake Canterlot. That will be the first order I will give you." Spitfire said.

"Yes, ma'am!!" Rainbow Dash said as she saluted Spitfire before her drill sergeant moved on. 

"Soarin, did you really do this for me?" Rainbow Dash asked her colt-friend the moment she turned around to face him.

"Yes, I did because I love you Rainbow Dash." Soarin said as he confessed his love towards the female light-blue pegasus.

The moment Spitfire disappeared, Rainbow's eyes widen with total excitement and happiness, followed by a blush on her face. The next thing Bow and Windy saw from Rainbow was flying up in the air out of excitement.

"OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!!!" Rainbow Dash shouted out loud in a total cheering voice. "THIS IS GOING TO BE THE MOST AWESOME DAY OF MY LIIIIIIIIIIIFE!!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH, SOARIN!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!!!"

"Heheheheheheh." Bow Hothoof snickered to himself. "I knew our daughter will never be happy any other way."

Rainbow Dash flew straight at Soarin in a flash and hugged her coltfriend in an instant. Despite being hugged by Rainbow in a tight grip, Soarin could not help but smile at her as he hugged Rainbow back.

"It was nothing, my dear." Soarin said to his marefriend. "Just don't get too carried away again."

"Soarin, please take care of our daughter for us." Windy Whistles said to the male blue pegasus.

"You know I will, Mrs. Whistles." Soarin said to Rainbow's mother.

After Rainbow Dash and Soarin took off flying into the clear blue sky, Bow and Windy were both happy to see their beloved daughter Rainbow Dash get her high hopes and her spirit back.

Meanwhile, after Fluttershy makes her amends with her parents, she decided to go with Discord before heading out to the main gate but not before Zephyr Breeze steps in.

"Say, Fluttershy. How do you think you're going to deal with those heartless ruffians?" Zephyr asked his sister.

"I can't say for sure." Fluttershy said in a anxious tone of voice. "I may not be much of a fighter like Rainbow Dash and Applejack, but since I came a long way with Twilight and Discord, I can't hold back my vigor and assertiveness any longer. They still need me in the frontline because I was terrified seeing all those poor little animals lose their homes when Unicornia invaded Equestria, as well as seeing Twilight leave this world without us. I still owe Twilight and the rest of the Mane 5 for helping me find my confidence in saving our world from anything that's threatening our friendship dearly. I'll do anything for Twilight and for the animals because I feared that as long as Unicornia remains at large, there's no way that Twilight will continue protecting Equestria with her democratic reforms."

"I see. Well, good luck sis." Zephyr said as hugged Fluttershy with his right hoof before she took off with Discord. "I hope one day, I'll be able to do what Fluttershy could."

After Pinkie Pie said goodbye to her family before heading out into the eve of battle, she ran into Cheese Sandwich, who is bring a cart full of mini cannons, fireworks, and explosives by his side.

"Hey, Pinkie Pie." Cheese Sandwich said to the female pink pony. "You didn't forgot about me, did you?"

"Nope, why?" Pinkie asked in a squeaky voice. 

"Because, when I was imprisoned in that camp, I could not help but think that you weren't able to come and save me." Cheese answered Pinkie's question.

"You know I wouldn't." Pinkie protested with her mane flowing down on her coat. "Though, I just had my hooves full on a lot of stuff. Cheese, how do you think we'll be able to protect Twilight from those meanies? Because they already took Twilight away from us 15 years ago. I could not stop myself from crying, thinking that I will won't able to hone any parties for her no more."

"It's alright, Pinkie Pie." Cheese said as he embraced the pink pony his his hooves. "Since your family always believed in Princess Twilight, I'm sure you just have to do your best to make them all proud."

"Thank you, Cheese." Pinkie said as she muzzled her head at Cheese in the check. "From now on, let's do our best to help Twilight win back Equestria. As soon as we drive away those mean nobles, I'll host in a really big party to celebrate our total victory."

After Pinkie Pie kissed Cheese on his check, she made a happy squeal and hopped away towards the main gate of the Crystal Empire.

"Oh, Pinkie, you never cease to amaze me with your happy antics." Cheese muttered to himself with a small smile before moving on.

Meanwhile, after Rarity made her amends with her parents and her sister Sweetie Belle, she grabbed her gear with her magic and moved forward to the main gate. On the way there, Spike appeared before her.

"Spikey-Wikey, are you really sure you want to come with us?" Rarity asked the teenage green dragon.

"Why yes, my sweet." Spike said as he stared at Rarity with hearts in his eyes. "After Marc taught me everything, I was hoping I could use what I learned from him on those horrible ponies, as well as clearing up my mother's dishonored name at Canterlot. Only this, time I will not face Queen Majesty alone. Now that we're all together again, it's time to help restore Equestria's order and force Majesty to step down from the Equestrian throne for good."

"I'm so glad I came for you, my dear sweet dragon." Rarity said as she smiled at Spike. "Ever since I heard that you were imprisoned by the Alicorn Queen, I thought for sure that I will never hold you in my hooves again."

"My thoughts exactly." Spike said in a romantic tone of voice as he held Rarity's hoof with his claw. "If we were able to end this tyranny, will you go out with me?"

"I don't see why not, Spikey-Wikey." Rarity said in a happy mood. "After all, I'll always be there by your side until the end."

"Thank you, sweet." Spike replied as he and the female white unicorn marched forward to the main gate.

Meanwhile, at Sunburst's house, Starlight Glimmer dropped by to see her colt-friend Sunburst one more time before going our into battle once more. Outside the house, Starlight sees Sunburst standing in front of the doorway.

"Starlight, are you sure you want to do this?" Sunburst asked in a worried tone. "We're just slowly making the best of our reunion, yet you want to help Twilight deal with Unicornia?"

"Yes I do, Sunburst." Starlight said. "I don't think we'll ever be safe as long as Unicornia is spreading its darkness all over our land, endlessly. When you were taken away from me by Queen Cicada, I though for sure that I won't be able to offer your hoof in marriage someday. Wait, who am I kidding? You were the only friend that I cherished in all my life. I mean...I-I just..."

Before Starlight could say anything, Sunburst held her in his hooves. After being embraced by the yellow male unicorn, Starlight started blushing red, leaving behind a smile on her face.

"It's alright, my dear." Sunburst said sympathizing Starlight Glimmer before letting her go. "You still want to be with me, do you? I don't see why not."

"Really?" Starlight said in a gentle voice.

"When I was pressed into Cicada's service, as her butler, I could not stop thinking about you." Sunburst said. "However, when you help Princess Twilight and her friends reclaimed the Crystal Empire, you gave me back my future and my hope to be with you. I'm grateful that you took out that wretched Changeling Queen and for that, I want you to have this."

Before Starlight could say anything, Sunburst used his magic to bring out an bright orange locket. Inside the locket is a small picture of Starlight and Sunburst embracing each other in their hooves, while staring into the night sky. Upon, seeing this, Starlight started crying in tears of happiness. After Starlight used her magic to take the locket and put in on her neck, she kissed Sunburst on the cheek.

"Thank you, Sunburst." Starlight said while letting tears fall out of her eyes while smiling at her colt-friend. "I'm not worthy."

"It was nothing, my darling." Sunburst said as he kissed Starlight back. "Now, you go teach those bastards not to defile the magic of friendship."

"You got it, Sunburst." Starlight said as she galloped away with Trixie to proceed to the main gate for the final battle.

As for Applejack, after she told Granny Smith, Big Mac, and Applebloom about Crimson's true colors, they all started at the farm pony under a state of shock.

"No way!?! Are ya saying that Crimson fella had a family of his own in which he failed to protect when those rotten rats invaded Equestria?" Granny Smith asked in shock. "And that he got pressed into that wretched traditionalist army for the sake of his family?"

"Ya heard me, Granny." Applejack said in a calm voice. "Me and ma friends got so worked up in kicking his flank that we had no idea that they would end up doing to Crimson what they did to that Gallant Heart fella. Anyway, I still owe him for misjudging him of his true nature."

"Is that true, Bella?" Apple Bloom asked the filly who was right next to Bright Song, on her left.

"Yes, it's true." Bella Harp replied to Applejack's little sister. "When our home was under attack by Unicornia, I was so terrified about what is going to happen to us. You had no idea. And when they took our father away from us, we thought for sure that we will never see him again."

"Anyway, I still want to make it up to Crimson." Applejack said to the rest of his siblings. "Since we gave him a second chance to make it up for his mistakes, we won't stop him from tearing through the ranks of his former employers."

"Applejack, please be careful." Big Mac said to the farm mare. "We don't want to lose you again."

"Not to worry, Big Mac." Applejack replied to the big red earth pony. "Since Twi is still part of us, I'll make sure she and the rest of our friends stay together and fight together. In fact, ah will not dishonor Twi any further just because of some insensitive, volatile loudmouths. Any pony that wishes to go against Twi will be dealt with immediately, if its the last thing ah would do."

"Good luck, sis." Apple Bloom cheered for her elder sister as she galloped away.

Applejack turned around and waved goodbye to her family before galloping away into the battlefield that is about to unfold before her very eyes.

"Crimson, are ya ready?" Applejack asked she approached the brown earth pony at the main gate.

"Ready, Applejack." Crimson replied as he raised his Sledgehammer over his shoulder. "Let's do this, for our families."

After Applejack nodded her head, she and Crimson marched to the gate, with their weapons by their side, as they met up with the rest of their friends and the armies of the Lunar Republic and the Crystal Empire.

Before Shinning Armor and Flash Sentry were able to make their way through the main entrance, Discord appeared right behind Twilight. Twilight told her brother and her bodyguard to go on ahead and wait for her at the main gate.

"So, Discord, you were saying?" Twilight asked the Draconneques.

"Princess Moonbutt gave me some errands to go over during the time you and your friends attacked Lt. Dark-Light's Concentration Camp." Discord replied. "Despite the Unicornian Queen's tyranny, Moonbutt wanted me to give Majesty Blueblood the journal that records all of your overall background, revolving around your heroism and such. I'm pretty sure that if Majesty reads that journal, there might be a chance that she'll at least try to come to her senses, than rather blindly following her father's cruel footsteps."

"Do you think that will work?" Twilight asked.

"One can only hope, my dear." Discord said. "Because Majesty is still young, she still hasn't learned about anything from you, truthfully. So, we might as well pray that she'll work something out without resorting to any further violence or cruelty."

"And I thought that your magic was used to corrupt other ponies. No offense, though." Twilight said in a sheepish tone.

"None taken, Twilight. Well as far as I can tell, one pony's bad behavior doesn't always come from dark magic; they just took it upon themselves, in a blind fashion." Discord explained to Twilight.

Meanwhile, at the dungeons underneath Canterlot, Majesty was struggling to find a way out of her jail cell. Just when she was about to give up, Majesty noticed that Admiral Thunderball was imprisoned, along with Lord Bronze, in separate jail cells apart from each other.

"Admiral Thunderball? Lord Bronze?" Majesty spoke with her eyes widened. "Why are you both in jail for?"

"Well, your father was setting both of us up." Lord Bronze explained. "I was in my office going over my paperwork, when all of a sudden, I discovered some of Amadeus' documents underneath my desk. After doing some brief reading over it, I found out that Lord Amadeus is going to sell us out as soon as they meet the armies of the Crystal Empire and the Lunar Republic head on. He promised us full support over our families. However, according to one of his documents, it did say that as soon as the armies of the Crystal Empire and the Lunar Republic breach the first level of Canterlot, he'll be sending Professor Felhand and his men to kidnap all of the noble families and their children, including my own, rob our families' treasury and haul it straight to Amadeus' vault, hijack one of the Unicornian ships back at Baltimare, and send them to parts unknown to be experimented on, so that all of Equestria will belong to Amadeus and his family."

"When I looked at the documents Lord Bronze gave me, I knew that your father was up to something that is going to put all of our noble families in danger. So, me, my men, and Lord Bronze attempted to arrest and restrain Professor Felhand and Amadeus for their conspiracy of attempting to perform multiple kidnappings and heist." Admiral Thunderball explained. "Unfortunately, we got ambushed by Felhand's minions. The next thing we saw is that all of my sailors and marines have been butchered up. As for me and Bronze, we were both beaten and taken into custody for attempted terrorism."

"But then that means..." Majesty said in horror.

"I'm afraid Lord Amadeus has taken command of my remaining fleet at Baltimare and made a huge lie in the public, claiming that I have deserted my post from my flagship." Thunderball explained.

"As for me, Lord Amadeus made another lie to the public that I got drunk and is put under house arrest in my office." Bronze explained.

"I never thought that my father would get very far in doing such deceitful atrocity as this?" Majesty said to herself. "Maybe if I at least saw the whole truth about what has become of my family a lot more sooner, then I would've tried to stop my father before he gets worse."

"Well, it's too late for that, my queen." Lord Bronze said. "I heard from one of the jailers that Princess Twilight is leading the rest of the Equestrian Loyalists against Unicornia and that they'll be preparing to attack in 12 hours tops and that Tirek's army will appear as the first wave, along with Professor Felhand himself."

"Dammit, we've got to find a way out of this place and stop this bloodshed before it gets worse." Majesty said to Bronze and Thunderball.

"Not to worry, your highness." Thunderball said as he took out a key from underneath his bloodied coat. "I got this jail key from Amadeus' desk before me and Bronze were arrested due to false charges. But first, as soon as we get out of this wretched dungeon, we must save as many noble families as we can before Felhand and his creations arrive at their homes."

"I understand." Majesty acknowledged.

As soon as Majesty, Bronze, and Thunderball got out of their jail cells, they went through a secret passageway that leads them to an unknown alleyway outside of the Canterlot Palace.
> Chapter 17: The New Order part 2
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During the time that Majesty, Thunderball, and Lord Bronze snuck pass the Unicornian guards and Tirek's men, to save the noble families from getting captured by Professor Felhand, Twilight and her army arrived at the outskirts of Canterlot, 35 yards away from the city. After Twilight ordered her men to halt, she send in one of the Changeling Republic scouts to investigate the entire area of Canterlot. When the changeling scout came back 30 minutes later, he made a full report to Princess Twilight.

"Your highness, we received word that Queen Majesty Blueblood will not be joining up with her father and the rest of the Unicornian Army at Canterlot's battlements. They said that she came down with a flu and had put Amadeus in charge of her men." The Changeling Scout said as he reported his findings to Princess Twilight. "Tirek and his warriors have been stationed at the outer walls of the city, guarding the main gate at the first level. Professor Felhand and his experimental creations are being stationed at the town square. As for Lord Amadeus, Morning Blade, and the rest of their royal knights, they're all stationed at the Canterlot Palace courtyard."

"Pinkie Pie, is the cannon artillery in position?" Twilight asked the Pink earth pony.

"Absolutely, positively." Pinkie said in a high-pitched squeal.

"Tell them to get ready to fire on my command and use them to target the Unicornian Guard towers." Twilight ordered Pinkie Pie before turning her attention towards Applejack. "Is the battering ram ready, Applejack?"

"It's good to go, Twi." Applejack acknowledged. 

"All right, then every pony. We hit them with everything we've got." Twilight said in a royal Canterlot voice. "Applejack, Rainbow, you will all lead the first charge towards that gate. The rest of us will follow you from behind. GIVE E'M HELL, GIRLS!!!"

"Forward, every pony!!" Rainbow Dash shouted orders to the first wave of the Crystal and LR soldiers. 

"FIRE!!!" Pinkie Pie shouted at the top of her lungs.

The moment the cannon crews heard Pinkie's orders, they fired at the guard towers with a platoon of 8 cannons. As the cannon balls struck the guard towers, explosions started popping up, hitting both the towers and the walls. For Applejack and the battering ram crew, they pressed forward while being escorted by a platoon of Crystal Empire guards, forming a testudo shield formation around the battering raw's crew. Upon hearing the distant explosions coming from the outer walls, Majesty and Bronze were able speed up the process by escorting most of the nobles from their homes, to the alleyways, and down into the sewers, leading them outside of the city to safety, while Thunderball and the remaining guards that are still loyal to their queen stay on guard incase any of Felhand's creations intervened.

"Father, please don't do this. I don't think its worth it anymore." Majesty prayed silently to herself. "If you do, there's never going to be any end to this foolish bloodshed. I'm actually grateful that King Silversteel and my baby son weren't here to see this."

Meanwhile back at the isles of the Kingdom of Unicornia, a tall unicorn was sitting on top of the throne, with his newborn son in a cradle by his left. He happens to be none other than King Silversteel. After fiddling with his hooves and checking on his son, the 2 huge doors facing in his direction opened up before his very eyes. The moment the doors opened, a messenger pegasus appeared before him and bowed down at Silversteel's hooves. Before Silversteel could say anything, the messenger presented him a letter coming from his wife Queen Majesty. After reading the letter, Silversteel's face started turning pale with horror in his eyes. Without hesitation, he orders his men to get his ship ready v.i.a to Equestria.

Back at Canterlot, Tirek issues orders to his centaur and gargoyle warriors to defend the battlements from the encroaching armies of the Crystal Empire and the Lunar Republic.

"All hands, man your battle stations. Drive those ponies away with everything you've got." Tirek commanded at the top of his lungs.

As the centaurs went up to the outer walls, they started opening fire with their dragon fire crossbows. Every time they shoot up their crossbows, it unleashes a gas-like crossbow bolt filled with nitroglycern. Upon impact, the crossbow bolts exploded on the dirt, sending a few pony guards flying to their death. As the centaurs keep firing their crossbows at the Crystal Empire guards that were escorting the battering ram crew to their destination, several more explosions erupted. However, thanks to their shields, the guard ponies were not receiving too much casualties like the other guards who weren't in any shield formation. Upon seeing the centaurs return fire, Pinkie ordered some of her cannon crews to aim at the centaurs at the outer walls and opened fire at them. When the outer walls started getting bombarded by cannon fire, a couple of centaurs fell off the walls, plummeting to the ground, dead. As soon as the battering ram crew reached the gate, Applejack gave the order to smash it down. During the time that the main gate is getting battered from outside, Tirek ordered the badland warriors that weren't on top of the outer walls to buttress the door, while the gargoyles flew over the walls and attacked the Crystal Empire guards with their spears and hand flamethrowers, with Centaur Warriors popping out from their hidden trenches near the main gate and charged at the battering ram crew. As the fight ensued between the the centaurs, gargoyles, and ponies, Applejack and Rainbow Dash intervened while protecting the battering ram with all their might. Rainbow took to the skies to intercept the Gargoyle Warriors and Applejack drew out her talons and attacked the Centaur Warriors. While in mid-air Rainbow Dash drew out a silver rapier from her scabbard and stabbed one Gargoyle in the chest, making him fall from the sky. Five more Gargoyles came swooping at the light-blue pegasus from below and attempted to thrust their spears at her. However, Rainbow used her rapier to make a swift horizontal cut to their abdomens, every time she parried their spears with it. After taking down four Gargoyles, the fifth one drew out his hand flamethrower and spewed out gouges of flame at Rainbow, only for her to do a barrel roll away from the inferno. The next thing Rainbow did was that she threw a knife at the Gargoyle's flamethrower, making it explode and having his hand get caught on fire. As the Gargoyle screamed in pain, Rainbow stabbed him in the head with her rapier, ending his life. As for Applejack, she took out a double flail and started swinging it at the encroaching Centaur Warriors. When one Centaur got slammed in the head with Applejack's double flail, he collapsed on the ground dead, with blood gushing from his brains, while the other Centaurs drew out their fire swords and charged at the farm pony mare. As soon as one Centaur swung his fire sword, it unleashed a fiery wave of magic at Applejack. Upon seeing this, Applejack ran up to a fallen centaur warrior and leaped over the magic wave before he landed on all four hooves and at the same time, she raised her flail over her head and slammed it into the Centaur's skull, making him fall face flat on the ground, dead. When Applejack landed on all four hooves, two more Centaur warriors appeared surrounding the farm pony on both of her sides, with their spears pointing at her. All of a sudden, Applejack holds the double flail with her left hoof and drew out talon from her right hoof. As soon as both Centaurs attempted to impale Applejack, she dodged both of them. Before they could see what was coming, the female earth pony slashed across the neck with her talons on the centaur at her right. As for the centaur on the earth pony mare's left, Applejack wrapped her flail around one of the centaur's legs. Applejack lifted her flail up, making the Centaur fall onto his side. Before the Centaur was able to get up, he felt Applejack right talon piercing his side and stomped his face to the ground, blacking the centaur out. During the fight between Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Tirek's warriors, the battering ram eventually broke through the gate. Twilight gave the order for Shinning Armor, Crimson Cross, and Flash Sentry to lead the charge through the smashed gate, with Tirek ordering his men to form a defensive spear formation at the main gate area. As Twilight's army and Tirek's army clashed into each other head on, Tirek went on a rampage. Before any pony knew it, Tirek unleashed several inferno and fire arrow spells at the encroaching Crystal pony guards. When he sees some of the guards wounded by Tirek's spells, he grabbed them by the neck and drained them of their magic. After Tirek took down 10 more pony guards, Discord appeared in front of him and unleashed a wind blowing spell that sent the demonic centaur backpedalling a few feet away from where he was standing.

"Well, if it isn't Tirek the arrogant, magic-stealing centaur." Discord sneered at the centaur. "I should've known that you'd actually formed an allegiance on your own, huh? May I ask, why are you helping Unicornia??"

"When I heard about their reputation and how they disdained Equestria, I actually saw a opportunity appear before my very eyes, the moment I met with one of their commanders, Sir Morning Blade." Tirek said in a sinister tone. "They promised me that if I help them conquer Equestria, they'll help me reclaim the very same land that my brother took away from me so long ago."

"Why would you expect yourself to believe that?" Discord asked in a unamused tone.

"Because they're not any different from me or my kin." Tirek explained, followed by an evil cackle. "This is also my way of getting revenge on you and the royal alicorn sisters."

"Like that's ever going to happen." Discord hissed as he snapped his claws to summon a Plunder vine whip. "Bring it on."

In just an instant, Tirek used his magic to summon a barrage of sharp rocks at the Draconneques. Before any of the rocks could touch him, Discord raised his claw up high to summon his plunder vines to surround himself in a makeshift vine barrier, defending himself from Tirek's spell. The barrage of rocks showered down on Discord's vine barrier, but left the draconneques unharmed by the spell's effects. Before Discord could do anything, Tirek cut right through his vine barrier with his Giant Sword and attempted to strike the Draconneques down overhead. However, Discord used his magic to transform his vine whip into a long saber, blocking against Tirek's sword. Behind Discord, a light-blue unicorn appeared. It was Trixie Lulamoon. She was armed with a wizard staff and with just one swung of it the female unicorn summoned at	thundercloud above Tirek and unleashed a small thunderstorm that struck the centaur in the head.

"ARGH, Why you little......." Tirek snarled as he disengaged his fight with Discord and started to summon a huge fireball at the light-blue unicorn. 

However, before Tirek's fireball struck Trixie, a large beam of light struck at the fireball, making it exploded into a harmless shower of sparks. The moment Tirek, Trixie, and Discord turned around, they see Twilight Sparkle appear in front of them in the middle of their battle.

"Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh." Tirek cackled. "Hello, Princess Twilight. Did you miss me??"

"I think not." Twilight snarled. "And I can't help but notice that our old nemesis is actually fighting for Amadeus."

"Well, I couldn't stop laughing from the fact that he and his people would try to kill you." Tirek smirked, follow by a evil smile on his face. "I heard about what you tried to do to Amadeus earlier. Well, if you're so obsessed in getting revenge on him, then you're going to have to get past me first."

"So be it." Twilight growled as she used her magic to draw out her orichalcum halberd.

Without hesitation, Twilight unfurled her wings and launched herself at the demonic centaur. However, before she got any closer, Tirek unleashed a barrage of fire balls at Twilight, only for her to spin her halberd in a circular motion dissipating every fire ball that got too close to her. The next thing Tirek saw was Trixie shooting her hand crossbow at him. Unfortunately, Tirek used his magic to summon a huge shield made out of boulders to defend himself against Trixie's crossbow bolts. After Tirek set his boulder shield aside, he unleashed an inferno spell that engulfed everything in front of him. Despite the inferno Tirek is causing, Trixie made a run for it and hid into one of the buildings, attempting to get away from the raging fire. Discord appeared on Tirek's right and attempted to swing his plunder saber across his chest. However, Tirek jumped away from Discord's attack and grabbed his hand that had the saber. Before Tirek was about to attack the Draconneques with his Giant Sword, Discord grabbed it with his other hand and they both struggled over their weapons. Suddenly, Tirek started to open his mouth and attempted to drain Discord of his magic. However, Twilight threw a punch at Tirek's face, making him lose his concentration and his grip over Discord's arms. As Twilight raised her halberd to lunge at Tirek, he swiped her halberd away and attempted to stab her in the chest with his sword. The moment Tirek's sword was about to reach its mark, Twilight used her magic to summon a magic shield to defend herself against the demonic centaur's attack. During the time that Tirek was battering down on Twilight's shield with his sword, Trixie appeared on his right and shot a beam of magic at his face. However, Tirek was able to catch the blue-unicorn's magic with his bare hand and threw it back at her with all his might, causing a small explosion that sent Trixie flying into a nearby building. Twilight used her teleportation spell to get away from Tirek's attack. As soon as she appeared, Twilight was flying in mid-air as she drew out her Orichalcum Greatsword from her scabbard. In an instant, Twilight zoomed straight at the demonic centaur with all her might. The moment they both charged at each other, Twilight's greatsword and Tirek's giant sword clashed into each other and made a couple of intense parries, blocking most of their blows with full fury. As Trixie got up on her hooves, she lurched herself in the middle of the duel between Twilight and Tirek. Before either fighters could see what was coming, Trixie summoned a huge ice golem and ordered it to attack Tirek. However, the moment the ice golem unleashed a blizzard at Tirek, he counteract it with his inferno spell and blasted the golem to smithereens, leaving behind a cloud of blinding steam. Much to Tirek's surprise, Trixie appeared right behind him and hurled a huge chain at his neck. The moment the chain wrapped around Tirek, he started to use all of his weight to pull himself back but Discord went in and summoned his Plunder Vines to restrain Tirek too. Before Tirek could do anything, the rest of the Element bearers appeared behind Twilight and with just one motion, Twilight raised her greatsword up high, summoned the ultimate rainbow power of all the Elements of Harmony with it, and aimed it at Tirek, squarely in the chest. Tirek's eyes widen with horror as Twilight's ultimate attack started shooting from her great sword and blasted him with full frontal force, sending him crashing into a building behind him. Before he got up, Tirek realized that he degenerated into a skinny-shriveled up creature of his former self and the next thing he knew, Tirek was being trampled to the ground by Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle, making him loss consciousness.

"Guards, lock Tirek up and send him back to Tartarus." Twilight ordered the Crystal Pony Guards as they hauled the demonic centaur out of Canterlot.

After seeing Lord Tirek defeated once again, the rest of the surviving Gargoyles and Centaur Warriors have immediately stand down. Twilight ordered her army to press forward in dealing with the next enemy garrison at Canterlot's town square. Before they can proceed any further, Twilight and her friends spotted three ponies escorting a large group of children and nobles down to the sewers. As soon as they got any closer, Twilight's and her friends' eyes widened with shock because they just saw the very same alicorn that threatened to control Equestria by force doing something that they weren't expecting.

"Majesty Blueblood, what in the name of Celestia are you doing?" Twilight asked in a royal Canterlot voice.

"Uh Oh!!" Majesty shrieked. "Twilight Sparkle, it's not what you think. Honest."

Before any of the other ponies tried to make a move against Majesty, Twilight ordered them to halt, telling them about what Discord tried to do earlier before they laid a siege upon Canterlot.

"Why are you getting all of those fillies out of here?" Twilight asked while glaring at the young alicorn.

"For one thing, I owe you and the rest of your friends an apology, once this is all over." Majesty responded, nervously. "Second, I thought I was doing the right thing for my father and for our country, but I was actually losing, than winning over my destiny, because when I read your journal earlier, I'm starting to think that father was just using me since on the day that I was born."

"They told me that you were sick." Twilight told to the white alicorn. 

"That was a lie that my father made." Majesty Blueblood responded. "I was actually locked up in the dungeons underneath Canterlot due to my assumed insanity, along with Admiral Thunderball and Lord Bronze for their attempted terrorism."

After explaining what Majesty had to say to Twilight and her friends, they decided to let her go but not before Shinning Armour and some of his platoon of Crystal Pony guards kept a close eye on her. Before any of them could move on, however, a huge explosion erupted from one of the buildings. Professor Felhand and his army of creations appeared before Twilight and her friends, all armed to the teeth.

"Professor Felhand!!" Flash Sentry snarled, remembering that Felhand was the one who revived him only to perform illegitimate experiments on him in the past.

"No way, that's actually Professor Felhand??" Twilight asked her bodyguard.

"Stay back, Princess. This asshole is mine to deal with." Flash Sentry said as he got in front of Twilight, raising his lance up high.

"I was about to get those kids and their nobles families to bring into my custody, but it looks like I'll be delayed." Felhand sneered. "But no matter, I'll make this quick."

Before any pony could do anything, Professor Felhand used his magic to pull out a remote from his lab coat and activated it. After a few seconds, a huge robot bursted its way from one of the buildings behind Felhand. Upon seeing the robot appear before their very eyes, Twilight and her friends all started and gasped at it in a state of shock. During the time that Twilight, her friends, and the rest of the Equestrian forces  got confronted by Professor Felhand and his army of creations, Amadeus Blueblood watches them from afar, at the balcony of the Canterlot Palace.

"This is going to be fun." Amadeus said to himself.
> Chapter 18: The New Order part 3
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Upon seeing Professor Felhand's Huge Mechanical Invention, Twilight and the rest of her friends could not help but stare at it under a state of shock and horror. 

"Hello, Princess Twilight." Professor Felhand sneered while inside the cockpit of his Shadow Warrior Mech. "It seems that you were able to save one of your closest friends from my control, which was no cake walk. But make no mistake, as long as I have the opportunity to create new machines, new weaponry, and new creations to serve under the will of Unicornia, you cannot get too conceited in taking us down like that. Your days are numbered. Say hello to my master piece, The Shadow Warrior."

As Felhand's Mech approached out into the light, the Shadow Warrior was revealed to be a 45ft giant Unicorn robot. On both of the robot's sides, there is cluster missile pods deployed, armed, and ready. At the robot's back, there is two huge black swords mounted in a crossed scabbard; they're both glowing in a ominous green color. Underneath the robot unicorn's hooves, there is wheels that made the robot move faster than an average unicorn would. When the robot unicorn's horn lit up, it emitted a red aura. Before any pony could see what was going on, the two green-glowing black swords came out of its scabbard and started aiming at Twilight's friends. 

"Metal Knights, attack!!!" Professor Felhand ordered.

From both of Twilight's side, the Metal knights appeared drawing out their Yari spears and their katanas, arming themselves to the teeth. The next thing Twilight's friends saw from them is that the Metal Knights charged at them with all their might. 

"Don't falter, every pony." Twilight shouted in a Royal Canterlot Voice. "Drive them back, with everything you got!!!"

Upon hearing Twilight's orders, Rainbow Dash and Flash Sentry charged head first with their spear and lance. Just when the two pegasus are about to stab the Metal Knights with their weapons, the androids activated a plasma phase shield, emitting an electrical, purple aura. The moment Rainbow's spear and Flash's lance made contact with the knight's phase shields, they both got a minor shock underneath their skin. Before the Metal Knights were able to get any closer, Starlight Glimmer appeared in front of them and hurled three chains with axeheads attached to each of them. Upon contact, all three Metal Knights had their heads decapitated due to Starlight's new weapon and the exploded, the moment they  collapsed onto the pavement. As soon as Flash and Rainbow recovered from their minor shocks, they charged at the Metal Knights again, this time the two pegasus went circling around two more Metal Knights. Before either Metal Knight had a chance to react, Flash hurled a javelin that pierced one Metal Knight right through his skull, while the other Metal Knight received a kick to the face with one of Rainbow's hind legs and stabbed it from above his position. As for Twilight, she used her magic to charged up her horn to the fullest. When it was done, Twilight blasted five Metal Knights with just one shot, as well as crippling the left hind leg of Felhand's Shadow Warrior.

"UGH!!!" Felhand grunted after feeling a vibration in the cockpit when receiving damage from Twilight's spell. "You're not getting anywhere near my master."

Before Twilight could see what was coming, the Shadow Warrior's legs deployed small rocket engines and made a fast strafing run while firing its cluster missile pods at her. Twilight unfurled her wings and flew up high, avoiding the multiple explosions caused by the Shadow Warrior's cluster missiles. The next thing the purple alicorn did was drawing out her orichalcum halberd before launching herself directly at Felhand's Mech. Without hesitation, the Shadow Warrior used its huge horn, as a gravitational device, to draw out its Shadow Swords and performed a cross parry against, Twilight's lunge attack with her halberd. After breaking away from Twilight's lunge, the Shadow Warrior made several horizontal swipes at her only for the alicorn to do several mid-air flips while holding her halberd 25ft above her. As soon as she was clear away from the Unicorn Mech, Twilight charged at it again, this time she summoned all of her magic with her horn and zeroed into the Shadow Warrior like a huge magical bolt of energy. Upon impact, Felhand activated the Shadow Warriors, plasma shields to guard against, Twilight's fearsome attack. As the Shadow Warrior's shield and Twilight's magical energy collided into each other, a huge line formed between the two sides as lighting bolts started striking randomly all over the area. After seeing such force occurring, Rarity, Sunset, Starlight, and Trixie disengaged with fighting against the Metal Knights and used their magic to form shield barriers to protect the rest of their friends from the electrical discharge that Twilight and Felhand are both causing. Every pony and Metal Knight that wasn't able to defend themselves from the rampaging electrical discharge have either vaporized or exploded. After Twilight and Felhand's Shadow Warrior disengaged from their collision, they both backed a couple of meters away from each other. 

Before Twilight could resume her fight with Felhand's Shadow Warrior, Flash Sentry appeared from behind Twilight overhead and performed an aerial lighting strike with his lance at the Shadow Warrior. Upon seeing Flash heading straight for him, Felhand started firing another barrage of cluster missiles at the orange pegasus. As some of the missiles exploded in mid-air, Flash evaded most of them before hurling several javelins at the Shadow Warrior. Several of Flash's Javelins struck the Shadow Warrior in its sides before Felhand had the Mech move backwards, evading the rest of the javelins, in which pierced the ground a few feet away from him. Flash continued to press forward, with his lance aiming straight at the Shadow Warrior's face. Before Felhand was able to do anything to the Shadow Warrior while inside his cockpit, Flash stabbed the Shadow Warrior's face, damaging its left eye, destroying one of the cockpit's side cameras. Infuriated by Flash's lunge attack, Felhand activated the Shadow Warrior's horn again, drawing out one of the Shadow Swords and launched it at Flash Sentry. Flash was able to raise his tower shield to block the oncoming Shadow Sword, only for it to slam Flash at a nearby building.

In just an instant, Sunset Shimmer used her magic to summon her anti-tank rifle and started shooting at the Shadow Warrior's legs, making it less maneuverable. After Sunset crippled the Shadow Warrior's legs with her rifle, she drew out an EMP Grenade from her pouch and threw it at the Shadow Warrior. Upon impact, the EMP grenade exploded a few feet away from the Shadow Warrior, temporary disabling it. However, before any pony got closer to finish the Shadow Warrior off, Felhand turned on a switch that was hidden underneath his control panel, which activated the Shadow Warrior's emergency backup power generator. As soon as the Shadow Warrior activated itself again, it lunged straight at Sunset Shimmer dead in the center. Before the yellow unicorn could react, the Shadow Warrior rammed her with its mass, sending Sunset Shimmer slamming her back to a wall of a nearby house, knocking her out cold. As the Shadow Warrior starting closing in the yellow unicorn, a barrage of cannon fire started bearing down on the Mech from its rear. It was Pinkie Pie and Cheese. The two earth ponied were commandeering a huge tank that was being driven down to the town square. It had a blue turret with a 50mm cannon and a red chassis with track wheels spinning underneath the vehicle. On both of the tank's sides, it was also armed with 4 side sponsors of 25mm cannons. They were all firing random cherry bombs at the Shadow Warrior. 

"Pinkie Pie. Where in the name of Celestia did you get that thing???" Rainbow Dash yelped after seeing Pinkie commandeering such a hugh contraption.

"It's a secret weapon that me and Pinkie Pie have been planning for a very long time." Cheese Sandwich smirked as he was driving the tank towards the town square. "We've saving this bad boy for a rainy day."

"Okey, Doki, Loki. LET'S GO BLAST SOME BAD PONY DEMONS INTO THE NEXT MILLION, TRILLION, GAZILLION, BAZILLION, QUADDILLION MOONS!!!" Pinkie roared, unleashing a battle cry while aiming the guns at her targets, with devilish fire in her eyes. 

As Pinkie's tank moved out into the open, it fired all of its weapons at the Metal Knights, along with the rest of Felhand's creations. During the multiple explosions, Soarin and Rainbow Dash were able to get Sunset Shimmer to a safe place to recover. Undaunted by the destruction that Pinkie's tank is causing, Felhand gained control of his Shadow Warrior once again. This time, he charged straight at the tank, unleashing a salvo of cluster missiles at it. 

"Cheese, that mad scientist wretch it firing at us!!!" Pinkie shrieked after seeing the missiles flying towards her position.

Without hesitation, Cheese flipped a switch from above him. Not a moment too soon, 2 small hatches opened up revealing a pair of anti-missile gatling cannons. In an instant both gatling cannons fired a endless stream of bullets at the encroaching missiles, exploding of most of them in mid-air before it even hit the tank. One missile, however, was able to get through the stream of bullets and hit the tank on the side, destroying one of the side-sponsor cannons. 

"I don't know how that Pink clown was able to built a contraption like that, but I'm not going to let her get the best out of me." Felhand snarled to himself.

As most of the tank's cannons fired a volley onto the Shadow Warrior, it started moving side-to-side evading most of its exploding shells. As soon as the Shadow Warrior got close, it was about to stomp on the tank with its huge front hooves but not before Cheese pulled out a level on his left, making the tank perform a fast reverse evasion. In an instant, the tank backed away from the Shadow Warrior before it was able to stomp on it. After the tank back away, it fired the three remaining side-sponsor turrets at the Shadow Warrior's face, only for Felhand to activate a huge red shield to defend itself from cannon fire. 

As the fight continued between Felhand's Shadow Warrior and Pinkie's huge tank, Twilight spotted an open weak spot in the Shadow Warrior's left side compartment, exposing the Mech's main reaction attached to the backup generator. Not wanting to wait any longer, Twilight zoomed in and attempted to stab the weak point with her halberd. However, as soon as purple alicorn latched onto the Shadow Warrior's side, she started to loose her balance, due to the Mech's fast movement. In a flash, Twilight used her magic to teleport herself onto the compartment while grabbing the ledge with her left hoof. After she pulled herself back up, Twilight used her magic to stab the backup generator with her halberd, in which gave her an electric shock. 

"AAAAARRRRRGH!!!" Twilight screamed as she felt the electrical current flowing through her body in excruciating pain.

Before she knew, the backup generator exploded, sending the purple alicorn flying against her will and crashed into the pavement. As soon as Twilight got up, the Shadow Warrior started to malfunction. Inside the cockpit, Felhand realized that he just lost control of the Shadow Warrior and before it crashed straight into Pinkie's tank at full speed, he activated the emergency ejector seat. As a result, the pilot compartment popped open from the cockpit and launched Felhand straight into the sky while still on the seat. Before Felhand came down, after being ejected, his seat opened up a parachute, in which safely landed him on the ground unharmed. As for the Shadow Warrior, upon seeing the mech closing into their tank, Pinkie Pie and Cheese were able to get out in time before the mech crashed into it, causing a big explosion right behind them.

"Man, we should've got another tank to join the party." Pinkie muttered to herself in disgrace.

As soon as Felhand unstrapped himself from his ejector seat, he finds himself surrounded by a couple of Crystal Guards, Twilight Sparkle, and Flash Sentry after he got up thanks to Rarity's wake up call. But before any pony was able to restrain him, Felhand made an evil cackle.

"Don't even think this is over, yet." Felhand snickered as he pulled out a white diamond, imbedded with green magic. "As long as I have this device in my hooves, Majesty will do exactly as I say."

"What do you mean by.... Oh Shit!!!!" Twilight gasped in horror.

Before any pony could understand what was going on, a distant explosion came from behind Twilight and her friends. As soon as they turned around, they saw Majesty flying around and screaming like crazy as she felt electrical jolts rapturing her brain like there is no tomorrow. The next thing she did was unleash a massive beam of magic at Twilight Sparkle. Luckily, Twilight was able to use her magic to form a huge shield barrier that block Majesty's attack in an instant. 

"What in the bucking horseapples is wrong with her, ah??" Applejack said in horror. "When we saw her, she was trying to help evacuate the fillies and gentlecolts but the next she did, is that she was trying to attack us???"

"You all don't realize it, do you? Well, neither did Majesty?" Felhand laughed as he raised the diamond above his head. 

"All right, you bucking maggot. What in the heckload of walnuts did you bucking do to her?" Applejack hissed at Felhand.

Felhand smirked at Applejack, Twilight, and the rest of her friends before he explained his flashback, starting around when Majesty Blueblood was only 3 months old, before they conquered Equestria.





At Unicornia, during the time that an infant Majesty Blueblood was in the nursery. Amadeus and Professor Felhand were both lounging in the break room, drinking coffee while holding their mugs with their magic.

"So, Felhand, we you able to inject one of those small control devices in Majesty's body?" Amadeus asked after drinking a sip from his mug.

"Why, yes I did." Felhand responded as he put the coffee mug on the table.

"The reason why I asked you to do this is because incase my daughter suspects that we took over Equestria due to personal gain, we may need to come up with a backup plan in order to deal with any resistance that comes straight at us." Amadeus explained. "She may still be young, but ever since Princess Luna mentioned about Majesty Blueblood, I feared that one day, my daughter will learn about the truth of our atrocity and that she will not help us control Equestria any longer."

"I understand, sir." Felhand acknowledged.

"So, if she ever tries to reason with the royal sisters or their subjects, we may need to put her down immediately before she gets any worse." Amadeus suggested to the mad scientist. "You do have the mind-control diamond with you right?"

"I do, sir. It's in my briefcase." Felhand responded as he used his magic to open up his briefcase. "As soon as the small control device is in her body, it will send out a signal to the mind-control diamond at will.

When the briefcase opened, it revealed a white diamond. Inside the diamond, there is a small swirl of dark magic embedded in it. After seeing the diamond with his own eyes, Amadeus smirked with an evil chuckle.

"I want you to keep that Diamond very close to you because if Majesty ever start rebelling against our nation and against us you will have my permission to use that diamond to control her every move." Amadeus told Felhand. "I'll keep a close eye on her and let you know about her situation at hand."

"No problem, sir." Felhand acknowledged as he left the lounge room, with his coffee mug held with his magic.





"Y-You, you stuffed a mind-control device in Majesty's body when she was still a baby before she even knew it???!!!" Twilight snapped at Professor Felhand.

"You heard me, Princess." Felhand cackled. "If you really think you can save Majesty, they way you saved Flash Sentry from me, then catch me if you can!!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Professor Felhand teleported himself away from the Crystal Guards and started to make a run for it with his mind-control diamond in his hooves. Just as Rainbow Dash started zeroing in Felhand, Majesty appeared right in front of the female pegasus in a flash. Rainbow's eye widen as she see the white alicorn blast her straight into a nearby house behind her. However, before Majesty was able to trample the light-blue pegasus, Twilight Sparkle appeared right in front of the two ponies. 

"Twilight, what are you doing?" Rainbow Dash said in horror, fearing that for the safety of her friend.

"Rainbow, Pinkie, Trixie, go get that fiendish Felhand and destroy that diamond that he had in his hooves." Twilight ordered. "Starlight, Rarity, help me out with Majesty Blueblood and Flash, get Sunset to a safe place."

The moment Rainbow, Pinkie, and Trixie went after Professor Felhand, Twilight, Rarity, and Starlight used their combine magic to keep a mind-controlled Majesty at bay. During the part where the three ponies are chasing Felhand all over the town square, the mad doctor started shooting at magic at them in order to slow them down. As for Majesty, she used her magic to summon a meteor shower on Twilight and her team. Twilight and the two unicorns were able to keep a rampaging Majesty away from Flash Sentry while he takes an unconscious Sunset Shimmer to a safer place and out of harm's way. As soon as the meteors got closer to Twilight and her group, she flew up into the air and fired a magic beam at them, exploding the meteors while in mid-air. As for Rarity and Starlight, they both fired a couple of taser spells at the rampaging alicorn. However, Majesty summoned a shield barrier to defend herself against the taser spells aimed directly towards her. The next thing Majesty did was fire a volley of lighting bolts at the two unicorns but was intercepted by Twilight's shield barrier. 

During the chase of Professor Felhand, the green unicorn scientist used his magic to activate frag mines behind him in order to slow the three ponies down. However, Trixie was able to use her magic to teleport every mine away from the trio. Just when Rainbow Dash started closing in Felhand, he summoned a huge frying pan an an instant, letting the light-blue pegasus slam into it, face first, by accident and fell on his side with pans circling around her face. Just when Felhand was about to reach a trap door, leading to the sewers, the moment he opened it, Pinkie Pie popped out of the trap door and aimed her party cannon at the green unicorn's face. After the cannon fired, Felhand was sent flying into a nearby wall. As soon as he got up, Felhand ran to a nearby abandoned house to hide in. However, as soon as Felhand opened the door to the house, he was greeted by Pinkie Pie again. After Pinkie said "Hi" to the professor, she brought out a stack of pies and threw them at Felhand in the face. After several attempts of trying to find a place to hide away from Trixie, Rainbow, and Pinkie, Felhand keeps running into the pink earth pony over and over again. It's like Pinkie Pie keeps breaking the fourth wall in the middle of the Siege of Canterlot.

"Stupid Pink pony." Felhand muttered to himself while being chased by Pinkie Pie closing in. "How the hell is she doing all of this??"

"You can run, punk!!!" Pinkie Pie taunted as she ran like the wind, with her head stretching 10 feet over Felhand, glaring at him with hostility. "You cannot hide!!!! NOW GIMMIE THAT WHITE CRYSTAL!!!"

Meanwhile, Rarity and Starlight were both starting to lose their stamina after dealing with a mind-controlled alicorn, while Twilight was being chased in mid-air by Majesty Blueblood, who is still on a mindless rampage all over Canterlot. During Twilight's flight, she sees the armies of the Lunar Republic and the Crystal Empire pressing forward and still engaging the rest of the Unicornian soldiers at the battlements, leaving various buildings caught on fire or destroyed during the ensuing chaos. As for Majesty, she fired another lighting bolt spell at Twilight, only for the purple alicorn dodge it in a barrel roll. When Twilight turned around to face Majesty, she sees the white alicorn charge at her, with magic swirling around the alicorn queen. Upon impact, Twilight blocked Majesty's magical charge with her deflector magic shield, leaving behind a huge rotating X that started slicing up the buildings in two. During her struggle with Majesty's magic, Twilight was getting pushed backwards while still holding her shield up. In an instant, Twilight teleported herself away from Majesty's mindless rampage, only for Majesty to fire up another powerful spell at her. Twilight summoned another shield barrier to ward off Majesty's spell. Then again, the moment Majesty's spell struck Twilight's shield, the purple alicorn gets pushed back, this time Twilight crashed into a nearby building behind her and came out from the other side of the building. Twilight teleported herself away from Majesty's sights and reappeared in mid-air, unleashing a massive tendril of chains heading straight at the white alicorn. Despite being wrapped around in chains by Twilight's spell, Majesty continued to fire her spells at the chains, exploding them while flying in mid-air. Just when Majesty went up close and person at Twilight's face, she unleashed a lighting bolt spell at the purple alicorn only for her to counteract it with her own lighting bolt spell. Without waiting until the last minute, Twilight tossed the lighting surges up above into the sky and made both of them explode, not making contact with anything else. Twilight immediately teleported herself right behind Majesty and used a flashing stun spell upon the white alicorn, rendering her completely dazed and stunned. The next thing Twilight did was casted a magic sealing spell that disabled Majesty from casting any more spells, temporarily, and summoned another tendril of chains at her. As soon as the chains completely restrained the raging Majesty, she got pulled straight down into the pavement and struggled to break free but with little or no effort.

As soon as Rainbow Dash got up, after getting slammed into Felhand's huge pan, she took to the skies once more and went after Professor Felhand. During the chase between Pinkie and Felhand, Felhand was getting really annoyed with Pinkie Pie appearing all over the place. Without another thought, Felhand used his magic to summon a tank filled with oil and poured it onto the pavement right where Pinkie Pie is. Before Pinkie was able to see what was coming, she started sliding over the oily slick pavement.

"I'm sliding, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-Dooff!!" Pinkie squeal until she slid straight into a wall of another house, knocking her out cold.

Just when, Felhand was able to lose sight of Pinkie Pie, Trixie and Rainbow Dash appeared in front of him, after the light-blue unicorn use a teleportation spell in order to catch up. Before Felhand was able to use his magic to teleport himself away from the two ponies, Rainbow Dash slammed into him and pinned the green unicorn to the ground.

"You're not going anywhere, you cowardly mad doctor." Rainbow Dash hissed as she started struggling over the white crystal in Felhand's hooves.

During their struggle, Trixie marched forward towards Rainbow and Felhand. The moment Trixie got close, she used a taser spell to stun the green unicorn, letting Rainbow grab the white crystal from his hooves.

"Great and Powerful Trixie is hoping to perform puppet shows by using crystals someday, but for now we can't have you control live ponies with such insidious devices as this." Trixie said to the mad scientist.

Before Felhand could see what was coming, Rainbow smashed the white crystal onto the pavement with her hooves, in hopes of free Majesty Blueblood from being controlled against her will, much to Felhand's horror.

"NO! NOOOOO!!! My wonderful masterpiece, gone!!!" Felhand shrieked as he rummaged through the shattered diamond, unable to do anything about it.

"My apologizes, Mr. Weapon designer scientist, but we have no intention of using such devices to treat other ponies like living toys." Pinkie Pie growled at Felhand angrily. "Even I wouldn't do that in parties, either."

As Felhand gets restrained by Trixie's magic, they turned him over to a group of LR soldiers, prior to the green unicorn's arrest. Meanwhile, during the time Twilight restrained a rampaging, screaming Majesty Blueblood, the out-of-control alicorn slowly started to settle down. The next thing Majesty knew is that she blinked her eyes a few time before returning back to normal.

"What the? Where am I???" Majesty Blueblood shrieked after realizing that she was chained to the ground against her will. "Twilight, what is going on here?? Why am I being chained up??"

"Sorry about that, Majesty." Twilight apologized to the white alicorn as she landed on all four hooves and disengaged her magic used on Majesty Blueblood. "You were being controlled by one of Professor Felhand's devices against your own will."

"What? Why???" Majesty asked in a state of confusion.

"Well, let's just say he and Amadeus had a backup plan of his own." Twilight answered Majesty's question briefly.

"Majesty, are you okay?" Admiral Thunderball asked as he appeared behind the two alicorns, while under a state of panic. "The last time I saw you, you were flipping out like mad and the next thing I knew me and Lord Bronze were seeing stars for a couple of minutes."

"Everything's fine, Thunderball." Majesty responded. "Is the rest of the noble families safe?"

"Don't worry, my queen. They all got out, safe and sound." Thunderball answered. "Let's get out of the city while we still can."

"Thank you, Admiral." Majesty said. "Twilight, if you're going to stop my father from his selfish greed, there is one thing I want to say to you."

"And what's that?" Twilight asked.

"I'm sorry for everything. I should never have listened to my father. So, if you ever see him again, please tell him goodbye for me." Majesty explained to the purple alicorn before she and Thunderball left the town square.

"Twilight, this is Trixie." Trixie spoke to Twilight Sparkle through the ear-bud. "We got Professor Felhand in our custody."

"Good to hear, now have every surviving pony regroup with me at the Palace Courtyard, ASAP!!!" Twilight responded to Trixie through her ear-bud.

"Understood." Trixie acknowledged.

After Twilight retrieved her battle gear, she marched forward down the main street, leading to the Canterlot Palace. Behind her, the Element Bearers appear from the buildings from both left and right, one by one. After that, the three unicorns came up to Twilight all at once, while drawing out their weapons. Last but not least, Shinning Armor, and Flash Sentry appeared behind Twilight. With all of Twilight's friends, her brother, and her colt-friend by her side once again, they all pressed forward to commence the final confrontation between Amadeus Blueblood and Twilight Sparkle.
> Chapter 19: The New Order part 4
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As Twilight and the rest of her friends and her brother marched toward the Palace Courtyard, they meet General Morning Blade and the rest of his royal knights guarding the stairs of the main entrance of the Palace of Canterlot. Despite Morning Blade losing his right arm, it was now replaced by a bionic arm with a gun barrel that shoots out an blue-lighting whip from its muzzle. Aside from Colonel Black Scythe and Commander Vermillion, there is also Captain Blood Harrier, who is a black unicorn with the red man and tail and bears the cutie mark of a sword that is glowing red, Commander Bane Fright, who is a cerulean earth pony with a yellow mane and tail and bears the cutie mark of a scary ghost, and Captain Vice Reaper, who is a maroon pegasus with a light-red pegasus with a magenta mane and tail that bears the cutie mark of a grim reaper. All six royal knights drew out their weapons, preparing to do battle against Twilight and her friends. Before any of them engaged at each other, a giant blue robot appeared behind Morning Blade and his Royal Knights, and out of the shadows. It was has the same height to that of the Changeling Black Juggernauts except the robot has a head similar to that of a teutonic knight, 2 huge gauntlets, both armed with huge wrist-mounted retractable sharp-end blades, and two huge legs with quadruple feet. On both of the robot's shoulders, the left shoulder is mounted with a medium-sized Chaingun and the right shoulder is mounted with a missile launcher. The back of the robot is mounted with a mortar cannon and has an Ion Laser Cannon mounted on its right hip. Inside the robot's body, there is an implanted shield generator. On both sides of the  mortar cannon, there is huge dual thrusters that are meant for a temporary liftoff. Before Twilight knew it, she hears Amadeus' evil chuckle coming from inside the huge robot.

"Hello, Twilight Sparkle. It's time to face your final judgement on the battlefield in the very same place that you once called home." Amadeus sneered while taking control of the robot he's in from the cockpit. "It's come down to this. Our entire fate for Equestria will be decided in the battlefield of Canterlot."

"Like what I said, I'm going to do what I should've done when I ascended the throne at Canterlot." Twilight snarled as she raised her Orichalcum Greatsword, aiming at Amadeus' robot.

"Well, I may have underestimated you lot, but you won't beat me that easily this time." Amadeus smirked. "Thanks to Professor Felhand, I was able to gain control of a new experimental weapon that will make all ponies tremble before my might. Say hello to Blue Cross Knight XII!!!"

As soon as Amadeus' mech came charging straight into Twilight's group, Princess Twilight summoned all of her raw magic into her horn, unfurled her wings, and charged straight at the Cross Knight with all of her might, while the magical surge engulfed her, transforming her into a living magical torpedo. Upon impact, Twilight rammed into the giant robot so hard, that it got shoved straight into the Palace Foyer, knocking down the walls surrounding the Palace. After seeing all of this, Morning Blade and his royal knights scattered away from Amadeus' robot and Twilight and immediately engaged the rest of Twilight's friends in a full-frontal assault. 

During the fight between the Unicornian Royal Knights and the Element bearers of Harmony, Fluttershy moved away from the fight and rallied her animal friends to join the fight against Unicornia. All sorts of bears, racoons, badgers, deers, eagles, apes, falcons, and tigers burst through the battlements. They were armed with Spears, flails, spiked clubs, and crossbows. As the yellow female Pegasus gave them the word, the animals charged at the Unicornian soldiers and Felhand's robots with all their might. As for Fluttershy, she grabbed a nearby Unicornian guard with her metal brass hooves and glared at him with "the stare" as she strangled him while pinning him to the ground.

"You big, dumb meanies think you're all better than Princess Twilight, huh?!" Fluttershy hissed as she gave the guard a terrifying, evil look. "Well, you losers haven't seen anything from her, yet. JUST WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU PONIES ARE TRYING TO PREJUDICE MY BEST FRIEND TWILIGHT??!!! DIDN'T YOUR PARENTS TAUGHT YOU ANYTHING OTHER THAN VIOLENCE???"

Upon seeing Fluttershy's terror, the Unicornians started fleeing away from the battlefield, while one was cowering beneath her hooves.

"W-We're sorry, okay?! W-We were just following orders, honest." The Unicornian guard whimpered while being pinned to the ground by Fluttershy.

"Well if you don't want to die here, then you better leave Canterlot for good and don't ever come back or I'LL BREAK YOU!!!" Fluttershy roared. "DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!"

The guard responded with a "yes" before Fluttershy got off of him. Not a moment too soon, the guard ran off in a panic and disappeared into the shadows of Canterlot. In just moments later, several more Unicornian guards approached Fluttershy, pointing their spears and their rifles at her. However, before any pony could see what was going on, Fluttershy injected herself with a berserk serum. The next thing she did was that she unfurled her wings, flew very fast, and, in a rage, punched every single Unicornian, breaking their noses with just one shot before they fell flat on the ground. While others, were grabbed by Fluttershy in the tail, slamming them into each other before throwing them up into the sky, with blood squirting out of their noses, and crashing straight into the buildings all over Canterlot. 

"THIS IS FOR TWILIGHT!!!!" Fluttershy roared as she continued to wreak havoc on the Unicornians.	

As both sides begun fighting for the fate of Equestria, Rainbow Dash and Black Scythe took to the skies again, this time with Rainbow flying way above the female grey pegasus. Vermillion drew out his lighting saber again and charged at Rarity and Trixie with all of his might. Before he got any closer, Trixie pulled out a wrist-mounted repeating crossbow and started shooting at the red unicorn only for him to summon an electrical barrier to ward of Trixie's crossbow bolts, while Rarity jumped forward and raised her ninja sword above her head before performing a vertical strike at Vermillion. Captain Blood Harrier drew out his enchanted Claymore and made a flurry of attacks with it at Crimson and Applejack. Bane Fright took out a set of throwing knives, hidden from his made and threw a barrage of them at Shinning Armour, only for the Crystal Prince to raise his magic shield, with his sword held behind his back. Captain Vice Reaper leaped up on top of Bane Fright and attempted to butcher Shinning Armour with his Silver Battle Ax. However, before Bane got any closer to him, Flash Sentry appeared behind the white unicorn stallion and blocked Bane's Battle Ax with his orichalcum lance. Before Bane had any chance to counteract against Flash's move, the orange pegasus shoved him away from Shinning Armor and engaged the maroon pegasus head on. Starlight and Sunset went on ahead to help Twilight deal with Amadeus in his tracks, with Morning Blade following the two unicorns from behind. 

"Not so fast, you two." Morning Blade hissed. "You are both going to say your prayers because your precious alicorn princess isn't going to save you."

"We'll just see about that!!!" Sunset snarled as she summoned a blunderbuss and fired it at Morning Blade.

As Morning Blade charged, however, he used his magic to raise his shield in order to deflect every shot coming out from Sunset's Blunderbuss. Just when the evil unicorn got closer to the yellow female unicorn, Morning Blade lashed out his  blue-lighting whip, wrapping around Sunset's gun, and made it explode right in front of her face before she turned away from the blast. The next thing Morning Blade did was zero into Sunset as he drew out his dual long swords. However, the moment Blade attacked Sunset with his swords, Sunset teleported herself away from him as she drew out her Flamberge from her scabbard. Sunset made a horizontal swipe at Morning Blade, only for him to jump back, perform a scissor stance and lunged at the female yellow unicorn. Sunset blocked the scissor stance attack with her sword, right between her eyes. As both unicorns were struggling to stand their ground against each other, Starlight appeared over Sunset and attempted to slam Morning Blade with a huge mallet. Upon seeing Starlight attacking from above, Morning Blade disengaged with Sunset and used his magic to summon a shield barrier to ward off Starlight's mallet. 

During Trixie's shootout against Vermillion, the blue unicorn suddenly runs out of ammo from her repeating crossbow. The next thing Trixie saw was an electrical wave of magic zeroing in on her position. However, before the wave struck Trixie again, Rarity jumped in its way and summoned a magic shield to ward of electrical attack. Vermillion charged at Rarity again, with his lighting saber poised to lunge at the white unicorn in the chest. Rarity parried against Vermillion's lunge with a sword uppercut with her ninja blade and attempted to slash at Vermillion with a vertical slash, followed by a couple of more parries. After Rarity jumped backward away from Vermillion, the red unicorn used his saber to unleash a crossed surge of lighting that was aiming directly at the fashionista. However, Trixie uses her wizard staff to summon a blazing hydra that was lunging straight at the red unicorn knight and sprayed a raging stream of fire that blew up the surge of lighting. Upon seeing Trixie ordering the hydra to attack him with a torrent of raging fire, Vermillion stabbed straight into the pavement with his lighting saber and, as he focused all of his magic into his sword, unleashed a wave of 8 tendrils of electricity and counteract the hydra's raging fire with it. As soon as both Vermillion's spells and Trixie's spells clashed into each other, a large mid-air explosion occurred right above every pony, stunning all of them by such a very loud noise. After the stun effects wore off, Twilight's friends and the Unicornian Royal Knights continued fighting against each other. 

Meanwhile, above the Palace of Canterlot, into the skies, Rainbow Dash made a furious barrage of spear thrusts and kicks at Black Scythe. Every time Rainbow lunges her spear at the grey pegasus, Black spins her scythe in a circular motion to parry against Rainbow's attacks. As Black is about to do a chop attack on the light-blue pegasus with her scythe, Rainbow gave her wings a huge flap, making her fly backwards, avoiding the Reaper Scythe. During their mid-flight, Rainbow and Black made several more aerial attacks on each other as they flew upward, closer to the Canterlot Palace. Black hovers in mid-air and made a vertical slash with her scythe at Rainbow. However, Rainbow was able to make a mid-air feint, dodging Black's scythe mer inches away from her face. Rainbow grabbed the scythe with her left hoof and attempted to thrust her spear straight into Black's jugular vein. Unfortunately, Black was able to tilt her head to her left, missing Rainbow's spear a few inches away from her neck. Before Rainbow knew what was coming, Black kicked the blue-pegasus in the stomach with her left hind hoof, making her crash into one of the Palace towers. As soon as Rainbow got back up on her hooves, she sees Black flying straight at her in maximum ferocity and unleashed several waves of dark magic from her scythe. Ultimately, Rainbow unfurled her wings and flew away from the scythe's dark magic only for it the cut off the tower in two and flew straight down onto the Canterlot pavement. As soon as Rainbow flew up into the sky again, she zeroed into the grey female pegasus at high speed, breaking the sound barrier once again. During her flight, Rainbow Dash made another sonic rainboom right behind her and aimed her spear straight at Black Scythe. By the time Black prepared to raise her scythe and cut down the light-blue pegasus, it was too late. A huge, spherical explosion of rainbow colors erupted in mid-air and the next thing that happen is that grey pegasus' scythe shattered into a million pieces. Black Scythe loses her consciousness as she is about to fall from the sky, with her wings completely shredded. However, Rainbow Dash isn't done, yet. The moment she flew downwards from above, Rainbow tossed her spear away, grabbed Black Scythe by the stomach and slammed her straight into the ground with a velocity of 100 miles per hour, leaving behind a massive rain sonic nuke that erupted in the middle of the Canterlot city. On the pavement, there was a huge crater in the middle of the street. In the crater, lies a badly crippled dead Black Scythe. Her nose was broken and bleeding, her wings are both dislocated, her mane was burnt in the explosion, all of her four hooves are twisted, and her ribs are broken from inside her body. As Rainbow Dash landed on all fours, she ran up to the critically wounded grey pegasus and spit out raspberries at her.

"Take that, you grey-winged demon!!!" Rainbow cackled as she moved on ahead, leaving behind a chuckle.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Palace Courtyard, Applejack was jumping backwards because Captain Blood Harrier was making a lot of rapid horizontal slashes with his Claymore sword. Unfortunately, as the black unicorn closed into the farm pony, Applejacks started receiving multiple flesh wounds all over her smooth body. Before she knew what was going on, Applejack slowly started to lose her blood and her stamina in a matter of minutes, as her blood is getting absorbed by the power of Harrier's sword, making it even more deadlier and more faster. After taking quite a beating, Applejack fell on her front hooves and started bleeding all over her body. As for Crimson, the moment he charged at Blood Harrier with all of his might, the black unicorn sidestepped out of his way and shoved him straight into a nearby brick wall, making Crimson's forehead bleeding before he collapsed on the ground.

"Ugh!! I can't bucking believe losing." Applejack whimpered while under the mercy of Blood Harrier. "I-It can't end like this."

"Any last words, farm girl?" Blood Harrier laughed as he was about to chop the farm pony's head off with his sword. 

"Get ready to dodge this!!!" Applejack growled as she injected herself with an adrenaline health booster shot. 

Before Blood Harrier was able to finish Applejack, the farm mare jumped up and drew out her metal ball and chain. The next thing Harrier saw was a metal ball swinging at his face. Without hesitation, Harrier dodged the ball, not wanting to get slammed by it in the face. The black unicorn was unable to keep up with Applejack due to her fast movement. Applejack was running around Harrier so fast and so many times, that the black unicorn got really dizzy and almost fell over her hooves. However, Harrier was still able to keep his guard up as he kept dodging the metal ball, just inches away from where his face was at. In just an instant, Harrier was able to grab the metal ball with his magic and attempted to stab the farm pony mare directly in the chest with his Claymore. Unfortunately, Applejack was able to jump over Harrier's blade and walked over it as she drew out her talons. The moment Applejack slashed at Blood Harrier with her talons, the black unicorn leaned back, avoiding Applejack's attack and punched her in the face, sending her flying backwards and crashing into a nearby building behind her. As Blood Harrier picked up his sword, he turned around to face Applejack, only to find her on the move again. Suddenly, Harrier spots Crimson Cross get up thanks to Applejack. As soon as Crimson spots Harrier in his sights, he charged forward and attempted to hack him with his Heavy Maul. Harrier raised his sword up high and launched himself at the brown earth pony colt, slamming his blade into Crimson's Maul with sheer force. Upon seeing Harrier's Claymore turn blood-red, with swirling magic coming out of it, Crimson shoved the blade away from his face and made another attack with his maul, only for Harrier to direct the maul straight into the ground on his left. Without holding back, Crimson slammed his right hoof at Harrier's face only for him to dodge it just by a inch from his head. Before Crimson can lift his maul again, he felt a sharp pain coming from his right hind leg. It turns out that Harrier's blade pierced Crimson's flesh after he dodged Crimson's right hoof. Crimson collapsed onto his side but before Harrier drew out his flintlock pistol and aimed it at the brown earth pony's face, Applejack slammed both of her hind legs into Harrier's chest, knocking him to the ground as he missed his shot and dropped his pistol. Applejack drew out her talons again and unleashed a flurry of swipes at Harrier, only to be met by a rapid response of blocks by Harrier's Claymore. As he backed away, Harrier raised his sword up high and made a vertical slash above Applejack's head. Just in an instant, Applejack blocked Harrier's blade with both of her talons above her head. The farm mare jumped up high and did a forward flip that knocked the Claymore from Harrier. The next thing Applejack did was running right past Harrier, delivering a combo of slashes all over his body. 

"GYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" Harrier screamed in pain as he covered up his face, with his hooves.

Before Harrier had a chance to react, he felt one of Applejack's talons piercing his neck from behind. As blood squirted out of Harrier's vein, he let out a deathly gurgle before he collapsed onto the pavement, leaving Applejack victorious. However, as soon as Applejack's drug wore off, she started bleeding from her previous wounds again. Ultimately, she was able to grab the Vampiric Claymore with her right hoof and stabbed it into Harrier's corpse. In an instant, the sword's power was able to help Applejack regenerate all of her injuries in a heartbeat, sealing up the cuts that were all over her smooth body. 

"Ah, got to help Twi deal with that Amadeus prick!!" Applejack said to herself as she took the Vampiric Claymore with her before moving on.

Meanwhile, Bane Fright hurled 25 more throwing daggers at Shinning Armor. Despite Fright's efforts, however, Shinning Armour pressed forward, with his magic shield intact. As the Crystal Prince got closer to Bane, he leaped forward, drew out his crystal broadsword, and performed an downward cut on top of the cerulean earth pony. Bane leaped backwards, avoiding Armour's attack, and drew out his dual Kukris with his hooves. The earth pony charged forward, raising both kukris up to his hips. Bane unleashed a flurry of swipes with his Kukris at Shinning Armour, while the Guard Captain made several parries with his broadsword. As for the two pegasus warriors, Vice unleashed multiple waves of destruction with his Silver Battle Ax at Flash Sentry, while they're both in mid-air. Flash made several evasive maneuvers while in mid-air, dodging every magic wave that Reaper's Battle Ax is causing. When Flash zeroed into Vice, he was met with a powerful guard break before he thrusted his lance at the maroon pegasus. Upon impact, Vice was able to shove Flash away from his position and performed a cleaving attack with his battle ax. The orange pegasus, however, was able to raise his lance up to a vertical stance and blocked Vice's battle ax, mer inches away from his face. 

After Twilight shoved Amadeus' Mech into the Palace grounds, the Mega Knight unleashed a salvo of missiles at the purple alicorn. However, Twilight immediately unfurled her wings and flew off into the sky, evading the missiles during her flight pattern. Before Twilight had a chance to fight back, the Cross Knight activated its thrusters and chased after her, as it opened fire with its chaingun. Twilight's uses her magic to summon a barrier shield to defend herself against the Mech's weaponry and teleported herself right on top of the Cross Knight. The next thing the alicorn princess did was summoned a huge boulder above her head and slammed it right on its back. However, thanks to the rear cameras in Amadeus' cockpit, he was able to see what was Twilight about to do and forcibly steered the Cross Knight to its right, making her lose her balance and let the boulder fall straight down into the pavement, crushing no one. As Twilight lost her footing on top of the Cross Knight, she flew up high into the sky and summoned a barrage of lighting strikes from the sky, hoping that her spell will do some serious damage on Amadeus' Cross Knight. Upon seeing the lighting bolts heading straight for him, Amadeus activated the shield generator, absorbing every lighting bolt that struck the Mech from above. As the Cross Knight, hovered in mid-air, it turned around to face the Twilight Sparkle. The next thing the mech did was fire several shots from its Ion Laser Cannon, only for Twilight to perform several evasive maneuvers and fired several powerful magic beams at the Ion Lasers. In just a few minutes later, Twilight charged up her horn with her magic, while Amadeus' Cross Knight is preparing to fire a powerful, focused shot with its Ion Laser Cannon. As soon as the Laser Cannon shot out its powerful Ion beam, Twilight's horn fired a massive beam of magic at the Mega Knight, resulting in a huge explosion in mid-air when both beams collided into each other.

As the fight between Shinning Armour and Bane Fright continued, Bane hurled more throwing knives with his left hoof only for Shinning to perform a vertical block with his sword, deflecting every knife that is coming straight at his face. The white male unicorn teleported himself right next to Fright and did a horizontal swipe with his sword at the cerulean earth pony. Bane, however, did a backflip, dodging Armour's blade in an instant and jumped up in mid-air, while hurling more throwing knives. Unfortunately, Bane finally ran out of knives and drew out his Kukri again, the moment he landed on all four hooves. As Bane charged at the unicorn prince, Shinning blocked one oncoming horizontal slash coming from Bane's Kukri on his left and redirected the blade to his right, away from his skin. In retaliation, Shinning swiped his sword at Bane from his right, only for the earth pony to parry it with his other Kukri on his left. Before Bane was able to do anything else, Shinning head butt the earth pony, making him stagger a few feet backwards away from where Shinning Armor was standing. As Bane attempted to thrust one Kukris at the Crystal Prince with his left hoof, Shinning immediately side-stepped away from Bane's stabbing attack and chopped off Bane's left arm. The moment Bane's severed arm hit the floor, he screamed in pain as he sees his blood spilling from his chopped up arm, only to be silenced by a stab to the chest with Shinning Armour's sword, killing him immediately.

For Flash Sentry and Vice Reaper, they took their fight up into the sky after Flash shoved Vice's Battle Ax away from his face. Vice flew backwards away from the orange pegasus only for him to perform a cleaving wave of magic coming out from Vice's Silver Battle Ax. As soon as the magic wave closed in to Flash, he raised his shield to ward off the attack before charging straight at Vice while in mid-air. Flash thrusted his lance at Vice again only for the light-red pegasus to move aside but not before Flash's Lance made a flesh wound that grazed his shoulder. After shrugging off his flesh wound, Vice made a horizontal sweep at Flash, only for him to block it with his steel kite shield. The next thing Flash did was thrusted his lance straight at Vice's chest. However, Vice flew to his right, dodging Flash's lance and kicked him in the head with his right hind leg, knocking the orange pegasus' helmet off and losing his lance as it fell straight down into the pavement, leaving behind a little drop of blood coming down from his forehead. Flash charged forward and attempted to ram the light-red pegasus with his kite shield. Unfortunately, the moment Flash's shield closed into Vice Reaper, he grabbed the shield away from Flash and slammed it into his face, sending him crashing into a room through a window in one of the towers at the Canterlot Palace. The moment Flash got up, he started spitting out blood that was coming out from his mouth and saw various cuts all over his orange body due to the broken glass that pierced his skin. Vice Reaper disengaged from his flight and landed on all floors at the tower balcony where Flash is at.

"This is the end, Flash Sentry." Vice Reaper gloated as he approached the orange pegasus from behind. "All of this could've been avoided if only you hadn't joined the military in the first place and picked another career instead when you had the chance.  I never liked you and besides, your rock music stinks. Now say your prayers."

As soon as Vice got closer and raised his battle ax, he prepared to perform a executional, horizontal finishing blow with his Silver Battle Ax. However, Flash was able to grab a large piece of glass, belonging to the shattered window, with his right hoof and the moment Vice's Ax got close to Flash's neck, he leaned forward, dodging the ax by inches away from his mane. The moment Flash turned around, he stabbed Vice in the lower chest with his shattered glass piercing his flesh, in which resulted in a big "O" coming out from Vice's mouth. 

"Sorry, Captain Vice Reaper, but because I'm still young, there is never a right or wrong answer when picking a career of your own choosing. I joined the Equestrian Military because, just like Princess Twilight Sparkle, it's my destiny to fight for harmony, friendship, and justice for all." Flash Sentry said with full determination and self-confidence. "So, say hello to Prince Blueblood for me."

After Flash Sentry finished his sentence, he finished off Vice Reaper with another stab in the neck, with using another glass shard, killing him and shoved him straight to the ground, ending the fight between two pegasus warriors. Before Flash was able to move on, he started coughing up more blood and collapsed onto the wall of the room inside the tower, making him sit on the floor, wounded and bleeding. 

"Lt, are you okay?!" One of the Pegasus Crystal Pony guards spoke in an alerted tone as he appeared from the shattered window of the tower.

"I'm fine, but I need some pony to help me treat me of my wounds." Flash responded in a wheezing tone of voice.

"Yes, sir." The Crystal Guard acknowledged as he flew away to get a combat medic to check up on Lt. Flash.

"Princess Twilight, please stay alive, for me." Flash Sentry wheezed as he kept breathing while holding onto his wounds.

As Rarity struck at Vermillion with her ninja sword, he raised his lighting saber and prepared to stab the female fashionista in the chest with it. However, upon seeing Vermillion's saber closing in, Rarity jumped backwards in mid-air and landed on all four hooves. After seeing an opening between Vermillion and Rarity, Trixie summoned a barrage of fireworks at the red unicorn only for him to resort to a horizontal sweep with his saber, in which unleashed a wave of lighting that destroyed most of the fireworks in mid-air, creating a chain reaction of explosions. In less than a second, Vermillion took out his Tesla gun and fired a tendril of lighting at Trixie. However, Trixie was able to summon a blue shield barrier to ward off the lighting tendrils coming straight at her. On Vermillion's right, Rarity appeared and raised her ninja sword above her head, preparing to cut the Tesla gun in two. Unfortunately, Vermillion used his magic to block Rarity's ninja sword with his Lighting Saber. Before Rarity and Trixie were able to seeing what was going on, Vermillion shoved his Tesla gun straight into the ground and fired a full blast of lighting at point blank range. 

"Uh Oh!!! The ground is going to conduct with electricity." Trixie said to herself in horror before speaking to Rarity next. "RARITY, JUMP!!!!"

As soon as the unicorn magician and the unicorn fashionista both jumped at the same time, the electrical surge started spreading all over the area that all three unicorns are in. After the electrical current has passed, all of their manes stung up high, like pointed cactuses. When Rarity and Trixie landed on all four of their hooves, Rarity was the first to notice that her mane was affected by the electricity Vermillion's Tesla gun had caused.

"YEEK!!! MY MANE!!!!" Rarity shrieked as she landed on both of her hooves.

"You're both going to suffer more from just that." Vermillion smirked as he raised his Tesla gun and pointed it at Rarity.

Just when Vermillion fired his Tesla Gun at Rarity unleashing another tendril of lighting, the fashionista charged up her horn out of extreme anger, for letting her mane mess up again, and fired her most powerful magic at the lighting heading straight at her. Upon contact, Rarity's spell was counteracting against Vermillion's Tesla gun. Before he could see what was coming, Rarity poured all of her concentration and her anger as she pushed the lighting tendril back to Vermillion's tesla gun with her magic. As soon as Rarity's magic got close to the Tesla Gun's barrel, it exploded in front of Vermillion's face, sending him backwards a couple of feet away from where he was standing. The moment Vermillion got up on his hooves again, he sees the Tesla gun explode into a million pieces before his very eyes. The red unicorn stallion used his magic to draw out his lighting saber again only for Trixie to show up and whacked Vemillion's sword away from him with her wizard staff. After the lighting saber landed on the ground, Trixie slammed her staff at the back of Vermillion's head, making him fall face flat on the ground, out cold. The next thing the light-blue unicorn did was summon a set of chains to wrap around the unconscious red unicorn, restraining him completely, while placing an anti-magic seal on top of his horn.

"Behold!! The Great and Powerful Trixie has defeated one of the most toughest fighters and royal knights of Unicornia with the aid of the Great and Powerful Fashionista!!!" Trixie bellowed in a happy cheer, congratulating to herself as she turned Vermillion over to the Crystal Guard ponies.

"Thanks for your help, Trixie." Rarity said while smiling at the light-blue unicorn. "I wouldn't be able to defeat him alone with it weren't for you.

"No need to thank the Great and Powerful Trixie, Rarity." Trixie acknowledged the white unicorn. "If you're going to help Princess Twilight end this political nightmare, then give her my regards."

After hearing Trixie's speech, Rarity gathered all of her available weapons before assisting Twilight in defeating Amadeus. As for Morning Blade, after Starlight's Mallet struck at his shield barrier, it started to crack, revealing an opening where Morning Blade is at his most vulnerable. Upon seeing the Mallet heading straight for his head, Morning Blade used his magic to teleport himself away from Starlight's attack. As soon as he reappeared, Blade lashed out his blue-lighting whip gun with his bionic arm at Starlight only for her to unleash her chain-wrapped axles at them. When both of the unicorn's whiplashing weapons clashed into each other, a loud crack erupted upon impact, causing the ground to crack below their hooves. Starlight raised her chained axles and swung it around above her head before slamming on of them on top of Morning Blade's head. However, Blade aimed his whip gun at the chained axle and shot at it, sending the first axle flying away from its chain. Undiscouraged by such tricks, Starlight swung the two remaining chained axles at both of her sides and    hurled them both at Morning Blade's sides. Morning dodged both axles and charged forward at Starlight with all of his might. Starlight's eyes widen with horror as she sees Morning Blade lunge at her while drawing out both of his orichalcum swords and aiming them directly at her chest. As Starlight dodged one sword, she felt the other sword slash at her lower abdomen, making her fall on her back, bleeding.

"AUUUGH!!!" Starlight screamed as she clutched onto her wound while on the ground. 

As Morning Blade is about to execute a finishing blow with one of his swords, Starlight picked up her mallet and swung it at his face. Unfortunately, Blade used one of his swords to knock Starlight's mallet off from her hoof and stabbed it into her left shoulder blade, pinning her to the ground while she screamed in pain.

"Say goodnight, Starlight Glimmer!!!" Morning Blade said as he is about to stab the female unicorn in the heart with his other sword.

However, before Morning Blade could do so, Sunset Shimmer rammed him squarely in the chest, making him fall on his back, while holding onto his sword. The moment he got up, he sees Sunset aiming her Flamberge at his face. As the Unicornian General fired his whip gun at Sunset, she grabbed it with her left hoof and yanked it towards her, making Blade lurch forward by force. The next thing Blade saw was Sunset using her Flamberge to chop off the blue-lighting whip completely and used her magic to destroy the mounted weapon on its bionic arm. After that, Sunset kicked Morning Blade directly in the face with both of her hooves, sending him skidding backwards a couple of feet away from the bright yellow unicorn. Unfazed by such a blow, Morning Blade used his magic to summon both of his long swords and leaped at Sunset Shimmer, preparing to chop her up into a million pieces. Sunset raised her Flamberge up to her eye level and stood her ground against Blade's flurry of attacks with his swords, while counterattacking with her own sword. Eventually, Sunset was able to break up Morning Blade's guard and with just one powerful stroke with her Flamberge, she managed to shatter the blade of one of the general's swords. After Sunset made another horizontal swipe at the Unicornian General, Morning Blade jumped backwards only to be met by a blazing wave of magic coming out of Sunset's Flamberge. Not a moment too soon, Blade used his magic to summon another shield barrier to protect himself from the magic wave Sunset Shimmer is causing. Upon hitting Blade's shield barrier, the magic wave caused an explosion followed by a small smoke screen. As soon as the smoke disappeared, Morning Blade charged straight at Sunset Shimmer with his remaining Orichalcum Long Sword, poised to slice off her neck. However, Sunset tilted her face to her right, only to have the blade cut across her cheek, leaving behind a bleeding cut on her face. 

"That does it, Morning Blade." Sunset snarled, as she left the blood drip from her face. "It's time to end this, once and for all."

"Like hell, you're ever going to scare me, bitch." Morning Blade taunted the yellow unicorn. "Bring it on!!!"

Without hesitation, Sunset raised her Flamberge in front of her face, summoned all of her magic, and focused it into her sword, charging it up to the fullest. As soon as she is done, Sunset charged straight at Morning Blade, preparing to deliver the final strike. At the same thing, Morning Blade summoned all of his magic, imbued it into his sword to maximum power, raised it up high, and charged at Sunset Shimmer, hoping to end this fight for good. In an instant, both unicorns clashed into each other, unleashing their most powerful magic by the end of their blades. After the impact, they both executed vertical slashes before they passed right through each other. As soon as Sunset and Morning Blade both landed on their hooves again, a climatic event starts to unfold. Sunset almost collapsed on the pavement only for her to use her Flamberge as a leverage to hold herself up. The next thing Sunset saw from herself was a flesh wound coming from her left side, with blood coming out of it. As for Morning Blade, the moment he got back up, his eyes widen as he feels himself caught on fire from the inside. As the fire started burning his coat, Morning Blade started screaming and running all over the place, until he fell into a nearby pond in the Canterlot gardens. Although the fire caught on his skin was already put out, Morning Blade immediately collapsed unconscious, while floating in the lake.

"Good Riddance, Morning Blade." Sunset Shimmer wheezed before she collapsed onto the pavement, wounded and bleeding before closing her eyes as she smiled to herself. "Princess Celestia! Princess Twilight! Thank you."

After Sunset lost consciousness, a wounded Starlight Glimmer comes up to her in a worried expression. With her magic, Starlight picks up a badly injured Sunset Shimmer. In an instant, Starlight teleports herself and Sunset to a nearby medical tent for recovery.	

After the explosion between Twilight's magic and the Cross Knight's Laser Cannon occurred, Twilight was sent flying into a nearby building and, upon impact, she crashed into the brick wall before falling on her back onto the floor inside the building. 

"Ugh. My back. I-It hurts." Twilight grunted in pain while struggling to get up on her hooves again. 

While still lying on the ground, Twilight hears Amadeus' evil laughter coming from inside his Mega Knight as he approaches to where she's at.

"Prepare to be skewered, Princess. This will end it!!!" Amadeus cackled as he aimed the Mega Knight's Laser Cannon at Twilight's face. "BURN!!! BURN TO ASHES!!!"

However, before the Mega Knight could fire its Laser Cannon at Twilight, Applejack appeared on the Mech's right and threw the Vampiric Claymore at the Cannon, making it explode upon impact, destroying the Laser Cannon.

"I'm ah afraid that ya are going to be da one who shall burn ta ashes!!" Applejack hissed as she drew out her talons and leaped right to Twilight's right side.

"Oh, Yeah!!" Amadeus hissed. "Do really think you can save Princess Twilight Sparkle from me?"

"I'm not da only one who was the will to do so." Applejack glared at him.

"Don't forget about us, you two-timed, heartless, noble ruffian!!!" Rarity snarled as she appeared right next to Applejack.

Not a moment too soon, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash all appeared before Twilight Sparkle, with all of them drawing out their weapons, arming themselves to the teeth to end the battle between good and evil. As Twilight got up on her hooves again, she injected herself with a health serum, relieving the pain from her injured back.

"So it seems, that not only will I facing Twilight Sparkle, I'll be facing the entire Element Bearers of Harmony." Amadeus smirked. "Well, if you all think you can take me on, then I like to see you all try!! I mean, just how long do you guys think you can maintain the Elements of Harmony, I wonder. Let's find out, shall we?"

"You never accepted the Elements of Harmony or our friendship for granted." Twilight Sparkle snarled. "Because you have taken 15 years away from me just for your lust for power, I'll make you regret you ever carried out your diabolical scheme of a destiny, let alone shattered my righteous ruling over Equestria."

"You still don't get, do you Princess?" Amadeus Blueblood said while glaring at the purple alicorn. "THIS IS MY WORLD TO RULE OVER. MY WORLD!!! And as a true noble, unlike you, those 15 years we mine to spend and since you poisoned my daughter against me, I will have no choice but to take matters in my own hooves, starting with the demise of you and the false Elemental bearers of Harmony."

"So be it." Twilight Sparkle snarled as she turned to see her friends one more time before engaging Amadeus in the final battle, along with them. "Get him, girls!!! He never understood a thing about me anyway."

In less than a minute, Twilight Sparkle and the Mane 5 charged forward at the Blue Cross Knight, hoping to put an end to Amadeus' tyranny once and for all.
> Chapter 20: The New Order part 5
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As the final battle pressed on between the Equestrians and the Unicornians, the LR soldiers and the Crystal Empire Guard continued to advance further into the city of Canterlot. After Twilight's group took down Sir Morning Blade and the rest of his Royal Knight platoon, Shinning Armor ordered some of his guards, who weren't engaging the other Unicornian soldiers, to apprehend Morning Blade, Professor Felhand, and Vermillion and help escort the wounded straight to the combat medics, who were stationed at the main gate. As for Lord Bronze and Admiral Thunderball, after they helped rescued the noble families from Professor Felhand, they were all immediately arrested by Shinning Armor for their past crimes, without showing any signs of retaliation, to await their trial once the final battle is over. After Professor Felhand was apprehended, he was forced to deactivate all of his robotic creations so that they will no longer pose anymore threats to the rest of Twilight's Army. Upon seeing most of Felhand's creations shut down in an instant, most of the Unicornians have surrendered immediately and most of the Unicornian stragglers that were resisting were killed on sight; Felhand's creations were all secured for scrap. At the Canterlot Palace, however, Amadeus' war with the heroes of Equestria isn't over yet. 

Meanwhile, the Mane 6 came face-to-face with the corrupted head of the Blueblood Family, Amadeus Blueblood, who is still inside the Blue Cross Knight. They may have destroyed the Laser Cannon that was mounted on Amadeus' "Cross Knight," but the fight between the Mane 6 and Amadeus is still far from over. Without hesitation or remorse, Twilight issued the following order to her surviving friends on the battlefield.

"Get him, girls!!! He never understood a thing about me anyway." Twilight shouted in a royal Canterlot voice.

In a blink of an eye, Applejack and Rainbow Dash charged at the Mega Knight raising their weapons at it. Before the orange earth pony and the light-blue pegasus came any closer, the Mega Knight fired several rounds of mortars from its mortar cannon. Upon seeing the mortar shells heading their way, Applejack ran to the side and Rainbow Dash flew up into the sky in order to avoid the mortar bombardment. As both mares evaded the mortar blasts, they're followed by a trail of explosions coming from behind them both. During the time that Applejack was running away from the mortars, she jumped up, leaped from a nearby wall, and launched herself in mid-air while readying both of her talons before striking at the Mega Cross Knight. However, the moment Applejack tried to pierce the Mech's hull with one of her talons, the implanted shield generator activated, unleashing a huge, green barrier shield. As soon as one of her talons hit the barrier shield, Applejack was sent flying 10 feet away from the Cross Knight before hitting the ground. As for Rainbow Dash, she zoomed in straight at the left side of the Cross Knight and did a couple of fast jabs at it with her spear but with little or no effort. In less than a second, the Cross Knight drew out a wrist-mounted blade from its left gaunlet and swung at the light-blue pegasus with it, only for her to dodge it while in mid-air, just inches away from her rainbow mane. After dodging the wrist-mounted blade, Rainbow Dash did an aerial backflip and hurled several javelins, that she received from Flash Sentry, at the Mega Cross Knight.

As the Cross Knight raised its shield up back to ward of the javelins heading straight for it, Fluttershy charged at its legs and chomped at the right leg, tearing out most of its cables. The next thing the female yellow pegasus did was smashed at the right quadruple feet with a huge anvil, repeatedly. In the cockpit, Amadeus spotted that the right quadruple foot is receiving heavy damage. After realizing that Fluttershy's actions could immobilize the Cross Knight's movement, Amadeus activated its rocket thrusters, steering the mech to fly up in mid-air. However, Fluttershy was not done yet. Before Amadeus could see what was going on in front of him, Fluttershy unfurled her wings, flew right in front of the face of the Cross Knight. In a fit of a rage, the yellow female Pegasus started smashing at the teutonic head with her metal-brass hooves in aggressive, endless repetition. Amadeus started freaking out upon seeing Fluttershy deliver some brutal damage at his mech through the main camera from his cockpit, continuously. 

"JESUS CHRIST!!! Even the Element of Kindness is relentless!!" Amadeus shrieked as he frantically activated the implant shield generator.

However, despite Amadeus' efforts, he started to notice that the shield generator isn't working. At one of his side cameras, Amadeus spotted Twilight Sparkle, clutching onto the back of the robot and ripped out the shield generator's cables, with her teeth. Upon seeing this, Amadeus' eyes widen with horror and forcibly spin the Cross Knight in a extreme rotation, making Twilight and Fluttershy lose their concentration and send them flying out of the Cross Knight's space. After disengaging from the Cross Knight, Twilight and Fluttershy started flapping their wings in order to retain their balances while in mid-air. Not a moment too soon, Twilight and Fluttershy started flying straight at Amadeus' Mega Cross Knight, readying their Orichalcum Halberd and metal brass hooves, while posing themselves to strike at the robot again. However, the Cross Knight had enough time to draw out both of its wrist-mounted blades and blocked both Twilight's and Fluttershy's attacks before either of them got any closer. Amadeus activated the rocket thrusters to make the Cross Knight fly backwards away from the alicorn and the pegasus. During the Cross Knight's flight, it started shooting out its mounted missile launcher and chain gun at the two flying ponies. Fluttershy flew below the Cross Knight in order to evade the missiles, while Twilight used her magic to raise a shield barrier in order to protect herself from chain gun fire. However, the Cross Knight's missile launcher suddenly exploded. Down below where the Cross Knight is, Pinkie started shooting an anti-air missile launcher at Amadeus' Mech, in which one of its missiles blew up the Cross Knight's missile launcher.

"THIS IS FOR MARBLE PIE, YOU BIG, DUMB WUSS!!!" Pinkie hissed as she glared at Amadeus' Cross Knight with fire in her angry eyes.

Without hesitation, Pinkie fired several more anti-air missiles at the Cross Knight. Upon seeing the missiles heading straight for him, Amadeus steered his mech away to his left and fired at the missiles with its Chain gun, destroying most of them while in mid-air. The next thing Pinkie Pie saw was the Cross Knight leaning forward straight in her direction and fired a mortar at the pink pony. However, Pinkie Pie broke the 4th wall as she grabbed a huge Pink Kite shield from her right and raised it up high into the sky. Upon impact, the mortar bounced off the kite shield and exploded 20ft above the pink female earth pony. As Rarity stepped in, right next to Pinkie Pie, she hurled another chained-axle at the Cross knight, wrapped its chain around the left huge leg, and pulled the mech down with all of her might. Unfortunately, Amadeus attempted to steer the Cross knight away from the fashionista, in hopes of resisting the strength of Rarity's chain-like weapon, while Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie where all holding onto the chain, in a vicious tug-of-war.

"URRRGH!!! L-LET GO OF MY LEG-G-G-GO!!!" Amadeus grunted loudly as he struggled to stay up in the sky with his Mech, while under pressurized vibration.

As soon as Amadeus steered his Mech towards the three ponies that were still using their chain to pull him down, he aimed the chain-gun at them, much to the horror of Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie. The next thing they see was the Cross Knight spraying at the two earth ponies and the unicorn with Chain-gun fire, only for Rarity to charge up her horn and summoned a purple shield barrier in order to shrug off the bullets that are bearing down on them. However, in just less than two minutes, Twilight hurled her halberd at the Cross Knight's chain-gun and, upon impact, blew up the weapon, making the cockpit shake a bit, with Amadeus losing his concentration.

"DAMN, YOU HARLOT!!!" Amadeus' roared. "You'll pay for that."

As the Mega Cross Knight drew out its two wrist-mounted blades, it shoot out its rocket thrusters and flew straight at Twilight Sparkle. During that time, Twilight drew out her Orichalcum Greatsword, raised it in front of her eye level, and charged straight at the Cross Knight while in mid-air. As soon as they both closed into each other, Twilight makes her first attack as she slammed her greatsword at the Cross Knights face only for it to perform a cross block with its blades. On Twilight's left, Fluttershy appeared and smashed her right metal-brass hoof straight into the Cross Knight's face, breaking through glass compartment in Amadeus' cockpit. After the Cross Knight disengaged with Twilight's Greatsword, Amadeus activated the rockets to execute reverse thrusters, attempting to back away from Fluttershy. As soon as Twilight sheathed her greatsword, the purple alicorn princess charged up her horn all the way to maximum firepower and shot out a very powerful beam of magic straight at Amadeus' Mega Cross Knight. Upon seeing this, Amadeus jerked the Cross Knight to veer to the right, hopefully evading Twilight's powerful magic. However, Twilight's magic was actually close enough to cause significant damage to the Cross Knight's side hull. 

"UGH!!! The Mega Cross Knight is finished." Amadeus cursed to himself.

Before Amadeus can activated his ejector seat, he sees Twilight use her magic to bring forth the rest of her friends and bearers of Harmony while still in mid-air. As soon as the Mane 6 assembled, they summoned forth the ultimate rainbow power of friendship and aimed its magical rainbow beam at Amadeus. Just when the Rainbow beam struck at Amadeus, he started screaming as his Cross Knight blew up into smithereens. Every single pony in Canterlot didn't miss this awe-struck rainbow explosion coming from the sky. When the Mane 6 landed on the ground, unharmed, they see the wrecked remains of the Mega Cross Knight crashing straight into the city pavement. As soon as Twilight and her friends approached the wreckage, they see that the Cross Knight's cockpit was empty and that the ejector seat wasn't used. Amadeus isn't beaten yet. Amadeus appeared right behind the Mane 6, after using a teleportation spell.

"Give it up, Amadeus Blueblood." Twilight said in a royal Canterlot voice as she and her friends turned around to face Amadeus again. "It's over now I tell you. IT'S OVER!!!"

"NOTHING IS OVER, YOUNG LADY!!!" Amadeus shouted. "You think you and your friends would win against me in my own game, will you? Well for your information, Twilight Sparkle, this is just the beginning."

Before Twilight Sparkle or any of her friends could do any more damage towards Amadeus, the evil unicorn summoned 
a barrage of huge torpedoes, enchanted with dark magic. In a blink of an eye, Amadeus launched the torpedos at the Mane 6. Upon impact, the torpedoes caused multiple explosions that sent all of the Mane 5 flying away, knocking all of them out cold. As for Twilight, she used her magic shield to protect herself from the constant explosions. However, every time the torpedos struck at Twilight's shield, its starts to slowly crack itself. As soon as the shield went down, Twilight immediately teleported herself away from the barrage of torpedoes and flew up into the sky. 

"Now that your friends are finally out of the way, your days are numbered!!! And this time, not even Princess Celestia is going to save you now!!!" Amadeus shouted as he disengaged his torpedo spell. "It's time for you to face me and the true power of the Bluebloods!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

As soon as Amadeus lit his horn up, he levitated himself off the ground and launched himself at the purple alicorn at full speed, drawing out his Black Greatsword. Amadeus' sword was forged with orichalcum ore and refurbished with dragon-like features on the sword's grip. Just like his spells, Amadeus' great sword is enchanted with dark magic, glowing in a light-green aura. Way before Amadeus' time, the Black Greatsword is an ancient heirloom that has been passed down by the most powerful lords in the Blueblood Noble Family. When Amadeus became the Lord and the newest Head of the Blueblood household, he inherited the Black Greatsword for more than 20 years. Upon seeing Amadeus coming straight at her, Twilight immediately drew out her Orichalcum Greatsword, summoned all of her alicorn magic, and used it to charge up her greatsword in an instant. After she charged her great sword to the fullest, Twilight Sparkle performed a high-powered nose dive, with her blade poised on her right, zooming straight at Lord Amadeus. As both the alicorn and the elderly unicorn clashed into each other, with their blades collided, a huge black and red X started circling around the two blades, with electrical discharges lashing out all over the place, not touching either of the two ponies. As Twilight and Amadeus disengaged from their first clash of blades and backed away from each other, Amadeus aimed his Great sword at Twilight and fired a dark-green beam of light at her. However, Twilight used her magic to raise her sword in a vertical stance, blocking and redirecting the beam away from her, hitting the ground 10 feet away from Amadeus. The next thing Amadeus saw was that Twilight disengaged from her flight, landed on all four hooves, and charged straight at him in a furious gallop. As soon as Twilight closed in onto Amadeus, she made a horizontal slash at Amadeus' chest with her blade only for him to parry against it with his own blade. Twilight's next attack was a vertical chop with her great sword. Then again, Amadeus parried against it with his blade. After making several more parries between the two noble ponies, Amadeus retaliated by unleashing a huge, horizontal wave of dark magic with his great sword at Twilight but not before she unleashed a huge vertical wave of alicorn magic with her greatsword. Upon contact, both waves of magic emitted another explosion between Twilight and Amadeus, causing a massive ray of light in the middle of their battle. In less than a minute, Amadeus charged straight at Twilight, raising his great sword above his head, and prepared to chop up Twilight in a vertical slash. Wasting no time, Twilight raised her great sword above her head in a horizontal stance, blocking Amadeus' blade from reaching her skin. Upon contact with Amadeus' great sword, Twilight redirected it with her great sword and lodged it straight into the ground. In an instant, Twilight used her magic to fire a laser beam at the Black Great sword, shattering it into 5 small pieces before hitting the ground. Just when Twilight aimed her great sword at Amadeus and thrusted the blade straight into his chest, Lord Amadeus responded by side-stepping away from Twilight's sword, unleashed a dark magical tendril from his horn, wrapped it around Twilight's great sword, and, with just one powerful coil, it broke apart Twilight's great sword like it were a small rock that was smash by a metal hammer.

Just when Amadeus lifted his hooves up in order to pounce on Twilight, she teleported herself away from it and reappeared 35 feet away from where the elderly unicorn was standing. In their second fighting round, Twilight Sparkle drew out her fire and ice blades, while Amadeus drew out his dual phase swords. Just like his greatsword, Amadeus' dual phase swords are enchanted with dark magic. Both of those blades have a light-purple color with a glowing light-green hue. As the alicorn and unicorn clashed their blades into each other and parried against one another, random sparks of magic started spewing out of their blades, some of them hitting the ground as small spots of ice, fire, and green blasts sprayed all over the area. Amadeus made a horizontal sweep with both of his blades coming from Twilight's right. Before either blade was able to hit Twilight in the legs, she flew up above Amadeus head, dodging his swords, and struck from above, attempting to take him down with both of her swords right on top of him. Upon seeing Twilight close in, Amadeus used his magic to raise both of his phase swords and blocked both Twilight's blades with them. After Amadeus shoved both of Twilight's swords away from him, Twilight landed on all four hooves and did a horizontal spinning attack with both of her swords attached to each other. Just when Twilight closed into Amadeus' position, the male unicorn jumped over Twilight and aimed his horn at the top of her head, attempting to fire a dark magic beam at her, while in mid-air. By the time he fired his magic, however, Twilight blocked Amadeus' magic with both of her swords and made a jab straight up above her position, only for Amadeus to do a forward flip in mid-air, before landing right behind the purple alicorn. The moment Amadeus landed on all fours, he screeched to a skidding halt and lunged at Twilight Sparkle with all of his might. In just seconds, Amadeus swung both of his phase swords and unleashed several waves of dark magic at Twilight. The next thing Twilight did was perform a crossover both of her fire and ice blades, raised them both up high above her head, and summoned several pillars of huge ice crystals and large spouts of fire surrounding her, blocking every dark magic wave that headed straight for her. After every dark magic wave that Amadeus has unleashed is neutralized, Twilight charged forward at the unicorn lord and unleashed several waves of fire and ice magic with her elemental blades. As soon as the fire and ice magic waves closed onto Amadeus, he summoned a light-green magic shield to ward them off, leaving behind various explosions outside of his magic shield. The next thing Amadeus saw from Twilight was that she performed repetitive jabs at his chest, only for him to block every jab with his phase swords. Amadeus raised his left phase sword up high, charged it up with his dark magic, and hit Twilight's fire blade with all of his might. The moment Amadeus' blade makes contact with Twilight's fire blade, a small explosion occurred between them only for the fire blade to break into 4 pieces. Twilight jumped away from Amadeus, charged up her ice blade, and did a horizontal slash at one of Amadeus' phase swords, cutting it in two pieces, making it useless. 

After backing away from each other, Twilight and Amadeus both raised their remaining swords up high above their heads before continuing their fight. They both attacked each other with their blades intact aggressively, making contact with their weapons at every side and at every angle. Just before they knew what was happening, Amadeus' phase sword and Twilight's ice blade came into contact with each other, inches away from both of their necks, as they both struggled on who's got the upper hoof in this fight. Before Twilight was able to make her counterattack, Amadeus struck first. He punched Twilight directly in the face with his right hoof, making her lose her guard against his phase sword, and stabbed his blade at Twilight's lower abdomen, piercing her royal alicorn breastplate. After receiving such a stab wound, Twilight screamed in pain as she collapsed on her front hooves. However, as soon as Amadeus pulled his sword out of Twilight's abdomen and attempted to do a vertical slash on her head, she swung her ice blade at Amadeus's phase sword in a horizontal swipe so hard, that it erupted into a small white explosion of broken shards, destroying both the phase sword and the ice sword at the same time. 

As both of the shattered blades fell on the ground, Amadeus lifts both of his hooves up off the ground and attempted to slam them both into Twilight's skull. However, Twilight raises her shield, which blocks both of Amadeus' hooves just inches away from her face, and casted a blinding implosion spell that send the evil unicorn flying and crashing into a nearby building. As soon as Twilight got up on her hooves again, she was met by a slowly bleeding wound coming from her abdomen. The next thing the purple alicorn saw was that her entire body getting battered by a series of lighting strikes zooming right past her all of a sudden. It turns out that Amadeus used another dark magic spell that makes him move at very fast speed, allowing him to initiate very fast hit-and-run attacks at Twilight Sparkle, delivering serious dents and cracks all over her royal alicorn armor, as well as knocking her helmet off her head and receiving more bruises to the face. Just when she was about to lose her stamina, her blood, and her consciousness, Majesty Blueblood intervened shoving her father away from a badly wounded Twilight Sparkle. In a rage, Majesty casted a crystalized prison spell to restrain Amadeus in a flash.

"FATHER, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!" Majesty roared. "I'm getting tired of being a pony that I didn't want to be. If Twilight really was a hero, like what it says in her journal, then I can't let you do this to us anymore because what we're doing right now is-"

"SILENCE!!!" Amadeus shouted at the top of his lungs as he breaks free from the crystalized prison. "No daughter of mine, is going to defy me and get away with it. Now get out of my way. This is between me and Twilight Sparkle."

"No, father." Majesty protested as she charged up her horn, getting ready to protect Twilight from her sick, twisted father. "After realizing how Twilight was able to inherit the throne of Canterlot as Celestia's newest heiress, I know now that if I were to be like her, I might as well have to take responsibility for everything I do and treat every pony fairly."

"Then, you might as well say your prayers too." Amadeus taunted as he lunged at his own daughter with extreme prejudice. 

The moment she sees her father charging at her, Majesty summoned a shield barrier to halt Amadeus' advances. Upon impact, Majesty flew up into the sky and unleashed multiple magic beams at Amadeus. Out of retaliation, Amadeus fired back at his alicorn daughter with everything he's got. During the fight between daughter and father, Twilight slowly got back up on her hooves and injected herself with a drug that makes her ignore all pain in her body and suppresses all bleeding wounds for a limited amount of time. In less than 10 seconds, Twilight was finally able to see what was going on immediately and makes her way towards Amadeus as she unfurled her wings once more. Upon seeing Twilight approach him at his left, Amadeus drew out his first sidearm, a flintlock pistol, and aimed it at Twilight's face. As Twilight's eyes widen with horror, the shot rang out. However, Twilight didn't feel any bullets piercing anywhere in her exposed body. Instead, the bullet hit Majesty in her right hoof, making her collapsed on the ground, while grunting in pain. It turns out that Majesty jumped in the way and shielded herself in front of Twilight, saving the purple alicorn from getting shot at by Amadeus.

"We could always find a replacement for Majesty Blueblood. I made her after all." Amadeus sighed as he is about to aim his firearm at Twilight Sparkle again.

Ultimately, before Amadeus could shoot at the purple alicorn again, Twilight flew straight at him in a heartbeat and punched at Amadeus in the windpipe and swiped the pistol away from him. After taking the full brunt of Twilight's hoof, Amadeus stopped in the middle of his hit-and-run attacks and clutched on his neck with both of his hooves, with his eyes widen with horror, followed by a huge "O" coming from his mouth. The next thing Amadeus saw was Twilight turn towards her right and kicked both of her hind legs at his chest, sending him plummeting straight into the ground. As soon as Amadeus landed on the ground, he slowly struggled to get up and took a breather after getting hit in the windpipe. 

"You should've killed me when you had the chance, girl!!" Amadeus taunted as he sneered at the purple alicorn. "Why do you live for friendship and harmony, even if its just expendable and easily wasted?"

"Because, those two virtues is what helped Princess Celestia guided me towards my future and the welfare of others!!" Twilight grunted as she circled around the elder unicorn. 

"Then, are you willing to die for them again, Twilight Sparkle?" Amadeus hissed as he prepares himself to engage the purple alicorn princess again, as he lit up his horn. "I already told you that one must sacrifice the other to achieve one's destiny, there's no other alternative." 

"I'll do anything to make them all proud of me!!!" Twilight Sparkle responded in a royal Canterlot voice as she lit up her horn. "You can't actually win over Equestria like I could because you don't have any real friends; no pony likes you."

"Well, if you really think you can save Equestria from me, then you might as well face your own inner demons and your own past first, starting with me for instance." Amadeus growled as he started glaring at the alicorn princess with a small smirk on his face. "BECAUSE THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE SHADOWS OF EQUESTRIA YOUNG LADY, FOR THEY WILL HAUNT YOU FOR ALL ETERNITY OVER YOUR DEAD BODY!!!!"

"THEN, LETS END THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!" Twilight roared at Amadeus in a royal Canterlot voice as she aimed her magic at him. "Come on, Amadeus. Let's finish this the way we started, TOGETHER!!!!"

The next thing Amadeus did was that he shoots out his powerful dark magic at Princess Twilight. At the same time, Twilight Sparkle shoots out her powerful alicorn magic at him. When Twilight's magic collided with Amadeus' magic, both ponies started struggling to push their magic back at their opponents. After a few minutes, Twilight eventually used her last ounce of her strength to push all of her magic back at Amadeus. As soon as the collided magic got closer to him, an big explosion erupted in front of his face, sending him flying backwards again before plummeting to the ground, face first. As Twilight approached Amadeus from behind with an intent to kill, the evil unicorn slowly got back up again. This time, Amadeus pulled out a second flintlock pistol from underneath his black armor and aimed it at Twilight's face with his magic. Not wanting to let Amadeus pull off another sneak attack, Twilight teleported herself at Amadeus' right and delivered him a very strong kick to the face that sent him flying 15 feet away from where he was at, resulting in a loud KA-POW, followed by a crack in his cheekbone. Upon impact, Amadeus' teeth broke apart and blood came spilling out of his mouth, while losing his concentration with his firearm and shot aimlessly away from the purple alicorn princess. As soon as Amadeus hit the floor again, he slowly struggled to get back up again only to be met by a small blade piercing his heart. It turns out that Twilight threw an orichalcum dagger at Amadeus, finishing him off for good. The next thing she saw from her nemesis is that Amadeus fell on the ground dead, but not before uttering his final breath.

"C-Curse you, T-Twilight S-Sparkle!!!" Amadeus Blueblood said in a slurred speech as he coughed out blood before passing away to meet his son and wife.	

"Goodbye, Amadeus Blueblood and good riddance!!!" Twilight Sparkle huffed breathlessly in a intense tone of voice. "Finally, its over." 

Before Twilight can move on, she felt that the drug she took is wearing off. The next Twilight felt was that her wound in her lower abdomen started bleeding again and that she can still feel various bruises all over her smooth, young body, in which cracked several of her bones. The next thing that happened is that Twilight slowly closed her eyes and collapsed on the ground, unconscious. Majesty lifted Twilight up and carried the purple alicorn on her back with her magic. As soon as all of Twilight's friends woke up, they spot Majesty Blueblood carrying the unconscious purple alicorn straight to one of medical tents stationed at the Canterlot gates. The moment Majesty left Twilight on one of the stretchers, the Crystal Guard immediately detained her to await her trial.
> Chapter 21: Queen Twilight Sparkle of the Golden Age
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In just 12 hours later, after the battle to retake Canterlot, Twilight Sparkle finally woke up only to find herself on top of a medical bed in the Canterlot Hospital. On her right, she sees Flash Sentry and Spike sitting at the sides and the moment they see Twilight wake up, they both immediately hugged her, relieved that she's actually okay. Upon seeing Flash Sentry again, she notices that he has stitches and bandages all over his orange body and his face, which was the result of getting cuts from crashing into one of the glass windows during the fight in Canterlot.

"Oh, Mother!! We all thought we lost you again." Spike cried in tears of happiness.

"It's okay, Spike. I've seen worse than just this." Twilight replied as she hugged her adoptive dragon son in her hooves. 

"You sure had us worried, my dear." Flash Sentry spoke in a calm tone of voice. "Your friends found you lying on the ground, bleeding and unconscious. The next thing they saw from you was when Majesty turned you over to the medical staff to treat you of your injuries."

"Flash, what happened when I was still out cold?" Twilight asked her pegasus colt-friend.

"Well, after the battle, we were able to round up all of the Unicornian guards that surrendered. As for the nobles who were on Amadeus' side, they were all detained and sent to Baltimare, where they all awaiting banishment to either Tartarus or to Unicornia. The moment we reclaimed Canterlot, we notified the royal sisters and Princess Cadence of our latest victory." Flash Sentry explained. "They'll be coming down here with a royal caravan as soon as you recover and leave the hospital. Also, Queen Majesty Blueblood, Admiral Thunderball, Morning Blade, Vermillion, Professor Felhand, and Lord Bronze are all taken into our custody to await their trial, just as soon as the Royal sisters and Princess Cadence arrive."

"But why Majesty Blueblood, after Discord's message was able to get through Majesty's thick skull of hers, despite how spoiled and how ruthless she was during the time she and her father took over Equestria?" Twilight asked while under a state of confusion. "And that she was begging our forgiveness and helped saved most of the other families from getting caught up in the siege of Canterlot, as well as helping me defeat Amadeus?"

"Majesty and her remaining followers may have tried to do the right thing just recently, but it does not change what they did in the past 15 years for they still have to answer to all the ponies that were previously enslaved and killed under their tyrannical reign." Flash Sentry responded in a grim tone of voice. "Oh, and by the way, Princess Celestia wanted me ask you to attend to their trial at Canterlot where you will be the one who shall decide their punishment. Every pony will be waiting for you there."

"Oka-UGH!!!" Twilight said before she started grunted in pain as she tried to get up from her medical bed. The moment she looked at herself, Twilight sees a body cast covering up her lower abdomen and feels a square bandage covering up her bruise on her face.

"Not right now, your highness." Flash Sentry continued. "The doctor said that you need a full two weeks of recovery first before we can begin their trial. They said that you had multiple small broken bones all over your ribs and that you lost like a quarter amount of blood from your wounds. You're already scheduled for a blood transfusion and a few surgeries to repair all of your bone tissue. For now, just get some rest. Don't worry my dear, I'll still stay right by your side until you recover, your highness."

"Thank you, Flash." Twilight said as she smiled at him before going to sleep, letting him touch her right cheek with his left hoof.

Meanwhile, outside of the Canterlot Hospital, Sunset Shimmer and Starlight Glimmer were able to be successfully discharged after making a full recovery of their injuries in just about 24 hours. Upon leaving the building, they see Trixie and the rest of the Mane 5 right outside. Though, they were all still worried of Princess Twilight Sparkle, until Shinning Armor appeared before them, telling the girls that Twilight will be okay after two weeks of recovery. During the time Twilight is recovering, the rest of the Mane 5, Soarin, Starlight, Trixie, and Sunset helped Shinning Armor rebuild Canterlot, repairing everything that was destroyed during their assault to retake their Capital away from Unicornia. The rest of Tirek's former warriors volunteered to help rebuild Canterlot as well in order to cover up all the damage that their sick-twisted Centaur Lord has caused. While on their breaks, most of the Mane 5 were able to get to visit Twilight Sparkle in her hospital dorm, leaving her behind flowers and books. During the reconstruction of Canterlot, all of the dead ponies that fought for Equestria's freedom have been buried in the memorial gardens, granted special honors so that every pony will remember the day that they gave their blood to save their country. As for the dead Unicornians, they were all burned to ashes and dumped into the river, including Amadeus' corpse. The moment they were done repairing all of Canterlot, the Centaurs and the Gargoyles went back to their homeland to start anew with their newest, gifted, kind-hearted ruler named King Grimauldus, who happens to be one of the direct descendants of King Scorpan. 

After Twilight recovered and was discharged from the Canterlot Hospital, she was immediately meet by her parents and Shinning Armor outside. Upon seeing them again, Twilight hugged Twilight Velvet, Night Light, and Shinning ensuring that she was okay. Behind her parents and her brother, Twilight sees an unknown female unicorn in a grey cloak in the distance before she disappeared behind a residential building right next to her. Twilight wasn't sure who was that female pony that saw her and walked away. Not wanting to worry about it, Twilight lead her parents and her brother back to their old house to rest up for the next day. As Twilight and her parents disappeared, the same female unicorn appeared again from behind the residential building. She happens to be none other than Mystic Sparkle, who abandoned her last name so that she can get away from her parents to start her life all over again. 

"So that must be Princess Twilight Sparkle." Mystic Sparkle said to herself. "I didn't think she would actually be alive after all this time. Though, I still don't think I could bear myself to face her as my sister, or the rest of our family again. I still need some time to think about this first. After all, I'm hoping that someday, I'll become just as great she is, so that our parents will never doubt me again."

Mystic Sparkle pulled on her grey hood before trotting her way towards the entrance of Canterlot and disappeared into the bright light bearing down on her. All around Canterlot, various rays of light started shinning down upon the city, indicating that the shadows of the Blueblood family and the evil power hungry nobles have finally faded away. 

After spending 3 days at her birthplace, Twilight gets a letter from Princess Celestia through Spike that she, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence have all arrived at the gates of Canterlot and has requested her audience with them to discuss the trial that will decide the fate of Majesty Blueblood and her surviving nobles. As soon as Twilight arrived at the main gate, she was greeted by all three princesses with a group hug, followed by smiles on their faces. Right behind the four alicorns, another royal caravan appeared before them. From inside the caravan, a unicorn named King Silversteel appeared and bowed down to Twilight Sparkle. The royal sisters told Twilight that he received a message from one of Thunderball's sailors telling him about Amadeus' plot that is threatening to put his wife in danger due to his false claims and wishes to save her from falling prey to the corruption infecting Equestria due to her father's scheming. After that, Twilight led them all the way back to the Palace were they'll start going over the options to carry out the nobles' punishments. As for Discord, he did his part as a lawyer for Majesty, Admiral Thunderball, and Lord Bronze. On the next day, the trial began with Twilight standing up on the Equestrian throne with Princess Luna and King Silversteel on her right and Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence on the left, with all of them wearing their crowns and royal accessories. Up front of the audience, from left to right, there is Majesty Blueblood, Thunderball, Bronze, Morning Blade, Felhand, and Vermillion, all of them are being escorted by Flash Sentry, Gladius Strife, and several royal guards that are still loyal to Twilight Sparkle. Upon seeing them appear before Twilight, the two remaining Unicornian Royal Knights were all battered and bruised with Morning Blade have dents on his robotic body, along with old patches of burns on his skin, and Vermillion having dried bloodstains on his coat. All of them have been chained up in the legs and on their necks. Majesty Blueblood is now seen with her right hoof covered up in a dress wound, after getting shot by Amadeus' pistol. As for Twilight's friends, her family, and the rest of her loyal subjects and nobles, they're all standing right behind the 5 defendants, still glaring at them with hostility and hate in their eyes. Before any pony could say anything, Princess Twilight Sparkle makes her announcement to the public at the beginning of their trial as she used her magic to take out a scroll to explain all of the crimes they've committed over the past 15 years.

"Attention all fillies and gentlecolts, we are gathered here today to press charges on the defendants presented before us all in this public, criminal trial: Majesty Blueblood the alicorn Queen of Unicornia, Blitz Thunderball the Admiral of the Unicornian Fleet, Copper Bronze the Lord and Head of the Bronze Noble family, Sir Morning Blade the general and head of the Royal Knights of Unicornia, Red Vermilion the Commander and 2nd of member of the Royal Knights of Unicornia, and Professor Felhand Greencoat the Mad scientist, inventor, and weapons designer." Twilight Sparkle announced to the public. "These corrupted nobles and military insurgents are all accused for the crimes of genocide, terrorism, assault and battery, bribery, high treason, looting, racial discrimination, monopolizing illegal trade, tax evasion, unauthorized enslavement, smuggling, and illegitimate uses of experimentation. After going over the paperwork carefully and discussing all the options with my fellow princesses, I was contemplating on sentencing all of them to life imprisonment at Tartarus or to death by the gallows. However, since Majesty, Thunderball, and Bronze have actually displayed good faith by helping the innocent fillies, mares, and gentle colts escape Canterlot with their lives just recently, during our previous siege to retake the Capital city of Equestria, and that one of them helped me stop Amadeus in his tracks, I won't pass the death sentence onto every pony defendant in this trial. In fact, their punishments will be reduced, apart from Blade, Felhand, and Vermillion. Before I can carry out all of their sentences separately, I want to see if any pony from the defending side has any objections first."

Before any pony could say anything, Majesty Blueblood stepped forward and bowed at Twilight's hooves, without showing any fear.

"Your highness, I understand that you and your friends all have a lot of reasons not to trust me despite my actions made against father. But I want to let you know that despite all the lectures and teachings that my father and his associates gave me, I had no idea that things would actually get out of control because of what they did to you, due to reasons that I actually didn't really understand." Majesty spoke towards Twilight Sparkle. "I just wanted to ensure the survival of our country as well as saving our families from tearing each other apart. However, after reading your journal that Discord dropped on my hooves, it turns out that I was so blind by my use of power and dominance, I didn't realize that you already succeeded in doing what no noble pony has done before. It turns out that, after ruling over Equestria for 15 years, I was forced by my own peers to steal away what you already established during your reign. As of right now, I don't have any good excuses for treating your friends and your loyal subjects like trash. So, despite my husband's pleading, I'll accept whatever punishment you would give us."

"Point taken, Majesty Blueblood." Twilight acknowledged. "Now then, anypony else?"

In just one minute, Morning Blade stepped forward next to Majesty with anger and fury in his eyes.

"TWILIGHT SPARKLE, YOU TWO-BIT, STUBBORN, SELF-CONCEITED, OVERCONFIDENT, SHITTY EGGPLANT, LITTLE BRAT!!!!" Morning Blade angrily shouted as he tried to leap at the purple alicorn, only for Flash Sentry and Gladius Strife to grab him from behind and pulled him away from her. "Just because you killed Lord Amadeus, Lord Eagle Eye, and Lord Rasputin that doesn't mean it's going to be over. There will be some pony out there that will start rebelling against you in the future someday if you're not careful. They'll hunt you down and catch your purple ass. When they do, they're not just going to kill you. In fact, if my family ever finds out what happened to me because of you, THEY'RE GOING TO FUCK YOUR LIFE UP, ALONG WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN. YOU ARE DEAD I TELL YOU, DEAD, D-E-A-D, DEAD, ALONG WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR FAMILY!!!!"

Undaunted by Morning Blade's wild ranting, Twilight kept a very strong posse, unaffected by such yelling. "Sorry Morning Blade, but maybe if you at least listened to me in the first place and gave me a chance to show my good faith in every pony without resorting to such mindless violence, then maybe I would've spare your life. However, since you proven yourself to be a big disgrace and a huge threat to every pony I care about, including my brother, you left me with no other choice."

As Twilight unfurled her wings and lift them up in the air, with her eyes glowing white, she finally makes her sentence at the trial in a royal Canterlot voice. "As the Princess of Friendship, I, Twilight Sparkle, shall hear by banish Majesty, Thunderball, and Bronze to the Kingdom of Unicornia until you're all ready to reestablish Princess Platinum's Peace Treaty and until further notice. As for Vermillion and Morning Blade, I hereby sentence you two to the death by the gallows. And as for Professor Felhand, you are hereby sentenced to life imprisonment at Tartarus without parole. May Faust have mercy on all of your souls."

After Twilight announced her sentences to the defendants at her court, she used her magic to slam her hammer on the throne seat, indicating that the court is now adjourned. When every pony left the area, Vermillion and Morning Blade are both dragged back to the dungeon by Flash and Gladius. As for Shinning Armor, Silversteel, and the rest of the Mane 5, they escorted Majesty, Thunderball, and Bronze all the way to Manehattan, along with the rest of their remaining families and their associates for an immediate departure back to Unicornia. When Twilight left the throne room, she runs into Starlight Glimmer, Sunset Shimmer, and Trixie Lulamoon. Before Twilight could say anything, Trixie approached her in a happy mood.

"So, Twilight, are you sure that banishing those three nobles is actually worth it?" Trixie asked the purple alicorn, mentioning Majesty, Thunderball, and Bronze. 

"Well Trixie, I'm expecting from them more than just their apologizes. It's just like Flash Sentry said earlier, it doesn't change what they did in the past." Twilight responded to the light-blue unicorn mare. "In fact, most of the past sins they have committed cannot be taken back just yet. After all, they did hurt a lot of ponies during the time that I was gone and that most of them have suffered way beyond saving. So, with Discord's and Princess Luna's advice, it's better off that they need to go back to their own home country so that they can start all over again."

"But what about the other nobles who still have doubts in your democracy in Equestria, Twilight?" Starlight asked Twilight in a worried tone. 

"We're going to have to take care of them immediately before they start arousing any rebellions against us." Twilight Sparkle. "Can you guys still help me reason with them too?"

"Sure thing, Twilight." Sunset acknowledged Twilight's request with a smile on her face. "We'll make sure they don't make the same mistakes that the Bluebloods did."

"Thanks guys." Twilight said as she smiled to all three unicorns.

Within 5 years, after Morning Blade and Vermillion are publicly executed, with their bodies thrown into the ravines, and with Felhand serving his life sentence at Tartarus, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna finally went into retirement at their country house at Manehattan, letting Twilight Sparkle take over the throne as their one and only Queen of Equestria. Though, the royal sisters still pay a visit to Twilight for advice every once in awhile. With every pony rejoicing, they held a grand celebration to commemorate the dawn of a new age and a new order of the Golden Era. Most of the ponies that took refuge at the Crystal Empire finally went back to their designated homes in Canterlot and in Ponyville. As Twilight made changes towards Equestria, each decision she makes was carefully inspected, interviewed, and determined by Rarity's Official Court of Equestrian Nobles, deciding whether if it needs adjustments or that they'll carry it out to the public. Sometimes, Twilight visits her castle in Ponyville to check up on the Mane 5, while she's taking care of her royal duties at Canterlot and in Ponyville. During that time, she left her adopted son Spike, her pet Owliscious, and most of the Mane 5 to take care of her castle. 

After Unicornia's defeat, they were finally convinced that the lies and deceit that Amadeus Blueblood has caused were finally realized. Consequently, they lost control every city that they took over in Equestria and gave back all of the rights, reformations, and citizenry to the Equestrian ponies before they went back to their island homeland. When Queen Majesty, King Silversteel and their fellow nobles went back to Unicornia, they decided to make amends towards the rest of the inhabitants that are still residing there. During their exile, Majesty went under a surgical operation to remove the mind-controlling crystal that was still residing in her body, finally freeing her from her enslavement. After that, Majesty decided to help rebuild the Blueblood Noble family, restoring them of ancestor's, Sir Blueblood's, former glory. 

As for the Mane 5, Applejack opened up businesses so that his Changeling friends and Crimson and his family help her expand their sales on various Apple products manufactured by the Apple Family. Pinkie Pie, her husband Cheese Sandwich, and her family were granted a private contract by Queen Twilight herself that any Orichalcum that was harvested in their rock farm must be secured and safely stored in crates before being shipped out to the Canterlot Vaults where they will not fall under the wrong hooves. If they insisted on withdrawing any crates of Orichalcum for any reason, they must be well-approved and signed by Queen Twilight herself first and must be kept under a constant, permanent supervision. After Rainbow Dash became reinstated back into the Wonderbolts, she paid Soarin back by offering her hoof in marriage in which he agrees immediately. Their wedding took place at Cloudsdale where Dash's friends and her family celebrated with her during this happy day of her life. For Fluttershy, after she married Discord, she and Discord traveled outside of Equestria to explore new areas, plot new charts and maps, meet new species, and make diplomatic solutions for them to accept friendships outside of Equestria. For Rarity, she and her husband Spike were able to restore their businesses in their Fashion Boutiques, rehiring all of their managers residing there. During the time Queen Twilight makes her announcements, she also appointed several more royal knights to serve under her will thanks to the help of Flash Sentry, Shinning Armor, and Gladius Strife. Furthermore, they also made sure that their honesty and loyal is kept in check through strict military discipline and supervision, so that there will be zero chance that none of them will start rebelling against the crown. As for Princess Cadence, she insisting on making good economic trade between the Crystal Empire, Canterlot, and Ponyville as well as protecting all trade routes coming from Yakyakistan, the Griffon Kingdom, Saddle Arabia, Manehattan, Appleloosa, Cloudsdale, and Baltimare. For Trixie, right after she recovered her lost stuff at Canterlot, she became Twilight's official spokespony to demonstrate the Queen's royal decrees by broadcasting every change on how great they really are to the public. After making demonstrations to the public, Trixie has also requested approval from each and every one of them by asking them to place their votes into the ballots at the post offices in their cities, whether they'll agree or disagree. After Starlight Glimmer married Sunburst, she continued to serve Queen Twilight, not just as her student, but also as her right hand mare and advisor. As Twilight's advisor, Starlight insisted on making suggestions for her queen and friend whenever making changes for Equestria. As for Sunset Shimmer, she served Queen Twilight as her ambassador at Canterlot High, in hopes of discovering and learning new technologies from the human world. Sunset's purpose of as an ambassador, is to ensure that the rest of the Equestrians will adapt to such new improvements for their beloved country.

After Queen Majesty Blueblood of Unicornia reestablished the peace treaty 2 years later, ending the violent conflict between the Unicornians and the Equestrians, Queen Twilight Sparkle of Equestria celebrated this new era of peace by offering her hoof in marriage towards her most trust knight and her dear colt-friend, Captain Flash Sentry of the Solar Guard Division. The wedding was held in Twilight's Castle Ballroom at Ponyville where all of her family, her fellow princesses, her friends, and their loved ones are all waiting for her. As the wedding began, royal colors were hanging up on the ceiling at the ballroom. They were all colored in orange and purple, with most of them bearing the Twilight's cutie mark and Flash's cutie mark. Royal Guards are stationed at the doorway to the castle's ballroom.

As the two huge doors open at the Ballroom, the CMC came in first as the flower fillies. After that, there came Queen Twilight Sparkle, with a happy smile on her face, followed by a cute squeal. Upon seeing her in the public, many ponies could not help but cheer for her happily after seeing how beautiful and how lovely Twilight really is. She was wearing a regal white gown and a light-blue dress filled with golden embroideries. Her lovely mane was fashioned by Rarity and Spike, making it flow right behind her head, with yellow flowers on top of it, followed by a white veil that has a blue sting with white beads. As she approached to the front, Twilight was followed by Trixie and Starlight, as her bridesmaids, lifting up her white dress with their magic by the ends, while they're both smiling at her. Upon seeing his LSBFF wearing such a gorgeous wedding dress, Shinning Armor couldn't stop crying in tears of happiness.

"Oh, Twiley. My dear LSBFF is all grown up." Shinning wailed as he let Princess Cadence comfort him in her hooves. "I-I just can't resist!!!"

At the front, there is Flash Sentry standing right next to Princess Celestia at the front. When he put his Royal Guard Armor away, he dressed himself up in a black tuxedo suit. His blue mane was refashioned into a smooth wavy cut, in which made Twilight find Flash even more handsome than ever before. Upon seeing the orange pegasus in a more formal appearance, it made the queen blush even more. As soon as Queen Twilight went up to the front, with Trixie and Starlight joining the rest of the Mane 5, along with the rest of the audience, Princess Celestia stepped forward to make her announcement for the wedding of Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry.

"Fillies and Gentlecolts, we are gathered here today to celebrate the resurrection and reunion of Queen Twilight Sparkle and Captain Flash Sentry." Princess Celestia announced. "Their strength and bravery unwavered, their bond unbreakable, their loyalty towards each other undisputed and unquestionable, and their love undeniable. By help saving Equestria from the recent oppression, tyranny, and annihilation caused by Unicornia, these two noble, devoted ponies have obtained the greatest honor along with all those who fought for them. Spike, may we have the rings, please?"

After responding to Celestia's request, Spike comes up to the front and presented them their wedding rings, with one of them engraved with the writing "TS X FS, till death do us part" and one with a string around it. 

"I now pronounce you Mare and Colt." Celestia announced as she used her magic to lift up both of the rings and put one Twilight's horn and one on Flash's neck.

After hearing Princess Celestia's speech every pony started cheering for them with such tearful happiness and awe. While Flash and Twilight both smiled and waved at the crowd behind them, the mane 5, Sunset, Starlight, Trixie, and Twilight's parents were all smiling while silently crying in tears of joy. Not a moment too soon, the purple alicorn and orange pegasus started kissing each other passionately. Upon seeing this, Princess Luna, Princess Cadence, and Princess Celestia started smiling from the background, claiming that Twilight Sparkle was finally get to be with the colt of her dreams.



After they're done kissing, the Alicorn Queen and the Pegasus Captain started dancing in the middle of the ballroom, holding each other in their hooves while the rest of the other ponies and creatures watched, as the musicians started playing their music. Upon seeing all of this, Fluttershy could not help but smile as she let her tears drip on the floor while embracing Discord on her left with his paw patting on top of her head. 

"Are you okay, Fluttershy?" Discord asked his yellow female pegasus wife.

"Y-Yes, I am." Fluttershy said in a happy, soft-spoken voice, while wiping her tears away with a handkerchief before turning face towards Discord. "I-It just that, I-I just love happy reunions."

"So do I my dear, so do I." Discord said as he smiled at Fluttershy before looking back at Twilight and Flash.

During her dancing with Flash, Twilight remembered what Discord and Princess Celestia said to her before she helped saved all of Equestria again from Amadeus and his cronies.





"You're not hopeless, Twilight. You already showed me, Trixie, Sunset, and Starlight on how a true leader should behave. That is, by treating others fairly, giving them things to do without hesitation, without being sinful on all sorts, and by not abusing the power that you possess. It's just like what Princess Sunbutt said: You are an inspiration for us all, Twilight. When you reformed me, I'm actually grateful at that because you gave me a second chance to understand friendship just like any other pony would. So, there's no point living in the past anymore because you already taught me that friends always stick together and help each other out when the situation turns dire, right?" 

"I'm not as loved as you think I am, even I have political enemies as well. But Luna and I were there for each other, as well as our friends. Eventually, we won the hearts of our subjects and we can do the same for you. We will protect you, Twilight Sparkle, I will protect you." 





"It seems that Princess Celestia and Discord are both right, it's never too late to solve your problems, than rather run away from them, since there will always be friends that will help you out, no matter what." Twilight told to herself while in Flash's embrace. "After all, there's always a lot to live for. And as long as I have friends that can help me enforce and fight for the magic of friendship, there won't be anything that I cannot do. Therefore, our friendship will be carried out during the dawn of a new order, followed by the Golden Age."

As Queen Twilight Sparkle and Captain Flash Sentry continued dancing, a choir version of their romantic song started playing in the background.

I know you, I walked with once upon a dream,
I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam,
And I know it's true that the vision is seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you will do
YOU'LL.....LOVE....ME.....AT....ONCE, THE....WAY....YOU....DID....ONCE
UPON.....A......DREAM.......
> Epilogue: Majesty's atonement, Mystic's reunion
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Two years later after Twilight's and Flash's Ceremonial Wedding:

Somewhere outside of the Crystal Empire, Princess Cadence led Queen Majesty Blueblood of Unicornia to her brother's grave up to a secluded area somewhere in the mountains, surrounded by wind and snow. There, Majesty sees a tombstone that said "Bluey" on it. A young unicorn Colt, who happens to be Majesty's son, a.k.a the young prince of Unicornia, appeared right beside the her. The little Colt had a white coat with a light blue mane. Upon seeing her brother's grave, she stood in front of it for a few minutes before saying anything.

"Cadence, is this where...?" Majesty asked the crystal princess before she finished her sentence for her.

"Yes Majesty, your brother used to be my childhood friend, way back before my sister-in-law was born." Princess Cadence answered. "If only there was still time to change Prince Blueblood despite what his father taught him, I'm sure he wouldn't be lying in his wooden coffin. Even though my aunt and the rest of our family hated him and that he couldn't be reasoned with the way Discord, Sunset, and Starlight were, I still wanted to pay him back after he helped me find my place amongst the royal family of Equestria."

"Say, Princess." Majesty's son asked Princess Cadence. "Is Prince Blueblood really a bad guy or a good guy?"

"Well kid, I can't say for sure." Princess Cadence responded to the little colt. "All I know is, Prince Blueblood wasn't always a bad pony noble. We used to have fun with each other since we were little fillies, or so I thought. Ever since I heard that he let those thugs get Queen Twilight, I was desperately trying to ask why would he do this to us. Even though he said none, I still think that his father was the one who made him like this."

"You mean my grandpa?" The little colt asked, with Princess Cadence responding with a positive nod. "When I heard about how your sister-in-law became the Queen of Equestria, I could not help but ask this: Is it really possible for a low-ranked pony like Twilight Sparkle to rise up in the higher ranks of nobility?"

"Not always." Princess Cadence said. "However, I always knew that Queen Twilight is anything but a regular old unicorn."

"But, what did Queen Twilight do to grandpa that made him a mortal enemy to her?" Majesty's son asked.

"Well son, let's just say that he didn't want Queen Twilight's Democracy interfering with his political, lifelong dreams." Queen Majesty said. 

Before her son could say anything, Queen Majesty turned her face towards her brother's grave and left behind a bouquet of flowers in front of his tombstone. The next thing Majesty did was that she makes her speech in front of Prince Blueblood's grave.

"Brother, if only you were still here on the day that I was born, I would've been able to get to learn a lot from you, but in a good way without sin." Majesty said to her deceased brother. "Ever since Princess Luna told me about the truth about how our Noble Family Bloodline nearly shattered because of our father, I almost lost my way before I even knew what was going on. Maybe if I had a chance to meet Queen Twilight Sparkle and at least try to understand her first, instead of helping father did something that we're both going to regret, I'm sure she and I wouldn't be fighting each other 7 years ago, even if I was controlled against my own will, neither make the Equestrian Queen banish me to the Unicornian kingdom due to my sins. After all, they did told me that any pony that possesses leadership or power is not to be taken lightly, for their responsibilities can be overwhelming. But no matter, as the Queen of Unicornia, I will do my best to help restore both countries back to their former glory, as well as helping Queen Twilight spread friendship throughout our nation. Since I'm nothing like our father, I will find a way to make it up to you and to our mother because if I were to make Sir Blueblood proud of us, we must not abandon his virtuous legacy to serve and protect all those we love. Farewell dear brother, I'll make sure I will not dishonor our family's nobility ever again."

After Queen Majesty makes her speech in front of her brother's grave, she, her son, and Princess Cadence make their way downhill back to the Crystal Empire. At the Crystal Empire, Majesty and her son make an immediate departure to Canterlot to meet up with Queen Twilight and Captain Flash Sentry. At the Canterlot Palace throne room, Majesty's son went ahead to go play with Twilight's and Flash's daughter, who happens to be another alicorn princess, at the Canterlot gardens. As for Majesty, she wishes to open up more friendly trade routes coming from Unicornia to most of the cities residing near the ocean at the far east of Equestria. 

During their discussion, back at the Sparkle residence, a cloaked pony appeared at the doorway. She knocked on the door in hopes of getting a response from the inside of the house. As soon as the door opened, Twilight Velvet and Night Light appeared before them. Before they could say anything, the cloaked pony revealed herself to be none other than Mystic Sparkle. Upon seeing this, Velvet and Night Light immediately hugged Mystic in tears of happiness, finally relieved that she was okay. To make matters more interesting, both of Mystic's parents heard on the news headlines about how she was able to display quite a strong reputation of magic tricks and good talents all on her own earlier. Her parents apologized to Mystic for doubting her, upon hearing about her reputation. She asked her parents where her elder sister is at. They responded by pointing their hooves towards the Canterlot Palace. 

Meanwhile, after Majesty's discussion, Twilight receives a message scroll from Starlight and Discord that there is another riot down at Manehattan that needs to be dealt with, saying that there were several protests made against Queen Twilight about letting legally Griffon immigrants work at the Manehattan shipyards. Without further a due, Queen Twilight sends forth Captain Flash Sentry and a platoon pegasus guard ponies to help the Manehattan police disperse the rioting crowds there. As soon as they left, another of Twilight's guards appeared before her, telling her that a guest wanted to see her at the main palace entrance. Upon hearing this, Twilight leaves the throne room with Majesty Blueblood. At the Palace Courtyard, the two alicorns meet a unicorn pony mare standing right next to the entrance. After she unveiled her hood, she introduces herself as Mystic Sparkle to Queen Twilight. Earlier, after Queen Twilight help retook Canterlot, her parents told her that she actually had a younger sister named Mystic Sparkle, who they had her quarantined inside their home, fearing for her safety. However, after many long years of Mystic's disappearance, Twilight finally gets to meet her at Canterlot, followed by a smile on her face. After Mystic smiled back at Twilight, the Queen of Equestria decided to let Mystic in to see the rest of the Canterlot Palace from the inside. Upon being reunited with her family and her lost sister, Twilight Sparkle's journey to fulfill her destiny in leading Equestria to a Golden Age has just begun.

As Queen Majesty trotted around the Canterlot Palace Courtyard alone, she sings her song to herself while staring up into the sky, seeing the spirits of her deceased mother and brother, with tears coming down from her eyes.

If I'm a Noble 
Then I do I feel so cruel?
I'm as strong as a goddess, even that's not enough

There's something piercing inside my skull
And I have made such mistakes 
I thought that as a Noble, I'm flawless, 
Though I feel that I could break

Would you believe, 
that I've wished that I could be some pony else?
Yet, I can see, 
what I need to do in order to be the pony I want to be

My father told me my entire life
what to do and what to say
No pony in Equestria showed me
that there's a better way

And now that I have lost my way
I don't know what to do anymore
I feel that the ground is sinking below my feet
It feels like that I'm about to fall right in

Would you believe, 
that I've wished that I could be somepony else?
Yet, I can see, 
what I need to do in order to be the pony I want to be

To be the pony I want to be

After the tour around the Canterlot Palace, Twilight, Trixie, Mystic, and Majesty gathered in the throne room to decided what to do in order to improve Ponyville. Queen Twilight received word earlier that there are some griffons, dragons, and Unicornian immigrants who want to settle in Ponyville. Before any of them could make a decision, Majesty makes her speech first.

"Twilight, how about we build new homes and expand Cheerlie's school, for every pony and creature to enjoy their life in Ponyville?" Majesty asked. "I'll help Trixie show how ponies will not live in fear with our new guests. My husband even decided to help donate 15,000 bits worth of equipment and resources to start this project."

"No, problem, Majesty." Trixie said in a happy, prideful tone. "The great and powerful Trixie will not hesitate in letting reformed volunteers support our beloved country."

"Very well, Majesty." Twilight Sparkle acknowledged her request as she gave her a scroll that dedicates Majesty's royal approval by the Queen to help improve Ponyville. "Mystic, do you want to see Ponyville as well?"

"Why, I be delighted sis!!!" Mystic said cheerfully. "Let's do it."

"You know Twilight, I'm actually grateful that I was able to get to know you a lot more better than my father and my brother did." Majesty said as she smiled at Twilight. "If I hadn't, I will never be free from my sins. As a matter of fact, you're the pony that I should've listened to."

"It was nothing, Majesty." Twilight said as she smiled back at Majesty. "After all, when Celestia made me a Princess of Equestria, I know now that a true friend and a true ruler never gives in to such selfish interests; that's what the royal sisters and Princess Cadence all love me for. I can teach you the magic of friendship, if you wish." 	

"Thank you, my Queen." Majesty said while bowing down at her hooves, with tears of happiness coming down from her eyes. "It would've been a honor for you to be my friend."

"Sure thing, Majesty." Twilight acknowledged as Majesty looked up and started smiling at her. "After all, when there is true friendship, there is hope; when there is hope, there is light; when there is light, there is change; and when there is change, there is order."

At Ponyville, Queen Twilight and her daughter, Majesty and her son, Trixie, and Mystic arrived at the town square with a group of construction ponies and architects. During the construction, the Mane 5 and their loved ones all volunteered to help rebuild and improve Ponyville, with Majesty continuing her song to brighten up herself and her son.

There is so much I can do to help every pony else
I can see the light from above shining down on me
Now I know I can do better

I can be free from my past
Because the future is bright for me
My cutie mark now sets me free
And to do what's right
In order to be the pony I want to be

And be the pony I want to be

THE END