Having captured Zecora and the rebels, Queen Chrysalis brings her captured enemies back to Canterlot for punishment. Her own peculiar, twistedly comical brand of punishment.
On Hearthswarming Eve in a dark alternate Equestria - engaged in a crusade to 'purify' the worlds of ponies and humans alike - Queen Celestia sends out an assassin to eliminate Sint Erklass, the Spirit of Hearthswarming and her own adoptive father.