The Ponies Strike Back

Twilight . . . Listen to her . . . While we were stuck down here, I saw a book about the changlings history. You shall call her Millicent. Its an ancient name . . . Now hurry. Go to Shining Armor and Cadence. They'll show you were your adventure begins  . . . and ends . . .

     The words echoed in Twilight's head repeatedly the whole night. She didn't dare to sleep knowing the princesses had been injured badly. She was determined to find Queen Crysalis and give her a taste of her own medicine, but not following Millicent's orders were the last thing she wanted to do. Twilight had spent the night before taking care of Applejack. She was in bandages, but she was not permitted to run or fight with her back legs, but to fight with a weapon of some sorts in her mouth. If only Twilight had the nerve to stand up for the princesses, and fight the changlings.

3:23 A.M....

    Rainbow Dash woke up, her mane was irritating, and  a pile of her rainbow mane had been cut off, and thrown onto the floor next to her bed that had been thrown together in the castle.

She scratched her mane constantly,  stared at the strands of hair on the fluffy red carpet in the room, then  shook her tail to see if she happened to be shedding. Just to make sure, she bit on some hair covering her eye, and pulled it. Not a strand of hair had fallen, but had been cut off by the looks of it.

The wind began to blow the clumps of hair down the hall. Rainbow Dash's door was open, a silhouette stood at the other end of the hall, and it shook. It gathered the scattered hair, and ran into another hall way, the hall way that led to the room Fluttershy was sleeping so peacfully in.

Rainbow Dash got out of her bed, grabbed little strands of her hair on the carpet, then ran after the figure. Her hooves quickly stopped in front of Fluttershy's room. The silhouette had put a hood on, and was watching Fluttershy sleep. The shy pony yawned, rolled over, and saw the creature with the hood staring down at her. She was about to scream, in till it took a pair of scissors out of its pocket, and cut about five inches of her hair off.

The creature then ran out of the room, pushing Rainbow Dash to the wall, and heading towards Twilight and Pinkie Pie's room. The small hairs from Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's mane began to fall out of the creature's jacket, creating a trail for Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy ran out of her room and chased the creature, grinding her perfectly white teeth, and growling.

Once more, the creature cut five inches of hair off of Twilight's and Pinkie Pie's mane. They got annoyed as well, went into the hall with the others, and the four of them prepared for the most dramatic hair trimming of all time . . . Rarity.

Applejack was to be calm, but to kick the creature in the chest with her two, strong back legs, and as much as Rarity cared deeply about her tail, perfectly curled to the touch, and delightfully soft, she would attack the creature with her back legs. Almost as strong as Applejack's but slightly weaker. This time, Rarity was stronger though, since Applejack's thy had been horribly cut.

Rainbow dash flew up to get a better view in till she hit the ceiling. Her head started throbbing, as Rarity came chasing the creature with a violet blue high heel shoe in her mouth. Applejack ran by her side, growling, as Rarity struggled to throw the shoe. The creature's hood fell off, as it ran out onto the castle balcony. Some hair fell out of its pocket, right as it jumped. Fluttershy flew over the edge, and watched it land on its hooves.

"Night . . ."

Twilight turned around with everybody else, and headed down to the living room, to stare into the flames in the fireplace . . .

Morning . . .

   Rarity threw on her designer  scarf with little gems encrusted in, making a beautiful pattern that described her perfectly. She combed her hair completely straight, and curled it on the very tip of every single strand of hair.  She threw a bright red beret from her visit to France on her stylish hair, covering her glittery white horn, then she put on a delightful masquerade mask, feathers used as eyelashes.

She put on a black and white striped dress, and a white bow to compliment her hair.

Rainbow Dash slowly walked into the room, growling, and grabbing Rarity but the tip of her dress. Rainbow Dash was ashamed for her dress wasn't cool. Twilight and Fluttershy complimented her midnight blue dress, with gold and apple green circles placed in a pattern.

She had Twilight help her put on the best mask. It had a shiny gold outline, blue on the inside, and a bouquet of grey and black feathers placed on top.

The ponies all matched, but all with a different batch of colors.

"Ok guys. Remember, we're not going to the masquerade to party. Queen Crysalis warned us about how she'll be there. She'll be wearing a mask, but even though she'll be pretending to be another pony, her magic is green. We just need to get her to do a spell."

Millicent told the ponies, and quickly put her red wool mask.

"Can't we just do one of your stupid spells and boom! We're there? It's hard enough standing in this pig nest you call a dress. Just imagine walking in this thing in front of everyone in Equestria. Sure, Rarity can survive, but me in front of the Wounder Bolts! Please . . . ."

Rainbow Dash begged.

"Fine, but it doesn't really count as completing the mission. But if you really need to, alright. Your wearing a mask anyways . . ." Millicent stared at Rainbow Dash, stomped her hove on the ground viciously, and struggled to do a teleportation spell. Her magic was a violent red, and quickly teleported the ponies outside the masquerade building.

     Millicent's wings twitched once she faced the marvelous building. A large ice swan statue stood before her. Its carved eyes turned green like her sister's eyes. The changling  growled at the statue, but at once, the green lights faded, and a beam of green light flew through the building.

Pebbles crunched underneath her dark blue shoes, as Rainbow Dash fixed her mask, and ran into the crowd of ponies, trying to hide herself. Rarity used her magic to see through the crowd. Not a green light in site. The only thing she saw was a handsome light orange horse. He had a short black mane, and a needle for a cutie mark.

Rarity  sighed, stopped using her magic, then busted through the crowd, looking for Queen Crysalis.

Twilight slowly walked around, looking for green eyes. She saw many of them, but only one pair that were bright green. The only problem was that the two ponies that stood in front of her, were twins. One with a red mane, the other with a blue.

Rainbow Dash flew above everyone. Her mask started to slip off, which made her loose her speed. She saw Spitfire from a distance, outside on the building's terrace, talking to Soarin. She slowly flew down, got a better view and put her sharp ear up against the wall to hear the problem.

"I can't believe that silly Rainbow thing hasn't noticed that we're the only ones with eyes that glow like the sun."

'Spitfire' grabbed her cup of green tea, and took a few sips, as Soarin slammed the glass cup off the terrace.

"Its not the time for drinking silly tea! We're changlings. We deserve much better. Together, those ponies don't stand a chance. The other changlings have been horribly injured by . . . someone. Its us against ponies. For now, we'll have the other changlings be 'injured', and when we attack at dawn, the clan will attack Applejack first, I mean, she doesn't stand a chance with her legs horribly injured. Then its Fluttershy. She doesn't stand a chance without accidentally falling off a cliff. As for Rarity, easy. She wouldn't dare to get her tail messed up. Next Pinkie Pie, she'll just laugh in the middle of a kill. Then Rainbow Dash after we cut her wing, then Twilight. We'll simply transfer all of her magic to you, then shes powerless, and you can destroy her in the end."

The changling minion laughed horribly with an english accent.

"I suppose your right." Queen Crysalis agreed, as Rainbow Dash stopped listening and ran to Millicent.

"Millicent! I saw her! Queen Crysalis is pretending to be Spitfire, and her idiotic changling minion is trying to be Soarin! Get the other ponies. They said they'll attack at dawn . . ."

Rainbow Dash told Millicent, catching her breath.

"No . . . It can't be. She never attacks at dawn . . . Her attacks are always in the changling world. No time, to aging . . . Its like Discord is . . . Discord . . ." Millicent stood confused, as she looked around, fixing her mask.

Me and your amazing sister have decided to reunite. We used too work together all the time, in till princess Celestia caught me and turned me into a statue. Now is our chance. So be warned you infant . . . I'm going to destroy you for what you did. And I won't stop. Even if those ponies are fourced to change me to a nice, kind, soul. I'm Discord. I may be nice now, but when I'm with Queen Crysalis, lock your foolish doors . . . .

Millicent's eyes turned red, as she remembered what Discord had said one night . . . And she knew, who the bandit was that snuck into the castle . . .

"DISCORD!" Millicent charged through the ponies, aiming for Queen Crysalis morphed into Spitfire. She head butted the monster with her horn, which made the ponies gasp, thinking Millicent had hit the one and only Spitfire. The imposter changed back to her normal self, the disgrace named Queen Crysalis.

Rarity stared at the action, as the handsome pony winked at her, and made the beauty flattered. She ran to help Millicent and Rainbow Dash, same with Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Twilight.

"I know about you and Discord you devilish excuse of a queen. I know your revenge on me and the ponies, but that's no excuse to take over him! Fluttershy turned him good. I turned him good before you made him think princess Celestia turned him to stone. And because of that a whole decade has been ruined. Just like mom . . ."

Millicent smirked, as queen Crysalis growled, backed up, and shot a beam of green light at Millicent's neck.

"Discord isn't just a monster . . . He's a weapon. I know were you'll be going, were you'll stay, and I know every . . . single . . . thing your doing. So just watch your back silly little sister . . . I'll be back."

Queen Crysalis growled, flying away quickly with her changling, as the ponies walked away throwing they're masks off, and preparing to travel to the Crystal Empire.