Who was I?

Cadance was sleeping soundly in her chambers.

Suddenly, she was awoken by large tremors, followed by the sounds of a huge and loud explosion. "What the?!"

The shaking soon quickly stopped, silence fell.

"THE CRYSTAL HEART!" yelled Cadance with dawning realization. She quickly ran, along with two guards to where the heart was being kept.

What they saw, shook them to the core, the Crystal Heart was nothing but a pile of crystals on the floor, and surrounding it where the crystal covered forms of Trixie and Nightmare Moon, forever frozen in place.

"What in the hay happened here?!" exclaimed Rex as he entered the room.

"The Crystal Heart destroyed itself from what I'm guessing, a side-effect being that everything within proximity to it is frozen in crystal forever." explained Cadance as she went up to a frozen Nightmare Moon.

"And the Crystal Heart?"

"Gone, all we can do is take the pile of crystals that used to be the heart, subject it to extreme high temperatures and pressures, and wait about 100 years."

"WHAT?!" explained a shocked Rex. "But without the heart we're defenseless!"

"You think I don't know that!" snapped the princess. "And now look at those two ponies," pointing to Trixie and Nightmare Moon. "They'll be stuck like that for at least century until the Crystal Heart is remade again."

Cadance walked up to the frozen Nightmare Moon. "At least your sacrifice won't be forgotten aunt Luna." she praised at her frozen aunt. She turned to her guards. "Take these two ponies and place in the dungeons until the crisis is over, and do NOT disturb them until they are free."

The guards silently agreed before they walked off, dragging the frozen bodies away. "What am I going to tell Celestia?" she mumbled to herself with concern.

Both Nightmare Moon and a Sombra possessed Trixie were shooting magic beams at each other, dodging and blocking each blow. Sombra couldn't believe it, but they were evenly matched, much to his annoyance.

"Curse this body, it's limiting my pull potential" cursed Sombra in his mind at how limited he felt in Trixie's body. But he suddenly had an idea. "Pop quiz Luna!" he exclaimed to Nightmare Moon. "What is your sister's biggest fear?"

"I have no time to play games Sombra!" she spat as she shot another beam of magic at her opponent.

Little did both of them knew, but the Crystal Heart began trembling and pulsating, the many cracks on it growing larger.

"Do you at least know the answer to that question?" he smirked.

"Like you would know!" Nightmare Moon spat back, doubting that Sombra actually knew. Granted, she doesn't know the answer despite being Celestia's sister.

"Oh I do know!" Sombra snarled with overconfidence, "Look into the Crystal Heart and see." he directed.

Nightmare Moon did as told, while keeping an eye on her opponent.

What she saw shocked her. "No..." she exclaimed in shock. "...that is not like her."

"Hard to believe, especially after your sister told you time and again that she'll support any decision her subjects make." Sombra chuckled. "But I guess a request for a new form of government that she's not heading is just too much for her to take, specifically, a republic."

"B-b-but she would always tell me repeatedly that overstaying your hold on power was wrong and that you must respect any and all decisions your subjects make." she said with shock. "S-she was being hypocritical the entire time." a tear rolled down her cheek.

Suddenly, the Crystal Heart started shaking uncontrollably, the entire room trembled before it was bathed in blinding white light.

"I'm sorry about your loss Celestia." stated Cadance with sadness while communicating with her aunt. "But she sacrificed herself to save the Crystal Empire."

Celestia, Shining, Twilight and her five friends looked on with sadness from the news.

"How long will she remain frozen?" asked Celestia.

"At least 100 years, until the Crystal Heart is reformed again. Which is why I'm planning to send one of the guards to go to a nearby volcano once I'm certain that Sombra is gone."

"Okay then, take care Cadance." stated the sun princess, trying her best to keep a neutral expression. The feed turned off and Celestia gave a sigh. "I'm ordering a week long mourning period once we are sure Sombra is gone for good."

No one in the room said anything as the princess left the room to be alone.

Celestia entered her study and sat down at her desk. She looked down at the government documents on her desk, all of them dated: Cel MDX & Lun DX

"Great, now I need to change that. AGAIN." she mumbled to herself. It was at that moment that it finally hit her. "DAMN IT LUNA!" she angrily exclaimed as she shoved all the contents of her desk to the floor, tears flowed from her eyes. "Why did you have to be so stupid!? You know you can't fight Sombra by yourself!" she exclaimed. "Now I have to control the moon in your place...AGAIN!"

It's the 1,000 year exile all over again, the toughest 1,000 years of her life. "I don't think I can go another century without her, by my side."

Fluttershy was calmly walking the hallways of the palace, when she is suddenly grabbed by magic and dragged into a room, next thing she knew, she was inside, with Rarity pinning her against the door. "We need to talk!" exclaimed Rarity.

"Uh...a-about what?" Fluttershy nervously stammered.

"Something explicit that you might not be...what am I talking about, we talk about explicit things during our spa dates, I'm sure you can handle what I'm about to say next."

"Is this about Big Mac again...because if it is-"

"It's NOT about Big Mac...this time." Rarity interrupted. "It's about Twilight."

"What about her?" the yellow pegasus nervously stammered.

"I have a feeling that Twilight has been seeing this stallion behind our rumps and that she had...SEX with her!" Rarity whispered the last part.

"What?!" the pegasus couldn't believe it. "How would you-"

"Rarity sense."

"Rarity what?!"

"I can tell when a pony just had sex for the very first time, I read a lot of romance novels to know the signs." the unicorn explained.

"Are you sure?" asked Fluttershy, not believing her.

"I am absolutely certain, we're going to keep a close eye on Twilight from now on, okay?"

"Sure." Fluttershy went along with Rarity's plan, reluctantly.

"Great, oh and don't forget about what I told you."

"To never tell Applejack about your torrid affair with Mac?"

"Good girl." Rarity smiled, patting her head. "Now leave before anyone gets suspicious."

Fluttershy nodded and quickly ran out the door, slightly freaked out by what just happened.

Sombra was standing over his chess board, throwing away the Luna and Trixie shaped pieces. "With Luna gone, the Crystal Heart destroyed and Cadance off the throne, I am free to get back my rightful place on the throne, and no one can stop me!"