The Great Equestrian War

I can't believe it happened just last week. When Equestria was taken over by evil...and still nothing seems to have changed...

It had started just like a normal day, I woke up in my castle to a bright sunny nice day. I had left to go see AppleJack, she needed some help planting crops for this year. All my other friends were there helping too, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash. It was nice, we had a chat, ate some breakfast of some delicious apple pie, and got to work.

Then something didn't feel quite right. I felt something...evil, it seemed. I looked up and saw Canterlot in the distance. I squinted and saw light green flashes coming from inside the city. It was being attacked! I looked at Spike, who was dozing.

"Oh I'm just being silly," I said to myself, "If Canterlot was under attack, Celestia would send me a letter! There's no reason to worry, it must be...fireworks, yeah, fireworks."

I reassured myself that nothing was wrong. I was just getting the, what did Pinkie Pie call it? Oh yeah, she called it the "heebie jeebies". I wonder where Pinkie is now...I hope she's all right...

Oh yeah, back to the story! I continued planting, until we were finally finished.

"Um Twilight?" asked Rainbow Dash, "What's going on in Canterlot? It doesn't look too good up there."

I looked up again, this time there was a black cloud hanging over the city. I looked again at Spike, still no letter from the princess.

"I'm sure it's nothing Rainbow," I said nervously, "It must be some kind of Canterlot celebration, I'm sure that if something was wrong I would've received a letter from Celestia."

"Ya sure bout that sucarcube?" asked Applejack, all of us were now looking at Canterlot, "It looks mighty rough up there. Maybe we should go up there and take a gander."

"I think Applejack's right dear," replied Rarity, "What if Celestia didn't have time to send a letter? What if it was some sort of surprise attack, and Celestia wasn't in reach of ink and parchment at the time? And of course she would be too busy fighting to teleport some to her, and defiantly too busy to write a whole letter."

"I guess you make a good point," I gulped, "But it's just that..."

"Oh come on Twilight," said Fluttershy, "I'm sure even if nothing's wrong, Celestia would, um, not get mad at you."

"Come on!" exclaimed Pinkie, "If there really is some meanie critters, I can just blast them with my PARTY CANNON!"

"Oh all right then," I replied,"I guess I could teleport all of us up there and look. But I have to write a note for Spike, so he doesn't get worried." I quickly wrote a note to Spike, then I readied my magic, "Ready girls? Together!"

"TOGETHER!" we shouted in unison.

Oh my friends, wherever could you be now? I miss you all.

I really should stop getting distracted.

Anyway, we teleported into a street in Canterlot. I had aimed for the castle, but I was close enough.

"Sweet Celestia," gasped Rarity. She had a reason to say that, the whole town was being torn apart by Changelings!

"Not these things again," growled Rainbow Dash, preparing to fight.

"We need to get to the castle!" I commanded, "Celestia may need our help!"

"Um, T-Twilight?" asked Fluttershy, who I could tell was scared to bits.

Fluttershy, oh how frightened you must be now...

Curse you wandering mind. Back to the story.

"Yes Fluttershy? Make it quick," I replied.

"Uh, what are th-those thi-ings," she stuttered pointing. I saw what she was pointing at, assuming it was just a changeling. It was far from one.

"I...have no idea..." I muttered. I had no idea what it was. It looked like a pony, no unicorn, well, you get my point. It was colored grey with a red and black mane and piercing red eyes with slitted pupils. It was levitating a sword, and was confronting two young fillies.

I charged at it, slamming into it to protect the young unicorns, who quickly ran away.

"What are you? What are you doing?" I screamed. The thing just laughed.

"Foolish pony," it hissed in a raspy voice, "Equestria is ours. Don't bother fighting us, you will not succeed. Give up now and we might spare your life."

"NEVER!" I screamed, plunging my hoof down to stomp on it. I heard a sharp crack, and the creature lay limp. It was dead, I had snapped its neck.

"Hey Twilight? There's more of those things!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. She was right, more of the creatures were lining the streets, along with changelings.

"We must get to the castle, now!" I shouted, and we all started running, or in Rainbow's case, flying. We were halfway there when we saw a large group of changelings and the other things behind us.

"You guys go ahead! I'll take care of this!" Rainbow Dash called, turning around.

"Rainbow no! You'll get hurt! Or worse!" I shouted back, and the others shouted their agreement.

"I'll be fine! Now go!" Rainbow Dash called back, a determined look on her face.

I hesitated, but realizing there wasn't any other choice at the moment, "Come on!" I ordered, and the five of us rushed into the castle.

We got to the castle and opened the doors. Behind it, was a large group of enemies, even larger than the group we had left Rainbow Dash with.

"Twilight," Applejack whispered to me, as the evil army drew nearer, "All of us here will help ya get to those doors over there," she pointed to a pair of double doors on the other side of the room, "ya go through that there door, and find the Princess. We'll handle things out here.

"W-what?" I asked, shocked, but they were allready shoving me through, battling all the enemies in our wake, making a path to the door. Pinkie Pie's party cannon really helped, as did Fluttershy's stare, which she used to paralyze the enemy. Finally after what seemed to be an eternity, we reached the other side. Rarity opened the door and shoved me through.

"See you later Twilight dear!" she called before she hurriedly slammed the door.

Why did I ever agree to separate with my friends?

Ugh more distractions.

Where was I? Oh yeah, I was in the hall of stained glass. There wasn't any Changelings in it, or any other creature. I walked through the hall, looking at the windows symbolizing major events in recent Equestrian history.

I heard a door open, and turned around, expecting to see my friends, emerging victorious from their battle. But that wasn't so. The door I came through was still shut tight.

"Well, well who do we have here? If it isn't my old friend Twilight Sparkle."

"Chrysalis," I growled at the Changeling Queen, "Leave Equestria now! Where is Celestia?!"

"Oh her?" she smirked, "She's dealt with. And I don't think I'll be leaving Equestria anytime soon. I am much more prepared this time. I even have allies, as I'm sure you can tell. Whatever, you should back down now Sparkle, you don't have a chance. Not even with those new alicorn powers of yours."

"We'll see about that!" I replied, and fired a magic beam at her. She threw up a magic barrier, which blocked it.

She laughed, "Oh, you have to do much better than that if you want to defeat me, Princess."

I flew at her, and shot a bolt of magic from my horn that was much more powerful than the last. It hit, and Chrysalis fell back. She got up again, chuckling.

"My turn," she chortled, then blasted a lime green magic beam from her twisted horn. I threw up a barrier, but her magic was powerful. I started struggling to keep up my barrier. After a minute my magic failed, and I was thrown to the wall by a stained glass window, the one showing me becoming an alicorn.

"You'll...never...win!" I gasped, panting.

"Oh I think I already have," she replied, grinning, "good bye Princess Twilight Sparkle."

She shot another magic beam at me, and I crashed out the window. It was right over the cliff, so I kept falling.

This is it, this is how I go down, I thought. My magic was spent, and my body ached way to much to fly.

All my friends, I had let them down. The end of me was a cliff, a fall.

I closed my eyes, accepting my defeat. I landed on something, it didn't seem like the ground.

But when I woke up, all I could see were stars.