Who Were They?

A unicorn mare slowly walked into a throne room. She stood a spot in front of the throne with a stallion on it and bowed. "What is it father?" she asked.

"I have received the most saddest of news Platinum." answered the stallion on the throne, her father. He looked at his daughter distantly with a sad expression. "Your mother is dead."

"What?! How?!" Platinum could not believe what she was hearing.

"I was in complete shock as well." the stallion got up from the throne and walked to his daughter. "But there is a mission that needs to be completed now."

"What is that father?"

"I want you to bring her killers here to face justice...can you do that for me?" the stallion stated. "I don't want your mothers death to go in vain."

"B-but...you said it yourself...travelling to another universe is very risky and-" she was in shock.

"You think I don't know that Platinum?" the stallion raised an eyebrow at his daughter.

"But I would be willing to do this to avenge her death." she bowed again.

"I'm not looking for vengeance Platinum...I'm looking for justice." he clarified. "Swift and brutal justice."

"Yes father." Platinum got up and gave her father a tight hug.

"Now remember," he whispered into her ear. "that is universe is the one where I never broke free from the dark influence of the Sisterhood...so be careful...he may look like me, but with no sense of morality or decency."

"I understand." she broke the hug, looked at her father one last time and trotted out of the room, determined to complete this mission.

It was night time at the Crystal Empire, as Cadance set the sun down below the horizon herself. It naturally did not feel right to her but she knew it was the best thing to do under the current circumstances.

"Come on hun, bed time." said Shining as he watched his wife return back from the balcony.

The pink alicorn sadly sighed. "I'm thinking of keeping the sun down for the next 48 hours as a sign of mourning Shining, I also ordered that all business fly black banners and all ponies carry black leg bands for the next 30 days as well." she began, focused on business and planning for the funeral procession.

"Just take it easy there, for the baby's sake." said a concerned Shining as he walked Cadance to their bed.

"I'll rest once this is all done and over with." said Cadance as she removed her regalia and lied down on the bed. "Everypony is looking at me now to lead them."

Shining just gave a look of concern, he was worried that his wife would push herself too far. "Just make sure you get your rest."

The princess sighed. "Celestia meant so much to me, she changed my life so much."

The white unicorn gave a tight loving hug to his wife. "I know, I know...she changed so many lives."

At the same time in the mirror room, the magic mirror started to activate on its own, something was trying to get through.

"NO!" screamed Luna in horror. "NO!"

"Hold still your highness! Hold still!" the nurses and doctors tried to restrain her to the bed so should wouldn't cause harm to others or herself.

"MY SISTER IS DEAD!" boomed Luna. "LET ME GO!" she used her magic push all the attending nurses and doctors off of her and pinned them to the walls. "WHERE'S MY SISTER! WHERE'S HER MURDERER!" she levitated out of her hospital bed.

"Your highness! Please! You just woke up from a coma!" pleaded the attending physician. He suddenly felt a force start to choke him.

"WHERE IS MY SISTER!" demanded Luna.

The physician gasped for air. "In the morgue...awaiting burial..."

"AND HER KILLER!?"

"Also...in the morgue..." he was suddenly dropped to the floor.

"HER DEATH WILL BE AVENGED! IF IT IS THE LAST THING I-" she suddenly collapses back to the ground from exhaustion. She landed with a crash to the floor as she began to softly snore.

"Inform Princess Cadance." ordered the physician as he got back up to a nurse.

At a small tavern outside of Canterlot, home to all sorts of violence and debauchery everywhere, the upstairs was home to prostitutes and their clients, while the downstairs was occupied by violent drunks and waitresses who gave out drinks and blow jobs. This place was far from civilized, the only thing that could be considered such was a single pianist on stage playing show-tunes.

In the chaos, a cloaked Awa sat at a table across from a mysterious caribou. "What color compliments Red nicely?" asked Awa to the stranger, cryptically.

"I heard black compliments it very well." answered the caribou male. "Awa." he nodded.

"Serrell." nodded Awa back.

"Is it that time again?"

"Equestria has overstayed it's welcome, it is time to spice things up."

"What do you want us caribou to do?"

"Show its citizens their rightful place, especially the mares."

"Why is the Sisterhood asking US to do this?" Serrell was confused. "Why would a bunch of male haters ask us female haters for help?"

"Because your nation is the one that has been sanctioned by other nations to near death because of your...let's just say...less than perfect gender rights issues." Awa smirked. "And last time I checked, Equestria represents everything you hate."

"By the way, thank you for having your fellow sisters forge some documents to make it look like I am a member of the diplomatic corps. I wouldn't be in Equestria without it."

"Anything to advance our plans."

"But what you're asking for is a tall order, you want us caribou, to go up against a species that have mastered the use of magic, if you haven't guess, all we have are psychic abilities, no magical powers of any kind and-"

"Tell your leader Dainn that this can help." she took out a potion and showed it to Serrell. "Tell Dainn to get his top scientists to turn this to a serum that will give you caribou that magical abilities needed to destroy the things they represent."

Serrell carefully took the potion and examined it, satisfied. "I will tell him that, by the way, what plans do you have for the for the centaur?"

"You mean Tirek?" asked Awa. "Oh, I already have something planned for him." she smirked.

On cue, the front door was kicked down and a less grayer and slightly more meatier Tirek walked in. Everyone in the tavern looked at him with fear and confusion. The centaur gave a threatening smile. "Dinner time." he chuckled.

"You have a lot of nerve coming in here busting down my door like that!" snarled the barkeeper.

"And balls." Tirek quickly grabbed the barkeeper and began to absorb all of his magic from him.

Everyone looked on with fear as the barkeeper was sucked dry of his magic. Once done, the centaur threw his victim to the floor. "Who's next?"

All the patrons and waitresses screamed as Tirek began to get to work.

As the chaos occurred, both Awa and Serrell calmly sat without saying a work, not putting any mind to what was happening.

"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?" yelled Tirek.