Death City

Where the hell have I been?! I give all of my viewers permission to spam the comments saying how much of an idiot I am for not posting a new chapter for around a year. Then again, this chapter was written a lengthy five months ago. Still, this habit of me slacking off will continue no more. Starting now, I will be posting a new chapter to this fanfic every week to two weeks (depending on how well I am with time management). Also, as a side note, I would like to explain that I originally had a song planned for this chapter, yet I was too lazy to find a place to insert it into. Jouir~

Chapter 40 - Canterlot Castle Combat

The last and final rays of the setting sun gave off to the corrupted city of Canterlot. Peaks of light every so and so broke through the crystal windows of the throne room located in Canterlot Castle. The murals framed on the windows that had been placed even before Princess Celestia had been yet to be born had even been damaged.

Surrounding the room had been the burning fire that had been placed by Chrysalis before. Rather than it being a pure red with the base of it having be yellow, the fire itself had been a sick green. Though, this made sense due to whatever Queen Chrysalis produced had been green. When it came to her everlasting fire even to her unstoppable magic, it had all been green. it was her color and view of life. Sickness.

Queen Chrysalis just stood there on the steps right in front of her throne, hooves on the carpet, observing the enemies from a far. In front of her stood Rainbow Dash above the rest of the group, suspended in air with her wings as usual, positioned as if she was ready to driven in and pounce onto Chrysalis herself. But they both knew that it wouldn't end well due to Chrysalis having the upper hoof in magic.

On he ground below Rainbow had been Ace standing in front of the group, taking his job as leader seriously. Strife had also been at the front, ready to close in on Chrysalis at any given moment, but Ace refused for him to go alone by himself.

Twilight stood her ground firmly right behind Ace as Thunder stood next to the lavender mare as always. Rarity hid in the back of the group, not wanting to participate in the rough-housing that would soon take place in the only part of Canterlot that had yet to be destroyed. Seamus had gone missing during the entry of the Underground Cavern and Weepy had already wandered off just moments ago somewhere around the castle. For a group that had been so successful in the begging had been experiencing its downfall by now.

"Well then." Queen Chrysalis spoke up, literally grabbing everypony's attention in the room. "The boundaries are set, everypony is in their starting positions. What else is there to wait for?" Queen Chrysalis turned her head till she had been facing one of the murals on the right side of the throne room. the glass represented the image of both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna both in perfect harmony as they rose the sun and moon together.

"Oh, such a shame of how the simpler times not so long ago have all been wasted." With that, Queen Chrysalis walked over to the glass mural that reached over to the solid floor and smashed it with her front hoof. urging around until she had been facing the gang once again, she continued. "Then again, one can not mingle with the past. What can I say, really?"

An extremely frustrated Twilight soon shot back. "Well what right do you have to kill Princess Celestia and take all that belongs to her?! It isn't the least bit fair!" Never had Twilight gotten any madder than she had been at that very moment. Princess Celestia had been her all in a motherly fashion yet here she was in front of somepony who took her and her belongings for granite.

Queen Chrysalis gave out a little laugh. "Oh, my dear Twilight. You look at the situation at a different angle than it really is. I never said anything about killing Princess Celestia. The deed had already been done. I just managed to step in at the correct time and takeover what business she'd left uncompleted." Queen Chrysalis launched herself just the peak above the ground as her wings buzzed in the stiff air surrounding the throne room. Approaching Twilight, Chrysalis's voice came down to a whisper.

"And even if I was the one to murder her, it doesn't matter. Nothing would've mattered. The only thing that would," Queen Chrysalis leaned in and whispered gently into Twilight's ear. "She's dead."

Just then, there was a loud snapping sound that came out of nowhere as Twilight literally tackled Chrysalis against the nearest wall, inches away from the throne itself.

"How could you?!" Twilight screamed into the face of the catastrophic demon. "How could you think, more or less, DO such a thing that you'd have no intention of looking back upon?!" Twilight had been standing on her hind legs as she used her front hooves to keep a strong, firm grip on Chrysalis. her eyes carried enough rage as the pupils looked as if they had been lit on fire. All Chrysalis did was remain pinned against the wall, not even trying to struggle out or anything, an evil grin registered across her face as she looked back at the fired-up Twilight. the remainder of the group, including Thunder Ice, stood back and observed the scene before them, not wanting to invade or anything.

there was a short moment of silence before Queen Chrysalis broke the silence. A light green aura surrounded her uneven horn as she began using some of her magic to teleport out of Twilights reach.

Teleporting back onto the throne, Queen Chrysalis spoke up. "Well, we've had far too many interruptions. Continue on with them and one of us just might end up dying of hunger or thirst. Lucky for me, I've had enough love for one day. With you guys here, there's enough hatred to go around."

More silence spread as Twilight to back onto her four hooves again and turned to Chrysalis who had been sitting on the throne to Twilight's right. Everypony else in the group just looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what to say or do next. Rarity and Thunder, Strife and Rainbow.

"Then if you don't want anymore interruptions, then what do you want?" Ace spoke up, gulping a little from his nervousness.

"What do I want?" Queen Chrysalis repeated, looking up at the curved ceiling, placing a hoof onto her chest while sitting up. " Nothing much. Just a little excitement, if you know what I mean."

"Nope, no clue." Strife spat out rudely.

Giving Strife a strict glance, Ace turned back to Queen Chrysalis and continued. "Is it too much to ask to be any more descriptive?"

Letting out a sigh of both boredom and tiredness, Chrysalis answered. "What I mean is all this." Queen Chrysalis spread out her hooves, showing out the entire room with the everlasting fire surrounding the room cracking and popping every now and then. "The reason I didn't kill you before when I knew you were all coming."

It soon hit Ace as he realized what she had been referring to. "The battle." He whispered gently. he knew defeating an alicorn had been nearly impossible, and defeating a mutant alicorn had been no easier, especially if they had been less than half the army they used to be.

"But why do you wish to fight with us?" Ace spoke up once more. "What is in it for you if you do so."

"Simple enough." Queen Chrysalis hovered out of her throne a little as she dug her hooves into the rich carpet in front of her. "You want answers, I want love. Seems we won't get anywhere if you keep stalling like this." Her eyes began to wander off again.

"So you promise that if we make you surrender, that you'll pardon the throne and leave Equestrian forever?" Twilight confirmed, Backing away slowly back into the group. "That ship seems easy to sail."

"Ah, ah, ah. You're forgetting my end of bargain as well." Queen Chrysalis looked back at the lavender mare. "I can accept the consequences towards me and my army if I were to loose, but aren't you forgetting the outcome of what will happen to all of you once I reign victorious?" She pointed out.

The group encountered another moment of silence before Strife spoke up.

"Isn't it where if we lose, you kill us like everypony else who wants to fight us?" Strife explained.

"That, my dear subject, isn't what I had intended on proceeding on with." Saying this, Queen Chrysalis quickly turned around until her back had been facing the rest of the group. looking up, she continued. "You see, ever since the destruction of Canterlot just a few days ago, everypony died along with the chaos and disharmony. ponies were toppled over by towers and structures. Others were set alight. Some even frozen to death. Those who survived faced the consequences of both hunger and thirst."

"Your point?" Strife asked ruddily in a low and bored toe as if he hadn't been paying attending the entire time. rarity had to come up as always and smack a hoof onto his neck, which always resulted in an "OW" by none other than Strife.

"As I was saying," Queen Chrysalis had taken a quick glance back to see what had been going on, then turned back to the ceiling above her. It had been a stainless glass clover with a mural of the elements of harmony spread across, yet this cover had more than six elements. It had what seemed to be around thirty elements, all different colors and shapes. They had been arranged on the glass in an even circle with a thin yellow outline around the elements. In the middle had been what seemed to be a combination of two elements swirled together.  While one had been a light blue color, the other had been dark grey and showed no sort of complexion or anything. It had been unidentified.

"With a great majority of the population dead, I have no subjects in which to produce love that I feed on. You know how it goes, don't you?" Queen Chrysalis turned her head down from the mural with the elements from up above and turned to look at the group in front of her.

"Any more details?" Strife had been leaning on the edge by now. "'Cause I'm as lost as hell right now!"

"My point," Queen Chrysalis began again. "Simply, I see before me three mares and three stallions." She pointed out, sticking a hoof out that she had been referring t the entire gang. sure enough, she couldn't be any more corrector.

As everypony else looked at each other, they soon realized as well what Chrysalis had been going at.

"Wait, you don't mean?!" Twilight had been the first to call out, some fear in her voice.

"That's correct." Queen Chrysalis looked at Twilight in a ninety degree angle. "One mare and stallion could produce enough love to feed a few of my changelings every now and then. But three times the power and three times the love, my army would grow substantially, not to mention I would grow with them as well."

"So let me get this straight." Strife mentioned. "If we win, then you leave Canterlot, and more importantly, Equestrian with your army forever. But if we lose, we're taken in as your prisoners and are forced to do it with one another as you feed off our love?!" Strife had been as confused as ever by now. "Ok, am I the only one who think that idea is fucked up?!" Strife snapped.

"Dunno bout you, but I get dibs on Twi." Thunder whipped to Ace, careful none of the other mares would hear him.

"Think what you want, you ungrateful fool, but that's just how the skyscraper stands." Queen Chrysalis announced to them. "Still, who am I to force anything more on all of you. The choice is yours and the consequences are deadly. You can either have freedom or captivity. " Looking directly down on Ace, Queen Chrysalis asked once more. " What will it be?"

Everypony else had been looking at Ace by now. His decision mattered the most by now as he had the option to go on with the fight and are the risk of victory or defeat. But he. Soon realized that he and the rest of the group came all this way to find Queen Chrysalis, and turning back now would be more than a fatal move. Judging from that, Ace knew what his answer had been.

"I accept!" Ace soon announced back, mentioning it loud enough for not just Queen Chrysalis to hear, but for everypony else to hear as well, signaling for them to get ready for battle.

"Just what I wanted to hear." Queen Chrysalis began focusing her magic n the surrounding fire again as she made it even more intense. The flames grew twice its average size and the heat given off from them doubled. Everypony had to squish together just not to get burnt.

Turning back to the group which had been in formation, yet squished together, Chrysalis continued. "Let the games...begin."

As on cue, Strife had been the first to dive towards Queen Chrysalis with bare hooves, yet Chrysalis had been more than ready to dodge that attack. using her magic and quick reflexes, she quickly teleported behind Strife as he still few in the air. Strife soon ended up crashing face first in the royal throne, close enough to damaging one of the most important structures in Equestria.

"One down, five to go." Queen Chrysalis announced calmly, not fearing anything that lied ahead.

"I'll never let you win!" Rainbow Dash screamed as she flew directly towards Queen Chrysalis and began circling her at lightning speed, a thin rainbow trail following close behind her. She wanted to try and at least confuse or even paralyze the enemy, but Chrysalis had already thought of a counter attack.

Just as ain't ow thought her plan was working as Queen chrysalis had been slowing down, things turned upside down. In the center, Chrysalis had been charging a large amount of energy in her horn, and just as Rainbow began to slow down circling her, Chrysalis took all the magic in her horn and burst it out into a clear green force-field. This resulted in Rainbow being thrown out of her balance and more importantly, thrown away from Queen Chrysalis.

Rainbow Dash ended up crashing to the nearest wall against the left side as she slowly began falling to the floor. Ace then knew what would happen next. If she continued to fall, she'd be burnt by the fires beneath her. Ace knew he would have to act fast before anything crucial would occur.

"Here, quickly stall Chrysalis for me. I need to finish up some extra business." Ace whispered to Thunder before dashing off to the unconscious Rainbow Dash.

"You can count on me." Thunder replied. Turning to Twilight, he continued. "Wanna help me take down this overpowered freak?" Thunder asked with a grin on his face.

"I'd be more than pleased to take this heartless soul down." Twilight replied with a look of anger on her face. f it had been anypony who pissed her off more than anything, it had been her.

"Good. Now just follow my lead" With that, Thunder dashed off towards Queen Chrysalis, Twilight following close behind to his right.

Over in the other corner, Ace had only been a few feet from Rainbow, yet she had been falling fast, almost as if she was trying to get burnt alive. Jumping at just the right moment and unfolding his wings into the air, Ace managed to get to eye level with Rainbow as he scooped her up in his hooves just inches before she reached. The deadly fire which, from a close, looked more like toxics.

Bringing her down to the ground, Ace folded back his wings up again. He hadn't really been a huge fan of flying. Ace then put the unconscious Rainbow Dash right beside Rarity who had been in the back of the group the entire time.

"Keep guard of her." Ace whispered to Rarity before looking back down at Rainbow quickly on the floor and splitting off to the remainder of the battle. Seems he hadn't missed much as it was both Thunders and Twilight turn to attack.

Just as Thunder and Twilight approached Queen Chrysalis, who had been floating a few meters off the ground with a clear green force-file surrounding her entire body, she noticed the twos presence.

"Do you fools ever listen?" Queen Chrysalis said aloud to herself, shrugging a little.

"Heh" Thunder chuckled a little before looking at Twilight. "You ready?"

"Never been better." Twilight responded, looking back at him with a smile on her face. Thunder smiled along as well.

"I'm waiting." Queen Chrysalis announced, trimming her hooves as if she had nothing else to do.

Just from that, both Thunder and Twilight launched themselves into the air, regardless if they were pegasi or not. But inseam of aiming directly at her like everypony else did, they each aimed for one of the two walls, Thunder on the left and Twilight on the right wall.

Right as the two landed on each side of the wall, they began galloping up it. Gravity didn't have an effect on either as they dove up the walls.

"What the?!" Ace was left speechless as he saw this. never in his life had he seen a unicorn defy gravity. Not unless it was a spell they fasted on each other to change the direction of gravity for them.

Right as both Thunder and Twilight had been at the same height level as Queen Chrysalis, they both aimed themselves perfectly. One slip up could cost them their lives.

"Now!" Thunder commanded while Chrysalis had her guard down and her force-field had been weak. At the same time, both Thunder and Twilight jumped from the walls they were on, regardless on how high up they were and how brutal the fall beneath them would be, and dove directly at Chrysalis, who didn't know which way to block from.

just as Thunder thought his plan would work and that he had been inches away from Queen Chrysalis, she quickly teleported out of the current area she had been in, vanishing in mid-air.

The result of his had been Thunder and Twilight crashing into each other evenly. Head to head, stomach to stomach, even their legs matched up.

Just as the two crashed into each other, they both fell to the ground instantly, sore and limp, just a few inches away from each other. The fight only raged on for five minutes and already Strife, Rainbow, and Twilight and Thunder we knocked out. All that remained were Rarity and Ace. While Ace kept calm, Rarity had been hyperventilating by now.

"W-where did she go?!" Rarity managed to ask in between breaths. Queen Chrysalis had been gone. It was as if she vanished in mid air.

"I don't know." Ace responded, looking around for anymore traces of where she vanished off to. "But I can assure you we'll be safe if we watch each other backs." Ace turned back to Rarity. "She moves fast when she disappears. For all we know, she could be..." Ace suddenly stopped and gasped. "Rarity, behind you!" Ace yelled, pointing a hoof behind her.

"What?! What is it?!" Rarity had been scared as ever. Behind her had been one other than Queen Chrysalis herself, but she had been unprotected. No longer did she haul the force-field around herself.

Leaning down, Queen Chrysalis forced her energy into her magic again as her uneven horn was soon surrounded by a light green aura. Her horn soon touched the tip of Rarity's neck as she suddenly fainted to the ground. She had castes a strong sleep spell on her, preventing her from waking up for the next few hours.

"Rarity!" Ace yelled, watching yet another of his friends fall to the floor in disgrace.

Rarity fell to the floor besides the unconscious Rainbow Dash in front of her. All that remained now was Ace and Queen Chrysalis.

"Why?" Ace asked in possibly the most darkest tone he could possibly do. His body was leaned forward as he looked at the ground at the two passed out mares, not to mention Thunder, Twilight, and Strife behind him. His mane covered his eyes as he barely looked up at Queen Chrysalis who had only been a few feet away from him. "Why?! What is your reasoning for all this?!"

"Calm down, you energetic stallion." Queen Chrysalis looked at him again from an angle as she brushed a strand of her green mane away from her face. "Before you blow your fuse, there's something I'm obligated to show you."

"Show me what?" Ace got up and looked at the queen of the changelings. "Haven't you shown me enough terror and destruction already?"

"I'll let you find out for yourself." Then again, Queen Chrysalis's horn began to glow as a large green bubble surrounded both Chrysalis and Ace. Suddenly, the two vanished, leaving behind the other five unconscious ponies to be taken care of later.

Ace could feel a small pinching inside his heart as he awoke in a flash, breathing heavily. He soon realized that he hadn't been on the ground or anything, rather floating up in what seemed to be the depths of space, with Queen Chrysalis right beside him.

"Where, where are we?" Ace managed to spit out. While above him had been the darkness of space itself with all the stars piercing against the skyline, below him had been a bunch of videos that played. t had been as if he had been taking a tour inside his own memory.

"Does this place not seem familiar to you?" Queen Chrysalis dove down below into the assortment of videos as she passed through them like wind. " Follow me." She whispered back.

Not knowing what else to do, Ace dove down as well. Just like her, he had no trouble passing through his own thoughts and memories.

Following Queen Chrysalis deep into his own mind, Ace soon came across a memory of his family. His own mother and father. It had been ages since they saw each other. Just the thought of it made Ace feel rotten, and they were probably dead by now after the changeling invasion as Chrysalis predicted. Taking one more glance at it, Ace moved on, not even looking back.

After following Queen Chrysalis deeper into his own memory, they finally came across what she planned on showing him.

"Why'd we stop?" Ace's curiosity asked.

"This." Queen Chrysalis pointed a hoof to the one memory panel all alone. While the rest had been all squished together in the order they occurred, this one had been a long way out, not connected to the rest. but that hadn't been its only difference. It also didn't have a golden frame around it. All the other memories had frames around the memories, but this one had been bare.

"Why doesn't this one look like the rest of my memories?" Ace faced Queen Chrysalis. "And why have I never seen this memory before?"

"Because it is the memory of the future." Queen Chrysalis explained. "You see, in order for a memory to get confirmed, there has to be memory options. Each option is a prediction on what will happen in the future. Usually it can range from just two memory options to a hundred. But an option isn't just chosen randomly. It is chosen by fate. And the decided memory option is then framed and stored in your memory timeline that we previously passed through forever while the declined ones are forgotten. So, you can pretty much define it as your memory options to be your future. What is chosen is what is experienced."

"But there's only one memory option!" Ace mentioned.

"I see." Queen Chrysalis confirmed. "But take a closer look."

Doing as said, Ace began watching the memory, yet he didn't believe one thing on what he saw.

The memory option showed Ace himself, yet very differently. he had on a blood red capes round his neck streaming down his back as he sat on his own solid gold throne besides Queen Chrysalis. in his right hoof had been a golden wine glass encrusted with the finest of rubies and in it was believed to be the blood of ponies. And atop his head was what shocked him the most. A crystal clear diamond crown showing his worthiness. And what should've been a happy s,ole on his face had been replaced with an evil grin that looked as if it could stare into the very soul of somepony.

"So this s my fate?!" Ace had been both confused and terrified. "I'm going to be the next ruler of Equestria?!"

"More or less, just Canterlot for now." Queen Chrysalis added. "You'll be ruling aside me as we help increase our army's strength and population. And one day, one day we'll have enough power to takeover all of Equestria!" Queen Chrysalis's voice echoed inside of Aces mind.

All of a sudden, Queen Chrysalis's horn began to glow again as they were teleported back to the throne room they were in before, with everypony else still unconscious and the fires surrounding them still burning. he had been at the to of the steps near the throne while Ace stood at the bottom, looking up at her.

"The choice is yours." Queen Chrysalis continued, turning away from Ace. "You can either rule aside me and gain everything you so desire, or stay in captivity for the rest of your life and produce love for me and my subjects. No matter what, I get something and my army increases in the end." Turning back to face Ace, she asked once more. "So, what'll it be?"

Ace knew that the answer to this question would matter more than ever. Would he fight for the freedom of his friends and risk losing everything, or turn his back on them and become what he always dreamed of being and watch his own friends suffer the pain he was once forced to go through.

Finally, Ace came up with his answer as he turned his neck to face Rainbow who had still been unconscious on the floor.

"A friend never turns his back on others." Ace told Queen Chrysalis confidently. "Even if it means risking your own life."

"I see." Queen Chrysalis understood. "Looks like I'm going to have to take your friends in as prisoners as well as you then." Suddenly, Queen Chrysalis stomped her front hoof on the ground. "Guards!" She called out. "Take them to the dungeon!"

As on cue, hundreds of changeling guards stormed thought the entrance and began taking the five unconscious ponies into captivity. Strife, Thunder, Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow one by one were lifted up and taken out of the throne room. All that was left was Ace as he struggled to get free from the changelings that tried to pin him down.

"Wait!" Ace yelled out loud enough for Queen Chrysalis to hear. "But I thought you said this would be a fair fight with no help or support from others?!"

"Oh, did you think I actually meant that?" Queen Chrysalis asked playfully. "When was the last time I ever kept a promise?" With that, Queen Chrysalis gave out a loud and evil laughter that echoed thought the room as Ace watched helplessly as more changeling piled on top of him, trying to keep him down. Ace knew he lost and it had all been over, or so he thought.

All of a sudden, right then and there, Ace, as well as Queen Chrysalis heard the crashing sound of a window break as Ace struggled to get a glimpse of what had been going on. Turning his head towards the impact of the sound, Ace soon noticed the long window to the left of Queen Chrysalis has been shattered and a dull pink blur dashed through, aiming towards her.

"What in Equestria?!" Queen Chrysalis yelled out just as the blur was only a few inches away. It had been hard for Ce to see what had been going on with all the changeling in the room evacuating from left to right, but once they all got out of his way, Ace managed to see clearly what had been going on.

Ice began freezing Queen Chrysalis from her hooves up just as Discord had been turned to stone. She tired with every bit of her might to break free, but the ice had been too strong, not to mention cold as well. As the frigid ice made its way up her uneven neck, she looked back at who had done this to her. Just as she did so, the ice made its was over her head, freezing the corpse of the changeling queen once and for all.

Ace stared at the frozen corpse of the once alive mad mare before turning his head towards the pony who was able to catch her off guard and freeze her shut. To his surprise, that particular pony had been so familiar to Ace, with her dull pink body and dark pink mane, not to mention all the scars across her body. Then it soon hit him who she had been.

"Weepy!" Ace yelled aloud, excited t see the delicate mare, or so he thought, once again. Weepy had her back turned towards the frozen Queen Chrysalis as well as Ace as she stood with her left hind leg on the ground and her right leg. Her right arm had been against her side while in her left hoof had been on the ground as well.

Trotting over to the mare, Ace repeated her name once more, yet more gently and not as loud, placing a hoof on the shoulder of the mare."Weepy, are you alright?"

Just as Ace laid his hoof onto Weepy's shoulder, the pink mare instantly jumped and hit the floor with a thump. She managed to land on her back for a soft landing, facing Ace who had been directly above him. Glancing at him, Weepy spoke up in her usual, soft and sweet voice.

"O-oh, it's just you." She exclaimed in one of the most sweetest voices ever. She began looking down at the floor beside herself nervously, not wanting to make eye-contact with the stallion. The position she had been in hand't been the most comfortable to be in for herself.

"Heh," Ace chuckled a little, relieved that at least one of his friends had still been awake and alive. "Need a hoof?" Ace asked, sticking out a hoof to the mare, a slight grin of confidence on his face.

"Sure, thanks" Weepy accepted the help on getting up gratefully, a slight smile on her face as well. She had been opening up to the comforting stallion a lot lately, and had'd been fearing or denying him any longer.

Once Weepy got up on all fours, Ace stood back and looked at the mare that she just met a few days ago. She hadn't been avoiding eye contact with him any longer as she looked back at him for once.

"Now that that's settled, I've been wondering where in the wide wide world of Equestria did you come from?!" Ace shouted at her. "And more importantly, how were you able to freeze her?!"

Weepy hadn't been a fan when it came to questions and answers, but she knew she couldn't just leave Ace hanging. "It's a long story. I'd rather not tell." Had been Weepy-Cry's only response as she looked back down at the floor.

"Oh, don't be like that." Ace inched closer a little bit."You can tell me. There isn't anything to hide." Ace pointed out.

"Well, I guess telling only one pony isn't impossible." Weepy thought.

"That's the spirit." Ace tried his best pirate accent, which resulted in Weepy letting out a short giggle of amusement. "Now, the story?" Ace mentioned.

"Oh, well, I think I'll just start from the beginning." Weepy told Ace. "You see, when you took that pathway into the Canterlot Castle hallways, I knew that confronting Queen Chrysalis right where she could see you and being ale to take her down wouldn't be easy, so I thought of a different way around. I knew that if I left you guys right then and there, that you would all play as a distraction while I sneak my way around another possible entrance that she would least expect anypony to enter through. Right when everypony else had been defeated, and her guard had been down the most, I timed myself perfectly and managed to catch her in the back while casting a freezing spell on her. Any normal unicorn could simply freeze or heat up something, but if you were to freeze something solid or burn something to ashes, that would take a tremendous amount of energy, power, and magic that only little have."

"Little, like you." Ace added.

"And it just so happened that while Queen Chrysalis was too busy. With her with her own work, I was able to cast the spell on herself. It had been irreversible and even if it could be reversible, she would've frozen already before she even would have the time to realize what had been going on."

"Wow," Ace stood back in awe. "For one sad mare, you sure do come up with complex, yet workable plans. And to think we we're all just little toys to your big plan of success. Thanks to you, we finally claim victory and the safety of Canterlot once more."

"So, now what?" Weepy asked gently, hanging her head low.

"Now, we go home." Ace responded, looking around at the frozen Chrysalis statue that had it's mouth open. "What a disgusting waste of a life form."

Weepy giggled a little again. "You said it. She was actually part of the reason I was in captivity this entire time."

"You don't say?" Ace looked back at her, agreeing. "Well, I hope you like lifting other ponies, because we've got a long trail ahead of us." Ace said, looking around to see the rest of the gang unconscious on the floor.

All Weepy did was nod her head at what seemed to be her master. Walking over to where Rarity and Rainbow Dash and been, she quickly used her magic to lift the two slightly above her back. Ace had also done the same by placing Twilight and Thunder on his back, yet Strife always kept falling off and hitting the ground face first. It had been pretty funny when he did so and every now and the Ace and Weepy would let out a good laugh when he did so. But they both knew that he'd be in a lot of pain when he woke up.

Just as Weepy and Ace left the rescued city of Canterlot, back in the throne room, where Queen Chrysalis's ice statue had been, a light greed dot began glowing on where her soul had been. Just like that, her eyes began to move as well. Turns out she hadn't been dead, and the rest of the group would find out eventually, but for now, all that mattered was one thing.

Spectrum.

Sweet Celestia! Shocker. Well, I'm glad to say this, but this is the end of the battle with queen Chrysalis and all that. the next few chapters (possibly 5-10) will be on the group after Spectrum. But I can't guarantee everything will go back to the way it was before. We still have Shadow and Dusk as well as a very special alicorn missing too. It'll take a while till everypony is united until then, but until then, review, like, favorite as always. Don't pretend you don't like this story.