My little pony : Mirror Spell

Unexpected alliance

The thing with alliance with Redmean was weird enough to cause a headache to both of our heroes. Lukas returned to Ponyville with Twilight under an excuse of keeping eye on her while Foxy remained with Applejack, one of Twilight's friends.

It was a few days already when something happened.

Dear Twilight and Lukas,

"She speaks about us like we are a couple." stated Twilight and Lukas in unison.

I hope you are both alright. My sister is being plagued by strange nightmares and can't perform her duties well. She says things about the return of her dark form, Nightmare Moon, and that she's gained a physical body. I don't know that would be possible, but after what I have learned so much from your studies, I learned to not judge things without thinking about them first. So, I ask you, Twilight, do me a favor a help my sister from the situation she's currently in. Come at once.

Your former mentor and friend,

Celestia

Spike was not happy he would have to stay with Trixie in the library all alone again. The blue mare was not happy either, but because she was sad Twilight was leaving and had to cancel their evening magic lesson. They all said their goodbyes as the human and purple princess had left the building.

Their journey to the train station was interrupted by a sound of jet engine and then, their ears were hit a loud shout.

"Hey, you two, look out."

Black Panther's thrusters roared above them and Foxy, hanging on one hand from the cargo hold, was shouting at the top of his lungs, "Celestia have sent a shuttle for us, so we don't have to take a train. Get in."

When they were properly on board, Foxy turned to them, knocked three times on the wall and shuttle started moving fast in the direction of Canterlot.

"Well, she did not send it for just you two. There's the emergency going on and she wants both of you in Castle as soon as possible."

"What emergency? " asked human and unicorn at the same time. Foxy frowned even deeper,

"Ponyville is in danger. Celestia will explain everything you need to know."

The cargo door opened again and Foxy had to once again shout so he could be heard over a screaming of vessel's thrusters, "Get going. I need to go back and pick up few more people. See ya."

They didn't even have time to say goodbye, because as soon as they hopped out of the transporter, Panther blasted away. Only a small cloud of burned fuel remained.

Lukas didn't know when it happened, but in the next second they were escorted by two armed pegasus ponies to the throne room, which was surprisingly empty. On the way there, they were walking by a groups of ponies, some of them looked familiar and Lukas kind of figured out that these were the evacuated residents of Ponyville. Twilight even spotted Applejack's hat somewhere in the crowd and Rarity's whining could be heard over several rooms. Twilight felt much better when she learned her friends are mostly save from whatever that was about to happen.

"There you are." A familiar tall and majestic white princess stood up from her current sitting spot and put a hoof around Twilight, hugging her lightly, "I was worried about you two."

"Accepted, now what about some information. We have been kind of thrown in without a clue what's going on." said Lukas, when the hugging didn't end even after a long minute.

"Oh, my apologies. My intentions have not been malicious in any way. Come with me, I'll explain everything on the way. " said Celestia when remembering true purpose of their meeting.

The halls of Canterlot castle were empty as well. The lack of maids and servants was strange, but reasonable. Someone had to attend to the 'guests' at the courtyard.

" As I have mentioned in my letter, my sister is in danger, but this time it seems Nightmare Moon wants something else. It looks like she's helping us. "

Small pause for examining Twilight's currently confused expression, "My sister was yesterday attending to the guests of Night court, but in the middle of some meeting she excused herself and then collapsed on the ground in next few seconds. Her soldiers brought her to her room, because they were suspecting she was just tired. Later that night however, Luna had woken up and visited me in my bedroom."

Another pause, the storytelling got intense. The tension was almost touchable.

"I was reading my favorite book when she burst through the door, her eyes completely black. It was a terrifying sight. More creepy was what she said after, though.

Queen of the Night's returns. City of harmony's on the list. Act before it's too late. Don't make the same mistake.

Her voice was like there were two ponies talking at the same time, kind of like Chrysalis' voice, but more disturbed. After she finished, her pupils flashed red and she collapsed down again. I called her guards to carry her in to her room and went to wake up Chrysalis. I knew somehow she would be able to help me.

When I explained the thing that happened, she stated we are bucked and told me about the satellites that were set above planet by humans few years ago. We then have figured out my ex coltfriend is about to use them against us and the City of Harmony is Ponyville. I sent an order to wake up pegasus guards and human pilots. Ever since then, the fleet of ships is in and evacuating the whole village. "

Celestia paused again, "Go find Chrysalis. I have been awake all night and simply can't think straight right now. Chrysalis will help you out. Watch Luna, wake me up if necessary. Time is the essence. Don't disappoint me." With these words, Celestia disappeared in her bedroom, they strangely arrived to while walking through the castle.

"I wondered why were the hover crafts disturbing my sleep today." stated Twilight and along with the human she departed to meet the changeling queen.

Yet again, they didn't meet a single person on their way to the Command Centre. It felt like the whole castle was hit by a strange disease and all its residents moved out.

"It feels like we are the last survivors of a bloody battle." said Lukas.

Thanks, man. I just said that.

Their expectations weren't met because Chrysalis was alone, talking to a floating orb glowing with blue light and scrubbing something on a piece of parchment.

"Good morning, Chrysalis. Slept well?" said human, but the expected effect never happened. It was meant sarcastic, but Chrysalis just frowned and took a long sip from coffee mug.

"Where's Cadence?" asked Twilight. Even though the former Queen looked annoyed, she responded in rather calm voice, "Still sleeping. I haven't had a heart to wake her up."

Twilight smiled a bit, like she remembered something from her childhood, but then laid another question, " Celestia asked us to see you. Something about the coming invasion."

"I doubt it's going to be frontal attack. If I remember correctly what Reaper has told me, Scarfix is a coward. Besides, his main force is here and he can't show up here openly, because many of them is not on his side anymore. He would be risking his skin."

Great, more taking. Do all these people like to talk so much, thought Lukas, "What should we expect then? And what the hell happened to Luna?"

"The city of harmony is on the list, " said Chrysalis, " I believe it's obvious. He's going to nuke it. And believe me or not, it's also connected to a thing that's happening to Luna."

"Nightmare Moon, the artifacts on the Moon and the Elements of Harmony." interrupted Twilight.

Chrysalis smiled, "Good thinking, my purple friend. Yes, as cruel as it may seems, he is trying to get rid of the Element bearers. Although, I thought Nightmare would be on his side, not on our own. She's even trying to help us out by sending creepy, but helpful warning. It only proves the villain can change."

Suddenly, the dark mare emerged from the hallway and told, "Implying something, Chrysalis." Two cyan eyes with rhombus pupils flashed and Nightmare Moon in full armor walked in to the room.

Twilight gasped, Lukas put a hand on the holstered pistol and Chrysalis simply lit up her horn, readying a battle spell. Nightmare Moon laughted.

"Do you all seriously think I am here to attack you?"

"I wouldn't doubt that." growled out Twilight through her teeth.

"Hah, Element of Magic, right? Always having a problem of accepting the truth different from your version of it." Then the black mare turned to Lukas and Chrysalis, "Fallen changeling queen. You are too young to be even in charge by your laws, if I am correct."

"Laws of dead are meaningless, Nightmare Moon." replied changeling, half whispering, half growling in same way as Twilight. The Mare of Night smirked even deeply.

"And this one. You sure are a rarity, a human himself. If ponies remembered, you would be worshiped like Celestia's big a..."

" That's enough, What do you want?" ended Lukas her monolog. His dead glare and cold voice seemed funny to the Nightmare, but finally, she stopped speaking randomly and her attention shifted somewhere else.

"Nothing too exciting. I just want you all out of my way, until the situation is solved. I might be a psychotic maniac, but Equestria is still my home and no one except me is allowed to touch it."

With those words, she teleported away.

The rest remained silent. Their recent encounter with the Mare in the Moon was shocking enough to leave them mentally paralyzed.

"Well, what shall we do? " Human, of course, was first to regain the concentration and the changeling queen simply replied, "No eternal night is about to hit and she seems nice. I am for trusting her and seeing what she's up to."

Not even Twilight, but probably out of the complete confusion, was able to raise an argument against the statement like this.

It did not take too long for the staff, whom came back to the castle when Celestia sent a word everything was alright, to realise there's new alicorn mare in the castle. Royal guards were mostly annoyed, because Nightmare Moon was commanding them and requesting pieces of armor, weapons and other things. Humans, now living in the castle, were seeing the newcomer as potencial advantage against Scarfix, but Nightmare Moon did not pay any attention to them. She was more interested in Princess Luna's BlackOps. Since it was a daytime, they were mostly out of barracks and Nightmare was frustrated she could not find anyone.

Still, even though Nightmare Moon was once an enemy of Equestria, there was no signs of trying to betray the kingdom's interests. It only proved the threat was real.

The prepares for the war or invasion lasted till the evening. But when nothing happened, ponies started to suggest that the threat was over and was safe to return to their homes.

It was good that Celestia, fearing the worst, was stalling the transports. In a certain moment when the was lowered and the whole kingdom disappeared in the dark, there was a sudden alien sound and the Half of Equestria was illuminated be the green light.

Few seconds after, there were reports from like nine places that they have been attacked by unknown, green light and that they have casualties, requesting immediate help.

"Like I would not say that Scarfix will attack in a moment when we drop our guard. Oh my Celestia, look at the numbers." stated Twilight, when the batch of military reports were delivered to Canterlot, "It good, though that we listened to you, Foxy, and installed those power shields in Ponyville and Canterlot. We would be dead right now."

"Well, now I see what we are dealing with and to be honest I am impressed. That's much better and more high tech weapon that we have." added Nightmare Moon, looking out of window at the fading green fog on the horizon.

"That ship of his is not called Genocide for nothing, is it?" said Celestia, that just walked in to the room, appearing calm, but it was visible that she's more than scared for her life than any time before. Nightmare smirked again. God knows what was so funny about the situation that she had to giggle and smile. Twilight did shot her a frown, but the black mare did not look at her, or she was not simply paying any attention to the bookworm.

"So, what we should do next?" asked Chrysalis, standing next to Cadence. The Princess of Love was hardly trying to hide her tears and Chrysalis was slightly annoyed, because the tears of her pink companion were wetting her perfect styled green mane.

"By the latest reports...", started Twilight, flipping through few papers with data, "Scarf has been seen in Ponyville for the last time few minutes ago. The connection was lost after the report was received, we at least have something."

"I suppose he's looking for the Element bearers, because it's the only form of protection we have and he knows about. I suggest we should go through our fortification force list and plan the defense from point to point." suggested Celestia and by a gesture she invited Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon to the circular table with quick model of the future battlefield.

It was around midnight when the stations in other Equestrian cities started going dark. The communication was cut off and no one was responding to the calles or wireless messaging.

It took another hour and half for something to happen. It started with a message:

He's HERE.

"The buck?" was all Chrysalis could say, before the sound wave hit and all the grand windows in the briefing room shattered into the million pieces. There was another streak of chaotic messages like:

Oh Celestia, I am hit...

He's througt our barriers...

Station six, what's your status...

I don't wanna die...

And then just static. All the defense points from six to four went dark like the cities before.

Nightmare Moon's smiled did not faded away even after it was clear that they just lost their primary and even secondary fortification points.

"Where's Lukas and Foxy?" asked Twilight.

"In the throne room, by their choice. There's few more elite units, mostly from Luna's royal battalion. The whole hallway before them is full of land and jumping mines. There's no way he can pass that." said Chrysalis, but her statement was rewarded by a smirk from Celestia, that was first that evening actually, "Don't underestimate my formal coltfriend. He can be a really dangerous, forgive me for the launguage, fucker."

There was a few of nervous chuckles of the ponies in the room, because it wasn't so common to see the polite and majestic princess, like Celestia, swear like an old salty dog. Guess, it really released some of the gathered tension and increased the morale of the present people.

It was good while it lasted. A minute or two after that, Foxy suddenly appeared and told them he's an idea how to beat Scarfix for good and that he needs help.

"The only way how to stop his madness is by a time paradox. The reason why we can't hit him is because he's using a short warp-time jumps, so he's able to dodge our bullets. Twilight, one of the guards told me you know a spell for Time traveling."

"Yes, I used it once. The actual spell scroll is in the archives. Here at castle." replied and agreed at the same time the purple mare.

"Then come with me. I'll explain everything on the road." said Foxy, before running out from the room with Twilight following him.