Luna looked around, searching for the creatures dreams. She really didn’t want to do this, but knew Celestia had… ways to convince her if she argued too much. The blue mare flew down, and saw the pink girl's dream. It felt like pure horror. Taking a deep breath, and praying to her dead parents that she’d be alright, she entered.

She found herself in a white cube room, with hatches on each wall in the center. “Hello? Betty? I’d like to speak with thy,” Luna said nervously.

“Well, if someone has decided to invade my dreams, they have to-” A betty hologram started, but it was cut off.

“Twas not my will that brought me here, my sister demanded it.” Luna said sadly.

“Huh… well, you’ll need to survive my cube. It’s very dangerous. You never know what the next room will be. I don’t know how to undo this, so you’ll need to find your way out.” The hologram said with a shrug.

Luna frowned. Experimentally, she prodded at the dream with her magic. It was powerful, but had one, major flaw. There was a opening that the spell maker hadn’t noticed, either from their own doing, or, the spell not being complete. She never did get to update her findings on dream magic. It was like a loose thread, unravel that, and the entire defense would crumble.

Using her magic, she went towards the thread room, making sure to prod the next room before she did to know what it was. One room dissolved her horse shoes in a bath of acid spray. Since this was a dream, she just summoned another, though seemed mildly annoyed. The next room had weird, razor shaped boxes that floated around and cut things up that they came in contact with. They went in little tornado formations, forcing Luna to time her way through the room.

Next was a room that aged things rapidly. This one… had no effect on the mare, being an ageless alicorn. The rooms slowly got more gruesome, but her knowledge of how dreams worked let her get through them, finding the one with the ‘thread’. It was annoying how, occasionally, the thread moved, sometimes closer, sometimes farther, but she eventually got to it anyway.

She pulled the thread, unraveling the cubes. She saw a control tower, and felt Betty inside of it. Flying over, she saw the pink being on a observation deck, sitting with a bag of popcorn and a ton of screens, the screens showing where the cubes used to be. She seemed annoyed.

“So, moon bitchiness, what do you want?” Betty asked, tossing the imaginary popcorn away, it exploding behind her.

Luna seemed a bit irritated at the name, but sighed. “My sister forced me here to gather information.” She told Betty. Betty rolled her eyes, making a ‘go on’ gesture with her hand. “I wanted to talk. My sister is… not herself, recently.” Luna said with a sad look.

“I know you and your sister don’t like me, but your sister has a lot of HATE in her, and will do anything to get rid of me. Why should I help you?” Betty asked.

“I do not agree with my sister, not in the least.” Luna said sadly. “But it is… hard to say no, to her.” Luna said, her eyes briefly flashing into slits, before going to normal.

Betty frowned, looking at Luna thoughtfully. “I think there might be a few spells on you,” Betty said. Luna was about to react, before the sun symbol appeared on her, and her eyes widened as she was violently forced out of the dream and back to her body. Betty watched this with wide eyes, frowning.

“That bitch, brainwashing your own sister?! I will enjoy taking your SOUL!” She said in rage.

In the waking world…

Celestia stood outside the, to her and her guards, revealed castle. “I knew you wouldn’t be so naive for ever, Twilight. I am glad I placed that tracking spell on you while I had the chance.”

Momma chamber appeared. “I will need to ask you to leave my childrens property.” She said.

“It is still my property, machine. I have the deed.” Celestia replied, holding a copy out. “Now move.”

“You are a danger to my children. Initiating protocal:All Out.” The machine replied. Tons of devices came out, being absorbed by the android slowly.

Celestia wasn’t dumb, for once, and incinerated her before she could finish. Knowing that, with her damage, she sent the devices back and launched herself towards the guards, initiating self destruct. Unfortunately, Celestia, with her stronger and faster powers, grabbed her in a telekinetic hold and threw her up into the sky, letting her explode in the air, not even bothering to hear her heartfelt last words.

Next, the dekus and wolves appeared. Celestia smirked. “You shall not hurt the goddess’s heralds!” The leader-scrub squeaked. “ATTACK!”

The two armies clashed… and the wooden enemies bounced off the guard. “Oh, did I forget to mention? These are all freshly trained guardsmen. They haven’t done a single bad thing in thier life.”

“Well, I’m glad The Female Herald made backup plans.” The leader sqeaked, using deku nuts to the ground. The guards were temporarily blinded… but that didn’t really help either side much, even giving the knights the advantage, them wildly swinging to defend themselves, preventing the gain of LV as they cut down the wooden wolves and scrubs before they could do anything.

The leader went to activate it’s last resort “I am sorry my goddess…” The scrub said, before activating a fiery explosion, killing the guards and wooden defenses. Celestia looked mad for all of a second… before grinning.

“Second and third battalions, MARCH!” She shouted. The army marched forwards, the second through eightieth battalions going through the castle. Many were lost through the saw like traps, but there were simply too many ponies for the traps to handle. She still lost two thirds of her main forces… her main forces.

The force entered the old throne room, to see pictures of Betty smirking on her old throne with a tiara. Rolling metal golems came out then, them unfolding to reveal metal things with weird pipes for hands and brown backs. The droids deployed their shields, and red plasma fired out of the pipes.

Some of the ponies were killed before they deployed their own barriers, unleashing powerful spells back at the droids. It took a while, but the ponies marched on. The ponies marched, not to the room with Betty and Kumu… but with the mane six. Celestia smirked, before blasting the six with a spell that kept them unconscious.

“We have the objective, let’s go!” Celestia ordered the army, and the pegasi flew out with her as the unicorns teleported them and their allies out of the old castle, setting it aflame as they did. The castle was burning to the ground.

Author's Note

Things look down here...