How the Beatles Saved Equestria

All You Need Is Love

“Uh, so where do you girs say we start?” John asked timidly as he stared at the chaos that was apparent throughout the whole city. Being right outside the castle, they could see pretty much the entire metropolis. Changelings were darting about everywhere in the sky, and various spells shot erratically into the air. Practically the whole capital was now engulfed in fighting, and the guitarist was bewildered at how they could possibly help.

“We should, uh…” Twilight was left practically speechless as she stared at all the destruction. After a few moments she recomposed herself and turned to them. “Well I guess we should just find the closest changelings and start fighting them. Hopefully the Princess can deal with Chrysalis…”

“Right ho! Let’s go lads! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man, as modest stillness and humility!” John yelled before charging down the road, his fellow musicians soon following. Twilight just shook her head and reluctantly followed.

Within moments John already spotted a Changeling on the road, and quickly went to tackle him. However the changeling merely took flight and John smashed into the rather hard building behind him. He immediately clutched his now bruised head and just laid on the ground, writhing in pain.

“Don’t worry mate, I’ll save you!” George declared as he jumped at the Changeling; however the creature grinned as raised himself out of the guitarist’s reach. “Come down here and fight me like a man! Err, pony…”

Twilight and her friends soon caught up to them, and the lavender mare quickly shot a spell at the flying changeling. Before he could react he was hit and plummeted to the ground in a heap.

John got to his hooves and looked around in a daze. “Uh, did we get him?” He mumbled as his vision slowly refocused.

“I did, not that you guys were much help…” Twilight muttered before she began searching for anymore nearby changelings. She found a group of them almost instantly, as almost a dozen of them flew over the street. They caught sight of them and hastily flew to the ground before engaging the six mares.

“Well I guess we should help them, can you see yet John?” Paul asked as he turned from the six mares fighting mares to his friend.

“Uh almost…” John muttered as he stared at the unconscious body of the changeling. “Is that you Paul? Why are you on the ground? Did they get you too?!”

“I’m over here man!” Paul snapped, however before he could say more another group of changelings swept down. They were outnumbered at least four to one and John soon regained his vision to witness this horrifying sight.

“Maybe we should run… You know, just a suggestion…”

“I’ll never retreat! Let’s just see how strong these weapons really are!” Paul ran over to their discarded instruments and quickly picked up his heavy bass.

The other musicians hurried over and scrambled to get their respective instruments. Just as they did, several of the changelings charged at them.

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Help, I need somebody!

Help, not just anybody!

Help, you know I need someone,

Help!

“Uh, it doesn’t seem like these instruments are doing much good…” Paul muttered while he continued to play. One of the changelings went for him, and he instinctively smashed him across the face with his solid gold bass. He heard a distinctive crack before he fell to the ground, and Paul looked at him with a worried expression. “Ooh, sorry! Are you alright there mate?”

But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,

Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors!

“GAH! I knew we shouldn’t have trust that Princess, she’s not even a Queen after all!” John declared as he jumped out of the way of one of the charging chanelings. The jet black creature merely growled before pouncing on him, sending the both of them tumbling to the ground.

Help me get my feet back on the ground,

Won't you please, please help me?

“I’ll save you John!” Paul exclaimed as he hurried over and attacked the changeling in his previous manner. His unconscious body rolled off of the singer and John got to his hooves, quickly mumbling a thanks.

My independence seems to vanish in the haze.

But every now and then I feel so insecure

I know that I just need you like, I've never done before!

“I think we may have met our match here, lads…” George commented as he dodged a chanegling’ s hoof, before running as fast as he could away from him.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down,

And I do appreciate you being 'round.

Help me get my feet back on the ground,

Won't you please, please help me?

“I don’t know George; we seem to be doing alright.” Ringo said as he watched his three bandmates fight, for some reason the changelings weren't even paying attention to him. Not that he was complaining about it or anything.

I never needed anybody's help in anyway.

But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,

Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors!

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down,

And I do appreciate you being 'round.

Help me get my feet back on the ground,

Won't you please, please help me?

Help me!

Ooooooo…

Just as John finished singing, their luxurious instruments emitted a burst of bright light that practically blinded them. By the time their vision returned, they found that the dozen changelings they had been fighting had turned to stone. Their night black coats now turned to a dull, depressing grey.

“We did it!” John cheered upon the sight of their defeated opponents. Looking over to Twilight and her friends, he was delighted to see that the changeling’s they had been fighting had also been petrified.

“Well, that was a good song chaps. Though your singing was a little off John…” Paul commented as he dropped his heavy bass on the ground.

“What?! I wrote the song, what would you know?!” John snapped back as he shot his supposed friend a glare.

“That may be so, but I remember how you used to sing the song, and that definitely wasn’t like before!”

Twilight hurried over and she gave the two of them confused glances as they continued to bicker. “Will you guys stop fighting? What are you two so upset about anyway?!”

“Just leave them Twilight…” George rolled his eyes while turning towards her. “They’re always fighting with each other!”

“We’re not fighting, we’re arguing!” John declared as he glared back at the bassist. “I sung that song perfectly; you were the one who was out of key!”

Paul opened his mouth to respond, but Twilight cut him off. “Both of you stop! If you still remember, the city is under attack! We can’t waste our time bickering!”

Both of them sighed before simultaneously mumbling, “Fine.”

“Alright, then let’s get going! I just hope the Princess can deal with Chrysalis on her own…” Twilight muttered, an awful, worried feeling sitting in the pit of her stomach.

“Discord, where’s Chrysalis? I thought you’d said you’d wait for me!” Nightmare Moon exclaimed as she entered the mostly empty room, aside from a laughing Draconequus and a stone table, it was bare. The large, night black alicorn hurried over to the table, her armor clanging against her coat as she went. She stopped in front of him, giving him an intent stare.

“Oh you know her… she just couldn’t wait, so she went to attack Canterlot herself.” Discord smiled as gazed down at the table, which was now displaying a scene of utter chaos in the capital with practically life like visuals.

“She’s attacking already? But what about us invading Canterlot together?!” Nightmare Moon shouted, her anger quickly rising. “Why does she get all the glory?!”

“Calm down Lulu, Chrysalis is doing alright, so far…” Discord looked up to shoot her a grin, which only made her angrier.

“I already told you, don’t call me that! I’m Nightmare Moon!”

The Draconequus chuckled and went back to viewing his magical moving picture. “You see, before Chrysalis left, her changelings were tracking a rather odd group of individuals, who were traveling with Twilight Sparkle and her friends…”

“So? All this means is my pompous sister is sending her student to do her dirty work, yet again.” Nightmare Moon said, now also turning her attention to the view of Canterlot.

“Well, of course she is… but it just isn’t her student anymore.” Discord waved a talon, and the picture changed to that of four ponies that were running through the streets. “These four… I have no idea who they are… but it seems old Celly is using them to try and stop us.”

The alicorn just laughed and gave him a smug smirk. “Four ponies won’t stop us; even the Elements of Harmony won’t stop us! Now let’s get going, I want to get to Canterlot before the battle is over.” She went to leave the room, but Discord stopped her.

“No, let’s just sit and wait for a bit… I think this may get interesting…” Discord leaned back in his extremely comfortable arm chair, smiling as he watched the battle.

“My hooves are killing me… again…” George complained as they finished with another group of changeling, and went to go running again.

“Well we have to keep fighting! They’re still tons of Changelings, and I haven’t seen the Princess or Chrysalis yet!” Twilight said as she looked over at him, annoyed. Their complaining and whining was starting to get to her.

They were in a large open area, no doubt a marketplace that was frequented often in the city. But it was now covered in splintered wood from stands and shops, and torn fabrics and clothes in a variety of colours. There was a strong, overpowering smell in the air; as no doubt a great deal of perfume bottles had been smashed.

John sighed, before looking from his band mate to the lavender unicorn. “She’s right, George. We have to get back to helping them, no matter how exhausting it may be…”

They were just about to run off to find more Changelings, but there was a loud explosion of light and brilliant colours in the sky, sending a body flying through the air. It landed a few meters from them, and after only a brief look Twilight could already tell who it was.

“Princess!” Twilight yelled as she hurried over to her as fast as she could, kneeling down to take a look at her bruised body.

“Twilight?” Celestia asked, looking up to see her. “I… I was fighting Chrysalis… I can’t believe she beat me again… I have to stop her…” She tried to get to her hooves, but her student ushered her back down.

“Just lie down and rest Princess, you’re too hurt to fight!” Twilight exclaimed as she continued to look over her teacher’s body. It was covered in bruises and scorch marks, no doubt from spells.

“You finished yet, Celestia? Or do you still want to keep going?” A voice yelled, cackling at the same time. The owner of said voice came into view, flying above them. Chrysalis laughed as she saw the defeated Princess.

“I… I have to fight her Twilight…”

“No, Princess we’ll fight her! Don’t worry, we can do it!” Twilight shouted, although she was somewhat afraid of fighting the Changeling Queen. If her teacher couldn’t beat her, she didn’t know how much of a chance she and her friends had…

“You’re right… I know you can, just work together with them, and I know you can beat her.” Celestia smiled as she laid her head against the ground.

Twilight nodded before she got up and ran over to her friends. “Alright, we have to beat Chrysalis!”

Her friends seemed rather worried, but John just smiled and tried to inspire his friends. “Let’s fight her then, we can do it lads! Remember when we took on that Thugee cult? We can take on just one pony!”

Chrysalis smirked and dropped to the ground. “So… these are the ponies my Changelings have been tracking… I guess you’re the Princess’s secret weapon, four little ponies, and Twilight Sparkle and all her friends… You’ll stand even less of a chance than Celestia.”

“It’s ten against one; you’re the one who isn’t going to stand a chance!” Rainbow Dash declared, rising up on her wings and shaking her hooves at the Changeling Queen.

“We’ll see… I’ll even give all of you the first strike, come on, give me your best.” Chrysalis’s smirk grew as she stared at all of them.

“Alright, let’s do this chaps!” Paul yelled as he ran over to get his discarded instrument. He was glad Twilight was carrying them around with her magic; they would have been incredibly difficult and exhausting to carry around all the time by hoof.

“Yeah, you might was well just step aside Twilight. I’m sure we can handle her on our own!” John stated smugly as he grabbed his guitar, and strapped it on.

“So… John… what do you think we should play?” Paul whispered to his partner.

“I’ve got just the thing, just follow my lead…”

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Love, love, love

There's nothing you can do that can't be done,

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung,

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game,

It's easy

Chrysalis looked at them as they started playing, before she instantly burst out laughing. “Y-you’re playing music? This is Celestia’s secret weapon?! Music?!” She could hardly breathe because she was laughing so hard, for a minute there she had actually thought she would have had a decent fight. “This has got to be a joke!”

All you need is love!

All you need is love, love,

Love is all you need!

Twilight and her friends just gave the Changeling Queen awkward stares, she sure was finding this funny; so much so that she had forgotten she was supposed to be fighting them. However, after a few moments she wiped a few tears from her eyes.

“Wow, that’s rich… well; I should probably get to fighting you now...” Chrysalis said as she flew over to them, and went to tackle Twilight. However the lavender unicorn jumped out of the way, and started shooting spells at her, the rest of her friends soon jumping into the fray.

She soon gained the upper hoof, and was bombarding them will spells. However, she let out a surprised gasp when she saw that her hooves had now started to turn grey. It was slowly inching up her legs, and would consume her before long.

All you need is love!

All you need is love, love,

Love is all you need!

Chrysalis realized now what was happening. The Elements of Harmony were in the instruments, and now she was slowly being sealed in stone, just as what had happened to Discord. With all of her haste, she flew over to the four musicians.

Nothing you can know that isn't known,

Nothing you can see that isn't shown,

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be,

It's easy!

“Uh, she’s coming over here…” George commented as took a worried glance at the Changeling Queen.

“It’s alright, just keep playing! She’s already starting to turn to stone!” Paul urged to him, focusing back on his bass guitar.

Chrysalis decided to attack the drummer first, as he would be the easiest to pick off. So she flew down and grabbed him with her magic, levitating him into the air.

“GAH! She’s coming after me, do something lads!” Ringo yelled, flailing his hooves in a futile attempt to break free.

All you need is love (All together, now!)

All you need is love (Everybody!)

Chrysalis was just about to fire a spell at him, but her horn suddenly turned to stone, and the grey kept inching up her legs. “Damn it, my magic!” She shouted as Ringo fell to the ground. He thought he was now safe, but she merely grabbed him by the neck, choking him.

Love is all you need (Love is all you need!)

“H-H-help!” Ringo yelled, barely able to speak as she tried to strangle him. Paul and George merely ran over and hit her as hard as they could with their heavy instruments. She stumbled back, dazed as she dropped the drummer. More and more of her body was turning to stone, by now she couldn’t even move her legs.

Love is all you need (Love is all you need!)

“No, this isn’t how I’m going to be defeated, by a bunch of musicians!” Chrysalis yelled as she tried to fly, though she was just too heavy. She fell to the ground, and could only look on in horror as her body turned to stone.

Before long her wings and entire body was grey and stiff, only her head still unaffected. “When I get out of here, I’m going to make you four pay! And I mean really pay!” Chrysalis yelled with all her might as it started moving up her neck.

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah (Love is all you need!)

As the Beatles finished their song, Chrysalis was finally completely consumed by the stone. She was now just a motionless statue on the ground, staring off into space with intense anger.

“Well, that was a great performance lads! Maybe even better than the one we did on Our World!” John exclaimed as he dropped his guitar and smirked at the stoic Changeling.

“Yeah, but my bloody neck hurts… you could have saved me a little quicker…” Ringo mumbled as he massaged his neck.

Twilight and her friends ran over to them, all shocked. “Y-you actually did it! I can’t believe it, you beat Chrysalis!” The lavender unicorn exclaimed.

“It was no problem, she wasn’t a big deal! The Blue Meanies were tougher than her!” Paul said as he shot her a heroic smirk.

“I… I still can’t believe it.” Twilight just stared at the statue of Chrysalis in disbelief. “I guess the Princess was actually right about you guys…”

“Damn right, now could we make sure this attack is over and get something to eat? I’m starving!” John yelled, feeling a sharp pain in his stomach. He hadn’t eaten for quite awhile, and was definitely craving some British Cuisine.

Twilight nodded, and they went over to the still resting Princess.