How The Mean 6 should have ended

Flash Sentry looked up at the sky, it was filled with changelings, with Queen Chrysalis herself flying overhead, decimating whole buildings, he then ran over to Captain Shining Armour, who was all decked out with his Royal Guard armour and was flanked by Rarity, another Royal Guard and Starlight Glimmer "Captain Armour!" he yelled

"What is it Flash?" Shining turned to look at him

"Captain, we're outnumbered sir..." Flash replied, the hope drained from his eyes, even though he was standing among heroes of Equestria, it was hard to be optimistic

"Tell me something I don't know!" He yelled, blasting a changeling with a beam of magic, then another, then another...there were no shortage of targets...their number had been few before but the longer the battle lasted the more seemed to turn up. "Everyone get down!" Shining yelled, a blast of magic flew in the centre of them, thankfully due to Shining's warning they all dodged out of the way of the explosion.

"What do we do?" Rarity cried out, she was used to combat, but not a full scale battle like this. That's when Shining stood up, dusted himself off and turned to face the group.

"Flash, you and Starlight, fortify the city..." He commanded

"Yes sir"Flash said, saluting

"You can count on us" Starlight chipped in

"Rarity, find Spike and contact Celestia for back up" Shining said, turning to the white Unicorn

Rarity straightened herself up and her brow tightened "I can handle it"

"I need to go find the others and get them to safety...we'll all meet in the palace grounds, now move!" The stallion yelled, everypony split up, all aware of their respective tasks...all relied on this plan working...and it was barely holding together.

"Come on Starlight, we have to move!" Flash yelled, turning to face Starlight, who was lagging behind

"But what about Twilight and Rainbow Dash? They're still outside! If we fortify The Empire they'll be trapped!" Starlight said, unsure whether to move or not

"We can't wait, they're both skilled fighters, they can handle themselves out there, lets go!" He yells, galloping away, Starlight is close behind. They both eventually made their way to one of the special towers Starlight and Sunburst had been working on, in case The Empire ever got attacked and needed to defend itself. The pink Unicorn flares up her horn, igniting the dormant enchantments that many hoped would never be used.

Throughout the city other towers become active, sending large focusing crystals into the air, walls start raising from the ground and a protective shield starts to form around The Empire. The focusing crystals then power up, sending bolts of magic towards the invaders, not taking out that many, but enough to help. Elsewhere through the city buildings start shifting, growing armour or lowering below the ground in the hopes to minimise casualties.

"Okay, lets get back to the palace" Flash says, putting his hoof on Starlight's shoulder, knocking her out of her trance.

"Y-yeah...lets go" Her voice waivers, but she's the first one out of the building, galloping down the street as fast as her hooves can carry her, Flash is following close. Then spells start raining down over them, they both manage to dodge, but they just keep coming...

"Pathetic fools!" Yells Evil Twilight, still firing spells with no hints of stopping "There's no escape!" the pair keep running, ducking and dodging until they run inside a building that's already half lowered. Evil Twilight attempts to follow but simply crashes, when she tries flying away though there's a problem...her foot is stuck.

"Oh no...no no no..." She looks left, then right...two walls at least 50 feet high are rushing towards her, she keeps tugging on her leg, before blasting the ground with magic, flying away at the last moment "Ahhh my foot!!" She screams in pain.

"Ha, you think a wall can stop me?" Chrysalis chuckles, she was unfortunately outside the little exclusion zone and is now trapped outside. She blasts the wall a few times with her magic...no effect. "Breach their defences!"

At her command two changelings fly down to the wall with baskets, they open them at the base of the wall and tip out their contents...about a dozen Parasprites, they soon get to work chewing away at the wall. "Pathetic, you'd think they'd better defend themselves" One of the changelings says

"They're Ponies, they're born pathetic and they'll die pathetic" The other says, tipping it's basket again to make sure it's empty.

"Those changelings are in our way Rainbow!" Twilight yells, the pair are speeding towards The Empire at breakneck speeds, no tuning around now.

"Wrong, they're our way in!" Rainbow Dash says with a chuckle, speeding up and heading right for the first, delivering a punch right to it's face, at the very least knocking it out cold, as Twilight passes through she makes sure to destroy the Parasprites, before following Rainbow inside.

Up high above the battle in The Crystal Palace, the highest tower, Spike is watching over the battle...mostly watching over Flurry Heart, but the battle is far scarier than a sleeping baby "Oh boy...I hope Twilight fixes this..."

Rarity bursts in, sweat running down her brow and panting like a dog "Spike!?!" she yells

"Rarity? What are you doing here? Get somewhere safe!" The dragon says, rushing over to her

"There's no time for that" She says, picking him up with her hooves "You need to tell Celestia what's happening!"

"I...okay, okay just write me a letter!" He says, panicking a little

"Of course darling..." Rarity says, quickly searching the room for a quill and parchment, finding what she needed Rarity set to work explaining the situation, before sending it to Spike, who engulfed it in green flame.

"Now we wait I guess..." he says in a defeated tone

"Wait?" She asks in disbelief

"With this much magic going on that spell might take longer than usual" Spike says, throwing his arms up in anger.

Chrysalis is gathering her changelings at the main gate, getting ready for one big push...meanwhile Starlight and Flash are inside one of, if not the last standing tower tower, the focus crystal is misaligned and Flash gets right to work pushing it back into place...Starlight is taking a little longer though...she's dragging the body of a Royal Guard.

"C'mon Starlight...Chrysalis is getting ready to hit us hard, we need to be able to hit back..." He says, straining under the weight of the thing, it's not even moving

"Just...give me a sec..." She drags the guard and puts him down next to four other bodies "Okay let me just..." Starlight runs up and helps push the thing, magic won't move it, they're enchanted to resist it, so physical force is the only thing that works.

"Need a helping hoof?" Twilight asks galloping in and pushing herself against it, Rainbow and Scootaloo aren't far behind. With the four of them plus Scootaloo pushing it actually starts moving into place.

"I...was worried you'd be trapped outside" Starlight says, clearly straining

"Hey, I wasn't worried at all...look who you're...talking to" Rainbow pants

"I almost forgot...still fastest flyer won't mean anything in this" Starlight glanced over to the small pile of bodies, a couple of them she knew. Soon enough the crystal was in the right position, the ponies all stand themselves up and admire the work they'd done.

"Well...that works" Twilight pants, wiping some sweat from her forehead. Then Scootaloo ran up to the window, hiding just behind the window ledge, there she had a perfect view of Chrysalis and her forces on the other side of the wall.

"You six...get here and destroy this place" She commanded, yelling out at her troops

"Hey guys, over here!" Scootaloo yelled, waving the rest over.

What they saw was Chrysalis's clones of The Mane six walk up ahead of the Changeling army and stand in a circle.

"What is going on?" Twilight asks in a hushed tone as she watched all six levitate up, hovering around Evil Twilight, their eyes glowing pure white as energy passes from the five into Evil Twilight...then a blast from her horn destroys a chunk of the wall. Flash springs into action.

"I'm not gonna let us go down without a fight!" He yells, running over and bucking the crystal. The sudden attack shocks the crystal into life, causing it to fire a blast at the Mean 6, vaporising Evil Rarity. Evil Twilight then turns and looks at where the attack came from, then, using her newfound power sends a whole section of wall right at the tower.

"Run!" Twilight yells, scooping up Scootaloo with her magic and leading everypony out of the tower, mere seconds before it's destroyed. After this the survivors dig in behind the wall, spending the whole night throwing spells at the changeling army, with the invaders sending spells flying back. It's a glorious display of colour in the darkness.