Twilight was sitting in the room as she was dealing with the medical staff. Twilight frowned “How much longer before they can being taking up their duties again.”

Dr Curaga grimaced “They should be capable of handling paperwork but anything more will be considered too stressful.” Before Twilight could reply an huge explosion rocked the castle, her eyes widened as several explosions battered the castle.

When several Changelings in heavy armour dropped from the ceiling “We need to get you and the Princesses to safety. We are currently repelling multiple mercenary groups in the city with Royal and Night guards backing us up!”

Twilight grimaced she was not prepared for conflict and she knew it, she sighed “I need you to get Chrysalis and Chyrsa involved. I fear this is just the beginning for a far bigger conflict.”

Pharynx frowned “Our Queen has already contacted them, they should arriving soon.”

Celestia and Luna trotted out, Celestia frowned “We need to get to the emergency shelter and…” Several large explosions rattled the city, Celestia grimaced “Let’s just get out of here.”

The two Alicorns exited the room alongside Twilight and her guard only to see Ocellus levitating a massive blade tearing through mercenaries who were running through the halls. Twilight’s eyes widened as a huge mechanical fist punched through the wall.

Celestia growled “How did the fuck get their hooves on that?! I told them to get that dismantled as soon as I realised what was made!”

Luna growled “Why was such a thing made in the first place, sister?! You never told me about such a project, so please explain how such a colossal weapon got made!”

Twilight frowned “I’m curious too Luna but we need to deal with it first. We can discuss that later and…”

An Ursa Major paw pulled out the massive mechanised Minotaur, before opening it’s mechanical mouth firing a beam of pure energy burning it to ashes. The Ursa Major placed it’s paw down and Applejack galloped off the beast. The beast then flashed in green flames revealing an Chrysalis who flew down with a grin “The enemy is soon to be defeated now their mechanised monstrosity is down!”

Luna and Twilight turned to Celestia who blushed “Um, well that thing was made ten years before Luna’s return.” She growled “It was the Summer Celebration and I was having a bad day, I hated the Celebration a reminded of my failure and everypony was more insistent than usual on congratulating for my failure! I got really drunk that night and came up with a stupid half drunken plan that was passed, I was going to blow up the moon with it.”

Ocellus grimaced “I’m not sure I should trust you with the integration after hearing that.” She then paused before growling “They got away the bloody bastards, most of the nobles that we discovered were leading the attack escaped and even worse they were able to claim most of their material wealth. They could try again!”

Chyrsa sighed as she entered “This is my fault, if I didn’t injure the Princesses this would never have happened. They told me they planned to wiped out the Changelings and all who supported them.”

Twilight looked at both Chrysalis and Chyrsa “This whole incident occurred because of your actions! Now I could have you locked away for this but that won’t solve the current problem, so you two are now conscripted into Military Service until these fools are found and brought before me!”

Chyrsa was about to refuse when Chrysalis silenced her with a glare. She then turned to Twilight “We will do all in our power to rectify this. It’s our responsibility as our actions led to this disaster.”

Chyrsa growled “We can’t, we are not soldiers. We lack the experience to attempt such a…”

Chrysalis frowned “Do you think the wedding my first attempt at conflict. I have taken up weapons in numerous wars across Equestrian history under various identities becoming a general in multiple armies.”

Applejack blinked in confusion “Wait you have fought in wars?”

Chrysalis frowned “Equestria always had the largest supply of love, to let it burn would spend the end of all Changelings. I am not the only Queen who has had to take drastic action for the sake of our kind.”

Chyrsa frowned “I have never really got involved in a war before. I don’t know exactly how I could help over the course of a long war.”

Chrysalis frowned “I’ll teach you what I know, in the meantime we need to prepare for future attacks because judging from the scale of the attack this was a preliminary attack to test our defences and get their masters out Canterlot. We need to take this seriously or else Equestria could be ruled by this pathetic fools.”

Ocellus frowned “We could set up a shield around the city. That could repel them form the Capital.”

Chrysalis shook her head “No, they will just attack other cites. We need to anticipate our enemies moves, we may even needs to call on additional forces if this continues onward.”

Celestia frowned “I’m not sure this is going to work, the public wouldn’t be happy to mention that a pony who assaulted us and the changeling that launched the Canterlot Invasion are commanding our military. Not to mention she is going to have work with your brother.”

Twilight took a deep breath before turning to Chrysalis “I will put as many fires as I can but you will bring them down. I am giving you complete command of the military, so don’t disappoint me.”

Chrysalis saluted “Will do, Princess! Chyrsa and I must discuss strategy with Captain Armour!” Chyrsa followed her mother with concern.

Twilight frowned “Ocellus, I could use your assistance so we can put out some fires before they start.”

Meanwhile Luna turned to Celestia “Twilight is really adapting to her current position, soon she may not even need us.”

Celestia smiled “Well at least something good has come from this mess.” The pair headed in the direction that Ocellus and Twilight went eager to find out what their plans were.”

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.