Time passes by, minutes spin to hours, hours to days: 1 Week, 4 days since Twilight's Banishment.

'I never expected those despicable princesses to act so rashly against one of their own.' Chrysalis thought, while laying in bed "recovering" from being assaulted by the lavender pony. In truth, she had done this damage by her own will, subtlety making use of her wings to drive her farther into the ponies' throw. She never expected the results to be, so... amazing. Truly, while Celestia was an idiot, her other side, was not. She had known Princess "Cadance" was a farce all along, and had used Twilight as a means to an end so that she could cripple the elements of harmony. It only made her laugh on the inside even more that Celestia had no clue about her other half, undermining her from right inside her. Her crazy decision to banish Twilight? That was the other's doing, and she had easily manipulated the solar princess into doing that just as easy as counting to three.

Chrysalis of course had no idea what the other's motive was for, but she certainly didn't want to get on the bad side of whatever it was. If a being lived inside of one of the strongest ponies in Equestria, and even she didn't know it, that meant that she could easily take over Equestria. Chrysalis would play the fool for now, but her plans had only been set on guard, because she didn't know what the other wielded, but she would find out, nothing would stop her from taking over Equestria, nothing.

She of course decided to take a much more, different approach than before, going so far as to poke around in the actual princess of love's brain and switch them out, after making sure she looked like she had after a scuffle with Celestia's student. Chrysalis had to play this carefully, she had both a princess, and her consort. She would be slowly undermining Equestria's guard, infiltrating it with some of her own. She went as far as to start doing it with some of Canterlot's well known ponies, having spies track their movements, learn their actions and personalities. It only took some spiked punch or a flirtatious pony here and there to capture them, and replace them with her own. This is a giant scale of chess, she would play it correctly. All would be done and prepared within a few years time, and they had nothing to stop her. First she would take Equestria, and then for good measure, she'd take that being living inside of Celestia for her own.

[Elsewhere: Ponyville]

The main five gathered at Sugarcube Corner, they all hadn't got over their friends banishment, and hardly spoke about it. Applejack was the first to speak, she didn't want to, but she knew if she didn't then nothing would get done.

"Ah know you all don't want to talk about it everypony, but we all knew what was gonna happen if we did say anything, but we gotta keep going, live our lives an' stuff, even without Twi. The princess said that she wasn't in the right state of mind, an' she was a danger to everypony an' herself." she started off.

This was hard, talking about Twilight. They had so much more they wanted to say to her, but instead they only watched on as she was banished. She'll never forget that look in her eyes, the fear of losing everything she had ever known. Of course, they had all taken the task of running the library in her absence, but it was never the same, and eventually the memories would be too much to bear. Her line of thought was interrupted:

"We all know, but we didn't do anything, instead we pushed her away when we most needed it" This came from Pinkie, who's mane seemed to have lost a bit of it's luster, but it retained it's poofiness, so that had to be a good thing right? All of them agreed that they shouldn't have done it, well... almost all of them. The ones that strongly opposed that notion were Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy surprisingly. None of them had shared their reasons for it, but it didn't take much reason to figure out why. Rainbow saw herself so loyal to the princesses that she would oppose anything that harmed them, friends included. Rarity thought the methods taken were brutish yes, but she saw it more as generosity for her to even live, despite it not being in Equestria. To attack a princess was the gravest crime to ever be done, and it was usually punished by death, but banishment had to be a more generous one instead of taking Twilight's life. Of course, the world knew it as Twilight having been controlled by dark spirits, but they knew better.

Fluttershy, well... she didn't say much, but their was now a certain animosity in the room when talking about the lavender pony. It was everyponies guess as to what was going on in her head, but she it probably had to do with the fact that she was so kind, and she would never be unkind to anypony. She was the element of kindness for Celestia's sake. She wouldn't ever associate herself with someone that practically bullied a princess with their magic.

Applejack focused back up, she was getting side tracked again. This meeting was going to be long.

[Elsewhere: Canterlot]

Shining Armor was going about his royal duties, much to the frustration of his parents. What they didn't realize, was that this was his way for grieving. He didn't grieve for his banished sister though, he could have potentially lost his to be, luckily she was just in a coma; and the way he saw it, she got what was coming to her. Shining refocused on his task, now wasn't the time to get sidetracked, he had to meet with the princesses about an oncoming event happening close to Equestria's borders. He tried to recall what it was about, something about an Empire?

Author's Note

To those asking about what's wrong with Celestia, there indeed was something wrong with her! I know it maybe to early to know about it, but I assure you it's just the tip of the iceberg. I just want to say, I hate typing AJ's speech. I always will, but I do it for you all.

Also, I just want to clarify, Interlude's are what's happening outside of what Twilight sees. This could also include events happening that lead up to Twilight crossing paths. You'll see many examples about this later on.

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” -Sun Tzu, Art of War.