Author's Note

Halfway through this chapter, it gets pretty mushy pretty fast. Cringy is more like it. Just a warning. Hint: It involves Dislestia.

My Precious Wings are Broken

Bini let out a dry laugh and then doubled over. Which actually concerned Discord for a moment. It concerned everypony for a few minutes. Bini was laughing so hard that she was crying when she pointed at Discord.

"You could have fixed this!" She yelled. Her cries of laughter started derailing into cries of sorrow. "You knew what was bucking going on with her and now Canterlot is gone! My remaining family is dead along with it. We are all probably going to be next because you decided that Equestria wasn't worth saving!" She yelled.

Discord opened his mouth to defend himself when Bini used her magic to shut his mouth shut.

"I AM NOT FINISHED!" She yelled and slammed her hoof into Discord's chest to make a point. "All you did was make goo goo eyes at Celestia and probably told her everything was going to be fine. Look around Discord! If you don't figure out a way to either help us or remove whatever parasite has attached to her brain then so help me-"

It was Discord's turn to shut somepony up. He snapped his fingers and closed Bini's mouth with a zipper. She kept yelling at him, which the group was sure were curse words that no pony had spoken in quite a few hundred years.

"We have already been over this. You can't hurt me. I can hurt you. Just shut up and listen." He snapped with anger meant for Celestia directed at Bini. "I tried to fix Celestia the night after our little pep talk. I tried to suck the presence out of her mind with all my magic. It didn't work. I tried again. Then I tried a few hundred more times. I tried until sunrise. I tried three nights after that in secret. I don't have pony magic. My magic isn't stable enough to rip something that influential out of her mind."

Discord finally unzipped her mouth. Bini jumped on Discord, knocking him to the floor and pressed all her body weight on him.

"If you want a future with Celestia. You are going to help us. Even Alicorns can die." Bini growled. Discord made her float into the air and dusted himself off dramatically. As if Bini's words didn't have an effect on him. They did. But Discord wasn't about to admit that.

The group heard shouts outside calling for backup as screams of pain and terror echoes across the empire. Discord turned to them with a sad expression.

"As I am sure somepony has mentioned before. I can't bring ponies back from death. He opened the door to Bini's bedroom slowly. "Be careful."

The group nodded their silent thanks and started towards the exit of the room.

"Oh, and Filters..."

Bini stood with everypony else.

"Consider your plan more. We aren't at war yet."

Cadence slammed into the castle. She heard the crystal crack beneath her body. She allowed the cold to numb her pain from what she was sure was a broken back hoof. She really didn't want to hurt auntie Celestia. She stared back at the white Alicorn with eyes that stood out with their green and red colours. No longer magenta and white. Her black veins were sticking out. Her skin was tighter along her body. She was overall thinner. Probably from not eating since she was missing. But there was no way Cadence could prove that. Her mane wasn't flowing a sparkling like it usually was. It was limp and dull. She had royal armour on that was clearly made by her own magic.

"Auntie, this isn't you." Cadence whispered weakly. "Come back. Be the Princess Equestria needs."

Celestia punched Cadence hard. Flinging her back to the ground near the Crystal heart. She groaned and felt magic pushing her down on her back. Her vision shook as Celestia stared down at her with what almost looked like remorse.

"I have already fallen to hell and I can't fly up. My precious wings are broken." She said as if reciting a song. "It was part of a song my mother sang to me whenever I got in trouble. It was meant to scare me. Unfortunately that song...That verse has become true. My mother was a Queen. She died a villain. It seems to run in the family. Except for the death part. I am not going to die."

Cadence's eyes widened as she completely understood the pony before wasn't her auntie. At least not at that moment.

"I am..." Celestia conjured up and the sword of light with corrupted parts flickering around and she pointed it directly at Cadence's heart. Cadence struggled with her earth pony magic to get free. She tried to use her alicorn powers but they fluctuated thanks to Celestia's magic draining her power at that moment. "Queen Celestia. Queen of the sun and moon."

Cadence started letting out a delusional laugh and coughed up some blood. Then smiled with bloody teeth at Celestia. Her brain was probably concussed and damaged. The fight had affected her judgement and she could help but laugh at how stupid the pony was before her.

"Only of the sun, you idiot." She snapped. She no longer was seeing her auntie and was staring down a creature of darkness. "The Moon has a will of its own."

Celestia's dark eyes grew wide and she twisted her head slightly at Cadence with clear pure confusion.

"What do yo-"

Celestia cried out as Shining Armour blasted a lazer of hot plasma at Celestia. She stumbled away with the first half of her body badly burned. Shinning Armour ran over to his injured wife with a backup of guards behind him. He teleported her to the medical wing and faced down Celestia.

Celestia healed her injuries like it was nothing. She returned. Unwounded.

"How do you expect to kill the immortal, mortal unicorn?"

Shining Armour backed away and looked around at the dead guards littering the streets. The blood spilled on the streets. He turned to see the visitors and Discord exiting the castle and coming to a stop just behind Shining Armour. He didn't like the Changeling, Discord, or even the Librarian who worked in the Royal castle for that matter, he was fine with the other two. But even on his worse enemies. He wouldn't wish death here and now.

"Run!" He barked and gestured his guards to follow him. He had trained them well. They galloped after him as he approached Celestia. He didn't want to die today, tomorrow, or next year. But it was going to happen.

He will die for the good of the Empire.

There was a white flash of light. Shinning Armour expected to be dead at that very moment. Instead, he felt the cold air still hitting his fur. Her armour freezing up and restricting movements. He slowly opened his eyes to find himself floating in the air and moving farther away from Alicorn and...Discord.

Discord stood in front of Celestia was Bini, Arone and the two assistants.

"Get out of Tia's head." He growled with venom that Shining Armour had never heard before. "Get out."

"Aw." Celestia said with fake softness. "Still pretending to care about me despite abandoning our relationship for your own selfish reasons. Can't I be selfish once in a while, Dizzy?"

"I made awful mistakes and decisions that I regret every day. My biggest regret was leaving you." Discord said. Bini had started to visibly gag from being subjected to this lovey mushy mojo. This sick dance that those two have been playing might finally start coming to an end soon.

Yet Bini was afraid that one of them would die before it came to a satisfying conclusion. Before the dance number ended. Bini rolled her eyes at her own mediocre metaphor. If she could just shut her mind off, this would be a lot easier.

Discord leaned forwards slowly and gulped. He was acting very unusual. Arone was very confused as to why Celestia didn't blast him across Equestria. Then her eyes changed. A few seconds revealed magenta eyes staring back at him. Not evil.

"Dizzy,...I...I want this to stop."

Discord planted a soft kiss on Celestia's lips which caused tears to fall from her cheeks.

"I know."

She screamed in pain and reared back. She stumbled away and her eyes formed back to green and red with purple emitting from her eyes.

"Damn it!" She screamed and raised her head to the sky. "That pathetic Princess WON'T STOP FIGHTING ME!"

"I think she is having an identity crisis because of the magic." Arone muttered out loud. Bini nodded and started to back away and Celestia grabbed her head. Trying to push down the better part of her.

Discord looked towards the group.

"Have you made up your mind about the plan, Filters?"

Bini nodded.

"Don't fail, you below-average unicorn." He said with a smirk. Bini shrugged.

"At least I don't have to deal with an insane Alicorn."

Discord snapped his claws and they were dropped in the middle of a forest. They groaned as they landed and Bini got up on shaking hoofs to noticed that her saddlebag was attached to her back with all the essentials. She smiled as Arone pulled himself up and touched his horn. Finding that the ring holding back his magic was gone.

He wobbled over Bini and leaned against her for support. He glanced into the dark woods as Rocky and Chocolate helped each other up.

"Wh-What did you do, Bini?" He asked as he rubbed his eyes.

"We are going to get the Changelings help," Bini said as if that was some sort of normal statement. She pointed to a barren wasteland past the lush forest they could see in the distance that had a deformed castle the seemed to be built by nature and bugs in the distance. "This is going to get bloody."

"I hate this plan already," Rocky mumbled with Arone and Chocolate nodding in agreement.

---End of Chapter Three---