Douglas 2: The Douggenning

-LUNA POV, Friday, 4:17 PM

“Shining Armor, put up the barrier now!” Everything was in havoc. The castle had been breached five minutes ago, and the hallways were flooded with the monstrosities which had attacked Twilight and her friends. I moved briskly through the halls. Any creatures which approached me were incinerated as soon as they touched the shadows around me. I knew not what took place outside these walls, but right now, the castle needed to be purged.

-DOUGLAS POV, 6:43 PM

Chrysalis had mended my clothes with her magic. I still didn’t have my suit jacket, but I had something to protect me from the cold that also had the bonus of looking quite snazzy. She’d also pointed us in another direction, suggesting that since neither of us were exactly welcome faces in Canterlot at the moment, it may be best not to enter from beneath the castle. She didn’t walk at any diminished pace, but her movements still seemed slow. She had been like this for some time, occasionally lowering her head. I could understand that. A lot had happened to both of us. We emerged from the ground a good ways away from the city itself, soaked in dusk. There was still enough light out for us to cast shadows. There were spots of light in my own shadow, as if my limbs were riddled with holes. As we pressed towards the city, something seemed different. There was a magenta envelope covering the city. Chrysalis recognized it, pointing it out as a magical barrier which would bar entry. I could smell its energy, feel it in parts of my body which seemed foreign. We approached magical field. I closed my eyes, reaching out with the sensations in my body as I communed with the magic before me. I opened my eyes, and an entrance rippled open. I was prepared to face the royal guard when I arrived back in the city, willing to submit completely if necessary. I was not prepared for the warzone we encountered. The streets were riddled with dead ponies, most of them looking as if they’d been chewed open. There was little structural damage, but the real blemishes were the wolf-things prowling through the streets they’d conquered. I looked to the castle, where the walls were being scaled by the monsters. Canterlot had been invaded. I took in the bloodbath before me, taking note of all of the lost pony lives. Something inside me stirred. Not a changeling Emperor, but a force which cascaded through my being like mercury.

“Chrysalis, go to the castle. I’ll deal with the city.” She simply nodded, becoming a dart of black and turquoise as she flew to the palace.

I had other plans.

I let that pool inside of me boil over, and the ground beneath me cracked audibly. Feasting creatures turned their attention to me and lunged. Raw anger lanced out from my chest, striking several of the things. I stepped through the new piles of ash, moving to the center of the city. Anything that jumped at me met various ends as they collided with the green streaks of power blasting my slowly building aura. Some collapsed in upon themselves, some exploded, some were impaled on pieces of their burst comrades, and some simply died. My rage only grew the more I killed. These creatures were destroying the perfect world I’d finally found. I was nothing but green fury by the time I was in the dead center of Canterlot. I tapped into the barrier again, turning it viridian as my eyes saw the entire city at once. I could see all of the invaders, both those within the confines of the shield as well as those in the legion approaching it. My vision was simultaneous, as was my retribution. A matrix of beams permeated the city as I struck dead the whole of Canterlot’s marauders. I collapsed the shield into a single point, and sent it at the newcomers. Whatever fates they met were inconsequential and deservedly horrible.

-PINKIE PIE POV

They took everypony they could and moved them into the basement. We were surrounded by guards, but they couldn’t keep us safe from the sounds coming from above. We could hear the noises the things made, a noise like a deflated balloon filled with paper going through a shredder. We could hear them cry as the guards attacked them. But the cries of those horrible things didn’t bother me. It was the screaming ponies. Every time I heard a pony scream, I was hearing a pony die. There was so much screaming. I huddled close to Twilight, and she put a hoof on my shoulder. If I closed my eyes, I felt like it was Dougie touching me.

Dougie, where are you?

The screaming got quieter after a few hours. It got real quiet for a few minutes. I wished Dougie was here. I wanted him with me so I could look up and see him okay. I just hoped that wherever he went off to, he was safe. There were so many ponies, all crammed together. Most of them were crying. The light sobbing was the only noise, and we were together in the stillness. One of the guards started shouting, then wiggly things grabbed his head. All the ponies started screaming when the guard’s head came off, and more of those beasts came into the room. I was so scared. Everypony tried to run, but there was no room. I thought we were all going to die. Then, a huge tentacle grabbed the monsters and crushed them. A giant green eye stared at us all, before the whole thing turned green and changed into…