Celestia stood there, eyes locked onto the now normal tree of harmony, knowing full well that they were too late to stop her sister's return.

And she acknowledged she had to face her now, Luna, however…

“Sister, please, we should retreat back to town, rally the ponies, she’s too strong, even for you,” Luna said.

“I refuse,” Celestia said.

“We only…” She leaned in and whispered so the guards wouldn’t hear “Killed her last time because she was caught off-guard, do not forget she’s the one who taught you magic.” Luna whispered.

“I have you, and a contingent of guards, one alicorn, no matter who they are is no match,” Celestia said.

“You are overconfident, I am heading back to town to rally the populace, come find me when you come to your senses,” Luna said.

“Have it your way,” Celestia said watching the tree as Luna teleported.

“Come on…” Celestia said before the door opened.

“Stand outside the cave, I will handle her,” Celestia said, planning to use them to hopefully get the drop on her again.

To her surprise, however, she exited the doorway with an all too familiar dragon at her side.

“Spike?...” Celestia said in surprise.

“It’s Emerald, remember?” Emerald said with a growl.

“...I suppose I did briefly forget,” Celestia turned her gaze to Harmony, who contrary with her fury, Harmony seemed cool and calm, though her gaze was less than happy to see her.

“Hello… sister…” Harmony said.

“Hello… Harmony,” Celestia spat the word Harmony.

“Why so venomous dear? Aren’t you happy to see your dear bigger sister after so many years?” Harmony said still trotting as Emerald leaned back against the side of the passageway.

“Happy isn’t the word I would use,” Celestia said.

‘Where’s Luna? Did I scare her off?” Harmony asked.

“She’s rallying the populace against you, even if I fail here, you’ll have Equestria against you soon,” Celestia said.

“Ah yes… you’ll just lie to them, like you’ve been lying to them for countless years, tell me, do ponies still remember me-”

“No… I made sure they forgot, but now it seems my past has finally caught up with me…” Celestia said.

“...Why sister… that’s all I want, why would you slay your own kin, I loved you, and you repaid that love, with murder,” Harmony said her mane starting to shimmer.

“I don’t need to explain myself to you, I’m the ruler now, me and my sister,” Celestia said proudly.

“Is she also a ruler, or just the second seat?” Harmony said.

“....Die again Harmony… and don’t come back,” Celestia said before rapidly charging a fast-moving piercing beam and firing for her heart, in the course of a second.

In that very second Harmony swung her hoof and deflected the beam into a wall.

“What?” Celestia said.

“Heh, nice try,” Emerald said.

“Agreed, my hoof is tingling from that,” Harmony said.

“Rrrgh!” Celestia fired a volley of magic blasts at Harmony.

Harmony used her own magic and caught them all.

“No!” Celestia said and she saw her fuse them into one and threw it back at Celestia who dodged out of the way.

The guards behind her had to jump for cover as the blast sailed past them.

Celestia didn’t notice a figure dart past her.

“Celestia, I get you wanted to be the ruler of Equestria instead of me, but murdering me? My mate? Anypony associated with me? THAT I cannot forgive,” Harmony said with a glare.

“Shut up!” Celestia said firing a massive blast of magic at her, and Harmony dodged out of the way.

Celestia pulled her head back.

Harmony’s mane bounced alerting her and she put a barrier behind herself blocking the U-turning beam.

“Nice one,” Harmony said before zooming at her at incredible speeds, leaving a shimmering rainbow contrail and Celestia put up a barrier, Harmony managed to stop and she bounced off of the ground and landed behind Celestia before bucking her in the back.

“AGH!” Celestia grunted.

“You forget, the elements of harmony were parts of me,” Harmony said before her senses tingled and she ducked a boulder pulled at her.

“I will not be beaten!” Celestia said, before breaking the boulder in half and launching the pieces at Harmony.

Harmony then seamlessly dodged around the rocks and stopped in front of Celestia and gave her the stare… this stare was different, her eyes morphed into fiery voids that would petrify anypony.

“Ngh!” Celestia flinched, unable to move and Harmony was able to dodge a swing of her hoof and she jammed her horn into Celestia’s stomach, without piercing it, and blasted her sending Celestia flying into the opening outside of the cave of harmony.

As she rolled to a stop and coughed she struggled to her hooves.

“Curse it! Guards! Seize-” Celestia’s eyes widened as she saw the former Spike sitting atop a pile of defeated guards.

“Oh hey, you done yet Harmony? I finished a minute ago, and don’t worry, I didn’t kill any,” Emerald said.

“You!” Celestia said getting ready and lunging at Emerald, horn poised to strike him down… only for Harmony to appear in front of her and buck her in the face.

“Ugh!” Celestia’s head snapped back and in the next second Harmony blitzed forward and rammed her through the air.

“Not good, she’s headed for town!” Emerald said before looking down at the guard beneath him and getting an idea.

Celestia screamed as she was plowed into the ground and she laid there twitching in pain.

“I didn’t want it to come to this sister, but it’s clear you never changed…” Harmony said before hearing lots of gasps and exclamations and she looked to see the ponies gathering.

“Oh dear… seems I misjudged my landing zone… I get the feeling this won’t be solved with a simple explanation,” Harmony sighed.

“Oh my gosh!” a mare cried.

“Princess Celestia!” Another pony cried.

“There really is an evil alicorn on the loose!” A stallion said.

Harmony sighed again and fluttered out of the crater.

“What did you do to Celestia!?” a stallion demanded.

“Where’s Pinkie Pie!?” Mr Cake demanded.

“Where’s the elements?!” A member of the flower trio cried.

“Do not curse what you do not understand,” Harmony said.

“Oh they understand,” Luna said approaching and Harmony turned towards her other sister “They understand that you are the enemy and you have harmed my beloved sister,” Luna said.

“Beloved? Be honest Luna, you tolerate her,” Harmony said.

“True…” Luna quietly said before resuming “But regardless! I have warned and rallied the ponies, you have nothing,” Luna said.

“Yes!” Harmony turned to see several ponies helping Celestia out of the crater “Rally together my little ponies, we can defeat the one who killed the elements,” Celestia added with a smirk.

“...So you’re planning to go that far…” Harmony sighed as the crowd gasped upon hearing that she may be the murderer of the elements of harmony, immediately they began pelting Harmony with things and trying to attack her.

Harmony simply put up a barrier to stop their attempts.

“I’m in a pickle here… I can’t hurt any of them and if I do, I’ll simply be vilified more, clever girls Celestia and Luna…” Harmony considered just leaving when they heard a ‘WAIT!’

Everypony paused and turned to see Emerald walking into view with a guard being held by his throat.

“Emerald, what are you doing?!” Harmony whispered.

“Trust me,” He mouthed back.

“Who is that?” A pony asked.

“He kind of looks like Spike…” Another said.

“Somepony help that guard!” A pony cried.

Celestia, seeing more fuel to the fire turned to her subjects.

“You see how she and her dragon companion intend to take the lives of my student and guards?! Their evil!” Celestia said and Harmony just facehoofed.

“I am Spike! But now I prefer to be known as Emerald, and your princesses are nothing but liars, and I have proof,” Emerald held up the pony and squeezed his throat.

“Ugh! Princess! Save me!” The guard croaked out.

The ponies continued to get more agitated seeing this before Emerald spoke again.

“Tell them what really happened, or we’ll see how quickly a pony can cook,” Emerald huffing some flames near his head.

“Eep!” The guard yelped.

Celestia’s eyes widened and she knew he was going to reveal the truth to everypony.

“Don’t!” Celestia cried.

“Talk or you burn, slowly!” Emerald said.

“That alicorn over there is the elements! Celestia tried to kill them, please! I have children-” The guard cried before a small barely noticeable piercing beam was fired at his chest.

Which Emerald blocked with his other hand immediately, the spell failing to pierce his scales.

The ponies gasped.

“Looks like your Princess values her secrets more than an expendable pony like you,” Emerald smirked.

Harmony realized his plan now and added fuel to the new fire by firing a truth spell subtly into the guard and he began speaking his mind.

“She was planning to kill the elements, they are that alicorn, she betrayed them-” He droned.

“STOP!” Celestia fired another but Emerald blocked it as well.

“And she’s promised us a place in her future utopia if we worked for her without question, even making us perform torture on naysayers, also I have a rash because these suits are very tight-”

“Ok, enough info,” Emerald said before turning to Celestia who looked positively fuming.

“Well, care to explain this utopia?” Emerald asked.

“It is a utopia of harmony! Nothing else,” Celestia tried to backpedal, but ponies were whispering.

“Torture…?” A mare said.

“Without question?” Another pony asked.

“I can answer that for you,” Harmony said approaching.

“Celestia and Luna want to build a utopia for their ponies, at the sacrifice of many other races. She wants to begin a culling, am I wrong sister?” Harmony asked.

“How does she remember that conversation?!” Celestia shouted in her head.

“Sister?!” Lyra cried.

“Cullings?” Octavia asked.

“She’s lying! I love all races!” Celestia said.

“Yes, we look to build harmony for the other races,” Luna nervously said, sensing the tide turning.

“Then why in the thousands of years of your stolen rule have you not integrated any? Buffalo’s maybe but that’s the extent,” Emerald said.

“I will not be labeled a dictator by two strangers!” Celestia not noticing a glow from Harmony’s horn.

“...No… SISTER WAIT!” Luna exclaimed.

“I won’t be labeled a criminal simply for wanting a pony-only society!” Celestia yelled… and then looked shocked “Uh… I mean-” Celestia said seeing the ponies looking at her as if she had suddenly turned into Chrysalis.

“Wh-why did I-” Celestia then turned and saw a truth spell imprint on her flank, only Harmony could do so without her noticing…

“Oh no…” Celestia turned to see the ponies murmuring to each other.

“A pony-only society… odd, a race-loving pony wouldn’t want that, would they?” Emerald chuckled.

“I-it’s true… she mentioned that to us and wiped the memories of those of us who didn’t agree, like Captain Shining Armor,” The guard said.

“M-my little ponies, you know me, I’ve been set up!” Celestia said.

“You’ve been caught,” Harmony said, with a smile and the ponies soon turned their attention on Celestia, asking questions and backing her up to beside Luna.

“The word is out Celestia, everypony know you for what you are,” Harmony said.

“Their starting to doubt Celly, what do we do?” Luna asked

Celestia realizing what she did in her blind anger lit her horn again with a teleportation spell.

“I won’t forget this…” Celestia said and she teleported both her and Luna away

“I’ll see you again soon sister,” Harmony said with a calm expression.

Harmony turned to the shaken crowd and smiled “Are you all alright? I suppose I have some explaining to do…” Harmony said.

All the ponies present looked uncertain about what just happened here.

But Harmony patiently explained to all of them the truth.

There were of course many ponies who refused to believe that Celestia and Luna were tyrants.

So, Harmony did the only thing she could.

“Liar! Celestia is a good pony! She's protected us for years!” A stallion said loudly.

“She gives us the sun!” A mare said.

“Luna became a good pony remember?” A foal said.

“Quiet!” Emerald said and the rioting ponies quieted a little but some ponies still voiced their discontent.

“Easy my love, we should do this the easier way,” Harmony said before standing.

“Where's your proof?” Mayor Mare approached “we’ll need hard evidence before we believe that Celestia and Luna are the ponies you say they are,”

“...You wish to have evidence? Will you be able to handle it?” Harmony asked more out of concern than anything.

“Yes,” Mayor Mare' said resolutely.

“As you wish…” Harmony knelt and tapped her head with her horn.

And immediately images flashed through her mind of all the things Celestia and Luna had done, to Harmony and the elements.

When the download ended, Mayor Mare' staggered back in horror.

“No….NO! It…. Can't,” Mayor Mare shivered in horror.

“Take a deep breath,” Harmony said

The Mayor Mare turned and puked.

“Ugh… hope they all don't do that…” Emerald said.

“Mayor Mare?” Lyra approached her slowly.

“It's… all been a lie… we've been deceived all these years…” Mayor Mare turned to the towns ponies and approached them.

“We have been deceived, but not by her, we… need to trust her,” Mayor Mare said.

The other ponies looked at each other unsurely.

“Was Celestia literally confessing not proof enough?” Emerald demanded, stepping forward “let me clear some things up, you're wondering where the Elements of Harmony are? They're right here,” Emerald pointed at Harmony.

Harmony seemed a little embarrassed to be the center of attention like this.

“The elements were six ponies fragments that made up the alicorn before you, but now she's whole again, and I'm sure some of you are wondering who I am, why I look like the baby dragon Spike, well the answer is simple, I am him,” Emerald said.

“B-but he’s a baby dragon,” a pony pointed out.

“Was but thanks to Harmony here, I have returned to my prime, you all must believe us, what happened in the cave of harmony was true,” Emerald said.

The ponies looked at each other unsurely, but they can't fully deny what he says.

But how can they just believe that Celestia betrayed her own student?

“Excuse me! Out of the way please,” a filly’s voice said and when the ponies parted they saw Sweetie Belle exiting the crowd.

“I-if what he’s saying is true… does that mean… something happened to Rarity?” Sweetie asked nervously.

“What about AJ? Is she alright?” Harmony turned and saw Apple Bloom and Big Mac.

“Pinkie?” Mr and Mrs Cake approached.

“What about Rainbow Dash? Or Fluttershy? Or Princess Twilight?” A pony asked approaching her.

“...” Harmony saw their pleading faces and she couldn’t hold back the tears “I’m sorry… I’m so very sorry, but in order to revive me, they had to surrender their own bodies, if I could undo this, then I would,” Harmony said crying.

“No… NO!” Sweetie ran up to her and shook her leg “She can’t be gone! Bring her back now!” Sweetie demanded.

“AJ… is gone?...” Apple Bloom said looking shell-shocked, even Big Mac looked like he was struggling to accept what he heard.

The Cakes looked horrified and hugged eachother, the rest of the townsponies looked horrified as well.

But before they could panic Emerald stepped forward again.

“It isn’t her fault, Celestia and Luna drove them into a corner, they had no other choice but to become Harmony to fight back,” Emerald said.

“B-but there ain’t a way to reverse it?” Big Mac demanded.

“She just said there wasn’t, i’m sorry Mac,” Emerald said.

“...Ah need a moment…” Big Mac said picking the sobbing Apple Bloom and trotting away.

“What will we do without the elements?” A mare asked.

“What if Celestia comes back to silence us?” A stallion asked nervously.

“That won’t happen… not again,” Harmony said before standing tall “Me and my lover Emerald here, will dethrone Celestia and Luna and protect you all from their madness,” Harmony said.

“Their the Princesses of the Sun and Moon,” A filly said.

“But even united their my lesser in terms of power, trust me,” Harmony said “We must get word out and make preparations, time is of the essence

The ponies looked to her and she could see they had hope, that this unexpected storm can be weathered.

A vase impacted a wall and shattered.

“BLAST IT!” Celestia shouted throwing things around in a fit of anger.

“Celly, calm yourself! Freaking out like this will not bring us any closer to the solution,” Luna said.

“Even after she just came back from her soul being fragmented, I still was but an infant next to her power! And now she is possibly planning and conspiring with the townsponies to spead the word, turn the populace against us,” Celestia paced back and forth.

“Then let us get word out faster, it will limit the spread of hearsay,” Luna said.

“We must deploy our weapon sooner than expected…” Celestia said.

“...No… Celly you can’t!” Luna said in horror.

“If Ponyville is wiped out here and now while those two are still there we can avert any further disas-” Celestia was smacked by Luna.

“Cease this madness! That weapon was to be used on the off chance one of the other races threatened us with war! We cannot turn it against the populace!” Luna said.

“...Your right… I lost my head there… but we need to try something, anything!” Celestia said.

“For now, we rest, tomorrow will be a long day,” Luna said.

“Very well,” Celestia said as she looked out at the distance with a glare.

And within Ponyville looking at Canterlot was Harmony…

“Emerald, take a message, we have many to send,” Harmony said dreading the coming days.

“As you wish, my dear,” Emerald said.

Author's Note

I turn to you now, do I continue part two of this story on this story set, or make a sequel on a separate page?

Either way, It will be on temporary hold, gotta figure it all out to present it better than this one.

All for you guys to enjoy.

I look forward to your comments and suggestions.