"Princess!" Starlight exclaimed in astonishment as both Princess Luna and Princess Celestia flew up to them by the balcony of Twilight's castle. The village was in complete shambles as flora and parts of buildings lay scattered across the roads. The buildings were damaged from the queen tramping through in her massive form. She was larger and taller than the Canterlot Castle itself. "Oh no... it's much worse than I feared Celestia!" Luna was mortified at the damage her friend was causing in her corrupted state.

"I'm sorry but... WHAT IS GOING ON? I was just cleaning the library when I come out and see this! And Twilight tells me it's a queen!" Starlight blurted out feeling frustrated and frantic at the chaos around her. It was bringing back bad memories of when she tried to take Twilight down in an epic battle that almost destroyed Equestria itself. Celestia smiled smugly as Luna sighed, "It's my good friend Lavender... she's become corrupted by a Hypnosian Queen from the past. The queen is power hungry and thirsty for some sort of revenge against ones who are probably long gone by now. Twilight, we need to get to her before she gets any closer to the city. There's still time.... I must try to reach Lavender through her mind." Celestia was a little confused as she spoke, "What do you mean sister? How will you do this?" The white alicorn mare raised an eyebrow as the moon made her golden attire and crown shimmer in its light.

Luna sighs deeply, "I must physically enter the entity's body which is pure energy. The more minds she controls the bigger and stronger that energy will grow. And until we stop her, she'll be unstoppable if we don't act now." The group was hushed by her claim. "Alright, if you're sure Princess?" Twilight asked, followed by Celestia, "Luna... this sounds like it could be dangerous... are you up for it?" She knew that her sister was hiding how tired she really was from the others to seem strong and ready. But the sun princess knew her better, she would push through her tiredness no matter the danger to her own self. Luna looked up at Celestia with a semi tired look but tried to look reassuring for her. "I'll be fine sister. I need to do this... for Lav...." Knowing Luna wanted to appear strong in front of the other ponies, Celestia gave her approval in a swift nod.

Luna nodded back and flew after the massive entity roaming through the grassy plains towards Canterlot. Celestia watched as she flew off, not being able to help but feel concerned for her safety in this plan. So she turned back to Starlight and Twilight. "I'm worried about Luna. She's awful tired from last night's rounds and she's recently come out of a depression phase relating to a personal incident with Lavender. If this goes wrong, we'll need you two as a back up plan. If Luna becomes corrupted and lost within the entity.... I need you Starlight to get word to Princess Cadance and Shining Armor. If one of them can lend a hoof that would be greatly appreciated." Starlight listened to her orders and asked, "Shall I go now Princess?" Celestia nodded at the unicorn and so the young mare teleported herself from the high balcony to the ground floor and raced off towards the Crystal Empire.

Meanwhile she turned to Twilight, "Twilight do you have any ideas that could be a trap for the entity if its needed?" Twilight hummed over possibilities in her head as she watched Luna begin her encounter with the entity still making her way to Canterlot in the distance. A few distant screams could be heard from ponies that encounter the queen's soul. It gave an eerie feel to the night's atmosphere. Just then she came up with the only idea she could think of on the spot.... "Hmmm what if we use the Trans Dimensional Control Spells like we did with Discord?" She suggested to Celestia and her purple eyes lit up with a chance of hope. "You know... that might actually work. If we use them to essentially strip away the Hypnosian's magic, we could at least get an opening for Luna to reach Lavender more easily. We won't be able to hold it for long but just to give her enough time to fly in. It's not a trap as such but it should help Luna. That'll do!"

Twilight nodded and took a book out of her saddle bag using her magenta magic aura. "I'll read up on the spell quickly as it's not one I've tried before so I want to at least know the basics of it before we try it."

"Mm, good idea. I'll go check in on Luna; see if she's made any progress yet." And with that the sun princess turned tail and flew off towards the direction of the entity. Twilight watched for a moment as she flicked through the pages and then turned her attention to the book once it reached the page of the complicated spell. It was a little more advanced than what she was used to, only great magic users such as Luna, Celestia, Discord and even Star Swirl The Bearded used that kind of magic.

Meanwhile.......

Luna looped around and under the blast from the mare's horn as she darted around the entity. "You'll have to try better than that Lav!" The night princess stated smugly knowing how the young mare enjoyed a good friendly magic duel once in a while. But this was on another level. Luna was focused and needed to find a window of entry into the massive black entity. The Corruption was growing much worse by the minute, the longer she stayed linked to her Pegasus friend, the worse it got.

Just then she saw Celestia flying up to the scene of the battle. "Luna!" Celestia called out as the midnight blue alicorn with starry hair turned at watched her sister flying closer. Of course she should've have turned at all because the next thing she knew she was struck in the back by a blast of turquoise coloured magic and the force pushed her out of the sky into the ground below with a sliding thud. Celestia was shocked and rushed to her sister's aid to help her up. "Sister! Are you ok?" Luna panted as she pushed herself up shakily off the ground and hovered in the air low to the ground. "MMmmff... I'm fine sister." She winced as she looked at one of her wings that had an ash mark on some of the feathers.

"No you're not fine Luna. You're hurt!"

"Celestia please! I'm ok. I need to get to Lavender's mind now before it becomes too powerful!" She pushed Celestia's hoof away as she attempted to get a closer look at the burn mark. Celestia heaved a big sigh of frustration but knew that she was right. It was getting too dangerous to wait any longer. The Hypnosian Queen was nearly at the borderline of Canterlot City as they could see the cityscape in the distance. Though the entity was moving rather slow due to her large mass, the size made up for covering a lot of ground in that time.

"Alright.. but wait... before you fly off again, Twilight came up with a plan." Luna paused and listened to the plan they had made before reaching her. Her ears flickered as she heard the idea and was rather impressed. "You're right... that might indeed just work. I know the spell she's thinking of too. Though for this job it might need all three of us to target the entity." Celestia nodded and heard heavy breathing off in the distance and turned to see her faithful student coming into view. "Ah Twilight you're just on time! Any luck?"

Twilight finally caught up to the two sisters and caught her breath for a second before answering, "I was... able to learn to foundations of the spell, I believe I can pull it off now." She said hoping to sound confident in her skills. But truthfully, she was nervous about trying the spell. She hoped she could match Luna and Celestia's skill levels for this. Celestia nodded her approval, "Very good! Now... let us begin."

Author's Note

It's time for Luna to face her friend and try to communicate with Lavender if she's still inside the entity that's consumed her. But there's a big risk to Luna's physical safety if she attempts a spell designed to penetrate a powerful entity that she's never tried before and in her weakened condition... it could pose a threat to her well being.