"Come on, prisoners." said Shining Armor, looking at the 8 ponies chained behind him. He walked through the streets of Canterlot until he reached a Pod. He stood on the Pod with Starswirl, now in his Sombra form, Luna, Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. Shining Armor stops in the center of the Pod, pausing to let his "prisoners" congregate around him. He focuses on the castle, everything he could remember and…

POP!

When Shining Armor and his prisoners arrived, he started for the throne room. "When we get there," whispered Starswirl, "She will pretend she is still Celestia. She might even look like her. Just hand us over and I will deal with the rest"

"Shut up scum." said Shining Armor with a wink. With Shining at the front, the line of ponies made their way to the grand throne room doors. Looking at the ponies behind him one last time, he opens the throne room. Sitting on the throne was, apparently, Celestia. "Princess!" said Shining Armor frantically, "I caught King Sombra! I think he did something to Princess Luna, Twily and her friends. They think you turned evil."

"Yes. I am aware." said Celestia, knowingly, "King Sombra knocked me out. I fear he corrupted your sister and her friends to prevent them from using the Elements. Luna, however, is just a traitor."

"The plan worked Solaris." said Starswirl, stepping forward. Turning his hooves to smoke, he walked out of his shackles. "Sorry about knocking you out. It was the only way to make sure it would work."

"What?!" exclaimed Shining Armor, "What plan? And who is Solaris?"

"Solaris is your new queen, standing before you." said Sombra deviously, "And the plan was for me to pretend to betray her and deliver you morons to her." he finished, walking to take his place beside her.

"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Solaris.

"I didn't have enough time to clear it with you. My sincerest apologies." said Starswirl.

"Fine. You are forgiven." said Solaris, "What should we do with the prisoners? We also have to deal with Shining Armor."

"Let's implement them into the next phase of the plan" said Starswirl vaguely.

"One question about the next phase of the plan." said Solaris, "The part where you knock me out again and drag me to Ponyville only works if I'm a moron, right?"

BOOM!

Starswirl flew across the room and hit the wall with a thud. Solaris directed her horn at Shining Armor.

PEWM!

Her magical blast hit Shining in the left shoulder, knocking him to the floor. Stepping towards Starswirl, she pointed her horn to him. "You think you can betray me Sombra?" she said as she transformed into Solaris. "You betray me and then try to deceive me again? Well, you can't fool me twice. I am the goddess of the sun! You will wish you stayed loyal." she said hysterically. Placing her horn directly on his forehead, she smiles an evil smile and says, "Dolor" Her horn glowed red and Starswirl's body erupted in pain. His eyes crossed and he foamed at the mouth and then, for the second time that day, he screamed in pain.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed. Twilight ran forward without thinking, going to save her idol, when Solaris turned to her.

"Stay where you are Ms. Sparkle or you will be the next to recieve my torture spell!" yelled Solaris, her voice filling with anger and anticipation for the pain she was about to cause.

CRASH!

Twilight ran and jumped onto Solaris, knocking her to the ground. She signals to Shining Armor to go pick up Starswirl, who was still writhing in pain. He picks up Starswirl by magic, slings him over his shoulder and yelled, "Twily get out of there!" He ran up to her, grabbed her around the middle and ran out taking the mares with him.

"Buck Yeah!" yelled Rainbow Dash, loosening herself from her shackles. Flapping her wings to get herself in the air, she zooms through the nearest window. She climbs through the air, gaining altitude. Once she was high enough, she folded her wings and pointed her nose down straight towards the castle. She picked up speed, going Mach 1 then Mach 2, accelerating more and more until…

BOOM!

Rainbow Dash's speed doubled instantaneously as she completed the legendary trick, the Sonic Rainboom. "GET SOME!" screamed Rainbow as she collided with the roof of the castle.

CRASH!

The roof of the castle came crashing down. Debris fell, landing on top of Solaris and whatever guards may have been in that section of the castle. Rainbow Dash, completely unhurt, flew to the bridge to catch up to her friends.

"Here, take Twily, Rainbow!" shouted Shining Armor and he hovered his sister onto Rainbow Dash's back.

"We are almost there!" said Luna.

"You didn't really think I'd let you escape" said Solaris, falling from the sky, landing right in front of them. "I think it's about time that you die, Luna.", directing her horn to her sister. "Farewell, sister." said Solaris. "Morit-"

CRACK!

The floor beneath Solaris began to crumble, falling apart bit by bit until, finally, it collapsed, sending her to the depths below. Luna gazed, looking around for a source of the destruction, until her eyes fell on Starswirl's smoking horn

"You can't kill me." he said weakly. The group of ponies jumped over the hole and ran to the Pod. When they reached it, the magically able began to concentrate on Ponyville. The magical white aura envelops them and…

POP!

They were in Twilight's library. "Is everypony alright?" asked Luna. When everypony nodded she let out a deep breath. "Where's Starswirl?", she asks, for he was nowhere to be seen.

"There" said Twilight, pointing to the staircase. Starswirl was making his way upstairs. When he reached Twilight's room, he shut and locked the door. Twilight ran up the stairs to check on him.

"Starswirl?" she asks, "Are you okay?" She presses her ear against the door and hears… crying?