Luna trotted towards the throne room, noticing that her sister wasn’t in there. In her stead, Shining Armor was sitting in her throne, eating a meal that must have apparently been delicious. Luna glared at Shining, rapt in his food. He then looked up and leapt in shock.

“Princess Luna, I can explain!”

“Thou hadst better, Shining Armor, or thine consequences shall be dire!”

Shining Armor looked around nervously, “Well, I caught Cadance kissing Sombra and told Princess Celestia about it, and she just took off, muttering something about a Sephiroth…”
Luna’s eyes widened at that, “How do you know that name?”

“Princess Celestia said it when I described Sombra’s new form to her!”

“And what form would that be?”

“He’s an alicorn now! He’s got wings, one grey, one cream!”

Luna looked away, “And she has not returned yet?”

Shining looked at the sky, “‘fraid not. And that was when it was still daylight, so she’s been gone for around six hours,”

Luna paced around the throne room nervously. What would Celestia do? An idea played in her head, “Summon the Elements of Harmony to me posthaste!”

Shining looked around nervously, trying to find who she was speaking to. Luna glared at Shining Armor expectantly, “Don’t you have a magical message system to do that for you?”

Luna smacked her head, “Oh, right!” and galloped off to Celestia’s room.

----

Twilight was getting ready for bed, slipping under the covers. Spike was curled up in his basket. Spike then shot up and started gagging, belching out a letter. Twilight grabbed it with her magic and read it.

Come Elements of Harmony to Canterlot Castle. We need to talk. Now.

~Luna

Twilight sighed and got out of bed, going to round up her friends.

----

Luna entered the throne room to Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash. She sighed and took her seat on the throne room, “I thought I said gather all the elements,”

Twilight responded, “Well, this is what you get when you send a letter in the middle of the night. Applejack and Pinkie Pie are asleep because they have applebucking and baking to do early. Rarity...let’s not get into that. So what did you call us here for?”

Luna sighed, “Well, it appears that Sephiroth has fused bodies with Sombra…”

“Plan Omega-Sigma?” Twilight asked.

“Not quite, Twilight. More of an Alpha-Tau-Epsilon-Omega-Sigma,”

Twilight gasped in horror, while the other two ponies stared at them in confusion.

“What the hay is an…”

“Alpha-Tau-Epsilon-Omega-Sigma,” Twilight said, “It means that Cadance and Celestia are out of the picture. Now why is Cadance out of the picture?”

Luna said, “Sephiroth is under the effect of an Amatory Charm,”

Twilight asked, “But aren’t alicorns immune to Amatory Charms?”

Luna stared at Twilight, “Were you?”

Twilight blushed, “No, ha, ha, I guess I wasn’t,”

Rainbow Dash piped up, “So that was why everypony was acting all buddy-buddy with him! Rarity was practically falling over herself to get alone with him!”

“I w-wasn’t,”

Everypony stared at Fluttershy, the pony who had made the declaration. She shied away.

Luna asked, “Art thou a lesbian?”

Fluttershy blushed and responded weakly, “N-no…”

“What kind of question is that to ask somepony! That’s way personal!” Rainbow Dash shouted at Luna. Luna glared at Rainbow, who shrunk back.

“Apologies, Fluttershy. We cannot think of another reason why thou wouldst be immune to an Amatory Charm,”

“So,” Fluttershy said, quickly switching the subject away from her sexuality, “the Amatory Charm causes one to feel love for the object in question,”

“Like a want-it-need-it spell on a pony, except only centered on attraction…”

“Changelings…” Fluttershy mumbled.
Luna leaned in to hear what Fluttershy was saying, “We need Changelings!”

Everypony was taken aback by that declaration, “Why would we need Changelings!?” Twilight asked her friend.

“Well, if you really want to know,” Fluttershy began, “I don’t believe that you could control the Harmony Beam to successfully hit the Crystal Empire without causing severe collateral damage. On top of that, Celestia is probably a prisoner of Safer Sombra, due to the sun going down as expected. I say Changelings because they would be the perfect strike force, feeding off of love while incapable of feeling it themselves, rendering them immune to the effects of the Amatory Charm. But whatever you think is alright…” she finished, shying away once again.

Everypony gathered stared at her, not sure what to say. Luna then said, “We think thou hast an idea that might work…”

“Are you crazy!?” Rainbow Dash shouted, “those monsters tried to raze Canterlot! We can never trust them!”

“Hold on, Dashie,” Twilight said, “I think Fluttershy’s on to something...if we cast the Amatory Charm on Chrysalis, she might absorb enough love to take down Safer Sombra!”

Rainbow was apopleptic, “But she invaded Canterlot! Who knows what she would do with that much power!”

Twilight shook her head, “It’s not like we really have any other option here…”

“Fine,” Rainbow Dash grumbled, “but I’m not going!”

“Fine then,” Luna said, “We will take Twilight and Fluttershy with us to their hive. Ready girls?”

“Now?” Twilight and Fluttershy said in unision.

“Yes, now. We have no time to waste,” Luna said, standing up, “Let’s go!”

----

Safer Sombra was sitting safely again in his throne room, Celestia now hanging off of a chandelier, Cadance by his side, mares at his hooves. He smiled.

“So, my dearest,” he cooed to Cadance, “what should I do with our prisoner?”

Cadance kept her mouth shut. Safer Sombra glared at her.

“If you don’t answer me, I’ll have to kill her,”

“What good would that do?” Cadance asked, “you’ve already tried stabbing, burning, hanging and choking. What do you have that could possibly kill a goddess?”

“Oh, I’ll think of something if you don’t give me an idea…”

Cadance’s eyes shot open, “Have her sing or something!”

Sombra nodded and cast a spell on Celestia. Celestia glared at Sombra, then her mouth opened, then shut. It opened and shut again. Open, shut.

“Don’t try to resist, dearie. The spell will compel you to sing, no matter how hard you tried to resist. Even now your defenses are weakening as the spell takes hold…” Sombra said as he saw drips of sweat form on her brow as her mouth kept opening and closing at a faster pace, “any minute now.”

Celestia started wriggling in her bonds as her mouth was literally flapping open and shut at this point. She eventually had no choice but to give in.

Hello! ma baby
Hello! ma honey
Hello! ma ragtime gal
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, ma heart's on fire!
If you refuse me
Honey, you'll lose me
Then you'll be left alone
Oh, baby, telephone
And tell me I'm your own!

Sombra laughed, causing everypony to laugh. Celestia blushed and hung her head low, clearly mortified by the act she was forced to commit. Her mouth started flapping open and shut again. She stared worriedly at Sombra.

“I never said the spell would finish once you sang, merely that you were compelled to sing,”

Celestia began to sing.

There's a dark and a troubled side of life;
There's a bright and a sunny side, too;
Tho' we meet with the darkness and strife,
The sunny side we also may view.

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
Keep on the sunny side of life;
It will help us ev'ry day, it will brighten all the way,
If we keep on the sunny side of life.
Tho' the storm in its fury break today,
Crushing hopes that we cherished so dear,
Storm and cloud will in time pass away,
The sun again will shine bright and clear.
Let us greet with a song of hope each day,
Tho' the moments be cloudy or fair;
Let us trust in our Savior alway,
Who keepeth everyone in Her care.

Safer Sombra growled as everypony applauded, Cadance the loudest, “Enough! I tire of this game!” as he cast the counterspell on Celestia, who sunk low, a smile playing across her face as she reveled in her victory.

Cadance then thought to ask, “Auntie, what’s a telephone?”

“A device from a time long past, and a time yet to come,” Celestia responded.

Cadance smarted at the cryptic answer she was given, “Fine, don’t tell me,” she said.