Living is worth as much as you want it to be. Resist the urge to be that drop, fight to be something new.

The Queen lunged at Celestia on powerful legs, whipping her head to plunge her horn in the sun princess. Only to be stopped by multiple guards grabbing at her with their hooves, shoving her back. Her face kept calm and she began to kick and inject with her nozzles, aiming for the opening by the necks and legs in the armor.

She was truly powerful in combat, smashing her left forehoof into a guards face, his nose bleeding as he stumbled back before being attacked from a pegasi drone. "Princess this isn't going well!" Yelled the captain of the guard squad as he was shoved to the ground by a stallion drone with a muscular build. But the words fell on deaf ears, the sun princess was stuck staring with watery eyes at her sister. She was slaughtering and 'assimilating' their subjects that she so dearly cared about. How could this be? How did they take her?

The roaring torrent of flame was only brief, but when the drones and guards alike looked back to see where it had come from all they saw was a pure golden and yellow alicorn. Her eyes flaming and streaming, tears barely formed evaporating away. Her religa melting onto the ground at her feet, snarling expression speaking volumes where words could not be said.

>Emergency, Supercharged power weapon detected.
>All units wi-

The code in The Queen's mind sucked away, the entire collective disappeared from her consciousness. When she tried to run a scan of why nothing responded, she was unable to feel any of the machinery in her mind. Then it hit her in a wave, it registered in her organic body, a searing hot pain. Her organic eye came into focus, right in front of her was the princess of sun in her blind fury shooting the literal flames of the sun into the Queen's body. Then the pain.

"Graaa!" She screeched as mechanical parts fried from the heat, her own body searing in agony but not dieing. She was immortal to such heat and flame. Though the details of other such things where a mystery to her.

The pain stopped, her eye looked about frantically. Around her were cowering guards and Princess Celestia, no longer flaming with anger but held her crying her in her hoofs. The surrounding drones were standing still, some even looking with shocked expressions. Wait...They had shocked expressions, they showed a facial gesture. Then the third and final shock hit Luna, the mechanical parts had melted away, being replaced by organic parts. Her body was regenerating. Her mind was mending, she could think outside the collective. She was no longer held in the chains that had held her, that horrible time all spent in the Frontal Lobe of her mind. Personality held dearly. Only a small amount of magic to cast a ward over it before being taken.

But it was only a second she could think like that before the Queen's consciousness flashed back. "You think you can retake this mind!? You belong to the collective, you lead it! You cannot stop what will come!" But Luna smacked back with the power of the canterlot voice, inside her mind and out her physical mouth. "I will not conform to the evil you offer me!" She then went limp, eye shutting and voice dieing out.

The rest of the drones around her seemed to uncut from the shock, some wearing faces of pain and others staying blank. The pained ones fell to the ground, screaming out such things as. "Free! I'm OK!" While others began to walk toward the guards, attempting to assimilate them as normal drones should. It is spectated that when Luna was freed that the shock of code she was sending being interrupted by rational thought at the same time as the connection loss shattered and crashed the mechanical parts in them.

Luna was carried out of the city, the battle raged as Celestia gallantly led her ponies to the Castle now cheering with relief.

The elements retrieved and the bearers escorted to use them. "It's time girls, this mess will be over once we activate them." Applejack looked over at Rainbow Dash. "Think we'll ever learn what these things are? I mean they'll probably be destroyed." Rainbow Dash looked over at her. "Nope, don't care. It's not cool to take control of ponies minds, so lets just get this over with." The elements were deployed and a orb formed about the six. It expanded through the city, dissolving away the mechanical parts of drones and free'd ponies alike. Organic body parts instantly regrowing to look like the old pony they were. The spell even seemed to encompass dead drones. Rising to their hooves in the dark gunk that was the equivalent to Borg blood.

"From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, assimilated and conquered, they were doomed. They were undone, in Faust's wisdom she gave us two powerful and protective rulers. Both have showed great courage this day, one internally and the other was able to destroy what would have destroyed us." The speech was from the mouth of a metal decorated General Bad Wolf as he stood on a podium surrounded by royal guards in the castle gardens. The crowd forward of him and the Princesses and Elements to his back on a balcony. "May we never need to kill our own in the name of saving them again, the creature that has been labelled 'Patient Zero' is being held in the dungeon. So far he shows no sign of coming back from whatever their version of death is." He stepped down as the Royal sisters flew down to the stage, wings flapping. Luna had regained her dark-blue color and mane.

"This morning I was forced to do something I had hoped I would never need to do again after the return of my dear sister." Celestia explained. "I had to lower the moon, but this afternoon my sister is back with us. I will lower the sun and she will raise her beautiful moon." She looked to her sister with a smile. "But before we do this I would like to announce that I have added a metal that can be awarded to non-military. The Red Moon, this will be given to any who had worked during our crysis to protect the castle. It is the sixth highest honor you can be awarded as a citizen at this time. Falling behind the Golden Hydra and in front of the Phoenix Head." The crowd pounded their hoofs to the ground in applause.

Individuality is the gift of god, praise him for it, and fight to protect it from society.

Author's Notes:

FIN, I'm bad at endings. But then again I'm bad at middle and start too....Eh. Hope you enjoyed, if you want more stories don't fail to press the follow button on my user page. If not it was fun having you along to read my interestingly cruddy fanfic.