I scowl as we see Ponyville burning to the ground before us. I draw my sword and ready my shield as Celestia summons her greatsword.

Chrysalis' changelings are running through the streets fighting what little of the Ponyville guard remain. We land beside four guards who are surrounded and I channel four fire elements and release a spray of flames in and arc in front of me, burning three changelings.

Our arrival seems to boost the guards morale and they charge at the changelings with fire in their eyes.

Celestia grasps four of them in her magic, levitating them off the ground and then crushes them with her telekinesis resulting in a gory mess of blood, shattered carapace, and internal organs.

I've only just noticed Celestia's mane and tail are now raging infernos and her eyes are giving off flames as well. She then charges into a group of the invaders and cleaves five of them with her sword which is also now covered in flames.

I evade a swing from a changeling sword and reply with a thrust to his face right between his eyes.

The invader goes down and I turn my attention to the next. While my mana is still plentiful, I'm getting tired from constantly using it, but thanks to all my training I can still keep going for another hour or two at most.

Celestia stops after she cuts down three more and then looks to her left, I follow her gaze and stare wide eyed at the filly laying on the ground in a puddle of her own blood with wide glazed over eyes. She has a sword buried deep into her blood stained chest, her fur is orange, her hair is a purple colour and she has small wings on her back. Beside her lay a man and a woman who are trying to reach out to the filly.

"RRRRAAAAAAWWWWWRRRRGGGHHH!" Celestia cries out in rage and extends her left hand at a group of ten changelings. She lifts them up and then forces them into each other, but she doesn't stop as she continues to push them together. Their cries of pain echo throughout the burning town as they're crushed against each other.

With a final squeeze of her hand, they're crushed into the size and shape of a small boulder with a resounding squelch.

"Guards! Cover me while I try to save the filly!" I yell out and run over to the young girl as the guards surround me and repel a few changelings who attack us.

I place my hand on her arm and sigh, she's still warm. Unfortunately the other two aren't.

I quickly prepare the revive spell and reach out to her soul, I can only feel hers nearby meaning the others have passed on already. I place her soul into the vessel and charge it, I then cast the spell with a grunt as this alone will exhaust me.

Once done I cast a healing beam at her and heal the wounds that remain. After a few seconds she gasps for air and screams in fear.

"Shhh, you're fine now, calm down. We need to get you to safety," I tell her and pick her up. I then turn to a pegasus guard and hand her over. "Get her to wherever the town evacuated," I order her.

"At once, my King!" she replies and flies off with another pegasus following her.

I turn back to see Celestia in a frenzy as she teleports and flies between the invaders carving them up like no tomorrow.

"CHRYSALIS! THOU HAST BROUGHT TARTARUS ITSELF UPON THY DOORSTEP! WE'VE BEEN TOLERABLE OF THY ACTIONS SINCE NOW! BUT THY ACTIONS HERE TODAY HAST SEALED THINE FATE, FLEE WHILST THOU STILL CANST FOR WE ART COMING FOR THEE!" Celestia shouts at the top of her lungs in a rage I've never seen before as the flames of her hair and tail swirl around her like a tornado.

I cast my air wings spell and fly up to her back and quickly wrap my arms around her waist ignoring the heat that is slowly burning me. "Tia, calm down, don't let your anger consume you. She'll get what's coming to her but please don't become her. We're trying to save the changelings under her rule not wipe them out, she will suffer for what she has done but those under her are just following her out of fear," I tell her and tighten my hold as Celestia breathes heavily and is shaking with anger, but her hair and tail slowly return to their natural state.

I watch as Luna finally arrives with some sloop airships following behind her.

The remaining changeling forces retreat back into the Everfree Forest as the cannons and rifles take shots at them.

"SISTER!" Luna yells and also joins in on the hug. "Sister! Calm thyself, do not follow the path we took," she begs her sister with fear on her face for the white alicorn.

Celestia closes her eyes and takes a deep breath and repeats the action for a few seconds before her shaking ceases, though she still has a deep scowl on her face.

"The filly is safe, Tia. I managed to revive her but I'm too exhausted to do it anymore..." I tell her in hopes to calm her further.

The heat from her body dies down and her scowl fades to a frown. She then looks to the town and tears begin to flow down her face.

Over three quarters of the town has been burnt to the ground with guards, changelings, and a few of the town’s ponies dead in the blood soaked streets.

We slowly descend down onto the ground where Celestia starts sobbing. "Where is Twilight, the element bearers, and the town’s ponies who made it out?" I ask the guards nearby.

"Fortunately our changeling guards sensed Chrysalis' changelings only minutes before they attacked. We evacuated most the town to the Lapis Hive before they ambushed us. Four of the bearers stayed behind to help protect those fleeing... but two of them were severely injured in the attack," a female guard replies.

Celestia's eyes go wide and before we can say anything she takes off towards the base of Mount Canter.

I cast my fast glide wings and Luna drags me along to follow our distressed wife.

We arrive after a few minutes of flying and see a depressing sight. Ponies and a few changeling guards are laid out on cots and makeshift beds as a couple of human mages are casting life beams at them to heal their wounds, though a few have blankets over their faces indicating they didn't survive...

"TWILIGHT!?" We hear Celestia yelling inside the Hive looking for her student.

Luna and I run inside and after following directions we arrive at a room where four of the bearers, Spike and Celestia are gathered around two beds.

On the left bed rests an injured Rainbow Dash who is missing her left arm and on the right is Twilight... where her horn is missing just a centimetre from the base. They both along with Pinkie Pie and Applejack have a lot of cuts and bruises as well.

Celestia is stroking Twilight's hair and whispering to her, telling her everything will be alright.

Although I told Tia to calm down before, my own anger and rage is starting to build.

I walk over to the other bearers. "What happened?" I ask them.

Pinkie turns to me and what I see makes my heart break, the happy go lucky woman I met when I first got here is now replaced by a defeated looking girl. Her hair is no longer poofy and vibrant but straight and dull, even her eyes have lost that spark of life.

"We were having a p-picnic at the park when we h-heard the town's warning bell go off,” she replies with a dead tone. "We made it back to town where the guards w-were guiding everypony to the Hive... then the sound of hundreds of screeches fill the a-air as the mean changelings swarmed out of the Everfree and b-began to overrun the town..." she tells me but puts her face in her hands and falls to her knees.

Applejack kneels down and hugs the distraught girl and continues for her. "From there everythin' just went ta Tartarus. The guards did all they could ta fight back those varmints but there was just too many of them... we tried to help push them back an' protect the towns folk an' we were doing alright until they brought in these big heavy armoured changelings. Twilight's magic was just bouncing offa them without leaving so much as a scratch," she tells us as Pinkie cries into her shoulder.

Rarity then speaks up. "It was a nightmare... those brutes were cutting through the guards like they were made of cloth. Rainbow tried to kick one in the head, but it managed to avoid her and... and... well, you can see what happened," she says with a pained expression as she points to Rainbow's missing arm.

"Even poor Fluttershy tried using her stare on the brute... but it just ignored her and went for Twilight. She tried to teleport away from its attack, but her magic failed when it got near her and it cut off her horn before some guards managed defeat the ruffian," Rarity finishes while hugging a scared Fluttershy.

One of the changelings in the room raises her hand. "That brute was one of Chrysalis' mindless drones," she informs me.

"I see..." I reply and frown as I look over at the injured girls.

I walk over between their beds and Rainbow looks up at me with a tear stained face. "Hey, big guy. Sorry you have to see me like this," she says quietly and slightly slurred, she must be on medication to dull the pain.

"Don't worry about it, just rest and get better," I reply. "We'll make Chrysalis regret everything she's done to you and everyone else," I tell her.

She smiles faintly and holds her closed right hand up. "I know you will," she says. I smile sadly and bump her fist with mine.

I turn to Twilight who looks like she's given up on life. "Hey, Twilight. How you feeling?" I ask her.

Her eyes turn to me but other than that she says nothing.

"It'll be okay, Twilight. Everything will be fine," Celestia tells her, but it sounds more like she's telling herself that.

"No it won't..." Twilight says and looks back at the ceiling. "I can't use my magic anymore, a horn doesn't grow back... I'll never cast a spell again, my talent is now useless... I'm now useless..." she replies and continues to mumble about being useless.

"Tia, is there anything we can do to help her?" I ask my wife.

She sighs and shakes her head, but Twilight speaks up in an emotionless tone. "When a unicorn loses their horn it can't be reattached or regrown..."

'There has to be a way...' I think to myself as Luna grips my hand and pulls me away.

"Give them some time to rest, we need to discuss what we shall do to answer this atrocity," she tells me and we sit down on a bench across the room.

While the others try to comfort their two friends Luna is talking about how we'll retaliate but my mind is more focused on thinking of a way to help them. The life element can't restore lost limbs and I don't know anything about pony magic... I don't know what I can do for Rainbow and the only way Twilight could ever cast a spell again would... be... Of course!

I get up and walk over to Twilight with determination in my eyes. "Twilight, there may be a way for you to use magic again," I tell her and she looks at me with hope. "You're right, you'll never cast another spell again as you are right now," I say and she looks sad again. "but would you be willing to learn my kind of magic?" I ask her and she gasps.

"Are you saying you want me to be a human? Like my brother did?" she asks me.

"If you want to, it might not have the diversity of your pony magic, but it's still better than nothing, unless you'd like to be an elf instead? Their magic has more variety to what they can do, like portals, enchantments, nature magic, and runes," I reply.

Life returns to her eyes at the prospect of not only having her magic back but as a new kind of magic. "I... I can learn a new form of magic?" she asks as she sits up slightly only for Celestia to push her down gently.

"There's plenty of time to decide later. First we need to deal with Chrysalis before anything else," I tell Twilight who nodded at me. I then put my hand on Celestia's shoulder. "Come on, Tia. I'm going to ask Vortigan for a favor,"

What could this favor be?