It has been a month since Twilight and the Eclipses had succeeded in overthrowing, and subsequently turning, Celestia, and, all in all, the citizens were happy.

One of the first things Twilight had done was, for one, standardize magic education, and even make programs to help unicorns and pegasai that were having trouble with their respective brands of magic. This had actually helped pegasai like Scootaloo, who had trouble flting, to get to normal levels, and even past that.

Equestria and the Empire, now the Eclipse Empire collectively, even had it's own army now, trained by ponies and changelings alike. As a part of this, a changeling relation program had been started, and it showed what kinds of conditions they lived in, which was pretty terrible. This got the race in general a lot of sympathy, and it was now common for changelings, undisguised, working and living along side ponies.

One new law that had been made was that any and all magic research was to no longer be independent and unmonitored, but handled by unicorns that had been appointed by Twilight and the others, so as to avoid any huge, world ending spell being created by the, to use a technical term, ponies who are coo-coo for coco puffs. This was also a popular decision. One such project was one sanctioned by Twilight into creating duplicates of the mirror portal, but went to other worlds.

As for said already existing portal, Twilight was currently working on fiind a way that would let her keep her powers while retaining her form on that end of the portal, as she would need it when the time came to bring in allies from that side.

Right now, though, she was teaching her student a new technique.

"Now, one well known but hard to pull off dark magic spell is the ability to melt one's self into shadows, but still be able to control their body. The key is to imagine yourself as the wind, but directing it. Is that clear, my student," Twilight asked.

"Yes, Empress," Celestia, now a unicorn with the white's of her eyes entirely green and purple eyeliner on her eyelids, said.

"Good," Twilight said with a small smile. "Now, I do not want you to try this until I say so. Don't want to risk you killing yourself, now do we?"

"No, Empress."

"In that case, class is over with for today," Twilight said as her marefriend, Opal, and Rarity, in her alicorn nightmare form, walked into the throne room.

Hey, sweetie," Twilight said as she walked up to and hugged Opal. "How are you?"

"Good. I just wish you's use some of the time you use to teach Celestia, you'd let me watch, if only so I can be with you."

"It'd be too dangerous, Opal," Twilight said. "I want that too, but I don't want to run the risk of you dying."

"And what about you?"

Twilight tapped her dark magic Element. "I have protection against it, and Celestia would be, physically speaking, unharmed, and I make sure to keep a magical copy of her mind from the start of the lesson. The only way we'd be harmed is if Rainbow or another Knight that's still against us got in the palace."

Upon hearing of Celestia's defeat, as well as seeing that what Twilight and the others had done had helped Equestria more than harmed it, a group of Solar Knights, their numbers at fifty, had revealed themselves and had, to Twilight's surprise, pledged themselves to the Eclipse's service.

"Yeah, I guess so," Opal said. "Still wish I could at least watch."

"I know," Twilight said before kissing Opal.

"Hello, Celly," Rarity said, nuzzling her marefriend. "I must say, I like the eyeliner."

"Thank you, Rarity," Celestia said. "I did do it for you, after all. It is our one year anniversary, after all. And besides, you did change your look, and it is much more attractive than before."

"Oh, thank you, my dear," Rarity said as she kissed Celestia.

Before things could escalate, Sapphire Spirit, one of the turncoats, walked in and bowed, saying, "Empress, our scouts have detected a faint dimensional reading coming from the north."

"Ugh," Twilight groaned. "Do they know what it is, exactly?"

"No, Empress, but the readings had it becoming stronger, indicating something's coming through."

Twilight put a hoof on her chin, thinking on what to do. "When it comes through," she finally said, "bring it here if it doesn't attack. If it does, destroy it."

Sapphire bowed her head. "Yes, Empress," she said before running out of the room.

"Wonder what it is," Rarity said.

"We''l find out soon enough," Twilight said, walking to the door and opening it. "Tell the other rulers that I need them as soon as possible," she said to the changeling-unicorn guard duo outside, both of whom nodded, and she stepped back inside.

"The others will be getting here soon, hopefully," Twilight said to the others.

"Then what do you require of me, Empress?" Celestia said, bowing.

"I want you to stay here and watch what ever will happen, Celestia. You can stay if you want, Opal, but I hope you don't for your safety."

"I'm staying for this, Twilight, whether you want me to or not," Opal said.

Twilight sighed. "Can't say I'm surprised," she said. "In that case, we wait for the others."

Thirty minutes later, all of the Eclipses, as well as Opal and Celestia, were in the palace throne room. Twilight had filled them all in as to the situation, and they were simply waiting, as the changeling guard outside had informed them that something had come through and Sapphire was bringing it to them.

"Any idea what it is?" Csdence asked.

"We'll find out soon enough," Twilight said.

"Well, let's hope they get here soon," Nightmare said.

Two minutes later, the doors opened, and Sapphire walked in. Bowing, she said, "Empresses, we've brought what came through the dimensional rift. In fact, it actually requested to speak with you."

"Well, don't keep us waiting," Galaxy said.

"Yes, Empress Galaxy," Sapphire said. "Bring him in!"

Once the last syllable left her mouth, two Lunar Knights, the term for the turncoat Solar Knights, walked into the room. Between them was a figure that resembled the humans from the other side of the mirror. It had hooves where the feet should be. It's skin was green, and had a hard appearance like chitin. On it's forehead was a jagged, changeling like horn. It's body was dressed with a strange armor thta had a bone like appearance. On his back were two gossamer wings. On his neck was a black collar, with a teal gem shaped like a hornet.

"And just who are you?" Twilight asked.

The figure bowed his head and said, "I am Green Mist, zealot of Plasma, and bearer of the Element of Deceit."

Author's Notes:

Tags added in arc two: Anthro, Sunset Shimmer, Human, Adagio Dazzle, Sonata Dusk, and Aria Blaze. Enjoy.
Also, the reason why Green Mist is anthro will be explained next time.