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Lyra look around as she taps her camera built into her helmet that is recording everything that she's seeing.

"Bon Bon you hear me?" Lyra ask.

"Yes I can," Bon Bon said back on her end.

"Good. Don't make any calls or anything to me. I don't want to end up like that guy in that alien movie where someone called him and got the monster's attention. The others are in their places over and out," Lyra said as she began exploring the chamber.

The first thing that Lyra noticed was how big everything is compared to her. There was a massive wooden chair in the chamber with her, it reminded her of how as a young filly everything was just so much bigger. The chamber looks to be a storage room with several things covered in dust, but the mirror looked like it was new to the room from the lack of dust on it.

She found a massive door that while is in the shape of a door, like the chair and other items in the room, is much bigger than she's use to. Standing in front of the door brought back memories when she was younger and smaller where she had to reach up to reach the door handle. Opening the door Lyra found herself on an upper balcony overlooking a long hallway. She saw at one end of the balcony is a door and walk down to it.

“Lyra, this is Dale on your right,” a man said over the com. Dale stood on the other balcony on the other side of the hallway.

“Have the others…,” Lyra’s question died as music began being played causing her and Dale to turn to the source which is beyond the doors on the balcony.

Both of them walk to the sound of a pipe organ being played, guns at the ready. Opening the doors they found themselves in a large room with a massive pipe organ at the end. The wall the pipe organ is placed against has a large stain glass window with the picture of a sun and the moon on it. But the sun isn’t Celestia’s sun.

The one playing the pipe organ isn’t a pony but a human. The human is wearing what looks like a military uniform. A thigh length grey coat and matching pants with red and yellow highlights. They had on red tinted armor, gauntlets, boots, a metal chest plate and what looks like metal wings on her back folded down as a cape. And wore a helmet in the shape of a unicorn with a glowing horn.

The figure stops playing the pipe organ.

“Took you less than a day to come here,” the human who sounds female said.

Neither Dale or Lyra said anything.

“Haven’t you wonder why you haven’t seen any guards anywhere. I told them all and the other staff to go home leaving the castle undefended and keeping them from being slaughter when you humans and the ponies with you arrive. I had expected you later but coming early works just as well. You came to deal with this Equestria Celestia after the last one tried to turn all humans into ponies in the Conversion war. I already took care of her and took her place,” the woman said as she rings a bell.

One of the doors open and Celestia came walking in, but not the alicorn they came for. Her horn was cut off as well as her wings. She is covered in whip marks, her cutie mark is gone, having been cut off. She carried herself as someone completely broken, as she push a cart with snacks and drinks on it.

“As you can see I have long since broken her, and now she is nothing more than another servant in the castle,” the woman said.

“Who are you?” Lyra asked having the strange feeling that she knew the woman.

“Lyra? It’s been years but of course that’s my counterpart for your Equestria,” the woman said as she sat up and turns facing the two soldiers.

The woman standing before them has orange skin and when she took off her helmet revealed that she has long flaming red hair with yellow strips like bacon. Lyra stared at the woman and her eyes widen as she remembers her time in magic school. She looks up at the stain glass window and stares at the sun symbol which is the same cutie mark that was on…

“Sunset?” Lyra asked. (1)

“Yes Lyra it’s me and I am now the queen of Equestria after over throwing my mother,” Sunset said shocking the two soldiers and the people watching the live fee.

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Celestia sighed as it's another world where Equestria ends up on Earth and her counterpart tries to turn all humans into ponies. And to top it off there's also another Equestria showing up where her counterpart is overthrown by Sunset who remained human even after coming back through the mirror. Another dead end.

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1 - In the comics Lyra was a schoolmate with Sunset.