Over at Canterlot Castle, the Dazzlings stood in the throne room, where Queen Chrysalis was standing facing the electro-cuffed prisoners which were on the ground, on their knees looking up, Toxigo, Sunset, Sugarcoat, and Flare. All of them were terrified to be facing the Queen of the changelings, especially when they're cuffed and on the ground unable to get free.

"Its been a while since we last met, haven't we, Toxigo?"

"If I recall, the last time we met was when you tried to kill me after you set me free from the ice. Wouldn't have minded if you just left me there for eternity."

"Oh but that wouldn't be fun my dear... Hehehehehe... And just who are these other two girls with you? I've never met such a more delicious looking meal...."

"They came with him all the way, they were some of the other girls who attacked our warriors. Shadowbolts, I presume." Adagio replied.

"You mean that other elite flying team? Hm...they don't look anything like the other Shadowbolts." Chrysalis said as she got closer and observed them while also smacking her lips in hunger.

"Because they're humans my good Queen. Now, about our payment."

"What payment?"

"You promised you would recreate our old pendants so we can have our singing voices again, but so far we aren't getting those, so I suggest we get paid, now."

"Just you wait, Adagio dear. I will go get Sombra and Midnight so they may join us in the slaughter." Chrysalis then marched off making the ground shake and exited through the door, leaving the Dazzlings in the throne room guarding the prisoners.

"Its a lie you know." Tox spoke.

"What did you say?" Adagio replied confused, then moved up front so he could look him in the eye.

"Chrysalis isn't going to go through with your demands. She's gonna double cross you."

"And why do you say that?"

Tox's jaw dropped after hearing that question, and he stared blankly at them like they were idiots before raising his tone.

"Really? You can't be this serious? This is Queen Chrysalis we're talking about. Queen of the changelings, queen of creatures bent on manipulation and feeding off of the love from everyone, a master of deception, and a compulsive liar. You really expect her to honor. Her. Word?"

Adagio was caught in a shock she didn't know how to respond.

"Well uh--"

"Adagio. Listen to me. All of you Dazzlings."

Aria and Sonata both walked up and stood with Adagio facing Tox in the eye, and let him continue speaking, and Sunset, Sugar, and Flare all listened to him.

"I know you all wanted back at the Rainbooms and Twilight for a long time, I get it. Believe me, I wanted to get back at the two girls right behind me for stuff they did in the human world to me. Not very good things. But planning revenge isn't worth it. Revenge isn't something that will keep you satisfied. The only way to get out of the situation is to either ask for forgiveness, or move on and make amends. If you join us, we can get you a lifetime of happiness."

The three Dazzlings paused and took in thought over what Tox had offered. For a long time they desired to get back at Twilight and her friends for taking them down at the Battle of the Bands, but not a single one of them considered taking a different route then getting even. Adagio took some thought and gave this to ponder, if she is lying to us.... I much rather suffer punishment by them than being obliterated by her.

"But why do you think she'll betray us, outside of those other reasons?" Aria asked.

"Because love beats hate."

But the Dazzlings didn't have time to respond as soon Queen Chrysalis, Midnight Sparkle, and King Sombra walked into the throne room, all grinning maliciously. Midnight continued to hover in the air and joined right next to Queen Chrysalis who took a seat in Celestia's throne.

"Alright my good King, you may choose who to kill first..."

The Dazzlings got out of the way, but then Sombra stood frozen in shock at the sight of Toxigo being one of the prisoners ready to be attacked. He hadn't seen him in a long time.

"No... Its not true...."

"Hello... Dad." Tox snared.

"Son, I.... its been too long." Sombra replied in a somber tone.

"Well it certainly hasn't been too long for you start terrorizing ponies homes here in Canterlot."

"No, son I didn't choose to do that."

"Well you chose to terrorize the Crystal Empire on your own so why not here, and now?"

"Will you just ignore that little bug and kill him!?"

Sombra didn't go through with the command, but instead turned to face her with an angry face expression.

"Why is my son in chains?" Sombra demanded after stomping a metal covered hoof.

"Oh you didn't know? She planned on killing me so she could blame the royal sisters for it so you'd be bent on killing them instead of her. But guess its easy when you're evil to not even care about those around you, isn't it?" Tox glared at Sombra. Sombra stood still in silence unsure of how to respond. He hadn't seen his son for a long time, and the reason for his attacks against the Crystal Empire in the first place was to get back at Celestia and Luna because he believed they had killed his son due to Chrysalis manipulating him. But now hearing upon the fact his son was still alive, he thought back to everything he had done. He couldn't undo what had been done, but he can pay for his mistakes.

"What are you waiting for Sombra? Kill him..."

"No." Sombra turned around and stood in front of the four of them standing his ground.

"What!?"

"I said no! I attacked the Crystal Empire to get back at the royal sisters because you had told me they killed the only son I had. Well now I see you're still just as manipulative as you always were. Well that ends here, I am not going to let you hurt my son or his friends!"

"Fine, I'll let the Dazzlings kill you." Chrysalis then turned her eyes towards the Dazzlings, but Sonata stood forward and stood her ground against the Queen with an angry face expression.

"No! I'm not gonna stand by and kill them! I never thought about living a new life instead of constantly failing at revenge, but now I am! I may an idiot, but I know killing them isn't the right thing to do! And this was never about us to begin with, this was all about you!"

Chrysalis froze for a moment, then gave an evil smile and laughed manically.

"Well if that's how you feel my dear Sonata, I WILL BANISH YOU INTO THE REALM OF DARKNESS ALONG WITH THE TIMBERWOLVES AND EVERYONE ELSE!" The Queen opened fire on Sonata and zapped her, and she vanished, going into the same realm with Lemon and Sour. Aria was so terrified at what she saw, she tried walking back to flee, but soon Chrysalis turned to face her and trapped her in a corner.

"And I do appreciate your loyalty to me Aria, but I'm afraid Sonata was right. This is all about me! I BANISH YOU TOO!" Chrysalis then zapped Aria who joined Sonata in the same void.

After zapping them, Chrysalis stomped her bug legs onto the ground as she walked up facing the group of cuffed humans, and Sombra still stood his ground.

"Goodbye, weaklings... I never loved you puny mortals anyway...." But just as Chrysalis was about to zap them, she was thrown back by an enoromous blast of energy which shook her to the side and knocked her down. She quickly got back up on her feet and saw the sight of someone standing in a mechanical armored suit. The girl then moved forward with a determined expression on her face and spoke.

"You give love a bad name, bug!"

The girl it turned out was Indigo Zap operating one of the war suits that Tox had stored away on the CHS Shadowbolt.

"Oh that's what happened to that battle suit." Tox stated.

Chrysalis hissed towards Indigo, and she made a punch using the machine right across her face, and then kicked her right in the chest knocking her down. She then pressed a button and the mechanical fighting suit transformed itself out of her, and then flew up and kept on fighting, revealing Indigo in black and purple spandex tights, with streaks of lightning on it, a belt with gun holsters, shoulder pad armor, gauntlet communicators, golden goggles flipped over her eyes, black boots, and on her back she had what looked like a long hoverboard, and another energy cannon.

"Indigo! You're back!" Sunny exclaimed.

As they all talked, Sombra using his magic, macheted through the cuffs on all four of them, and they all quickly got back up.

"I thought about what you said and you were right, I shouldn't leave you all alone to fight them. I agreed I was going to pay for my mistakes, and if that means fighting along side you guys in a war, then so be it." Indigo grinned.

Tox then looked at Indigo with a smile and said "Well I'm glad you've come back to help us."

"I hate to interrupt right now, but we should probably run right now!" Sugarcoat interrupted.

"Right, come on!" Tox led Sunset, the three Shadowbolts, Adagio, and Sombra away from the throne room, but they were all chased by changelings who came charging after them, but Sombra ordered some of his soldiers to counteract and fight against the bugs to buy them time. The group ended up locking themselves in a kitchen room, and they barricaded the doors to keep the enemy out.

"Well, that happened." Sugarcoat bluntly stated.

"I don't even know how to respond right now." Tox said.

Sunset not paying attention to them, turned her attention towards Adagio who had been adverting their attention. She walked up towards her, and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Adagio? Are you okay?" Sunset asked.

"*sniff* no...."

Sunset was taken aback at what she had heard. Adagio Dazzle was actually, seriously, emotionally crying.

"What's wrong?"

"I... I am so sorry... I didn't know we could have gone a different way. But now I lost my sisters...."

Adagio then nearly choked Sunset giving her a tight hug, and Sunset exchanged a hug back trying to comfort her. She allowed Adagio to cry on her shoulder just letting her sadness out.

"I'm so sorry Adagio." Sunset said in a gentle tone.

"No, you have nothing to be sorry for. I'm the one who needs to apologize. You offered me a chance to redeem myself and I never took it. Its all my fault you're in this mess in the first place. And now my sisters are gone...."

Tox slowly walked up towards adagio and wiped away another tear with his synthetic finger. Adagio opened her eyes to feel the cold touch of metal on her face and saw Tox right behind Sunset looking at her with sympathy.

"I may not be able to get them back, but I can assure you this, they won't go down just like that. We're fighting to stop Chrysalis, and we will stop her. I promise. In the meantime, why not help us figure a way out of here?" Tox offered.

Adagio gave a nod, and accepted the light cannon that Tox offered her. She strapped it to her right arm, and Tox gave a quick instruction before turning his attention to his father.

"Why is it now you're helping us? You clearly didn't care when you were fighting against Mom. In fact if my memory serves correctly, you killed her! Why do you now want to help us?"

Sombra could tell his son wasn't happy, but he began speaking.

"Son, your mother is still alive. In fact, she's with Luna in the city fighting more of those changelings."

"What are you talking about, I don't... No. She's....But that doesn't make sense! I was adopted!"

"While that is true she adopted you, she cared for you very much. And its my fault for turning against you too. But I want to fix my mistakes."

Tox took a moment of silence to process this, but realized he had no choice. They were all trapped in a kitchen with only one way out, so its either stay and get caught or work together to escape and stay alive.

"Fine. But just stay out of my way, the queen is being taken down by me."

Tox turned his face towards everyone else who gave questioning looks as to what they were talking about.

"Are you kidding me! Is there anything else we don't know about you that's important right now!?" Sunset waved her arms in anger, but then flinched the minute she heard a slam against the door.

"Oh no." Sombra whispered.

The humans cocked their energy guns to prepare for them to charge down the door. Sombra stomped his hooves towards the ground, and Toxigo readied his arm rifle.

"What was that conversation about?" Sunset asked.

"That's not important right now. Sunny, please tell me you have the tracker on you? I'd like to know how many of them are there."

Sunny quickly activated the tracker and pointed it towards the barricaded door. Sweat ran down her cyan skin as she constantly looked down towards the tracker and at the door just making sure they weren't going to bash it down.

"9 meters!" Sunny stated.

The group stood together with their weapons all ready and waiting for them to charge through.****

"8...-" Sunny quickly looked at the tracker. "7....-" And Sunny kept on looking up and down and up and down just keeping her guard up. "6... 5..."

"That can't be right, that's right where we are." Indigo replied, as she leaned in closer to see it.

"Well if they're in the room then...." Sunset started to speak, but then thought of a disturbing idea. What if the changelings weren't in the room, but rather, under, or on top of the room? Tox stood on top of some counter tops to get up to the ceiling, and leaned in closer to listen in. The sound that he heard was lots of buzzing noises coming from the top of the ceiling. And he got such a huge shock the minute changelings started bursting through one part of the ceiling he fell right down onto his back.

"They made it through! Get them!"

Sunny, Sugarcoat, and Indigo fired the light cannons like crazy towards the changelings that kept on bursting through, but they were going through the shells like mad. Indigo fired so many shells that she was starting a pile of bullet shells around her feet, and soon it kept on piling up that the shells were right up to her chest, and she still kept firing like Rambo.

Sugarcoat turned to the side to see the shells piling up and smiled.

"You'd make Rambo proud!" Sugarcoat shouted.

"Maybe!" Indigo yelled back.

"Dad! Do you have an idea on how we can out of here!?" Tox screamed.

"Yes I do, follow me! We got to go through the back, that will take us to a hallway, and we just need to keep running down the halls till we make it outside!" Sombra replied over the rifles firing.

Sombra and Sunset made it to another door and attempted to get it unlocked, while Tox held a finger to his metallic ear to contact for help.

"Echo! Echo come in!"

"Echo here, over."

"Get the CHS Shadowbolt over here for an immediate evac! We've got to get out of this castle!"

"Roger. Over and out." Echo replied.

Adagio was getting into the fight, she kept on shooting each and every one of the changelings and she didn't miss. But she slowly moved her way to where Sunset and Sombra were, trying to get the door unlocked.

"Can't you just kick the door down?"

"I tried that, it's not working, we're trying to pick the lock!" Sombra yelled.

"Alright you buggers, you want some!? GET SOME! Get some! Get some! Yeah!? How do you like that!? You like that you miserable ticks!?" Indigo shouted as she kept on using the ammo from her energy rifle. With a huge grin, determined eyes, and ignoring everything else around her, nothing was stopping her.

"Come on! Come on! Come on you buggers! Come on you too! Oh you want some of this!? I'll give you some!"

But Indigo couldn't keep her focus on them for much long because soon a hole burst through the floor, and some changelings grabbed onto her and were dragging her down.

"Hey! Get off!" Indigo tried firing at them, but she couldn't focus.

"Indigo!" Sunny yelled. She ran over to try and pull her out of the hole, but other changelings interfered and tried to kill her, but she took them down.

Indigo tried her hardest to climb up, but too many hooves wrapped around her, and she disappeared into the hole yelling. Sunny looked back at it but she was too late. First Sour and Lemon, now you...

"Sunny, come on!" Tox shouted.

Sunny and Sugarcoat had no choice but they ran towards the door now unlocked and the group made it through. The locked the doors just in case, and all took a moment to breath. Tox looked up and noticed Indigo wasn't there.

"Indigo didn't make it, did she?

Sunny shook her head sadly in response.

"Well, at least she went down fighting alongside with us. But right now we got to keep going." Tox replied as he loaded up his gun.

The changelings immediately ran through the doors, and the group started running again pursued by the swarm of bugs.

"We're on our way! We'll be near the castle in 5 minutes!" Echo spoke into the ear com.

"Alright, just wait for us to arrive!" Tox shouted.

The group kept running down the hall, trying to avoid getting caught by the bugs. In the front, Sombra was leading, with Sunset behind, followed by Tox and Adagio, continued by Sunny Flare, and Sugarcoat stayed at the back trying to keep the bugs off their tail. Even though Sugarcoat kept shooting one by one, they still kept going. She pulled the trigger again, but found she was out of bullets. She threw the energy Gatling cannon to another bug, and just simply pulled out an energy pistol.

"Sugarcoat! Move!" Sunset yelled.

The group ran to the right into another hallway, while Sugarcoat kept firing. Another bug sped up and caught up to her and gave a big bite on her leg which injured her.

"OW! Agh... I'm down!" Sugarcoat shouted.

The group stopped partway to hear her scream.

"Sugarcoat!" Tox shouted.

As Sugarcoat tried to crawl on the ground, Flare decided to go back and help her.

"Go! Just keep going!" Flare said as she pat the side of Tox's shoulder before running.

Flare ran over to where Sugarcoat was and helped her up.

"Where are you hurt?"

"One of them gave a big bite on the leg." Sugarcoat moaned.

Flare got her back up on her feet helping her attempt to walk, but unfortunately a changeling landed in the way and knocked them down, only to be shot by Flare. The two of them turned heads to look at the army of changelings heading their way, and both looked worried.

"You think this is our end?" Sugarcoat asked.

"I believe so. Well, at least it will be said we went down fighting. I think that's quite an accomplishment." Flare weakly smiled to Sugarcoat who rested her head on Flare's chest and Flare wrapped an arm around her just to stay close to her as they would face their end.

"You know, if Lemon was here, she'd probably find our skin tight spandex outfits sexy. She's always wanted to look hot in fashion", Sugarcoat bluntly stated.

Flare gave a light laugh towards Sugar's comment. "You always were blunt Sugarcoat."

"And you were always polite." Sugar then looked up to face her in the eye. "That's what I liked about you."

Flare gave a smile and rested her head against Sugar's. "Thank you, Sugarcoat."

The two of them turned their heads up to see Midnight Sparkle laughing manically hovering above them.

"Oh what a happy display of affections. To bad neither one of you will live long enough." Midnight laughed manically just before charging up her hands with energy.

"You know I'd much rather die by exploding myself than being zapped into the realm they rest in." Flare stated.

"I think that can be easily arranged. I got a few bombs on me left." Sugarcoat replied as she pulled out a grenade from her holster. "This is an actual grenade, its not one of the candy ones I had made." Sugar then popped the top off of the grenade and was ready to pull the trigger.

"You want to die with me?" Sugarcoat asked.

"I'd rather die with you than be killed with them." Flare smiled as a tear went down her face.

"Toxigo would be proud. And this,  goes for all of our friends. For Sunset, for Lemon, Sour, Indigo. Everyone." Sugar then hit her thumb onto the button and Flare wrapped a hand around hers, following which all of their hands were wrapped around the trigger.

"Let this be sign, that we will stay friends, now and forever." Sugarcoat finished before closing her eyes.

Flare closed her eyes with tears still going down but with a smile on her face.

Back with the remaining four, they all made it to a ledge of a balcony in another part of the castle where they had lost the changelings, but they listened in carefully and felt a big explosion inside the building which they could see smoke coming from inside and part of the top of the castle came down. Tox turned his head back to look in the smoke filled hallway, and a tear came down his face taking in notice that Sugarcoat and Sunny didn't make it.

"At least they went down fighting. Much like the other Shadowbolts."

But he didn't have much time to mourn for all of their heads turned to see Echo had gotten the giant ship over to the ledge, and everyone jumped across and landed on the deck. Once Echo saw everyone was on board, he turned the ship around and fired the turbos to launch it towards the city to regroup with everyone else.