My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

A Changeling’s Lament

Chapter 24

Battle of Canterlot

The CMC poked their heads out of the snow, having been knocked unconscious from the train wreck. The battle in the air and on the ground raged but they didn’t take notice

“I blame you for this idea, Scootaloo.” Feather Weight moaned as he rubbed his head.

“well, I want to try to get my cutie mark. Sweetie Belle found hers so why can’t I find mine the same way?” Scoots argued as she pulled a case out of the snow.

Sweetie Belle looked at her flank and took great notice of her new Music Note Cutie Mark. “who knew singing was my special talent?”

“Well…” Scootaloo opened the case at a portable camera. “I think our talents are things we never suspected; I think my special talent is reporting.”

“Won’t know till you try.” Applebloom said as she grabbed the camera and hosted it up to her shoulder. “ugh. Just hope mine isn’t a camera girl. This thing weighs a ton.” she staggered to the right. Sweetie Belle stopped her in time.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP7mVihaW_M

Red like Roses - RWBY Theme

0:00.

A big explosion caught their attention. The barrier glowed for a moment then shattered into a million pieces.

“Whoa…” all 4 of them said in amazement. They quickly gather themselves and went to work. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom grabbed the camera and pointed it to Scootaloo who pulled her hair back with a pin. Feather Weight gave her a microphone.

“Which one is the ON button?” Applebloom asked. Feather Weight pressed the button, turning it on. “oh.”

Every screen in Equestria, the Gryphon Kingdom, the Badlands; everywhere had Scoots on it. Behind her was the raging battle.

“behind us, the Battle for Canterlot and the fate of the world rages. the rulers of Equestria and the Gryphon Kingdom, their combined armies, and heroes from other worlds are battling to save our world from a tyrannical queen and her hoard of shape-shifting creatures, monsters made out of shadow…” a large creature fell into the snow behind them, surprising them and the audience. The CMC looked to see the remains of a Silver Dragon in a pose of death. “…and Dragons made out of crystal.” Scootaloo muttered.

“DRAGON SLAVE!!!”

The field turned into a large red dome-like explosion that covered it all, surprising them all. “What in the world?” all the CMC said in surprised awe.

Scootaloo gathered herself and shook her head. “un… as you can clearly see, the battle has taken a more… vio--”

“What is that!?” Sweetie Belle exclaimed.

“What’s what?” Feather Weight turned her around to see the space-Orion and Oscurita flying though the air as fast as possible.

“What is that thing?” Applebloom asked, referring to the ship.

Orion banked left, heading right for them. “Hope that’s on our side!” Feather Weight said in fear. The Ship flew right over them, along with Oscurita, creating a large gust of wind that covered them up to their necks in snow.

“Not cool!” Applebloom shouted.

They pulled themselves out just to have a explosion go off near them and cover them in dark smoke.

1:12.

With the barrier down and most of the Shadow Creatures in the field destroyed, the army moved in towards the city, with the air fleet providing cover as best they can.

Ash flipped over a Shadow Scorpion and fired at it’s head. After 10 or so shots, the Mana Bolts got though, frying it’s brain and killing it.

“you know… this is going better then expected.” Armor said as the two ran towards the entrance.

“Don’t jinx us. Whenever someone says that, a little thing called Murphy’s Law always goes into effect.”

A beam of pink light shot out of the crystal that was once supplying the shield and towards the fleet.

The beam pierced though a ship, hit the engine, and destroyed it, blowing up the ship, and everyone on it, into oblivion.

Celestia watched in horror as it went down. All those innocent lives lost. She looked to the top of the tower to the malfunctioning crystal. That thing has to be taken out before more lives are lost. Everyone of the main crew knew that as well and made that thing a priority.

“Game time.” Dash said as she put on a pair of goggles. She jumped off the side of the flagship and towards the town with every other flyer among them.

A Silver Dragon screeched down from above and rammed into the Pegasus, sending them falling to the ground.

The Dragon roared in her face, blowing the goggles off. “Ach. Two words buddy; Breath. Mint.” the Dragon snarled and opened it’s mouth wide to bite her head off. A feathered figure rammed into the side of the dragon and broke Dash loose of it’s vice grip. “Thanks, Gilda.”

“no problem.” a fireball shot between them, cutting their conversation short. “shall we?” Gilda jokingly asked. Dash nodded and the two slammed into the same Silver Dragon that had Dash in the death grip.

Catapults moved into position and fired up at the battlements the Changelings put up in the city. Those that missed fell into the city, destroying the already destroyed buildings.

Oscurita roared as he fired his beam attack at Orion. The Orion banked to the right, flared it’s engines, pulled a big u-turn, and rammed right into the monster.

The slam damaged Oscurita’s wing, causing him to fall into and down the side of a mountain.

“huh. That actually worked.” Satoshi said in wonderment. “Guess I own you five bucks, Fox.” Satoshi moved the ship, making it’s next destination Canterlot.

Another ship exploded from the attack from the crystal, adding more casualties to the list.

A angered Celestia powered up her magic and fired a beam at the crystal. It hit but it didn’t destroy it. Instead, it made it stronger. The gem retaliated by firing back at the Flagship. The princess realized her mistake too late for the ship to move.

Req flew in the beam’s path and blocked it with her sword. The blast lasted for 30 seconds before it gave out.

“Next time, think of what will happen if you do a stupid stunt like that!” Req yelled.

Celestia was surprised to hear such insolence from her. And Req was the nice one. Guess war can change people. Faust knows how other ponies have changed thanks to this conflict.

The crystal powered up and fired another beam at the Flagship. Req blocked it again but the blast knocked her into the ship. “damn. We can’t get close to the city thanks to that thing.”

A big explosion eminated from within the city, near the castle.

“Was that us?” Luna asked.

The Cannoneers shrugged. “don’t think it was one of us.” one of them said.

“then who…”

Both Changelings and Shadow Creatures gathered around the crater of fire that the human had created and then realized they shouldn’t have.

Jax’s silhouette shown though the fire, scaring the Changelings and giving the Shadow Creatures a worthy opponent.

Jax’s eyes glowed yellow as she looked up. She spun her Chakrams and took her battle pose. “tell your queen the bitch is back.”

2:43.

She shot out of the fire like a bolt of lightning, cutting though Shadow Creatures like a knife though soft butter and sparring the Changelings by bocking them on the head.

She jumped onto the shoulders of a Shadow Human and into the air. She spun around, creating a tornado that sucked up all the Shadow Creatures and sent them hurdling into the mountain.

Jax fell out of the Tornado she had created, somersaulted in mid-air, and slashed down on the crystal. The Crystal sparked then exploded, destroying the top of the tower it was on.

Jax fell to the streets below and onto a Shadow Lion, crushing it’s spine. She ran off it and towards the castle.

3:13. End Song.

Chrysalis watched the battle from the ruined throne room. One of the catapults bombs crashed though the place, turning it into rubble. Amazingly, the stain-glass portraits were still intact. Celestia must’ve imbued them with magical properties to make them indestructible. She heard footsteps behind her. She looked to see Edge standing right there.

“Mirror’s Edge. Why aren’t you out there leading our troops?” she calmly asked. Edge replied by taking a battle pose with his horn glowing. She was surprised to see him like this in hear and not out there.

“Because I’m trying to save the world, not turn it into a wasteland like that unicorn did 16 years ago.” he replied. “and, even if she won’t have me, I’ll keep Fluttershy safe. And you won’t stop me.”

Fluttershy’s necklace fell and dangled out of his armor, explaining everything to the queen. “how did you overcome the purge? Nobody’s been able to break though it.”

Edge smirked. “the power of love can truly be frightening.”

Love? The only thing love is good for is food. Chrysalis knew this and laughed at the ridiculous sentiment Edge said. “really? If love is so powerful, maybe it can save them.”

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox0GMFaoK4I

Epic Boss Battles of Equestria ~ Nightmare Moon by Youtuber Baschfire

Chrysalis stomped her hoof on the ground. In a flash of green fire, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Feather Weight appeared beside her, floating in mid air, each trying to take a choker off from their necks, which was increasingly getting tighter.

“NO!” Edge exclaimed. He charged at Chrysalis. She used her magic to stop him, hold him back, and lift him up into the air.

“love is only good for feeding. Nothing more. Nothing less.”

She used her magic to send him careening into a pillar. Edge heard something break when he hit. He slumped to the ground, coughing up a lung.

“If love is so powerful…” Chrysalis used her magic to lift him up again and flail him about the room. “then why are you the one being beaten to death?”

“cause that’s not the real me.”

A blast of green fire hit Chrysalis in the back, sending her into a pile of rubble.

The real Edge jumped down from above and landed in front of the CMC. The fake flickered for a moment and disintegrated like a hologram. He used his magic to cut them CMC loose. They fell to the floor, alone with their camera equipment, which was still recording and sending out.

“What are you guys doing here? This is dangerous! What would Applejack or Rarity say if they found out?” Edge angrily asked.

Applebloom rubbed her throat as she explained. “We just wanted to find our Cutie Marks an--” she stopped when she realized that Edge was talking to them and saving them. “Edge?”

“yeah?”

“you know who we are?”

“Why shouldn’t I?”

“because you--”

The rubble exploded out with the force of a bomb. Edge stood in front of the CMC and protected them with a shield spell. Chrysalis hovered out of the rubble, angry as hell. “YOU! YOU WOULD TURN YOUR BACK ON YOUR OWN ENDANGERED KIND!?! YOU WOULD LEAVE US ALL TO EXTINCTION BECAUSE OF SOME WHORE OF A MARE!?!” that little remark made Edge very angry. Fluttershy wasn’t a whore. He never saw her with a date. The tip of Chrysalis’ horn glowed as bright as it could. “YOU WILL PAY FOR BETRAYING US! YOU AND YOUR LITTLE FRIENDS!”

The top of the room cut open. Jax fell in and whapped a Bind Spell around Chrysalis’ neck. She swung around, tightening the grip. Jax landed on the Queen’s back and put her other Chakram to Chrysalis’ neck.

“FIREBALL!!!”

True to it’s name, a firebacll came out and hit Chrysalis at point blank range, knocking her out cold. Jax jumped and landed in front of Edge and the CMC. Angry to see the traitor there, she walked over.

“you know, I had her under--”

Jax punched Edge right in the mouth, sending him to the floor. “That’s for betraying us, you son of a bitch!”

Edge wiped blood away from his mouth and groaned. “okay. I guess I had that coming…” he got up off the ground. “and something tells me that everyone else will do much worse things to me but can we please focus on the big picture?”

Chrysalis shot out of the ground, turned to them both, and snarled as her eyes turned green. “deal.” Jax agreed.

Chrysalis panted and snarled then yelled at the top of her lungs, letting out a great big burst of energy.

With the air battle taken care of, mostly due to the Silver Dragons focusing their attention on the troops, the Airships moved to provide support.

The Flagship hovered down and landed in front of the city gates. Celestia flew off the ship and landed right in front of them. She had one thought on her mind right now; to make Chrysalis pay for what she did.

A large explosion came from the castle, destroying a large portion of it.

“Well, that couldn’t have been good.” Cynder said.

Jax, Edge, and the CMC struggled to get up from the snow-covered ground after that big blast sent them outdoors. Chrysalis hovered down. The spot where she landed twisted and contorted.

“This is what happens to those…” Chrysalis’s horn glowed bright. Edge and Jax looked to each other and nodded. “WHO OPPOSE ME!!!” she blasted at them. Jax quickly threw one of her Chakrams, which directed the blast to the mountain, shooting off the top. Edge quickly got up, coated himself in green fire, and rammed into Chrysalis’ mid-section.

Jax tossed her other Chakram to the CMC. It circled around them then glowed, sending them to a safe distance. She quickly got up and charged at the corrupt queen.

As the main group ran for the castle, Luna flew from another direction, carrying a box. “sister. I got the Elements.”

“Elements?” the humans asked. They never heard of those before.

“We’ll explain later.” Celestia said as she used her magic to open it, revealing the 5 necklaces and the crown. “right now, we have a war to win.”

“RAGNA BLADE!!!”

Twin blades of darkness extended out of Jax’s Chakrams. She crossed them in front of her then charged at Chrysalis. Edge flew in from behind and slammed into the Queen’s back. Jax yelled as she swung both blades at once towards her.

Chrysalis quickly regained herself and flew away, avoiding Jax’s attack.

Chrysalis chuckled and fired a beam down to them. Jax blocked that and threw her other Chakram at her. It hit Chrysalis in the chest, sending her flying into a statue. Chrysalis snarled as she got up and charged horn first at her.

The main group arrived at the battle site and where surprised to see Edge fighting Chrysalis. Fluttershy’s heart filled up with joy. She must’ve gotten though to him. Jax swung her Ragna Blades at the Queen, who dodged them quite easily.

“Oh, isn’t that just typical?” Lina joked. “she’s fighting by her lonesome against two bad guys AND she’s using MY spell. I should sue her for copyright infringement.” her friends groaned, some of them even face-palmed.

Jax yelled as she swung the blades down at Chrysalis. Chrysalis stopped her with her magic and swung her right into Edge. The two slid across the icy surface into the ruined wall of a building.

“I told you…” Chrysalis angrily said as she strode over. “ANYONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY WILL DIE!!!” she powered up another blast spell when one hit her in the side.

“No. you won’t.” Celestia said as she did 7 months ago.

End Song AND Begin song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZHZ7YTp0ZA

Battle of Canterlot by Youtuber ElectroKaplosion

0:00.

The Humans and Main Ponies took up battle positions beside her; the Mane 6 equipped with the Elements of Harmony.

“took you long enough.” Jax groaned as she got up. She picked up her Chakrams, which immediately glowed yellow when she grabbed them.

“sorry. Traffic was terrible.” Sora said, aiming a arrow right at the corrupt queen.

The CMC grumbled as they got up, recovered from the effects of Chrysalis’ attack.

“again, I blame you Scoots.” Applebloom groaned.

“Shut up.” Scoots looked up and to where they once were. She saw the stand-off and whinnied. “quick, where’s the camera?”

“the what?” Feather Weight asked. He looked to his right and found it still rolling. “un… right here.”

“Good. Aim it at that stand-off.” Scoots looked around and found her mike. She dusted it off and blew into it. “that’ll work.”

Her friends picked up the camera and aimed it at the stand-off. Scoots stood in front of the camera, making sure she had enough room for the people at home to see.

The mountain rumbled from the collective might of the catapults stones. Inside, the mine shook from the attack. Dust fell onto Cadence’s snout. She snorted it off and looked to the exit. This was all her fault. If she didn’t leave so abruptly 16 years ago, this all could’ve been avoided. Another contraction hit, causing her to keel over.

Celestia walked in front of the group, hoping to end this peacefully. “Chrysalis. Please stop this. If we can settle this peacefully, we can find a home for your people.” Chrysalis just looked at her with a blank stare. “Chrysie…”

Chrysalis couldn’t believe this. All her hard work; all that she had done. It was falling apart around her. “I…” she slowly rose up from the ground. “…WILL NOT…” Dark Energy appeared and swirled around her. “…LET MY PEOPLE…” she raised her head, revealing her eyes to be sickly green with red iris’ and purple fire rising out of the sides of her eyes. “…BE DESTROYED!!!”

1:25.

Chrysalis yelled as she fired a beam attack at them all. It hit in the center and exploded outward, sending everyone flying in different directions.

She looked to her left and fired a beam at the mountain, destroying a large chunk of it. She looked right and sent a beam to the valley far below.

Her hatred for Celestia, Cadence, the traitor. Everyone and Everything she hated fueled her new dark power. She raised her hooves then pulled them back, pulling everything towards her with a powerful force of wind.

“this didn’t happen before, did it?” Req yelled, digging her sword into the ground.

“not last time, no.” Applejack yelled, holding her ground with her necklace shaking in the wind. “of course, we beat her last time.”

Everyone struggled to hold their ground against the powerful wind. It was so powerful, it even made the Airships move against their own will.

At the apex, Chrysalis thrust her hooves out, shooting everything away from her in a violent manner. Everyone reacted as they were sent into walls and buildings.

“that hurt.” Marble breathed.

Trixie groaned as she got up, holding her head in pain. Chrysalis suddenly appeared beside her and kicked her up into the air. The corrupt queen disappeared in a flash and reappeared beside Trixie. She punched her in the stomach, disappeared, and kicked her in the head.

Luna groaned and looked up to see her wife getting the crap kicked out of her. “TRIXIE!!!”

Chrysalis appeared, did something back to Trixie, and disappeared again so many times, it was hard to keep track.

On the last kick, Chrysalis hit her with enough force to send Trixie to the ground like a rocket. Luna got up and ran as fast as she could. She jumped up, caught Trixie, and the two fell into a snowdrift. “perfect.” Chrysalis evilly snickered as she powered up a blast attack and sent it their way.

“Barrier!” Riku yelled, jumping in front of them and casting the spell. The blast spell hit that instead of the newlyweds and sent Riku into the same snow drift as them.

Chrysalis snarled and powered up another one when she was hit in the back by one of Toothless’ fireballs. It distracted her long enough for the dragon to zoom right over her, causing her to spin in mid air.

Requiem yelled as she jumped up and swung her sword. Chrysalis regained herself and blocked it. She flipped over the goddess and kicked her in the back.

Applejack threw her lasso up, wrapping it around Chrysalis’ hind legs, and pulled her down to them. Bahamut flew down from above, coated in blue fire. He rammed into her back, making her trip down a lot faster.

Aura jumped into the air, spun his lance, and aimed it down at Chrysalis. He landed on her chest and pinned Chrysalis’ neck between the two blades of his lance.

Lina and Amelia joint cast a Freeze Arrow and shot it towards the queen. She kicked Aura in the back, got loose of his lance, and got up behind Aura. She pushed him right into the path of the Freeze Arrow. It hit him instead of her, freezing him in place. “oh. Sorry, Aura.” Amelia winced. Chrysalis flew up from behind the frozen Aura and blasted them both square in the chest.

Twilight used her magic to wrap a whip around Chrysalis’ neck. Rarity, Halo, Zilver, Armor, and Marble joined in and pulled her down. Chrysalis snarled and flew up. The girls quickly cut their ties but the males weren’t so lucky as Chrysalis sent a shock down their cords, zapping them with strong electricity.

Spyro and Cynder flew from different directions and hit Chrysalis; Spyro in her stomach with fire and Cynder in her back with poison. Both of them flew off then hit her from separate directions. Chrysalis snarled and ducked on the last one, making the couple hit each other.

Leon and Friction, having finally decided to join the fight, rammed into Chrysalis, pinning her against a tower. “YOU TOO?” Chrysalis yelled, surprised to see her two most loyal pawns turning against her. She snarled and used her magic to grab them both by the throat. “THEN YOU SHALL DIE WITH THE REST!” she threw them down as hard as she could. They rolled down the tower and hit the base hard.

Chrysalis snarled as she panted. She looked at her shaking hooves in anger. She yelled as loud as she could as darkness shot out of her.

“This is new!” Pinkie yelled.

“it’s just like Nightmare Moon.” Twi pointed out. “I think she’s going insane.”

Ash shrugged. “We have that effect on people. Catalyst went bonkers when we fought him.”

Armor yelled as he was blasted into a wall. “ugh. We can’t even get close.”

Req looked up at the gradually-insane Chrysalis. He was right. All that power, all that dark energy is making it impossible to get relatively close. Well… maybe one thing can. She looked around. They had a surplus of Unicorns and Magicians. She looked to Jax and smirked. “Hey, Jax. I have an idea.”

3:48.

Gilda struggled to get loose from Chrysalis’ magic death grip but she had the Gryphon Princess locked in tight.

“After I’m done with Equestria, guess who’s country is next?” Chrysalis insanely said.

Suddenly, a magic whip wrapped around Chrysalis’ front left hoof. It pulled her down, distracting her long enough for Gilda to escape.

Chrysalis grunted to get loose when more whips wrapped around her hooves. More wrapped around her waist, chest, neck, and forehead.

“WHAT? WHAT IS THIS!?!” she yelled.

Celestia walked up a few feet and angrily frowned. “your reckoning.” she coldly said. “Jax! Now!”

Jax nodded to her. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, exhaled and swung her Chakrams around her. They left her fingers and hovered around her.

4:17.

Jax‘s voice echoed as her spell went into effect.

“oh, powers of the infinite mind that we can only dream of grasping…”

Chrysalis struggled to get free but the bonds were too tight.

“…let us break the bonds of reality and back to us the ones we love or separate the good from the evil…”

She was successful in breaking the whip from Rarity, only to have it put back into place by Cadence.

“…let us dive into the stream of time and space and do the impossible!”

Jax snapped open her eyes as a white blade materialized in front of her. She grabbed it and smirked, scaring Chrysalis to her soul.

Jax pointed it forward and charged at the corrupt queen. She desperately struggled to get loose. She was able to break Armor’s hold on her horn and fired a spell at Jax. She stepped to the right and avoided it.

Edge sent out a magic whip and wrapped it around her horn.

The sword sparked to life as Jax jumped up a few inches.

“PERSONALITY SHIFT!!!!!”

5:14.

Jax plunged the sword deep into Chrysalis’ chest; right into her heart. A couple seconds later, a powerful blast of energy shot out of her back.

Chrysalis yelled out in pain as Jax plunged it in deeper.

A line went down Chrysalis’ body, followed by a blinding flash of light that covered both her and Jax.

A burst of energy hit Jax and sent her rolling into a bush.

The burst hit Two Different Chrysalis’. both fell in different directions

5:50. End Song

Jax heavily panted as her heart beat fast. “It’s over… it’s finally over…” she fell back into the snow. She looked up to the sky to see Orion fly over. A hoof entered her vision. She looked and saw that it belonged to Derpy. Jax smiled and took it. Derpy helped her up.

The troops breathed a sigh of relief and laid down their weapons. The ships powered down their weapons and the Changelings surrendered.

“It’s over!” Halo cheered. He hugged Twi, who hugged him back. They both laughed as they fell to the ground.

Req felt like doing something silly. “We did it. We did it. Oh, yeah yeah yeah. No eating here tonight. WHOO! Eating here tonight. No no no eating here tonight, you’re on a diet…” a snowball hit her in the back on the head.

“sometimes, you sing great.” Dash joked. “other times. Not so much.” Req evilly snickered. She bent down and picked up a bunch of snow. “wait. WAIT!” the snow fell right on top of Dash, covering her entire face.

“HEY GUYS!” Scootaloo yelled out. “look at this!” she exclaimed from the top of a Silver Dragons head. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom hung off the wings and Feather Weight hung upside down from it‘s nose.

A.J., Dash, and Rarity gasped in horror. “Get off of that thing!” they yelled out.

“Don’t worry. It’s friendly.” Applebloom said. She jumped off the dragon and it caught her. “guess they were magically enhanced to be angry or something.” the dragon licked her, causing her to laugh. “they aren’t so different from Winona.”

“okay, next question.” Dash said. “What are you all doing here? You’re supposed to be in Feather Top with Lyra and Bonbon.”

“Ask Scootaloo.” the other 3 said. Scoots nervously scratched the back of her neck. The dragon used his tail the bring the camera equipment into view. That explained everything to the trio of sisters.

“so… what exactly does the spell do, Jax?” Celestia asked, looking at the unconscious Chrysalis.

“it works two ways; either exorcises demons out of a person…” she looked over to Req, who nervously chuckled. “… or it turns someone into two halves; one pure good, one pure evil.”

Celestia, Luna, Gilda, Leon, and Friction looked at each other. “we’ll take the pure good one.”

“figured you would. Anyway, if you’re asking what the effects are, I don’t know. This was the first time I did the ‘split in half’ part of my spell. I need to do it a few times to know the side effects.”

“maybe when she wakes up, she can tell us how she got all that power.” Luna said.

“remember what we said?” Friction asked. “we were attacked by a power-hungry Unicorn that uses dark magic and Chrysalis was a child at the time. Odds are, she absorbed some of it and her anger towards you ignited it.”

“that would explain it.” Cadence said as she made her way over.

“Cadence!” Twi and Armor happily exclaimed. They ran over and hugged her.

“how are you feeling?” Armor asked.

“she’s gone into labor.” Jax said without a care in the world.

“WHAT!?!?!?!” everyone exclaimed.

“Then you shouldn’t be walking! You should sit down.” Twi tenderly said, clearing away some snow.

“I’m fine.” Cadence insisted with a chuckle. “The contractions are only a few hours apart. There’s still some time before the baby comes.”

Speaking of babies, Derpy remembered something important. “Oh, Jax. How’s Dinky?”

Jax knew she was going to ask that but hoped she wouldn’t. she glanced away, not wanting to look her in the eyes. “Jax?” now Derpy got nervous. “what happened?”

She didn’t know what to say. “I--I’m sorry, I--”

“She’s waking up.” Pinkie said, looking down at Chrysalis upside-down.

Chrysalis groaned as she opened her eyes. She saw everyone gather around her. She immediately got sad. “I… I caused a lot of trouble, didn’t I?” she sadly asked.

“Chrysie…” Cadence somberly said.

“I… I did some things I wish I could erase. I… I’m so sorry. For everything.” Chrysalis broke down and started crying. “for destroying Maredrid; for unleashing all those monsters. All that death and destruction. It… it’s all my fault!”

Cadence softly tapped her on the back. Chrysalis tearfully looked to her. “It wasn’t your fault. It was mine.”

Celestia and Twilight looked at each other, knowing they were at fault as well. “ours too.” they both said.

“if I didn’t leave so abruptly when I did to help care for my aunt’s new student, you wouldn’t have gotten the idea that we hated you and maybe we could’ve avoided both invasions. And if I knew that was you 7 months ago, I would’ve tried to reconcile but… but I didn’t know.”

“it was also that Unicorn’s fault for attacking our empire.” Leon said. “if he didn’t invade, things would’ve turned out differently.”

Chrysalis sniffed and wiped her eyes. They were right but it was her army, her invasion, her war. It was her fault. “do you… do you forgive me?”

Cadence smiled and hugged her. “Of course I do, Chrysie. I forgive you.” Chrysalis smiled and hugged back.

“Celestia…” Chrysalis wiped her eyes. “… you can do with me however you want. Just please… don’t leave my people to extinction.”

“don’t worry.” she gingerly placed a wing over her. “I won’t leave your species to extinction. I promise.” happy tears formed in Chrysalis’ eyes.

“Guess the good versions are always going to be touchy-feely.” Jax said, writing on a note pad and ruining the moment. “What? I’m taking notes on my spell.”

While everyone was yelling at Jax for ruining the mood, Fluttershy looked around and saw Edge looking over the edge to the valley below.

“Edge…” Edge turned around and looked at Fluttershy. “why aren’t you with the rest of us?”

Edge glanced away from ‘Shy and sighed. “I just… when I was Chrysalis’ general, I did some… horrific things. Hurting you, chief among them.” Edge reached into his armor and pulled out the necklace.

“That’s…” Fluttershy gasped.

“when I found this lying in the snow in my… bad condition, it pulled me back to reality.” he looked up to her. “It was thanks to you I was able to break loose of Chrysalis’ control and confront her. But…”

“but?”

Edge sighed. “I know you won’t be with me; not after what I did. And because… I’m a Changeling.”

Tears formed in Fluttershy’s eyes. “Edge…”

“listen… if you want me to leave, I’ll leave. I don’t think your friends will forgive me for deceiving them. Or betraying them. Plus… knowing you will never love me the way I love you. It’s just too much for me to take.”

Fluttershy couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She shook her head, trying to get rid of the tears. “that’s stupid.” she said. “you’re their friend! I’m sure they’ll forgive you. Just like how they’re forgiving Chrysalis right now. And…” she grabbed his hoof that was holding the necklace. “during these last 3 weeks, I’ve been thinking. About you. About us.”

“us?”

“yes. My heart has been telling me all along but I just wouldn’t listen. But… eventually, the truth came thought back in Maredrid, then in Feather Top when I saw a Changeling/Pony family. Edge, I…”

Meanwhile…

The evil Chrysalis lay at the bottom of a rubble filled crater. Her difference is that her skin is pure black and her hair is red-green.

Orochi appeared not far from her and sighed. “well… so much for your great plan, Chrysie.” Glacies said, not surprised it turned out like this. “but… since you’re divided in two…” he raised his arm, his arm coated in darkness. He took a few steps when he saw something he didn’t see coming.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTpj9YjkQ4Y

Farewell to the Black Curtain - Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike OST

0:00.

The Black Unicorn from the story stood over Dark Chrysalis. He bent over and kissed her on the forehead. “Guess this wasn’t meant to be, my darling.” he looked up to the playful crowd of ponies and humans and growled. “but… revenge is usually the best dish.”

he looked down at her and smiled. “Time for darkness to be this new worlds shining light.”

The spot where he kissed her glowed and turned into a pentagram mark. The Unicorn smiled and disappeared into a column of darkness.

Orochi watched from the sidelines, surprised to see someone else behind the strings. “well… things suddenly got interesting.” Ignis said before they disappeared into dark fire.

0:35.

Dark clouds formed above the city, following by a lot of lightning and thunder.

“What’s going on?” a scared Applebloom asked.

“Trouble. That’s what.” Req said. The humans all knew that whenever they saw dark clouds appear for no apparent reason, there’s always going to be trouble.

The sudden appearance of the clouds also cut off what Fluttershy was about to say. They all looked up to the clouds, nervous about what’s going to happen.

Shadow gulped. “You said it divides them into two beings; one good, one evil, right?” he asked Jax.

“yep.”

“Okay. Just making sure.”

A bolt of lightning shot out of the sky and struck the ground where Dark Chrysalis was resting.

0:52.

The lightning continued to strike the crater, razing Dark Chrysalis up into the air.

Dark Chrysalis opened her eyes, having the same green eyed, red iris, purple fire eyes.

She evilly chuckled which gradually gained momentum, eventually becoming full blown evil laughter.

While everyone was nervous, Jax casually took notes. “Pure evil actually is pure evil.”

Dark Chrysalis looked down at the puny foals and chuckled. The Pentagram on her forehead glowed red. “Time for darkness…” the top of her horn glowed and with a different color. “…to become the new shining light!”

1:18.

A Airship moved to engage Dark Chrysalis. Bad idea. Dark Chrysalis fired a small beam that hit it on the tip. It may seem insignificant but 2 seconds later, the ship exploded in a over-the-top violent Michael Bay style torrent.

“Holy Toledo, that’s powerful!” Fox yelled.

Dark Chrysalis laughed. The new dark power coursing though her body. It was marvelous. It felt so nice and so right.

She stared down at the pathetic ants and chuckled. Her horn glowed again.

“EVERYONE RUN!” Req yelled.

The warning came too late. The beam hit the group in the center, creating a large explosion as from before.

Dark Chrysalis hovered down to see everyone in such a pathetic state. Celestia, Requiem, and Armor protected Cadence and Twilight with a barrier spell but Dark Chrysalis’ attack was too much for them.

“This is what defeated me?” Dark Chrysalis asked. “This is what I’ve feared? Pathetic! I could obliterate the lot of you right now!”

Spike struggled to get up and look at her. “Then why don’t you?”

Dark Chrysalis evilly chuckled. “because it wouldn’t be this much fun.” she pressed down on his neck, much to Rarity’s horror. “soon, this world will be eradicated… and my empire will BEGIN!”

She fired a beam into the air. It broke apart and fell to the ground in separate locals, causing a lot of over-the-top explosions all over the city.

She walked away from the group, preparing a spell to take them out in one shot. She turned around and noticed Fluttershy and Edge watching from a distance. Dark Chrysalis aimed her spell at the group, smiling as evilly as she could. Everyone struggled to get up but her earlier spell has them in quite the predicament.

The spell reached it’s zenith, much to the evil bitch’s joy.

“never thought… I’d go out like this…” Jax weakly said.

The spell tingled, signaling it was ready to fire. Chrysalis reared back like a evil horse, with a accompanying whinny, and…

Pulled a psych and aimed it right towards Edge and Fluttershy.

2:10. End Song.

The red over-the-top spell fired in a epic fashion and barreled right towards the surprised duo, tearing up the ground on the way.

“FLUTTERSHY!” Her pony friends yelled.

The spell moved to fast for her to move out of the way fast enough. He didn’t want her to die, so…

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0_7lVVvedU

Serah’s Theme ~Memory~ Final Fantasy XIII-2 OST

0:00.

Edge pushed Fluttershy out of the path of the spell.

Time slowed down as a surprised Fluttershy fell to the ground. Edge closed his eyes and smiled, glad that she was going to live.

Time resumed and the spell hit.

Fluttershy rolled into a tree then quickly got up. “EDGE!!!”

When the spell cleared, nothing remained but a hole in the wall and a large trail of destruction.

0:27.

“NO!”

Fluttershy ran to the hole to jump after him. Bahamut sensed that would happen and ran over. He grabbed her tail and pulled her back.

“NO! NO, LET ME GO!” she cried, trying to get loose from the dragon‘s grip.

“It’s too late, Fluttershy! He’s gone!”

“NO! NO, HE CAN’T BE GONE! HE CAN’T!”

Dark Chrysalis evilly chuckled as everyone else looked on in horror. He couldn’t be gone. He just couldn’t be.

“LET ME GO!” Fluttershy was able to push him away but it was no use. Edge was gone. She fell to her knees, feeling her heart shatter into a million pieces. “he… he can’t be gone… he just can’t be…”

Something shone in her eyes, getting her attention. She reached into the snow and picked up something that made her heart sink even more.

It was the necklace she gave to him for Hearth’s Warming Eve.

“no… no…” she held it close and let the tears fall. “no, no… no…”

1:26.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Fluttershy broke down and cried as hard as she could. The Changeling that helped her reconcile with her parents, the Changeling that turned her life around. The Changeling she loved. He was gone. For good.

Everyone looked away, each one of them sad that he was gone.

Dark Chrysalis, however, was joyous. “good. That traitor was too broken to be kept alive.”

Jax couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She got up and, with a mix of sadness and anger, charged at her with powered up Chakrams. “YOU BITCH!” she jumped up and brought her rings down on her but Dark Chrysalis blocked it with a invisible barrier. A invisible force sent Jax right back to everyone.

2:02.

Dark Chrysalis laughed at the pathetic sight.

“Love. Such a annoying nuisance. If I didn’t need it to survive, I’d see to it that love was forever eradicated from the world forever.”

Req gripped her sword tight, not believing what she was hearing. “in annoying nuisance?” she looked at her with tear-filled eyes. “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!”

Dark Chrysalis rose into the air and blasted her down. “nothing is wrong with me. I’m pure evil. Thank your friend Jax for that.” but Jax didn’t know that she was capable of something like this.

“This city is mine. This country is mine. This world is mine. All of it is mine! And I’ll sacrifice even my own kind to make it so!”

“you’d… sacrifice your own kind?”

Fluttershy got up, wiped the tears away, and angrily looked at her. “You’d kill your own people to get such petty things?”

“Why not? That’s all they’re good for.”

Fluttershy couldn’t believe this. So, Edge was nothing but a toy to her? There was no way she was going to let that be how anyone will remember him. “They are not… things for you to use then throw away! They’re living beings with feelings just like you and me!” Fluttershy yelled.

Dark Chrysalis scoffed at the concept. “so what? It‘s fun to hurt feelings. I had quite a bully time breaking your heart.”

Celestia had heard enough. she found the strength to get up, as did everyone else. They weren’t going to let this heartless bitch have control of the world. Not if they had anything to say about it. “you are going to pay for this!” everyone yelled.

2:48. End Song

Dark Chrysalis rose into the air and crossed her hooves in front of her chest.

“really? Make me pay? Last I checked, you made me this way.” the ground began to rumble as crystals rose out of the ground and the mountain. “if you want to make me pay…”

She raised her hoof up, then to the side. A series of crystals formed around it, forming a cannon. “… then earn it.” she pointed the new crystal cannon at the group with a evil smile.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7eXKsZv2gI

Ibitsu {Tv Size} - Tales of Symphonia OVA Soundtrack

0:00.
Epic Freeze-Frame on Dark Chrysalis preparing to fire her new cannon at the group, who had taken up battle poses.

To Be Continued…

0:20.

Mirror’s Edge is Dead.

Dark Chrysalis shows no signs of stopping of world conquest.

Will the Heroes be able to save the world from a tyrannical rule or will Darkness be the ruler of Equestria?

And who was that mysterious Unicorn?

Find out in the final chapter of A Changeling’s Lament.

0:50.

Anime-like Stills from the fights of Ponyville, the 1st and 2nd battles of Canterlot, Maredrid, and Feather Top appeared, showing the big showcases of each rumble.

Canterlot Battle 1: Chrysalis standing on top of a tower with a lamentfull Edge as every citizen evacuated by train.

Ponyville: a legion of Shadow Creatures swarmed over the town as everyone fled.

Maredrid: Godzilla fired his heat beam into the exact center of town, destroying it all in one shot.

Feather Top: the combined forces of ponies and gryphons charging head-on against the 400 foot tall King of the Monsters.

Canterlot Battle 2: the Airships, headed by Orion, and the ground forces, lead by the Off-Worlders, charged at the ruined capital with Oscurita flying though the air towards them and Dark Chrysalis laughing from atop the castle.

1:35. End Song.