The next morning in Canterlot and Ponyville, everypony was up and about doing their favorite activities. Most were at their jobs, some were having picnics, and others were just outside playing around on a bright and sunny day. Nothing could ever get any better. Especially up in Canterlot where everypony was spending time doing various activities and getting ready for another one of their parties for when Celestia and Luna return. But the thing that they found very peculiar about today was that there were multiple amounts of creatures flying in the air, ranging from dragons to griffons to hippogriffs and even changelings.

"I say. What in the world of Equestria are they doing up in the sky?" Fancy Pants asked, looking up in the sky.

"Must be a race they're holding." Fleur Dis Lee said in a haughty manner.

***

Off from the distance, Spike and the rest of the royal creatures were watching as they prepared for an attack. Every creature was eager and ready to destroy Equestria, but they were waiting for Spike's signal to attack them.

"Are you ready?" Thorax asked.

Turning towards him, Spike nodded. Using his wavelength abilities, Thorax telepathically ordered every creature to fire.

***

Just then in Canterlot, a dragon fired a ball of flames, shocking the entire populace. The ball hit part of the Canterlot castle as everypony started to panic. All of a sudden, multiple fireballs and cannonballs bombarded the City of Canterlot, hitting random buildings and various ponies caught in the way of the bombardment. Everypony was running around like a pack of separated ants getting ready to be stomped on.

"What... What is this madness?!" Prince Blueblood shouted.

"I don't know, but all we can do is hold out until the princesses arrive! Follow me!" Fancy Pants said as he ran inside the castle with the other nobles.

***

Looking off from the distance in the mountains, Spike and the others could tell that the invasion was off to a good start.

"Everything is looking good. How long until we can have the creatures drop down?" Chrysalis asked.

"Now." Spike commanded.

***

Up in the air, the creatures were looking down at all the carnage and chaos that was commencing, gleaming with hoy as the buildings were burning.

"It's marvelous. It's like we're watching a meteor shower from hell. All these years of being forced out of our lands... the payoff couldn't be anymore sweeter!" Garbled shouted.

Just then, they heard a changeling's voice in their head speak.

"Be ready to drop down any minute. The real invasion is about to commence."

"Get ready, ponies! It's time to play war!" Gilda shouted.

Upon the reaching the countdown from ten, the creatures prepared to descend from the sky. Whooping and cheering as they fell from the sky, the creatures spread out their wings like the harbingers of death and prepared killing any pony they laid their eyes upon making it to the ground. From mangling to mauling, all sorts of atrocities were being dealt to the ponies. The Canterlot Army attempted to fight back, but it proved futile as the big dragons squashed and ate them while the Changelings, Yaks, and the Hippogriffs made their way to Ponyville.

***

Meanwhile on the Friendship Train, Twilight and everypony else were pondering on what to do next. Now that Discord was dead, they had no choice but to return to Ponyville and retrieve the Elements of Harmony. As the train kept moving, they suddenly started noticing multiple Pegasi flying away from Ponyville.

"Huh? What the heck's going on? Is there some sort of race going on right now?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Dunno. You don't see many racers carrying their belongings." Applejack commented.

"You're not wrong about that, Applejack. Something weird's going on." Twilight said.

"Maybe they're trying to get to a baking event!" Pinkie said excitedly.

"I don't think they're headed to a baking event." Fluttershy said with a hint of worry.

Starlight decided to ignore them and just sit by herself. Just then, she started to see smoke off in the distance from where they were. She had no idea why, but seeing the Pegasi fly away and the smoke coming from the distance really started to worry her. Just then as they passed a mountain, she saw what she would never dream would happen.

"Is there something bothering you, Starlight Glimmer?" Celestia asked, looking at the shocked Unicorn.

Celestia turned her head and saw the unthinkable.

"No. This... This can't be real!" Celestia said in shock.

"What's troubling you, dear sister?" Luna asked.

Celestia turned Luna's head and the young Alicorn sister adopted the same shocked expression as the Sun Princess.

"No... Let this be a bad dream. Please! It's only a bad dream."

The girls decided to see what all the commotion was. Upon looking out the window, they were completely shocked to see Canterlot in flames. Not one word was spoken when they laid their eyes upon their falling kingdoms. Even Pinkie was speechless was she saw Canterlot burning from the distance.

"We have to get them." Twilight said.

"What?" Celestia said.

"If I can get to Elements of Harmony before the enemy gets to the castle, we might stand a chance against this new enemy." Twilight said.

Hearing this appeared to be insane for everypony to take in, but they knew it was the only chance they had.

"Okay. But hurry! I don't know how long until they notice us!" Celestia said as she looked back at Canterlot.

Twilight nodded and teleported back to Friendship Castle. Immediately, Twilight proceeded to run to her bedroom. Upon making her way through the hallway, she encountered a group of Griffons and Hippogriffs ransacking her castle.

"Oh look! It's the Pony Princess of Friendship!" one Griffon sarcastically jeered.

"Hello Twilight! Have you any lessons to teach us?!" a Hippogriff said as he charged her.

Just then, Twilight fired a shot of magic at the Hippogriff's chest, knocking him out. Seeing this angered the group and they charged at Twilight who just demolished them with a wide beam of magic, knocking them all out cold. After that, she continued to run to her bedroom to retrieve the Elements of Harmony. Upon reaching her bedroom, she was greeted by the head of a huge dragon.

RRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

The dragon proceeded to burn Twilight's entire room, forcing her to activate a force field around her to keep herself from getting burned. After that, she fired a blast of magic at the dragon, stunning it. She went under the bed and grabbed the box before teleporting out of the castle. She teleported back to the train stop where the others were waiting.

"Did you get them?" Rainbow Dash asked.

Twilight levitated the box and showed it to them.

"Oh yeah! Bust 'em out and we'll give them the biggest mucho butt-whooping they'll never forget!" Pinkie shouted.

Everypony nodded and Twilight unlocked the box. After opening the box, they looked and saw they weren't inside.