I arrived a little late so I decided to stay in the back of the room and watch for the time being. It's been a few minutes and everything was going smoothly. I noticed that Cadance had asked that Twilight's friends to be her bridesmaids, which I found odd as she'd already had a few other ponies before this. I could understand wanting to have the girls come in with the others, but she completely replaced them. This wouldn't be completely out of the norm if this a normal everyday pony, but this was Cadance we're talking about and she wouldn't just go as far as to throw away ponies for some pony else just based on a title. I'd also noticed Shining was a little on the wobbly side, but this could all be due to him maintaining his shield around Canterlot for an extended period of time. I didn't understand what was going on with me right now I just couldn't shake the feeling something was going to happen. I also noticed some of my memories had cleared since I'd come back from the previous world, but there was still so much I couldn't see clearly.

This thought was quickly pushed out of my head by none other than Twilight Sparkle. She'd just burst through the doors and started calling Cadance evil for some reason. 'Stupid girl. I told you to come and tell me if you saw something strange with Cadance' I thought as I saw the unicorn start to teleport all around the bride to be all the while still calling her 'evil'. I saw Cadance start to tear up and ask Twilight why she was doing this, but I still didn't move. For some reason or another, all I could do was stand there and watch this horrible chain of events play out.

After I saw Cadance start to cry I force myself to move with all of the mental strength I could muster. I moved behind Twilight faster than anypony could see and grab her by her wrist and held her hand to the ceiling. Everypony else could on gasp, but not at me but Twilight's actions.

“Why? Why would you do this?” asked Cadance as tears streamed down her face.

“Because you're evil!” exclaimed the frantic unicorn, who had yet to notice I was holding her back.

With that last 'evil' Cadance proceeded to run out of the room in tears. I quickly turned my attention back to the unicorn who was now struggling to get free of my grip. I decided to speak my mind as I released her.

“What the hell are you doing Twilight?” I asked.

“I saw Cadance do something to Shining Armor earlier. She shot some sort magic beam at his head and it caused him to go goggled eyed on the ground,” explained Twilight.

“That was s spell to help me with the headaches I've been getting from having to maintain the barrier around Canterlot Twilight. I might have a lot of power Twilight, but its extremely hard to keep up something like this for days on end. The mental strain is exhausting, so I asked Cadance to help me out with her magic a bit.” Shining Armor said as he scowled at his sister.

“But, Edward you believe me, don't you? You told me and Polearm to keep an eye on Cadance cause you thought things were off with her behavior,” said Twilight with pleading eyes.

“Yes Twilight, I told you to keep an eye on things,” I said as she started to look towards the others in the room. “But, I also told you to come and tell me if you saw anything suspicious.”

“But...” said Twilight.

“There are no but's this situation Twilight. What you've done here is completely uncalled for, unjustified, and quite frankly, inexcusable. I can only hope that Cadance can find it in her heart to forgive your actions.” I said as I turned to face my friends and family. I know I'd seen tears start to form in Twilight's eyes.

“Twilight I don't think I want you should be my best mare. Now if everypony will excuse me, I need to go and check on my fiance.” snorted Shining Armor.

I understand why he did what he did but I still felt bad for Twilight. I saw everypony was head out to look for Cadance all with a dreadful show of disgust on their faces. Then Tia walked by Twilight and spoke to her.

“I'm very disappointed Twilight and I hope you severely regret your actions here. It'd be best if you took time to reflect on what's happened just now.” Celestia said scolding her student.

“She's right Twilight and I don't want you to cause any more trouble. I'm gonna go look for Cadance, but I want to talk to you afterward. Alright.” I said sternly while she sat in the floor crying.

I'd made my way out of the ballroom and down the hallway a bit so I could start my search for Cadance. I began to think where she might go, but nothing came to mind right away. So I merely continued to walk for a few minutes when I ran into Polearm. The poor guy looked as if he'd just run a ten mile run in under a minute.

“Polearm where have you been? I thought you were going to stay with Twilight.” I said to my assistant.

“I did sir, but I left to go outside at her brother's house so they could have their talk and after a few minutes she blew out the front door and I've been trying to find her ever since,” he said as he huffed for air.

“She's back in the ballroom,” I said pointing over my shoulder. “We had an incident earlier with Cadance that resulted in her running off crying and now everypony is trying to find where she ran off to. As for Twilight, she's in bad shape right now and I think she could use a friend for the moment.” I said with worry.

“I'll go and check on her sir. Perhaps if I'd been able to catch I could've prevented what happened.” lamented Polearm as he started towards the ballroom.

“Hold on Polearm, I'm coming with you. I think Cadance has enough ponies looking for her for the time being. Besides I was kind of harsh on Twilight.” I said I join my guard as we made our way back to the ballroom.

We made our way back down the corridors to the ballroom. When we arrived we were both met with astonishment when we saw Cadance coming out of the doors with a smile on her face.

“Hey, Cadance where in the hell did you run off to?” I asked perplexed that she wasn't upset anymore.

“Just someplace nearby where I could get some fresh air to clear my head,” she answered.

“You know everypony is out looking for right now,” I informed her.

“Well then best not have them look anymore. Shall we go and get them,” she said gesturing with her hand.

“You can go on ahead I'm going to check and see how Twilight is doing,” I said as I started to walk past her.

“Oh, she's fine now we made up and then she ran off to tell the others,” she said half-heartedly.

“That's great, you can tell everypony else I'll be waiting with Polearm in the ballroom.” I old here as I walked past.

“Sir, why are we going to wait in the ballroom?” asked my guard in a whisper.

“Because I know that any normal pony can't simply recover from that type of emotional damage that quickly and my guts telling me something else went down after we left the room,” I replied in turn as we went into the now empty ballroom.

I immediately noticed that the flow of magic had shifted a bit from earlier. Particularly from where I'd left Twilight sitting in the floor. I went over to this spot and knelt down to get a better feel for the magical flow. I couldn't tell exactly what had happened, but I could tell who used that magic was. It was definitely Cadance and whatever it was that she did, it ran very deep into the bowls of the castle. I used my Arc of Embodiment to create a phasing device so I could pass through solid objects. I explained to Polearm to keep a watch on Cadance, but not to get caught and if something happens while I was gone to go and tell Luna right away. I turned on my device and jump into the floor passing through a number of levels.

I was sent down here by Cadance but I couldn't figure out why she'd do something so cruel as to lock me away. The Cadance I knew would've never done something this cruel to me, or that's what I used to think. Now she'd buried me in the caves under that castle and had begun to taunt me at my every turn with snide comments, rude remarks, and a maniacal laughter. I couldn't take it any longer so everywhere I saw Cadance's face I blasted it with my magic or smashed it with my fists. Edward's training was really coming in handy right now. I thought he'd at least back me up when I confronted Cadance, but he was the last person to talk to me. He was right though I did jump to the first thing I'd thought of after I saw her use that spell on Shining Armor. I see that I was right all along but it still doesn't change the fact I didn't listen, and to one of my teachers no less.

I was trying to find a way out as I kept destroying every Cadance I came in contact with. That's when I heard one of the Cadances' speak to me in a frightened tone.

“Please, please don't hurt me,” she said cowering on the floor.

I looked down at the cowering pony in front of me with my horn at the ready as she brought her face up from her hands she spoke again.

“Twilight... Twilight it's me Cadance.” said the pony with tears in her eyes.

I looked down on here not wanting to believe what she was saying, but she spoke again before I could react.

“Sunshine sunshine, ladybugs awake, clap your hands...” she said.

“And do a little shake.” I finished softly realizing she was the real Cadance.

I immediately rushed over and threw my arms around her neck.

“Oh, Cadance it is you. I'm so sorry I almost blasted you by mistake.” I said as tears formed in the corners of my eyes.

“It's alright Twilight I'm just glad to see you right now,” said Cadance as she held on to me.

“How long have u been down here?” I asked.

“It was right before Uncle Ed had sent the elite troops and Shining Armor back here to Canterlot, but if I had to guess it must be around two to two and a half week,” she said frightened by the thought.

Then we looked up at the cavern ceiling as we felt a strong presence coming down towards us. Thanks to Edward's training I had honed my magic sensing, but I couldn't tell if this was a friend of a foe due to the caverns natural magic. I could tell that they were coming in fast and they were very strong. I let my horn again and waited for this pony to arrive and they dd with a sudden puff of dust.

Ed's POV

I had been falling through several layers of rock and crystal. I was starting to picking up two magical auras, but I could tell exactly who they were. I was certain that one belonged to Twilight though and I only had one chance to nail this landing. Right as I came upon the source of magic I turned off the phasing machine and land right in front of two ponies that I knew very well.

“Twilight. Cadance, thank Faust I was able to get that landing right,” I said in relief.

“Edward?” asked Twilight in shock.

“Uncle Ed?” said Cadance puzzled.

“How the hay did you get here?” said Twilight still in shock.

“I sensed an odd magic back in the throne room that reached down here and decided to check it out. So I conjured up the phasing device with Arc of Embodiment to allow me to pass through solid objects and then dove in. once I got far enough don I started to sense strong magic and followed it till I found you two.” I said standing up as I brushed off my pants.

“Do you think you could use that thing to get us back up to the castle?” asked Twilight.

“Unfortunately Twilight, I'm not confident enough to even try using it on anypony but myself. I was very hesitant on even using it on myself to get to this point, but that doesn't matter now as I've found you two and on that note. Cadance how long have you been here?” I asked my niece as I took off my coat and gave it to her as her dress was in shreds.

“Thank you, and it's been around almost two and a half weeks,” Cadance answered while putting on the coat.

“I'm so sorry for all of this Twilight and I'm sorry I didn't see you weren't you Cadance.” I lamented.

“It okay Edward, I wasn't completely in the right with the way I acted either, even if I was right.” remarked the unicorn.

“Always with the 'I told you so's', and your forgiven Uncle Ed. No pony would have noticed it due to the wedding.” Cadance said as she muffled Twilight's mane and hugged my neck.

“What I don't get it why I couldn't sense you until I got into a certain range,” I said as I grabbed my chin.

“I think it has to do with these crystals and the depth at which we are,” answered Twilight.

“Um, earth to eggheads we have a wedding, my wedding I might add, to stop.” interjected the alicorn.

“Your right Cadance, we can talk shop later let's go it'll take tell right around late morning to make it to the lower levels of the castle,” I said as we took off in a dash for the upper levels.

Sir Edward had entrusted me my with the task of keeping an eye on Princess Cadance and I was going to fulfill it. Although it didn't seem hard I still had a tough time trying to keep myself from being noticed, but it did help that she barely knew me. It wasn't easy to stay on the Princess's tail so to speak as she continued to oversee more and more last-minute wedding preparations. I still did the task that as asked of to the best of my abilities. I had to say along with the disrespectful I'd witness in the last couple of days, she didn't deviate from any of the activities that a pony would usually perform while on a wedding power trip. That is until I'd run into her coming from the kitchen after a second check -in with Applejack.

“Sorry about that Princess,” I apologized.

“Watch where you're going you foal,” she remarked as she walked off.

'I don't care if it is because of stress or not I really don't like this attitude of hers' I thought as I tailed her at a good distance. It was getting pretty late and I still had night guard detail and I had to report to Princess Luna to deliver Sir Edward's message. I just hope things don't go to bucking hell and we have to fight some sort of disaster.

I managed to finish my patrols early by getting put on an earlier rotation. I was now with Princess Luna in the gardens with the elite Lunar guard that Sir Edward had trained as I waited to speak with Princess Luna on Sir Edward's precautions for tomorrow. After standing and quite literally smelling the rose I got the chance to talk with the Princess.

“Polearm, it is nice of you to come and see us, but why is Edward not with you?” she asked curiously.

“Sorry Princess Luna, I know you wanted to spend time with Sir Edward tonight, but he's very busy with attending to the matters of the wedding right,” I answered sympathetically.

“We understand Polearm, but there is another reason you have come to see us isn't there?” asked the Princess with her hand in the air.

“Correct Princess, Sir Edward is worried that something might happen tomorrow during the wedding ceremony. He asked me to come and tell you that if it does to go and guard the Elements of Harmony.” I answered.

“Very well, we shall do just that,” she said without hesitation or even asking why.

“Pardon me Princess, but why aren't you asking me for more details on the matter?” I asked curiously.

“For the same reason, you are following Edward's orders good Polearm. We trust Edward's judgment, and it is our duty to stand by him as his wife.” answered the Princess as she placed her hand over her hear.

“You're right Princess. And now I must return to my duties that Sir Edward has asked of me. Have a wonderful evening Princess Luna.” I said bidding her farewell.

“You as well Polearm,” she responded.

After my conversation with Princess Luna, I returned to monitoring Princess Cadance for the remainder of the night for a distance outside Captain Shining Armor's home.

Canterlot Castle
Morning

I'd dozed off last night after the lights went out in the house in the night in order to regain some of my strength for today. I noticed Princess Cadance had left the house early so I followed. We made to the castle in no time at all. 'So far so good today, I just hope it stays this way' I thought to myself as I sat down the hall from the dressing room. That's when I heard the Princess start to talk to herself, so I decided to have a listen to see what she was saying.

“Oh how everything has gone so well,” said the Princes with joy. “I've only just started and I've already taken care of everything not even Celestia, Luna, or that brat Twilight Sparkle can stop my plans now. I've even got the stallion so convinced he'd do anything I told him to. After the vows are said is when the real fun starts.”

“So Twilight was right all along and Sir Edward's hunch on something else going on was right to. I've got to make t Princess Luna and help her guard the Elements.” I whispered as I ran off while trying not to be noticed.

Twilight, Cadance, and I had been walking through these damn cave from what I could've been hours since I found them. We were following the flow of air to get out of the tunnels and for the most part, we'd met with very little resistance. That is until we ran into the previously known bridesmaids. The trick in getting passed them was getting them to hold still long enough to tie them down. After we managed to wrestle the bridesmaids down we found an old mining cart and decide to take it for a spin, and this would also give Twilight and Cadance a chance to rest for a while. Honestly, I wasn't looking forward to what we were going to be heading into, but I did know that we were headed into a fight.

“Girls when we get out of these caves we head start for the wedding,” I said with no hesitation.

“Right,” they said together.

The wedding had started and everything was going well. The guest were all in there seats as the waited for the flower girls and the bride to come down the walk. The groom stood up at the altar next to Princess Celestia in his formal attire. Then the music began to play as the flower fillies walked down the aisle with the bride directly behind them as she made her way up toward the altar. As Cadance took her place Celestia began to speak while all listened. The ceremony went on for around an hour as Celestia finally started to speak the words everypony wanted to hear.

“Princess Cadance and Shining Armor I now pronounce you...”

BANG!!!

The doors were suddenly blown open with enough force to shake all of the windows in the room loose from their panes. There standing in the doorway was a certain alchemist and he was pissed as all hell. Celestia could only look upon her brother in shock at his action.

“Blast her Twilight!” yelled the alchemist as the unicorn behind him proceeded to shoot a beam of magic the bride knocking her to the floor.

“Edward, what is the meaning of this? Explain why you would interrupt this wedding in such a disgraceful manner!” shouted Celestia.

“Because she's not the real Princess Cadance!” shout Twilight.

“I AM!” shouted an alicorn coming into view from the hallway.

Everypony in the room let out a huge 'GASP' as their jaws hit the floor. The saw double alicorns.

“That is a changeling. They slip into ponies lives as someone you love and then they feed on that love making themselves stronger and then they throw them away once they've had their fill.” spoke the tattered alicorn princess.

“Oh, how right you are Princess,” said the fake Cadance as she picked herself up from Twilight's assault. “But I'm not just any rum of the mill changeling-”

As she said this the fake became enveloped in a column of eerie yellowish green fire like magic. Her form began to shift as her size grew to match Celestia's in height. Her horn grew longer but twisted and knarled. She lost the feathers on hers wins as they were now insectoid in nature. Her hair color changed from pink and light purple with a yellow strip to that of a deep forest green of stringy wed like mesh. Her skin color was now a greenish inky black tone, and her eyes were that of a faded or light acidic green tone.

“I am Queen Chrysalis and as queen, it is my duty to find food for my followers and this land is simply overflowing with love. Take that strange pony who just burst in here for example. If I had known he was married to Luna I would have taken her place instead of yours, but it's all the same to me, food and power for me.” explained the Queen. “And after I gained enough from the good captain of the guard here I intended to sneak my subjects in a little at a time, but it looks like my plans have changed, only slightly though. You all should've listened to that silly unicorn over there AND NOE THAT I've had time to work on Shining Armors mind and gain enough love from him I can begin my invasion.”

Just as she finished her explanation Celestia step forward with her horn let and spoke in a demanding tone.

“I will not allow you to harm my ponies Chrysalis,” said Celestia as she crossed horns with the changeling queen.

“You think you can stop me. As we speak my minions are hammering the shield around your city and will be here in minutes,” said Chrysalis as she pushed back against with her own magically horn.

There was a sudden flash of white light and the en Celestia was knocked to the ground with the tip of her horn burnt. All of the ponies looked on in shock as the saw their Princess on the ground. Edward, Twilight, and Cadance rushed over to her side. Then the Queen spoke again.

“Pathetic, you know Twilight I've been looking for a student of my own. If you were to join me I could teach you things that even Celestia was afraid to learn. Just think of the possibilities for you I even let you have Ponyville as your own private kingdom.” offered the Queen as she reached out her hand with a smile.

“I'd abandon the Princess for a love sucking vampire like you!” shouted Twilight in anger.

“Petty, I'd hoped you would, as you have so much potential and it's merely wasted on these pathetic lessons of friendship. Oh well. Now then, Shining Armor would you be so kind as to lower the shield around Canterlot my dear.” cued Chrysalis while she imitated Cadance's voice again.

“Mm-hmm.” responded the hypnotized captain of the guard.

With this respond Shining Armor horn began to glow with a pink aura as the shield bang to fall. While at the same time outside there had been a swarm of incest like ponies, similar to their queen in design but much smaller, that came out of nowhere and started hammering and charging at the shield as they tried to break it. As the shield start to fade away they began their raid on the city. While back in the ballroom the Queen turned her attention back to the royal family as she began to cackle.

“HAHAHAHAHA! Now let's wrap things up with the for of you,” said Chrysalis with an evil smile she charged her horn with green magic and fired a powerful beam at her victims.

There was a flash of green and the Queen laughed once more, but this was soon interrupted by the sound of crackling. She looked forward to that Edward had jumped in front of the beam and was taking it straight to the palm of his hand.

“This can't be I beat Celestia with less power than this. How could a mere earth pony like you hold back my magic with nothing but the palm of your hand?” snarled Chrysalis in anger as her magic shut off.

“One, I'm not a pony but a human alchemist. Two, you beat my sister because she didn't want to run the risk of hurting everypony here should she let out to much power. Three, my arm isn't flesh but a magic suppressing crystal.” explained Edward as he lowered his right armor back to his side with it smoking from taking the magic head on.

“I remember you know your the one that my spies told me that had been awoken from stone the same time as Discord and they told me of your duel with Shining Armor. They told me you're extremely powerful, but not powerful enough to challenge anypony stronger than him.” hissed the Queen as she stared daggers into the unyielding alchemist.

“You see, your spies got it wrong Chrysalis,” said Edward as he started to walk forward as his tone became serious. “Yes, that part had some truth to as I hadn't taken the time to re-hone my body after its long nap. I was only as strong as I was due to Luna helping my get a small feel of what I used to be cable of, but haven't you wondered where I was for the past three and a half months?”

“I know you were wondering around doing work on your own personal projects,” said Chrysalis as she pointed toward Edward in annoyance.

“Wandering around, not in the slightest, training and training other at the same time, yes,” spoke the alchemist in all seriousness.

“What do you mean?” asked the Queen as she kept her eyes on the alchemist in front of her.

“Not only have I regained the strength I had before my untimely stone nap, but I also gained more strength from training the Elements of Harmony and the new elite guards in combat and I gain even more power after I trained with a type of demon user as well,” Edward explained to the Insect Queen.

“What are you saying you little bastard?” shouted the Queen in fear.

“Girls, I want all of you to take the guards and help the city. Cadance I want you to stay with Celestia and don't leave he side. If you think you can't get to Shining, then do it.” Edward said looking over his shoulder. “Chrysalis is mine.”

“DON'T YOU IGNORE ME!” shout Chrysalis as she shot another at Edward only from him to block it with his right arm once more.

Now with his gaze fixed on the Changeling Queen Edward began to speak to her in anger.

“LET ME COUNT THE WAYS YOU PISSED ME OFF YOU FUCKING BUG!” Edward screamed in anger at the Queen.

Here it is guys hope ya'll enjoy. This one, like the other parts, took me a while to write out as I didn't want to redo the show, but still wanted to use some of its scenes. I digress it was more challenging this time as I couldn't find any inspiration in the past few days. Still, I did what I could as I still had fun trying to give some info on where I thought Luna was during the original wedding. Please comment and follow.