Twilight flew as fast as her wings could take her as she tried to keep up with the panicked and frightened Ocellus. The young changeling feared the worst of her kind's fate not knowing who was alive and who was dead.

"Ocellus, wait!" cried Twilight as they flew along the road where the attack had taken place. "Ocellus! Stop!"

"My kind was attacked?!" Ocellus cried, her large eyes tearing up. "Chrysalis was behind this!"

"We need evidence to confirm that," replied Twilight. "Ocellus, I'm sorry…"

But Ocellus didn't listen and proceeded to try and follow the road.

"Thorax! Thorax!" she cried out and soon, let out a sharp gasp as she looked down in horror of what she saw. Bodies of dead and wounded Changelings laid on the ground below. "Thorax! Thorax!"

"Ocellus, stop!" called Twilight, following Ocellus down onto the ground. A few moments later, Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Spider Man and Bruce arrived on the scene via portal.

"What the hell…?" gasped Tony from inside his Iron Man armor. But, Bruce immediately jumped into rescue mode, going over to any Changeling that was still alive. "Split up and see if any Changeling is alive."

Doing as they were told, they all went about to see who was alive and who was dead. No sooner did they split up did they see the carnage that was inflicted on them. While going through throngs of dead Changeling bodies, Dr. Strange heard a faint moaning and went over to see where it was coming from. When he saw who it was, he couldn't believe it.

"Mother of God…" he whispered and saw Pharynx, bleeding heavily from one of his legs. Knowing that he could die, Dr. Strange turned over to his cape. "Stop the bleeding."

Acting on its master's order, the cape wrapped itself around the wounded Changeling's leg. Pharynx let out a loud cry of pain as this was happening.

"It's only for a little while," Dr. Strange said. "Don't worry, we're going to help you."

"What…what…what happened?" gasped Pharynx, trying to keep his eyes open and stay conscious. "Thorax…where is…?"

"Rest now," interrupted Dr. Strange. "I need to get you out of here at once."

And the wizard attempted to lift Pharynx up into the air as carefully as possibly. But Pharynx wasn't the only one. Several more Changelings had been dismembered and were bleeding profusely. Some were even close to death.

"Dr. Banner!" called Dr. Strange, gesturing him to come over. "This Changeling is bleeding profusely."

"What happened?" asked Bruce.

"He's almost lost his leg. We need to get him to a doctor now!"

"Where's…where's…my brother?" Pharynx asked weakly.

…

No sooner did he say those words that at that very moment, Iron Man was also looking among to see who was alive and could be helped when he noticed a tall green Changeling with orange horns lying in a ditch. Seeing this, he flew over to the badly injured Changeling whose chest had been cut open, exposing a large amount of blood.

"Parker, get over here!" Tony shouted, attracting Spider Man's attention. The young teenager couldn't believe what he was seeing just as much as Tony was. "Use your webbing and get this chest closed up."

"Okay," sighed Spider Man and proceeded to use his webbing to close the wound. Thorax moaned loudly in pain as the webbing closed the wound. A few moments later, his wound was closed. "All right, that should be it, Mr. Stark."

"Th…thank you," gasped Thorax, blood coming out of his mouth.

"Hang in there, we're going to get you to a hospital, Thorax," said Tony. "Ready, Pete?"

Carefully, the mentor and his protégé lifted Thorax up as several guardsponies arrived on the scene with nurses inside specially medically made chariots.

"Bring a stretcher over here!" shouted Tony, trying to get the attention of a medical chariot. "Come on! Let's go!"

Doing as they were told, a group of nurse ponies arrived and allowed for Thorax to be lowered carefully onto a stretcher.

"Thorax!" called Ocellus, who had been looking around to also help her kind raced over to him. "Thorax, you're…"

"Ow, Ocellus!" moaned Thorax, groaning as she rested herself on his chest.

"Sorry," gasped the young changeling. "But, you're…you're…"

"Alive?" gasped Thorax, notcing the tears of pain in Ocellus' eyes. "Yeah, I am."

Ocellus watched as her leader was loaded into a chariot along with several other badly wounded Changelings. What followed next was a sight none ever wanted to see. Those who had been killed were covered with blue blankets. It was then that Ocellus finally lost her emotions and silently cried for her deceased fellow Changelings.

As he was being helped to a Chariot, Pharynx noticed the pain Ocellus was displaying. But, he said nothing and instead was loaded onto the medical chariot.

…

Back at Tambeleon, Grogar was pleased to hear what had just transpired.

"Well done, my friends," he laughed. "Thorax and his forces have been desecrated and are unable to help defend Canterlot."

"It was easy to do," remarked Kuwaga. "They didn't even stand a chance against us."

"Hopefully that treasonous Thorax will be out of my way forever," added Chrysalis.

Of course, some of the other villains weren't too impressed.

"I only consider it a success when they are officially dead," remarked the Storm King in a low voice.

"Don't forget," Cozy whispered back at the deranged satyr, trying to get underneath his skin. "You only killed blindly."

"Exactly, silly filly," laughed the Storm King. "Kill them without mercy, that's my motto!"

Grogar had been hearing their whispers and this was the signal for him to make his next move.

"Now!" he said. "With the Changlings down, our attention now focuses on eliminating the next ally. Storm King!"

Hearing his name called, the Storm King stepped forward towards Grogar, happily awaiting the order for him to attack.

"Yes, my emperor?"

"I'm going to send you to send Queen Novo a little message to stay out of my way," he replied. "Make sure she gets it for me, won't you?"

Delighted to hear this, the Storm King bowed and thanked Grogar for the opportunity that was given to him.

"Good, are the remnants of your forces ready?"

Opening the throne room door, some of the storm creatures who had survived Instant Justice's persecutions of them arrived in the throne room, their spears well armed in their paws.

"I'll take that as a yes," answered the Storm King.

"Excellent," said Grogar, motioning for the Storm King to rise. "Now go! And do not come back until the message is delivered, do you understand?"

"You got it, my emperor!"

Laughing gleefully, the most recent creature to strike terror on Equestria was about to pick up where he left off, looking to do the same amount of damage as Chrysalis had done.

"I still don't trust him," remarked Tirek, his large arms folded. "Personally, I feel like my actions were better."

"All you ever did was absorb magic, Tirek," added Sombra. "The Storm King may be unfit to command a cockroach at times, but he does have the desire to trample among the lives of others."

"Then, let's see if he carries out his part," said Grogar, activating his viewing globe for the villains to see the impending attack on Mount Aris led by the Storm King himself…

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