Masked primate soldiers with spears and armour started to drop from the airships, instantly engaging guard positions around the square as Tempest launched herself into the air, casting some sort of spell and sending a dark and green glowing orb towards the princesses.

“Watch out!” I yelled and Cadence jumped forward, throwing up a shield. I didn’t have time to watch as a second orb was flying in my direction. No time to dodge!

I did the same, throwing up the strongest magic/physical defense shield I knew. The orb impacted with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer against the shield.

But it didn’t dissipate. The orb started to press against the shield, whirling and growing. Shit, shit, shit! It was pulling on my magic, digging through the shield.

If I moved, the shield would drop. If I tried to teleport, the shield would drop. Not fast enough, “Get out of here, Amber!”

Something hit my side hard, sending me sprawling across the marble ground of the square in a tangle of limbs with Amber. Looking over just in time, I could see the orb hit Chrysalis in the chest, causing black crystal like obsidian crawl across her, covering her body, turning her into a statue.

What. Why…. why would she…

“Sir, we need to go!” Amber yelled and pulled me back onto my hooves, “We need to get out of here!”

“Buck that!” I yelled and sent a flare into the air, signalling my Legion to engage, sparing a look towards the princesses.

Cadence was encased in the same material as Chrysalis but the rest of the girls were still active and fighting the soldiers. What Twilight and Midnight lacked in fighting skill, they more than made up for with teamwork.

Another orb flew towards Luna and she turned into blue sparkling mist, the orb passing straight through her to hit the soldier rushing her from behind.

“Amber, help Luna.”

“Not my mission.”

“Fine,” I growled at her as I watched a group of Legion pegasi carrying unicorns attack one of the airships, setting the things canopy on fire, “Keep them away, I’m going to fuck up a unicorn.”

I didn’t have time.

As I flew back onto the ramp, Sunset teleported in and then just generally lit the entire area on fire in a circle around her. To be completely honest, I had never seen her that pissed before. Not even when I brought her back to Equestria.

She tackled Tempest from the air and they both crashed into the ramp, rolling down through the curtain of flames onto the ground beneath.

Ripping my cloak off, I wrapped a charging soldier in it before throwing him off the city, only to instantly be replaced by another one throwing himself at me.

Amber hit him hard from having turned into a small rock, uppercutting him in the mask, causing him to stumble backwards before she pounced, biting at his neck.

“Celestia! Not the time to hold back!”

“Too many ponies around!”

“Not up there!” I yelled and pointed towards the airships still hovering above the city inside the shield before I got too busy by a couple of charging soldiers with spears.

Throwing a shield up, I then dropped it, blasting one of them with kinetic force, causing him to stumble before sending the second one to sleep.

Before the first one could get up, Blue Dawn came in for a landing, kicking him in the face, “Sir!”

“Get the fliers out of the sky!” I yelled to her, “It’s about to become way too hot!”

She saluted quickly and took back to the air. Then I was once again too busy to pay attention to anyone else.

At least until I noticed the shield bubble around the city drop, quickly followed by heat against my back as beams of yellow energy reached into the sky and blasted the airships in half, one by one.

Taking advantage of my opponents distraction, I teleported the spear from his hands and into my magic before I threw it back at him.

He caught it in less than an optimal manner. For him anyway.

Taking to the air for a second, I dodged one of the soldiers and landed next to Luna, “What do we do!?”

“Page!” she exclaimed and spared a look around, “Your sleep spell! Can we put them to sleep?” she asked.

“I can’t sleep this many ponies!”

“You cast the spell! I’ll help you power it!” She exclaimed and blasted one of them off his feet.

Buck it, not like we have many choices.

Nodding, I put my horn against hers and poured all my magic into the spell. I could feel it growing against hers, mixing, flowing before exploding outwards. I could feel her magic flowing into the spell, dwarfing mine. I could feel the spell spread, exploding through the city with our mixed magics.

More. More magic. Closing my eyes tighter, I poured everything I had into it until I felt the ground reaching up to smack me in the face and I just lay there, panting.

Nothing. Nothing could be heard but the sound of wind. Wind and fire.

My horn hurt.

I could feel Luna against me, her head resting against my shoulder for a couple of seconds before she started to slowly stir, giving me a small nuzzle, “Page… Page… need to move…”

“Yes… move…” I managed to answer and forced my eyes back open, looking up at the storm clouds above.

With a groan, I got up with luna and looked around. Everypony was asleep. Ponies, Changelings, the enemy soldiers.

Everypony was out like a light.

“Perhaps we should focus a bit on both our aim,” Luna said softly and moved over to Celestia to wake her up.

“Gee, you think,” I muttered and then looked over towards the now crashed and burning airship before running to find Sunset.