Starlight happily looked around, expecting herself to directly in the middle of a resistance camp, with Twilight, finally able to go back home!

Instead, she found herself surrounded by dragons and ponies in purple armor, two unicorns in white suits and dozens of slaves. The thought briefly came to her head that she had been double-crossed by Sombra when a dragon pointed at her.

"That's not the governor! Arrest the imposter!" He shouted. The guards quickly rushed towards her. She barely had time to put a turquoise bubble shield around herself before one breathed fire at her.

She cried out in struggle when one dragon suddenly reared back and slammed a massive warhammer into her defense. Ripples of energy shot through the shield, and it cracked. Badly. Starlight was forced to shrink it to keep it from outright shattering.

When another dragon struck it, it cracked even more and she needed to shrink it more.

She grunted in pain when fire once again burst against the shield. Was she going to die here?

"We have to help her!" Twilight said, rising up and spreading her wings. Blueblood stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.

"Wait. It could be a trick." Blueblood said coldly, observing as Flim and Flam suddenly rose from their chairs and booked it towards the farm house, leaving the guards to deal with everything.

"How could it be a trick!?" Twilight cried in exacerbation.

"You need to remember, Spike has a changeling in his inner circle," Blueblood claimed, ignoring the growl that came from Pharynx. "We need to consider our options carefully. Moondancer, how many enemies do you count."

Moondancer opened her mouth to talk but was cut off.

"I count ten dragons and forty pony guards. " Pharynx said standing up and walking through the brush towards the Orchard. "I will deal with the dragons if you five deal with the ponies and those two unicorns. There are likely also a couple of guards out of sight in the barn or farmhouse. I'll deal with them after I down the dragons."

"Did you not hear me?" Blueblood snapped in sudden anger. "I told you that we need to consider our options!"

"I did," Pharynx responded. He pointed his sword in the direction of Canterlot. "The rest of the resistance is likely on their way here right now and they don't know that this orchard is a hotspot of enemy activity. They are likely going to run face-first into a horde of Imperial Soldiers who are already prepared for a battle. It will be a slaughter. One you don't want."

Blueblood opened his mouth and closed it several times before sighing and nodding. "You are right. We need to move. Now."

Twilight nodded before taking to the air, followed closely by Pharynx as Blueblood and the other unicorns approached by land.

She was scared she had to admit, but also more than a little excited to see Starlight again. She had so much to tell her!

Pharynx interrupted her thoughts when he reeled back suddenly and, with an intense amount of strength, threw his sword, which went spiraling towards one of the dragon guards.

Starlight collapsed to her knees as her shield came collapsing around her, magical turquoise shards falling to the ground before disintegrating into nothingness.

Starlight gulped as she looked up at one of the dragons who slowly approached her with a grin as he readied his warhammer.

"Hey mates! Do you suppose this is the mare Emperor Spike sent that letter about? The one who took his changeling!?" He claimed, looking to the other dragons.

"I do think she is!" One hissed with a dark glare, licking its lips.

"Sweet! I think I am going to get a new pair of boots out of this, alongside a raise!" The one wielding the warhammer roared, raising it into the air.

Starlight cringed and looked away, expecting a blow to the head and a quick end to her story. Instead there was suddenly a loud crack and nothing else. Starlight turned back to the dragon, to see a sword sticking out of the side of the drake's head.

The guards, both pony, and dragon gasped in shock as he collapsed to the ground, cold and unmoving.

"Wh-what the-"Another dragon started, before, in a black blur, the sword was ripped out of the soldier's head, and thrusting into his chest, killing him mid-sentence.

All eyes fell on the changeling standing atop his body. He idly twirled his sword before slowly dragging the tip through the air, pointing at the crowd.

"Since I have joined the Resistance and am now playing nice, I am going to give all of you a chance to surrender." Pharynx said. Starlight instantly recognized him as the changeling that helped Twilight escaped days ago. Maybe Sombra didn't set her up?

There was a pause. Nothing happened for a couple of seconds.

"Kill him!" A dragon roared. The pony guards quickly rushed forwards only to be stopped by a flurry of magical beams which stopped them in their tracks. Several dropped to the ground, either dead or unconscious.

The same dragon growled as he scanned the Orchard. The slaves were scattering as four unicorns rushed into sight, Twilight Sparkle following them from the air.

"Equines!" He said gesturing to the pony guards.

"Deal with those five! Dragons with me. Let's crush this little bu-" The drake started turning back to Pharynx just in time to get a kick to the face.

He fell onto his back, Pharynx landing on his hooves on top of the drake's chest. He brought his sword into the air, one hand on the pommel, and brought it down in a stapping motion towards the drake's head. The dragon raised a gauntleted hand, just in time for it to stop the blow, only barely.

The sword went clean through armor, scales and bone, coming out the other side and stopping a mere inch away from the drake's face. The drake roared in pain, kicking his legs and clenching his hands into fists.

"Holy fuck! What is that sword even made of!?" He cried as he looked up at Pharynx.

"Black steel," Pharynx responded in a disturbingly monotone voice. He then brought a hoof up, and stomped on the drake's arm, sending the hand downwards.

The blade came with it and impaled into the drakes head, killing it instantly.

Pharynx stepped off the body, taking his sword out of the drake's face.

"I recommend you get up and join your fellow ponies now." Pharynx said glancing at Starlight as the rest of the dragons charged at him. "They could use the help."

"R-right." Starlight said standing up and rushing towards Twilight, who was now engaged in a magical shoot out with more than a fourth of the enemy guards.

Pharynx turned back to the dragons, they were much closer now. He brought his arm back and once again threw his sword. It flew true and dug into another dragon's shoulder, causing them to stop their charge.

"Oh for fu- Stop throwing things you son of a bitch!" The Dragon roared as they collapsed to their knees and started pulling at the sword, but it didn't budge.

Pharynx pointed at them. "Only I am allowed to call Chrysalis a bitch! But fine, I won't throw anything."

The Drakes were mere feet away from him now. He smiled and spread his arms into the air. There was a massive blast of green fire and the dragons stopped in their place.

Standing in front of them was now a twenty-foot tall six-legged monster. Five dark purple eyes slowly focussed on them. It then reared back and roared at them and, with one sweep of one of its massive claws, knocked them all off their feet.

Twilight weaved through the air, dodging several lasers before she returned fire with one massive beam. It slowly snaked across the ground, engulfing several Imperial soldiers, instantly dropping them to the ground. Even brushing a pinky finger against the beam would knock even an Ursa Major unconscious, so it was the perfect weapon in this situation.

As soon as the beam dissipated, she dropped to the ground, landing and indiscriminately fired beams in the vague direction of Imperial Soldiers. Initially, the soldiers didn't even try to take cover, believing the princess's inaccurate fire could never hit them.

Their tune changed quickly when the beams suddenly curved in the air, changing direction even as much as to form 90 degree angles, and always got perfect headshots. Twilight smiled as more guards were put to sleep near her.

A sudden pain shot through her arm, she gasped and looked down so see a whip wrapped around her wrist. She hissed in pain as it was tugged behind her. She turned to see a unicorn guard wielding it, their horn suddenly glowed as they readied a beam to strike at the incapacitated Alicorn.

Twilight merely channeled magic into her horn. Arcane lightning suddenly shot into the whip, traveling down it like electricity through a wire. It blasted into the guard who cried in pain and dropped to the guard, out like a light.

The purple alicorn let out a held breath and looked around, tallying her count so far. She had knocked out 19 guards so far. A good number. She used the slight respite in attackers to reach down and start untying the whip that had wrapped around her wrist. She didn't notice another Unicorn slowly sneak up on her, charging their horn.

Twilight heard the sound of a beam being fired just in time to jerk out of the way of a golden beam that was going to go straight into the back of her head. It did, however, strike her in the wing, sending a burning pain coursing through her body. She quickly turned around and fired a beam of her own while tumbling to the ground.

She realized too late that she put far too much energy into it. She gasped, covering her mouth with her hands when the beam struck the unicorn in the chest and went through it, leaving a burning hole. She quickly scrambled to her hooves when the enemy unicorn clawed at her chest as they collapsed to her knees.

Twilight rushed to the unicorn's side, catching her before she hit the ground and trying her best to heal the wound with her magic. It was a hollow gesture. She knew she had hit a lung. The unicorn would suffocate before her spell would do any meaningful healing.

Twilight grunted as she covered the wound with her hands to stop any bleeding as her spell slowly sealed it up. "Come on, hold in there."

The Alicorn grabbed the unicorn's helmet, pulling it off to reveal the blue fur and white and navy hair of Colgate, a unicorn she had known since she moved to Ponyvile from Canterlot all those years ago. She didn't know her well, but she did consider her an acquaintance. An acquaintance she might well have just killed.

Colgate reached a hand up towards Twilight before exhaling and going limp.

Twilight looked up, turning her head left to right in shock, looking for something she could use to revive her, but it was too late. She was dead.

Twilight Sparkle had just killed a pony.

"Oh sweet Celestia... What have I done..."

Lyra watched as Pharynx bit a dragon in half with ruthless efficiency before spitting said dragons upper body out and impaling another. It was pretty damn freaky. Luckily her time in the resistance managed to acclimate her to blood.

"Sheesh, that guy is good," Lyra said, before looking up and firing a magical attack which hit a flying pegasus stallion, taking him out of the air. His body fell and ended up getting stuck in the upper branches of a tree.

"You're pretty good yourself, I can barely hit anypony!" Stellar Flare joked as she fired a bolt of her own, which struck an Imperial in the leg. They cried out as they fell to the ground, a hole in their shin. "See? I was aiming for the guy next to him."

Moondancer suddenly put a bubble shield around them, just in time to block a volley of beams, she dropped it when the last beam hit, allowing the three to return fire.

"Cut the chatter you guys!" Moondancer cried, her beam veering way off course and hitting a tree. "You're throwing off my aim!"

"R-right!" Lyra replied. "Sorr-"

She was silenced by a punch to the face. She fell onto her back as an earth pony in purple armor stood over her. Stellar barely had time to react to him before she too was knocked off her feet, this time by a powerful kick to her stomach.

Moondancer raised another shield around herself just in time to stop a sword strike, which sent cracks rippling across her shield.

"Filthy traitor!" The earth pony hissed, applying more pressure to his stab. The cracks got worse.

Moondancer felt a massive headache flare up as it took all of her might and concentration to keep the Imperial from breaking her defense.

"I'm going to enjoy killing you!" The earth pony growled.

Just as Moondancer thought he was going to break the shield and stab her however, a spear soared through the air and stabbed him clean in the stomach. He gasped in pain and took a couple of steps away from her, allowing her to drop the shield and collapse to the ground in exhaustion.

She looked up at the Imperial soldier, who glared down at her before turning just in time to see an ax embed itself into his chest. He collapsed as an extremely pale green earth pony and female yak rushed to help Lyra, Stellar and Moondancer to their feet.

"You throw spears nice!" Yona chuckled to Sandbar as she helped both Lyra and Stellar to their hooves.

Sandbar giggled as he pulled Moondancer up. "Not as well as you use your axes."

"You guys might want to hold your breaths." Another earth pony by the name of Braeburn said as several vials were tossed over their heads.

The five ponies and one yak followed the trajectory of the vials until they hit the ground right in the middle of the Imperial ranks. The Imperials watched in confusion as a massive cloud of blue gas shot into the air.

They heard coughing as ponies tried to rush out of the cloud, a couple falling to the ground after leaving the cloud.

"D-did we just use poison gas to kill ponies?" Lyra asked in shock.

"Worry not." A deep feminine voice said behind them. Zecora suddenly walked out of the brush with a smirk on her head. "It is just mostly harmless sleeping gas. They will be fine."

Zecora strode into the middle of the Orchard just as Pharynx finished off the last dragon with a roar. She smiled as she turned to look at the many slaves, who were huddled together at the very edge of the orchard, far away from the fighting.

"Worry not my friends! You are all safe now! The resistance is here!" She triumphantly cried.

Flim and Flam were standing on the patio of the Apple Farmhouse with concern in their eyes as they watched their last guard fall.

"Well this went rather poorly didn't it brother?" Flam said stroking his mustache.

"Oh yes indeed. I do believe we should beat a heated retreat and contact the Emperor. He must know about this." Flim replied. The two nodded to each other and turned, preparing to quickly rush out the back door, metaphorically of course. They were already outside!

As soon as they turned, a red first punched Flam in the face, knocking him to the ground.

Flim turned to his brother before a yellow hoof kicked him directly in the unmentionables. He fell to his knees, clutching his stallionhood in visible pain.

"Aw, shoot. Why in Celestia's name did you-" He said looking up, seeing a small yellow filly and a massive red stallion, both glaring at him. Big Mac and Applebloom, respectively. Instantly the pain he felt in between his legs became an afterthought.

"Ah, y-yes. It's you two. Look, I am sorry it seems like the two of us took over your place just now... ya see, we were just watching over it for you! Yes! You see me and my brother here are secret spies for the resistance! We are on your side ya see. No hard feelings right?" He said with a wavering smile, looking up at the both of them, sweat simply pouring from his brow.

Applebloom merely brought a fist back and punched him right in the jaw. "Get off our farm!" She cried.

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