Twilight was writing a letter to the princess 3 days after Gordon left. It was certainly more quiet with him gone but things returned normal, other than the occasional rumor of why Celestia took him such as "they are going to torture him!" or "she's going to turn him into a super weapon". It was funny but at the same time sad. Twilight was about to place a period on her letter when her quill broke, and she was only half done with the letter! She grabbed a couple of bits and tried to make a dash for the vendor at quills and sofas to get a new one before it closed. When she went outside she noticed the left side of her vision was a faint green? When she looked in that direction she dropped her jaw in shock, Canterlot was burning!

The situation was bad, I was standing next to a dead or unconscious Luna when 5 black creatures are surrounding me while Canterlot is burning to the ground how much worse can things get? My answers were quickly answered when the creatures all charged Luna's body. I picked one up by the throat and threw it at his friend, I impaled the third one with my arm consuming it immediately. Drawing my claws out I cut the other 2 into pieces consuming them as well, a couple of seconds went by then I felt a sudden pain on my shoulder when I noticed one of them was latched on my shoulder by its teeth. I impaled it immediately consuming it as well, what happened next was terrifying yet exhilarating, for what reason my body began to transform again but this time my arms turned into giant fists!

I looked with shock slowly turning into pleasure when I realized I could turn these things to mush now, the last one flew towards me where I simply held my arms up waiting for the right time to crush every bone in its body. Moment the timing seemed right it was dead that second. Once again it was consumed, now with my head cleared I knew I had to get luna to safety, I picked her up and started to jump across the rooftops while this city was burning to the ground. On my way to the castle I heard screaming coming from a nearby building, I had to decide quickly, save them or keep going. I had to help them I was not Mercer I kept telling myself, I help the innocent.

I entered through the broken window and saw a small filly cowering in the corner while the thing approached her. I dropped Luna and grabbed the thing and threw it out the window, it hit the building across from us and fell to the ground never to get up.

"Are you okay?" I said as soothingly as possible, not easy when an entire city is burning.

"yes mister but what are you?" she asked more scared of me then that thing

"I'm the thing that just saved you, find your parents and hide I will come back and take you somewhere safe"

she saw me pick up Luna and set her on my shoulder,

"okay" she said.

I left and tried to make headway to the castle, I decided to go through the streets to hide under the cover of darkness but it wasnt as easy considering I never saw this place before, I just kept heading in the direction of the castle. As I entered the castle I called out for someone to help, a white stallion with purple hair came to me he was the one who escorted me to my room

"What are you doing here changelings have attacked the city" he exclaimed

"I can tell, look Luna needs help now I need to go back and rescue as many ponies as I can, tell Celestia I will protect her subjects at all costs and bring them here" I don't know why I was speaking like this it's like instinct at a point like this

"okay go I will make sure Luna gets proper treatment",

I ran through the doors and back into the burning city. I headed back to the filly's home facing no resistence due to the darkness of the streets. When I came back to the filly's home I busted through the door asking if they were here, I entered inside and was welcomed with a chair being thrown at me by a unicorn, I heard her saying I was friendly and that I helped her, when she came back out of the shadows she was accompanied by a mare and stallion with her in the center.

"I'm here to take you to the Canterlot castle come with me quickly!" I exclaimed

"uh okay" her parents said,

I picked up the filly and her mom with the father on my back. As I was racing them to safety I saw those changeling things coming towards me, I set them down and drew my new hammer fists ready. I was fighting about 3 of them, they weren't a match but I couldn't kill them so I just broke their leg bones like a twig in a car crusher. But that still had an effect on the filly she stared at me like I was a god and she didn't even deserve my presence. When I picked them up again I started to run down the streets, why aren't there more of them on the streets? or other ponies for that matter?

I made it to the castle where I set them down

"thank you mister" the mother said

"just doing the right thing" I said back.

I entered the city once again, I searched for more people to help but other than the crackles of the burning building it was silent, it was strange cause my ears didn't pick anything up, where is everyone? I heard more screaming coming from what looked like a theatre. I entered it and I saw the crowd being protected by the performers holding their instruments as weapons. Ten changelings surrounded them, I quickly entered the fray fighting with bone and teeth, all of them were staring as I single-handedly cleared the room. Great I had a room full of at least forty ponies and I can only carry three at a time. I thought of a plan but it was shaky

"I will take three of you to safety now and bring a squad of guards to escort the rest of you"

there was a moment of silence, then I was dog piled by everyone in the room I simply picked up the first 3 people I could and left. Two of them looked like simple aristocrats but the other looked familiar in a way, I couldn't tell it was too dark to see anyway and I don't have night vision. I entered the castle where that same stallion met me again

"what's the situation out there?" he asked

"bad I need a squadron of guards to help escort a theatre that is stacked, these ponies can tell you where it is. After they finished explaining where it was I got a good look the pony I thought looked familiar, she had a treble clef cutie mark and was grey, it was Octavia, what was she doing here? didn't matter I needed to know if my promise will be held

"alright we will send a squad right away" he said,

"I'll go make sure they stay safe till you arrive" I said then left. When I returned to the theatre I announced the good news with a response of cheers and applause, you don't have time to question a creature you never saw when it just saved your life now can you? We waited about 5 minutes before the guards arrived, they were escorted out and I left to look for more civilians. But this time it wasnt quiet like last time the air was filled with screams, I had to make a choice about what direction I had to go in, too many variable to many ponies not enough of me what do I do?

I picked the direction that was louder in screaming, I had a plan, eradicate all those changelings then escort the people to safety. When I landed on a rooftop I heard the sound of hooves hitting stone I looked down and saw a mare running with a filly on her back she was a unicorn with a Pegasus. Was she helping a lost filly, was I too late for her parents!? Didnt matter five changelings are after them, gotta move. I landed in front of the mare to make sure they don't run in darkness even after they were safe, I did battle with the changelings, once again it was easy.

Now came the hard part, leaving them "I need to make sure the area is clear, find somewhere safe and I will be back" as I ran off they were screaming for me to come back. I couldn't tell what way was up anymore too much screaming made it difficult to pinpoint them, then I remembered something. My thermal vision, my eyes began to glow a subtle green as I could now see body temperatures again. I went in the direction with the most ponies, I saw a family corned in an alley way by another three changelings. I fell from my rooftop and landed on top of one them breaking its spine. The other two ran off obviously scared to death by me, I looked at the family and told them to find somewhere safer and wait for me to return.

Once again they screamed for me to come back, thoughts entered my mind "am I the good guy?" I can't tell anymore. When I was on the rooftops again I saw a Pegasus being attacked by another three. I jumped as high as I could and grabbed one of the changeling in a choke hold. As we were falling I broke its neck consuming the thing, their memory's were strange. They felt like animal instinct but at the same time sentient, like a chimp to a human. Either way the Pegasus lowered herself to my rooftop where I noticed that the other two changelings were gone.

"what the?" I exclaimed

"sup bro"

I looked at the Pegasus and was surprised to see rainbow dash staring at me!

"Wait why are you here?" I asked

"me and everypony else saw Canterlot and thought we could help out" she explained

"where are they?" I asked

"They are at the castle and when I heard you were out there I flew right out to find you" she said

"thanks I need a set of hooves to help out" I said

"what is it?" she asked

"follow me we need to get everypony to the castle, I saw a family down there I need you to get the mom and filly to safety I'll get the dad" I explained

"got it" she said doing a silly salute. We got down their and explained the situation, The father was on my back and I knew I had to go back for the mare and filly I saw earlier. I took the turn and found them hiding behind a dumpster I picked them up and started running for the castle. Things were beginning to look up for once but the fires were still raging. This was war, and I was an angel with a shotgun.