Chapter 11: The Truth Gets Out

For a brief moment, it really did look like the end as Chrysalis and her army were overpowering the heroes, but now back-up had arrived. Chrysalis was stunned to see who it was. It was Princess Rose and many of her own changelings, all of which wore their armor suits. Her horn lit up and a green light shone across the city of Toronto, and through the portal to Equestria and to Canterlot High.

"That was the spell to stop them from changing forms," gasped Starlight.

Matthew checked his watch, "whew, good timing, Twilight's spell was just about to run out."

Princess Rose stared angerily at her mother, while a smirk came to the queen's face. Princess Rose called out to her changelings, "we've been preparing for this day, now it's here. Team A, you are to go into the sky and force those changelings down. If they don't want to come down, give them a good reason to come down."

"Yes your highness," said the first group of armored changelings and flew upwards.

"Team B, since you can't fly, you will fight the changelings that come to the ground and are still willing to fight."

The second group of armored changelings nodded and went to attack the other changelings.

"Team C, your job is to make sure none of my mother's changelings get to these innocent creatures. They put up a fight, you fight harder, understood?"

"Yes Princess," they all said. They ran to be a barrier between the fight and the innocent humans. However, one changeling stopped, "what will you do Princess?"

"I will face my mother, here and now."

"Then I'll stand by you."

Princess Rose shook her head, "you will do no such thing, you have a job and you will do it." A reassuring smile came to her face, "I will be fine my friend, don't you worry."

"If you say so Princess."

The armored changeling ran back to the group. Princess Rose turned her attention back to her mother, "it's been far too long mother, but to be honest, it only feels like yesterday you were trying to kill me."

"Oh come now my daughter, surely you can't still be holding a grudge aganist your own mother, who is your queen."

"I'm not mad at you for that, I'm mad at you for what you're trying to do," Princess Rose said angerily. "Trying to unleash weapons that can cause mass destruction, and attacking cities full of innocent beings. I knew you were sick to the head, but I didn't think you would do something so cruel. How could you?"

"I do what I have to for myself and my changelings. And you could benifit from our victory if you join us."

Princess Rose took a stand, "no thanks, unlike you, I'm no monster. I wish for peace and friendship, not unwanted destruction. So I guess now there's only one thing left to do."

"Yes, I will have to destory you."

And they charged at each other, horns glowing. Chrysalis fired off first and missed, but Rose's attack was right on the mark as she hit her mother with some of her magic. Chrysalis then took to the sky and fired off again, which hit Rose hard. When the smoke cleared, she had taken to the skies and fired again, which missed. She fired three more shots, and two managed to hit Chrysalis. She slowly started to fall towards the ground, but was able to pull back up and fire again, to which she missed.

"You've gotten stronger Rose," she commented. "Which is good, cause I don't want to face a weakling changeling. Now prepare to fall."

"You wish."

And they charged at each other again. As for the other changelings across three worlds, they were charging at each other too, allowing the heroes to stop and get their breath back.

Matthew and Starlight ran towards Twilight and the unicorns. Twilight by now had snapped back to her senses, "ow my head, I feel like somepony just used it as a punching bag."

"Is that all that's hurting?" Matthew asked. "You took quite a beating from Chrysalis."

"No, everything else is fine," Twilight answered. "But I need a few minutes to get my strength back."

"Hmm, don't we all."

Twilight looked to the fight and a smile came to her face, "I knew Princess Rose wouldn't just stand back and watch her mother try to pull off her plan. Though I'm curious, Chrysalis looks far worse than when I attacked her, what happened?"

"We happened," Matthew smiled. He explained about how he and Starlight fought back after Twilight 'zoned' out for a bit. "We did quite a number on her, isn't that right Starlight?"

But Starlight wasn't paying attention to Matthew, she was instead watching all the fighting with such disgust.

"Starlight, are you alright? Did you get hurt?" Twilight asked.

"No, I'm not hurt. I just...can't believe all this is happening. They are changelings, all of them are the same, yet they are divided because of the queen's desire for revenge? It just feels wrong."

"Well that's the way things work Starlight," sighed Matthew. "All it takes is a cruel leader, and they will be spilt into two sides. Heck, that's happened here on Earth in the past, and sadly is still going on to this day. I bet you too that it's happened in Equestria as well." Twilight nodded her head in agreement to that. "There's nothing really one can do to stop it, except to fight it out and hope that the good side wins the battle."

A loud explosion caught their attention, and they watched with horror as several armored changelings fell from the sky and hit the ground hard. Chrysalis smirked, "your changelings are so weak compared to mine."

"They may appear weak to you," snapped Rose, "but where they may lack in strength, they make up for with cunning tactics."

And she was right. The armored changelings that had fallen fired back, and knocked more changelings out of the sky towards the ground. Some were knocked out cold, but others still wanted to fight. However, they looked scared as they found themselves surronded by at least two groups of armored changelings.

Starlight shook her head, "it's still wrong. I just wish they would stop fighting."

"Well Princess Rose can always call off her changelings," said Twilight, "but I doubt Chrysalis' changelings will stop. She'll just order them to attack again."

It was then that Matthew remembered something, "they might stop if they knew their queen has been putting them in danger all along. I remember before I went all nuts on the changelings that they said they were questioning her methods."

"So if we tell them, they just might stop," said Starlight.

Matthew scoffed, "good luck there, you'll never be able to get them to stop fighting long enough to hear you. Not to mention that all this is going on across three different worlds."

"She can do it, with a little help from magic," said Twilight as her horn lit up.

Matthew smacked his forehead, "of course it can be done. How is it I keep forgetting that?" He looked firmly to Starlight, "do you really think you can get them to stop?"

Starlight nodded, "I think I can."

"Then let's give it a try," said Twilight.

They ran back into the midst of the fight. Matthew got out his bow-staff while the others lit their horns to protect Starlight, should the changelings decide not to listen. Starlight meanwhile had lifted herself up with her magic until she was high enough. The next spell she used would allow her message to be heard across three worlds.

"Attention all changelings, I would like to ask you to stop fighting and listen to what I have to tell you."

At first, the changelings just fought and ignored her. After a few minutes though, and with a little help from her friends, the ones on Earth turned to face her while the others on the other worlds just stopped and listened carefully.

"To all of Princess Rose's changelings, I speak for all my friends when I say thank you for coming to our aid. I know you were scared, but when it comes to loyality to your friends and the innocent beings around the universe, you put your fears aside and jump into the fight. So thank you." The armored changelings felt honored by Starlight's words. "As for Chrysalis' changelings, you all are fighting for the wrong causes, and you're fighting for one that doesn't even care about you."

"Of course she cares about us, we are her loyal servants," said one of Chrysalis' changelings. "She's leading us to victory, and to get everything we've ever wanted."

"Is that what you really think? Cause from what I know, you all question her methods, and how she doesn't care when you get hurt."

"Enough of this," snarled Chrysalis.

She flew away from Princess Rose and charged towards Starlight. However, she found herself being blocked by none other than Princess Twilight, "don't you even think about it Chrysalis!"

"If you want to keep yourself flying, then we suggest you stay put," added Matthew from the ground.

Chrysalis snarled again, but flew back a bit. Twilight looked back to Starlight, "good ahead my student, tell them."

"The weapons your queen was going to use are known as nuclear bombs. They have enough power to destory most of a city, but they had been modified long before she found them, by me I regret to say, but she was going to use them and wipe all of us out, including all of you."

Chrysalis' changelings gasped, "that's stupid," one said, "she wouldn't really wipe us out with all of you."

"The modified bombs, which I regret modifing now, are powerful enough to cause destruction on a massive scale. No one would've been spared from them. Humans, ponies, changelings, no one would be safe. All your queen cared about was getting rid of all of us, and setting an example to the rest of the known universe. You don't believe me, then just ask her yourself."

The changelings looked to their queen, "is what this pony saying true Queen Chrysalis?"

"Of course not, I would save you..."

"You can't save them from a massive explosion," Starlight interupted. "You were going to get rid of them too, and by my guess, is because they failed you time after time."

"That's not true, is it?" asked another changeling.

Queen Chrysalis didn't answer. The silence though was more than enough prove to the changelings that Starlight was right, "you were going to kill us too! How could you? We served you for moons, yet this is what we get?"

"Left out that little important detail didn't you?" Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It's plainfully obvious to see," added Matthew.

Chrysalis growled loudly, "I do what I have to do to make sure every living creature knows that we changelings are unbeatable, even if it means losing my worthless servants."

Starlight shook her head, "you disgust me you monster." Her attention then went back to the changelings, "but this fighting doesn't need to happen, there doesn't need to be any destruction or mayhem. Just stop fighting. Please?"

She lowered herself back down to the ground and waited for the answer.

Chrysalis shouted out; "don't you dare listen to her my servants! Attack her and silence her and her friends forever! Do it for me!"

To her surprise, none of the changelings moved. They all stared at each other in complete silence.

"Have you all gone deaf from her pointless message? I said attack her!"

"No," said one of her changelings. It was one of the first changelings that Matthew had beat up before. "I had been wondering for a while if following you was truely worth it, and now I know it's not. I quit being your servant, I'm done fighting."

He flew down to the ground, and was soon followed by all of his buddies.

"No, stop! Keep fighting!" cried Chrysalis. Her words though fell on deaf ears as the changelings on Earth landed on their hooves. All of which were tired, sore and angry at their queen.

In Equestria, the changelings had thought it over and surrendered peacefully. They too landed on the ground, many of which were now badly hurt. Fluttershy kindly walked over towards one of them.

"Where does it hurt?"

"Well my wing hurts."

Fluttershy looked back to Discord, "can you make some bandages appear?" Discord nodded and with a pop of magic, some bandages appeared.

At Canterlot High, the changelings there dropped whatever weapons they had picked up and surrendered.

"Oh, I was hoping for some more fighting," groaned Sour Sweet.

"No you weren't," said Sunny Flare firmly.

"Okay I wasn't, I just like sounding tough."

Mostly everyone rolled their eyes hearing that. Sunset however smiled, "way to go Starlight. Now I can honestly say you've changed, and for the better too."

Chrysalis looked on in horror as her once powerful army had now turned on her. Princess Rose flew up behind her, "it's over mother, you've got nopony to hide behind. You might as well just give up."

"NEVER!" shouted Chrysalis. She charged at Starlight, firing a powerful attack at her. It made Starlight go flying towards the base of the CN tower. Starlight groaned as she felt the back of her head. Chrysalis flew over towards her with an angry glare, "I don't need stupid fools to finish the likes of you off. I will now do the universe a favour and destory the very pony that caused all this."

Her horn started to glow. Starlight gulped, then sighed, "do your worst then."

"I intend to."

She would've struck Starlight, but all the sudden, she heard a; "Get away from my friend!" and she found herself being smacked by a bow-staff, which was then followed by a powerful magical attack. She spun round and saw both Matthew and Twilight Sparkle staring her down. "Starlight may have modified the bombs, but none of us will be holding grudges aganist her, cause if we do, it'll just turn us into worst monsters than you."

Chrysalis yelled in anger and tried to charge at them, but Twilight unleashed a powerful spell and made her go flying towards a guard rail. On the other side of the guard rail was a long way down to the railroad tracks.

"How dare you," snarled Chrysalis.

"No, how dare you attack innocent beings," Twilight snapped back. "Anypony would think that you'd learn your lesson after the wedding, guess you didn't."

Chrysalis tried again to attack them, but Matthew was able to hit her with his bow-staff, then Twilight sent her flying with another powerful attack. This time, the guard rail made a horrible groaning noise like it was about to break.

"The way I see it," Twilight continued, "This fight is over, and you have only two choices Chrysalis. You can surrender peacefully, and we take you back to Canterlot where you'll be locked up. Or we'll hit you again, we'll beat you, and we drag you back to Canterlot anyways. So really, you got no other choices."

"I suggest surrendering peacefully," said Matthew. "Cause trust me, you don't want the second option."

Chrysalis didn't move at first. Matthew and Twilight turned to go get some chains. With one loud snarl though, Chrysalis started charging at them, "I will never surrender to you fools!"

"Twilight! Matthew! Look out!" cried Starlight.

Her horn lit up and she fired a powerful magic attack. Matthew and Twilight ducked for cover, but Chrysalis was not so lucky. She was hit, and sent flying towards the guard rail. This time it broke and she fell towards the railroad tracks, screaming loudly. There was a loud thud, followed by a loud groan.

Matthew, Twilight and Starlight ran over to the edge and looked down. The now former Queen of the changelings was knocked out cold.

"Ouch, now that's going to leave a mark," remarked Starlight.

"Great shot," smiled Matthew.

"Uh thanks, but I didn't enjoy hurting another being."

"It's okay, it was justified."

Twilight sighed as she looked at the changeling queen's wings. They were bent out of shape. "Guess we'll have to go down and get her ourselves. Matthew, why don't you go get a length of chain while Starlight and I get the queen."

"I'm on it Twilight."

And he ran off into the city, while Starlight and Twilight floated down. Princess Rose flew over and shook her head, "you had been warned, yet you still fought. Honestly mother, when will you ever learn?"