The dark king and queen watched their empire. "I almost had them!" shouted Sombra.

"Don't worry sweetie, we'll get them next time," said Chrysalis.

"We'd better. And don't call me that," growled Sombra.

"Fine." Chrysalis was getting tired and hungry. Her changelings had no love to feed on and she was even weakening. "Sombra, my Changelings and I feed on the love of others and so far you're only causing anger and hatred."

Sombra looked at her and then walked away from the balcony. "Love is useless."

"Twilight, there' a reason why you were not informed," said Celestia, "The vote was two to one in favor of you staying here. It was to keep you safe. You're too valuable now that you're a princess."

Twilight started to understand. "Can I atleast hear who voted for what?"

Celestia looked at Discord and sighed. "I'm sorry Twilight, but Luna and I voted for you to stay here. After I thought things through, I didn't think it was necessary for you to be a part of this."

Now Twilight was back to not understanding again. "Discord trusted me? And you didn't?!" She looked at Discord and Celestia. Two people who seemed to be the complete opposite.

"Like I said, it was to keep you safe. Besides, I'm sure everything is under control."
Twilight immediately lowered her head and said, "It's not."

Now Celestia was the one who didn't understand. "What do you mean?"

Twilight seemed to depressed to answer so Applejack stepped forward and said, "When we went to the Crystal Empire we saw that things are definitely not under control. We saw the Changelings and then... dark crystals... thee same crystals that King Sombra used before."

Luna, who was listening from another room, walked in. "You six said that King Sombra was killed. How could he possibly be back a third time?"

"It seems that dark enemies never truly die," whispered Celestia, in disbelief.

"That big meany certainly is back!" Pinkie Pie shouted, "But that's not all! He's either killing everypony, or turning them into slaves!"

Now Celestia was extremely worried. The accident from one thousand years ago still curses Equestria.

"Sister, we have to do something. I promise I won't let that demon cloud my vision again." Luna stood confident but she knew that there was always the possibility of becoming Nightmare Moon again.

Celestia opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by a guard pony who burst through the door. "Princess, Ponyville is under attack!"

Two best friends, Lyra and Bon Bon, were peacefully walking through Ponyville. "Lyra, you're crazy. There's no such thing."

"But they're real! And they only have hair on their head! As far as I know," said Lyra. But before Bon Bon could argue, a Changeling tackled her. "Bon Bon!"

Millions of changelings swarmed Ponyville. The placed ponies in cocoons which were then carried away by other changelings. Some changelings tricked ponies by transforming into other ponies.

"Oh hi Carrot Top!" said Rose, an Earth pony with a rose cutie mark, to a yellow Earth pony with a cutie mark with three carrots. Carrot Top started moving in closer. "Um, Carrot Top?" Rose was knocked out with a branch and carried away. Soon Rose, Bon Bon, Seafoam, Linky, Lily, Lemon Drop, Lemon Hearts, Carrot Top, Caramel, Big Macintosh, Cloud Kicker, Twist, and Dinky were all cocooned and on their way to the new evil Crystal Empire to become slaves. (Yes, I literally looked up all these ponies, they're not made up) All of this happened before Celestia, Luna, Discord, Twilight, and her friends could get there.

Celestia's horn started to glow and time around them seemed to slow down. With this advantage, they stopped the Changelings from taking any more ponies. But it was already too late for the thirteen ponies.

These ponies were taken to the Crystal Castle, where they were put in chains and forced to mine. " I want to go home!" cried Dinky, "I miss mommy!"

"Don't worry, we'll find a way home," reassured a blue Earth pony with a greyish mane named Linky.

"Eeyup," agreed Macintosh.

They were forced into a cave that led underneath the empire. Hundreds of crystal ponies along with some of the ponies from the train were mining. Changelings hooked the chains to the others and left them to work. As the day went on, the ponies sang songs to pass the time. Some of the songs were about hope, but whenever they heard steel horseshoes coming their way they quickly changed their songs to be about their 'great' king. Chrysalis never went to the caves. She was becoming weak with all of the hatred in her empire. She then realized that it wasn't her empire, it was Sombra's. This didn't go how she planned and she knew she had to get out of there. But then Sombra would find her and kill her, although he already was, very slowly.

Ponyville was a mess, literally and mentally. Ponies wept for their missing friends and family members. Even Pinkie didn't know how to bring a smile on their faces. Most of them didn't want to talk about it. Some were lucky enough to be saved when Celestia came, but still terrified. The spirit of chaos even felt bad. Nopony knew what would happen to their loved ones and that scared them, but not knowing what would happen next petrified them.