She stood on the balcony of the castle, watching the Storm Guard rounding up pony civilians in the streets and tossing them into cages.
Her batpony Allies are in the air and on the ground securing the rest of the city while pulling High Nobles, Scholars, Celebrities, and any other important ponys out of their mansions and homes, taking them somewhere to be dealt with. Meanwhile, lesser nobles and less important ponys are being put into cages so none would have the idea of starting a rebellion.
'My thestral Allies really want revenge against the Equestrian government after what happened to their ancestors many centuries ago. These stuck-up Elites didn't want change and they see the lesser common pony civilians as nuisances.'
She notice a pair of balloons floating up to the sky as the wind carried them away before she turns around and heads inside.
"All this power, resources and influence...wasted on parties" she scoffed at the idea of the Equestrian princesses wasting such resources on fun things.
Entering the throne room, Tempest trots down the steps and takes a moment to look around at the design of the throne room. To her surprise, it really didn't impress her.
'Glass stains windows showing important events that seem to have happen over the years. They should keep those events written down in books too, so pony scholars can remember their history.'
She look at the two thrones on top of the pedestal.
'Sun and Moon ruling together, if those two princesses rule together whose in charge of their military? Oh right, our spies intel seem to indicated their hasn't been a major war in Equestria for a millennium plus years, the last major war it was in was the Second Griffon-Pony War against the Second Griffon Empire, after that war both sides sought for peace, Equestria military seem to cut down over the centuries with minor conflicts happening...hmph what a waste of resources'
She trots past the stone sun princess, her horn sparking with electricity.
"When there are greater uses they can be used for." Tempest said to herself, heading over to a pedestal containing some blue liquid in it as two Storm Guards approached the pedestal.
One of them holds a glass bottle glowing with blue liquid as it plays some kind of catchy tune.
'My partner calls, I hope they got that treaty finalize and can finally join me.'
A few seconds pass by and she glares at the Storm guard holding it.
"Well? Answer It." She order
The Storm Guard nods, took the cork off the bottle, dumped the glowing liquid into the blue liquid and toss the bottle over its shoulder, hearing the bottle shatter.
"Save those bottles, we need them." She sternly said to the Storm Guard brute as the blue liquid in the pedestal flares up, making the two guards back up.
A small portal opens up, revealing a dark figure through the window-like portal.
"Even with all this magic I have, I can never get the Communication Spell right...Tempest? Partner you there?"
Just hearing that voice made her heart skip a beat, reminding her she would see her partner again soon.
"Over here Partner"
"Where?"
"Over here"
"Huh?"
"Over here, no look right"
"Which right?"
"Just Right"
"Whose right?"
"Your Right"
"Of course I'm right...oh wait my right"
"Yeah"
The dark figure reveal itself in the window portal as it seems to be wearing a black hooded cloak with a silver armor mask covering up its whole face as the eye sockets glow a cyan color since the mask did look abit intimidating.
"There you are partner, well good news the Treaty has been finalize, sign and I'm leaving with the main invasion force right now, we should be in Canterlot in a couple days"
A sigh of relief came from Tempest, soon her partner will be in Equestria and together they'll be able to accomplish what the two of them came here to do.
'Soon, I'll have back what I lost all those years ago and together the two of us will be equals ruling our Empire/Kingdom together...and maybe just maybe...'
Before she could continue her thoughts Tempest saw the dark figure wield some kind of wooden staff into frame with a crystal embedded it.
The one staff that can fix everything but it would need to be power up first and only Alicorn magic can do that but as there's only three Alicorn statues in the room she would need to wait for Grubber and her guards to bring the final one to her.
"And with the Staff of Sacanas in our possession Tempest, we have everything we need to restore you too your former glory" the dark figure said.
"That's right, we have three of the four Alicorns in custody already"
A moment of silence pass between the two before the dark figure spoke up.
"Three? Where's the fourth one?"
"I sent Grubber to find her after they got through our ambush, he should be reporting back very soon with the Princess of Friendship in tow"
A sigh is heard coming from the dark figure as it facepalms itself.
"Don't underestimate the Princess of Friendship Tempest, I surely did. From what I told you from my experience she and her friends have a habit of getting through the Impossible, they've save Equestria a few times and have definitely made peace with some of the other races close to their country boarders as well as solving 'Friendship' problems within their country"
"One more reason we want to get this outta of the way so we can avoid all out war"
"I have no intention of wanting to start a war with our homeland but should they ever have the nerve to attack our continents on the other side of the world...well...those 'Balefire' Spells may come in handy"
"Don't worry about that partner, just give me a couple days and I'll have everything ready for your arrival"
The dark mask figure nods its head having full confidence in Tempest ability to oversee the success of this invasion/occupation, if they can pull it off it'll give the world a reminder that Equestria can be stood up to.
"Remember Tempest, only this staff combine with the might of the four Alicorns can return you whole once more, fail at this and well...we'll cross that bridge if we get there"
"You can count on me Partner I'll get it done" Tempest assure the dark figure with confidence.
Several moments of Silence pass between the two before the dark figure spoke up.
"Great, with the power of the Alicorn Magic combine into this staff and your horn being fully restore we will be unstoppable and maybe...I...horn right...aaaannnnk"
The portal window fizzle out revealing Grubber across the pedestal just looking at Tempest with a raise eyebrow and a Albino Batpony simply trotting up to Grubber side tilting its head at Tempest.
"Sorry, bad spell service want me to call them back?" He ask her.
"The service does suck around here in Equestria" the Albino Batpony said to Grubber before looking back at Tempest.
The Albino Batpony was a mare for sure as it also had a horn on its head too.
She look at the Batpony whose coat fur was completely pure white including its tail mane along with its hair mane too that cover up its right eye as a hairbang, its left eye had a Ruby red look to it, it had black armor covering up most of its body, armor covering up the wings on its sides and a black hooded cloak too. Armor hoofs on its four legs as well.
'Looks like she manage to get her soldiers to round up all the targets and deal with them quickly'
"Do you have the Princess?" She ask Grubber seeing him tense up for a moment.
"Yeeeaaaah about that, to be honest with you Tempest...she may have gotten away...a little bit" He said looking away over at the Albino Batpony who simply roll her eyes.
A frustrating sigh escape her, how could Grubber allow one Alicorn princess slip away from her forces unless incompetent would be the correct answer
Tempest slowly approach him with a stern serious look as her broken horn crackles. A little lesson needs to be learn when something as important as this doesn't go right.
"I know your angry Tempest, but I got one word for you," Grubber cautiously said and taking out a piece of cake he brought with him "Spongecake"
She unleash her magic frying him up as his body twitch.
"Okay...maybe I deserve that" he said before eating the piece of cake.
She stomp her hoof and trots to the other side of the throne room not happy with Grubber failing his task.
"Grubber you should already know I need all four princesses for the staff to work, why do you think my partner and I approve of this invasion, not just for our Allies to get revenge on the High Nobles and cripple the Equestrian government but to also restore my Horn as well"
"And don't forget about plundering Canterlot vault full of dangerous important artifacts and stealing forbidden magic spell books in the royal archives too" the Albino Batpony said trotting over to Tempest.
"I haven't forgotten that either"
"Just double reminding you commander"
She nods her head and turns back to face Grubber.
"That Princess not gonna keep me from getting my horn back, Prepare my Ship right away" she order Grubber with a serious tone starling the pug hedgehog as he ran off to deliver the order as Tempest sighs to herself "Please...how can one pony get so far on there own"
The Albino Batpony trots up too Tempest and gently boop her on the nose getting her attention.
"She could've had some help Tempest"
Rubbing her nose and setting her hoof down on the floor Tempest let out another sigh looking directly at the Batpony.
"Maybe, did your troops crack the spell safeguarding the vault underneath the castle?"
The Albino nods her head with full approval surprising Tempest abit.
"They actually manage to bypass Alicorn magic with their own magic? These unicorns Batpony magic must be very strong?" Tempest thought as she looks at the Batpony trotting closer to her
"Yup, blew a hole in the side of the wall gaining easy access and unlocking the vault from the inside" she proudly said with confidence.
Tempest narrow her eyes and facehoof herself.
"Then again my ally here and her troops always find ways to improvise saving us plenty of time"
"We're already loading all the contents from the vault onto our airships including that 'Armor' the night princess wore upon her return from the moon"
"The one 'Armor' that your colony leaders suggest might contain remenant DNA from the 'True Empress of the Night'?"
"The one and only Commander, that's why they want it in their possession"
"To bring 'Her' back"
"I'm sure, I'm just following orders that's all though I would like to meet the true 'Empress of the Night' if given the chance"
"Maybe you will, anyway gather your best troops and meet me on my ship" Tempest order as she began trotting out of the throne room with the Albino Batpony trotting next to her.
"Where are we going? We've already secured the city and the surrounding areas and towns have been already secured, destroy or dealing with minor resistance"
"A little hunting expedition Shress, to retrieve the final princess"
It was time to get to work, she needs the last princess alive if she's gonna get back what she has long for.