Masked primate soldiers with spears and armour started to drop from the airships, instantly engaging guard positions around the square as Tempest launched herself into the air, casting some sort of spell and sending a dark and green glowing orb towards the princesses.
“Watch out!” I yelled and Cadence jumped forward, throwing up a shield. I didn’t have time to watch as a second orb was flying in my direction. No time to dodge!
I did the same, throwing up the strongest magic/physical defense shield I knew. The orb impacted with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer against the shield.
But it didn’t dissipate. The orb started to press against the shield, whirling and growing. Shit, shit, shit! It was pulling on my magic, digging through the shield.
If I moved, the shield would drop. If I tried to teleport, the shield would drop. Not fast enough, “Get out of here, Amber!”
Something hit my side hard, sending me sprawling across the marble ground of the square in a tangle of limbs with Amber. Looking over just in time, I could see the orb hit Chrysalis in the chest, causing black crystal like obsidian crawl across her, covering her body, turning her into a statue.
What. Why…. why would she…
“Sir, we need to go!” Amber yelled and pulled me back onto my hooves, “We need to get out of here!”
“Buck that!” I yelled and sent a flare into the air, signalling my Legion to engage, sparing a look towards the princesses.
Cadence was encased in the same material as Chrysalis but the rest of the girls were still active and fighting the soldiers. What Twilight and Midnight lacked in fighting skill, they more than made up for with teamwork.
Another orb flew towards Luna and she turned into blue sparkling mist, the orb passing straight through her to hit the soldier rushing her from behind.
“Amber, help Luna.”
“Not my mission.”
“Fine,” I growled at her as I watched a group of Legion pegasi carrying unicorns attack one of the airships, setting the things canopy on fire, “Keep them away, I’m going to fuck up a unicorn.”
I didn’t have time.
As I flew back onto the ramp, Sunset teleported in and then just generally lit the entire area on fire in a circle around her. To be completely honest, I had never seen her that pissed before. Not even when I brought her back to Equestria.
She tackled Tempest from the air and they both crashed into the ramp, rolling down through the curtain of flames onto the ground beneath.
Ripping my cloak off, I wrapped a charging soldier in it before throwing him off the city, only to instantly be replaced by another one throwing himself at me.
Amber hit him hard from having turned into a small rock, uppercutting him in the mask, causing him to stumble backwards before she pounced, biting at his neck.
“Celestia! Not the time to hold back!”
“Too many ponies around!”
“Not up there!” I yelled and pointed towards the airships still hovering above the city inside the shield before I got too busy by a couple of charging soldiers with spears.
Throwing a shield up, I then dropped it, blasting one of them with kinetic force, causing him to stumble before sending the second one to sleep.
Before the first one could get up, Blue Dawn came in for a landing, kicking him in the face, “Sir!”
“Get the fliers out of the sky!” I yelled to her, “It’s about to become way too hot!”
She saluted quickly and took back to the air. Then I was once again too busy to pay attention to anyone else.
At least until I noticed the shield bubble around the city drop, quickly followed by heat against my back as beams of yellow energy reached into the sky and blasted the airships in half, one by one.
Taking advantage of my opponents distraction, I teleported the spear from his hands and into my magic before I threw it back at him.
He caught it in less than an optimal manner. For him anyway.
Taking to the air for a second, I dodged one of the soldiers and landed next to Luna, “What do we do!?”
“Page!” she exclaimed and spared a look around, “Your sleep spell! Can we put them to sleep?” she asked.
“I can’t sleep this many ponies!”
“You cast the spell! I’ll help you power it!” She exclaimed and blasted one of them off his feet.
Buck it, not like we have many choices.
Nodding, I put my horn against hers and poured all my magic into the spell. I could feel it growing against hers, mixing, flowing before exploding outwards. I could feel her magic flowing into the spell, dwarfing mine. I could feel the spell spread, exploding through the city with our mixed magics.
More. More magic. Closing my eyes tighter, I poured everything I had into it until I felt the ground reaching up to smack me in the face and I just lay there, panting.
Nothing. Nothing could be heard but the sound of wind. Wind and fire.
My horn hurt.
I could feel Luna against me, her head resting against my shoulder for a couple of seconds before she started to slowly stir, giving me a small nuzzle, “Page… Page… need to move…”
“Yes… move…” I managed to answer and forced my eyes back open, looking up at the storm clouds above.
With a groan, I got up with luna and looked around. Everypony was asleep. Ponies, Changelings, the enemy soldiers.
Everypony was out like a light.
“Perhaps we should focus a bit on both our aim,” Luna said softly and moved over to Celestia to wake her up.
“Gee, you think,” I muttered and then looked over towards the now crashed and burning airship before running to find Sunset.
....That was faster then I thought it would be.
To be fair if the storm king got more then 2 chapters and we didn't get to see best boi and best girl get their wedding I would freak out, but I liked how the sleep spell was the one to do it. (Also that Crissy decided to pull a big-time hero.)
Oh fuck the hell yes! That was so satisfying, I never liked how they saddled the princesses with the Warf Effect in the movie, making them seem incompetent just to show how dangerous Tempest was. This is much better
Page and Luna for the win!
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I’m expecting a longer campaign against StormK after the wedding. Maybe that’ll be their honeymoon. If it’s like the film, we can expect him to not be present for the invasion, and SK strikes me as the kinda guy who wouldn’t give control of the bulk of his forces to an underling.
I do hope Fiz gets a quick redemption. I’m thinking her and Midnight could get along well.
That was nice, tactical Solar Flares and strategic Sleep Spell were good way of fight. As for Tempest, she is screwed. First of, she FAILED HER MASTER. Second of, Page may be less understanding about her story: "I lost my horn and everybody leaved me, so I am helping tyrant in enslaving nations, including my homeland, so I will get my horn back". On Earth for such thing, a lot of countries would pull Norwegian thing with Quisling, which was bringing back Capital Punishment just for him.
That was a neat callback to the first wedding at the end there.
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According to the Storm King's own statement in the movie, he was still about three days out from Canterlot by the time this battle was over, presumably traveling in a slower, more powerful airship. Tempest Shadow's attack was supposed to be a decapitating strike against Equestria's capitol, leaving the nation leaderless and thus putting the E.U.P. in disarray and unable to fight back effectively.
Instead, the Storm King lost his forward strike fleet and his most competent field leader in a marginally successful attack that only took out one pony princess (not even one of the Big Two) and one retired changeling queen. At a State Wedding with allied representatives present.
You want a Great War? This is how you start a Great War...
I dont think this will go well for tempest. Page holds grudges. Look at Discord.
Thank you, for not including that retarded 'Tempest beats everyone' scene in your story.
Seriously, thank you.
Tempest's fallen for one of the classic blunders! The most famous is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is never go in against a Human-turned-pony when his wedding's on the line!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p11SO0lHPsA
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You kind of have to look at Discord. There's nothing left of Tirek to look at.
On the other hoof, Page has been known to take on tough reformation cases. Look at Sunset Shimmer and Queen Chrysalis (I'd mention Starlight Glimmer, but she's been Princess Twilight's project, not Lord Page's).
Fizzlepop Berrytwist may yet get her redemption arc, whether she wants it or not. I doubt that she'll become either Twilight's or Midnight's student though. She's far more likely to get something more similar to what Lord Page did with Sunset Shimmer: The Boot Camp of Friendship rather than the Guiding Hoof of Friendship.
That's one way to end a battle. I hope we get to see a more colorful Chrysalis from all the gratitude she receives after she took the hit for Page.
Prince Page: "Okay, new rule: Anytime an alicorn becomes engaged, there must be sufficient lead time for their associated Guard force and the E.U.P. to ready themselves for the apparently traditional Wedding Day Attack."
Princess Celestia: "Don't be silly, Page. There is no such tradition."
Prince Page and Princess Cadence just gesture at each other, each raising an eyebrow while leveling their gazes at Celestia.
Princess Celestia: "Fair enough. But how do you feet about Tactical Eloping?"
Princess Twilight: "Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a State Wedding?"
Queen Chrysalis: "I'm in favor of having a changeling Wedding Guard force established for the purpose of defending any future State Weddings. Or any weddings at all, really. We'll keep the events happy and secure - or else!"
Everypony looks at Chrysalis.
Queen Chrysalis: "What? I've always seen weddings from a tactical perspective! It's just nice being on this side of things for a change."
Twilight Snarkle: "What? The winning side?"
Queen Chrysalis: "Exactly!"
Okay after butchering the main character a bit and then releasing this chapter I minorly recall the problem from the last chapter I had
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Chrysalis isn't retired from post, she still is Queen of her hive. She even tried to commit ritual suicide, so Skitter could become ruler of hive. Skitter simply is Queen of other, Jungle hive.
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Omake corrected to reflect this information, thank you.
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All of my yes. This right here is gold
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Inconcievable!!!
Very important question is: what exactly made Chrysalis sacrifice for Page? If we add to this her previous self-starving, one may think, that she is death seeker by this point, but in pragmatic way, so she and her hive will gain as much as possible from this.
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She knows very well that Page is the anchor for this whole alliance.
Tia and Lulu might be amicable towards Changelings these days, but it's Page that makes the entire thing work. If he falls then the entire alliance could fall with him.
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Fair answer.
this is how things should go. but if it did that the movie would only have been 20 minutes long.
You'd think that with how many weddings Celestia has had, she'd be fairly used to invasions by this point...
GET HER SUNSET!!!!
Nice take on the Canterlot Wedding KO.
When your airships blot out the sun, that just means Celestia no longer has to worry about collateral damage. Of course, the Storm King canonically had no idea that the celestial bodies were on manual override, so...
War were undeclared.
All you Page-turners, Check out the War Council
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I'm giggling like an idiot
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I can't seem to post a reply on your forum entry...
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I don’t see why not...are you a members of the group?
Nice seeing nopony got saddled with the idiot-ball this time.
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I don't think so - I just followed the link you provided.
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You may need to join the group. That’s all I can think of.
Battle outcome:
Tempest Shadow's Command ship = captured intact (within the shield and already docked, so too low for Celestia to have targeted it)
One ship cut in half when Shining Armor's shield went up around Canterlot. As the debris would have thus fallen outside of the city, no further casualties possible on the part of the Equestrians and their guests.
Six other invading airships present. I'm assuming that their positioning will be similar to that shown in the movie, so by the time Shining Armor erected his megashield, three of these would have been left fully intact on either side, inside and out. Of these, Celestia destroyed at least two by cutting them in half when Shining dropped his shield. She most likely prioritized those that hadn't quite made it over Canterlot yet.
And then Luna and Page's Lulliby Megaspell went off, stopping the battle with no further casualties. As Luna and Page were the first to awaken, then focused on waking Celestia (and presumably other nonhostile creatures), that's the battle won on the part of Equestria.
That leaves three to five fully intact and operational battle capable airships captured by Equestrian forces, including Tempest Shadow's command ship. Slap on some paint in Equestria's colors and change the banners, and these get added to the E.U.P.'s air fleet.
Sunset Shimmer: "Wait. We have an air fleet?"
Prince Page: "We do now. The pegasi can set up some battleclouds to fill things out until we build or acquire more. And after this little war is over, they can be repurposed into cargo ships."
Griffon Ambassador: "I can see why our King and Princess are impressed by you, War Prince."
Prince Page: "I gue.. Say what now?"
Griffon Ambassador: "Oh come now. Surely you've noticed that you have garnered a certain, shall we say... reputation, with your various exploits? And those are just the ones that we've heard about overseas. Personally, I think that it's quite fitting that Equestria's legendary Warrior Princess has found a mate quite suited to her."
Prince Page: "I'm an author..."
Griffon Ambassador: "I think that you'll find that many of the great generals in history were also authors, War Prince of Equestria."
Prince Page: "You don't have to sound so amused by it..."
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Celestia: My sister and I have always prided ourselves that our lands were that of peace and harmony. But today, we were attacked, unprovoked and with the intent of subjugating and dominating our ponies. This is proof in the bindings and cages we have found aboard our attempted invaders vessel.
That is why; effective immediately, I petition the counsels of the Equestrian sovereignty included their in the Crystal Empire and the Changeling Hive, that we declare a stare of war against the Kingdom of the Storm King. What say you?
Shining Armor: I speak for my wife, who was directly attacked and cursed, that we do indeed demand satisfaction. The Crystal Empire will March.
Skitter: Our Dowager Queen was too assaulted, as was our allies. The Changelings hive will March.
Luna: The Night Guard stands ready.
Page: As will the Equestrian Legion. They want a fight? They will have it.
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I vote we make that conversation with the ambassador Canon! Hail to the War Prince!
I wonder if any of the enemy soldiers will wake up before they get captured, hopefully they come peacefully after seeing they've been routed and have severely underestimated equestria.
And also Chrysalis, what was she doing out of her cage? Not that I'm complaining, but was she invited to the wedding? I dont remember her being there before. She's probably deserving of a little slack after saving him, and by extension, equestria, or at least canterlot.
I really enjoy your battle scenes because you keep it realistic. Normal people would be pretty much out of the fight if they got a deep sword wound, and a superior power set would easily out smart and out maneuver brute force armies. The only real challenge here was maintaining acceptable collateral damage, and dealing with amazing skills (Tempest Shadow) and technology (the Petrification Spheres). And it was shown adequately.
Though we don't know what happened with her and sunset, the problem was handled with tact and adequate delegation of power. I'm excited to see what happened between Tempest and Sunset. And where we go from here.
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Chrysalis was invited by Page himself, who wanted to improve pony-changeling relations by showing this to ponies, as it was stated, that a lot of nobles and commoners still don't trust changelings and Chrysalis especially. Chrysalis, as pragmatical as she is here, would never refuse such possibility.
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Right, right. I remember now, Thanks.
Please tell me Derpy got her moment?
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They came for war and conquest... What they get is a one way ticket to the list of former kingdomes/empire and maybe a 'welcome to the endangered species' list
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Very nice Summary of the fight. Hope your comment get build into the story
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That needs to be a part of the story!
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The Storm King will get the warmest welcome EVER... How hot is the Sun again?
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It depends on what you're measuring. The surface is on average 6000 Kelvin. The corona ranges around a million. The core is around 15 million. A flare has the potential to go over 20 million.
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Loved the little play at the end. This fits in with my own views of the sisters. Celestia as the Conciliator with Luna as the Battle Mare. That she would marry the "War Prince of Equestria" is only proper.
Wait...didn't this already happened? Wait no that's right they skipped that at the first wedding. But damn a city wide sleep bomb?
The comment section is against rivaling the chapter in first class entertainment ♡
Time to fuck up the Yeti ruler ♤
THAT...
WAS...
AWESOME!!!!!
I've read a few How It Should Have Ended takes on MLP:TM, and I have to say this is now my favorite.
The comments make it even more awesome.
Way better than the movie events.
The Griffon Royalty present in the momentous event would probably go to war, Equestrian can't stay peaceful or they become a laughing stick and become the punching bag of any aggressive nation.