{"sf1_id":791181,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Equestrian Knights Ch 12. Fall of Canterlot","author":"BluebloodFan91","words":2932,"posted_at":"2014-12-03T16:55:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Blueblood","Changelings","Character Development","Chrysalis","Clean","Equine","Fantasy","Flam","Flim","Friendship is magic","Griffin","Gryphon","Hoops","Horse","Humor","Iron Will","Jetset","King Sombra","Lightning Dust","MLP","Minotaur","My Little Pony","Pegasus","Plot Development","Pony","Queen chrysalis","Sombra","Story Progression","Story Series","Suburban Knights","Trixie","Unicorn","Upper Crust","changeling","dumbbell","gilda","parody","score"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791181-equestrian-knights-ch-12-fall-of-canterlot","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/791181","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=791181\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Ch 12. Fall of Canterlot\n\n\nThey had lost the very thing they had set out to\nget. The Goblet of Life was gone, and they would never get what they\nwant. Prince Blueblood would become poor and homeless, Trixie would\nnever become a powerful unicorn, Lightning Dust would never be a\nWonderbolt, and none of them would become rich or immortal.And\nyet, as they made there way back to Canterlot, these facts, even though\nthey knew them, were hardly on their mind at all. The only thing\ncurrently on their minds was that Sombra and Chrysalis were back and\nplanning to take over Equestria, and they had to warn the Princesses\nbefore it was too late.They couldn't take a\ntrain, since no trains traveled at night and they were all out of money\nanyway, and one of the Pegasi or Gilda couldn't just fly there because\nthey would never get to speak to the Princesses without Prince Blueblood\nwith them, so they were forced to travel there on foot. Their trip back\nto Canterlot took them the whole night, and by the time they got there,\nit was the next morning, and they were all struggling to stay awake.\nThey yawned as they ran through the streets of the city towards the\ncastle, the early birds of the city looking at them curiously as they\nwent by.They made it to the castle gates. The guards stopped them out front.\"I need to talk to my aunt, Princess Celestia, immediately!\" said Blueblood.They stared at Blueblood and his companions. \"Prince Blueblood? You're filthy!\" said one of the guardsBlueblood\nlooked down at himself. It was true. His eyes were bloodshot, his fur\nand mane was unkempt and dirty, his hooves were covered in dried mud,\nand he looked like he was ready to pass out at any moment.\"I\nknow. I'm not in any appropriate state to see her,\" said Blueblood,\n\"but this is too important! The fate of Equestria is at stake!\"The two guards looked at each other, considering, and then tuned back to Blueblood.\"Very well, your highness,\" they said. They opened the gates.Blueblood and company hurried through and ran into the castle.\"I\ncan't believe I'm going to meet Princess Celestia,\" said Trixie as they\nfollowed Blueblood down a corridor to the throne room.\"Just let me do all the talking,\" said Blueblood.They\nburst through the doors of the throne room and hurried inside. Princess\nCelestia was sitting up on her throne. She looked up at them in\nsurprise at there sudden entrance.\"Auntie Celestia!\" said Blueblood, bowing before her immediately. The others all followed suit and bowed down as well.Celestia\nraised an eyebrow at Blueblood and his unusual company, but she got up\nfrom her throne and walked down to them \"What is the matter, Nephew?\"\nshe asked in her ever warm and motherly voice.Blueblood\nand the others got up and stood normally. \"Forgive my appalling state,\nauntie, but this is important! King Sombra and Queen Chrysalis have\nreturned!\"Celestia's eyes widened. \"What?\"Blueblood\ncontinued. \"Queen Chrysalis revived King Sombra, and they're going to\ntry and take over Equestria together. You have to stop them!\"\"Nephew, how do you know this?\" Celestia asked.\"Because\nwe...\" Blueblood stopped. He didn't really want to let his aunt know\nabout his recent scheme to find the Goblet of Life and become rich. He\nlooked back at the others. The looks they were giving him indicated they\nshared his reluctance to let her know of their recent not so honorable\nscheme.He turned back to his aunt. \"Look, how we\nknow isn't important! What's important is that Sombra and Chrysalis\nhave to be stopped before it's too late!\"Celestia\nstared down at him for a few moments. Then an evil smirk appeared on\nher face. Then she brought her hoof up and smacked Blueblood hard across\nhis face.Blueblood stumbled backwards, holding\nhis face where she had struck him in pain. He and the rest of the group\nall gaped at Princess Celestia in utter shock at what she had just done.\"Whoa!\" Gilda exclaimed. \"I always knew Celestia was a bitch, but that was just harsh!\"\"Auntie Celestia, why did you do that!?!\" Blueblood asked her in complete confusion.\"You're all such fools,\" Celestia said, her motherly tone now gone and replaced by a cruel tone that was most unlike her.Celestia\nwas suddenly immersed in green flames. Realization hit the group too\nlate as the green flames vanished, revealing none other than Queen\nChrysalis standing before them.\"Surprise again!\" Chrysalis said mockingly.Everyone backed away from the Changeling Queen. They were too late.\"AW CRAP!\" said Hoops.\"RUN!\" shouted Trixie.They\nturned to run back towards the doorway to the throne room, but King\nSombra suddenly stepped out from behind the doorway and slammed the big\ndoors shut with his magic, stopping the group in their place.\"Leaving\nso soon?\" said Sombra. \"But don't you want to see the Princesses and\nthe Element Bearers? That IS why you came all this way, isn't it?\"\"Well,\nhere they are!\" said Chrysalis, pointing over to a shadowy far corner\nof the throne room. The group looked at where she was gesturing and\ngasped at what they saw. Upper Crust let out a scream.There\nstood Princess Celestia, as well as the rest of the gang, Princess\nLuna, the Element Bearers, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity,\nApplejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash, Captain Shining Armor and his\nwife, Princess Cadence, and even the little baby dragon, all of them\nturned into black-crystal statues!They continued\nto stare at what remained of their fallen rivals, not knowing how they\nhadn't noticed them before. The statues all had horrified expressions on\ntheir faces, which the victims had apparently had right before they had\nbeen turned into statues.\"No!\" exclaimed\nBlueblood in despair as he stared at the petrified form of what had used\nto be his great aunt, unable to believe what he was seeing.\"What\ndo you think of our newest decorations?\" asked Queen Chrysalis. \"Quite\nnice, right? Although not as nice as these...\" Chrysalis levitated six\nshiny objects out of nowhere to her. It turned out to be the six\nElements of Harmony. She placed them on herself, wearing them like\ntrophies of her conquest. \"Those pour souls over there won't be needing\nthese anymore. I think they look quite lovely on me, don't you think,\nSombra dear?\"\"Absolutely, my love,\" said Sombra, still under the effects of Chrysalis's love potion.\"How were you able to turn ALL of them into statues?\" exclaimed Trixie.\"It\nwas easer than I thought it would be,\" said Chrysalis. \"With Sombra and\nmy power's combined, and the element of surprise on our side, we were\nable to enter the castle and overpower them before they even knew what\nhit them! And with the Princesses and the Element Bearers finally out of\nthe way, there's nothing left to stand in my way!\" She looked at the\ngroup. \"And I couldn't have done it without all your help,\" she said to\nthem.\"No,\" said Blueblood. \"No.\" He and the rest\nof the group all felt the horrible realization wash over them that they\nwere partially responsible for all this.\"Lets take em down!\" growled Lightning Dust, getting ready to attack Chrysalis and Sombra.\"Don't be stupid,\" said Dumbbell. \"Look what they did to them!\" he pointed at the Princesses' and the Element Bearers' statues.Lightning Dust growled in frustration.\"Now\nfor a bit of redecorating,\" said Chrysalis. She pointed to all the\nstain glass windows in the room with her hoof, which depicting pivotal\nscenes from Equestrian history on them, some of them depicting the\nElement Bearers performing their great deeds. \"Lets get rid of these\neyesores for starters.\"Chrysalis used her magic\nto blast all the stain glass windows on the left side of the throne\nroom, shattering them into millions of pieces.Sombra joined in and used his magic to blast all the windows on the other side of the room, shattering all of them as well.\"That's much better,\" said Chrysalis.While Chrysalis and Sombra were distracted, Iron Will suddenly spoke up.\"Guys,\"\nhe whispered, getting their attention. He pointed over to the doors of\nthe throne room, which were now unguarded. \"Lets get out of here!\"They\nall nodded in agreement. With the evil King and Queen still distracted,\nTrixie used her magic to blast the throne room doors open.\"RUN!\" she shouted.They all bolted out of the throne room as fast as they could.Sombra moved to chaise after them, but Chrysalis stopped him.\"Let\nthem go,\" she said. \"They're not important now. We have a kingdom to\nsubjugate. Its time the ponies of Equestria bowed to their new masters.\"...........................The group ran out of the castle. They came to the two guards guarding the castle gates and ran up to them.\"CHRYSALIS AND SOMBRA HAVE TAKEN OVER THE CASTLE!\" Blueblood shouted at them. \"YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!\"The\ntwo guards stared at Blueblood. Then they both grinned evilly. A second\nlater, green flames ran up their bodies, revealing them to actually be\ntwo Changelings.\"Aw shit!\" said Dumbbell.The two Changelings hissed at them.Gilda\nsuddenly leaped forward and tackled one of the Changelings to the\nground. The other one moved to attack Gilda, but Lightning Dust flew\nforward, spun around, and bucked the monster in the jaw with her hind\nlegs.\"COME ON!\" she shouted, motioning for them\nall to run. They all ran, or flew in the case of the Griffon and the\nPegasi, past the two unconscious Changelings and away from the Castle.They\nhurried down the city streets, ponies staring at them as they went by.\nThey stopped after a few blocks and caught their breath.\"Okay,\" said Dumbbell. \"So getting help from the Princesses failed. What do we do now?\"\"I don't know!\" said Blueblood.Around\nthem, they heard ponies begin screaming. Glancing around them, they saw\nponies pointing up at the sky, terrified looks on their faces. They\nlooked up and their mouths dropped open. Up in the sky, a massive swarm\nof Changelings were flying down from the clouds towards the city. There\nhad to be hundreds of them. Perhaps thousands.All around them ponies screamed and began running around in a panic to get away from the approaching Changelings.\"GO!\" shouted Gilda. They began running again down the city street.The\nChangelings flew down into the city, swarming the streets. They were\neverywhere! The creatures began terrorizing ponies, capturing the\ncitizens one by one. Every other second, another pony was snatched from\nthe ground and carried off by a Changeling. Some Pegasus ponies tried to\nfly away, but they were easily snatched out of the air by the monsters\nas well.Iron Will punched a Changeling out of\nthe air as it flew down at them, knocking it out cold onto the street.\nTrixie blasted another one with her magic, stunning it.The\ngroup ran as fast as they could to get out of the city, trying to avoid\nthe Changelings as they went. All around them ponies seemed to have the\nsame idea. They could see some royal guards on the streets helping to\nevacuate the civilians, and trying to fight back against the attacking\nmonsters, but failing.It was the Canterlot Changeling invasion all over again, except this time there was no one who could stop it!Suddenly\nthey spotted several blasts of dark magic go flying through the air and\nstrike down in the city, one of them hitting the street just head of\nthem. They all could tell from the dark aura of the magic that it had\ncome from King Sombra, but it oddly didn't appear to do anything to the\nstreet, so they didn't stop running.Suddenly the ground began trembling. That caught them by surprise and caused them to slow to a halt.\"Whoa! What the heck is that?\" said Score, the ground continuing to shake.\"Earthquake?\" said Flim.Several\nmeters away from them, right where it had been struck by the dark magic\nblast, large cracks began appearing in the brick paved road. The ground\nthen began to push upwards, as if there was something underneath,\nstruggling to get to the surface.\"Now what?\" said Gilda.The\nbricks of the street were forced aside as something began rising up out\nof the ground. Something big! They watched, frozen in their places, as a\nmassive monster made out of solid rock climbed up out of the earth. It\nkind of resembled a gorilla, and it was the size of a house. Magma could\nbe seen between all the cracks in its 'body', and inside three holes on\nits 'head', which were it's eyes and mouth, and all over it's body,\nsmall black crystals could be seen embedded in the rock.The thing shook the dirt and bricks from itself and let out a deafening roar.'Great. As if things weren't bad enough!' Trixie thought to herself.\"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING?\" shouted Flam.Trixie, judging by the dark crystals jutting out of it, guessed it had been created by Sombra's magic.\"WHO CARES? RUUUUUUN!\" shouted Dumbbell.They turned and continued running, the rock monster behind them destroying an entire house with one of it's massive fists.As\nthe group rounded a block, they were surprised to see another one of\nthe giant rock creatures stomping through the street; only this one\nlooked more like a giant scorpion.\"THERE'S MORE OF THEM!?\" exclaimed Lightning Dust.The rock monster shot a fireball out of its scorpion-like tail at a nearby house, instantly setting it aflame.\"THERE'S\nANOTHER ONE!\" shouted Hoops, pointing up over some rooftops. There they\ncould see the top of yet another rock creature stomping about.\"LOOK\nOUT!\" shouted Upper Crust, pointing at a couple of Changelings that\nwere flying down towards them. They ran into a nearby alley as the\nChangelings swooped down and tackled a mare Blueblood, Jet Set, and\nUpper Crust recognized as Fleur De Lis, who screamed as she was subdued\nby the ugly creatures.The group pressed themselves up against the wall of the alley, trying to stay hidden from the Changelings.\"Its\nno use! We'll never make it out of the city!\" said Trixie as they\nlooked out of the alley at all the Changelings and flying around and\nrock monsters rampaging.\"Guys, I think I found\nour way out of here!\" said Score. He pointed towards the back of the\nalley at a sewer grate in the ground.\"No way!\" said Upper Crust. \"I'm not going down there! It's probably full of disease!\"\"It's either that or the Changelings!\" said Lightning Dust. \"Which would you prefer?\"Upper Crust looked out of the alley at all the chaos, then turned back to the bluegreen Pegasus. \"Fine.\"They went over to the sewer grate.\"Looks like someone's gonna have to use some serious magic to get this thing open,\" said Trixie with a confident grin.Gilda grabbed the grate by the handle and easily pulled it open.\"Oh,\" said Trixie in disappointment, seeing that her magic wasn't needed this time.\"Hurry!\" said Gilda, not wanting to be caught by the Changelings.One\nby one they leaped down into the sewer. Once they were all down in,\nIron Will pulled the grate closed behind them so the Changelings\nwouldn't spot it and suspect someone escaped through it.\"Oh, it smells like something died down here!\" said Blueblood in disgust.\"Relax. It's just a storm sewer,\" said Gilda.The\nunicorns all lit up their horns so they could see. It was your typical\ndark and dank storm sewer. Filthy water trickled beneath their hooves.\nAbove them they could hear the terror going on.\"Come on, let's follow this thing and see if it leads out of the city,\" said Trixie.\"It\nshould if we follow the water,\" said Blueblood. He knew a few things\nabout the city, having lived there his whole life, and being a part of\nthe royal family.They followed the sewer; going\nin the direction the water beneath them flowed. They eventually saw a\nlight in the distance and sure enough, they found themselves out side.\nThey looked out of the tunnel and found they were at a riverbank and\noutside of the city somewhere.\"We're out!\" shouted Upper Crust with relief.They\nclimbed out of the sewer tunnel onto muddy ground and looked around.\nThey were indeed outside of the city just by the river. They could see\nthe edge of the waterfall just downstream, plummeting down off of the\nmountain that Canterlot rested on. Behind them they could see the city\nin the distance. They all stared back at the nightmare they had\nmiraculously managed to get out of. Smoke was rising up out of the city\nin several places. They could still hear the screams of all the\ncivilians still inside.\"This can't be\nhappening!\" said Blueblood as he stared back at the city... his home. He\nhoped that any moment he would wake up in his bed and this would all\nhave just been a bad dream. \"This just can't be happening!\"\"Our home!\" Upper Crust said to her husband, who held her close to him.Everyone was silent for a few moments.\"What do we do now?\" asked Gilda.\"We get as far away from here as we can!\" said Dumbbell.\"And\ngo where?\" said Trixie. \"You heard what they said. They're not going to\nstop with the city! They're going to conquer the entire world!\"At\nthat moment Upper Crust let out a tired yawn. That in turn caused the\nrest of them to yawn. They were immediately reminded of how exhausted\nthey were. They had all been awake for at least twenty-four hours. They\nneeded sleep.\"We can't do anything in the state\nwe're in,\" said Iron Will. \"We can figure out what we're gonna do later.\nFor now we need to find a safe place to sleep.\"They all nodded in agreement.\"I\ndon't think anywhere is safe anymore,\" said Blueblood as they started\nheading away from the city down the mountain, towards the forest.","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791168-equestrian-knights-ch-11-the-evil-king-returns.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791183-equestrian-knights-ch-13-a-risky-plan.json"}