What had started as a beautiful day at Equestria, quickly became a nightmare, Canterlot was on the preparations for a festival featuring one of the most known singer of the land. But everything was interrupted when a massive ship releasing dark clouds appeared above the capital, quickly followed by a massive fleet of the same ship. The flag ship of this fleet landed while all princesses proceed to the balcony to see what's going on in the streets. After deploying its landing ramp, a small creature exited the ship and explained to the ponies that their city was now conquered by the Storm King, a king leaving in the south, the creature than introduces the commander of the king's army, Tempest Shadow, a unicorn with a scar on her right eye and a broken horn.

The princesses landed in front of the ship and Tempest, while Twilight, who was with her friends in the streets, join them.

Tempest was most pleased to see all four princesses at once, and immediately asked to surrender their magic or being ready to gave it up by force. They choose the second option, which was exactly what Tempest wanted. Several creatures started to drop from the ships above directly in the city, surrounding and capturing everyone they could find. Tempest threw a strange orb on Cadance which turned her to stone and proceed to do the same on Celestia and Luna. Twilight was saved at the very last moment by a pony taking the orb for her instead.

"Find her!" Tempest yelled at her forces while witnessing some ponies being captured by her soldiers nearby. "You! Bring me those ponies, they can be useful later..." Only said Tempest with a sinister grin while taking another orb being more black than the ones used on the princess earlier.

Gathering her friends, Twilight started to run across the streets of Canterlot, witnessing the invaders taking over with no resistance. When the group reached a bridge, they were surrounded by more of these soldiers, in front and behind them, no way to escape except... jumping in the water below the bridge. That was how the back up plan was supposed to turn anyway, but all of them were stopped by a magic aura, stopping them in mid air and bringing them back on the ground. Searching what caused this, Twilight gasped in fear when she spotted ponies using her horn to do this, but these ponies were strange... all their features were gone, no face, no coat color or mane color... only left with a black and shiny material around them and the emblem of the Storm King as a Cutie Mark.

The rest of Twilight's friends quickly noticed it too.

"What have you done to them you maniac?!" Yelled Rainbow Dash.

"Just repurposed them as soldier for the king's army, everypony can be useful if you know how to proceed."

"That's horrible! How can you do this to them? Forcing them to serve you!? That's low!" Shouted Applejack

"How can they see? They don't have eyes!" Pointed out Pinkie without caring about how serious the situation was.

"I just used this..." Explained Tempest while grabbing the same black orb she used on the ponies earlier. "This way, I can turn them into mindless soldiers, following orders and only knowing loyalty to the Storm King. But perhaps you want a demonstration..."

"No we don't, release us this instant!" Answered Rarity

"Too bad I don't care about your answer..." Answered back Tempest by throwing the orb to a mare trying to sneak away nearby.

When the orb touched her, instead of the green smoke released by the others trapping the princesses earlier, this one started to spread into a shiny material looking exactly like the one encasing the ponies in front of the Elements Bearers. The mare tried to run but two creatures blocked her path. The group can only watch the mare beg and cry for mercy. Rainbow tried to go to her rescue but was knocked out by Tempest body guards. The last of the mare screams ceased when the latex covered her head, making her faceless, first muffling and then just silence. She was corrupted, the same emblem on her flanks and saluting to Tempest who only smirked.

"See? I can convert as many pony as I want to become one of the soldiers of my army. Guess who's next?" She said with some sarcasm by grabbing six orb.

"Sounds fun!" Said Pinkie Pie.

"You're a monster!" Yelled Fluttershy in tears, having seen the all scene too.

"What's the matter dear? Don't worry, soon you will not care anymore." Tempest said before throwing the six black orbs towards the mane 6.

Twilight tried to use her magic to create a shield, not having enough time for a teleportation spell. But the orbs were too strong and the shield broke in just a couple of seconds, all six mares being hit almost at the same time by the orbs.

"Aahh no!" Said Twilight, feeling her legs starting to be encased inside the latex and seeing the same thing happening to each of her friend, trying to resist or delay the latex to spread further, except Pinkie who only laugh saying it was "funny" and Fluttershy because she was crying in fear.

The alicorn then tried to use her magic to get the thing off but it didn't work, the latex becoming like her actual skin.

"Get this thing... off me!" Yelled Applejack, violently shaking her body in all directions with little effect as the latex spread on her legs and then start to engulf her Cutie Mark, replacing the three apples by the emblem of the Storm King.

"Soon you will all wear this emblem proudly." Said Tempest, watching the Cutie Mark of the others being absorbed as well.

"Not even in your dreams!" Answered Rainbow Dash, trying to flying again but being hold to the ground by the faceless unicorns next to Tempest. "Grr... guys, snap out of it! You can fight it!" She said to the fallen ponies with no luck.

"Don't even try, their heads are empty, the only thing they understand now are the orders I give them, and soon you will too." Explained Tempest.

Rainbow only groans of frustration while the tail of everyponies was reshaped, taking the same black color expanding on them, the tail becoming shiny in the process. The latex then spread on their back, trapping the wings of Twilight, Rainbow and Fluttershy.

"What this thing is doing to my mane?! It will ruin it! Stop! You already mess with my tail, it's far enough!" Suddenly said Rarity not happy about seeing the latex spreading in her mane.

"M-my mane?! Stop! I'm begging you!" Said Fluttershy between every breathings, also watching her mane slowly becoming black and shiny.

Pinkie was the only one giggling and laughing during the all process, her laugh only stopped when the latex was covering her muzzle, gagging it from inside in the process.

"How can you do this to your own kind Tempest?! There is another way to hmm? Hmmmmmph!!!!" Tried to say Twilight before her mouth too was gagged and erase from view to the outside. She heard other moans and groans, and saw the rest of her friend under the same predicament when she turned her head.

Her horn and the one of Rarity were covered by the latex spreading from their mane and the last thing Twilight could saw was all her friends eyes being covered, leaving them as faceless as the other ponies, then her vision too became black, the latex covering her eyes and fusing with the part at the top of her head.

All the mares desperately tried to fight, but the latex then spread inside their ears while covering them, reaching the brain and taking control of it and the rest of their bodies, sending thoughts of only servitude and obedience to the Storm King or Tempest. And then, all of them stopped moving, only taking a right stand, like soldiers waiting orders.

Tempest smiled sinisterly, watching the new faceless drones she now had in front of her, the King's emblem on their flanks.

"Looks like the Elements Bearers joined the Storm King's army... What a lovely sight."

No reaction came from the mares in latex, they didn't received orders so they didn't need to move until asked.

Tempest then slowly turned around the six mares, talking to each once close to them

"That's it Rainbow Dash, your loyalty is now to the Storm King."

She then moved to Fluttershy.

"Don't worry Fluttershy, you will not know fear or shyness as a mindless soldier for us."

Applejack was next.

"Your strength will be very useful to the Storm King my dear Applejack."

She noticed that her hat had been covered by latex and also that the little accessory in her mane and her tail, keeping them nicely tied up, had changed colors too, adopting the blue of the emblem on her flank. With a smirk, she moved on to Rarity.

"How generous of you to join us Rarity."

By passing next to Pinkie Pie, she only chuckled.

"Don't forget to smile Pinkie Pie... oh wait... you can't."

The last one was Twilight, the first price of her plan.

"Not what was originally planned for you princess, but your magic can still serve us."


Once her little comments over, she then order them to move and follow her, the drones only turned back and marched in unison, the step of their hooves being the only audible sound in the area of the city.

Once back to the central place in front of her ship, she watched as more ponies were now standing just like Twilight and her friends, ready to take orders and the statues of the three princesses still there.

"Let's give you your first task my dears, Applejack and Fluttershy, grab Cadance. Pinkie and Rainbow Dash you get Luna. As for you Twilight, you will lift Celestia with the help of Rarity. Bring them all to the throne room of the castle."

The six faceless drone didn't answer and only proceed to follow orders, using strength, wings and magic to lift all three alicorns trapped in stone.

"As for the others, keep patrolling the streets, if you find ponies still free, either capture them or turn them into drones." Ordered Tempest to the rest of the drones but also her soldiers.

She then followed the six carrying the princesses to the throne room.

In the throne room, they carefully placed them on the ground before standing back and take a standing pose on each side of the throne.

"Excellent, the Storm King will be pleased, our conquest was a success."