In the wedding hall, Princess Celestia is about to pronounce the impostor and a fully entranced Shining Armor husband and wife when Twilight and Cadance burst through the door. After they mention distracting the three bridesmaids with a flower bouquet, Cadance declares that her impostor is a changeling that feeds off of love and can change shape at will. The attendees look on in horror as the fake Cadance transmogrifies into her true form as Queen Chrysalis and reveals her plan to weaken Shining Armor's protective spell over the city so that her minions can break through and take over. As she speaks, a horde of changelings batters away at the magic barrier outside.

Princess Celestia, having let Chrysalis reveal her plan, steps in to stop her from enacting it. The two struggle to overpower each other with beams of magic from their horns, though having recently consumed so much of Shining Armor's love for Cadance, Chrysalis manages to win the duel.