Twilight Sparkle (character)

Twilight Sparkle survived the Dimensional War and though she was discharged due to "Military Incompetence" she was granted the title of "Princess of Ponyville", and joined the Equestrian Council to represent her people. Due to Ponyville's placement in the middle of Equestria, her power was of utmost importance to both the Midnight Coalition and the Solar Accord, both of which tried and failed to convince her to join their side.

Twilight established her own personal protectors known as the "Royal Magic Protectors" led by Flash Sentry, who was granted Magic abilities by Twilight herself. This guard detail was permitted to accompany her to the Council meetings, much like Strike's Venator Medaie and Celestia's Daydream Peacekeepers.

Twilight initially refused to join both the Coalition or the Accord as she, like her people, was divided on which side would better suit the city-state. Eventually, the Accord secretly convinced her to join them and she permitted Solar Accord forces to move through Ponyville unhindered, allowing them to launch a suprise attack on the Midnight's capital city of Everfree. This created a splinter of her army known as the "Abandoned Army", brave soldiers who once fought for Twilight but no longer saw her as fit to rule due to her ignorance and stupidity. As such, they named her "Priority Target 1" and vanished into uninhabited lands, later to resurface during the Canterlot Campaign.

Twilight was not present at the Battle of Everfree but, along with Celestia, was watching the battle and preparing a speech (though Twilight was nowhere near as eager or confident as Celestia was) for after the battle. However the two were caught off-guard when the SS Cadance was shot down by a new Midnight super-unit known as the ANGEL engaged it. As the ship crashed it impacted the SS Celestia, causing tremendous damage to the Solar Accord's capital Thunderhead and forcing it to retreat, leading to a Solar Accord loss and victory for the Midnight Coalition. Twilight knew with this occurance the Midnight would quickly seek revenge, becoming more terrified once she heard that Prince McCallum, Princess Knighthood and Princess Luna were killed in the attack.

Twilight only barely escaped Ponyville after the Midnight began their counter-assault, having been hunted down by her former friend Connor Pemberton and nearly executed had she not been saved by Rainbow Dash and Glide Hollow. However her city fell, "liberated" from Solar control and now under the Midnight's metal regime, which was not standard for enemy cities as they were usually utterly destroyed.