another daily prompt sketch, prompt was "Hanging out with the CMC" but this is clearly something else

When the CMC broke into the Lunar Castle and were promptly brought before the Empress, the Empress asked the three of them what three fillies were doing so far from their homes in the Everfree forest. The trio then wrestled up the courage to deliver all of their and their family's grievances with Nightmare Moon's rule, then demanding that she make things go back to how they were before she arrived. The Empress, amused, tells them that when ponies barge into her castle and demand that her regime be dismantled, they usually fight her for it and lose, and that there was no way some angry children were going to defeat her.

However, the CMC accepts the Empress's challenge…

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