it's a test, therefore a fake emergency, it's going to be better than all of the princesses and the Mane Six got somehow captured by the changelings and then had to be saved by these characters for real. In my head it would be different from the Crystal Empire because King Sombra really was a threat.

Ah, I get it now. That's not really what I was thinking. Let me try again.IfThough now that I really think about this, it's hard to imagine this being true with what already happened.