Thysa sat next to the window, still disguised and looking outside with a slightly bored expression. Applejack had taken Apple Bloom and Scootaloo back to Sweet Apple Acres, and she had nopony to play with. She was startled out of her musings when a glass containing some sort of milky liquid and a straw was placed right next to her.
Thysa blinked at it, then followed the claws holding it there to Spike, who was grinning at her sheepishly. “H-hey,” Spike stammered. “Um, you looked a little lonely so I brought you a milkshake?”
“Oh,” Thysa blinked at the milkshake before sipping a bit. Her face immediately brightened. “Wow! This is delicious!”
Spike blushed a little bit. “Well, thanks! I made it myself, with the best ingredients! I didn’t know if you liked strawberry, so I made it chocolate. Everypony loves chocolate.”
“Oh, Spike! I do love chocolate!” Thysa cried, giving him a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek that sent the dragon stammering back. “You’re so considerate!”
“W-well,” Spike gulped. “W-we s-silent types have to stick together, right?”
Thysa giggled. “You’re so cute!” She batted her eyes at him. “So… are you seeing anypony?”
Spike gulped.
“You know, I can turn into a dragon…”
o.0.o
Rarity, looking once more like a regular female drone, stopped in her tracks. The covered plate she had been carrying teetered in place for a second, but she kept the balance just fine.
“Is something wrong?” Luna asked, looking around warily.
“No,” Rarity said after a moment of baffled blinking. “I just felt like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders. And I don’t know why.”
“Please be careful,” Hidden Tale whispered. “There’s a couple of guards up ahead an—”
“This way!” a feminine voice emanated from one of the corridors ahead. The trio stepped aside and bowed immediately when a young changeling princess walked by, followed by a pair of guards. “I just hope my sister didn’t do what I think she did…” she muttered, glancing at them but paying no attention.
“What would that be, Princess Phasmi?” one of the guards asked, glancing at the other.
“I’d better not speculate… we need to find out!”
Rarity watched one of her nieces walk past and felt her heart beat a little faster. She looked like such a capable, young changeling. It was too bad that they were enemies right now.
They watched in silence as the princess and the guards turned around another corner and waited a few seconds before moving again.
“That was close,” Hidden Tale muttered. “But that doesn’t make sense… the princesses should be in their rooms right now, why would she interrupt her schedule?”
“I’m sure that recent events have something to do with it,” Luna stated. “We should concentrate on our own plans and find the prison.”
Rarity nodded absently, following the pair. They turned another corner, walking deeper into the Hive when they noticed a pair of guards keeping watch over a door that was curiously opening very quietly.
The guards immediately noticed them. “Princess Acari has ordered that no changeling should bother her right no—”
He didn’t finish his sentence before green energy surrounded his head and that of the other guard and crashed them against each other repeatedly. They hovered in place, held by the magical energy before suddenly being released and crumbling to the floor, motionless.
Another princess, who could only be Acari, stepped out of the room and observed her hoofwork. “Good, they’re out.” She looked up at Rarity, Luna and Hidden Tale. “Now, don’t be scared,” she said approaching them. “There’s something going on and we need to hurry! My sisters are in danger!”
“But… what about the guards?” Rarity asked.
Acari gave her a sharp glance. “There’s no time to explain, we need to find Phasmi.”
“We just saw her walk down the hall with two guards,” Hidden Tale offered. “She looked to be in a hurry.”
Acari’s eyes widened. “Oh no… you three, come with me!”
Glancing at each other, the three could do little but follow the princess.
o.0.o
“Hm, this is odd,” Chrysalis muttered. “There’s usually more guards around.”
“Isn’t that a good thing?” Sweetie asked. “I mean, you don’t want to be caught, right?”
Chrysalis chuckled. “As if my dear daughters would have told anyling that they had betrayed me,” she said, grinning. “No, that’s not the case.”
Sweetie looked around. “Why aren’t there any other changelings?”
Chrysalis shrugged. “Most likely they’re asleep, completely unaware of what’s going on.”
“So, what’s the plan?” Sweetie asked. “Do we go rescue Twilight? Defeat your daughters in mortal combat?”
Chrysalis shook her head and pushed open a set of large double doors, which revealed a whole bunch of drones working in…
“The kitchen?”
“I’m hungry!” Queen Chrysalis announced, and stuffed something into her mouth. “I can’t deal with my daughters while hungry!”
Sweetie Belle simply gaped alongside the drones as Chrysalis gorged herself on some colorful food.
After chewing for a bit, Chrysalis swallowed and looked down at Sweetie, extending a hoof with an orange ball of some sort. “Fruit bat?”
Chrysalis started when the doors on the other side opened up, allowing entrance to Arachne, who stumbled from side to side, swaying until she sat rather hard on a chair and started munching on some fruit bats.
The Queen and the Princess’ eyes met.
“Oh,” Arachne hiccuped. “Yoooouuuurrre free.” She frowned. “And you didn’t eat th’ lunch I brought you!”
Chrysalis blinked when her eldest daughter fell, face-first on the table and started snoring.
“Is she dead?” Sweetie asked.
“She’s snoring, the dead don’t snore,” Chrysalis pointed out. “She’s drunk out of her exoskeleton.”
Sweetie’s eyes widened. “Wow! That must run in the family!”
Chrysalis grinned. “It does? You’ll have to tell me about it, but for now… I think my daughter is in the perfect position to learn a lesson.”
o.0.o
They slid into the silent homes of Ponyville, completely undetected. When a pony would wake up, they would be immediately overcome.
There was no hesitation. No time to wait.
Everything was proceeding as planned.
The town slumbered, unaware that slowly they were being decimated. And all the lights but one slowly turned off completely.
They gathered outside, silently observing the Library.
She was inside. The one they had come for.
It would all be over soon.
Thysa x Spike, new OTP
(But I'm still miffed about the no editor thing. )
Oh my.
Looks like Thysa's in for a nasty surprise.
Unless Celestia's still with them.
~Skeeter The Lurker
Also... I must have completely misread that status tag on this thing.
I's a stupid.
~Skeeter The Lurker
I can't remember what's going on, Though I think I can extrapolate from the context.
now for the other 103 chapter updates to catch up on...
though I think 40 are glitched so that they never leave, and there are about 10 that haven't actually shown up as updates.
oh the problems of favoriting many incomplete stories so that you think you will always have something to read. even with a hundred updating stories you either have nothing to read, or major catching up to do.
I am confused. It'll be an irony if they conquer Ponyville but lose the hive. They'll be stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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Sorta cute, not sure what to make of it though. I can't imagine Spike would really have much interest in a changeling and in any case, she's probably just doing that because changelings don't live on food. Unless this story deviated from that?
As soon as i saw that it was updated the candy i was eating fell out of my mouth. It looks like a grear new chapter in a amazing story. Oh so awsome. Update. More. U p d a t e.
Looks like somebody is going after Thysa. I am assuming that business is about to pick up.
That romance was faster then Romeo and Juliet.
Also, drunk Arachne is best changeling princess.
oh wow..... I need more now! I love this series, I can't get enough of this!
So, am I really the only one who thinks Thysa is the true bad one of all of them? I'll be glad if I'm wrong, cause, the little pairing with spike and her is adorable, but, I just have that feeling...
I'm slightly confused on what just happened. Did I miss something in the last chapter?
I feel that this scenario one of my friends came up with is pretty probable:
And then Arachne woke up covered in graffiti.
3831491 And it will probably end about as well.
It looks like someone/pony/ling is trying to take down the sisters during their coup. I wonder who?
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They will fail, these wicked.
Perhaps then, love will bloom.
Let sins like these die.
Awaiting further releases.
Please write lightspeed! Need moar soon
Great chapter, but too short! I need more!
While I'm not convinced Thysa is actually "evil" like the rest of the sisters (similarly for being the secretly "most evil" of them), it does seem pretty clear that she is not as unaware, incompetent, or overall harmless like she appears on the surface. It seems that she is still capable of plotting and planning like the rest of them...
To what ends, IDK yet. Also, its unclear how much of her "plotting ability" is masquerading as "air-headedness", or how much of her "air-headedness" is masquerading as "plotting ability".
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Or maybe she's in for a surprise party. That last section seems open to interpretation if you imagine it narrated by Pinkie Pie...
Changeling Achievement: "Secure Lifetime Food Supply" - Taken!
And lol @ Rarity's reaction to that. Psh. As if she hadn't been purposely leading him on all that time anyway
Also, ominous ending is ominous
Didn't spot any errors, so, you did good, Wanderer D
Family is embarrassing, isn't it? Now poor Chrissie is going to have to explain to Sweetie why one of her step-nieces is lying in a drunken heap on the floor!
Here's a thought - Chrissie has been nice to Sweetie. Could she be unknowingly getting a very slight boost from the love she's encouraged the filly to feel for her?
All I can think of is Chrys asking for a marker, and Sweetie pulling out a glow in the dark highlighter... hilarity ensues.
Also, short it may be, but DAMN is it good to see this update!
well. took you long enough...but you still did awsome.
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Beware the quiet ones...
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red grunt: so if we have their base, but they have ours.. does that mean it a tie?
red sargent: NO! IT MEANS WE HAVE TO START OVER!
red grunt: this is just going to be an endless cycle isn it?
3832613 nice cinema sins sequence.
The orange ones taste like oranges. The red ones take like strawberries. The snozzberry colored ones taste like snozzberries...
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Nope, I'm suspecting that too!
Thysa and Spike this ship must sail!
It updated. It actually updated! WOOT!
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I know, I frankly thought this fic was another dead one. Huzzah for small miracles!
Seeing how infrequently this story updates, I completely don't remember anything about the other princesses.
3832494 Hmmm plot.
Drunk Changeling princess is silly drunk. I love Rarity chowing down on the Fruit bats, it reminds me of the time I was in Japan and starving for Steak.
Nice update and now I'm curious to see wether or not Spike takes up Thysa's offer.
So one tenth of the popul8tion is 8eing repl8ced/killed? That is what decim8ted means, after all.
~Vriska Serket
How about centimated? ☺♂♀♂♀☺
This isn't going to turn into that one story where EVERYONE is a changeling is it? Being that every character except a very confused Celestia was actually a Changeling that didn't want to lower their disguise because of the 'ponies' that were around them.... Soon it will be revealed that the female in the library they were searching for wasn't Thysa but Spike The Female Changeling posing as the Male Dragon raised by the Unicorn Twilight who is actually a Changeling in disguise.... I figured out the surprise twist ending...
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I remember that story. It sitll amuses me to this day
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Is that where that is coming from?
I have noticed recently I have ~40 phantom unread chapters numbered with no unread stories listed in my favourites...
3857771 I didn't. When the site updated, it ate up the spaces. Now, I'm more careful and use italics per paragraph instead of a whole section...
I get the feeling that tho isn't as bad as it looks.
Uuugh!Why is it so hard to remember and keep track of whats going on in this story?
Maybe I shuld just wait untill you finnish it and re-read it then? Beacuse I dont want to re-read the entire story every time a new chapter comes out.
3831453 The problem with unfinished stories (in general) is that you get fics that are abandoned and never marked as 'on hiatus' or 'cancelled'. I am following so many of these but the massive volume (teehee, literature puns) of stories helps to make up for that.
3904731 I am currently following approximately 150 incomplete stories, some are marked as hiatus and some aren't. so about 110 stories that are still updating are in my favorites list. and for the past six days. I have had about 4 updates.
Commence read.
Being "drunk out of your exoskeleton" sounds interesting.