After the failure of her plan to conquer Canterlot using Shining Armor and Cadance’s wedding, Chrysalis returned to the nest with her Changelings, completely depleted of defeat.
When they reached the nest, their changelings went feeding on, as she headed to the island where her throne was. There, there were two thrones, where a Dark Hole was sitting in one, staring his hooves in a bored way. He then saw Chrysalis landing and falling.
"How was the hunt?" Dark Hole asked, making a slight smile.
"That was supposed to be funny?" Chrisalis asked coldly.
"I just made a completely innocent question" Dark Hole answered. "Why do you always have to treat me with two stones in hoof, dear?"
"Don’t call me dear, you piece of dung!" Chrysalis exclaimed, rising up. "We can be the King and the Queen of Changelings, but we are not husband and wife."
"Of course" Dark Hole replied, still smiling. "I was being nice. If you don’t like so I'll stop."
"I need love" Chrysalis said. "That defeat cut down all my energy reserves."
"You know the master hates that word, right?"
"What word?"
"Defeat" Dark Hole replied. "I mean, how big operations you failed, beyond this one? I'm here reminding me about a certain plan you had and it wasn’t even put into practice because of a certain unicorn called Star Shield."
"My plan might have failed, but at least I succeeded in capturing and get rid Star Shield" Chrysalis defended herself.
"But you could also have got rid of the rest of his army" Dark Hole said. "So many efforts just to catch a unicorn are just a wasteful, don’t you think?"
"What do you know?" Chrysalis asked rudely. "I still didn’t see you have a fantastic idea to conquer Equestria or even to esters that little revenge of yours against Shining Armor. I don’t know if you noticed, but I have led the attack on his marriage."
"I'm just waiting for the right moment" Dark Hole replied. "I want him to suffer as much as possible. Besides, I didn’t want to get involved in a fight that had a good chance of ending up in the mud."
"Are you saying that because it was my idea?"
"Also, but also because I think you underestimated Princess Cadance and that convinced unicorn’s love. Incidentally, you underestimate the enemy. You shouldn’t give them opportunities to haggle, even if you have a huge advantage."
"Are you giving me lessons in strategy?" Chrysalis asked. "To me!"
"At least, my plans run much better than yours" Dark Hole replied.
That made Chrysalis’ face contorting with rage.
"How dare you, your little arrogant..."
"Who increased considerably our food reserves? Me. Who has done the best job for the Lord of Chaos? Me. I have done a better job than you. "
There was a pause and then Dark Hole said:
"It’s for that reason I will take the full leadership of Changelings."
"What?!" Chrysalis asked. "You can’t do this!"
"Do you think so?" Dark Hole asked.
He whistled and then a lot of Changelings appeared, surrounding Chrysalis.
"What are you doing?" she asked to the Changelings. "I am your Queen! You owe me obedience!"
"Not really" Dark Hole replied. "Have you forgotten that the Lord of Chaos gave me the control of half the Changeling army. You don’t control my soldiers, even if it was you who create them."
"Then I'll attack with my army."
"I don’t think so."
He then motioned for Chrysalis’ Changelings and she saw that they were completely subdued and tied by Dark Hole’s Changelings.
"What the..." Chrysalis began.
Dark Hole laughed and then said:
"Your army is so tired after the failed in Cantarlot it was very easy for my Changelings to subdue them."
Two Changelings who were surrounding Chrysalis grabbed her and held her tightly with her saying to Dark Hole:
"You planned this, didn’t you?"
"Let's just say I forearmed me in case you return with a defeat" he said. "After all, if we want our species go to the top of the food chain, we have to eliminate those who disrupt our way."
"You filthy scum!" Chrysalis exclaimed. "You're not one of us! You may look like us, but you are nothing but a disgusting and insignificant pony!"
She tried to access her magic to attack, but she was so weak that she couldn’t do it. Dark Hole, in his turn, access to his, doing his horn glow with the same kind of aura that Chrysalis’ and shot her a ray that hit her on the horn and made her moan in pain and when he stopped Chrysalis became unconscious.
"Take her and the others to the dungeon at the bottom of the pit and ensure that they stay securely attached" Dark Hole ordered, addressing his subordinates.
They nodded and began to lead Chrysalis and her army to the pit.
Dark Hole then turned to Chrysalis’ throne and, with a burst of magic, he bursted it, reducing it to dust.
"From now on, Changelings have a new leader: me, the great Dark Hole. It will start a new era and I will start with a plan able to put us at the top and at the same time satisfy my desire for revenge. I just have to wait for the right opportunity."
And then he laughed.
The End