"Yes? How can this PonyPet serve you, her majesty Princess Twilight of the Changelings." Was the young alicorn response, the one answer Twilight could not have predicted.
"Wait... What?... R-repeat that again." Says Twilight, even more confused than before, maybe she heard wrong, it could possibly be that she said it wrong but she knew what she heard.
"Princess are you okay?" Asked the little Celestia giving her princess a strange look.
Twilight wasn’t even sure if the filly that called herself Celestia was worried or not, because in a moment a smile appeared on her face, Twilight could not even believe that she was even considering that the young filly was really Princess Celestia, because if that were true, then she was truly the Princess of the Changelings.
"I-I think I’m okay... Just a little sleepy and, I think I hit my head when I woke up, so..." Suddenly the voices returned in Twilight’s head, cutting her off mid sentence.
"The Princess hit her head?” “How could this happen” “Is she okay?” “When did that happen?” “Should we ask the Queen to check on her?” “Is she awake or still sleeping?” “The Princess could go see the Queen” “Princess are you okay?" The voices all spoke within Twilight’s mind, all of them vocal in their worry and offering support to their princess.
"Don’t worry, it’s not that bad" Said Twilight talking to the voices in the head, she was Trying to adjust to all of this but it was hard to focus with all of the voices crying for her attention within her head at the same time, but first of all she needed information.
"The Princess need information about something?” “The Princess need to ask something?” “Can we help the Princess?" The voices continued their verbal assault.
"Oh… Just be QUIET!!!" Twilight shouted angrily, causing the voices to silence themselves.
In front of Twilight stood the smaller Celestia that still answered to her.
"As you wish, This PonyPet will be quiet now... oh no... I... I’m sorry Princess for talking, please punish me for disobeying you" It was only then that Celestia’s smile disappeared, leaving behind a sad frown at the mere thought of disobeying what Twilight had commanded. She prepared for some form of punishment, while Twilight asked herself how she treated the little filly until now.
"The Princess forgot her hobby?” “Maybe she need the help the queen after all?” “Maybe she used some strange spell from those ponies" The voices continue inside her head and Twilight know that she could not make out anything, even when she told them to stay silent, they return, it was then that some images passed inside Twilight’s thoughts, more like memories it seemed as if she was looking through her eyes. In there she could see as she used a whip magically enhanced on the little filly just because she grabbed a wrong book or took a iron dipped in magefire and pressed it against the little filly’s skin, just because she was bored. She watched how sometimes she would kick the filly or try very dangerous spells on her, even spells that were banished time ago and prohibited from everypony, and not only was she laughing when she did it, but even Celestia herself, seemed happy to suffer all of it. In every scene, the little filly seemed happy, it was like when she presented in front of Twilight, everytime with a big smile. When she could not stand see any more scenes like that she finally shouted.
"Stop... Stop showing me these… " Twilight Screamed, on outside Twilight felt bad for seeing all of that, but on the inside, for some reason she did not feel anything, she was not thirsty, not sad, not angry at herself, and that was very strange.
The scenes stop and it was then that Twilight looked over to the younger Celestia in front of her, this time she was not smiling, only because she meant only to tell the voices in her thoughts to be silent not Celestia herself.
"I will not punish you... This time, Celestia... Can i ask you a few questions? I just wish to figure out whether I forgot anything important or not." Twilight asks, her thinly veiled excuse wouldn’t have held water, luckily the filly didn’t have any, even so the little Celestia looked up towards Twilight.
"But i deserve punishment, you told to me to be quiet and I spoke, sorry your majesty, I speak again, i just need a big punishment for talking, i'm a bad PonyPet" Celestia answered giving Twilight a sad look.
"No... Like i said, i will not punish you, this time... I might later, however first I need to check that I remember everything, so I’ll ask a question and I want you to answer correctly, Understood?" Twilight asks.
"Yes, As a good PonyPet I will do as you say your majesty." Answered the little Celestia.
"First of all, how did you end up as a filly?" Twilight asked as she prepared for the voices to enter her thoughts, but this time no one spoke.
"Oh, Yes, It was a century ago. From what I remember, it was near the same time that her majesty, Queen Chrysalis give birth to you. She appeared suddenly and took me by surprise, after the battle, her Royal majesty Queen Chrysalis, defeated me and absorbed almost all of my magic. She replaced me and then sent me to the hive so that they could feed on my love, I was then held within the confines of the hive until your majesty Princess Twilight decided that I become your PonyPet and used a collection of spells to regress me, and make me a PonyPet. Now I’m A happy PonyPet that likes to serve you and the hive, Princess Twilight." Answered the little filly, as Twilight begin to imagine that, Celestia seemed happy about her situation, even if Twilight was still not sure about how any of this could be good.
‘The voices in my thoughts must be the hive, and if her story was true, then instead of Princess Celestia in the throne, was Queen Chrysalis as she had taken Celestia’s place.’ Suddenly the images of the wedding between Princess Mi Amore Cadenza passed through Twilight’s thoughts, it was the only time she met Chrysalis as she remembered how she had replaced Cadence, and how she controlled the mind of her big brother, and also the invasion of changelings in Canterlot until Shining Armor and Princess Cadence using their love made a barrier and forced Chrysalis and the hive out of Canterlot.
Suddenly Twilights thoughts were thrown into chaos, the changelings had seen her thoughts and memories and how they were stirred into a cacophony as they imagined and replied to her memories with confusion. Some of the changelings began to fear that Twilight didn’t like them any more, some Questioned what those thoughts were, and still others just couldn’t think stunned as they were by the thought of what had happened in those memories. Her thoughts were drowned and for a time she thought she would never be able to step out of the sea of voices, until one voice passed through the hive, one strong enough to only belong to the leader of the changelings, Queen Chrysalis.
"My daughter I do not know what those images are but to calm the hive, come and tell me." The voice seemed to lose power, even so, she could hear the Queen as if she were speaking in front of her.
"Uhh, Yes, well the thing is..." Twilight began to say, she was not speaking mentally, but aloud in front of the filly Celestia, until she was cud off as Queen Chrysalis spoke again
"Not now and not like that... Come to me, that is an order. Come personally as Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia. I will speak to you face to face and do not allow yourself to be distracted by anything or anyone unless it is important." Chrysalis’s voice gained power and Twilight knew that she could not defy the orders, even if she wanted to, her body was already walking to the door she sensed the magic as it flowed around her, suddenly she was turned purple, the black chitin disappeared, and she knew her wings had changed back into the pegasus equivalent as she could sense it, even if it was only a disguise she felt great having body of Twilight Sparkle again.
She still had some questions but they needed to be answered at some other time, at least with the information she had she was able to formulate a theory about what had happened, her body was not stopping, it was like she could not control it, that was the power of the queen of the hive, even if she was the princess, she could not even disobey the queen, as she began to walk through the streets of ponyville on the way to Canterlot Castle, followed by the de aged and retrained Princess Celestia, looking around.
"Ok, first item on the checklist, I know how Celestia become a filly, now I need to figure out how I ended up here when I only wanted to do a little jump? Also. where where exactly is here? Could I have done something wrong and be in the future? No, the library was exactly the same at first glance, the streets were also the same, and at this distance the Castle is also the same. But if I traveled to the past, how did I ended like this? This is not my past..." Twilight began to mutter when suddenly her wings open and she begins to fly towards Canterlot castle, then flew through the window into Celestia’s chambers, much to the surprise of Chrysalis.
"What are you doing disguised as alicorn? I told you to come here as Twilight Sparkle, have you forgot that she is supposed to be a normal unicorn, not an Alicorn?" Asked Chrysalis with Celestia’s voice.
There was no one in that moment in the room except the false Celestia and Twilight, even the little filly that was the real Celestia was still in the way as she could not get to the same speeds as Twilight.
"Remove that disguise before someone sees you and change into unicorn Twilight Sparkle." Chrysalis orders, With a flash of magical flame the wings disappear
Chrysalis looked a little more calm and smiled, as it was very natural in the real one.
"I’m sorry for ordering you, my child, You are… special to me, unlike the rest of the hive. But you know me, sometimes I cannot not control myself. Care to tell me from where did these images come? I calmed the hive for now, but even so, they could be in chaos at any given moment.
"Im sorry Majesty" Twilight tried to apologise but Chrysalis cut her off with a negative shake of her head.
"I did not call you here to apologise, just tell me what happened. Also no one is here so you do not need to restrain yourself, I was too busy for too long a time and I could not stay with you. It worried me when you suddenly disappeared from the connection that we and the hive have" Chrysalis said.
"Well, it was a spell, it was supposed to help see past things. And I tried to look into the memories of my, PonyPet about Nightmare Moon. But it failed and revealed those memories to me instead." Twilight lied deciding that this was the best option, she was not even sure about where she was, but if Chrysalis was her mother and had taken the throne of Celestia, she could not defy her.
"I know you are hiding something from me, however I will not insist you tell me, just remember that Celestia is there for your use, if you wanted to do a strange spell. Try it first on her, after all it was one of the reasons you gave that convinced me to send her to you." Chrysalis said giving Twilight a worried look.
"Yes, Mother... It’s just that I wanted to be ready for Nightmare Moon, if the Legend is true, she was even more powerful than Princess Celestia, and it could be a very bad." Twilight commented, even though she know that the Elements of Harmony could return Nightmare Moon to Luna, this was something new, and she was not sure if she could repeat the same thing that happened the very first time she went to ponyville.
The images of her friends and the battle passed through Twilight’s thoughts and suddenly Chrysalis looked at Twilight her eyes widened in surprise.
"What was that?" Chrysalis asked.
"I think the spell did not disburse, I don’t know where these images are coming from." Answered Twilight
"I know that you lie, if you do not want to say it, even to me, your own mother, then it needs to be something very special. Just try to stay yourself and do not send those strange images of; Friendship to the hive, you already know that is for weak ponies and that they are all lies. True?" Chrysalis commented as she finished asking Twilight, she was not even sure about the answer because in front of her was Princess Celestia, her mentor, but at the same time she know that it was not the true Celestia but Chrysalis using a disguise, even if she was her mother. Also there was the hive, she could sense it that they were worried about their Princess.
"I know, and i have a reason for not speaking right now." Twilight says as she decided to leave through the door when she heard Celestia’s voice call to her.
"Wait, I do not know how true are those images are, but i know about Nightmare Moon, ask your PonyPet about the information and be ready to leave and search for those Elements of Harmony, I do not think that she can defeat me, but it wouldn’t hurt to have a Plan B." Chrysalis says to Twilight.
"Are you sure?" Twilight asks.
"Yes, You passed too much time in Canterlot because of me I think is best if you know a little more of the world outside, it would be best for you as Princess, but do not be fooled by the friendship of other ponies, remember that they are only food for the hive, the only friends you can have are your changeling servants... And if you try to expand your PonyPets, be careful, some of them could suspect something... Aside from that, you are free and I’ll cover for you here" Chrysalis finished but when Twilight was about to leave again Chrysalis added.
"Oh, yes... And congratulations, When did you learn to fly like those ponies do? Last time i was thinking you did have some problem in that disguise and because of that we decided to you be a unicorn not a Alicorn" Commented Chrysalis.
"I did a couple of class with one of those pegasus called Wonderbolts, I wanted to surprise you" Twilight lied again and before Chrysalis could speak, she left.
Twilight Sparkle looked to her flank even when it was true that she was supposed to only be a unicorn in the beginning, she trained very hard to use the wings, but for now she could not use them, even so she decided to go to Ponyville, she was sure that there she could get answers, but to do that, first she need to find Celestia who was supposed to be following her, even if Twilight have more flight speed than Celestia, she was supposed to appear near her, also that side of Chrysalis, when they met the first time, she did not seem like that.
Twilight sat and decided to relax and clean her mind until the little filly appeared from a window, as she flew with all the speed that her wings let her.
"Miss Twilight, I’m here... You left suddenly and I could not follow you, please forgive me." Celestia said but Twilight responded calmly.
"Not now, Now we are going to somewhere called Ponyville, I think that you left the Elements of Harmony there, right?" Twilight asks Celestia.
"Yes... I could not hide anything from you, I can guide you to them if you want" Celestia answered with a smile.
"First i’m going to meet the ponies there so I can see how they work and wait the perfect moment to get them, when I have their... Friendship" It was very hard for Twilight to say that, even when she was telling to herself it was an act, she did it so that no one could think something strange.
The little filly wait as she got under Twilight, something that Twilight thought was very strange.
"What are you doing beneath me?" Twilight asked.
"I thought you wanted to teleport there, so I prepared... Unless you want to be apart... Is it because I was a bad Ponypet that you want to leave me behind? I spoke when you ordered me not to, that is why you are leaving me and did not even punished me... It is because of that, right?" Celestia asked, almost ready to cry.
"Ummm... Yes... just forget about that, I will not punished you and that order... Okay?" Twilight said, Celestia turned and smiled brightly at Twilight.
"As a good PonyPet I need to obey, if your majesty orders me to forget that I forget it" Then Celestia’s horn began to glow for a couple of seconds, her eyes turning white, Twilight could only imagine what she was doing. She was going to clean her memory of that incident, just because Twilight asked her to.