The hive was in absolute chaos, Drones flew to the storage cells, where their Gel was being hold.The Knights tried to protect their HIve, without avail, the strange being kept on advancing, deflecting blows and striking with enough force to knock out, but not to kill.
They knew that the Princesses of the Sun and Moon knew of their location, they also knew that they were sending a patrol to deal with them.They didn’t expect said patrol to be a single unit, and to arrive a day before they were supposed to.
The last line of defence fell, and the strange being had gotten to the main hall.Every drone there stopped to watch it, fearful of what it was, of how it had dispatched a squad of the best their outpost could provide.
It had the form of a pony, shorter than the average Equestrian.A creamy brown coat, legs that went from said color to a more dark one, in a gradient fashion, a fluff of white, like a lion’s mane covered it’s neck, and on the back two brown wings were extended outwards.The head had two oval eyes, insectoid, like, their own, etched into a frown, and on top of it’s white mane were two antennae.
It turned to them.
“Did you really have to attack me?”
The question was not what they were expecting, but before anyling could do anything the strange being continued talking.
“I mean, I know you all were on your toes ‘cause Sunbutt and Moonflank are trying to get you all, but that doesn’t mean you have to attack anything that moves and doesn’t look like a changeling! really, this is like the third time this week...”
She, or at least they assumed so because of her voice, calmed down after breathing slowly.
“Whoever is responsible for this outpost, come here now! I have an offer for your.”
One of the Knights, one of the few that was still standing, limped over to her, they seemed to strike a conversation for a few seconds, before the Knight turned to the rest of the hive and told them to continue with the evacuation plan.
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Firefly, that was the name of the strange pony that had appeared.Knight Captain Blackshield had been guiding her towards a usable room that they could use for conversation, the female had yet to speak again, probably waiting for the right moment to tell him that she was going to kill them all or something equally as terrifying.
He liked to think that he was courageous and strong, a trait needed for the his job of Outpost Knight.He was supposed to keep the entire hive alive if something went south, and today he had learned that even with all his training there were things that no one could deal with.
They had entered a living chamber, his living chamber.It was easily one of the biggest ones, he tended to spend more time increasing it’s size, something that most changelings didn’t do, at least it would help.Maybe impressing her would spare him.
“This is the first time I’ve seen a chamber so damn big, not counting those of royalty of course.” She turned to him, eying his form before sitting on the ground, close to a table “you must’ve spent a lot of time building it.Uncommon, but then again this hive’s changelings are all strange in comparison.”
“What is your purpose here?”
“Straight to the point I see,” there she laughed, a strange laughter even in changeling standards, “You see, I’ve made a deal with your Queen, she was rather dead at that point you know? happens when one falls from the troposphere.Since she wasn’t in a mood to talk, and I didn’t want your entire race dying off because someone was too thick-headed to understand that these ponies are tougher than they look.So I decided to gather all the changelings that are stil alive and offer them someplace to stay, I would rather like having a City, and to have one I would need citizens.”
He was confused, to say the least.She was certainly not telling the entire thing, but even then her offer was quite good.Chrysalis had died that fateful day, and since then the entire Hive had been in complete disorder.Their collective mind was deteriorating, without a “hub” it tended to fall to pieces, and without their Queen they were completely directionless.
“Where’s the catch?”
“The catch is that you follow Me, My orders and that you do not, under any circumstance, attack other sentient life.Yes that include ponies.You have until sundown to collect all your vats of Gel, meet me here.” when she finished speaking her hoof moved to touch Blackshield’s head, information was forcefully shoved inside his brain; a location, a time-frame and a password.
“Why are you doing this to us?” he asked, his head hurting from the sudden mind invasion.
“I like to help, and as I said, I want to build a City.”