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Well.... That just happened.
"Lenny!" Celestia's voice was filled with fear as she dived down onto the floor to check on her companion. Chrysalis however was stuck in the creature's paw and pinned between it and its neck. It took her a little bit as she tried to wriggle her way out and finally managed to do so thanks to a rather rough yank from Celestia.
She looked unhappy as usual. If she kept up at it the alicorn would get some serious wrinkles, "Thanks for getting me out of that tight spot. Uh... Dreadful pun unintended."
The alicorn gave her an irate glare but said nothing as she went back to checking on this Lenny, circling around the grand creators head. Oh if she could bring this thing back home her hive would be set for generations to come! Not only did it not have any sort of malice towards her but it instead seemed to adore her! From this brief exposure she felt decades younger, as if she had just broken out of her first molt. Ooh yes.
"Well it seems all she will have is a minor head ache when she wakes up."
Chrysalis returned to the present with a slight jump and glanced up at a Celestia hopping down from atop the giant's shoulder, "I am glad to hear this. I would certainly not wish any permanent harm to her."
"As opposed to temporary?" The amethyst eyes of the goddess were simmering with annoyance.
" Well pain does have its uses but too much of anything is bad Besides, You are twisting my words. I have no reason to see her harmed, not after that gift." She shivered in delight, "I think I am set for at least another week just from that little burst."
Celestia frowned and her elegant brows drew together in anger, "Lenore is not your personal feedbag."
Chrysalis laughed softly, "Your words not mine. Besides she wouldn't just be feeding me, I do have a hive to look after."
Suddenly the two were butting heads again, a snarl twisting the features of an alicorn and a cruel smirk upon the changeling's snout.
"Is there no end to your depravity?"
Chrysalis gave Celestia am exasperated sigh as she rolled her eyes, "I would love to get into this with you but not really. Do you think I am some cliche villain that tells you their whole mission and life story in some grand monologue just before they win? I'll pass."
"Win? Win what?" Her concentration slipped for just a moment.
And that was all the Queen needed. She pulled back just a little and Celestia was now just a little over extended with her horn locked against Chrysalis crooked horn. With it hooked around Celestia's she yanked back hard this time and caused the alicorn to fall over before she stood over triumphantly. "With our little power struggle of course. What? Did you think I was planning on conquering Equestria or something just as ridiculous?"
Celestia growled as she got to her hooves, "Well you were idiotic enough to try it the first time around." She had to restrain herself from rising to Chysalis' bait time and time again. The alicorn took in a deep breath to calm and center herself. She knew why the mare before her got under her skin so easily, it was as much as pride as it was protectiveness. The queen had threatened her ponies with enslavement and made her look weak in front of her subjects. She wasn't sure which was worse and that scared her.
Finally, all emotion was in check. She was like a void to Chrysalis' emotional sense and drew up accordingly, her smug attitude gone and replaced with something a bit more wary.
"Yes well we all make mistakes at some point. Some bigger than others."
Celestia shook her head, " Time for a change in subject. You still haven't answered my question. More specifically you haven't given me a truthful answer."
Chrysalis sighed seeing that she wasn't going to be able to poke anymore fun at Celestia and get an entertaining response in return. She turned and flew back onto the desk with the bed she shared the night with Celestia. Aside from the rather rude awakening it was a glorious night of sleep.
She heard a light flapping of wings and soon enough the equestrian embodiment of the sun was there with her, "Are you going to avoid answering now?"
Chrysalis shook her head and climbed upon the bed before sitting down, "No, Just getting comfortable. Something tells me your questions are numerous and I don't really want to stay on my hooves to answer all of them."
"On my bed?" An elagant brow raised.
"What? I don't have a problem sharing." She patted a spot next to her with a smile before she was rather rudely grasped in Celestia's magic and dumped upon the desk only for the alicorn to take her spot.
"Yes well I do when considering you."
Chrysalis sighed but did not try to regain the bed, some battles best left as they were. She looked about for a place to get comfortable and bundled up a rag to lay on, "Now what was your question?"
Celestia let out a sigh and leveled a cool glare at Chrysalis," How did you get here?"
"Well that's bit of a story." The changeling walked in a little circle on the rag with little stomps before settling down like a cute, hole riddled, misanthropic cat. Celestia was pretty sure she heard some purring as well. "To make a long story short she just used the sun's connection to you to send me here to pick you up."
"I am sensing a "but" coming along."
Chrysalis shrugged, "Your prized student may be one the most if not the single most powerful unicorn in the history of Equestria but she is still just that, a unicorn. Even with the backing of two other alicorns at her disposal sending me here was quite the ordeal in of itself."
Celestia frowned and sat up a little straighter, those violet eyes of hers analyzing the not quite valiant mare, "And why would you volunteer for such a thing? So many unknowns let alone the... dislike shared between races."
Chrysalis giggled in a sickly sweet way, "Well I am thinking a bit more long-term, especially when such high risks bring a possibility of high rewards. Though I may have just found the best thing to bring back."
Her gaze drifted to the limp human just as Celestia connected the dots, "Oh no you dont. This a sentient being, not some hive resource for you to exploit!"
She smirked, "To use your own words, what makes you think none of our resources enjoy being... exploited?"
The alicorn's face became as expressive as a slab of granite, "Regardless of whether or not such things are voluntary I will not allow you to take her."
"Oh then have I missed something? Don't tell me that you have already claimed her as your own?"
"What-no! She has her own mind to choose who she loves." The granite was cracking.
"Then she is mine and I claim her for the hive." Something clicked in the changeling's head. A certain phrase of words she could have fun with. "Of course I may on occasion may need to borrow your face, no fun in wooing some-" she glanced at Lenny unsure what to classify the giant as, "thing that is already attracted to you."
"Like I would allow you to-"
Chrysalis have her a cheeky grin and cut her off, "Can't stop me! But I do promise to wait until we all return to Equestria. Which will be soon... hopefully."
Celestia messaged a temple, eyes closed as she spoke, "If I were hundred percent sure your death would not impede my way back home there would be no hesitation in a quick, preferably painful death."
The changeling waved it off with a hoof and a smile, "There you go being sexy again with all of your sweet promises of violence."
Celestia let out a sigh, "You are the worst."
"Not compared to you."
"All offense meant, I truly hope our time together is short."
Chrysalis shrugged off the insult, "Yeah about that. Remember how I said months and you said weeks. She may already be conjuring the spell to bring us back. Assuming of course that the apparent time differences hold true."
Surely they could be civil until a now very real rescue could come around.