There is a definite difference between the wooden creatures of my realm. Some are golems, others are Ents. While some golems may appear to be an Ent. No Ent is a golem. The key difference lays within the mind and soul of each. The best example being my Timberwolves, they are made of wood yes, but they lack a mind of their own, they are constructs built by me that obey my orders at a lack of regards to their own wants, because they have no wants or needs other than their primary directive, which has always been to protect my forest. An Ent, however, can think for themselves. The creatures who dwell in the ground within the system of roots, and those few ancient towering soldiers, who have waited for so long for their time to arise back up and march forward once more.
So truely the difference between an Ent and a Golem, is that one is sentient, the other is not. Thus one is expendable, and the other... Not.
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"Hello Twilight Sparkle." Chrysalis responded, taking up her royal demeanor, only it was tinged with almost tangible anger, "It is truly a pleasure to see you again."
"Where am I, and why did you take me from my bed you jerk!" Twilight demanded, as if she had any control of the situation, it was a pity to the Caretaker, for he could sense the immense amount of magic that was held within the mare as easily as seeing a rock through water, if that rock was a beacon. But it still didn't match up to his forests ecosystem, nor to the one tree that dwelled in his forests depths that he himself couldn't reach.
"You can hardly not expect to massacre an entire hive of changeling through your involvement at the wedding and not expect some sort of retribution in response, can you?" Without pause the changeling queen added in, "Or did you think every last one of us died when we hit the ground at mach five?"
Her last three words had enough venom in them, that even the caretakers gaze was momentarily narrowed down from the forest to the faces of the two mares, Chrysalis's facade had broke to the fury of a grieving queen, no, a grieving mother, who had their families murderers in their hooves. Twilights face was a look of shock, however, as if the concept of death was an impossibility to her mind, and that limit had just been shattered. "They.... died?"
Chyrsalis snorted, "What did you expect would happen when one is launched past terminal velocity out of control and crashes into the ground?" She continued on, her voice taking on a sickly sweet tone, "What that we would recover with only a few itty bitty boo boos and walk away with a lesson about good beating evil taught? Of course most of us died!"
She raised a hoof, as if to slap Twilight, and the purple mare flinched, for a moment the caretaker was about to intervene, when the changeling queen let out a shuddering sigh of extreme distaste and lowered her hoof. Twilight took this as a chance to speak, "I n-never knew. Celestia said you guys would land safely outside of equestrian borders in the water..."
"The Moonslayer has no concept of mercy for her enemies." The Caretaker interjected.
"Who was that?" Twilight asked, her eyes scanning around the room, bypassing the wooden statue entirely.
"A thousand years of 'peace' and ponies still fall for the most obvious lies from a mare who murdered family, and destroyed nations because they harbored a race different from her precious equines." Continued on the Caretaker, "Did your history forget the extinction of the true elk, the crumbling of the diamond dog democracy, or the decimation of the griffon empire?"
Twilight looked shocked, a tree was talking to her, an actual tree, "I..." she paused, "Don't know what you're talking about for the first two, but are you referring to how Commander Hurricane drove back the invading griffon empires from the newly established Equestria?"
"Drove back?" A deep condescending chuckle came from the tree, one dark enough that even Chrysalis had to resist the urge to cringe, "Invade? How precious, it was not the empire who was invading, rather, if you check their history, Equestria who was invading it." the elder forest guardian sipped his tea, "Their conquered capital is where the Moonslayer now resides, next you'll tell me that she made Aranea vanish from history and the origin of the spirit of chaos and disharmony a mystery."
"Aranea?" Twilight asked, "Isn't she a spider from an old mares tale?
"Tis but names now, the birds tell me all I need to know about your illusionary world of peace and tranquility."
"How do you know this?"
The Caretakers glare shut Twilight up, but he deigned to answer, "Because, as old as I am I was there to witness it before the Moonslayers wrath came to me as well." Unknown to him, the tree was starting to darken, bits of lose wood prying themselves from the wall and forming menacing spikes. But all too soon it vanished, and the caretakers body loosened, "I am done here, Cocoon. Tap the stump like always when you wish to return to your hive. I will come to you when I am ready."
Chrysalis nodded, and waited until the wooden pony was out of sight before commenting, "Quite a piece of woodwork, isn't he?" she all but purred, "to think with the aid of this new ally, I will make your genocide of my hive have an upside."
"What do you plan to do?" Twilight demanded and it was Chrysalis's turn to chuckle.
"All that I can do, dear Twilight. To capture the worlds largest source of love in Equis." She paused, "That is Equestria, if you didn't notice."
"Yeah." Twilight snarled, "Kinda did when you invaded Canterlot.
Chrysalis, unamused, merely ordered one of her guard to re-knockout the lavender unicorn, and commented, "Until our next conversation, goodbye Twilight."
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The Caretaker paced in anger, he had very nearly thrown a tantrum in front of his guests, it wouldn't do. He knew better than to use anger, yet why did the mere presence of the lavender mare infuriate him so. Was it those knowing eyes, or that goddess awful accent? She reminded him of someone from long ago, one who had teased him on countless occasions, but yet he couldn't place a name on that invisible face from memory, he really was slipping away within his forest, but he recalled enough to hate the mare who had put him in this situation, who had decimated his chance for happiness and cursed him as yet another tree in his endless forest. An endless forest that would soon recapture the true nature of the world, as well as claim both justice and vengeance from the mare who had waited so long out of reach from him. All he had to do was run some last tests on his new seeds. Seeds that were built for one purpose.
War.
Yes! I've waited so looong. and its still good!
epic but short still happy for the update!
I had a Humane Society ad at the bottom of the page, "Let's make a more humane world"
That's oddly fitting, seeing as this chapter is about the assorted cruelties Equestria has apparently inflicted on other races.
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4844966 but they were trying to get to the necklaces regardless during the wedding and previously the swarm recaptured them so that they couldn't use it.
4844962 Ever heard of something called genetic modification, or the flowers that bloom at night? His own garden should help with this.
4845237 a combination of the forest being a majority asleep at night(due to the sun being down, and the area around his forest being salted and magically reinforced previously to keep him away from the castle or growing plants to see inside there. The most he noticed would be what was happening at the bridge if anything. I'll address this in the future.
4845048 Yeah. what he said, some people often forget that Canterlot is their captial which is located on the side of a mountain, combined with its sheer size, the size of shining armor's bubble would be visible for miles. And we already know that you can see Canterlot from Ponyville (as seen in the wedding's first episode during the picnic).
I will keep addressing these things in the future, but if you have any more questions let me know.
5289902 Muwahahahahahahahahahahaha
I'm honestly hoping the do invade Canterlot successfully.
Oh dear lord, ok this is where the stupid train has derailed on this story. Yep, let's now paint the ponies as all bad and try to make us feel for Chrysalis despite the fact that she invaded.
Ahem... SHE INVADED. SHE intended to enslave Equestria. SHE kidnapped Cadance. SHE orchestrated the entire thing.
What else were the ponies supposed to do, for crying the hell out loud!!! And Twilight can't even come up with a half-assed defense while the would-be dictator insect is rambling about how we should pity her for getting her ass kicked? Hey, Queen Cockroach, let me tell ya a little story about a fascist dictator in our world and how we CRUSHED his nation in response to his vile actions.
Seriously, I can't take this anymore. And this stupid caretaker STILL hasn't figured out LUNA ISN'T DEAD!!!
And Twilight, naturally, is too plot-conveniently retarded to figure out what he's talking about despite it being obvious to a brain damaged toddler who might happen to be following along since she could derail his train of thought in an instant with 3 words: Uhm, Luna's alive.
5317387 in case you didn't read this entirely, the Caretaker is referring to the Equestria-Griffon war that was lead against the Griffon Empire by Commander Hurricane. AS well as Twilight possibly not knowing what the Caretaker is talking about due to a certain Alicorn having the ability to literrally order the rewrite of history.
5317735 Blah blah blah, still doesn't mean a damned thing with regard to Chrysalis, who wished to enslave the entire nation.
This Caretaker is being utterly retarded trusting a creature he's never seen before who clearly is as much an aggressor as he believes the ponies to be.
And it STILL DOES NOT ADDRESS the fact that Twilight had to say only the 3 words I've mentioned already to undo the entire thing. LUNA IS FRIGGING STILL ALIVE, Twilight knows this, it's BLATANTLY OBVIOUS what this moronic monster is talking about, and Twilight is plot-bound to be conveniently too stupid to figure out a metaphorical 1+1 = 2 situation.
5290117 That doesn't matter! REGARDLESS of the Elements, Chrysalis was defeated by Cadance and Shining Armor! THEY wielded a power she hadn't expected, THEY would therefore be in the forefront of her mind!
Ah yes, the convenient genetic engineering of night-blooming flowers.
Yep, because Equestria is clearly at the forefront of high-level genetic engineering. And because you've never apparently heard of Vitamin D and its rather crucial role in mammals and the FACT that most mammals require sunlight to manufacture enough of it via the photoconversion of the immediate precursor molecule. It's crucial to calcium sequestration in the skeleton. I mean, if you're going to blather stupidly about 'science' solutions, then I have the right to counter with a hard-science problem.
Never try to best a scientist in matters of science.
5322521 There are a number of flowers that can survive and grow without sunlight, a number of weeds as well for that matter. Some being German Primrose, A Moss Terrarium, Swedish Ivy, and Mint. Further on the matter you're questioning a world of magic for its technology.
As for Twilight's intelligence in this chapter, have you ever been awoken up and told something not minutes afterward? Combine that with the remainder of the anesthetics and unusual terminology and you have a recipe for disaster when it comes to reacting. May I point out that as evidence of the former, What Unicorn didn't notice that her horn, which is a major part of her, had flopped down when she first woke up, the day after contracting poison joke, until she looked in a mirror?
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Horns generally can't feel very much. Cuz they're bone. She might genuinely not have noticed with her hair covering it.
And flowers that need NO sunlight are all parasitic on plants that NEED SUNLIGHT.
Stop arguing with a biologist about biology. You will not win.
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Tell that to the clop community.
And also. Magic. The worlds best plothole where life in Equestria is involved. After all, how do Pegasai fly with their tiny in proportion wings? Magic. How do seeds suddenly erupt into zap apple trees and spawn full grown fruit in the span of a few days? Magic. Let your biology explain the existence of Timber-wolves(the tree kind) and dragons and then your claim can have an actual basis within a work of Fiction. If not, Let the writer do their thing.
Well then, hello Tyrantlestia.