Take this...
“NO!”
Every changeling in the room jumped as Stan yelled at his crippled queen. After realizing that, Stan recoiled and said, “I-I’m sorry queen, it's just that...It's just that I don't want to.”
“Stan…” His queen said. “You’re one of the few changelings who can still walk on all fours, you are perfectly capable to handle such a mission.”
“No, I’m not.” Stan looked around his fellow brothers and sisters, most of them we either sleeping, awake, or still in a coma, and almost all of them had a bandage on them, or a limb missing since it was no longer useful to them. Every single one of them were looking at him with eyes filled with desperation.
One of them craned his neck toward him and said, “Yes you are, ya got four legs, you can use them.”
Another one shouted, “And you have wings too, some of us only have one, even more have none.”
“And your eyes have depth perception,” Yet another said. “unlike mine which only has one eye working.” Another yelled.
Stan was darting his eyes around as his siblings continued to rabble. All of his brothers and sisters have been brought here to witness what plan the queen had after the Canterlot disaster, but after she told them about it, most of them thought she hit the side of the cave too hard, and her brain had come up with it while she was still dazed.
Her plan was a desperate one and it was too risky, but after some discussion they knew there was no other option. The only way their species could survive is by getting help. They needed to make a treaty.
They had taken a massive beating after that attack; only a small hoof full of changelings were able to walk after the massive surge of energy came crashing toward them, the only reason Stan was still standing was because a hole in his hoof decided to catch a branch before he could land on a pile of rocks. Unfortunately for him, a couple of his siblings weren’t so lucky at catching branches as they fell toward him, several of them landing on the rocks. Stan could swear he could still hear the bones snapping and cries of pain.
The queen raised a hoof, motioning for her children to stop yelling, grunting in pain as she did. One of her helpers, who was in the same conditions that Stan was, helped lower her arm to a more comfortable position. After a thankful nod to her helper she looked back at Stan. “Listen to me my child, right now, every single one of us is dying.”
“B-but you’re all gonna get better...Right?” Stan gave a weak smile and looked around, none of his siblings smiled back.
“I wish I could agree with you,” His queen continued. “but as you can see, many of us can't even move, even I can’t raise a limb without help.” She looked toward her helpers, one of them smiled while the other two looked at her in pity.
“But why me.” Stan pointed at one of her three helpers. “Why can’t she do it?”
The helper crossed her arms and looked her queen, making Chrysalis sigh. “She can't do it because she actually knows how to take care of a broken bone.”
Stan opened his mouth to object, but he closed it after realizing it wouldn't help. He didn’t know anything about being a healer, the only skill he had was sneaking around, he was glad to know his small size gave him that talent, now if only he had more muscle.
“And Stan,” One of the other helpers said. “besides us, the other three non-incapacitated changelings are too busy helping with the hatchlings; you are the only one who doesn’t have a job in this hive right now.”
Stan raised his hoof in the air. “I do have a job! I take care of...no...I uh, I do the...no...I guard the…” He lowered his arm in defeat.
“You have no job child,” His queen said blankly. “but this is something you can do, and it might just be the most important job anyling has ever done.”
Stan groaned. “All I’m doing is delivering mail.”
His queen turned toward one of her helpers. “Bring me something to write with.” She said. The changeling bowed and flew off; Chrysalis turned toward Stan again. “This is no mail my son, this is an important message, one that must be treated with the utmost care, remember that when you are leaving.”
Stan rapidly shook his head. “I told you, I’m not going.” He started thinking of a way out of this. “W-what if I got caught by the guards, they could lock me away forever.”
One of Chrysalis’ helpers came back with with a jar of ink and a book stolen from the Canterlot library. “This was all I could find my queen.” He said in sorrow.
The queen smiled. “That will do, my caretaker.” Using all her strength, she lit up her horn and levitated the jar and book to her, she took out a piece of her hair and used it as a quill as she wrote on the back of a page in the book. “Listen to me my son, as I said before, you are to take this to the princess up in Canterlot as soon as possible.”
Stan's heart skipped a beat once she said princess. He started thinking that giving it to the guards wasn’t a bad idea. “C-can't I just give it to the guards and have them deliver it to-”
The queen paused for a bit to relieve herself from the pain of using her magic. “No, I don’t trust them, if you give this to them they might just rip it to shreds, plus you said they could keep you prisoner, so you must give it to her in changeling.”
“But what if she kills me on the spot!?” Stan blurted out. He glanced around to see a few of his siblings give in awkward stares, even the queen raised an eyebrow.
“What makes you think that?” She questioned. “I know she might hate us for what we’ve...I’ve done...but I’m sure she will show some mercy if you tell her why you came.” She looked down and mumbled. “At least, I hope she will.”
“b-but..but..but…” Stan was starting to stutter, every part of him didn’t want to go, it wasn’t because of the long journey or sneaking through Canterlot, but it was because of the destination. "The princess...She'll-"
The queen put down the strand of hair and magically rolled the written paper “Stan, Please..Don’t make a queen beg for one of her subjects to help.” Stan stared deep into the eyes of his queen, he could see nothing but sorrow in them, he could almost see a tear too.
“Queen...Its just that...that princess…” He looked away shivered once he said that word.
“I’m sure she’ll understand. She has subjects as well,” Chrysalis looked around the room at her many changelings. “though they may be in a better state than us.”
Stan continued to shake, the more he thought about it the more he wanted to not go through with it. He heard all about that princess. His fellow brothers and sisters told stories about the white tyrant, and what she did to changelings who-
“Stan.”
He shook his head and looked back at Chrysalis. “Y-yes?”
The queen levitated the rolled up page to him. “Take this and go.” She said in the most serious tone of voice. Stan took hold of the page and gulped, knowing now there was no way back. “please go, go and...and...and...” Her voice started trailing off and her eyes started to close.
The whole crowd of changelings started shouting, “Queen? What's wrong? Are you alright?” in a mixture of voices, and before any could move, Chrysalis’ head collapsed on her resting bed.
Gasps were heard and voices started raising. Stan started backing up with the paper in one of the holes in his hoof. “Calm down everyling!” One of her caretakers yelled. “She just passed out from the pain, no need to panic. You!” Stan flinched as the caretaker pointed at him, every blue eye in the room was looking at him. “Go take that letter to her, and hurry!”
"But-"
"Do it for the swarm!"
Stan’s mind went into autopilot as he flew away from the scene, he kept flying past many of his siblings who were still bedridden. As soon as he was outside, he collapses on a nearby tree from the amount of stress and the small workout on his wings.
He looked up at the night sky and sighed. “Of all the changelings,” He said. “in all the world, she picks the one who has a fear of that.....hatchling eater…” He shivered once he said that, then he closed his eyes and drifted off into his deep slumber, not wanting to face the journey he would soon make.
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Wow this seems so similar to the idea I had.
Wut.
Good idea, i hope you handle it well.
4455737 Sounds like an insult for Celestia.
4455748 in that case, good.
In the description it shouldn't say "whom" but "who".
This gets all of my yes.
Have my YES!, All of them.
I like idea of this but uhh Stan approach to Queen and her to him was little strange, overall it was strange.
Interesting, looking forward to more
Neat story. Can't wait to see more.
4455737 he has an irrational fear off her, so he will clearely see her as a monster.
Queerest pic eva
I love the concept, but the Wall of Text is once again a very hard-to-conquer foe, vanquish it with the might of proofreaders! \
Who are not me.
This seems interesting. I guess I'll have to wait see where this goes next...
Of all the things to get hung up on, I'm having problems getting my headcanon to accept this story's idea that carapaced, insectile changelings have bones that can be broken.
My feed said that chapter two was up, but when I tried to read it, I got the "story does not exist" screen. Any idea about what's going on?
So, Chrysalis isn't a brute towards her hive? I always picture her being mean to them.
I shall fave this and see where it goes, as it has promise.
4455838
..says the wizard of no.
This seams intersting...
I want to read more of this... Only one suggestion.... Please dont make him pass out at the end of every chapter... I read a story like that once and it got a little annoying...
I'm not saying that you will do that and as this is only the first chapter, and he did just get though a failed invasion attempt! I can see him sleeping...
But I just thought I'd say... :)
4457948 What was the story called?
4457366
Hhm, I don't think they have bones exactly. However I think they snapped a peice of the namespace, and hence the breaking. Just my theory.
4457756 Maybe she has a thinking similar to some kind of Changeling supremacy. Like "Fuck all others, save changelings". That's the most realistic positive dipiction in my opinion.
I am going to watch you bra. Watching you.
I likey likey this.
i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/744/903/aa5.png Don't disappoint me on Know Your Meme
You know, I think he has a reasonable fear. I mean, Celestia is taller than most ponies, has a horn and wings and also happens to raise a giant fireball in the sky. Although I'd find it funnier and more ironic if a pony had Celestiphobia.
4458017 I cannot quite remember the name of it... I did not save it to my faves because I was not fond of it....
Come on, man. If you're going to use the cover art, at least source it. It took me five seconds to find the original artist on deviantArt.
http://abrr2000.deviantart.com/art/Too-Bytes-fear-376301252
Tense
There are more, you need to edit.
In the first 1/3rd, the lack of commas is disturbing.
...Stan is such a coward. Seriously, wow. That's just...
Your entire species, all your brothers and sisters, are crippled or dying, your mother/Queen is in so much pain she can't cast magic without passing out, and you're going "Why can't somebody else do it?" I just feel so much contempt for him right now.
That's a good thing. Lots of room for character development.
4461288 cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/32346144.jpg
This quote makes Stan so cute like a naive little kid. I love it.
Poor guy. He might have a heart attack before he even gets to Canterlot.
4464456 You dont know much about phobias do you? A phobia is when you have such an intense fear of something, that even mentioning it can cause the person to have a bad reaction. Like me, I have a fear of darkness, it is near imposible for me to go into any kind of darkness without a flashlight or a candle. If I was told to venture in a dark tunnel with no light to guide me, I would have a panic attack if I even stepped two feet inside.
This needs a bit of re-formatting. I don't think I've ever seen a fic on this site without spaces between the paragraphs, and looking at this I can see why.
Seriously, it's not even a bad fic, it's just that trying to read what feels like a wall of text is not only very daunting but is also giving me a headache. I can't bring myself to read the rest of it unless this is changed.
Of course, maybe it's just me, and no-one else cares
. But I'd appreciate it if you took the 10 minutes or so to fix it.
4550069 The 'wall of text' comes from the lack of spaces between paragraphs.
Think this:
Compared to this:
or something
FOR THE SWARM!!!
4550579 I don't understand why authors don't space them out. It's one of the things that I take as a bad sign that this won't be a great story.
Oh and to everyone who hates the wall of text, download the HTML and read that. Dunno why it's spaced out there but it works.
I imagine Stan also pictures Celestia as thus.
4572867
Sweet pic? What is it?
4575593
GO GO GADGET GOOGLE REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH!
It is a painting by Zdzisław Beksiński. You can find more of his creepy, surreal works here. "Room 10. Paintings." has this piece.
(His art does not strike me as that made by a happy person...)
This is the most gentle I've ever seen Chrysalis portrayed, and it intrigues me to read more~
4577683 To be fair, a broken body would change the tune of anyone.
Chrysalis isn't being a slave driver to her swarm, she's actually treating them with "humanity". It's funny, I can't recall ever seeing her portrayed quite like this before.
DO IT FOR THE VINE STAN, FOR THE VIIIIIIIIIIIINNNE
4662595 well this was definitelyy head canon so I am extremely happy!
skip to 3:40 on this clip.