//------------------------------// // Mission Report // Story: For the hive, my mom and myself // by Lighting Ace //------------------------------// Three weeks later After the last patient leave the office of the royal medic, and royal guard enters it. Both of them nods once before closing and locking the room and pulling out a green sphere. Losing their disguise as the sphere float in mid air. The ball shine for a moment before the face of Chrysalis show on it. "Hello mother" Chrysalis smirk when he see her daughters "Hello Tempress, Freya. How has the mission going?" "Kabuto has manage to successfully replace that moron of prince Blueblood and its currently feasting on those royal sisters love as we speak" Tempress says "Excellent" "Unfortunately…" Chrysalis smile banish when he see Tempress looking down in anger "…he is also starting to get rebellious, his reports are becoming vague, shorter and far between from one another, he is starting to make question mother intelligent questions. His time with the princess had started to get longer and unnecessary, and worse of all, he has let go multi opportunities to strike them down" "I see…it appear you two need to reminds him what is our cause and why does he can't show mercy" "We already try that" Freya says "We even test his loyalty to us, but its not used, the fool is getting clever and smarter by he day mom, we need to kill him while we can" Tempress sigh and shake her head "As you can see, Freya here is still set on going for the easy way out, instead of applying smarter solutions" "That might be true but your sister draw a fair point, Tempress what guaranty do you have of Kabuto cooperating with us?" Tempress show her the amulet that catch her attention. "This" "The amulet of the alicorn? Tempress do you know, how do that even work? one miss step and he…" "…will go nuts and start to attack everyone while his powers keep on increasing? Oh don't worry mother I'm well aware of that, that is why I propose a solution" Her horn shine and the amulet levitate until it reach Chrysalis eye level "Lets implement a mind control spell on this artifact, if the three of us combined our powers we can change the amulet and make it so that the next pony or human that used it turns into our submissive weapon" "Are you kidding me? Are we really going to rely on a piece of jewellery to save our asses? Now I know you lost it Tempress, there is no way mother would agree…" "…Silence child!" Chrysalis interrupt her before looking at the amulet "As much as I share your concern in using suck powerful tool, your sisters draws an appealing proposition. The amulet would be used" She say before lighting her horn. "Now do as you are command and help us cast a spell in this gem" Freya grumble a little but complies and all three shot a energy blast into the amulet turning the gem from red to green "If it put your heart at ease, know this dear sister. Doing this will fulfil your wish too" "Oh?" Freya looks at Tempress with a raise eyebrow "After sometime pass, all this magic we are putting into the amulet will make it overload and exploded with its current user" "Oh!" Freya smile at the image "Are you saying that our dear old brother might still sacrifice himself for our cause?" "Wouldn't that be a true honour?" Tempress say matching her sister evil grin "What a shame, such powerful amulet could had have its uses for the hive, oh well, in any war sacrifices must be made" Chrysalis tells as they finish the spell and Freya picks the amulet. "Once you capture the royal sisters, come back to the hive with them, and leave you brother behind, I think his sacrifice must be witness by as many ponies as possible" "Yes mother" They repeat at the same time doing a small bow. Once satisfy Chrysalis nod and her image disappear, along side with the magic in the sphere that make it drop to the floor. "You really enjoy pass the time in here don't you prince?" A gardener watering some flowers tells me as I continue to pet a rabbit on my lap as I see the seeting sun "What can I say Oak Wood? Its relaxing" Oak can only chuckle and shake his head as he put the hose down "I swear Caeruleo, each day that pass you are becoming more and more like your aunts" Oak jokes as he turn to him "They also enjoy spending time in this place too" "Ah come on Oak, we both know that, that is not true, my aunties are very different than me in a lot of ways, and there is a lot for me before I could reach them" I chuckle along side him as Oak put his tools on a cart. "Yeah, you are still missing the wings" "Yeah I'm still missing the…hey!" I saw how Oak laugh and wave me goodbye as he leave "Don't stay up too long prince, we don't want to repeat the incident with princess Luna" I roll my eyes at the comment but never the least wave him goodbye "Goodnight Oak" "Night prince" Soon after I found myself alone to enjoy the setting sun. Closing my eyes I inhale deeply to enjoy the peace and quiet of the place. Awwww… And then exhale in annoyance when I heard the voice of my recent pain in the butt. Opening my eyes I saw how the creature that has being bothering since I start this mission just took the form of Fluttershy and was kneeling in front of me with big smile Ignore me, I'm just here to admire the image "What do you want Ellie?" I still don't think that is an appropriate name for me She then turn to Dash as she stand up And what is with all the cold? I though we will be friends by this point "That imply that you are real witch you are not" Aw but everything else that has happen is, don't you agree? She say sitting next to me The tea parties with Celestia, the stargazing with Luna, the sleep overs? the magic lessons? the trips to canterlot? A bit weird how good and real all of that felt, don't you agree? I just simple keep quiet and look away Je so you agree with me then "Say what you want, we all know that all that is just an act for me to get close and gather intel" Is it? I turn around to see her looking at me with a raise eyebrow with the form of Twilight. Lying to others is bad, but lying to yourself never ends well I get angry and put the bunny down before walking away. You can't run from yourself forever Kabuto, sooner or later you would have to face the truth "I'm facing the truth and the truth is that you are not real, so I shouldn't even bother listen to you!" I say turning around to face her only to see the bunny I was petting at me confused by my sudden outburst. I sigh and put my hand over my forehead "Please just ignore that I was just…having a bad memory" I try to breath when I saw some birds resting on my shoulder and nuzzling my check witch earn a smile from my part "Je thanks for cheering me up" Suddenly all of them fly off after hearing the voice of one of my sister. "Having fun?" Looking back I notices Freya and Tempress appearing from behind some trees in their changeling form. "Tempress, Freya!" I say in between cleches teeth as I look around if they are any guards of witnesses before turning back to normal "Have you lost your mind!?" I harshly whisper approaching them "If someone see you…" "Relax brother, we made sure that nobody saw us, we needed to see you in person" Freya say with a smile as I look at her suspiciously. "Besides there was a special reason into why we needed to see you in our real form" Tempress mention with a smile as she grab my right arm "Really? why?" "We needed to give you a excuse to get close enough so I could do this" Before I could process what was happening, Tempress had already put a bracelet on my arm with paralysed my whole body, I try to speak but no words were coming out of my mouth "I'm sorry Kabuto, but the way you were doing things, was a too slow for us. Now you are going to behave and be a good weapon for us…whenever you like it or not" "We have waited long enough bro, now you are going to do things our way" Freya say with a smile as I continue to look at both in shock "Oh don't look at us like that Kabuto. You would break our hearts" Tempress say with a smile as she put a hand on my check "After all we are only doing this for the hive"