//------------------------------// // The Finale Part 2 // Story: My Little Star Butterfly // by Omegathyst //------------------------------// "W-What?" Discord stammered, his eyes wide and his ears flattened. "But Star? You seem to be so happy with me..." "I was but for the wrong reasons." Star explained. "I loved being the wife of the Element of Chaos and the power that came with it was unlike anything I experienced. It felt even better than being Mewni's Princess! But I didn't love you." "I thought I did..." Star's voice broke and tears fell down her face. "Tell our kids to let down the magic layer and take Marinette and take her to your dimension. The Changelings won't think to look there." "And what about the rest of our children?" Discord asked. "They were never supposed to be born." Star told him. "They will be getting the fate they deserve." "I can't believe you'd say that." Discord whispered. "Children! Let down the magic layer!" They did so with concern in their eyes. It turned into shock when Discord grabbed Marinette and snapped his fingers, the two disappeared in an instant. "Where's Dad going?" Discord Jr. asked nervously. "Why did he take Marinette? What's going to happen to us?" Chanel panicked. Star ran out of the Mansion and stood before hundreds of Changelings and several beaten and terrified ponies. Queen Chrysalis's eyes gleamed with satisfaction once she saw Star. "Bring your children here!" Queen Chrysalis snarled. "My Changeling spies said there's four of them and I expect all of them here!" "I told my husband that I didn't love him and he took one child and disappeared from Equestria." Star explained. "I never loved that one. She was so soft and gentle." Princess Celestia ran into the Mansion and came back out with Star's three children frozen still with a magic spell. The Princess flew onto Queen Chrysalis's cloud with Star's children still frozen in a bubble. "Someone bring Star here too." Queen Chrysalis ordered as she put black collars on each of her children. "These collars enfused with Changeling magic should keep these monsters from using their Draconequus powers." "No!" Nightingale cried in despair. Two pegasi carried Star onto the cloud and two Changelings hooked the collar onto her as well. "We should definitely kill the loud one first." Queen Chrysalis spat, pointing one hoof at Nightingale. "Changelings! Make sure Star doesn't close her eyes! She needs to see her disgusting hybrid children get killed one by one!" Star saw the Changelings staring at her intently to make sure her eyes were only looking at Queen Chrysalis standing over the terrified purple pony hybrid before she slammed her hooves into Nightingale's skull. Marco winced as he heard Star's daughter cry out and blood spattered from every side of the cloud above Ponyville. He didn't want this to happen! Queen Chrysalis would still bring destruction in her wake even after three of Star's children were killed. Wait! Fluttershy's in a cage in the Everfree Forest! I can find her instead of watching this horrible act. Fortunately most of the Changelings were on the cloud with their Queen so Marco could sneak out of Ponyville, and he was right at the forest's entrance when he nearly screamed when he felt a hoof on his shoulder till the hoof covered his mouth. "Relax! It's only the great and powerful Trixie!" Trixie whispered. "I have to go to y'know, my marefriend is stuck in that cage!" Marco had no idea which one was her marefriend but didn't debate on it when he knew they were both determined to save their marefriends from the evil Changelings. "So did you do things with the Starlight changeling till you found out who they really were...?" Marco asked as the two ventured deep into the forest. "Yeah, we kissed and made..." Trixie cringed and a tear fell down her face. "Turned out that Changeling was a male one too! He was trying to get me to turn straight...I immediately broke his neck with my magic and sobbed into my pillows. Why?" "We hadn't really told too many ponies but I'm dating Fluttershy and for the past two weeks it was this Changeling named Lisa." Marco sighed. "I wanted to know that I wasn't the only one fooled. Also I'm really worried Fluttershy is going to be upset, I wouldn't blame her if she broke up with me." "Fluttershy is one of the most forgiving ponies in Equestria!" Trixie reassured Marco. "It's Starlight that might get furious, she doesn't hide her feelings so she's definitely going to be upset." "Let's both hope they forgive us." Marco said with Trixie nodding in agreement. They went silent as they started hearing the Changelings hissing and laughing, which made Marco immediately burn with anger. Were they taunting their prisoners? Hurting them? "Marco stop!" Trixie gasped as Marco ran towards the noise and stopped behind several trees to see a Changeling with Marco's form in front of the cage taunting Fluttershy. "I love Star, why would I ever love you? You're just a pathetic, ugly, push-over!" The fake-Marco laughed. Fluttershy was on the cage floor sobbing. "Stop it! Marco would never say that!" Fluttershy cried. There was also a fake-Trixie taunting Starlight and a fake-Twilight taunting Starlight and Spike. Zecora was sitting in the corner of the cage by her lonesome looking very stressed. "There's a bajillion Changelings around the cage Marco!" Trixie whispered terrified. "How are we going to set them free?" "They're extremely easy to kill..but then how do we break the cage?" Marco kept thinking while trying to keep his anger at bay. Then the fake-Marco yanked Fluttershy's hair with his teeth and ripped off some of it. That was it. "GET AWAY FROM HER!" Marco yelled, he ran to the fake-Marco and immediately broke his neck. Dozens of Changelings sprung into action and leaped at him, but not before Trixie joined his side and froze them all with a magic spell. "Starry taught me that one." Trixie said proudly before looking at her marefriend. "Starry! How do we get you out of that cage?" "It breaks easily on the outside!" Starlight answered. "Marco! Hurry and kick the cage!" Trixie exclaimed. "I can only hold this spell for so long!" Marco ran to the cage and sent a powerful kick with his back hooves into the cage bars, sending them flying into the wind. Before he could turn around he was knocked over by Fluttershy, who was on top of him nuzzling his face. "Oh Marco! Being in there was horrible!" Fluttershy whimpered. "Are you OK?" "There's something I have to tell you...I was kissing a Changeling that I thought was you." Marco braced himself for her tears to resume but only felt her nuzzling continue. "Well what else would explain what took you so long? Marco, things like that happen with the Changelings around." Fluttershy explained before holding his face with her hooves. Marco saw Starlight and Trixie kiss from the corner of his eye and realized that there was nothing to be sorry about in the first place. "There is something all of you must hear if you will, the only way to stop this generation of Changelings is to kill." Zecora explained. "They'll never conform to love like the Changelings we knew...Trixie you have to let go of the freezing spell before you pass out. We can fight them." Starlight promised her marefriend. Trixie let go and shot magic beams at the Changelings that tried to go for Starlight. Marco jumped in front of Fluttershy and slammed his hooves into their bodies. "I'll get the others!" Spike announced before he ran for his life. Fluttershy followed him knowing she couldn't fight even if she wanted to. Marco and the three mares would have to fight the growing swarm of Changelings themselves. "Dad?" Marinette whispered in fear, looking at the black sky and floating buildings over Discord's shoulder. "Where are we? Why didn't you take my sisters or my brother?" "We are in Chaosville my dear." Discord sighed, he carried her to a empty floating cabin and the two entered it. "Your siblings are going to die." "What?" Marinette's eyes widened. "They may be mean and nasty but I thought you could change them!" "They're beyond anypony's hope, and Queen Chrysalis has probably killed them by now. If I hadn't saved you we would've been dead too." Discord explained. "D-don't cry Mari...we're safe here." "But what's going to happen to my Mom? My friends? Will I go home?" Marinette asked between sobs. "Dad, I want Mom back!" "Me too Marinette...me too." Discord sighed as he held his daughter. The two of both both felt hopelessness and despair as they sat in the cabin floating in an empty dimension. "Well, that's the last one!" Queen Chrysalis tossed Chanel's wing into Star's face and Star immediately shook it off of her. She walked towards Star with vengeful eyes when she heard ponies hooting and cheering with victory. "We killed all the Changelings! Yeah!" What?! Queen Chrysalis realized that Ali was the only Changeling still with her on the cloud holding Star down and looked to see Princess Celestia holding an exhausted Twilight while Applejack had multiple Changeling corpses under her hoof with Rarity leaning against her. No! How could I have not noticed?! What was even worse was that she could see the prisoners out and the Manticore was nowhere in sight. Ali looked at shocked as her and Star shoved her away. "We can still breed and create more Changelings!" Queen Chrysalis protested. "Double Rope Tie Spell!" Queen Chrysalis saw a magical beam shaped like a rope tie her and Ali up and saw Princess Candace holding Star's wand proudly. "My wand!" Star whispered. "How did you learn to use it?" "Trial and error mostly." Princess Candace shrugged. "Pinkie! Get the Dimensional Scissors!" Pinkie got a pair from her house and tossed it to Tom who flew to the cloud Queen Chrysalis and Ali were on and opened a portal with said scissors. Princess Candace put a infertility spell on the two Changelings and a spell that would forbid them from coming to Equestria or Mewni for a thousand years. "Maybe then you'll learn your lesson." Princess Candace told them before tossing the two into the portal. "Tom? Where did that portal take them to?" "The Underworld Zoo." Tom smirked. "Don't worry, they'll definitely appreciate it there. I attached a note telling them it was a gift from me. They probably miss me there after all." "Sure they do." Applejack laughed. Star saw Tom holding the Scissors and looked to her children's remains that were still on the cloud. She looked over the cloud and saw Fluttershy leaning against Marco lovingly. She knew she didn't belong in Equestria or Earth. She should be back at her home in Mewni...she still had a lot to learn. "Tom, cut a hole to Mewni for me. I can't stay here any longer." Star told him. Tom did so and many ponies ran towards the cloud. "Star! Wait!" Marco flew to the cloud and hugged her. "I know you're a Princess and that your parents would've found you eventually. So...goodbye Star. You'll always be my best friend." "Bye Marco." Star whispered. Princess Candace gave Star her wand back and Princess Celestia and Twilight watched as Star leaped into the portal. "Do you think she's learned her lesson?" Twilight asked her fellow Princess. "I should hope so considering that the Queen killed her children." Princess Celestia replied. "Time will tell."