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// I Am Twilight Sparkle of Pony 
// Story: Resistance Is Futile 
// by bdoubleowo 
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The imposter Twilight turned to the ponies. “So, any questions?” 
Silence. Then Pinkie raised her hoof. 
Twilight smiled and pointed at Pinkie. “Yes, Pinkie?” 
“I thought the plan was to go get our princess back,” Pinkie said. “Can you say the new one again?” 
Twilight facehoofed. “Fine. The plan is, yes, to get Princess Celestia and rescue her from the Borg. But that’s a bad plan, Pinkie.” 
Pinkie pouted. “No, it’s not!” 
Twilight pointed at a certain spot in the diagram of the inside of the Borg ship. “This is where we’ll come in. We sneak around until we find Princess Celestia. Then we find her, take her back to Equestria, and try to return her to normal.” 
Rainbow raised her hoof. “Um, no offense, Twilight, but that plan sounds an awful lot like Shelby’s plan.” 
Twilight blinked. “Who’s Shelby?” 
Rainbow sighed. “Never mind. Pinkie, you should’ve never told me those facts!” 
“Why not? Those facts are interesting!” Pinkie said. 
“Not when nopony except you have heard of them!” Rainbow threw her hooves up, exasperated.  
“Calm down, Rainbow Dash.” Applejack had walked over. “I don’t get the reference, but yeah, that does kinda sound like a generic plan.” 
Twilight groaned. 
“How about this?” Rainbow flew over to the diagram. “We go onto the ship where Twilight says. But instead  of sneaking around, we totally let the Borg know we’re there. Then we rescue the princess anyway!” 
Twilight raised an eyebrow. “Um, Rainbow? Won’t that let the Borg know exactly who took Celestia and come back down here to get the ponies that did it- aka US?” 
“Well, it’s not like they wouldn’t know anyway.” Rainbow pointed out. “I mean, the Borg have only assimilated Celestia. Other planets wouldn’t be interested. Equestria’s citizens would.”
“But we’re not standing out!” Twilight said, clearly annoyed. “Equestria has like a thousand citizens. The Borg would take time to find the ponies who rescued Celestia, but with your plan, they would know it was us instantly!” 
“It’s not like they have magic…” Rainbow muttered, but was interrupted by Twilight. 
“Yeah, they don’t have magic. But they do have something called technology! And that technology can find things much better than Equestrian magic can!” Twilight shouted. She raised her hoof to her chest, then moved it to the side, blowing air out of her mouth as she did so. It was a tactic that her old foalsitter Cadance had taught her a while ago.  
The other ponies watched the Twilight-Sparkle-vs-Rainbow-Dash-Smack-Down with interest, while somehow Pinkie had gotten a bag of popcorn. She threw a piece into the air and ate it, then swallowed. 
“Yum!” Pinkie threw another piece up. “This popcorn is good!” 
Twilight and Rainbow stopped to stare at Pinkie. 
“Um, Pinkie? Where did you…” Rainbow began, but then stopped. She already knew the answer. 
“Done!” Pinkie finished the bag. “So, who’s winning?” 
“Uh… what?” Rainbow Dash asked her. “Who’s winning what?” 
“The fight between you and Twilight, duh!” Pinkie said. 
“We weren’t fighting.” Twilight butted in. “We were exchanging opinions.” 
Pinkie shrugged. “Call it what you want.” 

*Meanwhile on the other side of Ponyville…* 

“Oh, Angel, don’t you just love what I’ve done with the place?” Discord asked. He had changed Fluttershy’s cottage; the furniture was on the ceiling, and he and Angel were on the floor. Just the way he liked it: chaotic. 
Angel glared at Discord and shook his head.  
Discord sighed. “Fine. I’ll change it back.” He snapped his fingers, and everything went back to normal. He sat down on the couch and rubbed his forehead. “No one understands chaos anymore.” 
There was a knock on the door. 
Discord sat up, confused. “I wasn’t expecting anybody…” He stood up and walked over to the door. He reached for the doorknob when it turned, causing the door to open. In the doorway stood Queen Chrysalis. 
Discord raised an eyebrow. “Ah, Chrysalis. How nice to see you again.” 
Chrysalis sighed. “Hello, Discord.” 
“And what brings you to my humble abode?” Discord sat, and made a chair appear for Chrysalis to sit on. She sat. 
“I have come here to offer you a deal,” Chrysalis said. “I believe you know that Equestria is a target of the Borg? I mean, you were the one that told the ponies about it.” 
Discord had made a filled teacup appear, and had taken a sip of it when Chrysalis said the last part. He spit it out, surprised.  
“How did you know about that?” he asked. 
“Oh, Discord. You’re really getting lazy. I mean, in your prime you could reveal a changeling spy with a snap of your fingers. Now you don’t even bother!” Chrysalis laughed. 
“Are you saying that there was a changeling spy in the room at the time?” Discord said. 
“Maaaybe.” Chrysalis said, smiling knowingly. 
“Well, that explains how you knew.” Discord sighed. “Anyway, what’s the deal you wanted to offer me?” 
“We want you as an ally.” Chrysalis replied. 
That made Discord blink. “You… want me as an ally?” 
“Yes. Your knowledge of the Borg plus your chaos magic makes you an acceptable choice.” Chrysalis sighed. “Of course, the other, better choices were all defeated already.” 
Discord decided to ignore the comment about “better choices.” Then he remembered something.  
“Wait a minute. You said, quote, ‘we want you as an ally’, unquote. Who’s ‘we’? The changeling army? Or the changeling army plus something else?” Discord asked. 
Chrysalis sighed. “You’re more perceptive than I thought, Discord. I give you credit for that. But it won’t do you much good.” A form shimmered into thin air. Chrysalis smiled and pointed at the figure. “This is-“ 
“I can introduce myself, Chrysalis.” The figure spoke. “I am the Borg Queen. I was the one who asked Chrysalis to give you the alliance request.” 
Discord nodded. “So, you’re the Borg Queen. I was wondering when I’d get to put a face to the name.” 
The Borg Queen cocked her head. “So, you’ve heard of me?” 
“Oh, yes. An old acquaintance told me about you.” Discord knew what he was saying; he wouldn’t reveal Q to the Borg. The old Discord might have, but the new Discord wouldn’t – and he was the new Discord. 
“Oh?” The Borg Queen was intrigued. This meant that others had come to the planet before the Borg had arrived. Maybe the Federation, back in the Constitution-class starship days? She had heard that the original Enterprise tended to be assigned to many planets over its 5-year mission, mostly because they were the closest starship in the area. Of course, it could’ve been the Orions, Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans, Andorians, or Tellarites? Any creature? She shook her head. “So others have been here? Equestria, I mean. Not Ponyville.” 
“Yes, I thought I said that.” Discord said. “There was my acquaintance, the incident when a blue ‘police box’ fell from the sky, there was the time where Sunset Shimmer escaped into another dimension… I wasn’t there for the last one, but I heard about it from Twilight.” Discord shrugged. “Just another day in Ponyville.” 
Chrysalis sighed. “Fortunately, hive life isn’t as hard.” She walked up to Discord. “Let’s get back to the alliance request. What is your answer?” 
Discord started sweating, and he gulped. Whatever he said would either be bad for him, or for the ponies of Equestria. He exhaled calmly and answered her. 
“No.” 
Chrysalis blinked. “No?” 
“No. I won’t join you.” Discord raised an eyebrow. “That is my final answer, you know.” 
The Borg Queen smiled. “We’ll see. Good-bye, Discord.” With those parting words, she disappeared in a beam of light. 
Chrysalis glared at Discord.  “You’ll regret this, former Lord of Chaos. We’ll be back!” She too disappeared in a beam of light. 
Discord sat down on Fluttershy’s couch. “Angel… let us hope that our friends save the day like they always do. Otherwise…” 
Angel hopped up onto the couch and nodded twice. 
Discord fist-bumped the little rabbit and nodded also. “They’ll do it. They always do. We need to keep faith. They’ve got this! Together!”