"How did it come to this," A much older Chrysalis groaned in her bed. If you could call it that, in reality, it was a ton of her slime and webbing maid into a makeshift cushion. Remember how I mentioned she invaded Canterlot? Well, in the aftermath of taking a point-blank love blast, her entire army got flung all over Equestria.
It had been a few months since the attack, and the hive was still recovering. The main problem had been all of the changelings who survived the fall had been in different areas, and of them even fewer actually made it back to the Hive without getting arrested, mauled by wild animals, sat on by a dragon or worse. After a headcount, apparently only a couple hundred of the five thousand changelings made it back in one piece.
Chrysalis was now thoroughly enraged with the ponies of Equestria, especially Twilight Sparkle and Princess Cadence. She'd spent years building up her army to take the Equestrian capital, and her plan was undone in a matter of seconds! What was worse is she was still recovering from the injuries both the blast and the fall had given her. So far the royal medic had diagnosed her with a broken leg, pierced wing and a few blows to the skull, but he'd yet to go over all the data yet. In the end, the queen was told to stay in bed until she was fully healed, after that it would be best to begin rebuilding the population they'd lost in the invasion.
"Urgh, I knew I should have killed that stupid unicorn when I had the chance," She grumbled in rage, "Of course, I remove the Elements of Harmony from the equation, then they turn my food against me!"
The Queen growled as she heard a knock at her wall.
"Come in," she said in an annoyed tone. The wall opened revealing a Changeling with a light grey mane, white shell, and cyan eyes, "Ah, Antivenom, I take it you've good news?"
"Good news, Bad news, and Worse news, I'm afraid," the medic replied as the wall closed behind him, "Which do you want first?"
"ugh, Good news," Chrysalis answered, she'd had much too many negative thoughts on her mind.
"Alright then, the good news is your Injuries should be fully healed within three months..." Antivenom said, "Or they won't."
"Awe, good, I can finally get outta-" Chrysalis realized what her medic had just said, "What did you say after that?"
"Oh, that's the bad news, if they don't heal within three months, it looks as if they won't at all," Antivenom said nonchalantly.
"So I'll be bedridden for the rest of my life?!" the queen asked panicked.
"No..." Antivenom replied.
"Thank the mothe-" "you'll likely die soon after," the royal medic cut her off. Chrysalis donned a face that basically said she was ready to rip his eye's out, but forced herself to be calm, "fine. I knew this day would come eventually. Find me the changeling who poses the highest chance of producing a Royal egg."
"Um, before I do that, you may want to hear the worse news," Antivenom replied.
"Worse news? I thought me dying was the worse news!" Chrysalis screamed.
"um, no, just the bad news," The medic clarified.
"THAN WHAT'S THE WORSE NEWS?!" the queen's patience was at an end.
"you're... infertile," Antivenom was now up against the wall, praying to the first mother he'd make it out of this alive.
Chrysalis stared at her medic, "what?"
"well, forgive me for saying, but during the Canterlot invasion, the blast from the princess of love... compromised your uterus," sweat rolled down Antivenom's face.
"Get out," Chrysalis said quietly.
"but shouldn't I-" "GET OUT!" The Queen did not allow him to finish. The wall opened behind the medic and he took his chance to escape, leaving chrysalis to her thoughts.
That was it, The Hive was doomed. Chrysalis was going to be the last queen to ever rule it. They didn't have a high enough population to last without a monarch and three months was not long enough to select a proper replacement. Though, what made Chrysalis feel the worst, was that she would bear no more children. The few eggs they had left would be the end of it, if she would even live to see them hatch. She hadn't felt like this since the Griffin War, when they were unable to save every egg. How scared she'd been when... they had almost gotten her heirs.
it was then that her mind went to a place it hadn't been in years. To Four, adorable newborns... newborns she had to send away.
Chrysalis leaped out of her bed, despite her broken leg which was held in a cast-like cacoon. She began to half-hazardly walk forward, she needed to find her babies.
Her horn glowed bright green as she began to search the continent for Scorpia's aura. Once she found her, the heirs would not be far behind. after minutes of searching, she zeroed in on the neon yellow aura, Scorpia was in the inland... dangerously close to Canterlot...
"No! I don't care about the risks, I'm finding my babies!" The queen thought. Her own aura flared as she teleported to where she felt Scorpia's presence. When she opened her eyes, she appeared to be in somepony's home. The room around her decorated in yellow walls with flora patterns painted on them, a comfortable looking couch and pictures of a mint green unicorn and sand-colored earth pony with a pink and blue mane.
"ok, looks like she's been posing as one of these t-" Chrysalis's train of thought was derailed by the sound of screaming. She turned to see the earth pony from the pictures behind her with a look of terror.
"You're... Y-You're..." the pony tried to force out, before a pan engulfed in yellow aura hit her on the back of the head, "Sleepy."
The pony fell unconscious revealing the Unicorn from the pictures holding the pan, unlike the first pony, she gave a bow, "Your majesty."
"Scorpia?" Chrysalis questioned.
"Of course," the Unicorn said before shifting into a changeling with yellow eyes and mane with a mint green shell, "sorry about my... partner's reaction, she isn't exactly aware of my insectoid origin."
"Partner?" the queen raised an eyebrow.
"A bug's gotta eat," Scorpia replied, "at some point I constructed a false identity, a unicorn named Lyra Heartstrings. I've been using it to keep an eye on your daughters."
"Hey, wait a minute... weren't you one of the ponies I brainwashed during my invasion of Canterlot?" The queen asked as she recalled her three bridesmaids.
"eh, things happened, I didn't exactly realize you were Cadence at the time," the drone shrugged, "I was mostly there because one of your daughters was in the wedding and I had no idea the one who made the threat against Canterlot was you. So... you finally came back for your kids?"
With that, Chrysalis' look of suspicion was replaced with one of sadness, "Oh, I can't believe I forgot about my babies, I expected to come and get them within a year, but now! There likely as big as a normal changeling!"
"Believe me, sis, they are," Scorpia laughed. Yes, Scorpia was what Chrysalis would consider a sister as they were both conceived when their mother, Queen Coccinelle reigned. Though Chrysalis was the one to take the throne, she always did treat Scorpia like family, "you ready to meet em?"
Chrysalis wiped a tear from her face, "better late than never."
"good," Scorpia said resuming her "Lyra" disguise, "but I wouldn't introduce them like that, I knew I wouldn't be able to raise them on my own so I stashed em with some pony families... I think it's best we tell em together."
"let's," Chrysalis said before donning a disguise of her own.
"Believe me, they are A lot like you," "Lyra" said gesturing the door. It was time for Mother and Daughters to meet again.