Mandible watched as twilight was being held back by spike from the bookshelves. "This place is made to protect the books and if an angry energy surge is detected well..." Red energy hit; she fell to the ground paralyzed. "I'm starting to feel like we're doing rehab for a book addict." Spike nodded.
Spindle came and saw the paralyzed Alicorn. "Let me bet she got angry?" The two nodded. “The books can’t be read without approval from the emperor and empress.” She tried to take one book only for it to teleport back to the shelf. “See?” One book fell from its place and twilight opened.
We walked through the small village of Equestria and the rumors were true, the pillars was gone. I spent eighty years in a war against the other queens and kings. I and vehemence were the only changeling monarchs left. “Will it just repeat itself?” Vehemence looked at me while eating an apple pie.
She looked around. “What? Ponies dying? Of course, I mean unless you have an immortality spell.” She said taking a bite out of the pie. “We need to figure out how to make pies like these!” She said smiling as she chewed her pie. I smiled at my wife's nativity when she’s not planning conquest.
I sighed and looked at the ponies. “No, I mean another war, another conquest, and this time with Equestria.” She stopped and shakes her head shocking me.
She took another bite. “The next step is spreading our little ones and just enjoying the fact that other changelings won’t rip my heads off while I sleep. Taking the emotion from every little creature living their normal days and make sure they take only from one emotion so they don’t get into arguments.” She took another bite. I looked at the ponies a single colt walking the streets. “What’s wrong?” I sighed the colt’s mother pick him up and place him on her back.
I looked at my love. “I never had parents and now I will have to actively raise daughters.” She held me close reassuring me and I decided to change the topic not wanting to worry about the future. “I was hired to kill the queen of the sea ponies, but I failed because of the pillars and now I can’t take revenge on them for ruining my reputation.” Vehemence nodded taking another bite.
She swallowed. “We could travel the world, the hive will run its self and I want to see some sights before I have to go into hibernation.” He nodded. “Plus, what if they return? You would have a second chance.” She drank a cup of tea. “You wouldn’t want to be dull when you face them again.” I laughed the dead don’t return only their memories.
I used my magic to take a piece of the pie. “The crystal empire is beautiful this time of year.” She took the pie back and stuffed it in her mouth. “We should talk about table manners first though.” She smirked and started choking then cough after I hit her back and started breathing. “Chew first! You have enough teeth.” She laughed and scoffed a pie in my face.
I licked her face smiling at my empress. “Ready to see another empire?” She nodded and after walked far enough to change to Pegasus and flew to the crystal empire.
She sighed. “So free, so filled with love.” She said as we kissed. “It’s intoxicating, isn’t it?” I smiled at her.
“We should send chrysy here, she would be fed and hopefully stop her overambitious wishes.” I sighed.
Vehemence blew him a cloud of love. “Don’t fear, she will be satisfied here.” We embraced each kissing, a cloud of pink magical mist released from each other and— (“skipping this” Twilight said blushing heavily, but the book did as wished as the pages changed to show a different time. )
87 years after tour visit.
My oldest daughter and my oldest son looked at the remains of the crystal empire. “Sad, my daughter's place has been taken by a mad stallion—.” Spindle tried using her magic to create a dome of golden magic melting ice, but no matter how deep it melts nothing was there.
“Chrisy is mad! This was the only place that could have contained her ambition!” Mandible yelled before scanning the area, looking for where the empire was. “What will we do?”
I stood solid now a century-old I was tired and my love, my empress hibernating for the last fifty years. “We give the safest and most fruitful of lands, to rule. Her offspring will be able to feed and multiply, but if she disobeys our laws, she will be punished.”
Twilight read the diary and was shocked. “So he was going to place chrysalis in the crystal empire?” Twilight asked Mandible who nodded. “Then Sombra. If he didn't make the crystal empire disappear, chrysalis would have—“
Spindle came to them. “Ben Satiated, her ego pleased knowing she was the Queen of the crystal empire’s hive but sadly that wouldn’t happen.”
“I curse his name, I painted him so that he will never be freed!” He pointed at the mural Sombra in chains.
Spindle summoned a mirror that lead to a mirror watching Scythe with the pillars. “Oh, my father seems to have got his wish.” Twilight walked to see the pillars being surrounded.
“WHAT?!” She yelled as all the Changelings charged their horns and fired at them. “NOOOOooo!” She yelled before they all appeared in the library except Starswirl the bearded.
Maxilla stared at the magician he would smile now and now he had the opportunity to defeat his old target. “How I have waited for this! Defeating a fool like yourself.” The changelings spoke to in unison.
“Mind control is lazy, you’re nothing impressive.” The emperor’s horn glowed and in an instant, the changelings teleported to an unknown location. They both stared at each other, two being from the same era; one lost from history and forgotten from the minds of Equestria; the other remembered, honored, and celebrated by the citizens of Equestria.
There was no jealously or hatred for one another, yet there was an air of frustration. “Master of levitation. ” Starswirl’s eyes widened, blasted at the emperor changeling which was blocked with a shield. “So you remember me?” The bearded pony heard Maxilla’s voice in his mind again.
The bearded pony stared. “How are you alive? You should also be—“ He froze and realized that the Changeling emperor was true thousands of years, he started walking around him the scars and damage of a thousand years burned into his flesh. “So you turned yourself into this?” Maxilla shacked his head, showing his memories to the bearded wizard. “My fellow wizard, then a grand assassin, now emperor of the Changelings. Your life is odd as mine isn’t it?” Maxilla nodded the brown eyes showing no emotions. “Your greed for all forms of magic was your undoing.” Maxilla suddenly rushed in front of the Wizard, inches away from his face.
The library’s books started floating and pages flying and letters were removed from the books. “Twilight,” Spike Said worried as the letters moved freely through the air.
Mind world
It was a glowing world of glowing books and floating some falling like stars, as he forgot about something insignificant. Starswirl gaped at this world and then turned to a dark gray pony with a black and brown main and light pink eyes. “So showing your true form?” Maxilla chuckled as he teleported next to him and put his hoof around the grumpy wizard's shoulder.
“I have to say I lived a great life, While you were sealed in a different world; I learned magic that was beyond your understanding.” shadows formed around them before it turned into Licorice. “I was the lesser student but I was more devoted.” He said smirking as he summoned multiple beasts created through chaos magic despairing.
“True, but even then your greed fed into your current state! Your obsession with understanding, magic led you to become an abomination!” Maxilla laughed and that confused star swirls.
“Stygian the poor fool, I wasn’t as foolish I don’t see magic as power! I see it as a tool, not as power, he didn’t understand the magic whispering to him; control is power, the focus is the blade that leads to strength! Because of you, I lead a life for which I am ever grateful, I found love, I have a family, and all this because I wanted to make myself the ultimate well of knowledge. So please find a way to save my daughter.”
Starwirls opened his eyes to awaken in the greed hives library. “What is—” He saw that the other Pillars were being served snacks. “What are you doing? Shouldn’t we try to escape?” He then saw the near-endless library filled to the brim runes and books. “Whereas this place been hidden and— is that the dark collection, by Mythos the lord of Skia?” He said seeing the forbidden books and then turned to a different collection. “The chaotic writing star watcher the mad?” He tried to take it, only to be hit with a flash of light.
Twilight sighed understanding completely the feeling of having a good book rejected. “More hooves the better! We need to prove chrysalis innocence or else.” Spindle said before mandibles answered.
Mandible answered. “They will be reused in an acidic pool.” They all gaped horrified at the sentence. “Yes, so keep trying to find some kind of loophole!” He yelled before pulling out a few law books.
The discord team walked to a Traveller who looked extremely tired, she headed toward him. “Good day, could you.”Rarity said before suddenly the pony walked through her. “Aaaahhh!” The traveler looked around disappeared as a Changeling soldier teleported him.
The soldier Changeling glared with bags under his eyes “You’re within the territory of queen Dopamina, she doesn’t approve of—“ He suddenly fell to the ground snoring.
Fluttershy looked at the spirit of chaos. “Um, discord could you look for the hive entrance?” He flew upward to find the requested location.
Discord found the hive’s entrance a circular platform and they stood on it to have the platform float down slowly. “Huh, this was—“ The crew saw the nearly endless amount of Changelings on the dome-like entrance.
“In tarnation.”
Discord changed to wear the gear from Aliens, but what was weird was that all the Changelings were all asleep and seemed to be dead. He pulled out the scanner from ghostbusters. “With over 5 hundred thousand Changelings and a pony?” They looked at discord. “This Place has weak magical protection.” The platform stopped and they continued and then one of the Changelings of fell and rarity made a shield.
The crew saw the nearly endless amount of Changelings on the dome-like entrance. “Wait what?” Rarity said seeing time repeating. As Discord transformed to wear the gear from alien. “This happened before!” The Changelings all awoke, growling their white yellow before the fire. Fluttershy grabbed applejack and tried to fly away but time repeated.
Rarity was about to yell in shock again but was stopped. “This Happened before.” Flutter shy said looking at the sleeping changelings. “Sorry.” Rarity nodded as they continued she stopped everyone before a Changeling fell on them.
Rarity pointed at the sleeping Changeling. “Um, that happened already.” She said worried about her next step. One Changeling screamed which caused all of them to scream; awaking the other changelings as their subconscious didn’t know who these screaming creatures were and all eyes opened flew at the origin.
Apple bucked at the wall causing the ceiling to collapse and block the entrance; she blinked and she was back on the platform. So it continue but this time apple jack held Rarity and Fluttershy. “This Happened last time and what have y’all have seen?” They started talking with each other recounting their experiences.
All noticed an inconsistency and discord chimed in. “It seems we’re in a time loop at least in this hive.” He turned into a groundhog digging through the wall to the surface to find the sun had continued to move enough that he could say an hour had passed. He teleported back only to find himself back on the platform and he flew out to find that an hour had passed outside.
After the events repeated, he started to explain “Ladies, we’re stuck in a trap.” They all looked at him. “Time is here repeats if we— I don’t know, this place is made to punish and stop anyone, but I know that only the caster, knows in full when time repeats.” That turned out to be true when a Changeling queen with a mane of white looked tired. “Oh hello.” Discord said before fell on her stomach crying, a buzzing sound was heard in her voice.
“Well that is odd, darling are you alright?” Rarity asked not getting close as her experience with Changeling queens, Fluttershy petted the queen.
“Why’re a crying?” Applejack said suspiciously and bluntly.
The queen sopped. “Your friend has so much joy! It’s like hundreds of foals waking up to hearth's warming eve!” She returned to sobbing.
“Why is that a bad thing?” Fluttershy asked confused as the others.
“Do ponies get tired after eating too much?” They nodded. “That’s why! And your friend is just adding more and more!” Another Changeling fell and groaned rubbing his belly and many joined the first. “Take her or else I will turn her into a beetle!” Her voice turned venomous buzzing turned from a mild to that of a hundred wasps.
They all gulped Fluttershy pitied the queen and her children. “Ok could you bring our other friends.” The queen's horn glowed and brought a pinkie pie frozen in yellow Changeling extract only that she was in a solid block.
“After an hour of time repeats, I had to put her on time out!” She said. “I threatened her with my entire army and guess what! One said he knew her from clown school and the joy went back up! Isn’t that right rudo?” She said glaring at one with a clown nose who pressed it even when he was about to explode. “Oh no!” Pinkie exploded from the crystal.
“Ooohhhh!” The queen stuffed her hoof into her mouth.
“ALL AWAKEN! TELEPORT, CHARGE FIRE HIVE OF MYRMECIA! THEM TO THE STADIUM!” They all fired at the ponies and one creation of chaos.
Twilight and Starswirl going through the law book which had some laws but one was the oddest. “The law of brood.” They read out loud.
Spindle sighed. “It’s a law saying that if a Changeling reproduces a being that doesn’t look or act like a Changeling, then they should be left when the drone returns to the hive, as they’re not part of the hive anymore.” Starswirl eyes widened.
“This is the clause! The reformed Changelings aren’t like changelings anymore! They don’t need to feed on love; so they’re not changelings!” Spindle transformed to look like a reformed Changeling.
“Oh, I’m removed my shell is gold and my main is like silk! Yea the problem is the ruler charm.” They looked at her.
Spindle explained by showing, as every Changeling in the room dusting or serving eyes took a gold tint. Mandible was the only one who didn’t show this. “The ruler charm is a last option defense charm, which the queen or empress takes control of the hive, though it is hard to use, I mean my father can take control of everyone and his eyes turned brown turn it into a dance party!” And slapped himself and started to dance before falling on his stomach.
Meadow was the first to say. “So that’s what happened to the Changelings?” Mandible stood up rubbing his head.
Spindle. “Yes, though that only worked because chrysalis was unconscious, otherwise she could have fought against it.”
Mandible laughed. “Not like chrysalis can even use the charm! Father took a year and her best was one Changeling.” Spindle glared at him. “Even then Changeling from each hive is different. The hive Freia of joy, her Changelings breath out laughing gas, Myrmecia the rage; her Changelings are armored to the teeth and can stand dragon fire. Emilia's offspring have venom that can cause creatures to have horrible nightmares, mine all have a mane that looks like gold, and glistens with a golden shine. Archana's offspring look rotten and their body is covered in an antibacterial smile, Cocoon she’s adorable and defenseless causing pity so will her offspring once they’re grown. I don't have holes in my legs nor does Meryria but the rest do because of genetics.
Twilight growled. "Then how are we going to stop the reformed changelings from being turned into soup?!" Mandible shrugged.
Spindle summoned a chair and sat down. “Why are you showing so little for your fellow Changelings?” Meadowbrook asked not understanding apathy.
Spindle closed her eyes trying ignore the ponies, Flash Magnus joined. “Yea, they’re your brother and sisters! You should show some kind loyalty to them.” Spindle screamed at Magnus launching him off his feet and a Portal formed behind him sending him to a different place.
All the pillars looked shocked. “Why should I show loyalty to traitors?! Why should I worry about a sister who separated herself completely from us?! She betrayed us and I am ecstatic that the brat was stabbed in her back.” Her voice dripped venom, her lips trembled before he breathed out a fog of golden dust and disappearing to her Chambers.
The stadium cheered, some whistling at the newly arrived lovely mares. “Dance for us!” One dumb change said before hit with lighting from the queen.
Discord snapped his fingers still haven’t learned his lesson, to have his hand explode and his mouth was on the other side. “You’re desspicable!” The entire hive burst laughing so did the queen and the guards.
Discord and the others looked at a open door. “Let’s run gals.” Applejack whispered and they did as told running to the door to find a gladiator who chopped discord’s head off. “Aaaaahhh!” He carried the head.
“If you need some rest follow me, My duals are over.” He said tired. “You’re lucky, to have one of my descendants with you,” they looked at other confused at his statement. “Our family always knew how to make friends with monster!” He laughed keeping discord from getting his head back.
“Um sir may you explain which one of us is your—“ he pointed that Fluttershy. “Oh mr.shy—“ He burst out laughing.
“Oh no! My name is Impetus Gladiorum.” He grinned while fluttershy was in complete shock the non-pegasus ponies didn’t understand, Discord was screaming.
Fluttershy shy remembered her history lessons. “Impetus Gladiorum, the pony who flies by muscle alone! Cursed to never be touched by magic.” She said her mind racing remembering the battles recounted by their teachers; time before the tribes united he would raid castles and battle unicorn knights to get his curse, the best they could do were shoes that allowed him to walk on clouds.
“I beat that wizard a hundred times!” He said growling. “And I threw my walking stick into his eye!” He threw the head back on the body. “Now, rainbow dack is in the resting area.” They all followed the gladiator, mostly cause he seemed to be nice.