Queen Chrysalis awoke with a startled gasp. She couldn’t remember much of the other night but she still recalled her attempted acquisition of a meal. A stallion, strong, tall, spoke little, earth pony, he was suitable for a quick meal. Chrysalis attempt at flirting was working very well on the young stallion, then nothing. This was odd as the queen never blacked out during an attempt to feed on a ponies love. She went to get up but couldn’t. The effects of love starvation were at least a few months away so she had plenty of strength left. Slowly she opened her eyes and finally noticed that all of her limbs and head were strapped to a large wooden table. This was also a new scenario, never has any creature been foolish enough to try to capture the queen.
Her horn lit up to remove the restraints but again nothing. Her magic worked fine but there was no change to the binds, she just couldn’t influence them no matter how hard she tried. This annoyed Chrysalis, not only did some creature ruin her meal but they had the audacity to retrain a queen such as herself to a piece of wood, something was going to die today.
She craned her head as best she could to survey her whereabouts. The walls to her left were lined with various chemicals, possibly for alchemy. To the right, various tomes stood. From the writing the creature that owned them was meticulous in their organization. Above her head rested some new contraptions she has heard of, the ponies called it a “computer” if she remembered correctly. That is when she noticed the machine was also connected to her head. Possibly to read my mind and steal secrets about my race. What impudence! She thought to herself.
She tried to wriggle free a few more times alternating between magic, her brute strength and various combinations of the two and despite her best efforts the bindings would not budge. She let out a sigh and mumbled “I suppose these fools want to kill me with boredom. PAH! I am a queen and this cannot break me.”
A few hours pass until a door opens, the light obscures who the creature is as they come into the makeshift lab. The bound queen snarls “You dare interfere with my meal, then bind me to a table and have the nerve to keep me waiting!? Your suffering will be legendary once I am free.” The figure just stood there and examined the changeling and with little care to her threat just put a coat on and closed the door.
This creature must be mad not fear me, the queen of all changelings. They slowly walked into the room, carefully checking everything, possibly to make sure everything was in place or annoy the queen further. “Did you hear me whelp!? Unleash me and I will ensure your pain ends quickly!” The creature glanced over to the queen and gave her little regard but eventually came into the light. “Oh Chrysalis, you are tied up right now and I know you have tried magic and your strength to get free. We both know you are not going anywhere.” That sickeningly sweet voice, why was Cadance here?
“You dare ponynap me? The queen of the changelings?!” Chrysalis all but roared at her captor.
“Well technically you aren’t a pony, so its hardly ponynaping. Not to mention your subjects don’t recognize you anymore, so your title is pretty much ornamental now.” Cadance grins with the muster a pretty pink pony princess can muster.
“A trivial set back! Once I am free I will get my revenge on all of you cursed ponies! And that scoundrel Thorax, he will suffer greatly!” The binds that held her in place vibrated with her rage, keeping her nice and snug.
“Oh Chryssi, don’t you get it? You are not going anywhere, you are my special little plaything right now and I plan on getting back at you for all you have done to me.” Her manic grin did not set the queen at ease, but now is not the time to show weakness to a pony.
“You can torture me all you like! I have been through worse than even your sun princess could manage to handle!” Her defiant declaration echoing off the walls would have been impressive would she not be completely tied up at the moment.
“Torture? Oh Chryssi, ponies don’t do that nasty thing anymore. Such a barbaric way to get revenge. No, I have something much more entertaining for both of us!” Cadance chirped as she started to bring in various large chests with her magic. They rattled as various pieces of metal collided as each chest was unceremoniously plopped to the floor with a dull thud.
“DO YOUR WORST KNAVE! I AM THE QUEEN OF THE CHANGELINGS AND ALL WILL SUBMIT TO ME IN TIME! I WILL NOT BREAK!” Chrysalis roared to the heavens, defiant to her core she braced herself for whatever horrors this pink harlot was preparing to do to her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~several hours later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Celestia, Luna and Twilight were all sitting in the garden, enjoying the latest shipment of tea from Zebrica and snacking on the delectable delights of Donut Joe’s confectionary delights. All was clam until another loud scream of agony left the chambers of Princess Cadance.
“Sister? Do you think we are being too cruel to Chrysalis?” Luna inquired as she casually dipped her Bovarian crème donut in her tea.
“Hmmm, no I do not think so dear sister. Chrysalis wronged Cadance so it is only fair she get to roll out the punishment.” Came Celestias reply as she daintily sipped her tea. “In fact, I do believe this is good for both of them, it will foster good relations by putting them on even playing fields in terms of wrongs perpetrated on the other.”
“Yeah….. but you can hear those screams? Cadance must be implementing a truly awful punishment, and she hasn’t even come out to tell us she’s done!” Twilight wore a worried look on her face, mostly for her sister-in-law’s wellbeing.
“I suppose you are right, eight hours might be a bit long for crashing a wedding.” Celestia intoned as she teleported two donuts into her waiting maw. “I say we go give them a visit.”
“I wanted that last jelly filled donut.” Luna pouted as all three made their way up to Cadance’s chamber.
The three princesses arrived at Cadance chamber door and just as Twilight was about to knock another scream was heard. “NO! LET ME GO YOU HARLOT! I AM NOT YOUR PLAY THING!” screamed the defiant queen, still unaware of her position in this. “Oh Chryssi it’s okay, you don’t need to hide it. Just admit you like this and we can be the best of friends. Gasp! Maybe even girl friends when this is done!” The pink princess chirped happily, a little too happily.
Celestia gave a nod to Twilight so they can get to the bottom of this. “Cadance, it’s me Twilight! Celestia and Luna are here with me and we just want to check on you and Chrysalis.”
Muffled voices could barely be heard through the door but Celestia with her amazing level of hearing could barely make out, “Do not let them in!” “But Chryssi they want to see you, isn’t that nice?” “DO! NOT!” and just before Celestia decided she had to intervene the door was opened with a very excited and happy looking Cadance standing right there.
“Aunties and Twily! So glad you can make it. I assume you would like an update on my progress?” Cadance did not look, nor sound, like a pony who was torturing another being, just what was going on thought Luna.
“Well of course Cadance, it has been a few hours now so we would like to see your progress with the perpetrator.” Celestia slowly begins to walk in, curious as to what horrible punishment her niece was inflicting on the former queen.
As the three princesses stepped into the room the first thing that shocked them was the mess. There were dresses all over the room and in various states of filth or shredded. This was exacerbated by the smell of all the perfumes that hung in the air. Any creature with a sensitive nose would have immediately fled the room for their safety. It took a moment for the princesses to notice the figure standing the middle of the room. Her hooves bound to the floor, a magic binding ring on her horn as she desperately tried to escape the prison that was the center of the room and thusly the center of attention. Celestia was the first to break, stuffled at first she tried to hold back her laughter. This was in vain as once her sister Luna took notice she burst out into the loudest and most joyous of laughs she ever had in a millennia. Twilight, bless her little heart was the last and did much better than the other two. Looked on in wonder at the sight before her.
The queen of the changelings, feared for her ferocity and cunning and utter brutality even when dealing with her own subjects. This very queen was now head to hoof in the worlds most pink ball gown. It covered her completely and was the most modest thing any creature could ever wear. The design was so frilly that it made Chrysalis look twice as big as normal, even the frills had frills. When the clouds parted and allowed a smidge of sunlight into the room the gown started to sparkle with thousands of pink gem stones inset into the gown. That wasn’t the only change, the queen also had her mane done up in a fancy hairstyle reminiscent from 500 years ago and covered in pink roses.
The room was filled with laughter at the queens predicament, Cadance just smiled the whole time. “So what do you think? I think the pink really brings out the anger in her eyes.”
“She looks lovely my dear niece.” Chuckled Celestia with a hoof covering her smirk.
“I concur with this development, much better than all that black and green I say.” Luna declared triumphantly.
“Well, she is still scowling. What should we do?” Twilight asked with a tilt of her head.
For a moment all the royals in the room gathered together in hushed thought as they came up with an idea to end the day.
“AH HA! I know what we need to do!” Cadance declared triumphantly with her hoof in the air. “We need to take a group photo and welcome Equestrias newest princess!”
At this Chrysalis pupils dilated to her snake like slits and her efforts to escape doubled. “NO! I REFUSE! YOU CAN’T TAKE A PICTURE! I WONT LET YOU!” She grunted in frustration and panic as Cadance got a camera out of her box of makeup.
The four princesses immediately swarm around the struggling queen as she continues her fruitless attempts to escape. Celestia stands to Chrysalis right with Luna on her left, Twilight grabs space next to Celestia and Cadance holding the camera with her magic scoots in close to Luna. She aims the camera high and Chrysalis still being the obstinate former queen that she is tries to hide her face only for Celestia to grab it and aim her scowl right at the lens.
“Now everyone say FRIENDSHIP!” Cadance proclaims with excitement.
All the royals present bar one say the word, the other decides to let out an ear shattering scream of rage as the flash goes off, forever cementing the beginning of a new princess in the making.