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// The Invasion 
// Story: Granddaughter of Discord 
// by Fantasy Stars 789 
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Days passed by Ophelia had been telling Chrysalis what was happening in Ponyville.  Ophelia on occasion followed Chrysalis to the changeling hive.  Ophelia was part changeling, so they could not drain her of her love. She needed to learn all of Ophelia's skills and flaws, as to control her into helping her. With Ophelia on her side, she could take over Equestria once and for all.

"So tell me my, dear, any news on Ponyville? Has anypony been acting, strange?" Chrysalis said.

"Well, my mom hasn't been acting like herself..." Ophelia said.

"Why that little-"  

Chrysalis paused.

"Huh, I-" 

Chrysalis turned around as something whispered to her from the bushes. It was too quiet for Ophelia to hear.

"Well... I uh, gotta go!" 

Chrysalis dashed as fast as she could to the hive. Ophelia headed back home, but her parents noticed she came home from school late.

"Where were you?" Mothball said.

"um, "

"Why were you so late..." Screwball said.

"I- uh was off with a friend."

Chrysalis had told Ophelia not to tell anypony about her.

"Well, who?" Screwball said, almost smiling.

"Um, um, Rainstar."

"Well, why were you with Rainstar?" Mothball said.

Ophelia was about to answer, but there was a faint tap on the window. Mothball didn't hear it. 

"Oh, um I just remembered, I have to, uh, do something, Bye!" Screwball said and rushed out the door.

Ophelia looked out the window and saw that Discord was also rushing in the same direction as Screwball. Something wasn't right... Why were they heading to the forest in such a rush? Ophelia chased after them, staying hidden.  They ran inside the changeling hive, when Ophelia tried to follow, a changeling stopped her... Chrysalis. 

"Well, just look what we have here... A pony going where she isn't supposed to." Chrysalis said.

"Wha- what's going on? Why is my family, with you?" 

"Oh, wouldn't you like to know?"

Before Ophelia could speak Chrysalis threw some sort of dust at her, and she fainted. When she woke up she was back home, but she couldn't remember what happened. 

"So, bother to tell me where you were headed." Screwball said. 

"W- what do you mean?" Ophelia said, feeling dizzy.

"You were in your room, and when we went to check on you, you were gone,"  Screwball said, looking away, as if annoyed.
"Next thing we know, you fell asleep in a tree." 

"I- don't remember that..."

"Oh, trust me, it happened." Screwball said, quietly snickering.



The next day, Ophelia and Rainstar had been hanging out with each other in the park.  Rainstar sees something in the distance. 

"Ahh! Changeling attack! Changeling Attack!"  Rainstar shouts, and bolts.

Ponies around them begin to run, as they see them approaching, dressed in full armor. 

"Huh?" Ophelia says and turns around. 

Ophelia froze in shock. Why was Chrysalis attacking? Could she be the reason? 

She ran back to her parents, when she got there they were rushing outside to see what was going on. When she caught up to them, they had already seen.   Behind all the changelings, was Chrysalis. 

"Mother?!" Mothball said.

"Wait... What?" Ophelia said. 

Beside them, Discord and Screwball ran beside the swarm. They were changelings!  Ophelia ran up to Chrysalis.

"Why are you doing this?!" Ophelia said. 

"Because this is my revenge for all they had done to me!" Chrysalis said. "Lock her up!"

Changelings surrounded Ophelia, she tried using her magic, but it was too late. They cast a spell on her, she could no longer use magic.  Changelings threw her in a cage and continued to attack.  

"Aha Haha! This is perfect! Equestria will be mine!" Chrysalis said. 

"I don't think so Chrysalis!" Screwball said.

"What?! How did you escape?!"  "Get her!"

Changelings swarmed. Screwball used her magic to hold them off. She ran to Ophelia and opened the door.

"Go! Go! Get out of here! Find help!"

"But what about you-" 

"Don't worry! Just go!"

Screwball used the last ounce of her magic to break the spell cast on Ophelia.  She and Mothball held up the changelings for as long as they could. Ophelia ran to the Everfree forest. Eventually, she found Cethin. 

"Help! You gotta help! Changelings are invading Equestria!" Ophelia said.

"What!" 

"Hurry! Hurry!"

They each ran to the edge of the forest. Ponyville was almost destroyed.  The changelings were winning. Is it all over? Would this be the end of Equestria?
Tears began to form in Ophelia's eyes.
She lowered her head.

"No... No... It's all my fault!" Ophelia said. 

"Wait... What's your fault?" Cethin asked, trying not to upset her any further.

"I- I- helped Chrysalis! Now our home is destroyed!"
"It's my fault! It's my fault!" 

"No, it's not your fault. You didn't know..." 

Ophelia tried to calm herself.

"Listen, we can't just stand here and do nothing. C'mon, we need to fight. What do ya say?"  

"Yea. Y-yea! We can't let Chrysalis steal our home!"




"Okay, so what's the plan?" Cethin said. 

"So, my grandpa, Discord was captured. He has magic too. So, we free him, and fight the changelings with all our might!"

"Got it."

Ophelia knew where to go, she had been to the hive before.  Only a few changelings stayed behind to guard the hive. 

"Woah, it is like a maze in here," Cethin said.

"It makes it impossible to find your way."

"So, where is he?"

"I think I have an idea where but..."

"But what?"

"We have to walk."

"Why? Can't you use your magic?"

"No, only changeling magic can be used within the hive."

"So where do we go?"

Ophelia had memorized the usual areas where you can go to get to the center. She can only hope she was right.

"There!" Ophelia said.

Discord was trapped in some sort of room, blocked by a barrier. 

"Ophelia?" Discord said. "How'd you get here?"

"Doesn't matter. We're here to break you free."

Ophelia could tell the barrier was weak, and could be broken with enough force.

"On my call, use all the strength you can to break the barrier," Ophelia said.

"One. "

The others got ready.

"two."

"three. Go!"

They all hit the barrier with all their might. Eventually, it broke. 

"Who are you?"

"I'm Cethin,"

"Now's not the time for an introduction," Ophelia said. "We don't have much time! The changelings are attacking Equestria!"

They all rushed out, avoiding the sight, of any changelings left in the hive. When they were finally out Discord teleported them to Ponyville. They were too late... The changelings had won. 

"Oh no..." Ophelia said.

"C'mon were not gonna give up that easy are we? Let's go!" Discord said.

Little did they know, changelings were guarding the border.  One of them got lucky and Knocked Discord out.

"Grandpa!"  Ophelia said. "That's it!" 

Ophelia had put a force field around them and made an explosion strong enough to throw back the changelings.

They headed straight for Canterlot, where Chrysalis ruled on her new throne.   The princesses were captured.

"So what's the plan now?" Cethin said. 

"Hmm... Oh! I got it."  Ophelia said. "We sneakily take out all of Chrysalis's guards, save my parents, and defeat Chrysalis once and for all! "

Many, many guards stood at the castle, but Ophelia is smart. She got each of the guards to separate away from the others, while she and Cethin take them out one by one. They found the throne room, where Chrysalis lay. Screwball and Mothball, lay captured, where Chrysalis could see them.  Screwball was too weak to use her magic.

"Cethin, you go make a distraction, while I go save my parents," Ophelia said.

"Be careful."

Chrysalis heard a sound from a room behind her and went to investigate.

"Ophelia?" Screwball said.
"You need to go it's too dangerous here."

"No, I've made it this far."

"Please go, save yourself!" Mothball said.

"I'm not leaving you!"

Cethin had run past them, Chrysalis on his tail. 

"What's this? Two foals think they can trick me?! Hah!" Chrysalis said.
"You'd better run while you still can..."

"No," Ophelia said. "We will fight for our home!"

"Bad choice," Chrysalis said.

Chrysalis charged. Ophelia dodged, she tried to use her magic, but she failed. Chrysalis strikes again, and again, and again. 
Ophelia was about to lose, but she remembered something, her cutie mark! It was a broken clock, her talent was messing with time. Maybe if she froze time, she could defeat Chrysalis! 
Chrysalis was about to use her final blow, to defeat Ophelia. Ophelia used her magic just in time, she used everything around her to block Chrysalis's spell so only she could use her magic.  Chrysalis's spell backfired as Ophelia unfroze time. Chrysalis was up against the wall.

"Cethin now!"

Cethin and Ophelia had combined their magic to defeat Chrysalis and the rest of the changelings.
Chrysalis knew that after her 3rd defeat, she cannot go back.  The cage holding her parents broke, they quickly ran up to hug her. The princesses had been freed as well.

"Well done you two," Twilight said to Cethin and Ophelia.

"We're so proud of you." Mothball said.

Discord had woken up and teleported to them. He had seen everything.

"That was incredible." Discord said and hugged them.

"Well, we're not done yet," Ophelia said, and pointed to the destroyed town.

Discord, Screwball, and Ophelia all combined their powers to fix all of Equestria, and heal all the ponies in it.
Years later, Ophelia and Cethin finally confessed their feelings to each other. They all lived happily together, never to see Chrysalis again.