//------------------------------// // Monday : Renovations // Story: Dictators of Ponyville : A Ponyville confidential story // by ALoneWolf //------------------------------// It had only been one day since Chrysalis's takeover of the town of Ponyville and she already started her little "renovations" around town. The once sunny and cheery town has now been resorted to a makeshift kingdom for the changeling queen. Houses and shops were made into makeshift prison cells, apartments were the changelings living quarters, restaurants and fast food joints were now mess halls, the hospitals and doctors offices while the same were now for any injured changelings or if one of the citizens fell ill and was to be healed and brought back to work IMMEDIATELY, the once lush Apple fields were now a prison field for the citizens to harvest and collect crops for the Queen, and worst of all the queen cast a massive magic proof shield spell across the entire town making escape attempts almost impossible. To make a long story short the town now felt like a prison camp. And whats worse the CMC now acted as Chrysalis's personal dictators and even treated the mighty changeling as their older sister much to their siblings disgust. However while the citizens were shocked at the crusaders for turning over to the dark side and even going as far as to recruit some of their classmates as well, they never less couldn't really blame them for turning over to the changeling queen as they had a hand in driving the poor fillies out of town thanks to Tiara's Gabby gums but given everything that's going on saying sorry to these three fillies was not gonna be easy. And not only that, the main 6 the one group who could potentially stop this madness were now subjected to manual labor from the Changeling queen. With Twilight sentenced to be chrysalis's personal battle strategist and planner, Dash had been reduced to a garbage mare, Pinkie pie and Applejack were forced to bake and cook for the queen and her subjects what's worse they couldn't be creative as they loved to do, Fluttershy was forced to work out in the apple fields along with Big Mac and made sure that her animal friends didn't eat or contaminate any of the crops out of fear of them being part of the changelings menu, and as for Rarity she was given a "special" job of designing battle armor and a lovely dress for Chrysalis herself which disgusted the fashionista as she didn't know the first thing about battle armor and that she was forced to make a dress for a villain. The group hated that their town was under the control and strict supervision of the changeling Queen, but without the elements of harmony and no way to contact Celestia or anyone else for help there was little they could do but pray for a miracle. later that day We find Rainbow Dash, the weather team, and the rest of the pegasus's doing their trash pick up routine as instructed by the queen herself. With Rainbow dash and the others cleaning up the trash and debris left by the changelings after that little victory party Chrysalis gave them in town square, To make matters worse she was forced to pick it up without flying which agitated the athletic mare to the brim as she would have had this entire mess picked up in about a minute if she was allowed to fly. As she picked up an empty beer bottle off the ground, our young pegasus couldn't help but berate herself for being mostly responsible for this whole uprising especially due to her harsh treatment towards the CMC causing them to leave town. If she hadn't had drove them out they probably wouldn't have sided with chrysalis and this entire mess wouldn't have happened in the first place. While her weather team apologized to her for their harsh words after scoots and the others left and stated that it wasn't her fault, our young pegasus knew that wasn't true. With her pouring rain on them instead of hearing out their plees for help she knew she did act like a bully and she couldn't take it back. As she continues to berate herself for her harsh actions Commander's Scootaloo. Rumble, and Featherweight walked up to the group of pegasus cleaning up the town square. "Yo" She began . " Lunch break in 5 minute's and If I find one piece of trash left on the ground I'll extend it to 10 minutes" As she made her statement the crowd grumbled at the thought of being pushed around by a 10 year old but there was little they could do but just accept it and keep on working. As Scoots began to walk away to check on the other clean up crew Dash called out. "Scoots wait" She began. " Can we talk?" However the young filly showed the least bit of interest in talking to her former big sister figure. "There's nothing to talk about Dash, get back to work" She said coldly and then walked away leaving a sad and depressed Rainbow dash behind. However Rumble and Featherweight stayed behind feeling sorry for the mare, "I'm sorry about that Dash" Rumble said sympathetically. " She's still kind of angry" "I can tell kid" Dash replied. Just them Thunderlane and Snowflake walked up to say a few words to their little brothers. "Rumble, I can't believe you sided with that insect as well!" He said "YEAH!" Snowflake jumped in. " This is so not like ya Featherweight, you think this is a good idea just to get out of hard labor?" "It's not like that Snow" Featherweight answered "Then what is it then?" Snowflake said. "Yeah, I get that you kids feel bad about not doing anything to help the CMC but this is not and I repeat NOT the answer" Thunderlane replied. " What would mom and dad think if they knew about this? "Same goes with our parents Feather" Snowflake jumped in. " What the hell do you kids hope to accomplish out of this whole ordeal anyway?" "Getting our friends back" Rumble interrupted earning confused looks from the trio. "What are you talking about Rumble?" Dash asked. " How is helping to take over our town and siding with the enemy gonna get you guy's your friends back?" "I know Dash, but listen" Rumble began. "We're not really going along with all of this, we're just choosing to listen to their orders........................................for now" "Rumble what do you mean for now?" Thunderlane asked. "We mean big bro, that deep down we know that the real Apple bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie belle is still in their. They're just too clouded with anger and vengeance that they're true emotions are trapped in a pure cloud of inner darkness " Rumble began. " We don't actually want to do all of this and we're just as much against it as much as you guy's and we want it to stop so badly, so right now we're just going along with it until we manage to find an opening" "That's right" Featherweight jumped in. " Again we know the real CMC are still in their, we figured that if we just go along with it for now we can eventually cause them to break and snap out of it and help put an end to this madness. Despite what they're doing they're still our friends and right now their clouded with anger and hopefully they'll listen to reason given that we've known them since 1st grade, right now we're just gonna go along with it until we can try to reason with them and hopefully they'll listen to us the others are on board with this idea too" after making his statement Thunderlane and Snowflake while grateful that they're younger siblings weren't actually turning to the dark side, they were never the less a bit skeptical about their little plan. "Rumble" thunderlane began. " First of all thank god! I was afraid that I have lost you too, but with this little plan of yours I hate to say this but I have my doubts" "Yeah" Snowflake replied. "Me too" Rainbow dash jumped in. " You saw how pissed scoots was at me earlier, she didn't even want to talk to me. I doubt she, Bloom , and sweetie belle will listen to reason no matter how good friends you guys are with them" "Well there's no harm in trying" Featherweight said. " Like we said they're still our friends , even if they don't take our words to heart immediately it wouldn't hurt to try to reason with them or at least have them ease down a bit" After making his statement the trio looked at each other still looking skeptical about their little plan especially with how angry the CMC are at the entire town after Gabby gums, but they couldn't help but agree. With them being commanders as well they'd be able to get close with the trio to reason with them or at least try. Snowflake then walked forward and wrapped his large arms around Featherweight into a hug which he was quich to accept and soon Thunderlane followed suit and hugged his little brother as well as Dash looked on to the lovely sight of sibling love wishing that could be her and Scootaloo. "Ok lil bro I trust ya" Thunderlane said with a hopeful smile. "Me too" Snowflake said. " just be careful ok? and if any of those Changelings gives ya any trouble I'll use em as barbells!" "Hehe thanks Snow" Featherweight thanked . " And don't worry we'll be careful" "That's good to hear" Thunderlane replied. " And that goes for Silver spoon and the others as well, be careful you two. This ain't no bully you guy's are dealing with this is a very VERY dangerous individual" "I know bro, I know" rumble said with a smile happy to have such an amazing brother like Thunderlane" " RUMBLE FEATHERWEIGHT ANYTIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Scootaloo called out causing them to jump out of their siblings embrace. "COMING!!!!!!!!" They called out and then went along their way, but not before turning their heads slightly and given them a wink indicating that everything's gonna be fine earning them assuring nods from Dash, Snowflake, and Thunderlane. With nothing else to say the two friend left with Scootaloo to check on the other pegasus custodians as the trio watched them leave with hopeful expressions on their faces that hopefully things would turn out fine soon. It's gonna be a long week for Ponyville