A figure stood in a dark room, shrouded in the darkness of it's own shadow, trembling with anger. In one swift movement, the figure, which appeared to have holes in it's legs, reared up and- "Gah!" Chrysalis slammed her hooves on the parchment filled table, shattering it into pieces of splintered wood. "That damn Twilight Sparkle! How could I have let her see through my guise so thoroughly! I should have snuffed out the fire when I had the chance. How could I have been such a fool?"
Days before in the Hive throne room, she had gone over the detailed plans many times before the supposedly 'thorough' take of action. Now, afterwards, she had been forced back to her Hive and was looking through them once more to see the mistake that she had so obliviously made. After hours of looking, she only became more frustrated. She paced and paced, trying to settle her emotions. All it did, though, was make her more angry, more lit with a raging fire that now burning inside of her, raging.
"That... Is... It!" She growled through her poised fangs. "Twilight Sparkle, you god damned nitwit, I will have my revenge!" She turned to the bookshelf next to her and the mulch pile that now covered the floor, and pulled out an old, tattered, leather bound book. It looked old, as the pages were yellowed as well as rips and shreds presented themselves on the cover. The title of the book had obviously been burned into the leather. It read 'Spell Diary of the Aria Family' in fancy black and green letters. The old Queen smiled to herself gradually pondering over the fond illegal and dangerous memories that had started as a result of playing around with the spells hidden inside. The spell diary, the oldest one in history, was legendary. Anypony who had gotten their hooves on it was in immense control of their surroundings and other ponies, as the queen recalled how she had slipped a note will illegal spells into one of the Princess's boyfriends before her downfall, resulting in a war and a certain equine species vanishing entirely. But, this book, as unpredictable as it was, held the first part of a quickly thought revenge.
She quickly flipped to her desired page. "And I know Just the spell to get it," she smiled viciously at her thought. Looking down at the page, she knew that this spell was extemely dangerous. Though, she was willing to take the risk if her precious hive was at stake. And especially so if it was able to take revenge on the mare who had seen through her guise and overall made her plan go off of the rails.
She was getting off thought, and she knew it, so she went back to her book and started to read. "Ok, lets see..."
"Wait 'till you head about the bachelour party!" Said Spike excitedly to his pony friends, who all smiled and laughed. "It was awesome, I'm telling you! We went to this place that they called a 'Stripper Club,' whatever that means!"
All of his friends stopped walking and stared at him, eyes almost bulging out of their sockets and alarmed looks on their faces. "What?" He said. "They wouldn't let me go inside, but I got to stand outside and eat gems that the guys found in the quarry they explored in a couple of months ago. I had the all-important job of security guard. It sounded like a great time inside, though! There were yells of happiness every few minutes!"
Twilight blinked for a second. "That's... Nice," she said. "So, what did you girls think about that cocoon thing that the Queen ensared ponies in? I got some samples to study! Cool, right?"
The train ride home had been one full of quick talk, gossip, and then naps. The only pony who was even half awake by the end of the ride was Twilight, who's mind had been racing ever since the attack. But she didn't want to think about it. It was bad enough already that it had happened, and although she had already apologized for being a bad friend they had already forgiven her. After all, Fluttershy had said, she was right all along.
"Goodbye, girls!" Twilight Sparkle waved a friendly goodbye to her friends as they all walked off of the station platform toward their respected destinations. "Well, that was a terrific train ride, wasn't it Spike? Spike?"
She looked back to see Spike, who was trying to stay awake on her back, mumbled something indescribable, making his carrier giggle a little bit. "I just wish those Changelings didn't try to enslave all of us. Getting everypony to believe me and then finally beating her was sure a pain in my ass..." She absentmindedly said. She passed the bakery, and looked inside to find the lights on and a pony inside. She was about to go inside to buy some bagels, when she looked at the pony inside and found it glaring at her, as if it hated her. She shivered, it was like the pony was staring into her soul and eating it from the inside out. She walked away, not looking back to notice the pony's eyes to blink into a green bug-like ones, and then change back into a regular ponies. She also had failed to notice the shimmering green cocoon that had a sleeping pony in it stuck to the ceiling.
Even though her assistant was hardly awake when they got to their home, a library built out of a tree inside the town of Ponyville, Twilight was still wide awake, and not planning on going to sleep soon. She was accustomed to staying awake, as she had to do so some nights during outrageous study times. She quietly cantered over to their shared room and layed Spike down in his small bed. As she lifted up the sheets to warm him through the night, she looked through the window and into the graceful night. Luna had done a good job remaking the star patterns into more modern things, though she had kept most of the old constellations. Twilight hadn't bothered to look at the ones she had tampered with, though, and decided to take a look.
Soon, she quietly slipped out of her bed, and got her vintage telescope out to assemble. After using the instructions to put the relic together, she started to star gaze up into the shining heavens. "There's Orion," She muttered. "There's Pegasus. Where's Leo?" She looked around the sky to no avail. I guess Princess Luna decided to put that constellation over to the other side of the sky, or something like that, she logically thought. Always being the 'Simple Explanaton' pony, she liked to deduce things logically.
Looking around the sky for one more check, she saw what looked like blurry Hearths Warming Eve lights in the sky. There was no doubt about it, that was Leo, but there was something off about it that she just couldn't place. She thought nothing of it. Huh, she thought. I guess Leo's fading... That's such a shame. She yawned. "Oh, what time is it?" She asked.
Looking at the clock, she did a double take. It read one in the morning, which was late even for her. "Celestia, If I don't get my sleep tonight, I'll Be too tired to work, or worse, too tired to study in the morning!" She scrambled to pick up her notes and put away the telescope carefully, not noticing a green glowing shooting star on the horizon.
Only, this wasn't a shooting star. Like shooting stars, It was pure magic, but unlike a shooting star, on which unicorns could channel their magic off of, this was horn-made. It shot across the sky, and again, unlike most shooting stars which seem to grow as they get closer, it started to shrink as it got near. Smaller, smaller, untill it was about the size of a hoof.
Still scrambling to get her stuff away so that she could get to sleep, Twilight also didn't notice when it hit her square in the back, enveloping her in green magic and making her sway a little. As it began to seep into her, she felt an odd buzzing in her head, which grew louder and louder until- "What the-" She started as wave of sleep hit her and she passed out onto the wooden floor of the library, scattering all of her equipment across the floor. She lay there, still glowing with a magically ominous green aura.
"Why yes, Rarity, I would like to help you find gems in the quarry..." Spike muttered as his dreams played out in his head.
Crysalis was looking out of the broad window that was in the front of her study, smiling through her fangs. She had launched the spell not even ten minutes ago, and had used a vision enlargement spell to make sure it didn't hit one of her scouts, or worse, an unsuspecting pony who happened to either fly in the way or get randomly hit. But, she was sure of it, now. Nothing had gone wrong, and now step one of her plan was underway, all thanks to the unicorn being stupid enough to go outside alone, even if it was off of her porch to stargaze at that fool Alicorn's night sky.
She dramatically turned away from the window, and closed the spellbook with an emrald magical glow. She had made sure that it would work, and it had, at least so far. But she didn't like to think about the down side. She, and the rest of the eveil beings on Terra liked to think the evil way.
She looked at the portrait of herself. "That mare didn't even have a chance!" She cackeled. "My revenge starts in about three hours... And then she WILL feel my misery!"
Twilight was tossing and turning on the floor of the library. All she could sense was horror. There were nightmares every ten minutes, and afterwards, she couldn't wake up, or her body wouldn't let her wake up. Maybe it was enjoying it, although that was probably a physical impossibility. It just kept going from nightmare to another nightmare. Actually, it was probably more like a night terror instear of nightmare, as this was alot worse that what she usually had of failing a special test that Celestia set for her. This one was just like the others, though, and started off the same. All that was different was the ending. Sometimes they exploded, sometimes turned into herself and killed her. This time, though, was worse. Inside her head, she was having a panic attact of major properties.
She was always inside Sugar Cube Corner, the bakery that her Pinkie worked at, eating a cheese danish, just minding her own buisness though mentally knowing what was somewhat about to happen in a moment, when everything and every pony changed. Suddenly, a huge tounge of green fire started in the kitchen, making her scream, frightened. And then, as if everypony was made of rubber, they started to melt, as the fire reached them, shrieking, "Twilight! Twilight help us!" as they turned into pools of goo. Somehow, she couldn't find her barings and get out of her seat to run of save them, and her magic was dead aswell. Suddenly, the goo started to turn black and swirled around, sloshing into a whirlpool that was in the middle of the polished floor.
In terror, she looked into the ripples and saw a face, her face, smiling evily back at her, unnervingly with a full set of fangs and green bug eyes. The reflection vanished and the goop started to bubble, as if it was biling soup ready to be sreved. Then, out of the goo, almost as if they were clay getting sculpted by an artist, rose changeling after changeling. Shrieking in terror, Twilight suddenly found her magic for the first time since the night terrors began, and launched a beam of magic at the evil bug like creatures. The lazer hit one in the head, and it fell off of its mount.
As it hit the floor, it exploded into more liquid, and out of it rose more and more of the changelings. She kept shooting the lazer beams at them, but that was only producing more and more changelings by the minute. They started to surround her, and as she prepared to hit them, she felt her magic fizzle out once more.
"No!" She screamed as they circled around their prey. Then, all at once, they pounced at her, all the while melting into the liquid once again. Right above her head, she saw them form into a black disk-like shape. They dropped onto her, and she was falling, falling, falling into nothingness.
And then she woke. She opened her eyes, and looked around. All she could see, though was black. Everything was pitch black all around her. She tried to stand up, but felt a pearcing pain in her legs. Suddenly, a lantern as lit, and she squinted hr eyes, trying to see what was going on in the room. She turned around after a moment, her eyes finally ajusting to the light, to find them shackled to the ground. I... I'm in a dungeon? She thought, wondering what had happened. She remembered star gazing, scrambeling to put her things away and then... Nothing.
She heard steps in the darkness, and suddenly, there was light, almost blinding her eyes. She turned around to see Princess Celestia and Spike. They were glaring at her menacingly.
"So," Spike said. "Looks like your finally awake." He looked at her with surprising hate in his eyes.
"Now, Tell us. What have you done with Twilight Sparkle, Chrysalis?!" Princess Celestia asked rather loudly.