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// Getting the Whole Truth - Chapter 2 
// Story: The Queen Inside Of Me 
// by K.J. Cragon 
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"Now, Tell us. What have you done with Twilight Sparkle, Chrysalis?!" Princess Celestia asked rather loudly. 

"Yeah," said Spike, pointing his claw at the unicorn somewhat menacingly. "Where did you put her!"

Twilight stood there, her mouth seemingly stuck open in both confusion and surprise. Soon she got back her composure, and snapped out of her stupor. "Who the heck is 'Chrysalis’? And what are you talking about guys? I'm seriously right here!" She said, adding emphasis to her hooves.

Spike's face contorted to the obvious disgust he was feeling as he rolled his eyes. "Oh, I get it. She's trying to trick us, right? Well, sorry Chrysalis, but despite what you think you can't morph, or do anything magical for that matter!"

"Who's Chrysalis?!" She yelled in frustration. "I mean, seriously, what the buck is wrong with you guys! Are you crazy or something?! Seriously!" 

She looked at the two in front of her, both glaring at her. She decided that it was just time to get out of the crazy joint she had gotten into. These guys were obviously off their rockers, and this definetly wasn't the Alicorn she had known for most of her childhood. Same with Spike, whom she had hatched for Celestia's sake! "Fine," she said. "I'm obviously in some kind dream. You guys are obviously not you, either, because it's unethical, and I would know if you guys weren't impostors. So, I guess I'll just wake myself up with that spell I use for nightmares."

She tried to light her horn, expecting it to glow and sizzle with an almost unlimited amount of magical power and energy. She waited, and waited, and waited in an awkward scilence with the smirking dragon and 'Alicorn' in from of her. She tried again, though, and harder than before, trying to summon as much magic as possible without too much losing control and blowing up the place. All she felt though, this time was a weird buzzing sensation on her horn. She looked up to find a magic disabling ring around it. She knew that these were rare and usually used to control most of the evil unicorns that had lived in Equestria in the past, and now the present. Usually there were no evil unicorns these days, though, so many of them were either destroyed or lost over the years after the hard production of mining the rarest kind of crystal in the Canterlot caverns was abandoned when need for production was slimmed during Luna's stay on the moon.

Spike gave her a smirk, knowing from the look on Twilight's face that the ring had worked and obsorbed all of the magic that she had pumped into it an disperced it into the now staticy air around the three. He looked at the Princess  and raied her eyebrows and smiled a warm smile. The whole look seemed to say 'Well, are you going to do what we planned next, or do you want me to do it?' 

After a second of silent communication between the two, Spike gave a quick nod upwards towards the cage, and Celestia nodded. Twilight wasn't sure what was going on, and what was about to happen, but she didn't really want to find out at the moment. All she felt was anger at the facy that everything had happened so suddenly and that nopony was or had answered any of her bucking questions!

Celestia walked up to the cell and spoke to Twilight in a stern but unsure tone of resentment, of which Twilight had never experienced before, at least not to her self. "This, Chrysalis, is Spike. He is a dragon. A fire breathing dragon. I'm sure you remember him from the preperations of the royal wedding?" Twilight nodded still trying to control her rage. "Good. Well, at the moment, which is to say right now, I have some royal duties to attend to. So, while I am gone Spike here has graciously asked to stay with you to make sure you tell the truth. You will tell the truth, the truth only, and absolutely nothing but it. If that doesn't work, then we will just have to resort to letting the other Elements of Harmony see you. Now that might be... Bad, wouldn't it, Chrysalis?"

She then turned and walked out of the dungeon without saying another word. Leaving Twilight alone with her assistant. Maybe she could try and reason with him? That might work. If this wasn't a dream, which she knew it wasn't as anypony, not anypony in the universe could possibly feel their magic, weather the pony being an Earth Pony, Pegasus, or Unicorn, nopony can feel their magic in their dreams... Well, unless you are Princess Luna, as she could walk through dreams with her magic.

So, she couldn't reason with him, but she knew he couldn't hurt her, and he knew it aswell. As she thought, Spike crept forward an ominous look in his eyes. "Okay," He said, snapping Twilight out of her thoughts. “Tell me where Twilight is or I'll burn you with my fire!" His nostrils puffed out black smoke. Apperently he did believe that she wasn't Twilight as she kept telling him, but this Chrysalis.

Twilight sighed, making him mildly surprised. "Spike, you know as well as I do that your dragon fire can't harm anypony, Especiall me. I made myself immune after you sent part of my tail into Celestia's dinner." Spike's face seemed to loose confidence, faltering for a second. 

"How did you know about-" She cut him off once more.

"The worst it can do is send me to Princess Celestia. Even though I'm not who you think I am I would be free and you wouldn't want to risk it, would you?" She said.

He trembled a bit, but did not loose his composure. "What? How did you know about that?" He finnaly finished his sentence without Twilight interupting. She smiled making him groan in agitation. He tried to look more menacing again. "Fine, I guess we'll just have to do it the hard way." He reached behind his back and Twilight heard the rustling sound of a bag being rifled through.

Twilight smiled at the young dragon, almost amboslutely sure that what he still had up his sleeve has going to be pretty much as useless as his green tounges of fire. He proved her wrong, though, by pulling out a vile of a thick blue substance, which she recognized almost immediately as her own truth potion,which she had been experimenting with for the past few months. Part of her was fine with this twist of sorts, as that part was absolutely sure that it would work, and that she would say that she was definetly Twilight Sparkle. Then there was a part of her that wasn't so sure. The pecifest inside of her.

What if she had mixed the experimented potion wrong so that it made her tell lies instead of the truth? That would most likely be the end of her. Or worse yet, what if she somehow really was Chrysalis? No, that couldn't be right. She knew- No, she was absolutely sure that she wasn't whoever this 'Chrysalis' was, or anypony else for that matter. She knew who she was. She was Twilight Sparkle, Leader of the Elements of harmony and the mst magically gifted unicorns in all of Equestria.

"Go ahead," She said cofidentally. "Take your best shot, Spike." He grinned maliciously once more and chucked the bottle though the bars. It cracked on the floor and the blue substance splattered onto her, bubbling on the floor as it came to a boil. She knew it was supposed to get hot as soon as it hit something, but not like this at all! It burned like hell and she shrieked in pain. It was burning her, leaving a searing pain wherever it touched, just like it was supposed to. It then began to stretch up her body, soon engulfing her in it. It soaked into her pores as she began to writhe, the pain feeling almost as though she were going to erupt into flames like a bomb.

But then, all of a sudden and almost as quickly as it had began, it stopped. The searing pain and her screaming stopped altogether as she shakily stood up. Spike smiled triumphantly. "You... you ae a monster!" She shouted. 

"No," he responded somewhat calmly, only making her more furious. "You are the monster, Chrysalis. I am only trying to do what is best for Equestria. Nopony cares about your stupid hive but you!" He then walked up to the cell and put his hands on the partially rusted metal bars. Shaking them so violently she thought they were going to break, he grinned once again. "Filthy changeling. Now, you will tell me the truth and the whole truth, am I clear?" Twilight nodded, unsure of what was going to happen next, but suddenly understanding who Chrysalis really was partially. All she had was more questions, which was not going to make the situation any better. "Right now, do you want the Elements of Harmony?" 

"Yes," Twilight said. But if only to protect myself, she thought.

"Ok," Spike said after a moment of silence. "Now, are you or are you not Twilight Sparkle, my friend and the one who brought me to life?"

'Yes! I am Twilight! Duh!' That is what she was going to say. Instead, she surprised herself by saying something of another manner. "No, I am not Twilight Sparkle." 

Spike looked as though he was about to jump up into the air and scream "Yes!" and do a little dance right then and there, but his composure partially remained as he saw the look of surprise on her face. "Good. Now then, who are you really?"

She responded with something that she didn't want to say, nor expected to say. "I am Chrysalis, Queen of the Changeling hive, sworn enemy of both the ponies of Equestria and the Crystal Pony Empire." 

Oh, well, that explains some things at least. So, I am now in the body of the Changeling Queen who staged the attack on Canterlot. I guess that makes sense. But who, and or what are the Crystal ponies? She thought. Spike looked surprised as well. He got his grin back in a few seconds after that, though. 

"Okay then, you evil pile of scum. I believe you have met these gals, am I right, Chrysalis?" He gestured out to the darkness and five mares cantered out of the shadows. All five of them were wearing a pretty golden chained necklace with a gem inside each representing their cutie marks. Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack, the five other Elements of Harmony approached her cage.

"Did you guys hear what I did?" He asked. The five nodded, smiling in gratitude. "Great. Who would like to guard her and have your shift with her tonight to get a beating out of her, while the rest of us come up with what to do with her with the Princesses?"   

Rainbow stepped forward and was about to speak when Applejack called out to the rest of the group. "Ah think it might be bes’ if ah did it. Ah could get the whole truth, and maybe some buckin' in before tomorrow?" There was some murmuring throughout the group before Rainbow Dash finally agreed and said "I guess I am best at planning", and the four ponies and dragon walked out of the crusty dungeon.

Twilight sat back down and sighed. She knew now she was probably going to get killed. That was probably the Queen's plan all along, if it was her that put her in this mess. I might have been discord, but she couldn't have known for sure. Looking up, she saw AJ looking around, surveying the area for... somthing, and she then came up to Twilight and said to her.

"Don't worry Twi', Ah'll getcha out ah here. No matter what."