The Failure

by sparklerthesableye


Prologue

"You said that you wanted me for something?" Queen Chrysalis looked up from the birthday card one of her changelings gave her. Idiot. It was nowhere near her birthday. In front of her desk was Thunder Strike, her most faithful changeling minion (and the only one who ever gets her birthday right). Thunder strike had a slight purplish hue where the grayish black was on other changelings, and she had electric blue hair that she always covered her left eye with. She never let anyone see her left eye, but her right eye was a cerulean blue color.

"Yes. I called you here because I have a few very good missions set up, and you are the only one that I thought deserved one. They basically just send you off to replace a pony with a lot of love directed at them. Take your pick. You can leech off of the love for as long as you want as a reward for how good you are at your job", Chrysalis said.

"Sweet. Okay... OOH! This one!", Thunder Strike decided happily, pointing to one of the files.

"Okay. So it's settled. You will be disguised as... Derpy Hooves." Chrysalis's jagged horn glowed green, and soon after, so did a pen. She wrote down something (in binary code, so no one could read it*), then said,"Everything is handled. you just need to read her file to know how to act like her, so as not to fail as horribly as I did."

"Thanks!" Thunder Strike quickly read through the file and snorted. "Seriously?", she laughed. "She's obsessed with muffins? That won't be too hard. Muffins are awesome." She set the file on Chrysalis's 'desk' **, fixed a pile of files in an OCD-type fashion, and proceeded to walk to the door.

"One quick thing!", Chrysalis yelled after her minion. " Exactly why do you never let people see your left eye?"

"Because", answered Thunder Strike, "That would cause a..."

"A... What?"

"A...". Thunder Strike puts on sunglasses. "Hairy situation."

Snowflake the changeling pops out of nowhere and yells, "YEEEEAAAAH!"

Que Awkward Silence and intense staring directed at Snowflake.

"Oookaaay then. Well then, I guess I'm off to Ponyville.", Thunder Strike said. When she walked out the front door, she said,"Thunder has left the building."***

Back in her office, Chrysalis took the file labeled 'Derpy Hooves' off of the table. She looked at a picture with the caption 'Doctor Hooves' and sighed. "I hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the flank."