“Soon...Soon, they will all bow before us. With our combined powers, we will become the most powerful beings in all of Equestria. No one will even think of stopping us, and when we get our hooves on that purple pony, we will show no mercy when we tear her apart arm by arm, limb by limb, AND SKIN BY SKI-”
“SOMBRA!”
The King snapped out of his speech and looked at his Queen. “Wha? Oh...Ahem...yes Chrysie?”
Chrysalis just rolled her green eyes and went back to adjusting the black and blue flowers on one of her three flower hatchlings. “I would very much appreciate it if you talked about this after I finished helping my children.”
“Sombra talks funny mom.” One of her other children said, causing a small uproar of snickers toward Sombra.
Chrysalis smiled and looked at Sombra. “He looks funny too, doesn’t he little ones?”
Sombra rolled his red eyes, crossed his ghostly black arms and turned his transparent body away from them. “Well sorry that the spell only made me this clear. It’s not like my entire body was intact after it exploded into six hundred and ninety two pieces you know.”
“It’s enough to see you. Besides,” Chrysalis held up one of the flower girls, inspecting each part of her dress. “the piece my children found of you makes a very lovely piece of jewelry.” Chrysalis levitated her child while she looked at her necklace. It was nothing but black string tied around her neck with Sombra’s horn attached, which Sombra’s ghostly tail was protruding out of, along with the rest of his form.
“Well,” Sombra said. “I’m glad my horn makes a ‘lovely piece of jewelry’ for you.” He finished in a mocking tone. “It’s nice to see that something came good out of me getting killed.”
“You mean, besides my subjects finding you in the forest?” Chrysalis set her child down and pulled on Sombra’s tail. “Do you know how long it’s been since I resurrected you?” She asked with a smile.
Sombra was catching on and faced his fiance. “Long enough for me to realize you also had a death wish for that purple mare.”
Chrysalis yanked on his tail again, bringing him a few inches closer to her. “You need to stop having such a grudge against her Sombra, after all, what ever did she do to us?” She asked sarcastically with an evil grin.
Sombra shrugged. “Oh, I don’t know, maybe she killed a few of your children and after that she decided that, since it was so easy killing things, killing me would be just as fun.”
“And wasn’t it?” Chrysalis wrapped her arms around his neck. “Wasn’t it just so fun for those wretched ponies to see hundreds of something get killed in a flash?”
Sombra leaned in. “Or a body exploding in a flash?”
Both their noses were touching. “I’m sure we’ll do more than use a flash of light to take them out, my king.”
Sombra smiled as he wrapped his own ghostly arms around her body. “Maybe months in a cocoon?”
“Or mind control to turn them against one another?”
“You’re so evil.” They closed their eyes and leaned in for a kiss.
“Eww.” One of the flower girls said out loud while the other two hatchlings gazed at the soon to be married couple in happiness. “Lovey dovey stuff.”
“Isn’t it so cute?” Another flower girl asked the disturbed one. “Just look at them.” She pointed at the now kissing king and queen.
“Bleh…” The disgusted one said, sticking her tongue out and pointing to her mouth. The other girls ignored her and continued looking at their mother, never before seeing her so happy.
The couple retracted from their kiss and looked at each other. “You’re not trying to enslave me with those eyes, are you?” Chrysalis asked lovingly.
“I don’t know.” Sombra said. “Maybe your eyes have taken control of me.” Sombra rubbed his ghostly nose against her’s again, making the two hatchlings daw while the third pretended to puke.
“Can’t you guys get a room?” The disgusted one asked.
One of the other flower girls smacked her on the head. “They’re already in a room, Sam.”
Sam growled and hit her sister with her flower basket. “I meant that mentophoricabaly, Sarah.”
“You mean metaphorically.” The third one adjusted her glasses when she said that.
“Shut up Sally.” Sam tackled her and started fighting, as did Sarah.
Chrysalis pulled away from Sombra and sighed. “Children.” She whispered to Sombra. “That’s enough girls!” She yelled.
The hatchlings stopped moving and looked up at their queen, after a few seconds they, backed away from each other. “Must you behave like this?” Chrysalis asked. “This is a time to be happy for your queen, not say how gross it is for her to truly love someone.” Chrysalis eyed Sam when she said that, making her sink to the floor.
“Sorry Queen Chrysalis.” They said in unison.
Sombra floated over them. “Um...Your mother is right uh...little ones.” Sombra smiled, trying to figure out what to say to his soon to become children. “Just think that, after this, you will have a new parent to...um...be with.” Sombra continued to float above them, waiting for a response, but the hatchlings just tilted their heads and raised an eye.
Chrysalis facehoofed. “Perhaps now would be a good time for you three to practice throwing your flowers down the aisle?”
The girls grinned at one another and ran off, taking their basket of flowers with them. Sombra floated in the air and sighed. “I’ll never understand kids.”
“You’re gonna have to, and you’ll learn that being a parent is way harder than being a ruler.”
Sombra thought about that for a bit. “How many children do-”
“I had over a thousand, now I...just have….nine hundred and six.” Chrysalis looked down while Sombra looked away and grimaced. Ruling over slaves was easy; you just told them what to do and they did it, but taking care of kids, to him, it was easier said then done.
“Um...my queen, I don’t think...that…” As he turned to face her, he saw that her eyes were starting to water. Sombra frowned, knowing that she was thinking of her lost children again. “Chrysie…” Sombra flew up behind her and nuzzled her neck. “Oh, don’t worry, we’ll get our revenge for that unicorn to even think about killing them.”
Chrysalis sniffed. “I-I can almost hear their screams...when they...hit the ground so hard that they...they…” She covered her eyes with her arm as she continued to sob. Sombra noticed the tears were going through her holes. “I mean, what kind of cruel monster would kill so many. I never wanted to kill anyone, but they...oh...they wanted us to be extinct.”
Chrysalis walked away from Sombra’s grip and looked outside a window. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still waiting for us to come back." She continued. "Making preparations, just in case.”
Sombra flew up to her side and smiled. “I’m sure those ponies are just afraid of you, my queen.”
Chrysalis looked at him and smiled back. “I’m sure they’ll be more afraid of you, my king.”
Sombra grabbed her hoof. “Just think Chrysie, with Twilight Sparkle out of the way-”
“And the princesses bowing to us-” She finished.
“Along with those pitiful ponies-”
“Then soon-”
“All of Equestria-”
“WILL BOW TO OUR WILL!” They finished in unison as they cackled with laughter.
*KNOCK KNOCK*
The king and queen abruptly stopped laughing and cleared their throats. “Ahem...Um, come it!” Chrysalis yelled.
The door opened and changeling guard walked in. “Um, you’re highness, is there a reason as to why three hatchlings are throwing flowers around the hive?”
Chrysalis groaned. “I told them to throw it in the aisle only. Don’t worry child, I’ll take care of it.” She was about to walk out, but something pulled her back. It was Sombra, who was currently staring off into space with his ghostly wide eyes.
“Sombra? Hello?” Chrysalis walked up to him, waving a hoof in front of his face.
“Is he alright?” The guard asked, others were starting to crowd around the door.
“Sombra? Sweetie?” Chrysalis reached out for him, but then his entire body started to shake, his eyes started going in random directions, and his horn was starting to glow.
“WhOOWAH haha h-geah….geh...did you feeeeeeeeeel that?” Sombra continued to convulse in his ghostly form.
“Feel what? What's wrong with you Sombra?” Chrysalis looked at his horn and saw it turning a darker red.
“D-d-d-d-daaaark...darkness….I can feel the power…” Sombra started looking around him, as if to try and find out where this feeling was coming from.
“Told you he was weird.” One of the changelings whispered, the group of children looked back at their queen to see that she was glaring at them, she waved her hoof to signal them to leave, which they did.
“Crystalssssssssssssss.” Sombra laid on the floor and closed his eyes.
Chrysalis shook her head. “Sombra, I thought you stopped with the whole cryst-”
He stood up and grabbed her. “No Chrysalis! I can feel it, the dark power….Darkness…I can sense it….There!” He pointed toward the closed door.
Chrysalis raised an eyebrow. “Are you okay?”
Sombra groaned. “I mean...In that direction exactly, that is where the power is.”
Chrysalis tapped her chin. “Dark power? How can you-”
Sombra tapped his horn on her chest. “I have never sensed such dark magic in my life, even with all those crystals I had, this could be big.”
“So, what does that have to do with anything?”
“I can use it to finally regain my power, I will no longer need a host. My body will be whole again, and with it” He caressed her hair. “We will rightfully rule as King and Queen.”
“Oh good.” Chrysalis said. “I thought you would say it would just be a king who would rule.”
Sombra flew back a bit. “Why queen. How could you even think such a thing? I may be evil, but I would never betray such a,” He gave her a quick kiss. “lovely creature such as you.”
Chrysalis giggled. “You always say the cheesiest of things.”
“It works, doesn’t it?”
Chrysalis rolled her eyes. “Well, come on then. Dark power waits for no one.”
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“And the hatchlings must be fed at least twice a day.”
“Okay.”
“And bed time is and ten for all the little ones.”
“Gotcha.”
“The food sharing goes from youngest to oldest, alright.”
“Yes.”
Chrysalis stopped walking and turned around. “Are you sure you can handle this?”
The two changelings smiled. “Of course we can handle-”
“Anything you ask of us my Queen.” The other one finished.
Chrysalis narrowed her eyes. “I’m putting you two in charge because you are the oldest, and tallest, changelings in this hive, besides me of course.”
“Queen please, me and Shift here-”
“Will be sure to take good care of them.” Lift finished his brothers sentence again and continued smiling.
Sombra wrapped an arm around Chrysalis. “You heard them Chrysie, I’m sure they can take on anything.”
Shift and Lift snickered to one another, which was abruptly stopped by their queen eying them. “Heheh...we just uh, remembered somthin’ funny.”
“Right,” Chrysalis said. “You better remember everything, and especially.” She leaned in and came within inches of their faces. “No. Parties.”
“Why, we would never-”
“Do something like that Chrysie you have-”
“A changeling’s promise.”
Chrysalis sighed. “If only that promise was trustable. Come on Sombra.” And with that the two walked out of the cave, leaving the two changelings to themselves.
“Are they gone?” Shift and Lift looked behind them to see changelings beginning to peek around rocks, stalagmites, and stalactites. Shift and Lift smiled at the sight.
“Yup, ya know what that means Lift?” Shift adjusted his fedora and nudged his brother.
“Does it mean we get to ignore what she said and-”
“PARTY! Heck yes it does!”