//------------------------------// // Chapter 10, Feel our vengeance Ponies. . . . Uh? What are you? // Story: Keep living for Friendship // by alejin //------------------------------// FLASHBACK Some time ago, the day after Princess Cadence and Shinning armor wedding, Queen Chrysalis woke up in a cabern, her body ached, but at least she believed she could walk and maybe slowly fly, but when she tried to, she noticed she indeed was in a dungeon, who would dare to do this? She thought, then she realized she was in some kind of cell inside some wet and dark cave, rocks and more rocks, obviously it wasn’t any pony dungeon in Canterlot, besides she didn’t have any Darkness stone ring in her horn to nulify her magic, so in this situation the bars of the cell wouldn’t be a problem, but in that moment she was weak, after being litteraly sent flying from canterlot by Cadence and Shining armor powerfull magic, she realized that her fall wasn’t a nice one, Chrisallys decided to sleep and wait, she wanted to know who “her captors” were, one hour later, they came, when she opened her eyes to see who they were, she could see 3 diamonds dogs, she looked a them behind the bars, then one of them said “Oh you are finally awake, bugpony” Chrysallis after hearing this statement, started to feel very angry and ofended, and then she answered “I am not a “bugpony”, i am Chrysallis, Queen of all Changelings and future Queen of Equestria!” “Chang, changol, changi. . . . . a what again??” the short one said Chrysallis only rolled her eyes, “great i was found by the most stupid creatures in the whole world” “Anyway chang. . . . Bugpony, now you are ours, we found you and now you will help us to find gems, and you will never escape, never, not like that. . . mulepony Rarity and her friends before” That last part got Chrysallis atention, Rarity? Could it be. . . . The dog was about to say something else when he was interrupted by Chrysallis “Wait a minute, you know Rarity the element of generosity, by any chance she is a spoiled ans whinie white unicorn with purple mane?” The eyes of the diamond dogs grew and their jaws fell to the floor “Yeah, that’s the one, that’s the one, the short said, she never stopped whinning, she was unbereable so we let her go, she was a nightmare so we free her and her friends too with a lot of our gems, since that day, we all hate them, we hate all ponies!!” “Yeah, other said, we always wanted revenge, but. . . . they have magic, even if we can beat the normal and the flying ponies, the ones with horns you call. . . . unicorns are invincible, we can’t even get any near to them, their magic is too strong, NOT FAIR!” by this part of the story Chrysallis was already with a grinn in her face, in that moment she knew she finally found the ideal fool allies. “Well, if revenge againts ponies is what you want, i can tell you a little secret, a secret involving how to beat umm. . . . . horned ponies” The dogs shocked by this comment, inmediately charged to the prison bars and stared at her “REALLY!!! they said, TELL US, TELL US NOW!!!” “First of all, diamond dogs, how many in total of you live here?” Confused but also curious, one of them answered “We all are about. . . . let see, he started to count slowly with his paws, one minute later, around 47 diamond dogs.. . yeah, around 47.” “Chrysallis smile grew even more, then gentledogs, i think we can make a deal that can benefit all of us.” /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// After that, Chrysallis told them how in her kingdom, for many many centuries before her ruling, the changelings had been gathering something, a very rare mineral called the “darkness stone”, even tough this stone is very rare everywhere, centuries of digging gave them a considerable ammount of stones, then she proceded to tell them about how it was inmune to all kind of magic making them the perfect weapon againts unicorns. Even being not very smart, the dogs asked her why she or any changeling Queen never used the stones againts ponies before, she just rolled her eyes and made some telekinesis with her magic to show them that changelings too can use magic, like any magical creature, if they got near this stone, their magic would be useless and they would be weaker, for that chrysallis had tried before to make deals with groups of griffins, minotaurs, even young dragons, but all of them rejected her, true all kingdoms weren’t allways in good terms, but none of them would be stupid enough to do that, it would like betraying their own country, less to try to cross Princess Celestia or Luna, for they were needed to rise the sun and the moon, no matter if they even have the greatest weakness againts magical creatures. After saying that, Chrysallis proposed to them a deal she knew they would never reject, they would never tried to invade Canterlot or try to fight againts the Princesses, she told them she would give them all the stones her kind had been gathering for centuries, it would be enough to make enough antimagic armors, more than enough to conquer a little town called Ponyville, why ponyville they asked, Chrysallis told them that there is where the elements of harmony lived, and by conquering the town and defeating the elements, it would give her better chances to defeat Equestria in the future not to mention she also wanted them to give her almost everypony to cultivate their love by force, (true they could foalnap ponies one by one but by doing this deal with the dogs, she could take a whole town of ponies in just one go). The dogs accepted the deal with just one condition, besides the stone to create armors, they also wanted her to let them keep at least 5 or 6 horned ponies, ponies who could like that Rarity, master that jumbo bombo trick to find gems, chrysalis accepted. The dogs were very happy, they were going to have unicorns to help them find gems and also they will have a weapon againts horned unicorns who dare to cross them again, by her part Chrisallys only kept smiling, very soon she would have everypony from Ponyville in her hooves including the elements of harmony. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// THE DAY OF THE ATTACK After sometime, Chrysallis with the help of her servants managed to bring every darkness stone she had, everything was ready, 47 full armors, cages with wheels, antimagic rings to every unicorn horn. “Ok (Chrysallys started), according to my resources, Princess Celestia and Luna are very far away in a foreign country, even flying at full speed, she wouldn’t be here up at tomorrow, now i will go for my children to set everything ready to take everypony with us when you bring them to me, do what you have to do, have them ready, me and my children will arrive at night to the entrance of your underground cave, don’t be late, ok now go, take your REVENGE”. As expected, thanks to Chrysallis good coordinated plan, Ponyville never saw them comming, the diamond dogs just started to smash everything in their way, knoking down every pony they saw, the filles and colts were captured and put in bags, even though they tried to fight back, they were surprised, the ponies with horror noticed their magic didn’t have any effect on the diamond dogs. One by one, everypony was falling, the dogs were not holding back, Applejack and Rainbow dash put up a good fight but were outnumbered inmediately, Twilight seeing herself surounded, tried to teleport from there but by that moment the influence of all that darkness stone were so powerfull that she couldn’t complete the spell, so they manage to catch her, the rest of the mane 6 and Ponyville surrender inmediately. Hidding in a bush, impotent to help, a little unicorn filly Sweetie bell managed to sneak and run as far a she could, the dogs spot her but didn’t bothered to go after her, she was too far already and what she could do anyway, by her part Sweetie proceded to go to Zecora’s place, thinking maybe she could help in anyway possible, and maybe Spike would be there, after all she didn’t see him getting caught. 2 HOURS BEFORE THE MEETING WITH CHRYSSALIS All the diamond dogs were happy, they had won, they really had WON!!!, now with all the ponies in their cages, they only had to decide which ponies they should take with them and forcé them to learn the trick to find gems, all unicorns were really scared, who would they chose, but anyway, it didn’t matter, whoever they choose, it couldn’t be any better than to be slaves of the changelings as the diamond dogs said. Just before they starting to decide, something. . . . that nopony or dog expected in a life happened. A. . . bipedal creature without any fur, with some strange clothes was walking to their direction, he had some weapons with him, a sword and a bow in his back, his face almost covered with a hood, the dogs thought it was cool, but even if he was a strange creature, even if he had weapons, the thing that really took all their attention was a little unicorn fillie unconcious, she was the one who manage to escape. The creature continued advancing to them (everypony and dog staring at him, one particular mint colored unicorn who also saw him from her cage was hyperventilating and taking huge breaths), when he was about 2 meters from the dogs, they were already pointing at him with their spears, the creature stopped, smiling he just extended his arms, he was offering the fillie to them and said “HEY I THINK YOU MISSED THIS ONE!!!!!”