I awoke in a daze, my head hurting like someone was hitting it with a hammer...where was I? I looked around and saw green pastures and a small town in the distance. Nothing seemed familiar to me...I stood up and looked down, I saw some sort of blast mark where I had been laying. The grass had been completely torn away and the dirt turned black. My clothes were torn apart, a long slash along my shirt, but no wound or blood...my pants were muddy and had tears along the legs.
I looked back up and saw the town once again, as I started walking toward it, I felt a sudden brush of air and heard something land behind me. I slowly turned around and saw a tall black horse-looking bug...it had holes in its legs...I fell backward onto the ground and started to back away from the...whatever it was…my heart was pounding in my chest, as I backed up from it. Somehow, it looked...pleased…
“Do not be afraid. I have no intentions to hurt you.” The creature spoke to me, this was definitely the weirdest day I’d ever had...come to think of it...this is the only day I remember...I stood up feeling the fear inside me....my hands were shaking, I was breathing rapidly…
“Who are you? What are you? Who am I?” I asked, millions of questions swirling through my head.
“I am Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings.” Chrysalis spoke with a sort of pride in her voice, obviously pleased with the status she held.
“As for who you are...I don’t know, you have a great power residing within you... its how I found you…Perhaps you should choose a name for yourself...” said Chrysalis.
“Call me...Novy…” The name shot into my head as quickly as I’d heard the question. I don’t even know what it means...just that its right for me…
“Hmm, that's a fascinating name, now it's your turnn, tell me, what are you?” asked Chrysalis looking over my body, studying me.
“I’m...a human…” I answered her, not knowing how I knew this...Its like it was always in my mind, I just needed something to trigger it... The pounding in my head had dissipated. Chrysalis walked closer to me and put her hoof on my hair.
“Brown hair...grey eyes...all dark colors…” She muttered to herself as she studied my body further.
“I want you to come with me, Novy. I need you to see something…” said Chrysalis, I watched as she leaned down. “Get on my back…” She stared at me, telling me to get on. I hesitantly climbed on and she leaned back up. Her wings spread and she lifted into the air. I looked down at the spot of my awakening, and saw six multicolored ponies approach it. None of them noticed us as we flew away. They all seemed puzzled and were talking to each other. I turned my attention back to where Chrysalis was taking me.
Some time later……
We approached a black castle in the middle of a dark forest, I could see different creatures moving in the trees, and heard a series of shrill screams, and loud roars. We landed at the door to the castle, I looked up and saw the black pillars, no windows to be seen. I climbed off Chrysalis and two different Changelings walked up to us and opened the doors. They looked like smaller versions of their Queen, like a hive. Chrysalis led the way through a long corridor, holes in the walls, seeming to match the rulers appearance, I could actually see into the rooms next to us. We walked down a corridor, and approached an area with many doors. She opened one that led to a large black room, a bed in the corner, and a stand next to it.
“This is where you will be staying, Novy.” The Queen said as I walked further into the room and sat on the bed. A changeling drone walked in and stood in front of me, a set of clothing on his back. I picked them up and stared at the shirt. It was all black, but there was a green symbol on it. It looked like a Changeling horn with a green circle around it, the pants matched, even had a green stripe going down the side of the left leg. I looked at Chrysalis, feeling confused.
"I'm staying here?" I asked confusedly.
"Novy, I want to help you harness your power. You haave soomething wiithin you that I can't explain, there could be no limit to your abilities. We just have to see what you can do." She spoke with an odd calmness in her voice...
“I’ll give you time to get dressed and settle in…” Chrysalis said, leaving the room with the drone. I stood up and took off my shirt, I looked at the scars all over my chest and arms...What did I do to get these marks? I pulled my torn and battered jeans off and put on the new ones. I walked to the door and opened it, I put my head out and looked down the corridors, there was a drone next to my door. He noticed me, and pushed me back into the room, shutting the door.
I tried to open the door again, but it wouldn't open. I slammed my shoulder into it, but it didn't budge. I took a few steps backward and as I was running at the door, it flew open and I shot of the room, slamming into the wall.
“Oooooow!” I yelled as I held my arm. Chrysalis grinned at my misfortune. I let go of my arm and glared at the drone, who stared back at me.
“Now, now, we don’t need a fight to break out, do we?” Chrysalis spoke in a cold voice, and the drone looked down. She looked at me.
“Come with me, Novy.” She didn't give me time to respond as she walked away, I followed her farther into the castle, and into a gigantic room with an orb of some kind in the center. She walked over to the orb and stood in front of it, I stood on the opposite side of the orb.
“I’m going to show you the reason my hive and I live in this forest of beasts and death…” She said with a sort of edge to her voice. “These six ponies are the reason I’ve been reduced to a castle in the Everfree Forest.” I watched as she touched her horn on the orb, it showed the image of the six multicolored ponies who were at thee fieldd I woke up in.
“Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and their leader Twilight Sparkle.” Chrysalis spoke with anger in her voice as she stared at the image of the ponies. For some reason, I didn't want to tell her that I’d seen them...something told me it was a bad idea...I watched as the image morphed to an overview of the same green pastures I awoke in. This time, the grass was black and Changelings were flying through the air. In the town, in the pastures, everywhere.
“My children and I once ruled this land, it was known as only The Hive. Then, one grim day, the ponies showed up…” she said still watching the orb. The image in the orb showed the ponies running into town with an army of their kind, they attacked the Changelings, killing them, green blood spilling everywhere, on the houses, the streets. I watched as the Changelings retreated into the Everfree Forest, ponies on their heels, driving them away.
“We were once plentiful....but that changed when we were attacked without any provocation and driven into this hell of a forest…” Chrysalis said as the image on the orb shifted to the six ponies standing on a pile of dead Changelings, their manes and fur soaked in Changeling blood.
“They don’t look evil…” I said confused.
“Do not underestimate them, Novy.” she told me, looking up from the orb. I was astonished.
“Why are you telling me all this?” I asked curiously.
“I believe that you’re capable of helping me retake my once great land.” said Chrysalis. “You have a great power and I want to help you use it for...good….” I stared at the orb. I have power? What kind of power? I looked up at Chrysalis who was watching me, looking for an answer.
“I’ll help you retake your land...when you said it was once called The Hive, I wanted to know...what is the new name the ponies gave it?”
“They call it Equestria." I heard the disgust in her voice as she said the name.