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// Give Twilight Back 
// Story: Chrysalis's Wedlock 
// by Diamond Sparkle 
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Princess Celestia focused magical light through her horn. Chrysalis's hand picked bodyguard of changelings hissed loudly in anger at this threat to their Queen and their food supply at the same time. They held back though; attacking an alicorn that had lived for over a thousand years was likely to be fatal. Any non-alicorn would just have been rushed and most likely quickly cocooned, overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Queen Chrysalis lit up her own horn,. "Princess Celestia;  I am not giving Twilight back to you.Every Changeling Queen needs her own pony to love, to focus their love for their Swarm through. If you were to go to the centre of every Changeling Hive in existence you would find an incredibly loved and pampered pony. Twilight will be treated the same, with pretty much anything she could ever want."

The response of Celestia was to send a beam of fire across the gap between them, which was met by a beam of green flame from Chrysalis. "Drain her, my children," Chrysalis commanded, and all the changeling horns of her bodyguards  lit up. Although Celestia was an alicorn with a huge amount of love for her nation, and the ponies within it, she could not defend herself against both the pinprick attacks from the bodyguards, and the far stronger magic of the Changeling Queen. Each individual changeling drone could not do much against Celestia, but when they were all united as one they could sap a lot of her energy. "Twilight....help me, why are you just standing there?" Celestia demanded.

"I....I willingly took a drop of love potion, I love Chrysalis now. Celestia, Chrysalis, stand down and stop fighting over me! Otherwise one of you is going to get badly hurt and I don't want that. I'll explain to you fully how I came to be here if you just stop fighting."

Both Princess Celestia and Queen Chrysalis did what she said and Twilight explained "At the heart of every Changeling Hive is a pony who loves and is loved by the Changeling Queen of said Hive, and through the pony the Queen can grant love to her Hive. There is never quite enough unfortunately, which is why more love has to be brought in by other sources fair and foul, but without the pony, the Hive would have to go on large scale love raids to avoid starvation. I became Chrysalis's consort to avoid a major war breaking out between her Hive and Equestria and both of us took a single drop of love potion to keep the peace in Equestria. I understand why you are so worried, but you don't need to be worried about me. I'm in the safest place that I could possibly be. When I am at the centre of the Hive, I am as protected as you are  in the keep of Canterlot Castle. No monster or rival changeling or other threat could possibly get to me."

She turned to Queen Chrysalis. "You and your Hive have to let Celestia go without trying to harm her; and you must let me leave the Hive at times to be with my pony friends. I will return to you every time, I promise."

Princess Celestia sighed. "If that is what you truly want, Twilight, then I understand, but you could be making a very big mistake. The changelings and ponies have never been friends. To changelings, ponies are just sources of tasty food. I will let all your friends know what you have decided to do." And she teleported back to Canterlot Castle. Twilight and Chrysalis reached the Library and Twilight  used her magic to pick up large numbers of books and papers and other useful things and transfer them to the sky-chariots of the changelings.

"Twilight, have you gone completely crazy?" Spike asked. "Why leave your home and your friends and everything you know to go and live in a nest of changelings? Stop this whilst you still can, you don't have to do this....please??"

"I am doing this for the safety of all of Equestria and because I love Queen Chrysalis as much as she loves me. You are welcome to come along with me if you like, I doubt the changelings would mind if I explained to them who you are and how important you are to me."

"Me, living with the changelings? What if they treat me as a food source? What little the books say about changelings is anything but nice."

"I will personally make sure that nothing nasty happens to you, the changelings have a lot of respect for me as their Queen's Consort. And you will be allowed to return to Ponyville at times too, I will make sure of it."

"Twilight, I trust you and I would follow you anywhere, and you'll need me as your assistant. So yes, I will go with you, even into the very heart of a changeling hive."

Soon enough the sky-chariots were full of everything Twilight would need and she, Spike, Queen Chrysalis and her changeling escort set off back towards the Hive.