Tainted Love: A Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab

by Foals Errand


Discovered by SeanofTheDead (Adventure, Sweet)

by SeanofTheDead

Chrysalis wasn’t happy. She had been captured by Shining Armor, dragged in front of the Princesses, had a joke of a trial, and been forced into signing a treaty. Even though she knew it right to do so. And that in the long run it would help her hive, she had said as much when she signed it. She had only been saved by Twilight Sparkle’s timely appearance. Now she had been forced into reformation and was under the watch of Sparkle herself. And the stupid minotaur that had wanted her to marry him she had gotten rid of him easily enough. (they hate it when you moo at them) Things could not be worse.

Twilight wasn’t happy, she had risked everything in defense of Chrysalis, and was currently being treated like dirt for it. Chrysalis took every opportunity to berate her on her conduct from the way she walked, to the way she acted when she was with her friends. She called her mean names, insulted her appearance, and was all in all being the worst pony Twilight had ever met. Things could not be worse, though Chrysalis was rather pretty…

This day had gone like the others, don’t let Chrysalis out of her sight, spend time with friends, be incessantly insulted by Chrysalis. She had been planning this trip to the Everfree with fluttershy for months, hoping that she would get Fluttershy to help her study some of the natural fauna here. Chrysalis had ruined it, she was constantly scaring her and Fluttershy (as well as the animals they were trying to study) and insulting both of them every step of the way.

“And furthermore you are by far the most repulsive-”

“THAT’S IT!!”

A wave of magic slammed into Chrysalis, sending her flying through the air to land heavily on her stomach on the grass. “Ooof!”

“Twilight what are you doing to her?!”

“Stay out of this Fluttershy!”

“Meep!”

Twilight approached her swiftly anger burning in her eyes Fluttershy could only look on as she watched her friend who looked as though she was about to kill Chrysalis.

“I am sick of your near constant insults! I saved your life, and feel as though you need to berate me constantly, pushing me down into the dirt, so that I am beneath you because you think you are superior to me!” Twilight shouted at her, relieving herself of the accumulated stress of the past two weeks, venting to the former queen, and despite the queen being constantly abusive towards her...Chrysalis found herself feeling sorry. This was most unbecoming. And the feeling only became worse, as she laid there while Twilight bared her soul.

“I admired you for doing what was necessary for your hive, even though it branded you an outlaw, so I stood up for you. I stood up to Celestia, my teacher, my idol, my friend because I hoped that you might be grateful, that you might be capable of showing gatitude kindness or something! I put with two weeks of heart crushing verbal torment at your hooves, because I thought that if somepony showed you some kindness, you might reciprocate and change. It’s in the name of your bucking race for Luna’s sake! Yet all you do is torment anypony who tries to help you! I was driven to help you based on the hope that you might be able to show you could care for somepony other than yourself. And the worst part is that I was kinda starting to have a crush on you because you are pretty and you are SO dedicated to your subjects, but it turns out you are only capable of caring for yourself.… well? What do you have to say for yourself?”

Chrysalis was absolutely stunned. Twilight had put far more on the line that she had thought… Celestia was her idol, her teacher, her friend...”I am sorr-”

“CHRYSALIS!!! You will pay for disgracing me!” It was that minotaur Grangor (or something like that) from earlier in the week, he had in his hands a massive mace that made a pony seem small. Twilight jumped in front of him causing his mace to hit her instead, sending her into a tree trunk, and breaking her wings and two of her legs the bones jutting out of the skin at odd angles. While Chrysalis was still in a state of shock, and kicked Fluttershy in the side of the head felling her before swinging the mace like a golf club throwing Fluttershy into the same tree, then turned to Chrysalis. And promptly wished he hadn’t come back.

Chrysalis’ eyes were glowing with rage, she picked up the minotaur and slammed him into the ground repeatedly, then she picked up his mace... When she has released the majority of her anger, she threw the now rather misshapen minotaur as hard as she could, sending him over the horizon. Discord appeared momentarily, and disappeared as the minotaur flew over the horizon. The minotaur screamed a blood curdling scream, the cause apparent to anypony who had a brain. He reappeared shortly after, with more...red than usual.

Twilight wasn’t moving, Chrysalis hurried over to her as princess Luna descended from the sky.

“What in the name of me happened here!?” Luna said her voice full of anger.

Chrysalis pointed a stunned hoof at Discord, and Luna’s jaw simply dropped.

“None of this matters right now!” Discord snapped, “MY Fluttershy is hurt and you two are staring at a VILLIAN that killed something, as though it is a big surprise! Luna, go tell Celestia these two were hurt and Chrysalis saved them. And I made sure he will never set hoof into Equestria again. Chrysalis, pick up Twilight.”

Luna immediately departed in flash of light as her teleportation spell activated. The instant Chrysalis had Twilight in her magic Discord snapped his fingers and they were instantly at Ponyville’s hospital. They rushed through the doors and the receptionist gasped as she saw the two villains with beaten, broken forms of two of Ponyvilles most beloved citizens. The doctors rushed into the waiting area as she screamed.

“SHUT UP AND HELP THEM!!” Discord screamed. The doctors moved quickly, yelling at them to follow.

Chrysalis was pacing the hall outside the operating room, when the first of Twilight and Fluttershy’s friends had shown up. Rarity and Rainbow Dash were furious. Rainbow launched herself at Chrysalis and Discord, surprisingly so did Rarity. They would have pummeled them if Discord and Chrysalis hadn’t caught them in their magic.

“What did you do to our friends!?” Rarity spat, speaking for the two of them, Rainbow was far too enraged to say anything.

Slowly and calmly the situation was explained, Twilight had jumped in front of an angry and VERY stupid armed minotaur, who also hurt Fluttershy. They had dealt with the situation and he will NEVER harm anypony ever again. After the rest of their friends had shown up, the process of explaining had been repeated several times. Then Celestia and Luna had shown up. Celestia was beyond anything the rest of Twilights had been as far as anger goes. She had teleported the two villians herself and Luna outside… and had proceeded to attack Discord and Chrysalis. The battle (Discord had to completely restrain her while Chrysalis was diverting her attention) had been short. But once the situation had been resolved, Celestia had only a few words for them.

“If this happens again, I get to kill them.”

And now most of them were asleep. They had been waiting for six hours for any word as to the condition of their friends.

After six hours of waiting the sun had set and the moon had arisen. Luna had to leave to patrol for nightmares, and Celestia was asleep.

So why is it that I can’t sleep? Chrysalis wondered to herself as she lay on the floor of the hospitals waiting room. Every friend of theirs is asleep and I am not...do I like Twilight?

“Still awake huh?”

Chrysalis started when she heard the somber voice, and turned towards the source to find Discord. She was about to give a scathing retort, when she saw the way he looked. He had been crying, his eyes were bloodshot and he held a cup of coffee in his eagle talons. He looked as though he may never be happy again, nothing about him showed the joyful prankster the denizens of Ponyville had come to know. As he moved to sit beside her Chrysalis moved to make room.

“I’ll bet you haven’t figured it out yet.” Discord stated calmly, a small sad smile playing across his features.

“Haven’t figured out what Discord?” Chrysalis snapped.

“Why she tried to save you, why you attacked after she was hurt, or why I killed their attacker,” he stated simply. He chuckled, “or why I was there in the first place.”

Chrysalis was stunned yet again by the draconequus, first by his actions now by his words.

“Why were you there?” she asked suddenly curious, while trying not to let her curiosity show through too much.

“To make sure you didn’t hurt my Fluttershy. I knew Twilight wouldn’t let you leave her sight, and that she had been making plans to study some of the Everfree’s fauna with Fluttershy. And that you might take advantage of the lowered visibility the shadows provide and attack them.”

“WHAT?!”

“Hey you asked, I just answered,” Discord replied calmly, “and lets be honest, you did think about it.”

“Fine,” Chrysalis seethed, “Why did you kill him?”

“I realized that he might have killed her...he might have taken what is the most important pony in the world to me. My first and only friend, the mare I grew to love…and that if she survived and he did as well, he might try again and be successful,” as he spoke his expression became more and more sullen, his eyes filling once again with tears, as he recalled his failure to protect the only pony he held dear.

“I didn’t know you were able to, um…”

“Feel? Of course I can feel, I am made of flesh and blood...though I doubt you knew that either,” he said with another chuckle.

“So why did she jump in the way even though I was the intended target?” Chrysalis asked, even though she was now dreading this answer.

“Because she cares. She wants to be your friend, make peace between our races and she might have been well on her way to loving you when all of this took place back at that treaty signing, what with your speech and all.”

“Okay bu-”

“And before you ask, you fought for her, you were positively enraged AFTER she was hurt. Whether or not you are ready to admit it-”

“I like her. She stands her ground, has near infinite patience, is highly intelligent, and I enjoy time with her...she has grown on me, and I might love her now and I may lose her,” and with that, Chrysalis began to cry.

Discord smiled his sad smile. “I am sure that she will be fine, get some sleep.”

Chrysalis was so deep in her sorrow that she didn’t notice the magical compulsion behind the draconequus’ words, and was soon asleep. Her last words before she fell asleep touched his heart with the sincerity in them.

“If she makes it, I am going to be kind to her, I am going to be her best friend until she has discovered her love for me, like I did for her, and then… I will cry some happy tears.”

“Now,” Discord said as he wiped his eyes of the excess liquid pride in them, “ I have two mares to heal... And Celestia… you might want to make Luna stay for awhile longer in Ponyville… just sayin.”

And with those words, he vanished.

“Fluttershy’s kindness, friendship, and love really did change him,” said a very much awake Celestia with a smile, “I think I’ll let his plan play out this time.”