by Europa
Everything was just perfect. She had dreamed of this day since she was a little nymph and now, finally, everything was coming together. Sure, the plan had been derailed slightly, by that purple pony, but Chrysalis was clever and adaptive. Her kind were in the city. The Royal Guard were inferior to the Imperial Guard. The power of love had overwhelmed the power of the divine. She had a little surprise in store for the Bearers in the Elements' chamber. And she had the Alicorn of Love in her grasp.
She trotted over to Cadance, whom she'd stuck to the ground beside her husband. Out of the corner of her eyes, her soldiers were busy cocooning the unconscious form of Celestia. "You know, I didn't expect this would go so well, but it seems you escaping made hardly a difference," she gloated. "If anything, it helped out a little."
"You're never going to get away with this," she growled. "Evil never wins."
"Evil, my dear Cadance," she explained, getting in her face and hissing her name. " - is a point of view. We need this love. You have it. It's that simple."
"You could've asked - "
She shut her up with slime across the muzzle, leaving airholes for her nostrils. The pretty pink pony princess's eyes went crossed. "Why should we? We are changelings, you are ponies. We are inherently better than you; we do not ask. We take. Now excuse me, I have a show to watch."
She stepped away and closed her eyes, reaching through her magic to the changelings fighting the Element Bearers. She nearly facehooved; they were taking the form of the ponies to try and confuse them, but that was such a terrible plan. It never worked; everyling who tried did more harm to themselves than the enemy. There were going to be a series of demotions once this was over...
The yellow pegasus cowered, the blue pegasus divebombed. They bucked, fired, punched, and lastly, used magic. Oh did she use magic. Twilight Sparkle was her name, the so-called student of Princess Celestia. Chrysalis watched through her soldiers' eyes as she spun and blasted them back left and right, her back arching, hooves dancing, eyes narrowed in determination. It sent a shudder through her eyes to watch the pony dance. She'd never been trained in combat magic, but even then she put up such a brilliant fight. She started to feel rather tingly near her hind legs.
Soon, the six defeated the changelings, then activated her trap. Chrysalis pulled herself out of her spell and turned to the pink alicorn. "Move her to the dungeons," she said, dispelling the slime on her mouth. "Sedate her too."
A swarm of drones and workers surrounded Cadance, pulling her free of the slime. She, of course, fought back weakly. "No, no! Please!" One bit her along the barrel, injecting the poison. "Y-You don't want to do this. There'll be no love if you invade, there'll - "
"Yes there will," Chrysalis said as Cadance's struggles grew weaker and she was pulled more strongly out of the hall. "I'll make sure there is," she said with a brief glow of her eyes.
The doors opened up and Twilight Sparkle, all alone, was led in, with slime around her horn. Chrysalis walked up to the pony and placed a hole-ridden hoof under her chin. She forced the terrified pony to look up at her. "Oh, Twilight Sparkle... you and I are going to have such fun for the rest of today."
Tingly.