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// Explaining Herself 
// Story: The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the Queen 
// by Diamond Sparkle 
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Pinkie Pie's eyes bulged with shock and fear and she leapt several feet in the air. "What have you done with Rarity, you meanie?"

"I am Rarity! If I was a changeling who had replaced her, why would I openly blow my cover by transforming all on my own right in front of you? I know this sounds very hard to believe, but I was a changeling who thought she was a pony when in fact she was a changeling princess. Ask me things that only Rarity would know and give me a chance to prove myself." Pinkie looked a little less unhappy as she thought things over and realized that maybe Rarity did have a point. Then she began to pepper Rarity with questions that only the real Rarity would know. After Rarity answered the twentieth question correctly, Pinkie Pie smiled. "Maybe you are the real Rarity after all, but why if you are a princess would you have been left with ponies for instead of being brought up in your own Hive?"

After explaining the situation Pinkie Pie said "I'll go and tell the others about you and when I have got them to trust you, I will let you know, but for now transform back into the Rarity that we all know and love."

Rarity did so and in a few minutes she was back with the rest of the Element Bearers, who gave her suspicious, untrusting looks. After the Canterlot Wedding Invasion, relations between ponies and changelings were very poor. Like Pinkie had done, they asked her all sorts of questions including some that only Rarity and they would know. Once they were convinced that she was indeed Rarity and lightened up, Rarity told them "I came here on behalf of Queen Chrysalis who wants to make peace. If she refuses to do so...her Hive is not the only one out there, and the Queens of the other Hives are absolutely furious with her for breaking the Changeling Way with such a blatant and public attack on Canterlot. To the point where they are on the verge of besieging and destroying her Hive and every changeling in it."

"Why should we care about Chrysalis?" Rainbow Dash demanded.

"Changelings are living breathing intelligent creatures too, and they can't all be to blame for what their Queen did," Fluttershy pointed out. "Rainbow, if Princess Celestia summoned you to war, I feel pretty sure that you would fight for her. Her swarm were just doing what Queen Chrysalis ordered them to do, and most likely felt they had no option but to attack to feed themselves."