“So... we’re doing what again Celestia?” Jason asked as he walked through the Everfree, looking up at the pony goddess.
“We are here to meet with Chrysalis. I was informed that she has taken a liking to you and I was hoping to reopen diplomatic ties with her hive.” Celestia easily kept pace with the human, her stride ever graceful.
“You're going to use her attraction for me to get close to her aren’t you?” he asked, raising an eyebrow. “Thats low.”
“Nonsense, it’s a viable political strategy,” Celestia said, dismissing it with a hoof. “Jason, we have to talk about something serious.”
“What? You talking about that stuff I bought from Umbra?”
“No but we will have a conversation about that soon enough. I’m talking about the rumors going around Canterlot about a male Alicorn,” she said, giving him an even gaze. Jason gulped.“That was you, was it not?”
“Uh... yeah... that was uh, me...” Jason admitted, giving her a sheepish smile.
“I can understand that you didn’t know the full implications of doing so, but you’ve put me in a very tight situation. The nobles are clamouring for me to present this new alicorn and i’m going to have to give them what they want.”
“Why are they making a big deal out of this?” Jason asked, stuffing his hands into his pockets.
“Jason, there are, or were, only four Alicorns in the world and all of them are royalty,” Celestia said, watching as that little bit of information sank in.
“They think I’m a prince?” he asked, looking at her, his mouth agape.
“Yes and I wish to make you a true prince.”
“Wait what!?” Jason asked, looking at her like she was insane.
“I know it’s a big thing Jason, but I think you can handle it,” Celestia said with a smile on her face.
“You realize that I can only become an Alicorn because of this right?” he asked, holding the Omnitrix up. “What happens when they find that out and start demanding one of their own?”
“Can you make another?”
“Well no...” Jason said, frowning.
“Then there is nothing to worry about. I’m going to hold an announcement of your existence when I return to Canterlot, as well as Slash’s presence. It’s time he stopped hiding.” Celestia said, giving him a warm smile. He went to respond, only to be interrupted by the buzzing of wings.
“There you are love, when you weren’t in your training spot you had me worried,” Chrysalis said with a smile, which turned sour when she saw Celestia. “Oh it’s you,” she sneered. “Why are you here?”
“I could ask you the same thing, you are in my kingdom,” Celestia replied, meeting her glare head on. “I am here to open diplomatic ties with your hive.”
“You wish to treat with me?” Chrysalis asked through a roar of laughter, much to Celestia’s annoyance. “And why would I do that?”
“I think it’s a good idea,”Jason said, looking at Chrysalis. “Look, hear her out and I’ll uh... go on a date with you,” he mumbled, looking at the ground. “Dash is having a birthday party tonight so... yeah...”
“Oh this is truly wonderful!” Chrysalis said, squealing like a filly. She pulled Jason into a hug before taking off into the sky. “I must go prepare, my love!”
“I’ve created a monster haven’t I?” Jason asked, facepalming while Celestia maintained the royal stone face.
****
“Ya’ll did what!?” Applejack screamed, glaring at her adoptive brother, seething with anger.
“I told Chrysalis that I would go on a date with her,” Jason, currently Grey Matter, said, while tinkering on the suit he had bought several days ago.
“Why the hay would ya do that?!”
“I don’t know, it seemed like the best idea at the time,” he shrugged, tossing a tool over his shoulder.
“Thats a load of horse apples, Jay,” Applejack said, snorting. “Ah can’t believe ya did something so dumb!”
“One,” he began, holding a finger up.”I am an adult. Two, I can make my own decisions,” he said, reaching over his shoulder to tap the Omnitrix, resuming his human form. He stroked his beard for a few moments, thinking about something.
“Yeah well, ah don’t agree with it,” she groused. She adjusted her hat and frowned.
“You don’t have to, just respect my decisions,” Jason responded. He walked through the hall and into the bathroom. “Hey, do you guys have any shaving cream?”
“Shavin’ what?”
“Yeah I didn’t think so,” he said with a sigh, closing the bathroom door. Applejack just glared at the door before moving down the hallway, mumbling to herself. She went downstairs, glaring at the floor boards.
“Now what's got ya’ in a mood?” Granny Smith asked from her rocking chair, eyebrow raised.
“Jason done made a date with that snake Chrysalis!” Applejack nearly screamed, glaring at Granny, who frowned in return.
“Now Applejack, there ain’t no reason to shout,” the older mare scowled, disappointment in her voice.
“Sorry Granny, it’s just, ah can’t believe that he went and did somethin’ so stupid.”
“Stupid ’r not, he’s a grown stallion and we have to respect his choices.”
“But-!”
“Would ya rather him not go and make a liar out of him?” Granny asked, looking into her granddaughter’s eyes.
“I... no Granny I wouldn’t...” Applejack replied in a defeated tone, hanging her head.
“Ah didn’t think so, now come on, them trees ain’t gonna buck themselves!” she said, getting up to stretch her back.
“Course’ Granny,” Applejack said, following the elderly pony out of the house.
***
Chrysalis hummed to herself as she shifted into the form of a black unicorn, looking herself over in her mirror. “Hmmm... how do I look?” she asked her attendants.
“You look very good Your Highness,” one spoke up, bowing slightly. The royal attendants were among the most intelligent of changelings. The basic drones, the ones that maintained the hive were barely more intelligent than the average dog. The gatherers where at least on par with the average pony when it came to brains. Above that were the rest of the hive, the royal attendants, the royal guards and Chrysalis herself.
“Good, then I shall go with this form,” she said adjusting her voice so it was no longer distorted. “There, he will be putty in my hooves this time.”
“If I may your highness, why not become a female of this male’s base species?” another attendant asked, tilting it’s head a bit.
“Because I don’t know what they look like and I’d rather not take the form of one he already loves like his mother or something, that would just make things awkward,” she replied, gesturing for them to begin dressing her. It was a rare occurrence for a queen to get dressed up, normally reserved for meetings with foreign leaders or at the annual gathering of the hive.
“Are you really sure you should be chasing this king? He’s not really a changeling,” the first said with a frown.
“I am aware of that, but think of it this way, that device of his allows him to become creatures never seen before on this world. Something like that would be a major boon to the hive.”
“Of course, Your Majesty,” it said finishing up, moving back with a bow. “Is it to your liking?”
She briefly inspected the dress, nodding in approval. “Yes, very much so. Well then, I shall be off,” Chrysalis declared, trotting out of her quarters, humming a happy tune to herself. She ignored the drones she passed, too busy imagining what the night would hold.
***
Jason sighed as he rubbed his face, wincing a he touched one of the various small cuts that dotted his face. Those were the consequences of shaving without shaving cream. “Where the hell is she?” he mumbled, shoving his hands into his pockets. The whole day had been loud and annoying, as Pinkie had challenged some pony named Cheese Sandwich, who creepily had the voice of Weird Al, to a “goof off”.
“I hope I didn’t keep you waiting for long,” a soft voice spoke, catching his attention. The owner of said voice was a black unicorn mare, dressed in a green gown that shimmered in the moonlight.
“Not really, now come on, they’ve already started the party,” Jason said gesturing with his head toward town.
“Gladly.” Chrysalis replied, giving him a smile. The walk started in silence until Chrysalis spoke up. “I see the fur on your face is missing.”
“Yeah, it was getting pretty scraggly so I decided to get rid of it.” Jason said, looking down at her. “You look pretty good, that dress is nice.”
“Oh you like it?”
“Yeah, green is my favorite color.” he said, giving her a smile.
“I’ll keep that in mind,” she replied, putting that tidbit of information away for later.
“I bet you will,” he said, rolling his eyes. As they made their way into town, he frowned at the noise. Making his way over to one of the many food tables, he asked, “You want anything?” After looking at her for a moment he frowned. “Oh yeah, you don’t have a stomach.”
“Doesn’t mean we don’t like to taste things. Besides, our bodies convert food matter into slime.” Chrysalis said as she grabbed a cupcake, then took a bite out of it.
“Well I’m glad you two are getting along,” Slash broke in, having given up his disguise at this point.
“I didn’t think you cared enough, Slash,” Chrysalis said, raising an eyebrow at the changeling king.
“Oh I don’t really. It’s just that, I’d rather not have to kill anypony in town is all,” he speared a cupcake on his stinger and brought it to his mouth.
“I’m glad I could help,” she sneered. Grabbing Jason’s hand in her magic, she dragged him away from the insufferable king, who was busy gorging himself. They spent the next few minutes wandering around the huge party, trying to entertain themselves. Chrysalis frowned, noticing the high amount of anxiety coming from the human. “Jason are you alright?” she asked, noticing his scowl.
“I don’t like crowds...” he mumbled, clearly unnerved by all the ponies around them. “They freak me out.
“Then why did you suggest we come here?” Chrysalis asked, tilting her head.
“I wanted to do something nice...” he said, scowling more. “You know what? Screw this, you wanna just go get drunk?” he asked, pulling a silver cube from his pocket. Het pushed a button on the side, producing a bottle of hard cider.
She stared at him before giving him a smile. “Sounds enjoyable, but what about Rainbow Dash? Isn’t this her party?”
“Yeah but I already gave her my present. Now come on, I’ve already got a headache and if I stay here any longer I’m going to have a panic attack,” he said, heading off toward the apple orchards with Chrysalis trotting along behind him. They never realized that they were being watched.
It took them a few minutes to find a nice spot, but once found, they hunkered down at the base of one of the trees, Chrysalis assuming her true form.
“The stars are beautiful here,” Jason commented, gazing up at the sky for a moment. He then proceeded to uncork the bottle of cider with his teeth, spitting the worthless cork off into the grass. “Bottoms up.” he declared, taking a swig of it.
“I agree, if anything, I respect Luna’s ability to make such beauty,” Chrysalis said, taking a swig from the bottle. “Does Applejack know you have this?”
“No and before you go thinking I stole it, I bought it from the local tavern,” Jason said, running his hand through his hair. “Hey, if it’s not a touchy subject, can I ask why you invaded?”
Chrysalis stared at the sky for a second before taking another gulp of cider. “It wasn’t really about conquering anything, that was just something I said for intimidation,” she began, gesturing with her hoof. “The truth was we were starving. Other hives are near food sources but mine is stuck in the Badlands, which is just a barren wasteland.”
“Why didn’t you just move?”
“I considered that, but moving a hive takes a lot of energy. You have to send scouts out, then pick the perfect spot. Not too far away to make gathering take forever but not too close as to be easily discoverable. So when I heard about the wedding, I figured it was the perfect opportunity to gather love.”
“I see. You could have just talked to Celestia you know,” Jason commented, taking a gulp.”Would have saved you the trouble.”
“I realize that now, hindsight and all but when you get that desperate, you don’t really think clearly. I’m rather ashamed to admit it but all that love I took from Shining Armor might have gone to my head for a bit.” she rubbed her neck, blushing in embarrassment.
“So how are things going with your hive now?”
“It’s better, the love gathered at the wedding has lasted us this long and it’ll be another month or so before it runs out. I wish things had gone differently... so many were lost when we were ejected from Canterlot.... so many...” she said, looking down tears threatening to flow down her face. She froze, feeling something wrap around her. She looked up, seeing Jason had moved over and embraced her.
“Hey, no crying, we’re not drunk enough for that,” he said with a smile, wiping her tears away. “Now, how about we exchange some stories? I know a lot of tales that you would love to hear!” The rest of the night passed with joyful story telling, drunken singing, and fit of laughter.
***
“It seems you were right sir,” a grey earth pony said, bowing. “I observed the creature through the night, and he is indeed consorting with the changelings. He spent the night getting drunk with one of their Queens.”
“I thought as much,” the listener spoke, his disgust evident in his face. “It’s not a stretch to think those abominations would flock together. Ansem and Xemnas roam free and she allows a weapon of untold power to remain in the hands of an idiot rather than use it to stop them.”
“My liege, what do you wish of me?”
“I want you to keep an eye on this ‘Jason’, memorize his habits, and look for anything we can exploit. I will be stationing more Knights in Ponyville to assist you when the time is right.”
“As you wish,” the earth pony said, making his way out of the room. He nodded to the guards standing by the door, both clad in silver armor, the infinity symbol etched onto their breastplates.
****
Jason groaned as he came back to the world of the waking, rubbing his eyes. He had way too much too drink last night, as could be attested to by his pounding headache. Then again, the previous night had been a lot of fun. Chrysalis had, admittedly, made a good impression on him. “Listen to me, I’m seriously considering getting into a relationship with an insect...” he thought with a frown. “Oh what the hell, not like there are any human females here.”
“God I hope they have asprin here...” he grumbled, sitting up. He blinked, realizing he was not in his room, nor in the orchard. The room appeared to be some hard black material, lanterns bathed the room in an eerie green light. A noise off to his left caught his attention. He cautiously looked over, frowning as a sleeping Chrysalis came into view. She was curled up, drooling slightly onto her pillow.
“Oh... Jason...” she mumbled out and he could see her hind legs twitching from under the blankets.
After processing this scene, only one word came to his mind: “Fuck.”
Great chapter!!!!! Love the eternity?/infinity? knights showing up!!!
One nit-pick though is that the authors note is at the top and not the bottom of the page.
...forever knights...
Oh god, not the forever knights. This is gonna go bad fast if they're involved. They fuck everything up no matter what it is they do.
5055372
Forever Knights? FOREVER KNIGHTS!?
Dafuq are Forever knights doing in Equestria!
5055422 Just wait until they let their attack dog out!
Just thought I'd point out, you consistently use 'where', where you mean to use 'were'. 'were' is an action. 'where' is a place.;)
5055550 This is unedited at the moment, as my editor is rather busy at the moment.
5055442 why in the story I will hunt you there is a umbrella corporation with a pony alan wesker? hmmm
Ouch. Evil cliffhanger.
5055566 Ah. Okay then.^_^
Where's my Swiss roll? (was about to type Sweet roll )
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Not them!! Oh god, those guys are worse than the catholic church during the great crusade!!
5055422 Including saving their planet, trying to claim rightousness in killing what they beleive to be a vile dragon, and they cant even keep their own champions from breaking their code of honor.
to be honest saw that coming.
5055804 I wouldn't be surprised if they were responsible for that.
And holy crapola, I didn't think you'd actually be going through with it! And I'm sure the two of them were just cuddling. Although they're going to have to explain to Celestia how they got there in the first place… which they won't remember.
And dammit to hell, the Forever Knights? This going to get bad fast. At least no Vilgax… yet.
5056235 I'll admit it started out as a simple gag, but obviously it's grown into something more.
5056240
This is beginning to feel like a roller coaster joy ride! The ship falls fast then FOREVER PONY KNIGHTS appear! Ansem-Trixie, Ansem, and soon TIREK!!! This ride is sky high! Actually makes me want to ship Jasalis! (or whatever the ship is called...)
“Jason, there are, or were, only four Alicorns in the world and all of them are royalty.” Celestia said, watching as that little bit of information sank in.
Well there's that one alicorn in the rainbow falls episode but apparently that's not canon here.
“Listen to me, i’m seriously considering getting into a relationship with an insect... “
I've got a little thing going on with this "insect" thing with the changelings. They are not insects. They aren't even part of the Arthropod phylum. If you look a little closer, they're reptiles. (Trust me, I wasted about seven hours of my life doing the research for something that the world doesn't care about. If you want the notes, ask.)
5057198 Wait there was a fifth alicorn!?
5057215 Wait, there was actually four to begin with?
5057215 Oh, and yes there's another one.
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5057230 That's an animation goof. Or a joke from the artists. Either way, I'm surprised more people haven't seized on this.
5056240 I look forward to seeing where it goes, not to mention the political implications that could come from:
1) Non-Pony Royalty
2) In a relationship with a different species
3) Specifically one that tried to invade before.
Also, I was initially worried about other clamoring for wanting their own Omnitrix, but it seems the Forever Knights are going to fill that void. Honestly more than anything I'm afraid at how Jason is going to deal with the nobles, snobby little entitled bastards (with very few exceptions).
Or maybe it won't be a problem. I'll admit view of Canterlot nobility has forever been changed after reading two particular fics on the site.
5057335 Don't worry, some of the Canterlot nobles are gonna be Knights. Just wait for them to show up with their attack dog, shits gonna get real!!
getting along with the changelings under Celestias orders and they plan to attack him?... yeah okay lets see how well that goes for you guys lol!cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/49085341.jpg
5057738 I take you you don't know the Forever Knights?
5057752 nah, i just didnt think they would be quite that horrendously stupid. though i guess there arent many good examples of intelligence from the few episodes with them that i have seen.
Um.....Fuck her brain out.
aspirin can't take care for this.
5057897 Well, these are the idiots that had a bomb that would kill any and all non-humans on Earth... did it not occur to them that said bomb would probably kill off everything besides humans, I.E all the animals.
5057351 I look forward to seeing what this attack dog is, and how Jason puts his lessons to use.
Also, I kinda like the characterization of Chrysalis. True she's arrogant, but it seems like she's using that arrogance to hide the fact that she and her whole hive are in a really bad place. Like someone who's broke but hides it by dressing up fancy and acting snobbish. I look forward to Jason slowly breaking down these barriers and showing who she really is underneath.
5055325 It's The Forever Knights, but yeah it's my guess too.
Jason... You're going to need something a TAD stronger than aspirin... but some gatorade would certainly help you.
well... at least the Forever Knights aren't the WORST possible Ben 10 villains, heck, at least this isn't a Destiny Displaced fic(which I plan on doing) Ben has a few enemies bent on total destruction, but not like the Guardians do especially the Cabal, whom, instead of going around things, they go through them, explosively in fact
ROFL!
So he skewered a cupcake with his weapon/grasping tool/dick and then ate it?
Just use hooves dude...
For the next 1/2 hour it was just 'Fuck' that's it nothing else, and you can't say the ' a date and a movie first buddy!' line.
It reminds me so much of bullfrack and...ummm
...hold on can get this, can anyone help me out here. Any way I agree when he said none other than "fuck"
If they had sex, then Chryissilas must be dissapointed, a 15 (more or less) minute sex session must suck, unless they had sex with Jhon in his human form ;)
5863988 Considering how fast some creatures fuck 15 minutes can be impressive.
I saw some birds once, a single round was basically a flying jump kick only with his bird shlong instead of his foot. Under a second, if you blinked you missed it.
Ohhhhhhh, the forever nights. I remember them. Assholes tried to steal the omnitrix.
5925590 never found out what happened to the Forever King...
6067069 he probably isn't dead. Nobody ever "dies" in those shows-except for the time that the entire universe was destroyed, but Ben made an exact copy of it. Lots of people died then.
That escalated quickly. The mental image of him waking up like that is hilarious, though.
The forever Knights? Damn. And of course they have anything ever.
At least things should get better for Chryssie and her hive now.
Huh, first time I've seen the idea that different classes of changelings have different sapience levels. Nice.
Great, we have those guys to deal with...
Oh man... As if having to deal with Ansem and Xemnas wasn't bad enough. Now Jason has to deal with the Forever Knights?
well, then he's bloody lucky most of the alien forms have a green following that to the omnitrix.
as for who the hell these new people could be, the infinity symbol doesn't help as a lot of bad guys and good guys have used it. though, if i had to guess, thanks to my brain remembering this is ben 10 related as i wrote the previous sentence, it could likely be the forever knights... which is JUST GREAT. put those who want to kill dragons in a world full of real live ones. this can't POSSIBLY go wrong.
also, in regards to whichever of the forever knights is in charge, be it one of the faction kings or even gorge, screw him. yeah, jason isn't using the omnitrix's power for anything huge, but it's not a fucking weapon. screw this guy. hope chryssi drains him after he does something stupid like hurting jason
also, something has confused me since the Gilgamesh chapters. Since Jason has the original prototype of the omnitrix, how the hell does it have the power to Ultimize his Aliens? i don't get that
7997293 He was able to use Ultimate forms because we need dem Super Sayian forms, why else? In all seriousness, it's pretty standard for the hero to unlock a previously untapped potential at the same time with the epiphany they gain at the brink of defeat along the Hero's Journey.
Which is to say, 'standard', if you're into that sort of stuff. It's kinda basic, then again this is only a fanfic. There are other ways to nail in the 'epiphany' moment, just not as easily, and it also tends to go over the reader's head if it isn't obvious enough.
Oh HELL NO , not the…knights of the round table? Was that their name? Even so they're still pretty bad people, or ponies, even if they might not be all that threatening to Jason.
Too many variables.
About five or six Major enemies. Too fast paced. One too many events and crossovers. (Although i enjoyed the crossover with Gilgamesh) and Fucking a changeling..........okay that one is not as bad.
Good work.
Not really, if the blade is sharp enough you wouldn't need shaving cream.