48 - Quae Est Finis: Part 3
“I earned my name for killing the mighty Queen Avia; one who was a worthy adversary indeed!” Niadhogr bellowed. “I wonder how her granddaughter will hold up to her legacy…”
Niadhogr moved back his head as an orange glow could be seen at the very back of his open maw.
Twilight was barely able to put up a shield in time as flames came forth from the dragon.
The smouldering flames licked their way around the shield. Inside, Twilight’s brow creased as she concentrated all her power on stopping the incoming torrent.
The flames flickered out as Niadhogr stopped to take in another deep breath of air. This gave Twilight and the others the opportunity they needed.
“Carduus, flank left! Spike, you take the right!” Twilight shouted as she took to the air and charged her horn dangerously.
The moment they heard the princess’ commands they darted in their respective directions around the large dragon. Niadhogr moved his large draconic eyes, flicking between the three as he tried to choose his target. His mind was made up for him when the changeling princess unleased a lavender beam lance, striking down from her newly gained height. Niadhogr was forced to place a hand in the way of the beam to protect his face. He snarled viciously as he felt the beam slice into the limb and leave a nasty, deep cut where it had trailed across.
He homed in on the princess and another torrent of fire was unleashed in her direction, which forced Twilight to move with haste. She narrowly avoid the blast even as boiling embers landed on her chitin.
Niadhogr stopped his attack abruptly as he felt two far weaker bolts of magic impact his right shoulder as the changeling drone who fired them flew over. He snorted as another was shot his way, but like the previous two, it barely made a dent in his scales.
However, he couldn’t help but flinch as he felt sharp fangs dig their way into his neck; a bite from the much smaller dragon whom had just landed there. While painful and annoying, Spike’s teeth ultimately were able to do little to the dragon overall.
Niadhogr took a step back as two sets of spell fire came at him from the same direction; Twilight’s magic pierced his scales, allowing Carduus’ weaker shots direct access to the far softer flesh beneath.
The large red dragon gave out a deafening roar as he reached up and grabbed Spike. He wrenched the younger dragon off of his neck, and launched him towards the two changelings.
The two were forced to stop their spell casting as Spike obstructed their line of sight, instead using levitation to catch their friend in mid-air.
Only for a mountain of fire hotter than lava to engulf their position in its entirety.
Niadhogr ceased his flames as he looked to where he expected to see the charred remains of his three combatants fall to the ground. However, a sound caught his attention and caused him to complete a U-turn to find its source. It was there he saw lavender sparks deposit the two changelings and one dragon as Twilight’s teleportation spell completed.
“You are all tenacious, but it can only save you for so long!” He bellowed as his spread out his wings and began to beat them in the air.
Sand and rock were thrown through the air by the air current produced by the dragon’s massive wings, and Niadhogr took to the sky, flying up before darting downwards towards his prey.
Two highly lethal beams of magic impacted against one another in the ruined remains of the atrium. Crimson and green sparks fused together to form blinding flashes of light, smaller beams randomly splitting off from where the two beams coalesced; the two queens were locked in a fight for dominance over one another.
Seeing the fight going nowhere anytime soon, Crudelis opened her wings and suddenly took to the air, disengaging her magic flow as she did. Chrysalis’ beam shot right through where Crudelis was less than a second earlier and smashed the latter’s makeshift throne into mere dust.
Crudelis veered down over Chrysalis and released another beam right down onto her niece below. Chrysalis, with a boost from her wings was able to side step the attack as it smacked into the floor, where it left a small smoking crater in its wake.
Chrysalis retaliated with several short bursts of her magic in Crudelis’ general direction, aiming for her wings, forcing Crudelis to evade the incoming strikes. With a series of aerial acrobatics, the Red Queen retreated past the ruined statue to the other end of the large space.
Chrysalis’ slitted eyes narrowed towards her opponent, though her gaze was diverted with the sound of hooves galloping into the atrium through the entrance she herself had used. Three of Crudelis’ armoured drones set their sights on her and raised their weapons, two holding swords and one a spear.
They never stood a chance.
The two drones with blades struck forwards towards Chrysalis while the third threw his spear in her direction. Chrysalis simply grabbed onto the spear in mid-air with her magic and proceeded to weaved it through all three drones like a knitting needle.
Immediately afterwards, Chrysalis saw something in the corner of her eye and quickly brought her spear around. She threw it forwards to meet the incoming queen.
Crudelis’ eyes widened as she saw the weapon come hurtling in her direction, she tried to dodge to the side, but she wasn’t quite quick enough. She let out a pained curse as the weapon scraped along her barrel, leaving a deep gash where it had sliced into and along her.
The spear impacted into the wall behind, snapping in two from the impact.
By no means done for, Crudelis bared her fangs in pure fury as she charged the other queen, their horns locking in a violent struggle. The two grappled and fought against the other for a few moments more, before Crudelis managed to lurch Chrysalis backwards and flick down with her horn, leaving a bloody cut on Chrysalis’ right cheek.
Crudelis smirked as Chrysalis sent another bolt of magic her way, placing up a shield to protect herself.
“You know something?” Crudelis asked behind her barrier.
Crudelis pushed forwards with her magic and pushed Chrysalis back before taking to the air.
“Unlike Serpens, I do not need a magical rune to kill you.”
“And I thought Longshot talked too much,” Chrysalis sneered as she fired again, Crudelis flying higher to avoid it.
As Chrysalis moved to follow the two danced around each other through the air, firing shot after shot and impacting against each other using their magical shields as bettering rams.
Crudelis swirled to avoid a green beam as she swooped down to the bottom of the atrium, picking up the sharp end of the broken spear as she did so.
A single set of eyes peered on from one of the atrium’s establishments, nodding to himself as he received orders from his queen.
Niadhogr made to grab Spike in his gigantic set of teeth, but the dragon just managed to avoid becoming the appetiser for Niadhogr’s three course meal. Twilight flew past and fired another piercing beam of lavender at the dragon.
As Niadhogr gave a roar of pain, Carduus, having long given up on his inferior magic skills, landed on the dragon’s head and began to stab into Niadhogr’s scalp with his blade with desperate determination, trying to force the blade through the gaps in the scales.
The large dragon gave another roar as he violently shook his head from side to side, throwing Carduus into the air, but leaving his sword lodged in Niadhogr’s thick skull. Niadhogr tried to bat Carduus with a set of claws, but was distracted by Twilight’s next attack as she swooped by, gracefully spinning though the air in a display that would make Rainbow Dash leak liquid pride. Her corkscrew motion made the beam of magic harder to block.
As Carduus was forced to retreat back, Twilight spun around and dived down towards the dragon, avoiding another torrent of fire sent her way. She sent several smaller beams down onto the dragon’s spine as she flew along his back, creating many deep wounds, with a lucky shot nearly severing his right wing; a few inches over and the wing would’ve become limp.
Niadhogr was getting tired of this.
As Twilight rounded for another run, she gave a surprised shriek as the dragon grabbed onto her and held her tightly in his palm. Twilight momentarily panicked as Niadhogr went to crush her, placing up a shield to hold off his brute strength. However, cracks started to appear around the shield as it failed under the stress.
Only for his grip on Twilight to lessen, accompanied by a pained roar.
Twilight looked up to see Spike. He had managed to get right up to Niadhogr’s left eye, and had sunk all his teeth and claws in as deep as he could, blinding it.
“Don’t. You. Touch. HER!” Spike shouted in anger as he jumped off and made for the right eye.
Niadhogr moved to knock Spike off but Twilight shot his hand as it raised, causing it to flinch back and fail to remove Spike before he had done equal damage to the second eye.
Spike was finally thrown off as the blinded beast began to whip around erratically, releasing a great many panicked bursts of fire.
This erratic behaviour would prove his end, as the constant volley of fire left him ragged for breath.
As Niadhogr slowed and tried to take deep gulps of air, he physically couldn’t see Twilight fly up to his face and fire a single powerful bolt into Niadhogr’s maw.
With great concentration she normally couldn’t pull off in a fast paced fight like this, and wouldn’t have been able to if Niadhogr had tried to stop her, she guided the bolt straight down Niadhogr’s throat and into his lungs.
Niadhogr gave a choked scream as his lungs burst, the ignited air exploding inside of him. He began to bleed internally, and his lungs collapsed. His gasps for air were in vain as he couldn’t fill his destroyed lungs. He thrashed around for a few more seconds, before his movements grew weak and little. Then, he began to fall rapidly from the sky, impacting hard into the ground.
As the dust kicked up by the impact began to clear, Twilight and Spike landed in front of the twitching Niadhogr. He was dead, though they weren’t sure if it was the impact with the ground or the suffocation that had finally finished the ancient dragon.
“That… was exhausting…” Spike panted heavily.
“Yeah. Nice work with the eyes, never thought you could be that vicious, Spike,” Twilight raised an eyebrow.
“He was going to kill you, Twilight…” Spike muttered.
Twilight gave him a small smile and pulled him in with a wing. “Thanks Spike.”
Spike smiled back, if slightly sheepishly.
“Though, all this does make me wish for the old days, when our most pressing day-to-day threat was con-artists or show-off performers.”
Spike chuckled. “Those were the good old days,” Spike said as he looked around. “Hey. Where is Carduus?”
“Up here!” Carduus shouted up from the dragon, holding his sword. “Couldn’t leave my weapon behind! My original is buried under tons of rubble after all.”
Twilight rolled her eyes. “Come on you two, let’s get to mother.”
Crudelis shouted in rage as a bolt of green magic shot by her, she could feel the heat of the arcane energy singe the edges of her chitin.
Crudelis fired several shots at Chrysalis as she dived straight for the queen, Chrysalis intercepted and stopped the magical bolts but the effort left her unable to stop Queen Crudelis from slamming into her. The two struggled in the air, trading punches and kicks as each tried in vain to knock the other to the ground.
Chrysalis bared her fangs in frustration and bit down into Crudelis’ shoulder, eliciting a shout of pain from the latter. Chrysalis tasted the blood against her tongue as she opened her jaw and bit down even harder, this time into Crudelis’ neck.
Crudelis, realising Chrysalis was moments away from breaking her neck, cast a panicked teleportation spell around herself.
The spell took Chrysalis with Crudelis due to the physical contact, but the force of suddenly appearing and being thrown to the floor of the atrium managed to dislodge Chrysalis from her opponent’s neck.
As both injured queens fell to the floor a good couple of meters from one another, Crudelis created a portal on the ground around her, quickly sinking down into it before Chrysalis could get her bearings.
Chrysalis looked towards where Crudelis had just been, and gave a shout of anger.
“Crudelis?! Reveal yourself coward! Or perhaps the new ‘empress’ isn’t all she is cracked up to be?”
A sinister laugh echoed throughout the large chamber, reverberating off the walls so Chrysalis couldn’t pin point its location.
“Come and find me, dearest niece,” Crudelis’ magically projected voice called out among the broken atrium.
Chrysalis snarled as she did a quick scan of the area around her, seeing no sign of the queen. She opened her gossamer wings and took to the air, scanning the second level to similar results.
Chrysalis looked up into the air, her gaze softening as she looked up into the wonderful blue sky.
She couldn’t help but notice the angry glare the sun had, and could easily guess the reason.
It comforted her that even if she were to fall, Twilight would still have others to turn to. Another mother to turn to. Velvet and Celestia both.
Her daughter wouldn’t be left alone.
For that, she was grateful.
Focusing back on the here and now, Chrysalis began to scan each and every floor for any sign of Crudelis.
Just as she was nearing the top, a weak bolt of green magic impacted her, barely causing her to flinch.
Chrysalis spun around to view the cause of the bolt, and saw Crudelis standing on the same balcony where she had first revealed the atrium to Twilight two years prior.
Chrysalis shot forwards towards Crudelis, the latter’s eyes widening as she looked for an escape.
Crudelis tried to take to the air but Chrysalis slammed into her full force, slamming her aunt into the ground.
Their eyes met, Crudelis’ full of fear.
Chrysalis lit up her horn, and created a precision beam of magic that pierced into the front of Crudelis’ skull, through her brain and out the other end.
Crudelis’ body went limp as her blood red eyes rolled up into the back of her skull as all life faded away.
Chrysalis’ victory was short lived however, when green flames whipped around Crudelis as her form shrunk down from a queen to a simple drone.
“What?” Chrysalis whispered.
A sharp scream filled the atrium as Chrysalis felt the tip of a spear embed itself in her back, the broken weapon held in the red aura of the ravenous Queen Crudelis.
Chryalis cursed herself for her stupidity. The bolt that hit her wasn’t only exceptionally weak…
It had been green.
The spear was retracted from her back and Chrysalis spun around to try and intercept the next strike.
Only for her right foreleg to be violently blown off by a blast of magic, and for the spear to slice clean through her chest. Crudelis retracted the blade and stabbed Chrysalis again, and then again.
The ailing queen tried to fire off a magical bolt in retaliation, but her weakening body was unable to yield results.
Crudelis retracted the blade and stabbed it in one last time, this time leaving it there.
Chrysalis fell to the floor gasping for breath as her many open wounds bled heavily onto the floor. Chrysalis coughed up some blood as she struggled to look up to meet Crudelis’ icy glare, showing no fear in her own.
“Defiant, and insolent, to the very end,” Crudelis said, with the barest hint of respect.
Crudelis charged her horn and unleashed a beam of magic, trailing it across the balcony as she disconnected it from the atrium’s wall. The victorious queen took to the air as the balcony buckled and fell into the deep depths below, shattering on impacting the atrium’s ground floor and burying Chrysalis under the rubble.
When Twilight entered the atrium, everything was eerily quiet. She looked around frantically, having felt her mother’s presence in the hive mind become weak, but it was still there.
The signs of battle were painfully apparent, but Crudelis was already long gone.
“Mother?!” Twilight shouted out.
“Mother, please!”
Silence greeted her desperate calls.
As the three looked around the destroyed atrium, Twilight’s heart sunk when she spotted a severed limb laying near a pile of rubble.
A leg.
“No. NO!” Twilight shouted in deep pain as she landed onto the rubble pile and began to pull away at the many pieces.
After staring for a moment, stunned by the sight, Carduus and Spike got to work helping uncover where their queen lay.
After what seemed to be hours, Twilight finally uncovered her mother, quickly moving the final few pieces of rubble away and levitating her mother out and onto a clearer spot on the floor.
“M-mother?” Twilight shakily asked, horrified at her many deep wounds and missing leg.
A small, shallow breath could be heard as Chrysalis held on to what little life was left in her body.
“She’s alive!” Spike shouted.
“Princess, we need to get your mother out of here! She won’t survive without immediate medical attention!”
“I know!” Twilight snapped, using some healing spells to strengthen Chrysalis’ ailing body.
Together, the three picked up Chrysalis and few her from the Badlands Hive, which as Twilight looked back, was encompassed in a ravenous fire. Black smoke blew high into the sky as the smell of death rippled through the air.
As Twilight, Spike, Carduus and the near dead Chrysalis began to make their journey to meet up with the others, on the edge of the Badlands the survivors finally reached safety.
Panacea and Iuvenes looked up as the sound of blades chopping through the air filled their ears, EUP helicopters came into view as they began to circle the changelings. Moments later, they began to land, medics jumping out as they began to treat the wounded and comfort the despondent families in any way they could.
Supplies were set out and makeshift shelters were set up as EUP ponies and guards of both Chrysalis and Draco set up a perimeter to watch for any lurking threats.
Medics rushed to greet Twilight and the others as they finally reached safety themselves. They looked over Chrysalis, a grim look was on the most senior doctor’s face.
“We need to operate, now! Go!” he shouted as they took Chrysalis into a nearby tent to begin their work, guards positioned outside.
Everything had become just too much, the emptiness in Twilight’s head was unbearable.
That morning there had been ten thousand changeling drones in the hive mind.
Now there were four thousand, at best.
Two thousand soldiers had died fighting Crudelis’ forces; the other four thousand civilians had never managing to escape the doomed hive.
One thousand soldiers and three thousand changeling civilians were crammed into tight spaces with little supplies to go around. The ponies’ relief efforts were doing their best, but things were still dire.
The world began to shift for Twilight, she barely noticed Carduus reunite with his family in a tearful embrace, or Spike receiving aid for his own wounds.
“Princess? You’re hurt, you need to be checked out,” a pony doctor asked as he approached.
“I’m… fine. I’m…” Twilight managed to say, before slipping in to unconsciousness.
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That dragon was a total idiot.
Although Crudelis saved his life, one should never serve someone who is consumed by evil. 
I do hope that Chrysalis will be alright.
Curse you Crudelis. Curse you to Tartarus for all of your bad deeds! 
I'm sad about the six thousand that passed away. Why, oh why?! 
Does the everfree have a hive yet? It tends to be a popular location with lings...
*Niadhogr annihilated* "YES!"
*Crudelis buries Chrysalis under rubble* "Oh, f--ck off! Don't you f--ing let her die..."
Awesome, just awesome, but that conniving bitch Crudelis GOT AWAY?!
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--
Shit just got real Allgods are pissed and the Alicorn Triarchey are Preparing the Tactical Nukes
Where was Child Services through-out all of this? This aunt just near-killed her niece!
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Pride is usually blind. For him didn't matter eventual morality or lack of it in his mistress, only his proud honor combined with lust of glory from killing powerful opponents
OH FUCK NO!
She did not just escape! She did not just wound Chrysi! She better have not! For her own sake!
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Well, I hate to say it but I called it :D
Now the only question is whether Chrysalis passes the information and dies, just dies, or gets to live but probably stays crippled either for the rest of her life or at least the next few years.
It can go either way, really... it's all up to the author and his plans.
Bitch dragon be dead.
Chryssie no!
Crudelis needs to die, horribly.
I hope Chryssie makes it.
It's funny because Crudelis is a complete and utter coward who sacrifices others to help her win.
Tia is going to be pissed!
7379970 I wanna skin Miss Red and hang her up to dry if Chrysi does dies. Maybe if she doesn't too...
Revenge!!!
well War is coming and Crudelis is doomed.
Crudelis and her hive will now be hunted by Equestria, the Crystal Empire, and a good number of the other Changeling hives.
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I am actually getting a bit tired from seeing similar tropes used so much in fan fiction... Sure, making a one-dimentional OC character to act as the ultimate bad guy of the story is easy and it gets the job done as seen from all the hate Crudelis is getting. But after reading hundreds of stories where a similar ploy is employed it gets a bit old and predictable.
Note that in no way am I saying that it is a sign of bad writing or laziness or anything negative related to either the story or the author, it is just that in this instance I am hoping that the story doesn't go the route of a constantly evading mean bitch who ruins everyone's life just for the sake of story progression... I am honestly a bit tired from all the black and white I am seeing in fanfics I read... Sure, it is no hardback romance novels written with years of constant work, lots of money and tons of editors, but some 'grey' would do nicely and sadly it is just too rare nowadays in fan fiction.
What I am saying is that I hope that Chrysalis survives this as there is already more than enough proof that Crudelis is bad and should be hated... pretty sure everyone already wants her dead. But at the same time at least a back story of why Crudelis became so... cruel would be nice. You know, to put things into perspective on why she does what she does? Why she doesn't hesitate to throw the lives of her kin (even her own hive) away? Are all changelings in her hive also cruel to extreme or are they forced to serve her? If not, what keeps them from at least bailing away? Etc.
I just don't believe that an evil of this scale can uniformly exist throughout the whole hive for for no reason whatsoever... They might be the bad guys but I am sure they too have a story to tell, and in most cases things like that are not just black and white. Maybe if EUP managed to get a hold of several lost or wounded drones that were left behind and interrogate them things would get better... I get that Crudelis has to play the role of the evil bitch here, but at the same time I am worried this whole deal might go a bit overboard :/
Harry? Voldy? Is that you?
I like to think that Celestia will appear, invade Crudelis' hive and banish her to the sun without a heat protection spell.
7380090 Woah, did not expect to have such a huge reply to my little joke.
To be honest, I share that opinion with you. I am a major, like major, villain/bad-guy fan. So when I read a story with a one-dimensional villain, it's a little off-putting. Some stories manage to keep me interested despite that, and others don't. This, I'd put it in the former category.
As for why Crudelis became cruel, it is shown in some flashbacks that her and Avia's mother was like that, except to a lesser degree, and by the time she was fully grown, her mother began to see things Avia's way, hence Crudelis killing her for turning back. It could be that she idolized her mother so much that, when her mother started going down the peaceful path, she convinced herself that Avia had 'poisoned' their mother's mind with nonsense that'd lead to destruction of everyling's lives. Idk, that's just my view on it.
Funny thing I realized while reading this chapter, I'm in the Badlands right now XD
4,000 civilians dead, 2,000 soldiers dead, royalty maimed... What is going to happen next? Equestria declares war against Queen Crudelis, as crude as that may sound, it may be necessary for a purge of past hatred...
7380120 But she has only sent ponies to the Moon... Never the Sun, though that might be some kind of corporal execution...
Oh boy now Crudelis is going to enslave the other hives, I really hope Draco is not one of them and I hope the one princess that Twilight met is not one of them. I also hope Chrysalis survives.
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I hope the author and other folks read the comments, so it was directed towards them just as much as towards you.
As for your reasoning, it is a valid option but I still would like to see something similar being explored in the story itself... Maybe there is even a better way of handling this and making Crudelis look more complex than just a stupid cruel power-obsessed bug with lots of deception up her sleeves...
As for her subjects, I would really love there to be at least a small uprising or dissatisfaction maybe with few drones escaping the hive once everyone turns against them for their deeds. I just don't believe that all these drones to the last one are as cruel as their ruler and don't feel hurt by the way she treats them... Maybe if some of the more adequate prisoners (if there will be prisoners) were allowed to see the alternative way, then they could tell about it to their comrades or something? Not that I want all changelings to be completely innocent by the excuse that they were forced to do the things they do by the Queen, therefore letting them go unpunished for thousands of innocents they've just murdered, but at the same time I don't want all of them being just her stupid cruel pawns and getting executed for the way they were born or raised...
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,chrysalis ! DONT YOU DARE LET HER DIE !
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MY LINK DIDN'T WORK!
Crudelis has failed, a foolish dragon lays slain, and war is brewing. How will the other Queens react? Who will they side with? How will this End? Only the author knows, and even then, sometimes an Author doesn't see where their own story goes.
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Don't be so sure she has failed... If Chrysalis dies without warning others about Crudelis's plans, then Crudelis still can win by securing the relic and enslaving all changelings under her sole tyrannic rule. The combined might of all changelings just might be enough to overpower ponies entirely...
So yea, it all depends on whether or not Chrysalis survives or at least gets to pass the important information in time... Then it is up to Twi to either prevent Crudelis from getting the regalia (unlikely since she has no location) or defeat her after Crudelis achieves her objective and enslaves most/all of the changelings. Although if we were to break the immersion, this is still just a fictional story and most stories end positively with the good guys winning since that's the way we were taught, but you can never be sure.
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Yep. Mutual Defense Agreement, Unprovoked Attack... and worst of all - Twilight is injured.
'Tia is gonna be PISSED!
NOOOO! Guys, we need a castle big bugspray included lighter and flamethrow Crudelis into pieces of ashes.
7380288 Tia, Luna, Cadance. So at minium Equestira and the Crystal Empire. Perhaps Draco's Hive as well.
7380288 Or perhaps nuclear bananas fueled by the eternal rage of scorchingly hot sun-plasma???
7380253 I'm the kind of author who rarely has any idea where their stories go.
7380315 Well Change was originally going to be 12 chapters long so...
7380332 Heh, typical story-gets-way-longer-than-you-expected scenario.
Quae Est Finis 12,139 words total
7379834 more like I highly doubt it was five thousand, some of them have been enslaved to Crudelis.
I'm still waiting Tom don't let me down now this is really interesting. I want Twilight to show Crudelis what for and I want it to be good.
7380278 You don't want to read some of the stories I have read then.. they don't have happy endings, only sad ones.
........ Okay, i highyl doubt a dragon is nearly that vulenrable.
That was just fucking stupid and lazy way to deal with the dragon dude. Completely.
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Alicorn death beams are powerful as hell, being capable to level entire mountains at the highest charge, and even then they only did surface wounds. The drone was pretty much useless all throughout the thing, merely a distraction. And the eyes are canonically the only weak spot on the dragon, and they were damaged by another dragon who isn't just a kid anymore and is probably closer to the bullies we've seen in the show. Plus we have no real reference as to how big the "bad" dragon was, maybe he wasn't all that huge and powerful after all.
I say sending the highest possible charge down the throat of this thing is a sure way to kill it ;P
Holy throne! That fight was worthy of a J.J. Abrams movie!
AWESOME!!!!!!
7380487 dude, it was strong enough to kill a queen.
also twilight is a changeling in this, not an alicorn.
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Dude. He had his eyes gouged out by Spike, and his lungs char broiled by Twilight's baby Death Star laser. Lets break this down. This dragon may have been big and bad, but he wasn't Superman. He wasn't going to be stopping a bullet with his eye, let alone the claws of another dragon. After that, he took a full powered magical blast, from Twilight "Marebucking" Sparkle, directly to his soft and fleshy lungs! I don't care how big of a badflank you are, you aren't walking away from that one. 
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Queens are a changeling equivalent of alicorns and canonically were shown to even overpower them if the circumstances are right.
Also, it was strong enough to kill a queen on her own, that queen might have not specialized in magic the way Twilight does, nor had a connection to the element of magic itself. And even then, Twilight managed to kill the dragon only thanks to Spike's actions and a time window where she was able to charge her most powerful attack and direct it into the enemy's vulnerable spot. I see absolutely no problem here.
I'm gonna kill that changeling bitch!!!!
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7380583 talking about heat somehow burning a dragon and spike clawing out his eye. heat would not work, and honestly spike amanging to gouge out his eye is more than implausible.
7380589 the queen would be more advanced than twilight more than likely.
also queens re weaker than alicorns.... kinda a fact. chrysalis only won from dumb luck and being gluttonous.
7380310 definitely Draco's . She is kinda Chrysalis's best friend , i guess , after all , because apart from because of Twilight , she probably doesn't smile too much.