Shining Armor had snuggled with Cadence enough times to know when she was angry or upset. That one time she'd seen him hugging another mare? It was as if she'd become a rigid block of ice every time he even tried to brush up against her.
Of course, he being the thick-headed pony he was, it had taken him all that night and most of the next day to figure out what she was so upset about. It had finally dawned on him when she had had a stunned and speechless reaction when he introduced her to his cousin from Whinnyapolis who was in town just for the weekend. She had later apologized. Repeatedly.
And quite physically as well.
Tonight, though, there was something else on her mind, and it wasn't Shining's fault this time. She barely noticed him when he climbed onto the bed and pulled her into being his little spoon. She didn't flinch when his hooves began gently prodding at her body and poking at her hips, and she didn’t respond to his gentle nuzzling of her neck.
When she didn't even react to his ear-biting, though, he knew he had to speak. “You're worried about Twilight, aren't you?”
Cadence chuckled mirthlessly. “Was it that obvious?”
Shining ignored that question. “Cadence, she killed Queen Chrysalis, by herself,” he said. “I really don’t think there’ll be anything she can’t handle.”
“I know; but…”
“I trust her,” he said firmly. “Celesia trusts her. She'll be fine.”
“Yeah, but…”
Shining pulled her close. “She'll be fine,” he repeated. “She's staying here in the castle tonight, anyway, and Luna's guards are standing watch over the mini-hive tonight. They take their job seriously. I'd bet anything it's locked down tighter than a noble's coinpurse. Trust me. No changeling's getting out of that cave tonight.”
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Twilight's door opened, and a changeling slid inside, clinging to the ceiling. He grinned. “Took me a while to find you, your highness,” he whispered. He crept along the ceiling, heading towards Twilight's bed. He was silent as he went…
...until something hard and sharp hit him on the back of the head, causing him to simultaneously squeak in surprise and lose his grip on the ceiling. He quickly dropped to the ground, and landed with a crunch.
“Knew I shouldn't accept that offer of my own room,” Spike grumbled, picking up a second gemstone and cocking his arm back for another throw.
The changeling shot to his hooves, fangs bared… and then he froze. “A dragon,” he breathed, taking a step back.
Spike didn't understand the word that came out of the changeling's mouth, but he certainly understood the tone and his body language. “Yeah, that's right,” Spike growled, tossing the ruby up once as intimidatingly as he could before catching it and pointing it at him threateningly. “A dragon. Twilight's got a guard dragon. And right now that dragon wants to know why you're in Twilight's room.”
Twilight sat up, awoken by the noise. “Who in what room?” she asked blearily. Her eyes narrowed as she noticed the changeling there. “Is there a reason you're in my room at…” She glanced at the clock. “...one in the mor-” She did a double take. “One in the morning?!”
The changeling cowered slightly. “I was ordered to be here,” he explained.
Twilight raised an eyebrow. “By whom?”
“Queen Chrysalis.”
Twilight glanced back at the clock, but it hadn't changed; it still read near one in the morning. “Why?” she sputtered.
The changeling shuffled uncomfortably. “She thought me a skilled lover. Which, I am, I suppose; but...”
Twilight’s eyes widened. “Wait. Are you saying you came into my room with the express intent of mating with me?”
Spike's eyes widened as well. He was only understanding Twilight’s half of this conversation, but that half was sounding very disturbing. What had Twilight gotten herself into?
“Yes!” The changeling’s wide smile dimmed somewhat at Twilight’s bewildered expression. “Is that wrong?”
Twilight tapped her chin with a hoof. “Well, hmm, let me think about tha- Yes! Yes, it's wrong! Why would you do that? Why would she do that?”
“Well, I…” The changeling scratched the back of his neck and muttered something under his breath that Twilight could barely hear, and finished with, “and that’s very desirable for changeling females.”
Twilight cocked her head. “I don’t understand changeling anatomy yet,” she confessed.
The changeling nodded. “If I translated it to ponies, it would probably be...” And he finished that sentence whispering in her ear.
Twilight’s wings flared open, but she quickly brought herself back under control. “But I do not wish to have sex with a changeling," she protested.
Spike gagged once. On second thought, maybe he should have taken up Celestia on her offer of his own room, after all.
The changeling shrugged. “It was a standing order.”
Twilight blinked. “I rescind it,” she said.
The changeling sighed with relief. “My life-mate will be pleased.”
Twilight was taken aback. “You’re married too?” she asked. Perhaps it was a bit speciest, but she had trouble imagining all these changelings courting each other. They still all somewhat looked the same to her.
The changeling looked down and scuffed a hoof. “Well, not technically--Chrysalis didn’t want her lovers attached to anypony else--but we’re-”
Twilight’s voice nearly raised an octave. “And she made you do this anyway?”
“Yes...?”
“Every night?”
He shook his head. “Not every night, no. She rotated between three or four of us.”
Twilight’s jaw dropped. When she was able to regain some control over herself, she scrambled to her hooves on top of her covers and shouted, “Royal decree number two! Any other standing orders that involve sensual conduct with me are hereby rescinded!”
The changeling shuddered briefly as the royal decree pulsed across the hive. In slight contrast, Spike shuddered at the thought of a changeling kissing Twilight.
Twilight inhaled deeply, held her breath for a few moments, and then slowly exhaled. “I’m almost afraid to ask; but are there any other royal decrees I should be aware of before I can go back to sleep?”
The changeling shrugged. “Most of her decrees were along the lines of ‘get out of my way’ or ‘go clean pits and don’t stop until your hooves are bleeding’ or ‘leave my hive and never return’.”
Twilight shook her head, unable to comprehend this. To her, that was wrong on so many levels. "But why?" she asked.
The changeling shrugged. "She was the queen. Her commands were always right.”
“She was doing something wrong,” Twilight growled, now feeling tainted.
The changeling looked conflicted. The old queen had told him that as queen, she could do no wrong. But here was another queen, who could also do no wrong, saying that what the old queen was doing was wrong. Both queens could not be right at the same time. Whatever was a simple changeling to do?
Twilight noticed his confusion and decided to give him something else to do before he hurt himself. “Tell you what. Here is your new order. You go home to your life-mate, and treat her like you would have treated me tonight.”
The changeling’s eyes widened. “Are you serious?”
“As a heart attack.”
The changeling blinked and cocked his head. “What’s a heart attack, Princess?”
Twilight realized that she really had no idea how changeling anatomy worked. “Never mind. Just go.”
The changeling bowed and quickly darted out of the room.
Spike lifted a claw, lowered it again, and then decided to risk it. “What was that all about?” he asked.
Twilight placed the pillow over her face. “You don’t want to know.”
short chapter but man was that funny as hell!
man I love this story, I can't wait to see what happens next good sir, I am so looking forward to what happens next.
It's something a lot of (especially fictional) rulers like these guys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_dictators
seem to forget. Your people have a responsibility to aid you (in one way or another), you have a responsibility to aid them (in one way or another.)
Twilight should ask about ALL previous standing orders, I shutter to think what else 'shifty-mcjerk-face' had going.
Okay, seriously. Comedy tag. Now. This story NEEDS it!
This chapter is a definitive crusher. It just kicked me in the brain. For such situations I can forgive the lack of worldbuilding- or rather, hivebuilding and any signs of Twi's transformation.
I also think that what the Changeling was scheduled to do was something uterly extreme and his wife would not like the treatment. Or love it. Eather way I want to see her in the next chapter throwing herselfes at Twi's hooves thanking or pleading for mercy. Whatever suits bathumy better.
Really? At 1 in the morning? Even I'm not THAT dedicated!
6905567 you realize that would lead to a few days of listing and rescinding, right? Sure, Twi might have fun, but that might not be the desired focus...
Keep going! ;)
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I do not entirely agree that it was extreme for the Changeling Drone to approach Twilight like that. He said it himself, it was a standing order from Queen Crysalis. Even with her dead and Twilight having taken over, the order still stands because according to them.
Changeling's in this story (And a lot of other ones I have read) seems to have a social construction along the line of "The queen is always right end of discussion." Ether dead or alive, they follow there queen's orders without much or any opposition too those orders.
Until we get a explanation to how Changeling biology and social behavior works in this story, I can't blame this changeling on actions that are frowned upon by the ponies.
6906155 Who knows what Chrysalis made with her lovers on a daily basis but it's save to presume it would be extreme or would require a large ammount of force. Something that can be harmful to casual drones, like his wife.
And Twilight just ordered him to do that to his wife WITHOUT KNOWING THE DETAILS! She might just telled the love master to crush, kill and destroy a you know what.
And I'm a hardocre changeling reader myself. Don't theink we're uneven on this here.
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Wait, wait, wait... Require a large amount of force? Harmful to casual drones? First, what the hell do you think Chrysalis did to her drones? killed them on a daily basis? ate them after she let them fuck her? and second, that changeling he was talking about was his life-mate, witch is there term for wife/husband.
But with there "The queen is always right" kind of mentality. Wife or not, if the queen says she wants to have sex with him he would do it. and his "Wife" would not have a say in the thing sense she is also under the same "The queen is always right" mindset. until we know more about the changeling's in this story, we CAN'T judge and expect them to act like the ponies would.
So she should have done what?
It was one in the morning, a alien creature sneaks into her room under the standing orders to mate with the queen witch in this case is Twilight. Twilight doesn't want to mate with a changeling sense she is still a pony and finds ponies more attractive then changelings. Nor dose she know how changeling biology and mating works, so she tells him to go to his Life-mate instead.
6906421 No, you misunderstand again! Okay, I'll say it blunt and simple: She had trained her drone lovers to fuck with the strength that would break normal drone females - shatter their shells, rip their internat organs, to name the general consequences. Maybe even modified their "tools". I'm basing this off the fact that the Changeling Queen is the alicorn counterpart for the Changelings. And knowing the power of the pedocorn gods - that would be dangerous as... well... fuck...
YOU THOUGHT TOO MUCH! I LIKE YOU FOR IT!
You try to remind me of the story while I remember it. Twilight ordered the drone to make to his life-mate what he done to Chrysalis what could be what I described above. In that case his wife will end up with some shattered exoseleton unless she is acumstomed to it already.
And I don't think abaut Chrysalis as a (basicly) nazi but as a desperate. And one pretty kinky in bed. And with great needs, as a changeling queen off course.
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How do we know that she have done that? Yes you assume that Chrysalis is a "Alicorn Changeling" But that's just it... an assumption.
Where in this story is it mentioned that Chrysalis "Trained" her drones to fuck her like she is unable to feel anything done to her unless you put ton's of force behind it?
If that was the case, his life-mate would already be dead of severely wounded at worst or at best his life-mate would be Chrysalis herself, not an avenger female drone.
6906005 I wasn't implying the author write all that out, I was merely implying that McJerk-face probably had a LOT going that her lings didn't like, and Twilight should look in to it.
6906553 It was a comparison to what Chrysalis is. Any better ideas that this analogy? Let me hear it.
Yes. The training makes a master. Evolution too as we speak abaut a race of love makers. And a ton's force is 10 000 N, while in the Chrysalis sex we would speak abaut 1200-2000 N of force. Any more than that would phisicly be impossible. Changelings could potentially reach that level of buck but that would require the individual to be fit as an ant - carry 100 times of his own weight and so on.
Maybe the 'haywire fuck' mode [let's call it that for the time beeing] needed to be triggered by something, like a Royal Decree to actually affect a changeling who would normally had this brutal potential unactive for savety sake. That would explain things.
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And how do we know that comparison is correct? Until the show tells us that Chrysalis is a Alicorn changeling, then that comparison is just an assumption. As well with your hole argument.
Until the author tells us, we have no idea how Changeling's work in his/her universe.
I'm not saying your wrong, nor am I saying your right. All I'm saying is that we don't know. Now we can throw head-cannons at each other like world war 3 but until the author comes out and says "This is how it works" your comparison is just an assumption as it lacks proof in the context to this story.
6906741 True. But it's not headcannon but an educated assuption. Let me explain.
But my point is that Chrysalis phisicaly has the phisical force and muscule potential akin of an alicorn. She overpowered Celestia magicly (granted, she was well fed back then) and they crossed horns with standing her ground. Considering the alicorns have much musscule tissue due to size, then amplified due to their Earth Pony Magic, then stacked up by their Alicorn magic (that behwves like the magics of all the tribes but combined) and then decked up once again by their Cutie Mark magic due to all of them possesing some kind of magical-related gift that amplifies the Alicorn magic. And there's also the rumor of each alicorn having another unique magic of the thing she controlles, like Luna's magic of Dreams and Twilight's Harmony stuff but hard to predict if that would affect phisiclal prowess.
Now we have Chrysalis that holds up against that. If she has that strengh in her legs - she will have that in her vagina. A drone that survives her climax without his penis squeesed is already a veteran lover. Unless it has some kind of force carry chitin covering that. Then when she has abaut 1000 years acording to the comics. And this comic states she has regulary sex. That makes her quite the deviant and the more sex you have the more refined your tastes and needs are. And you stop to feel stuff.
Carry this both arguments to Chryssy. She needs a hardcore drone to withstand her and one powerful enought to make her feel a thing.
All that considering this isn't an alternate universe story, as it lacks the tag along without collideing with the show canon and the comic expansion as well. But that leaves the question - as Chrysalis was the only Changeling Queen to ever egzist, how can she know the spell that rooted the hivemind in Twilight and make her queen. You could say she figured this stuff out as she's the living awatar of the Hive Mind as well had plenty of free time when she was improsoned in a vulcano for a couple haundred years.
It's worth mentation to the topic - your remember that fic where Chryssys's son killed her by injecting his horn into her vagina and sending off a blast? It was awesome!!!
It's possible (or wouldn't be suprising) that an entire bloodline -or several in fact- were devoted to breed out the strongest lovers possible for the queen and as her needs grew, so were her servants.
6906741 And you know what, man? We're awesome. We're just discussing the workings of "How to **** Chrysalis" and I like it!
It's hard to find someone who can answer you this days. And one that 'agrees' on an enjoyable subject is just extremely rare.
Are there visual differences between changelings that Twilight just learned enough to make out yet, or are the individual traits of changelings not something pony senses can make out?
I can't wait until Twilight starts really studying changelings and their history. If so much of pony architecture is leaked out of the changelings (makes you wonder how many famous architects were actually changelings, like pony-Michelangelo), then they likely have more advancements that they haven't shared. And they would have their own records of the past, their own advancements in technology and magic, they have wonderful poetry, have their own views on the history of various nations and races from a POV nopony has ever had the chance to see before, their own literature...
...
Goddamnit, now I really want to know what that was. It got Twilight worked up real fast.
Wow. Chrysalis used a mind-altering royal decree for that? To order around servants who would do anything she told them to anyways? I mean, we knew she was petty, but that's a whole new level of patheticness.
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Part of that--the unspoken social contract between the ruler and the ruled--is because the head of state requires the support of the people to maintain that position. If people stop listening to their "leader", s/he effectively doesn't exist. However, since changelings are biologically compelled to be obedient, there is very little requiring the existence of said contract. Just about all there is is the worry over being betrayed... which while serious, the indoctrination of the changelings since hatching makes it much less of a concern than it would otherwise be.
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She wouldn't have that strength in her vagina, she would have proportionally that much strength, her kegels being as proportionally stronger as her legs--not equally strong. Further, the vagina isn't designed to destroy things put in it (hell, if it did, no changeling queen would ever have children--and if they didn't reproduce, they wouldn't have vaginas in the first place). There's a limit to how much the muscles can constrict, and being stronger won't change that. Further, destroying the bodies of mates would be an evolutionary dead-end for the changeling race, considering that they seem to reproduce via normal sex and not through, say, fertilizing external eggs or stabbing semen into their mates (I don't remember which animal it was, but there's one that basically makes has a spear with semen in it that it literally shoots like a missile at a potential mate. Freaky).
Frankly, the comics are so greatly and so frequently ignored (and sometimes have to be ignored because they contradict canon or even themselves) that they can't be taken as true for any given story unless stated to be so. Unlike Equestria Girls, the comics haven't been officially stated to be canon--they try to follow canon, but they do not set canon, and it's been stated (I can't recall where) that the show writers aren't going to take the comics into account or go out of their way to follow them. The comics are, in effect, AU themselves.
Having frequent sex doesn't make her deviant, much less anything so extreme as to warrant being called "quite the deviant". Yeah, having a cycle of lovers is pretty sick, but it doesn't imply a set of dangerous fetishes to go along with it.
Also, are you suggesting that she does bdsm/pain stuff? Consider her character for a moment--she'd never allow one of her own drones to strike her, regardless of the reason.
Again, ignoring the comics doesn't make this AU--as such, there's no indication that Chrysalis is the only changeling queen. To the contrary, we KNOW she isn't--from the very first chapter
It's more likely that this is just something queens know how to do. Considering this line--"There is only one real rule regarding changeling royalty: there must always be a queen. "--I suspect the hive itself could do something to create a new queen if the previous one dies without producing an heir or converting her vanquisher.
oh man. I really don't know what to say about this chapter other than great work making me laugh.
6907694 i suppose that's true. It seems kind of unfair, and it is, but they didn't mind because, well, it's their queen that's giving the orders.
on a side note, perhaps in the future Twilight might decide to assign a name and personality to all of them beyond 'subservient'. She can re-organize books for three days, she can do that, and i really wouldn't put it past her
6907794 You forget abaut magic that can overcome phisicly possible limits. And the changelings, according to the comics at least, came to be as a race of mutants composed of: Star Swirls Blood, overgrown bugs, pony bones, a sick tree and a chemicly/magicly dangerous swamp. That means the evoltuion didn't apply to how they came out and it's one big miracle they could reproduce in the first place. My guess would be that the first changelings had problems with reproduction and maybe hybrydised with ponies to stabilize their messy biology. [If pony-changeling hybryd is a thing off course, if we have mules in MLP I'm willing to risk a "yes"]
I know, I know. But the author never showed anything against the comic canon yet. And the comic canon is only vital to my sidearguments.
*story. I meant story there.
What is with you all and the crasiest fethises. I'm only saying that she propably needed a bunch of extremely intense sex evry day after 1000 years of continous increase in her needs. But you propably can't say you wouldn't see her whiping someone from time to time.
Shhhhhhhhh.... okay. The swamp back in the comics could make a number of changeling queens. We saw the first one and if the queens look alike - it could be even not chrysalis seen in that comic.
Who knows. The hive is a constuct that egzist for 1000 years whithout any other ruler. Propably there are ways to make a ruler but if the ordinary changelings know of it is unsure.
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Hehe, Yeah. Not something I thought I would have done when I woke up. But I have to agree with what 6907794 said. And I stand with what I said in the past. Only the author can shed some light on what is and what isn't correct. so we have to wait for the next chapter to find out.
6909021 True. But why you two besiegde me?
Chrysalis is a dick. Wants a dick. Same thing.
This chapter made me laugh.
The scary question is; Was the daily mating with different changeling males every night just Chrysalis's own twisted desires, or is it a natural part of Changeling queen Biology? If the drive and need to mate daily are a natural part of Changeling Queen biology, Twilight is going to have to take it up herself once her transformation is complete. If so, my only hope is she chooses more willing changeling males who aren't attached to anypony else.
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Just Chrysalis being twisted.
It'll be a long, long, long time before Twilight will feel even remotely comfortable with that sort of thing.
Like.
7836069 thank celestia for that.
Also, is this fic (at any point) going to become a 'Cadence is racist about changelings and trys to 'remove' them' sort of thing? (I'll keep reading if so, but it just feels like a over used plot point at the moment.)
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She'll be uncomfortable, sure; but she'll never like actively try to drive them out.
i find that i don't mind in the slightest
Oh, it's easy. They're both right, AND wrong.
Doublethink! Easy!
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Use temporal logic. Chrysalis was correct *then* Twilight is correct *now*.
I'm sorry, but that was too funny.