103 - Together
Fast Change lifted her head. She had been in talks with a unicorn industrialist mare about expanding her hive when she felt the wave of love. It slammed into her like a solid force. The most astounding thing was, it was aimed at least in part, at her.
"Excuse me, Princess Fast, are you okay?" Amethyst Moon looked a little confused at the changeling, their meeting had been going well up until now.
"I am… I am sorry Amethyst, I must… I will need to reschedule. Is tomorrow okay?" Fast had to struggle against the urge to just zone out and drink at that flow of love.
The unicorn smiled and gathered her papers. "Oh that is perfectly fine. Royal duties and all that." She turned and saw an odd little group of ponies walking into the throne room unannounced. Two unicorns and a changeling drone, the latter supporting a little foal at her side, walked in.
"Oops, sorry to, uh, distract the princess." Penny apologized to the mare. "I just… I wanted to introduce her to her granddaughter."
Any hope of Amethyst feeling any annoyance was shattered by that announcement and she trotted over and looked down at the little filly. "Oh, is this her? She is just adorable!"
Fast was still having trouble swimming through the wave of love that just didn't seem to stop. She fought her way to her hooves and made her way forward, giving up any attempt at royal aloofness, between the barrage and what Penny had just said she had no wish to be 'princess' and every desire to be 'friend'. "Penny, please stop, you will have all my hive drunk for a week if you keep that up."
The flood of love subsided to a whisper, a faint trickle that, after the constant blasting, was quite welcome. "Is that better? I guess I really have gotten stronger. I couldn't help it, I wanted to thank you and every changeling in your hive." Penny beamed up at the much bigger mare.
Fast had lost the fight before she even started. Her body still was glutted on the love this mare had offered her, now she was being told it was all a gift to the hive. "You are impossible, my daughter." She put a leg over Penny's shoulder and pulled the lunar unicorn into a hug. "I am sure when my hive recovers every drone, leader and breeder will thank you for your delicious meal."
Amethyst, still partially distracted by the adorably exotic foal, only barely picked up on this but her ears did twitch in the direction of Fast and Penny. "Her daughter? Wait, she fed the whole hive?"
Stick was beside the confused unicorn but explained things, a little. "She kinda can, it takes a lot out of her though and much as it is great having her as an emergency resource for the hive, normal love is better for them. And yes, Penny is my wife, I am the princess' daughter."
This made a certain amount of sense to Amethyst and she nodded along to it. "I best be going, you take good care of her." She kissed the little filly on the nose and trotted out.
"Nice mare." Hay stepped up with Stick, approaching Fast and Penny. "We came to introduce your grandfilly to her aunts and uncles." Hay grinned, not outright saying Fast was a grandmother now, but it was an implied and well-meant jab.
"Let's have a look at her, oh!" Fast looked surprised and delighted as Stick unbundled the filly from her wrappings. "She has a changeling horn… and streaks…" The princess reached a gentle hoof out to stroke the foal's mane. "Did you pick a name?"
"Ensorcellee." Penny beamed at the big changeling cooing down at her foal… her foal. A wave of motherly love flooded Penny and she grinned. "And she has a little more changeling in her than that. She has been drinking from me… I think for a while."
"Clever little one, and the name will surely suit a changeling." Fast was cooing down and waving one of her huge hooves for the foal to grab and bite on. That is when the changeling queen discovered all those fangs, changeling and lunar, that graced the filly's mouth. "Such a set of teeth, she is quite the fierce little heart-stealer."
But rather than actually bite, Sorlie began to suck on a corner of the hoof and it was clear Fast Change, who defeated Chrysalis, who led a hive full of changelings to freedom, was completely ensnared by the filly.
"Hungry again?" Penny smiled, it was an accusation that carried not a jot of malice and she wrapped the filly in her magic and lifted her gently from Fast Change's own grip. "Uh, you don't mind…" She looked up at Fast who looked a little confused.
Stick leaned up to the princess and whispered something that had the big changeling's expression switch to surprise. "Oh, uh, sure, there are some cushions over here." She trotted quickly to show where Penny could feed the foal.
The moment Penny lay down she had to unwrap her little bundle and let her wobble in on trembling hooves. Fast quickly turned away when Penny lifted her back leg to give the filly access to her.
"Uh… um…" Fast lifted a hoof and bopped herself on the head. "I am being silly, aren't I?" Hay and Stick looked at each other then back at the princess, nodding.
"Sure." Hay agreed.
"A little." Stick shrugged up at Fast.
"Well, lets get my little ones. I was amazed that there were drones not only willing but who claimed looking after larvae was their job in Chrysalis' hive. It was like I didn't even need to ask them." Fast led the way out and to a nearby room where a few drones were looking a little groggy while a whole mess of little changelings were bouncing around excitedly. "Here's my darlings."
Hay watched the change come over Fast. She had gone from 'aloof changeling queen' to 'mother' at the sight of the little ones. "Wow, they are growing fast."
Stick snorted. "Are you kidding? Between Penny and wonderful ponies of Canterlot these little ones are fed to bursting." She trotted up and leaned in to nuzzle some of the little swarm. "I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't start pupating soon."
"I know, I know. Then there will be a whole lot more drones to feed." Fast lifted her head, two of the little half-pony half-bug offspring clinging to her mane with their little forehooves. "Well, come my swarm, you need to meet your delicious big sister and your niece."
It was like the legend of the Pie Piper, leading the parasprites out of Ponyville, but this was nearly twenty tiny adorable changelings. Stick and Hay giggled and followed along, the former dropping to her belly and squirming along just like the larvae, getting mobbed by them as she went.
Penny just lay back, closing her eyes. This was a very different sensation to her mates doing this. This was a special connection between a mother and her foal. She was amazed, however, that little Sorlie managed to not nip her once. It showed that despite all the cutlery she had, she already knew how to use it.
Fast was first to return, coming in just as Ensorcellee pulled back and burped, her eyes crossing adorably. "Oh, I think you have visitors." She reached a hoof down and rubbed Sorlie's cheek. Sure enough, behind the changeling queen came her own brood, including one that was far too big to be squirming around with a bunch of larvae.
Sorlie gave the most adorable squeal and bounded on her wobbly legs, over to the swarm. The sounds of giggles and delight came from all the changelings as they instantly broke into doing that thing that all foals knew how, by instinct, to do. Play.
Penny stayed on her side but was joined by Hay and Fast. Stick, it seemed, was quite content to be a foal and play with the little ones. "Every time I think of what would have happened with my life if I hadn't come here, I felt sad." Penny looked to the queen and half-changeling. "I haven't had that fear since she was born, I just don't have much human left to care."
Teacups floated over, held aloft in Fast's magic. "We have, all four of us, been through some big changes in our life." Fast watched the foals playing. "I gave up a family, a herd. Penny gave up her humanness. Hay gave up her fears, embraced what she was brought up believing was a monster, and Stick… Stick gave up being alone."
The words felt right to Penny, she looked to Fast and then to Hay.
"Wait, what do you mean?" Stick had clearly heard and flopped over on her belly, only using her front-hooves to move. "I… okay, yeah I was lonely before. I thought it was the best way to live, if I was alone Chrysalis couldn't take anypony away from me."
"I guess we are all part of this hive." Penny looked between the three mares around her, all of them carrying changeling blood but her. "I know I am not a cha-"
Fast's hoof lifted up and stopped Penny from talking. "You are my daughter. You have given to my hive, you helped make us strong and you keep my other daughters happy. That makes you part of my hive." She pulled the hoof back and was quickly embraced by Penny, the unicorn sobbing tears that wouldn't take a changeling's talent to tell were of joy.
The four relaxed and settled down, watching as the foals wore themselves out with play. "So, why didn't you hide your belly when pregnant, I never did get to ask that." Fast had turned to Penny.
"You too? It seems everypony expected me to know that spell. Well, it's all over now and I didn't need it. Truth be told, I think I would be happier not using it. It was good to feel her grow every day, feel as it impacted my life and made her a part of it before she was even born." Penny beamed as the larvae made their way over, she almost frowned when her daughter was doing the same belly-flow thing Stick was doing earlier.
"Don't frown like that, the wind will change and it will stick." Hay booped Penny on the nose and got a laugh from her as the foals all got in close and started to curl up with them.
"You are always welcome here, Penny, forget that you aren't a changeling, as far as I am concerned you are, the best kind in fact." Fast was oddly at ease and wondered why. Then it hit her. Here was a family, a family she was part of, that she had no attraction to at all. It was strange for her, but it was truth. She couldn't stop from giggling, remembering when she had made a pass at Penny, when the mare had first visited her hive.
"What's funny?" Penny looked at Fast.
"Just remembering when you were first here. Oh! Don't worry, I am not feeling that way anymore, it was just… well, you let me taste you…" Fast actually blushed and got a snuggle from the mare in question. "What?"
"Nothing, mum." Penny kissed Fast's jaw and leaned into her, accepting her friend as close family in a way she wouldn't have believed when she had first arrived.
Genevieve looked at the thing. She tilted her head to the side. "It looks like a keyboard, this is your big project?" Sablee nodded and gestured more. "Oh no, I can't play!"
The stallion wilted a touch but rather than let it show he leaned in and kissed the woman. His project was complete, it was a masterpiece of magical circuits. He had built it not just to Vinyl's specs, but beyond it. "After the big speaker stack I built, I just had to get something to drive it for her."
"You like her?" Jen grinned mischievously. "Because you know I could totally get some glasses and some blue dye."
Sablee gawked at the human. "What… I… wait… uh now I am confused." He petted the machine, at least it wouldn't confuse him with strange ideas. "Okay, lets try this again. What are you talking about?"
"Well duh, if you like how a mare looks, I am not going to hold that against you. Damn even I had a phase where I would have hit on Vinyl. That look is pretty cool. I will get some things tomorrow, we can see how well it goes." She leaned in and kissed the stallion, their lips playing together with practiced perfection.
"So… uh, is there a pony that you have fantasized that I could look like?" Sablee blushed hotly, looking down at the floor until Jen's fingers captured his chin and tilted his snout up so he had to look at her.
"You just asked the right question. And yes, I think with some blue and black dye…" Jenny's mind raced and she suddenly pictured some fake wings.
"Wait, Penny?" Sablee tried to pull back and Jen let him. But he froze again at her laughter. "What?"
"Silly stallion, c'mere." Jen reached a hand out, a hand that the unicorn lifted his hoof to take and be pulled back close to her. "I will give you one hint, it is nopony you saw today."
This was a bit of a tip, Sablee and Jen had seen Penny and her family in the morning. "Uh, stallion or mare?" His mind raced, trying to connect things up.
"Definitely mare. And I can bet you have had thoughts about her too." Jenny grinned, leaning in and resting herself against his back. "Heck, I am thinking a lot of p-"
"Princess Luna?" Sablee's mouth was hanging open, eyes wide with surprise.
"So you have had dreams about her, excellent." Jen was already planning how to make the best cosplay for them.
Aww, raising the bar to eleven for adorableness. Even Stick gets a point for being cute.
And Sablee, of course everypony has had special dreams about Luna, it is how she knows she IS best princess 
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Everypony dreams of Princess Luna and it's right where she can see it to. Hopefully most ponies aren't perving to much in those dreams.
Beautiful chapter.
hive recovers every drone - hive recovers, every drone
like the pupae - like the larvae
as she goes - as she went
the pie piper - the Pied Piper
bunch of pupae - bunch of larvae
how to, by instinct, do. - how, by instinct, to do.
Fast's magic. We have - Fast's magic. "We have
the pupae made their - the larvae made their
from giggling remembering - from giggling, remembering
*****
If this must be the end for now or for ever, it could not end in a happier place for everyone!
I said it in your journal entry, but it bears repeating, thank you for your hard work in writing this story and for sharing the fruits of that labor with us.
If you do ever revisit these characters, I'll be eager to see what sort of mare Ensorcellee grows into.
7092697 And thank you, for being with them all the way and making my chicken-scratchings look a little less terrible
As for Pie Piper, it was a Pie that Piped so I am going to leave that language pun as is
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Ahhh... flew right over my head.
7092750 Careful, if a strange parasprite does that you are likely to have an interesting time
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No horn. ; P
7092832 Well, maybe if I could find one of those nice little masks...
Great story, and easily worth a spot in my favorites list!
Would you consider writing an epilogue, or final chapter? I feel like it ended without any real conclusion, and I think that's kind of a bummer.
Of course, if another story continuing this world (but maybe not focusing on Penny) is in the works, that is less of a concern!
Song for this chapter:
Good fun!
Keep going! ;)
yep a perfect chapter you really did super good with the hole story I am vary happy to be privileged to be allowed to read this work of art.
we defiantly need more emoji's
7103193 Yup, and I promise to fix them all!
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7109022 Indeed, ponies are always fast to turn to happiness given the right trigger.
This has been a terrific journey, just sad to see it completed. Maybe a future story on Sorlie's adventures?
7113636 Nah, they would have hornaments and hornery... does that make them decorative and angry? Oh wait, they are guards!
princess' or princess's (depending on how you feel about ending a word with an apostrophe)
Penny
hit on might be a better word choice here. Still works as is, just requires a moment to think over.
7117088 Actually, so far as she has been officially named in 3rd party (licensed) stuff, it is Fleur Dis Lee http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Fleur_Dis_Lee
7117088 Oh, and just a thing, if you think the game holds no weight as canon, there is an interesting little fact about it...
A Changeling assuming her identity but pretending to be an Alicorn, who was identified by the game as the unicorn Fleur Dis Lee herself, was added to the Android version of the game on March 28, 2013 and to the iOS version of the game on April 15, 2013, before being replaced by the real Fleur Dis Lee in both versions of the game on June 13, 2013.
In the episode Canterlot Boutique, an alicorn Fleur was seen in the store ordering a "princess dress", the air-date of that episode? September 12, 2015
If you can find me a single example where the show has pushed even the slightest bit of lore from any of the comics into full canon, I will eat my own hat!
TLDR; The game has been proven to be canon by the show, the game spelled her name as Fleur Dis Lee
Oops, that came out a little more aggressive than I meant it. I am glad you are reading, please don't stop because crazy-author hasn't had any caffeine yet!
7117411 Because they had only just hatched, they need to pupate and their forms will fully become changeling foals.
7139217 Yeah? Well, yo mama so ugly, when she tried to join an ugly contest they said, "Sorry, no professionals."
What? Oh come on. Yo mama jokes are the second highest form of comedy, only behind fart jokes... fart... behind... oh come on, no groaning!
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No don't bug him.
7156664 Aww, no bugging? But the bugs just want love
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That sounds...
Horrifying.
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Wait, isn't asexuality simply the lack of sexuality?
Why would cause a desire to be female?
7178640 Not so much a desire to be female, more a case of "I don't identify as anything and would be interested in a change".
7182186 That side story where sally is captured by changelings and turned into one eventually
7183125 Ah yes. Basically, it was going to be a very short 'extra' within this story series, to help pad out chapters when I was getting ahead of the world-plot. Then David got ahead again and I decided to collect them together and make it its own thing.
7183956 I do thank you for it. Was a a good story but left a little open but some people have to tuff it out ............
7238088 Sadly, I only speak English and 'stralian.
MOAR!!!!!!!!!!
7247794 which is why i STILL call her Cadence.
7248411 Also, oh my Glob I caught up! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this.
7251225 Base 4 is easy from two, but harder from 10.
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Snugly is adverb for snug, though, not an adjective. Snuggly is adjective for snuggle.
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All three are valid names and she has been credited by them all in show credits. I could also call her Bubbly Mare or Party Filly with equal validness. I settled on Muffins mainly because it was the one used by the SilverVerse world.
There is no malice toward the character or her name, the mare in this story isn't the silly bumbling fool a lot portray her as. (although, in another series of mine, she certainly gets to do a lot of muffin nibbling
)
You will also note, according to Larson himself, "Her name is muffins officially." in an interview with Equestria Daily.
Oh, super fun fact about her. In all my stories, Muffins (Derpy, Ditzy, Bubbles, Stoneface, whatever) is almost the same character. I have done now... what, six stories about different ways Chrysalis could act? In them, Muffins is always the same, secret-agent-hiding-behind-cluelessness Muffins.
7271091 Right, named, in fact, after the coins of the same name and their relative size difference resembling the two wheels of the bike. It could also be in reference to Penny's worry of coming to Equestria without a single bit to her name, or it could be a crazy writer's symbolism of themselves (this is self-insert) being worth something, or how much less Equestria might be without her (Penny-less?)
7274034 The science has been doubled!
Fun fact, I have a shirt (my favorite) that reads 'Stand back, I'm going to try SCIENCE' on it.
7364901 And she does, although this particular escapade was not in the alternate M-rated add-on.
7382141 Nah, you could of made a song.... a soonnggg. like planes cartoon or movie with the plane afraid of heights
7382569 I could have, but I think, deep down, I would always regret not getting some magic. Stick certainly would regret it!
7382589 but like, flight. and who needs hands when you have wings! you can flip a person off with wings! sureee not as well with bat wings but still!
7382601 But... good ponies don't want to flip others off! That isn't how you make friends...
7382633 imma just continue this in message cause I don't wanna fill this up...
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7444265 Thank you! Both fixed.
7448696 Possessive of princess can actually be either princess' or princess's. For academics it is the latter, for most other uses it is the former. Of course here it should be singular. Fixed!
Let's (a contraction of let us)
Isn't that Pied Piper? Waitaminute…
<- Nope!
humanity, but I guess Fast might not know that word
questions should have question marks.
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The only cases I've seen style guides actually suggest that the added S is even possibly optional in the singular is with a name ending in S, like "Marcus's Stylings"…and I still prefer with, as it's phonetically present.
I guess I'm an academic? But, writing nor English are not my direct field of study.
But, plural possessive would be princesses'.
Hmm. I blew right by that "complete" marker. I guess it's not visible in the chapter. Perhaps a "The End" or "Buckaroo Banzai will return in Penny Farthing versus the World Crime League" might be appropriate.
7448853 Oh yes, fully agree that princesses' is plural possessive.
As for Pie Piper, yes, I love mangling English into puns, please forgive me.
It is complete, Penny is comfortable with herself and her life. There may be a sequel, but I would need a good plot worked out in advance for that.