After Discord learns about the fate set for Equestria, he can't help but do something drastic. After all, Fate and Chaos are like water and oil; they'll never get along. Let's see what happens when an extra character is introduced at the beginning!
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Well, good way to fight off a mental assault... RANDOM INTERNET DUMP !
Well now he's repairing the damages... And now we know this hive-mind is not so Borg-Like, resistance is not futile, but they all have been so indoctrinated that resisting was not an option they could conceive.
Also, it'll be slow going but all theses act of trust, the drones will finish by joining the hive on their own will. They already began with these two drones.
But damn, this sudden sub-queen was sudden. But that was to be expected, with the level of acting she seems to have...
Loved it. Can't wait for the next chapter.
A quick question, though. As I understand it from this chapter, Max can be controlled by the link, but he is capable of fighting back or breaking free of the link if he so chose. Do other changelings possess this ability, or is it unique to Max. Also, has it been verified that Max is a breeder or is he something different, unique?
P.S: Actually, are there any male changelings that aren't breeders, or is Max that last male changeling?
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/trust
The amount of memes that Max put into that Infiltrator must have been staggering.
Every chapter leaves me begging for more.
Damn I loved the chapter. Keep'em coming ReyRey.
RELEASE THE RIVER OF MEMES AND THE DREADED NYAN CAT!
Great chapter! I don't think I've ever seen changelings have link battles before. It definitely adds more depth to their hierarchy and power structure.
magic is local so-wait, that's a plasma bolt from a video game gun-
Marvellous
That was a pretty fun chapter. I wonder if one of the videos he sent was the "You reposted in the wrong neighborhood" except replace reposted, with linked.
All of your mind are belong to us.
He did her up the meme BOMB!
Great chapter and well built additional 'ling lore.
I think one of the reasons I like your work is that it seems comparatively 'fresh'. There aren't many themes that you use that have been beat to death by the community. Your stories can still surprise me with twists. Love it all, keep it coming!
interesting chapter, I hope we will explore more about what it is for Max to be a breeder later in the story. I hope we will get back to the expansion of Luna and Celestia's realm soon, because I feel that the story is already changeling heavy story.
8096026 Crack is male, Flick is female
Personally, I want to know how the non-infiltrators have reacted to ponies making a pass at them, or about the ponies who are thinking about it.
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1. Since he is actively able to fight back and invade the other sub-queen's mind, I'd see no reason why he wouldn't be able to break free from the link he's a part of.
2. Judging from the surprise of both Crystal and the Sub-queen, it's mostly likely an ability unique to Max, or an ability only queens normally possess.
3. I think they only call him a breeder because he is male. Discord basically created his form, so Max is most likely inherently different from a run-of-the-mill Changeling breeder, and it is likely that Max is not the last male Changeling, but it is unknown whether or not any Changelings that are male have any other roles.
8095748 It was kind of sudden, but Max did just try to invite a bunch of changelings in. It would have been the perfect opportunity. Seven kind of rushed her infiltration though.
8095909 Ever see those shots of the after-effects of a tornadoe? Think of longcats and tacgnols punched through her memories in random places.
8096078 Fresh stuff is why I started Substitute. Every story had the OC becoming friends with everyone by chapter four and it PISSED ME OFF.
8096167 I intend to delve into it a bit. I have several different and oftentimes conflicting ideas about 'lings, this is just another one.
8095755 In the link, the queens and sub queens are capable of it but they've never considered it. After all, as Max said to Crystal Mother would have immediately killed any who even considered it. As for the Breeder thing, well, that's still in the air. I tend to write these stories on the fly with no plan written out.
My impression of Max's 'spam attack'
You've got mail...beeyotch!
8096558 1: While fighting a link is one thing, trying to break free of one is another. It's the difference between keeping something moving, or pushing it from a full stop, the link being a full stop.
2: Not unique to Max, Crystal just never thought of it. Again, if she did she'd likely be dead. Mother didn't tolerate failure, what do you think her opinion of insubordination would be?
3:There's more to it, but for now Max is the only male of the species either of these changeling queens have seen. If they were actually that rare or if Mother only kept a few and disposed of the rest in order to keep their numbers low is unknown.
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I was just posing speculation, what you decide to do with it is up to you.
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I seem to recall either Crack or Flick was a male. Breeders must be something separate from just gender, eg: all Breeders are male, all Queens are female; however, being a male changeling doesn't make you a Breeder any more than being a female changeling makes you a Queen. Drones can have their own genders but are still and always will be just drones.
Despite that, the implication is that only Breeders can inseminate a Queen and only Queens reproduce, thus Max could well be the last viable mate. (However, canon has Changelings still existing in great numbers 1,000 years in the future, so either Chryssie/Crystal must have found a Breeder in the original timeline, or, Queens make drones automatically but a Breeder is required for Queen and Breeder children, which explains the hordes of drones FutureChryssie has and lack of any other hives or Queens.)
8095748 *Flashing images of thousands of memes while the song Never gonna give you up by Rick Astley plays in the background*
WHAT THE FUCK.
#braindead
1 like = 1 prayer
Oh wait, I found the picture
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Another great chapter, and as usual it leaves me wanting more.
How long has this sub-queen (7 B) been disguised for?
If she's been disguised for a while, why not attack Max and/or Crystal earlier, when they weren't as well-defended or knowledgeable? Dumbass.
If she just recently entered the castle as a servingmare...well, she could've assaulted M or C before they realised three of the changeling drones were spies, and thus been on the alert for a 'queen'.
Also, the link...anyone with a 'master/slave' fetish/kink would likely find this rather interesting...
An entire race of obedient, submissive slaves.
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There's just one issue with that statement. Crack, AKA the drone who pointed Max and Celestia in the direction of the bandit camp, is male:
My guess as to what's actually happening here is that what they refer to as breeders are in fact changeling "kings". But as we've already seen, "Mother" always tried keeping a tight leash on every aspect of the hive, including reproductive rights. She probably decided to keep them all locked up in one place as breeding slaves, both as a means to control the population's growth and also to deliberately prevent them from realizing what they were, which in turn prevented the other changelings from realizing it as well.
Heavily matriarchal society + Evil Overlady + Potentially powerful males that she can't kill because she needs them alive to continue her species = Throw them in a breeding pen and treat them as livestock.
when is the next chapter ready? i cannot wait
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I'd hazard a guess as to Drone gender being an optional choice as to what they feel most comfortable with, sticking to a certain pronoun when they're out and about in pony society, because otehrwise it might get difficult to keep up a disguise if they can't pick a gender and stick with it.
Meanwhile Royal Gender (Breeders and Queens) is important and singular.
8097847 ...So if I'm reading this right, you disagree with me on the the "drone" biology, and agree with me on the "royal" biology. Is that correct?
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Essentially yes.
More accurately.
Drones do not have a gender, they are Drones, no he, no she, just Drones. This ain't gonna fly if you have to infiltrate or survive in a gendered society, so it just became a habit for drones to assign themselves a gender so as that they could take on any infiltration assingment that the Over-Queen felt like throwing them on.
Royals on the other hand do have a Gender, and possibly a strict hierarchy based on how many molts they've gone through/position in the Hive-link/Gender. Sub-Queen, Queen, Over-Queen / Breeder, Viceroy, Prince (I still like Honeypot changeling 'cause it makes me think of ants).
So a drone that refers to itself as he is no more or less male than a table, that's just how it identifies itself among ponies.
Ouch.
Corrections offered without malice.
queen's
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Hoo
would be funny if because of the mending the queen ends up with her personality aligned to Max's
Damn now im fully up to date on Twisted fate, the cost of asylum and the substitute demon, im running out of stuff to read :(
Seven B just realized the terrifying might of the human doomsday device called the internet!
Nice chapter, good work.
8104972 I was writing for Sub and Twisted but ended up catching a case of death so I won't be alive until morning.
No, seriously. I'm taking some Benadryl and going to bed after a shower. I'm done.
Changeling mind control is weird. Max basically DDOS'd her brain. That's one way of doing it I suppose.
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Get well soon and i can wait however long it takes for you to update your stories, i always look forward to new chapters (i especially love the way you write changelings), I've watched too many stories die out and never get updated again so i've got a lot of patience.
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huh. an here my first thought was "omg! he went an 4-Chan'd her!! the poor girl"
a good chapter, kept wondering how max an crystal would start to expand their hive w/out laying eggs.
also, an idea for omake
***1000 years in the future (give or take)***
[Queen Chrysalis]
This day has been just perfect
The kind of day of which I've dreamed since I was small
Everypony I'll soon control
Every stallion, mare, and foal
Who says a girl can't really have it all? [evil laugh]
door slams open an a changling that doesn't look like the ones outside walks up confidently. oddly, celestia seems to stop struggling an instead get a bigger grin with every step taken. [Chrysalis] turns around with a look of anger at first, but quickly disappears. Apprehension growing at the look on the changlings face.
"are you done yet? moony is waiting, an you KNOW how she hates being kept waiting for anything"
*gulp an fake grin* "I'll be right there" *blast celestia free, catching her an laying her down gently beside her* "no hard feelings dear? no? good!" *teleports before anyone can stop her, leaving celestia weakly chuckling. the elements, cadance, an shining frozen in confusion*
"celestia, good to see you again" *turns to walk off*
"you too [name redacted for plot purposes]! tell lulu I said 'hi'"
8105549 You're assuming an invasion would even get that far. It likely wouldn't with the increased awareness of changelings, not to mention changelings living in the open and in the guard.
When they started fighting over the link, I wondered what it looked like from the outside:
Dude, I just had a great Idea. Have him orchestrate the drones in a performance of this:
Using the link for timing and their wings in place of the lone guitar.
8110707 YES YES YES
8125680 Isn't this exactly what I said?
Where did I even imply ponies would be stupid in this context? I only said the main character likely wouldn't be a massive use in designing these technologies beyond giving the idea behind them, telling them it's possible, and maybe a few hints to help them get going?
My mind saw this and went: Flintlock pistol, Meet Gattling Guns
"Thousands of terabytes"? A thousand terabytes is one petabyte. So several petabytes, then?
If we go further, a thousand petabytes (a million terabytes) is one exabyte. So we can comfortably agree the amount of information sent is far under an exabyte, since only "thousands" (and not "hundreds of thousands") was used - so it has to be at least a few petabytes.
Oh, fun fact: the system we mostly use (kilobytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc.) uses the decimal 1000 as the base number, not the binary 1024; instead, kibibytes, gibibytes and tebibytes (and so on) use binary 1024. Sure, the former's the most well-known (and thus is often mistaken for the binary 1024 list), but there's two different lists according to the International Electrotechnical Commission - and has been this way since 1998.
Yeah, try saying that to a politician. Or a lawyer. Or a policeman. Or your parents, if you're still a child.
They DO mind if you do something stupid, and they DO matter - want to be arrested (or, in the case of the last one, be scolded)?
Sure, it does work in terms of bullying and harassment, but in other contexts...it just falls flat on its face.
Hurrayyyy!!!
Links are brutal. Certainly is best to avoid them for now if they try to force subservient behavior and suppress free will. But maybe Max and Crystal might find a way to adjust links so that this is not the case? As it started things worked out between the two after all, so it is possible.