Teleconference
"Any word on Queen Catalyst?"
The constant buzz of caretakers surrounded the spire and echoed around the walls. Colonel Bunker, Doctor Vahlen, Doctor Shen, Ricky, Maria, Karol and Queen Blue Sun were all present. None of them knew what was going on.
"It appears the Caretaker drones know more of what is happening than we do," Vahlen replied, scribbling notes onto her digital clipboard with rapid, wild lettering only she could decipher. "However dramatic the circumstances, this presents a unique insight into the changeling hive..."
The doctor trailed off, thoughts taking priority over voicing them as she wrote more notes down, her eyes following the rapid movements made by the drones around the comatose queen.
"So..." Karol toned in, "What do we do?"
Blue pointed to the orange queen with her horn, "Give her love and she's all better, right?"
Ricky shook his head, "If it was that easy, why would she still be knocked out while floating in a literal pool of love?"
"Pool of love..." Vahlen muttered, underlining the words and placing a large circle around them before continuing her work.
"I'm not sure there's much we can do for Catalyst, Blue." Maria softly suggested, "Maybe it's something she has to get through on her own?"
Karol had an idea, if her chin strumming was any indication. "What if the problem isn't that she doesn't have love, but that she doesn't want your love?"
Blue was confused, her head tilting to the side.
"Okay, think of it like this:" Karol began, her hands aligned in parallel to another in front of her chest. "You," She stated, raising her left hand, "Have your own hive, with your own friends to give you the love it needs." Her fingers spread out from her hand like a claw and faced the right hand. "When she tries to get love from your hive, maybe there's something preventing her from taking the love to use for herself?" The right hand moved to the left, with the clawed hand fending off the imagined assault.
"What, some kind of defense system?" Ricky suggested, nodding with understanding. "So you're saying that there could be a whole grain silo filled with love and she wouldn't touch it, all because Blue has a claim on it?"
Karol shrugged, "I don't really know, I'm just throwing out suggestions. Maybe it has something to do with changelings and being weird aliens- no offense Blue- or it could be some kind of personal thing with Catalyst."
"Do you think we could ask a Caretaker?" Maria replied, "Maybe they know something."
Blue waved her hoof at the three conversing friends. "I exist too, you know."
"Well, do you know what's happening to Catalyst?" Ricky asked kindly, "We really don't want to see one of you die because of a lack of love. It just seems beyond cruel, like if you didn't hug a puppy enough and it died."
Maria smacked Ricky's shoulder with the back of her hand. "Don't say things like that; it makes me sad!"
Karol snapped her fingers, "I've got it!"
The group turned to her expectantly, and also questioningly.
"Queen Catalyst needs love, right?" Karol suggested with dramatic pause, "What if we find more people to love her?"
Ricky rolled his eyes, "Yeah, that's gonna go over well." He raised his arms like a stage announcer, "Come one, come all, to our secret military slash alien mountain fortress in the middle of nowhere's-ville to give your love, that's right, your love, to an alien creature desperately in need of affection!"
Maria shrugged, "I dunno, there's a lot of sci-fi fans, right?"
Ricky's arms dropped with a deflated sigh. "No, Maria, I mean that Bunker is never going to allow that kind of thing. Besides, how are going to know we can trust whoever we let into the base?"
Vahlen's head shot up from her focused writing to turn towards the loudly conversing group. "Are you discussing the idea to let people know the location of this facility?"
The three students and Queen shook their heads quickly, "No! Not saying that," they replied with guilty unison.
The doctor's eyes narrowed with suspicion of the highest order as she secured her stylus to the clipboard she held. "If you're going to suggest things like that, it should be with Colonel Bunker."
Blue was curious, "Weren't you in charge of the Colonel before?"
Vahlen's face was a mask of neutrality hiding a storm of annoyance. "That position was retracted after a certain incident with a Queen's eggs, if you recall."
Much to the group's surprise, Colonel Bunker chose that moment to arrive and confront Blue Sun directly.
"Queen Blue Sun?" She asked officially, her stance rigid. "There is a call for you."
The blue queen looked to her friends with confusion. "Is that a good thing?"
Bunker interjected in order to explain, "It's coming from the United Nation's Security Council. They have some... friends that would like a word."
Suspicion rose in the queen. "What kind of friends?"
The colonel shook their head slightly, "I was only told that it was a new kind of alien. Colorful, some with wings, others with horns and one with both."
The Queen's eyes went wide at that. "Ponies? Here!?"
Blue Sun, along with her friends, were lead to a secure room with a great many cables running through the area. A large camera sat upon a Tri-pod, staring at a blank white wall.
Looking around the room Blue questioned, "You said I was called, but the room is empty."
"A video conference!" Karol explained with some excitement. "Aliens talking to aliens over the internet; awesome!"
"The what?" Blue asked.
Ricky replied first, "Haven't we told you about the internet before?"
The queen blinked a few times. "Not that I remember."
A few soldiers moved into the room headed for the Camera and other technical looking equipment while the friends brought Blue Sun up to speed. Cables were reconnected to gain a better connection and test-runs of communication were sent out to confirm that the signal was working properly, and that there would be no interruptions from either end.
After a few minutes of setup time, Blue had been briefed on what she was supposed to do.
"I just stand here and look at the camera?" Blue asked skeptically. "This is silly. I'm not talking to anyone, just a camera on a stand."
"Screen coming up." A technician announced, spinning a laptop to face Blue Sun. "Everything should be good to go."
"Hey," Karol whispered to Blue loudly, "Are we still gonna find people to give love to Catalyst?"
"Not now, Karol!" Maria hissed, backing away from the Teleconference so she wouldn't get in the way.
"Going live in five... four..." The technician counted down, until eventually a screen flickered to life with a suited human on the other end.
"Hello, Queen Blue Sun." He announced in a deep, rocky voice. "The Security Council needs your help in determining the threat that these new aliens represent."
The camera on the man's end panned over to a group of fuzzy figures before refocusing. A blue pegasus with a rainbow mane sitting in the corner with her hooves crossed; a pink earth pony with even pinker mane bouncing happily in place; An orange earth pony hiding their head from the lighting in the room with a hat; A white unicorn that looked all around the room with an expression that flitted between impressed and disgusted; and finally a yellow pegasus that took shelter from the humans in the room behind a certain purple pony that Blue had seen before.
"Twilight Sparkle..." Blue whispered. "How did you get here... and with the rest of the elements, too?"
"What's that?" Pinkie Pie called out in the distance, pointing directly to the camera. "It looks like a big changeling queen!"
"Changelings!?" Rainbow Dash shouted, leaping to her hooves. "I knew there was something weird about you guys!"
Blue Sun almost swallowed her own voice before replying with haste, not wanting the humans on the other end to be blasted with the same magic that had struck with enough force to catapult her to Earth. "Wait!" The queen shouted, "Let's talk!"
The group of ponies were practically in a standoff against the metaphorical wall of security agents with drawn firearms.
"You want to talk?" Twilight asked suspiciously.
"Do you know these aliens?" The rocky voice asked, turning the laptop to face himself once more.
"Yes," Blue admitted, "I may... I may have been a part of an invasion of their capitol in the past."
Ricky almost visibly cringed at that, remembering the conversation he had with Blue when she was still a drone in the diner. "That's who you invaded?" He asked with some alarm.
"They're so cute though!" Maria protested, "Just look at the pink one!"
"Who is that?" The gruff voice asked, "Is this line not secure?"
"Excuse me," Blue Sun announced while raising a hoof to halt her friend's questions, "I have a great many things to discuss with Twilight Sparkle, the winged and horned pony, and her friends."
When things began to spiral out of control, something inside of Blue snapped to the front of her mind. A need to restore order, an official nature that she normally would lack. Now, however, there was more at stake than just herself. She knew the power the ponies had, and that they were able to easily defeat changelings in most circumstances. This could be a major breakthrough for everyone involved if she played her cards right.
Blue smiled at that, realizing that Ricky's mannerisms were slipping into her vocabulary.
"Uh, why is she smiling all of a sudden?" Applejack pointed out, adjusting her stetson. "It ain't a good sign when a queen smiles, ya know."
Blue's expression wiped itself into neutrality in the blink of an eye. "I need you six here, in Cheyenne Mountain."
The technicians, along with the rocky voiced official, covered their foreheads with their palms.
"What?" Blue asked, confused.
"The point of a secret base," A technician pointed out, "Is to not tell anyone where the secret base is."
"Eheh..." Blue stammered, "Secrets among friends?"
"You vouch for their trustworthiness, then?" The official asked, adjusting his suit to look better in the camera's lens.
"Wait," Rarity huffed, "We're the untrustworthy ones?"
The blue queen nodded. "Yes. I declare that ponies are not a source of conflict..." the queen paused for a moment, "For now, at least."
Blue figured it was good to have a backup plan, despite the cries of protest that rang out from the ponies on the other end of the teleconference. The official closed his line of the conversation after a showing of thanks for the information given, as well as the de-escalation between the security forces and the previously unidentified aliens.
"That went well," Blue smiled. "Nopony even cast a single spell."
Ricky raised an eyebrow of skepticism. "What, we're talking about spells now?"
Blue nodded, "Ponies are... unique with their magic."
Walking through the halls of a rapidly reconstructed mountain base, the group ducked as a Tunneler drone flew overhead with a pile of rocks in magical tow behind them.
"Unique how?" Karol asked with interest.
"Well, the purple one for instance," Blue replied, "You might want to stand back. I want to shape-shift for this."
"In here?" Ricky warned, motioning at the still melted walls. "Not the best idea, right?"
Blue waved off the concern, "It'll be fine. It's not that much magic."
Regardless, the group of three moved away from Blue Sun in order to take cover. A flash of heat akin to opening an oven later, and a new figure stood before them.
"The purple one!" Blue announced in the voice of another. A purple pony with wings, a horn and a strange mark on her flank. "Loves books, loves magic, loves her friends... loves loves loves."
"That's a good thing though, right?" Maria asked, standing up from her box of cover.
"Well," Twilight-Blue replied, "It's only good in low doses."
"You said you invaded their capitol, right?" Karol reminded everyone. "Why'd you do that if you just need love?"
The disguised queen sighed. "It's a bit more complicated than that. You see, my queen- well, my previous queen- Queen Chysalis, the one leading the whole invasion over in India? Yeah, she decided it would be a good idea for our entire hive to assault the main capitol of Equestria and seal all of the ponies in cocoons so they couldn't escape while we forcefully drained the love from them."
Blue noticed that her friends were behaving differently, looking at her oddly. "What?"
"Your personality like... entirely changed just now." Maria pointed out.
"Oh!" Blue blurted in her shifted voice, "It's a side effect of the shape-shifting process. Helps us fit in better with ponies when we mimic everything about them," She finished with a bookish giggle. "Mannerisms, habits, quirks, you name it, we copy it."
Ricky rubbed his head. "I feel like I've heard you talk more in the last minute than I have the entire previous time I've known you, Blue."
The queen looked at her purple hoof like a foreign limb. "Eh... It takes some getting used to. I remember the first time I shape-shifted into a pony! I was going to-"
"Blue, please." Karol interjected, "Focus. The invasion?"
"You're right! I completely spaced on that." Twilight-Blue replied with an apologetic smile. "So, I was part of the invasion of Canterlot, the capitol of Equestria, when everything was going well. Ponies were being cocooned, the streets were covered in drones- Most of them tunnelers and caretakers; we didn't have the love for many warriors then- when all of a sudden this big, massive wall of pink magic expanded out from the palace. I didn't know what to make of it at first, but I realized all too late that it wasn't anything good. I was struck by the giant wall and sent catapulting through the air and when I landed later, I found myself in a field of plant stuff and wandered until I found Soft and Rough!"
Blue-sparkle leaned in, a hoof covering one side of her mouth as she whispered to Karol, "Rough hit me in the face with a shovel."
Karol snorted with unexpected laughter, covering her face with embarrassment.
"What, what'd she say?" Ricky questioned.
"You hit her in the face with a shovel?" Karol giggled, "That's hilarious!"
Ricky sighed, "I swear I thought I got that out of the way already. Didn't I tell you about that?"
Karol shook her head, "Nope!"
"So," the disguised Blue announced with the academically inclined smile of Twilight Sparkle, "Any other questions?"
Vahlen, who had gone unnoticed in the background until now, raised her stylus in place of her hand. "I have many questions."
Not-Twilight's eyes went wide as she whipped around to face the stealthy scientist. "Doctor Vahlen!" she greeted with a nervous voice, "What a surprise!"
Doctor Vahlen's eyes narrowed with intrigue and a bit of suspicion. "Why have you never used this form before?" Her stylus moved to her electronic clipboard with speed, waiting.
"Uh," Blue blurted, "Didn't need to?"
"Is it because the disguise is weaker than your original form? Does your physical properties change with your shape shifting ability, or is it cosmetic?"
Blue grimaced at that. "Weaker physically, maybe. Magically though? I really wouldn't want to be in a fight with a pony ever again, especially the pony I'm disguised as now."
"Magically?" Vahlen questioned, her interest peaked once more about the subject seeing as there were multiple instances of this phenomenon, rather than the singular case that the changelings presented on their own. "In what way? Are they able to change their forms at will?"
Twilight-Blue shook her head. "They can't shape shift, but they're way better at magic in general than we changelings are. Queen Chrysalis even had her throne built from some magical artifact we found while tunneling that cancels out every kind of magic except changling magic just so we wouldn't be wiped out if the ponies ever found us."
Vahlen's mind swam with possibilities. Could there be such an artifact on earth, preventing humans from achieving the same kind of otherworldly prowess? Could the fables of dragons and wizards be not myths and legends, but historical fact? She blinked, writing down even more of her speculations about what all of this implied. What if the gods of Olympus were not a dead religion, but history...
Coming to a halt in her note taking after a lengthy pause, she asked, "You stated that the other aliens should meet you here, correct?"
Blue nodded. "It would be for the best. Maybe their magic works differently on Earth as well?"
Vahlen gave malicious grin. "I'm certainly hoping so. If they're as dangerous to you as you allude, then they might be able to help us design a weapon or some other device capable of removing the threat in India and China."
Turning on her heel and abruptly excusing herself from the conversation, Vahlen continued to scribble and scribe her thoughts down onto electronic pages, all the while muttering and whispering to herself at a pace that would be blistering to the mind to keep up with.
Blue blinked. "Now that I think about it," She voiced slowly, "Doctor Vahlen is like an emotionally terrifying version of Twilight Sparkle. All science and study, no charm."
Calling from over her shoulder Vahlen loudly shouted, "I heard that!"
A new chapter! Huzzah!
Let me know what you think in the comments below, and here's a quick explanation of things!
You may have noticed that my chapters for Pet Changeling are a bit delayed, and let me tell you why!
I am currently writing for a story named Necromancy For Foals, and I've been cranking out chapters recently at a blistering pace due to my muse being obsessed with the characters.
This chapter was written in the same style that I've been using for Necromancy for Foals, and I'm probably going to stick with it from here on out. I've settled on using this style of narration mixed with explanation for my stories as it's really natural for me to write this way.
The chapter, by the way, was written entirely from blank page to what you're reading in less than an hour and a half with this writing style!
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the ponies meet, the changelings greet, they both play tricks and both get treats.
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I'll see myself out for the weirdness. *runs away whooping like zoidberg*
Featured again:)
How many times has this fan fiction been featured?
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Mane 6 have arrived and fortunately Twilight didnt have to magic up a full squad bullet stopping shield whose eneergies side effects would be to melt evreything in a thousand yards?
Something of possible intrest about magic, humans, enviroment etc. Recent research into sediment deposits for several hundred miles off the coast in certain places, propose that increasing depositions of heavy metals, such as Arsenic 40-100 thousand years ago were due to the increase in himan activity in turning from small numbers of nomadic, to higher numbers of partially static nomads, with constructions in resting places, made by clearings, and crop alterations in the area, and fire and surface extraction, metallurgy etc.
Maybe standard <90 heavy metals dont assist magic so dampen it, but >120 magic island nuclii have enough 4D distortion to assist magic effects? Even gold is its colour due to relativistic effects, prooving both quantum mechanics and relativity are correct at the atomic level. So theres something extra occuring we havent found yet.
Can Chrysalis even be take out with Rainbow Power, or will she need slapping with three half dazed fish?
since pony magic is different from changeling magic, maybe the collateral effect on earth is different?
Was worth the wait, great job! With the Mane 6 on Earth, things will be interesting and a brony's dream
Got featured again today. 10/13/2017 or they never took it down.
ohoho
soon....i really look to see meeting between Blue ( main 6 first nice changeling) and ponies.SO MUCH FUN
And Wildcard has finally made his appearance. I really like wildcard. Also the idea of him being surprised makes me laugh.
Vahlen can be absolutely terrifying when she's contemplating possibilities.
I was wondering when the Council Spokesman would show up.
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While it should become rapidly apparent if pony magic is or isn't as disastrous as changeling magic, I'm a bit more concerned how the hell they got there. If Chrysalis is in India then who is still in Equestria, blasting victims with the universe-hopping gun? ...or has all that forced portaling caused a rip between universes to the point that ponies (and anything else) can fall through the viel?
Kinda surprised there aren't more ponies, or alicorns, on Earth by now. But as I think about it, it would make sense that the Mane 6 would get blasted first as they charge for Chrysalis. Next, if I'm right, will be an alicorn, either Luna or Celestia. Might need to keep one of them to maintain the Sun/Moon cycles as changelings take over. Cadance could be a likely target, if she's not already hiding in the Crystal Kingdom with it's shield.
If anyone can figure out how to get back to Equestria, it'll be Twilight. This could be a good thing for the ponies, really! Chrysalis figures she's all but won the battle, only to have a portal (or portals) from Earth open and the Mane 6 return with their own army, a hybrid of changeling and Earth forces... and proceed to kick all manner of evil ass from coast to coast. In the end, ponies and changelings learn how to live together in harmony while Earth and Equestria hesitantly learn how to co-exist as neighbors. (Ponies are cute, changelings to a lesser extent, which should make it easier for people to accept that they are not alone in the multiverse)
Nah, honestly I think we could totally take the ponies on if it came down to it, blue does not know but the only reason the ponies won was because cadence and shining armor, and even that was a stroke of luck that it worked. Humanity will rise!!!! Xp
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IIRC once a Fic gets featured, every update pretty much guarantees an entry in the box, usually in the last places.
oh good, then decided to use the aliens to determine if other aliens would be friends. Thank goodness it was Blue on the line and not Chrysalis!
So much fun!
Keep going, ;)
More Necromancy For Foals is not a bad thing.
Neither is this, but the adventures of the most adorable life-eating horror ever are just wonderful.
Iron. Like On Stranger Tides novel, worked iron weakens magic, so performing spells become more difficult if the caster has been in contact with too much ferrous metal. Because of that, magic use has been dying out as iron technology spread through the ages.
I really liked this chapter and how it was written, I'll be waiting for the next update in peace.
I like where this is going.
You should mention that they also have magic capable of controlling celestial bodies
see their reaction
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That's covered in a previous chapter.
I have already that story in my list to read in the future...
Waiting until they meet each other... And to see the reaction of Twilight to the Blue Sun version of Celly.
I hadn't realized that you wrote NFF as well. Two favorite stories by the same author.
well not only a new chapter but a super good chapter with a vary interesting plot twist.
8485825 in "Status report" they opened a portal to cross over
Lol, this chapter is golden
So, Twi almost went mad scientist on us. And you know that's bad when she's compared to a scary Twilight
So, first contact between Blue and the mares went quite well. Or, at least, certainly better than expected.
Now just to keep up the friendliness - Dash will probably be the most difficult to persuade. Though I bet she'll immediately like Ricky, what with his 'apply shovel to face first, ask questions later' attitude when meeting Blue for the first time.
But hey, a pretty big ray of hope for the humans! Even if Blue kinda got some facts confused since, as we know, it wasn't Twi and the girls who created the love bubble.
Oh well, Twi's still a savant for magic, so she'll have some ideas anyway.
The moment Vahlen and her meet... I predict there's going to be so much nerding-out that I won't be able to even.
Dammit! I started reading this like, two days ago! Question. May I make a variation on this story? Like what would happen if we knew of them, but thought they were fantasy, and when one shows up, the human decides to hold onto them while they cocoon? Would they merge with the changeling proto-queen? Would they simple die? Or would they evolve just as the proto-queen does? I wanna go with the symbiotic evolution route if it's ok with you...
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Sure! I'm all for other writers getting inspiration for their own fanfictions ^.^
Besides, It'd be hypocritical of me to deny others the ability to make stories based off of my own work since mine is based on MLP.
Have fun!
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Woot! Just what I needed to hear! Thank you!
Hu-ZZah!
Oh, thank god! I was gonna say something, but my only problem with the old title was whenever I read it all I could think of was this:
Is it possible that bone marrow might show up in this fic later, or are they separate universes?
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Mostly separate universes. Neither character has a reason to antagonize the other.
Just reread the whole story, and read chapters I hadn't read yet... LUV THIS STORY AGAIN! Wish I could like again; also, the new cover is AWESOME!
I am loving the now cover!!! I finally get to see a full on beautiful picture of blue!
Honestly I wouldn't have minded the new title. Xd
The old one is just more nostalgic being I've been with that title since the stories beginning. Xp
I'm good with either one thou the new one a has more of an awesome ring to it. Xdxdxdx
But why would it be called queen of the earth I wonder. ......is blue gonna somehow become the leader of Humanity? I wouldn't mind if she did. Xd she would be more loving and caring for the people then ours WOULD. Lol
So long as her friends kept an eye on her, and she learned about our way of life and respected it. Xp
Mmmmm loving that new cover art smell.
To be honest, I lost interest in this story for a while. This chapter brought that interest screaming back!
Whatever you did differently, keep it up!
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I think it's mostly in the writing style :D
When's the next chapter coming...? I know you're busy but I kinda need something to run with...
Great chapter! I like this style so far. I’m excited that the ponies finally get to meet Blue!
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Never did visit those, we just have old ruined nazi bunkers along our coasts. Some aren't completely ruined, but they still feel wrong.
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Once a story gets featured once, it usually will take one of the last three featured slots whenever it updates. Usually. There are algorithms and all that to try and make it fair.
Edit: I have no idea why I'm replying to this again. What even...
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