When Aliens Meet
Queen Blue Sun was bouncing on her hooves, wings buzzing with anticipation. The ponies would be coming here, to her hive! She didn't know whether she should be frightened or overjoyed. They had love in them and they were going to be staying at the base. If everything went well, then they might offer their love to Queen Catalyst and save her life.
Blue had instructed her drones to be watchful of the six, not wanting any of the ponies to wander around her hive or to have the upper hoof if things became violent. She didn't expect many well wishes coming from the ponies that had been present during the Canterlot Invasion.
"Hey Blue, you alright there?" Rick was standing next to her, watching the tall queen twitch and buzz. "You're acting crazy."
The queen bit her lip and stopped moving, her wings chittering. "I really hope this goes well. Do you think it will go well?"
He shrugged. "I've never seen aliens before a few weeks ago. Now there's even more coming and I really don't know what to think."
"Are they nice?" Karol asked while readying her returned camera's tri-pod. "Like, should we wear Kevlar vests or..."
Blue's hoof wavered, "They can be nice sometimes. Not usually when you're invading them, though." The same hoof soon raised, "However! If they choose to attack, then they will be invading us!"
"You still have to tell us about that invasion of yours at some point, Blue." Maria added, scratching behind the queen's chitinous ear. "That, and any other stuff that might cause even more aliens to drop by on earth."
Blue nodded, enjoying the ear scratches while her drones zipped around Cheyenne Mountain. The Tunnelers had continued their work on excavating the base as Caretakers managed Queen Catalyst and tended to any injured drones that flew through the spire. Infiltrators had taken their places along the top of the mountain and the surrounding terrain to act as a first warning to any approaching newcomers to the base and the Warriors had gathered near their queen, right where fighting would be if magic started flying.
"Do you think they'll arrive by noisy flyer, or ground monster?"
Blue looked to her warriors nearby, overhearing their conversation.
"Probably ground monsters. I can't imagine being in either of them would be nice, but the ground ones tend to be less noisy. Do you think it would take longer than a train?"
The other armored drone chittered noncommittally, "Could be. These tall-hosts have a lot of fast and noisy things. Maybe their trains are even bigger than in Equestria?"
"Please," the first warrior buzzed, "These are tall-hosts we're talking about. They don't even have magic!"
"Um, excuse me?" Karol inquired, pointing her now assembled camera towards the conversing Warrior drones, "Would you mind explaining what a 'tall-host' is? It's for research purposes."
The two drones looked somewhat guilty; their eyes avoiding all contact with the camera's lens. "Ah, well... you see..."
"They're... um..."
Blue nodded her head, "Come on, you can say it. The more the humans learn about us, the better."
Both drones mimicked a deflated sigh with their vibrating wings. "A tall-host means any thing capable of love that's taller than us."
Maria giggled at that, "So what, does that mean anything smaller is a-"
"Small-host." The second drone grumbled.
"That's both cute and disturbing at the same time," Ricky commented.
"Do you have any other unique names?" Karol asked while focusing her camera's lens, "What do you call Ponies, for example? The other aliens that are coming here to meet us?"
"Annoying." A drone further away from the conversation replied.
The other two warriors nodded. "They're mostly annoying. Way too cheery, way too pleasant and most of them are insane."
"How do you know about ponies if you've never actually seen one?" Ricky asked. "Hey, you're gonna give this tape to Vahlen, right?"
Karol nodded, "She said we could help where her scientists couldn't. Who knows, maybe they'll let us post this on the internet."
The warriors chittered to each other, each attempting to figure out how to phrase their reply in vibrations that would make sense.
"Well..." The first drone replied hesitantly, "I'd guess the best way to say it would be Chzz'itst'kzz."
The three humans blinked. "Um, mind running that by me again?"
The drones shrugged. "There's really no word for it that we know of."
"Can you describe it?" Maria suggested.
Both drones looked to their queen at a loss. "Could you help us, Queen Blue Sun?"
Blue nodded. "I think the best way to describe it, is like a family lineage." The large queen chittered and buzzed to her drones, assembling them for a visual representation. There was six drones in a line, one branch splitting off from the rest that contained another six.
"Each drone," Blue explained by pointing to the first warrior in line, "Will have their own experiences. When they eventually die, their body is returned to the Caretaker spire and given to the grubs for them to grow into drones." She then pointed to the next Warrior in line. "The new drone will have some of the shared knowledge as the last drone that they ate from, taking bits of that drone's absorbed love through their lifetime like memories."
She then swept her hoof to the branching drones. "Sometimes, drones might not have the same experiences. A tunneler won't retain the same memories as a Warrior would, for example. They don't have a need for it with their role in the hive, and the hive's overall roles are strengthened, each drone type becoming better than their predecessor with each generation."
"Hey Blue," Karol asked, "When did you get so scientific?"
Blue shrugged. "When you're taught a crash course in human history by Doctor Vahlen?"
Ricky vented air through his teeth in a hiss. "Oof. What did you think of it?"
Blue shared a look with her drones, the whole group chittering in a unified discussion. "Could be better. More love, especially." The queen eventually replied. Her drones nodded in agreement.
"More love always better." A drone added.
After a few more minutes of recorded conversation an Infiltrator drone flew to the gathered group. "My queen!" The drone buzzed, "The ponies arrive by blackened SUV. They will be here soon!"
Some warriors raised their brow, "S U V?"
The infiltrator rolled its glowing eyes. "Ground Monster."
The warriors nodded with understanding.
"All right everyone," Queen Blue Sun announced, "get to your places and try not to fire the first bolt of magic!"
The drones assembled themselves by caste. Blue Sun hoped that a greater showing of force would deter the ponies from behaving insanely while she spoke with Twilight Sparkle. She had never met any of these ponies personally.
Warriors were placed near Blue Sun herself, followed outward by Caretakers, Tunnelers and Infiltrators at the far end. Warriors would defend her, Caretakers would mend any broken chitin or carapace, Tunnelers would excavate an escape route and the Infiltrators would swarm them. Blue was really hoping it would be a wasted precaution rather than necessary.
Three large and black colored SUV's pulled in to the base's entry road, each stopping a few meters away from the assembly of drones. The vehicles drivers popped out, each moving to the rear door to open it. In each, two of the six ponies hopped out.
Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and finally, Twilight Sparkle. None of them looked too happy to be where they were, the blue pegasus being the most wary.
"What is this?" Rainbow complained while gesturing to the army of drones. "I thought she wanted to talk!"
Blue Sun couldn't help but chitter nervously. Perhaps the assembly was a bad idea?
"Easy Rainbow," Applejack warned, "We don't want to go upsettin' anypony now."
The pegasus crossed her hooves while hovering next to her friends. "This looks like a big trap to me."
"Let's see what she has to say first," Twilight interjected, "If its all bad then we'll fight our way out just like Canterlot."
"You know we lost that fight, right?" Applejack countered. "These changelings don't look like normal ones neither; all armored and scary lookin'."
Blue decided to get their attention by waving a hoof. She wouldn't be able to talk with the six of them if all they did was converse with each other, after all. "Over here, ponies!"
Fluttershy flinched a bit at the queen's double-voice, memories of being captured by Chrysalis coming to mind.
Twilight took a deep breath. "Well, time to see how this goes."
The six ponies cautiously approached the gathered swarm, each staying more than a limb's length away from the drones as they walked down the center of the assembly. Queen Blue Sun was waiting at the far end along with her friends. Doctor Vahlen and Doctor Shen were either busy reviewing research material or organizing the reconstruction of Cheyenne Mountain and would review the encounter through video footage and interviews and Colonel Bunker was organizing the rest of the operations in the base.
Maria squatted down to eye level with the approaching ponies while whispering to herself, "They're even more cute in person!"
Karol kicked Maria to get her attention. "Focus. This is a pretty big moment and we can't mess it up by giggling at fuzzy and adorable aliens."
Queen Blue Sun loomed over Princess Twilight Sparkle much in the same way Chrysalis did, though Twilight found Blue more menacing. She was armored and commanded a powerful presence. Her drones were even more threatening, each chittering and buzzing as Twilight and her friends passed them. This hive wouldn't need to hide like Chrysalis' had, she worried. They looked ready to launch themselves into an all out conflict.
"Princess Twilight Sparkle?" The changeling greeted diplomatically, "I am Queen Blue Sun. We spoke over the video feed?"
The alicorn nodded respectfully in return, "The small square on the table?"
Blue's smile unintentionally caused a spike of worry through the six ponies, causing her to second guess her own facial expressions. "Y-yes," she stuttered, becoming a bit flustered with how the meeting was already going having a hiccup. "I said that I needed your help?"
Twilight was a bit suspicious, "Help with what?"
The tall changeling motioned to the Caretaker Spire behind her. "Inside is a friendly queen, Queen Catalyst. She has fallen ill recently and is in desperate need of love, or she will die."
Rainbow Dash and Applejack grumbled at that, while Fluttershy seemed genuinely concerned. "Is she a nice queen?"
Blue shared a look with her human friends. "Eh... not most of the time. She means well, though."
"How bad is it?" Rarity inquired, taking a single step away from a Warrior drone that seemed a bit too close for her comfort.
"She's starving," the queen explained, "The love that my hive gathers doesn't work for some reason, and she has recently lost her own hive to Queen Chrysalis and fallen into a coma."
Rainbow lowered herself to the ground, now feeling a bit worse for having been suspicious of the Queen. "We saw what happened to the other hives back in the Crystal Empire before we came here. They weren't doing so well, but I didn't really think about what the Queens would be going through."
Blue Sun nodded, "I was hoping that you would be able to offer some of your love and assist the humans of earth in defeating Queen Chrysalis. I know that your magic is potent against changelings, but I doubt you six would be able to defeat the might of a few dozen combined hives alone."
Twilight scratched her neck and awkwardly replied, "Well... we kind of came here because of King Sombra. I may have accidentally opened one of his phylacteries and released his spirit onto 'Earth'."
Pinkie Pie nudged her friend while grabbing one of Blue's Warrior drones by the neck, pulling him closer as he angrily chittered. "Come on Twilight, just look at these friendly faces!"
The drone's armored head was pressed against two pink hooves, its forked tongue flicking with annoyance while its eyes narrowed with cold menace.
"How could we not help a friendly bug like that?" Pinkie concluded, mercifully releasing the drone.
Twilight looked to the rest of her friends, "What does everypony think? Should we help?"
"Well if we don't, one of the queens will die." Fluttershy pointed out. "I might not be that comfortable with normal changelings, but Thorax isn't that bad..."
Rarity nodded, "I have to agree with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. We don't know where King Sombra is, but we can help everypony here while we figure out where he's hiding."
Applejack pointed to Rick, Maria and Karol. "Rarity, they ain't ponies."
The white unicorn rolled her eyes. "Everybody, then."
"Rainbow, Applejack?" Twilight inquired.
"I don't much like the idea of trusting changelings, but on the other hoof I don't want anybody to die on account of bein' stubborn. I say we help 'em."
Rarity's eyes narrowed. "Is that going to be a constant thing, or can we just say everypony with all of us knowing what we mean? It rolls off the tongue better than anybody anyway."
Fluttershy patted her friend on the shoulder while Rainbow Dash voiced her opinion. "Well, we're pretty much stuck here on 'Earth' without any idea where anything is. Might as well stick around and help out."
Blue Sun had a steadily growing grin that now broke into a smile with the groups decision to stay. "This is wonderful!" The large queen rejoiced in her double-voice.
Twilight was still a bit skeptical offering an unenthusiastic, "Yeah, woo."
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Great work! i think Blue will earn the Mane 6's trust with the time.
Too... short... *ded from lack of word crack*
You can taste the awkwardness in the air. And of course, the Mane 6 probably think Blue is just a little eccentric, not quite aware that she is in fact, still learning on the job.
Awe darn, we were hoping she'd shatter their preconceptions by going in for a hug, but we suppose that would be for the best. Hugs later, love now!
Keep going! ;)
So I just realized. Blue Sun says she ended up on Earth immediately after being ejected from Canterlot, but she's barely batted an eye at Twilight's new set of wings. That would probably have been freakout fuel, much less more recent developments like the Crystal Empire and Thorax.
Is pet-play really that big a fetish-fuel thing on this site? I've read a few fics with that, yes, but only in the context of it being either a mistake with magic or else because someone was was curios about it. People DO know that pets can exist without someone wanting to screw it, right?
You can just feeeeeeel the enthusiasm rolling off of Twilight.
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One word: INTERNET.
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When you put it like that, I can only think of the opportunity to bond with Twilight over unexpected royalness.
... ... What would a changeling queen's double voice sound like with, like, a fluttersquee?
As the guy without a parachute said while heading towards the ground.
So far, so good.
this story is taking a vary good turn as of now.
i am hoping that queen Catalyst pulls threw the short term.
the long term fix is she needs a hive of her own.
i am hoping this story goes on for several more chapters as i find it to be a super good read.
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That sounds like either a continuity error, or, the purposeful use of or an opportunity for creative writing.
Caught back up with this story and mmm wanting to see where this goes
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Well, I really like this story. Now I wonder, where are all those changeling queens Chrysalis sent to Earth?
No explosions. First contact face-to-face was a success! Now just to keep it all explosion- and laser-free
The Mane Six and Blue Sun’s hive finally met. So far, so good, even with a few uncertainties that can easily be fix after a good ‘get-to-know-you-better’ session. After that, then they can worry about the much harder task of helping out Earth and poor Queen Catalyst. And something is telling me that the latter might be a little harder than the former with how stubborn she can be.
Awesome new cover art, by the way~! Great job on it, Ashinda.
C&Cs will be PM.
Wait a minute...
A disbodied spirit of Sombra on the loose...
A comatose Changeling Queen who is dying from failure to thrive...
and a little-known gift/curse created by Sombra in the form of a white Changeling drone...
All three factors on the same planet...
Wait wait wait!
And no one is concerned about an angry magic using ghost set lose on Earth?! People have seen enough zombie flicks to know where this is going with countries going dark. Still wondering where the intel is, you know, from drones, U2 fly-overs, and orbiting satellites.
So, no plans for a sequel on Necromancy?
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Yes, Necromancy for Foals will have a sequel; I just have to finish up this story first is all.
I realize it's probably the point, but the more read, the more I imagine Blue as this huge, intimidating but magnificient queen, who keeps resisting the urge to act like a small child and just drag everyone around her hive hoping they'll be pleased with what she's done.
On a side note: what happened to the infiltrator that the kids adopted? (the one they caught sneaking around a few chapters ago) Or was that just meant to be a small side thing.
*edited to remove a 'can't' that ruined what I was trying to say.
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The drone was a small side thing ^.^
8534771 ****, you're right.
*drops 1 bit into a conveniently placed jar*
Well it's only a matter of time before humanity is able to counter magic, especially with blues help. Xd
Just caught up with this, and it's just hilarious. I love Blue's character and her naive interactions though 'defective' may be my current favorite character. Curious when we'll find out just what that white carapace really means.
the first when i see the title. Crossover with: Man in black. (well ok i still like K and J ) Stargate ( OH YE! COME AT BE BRO! ) And X-com. ( O_o"" ??? First reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehLhqLx6Ak )
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Yeah, I checked with Sanquine and she said the same thing, unfortunately. This story is still amazing, though.
No matter what time of the day I read this story... I get the shakes out of excitement; one of the best stories I have had to find
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Okay so I'm very dumb. I didn't realize you were the Necromancy For Foals guy. XD