From across the multiverse, a distress call is issued in the form of a summons spell; its target is six very specific beings: Each must be a bearer of an Element of Harmony, they must be similar enough to each other's acquaintances that the Magic of Friendship will work between them, and they must all be changelings.
- Twilight Sparkle, a.k.a. Princess Amaryllis, daughter of Queen Chrysalis
- Rarity, having finally reconciled with her estranged "sister" Chrysalis
- Rainbow Dash, liberator of the hive and just awakening from metamorphosis to Hive Queen and deposer of Queen Chrysalis
- Applejack, immature queen of the Everfree Hive and enemy to her aunt, Queen Chrysalis
- Pinkie Pie, rogue queen, and sister to Chrysalis
- Fluttershy, mother of the Ponyville hive, who is unaware even of the existence of other hives
They will be tasked with a mission familiar to them all, but in an alien world, with strangers that are almost their friends, in a hostile nation, and the fate of an entire world in their hooves.
Chapters (2)
Huh, the multiverse. I should of kept my options open often for more aspiration.
this looks intesting
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I can't help but think your icon might just kill me in my sleep look at it plotting buying its time
I like it.
You have piqued my interest.
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...I'm not sure what that means.
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The adorableness is full of surprises
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It's nothing much really. Jumping between alternative universes has now really given me an idea
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indeed it is but at least death by cuteness isnt the worst way to go
Oh it's crazy but I like the Idea
Sucker that I am for multiversal shenanigans, I look forward to seeing where you go with this. That said, you may want to give the chapter a good once-over. You have some missing spaces here and there.
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Sonova...I scrubbed through the thing three times trying to catch all the clipped spacing. (It's an artifact of copy-pasting from MS Word, it seems)
Hopefully, other fans *cough* will help out by pointing out the specific places that need spaces.
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Sorry, currently on a smartphone at work. Reading stories is one thing; scouring through them while wrestling with iPhone copy-pasting is another.
Ok so twilight is from mirror image, what universes are the rest of the mane 6 from?
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Pretty sure Applejack is from 'Irony of Applejack' by Mister Friendly, and Rarity is from 'The Three Sisters' by Wanderer D.
Not sure about the others though.
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Excellent deduction! Actually, it's surprisingly hard to find a highly rated "Fluttershy is a changeling queen" or "Pinkie Pie is a changeling queen" fic. There are lots of "Fluttershy has secretly been a (non-queen) changeling the whole time" fics, I guess it's just a perfect trope fit, but only a couple of fics where she's a queen. Similar for PInkie.
I can see I've stumped you with Rainbow Dash, and honestly, it's my second favorite of the referenced fics, coming in only after Mirror's Image.
the only rainbow dash fic's that I know is either "winds of change" by Masterweaver or "for the hive" by law abiding pony, and for fluttershy in "Nature of change" by postninja don't know what pinkie pie would be
I love these fics where au’s come together some of my favorite fics
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I think RD is from masterweaver's "Wind of Changes", Flutter from
Fluttershy The Kindest Changeling Queen, and Pinkie from All I really need's a smile, smile, smile!. It's the only one where Pinkie is a Queen
I've only read half of the referenced story.
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there their is the queen of parties its a little all over the place but a fun read
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I would assume that this Applejack here is before her ascension, otherwise she would be too OP compared to the rest of her friends.
Quite an interesting idea here. Looking for the next development.
You killed two dragons who are members of the bucking and dragon high council and expect to get away with that shit, are kidding me? These diamond dogs are dumb.
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I suspect that you accidentally posted this to the wrong story.
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Yes my apologies.Do wish me to remove it?
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Not chuffed one way or the other, but I figured you'd want to know so you could at least copy it over where you initially intended for it to go.
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Thank you for telling me by the way. I'll leave it I guess so people won't be confused by the conversation.
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Tell me about it, I know I made quite a mess of that story, lesson learned try not to put any ideas in without having a path for it
Great start to this story. Could you post in the description a list and link to the stories each Queen is from so everyone can find said stories easier given how many X is a Changeling stories there are involving each of the Mane 6?
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As I finish each chapter I'll be linking to the relevant stories. Once I'm finished with the introductions, I'll make an appendix with a master list of all the referenced fics.
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Sounds like a plan.
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would be very helpful, thank you
it kinda makes me wonder when the next chapter because it has been a while
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Never fear, I have this one plotted out nearly start to finish. The delay is actually with LLW, the latest chapter is taking an unexpectedly long time to complete. Once that one is done, I'll be posting a Fanfiction Friday poll for my fans to select the next story I work on. If you follow my horse-blog you'll be notified as soon as the Fanfiction Friday poll is ready.
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Alright I do look forward to what happens next for better or worse most likely better
loving
the story so far which will earn you a fav and a thumbs up. Keep up the good work and i look forward to future chapters. 
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I'm going to guess that Rarity is from 'The Three Sisres' stories by Wanderer D
my only problem with mirrors image is that it ends on a cliffhanger, and 'the kindest changeling queen' was never finished....or is this the version of flutershy from the fic 'right' or 'flutterling' [seriously flutershy and twilight have the most changeling varients.]
I'm intrigued, looking forward to see where this goes.
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I feel your pain regarding editing, and there are still more missing spaces. Stupid microsoft.
Chrysalis runs a but Fisk calling on the Elements, if her matrix isn't considered harmonious the Elements could destroy everything along side beating Nightmare Moon. I have a feeling ponies and griffons outnumber Changelings significantly, the changeling empire might end up overwhelmed from with in and with out.
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Masterweaver's Winds of Change?
I'll be honest chief I honestly can't remember why I followed this story I was happy seeing and update but now that I have read it, it has left me confused and conflicted.
Having Starlight Glimmer as a plot device seems a bit contrived as well as making her sound Celestia rivaling pony mean honestly hell I would have accepted Sunset Shimmer that would have at least make sense theme wise.
Methinks I'm gonna put this on the back burner to read when completed if ever it's completed.
P.s. Narcissistic Twilight much?
I SEE necromanc who apon witch on rise of the grave
A Matrix version of Changeling? Not a bad taste consider what Changelings capable of.
Now this is something I disagree - since it is a fact of biology. You can't even to compare the magical potential of unicorn with alicorn since they are so biological difference (with Earth and Pegasus magic to boost) - not to mention Celestia's magic is so much mature than any unicorns after living for thousands of years.
At best, Starlight is as powerful as Starswirl at his peak, but surely nowhere near Celestia's level. Heck, I am sure Nightmare Moon could obliterate her with little effort.
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power does not equal raw energy
starlight is more powerfull then both celestia and twilight in that she understands combat magic beter then either of htem does, true she may not be capable of the same feets of raw magical omph, but shes capable of adaptation and magical trickery they lack, like for example flying without any wings, something twilight cant do nor can celestia or luna
though saying her manawell is as deep as celestia's 'is' a stretch...then again we don't know how things went in this universe, this starlight might well be a mutation caused by the hivemind
could end up being this worlds 'the one' *snickers* though i doubt the author will go there.
twilight: welll 'technicly' in my world she has just um...in my world 'starlight' is another name for 'you'
rainbow dash: yep never heard of her
flutershy: i um...no.
pinkie: noparoony
aj: if she exists ah been too busy tryin not ta get killed by other changelings and nut job ponies to notice
rarity: i tend to keep track of all the up and coming ponies, never know who may need an ensemble designed, but ill admit i've never heard of her
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Are you suggest that a unicorn in her early adult has more magic battle experience than an alicorn who has been protected the kingdom from its neighbor countries and any magical threats (i.e. Ursa Major, Sombra, Discord) for thousands of years? Does not make much sense to me.
I perfectly agree that she has more battle experience than Twilight who has been, technically, a scholar most of her life. And in she didn't actually do much of 'battle' in all her fights with enemies - mostly the flying column tasks fell to AJ and RD.
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celestia has had a thousand year age of peace and prosperity to let her skils, what she had, grow lax...the 'fight' with chrysalis showed that...she used a simple and basic beam atack spell without any flare or finesse behind it, just counting on raw power to get the job done, and that backfired...now perhaps luna would be capable of trumping starlight as she still has combat expereince more fresh in her mind, but celestia...no probly not
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And you think a thousand years of peace was obtained without a fight? Doesn't seem like a real scenario to me. Every now and then there always ones with ambitions. If you don't have strength to back it up, peace is just another illusion.
Also didn't it occur to you that Celestia had to hold back against Chrysalis otherwise her full power attack might wipe out her surrounding subjects? And that was her mistake, since she never expected Shining's love could empower Chrysalis so much. (Chrysalis's own surprise proved that she didn't expect to win in term of raw power either) Unlike Celestia, Chrysalis doesn't know the word 'soft' or 'holding back', that's why she won.
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i honestly have always figured luna was the fighter of the 2 sisters, and celestia is was and always had been more of a diplomat, prefering words to actions, the army isnt for nothing dispite its rather lackluster showing in the show, celestia clearly doesnt like the idea of her ponies growing reliant on her so most conflicts not involving earth shatering horrorers [of which we have learned of so far 'zero' that happend during that thousand year gap i might add] were likely left to the gaurd to handel, the princess does not get her hoves dirty for a gryphon bandit raid or a border skirmish or any such thing.
as to how this is posible my theory is the elements wernt as inert as celestia thought during those thousand years, instead they were unsusalbe because there power was already 'being' used...it was spread across all equestria, supresing violence and restraining evil beings from coming to power...this explains why shit only began to hit the fan after the elements were recoverd, those protective 'training wheels' were taken off...equestria is on its own again and it has to stand or fall based on the strength of its people and there heros, present and future
Enough people have mentioned Starlight's power, so instead I want to ask another thing: what motivation would the girls have to help Chrysalis? All of them were ponies and love Equestria, they don't have much of a reason to help Chrysalis solidify her rule.
oh i like where this is going
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We are having the same dilemma as people in Matrix. Changelings have ruled for nearly a thousand years. If that end now, what will happen to the ponies who spent all their lives in the pods? All the civilization does not exist.
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A difference with the Matrix though is that the machines had conquered the entire earth, which was mostly uninhabitable at the end. Chrysalis is still trying to conquer the world, which is perfectly habitable.