Chapter 5
Mayfly blinked as she ducked her head into the throne room to see if Katydid was still inside with the new queen. Of the various possible reasons for one of her fellow royal attendants to be delayed in returning from serving their new queen, good and bad, discovering that their new queen was curled up asleep on the throne, clutching the missing attendant as if she were a pony foal's plush toy had not been even remotely on her list of expectations.
"Help?" Katydid requested quietly, trying to gently extract herself from the queen of snuggles.
Mayfly took in the scene, noting the details. She hadn't survived over ten years as one of Queen Chrysalis' personal attendants by being slow on the uptake. "I see that you served our Queen a sampler platter from the reserves."
"I thought it would be a good idea to offer a variety to see which ones she preferred."
"You do remember that our new queen was just born today, right?"
"Yes, but she's clearly past the nymph stage."
"Irrelevant," Mayfly shook her head as she picked up a fragmented crystal from the tray. "You just fed crystalized love to someling who has never eaten love before. What did you think would happen?"
"That she would cackle madly and make some proclamation about power?"
Mayfly thought back on some of Queen Chrysalis' previous meals and conceded that megalomaniacal rhetoric would not have been an unexpected response to a queen receiving an unfamiliarly high amount of love while feeding. "Fair enough. How many crystals did she consume."
"Just the one, but she ate all the gel samples first. She didn't touch the soups."
"I'll have Cicada return them to the reserves."
"Wait, where are you going? Don't leave me here!"
"Relax. I'm just going to get Junebug, Ladybug, and Ladybird to help me extract you from our Queen's loving embrace, and then you can help us move her to the royal bedchambers and put her to bed."
"What if you can't get her to let me go?"
"Then you get to sleep in the royal bed with our Queen."
"Meep!"
"Just remember that our new queen, for all her apparent advanced development, is a newborn," Mayfly warned. "Sully her innocence, and Meta Knight is likely to have your carapace processed into a heater shield.
"Meep!"
"Really, you're starting to sound like Honeydew's assistant. What was his name again? I think it was vial, flask, or something similar..."
"Mimimimimimimimimimi!"
"Yeah, I'm definitely seeing the resemblance now. Now hush, you don't want to wake up our Queen."
*O o O o O*
As it turned out, even with the extra attendants on hoof, Katydid remained trapped in the sleeping queen's embrace as none of those present wanted to risk waking up their new sovereign.
"Please don't leave me!" Katydid pleaded desperately. "I don't want Meta Knight to kill me!"
"Oh?" Mayfly tilted her head curiously. "Who would you like to kill you?"
"That's not what I meant and you know it!"
"Fine, fine. Ladybug, Ladybird, you are on chaperone duty. Stay, observe, and make sure that nothing more inappropriate than snuggling occurs."
"But neither of us are on night shift!" Ladybug complained.
"You are now," Mayfly corrected as she turned and headed for the door. "Deal with it." And with that, Mayfly and Junebug left.
"So..." Ladybird glanced at Ladybug, "Think we can get some art supplies sent up? I think this would make a neat portrait."
"Please don't," Katydid protested quietly as she continued her attempts to extract herself from the queen's forelegs.
"Don't see how it would hurt to ask," Ladybug replied, ignoring Katydid. "I'll see if one of the guards will do a run for us."
"I hate you both so much right now," Katydid grumbled.
"Don't care," Ladybird stated.
"Do care. Think it's funny," Ladybug commented as she headed for the door to talk with the guards.
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I wonder if they're any good at art. If not, maybe I'll draw it.
These chapters are getting shorter and shorter
At this rate we are going to have 50 word updates inside a week, oh the humanity! XD
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It was heavily implied though, since the queen lifespans are so long and there were so many in between then and now. Also the comments about the prophecy. I had the timing pegged as at least many many moons.
Poor Katydid.
Heh, you know you're good friends with someone when they stand by your side and laugh AT your misfortune. They're more than willing to leave you to your fate, but they'll at least be there by your side through it. Also, now I'm wondering if Whatevra is gonna designate Katydid as the royal cuddle bug?
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Heh
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Oof, that, i can see why he started an civil war now, but being 'reformed' is still an 'hell no, you reform me I'll bite your face off'
DIGGY DIGGY HOLE !! SING SING WITH ME
9886369
Yea. That was my thought too. Although I was thinking about "welcome to yoglabs"
Since our new Queen is a brony, I won't be surprise if she would try to find the Elements before Main 6. And I have a feeling they might be some lings who suitable as a bearers in this hive.
I am Ladybug in this scene
Someone. Art. Now.
9886204 Hmmm... did it involve revenge and windigos and Discord?
I would have change shapes & got out that way
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Wouldn't that require her to be triggered by the name Starswirl the Bearded as it would be their eternal rivalry?
Lol... poor Kat, she’ll never get to live it down and will probably be the Queen official snuggle bug from now on.
9886389
I thought they were referencing the Muppets with the whole mimimimimimimimimimi thing. Beaker does that a lot.
Priceless how cute it all is
But to short 
The comment section is entertaining as well 
Checked em all out ever chapter 
Some are interessting some are funny and some are hopefully ignored 
We are here for Changelings not Pony copys 
At least that my oppinion. Plus they started as them there for there are seriouse reasons they become like they are...
9886666
It's definitely Beaker of the Muppets... Honeydew's assistant (Dr Bunsen Honeydew), "flask or something", "mimimimimimi"....
9886315 YES! OH MY GOD, YES!
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My own headcanon says that the changelings are descendants of the Greek deity of elusive sea change, the shapeshifter Proteus whos name also alludes to the adjective protean that means adaptable, versatile, mutable. Another changeling Queen I have named Metis who is the first spouse of Zeus, mother of Athena, another shapeshifter whos name in ancient Athenian Greek is an adjective that means "to be wisely cunning". "He has the Royal Metis" they would say... or something like that.
You could say that this Queen was a Greek individual and perhaps an ancient Greek one depending on how far back this is. My own assumption here is that Queens of the changelings that are secretly humans are drawn chronologically across time. This means that the first Queen would likely have been from ancient times, the second human Queen from the Dark Ages, the third from Industrial Age e.t.c or at least something like this.
Based on the name I suspect they would be a scientist, or perhaps a teacher, or a mathematician because Epagogi as a term is often mentioned in math problems if I remember correctly. That doesn't mean it can't be used in other stuff that includes logical deductions but that's where I've encountered that term.
As for what an individual with that mindset could do (human or bug) it kind of sounds like she was the "organiser" type. Like logistics, hierarchy structure, supply lines e.t.c. She could also have been the one to delve deeper into their strange feeding habits of love. Maybe she could be the one to have figured out it's love they crave. Maybe she figured out love=life force or whatever else. In any case she sounds like the "science-y" Queen.
That's all I got here. Imma continue reading.
Cute Beaker reference.
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There's so much blatant Greek (as well as smatterings of Southern-Middle Asian) elements in MLP, I like seeing authors making use of that material. I'm not dismissing your own head canon. However, I suspect that in this story, those ancient human-turned-changeling-queens could very well have been bronies who ended up WAY TOO FAR BACK in time to influence the events of the show, but decided to leave mythic riddles to leave their mark on things.
What remains to be seen is how near Whatevah Wannabe to Season One (either before or after Episode 1). A quick glance at the moon should at least let him/her know if the Elements have been gathered and used. Also, since he/she knows about Thorax, the new queen should make locating and keeping track of him a priority as well as getting briefed ASAP on any infiltration ops currently targeting Equestria and their neighboring nations.
9887062
From what I understand the replacement was done the time Chrysalis was smacked out of Canterlot. First chapter.
9887062 So let me see, Chrysalis was a megalomaniacal maniac who liked invasions, but was actually grossly incompetent, psychotically sadistic, and secretly disliked among her own people who didn't dare say anything or she'd murder them.
CHRYSALIS WAS SADDAM HUSSEIN!!!
9886956 My headcanon says that they are cherngelerngs and are icky bug ponies that arose spontaneously from pond scum and politics.
Hence the need to feed on the love of the being they lie to while secretly draining them of all the joy about life and the will to live. (totally politics: poly + ticks = many bloodsucking parasites)
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I can buy that!
9887071
Yeah, I just reread the first chapter-- Of course, the author is making use of later canon info to describe the hive and the interloper queen's knowledge of Thorax. But there's no mention of when this story is taking place along the show's timeline--
There is the description of Chrysalis overlooking the swarm in preparation for an implied major operation at the moment she's suddenly snuffed out, which could put these events just prior to what should be Cadance's canon abduction and replacement before the wedding.
BTW, Tangent. I was just looking at the picture for this story....
I'm assuming the messy black stuff are Chryssie's remains? This should maybe have a GORE tag.
justkidding
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While it's fairly obvious (to Queen Whatevra Wa'Nabe) that at least some of her predecessors had most likely been former humans (or at least had been bizarrely knowledgeable of different periods of the pop culture of the world she had come from), not all of these former queens had any knowledge at all about My Little Pony, or instead knew of it from previous iterations of various toy lines and/or cartoons. And, of course, some just plain didn't care or wanted to do their thing regardless of whatever lore they did or did not know.
For the record, Queen Amorphous Metamorphous, the founder of the Badlands Hive of Gandahar, had only vaguely been aware of the Gen1 show and toy line, and failed to make the connection, instead believing the realm she found herself in to be similar to various legends. Another of QWW's "ancestors," Mimsey the Mad, was more of a Disney villain buff and had a lot of fun going on self-imposed "missions" to the north and screwing with various communities of ponies and other creatures prior to the founding of Equestria, all while keeping watch for a girl named Megan (just in case).
9887086
Why do you ruin my fantasy with your irl parallels?
9887128
The fact that Thorax is revealed later in the canon doesn't mean that Thorax didn't exist before that.
9887171
So... she thought she was dreaming and did whatever evil cartoony thing she could think of?
9886666
Yep. Doesn't change that my first thought was honeydew and xephos.
9887192
Well, yes and no.
The belief that she was dreaming went away after a while, but being an asshole who liked to fuck with people persisted throughout her reign. The hive suffered a lot, but mostly due to how irresponsible she had been and the fact that she loved to play up the whole "evil villain" thing.
Perhaps appropriately enough, it was Mimsy the Mad's search for Megan that eventually got her killed. By Megan.
9887086
The late Queen Chrysalis was not a former human (or former anything else for that matter), and had been a changeling all her life. In fact, she had no idea at all that some of her "ancestors" had been former humans, or why they did the things that they did, or how the once beautiful and lush basin described in the records of the founding of Gandahar became the ecological wreck that is the Badlands.
9887192
Thorax did exist during the invasion of Canterlot. The backstory he gave Spike when they first met was he was a survivor when Cadance and Shining blasted everyling out of the city.
What is questionable is, would Thorax be hatched yet or even fully grown at this time if we're actually years before Luna's return from the moon?
I see most changelings adhere to the as long as it’s not me appreciation of humor.
Hey Beaker, how ya doin?
If there was any doubt she had spend a long time under Chrysalis it's gone now.
Mayfly: "Then we get the crowbar and try again."
Why not?
Making more love is always good, right?
Speaking of which, I'm honestly wondering why she didn't ask about the love-supply or the love-sources yet.
Lol
FEAR THE SNUGGLES!!!
9886389
Ohh, that too, both are very good
Anywho, have Fun
9888278
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9888278
I think you broke… duck tape though we’ll need a roll or two.
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If you plan on trying to completely derail the continuity, sure, go fo it. I seriously doubt the Elements would respond however since they're rocks at this point, requiring the catalyst of Magic bearer to wake them up. If she's really smart however, she'd head off future issues by finding alternate ways of feeding the hive, moving from parasitic to synergistic (a subject that's been discussed endlessly over the years so there's plenty of solutions both large and small scale). She could then offer an olive branch to Celestia, privately, to prove Changelings are not harmful to ponies. I don't expect full integration but at worst, it would be a neutral relationship.
A real mind bender would be then finding out Celestia knows, having been contacted over the countless years by other HiE Queens as Wa'nabee has surmised-- although I think it could all just be typical Equestria naming puns that the entire world is rife with. And according to Occam's Razor, that's probably the case.
Cold. Cold, and hilarious. But mostly cold.
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It's possible to just hit "post comment" on an empty box and a comment to still be posted.
All hail the SNUGGEL QUEEN !
I can see it now:
"Mommy, why was Queen Whatevra named the queen of snuggles?"
"Because, young one, her snuggles were legendary. It is said her longest snuggle lasted a month!"
"Wow!"
Lol
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Edit huh...... neat