This story is a sequel to Queen Weaver
Warning: This story and this description both contain spoilers for the Web Novel: Worm. If you don't want to be spoiled, read Worm first, then come back and read this. Also, this is an alternate timeline of my story Queen Weaver, diverging from it at Chapter 29. Read that before reading this, otherwise you'll be missing a lot of context.
The apocalypse had come at the hand of a god-like multidimensional alien entity. Taylor Hebert, a parahuman with power over bugs and bug-like things has her powers altered by a former enemy and subsequently uses morally questionable means to make everyone in existence with superpowers fight this evil deity, eventually defeating him.
This however came with a cost. Her mind was deteriorating as her power was subsuming her. Thus another cape decided it would be a mercy to put a pair of bullets in the back of her skull.
The Spirit of Harmony witnessed all of this. Grateful for Taylor's role in stopping this alien god and thus saving countless worlds and thus countless lives, the Spirit of Harmony decides to intervene. It brings Taylor to Equestria turning her into a Changeling Queen in the process.
After a long series of events over the course of just over a month, some of the Undersiders are pulled from Earth Bet to Equestria by the Spirit of Love, as one of Taylor's newborn children is undergoing the Crystalling Ceremony in the Crystal Empire.
(Warning, Dark, Death, and/or Tragedy may be added to the list of tags in the future, depending on how things go.)
(This is a crossover with the web novel called Worm by the author Wildbow. I highly recommend reading it if you haven't, it's a really good story!)
Didn't this story used to have more chapters? Or am I just thinking of Queen Weaver?
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You're thinking of Queen Weaver. I just posted this. This is an alternate timeline where the Spirit of Love brings some of the Undersiders over to Equestria during the Crystalling. Meaning it's probably going to go in a very different direction from Queen Weaver where that won't happen.
Interesting what if scenario, so we are seeing two different paths or an entity's action compared to letting destiny run its course.
With the Undersiders here to help, I can picture Taylor being more willing to allow the other grubs to receive the Heart's gifts from a Crystaling.
I still think she'd eventually come around for the others once she realizes they'll be safe enough, if she figures out it would be best for the grubs' development.
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I suppose I should've put this in the Author's notes, but I didn't think about it. I'll definitely be updating it now to include this explanation
So, upon some discussions about the implications of being able to just make queens at will and immortality, over on SB in the main story, I updated the crystalling scene so all of the grubs undergo the process and the one that becomes a queen goes last instead of first and the Spirit of Love inside the Crystal Heart is what determines which one becomes a queen. It solves the issue of being able to effectively mass produce queens. And it means there won't be any possibility of the other grubs blaming her for not making them immortal to live with her forever like their sister, just because she didn't want to or something.
So, they all went through the Crystalling.
I'm sorry for any confusion. I should have made it clear that there was a minor rewrite.
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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy the story and its nice to hear that my writing is solid.
I've been writing since middle school. Between eleven and fourteen years ago, Pretty much every day, for hours. Mostly fanfiction.
Unfortunately whatever your rates, I can't afford to commission anything. I currently don't have a source of income and don't have the money to spend on things like this. I do all my writing for free since I've got too many stories going and am worried I wouldn't be able to update them all consistently enough for anything like patreon, and I don't want to rip people off. So I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline. But if my financial situation ever changes I'll certainly keep you in mind!