Those green eyes. Twilight Sparkle was simultaneously dumbstruck and horrified, seeing those glowing green irises staring evilly down at her. The unicorn hardly noticed green flames spouting up all around her body among the floor that didn’t seem bothered one bit by it. Twilight let out a whimper as she sank right through the floor with the echoing laughter of her friend and former foalsitter – Princess Cadance – ringing in her ears. The continued journey downward was a blur for Twilight, the unicorn sinking quickly through solid stone and earth and anything in between her and her destination. When her sense came to, she lit the area around her via a point of light from the tip of her horn, the mare’s potent magic easily fueling the spell. Surveying the area, she found herself in a glittering set of caverns, having no idea where she’d ended up or what exactly happened to one of her only childhood companions.

It didn’t take long for those nightmare-inducing eyes and that chilling laugh to join her down in the depths of the caverns. Twilight found herself surrounded by reflected figures of the green-eyed princess, Cadance gleefully explaining how Twilight was now trapped in the depths of the crystal mines beneath Canterlot. How not a soul knew that she was down there, and reveling in the seething anger boiling out from the incensed unicorn. Cadance capped off with how Twilight was going to be disposed of for good in short order, but didn’t elaborate. Twilight went into a bit of a frenzy, firing off bolts of magical energy at every reflection and appearance of the evil-looking Cadance, shattering crystals and sending debris everywhere. Twilight leapt form place to place, taking out all instances of the green-horn-glowing alicorn. She found herself racing blindly through the caves chasing after a somehow-retreating set of reflections, leading her deeper and deeper into the depths of the mountain that served as Canterlot’s perch.

Minutes of exploding gouts of magic and racing through the crystal caverns were taking their toll on the sweating purple pony, but Twilight’s mind was too occupied with rage to care. She wanted to hurt the pony that betrayed her so utterly, having humiliated her in front of her mentor, Princess Celestia; her brother; and especially her best friends. The Cadance in the reflection guffawed loudly as a seething blast of magic blew the crystal rock to pieces, leaving a gaping hole in the wall and dusty smoke clouding Twilight’s vision. A sudden coughing fit managed to calm Twilight down, bringing her out of seeing red, obligated to force on catching her breath more than anything else. She waved a hoof in front of her face until the dust settled and cleared, the mare blinking through watery eyes as she tried to focus beyond. The light on her horn returned to assist, and when she was able to focus, Twilight saw a collapsed form of Princess Cadance herself cowering in the formerly-closed-off room! No gown or anything on her.

“You!” Twilight exclaimed, leaping over the falling crumbles of crystal and lashing at the shaking pink pony. Princess Cadance gasped and reeled from the blows, struggling to her hooves and backing away in quick order.

“Twilight! Twilight stop, it’s me!” she tried. Cadance used her wings to hover into the air out of reach, which only caused bolts of magic to be flung her way. “It’s Cadance!”

“Yeah I know! You put me down here!” Twilight snarled, leveling her horn at the hovering alicorn for another shot.

“That wasn’t me! That was a changeling!” Cadance tried, thinking fast. She ducked under the latest volley and clacked to the ground on all fours. “And I can prove it.”

Twilight was panting from exertion, wiping her brow and keeping her horn at the ready. “You got 10 seconds to prove that the Cadance that put me down here was a fake, and not you.”

The proof was as simple as anything. Cadance performed a silly dance from the two mares’ childhood. One they did often and only they knew about.

“Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake...”

It was finished in short order, leaving Twilight standing up straight, again dumbfounded. No other creature alive, save perhaps her own family, knew of that dance that she and her foalsitter created. “It… it is you!” A flurry of emotions ushered Twilight forward, clasping Cadance in a tight hug. “Oh Cadance, what happened to you?”

Cadance returned the hug, grinning to herself. So gullible, these ponies. “A powerful changeling, the great Queen Chrysalis, imprisoned me down here not long ago. She’s planning to lead thousands of changelings in a campaign against Canterlot and Equestria as a whole!” she explained. Twilight gasped and took a few steps back, Cadance putting on a somber expression. “They feed on the emotions and love of others, which ponies have in abundance. And she’s been feasting on my fiancé to enhance her power…”

“I knew there was something up with Shining Armor! There’s no way he was just having headaches!” Twilight fumed, pacing back and forth against the hard stone floor.

“That’s right,” Cadance continued calmly, devoid of emotion, eyes on the mare. “She’s grown so powerful, and her own brand of magic is formidable. We’ll have to be extra careful and use whatever means necessary to combat her.”

Twilight nodded, mind racing as she paced in a stressed circle around Cadance. “We’ll have to expose her before she marries my brother! It all makes sense too with the way she’s been treating everypony else. Just wedding jitters, ha! Fat chance!” Twilight continued pacing around, then stopped abruptly before Cadance. Her ears folded back as she looked up to the smiling princess. “Sorry about jumping you, or doubting about how much you actually care for Shining.”

Cadance simply kept her grin and licked her lips subtly. “Oh, the love that Shining shares is truly something I’ve come to enjoy,” she said. Twilight returned the smile, and Cadance gave her a gentle pat on the head. “Alright, Twilight. We won’t be able to get anything done while we’re stranded in the depths of these mines. We have to find a way out.”

“Right.. right.” Twilight looked around, shining her magical light at the tip of her horn every which way. Warped reflections of the pair rebounded all over, and there were several options presented to the two.

Cadance stood stock still and let the pony brimming with familial and friendly affection try to suss things out. When the unicorn pointed out a possible direction, Cadance nodded. The pair set off, Cadance knowing the precise paths out of the mines and that they were headed in the right direction. They plodded along, mostly in silence, for several minutes, before Cadance put a hoof to the back of Twilight and shook her head. “No… this isn’t the way.”

Twilight turned and blinked inquisitively. “What?”

“When Queen Chrysalis and her loyal servants drug me down here I was still conscious. I… Nothing looks familiar around here, is all. There were certainly a lot more deep chasms and different crystal formations.” Cadance looked around and put on an expression of fear, biting her lip and everything. “I’m afraid we may just be heading deeper.”

“Shoot!” Twilight scuffed a hoof to the rocks. “Let’s go back and try another path! Shining’s gonna be wedding that monster soon and we have to be there to warn everypony!” Twilight blew by Cadance, who rolled her eyes but smirked as the eager unicorn tore back down from whence they came, away from the correct path they climbed and deeper into the mountain. The pink pony princess casually trotted after Twilight, studying her from behind. Twilight Sparkle wasn’t exactly a pony who got out a lot, often burying her snout into a good book. As such, the purple pony had a bit of pudge to her, which were overtly displayed as she galloped along the caverns. Cadance floated on after Twilight, studying her form and licking her lips quietly.

The pair continued past down, going by shattered stone, the effects of Twilight’s earlier raging, and pressed down an opposite direction. Deeper down into the caverns they went, and the equine behind Twilight hovering above grew hungrier by the moment. She was able to largely contain her hungers to herself, up to a point. Twilight was now trotting more than galloping, wanting to hurry but growing weary from all the uncertain jetting about. She stood stock-still, however, when an ominous grrrrrn rumbled out from somewhere. It was impossible to place, the small stone caverns causing sound to reverberate easily and scatter all over the place. She stopped and put her ears on a swivel, Cadance landing beside her and trying to look nonchalant.

“What in Equestria was that?” Twilight wondered, looking up to Cadance for some sort of guidance.

“Nothing. Nothing at all,” Cadance answered blithely. Before Twilight could press or ask any follow-up questions, the princess stuck a hoof out and pointed down a dark, descending passage. “That way. I’m sure I recognize it! I think we’re on the right trail, Twilight.”

“Good!” Twilight galloped ahead once more, leaving Cadance to smile and keep pace behind the unicorn.

Twilight hustled and bustled, doing her best to set aside growing fatigue and push herself to the limits. She had to save her brother, after all, along with the rest of Equestria. It wasn’t easy, though, with every step becoming more laborious than the last. Minutes ticked away with Twilight speeding down the declining trail, having to dodge into various twists and turns as the caverns continued to descend. After a solid half hour of galloping and trotting and searching and keeping her horn aglow, Twilight slowed, panting. “I… think… this is wrong, Cadance...” she wheezed, dripping in sweat and glancing about. “It really feels like we’re going down, not up...”

Cadance landed beside Twilight again, hooves clopping noisily to the stone floor. “No no, I assure you Twilight. This is definitely looking familiar. These mines weren’t meant for easy travel. It’s likely the ponies that made them simply followed whatever bits of treasure they could find. We’ll likely have to keep winding our way downward before we end up being able to escape.”

“How… long was… the way down?”

Cadance put on a big show of thought, leaving the panting mare looking up longingly for an answer. “I couldn’t say,” Cadance concluded after a minute. Twilight snorted in exasperation. Another ominous growl rumbled all about them, making Twilight’s ears stand up straight. Cadance shifted in her stance some and fluttered her wings. “But I know for a fact that we’re close. These particular formations and looking very familiar… I think they weren’t too deep in when they brought me down.”

Twilight accepted the explanation from her friend, again putting that ominous noise out of her mind. After glancing behind her with her light to make sure they weren’t being followed, of course. “Alright,” she said, wiping her brow once more and pressing forward. “We can do this, I know it. For Shining and all our friends.” Cadance could practically feel the glow of friendship exuding from Twilight at that moment, and following swiftly behind the purple pony.

“Yes,” Cadance agreed blithely. “Soon all our troubles will be over and Equestria will be safely possessed by the rightful owners once more.” Twilight looked behind her and quirked a brow. Cadance merely smiled back and offered shrug. “Flowery princess speech.” Twilight actually giggled at that and forced herself into a more eager trot, hoping against hope that the cavern exit would be in front of them before too long.

It wasn’t. Another hour passed with the air seeming stiffer and staler, the two ponies ending up in a wide clearing with massive glittering crystals shimmering all about them, refracting Twilight’s magical light. “Wow,” Twilight impressed. “I don’t think the miner ponies ever even touched this place. There’s no mining equipment and these all look completely untouched!”

“Indeed,” Cadance agreed. While Twilight was a weary mess, the princess seemed completely contented, walking alongside the exhausted unicorn. “I would venture that no soul has ever set hoof in this place.” It was time, and Cadance knew it. Her belly had made several more obvious groans during their trek, and she was starved. They were very deep into the mountain at this point, and she was confident enough, and hungry enough, to determine that nopony would discover them by happenstance. “Oh Twiliiight,” Cadance sang. The weary pony turned a head to Cadance. “We’re here.”

Twilight looked confused. “Here? But we’re nowhere near the exit!”

“Exactly.” And in the next instance, the pony princess pounced Twilight, tackling her to the ground. Twilight thudded against the stone on her back, with Cadance’s muzzle locked down and around her horn. Cadance’s lips reached down to the base of that horn, Twilight struggling for a moment, then calming. Cadance rolled her eyes and made some very hungry noises as she sucked and slurped, Twilight feeling… something… being seeped from her. The loud slurps and noises from Cadance were muffled to Twilight, the mare growing dizzy and weakening by the second. Cadance rolled her eyes, a familiar green glow added to the usually-kind coloration. Twilight felt panic race through her heart, but couldn’t even manage to lift a hoof to defend herself. She lay limply as her love was drained from her body, one greedy slurp at a time.

“So much...” Cadance mumbled around Twilight’s horn, gradually peeling her mouth away from the horn, lines of saliva keeping them connected briefly. Twilight’s unblinking eyes saw some essence flowing from her horn into the green-eyed princess’ mouth. Cadance’s own horn glowed the same sickening green color as she devoured Twilight’s love, eventually breaking the connection with a clack of her jaws and a lick of her lips. “Oooh… You ponies really are too saccharine for a queen’s own good.”

“Q-queen?” Twilight mumbled weakly. She fidgeted her hooves, but couldn’t budge. She tried her magic, but could only manage the faintest glow that sparked and fizzled out. Cadance lorded over the limp unicorn, licking her lips and grinning with, Twilight noticed, rather sharp teeth! Then in a gout of sudden green flame, Cadance was engulfed. Twilight screamed as what took her place was a gruesome bug-like creature, standing proudly with insect-like wings buzzing. Queen Chrysalis let out a laugh, the paunch built up around her middle jostling to every subtle motion of the changeling.

“Yes, you pathetic fool. Queen. And I must say, you’ve done an excellent job feeding me. Much like your brother before you.” Twilight whimpered as Chrysalis reminisced, licking her lips. “Mmm, I can’t wait to extract every last drop of love he’s sure to have for that Cadance pony on the honeymoon.” She returned her wide-eyed gaze down to a shivering, weakened Twilight. “But I have a more immediate concern to deal with now.”

“But.. t-the dance...” Twilight said. “You couldn’t possibly know...”

“Fool,” Chrysalis said, sharp-toothed grin sending chills down Twilight’s spine. “You tipped your hoof when you performed that idiotic little ritual in front of me just the other day! It was so easy to drag the wool over your eyes...” A lumbering grrrrrn once again sounded out, and with the changeling so near and in sight of Twilight, the unicorn pieced it together: The changeling’s paunch of a belly was grumbling.

Chrysalis was hungry for more than just love.

Twilight tried in vain to conjure up some form of magical defense, but couldn’t muster a thing. Chrysalis leaned down and let her long, thick tongue dangle out, dragging it up and down the exposed unicorn chest and chin. “Mmmmm mmm! So scrumptious,” the queen commented, leaving slimy trails of drool matting down Twilight’s coat. Twilight tried to back away but was subjected to all manners of licking and tasting, Chrysalis even coiling her tongue around Twilight’s horn and buzzing with delight at the tingling taste it offered. “Your love was an amazing appetizer. It’s going to be such a delight to devour you completely, sapping you of every last ounce of energy and affection you’ve ever felt for anypony… It was hard not to eat you on the spot, oozing all of that affection for that weakling princess.”

“Y-you monster,” Twilight managed to utter, glaring up at the Chrysalis who had weakened her into having naught the strength of a newborn foal. Chrysalis merely laughed at the insult, and brought her jaws down over the muzzle of Twilight. The mare squealed and twitched her legs in panic as the queen suckled and slurped, before releasing her again. Twilight was left a panting mess as the queen lorded over her, pondering Twilight’s flavor with long tongue lapping about her lips.

“Call me whatever you like. Food is food at the end of the day, and that is all you are, Twilight Sparkle. You and every other pony in Equestria.” Chrysalis’ horn began to glow, that same oozing green aura surrounding the whole of Twilight. Twilight shrieked when suddenly hefted up off the ground, eye to eye with the proud changeling queen. “You did this to yourself, you know. Suspicious from the very start. Cadance had to be replaced, so she at least had a reason. You? You just stuck your nose in where you shouldn’t. Along with certain other features you possess...”

Twilight tried to reply but was suddenly spun about, the unicorn’s rear now presented to Chrysalis properly. She shivered, feeling that long tongue slide up and around one cutie mark, then the other, her quivering cheeks drizzling in changeling slobber before too long. “The way you just… offered yourself to me the other day. Shaking this delicious part of you right before me. It would have almost been worth it to gobble you down that instant, any invasion plans and subterfuge be damned!” Chrysalis laughed and slurped her tongue across Twilight’s butt cheeks, murmuring in pleasure. She put hooves to cutie marks and squished the flesh about some, opening drooling at the sight of the plump things springing back into place as she released them. “But a good queen knows when it’s time to be smart...” Twilight, hovering, looked down and under herself to see drool that freely leaked from Chrysalis’ mouth, pattering to the floor. “...And when it’s time to feast.”

“No!” Twilight squealed, feeling the heated breath from Chrysalis wash over her legs and rump, the changeling queen’s maw expanding wide open. “You can’t eat me, Chrysalis! Don’t eat me!” The queen, naturally, ignored the pleads from her prey. Twilight’s legs were suddenly glued to her barrel, locked in place by the changeling’s magic. Twilight shivered as her flicking tail was the first to breach the mouth, Chrysalis clamping her jaws around the writhing thing and slurping it backwards. All-too-quickly it bunched up against the back of the throat, with the base of it and Twilight’s rear pressed to the widening muzzle. “Don’t eat me don’t eat me please!!!”

Chrysalis’ jaws widened around Twilight’s butt, able to squeeze the pudgy cheeks and the back of the hinds into her jaws in one go. “Mmmf...” Chrysalis murred, chomping forward one bit at a time. Hot strings of saliva ran down Twilight’s rear, sneaking into the crevice along with the ever-exploring tongue. Chrysalis was in utter bliss, allowing the pure flavor of pony to bask, to savor, to enjoy. Twilight’s tail flitted down the throat with a small gulp, leaving the whole of the changeling’s maw to be occupied with Twilight Sparkle’s plush rear end.

“Help! Somepony help!” Twilight cried in vain. Her magic was a consistent failure, and the changeling queen’s magic kept her firmly locked in place physically. Chrysalis pressed Twilight further inward with her magic, working her jaws up and down to sink into the pliable fur and flesh of the pony she was eating alive. Twilight’s rump cheeks pressed outward to each of Chrysalis’ own cheeks, puffing them out comically. The unicorn, however, was too busy struggling for her life, feeling the tongue slathering over her body and the rumbling murrs of the changeling devouring her. Chrysalis’ eyes fluttered closed, confident that her magic would be more than enough to keep Twilight Sparkle at bay, her jaws twitching open and closed around more of the mare in the process. All Twilight could do was beg not to be devoured, and wriggle her body a little. “Please Chrysalis, stop!” She whined and struggled as her backside slid deeper into the maw, slipping away from the squishy cheeks and ending up pressed against the back of the throat. Twilight swore she could feel the uvula playing against the dock of her tail, with her rear angled down towards the eagerly-awaiting gullet.

GLURP! A powerful swallow pulled Twilight’s butt down into Chrysalis’ gullet, it bulging her neck out considerably. Most of Twilight’s cutie marks were squelched down the throat, hinds compressed against her middle with the frogs of her hooves just barely poking out the changeling’s jaws. “Noo!!” Twilight wailed, pudgy rolls of her belly squeezing wetly up against chitinous changeling lips. She groaned when Chrysalis pressed her excited tongue up against the unicorn’s rear and belly fur, slathering it back and forth and letting the flesh bend and fold around it. The jaws clenched tighter, Twilight losing her breath, before they suddenly expanded and clamped further up the mare. CHMP! GLP! Twilight closed an eye in agony as more of her body was squeezed down the tight, squishy, hot throat, bulging its way down the neck and inching closer towards that eager stomach. Excess saliva squirted free and caught Twilight in her open eye, forcing her to clench them both, while more still sprayed over her face. The heated fluid dribbled down to her chin, making the mare positively miserable. “Helllp!”

The magic Chrysalis was using to hold Twilight at bay started to fade. The unicorn chanced opening her eyes, only to feel more of her body devoured. GLRK! ULLLP! “No no no!” Twilight squealed, using her newfound freedom to try and flee! But her back half was nearly completely swallowed down, with her stomach lodged in the mouth with her hinds just now disappearing behind greedy jaws. As such, Twilight flailed with her fore legs and flung her head back and forth, mane astray and drool flecked over the cave floor. She tried to writhe those hinds but they didn’t so much as budge. The changeling tongue lapped over them gleefully, along with the pony’s belly that was squashed down against it. “Please… please!” Twilight plead to no-one in particular, trying once again to fire up her magic. Her horn sputtered and wheezed, emitting nothing brighter than a candle flame. With no more changeling magic supporting her, Twilight dangled from Chrysalis’ jaws, the changeling idly bring a hoof up to the mare’s chest and supporting her that way instead. Chrysalis pet over the matted chest fur and chuckled, Twilight feeling it as much as hearing it. This made Twilight whimper in fright, renewing her vain struggles to try and escape the horrible situation.

But the unicorn only continued to slide deeper into the jaws and throat of Chrysalis, a fresh GULLLLP pulling her stomach into the depths of the tight, unyielding throat. Her bulges distinctly outlined her pony shape down Chrysalis’ body, with the pony’s rump compressing up against the stomach sphincter. “Oh no, please, stop swallowing! Please Chrysalis, let me go! I’ll do anything! Anything!” In response, Chrysalis lifted her hoof away from Twilight’s chest, the mare yelping as she dangled downward once more. The hoof was brought up to Twilight’s face with the pony’s eyes following it frighteningly. Chrysalis chuckled, swallowed, and pressed her hoof right up against the mare’s cheek. “Ack! Noooo!” Twilight yelled, then couldn’t catch her breath again, barrel slurped into the drooling mouth and a hefty URRRLP swallowing down more of her body. Twilight Sparkle wheezed and panted, a muffled SCHLORP sounding out as her pudgy rear sank into the slimy changeling stomach, distending the greenish midsection. “Somepony heeelllp!”

GLCK ULK! The horrified pony’s head now couldn’t move, her vision blinded on either side by her own now-limp fore hooves. She flicked them every which way, as well as trying to pull her head in all directions, but the harsh jaws kept them in place. Twilight was visibly shuddering at this point, seeing the world blur not only from her own tears, but gobs of stinking saliva that began pooling down her mane and face, gathering near her chin. Just outside her periphery she could make out sharp changeling teeth, still lazily rising and following despite the bulkiest parts of her already having been swallowed. “No...” Twilight whimpered, feeling the rest of her chest squeezed down and her rear pressed to the back of the belly. Another ULP rang out and the pony’s neck and chin slid fully into the mouth, vision filled with the gooey, glistening insides of the ravenous maw. “No!” she yelped, seeing the full jawline clench down on her barely-protruding fore legs and hooves, what little light the cavern had rapidly disappearing from view. The enduring changeling tongue waggled before Twilight’s vision, slapping up to her face, around her muzzle, up and down each cheek. Another hefty GLUCK slurched her head backwards, the mare seeing the tongue bend as part of the swallowing process. In an instant Twilight’s vision was vertical, head lodged in the back of the throat, slimy flesh compressing on all sides. Her hooves were slurped in and all light was extinguished, jaws clacking shut noisily. The tongue oozed around those legs and up to Twilight’s face, Chrysalis getting one last lick.

“Noooo doooon’t eat meee–” GLURRRRK!  Twilight’s muffled squeals died away as she was swallowed whole and alive. Her bulging protests gesticulated all the way down Chrysalis’ body, squelching into the stomach with a series of SLOP SLRCH GLURSHes. The changeling uttered out a lengthy belch, smacking her lips as fur and slobber splattered the crystal mine cave walls. Twilight screamed her lungs out, even as the last of her muzzle squeezed out of the throat and into the stomach proper, sphincter squelching shut and sealing the pony’s fate as changeling food. “Mpph! Hlllp!!!”

“Haaaah… slrp!” Chrysalis gingerly ran a hoof over her engorged stomach, the buggy midsection dangling well past her knees and pushing out in all directions. She flicked her holey tail and caressed around Twilight, who’s muffled pleas were music to the changeling’s ears. “That was… spectacular. Wonder if you’ll last as long as your friend did.” Chrysalis left, as Twilight went wide-eyed in the stomach. She grunted and forced just a bit of light out of her horn, which was compressed against the soft-but-unyielding stomach walls.

She wish she hadn’t. The sight was terrible, matching the smells, with bubbly stomach fluids lining the floor and slowly rising to fill the very full gut. Twilight felt the stinging acids surging up and rubbing into her fur, cutie marks already tingling with her rear pressed up against a stomach wall. “Help! Let me out! Please!” she begged, still processing exactly what it was Chrysalis had just noted. As the stomach acids rose, some saliva still leaking in from the sealed sphincter and adding to It, Twilight tried keeping her head above it all. To her utter horror she saw some very familiar feathers floating among the chrrrrrning stomach fluids, some already sizzled down to the stem, others just starting. When she felt something jab lightly to her side, she managed to glance over. She saw an equally-familiar crown, mostly melted, buffeting against the side of her barrel and digging into the fur. It was at that moment Twilight realized: Cadance, the real Cadance, was nothing more than fat on Chrysalis’ flanks, having been eaten and digested some time ago. And Twilight, now privy to that information, wailed and sloshed about in the stomach, fearful for her own survival. She felt the half-digested crown poke and prod and eventually slip under her, a nagging nuisance but nothing compared to the volume of stomach fluids eager to gurgle the pony up. Even as the belly started to sway back and forth to the gait of Chrysalis’ walk, Twilight managed to keep her head above the fluids in her utter panic. But they rose higher-still, the changeling looking down at her belly and amused at all the bulges the mare was causing. “Hrrmph! Hmmphh!!!”

“Ahh...” Chrysalis responded calmly, hearing the muffled protests from Twilight alongside more sloshing and churning. “That’s one less annoyance to deal with. And...urp… one less meal to worry about.” Chrysalis licked her tongue over all her teeth, catching some loose fur and gulping it down happily. Twilight now had less air to work with and was reduced to desperate short pants for what bit of rancid air she could still breathe. More saliva and fur joined her in the stomach with precious little air to join it, leaving Twilight struggling for dear life as more stomach fluids rubbed their way past her fur into naked skin.

With the purple pony gurgling away in her belly, the changeling queen took to the air, wings beating rapidly as she ascended with a large swaying stomach only weighing her down slightly. The mines were not the easiest to navigate, but Chrysalis had all the time in the world to taunt her meal and casually fly and digest. “Can’t have you hanging off me like this when it comes time for the wedding, Twilight.” A whimpering moan was overpowered only by a loud GLORP from the stomach. “You’ll be well taken care of by the time we’re out of the mines, I’m sure.”

Chrysalis was true to her words. Minutes stretched to a couple of hours, Chrysalis humming to herself and taking her time, wanting to make absolutely sure that her meal wasn’t going anywhere or have anypony interrupt. Twilight couldn’t move, the stomach walls having closed in against her and massaging her from every conceivable angle. The stomach fluids nearly flooded the entire stomach, forcing the pony to keep her head angled up with her snout squished against the belly wall. “Help...” Twilight whimpered just before her muzzle finally sank under the bubbling fluids. Chrysalis paused mid-flight as a powerful GLRRRRRRN roared out from her stomach, the whole bloated thing scrunching in on itself at the same time. Chrysalis’ eyes fluttered as she murred, tilting up and massaging her hooves into her gurgling belly. “That’s more like it,” she purred, the stomach sagging due to gravity and becoming less pony-shaped by the moment. 

The changeling resumed her lazy flight through the cavern with the sounds of digesting Twilight Sparkle reverberating all through the place. Over the course of her exit, Chrysalis’ stomach shrunk. What was once a series of pony-shaped bulges was nothing more than a smooth, rounded mass of fat and churning fluids at this point, still sounding out loudly. Chrysalis’ flanks bulged out, along with her thighs and hind legs. Her stomach never quite shrank back down completely, still sporting a chunky paunch that swayed to her gait. The flight was easy for the changeling queen despite the extra weight and all the energy she had to put forth towards digestion. “I don’t know what tasted better”, she mused while she flew, “all of that love and affection you had for your tasty friend; the sibling love for your brother, my groom-to-be; or the care for your friends. Who will all make lovely meals when I return from what will be a fantastic honeymoon, I’m sure.” Chrysalis laughed aloud as she saw light at the end of the cave, ascending towards the entrance.

Finally, the journey out of the mines ended, Chrysalis landing on all fours with her stomach swaying to a stop. It still bubbled and churned slightly, but it was clear that the pony she ate was nothing more than pudgy fat, and leftover mush… and a little more. Chrysalis paused before she left, feeling something in her throat. She smiled, turned her head, and forced out an elongated, satisfied BOOUUURRRAAAAAAP! Slimy wads of fur and hair joined saliva as Chrysalis belched, everything followed up with a shiny mostly-intact unicorn skull. The large bone clattered along the stone floor, and Chrysalis smirked down at it while licking her lips. “The perfect place for a pony,” she teased, putting a hoof onto the top of Twilight’s dripping skull. “Fat on a queen’s hips, and crushed under my power.” Chrysalis pressed down until the force of her hoof crushed the skull utterly, pieces strewn about the cave floor. She laughed and walked out of the mine, using her tail to sweep the pieces back into the mines where they harmlessly fell into the deep chasm, never to be discovered.

With nothing to oppose or suspect her, Chrysalis walked freely out of the mine entrance and back towards Canterlot proper. The new-found pudge reflected slightly on her as she transformed back into Princess Cadance, the alicorn sporting a pudgier set of hips and had a bit more of a waddle to her gait. She had no problem with flaunting her new look, turning more than one pony’s head as she casually meandered through town, towards the castle. She looked out at all the ponies she would soon control and could barely contain her excitement. But, she reminded herself, she had a wedding to attend first.

The wedding ceremony went off without a hitch, for ponies or changelings alike. Shining Armor, still largely in a daze from the large volumes of love that Chrysalis had previously sapped from him, stood at the alter. He ogled over his bride-to-be, with her enhanced hips encouraging the whole affair for him in particular. Not one pony suspected that Princess Cadance was in fact an evil changeling queen, and the wedding proceeded on schedule. The two stars of the wedding went through the motions, reciting their vows, looking lovingly into each others’ eyes (though Cadance’s were certainly much more filled with desire than before), and awaiting for Princess Celestia to finish off the Royal Canterlot Wedding in style.

Then came time for the stallion to kiss the bride. Shining Armor leaned down to greet Cadance’s awaiting pony lips. The two pairs locked and a loving smooch was shared by both. Cadance, however, was suddenly caught off-guard. Her cheeks puffed out and she let out a belch straight into Shining’s maw. They completed the kiss and nopony was the wiser, though Shining did pull back and clap his lips together. “Honey, what was that?”

Cadance giggled and brushed it off. “Nothing, dear. Just a little nervous with all the excitement, is all.” She smiled as she watched Shining try to piece together what he’d just tasted: Nothing but the flavors of his former sister and fiancé, Twilight Sparkle and the real Cadance. The stupefied stallion had no idea, and forgot about it an instant later. The pair waved to the crowd of attendees, the wedding an apparent complete success, with the changeling queen wed to the head of the royal guard. Everything according to plan.

After a celebration that lasted well into the evening, Shining Armor and Princess Cadance boarded their carriage that would carry them off to their honeymoon. Little did Shining know that the carriage was pulled by changelings disguised as ponies, and once out of sight of Canterlot, they would transform and kidnap hip. A look to his newfound bride would net him nothing but the sight of Cadance melting away into a voracious changeling queen. Simultaneously, the invasion of Canterlot would begin properly and there wouldn’t be a pony or princess alive that could stop them. While Cadance entertaining herself with Shining Armor on their “honeymoon”, Equestria would fall to the changelings and serve as nothing more than a feeding ground for the hive going forward.

Queen Chrysalis always loved it when a plan came together.