AiE: Welcome To the Swarm [Part 7]

>Enter Canterlot Castle.

>Guards return beaten up and discouraged.

>”What happened to you? Was it the Changelings?” Celestia asks.

>Lead Soldier shakes his head.

>”No your highness, it was some sort of being that walked on two legs and had weird things where its hooves should be!”

>Celestia is now confused as well as concerned.

>”What else can you tell me about this creature?”

>”Well,” started a second guard. “It was big. Bigger than you, your highness.”

>”How big?”

>”At least a couple of heads taller than you, your highness,” added a third soldier.

>This was a creature that no pony had ever seen before.

>And there was a chance it was working with-!

>”That's not all, Your Highness. It had strange devices on its wrists. When it brought them together, it changed into some sort of green, faceless monster!”

>Now Celestia is really concerned.

>”If this creature appears again, I want you to run. Don't put yourselves in danger from an unknown force.”

 

>Back to you, the main character.

>After finishing the mining of huge chunks of the Spirit Emerald, you decide to seek out Chrysalis yourself since she just seemed to vanish.

>Think back to glowing green tunnel.

>Why the fuck not?

>It isn't like she can do anything to stop you now. You're a Power Ranger!

>Well, that's your reasoning.

>Head back to hole.

>Nut up, Anon, it's time to be a man.

 

“Queen Chrysalis?”

 

>You yell down the tunnel.

>A gasp.

>You found her.

>You head down the tunnel, the glow from your second-rate Zeonizers illuminating  the path until you reach the glow again.

>Turn corner.

>Oh shitballs.

>Hundreds of eggs.

>Alien comes to mind.

>You see Chrysalis with her back facing to you.

>”I told you this was none of your business.”

>Her voice is stone serious.

>Clicks.

>Those are Changeling eggs.

>No King means no fertilization.

>No baby bugs.

>Not an entomologist, but know enough from science class as a kid to guess what's going on.

>The anger begins to build in your chest.

>With no Ponies the King would still be alive.

 

“It just became my business. Hundreds of lives, never to be because of those Ponies.”

 

>”What could you do?”

>Her tone is now bitter and angry, more so than usual.

 

“A pony for a Changeling.”

 

>You say, the building rage evident in your voice.

>You have one question to ask.

 

“Where are they?”

 

>”Far to the North is Canterlot, their capital city.”

>Her answer carries the same tone, although curiosity starting to creep into her voice.

 

“I have a plan. I'll need some of that Emerald. I'll link the Morphers to it and create a fast travel system.”

 

>You were talking out of your ass, but you guessed it would work.

>It was magic after all.

>She looks to you.

>While you can see the hate in her eyes, her expression is one of disbelief.

>She takes some time to answer.

>”Very well. Take what you need; we have plenty.”

>You nod and leave her to her silent mourning.

 

>Next day.

>You finish finding a good sized crystal.

>Touch epic morphers to it.

>Sparks.

>Focus on two things: North and Ponies.

>Feel yourself turned into energy.

>Reappear in desert, more tan than reddish-brown.

>See what looks like small settlement to the north.

 

“Kind of small for a capital city.”

 

>You mutter.