Memories Of Days Past

Chapter Seven

        ….I get tackled down from behind, I hear shouting and hoofsteps slowly approaching me. I look in front of me to see changeling legs, I look a bit higher to see Queen Chrysalis looking down on me with an oppressive force.

        “Looks like you aren’t as good as they said, you’ve murdered many of my changelings and even some of your own kind. Don’t worry it wasn’t all you though, after I felt you kill my first changeling I helped you start the rest of the killing,” she slowly whispers in my ear, then chuckles a bit.

        “I swear I’m going to get revenge for what you made me do, when I get out you’ll pay!” I screamed at my captor. I don’t think it made him afraid but disappointed, it felt like I’m missing something, something important. My captor slowly lets off the pressure and whispers into my ear something that changed my life from that point on.

        Maybe it was the fact I was still pinned to the ground or maybe I was in shock from hearing how easily I could have been manipulated. I had no witty comeback, no sure fire way to tell myself everything was going to be alright.

        “Do not worry little pony, I am not a cruel queen, I can help you….at a cost of course,” she smiled at me but instead of happiness all I felt was despair and hopelessness.

        I knew I couldn’t hold the guilt of killing, so slowly and desperately I look at her “Please just make me forget what I did and I’ll do whatever you say, please.”

        Seeing as I had no other choice, I agreed. Feeling magic wrap around my head, I feel nauseous and fall to my knees and clutch at my head. I can still feel the aftershocks of the magic to this very day, it was a three part spell, one was to wipe my memory of the event in the caves and  another was a magic pact that would remind me of my half of the deal until it was completed. The magic pact was banned in Equestria for centuries, it causes the party who does not keep their side of the pact to have a heart attack and die. Lastly the third part was a silence spell to make sure I could not tell anyone about the return of Chrysalis or why I’m going to side with her.

        “The Grand Design” he had called it, a masterful and complex plan to reveal the truth of the multiverse and advance the stagnated world I had used to call home. I had helped in the creation of this plan, so had Chrysalis, weather she knew it or not. This was the original reason we had even come here to this hellhole of a plane.

        We have established a sort of following over the years that I was missing. There was quite a difficult entrance “exam”, the seeds of doubt have already spread from our followers. We didn’t have many rules but if you broke them, well from what I heard bodies make great fertilizer.

        Rule Number One: You do not ask questions.

        Rule Number Two: You do not ask questions.

        Rule Number Three: No excuses.

        Rule Number Four: No lies.

        Rule Number Five: Trust Kyra Mykolos.

        These were the rules they all followed, I remember the day I entered to see a plethora of races working together on “The Grand Design”. We had four committees….

        The Arson Committee, they were devious little shits, they had to plan out everything, learn what it would take to kill someone, use firearms, create explosives, and even infiltrate buildings.

        The Assault Committee, now these guys, they were the ones who got the living sacrifices, living sacrifices were the people we threatened into achieving the goals they had set out to do. They also where to ones who worked with the other committees and protected them during the jobs.

        The Mischief Committee, they were the ones who worked with the Arson Committee. They destroyed franchise storefronts, corporate buildings, caused outright chaos all over Equestria.

The Misinformation Committee, they were the ones who worked behind the scenes to make sure none of us got caught out there. They were the ones who spread the seeds out doubt, they made sure the truth will stay true and the lies with stay hidden.

        All this was “The Grand Design” and tonight is where “Phase Two” begins. The beginning of the end as I liked to call it, we were headed over there now actually. The palace was where it would all start seeing as it was where it all ended.

        The crystal caverns, filled the the brim with nitroglycerine. It was beautiful the location of my true intentions, where I finally realized we all have evil in our hearts no matter what we are or who we want to become. I think it’s safe to assume that tonight is the end of stagnation and the birth of progress.

        In the caves were hundreds and hundreds of all races ready to lay their lives down for the greater good. He goes up on an elevated part of the caves and starts a speech to this day I have never forgotten.

        “In less than an hour, pegasi, griffons, and changelings  from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of all races gathered here today. Unity, that word should have new meaning for all of us here today. We can not be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps it is fate that today is the Summer Solstice, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression or persecution, but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should we win the day, the Summer Solstice will no longer be known as an Equestrian holiday, but as a day when the world declared in one voice, we will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight, we are going to will on, we are going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!” he walks off the “stage” and heads down into the crowd.

All the while this same moment was shown in all the major capitals across the world, Stalliongrad, Hoofington, Las Pegasas, Manehatten, New Roam, and even the Crystal Empire.