You are the father!!! Wait WHO is?

by DazzleDust24

Rating: everyone
Tags: Queen Chrysalis, Random, Princess Celestia, Alternate Universe, Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Princess Cadance, Comedy, Romance, Shining Armor
Length: 4201

Queen Chrysalis is back nine months after the wedding and she's nine months pregnant. But worse, she says one of the ponies she made contact with during the wedding is the father... second mother? Is it Celestia, Twilight, Cadence, or Shining?

It's been nine months since the wedding in Canterlot and the changeling race was defeated and all is well. Until Queen Chrysalis returns with very surprising news.

She is nine months pregnant!

But why does she come back just because of that? Because she says one of the ponies she touched/was touched by during the wedding is the one who got her pregnant.

Changelings don't reproduce the way ponies or any other creature does. So even two females can have a baby together. So who is the daddy/other mother? Is it Shining Armor? She did have lots of contact with him. Cadance? She was the one Chrysalis captured. Twilight? Technically they did share a small amount of contact. Or... could it honestly be Princess Celestia?!

One of these four is the other parent to this unborn changeling/pony hybrid. And now they won't know who until after the foal is born. But each one is conflicted about what they will do if it is theirs.

And each one puts a little effort into trying to be nice with their possible-baby's-momma. And they get to know the Queen of changelings a little more. And there's a lot more than they thought there was...

Published 2014-01-18 01:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2014-01-21 00:10:32 UTC

Somepony done knocked up a changeling!

On an average day, Princess Celestia sees ponies with problems they ask of her to solve for around three to six hours a day. Of course you need to have it scheduled in first. But she accepts most requests and listens to them despite whatever degree of urgency.

Of course she will soon horribly regret this decision. And it all started nine months after the famous Canterlot Wedding attack...

A unicorn walks up to Canterlot castle. A mare with a gray coat and lime green mane and tail that were both moderately long, emerald green eyes, and her cutie mark (though hidden by the white robe and hood she wore) was a golden heart that had pink sparkles surrounding it.

Reaching the entrance, she found herself met with two Pegasus guards that blocked her path with spears.

"Halt," one said "what is your business?"

The mare lifted her white hood and let her mane cascade down her neck.

"I have a request to see Princess Celestia," she said softly "I already have an appointment to see her I believe."

Both guards stared intently at the mare, "How do we know this is true?"

The mare, strangely, smiled at the guards softly.

"Well I do believe it would be hard for me to cause trouble," she raised a hoof and tossed aside the front of her robe covering her body, and revealed her stomach that was expanding out at the sides and raised out towards the ground. "I'm not in much of a condition to try and harm anypony am I?"

Both guards slacked their jaws slightly at the heavily pregnant mare that was in front of them.

"If you need to," she said when they didn't respond "why not just go and check. I can wait. Though I am at nine months so hopefully you could take care of this before I'm a new mother."

The guards blinked, then one shook his head and stuttered, "O-of course. Um... Follow us- miss..."

"Crystal. Crystal Amore, but just Crystal is fine."

The two guards lead the mare to the awaiting line of ponies to see the princess. The whole walk was awkwardly silent. Both wondered why a mare so deep into her pregnancy would come all this way to see the princess.

As Crystal awaited in line for her turn, she was thankful only a few ponies were ahead of her. Just standing was starting to become troublesome for her due to the increased wait of her foal inside of her.

"Next in line please."

Crystal took a deep breath as she began the task of walking to the large doors to the throne room. Two unicorn guards opened the doors with their magic and Crystal stepped into the large and impressive room.

And sitting on her throne, was the solar princess herself, awaiting Crystal's approach.

"Hello my little pony, and what is it you need today?"

Crystal just smirked, and for some reason, laughed a little.

"Celestia, I had expected you to recognize me even in this get-up."

Said princess just blinked in confusion, "I'm sorry, who are you?"

"Oh Tia. Tia, Tia, Tia. I suppose you don't recognize me do you? Oh well, just means I'm better than I thought I was."

"Who are you?" Celestia demanded more forcefully.

Crystal smiled softly again, "Oh Celestia, we just saw each other nine months ago. Which is actually why I had to come back."

"I ask again and demand an answer. WHO are you?!"

Crystal sighed, "Oh well, suppose there's no point in keeping this up anyway."

Crystal backed up a few steps, and green flames covered her hooves.

Celestia starred in shock as the gray coat turned black, the white robe blew up in the air and showed the ripped and hole ridden insect wings appearing, her legs became covered in holes, her mane and tail grew teal and had holes and rips throughout a tangled mess, her horn was jagged with holes, she grew fangs, and her eyes changed sickly green with two layers of color and a reptilian pupil with a greenish-white fluid.

Crystal Amore, was now Queen Chrysalis.

"Chrysalis!"

"Hello Celestia. Recognize me now?"

Celestia stood to her hooves and pointed her horn at the changeling queen, preparing a spell to attack her.

"Celestia please," Chrysalis said rather snarky "you wouldn't attack me now."

"And why not?!"

Chrysalis just smiled evilly as she tossed her white robe to the side of her body and showed her frame. Her swollen and very, very, very pregnant frame.

Celestia's eyes widened and her head shot back up as she stopped the spell she had been preparing. Chrysalis was right, she couldn't attack her.

"W-what is that?!" the princess said.

"Oh this," Chrysalis rubbed her tummy with a hoof gently and starred at it. "This is just called 'pregnancy' Celestia. Of course I do suppose it's a bit of a shock. I am at nine months after all."

"NINE MONTHS!" Celestia shouted.

"Yes, nine months."

"Nine mon- wait..." Celestia paused in thought "you were posing as Cadance nine months ago."

"That's correct."

A look of horror stretched across Celestia's face, "What?"

"To explain," Chrysalis said flatly "this is a changeling/pony hybrid, yes."

Celestia sat back on her throne in shock.

"And I believe the list of possible parentals for who impregnated me is Shining Armor, Cadance, your student, and... well you actually."

Celestia felt bile in her throat rise, and she promptly leaned over the side of her throne and gagged as she felt it come up and then spill on to the floor, which a maid came to and immediately (yet hesitantly) began cleaning.

Celestia sprung to her hooves, and wobbled while doing so, and used her magic to slam open the doors to the throne room. Startling the guards and awaiting ponies outside.

"No more requests!" she shouted and scared off the ponies. "Guard," she pointed a hoof at some random guard "prepare escorts for the elements of harmony and Princess Cadenza and Prince Shining Armor! I will request them here immediately!"

The scared guard rapidly nodded and he and the other guard at the door ran off to full fill the princess's orders.

Princess Celestia fumed in anger as she turned back towards the still smirking changeling.

"You..." she growled "GUARDS!"

Four guards ran into the throne room and stood present and waiting in front of their princess.

"I need you to escort our guest to one of the spare rooms in the castle."

She looked behind the guards and at Chrysalis, "And be careful. I want a magic lock on the room and two guards present at the door at all times."

She stole another glance at the changeling's stomach that supposedly carried a foal... or a larva or egg or something.

"But... be gentle. She is currently with child."

The guards bowed their heads and surrounded the queen on all four sides.

"Glad to see you have a soft spot for my unborn hatchling Celestia," Chrysalis snickered "of course... it might also be yours."

Celestia shuddered at the changeling's laughing as she was escorted out of the room and down a hall. She was unsure of how to approach this matter exactly. The queen is presenting herself nine months pregnant and claims Celestia or a pony she is close to is the other parent.

How could it even be hers, or Twilight's, or Cadance's? They were females! Then again, she has no idea how a changeling reproduces.

Ok, she's getting ahead of herself. First she needs to send the letters requesting the elements and her niece and nephew-in-law. Then she'll just... take it from there.

Oh yes, excellent plan! she thought sarcastically to herself.

Author's Note

Hey! so first story right? Hope this is good enough though.
I mean, I've posted stuff before but on other sites.
So the basic idea of this is changeling's don't reproduce sexually though they could if they wanted to. They reproduce with DNA basically...
But I really don't want to spoil the next chapter. Where I will explain how I say changelings reproduce in this story.
I guess that's it...
Bye!

Changeling Biology Lesson

In total, eight ponies stood in wait in the Canterlot Castle entry hall. There was the six elements of harmony, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, and Prince Shining Armor. None knew why, but all had been summoned by Princess Celestia and been sent Pegasus chariot escorts all for some unknown urgency she wrote that she would explain when they got to the castle.

"I don't get it. If this were some new villain or baddie, why is Cadance and your brother here?" Rainbow dash asked.

Twilight Sparkle shook her head and said, "I don't know. Things have been calm for a while. But the princess sounded rushed in her letter."

Twilight's brother and sister-in-law walked up next to her and stood by her side.

"I'm sure... everything will be fine," Cadance said unconvincingly.

Just then, Celestia came into the room, a false calm expression on her face that even Pinkie Pie would see straight through.

"Hello... everypony," she said "I'm very glad you all came."

"Is something wrong princess?" Twilight asked her mentor.

"Yes! Yes there is! A pregnant changeling says one of us is the father... or mother of her fetus!" she thought inside of her head. But the regal princess attempted to keep her composure and stated calmly...

"Yes. Yes something is very, very, very wrong."

...maybe not that calmly.

The eight ponies stood in shocked silence. Celestia has never flat out stated that something was so terribly wrong, or taken such a disturbed tone.

"Auntie?" Cadance asked.

Celestia was silent.

"P-Princess?" Twilight grew concerned.

"I- I believe it would be easier to show you rather than tell you... Follow me please."

The solar princess walked away from them and down the hall, the confused ponies following her after exchanging concerned and confused glances at one another.

The group of nine, lead by Celestia, was silent. A very rare thing when they would be together. Especially with Pinkie Pie! But all of them understood just how serious this was. The princess had been speechless. No pony alive could recall a time when this has ever happened before.

Twilight Sparkle walked silently with her friends and family in concern. Concern for her mentor, for her friends, and for Equestria. What could be so unsettling and wrong that it would deeply upset the brave and fearless princess of the sun.

"We... are here."

Celestia's voice snapped everypony out of their thoughts of what could possibly be wrong to see they all had stopped. To be specific, they stopped in front of a door to a spare bedroom in the castle.

"Be prepared my little ponies," Celestia said "this news is rather... shocking."

Celestia's horn lit up and the door slowly opened up to show the room.

The room and its one occupant.

Its one changeling occupant.

Chrysalis picked up her head from the book she had been reading on Classic Orchestra, to see nine ponies she had a deep struggle of disliking yet liking at the same time.

"Celestia... back so soon. And you brought the rest of the party with you? How lovely."

"CHRYSALIS!" Twilight yelled.

Rainbow dash acted first by growling and shooting forwards at her in the air. Fluttershy yelled and ran behind Celestia to hide. Shining Armor pushed his wife behind him and lit up his horn with a spell powerful enough to send the queen flying away into the sky a second time. Pinkie (who knows how?!) pulled out her party cannon. Rarity lit up her own horn. Applejack pulled out her lasso. And Twilight fired up her own spell.

But all that was stopped in a second.

Celestia hastily used her own magic to stop Rainbow dash and pull her back by her tail, cancel out Twilight's, Rarity's, and Shining's spells, make Pinkie's cannon and Applejack's rope disappear, and push Fluttershy back out from behind her.

"Hay! What the- Princess what gives?!" Rainbow shouted.

"Why did you stop us from attacking her?!" Rarity questioned.

"She's evil! Look at her! Look in her eyes! It's evil!" Pinkie yelled.

"ENOUGH!" Celestia yelled in the Royal Canterlot Voice, something she hadn't used in decades.

The complaining ponies went silent in fear of the alicorn's outburst of rage.

Except one changeling on the bed...

"Honestly Celestia. Where do you find these- brutes? Attacking a lady while she is with her unborn foal still. Rather barbaric if I do say so myself."

"Princess! Why can't we get rid of her?!" Shining yelled.

"Are you that dead set on killing me that you would endanger an unborn life, Shining?"

Eight sets of eyes drifted to the queen's stomach to notice how it was expanded out the sides and resting softly on a fluffy pillow.

Shining gasped. "It's pregnant! Kill it! Kill her now!"

Rarity fainted dramatically... only to fall on the floor with a thud and a grunt of pain.

"SHINING ARMOR! YOU WILL BE SILENT!" Celestia shouted, affectively silencing the unicorn.

"Now," she continued "past or not, what Chrysalis claims is true. She is... pre- preg- preg-nant."

The words made her stomach turn. Mostly because she knew the possibilities of the other parent. But the princess took a swallow of her own disgust and continued.

"A-and she claims that *gulp* one of us is the child's..." Oh what was the right word for this? Father? Second mother? Um... "other parent."

The room filled with angry yells and claims of the queen being a 'Liar! Liar! Tail on fire!' and such.

"Lies! All of it!"

"Untrue!"

"What in tarnation do you take us for?!"

"Princess put an end to her lies!"

"Not true! Not true, not true, not true!"

Chrysalis just quietly laughed to herself. She found their bickering and outrage amusing.

"Auntie! You couldn't possibly believe this- this- MONSTER!" Cadance yelled and pointed an accusing hoof at the queen.

"It's not possible! The only male here is Shining Armor! And that foal is not his!" Twilight yelled.

"Hack!"

The room went silent and all attention went to Chrysalis on the bed.

"What? It kicked! It's not my fault. If this were a full blooded changeling it would have been born an egg already!"

Celestia took a deep breathe, then exhaled. "Chrysalis, explain."

The queen openly laughed that time, before cringing again and stirring on the bed.

"Ack! Which ever one of you is responsible for this, your kid kicks hard!"

She tried readjusting on the bed to fix her discomfort from the fetus inside her kicking her relentlessly. Finally settling with her front legs hanging off the side of the bed, she began her speech.

"Well, I suppose none of you know a single thing about changelings do you?"

"..."

"That's what I thought. All you know is we feed off of love correct?"

A collective nod was her response.

"Well there is much more to our race than just feeding off of other creatures' love. And my pregnancy is the result of our abnormal mating process-"

"La la la la! We shouldn't hear this! La la la!" Pinkie shouted and covered her ears with her hooves.

The room looked quizzically at the pink pony.

"Pinkie," Twilight said "what are you doing?"

The party pony uncovered her ears, "I asked Mrs. Cake about where foals came from once and she said to never talk about it in front of other ponies!"

"Shut up, would you?!" Chrysalis hissed "Changelings don't reproduce that way! We could, but we don't have to."

Pinkie dropped her hooves back to the floor.

"Good. Now, you all know very well changelings feed off of love. But love is more than food to us. When we are around strong sources of love it starts our reproductive process of our skin becoming a permeable membrane and genetic material is transferred from one body to another by touch."

"However, for a female changeling to get pregnant, we have to be in heat. A natural defense against over-population is a changeling only goes into heat for two weeks every three years, considering two changelings will have a clutch of around two to six eggs in the lowest and seven to twelve eggs in the highest."

"While I took Cadance's place, I was around Shining Armor almost twenty four-seven and the love alone from these pony subjects caused my reproductive process to start up."

She took a pause as she picked up a glass of water next to the bed and took a drink and then sighed.

"But... it wasn't until after you had defeated my invasion force that I noticed I had been in heat already for nearly five days. I had been so caught up in my plans that I hadn't noticed that two days before the wedding I had started my heat cycle. A day before you six mares arrived."

Eyes widened and the group grew panicked. Chrysalis took her time in taking another drink from her glass of water before continuing.

"In the time that I had been in heat while in Canterlot, I had direct contact with four of you ponies."

"W-who?" Twilight asked, rather hesitantly.

Chrysalis grinned darkly. She enjoyed how this made them nervous and uncomfortable. She dealt with this alone for nine months, why not make them feel the stress she had to go through for the last two?

"Funny that you are the one to ask Twilight Sparkle, because you're one of them."

The lavender unicorn's eyes were as wide as they could be.

"Remember when I put a hoof on your shoulder to 'comfort' you after you were kicked out of the wedding? That was the perfect amount of contact to pass DNA from you to me."

Twilight felt her throat start to fill with vomit and she gagged as she fought to hold it back.

"Then of course there's Shining Armor. I was leaning against him constantly to keep up appearances as Cadance."

Shining gagged silently.

"Cadance. Barely need to explain that one. I trapped you twice and the second time was when it could have happened when I stuck you to the alter by your hooves."

Cadance shivered at two things. One the memory of the gross and cold green goo that she had stuck to her. And secondly the idea of having a spawn with the very creature that tried to ruin her wedding.

"And Celestia. You were twice the fool to challenge me. Clashing our horns together counts as direct contact I'm afraid."

The regal princess once again swallowed vomit in her throat at the idea of her genes being combined with... that.

"But whoever the supplier of DNA was, you're all protected now."

The four suspected parents turned their heads to one another and shared looks of confusion. None of them knew what she meant.

"What do you mean?" Twilight managed the guts to ask.

"For changelings, like ponies, we make up families. Both maternal and paternal sides of a changeling family make up a clan. And a clan is protected by the hive. And whether you four are related by blood or marriage, you are all related. So which ever one of you is my foal's other parental, all four of you are a part of my clan and now defended by my hive. If anything or anyone threatens any of your lives, they threaten the hive. So despite whatever grievances or issues we still have with each other..." the queen bowed her head to the group "you have my word as a changeling and a queen that your family, friends, and race is now at peace with my hive."

Rarity fainted again (big surprise) and once again she hit the floor with a thud.

The others stood there. Unsure if this was real, if she was telling the truth, or if she could even be trusted.

"This... this is just a trick!" Shining shouted "You wouldn't just show up and declare peace with us! How do we even know you're pregnant?! This is all just a ruse to conquer Canterlot again!"

"Believe what you want, Shining. But in two more months I'll give birth and we'll see who the genetic parental is and I do so hope that whoever it is you'll want to be a part of my foal's life."

Twilight squinted her eyes, not buying a word she said. "Why?"

"Why?" Chrysalis echoed.

"Yes. Why?"

The queen just sighed and shook her head.

"Why? Why do I accept you? Why do I put the past behind me for the sake of my child? Why do I put an effort into being a mother?"

She sighed.

"Believe it or not ponies, but I am a mother. And a mother is supposed to love her children and want what is best for them. I'm a changeling, but I'm a mother first. And though this child is not an egg, and instead an eleven month fetus, it is mine and I want my foal to know both halves of its heritage."

"Th-that's sweet."

All heads turned to the timid Pegasus now shying in the back.

"O-oh sorry just-"

"Thank you."

All eyes shifted back to Chrysalis. Fluttershy nervously hid behind her mane.

"Oh um... y-your welcome."

Chrysalis just nodded her head before she yawned and closed her eyes heavily.

"Now if you all don't mind, I'd really love some sleep."

It took a minute for the ponies to register her request before fumbling out on their hooves. Each stuttering or grumbling out a goodbye for the expecting. All but Celestia, who was last to leave.

She silently watched the changeling readjust on the bed and snuggle into the soft cushions with a hoof draped over her stomach.

"Anything you need... just ask a guard," the princess said quietly before turning to leave.

But Celestia could have sworn she heard a mumbled "Thank you" as she stepped out.

"Princess can we even trust her?" Twilight asked her mentor.

Celestia silently closed her eyes and sighed. "I do not know. I want to say yes. I want to believe in peace between changelings and ponies... But we have no reason to trust her, and very strong reason to not trust her."

Celestia looked back at the door to the room containing the changeling queen. Then at the ponies she was walking with.

"But if we do not at least try for peace... then we will have truly failed Equestria."

Chrysalis lay silently in the bed while she slept. But the foal kept kicking her in her sleep and she woke up with in less than thirty minutes.

She lay on the bed thinking about what a mess she was now in. She told the truth, for the most part. She does put her foal first. That's just being a good mother. But she didn't tell them the whole truth.

'If they knew, what would they say?' she thought to herself.

'I refuse for them to see me as weak. I've lost enough as it is,' she dropped her face into her pillow and sighed 'This would never had happened if I had come here sooner instead of waiting so long.'

She closed her eyes and tried to sleep again.

Things could be worked out when she gotten some well needed rest.

Author's Note

So a little more explained in this chapter. I little longer too but that's what makes it a little better.
The whole idea of a changeling family->clan->hive thing is all my idea. I thought it was a huge twist with the relationship of changelings and ponies. But when two nations have their species mixed with one of their leaders (meaning one leader gets knocked up by some member of the other species) you try to settle differences for the good of the child and the future.
And for all of you who commented that this was based off of Futurama... you were right! I got the idea from 'Love's Labours Lost in Space' and just thought
'Hun... what if that were how changelings did it?'
and then this story popped out! Just the idea of DNA sharing or whatever being used by changelings seemed to make sense since they feed off of love and they must have a large reproduction rate. And honestly that much sex to make a hive would sooner kill a race rather than build it.
But for any of you who say I'm making Chrysalis OOC, I'm adding more depth to her character than a heartless evil queen. I want to add more to her personality with this story like interests or hobbies such as:
1. I mentioned classical orchestra
2. changeling or not she's a mother first
And more about her.
But who do you think is responsible for knocking up the queen? And what did she not tell them? And why am I asking you this, I'm the author?!
Well, in the words of a once very great man that did say... Bye!