The Ballad of Xyclone

Chrysalis' castle, Equestria, midday

Lyra worriedly paces about Queen Chrysalis' bedroom. "Oh no, oh no, oh no!" she panics. "What am I gonna do?! My friends have been captured! I should've just told Xyclone my true feelings when I had the chance! I'm probably not going to survive this! I'll never be able to tell him! And who knows what they've done with him?!"

"Done with who?" a voice asks behind Lyra.

She whips around, frightened. "Wh...Who's th-there?" she asked.

Queen Chrysalis reveals herself as she comes out of the shadows once more. She smirks evilly at Lyra.

"What have you done with Xyclone?!" Lyra screams at the Queen.

"I threw him in the dungeon with the others. They've all probably become The Scaly One's lunch by now!"

Lyra falls to the floor and begins to sob. Xyclone was gone. "No..." she squeaks softly. "Why? H-He did nothing to you!"

Chrysalis just chuckles maliciously.

"He can't b-be d-d-dead," Lyra gasps. "Not n-now...I never got to tell him how I t-truly felt about him."

"How you truly felt? Ooh, please tell! I do love myself some juicy gossip!" says Chrysalis, beaming.

Lyra glares up at the Queen, and then she looks back down sadly. "I was g-going to tell him I loved him and that I wanted so badly for us to be together..."

Queen Chrysalis stares at the turquoise mare sarcastically. "Love?" she laughs.

"...But now I can't!" choked Lyra, trying to stifle her tears.

"Love?! Ha!" goes on Chrysalis. "You don't love him! You're just saying that!"

Lyra gets up and faces the Queen angrily. "You shut up! That's not true!" Her voice trails off. "I do love him...a lot. Ever since the first day we met, I knew we had a special connection."

Chrysalis suddenly perks up. "So you really love him, don't you? Like, really love him?" She opens her mouth, revealing her fangs. Her tongue droops out and she starts to drool, preparing to feed off Lyra's love for Xyclone.

"Yes, okay?! Yes, I love him! Why are you even asking me this?! Shouldn't you already know what love is?! You're with Sombra, aren't you?!"

This gets Chrysalis' attention, and she freezes up. "Yes, but I—"

Lyra doesn't let her finish. "Then you should know how it feels!"

Queen Chrysalis stares blankly at her.

"You should know how it feels to get those little butterflies deep in the pit of your stomach! You should know that dreamy feeling you get when you're around him! You should..." Her voice drops again as she stares sadly down at the marble flooring. A lone, solitary tear falls from her eye. "You should know how it feels to be completely worthless and lonely when he's gone. That's...that's how I feel right now."

A sad frown appears on the Queen's face. She quickly corrects herself and shakes off the feeling. "You miserable foal. You think you know what love is? HA! You're nothing but a pathetic little filly!" The queen starts walking up to Lyra as she collapses to the floor in tears, distraught that her beloved Xyclone was dead. Chrysalis once again opens her mouth and drools. "I've lived for over a millennium. I have experienced love firsthoof several times. Only with Sombra, the feeling is much stronger. I feel like we were made for each other. He makes my life so much happier. You are slightly right, though, Lyra. I don't know what I'd do if my Sombra-wombra died. But he's never going to die; as we are the most powerful rulers in all of Equestria and absolutely nothing can stop us now!" The Queen lifts Lyra's head up and makes contact with her dampened eyes. "You, on the other hoof, Miss Lyra Heartstrings, are nothing but a simpleton; a common unicorn pony. You're not special. You never were special. Nopony would ever love you!" The eyes of both of the mares begin to glow as Chrysalis starts siphoning all the love out of Lyra's heart.

Before the Queen takes complete and utter control of her mind, Lyra is able to say one thing: "Xyclone would. Our love...was different. Our love was special; a lot more special then yours and Sombra's will ever be." And with that, Lyra is under the full influence of Chrysalis. She just sits there blankly as The Queen performs her operation.

Suddenly out of nowhere, a brain-rattling roar echoes throughout the room. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Then a gray streak comes barreling into Chrysalis, knocking her on her side and breaking her link with Lyra. "Get...your filthy hooves...off of her..." growls the blue-gray pony as he stands there watching Chrysalis on his two hind legs.

Lyra shakes her head as she comes to. "What...happened...?" She is shocked to see Xyclone standing there, an angry grimace of rage on his face and a bloody gash running down his cheek. She can't even believe her eyes.