Selene’s POV:

My mind felt like it was spinning in five different directions all at once as I faded in and out of consciousness, my vision was blurry and I could only make out shades of black and shadows that moved around me. I could hear faint calls from someone that steadily grew louder and louder as my senses slowly but surely came back to me.

“Is she going to be okay princess?”

“She will be fine once she wakes up. She must have just hit her head on something when we were sent here.”

“Well she’s not bleeding from the head so if that’s true she didn’t hit anything sharp.”

I groaned as the voices caused my head to pound and I tried to sit up, only to find I was being held in someone’s arms. As my vision finally came back to me and I opened my eyes I was greeted by Jack’s face looking back at me.

“Hey she’s waking up!” He exclaimed and my head began pounding in response.

“Keep it quite will ya, I got a splitting headache.” I groaned as he let me sit up on my own.

“Easy you hit your head when we showed up here. Try not to push yourself too much.” Jack said softly this time as I looked around, taking note that we were now in some sort of cave made of large gems.

“Here, allow us to ease your pain.” I heard Luna say as I turned to face her, seeing the rest of our little group excluding Shy and Joel. Luna’s horn flared with magic and my head felt slightly tingly before the pain melted away in my head and I gave off a sigh of relief. Luna stumbled a bit as her magic died down, the effects of that magical lock from earlier still apparently having some effect on her.

“Thanks Luna.” I said smiling at her as she regained her from and smiled back at me. “So, what now?” I asked aloud.

“We try to find our friends and then get out of here, what else?” Dash said bluntly and Luna nodded.

“Rainbow Dash is right, we must find the others and escape these caves and get back to Joel and Fluttershy.” She said as I was finally able to stand up. “I know these caves better than any of us here so please follow me closely and do not get lost.” She said as we all began to follow her through the cave.

The caves were almost identical to the season two finale with exception of EVERYTHING being made out of crystals and gems and lacking a mine cart with tracks. As we proceeded further in the cave we came across signs that changelings were definitely in here with us. Pods of green slime that were opened up from the inside out dotted the cave walls every couple of yards we walked. Luna clenched her teeth at the sight of them and hatred could clearly be seen in her eyes.

“Princess what’s wrong?” Dash asked as we passed the fifth group of pods and Luna gave a sigh.

“These are changeling pods… They place other species in these pods to genetically morph them into more changelings.” She said with hatred dripping from her voice and the other two ponies seemed to be taken aback by this new information. As for me I had read enough fanfictions with this similar theory that it honestly didn’t shock me as much as it probably should have.

“So, all dose pods we passed were…” Stellar stared but Luna cut him off.

“My subjects who we were too late to save…” She growled as she walked up to one of the smaller pods and reached down and pulled out something from in it. Green slime slid off the form of a stuffed toy bear that more than likely belonged to a young filly. I clenched my fist in anger myself as Luna held the stuffed animal to her chest and closed her eyes and whispered something i could make out.

“Joel had better beat the ever loving fuck out of that bitch. Cause if he doesn’t I’m gonna!” Jack snarled as Luna set the stuffed toy back down and took a deep breathe.

“Let’s just hope you reach her before I do then Jack.” She said in a emotionless voice as she continued to walk down the cave and we began following her again. As we continued to walk through the caves we came across more empty pods that were opened up but something was different about these. Instead of opening from the inside out these looked to have been smashed in, like someone had kicked them in.

“Princess…” Stellar said as we stopped to take a deeper look at the pods.

“I know, these were opened by somepony before the transformations could be finished.” She said as she looked the pods over.

“You think it could have been Twilight and the others?” Dashed asked hopefully and Luna nodded.

“It is highly likely that is the case, we should hurry and find them. They may be trying to save as many ponies as they can.” She said as our walk turned into more of a jog as we tried to hurry it up and find our friends. We passed about five or so more sets of pods that had been smashed opened before we came on to a set that were only half smashed open while the other half remained untouched. From one of the pods we could hear grunting and sounds of a plea for help as it shook every so often. Luna quickly rushed over to the unopened pod and smashed it open, a mare pony falling out, gasping for air.

“Your majesty! Oh thank the moon you’re here!” She said as she regained his breath.

“Easy, do not push yourself. What happened here?” She asked calmly as the mare gathered herself together.

“Princess Celestia and some other ponies were here a little while ago trying to free us from these things when they were attacked by a swarm of changelings.” She said in a frightened voice. “They took them down there…” She said as she raised a shaky hoof towards a tunnel to our left. “They took a lot of ponies down that way, I’m not sure why but nobody was taken past here, they all went down there.”

“I see, thank you, please stay close to us, we will keep you safe.” Luna said smiling but the mare shook her head.

“There’s one more thing.” She said and Luna raised an eyebrow. “A Little bit ago the changelings, all of them, ran out of the tunnel and down that way for some reason.” She said pointing down the path we were already following. “I don’t know why but they all looked… scared. Like something really bad just happened.” She said and Luna helped the mare to her feet.

“I see…” Luna said softly as she looked over to Jack. “Jack, you and Stellar Sheen free these ponies and continue down that tunnel, it leads to the exit of the caves. Rainbow Dash and Selene please accompany me.” She said as she made her way towards the tunnel to the left of us.

“Yes Ma’am!” Stellar as he gave a salute to his princess and began freeing ponies from the unopened pods. Jack soon followed suit and cut the pods open with his keyblade as me and Dash followed behind Luna through the tunnel. We walked through the tunnel for maybe a good five minutes until we came into a massive room I guess, filled with nothing but unopened pods.

“Free them quickly!” Luna commanded as she went to work opening pods and freeing the ponies inside them. Dash and I quickly followed her lead and began busting open pods to let the ponies out. As we continued to open pods some began helping us open more and our work force seemed to double effortlessly.

“Hey I found Rarity!” Dash yelled out which caught my attention as I turned to see a green slime covered rarity who was shaking violently.

“It’s in my mane…” She muttered shakily and I chuckled.

“Well at least she’s not hurt.” I said as I opened up my next pod and an orange farm pony with a hat fell into my arms. “I got AJ!” I yelled out as the others kept working on opening more and more pods.

“Thank ya kindly Selene, I was worried ah’d be stuck in that darn thing forever.” AJ said smiling and I smiled back.

“Well if you want to thank me, you can help us bust open these pods and get everyone out of here.” I said as I helped her to her feet and she shook off the slime that covered her before giving a firm nod.

“Can do!” She said before she started busting open pods left and right as we continued to free everyone.

“I found Pinkie Pie!” Dash yelled out and I turned to see the bouncing pink pony with a grin on her face like always.

“You found me? Were we playing hide and seek?! Why didn’t you guys tell me before you started looking?!” She exclaimed and I chuckled as I opened more and more pods.

“I have found mine sister and Twilight Sparkle!” Luna’s voice boomed throughout the room to us and I looked over to see the other two Alicorns wiping of the green slime from their coats.

“Thank you dear sister, but I fear we must cut this pleasant greeting short. There is still much more work to be done.” Celestia said as she began to aid in opening pods.

“Agreed.” Luna said as she too began to open pods once again as she began to explain to them what has happened since we showed up. It took us about ten minutes from the time we first started opening pods to free every last one of the ponies trapped in the massive room. In total we had freed roughly over a hundred ponies in total from their pods and were now looking to the royal sisters to guide them out of this place. We helped guide everyone out of the caves as best we could with so few to manage such a massive group. As we finally reached the outside of the caves we were greeted by Jack and Stellar standing by the exit.

“What’s wrong? Is there trouble outside?” I asked and Jack shook his head.

“That’s just it, there’s nothing wrong outside aside from a few fires and the town being trashed. There isn’t a single changeling in sight it like all just, left…” Jack said in a worried voice and the sisters didn’t seem to like the sound of it one bit.

“Lulu you don’t think…” Celestia started but Luna was already taking off to the skies and flying towards the tower where Joel, Shy, and Chrysalis were. “…This is not good.” I heard Celestia mumbled before she took off as well.

“Hey wait! What’s wrong?! What’s not good?!” Jack yelled after them before he soon chased after them.

“Come on girls we should go too.” I said back to the five present elements of harmony and we soon followed after. Stellar followed after us as we made our way back up to the tower where we last encountered the Queen. Jack had already beaten us to the door and was standing there wide eyed in what looked like pure horror at what he saw. “Jack what’s wrong, are they okay?!” I asked him as we came down the hall towards him, but he gave no response, he only continued to stare into the room absolutely horrified. Celestia soon came out of the room, hooves drenched in blood and looking like she just relieved her most vividly horrifying nightmare sixteen times over. Fluttershy was laying on her back but from what I could see she looked fine. I began to walk towards her but she quickly raised a hoof towards me, blood dripping from it as she did.

“STAY BACK!” She shouted at us and I froze in place as she walked over to us and set Fluttershy down in front of us. “You are not to come anywhere near this room do you understand me!?” She nearly demanded of us and I was a bit taken aback at how serious she was getting.

“What about Joel he was in there I have to see if he’s okay!” I said as I moved towards the door.

“SELENE NO!” She yelled at me to late as I looked into the room and I instantly froze in place In pure horror as I began to see why Jack was just standing there staring into the room. But I really wished we didn’t look at all. Jack finally made his first movement since we saw him at the door, he covered his mouth and tried his hardest not to vomit.

Unfortunately I wasn’t quick enough to stop myself…

Author's Note

Well this chapter was a lot quicker to write then i thought it was going but i guess that's okay.

hope you enjoyed it ^_^