Chrysalis ran her tongue along Sarah’s neck again before biting down for a third time in the last ten minutes. She felt the woman strain against her for a moment before she slumped in defeat. The Changeling Queen smiled and then bit deeper, her potent venom sliding into Sarah’s veins and spreading sweet sweet pleasure through her.

The woman couldn’t help but release a moan of intoxicated joy as the venom spread through her and to the changeling’s slight surprise she leaned over to kiss Chrysalis’ neck. Her lips pressed against the Queen’s with hot insistence and as the changeling broke the bite she glanced down to see that the woman’s eyes were unfocused and foggy.

“Luna...” the woman moaned as she strained her neck in another attempt to kiss Chrysalis.

“You must have come to associate me with Luna because I bring you the same pleasure she does,” Chrysalis murmured to herself before a smile spread across her face.

It was a bit sooner than she’d been expecting but there was no reason to complain about her plans being accelerated just a bit. Chrysalis’ smile widened at the thought and then she brought her own lips to Sarah’s and the woman moaned into her mouth as their tongues danced together. After a long moment Chrysalis pulled away, eliciting a whimper from Sarah as her body tried pointlessly to jerk towards her, hips first.

“Oh my, you are most definitely ahead of schedule,” Chrysalis murmured as she eyed the woman’s pathetic form. Then she smiled. “Wonderful, it seems that the time has come for me to perform some mental improvements.”

The Changeling Queen chuckled softly to herself as she walked forwards and lowered her twisted horn so that it was sitting directly against the woman’s forehead. Then with a simple push, she entered her.

It was dark, that was the first thing that Chrysalis noticed about Sarah’s mind. To her surprise, the area looked an awful lot like the Everfree Forest on the darkest night of the year. The trees around her were ancient and twisted things, covered in climbing thorny vines. The only part of the sky, and thus the only point of any actual light came from the moon above which was a barely visible young moon.

Chrysalis frowned for a moment. This was hardly what she’d expected. Then she shrugged, it made no difference really. Her horn lit up and a gout of fire lanced out of the tip and blasted into the vegetation directly in front of her. She kept the blinding flame going for thirty full seconds before she ended the blast to take a satisfied look at the destruction she’d wrought.

To her surprise, the vegetation was completely unharmed. Chrysalis frowned, that shouldn’t be, even within a mind there were rules, and plants were supposed to burn when put to flame. With a roll of her eyes Chrysalis focused her thoughts at the vegetation and attempted to tear it apart with her mind. For some reason, the vegetation completely resisted her efforts.

“What is going on here?” Chrysalis pondered as she looked around the clearing for some sort of path. “Her mind should not be anywhere near this strong, especially in her current addled state.”

The Changeling Queen was about to let out an irritated growl when she noticed a path through the vegetation to her right. She smiled, every mind, no matter how well protected, that a weak spot in its defenses exists and she had just found Sarah’s. Chrysalis walked forward confidently, ignoring the way the thorns clawed ineffectively at her chitinous hide.

She’d made it perhaps ten feet down the narrow passage when there was a slight beep from beneath her hooves. Chrysalis frowned and looked down but saw nothing.

Then her vision went green and her body was consumed by a blast of searing, burning, impossibly hot, pain. Chrysalis opened her mouth to scream but before before she could, her jaw boiled off. The changeling tumbled to the ground, her legs having ceased to exist as anything other than smears of melted protein. Incredible pain rushed through her mind and her vision faded.

Chrysalis opened her eyes and found herself standing once more in the clearing. Her brain took a second to collect itself before her jaw hardened into a sneer.

“You think that will be enough to deter me?” she arrogantly shouted at the sky. “I have broken the minds of much stronger beings!”

In response to her shouting something appeared floating in front of her face.

1

Chrysalis let out a low growl of annoyance and started off down the path again. This time when she heard the tell tale beep she launched herself backwards far enough to avoid the explosion of green plasma. The changeling sneered at the display as the plasma faded.

“You think that little toy will be enough to stop me? Hah, I have felt worse pain from earth pony foals,” she declared as she strode down the corridor.

She’d made it another few feet before an unseen tripwire snapped against her legs. She froze, raising a magical shield around her front but nothing seemed to happen. Chrysalis smirked and continued forwards, shield still up.

“BARK!”

Chrysalis’ eyes widened in surprise as her legs suddenly gave way beneath her and she tumbled to the ground. As she fell she saw a pack of wild dogs approaching her, one of whom had just hamstrung her. The changeling queen lashed out with a bolt of magic and sent one of the dogs flying but before she could do it to any of the others they charged her, falling upon her body with ruthless efficiency and tearing her apart with their unnaturally sharp fangs. The last thing she felt was the light sensation of one of them pissing on her face.

She came to in the clearing again and let out a furious snarl as another number appeared in front of her.

2

The changeling frowned to herself. Perhaps, just perhaps she had underestimated Sarah’s mental defenses. In that case all she had to do was retreat and...

She willed herself to leave the vile little clearing and for a moment it seemed to work but then Chrysalis felt a heavy weight slam into her back and sent her crashing to the ground, her spine broken, blood leaking out of her exoskeleton.

Her vision faded and then she returned once again.

3

“So that’s the way this is going to be,” Chrysalis said with a growl. “I’m going to have to make it through your little maze or else be trapped here in it,” she added, scoffing. “You think you are the first one to have thought of this? HA! I’ve been doing this for centuries, little mortal.”

There was no response.

Chrysalis sneered and set off down the path again.

The Queen was beginning to become angry. She had died nine times already within the twisted maze of a forest and that was far more than she’d ever ordinarily allow herself. Suddenly, she froze and a monstrous roar erupted from the woods to her right. The changeling’s eyes widened in surprise as a giant crocodile like creature that somehow walked on two legs leapt out of the forest and stabbed its claws into her neck and bore her to the ground.

Chrysalis was barely able to breath with the monster’s claws stabbing through her throat but she she did stay alive long enough for it to bring its head down to her level and-

CHOMP

4700 PSI snapped through the front half of her muzzle.

10

Chrysalis’ vision was foggy. She didn’t know what had happened. One second she had been walking down the path and the next... she had woken up strapped to a table with several gibbering green creatures leering down at her.

Once they saw that she was awake one picked up what looked to be a... model pony? With an evil grin it raised it over her and a red beam blasted out of its nose and the creature began to run it down the changeling’s center. Chrysalis let out a scream of pain as she was vivisected.

15

Just as Chrysalis was beginning to get a ‘feel’ for the maze a giant spectral paw slammed her flat against the ground. The air left her chest and she unconsciously sucked some of the muddy ground into her mouth. Before she could process this, the paw was removed and she blearily looked up to see an Ursa Major towering over her.

Despite none of it being real, Chrysalis’ blood froze at the sight of the fearsome predator before it reached down with its maw and almost gently picked her up in its teeth. The changeling was about to cry out with joy at the lack of further mutilation but then the Ursa tossed her into the air with a simple flick of its head. Then its jaws crashed together and Chrysalis’ front half tumbled down its throat as her back end hit the muddy ground.

21

Her hoof was sinking. Why was her hoof sinking?! Chrysalis glanced down at the offending hoof and saw that it was indeed sinking. With a frown Chrysalis tried to pull against the ground, which looked completely normal but all that accomplished was an almost elastic like resistance. Chrysalis gulped and continued to pull away, afraid to stop. Suddenly, something wet and cold began to rain down on her back and she lost her concentration on the tug of war.

With a rubber band like ‘snap’ she was flung face first into the the pit of now pink ground. She ‘tread water’ for a moment before she realized that all that did was get her more stuck! Her wings flared open... for a moment before they slapped back against her side, completely trapped by whatever substance she was submerged in. With a scowl of hopelessness the changeling sank into the ‘bog’, holding her breath until she no longer could. Her mouth instinctively opened and the sticky pink substance flooded in.

It was cotton candy. She was drowning in cotton candy.

33

Chrysalis was walking through the maze. She came upon a section with hedges on either side. Small black vines with blue thorns hugged the ground on either side of her but they seemed passive enough.She shook her head and continued walking, the place was making her jump at nothing. Unexpectedly, she felt something take hold of her hind legs. As whatever was grabbing her lifted her up into the air, she saw three vines from the forest floor rise up and grab her front legs as well as her head. With a scream of pain, she was ripped into five pieces.

47

As she walked through a particularly narrow corridor Chrysalis heard shuffling from above her. With rising dread the Changeling Queen raised her head, her horn already aglow. Strangely, she saw nothing. She frowned and continued walking. There was a light tapping on her back and Chrysalis whipped her head around to find that a massive spider was hovering on a string right above her. Chrysalis let out a scream of surprise as she was suddenly yanked up into the air as an almost netlike bit of web sprang closed around her hooves, drawing them together into a neat little ‘package’.

Once she reached its level the spider walked forwards on its previously invisible web and began to fully cocoon her. Chrysalis struggled but it was hopeless, she was trapped. That done, the spider walked up to her and sank its mandibles into her neck and began to inject its venom, liquefying Chrysalis’ insides.

50

She walked through the maze another clearing appeared. Chrysalis stepped forward with her shield raised, wary of any kind of attack that might come. To her delight, nothing grotesque jumped out at her she lowered her shield. Hopefully she had found a ‘blind spot’ within the woman’s defenses!

“CAW!”

At the noise, Chrysalis jumped as her hopes of a blind spot shrank. With a dark frown she scanned the trees for the source of the sound.

“CAW CAW!”

Chrysalis gaze locked onto the sound and her eyes widened. It looked like the horrific fusion of a human and a raven. Faster than Chrysalis could react to it, it had landed in front of her and leaned forward.

“CAW!”

The Changeling’s horn lit and a bolt of green fire shot at the creature but before it could hit even a single feather the crow had reached her and leapt onto her back. Chrysalis bucked and tried to remove it but that only sent its claws deeper into her and then with another mighty caw the crow began to peck through her side.

69

As Chrysalis walked through a rather open section of woods, she heard a quiet alluring hum and a gentle light coming from her right. The changeling Queen felt herself being inexplicably drawn to the light, and as she drew closer, she saw a large rectangular frame with openings just large enough to fit through. Her eyes gazed up at the bluish glow coming from the tube within and without a single thought she closed with it.

BZZZZT

“HAHAHAAHAH! I can’t believe you actually fell for that!” Sarah’s voice laughed in her ears as life left her body.

99

There was a light ahead of her and Chrysalis swept forwards and entered into another clearing. To her surprise she found Sarah sitting there, a casual smile on her face. “Oh look, you made it,” the woman drawled as she unsheathed Daybreaker from her back and charged forwards. Chrysalis tried to move but her hooves had been glued, literally, to the ground and the woman’s blade passed through her neck with a simple swing.

100

Chrysalis let out an angry roar of utter frustration and charged back into the tunnel only to stop in confusion. The entire layout was different, this time it offered her a branching path with three different choices. Every bit of progress that she’d made over the last few... hours was gone.

Double walked into the chamber where the prisoner was being held with a smile on her face. She was not very complex as far as Operators went, certainly nowhere near as smart as Reflection, but she was good hearted and loyal to the Hive which is what counted as far as most changelings were concerned. Balanced easily on her back was a plate with a few pieces of bread and a glass of water.

Her topaz mane wafted from one side to the other as she walked closer to the Queen who was currently in the process of brainwashing the strange ‘woman’ into being her newest pet so that they could get their revenge on the Equestrian Princesses. Double didn’t really understand it all, but what she did understand was that her mother had decided upon the course of action and that meant that it had to be right. After all, her mother was much older and wiser than her, she was always right.

Double frowned for a moment as she saw that her mother was still busy doing whatever it was that the process required of her. Of course, that meant that the prisoner wouldn’t be awake to be fed and she didn’t want to interrupt what was clearly a very complicated activity. Her brain churned through possible actions as her eyes idly drifted to her mother’s face and then her frown deepened.

It was hard to tell because her eyes were closed but it seemed like her mother was in pain. Her jaw was hardened into a hard edge and clearly expressed upon her features. That, and she seemed to be whining softly, or perhaps it was moaning. Double’s eyes widened as she realized that her mother was in trouble and the plate of food clattered to the floor as she rushed up to her.

“Mother! Can you hear me?!” Double shouted, her topaz mane bouncing from one side of her head to the other. “Please, mother! If you’re in danger let me know!”

She got no response of any kind. Double stood there anxiously, her hooves clip clopping on the ground as she pondered what to do. She could always leave the room and hope to find another Operator to help her, she doubted that the drones would be much help at the moment. However, if she left and something worse happened then she would be held responsible because she shirked in her duty and abandoned her mother!

Double knew that it was times like these that defined an Operator in the eyes of both the colony and her mother and she desperately wanted to be seen as something more than just a replacement for one of the others. So, with shaking hooves she reached up and shoved her mother away from the woman.

To her horror, Chrysalis let out a scream of pain as her mind was torn free of Sarah’s mental grasp and she hit the floor with a hard thud and lay there moaning. Double’s eyes widened in a mixture of shock and concern as she rushed over to her mother’s face.

“Mother! Mother are you okay? You looked like you were in such great pain and I had to help you! I didn’t know what to do so I just pushed you and I know that I should probably have run and gotten one of the older Operators to-”

The topaz maned changeling was silenced as Chrysalis’ forelegs suddenly wrapped around her and she pulled against her Queen’s chest, hard. Double let out a squeal of shocked surprise and struggled against her out of instinct for a moment before she felt her mother’s soft lips press against her forehead.

“Thank you, Double, thank you, thank you, thank you,” Chrysalis said in a soft voice as she hugged her daughter. Double wasn’t really sure what to make of this so she simply let herself be embraced and leaned back against Chrysalis’ chest, savoring the motherly contact.

At last Chrysalis released her daughter and gave her one last kiss on the forehead. “It seems that Sarah’s mind is far better defended than I originally thought,” the Changeling Queen stated darkly before she glanced back at the woman, who was looking at her with a smirk.

“Looks that way doesn’t it?” Sarah asked, though she did wince as another stab of pleasured pain ran through her.

Chrysalis glared at the woman as she returned to her hooves. “I will break you, Sarah. Have no doubts of that.”

Sarah just gazed at her blankly. “I really wish I could move my hands out of here.”

Chrysalis ground her teeth together and then stalked out of the room leaving a befuddled Double standing in the room with Sarah. The little changeling glared up at the woman.

“You hurt my mother!” she shouted angrily.

“Your ‘mother’ has been molesting me,” Sarah said before her eyes closed as more pleasure ran through her at just the thought of Chrysalis’ tongue on her neck. “She’s lucky I’m not free or I’d fucking kill her.”

Double’s wings snapped into action and she hoovered up to Sarah’s face and slapped her across the cheek.

“No one talks about mother that way!” she shouted before turning around and flying back to the ground. “And just for that, I’m not feeding you!”

“That... was fucking therapeutic,” Sarah said with a long sigh as she collapsed against Nim’s side.

“Indeed it was, it has been a great deal of time since I have been able to call upon that much of Equestrian Mythology,” Nim agreed as she gave Sarah’s face a nuzzle. “I sincerely wish that the other had not come along when she did, I had many more planned... and I doubt we will ever gain that great a chance to harm her again.”

“What do you mean?” Sarah asked as she idly stroked Nim’s mane.

“I mean that next time she will come with more support,” Nim answered with a sigh as she nuzzled the woman’s bare chest. “As much as it pains me to say it, Sarah, I will not be able to keep up that kind of offensive against more than one mind.”

“Well then, I’ll help,” Sarah stated, as if it was obvious.

“But... you are not trained for it,” Nim replied with a deep frown.

“I don’t particularly care, I’m not just going to sit around and let you do all of my fighting for me,” Sarah replied as she directed Nim’s head a little lower. Then she froze and realized what she was doing, and the fact that she was naked. “Fuck. Sorry, Nim... this venom stuff must be getting to me.”

“As if I mind,” Nim replied as she returned her head upwards and gave Sarah’s neck a nuzzle. “Actually, it might be good if you and I made love. It may help you deal with the constant stimulation.”

“You think so?” Sarah asked, her eyes suddenly hungry.

“Indeed I do,” Nim answered with a smile as she gave the woman a kiss on the lips, and much to her surprise the woman pulled her face against her as her tongue sought out her mouth. She did not mind very much though and leaned into the kiss until Sarah pulled away, a small line of drool connecting them.

The woman blushed and quickly swiped a hand through it. “Sorry... “

“As if I minded,” Nim replied as she leaned down and kiss her again, this time starting on her lips and beginning to work her way down.

Author's Note

Editors note:

We had many, MANY, more deaths planned for Chrysalis. However, if we put them ALL in you would grow bored. For example; Erlking, bigger boot, Kittens, Changelings, centaurs, and many more, as Ed and I are slightly twisted/sadistic. Hope you enjoyed what WAS included however.

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