Celestia's Relaxing Vacation

Sunset knew that Starlight was right. She had much more energy than Starlight, but had no experience wielding so much. And it wasn't just how much it was, it was that her every instinct pulled her away from it. It was physically and emotionally exhausting to use it.

And then of course there was her wings. She may as well fold them up and forget they're there, because she had no idea how to even take off properly.

Still, throwing energy was throwing energy with any type, so she should be able to do that at least, right?

She felt Starlight charge her power, and charged up as well. Her magic seemed to charge faster, so that was a plus. But when she unleashed it against Starlight’s own attack, aiming so much energy at once was a great deal harder than she expected, and the power that would have knocked Starlight on her ass only canceled Starlight’s attack. The rest went in stray directions, one beam blasting the corner of a nearby shop, another drilling a groove through the pavement nearby, and another shooting randomly into the air. One very large final one zoomed right into a five-story apartment building a few blocks away, exploding at least one full side of it into fragments of wood, stone, and ponies, the rest collapsing. Every now and then one could hear a scream, usually being cut off shortly after.

Well at least this was a little good for Manehattan, in that the city would have a lot of construction jobs opening up after today.

Starlight felt Sunset’s energy too, and for a split second she thought she was a goner as it charged so quickly as to surpass her own in a moment. Starlight put everything she had into her attack, expecting poor results, but smiled again when she heard the explosions of Sunset's misses, the one in the pavement nearby almost knocking the two over. Sunset was definitely doing it wrong.

Celestia was blasted back from them as well, hard enough to crack the wall behind her. She was still sturdy enough for that to not break her back, but gave her a jolt of throbbing pain all the same. Still, she didn’t bother to flee, instead pulling Twilight’s corpse into a hug once again and rocking forward and back.

Sunset noticed the apartment, but she was just at that level of dementedness where she was more like ‘Oops’ instead of actively trying to save them or at least trying to avoid doing that for the rest of the fight. So she wasn't completely distracted when Starlight smacked her with another blast, Sunset gathering energy in front of her to act as a crude magical shield. It was a lumpy shield, some parts providing more protection than other, so she was getting at least a buzz.

Starlight grinned wider when she saw the apartment building go up in the corner of her eye, then screamed in frustration again when it didn’t affect Sunset’s ability to stop her next attack. None of her 'taunting the good guy' tricks would work on Sunset; Starlight wished there were more actual good guys left to fight.

Still, that was a terrible shield; she could see her energy beam deflecting at different angles from the uneven surface, though it was rather flat overall, which meant it wasn’t a sphere; Sunset's back was unprotected. She held part of her beam into Starlight’s front, but sent half around behind her, splitting into half a dozen balls of pain as they swept in.

Sunset realized what Starlight was doing, trying to quickly use more energy to block behind her, but she had put more energy into her front shield than necessary, which made it harder to get enough to the other side quickly enough. What she did manage was literally full of holes, and three of the blasts slipped through and smacked Sunset right in the plot.

It threw her forward, hind legs spasming with pain as she got the magical equivalent of a cunt-punt. She managed to keep the front shield up, but she didn’t know how to make the energy physically solid yet, so Starlight turned around and slammed both hind hooves into Starlight’s face, cracking her snout and sending her to skid across the street and into the rubble from the shop she blasted.

Starlight’s previous worry began to disappear as she realized that Sunset’s inexperience reached greater heights than she had hoped. Celestia’s power had become too different from normal pony magic to just pick it up and use it. Even with an alicorn of Starlight's quality would have to work at it. But that didn't matter, because Starlight didn't need it yet. Sunset was helpless.

Starlight watched as her other attacks slapped Sunset on the hole Starlight would be using briefly, and winded around to slam Sunset in the face. Starlight was much stronger since becoming an alicorn, and felt Sunset’s muzzle give as she was thrown back into the rubble nearby.

Starlight moved close to her, her horn glowing brightly to take the cutie mark, but it didn't give. It felt like Celestia's was coming, but Starlight's being atop it was holding it down. She tried to take Sunset's first, but it just stuck to Celestia's. Starlight would need to be a heightened state of emotion for her to work either of them off. Which was fine, because Starlight’s dick was already rock hard; victory made her so horny.

Sunset hit the ground hard and tried to reform a shield, struggling to get up. She thought she saw a flash in the smoke, and threw a beam of energy that was a bit more well focused, if only by a little. In her dizziness she missed Starlight entirely, slicing another large building right through at and angle, causing the top half to slide off and collide with the one next to it, and causing another half dozen explosions that Sunset couldn't see from her place flat on her back.

Starlight came out of the smoke and slammed her front hooves into Sunset’s head from one side, spinning her about, then flapped her wings, flipping her body to slam both hind legs into Sunset’s crotch again. She then flapped her wings and flew above her, looking down and forming a wide beam of energy, wide enough to hit Sunset’s whole body, pummeling her with jolts of energy as her body thrashed about rather beautifully.

“You should have just given me the energy!” Starlight screamed down at her, “We would be banging each other atop Celestia while she sobbed right now if you had just hooved it over! And now you're beaten, once again I have earned it. Her power is mine! That’s how it works!”

Sunset felt the impacts send a surge of pain through her head and once again between her thighs, not even able to tell what direction she was facing, before collapsing under the rain of energy. She tried desperately to form a shield over her, but she couldn’t form any part of the shield before it was snuffed out by the rain of energy, and her magic was too inefficient to throw it up all at once. Sunset’s whole body convulsed, thrashing, writhing to her back and vomiting a brief geyser of blood.

Starlight ceased the bombardment, looking at Sunset’s blood covered face and grinning. She then used a more focused beam, sending four jolts of energy down which covered Sunset’s four legs with energy. First the fur on her legs caught on fire, Sunset screaming and kicking, but too afraid to roll, thinking that would send the beam right through her torso.

Sunset felt her limbs literally coming apart, the flesh facing the beam going first. Skin melted away, muscle was torn off in chunks before it smacked the ground and dissolved there. The beams seemed very exact, dissolving the desired flesh and leaving the rest intact. It was disintegrating her forelegs including her shoulders, but of course her hind legs only up to the bottom of her cutie mark.

Starlight thought about leaving the wings as a way of mocking Sunset, but decided she didn't deserve to have them for a second more. Two more went down, moving behind Starlight's back to get her entire wings, not even leaving a nub.

Sunset’s limbs were being eaten to the bone and then the bone cracked and came off in shards the same as everything else. She felt her body convulse in pain as she felt her limbs disappear, but somehow the agony of them being torn asunder remaining. Not only that, but it felt like her very magic was lashing out at her for failing. She felt it burn from inside, unable to control it enough to prevent literally shocking herself. Even when the six flesh eating beams disappeared, Sunset still convulsed as if being electrocuted, thrashing about as if she were still being pummeled with bits of energy.

“That’s it,” Starlight was so horny that her cunt juice was drooling onto Sunset’s face from above. She slowly moved downward as the enemy alicorn's thrashes slowed, “I’m going to rape that cutie mark right off of you, then I’m going to snuff out your life in the ruins of my enemy’s city, how appropriate. And there's no one here to help you. Chrysalis and her harem have abandoned you.” And knowing the hive, Starlight knew why they left; she had been counting on it.

Even with her thrashing and legless, Starlight was going to be certain. She landed with her hooves around Sunset’s torso, then sent another beam of energy against her horn. Sunset screamed and arched her back as the agony of her horn being damaged overrode every other feeling, until it finally cracked, shards of it flying off to disappear into the wreckage around them.

It was time for Starlight to enjoy the fruit of another victory. She dragged her shaft teasingly on Sunset’s quivering belly, taking in the sight of her sobbing face, that delicious humiliation in her eyes.

“I’m going to enjoy fucking your corpse,” Starlight told her, “But you’re too worthless to be preserved, so I'll let you rot. Still, I’ll fuck you every day until you are riddled with maggots, then I’ll keep doing it until you literally come apart in my hooves. Then I'll probably eat you, so at least you'll get to become divine shit.”

Starlight pushed inside Sunset’s still drenched slit, feeling the familiar convulsions of an unwilling pussy around her, shivering as she enjoyed it and began rolling her hips, slamming into Sunset’s cervix, but taking her time. Sunset was hot though, and that pussy seemed to have the perfect little folds and curves to stroke her cock.

“I could get used to this hot little hole,” Starlight drooled onto Sunset's face “Too bad this cunt's owner is a stupid cunt. You regret challenging me now? Answer or I’ll zap what’s left of your horn.”

“Yes,” Sunset said with a hollow voice. It didn't really occur to her at the time that she could give the power to Starlight; if she had thought about it, it would have been very tempting to just give in, but she’d like to think she’d have made the same decision.

“You still think I’m hot? Fuckable? Irresistible?” Starlight punctuated ‘hot’ by ramming through Sunset’s cervix, then slamming through it again on her neck words. She then pushed fully into her womb and finally smacked bodies fully together, “I can feel what’s left of those hips twitching you slut.” Her ego was in high gear today.

“Yeah,” Sunset said between sobs. Someone didn’t become ugly just because they were murdering you. She didn’t even care anymore though, flexing her back to roll her hips as much as she could in response to Starlight’s thrusts, actively starting to roll her cunt up and down that shaft. She may as well get into it; this was the last time she’d ever be fucked, or at least the last time that she’d consciously feel. Hell, if she was lucky, she might change Starlight’s mind about killing her.

“Ah yeah, even in death a dirty slut,” Starlight panted, “You could’ve had this hot cock in you all the time, and had your own fuck spire inside my perfect cunt. Just imagine what you've missed.”

Though Starlight imagined something else, her ruling all of Equestria and eventually the world, which got her off every bit as much. Tomorrow would be her first day as a tyrant, and she couldn’t wait to get started.

“I’m a lot better with my limbs,” grunted Sunset, tears still sliding down her cheeks, but leaning her head up to give Starlight a brief kiss before continue, “I don’t suppose... that marriage thing might still be on the table? Or just a sex slave thing for that matter? I mean this really is an appropriate way for a tyrant to meet her new partner.”

“Do you think you can whore your way out of this?” Starlight smirked, “You may be hot, but I can fuck any hole I want on any pony I want. It is literally illegal to deny me.”

Sunset opened her maw to reply, but felt her body spasming, pussy convulsing around the invading member and fluid splattered over the bricks behind Starlight, drooling down her balls and thighs.

“Yeah I can make any mare cum,” grinned Starlight “Victory feels so good.”

Starlight’s horn lighting up as Sunset went over, and Sunset feeling an intense pain rip through her, mid-orgasm screaming from agony even as her body finished its previous task. She felt like her skin was getting ripped off, and it wasn’t far different. It looked like they were mingled now, because Celestia and Starlight’s cutie mark came off together, the added emotional distraction working again. Soon they were floating next to Starlight, thrashing and spinning a bit as they slowly calmed.

Starlight groaned as she unloaded herself, domination over her fallen foe driving her to greater heights, rolling her eyes back and shaking violently. It felt charged, like the touch of it against Sunset’s insides felt like needles of electricity picking at every nerve. It only got worse as her womb swelled up, Starlight letting it drool from the opening so that she could sweep some up with her magic and stuff it into Sunset’s muzzle.

Sunset gagged slightly at the cum ball shoved into her muzzle, but swallowed it all the same. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, waiting.

“Oh don’t look so scared,” said Starlight, “I’m not killing you until you’ve seen this and your own cutie mark on my flank, and this thing is going to take just a bit of time to calm down enough for that to happen. So... I guess you can still beg to whore yourself for life some more.” Starlight tried to look like she might consider it, hoping for some premium begging for it.

Starlight looked rather sated after that victory cum, but all the same she pushed her dick into Sunset’s tailhole; it just seemed like the proper thing to do. She pushed it in, groaning a bit as she slowly pushed it in and out at a nice relaxing pace. Sunset could barely feel Starlight’s motions though, her whole body afire with torment.

“It’s not whoring if we were going to fuck like rabbits anyway,” Sunset managed, “You get off on winning? Then fuck your fallen foe every night in front of your other fallen foe. Don’t you still want to make her watch you fuck her fiancée over the wedding altar. And it’s not like you’re limited to me, you can marry as many others as you want.”

“You’re good at pleading for your life,” said Starlight, “Must have gotten a lot of practice as Celestia’s student. I’m kind of considering it.”

“It was mostly begging for other people’s lives with Celestia,” Sunset made herself chuckle even as she continued to roll her hips against Starlight. “Come on. It’s not like I’m going to even hold this against you. Celestia has done this to me a hundred times and I was still getting used to the idea of a marriage with her.”

Starlight glanced over to the cutie mark, “You know what I’ll take that offer.” Apparently a lie, as she waited for that spark of hope to brighten in Sunset's eyes, then immediately snapped her neck with her magic, the other mare suddenly gagging on her own blood as it pooled in her throat, “There, I think I can time it so you see it on me just before you die.”

Then Sunset started to laugh, even as she gagged, though it just made blood bubble out of her muzzle. Starlight found it amusing too and chuckled a bit, but Sunset shook her head as if to say, ‘That’s not what I’m laughing at.’

In her excitement and certainty, Starlight hadn't been keeping much of a radar up, so reached around her just to check. Only then did she realize several dozen bottles of flying rage were coming fast upon her. Doomie hit the cutie mark right out of her magic, intending to push it away again, but of course it fled directly to Sunset.

“No no I had it!” Starlight complained as she was blasted back into the rubble. “This isn’t fucking fair! I call shenanigans!”

It didn’t result in an amazing come back for Sunset, since she still didn’t have her limbs and a cutie mark wasn’t going to grow those back instantly. What it did do though was boost her energy, and give her just enough healing factor to keep her from dying, though Doomie gave her neck a crack to try and put it back in the slot himself. She took a deep breath, and began laughing out loud.

Chrysalis landed in front of Starlight now, rage burning in her eyes. It was burning in all of them, bearing down on Starlight in a torrent. One of them had worked out how Starlight became an alicorn, and that’s all it took to send them all charging back.

Chrysalis didn’t stop to scream at Starlight though, or demand answers, or even inform her of her imminent demise. Chrysalis knew what happened when you stopped to give a speech; she’d made that mistake herself too many times.

Instantly Chrysalis was sending a beam of energy against Starlight. Starlight deflected it without as much difficulty as one might expect, but then at least a dozen smaller ones rattled her shield sphere from above, joined by jets of dragon breath. Her shield gave like wet paper and she screamed as the intense energy flowed through her, feathers tearing off her wings, flesh tearing off her body, eyes popping out of their sockets so violently that they bounced off of Chrysalis.

When the torrent of energy stopped, Starlight could only shriek as she collapsed in the rubble. Her body spasmed violently, apparently having enough body left to piss herself, but taking a few moments before her shivering finally came to a stop.

Chrysalis formed one hoof into a hand and snapped her fingers. Starlight’s head tilted in that direction, followed by a spasm from the pain the slightest movement caused.

“Good, you can hear,” said Chrysalis as her hoof returned, her voice calm and controlled. She guessed it was okay to monologue now, “I am the Queen Dragon Lord of the Hive. You know me. You know that I would burn down this world to avenge a single one of my children. Did you really think you could take something so precious from us and just trot away?”

Starlight just remained there as still as she could be, still alive, given the slow breathing and the beating of her heart which could now be seen from the outside.

“I wish I could heal her enough to make her respond to cruel questions,” Chrysalis sighed, "And I could try, but I'm kind of whipped. I wasn't made for this sort of shit." No, she was made for being fucked.

“Don’t look at me to help, most of my horn is still in the rubble,” Sunset groaned, “Does anyone know if that grows back from healing factor? I don't think Twilight's did." She looked very worried; she had just gotten used to having it back.

"It can be fixed! It's probably just really hard," Sonata confirmed, "Me and... well we broke Celestia's that one time."

"Oh that's a bit hot," Chrysalis randomly said as Sonata thought about the incident.

Either way, can someone pick me up off of the rocks?" Sunset asked, "I don’t have the energy to hover, and they're pointy.” A few changelings swooped down and pulled her out of the wreckage, if not as eagerly as they would a teammate.

“They got you too huh?” Sonata said, rather brightly, as if that made them eligible for a club or something. She added when Chrysalis looked at her, “I can’t heal shit.”

“Hey Princess Blank Flank!” Chrysalis called over to Celestia, “Can you still heal?”

Celestia just looked at her as if she couldn’t believe she had been asked that, then returned to silently staring at Twilight’s face.

"Well I guess I'll stop being lazy and try myself,", Chrysalis huffed. She concentrated more, but at her current exhaustion it was very slow going. It was fine; she only needed her healed enough to not die before they got her home, and as they tormented her a bit on the battlefield.

Sonata giggled, “Imagine putting her in Garble's pod. That’d be a confusing situation to suddenly be in.”

“Is she dead yet?” Maud made everyone jump, seeming to have somehow arrived without tweaking anyone’s radar.

“No,” said Chrysalis, knowing she didn’t mean Starlight, “But off-topic, can you heal this?” She motioned to the barbeque Starlight on the ground, who she was making slow progress on.

“Will hitting it with a rock help?” Maud asked, reaching for one from the rubble.

“No, please don't,” Chrysalis grumbled.

“Should I go hit those people that are screaming with the rock instead?” Maud asked.

“Oh right, the civilians,” Sunset chuckled awkwardly, a bit embarrassed, “If anyone asked, Starlight did all this, okay?”

“Take care of it. We want to appear as liberators to them,” said Chrysalis. Many of the changelings and dragons spread out to look for survivors, silently directed to do so. “You four go check the palace. They’re probably scared to respond with help themselves if they found out Celestia was iced. Tell them it’s safe, that her successor isn’t planning on killing them.” Two changelings and two dragons that she wasn't even facing left for the palace.

“Successor?” Sunset asked clueless, “Who’s that?”

“And that’s probably why you should do it,” Chrysalis asked, “You need at least a little hate for your job to rule right, and I’m not about to take it; Two empires in my head is enough, thank you very much. We have a plan to get our love otherwise.”

“I’m gonna be a pop star!” announced Sonata while playing with the ear of one of the changelings holding her. The changelings responded by dropping her, since they had noticed she was almost fully healed. She giggled, and floated closer to Starlight.

"And we have this weird new theory about giving love," nodded Doomie.

“I’m not going to turn it down,” Sunset said, “Ruling Equestria was one of my life goals. I just figured now that Celestia is sane again...”

“Fuck no,” interrupted Chrysalis, “I can not put enough fucks in front of that no. No!”

“She doesn’t want it,” Sonata said, having been in Celestia’s head a bit while feeding. She then looked at Starlight, having a strange moment of dead seriousness, “I should get extra turns hurting Starlight. She took Twilight from me, too."

"You can have as many turns as you wish, dear," assured Chrysalis, "I'll tell you when she's ready, but you're famished though, go have a snack while you wait."

Sonata gave Starlight a glare, but then floated back over to Celestia, settling next to her and hugging once again.

“Take me over to Celestia as well,” sighed Sunset to her carriers.

Sunset were put down since there was clear ground there, while Sonata immediately leaned in, hugging Celestia and looking relaxed as she continued her interrupted dinner. Celestia glanced at her, knowing what she was doing, but didn't feel she had a right to stop it after what she'd done to the siren. She just looked back down into Twilight’s eyes.

“Celestia,” Sunset said, “I know this is hard, but you have to face this and talk to us.”

Still no answer.

“That’s perfect,” Chrysalis said as she ceased healing Starlight another five minutes later, "She can hear and scream, but no sight. I'm not chancing that with this one even now."

“I really have to thank you Starlight,” Chrysalis smiled, “Without the trouble you caused just now, the hive wouldn't look nearly as good. And of course, we defeated Celestia, while you attempted to help her keep power, and I doubt she'll contradict us after you tried to murder her last remaining faithful student.” She leaned down to look into Starlight's eyes, “You like that idea? Not getting credit for all your hard work?”

“Fuck you,” Starlight said, “Not fucking fair.”

“No it’s not,” said Chrysalis, “Do you know what is fair? I’m going to invade your mind, and find out exactly how you murdered my little angel. Then I am going to put you in a pod where you will experience it as her, on repeat, for as long as we can keep it running, and even if the pod is forgotten in some dark cave, it will still run many millennia without upkeep.”

"Oh fuck fuck fuck," Starlight groaned. She knew very much that Chrysalis could do everything she just said.

"And from that reaction, I think it will be something that really pisses us off," said Chrysalis, "Speaking of us, I think every member of the hive deserves a go at you before I do that. We don't have a lot of time though, so let me add some holes."

Starlight shook her head 'no', but felt part of her body reshaping, a hole forming on the front of her neck that went into her throat, and another hollowing out into her gut, pushing organs out of the way enough that they'd be jarred by not fatally damaged. Chrysalis didn't make it easy either, she specifically warped the flesh one way and the other and she created the holes, making sure the process was plenty painful.

"Doomie and Sonata, you in the first group," said Chrysalis, "We'll cycle everyone through, then I'll go last. Sonata can join in other groups if she wants, since she was wronged three times by this bitch," Though it wasn't like she'd stop any of her children from going extra times at the end.

"I call belly," said Sonata as she floated over.

"I call throat, I guess, if we're calling things," said Doomie. "May as well try something new!"

"I really wish I hadn't fucked you now," Sonata said as she floated close to Starlight, running her tongue around the hole in her belly curiously. It was very much like a proper hole it seemed, tight outer ring and flesh that squeezes together inside; it even appeared to secrete fuck honey within. She slid her body upwards, rolling Starlight onto her side in the rubble that was still jabbing her, and pushed inside, purring at the warmth and wetness, going deep just like a regular one, but sending stabbing pains through Starlight in the process, having to push her guts out of the way to make room for Sonata's girth.

"Wow, you know it's a bad lay when Sonata didn't like it," Doomie chuckled. "She's a slut even by changeling standards."

Doomie slid down into her throat, groaning happily as he got the same throat as his sibling who took her muzzle. He pushed deep into her stomach, feeling his hive-mate's cock rubbing against him, syncing up to thrust in opposite directions to grind their dicks together more. They got the same beautiful gagging motions as well, while also facing and slurping into a deep kiss as they continued their team-rape.

For once the rear entries seemed like the boring choice, but that didn't stop them from getting swarmed. The two changelings that took her were female ones, which of course didn't matter for changelings; Starlight felt two massive cocks invade her cunt and ass, womb speared in the first stroke, tunnel convulsing as it smacked her back wall. The one in her asshole gave herself a prehensile one, so she could wind it deeper as she continued to thrust.

Unlike some ponies, Starlight was not a pony that enjoyed being on the receiving end at all, so she didn't get so much as an iota of pleasure from this, what little she would have gotten washed away in the rage flowing through her. It still hadn't occurred to her that she should show regret for what she did, or even that it might cause some tiny bit of mercy if she at least pretended to be; she was still caught up on this being unfair.

She regretted failing very much, at least, and in hind sight realizing that this was a really stupid thing to try. She kept going over in her mind what spells she could have used that would have worked better. Then it occurred to her that if she hadn't tried to do this, she'd have ended up as Empress anyway. Then it further occurred to her that she could have just not revealed her alicorn-ness yet, told them she was going to take the cutie mark to a safe place, then go put it on. If only dramatic reveals, spewing monologues, and publicly raping her fallen opponents weren't all so fun!

Starlight felt the first wave of shafts inside her start to go off, first Sonata blasting a load into her gut, but with nothing to hold it, so the cum just sprayed out of the top of the hole into Starlight's guts, bloating her belly and chest more. The others went off in her rear entries, filling her womb up to capacity and overflowing, as well as blasting a load so deeply that the flood joined with Doomie and his partner's loads a moment later, her gags egging them on. They all began pulling out, but more would be coming.

She did get some break for a hole between fucks, since the hive was busy and had to call the next one in line over when it was their turn, but that just dragged it out further. She didn't even bother counting, but it sure felt like she got fucked many more times than the population of the hive. It was impossible to know, changeling cocks were shaped like anything they wanted them to be; even Sonata's didn't stand out that much. Starlight did think she heard Doomie groaning at least three times though, and Sonata near a dozen.

Finally it was done though, Chrysalis stood above her alone. She laid down against her, pushing her angry shaft against Starlight's pussy. That wasn't all she had though. Chrysalis had her shaft split multiple times, two forcing their way into her rear entries as the others snaked up Starlight's body to her others. Chrysalis picked her up with the tentacles, holding her up in the air with only the fuck spires holding her. She let everyone see the random limbless pony getting tentacle fucked.

Chrysalis smiled, “Ready?”

Starlight barely had time to shake her head before she felt her mind invaded. It felt like even more invasive than Celestia’s probing had felt, and all her mental defenses were fried. She felt her thoughts ripped apart into strands with almost no effort. Desperately she tried to keep that memory away from Chrysalis. She must not find it! Starlight did not want to go through that even once, much less on repeat.

But there was no resisting it. Chrysalis locked onto the new one, forwarding through it to see for herself what happened. As Chrysalis ‘read’ the memory, Starlight relived her own part of it, though in minutes, body convulsing wildly.

Chrysalis's face twisted with rage and hate, glaring down at Starlight as she watched what she had done. The entire hive fell silent just for a moment.

Starlight felt the tentacles all bursting slime into her, though it was less like slime and more like an acidic mixture to make sure she stayed in constant agony for the ride home. Starlight didn't, however, as it was too much for her; the pony fell unconscious and hanged limp.

But she wasn't dead, and when she did become conscious again, she was Flurry Heart, being put on a lab table by herself. There was nothing she could do; this was now her eternity.

“I’m proud of you, Sunset,” Celestia finally spoke, but didn’t look up. “I always knew you were special, and I think on an unconscious level, I had you with me in hopes you would stop me.” She looked up, though her eyes were still empty, “You must lead now. And your first act must be my execution.”

“What? No!” Sunset said, “You have to advise me! I have a nation of maniacs to calm the fuck down!”

“Sunset, there is no possibility of any of us returning things to how they were,” said Celestia, “You need to face that truth if you’re going to rule. You’re going to have to make horrible compromises, and that might mean keeping some of the present 'culture'. It will be all about giving the citizens what they now want, while making sure those that don’t want to participate aren’t made to.”

“But you’re better now,” Sunset shook her head. “The best of us.”

“No, Sunset, I am not,” Celestia said, “Even now, I feel it creeping back into my mind. I will be re-infected like you and everypony else. The best you can have in Equestria is controlled chaos. And besides, you are the best of us; I’ve not seen any Equestrian-born pony resist the taint like you. Taking my power should have corrupted you instantaneously. It really should have killed you, but here you are.”

"That ethereal screaming," Sunset shivered, "Will that ever go away?"

"No," sighed Celestia, "I am so sorry to have put this burden on you, but I don't know what else can be done. Concentrate on other things when it gets bad, that can help sometimes."

Sunset groaned a bit, and tried to pull things back to the previous conversation, “Yeah... I’ll probably have to keep it disturbingly close to what Moondancer had, minus the racism, though I think I’ll keep the male elimination. I mean we don’t have to kill anypony to finish it and it’d be better for everypony in the long run. I could still allow some rape based on authority, punishment parental discipline and such, then we’d keep the sex ed of course and foal fucking-“

Celestia cleared her throat, “Sunset. I do not want to hear this. Save it for your first council session.” She sighed, "Try to... be distracted with something else right now, please."

“Sorry, but either way I’d rather have you to advise me than not. I can keep you in a cage if you’d like... I might actually enjoy having you in a cage. And to be honest? I’d be up for marriage as you are now. I did sort of have a crush on you as your student.”

“You honor me, Sunset,” Celestia said, “But my inability to rule has left Equestria with virtually no military and two large and powerful nations gathering their troops to crush us. They’re angry, and they see us all at fault: they will burn our cities to the ground and spare no pony. The only thing that will convince them not to do that, is my head, as well as Moondancer’s, on a silver platter.” At least Moondancer’s was already conveniently detached.

“Then who executes you?” Sunset relented, not arguing with solid logic.

“The one who hates me the most,” Celestia said. Sunset didn’t need to ask who that was.

“You’re going to do the time thing, like for real this time?” Sunset asked carefully, “Because things like that can end badly.”

“I’ll be careful,” nodded Celestia, then her eyes went vacant again as she looked at Twilight, “You will report that Twilight gave her life ensuring my defeat, with the aid of you and Chrysalis with her hive, specifically Sonata. Starlight was a villain who tried to save Celestia; she does not deserve to go down in history a hero. Include or leave out anyone else you wish, as they deserve.”

“You’re a liar now?” Sunset asked.

Celestia finally smirked again, “Funny how that worked out.”