“Soon...Soon, they will all bow before us. With our combined powers, we will become the most powerful beings in all of Equestria. No one will even think of stopping us, and when we get our hooves on that purple pony, we will show no mercy when we tear her apart arm by arm, limb by limb, AND SKIN BY SKI-”
“SOMBRA!”
The King snapped out of his speech and looked at his Queen. “Wha? Oh...Ahem...yes Chrysie?”
Chrysalis just rolled her green eyes and went back to adjusting the black and blue flowers on one of her three flower hatchlings. “I would very much appreciate it if you talked about this after I finished helping my children.”
“Sombra talks funny mom.” One of her other children said, causing a small uproar of snickers toward Sombra.
Chrysalis smiled and looked at Sombra. “He looks funny too, doesn’t he little ones?”
Sombra rolled his red eyes, crossed his ghostly black arms and turned his transparent body away from them. “Well sorry that the spell only made me this clear. It’s not like my entire body was intact after it exploded into six hundred and ninety two pieces you know.”
“It’s enough to see you. Besides,” Chrysalis held up one of the flower girls, inspecting each part of her dress. “the piece my children found of you makes a very lovely piece of jewelry.” Chrysalis levitated her child while she looked at her necklace. It was nothing but black string tied around her neck with Sombra’s horn attached, which Sombra’s ghostly tail was protruding out of, along with the rest of his form.
“Well,” Sombra said. “I’m glad my horn makes a ‘lovely piece of jewelry’ for you.” He finished in a mocking tone. “It’s nice to see that something came good out of me getting killed.”
“You mean, besides my subjects finding you in the forest?” Chrysalis set her child down and pulled on Sombra’s tail. “Do you know how long it’s been since I resurrected you?” She asked with a smile.
Sombra was catching on and faced his fiance. “Long enough for me to realize you also had a death wish for that purple mare.”
Chrysalis yanked on his tail again, bringing him a few inches closer to her. “You need to stop having such a grudge against her Sombra, after all, what ever did she do to us?” She asked sarcastically with an evil grin.
Sombra shrugged. “Oh, I don’t know, maybe she killed a few of your children and after that she decided that, since it was so easy killing things, killing me would be just as fun.”
“And wasn’t it?” Chrysalis wrapped her arms around his neck. “Wasn’t it just so fun for those wretched ponies to see hundreds of something get killed in a flash?”
Sombra leaned in. “Or a body exploding in a flash?”
Both their noses were touching. “I’m sure we’ll do more than use a flash of light to take them out, my king.”
Sombra smiled as he wrapped his own ghostly arms around her body. “Maybe months in a cocoon?”
“Or mind control to turn them against one another?”
“You’re so evil.” They closed their eyes and leaned in for a kiss.
“Eww.” One of the flower girls said out loud while the other two hatchlings gazed at the soon to be married couple in happiness. “Lovey dovey stuff.”
“Isn’t it so cute?” Another flower girl asked the disturbed one. “Just look at them.” She pointed at the now kissing king and queen.
“Bleh…” The disgusted one said, sticking her tongue out and pointing to her mouth. The other girls ignored her and continued looking at their mother, never before seeing her so happy.
The couple retracted from their kiss and looked at each other. “You’re not trying to enslave me with those eyes, are you?” Chrysalis asked lovingly.
“I don’t know.” Sombra said. “Maybe your eyes have taken control of me.” Sombra rubbed his ghostly nose against her’s again, making the two hatchlings daw while the third pretended to puke.
“Can’t you guys get a room?” The disgusted one asked.
One of the other flower girls smacked her on the head. “They’re already in a room, Sam.”
Sam growled and hit her sister with her flower basket. “I meant that mentophoricabaly, Sarah.”
“You mean metaphorically.” The third one adjusted her glasses when she said that.
“Shut up Sally.” Sam tackled her and started fighting, as did Sarah.
Chrysalis pulled away from Sombra and sighed. “Children.” She whispered to Sombra. “That’s enough girls!” She yelled.
The hatchlings stopped moving and looked up at their queen, after a few seconds they, backed away from each other. “Must you behave like this?” Chrysalis asked. “This is a time to be happy for your queen, not say how gross it is for her to truly love someone.” Chrysalis eyed Sam when she said that, making her sink to the floor.
“Sorry Queen Chrysalis.” They said in unison.
Sombra floated over them. “Um...Your mother is right uh...little ones.” Sombra smiled, trying to figure out what to say to his soon to become children. “Just think that, after this, you will have a new parent to...um...be with.” Sombra continued to float above them, waiting for a response, but the hatchlings just tilted their heads and raised an eye.
Chrysalis facehoofed. “Perhaps now would be a good time for you three to practice throwing your flowers down the aisle?”
The girls grinned at one another and ran off, taking their basket of flowers with them. Sombra floated in the air and sighed. “I’ll never understand kids.”
“You’re gonna have to, and you’ll learn that being a parent is way harder than being a ruler.”
Sombra thought about that for a bit. “How many children do-”
“I had over a thousand, now I...just have….nine hundred and six.” Chrysalis looked down while Sombra looked away and grimaced. Ruling over slaves was easy; you just told them what to do and they did it, but taking care of kids, to him, it was easier said then done.
“Um...my queen, I don’t think...that…” As he turned to face her, he saw that her eyes were starting to water. Sombra frowned, knowing that she was thinking of her lost children again. “Chrysie…” Sombra flew up behind her and nuzzled her neck. “Oh, don’t worry, we’ll get our revenge for that unicorn to even think about killing them.”
Chrysalis sniffed. “I-I can almost hear their screams...when they...hit the ground so hard that they...they…” She covered her eyes with her arm as she continued to sob. Sombra noticed the tears were going through her holes. “I mean, what kind of cruel monster would kill so many. I never wanted to kill anyone, but they...oh...they wanted us to be extinct.”
Chrysalis walked away from Sombra’s grip and looked outside a window. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still waiting for us to come back." She continued. "Making preparations, just in case.”
Sombra flew up to her side and smiled. “I’m sure those ponies are just afraid of you, my queen.”
Chrysalis looked at him and smiled back. “I’m sure they’ll be more afraid of you, my king.”
Sombra grabbed her hoof. “Just think Chrysie, with Twilight Sparkle out of the way-”
“And the princesses bowing to us-” She finished.
“Along with those pitiful ponies-”
“Then soon-”
“All of Equestria-”
“WILL BOW TO OUR WILL!” They finished in unison as they cackled with laughter.
*KNOCK KNOCK*
The king and queen abruptly stopped laughing and cleared their throats. “Ahem...Um, come it!” Chrysalis yelled.
The door opened and changeling guard walked in. “Um, you’re highness, is there a reason as to why three hatchlings are throwing flowers around the hive?”
Chrysalis groaned. “I told them to throw it in the aisle only. Don’t worry child, I’ll take care of it.” She was about to walk out, but something pulled her back. It was Sombra, who was currently staring off into space with his ghostly wide eyes.
“Sombra? Hello?” Chrysalis walked up to him, waving a hoof in front of his face.
“Is he alright?” The guard asked, others were starting to crowd around the door.
“Sombra? Sweetie?” Chrysalis reached out for him, but then his entire body started to shake, his eyes started going in random directions, and his horn was starting to glow.
“WhOOWAH haha h-geah….geh...did you feeeeeeeeeel that?” Sombra continued to convulse in his ghostly form.
“Feel what? What's wrong with you Sombra?” Chrysalis looked at his horn and saw it turning a darker red.
“D-d-d-d-daaaark...darkness….I can feel the power…” Sombra started looking around him, as if to try and find out where this feeling was coming from.
“Told you he was weird.” One of the changelings whispered, the group of children looked back at their queen to see that she was glaring at them, she waved her hoof to signal them to leave, which they did.
“Crystalssssssssssssss.” Sombra laid on the floor and closed his eyes.
Chrysalis shook her head. “Sombra, I thought you stopped with the whole cryst-”
He stood up and grabbed her. “No Chrysalis! I can feel it, the dark power….Darkness…I can sense it….There!” He pointed toward the closed door.
Chrysalis raised an eyebrow. “Are you okay?”
Sombra groaned. “I mean...In that direction exactly, that is where the power is.”
Chrysalis tapped her chin. “Dark power? How can you-”
Sombra tapped his horn on her chest. “I have never sensed such dark magic in my life, even with all those crystals I had, this could be big.”
“So, what does that have to do with anything?”
“I can use it to finally regain my power, I will no longer need a host. My body will be whole again, and with it” He caressed her hair. “We will rightfully rule as King and Queen.”
“Oh good.” Chrysalis said. “I thought you would say it would just be a king who would rule.”
Sombra flew back a bit. “Why queen. How could you even think such a thing? I may be evil, but I would never betray such a,” He gave her a quick kiss. “lovely creature such as you.”
Chrysalis giggled. “You always say the cheesiest of things.”
“It works, doesn’t it?”
Chrysalis rolled her eyes. “Well, come on then. Dark power waits for no one.”
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“And the hatchlings must be fed at least twice a day.”
“Okay.”
“And bed time is and ten for all the little ones.”
“Gotcha.”
“The food sharing goes from youngest to oldest, alright.”
“Yes.”
Chrysalis stopped walking and turned around. “Are you sure you can handle this?”
The two changelings smiled. “Of course we can handle-”
“Anything you ask of us my Queen.” The other one finished.
Chrysalis narrowed her eyes. “I’m putting you two in charge because you are the oldest, and tallest, changelings in this hive, besides me of course.”
“Queen please, me and Shift here-”
“Will be sure to take good care of them.” Lift finished his brothers sentence again and continued smiling.
Sombra wrapped an arm around Chrysalis. “You heard them Chrysie, I’m sure they can take on anything.”
Shift and Lift snickered to one another, which was abruptly stopped by their queen eying them. “Heheh...we just uh, remembered somthin’ funny.”
“Right,” Chrysalis said. “You better remember everything, and especially.” She leaned in and came within inches of their faces. “No. Parties.”
“Why, we would never-”
“Do something like that Chrysie you have-”
“A changeling’s promise.”
Chrysalis sighed. “If only that promise was trustable. Come on Sombra.” And with that the two walked out of the cave, leaving the two changelings to themselves.
“Are they gone?” Shift and Lift looked behind them to see changelings beginning to peek around rocks, stalagmites, and stalactites. Shift and Lift smiled at the sight.
“Yup, ya know what that means Lift?” Shift adjusted his fedora and nudged his brother.
“Does it mean we get to ignore what she said and-”
“PARTY! Heck yes it does!”
“So...how did it go again?”
Chrysalis giggled. “How did what go again?” She asked, pretending to not have a clue what he was talking about.
Sombra nudged her and smiled. “You know...”
“It was just something I came up with in the moment Sombra, and I was surprised no one heard me.”
Sombra sighed. “If only I was there to hear such a beautiful voice.”
“I was Cadenza at that time.”
“Well I’m...uh, sure that it was still good no matter who you were.”
Chrysalis rolled her eyes and continued walking on the trail. “So you want to hear me talk like her?”
“No,” Sombra wrapped his ghostly body around her neck and looked at her. “I want to hear you talk evil to me.”
Chrysie smiled and looked away to think about it.“I may need some help with it.”
Sombra lifted himself in the air and held his head high. “It would be a pleasure to aid my queen in such a task.” He swooped back down and held her face. “I need some help with it as well though.”
Chrysalis laughed. “You say the corniest of things, and for that...” She kissed him on the nose. “I’ll start.” She pushed him and walked straight ahead. Then she turned her head around and said,
“Ahem. This day is going to be perfect
The kind of day of which I've dreamed since I was small
Everypony will gather round
Say I look lovely in my gown
What they don't know is that I have fooled them all.
Now you try.”
Sombra fidgeted. “Well, uh….Ahem...um, lets see.
This day is going to be perfect
The kind of day of which I’ve dreamed since I was small
All those crystal loving gapes
Say I look great in my royal cape
What they don't know is that I have...have. Wait…”
“What is it?” Chrysalis sat down while sombra scratched his chin. “Don’t tell me you forgot the-”
“No, not that.” Sombra said. “We’re singing it like we hate weddings.”
Chrysie tilted her head. “I only hated that wedding, not our ‘soon to be’ wedding,” She reassured him. “and you just made it so it was like you were there. You need to be more imaginative Sombra.”
Sombra looked up and raised an eyebrow. “How about this.
This day is going to be perfect
The kind of day of which we've dreamed since we was small
Everypony shall tremble
from the bottom of our temple
When they realize that we have fooled them all...Hows that?”
Chrysalis shrugged. “Not bad, but it’s a castle we’re ruling in.”
Sombra put his hooves to his hip. “It can be a temple, now you try. Sing it like I did.”
Chrysalis grinned. “You mean steal the lyrics and make slight changes so it can be a duet between the two of us?”
Sombra nodded.
“Okay...Now lets see…How to start.
Who cares about what they think
For they won't partake in any cake
The vows will be beautiful when I say
They think through any kind of weather
that we cannot be together
The truth is that I love him above all
O’ I do so love the groom
In my heart he has the room
and I still want him to be all mine.
Your turn.”
“Really?” Sombra chuckled “You still kept weather?”
“Well, what else rhymes with together?”
“I’m just saying that you need to really change it up...Like this...ahem.
We must hurry, now think quickly
Find a way to rule this day
I cannot do this alone, okay.
I just hope I do not lose you
to one who will abuse you
and never care and cherish you each day.
For I do so love my bride
In my heart she does reside.
Oh my glorious queen
I’ll never leave your side.”
Chrysalis crossed her hooves. “Really? You really think someone will love me and take me?”
Sombra shook his head. “I meant that if they actually captured you and locked you away forever, torturing you to no end and all. I would never let something like that happen.”
“And telling me to think of a plan?”
Sombra shrugged again. “What else rhymes with day?”
Chrysalis rested her hooves on his shoulder. “Look, songs don’t have to rhyme Sombra.”
He grabbed her hooves and held them to his chest. “But that makes them better. You did it too.”
Chrysie retracted from him and walked away, pulling him along. “How about you help me with the next part?”
“How?”
“I say it first, then you finish it.”
Sombra grumbled a bit before saying, “Very well.”
Chrysalis pulled his tail so he was next to her. “But first, imagine that we’re walking up the aisle-”
“Really Chrysie?”
“Come on Sombra.”
Sombra put his hooves up in defence. “Alright, so we’re walking and…”
“And my children will be to the left-”
“Your left, or my left?” Sombra asked with a smile.
Chrysalis groaned. “It doesn’t matter. Just imagine us walking...with music playing…”
They started seeing it, the dirt path was more of a beautiful carpet, the trees replaced with rows of chairs, with Chrysalis’ changelings to the left, and Sombra’s slaves, who are chained, to the right, and a priest quivering in fear as two of the most powerful beings in Equestria walked toward him.
And as the king and queen stood on the altar, they look down to see the unluckiest of ponies who were forced to be here, and the highest ranking changelings flying above, and as the rulers looked to their sides, they see the princesses chained to the marrow in cuffs from their horn’s to their hooves.
The soon to be couple smile and look up to the ceiling to see an even more beautiful sight. It was her, the very pony, and her friends, who tried to defeat them, were wrapped in cocoons. The rulers could almost see a tear in Twilight’s eye. A small laugh between the two of them came out as Chrysalis held Sombra so he was under her and continued singing.
“Finally the moment has come.”
“For us to rule this kingdom.”
“Oh this wedding will be perfect.”
“There’s no way that they can stop it.”
“Soon Equestria will be”
“Our’s. All our’s. NEYHAHAHAHAHA!”
...
“‘It’ rhymes with ‘perfect’...right?” Sombra asked, making Chrysalis drop him and walk over his body.
Sombra flew back up and shook his ghost form. “It was just a question.”
Chrysalis faced him again. “Do you know how close we are?” She asked.
Sombra closed his eyes, making his horn on Chrysie’s neck start to glow. “It feels like it’s close...feels like-” His ear twitched, making his eyes go wide.
“I heard it too.” Chrysalis turned around to where they heard the noise. “Sounded like some...explosion.”
“Even better.” Sombra said as he started floating towards the sound. “I can feel that magic coming from it.” He smiled. “Come on!”
“Sombra, wai-” But it was too late. He flew off, tugging Chrysalis along the way. She gagged and started using her wings. “I’m not a ghost, you know.” She said while trying to catch up to him.
“Sorry babe, but I can’t lose this, I can be whole again.” He slowly turned his head and looked at her with burning eyes. “And then we can-”
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“PARTY!”
The entire cave cheered as Shift and Lift started making there way to the DJ table.
“So,” Lift whispered as the crowd waited for them to start. “Ya got the WTifier?”
Shift reached into his fedora and pulled out a small microphone. “Right here.” He smiled and held it to his throat. “Check Cheeeaaak oooaaaaooonee two. We all live in a Technicolor Facility.” They both snickered.
“You sound just like him, Shift.”
“Do you got the EBifier on ya?”
“PFF, Like I need it. I’ve been practicing my vocals man, unlike you who uses stuff like that.” He pushed past him and made his way to the turn table.
Shift pushed him back. “You try soundin’ like a robot.”
“Maybe I will.” Lift cracked his neck and put his hooves on the table, making the crowd of brothers and sisters cheer. Lift leaned on his brother and whispered in his ear.
Shift smiled. “Good idea.” He whispered back. “Let’s start somethin’ slow.” Shift tilted his fedora and flicked a switch on the table, making it come to life.
“Alrightie then.” Lift tapped the table and looked at the crowed. “Lets get this partay-”
Shift put his microphone to his throat turned up the music. “STARTED!”
Author's Note
I know the songs terrible,
that was the point.
