Chrystal Corruption
Chapter 1 – Unresting Curses

The story begins in the castle of the newest equestrian princess, Twilight Sparkle, where Spike is pacing back and forth nervously.

“Uugghhh... Where is everypony?” Spike said in a bit of a panic.

Pinkie Pie rushed in, bouncing, accidently landing on him without noticing.

“SPIKE! We're here! We're here! What's going on?” Pinkie asked, springing on the lavender dragon. “Spike? SPIIIIIIKE? Where are yooooouuuu?”

The baby dragon let out a grunt.

“Oh! There you are, teehee.” The puffy pink maned mare said, getting off him, as the others arrived.

“Spike, what's going...? Why are you laying on the floor?” Twilight said, raising an eyebrow.

“Pinkie jumped on me.”

“Oh goodness, darling.” Rarity helps the dragon to his feet.

Twilight looked at Pinkie and rolled her eyes while smiling.
“So, Spike. What is it you called us in a hurry for?” Twilight asked.

“Princess Celestia wanted us to get a plan together should more danger show up.”

“Really? So soon after the defeat of our previous foe?” Twilight said, pondering. “Well, I guess we can never be too careful... What did Princess Celestia say, exactly?”

“To watch out for anything suspicious, especially changeling activities.”

“There's still some around?! I thought we defeated all of them!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“We did, but not permanently. also, her hive wasn't the only one.” ‘So that's what this is about... I wish it didn't unfolded this quickly.’ Twilight then thought to herself.
Her friends frown in interrogation, looking at each other.

“Ahm, Twi. Whaddya mean, ‘her’? If I reckon', Tirek was a ‘he’. Plus, I don’t think he had a hive or som...” Applejack’s eyes then widened in realization.
“W... wait, Twi. Ya couldn't mean...” Applejack trailed off.

“Yes, I'm talking about Queen Chrysalis.” Twilight stated, closing her eyes in slight discouragement.

A simultaneous reaction spread across the hall.

“WHAT?! You gotta be kidding!” RD yelled.

“Eeeee!” Fluttershy squealed, covering her face.

“This is horrible...” Rarity gasped.

“Woohoo! Wait a minute... no, this isn't right.” Pinkie said.

Among the commotion, Applejack pondered briefly before approaching Twilight.
“But how was she able to come back?” AJ asked.

“She wasn't killed or anything. She was just sent back to her hive. She's still out there. Princess Celestia is worried that she might be planning another attack. I got the word yesterday's night, but it was too late to contact all of you.” Twilight stated.

“Well, there's NO WAY we'll let it happen!” Rainbow yelled.

“Nopidy nope!” Pinkie said.

“What should we do, then, darling?” The glamorous mare asked, looking at her alicorn friend. “Dear Spike mentioned keeping an eye out for anything suspicious, namely changeling activities. Does that mean there could already be some of them around in Ponyville?” Rarity asked.

“Yes. There could be.” Twilight said, letting out a brief sigh.

“But finding the other hive should also be a priority, according to Princess Celestia's commands.” Spike said.

“She already sent Shining Armor with a squadron of guards, for this matter, yesterday's night.” Twilight looked at her dragon assistant. “Oh, Spike, please make note of it.”

“Right away!” Spike said, noting what the lavender alicorn said on a piece of parchment.

Fluttershy uncovered from her fright and approached the others, now gathered around Twilight.

“Well, I doubt we can scrutinize all of Ponyville in an attempt to look for changelings.” AJ said.

“That’ll take WAAAY too much time.” Rainbow said.

As the group pondered about what course of action to take, Spike suddenly hacked up a scroll.

“Ouh! Ouh! What does it say!?” Pinkie yelled, as she suddenly jumped from behind the baby dragon's back. This one bounced, almost dropping the scroll, in shock.
Spike glanced at Pinkie, with a bit of frustration, then faced back the piece of parchment and unrolled it, then began reading.

“Oh no... Twilight! It's about Shining Armor... He's missing!” Spike exclaimed.

“WHAT?!” She promptly bumped Spike away in order to read the message herself.

“GAAH!” The catapulted young dragon said, hitting the ground, face first, as Twilight took hold of the scroll with her levitation spell, reading it attentively.
“Agh... As if we didn't already had enough trouble as it is...!” Twilight yelled, visibly angry.

Spike, now back on his feet, approached her as she finished reading. She handed the message to her dragon assistant and tried to evaluate the situation, despite nervousness taking hold of her.

“We need to think this through. Rushing ahead won't work, and we need ponies here in Ponyville to look out for danger as well.” Twilight said.

“Want me and Fluttershy to scout Ponyville's perimeter while you go look for your brother?” Rainbow asked.

“I... I don't know. We're not even sure what we're looking for. We need more help... help to find sources of evil magi... Oh dear...” Twilight suddenly stopped, realizing who they would have to ask for help.

Her friends looked at each other, as if knowing what she was thinking, then all glanced at Fluttershy.

“Oh... oh, yes. Well... I... I'm sure he won't be betraying us again... I mean, after what has happened with Tirek...” Fluttershy said, uncovering her face.

“...Lets sure hope so, sugarcube.” AJ said, looking a bit worried.

“We don't really have a choice, here.” Twilight turned around. “Rainbow Dash, you follow Fluttershy to her cottage to bring back Discord.”

“Aw, COME ON!” Rainbow yelled in discontent, but as the lavender colored alicorn gave her an irritated look, she compromised. “Ugh... fine, but he better not pull any trick on us...”

The two winged mares began setting out, Rainbow Dash crossing her front legs with a grumpy look on her face.

“And what should WE do, Twilight? Should we start looking for your brother?” Spike said.

“I shouldn't probably say that, but searching for my brother will have to wait a little. Like I said previously, rushing won't work. If we just head out to where my brother was without any preparations, we may just end up being ambushed by Queen Chrysalis and her changelings.” Twilight said, watching her two pegasus friend flying away.

“We're gonna have to wait until they're back with Discord to plan anything else, but in the meantime...” Twilight faced to Applejack. “I want you and Pinkie Pie to go warn Mayor Mare of the situation and tell everypony to remain in their houses and lock the doors, until further notice. Hopefully, changelings haven't started spreading around too much. Then, come back here as soon as you can.”

“Aye aye, commander Twilight!” Pinkie said, getting an army helmet out of nowhere and putting it on, then saluting her friend.

“Alright Twi, we'll be back in a jiffy.” AJ replied.

“Good. As for me and Rarity, we'll remain here to discuss the matter with Discord and see how he can help us, when Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy come back... and...just... try to think of another course of action. I'll see if I can find anything on changelings in the books I have.” Twilight said.

“I’ll gladly assist you in this search, darling.” Rarity said.

“Thank you, Rarity.” Twilight said, nodding at her.

“Well, we're getting going. You ready, Pinkie Pie?” AJ said.

“Are you KIDDING?! What are we still doing here?! I left a bunch of muffins in the oven, at Sugarcube Corner! We gotta go, NOW!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“What about me Twilight?” Spike asked the lavender mare.

The lavender mare turned to her scaly assistant as Applejack and Pinkie Pie got going.

“Spike, I want you to write a letter to Princess Celestia, explaining what we've taken as measures, for now. Afterward, we will need your help searching for information about changelings.” Twilight said.

“Understood!” The two remaining mares headed to the library as the young dragon began his assignment. A few minutes later, the letter was complete and sent right way.

“Alright, it's sent.” Spike said to himself as he hurried to join Twilight and Rarity in the dense library. “Twilight! I'm done sending the letter to Princess Celestia!” He shouted from the entrance of the bookcases filled room.

“Good! I'd like you to start looking from the east side of the library!” Twilight shouted back, her voice reverberating from the northwest.

“Got it!!” Spike yelled back.

“I'll meet you and Rarity in the center section once I'm done in the Northwest one!” Twilight yelled.

“OK!!” Spike yelled back to her.

About half an hour later, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy came back with Discord.
“Discord, stop it already!” Rainbow said, annoyed, as the mischievous Draconequus was manipulating her rainbow mane into colorful balloon animals.

“Oh, Rainbow Dash, you are simply no fun at all.” Discord said, looking back at Fluttershy. “Wouldn't you say so, dear?”

“Alright Discord, leave Rainbow Dash alone. We're here.” Fluttershy said, as she giggled quietly.

The mythical beast rolled his eyes and turned the balloons back into mane with the snap of a finger, as he let out a bit of an unamused sigh.

“There. Now where's dear Princess Twilight?” Discord snapped his finger again, teleporting Twilight right before him.

“OH! There you are! How good to see you!” Discord said on a falsely happy tone, giving the lavender pony a hug.

“We need your help Discord.” Twilight said, with a rather serious tone.

“Yes, yes, I know.” Discord interrupted the studious alicorn, turning his back to her. “Mean old Queen Chrysalis is back and her little change-bling-blings have started causing havoc here and there in Equestria. Blah... That cackling hag and her minions really have a bad taste of chaos, if you ask me...”

He looked back at Twilight, who was giving him an annoyed expression. “And I WILL lend you my help...” He snapped his fingers and gathered the three mares in his arms. “...my friends.” Discord giggled.

“Ugh...” Rainbow sighed, peeved by Discord's mannerism. Although, before she could fully express her irritation, the draconequus teleported himself a few feet away, making the three mares unexpectedly pummel on the ground.

“Now... you need my help sensing around their dark magic, right?” Discord said, yawning. “Couldn't you have given me something MORE entertaining to do? Like... I don't know, plan a little trick on dear mingy Chrysalis?” He tenderly requested, beaming into Twilight's face with a big grin on his face.

“No. You must help us save my brother from her.” Twilight said, bringing her right hoof to her face and sighing.

Discord's grin switched to a rather bored expression as he turned around, stepping away from the alicorn princess, crossing his arms, his back to her.

“Ah, yes. Prince Shining Armor... I am surprised he has been taken over by her.” The draconequus spoke, bringing his left hand under his chin and pondering briefly. “She must have a few new tricks up her hooves, I presume... hmmm..., but... I guess this could still be fun... eheh.” Discord muttered, smiling with contained excitement.

“VERY WELL!” He flipped around. “I shall assist you in recovering your dear brother, oh Princess Twilight.” Discord theatrically bowed. “Now then, where to begin our search? Surely we cannot depart before making sure Ponyville is safe from changelings, wouldn't you say?” He rang up, with an intended tone.

“Well, we should probably start in the everfree forest.” Twilight stated.

“That is indeed a well-thought idea, my dear Twilight, but... I seem to be actually sensing some dark energy, right now... juuuuust outside the castle...” As Discord discretely glanced out one of the upper windows, he noticed a changeling, most likely eavesdropping to their conversation.

He looked back at Twilight, subtly giving her a sign to carefully glance out the window as well. After making sure she had done so, he winked to her with a smirk; the alicorn slowly nodding to him, in response.

Having both understood each other, Discord then whispered, “Ready? ... In 3, 2, 1....” In a flash, they both teleported outside the castle, surrounding the spying changeling.
The dark creature gasped, startled, quickly looking at both of them.

“We’d like to gather some information from you, if you'd will.” Discord said.

The surrounded changeling hissed and tried to escape, but Twilight quickly managed to stop it with her levitation magic and brought it back.

“Now now, we asked politely.” Discord said, employing a fake friendly tone.

“Go to hell, you filthy piece of crap!” The creature yelled with a creaking voice.

Both Twilight and Discord shook their head in astonishment, as their eyes widened.

“Wh... WHAT WAS THAT?! WHAT KIND OF HORRIBLE LANGUAGE IS THIS?!” Twilight yelled in shock and disbelief.

“Oh dear...” Discord face changed from shocked to serious. “I see Chrysalis has been taking her evil to a higher level... It has indeed been a long time since I had heard this foul crude tongue.”

“What do you mean, Discord? You know about this language?!” She said, still looking confused and disturbed.

“Well, I did used to be on the EVIL side, my dear Twilight.” The draconequus stated as he teased the changeling by pinching his snout. The response from the changeling was an angry grunt.

“Evil knowledge goes FAR beyond what you might already know. This be a language that was considered amongst the darkest and, even to some, most repulsive of all. However, grand evil masters like me, would never dare use it. Oh dear no. It be only for the LOWEST classes of evil...” Discord intentionally let out, looking the pitch black equine right in the eye with mild despise.

Being more than annoyed at this point, the changeling tried to once again make a break for it, but without any obvious success, as Twilight easily captured it back.

“Where do you think YOU are going?! We're not done with you, here!” Twilight said in a pissed off tone.

“You stupid horny bitch! Lemme go!” The dark creature said in a grouchy high-pitched voice, as it struggled to escape.

Another surge of irritation rushed through the lavender mare, by the foul language of the black pest, but not strong enough that she couldn't calm herself down and keep focused on casting the spell.

“You are going to cooperate and tell us everything about what your Queen is planning!” Twilight blared.

“AS IF, you bloating fart face!” He roared angrily.

“WHY YOU!” Twilight said, now enraged.

The reformed master of chaos interrupted both of them.
“Twilight, dear. Let me handle this.” Discord said, trying to calm the lavender alicorn.

Twilight made sure to keep the changeling within her magical grasp as the draconequus slowly approached it, closing in on its ears and starting to whisper.

“Now then, little fella. We both know I know how to make you talk.”

The arrogant creature tried to spit on Discord, but it rebounded off the magical barrier and back on its face. The interlocutor grinned.

“I've followed the same teachings you did and far beyond, so I know what to execute in terms of discipline if a subordinate, especially such a low class as yourself, tends to not be cooperative.” Discord giggled softly, then piercing the changeling's eyes with a provocative gaze. “You understand?”

“F...fine, just tell the horny freaktard to not do anything stupid.” The jet black changeling said.

“Quite alright.” He said, mockingly patting the dark equine's head. “Now, then, Twilight. We can begin the interrogation, if you please. It should be cooperating.”

From within the castle's hall, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy had been watching the scene, unfolding on the other side of the window. The tomboy mare tries to contain herself from going outside and give the changeling a good bash.

“Shall we bring it inside?” Discord said.

The studious pony, looking skeptical and still annoyed from the changeling's previous words, took a brief moment of pondering before answering the draconequus.

“A... alright...” Twilight said.

“And I'm a HE, by the way, you long ass face!” the changeling said arrogantly to the master of chaos.

“Yes, yes. Let's proceed, dear Twilight. Oh, and we are not allowed to do anything…” Discord emphasized with his fingers and a dumb tone of voice. “...’stupid’, by the way.”

“Shut it, you old fart!” The changeling yelled.

“What? What does that mean?! Not do anything stupid?!” Twilight said, irritated. “As if WE'D be the ones doing that!”

“Dear Twilight, try to calm down.” Discord said, softening his voice. “But you're right... hmmm...” He put an innocent interrogative look, “What kind of ’stupid’ could we possibly try?” Discord then playfully smiled, mocking the captive creature. “Maybe we should ask our new little friend, shortly, once we get back inside. Eheheh...”

“I said SHUT IT, YOU CUNTS.” The changeling angrily said.

The three of them got back inside the castle. The others, then, join them at the entrance.

“And by that I mean: ANYTHING that would even KINDA annoy me. You hear?!” The changeling angrily said.

At the sight of the changeling, Fluttershy couldn't help but step away, a rush of uneasiness traversing her body. Rainbow Dash appearing behind her and beginning to fly toward the changeling, charging her hooves.

“Alright! Lemme handle this!” Rainbow said, pumping herself up, ready to interrogate the pitch black creature Rainbow Dash style.

“No, Rainbow Dash. That won't be necessary. Discord already seems to have a plan to make him talk... or so it seems...” Twilight said, unsurely glancing at the draconequus.

“Wh... WHAT?! AW, COME ON!” Rainbow exclaimed.

“RAINBOW DASH!” Twilight yelled back, looking more than annoyed.

“Uuuuuugggghhhhh! FINE!” Rainbow pouted, letting herself fall on the floor and crossing her front legs, displeased.

At this moment, Rarity and Spike just came out of the library.

“Hey, Twilight. I think I found som... AAAHHH!” Spike yelled, as he noticed the black ominous equine within Twilight's floating magic barrier. Rarity looking as surprised as he was.
“Whu whu whu...” Spike stammered.

“Don’t worry Spike. He can't do anything in his current state.” The lavender alicorn stated, as the changeling loudly grunted.

“My... they're appearances never DO improve, do they?” Rarity said, with slight repulse.

“Hey shut up, you glamorass bitch!” The foul-mouthed changeling yelled from across the room.

Everyone's face, expect for Discord and Twilight, turned to complete dumbfounded expressions, especially Rarity, who suddenly felt very woozy and moderately tumbled before fainting.

Spike trying to catch her when she fell, as he filled up with anger.

“HOW DARE YOU SAY THIS TO RARITY!??!?!” Spike .roared, boiling with rage.

Rainbow Dash, who was shaking with fury, now standing still, furiously glaring at the impudent changeling as she was trying her best to restrain herself from exploding with violence.

“SPIKE!” Twilight bellowed in a merciless voice.

Spike promptly stopped and tried to contain his unnerving feeling, angrily clenching his fists and teeth.

Her alicorn friend's voice softened. “I'm... I'm sorry for yelling at you, Spike. I don't have time to explain. ‘Or rather, I don't want that horrid creature's hurting you or any of my friends.’ We'll be back soon, so take care of Rarity while we're discussing with...” Twilight despairingly gazed at the changeling, roughing her voice. “That thing...”

She looked back at the equine chimera, who seemed completely unfazed. “Come on, Discord, we're taking him to another room.” Twilight voice sounding more serious.
Not another word was heard, as they both left the group, heading toward the study.

Fluttershy could be seen abundantly crying in fright in a corner of the hall, as Rainbow Dash freed some built-up anger by stomping her hooves in the rock-solid floor, making the tiles underneath her crack and tear.

Before leaving the room to head upstairs, Twilight took one last look down the hall, seeing Spike carefully laying down Rarity and gently caressing her head, while silently sobbing.

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The trio who had made their way to the third floor of the castle all entered the study. Discord closed the door and made sure to lock it as safely as possible, making the key disappear with a snap.

“Discord, bring me a chair and some ropes. We need to restrain him, I don't see myself holding him like that all day nor do I expect him to happily stay here with us.” Twilight said.

The draconequus made both the objects appear instantly and carefully tied the changeling's wings and hooves. Twilight then proceed to sit him on the chair and finished bonding him up.

“I hope this will be enough.” Twilight said, seemingly calm, as she let go of her levitation spell.

“You filthy whore! Let me go so I can beat the shit out of you!” The dark colored changeling said.

That last remark from the cursing creature made Twilight lose all the care for irritation she had been building up, as if all the intense negative emotions she was keeping in, even if only from a few minutes ago, reached a point where she couldn't mentally support them anymore and just vanished, leaving her but mildly annoyed.

“I can't even understand HALF of what you're saying, for Pete’s sake...” Twilight said in a monotone voice, as she slowly approached him.

“It’s alright, Twilight, dear.” Discord chuckled. “I can assure you I can understand every word he's saying, but I'm afraid it'll only feast your anger beyond what you could take if I told you.”

“It's too late for that, Discord, and... actually... I think I just gave up on caring if I don't understand his unbearable vocabulary. Just as long as he's bright enough to use common words everypony uses to tell us what's going on...” Twilight stopped, slowly raising her right hoof to her forehead and took a very deep breath in, the exhaling in a long heavy sigh. “Alright... let's start the interrogation.”

She used her magic to close the drapes and lit up a few candles to illuminate the room.

“Ouuhhh.... real cozy atmosphere. Wanna suck my dick?!” The injurious dark parasite spit at the alicorn princess. She turned back to him, looking completely empty of will to reply to his blasphemy.

“Just tell me what Chrysalis’s plan is and what happened to my brother, Shining Armor.” Twilight walked back to the center of the room.

“Why the fuck would I tell you, bitch?!” The changeling again cursed at the lavender alicorn.

“I... You're not going to answer us what we want to hear, are you?” Twilight asked, emotionless.

“Maybe... or maybe not.” The changeling provocatively looked at her, but all of a sudden, withdrew his glare.
“If I do... my sentence for treason is death. That's it.” He said, trying to hide his worry by looking away from his interlocutor.

“Wait... KILL you?” Twilight said, slightly raising an eyebrow.

“Yeah. Death. That's what I said, you dipshits. Didn't you understand? Tsssk... Dumbasses.” The changeling said with more derision.

The lavender pony looked over at Discord, boringly playing chess against a copy of himself he poofed, then turned around and thought to herself.

“As much as I'm not in the mood to care about his foul mouth anymore, that death sentence is not something I can bare to look over. Queen Chrysalis has definitely changed her ways... for far worse than I could have thought. No matter how much of a pain this pest is turning out to be, I can't let myself getting himself killed by her. That is not what we ponies do.” Twilight faced the changeling.

“We're not the likes to KILL, here, in Equestria. The worse we do as sentences is banishment; and that usually works well... MOST OF THE TIME...” Twilight gave another quick glance to Discord who was now cheating at his own game of chess. She rolled her eyes and began walking around the room.

“And which is also what we SHOULD have done with Chrysalis... instead of just... blowing her away...” Twilight said, frowning interrogatively.
“Why did we even DO that, instead?” She shook her head, confused.

“AHAH! BLOWING her...” The changeling giggled.

Twilight faced back the giggling captive tied on the chair, having no reaction to the comment he just made.

“So if you do cooperate, banishment is what we'll do, instead of having to suffer death from your queen. Does that seem acceptable to you?” Twilight asked, gazing at him.

”Re... really? Only banishment? You ponytards are WAY too soft..., but...” The changeling paused, realizing he might get his life spared.
“As... much of an ass as I am... which I do want being, by the way; don't you guys doubt it, and I have my own reasons...“ His true emotions started to show.
“That... that Queen Bitchalis... She scares the living fuck outta me... I wasn't even a changeling before, I was just a regular dumbtard pony like you and the others out there.” He tilted his head toward the door, still evading the alicorn's sight.

“And then that... fucked up maniacal hag came and attacked our village. She freakin’ mercilessly killed about half of the ponies, there. The remaining minions that were still with her, after you guys... just... send her fucking flying away, instead of actually getting rid of her for good!... , so NO SHIT I'm being an ass to you and the others!” Tears began building up in his eyes as he lifted his head and glared at Twilight, who felt instant guilt taking hold of her, waking her from her unfazed state.

“But... that's also due to the horribly sadistical training she's putting us through... those who can handle it, anyway... and most of us having the best reasons to... since that FUCKED UP WITCH is holding my damn family captive! Oh, and that's not the freaking worse. You wanna know what I get if I betray her even in the slightest...? LIKE I ALREADY DID, by getting freakin’ CAPTURED, by you fucktards!? DO YOU?!” The changeling said, tears starting to roll down from his eyes.

Even if Twilight was having trouble understanding her addressee, she gradually cannot help but tear up as well, feeling the guilt now clenching her upper body.

“I'll tell you. That... insane BITCH, is giving me a nice LIVE SHOW of my family getting slaughtered before my very eyes!!! YEAH! THAT'S WHAT SHE DOES! OH, but at least she has the MERCY of allowing me to get killed by HER, but not before torturing me for HOURS, getting my limbs slowly cut off, one by one, then ripping my guts out, taking out my eyes and tongue, and then maybe, and I say MAYBE, allowing me a death stab to the heart, with her razor sharp ass horn! OR... and that's the other option; making me kill one of my best friend, with my BARE FUCKING HOOVES, like, literally, and living with the weight of it, AND the LIVE SHOW of my family getting KILLED in cold blood, for the rest of my life AND becoming one of her multiple SEX slaves, and that means playing it HER FUCKING HARDCORE BONDAGE WAY! So... HEY! I GOT TWO PRETTY FREAKIN GREAT DEALS, HERE, DON'T YOU THINK?!?” He finished, in a roaring yell, as he finally shattered and heavily started crying, overwhelmed by his thoughts he was painfully holding in.

Twilight was frozen, having tears that could not stop flowing from her eyes. Never had she heard such diabolically horrid things in her entire life, especially done to other living beings. The new Queen Chrysalis's ways were inconceivably farther that what she could have ever imagined.

Discord, for himself, looked indeed shocked, but already being aware of such possible extents that could exist amongst the fields of evil hundreds of years ago, did not seemed likely to be crying, but rather, repressed with hate. He slowly approached the alicorn princess, who was still blinded with the emotional trauma she was experiencing, kneeled before her, paused, and swiftly embraced her, lodging his head against hers, keeping the same hatred in his eyes.

“It seems the situation is worse far beyond what even I could have imagined, Twilight. You will not need to ask if I'm truly willing to help you, now; my decision is undeniably made. I WILL assist you the utmost best as I can, my dear friend. You can bet the faith of Equestria on it” Discord vowed, his tone of voice rarely having sounded so serious and determined. He then moved his head in front of hers, gazing into her eyes.

“However, if you wish to have any hopes of saving the sake of all of those endangered by the Queen of changelings, you must break free from your current state and focus.” He paused.

“Do you hear me, Twilight? ...TWILIGHT?!” Despite his voice ringing in the room, the draconequus could not seem to wake her up.

“...Forgive me.” He moved his left eagle hand to her face, carefully placing one of his claws on Twilight's left cheek, and with one quick scratch, cut her face, covered in flowing tears.

“Wh... what? OW! Discord! What are you...?” Snapping out of her emotional prison, Twilight rethought about all of what the changeling said, but before her feelings could succeed in overwhelming her again, she vigorously shook her head.

“NO! Discord!” She looked at the equine chimera still kneeling before her, remembering what he just told her.

“...Thank you.” She hugged him briefly, hugging her back himself. “Alright!” She wiped off her tears, shaking herself in order to give her courage and determination. Discord steps aside and invites he alicorn friend to go toward the changeling.

“I am extremely sorry for the faith that has befallen upon you. Having heard the thoughts you were holding in that forced you to be who you aren't, being confined to only obeying Queen Chrysalis upon the fear of losing your family, friends and yourself, is more than enough for me to assure you that you will NOT either be KILLED or BANISHED.” Twilight said.

The changeling who was abundantly crying from despair only but a few seconds ago, abruptly stopped at the words of Twilight.

“W… what?! Wh.. wh...” The changeling sobbed. “What do you mean?!”

“She means that you will be freed from your cursed faith, little fellow. It is up to you, but only on one condition.”

“WHAT?! OH DEAR FUCKING PRINCESS CELESTIA, WHAT IS IT?!” The changeling roared.

“In order to escape both the sentences of death and banishment, you will have to join our forces against Queen Chrysalis in order to defeat her, and for GOOD, this time.” Twilight, the still tied-up captive looked hesitant.

“What we have done, by not successfully defeating her at that time, is a mistake that will now haunt me forever and I insist on taking, not only me, but all those who were involved, the blame for the unsuspected aftermath that took place when your village was attacked and any other catastrophes that occurred and still are happening to this day, because of our negligence.” Twilight said, the dark equine creature carefully listened to the princess's words.

“I cannot ask for your forgiveness, as we have caused far beyond what can be retrieved for you, but I vow that I am ready to pledge my allegiance to saving you, your family and all the others who have fallen under Queen Chrysalis's conquest, so far.” Twilight said

“I...” Tears began flowing, once again, from his eyes, but not from despair. And then, to his amazement, both Twilight and Discord bowed before him, sealing their pledge.
“I... Iiiii....” It was as if his torment had been hit with deliverance. He could not believe what had just occurred. His cries were now from an overwhelming joy. Something that the changeling hadn't felt in what seemed like eight years.

The alicorn princess rose back up, the draconequus following her lead.

“We shall let you take your time to make your decision...” Twilight said.

“What the hell do you think my decision is, you... you... dumb... “He endeavored saying.
“YES!!! YESS!!! OF COURSE!! YOU DUMB BI-I-IIITTCCcchh...” The changeling finally managed to say, as his crying of joy renewed.

“We will be honored to help you, sir.” Twilight happily said, as tears began rising up her eyes. She looked up at Discord, who smiled on her, putting his left hand on her head and ruffling her mane.

Author's Note

Well, that was the first chapter of my first ever grimdark fanfic. hope you liked it.

Coauthored with http://www.fimfiction.net/user/UrmiCharpstin

MLP belong to Hasbro and DHX media.
the changeling (whose name I shall reveal in chapter 2) belongs to me, Penguinbrony24.