Author's Note

This chapter felt weird but entertaining to me as I wrote it though I'm not sure if you'll feel the same way but I figured I'd give you a heads up before you delved deep into it.

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I awoke in a bed which was strange because the last thing I remembered from yesterday was cowering in the corner, not my best moment by the way, as Chrysalis........... that was the first time I've seen her that mad even when I thought she was going to skewer me after I was first brought into the Hive. I knew she was trying to tell me something but all I heard was those of a predator that had corner its prey, which is what I felt like when it started. All I could do was focus on my fear and it twisted my reality until I couldn't take anymore and fainted. I never faint, even from blood loss. The only reason I just passed out after fighting that creature in the wagons was because I was tired and I knew that I would be safe one I had reached the gates. Took everything I had really to prevent myself from finding a tree to sleep in with how comfortable the giant ass leaves looked.
Wait a minute, I'm getting off topic here. I need to figure out what to do the next time I see Chrysalis because judging by yesterday she has plenty to say about my self imprisonment for, well, I don't know how along. It felt like years passed by while I was in there but yet Lily hasn't changed a bit.
"Please.........don't........leave me." I tensed as I heard Chrysalis' voice and against my better judgement decided to sit up only to immediately regret it as Chrysalis was laying right next to me on the bed. The memories from yesterday resurfaced and caused me to start shaking in fear.
"David, calm down. Your fear is consuming your mind right now and you know what happens when it's left unchecked. You and I both know that you don't want that so calm your ass down and get your emotions under control for the time being." Saboru chided as I started hyperventilating until his voice snapped me out of it. I took slow, deep breaths in order to calm myself. I was still afraid of Chrysalis but it was on the same level it was a second ago.

"Thanks Saboru, don't know what I would've done if you weren't here."

"You may not know what would've happened but I do so I would suggest that you two work things out pronto." He said angrily.
"Yo, what's up with you?"

"How about being forced to live in a dark hole because you idiot of a host can't wait to see what will happen if he actually stuck around for the after effects of his own performance!"

"You know why I don't stick around when this shit happens. Have you ever seen anyone respond positively whenever I lose my shit?"

"No but what's the worst that could happen? You have superior strength, speed, intellect, and now magic at your disposal so no matter what they might do you could at least by yourself enough time to run if need be." Dammit, he's right. With everything I have to work with I'd be able to at least run from the scene should I be attacked.
"Alright, alright I hear what you're saying but remember, I can't risk anything that may turn me. What happened at the arena with Shining Armor was nothing compared to what I've done in the past and you know that. You remember the M.G.W. event don't you?" I asked him and I felt the both of us shiver at remembering what happened that day. THE monster was seen that day but everyone who had laid eyes upon it was grateful to have had it around for the event, for a few minutes before they remembered what it was the it had done.

"What is the M.G.W. event and why are you so afraid of it?" I heard Chrysalis say as I was snapped out of my conversation with Saboru. My fear started to rise again as I saw her green eyes staring right at me, filled with curiosity but all I could see was the anger they held from yesterday. Her expression changed when I started shaking again to that of worry and hurt and went to move closer to me but stopped when she notice me backing away. She got up and stepped off the bed with tears brimming her eyes when I did nothing but sit there and shake. When I saw her on the verge of crying my fear was replaced with the need to comfort my mare and that's what I did as I got up out of bed and grabbed a hold of her before she could run out the room.
I pulled her into a hug, ignoring that came from my body, and allowed my tears to flow as I thought about how I could have possibly hurt the mare that loves me, monster and all. It took sometime before she returned the embrace as I'm sure shock overtook her the moment I grabbed her. My hospital gown was soaked with tears from both of us as we sat on the floor and failed to notice the others watching the scene.

"I'm sorry about yesterday. I didn't mean to scare you like that but I was just so angry after hearing what you said about leaving us. You're the best thing the ever happen to me, Lily, and the Hive and none of us want to see you leave." Chrysalis said after she had calmed down enough to speak.
"It's okay Chryssy. Honestly, I think between what happened yesterday and the little discussion me and Saburo had have actually helped snap me out of my funk."
"Hey, I was there too." Lily said after jumping up onto my back and it was then that we noticed the others standing at the door.
"I know you were sweetheart and thank you for helping your dummy of a dad see that he was being dumber than usual." I say as I grab her from behind and brought her in between the two of us so that she could join the hug force.
"Don't worry daddy. Me and Aunt Chryssy will always be here to make sure you don't become a big dumby like the captain, right?" She asked as looked towards the Hive's guard captain.
"She's right dark one. You really need to stop beating yourself up before you end up like....HEY!" He yelled in protest and causing us the laugh at his expense when he finally caught on and joined in soon after, after he realized that it's his own fault for falling into such an obvious trap.
"She's your daughter alright David." Lacy said as we all started to calm down.

"Yeah, I know and I wouldn't change that for anything in the world." I say as I hugged Lily's small form to my chest as she nuzzled my cheek and reached her forelegs around my neck.
"Ahem, I really hate to interrupt the moment but I would like to check up on you now that you're awake Mr. Herrera." A brown earth pony stallion wearing a white coat said from behind the group at the door. The others walked in and stood in the corner while the doctor walked to the side of the bed. I got up with Lily on my shoulders and sat down on the edge of the bed and Chrysalis to my left. It was nice to see that the doctor didn't even flinch when she walked by him which means that some progress must have been made while I was........ moping? I don't know what to call what I did but it didn't sound right to say that I ran away, although technically that's exactly what I did.

The doctor went through checking my vitals and the fluids they had me hooked me up to, all the usual stuff a doctor checks up on, and checked my charts after he was done to write some stuff down.
"Well Mr. Herrera this is rather abnormal but makes sense all the same considering the circumstances." He said when he was done.

"What are you talking about?" I asked, confused by the sudden statement.

"Well it would seem that you are recovering quicker than anticipated do to the chaos magic that was absorbed into your bloodstream while you were.... 'away' which also tells us why you haven't died of thirst or hunger."

"How long was I down there anyway?" I asked to no one in particular.

"You were down in that hole of holes for about a month, give or take a day or two." Chrysalis informed me.

"Really? It felt like years had passed while I was in there, oh well. So with my new recovery speed, how long do you think I'll have to be in here for." I asked as I looked at the stallion.
"Well at this rate it will only take a few days for you to be well enough to leave but you still have to take it easy for another week." The doctor answered which I promptly answered back with a "Boooooooooo", and caused everyone else to have laugh at my childish behavior. "Yes, yes I know you want to get back out there as soon as possible but let me ask you this. Would you rather take it easy for a week and be absolutely fine for a good while, or would you rather be released, do something foolhardy, then end up back here and forced to have to sustain a longer recovery period and hence wasting more time than you could be spending doing something productive?"
"Alright, alright doc, I get it. Geez you're worse than my mother after my seizure. " I tell him as I put my hands up in surrender to avoid any more lectures from him. Bad enough when a teacher does it but you get a doctor started and it's like getting chewed out by your parents for drinking at a party. Not that I know of course but having trouble making friends, you tend to see it when you have to get them home before do they something really stupid.

"Hey look at the bright side, you can see what your little show has done for helping cool things down between changelings and ponies." Bonny said as she walked up to me and gave me a hug which I happily returned. Weird how a stern talking to is all that I need to is all I needed to set me straight.
"You're telling me, ya puss." Saboru mocked.

You better watch yourself. Remember that this "puss" kicked your ass plenty of times in the past and I'll gladly do it again. I shot back as I delved into the void he resides in to give him a swift kick in the ass before returning to reality. "You know I've actually been meaning to ask about how that was going. That and where in the hell my suit?" I asked as I looked around but didn't see the suit I made anywhere in the room.
"Don't worry about that. We have up in the castle to finish it while we were looking for you but it seems that we don't seem to be making any progress on it even though we're following your notes and blueprints." Twilight said as she turned into the purple alicorn pony version of The Thinker.
"I wouldn't worry about it too much considering I made sure that their true meaning was only understood by me. Don't need ponies wearing suits imbued with chaos magic running around all over the place now do we?" I said with an evil grin that made some in the group shiver in fright at the thought.
"But would it really be that bad compared to a human with a monster and a demon living within his soul?" Discord chimed in as he appeared on a hammock hanging from the ceiling just above my head.
"Probably not but considering I won't be going power mad, and everyone here can deny it, I have more rights to wearing that thing than anyone else here besides you but I can't possibly see you getting even crazier." I told him. We stared at each other for a while as the room fell in complete silence. After a few minutes I registered who I was speaking to and jumped out of my bed with claws and fangs bared as I snarled at the draconequus.
"Calm down David, Discord is not here to cause trouble, well not much anyway." Chrysalis said as I felt her place a hoof on my shoulder.

"She's right David. I had the girls to reform Discord long after you had left Equestria's borders." Celestia spoke up for the first time since she got here.
"And how the fuck did you manage that?" I asked before being swatted by Lily.

"We simply showed him how good you felt when you have a friend, well Fluttershy did anyway the rest of us were still skeptical." Rarity as she and the rest of them shot Discord a mischievous look which tells me that they got him to do something that was rather embarrassing. "In fact, why don't you tell him just what you think about the ways of friendship Discord darling?"

"No." He said defiantly.

"Please Discord, for me?" Fluttershy asked him with the dreaded puppy dog eyes. He struggled to look away as he summoned walls made of wood, bricks, steel, and even diamond appear in front of him only for all of them to break soon after.
"Oh alright, friendship is magic, there happy?" He grumbled out before moving to the corner to pout as everybody else started laughing. I walked over to him and put my hand on his shoulder, causing him to look back at me.
"Don't worry man, I feel your pain when I have to admit that I can feel love but don't worry because I'm sure together we can come over the abuse of our oppressors if we work together." I told him with all the seriousness I could muster.
"Don't pull him in with another one of your conspiracies David. The last thing we need is for you to go on another wild goose chase again." Lacy said with an annoyed tone.
"Another conspiracy, he's done things like this before?" Chrysalis asked.

"Yeah but I have no idea how many considering that I don't know whether or not he still had them after that day though I highly doubt it." Lacy rolled her eyes as I glared at her.
"You know I won't hesitate to come after you right?"

"I know, but that changes nothing."

"It changes whether or not you get to live a full live or if you die early." I statement in a matter a fact sort of way.

"Maybe but I still don't care."

"Dammit, you're fun." I said as I sit down on the floor pouting right next to Discord. Everyone laughed yet again at the plight me and Discord were forced to put up with from our oppressors.
"You know you've been acting rather differently since you've woken up David." Chryssy stated as she walked into view and sat down in front of me.
"What do you mean?" I asked as I sat her down in my lap.
"Well just last month you were seething with rage just by the sight of the ponies, besides your friend Bonbon, and now look at you. It seems that you have gotten over your hatred, was this a result of being in your hole for a month?" She asked as she made herself comfortable.
"Not really. It's that it seems that you guys have gotten a good thing going and I don't want to mess this up for you and the Hive because of my anger," I tell her as I hug her from behind. "But that does not mean that I have gotten over the cause of all this in the first place." I state angrily as my attention shifts towards Shining Armor who now fidgeting where he in place. Tension in the room skyrocketed as I glared at Shining Armor who seemed to be trying to say something but couldn't find the words. If it wasn't for Chrysalis sitting on my lap and Lily still on my shoulders, who had also fallen asleep some time ago but still managed to stay attached to my head( and who I knew was asleep thanks to the drool I could feel running down my head and down the back of my neck) I would have kicked his ass nine way from sunday but as it stands all I could do was wait as he tried to piece his words together in a coherent sentence. He soon stopped trying and I let out a snort as he hung his head in shame.

"Yeah, just as I thought. If it wasn't for the fact that I'll be out of commission for several more days I would takeover training and have go back to your rock so you could hide there until this mess passes, but as things are I will give you a chance lest I be labeled a hypocrite after I just said that I was willing to put things behind me but don't expect us to become friends you sniffling coward." I spoke with venom to get my message across to him as well as to tell the others that my mind was made up on the matter and nothing would convince me otherwise. He merely nodded before getting and him and Cadance left the room.

"Are you sure there's nothing that could change your mind?" Luna asked, breaking the silence that had veiled itself around the room.

"No, there isn't. I don't deal with people, or ponies, like that. You want to settle a score, fine, but it remains between you and the one you're after. Even then it wasn't the fact that he had those guards help him but the fact that nothing was said about it until after things were already turning in my favor. All of you should be glad that I held up my end of the deal otherwise none of them would have made it out that arena alive. Believe me when I say that despite that what I did while I was still normal you can imagine what would have happened should I have lost it and went back on my word." I stated calmly.
"Well despite what came of it I would like to say thank you for honoring your agreement and have indeed held up our end of things. I believe Chrysalis can vouch for us if you don't believe me." I looked at Chryssy from over her shoulder and she smile and nodded which was all I needed.
"Well thank you Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, but I believe that this visit will have to conclude for today seeing how *yawn* I've grown tired from the day's discussions but I wouldn't mind if any of you came by tomorrow. Plus I got a sleeping, and drooling, filly atop my head and would rather not have to deal with it now before I become soaked in it." Of course they found it funny, it wasn't happening to them though thankfully with how much and how long Lily had been drooling I was able to shut them real quick as I scooped up some of it from the back of my neck and hurl it at AJ and Rainbow Dash who both ran out the room in fear of getting more tossed out them. The others looked towards as I hands reaching back with a sinister smile and they fled. I was looking towards the now shut door when I noticed a towel surrounded by a green aura levitating in front of me.
I looked at Chryssy with a grateful smile as I took hold of it and draped it over my shoulder before grabbing ahold of Chryssy and went over to the bed. She was unceremoniously dropped onto the bed and I grabbed Lily and placed her beside Chrysalis. Taking the towel I dried up all the drool that had accumulated before jumping into bed myself and cuddling up next to Chrysalis and Lily.
"It's nice to have you back David." She said as she laid her head on my chest.

"It's nice to be back Chryssy." I respond as I pull her closer. We engaged in a short, but passionate kiss before lulling off to sleep.