Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

A palace ravaged, rooms in ruins, so many lives burned out like moths going straight into the flame, and yet there was no other word for it but victory.

At least, that's how Shining Armour thought it. After all, he had just escaped from Chrysalids’ humiliating captivity and banished her away with all her goons. He walked through the singed alley that lead to the castle's dungeons, where he had been imprisoned up to that point, for find anything that could work as war trophy.

Passing past burned banners and green goop, Shining Armour managed to reach the unhinged iron door hat brought to the dungeon's caves. Shining Armour sighed and looked down the now-slimy stone stairs, and saw a pile of used pink diapers stockled in the corner and rotting together, an adult-sized crib  with most of its bars broken in half or burnt to a crisp, a couple of rattles not too far from said crib and a wrecked changing table with its padded surface destroyed and its drawers into pieces not too far away.

"Chrysalis, Chrysalis," Shining Armour said while smirking to nobody in particular, going down the stairs with a slot step, trying his best to not slip on the goop "You always try to overthrow me by trying to indirectly emasculate me, but you just utterly suck at it."

At the base of the stairs, he lit up his horn, bringing in more light, light that allowed him to see something, in addition to the rotting diapers, the broken changing table and the destroyed crib. Namely, Shining saw a broken baby bottled that, apparently, used to contain a pinkish sparkling liquid, the nipple seemingly made out of tanned pony skin stitched together. Shining also saw an half-burnt Princess Celestia plushie and, underneath, another plush, this time of her wife Cadance.

"Well," he said, moving away with his magic the burnt plushie, and grabbing the much more intact plush depicting her wife instead "There's nothing else that I could collect and show off without being awkward. Let's take this, and let's go celebrate with some booze."

That said, Shining Armour went up the stairs again, walking down the alley until he reached the dining hall, where most of the officers and dignitaries were already drinking and eating heavily. Shining shrugged, as he hid the plush behind a statue.

"Let’s go join them."